{"title":"An autoencoder for heterotic orbifolds with arbitrary geometry","authors":"Enrique Escalante–Notario, Ignacio Portillo–Castillo, Saúl Ramos–Sánchez","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad246f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad246f","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial neural networks can be an important tool to improve the search for admissible string compactifications and characterize them. In this paper we construct the <monospace>heterotic orbiencoder</monospace>, a general deep autoencoder to study heterotic orbifold models arising from various Abelian orbifold geometries. Our neural network can be easily trained to successfully encode the large parameter space of many orbifold geometries simultaneously, independently of the statistical dissimilarities of their training features. In particular, we show that our autoencoder is capable of compressing with good accuracy the large parameter space of two promising orbifold geometries in just three parameters. Further, most orbifold models with phenomenologically appealing features appear in bounded regions of this small space. Our results hint towards a possible simplification of the classification of (promising) heterotic orbifold models.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139767861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yunwei Lu, Sandeep Joshi, Vinh San Dinh, Jens Koch
{"title":"Optimal control of large quantum systems: assessing memory and runtime performance of GRAPE","authors":"Yunwei Lu, Sandeep Joshi, Vinh San Dinh, Jens Koch","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad22e5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad22e5","url":null,"abstract":"Gradient Ascent Pulse Engineering (GRAPE) is a popular technique in quantum optimal control, and can be combined with automatic differentiation (AD) to facilitate on-the-fly evaluation of cost-function gradients. We illustrate that the convenience of AD comes at a significant memory cost due to the cumulative storage of a large number of states and propagators. For quantum systems of increasing Hilbert space size, this imposes a significant bottleneck. We revisit the strategy of hard-coding gradients in a scheme that fully avoids propagator storage and significantly reduces memory requirements. Separately, we present improvements to numerical state propagation to enhance runtime performance. We benchmark runtime and memory usage and compare this approach to AD-based implementations, with a focus on pushing towards larger Hilbert space sizes. The results confirm that the AD-free approach facilitates the application of optimal control for large quantum systems which would otherwise be difficult to tackle.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139767880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eemeli A Eronen, Anton Vladyka, Florent Gerbon, Christoph J Sahle, Johannes Niskanen
{"title":"Information bottleneck in peptide conformation determination by x-ray absorption spectroscopy","authors":"Eemeli A Eronen, Anton Vladyka, Florent Gerbon, Christoph J Sahle, Johannes Niskanen","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1f73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1f73","url":null,"abstract":"We apply a recently developed technique utilizing machine learning for statistical analysis of computational nitrogen K-edge spectra of aqueous triglycine. This method, the emulator-based component analysis, identifies spectrally relevant structural degrees of freedom from a data set filtering irrelevant ones out. Thus tremendous reduction in the dimensionality of the ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem of spectrum interpretation is achieved. Structural and spectral variation across the sampled phase space is notable. Using these data, we train a neural network to predict the intensities of spectral regions of interest from the structure. These regions are defined by the temperature-difference profile of the simulated spectra, and the analysis yields a structural interpretation for their behavior. Even though the utilized local many-body tensor representation implicitly encodes the secondary structure of the peptide, our approach proves that this information is irrecoverable from the spectra. A hard x-ray Raman scattering experiment confirms the overall sensibility of the simulated spectra, but the predicted temperature-dependent effects therein remain beyond the achieved statistical confidence level.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"272 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139767619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bound on the distance between controlled quantum state and target state under decoherence","authors":"Kohei Kobayashi","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1f74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1f74","url":null,"abstract":"To implement quantum information technologies, carefully designed control for preparing a desired state plays a key role. However, in realistic situation, the actual performance of those methodologies is severely limited by decoherence. Therefore, it is important to evaluate how close we can steer the controlled state to a desired target state under decoherence. In this paper, we provide an upper bound of the distance between the two controlled quantum systems in the presence and absence of decoherence. The bound quantifies the degree of achievement of the control for a given target state under decoherence, and can be straightforwardly calculated without solving any equation. Moreover, the upper bound is applied to derive a theoretical limit of the probability for obtaining the target state under decoherence.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saturating the one-axis twisting quantum Cramér-Rao bound with a total spin readout","authors":"T J Volkoff, Michael J Martin","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1dc8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1dc8","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the lowest quantum Cramér-Rao bound achievable in interferometry with a one-axis twisted spin coherent state is saturated by the asymptotic method of moments error of a protocol that uses one call to the one-axis twisting, one call to time-reversed one-axis twisting, and a final total spin measurement (i.e., a twist-untwist protocol). The result is derived by first showing that the metrological phase diagram for one-axis twisting is asymptotically characterized by a single quantum Fisher information value <italic toggle=\"yes\">N</italic>(<italic toggle=\"yes\">N</italic> + 1)/2 for all times, then constructing a twist-untwist protocol having a method of moments error that saturates this value. The case of finite-range one-axis twisting is similarly analyzed, and a simple functional form for the metrological phase diagram is found in both the short-range and long-range interaction regimes. Numerical evidence suggests that the finite-range analogues of twist-untwist protocols can exhibit a method of moments error that asymptotically saturates the lowest quantum Cramér-Rao bound achievable in interferometry with finite-range one-axis twisted spin coherent states for all interaction times.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139767879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On maximum left/right reflectance asymmetry exhibited by a gyrotropic dielectric slab","authors":"Tom G Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1dc7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1dc7","url":null,"abstract":"Gyrotropic dielectric materials, being Lorentz non-reciprocal, exhibit scientifically and technologically interesting reflection asymmetries. On numerically characterizing left/right asymmetries in linear reflectances exhibited by a gyrotropic dielectric slab, we found these asymmetries to be highly sensitive to: (i) the constitutive parameters of the gyrotropic dielectric material, (ii) the thickness of the slab, (iii) the direction of incidence, and (iv) the refractive indexes of the isotropic dielectric materials above and below the slab. In particular, left/right reflectance asymmetries increase as (i) dissipation in the gyrotropic dielectric material decreases and (ii) the anti-symmetric component of the relative permittivity dyadic of that material increases. Generally, the cross-polarized left/right reflectance asymmetry is an order of magnitude smaller than the co-polarized left/right reflectance asymmetries.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139508577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polymorphic states investigations in thermal conductivity of 1-fluoroadamantane","authors":"D. Szewczyk, A. Krivchikov, A. Jeżowski","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1bb5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1bb5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The temperature dependencies of the thermal conductivity coefficient, κ(T), in 1-fluoroadamantane were investigated for two different orientationally-disordered states. In the first one, κ(T) exhibits a crystalline character with a typical maximum and two anomalous regions marked at higher temperatures. Here, the low-temperature power-law dependence is reduced due to a relatively large contribution of dislocations and defects in the polycrystalline sample. Above 196 K, there is an anomalous plateau in thermal conductivity resulting from the presence of an intermediate centrosymmetric state. Further, a significant increase in κ occurs above 234 K, resulting from a phase transition to a high-temperature disordered cubic phase. Subsequent cooling of the sample leads to an irreversible transition towards a disordered state resulting in a κ(T) dependence corresponding to an amorphous material behavior. The primary anomaly at 196 K disappears, while the second one associated with the phase transition at 227 K shifts towards lower temperatures. The irreversibility of this transformation is also verified by scanning microscopy images. Thermal conductivity in both phases has an additional contribution of an Arrhenius type in their temperature dependences.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"80 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139383597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoseph Abebe Asratie, Tibebe Birhanu Tegegne, Y. Bassie
{"title":"Thermally activated escape rate and dynamics of a particle under a harmonic potential","authors":"Yoseph Abebe Asratie, Tibebe Birhanu Tegegne, Y. Bassie","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1bb6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1bb6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, we study the dynamics of particles along a semiconductor layer by imposing a confinement potential assisted by both thermal noise strength D and trap potential φ. By applying a nonhomogeneous cold temperature alongside the uniform background temperature, the system is driven towards a phase transition. When a weak signal is pass across a semiconductor layer, the thermally activated particles become easily hop from one lattice site to another lattice site. We perform a numerical simulation of the trajectory of a particle under a harmonic potential represents a bistable and tristable effective potential as a function of thermal noise. As a result, at an optimal level of noise, the particle synchronizes with a weak periodic signal.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"35 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139382607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three-dimensional analysis of vortex-lattice formation in rotating Bose–Einstein condensates using smoothed-particle hydrodynamics","authors":"Satori Tsuzuki, Eri Itoh, Katsuhiro Nishinari","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1598","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, we presented a new numerical scheme for vortex lattice formation in a rotating Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with an explicit time-integrating scheme; our SPH scheme could reproduce the vortex lattices and their formation processes in rotating quasi-two-dimensional (2D) BECs trapped in a 2D harmonic potential. In this study, we have successfully demonstrated a simulation of rotating 3D BECs trapped in a 3D harmonic potential forming ‘cigar-shaped’ condensates. We have found that our scheme can reproduce the following typical behaviors of rotating 3D BECs observed in the literature: (i) the characteristic shape of the lattice formed in the cross-section at the origin and its formation process, (ii) the stable existence of vortex lines along the vertical axis after reaching the steady state, (iii) a ‘cookie-cutter’ shape, with a similar lattice shape observed wherever we cut the condensate in a certain range in the vertical direction, (iv) the bending of vortex lines when approaching the inner edges of the condensate, and (v) the formation of vortex lattices by vortices entering from outside the condensate. Therefore, we further validated our scheme by simulating rotating 3D BECs.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"189 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139052385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-quasistatic response coefficients and dissipated availability for macroscopic thermodynamic systems","authors":"Yuki Izumida","doi":"10.1088/2399-6528/ad1597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ad1597","url":null,"abstract":"The characterization of finite-time thermodynamic processes is of crucial importance for extending equilibrium thermodynamics to nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The central issue is to quantify responses of thermodynamic variables and irreversible dissipation associated with non-quasistatic changes of thermodynamic forces applied to the system. In this study, we derive a simple formula that incorporates the non-quasistatic response coefficients with Onsager’s kinetic coefficients, where the Onsager coefficients characterize the relaxation dynamics of fluctuation of extensive thermodynamic variables of semi-macroscopic systems. Moreover, the thermodynamic length and the dissipated availability that quantifies the efficiency of irreversible thermodynamic processes are formulated in terms of the derived non-quasistatic response coefficients. The present results are demonstrated by using an ideal gas model. The present results are, in principle, verifiable through experiments and are thus expected to provide a guiding principle for the nonequilibrium control of macroscopic thermodynamic systems.","PeriodicalId":47089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics Communications","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139052576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}