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Your ideas belong in the spotlight! Whether you’re cracking AI mysteries, decoding quantum realities, or exploring the frontiers of space, this is your launchpad.

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Welcome to a platform where knowledge knows no barriers!

Here, students and early-career researchers can publish their essays, notes, and research findings completely free of charge—no fees, no hidden costs, just pure academic exchange.

Whether you’re exploring AI, pushing the boundaries of Quantum Machine Learning, uncovering geophysical phenomena, or diving into the mysteries of space, your voice matters. This is your space to share, learn, and connect with fellow thinkers.

Even if you are not a scholar or an early-career researcher, you are welcome to contribute using this free open space—just get in touch with us!

To ensure the highest standards of quality and integrity, all submissions must adhere to the following guidelines.

Submission Guidelines

1. General Submission Requirements

  • All contributions must be original, scientifically accurate, and properly cited.
  • Submissions should focus on AI, Geophysics, Quantum Machine Learning, Space Exploration, or related fields.
  • The work should be self-contained and clearly structured, ensuring readability and scientific rigor.
  • Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. All submissions will be screened for originality.

2. Formatting Requirements

  • Manuscripts must be prepared in LaTeX or as plain text files with clearly marked sections and paragraphs.
  • If using LaTeX, ensure compliance with standard academic formatting (e.g., article class with numbered sections, equations in proper environments, and references in BibTeX format).
  • Plain text submissions must indicate sections with clear labels (e.g., ## Introduction, ## Methodology, ## References).

3. Structure of the Manuscript

Each submission should contain the following sections:

3.1 Title and Author Information

  • A concise, informative title (avoid generic titles like “A Study on AI”).
  • Full names and affiliations of all authors.
  • A corresponding email (optional, but encouraged).

3.2 Abstract

  • A brief summary (150–250 words) outlining the research question, methods, and main findings.

3.3 Main Body

  • The manuscript should be structured into sections:
    • Introduction: Define the problem and explain its relevance.
    • Methods: Describe the approach, models, or experiments used.
    • Results and Discussion: Present findings with appropriate analysis and visualizations.
    • Conclusion: Summarize the key takeaways and potential future directions.

3.4 References and Citations

  • Use scientific referencing standards (preferably APA, IEEE, or BibTeX for LaTeX users).
  • Citations should be accurate, complete, and properly formatted.
  • When citing datasets or code, provide a DOI or repository link.

4. Submission and Review Process

  • Submit your work as a LaTeX source file (.tex) or a structured plain text document (.txt).
  • The editorial team will conduct a basic review for formatting, originality, and scientific soundness.
  • Authors may receive feedback and be required to revise their submissions before publication.
  • Actual publication is solely granted upon the editorial team’s positive feedback.
  • Alpha Quantaris reserves the right to withdraw contributions from online availability if deemed necessary.

5. Ethical Considerations

  • Any conflicts of interest must be disclosed.
  • Submissions should uphold scientific integrity and ethical research practices.
  • If the work involves AI-generated content, authors must explicitly state its usage, although an inspirational use of generative AI is considered acceptable as long as it is revisited in a critical and original way.

6. Costs and Author Responsibility

  • The online publication is free of charge.
  • Authors are solely responsible for the content published under their name, having individually approved each version of their manuscript before publication.
  • Under no circumstances shall Alpha Quantaris be held responsible for the content published by individual authors.

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Echoes from Below

Francesco Gambetta
Geophysics, Space Exploration

The motivation for this essay lies in the strong link between marine environments and planetary bodies. Deep oceans share extreme conditions, high pressure, and low temperatures with the outer planet ecosystem, giving significant challenges for exploration. The essay examines marine seismic surveys in detail: basic principles, operational tools, and challenges intrinsic to subsurface imaging are discussed. Among the main topics reviewed in the essay are the physics and operation of seismic sources, including air guns, and the role of hydrophones and seismic streamers in data acquisition. The essay presents a foundation of air gun-generated bubble dynamics, pointing out the oscillatory nature of the bubbles and their dominant frequencies. This document also provides a forward model to simulate multiples, thus allowing the reader a framework to predict and understand multiples in seismic data. In the end, the essay displays some examples of seismic image interpretation, highlighting cases affected by multiples and those representing true geological features. By stating a connection between marine seismic methodologies and planetary geophysics, this work emphasizes how adapting terrestrial techniques can enhance our ability to explore subsurface structures on other planets. However, even if active geophysics in the outer world is still in its infancy I believe that technological improvement will bring, sooner than expected, these powerful explorations methods down to the “outer worlds”.

Issued 02/2025

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Echoes from below F. Gambetta 2025

Marine seismic surveys offer valuable insights into both Earth’s oceans and planetary bodies, where extreme conditions like high pressure and low temperatures pose significant exploration challenges. This essay delves into the physics and operation of seismic sources, the role of hydrophones and streamers in data acquisition, and the impact of bubble dynamics on seismic signals. By bridging marine geophysics with planetary exploration, it highlights how adapting terrestrial techniques can advance subsurface studies beyond Earth, paving the way for future breakthroughs in active geophysics on other worlds.