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We study information-theoretic aspects of the infrared sector of quantum electrodynamics, using the dressed-state approach pioneered by Chung, Kibble, Faddeev-Kulish and others. In this formalism QED has an IR-finite S-matrix describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Daniel Carney , Laurent Chaurette , Dominik Neuenfeld , Gordon Walter Semenoff

The dressed state formalism enables us to define the infrared finite $S$-matrix for QED. In the formalism, asymptotic charged states are dressed by clouds of photons. The dressed asymptotic states are originally obtained by solving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-17 Hayato Hirai , Sotaro Sugishita

Memory effects in scattering processes are described in terms of the asymptotic retarded fields. These fields are completely determined by the scattering data and the zero mode part is set by the soft photon theorem. The dressed asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Cesar Gomez , Raoul Letschka

We study soft photon emission during scattering of Faddeev-Kulish charged states in QED, at leading order in perturbation theory. The charged asymptotic particles are accompanied by clouds of an infinite number of soft photons of energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Stavros Christodoulou , Nicolaos Toumbas

The traditional $S$-matrix does not exist for theories with massless particles, such as quantum electrodynamics. The difficulty in isolating asymptotic states manifests itself as infrared divergences at each order in perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-25 Holmfridur Hannesdottir , Matthew D. Schwartz

In order to deal with IR divergences arising in QED or perturbative quantum gravity scattering processes, one can either calculate inclusive quantities or use dressed asymptotic states. We consider incoming superpositions of momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 Daniel Carney , Laurent Chaurette , Dominik Neuenfeld , Gordon Semenoff

Dressed states were proposed to define the infrared (IR) finite $S$-matrix in QED or gravity. We show that the original Kulish-Faddeev dressed states are not enough to cure the IR divergences. To illustrate this problem, we consider QED…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-25 Hayato Hirai , Sotaro Sugishita

The dressed state formalisms, which incorporate interactions of soft particles into an asymptotic state, are known as the prescriptions expected to solve the problem of infrared (IR) divergence in the quantum field theory (QFT). A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Hideo Furugori , Shin'ichi Nojiri

We construct Faddeev-Kulish states in QED and perturbative quantum gravity to subleading order in the soft momentum expansion and to first order in the coupling constant, using the charge conservation formula of asymptotic symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Sangmin Choi , Ratindranath Akhoury

We study soft emission in QED during scattering of Faddeev-Kulish dressed states. The incoming and outgoing charged particles are accompanied by coherent clouds of soft photons with energies below a characteristic infrared scale $E_d$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Stavros Christodoulou , Nicolaos Toumbas

The entanglement among scattering particles in an exemplary quantum electrodynamics (QED) process is studied perturbatively. To increase the computational accuracy, we need to consider virtual photon loop diagrams, which lead to infrared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Jinbo Fan , Xuanting Ji , Xi-Jun Ren

Infrared (IR) divergences arise in scattering theory with massless fields and are manifestations of the memory effect. There is nothing singular about states with memory, but they do not lie in the standard Fock space. IR divergences are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Kartik Prabhu , Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

The rules of soft-collinear effective theory can be used naively to write hard scattering cross-sections as convolutions of separate hard, jet, and soft functions. One condition required to guarantee the validity of such a factorization is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-16 Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Grigory Ovanesyan

In theories with long-range forces like QED or perturbative gravity, loop corrections lead to vanishing amplitudes. There are two well-known procedures to address these infrared divergences: dressing of asymptotic states and inclusion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Cesar Gomez , Raoul Letschka , Sebastian Zell

String-localized QFT allows to explain Standard Model interactions in an autonomous way, committed to quantum principles rather than a "gauge principle", thus avoiding an indefinite state space and compensating ghosts. The resulting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Iustus C. Hemprich , Karl-Henning Rehren

S-matrix elements exhibit universal factorization when multiple infrared photons are emitted in scattering processes. We explicitly show that the leading soft factorization of tree-level amplitudes with the emission of any number of soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 Zhengwen Liu , Pujian Mao

In arXiv:2206.04188, we developed a first-quantized worldline formalism for all-order computations of amplitudes in QED. In particular, we demonstrated in this framework an all-order proof of the infrared safety of the Faddeev-Kulish (FK)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Xabier Feal , Andrey Tarasov , Raju Venugopalan

We consider dressed 1-electron states in a translation-invariant model of non-relativistic QED. To start with a well-defined model, the interaction Hamiltonian is cutoff at very large photon energies (ultraviolet cutoff) and regularized at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Chen , Juerg Froehlich

We consider soft photons effects (IR structure of QED) on the construction of physical qubits. Soft-photons appear when we build charged qubits from the asymptotic states of QED. This construction is necessary in order to include the effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 J. Leon , E. Martin-Martinez

We propose a set of techniques that enable universal quantum computing to be carried out using dressed states. This applies in particular to the effort of realising quantum computation in trapped ions using long-wavelength radiation, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Gatis Mikelsons , Itsik Cohen , Alex Retzker , Martin B. Plenio
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