English
Related papers

Related papers: Exact instantons via worldline deformations

200 papers

In this study, we introduce and explore a delay differential equation that lends itself to explicit solutions in the Fourier-transformed space. Through the careful alignment of the initial function, we can construct a highly accurate…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-12-13 Kenta Ohira , Toru Ohira

Instanton theory is an established method to calculate rate constants of chemical reactions including atom tunneling. Technical and methodological improvements increased its applicability. Still, a large number of energy and gradient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Jan Meisner , Johannes Kästner

Conformal defects -- extended objects in conformal field theories -- carry localised excitations inherited from symmetry currents, known as the displacements and tilts. They capture the linear response of the defect to deformations of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Nadav Drukker , Ziwen Kong , Petr Kravchuk

By precisely writing down the matrix element of the local Boltzmann operator, we have proposed a new path integral formulation for quantum field theory and developed a corresponding Monte Carlo algorithm. With current formula, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-08 J. Wang , W. Pan , D. Y. Sun

We study different aspects the worldline path integrals with gauge fields using quantum computing. We use the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and Evolution of Hamiltonian (EOH) quantum algorithms and IBM QISKit to perform our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Yuan Feng , Michael McGuigan

This article presents the first complete application of a quantum time-marching algorithm for simulating multidimensional linear transport phenomena with arbitrary boundaries, whereby the success probabilities are problem intrinsic. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Sergio Bengoechea , Paul Over , Thomas Rung

Recently, it was shown that in the absence of gravity there exist non-$O(4)$-symmetric instanton solutions with finite action beyond Coleman's instantons. In this paper, focusing on the false-vacuum decay in a single scalar field in flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Misao Sasaki , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat , Ying-li Zhang

It is well known that instantons are classical topological solutions existing in the context of quantum field theories that lie behind the standard model of particles. To provide a better understanding for the dynamical nature of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-05 Fatma Aydogmus

We present a novel method to generate accurate and realistic clothing deformation from real data capture. Previous methods for realistic cloth modeling mainly rely on intensive computation of physics-based simulation (with numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Zorah Laehner , Daniel Cremers , Tony Tung

We initiate the study of $T\bar T$-like irrelevant solvable deformations in quantum field theory with boundaries and defects. For this purpose, we employ a general formalism developed in the context of spin chains, which allows us to derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Yunfeng Jiang , Florian Loebbert , De-liang Zhong

We investigate instantons on manifolds with Killing spinors and their cones. Examples of manifolds with Killing spinors include nearly Kaehler 6-manifolds, nearly parallel G_2-manifolds in dimension 7, Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Derek Harland , Christoph Nölle

Exact solutions to the quantum S-matrices for solitons in simply-laced affine Toda field theories are obtained, except for certain factors of simple type which remain undetermined in some cases. These are found by postulating solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. R. Johnson

In this article we present robust, efficient and accurate fully implicit time-stepping schemes and nonlinear solvers for systems of reaction-diffusion equations. The applications of reaction-diffusion systems is abundant in the literature,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-26 Anotida Madzvamuse , Andy H. W. Chung

The most realistic situations in quantum mechanics involve the interaction between two or more systems. In the most of reliable models, the form and structure of the interactions generate differential equations which are, in the most of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 C. A. M. de Melo , B. M. Pimentel , J. A. Ramirez

We present an extension of the deformation method applied to self-dual solutions of generalized Abelian Higgs-Chern-Simons models. Starting from a model defined by a potential $V(| \phi |)$ and a non-canonical kinetic term $\omega(| \phi |)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-21 L. Losano , J. M. C. Malbouisson , D. Rubiera-Garcia , C. dos Santos

Instantons are tunneling solutions that connect two vacua, and under a small change in the potential, instantons sometimes disappear. We classify these disappearances as smooth (decay rate goes to 0 at disappearance) or abrupt (decay rate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Adam R. Brown , Alex Dahlen

Nonperturbative exact solutions are allowed for quantum integrable models in one space-dimension. Going beyond this class we propose an alternative Lax matrix approach, exploiting the hidden multi-time concept in integrable systems and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Anjan Kundu

In this paper we introduce an approximate method to solve the quantum cavity equations for transverse field Ising models. The method relies on a projective approximation of the exact cavity distributions of imaginary time trajectories…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-29 E. Domínguez , H. J. Kappen

{(Anti-)instanton behaviour in Euclidean non-abelian field of the point-like source is studied by analyzing the possible (anti-)instanton deformations as resulted from the variations of its characteristic parameters. The variational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Molodtsov , G. M. Zinovjev

We consider gauged Wess-Zumino models based on the non compact group $SU(2,1)$. It is shown that by vector gauging the maximal compact subgroup $U(2)$ the resulting backgrounds obey the gravity-dilaton one loop string vacuum equations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Adriá n R. Lugo