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The International Mass Loading Service
The International Mass Loading Service computes four loadings: a) atmospheric
pressure loading; b) land water storage loading; c) oceanic tidal loading; and
d) non-tidal oceanic loading. The service provides to users the mass loading
time series in three forms: 1) pre-computed time series for a list of 849 space
geodesy stations; 2) pre-computed time series on the global 1deg x 1deg grid;
and 3) on-demand Internet service for a list of stations and a time range
specified by the user. The loading displacements are provided for the time
period from 1979.01.01 through present, updated on an hourly basis, and have
latencies 8-20 hours.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Reference
Frames for Applications in Geosciences Simposium, held in Luxemboug in
October 201
Algorithmic approach to adiabatic quantum optimization
It is believed that the presence of anticrossings with exponentially small
gaps between the lowest two energy levels of the system Hamiltonian, can render
adiabatic quantum optimization inefficient. Here, we present a simple adiabatic
quantum algorithm designed to eliminate exponentially small gaps caused by
anticrossings between eigenstates that correspond with the local and global
minima of the problem Hamiltonian. In each iteration of the algorithm,
information is gathered about the local minima that are reached after passing
the anticrossing non-adiabatically. This information is then used to penalize
pathways to the corresponding local minima, by adjusting the initial
Hamiltonian. This is repeated for multiple clusters of local minima as needed.
We generate 64-qubit random instances of the maximum independent set problem,
skewed to be extremely hard, with between 10^5 and 10^6 highly-degenerate local
minima. Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, it is found that the algorithm
can trivially solve all the instances in ~10 iterations.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Magnetic permeability of near-critical 3d abelian Higgs model and duality
The three-dimensional abelian Higgs model has been argued to be dual to a
scalar field theory with a global U(1) symmetry. We show that this duality,
together with the scaling and universality hypotheses, implies a scaling law
for the magnetic permeablity chi_m near the line of second order phase
transition: chi_m ~ t^nu, where t is the deviation from the critical line and
nu ~ 0.67 is a critical exponent of the O(2) universality class. We also show
that exactly on the critical lines, the dependence of magnetic induction on
external magnetic field is quadratic, with a proportionality coefficient
depending only on the gauge coupling. These predictions provide a way for
testing the duality conjecture on the lattice in the Coulomb phase and at the
phase transion.Comment: 11 pages; updated references and small changes, published versio
Probing spacetime foam with extragalactic sources
Due to quantum fluctuations, spacetime is probably ``foamy'' on very small
scales. We propose to detect this texture of spacetime foam by looking for
core-halo structures in the images of distant quasars. We find that the Very
Large Telescope interferometer will be on the verge of being able to probe the
fabric of spacetime when it reaches its design performance. Our method also
allows us to use spacetime foam physics and physics of computation to infer the
existence of dark energy/matter, independent of the evidence from recent
cosmological observations.Comment: LaTeX, 11 pages, 1 figure; version submitted to PRL; several
references added; very useful comments and suggestions by Eric Perlman
incorporate
Searching for magnetic monopoles trapped in accelerator material at the Large Hadron Collider
If produced in high energy particle collisions at the LHC, magnetic monopoles
could stop in material surrounding the interaction points. Obsolete parts of
the beam pipe near the CMS interaction region, which were exposed to the
products of pp and heavy ion collisions, were analysed using a SQUID-based
magnetometer. The purpose of this work is to quantify the performance of the
magnetometer in the context of a monopole search using a small set of samples
of accelerator material ahead of the 2013 shutdown.Comment: 11 page
Classical and Quantum Annealing in the Median of Three Satisfiability
We determine the classical and quantum complexities of a specific ensemble of
three-satisfiability problems with a unique satisfying assignment for up to
N=100 and N=80 variables, respectively. In the classical limit we employ
generalized ensemble techniques and measure the time that a Markovian Monte
Carlo process spends in searching classical ground states. In the quantum limit
we determine the maximum finite correlation length along a quantum adiabatic
trajectory determined by the linear sweep of the adiabatic control parameter in
the Hamiltonian composed of the problem Hamiltonian and the constant transverse
field Hamiltonian. In the median of our ensemble both complexities diverge
exponentially with the number of variables. Hence, standard, conventional
adiabatic quantum computation fails to reduce the computational complexity to
polynomial. Moreover, the growth-rate constant in the quantum limit is 3.8
times as large as the one in the classical limit, making classical fluctuations
more beneficial than quantum fluctuations in ground-state searches
Quantum M^2 -> 2Lambda/3 discontinuity for massive gravity with a Lambda term
In a previous paper we showed that the absence of the van
Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity as M^2 -> 0 for massive spin-2 with a Lambda
term is an artifact of the tree approximation, and that the discontinuity
reappears at one loop, as a result of going from five degrees of freedom to
two. In this paper we show that a similar classical continuity but quantum
discontinuity arises in the "partially massless" limit M^2 -> 2Lambda/3, as a
result of going from five degrees of freedom to four.Comment: 8 pages, REVTe
Neutrix Calculus and Finite Quantum Field Theory
In general, quantum field theories (QFT) require regularizations and infinite
renormalizations due to ultraviolet divergences in their loop calculations.
Furthermore, perturbation series in theories like QED are not convergent
series, but are asymptotic series. We apply neutrix calculus, developed in
connection with asymptotic series and divergent integrals, to QFT,obtaining
finite renormalizations. While none of the physically measurable results in
renormalizable QFT is changed, quantum gravity is rendered more manageable in
the neutrix framework.Comment: 10 pages; LaTeX; version to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. as a
Letter to the Edito
Noise Thresholds for Higher Dimensional Systems using the Discrete Wigner Function
For a quantum computer acting on d-dimensional systems, we analyze the
computational power of circuits wherein stabilizer operations are perfect and
we allow access to imperfect non-stabilizer states or operations. If the noise
rate affecting the non-stabilizer resource is sufficiently high, then these
states and operations can become simulable in the sense of the Gottesman-Knill
theorem, reducing the overall power of the circuit to no better than classical.
In this paper we find the depolarizing noise rate at which this happens, and
consequently the most robust non-stabilizer states and non-Clifford gates. In
doing so, we make use of the discrete Wigner function and derive facets of the
so-called qudit Clifford polytope i.e. the inequalities defining the convex
hull of all qudit Clifford gates. Our results for robust states are provably
optimal. For robust gates we find a critical noise rate that, as dimension
increases, rapidly approaches the the theoretical optimum of 100%. Some
connections with the question of qudit magic state distillation are discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 1 table; Minor changes vs. version
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