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Recent development of path integral matching techniques based on the covariant derivative expansion has made manifest a universal structure of one-loop effective Lagrangians. The universal terms can be computed once and for all to serve as…
We present the universal one-loop effective action up to dimension eight after integrating out heavy fermion(s) using the Heat-Kernel method. We have discussed how the Dirac operator being a weak elliptic operator, the fermionic operator…
We present the universal one-loop effective action for all operators of dimension up to six obtained by integrating out massive, non-degenerate multiplets. Our general expression may be applied to loops of heavy fermions or bosons, and has…
A systematic derivation is given of the worldline path integrals for the effective action of a multiplet of Dirac fermions interacting with general matrix-valued classical background scalar, pseudoscalar, and vector gauge fields. The first…
We extend the known Universal One-Loop Effective Action (UOLEA) by all operators which involve scalars and fermions, not including contributions arising from open covariant derivatives. Our generic analytic expressions for the one-loop…
We give a survey and unified treatment of functional integral representations for both simple random walk and some self-avoiding walk models, including models with strict self-avoidance, with weak self-avoidance, and a model of walks and…
Composite fermion wavefuctions have been used to describe electrons in a strong magnetic field. We show that the polynomial part of these wavefunctions can be obtained by applying a normal ordered product of suitably defined annihilation…
In the world line representation of the fermionic effective action for QCD the interaction between Fermions and the gauge field is contained in the fermionic Wilson loop, namely the Wilson loop for a spin-half particle. It is argued that a…
A compact general integral formula is derived from which the fermionic contribution to the one-loop coefficient in the perturbative expansion of the MSbar coupling in powers of the bare lattice coupling can be extracted. It is seen to…
We use functional methods to compute one-loop effects in Heavy Quark Effective Theory. The covariant derivative expansion technique facilitates the efficient extraction of matching coefficients and renormalization group evolution equations.…
On the basis of a new approach proposed in our previous work we develope a formalism for calculating of the effective action for some models containing fermion fields. This method allows us to calculate the fermionic part of the effective…
In this paper we continue and improve the analysis of the effective actions obtained by integrating out a scalar and a fermion field coupled to external symmetric sources, started in the previous paper. The first subject we study is the…
We outline a proposal, based on the Heat-Kernel method, to compute 1PI effective action up to any loop order for quantum field theory with scalar and fermion fields. We algebraically extract the divergences associated with the composite…
We carry out a detailed study of the three-point fermion-photon interaction vertex at one loop order for massive fermions in reduced quantum electrodynamics. This calculation is carried out in arbitrary covariant gauges and space-time…
We show that a class of quantum computations that was recently shown to be efficiently simulatable on a classical computer by Valiant corresponds to a physical model of noninteracting fermions in one dimension. We give an alternative proof…
We present a (1+1)-dimensional fermionic QFT with non-local couplings between currents. This model describes an ensemble of spinless fermions interacting through forward, backward and umklapp scattering processes. We express the vacuum to…
Continuous-time determinantal algorithm is proposed for the quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the interacting fermions. The scheme does not invoke Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. The fermionic action is divided into two parts. One of…
The recent solution to the fermion sign problem allows, for the first time, the use of cluster algorithm techniques to compute certain fermionic path integrals. To illustrate the underlying ideas behind the progress, a cluster algorithm is…
The field-theoretic one-loop effective action in a static scalar background depending nontrivially on a single spatial coordinate is related, in the proper-time formalism, to the trace of the evolution kernel (or heat kernel) for an…
Dirac fermions have a central role in high energy physics but it is well known that they emerge also as quasiparticles in several condensed matter systems supporting topological order. We present a general method for deriving the…