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Generalized Effective Field Theory (GEFT) is the non-renormalizable extension of an Effective Field Theory where the Wilson coefficients are endowed by their own, independent scale dependence. Such an effective theory can be constructed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Nikos Irges , Fotis Koutroulis

We derive an effective field theory describing a pair of gravitationally interacting point particles in an expansion in their mass ratio, also known as the self-force (SF) expansion. The 0SF dynamics are trivially obtained to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Clifford Cheung , Julio Parra-Martinez , Ira Z. Rothstein , Nabha Shah , Jordan Wilson-Gerow

We treat low-energy $^3$He-$\alpha$ elastic scattering in an Effective Field Theory (EFT) that exploits the separation of scales in this reaction. We compute the amplitude up to Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO), developing a hierarchy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Maheshwor Poudel , Daniel R. Phillips

An asymptotic scaling theory is presented using the conceptual basis of trapping-free subspace (i.e., orthogonal subspace) to establish the generic mechanism of optimal efficiency of excitation energy transfer (EET) in light-harvesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Jianlan Wu , Jianshu Cao , Robert J. Silbey

Out-of-Time-Order-Correlator (OTOC) and Loschmidt Echo (LE) are commonly regarded as diagnostic tools for chaos, although they may yield misleading results because of various other factors. Previous studies have concluded that OTOC shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Pranaya Pratik Das , Biplab Ganguli

In recent years, a change in attitude in particle physics has led to our understanding current quantum field theories as effective field theories (EFTs). The present paper is concerned with the significance of this EFT approach, especially…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Castellani

We present a new on-shell method for the matching of ultraviolet models featuring massive states onto their massless effective field theory. We employ a dispersion relation in the space of complex momentum dilations to capture, in a single…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Stefano De Angelis , Gauthier Durieux

As the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is a measure of quantum chaos and an important observable in the context of AdS/CFT, we investigate the OTOC of holographic Skyrmion which is described by an analytical quantum mechanical system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Si-wen Li , Yi-peng Zhang , Hao-qian Li

We study out-of-time ordered four-point functions in two dimensional conformal field theories by suitably analytically continuing the Euclidean correlator. For large central charge theories with a sparse spectrum, chaotic dynamics is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Chi-Ming Chang , David M. Ramirez , Mukund Rangamani

We study constraints on the effective field theory (EFT) from the relative entropy between two theories: we refer to these as target and reference theories. The consequence of the non-negativity of the relative entropy is investigated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Qing-Hong Cao , Naoto Kan , Daiki Ueda

Large scale structure surveys promise to be the next leading probe of cosmological information. It is therefore crucial to reliably predict their observables. The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures (EFTofLSS) provides a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Simon Foreman , Daniel Green , Leonardo Senatore

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) constructed as derivative expansions in powers of momentum, in the spirit of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT), are a controllable approximation to strong dynamics as long as the energy of the interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Juan Escudero-Pedrosa , Jose Antonio Oller

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is the successful paradigm underlying modern theoretical physics, including the "Core Theory" of the Standard Model of particle physics plus Einstein's general relativity. I will argue that EFT grants us a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Sean M. Carroll

We employ an effective field theory (EFT) that exploits the separation of scales in the p-wave halo nucleus $^8\mathrm{B}$ to describe the process $^7\mathrm{Be}(p,\gamma)^8\mathrm{B}$ up to a center-of-mass energy of 500 keV. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Xilin Zhang , Kenneth M. Nollett , Daniel R. Phillips

The renormalization of composite operators is a fundamental aspect of quantum field theory, relevant for the description of phase transitions and high energy phenomenology. We calculate the anomalous dimensions of a large set of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

We present the first quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations with chiral effective field theory (EFT) interactions. To achieve this, we remove all sources of nonlocality, which hamper the inclusion in QMC calculations, in nuclear forces to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Gezerlis , I. Tews , E. Epelbaum , S. Gandolfi , K. Hebeler , A. Nogga , A. Schwenk

The fluctuation theorem (FT), the first derived consequence of the {\it Chaotic Hypothesis} (CH) of ref. [GC1], can be considered as an extension to arbitrary forcing fields of the fluctuation dissipation theorem (FD) and the corresponding…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Giovanni Gallavotti

A large two-body scattering length leads to universal behavior in few-body systems. In particular, the three-body system displays interesting features such as exact discrete scale invariance in the bound state spectrum in the limit of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucas Platter

Operator spreading under unitary time evolution has attracted a lot of attention recently, as a way to probe many-body quantum chaos. While quantities such as out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) do distinguish interacting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

The time-dependence of multi-point observable correlation functions are essential quantities in analysis and simulation of quantum dynamics. Open quantum systems approaches utilize two-point correlations to describe the influence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yoana R. Chorbadzhiyska , Peter A. Ivanov , Charlie Nation