Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Superstring amplitudes meet surfaceology
  Q. Cao, J. Dong, S. He and F. Zhu, SciPost Phys 19, (2025) 114, arXiv:2504.21676

• Form Factors from String Amplitudes
  Q. Cao, Phys.Rev.Lett. 135, (2025) 021603, arXiv:2504.15602

• All-loop planar integrands in Yang-Mills theory from recursion
  Q.Cao and F.Zhu, Phys. Rev. D 112, (2025) 085012, arXiv:2503.15860

• One-loop amplitudes in gauge theories
  Q. Cao, J. Dong, S. He and F. Zhu, Phys. Rev. D 111, (2025) 065015 , arXiv:2412.19629

• Surface Kinematics and the Canonical Yang-Mills All-Loop Integrand
  N. Arkani-Hamed, Q. Cao, J. Dong, C. Figueiredo and S. He, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, (2025) 171601, arXiv:2408.11891
• Supergluon scattering in AdS: constructibility, spinning amplitudes, and new structures
  Q. Cao, S. He, X. Li and Y. Tang, JHEP 10, (2024) 040, arXiv:2406.08538
• On universal splittings of tree-level particle and string scattering amplitudes
  Q. Cao, J. Dong, S. He, C. Shi and F. Zhu, JHEP 09, (2024) 049, arXiv:2406.03838
• A universal splitting of tree-level string and particle scattering amplitudes
  Q. Cao, J. Dong, S. He, C. Shi and F. Zhu, Phys. Lett. B 856, (2024) 138934, arXiv:2403.08855

• Nonlinear Sigma model amplitudes to all loop orders are contained in the Tr(Φ3) theory
  N. Arkani-Hamed, Q. Cao, J. Dong, C. Figueiredo and S. He, Phys. Rev. D 110, (2024) 065018, arXiv:2401.05483

• Scalar-scaffolded gluons and the combinatorial origins of Yang-Mills theory
  N. Arkani-Hamed, Q. Cao, J. Dong, C. Figueiredo and S. He, JHEP 04, (2025) 078, arXiv:2401.00041

• Hidden zeros for particle/string amplitudes and the unity of colored scalars
  N. Arkani-Hamed, Q. Cao, J. Dong, C. Figueiredo and S. He, JHEP 10, (2024) 231, arXiv:2312.16282

• Constructibility of AdS Supergluon Amplitudes
  Q. Cao, S. He,and Y. Tang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 (2024) 021605, arXiv:2312.15484

• Cutting the traintracks: Cauchy, Schubert and Calabi-Yau
  Q. Cao, S. He,and Y. Tang, JHEP 04 (2023) 072, arXiv:2301.07834

• Covariant color-kinematics duality, Hopf algebras, and permutohedra
  Q. Cao, J. Dong, S. He and Y.-Q. Zhang, Phys. Rev. D 107, (2023) 026022, arXiv:2211.05404

• The KLT relation from the tree formula and permutohedron
  Q. Cao and L. Zhang, Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 78 ,arXiv:2112.15029

Preprints

1. Loop-Level Double Copy Relations from Forward Limits
   Q.Cao, S. He, Y. Zhang and F. Zhu, arXiv:2509.025129