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We derive bounds on Wilson coefficients in gravitational effective field theories using fully crossing symmetric dispersion relations. These sum rules naturally isolate finite subsets of low-energy couplings without relying on the forward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Celina Pasiecznik

We investigate the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes in theories in which Lorentz invariance is spontaneously broken. We do so by computing and studying the S-matrix for a simple example: a superfluid described by a complex scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Lam Hui , Ioanna Kourkoulou , Alberto Nicolis , Alessandro Podo , Shengjia Zhou

The analyticity properties of the scattering amplitude for a massive scalar field is reviewed in this article where the spacetime geometry is $R^{3,1}\otimes S^1$ i.e. one spatial dimension is compact. Khuri investigated the analyticity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Jnanadeva Maharana

We conjecture that the $O(N)$-symmetric non-linear sigma model in the semi-infinite $(1+1)$-dimensional space is ``integrable'' with respect to the ``free'' and the ``fixed'' boundary conditions. We then derive, for both cases, the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Subir Ghoshal

Scattering theoretical network models for general coherent wave mechanical systems with quenched disorder are investigated. We focus on universality classes for two dimensional systems with no preferred orientation: Systems of spinless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Freche , Martin Janssen , Rainer Merkt

The {\sl dressed} Scattering matrix describing scattering of quasiparticles in various models with long-range interactions is evaluated by means of Korepin's method\upref vek1/. For models with ${1\over\sin^2(r)}$-interactions the S-matrix…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Fabian H. L. Essler

We explore the space of meromorphic amplitudes with extra constraints coming from the shape of the leading Regge trajectory. This information comes in two guises: it bounds the maximal spin of exchanged particles of a given mass; it leads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

We study scattering on the Coulomb branch of planar ${\mathcal{N}}=4$ SYM at finite 't Hooft coupling. This setup defines a family of classical open-string S-matrices that smoothly interpolates between perturbative parton scattering at weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Luis F. Alday , Elisabetta Armanini , Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

Many applications require recovering the geometry information of multiple elastic particles based on the scattering information. In this paper, we consider the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering of multiple rigid particles in three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jun Lai , Jinrui Zhang

You might've heard about various mathematical properties of scattering amplitudes such as analyticity, sheets, branch cuts, discontinuities, etc. What does it all mean? In these lectures, we'll take a guided tour through simple scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-20 Sebastian Mizera

We constrain the spectrum of two-dimensional unitary, compact conformal field theories with central charge c > 1 using modular bootstrap. Upper bounds on the gap in the dimension of primary operators of any spin, as well as in the dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-23 Scott Collier , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Xi Yin

The analytic structure of the S-matrix of singular quantum mechanics is examined within a multichannel framework, with primary focus on its dependence with respect to a parameter ($\Omega$) that determines the boundary conditions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Horacio E. Camblong , Luis N. Epele , Huner Fanchiotti , Carlos A. Garcia Canal

Expanding Nambu-Goto action near infinitely long string vacuum one can compute scattering amplitudes of 2d massless fields representing transverse string coordinates. As was shown in arXiv:1203.1054, the resulting S-matrix is integrable, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Fiona K. Seibold , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We solve the classic albedo and Milne problems of plane-parallel illumination of an isotropically-scattering half-space when generalized to a Euclidean domain $\mathbb{R}^d$ for arbitrary $d \ge 1$. A continuous family of pseudo-problems…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Eugene d'Eon , Norman J. McCormick

We study the space of $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes of neutral Goldstone bosons in four space-time dimensions. We establish universal bounds on the first two non-universal Wilson coefficients of the low energy Effective Field Theory (EFT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 Francesca Acanfora , Andrea Guerrieri , Kelian Häring , Denis Karateev

We demonstrate that scattering of particles strongly interacting in three dimensions (3D) can be suppressed at low energies in a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) confinement. The underlying mechanism is the interference of the s- and p-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. I. Kim , V. S. Melezhik , P. Schmelcher

Motivated by recent studies of the phenomenon of Coherent Perfect Absorption, we develop the random matrix theory framework for understanding statistics of the zeros of the (subunitary) scattering matrices in the complex energy plane, as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Mohammed Osman , Yan V. Fyodorov

We complement our earlier position-space exploration of a recently proposed S-matrix for transplanckian scattering by a momentum-space analysis. As in the previous paper, we restrict ourselves to the case of axisymmetric collisions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 G. Veneziano , J. Wosiek

Singularities, such as poles and branch points, play a crucial role in investigating the analytic properties of scattering amplitudes that inform new computational techniques. In this note, we point out that scattering amplitudes can also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Sebastian Mizera

By the use of the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach to scattering we study the distribution of the scattering matrix (S-matrix) poles in one-dimensional (1D) models with various types of diagonal disorder. We consider the case of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-16 I. F. Herrera-González , J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez , F. M. Izrailev