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In a classical scattering problem, the classical eikonal is defined as the generator of the canonical transformation that maps in-states to out-states. It can be regarded as the classical limit of the log of the quantum S-matrix. In a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Joon-Hwi Kim , Jung-Wook Kim , Sungsoo Kim , Sangmin Lee

We study the eikonal scattering of two gravitationally interacting bodies, in the regime of large angular momentum and large center of mass energy. We show that eikonal exponentiation of the scattering phase matrix is a direct consequence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Brando Bellazzini , Giulia Isabella , Massimiliano Maria Riva

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

A recent proposal reinterprets the eikonal as the scattering generator, which computes scattering observables through an action as a symmetry generator. The aim of this study is to incorporate dissipative effects from radiation into this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Jung-Wook Kim

Two fundamentally distinct types of quantities are both called "eikonal" in present amplitudes literature. The unitarity of the S-matrix ensures it can be written as the exponential of a Hermitian operator. The eikonal generator or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Jung-Wook Kim , Raj Patil , Trevor Scheopner , Jan Steinhoff

An exponential representation of the S-matrix provides a natural framework for understanding the semi-classical limit of scattering amplitudes. While sharing some similarities with the eikonal formalism it differs from it in details.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Poul H. Damgaard , Ludovic Plante , Pierre Vanhove

We study the (ambi-)twistor model for spinning particles interacting via electromagnetic field, as a toy model for studying classical dynamics of gravitating bodies including effects of both spins to all orders. We compute the momentum kick…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Joon-Hwi Kim , Jung-Wook Kim , Sangmin Lee

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 investigate the scattering of classical and quantum particles in impulsive backgrounds fields. These fields model short outbursts of radiation propagating with the speed of light. The singular nature of the problem will be accounted for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Herbert Balasin , Peter C. Aichelburg

We revisit the fundamentals of two different methods for calculating classical observables: the eikonal method, which is a scattering amplitude-based method, and the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) method. The latter has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Siddarth Ajith , Yuchen Du , Ravisankar Rajagopal , Diana Vaman

Scattering problems are the classical tools for modeling of light-matter interaction. In this paper, we investigate the solution of the dipole scattering problem under different incident radiation.s In particular, we compare the two cases…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yuriy A. Akimov

We connect quantum graphs with infinite leads, and turn them to scattering systems. We show that they display all the features which characterize quantum scattering systems with an underlying classical chaotic dynamics: typical poles, delay…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsampikos Kottos , Uzy Smilansky

We consider scattering in quantum gravity and derive long-range classical and quantum contributions to the scattering of light-like bosons and fermions (spin-0, spin-1/2, spin-1) from an external massive scalar field, such as the Sun or a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein , Ludovic Plante , Pierre Vanhove

A Euclidean formulation of relativistic quantum mechanics is discussed. Representations of the Hilbert space inner product and Poincar\'e generators are all expressed in terms of Euclidean space-time variables. The formulation does not…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-09-10 W. N. Polyzou , Gordon Aiello , Philip Kopp

A precise link is derived between scalar-graviton S-matrix elements and expectation values of operators in a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), both used to describe classical scattering of a pair of black holes. The link is formally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

Within the framework of the Zakharov-Schulman approach, in close analogy with the methods of quantum field theory, the classical scattering matrix for the simplest process of interaction between hard and soft excitations in a quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Yu. A. Markov , M. A. Markova , D. M. Gitman , N. Yu. Markov

The representation of a Schrodinger equations as a classic Hamiltonian system allows to construct a unified perturbation theory both in classic, and in a quantum mechanics grounded on the theory of canonical transformations, and also to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Chirkov

The eikonal approximation is an ideal tool to extract classical observables in gauge theory and gravity directly from scattering amplitudes. Here we consider effective theories of gravity where in addition to the Einstein-Hilbert term we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Manuel Accettulli Huber , Andreas Brandhuber , Stefano De Angelis , Gabriele Travaglini

The all-order structure of scattering amplitudes is greatly simplified by the use of Wilson line operators, describing eikonal emissions from straight lines extending to infinity. A generalization at subleading powers in the eikonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

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
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