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Teaching about non-deterministic physics: an almost forgotten fundamental contribution of Marie Curie

The first historical steps of radioactivity research offer an excellent opportunity to teach a key concept of modern physics: non-deterministic phenomena. However, this opportunity is often wasted because of historical misconceptions and of the irrational ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Bootstrapping amplitudes of scalar particles

Jan Krzysztof Marucha

Quantum Field Theories are a central object of interest of modern physics, describing fundamental interactions of matter. However, current methods give limited insight into strongly coupling theories. S-matrix bootstrap program, described in this thesis, a ...

EPFL2024

Scale invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity and flat space conformal symmetry

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Georgios Karananas, Sebastian Zell

We find the conditions under which scale-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity with scalar matter fields leads to an approximate conformal invariance of the flat space particle theory up to energies of the order of the Planck mass. In the minimal setup, these ...

Springer Nature2023

Many-Body Self-Interaction and Polarons

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

We address the many-body self-interaction in relation to polarons in density functional theory. Our study provides (i) a unified theoretical framework encompassing many-body and one-body forms of self-interaction and (ii) an efficient semilocal scheme for ...

2022

Feebly-Interacting Particles:FIPs 2020 Workshop Report

Lesya Shchutska, Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Marco Drewes, Martin Bauer

With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebl ...

2021

Theory-based scaling laws of near and far scrape-off layer widths in single-null L-mode discharges

Paolo Ricci, Holger Reimerdes, Jan Horacek, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Maurizio Giacomin, Adriano Stagni

Theory-based scaling laws of the near and far scrape-off layer (SOL) widths are analytically derived for L-mode diverted tokamak discharges by using a two-fluid model. The near SOL pressure and density decay lengths are obtained by leveraging a balance amo ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Axiomatic scale theory

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim

Scales are a fundamental concept of musical practice around the world. They commonly exhibit symmetry properties that are formally studied using cyclic groups in the field of mathematical scale theory. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework for mathema ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

A Simple Theoretical Model of Importance for Summarization

Maxime Jean Julien Peyrard

Research on summarization has mainly been driven by empirical approaches, crafting systems to perform well on standard datasets with the notion of information Importance remaining latent. We argue that establishing theoretical models of Importance will adv ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2019

The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness

Michael Herzog, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

How can we explain consciousness? This question has become a vibrant topic of neuroscience research in recent decades. A large body of empirical results has been accumulated, and many theories have been proposed. Certain theories suggest that consciousness ...

2019

Towards a non-perturbative approach to the Hierarchy problem

Andrey Shkerin

In this report, based on [1], we suggest that the hierarchy between the Electroweak (EW) and the Planck scales can emerge due to a nonperturbative effect that relates low-energy and strong-gravity physics. In this mechanism, the EW scale results from an ex ...

EDP SCIENCES2018

Euclidean classical solutions in quantum field theory and gravity: Higgs vacuum metastability and the hierarchy problem

Andrey Shkerin

The thesis is dedicated to two groups of questions arising in modern particle physics and cosmology. The first group concerns with the problem of stability of the electroweak (EW) vacuum in different environments. Due to its phenomenological significance, ...

EPFL2018

On the global structure of deformed Yang-Mills theory and QCD(adj) on R-3 x S-1

Spatial compactification on R(3)xS(L)(1), at small S-1-size L often leads to a calculable vacuum structure, where various "topological molecules" are responsible for confinement and the realization of the center and discrete chiral symmetries. Within this ...

Springer Nature2015

Controlled stripes of ultrafine ferroelectric domains

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Igor Stolichnov, Tomas Sluka, Petr Yudin, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Ludwig Feigl, Mahamudu Mtebwa, Konstantin Shapovalov, Xiankui Wei

In the pursuit of ferroic-based (nano) electronics, it is essential to minutely control domain patterns and domain switching. The ability to control domain width, orientation and position is a prerequisite for circuitry based on fine domains. Here, we deve ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Inflation, leptogenesis, and Yukawa quasiunification within a supersymmetric left-right model

Roberta Armillis

A simple extension of the minimal left-right symmetric supersymmetric grand unified theory model is constructed by adding two pairs of superfields. This naturally violates the partial Yukawa unification predicted by the minimal model. After including super ...

American Physical Society2014

Threshold corrections to hard supersymmetric relations

Paolo Lodone

We compute the one-loop threshold corrections to hard supersymmetric relations involving gauge and gaugino couplings for the case of a Split-SUSY-like spectrum with moderate splitting. We show that these contributions are small, however in principle they w ...

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd2014

Electrically gauged N=4 supergravities in D=4 with N=2 vacua

Paul Smyth

We study N = 2 vacua in spontaneously broken N = 4 electrically gauged supergravities in four space-time dimensions. We argue that the classification of all such solutions amounts to solving a system of purely algebraic equations. We then explicitly constr ...

Springer Nature2013

On the moduli space of spontaneously broken N=8 supergravity

We analyze the moduli space of spontaneously broken N = 8 supergravity theories in 4 dimensions with classical Minkowski vacua. We find that all the known classical vacua, as well as the several new ones we construct here, can be connected by sending some ...

Springer Nature2013

Consistent Energy-Based Atomistic/Continuum Coupling For Two-Body Potentials In Three Dimensions

Very few works exist to date on development of a consistent energy-based coupling of atomistic and continuum models of materials in more than one dimension. The difficulty in constructing such a coupling consists in defining a coupled energy whose minimize ...

Siam Publications2012

Higgs inflation: consistency and generalisations

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Sergey Sibiryakov, Amaury Magnin

We analyse the self-consistency of inflation in the Standard Model, where the Higgs field has a large non-minimal coupling to gravity. We determine the domain of energies in which this model represents a valid effective field theory as a function of the ba ...

Springer Nature2011

Analyse non-linéaire des coques géodésiques multicouches à joints semi-rigides

Julius Natterer

In the 90ies the IBOIS-EPFL developed a new kind of shell structure. The ribs were made with simple boards waved together to form a spatial rib shell. However, the engineer currently does not have any effective method to calculate these kinds of spatial st ...

EPFL2010