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    In theoretical physics, a Feynman diagram is a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior and interaction of subatomic...
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    one-loop Feynman diagram is a connected Feynman diagram with only one cycle (unicyclic). Such a diagram can be obtained from a connected tree diagram by taking...
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    common Feynman diagrams. His first published diagram appeared in Physical Review in 1949. Wilczek, Frank (July 5, 2016). "How Feynman Diagrams Almost...
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    subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and is widely used. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in...
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    itself can be found using the Feynman diagram method.: 102–115  Feynman diagrams devoid of "loops" are called tree-level diagrams, which describe the lowest-order...
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    period of time, or to travel with a certain energy and momentum. In Feynman diagrams, which serve to calculate the rate of collisions in quantum field theory...
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    electron. These can all be seen in the adjacent diagram. As well as the visual shorthand for the actions, Feynman introduces another kind of shorthand for the...
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    possible, however, to modify the action, such that methods such as Feynman diagrams will be applicable by adding ghost fields which break the gauge symmetry...
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  • particles can be described by a schematic representation known as a Feynman diagram, in which virtual particles are represented by internal lines. Virtual...
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    now called Feynman diagrams. Each line of a diagram represents a particle propagating either backward or forward in time. In Feynman diagrams, anti-particles...
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    possible histories of the system from the initial to the final state. A Feynman diagram is a graphical representation of a perturbative contribution to the...
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    u-channel (both spacelike channels). These channels represent different Feynman diagrams or different possible scattering events where the interaction involves...
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    In quantum field theory, a tadpole is a one-loop Feynman diagram with one external leg, giving a contribution to a one-point correlation function (i.e...
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    resulting sum is via Feynman diagrams, where each term can be evaluated using the position space Feynman rules. The series of diagrams arising from ⟨ 0 |...
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    Gauge fixing (redirect from Feynman gauge)
    the multiplicative factor corresponding to an internal photon in the Feynman diagram expansion of a QED calculation, contains a factor gμν corresponding...
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    conceptually simple way to describe them through the use of Feynman diagrams. In a Feynman diagram, each matter particle is represented as a straight line...
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    and it is called a vertex renormalization. The Feynman diagram for this is also called a “penguin diagram” due to its shape remotely resembling a penguin...
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  • {\displaystyle e^{+}e^{-}\to 2\gamma } has a contribution from the second order Feynman diagram shown adjacent: In the initial state (at the bottom; early time) there...
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    two charge-carrying fields and one photon field (hence the common Feynman diagram with two arrows and one wavy line). Since photons mediate the electromagnetic...
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  • Feynman parametrization is a technique for evaluating loop integrals which arise from Feynman diagrams with one or more loops. However, it is sometimes...
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    global anomaly cannot be captured by one loop or any loop perturbative Feynman diagram calculations—examples include the Witten anomaly and Wang–Wen–Witten...
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  • Bethe–Feynman formula Feynman's algorithm Feynman–Kac formula Feynman–Kleinert Quasi-Classical Wigner method Feynman checkerboard Feynman diagram Feynman rules...
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    for the use of Green's function methods, and consequently the use of Feynman diagrams in the field under study. A more general idea in probability theory...
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    In quantum field theory, penguin diagrams are a class of Feynman diagrams which are important for understanding CP violating processes in the standard...
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  • A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques. Diagrams have been used since prehistoric times on walls of caves...
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    evaluated perturbatively as the sum of all connected and disconnected Feynman diagrams. It is also the generating functional for correlation functions ⟨ ϕ...
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    aspects of a spatial geometry. A spin network is defined as a diagram like the Feynman diagram which makes a basis of connections between the elements of...
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    Schwinger commented on Feynman diagrams in the following way, Like the silicon chips of more recent years, the Feynman diagram was bringing computation...
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    derive Feynman's rules (see Feynman diagram). Here we have ca for the ghost field while ξ fixes the gauge's choice for the quantization. Feynman's rules...
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    virtual electron–positron pairs spontaneously, illustrated by the Feynman diagram in the adjacent figure. This creates nonlinear effects that are approximately...
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