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Following Feynman's treatment of the non-relativistic polaron problem, similar techniques are used to study relativistic field theories: after integrating out the bosonic degrees of freedom the resulting effective action is formulated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Rosenfelder , C. Alexandrou , A. W. Schreiber

We compute one-loop electron-photon vertex with fully off-shell external momenta in an arbitrary covariant gauge and space-time dimension. There exist numerous efforts in literature where one-loop off-shell vertex is calculated by employing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-10 Victor Miguel Banda Guzmán , Adnan Bashir

This thesis addresses a fundamental problem in deformation quantization: the difficulty of calculating the star-exponential, the symbol of the evolution operator, due to convergence issues. Inspired by the formalism that connects the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Anuar Kafuri

The presence of strong electromagnetic fields adds huge complexity to QED Feynman diagrams, such that new methods are required to calculate higher-loop and higher-multiplicity scattering amplitudes. Here we use the worldline formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Patrick Copinger , James P. Edwards , Anton Ilderton , Karthik Rajeev

We obtained the Feynman propagators for a noncommutative (NC) quantum mechanics defined in the recently developed Doplicher-Fredenhagen-Roberts-Amorim (DFRA) NC background that can be considered as an alternative framework for the NC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Everton M. C. Abreu , Mario J. Neves

The worldline formalism is a useful scheme in Quantum Field Theory which has also become a powerful tool for numerical computations. It is based on the first quantisation of a point-particle whose transition amplitudes correspond to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Lucas Manzo

Simulations of supersymmetric field theories on the lattice with (spontaneously) broken supersymmetry suffer from a fermion sign problem related to the vanishing of the Witten index. We propose a novel approach which solves this problem in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-07 David Baumgartner , Urs Wenger

A FORM based package (ON-SHELL2) for the calculation of two loop self-energy diagrams with one nonzero mass in internal lines and the external momentum on the same mass shell is elaborated. The algorithm, based on recurrence relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Fleischer , M. Yu. Kalmykov

In arXiv:2206.04188, we developed a first-quantized worldline formalism for all-order computations of amplitudes in QED. In particular, we demonstrated in this framework an all-order proof of the infrared safety of the Faddeev-Kulish (FK)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Xabier Feal , Andrey Tarasov , Raju Venugopalan

We develop Wigner - Weyl formalism for the lattice models. For the definiteness we consider Wilson fermions in the presence of $U(1)$ gauge field. The given technique reduces calculation of the two point fermionic Green function to solution…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-10-02 M. Suleymanov , M. A. Zubkov

For massless quenched QED in three dimensions, we evaluate a non-perturbative expression for the fermion propagator which agrees with its two loop perturbative expansion in the weak coupling regime. This calculation is carried out by making…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Bashir

A numerical technique for calculating effective actions of electromagnetic backgrounds is proposed, which is based on the string-inspired worldline formalism. As examples, we consider scalar electrodynamics in three and four dimensions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Holger Gies , Kurt Langfeld

We use the S-matrix formalism of bound-state QED to study the photon-atom scattering. We find that the internal lines in Feynman diagrams which describing the propagation of off-shell bound electrons provide the off-shell amplitudes of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Wen-Zhuo Zhang , Wu-Ming Liu

We use the worldline formalism to derive master formulas for the one-loop N-photon amplitudes in a plane-wave background, for both scalar and spinor QED. This generalises previous work by Ilderton and Torgrimsson for the vacuum polarisation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 James P. Edwards , Christian Schubert

These two lectures give a pedagogical introduction to the ``string-inspired'' worldline technique for perturbative calculations in quantum field theory. This includes an overview over the present range of its applications. Several examples…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Christian Schubert

We construct the path integral for one-dimensional non-linear sigma models, starting from a given Hamiltonian operator and states in a Hilbert space. By explicit evaluation of the discretized propagators and vertices we find the correct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jan de Boer , Bas Peeters , Kostas Skenderis , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

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

Consistent quantum formalism based on the localized basis of the Wannirer functions in Heisenberg and Schrodinger pictures to describe propagation of electromagnetic field in a three dimensional media including diffraction is presented. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 V. N. Gorbachev , A. I. Zhiliba

The geometry of field space governs on-shell scattering amplitudes. We formulate a geometric description of effective field theories which extends previous results for scalars and gauge fields to fermions. The field-space geometry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Benoît Assi , Andreas Helset , Aneesh V. Manohar , Julie Pagès , Chia-Hsien Shen

We derive a geometric representation of couplings between spin degrees of freedom and gauge fields within the worldline approach to quantum field theory. We combine the string-inspired methods of the worldline formalism with elements of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Gies , Jens Hammerling