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We propose a dual formulation for the S Matrix of N = 4 SYM. The dual provides a basis for the "leading singularities" of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbation theory, which are sharply defined, IR safe data that uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

A formulation of nucleon-nucleon scattering is developed in which the S-matrix, rather than an effective-field theory (EFT) action, is the fundamental object. Spacetime plays no role in this description: the S-matrix is a trajectory that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-31 Silas R. Beane , Roland C. Farrell

Unitarity is a cornerstone of quantum theory, ensuring the conservation of probability and information. Although non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are typically associated with open or dissipative systems, pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Ruifeng Leng , Cheng-Yang Lee , Siyi Zhou

Universality in physics describes how disparate systems can exhibit identical low-energy behavior. Here, we reveal a rich landscape of new universal scattering phenomena governed by the interplay between an interaction and a system's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yidan Wang , Xuesen Na , Michael J. Gullans , Susanne Yelin , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We briefly review results on two-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories that exhibit factorizable particle scattering. Our particular focus is on a series of $N\!=\!1$ supersymmetric theories, for which exact $S$-matrices have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Moriconi , K. Schoutens

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

We present an exactly solvable quantum field theory which allows rearrangement collisions. We solve the model in the relevant sectors and demonstrate the orthonormality and completeness of the solutions, and construct the S-matrix. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-20 S. Varma , E. C. G. Sudarshan

We formulate an S-matrix theory in which localisation effects of the particle interactions involved in a scattering process are consistently taken into account. In the limit of an infinite spread of all interactions, the S-matrix assumes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Dimitrios Karamitros , Apostolos Pilaftsis

Quantum entanglement entropy has a geometric character. This is illustrated by the interpretation of Rindler space or black hole entropy as entanglement entropy. In general, one can define a "geometric entropy", associated with an event…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose Gaite

We propose a formula relating scattering S-matrix amplitudes to correlators of a conformal field theory. The proposal implements a flat limit of the field theory, providing an indirect microscopic description of gravitational theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 Eliot Hijano

We present a generalization of Luescher's relation between the finite-volume spectrum and scattering amplitudes to the case of three particles. We consider a relativistic scalar field theory in which the couplings are arbitrary aside from a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-12-24 Maxwell T. Hansen , Stephen R. Sharpe

We provide a new method to construct the S-matrix in quantum field theory. This method implements crossing symmetry manifestly by erasing the a priori distinction between in- and out-states. It allows the description of processes where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniele Colosi , Robert Oeckl

Using duality in optimization theory we formulate a dual approach to the S-matrix bootstrap that provides rigorous bounds to 2D QFT observables as a consequence of unitarity, crossing symmetry and analyticity of the scattering matrix. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Andrea L Guerrieri , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

In an earlier paper we have constructed a basis of massless single particle quantum states which transform in the unitary principal series representation of the four dimensional Lorentz group. The S-matrix written in this basis gives rise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Shamik Banerjee

We study massive $2 \to 2$ scattering of identical scalar particles in spacetime dimensions 3 to 11 using non-perturbative S-matrix bootstrap techniques. Treating $d$ as a continuous parameter, we compute two-sided numerical bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Mehmet Asim Gumus , Simon Metayer , Piotr Tourkine

In this text we outline the motivation for developping a quantum $S$-matrix approach for the classical gravitational two-body scattering. As an application we briefly present the derivation of black-hole metrics in various dimensions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-21 Pierre Vanhove

We present an in-depth study of the universal correlations of scattering-matrix entries required in the framework of non-stationary many-body scattering where the incoming states are localized wavepackets. Contrary to the stationary case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-19 Andreas Bereczuk , Barbara Dietz , Jiongning Che , Jack Kuipers , Juan-Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

S-matrix is one of the fundamental observables of the quantum theory of relativistic particles. There have been attempts to understand the quantum dynamics of relativistic particles abstractly in terms of S-matrix bypassing a Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Parthiv Haldar

We explore the S-matrices of gapped, unitary, Lorentz invariant quantum field theories with a global O($N$) symmetry in 1+1 dimensions. We extremize various cubic and quartic couplings in the two-to-two scattering amplitudes of vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-08 Lucía Córdova , Pedro Vieira

We study relativistic scattering when one only has access to a subset of the particles, using the language of quantum measurement theory. We give an exact, non-perturbative formula for the von Neumann entanglement entropy of an apparatus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-13 Daniel Carney , Laurent Chaurette , Gordon Semenoff