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We look at the various aspects of treating general relativity as a quantum theory. It is briefly studied how to consistently quantize general relativity as an effective field theory. A key achievement here is the long-range low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Emil Jannik Bjerrum-Bohr

We show that the self-interactions present in the effective field theory formulation of general relativity can couple gravitational wave modes and generate nonclassical states. The output of gravitational nonlinear processes can also be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Thiago Guerreiro

By adding generalizations involving translations, the machinery of the quantum theory of free fields leads to the semiclassical equations of motion for a charged massive particle in electromagnetic and gravitational fields. With the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-07 Richard Shurtleff

Relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) is commonly formulated in terms of operators, asymptotic states, and covariant amplitudes, a perspective that tends to obscure the real-time origin of field dynamics and correlations. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Yong Zhang

The worldline formalism is a useful scheme in Quantum Field Theory which has also become a powerful tool for numerical computations. It is based on the first quantisation of a point-particle whose transition amplitudes correspond to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Lucas Manzo

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is the basis of some of the most fundamental theories in modern physics, but it is not an easy subject to learn. In the present article we intend to pave the way from quantum mechanics to QFT for students at early…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Helmut Linde

Quantum field theory (QFT) describes nature using continuous fields, but physical properties of QFT are usually revealed in terms of measurements of observables at a finite resolution. We describe a multiscale representation of a free…

We present a systematic diagrammatic investigation of the classical limit of observables computed from scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory through the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism, motivated by the study of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Zeno Capatti , Mao Zeng

We develop the on-shell action formalism within Worldline Quantum Field Theory (WQFT) to describe scattering of spinning compact bodies in General Relativity in the post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion. The real on-shell action is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Kays Haddad , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka

A generalization of the Heisenberg algebra has been recently constructed. This generalized algebra has a characteristic function which depends on one of its generators. When this function is linear, $qJ_0+s$, it is possible to construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. I. Ribeiro-Silva , N. M. Oliveira-Neto

We investigate the gravitational scattering of a spinning probe mass in a Kerr background using the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach. This corresponds to the leading term (0SF) in the gravitational self-force expansion for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Jitze Hoogeveen , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Jan Plefka

We employ quantum circuit learning to simulate quantum field theories (QFTs). Typically, when simulating QFTs with quantum computers, we encounter significant challenges due to the technical limitations of quantum devices when implementing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Kazuki Ikeda

Group field theories are a new type of field theories over group manifolds and a generalization of matrix models, that have recently attracted much interest in quantum gravity research. They represent a development of and a possible link…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-11-28 Daniele Oriti

Using the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) formalism for classical scattering, we study the deflection of light by a heavy massive spinless/spinning object. WQFT requires the use of the worldline dressed propagator of a photon in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Francesco Comberiati , Leonardo de la Cruz

We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from spinning binary systems. We conclude with an introduction to EFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Rafael A. Porto

We give a leisurely, albeit woefully incomplete, overview of quantum field theory, its relevance to condensed matter systems, and spin systems, which proceeds via a series of illustrative examples. The goal is to provide readers from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ingmar Saberi

We develop the computational framework for gravitational wave - black hole scattering in worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) without spin. Crucially, we prove on general grounds that, in the absence of dissipation, the exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Mathias Driesse , Kays Haddad , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

Quantum field theory (QFT) describes the dynamics of quantum particles in the quantum realm in the Minkowski space-time, whereas the General Relativity (GR) is a classical theory describing the nature of dynamical behavior of large bodies…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-31 Ty Shedleski , Muhammad Usman

We investigate whether quantum theory can be understood as the continuum limit of a mechanical theory, in which there is a huge, but finite, number of classical 'worlds', and quantum effects arise solely from a universal interaction between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Michael J. W. Hall , D. -A. Deckert , Howard M. Wiseman

Using canonical quantisation, and eschewing the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we derive a version of the Worldline Quantum Field Theory (WQFT) formalism suitable for both scattering and bound configurations of the classical two-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Riccardo Gonzo , Gustav Mogull