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We extend the Worldline Monte Carlo approach to computationally simulating the Feynman path integral of non-relativistic multi-particle quantum-mechanical systems. We show how to generate an arbitrary number of worldlines distributed…

The first application of a quantum algorithm to Feynman loop integrals is reviewed. The connection between quantum computing and perturbative quantum field theory is feasible due to fact that the two on-shell states of a Feynman propagator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Selomit Ramírez-Uribe

Feynman integrals obey linear relations governed by intersection numbers, which act as scalar products between vector spaces. We present a general algorithm for constructing multivariate intersection numbers relevant to Feynman integrals,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Hjalte Frellesvig , Federico Gasparotto , Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Luca Mattiazzi , Sebastian Mizera

The Feynman path integral of ordinary quantum mechanics is complexified and it is shown that possible integration cycles for this complexified integral are associated with branes in a two-dimensional A-model. This provides a fairly direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Edward Witten

Applications of decision diagrams in quantum circuit analysis have been an active research area. Our work introduces FeynmanDD, a new method utilizing standard and multi-terminal decision diagrams for quantum circuit simulation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Ziyuan Wang , Bin Cheng , Longxiang Yuan , Zhengfeng Ji

The calculation of higher-order corrections in Quantum Field Theories is a challenging task. In particular, dealing with multiloop and multileg Feynman amplitudes leads to severe bottlenecks and a very fast scaling of the computational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-16 German F. R. Sborlini

We present a loop-by-loop method for computing the differential equations of Feynman integrals using the recently developed dual form formalism. We give explicit prescriptions for the loop-by-loop fibration of multi-loop dual forms. Then,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-23 Mathieu Giroux , Andrzej Pokraka

A simple, often invoked, regularization scheme of quantum mechanical path integrals in curved space is mode regularization: one expands fields into a Fourier series, performs calculations with only the first $M$ modes, and at the end takes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Koenraad Schalm , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

We find that all Feynman integrals (FIs), having any number of loops, can be completely determined once linear relations between FIs are provided. Therefore, FIs computation is conceptually changed to a linear algebraic problem. Examples up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Zhi-Feng Liu , Yan-Qing Ma

The mathematical similarities between non-relativistic wavefunction propagation in quantum mechanics and image propagation in scalar diffraction theory are used to develop a novel understanding of time and paths through spacetime as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Sky Nelson-Isaacs

The path integral representation of the transition amplitude for a particle moving in curved space has presented unexpected challenges since the introduction of path integrals by Feynman fifty years ago. In this paper we discuss and review…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini

The restricted Feynman path integrals (RFPIs) have been proposed to study continuous quantum measurements in physics. The RFPIs are heuristically determined in terms of the usual probability amplitude multiplied by weight for each path,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Wataru Ichinose

In this paper we develop further and refine the method of differential equations for computing Feynman integrals. In particular, we show that an additional iterative structure emerges for finite loop integrals. As a concrete non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Simon Caron-Huot , Johannes M. Henn

We review several multi-loop techniques for analytical massless Feynman diagram calculations in relativistic quantum field theories: integration by parts, the method of uniqueness, functional equations and the Gegenbauer polynomial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-21 A. V. Kotikov , S. Teber

The Feynman Path Integral is extended in order to capture all solutions of a quantum field theory. This is done via a choice of appropriate integration cycles, parametrized by M in SL(2,C), i.e., the space of allowed integration cycles is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 D. D. Ferrante , G. S. Guralnik , Z. Guralnik , C. Pehlevan

In the context of high-energy particle physics, a reliable theory-experiment confrontation requires precise theoretical predictions. This translates into accessing higher-perturbative orders, and when we pursue this objective, we inevitably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-12 German Sborlini

We compute the quantum vacuum polarization for a pure neutral scalar field theory within the context of single-particle quantum mechanics. The loop diagram is computed without ever encountering loop-momentum integrals. Our approach is based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Dittrich

Dimensionally-regulated Feynman integrals are a cornerstone of all perturbative computations in quantum field theory. They are known to exhibit a rich mathematical structure, which has led to the development of powerful new techniques for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr

N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory exhibits a rather surprising duality of Wilson-loop vacuum expectation values and scattering amplitudes. In this paper, we investigate this correspondence at the diagram level. We find that one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andrea Banfi

A formalism for the numerical integration of one- and two-loop integrals is presented. It is based on subtraction terms which remove the soft, collinear and some of the ultraviolet divergences from the integrand. The numerical integral is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-08 A. Freitas