Kavli Affiliate: Darcy Peterka and Michael Shadlen | Authors: Jia Shen, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Prayshita Sharma, Darcy S. Peterka, Herbert Zheng Wu and Michael N. Shadlen | Summary: Cognitive operations often require flexible implementation of stimulus–response contingencies, depending on context. We developed an olfactory task in which mice learned to associate a test odor with a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Rafael Yuste | Authors: Jason Ken Adhinarta, Yutian Fan, Adam Gohain, Michael Lin, Paige Nurkin, Richard Ren, Micaela Roth, Shulin Zhang, Ayal Yakobe, Rafael Yuste and Donglai Wei | Summary: Vesicles are critical components of neurons that package neurotransmitters and neuropeptides for their release, in order to communicate with other neurons and cells. […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Serences | Authors: Kirsten C.S. Adam, Edward Awh and John T. Serences | Summary: Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across cortex remains an active area of debate. In a pre-registered fMRI […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Yuji Tachikawa, , , | Summary: Strongly motivated by a mathematical result by Lin and Yamashita (arXiv:2412.02298), we describe a long exact sequence formed by groups of equivalence classes of two-dimensional $mathcalN=(0,1)$ supersymmetric quantum field theories (SQFTs) with and without $SU(2)$ symmetry. As an application, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jose Ricardo Suarez | Authors: Trisha R Barnard, Noah G Cruz, Michelle Nguyen, Davis Beltrán, Kassandra Pinedo, Soneida DeLine-Caballero, Uma M Mangalanathan, Dimelza Araúz, Adriana Weeden, José A Suarez, Sandra López-Vergès and Catherine A Blish | Summary: Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus of global concern due to its ability to cause […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | First 5 Authors: Pau Amaro Seoane, Pau Amaro Seoane, , , | Summary: Stellar collisions in dense galactic nuclei might play an important role in fueling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and shaping their environments. The gas released during these collisions can contribute to SMBH accretion, influencing phenomena such as […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chris Xu | First 5 Authors: The bbchallenge Collaboration, The bbchallenge Collaboration, , , | Summary: We prove that $S(5) = 47,176,870$ using the Coq proof assistant. The Busy Beaver value $S(n)$ is the maximum number of steps that an $n$-state 2-symbol Turing machine can perform from the all-zero tape before halting, and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eliska Greplova | First 5 Authors: Thomas Spriggs, Thomas Spriggs, , , | Summary: We present a neural network wavefunction framework for solving non-Abelian lattice gauge theories in a continuous group representation. Using a combination of $SU(2)$ equivariant neural networks alongside an $SU(2)$ invariant, physics-inspired ansatz, we learn a parameterization of the ground […]
Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Jun-ichi Sakamoto, Jun-ichi Sakamoto, , , | Summary: The four-dimensional Chern-Simons (CS) theory provides a systematic procedure for realizing two-dimensional integrable field theories. It is therefore a natural question to ask whether integrable deformations of the theories can be realized in the four-dimensional CS theory. In this […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lihong V. Wang | First 5 Authors: Lihong V. Wang, Lihong V. Wang, , , | Summary: We present a geometric interpretation of the hyperfine Breit–Rabi eigenvalues and eigenvectors in alkali atoms after reformulating the standard solution into a compact form. In this picture, the nuclear magnetic moment has a polar angle fixed […]