• Real-time quantum dynamics, path integrals and the method of thimbles 

      Mou, Zonggang; Saffin, Paul M.; Tranberg, Anders; Woodward, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Direct numerical evaluation of the real-time path integral has a well-known sign problem that makes convergence exponentially slow. One promising remedy is to use Picard-Lefschetz theory to flow the domain of the field ...
    • Realistic in-medium heavy-quark potential from high statistics lattice QCD simulations 

      Petreczky, Peter; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl; Weber, Johannes Heinrich (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We present our first results on a direct computation of the complex in-medium heavy quark potential from realistic lattice QCD simulations. Ensembles with Nτ = 12 from the HotQCD and TUMQCD collaboration offer unprecedented ...
    • Reconstructing parton distribution functions from Ioffe time data: from Bayesian methods to Neural Networks 

      Karpie, Joseph; Orginos, Kostas; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl; Zafeiropoulos, Savvas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The computation of the parton distribution functions (PDF) or distribution amplitudes (DA) of hadrons from first principles lattice QCD constitutes a central open problem. In this study, we present and evaluate the efficiency ...
    • The role of initial state radiation in quenched jets 

      Zapp, Korinna Christine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Jet quenching in heavy ion collisions and in particular the sub-structure of quenched jets are promising tools for investigating the microscopic processes underlying jet quenching and the background medium's response to ...
    • Scattering amplitudes of massive Nambu-Goldstone bosons 

      Brauner, Tomas; Jakobsen, Martin Fonnum (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01)
      Massive Nambu-Goldstone (mNG) bosons are quasiparticles the gap of which is determined exactly by symmetry. They appear whenever a symmetry is broken spontaneously in the ground state of a quantum many-body system and at ...
    • Science AMA Series: Ask the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) anything about Pharmaceuticals in the environment! 

      Opsahl, Eystein (Journal article, 2017)
      The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is hosting the SETAC North America 38th annual meeting this week and we have tied this AMA to a specific session, “Pharmaceuticals in the environment: Potential ...
    • Second-Order PDEs in 3D with Einstein–Weyl Conformal Structure 

      Berjawi, S.; Ferapontov, E.V.; Kruglikov, Boris; Novikov, V.S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Einstein–Weyl geometry is a triple (D,g,ω) where D is a symmetric connection, [g] is a conformal structure and ω is a covector such that ∙ connection D preserves the conformal class [g], that is, Dg=ωg ; ∙ trace-free part ...
    • Self-reported sleep fragmentation and sleep duration and their association with cognitive function in PROTECT, a large digital community-based cohort of people over 50 

      Aakre, Jon Arild; Schulz, Jörn; Ballard, Clive; Corbett, Anne; Bjorvatn, Bjørn; Aarsland, Dag; Creese, Byron; Hampshire, Adam; Brooker, Helen; Testad, Ingelin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objective Sleep is vital for normal cognitive function in daily life, but is commonly disrupted in older adults. Poor sleep can be detrimental to mental and physical health, including cognitive function. This study assessed ...
    • Simulations of a bubble wall interacting with an electroweak plasma 

      Mou, Zong-Gang; Saffin, Paul M.; Tranberg, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)
      We perform large-scale real-time simulations of a bubble wall sweeping through an out-of-equilibrium plasma. The scenario we have in mind is the electroweak phase transition, which may be first order in extensions of the ...
    • Skeletons, Object Shape, Statistics 

      Pizer, Stephen; Marron, J.S.; Damon, James N.; Vicory, Jared; Krishna, Akash; Liu, Zhiyuan; Taheri Shalmani, Mohsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objects and object complexes in 3D, as well as those in 2D, have many possible representations. Among them skeletal representations have special advantages and some limitations. For the special form of skeletal representation ...
    • Soft Interactions in Cold Quark Matter 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)
      Accurate knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of zero-temperature, high-density quark matter plays an integral role in attempts to constrain the behavior of the dense QCD matter found inside neutron-star cores, ...
    • Soft photon propagation in a hot and dense medium to next-to-leading order 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Österman, Juuso; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Schicho, Philipp; Seppänen, Kaapo; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We present the first complete calculation of the soft photon self-energy to the next-to-leading order in a hot and/or dense ultrarelativistic plasma in QED. The calculation is performed within the real-time formalism ...
    • Some factors affecting the grades of technology students 

      Gregersen, Øyvind Weiby; Kløkstad, Geir Øivind; Hervik, Sigbjørn; Plesser, Hans Ekkehard; Pettersen, Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      In this study factors that affect the grades of Norwegian technology students have been investigated. The total data set contained 355.706 individual exams from 63 different engineering master programs during the 2010 to ...
    • Spectral function for overoccupied gluodynamics from classical lattice simulations 

      Boguslavski, Kirill; Kurkela, Aleksi; Lappi, Tuomas; Peuron, Jarkko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We study the spectral properties of an overoccupied gluonic system far from equilibrium. Using classical Yang–Mills simulations and linear response theory, we determine the statistical and spectral functions. We measure ...
    • Spectroscopy for asymmetric binary black hole mergers 

      Abedi, Jahed; Capano, Collin D.; Kastha, Shilpa; Nitz, Alexander H.; Wang, Yi-Fan; Westerweck, Julian; Nielsen, Alex Bentley; Krishnan, Badri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Black hole spectroscopy is the proposal to observe multiple quasinormal modes in the ringdown of a binary black hole merger. In addition to the fundamental quadrupolar mode, overtones and higher harmonics may be present ...
    • Spontaneous momentum dissipation and coexistence of phases in holographic Horndeski theory 

      Filios, Georgios; Gonzalez, P. A.; Kuang, Xiao-Mei; Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios; Vasquez, Yerko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We discuss the possible phases dual to the AdS hairy black holes in Horndeski theory. In the probe limit breaking the translational invariance, we study the conductivity and we find a nontrivial structure indicating a ...
    • Stable solvers for real-time Complex Langevin 

      Alvestad, Daniel; Larsen, Rasmus Normann; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)
      This study explores the potential of modern implicit solvers for stochastic partial differential equations in the simulation of real-time complex Langevin dynamics. Not only do these methods offer asymptotic stability, ...
    • Static quark-antiquark interactions at nonzero temperature from lattice QCD 

      Bala, Dibyendu; Kaczmarek, Olaf; Larsen, Rasmus Normann; Mukherjee, Swagato; Parkar, Gaurang Yatin; Petreczky, Peter; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl; Weber, Johannes Heinrich (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      flavor lattice QCD calculations. The study consists of two parts. The first investigates the properties of Wilson line correlators in Coulomb gauge and compares to predictions of hard-thermal loop perturbation theory. As ...
    • Statistics on Lefschetz thimbles: Bell/Leggett-Garg inequalities and the classical-statistical approximation 

      Tranberg, Anders; Millington, P; Mou, Zonggang; Saffin, Paul M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Inspired by Lefschetz thimble theory, we treat Quantum Field Theory as a statistical theory with a complex Probability Distribution Function (PDF). Such complex-valued PDFs permit the violation of Bell-type inequalities, ...
    • Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA 

      Babak, Stanislav; Caprini, Chiara; Figueroa, Daniel G.; Karnesis, Nikolaos; Marcoccia, Paolo; Nardini, Germano; Pieroni, Mauro; Ricciardone, Angelo; Sesana, Alberto; Torrado, Jesús (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH) from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) they generate in the ...