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The real-time correlators of quantum field theories can be directly probed through new approaches to simulation, such as quantum computing and tensor networks. This provides a new framework for computing scattering observables in lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-27 Ivan M. Burbano , Marco A. Carrillo , Rana Urek , Anthony N. Ciavarella , Raúl A. Briceño

(Neal and Hinton, 1998) recast maximum likelihood estimation of any given latent variable model as the minimization of a free energy functional $F$, and the EM algorithm as coordinate descent applied to $F$. Here, we explore alternative…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Juan Kuntz , Jen Ning Lim , Adam M. Johansen

We use massive spinor helicity formalism to study scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ super-Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. We compute the amplitudes at an arbitrary point in the Coulomb branch of this theory. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-15 Md. Abhishek , Subramanya Hegde , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arnab Priya Saha

The scattering equations, recently proposed by Cachazo, He and Yuan as providing a kinematic basis for describing tree amplitudes for massless particles in arbitrary space-time dimension (including scalars, gauge bosons and gravitons), are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Louise Dolan , Peter Goddard

Quantum field theory provides us with the means to calculate scattering amplitudes. In recent years a dramatic new development has lead to great simplification of such calculations. This is based on the discovery of the``amplituhedron'' in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Deepak Vaid , Devadharshini Suresh

In algebraic statistics, the maximum likelihood degree of a statistical model refers to the number of solutions (counted with multiplicity) of the score equations over the complex field. In this paper, the maximum likelihood degree of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Pooja Yadav , Tanuja Srivastava

How to turn the flip of a coin into a random variable whose expected value equals a scattering amplitude? We answer this question by constructing a numerical algorithm to evaluate curve integrals - a novel formulation of scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 Giulio Salvatori

High energy fixed angle scattering is studied in matrix string theory. The saddle point world sheet configurations, which give the dominant contributions to the string theory amplitude, are taken as classical backgrounds in matrix string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Wynter

Methods to increase the light scattered from small particles can help improve the sensitivity of many sensing techniques. Here, we investigate the role multiple scattering plays in perturbing the scattered signal when a particle is added to…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-03 Joel Berk , Matthew R. Foreman

The maximum likelihood amplitude estimation algorithm (MLAE) is a practical solution to the quantum amplitude estimation problem with Heisenberg limit error convergence. We improve MLAE by using random depths to avoid the so-called critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Xi Lu , Hongwei Lin

Positive geometries provide a modern approach for computing scattering amplitudes in a variety of physical models. In order to facilitate the exploration of these new geometric methods, we introduce a Mathematica package called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman

In this paper, we propose a maximum smoothed likelihood method to estimate the component density functions of mixture models, in which the mixing proportions are known and may differ among observations. The proposed estimates maximize a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-14 Tao Yu , Pengfei Li , Jing Qin

The scattering amplitude in the dual model with Mandelstam analyticity and trajectory $\alpha (s)=\alpha_{0}-\gamma \ln [ (1+\beta \sqrt{s_{0} -s})/(1+ \beta \sqrt{s_{0}})]$ is studied in the limit $s,|t|\to \infty, s/t=const.$ By using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 R. Fiore , L. L. Jenkovszky , V. K. Magas , F. Paccanoni

We consider the rationally extended exactly solvable Eckart potentials which exhibit extended shape invariance property. These potentials are isospectral to the conventional Eckart potential. The scattering amplitude for these rationally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Rajesh Kumar Yadav , Avinash Khare , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

The definitions of scattering matrix and inclusive scattering matrix in the framework of formulation of quantum field theory in terms of associative algebras with involution are presented. The scattering matrix is expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Albert Schwarz

We examine the polynomial form of the scattering equations by means of computational algebraic geometry. The scattering equations are the backbone of the Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) representation of the S-matrix. We explain how the Bezoutian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Mads Sogaard , Yang Zhang

In this letter we quantize a previously proposed non-local lagrangean for the classical dual electrodynamics (Phys.Lett.B 384(1996)197), showing how it can be used to construct probability amplitudes. Our results are shown to agree with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-26 Saulo Carneiro

The authors consider a scattering problem for electric potentials that have a component which is critically singular in the sense of Lebesgue spaces, and a component given by a measure supported on a compact Lipschitz hypersurface. They…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Pedro Caro , Andoni Garcia

We study the scattering of low-energy tensor multiplet particles against a BPS saturated cosmic string. We show that the corresponding S-matrix is largely determined by symmetry considerations. We then apply a specific supersymmetric model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Erik Flink

We study the Regge limit of string amplitudes within the model of Polchinski-Strassler for string scattering in warped spacetimes. We also present some numerical estimations of the Regge slopes. It is quite remarkable that the real values…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Andreev