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Variational (Rayleigh-Ritz) methods are applied to local quantum field theory. For scalar theories the wave functional is parametrized in the form of a superposition of Gaussians and the expectation value of the Hamiltonian is expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 George Tiktopoulos

Starting from the ACV approach to transplanckian scattering, we present a development of the reduced-action model in which the (improved) eikonal representation is able to describe particles' motion at large scattering angle and,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Marcello Ciafaloni , Dimitri Colferai

The efficiency of the variational perturbation theory [Phys. Rev. C {\bf 62}, 045503 (2000)] formulated recently for many-particle systems is examined by calculating the ground state correlation energy of the 3D electron gas with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Sang Koo You , Noboru Fukushima

Within the framework of chiral effective field theory, perturbative calculation for $NN$ scattering is carried out in partial waves with orbital angular momentum $L \geqslant 1$. The primary goal is to identify the lowest angular momenta at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Shaowei Wu , Bingwei Long

The coupled-channel technique augments a non-relativistic distorted wave born approximation scattering calculation to include a coupling to virtual states from the negative energy region. It has been found to be important in low energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-29 S. P. Weppner , Prakrut Patel , C. Miller , C. Ogg , I. Mazumdar

The emission of electromagnetic waves from a source within or near a non-trivial medium (with or without boundaries, crystalline or amorphous, with inhomogeneities, absorption and so on) is sometimes studied using the reciprocity principle.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ariel Caticha

The computation of light scattering by the superposition T-matrix scheme has been so far restricted to systems made of particles that are either sparsely distributed or of near-spherical shape. In this work, we extend the range of…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-20 Dominik Theobald , Amos Egel , Guillaume Gomard , Uli Lemmer

Effective field theory descriptions of surface waves on flowing fluids have tended to assume that the flow is irrotational, but this assumption is often impractical due to boundary layer friction and flow recirculation. Here we develop an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Alessia Biondi , Scott Robertson , Germain Rousseaux

A Statistic Vectorial Complex Ray Model (SVCRM) is proposed for the scattering of a plane wave by a non-spherical dielectric particle in three dimensions. This method counts the complex amplitudes of all rays arriving in a tiny box in the…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ruiping Yang , Bing Wei , Claude Rozé , Saïd Idlahcen , Kuan Ffang Ren

In evaluating differential cross section of elastic scattering, different theories were applied to low-momentum and relativistic particles. For low-momentum motion, Lippmann-Schwinger scattering equation was applied, called fundamental…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Huai-Yu Wang

We develop a numerical method to nonperturbatively study scattering and gluon emission of a quark from a colored target using a light-front Hamiltonian approach. The target is described as a classical color field, as in the Color Glass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 Meijian Li , Tuomas Lappi , Xingbo Zhao

We consider nonlinear-mediating-field generalizations of the Wick-Cutkosky model. Using an iterative approach and eliminating the mediating field by means of the covariant Green function we arrive at a Lagrangian density containing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-26 Jurij W. Darewych , Askold Duviryak

We develop a non-Gaussian variational approach that enables us to study both equilibrium and far-from-equilibrium physics of the two-dimensional Fermi polaron. This method provides an unbiased analysis of the polaron-to-molecule phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-01 Yi-Fan Qu , Pavel E. Dolgirev , Eugene Demler , Tao Shi

In order to facilitate the study of weak ultra-relativistic (and Planckian) scattering we present an appropriate decomposition of the gravitational field together with its whole non-linear action. More generally the results apply to any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 Barak Kol

A multi-channel scattering problem is studied from a point of view of integral equations system. The system appears while natural one-particle wave function equation of the electron under action of a potential with non-intersecting ranges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Sergey Leble , Sergey Yalunin

Astonishing cancellations take place in the calculation of high-energy scattering cross sections in quantum quadratic gravity, a quantum field theory for gravity. Tree-level differential cross sections that are minimally inclusive behave as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Bob Holdom

We introduce a new, probability-level approach to calculations in scalar field particle scattering. The approach involves the implicit summation over final states, which makes causality manifest since retarded propagators emerge naturally.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Ross Jenkinson , Peter Millington

Applications of variational methods are typically restricted to conservative systems. Some extensions to dissipative systems have been reported too but require ad hoc techniques such as the artificial doubling of the dynamical variables.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 I. Y. Dodin , A. I. Zhmoginov , D. E. Ruiz

We examine diffractive proton-proton scattering. Using a functional integral approach we derive the scattering amplitudes, which are governed by the expectation value of lightlike Wegner-Wilson loops. This expectation value is then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Otto Nachtmann , Timo Paulus

We develop a recursive method for perturbative solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation with nonlinear drift. The series expansion of the time-dependent probability density in terms of powers of the coupling constant is obtained by solving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-06 Jens Dreger , Axel Pelster , Bodo Hamprecht