Hamiltonian Light-Front Field Theory in a Basis Function Approach

By J. Vary, H. Honkanen, Jun Yu Li, P. Maris, S. Brodsky, A. Harindranath, Guy F. de Téramond, P. Sternberg, E. Ng, C. Yang. 2009

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Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory constitutes a framework for the nonperturbative solution of invariant masses and correlated parton amplitudes of self-bound systems. By choosing the light-front gauge and adopting a basis function representation, a large, sparse, Hamiltonian matrix for mass eigenstates of gauge theories is obtained that is solvable by adapting the ab initio no-core methods of nuclear many-body theory. Full covariance is recovered in the continuum limit, the infinite matrix limit. There is considerable freedom in the choice of the orthonormal and complete set of basis functions with convenience and convergence rates providing key considerations. Here we use a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator basis for transverse modes that corresponds with eigensolutions of the soft-wall anti-de Sitter/quantum chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) model obtained from light-front holography. We outline our approach and present illustrative features of some noninteracting systems in a cavity. We illustrate the first steps toward solving quantum electrodynamics (QED) by obtaining the mass eigenstates of an electron in a cavity in small basis spaces and discuss the computational challenges.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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  1. Guy F. de Téramond
  2. S. Brodsky
  3. Hans Günter Dosch
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