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Mapping continuous-variable quantum states onto optical scalar beams
B. M. Rodr\'iguez-Lara, F. E. Becerra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12426 https://arx…

Mapping continuous-variable quantum states onto optical scalar beams
Optical fields provide an accessible platform to explore connections between classical and quantum mechanics. We introduce a group-theoretic framework based on the $\mathrm{su}(1,1)$ Lie algebra to construct classical analogs of continuous-variable quantum states using the spatial degree of freedom of paraxial scalar beams. Our framework maps squeezed number states onto scalar beams expanded in orthonormal Gaussian modal bases, encompassing both Gaussian and non-Gaussian classical analogs, incl…

Entanglement certification from moments of positive maps
Qing-Hua Zhang, Xiaoyu Ma, Shao-Ming Fei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Entanglement certification from moments of positive maps
Entanglement certification is crucial in physical experiments, particularly when only partial knowledge of the quantum state is available. In this context, we present an entanglement criterion based on positive but not completely positive maps, which eliminates the need to identify eigenvalues of the output state. Notably, the Faddeev-LeVerrier algorithm establishes a relationship between the coefficients of characteristic polynomials and the moments of a matrix. This enables the existence of n…

Started watching Presence after seeing a few recommendations for it. I'm not usually into straight up ghosty type flicks but this one's done in a fairly unique way. Digging it.
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Presence (2024)
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

Bahn muss Mehrkosten für #S21 alleine tragen. Man könnte nun als Bund, Land, Region oder Stadt mit Schadenfreude auf die Bahn schauen und sagen, "Siehst Du mal, Du bist Schuld!" Aber tatsächlich liegt das Versagen bei diesem gigantischen Prestigeprojekt tief im politischen Handeln der schwarzen Jahre von Ministerpräsident Mappus und seinen Vorgängern.
Das gigantischen Prestigeprojekt w…

Urteil: Bahn muss Mehrkosten für Projekt Stuttgart 21 allein tragen
Wer trägt die Mehrkosten für das Großprojekt Stuttgart 21? Mit Klagen versuchte die Bahn, die Projektpartner dazu zu zwingen, sich daran zu beteiligen. Nun entschied ein Gericht: Die Bahn muss zahlen.

Sensitivity toward dark matter annihilation imprints on 21-cm signal with SKA-Low: A convolutional neural network approach
Pravin Kumar Natwariya, Kenji Kadota, Atsushi J. Nishizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08251

Sensitivity toward dark matter annihilation imprints on 21-cm signal with SKA-Low: A convolutional neural network approach
This study investigates the sensitivity of the radio interferometers to identify imprints of spatially inhomogeneous dark matter annihilation signatures in the 21-cm signal during the pre-reionization era. We focus on the upcoming low-mode survey of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA-Low) telescope. Using CNNs, we analyze simulated 3D 21-cm differential brightness temperature maps generated via the DM21cm code, which is based on 21cmFAST and DarkHistory, to distinguish between spatially homogeneou…

A New Boundary Condition on Reionization
Sarah Libanore, Ely D. Kovetz, Julian B. Munoz, Yonatan Sklansky, Emilie Th\'elie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08886 https://

A New Boundary Condition on Reionization
The epoch of reionization (EoR) marks the last phase transition of hydrogen in our Universe, as it evolves from cold and neutral to hot and ionized in the intergalactic medium (IGM). While its endpoint and duration can be estimated from current observations, albeit with large uncertainties, there is no known avenue to constrain its onset. We propose a novel method based on the Pearson cross-correlation coefficient between 21-cm brightness temperature maps and line-intensity maps tracing star-fo…

Guard-GBDT: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Approximated GBDT Training on Vertical Dataset
Anxiao Song, Shujie Cui, Jianli Bai, Ke Cheng, Yulong Shen, Giovanni Russello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20688

Guard-GBDT: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Approximated GBDT Training on Vertical Dataset
In light of increasing privacy concerns and stringent legal regulations, using secure multiparty computation (MPC) to enable collaborative GBDT model training among multiple data owners has garnered significant attention. Despite this, existing MPC-based GBDT frameworks face efficiency challenges due to high communication costs and the computation burden of non-linear operations, such as division and sigmoid calculations. In this work, we introduce Guard-GBDT, an innovative framework tailored f…

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: improved mitigation of spatially varying observational systematics with masking
M. Rodr\'iguez-Monroy, N. Weaverdyck, J. Elvin-Poole, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, A. Carnero Rosell, A. Drlica-Wagner, S. Avila, M. R. Becker, K. Bechtol, M. Crocce, M. Gatti, J. Mena-Fern\'andez, A. Porredon, D. Sanchez Cid, M. Yamamoto, M. Aguena, S. S. Allam, O. Alves, F. Andrade-Oliveira, D. Bacon, J. Blazek, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, R. Camilleri, J. Carretero, R. Cawthon…

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: improved mitigation of spatially varying observational systematics with masking
As photometric surveys reach unprecedented statistical precision, systematic uncertainties increasingly dominate large-scale structure probes relying on galaxy number density. Defining the final survey footprint is critical, as it excludes regions affected by artefacts or suboptimal observing conditions. For galaxy clustering, spatially varying observational systematics, such as seeing, are a leading source of bias. Template maps of contaminants are used to derive spatially dependent correction…

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog
HSC Collaboration, M. Aguena, S. Aiola, S. Allam, F. Andrade-Oliveira, D. Bacon, N. Bahcall, N. Battaglia, E. S. Battistelli, S. Bocquet, B. Bolliet, J. R. Bond, D. Brooks, E. Calabrese, J. Carretero, S. K. Choi, L. N. da Costa, M. Costanzi, W. Coulton, T. M. Davis, S. Desai, M. J. Devlin, S. Dicker, P. Doel, A. J. Duivenvoorden, J. Dunkley, S. Ferraro, B. Flaugher, J. Frieman, P. A. Gallardo, …

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog
We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) microwave sky maps covering 16293 square degrees in three frequency bands, using data obtained over the lifetime of the project (2008-2022). We report redshifts and mass estimates for 9977 clusters detected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect with signal-to-noise greater than 4 at a 2.4 arcminute filter scale. The catalog includes 1166 clusters at redshifts greater than 1, a…

SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field
E. Camphuis, W. Quan, L. Balkenhol, A. R. Khalife, F. Ge, F. Guidi, N. Huang, G. P. Lynch, Y. Omori, C. Trendafilova, A. J. Anderson, B. Ansarinejad, M. Archipley, P. S. Barry, K. Benabed, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, L. E. Bleem, F. R. Bouchet, L. Bryant, M. G. Campitiello, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, P. Chaubal, P. M. Chichura, A. Chokshi, T.…

SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field
We present measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from observations of 4% of the sky with SPT-3G, the current camera on the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The maps used in this analysis are the deepest used in a CMB TT/TE/EE analysis to date. The maps and resulting power spectra have been validated through blind and unblind tests. The measurements of the lensed EE and TE spectra are the most precise to date at l=1800-4…