November 2018 arXiv papers — page 54

N. Schanche, A. Collier Cameron, G. Hébrard, L. Nielsen

Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like events identified by the WASP pipeline have been vetted by human inspection to eliminate false alarms and obvious false positives. The goal of the present paper is to assess the eff

Daniel C. Castro, Sebastian Nowozin

Current face recognition systems typically operate via classification into known identities obtained from supervised identity annotations. There are two problems with this paradigm: (1) current systems are unable to benefit from often abundant unlabelled data; and (2) they equate successful recognition with labelling a given input image. Humans, on the other

Shishira R Maiya, Sudharshan Chandra Babu

More than one billion people live in slums around the world. In some developing countries, slum residents make up for more than half of the population and lack reliable sanitation services, clean water, electricity, other basic services. Thus, slum rehabilitation and improvement is an important global challenge, and a significant amount of effort and resourc

M. Perpinyà-Vallès, A. Rebassa-Mansergas, B. T. Gänsicke, S. Toonen

We report the discovery of J1953-1019, the first resolved triple white dwarf system. The triplet consists of an inner white dwarf binary and a wider companion. Using Gaia DR2 photometry and astrometry combined with our follow-up spectroscopy, we derive effective temperatures, surface gravities, masses and cooling ages of the three components. All three white

Lucas Lacasa, Juan Fernández-Gracia

The last decade has witnessed an explosion on the computational power and a parallel increase of the access to large sets of data (the so called Big Data paradigm) which is enabling to develop brand new quantitative strategies underpinning description, understanding and control of complex scenarios. One interesting area of application concerns fraud detectio

Andrea Cappelli, Lorenzo Maffi, Satoshi Okuda

The single-correlator conformal bootstrap is solved numerically for several values of dimension 4>d>2 using the available SDPB and Extremal Functional methods. Critical exponents and other conformal data of low-lying states are obtained over the entire range of dimensions with up to four-decimal precision and then compared with several existing results. The

Claudia Hagedorn, Johannes König

We explain all features of lepton and quark mixing in a scenario with the flavor symmetry Delta (384) and a CP symmetry, where these are broken in several steps. The residual symmetry in the neutrino and up quark sector is a Klein group and CP, while a Z_3 and a Z_{16} symmetry are preserved among charged leptons and down quarks, respectively. If the Klein g

Stefan Schneider, Graham W. Taylor, Stefan S. Linquist, Stefan C. Kremer

The ability of a researcher to re-identify (re-ID) an individual animal upon re-encounter is fundamental for addressing a broad range of questions in the study of ecosystem function, community and population dynamics, and behavioural ecology. In this review, we describe a brief history of camera traps for re-ID, present a collection of computer vision featur

Artur O. Lopes, Rafael O. Ruggiero

Here we consider the discrete time dynamics described by a transformation $T:M \to M$, where $T$ is the shift and $M=\{1,2,...,d\}^\mathbb{N}$. It is known that the infinite-dimensional manifold $\mathcal{N}$ of H\"older equilibrium probabilities is an analytical manifold and carries a natural Riemannian metric. Given a normalized H\"older potential $A$ deno

Jinwei Zhao, Qizhou Wang, Yufei Wang, Xinhong Hei

In recent years, deep learning researchers have focused on how to find the interpretability behind deep learning models. However, today cognitive competence of human has not completely covered the deep learning model. In other words, there is a gap between the deep learning model and the cognitive mode. How to evaluate and shrink the cognitive gap is a very

Jiangbo Zhou, Haimei Xu, Jingdong Wei, Liyuan Son

In this paper, the existence of a non-trivial, positive and bounded critical traveling wave solution of a diffusive disease model, whose reaction system has infinity many equilibria, is obtained for the first time. This gives an affirmative answer to an open problem left in [X. Wang, H. Wang, J. Wu, Traveling waves of diffusive predator-prey systems: disease

Ariel Keselman, Sergey Ten, Adham Ghazali, Majed Jubeh

A* is a popular path-finding algorithm, but it can only be applied to those domains where a good heuristic function is known. Inspired by recent methods combining Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and trees, this study demonstrates how to train a heuristic represented by a DNN and combine it with A*. This new algorithm which we call aleph-star can be used efficien

S. G. Weber, A. Dubla, A. Andronic, A. Morsch

A study of prompt and non-prompt J/$\psi$ production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in inelastic proton--proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV based on calculations using the PYTHIA8 Monte Carlo is reported. Recent experimental data shows an intriguing stronger-than-linear increase of the self-normalized J/$

B. Hoeneisen

From Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurements with Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS DR14 galaxies, and the acoustic horizon angle $\theta_*$ measured by the Planck Collaboration, we obtain $\Omega_m = 0.2724 \pm 0.0047$, and $h + 0.020 \cdot \sum{m_\nu} = 0.7038 \pm 0.0060$, assuming flat space and a cosmological constant. We combine this result with the 2018 P

Rahul Kumar, Noemie Globus, David Eichler, Martin Pohl

The variation in the intensity of cosmic rays at small angular scales is attributed to the interstellar turbulence in the vicinity of the Solar system. We show that {a turbulent origin of the small-scale structures implies that} the morphology of the observed cosmic-ray intensity skymap varies with our location in the interstellar turbulence. The gyroradius

Abhinav Kumar, Alejandro H. Strachan, Nicolas Onofrio

Metal-insulator transitions in two dimensional materials represent a great opportunity for fast, low energy and ultra-dense switching devices. Due to the small energy difference between its semimetallic and semiconducting crystal phases, phase transition in MoTe$_2$ can occur with an unprecedented small amount of external perturbations. In this work, we used

Daniel Geiss, Robert Lilow, Felix Fabis, Matthias Bartelmann

Recently, Bartelmann et al. presented a 'Kinetic Field Theory' (KFT) formalism to tackle the difficulties of large scale structure formation. In this approach, the dynamics of a non-equilibrium ensemble of classical particles are examined based on methods of statistical field theory. So far, only contributions coming from dark matter were considered, which i

Timon Elmer, Christoph Stadtfeld

Face-to-face social interactions are an important aspect of peoples' social lives. A lack of interactions can explain how individuals develop depressive symptoms, but depressive symptoms can also explain how individuals engage in social interactions. Understanding in detail how depression affects individuals' social interaction networks is important to break

N. Tsoneva, M. Spieker, H. Lenske, A. Zilges

The electric quadrupole response in $^{112,114}$Sn isotopes is investigated by energy-density functional (EDF) and three-phonon quasiparticle-phonon model (QPM) theory with special emphasis on 2$^+$ excitations located above the first collective quadrupole state and below 5 MeV. Additional quadrupole strength clustering as a sequence of states similar to the

Tim Laibacher, Tillman Weyde, Sepehr Jalali

In this paper, we present a novel neural network architecture for retinal vessel segmentation that improves over the state of the art on two benchmark datasets, is the first to run in real time on high resolution images, and its small memory and processing requirements make it deployable in mobile and embedded systems. The M2U-Net has a new encoder-decoder a

Martin Nitsche, Andreas Thom

We give a new criterion for solvability of group equations, providing proofs of various generalizations of the Kervaire-Laudenbach conjecture for Connes-embeddable groups.

Masanobu Kaneko, Hirofumi Tsumura

We first review our previous works of Arakawa and the authors on two, closely related single-variable zeta functions. Their special values at positive and negative integer arguments are respectively multiple zeta values and poly-Bernoulli numbers. We then introduce, as a generalization of Sasaki's work, level 2 analogue of one of the two zeta functions and p

Francesco Della Porta, Maurizio Grasselli

In this note, we want to highlight and correct an error in the paper "On the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman and Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw systems" [Comm. Pure Appl. Anal. 15 (2016), 299-317] written by the authors.

John W. Appel, Zhilei Xu, Ivan L. Padilla, Kathleen Harrington

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is mapping the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales ($2<\ell\lesssim200$) in search of a primordial gravitational wave B-mode signal down to a tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r \approx 0.01$. The same data set will provide a near sample-variance-limited measurement of the

Pranab Sarker, Tyler Harrington, Cormac Toher, Corey Oses

High-entropy materials have attracted considerable interest due to the combination of useful properties and promising applications. Predicting their formation remains the major hindrance to the discovery of new systems. Here we propose a descriptor - entropy forming ability - for addressing synthesizability from first principles. The formalism, based on the

Florian Weik, Rudolf Weeber, Kai Szuttor, Konrad Breitsprecher

ESPResSo 4.0 is an extensible simulation package for research on soft matter. This versatile molecular dynamics program was originally developed for coarse-grained simulations of charged systems Limbach et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 174, 704 (2006). The scope of the software has since broadened considerably: ESPResSo can now be used to simulate systems with

Jorge F. Soriano, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Thomas C. Paul, Thomas J. Weiler

The Pierre Auger Collaboration has reported an excess in the number of muons of a few tens of percent over expectations computed using extrapolation of hadronic interaction models tuned to accommodate LHC data. Very recently, we proposed an explanation for the muon excess assuming the formation of a deconfined quark matter (fireball) state in central collisi

Ping Luo, Zhanglin Peng, Jiamin Ren, Ruimao Zhang

Yes, they do. This work investigates a perspective for deep learning: whether different normalization layers in a ConvNet require different normalizers. This is the first step towards understanding this phenomenon. We allow each convolutional layer to be stacked before a switchable normalization (SN) that learns to choose a normalizer from a pool of normaliz

Jose Dolz, Christian Desrosiers, Ismail Ben Ayed

Accurate localization and segmentation of intervertebral disc (IVD) is crucial for the assessment of spine disease diagnosis. Despite the technological advances in medical imaging, IVD localization and segmentation are still manually performed, which is time-consuming and prone to errors. If, in addition, multi-modal imaging is considered, the burden imposed

H. Ekawa, K. Agari, J. K. Ahn, T. Akaishi

A double-$\Lambda$ hypernucleus, ${}_{\Lambda\Lambda}\mathrm{Be}$, was observed by the J-PARC E07 collaboration in nuclear emulsions tagged by the $(K^{-},K^{+})$ reaction. This event was interpreted as a production and decay of $ {}_{\Lambda\Lambda}^{\;10}\mathrm{Be}$, ${}_{\Lambda\Lambda}^{\;11}\mathrm{Be}$, or ${}_{\Lambda\Lambda}^{\;12}\mathrm{Be}^{*}$ v

Cunsheng Ding, Sihem Mesnager, Chunming Tang, Maosheng Xiong

Let $m$ be an even positive integer. A Boolean bent function $f$ on $\GF{m-1} \times \GF {}$ is called a \emph{cyclic bent function} if for any $a\neq b\in \GF {m-1}$ and $\epsilon \in \GF{}$, $f(ax_1,x_2)+f(bx_1,x_2+\epsilon)$ is always bent, where $x_1\in \GF {m-1}, x_2 \in \GF {}$. Cyclic bent functions look extremely rare. This paper focuses on cyclic be

Antoine Douai

Gathering different results from singularity theory, geometry and combinatorics, we show that the spectrum at infinity of a tame Laurent polynomial counts lattice points in polytopes and we deduce an effective algorithm in order to compute the Ehrhart polynomial of a simplex containing the origin as an interior point.

Ion I. Cotaescu, Ciprian A. Sporea

The asymptotic form of Dirac spinors in the field of a Schwarzschild black hole is used for deriving analytically for the first time the phase shifts of the partial wave analysis of Dirac fermions scattered from massive spherical bodies, imagined as black holes surrounded by a surface producing total reflection. A simple model is analyzed by using graphical

Spiros Kechrimparis, Tanmay Singal, Chahan M. Kropf, Joonwoo Bae

In this work, we consider optimal state discrimination for a quantum system that interacts with an environment, i.e., states evolve under a quantum channel. We show the conditions on a quantum channel and an ensemble of states such that a measurement for optimal state discrimination is preserved. In particular, we show that when an ensemble of states with eq

Qin He, Atena Rezaei, Sampsa Pursiainen

This article introduces the Zeffiro interface (ZI) version 2.2 for brain imaging. ZI aims to provide a simple, accessible and multimodal open source platform for finite element method (FEM) based and graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated forward and inverse computations in the Matlab environment. It allows one to (1) generate a given multi-compartment h

R. Backofen, K. R. Elder, A. Voigt

The ability to use external magnetic fields to influence the microstructure in polycrystalline materials has potential applications in microstructural engineering. To explore this potential and to understand the complex interactions between electromagnetic fields and solid-state matter transport we consider a phase-field-crystal (PFC) model. Together with ef

Joy Morris, Pablo Spiga

In this paper we show that almost all Cayley digraphs have automorphism group as small as possible; that is, they are digraphical regular representations (DRRs). More precisely, we show that as $r$ tends to infinity, for every finite group $R$ of order $r$, out of all possible Cayley digraphs on $R$ the proportion whose automorphism group is as small as poss

P. M. Harrington, D. Tan, M. Naghiloo, K. W. Murch

In both thermodynamics and quantum mechanics the arrow of time is characterized by the statistical likelihood of physical processes. We characterize this arrow of time for the continuous quantum measurement dynamics of a superconducting qubit. By experimentally tracking individual weak measurement trajectories, we compare the path probabilities of forward an

A. Kryukov, G. Shpiz

Computer algebra is widely used in various fields of mathematics, physics and other sciences. The simplification of tensor expressions is an important special case of computer algebra. In this paper, we consider the reduction of tensor polynomials to canonical form, taking into account the properties of symmetry under permutations of indices, the symmetries

Irene Unceta, Jordi Nin, Oriol Pujol

In this paper we propose a method to obtain global explanations for trained black-box classifiers by sampling their decision function to learn alternative interpretable models. The envisaged approach provides a unified solution to approximate non-linear decision boundaries with simpler classifiers while retaining the original classification accuracy. We use

Adrian Dumitru, Andre V. Giannini, Matthew Luzum, Yasushi Nara

We extend the numerical analysis of the energy and centrality dependence of particle multiplicities at midrapidity in high-energy p+A and A+A collisions from a running coupling $k_T$-factorization formula made in~\cite{Dumitru:2018gjm} by considering two unintegrated gluon distributions that were left out. While a good agreement with the experimental data in

Teutë Bunjaku, Mathieu Luisier

An atomistic study of the thermal properties of lithiated molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is presented and an explanation for the experimentally determined anisotropic behavior of the in- and through-plane thermal conductivity is proposed. Configurations with different levels of lithium concentration are simulated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and their

F. Lucarelli, M. Tavani, G. Piano, A. Bulgarelli

The origin of cosmic neutrinos is still largely unknown. Using data obtained by the gamma-ray imager on board of the AGILE satellite, we systematically searched for transient gamma-ray sources above 100 MeV that are temporally and spatially coincident with ten recent high-energy neutrino IceCube events. We find three AGILE candidate sources that can be consi

Marie Labeye, François Risoud, Camille Lévêque, Jérémie Caillat

We study the signature of two-center interferences in molecular high-order harmonic spectra, with an emphasis on the spectral phase. With the help of both ab initio computations based on the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and the molecular Strong-Field Approximation (SFA) as developed by Chirila et al. [Physical Review A, 73, 023410 (2006)] and Faria

Kamsali Nagaraja, Praveen Kumar Basuvaraj, S. C. Chakravarty, Praveen Kumar Kuttanpillai

The raw exospheric composition data of Mars for the period September 2014 to October 2015 has been retrieved and analysed using the observations carried out by Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA) payload on-board the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launched by India on 5 November 2013. The state parameters viz. latitude, longitude, altitude and s

Dandan Chen, Liuquan Wang

Motivated by the works of Liu, we provide a unified approach to find Appell-Lerch series and Hecke-type series representations for mock theta functions. We establish a number of parameterized identities with two parameters $a$ and $b$. Specializing the choices of $(a,b)$, we not only give various known and new representations for the mock theta functions of

Shaswata Chowdhury, Tapobrata Sarkar

Interior structures of stellar objects might have small pressure anisotropy due to several reasons, including rotation and the presence of magnetic fields. Here, retaining the approximation of spherical symmetry, we study the possible role of small anisotropy in stellar interiors in theories of modified gravity, that are known to alter the hydrostatic equili

Alice Coucke, Mohammed Chlieh, Thibault Gisselbrecht, David Leroy

We explore the application of end-to-end stateless temporal modeling to small-footprint keyword spotting as opposed to recurrent networks that model long-term temporal dependencies using internal states. We propose a model inspired by the recent success of dilated convolutions in sequence modeling applications, allowing to train deeper architectures in resou

M. Schöndorf, F. K. Wilhelm

The field of quantum information has matured and various protocols implementing a quantum computer are being pursued. Most similar to a classical computer is the circuit model. In 2007 Aharonov et al. showed the equivalence between the circuit model and a quantum annealer, and with this proofed the universality of quantum annealing. Here the system starts in

Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

A method for mathematical treatment is considered for experimental data from pulsed time-of-flight spectrometers, whose response to measurement-initiating pulses is represented by their convolution with the pulse response of the system. The proposed method of step-by-step shifting and its modifications are intended to correct the system response when the ini

E. Baudin, R. Proux, M. Maragkou, Ph. Roussignol

To characterize the statistics and indistinguishability of a source, it is common to measure the correlation functions of the emitted field using various interferometers. Here, we present a theoretical framework for the computation of the correlation functions of a two-level system that is resonantly driven by a realistic noisy cw excitation laser. Analytic

Álvaro Gómez-León, Tim Cox, Philip Stamp

We analyze the effect of a bath of spins interacting with a spin system in terms of the equation of motion technique. We show that this formalism can be used with general spin systems and baths, and discuss the concrete case of a Quantum Ising model longitudinally coupled to the bath. We show how the uncorrelated solutions change when spin-spin correlations

V. P. Michal, Y. V. Nazarov

We address the interaction between two quantum systems (A and B) that is mediated by their common linear environment. If the environment is out of equilibrium the resulting interaction violates Onsager relations and cannot be described by a Hamiltonian. In simple terms the action of system A on system B does not necessarily produce a back-action. We derive g

Sergey Kitaev, Philip B. Zhang

A systematic study of avoidance of mesh patterns of length 2 was conducted by Hilmarsson et al., where 25 out of 65 non-equivalent cases were solved. In this paper, we give 27 distribution results for these patterns including 14 distributions for which avoidance was not known. Moreover, for the unsolved cases, we prove an equidistribution result (out of 6 eq

A. Marinucci, D. Porquet, F. Tamborra, S. Bianchi

The spectral shape of the hard X-ray continuum of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be ascribed to inverse Compton scattering of optical/UV seed photons from the accretion disc by a hot corona of electrons. This physical process produces a polarization signal which is strongly sensitive to the geometry of the scattering medium (i.e. the hot corona) and of the

Riley Badenbroek, Etienne de Klerk

We develop a short-step interior point method to optimize a linear function over a convex body assuming that one only knows a membership oracle for this body. The approach is based on Abernethy and Hazan's sketch of a universal interior point method using the so-called entropic barrier [arXiv 1507.02528v2, 2015]. It is well-known that the gradient and Hessia

Hamed Pejhan, Surena Rahbardehghan, Mohammad Enayati, Kazuharu Bamba

We demonstrate that the linearized Einstein gravity in de Sitter (dS) spacetime besides the evident symmetries also possesses the additional (local) symmetry $h_{\mu\nu}\rightarrow h_{\mu\nu} + {\cal E}_{\mu\nu}\chi$, where ${\cal E}_{\mu\nu}$ is a spin-two projector tensor and $\chi$ is an arbitrary constant function. We argue that an anomalous symmetry ass

S. Loepp, A. Michaelsen

We prove that, for any $n\geq 0$, there exists an uncountable, $n$-dimensional, excellent, regular local ring with countable spectrum.

Wenfang Lin, Zhenyu Wu, Yang Ji

Data-driven fault diagnostics and prognostics suffers from class-imbalance problem in industrial systems and it raises challenges to common machine learning algorithms as it becomes difficult to learn the features of the minority class samples. Synthetic oversampling methods are commonly used to tackle these problems by generating the minority class samples

Teng Li, Hyo-Sang Shin, Antonios Tsourdos

As the scales of data sets expand rapidly in some application scenarios, increasing efforts have been made to develop fast submodular maximization algorithms. This paper presents a currently the most efficient algorithm for maximizing general non-negative submodular objective functions subject to $k$-extendible system constraints. Combining the sampling proc

Marco Macanovic, Fabian Chersi, Felix Rutard, Sio-Hoi Ieng

We introduce in this paper the principle of Deep Temporal Networks that allow to add time to convolutional networks by allowing deep integration principles not only using spatial information but also increasingly large temporal window. The concept can be used for conventional image inputs but also event based data. Although inspired by the architecture of br

F. Taddia, J. Sollerman, C. Fremling, C. Barbarino

We study 34 Type Ic supernovae that have broad spectral features (SNe Ic-BL). We obtained our photometric data with the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and its continuation, the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF). This is the first large, homogeneous sample of SNe Ic-BL from an untargeted survey. Furthermore, given the high cadence of (i)PTF, most

Martin Rothe, Yuhang Zhao, Günter Kewes, Zdravko Kochovski

Metal nanoparticles are the most frequently used nanostructures in plasmonics. However, besides nanoparticles, metal nanowires feature several advantages for applications. Their elongation offers a larger interaction volume, their resonances can reach higher quality factors, and their mode structure provides better coupling into integrated hybrid dielectric-

Fa Peng Huang

Motivated by the absence of dark matter signal in dark matter direct detection experiments and new physics signal at LHC, we study how to hear the echoes of the new physics, especially the dark matter and baryogenesis by new approaches, such as the gravitational wave experiments.

Abasalt Bahrami, Matthias Müller, Martin Drechsler, Jannis Joger

In order to study interactions of atomic ions with ultracold neutral atoms, it is important to have sub-$\mu$m control over positioning ion crystals. Serving for this purpose, we introduce a microfabricated planar ion trap featuring 21 DC electrodes. The ion trap is controlled by a home-made FPGA voltage source providing independently variable voltages to ea

Helen F. Parish, Jonathan L. Mitchell

The atmosphere of Venus is characterized by strong superrotation, in which the wind velocities at cloud heights are around 60 times faster than the surface rotation rate. The reasons for this strong superrotation are still not well understood. Motions in the atmosphere below the thick cloud deck are hard to determine remotely and in-situ measurements of the

A. J. Tropiano, J. J. Ethier, W. Melnitchouk, N. Sato

We perform a combined analysis of inclusive electron scattering data from $A=3$ nuclei in the deep-inelastic and quasielastic scattering regions, using Monte Carlo analysis methods and the nuclear weak binding approximation to establish the range over which the data can be described within the same theoretical framework. Comparison with quasielastic $^3$He c

Filippo Dell'Oro, Vittorino Pata

The contraction semigroup $S(t)={\rm e}^{t\mathbb{A}}$ generated by the abstract linear dissipative evolution equation $$ \ddot u + A u + f(A) \dot u=0 $$ is analyzed, where $A$ is a strictly positive selfadjoint operator and $f$ is an arbitrary nonnegative continuous function on the spectrum of $A$. A full description of the spectrum of the infinitesimal ge

Lin Gan, Jiajun Zhou, Songnian Fu, Ming Tang

To analyze a homogeneous weakly coupled multicore fiber (WC-MCF) based transmission system via simulation, we propose an efficient (fast and accurate) WC-MCF's channel model, which can describe the propagation effects including attenuation, walk-off, chromatic dispersion, self-phase modulation (SPM), and especially the frequency-dependent inter-core crosstal

Fei Peng, Le-bing Zhang, Min Long

Face morphing attack is proved to be a serious threat to the existing face recognition systems. Although a few face morphing detection methods have been put forward, the face morphing accomplice's facial restoration remains a challenging problem. In this paper, a face de-morphing generative adversarial network (FD-GAN) is proposed to restore the accomplice's

Francesco Della Porta

In this work we introduce a new system of partial differential equations as a simplified model for the evolution of reversible martensitic transformations under thermal cycling in low hysteresis alloys. The model is developed in the context of nonlinear continuum mechanics, where the developed theory is mostly static, and cannot capture the influence of dyna

Niklas Mutz, Tino Meisel, Holm Kirmse, Soohyung Park

Application of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) in photonic, optoelectronic or valleytronic devices requires the growth of continuous monolayers, heterostructures and alloys of different materials in a single process. We present a facile pulsed thermal deposition method which provides precise control over layer thickness and stoichiometry of two-dimen

Yue Zheng, Yali Li, Shengjin Wang

Although existing image caption models can produce promising results using recurrent neural networks (RNNs), it is difficult to guarantee that an object we care about is contained in generated descriptions, for example in the case that the object is inconspicuous in the image. Problems become even harder when these objects did not appear in training stage. I

Itzik Nanikashvili, Yoram Zarai, Alexander Ovseevich, Tamir Tuller

The ribosome flow model with input and output (RFMIO) is a deterministic dynamical system that has been used to study the flow of ribosomes during mRNA translation. The RFMIO and its variants encapsulate important properties that are relevant to modeling ribosome flow such as the possible evolution of "traffic jams" and non-homogeneous elongation rates along

Zafer Artvin, Mehmet Emre Tasgin, Alpan Bek, Mehmet Gunay

Control of nonlinear response of nanostructures via path interference effects, i.e. Fano resonances, has been studied extensively. In such materials, a frequency conversion process which takes place near a hot spot has been considered. Here, we study a different case. The frequency conversion process takes place along the body of a nonlinear crystal. Metal n

Marian Stanishkov

We consider a RG flow in certain 2D coset models perturbed by the least relevant field. In the case of the symmetric su(2) coset model we show, up to second order of the perturbation theory, that there exists a nontrivial IR fixed point.We obtain the structure constants and the four-point functions of certain fields by deriving specific recursive relations.

Yanguang Chen, Linshan Huang

A type of fractal dimension definition is based on the generalized entropy function. Both entropy and fractal dimension can be employed to characterize complex spatial systems such as cities and regions. Despite the inherent connect between entropy and fractal dimension, they have different application scopes and directions in urban studies. This paper focus

Clark Barwick, Denis Nardin

This note concerns a weak form of Parshin's conjecture, which states that the rational motivic Borel--Moore homology of a quasiprojective variety of dimension $m$ over a finite field in bidegree $(s,t)$ vanishes for $s>m+t$. It is shown that this conjecture holds if and only if the cyclic action on the motivic cohomology of an Artin--Schreier field extension

Abbas Ehsanfar, Mo Mansouri

This paper introduces a temporal framework for detecting and clustering emergent and viral topics on social networks. Endogenous and exogenous influence on developing viral content is explored using a clustering method based on the a user's behavior on social network and a dataset from Twitter API. Results are discussed by introducing metrics such as popular

S. Vercellone, P. Romano, G. Piano, V. Vittorini

The flat-spectrum radio quasar 4C $+$71.07 is a high-redshift ($z=2.172$), $\gamma$-loud blazar whose optical emission is dominated by the thermal radiation from accretion disc. 4C $+$71.07 has been detected in outburst twice by the AGILE $\gamma$-ray satellite during the period end of October - mid November 2015, when it reached a $\gamma$-ray flux of the o

Christina S. Diehl, Götz Kersting

$\Lambda$-coalescents model genealogies of samples of individuals from a large population by means of a family tree whose branches have lengths. The tree's leaves represent the individuals, and the lengths of the adjacent edges indicate the individuals' time durations up to some common ancestor. These edges are called external branches. We consider typical e

Miljenko Čemeljić

I use two-dimensional axisymmetric numerical simulations of star-disk magnetospheric interaction to construct a three-dimensional model of hot spots on the star created by infalling accretion columns. The intensity of emitted radiation is computed with minimal assumptions, as seen by observers at infinity from the different angles. In the illustrative exampl

Nikolaos Farmakidis, Nathan Youngblood, Xuan Li, James Tan

Modern-day computers use electrical signaling for processing and storing data which is bandwidth limited and power-hungry. These limitations are bypassed in the field of communications, where optical signaling is the norm. To exploit optical signaling in computing, however, new on-chip devices that work seamlessly in both electrical and optical domains are n

Francesco Della Porta

In this paper we improve the understanding of the cofactor conditions, which are particular conditions of geometric compatibility between austenite and martensite, that are believed to influence reversibility of martensitic transformations. We also introduce a physically motivated metric to measure how closely a material satisfies the cofactor conditions, as

Arash Vaezi, Mohammad Ghodsi

We consider extending the visibility polygon of a given point $q$, inside a simple polygon $P$ by converting some edges of $P$ to mirrors. We will show that several variations of the problem of finding mirror-edges to add precisely $k$ units of area to $VP(q)$ are NP-complete. The optimal cases are NP-hard. We are unaware of any result on adding an exact num

Jacopo Fregoni, Giovanni Granucci, Emanuele Coccia, Maurizio Persico

The formation of hybrid light-molecule states (polaritons) offers a new strategy to manipulate the photochemistry of molecules. To fully exploit its potential, one needs to build a toolbox of polaritonic phenomenologies that supplement those of standard photochemistry. By means of a state-of-the-art computational photochemistry approach extended to the stron

Shoichiro Tsutsui, Yuta Ito, Hideo Matsufuru, Jun Nishimura

Exploring the phase diagram of QCD at finite density is a challenging problem since first-principle calculations based on standard Monte Carlo methods suffer from the sign problem. As a promising approach to this issue, the complex Langevin method (CLM) has been pursued intensively.In this work, we investigate the applicability of the CLM in the vicinity of

Liang Cui, Jie Su, Jiamin Li, Yuhong Liu

Multi-photon quantum interference is the underlying principle for optical quantum information processing protocols. Indistinguishability is the key to quantum interference. Therefore, the success of many protocols in optical quantum information processing relies on the availability of photon states with a well-defined spatial and temporal mode. Photons in si

Jan Gerit Brandenburg, Andrea Zen, Martin Fitzner, Benjamin Ramberger

Molecular adsorption on surfaces plays a central role in catalysis, corrosion, desalination, and many other processes of relevance to industry and the natural world. Few adsorption systems are more ubiquitous or of more widespread importance than those involving water and carbon, and for a molecular level understanding of such interfaces water monomer adsorp

Henning Basold, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Yue Li

We establish proof-theoretic, constructive and coalgebraic foundations for proof search in coinductive Horn clause theories. Operational semantics of coinductive Horn clause resolution is cast in terms of coinductive uniform proofs; its constructive content is exposed via soundness relative to an intuitionistic first-order logic with recursion controlled by

Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or satisfaction with an open source project. However, the real and practical meaning of starring a project was never the subject of an in-depth and well-founded empirical investigation

Jinguang Han, Liqun Chen, Steve Schneider, Helen Treharne

An anonymous Single Sign-On (ASSO) scheme allows users to access multiple services anonymously using one credential. We propose a new ASSO scheme, where users can access services anonymously through the use of anonymous credentials and unlinkably through the provision of designated verifiers. Notably, verifiers cannot link service requests of a user even if

Masoud Gharahi Ghahi, Stefano Mancini

L. Lamata et al. have presented an entanglement classification of four qubits under stochastic local operation and classical communication (SLOCC) based on inductive approach [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{75}, 022318 (2007)]. While it works well for three qubits, we show that some of the families for four qubits have overlaps and hence this approach is not valid for

Xin Zhang, Qian Wang, Toby Breckon, Ioannis Ivrissimtzis

We present a method for reading digital data embedded in planar 3D printed surfaces. The data are organised in binary arrays and embedded as surface textures in a way inspired by QR codes. At the core of the retrieval method lies a Convolutional Neural Network, outputting a confidence map of the location of the surface textures encoding value 1 bits. Subsequ

Patryk Mach, Yaohua Wang, Naqing Xie

Using the implicit function theorem, we prove existence of solutions of the so-called conformally covariant split system on compact 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. They give rise to non-Constant Mean Curvature (non-CMC) vacuum initial data for the Einstein equations. We investigate the conformally covariant split system defined on compact manifolds with

Giuseppe M. Paterno', Nimai Mishra, Alex J. Barker, Zhiya Dang

Excitonic 0D and 2D lead-halide perovskites have been recently developed and investigated as new materials for light generation. Here we report broadband (> 1 eV) emission from newly synthesised zero-dimensional (0D) lead-free colloidal Cs3Bi2I9 nanocrystals. We investigate the nature of their emissive states as well as the relative dynamics which are curren

Zouyi Jiang, Lei Zhao, Xingshun Gao, Ruoshi Dong

High-speed high-resolution Analog-to-Digital Conversion is the key part for waveform digitization in physics experiments and many other domains. This paper presents a new fully digital correction of mismatch errors among the channels in Time Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converter (TIADC) systems. We focus on correction with wide-band input signal, which mea

Dagnachew Jenber

This paper studies the proof of Collatz conjecture for some set of sequence of odd numbers with infinite number of elements. These set generalized to the set which contains all positive odd integers. This extension assumed to be the proof of the full conjecture, using the concept of mathematical induction. In section 9, the Collatz conjecture is proved again

Aoife Boyle

We perform a thorough examination of the neutrino mass ($M_\nu$) constraints achievable by combining future spectroscopic galaxy surveys with cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, focusing on the contribution of CMB lensing and galaxy-CMB lensing. CMB lensing can help by breaking the $M_\nu$-curvature degeneracy when combined with baryon acoustic os

Evgenij Martynov, Basarab Nicolescu

The surprising low TOTEM datum $\rho_{pp}$ = 0.09$\pm$0.01 at 13 TeV \cite{TOTEM-1} generated an important flux of papers, which can be classified in three categories: 1) papers which claim that this result is the first experimental discovery of the Odderon, namely in its maximal form; 2) papers which tried, without success, to find alternative explanations