100 research outputs found
Decoherence and Quantum-Classical Master Equation Dynamics
The conditions under which quantum-classical Liouville dynamics may be
reduced to a master equation are investigated. Systems that can be partitioned
into a quantum-classical subsystem interacting with a classical bath are
considered. Starting with an exact non-Markovian equation for the diagonal
elements of the density matrix, an evolution equation for the subsystem density
matrix is derived. One contribution to this equation contains the bath average
of a memory kernel that accounts for all coherences in the system. It is shown
to be a rapidly decaying function, motivating a Markovian approximation on this
term in the evolution equation. The resulting subsystem density matrix equation
is still non-Markovian due to the fact that bath degrees of freedom have been
projected out of the dynamics. Provided the computation of non-equilibrium
average values or correlation functions is considered, the non-Markovian
character of this equation can be removed by lifting the equation into the full
phase space of the system. This leads to a trajectory description of the
dynamics where each fictitious trajectory accounts for decoherence due to the
bath degrees of freedom. The results are illustrated by computations of the
rate constant of a model nonadiabatic chemical reaction.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, revision includes: Added references on mixed
quantum-classical Liouville theory, and some minor details that address the
comments of the reviewe
Learning the sound inventory of a complex vocal skill via an intrinsic reward
Reinforcement learning (RL) is thought to underlie the acquisition of vocal skills like birdsong and speech, where sounding like one’s “tutor” is rewarding. However, what RL strategy generates the rich sound inventories for song or speech? We find that the standard actor-critic model of birdsong learning fails to explain juvenile zebra finches’ efficient learning of multiple syllables. However, when we replace a single actor with multiple independent actors that jointly maximize a common intrinsic reward, then birds’ empirical learning trajectories are accurately reproduced. The influence of each actor (syllable) on the magnitude of global reward is competitively determined by its acoustic similarity to target syllables. This leads to each actor matching the target it is closest to and, occasionally, to the competitive exclusion of an actor from the learning process (i.e., the learned song). We propose that a competitive-cooperative multi-actor RL (MARL) algorithm is key for the efficient learning of the action inventory of a complex skill
Measurement of the lifetime
An absolute measurement of the lifetime is reported using
decays in events reconstructed from data
collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy
electron-positron collider. The total integrated luminosity of the data sample,
which was collected at center-of-mass energies at or near the
resonance, is 207.2~\mbox{fb}^{-1}. The result, fs, is the most precise
measurement to date and is consistent with previous determinations.Comment: Accepted for publication in PR
Measurements of the branching fractions for decays at Belle II
This paper reports a study of decays using
fb of data collected during 2019--2020 by the Belle II experiment at the
SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy collider, corresponding to events. We find , ,
, and signal events in the decay modes , ,
, and , respectively. The uncertainties quoted for the
signal yield are statistical only. We report the branching fractions of these
decays: where the first
uncertainty is statistical, and the second is systematic. The results are
consistent with world-average values
Precise Measurement of the D and D Lifetimes at Belle II
We report a measurement of the D and D lifetimes using D→Kπ and D→Kππ decays reconstructed in ee→ data recorded by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy ee collider. The data, collected at center-of-mass energies at or near the Υ(4S) resonance, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 72 fb. The results, τ(D)=410.5±1.1(stat)±0.8(syst) fs and τ(D)=1030.4±4.7(stat)±3.1(syst) fs, are the most precise to date and are consistent with previous determinations
Search for an invisible in a final state with two muons and missing energy at Belle II
The extension of the standard model predicts the existence
of a lepton-flavor-universality-violating boson that couples only
to the heavier lepton families. We search for such a through its
invisible decay in the process . We use a
sample of electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58GeV
collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019-2020, corresponding to an
integrated luminosity of 79.7fb. We find no excess over the expected
standard-model background. We set 90-confidence-level upper limits on the
cross section for this process as well as on the coupling of the model, which
ranges from at low masses to 1 at
masses of 8
Measurement of the branching fraction for the decay at Belle II
We report a measurement of the branching fraction of decays, where or
, using electron-positron collisions recorded at an energy at or near
the mass and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of
fb. The data was collected during 2019--2021 by the Belle II experiment
at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy collider. We reconstruct
candidates in the , , and
final states. The signal yields with statistical uncertainties are ,
, and for the decays , , and , respectively.
We measure the branching fractions of these decays for the entire range of the
dilepton mass, excluding the very low mass region to suppress the background and regions compatible with decays
of charmonium resonances, to be \begin{equation} {\cal B}(B \to
K^{\ast}(892)\mu^+\mu^-) = (1.19 \pm 0.31 ^{+0.08}_{-0.07}) \times 10^{-6},
{\cal B}(B \to K^{\ast}(892)e^+e^-) = (1.42 \pm 0.48 \pm 0.09)\times 10^{-6},
{\cal B}(B \to K^{\ast}(892)\ell^+\ell^-) = (1.25 \pm 0.30 ^{+0.08}_{-0.07})
\times 10^{-6}, \end{equation} where the first and second uncertainties are
statistical and systematic, respectively. These results, limited by sample
size, are the first measurements of branching
fractions from the Belle II experiment
Determination of from untagged decays using 2019-2021 Belle II data
We present an analysis of the charmless semileptonic decay , where , from 198.0 million pairs of
mesons recorded by the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB
electron-positron collider. The decay is reconstructed without identifying the
partner meson. The partial branching fractions are measured independently
for and as functions of
(momentum transfer squared), using 3896 and
5466 decays. The total branching fraction is
found to be for decays, where the uncertainties are statistical and
systematic, respectively. By fitting the measured partial branching fractions
as functions of , together with constraints on the nonperturbative
hadronic contribution from lattice QCD calculations, the magnitude of the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element , , is extracted. Here, the first uncertainty is
statistical, the second is systematic and the third is theoretical
Angular analysis of decays reconstructed in 2019, 2020, and 2021 Belle II data
We report on a Belle II measurement of the branching fraction
(), longitudinal polarization fraction (), and CP asymmetry
() of decays. We reconstruct decays in a
sample of SuperKEKB electron-positron collisions collected by the Belle II
experiment in 2019, 2020, and 2021 at the (4S) resonance and
corresponding to 190 fb of integrated luminosity. We fit the
distributions of the difference between expected and observed candidate
energy, continuum-suppression discriminant, dipion masses, and decay angles of
the selected samples, to determine a signal yield of events. The
signal yields are corrected for efficiencies determined from simulation and
control data samples to obtain $\mathcal{B}(B^+ \to \rho^+\rho^0) = [23.2^{+\
2.2}_{-\ 2.1} (\rm stat) \pm 2.7 (\rm syst)]\times 10^{-6}f_L = 0.943 ^{+\
0.035}_{-\ 0.033} (\rm stat)\pm 0.027(\rm syst)\mathcal{A}_{CP}=-0.069
\pm 0.068(\rm stat) \pm 0.060 (\rm syst)\mathcal{A}_{CP}B^+\to
\rho^+\rho^0$ decays reported by Belle II
Observation of decays using the 2019-2022 Belle II data sample
We present a measurement of the branching fractions of four decay modes. The measurement is based on data from
SuperKEKB electron-positron collisions at the resonance
collected with the Belle II detector and corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of . The event yields are extracted from fits
to the distributions of the difference between expected and observed meson
energy to separate signal and background, and are efficiency-corrected as a
function of the invariant mass of the system. We find the branching
fractions to be: where the first uncertainty is statistical and
the second systematic. These results include the first observation of
, , and decays and a significant improvement in the precision
of compared to previous measurements
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