Global energy use: Decoupling or convergence?

Decoupling Dark Energy from Matter

We examine the embedding of dark energy in high energy models based upon supergravity and extend the usual phenomenological setting comprising an observable sector and a hidden supersymmetry breaking sector by including a third sector leading to the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. We find that gravitational constraints on the non-existence of a fifth force naturally imply that th...

To Use or Avoid Global Clocks ?

Enhanced convergence and robust performance of randomized dynamical decoupling.

We demonstrate the advantages of randomization in coherent quantum dynamical control. For systems which are either time-varying or require decoupling cycles involving a large number of operations, we find that simple randomized protocols offer superior convergence and stability as compared to deterministic counterparts. In addition, we show how randomization may allow us to outperform purely de...

Convergence Rates and Decoupling in Linear Stochastic Approximation Algorithms

Strong gauging or decoupling ghost matter

Gauging extra matter is a common way to couple two CFTs discontinuously. We may consider gauging matter by strongly coupled gauge theories at criticality rather than by weakly coupled (asymptotic free) gauge theories. It often triggers relevant deformations and possibly leads to a non-trivial fixed point. In many examples such as the IR limit of SQCDs (and their variants), the relevant RG flow ...