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Neutrino-matter interactions play an important role in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions as they contribute to both lepton number and/or four-momentum exchange between neutrinos and matter, and thus act as the agent for…
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Three complementary methods have been implemented in the code Denovo that accelerate neutral particle transport calculations with methods that use leadership-class computers fully and effectively: a multigroup block (MG) Krylov solver, a…
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This paper derives and analyzes new diffusion synthetic acceleration (DSA) preconditioners for the SN transport equation when discretized with a high-order (HO) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization. DSA preconditioners address the…
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Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation is a promising approach for implementing quantum gates that offers both efficiency and robustness against certain types of errors. A key element of this approach is a geometric constraint known as…
Modern machine learning, especially the training of deep neural networks, depends on solving large-scale, highly nonconvex optimization problems, whose objective function exhibit a rough landscape. Motivated by the success of parallel…