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Theoretical physicists working at a blackboard collaboration pod in the Beecroft building.
Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Prof Andre Lukas

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Theoretical Physics

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions
  • Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Particle theory
Andre.Lukas@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73953
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, room 70.11
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Heterotic string model building with monad bundles and reinforcement learning

Fortschritte der Physik Wiley 70:2-3 (2022) 2100186

Authors:

Andrei Constantin, Thomas R Harvey, Andre Lukas

Abstract:

We use reinforcement learning as a means of constructing string compactifications with prescribed properties. Specifically, we study heterotic (Formula presented.) GUT models on Calabi-Yau three-folds with monad bundles, in search of phenomenologically promising examples. Due to the vast number of bundles and the sparseness of viable choices, methods based on systematic scanning are not suitable for this class of models. By focusing on two specific manifolds with Picard numbers two and three, we show that reinforcement learning can be used successfully to explore monad bundles. Training can be accomplished with minimal computing resources and leads to highly efficient policy networks. They produce phenomenologically promising states for nearly 100% of episodes and within a small number of steps. In this way, hundreds of new candidate standard models are found.

Flops for Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Threefolds

(2021)

Authors:

Callum Brodie, Andrei Constantin, Andre Lukas, Fabian Ruehle

Recent Developments in Line Bundle Cohomology and Applications to String Phenomenology

(2021)

Authors:

Callum Brodie, Andrei Constantin, James Gray, Andre Lukas, Fabian Ruehle

String model building, reinforcement learning and genetic algorithms

(2021)

Authors:

Steven Abel, Andrei Constantin, Thomas Harvey, Andre Lukas

Learning Size and Shape of Calabi-Yau Spaces

(2021)

Authors:

Magdalena Larfors, Andre Lukas, Fabian Ruehle, Robin Schneider

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