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quant-ph2020★ 14 cited

Two-boson quantum interference in time

Nicolas J. Cerf, Michael G. Jabbour

The celebrated Hong-Ou-Mandel effect is the paradigm of two-particle quantum interference. It has its roots in the symmetry of identical quantum particles, as dictated by the Pauli…

math.PR2020

Answer to an open question concerning the -strategy for best choice under no information

F. Thomas Bruss, L. C. G. Rogers

This paper answers a long-standing open question concerning the -strategy for the problem of best choice. candidates for a job arrive at times independently uniformly dist…

physics.optics2020★ 18 cited

Efficient Type II Second Harmonic Generation in an Indium Gallium Phosphide on insulator wire waveguide aligned with a crystallographic axis

Nicolas Poulvellarie, Carlos Mas Arabi, Charles Ciret +7

We theoretically and experimentally investigate type II second harmonic generation in III-V-on-insulator wire waveguides. We show that the propagation direction plays a crucial rol…

cs.NE2020★ 7 cited

Random pattern and frequency generation using a photonic reservoir computer with output feedback

Piotr Antonik, Michiel Hermans, Marc Haelterman +1

Reservoir computing is a bio-inspired computing paradigm for processing time dependent signals. The performance of its analogue implementations matches other digital algorithms on…

cs.NE2020★ 14 cited

Online training for high-performance analogue readout layers in photonic reservoir computers

Piotr Antonik, Marc Haelterman, Serge Massar

Introduction. Reservoir Computing is a bio-inspired computing paradigm for processing time-dependent signals. The performance of its hardware implementation is comparable to state-…

hep-th2020★ 68 cited

Non-relativistic and Carrollian limits of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity

Joaquim Gomis, Diego Hidalgo, Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo

We construct the non-relativistic and Carrollian versions of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. In the second order formulation, there are no divergences in the non-relativistic and Carrol…

astro-ph.SR2020

Planet formation in intermediate-separation binary systems

O. Panić, T. J. Haworth, M. G. Petr-Gotzens +13

We report the first characterisation of the individual discs in the intermediate separation binary systems KK Oph and HD 144668 at millimetre wavelengths. In both systems the circu…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 57 cited

Grids of stellar models with rotation: V. Models from 1.7 to 120 Msun at zero metallicity

Laura J. Murphy, Jose H. Groh, Sylvia Ekstrom +10

Understanding the nature of the first stars is key to understanding the early universe. With new facilities such as JWST we may soon have the first observations of the earliest ste…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 27 cited

The Effect of Cosmic Rays on Cometary Nuclei: I Dose deposition

G. Gronoff, R. Maggiolo, G. Cessateur +9

Comets are small bodies thought to contain the most pristine material in the solar system. However, since their formation 4.5 Gy ago, they have been altered by different processes.…

hep-ph2020★ 12 cited

Neutrino lines from DM decay induced by high-scale seesaw interactions

Rupert Coy, Thomas Hambye

If the stability of the dark matter (DM) particle is due to an accidental symmetry, nothing prevents UV physics from destabilising it by inducing DM decays suppressed by powers of…

nucl-ex2020★ 3 cited

Detailed low-spin spectroscopy of 65Ni via neutron capture reaction

C. Porzio, C. Michelagnoli, N. Cieplicka-Orynczak +17

An extended investigation of the low-spin structure of the Ni nucleus was performed at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, via the neutron capture reaction Ni(n,…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 340 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420

We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 112 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…

physics.med-ph2020

A Stochastic Compartmental Model for COVID-19

Giorgio Sonnino, Fernando Mora, Pasquale Nardone

We propose two stochastic models for the Coronavirus pandemic. The statistical properties of the models, in particular the correlation functions and the probability density functio…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

The Swampland at Large Number of Space-Time Dimensions

Quentin Bonnefoy, Luca Ciambelli, Dieter Lust +1

We discuss some aspects of swampland constraints - especially the swampland distance conjecture - in a large number of space-time dimensions . We analyze Kaluza-Klein (KK) state…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 20 cited

A search for time-dependent astrophysical neutrino emission with IceCube data from 2012 to 2017

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +361

High-energy neutrinos are unique messengers of the high-energy universe, tracing the processes of cosmic-ray acceleration. This paper presents analyses focusing on time-dependent n…

nlin.PS2020★ 13 cited

Vectorial dark dissipative solitons in Kerr resonators

B. Kostet, S. S. Gopalakrishnan, E. Averlant +3

We report the existence of vectorial dark dissipative solitons in optical cavities subject to a coherently injected beam. We assume that the resonator is operating in a normal disp…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 62 cited

Probing planetary-mass primordial black holes with continuous gravitational waves

Andrew L. Miller, Sébastien Clesse, Federico De Lillo +3

Gravitational waves can probe the existence of planetary-mass primordial black holes. Considering a mass range of , inspiraling primordial black holes cou…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 51 cited

Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1589

We present a search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the young, energetic X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910 using data from the second and third observing runs of LIGO and…

gr-qc2020★ 64 cited

Detecting Planetary-mass Primordial Black Holes with Resonant Electromagnetic Gravitational Wave Detectors

Nicolas Herman, André Füzfa, Léonard Lehoucq +1

The possibility to detect gravitational waves (GW) from planetary-mass primordial black hole (PBH) binaries with electromagnetic (EM) detectors of high-frequency GWs is investigate…

gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Partial order on passive states and Hoffman majorization in quantum thermodynamics

Uttam Singh, Siddhartha Das, Nicolas J. Cerf

Passive states, i.e., those states from which no work can be extracted via unitary operations, play an important role in the foundations and applications of quantum thermodynamics.…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 24 cited

LeptonInjector and LeptonWeighter: A neutrino event generator and weighter for neutrino observatories

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +362

We present a high-energy neutrino event generator, called LeptonInjector, alongside an event weighter, called LeptonWeighter. Both are designed for large-volume Cherenkov neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 47 cited

The Cosmic-Ray Composition between 2 PeV and 2 EeV Observed with the TALE Detector in Monocular Mode

Telescope Array Collaboration

We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray composition by the Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) air fluorescence detector (FD). By making use of the Cherenkov light sig…