May 2020 arXiv papers — page 31

Davi C. Rodrigues, Valerio Marra

We review some of our recent results about the Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) and its interpretation as either a fundamental or an emergent law. The former interpretation is in agreement with a class of modified gravity theories that dismiss the need for dark matter in galaxies (MOND in particular). Our most recent analysis, which includes refinements on

Sarira Sahu, Carlos E. Lopez Fortin

The detection of GRB 180722B and GRB 190114C in sub-TeV gamma-rays has opened up a new window to study gamma-ray bursts in high energy gamma-rays. Recently it is shown that the synchrotron and inverse Compton processes are responsible for the production of these high energy gamma-rays during the afterglow. Here, for the first time we demonstrate that, the ph

Lennart Dabelow, Peter Reimann

We consider quantum many-body systems evolving under a time-independent Hamiltonian $H$ from a nonequilibrium initial state at time $t=0$ towards a close-to-equilibrium state at time $t=\tau$. Subsequently, this state is slightly perturbed and finally propagated for another time period $\tau$ under the inverted Hamiltonian $-H$. The entire procedure may also

Sabyasachi Tarat, Jian Li, Richard T. Scalettar, Rubem Mondaini

We consider a spin-fermion model consisting of free electrons coupled to classical spins, where the latter are embedded in a quasi one-dimensional superlattice structure consisting of spin blocks separated by spinless buffers. Using a spiral ansatz for the spins, we study the effect of the electron mediated Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction on

Johannes Middeke, David J. Jeffrey, Christoph Koutschan

We consider LU and QR matrix decompositions using exact computations. We show that fraction-free Gauss--Bareiss reduction leads to triangular matrices having a non-trivial number of common row factors. We identify two types of common factors: systematic and statistical. Systematic factors depend on the reduction process, independent of the data, while statis

Sebastián Contreras, Juan Pablo Biron-Lattes, H. Andrés Villavicencio, David Medina-Ortiz

COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our world in a timescale much shorter than what we can understand. Particularities of SARS-CoV-2, such as its persistence in surfaces and the lack of a curative treatment or vaccine against COVID-19, have pushed authorities to apply restrictive policies to control its spreading. As data drove most of the decisions made in this

Pere Ara, Joan Claramunt

In this paper, we introduce a new technique in the study of the $*$-regular closure of some specific group algebras $KG$ inside $\mathcal{U}(G)$, the $*$-algebra of unbounded operators affiliated to the group von Neumann algebra $\mathcal{N}(G)$. The main tool we use for this study is a general approximation result for a class of crossed product algebras of

Fangyuan Chang, Xiaofan Cui, Mengqi Wang, Wencong Su

The increasing adoption of power electronic devices may lead to large disturbance and destabilization of future power systems. However, stability criteria are still an unsolved puzzle, since traditional small-signal stability analysis is not applicable to power electronics-enabled power systems when a large disturbance occurs, such as a fault, a pulse power

Jia Huang, Davin E. Larson, Tamar Ervin, Mingzhe Liu

Slow solar wind is typically characterized as having low Alfv\'enicity, but the occasional occurrence of highly Alfv\'enic slow solar wind (HASSW) raises questions about its source regions and evolution. In this work, we conduct a statistical analysis of temperature anisotropy and helium abundance in HASSW using data from PSP within 0.25 AU, Helios between 0

Guilherme Ramos, Ludovico Boratto

Recent literature on ranking systems (RS) has considered users' exposure when they are the object of the ranking. Although items are the object of reputation-based RS, users have a central role also in this class of algorithms. Indeed, when ranking the items, user preferences are weighted by how relevant this user is in the platform (i.e., their reputation).

Paul R. Anderson, Eric D. Carlson, Taylor M. Ordines, Bradley Hicks

An investigation is undertaken into the properties and effects of a preinflationary era during at least part of which semiclassical gravity was valid. It is argued that if the Universe (or our part of it) was approximately homogeneous and isotropic during that era, then the Universe was likely to have been radiation dominated. A simple model in which the Uni

Jovana Andrejevic, Lisa M. Lee, Shmuel M. Rubinstein, Chris H. Rycroft

As a confined thin sheet crumples, it spontaneously segments into flat facets delimited by a network of ridges. Despite the apparent disorder of this process, statistical properties of crumpled sheets exhibit striking reproducibility. Experiments have shown that the total crease length accrues logarithmically when repeatedly compacting and unfolding a sheet

Sourabh Balgi, Ambedkar Dukkipati

A complex combination of simultaneous supervised-unsupervised learning is believed to be the key to humans performing tasks seamlessly across multiple domains or tasks. This phenomenon of cross-domain learning has been very well studied in domain adaptation literature. Recent domain adaptation works rely on an indirect way of first aligning the source and ta

Andreas Kirkedal, Marija Stepanović, Barbara Plank

This paper introduces FT Speech, a new speech corpus created from the recorded meetings of the Danish Parliament, otherwise known as the Folketing (FT). The corpus contains over 1,800 hours of transcribed speech by a total of 434 speakers. It is significantly larger in duration, vocabulary, and amount of spontaneous speech than the existing public speech cor

Ioan Baldea

A recent work (DOI 10.1101/2020.05.06.20093310) indicated that temporarily splitting larger populations into smaller groups can efficiently mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus. The fact that, soon afterwards, on May 15, 2020, the two million people Slovenia was the first European country proclaiming the end of COVID-19 epidemic within national borders ma

Richard Seeber, Hernan Haimovich, Martin Horn, Leonid Fridman

The problem of exactly differentiating a signal with bounded second derivative is considered. A class of differentiators is proposed, which converge to the derivative of such a signal within a fixed, i.e., a finite and uniformly bounded convergence time. A tuning procedure is derived that allows to assign an arbitrary, predefined upper bound for this converg

Federico D. Dominguez, Maria Cristina Rodriguez, Robin Kaiser, Dieter Suter

Reliable processing of quantum information for developing quantum technologies requires precise control of out-of-equilibrium many-bodysystems. This is a highly challenging task as the fragility of quantum states to external perturbations increases with the system-size. Here, we report on a series of experimental quantum simulations that quantify the sensiti

Jalal Etesami, Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

Multi-agent learning is a challenging problem in machine learning that has applications in different domains such as distributed control, robotics, and economics. We develop a prescriptive model of multi-agent behavior using Markov games. Since in many multi-agent systems, agents do not necessary select their optimum strategies against other agents (e.g., mu

Michael Moor, Max Horn, Christian Bock, Karsten Borgwardt

The signature transform is a 'universal nonlinearity' on the space of continuous vector-valued paths, and has received attention for use in machine learning on time series. However, real-world temporal data is typically observed at discrete points in time, and must first be transformed into a continuous path before signature techniques can be applied. We mak

J. Krticka, A. Kawka, Z. Mikulasek, L. Fossati

Ultraprecise space photometry enables us to reveal light variability even in stars that were previously deemed constant. A large group of such stars show variations that may be rotationally modulated. This type of light variability is of special interest because it provides precise estimates of rotational rates. We aim to understand the origin of the light v

John C. Barentine, František Kundracik, Miroslav Kocifaj, Jessie C. Sanders

Anthropogenic skyglow dominates views of the natural night sky in most urban settings, and the associated emission of artificial light at night (ALAN) into the environment of cities involves a number of known and suspected negative externalities. One approach to lowering consumption of ALAN in cities is dimming or extinguishing publicly owned outdoor lightin

Jesse Daas, Wouter Oosters, Frank Saueressig, Jian Wang

We use the functional renormalization group equation for the effective average action to study the fixed point structure of gravity-fermion systems on a curved background spacetime. We approximate the effective average action by the Einstein-Hilbert action supplemented by a fermion kinetic term and a coupling of the fermion bilinears to the spacetime curvatu

Sumit Som

Let $\mathscr{F}=(F_n)$ be a sequence of nonempty finite subsets of $\omega$ such that $\lim_n |F_n|=\infty$ and define the ideal $$\mathcal{I}(\mathscr{F}):=\left\{A\subseteq \omega: |A\cap F_n|/|F_n|\to 0~\mbox{as}~n\to \infty \right\}.$$ The case $F_n=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ corresponds to the classical case of density zero ideal. We show that $\mathcal{I}(\maths

Lorenzo Guerrieri, Nicola Maugeri, Vincenzo Micale

Good semigroups form a class of submonoids of $\mathbb{N}^d$ containing the value semigroups of curve singularities. In this article, we describe a partition of the complements of good semigroup ideals, having as main application the description of the Ap\'{e}ry sets of good semigroups. This generalizes to any $d \geq 2$ the results of a recent paper of D'An

Jackson S. Morrow

Let $K$ be an algebraically closed, complete, non-Archimedean valued field of characteristic zero. We prove the non-Archimedean Green--Griffiths--Lang conjecture for projective surfaces of irregularity one. More precisely, we prove that if $X/K$ is a groupless, projective surface that admits a dominant morphism an elliptic curve, then $X$ is $K$-analytically

S. Martocchia, E. Dalessandro, M. Salaris, S. Larsen

Fornax 4 is the most distinctive globular cluster in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal. Located close to the centre of the galaxy, more metal-rich and potentially younger than its four companions (namely, Fornax clusters number 1, 2, 3 and 5), it has been suggested to have experienced a different formation than the other clusters in the galaxy. Here we use HST/WFC

Zilong He, Siyao Shao, Jiaqi Li, S. Santosh Kumar

SARS-CoV-2 survives and remains viable on surfaces for several days under different environments as reported in recent studies. However, it is unclear how the viruses survive for such a long time and why their survivability varies across different surfaces. To address these questions, we conduct systematic experiments investigating the evaporation of droplet

Ryan Alexander Pepper, Hans Fangohr

The Barnes-Hut and Fast Multipole Methods are widely utilised methods applied in order to reduce the computational cost of evaluating long range forces in $N$-body simulations. Despite this, applying existing libraries to simple problems with higher order source points, such as dipoles, is not straightforward or efficient because individual libraries are opt

Ehoud Pazy

Efimov states are known to have a discrete real space scale invariance, working in momentum space we identify the relevant discrete scale invariance for the scattering amplitude defining its Weierstrass function as well. Through the use of the mathematical formalism for discrete scale invariance for the scattering amplitude we identify the scaling parameters

Fedor Manin, Erika Roldan, Benjamin Schweinhart

The Eden cell growth model is a simple discrete stochastic process which produces a "blob" in $\mathbb{R}^d$: start with one cube in the regular grid, and at each time step add a neighboring cube uniformly at random. This process has been used as a model for the growth of aggregations, tumors, and bacterial colonies and the healing of wounds, among other nat

Michael Robinson

The Dowker complex is an abstract simplicial complex that is constructed from a binary relation in a straightforward way. Although there are two ways to perform this construction -- vertices for the complex are either the rows or the columns of the matrix representing the relation -- the two constructions are homotopy equivalent. This article shows that the

Martin Striegel, Florian Jakobsmeier, Yacov Matveev, Johann Heyszl

Setting up a large-scale wireless sensor network is challenging, as firmware must be distributed and trust between sensor nodes and a backend needs to be established. To perform this task efficiently, we propose an approach named Box, which utilizes an intelligent Faraday cage (FC). The FC acquires firmware images and secret keys from a backend, patches the

Parry Y Chen, Yonatan Sivan

Partial differential equations are frequently solved using a global basis, such as the Fourier series, due to excellent convergence. However, convergence becomes impaired when discontinuities are present due to the Gibbs phenomenon, negatively impacting simulation speed and possibly generating spurious solutions. We resolve this by supplementing the smooth g

Maximilian Algehed, Cormac Flanagan

Information Flow Control (IFC) is a collection of techniques for ensuring a no-write-down no-read-up style security policy known as noninterference. Traditional methods for both static and dynamic IFC suffer from untenable numbers of false alarms on real-world programs. Secure Multi-Execution (SME) promises to provide secure IFC without modifying the behavio

Emil J. Martinec, Stefano Massai, David Turton

We explore the stringy structure of 1/2-BPS bound states of NS fivebranes carrying momentum or fundamental string charge, in the decoupling limits leading to little string theory and to AdS3/CFT2 duality. We develop an exact worldsheet description of these states using null-gauged sigma models, and illustrate the construction by deriving the closed-form solu

Kaya Mori, Hongjun An, Qi Feng, Kelly Malone

2HWC J1928+177 is a Galactic TeV gamma-ray source detected by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory up to ~ 56 TeV. The HAWC source, later confirmed by H.E.S.S., still remains unidentified as a dark accelerator since there is no apparent supernova remnant or pulsar wind nebula detected in the lower energy bands. The radio pulsar PSR J1928+1746

Robert Garisto

A number of problems in physics, mathematics, and philosophy involve observers in given situations which lead to debates about whether observer-specific information should affect the probability for some outcome or hypothesis. Our purpose is not to advocate for such observer selection effects, but rather to show that any such effects depend greatly on the as

Dario Ortega Anderez, Eiman Kanjo, Ganna Pogrebna, Shane Johnson

COVID-19 has shown a relatively low mortality rate in young healthy individuals, with the majority of this group being asymptomatic or having mild symptoms, while the severity of the disease among individuals with underlying health conditions has caused signiffcant mortality rates worldwide. Understanding these differences in mortality amongst different sect

Daniel Wolf

In connection with the work of Anscombe, Macpherson, Steinhorn and the present author in [1] we investigate the notion of a multidimensional exact class ($R$-mec), a special kind of multidimensional asymptotic class ($R$-mac) with measuring functions that yield the exact sizes of definable sets, not just approximations. We use results about smooth approximat

Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke

The ability to engage in mixed-initiative interaction is one of the core requirements for a conversational search system. How to achieve this is poorly understood. We propose a set of unsupervised metrics, termed ConversationShape, that highlights the role each of the conversation participants plays by comparing the distribution of vocabulary and utterance t

Dan Roth

Machine Learning and Inference methods have become ubiquitous in our attempt to induce more abstract representations of natural language text, visual scenes, and other messy, naturally occurring data, and support decisions that depend on it. However, learning models for these tasks is difficult partly because generating the necessary supervision signals for

Wenjie Dou, Ming Chen, Tyler Y. Takeshita, Roi Baer

We develop a range-separated stochastic resolution of identity approach for the $4$-index electron repulsion integrals, where the larger terms (above a predefined threshold) are treated using a deterministic resolution of identity and the remaining terms are treated using a stochastic resolution of identity. The approach is implemented within a second-order

David Lewis

In this note, we introduce a new poset parameter called local $t$-dimension. We also discuss the fractional variants of this and other dimension-like parameters.

Slava G. Turyshev, Peter Klupar, Abraham Loeb, Zachary Manchester

Two new interplanetary technologies have advanced in the past decade to the point where they may enable exciting, affordable missions that reach further and faster deep into the outer regions of our solar system: (i) small and capable interplanetary spacecraft and (ii) light-driven sails. Combination of these two technologies could drastically reduce travel

Clive Ellegaard, Mogens T. Levinsen

Can a classical system as walking oil droplets on a vibrating surface simulate the single and double slit Quantum Mechanics experiment? A systematic investigation reveals that the answer is no, but that the classical system exhibits rich and fascinating structures.

Hung-Shen Chang, Youpeng Zhong, Audrey Bienfait, Ming-Han Chou

Effective quantum communication between remote quantum nodes requires high fidelity quantum state transfer and remote entanglement generation. Recent experiments have demonstrated that microwave photons, as well as phonons, can be used to couple superconducting qubits, with a fidelity limited primarily by loss in the communication channel. Adiabatic protocol

Flávio L. N. Santos, Vivien Perrin, François Jamet, Marcello Civelli

We show that dilute magnetic impurities in a conventional superconductor give origin to an odd-frequency component of superconductivity, manifesting itself in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bands forming within the bulk superconducting gap. Our results are obtained in a general model solved within the dynamical mean field theory. By exploiting a disorder analysis and the

Adam C. Overvig, Stephanie C. Malek, Nanfang Yu

Diffractive photonic devices manipulate light via local and nonlocal optical modes. Local devices, such as metasurfaces, can shape a wavefront at multiple selected wavelengths, but inevitably modify light across the spectrum; nonlocal devices, such as grating filters, offer great frequency selectivity but limited spatial control. Here, we introduce a rationa

Quang-Doanh Vu, Le-Nam Tran, Markku Juntti

We investigate the coordinated multi-point noncoherent joint transmission (JT) in dense small cell networks. The goal is to design beamforming vectors for macro cell and small cell base stations (BSs) such that the weighted sum rate of the system is maximized, subject to a total transmit power at individual BSs. The optimization problem is inherently nonconv

Alessandro Ingrosso

Characterizing the relation between weight structure and input/output statistics is fundamental for understanding the computational capabilities of neural circuits. In this work, I study the problem of storing associations between analog signals in the presence of correlations, using methods from statistical mechanics. I characterize the typical learning per

M. M. Neamtu-Halic, J. -P. Mollicone, M. van Reeuwijk, M. Holzner

In this paper, we investigate the enstrophy dynamics in relation to objective Eulerian coherent structures (OECSs) and their impact on the enstrophy and scalar transport near the turbulent/non-turbulent interface (TNTI) in flows with and without stable stratification. We confirm that vortex-stretching produces enstrophy inside the boundaries of the OECSs, wh

Oussama Abderrahmane Dambri, Soumaya Cherkaoui

In this paper, we propose a new end-to-end system for wired nano-communication networks using a self-assembled polymer. The self-assembly of a polymer creates a channel between the transmitter and the receiver in the form of a conductive nanowire that uses electrons as carriers of information. We derive the channel's analytical model and its master equation

Bashar Awwad Shiekh Hasan, Kate Kelly

Building a machine learning solution in real-life applications often involves the decomposition of the problem into multiple models of various complexity. This has advantages in terms of overall performance, better interpretability of the outcomes, and easier model maintenance. In this work we propose a Bayesian framework to model the interaction amongst mod

Cong Wang, Yuanyuan Yang, Pengzhan Zhou

Originated from distributed learning, federated learning enables privacy-preserved collaboration on a new abstracted level by sharing the model parameters only. While the current research mainly focuses on optimizing learning algorithms and minimizing communication overhead left by distributed learning, there is still a considerable gap when it comes to the

Rotem Arnon, Felix Leditzky

Device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) is one of the most challenging tasks in quantum cryptography. The protocols and their security are based on the existence of Bell inequalities and the ability to violate them by measuring entangled states. We study the entanglement needed for DIQKD protocols in two different ways. Our first contribution is

Sudarshan Ananth, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Hannes Malcha, Hermann Nicolai

Supersymmetric gauge theories are characterized by the existence of a transformation of the bosonic fields (Nicolai map) such that the Jacobi determinant of the transformation equals the product of the Matthews-Salam-Seiler and Faddeev-Popov determinants. This transformation had been worked out to second order in the coupling constant. In this paper, we exte

Victor Ananyev, Igor Danilkin, Marc Vanderhaeghen

We generalize a forward light-by-light scattering sum rule to the case of heavy quarkonium radiative transitions. We apply such sum rule to the bottomonium states, and use available data on radiative transitions in its evaluation. For the transitions that are not known experimentally, we provide theoretical estimates within a potential model, and consider th

Elizabeth A. Barnes, Benjamin Toms, James W. Hurrell, Imme Ebert-Uphoff

Many problems in climate science require the identification of signals obscured by both the "noise" of internal climate variability and differences across models. Following previous work, we train an artificial neural network (ANN) to identify the year of input maps of temperature and precipitation from forced climate model simulations. This prediction task

Jing-Jun Zhu, Xi Chen, Hans-Rudolf Jauslin, Stéphane Guérin

Adiabatic passage is a standard tool for achieving robust transfer in quantum systems. We show that, in the context of driven nonlinear Hamiltonian systems, adiabatic passage becomes highly non-robust when the target is unstable. We show this result for a generic (1:2) resonance, for which the complete transfer corresponds to a hyperbolic fixed point in the

Wouter Van Gansbeke, Simon Vandenhende, Stamatios Georgoulis, Marc Proesmans

Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent approaches have tried to tackle this problem in an end-to-end fashion. In this paper, we deviate from recent works, and advo

Barry M. Dillon, Darius A. Faroughy, Jernej F. Kamenik, Manuel Szewc

We describe a technique to learn the underlying structure of collider events directly from the data, without having a particular theoretical model in mind. It allows to infer aspects of the theoretical model that may have given rise to this structure, and can be used to cluster or classify the events for analysis purposes. The unsupervised machine-learning t

Sanjana Sinha, Sandika Biswas, Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Speech-driven facial animation is useful for a variety of applications such as telepresence, chatbots, etc. The necessary attributes of having a realistic face animation are 1) audio-visual synchronization (2) identity preservation of the target individual (3) plausible mouth movements (4) presence of natural eye blinks. The existing methods mostly address t

Dung Xuan Nguyen, Andrey Gromov, Sergej Moroz

Employing the fracton-elastic duality, we develop a low-energy effective theory of a zero-temperature vortex crystal in a two-dimensional bosonic superfluid which naturally incorporates crystalline topological defects. We extract static interactions between these defects and investigate several continuous quantum transitions triggered by the Higgs condensati

Shabnam Rahimi

Given a finite group $G$ with a normal subgroup $N$, the simple graph $\Gamma_\textit{G}( \textit{N} )$ is a graph whose vertices are of the form $|x^G|$, where $x\in{N\setminus{Z(G)}}$, and $x^G$ is the $G$-conjugacy class of $N$ containing the element $x$. Two vertices $|x^G|$ and $|y^G|$ are adjacent if they are not co-prime. In this article we prove that

Fabio Castagna, Stefano Andreon

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and the X-ray emission offer separate and highly complementary probes of the thermodynamics of the intracluster medium. We present JoXSZ, the first publicly available code designed to jointly fit SZ and X-ray data coming from various instruments to derive the thermodynamic profiles of galaxy clusters. JoXSZ follows a

Guillem Domènech, Shi Pi, Misao Sasaki

The scalar perturbation induced gravitational waves are a probe of the primordial density perturbation spectrum on small scales. In this paper, we show that they can also probe the thermal history of the universe. We assume the universe underwent a stage with a constant equation of state parameter $w$, followed by the radiation-dominated stage of the convent

Andrzej Syrwid, Arkadiusz Kosior, Krzysztof Sacha

In a recent publication [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 124}, 178902] \"Ohberg and Wright claim that in a chiral soliton model it is possible to realize a genuine time crystal which corresponds to a periodic evolution of an inhomogeneous probability density in the lowest energy state. We show that this result is incorrect and present a solution which possesses lower

Vítězslav Kala, Magdaléna Tinková

We obtain good estimates on the ranks of universal quadratic forms over Shanks' family of the simplest cubic fields and several other families of totally real number fields. As the main tool we characterize all the indecomposable integers in these fields and the elements of the codifferent of small trace. We also determine the asymptotics of the number of pr

Rishikesh Yadav, Ramakanta Meher, Vishnu Narayan Mishra

In this article, the approximation properties of the Szasz-Mirakjan type operators are studied for the function of two variables, and the rate of convergence of the bivariate operators is determined in terms of total and partial modulus of continuity. An associated GBS (Generalized Boolean Sum)-form of the bivariate Szasz-Mirakjan type operators are consider

Mathias Soeken, Martin Roetteler

We generalize quantum circuits for the Toffoli gate presented by Selinger and Jones for functionally controlled NOT gates, i.e., $X$ gates controlled by arbitrary $n$-variable Boolean functions. Our constructions target the gate set consisting of Clifford gates and single qubit rotations by arbitrary angles. Our constructions use the Walsh-Hadamard spectrum

Marlon Brenes, John Goold, Marcos Rigol

We study the matrix elements of local operators in the eigenstates of the integrable XXZ chain and of the quantum-chaotic model obtained by locally perturbing the XXZ chain with a magnetic impurity. We show that, at frequencies that are polynomially small in the system size, the behavior of the variances of the off-diagonal matrix elements can be starkly dif

Francesco Benini, Edoardo Colombo, Saman Soltani, Alberto Zaffaroni

The large $N$ limit of the four-dimensional superconformal index was computed and successfully compared to the entropy of a class of AdS$_5$ black holes only in the particular case of equal angular momenta. Using the Bethe Ansatz formulation, we compute the index at large $N$ with arbitrary chemical potentials for all charges and angular momenta, for general

Nyayabanta Swain, Munir Shahzad, Pinaki Sengupta

Motivated by recent experiments on the observation of room temperature skyrmions in a layered heterostructure and subsequent demonstration of topological Hall effect in the same system, we have studied a minimal model of itinerant electrons coupled to local moments with competing interactions in an external magnetic field. Working in the limit of strong magn

Shi Pi, Misao Sasaki

We study the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background induced by the primordial scalar perturbation with the spectrum having a lognormal peak of width $\Delta$ at $k=k_*$. We derive an analytical formula for the GW spectrum $\Omega_\text{GW}$ for both narrow ($\Delta\ll1$) and broad ($\Delta\gtrsim1$) peaks. In the narrow-peak case, the spectrum has a d

Nick Early

In this paper, we continue our study of blade arrangements and the positroidal subdivisions which are induced by them on $\Delta_{k,n}$. A blade is a tropical hypersurface which is generated by a system of $n$ affine simple roots of type $SL_n$ that enjoys a cyclic symmetry. When placed at the center of a simplex, a blade induces a decomposition into $n$ max

Arindam Das, Diptimoy Ghosh, Carlo Giunti, Arun Thalapillil

In various extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, and intriguingly even in the three-generation Standard Model without neutrino masses, neutrinos are allowed to have very tiny electric charges. After a review of the theoretical scenarios that allow the emergence of such charges, we discuss the existing observational limits and we derive new st

Olivia Borgue, Andreas M. Hein

Self-replicating probes are spacecraft with the capacity to create copies of themselves. Self-replication would potentially allow for an exponential increase in the number of probes and thereby drastically improve the efficiency of space exploration. Despite this potential, an integrated assessment of self-replicating space probes has not been presented sinc

Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Shahram Vatani, Chen Zhang

Composite Higgs models can be extended to the Planck scale by means of the partially unified partial compositeness (PUPC) framework. We present in detail the Techni-Pati-Salam model, based on a renormalizable gauge theory $SU(8)_{PS}\times SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$. We demonstrate that masses and mixings for all generations of standard model fermions can be obt

Cesar Ayala, Xabier Lobregat, Antonio Pineda

We give the hyperasymptotic expansion of the energy of a static quark-antiquark pair with a precision that includes the effects of the subleading renormalon. The terminants associated to the first and second renormalon are incorporated in the analysis when necessary. In particular, we determine the normalization of the leading renormalon of the force and, co

Wenbin Lu, Jim Fuller, Yael Raveh, Hagai B. Perets

The hyper-velocity star S5-HVS1, ejected 5 Myr ago from the Galactic Center at 1800 km/s, was most likely produced by tidal break-up of a tight binary by the supermassive black hole SgrA*. Taking a Monte Carlo approach, we show that the former companion of S5-HVS1 was likely a main-sequence star between 1.2 and 6 solar masses and was captured into a highly e

Jürgen Berges, Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Raju Venugopalan

Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with temperatures extracted from relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations shown to be well above the transition temperature from hadron matter. How the strongly correlated quark-gluon matter fo

Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Reinout J. van Weeren, Lawrence Rudnick

We present the first high-resolution 230-470 MHz map of the Perseus cluster obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. The high dynamic range and resolution achieved has allowed the identification of previously-unknown structures in this nearby galaxy cluster. New hints of sub-structures appear in the inner radio lobes of the brightest cluster galaxy

Chan Beom Park

The phase space of visible particles in missing energy events may have singularity structures. The singularity variables are devised to capture the singularities effectively for given event topology. They can greatly improve the discovery potential of new physics signals as well as to extract the mass spectrum information at hadron colliders. Focusing on the

David R. Morrison, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Brian Willett

We study higher-form symmetries in 5d quantum field theories, whose charged operators include extended operators such as Wilson line and 't Hooft operators. We outline criteria for the existence of higher-form symmetries both from a field theory point of view as well as from the geometric realization in M-theory on non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds. A geomet

O. Tihhonova, F. Courbin, D. Harvey, S. Hilbert

We investigate the environment and line of sight of the H0LiCOW lens B1608+656 using Subaru Suprime-Cam and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to perform a weak lensing analysis. We compare three different methods to reconstruct the mass map of the field, i.e. the standard Kaiser-Squires inversion coupled with inpainting and Gaussian or wavelet filtering, and

Yutaro Tanaka, Ryo Takahashi, Tiantian Zhang, Shuichi Murakami

We study positions of chiral hinge states in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) with inversion symmetry. First, we exhaust all possible configurations of the hinge states in the HOTIs in all type-I magnetic space groups with inversion symmetry by studying dependence of the sign of the surface Dirac mass on surface orientations. In particular, in the

Jordan Bernigaud, Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas, Jim Talbert

We consider effective Lagrangians which, after electroweak- and family-symmetry breaking, yield fermionic mass matrices and/or other flavoured couplings exhibiting residual family symmetries (RFS). Thinking from the bottom up, these RFS intimately link ultraviolet (UV) Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) physics to infrared flavour phenomenology without direct r

Damien A. Easson, Tucker Manton, Andrew Svesko

A `novel' pure theory of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in four-spacetime dimensions can be constructed by rescaling the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant, seemingly eluding Lovelock's theorem. Recently, however, the well-posedness of this model has been called into question. Here we apply a `dimensional regularization' technique, first used by Mann and Ross to

Apoorv Tiwari, Ammar Jahin, Yuxuan Wang

We analyze the topological properties of a chiral ${p}+i{p}$ superconductor for a two-dimensional metal/semimetal with four Dirac points. Such a system has been proposed to realize second-order topological superconductivity and host corner Majorana modes. We show that with an additional $\mathsf{C}_4$ rotational symmetry, the system is in an intrinsic higher

Tiffany Hsyu, Ryan J. Cooke, J. Xavier Prochaska, Michael Bolte

We present Keck NIRSPEC and Keck NIRES spectroscopy of sixteen metal-poor galaxies that have pre-existing optical observations. The near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy specifically targets the HeI 10830A emission line, due to its sensitivity to the physical conditions of the gas in HII regions. We use these NIR observations, combined with optical spectroscopy,

Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Casey Papovich, Ivelina Momcheva, Gabriel Brammer

The origin of the correlations between mass, morphology, quenched fraction, and formation history in galaxies is difficult to define, primarily due to the uncertainties in galaxy star-formation histories. Star-formation histories are better constrained for higher redshift galaxies, observed closer to their formation and quenching epochs. Here we use "non-par

Raul A. Santos, Benjamin Béri

Strong zero modes provide a paradigm for quantum many-body systems to encode local degrees of freedom that remain coherent far from the ground state. Example systems include $\mathbb{Z}_n$ chiral quantum clock models with strong zero modes related to $\mathbb{Z}_n$ parafermions. Here we show how these models and their zero modes arise from geometric chiralit

Itamar Allali, Mark P. Hertzberg

Decoherence describes the tendency of quantum sub-systems to dynamically lose their quantum character. This happens when the quantum sub-system of interest interacts and becomes entangled with an environment that is traced out. For ordinary macroscopic systems, electromagnetic and other interactions cause rapid decoherence. However, dark matter (DM) may have

Kwinten Fransen, Gideon Koekoek, Rob Tielemans, Bert Vercnocke

The event horizon of a black hole in general relativity absorbs all infalling radiation. Any observation of the contrary would immediately challenge the expectation that astrophysical black holes are described by the vacuum Kerr geometry. If a putative black hole does reflect part of the ingoing radiation, its quasinormal mode structure is drastically altere

Zhehao Dai

We study the physical property of pair density wave (PDW) and fluctuating PDW, and use it to build an effective theory of the strongly interacting pseudogap phase in cuprate high temperature superconductors. In Chapter2, we study how Fulde-Ferrell state, the simplest form of PDW, responds to incident light. The collective motion of the condensate plays a key

Vitor Cardoso, Arianna Foschi, Miguel Zilhao

Certain scalar-tensor theories of gravity provide negative-energy, tachyonic modes to a fundamental scalar inside matter, giving rise to non-perturbative phenomena around compact stars. Studies of this and other tachyonic instabilities always average over local matter properties. We use elementary, flat space models to understand possible collective effects

Yutaka Hirai, Michiko S. Fujii, Takayuki R. Saitoh

Most stars are formed as star clusters in galaxies, which then disperse into galactic disks. Upcoming exascale supercomputational facilities will enable performing simulations of galaxies and their formation by resolving individual stars (star-by-star simulations). This will substantially advance our understanding of star formation in galaxies, star cluster

Jason Aebischer, Jacky Kumar

We study Yukawa Renormalization Group (RG) running effects in the context of the Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT).The Yukawa running being flavour dependent leads to RG-induced off-diagonal entries, so that initially diagonal Yukawa matrices at the high scale have to be rediagonalized at the electroweak (EW) scale. Performing such flavour rotations ca

Christopher Beem, Wolfger Peelaers

We make a preliminary investigation into twisted $A_{2n}$ theories of class S. Contrary to a common piece of folklore, we establish that theories of this type realise a variety of models of Argyres-Douglas type while utilising only regular punctures. We present an in-depth analysis of all twisted $A_2$ trinion theories, analyse their interrelations via parti

D. Nardiello, G. Piotto, M. Deleuil, L. Malavolta

The scope of the project "A PSF-based Approach to TESS High Quality data Of Stellar clusters" (PATHOS) is the extraction and analysis of high-precision light curves of stars in stellar clusters and young associations for the identification of candidate exoplanets and variable stars. The cutting-edge tools used in this project allow us to measure the real flu