Primordial black hole formation from massless scalar isocurvature

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Chul-Moon Yoo, Tomohiro Harada, Shin’ichi Hirano, Hirotada Okawa, Misao Sasaki | Summary: We numerically study the primordial black hole (PBH) formation by an isocurvature perturbation of a massless scalar field on super Hubble scales in the radiation-dominated universe. As a first step we perform simulations of spherically […]


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High-order tensor flow processing using integrated photonic circuits

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Shaofu Xu, Jing Wang, Sicheng Yi, Weiwen Zou, | Summary: Tensor analytics lays mathematical basis for the prosperous promotion of multiway signal processing. To increase computing throughput, mainstream processors transform tensor convolutions to matrix multiplications to enhance parallelism of computing. However, such order-reducing transformation produces data duplicates […]


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Exceptional scalar theories in de Sitter space

Kavli Affiliate: Austin Joyce | First 5 Authors: James Bonifacio, Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Diederik Roest, | Summary: The special galileon and Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) theories are effective field theories of a single scalar field that have many interesting properties in flat space. These theories can be extended to all maximally symmetric spaces, where their algebras […]


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New constraint on Early Dark Energy from Planck and BOSS data using the profile likelihood

Kavli Affiliate: Eiichiro Komatsu | First 5 Authors: Laura Herold, Elisa G. M. Ferreira, Eiichiro Komatsu, , | Summary: A dark energy-like component in the early universe, known as early dark energy (EDE), is a proposed solution to the Hubble tension. Currently, there is no consensus in the literature as to whether EDE can simultaneously […]


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Challenges to magnetic doping of thin films of the Dirac semimetal Cd$_3$As$_2$

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Run Xiao, Jacob T Held, Jeffrey Rable, Supriya Ghosh, Ke Wang | Summary: Magnetic doping of topological quantum materials provides an attractive route for studying the effects of time-reversal symmetry breaking. Thus motivated, we explore the introduction of the transition metal Mn into thin films of the […]


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Asteroids for microhertz gravitational-wave detection

Kavli Affiliate: Peter W. Graham | First 5 Authors: Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Surjeet Rajendran, , | Summary: A major challenge for gravitational-wave (GW) detection in the $mu$Hz band is engineering a test mass (TM) with sufficiently low acceleration noise. We propose a GW detection concept using asteroids located in the inner Solar […]


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Cosmological Constraints on Dark Scalar

Kavli Affiliate: Satoshi Shirai | First 5 Authors: Masahiro Ibe, Shin Kobayashi, Yuhei Nakayama, Satoshi Shirai, | Summary: We discuss cosmological constraints on a dark scalar particle mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson. We pay particular attention to the dark scalar production process when the reheating temperature of the Universe is very low, which […]


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Production of Ammonia Makes Venusian Clouds Habitable and Explains Observed Cloud-Level Chemical Anomalies

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: William Bains, Janusz J. Petkowski, Paul B. Rimmer, Sara Seager, | Summary: The atmosphere of Venus remains mysterious, with many outstanding chemical connundra. These include: the unexpected presence of ~10 ppm O2 in the cloud layers; an unknown composition of large particles in the lower cloud layers; […]


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Covariance matrices for variance-suppressed simulations

Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Tony Zhang, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Risa H. Wechsler, Shadab Alam, Joseph DeRose | Summary: Cosmological $N$-body simulations provide numerical predictions of the structure of the universe against which to compare data from ongoing and future surveys. The growing volume of the surveyed universe, however, requires increasingly large […]


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