January 2017 arXiv papers — page 2

Alessandro Seri, Andreas Lenhard, Daniel Rieländer, Mustafa Gündoğan

Quantum correlations between long lived quantum memories and telecom photons that can propagate with low loss in optical fibers are an essential resource for the realization of large scale quantum information networks. Significant progress has been realized in this direction with atomic and solid state systems. Here, we demonstrate quantum correlations betwe

Nicolas Levernier, Maxim Dolgushev, Olivier Bénichou, Alexander Blumen

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the closure kinetics of a polymer with hydrodynamic interactions. This analysis, which takes into account the non-Markovian dynamics of the end-to-end vector and relies on the preaveraging of the mobility tensor (Zimm dynamics), is shown to reproduce very accurately the results of numerical simulations of the com

M. Majka, M. Durak-Kozica, A. Kamińska, A. Opalińska

The interest in the extracellular vesicles (EVs) is rapidly growing as they became reliable biomarkers for many diseases. For this reason, fast and accurate techniques of EVs size characterization are the matter of utmost importance. One increasingly popular technique is the Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA), in which the diameters of EVs are calculated f

Jan Sieber, Christian Marschler, Jens Starke

A common approach to studying high-dimensional systems with emergent low-dimensional behavior is based on lift-evolve-restrict maps (called equation-free methods): first, a user-defined lifting operator maps a set of low-dimensional coordinates into the high-dimensional phase space, then the high-dimensional (microscopic) evolution is applied for some time,

D Indumathi, M V N Murthy, Lakshmi S. Mohan

The Dirac leptonic CP phase δ_CP is one of the crucial unknown parameters in neutrino oscillation physics. In this paper we explore the possibility of using low energy atmospheric neutrino events to probe δ_CP . We show that at sub GeV energies, when the events are binned as a function of the energy and direction of the final state leptons, a consistent dist

Miguel de Carvalho, Garritt L. Page, Bradley J. Barney

We provide a geometric interpretation to Bayesian inference that allows us to introduce a natural measure of the level of agreement between priors, likelihoods, and posteriors. The starting point for the construction of our geometry is the simple observation that the marginal likelihood can be regarded as an inner product between the prior and the likelihood

Aleksei Tiulpin, Jérôme Thevenot, Esa Rahtu, Simo Saarakkala

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common musculoskeletal condition typically diagnosed from radiographic assessment after clinical examination. However, a visual evaluation made by a practitioner suffers from subjectivity and is highly dependent on the experience. Computer-aided diagnostics (CAD) could improve the objectivity of knee radiographic examination. The fir

Matej Kanduč, Mohsen Moazzami Gudarzi, Valentina Valmacco, Rudolf Podgornik

We compare the recent experimentally measured forces between charged colloidal particles, as well as their effective surface potentials (surface charge) in the presence of multivalent counterions in a bathing monovalent salt solution, with the predictions of the dressed ion theory of strongly charged colloidal systems. The benchmark for comparison is provide

S. Ashhab, K. Semba

We theoretically analyze the effect of parameter fluctuations on the superradiance phase transition in a setup where a large number of superconducting qubits are coupled to a single cavity. We include parameter fluctuations that are typical of superconducting architectures, such as fluctuations in qubit gaps, bias points and qubit-cavity coupling strengths.

Etsuko Itou, Sinya Aoki

To obtain the precise values of the bulk quantities and transport coefficients in quark-gluon-plasma phase, we propose that a direct calculation of the renormalized energy-momentum tensor (EMT) on the lattice using the gradient flow. From one-point function of EMT, authors in Ref.[1] obtained the interaction measure and thermal entropy. The results are consi

Iker Leanizbarrutia, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Diego Saez-Gomez

In this paper, we consider the recently proposed hybrid metric-Palatini gravitational theory, which consists of adding to the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian an $f(\mathcal{R})$ term constructed à la Palatini. Using the respective dynamically equivalent scalar-tensor representation, we explore the cosmological evolution of a specific model, given by $f(\mathcal{

Naveen Mellempudi, Abhisek Kundu, Dipankar Das, Dheevatsa Mudigere

We propose a cluster-based quantization method to convert pre-trained full precision weights into ternary weights with minimal impact on the accuracy. In addition, we also constrain the activations to 8-bits thus enabling sub 8-bit full integer inference pipeline. Our method uses smaller clusters of N filters with a common scaling factor to minimize the quan

Stefano Gariazzo, Olga Mena, Victor Miralles, Héctor Ramírez

Current measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropy power spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) seem to indicate that the naive expectation for the slow-roll hierarchy within the most simple inflationary paradigm may not be respected in nature. We show that a primordial power spectra with localized features could in principle give

Takashi Kato

In this study, we introduce an explicit trading-volume process into the Almgren-Chriss model, which is a standard model for optimal execution. We propose a penalization method for deriving a verification theorem for an adaptive optimization problem. We also discuss the optimality of the volume-weighted average-price strategy of a risk-neutral trader. Moreove

Piotr Gwiazda, Iwona Skrzypczak, Anna Zatorska-Goldstein

We prove existence of renormalized solutions to general nonlinear elliptic equation in Musielak-Orlicz space avoiding growth restrictions. Namely, we consider \begin{equation*} -{\rm div} A(x,\nabla u)= f\in L^1(Ω), \end{equation*} on a Lipschitz bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$. The growth of the monotone vector field $A$ is controlled by a generalized nonh

H. Maier-Flaig, M. Harder, S. Klingler, Z. Qiu

We experimentally study the magnon-photon coupling in a system consitsing of the compensating ferrimagnet gadolinium iron garnet (GdIG) and a three-dimensional microwave cavity. The temperature is varied in order to tune the GdIG magnetization and to observe the transition from the weak coupling regime to the strong coupling regime. By measuring and modellin

B. Kühn, W. Vogel, M. Mraz, S. Köhnke

Three different noise moments of field strength, intensity, and their correlations are simultaneously measured. For this purpose a homodyne cross-correlation measurement [W. Vogel, Phys. Rev. A 51, 4160 (1995)] is implemented by superimposing the signal field and a weak local oscillator on an unbalanced beam splitter. The relevant information is obtained via

R. Sáez-Blázquez, J. Feist, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, F. J. García-Vidal

There is an increasing scientific and technological interest on the design and implementation of nanoscale sources of quantum light. Here, we investigate the quantum statistics of the light scattered from a plasmonic nanocavity coupled to a mesoscopic ensemble of emitters under low coherent pumping. We present an analytical description of the intensity corre

Hjalmar Rosengren

We prove a multivariable elliptic extension of Jackson's summation formula conjectured by Spiridonov. The trigonometric limit case of this result is due to Gustafson and Rakha. As applications, we obtain two further multivariable elliptic Jackson summations and two multivariable elliptic Bailey transformations. The latter four results are all new even in

Pierre Schapira

We extend the classical Wick rotation to D-modules and higher codimensional submanifolds.

Pavel Abolmasov

Quasar microlensing effects make it possible to measure the accretion disc sizes around distant supermassive black holes that are still well beyond the spatial resolution of contemporary instrumentation. The sizes measured with this technique appear inconsistent with the standard accretion disc model. Not only are the measured accretion disc sizes larger, bu

Huhe Han

For given continuous functions $γ_{{}_{i}}: S^{n}\to \mathbb{R}_{+}$ (where $i=1, 2$), the functions $γ_{{}_{max}}$ and $γ_{{}_{min}}$ can be defined as natural way. In this paper, we show that the Wulff shape associated to $γ_{{}_{max}}$ is the convex hull of the union of Wulff shapes associated to $γ_{{}_1}$ and $γ_{{}_2}$ , if $γ_{{}_1}$ and $γ_{{}_2}$ ar

Marco Baroni, Armand Joulin, Allan Jabri, Germàn Kruszewski

With machine learning successfully applied to new daunting problems almost every day, general AI starts looking like an attainable goal. However, most current research focuses instead on important but narrow applications, such as image classification or machine translation. We believe this to be largely due to the lack of objective ways to measure progress t

Andrii Mironchenko, Fabian Wirth

We prove characterizations of input-to-state stability (ISS) for a large class of infinite-dimensional control systems, including some classes of evolution equations over Banach spaces, time-delay systems, ordinary differential equations (ODE), switched systems. These characterizations generalize well-known criteria of ISS, proved by Sontag and Wang for ODE

Seung-Il Choi, Sun-Young Nam, Young-Tak Oh

We provide two shifted analogues of the tableau switching process due to Benkart, Sottile, and Stroomer, the shifted tableau switching process and the modified shifted tableau switching process. They are performed by applying a sequence of specially contrived elementary transformations called {\em switches} and turn out to have some spectacular properties. F

Alexander Wires

We establish a characterization of supernilpotent Mal'cev algebras which generalizes the affine structure of abelian Mal'cev algebras and the recent characterization of 3-supernilpotent Mal'cev algebras. We then show that for varieties in which the two-generated free algebra is finite: (1) neutrality of the higher commutators is equivalent to con

Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

We consider the area preserving curve shortening flow with Neumann free boundary conditions outside of a convex domain or at a straight line. We give a criterion on initial curves that guarantees the appearance of a singularity in finite time. We prove that the singularity is of type II. Furthermore, if these initial curves are convex, then an appropriate re

Dong-Chen Zhang, Ai-Xia Zhang, San-Dong Guo

Monolayer semiconductors of group-VA elements (As, Sb, Bi) with graphenelike buckled structure offer a potential to achieve nanoscale electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices. Motivated by recently-fabricated Sb monolayer, we systematically investigate the thermoelectric properties of $β$-As, Sb and Bi monolayers by combining the first-principle

Bongjae Kim, Peitao Liu, Cesare Franchini

The competition between spin-orbit coupling, bandwidth ($W$) and electron-electron interaction ($U$) makes iridates highly susceptible to small external perturbations, which can trigger the onset of novel types of electronic and magnetic states. Here we employ {\em first principles} calculations based on density functional theory and on the constrained rando

Yuya Kaneta, Morimitsu Tanimoto, Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We discuss the Dirac CP violating phase $δ_{CP}$ in the Froggatt-Nielsen model for a neutrino mass matrix $M_ν$ imposing a condition ${\rm det} [M_ν]=0$. This additional condition restricts the CP violating phase $δ_{CP}$ drastically. We find that the phase $δ_{CP}$ is predicted in the region of $\pm (0.4- 2.9)$ radian, which is consistent with the recent T2

Yohsuke Matsuzawa, Kaoru Sano, Takahiro Shibata

We study arithmetic degree of a dominant rational self-map on a smooth projective variety over a function field of characteristic zero. We see that the notion of arithmetic degree and some related problems over function fields are interpreted into geometric ones. We give another proof of the theorem that the arithmetic degree at any point is smaller than or

Da Zhang, Hamid Maei, Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang

In this paper we introduce a fully end-to-end approach for visual tracking in videos that learns to predict the bounding box locations of a target object at every frame. An important insight is that the tracking problem can be considered as a sequential decision-making process and historical semantics encode highly relevant information for future decisions.

Yingzhou Li, Haizhao Yang

This paper proposes an efficient method for computing selected generalized eigenpairs of a sparse Hermitian definite matrix pencil $(A,B)$. Based on Zolotarev's best rational function approximations of the signum function and conformal mapping techniques, we construct the best rational function approximation of a rectangular function supported on an arbi

Emilie Kaufmann, Aurélien Garivier

Over the past few years, the multi-armed bandit model has become increasingly popular in the machine learning community, partly because of applications including online content optimization. This paper reviews two different sequential learning tasks that have been considered in the bandit literature ; they can be formulated as (sequentially) learning which d

Daniel V. Schroeder

I describe a simple algorithm for numerically finding the ground state and low-lying excited states of a quantum system. The algorithm is an adaptation of the relaxation method for solving Poisson's equation, and is fundamentally based on the variational principle. It is especially useful for two-dimensional systems with nonseparable potentials, for whic

Fritz Gesztesy, Lance Littlejohn

The principal aim of this note is to illustrate how factorizations of singular, even-order partial differential operators yield an elementary approach to classical inequalities of Hardy-Rellich-type. More precisly, introducing the two-parameter $n$-dimensional homogeneous scalar differential expressions $T_{α,β} := - Δ+ α|x|^{-2} x \cdot \nabla + β|x|^{-2}$,

Tomoaki Abuku

We study the transfinite version of Welter's Game, a combinatorial game played on a belt divided into squares numbered with general ordinal. In particular, we give a straight-forward solution for the transfinite version, based on those of the transfinite version of Nim and the original version of Welter's Game.

Yasushi Nagai

We define a general framework that includes objects such as tilings, Delone sets, functions and measures. We define local derivability and mutual local derivability (MLD) between any two of these objects in order to describe their interrelation. This is a generalization of the local derivability and MLD (or S-MLD) for tilings and Delone sets which are used i

Chenyue Wu, Esteban G. Tabak

Prototypal analysis is introduced to overcome two shortcomings of archetypal analysis: its sensitivity to outliers and its non-locality, which reduces its applicability as a learning tool. Same as archetypal analysis, prototypal analysis finds prototypes through convex combination of the data points and approximates the data through convex combination of the

Miguel Cutimanco, Patrick Labelle, Vasilisa Shramchenko

We apply the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin topological recursion to the curve corresponding to the quantum harmonic oscillator and demonstrate that the result is equivalent to the WKB wave function. We also show that using the multi-differentials obtained by the topological recursion from the harmonic oscillator curve, one generates naturally the so-called Poincaré

Sambit Das, Vikram Gavini

We use a real-space formulation of orbital-free DFT to study the core energetics and core structure of an isolated screw dislocation in Aluminum. Using a direct energetics based approach, we estimate the core size of a perfect screw dislocation to be $\approx$ 7 $|{\bf b}|$, which is considerably larger than previous estimates of $1-3~|{\bf b}|$ based on dis

Giacomo Ciani, Andrew Chilton, Stephen Apple, Taiwo Olatunde

We report on the design and sensitivity of a new torsion pendulum for measuring the performance of ultra-precise inertial sensors and for the development of associated technologies for space-based gravitational wave observatories and geodesy missions. The apparatus comprises a 1 m-long, 50 um-diameter, tungsten fiber that supports an inertial member inside a

M. L. Wong, S. K. Lele

Simulations of single- and multi-species compressible flows with shock waves and discontinuities are conducted using a weighted compact nonlinear scheme (WCNS) with a newly developed sixth order localized dissipative interpolation. In smooth regions, the scheme applies the central nonlinear interpolation with minimum dissipation to well resolve fluctuating f

Raz Kupferman, Cy Maor

This note refers to our previous paper "The emergence of torsion in the continuum limit of distributed edge-dislocations". It identifies and fixes an error in the notion of convergence of Weitzenböck manifolds defined in the paper, and in the proof of the well-definiteness of this notion of convergence.

Amin Gholampour, Artan Sheshmani, Shing-Tung Yau

Let $S$ be a projective simply connected complex surface and $\mathcal{L}$ be a line bundle on $S$. We study the moduli space of stable compactly supported 2-dimensional sheaves on the total spaces of $\mathcal{L}$. The moduli space admits a $\mathbb{C}^*$-action induced by scaling the fibers of $\mathcal{L}$. We identify certain components of the fixed locu

Thomas Koberda, Ramanujan Santharoubane

We prove that the Witten--Reshetikhin--Turaev $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ quantum representations of mapping class groups are always irreducible in the case of surfaces equipped with colored banded points, provided that at least one banded point is colored by one. We thus generalize a well--known result due to J. Roberts.

Boris Pittel

Following up a recent work by Ashlagi, Kanoria and Leshno, we study a stable matching problem with unequal numbers of men and women, and independent uniform preferences. The asymptotic formulas for the expected number of stable matchings, and for the probabilities of one point--concentration for the range of husbands' total ranks and for the range of wiv

Amin Gholampour, Artan Sheshmani, Shing-Tung Yau

We construct virtual fundamental classes on nested Hilbert schemes of points and curves in complex nonsingular projective surfaces. These classes recover the virtual classes of Seiberg-Witten theory as well as the (reduced) stable theory, and play a crucial role in the reduced Donaldson-Thomas theory of local-surface-threefolds that we study in [GSY17b] (arX

Takuro Fukunaga, Takanori Maehara

We consider a new Steiner tree problem, called vertex-cover-weighted Steiner tree problem. This problem defines the weight of a Steiner tree as the minimum weight of vertex covers in the tree, and seeks a minimum-weight Steiner tree in a given vertex-weighted undirected graph. Since it is included by the Steiner tree activation problem, the problem admits an

Desmond Cai, Subhonmesh Bose, Adam Wierman

We study Cournot competition among firms in a networked marketplace that is centrally managed by a market maker. In particular, we study a situation in which a market maker facilitates trade between geographically separate markets via a constrained transport network. Our focus is on understanding the consequences of the design of the market maker and on prov

James G. Dowty

Chentsov's theorem characterizes the Fisher information metric on statistical models as essentially the only Riemannian metric that is invariant under sufficient statistics. This implies that each statistical model is naturally equipped with a geometry, so Chentsov's theorem explains why many statistical properties can be described in geometric terms

Eric Risser, Pierre Wilmot, Connelly Barnes

Recently, methods have been proposed that perform texture synthesis and style transfer by using convolutional neural networks (e.g. Gatys et al. [2015,2016]). These methods are exciting because they can in some cases create results with state-of-the-art quality. However, in this paper, we show these methods also have limitations in texture quality, stability

Raz Kupferman, Cy Maor, Asaf Shachar

We prove two rigidity theorems for maps between Riemannian manifolds. First, we prove that a Lipschitz map $f:M\to N$ between two oriented Riemannian manifolds, whose differential is almost everywhere an orientation-preserving isometry, is an isometric immersion. This theorem was previously proved using regularity theory for conformal maps; we give a new, si

Guang-Neng Hu, Xin-Yu Dai

Item recommendation task predicts a personalized ranking over a set of items for each individual user. One paradigm is the rating-based methods that concentrate on explicit feedbacks and hence face the difficulties in collecting them. Meanwhile, the ranking-based methods are presented with rated items and then rank the rated above the unrated. This paradigm

B. W. Meyers, N. Hurley-Walker, P. J. Hancock, T. M. O. Franzen

The S-band Polarisation All-Sky Survey (S-PASS) has observed the entire southern sky using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope at 2.3GHz with an effective bandwidth of 184MHz. The surveyed sky area covers all declinations $δ\leq 0^\circ$. To analyse compact sources the survey data have been re-processed to produce a set of 107 Stokes $I$ maps with 10.75arcmi

Phoebe R. DeVries, T. Ben Thompson, Brendan J. Meade

One of the most significant challenges involved in efforts to understand the effects of repeated earthquake cycle activity are the computational costs of large-scale viscoelastic earthquake cycle models. Computationally intensive viscoelastic codes must be evaluated thousands of times and locations, and as a result, studies tend to adopt a few fixed rheologi

AmirEmad Ghassami, Ali Yekkehkhany, Negar Kiyavash

We study a covert queueing channel (CQC) between two users sharing a round robin scheduler. Such a covert channel can arise when users share a resource such as a computer processor or a router arbitrated by a round robin policy. We present an information-theoretic framework to model and derive the maximum reliable data transmission rate, i.e., the capacity o

Yilei F. Li, Li Du

Neuromorphic vision processor is an electronic implementation of vision algorithm processor on semiconductor. To image the world, a low-power CMOS image sensor array is required in the vision processor. The image sensor array is typically formed through photo diodes and analog to digital converter (ADC). To achieve low power acquisition, a low-power mid-reso

J. Austin Harris, W. Raphael Hix, Merek A. Chertkow, C. -T. Lee

We investigate core-collapse supernova (CCSN) nucleosynthesis with self-consistent, axisymmetric (2D) simulations performed using the radiation-hydrodynamics code Chimera. Computational costs have traditionally constrained the evolution of the nuclear composition within multidimensional CCSN models to, at best, a 14-species $α$-network capable of tracking on

T. E. Raptis

The interactive computation paradigm is reviewed and a particular example is extended to form the stochastic analog of a computational process via a transcription of a minimal Turing Machine into an equivalent asynchronous Cellular Automaton with an exponential waiting times distribution of effective transitions. Furthermore, a special toolbox for analytic d

Vladimir V. Kassandrov, Nina V. Markova

We consider the light cone (`retardation') equation (LCE) of an inertially moving observer and a single worldline parameterized by arbitrary rational functions. Then a set of apparent copies, R- or C-particles, defined by the (real or complex conjugate) roots of the LCE will be detected by the observer. For any rational worldline the collective R-C dynam

Corneliu Arsene, Peter Pormann, William Sellers, Siam Bhayro

Multispectral and hyperspectral image analysis has experienced much development in the last decade. The application of these methods to palimpsests has produced significant results, enabling researchers to recover texts that would be otherwise lost under the visible overtext, by improving the contrast between the undertext and the overtext. In this paper we

Cormac Dullaghan, Eleni Rozaki

The telecommunications industry is highly competitive, which means that the mobile providers need a business intelligence model that can be used to achieve an optimal level of churners, as well as a minimal level of cost in marketing activities. Machine learning applications can be used to provide guidance on marketing strategies. Furthermore, data mining te

Y. Ichinohe, A. Simionescu, N. Werner, T. Takahashi

The microphysical properties, such as effective viscosity and conductivity, of the weakly magnetized intergalactic plasma are not yet well known. We investigate the constraints that can be placed by an azimuthally resolved study of the cold front in Abell 3667 using $\sim$500 ksec archival Chandra data. We find that the radius of the interface fluctuates wit

Jake P. Taylor-King, David Basanta, S. Jonathan Chapman, Mason A. Porter

We consider evolving networks in which each node can have various associated properties (a state) in addition to those that arise from network structure. For example, each node can have a spatial location and a velocity, or some more abstract internal property that describes something like social trait. Edges between nodes are created and destroyed, and new

Roozbeh Rezakhani, Xinwei Zhou, Gianluca Cusatis

This paper presents a new adaptive multiscale homogenization scheme for the simulation of damage and fracture in concrete structures. A two-scale homogenization method, coupling meso-scale discrete particle models to macro- scale finite element models, is formulated into an adaptive framework. A continuum multiaxial failure criterion for concrete is calibrat

Amir Khodabakhsh, Lucile Rutkowski, Jérôme Morville, Aleksandra Foltynowicz

We present a continuous-filtering Vernier spectrometer operating in the 3.15-3.4 $μ$m range, based on a femtosecond doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator, a cavity with a finesse of 340, a grating mounted on a galvo scanner and two photodiodes. The spectrometer allows acquisition of one spectrum spanning 250 nm of bandwidth in 25 ms with 8 GHz resolu

Laura Plice, Ken Galal, Jack O. Burns

The Dark Ages Radio Experiment (DARE) seeks to study the cosmic Dark Ages approximately 80 to 420 million years after the Big Bang. Observations require truly quiet radio conditions, shielded from Sun and Earth electromagnetic (EM) emissions, on the far side of the Moon. DARE's science orbit is a frozen orbit with respect to lunar gravitational perturbat

Gareth A. Jones

This paper discusses some aspects of the history of the Paley graphs and their automorphism groups.

R. Caimmi, A. Franzon, S. Tognon

Musical intervals in multiple of semitones under 12-note equal temperament, or more specifically pitch-class subsets of assigned cardinality ($n$-chords) are conceived as positive integer points within an Euclidean $n$-space. The number of distinct $n$-chords is inferred from combinatorics with the extension to $n=0$, involving an Euclidean 0-space. The numb

M. K. Olsen, J. F. Corney, R. J. Lewis-Swan, A. S. Bradley

Comment on a letter to Nature Physics, where Sakmann and Kasevich claim to solve the many-body time dependent Schrödinger equation to simulate single experimental runs of interacting quantum systems.

J. E. Horvath, R. A. de Souza

We revisit the present status of the stiffness of the supranuclear equations of state, particularly the solutions that increase the stiffness in the presence of hyperons, the putative transition to a quark matter phase and the robustness of massive compact star observations.

Elena Celledoni, Robert I. McLachlan, David I. McLaren, Brynjulf Owren

Applying Kahan's discretization to the reduced Nahm equations, we obtain two classes of integrable mappings.

Mirbek Turduev, Çağrı Latifoğlu, İbrahim Halil Giden, Y. Sinan Hanay

We present a novel approach based on machine learning for designing photonic structures. In particular, we focus on strong light confinement that allows the design of an efficient free-space-to-waveguide coupler which is made of Si- slab overlying on the top of silica substrate. The learning algorithm is implemented using bitwise square Si- cells and the who

I. T. Davies

The interaction that occurs between a light solid object and a horizontal soap film of a bamboo foam contained in a cylindrical tube is simulated in 3D. We vary the shape of the falling object from a sphere to a cube by changing a single shape parameter as well as varying the initial orientation and position of the object. We investigate in detail how the so

Yafei Ren, Ke Wang, Xinzhou Deng, Shengyuan A. Yang

We demonstrate new mechanisms for gate tunable current partition at topological zero-line intersections in a graphene-based current splitter. Based on numerical calculations of the non-equilibrium Green's functions and Landauer-Büttiker formula, we show that the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field on the order of a few Teslas allows for carrier si

Satya Mandal

This is essentially an erratum, with some example to indicate inconsistencies. Suppose $A=k[X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_n]$ is a polynomial ring over a field $k$. The Complete Intersection conjecture states that, for any ideal $I$ in $A$, $μ(I)=μ(I/I^2)$, where $μ$ denotes the minimal number of generators. When $k$ is an infinite field, with $1/2\in k$, a proof of t

Saeid Abbasi Parizi, Mahdi Bashiri, Andrew Eberhard

In this paper, a non-linear p-robust hub location problem is extended to a risky environment where augmented chance constraint with a min-max regret form is employed to consider network risk as one of the objectives. The model considers risk factors such as security, air pollution and congestion to design the robust hub network. A Monte-Carlo simulation base

Katsunori Kubo, Takashi Hotta

We study the multipole interactions between $f^2$ ions with the $Γ_3$ non-Kramers doublet ground state under a cubic crystalline electric field. We construct the $Γ_3$ doublet state of the electrons with the total angular momentum $j=5/2$. By applying the second-order perturbation theory with respect to the intersite hopping, we derive the multipole interact

Li Jiang, Haridas Mundoor, Qingkun Liu, Ivan I. Smalyukh

Tunable composite materials with interesting physical behavior can be designed through integrating unique optical properties of solid nanostructures with the facile responses of soft matter to weak external stimuli, but this approach remains challenged by their poorly controlled co-assembly at the mesoscale. Using scalable wet chemical synthesis procedures,

Justyna Łodyga, Waldemar Kłobus, Ravishankar Ramanathan, Andrzej Grudka

One of the formulations of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concerning so-called measurement uncertainty, states that the measurement of one observable modifies the statistics of the other. Here, we derive such a measurement uncertainty principle from two comprehensible assumptions: impossibility of instantaneous messaging at a distance (no-signaling), and

Spyridon Michalakis

We provide elementary proofs of Lemmas 7.1 and 7.4 appearing in "The Cartan-Hadamard conjecture and the Little Prince", by B. Kloeckner and G. Kuperberg. The Lemmas play an important role in the derivation of novel isoperimetric inequalities. The original proofs relied on Sage, a symbolic algebra package, to factor certain algebraic varieties into ir

J. R. King, S. E. Kruger, R. J. Groebner, J. D. Hanson

Methods are described that extend fields from reconstructed equilibria to include scrape-off-layer current through extrapolated parametrized and experimental fits. The extrapolation includes both the effects of the toroidal-field and pressure gradients which produce scrape-off-layer current after recomputation of the Grad-Shafranov solution. To quantify the

Fabricio Oliveira, Jeffrey Christiansen, Brian Dandurand, Andrew Eberhard

In this paper, we propose a novel decomposition approach for mixed-integer stochastic programming (SMIP) problems that is inspired by the combination of penalty-based Lagrangian and block Gauss-Seidel methods (PBGS). In this sense, PBGS is developed such that the inherent decomposable structure that SMIPs present can be exploited in a computationally efficie

Yanjun Xu, Mislav Balokovic, Dominic J. Walton, Fiona A. Harrison

We present a spectral analysis of the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert 1h galaxy/ULIRG IRAS 05189-2524 taken in 2013. We find evidence for relativistic disk reflection in the broadband X-ray spectrum: a highly asymmetric broad Fe K$α$ emission line extending down to 3 keV and a Compton scattering component above 10 keV. Physical modeling wit

H. Lin, E. Buckley-Geer, A. Agnello, F. Ostrovski

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of the quad-like lensed quasar system DES J0408-5354 found in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. This system was discovered during a search for DES Y1 strong lensing systems using a method that identified candidates as red galaxies with multiple blue neighbors. DES J0408-5354 consists of a ce

Karl Fabian, Valera P. Shcherbakov

A first principle micromagnetic and statistical calculation of viscous remanent magnetization (VRM) in an ensemble of cubic magnetite pseudo single-domain particles is presented. This is achieved by developing a fast relaxation algorithm for finding optimal transition paths between micromagnetic local energy minima. It combines a nudged elastic band techniqu

Kazuyuki Sekizawa, Piotr Magierski, Gabriel Wlazłowski

We investigate the role of the pairing field dynamics in low-energy heavy ion reactions within the nuclear time-dependent density functional theory extended to superfluid systems. Recently, we have reported on unexpectedly large effects associated with the relative phase of the pairing field of colliding nuclei on the reaction outcomes, such as the total kin

H. Haimovich, J. L. Mancilla-Aguilar

Most of the existing characterizations of the integral input-to-state stability (iISS) property are not valid for time-varying or switched systems in cases where converse Lyapunov theorems for stability are not available. This note provides a characterization that is valid for switched and time-varying systems, and shows that natural extensions of some of th

Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Daniel Schaerer, Antonio Cava, Lucio Mayer

We analyse stellar masses of clumps drawn from a compilation of star-forming galaxies at 1.1<z<3.6. Comparing clumps selected in different ways, and in lensed or blank field galaxies, we examine the effects of spatial resolution and sensitivity on the inferred stellar masses. Large differences are found, with median stellar masses ranging from ~10^9 Msun for

Taku Izubuchi, Michael Abramczyk, Tom Blum, Hiroshi Ohki

We present initial results of computing nucleon electric dipole moment induced by quark chromo-EDM, CP-violating quark-gluon coupling. Using chirally-symmetric domain wall and Möbius fermions with pion mass $m_π=172\text{ MeV}$, we calculate the connected part of the electric dipole form factor $F_3(Q^2)$. In addition, we perform an exploratory study of the

J. R. King, K. H. Burrell, A. M. Garofalo, R. J. Groebner

The extended-MHD NIMROD code [C.R. Sovinec and J.R. King, J. Comput. Phys. 229, 5803 (2010)] models broadband-MHD activity from a reconstruction of a quiescent H-mode shot on the DIII-D tokamak [J. L. Luxon, Nucl. Fusion 42, 614 (2002)]. Computations with the reconstructed toroidal and poloidal ion flows exhibit low-n perturbations (n=1-5) that grow and satu

Colline Larmier, Andrea Zoia, Fausto Malvagi, Eric Dumonteil

Particle transport in random media obeying a given mixing statistics is key in several applications in nuclear reactor physics and more generally in diffusion phenomena emerging in optics and life sciences. Exact solutions for the ensemble-averaged physical observables are hardly available, and several approximate models have been thus developed, providing a

Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo

Motivated by the two paradoxical facts that the marginal cost of following one extra candidate is close to zero and that the majority of Twitter users choose to follow only one or two candidates, we study the Twitter follow behaviors observed in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Specifically, we complete the following tasks: (1) analyze Twitter follow pat

Yifeng Liu

We construct a functorial decomposition of de Rham cohomology sheaves, called weight decomposition, for smooth analytic spaces over non-Archimedean fields embeddable into $\mathbf{C}_p$, which generalizes a construction of Berkovich and solves a question raised by him. We then investigate complexes of real tropical differential forms and currents introduced

Hugo Lewi Hammer, Anis Yazidi, Håvard Rue

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating quantiles when data are received sequentially (data stream). For real life data streams, the distribution of the data typically varies with time making estimation of quantiles challenging. We present a method that simultaneously maintain estimates of multiple quantiles of the data stream distribution. The m

Holger R. Roth, Le Lu, Nathan Lay, Adam P. Harrison

Accurate and automatic organ segmentation from 3D radiological scans is an important yet challenging problem for medical image analysis. Specifically, the pancreas demonstrates very high inter-patient anatomical variability in both its shape and volume. In this paper, we present an automated system using 3D computed tomography (CT) volumes via a two-stage ca

Caroline Robin, Elena Litvinova

The spin-isospin response of stable and exotic nuclei is investigated in the framework of the proton-neutron relativistic quasiparticle time-blocking approximation (pn-RQTBA). Based on the Covariant Density Functional Theory, this method extends the proton-neutron Relativistic Quasiparticle Random-Phase Approximation (pn-RQRPA) by including the coupling betw

J. R. King, A. Y. Pankin, S. E. Kruger, P. B. Snyder

The extended-MHD NIMROD code [C.R. Sovinec and J.R. King, J. Comput. Phys. 229, 5803 (2010)] is verified against the ideal-MHD ELITE code [H.R. Wilson et al. Phys. Plasmas 9, 1277 (2002)] on a diverted tokamak discharge. When the NIMROD model complexity is increased incrementally, resistive and first-order finite-Larmour radius effects are destabilizing and

Paolo Antonelli, Pierangelo Marcati

We investigate a non-Abelian generalization of the Kuramoto model proposed by Lohe and given by $N$ quantum oscillators (&#34;nodes&#34;) connected by a quantum network where the wavefunction at each node is distributed over quantum channels to all other connected nodes. It leads to a system of Schrödinger equations coupled by nonlinear self-interacting pote