August 2018 arXiv papers — page 42

Karol Bartkiewicz, Antonín Černoch, Karel Lemr

The paper discusses technical aspects of constructing a highly versatile multi-photon source. The source is able to generate up to four photons which is sufficient for a large number of quantum communications protocols. It can be set to generate separable, partially-entangled or maximally-entangled photon pairs with tunable amount of purity. Furthermore, the

Dmitry Kleinbock, Nicolas de Saxcé

We give elementary proof of stronger versions of several recent results on intrinsic Diophantine approximation on rational quadric hypersurfaces $X\subset \mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{R})$. The main tool is a refinement of the simplex lemma, which essentially says that rational points on $X$ which are sufficiently close to each other must lie on a totally isotropic

Askery Canabarro, Samuraí Brito, Rafael Chaves

The ability to witness non-local correlations lies at the core of foundational aspects of quantum mechanics and its application in the processing of information. Commonly, this is achieved via the violation of Bell inequalities. Unfortunately, however, their systematic derivation quickly becomes unfeasible as the scenario of interest grows in complexity. To

Scott V. Luedtke, Lance A. Labun, Ou Z. Labun, Karl-Ulrich Bamberg

The goals of discovering quantum radiation dynamics in high-intensity laser-plasma interactions and engineering new laser-driven high-energy particle sources both require accurate and robust predictions. Experiments rely on particle-in-cell simulations to predict and interpret outcomes, but unknowns in modeling the interaction limit the simulations to qualit

Hans Peter Nilles, Michael Ratz, Andreas Trautner, Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange

We identify a natural way to embed $\mathcal{CP}$ symmetry and its violation in string theory. The $\mathcal{CP}$ symmetry of the low energy effective theory is broken by the presence of heavy string modes. $\mathcal{CP}$ violation is the result of an interplay of $\mathcal{CP}$ and flavor symmetry. $\mathcal{CP}$ violating decays of the heavy modes could or

Paul Robertson

Mid-late M stars are opportunistic targets for the study of low-mass exoplanets in transit because of the high planet-to-star radius ratios of their planets. Recent studies of such stars have shown that, like their early-M counterparts, they often host multi-resonant networks of small planets. Here, we reanalyze radial velocity measurements of YZ Ceti, an ac

Selma Franca, Vardan Kaladzhyan, Cristina Bena

We study numerically the formation of Majorana bound states in a finite-size quasi-one-dimensional square-lattice strip with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, in the presence of a proximity-induced superconducting pairing and a magnetic field perpendicular to the strip. We take into account both the Zeeman and orbital effects of the field. First, using the Majoran

Mboyo Esole, Monica Jinwoo Kang

We compute characteristic numbers of elliptically fibered fourfolds with multisections or non-trivial Mordell-Weil groups. We first consider the models of type E$_{9-d}$ with $d=1,2,3,4$ whose generic fibers are normal elliptic curves of degree $d$. We then analyze the characteristic numbers of the $Q_7$-model, which provides a smooth model for elliptic fibr

V. P. Neznamov, I. I. Safronov, V. E. Shemarulin

After transition from the Dirac equation to the Schrödinger-type relativistic equation with effective potentials of the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström (RN) fields, the existence of the stationary state of fermions with real square-integrable radial wave functions is proved. The fermions are localized near the event horizon within the range from zero to

Mohammad Shehab, Endrit Dosti, Hirley Alves, Matti Latva-aho

This paper analyzes the effective capacity of delay constrained machine type communication (MTC) networks operating in the finite blocklength regime. First, we derive a closed-form mathematical approximation for the effective capacity in quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. We characterize the optimum error probability to maximize the concave effective cap

Michael Gelfond, Yuanlin Zhang

The paper presents a knowledge representation language $\mathcal{A}log$ which extends ASP with aggregates. The goal is to have a language based on simple syntax and clear intuitive and mathematical semantics. We give some properties of $\mathcal{A}log$, an algorithm for computing its answer sets, and comparison with other approaches.

Samuel Läubli, Rico Sennrich, Martin Volk

Recent research suggests that neural machine translation achieves parity with professional human translation on the WMT Chinese--English news translation task. We empirically test this claim with alternative evaluation protocols, contrasting the evaluation of single sentences and entire documents. In a pairwise ranking experiment, human raters assessing adeq

Ben Bartlett

We introduce the Simulator for Quantum Networks and Channels ($\texttt{SQUANCH}$), an open-source Python library for creating parallelized simulations of distributed quantum information processing. The framework includes many features of a general-purpose quantum computing simulator, but it is optimized specifically for simulating quantum networks. It includ

Mohammad Kamel, Hadi Sadoghi-Yazdi

News agencies publish news on their websites all over the world. Moreover, creating novel corpuses is necessary to bring natural processing to new domains. Textual processing of online news is challenging in terms of the strategy of collecting data, the complex structure of news websites, and selecting or designing suitable algorithms for processing these ty

F. A. Cárdenas-López, G. Romero, L. Lamata, E. Solano

We propose a method to generate nonclassical states of light in multimode microwave cavities. Our approach considers two-photon processes that take place in a system composed of two extended cavities and an ultrastrongly coupled light-matter system. Under specific resonance conditions, our method generates, in a deterministic manner, product states of uncorr

Eva H. L. Bodman, Jason T. Wright, Steven J. Desch, Carey M. Lisse

Disintegrating planets allow for the unique opportunity to study the composition of the interiors of small, hot, rocky exoplanets because the interior is evaporating and that material is condensing into dust, which is being blown away and then transiting the star. Their transit signal is dominated by dusty effluents forming a comet-like tail trailing the hos

Laura C. Sinclair, Hugo Bergeron, William C. Swann, Isaac Khader

Platform motion poses significant challenges to high-precision optical time and frequency transfer. We give a detailed description of these challenges and their solutions in comb-based optical two-way time and frequency transfer (O-TWTFT). Specifically, we discuss the breakdown in reciprocity due to relativity and due to asynchronous sampling, the impact of

A. P. Drozdov, V. S. Minkov, S. P. Besedin, P. P. Kong

We synthesized lanthanum hydride (LaHx) by laser heating of lanthanum in hydrogen atmosphere at pressure P = 170 GPa. The sample shows a superconducting step at 209 K and 170 GPa and temperature dependence of resistance. By releasing the pressure to 150 GPa, the superconducting transition temperature Tc increases to 215 K - the record Tc. This finding suppor

D. Almaalol, M. Alqahtani, M. Strickland

We compare anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) results obtained using the relaxation-time approximation (RTA) and leading-order (LO) scalar λϕ^4 collisional kernels. We extend previous work by explicitly enforcing number conservation through the incorporation of a dynamical chemical potential (fugacity) in the underlying aHydro distribution function. We focus

Andreas Eberle, Mateusz B. Majka

We investigate the problem of quantifying contraction coefficients of Markov transition kernels in Kantorovich ($L^1$ Wasserstein) distances. For diffusion processes, relatively precise quantitative bounds on contraction rates have recently been derived by combining appropriate couplings with carefully designed Kantorovich distances. In this paper, we partia

Tiziano Ghisu, Francesco Cambuli, Pierpaolo Puddu, Irene Virdis

A Wells turbine is an axial-flow turbine consisting of a rotor usually with symmetric (uncambered) blades staggered at a 90 degree angle relative to the incoming flow. This turbine is used within oscillating water column (OWC) systems, which convert the sea-wave motion into a bi-directional flow of air. During its normal operation, the turbine blades experie

Tiziano Ghisu, Francesco Cambuli, Pierpaolo Puddu, Natalino Mandas

In recent years, a number of authors have studied entropy generation in Wells turbines. This is potentially a very interesting topic, as it can provide important insights into the irreversibilities of the system, as well as a methodology for identifying, and possibly minimizing, the main sources of loss. Unfortunately, the approach used in these studies cont

Alexander Linke, Leo G. Rebholz

We consider inf-sup stable mixed methods for the time-dependent incompressible Stokes and Navier--Stokes equations, extending earlier work on the steady (Navier-)Stokes Problem. A locking phenomenon is identified for classical inf-sup stable methods like the Taylor-Hood or the Crouzeix-Raviart elements by a novel, elegant and simple numerical analysis and co

James Sullivan, Collin Weir, Austin Reichert, R. Todd Evans

This paper satisfies the reproducibility challenge of the Student Cluster Competition at Supercomputing 2017. We attempted to reproduce the results of Höhnerbach et al. (2016) for an implementation of a vectorized code for the Tersoff multi-body potential kernel of the molecular dynamics code Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS)

Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera

We present the results of an initial analysis conducted on a real-life setting to quantify the effect of shilling attacks on recommender systems. We focus on both algorithm performance as well as the types of users who are most affected by these attacks.

Danijel Krizmanić

We study functional convergence of sums of moving averages with random coefficients and heavy-tailed innovations. Under some standard moment conditions and the assumption that all partial sums of the series of coefficients are a.s. bounded between zero and the sum of the series we obtain functional convergence of the corresponding partial sum stochastic proc

Y. Liu, S. Andringa, D. Auty, F. Barão

SNO+ is a multipurpose neutrino experiment located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. The detector started taking physics data in May 2017 and is currently completing its first phase, as a pure water Cherenkov detector. The low trigger threshold of the SNO+ detector allows for a substantial neutron detection efficiency, as observed wi

Gauri Patwardhan, Xiaohui Gao, Amir Sagiv, Avik Dutt

We show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that collapsing elliptically-polarized laser beams experience a nonlinear ellipse rotation that is highly sensitive to small fluctuations in the input power. For arbitrarily small fluctuations in the input power and after a sufficiently large propagation distance, the polarization angle becomes uniformly d

Muhammad Yahya, Jawad Ali Shah, Arif Warsi, Kushsairy Kadir

The use of motion capture has increased from last decade in a varied spectrum of applications like film special effects, controlling games and robots, rehabilitation system, animations etc. The current human motion capture techniques use markers, structured environment, and high resolution cameras in a dedicated environment. Because of rapid movement, elbow

Golak Kunti, Jayabrata Dhar, Anandaroop Bhattachariya, Suman Chakraborty

Free-surface electrokinetic flows have been attracting increasing attention from the research community over recent times, as attributable to their diverse fields of applications ranging from fluid mixing, particle manipulation to bio-chemical processing on a chip. Traditional electrokinetic processes governing free surface flows are mostly effective in mani

Adam G. Jensen, P. Wilson Cauley, Seth Redfield, William D. Cochran

We have obtained $> 10$ hours of medium resolution ($R \sim 15000$) spectroscopic exposures on the transiting exoplanet host star WASP-12, including $\sim2$ hours while its planet, WASP-12b, is in transit, with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). The out-of-transit and in-transit spectra are coadded into master out-of-transit and in-transit spectra, from which

Massimo D'Elia, Floriano Manigrasso, Francesco Negro, Francesco Sanfilippo

We investigate the behavior of the pseudo-critical temperature of $N_f = 2+1$ QCD as a function of a static magnetic background field for different values of the pion mass, going up to $m_π\simeq 660$ MeV. The study is performed by lattice QCD simulations, adopting a stout staggered discretization of the theory on lattices with $N_t = 6$ slices in the Euclid

A. Balbuena Ortega, E. Brambilia, V. López Gayou, R. Delgado Macuil

Biosynthesis of four samples of colloidal suspensions of gold nanoparticles is achieved using hydroalcoholic extract and three different separated compounds of the plant Bacopa procumbens. The nonlinear optical properties of each sample are characterized with the Z-scan technique. In all cases, the Z-scan curves indicate a negative or self-defocusing respons

Jiaqi Liu, Shengjie Guo, Sa Xiao, Miao Pan

In this paper, we study the resource allocation problem for a cooperative device-to-device (D2D)-enabled wireless caching network, where each user randomly caches popular contents to its memory and shares the contents with nearby users through D2D links. To enhance the throughput of spectrum sharing D2D links, which may be severely limited by the interferenc

Jianqing Fan, Han Liu, Zhaoran Wang, Zhuoran Yang

We study the fundamental tradeoffs between statistical accuracy and computational tractability in the analysis of high dimensional heterogeneous data. As examples, we study sparse Gaussian mixture model, mixture of sparse linear regressions, and sparse phase retrieval model. For these models, we exploit an oracle-based computational model to establish conjec

Alberto Abbondandolo, Barney Bramham, Umberto L. Hryniewicz, Pedro A. S. Salomão

We prove that the systolic ratio of a sphere of revolution $S$ does not exceed $π$ and equals $π$ if and only if $S$ is Zoll. More generally, we consider the rotationally symmetric Finsler metrics on a sphere of revolution which are defined by shifting the tangent unit circles by a Killing vector field. We prove that in this class of metrics the systolic rat

Mahesh Balasubramanian, Trevor Ruiz, Brandon Cook, Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya

The analysis of scientific data of increasing size and complexity requires statistical machine learning methods that are both interpretable and predictive. Union of Intersections (UoI), a recently developed framework, is a two-step approach that separates model selection and model estimation. A linear regression algorithm based on UoI, $UoI_{LASSO}$, simulta

Jason Zhang

Due to the popularity of portable document format (PDF) and increasing number of vulnerabilities in major PDF viewer applications, malware writers continue to use it to deliver malware via web downloads, email attachments and other methods in both targeted and non-targeted attacks. The topic on how to effectively block malicious PDF documents has received hu

Denis Bonheure, Jean-Baptiste Casteras, Juraj Foldes

We study singular radially symmetric solution of the stationary Keller-Segel equation, that is, an elliptic equation with exponential nonlinearity, which is super-critical in dimension $N \geq 3$. The solutions are unbounded at the origin and we show that they describe the asymptotics of bifurcation branches of regular solutions. It is shown that for any bal

Matteo Conforti, Sitai Li, Gino Biondini, Stefano Trillo

The nonlinear stage of modulational instability in optical fibers induced by a wide and easily accessible class of localized perturbations is studied using the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. It is showed that the development of associated spatio-temporal patterns is strongly affected by the shape and the parameters of the perturbation. Different scenarios a

Dmytro Sytnyk, Roderick Melnik

Modern applications require a robust and theoretically solid tool for the realistic modeling of electronic states in low dimensional nanostructures. The $k \cdot p$ theory has fruitfully served this role for the long time since its establishment. During the last three decades several problems have been detected in connection with the application of the $k \c

G. Fabbiano, A. Paggi, M. Karovska, M. Elvis

We have analyzed the deep Chandra observation (~155 ks) of the Compton Thick Active Galactic Nucleus (CT AGN) ESO 428-G014, to study in detail the morphology of the diffuse X-ray emission in the inner ~500 pc radius region. Comparing different X-ray energy bands we find localized differences in the absorbing column and in the emission processes. Collisional

A. E. Piatti, N. Hwang, A. A. Cole, M. S. Angelo

We present results obtained from spectroscopic observations of red giants located in the fields of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) globular clusters (GCs) NGC 1928 and NGC 1939. We used the GMOS and AAOmega+2dF spectrographs to obtain spectra centred on the CaII triplet, from which we derived individual radial velocities (RVs) and metallicities. From cluste

Yuncheng Zhong, Yevgeniy Vinogradskiy, Liyuan Chen, Nick Myziuk

Purpose: Functional imaging is emerging as an important tool for lung cancer treatment planning and evaluation. Compared with traditional methods such as nuclear medicine ventilation-perfusion (VQ), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computer tomography (SPECT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which use contrast agents to form 2D

Farzane Yahyanejad, Bahram Sadeghi Bigham

The Hop-Constrained Steiner Tree problem (HCST) is challenging NP-hard problem arising in the design of centralized telecommunication networks where the reliability constraints matter. In this paper three iterative greedy algorithms are described to find efficient optimized solution to solve HCST on both sparse and dense graphs. In the third algorithm, we ad

Killian Martineau

Cosmology appears as the most promising way to test and constrain quantum gravity theories. Loop quantum gravity is among the most advanced attempts to perform a non-perturbative quantization of general relativity. Its cosmological counterpart, loop quantum cosmology, has clear predictions both for the cosmological background and for the perturbations. In pa

Xiaoyi Wang, Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger, Lianfeng Zou, José Azaña

A microwave Hilbert transformer is introduced as a new component for Real-time Analog Processing (RAP). In contrast to its optical counterpart, that resort to optical fiber gratings, this Hilbert transformer is based on the combination of a branch-line coupler and a loop resonator. The transfer function of the transformer is derived using signal flow graphs,

Samuel J. Ellis, Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop

We introduce a new motif for constructing robust digital logic circuits using input/output chemical reaction networks. These chemical circuits robustly handle perturbations in input signals, initial concentrations, rate constants, and measurements. In particular, we show that all combinatorial circuits and several sequential circuits enjoy this robustness. O

Teng Fei, Bin Guo, Duong H. Phong

A one-parameter family of coupled flows depending on a parameter $κ>0$ is introduced which reduces when $κ=1$ to the coupled flow of a metric $ω$ with a $(1,1)$-form $α$ due recently to Y. Li, Y. Yuan, and Y. Zhang. It is shown in particular that, for $κ\not=1$, estimates for derivatives of all orders would follow from $C^0$ estimates for $ω$ and $α$. Togeth

Gilles Carron, Christian Rose

We obtain a Bonnet-Myers theorem under a spectral condition: a closed Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ for which the lowest eigenvalue of the Ricci tensor $ρ$ is such that the Schrödinger operator $(n-2)Δ+ ρ$ is positive has finite fundamental group. As a continuation of our earlier results, we obtain isoperimetric inequalities from a Kato condition on the Ricc

Elia Chiaraluce, Fausto Vagnetti, Francesco Tombesi, Maurizio Paolillo

The relation between the $α_{OX}$ index and the optical/UV luminosity ($L_{UV}$), a by product of the X-ray - optical/UV luminosity relation, is affected by a relatively large dispersion, due to variability in the $α_{OX}$ within single sources (intra-source dispersion) and variations of fundamental physical parameters from source to source (inter-source dis

Michael J. Kastoryano, Mark S. Rudner

We study topological transport in the steady state of a quantum particle hopping on a one-dimensional lattice in the presence of dissipation. The model exhibits a rich phase structure, with the average particle velocity in the steady state playing the role of a non-equilibrium order parameter. Within each phase the average velocity is proportional to a topol

Martino Marelli, Domitilla De Martino, Sandro Mereghetti, Andrea De Luca

We present the first X-ray and UV/optical observations of a very bright and fast nova in the disc of M31, M31N 2013-01b. The nova reached a peak magnitude $R\sim$15 mag and decayed by 2 magnitudes in only 3 days, making it one of the brightest and fastest novae ever detected in Andromeda. From archival multi-band data we have been able to trace its fast evol

Robert Ganian, Sebastian Ordyniak, C. S. Rahul

The Group Activity Selection Problem (GASP) models situations where a group of agents needs to be distributed to a set of activities while taking into account preferences of the agents w.r.t. individual activities and activity sizes. The problem, along with its two previously proposed variants sGASP and gGASP, has been studied in the parameterized complexity

Tony J. Puthenpurakal

Let $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ be a Henselian Cohen-Macaulay local ring and let CM(A) be the category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay $A$-modules. We construct $T \colon CM(A)\times CM(A) \rightarrow mod(A)$, a subfunctor of $Ext^1_A(-, -)$ and use it to study properties of associated graded modules over $G(A) = \bigoplus_{n\geq 0} \mathfrak{m}^n/\mathfrak{m}^{n+1}$, the

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, S. Ahmed

An amplitude analysis of the $K_{S}K_{S}$ system produced in radiative $J/ψ$ decays is performed using the $(1310.6\pm7.0)\times10^{6}$ $J/ψ$ decays collected by the BESIII detector. Two approaches are presented. A mass-dependent analysis is performed by parameterizing the $K_{S}K_{S}$ invariant mass spectrum as a sum of Breit-Wigner line shapes. Additionall

Zebin Yang, Dennis K. J. Lin, Aijun Zhang

A regularized artificial neural network (RANN) is proposed for interval-valued data prediction. The ANN model is selected due to its powerful capability in fitting linear and nonlinear functions. To meet mathematical coherence requirement for an interval (i.e., the predicted lower bounds should not cross over their upper bounds), a soft non-crossing regulari

Maxim Dvornikov

We study the generation of an electric current, along the external magnetic field, of fermions, interacting by parity violating electroweak forces with background matter. First, we discuss the situation of massive particles with nonzero anomalous magnetic moments. We show that the induced current is vanishing for such particles in the state of equilibrium. T

Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Giuseppe Marra

By and large, Backpropagation (BP) is regarded as one of the most important neural computation algorithms at the basis of the progress in machine learning, including the recent advances in deep learning. However, its computational structure has been the source of many debates on its arguable biological plausibility. In this paper, it is shown that when frami

F. Salces-Carcoba, C. J. Billington, A. Putra, Y. Yue

We trap individual 1D Bose gases and obtain the associated equation of state by combining calibrated confining potentials with in-situ density profiles. Our observations agree well with the exact Yang-Yang 1D thermodynamic solutions under the local density approximation. We find that our final 1D system undergoes inefficient evaporative cooling that decrease

V. Roccatagliata, G. G. Sacco, E. Franciosini, S. Randich

Context. Chamaeleon I represents an ideal laboratory to study the cluster formation in a low-mass environment. Recently, two sub clusters spatially located in the northern and southern parts of Chamaeleon I were found with different ages and radial velocities. Aims. In this letter we report new insights into the structural properties, age, and distance of Ch

Daniel Weihs

The flowfield resulting from a starting source type singularity is presented. This is a generalization of the classical source in potential flow to time dependent situations, including sources in oncoming flow. This model is applicable to initial spreading of oil on the surface of the sea resulting from an underwater leak

Hans L. Bodlaender, Marieke van der Wegen, Tom C. van der Zanden

Divisorial gonality and stable divisorial gonality are graph parameters, which have an origin in algebraic geometry. Divisorial gonality of a connected graph $G$ can be defined with help of a chip firing game on $G$. The stable divisorial gonality of $G$ is the minimum divisorial gonality over all subdivisions of edges of $G$. In this paper we prove that dec

Umberto Noè, Dirk Husmeier

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular algorithm for solving challenging optimization tasks. It is designed for problems where the objective function is expensive to evaluate, perhaps not available in exact form, without gradient information and possibly returning noisy values. Different versions of the algorithm vary in the choice of the acquisition functi

J. M. C. Court, D. Altamirano, A. C. Albayati, A. Sanna

GRO J1744-28, commonly known as the `Bursting Pulsar', is a low mass X-ray binary containing a neutron star and an evolved giant star. This system, together with the Rapid Burster (MXB 1730-33), are the only two systems that display the so-called Type II X-ray bursts. These type of bursts, which last for 10s of seconds, are thought to be caused by viscou

Cor-Paul Bezemer, Simon Eismann, Vincenzo Ferme, Johannes Grohmann

DevOps is a modern software engineering paradigm that is gaining widespread adoption in industry. The goal of DevOps is to bring software changes into production with a high frequency and fast feedback cycles. This conflicts with software quality assurance activities, particularly with respect to performance. For instance, performance evaluation activities -

Tobias Haas, Björn de Rijk, Guido Schneider

We are interested in the description of small modulations in time and space of wave-train solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation \begin{align*} \partial_T Ψ= (1+ i α) \partial_X^2 Ψ+ Ψ- (1+i β) Ψ|Ψ|^2, \end{align*} near the Eckhaus boundary, that is, when the wave train is near the threshold of its first instability. Depending on the parameters $

Xingyu Zhou, Jian Tan, Ness Shroff

In this paper, we consider a load balancing system under a general pull-based policy. In particular, each arrival is randomly dispatched to one of the servers whose queue lengths are below a threshold, if there are any; otherwise, this arrival is randomly dispatched to one of the entire set of servers. We are interested in the fundamental relationship betwee

Daniele Varsano, Giacomo Giorgi, Koichi Yamashita, Maurizia Palummo

Despite most of the applications of anatase nanostructures rely on photoexcited charge processes, yet profound theoretical understanding of fundamental related properties is lacking. Here, by means of ab initio ground and excited-state calculations, we reveal, in an unambiguous way, the role of quantum confinement effect and of the surface orientation, on th

Rafael B. Andrist

There exist three vector fields with complete polynomial flows on $\mathbb{C}^n$, $n \geq 2$, which generate the Lie algebra generated by all algebraic vector fields on $\mathbb{C}^n$ with complete polynomial flows. In particular, the flows of these vector fields generate a group that acts infinitely transitive. The analogous result holds in the holomorphic

Florian Bertrand, Léa Blanc-Centi, Francine Meylan

In case M is Levi non-degenerate in the sense Tumanov, we construct stationary discs for $M$. If furthermore M satisfies an additional non-degeneracy condition, we apply the method of stationary discs to obtain 2-jet determination of CR automorphisms of M.

Jai Kwan Bae, Ivan Bazarov, Pietro Musumeci, Siddharth Karkare

The operation of photoemission electron sources with wavelengths near the photoemission threshold has been shown to dramatically decrease the minimum achievable photocathode emittance, but at the cost of significantly reduced quantum efficiency (QE). In this work, we show that for femtosecond laser and electron pulses, the increase in required laser intensit

Tiago J. Arruda, Alexandre S. Martinez, Felipe A. Pinheiro, Romain Bachelard

Despite a long history, light scattering by particles with size comparable with the light wavelength still unveils surprising optical phenomena, and many of them are related to the Fano effect. Originally described in the context of atomic physics, the Fano resonance in light scattering arises from the interference between a narrow subradiant mode and a spec

D. Baroch, J. C. Morales, I. Ribas, L. Tal-Or

Context. The CARMENES spectrograph is surveying ~300 M dwarf stars in search for exoplanets. Among the target stars, spectroscopic binary systems have been discovered, which can be used to measure fundamental properties of stars. Aims. Using spectroscopic observations, we determine the orbital and physical properties of nine new double-line spectroscopic bin

Desislava Dimitrova, John Liagouris, Sebastian Wicki, Moritz Hoffmann

Routing controllers must react quickly to failures, reconfigurations and workload or policy changes, to ensure service performance and cost-efficient network operation. We propose a general execution model which views routing as an incremental data-parallel computation on a graph-based network model plus a continuous stream of network changes. Our approach s

I. Yu. Kostyukov, A. A. Golovanov

Modern laser systems are able to generate short and intense laser pulses ionizing matter in the poorly explored barrier-suppression regime. Field ionization in this regime is studied analytically and numerically. For analytical studies, both the classical and the quantum approaches are used. Two approximations to solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

Chi Chung Alan Fung, Tomoki Fukai

Continuous attractor neural networks generate a set of smoothly connected attractor states. In memory systems of the brain, these attractor states may represent continuous pieces of information such as spatial locations and head directions of animals. However, during the replay of previous experiences, hippocampal neurons show a discontinuous sequence in whi

Donghui Yan, Gary E. Davis

We elaborate on an alternative representation of conditional probability to the usual tree diagram. We term the representation `turtleback diagram' for its resemblance to the pattern on turtle shells. Adopting the set theoretic view of events and the sample space, the turtleback diagram uses elements from Venn diagrams---set intersection, complement and

Robert G. Izzard, Ghina M. Halabi

Many aspects of the evolution of stars, and in particular the evolution of binary stars, remain beyond our ability to model them in detail. Instead, we rely on observations to guide our often phenomenological models and pin down uncertain model parameters. To do this statistically requires population synthesis. Populations of stars modelled on computers are

Olivia Wiles, A. Sophia Koepke, Andrew Zisserman

We propose a self-supervised framework for learning facial attributes by simply watching videos of a human face speaking, laughing, and moving over time. To perform this task, we introduce a network, Facial Attributes-Net (FAb-Net), that is trained to embed multiple frames from the same video face-track into a common low-dimensional space. With this approach

Yuding Liang, Kenny Q. Zhu

We propose a framework to automatically generate descriptive comments for source code blocks. While this problem has been studied by many researchers previously, their methods are mostly based on fixed template and achieves poor results. Our framework does not rely on any template, but makes use of a new recursive neural network called Code-RNN to extract fe

C. Marqué, K. -L. Klein, C. Monstein, H. Opgenoorth

On November 4th 2015 secondary air traffic control radar was strongly disturbed in Sweden and some other European countries. The disturbances occurred when the radar antennas were pointing at the Sun. In this paper, we show that the disturbances coincided with the time of peaks of an exceptionally strong ($\sim 10^5$ Solar Flux Units) solar radio burst in a

Carla Mouradian, Narjes Tahghigh Jahromi, Roch H. Glitho

Large-scale disaster management applications are among the several realistic applications of the IoT. Fire detection and earthquake early warning applications are just two examples. Several IoT devices are used in such applications e.g., sensors and robots. These sensors and robots are usually heterogeneous. Moreover, in disaster scenarios, the existing comm

Caroline Arnold, Oriol Vendrell, Ralph Welsch, Robin Santra

The effect of nuclear dynamics and conical intersections on electronic coherences is investigated employing a two-state, two-mode linear vibronic coupling model. Exact quantum dynamical calculations are performed using the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree method (MCTDH). It is found that the presence of a non-adiabatic coupling close to the Franck-

S. Alekhin, J. Bluemlein, S. Kulagin, S. -O. Moch

We check the stability of the ABMP16 fit with respect to modifications of quark PDFs suggested in the recent literature: the strange sea enhancement and a positive non-vanishing $d/u$ ratio at $x \to 1$. These possibilities are examined using test versions of the ABMP16 PDF fit which demonstrate no need of those changes. Furthermore, we localize peculiar fea

B. Löptien, A. Lagg, M. van Noort, S. K. Solanki

Context: The Wilson depression is the difference in geometric height of unit continuum optical depth between the sunspot umbra and the quiet Sun. Measuring the Wilson depression is important for understanding the geometry of sunspots. Current methods suffer from systematic effects or need to make assumptions on the geometry of the magnetic field. This leads

Yang He, Guoliang Kang, Xuanyi Dong, Yanwei Fu

This paper proposed a Soft Filter Pruning (SFP) method to accelerate the inference procedure of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, the proposed SFP enables the pruned filters to be updated when training the model after pruning. SFP has two advantages over previous works: (1) Larger model capacity. Updating previously pruned filters prov

Xingjian Shi, Dit-Yan Yeung

Spatiotemporal systems are common in the real-world. Forecasting the multi-step future of these spatiotemporal systems based on the past observations, or, Spatiotemporal Sequence Forecasting (STSF), is a significant and challenging problem. Although lots of real-world problems can be viewed as STSF and many research works have proposed machine learning based

Agelos Georgakopoulos, John Haslegrave, Richard Montgomery, Bhargav Narayanan

We prove a topological extension of Dirac's theorem suggested by Gowers in 2005: for any connected, closed surface $\mathscr{S}$, we show that any two-dimensional simplicial complex on $n$ vertices in which each pair of vertices belongs to at least $n/3 + o(n)$ facets contains a homeomorph of $\mathscr{S}$ spanning all the vertices. This result is asympt

M. Gordovskyy., S. Shelyag, P. K. Browning, V. G. Lozitsky

Early magnetographic observations indicated that magnetic field in the solar photosphere has unresolved small-scale structure. Near-infrared and optical data with extremely high spatial resolution show that these structures have scales of few tens of kilometres, which are not resolved in the majority of solar observations. The goal of this study is to establ

Angelo Rosa, Ralf Everaers

The conformations of topologically constrained double-folded ring polymers can be described as wrappings of randomly branched primitive trees. We extend previous work on the tree statistics under different (solvent) conditions to explore the conformational statistics of double-folded rings in the limit of tight wrapping. In particular, we relate the exponent

Tamás Fülöp, Róbert Kovács, Ádám Lovas, Ágnes Rieth

The non-Fourier heat conduction phenomenon on room temperature is analyzed from various aspects. The first one shows its experimental side, in what form it occurs and how we treated it. It is demonstrated that the Guyer-Krumhansl equation can be the next appropriate extension of Fourier's law for room temperature phenomena in modeling of heterogeneous ma

Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

In this paper, we present Par4Sem, a semantic writing aid tool based on adaptive paraphrasing. Unlike many annotation tools that are primarily used to collect training examples, Par4Sem is integrated into a real word application, in this case a writing aid tool, in order to collect training examples from usage data. Par4Sem is a tool, which supports an adapt

Yue Ma

In the present work we give a generalization of the hyperboloidal foliation method which allows us to remove the restriction on support of initial data in $\mathbb{R}^{1+1}$. Then we will make an application on a model system.

S. A. Moskalenko, P. I. Khadzhi, I. V. Podlesny, E. V. Dumanov

The possible formation of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic bi-excitons composed of two 2D magnetoexcitons with electrons and holes on the lowest Landau levels (LLLs), with opposite center of- mass wave vectors k and and with antiparallel electric dipole moments perpendicular to the corresponding wave vectors was investigated. Two spinor structures of two electr

Kfir Aberman, Mingyi Shi, Jing Liao, Dani Lischinski

We present a new video-based performance cloning technique. After training a deep generative network using a reference video capturing the appearance and dynamics of a target actor, we are able to generate videos where this actor reenacts other performances. All of the training data and the driving performances are provided as ordinary video segments, withou

Daiki Adachi, Naoto Tsujimoto, Ryosuke Akashi, Synge Todo

We present a novel optimization method, named the Combined Optimization Method (COM), for the joint optimization of two or more cost functions. Unlike the conventional joint optimization schemes, which try to find minima in a weighted sum of cost functions, the COM explores search space for common minima shared by all the cost functions. Given a set of multi

Anthony Sudbery

I outline Bell's vision of the "great enterprise" of science, and his view that conventional teachings about quantum mechanics constituted a betrayal of this enterprise. I describe a proposal of his to put the theory on a more satisfactory footing, and review the subsequent uses that have been made of one element of this proposal, namely Bell&#39

Dario Rethage, Federico Tombari, Felix Achilles, Nassir Navab

3D geometry is a very informative cue when interacting with and navigating an environment. This writing proposes a new approach to 3D reconstruction and scene understanding, which implicitly learns 3D geometry from depth maps pairing a deep convolutional neural network architecture with an auto-encoder. A data set of synthetic depth views and voxelized 3D re

S. A. Moskalenko, P. I. Khadzhi, I. V. Podlesny, E. V. Dumanov

The possible existence of the bound states of the interacting two-dimensional (2D) magnetoexcitons in the lowest Landau levels (LLLs) approximation was investigated using the Landau gauge description. The magnetoexcitons taking part in the formation of the bound state with resultant wave vector k= 0 have opposite in-plane wave vectors and look as two electri