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most citedThe Gluon Propagator in non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields

99 citations · 118 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

hep-th2026

Tidal effects on radiation in gravitational shockwave collisions

Isabelle Blackstad, Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

We compute high frequency gravitational wave radiation in shockwave collisions of a light mass compact object with energy off a heavy compact object (black hole) with energy…

hep-th2026

Squeezed-state radiation in shockwave scattering: QCD-Gravity double copy

Anna M. Staśto, Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

Gluon and graviton radiation in strong field shockwave scattering are described by effective Lipatov vertices, with the graviton Lipatov vertex proportional to the bilinear of its…

hep-th2026

Efficient computation of the N-th rank QED polarization tensor: Universal worldline structure of form factors

Xabier Feal, Andrey Tarasov, Raju Venugopalan

We derived in arXiv:2206.04188 arXiv:2211.15712 a compact expression for the -th rank QED polarization tensor in a -dimensional worldl…

hep-lat2026

Topological structure of the entanglement radius of Yang-Mills flux tubes

Rocco Amorosso, Sergey Syritsyn, Raju Venugopalan

We expand on recent work arXiv:2601.17199 demonstrating the existence of a novel entanglement radius characterizing flux tube entanglement entropy (FTE) in (2+1)D Yang-Mi…

hep-th2026

Simulating Lattice Gauge Theories with Virtual Rishons

David Rogerson, João Barata, Robert M. Konik +2

Classical tensor network and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are promising candidates for the investigation of real-time properties of lattice gauge theories. We develop here a…

hep-th2026

Entanglement Enabled Tomography of Flux Tubes in (2+1)D Yang-Mills Theory

Rocco Amorosso, Sergey Syritsyn, Raju Venugopalan

We investigate the entangling properties of the color flux tube between a static quark-antiquark pair in pure gauge Yang-Mills theory. In earlier works, we defined a gauge-invarian…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Few is different: deciphering many-body dynamics in mesoscopic quantum gases

Juergen Berges, Sandra Brandstetter, Jasmine Brewer +27

Emergent macroscopic descriptions of matter, such as hydrodynamics, are central to our description of complex physical systems across a wide spectrum of energy scales. The conventi…

hep-th2025

QCD-Gravity double copy in Regge asymptotics: from amplitudes to radiation in shockwave collisions

Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

These lectures discuss multi-particle production in QCD and in gravity at ultrarelativistic energies, their double copy relations, and strong parallels in emergent shockwave dynami…

hep-lat2025

Internal color contributions to flux tube entanglement entropy

Rocco Amorosso, Sergey Syritsyn, Raju Venugopalan

In recent work arXiv:2410.00112, we introduced and computed entanglement entropy of the color flux tube (FTE) between a heavy quark-antiquark pair in (2+1)D Yang-Mills theory.…

hep-ph2025

The role of the chiral anomaly in polarized deeply inelastic scattering III: Wess-Zumino-Witten contributions and chiral Ward identities for finite quark mass

Andrey Tarasov, Raju Venugopalan

We extend our prior results on the worldline computation of the axial vector-vector-vector (AVV) triangle anomaly in polarized deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) to the finite mass…

hep-lat2024

Entanglement entropy of a color flux tube in (1+1)D Yang-Mills theory

Rocco Amorosso, Sergey Syritsyn, Raju Venugopalan

In recent work arxiv:2410.00112 , we computed a novel flux tube entanglement entropy (FTE) of the color flux tube stretched between a heavy quark-antiquark pair on a Euclidean…

hep-lat2024

Entanglement entropy of a color flux tube in (2+1)D Yang-Mills theory

Rocco Amorosso, Sergey Syritsyn, Raju Venugopalan

We construct a novel flux tube entanglement entropy (FTE), defined as the excess entanglement entropy relative to the vacuum of a region of color flux stretching between a heav…

hep-ph2024

Entanglement Enabled Intensity Interferometry in ultrarelativistic ultraperipheral nuclear collisions

James Daniel Brandenburg, Haowu Duan, Zhoudunming Tu +2

An important tool in studying the sub-femtoscale spacetime structure of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) intensity interferometry of id…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Scattering Processes from Quantum Simulation Algorithms for Scalar Field Theories

Andrew Hardy, Priyanka Mukhopadhyay, M. Sohaib Alam +8

We provide practical simulation methods for scalar field theories on a quantum computer that yield improved asymptotics as well as concrete gate estimates for the simulation and ph…

hep-th2024

QCD-Gravity double-copy in the Regge regime: shock wave propagators

Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

In recent work, we demonstrated a double-copy relation between inclusive gluon radiation in shock wave collisions of ultrarelativistic nuclei and inclusive graviton radiation in tr…

hep-ph2023

Wee partons in QCD and gravity: double copy and universality

Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

We discuss a quantitative "double copy" between radiation from shockwave collisions in Einstein gravity and in QCD. The correspondence extends to amplitudes in Reg…

hep-th2023

Gravitational wave double copy of radiation from gluon shockwave collisions

Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

In a recent paper, we showed that the gravitational wave spectrum from trans-Planckian shockwave scattering in Einstein gravity is determined by the gravitational Lipatov vertex ex…

hep-th2023

Universal features of scattering in QCD and gravity from shockwave collisions

Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan

A remarkable double copy relation of Einstein gravity to QCD in Regge asymptotics is , where is the gravitational Lipatov vertex in t…

hep-ph1996★ 15 cited

Lattice Computations of Small-x Parton Distributions in a Model of Parton Densities in Very Large Nuclei

Rajiv V. Gavai, Raju Venugopalan

Using weak coupling methods McLerran and Venugopalan~\cite{LV1} expressed the parton distributions in large nuclei as correlation functions of a two dimensional Euclidean field the…

hep-ph1995★ 99 cited

The Gluon Propagator in non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields

Alejandro Ayala, Jamal Jalilian-Marian, Larry McLerran +1

We carefully compute the gluon propagator in the background of a non--Abelian Weizsäcker--Williams field. This background field is generated by the valence quarks in very large nuc…