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The issue of Lorentz fine-tuning in effective theories containing higher-order operators is studied. To this end, we focus on the Myers-Pospelov extension of QED with dimension-five operators in the photon sector and standard fermions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlos M. Reyes , Sebastian Ossandon , Camilo Reyes

Building on earlier work, the dipole subtraction formalism for photonic corrections is extended to various photon--fermion splittings where the resulting collinear singularities lead to corrections that are enhanced by logarithms of small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Dittmaier , Alois Kabelschacht , Tobias Kasprzik

We investigate the Sudakov double logarithmic corrections to the form factor of fermion in the SU(2)XU(1) electroweak theory. We adopt the familiar Feynman gauge and present explicit calculations at the two loop level. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hori , H. Kawamura , J. Kodaira

The weak-field expansion of the charged fermion propagator under a uniform magnetic field is studied. Starting from Schwinger's proper-time representation, we express the charged fermion propagator as an infinite series corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Tzuu-Kang Chyi , Chien-Wen Hwang , W. F. Kao , Guey-Lin Lin , Kin-Wang Ng , Jie-Jun Tseng

We use the identification of the edge mode of the filling fraction $\nu=1$ quantum Hall phase with a 1+1 dimensional chiral Dirac fermion to construct an analogue model for a chiral fermion in a space-time geometry possessing an event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-22 Michael Stone

We propose general guidelines in order to incorporate the geometrical description of gravity in quantum field theory and address the problem of UV divergences non-perturbatively. In our aproach, each virtual particle in a Feynman graph…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Roberto Casadio

Two-loop electroweak corrections to the electron, muon, and tau lepton anomalous magnetic moments have been computed recently. Effects of hadronic contributions to the photon propagator in two-loop QED corrections have also been reanalysed.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Andrzej Czarnecki , Bernd Krause

We present a theory of composite fermion edge states and their transport properties in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. We show that the effective electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a Hall bar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow , Brad L. Johnson

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We study quantum electrodynamics coupled to the matter field on singular background, which we call defect. For defect on the infinite plane we calculated the fermion propagator and mean electromagnetic field. We show that at large distances…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-15 I. V. Fialkovsky , V. N. Markov , Yu. M. Pis'mak

The Feynman--Hellmann approach to computing matrix elements in lattice QCD by first adding a perturbing operator to the action is described using the transition matrix and the Dyson expansion formalism. This perturbs the energies in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-22 M. Batelaan , K. U. Can , R. Horsley , Y. Nakamura , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , H. Stüben , R. D. Young , J. M. Zanotti

With the introduction of a spectral representation, the Schwinger--Dyson equation (SDE) for the fermion propagator is formulated in Minkowski space in QED. After imposing the on-shell renormalization conditions, numeric solutions for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Shaoyang Jia , Michael R. Pennington

In this paper we propose a non-minimal, and ghost free, coupling between the gauge field and the fermionic one from which we obtain, perturbatively, terms with higher order derivatives as quantum corrections to the photon effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 L. H. C. Borges , F. A. Barone , C. A. M. de Melo , F. E. Barone

In the current paper the properties of a quantum field theory based on certain sets of Lorentz-violating coefficients in the nonminimal fermion sector of the Standard-Model Extension are analyzed. In particular, three families of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-05 M. Schreck

In this work, within the framework of path integral Monte Carlo, we construct a pseudo-fermion propagator by replacing the original fermionic determinant with its absolute value. This modified propagator defines an auxiliary system free…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

A reformulation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem of Callen and Welton is presented in such a manner that the basic idea of Feynman-Vernon and Caldeira -Leggett of using an infinite number of oscillators to simulate the dissipative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kazuo Fujikawa , Hiroaki Terashima

Evaluations of the orbital Hall effect (OHE) have only retained inter-band matrix elements of the position operator. Here we evaluate the OHE including all matrix elements of the position operator, including the technically challenging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Hong Liu , James H. Cullen , Daniel P. Arovas , Dimitrie Culcer

Using staggered fermions, we calculate the perturbative corrections to the bilinear and four-fermion operators that are used in the numerical study of weak matrix elements for $\epsilon'/\epsilon$. We present results for one-loop matching…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 Weonjong Lee

The Wightman two-point function of any Hadamard state of a linear quantum field theory determines a corresponding Feynman propagator. Conversely, however, a Feynman propagator determines a state only if certain positivity conditions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Christopher J. Fewster , Alexander Strohmaier

We show that the ambiguity for the Chern-Simons-like term induced from quantum correction in the extended QED should have nothing to do with the approximation on the exact fermionic propagator, contradictory to the claim in Ref.[19].…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-10 W. F. Chen