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Quantum Computing for HEP Theory and Phenomenology
Quantum Computing for HEP Theory and Phenomenology K. T. Matchev∗, S. Mrennay, P. Shyamsundar∗ and J. Smolinsky∗ ∗Physics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA yFermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA August 4, 2020 Quantum computing offers an exponential speed-up in computation times and novel approaches to solve existing problems in high energy physics (HEP). Current attempts to leverage a quantum advantage include: • Simulating field theory: Most quantum computations in field theory follow the algorithm outlined in [1{3]: a non-interacting initial state is prepared, adiabatically evolved in time to the interacting theory using an appropriate Hamiltonian, adiabatically evolved back to the free theory, and measured. Promising advances have been made in the encodings of lattice gauge theories [4{8]. Simplified calculations have been performed for particle decay rates [9], deep inelastic scattering structure functions [10, 11], parton distribution functions [12], and hadronic tensors [13]. Calculations of non-perturbative phenomena and effects are important inputs to Standard Model predictions. Quantum optimization has also been applied to tunnelling and vacuum decay problems in field theory [14, 15], which might lead to explanations of cosmological phenomena. • Showering, reconstruction, and inference: Quantum circuits can in principle simulate parton showers including spin and color correlations at the amplitude level [16, 17]. Recon- struction and analysis of collider events can be formulated as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems, which can be solved using quantum techniques. These in- clude jet clustering [18], particle tracking [19,20], measurement unfolding [21], and anomaly detection [22]. • Quantum machine learning: Quantum machine learning has evolved in recent years as a subdiscipline of quantum computing that investigates how quantum computers can be used for machine learning tasks [23,24]. -
The Quantum Epoché
Accepted Manuscript The quantum epoché Paavo Pylkkänen PII: S0079-6107(15)00127-3 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.08.014 Reference: JPBM 1064 To appear in: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Please cite this article as: Pylkkänen, P., The quantum epoché, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.08.014. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT The quantum epoché Paavo Pylkkänen Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies & the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (TINT), P.O. Box 24, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. and Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, School of Biosciences, University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden [email protected] Abstract. The theme of phenomenology and quantum physics is here tackled by examining some basic interpretational issues in quantum physics. One key issue in quantum theory from the very beginning has been whether it is possible to provide a quantum ontology of particles in motion in the same way as in classical physics, or whether we are restricted to stay within a more limited view of quantum systems, in terms of complementary but mutually exclusiveMANUSCRIPT phenomena. -
Experimental Phenomenology: What It Is and What It Is Not
Synthese https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02209-6 S.I. : GESTALT PHENOMENOLOGY AND EMBODIED COGNITIVE SCIENCE Experimental phenomenology: What it is and what it is not Liliana Albertazzi1 Received: 8 June 2018 / Accepted: 10 April 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019 Abstract Experimental phenomenology is the study of appearances in subjective awareness. Its methods and results challenge quite a few aspects of the current debate on conscious- ness. A robust theoretical framework for understanding consciousness is pending: current empirical research waves on what a phenomenon of consciousness properly is, not least because the question is still open on the observables to be measured and how to measure them. I shall present the basics of experimental phenomenology and discuss the current development of experimental phenomenology, its main features, and the many misunderstandings that have obstructed a fair understanding and evalu- ation of its otherwise enlightening outcomes. Keywords Experimental phenomenology · Psychophysics · Description · Demonstration · Explanation 1 Phenomenology in disguise Recent approaches in cognitive neuroscience have seen a reappraisal of phenomenol- ogy (Spillmann 2009; Varela 1999; Wagemans 2015; Wagemans et al. 2012b), a second revival of this undoubtedly challenging philosophical discipline, after the interest aroused by the analytic interpretation of Husserl’s thought in the 1960s (see for exam- ple Bell 1991; Chisholm 1960; Smith 1982). This renewed interest in phenomenology has several motivating factors. Over the years, increasingly many works by Husserl have been edited and/or published in English translation, and consequently greater information on the corpus of Husserlian production, such as the lectures on space (Husserl 1973b), time (Husserl 1991), and the pre-categorial structures of experience B Liliana Albertazzi [email protected] 1 Department of Humanities, Experimental Phenomenology Laboratory, University of Trento, Trento, Italy 123 Synthese (Husserl 1973a), have been made available to a willing reader. -
Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology: Status and Prospects
QUANTUM-GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY: STATUS AND PROSPECTS GIOVANNI AMELINO-CAMELIA Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit´a di Roma \La Sapienza", P.le Moro 2 00185 Roma, Italy Received (received date) Revised (revised date) Over the last few years part of the quantum-gravity community has adopted a more opti- mistic attitude toward the possibility of finding experimental contexts providing insight on non-classical properties of spacetime. I review those quantum-gravity phenomenol- ogy proposals which were instrumental in bringing about this change of attitude, and I discuss the prospects for the short-term future of quantum-gravity phenomenology. 1. Quantum Gravity Phenomenology The “quantum-gravity problem” has been studied for more than 70 years assuming that no guidance could be obtained from experiments. This in turn led to the as- sumption that the most promising path toward the solution of the problem would be the construction and analysis of very ambitious theories, some would call them “theories of everything”, capable of solving at once all of the issues raised by the coexistence of gravitation (general relativity) and quantum mechanics. In other research areas the abundant availability of puzzling experimental data encourages theorists to propose phenomenological models which solve the puzzles but are con- ceptually unsatisfactory on many grounds. Often those apparently unsatisfactory models turn out to provide an important starting point for the identification of the correct (and conceptually satisfactory) theoretical description of the new phenom- ena. But in this quantum-gravity research area, since there was no experimental guidance, it was inevitable for theorists to be tempted into trying to identify the correct theoretical framework relying exclusively on some criteria of conceptual compellingness. -
Scientific Perspectivism in the Phenomenological Tradition
Scientific Perspectivism in the Phenomenological Tradition Philipp Berghofer University of Graz [email protected] Abstract In current debates, many philosophers of science have sympathies for the project of introducing a new approach to the scientific realism debate that forges a middle way between traditional forms of scientific realism and anti-realism. One promising approach is perspectivism. Although different proponents of perspectivism differ in their respective characterizations of perspectivism, the common idea is that scientific knowledge is necessarily partial and incomplete. Perspectivism is a new position in current debates but it does have its forerunners. Figures that are typically mentioned in this context include Dewey, Feyerabend, Leibniz, Kant, Kuhn, and Putnam. Interestingly, to my knowledge, there exists no work that discusses similarities to the phenomenological tradition. This is surprising because here one can find systematically similar ideas and even a very similar terminology. It is startling because early modern physics was noticeably influenced by phenomenological ideas. And it is unfortunate because the analysis of perspectival approaches in the phenomenological tradition can help us to achieve a more nuanced understanding of different forms of perspectivism. The main objective of this paper is to show that in the phenomenological tradition one finds a well-elaborated philosophy of science that shares important similarities with current versions of perspectivism. Engaging with the phenomenological tradition is also of systematic value since it helps us to gain a better understanding of the distinctive claims of perspectivism and to distinguish various grades of perspectivism. 1. Perspectivism in current debates 1 Advocating scientific realism, broadly speaking, means adopting “a positive epistemic attitude toward the content of our best theories and models, recommending belief in both observable and unobservable aspects of the world described by the sciences” (Chakravartty 2017). -
Phenomenology of Particle Physics II
Phenomenology of Particle Physics II ETH Zurich and University of Zurich FS 2010 Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Chiochia [University of Zurich] Prof. Dr. G¨unther Dissertori [ETH Zurich] Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehrmann [University of Zurich] Typeset by Juli´anCancino and Julian Schrenk June 13, 2014 This script is based on the lecture given originally by Prof. Dr. Chiochia (University of Zurich), Prof. Dr. G¨unther Dissertori (ETH Zurich) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich) in the fall semester 2009 (PPP1) and the spring semester 2010 (PPP2). Please feel free to send feedback to [email protected] and [email protected]. We would like to thank the lecturers who used the script in the later semesters, as well as in particular Romain M¨ullerand Murad Tovmasyan for making valuable suggestions and pointing out numerous typos. Contents 9 Proton structure in QCD 1 9.1 Probing a charge distribution & form factors . .1 9.2 Structure functions . .3 9.2.1 e−µ−-scattering in the laboratory frame . .3 9.2.2 e−p-scattering & the hadronic tensor . .3 9.3 Parton model . .6 9.3.1 Bjorken scaling . .6 9.3.2 SLAC-MIT experiment . .7 9.3.3 Callan-Gross relation . .9 9.3.4 Parton density functions of protons and neutrons . 10 9.4 Gluons . 11 9.4.1 Missing momentum . 11 9.4.2 Gluons and the parton model at (ααs)............... 13 O 9.5 Experimental techniques . 14 9.6 Parton model revisited . 15 9.7 QCD corrections to the parton model . 22 9.8 Altarelli-Parisi equations . -
A Phenomenological Ontology for Physics Michel Bitbol
A Phenomenological Ontology For Physics Michel Bitbol To cite this version: Michel Bitbol. A Phenomenological Ontology For Physics. H. Wiltsche & P. Berghofer (eds.) Phe- nomenological approaches to physics Springer, 2020. hal-03039509 HAL Id: hal-03039509 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03039509 Submitted on 3 Dec 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY FOR PHYSICS Merleau-Ponty and QBism1 Michel Bitbol Archives Husserl, CNRS/ENS, 45, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France in: H. Wiltsche & P. Berghofer, (eds.), Phenomenological approaches to physics, Springer, 2020 Foreword Let’s imagine that, despite the lack of any all-encompassing picture, an abstract mathematical structure guides our (technological) activities more efficiently than ever, possibly assisted by a set of clumsy, incomplete, ancillary pictures. In this new situation, the usual hierarchy of knowledge would be put upside down. Unlike the standard order of priorities, situation-centered practical knowledge would be given precedence over theoretical knowledge associated with elaborate unified representations; in the same way as, in Husserl’s Crisis of the European Science, the life-world is given precedence over theoretical “substructions”. Here, instead of construing representation as an accomplished phase of knowledge beyond the primitive embodied adaptation to a changing pattern of phenomena, one would see representation as an optional instrument that is sometimes used in highly advanced forms of embodied fitness. -
Particle Physics Phenomenology Lecture 1: Introduction
Physics 226: Particle Physics Phenomenology Lecture 1: Introduction Fall 2018 August 23, 2018 Physics 226: Particle Physics Phenomenology • Primary theme of this class: I Interplay between theory and experiment • Suprising experimental results lead to theoretical breakthroughs • Brilliant theoretical ideas both guide experiment and allow us to interpret measurements • Understanding of particle physics expressed in the Lagrangian of the \Standard Model": I A misleading name! • SM is a real theory with well-developed phenomenology • Testable predictions • Describes all experimental results (except perhaps neutrino mass) Term \Standard Model" is an indication of our greed • Reminds us that there are many unanswered questions I Does particle physics provide a solution for Dark Matter? I Why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces? I Why is there so little anti-matter in the Universe? I Are there extra space-time dimensions? I Why are there 3 generations of quarks and leptons? • Answers to any of these questions would revolutionize our view of the world! I Mainstream particle physics experiments today are searching for phenomena that address all these issues The Standard Model Particles 1 • Spin 2 matter fields • Spin 1 force carriers • One fundamental scalar Particle physics framework based on development of quantum gauge theories • You will study quantum gauge theories in detail in Physics 232 • Simplest such theory: Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) I Developed in the 1950's I Tested to 7 significant digit precision I Exhibits a number -
Aspects of Holographic Renormalization Group Flows on Curved Manifolds Jewel Kumar Ghosh
Aspects of Holographic Renormalization Group Flows on Curved Manifolds Jewel Kumar Ghosh To cite this version: Jewel Kumar Ghosh. Aspects of Holographic Renormalization Group Flows on Curved Manifolds. Physics [physics]. Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. English. NNT : 2019USPCC071. tel- 02957677 HAL Id: tel-02957677 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02957677 Submitted on 5 Oct 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Thèse de doctorat de l’Université Sorbonne Paris Cité Préparée à l’Université Paris Diderot Ecole doctorale Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement et Physique de l'Univers, Paris, ED 560 APC - AstroParticule et Cosmologie Aspects of Holographic Renormalization Group Flows on Curved Manifolds Par Jewel Kumar Ghosh Thèse de doctorat de Physique Dirigée par Elias KIRITSIS et Francesco NITTI Présentée et soutenue publiquement à Paris le 19 June 2019 Président du jury : Dudas, Emilian, DR-CNRS , CPHT- Ecole Polytechnique. Rapporteurs : Mateos Sole, David Julian, professeur à l' Universitat de Barcelona, Parnachev, Andrei, professeur à l' Trinity College Dublin. Examinateurs : Petrini, Michela, professeur à l’Sorbonne U, Serreau, Julien, MCF à l'Université Paris Diderot, Laboratoire APC. Directeur de thèse : Kiritsis, Elias Directeur de Recherche au CNRS/Laboratoire APC. -
Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four Manifolds
Mathematical Physics Studies 25 Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four Manifolds by Jose Labastida Marcos Marino TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND FOUR MANIFOLDS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS STUDIES Editorial Board: Maxim Kontsevich, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France Massimo Porrati, New York University, New York, U.S.A. Vladimir Matveev, Université Bourgogne, Dijon, France Daniel Sternheimer, Université Bourgogne, Dijon, France VOLUME 25 Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four Manifolds by JOSE LABASTIDA and MARCOS MARINO A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 1-4020-3058-4 (HB) ISBN 1-4020-3177-7 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Springer, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Springer, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2005 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. Table of Contents Preface ............................vii 1. Topological Aspects of Four-Manifolds ............. 1 1.1. Homology and cohomology . ............. 1 1.2. The intersection form .................. 2 1.3. Self-dual and anti-self-dual forms . -
Annual Report Report 2019
Erwin Schrödinger International Institute 2019 for Mathematics and Physics T R L REPO A SI ANNU E 2019 ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT REPORT 2019 Publisher: Christoph Dellago, Director, The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna / Austria. Editorial Office: Christoph Dellago, Beatrix Wolf. Cover-Design: steinkellner.com Photos: Österreichische Zentralbibliothek für Physik, Philipp Steinkellner. Printing: Berger, Horn. © 2020 Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics. www.esi.ac.at Annual Report 2019 THE INSTITUTE PURSUES ITS MISSION FACILITIES / LOCATION THROUGH A VARIETY OF PROGRAMMES THE ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER INTERNA- THEMATIC PROGRAMMES offer the TIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS opportunity for a large number of AND PHYSICS (ESI), founded in 1993 scientists at all career stages to come and part of the University of Vienna together for discussions, brainstorming, since 2011, is dedicated to the ad- seminars and collaboration. They typi- vancement of scholarly research in all cally last between 4 and 12 weeks, and areas of mathematics and physics are structured to cover several topical and, in particular, to the promotion of focus areas connected by a main theme. exchange between these disciplines. A programme may also include shorter workshop-like periods. WORKSHOPS with a duration of up to THE SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP two weeks focus on a specific scientific PROGRAMME aims at attracting topic in mathematics or physics with internationally -
Model with Lepton-Flavour Non-Universality
Phenomenology of an SU(2) × SU(2) × U(1) model with lepton-flavour non-universality The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Boucenna, Sofiane M., Alejandro Celis, Javier Fuentes-Marti#n, Avelino Vicente and Javier Virto. "Phenomenology of an SU(2) × SU(2) × U(1) model with lepton-flavour non-universality." Journal of High Energy Physics, December 2016, 2016:59. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)059 Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Version Final published version Citable link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117195 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published for SISSA by Springer Received: September 12, 2016 Revised: November 15, 2016 Accepted: December 6, 2016 Published: December 14, 2016 Phenomenology of an SU(2) × SU(2) × U(1) model with lepton-flavour non-universality JHEP12(2016)059 Sofiane M. Boucenna,a Alejandro Celis,b Javier Fuentes-Mart´ın,c Avelino Vicentec and Javier Virtod aLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via Enrico Fermi 40, 100044 Frascati, Italy bArnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Fakult¨atf¨urPhysik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit¨atM¨unchen, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 M¨unchen,Germany cInstituto de F´ısica Corpuscular, Universitat de Val`encia| CSIC, E-46071 Val`encia,Spain dAlbert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract: We investigate a gauge extension of the Standard Model in light of the ob- served hints of lepton universality violation in b ! c`ν and b ! s`+`− decays at BaBar, Belle and LHCb.