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One of the big challenges in exoplanet science is to determine the atmospheric makeup of extrasolar planets, and to find biosignatures that hint at the existence of biochemical processes on another world. The biomarkers we are trying to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Zixin Huang , Christian Schwab , Cosmo Lupo

In this era of exoplanet characterisation with JWST, the need for a fast implementation of classical forward models to understand the chemical and physical processes in exoplanet atmospheres is more important than ever. Notably, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Julius L. A. M. Hendrix , Amy J. Louca , Yamila Miguel

Quantum reservoir computers (QRCs) have emerged as a promising approach to quantum machine learning, since they utilize the natural dynamics of quantum systems for data processing and are simple to train. Here, we consider $n$-qubit quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Markus Gross , Hans-Martin Rieser

Energy balance models (EBMs) are one- or two-dimensional climate models that can provide insight into planetary atmospheres, particularly with regard to habitability. Because EBMs are far less computationally intensive than…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-13 Russell Deitrick , Jacob Haqq-Misra , Shintaro Kadoya , Ramses Ramirez , Paolo Simonetti , Rory Barnes , Thomas J. Fauchez

We propose a quantum algorithm for `extremal learning', which is the process of finding the input to a hidden function that extremizes the function output, without having direct access to the hidden function, given only partial input-output…

Increasing resolution and coverage of astrophysical and climate data necessitates increasingly sophisticated models, often pushing the limits of computational feasibility. While emulation methods can reduce calculation costs, the neural…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Tara P. A. Tahseen , Luís F. Simões , Kai Hou Yip , Nikolaos Nikolaou , João M. Mendonça , Ingo P. Waldmann

We demonstrate the effectiveness of the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory mission concept for constraining the atmospheric properties of hot and warm gas giants and super Earths. Synthetic primary and secondary transit spectra for a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-29 Joanna K. Barstow , Neil E. Bowles , Suzanne Aigrain , Leigh N. Fletcher , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Ryan Varley , Enzo Pascale

We present the Quantum Kernel-Based Long short-memory (QK-LSTM) network, which integrates quantum kernel methods into classical LSTM architectures to enhance predictive accuracy and computational efficiency in climate time-series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Yu-Chao Hsu , Nan-Yow Chen , Tai-Yu Li , Po-Heng , Lee , Kuan-Cheng Chen

We explore the efficacy of machine learning (ML) in characterizing exoplanets into different classes. The source of the data used in this work is University of Puerto Rico's Planetary Habitability Laboratory's Exoplanets Catalog (PHL-EC).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-24 Suryoday Basak , Surbhi Agrawal , Snehanshu Saha , Abhijit Jeremiel Theophilus , Kakoli Bora , Gouri Deshpande , Jayant Murthy

Advancements in space telescopes have opened new avenues for gathering vast amounts of data on exoplanet atmosphere spectra. However, accurately extracting chemical and physical properties from these spectra poses significant challenges due…

The advent of high-contrast imaging instruments combined with medium-resolution spectrographs allows spectral and temporal dimensions to be combined with spatial dimensions to detect and potentially characterize exoplanets with higher…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Rakesh Nath-Ranga , Olivier Absil , Valentin Christiaens , Emily O. Garvin

Long-term climate projections require running global Earth system models on timescales of hundreds of years and have relatively coarse resolution (from 40 to 160 km in the horizontal) due to their high computational costs. Unresolved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Lorenzo Pastori , Arthur Grundner , Veronika Eyring , Mierk Schwabe

It has recently been demonstrated that deep learning has significant potential to automate parts of the exoplanet detection pipeline using light curve data from satellites such as Kepler \cite{borucki2010kepler} \cite{koch2010kepler} and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 Koray Aydoğan

Quantum information processing has the potential to substantially enhance how we learn from physical experiments, but coupling a quantum processor to an experimental sample introduces noise that can exponentially degrade learning even when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ishaan Kannan , Harald Putterman , Jordan Cotler

Today's most detailed characterization of exoplanet atmospheres is accessible via transit spectroscopy (TS). Detecting transiting exoplanets only yields their size, and it is thus standard to measure a planet's mass before moving towards…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Julien de Wit , Sara Seager , Prajwal Niraula

In the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the dramatic improvement in the spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres demands a corresponding leap forward in our ability to analyze them: atmospheric retrievals need to be performed on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Anna Lueber , Konstantin Karchev , Chloe Fisher , Matthias Heim , Roberto Trotta , Kevin Heng

We propose a new data analysis method for obtaining transmission spectra of exoplanet atmospheres and brightness variation across the stellar disk from transit observations. The new method is capable of recovering exoplanet atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Erik Aronson , Nikolai Piskunov

To date, the ability for observers to reveal the composition or thermal structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere has rested on two techniques: high-contrast direct imaging and time-series observations of transiting exoplanets. The former is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Kevin B. Stevenson

Quantum machine learning (QML) is expected to offer new opportunities to process high-dimensional data efficiently by exploiting the exponentially large state space of quantum systems. In this work, we apply quantum extreme reservoir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Arisa Ikeda , Akitada Sakurai , Kae Nemoto , Mayu Muramatsu

A critical factor in adopting machine learning for time-sensitive financial tasks is computational speed, including model training and inference. This paper demonstrates that a broad class of such problems, especially those previously…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-27 Liexin Cheng , Xue Cheng , Shuaiqiang Liu