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Publications (28)

astro-ph.CO2025

A demonstration of the effect of fringe-rate filtering in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array delay power spectrum pipeline

Hugh Garsden, Philip Bull, Mike Wilensky +94

Radio interferometers targeting the 21cm brightness temperature fluctuations at high redshift are subject to systematic effects that operate over a range of different timescales. T…

physics.ins-det2020

Reconstruction of Charged Particle Tracks in Realistic Detector Geometry Using a Vectorized and Parallelized Kalman Filter Algorithm

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Brian Gravelle +14

One of the most computationally challenging problems expected for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is finding and fitting particle tracks during event reconstruct…

hep-ex2021

Parallelizing the Unpacking and Clustering of Detector Data for Reconstruction of Charged Particle Tracks on Multi-core CPUs and Many-core GPUs

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Brian Gravelle +14

We present results from parallelizing the unpacking and clustering steps of the raw data from the silicon strip modules for reconstruction of charged particle tracks. Throughput is…

physics.comp-ph2018

Parallelized Kalman-Filter-Based Reconstruction of Particle Tracks on Many-Core Architectures

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Slava Krutelyov +9

Faced with physical and energy density limitations on clock speed, contemporary microprocessor designers have increasingly turned to on-chip parallelism for performance gains. Algo…

physics.acc-ph2024

Application of performance portability solutions for GPUs and many-core CPUs to track reconstruction kernels

Ka Hei Martin Kwok, Matti Kortelainen, Giuseppe Cerati +11

Next generation High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiments are presented with significant computational challenges, both in terms of data volume and processing power. Using compute acce…

physics.comp-ph2016

Kalman Filter Tracking on Parallel Architectures

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Slava Krutelyov +8

Power density constraints are limiting the performance improvements of modern CPUs. To address this we have seen the introduction of lower-power, multi-core processors such as GPGP…

quant-ph2025

Quantum-Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality

Shashwat Kumar, Eliott Rosenberg, Alejandro Grajales Dau +280

The prevailing view is that quantum phenomena can be harnessed to tackle certain problems beyond the reach of classical approaches. Quantifying this capability as a quantum-classic…

astro-ph.CO2025

First Results from HERA Phase II

The HERA Collaboration, Zuhra Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams +83

We report the first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn from Phase II of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Ar…

astro-ph.IM2025

matvis: A matrix-based visibility simulator for fast forward modelling of many-element 21 cm arrays

Piyanat Kittiwisit, Steven G. Murray, Hugh Garsden +95

Detection of the faint 21 cm line emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation will require not only exquisite control over instrumental calibration and systematics to a…

astro-ph.IM2022

Automated Detection of Antenna Malfunctions in Large-N Interferometers: A Case Study with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Dara Storer, Joshua S. Dillon, Daniel C. Jacobs +75

We present a framework for identifying and flagging malfunctioning antennas in large radio interferometers. We outline two distinct categories of metrics designed to detect outlier…

hep-ex2023

Generalizing mkFit and its Application to HL-LHC

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Patrick Gartung +12

mkFit is an implementation of the Kalman filter-based track reconstruction algorithm that exploits both thread- and data-level parallelism. In the past few years the project transi…

quant-ph2026

Hilbert space signatures of non-ergodic glassy dynamics

Aleksey Lunkin, Nicole S. Ticea, Shashwat Kumar +292

Disorder in quantum many-body systems can drive transitions between ergodic and non-ergodic phases, yet the nature--and even the existence--of these transitions remains intensely d…

quant-ph2025

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

Emma Rosenfeld, Craig Gidney, Gabrielle Roberts +292

Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a universal gate set, but the necessary non-Clifford gates represent a significant resource cost for most quantum error correction archite…

physics.ins-det2017

Kalman filter tracking on parallel architectures

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Slava Krutelyov +8

Limits on power dissipation have pushed CPUs to grow in parallel processing capabilities rather than clock rate, leading to the rise of "manycore" or GPU-like processors. In order…

astro-ph.IM2010

Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate

Sean A. Bryan, Peter A. R. Ade, Mandana Amiri +42

Spider is a balloon-borne array of six telescopes that will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background. The 2624 antenna-coupled bolometers in the instrument will make a polarization…

cs.DC2019

Multi-threaded Output in CMS using ROOT

Daniel Riley, Christopher Jones

CMS has worked aggressively to make use of multi-core architectures, routinely running 4- to 8-core production jobs in 2017. The primary impediment to efficiently scaling beyond 8…

physics.comp-ph2017

Parallelized Kalman-Filter-Based Reconstruction of Particle Tracks on Many-Core Processors and GPUs

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Slava Krutelyov +9

For over a decade now, physical and energy constraints have limited clock speed improvements in commodity microprocessors. Instead, chipmakers have been pushed into producing lower…

hep-ex2012

Status Report of the DPHEP Study Group: Towards a Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics

Z. Akopov, Silvia Amerio, David Asner +87

Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. An inter-experimental study group on HEP data prese…

quant-ph2026

Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction

Volodymyr Sivak, Alexis Morvan, Michael Broughton +296

Quantum error correction (QEC) is the primary strategy for protecting a quantum computer from the environment. Its prerequisite is that errors must remain sufficiently rare, which…

physics.comp-ph2019

Parallelized and Vectorized Tracking Using Kalman Filters with CMS Detector Geometry and Events

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Brian Gravelle +13

The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be characterized by greater pileup of events and higher occupancy, making the track reconstruction even more computationally…

astro-ph.IM2024

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) Phase II Deployment and Commissioning

Lindsay M. Berkhout, Daniel C. Jacobs, Zuhra Abdurashidova +93

This paper presents the design and deployment of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) phase II system. HERA is designed as a staged experiment targeting 21 cm emission m…

physics.ins-det2019

Speeding up Particle Track Reconstruction in the CMS Detector using a Vectorized and Parallelized Kalman Filter Algorithm

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Brian Gravelle +13

Building particle tracks is the most computationally intense step of event reconstruction at the LHC. With the increased instantaneous luminosity and associated increase in pileup…

quant-ph2026

Observation of disorder-induced superfluidity

Nicole Ticea, Elias Portoles, Eliott Rosenberg +298

The emergence of states with long-range correlations in a disordered landscape is rare, as disorder typically suppresses the particle mobility required for long-range coherence. Bu…

hep-ex2024

Exploring code portability solutions for HEP with a particle tracking test code

Hammad Ather, Sophie Berkman, Giuseppe Cerati +10

Traditionally, high energy physics (HEP) experiments have relied on x86 CPUs for the majority of their significant computing needs. As the field looks ahead to the next generation…

astro-ph.IM2021

Design of the New Wideband Vivaldi Feed for the HERA Radio-Telescope Phase II

Nicolas Fagnoni, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Nick Drought +5

This paper presents the design of a new dual-polarised Vivaldi feed for the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) radio-telescope. This wideband feed has been developed to re…

physics.ins-det2020

Speeding up Particle Track Reconstruction using a Parallel Kalman Filter Algorithm

Steven Lantz, Kevin McDermott, Michael Reid +16

One of the most computationally challenging problems expected for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is determining the trajectory of charged particles during event…

quant-ph2026

Precision quantum simulation of magnon spectra and interactions

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jeronimo Martinez +329

Quantum simulation promises to advance materials discovery by accurately simulating complex states of matter, their microscopic excitations, and macroscopic response functions. The…

physics.ins-det2019

Parallelized Kalman-Filter-Based Reconstruction of Particle Tracks on Many-Core Architectures with the CMS Detector

Giuseppe Cerati, Peter Elmer, Brian Gravelle +12

In the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), one of the most challenging computational problems is expected to be finding and fitting charged-particle tracks during event…