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most citedClassical black hole scattering from a worldline quantum field theory

256 citations · 1.1k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

hep-th2026

Angular Momentum Loss at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order

Alessandro Georgoudis, Carlo Heissenberg, Gustav Mogull +1

We calculate the total loss of angular momentum for a gravitational scattering of two non-spinning point-like objects at . Our methodology combines use of both am…

hep-th2026

Canonical Quantisation of Bound and Unbound WQFT

Riccardo Gonzo, Gustav Mogull

Using canonical quantisation, and eschewing the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we derive a version of the Worldline Quantum Field Theory (WQFT) formalism suitable for both scatte…

hep-th2026★ 1 cited

Conservative Black Hole Scattering at Fifth Post-Minkowskian and Second Self-Force Order

Mathias Driesse, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull +4

Using the worldline quantum field theory formalism, we compute conservative contributions to the scattering angle and impulse for classical black hole scattering at fifth post-Mink…

hep-th2025

Unitarity and the On-Shell Action of Worldline Quantum Field Theory

Kays Haddad, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull +1

We develop the on-shell action formalism within Worldline Quantum Field Theory (WQFT) to describe scattering of spinning compact bodies in General Relativity in the post-Minkowskia…

gr-qc2025★ 8 cited

Highly accurate simulations of asymmetric black-hole scattering and cross validation of effective-one-body models

Oliver Long, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Alessandra Buonanno +6

The study of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a gauge-invariant approach to exploring strong-field gravitational interactions in two-body systems, which can subsequent…

hep-th2025

Radiated Angular Momentum from Spinning Black Hole Scattering Trajectories

Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, Kathrin Stoldt

Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkows…

hep-th2024

Spinning bodies in general relativity from bosonic worldline oscillators

Kays Haddad, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull +1

Worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) has proven itself a powerful tool for classical two-body scattering calculations in general relativity. In this paper we develop a new worldli…

hep-th2024★ 72 cited

Emergence of Calabi-Yau manifolds in high-precision black hole scattering

Mathias Driesse, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Albrecht Klemm +5

Using the worldline quantum field theory formalism, we compute the radiation-reacted impulse, scattering angle, radiated energy and recoil of a classical black hole (or neutron sta…

gr-qc2024

Post-Minkowskian Theory Meets the Spinning Effective-One-Body Approach for Bound-Orbit Waveforms

Alessandra Buonanno, Gustav Mogull, Raj Patil +1

Driven by advances in scattering amplitudes and worldline-based methods, recent years have seen significant progress in our ability to calculate gravitational two-body scattering o…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Conservative Black Hole Scattering at Fifth Post-Minkowskian and First Self-Force Order

Mathias Driesse, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull +3

We compute the 5PM order contributions to the scattering angle and impulse of classical black hole scattering in the conservative sector at first self-force order (1SF) using the w…

gr-qc2024★ 32 cited

Post-Minkowskian Theory Meets the Spinning Effective-One-Body Approach for Two-Body Scattering

Alessandra Buonanno, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull

Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-bo…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

Tidal effects and renormalization at fourth post-Minkowskian order

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +1

We determine the adiabatic tidal contributions to the radiation reacted momentum impulse and scattering angle between two scattered massive bodies (neutron stars) at n…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

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

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +1

We compute the radiation reacted momentum impulse , spin kick , and scattering angle between two scattered spinning massive bodies (black holes or neutron stars…

hep-th2023

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

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +2

Using the supersymmetric, spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we compute the conservative spin-orbit part of the momentum impulse , spin kick…

hep-th2022★ 65 cited

Linear Response, Hamiltonian and Radiative Spinning Two-Body Dynamics

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull

Using the spinning, supersymmetric Worldline Quantum Field Theory formalism we compute the momentum impulse and spin kick from a scattering of two spinning black holes or neutron s…

hep-th2022★ 2 cited

All Things Retarded: Radiation-Reaction in Worldline Quantum Field Theory

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +1

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 Schwinger-Ke…

hep-th2022★ 98 cited

Conservative and radiative dynamics of spinning bodies at third post-Minkowskian order using worldline quantum field theory

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull

Using the spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we calculate the quadratic-in-spin momentum impulse and spin kick from a scattering of two arbitrarily…

hep-th2021★ 128 cited

SUSY in the Sky with Gravitons

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +1

Picture yourself in the wave zone of a gravitational scattering event of two massive, spinning compact bodies (black holes, neutron stars or stars). We show that this system of gen…

hep-th2021★ 147 cited

Gravitational Bremsstrahlung and Hidden Supersymmetry of Spinning Bodies

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +1

The recently established formalism of a worldline quantum field theory, which describes the classical scattering of massive bodies in Einstein gravity, is generalized up to quadrat…

gr-qc2021★ 205 cited

Classical Gravitational Bremsstrahlung from a Worldline Quantum Field Theory

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka +1

Using the recently established formalism of a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) description of the classical scattering of two spinless black holes, we compute the far-field ti…

hep-th2020★ 256 cited

Classical black hole scattering from a worldline quantum field theory

Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, Jan Steinhoff

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 describe classical…

hep-th2018★ 50 cited

Unraveling conformal gravity amplitudes

Henrik Johansson, Gustav Mogull, Fei Teng

Conformal supergravity amplitudes are obtained from the double-copy construction using gauge-theory amplitudes, and compared to direct calculations starting from conformal supergra…