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The transition-matrix ($T$-matrix) approach provides a general formalism to study scattering problems in various areas of physics, including acoustics (scalar fields) and electromagnetics (vector fields), and is related to the theory of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-08 Eric C. Le Ru , Walter R. C. Somerville , Baptiste Auguié

In this thesis, we introduce new tools for the conformal bootstrap, autoboot and qboot. Each tool solves a different step in the whole computational stack, and combined with an existing efficient tool SDPB which solves semidefinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-09 Mocho Go

The main objective of this work is to isolate Effective Field Theory scattering amplitudes in the space of non-perturbative two-to-two amplitudes, using the S-matrix Bootstrap. We do so by introducing the notion of Effective Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Joan Elias Miro , Andrea Guerrieri , Mehmet Asim Gumus

Symmetries play a central role in quantum many-body physics, yet uncovering them systematically remains challenging. We introduce a bootstrap framework designed to reconstruct the representation theory of hidden finite group symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Chen Bai , Zihan Zhou , Bastien Lapierre , Shinsei Ryu

We propose the relaxation bootstrap method for the numerical solution of multi-matrix models in the large $N$ limit, developing and improving the recent proposal of H.Lin. It gives rigorous inequalities on the single trace moments of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Vladimir Kazakov , Zechuan Zheng

Reliable uncertainty quantification remains a central challenge in predictive modeling. While Bayesian methods are theoretically appealing, their predictive intervals can exhibit poor frequentist calibration, particularly with small sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Graham Gibson

We merge together recent developments in the S-matrix bootstrap program to develop a dual setup in 2 space-time dimensions incorporating scattering amplitudes of massive particles and matrix elements of local operators. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-27 Miguel Correia , Joao Penedones , Antoine Vuignier

The conformal bootstrap hypothesis is a powerful idea in theoretical physics which has led to spectacular predictions in the context of critical phenomena. It postulates an explicit expression for the correlation functions of a conformal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Conformal field theories that exhibit spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry (a moduli space of vacua) must satisfy a set of bootstrap constraints, involving the usual data (scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients) as well as new data…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Gabriel Cuomo , Leonardo Rastelli , Adar Sharon

Electromagnetic scattering and absorption by material particles is a fundamental physical problem with a broad range of applications, going from laboratory experiments, biology and material sciences, all the way up to environmental studies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 G. La Mura , G. Mulas , G. Aresu , M. A. Iatì , C. Cecchi-Pestellini , S. Rezaei , R. Saija

In this paper, we present a framework for the analytic bootstrap of three-point energy correlators, a crucial observable in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our approach combines spherical contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jianyu Gong , Andrzej Pokraka , Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

A novel procedure is described for accelerating the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo computations. The algorithm uses an adaptive bootstrap technique to generate candidate steps in the Markov Chain. It is efficient for symmetric,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Greg Kochanski , Burton S. Rosner

Model averaging has gained significant attention in recent years due to its ability of fusing information from different models. The critical challenge in frequentist model averaging is the choice of weight vector. The bootstrap method,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-10 Minghui Song , Guohua Zou , Alan T. K. Wan

Molecular dynamics is often considered as a numerical experiment. The error bars on the results are therefore mandatory, but sometimes difficult to determine and computationally demanding. As a low-cost approach, we describe the application…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Desbiens N. , Arnault P. , Weens W. , Perrin G. , Dubois V

The purpose of the "bootstrap program" is to construct integrable quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions in terms of their Wightman functions explicitly. As an input the integrability and general assumptions of local quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 H. Babujian , M. Karowski

The bootstrap is a versatile inference method that has proven powerful in many statistical problems. However, when applied to modern large-scale models, it could face substantial computation demand from repeated data resampling and model…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-02 Henry Lam

We explore how matrix bootstrap techniques can be used to constrain matrix and tensor models at finite $N$, where $N$ is the dimension of the matrix/tensor, taking a Gaussian model with a quartic interaction as example. For matrix models,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 Samuel Laliberte , Reiko Toriumi

The recent emergence of the modern conformal bootstrap method for the study of conformal field theories (CFTs) has enabled the revisiting of old problems in classical critical phenomena described by three-dimensional CFTs. The study of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

In the first part of the thesis we construct models, called integrable, in which we can perform exact computations of physical quantities. We introduce several new out-of-equilibrium models that are obtained by solving, in specific cases,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Matthieu Vanicat

In this paper, we employ the bootstrap method, a technique that relies on consistency relations instead of direct diagonalization, to determine the expectation values in quantum many-body systems. We then use these values to assess the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiaju Zhang , Arash Jafarizadeh , M. A. Rajabpour