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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 newly developed nonperturbative approach, aiming at solving relativistic bound systems based on the Hamiltonian formalism of light-front dynamics. In this work, we introduce its application to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 Kaiyu Fu , Hengfei Zhao , Xingbo Zhao , 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

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 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 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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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

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

We introduce a nonperturbative, first principles numerical approach for solving time-dependent problems in quantum field theory, using light-front quantization. As a first application we consider QED in a strong background field, and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-19 Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory constitutes a framework for the non-perturbative solution of invariant masses and correlated parton amplitudes of self-bound systems. By choosing light-front gauge and adopting a basis function…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 J. P. Vary , H. Honkanen , Jun Li , P. Maris , S. J. Brodsky , P. Sternberg , E. G. Ng , C. Yang

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

Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory provides a framework for calculating both static and dynamic properties of strongly interacting relativistic systems. Invariant masses, correlated parton amplitudes and time-dependent scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-10 James P. Vary , Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , Stanley J. Brodsky

Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory constitutes a framework for the non-perturbative solution of invariant masses and correlated parton amplitudes of self-bound systems. By choosing the light-front gauge and adopting a basis…

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