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Arguelles, C.A.; Muñoz, V.; Shoemaker, I.M.; Takhistov, V. |
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Hadrophilic light dark matter from the atmosphere |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
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833 |
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137363 - 6pp |
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Light sub-GeV dark matter (DM) constitutes an underexplored target, beyond the optimized sensitivity of typical direct DM detection experiments. We comprehensively investigate hadrophilic light DM produced from cosmic-ray collisions with the atmosphere. The resulting relativistic DM, originating from meson decays, can be efficiently observed in variety of experiments, such as XENON1T. We include for the first time decays of eta, eta' and K+ mesons, leading to improved limits for DM masses above few hundred MeV. We incorporate an exact treatment of the DM attenuation in Earth and demonstrate that nuclear form factor effects can significantly impact the resulting testable DM parameter space. Further, we establish projections for upcoming experiments, such as DARWIN, over a wide range of DM masses below the GeV scale. |
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[Arguelles, Carlos A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: carguelles@fas.harvard.edu; |
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WOS:000865640700036 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Arina, C.; Di Mauro, M.; Fornengo, N.; Heisig, J.; Jueid, A.; Ruiz de Austri, R. |
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CosmiXs: cosmic messenger spectra for indirect dark matter searches |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2024 |
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Journal of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
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035 - 41pp |
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dark matter experiments; dark matter simulations; dark matter theory |
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The energy spectra of particles produced from dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay are one of the fundamental ingredients to calculate the predicted fluxes of cosmic rays and radiation searched for in indirect DM detection. We revisit the calculation of the source spectra for annihilating and decaying DM using the VINCIA shower algorithm in PYTHIA to include QED and QCD final state radiation and diagrams for the EW corrections with massive bosons, not present in the default PYTHIA shower model. We take into account the spin information of the particles during the entire EW shower and the off -shell contributions from massive gauge bosons. Furthermore, we perform a dedicated tuning of the VINCIA and PYTHIA parameters to LEP data on the production of pions, photons, and hyperons at the Z resonance and discuss the underlying uncertainties. To enable the use of our results in DM studies, we provide the tabulated source spectra for the most relevant cosmic messenger particles, namely antiprotons, positrons, gamma rays and the three neutrino flavors, for all the fermionic and bosonic channels and DM masses between 5 GeV and 100 TeV, on github. |
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[Arina, Chiara] Catholic Univ Louvain, Ctr Cosmol Particle Phys & Phenomenol CP3, Chemin Cyclotron 2, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium, Email: chiara.arina@uclouvain.be; |
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WOS:001195757300003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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6041 |
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Aristizabal Sierra, D.; De Romeri, V.; Flores, L.J.; Papoulias, D.K. |
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Light vector mediators facing XENON1T data |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2020 |
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Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
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809 |
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135681 - 5pp |
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Recently the XENON1T collaboration has released new results on searches for new physics in low-energy electronic recoils. The data shows an excess over background in the low-energy tail, particularly pronounced at about 2-3 keV. With an exposure of 0.65 tonne-year, large detection efficiency and energy resolution, the detector is sensitive as well to solar neutrino backgrounds, with the most prominent contribution given by pp neutrinos. We investigate whether such signal can be explained in terms of new neutrino interactions with leptons mediated by a light vector particle. We find that the excess is consistent with this interpretation for vector masses below less than or similar to 0.1 MeV. The region of parameter space probed by the XENON1T data is competitive with constraints from laboratory experiments, in particular GEMMA, Borexino and TEXONO. However we point out a severe tension with astrophysical bounds and cosmological observations. |
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[Sierra, D. Aristizabal] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Fis, Casilla 110-5,Avda Espana 1680, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: daristizabal@ulg.ac.be; |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000581871500003 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4602 |
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Aristizabal Sierra, D.; De Romeri, V.; Papoulias, D.K. |
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Consequences of the Dresden-II reactor data for the weak mixing angle and new physics |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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09 |
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9 |
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076 - 22pp |
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Electroweak Precision Physics; Neutrino Interactions; Non-Standard Neutrino Properties; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos |
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The Dresden-II reactor experiment has recently reported a suggestive evidence for the observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, using a germanium detector. Given the low recoil energy threshold, these data are particularly interesting for a low-energy determination of the weak mixing angle and for the study of new physics leading to spectral distortions at low momentum transfer. Using two hypotheses for the quenching factor, we study the impact of the data on: (i) The weak mixing angle at a renormalization scale of similar to 10 MeV, (ii) neutrino generalized interactions with light mediators, (iii) the sterile neutrino dipole portal. The results for the weak mixing angle show a strong dependence on the quenching factor choice. Although still with large uncertainties, the Dresden-II data provide for the first time a determination of sin(2)theta(W) at such scale using coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering data. Tight upper limits are placed on the light vector, scalar and tensor mediator scenarios. Kinematic constraints implied by the reactor anti-neutrino flux and the ionization energy threshold allow the sterile neutrino dipole portal to produce up-scattering events with sterile neutrino masses up to similar to 8 MeV. In this context, we find that limits are also sensitive to the quenching factor choice, but in both cases competitive with those derived from XENON1T data and more stringent that those derived with COHERENT data, in the same sterile neutrino mass range. |
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[Aristizabal Sierra, D.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Fis, Casilla 110-V,Avda Espana 1680, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: daristizabal@ulgac.be; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000853339300012 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5360 |
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Arnault, P.; Macquet, A.; Angles-Castillo, A.; Marquez-Martin, I.; Pina-Canelles, V.; Perez, A.; Di Molfetta, G.; Arrighi, P.; Debbasch, F. |
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Quantum simulation of quantum relativistic diffusion via quantum walks |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Journal of Physics A |
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J. Phys. A |
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53 |
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20 |
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205303 - 39pp |
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noisy quantum walks; noisy quantum systems; decoherence; Lindblad equation; quantum simulation; relativistic diffusions; telegraph equation |
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Two models are first presented, of a one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) with temporal noise on the internal degree of freedom (i.e., the coin): (i) a model with both a coin-flip and a phase-flip channel, and (ii) a model with random coin unitaries. It is then shown that both these models admit a common limit in the spacetime continuum, namely, a Lindblad equation with Dirac-fermion Hamiltonian part and, as Lindblad jumps, a chirality flip and a chirality-dependent phase flip, which are two of the three standard error channels for a two-level quantum system. This, as one may call it, Dirac Lindblad equation, provides a model of quantum relativistic spatial diffusion, which is evidenced both analytically and numerically. This model of spatial diffusion has the intriguing specificity of making sense only with original unitary models which are relativistic in the sense that they have chirality, on which the noise is introduced: the diffusion arises via the by-construction (quantum) coupling of chirality to the position. For a particle with vanishing mass, the model of quantum relativistic diffusion introduced in the present work, reduces to the well-known telegraph equation, which yields propagation at short times, diffusion at long times, and exhibits no quantumness. Finally, the results are extended to temporal noises which depend smoothly on position. |
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[Arnault, Pablo; Angles-Castillo, Andreu; Marquez-Martin, Ivan; Pina-Canelles, Vicente; Perez, Armando; Di Molfetta, Giuseppe] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot 46100, Spain, Email: pablo.arnault@ic.uv.es |
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1751-8113 |
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WOS:000531359000001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4390 |
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Arnault, P.; Pepper, B.; Perez, A. |
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Quantum walks in weak electric fields and Bloch oscillations |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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101 |
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6 |
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062324 - 12pp |
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Bloch oscillations appear when an electric field is superimposed on a quantum particle that evolves on a lattice with a tight-binding Hamiltonian (TBH), i.e., evolves via what we call an electric TBH; this phenomenon will be referred to as TBH Bloch oscillations. A similar phenomenon is known to show up in so-called electric discrete-time quantum walks (DQWs) [C. Cedzich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 160601 (2013);] this phenomenon will be referred to as DQW Bloch oscillations. This similarity is particularly salient when the electric field of the DQW is weak. For a wide, i.e., spatially extended, initial condition, one numerically observes semiclassical oscillations, i.e., oscillations of a localized particle, for both the electric TBH and the electric DQW. More precisely, the numerical simulations strongly suggest that the semiclassical DQW Bloch oscillations correspond to two counterpropagating semiclassical TBH Bloch oscillations. In this work it is shown that, under certain assumptions, the solution of the electric DQW for a weak electric field and a wide initial condition is well approximated by the superposition of two continuous-time expressions, which are counterpropagating solutions of an electric TBH whose hopping amplitude is the cosine of the arbitrary coin-operator mixing angle. In contrast, if one wishes the continuous-time approximation to hold for spatially localized initial conditions, one needs at least the DQW to be lazy, as suggested by numerical simulations and by the fact that this has been proven in the case of a vanishing electric field [F. W. Strauch, Phys. Rev. A 74, 030301(R) (2006)]. |
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[Arnault, Pablo; Pepper, Benjamin; Perez, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Cerrer Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot 46100, Spain, Email: pablo.arnault@ific.uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:000541400900002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4431 |
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Arnault, P.; Perez, A.; Arrighi, P.; Farrelly, T. |
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Discrete-time quantum walks as fermions of lattice gauge theory |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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99 |
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3 |
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032110 - 16pp |
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It is shown that discrete-time quantum walks can be used to digitize, i.e., to time discretize fermionic models of continuous-time lattice gauge theory. The resulting discrete-time dynamics is thus not only manifestly unitary, but also ultralocal, i.e., the particle's speed is upper bounded, as in standard relativistic quantum field theories. The lattice chiral symmetry of staggered fermions, which corresponds to a translational invariance, is lost after the requirement of ultralocality of the evolution; this fact is an instance of Meyer's 1996 no-go results stating that no nontrivial scalar quantum cellular automaton can be translationally invariant [D. A. Meyer, J. Stat. Phys. 85, 551 (1996); Phys. Lett. A 223, 337 (1996)]. All results are presented in a single-particle framework and for a (1+1)-dimensional space-time. |
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[Arnault, Pablo; Perez, Armando] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: pablo.arnault@ific.uv.es |
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2469-9926 |
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WOS:000461896700002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3950 |
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Arrechea, J.; Delhom, A.; Jimenez-Cano, A. |
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Inconsistencies in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Chinese Physics C |
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Chin. Phys. C |
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45 |
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1 |
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013107 - 8pp |
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alternative theories of gravity; singularities; Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet |
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We attempt to clarify several aspects concerning the recently presented four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We argue that the limiting procedure outlined in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)] generally involves ill-defined terms in the four dimensional field equations. Potential ways to circumvent this issue are discussed, alongside remarks regarding specific solutions of the theory. We prove that, although linear perturbations are well behaved around maximally symmetric backgrounds, the equations for second-order perturbations are ill-defined even around a Minkowskian background. Additionally, we perform a detailed analysis of the spherically symmetric solutions and find that the central curvature singularity can be reached within a finite proper time. |
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[Arrechea, Julio] CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Granada, Spain, Email: arrechea@iaa.es; |
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WOS:000606026400001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4676 |
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Arrighi, P.; Di Molfetta, G.; Marquez-Martin, I.; Perez, A. |
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From curved spacetime to spacetime-dependent local unitaries over the honeycomb and triangular Quantum Walks |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Scientific Reports |
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Sci Rep |
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9 |
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10904 - 10pp |
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A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. In a previous paper, we showed that QWs over the honeycomb and triangular lattices can be used to simulate the Dirac equation. We apply a spacetime coordinate transformation upon the lattice of this QW, and show that it is equivalent to introducing spacetime-dependent local unitaries-whilst keeping the lattice fixed. By exploiting this duality between changes in geometry, and changes in local unitaries, we show that the spacetime-dependent QW simulates the Dirac equation in (2 + 1)-dimensional curved spacetime. Interestingly, the duality crucially relies on the non linear-independence of the three preferred directions of the honeycomb and triangular lattices: The same construction would fail for the square lattice. At the practical level, this result opens the possibility to simulate field theories on curved manifolds, via the quantum walk on different kinds of lattices. |
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[Arrighi, Pablo; Di Molfetta, Giuseppe; Marquez-Martin, Ivan] Univ Toulon & Var, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS, Marseille, France, Email: pablo.arrighi@univ-amu.fr; |
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Nature Publishing Group |
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2045-2322 |
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WOS:000477701800007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4081 |
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Asai, M.; Cortes-Giraldo, M.A.; Gimenez-Alventosa, V.; Gimenez, V.; Salvat, F. |
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The PENELOPE Physics Models and Transport Mechanics. Implementation into Geant4 |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Frontiers in Physics |
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Front. Physics |
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9 |
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738735 - 20pp |
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coupled electron-photon transport; Monte Carlo simulation; PENELOPE code system; random-hinge method; Geant4 toolkit |
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A translation of the penelope physics subroutines to C++, designed as an extension of the Geant4 toolkit, is presented. The Fortran code system penelope performs Monte Carlo simulation of coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary materials for a wide energy range, nominally from 50 eV up to 1 GeV. Penelope implements the most reliable interaction models that are currently available, limited only by the required generality of the code. In addition, the transport of electrons and positrons is simulated by means of an elaborate class II scheme in which hard interactions (involving deflection angles or energy transfers larger than pre-defined cutoffs) are simulated from the associated restricted differential cross sections. After a brief description of the interaction models adopted for photons and electrons/positrons, we describe the details of the class-II algorithm used for tracking electrons and positrons. The C++ classes are adapted to the specific code structure of Geant4. They provide a complete description of the interactions and transport mechanics of electrons/positrons and photons in arbitrary materials, which can be activated from the G4ProcessManager to produce simulation results equivalent to those from the original penelope programs. The combined code, named PenG4, benefits from the multi-threading capabilities and advanced geometry and statistical tools of Geant4. |
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[Asai, Makoto] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA USA, Email: miancortes@us.es; |
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Frontiers Media Sa |
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WOS:000742889400001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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