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We present a completely numerical method of calculating one-loop amplitudes. Our approach is built upon two different existing methods: the contour deformation and the extrapolation methods. Taking the best features of each of them, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Goran Duplancic , Bruno Klajn

We present analytic expressions for the one-loop QCD helicity amplitudes contributing to top-quark pair production in association with a photon or a jet at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), evaluated through $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Souvik Bera , Colomba Brancaccio , Dhimiter Canko , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto

Estimating the difference between quantum data is crucial in quantum computing. However, as typical characterizations of quantum data similarity, the trace distance and quantum fidelity are believed to be exponentially-hard to evaluate in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Ranyiliu Chen , Zhixin Song , Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang

We complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Vasily Sotnikov

We use an n-dimensional projection method to calculate helicity amplitudes for photon-photon scattering up to the two-loop level, for massless particles inside the loop. We confirm the recent standard model results found by Bern et al using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Binoth , E. W. N. Glover , P. Marquard , J. J. van der Bij

A way to efficiently compute helicity amplitudes for arbitrary tree-level scattering processes in QCD is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The computational cost of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We propose an effectively nonperturbative approach to calculating scattering amplitudes in the perturbative regime. We do this in a discretized momentum space by using the QSE method to calculate all the contributions (to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-20 Neil Christensen , Joshua Henderson , Santiago Pinto , Cory Russ

As continuation of our previous paper we further develop our new method for calculating helicity amplitudes of jet-like QED processes described by tree diagrams, applying it to lepton pair production. This method consists in replacing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 C. Carimalo , A. Schiller , V. G. Serbo

In this paper we discuss techniques, which lead to a significant improvement of the efficiency of the Monte Carlo integration, when one-loop QCD amplitudes are calculated numerically with the help of the subtraction method and contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

We compute the helicity amplitudes for the processes $gg\to Zg$ and $gg\to Z\gamma$ to two loops in massless QCD. The perturbative expansion of these processes starts only at the one-loop level, such that our results are a crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-21 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs

I discuss the status of the computation of the two-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production associated with a jet at hadron colliders. This amplitude is a missing ingredient for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Colomba Brancaccio

We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Hua-Sheng Shao

We study QCD helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of (massive) quarks, keeping unobserved (loop) particles in fixed integer $D_s$ dimensions. We find a suitable embedding of external four-dimensional fermion states into higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-16 F. R. Anger , V. Sotnikov

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We briefly describe a new general algorithm for carrying out QCD calculations to next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. The algorithm can be used for computing arbitrary jet cross sections in arbitrary processes and can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefano Catani , Michael H. Seymour

We discuss one-loop five-parton amplitudes with two-quark two-photon or three-photon external legs. The amplitudes are required to evaluate the NLO corrections for the $\gamma\gamma jet$ production process at hadron colliders. The results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yoshiaki Yasui

In quantum information, trace distance is a basic metric of distinguishability between quantum states. However, there is no known efficient approach to estimate the value of trace distance in general. In this paper, we propose efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Qisheng Wang , Zhicheng Zhang

The explicit computation of amplitudes for fermionic Gaussian pure states in arbitrary Pauli bases is a long-standing challenge in quantum many-body physics, with significant implications for quantum tomography, experimental studies, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 M. A. Rajabpour , M. A. Seifi Mirjafarlou , Reyhaneh Khasseh

We present a calculation of the helicity amplitudes for the process $gg\to\gamma\gamma$ in three-loop massless QCD. We employ a recently proposed method to calculate scattering amplitudes in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme that reduces the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-05 Piotr Bargiela , Fabrizio Caola , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

Amplitude estimation is a fundamental quantum algorithmic primitive that enables quantum computers to achieve quadratic speedups for a large class of statistical estimation problems, including Monte Carlo methods. The main drawback from the…