Testing Gravity with Frequency-Dependent Overlap Reduction Function in Pulsar Timing Array

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Qiuyue Liang, Ippei Obata, Misao Sasaki, , | Summary: The positive evidence of a nano-hertz gravitational wave background recently found by several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations opened up a window to test modified gravity theories in a unique frequency band in parallel to other gravitational wave […]


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The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: Initial Results for a candidate IMBH in a nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Xuebing Wu | First 5 Authors: Wenwen Zuo, Hengxiao Guo, Jingbo Sun, Qi Yuan, Paulina Lira | Summary: To investigate the short-term variability and determine the size of the optical continuum emitting size of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we carried out high-cadence, multi-band photometric monitoring of a Seyfert 1 galaxy J0249-0815 across two […]


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The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: Initial Results for a candidate IMBH in a nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Xuebing Wu | First 5 Authors: Wenwen Zuo, Hengxiao Guo, Jingbo Sun, Qi Yuan, Paulina Lira | Summary: To investigate the short-term variability and determine the size of the optical continuum emitting size of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we carried out high-cadence, multi-band photometric monitoring of a Seyfert 1 galaxy J0249-0815 across two […]


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The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: Initial Results for a candidate IMBH in a nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Xuebing Wu | First 5 Authors: Wenwen Zuo, Hengxiao Guo, Jingbo Sun, Qi Yuan, Paulina Lira | Summary: To investigate the short-term variability and determine the size of the optical continuum emitting size of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we carried out high-cadence, multi-band photometric monitoring of a Seyfert 1 galaxy J0249-0815 across two […]


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Optical Continuum Reverberation Mapping of a Candidate IMBH in a Nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Wenwen Zuo, Hengxiao Guo, Jingbo Sun, Qi Yuan, Paulina Lira | Summary: To investigate the short-term variability and determine the size of the optical continuum emitting region of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we carried out high-cadence, multiband photometric monitoring of a Seyfert 1 galaxy J0249-0815 across […]


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Optical Continuum Reverberation Mapping of a Candidate IMBH in a Nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Xuebing Wu | First 5 Authors: Wenwen Zuo, Hengxiao Guo, Jingbo Sun, Qi Yuan, Paulina Lira | Summary: To investigate the short-term variability and determine the size of the optical continuum emitting region of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we carried out high-cadence, multiband photometric monitoring of a Seyfert 1 galaxy J0249-0815 across two […]


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Adjacent Leader Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Haoze He, Jing Wang, Anna Choromanska, , | Summary: This work focuses on the decentralized deep learning optimization framework. We propose Adjacent Leader Decentralized Gradient Descent (AL-DSGD), for improving final model performance, accelerating convergence, and reducing the communication overhead of decentralized deep learning optimizers. AL-DSGD relies on […]


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Symmetrically Threaded SQUIDs As Next Generation Kerr-cat Qubits

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Bibek Bhandari, Irwin Huang, Ahmed Hajr, Kagan Yanik, Bingcheng Qing | Summary: Kerr-cat qubits are bosonic qubits with autonomous protection against bit-flips. They have been studied widely using driven Superconducting Nonlinear Asymmetric Inductive eLement (SNAIL) oscillators. We theoretically investigate an alternate circuit for the Kerr-cat qubit, namely […]


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Symmetrically Threaded Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices As Next Generation Kerr-cat Qubits

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Bibek Bhandari, Bibek Bhandari, , , | Summary: We theoretically explore an alternative circuit for Kerr-cat qubits based on symmetrically threaded Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUID). The Symmetrically Threaded SQUIDs (STS) architecture employs a simplified flux-pumped design that suppresses two-photon dissipation, a dominant loss mechanism in high-Kerr […]


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