Kavli Affiliate: Salman Habib | Summary:Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are a leading approach to quantum error correction, yet conventional belief propagation (BP) decoders often perform poorly, primarily due to non-convergence exacerbated by stabilizer constraints, which induce short cycles and degeneracy. We propose two scheduling variants, sequential check node scheduling (SCNS) and sequential variable node […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wendy Freedman | Summary:We examine the multi-wavelength period-luminosity-color relations for Cepheid variables in the Large and Small magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. From first-principles stellar physics, the luminosity of a Cepheid is determined by its radius and surface temperature, yielding a fundamental PLC relation whose observational proxies are pulsation period and intrinsic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yasunori Nomura | Summary:Recent developments in gravitational path integrals indicate that the nonperturbative physical Hilbert space of a closed universe is one-dimensional within each superselection sector. This raises a basic puzzle: how can a unique quantum-gravity state give rise to semiclassical physics, measurement outcomes, and classical probabilities? In this paper, we develop a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | Summary:We present the discovery of TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a giant exoplanet with a radius of $1.081pm0.047$ R$_textJ$ and a mass of $4.78_-0.37^+0.40$ M$_textJ$ on a long-period ($180.52791pm0.00038$ day), moderately eccentric ($e=0.308pm0.011$) orbit transiting a bright (V=$10.230pm0.020$ mag) metal rich ([Fe/H]=$0.33pm0.09$, ‘dex’) F6V-F7V type host star. The planet was […]
Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:This brief report examines the influence of Ga/N flux conditions on Mn incorporation in GaN. Mn-doped GaN layers were grown at 680$^circ$C by molecular beam epitaxy on a Ga-polar GaN(0001) template substrate under Ga-rich, N-rich, and no-flux conditions (i.e., Mn $δ$ doping). Mn incorporation was highest under N-rich condition, lowest […]
Kavli Affiliate: Birgitta Whaley | Summary:We incorporate a solver for the fragment problem with accuracy beyond coupled cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) into the previously proposed static embedding framework, MPCC. To this end, we employ a CCSDT solver for the fragment subsystem. For the environment subsystem, we construct a perturbative estimate of the triples amplitudes, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | Summary:We present a panchromatic optical-mm characterization of GNz7q, a recently identified X-ray weak, rapidly growing red quasar embedded within a dusty starburst galaxy at $z=7.1899$, using the full suite of JWST/NIRCam, NIRSpec, MIRI, and archival NOEMA observations. Our deep NIRSpec/G395M spectroscopy reveals unambiguous broad Balmer emission (FWHM $=2221pm20$kms$^-1$), confirming a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Holz | Summary:The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is providing unprecedented high-resolution images of supermassive black holes. These images are fundamentally related to properties of the luminous accretion disks, since black holes themselves produce no light. We develop a simple prescription to relate observational features of black hole images to a toy model […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eiichiro Komatsu | Summary:Simulation-based inference (SBI) is a powerful inference technique for cases where the exact functional form of the likelihood is not known. A prime example is the likelihood of cross-correlation power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fields at low multipoles, $elllesssim 10$. In this paper, we investigate a parity-violating […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Silverman | Summary:High-$z$ quasars are believed to reside in massive dark matter haloes (DMHs), suggesting that they reside in galaxy overdense regions. However, previous observations have shown a range of environments around them. The previous targets are limited to bright quasars ($M_1450lesssim-25$), for which photoevaporation may hinder galaxy formation in their vicinity. […]