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Mutually unbiased bases that can be cyclically generated by a single unitary operator are of special interest, since they can be readily implemented in practice. We show that, for a system of qubits, finding such a generator can be cast as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ulrich Seyfarth , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto , Gerd Leuchs

We apply the on-shell amplitude techniques in the domain of dark matter. Without evoking fields and Lagrangians, an effective theory for a massive spin-$S$ particle is defined in terms of on-shell amplitudes, which are written down using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Adam Falkowski , Giulia Isabella , Camila S. Machado

Scattering amplitudes with spinning particles are shown to decompose into multiple copies of simple building blocks to all loop orders, which can be used to efficiently reduce these amplitudes to sums over scalar integrals. Absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-28 Rutger H. Boels , Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

We present an overview of recent developments, based on on-shell techniques, in the calculation of multi-parton scattering amplitudes at one loop that are relevant for phenomenological studies at hadron colliders. These new on-shell methods…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Carola F. Berger , Darren Forde

We use on-shell methods to compute all three-point interactions of massive spin-3/2 particles involving a graviton and particles of spin $\leq 1$. By employing the massive spinor-helicity formalism we identify the interactions which have a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-30 Tony Gherghetta , Wenqi Ke

The problem of determining completely the spin amplitudes of photoproduction of two pseudoscalar mesons on a nucleon from observables is studied. The procedure of reconstruction of the scattering matrix elements from a complete set of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Arenhoevel , A. Fix

In this letter we discuss a regularization scheme for the integration of generic on-shell forms. The basic idea is to extend the three-particle amplitudes to the space of unphysical helicities keeping the dimension of the related coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-01 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde , David Gordo

We emphasize that scattering amplitudes of a wide class of models to any order in the coupling are constructible by on-shell tree subamplitudes. This follows from the Feynman-tree theorem combined with BCFW on-shell recursion relations. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis

We present a systematic method for deriving partial-wave unitarity bounds on Wilson coefficients of higher-dimensional operators in effective field theories involving more than four fields, which naturally appear in tree-level 2-to-$N$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-06 Céline Degrande , Hao-Lin Li , Ling-Xiao Xu

This work establishes a systematic framework for operator construction in the non-relativistic effective field theory, incorporating both the three dimensional Euclidean symmetry and the internal symmetries. By employing double cover of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Yong-Kang Li , Yi-Ning Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

We present a systematic technique for constructing Lorentz covariant orbital-spin ($LS$) bases for matrix elements of local operators and the associated form factors, thereby extending the traditional multipole expansion to a Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Hong Huang , Tuo Tan , Yi-Ning Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

I present a novel method of deriving a basis of contact terms in massless effective field theories (EFTs). It relies on the parametrization of $N$-body kinematics via the so-called momentum twistors. A basis is constructed directly at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-20 Adam Falkowski

In this paper the general form of scattering amplitudes for massless particles with equal spins s ($s s \to s s$) or unequal spins ($s_a s_b \to s_a s_b$) are derived. The imposed conditions are that the amplitudes should have the lowest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 F. A. Berends , W. T. Giele

Nanoparticles with "sticky patches" have long been proposed as building blocks for the self-assembly of complex structures. The synthetic realizability of such patchy particles, however, greatly lags behind predictions of patterns they…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-03 Michael Grünwald , Phillip L. Geissler

On-shell helicity methods provide powerful tools for determining scattering amplitudes, which have a one-to-one correspondence with leading power helicity operators in the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) away from singular regions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Daniel W. Kolodrubetz , Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart

We introduce a constructive method for defining a global loop-integrand basis for scattering amplitudes, encompassing both planar and nonplanar contributions. Our approach utilizes a graph-based framework to establish a well-defined,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We describe a systematic approach to the construction of loop-integrand bases at arbitrary loop-order, sufficient for the representation of general quantum field theories. We provide a graph-theoretic definition of `power-counting' for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Jaroslav Trnka

The performance of basis sets made of numerical atomic orbitals is explored in density-functional calculations of solids and molecules. With the aim of optimizing basis quality while maintaining strict localization of the orbitals, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Javier Junquera , Oscar Paz , Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Emilio Artacho

Operators for simulating the scattering of two particles with spin are constructed. Three methods are shown to give the consistent lattice operators for PN, PV, VN and NN scattering, where P, V and N denote pseudoscalar meson, vector meson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-10-05 S. Prelovsek , U. Skerbis , C. B. Lang

The constructive method of determining amplitudes from on-shell pole structure has been shown to be promising for calculating amplitudes in a more efficient way. However, challenges have been encountered when a massless internal photon is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hsing-Yi Lai , Da Liu , John Terning