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most citedDemonstrating sub-3 ps temporal resolution in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

565 citations · 5.6k across the 116 of their papers we have counts for

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121 papers

hep-th2026

Flux Vacua, Asymptotic Periods, and Relatively Anosov Representations

Paul Balavoine, Severin Lüst

We develop a topological method to detect classical flux vacua of M-theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds with a single complex structure modulus using only asymptotic period data and mon…

hep-ex2026

RINO: Renormalization Group Distillation with No Labels

Zichun Hao, Raghav Kansal, Abhijith Gandrakota +6

Supervised machine learning in high-energy physics (HEP) requires training on labeled simulations of particle collisions, which are known to be unfaithful to the underlying physics…

cs.AR2026

Alkaid: A Compiler Framework for Ultra-Low-Latency Kernels on Hardware

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Dimitrios Danopoulos +3

Ultra-low-latency machine learning and data processing pipelines operating on the sub-microsecond level often contain static dataflow kernels that require fine-grained bitwidth con…

hep-ex2026

High Multiplicity Trigger for Long-Lived Particles in CMS detector

M. Abbott, D. Acosta, D. Aebi +100

Searches for long-lived particles (LLPs) at the CMS experiment often involve unconventional event topologies that are difficult to efficiently select using standard trigger strateg…

cs.AR2026

HGQ-LUT: Fast LUT-Aware Training and Efficient Architectures for DNN Inference

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Bakhtiar Zadeh +4

Lookup-table (LUT) based neural networks can deliver ultra-low latency and excellent hardware efficiency on FPGAs by mapping arithmetic operations directly onto the logic primitive…

quant-ph2026

High-dimensional quantum communication with scalable photonic entanglement in time and frequency

Kai-Chi Chang, Murat Can Sarihan, Nicky Kai Hong Li +13

High-dimensional photonic entanglement holds significant promise for advancing quantum communication, computation, and metrology. For example, large-alphabet quantum communication…

cs.LG2026

JetFormer: A Scalable and Efficient Transformer for Jet Tagging from Offline Analysis to FPGA Triggers

Ruoqing Zheng, Chang Sun, Qibin Liu +7

We present JetFormer, a versatile and scalable encoder-only Transformer architecture for particle jet tagging at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Unlike prior approaches that are o…

cs.LG2025

An Evaluation of Representation Learning Methods in Particle Physics Foundation Models

Michael Chen, Raghav Kansal, Abhijith Gandrakota +3

We present a systematic evaluation of representation learning objectives for particle physics within a unified framework. Our study employs a shared transformer-based particle-clou…

physics.ins-det2025

Sub-microsecond Transformers for Jet Tagging on FPGAs

Lauri Laatu, Chang Sun, Arianna Cox +7

We present the first sub-microsecond transformer implementation on an FPGA achieving competitive performance for state-of-the-art high-energy physics benchmarks. Transformers have…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Optimal filtering and generation of entangled photons for quantum applications in the presence of noise

Jordan M. Thomas, Andrew R. Cameron, Akil Pathiranage +6

Filtering is commonly used in quantum optics to reject noise photons, and also to enable interference between independent photons. However, filtering the joint spectrum of photon p…

physics.ins-det2025

Towards High-Efficiency Particle Detection Using Superconducting Microwire Arrays

Christina Wang, Cristián Peña, Adolf Bornheim +17

We present a detailed study of an 8-channel mm WSi superconducting microwire single photon detector (SMSPD) array exposed to 120 GeV hadron beam and 120 GeV muon b…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

RINO: Renormalization Group Invariance with No Labels

Zichun Hao, Raghav Kansal, Abhijith Gandrakota +4

A common challenge with supervised machine learning (ML) in high energy physics (HEP) is the reliance on simulations for labeled data, which can often mismodel the underlying colli…

quant-ph2025

Photonic quantum information with time-bins: Principles and applications

Ashutosh Singh, Anuj Sethia, Leili Esmaeilifar +4

Long-range quantum communication, distributed quantum computing, and sensing applications require robust and reliable ways to encode transmitted quantum information. In this contex…

cs.AR2025★ 3 cited

da4ml: Distributed Arithmetic for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Vladimir Loncar +2

Neural networks with a latency requirement on the order of microseconds, like the ones used at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, are typically deployed on FPGAs fully unrolled and pi…

physics.ins-det2025★ 9 cited

The CMS Barrel Timing Layer: test beam confirmation of module timing performance

F. Addesa, P. Akrap, A. Albert +127

First of its kind, the barrel section of the MIP Timing Detector is a large area timing detector based on LYSO:Ce crystals and SiPMs which are required to operate in an unprecedent…

quant-ph2025

Analytical Modeling of Real-World Photonic Quantum Teleportation

Neil Sinclair, Samantha I. Davis, Nikolai Lauk +5

We develop analytical models for realistic photonic quantum teleportation experiments with time-bin qubits, utilizing phase space methods from quantum optics. These models yield an…

quant-ph2025

Entanglement swapping systems toward a quantum internet

Samantha I. Davis, Raju Valivarthi, Andrew Cameron +14

We demonstrate conditional entanglement swapping, i.e. teleportation of entanglement, between time-bin qubits at the telecommunication wavelength of 1536.4 nm with high fidelity of…

physics.ins-det2025★ 3 cited

Fast Jet Tagging with MLP-Mixers on FPGAs

Chang Sun, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Maurizio Pierini +1

We explore the innovative use of MLP-Mixer models for real-time jet tagging and establish their feasibility on resource-constrained hardware like FPGAs. MLP-Mixers excel in process…

hep-ex2024★ 7 cited

High Energy Particle Detection with Large Area Superconducting Microwire Array

Cristián Peña, Christina Wang, Si Xie +12

We present the first detailed study of an 8-channel mm WSi superconducting microwire single photon detector (SMSPD) array exposed to 120 GeV proton beam and 8 GeV…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Free-space quantum information platform on a chip

Volkan Gurses, Samantha I. Davis, Neil Sinclair +2

Emerging technologies that employ quantum physics offer fundamental enhancements in information processing tasks, including sensing, communications, and computing. Here, we introdu…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Long-range wormhole teleportation

Joseph D. Lykken, Daniel Jafferis, Alexander Zlokapa +4

We extend the protocol of Gao and Jafferis arXiv:1911.07416 to allow wormhole teleportation between two entangled copies of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model communicating only thr…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Thea K. Årrestad +4

Neural networks with sub-microsecond inference latency are required by many critical applications. Targeting such applications deployed on FPGAs, we present High Granularity Quanti…

hep-ex2023★ 2 cited

Fast Particle-based Anomaly Detection Algorithm with Variational Autoencoder

Ryan Liu, Abhijith Gandrakota, Jennifer Ngadiuba +2

Model-agnostic anomaly detection is one of the promising approaches in the search for new beyond the standard model physics. In this paper, we present Set-VAE, a particle-based var…

hep-ex2023★ 2 cited

Efficient and Robust Jet Tagging at the LHC with Knowledge Distillation

Ryan Liu, Abhijith Gandrakota, Jennifer Ngadiuba +2

The challenging environment of real-time data processing systems at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) strictly limits the computational complexity of algorithms that can be deployed.…