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We present the first application of the recently developed Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) method to self-bound systems in quantum field theory, using the positronium system as a test case. Within the BLFQ framework, we develop a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Paul Wiecki , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

Basis Light-front Quantization (BLFQ) is a nonperturbative approach to quantum field theory. In this paper, we report our recent progress in applying BLFQ to the positronium system in QED and to the meson and the baryon system in QCD. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Xingbo Zhao , Kaiyu Fu , Hengfei Zhao , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , James P. Vary

We present a calculation of the mass spectrum of positronium within the framework of the recently developed Basis Light-Front Quantization approach to non-perturbative quantum field theory. In this calculation, we employ a two-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Paul W. Wiecki , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

Basis Light-Front Quantized Field Theory (BLFQ) is an $\textit{ab intio}$ Hamiltonian approach that adopts light-cone gauge, light-front quantization and state-of-the-art many-body methods to solve non-perturbative quantum field theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-20 Yang Li , Paul W. Wiecki , Xingbo Zhao , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

We study the light-unflavored mesons as relativistic bound states in the nonperturbative Hamiltonian formalism of the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) approach. The dynamics for the valence quarks of these mesons is specified by an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Wenyang Qian , Shaoyang Jia , Yang Li , James P. Vary

We calculate the mass spectrum and the structure of the positronium system at a strong coupling in a basis light-front approach. We start from the light-front QED Hamiltonian and retain one dynamical photon in our basis. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-12 Xingbo Zhao , Kaiyu Fu , Hengfei Zhao , James P. Vary

We employ an effective Hamiltonian that includes the transverse and longitudinal confinement and the one-gluon exchange interaction with fixed coupling constant. By solving the eigenvalue equation in basis light-front quantization (BLFQ),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , James P. Vary

Basis Light-front Quantization has been developed as a first-principles nonperturbative approach to quantum field theory. In this article we report our recent progress on the applications to the single electron and the positronium system in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Xingbo Zhao

We study the heavy quarkonium within the basis light-front quantization approach. We implement the one-gluon exchange interaction and a confining potential inspired by light-front holography. We adopt the holographic light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-12 Yang Li , Pieter Maris , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We review recent advancements in understanding nucleon structure within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework--a fully relativistic, nonperturbative approach to solving quantum field theories. In its initial phase, we start…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 James P. Vary , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li

We apply the basis light front quantization (BLFQ) approach to describe the valence structures of the charged light meson ground states. Specifically, the light front wavefunctions of $\pi^\pm$, $\rho^\pm$, $K^\pm$, and $K^{*\pm}$ are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Shaoyang Jia , James P. Vary

We survey recent progress in calculating properties of the electron and hadrons within the Basis Light Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach. We include applications to electromagnetic and strong scattering processes in relativistic heavy ion…

We investigate the structure of charmonium, bottomonium, and $\rm B_c$ meson systems within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach, including both the quark-antiquark ($|q\bar{q}\rangle$) and quark-antiquark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Jiatong Wu , Hengfei Zhao , Kaiyu Fu , Zhi Hu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We apply the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach to the Hamiltonian field theory of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in free space. We solve for the mass eigenstates corresponding to an electron interacting with a single photon in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xingbo Zhao , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary , Stanley J. Brodsky

We present a systematic comparison of charmonium light-front wave functions obtained through two complementary non-perturbative approaches: Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) and Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE). Key observables include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Xianghui Cao , Yang Li , Chao Shi , James P. Vary , Qun Wang

In this paper, we evaluate the electromagnetic and gravitational form factors as well as the corresponding generalized parton distributions of the electron using the Basis Light-front Quantization approach to QED. We compare our results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Lingdi Meng , Shuo Tang , Zhi Hu , Guo-Li Wang , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We obtain the light-front wavefunctions for the nucleon in the valence quark Fock space from an effective Hamiltonian, which includes the transverse and longitudinal confinement and the one-gluon exchange interaction with fixed coupling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-14 Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , Dipankar Chakrabarti , James P. Vary

Quantum computing has demonstrated the potential to revolutionize our understanding of nuclear, atomic, and molecular structure by obtaining forefront solutions in non-relativistic quantum many-body theory. In this work, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Wenyang Qian , Robert Basili , Soham Pal , Glenn Luecke , James P. Vary

Basis Light-front Quantization has been proposed as a nonperturbative framework for solving quantum field theory. We apply this approach to Quantum Electrodynamics and explicitly solve for the light-front wave function of a physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-26 Xingbo Zhao , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary , Stanley J. Brodsky

We present the first application of the Basis Light-Front Quantization method to a simple chiral model of the nucleon-pion system as a relativistic bound state for the physical proton. The light-front mass-squared matrix of the nucleon-pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Weijie Du , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , Gerald A. Miller , James P. Vary
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