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We argue that quantum gravity is nonlocal, first by recalling well-known arguments that support this idea and then by focusing on a point not usually emphasized: that making a conventional effective field theory (EFT) for quantum gravity is…

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Cutoff independence is an essential requirement for the predictive power of nuclear \textit{ab initio} calculations based on effective field theory (EFT). While it is conventionally assumed that such invariance necessitates high-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Chen-Can Wang , Jia-Ai Shi , Bing-Nan Lu

Theoretical predictions need quantified uncertainties for a meaningful comparison to experimental results. This is an idea which presently permeates the field of theoretical nuclear physics. In light of the recent progress in estimating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 B. D. Carlsson

Statistical tools of uncertainty quantification can be used to assess the information content of measured observables with respect to present-day theoretical models; to estimate model errors and thereby improve predictive capability; to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-26 J. D. McDonnell , N. Schunck , D. Higdon , J. Sarich , S. M. Wild , W. Nazarewicz

The clear separation of scales observed in halo nuclei between the extended halo and the compact core makes these exotic nuclei a perfect subject for Effective Field Theory (EFT). Such description leads to a systematic expansion of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Pierre Capel

Recently, combinations of generative and Bayesian machine learning have been introduced in particle physics for both fast detector simulation and inference tasks. These neural networks aim to quantify the uncertainty on the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sebastian Bieringer , Sascha Diefenbacher , Gregor Kasieczka , Mathias Trabs

Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. It is known that EFT coefficients must obey certain positivity constraints if causality and unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Simon Caron-Huot , Vincent Van Duong

Evaluated nuclear data uncertainties are often perceived as unrealistic, most often because they are thought to be too small. The impact of this issue in applied nuclear science has been discussed widely in recent years. Commonly suggested…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-04-28 R. Capote , S. Badikov , A. Carlson , I. Duran , F. Gunsing , D. Neudecker , V. G. Pronyaev , P. Schillebeeckx , G. Schnabel , D. L. Smith , A. Wallner

We reformulate the analysis of nuclear parity-violation (PV) within the framework of effective field theory (EFT). To order Q, the PV nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction depends on five a priori unknown constants that parameterize the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Shi-Lin Zhu , C. M. Maekawa , B. R. Holstein , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf , U van Kolck

Effective field theories are an incredibly powerful tool in order to study and understand the true nature of the symmetry breaking sector dynamics of the Standard Model. However, they can suffer from some theoretical problems such as that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-19 C. Garcia-Garcia , M. J. Herrero , R. A. Morales

Effective Field Theory (EFT) stands as a cornerstone in modern theoretical physics, offering a powerful framework for describing the dynamics of physical systems across a wide range of energy scales. This article provides an in-depth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Waqas Riaz

An uncertainty quantification framework is developed for Eulerian-Lagrangian models of particle-laden flows, where the fluid is modeled through a system of partial differential equations in the Eulerian frame and inertial particles are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Vasileios Fountoulakis , H. S. Udaykumar , Gustaaf B. Jacobs

The ability to replicate predictions by machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) models and results in scientific workflows that incorporate such ML/AI predictions is driven by numerous factors. An uncertainty-aware metric that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Line Pouchard , Kristofer G. Reyes , Francis J. Alexander , Byung-Jun Yoon

Error-free transmission (EFT) of quantum information is a crucial ingredient in quantum communication network. To overcome the unavoidable decoherence in noisy channel, to date, many efforts have focused on faithfully transmitting one state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Xian-Min Jin , Zhen-Huan Yi , Bin Yang , Fei Zhou , Tao Yang , Cheng-Zhi Peng

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) provide a framework for capturing the effects of yet unseen heavy degrees of freedom in a model-independent manner. However, constructing a complete and minimal set of operators, especially at higher mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-15 Magnus C. Schaaf

Uncertainty quantification of complex technical systems is often based on a computer model of the system. As all models such a computer model is always wrong in the sense that it does not describe the reality perfectly. The purpose of this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Sebastian Kersting , Michael Kohler

A key factor in ensuring the accuracy of computer simulations that model physical systems is the proper calibration of their parameters based on real-world observations or experimental data. Inevitably, uncertainties arise, and Bayesian…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Daniel Andrés Arcones , Martin Weiser , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis , Jörg F. Unger

Accurate uncertainty quantification of model predictions is a crucial problem in machine learning. Existing Bayesian methods, being highly iterative, are expensive to implement and often fail to accurately capture a model's true posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rishabh Singh , Jose C. Principe

Until recently, uncertainty quantification in low energy nuclear theory was typically performed using frequentist approaches. However in the last few years, the field has shifted toward Bayesian statistics for evaluating confidence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 G. B. King , A. E. Lovell , L. Neufcourt , F. M. Nunes

In the field of Energy Density Functionals (EDF) used in nuclear structure and dynamics, one of the unsolved issues is the stability of the functional. Numerical issues aside, some EDFs are unstable with respect to particular perturbations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Kortelainen , T. Lesinski
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