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A method is proposed to cool down atoms in a harmonic trap without phase-space compression as in a perfectly slow adiabatic expansion, i.e., keeping the populations of the instantaneous initial and final levels invariant, but in a much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-17 Xi Chen , A. Ruschhaupt , S. Schmidt , A. del Campo , D. Guery-Odelin , J. G. Muga

In this paper, we design a new iterative algorithm for solving pseudomonotone equilibrium problems in real Hilbert spaces. The advantage of our algorithm is that it requires only one strongly convex programming problem at each iteration.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Nguyen The Vinh

Coherent electron cooling is a promising technique to cool high-intensity hadron bunches by imprinting the noise in the hadron beam on a beam of electrons, amplifying the electron density modulations, and using them to apply cooling kicks…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 W. F. Bergan , M. Blaskiewicz , G. Stupakov

The superpositional wave function oscillations for finite-time implementation of quantum algorithms modifies the desired interference required for quantum computing. We propose a scheme with trapped ultracold ion-pairs being qubits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng Mang , Zhu Xiwen , Gao Kelin , Shi Lei

Small data learning problems are characterized by a significant discrepancy between the limited amount of response variable observations and the large feature space dimension. In this setting, the common learning tools struggle to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Edoardo Vecchi , Davide Bassetti , Fabio Graziato , Lukas Pospisil , Illia Horenko

In this article, we propose a Frozen Gaussian Sampling (FGS) algorithm for simulating nonadiabatic quantum dynamics at metal surfaces with a continuous spectrum. This method consists of a Monte-Carlo algorithm for sampling the initial wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Zhen Huang , Limin Xu , Zhennan Zhou

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are increasingly used to generate data for downstream analyses, yet naively treating these predictions as true observations can lead to biased results and incorrect inference. Wang et…

The performance of flow matching and diffusion models can be greatly improved at inference time using reward alignment algorithms, yet efficiency remains a major limitation. While several algorithms were proposed, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Peter Holderrieth , Uriel Singer , Tommi Jaakkola , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yaron Lipman , Brian Karrer

Recent work uses reinforcement learning (RL) to fine-tune text-to-image diffusion models, improving text-image alignment and sample quality. However, existing approaches introduce unnecessary complexity: they cache the full sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yanting Miao , William Loh , Pacal Poupart , Suraj Kothawade

Gauge theories are powerful tools in theoretical physics, allowing complex phenomena to be reduced to simple principles, and are used in both high-energy and condensed matter physics. In the latter context, gauge theories are becoming…

This paper presents a subgradient-based algorithm for constrained nonsmooth convex optimization that does not require projections onto the feasible set. While the well-established Frank-Wolfe algorithm and its variants already avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Kamiar Asgari , Michael J. Neely

Heat-bath algorithmic cooling (AC) of spins is a theoretically powerful effective cooling approach, that (ideally) cools spins with low polarization exponentially better than cooling by reversible entropy manipulations alone. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Gilles Brassard , Yuval Elias , Tal Mor , Yossi Weinstein

Simulated tempering is popular method of allowing MCMC algorithms to move between modes of a multimodal target density {\pi}. One problem with simulated tempering for multimodal targets is that the weights of the various modes change for…

Computation · Statistics 2019-02-12 Nicholas G. Tawn , Gareth O. Roberts , Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

We review optimization-based approaches to smoothing nonlinear dynamical systems. These approaches leverage the fact that the Extended Kalman Filter and corresponding smoother can be framed as the Gauss-Newton method for a nonlinear least…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Payton Howell , Aleksandr Aravkin

We consider stochastic variational inequality problems where the mapping is monotone over a compact convex set. We present two robust variants of stochastic extragradient algorithms for solving such problems. Of these, the first scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedic , Uday V. Shanbhag

Cooling quantum systems with finite resources is a central task in quantum technologies and has been extensively explored in discrete-variable settings. As continuous-variable (CV) platforms play an increasingly important role in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Wen-Han Png , Xueyuan Hu , Valerio Scarani

Time series averaging in dynamic time warping (DTW) spaces has been successfully applied to improve pattern recognition systems. This article proposes and analyzes subgradient methods for the problem of finding a sample mean in DTW spaces.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-24 David Schultz , Brijnesh Jain

Fluctuation theorems provide a correspondence between properties of quantum systems in thermal equilibrium and a work distribution arising in a non-equilibrium process that connects two quantum systems with Hamiltonians $H_0$ and…

Inference-time alignment techniques offer a lightweight alternative or complement to costly reinforcement learning, while enabling continual adaptation as alignment objectives and reward targets evolve. Existing theoretical analyses justify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ye Wang , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino

The most common way to simplify extensive Monte-Carlo simulations of air showers is to use the thinning approximation. We study its effect on the physical parameters reconstructed from simulated showers. To this end, we have created a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. S. Gorbunov , G. I. Rubtsov , S. V. Troitsky