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Motivated by the limited interaction between the mathematical physics community and theoretical physicists - particularly in high-energy theory - we present a computation that is typically the first example in QFT courses but, to our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 H. A. C. Grande , J. C. A Barata

In this work, we study the scattering of a spinless charged particle constrained to move on a curved surface in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm potential. We begin with the equations of motion for the surface and transverse dynamics…

We describe the basic assumptions and key results of loop quantum gravity, which is a background independent approach to quantum gravity. The emphasis is on the basic physical principles and how one deduces predictions from them, at a level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Lee Smolin

We define inclusive scattering matrix in the framework of geometric approach to quantum field theory . We review the definitions of scattering theory in the algebraic approach and relate them to the definitions in geometric approach.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-19 Albert Schwarz

We introduce a way to compute scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory including the effects of particle production and detection. Our amplitudes are manifestly causal, by which we mean that the source and detector are always linked by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-17 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Peter Millington , Brian Cox

We consider a local formalism in quantum field theory, in which no reference is made to infinitely extended spacial surfaces, infinite past or infinite future. This can be obtained in terms of a functional W[f,S] of the field f on a closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Conrady , Luisa Doplicher , Robert Oeckl , Carlo Rovelli , Massimo Testa

Quantum gravity coupled to scalar massive matter fields is investigated within the framework of causal perturbation theory. One-loop calculations include matter loop graviton self-energy and matter self-energy and yield ultraviolet finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicola Grillo

We present a non-perturbative expression for the scattering matrix of $N$ particles interacting inside a quantum dot. Characterizing the dot by its resonances, we find a compact form for the scattering matrix in a real-time representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-10 A. V. Lebedev , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

We suggest a possible algorithm to calculate one-loop n-point functions within a variant of light-front perturbation theory. The key ingredients are the covariant Passarino-Veltman scheme and a surprising integration formula that localises…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Heinzl

We propose a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) approach to neutrino oscillations in vacuum. The neutrino emission and detection are identified with the charged-current vertices of a single second-order Feynman diagram for the underlying process,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Sergey Kovalenko , Fedor Simkovic

Quantum walks in general graphs, or more specifically scattering on graphs, encompass enough complexity to perform universal quantum computation. Any given quantum circuit can be broken down into single- and two-qubit gates, which can then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Luna Lima Keller , Daniel Jost Brod

Background independence is often emphasized as an important property of a quantum theory of gravity that takes seriously the geometrical nature of general relativity. In a background-independent formulation, quantum gravity should determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-27 Martin Bojowald

We investigate the gravitational scattering of a spinning probe mass in a Kerr background using the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach. This corresponds to the leading term (0SF) in the gravitational self-force expansion for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Jitze Hoogeveen , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Jan Plefka

Research during the last decade demonstrates that effects originating on the Planck scale are currently being tested in multiple observational contexts. In this review we discuss quantum gravity phenomenological models and their possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-14 Florian Girelli , Franz Hinterleitner , Seth A. Major

Loop quantum gravity is a mature theory. To proceed to explicit calculations in cosmology, it is necessary to make assumptions and simplifications based on the symmetries of the cosmological setting. Symmetry reduction is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 Aurélien Barrau , Boris Bolliet

In quantum mechanics textbooks, a single-particle scattering theory is introduced. In the present work, a generalized scattering theory is presented, which can be in principle applied to the scattering problems of arbitrary number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Huai-Yu Wang

The small angle scattering (by a gravitational field) of classical and quantum particles is considered and compared. It is suggested that the differences in small angle scattering of particles with spin 0, 1, 2 are due to the nonzero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-25 A. I. Nikishov

Quantum states in the Earth's gravitational field were observed, when ultra-cold neutrons fall under gravity. The experimental results can be described by the quantum mechanical scattering model as it is presented here. We also discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Westphal , H. Abele , S. Baessler , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , A. K. Petukhov , K. V. Protasov , A. Yu. Voronin

We study the quantum tunnelling of a very complex object of which only part is coupled to an external potential ( the potential barrier ). We treat this problem as the tunnelling of a particle (part of the system affected by the potential)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 A. H. Castro Neto , A. O. Caldeira

The phenomenology for the deep spatial geometry of loop quantum gravity is discussed. In the context of a simple model of an atom of space, it is shown how purely combinatorial structures can affect observations. The angle operator is used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Seth A. Major