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After six years of studies following the discovery of GSN069, a link is starting to appear between the elusive Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) and other types of nuclear transients, among which are Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs). As such,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 E. Quintin , N. Khan , N. A. Webb , R. Webbe , R. D. Saxton , G. Miniutti , M. Giustini

It is important to protect quantum information against decoherence and operational errors, and quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes are the keys to solving this problem. Of course, just the existence of codes is not efficient. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jumpei Niwa , Keiji Matsumoto , Hiroshi Imai

After the first quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs, GSN069) was reported in 2019, four other sources have been identified as QPEs or its candidate. However, the physics behind QPEs is still unclear so far, though several models have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Xin Pan , Shuang-Liang Li , Xinwu Cao

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts recurring every few hours, associated with supermassive black holes. Many interpretations for QPEs were proposed since their recent discovery in 2019, including extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 P. Kosec , E. Kara , L. Brenneman , J. Chakraborty , M. Giustini , G. Miniutti , C. Pinto , D. Rogantini , R. Arcodia , M. Middleton , A. Sacchi

We present a systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C QPOs in GRS 1915+105 using RXTE data. Our sample comprises of 620 RXTE observations with type-C QPOs ranging from ~0.4 Hz to ~6.3 Hz. Based on our analysis, we…

We present the evolution of the phase lags associated with the type-C QPO in GX 339--4 during the rising phase of the 2006/2007 outburst. We find that the phase lags at the QPO frequency are always positive (hard), and show very different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Liang Zhang , Yanan Wang , Mariano Mendez , Li Chen , Jinlu Qu , Diego Altamirano , Tomaso Belloni

Many astrophysical sources, especially compact accreting sources, show strong, random brightness fluctuations with broad power spectra in addition to periodic or quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) that have narrower spectra. The random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Vaughan

We introduce a modification of the OFC earthquake model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1244 (1992)] in order to improve resemblance with the Burridge and Knopoff mechanical model and with possible laboratory experiments. A constant force continually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Ramos , E. Altshuler , K. J. Maloy

We analyze the time variability of the X-ray emission of RE J1034+396, an active galactic nucleus with the first firm detection of a quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO). Based on the results of a wavelet analysis, we find a drift in the QPO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Czerny , P. Lachowicz , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , T. Pechacek , Tapas K. Das

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are coherent peaks of variability power observed in the X-ray power spectra (PSDs) of stellar mass X-ray binaries (XRBs). A scale invariance of the accretion process implies they should be present in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 William Alston , Andy Fabian , Julija Markeviciute , Michael Parker , Matt Middleton , Erin Kara

One prominent model for quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) is that they originate from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) involving stellar-mass objects orbiting around massive black holes and colliding with their accretion disks. We compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Leif Lui , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Rudrani Kar Chowdhury , Lixin Dai

We present evidence for Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the recurrent outburst activity from SGR 1806-20 using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations during November 1996. Searching for QPOs in a sample of 30 bursts at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-24 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini , Alaa I. Ibrahim

We present recent data of electric signals detected at the Earth's surface, which confirm the earlier finding [Phys. Rev. E 73, 031114 (2006)] that the value of the entropy in natural time as well as its value under time reversal are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A Varotsos , N. V. Sarlis , E. S. Skordas , M. S. Lazaridou

Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs), the repeated outbursts observed in soft X-ray bands, have attracted broad interest, but their physical origin is under debate. One of the popular models, the star-disk collision model, suggests that QPEs can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Wenyuan Guo , Rong-Feng Shen

The non-Gaussian nature of the epoch of reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal has a significant impact on the error variance of its power spectrum $P({\bf \textit{k}})$. We have used a large ensemble of semi-numerical simulations and an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 Rajesh Mondal , Somnath Bharadwaj , Suman Majumdar

Out-of-Time-Order-Correlator (OTOC) and Loschmidt Echo (LE) are commonly regarded as diagnostic tools for chaos, although they may yield misleading results because of various other factors. Previous studies have concluded that OTOC shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Pranaya Pratik Das , Biplab Ganguli

We report a 325(-7, +8) day quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the X-ray emission of the blazar Mkn 421, based on data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The QPO is seen prominently in the ASM data (at least 15 cycles),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Evan Smith , Lani Oramas , Eric Perlman

Multi-wavelength extragalactic nuclear transients, particularly those detectable as multi-messengers, are among the primary drivers for the next-generation observatories. X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are the most recent and perhaps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 R. Arcodia , A. Merloni , J. Buchner , P. Baldini , G. Ponti , A. Rau , Z. Liu , K. Nandra , M. Salvato

X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in AGN allow us to probe and understand the nature of accretion in highly curved space-time, yet the most robust form of detection (i.e. repeat detections over multiple observations) has been limited…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 D. I. Ashton , M. J. Middleton

We use density matrix simulations to study the performance of three distance three quantum error correcting codes in the context of the rare-earth-ion-doped crystal (RE) platform for quantum computing. We analyze pseudothresholds for these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Arvid Rolander , Adam Kinos , Andreas Walther