August 2018 arXiv papers — page 4

Bartosz Gembala, Anis Yazidi, Hårek Haugerud, Stefano Nichele

By default, the Linux network stack is not configured for highspeed large file transfer. The reason behind this is to save memory resources. It is possible to tune the Linux network stack by increasing the network buffers size for high-speed networks that connect server systems in order to handle more network packets. However, there are also several other TC

Miguel Bezares, Carlos Palenzuela

Gravitational wave astronomy might allow us to detect the coalescence of low-brightness astrophysical compact objects which are extremely difficult to be observed with current electromagnetic telescopes. Besides classical sources like black holes and neutron stars, other candidates include Exotic Compact Objects (ECOs), which could exist in theory but have n

Vladas Sidoravicius, Laurent Tournier

We consider a system of annihilating particles where particles start from the points of a Poisson process on the line, move at constant i.i.d. speeds symmetrically distributed in {-1,0,+1} and annihilate upon collision. We prove that particles with speed 0 vanish almost surely if and only if their initial density is smaller than or equal to 1/4, and give an

W. R. C. Somerville, J. L. Stokes, A. M. Adawi, T. S. Horozov

Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids at liquid interfaces. However, there is a gap in our understanding of the crystallization of these systems because exis

E. S. Efimenko, A. V. Bashinov, A. A. Gonoskov, S. I. Bastrakov

The cascaded production and dynamics of electron-positron plasma in ultimately focused laser fields of extreme intensity are studied by 3D particle-in-cell simulations with the account for the relevant processes of quantum electrodynamics (QED). We show that, if the laser facility provides a total power above 20 PW, it is possible to trigger not only a QED c

Ravid Shaniv, Nitzan Akerman, Tom Manovitz, Yotam Shapira

We present a method that uses radio-frequency pulses to cancel the quadrupole shift in optical clock transitions. Quadrupole shifts are an inherent inhomogeneous broadening mechanism in trapped ion crystals, limiting current optical ion clocks to work with a single probe ion. Cancelling this shift at each interrogation cycle of the ion frequency allows the u

Andreas Müllers, Bodhaditya Santra, Christian Baals, Jian Jiang

Coherent perfect absorption is the complete extinction of incoming radiation by a complex potential in a physical system supporting wave propagation. The concept was proven for linear waves in variety of systems including light interacting with absorbing scatterers, plasmonic metasurfaces and graphene films, as well as sound waves. We extend the paradigm to

Luc Pronzato, Anatoly Zhigljavsky

A standard objective in computer experiments is to approximate the behaviour of an unknown function on a compact domain from a few evaluations inside the domain. When little is known about the function, space-filling design is advisable: typically, points of evaluation spread out across the available space are obtained by minimizing a geometrical (for instan

Matthieu Kochersperger

In this article we are interested in morphisms without slope for mixed Hodge modules. We first show the commutativity of iterated nearby cycles and vanishing cycles applied to a mixed Hodge module in the case of a morphism without slope. Then we define the notion "strictly without slope" for a mixed Hodge module and we show the preservation of this c

Hendrik Jan van Eerten

GW170817 was not merely an absolute breakthrough in gravitational wave astrophysics and a first in multi-messenger astronomy. The quality and diversity of the electro-magnetic counterpart emission is staggering on its own as well, including unprecedented kilonova spectra and a broadband off-axis gamma-ray burst afterglow that has progressed along a trajector

Lukas Convent, Sebastian Hungerecker, Martin Leucker, Torben Scheffel

Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring program traces. In particular, stream runtime verification (SRV) takes the program trace as input streams and incrementally derives output streams. SRV can check logical properties and compute temporal metrics and statistics from the trace. We present TeSSLa, a temporal stream-based specification language for

Narayani Vedam, Debasish Ghose

We propose a modified Vicsek-like model to study influence dynamics and opinion formation in social networks. We work on the premise that opinions of members of a group may be considered to be analogous to the direction of motion of a particle in space. The opinions are susceptible to change under the influence of familiar individuals who maintain similar be

N. Poljak, A. Bosilj, S. Brzaj, J. Dragovic

We describe a variant of the popular game "Pictionary" based on terms used in elementary and high school physics. We believe that drawing of physical terms helps students develop a deeper understanding of physical concepts behind them, as well as apply them in everyday situations.

O. Beltramo-Martin, C. M. Correia, B. Neichel, T. Fusco

Knowledge of the atmospheric turbulence in the telescope line-of-sight is crucial for wide-field observations assisted by adaptive optics (AO), for which the Point Spread Function (PSF) becomes strongly elongated due to the anisoplanatism effect. This one must be modelled accurately to extrapolate the PSF anywhere across the Field of view (FOV) and improve t

Ewelina Bartuzi, Katarzyna Roszczewska, Mateusz Trokielewicz, Radosław Białobrzeski

This paper presents a novel database comprising representations of five different biometric characteristics, collected in a mobile, unconstrained or semi-constrained setting with three different mobile devices, including characteristics previously unavailable in existing datasets, namely hand images, thermal hand images, and thermal face images, all acquired

Natacha Brügger, Yann Alibert, Sareh Ataiee, Willy Benz

One of the main scenarios of planet formation is the core accretion model where a massive core forms first and then accretes a gaseous envelope. This core forms by accreting solids, either planetesimals, or pebbles. A key constraint in this model is that the accretion of gas must proceed before the dissipation of the gas disc. Classical planetesimal accretio

Jonathan P. Epperlein, Julien Monteil, Mingming Liu, Yingqi Gu

We present here a general framework and a specific algorithm for predicting the destination, route, or more generally a pattern, of an ongoing journey, building on the recent work of [Y. Lassoued, J. Monteil, Y. Gu, G. Russo, R. Shorten, and M. Mevissen, "Hidden Markov model for route and destination prediction," in IEEE International Conference on I

Phan Thanh Nam, Thi-Hiep Luu

In this paper, the problem of finding state bounds is considered, for the first time, for a class of positive time-delay coupled differential-difference equations (CDDEs) with bounded disturbances. First, we present a novel method, which is based on nonnegative matrices and optimization techniques, for computing a like-exponential componentwise upper bound o

Dan-Dan Wu, Hua-Hua Fu, Qing-Bo Liu, Gui-Fang Du

To construct reliable material platforms and to uncover new rules to realize spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) and thermal spin-filtering effect (SFE) are core topics in spin caloritronics. Here we design several single-layer boron-nitrogen nanotubes (BNNTs) with n boron (nitrogen) atoms substituted by carbons in every unit cell. We find that for n = 1, the magnetic

Peter Makarov, Simon Clematide

We employ imitation learning to train a neural transition-based string transducer for morphological tasks such as inflection generation and lemmatization. Previous approaches to training this type of model either rely on an external character aligner for the production of gold action sequences, which results in a suboptimal model due to the unwarranted depen

Abhijit Biswas, Swati Parmar, Anupam Jana, Ram Janay Chaudhary

We have grown Au/Ag modulated nanostructured thin films by pulsed laser deposition using metallic targets. The growths performed at room temperature involved deposition of alternate layers of the two metals with larger thickness of Au and much lower thickness of Ag (two cases) on crystalline silicon (100) and quartz substrates. However, the characterization

Hendrik Schawe, Alexander K. Hartmann

We study the distribution of the area and perimeter of the convex hull of the "true" self-avoiding random walk in a plane. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method, we obtain the distributions also in their far tails, down to probabilities like $10^{-800}$. This enables us to test previous conjectures regarding the scaling of the distribution

Petr Emanovský, Jan Kühr

Pseudo-BCI-algebras generalize both BCI-algebras and pseudo-BCK-algebras, which are a non-commutative generalization of BCK-algebras. In this paper, following [J.G. Raftery and C.J. van Alten, Residuation in commutative ordered monoids with minimal zero, Rep. Math. Log. 34 (2000) 23-57], we show that pseudo-BCI-algebras are the residuation subreducts of semi

Nandan Pakhira, A. M. Shvaika, J. K. Freericks

We calculate the finite temperature X-ray photoemission spectroscopy for the Falicov-Kimball model using a Weiner-Hopf sum equation approach. In the metallic state, the core-hole spectral function shows two side peaks corresponding to the creation of a core-hole on an empty site (or a doubly occupied site) and also has two nearly degenerate central peaks (be

Aqeel Labash, Ardi Tampuu, Tambet Matiisen, Jaan Aru

Assisted by neural networks, reinforcement learning agents have been able to solve increasingly complex tasks over the last years. The simulation environment in which the agents interact is an essential component in any reinforcement learning problem. The environment simulates the dynamics of the agents' world and hence provides feedback to their actions

Floris van Doorn

The goal of this dissertation is to present synthetic homotopy theory in the setting of homotopy type theory. We will present various results in this framework, most notably the construction of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch and Serre spectral sequences for cohomology, which have been fully formalized in the Lean proof assistant.

K. Nagaraju, D. V. S. Phanindra, S. Krishna Prasad, D. S. Shankar Rao

In a dual-frequency liquid crystal (DFLC), when the frequency of the applied voltage is more than a critical value ($f_c$), the dielectric anisotropy of the material changes from positive to negative. This causes the director to switch its orientation from parallel to the field (for $f < f_c$), to perpendicular to it ($f > f_c$). Hence DFLC can be used in mo

Florian J. Curchod, Mafalda L. Almeida, Antonio Acín

Local measurements acting on entangled quantum states give rise to a rich correlation structure in the multipartite scenario. We introduce a versatile technique to build families of Bell inequalities witnessing different notions of multipartite nonlocality for any number of parties. The idea behind our method is simple: a known Bell inequality satisfying cer

Candrasyah Muhammad, Somphoach Saichaemchan, Burin Gumjudpai

We consider cosmological scalar field evolving under exponential potential of the Non-minimal Derivative Coupling (NMDC) gravity model in Palatini formalism. Slow-roll regime is assumed. GR and metric formalism NMDC cases are compared in this study. Phase portraits show that Palatini NMDC effect restricts acceleration phase into smaller region in the phase s

L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Karin I. Oberg, David J. Wilner, Jane Huang

We present new constraints on gas-phase C, N, and O abundances in the molecular layer of the IM Lup protoplanetary disk. Building on previous physical and chemical modeling of this disk, we use new ALMA observations of C$_2$H to constrain the C/O ratio in the molecular layer to be $\sim0.8$, i.e., higher than the solar value of $\sim0.54$. We use archival AL

Nikolaos Pappas, Lesly Miculicich Werlen, James Henderson

Tying the weights of the target word embeddings with the target word classifiers of neural machine translation models leads to faster training and often to better translation quality. Given the success of this parameter sharing, we investigate other forms of sharing in between no sharing and hard equality of parameters. In particular, we propose a structure-

Philippe Blondeel, Pieterjan Robbe, Cédric van hoorickx, Geert Lombaert

Practical structural engineering problems often exhibit a significant degree of uncertainty in the material properties being used, the dimensions of the modeled structures, etc. In this paper, we consider a cantilever beam and a beam clamped at both ends, both subjected to a static and a dynamic load. The material uncertainty resides in the Young&#39;s modul

Yumang Jing, Matteo Fadel, Valentin Ivannikov, Tim Byrnes

We investigate and model the behaviour of split spin-squeezed Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) system. In such a system, a spin-polarized BEC is first squeezed using a $ (S^z)^2 $ interaction, then are split into two separate clouds. After the split, we consider that the particle number in each cloud collapses to a fixed number. We show that this procedure i

Kenji Handa

A hierarchical system of equations is introduced to describe dynamics of `sizes&#39; of infinite clusters which coagulate and fragmentate with homogeneous rates of certain form. We prove that this system of equations is solved weakly by correlation measures for stochastic dynamics of interval partitions evolving according to some split-merge transformations.

Ale Jan Homburg, Uygun Jamilov, Michael Scheutzow

We consider a class of cubic stochastic operators that are motivated by models for evolution of frequencies of genetic types in populations. We take populations with three mutually exclusive genetic types. The long term dynamics of single maps, starting with a generic initial condition where in particular all genetic types occur with positive frequency, is a

Paolo Di Tella, Christel Geiss

In this paper, we obtain explicit product and moment formulas for products of iterated integrals generated by families of square integrable martingales associated with an arbitrary Lévy process. We propose a new approach applying the theory of compensated-covariation stable families of martingales. Our main tool is a representation formula for products of el

Joni Virta, Klaus Nordhausen

While an important topic in practice, the estimation of the number of non-noise components in blind source separation has received little attention in the literature. Recently, two bootstrap-based techniques for estimating the dimension were proposed, and although very efficient, they suffer from the long computation times caused by the resampling. We approa

Andrew Brockmann

We present an explicit formula that produces hash collisions for the Merkle-Damgård construction. The formula works for arbitrary choice of message block and irrespective of the standardized constants used in hash functions, although some padding schemes may cause the formula to fail. This formula bears no obvious practical implications because at least one

Gauree Shanker, Sarita Rani

In the current paper, first we give the correct version of the formula for mean Berwald curvature of a spherically symmetric Finsler metric given in paper \cite{YCheWSon2015}. Further, we establish differential equations characterizing projectively as well as dually flat spherically symmetric Finsler metrics. Finally, we obtain a rigidity result on spherical

N. Waterfield Price, A. M. Vibhakar, R. D. Johnson, J. Schad

The presence of domains in ferroic materials can negatively affect their macroscopic properties and hence their usefulness in device applications. From an experimental perspective, measuring materials comprising multiple domains can complicate the interpretation of material properties and their underlying mechanisms. In general, BiFeO$_3$ films tend to grow

Sayantan Mitra, Dipa Saha, Ankur Sensharma

This paper presents a Monte-Carlo study of percolation in a distorted square lattice, in which, the adjacent sites are not equidistant. Starting with an undistorted lattice, the position of the lattice sites are shifted through a tunable parameter $α$ to create a distorted empty lattice. In this model, two neighboring sites are considered to be connected to

Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi

Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid content-based approaches, which usually yield to lower recommendation quality than collaborative ones. Some techniques to

Arthur Kramer, Mauro Dell&#39;Amico, Manuel Iori

We consider the problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a set of identical parallel machines, with the aim of minimizing the total weighted completion time. The problem has been solved in the literature with a number of mathematical formulations, some of which require the implementation of tailored branch-and-price methods. In our work, we solve the problem i

Cathrine Aeckerle-Willems, Claudia Strauch

We consider the question of estimating the drift and the invariant density for a large class of scalar ergodic diffusion processes, based on continuous observations, in $\sup$-norm loss. The unknown drift $b$ is supposed to belong to a nonparametric class of smooth functions of unknown order. We suggest an adaptive approach which allows to construct drift es

Ran Duan, Kaifeng Lyu, Hongxun Wu, Yuanhang Xie

In a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with a capacity on every edge, a \emph{bottleneck path} (or \emph{widest path}) between two vertices is a path maximizing the minimum capacity of edges in the path. For the single-source all-destination version of this problem in directed graphs, the previous best algorithm runs in $O(m+n\log n)$ ($m=|E|$ and $n=|V|$) time, by D

Yilong Yang, Xiaoshan Li, Zhiming Liu, Wei Ke

Prototyping is an effective and efficient way of requirement validation to avoid introducing errors in the early stage of software development. However, manually developing a prototype of a software system requires additional efforts, which would increase the overall cost of software development. In this paper, we present an approach with a developed tool to

Nithin Chatterji, Aldrin Antony, Pradeep R. Nair

Carrier Selective (CS) Silicon solar cells are increasingly explored as a low cost alternative to PN junction Silicon solar cells. While the recent trends on power conversion efficiency are encouraging, the temperature coefficient and hence the power output under elevated temperatures are not well explored for such solar cells. Here, we address this issue th

Fei Xia, Amir Zamir, Zhi-Yang He, Alexander Sax

Developing visual perception models for active agents and sensorimotor control are cumbersome to be done in the physical world, as existing algorithms are too slow to efficiently learn in real-time and robots are fragile and costly. This has given rise to learning-in-simulation which consequently casts a question on whether the results transfer to real-world

Daniel Lehmann, Michael Pradel

WebAssembly is the new low-level language for the web and has now been implemented in all major browsers since over a year. To ensure the security, performance, and correctness of future web applications, there is a strong need for dynamic analysis tools for WebAssembly. Unfortunately, building such tools from scratch requires knowledge of low-level details

Na Li, Wei Zhang, Zehui Jiang, Wei Chen

Near-interface colloidal monolayers have often been used as model systems for research on hydrodynamics in biophysics and microfluidic systems. Using optical microscopy and multiparticle tracking techniques, the correlated diffusion of particles is experimentally measured in colloidal monolayers near a water-air interface. It is found that the characteristic

Andrew Newman, Elliot Paquette

We prove that in the $d$-dimensional Linial--Meshulam stochastic process the $(d - 1)$st homology group with integer coefficients vanishes exactly when the final isolated $(d - 1)$-dimensional face is covered by a top-dimensional face. This generalizes the $d = 2$ case proved recently by Łuczak and Peled and establishes that $p = \frac{d \log n}{n}$ is the s

Rongzhao Zhang, Han Zhang, Albert C. S. Chung

Automatic mammogram classification and mass segmentation play a critical role in a computer-aided mammogram screening system. In this work, we present a unified mammogram analysis framework for both whole-mammogram classification and segmentation. Our model is designed based on a deep U-Net with residual connections, and equipped with the novel hybrid deep s

Ryoji Miyazaki, Masayuki Ohzeki

We investigate network of degenerate optical parametric oscillators (DOPOs) as a model of the coherent Ising machine, an architecture for solving Ising problems. The network represents the interaction in the Ising model, which is a generalization of a previously proposed one for the two-DOPO case. Dynamics of the DOPOs is described by the Fokker-Planck equat

Bas Jansen, Felienne Hermans

The use of spreadsheets in industry is widespread. Companies base decisions on information coming from spreadsheets. Unfortunately, spreadsheets are error-prone and this increases the risk that companies base their decisions on inaccurate information, which can lead to incorrect decisions and loss of money. In general, spreadsheet research is aimed to reduce

Liuyao Zhang, Jinhui Chen, Ziwei Lin, Yugang Ma

We apply a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model to study two-particle angular correlations in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 7$ TeV. Besides being able to describe the angular correlation functions of meson-meson pairs, a large improvement for the angular correlations of baryon-baryon and antibaryon-antibaryon is achieved. We further find that the AMPT model wi

Siqi Na, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Yimin Liu, Yonina C. Eldar

We propose Tensor-based 4D Sub-Nyquist Radar (TenDSuR) that samples in spectral, spatial, Doppler, and temporal domains at sub-Nyquist rates while simultaneously recovering the target&#39;s direction, Doppler velocity, and range without loss of native resolutions. We formulate the radar signal model wherein the received echo samples are represented by a part

S. L. Yardley, L. M. Green, L. Van Driel-Gesztelyi, D. R. Williams

The physical processes or trigger mechanisms that lead to the eruption of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the largest eruptive phenomenon in the heliosphere, are still undetermined. Low-altitude magnetic reconnection associated with flux cancellation appears to play an important role in CME occurrence as it can form an eruptive configuration and reduce the ma

Lei Wang, Xiao-Song Yang

For flows, the singular cycles connecting saddle periodic orbit and saddle equilibrium can poten- tially result in the so-called singular horseshoe, which means the existence of a non-uniformly hyperbolic chaotic invariant set. However, it is very hard to find a specific dynamical system that exhibits such singular cycles in general. In this paper, the exist

Olga Krestinskaya, Khaled Nabil Salama, Alex Pappachen James

The on-chip implementation of learning algorithms would speed-up the training of neural networks in crossbar arrays. The circuit level design and implementation of backpropagation algorithm using gradient descent operation for neural network architectures is an open problem. In this paper, we proposed the analog backpropagation learning circuits for various

Alexander M. Akulshin, Felipe Pedreros Bustos, Dmitry Budker

We demonstrate backward-directed continuous-wave (cw) emission at 2.21 μm generated on the 4P3/2-4S1/2 population-inverted transition in Na vapors two-photon excited with resonant laser light at 589 and 569 nm. Our study of power and atom-number-density threshold characteristics shows that lasing occurs at sub-10 mW total power of the applied laser light. Th

Kyosuke Nishida, Itsumi Saito, Atsushi Otsuka, Hisako Asano

This study considers the task of machine reading at scale (MRS) wherein, given a question, a system first performs the information retrieval (IR) task of finding relevant passages in a knowledge source and then carries out the reading comprehension (RC) task of extracting an answer span from the passages. Previous MRS studies, in which the IR component was t

Jaap Jumelet, Dieuwke Hupkes

In this paper, we attempt to link the inner workings of a neural language model to linguistic theory, focusing on a complex phenomenon well discussed in formal linguis- tics: (negative) polarity items. We briefly discuss the leading hypotheses about the licensing contexts that allow negative polarity items and evaluate to what extent a neural language model

Justo Puerto

This paper presents a first continuous, linear, conic formulation for the Discrete Ordered Median Problem (DOMP). Starting from a binary, quadratic formulation in the original space of location and allocation variables that are common in Location Analysis (L.A.), we prove that there exists a transformation of that formulation, using the same space of variabl

Zdzislaw Brzezniak, Fabian Hornung, Lutz Weis

We prove pathwise uniqueness for solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with conservative multiplicative noise on compact 3D manifolds. In particular, we generalize the result by Burq, Gérard and Tzvetkov (N. Burq, P. Gérard, and N. Tzvetkov. Strichartz inequalities and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on compact manifolds. American Journal of Mat

Jens Rauch, Jens Hüsers, Birgit Babitsch, Ursula Hübner

Frequent users of emergency departments (ED) pose a significant challenge to hospital emergency services. Despite a wealth of studies in this field, it is hardly understood, what medical conditions lead to frequent attendance. We examine (1) what ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are linked to frequent use, (2) how frequent users can be clustered i

Francesco Vallegra, David Mateo, Grgur Tokić, Roland Bouffanais

Swarms of autonomous surface vehicles equipped with environmental sensors and decentralized communications bring a new wave of attractive possibilities for the monitoring of dynamic features in oceans and other waterbodies. However, a key challenge in swarm robotics design is the efficient collective operation of heterogeneous systems. We present both theore

I-Chiau Huang, Raheleh Jafari

We study a numerical semigroup ring as an algebra over another numerical semigroup ring. The complete intersection property of numerical semigroup algebras is investigated using factorizations of monomials into minimal ones. The goal is to study whether a flat rectangular algebra is a complete intersection. Along this direction, special types of algebras gen

Michelle Marie S. Villamayor, Julien Keraudy, Tetsuhide Shimizu, Rommel Paulo B. Viloan

Low-temperature epitaxial growth of refractory transition-metal nitride thin films by means of physical vapor deposition has been a recurring theme in advanced thin-film technology for several years. In the present study, 150-nm-thick epitaxial HfN layers are grown on MgO(001) by reactive high-impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) with no external substrate

Diego F. Torres, Tingting Lin

We numerically study the radiative properties of the reverberation phase of pulsar wind nebulae. Reverberation brings a significant evolution in a short period of time. We show that even the Crab nebula, associated to the more energetic pulsar of the sample we consider, has a period in its future time evolution where the X-ray luminosity will exceed the spin

Dayue Chen, Linjie Zhao

We study the facilitated totally asymmetric exclusion process on the one dimensional integer lattice. We investigate the invariant measures and the limiting behavior of the process. We mainly derive the limiting distribution of the process when the initial distribution is the Bernoulli product measure with density $1/2$. We also prove that in the low density

Xiao-Fang Tang, Yu-Xia Duan, Fan-Ying Wu, Shu-Yu Liu

We present an investigation on electronic structure of 1T-TiTe2 material via high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), utilizing tunable photon energy excitations. The typical semimetal-like electronic structure is observed and examined, where multiple hole pockets related to Te 5p bands and one electron pockets related to Ti 3d band

Hayato Goto

Quantum computers with Kerr-nonlinear parametric oscillators (KPOs) have recently been proposed by the author and others. Quantum computation using KPOs is based on quantum adiabatic bifurcations of the KPOs, which lead to quantum superpositions of coherent states, such as Schrodinger cat states. Therefore, these quantum computers are referred to as &#34;qua

Kamil Moldosanov, Andrei Postnikov

We suggest that the size effect in heterogeneous catalysis on gold nanoparticles (GNP) of ~1.3 - 9 nm size can be related to spontaneous terahertz (THz) emission of GNPs in the process of channeling the energy of longitudinal phonons therein into THz electromagnetic radiation. Since rotational and vibrational energy levels of molecules adsorbed on the GNP su

Tobias Vogt, Susanne Horn, Alexander M. Grannan, Jonathan M. Aurnou

Understanding large scale circulations (LSCs) in turbulent convective systems is important for the study of stars, planets and in many industrial applications. The canonical model of the LSC is quasi-planar with additional horizontal sloshing and torsional modes [Brown E, Ahlers G (2009) J. Fluid Mech. 638:383--400; Funfschilling D, Ahlers G (2004) Phys. Rev

Nicole F. Bell, Tyler Corbett, Michael Nee, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

We consider a model in which baryogenesis occurs at low scale, at a temperature below the electroweak phase transition. This model involves new diquark-type scalars which carry baryon number. Baryon number violation is introduced in the scalar potential, permitting $ΔB=2$ violating process involving Standard Model quarks while avoiding stringent proton decay

Xisen Jin, Wenqiang Lei, Zhaochun Ren, Hongshen Chen

The task of dialogue generation aims to automatically provide responses given previous utterances. Tracking dialogue states is an important ingredient in dialogue generation for estimating users&#39; intention. However, the \emph{expensive nature of state labeling} and the \emph{weak interpretability} make the dialogue state tracking a challenging problem fo

Li-Hua Song, Lin-Wan Yan, Shang-Fei Xin

The energy loss effects of the incident quark, gluon and the color octet $c\bar{c}$ on $J/ψ$ suppression in p-A collisions are studied by means of the experimental data at E866, RHIC and LHC energy. By the Salgado-Wiedemann (SW) quenching weights and the recent EPPS16 nuclear parton distribution functions together with nCTEQ15, we extract the transport coeff

Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma, Liang Huang

This paper describes multimodal machine translation systems developed jointly by Oregon State University and Baidu Research for WMT 2018 Shared Task on multimodal translation. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach to incorporate image information by feeding image features to the decoder side. We also explore different sequence level training methods

Liqiao Jing, Zuojia Wang, Bin Zheng, Huaping Wang

The ancient paper craft of kirigami has recently emerged as a potential tool for the design of functional materials. Inspired by the kirigami concept, we propose a class of kirigami-based metamaterials whose electromagnetic functionalities can be switched between nonchiral and chiral states by stretching the predesigned split-ring resonator array. Single-ban

Junki Tanaka, Toru Ohmoto

Any ruled surface in Euclidean 3-space is described as a curve of unit dual vectors in the algebra of dual quaternions (=the even Clifford algebra of type (0,3,1)). Combining this classical framework and Singularity Theory, we characterize local diffeomorphic types of singular ruled surfaces in terms of geometric invariants. In particular, using a theorem of

Hamed Ghodsi, Hassan Kaatuzian, Elahe Rastegar Pashaki

Recently there is an increasing attention to electrically pumped room temperature sub-wavelength plasmon sources because of their various potential applications mainly in the integrated plasmonic field. In this paper, a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot based waveguide integrated plasmonic nanolaser is introduced and theoretically investigated. Using a semi-classical

Harsh Jhamtani, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

In this paper, we introduce the task of automatically generating text to describe the differences between two similar images. We collect a new dataset by crowd-sourcing difference descriptions for pairs of image frames extracted from video-surveillance footage. Annotators were asked to succinctly describe all the differences in a short paragraph. As a result

Jeff Borggaard, Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz, Justin A. Krometis

We consider the inverse problem of estimating parameters of a driven diffusion (e.g., the underlying fluid flow, diffusion coefficient, or source terms) from point measurements of a passive scalar (e.g., the concentration of a pollutant). We present two particle methods that leverage the structure of the inverse problem to enable efficient computation of the

A. Ajoy, X. Lv, E. Druga, K. Liu

We describe the construction of a fast field cycling device capable of sweeping a 4-order-of-magnitude range of magnetic fields, from ~1mT to 7T, in under 700ms. Central to this system is a high-speed sample shuttling mechanism between a superconducting magnet and a magnetic shield, with the capability to access arbitrary fields in between with high resoluti

Roumaissa Hassain, Nicolas Mordant, Benjamin Miquel, Giorgio Krstulovic

Weak wave turbulence has been observed on a thin elastic plate in previous work. Here we report theoretical, experimental and numerical studies of wave turbulence in a thin elastic plate submitted to increasing tension. When increasing the tension (or decreasing the bending stiffness of the plate) the plate evolves progressively from a plate into an elastic

Narasimha Kumar, Tarun Dalal

In this article, we study (simultaneous) non-vanishing, (simultaneous) sign changes of Fourier coefficients of (two) Hilbert cusp forms, respectively.

Hugo A. Akitaya, Maarten Löffler, Irene Parada

We study compact straight-line embeddings of trees. We show that perfect binary trees can be embedded optimally: a tree with $n$ nodes can be drawn on a $\sqrt n$ by $\sqrt n$ grid. We also show that testing whether a given binary tree has an upward embedding with a given combinatorial embedding in a given grid is NP-hard.

Jorge Sotomayor

This evocative essay focuses on the mathematical activities witnessed by the author along 1962-64 at IMPA. The list of research problems proposed in September 1962 by Mauricio Peixoto at the Seminar on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations is pointed out as a landmark for the genesis of the research interest in the Qualitative Theory of Differenti

Hai Jun Cho, Takaki Onozato, Mian Wei, Anup V. Sanchela

Wide bandgap (~3.1 eV) La-doped BaSnO3 (LBSO) has attracted increasing attention as one of the transparent oxide semiconductors since its bulk single crystal shows a high carrier mobility (~320 cm2 V-1 s-1) with a high carrier concentration (~10^20 cm-3). For this reason, many researchers have fabricated LBSO epitaxial films thus far, but the obtainable carr

Cole Walsh, Katherine N. Quinn, N. G. Holmes

Despite the significant amount of time undergraduate students spend in introductory physics labs, there is little consensus on instructional goals and accepted diagnostic assessments for these labs. In response to these issues, we have developed the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC) to assess students&#39; proficiency with critical thinking i

Yongliang Yang, Wenjuan Mao, Zhun Lu

We study the single spin asymmetry in the transversely polarized proton production and the lambda hyperon production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering with a $\sin ϕ_{S_h}$ modulation, in which $S_h$ is the azimuthal angle of the transverse spin of the final hadron. The theoretical interpretation for the asymmetry is presented as the convolution of

Charles Weko, Yunpeng Zhao

Social network analysis presupposes that observed social behavior is influenced by an unobserved network. Traditional approaches to inferring the latent network use pairwise descriptive statistics that rely on a variety of measures of co-occurrence. While these techniques have proven useful in a wide range of applications, the literature does not describe th

Fei-Quan Tu, Yi-Xin Chen, Qi-Hong Huang

It has previously been shown that it is more general to describe the evolution of the universe based on the emergence of the space and the energy balance relation. Here we investigate the thermodynamic properties of the universe described by such a model. We show that the first law of thermodynamics and the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSLT) are

Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo, Qi-Huo Wei

Sorting and separation of microparticles is a challenging problem of interdisciplinary nature. Existing technologies can differentiate microparticles by their bulk properties, such as size, density, electric polarizability, etc. The next level of challenge is to separate particles that show identical bulk properties and differ only in subtle surface features

Alan Preciado-Grijalva, Ramon F. Brena

Level assessment for foreign language students is necessary for putting them in the right level group, furthermore, interviewing students is a very time-consuming task, so we propose to automate the evaluation of speaker fluency level by implementing machine learning techniques. This work presents an audio processing system capable of classifying the level o

Lueling Jia, Huanzhen Chen, V. J. Ervin

In this article we investigate the existence and regularity of 1-d steady state fractional order diffusion equations. Two models are investigated:the Riemann-Liouville fractional diffusion equation, and the Riemann-Liouville-Caputo fractional diffusion equation. For these models we explicitly show how the regularity of the solution depends upon the right han

Bo Yan, Fan Gao, Hongfeng Ma, Kesong Zhong

A chiral metastructure composed of spatially separated double semi-periodic helices is proposed and investigated theoretically and experimentally in this Letter. Chirality-dependent electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and a slow light effect in the microwave region are observed from a numerical parameter study, while experimental results from the

Min-hwan Oh, Garud Iyengar

We study an exploration method for model-free RL that generalizes the counter-based exploration bonus methods and takes into account long term exploratory value of actions rather than a single step look-ahead. We propose a model-free RL method that modifies Delayed Q-learning and utilizes the long-term exploration bonus with provable efficiency. We show that

Zeting Liu, Fawang Liu, Fanhai Zeng

In this paper, we consider the initial boundary value problem of the two dimensional multi-term time fractional mixed diffusion and diffusion-wave equations. An alternating direction implicit (ADI) spectral method is developed based on Legendre spectral approximation in space and finite difference discretization in time. Numerical stability and convergence o

Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard, Claire Chainais-Hillairet

In this paper, we study the large--time behavior of a numerical scheme discretizing drift-- diffusion systems for semiconductors. The numerical method is finite volume in space, implicit in time, and the numerical fluxes are a generalization of the classical Scharfetter-- Gummel scheme which allows to consider both linear or nonlinear pressure laws. We study