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Chuan Liu

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Geometric quantum drives and topological dynamical responses: hyperbolically-driven quantum systems and beyond

We introduce a geometrical framework to construct a large class of time-dependent quantum systems, in which the position of a classical particle moving autonomously on a smooth connected manifold is used to steer a quantum Hamiltonian over time. This results in quantum drives with structured temporal profiles and properties dependent on the local and global nature of the underlying choice of manifold. We show that our construction recovers the well-known classes of periodically-driven and quasiperiodically-driven quantum systems, but also unveils fundamentally new classes of quantum dynamics: by utilizing a compact 2d hyperbolic Bolza surface and a nonorientable Klein-bottle surface, we demonstrate examples of a hyperbolically-driven quantum system and a nonorientably-driven quantum system respectively. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these driven systems exhibit unusual quantized dynamical responses reflecting their different underlying topologies, under the condition of being fully gapped and in the adiabatic limit, and which have interpretations as quantized crystalline electromagnetic responses in certain exotic effective tight-binding lattice models. We envision geometric quantum driving as a general framework to chart the landscape of time-dependent quantum systems and investigate the universal phase structures they exhibit, as well as a useful tool to enhance the capabilities of modern day quantum simulators.

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Lattice QCD determination of the $γZ$ box contribution to the proton weak charge

We present the first lattice QCD determination of the $γZ$ box contribution to parity-violating electron-proton scattering, $\square_{γZ}$ , a key ingredient for the precise tests of the Standard Model via the proton weak charge. Our calculation covers the electron beam energies up to $E =155 MeV$. For the axial-vector component, we achieve reduced uncertainties across the entire energy range compared with phenomenological estimates. For the vector component, the uncertainties remain slightly larger after continuum extrapolation. At $E = 0$, where the vector part vanishes, we obtain $\square_{γZ}= 0.00412(9)$ , reducing the uncertainty by a factor of $2$ relative to the most precise previous determination. Incorporating this result yields an updated weak charge of $Q_{W}^{p}= 0.06987(50)$ . The calculated energy dependence of $\square_{γZ}$ further provides a first-principles input for the upcoming P2 experiment at Mainz, which will operate at the optimized beam energy of $155 MeV$ to extract $Q_{W}^p$.

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Form factors of the $D_s \to ϕ\ell ν_\ell$ semileptonic decay with (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD

We present a systematic lattice calculation of the vector and axial vector form factors $V$ and $A_i~(i=0,1,2)$ for the $D_s \to ϕ\ell ν_\ell$ semileptonic decay using (2+1)-flavor Wilson-clover fermion configurations generated by the CLQCD collaboration. Seven gauge ensembles with different lattice spacings, from $0.052~\text{fm}$ to $0.105~\text{fm}$, and different pion masses, from about $210~\text{MeV}$ to $320~\text{MeV}$ are utilized, enabling us to take both the continuum limit and physical pion mass extrapolation. The form factor ratios are obtained to be $r_V=1.614(19)$ and $r_2=0.741(31)$. Our results of form factors reach the precision of $1\%-4\%$, which greatly improves the previous lattice QCD results and obtains the most precise determination to date.

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Scaling Laws for Black box Adversarial Attacks

Adversarial examples exhibit cross-model transferability, enabling threatening black-box attacks on commercial models. Model ensembling, which attacks multiple surrogate models, is a known strategy to improve this transferability. However, prior studies typically use small, fixed ensembles, which leaves open an intriguing question of whether scaling the number of surrogate models can further improve black-box attacks. In this work, we conduct the first large-scale empirical study of this question. We show that by resolving gradient conflict with advanced optimizers, we discover a robust and universal log-linear scaling law through both theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations: the Attack Success Rate (ASR) scales linearly with the logarithm of the ensemble size $T$. We rigorously verify this law across standard classifiers, SOTA defenses, and MLLMs, and find that scaling distills robust, semantic features of the target class. Consequently, we apply this fundamental insight to benchmark SOTA MLLMs. This reveals both the attack's devastating power and a clear robustness hierarchy: we achieve 80\%+ transfer attack success rate on proprietary models like GPT-4o, while also highlighting the exceptional resilience of Claude-3.5-Sonnet. Our findings urge a shift in focus for robustness evaluation: from designing intricate algorithms on small ensembles to understanding the principled and powerful threat of scaling.

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Construction of general $N$-body lattice operators with arbitrary momenta

We present a systematic method for constructing lattice QCD operators for systems of an arbitrary number of particles with arbitrary momentum, spin, and internal quantum numbers. Explicit constructions are provided for one-, two-, three-, and four-hadron operators, covering all irreducible representations of the relevant lattice symmetry groups in both rest and moving frames. The construction procedure has been implemented in the open-source package \texttt{OpTion} (Operator construcTion), available at https://github.com/wittscien/OpTion. The paper and the package are designed to serve as a practical and extensible dictionary for future lattice QCD studies, as lattice calculations advance towards increasingly complex hadronic systems.

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Study of the $D_s \to ϕ\ell ν_\ell$ semileptonic decay with (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD

We present a systematic lattice calculation of the $D_s \to ϕ\ell ν_\ell$ semileptonic decay using (2+1)-flavor Wilson-clover fermion configurations generated by the CLQCD collaboration. Seven gauge ensembles with different lattice spacings, from $0.052~\text{fm}$ to $0.105~\text{fm}$, and different pion masses, from about $210~\text{MeV}$ to $320~\text{MeV}$ are utilized, enabling us to take both the continuum limit and physical pion mass extrapolation. The ratios of form factors are obtained to be $r_V=1.614(19)$ and $r_2=0.741(31)$, with the precision improved by up to an order of magnitude compared to previous lattice studies. The branching fractions are given as $\mathcal{B}(D_s\toϕeν_e)=2.493(66)_{\text{stat}}(31)_{|V_{cs}|}\times 10^{-2}$ and $\mathcal{B}(D_s\toϕμν_μ)=2.351(60)_{\text{stat}}(29)_{|V_{cs}|}\times 10^{-2}$. The corresponding ratio of the branching fractions between the lepton $μ$ and $e$ is given by $\mathcal{R}_{μ/e}=0.9432(13)$, which provides essential theoretical support for future high-precision experimental tests of the lepton flavor universality. The CKM matrix element $|V_{cs}|$ is also extracted to be $0.952(12)_{\text{stat}}(23)_{\text{PDG}}$ and $0.945(12)_{\text{stat}}(24)_{\text{PDG}}$ for the $μ$ and $e$ channels, respectively.

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MTGR: Industrial-Scale Generative Recommendation Framework in Meituan

Scaling law has been extensively validated in many domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. In the recommendation system, recent work has adopted generative recommendations to achieve scalability, but their generative approaches require abandoning the carefully constructed cross features of traditional recommendation models. We found that this approach significantly degrades model performance, and scaling up cannot compensate for it at all. In this paper, we propose MTGR (Meituan Generative Recommendation) to address this issue. MTGR is modeling based on the HSTU architecture and can retain the original deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) features, including cross features. Additionally, MTGR achieves training and inference acceleration through user-level compression to ensure efficient scaling. We also propose Group-Layer Normalization (GLN) to enhance the performance of encoding within different semantic spaces and the dynamic masking strategy to avoid information leakage. We further optimize the training frameworks, enabling support for our models with 10 to 100 times computational complexity compared to the DLRM, without significant cost increases. MTGR achieved 65x FLOPs for single-sample forward inference compared to the DLRM model, resulting in the largest gain in nearly two years both offline and online. This breakthrough was successfully deployed on Meituan, the world's largest food delivery platform, where it has been handling the main traffic.

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Lattice QCD calculation of the $π^0$-pole contribution to the hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

We develop a method to compute the pion transition form factor directly at arbitrary space-like photon momenta and use it to determine the $π^0$-pole contribution to the hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The calculation is performed using eight gauge ensembles generated with 2+1 flavor domain wall fermions, incorporating multiple pion masses, lattice spacings, and volumes. By introducing a pion structure function and performing a Gegenbauer expansion, we demonstrate that about 98\% of the $π^0$-pole contribution can be extracted in a model-independent manner, thereby ensuring that systematic effects are well controlled. After applying finite-volume corrections, as well as performing chiral and continuum extrapolations, we obtain the final result for the $π^0$-pole contribution to the hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon's anomalous magnetic moment, $a_μ^{π^0\mathrm{-pole}}=61.2(1.7)\times 10^{-11}$, and the $π^0$ decay width, $Γ_{π^0\to γγ}=7.60(27)$ eV.

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Lattice QCD Study of Pion Electroproduction and Weak Production from a Nucleon

Quantum fluctuations in QCD influence nucleon structure and interactions, with pion production serving as a key probe of chiral dynamics. In this study, we present a lattice QCD calculation of multipole amplitudes at threshold, related to both pion electroproduction and weak production from a nucleon, using two gauge ensembles near the physical pion mass. We develop a technique for spin projection and construct multiple operators for analyzing the generalized eigenvalue problem in both the nucleon-pion system in the center-of-mass frame and the nucleon system with nonzero momentum. The numerical lattice results are then compared with those extracted from experimental data and predicted by low-energy theorems incorporating one-loop corrections.

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Lattice calculation of the $η_cη_c$ and $J/ψJ/ψ$ s-wave scattering length

We calculate the s-wave scattering length in the $0^+$ sector of $η_cη_c$ and the $2^+$ sector of $J/ψJ/ψ$ using three $N_f=2$ twisted mass gauge ensembles with the lattice spacing $a=0.0667,0.085,0.098$ fm, respectively. The scattering lengths are extracted using the conventional L{ü}scher finite size method. We observe sizable discretization effects and the results after a continuum extrapolation are $a^{0^+}_{η_cη_c}=-0.104(09)$ fm and $a^{2^+}_{J/ψJ/ψ}=-0.165(16)$ fm. The slight difference of light quark mass is ignored in this study. Our results indicate that the interaction between the two respective charmonia are repulsive in nature in both cases.

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Lattice QCD study of $Λ_c Λ_c$ scattering

We present the first lattice result of the near threshold $Λ_cΛ_c$ scattering with $I(J^P) = 0(0^+)$. The calculation is performed on two $N_f = 2+1$ Wilson-Clover ensembles with pion mass $m_π\sim 303$\,MeV and lattice spacing $a = 0.07746$\,fm. The Lüscher's finite volume method is utilized to extract the scattering parameters from the finite-volume spectrum. The coupled channel $Ξ_{cc}N$ is ignored in the scattering analysis based on the observation that the energy levels computed from the $Λ_cΛ_c$ and $Ξ_{cc}N$ operators do not mix. The $Σ_cΣ_c$ channel is not included either since the energy range explored in this study is well below its threshold. Our results indicate that the interaction in the $Λ_cΛ_c$ single channel is repulsive, and the scattering length is determined to be $a_0 = -0.21(4)(8)$\,fm, where the first error is the statistical error and the second is the systematic error.

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Solvable entanglement dynamics in quantum circuits with generalized space-time duality

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of kicked Ising models in $1+1$ dimensions which have interactions alternating between odd and even bonds in time. These models can be understood as quantum circuits tiling space-time with the generalized space-time dual properties of tri-unitarity (three "arrows of time") at the global level, and also second-level dual-unitarity at the local level, which constrains the behavior of pairs of local gates underlying the circuit under a space-time rotation. We identify a broad class of initial product states wherein the effect of the environment on a small subsystem can be exactly represented by influence matrices with simple Markovian structures, resulting in the subsystem's full dynamics being efficiently computable. We further find additional conditions under which the dynamics of entanglement can be solved for all times, yielding rich phenomenology ranging from linear growth at half the maximal speed allowed by locality, followed by saturation to maximum entropy (i.e., thermalization to infinite temperature); to entanglement growth with saturation to extensive but sub-maximal entropy. Intriguingly, for certain parameter regimes, we find a nonchaotic class of dynamics which is neither integrable nor Clifford, exemplified by nonzero operator entanglement growth but with a spectral form factor which exhibits large, apparently time-quasiperiodic revivals.

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The characterizations of hyperspaces and free topological groups with an $ω^ω$-base

A topological space $(X, τ)$ is said to be have an {\it $ω^ω$-base} if for each point $x\in X$ there exists a neighborhood base $\{U_α[x]: α\inω^ω\}$ such that $U_β[x]\subset U_α[x]$ for all $α\leqβ$ in $ω^ω$. In this paper, the characterization of a space $X$ is given such that the free Abelian topological group $A(X)$, the hyperspace $CL(X)$ with the Vietoris topology and the hyperspace $CL(X)$ with the Fell topology have $ω^ω$-bases respectively. The main results are listed as follows: (1) For a Tychonoff space $X$, the free Abelian topological group $A(X)$ is a $k$-space with an $ω^ω$-base if and only if $X$ is a topological sum of a discrete space and a submetrizable $k_ω$-space. (2) If $X$ is a metrizable space, then $(CL(X), τ_V)$ has an $ω^ω$-base if and only if $X$ is separable and the boundary of each closed subset of $X$ is $σ$-compact. (3) If $X$ is a metrizable space, then $(CL(X), τ_F)$ has an $ω^ω$-base consisting of basic neighborhoods if and only if $X$ is a Polish space. (4) If $X$ is a metrizable space, then $(CL(X), τ_F)$ is a Fréchet-Urysohn space with an $ω^ω$-base, if and only if $(CL(X), τ_F)$ is first-countable, if and only if $X$ is a locally compact and second countable space.

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Spectral parameters of the $ρ$ resonance from lattice QCD

We present a lattice QCD investigation of the $ρ$ resonance using nine $N_f = 2 + 1$ Wilson-Clover ensembles with three lattice spacings and various pion masses ranging from $135$ to $320$ MeV. For each ensemble, a large number of finite volume energy levels are determined and the energy dependence of the phase shift obtained from Lüscher's finite volume method. The mass and width of the $ρ$ resonance are then extracted by assuming the Breit-Wigner form. The mass and width are extrapolated to the physical pion mass and continuum limit ($\mathcal{O}(a^2)$) using a linear function of $a^2$ and $m^2_π$. The extrapolated values for the mass and width in the Breit-Wigner form are $(m_ρ,\,Γ_ρ) = (781.6\pm10.0,\, 146.5\pm 9.9)$ MeV, which are in good agreement with experiment. An alternative method of analysis, based on Hamiltonian effective field theory, involves directly fitting the lattice energy levels and accounting for the quark mass dependence of the hadronic loop diagrams which yield the leading and next-to-leading non-analytic behaviour. This approach also yields consistent $ρ$ parameters at the physical point. This represents the most precise determination to date of the mass and width of a hadron which is unstable under strong decay, achieved through comprehensive lattice QCD calculations and methods of analysis.

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Lattice QCD calculation of the subtraction function in forward Compton amplitude

The subtraction function plays a pivotal role in calculations involving the forward Compton amplitude, which is crucial for predicting the Lamb shift in muonic atom, as well as the proton-neutron mass difference. In this work, we present a lattice QCD calculation of the subtraction function using two domain wall fermion gauge ensembles at the physical pion mass. We utilize a recently proposed subtraction point, demonstrating its advantage in mitigating statistical and systematic uncertainties by eliminating the need for ground-state subtraction. Our results reveal significant contributions from $Nπ$ intermediate states to the subtraction function. Incorporating these contributions, we compute the proton, neutron and nucleon isovector subtraction functions at photon momentum transfer $Q^2\in[0,2]$ GeV$^2$. For the proton subtraction function, we compare our lattice results with chiral perturbation theory prediction at low $Q^2$ and with the results from the perturbative operator-product expansion at high $Q^2$. Finally, using these subtraction functions as input, we determine their contribution to two-photon exchange effects in the Lamb shift and isovector nucleon electromagnetic self-energy.

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Lattice study of $J/ψ\rightarrow γη_c$ using a method without momentum extrapolation

We present a model-independent method to calculate the radiative transition without the momentum extrapolation for the off-shell transition factors. The on-shell transition factor is directly obtained from the lattice hadronic function. We apply the method to calculate the charmonium radiative transition $J/ψ\rightarrow γη_c$. After a continuous extrapolation under three lattice spacings, we obtain the on-shell transition factor as $V(0)=1.90(4)$, where the error is the statistical error that already takes into account the $a^2$-error in the continuous extrapolation. Finally, we determine the branching fraction of $J/ψ\rightarrow γη_c$ as $\operatorname{Br}(J/ψ\rightarrow γη_c)=2.49(11)_{\textrm{lat}}(5)_{\textrm{exp}}$, where the second error comes from the uncertainty of $J/ψ$ total decay width $92.6(1.7)$ keV.

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Charmed meson masses and decay constants in the continuum from the tadpole improved clover ensembles

We present the determination of the charm quark mass, the masses, and decay constants of charmed mesons using thirteen 2+1 flavor gauge ensembles at five different lattice spacings $a\in[0.05,0.11]$ fm, 8 pion masses $m_π\in(130,360)$ MeV, and several values of the strange quark mass, which facilitate us to do the chiral and continuum extrapolation. These ensembles are generated through the stout smeared clover fermion action and Symanzik gauge actions with the tadpole improvement. By absorbing the discretization errors into the masses and field normalization of the charm quark, we manage to suppress the discretization error of the charmed meson mass and all the S-wave open charmed meson decay constants to a few percent or even less at lattice spacing \( a \sim 0.1 \) fm. Moreover, discretization errors for other quantities are also significantly reduced. The continuum extrapolated charm quark mass, $m_c(m_c)=1.2933(72)(95)$ GeV in $\overline{\textrm{MS}}$ scheme, is determined using QED-subtracted $D_s$ meson mass and non-perturbative renormalization. Predictions of the open and close charm mesons using this charm quark mass agree with the experimental values at 0.1-0.5\% level uncertainty. We obtained $D_{(s)}$ decay constants and also by far the most precise $D_{(s)}^*$ decay constants $f_{D^*}=0.2292(26)(17)$ GeV and $f_{D^*_s}=0.2691(30)(03)$ GeV.

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$ω$ meson from lattice QCD

Many excited states in the hadron spectrum have large branching ratios to three-hadron final states. Understanding such particles from first principles QCD requires input from lattice QCD with one-, two-, and three-meson interpolators as well as a reliable three-body formalism relating finite-volume spectra at unphysical pion mass values to the scattering amplitudes at the physical point. In this work, we provide the first-ever calculation of the resonance parameters of the $ω$ meson from lattice QCD, including an update of the formalism through matching to effective field theories. The main result of this pioneering study, the pole position of the $ω$ meson at $\sqrt{s_ω}= (778.0(11.2)-i\,3.0(5) )\,\mathrm{MeV}$, agrees reasonably well with experiment. In addition we provide an estimate of the $ω-ρ$ mass difference as $29(15)\,\mathrm{MeV}$.

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