[HTML][HTML] The gravitational eikonal: from particle, string and brane collisions to black-hole encounters

P Di Vecchia, C Heissenberg, R Russo, G Veneziano - Physics reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Motivated by conceptual problems in quantum theories of gravity, the gravitational eikonal
approach, inspired by its electromagnetic predecessor, has been successfully applied to the …

Modified theories of gravity: Why, how and what?

S Shankaranarayanan, JP Johnson - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2022 - Springer
General relativity (GR) was proven via the direct detection of gravitational waves from the
mergers of the binary black holes and binary neutron stars by the advanced LIGO and …

The EFT-hedron

N Arkani-Hamed, TC Huang, Y Huang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We re-examine the constraints imposed by causality and unitarity on the low-
energy effective field theory expansion of four-particle scattering amplitudes, exposing a …

The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications

D Poland, S Rychkov, A Vichi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics
of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids …

Extremal effective field theories

S Caron-Huot, V Van Duong - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-
distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. Previous work showed that EFT …

Snowmass white paper: gravitational waves and scattering amplitudes

A Buonanno, M Khalil, D O'Connell, R Roiban… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We review recent progress and future prospects for harnessing powerful tools from
theoretical high-energy physics, such as scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, to …

Binary Dynamics through the Fifth Power of Spin at

Z Bern, D Kosmopoulos, A Luna, R Roiban, F Teng - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We use a previously developed scattering-amplitudes-based framework for determining two-
body Hamiltonians for generic binary systems with arbitrary spin S. By construction this …

Positive moments for scattering amplitudes

B Bellazzini, JE Miró, R Rattazzi, M Riembau, F Riva - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We find the complete set of conditions satisfied by the forward 2→ 2 scattering amplitude in
unitary and causal theories. These are based on an infinite set of energy dependent …

Sharp boundaries for the swampland

S Caron-Huot, D Mazáč, L Rastelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We reconsider the problem of bounding higher derivative couplings in consistent
weakly coupled gravitational theories, starting from general assumptions about analyticity …

[图书][B] Holographic quantum matter

SA Hartnoll, A Lucas, S Sachdev - 2018 - books.google.com
A comprehensive overview of holographic methods in quantum matter, written by pioneers
in the field. This book, written by pioneers in the field, offers a comprehensive overview of …