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Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a quantum computational model that leverages linear optics to solve sampling problems believed to be classically intractable. Recent experimental breakthroughs have demonstrated quantum advantage using GBS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jesua Epequin , Pascale Bendotti , Joseph Mikael

We introduce a new adaptive and fully Bayesian grid-based method to model strong gravitational lenses with extended images. The primary goal of this method is to quantify the level of luminous and dark-mass substructure in massive galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Vegetti , L. V. E. Koopmans

We investigate the nature of correlations in Gaussian light sources used for ghost imaging. We adopt methods from quantum information theory to distinguish genuinely quantum from classical correlations. Combining a microscopic analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Sammy Ragy , Gerardo Adesso

In ref [1], a criterion has been derived for the objective wave function reduction through the Shr\"odinger-Newton equation. In this paper, we shall derive that criterion by using the concept of Bohmian trajectories. This study has two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Faramarz Rahmani , Mehdi Golshani , Ghadir Jafari

Gravitational-wave observations of quasicircular compact binary mergers imply complicated posterior measurements of their parameters. Though Gaussian approximations to the pertinent likelihoods have decades of history in the field, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Vera Delfavero , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Anjali Yelikar

We report,to the best of our knowledge, the first observation of concentrating paraxial beams of light in a linear nondispersive medium. We have generated this intriguing class of light beams, recently predicted by one of us, in both one-…

We propose a new sampling-based approach for approximate inference in filtering problems. Instead of approximating conditional distributions with a finite set of states, as done in particle filters, our approach approximates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xuan Su , Wee Sun Lee , Zhen Zhang

Several applications, such as optical tweezers and atom guiding, benefit from techniques that allow the engineering of optical fields' spatial profiles, in particular their longitudinal intensity patterns. In cylindrical coordinates,…

Vacuum polarization in QED in a background gravitational field induces interactions which {\it effectively} modify the classical picture of light rays as the null geodesics of spacetime. After a short introduction on the main aspects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Ahmadi , S. Khoeini-Moghaddam , M. Nouri-Zonoz

We develop a geometric description of structured Gaussian beams, a form a structured light, by applying geometric quantisation and symplectic reduction to the 2D harmonic oscillator. Our results show that the geometric quantisation of the…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-27 Kerr Maxwell

Continuous-variables (CV) quantum optics is a natural formalism for neural networks (NNs) due to its ability to reproduce the information processing of such trainable interconnected systems. In quantum optics, Gaussian operators induce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Todor Krasimirov-Ivanov , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Paolo Stornati , Federico Centrone

We present a quantum-inspired classical algorithm that can be used for graph-theoretical problems, such as finding the densest $k$-subgraph and finding the maximum weight clique, which are proposed as applications of a Gaussian boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Changhun Oh , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang , Nicolás Quesada

In this paper, we discuss the gravitational waves in the context of gauge theory gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The gauge theory gravity is a gravity theory under gauge formulation in the language of geometric algebra. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Jianfei Xu

If an extended source, such as a galaxy, is gravitationally lensed by a massive object in the foreground, the lensing distorts the observed image. It is straightforward to simulate what the observed image would be for a particular lens and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brendon J. Brewer , Geraint F. Lewis

A quantum model based on a Euler-Lagrange variational approach is proposed. In analogy with the classical transport, our approach maintain the description of the particle motion in terms of trajectories in a configuration space. Our method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 O. Morandi

We describe new methods for denoising and detection of gravitational waves embedded in additive Gaussian noise. The methods are based on Total Variation denoising algorithms. These algorithms, which do not need any a priori information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-10 Alejandro Torres , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

We study a class of gravitational lensing systems consisting of an inclined ring/belt, with and without an added point mass at the centre. We show that a common feature of such systems are so-called "pseudo-caustics", across which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Ethan Lake , Zheng Zheng

When angular objects in lensing are considered as linear objects, interesting phenomena start happening. Tachyonic caustics are one example. We review that the intrinsic variables of the lens equation are angular variables. We argue that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sun Hong Rhie

Bayesian quantum estimation provides a robust framework for quantum technologies, especially in scenarios with limited data and minimal prior information. Yet, its application to continuous-variable Gaussian systems has remained limited and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Edward Gandar , Jesús Rubio

Gaussian boson sampling is a model of photonic quantum computing that has attracted attention as a platform for building quantum devices capable of performing tasks that are out of reach for classical devices. There is therefore significant…