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Effective field theories (EFTs) organize the description of complex systems into an infinite sequence of decreasing importance. Predictions are made with a finite number of terms, which induces a truncation error that is often left…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , M. T. Pratola , S. Wesolowski

The program AutoEFT is described. It allows one to generate Effective Field Theories (EFTs) from a given set of fields and symmetries. Allowed fields include scalars, spinors, gauge bosons, and gravitons. The symmetries can be local or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-26 Robert V. Harlander , Magnus C. Schaaf

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -W. Hammer

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer

The current understanding of deep neural networks can only partially explain how input structure, network parameters and optimization algorithms jointly contribute to achieve the strong generalization power that is typically observed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Francesco Craighero , Fabrizio Angaroni , Alex Graudenzi , Fabio Stella , Marco Antoniotti

We have continued the development of Lagrangian, cosmological perturbation theory for the low-order correlators of the matter density field. We provide a new route to understanding how the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Zvonimir Vlah , Martin White , Alejandro Aviles

We present an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism which describes the dynamics of non-relativistic extended objects coupled to gravity. The formalism is relevant to understanding the gravitational radiation power spectra emitted by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Walter D. Goldberger , Ira Z. Rothstein

We present in detail an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formulation for the essential case of spinning objects as the components of inspiralling compact binaries. We review its implementation, carried out in a series of works in recent years,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-27 Michele Levi

The virtues of an effective field theory (EFT) approach to many-body problems are illustrated by deriving the expansion for the energy of an homogeneous, interacting Fermi gas at low density and zero temperature. A renormalization scheme…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. -W. Hammer , R. J. Furnstahl

We present GenEFT: an effective theory framework for shedding light on the statics and dynamics of neural network generalization, and illustrate it with graph learning examples. We first investigate the generalization phase transition as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 David D. Baek , Ziming Liu , Max Tegmark

The implications of an effective field theory (EFT) interpretation of nuclear mean-field phenomenology are reviewed.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Furnstahl , Brian D. Serot

Predictive power in theoretical nuclear physics has been a major concern in the study of nuclear structure and reactions. The Effective Field Theory (EFT) based on chiral expansions provides a model independent hierarchy for many body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Ruiz Arriola , J. E. Amaro , R. Navarro Perez

We present an effective field theory (EFT) for a model-independent description of deformed atomic nuclei. In leading order this approach recovers the well-known results from the collective model by Bohr and Mottelson. When higher-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-14 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmüller

Effective field theories offer a powerful method to unify diverse models under a small set of control parameters, allowing systematic expansions around well-established theories. These techniques, developed in particle physics, were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Thomas Colas

The layered structure of deep neural networks hinders the use of numerous analysis tools and thus the development of its interpretability. Inspired by the success of functional brain networks, we propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ben Zhang , Zhetong Dong , Junsong Zhang , Hongwei Lin

The characteristics of a meaningful effective field theory (EFT) analysis are discussed and compared with traditional approaches to NN scattering. A key feature of an EFT treatment is a systematic expansion in powers of momentum, which is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 James V. Steele

Neural Network (NN) architectures that break statistical independence of parameters have been proposed as a new approach for simulating local quantum field theories (QFTs). In the infinite neuron number limit, single-layer NNs can exactly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Srimoyee Sen , Varun Vaidya

Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) have emerged as leading surrogates for solver operators for various functional problems, yet their stability, generalization and frequency behavior lack a principled explanation. We present a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Taeyoung Kim

The effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy relies on three functions of time to describe the background dynamics. The viability of these functions is investigated here by means of a thorough dynamical analysis. While the system is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Noemi Frusciante , Marco Raveri , Alessandra Silvestri

In this thesis we elaborate on two different aspects of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to a Binary Coalescing system in General Relativity (GR). First, we consider the issue of hereditary effects in the Post-Newtonian (PN)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-03 Giacomo Brunello