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We develop a quantum effective action for scalar-tensor theories of gravity which is both spacetime diffeomorphism invariant and field reparameterisation (frame) invariant beyond the classical approximation. We achieve this by extending the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Kieran Finn , Sotirios Karamitsos , Apostolos Pilaftsis

In this whitepaper, I describe modern applications of effective field theory (EFT) techniques to classical and quantum gravity, with relevance to problems in astrophysics and cosmology. As in applications of EFT to high-energy, nuclear, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-30 Walter D. Goldberger

Quantum-matter theory (QMT), based on the Schr\"odinger or Dirac equations, is firmly established for both intra- and intermolecular interactions. However, there are two key issues with QMT. First, its applicability to large molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Reza Karimpour , Matteo Gori , Alexandre Tkatchenko

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

Turning on N=2 supersymmetry-preserving relevant operators in a 4-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) corresponds to a complex deformation compatible with the rigid special Kahler geometry encoded in the low energy effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-29 Philip C. Argyres , John Wittig

Without a complete theory of quantum gravity, the question of how quantum fields and quantum particles behave in a superposition of spacetimes seems beyond the reach of theoretical and experimental investigations. Here we use an extension…

In this paper we produce further specification of the geometric and algebraic properties of the earlier introduced superdimensional dual-covariant field theory (SFT) in a N-dimensional manifold [1] as an approach to a unified field theory…

General Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Yaroslav Derbenev

In the current paper the properties of a quantum field theory based on certain sets of Lorentz-violating coefficients in the nonminimal fermion sector of the Standard-Model Extension are analyzed. In particular, three families of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-05 M. Schreck

Rapid development in quantum computing leads to the appearance of several quantum applications. Quantum Fourier Transformation (QFT) sits at the heart of many of these applications. Existing work leverages SAT solver or heuristics to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Yuwei Jin , Xiangyu Gao , Minghao Guo , Henry Chen , Fei Hua , Chi Zhang , Eddy Z. Zhang

The superfield formulation of two - dimensional $N=4$ Extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics (SQM) is described. It is shown that corresponding classical Lagrangian describes the motion in the conformally flat metric with additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Berezovoj , A. Pashnev

Conformal Quantum Field Theories (CFT) in 1 or 1+1 spacetime dimensions (respectively called chiral and full CFTs) admit several "axiomatic" (mathematically rigorous and model-independent) formulations. In this note, we deal with the von…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Luca Giorgetti

We present a novel approach to classify supersymmetric effective field theories (EFTs) whose scattering amplitudes exhibit enhanced soft limits. These enhancements arise due to non-linearly realised symmetries on the Goldstone modes of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Diederik Roest , David Stefanyszyn , Pelle Werkman

It is commonly believed that a unitary supersymmetric quantum field theory (QFT) involving graviton and gravitino fields on fixed 4-dimensional de Sitter spacetime ($dS_{4}$) cannot exist due to known challenges associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Atsushi Higuchi , Vasileios A. Letsios

We consider a class of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which have a large $N$ limit and a semi-classical gravity dual description. Using the quiver-like structure of 6D SCFTs we study a subsector of operators protected from large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 Jonathan J. Heckman

In the context of effective field theory, we consider quantum gravity with minimally coupled massless particles. Fixing the background geometry to be of the Kerr-Schild type, we fully determine the one-loop effective action of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-01 Basem Kamal El-Menoufi

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 construct fermionic conformal field theories (CFTs) whose spectra are characterized by quantum stabilizer codes. We exploit our construction to search for fermionic CFTs with supersymmetry by focusing on quantum stabilizer codes of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Kohki Kawabata , Tatsuma Nishioka , Takuya Okuda

Problems connected with non-Hamiltonian nature of low energy nucleon dynamics in the effective field theory (EFT) of nuclear forces is investigated by using the formalism of the generalized quantum dynamics (GQD) developed in [J. Phys. A,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renat Kh. Gainutdinov , Aigul A. Mutygullina

We construct the one-loop effective action in Yang-Mills and Pure Quantum Gravity theories with heat kernel(or proper time method), which maintains manifest covariance during and after quantization (gauge and diffeomorphism invariance are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kanokkuan Chaicherdsakul

Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. It is known that EFT coefficients must obey certain positivity constraints if causality and unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Simon Caron-Huot , Vincent Van Duong