Cosmological phase transitions: From perturbative particle physics to gravitational waves

P Athron, C Balázs, A Fowlie, L Morris, L Wu - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gravitational waves (GWs) were recently detected for the first time. This revolutionary
discovery opens a new way of learning about particle physics through GWs from first-order …

Search for new physics with atoms and molecules

MS Safronova, D Budker, D DeMille, DFJ Kimball… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

Gshard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding

D Lepikhin, HJ Lee, Y Xu, D Chen, O Firat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Neural network scaling has been critical for improving the model quality in many real-world
machine learning applications with vast amounts of training data and compute. Although this …

Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole

R Abuter, A Amorim, M Bauböck, JP Berger… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
The star S2 orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* is a precision probe of the gravitational
field around the closest massive black hole (candidate). Over the last 2.7 decades we have …

Breakdown of the Newton–Einstein Standard Gravity at Low Acceleration in Internal Dynamics of Wide Binary Stars

KH Chae - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A gravitational anomaly is found at weak gravitational acceleration g N≲ 10− 9 ms− 2 from
analyses of the dynamics of wide binary stars selected from the Gaia DR3 database that …

Comparing equivalent gravities: common features and differences

S Capozziello, V De Falco, C Ferrara - The European Physical Journal C, 2022 - Springer
We discuss equivalent representations of gravity in the framework of metric-affine
geometries pointing out basic concepts from where these theories stem out. In particular, we …

Superradiance evolution of black hole shadows revisited

R Roy, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Black hole (BH) shadows can be used to probe new physics in the form of ultralight particles
via the phenomenon of superradiant instability. By directly affecting the BH mass and spin …

Testing the rotational nature of the supermassive object M87* from the circularity and size of its first image

C Bambi, K Freese, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has recently released the first image of a
black hole (BH), opening a new window onto tests of general relativity in the strong field …

MICROSCOPE Mission: First Results of a Space Test of the Equivalence Principle

P Touboul, G Métris, M Rodrigues, Y André, Q Baghi… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
According to the weak equivalence principle, all bodies should fall at the same rate in a
gravitational field. The MICROSCOPE satellite, launched in April 2016, aims to test its …

Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds

N Christensen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A stochastic background of gravitational waves could be created by the superposition of a
large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest …