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A look at the surge in US states introducing AI bills, as the states shift from comprehensive AI laws to focus on narrower issues, like mental health (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/whats-up-with-the-states

What's up with the States?
A check-in

Joint momenta-coordinates states as pointer states in quantum decoherence
Nomenjanahary Tanjonirina Manampisoa, Ravo Tokiniaina Ranaivoson, Roland Raboanary, Raoelina Andriambololona, Rivo Herivola Manjakamanana Ravelonjato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18206

Joint momenta-coordinates states as pointer states in quantum decoherence
Quantum decoherence provides a framework to study the emergence of classicality from quantum system by showing how interactions with the environments suppress interferences and select robust states known as pointer states. Earlier studies have linked Gaussian coherent states with pointer states. More recently, it was conjectured that more general quantum states called joint momenta-coordinates states could also be considered as more suitable candidates to be pointer states. These states are ass…

🚛 "50 STATES FOR UKRAINE" – the story of Steffen and Colin #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/ampquot-states-for-ukraineampquot-the.html

With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United States https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/bizarre-remarks-un-trump-embarrasses-united-states-rcna233215 "Each individual abs…

With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United States
In 2018, officials at the U.N. laughed at Donald Trump because they thought he was kidding. In 2025, they stopped laughing because they know he isn’t kidding.

Meanwhile, all food prices are going up.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/24/cuts-to-food-stamps-are-about-to-hit-in-america

Half of states don’t have enough money to cover all their bills, report finds • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/09/25/repub/states-bills/

The Trump administration reportedly plans to mobilize up to 1,700 National Guard troops across 19 states in the coming weeks
a dramatic expansion of the controversial operation that’s seen federal agents and Guard troops carrying out activities across Washington, D.C.
The troops, who will largely come from Republican-controlled states,
will serve in support of the administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations
The Guardsmen assisting ICE will be carryi…

Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guardsman in 19 states to widen law and order crackdown
Deployments reportedly set to take place largely in Republican-controlled states

Computational complexity of injective projected entangled pair states
Dylan Harley, Freek Witteveen, Daniel Malz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19963 https://a…

Computational complexity of injective projected entangled pair states
Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) constitute a variational family of quantum states with area-law entanglement. PEPS are particularly relevant and successful for studying ground states of spatially local Hamiltonians. However, computing local expectation values in these states is known to be postBQP-hard. Injective PEPS, where all constituent tensors fulfil an injectivity constraint, are generally believed to be better behaved, because they are unique ground states of spatially local Hamil…

Do You Need Proprioceptive States in Visuomotor Policies?
Juntu Zhao, Wenbo Lu, Di Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Yushen Liang, Tianluo Zhang, Yifeng Cao, Junyuan Xie, Yingdong Hu, Shengjie Wang, Junliang Guo, Dequan Wang, Yang Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18644

Dit is goed https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-for-americans-to-start-talking

With the impending arrival of Typhoon #OpongPH (#Bualoi) and the recent protests against corruption in government-funded flood control projects, the recent release of the 2025 World Risk Report, with its topical focus on flooding, is very timely.
And to the surprise of no one, the

HAHAHAHAHA!
Marvellous! 😂
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114908945676154083

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL in 1816, the United States built a fort to protect itself from invasion by Canada. There was only one small problem: due to a surveying error, it was built in Canada. It was later known as "Fort Blunder" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Montgomery_%28Lake_Champlain%29 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m87dq9/til_in_1816_the_united_states_built_a_fort_to/

Edge states at the boundary of graphene-like and Lieb lattices
I. V. Kozlov, Yu. A. Kolesnichenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17612 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Edge states at the boundary of graphene-like and Lieb lattices
Properties of the boundary of two conductors in a quantizing magnetic field are studied: with conventional Dirac charge carriers and so-called pseudospin-1 fermions, which are realized in graphene-like and Lieb lattices respectively. It is shown that edge states arise that relate the properties of conductors to the trivial and nontrivial Berry phase. These edge states lead to the appearance of a characteristic series of root features in the density of states.

Medicine show: A Calogero model with principal series states
Tarek Anous, Jackson R. Fliss, Jeremy van der Heijden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17811 https://

Medicine show: A Calogero model with principal series states
The Calogero model is an interacting, $N$-particle, $\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R)$-invariant quantum mechanics, whose Hilbert space is furnished by a tower of discrete series modules. The system enjoys both classical and quantum integrability at any $N$ and at any value of the coupling; this is guaranteed by the existence of $N$ mutually-commuting currents, one of them being the Hamiltonian. In this paper, we alter the Calogero model so that it may accommodate states in the unitary principal seri…

Wow.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lzkmh6jvfk22

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social)
As President Macron walked down the US street onlookers smiled and even took selfies with him; many of them happy to experience seeing a real president in the United States after months of the demonic autocratic clown show emanating out of the White House.

A Highly Clean Recipe Dataset with Ingredient States Annotation for State Probing Task
Mashiro Toyooka, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Yoko Yamakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17232 https://

A Highly Clean Recipe Dataset with Ingredient States Annotation for State Probing Task
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a vast amount of procedural texts, but they do not directly observe real-world phenomena. In the context of cooking recipes, this poses a challenge, as intermediate states of ingredients are often omitted, making it difficult for models to track ingredient states and understand recipes accurately. In this paper, we apply state probing, a method for evaluating a language model's understanding of the world, to the domain of cooking. We propose a new tas…

Probing the flavour structure of dimension-6 EFT operators in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17498

Probing the flavour structure of dimension-6 EFT operators in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
An analysis of the flavour structure of dimension-6 effective field theory (EFT) operators in multilepton final states is presented, focusing on the interactions involving Z bosons. For the first time, the flavour structure of these operators is disentangled by simultaneously probing the interactions with different quark generations. The analysis targets the associated production of a top quark pair and a Z boson, as well as diboson processes in final states with at least three leptons, which c…

Designing efficient interventions for pre-disease states using control theory
Makito Oku
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18269

Designing efficient interventions for pre-disease states using control theory
To extend healthy life expectancy in an aging society, it is crucial to prevent various diseases at pre-disease states. Although dynamical network biomarker theory has been developed for pre-disease detection, mathematical frameworks for pre-disease treatment have not been well established. Here I propose a control theory-based approach for pre-disease treatment, named Markov chain sparse control (MCSC), where time evolution of a probability distribution on a Markov chain is described as a disc…

Magnetic penetration depth in topological superconductors: Effect of Majorana surface states and application for UTe$_2$
Kazuki Akuzawa, Jushin Tei, Ryoi Ohashi, Satoshi Fujimoto, Takeshi Mizushima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18441

Quantifying alpha clustering in the ground states of 16-O and 20-Ne
E. Harris, M. Barbui, J. Bishop, G. Chubarian, Sebastian Konig, E. Koshchiy, K. D. Launey, Dean Lee, Zifeng Luo, Yuan-Zhuo Ma, Ulf-G. Meissner, C. E. Parker, Zhengxue Ren, M. Roosa, A. Saastamoinen, G. H. Sargsyan, D. P. Scriven, Shihang Shen, A. Volya, Hang Yu, G. V. Rogachev
https://

Quantifying alpha clustering in the ground states of 16-O and 20-Ne
Understanding the role of multi-nucleon correlations in the structure of light nuclei is at the forefront of modern nuclear science. In this letter, we present a quantitative benchmark study of alpha-cluster correlations in the ground states of 16-O and 20-Ne. Experimental data provide direct evidence that the wave functions of the ground states of 16-O and 20-Ne are dominated by alpha-cluster correlations, in agreement with the predictions of sophisticated nuclear structure models. We also pro…

roadnet: U.S. roads (CA, PA, TX)
Road networks from three US states (CA, PA, TX), in which edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads.
This network has 1090920 nodes and 3083796 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/roadnet

Flavor SU(3) analysis of the charmless semileptonic $B \to PV\ell^ \nu_\ell$ decays
Yi Qiao, Jin-Huan Sheng, Yuan-Guo Xu, Ru-Min Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17537

Flavor SU(3) analysis of the charmless semileptonic $B \to PV\ell^+ν_\ell$ decays
All charmless $B \to PV\ell^+ν_\ell$ ($P$ denotes light pseudoscalar meson and $V$ denotes vector meson) decays have not been experimentally observed to date, but some of them might be measured in the near future. The charmless $B \to PV\ell^+ν_\ell$ decays with the axial-vector ($A$) resonance states, the tensor ($T$) resonance states and the excited vector ($V_{E,D}$) resonance states are studied based on flavor SU(3) analysis in this work, where $V_E$ contains $\{ρ(1450), K^*(1410), ω(14…

JaParaPat: A Large-Scale Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus
Masaaki Nagata, Katsuki Chousa, Norihito Yasuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16303 https://

JaParaPat: A Large-Scale Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus
We constructed JaParaPat (Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus), a bilingual corpus of more than 300 million Japanese-English sentence pairs from patent applications published in Japan and the United States from 2000 to 2021. We obtained the publication of unexamined patent applications from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We also obtained patent family information from the DOCDB, that is a bibliographic database maintained…

“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. ”
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d

America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.

The Climatological Relationship Between United States Tornadoes and Extratropical Cyclones
Lauren Kiefer, Daniel Chavas, Michelle Gore, Daniel Dawson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16975

The Climatological Relationship Between United States Tornadoes and Extratropical Cyclones
Tornadoes have caused billions of dollars in damage and are one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the United States each year. Tornadoes are known to frequently form in the warm sector of extratropical cyclones (ETCs), yet relatively little research exists quantifying the climatological relationship between the two phenomena and their covariability. This work analyzes the climatology of F/EF1+ tornadoes relative to ETCs (ETCTORs) using historical databases of tornadoes and hour…

Organ donation saves lives and enjoys widespread public support,
but many people are unsure what they agree to when they sign up.
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs.
Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

from my link log —
2025 M7.7 earthquake at Mandalay in Burma / Myanmar.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f3e33e35c5247c9bf5204fa0d6e56e5
saved 2025-05-15

2025 M7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake
United States Geological Survey and Collaborators

Locating Ab Initio Transition States via Geodesic Construction on Machine Learned Potential Energy Surfaces
Diptarka Hait, Jan D. Estrada Pab\'on, Martin St\"ohr, Todd J. Mart\'inez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17968

Locating Ab Initio Transition States via Geodesic Construction on Machine Learned Potential Energy Surfaces
Efficient and reliable identification and optimization of transition state structures is a longstanding challenge in computational chemistry. Popular chain-of-states methods require hundreds if not thousands of \textit{ab initio} calculations to generate initial guesses for local quasi-Newton optimizers, with persistent risk of collapse to an alternative stationary point on the potential energy surface (PES). Here, we show that high-quality guess structures for transition state optimization can…

Minimization of an Energy Functional for an Electron in the quantized Radiation Field over quasifree States
Matthias Herdzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17767 https://

Minimization of an Energy Functional for an Electron in the quantized Radiation Field over quasifree States
Building upon the works of Bach, Breteaux, and Tzaneteas (2013) and of Bach and Hach (2022), the Bogolubov-Hartree-Fock (BHF) energy of the Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian is investigated. Upper and lower bounds on the BHF energy are derived, which suggest positivity of the minimizer, see Theorem IV.6. Under the assumption that the minimizer is indeed positive, a necessary condition on the minimizer is determined by introducing a parameterization, which simplifies the functions of operators appearing i…

USA, you're about 85 years behind Germany.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

States have the power to take action on climate change, even in the face of federal rollbacks. From limiting industrial development to transitioning to clean energy, there are steps they can take to protect vulnerable communities. #climatechange

What can state governments do about climate change?
As the federal government withdraws from climate action, states can step up.

Texas' Newest Abortion Restriction Tells Us What We Already Knew: It Was Never About States’ Rights - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/09/25/texas-states-rights-abortion-laws-hb-7/

Depth Gives a False Sense of Privacy: LLM Internal States Inversion
Tian Dong, Yan Meng, Shaofeng Li, Guoxing Chen, Zhen Liu, Haojin Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16372

Depth Gives a False Sense of Privacy: LLM Internal States Inversion
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into daily routines, yet they raise significant privacy and safety concerns. Recent research proposes collaborative inference, which outsources the early-layer inference to ensure data locality, and introduces model safety auditing based on inner neuron patterns. Both techniques expose the LLM's Internal States (ISs), which are traditionally considered irreversible to inputs due to optimization challenges and the highly abstract represent…

DirecTV experiments with discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several US regions and directing subscribers toward its streaming option (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-stop…

DIRECTV Stops Selling Satellite TV for New Customers in Select Areas | Cord Cutters News
DIRECTV, a leading provider of television entertainment, has announced a significant shift in its service offerings, discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several regions across the United States. The company is now directing new subscribers toward its streaming option, as part of a broader strategy to adapt to evolving consumer preferences and technological […]

Action-List Reinforcement Learning Syndrome Decoding for Binary Linear Block Codes
Milad Taghipour, Bane Vasic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17893 https://arx…

Action-List Reinforcement Learning Syndrome Decoding for Binary Linear Block Codes
This paper explores the application of reinforcement learning techniques to enhance the performance of decoding of linear block codes based on flipping bits and finding optimal decisions. We describe the methodology for mapping the iterative decoding process into Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and propose different methods to reduce the number of states in the MDP. A truncated MDP is proposed to reduce the number of states in the MDP by learning a Hamming ball with a specified radius around c…

Been using Monero for 5 years now, and I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by, it feels like just yesterday I started. Over that time, I’ve even used it to pay for clothes, which might sound a bit unusual but it works, and I also use it to pay for privacy services like Mullvad and iVPN since they accept XMR.
Honestly, I’m probably one of the few people who still uses Monero on a weekly basis, not just holding it but actually spending it the way it was meant to be used, which is …

Magnetic Ordering in Moir\'e Graphene Multilayers from a Continuum Hartree U Approach
Christopher T. S. Cheung, Valerio Vitale, Lennart Klebl, Ammon Fischer, Dante M. Kennes, Arash A. Mostofi, Johannes Lischner, Zachary A. H. Goodwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18923

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America #America

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America
The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July. There's a good chance the U.S. will exceed its yearly average of around 4,000 flash flood warnings soon.

Interesting sidenote: the US ambassador to France is a convicted felon who served two years in prison.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/24/us-ambassador-accuses-fr…

US ambassador accuses France of 'lack of sufficient action' on antisemitism
Charles Kusher, the new United States ambassador to France, sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron criticizing France's plan to recognize the State of Palestine, days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar move.

Tunable Non-Gaussian Mechanical States in a Strongly Coupled Hybrid Quantum System
Jugal Talukdar, Scott E. Smart, Prineha Narang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18571 https://

Tunable Non-Gaussian Mechanical States in a Strongly Coupled Hybrid Quantum System
Quantum states of motion are critical components in the second quantum revolution. We investigate the generation and control of non-Gaussian motional states in a tripartite hybrid quantum system consisting of a collection of qubits coupled to a mechanical resonator, which in turn interacts with an externally driven photonic cavity. This hybrid architecture provides a versatile platform for quantum control by integrating nonlinear interactions and multiple control parameters. Operating in the st…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/armenian-national-extradited-united-states-faces-federal-charges-ransomware-extortion
Four members of the Ryuk gang have been indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Portla…

Armenian National Extradited to the United States Faces Federal Charges for Ransomware Extortion Conspiracy
An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States faces federal charges for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks and extortion conspiracy targeting companies throughout the United States, including a technology company operating in Oregon.

There are many things wrong with #twitter's approach to moderation but at least asking for a community note when #grok gets it so very wrong worked:

He totally lost his mind! #Antifa
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terroris…

Instability of Laughlin FQH liquids into gapless power-law correlated states with continuous exponents in ideal Chern bands: rigorous results from plasma mapping
Saranyo Moitra, Inti Sodemann Villadiego
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18265

Scarred ferromagnetic phase in the long-range transverse-field Ising model
\'Angel L. Corps, Armando Rela\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16421 https://…

Scarred ferromagnetic phase in the long-range transverse-field Ising model
We report the existence of a large set of ferromagnetic scarred states in the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model with long-range interactions, in a regime with no ferromagnetic phase at finite temperature. These scarred states are distributed over different spectral regions, surrounded by paramagnetic states. We show that simple initial conditions, consisting in a few small magnetic domains, selectively populate these scarred states. This leads to the appearance of a special dynamical…

Bicolored bosonic solvable lattice models
Talia Blum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16468

Bicolored bosonic solvable lattice models
Recent papers in solvable lattice models emphasize models where states can be visualized as colored paths through the lattice. We define a bosonic model in which there are two types of colors, one whose paths move down and to the right, the other whose paths move down and to the left. Depending on their boundary data, systems may have no states, exactly one state, or many states. We prove that these cases depend on a criterion involving two permutations extracted from the boundary data and thei…

This week, a group of senators
— three Democrats and one independent
— introduced legislation that aims to reform the redistricting process
and eliminate gerrymandering in every state in the country.
The proposed bill would forbid redrawing maps between census cycles,
which is currently being performed by several Republican-led states seeking to subvert the will of voters in order to ensure a GOP-majority Congress in the second half of President Donald Trump’s t…

Democrats Submit Bill Aimed at Limiting GOP’s Mid-Census Gerrymandering Scheme
Several GOP-led states are hoping to mitigate midterm losses by redistricting their maps before the next census.

Non-universal localization transition in the quantum Hall effect probed through broken-symmetry states of graphene
Aifei Zhang, Torsten R\"oper, Manjari Garg, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Carles Altimiras, Patrice Roche, Erwann Bocquillon, Olivier Maillet, Fran\c{c}ois D. Parmentier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20163

Non-universal localization transition in the quantum Hall effect probed through broken-symmetry states of graphene
The quantum Hall effect hosts quantum phase transitions in which the localization length, that is the size of disorder-induced bulk localized states, is governed by universal scaling from percolation theory. However, this universal character is not systematically observed in experiments, including very recent ones in extremely clean devices. Here we explore this non-universality by systematically measuring the localization length in broken-symmetry quantum Hall states of graphene. Depending on …

Oracle will pay for and oversee the construction of three of the new Stargate data centers, and OpenAI will then purchase computing power from Oracle (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/openai-data-centers-united-state…

OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

From humanitarian convoys to the Ukrainian front: the story of two brothers from the United States: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/from-humanitarian-convoys-to-the.html

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Reps. Luna, Valadao, and Garbarino declare the rebranded EATS Act a threat to family farmers and a legislative invitation to foreign-owned factory farms."
Republican Lawmakers Declare Opposition to Legislation to Overturn the States’ Most Important Farm Animal Welfare Laws - Legal Reader
https://www.legalreader.com/republican-lawmakers-declare-opposition-to-legislation-to-overturn-the-states-most-important-farm-animal-welfare-laws/

The second amendment is a cancer on the Constitution. Its primary objective is to preserve to the states the ability to raise militia to act as slave patrols.

Instability of explicit time integration for strongly quenched dynamics with neural quantum states
Hrvoje Vrcan, Johan H. Mentink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17421 https://

Instability of explicit time integration for strongly quenched dynamics with neural quantum states
Neural quantum states have recently demonstrated significant potential for simulating quantum dynamics beyond the capabilities of existing variational ansätze. However, studying strongly driven quantum dynamics with neural networks has proven challenging so far. Here, we focus on assessing several sources of numerical instabilities that can appear in the simulation of quantum dynamics based on the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP) with the computationally efficient explicit time inte…

Prepare Before You Act: Learning From Humans to Rearrange Initial States
Yinlong Dai, Andre Keyser, Dylan P. Losey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18043 https://

Prepare Before You Act: Learning From Humans to Rearrange Initial States
Imitation learning (IL) has proven effective across a wide range of manipulation tasks. However, IL policies often struggle when faced with out-of-distribution observations; for instance, when the target object is in a previously unseen position or occluded by other objects. In these cases, extensive demonstrations are needed for current IL methods to reach robust and generalizable behaviors. But when humans are faced with these sorts of atypical initial states, we often rearrange the environme…

A search for electroweak $t\bar{t}Wj$ production in multileptonic final states at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector and bounds on effective field theory operators
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19038

Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/googles-new-ai-feature-lets-…

Google's new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes | TechCrunch
The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.

Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/devastating-1000-endangered-monkeys-sent-back-to-cruel-testing?utm_source=Mastodon

Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing — Species Unite
In a heartbreaking update on the ongoing case of 1,000 long-tailed macaques stolen from the wild in Cambodia in 2022 and illegally imported into the United States by Charles River Laboratories, the notorious animal testing supplier revealed in their second-quarter earnings report that the U.S. D

Cosmological correlators in gravitationally-constrained de Sitter states
Tuneer Chakraborty, Ashik H, Suvrat Raju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15926 https://…

Cosmological correlators in gravitationally-constrained de Sitter states
We study cosmological correlators in de Sitter quantum gravity in the limit where $G_N \to 0$. This limit is distinct from a nongravitational QFT because the gravitational constraints still force states and observables to be de Sitter invariant. We first examine a class of perturbative correlators that, in gauge-fixed form, are represented by the expectation value of a product of elementary fields on the late-time boundary. We formulate Feynman rules for our computations and enumerate some nece…

EU considering proposals to speed Russian gas phaseout by 1 year, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/eu-considering-proposals-to-speed.html

Entanglement generation across exceptional points in two-qubit open quantum system -- the role of initial states
B. A. Tay, Yee Shean H'ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16101 h…

Entanglement generation across exceptional points in two-qubit open quantum system -- the role of initial states
We study an open quantum system of two qubits that are coupled by swapping interaction. Using the coupling strength between the qubits as a time scale, the Liouvillian of the system has exceptional points that depend on the disparity between the decay rates of the qubits. We find that the configuration of the initial states plays an important role in deciding the character of the entanglement dynamics at the initial stage of evolution. Depending on whether or not the initial excitations of the …

Trump to deploy National Guard across 19 states 'in the coming weeks': report - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-national-guard-states/

Beyond symmetry protection: Robust feedback-enforced edge states in non-Hermitian stacked quantum spin Hall systems
Mengjie Yang, Ching Hua Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17295 …

Beyond symmetry protection: Robust feedback-enforced edge states in non-Hermitian stacked quantum spin Hall systems
Conventional wisdom holds that strongly coupling two QSH layers yields a trivial $\mathbb{Z}_2$ phase and no protected topological edge states. We demonstrate that, in a regime with intermediate inter-layer coupling (neither in the strong or weak coupling regimes) and competitive non-Hermitian directed amplification, bulk modes are suppressed while arbitrary bulk excitations inevitably accumulate into robust helical edge transport modes - without relying on any symmetry protection. Our feedback…

Last month, China hosted its first International Advanced Air Mobility Expo,
showcasing its ambitions to dominate what Beijing calls the
“low-altitude economy,”
a fast-growing sector in the airspace below 3,000 meters (about 9,840 feet)
that includes drone deliveries, electric air taxis, and other uncrewed aerial services.
The event featured cutting-edge technologies
such as the world’s first seven-seat, three-ton electric vertical takeoff-and-landing airc…

The Future Is Being Delivered by Chinese Drones
Washington needs to move quickly if it hopes to compete in this critical industry.

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Reconstructing the unitary part of a noisy quantum channel
Adrian Romer, Daniel M. Reich, Christiane P. Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17648 https://arxiv…

Reconstructing the unitary part of a noisy quantum channel
We consider the problem of reconstructing the unitary describing the evolution of a quantum system, or quantum channel, from a set of input and output states. For ideal, fully coherent evolution, we show that the unitary can be reconstructed from two mixed states or $d+1$ pure states, where $d$ is the size of Hilbert space. The reconstruction method can be extended to approximate the unitary part of a dynamical map, provided the decoherence is not too strong to render this question meaningless.…

Netherlands, OSCE seek investigation into Russian torture of Ukrainian POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/netherlands-osce-seek-investigation-into.html

Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-framework-deal-fff609…

Trump says China's Xi has approved of proposed deal putting TikTok under US ownership
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the United States will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns laid out by the law. Much is still unknown about the actual arrangement, but Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping “gave us the go-ahead” to proceed with the deal. Any major change to the popular video platform could have a huge impact on how Americans — particularly young adults and …

Republicans are plowing forward with plans for redistricting in several other states
now that Texas approved its newly redrawn maps.
The Lone Star State kicked off the redistricting arms race
when Republicans in the state Legislature agreed to move forward with rewriting their congressional lines at the insistence of President Trump

Trump announces US-EU arms agreement including aid for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/trump-announces-useu-arms-agreement.html

Access to state funded financial aid isn't something that the feds can stop. The feds can't tell the states what laws they can write, nor punish citizens for following those laws (like sanctuary city laws).
Trump admin sues Walz, Minnesota over in-state tuition for immigrants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-sues-walz-minnesota-over-in-state-tuition-for-immigrants/

The lower 48 United States lost 22 percent of their butterflies in only 20 years
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/06/climate/us-butterfly-population.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referrin…

See How Butterfly Numbers Are Dropping Near You
Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.

'The people of Ukraine have an unbreakable spirit' — Trump, world leaders mark Independence Day with messages of support to Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/the-people-of-ukraine-have.html

Distribution of non-Gaussian states in a deployed telecommunication fiber channel
Casper A. Breum, Xueshi Guo, Mikkel V. Larsen, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai, Ulrik L. Andersen, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18080

Distribution of non-Gaussian states in a deployed telecommunication fiber channel
Optical non-Gaussian states hold great promise as a pivotal resource for advanced optical quantum information processing and fault-tolerant long-distance quantum communication. Establishing their faithful transmission in a real-world communication channel, therefore, marks an important milestone. In this study, we experimentally demonstrate the distribution of such non-Gaussian states in a functioning telecommunication channel that connects separate buildings within the DTU campus premises. We …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that he is formally rescinding the use of thimerosal in vaccines distributed throughout the United States
— despite the fact that there is no evidence of harm from the ingredient.
The move was recommended by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee last month.
-- Upon taking office earlier this year, Kennedy had dismissed the entirety of the existing board and replaced them with individuals harboring anti-va…

RFK Jr. Bans Thimerosal in Some Flu Vaccines, Despite Experts, Studies Noting Its Safety
“Banning vaccine ingredients without cause increases the perceived risk of vaccines,” one prominent health group said.

"Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi placed blame on high tariffs and “restrictive” immigration policies for the economy’s downturn"
Moody’s chief economist says some states are in recession
https://qz.com/moodys-chief-economist-us-economy-recession

Emergent statistical mechanics in holographic random tensor networks
Shozab Qasim, Jens Eisert, Alexander Jahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16570 https://arx…

Emergent statistical mechanics in holographic random tensor networks
Recent years have enjoyed substantial progress in capturing properties of complex quantum systems by means of random tensor networks (RTNs), which form ensembles of quantum states that depend only on the tensor network geometry and bond dimensions. Of particular interest are RTNs on hyperbolic geometries, with local tensors typically chosen from the unitary Haar measure, that model critical boundary states of holographic bulk-boundary dualities. In this work, we elevate static pictures of ensem…

‘That’ll Be Up To Them’: After Passing SNAP Cuts, Republicans Look to Their States to Handle the Rest
https://www.notus.org/congress/snap-cuts-republicans-states

Trump sparked a national sprint to redistrict
when he asked Texas Republicans to draw five more congressional seats for the GOP
in their state ahead of next year's elections.
In response, Democratic and Republican leaders in at least seven other states have said
they're open to moving their political lines in the fight over the U.S. House,
but that means very different things in different places.
States are often bound by constitutional language a…

Ukraine and the United States to build joint facility for ammunition production: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/ukraine-and-the-united-states.html

Donald Trump ditches America-first to help Argentina's Javier Milei
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/23/argentina-peso-currency-javier-milei-donald-trump-united-states/

Detection of non-absolute separability in quantum states and channels through moments
Bivas Mallick, Saheli Mukherjee, Nirman Ganguly, A. S. Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15700

Detection of non-absolute separability in quantum states and channels through moments
In quantum information and computation, generation of entanglement through unitary gates remains a significant and active area of research. However, there are states termed as absolutely separable, from which entanglement cannot be created through any non-local unitary action. Thus, from a resource-theoretic perspective, non-absolutely separable states are useful as they can be turned into entangled states using some appropriate unitary gates. In this work, we propose an efficient method to det…

A panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed with a lower court’s ruling that Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.
The executive order, signed by Trump in his first week in office,
is “invalid,”
the majority opinion of the court explained in its ruling,
“because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of citizenship to ‘all persons born in the United States and subj…

Appeals Court Finds Trump’s Order Seeking to End Birthright Citizenship Is Unconstitutional
Trump’s executive action ignored the “ordinary meaning” of the 14th amendment, the court found.

Reconfigurable qubit states and quantum trajectories in a synthetic artificial neuron network with a process to direct information generation from co-integrated burst-mode spiking under non-Markovianity
Osama M. Nayfeh, Chris S. Horne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16669

Reconfigurable qubit states and quantum trajectories in a synthetic artificial neuron network with a process to direct information generation from co-integrated burst-mode spiking under non-Markovianity
A synthetic artificial neuron network functional in a regime where quantum information processes are co-integrated with spiking computation provides significant improvement in the capabilities of neuromorphic systems in performing artificial intelligence and autonomy tasks. This provides the ability to execute with the qubit coherence states and entanglement as well as in tandem to perform functions such as read out and basic arithmetic with conventional spike-encoding. Ultimately, this enables…

Exploring critical states of the quantum Rabi model via Hamiltonian variational ans\"atze
Mei Peng, Xu-Dan Xie, Dan-Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13964

Exploring critical states of the quantum Rabi model via Hamiltonian variational ansätze
Characterizing quantum critical states towards the thermodynamic limit is essential for understanding phases of matter. The power of quantum simulators for preparing the critical states relies crucially on the structure of quantum circuits and in return provides new insight into the critical states. Here, we explore the critical states of the quantum Rabi model~(QRM) by preparing them variationally with Hamiltonian variational ansätze~(HVA), in which the intricated interplay among different qu…

Studies of properties of bipartite graphs with quantum programming
Kh. P. Gnatenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16653 https://arxiv.org…

Studies of properties of bipartite graphs with quantum programming
Multi-qubit quantum states corresponding to bipartite graphs $G(U,V,E)$ are examined. These states are constructed by applying $CNOT$ gates to an arbitrary separable multi-qubit quantum state. The entanglement distance of the resulting states is derived analytically for an arbitrary bipartite graph structure. A relationship between entanglement and the vertex degree is established. Additionally, we identify how quantum correlators relate to the number of vertices with odd and even degrees in th…

The incompleteness of relativistic Spekkens' contextuality
Ruben Campos Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17967 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17967

The incompleteness of relativistic Spekkens' contextuality
We show that the operational definition of contextuality introduced by Spekkens is, in general, not Lorentz invariant. Specifically, we consider particle states with both spin and momentum, apply a Lorentz transformation to obtain the states in a new inertial frame, and then trace out the momentum degrees of freedom in both frames. We find that spin states that are contextual in one frame can become non-contextual in the other. Hence, the Spekkens' notion of contextuality, when restricted to sp…

Detection of long-range coherence in driven hot atomic vapors by spin noise spectroscopy
Rupak Bag, Sayari Majumder, Saptarishi Chaudhuri, Dibyendu Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18036

Detection of long-range coherence in driven hot atomic vapors by spin noise spectroscopy
We study intriguing dynamical features of hot Rubidium atoms driven by two light fields. The fields resonantly drive multiple Zeeman states within two hyperfine levels, yielding a cascaded-$Λ$ like structure in the frequency space. A non-Hermitian Floquet tight-binding lattice with imaginary hopping between the nearest states effectively describes the coherence dynamics between Zeeman states within the ground hyperfine manifold. By performing spin noise spectroscopy, we observe higher harmonic…

Unveiling Entanglement's Metrological Power: Empirical Modeling of Optimal States in Quantum Metrics
Volkan Erol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15954 https://

Unveiling Entanglement's Metrological Power: Empirical Modeling of Optimal States in Quantum Metrics
Using extensive numerical analysis of 20,000 randomly generated two-qubit states, we provide a quantitative analysis of the connection between entanglement measures and Maximized Quantum Fisher Information (MQFI). Our systematic study shows strong empirical relationships between the metrological capacity of quantum states and three different entanglement measures: concurrence, negativity, and relative entropy of entanglement. We show that optimization over local unitary transformations produces…

Quantitative comparison of quantum pseudo-telepathy games and Bell inequalities
G\'abor Homa, Andr\'as Bodor, J\'ozsef Zsolt Bern\'ad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18033

Quantitative comparison of quantum pseudo-telepathy games and Bell inequalities
Quantum pseudo-telepathy games, such as the Mermin-Peres magic square and the doily game, theoretically allow players to win with unit probability when using entangled quantum strategies. We quantitatively characterize the quantum advantage in these games and compare it with violations of two Bell inequalities: the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt and the Collins-Gisin inequalities. The analysis is restricted to two families of two-qubit states: modified Werner states and Bell-diagonal states. For ea…