@article{18627, abstract = {In contrast with extended Bloch waves, a single particle can become spatially localized due to the so-called skin effect originating from non-Hermitian pumping. Here we show that in kinetically constrained many-body systems, the skin effect can instead manifest as dynamical amplification within the Fock space, beyond the intuitively expected and previously studied particle localization and clustering. We exemplify this non-Hermitian Fock skin effect in an asymmetric version of the PXP model and show that it gives rise to ergodicity-breaking eigenstates—the non-Hermitian analogs of quantum many-body scars. A distinguishing feature of these non-Hermitian scars is their enhanced robustness against external disorders. We propose an experimental realization of the non-Hermitian scar enhancement in a tilted Bose-Hubbard optical lattice with laser-induced loss. Additionally, we implement digital simulations of such scar enhancement on the IBM quantum processor. Our results show that the Fock skin effect provides a powerful tool for creating robust nonergodic states in generic open quantum systems.}, author = {Shen, Ruizhe and Qin, Fang and Desaules, Jean-Yves Marc and Papić, Zlatko and Lee, Ching Hua}, issn = {1079-7114}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, number = {21}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {{Enhanced many-body quantum scars from the non-hermitian fock skin effect}}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.216601}, volume = {133}, year = {2024}, } @article{18628, abstract = {Arctic tidewater glaciers are retreating, serving as key indicators of global warming. This study aims to assess how subglacial hydrology affects glacier front retreat by comparing two glacier–fjord models of the Hansbreen glacier: one incorporating a detailed subglacial hydrology model and another simplifying the subglacial discharge to a single channel centered in the flow line. We first validate the subglacial hydrology model by comparing its discharge channels with observations of plume activity. Simulations conducted from April to December 2010 revealed that the glacier front position aligns more closely with the observations in the coupled model than in the simplified version. Furthermore, the mass loss due to calving and submarine melting is greater in the coupled model, with the calving mass loss reaching 6 Mt by the end of the simulation compared to 4 Mt in the simplified model. These findings highlight the critical role of subglacial hydrology in predicting glacier dynamics and emphasize the importance of detailed modeling in understanding the responses of Arctic tidewater glaciers to climate change.}, author = {De Andrés, Eva and Muñoz Hermosilla, José M and Shahateet, Kaian and Otero, Jaime}, issn = {2306-5338}, journal = {Hydrology}, number = {11}, publisher = {MDPI}, title = {{The importance of solving Subglaciar hydrology in modeling glacier retreat: A case study of Hansbreen, Svalbard}}, doi = {10.3390/hydrology11110193}, volume = {11}, year = {2024}, } @article{18629, abstract = {We study a three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation that describes a static impurity in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate. Our focus is on the interplay between the shape of the impurity and the anisotropy of the medium manifested in the energy and the density of the system. Without external confinement, properties of the system are derived with basic analytical approaches. For a system in a harmonic trap, the model is investigated numerically, using the split-step Crank-Nicolson method. Our results demonstrate that the impurity self-energy is minimized when its shape more closely aligns with the anisotropic character of the bath; in particular a prolate deformed impurity aligned with the direction of the dipoles has the smallest self-energy for a repulsive impurity. Our work complements studies of impurities in Bose gases with zero-range interactions and paves the way for studies of dipolar polarons with a Gross-Pitaevskii equation.}, author = {Shukla, Neelam and Volosniev, Artem and Armstrong, Jeremy R.}, issn = {2469-9934}, journal = {Physical Review A}, number = {5}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {{Anisotropic potential immersed in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate}}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.110.053317}, volume = {110}, year = {2024}, } @article{18630, abstract = {Markov chains are the de facto finite-state model for stochastic dynamical systems, and Markov decision processes (MDPs) extend Markov chains by incorporating non-deterministic behaviors. Given an MDP and rewards on states, a classical optimization criterion is the maximal expected total reward where the MDP stops after T steps, which can be computed by a simple dynamic programming algorithm. We consider a natural generalization of the problem where the stopping times can be chosen according to a probability distribution, such that the expected stopping time is T, to optimize the expected total reward. Quite surprisingly we establish inter-reducibility of the expected stopping-time problem for Markov chains with the Positivity problem (which is related to the well-known Skolem problem), for which establishing either decidability or undecidability would be a major breakthrough. Given the hardness of the exact problem, we consider the approximate version of the problem: we show that it can be solved in exponential time for Markov chains and in exponential space for MDPs.}, author = {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent}, issn = {1860-5974}, journal = {Logical Methods in Computer Science}, number = {4}, pages = {11:1--11:34}, publisher = {EPI Sciences}, title = {{Stochastic processes with expected stopping time}}, doi = {10.46298/lmcs-20(4:11)2024}, volume = {20}, year = {2024}, } @article{18651, abstract = {Embryo axis formation begins with the localized expression of biochemical signals, which organize cell movements and determine cell fate. A quail study finds that tissue contraction and resulting long-range changes in tissue tension restrict the area where these biochemical signals are expressed.}, author = {Hino, Naoya and Santos Fernandes Lasbarrères Camelo, Carolina and Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J}, issn = {1879-0445}, journal = {Current Biology}, number = {24}, pages = {R1230--R1232}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Development: Turing mechanics}}, doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.065}, volume = {34}, year = {2024}, } @article{18652, abstract = {Over the last 70 years, information theory and coding has enabled communication technologies that have had an astounding impact on our lives. This is possible due to the match between encoding/decoding strategies and corresponding channel models. Traditional studies of channels have taken one of two extremes: Shannon-theoretic models are inherently average-case in which channel noise is governed by a memoryless stochastic process, whereas coding-theoretic (referred to as “Hamming”) models take a worst-case, adversarial, view of the noise. However, for several existing and emerging communication systems the Shannon/average-case view may be too optimistic, whereas the Hamming/worstcase view may be too pessimistic. This monograph takes up the challenge of studying adversarial channel models that lie between the Shannon and Hamming extremes.}, author = {Dey, Bikash Kumar and Jaggi, Sidharth and Langberg, Michael and Sarwate, Anand D. and Zhang, Yihan}, issn = {1567-2328}, journal = {Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory}, number = {3-4}, pages = {300--588}, publisher = {Now Publishers}, title = {{Codes for adversaries: Between worst-case and average-case jamming}}, doi = {10.1561/0100000112}, volume = {21}, year = {2024}, } @article{18653, abstract = {Charge sensing is a sensitive technique for probing quantum devices, of particular importance for spin-qubit readout. To achieve good readout sensitivities, the proximity of the charge sensor to the device to be measured is a necessity. However, this proximity also means that the operation of the device affects, in turn, the sensor tuning and ultimately the readout sensitivity. We present an approach for compensating for this crosstalk effect allowing for the gate voltages of the measured device to be swept in a 1-V × 1-V window while maintaining a sensor configuration chosen by a Bayesian optimizer. Our algorithm will hopefully be a major contribution to the suite of fully automated solutions required for the operation of large quantum device architectures.}, author = {Hickie, Joseph and Van Straaten, Barnaby and Fedele, Federico and Jirovec, Daniel and Ballabio, Andrea and Chrastina, Daniel and Isella, Giovanni and Katsaros, Georgios and Ares, Natalia}, issn = {2331-7019}, journal = {Physical Review Applied}, number = {6}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {{Automated long-range compensation of an rf quantum dot sensor}}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.064026}, volume = {22}, year = {2024}, } @article{18654, abstract = {We compute the rotational anisotropy of the free energy of 𝛼−RuCl3 in an external magnetic field. This quantity, known as the magnetotropic susceptibility, 𝑘, relates to the second derivative of the free energy with respect to the angle of rotation. We have used approximation-free, auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo simulations for a realistic model of 𝛼−RuCl3 and optimized the path integral to alleviate the negative sign problem. This allows us to reach temperatures down to 30K—an energy scale below the dominant Kitaev coupling. We demonstrate that the magnetotropic spin susceptibility in this model of 𝛼−RuCl3 displays scaling behavior 𝑘=𝑇⁢𝑓⁡(𝐵/𝑇) at high temperatures. Once the uniform susceptibility departs from the Curie law (i.e., at the energy scale of the exchange interactions), it appears to transition to an emergent scalinglike behavior, characterized by a different function 𝑓 at lower temperatures, stemming from the locality of torque fluctuations. We observe a remarkable numerical match between experiment and simulations and we also find qualitative agreement with the pure Kitaev model. In comparison, for the XXZ Heisenberg Hamiltonian, the scaling 𝑘=𝑇⁢𝑓⁡(𝐵/𝑇) breaks down at a temperature scale where the uniform spin susceptibility deviates from the Curie law and never reemerges at low temperatures.}, author = {Sato, Toshihiro and Ramshaw, B. J. and Modic, Kimberly A and Assaad, Fakher F.}, issn = {2469-9969}, journal = {Physical Review B}, number = {20}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {{Scale-invariant magnetic anisotropy in α-RuCl3: A quantum Monte Carlo study}}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L201114}, volume = {110}, year = {2024}, } @article{18655, abstract = {Let Qd be the d-dimensional binary hypercube. We say that P={v1,…,vk} is an increasing path of length k−1 in Qd, if for every i∈[k−1] the edge vivi+1 is obtained by switching some zero coordinate in vi to a one coordinate in vi+1. Form a random subgraph Qdp by retaining each edge in E(Qd) independently with probability p. We show that there is a phase transition with respect to the length of a longest increasing path around p=ed. Let α be a constant and let p=αd. When αe, whp there is a path of length d−2 in Qdp, and in fact, whether it is of length d−2,d−1, or d depends on whether the all-zero and all-one vertices percolate or not.}, author = {Anastos, Michael and Diskin, Sahar and Elboim, Dor and Krivelevich, Michael}, issn = {1083-589X}, journal = {Electronic Communications in Probability}, publisher = {Duke University Press}, title = {{Climbing up a random subgraph of the hypercube}}, doi = {10.1214/24-ECP639}, volume = {29}, year = {2024}, } @unpublished{18673, abstract = {Motivated by applications to crystalline materials, we generalize the merge tree and the related barcode of a filtered complex to the periodic setting in Euclidean space. They are invariant under isometries, changing bases, and indeed changing lattices. In addition, we prove stability under perturbations and provide an algorithm that under mild geometric conditions typically satisfied by crystalline materials takes O((n+m)logn) time, in which n and m are the numbers of vertices and edges in the quotient complex, respectively. }, author = {Edelsbrunner, Herbert and Heiss, Teresa}, booktitle = {arXiv}, title = {{Merge trees of periodic filtrations}}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2408.16575}, year = {2024}, } @phdthesis{18674, abstract = {Mapping the complex and dense arrangement of cells and their connectivity in brain tissue requires volumetric imaging at nanoscale spatial resolution. While light microscopy excels at visualizing specific molecules and individual cells, achieving dense, synapse-level circuit reconstruction has not been possible with any light microscopy technique. Thus, the goal of my work was to develop image and data analysis pipelines for brain tissue visualization and reconstruction with light microscopy. To achieve dense circuit reconstruction with single-synapse resolution, I developed both conventional and deep-learning-based synapse detection algorithms, as well as connectivity analysis pipelines that integrate synapse detection with volumetric segmentation of brain tissue.}, author = {Lyudchik, Julia}, isbn = { 978-3-99078-051-0}, issn = {2663-337X}, pages = {217}, publisher = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria}, title = {{Image analysis for brain tissue reconstruction with super-resolution light microscopy}}, doi = {10.15479/at:ista:18674}, year = {2024}, } @unpublished{18677, abstract = {The information-processing capability of the brain’s cellular network depends on the physical wiring pattern between neurons and their molecular and functional characteristics. Mapping neurons and resolving their individual synaptic connections can be achieved by volumetric imaging at nanoscale resolution with dense cellular labeling. Light microscopy is uniquely positioned to visualize specific molecules but dense, synapse-level circuit reconstruction by light microscopy has been out of reach due to limitations in resolution, contrast, and volumetric imaging capability. Here we developed light-microscopy based connectomics (LICONN). We integrated specifically engineered hydrogel embedding and expansion with comprehensive deep-learning based segmentation and analysis of connectivity, thus directly incorporating molecular information in synapse-level brain tissue reconstructions. LICONN will allow synapse-level brain tissue phenotyping in biological experiments in a readily adoptable manner.}, author = {Tavakoli, Mojtaba and Lyudchik, Julia and Januszewski, Michał and Vistunou, Vitali and Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie and Vorlaufer, Jakob and Sommer, Christoph M and Kreuzinger, Caroline and Oliveira, Bárbara and Cenameri, Alban and Novarino, Gaia and Jain, Viren and Danzl, Johann G}, booktitle = {bioRxiv}, title = {{Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue}}, doi = {10.1101/2024.03.01.582884}, year = {2024}, } @phdthesis{18681, author = {Tavakoli, Mojtaba}, isbn = {978-3-99078-048-0}, issn = {2663-337X}, pages = {230}, publisher = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria}, title = {{Developing molecular and structural tools for studying brain architecture with super resolution expansion microscopy. LICONN: Molecularly-informed connectomics reconstruction with light microscopy}}, doi = {10.15479/at:ista:18681}, year = {2024}, } @unpublished{18688, abstract = {The human brain has remarkable computational power. It generates sophisticated behavioral sequences, stores engrams over an individual’s lifetime, and produces higher cognitive functions up to the level of consciousness. However, so little of our neuroscience knowledge covers the human brain, and it remains unknown whether this organ is truly unique, or is a scaled version of the extensively studied rodent brain. To address this fundamental question, we determined the cellular, synaptic, and connectivity rules of the hippocampal CA3 recurrent circuit using multicellular patch clamp-recording. This circuit is the largest autoassociative network in the brain, and plays a key role in memory and higher-order computations such as pattern separation and pattern completion. We demonstrate that human hippocampal CA3 employs sparse connectivity, in stark contrast to neocortical recurrent networks. Connectivity sparsifies from rodents to humans, providing a circuit architecture that maximizes associational power. Unitary synaptic events at human CA3–CA3 synapses showed both distinct species-specific and circuit-dependent properties, with high reliability, unique amplitude precision, and long integration times. We also identify differential scaling rules between hippocampal pathways from rodents to humans, with a moderate increase in the convergence of CA3 inputs per cell, but a marked increase in human mossy fiber innervation. Anatomically guided full-scale modeling suggests that the human brain’s sparse connectivity, expanded neuronal number, and reliable synaptic signaling combine to enhance the associative memory storage capacity of CA3. Together, our results reveal unique rules of connectivity and synaptic signaling in the human hippocampus, demonstrating the absolute necessity of human brain research and beginning to unravel the remarkable performance of our autoassociative memory circuits.}, author = {Watson, Jake F. and Vargas-Barroso, Victor and Morse-Mora, Rebecca J. and Navas-Olive, Andrea and Tavakoli, Mojtaba and Danzl, Johann G and Tomschik, Matthias and Rössler, Karl and Jonas, Peter M}, booktitle = {bioRxiv}, title = {{Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory}}, doi = {10.1101/2024.05.02.592169}, year = {2024}, } @unpublished{18689, abstract = {Multiplexed fluorescence microscopy imaging is widely used in biomedical applications. However, simultaneous imaging of multiple fluorophores can result in spectral leaks and overlapping, which greatly degrades image quality and subsequent analysis. Existing popular spectral unmixing methods are mainly based on computational intensive linear models and the performance is heavily dependent on the reference spectra, which may greatly preclude its further applications. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based blindly spectral unmixing method, termed AutoUnmix, to imitate the physical spectral mixing process. A tranfer learning framework is further devised to allow our AutoUnmix adapting to a variety of imaging systems without retraining the network. Our proposed method has demonstrated real-time unmixing capabilities, surpassing existing methods by up to 100-fold in terms of unmixing speed. We further validate the reconstruction performance on both synthetic datasets and biological samples. The unmixing results of AutoUnmix achieve a highest SSIM of 0.99 in both three- and four-color imaging, with nearly up to 20% higher than other popular unmixing methods. Due to the desirable property of data independency and superior blind unmixing performance, we believe AutoUnmix is a powerful tool to study the interaction process of different organelles labeled by multiple fluorophores.}, author = {Gallei, Michelle C and Truckenbrodt, Sven M and Kreuzinger, Caroline and Inumella, Syamala and Vistunou, Vitali and Sommer, Christoph M and Tavakoli, Mojtaba and Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie and Vorlaufer, Jakob and Jahr, Wiebke and Randuch, Marek and Johnson, Alexander J and Benková, Eva and Friml, Jiří and Danzl, Johann G}, booktitle = {bioRxiv}, title = {{Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots}}, doi = {10.1101/2024.02.21.581330}, year = {2024}, } @inproceedings{18702, abstract = {In this work we prove lower bounds on the (communication) cost of maintaining a shared key among a dynamic group of users. Being “dynamic” means one can add and remove users from the group. This captures important protocols like multicast encryption (ME) and continuous group-key agreement (CGKA), which is the primitive underlying many group messaging applications. We prove our bounds in a combinatorial setting where the state of the protocol progresses in rounds. The state of the protocol in each round is captured by a set system, with each of its elements specifying a set of users who share a secret key. We show this combinatorial model implies bounds in symbolic models for ME and CGKA that capture, as building blocks, PRGs, PRFs, dual PRFs, secret sharing, and symmetric encryption in the setting of ME, and PRGs, PRFs, dual PRFs, secret sharing, public-key encryption, and key-updatable public-key encryption in the setting of CGKA. The models are related to the ones used by Micciancio and Panjwani (Eurocrypt’04) and Bienstock et al. (TCC’20) to analyze ME and CGKA, respectively. We prove – using the Bollobás’ Set Pairs Inequality – that the cost (number of uploaded ciphertexts) for replacing a set of d users in a group of size n is Ω(dln(n/d)). Our lower bound is asymptotically tight and both improves on a bound of Ω(d) by Bienstock et al. (TCC’20), and generalizes a result by Micciancio and Panjwani (Eurocrypt’04), who proved a lower bound of Ω(log(n)) for d=1. }, author = {Anastos, Michael and Auerbach, Benedikt and Baig, Mirza Ahad and Cueto Noval, Miguel and Kwan, Matthew Alan and Pascual Perez, Guillermo and Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z}, booktitle = {22nd International Conference on Theory of Cryptography}, isbn = {9783031780103}, issn = {1611-3349}, location = {Milan, Italy}, pages = {413--443}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{The cost of maintaining keys in dynamic groups with applications to multicast encryption and group messaging}}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-78011-0_14}, volume = {15364}, year = {2024}, } @article{18703, abstract = {Spatial games provide a simple and elegant mathematical model to study the evolution of cooperation in networks. In spatial games, individuals reside in vertices, adopt simple strategies, and interact with neighbors to receive a payoff. Depending on their own and neighbors’ payoffs, individuals can change their strategy. The payoff is determined by the Prisoners’ Dilemma, a classical matrix game, where players cooperate or defect. While cooperation is the desired behavior, defection provides a higher payoff for a selfish individual. There are many theoretical and empirical studies related to the role of the network in the evolution of cooperation. However, the fundamental question of whether there exist networks that for low initial cooperation rate ensure a high chance of fixation, i.e., cooperation spreads across the whole population, has remained elusive for spatial games with strong selection. In this work, we answer this fundamental question in the affirmative by presenting network structures that ensure high fixation probability for cooperators in the strong selection regime. Besides, our structures have many desirable properties: (a) they ensure the spread of cooperation even for a low initial density of cooperation and high temptation of defection, (b) they have constant degrees, and (c) the number of steps, until cooperation spreads, is at most quadratic in the size of the network.}, author = {Svoboda, Jakub and Chatterjee, Krishnendu}, issn = {1091-6490}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, number = {50}, publisher = {National Academy of Sciences}, title = {{Density amplifiers of cooperation for spatial games}}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.2405605121}, volume = {121}, year = {2024}, } @article{18704, abstract = {Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is the main pathway used by eukaryotic cells to take up extracellular material, but the dominant physical mechanisms driving this process are still elusive. Recently, several high-resolution imaging techniques have been used on different cell lines to measure the geometrical properties of clathrin-coated pits over their whole lifetime. Here, we first show that the combination of all datasets with the recently introduced cooperative curvature model defines a consensus pathway, which is characterized by a flat-to-curved transition at finite area, followed by linear growth and subsequent saturation of curvature. We then apply an energetic model for the composite of the plasma membrane and clathrin coat to this consensus pathway to show that the dominant mechanism for invagination could be coat stiffening, which might originate from cooperative interactions between the different clathrin molecules and progressively drives the system toward its intrinsic curvature. Our theory predicts that two length scales determine the invagination pathway, namely the patch size at which the flat-to-curved transition occurs and the final pit radius.}, author = {Frey, Felix F and Schwarz, Ulrich S.}, issn = {2470-0053}, journal = {Physical Review E}, number = {6}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {{Coat stiffening can explain invagination of clathrin-coated membranes}}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.110.064403}, volume = {110}, year = {2024}, } @article{18708, abstract = {This study investigates the response of Indian summer monsoon (ISM) precipitation to CO2 removal, with a specific focus on regional and subseasonal variations. Following CO2 removal, monsoon circulation weakens throughout the summer owing to the reduced large-scale meridional temperature gradient around India. Weakened monsoon circulation decreases the local-scale thermodynamic stability within India, following monsoon-onset periods. While the frequency of synoptic-scale ISM low-pressure systems (LPSs) decreases overall, the lower thermodynamic stability causes the LPSs to form and resultantly shift west and south from their typical paths, last longer and move more quickly zonally during August and September. Changes in these rain-producing processes induce distinct regional (Western Ghats, south-central-east India, and Tamil Nadu) and subseasonal precipitation responses. Also, extreme precipitation exhibits similar patterns, but is more strongly affected by changes in LPS. Our results suggest that reliable future projections of regional hydroclimate change require a more accurate understanding of multi-scale precipitation processes.}, author = {Paik, Seungmok and Kim, Daehyun and An, Soon Il and Oh, Hyoeun and Shin, Jongsoo and Goswami, Bidyut B and Min, Seung Ki and Mondal, Sanjit Kumar}, issn = {2397-3722}, journal = {npj Climate and Atmospheric Science}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{Exploring causes of distinct regional and subseasonal Indian summer monsoon precipitation responses to CO2 removal}}, doi = {10.1038/s41612-024-00858-0}, volume = {7}, year = {2024}, } @article{18709, abstract = {We measure the mass distribution of main-sequence (MS) companions to hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) in post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs). We carried out a spectroscopic survey of 14 eclipsing systems ("HW Vir binaries") with orbital periods of 3.8 < Porb < 12 hr, resulting in a well-understood selection function and a near-complete sample of HW Vir binaries with G < 16. We constrain companion masses from the radial velocity curves of the sdB stars. The companion mass distribution peaks at MMS ≈ 0.15 M⊙ and drops off at MMS > 0.2 M⊙, with only two systems hosting companions above the fully convective limit. There is no correlation between Porb and MMS within the sample. A similar drop-off in the companion mass distribution of white dwarf (WD) + MS PCEBs has been attributed to disrupted magnetic braking (MB) below the fully convective limit. We compare the sdB companion mass distribution to predictions of binary evolution simulations with a range of MB laws. Because sdBs have short lifetimes compared to WDs, explaining the lack of higher-mass MS companions to sdBs with disrupted MB requires MB to be boosted by a factor of 20–100 relative to MB laws inferred from the rotation evolution of single stars. We speculate that such boosting may be a result of irradiation-driven enhancement of the MS stars' winds. An alternative possibility is that common envelope evolution favors low-mass companions in short-period orbits, but the existence of massive WD companions to sdBs with similar periods disfavors this scenario.}, author = {Blomberg, Lisa and El-Badry, Kareem and Breivik, Katelyn and Caiazzo, Ilaria and Nagarajan, Pranav and Rodriguez, Antonio and Van Roestel, Jan and Vanderbosch, Zachary P. and Yamaguchi, Natsuko}, issn = {0004-6280}, journal = {Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific}, number = {12}, publisher = {IOP Publishing}, title = {{The companion mass distribution of post common envelope hot subdwarf binaries: Evidence for boosted and disrupted magnetic braking?}}, doi = {10.1088/1538-3873/ad94a2}, volume = {136}, year = {2024}, }