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We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on \textit{closed} orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Nils Siemonsen

Observations of compact objects in the electromagnetic spectrum and the detection of gravitational waves from them can lead to quantitative tests of the theory of general relativity in the strong-field regime following two very different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrios Psaltis

Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories are of widespread interest, due to a large number of theoretical and phenomenological applications. Much is known about the possible behaviour of amplitudes, that is independent of the details…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Chris D. White

Asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles by scalar, vector and tensor exchanges at high energy and fixed momentum transfers is reconsidered in quantum field theory. In the framework of the quasi-potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-05-02 Nguyen Suan Han , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

We present the conservative dynamics of compact binaries to third order in the post-Minkowskian approximation in a theory that extends general relativity by a massless scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Yuchen Du , Zhengwen Liu , Hongbin Wang

We consider the effective field theory (EFT) treatment of two-body systems with narrow resonances. Within this approach, an $s$-wave scattering amplitude can be expanded in powers of a typical momentum scale of a system $Q\ll \Lambda$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-02 Mohammad H. Alhakami

A model is proposed to demonstrate that classical general relativity can emerge from loop quantum gravity, in a relational description of gravitational field in terms of the coordinates given by matter. Local Dirac observables and coherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Chun-Yen Lin

The use of quantum field theory to understand astrophysical phenomena is not new. However, for the most part, the methods used are those that have been developed decades ago. The intervening years have seen some remarkable developments in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel J. Burger , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Nathan Moynihan , Jeff Murugan , Amanda Weltman

We compute the next-to-leading order term in the scattering waveform of uncharged black holes in classical general relativity and of half-BPS black holes in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity. We propose criteria, generalizing explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

We show how to compute classical wave observables using quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss observables both with incoming and with outgoing waves. The required classical limits are naturally described by coherent states of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , David A. Kosower , Donal O'Connell

We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Carlo Heissenberg , Julio Parra-Martinez

Asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles by scalar, vector and tensor exchanges at high energy and fixed momentum transfers is reconsidered in quantum field theory. In the framework of the quasi-potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Nguyen Suan Han , Le Hai Yen , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

We provide universal expressions for the classical piece of the amplitude given by the graviton/photon exchange between massive particles of arbitrary spin, at both tree and one loop level. In the gravitational case this leads to higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Alfredo Guevara

For classical field theories with probabilistic initial conditions the classical field observables are an idealization. Their arbitrarily precise values poorly reflect the characteristic uncertainty in the presence of substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Christof Wetterich

Understanding the deflection of light by a massive deflector, as well as the associated gravitational lens phenomena, require the use of the theory of General Relativity. I consider here a classical approach, based on Newton's equation of…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-03-05 T. Garel

I describe the treatment of gravity as a quantum effective field theory. This allows a natural separation of the (known) low energy quantum effects from the (unknown) high energy contributions. Within this framework, gravity is a well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 John F. Donoghue

We revisit the quantum-amplitude-based derivation of the gravitational waveform emitted by the scattering of two spinless massive bodies at the third order in Newton's constant, $h \sim G+G^2+G^3$ (one-loop level), and correspondingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Stefano De Angelis , Andrea Geralico , Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

In this thesis, I will study the classical scattering problem of two Kerr black holes in general relativity with novel quantum field theory techniques in the Post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion, generalizing the subleading soft theorem to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-04 Damiano Barcaro

Interesting theories with short range interactions include QCD in the hadronic phase and cold atom systems. The scattering length in two-to-two elastic scattering process captures the most elementary features of the interactions, such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Carlos Hoyos , Niko Jokela , Daniel Logares

We develop a new approach to building cosmological models, in which small pieces of perturbed Minkowski space are joined together at reflection-symmetric boundaries in order to form a global, dynamical space-time. Each piece of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 Viraj A. A. Sanghai , Timothy Clifton