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Open effective field theories provide a systematic framework for describing physical systems interacting with an environment whose microscopic details are unknown, unobservable, or uncalculable. A basic step in constructing any effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Enrica Lausdei , Enrico Pajer

Entropic dynamics (ED) is a general framework for constructing indeterministic dynamical models based on entropic methods. ED has been used to derive or reconstruct both non-relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-14 Selman Ipek , Ariel Caticha

We construct a Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory for relativistic hydrodynamics for charged matter in a thermal background using a superspace formalism. Superspace allows us to efficiently impose the symmetries of the problem and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Kristan Jensen , Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva , Amos Yarom

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ethan Pollack , Rohan Maniar , John P. Perdew

The prominence of density functional theory (DFT) in the field of electronic structure computation stems from its ability to usefully balance accuracy and computational effort. At the base of this ability is a functional of the electron…

Semiclassical stochastic gravity is aimed at studying extended structure formation in the early universe. Rigorous developments in this area include the semiclassical noise and dissipation kernels which are obtained in terms of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Seema Satin

We systematically explore the space of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) consistent with a Lorentz invariant and local S-matrix. To do so we define an EFT classification based on four parameters characterizing 1) the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

We analyze the flow into inflation for generic "single-clock" systems, by combining an effective field theory approach with a dynamical-systems analysis. In this approach, we construct an expansion for the potential-like term in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-15 Feraz Azhar , David I. Kaiser

Building upon the worldline effective field theory (EFT) formalism for spinning bodies developed for the Post-Newtonian regime, we generalize the EFT approach to Post-Minkowskian (PM) dynamics to include rotational degrees of freedom in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto , Zixin Yang

Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density functional theory (DFT) to nonequilibrium systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-29 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Raphael Wittkowski

Supergravity, a locally supersymmetric gauge theory, may provide to describe new physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). In this sense, cosmological applications of supergravity can be the arena for probing outcomes of supergravity. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Hun Jang

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compare inhomogeneous density profiles for hard sphere fluids to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

We present two approaches for describing chemical reactions taking place in fluid phase. The first method mirrors the usual derivation of the hydrodynamic equations of motion by relating conserved---or to account for chemical reactions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-25 Michael J. Landry

We present the effective field theory studies of primordial statistical anisotropies in models of anisotropic inflation. The general action in unitary gauge is presented to calculate the leading interactions between the gauge field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Tahereh Rostami , Asieh Karami , Hassan Firouzjahi

We introduce an effective field theory (EFT) for conformal impurity by considering a pair of transversely displaced impurities and integrating out modes with mass inversely proportional to the separation distance. This EFT captures the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Oleksandr Diatlyk , Himanshu Khanchandani , Fedor K. Popov , Yifan Wang

We identify a class of condensate states in the group field theory (GFT) approach to quantum gravity that can be interpreted as macroscopic homogeneous spatial geometries. We then extract the dynamics of such condensate states directly from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-17 Steffen Gielen , Daniele Oriti , Lorenzo Sindoni

In our quest to understand the generation of cosmological perturbations, we face two serious obstacles: we do not have direct information about the environment experienced by primordial perturbations during inflation, and our observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Santiago Agui Salcedo , Thomas Colas , Enrico Pajer

The stationary functional of the all-electron density functional plus dynamical mean field theory (DFT+DMFT) formalism to perform free energy calculations and structural relaxations is implemented for the first time. Here, the first order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 Kristjan Haule , Turan Birol

We construct a generic class of models for complex scalar fields -- minimally coupled to gravity and electromagnetism -- with the property that their energy-momentum tensor and the electric current vanish for certain massive configurations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-24 Cristian Quinzacara , Paola Meza , Almeira Sampson , Mauricio Valenzuela

In the present work we introduce a novel approach to study $f({\sf R},{\sf T})$ gravity theory from a different perspective. Here, ${\sf T}$ denotes the trace of energy-momentum tensor ({\sf EMT}) of matter fluids. The usual method (as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-23 Hamid Shabani , Amir Hadi Ziaie