October 2022 arXiv papers — page 2
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Marat Rafikov, Alexandre Molter, João Inácio Moreira Bezerra, Elvira Rafikova
Sugarcane production is a significant and profitable agribusiness sector in many countries. Nevertheless, this industry suffers significant losses from the sugarcane pests, among which the most important one is the sugarcane borer (Diatraea saccharalis). This pest population is hard to be controlled due to its different life stages, thus biological control (
Leshem Choshen, Elad Venezian, Shachar Don-Yehia, Noam Slonim
Previous studies observed that finetuned models may be better base models than the vanilla pretrained model. Such a model, finetuned on some source dataset, may provide a better starting point for a new finetuning process on a desired target dataset. Here, we perform a systematic analysis of this intertraining scheme, over a wide range of English classificat
Rochelle Choenni, Dan Garrette, Ekaterina Shutova
Large multilingual language models typically share their parameters across all languages, which enables cross-lingual task transfer, but learning can also be hindered when training updates from different languages are in conflict. In this paper, we propose novel methods for using language-specific subnetworks, which control cross-lingual parameter sharing, t
Petr A. Blinov, Tatiana V. Gani, Alexander A. Malnev, Vakhid A. Gani
We consider a family of field-theoretic models with a real scalar field in (1+1)-dimensional space-time. The field dynamics in each model is determined by a polynomial potential with two degenerate minima. We obtain exact general formulas for kink solutions with power-law asymptotic behavior. We also write out formulas for the asymptotics of all found kinks.
Vladimir Kashikhin, Daniele Turrioni
There were designed and successfully tested at Fermilab several high temperature superconducting (HTS) model magnets for particle accelerators. Some of them worked in a persistent current mode continuously generating magnetic field in the iron dominated magnet gap. In the paper was investigated a novel HT dipole magnet concept with a mechanical energy transf
Observational Signatures of Coronal Heating in MHD Simulations Without Radiation or a Lower Atmosphere
astro-ph.SRJames A. Klimchuk, Kalman J. Knizhnik, Vadim M. Uritsky
It is extremely difficult to simulate the details of coronal heating and also make meaningful predictions of the emitted radiation. Thus, testing realistic models with observations is a major challenge. Observational signatures of coronal heating depend crucially on radiation, thermal conduction, and the exchange of mass and energy with the transition region
Muhammad Suffian, Muhammad Yaseen Khan, Alessandro Bogliolo
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has recently gained a swell of interest, as many Artificial Intelligence (AI) practitioners and developers are compelled to rationalize how such AI-based systems work. Decades back, most XAI systems were developed as knowledge-based or expert systems. These systems assumed reasoning for the technical description of a
Superconducting Magnet System Concept with a Mechanical Energy Transfer in the Magnetic Field
physics.acc-phVladimir Kashikhin
There is an interest to design superconducting magnet systems working in a persistent current mode. These systems continuously generate magnetic field with disconnected power source working like permanent magnet devices. In this paper proposed a magnet system concept based on the direct mechanical energy transfer in the magnetic field. Short circuited superc
Stephan Hilb, Andreas Langer
We consider sequential and parallel decomposition methods for a dual problem of a general total variation minimization problem with applications in several image processing tasks, like image inpainting, estimation of optical flow and reconstruction of missing wavelet coefficients. The convergence of these methods to a solution of the global problem is analys
Vincent Plassier, Alain Durmus, Eric Moulines
This paper focuses on Bayesian inference in a federated learning context (FL). While several distributed MCMC algorithms have been proposed, few consider the specific limitations of FL such as communication bottlenecks and statistical heterogeneity. Recently, Federated Averaging Langevin Dynamics (FALD) was introduced, which extends the Federated Averaging a
Shangchen Han, Po-chen Wu, Yubo Zhang, Beibei Liu
Real-time tracking of 3D hand pose in world space is a challenging problem and plays an important role in VR interaction. Existing work in this space are limited to either producing root-relative (versus world space) 3D pose or rely on multiple stages such as generating heatmaps and kinematic optimization to obtain 3D pose. Moreover, the typical VR scenario,
Daniel Benalcazar, Juan E. Tapia, Sebastian Gonzalez, Christoph Busch
Currently, it is ever more common to access online services for activities which formerly required physical attendance. From banking operations to visa applications, a significant number of processes have been digitised, especially since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring remote biometric authentication of the user. On the downside, some subjects
Juan Cuadra, Ehud Meir
We find a group-theoretical condition under which a twist of a group algebra, in Movshev's way, admits an integral Hopf order. Let $K$ be a (large enough) number field with ring of integers $R$. Let $G$ be a finite group and $M$ an abelian subgroup of $G$ of central type. Consider the twist $J$ for $K\hspace{-0.8pt}G$ afforded by a non-degenerate $2$-cocycle
Eliahu Levy
In this note one tries to venture into a study of some notions, in the context of a (unital) normed algebra, in particular the algebra of operators on a Hilbert space. Namely, one considers ``moving norms'', i.e.\ norming an element minus a scalar multiple of the unity and related notions, and goes into obtaining some rather nice assertions.
Vincent E. Coll,, Nicholas Russoniello
This paper is a continuation of earlier work on the construction of contact forms on seaweed algebras. In the prequel to this paper, we show that every index-one seaweed subalgebra of $A_{n-1}=\mathfrak{sl}(n)$ is contact by identifying contact forms that arise from Dougherty's framework. We extend this result to include index-one seaweed subalgebras of $C_{
Kevin Weinberger, Robert-Jeron Reifert, Aydin Sezgin, Ertugrul Basar
More and more applications that require high reliability and fault tolerance are realized with wireless network architectures and thus ultimately rely on the wireless channels, which can be subject to impairments and blockages. Hence, these architectures require a backup plan in the physical layer in order to guarantee functionality, especially when safety-r
G. D. Alexeev, M. G. Alexeev, C. Alice, A. Amoroso
The production of vector mesons in deep inelastic scattering is an interesting yet scarsely explored channel to study the transverse spin structure of the nucleon and the related phenomena. The COMPASS collaboration has performed the first measurement of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries for inclusively produced $\rho^0$ mesons. The analysis is based on the
Peter Boyvalenkov, Peter Dragnev, Douglas Hardin, Edward Saff
This article is devoted to the study of discrete potentials on the sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for sharp codes. We show that the potentials of most of the known sharp codes attain the universal lower bounds for polarization for spherical $\tau$-designs previously derived by the authors, where ``universal'' is meant in the sense of applying to a large class of p
Vung Pham, Du Nguyen, Christopher Donan
Maintaining the roadway infrastructure is one of the essential factors in enabling a safe, economic, and sustainable transportation system. Manual roadway damage data collection is laborious and unsafe for humans to perform. This area is poised to benefit from the rapid advance and diffusion of artificial intelligence technologies. Specifically, deep learnin
Machine learning-based sampling of virtual experiments within the full stress state
cond-mat.mtrl-sciAlexander Wessel, Lukas Morand, Alexander Butz, Dirk Helm
This paper presents a new machine learning-based approach to investigate anisotropic yield surfaces of sheet metals by means of virtual experiments. The new sampling approach is based on the machine learning technique known as active learning, which has been adapted to efficiently sample virtual experiments with respect to the full stress state in order to i
Katrin Tomanek, Katie Seaver, Pan-Pan Jiang, Richard Cave
Although personalized automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have recently been designed to recognize even severely impaired speech, model performance may degrade over time for persons with degenerating speech. The aims of this study were to (1) analyze the change of performance of ASR over time in individuals with degrading speech, and (2) explore mitiga
Ahmad Sheykhi, Maral Sahebi Hamedan
Thermodynamics-Gravity conjecture implies that there is a deep connection between the gravitational field equations and the first law of thermodynamics. Therefore, any modification to the entropy expression, directly modifies the field equations. By considering the modified Barrow entropy associated with the apparent horizon, the Friedmann equations get modi
Where are the extremely metal-poor stars in the Milky Way and Andromeda? Expectations from TNG50
astro-ph.GALi-Hsin Chen, Annalisa Pillepich, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen
We analyse the location of extremely metal-poor stars (EMPs, [Fe/H]$ < -3$) in 198 Milky Way (MW)/M31-like galaxies at $z=0$ in the TNG50 simulation. Each system is divided into four kinematically-defined morphological stellar components based on stellar circularity and galactocentric distance, namely bulge, cold disk, warm disk, and stellar halo, in additio
Jacob E. Kooi, Mark Hoogendoorn, Vincent François-Lavet
In the context of MDPs with high-dimensional states, downstream tasks are predominantly applied on a compressed, low-dimensional representation of the original input space. A variety of learning objectives have therefore been used to attain useful representations. However, these representations usually lack interpretability of the different features. We pres
Brando Bellazzini, Giulia Isabella, Massimiliano Maria Riva
We study the eikonal scattering of two gravitationally interacting bodies, in the regime of large angular momentum and large center of mass energy. We show that eikonal exponentiation of the scattering phase matrix is a direct consequence of the group contraction $SU(2)\to ISO(2)$, from rotations to the isometries of the plane, in the large angular momentum
An explicit exponential time integrator based on Faber polynomials and its application to seismic wave modelling
math.NAFernando V. Ravelo, Pedro S. Peixoto, Martin Schreiber
Exponential time integrators have been applied successfully in several physics-related differential equations. However, their application in hyperbolic systems with absorbing boundaries, like the ones arising in seismic imaging, still lacks theoretical and experimental investigations. The present work conducts an in-depth study of exponential integration usi
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
cs.CYPeter Stone, Rodney Brooks, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo
In September 2016, Stanford's "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" project (AI100) issued the first report of its planned long-term periodic assessment of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society. It was written by a panel of 17 study authors, each of whom is deeply rooted in AI research, chaired by Peter Stone of the University
Raj Sanjay Shah, Kunal Chawla, Dheeraj Eidnani, Agam Shah
Pre-trained language models have shown impressive performance on a variety of tasks and domains. Previous research on financial language models usually employs a generic training scheme to train standard model architectures, without completely leveraging the richness of the financial data. We propose a novel domain specific Financial LANGuage model (FLANG) w
Redefining Astronomy Summer Camps in the Age of the Pandemic: a Break from the IAYC's 50-Year History
physics.ed-phEva-Maria Ahrer, Melanie Archipley, Hannah S. Dalgleish, Daniel J. Mortimer
The International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) is a 50-year old summer camp, where participants work independently on astronomy projects. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 instalments of the IAYC were cancelled, a first in the camp's history. An online format was established dubbed the eIAYC, consisting of three types of activities: (
Soumyanil Banerjee, Ming Dong, Weisong Shi
COVID-19 has become a matter of serious concern over the last few years. It has adversely affected numerous people around the globe and has led to the loss of billions of dollars of business capital. In this paper, we propose a novel Spatial-Temporal Synchronous Graph Transformer network (STSGT) to capture the complex spatial and temporal dependency of the C
Dmitry Melnikov
In this note we discuss a topological realization of the quantum teleportation protocol. Such a realization facilitates keeping track of the evolution of quantum correlations in the system. It is then suggested, that an implementation of a similar protocol can serve as a toy model of a process of information transfer between causally disconnected regions, su
Natalie Klein, Amber J. Day, Harris Mason, Michael W. Malone
In many scientific applications, measured time series are corrupted by noise or distortions. Traditional denoising techniques often fail to recover the signal of interest, particularly when the signal-to-noise ratio is low or when certain assumptions on the signal and noise are violated. In this work, we demonstrate that deep learning-based denoising methods
Optimizing Closed-Loop Performance with Data from Similar Systems: A Bayesian Meta-Learning Approach
cs.LGAnkush Chakrabarty
Bayesian optimization (BO) has demonstrated potential for optimizing control performance in data-limited settings, especially for systems with unknown dynamics or unmodeled performance objectives. The BO algorithm efficiently trades-off exploration and exploitation by leveraging uncertainty estimates using surrogate models. These surrogates are usually learn
Hua Lin
We compute the one-level density of zeros of order $\ell$ Dirichlet $L$-functions over function fields $\mathbb{F}_q[t]$ for $\ell=3,4$ in the Kummer setting ($q\equiv1\pmod{\ell}$) and for $\ell=3,4,6$ in the non-Kummer setting ($q\not\equiv1\pmod{\ell}$). In each case, we obtain a main term predicted by Random Matrix Theory (RMT) and lower order terms not
Allowing Safe Contact in Robotic Goal-Reaching: Planning and Tracking in Operational and Null Spaces
cs.ROXinghao Zhu, Wenzhao Lian, Bodi Yuan, C. Daniel Freeman
In recent years, impressive results have been achieved in robotic manipulation. While many efforts focus on generating collision-free reference signals, few allow safe contact between the robot bodies and the environment. However, in human's daily manipulation, contact between arms and obstacles is prevalent and even necessary. This paper investigates the be
Abdurrezak Efe, Gizem Gezici, Aysenur Uzun, Uygar Kurt
This work proposes to analyse some keywords for bias analysis. For this, we are using several NLP approaches and compare them based on their capability of detecting keywords to analyse bias. The overall findings show that our proposed approach gives comparable results with the state-of-the-art approaches on different benchmark datasets.
Marc Geiller, Florian Girelli, Christophe Goeller, Panagiotis Tsimiklis
We present a Sugawara-type construction for boundary charges in 4d BF theory and in a general family of related TQFTs. Starting from the underlying current Lie algebra of boundary symmetries, this gives rise to well-defined quadratic charges forming an algebra of vector fields. In the case of 3d BF theory (i.e. 3d gravity), it was shown in [PRD 106 (2022), a
ALMACAL VIII: A pilot survey for untargeted extragalactic CO emission lines in deep ALMA calibration data
astro-ph.GAAleksandra Hamanowicz, Martin A. Zwaan, Céline Péroux, Claudia del P. Lagos
We present a pilot, untargeted extragalactic carbon monoxide (CO) emission-line survey using ALMACAL, a project utilizing ALMA calibration data for scientific purposes. In 33 deep (Texp > 40 min) ALMACAL fields we report six CO emission-line detections above S/N > 4, one-third confirmed by MUSE observations. With this pilot survey, we probe a cosmologically
Francesco Coghi, Hugo Touchette
We study the performance of a stochastic algorithm based on the power method that adaptively learns the large deviation functions characterizing the fluctuations of additive functionals of Markov processes, used in physics to model nonequilibrium systems. This algorithm was introduced in the context of risk-sensitive control of Markov chains and was recently
Taeho Ryu, Julian Krolik, Tsvi Piran
Extreme tidal disruption events (eTDEs), which occur when a star passes very close to a supermassive black hole, may provide a way to observe a long-sought general relativistic effect: orbits that wind several times around a black hole and then leave. Through general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations, we show that such eTDEs are easily distinguished fro
The interaction of transmission intensity, mortality, and the economy: a retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic
stat.APChristian Morgenstern, Daniel J. Laydon, Charles Whittaker, Swapnil Mishra
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 6.4 million registered deaths to date and has had a profound impact on economic activity. Here, we study the interaction of transmission, mortality, and the economy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic from January 2020 to December 2022 across 25 European countries. We adopt a Bayesian Mixed Effects model with auto-regressive
Sean Welleck, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Faeze Brahman
Sequence generation applications require satisfying semantic constraints, such as ensuring that programs are correct, using certain keywords, or avoiding undesirable content. Language models, whether fine-tuned or prompted with few-shot demonstrations, frequently violate these constraints, and lack a mechanism to iteratively revise their outputs. Moreover, s
Klaus Hulek, Yota Maeda
The moduli space of $8$ points on $\mathbb{P}^1$, a so-called ancestral Deligne-Mostow space, is, by work of Kond\={o}, also a moduli space of K3 surfaces. We prove that the Deligne-Mostow isomorphism does not lift to a morphism between the Kirwan blow-up of the GIT quotient and the unique toroidal compactification of the corresponding ball quotient. Moreove
Jonathan N. Hallén, Santiago A. Grigera, D. Alan Tennant, Claudio Castelnovo
Fractals -- objects with non-integer dimensions -- occur in manifold settings and length scales in nature, ranging from snowflakes and lightning strikes to natural coastlines. Much effort has been expended to generate fractals for use in many-body physics. Here, we identify an emergent dynamical fractal in a disorder-free, stoichiometric three-dimensional ma
Radio observations of four active galactic nuclei hosting intermediate-mass black hole candidates: studying the outflow activity and evolution
astro-ph.GAXiaolong Yang, Prashanth Mohan, Jun Yang, Luis C. Ho
Observational searches for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; $10^2 - 10^6$ $M_\odot$) include relatively isolated dwarf galaxies. For those that host active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the IMBH nature may be discerned through the accretion - jet activity. We present radio observations of four AGN-hosting dwarf galaxies (which potentially harbor IMBHs). Very
Nafiz Ishtiaque, Yehao Zhou
We show that the phase spaces of a large family of line operators in 4d Chern-Simons theory with $\text{GL}_n$ gauge group are given by Cherkis bow varieties with $n$ crosses. These line operators are characterized by Hanany-Witten type brane constructions involving D3, D5, and NS5 branes in an $\Omega$-background. Linking numbers of the five-branes and mass
Xiaolong Yang, Ruiling Wang, Quan Guo
We conducted a Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observation of the low mass active galactic nucleus (AGN) in galaxy NGC 4293 ($z=0.003$). The object is associated with a low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER). Its black hole mass is estimated as $\sim10^5$ or $\sim10^7 M_\odot$. The VLBA 1.5 GHz image shows an inverse symmetric structure with two
Dimitri A. Gadotti, Elena Valenti, Francesca Fragkoudi, Anita Zanella
With over 200 registered participants, this fully online conference allowed theorists and observers across the globe to discuss recent findings on the central structures of disc galaxies. By design, this conference included experts on the Milky Way, local and high-redshift galaxies, and theoretical aspects of galaxy formation and evolution. The need for such
Optimizing machine learning methods to discover strong gravitational lenses in the Deep Lens Survey
astro-ph.GAKeerthi Vasan G. C., Stephen Sheng, Tucker Jones, Chi Po Choi
Machine learning models can greatly improve the search for strong gravitational lenses in imaging surveys by reducing the amount of human inspection required. In this work, we test the performance of supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning algorithms trained with the ResNetV2 neural network architecture on their ability to efficiently find str
Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Bruce A. Bassett
Language-agnostic sentence embeddings generated by pre-trained models such as LASER and LaBSE are attractive options for mining large datasets to produce parallel corpora for low-resource machine translation. We test LASER and LaBSE in extracting bitext for two related low-resource African languages: Luhya and Swahili. For this work, we created a new paralle
Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Marianna Annunziatella, Luca Costantin
The new capabilities that JWST offers in the near- and mid-infrared (IR) are used to investigate in unprecedented detail the nature of optical/near-IR faint, mid-IR bright sources, HST-dark galaxies among them. We gather JWST data from the CEERS survey in the EGS, jointly with HST data, and analyze spatially resolved optical-to-mid-IR spectral energy distrib
The Bardeen-Petterson effect, disk breaking, and the spin orientations of supermassive black-hole binaries
astro-ph.HENathan Steinle, Davide Gerosa
Supermassive black-hole binaries are driven to merger by dynamical friction, loss-cone scattering of individual stars, disk migration, and gravitational-wave emission. Two main formation scenarios are expected. Binaries that form in gas-poor galactic environments do not experience disk migration and likely enter the gravitational-wave dominated phase with ro
Zhehao Dai, Yantao Wu, Taige Wang, Michael P. Zaletel
We generalize isometric tensor network states to fermionic systems, paving the way for efficient adaptations of 1D tensor network algorithms to 2D fermionic systems. As the first application of this formalism, we developed and benchmarked a time-evolution block-decimation (TEBD) algorithm for real-time and imaginary-time evolution. The imaginary-time evoluti
D. M. Barreiros, H. B. Câmara, R. G. Felipe, F. R. Joaquim
In the vanilla type-I seesaw leptogenesis scenario, CP violation required to generate the lepton asymmetries in the heavy Majorana neutrino decays stem from complex Dirac-type Yukawa couplings. In this paper we explore the case in which that CP violation originates from the vacuum expectation value of a complex scalar singlet at a very high scale. This non-t
C. Snapp-Kolas, B. Siana, T. Gburek, A. Alavi
We present a rest-UV selected sample of 32 lensed galaxies at $z\sim 2$ observed with joint Keck/LRIS rest-UV and Keck/MOSFIRE rest-optical spectra behind the clusters Abell 1689, MACS J0717, and MACS J1149. The sample pushes towards the faintest UV luminosities observed ($-19 \le {\rm M_{\rm UV}} \le -17$) at this redshift. The fraction of dwarf galaxies id
Xueda Wen, Ruihua Fan, Ashvin Vishwanath
We propose a general method of cooling -- periodic driving generated by spatially deformed Hamiltonians -- and study it in general one-dimensional quantum critical systems described by a conformal field theory. Our protocol is able to efficiently cool a finite-temperature Gibbs (mixed) state down to zero temperature at prescribed sub-regions exponentially ra
Horng Sheng Chia, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Richard N. George, Aaron Zimmerman
We present highly accurate, dimensionally-reduced gravitational waveforms for binary inspirals whose components have large spin-induced quadrupole moments. The spin-induced quadrupole of a body first appears in the phase of a waveform at the early inspiral stage of the binary coalescence, making it a relatively clean probe of the internal structure of the bo
Lindsey A. Kwok, Saurabh W. Jha, Tea Temim, Ori D. Fox
We present JWST near- and mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nearby normal Type Ia supernova SN 2021aefx in the nebular phase at $+255$ days past maximum light. Our Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) observations, combined with ground-based optical data from the South African Large Telescope (SALT), constitute
Labanya Kumar Guha, Raghunathan Srianand
Quasar-galaxy pairs at small separations are important probes of gas flows in the disk-halo interface in galaxies. We study host galaxies of 198 MgII absorbers at $0.39\le z_{abs}\le1.05$ that show detectable nebular emission lines in the SDSS spectra. We report measurements of impact parameter (5.9$\le D[kpc]\le$16.9) and absolute B-band magnitude ($-18.7\l
The merger and assembly histories of Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: disk survival through mergers
astro-ph.GADiego Sotillo-Ramos, Annalisa Pillepich, Martina Donnari, Dylan Nelson
We analyze the merger and assembly histories of Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31)-like galaxies to quantify how, and how often, disk galaxies of this mass can survive recent major mergers (stellar mass ratio $\ge$ 1:4). For this, we use the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 and identify 198 analog galaxies, selected based on their $z=0$ s
Statistical properties of approximate geometric quantiles in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces
math.STGabriel Romon
Geometric quantiles are location parameters which extend classical univariate quantiles to normed spaces (possibly infinite-dimensional) and which include the geometric median as a special case. The infinite-dimensional setting is highly relevant in the modeling and analysis of functional data, as well as for kernel methods. We begin by providing new results
Elio J. König, Alexei M. Tsvelik
The Kondo effect is an archetypical phenomenon in the physics of strongly correlated electron systems. Recent attention has focused on the application of Kondo physics to quantum information science by exploiting overscreened Kondo impurities with residual anyon-like impurity entropy. While this physics was proposed in the fine-tuned multi-channel Kondo setu
Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer, Andrew S. Maxwell, Theocharis Lamprou
The development of sources delivering non-classical states of light is one of the main needs for applications of optical quantum information science. Here, we demonstrate the generation of non-classical states of light using strong-laser fields driving a solid-state system, by using the process of high-order harmonic generation, where an electron tunnels out
Cosmic evolution of the incidence of Active Galactic Nuclei in massive clusters: Simulations versus observations
astro-ph.GAIván Muñoz Rodríguez, Antonis Georgakakis, Francesco Shankar, Viola Allevato
This paper explores the role of small-scale environment ($<1$ Mpc) in modulating accretion events onto supermassive black holes by studying the incidence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in massive clusters of galaxies. A flexible, data-driven semi-empirical model is developed based on a minimal set of parameters and under the zero order assumption that the i
Peng Cheng, Pujian Mao
In this paper, we derive a soft gluon theorem in the near horizon region of the Schwarzschild black hole from the Ward identity of the near horizon large gauge transformation. The flat spacetime soft gluon theorem can be recovered as a limiting case of the curved spacetime.
Seungho Lee, Kouki Nakata, Oleg Tchernyshyov, Se Kwon Kim
We theoretically investigate the interaction between magnons and a Skyrmion-textured domain wall in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet and elucidate the resultant properties of magnon transport. Using supersymmetric quantum mechanics, we solve the scattering problem of magnons on top of the domain wall and obtain the exact solutions of propagating and bound m
Adam J. Wheeler, Matthew W. Abruzzo, Andrew R. Casey, Melissa K. Ness
We present Korg, a new package for 1D LTE (local thermodynamic equilibrium) spectral synthesis of FGK stars, which computes theoretical spectra from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared, and implements both plane-parallel and spherical radiative transfer. We outline the inputs and internals of Korg, and compare synthetic spectra from Korg, MOOG, Turbosp
Dong Lai, Diego J. Muñoz
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability, angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of accreting binaries. These dynamics can impact stellar binary formation/evolution, circumbinary planet formation/migration, and the evolution of (super)massive black-hole binaries
Global high-order numerical schemes for the time evolution of the general relativistic radiation magneto-hydrodynamics equations
gr-qcManuel R. Izquierdo, Lorenzo Pareschi, Borja Miñano, Joan Massó
Modeling correctly the transport of neutrinos is crucial in some astrophysical scenarios such as core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers. In this paper, we focus on the truncated-moment formalism, considering only the first two moments (M1 scheme) within the grey approximation, which reduces Boltzmann seven-dimensional equation to a system o
B. J. P. Jones, E. Marzec, J. Spitz
The time evolution of a neutrino is dependent on its initial properties at creation including flavor, energy, and wavepacket size. There exists no solid theoretical prediction for the latter property in the context of nuclear beta decay, despite the importance of this process for the past, present, and future of neutrino experimentation. In this paper, we pr
Martin Wolfgang Winkler, Pedro De La Torre Luque, Tim Linden
Standard Model extensions with a strongly coupled dark sector can induce high-multiplicity states of soft quarks. Such final states trigger extremely efficient antinucleus formation. We show that dark matter annihilation or decay into a strongly coupled sector can dramatically enhance the cosmic-ray antinuclei flux -- by six orders of magnitude in the case o
Davide Piras, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, Luisa Lucie-Smith
We develop the use of mutual information (MI), a well-established metric in information theory, to interpret the inner workings of deep learning models. To accurately estimate MI from a finite number of samples, we present GMM-MI (pronounced $``$Jimmie$"$), an algorithm based on Gaussian mixture models that can be applied to both discrete and continuous sett
Finding the ground state of a lattice gauge theory with fermionic tensor networks: a $2+1d$ $\mathbb{Z}_2$ demonstration
quant-phPatrick Emonts, Ariel Kelman, Umberto Borla, Sergej Moroz
Tensor network states, and in particular Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) have been a strong ansatz for the variational study of complicated quantum many-body systems, thanks to their built-in entanglement entropy area law. In this work, we use a special kind of PEPS - Gauged Gaussian Fermionic PEPS (GGFPEPS) to find the ground state of $2+1d$ dimensio
Jonas Frerick, Felix Kahlhoefer, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
The Sun may copiously produce hypothetical light particles such as axions or dark photons, a scenario which can be experimentally probed with so-called helioscopes. Here we investigate the impact of the angular and spectral distribution of solar dark photons on the sensitivity of such instruments. For the first time we evaluate this spectral and angular depe
Julian Heeck, Mikheil Sokhashvili
Bosons carrying a conserved charge can form stable bound states if their Lagrangian contains attractive self-interactions. Bound-state configurations with a large charge $Q$ can be described classically and are denoted as Q-balls, their properties encoded in a non-linear differential equation. Here, we study Q-balls in arbitrary polynomial single-scalar-fiel
The Circumgalactic Medium of Milky Way-like Galaxies in the TNG50 Simulation -- I: Halo Gas Properties and the Role of SMBH Feedback
astro-ph.GARahul Ramesh, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich
We analyze the physical properties of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 132 Milky Way (MW)-like central galaxies at $z=0$ from the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50, part of the IllustrisTNG project. The properties and abundance of CGM gas across the sample are diverse, and the fractional budgets of different phases (cold, warm, an
Accretion from Winds of Red Giant Branch Stars May Reveal the Supermassive Black Hole in Leo I
astro-ph.GAFabio Pacucci, Abraham Loeb
A supermassive black hole (SMBH) of $\sim 3\times 10^6 \, \rm M_\odot$ was recently detected via dynamical measurements at the center of the dwarf galaxy Leo I. Standing $\sim 2$ orders of magnitude above standard scaling relations, this SMBH is hosted by a galaxy devoid of gas and with no significant star formation in the last $\sim 1$ Gyr. This detection c
Bayesian analysis of neutron-star properties with parameterized equations of state: the role of the likelihood functions
gr-qcJin-Liang Jiang, Christian Ecker, Luciano Rezzolla
We have investigated the systematic differences introduced when performing a Bayesian-inference analysis of the equation of state of neutron stars employing either variable- or constant-likelihood functions. The former have the advantage that it retains the full information on the distributions of the measurements, making an exhaustive usage of the data. The
Marcin Kalinowski, Nishad Maskara, Mikhail D. Lukin
Understanding topological matter is an outstanding challenge across several disciplines of physical science. Programmable quantum simulators have emerged as a powerful approach to studying such systems. While quantum spin liquids of paradigmatic toric code type have recently been realized in the laboratory, controlled exploration of topological phases with n
Markus A. G. Amano, Mike Blake, Casey Cartwright, Matthias Kaminski
We study the relationship between many-body quantum chaos and energy dynamics in holographic quantum field theory states dual to the simply-spinning Myers-Perry-AdS$_5$ black hole. The enhanced symmetry of such black holes allows us to provide a thorough examination of the phenomenon of pole-skipping, that is significantly simpler than a previous analysis of
Michal Pawlak
The long secondary period (LSP) phenomenon, which is commonly observed in pulsating red giants, has not been detected in any Mira yet. The goal of this paper is to verify, if there is a physical reason for this or if it is simply an observational bias. The OGLE-III Sample of Long Period Variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud, containing 1663 Miras, is used
Ciro Pinto, Peter Kosec
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are extreme X-ray binaries shining above 10^39 erg/s, in most cases as a consequence of super-Eddington accretion onto neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes accreting above their Eddington limit. This was understood after the discovery of coherent pulsations, cyclotron lines and powerful winds. The latter was possible
Juri Smirnov, Ariel Goobar, Tim Linden, Edvard Mörtsell
Recent surveys have discovered a population of faint supernovae, known as Ca-rich gap transients, inferred to originate from explosive ignitions of white dwarfs. In addition to their unique spectra and luminosities, these supernovae have an unusual spatial distribution and are predominantly found at large distances from their presumed host galaxies. We show
Extragalactic magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). VI. The magnetic fields in the multi-phase interstellar medium of the Antennae galaxies
astro-ph.GAEnrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Alejandro S. Borlaff, Rainer Beck, William T. Reach
Mergers are thought to be a fundamental channel for galaxy growth, perturbing the gas dynamics and the magnetic fields (B-fields) in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the mechanisms that amplify and dissipate B-fields during a merger remain unclear. We characterize the morphology of the ordered B-fields in the multi-phase ISM of the closest merger of t
Syuhei Iguro, Teppei Kitahara, Yuji Omura, Hantian Zhang
We investigate the di-Higgs production at the Large Hadron Collider in the two-Higgs doublet model (2HDM). In particular, we study the production of an extra neutral Higgs boson $\phi$ in association with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson $h$ in the Higgs alignment limit. We analyze two scenarios where the additional Higgs $\phi$ is CP-even or -odd state w
Satellites of Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: quenched fractions, gas content, and star formation histories
astro-ph.GAChristoph Engler, Annalisa Pillepich, Gandhali D. Joshi, Anna Pasquali
We analyse the quenched fractions, gas content, and star formation histories of ~1200 satellite galaxies with $M_* \geq 5 \times 10^6~{\rm M}_\odot$ around 198 Milky Way- (MW) and Andromeda-like (M31) hosts in TNG50, the highest-resolution simulation of IllustrisTNG. Satellite quenched fractions are larger for smaller masses, for smaller distances to their h
A. V. Belitsky, A. V. Smirnov, V. A. Smirnov
We address the problem of evaluation of multiloop Feynman integrals by means of their Mellin-Barnes representation. After a brief overview of available capabilities though open source toolkits and their application in various circumstances, we introduce a new code MBcreate which allows one to automatically deduce a concise Mellin-Barnes representation for a
Joshua N. Benabou, Joshua W. Foster, Yonatan Kahn, Benjamin R. Safdi
A number of proposals have been put forward for detecting axion dark matter (DM) with grand unification scale decay constants that rely on the conversion of coherent DM axions to oscillating magnetic fields in the presence of static, laboratory magnetic fields. Crucially, such experiments $\unicode{x2013}$ including ABRACADABRA $\unicode{x2013}$ have to-date
Vishnu Jejjala, Yang Lei, Sam van Leuven, Wei Li
Superconformal indices of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories factorize into holomorphic blocks. We interpret this as a modular property resulting from the combined action of an $SL(3,\mathbb{Z})$ and $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})\ltimes \mathbb{Z}^2$ transformation. The former corresponds to a gluing transformation and the latter to an overall large diffeom
Chris Junchi Li, Angela Yuan, Gauthier Gidel, Quanquan Gu
We propose a new first-order optimization algorithm -- AcceleratedGradient-OptimisticGradient (AG-OG) Descent Ascent -- for separable convex-concave minimax optimization. The main idea of our algorithm is to carefully leverage the structure of the minimax problem, performing Nesterov acceleration on the individual component and optimistic gradient on the cou
Sami Douba, Konstantinos Tsouvalas
We exhibit Anosov subgroups of $\mathsf{SL}_d(\mathbb{R})$ that do not embed discretely in any rank-$1$ simple Lie group of noncompact type, or indeed, in any finite product of such Lie groups. These subgroups are isomorphic to free products $\Gamma * \Delta$, where $\Gamma$ is a uniform lattice in $\mathsf{F}_4^{(-20)}$ and $\Delta$ is a uniform lattice in
Deterministic constant-depth preparation of the AKLT state on a quantum processor using fusion measurements
quant-phKevin C. Smith, Eleanor Crane, Nathan Wiebe, S. M. Girvin
The ground state of the spin-1 Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb and Tasaki (AKLT) model is a paradigmatic example of both a matrix product state and a symmetry-protected topological phase, and additionally holds promise as a resource state for measurement-based quantum computation. Having a nonzero correlation length, the AKLT state cannot be exactly prepared by a con
Prateek Agrawal, David E. Kaplan, On Kim, Surjeet Rajendran
We consider different types of storage rings as precision probes of axion-mediated monopole-dipole forces. We show that current and planned experiments aiming to measure magnetic and electric dipole moments of protons, muons and electrons very precisely may explore new parts of the parameter space beyond existing laboratory bounds and, in some cases, beyond
Daphne Ippolito, Florian Tramèr, Milad Nasr, Chiyuan Zhang
Studying data memorization in neural language models helps us understand the risks (e.g., to privacy or copyright) associated with models regurgitating training data and aids in the development of countermeasures. Many prior works -- and some recently deployed defenses -- focus on "verbatim memorization", defined as a model generation that exactly matches a
Mina Doosti
The impossibility of creating perfect identical copies of unknown quantum systems is a fundamental concept in quantum theory and one of the main non-classical properties of quantum information. This limitation imposed by quantum mechanics, famously known as the no-cloning theorem, has played a central role in quantum cryptography as a key component in the se
Saar Tarnopolsky, Hila Naaman, Yonina C. Eldar, Alejandro Cohen
An integrate-and-fire time-encoding-machine (IF-TEM) is an energy-efficient asynchronous sampler. Utilizing the IF-TEM sampler for bandlimited signals, we introduce designs for time encoding and decoding with analog compression prior to the quantization phase. Before the quantizer, efficient analog compression is conducted based on the stationarity of the en
James Foster, Goncalo dos Reis, Calum Strange
In this paper, we introduce a new simple approach to developing and establishing the convergence of splitting methods for a large class of stochastic differential equations (SDEs), including additive, diagonal and scalar noise types. The central idea is to view the splitting method as a replacement of the driving signal of an SDE, namely Brownian motion and
Konstantin Beloshenko, Iuliia Riabenko, Sergey Shulga, Nikolai Makarovskii
The article explores optical properties of nanostructures containing spherical gold nanoparticles of various radii. We explore the particle radius as a criterion to select a permittivity model aimed at describing optical absorption spectra of gold granules. The experiments showed splitting of the absorption band of granular gold films to form a second absorp
Ariel Gera, Alon Halfon, Eyal Shnarch, Yotam Perlitz
Recent advances in large pretrained language models have increased attention to zero-shot text classification. In particular, models finetuned on natural language inference datasets have been widely adopted as zero-shot classifiers due to their promising results and off-the-shelf availability. However, the fact that such models are unfamiliar with the target
Martyna Michalska, Alessandro Rossi, Gasper Kokot, Callum M. Macdonald
Diffractive optical elements such as periodic gratings are fundamental devices in X-ray imaging - a technique that medical, material science and security scans rely upon. Fabrication of such structures with high aspect ratios at the nanoscale creates opportunities to further advance such applications, especially in terms of relaxing X-ray source coherence re