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We propose two possible eikonal operators encoding the effects of classical radiation as coherent states of gravitons and show how to compute from them different classical observables. In the first proposal, only genuinely propagating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano

We show how to compute classical wave observables using quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss observables both with incoming and with outgoing waves. The required classical limits are naturally described by coherent states of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , David A. Kosower , Donal O'Connell

We compute classical gravitational observables for the scattering of two spinless black holes in general relativity and $\mathcal N {=} 8$ supergravity in the formalism of Kosower, Maybee, and O'Connell (KMOC). We focus on the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

In this note, we investigate the implications of classical soft theorems for the formalism developed by Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell (KMOC) to derive classical observables in gauge theory and gravity from scattering amplitudes. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-13 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alok Laddha

The KMOC formalism provides a systematic framework for extracting classical observables perturbatively from on-shell scattering amplitudes. In this work, we apply this formalism to compute electromagnetic observables in four dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Siddhartha Paul , Adarsh Vishwakarma

We study the formalism of Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) to extract classical impulse from quantum amplitude in the context of the partial wave expansion of a 2-to-2 elastic scattering. We take two complementary approaches to establish the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Hojin Lee , Sangmin Lee , Subhajit Mazumdar

In [arXiv:1906.10100], the authors argued that the Newman-Janis algorithm on the space of classical solutions in general relativity and electromagnetism could be used in the space of scattering amplitudes to map an amplitude with external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Samim Akhtar , Arkajyoti Manna , Akavoor Manu

The quantum field-theoretic approach to classical observables due to Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell provides a rigorous pathway from on-shell scattering amplitudes to classical perturbation theory. In this paper, we promote this formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-06 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov

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

In this paper, we revisit the smoothness of the classical limit of inclusive observables in the formalism developed by Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell (KMOC). Building on the earlier work [1-3], we prove that the classical limit of three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Pritish Sinha

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

KMOC (Kosower, Maybee, and O'Connell) formalism is an approach to analyze classical scattering in gauge theories and gravity using a class of ``inclusive'' observables which can be computed solely from on-shell amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Samim Akhtar , Alok Laddha , Arkajyoti Manna , Akavoor Manu

We describe an on-shell, amplitudes-based approach to incorporating radiation absorption effects in the post-Minkowskian scattering of generic, compact, spinning bodies. Classical spinning observables are recovered by extrapolating to large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Juan Pablo Gatica , Callum R. T. Jones

We introduce a new coherent state expansion of the exponential representation of the S-matrix for the classical gravitational two-body problem. By combining the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism with the Dirac bracket structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Francesco Alessio , Riccardo Gonzo , Canxin Shi

In this work, we study the realisation of unitarity-based cutting rules for primordial cosmological correlators computed within the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral formalism. While cutting rules have been previously derived for wavefunction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Francisco Colipí-Marchant , Gabriel Marin , Gonzalo A. Palma , Francisco Rojas

We derive a cutting rule for equal-time in-in correlators including cosmological correlators based on Keldysh $r/a$ basis, which decomposes diagrams into fully retarded functions and cut-propagators consisting of Wightman functions. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Yohei Ema , Kyohei Mukaida

Gaussian quadrature rules are a classical tool for the numerical approximation of integrals with smooth integrands and positive weight functions. We derive and expicitly list asymptotic expressions for the points and weights of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Peter Opsomer , Daan Huybrechs

We study the variance in the measurement of observables during scattering events, as computed using amplitudes. The classical regime, characterised by negligible uncertainty, emerges as a consequence of an infinite set of relationships…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , Nathan Moynihan , Donal O'Connell , Alasdair Ross , Matteo Sergola , Chris D. White

We study the classical dynamics of spinning particles using scattering amplitudes and eikonal exponentiation. We show that observables are determined by a simple algorithm. A wealth of complexity arises in perturbation theory as positions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-20 Andres Luna , Nathan Moynihan , Donal O'Connell , Alasdair Ross

We extend the Post-Minkowskian (PM) effective field theory (EFT) approach to incorporate conservative and dissipative radiation-reaction effects in a unified framework. This is achieved by implementing the Schwinger-Keldysh "in-in"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Gregor Kälin , Jakob Neef , Rafael A. Porto
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