Extending Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Sensitivity to 5 Hz

Kavli Affiliate: Peter Fritschel | Summary:Extending the sensitivity of terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors below 20 Hz is a long-standing challenge, limited by ground motion and inertial sensing noise. In this letter, we demonstrate ultra-high-vacuum compatible inertial isolation and position sensing technologies that achieve active platform stabilization down to 10 mHz. Our laser position sensors reach a […]


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Neural substrates underlying the expectation of rewards resulting from effortful exertion

Kavli Affiliate: Vikram Chib | Authors: Aram Kim and Vikram S. Chib | Summary: Expectations as a reference point shape our decisions to motivate effortful activity. Despite the important role of reference points in human performance, little is known about how the brain processes expectations to guide motivated exertion. Participants completed a reward-based effort task […]


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Synaptic Spine Head Morphodynamics from Graph Grammar Rules for Actin Dynamics

Kavli Affiliate: Terrence Sejnowski | Authors: Matthew Hur, Thomas Bartol, Padmini Rangamani, Terrence Sejnowski and Eric Mjolsness | Summary: There is a morphodynamic component to synaptic learning by which changes in dendritic (postsynaptic) spine head size are associated with the strengthening or weakening of the synaptic connection between two neurons, in response to the temporal […]


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Worlds Next Door. III. Indirect Evidence for Enhanced Atmospheric Metallicity and/or the Presence of Water Clouds in the Nearest Jupiter-analog $ε$ Eri b

Kavli Affiliate: Dimitri Mawet| Summary:We present the most sensitive direct imaging search for the nearest ($d = 3.2$ pc) Jupiter-analog exoplanet, $ε$ Eri b, with JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy between 4-5 $μ$m (F444W). We achieve a 5$σ$ contrast sensitivity $approx3.0times10^-7$ ($Δapprox 16.3$ mag) in the F444W filter at the expected planet separation of $approx$1". This is the […]


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Variability of the X-ray obscuring wind in Mrk 335 with XMM-Newton/RGS

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | Summary:Transient X-ray obscuration in Seyfert 1 galaxies is thought to arise from clumpy accretion-disk winds near the broad-line region (BLR), but the wind structure and its short-timescale variability are difficult to measure because high-resolution spectra are often suppressed during deep low states. We analyse a coordinated XMM-Newton/NuSTAR campaign on Mrk […]


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Extended Ashkin-Teller transition in two coupled frustrated Haldane chains

Kavli Affiliate: Natalia Chepiga | Summary:We report an extremely rich ground state phase diagram of two spin-1 Haldane chains frustrated with a three-site exchange and coupled by the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interaction on a zig-zag ladder. A particular feature of the phase diagram is the extended quantum phase transition in the Ashkin-Teller universality class that separates […]


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Extended Ashkin-Teller transition in two coupled frustrated Haldane chains

Kavli Affiliate: Natalia Chepiga | Summary:We report an extremely rich ground state phase diagram of two spin-1 Haldane chains frustrated with a three-site exchange and coupled by the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interaction on a zig-zag ladder. A particular feature of the phase diagram is the extended quantum phase transition in the Ashkin-Teller universality class that separates […]


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A Decision-Theoretic Formalisation of Steganography With Applications to LLM Monitoring

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | Summary:Large language models are beginning to show steganographic capabilities. Such capabilities could allow misaligned models to evade oversight mechanisms. Yet principled methods to detect and quantify such behaviours are lacking. Classical definitions of steganography, and detection methods based on them, require a known reference distribution of non-steganographic signals. For the […]


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A Decision-Theoretic Formalisation of Steganography With Applications to LLM Monitoring

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | Summary:Large language models are beginning to show steganographic capabilities. Such capabilities could allow misaligned models to evade oversight mechanisms. Yet principled methods to detect and quantify such behaviours are lacking. Classical definitions of steganography, and detection methods based on them, require a known reference distribution of non-steganographic signals. For the […]


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A Decision-Theoretic Formalisation of Steganography With Applications to LLM Monitoring

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | Summary:Large language models are beginning to show steganographic capabilities. Such capabilities could allow misaligned models to evade oversight mechanisms. Yet principled methods to detect and quantify such behaviours are lacking. Classical definitions of steganography, and detection methods based on them, require a known reference distribution of non-steganographic signals. For the […]


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