Publications (48)
Necessary and sufficient detection efficiency for the Mermin inequalities
Adan Cabello, David Rodriguez, Ignacio Villanueva
We prove that the threshold detection efficiency for a loophole-free Bell experiment using an -qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state and the correlations appearing in the -…
Chandra X-ray Detection of the Enigmatic Field Star BP Psc
Joel H. Kastner, Rodolfo Montez, David Rodriguez +5
BP Psc is a remarkable emission-line field star that is orbited by a dusty disk and drives a parsec-scale system of jets. We report the detection by the Chandra X-ray Observatory o…
QM, non-locality and the vacuum fluctuations: conclusions and new directions
David Rodriguez
Summary of results and overall conclusions on my works in the field of Bell inequalities and QM's alleged non-locality.
Revisiting factorability and indeterminism
David Rodriguez
Perhaps it is not completely superfluous to remind that Clauser-Horne factorability, introduced in [1], is only necessary when λ, the hidden variable (HV), is sufficiently determi…
Overview of the New Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive
Ravi Sankrit, John Debes, Matthew Burger +34
The new Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive (HSLA) provides coadded spectra of individual targets that have been observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Space T…
Enabling Multilingual Privacy Policy Audits: Large-Scale Analysis of Spanish Mobile Apps
Marcos Moran, David Rodriguez, Luka Nenadic +2
Automated analyses of privacy policies enable large-scale assessments of transparency in digital ecosystems, yet existing auditing pipelines remain predominantly English-centric. T…
Millimeter-Wavelength Lens-Absorber-Coupled Ti/Al Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Alejandro Pascual Laguna, Victor Rollano, Aimar Najarro-Fiandra +4
This work presents Ti/Al bi-layer Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) based on lens-coupled spiral absorbers as the quasi-optical coupling mechanism for millimeter-wavel…
Resolved Debris Discs Around A Stars in the Herschel DEBRIS Survey
Mark Booth, Grant Kennedy, Bruce Sibthorpe +12
The majority of debris discs discovered so far have only been detected through infrared excess emission above stellar photospheres. While disc properties can be inferred from unres…
Gait Characterization in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Using a Single-Sensor Accelerometer: Classical Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches
Albara Ah Ramli, Xin Liu, Kelly Berndt +13
Differences in gait patterns of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and typically-developing (TD) peers are visible to the eye, but quantifications of those differences…
ATLAS: Automatically Detecting Discrepancies Between Privacy Policies and Privacy Labels
Akshath Jain, David Rodriguez, Jose M. del Alamo +1
Privacy policies are long, complex documents that end-users seldom read. Privacy labels aim to ameliorate these issues by providing succinct summaries of salient data practices. In…
The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx): Search for axions at 90 GHz with Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Beatriz Aja, Sergio Arguedas Cuendis, Ivan Arregui +33
We propose a novel experiment, the Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx), to probe dark matter axions with masses in the range 330-460 eV, within the W-band (80-110 GHz),…
The Hubble Advanced Spectral Product (HASP) Program
John Debes, Ravi Sankrit, Travis Fischer +39
The Hubble Advanced Spectral Products (HASP) program is designed to robustly coadd Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) spectra within…
Two warm sub-Saturn mass planets identified from the TESS Full Frame Images
Felipe I. Rojas, Rafael Brahm, Andrés Jordán +47
Context. Characterization of warm giants is crucial to constrain giant planet formation and evolution. Measuring the mass and radius of these planets, combined with their moderated…
TYC 8241 2652 1 and the case of the disappearing disk: no smoking gun yet
Hans Moritz Günther, Stefan Kraus, Carl Melis +12
TYC 8241 2652 1 is a young star that showed a strong mid-infrared (mid-IR, 8-25 mu) excess in all observations before 2008 consistent with a dusty disk. Between 2008 and 2010 the m…
Cross-Polarization Reduction in Kinetic Inductance Detectors Based on Quasi-Lumped Resonators
Victor Rollano, Martino Calvo, Alejandro Pascual Laguna +7
Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) have emerged as a leading technology for millimeter- and submillimeter-wave astronomy due to their high sensitivity, natural multiplexing capabi…
Low loss hybrid Nb/Au superconducting resonators for quantum circuit applications
Marina C. de Ory, Victor Rollano, David Rodriguez +3
Superconducting resonators play a crucial role in the development of quantum technologies such as quantum computing or high performance detectors. Yet, one of their main limitation…
Communication loophole in a Bell-EPR-Bohm experiment: standard no-signaling may not always be enough to exclude local realism
David Rodriguez
Assuming perfect detection efficiency, we present an (indeterministic) model for an EPR-Bohm experiment which reproduces the singlet correlations, without contradicting Bell's orig…
Mermin inequalities for perfect correlations
Adan Cabello, Otfried Gühne, David Rodriguez
Any n-qubit state with n independent perfect correlations is equivalent to a graph state. We present the optimal Bell inequalities for perfect correlations and maximal violation fo…
Constraining X-ray-Induced Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disks Orbiting Low-Mass Stars
Kristina M. Punzi, Joel H. Kastner, David Rodriguez +2
Low-mass, pre-main sequence stars possess intense high-energy radiation fields as a result of their strong stellar magnetic activity. This stellar UV and X-ray radiation may have a…
Valuation of Public Bus Electrification with Open Data
Upadhi Vijay, Soomin Woo, Scott J. Moura +8
This research provides a novel framework to estimate the economic, environmental, and social values of electrifying public transit buses, for cities across the world, based on open…
Nearby Young, Active, Late-type Dwarfs in Gaia's First Data Release
Joel H. Kastner, Germano Sacco, David Rodriguez +3
The Galex Nearby Young Star Survey (GALNYSS) has yielded a sample of 2000 UV-selected objects that are candidate nearby (150 pc), young (age 10--1…
Optimizing magnetic coupling in lumped element superconducting resonators for molecular spin qubits
Marcos RubÃn-Osanz, David Rodriguez, Ignacio Gimeno +18
We engineer lumped-element superconducting resonators that maximize magnetic coupling to molecular spin qubits, achieving record single-spin couplings up to kHz and collectiv…
Towards Safer Chatbots: Automated Policy Compliance Evaluation of Custom GPTs
David Rodriguez, William Seymour, Jose M. Del Alamo +1
User-configured chatbots built on top of large language models are increasingly available through centralized marketplaces such as OpenAI's GPT Store. While these platforms enforce…
Discovery and characterisation of two Neptune-mass planets orbiting HD 212729 with TESS
David J. Armstrong, Ares Osborn, Vardan Adibekyan +33
We report the discovery of two exoplanets orbiting around HD 212729 (TOI\,1052, TIC 317060587), a K star with V=9.51 observed by TESS in Sectors 1 and 13. One exo…
The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning
Jane Rigby, Marshall Perrin, Michael McElwain +623
This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performanc…
The kinematics of very low mass dwarfs: splinter session summary
Adam J. Burgasser, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Sarah Schmidt +10
Kinematic investigations are being increasingly deployed in studies of the lowest mass stars and brown dwarfs to investigate their origins, characterize their atmospheres, and exam…
Orbital stability and the quantum atomic spectrum from Stochastic Electrodynamics
David Rodriguez
High order terms in the electromagnetic multipole development expose a stabilizing mechanism for the atomic orbitals in the presence of the ZPF-background. Boyer and Puthoff set fo…
Evidence for superconductivity at 190 K in a pressure-overdoped cuprate
Alexander C. Mark, Huu T. Do, David Rodriguez +7
It is well established that the critical temperature () of cuprate superconductors can be tuned by pressure. For example, compression decouples the hole doping from chemical d…
The Dissolution of Clusters: What Can We Learn from Nearby, UV-bright, Overluminous Field Stars?
Joel Kastner, Matthieu Chalifour, Alex Binks +3
The past two decades have seen dramatic progress in our knowledge of the population of young stars of age <200 Myr that lie within 150 pc of the Sun. These nearby, young stars, mos…
Do Generative AI Assistants Respect robots.txt? Tracing Web Access Beyond Visible Answers
Gabriel Lopez-Fonseca, David Rodriguez, Stefan Bechtold +1
The paper conducts an empirical study of ten generative AI assistants with web‑search capabilities to see whether they obey robots.txt restrictions, revealing varied compliance and…
Security properties in an open peer-to-peer network
Jean-Francois Lalande, David Rodriguez, Christian Toinard
This paper proposes to address new requirements of confidentiality, integrity and availability properties fitting to peer-to-peer domains of resources. The enforcement of security…
A classical, elementary approach to the foundations of Quantum Mechanics
David Rodriguez
Elementary particles are found in two different situations: (i) bound to metastable states of matter, for which angular momentum is quantized, and (ii) free, for which, due to thei…
Biofilm growth on rugose surfaces
David Rodriguez, Baldvin Einarsson, Ana Carpio
A stochastic model is used to assess the effect of external parameters on the development of submerged biofilms on smooth and rough surfaces. The model includes basic cellular mech…
Wigner-PDC description of photon entanglement as a local-realistic theory
David Rodriguez
Regardless of past proposals (already disproved in experimental work by Brida et al), the Wigner picture of Parametric Down Conversion (works by Casado et al) can be interpreted as…
Large Language Models: A New Approach for Privacy Policy Analysis at Scale
David Rodriguez, Ian Yang, Jose M. Del Alamo +1
The number and dynamic nature of web and mobile applications presents significant challenges for assessing their compliance with data protection laws. In this context, symbolic and…
Bell tests with photon-entanglement: LHV models and critical efficiencies at the light of Wigner-PDC optics
David Rodriguez
Within the Wigner-PDC picture of photon entanglement, detection "errors" are not independent (though they may look, on average), nor can they be controlled by means of a technologi…
ROI: A method for identifying organizations receiving personal data
David Rodriguez, Jose M. Del Alamo, Miguel Cozar +1
Many studies have exposed the massive collection of personal data in the digital ecosystem through, for instance, websites, mobile apps, or smart devices. This fact goes unnoticed…
Resolving debris discs in the far-infrared: early highlights from the DEBRIS survey
DEBRIS Collaboration, Brenda Matthews, Bruce Sibthorpe +30
We present results from the earliest observations of DEBRIS, a Herschel Key Programme to conduct a volume- and flux-limited survey for debris discs in A-type through M-type stars.…
Polariton-polariton coherent coupling in a molecular spin-superconductor chip
Carolina del RÃo, Marcos RubÃn-Osanz, David Rodriguez +12
The ability to establish coherent communication channels is key for scaling up quantum devices. Here, we engineer interactions between distant polaritons, hybrid spin-photon excita…
Minimum detection efficiency for a loophole-free violation of the Braunstein-Caves chained Bell inequalities
Adan Cabello, Jan-Ã ke Larsson, David Rodriguez
The chained Bell inequalities of Braunstein and Caves involving N settings per observer have some interesting applications. Here we obtain the minimum detection efficiency required…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Elevating the Role of Software as a Product of the Research Enterprise
Arfon M. Smith, Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz +42
Software is a critical part of modern research, and yet there are insufficient mechanisms in the scholarly ecosystem to acknowledge, cite, and measure the impact of research softwa…
Magnetic Activity of Pre-main Sequence Stars near the Stellar-Substellar Boundary
David A. Principe, Joel H. Kastner, David Rodriguez
X-ray observations of pre-main sequence (pre-MS) stars of M-type probe coronal emission and offer a means to investigate magnetic activity at the stellar-substellar boundary. Recen…
Spectroscopic Observations of the Galex Nearby Young Star Survey Sample. 1. Nearby Moving Group Candidates
Navya Nagananda, Laura Vican, Ben Zuckerman +3
The GALEX Nearby Young Star Search (GALNYSS) yielded the identification of more than 2000 late-type stars that, based on their ultraviolet and infrared colors and pre-Gaia proper m…
Overcoming Language Barriers: Multilingual Analysis of the 2023 Swiss Privacy Law's Impact
Luka Nenadic, David Rodriguez, Joseph A. Calandrino
The paper presents an LLM-based pipeline that extracts legally relevant information from multilingual privacy policies and uses it to assess how Switzerland's 2023 privacy law alig…
A kinematically unbiased, all-sky search for nearby, young, low-mass stars
Alexander S. Binks, Matthieu Chalifour, Joel H. Kastner +6
The past two decades have seen dramatic progress in our knowledge of the population of young stars of age Myr that lie within pc of the Sun. These nearby, young sta…
Dark characterization of Ti/Al LEKIDs for the search of axions in the W-band
Victor Rollano, Alejandro Pascual Laguna, David Rodriguez +5
We report the electrical (dark) characterization of lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) fabricated from a Titanium/Aluminum bilayer and designed for broadband abso…
BANYAN. XI. The BANYAN multivariate Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young associations within 150 pc
Jonathan Gagné, Eric E. Mamajek, Lison Malo +8
BANYAN is a new Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young stellar associations within 150 pc of the Sun. It includes 27 young associations with ages in the range ~1-800…
Gait Event Detection and Travel Distance Using Waist-Worn Accelerometers across a Range of Speeds: Automated Approach
Albara Ah Ramli, Xin Liu, Kelly Berndt +11
Estimation of temporospatial clinical features of gait (CFs), such as step count and length, step duration, step frequency, gait speed, and distance traveled, is an important compo…