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Carrollian field theories at the classical level possess an infinite number of space-time symmetries, namely the supertranslations. In this article, we inquire whether these symmetries for interacting Carrollian scalar field theory survive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Kinjal Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Bhagya Krishnan , Sabyasachi Maulik , Aditya Mehra , Augniva Ray

The quantum theory of a harmonic oscillator with a time dependent frequency arises in several important physical problems, especially in the study of quantum field theory in an external background. While the mathematics of this system is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Gaurang Mahajan , T. Padmanabhan

In this paper we start a systematic study of quantum field theory on random trees. Using precise probability estimates on their Galton-Watson branches and a multiscale analysis, we establish the general power counting of averaged Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-31 Nicolas Delporte , Vincent Rivasseau

The formalism of quantum mechanics is presented in a way that its interpretation as a classical field theory is emphasized. Two coupled real fields are defined with given equations of motion. Densities and currents associated to the fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. de la Torre , A. Daleo

For classical field theories with probabilistic initial conditions the classical field observables are an idealization. Their arbitrarily precise values poorly reflect the characteristic uncertainty in the presence of substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Christof Wetterich

This paper describes perturbative framework, on the basis of closed-time-path formalism, for studying quasiuniform relativistic quantum field systems near equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasistationary systems. At the first part, starting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Niégawa

A consistent description of interactions between classical and quantum systems is relevant to quantum measurement theory, and to calculations in quantum chemistry and quantum gravity. A solution is offered here to this longstanding problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. W. Hall , Marcel Reginatto

A correlational dialect is introduced within the quantum theory language to give a unified treatment of finite-dimensional informational/operational quantum theories, infinite-dimensional relativistic quantum theories, and quantum gravity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ding Jia

A definition is given, in the framework of stochastic quantization, for the dynamics of a system composed of classical and quantum degrees of freedom mutually interacting. It is found that the theory breaks reflection positivity, and hence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 L. L. Salcedo

Effective field theory provides a perturbative framework to study the evolution of cosmological large-scale structure. We investigate the underpinnings of this approach, and suggest new ways to compute correlation functions of cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-16 Sean M. Carroll , Stefan Leichenauer , Jason Pollack

A framework allowing for perturbative calculations to be carried out for quantum field theories with arbitrary smoothly curved boundaries is described. It is based on an expansion of the heat kernel derived earlier for arbitrary mixed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. M. McAvity , H. Osborn

The quantum-classical isomorphism for self-consistent field theory, which allows quantum particles in space-time to be represented as classical one-dimensional threads embedded in a five dimensional thermal-space-time, is summarized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Russell B. Thompson

A hybrid formalism is proposed for interacting classical and quantum sytems. This formalism is mathematically consistent and reduces to standard classical and quantum mechanics in the case of no interaction. However, in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Asher Peres , Daniel Terno

We demonstrate the renormalisability of quantum field theories in four dimensions with elementary self-interacting Dirac fermions and to leading order in the limit of many fermion flavours $N_{\rm f}$. Starting from the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Charlie Cresswell-Hogg , Daniel F. Litim

We present a general formalism that allows for the computation of large-order renormalized expansions in the spacetime representation, effectively doubling the numerically attainable perturbation order of renormalized Feynman diagrams. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-12 Riccardo Rossi , Fedor Simkovic , Michel Ferrero

For decades, a lot of work has been devoted to the problem of constructing a non-trivial quantum field theory in four-dimensional space time. This letter addresses the attempts to construct an algebraic quantum field theory in the framework…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-12 Andreas Aste

The perturbative framework of the space-time non-commutative real scalar field theory is formulated, based on the unitary S-matrix. Unitarity of the S-matrix is explicitly checked order by order using the Heisenberg picture of Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Chaiho Rim , Yunseok Seo , Jae Hyung Yee

The connection between the Hamilton and the standard Lagrange formalism is established for a generic Quantum Field Theory with vanishing vacuum expectation values of the fundamental fields. The Effective Actions in both formalisms are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Selym Villalba-Chavez , Reinhard Alkofer , Kai Schwenzer

We investigate fermionic quantum field theories using functional renormalisation. In the limit of many fermion flavours $N$, we demonstrate that theories have exact solutions for their quantum effective actions given by quasi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Charlie Cresswell-Hogg , Daniel F. Litim

We consider renormalization of effective field theory interactions by discretizing the continuum on a tight-binding lattice. After studying the one-dimensional problem, we address s-wave collisions in three dimensions and relate the bare…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-10 Manuel Valiente , Nikolaj T. Zinner