The effective field theorist's approach to gravitational dynamics

RA Porto - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on
extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from …

Effective field theories of post-Newtonian gravity: a comprehensive review

M Levi - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article presents the progress made over the last decade, since the introduction
of effective field theories (EFTs) into post-Newtonian (PN) gravity. These have been put …

Radiation reaction and gravitational waves at fourth post-Minkowskian order

C Dlapa, G Kälin, Z Liu, J Neef, RA Porto - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We obtain the total impulse in the scattering of nonspinning binaries in general relativity at
fourth post-Minkowskian order, ie, O (G 4), including linear, nonlinear, and hereditary …

Conservative scattering of spinning black holes at fourth post-Minkowskian order

GU Jakobsen, G Mogull, J Plefka, B Sauer, Y Xu - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Using the N= 1 supersymmetric, spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism, we
compute the conservative spin-orbit part of the momentum impulse Δ pi μ, spin kick Δ S i μ …

One-loop gravitational bremsstrahlung and waveforms from a heavy-mass effective field theory

A Brandhuber, GR Brown, G Chen… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Using a heavy-mass effective field theory (HEFT), we study gravitational-wave
emission in the scattering of two spinless black holes or neutron stars of arbitrary masses at …

Conservative dynamics of binary systems at fourth post-Minkowskian order in the large-eccentricity expansion

C Dlapa, G Kälin, Z Liu, RA Porto - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We compute the conservative dynamics of nonspinning binaries at fourth post-Minkowskian
order in the large-eccentricity limit, including both potential and radiation-reaction tail effects …

Classical black hole scattering from a worldline quantum field theory

G Mogull, J Plefka, J Steinhoff - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract A precise link is derived between scalar-graviton S-matrix elements and
expectation values of operators in a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), both used to …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of binary systems to fourth Post-Minkowskian order from the effective field theory approach

C Dlapa, G Kälin, Z Liu, RA Porto - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the contribution from potential interactions to the dynamics of non-spinning
binaries to fourth Post-Minkowskian (4PM) order. This is achieved by computing the …

All things retarded: radiation-reaction in worldline quantum field theory

GU Jakobsen, G Mogull, J Plefka, B Sauer - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We exhibit an initial-value formulation of the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT)
approach to the classical two-body problem in general relativity. We show that the …

Amplitudes, observables, and classical scattering

DA Kosower, B Maybee, D O'Connell - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We present a formalism for computing classically measurable quantities directly
from on-shell quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss the ingredients needed for …