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Electromagnetic forces in the time domain

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Andrei Kiselev

We look beyond the standard time-average approach and investigate optical forces in the time domain. The formalism is developed for both the Abraham and Minkowski momenta, which appear to converge in the time domain. We unveil an extremely rich - and by fa ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Production of Chern-Simons bosons in decays of mesons

Kyrylo Bondarenko, Pavlo Kashko

We consider the effective interaction of quarks with a new GeV-scale vector particle that couples to electroweak gauge bosons by the so-called effective Chern-Simons (CS) interaction. We call this particle the CS boson. We construct effective Lagrangian of ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Hamiltonian truncation in Anti-de Sitter spacetime

Kamran Salehi Vaziri, João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Marco Meineri, Matthijs Jan Hogervorst

Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime are often strongly coupled when the radius of AdS is large, and few methods are available to study them. In this work, we develop a Hamiltonian truncation method to compute the energy spectrum ...

Springer Nature2021

The S-matrix Bootstrap Reloaded

Aditya Hebbar

Quantum field theories (QFTs) are the backbone upon which the edifice of modern physics is built. In this thesis we explore the S-matrix bootstrap which is a non-perturbative method that constrains the vast space of QFTs by using consistency conditions tha ...

EPFL2021

Loops in AdS: from the spectral representation to position space

Din Carmi

We compute a family of scalar loop diagrams in AdS. We use the spectral representation to derive various bulk vertex/propagator identities, and these identities enable to reduce certain loop bubble diagrams to lower loop diagrams, and often to tree- level ...

Springer Nature2020

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in an optomechanical cavity

Alexander Tagantsev

A theoretical consideration of the so-called "membrane-in-the-middle" optomechanical cavity revealed that it undergoes a spontaneous symmetry breaking as a function of transparency of the membrane. Such typical features of this phenomenon as a square-root ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

The S-matrix bootstrap. Part III: higher dimensional amplitudes

João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Jonathan Campbell Toledo

We consider constraints on the S-matrix of any gapped, Lorentz invariant quantum field theory in 3+1 dimensions due to crossing symmetry, analyticity and unitarity. We extremize cubic couplings, quartic couplings and scattering lengths relevant for the ela ...

Springer Nature2019

Quantum phase transitions beyond Landau-Ginzburg theory in one-dimensional space revisited

Christopher Marc Mudry

The phase diagram of the quantum spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic J(1)-J(2) XXZ chain was obtained by Haldane using bosonization techniques [Haldane, Phys. Rev. B 25, 4925 (1982); 26, 5257 (1982)]. It supports three distinct phases for 0

2019

Towards the renormalization group flow of Horava gravity in 3+1 dimensions

Sergey Sibiryakov, Mario Herrero Valea

We compute the renormalization group running of the Newton constant and the parameter lambda in (3 + 1)-dimensional projectable Horava gravity. We use the background-field method, expanding around configurations with flat spatial metric, but nonvanishing s ...

American Physical Society2019

Hidden and explicit quantum scale invariance

Sander Johannes Nicolaas Mooij, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Thibault Voumard

There exist renormalization schemes that explicitly preserve the scale invariance of a theory at the quantum level. Imposing a scale-invariant renormalization breaks renormalizability and induces new nontrivial operators in the theory. In this work, we stu ...

American Physical Society2019

Multivalley engineering in semiconductor microcavities

Hugo Pierre Alexandre Flayac, Timothy Chi Hin Liew

We consider exciton-photon coupling in semiconductor microcavities in which separate periodic potentials have been embedded for excitons and photons. We show theoretically that this system supports degenerate ground-states appearing at non-zero inplane mom ...

Springer Nature2017

Poincaré, Scale and Conformal Symmetries : Gauge Perspective and Cosmological Ramifications

Georgios Karananas

Symmetries are omnipresent and play a fundamental role in the description of Nature. Thanks to them, we have at our disposal nontrivial selection rules that dictate how a theory should be constructed. This thesis, which is naturally divided into two parts, ...

EPFL2016

Spontaneously broken mass

Solomon G Shamsuddin Osman Endlich

The Galilei group involves mass as a central charge. We show that the associated superselection rule is incompatible with the observed phenomenology of superfluid helium 4: this is recovered only under the assumption that mass is spontaneou.519 broken. Thi ...

Springer Nature2015

On the moduli space of spontaneously broken N=8 supergravity

We analyze the moduli space of spontaneously broken N = 8 supergravity theories in 4 dimensions with classical Minkowski vacua. We find that all the known classical vacua, as well as the several new ones we construct here, can be connected by sending some ...

Springer Nature2013

Toroidal drift precession and wave - particle interaction in shaped tokamaks with infinite beta and neoclassical equilibrium effects

Jonathan Graves

The drift kinetic equation is analysed for linear instabilities that are sensitive to the toroidal drift motion of long-mean free path particle populations. The interaction Lagrangian is resolved, and the toroidal drift precession evaluated for realistic t ...

IOP2013

Late and early time phenomenology of Higgs-dependent cutoff

Mikhail Chapochnikov

The analysis of theories with non-minimal coupling of Higgs field to gravity revealed that they enter into strong coupling regime above certain Higgs-dependent cutoff, which may be considerably below the Planck scale. Assuming that the effective theory, co ...

2011

Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs boson mass

Mikhail Chapochnikov

There are indications that gravity is asymptotically safe. The Standard Model (SM) plus gravity could be valid up to arbitrarily high energies. Supposing that this is indeed the case and assuming that there are no intermediate energy scales between the Fer ...

2010

Bounding scalar operator dimensions in 4D CFT

Riccardo Rattazzi, Alessandro Vichi

In an arbitrary unitary 4D CFT we consider a scalar operator phi, and the operator phi(2) defined as the lowest dimension scalar which appears in the OPE phi x phi with a nonzero coefficient. Using general considerations of OPE, conformal block decompositi ...

Springer Nature2008