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In this Letter we compute analytically the effect of conformal symmetry on the radiative corrections to the amplitude ratios for O($N$) $\lambda\phi^{4}$ massless scalar field theories in curved spacetime for probing the two-scale-factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-22 H. A. S. Costa , P. R. S. Carvalho

Recently, \cite{Cao:2025hio} demonstrated the $2$-split for form factor under specific kinematic constraints. This factorization is analogous to that observed in scattering amplitudes. A key consequence of this structure is the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Liang Zhang

We examine scattering amplitudes for an arbitrary number of photons in a class of non-null background electromagnetic fields, studying tree-level and one-loop amplitudes in scalar and spinor quantum-electrodynamics in backgrounds defined by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Patrick Copinger , James P. Edwards , Karthik Rajeev

We compute the spectral form factor of two integrable quantum-critical many body systems in one spatial dimension. The spectral form factor of the quantum Ising chain is periodic in time in the scaling limit described by a conformal field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Nivedita , Leyna Shackleton , Subir Sachdev

This chapter introduces the foundational elements of scattering amplitudes. It is meant to be accessible to readers with only a basic understanding of quantum field theory. Topics covered include: the four-dimensional spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-10 Andreas Brandhuber , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

The spectral form factor (SFF) is a powerful diagnostic of random matrix behavior in quantum many-body systems. We introduce a family of random circuit ensembles whose SFFs can be computed \textit{exactly}. These ensembles describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Lev Vidmar , Michael O. Flynn

We consider the resonance and scattering properties of a composite medium containing scatterers whose properties are modulated in time. When excited with an incident wave of a single frequency, the scattered field consists of a family of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Bryn Davies

Physical properties of scattering amplitudes are mapped to the Riemann zeta function. Specifically, a closed-form amplitude is constructed, describing the tree-level exchange of a tower with masses $m_n^2 = \mu_n^2$, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-09 Grant N. Remmen

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

In this paper we construct directionally sensitive functions that can be viewed as directional time-frequency representations. We call such a sequence a rotational uniform covering frame and by studying rotations of the frame, we derive the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Wojciech Czaja , Weilin Li

The correlation function of the two dimensional Ising model with the nearest neighbours interaction on the finite size lattice with the periodical boundary conditions is derived. The expressions similar to the form factor expansion are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Bugrij

The use of complex analysis for computing one-loop scattering amplitudes is naturally induced by generalised unitarity-cut conditions, fulfilled by complex values of the loop variable. We report on two techniques: the cut-integration with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We study the impact of full unitarity on the moment structure of forward scattering amplitudes. We introduce the semiarcs, calculable quantities in the EFT dispersively related to both real and imaginary parts of the UV amplitude for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-02 Marc Riembau

By analytically continuing QCD scattering amplitudes through specific complexified momenta, one can study and learn about the nature and the consequences of factorization and unitarity. In some cases, when coupled with the largest time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Diana Vaman , York-Peng Yao

The boundary contribution of an amplitude in the BCFW recursion relation can be considered as a form factor involving boundary operator and unshifted particles. At the tree-level, we show that by suitable construction of Lagrangian, one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Rijun Huang , Qingjun Jin , Bo Feng

Conformal field theory predicts finite-size scaling amplitudes of correlation lengths universally related to critical exponents on sphere-like, semi-finite systems $S^{d-1}\times\mathbb{R}$ of arbitrary dimensionality $d$. Numerical studies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Weigel , Wolfhard Janke

It is shown that the scaling operators in the conformal limit of a two-dimensional field theory have massive form factors which obey a simple factorisation property in rapidity space. This has been used to identify such operators within the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Delfino , P. Simonetti , J. L. Cardy

In this paper, the interaction of an incident finite amplitude longitudinal wave with a localized region of nonlinearity is considered. This interaction produces a secondary field represented by a superposition of first-, second-, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Christopher M. Kube , Andrea P. Arguelles , Brandon McWilliams

We develop a form factor approach to the study of dynamical correlation functions of quantum integrable models in the critical regime. As an example, we consider the quantum non-linear Schr\"odinger model. We derive long-distance/long-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-17 N. Kitanine , K. K. Kozlowski , J. M. Maillet , N. A. Slavnov , V. Terras

Conformal Field Theory in a Minkowski setting is discussed in an embedding space approach, paying special attention to causality constraints for four-point amplitudes. The physics of dilatation and Lorentz boost is emphasized in specifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 Pulkit Agarwal , Richard C. Brower , Timothy G. Raben , Chung-I Tan