Entanglement Domain Walls in Monitored Quantum Circuits and the Directed Polymer in a Random Environment

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew P. A. Fisher | First 5 Authors: Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay, Matthew P. A. Fisher, , | Summary: Monitored quantum dynamics reveal quantum state trajectories which exhibit a rich phenomenology of entanglement structures, including a transition from a weakly-monitored volume law entangled phase to a strongly-monitored area law phase. For one-dimensional hybrid […]


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Sketching with Kerdock’s crayons: Fast sparsifying transforms for arbitrary linear maps

Kavli Affiliate: David Gross | First 5 Authors: Tim Fuchs, David Gross, Felix Krahmer, Richard Kueng, Dustin G. Mixon | Summary: Given an arbitrary matrix $Ainmathbb{R}^{ntimes n}$, we consider the fundamental problem of computing $Ax$ for any $xinmathbb{R}^n$ such that $Ax$ is $s$-sparse. While fast algorithms exist for particular choices of $A$, such as the […]


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MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Dmitriy Smirnov, Michael Gharbi, Matthew Fisher, Vitor Guizilini, Alexei A. Efros | Summary: Artists and video game designers often construct 2D animations using libraries of sprites — textured patches of objects and characters. We propose a deep learning approach that decomposes sprite-based video animations into a disentangled […]


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Spontaneous tilt of single-clamped thermal elastic sheets

Kavli Affiliate: Mark J. Bowick | First 5 Authors: Zhitao Chen, Duanduan Wan, Mark J. Bowick, , | Summary: Very thin elastic sheets, even at zero temperature, exhibit nonlinear elastic response by virtue of their dominant bending modes. Their behavior is even richer at finite temperature. Here we use molecular dynamics (MD) to study the […]


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Electronic instabilities of kagome metals: saddle points and Landau theory

Kavli Affiliate: Leon Balents | First 5 Authors: Takamori Park, Mengxing Ye, Leon Balents, , | Summary: We study electronic instabilities of a kagome metal with a Fermi energy close to saddle points at the hexagonal Brillouin zone face centers. Using parquet renormalization group, we determine the leading and subleading instabilities, finding superconducting, charge, orbital […]


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CharacterGAN: Few-Shot Keypoint Character Animation and Reposing

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Tobias Hinz, Matthew Fisher, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, Stefan Wermter | Summary: We introduce CharacterGAN, a generative model that can be trained on only a few samples (8 – 15) of a given character. Our model generates novel poses based on keypoint locations, which can be modified […]


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Certifying Numerical Decompositions of Compact Group Representations

Kavli Affiliate: David Gross | First 5 Authors: Felipe Montealegre-Mora, Denis Rosset, Jean-Daniel Bancal, David Gross, | Summary: We present a performant and rigorous algorithm for certifying that a matrix is close to being a projection onto an irreducible subspace of a given group representation. This addresses a problem arising when one seeks solutions to […]


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The axiomatic and the operational approaches to resource theories of magic do not coincide

Kavli Affiliate: David Gross | First 5 Authors: Arne Heimendahl, Markus Heinrich, David Gross, , | Summary: Stabiliser operations occupy a prominent role in fault-tolerant quantum computing. They are defined operationally: by the use of Clifford gates, Pauli measurements and classical control. These operations can be efficiently simulated on a classical computer, a result which […]


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Fluctuations can induce local nematic order and extensile stress in monolayers of motile cells

Kavli Affiliate: Boris I. Shraiman | First 5 Authors: Farzan Vafa, Mark J. Bowick, Boris I. Shraiman, M. Cristina Marchetti, | Summary: Recent experiments in various cell types have shown that two-dimensional tissues often display local nematic order, with evidence of extensile stresses manifest in the dynamics of topological defects. Using a mesoscopic model where […]


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