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Using a recently developed effective field theory formalism for extreme mass ratios [2308.14832], we present a calculation of charged black hole scattering at third post-Minkowskian order. The charges and masses are kept arbitrary, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-03 Jordan Wilson-Gerow

We present a formalism for computing classically measurable quantities directly from on-shell quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss the ingredients needed for obtaining the classical result, and show how to set up the calculation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 David A. Kosower , Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell

We compute the conservative and radiation-reaction contributions to classical observables in the gravitational scattering between a spinning and a spinless black hole to the fourth order in spin and third order in the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Dogan Akpinar , Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Alexander Smirnov , Mao Zeng

We present the contribution from potential interactions to the dynamics of non-spinning binaries to fourth Post-Minkowskian (4PM) order. This is achieved by computing the scattering angle to ${\cal O}(G^4)$ using the effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We describe a systematic framework for finding the conservative potential of compact binary systems with spin based on scattering amplitudes of particles of arbitrary spin and effective field theory. An arbitrary-spin formalism is generally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Zvi Bern , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

We compute the (center-of-mass frame) scattering angle $\chi$ of hyperboliclike encounters of two spinning black holes, at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation level for orbital effects, and at the next-to-next-to-leading order for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

Starting from the recently derived conservative tail-of-tail action [D. Bini and T. Damour, arXiv:2504.20204 [hep-th]] we compute several dynamical observables of binary systems (Delaunay Hamiltonian, scattering angle), at the 6.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

The study of scattering encounters continues to provide new insights into the general relativistic two-body problem. The local-in-time conservative dynamics of an aligned-spin binary, for both unbound and bound orbits, is fully encoded in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We report the local-in-time conservative dynamics of nonspinning binary systems at fifth Post-Minkowskian (5PM) and first self-force (1SF) orders. This follows from an explicit calculation of the 5PM/1SF nonlocal-in-time tail-type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We extract the long-range gravitational potential between two scalar particles with arbitrary masses from the two-to-two elastic scattering amplitude at 2nd Post-Minkowskian order in arbitrary dimensions. In contrast to the four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Andrea Cristofoli , Poul H. Damgaard , Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg

Previous work developed a K-matrix formalism applicable to positive energies for the scattering between two $s$-wave interacting particles with two internal states, isotropic spin-orbit coupling and vanishing center-of-mass momentum [H.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-23 Q. Guan , D. Blume

A Monte Carlo scheme is described where the secondary electron generation has been incorporated. The initial position of a secondary electron due to Fermi sea excitation is assumed to be where the inelastic collision took place, while the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Maurizio Dapor

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) serves as a useful toy model for classical observables in gravitational two-body systems with reduced complexity due to the linearity of QED. We investigate scattering observables in scalar QED at the sixth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Zvi Bern , Juan Pablo Gatica , Enrico Herrmann , Andres Luna , Mao Zeng

We calculate via the effective field theory (EFT) approach the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) spin1-spin2 conservative potential for a binary. Hereby, we first demonstrate the ability of the EFT approach to go at NNLO in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-26 Michele Levi

Using the implicit function theorem we demonstrate that solutions to the classical part of the relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation are in one-to-one correspondence with those of the energy equation of a relativistic two-body system. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Andrea Cristofoli , Poul H. Damgaard

We compute the conservative two-body Hamiltonian of a compact binary system with a spinning black hole through $\mathcal{O}(G^3)$ to all orders in velocity, including linear and quadratic spin terms. To obtain our results we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Guanda Lin , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We formally show that the conservative second post-Newtonian (PN) accurate dynamics of spinning compact binaries moving in eccentric orbits, when spin effects are restricted to the leading order spin-orbit interaction cannot be chaotic for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Achamveedu Gopakumar , Christian Koenigsdoerffer

Upcoming observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the ground and in space, require waveform models more accurate than currently available. High-precision waveform models can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We reproduce the two-body gravitational conservative dynamics at third post-Newtonian order for spin-less sources by using the effective field theory methods for the gravitationally bound two-body system, proposed by Goldberger and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 S. Foffa , R. Sturani

Using the Effective Field Theory approach together with the Boundary-to-Bound map, we compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) Post-Minkowskian (PM) tidal effects in the conservative dynamics of compact binary systems. We derive the mass and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto