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Ayan Mitra

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arXiv2021

Constraining the swiss-cheese IR-fixed point cosmology with cosmic expansion

In a recent work, it has been proposed that the recent cosmic passage to a cosmic acceleration era is the result of the existence of small anti-gravity sources in each galaxy and clusters of galaxies. In particular, a swiss-cheese cosmology model which relativistically integrates the contribution of all these anti-gravity sources on galactic scale has been constructed assuming the presence of an infrared fixed point for a scale dependent cosmological constant. The derived cosmological expansion provides explanation for both the fine tuning and the coincidence problem. The present work relaxes the previous assumption on the running of the cosmological constant and allows for a generic scaling around the infrared fixed point. Our analysis reveals in order to produce a cosmic evolution consistent with the best $Λ$CDM model, the IR-running of the cosmological constant is consistent with the presence of an IR-fixed point.

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arXiv2021

Constraining HeII Reionization Detection Uncertainties via Fast Radio Bursts

Context. The increased detection rate of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) makes it likely to get samples of sizes $\mathcal{O}(10^2)$ to $\mathcal{O}(10^3)$ in the near future. Because of their extragalactic origin can help us in understanding the epoch of helium reionization. Aims. We try to identify the epoch of Helium II (HeII) reionization, via the observations of early FRBs in range of $z=3$ to $4$. Methods. We build a model of FRB Dispersion Measure following the HeII reionization model, density fluctuation in large scale structure, host galaxy interstellar medium and local environment of FRB contribution. The model is fit to the ideal intergalactic medium (IGM) dispersion measure model to check the goodness of constraining the HeII reionization via FRB measurement statistics. Conclusion. We report our findings under two categories, accuracy in detection of HeII reionization via FRBs assuming no uncertainty in the redshift measurement and alternatively assuming a varied level of uncertainty in redshift measurement of the FRBs. We show that under the first case, a detection of $N\sim\mathcal{O} (10^2)$ FRBs give an uncertainty of $σ(z_{r, fit})\sim0.5$ from the fit model, and a detection of $N\sim\mathcal{O} (10^3)$ gives an uncertainty of $σ(z_{r, fit})\sim0.1$. While assuming a redshift uncertainty of level $5-20\%$, changes the $σ(z_{r, fit})\sim0.5$ to $0.6$ for $N\sim 100$ and $σ(z_{r, fit})\sim0.1$ to $0.15$ for $N \sim 1000$ case.

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arXiv2021

Bound on efficiency of heat engine from uncertainty relation viewpoint

Quantum cycles in established heat engines can be modeled with various quantum systems as working substances. For example, a heat engine can be modeled with an infinite potential well as the working substance to determine the efficiency and work done. However, in this method, the relationship between the quantum observables and the physically measurable parameters i.e., the efficiency and work done is not well understood from the quantum mechanics approach. A detailed analysis is needed to link the thermodynamic variables (on which the efficiency and work done depends) with the uncertainty principle for better understanding. Here, we present the connection of the sum uncertainty relation of position and momentum operators with thermodynamic variables in the quantum heat engine model. We are able to determine the upper and lower bounds on the efficiency of the heat engine through the uncertainty relation.

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arXiv2021

Dual-temperature acceleration radiation

We solve for a system that emits acceleration radiation at two different temperatures. The equilibrium states occur asymptotically in Planck distributions and transition non-thermally. The model is simple enough to obtain a global solution for the radiation spectrum analytically. We present it as a potentially useful model for investigation of non-thermal vacuum acceleration radiation in the presence of final(initial) asymptotic thermodynamic horizon(less) states in equilibrium.

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arXiv2021

Cosmology Requirements on Supernova Photometric Redshift Systematics for Rubin LSST and Roman Space Telescope

Some million Type Ia supernovae (SN) will be discovered and monitored during upcoming wide area time domain surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). For cosmological use, accurate redshifts are needed among other characteristics; however the vast majority of the SN will not have spectroscopic redshifts, even for their host galaxies, only photometric redshifts. We assess the redshift systematic control necessary for robust cosmology. Based on the photometric vs true redshift relation generated by machine learning applied to a simulation of 500,000 galaxies as observed with LSST quality, we quantify requirements on systematics in the mean relation and in the outlier fraction and deviance so as not to bias dark energy cosmological inference. Certain redshift ranges are particularly sensitive, motivating spectroscopic followup of SN at $z\lesssim0.2$ and around $z\approx0.5$-0.6. Including Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope near infrared bands in the simulation, we reanalyze the constraints, finding improvements at high redshift but little at the low redshifts where systematics lead to strong cosmology bias. We identify a complete spectroscopic survey of SN host galaxies for $z\lesssim0.2$ as a highly favored element for robust SN cosmology.

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arXiv2021

Binary Black Hole Information Loss Paradox & Future Prospects

Various techniques to tackle the black hole information paradox have been proposed. A new way out to tackle the paradox is via the use of a pseudo-density operator. This approach has successfully dealt with the problem with a two qubit entangle system for a single black hole. In this paper, we present the interaction with a binary black hole system by using an arrangement of the three qubit system of Greenberger Horne Zeilinger (GHZ) state. We show that our results are in excellent agreement with the theoretical value. We have also studied the interaction between the two black holes by considering the correlation between the qubits in the binary black hole system. The results depict a complete agreement with the proposed model. In addition to the verification, we also propose how modern detection of gravitational waves can be used on our optical setup as an input source, thus bridging the gap with the gravitational wave's observational resources in terms of studying black hole properties with respect to quantum information and entanglement.

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arXiv2020

Quantum Cycle in Relativistic Non-Commutative Space with Generalized Uncertainty Principle correction

Quantum heat cycles and quantum refrigerators are analyzed using various quantum systems as their working mediums. For example, to evaluate the efficiency and the work done of the Carnot cycle in the quantum regime, one can consider the harmonic oscillator as it's working medium. For all these well-defined working substances (which are analyzed in commutative space structure), the efficiency of the engine is not up to the mark of the Carnot efficiency. So, one inevitable question arise, can one observe a catalytic effect on the efficiency of the engines and refrigerators when the space structure is changed? In this paper, two different working substance in non-commutative spacetime with relativistic and generalized uncertainty principle corrections has been considered for the analysis of the efficiency of the heat engine cycles. The efficiency of the quantum heat engine gets a boost for higher values of the non-commutative parameter with a harmonic oscillator as the working substance. In the case of the second working medium (one-dimensional infinite potential well), the efficiency shows a constant result in the non-commutative space structure.

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arXiv2020

Cosmology with the Einstein Telescope: No Slip Gravity Model and Redshift Specifications

The Einstein Telescope and other third generation interferometric detectors of gravitational waves are projected to be operational post $2030$. The cosmological signatures of gravitational waves would undoubtedly shed light on any departure from the current gravitational framework. We here confront a specific modified gravity model, the No Slip Gravity model, with forecast observations of gravitational waves. We compare the predicted constraints on the dark energy equation of state parameters $w_0^{}-w_a^{}$, between the modified gravity model and that of Einstein gravity. We show that the No Slip Gravity model mimics closely the constraints from the standard gravitational theory, and that the cosmological constraints are very similar. The use of spectroscopic redshifts, especially in the low--redshift regime, lead to significant improvements in the inferred parameter constraints. We test how well such a prospective gravitational wave dataset would function at testing such models, and find that there are significant degeneracies between the modified gravity model parameters, and the cosmological parameters that determine the distance, due to the gravitational wave dimming effect of the modified theory.

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arXiv2019

Estimating weak lensing convergence correlation of Type-Ia supernovae from 5-year SNLS data by internal error estimate technique

We report non-zero weak lensing convergence correlation signal of Type-Ia supernovae from 5-year Supernovae Legacy Survey data. For our analysis we utilize 296 supernovae magnification data from 5-year SNLS in the weak lensing limit. The data we use consists of measurements from four different patches, each covering 1 square degree of the sky, merged together. We demonstrate that it is possible to have a very good estimate of the two point correlation function from this data using internal error estimate technique. In order to have a good estimate of the corresponding covariance matrix we apply bootstrap spatial re-sampling technique where we reshuffle the original data consisting of 296 data points 100-10000 times and compare the results with that obtained from original data points. We show that this technique helps us arrive at a reliable conclusion on weak lensing convergence even though the original dataset comprises of a small number of data points. This also allows us to compute the corresponding covariance matrix with great accuracy.

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arXiv2019

Reconstruction of Convergence power spectrum from SNLS weak lensing data

We estimate the lensing convergence power spectrum from supernovae magnification data using real space correlation function technique. For our analysis we have utilized 296 supernovae from 5-year Supernovae Legacy Survey in the weak lensing limit. The data we used consists of measurements from four different patches, each of them covers almost 1 square degree of the sky, merged together. We demonstrate that it is quite possible to have a good estimate of the convergence power spectrum from this data. Our primary intention is to extract meaningful informations from SNLS weak lensing data and to demonstrate how the power spectrum for convergence can be reconstructed therefrom, without going into the nitty-gritty of errors, although we have done some error analysis in the process.

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arXiv2019

Probing Uncertainty Relations in Non-Commutative Space

In this paper, we compute uncertainty relations for non-commutative space and obtain a better lower bound than the standard one obtained from Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. We also derive the reverse uncertainty relation for product and sum of uncertainties of two incompatible variables for one linear and another non-linear model of the harmonic oscillator. The non-linear model in non-commutating space yields two different expressions for Schrödinger and Heisenberg uncertainty relation. This distinction does not arise in commutative space, and even in the linear model of non-commutative space.

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arXiv2019

Photometric Supernovae Redshift Systematics Requirements

Imaging surveys will find many tens to hundreds of thousands of Type Ia supernovae in the next decade, and measure their light curves. In addition to a need for characterizing their types and subtypes, a redshift is required to place them on a Hubble diagram to map the cosmological expansion. We investigate the requirements on redshift systematics control in order not to bias cosmological results, in particular dark energy parameter estimation. We find that additive and multiplicative systematics must be constrained at the few$\,\times 10^{-3}$ level, effectively requiring spectroscopic followup for robust use of photometric supernovae. Catastrophic outliers need control at the subpercent level. We also investigate sculpting the spectroscopic sample.

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arXiv2018

Affect of Simulated Atmospheric Turbulence on Three Entangled Photons

The thorough experimental study for the measure of sustainability of the atmospheric turbulence of the entangled photons for two qubit has been analysed by G. Puentes et al. [Phys. Rev. A 75, 032319 (2007)]. Here in this paper we propose a scheme to measure the effect of entanglement in three entangled photon GHZ state with the help of simulated atmospheric turbulence. We simulate the result of affected entangled GHZ state by introducing turbulence in three entangled photon path alternatively. We observe, by introducing the turbulence in photon path we are loosing the entanglement property, because of the increase in entropy. We compare our result with Werner curve and observe that the simulated result perfectly fit with the theoretical result.

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arXiv2018

Gravitational Lensing of the supernovae from the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)

The presence of mass inhomogeneities along the line of sight of propagation of light fromdistant objects can induce deflection in the flight path of the photon. This phenomenon is called as gravitational lensing. Lensing can have both distortion (shear) and isotropic magnification effects on the source. We studied the effect of lensing magnification on supernova (SN) Ia in this thesis. Presence of lensing would introduce a source of contamination to the brightness distribution of the source (SN Ia in our case). Thus it also enables one to compute the lensing effect indirectly from the Hubble diagram (i.e. from the residual to the Hubble diagram). In this thesis we computed the correlation between these two effects : the Hubble residual and the computed lensing magnification for the SN by the line of sight foreground dark matter haloes. A detection of positive correlation between these two would signify the positivity of lensing signal detection. The data sample is the spectroscopic SNe Ia sample from the five years full SNLS data and the Hubble residuals are those of the preliminary cosmology analysis performed on SNLS5 data. We obtain a signal of ρ= 0.177 at 2.51 σ. This result is consistent with the previous SNLS three years data lensing analysis results.

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arXiv2018

Dependence of Type Ia supernova luminosities on their local environment

We present a fully consistent catalog of local and global properties of host galaxies of 882 Type Ia supernovæ (SNIa) that were selected based on their light-curve properties, spanning the redshift range $0.01 < z < 1.\text{}$ This catalog corresponds to a preliminary version of the compilation sample and includes Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) 5-year data, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and low-redshift surveys. We measured low- and moderate-redshift host galaxy photometry in SNLS and SDSS images and used spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting techniques to derive host properties such as stellar mass and $U-V$ rest-frame colors; the latter are an indicator of the luminosity-weighted age of the stellar population in a galaxy. We also estimated the local observed fluxes at the supernova location within a proper distance radius of 3 kpc, and transposed them into local $U-V$ rest-frame colors. Selecting SNIa based on host photometry quality, we then performed cosmological fits using local color as a third standardization variable, for which we split the sample at the median value. We find a local color step as significant as the maximum mass step effect. Correcting for the maximum mass step correction, we still find a significant local color effect, which shows that additional information is provided by the close environment of SNIa. Departures from the initial choices were investigated, and we discuss the possible implications for cosmology. This will be of tremendous importance for the forthcoming SNIa surveys, and in particular for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for which uncertainties on the dark energy equation of state will be comparable to the effects reported here.

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