Chaos in the Quantum Field Theory S-Matrix.

Vladimir Rosenhaus1

  • 1School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA and Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York 10016, USA.

Summary

Chaos is observed in scattering, where deflection angles unpredictably change with impact parameters. This study proposes using the erratic behavior of the many-particle S-matrix in quantum field theory to probe chaos.

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