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Phenomenology of SUSY with scalar sequestering
The defining feature of scalar sequestering is that the MSSM squark and
slepton masses as well as all entries of the scalar Higgs mass matrix vanish at
some high scale. This ultraviolet boundary condition - scalar masses vanish
while gaugino and Higgsino masses are unsuppressed - is independent of the
supersymmetry breaking mediation mechanism. It is the result of renormalization
group scaling from approximately conformal strong dynamics in the hidden
sector. We review the mechanism of scalar sequestering and prove that the same
dynamics which suppresses scalar soft masses and the B_mu term also drives the
Higgs soft masses to -|mu|^2. Thus the supersymmetric contribution to the Higgs
mass matrix from the mu-term is exactly canceled by the soft masses. Scalar
sequestering has two tell-tale predictions for the superpartner spectrum in
addition to the usual gaugino mediation predictions: Higgsinos are much heavier
(mu > TeV) than scalar Higgses (m_A ~ few hundred GeV), and third generation
scalar masses are enhanced because of new positive contributions from Higgs
loops.Comment: 16 pages and 3 figure
The general structure of quantum resource theories
In recent years it was recognized that properties of physical systems such as
entanglement, athermality, and asymmetry, can be viewed as resources for
important tasks in quantum information, thermodynamics, and other areas of
physics. This recognition followed by the development of specific quantum
resource theories (QRTs), such as entanglement theory, determining how quantum
states that cannot be prepared under certain restrictions may be manipulated
and used to circumvent the restrictions. Here we discuss the general structure
of QRTs, and show that under a few assumptions (such as convexity of the set of
free states), a QRT is asymptotically reversible if its set of allowed
operations is maximal; that is, if the allowed operations are the set of all
operations that do not generate (asymptotically) a resource. In this case, the
asymptotic conversion rate is given in terms of the regularized relative
entropy of a resource which is the unique measure/quantifier of the resource in
the asymptotic limit of many copies of the state. This measure also equals the
smoothed version of the logarithmic robustness of the resource.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, few references added, published versio
Qubit measurements with a double-dot detector
We propose to monitor a qubit with a double-dot (DD) resonant-tunneling
detector, which can operate at higher temperatures than a single-dot detector.
In order to assess the effectiveness of this device, we derive rate equations
for the density matrix of the entire system. We show that the signal-to-noise
ratio can be greatly improved by a proper choice of the parameters and location
of the detector. We demonstrate that quantum interference effects within the DD
detector play an important role in the measurement. Surprisingly, these effects
produce a systematic measurement error, even when the entire system is in a
stationary state.Comment: 4 pages, some explanations added, Phys. Rev. Lett., in pres
Is the Relaxion an Axion?
We consider the recently proposed cosmological relaxation mechanism where the
hierarchy problem is ameliorated, and the electroweak scale is dynamically
selected by a slowly rolling axion field. We argue that, in its simplest form,
the construction breaks a gauge symmetry that always exists for
pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons (in particular the axion). The small parameter in
the relaxion model is therefore not technically natural as it breaks a gauge
symmetry rather than global symmetries only. The consistency of the theory
generically implies that the cutoff must lie around the electroweak scale, but
not qualitatively higher. We discuss several ways to evade the above
conclusion. Some of them may be sufficient to increase the cutoff to the
few-TeV range (and therefore may be relevant for the little-hierarchy problem).
To demonstrate the ideas in a concrete setting we consider a model with a
familon, the Nambu-Goldstone boson of a spontaneously broken chiral flavor
symmetry. The model has some interesting collider-physics aspects and contains
a viable weakly interacting dark matter candidate.Comment: some typos fixed, clarifications adde
Phenomenology of relaxion-Higgs mixing
We show that the relaxion generically stops its rolling at a point that
breaks CP leading to relaxion-Higgs mixing. This opens the door to a variety of
observational probes since the possible relaxion mass spans a broad range from
sub-eV to the GeV scale. We derive constraints from current experiments (fifth
force, astrophysical and cosmological probes, beam dump, flavour, LEP and LHC)
and present projections from future experiments such as NA62, SHiP and PIXIE.
We find that a large region of the parameter space is already under the
experimental scrutiny. All the experimental constraints we derive are equally
applicable for general Higgs portal models. In addition, we show that simple
multiaxion (clockwork) UV completions suffer from a mild fine tuning problem,
which increases with the number of sites. These results favour a cut-off scale
lower than the existing theoretical bounds.Comment: 46 pages, 6 figures, v3: typos fixed, references added, version
matches the version published in JHE
Lessons from Recent Measurements of D-\bar D Mixing
An impressive progress in measurements of the D-\bar D mixing parameters has
been made in recent years. We explore the implications of these measurements to
models of new physics, especially in view of recent upper bounds on the amount
of CP violation. We update the constraints on non-renormalizable four-quark
operators. We show that the experiments are close to probing minimally flavor
violating models with large tan beta. The data challenge models with a scale of
order TeV where the flavor violation in the down sector is suppressed by
alignment and, in particular, certain classes of supersymmetric models and of
warped extra dimension models.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure. Added references, minor corrections and
clarifications. Matches published versio
Compromise in negotiation: exploiting worth functions over states
AbstractPrevious work by G. Zlotkin and J.S. Rosenschein (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992) discussed interagent negotiation protocols. One of the main assumptions there was that the agents' goals remain fixed—the agents cannot relax their initial goals, which can be achieved only as a whole and cannot be partially achieved. A goal there was considered a formula that is either satisfied or not satisfied by a given state.We here present a more general approach to the negotiation problem in non-cooperative domains where agents' goals are not expressed as formulas, but rather as worth functions. An agent associates a particular value with each possible final state; this value reflects the degree of satisfaction the agent derives from being in that state.With this new definition of goal as worth function, an agreement may lead to a situation in which one or both goals are only partially achieved (i.e., agents may not reach their most desired state). We present a negotiation protocol that can be used in a general non-cooperative domain when worth functions are available. This multi-plan deal type allows agents to compromise over their degree of satisfaction, and (in parallel) to negotiate over the joint plan that will be implemented to reach the compromise final state. The ability to compromise often results in a better deal, enabling agents to increase their overall utility.Finally, we present more detailed examples of specific worth functions in various domains, and show how they are used in the negotiation process
Undersampled Phase Retrieval with Outliers
We propose a general framework for reconstructing transform-sparse images
from undersampled (squared)-magnitude data corrupted with outliers. This
framework is implemented using a multi-layered approach, combining multiple
initializations (to address the nonconvexity of the phase retrieval problem),
repeated minimization of a convex majorizer (surrogate for a nonconvex
objective function), and iterative optimization using the alternating
directions method of multipliers. Exploiting the generality of this framework,
we investigate using a Laplace measurement noise model better adapted to
outliers present in the data than the conventional Gaussian noise model. Using
simulations, we explore the sensitivity of the method to both the
regularization and penalty parameters. We include 1D Monte Carlo and 2D image
reconstruction comparisons with alternative phase retrieval algorithms. The
results suggest the proposed method, with the Laplace noise model, both
increases the likelihood of correct support recovery and reduces the mean
squared error from measurements containing outliers. We also describe exciting
extensions made possible by the generality of the proposed framework, including
regularization using analysis-form sparsity priors that are incompatible with
many existing approaches.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
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