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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

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

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

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

We apply the recently developed formalism by Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell (KMO) to analyse the soft electromagnetic and soft gravitational radiation emitted by particles without spin in Four and higher dimensions. We use this formalism in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Manu A , Debodirna Ghosh , Alok Laddha , Athira P.

We combine the observable-based formalism (KMOC), the analytic properties of the scattering amplitude, generalised unitarity and the heavy-mass expansion with a newly introduced IBP reduction for Fourier integrals, to provide an efficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Giacomo Brunello , Stefano De Angelis

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

In this short note, we analyse low energy electromagnetic radiation for spinning particles using the KMOC formalism and the quantum soft theorems. In particular, we study low energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-17 Manu A. , Debodirna Ghosh

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

We study observables in the scattering of classical, spinning objects using the KMOC formalism. In particular, we derive formulas to higher order in spin and one loop $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ for the spin kick and momentum impulse. Our derivation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Juan Pablo Gatica

We demonstrate the equivalence between KMOC and worldline formalisms for classical general relativity, highlighting how the Keldysh-Schwinger in-in formalism is contained in both of them even though the KMOC representation conventionally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Poul H. Damgaard , Elias Roos Hansen , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

We generalise the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism relating classical observables and scattering amplitudes to curved backgrounds. We show how to compute the final semiclassical state for a particle moving in a curved background in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton

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

We develop a formalism to compute non-perturbative 5-point scattering amplitudes and apply it to gravitational waveforms in the two-body problem for arbitrary trajectories. Drawing inspiration from Feshbach's projector formalism in nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Katsuki Aoki , Andrea Cristofoli

We employ the "KMOC" formalism of [1] to compute classical momentum deflections of spinning bodies with arbitrary spin orientations up to next-to-leading order (one loop). We do this in electrodynamics and gravity. The final result, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-18 Gabriel Menezes , Matteo Sergola

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

More than twenty years have passed since the threads of the `proper time formalism' in covariant classical and quantum mechanics were brought together to construct a canonical formalism for the relativistic mechanics of many particles.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. C. Land , L. P. Horwitz

The KMOC (Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell) formalism establishes a bridge between quantum scattering amplitudes and classical observables in gravitational systems. In this work, we show how the weak-field limits of the four classical black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Jacobo Hernández C.

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

In this thesis, I will study the classical scattering problem of two Kerr black holes in general relativity with novel quantum field theory techniques in the Post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion, generalizing the subleading soft theorem to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-04 Damiano Barcaro
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