November 2018 arXiv papers — page 75

G. A. Japaridze, A. A. Nersesyan

We consider a one-dimensional commensurate Peierls insulator in the presence of spin-dependent sign-alternating potentials. In a continuum description, the latter supply the fermions with spin-dependent "relativistic" masses $m_{\uparrow,\downarrow}$. The ground-state phase diagram describes three gapped phases: the CDW and SDW-like band insulator ph

Chunsheng Ma, Anatoliy Malyarenko

A general form of the covariance matrix function is derived in this paper for a vector random field that is isotropic and mean square continuous on a compact connected two-point homogeneous space and stationary on a temporal domain. A series representation is presented for such a vector random field, which involve Jacobi polynomials and the distance defined

Frederico C. Vaz, David Portugal, André Araújo, Micael S. Couceiro

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have the ability to operate in harsh underwater environments without endangering human lives in the process. Nevertheless, just like their ground and aerial counterparts, AUVs need to be able to estimate their own position. Yet, unlike ground and aerial robots, estimating the pose of AUVs is very challenging, with only a

Yun Wang, Lixin Tian

The Novikov equation is an integrable Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearity and admits the periodic peakons. In this paper, it is shown that the periodic peakons are the global periodic weak solutions to the Novikov equation and we also prove the orbital stability of the periodic peakons for Novikov equation. By using the invariants of the equat

Yang Li, Yongzhong Sun, Ewelina Zatorska

In this paper, we consider a compressible two-fluid system with a common velocity field and algebraic pressure closure in dimension one. Existence, uniqueness and stability of global weak solutions to this system are obtained with arbitrarily large initial data. Making use of the uniform-in-time bounds for the densities from above and below, exponential deca

S. Mironov, V. Rubakov, V. Volkova

We address the issue of whether a no-go theorem for static, spherically symmetric wormholes, proven in Horndeski theories, can be circumvented by going beyond Horndeski. We show that the ghost instabilities which are at the heart of the no-go theorem, can indeed be avoided. The wormhole solutions with the latter property are, however, strongly fine tuned, an

Agustín Pérez-Madrid, Luciano Calheiros Lapas, Miguel Rubí

In this paper we study the near-field thermodynamics of a photon gas at equilibrium as well as out-of-equilibrium in the presence of dissipative effects. As a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, we are able to eliminate the low-frequency modes in both cases, providing an analytical expression for the near-field entropy. In addition, we obt

Ali Vahedi, Mobin Shakeri

We study the non-equilibrium steady-state phase transition from probe brane holography in $z=2$ Schrödinger spacetime. Concerning differential conductivity, a phase transition could occur in the conductor state. Considering constant current operator as the external field and the conductivity as an order parameter, we derive scaling behavior of order paramete

Jinyi Shangguan, Luis C. Ho, Ruancun Li, Ming-Yang Zhuang

The interstellar medium is a key ingredient that governs star formation in galaxies. We present a detailed study of the infrared (~ 1-500 micron) spectral energy distributions of a large sample of 193 nearby (z ~ 0.088) luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) covering a wide range of evolutionary stages along the merger sequence. The entire sample has been observ

Sándor Baran, Martin Leutbecher, Marianna Szabó, Zied Ben Bouallègue

The computational cost as well as the probabilistic skill of ensemble forecasts depends on the spatial resolution of the numerical weather prediction model and the ensemble size. Periodically, e.g. when more computational resources become available, it is appropriate to reassess the balance between resolution and ensemble size. Recently, it has been proposed

František Štampach, Pavel Šťovíček

We provide an explicit spectral representation for several weighted Hankel matrices by means of the so called commutator method. These weighted Hankel matrices are found in the commutant of Jacobi matrices associated with orthogonal polynomials from the Askey scheme whose Jacobi parameters are polynomial functions of the index. We also present two more resul

L. V. Bravina, J. Bleibel, E. E. Zabrodin

We study multiplicity correlations of hadrons in forward and backward hemispheres in $pp$ inelastic interactions at energies 200GeV $\leq \sqrt{s} \leq$ 13TeV within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. The model correctly describes (i) the almost linear dependence of average multiplicity in one hemisphere on the particle multiplicity in other hemispher

Christopher Smith

The unification of the quark and charged lepton flavor structures is revisited using the tools of Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV). Under that framework, we first identify a unique point in parameter space where flavor universality is maximally violated. Though from the point of view of the usual polynomial MFV expansions, standing close to that point would re

Johannes Oetsch, Juan-Carlos Nieves

Intelligent technologies, in particular systems to promote health and well-being, are inherently centered around the human being, and they need to interrelate with human activities at their core. While social sciences provide angles to study such activities, e.g., within the framework of cultural-historical activity theory, there is no formal approach to giv

Soon-Gil Jung, Seung-Ku Son, Duong Pham, Weon Cheol Lim

We investigate the influence of carbon-ion irradiation on the superconducting critical properties of MgB$_2$ thin films. MgB$_2$ films of two thicknesses viz. 400 nm (MB400nm) and 800 nm (MB800nm) were irradiated by 350 keV C ions having a wide range of fluence, 1 x 10$^{13}$ - 1 x 10$^{15}$ C atoms/cm$^2$. The mean projected range ($R_p$) of 350 keV C ions

Sandip Das, Swami Sarvottamananda

We propose a method to efficiently compute the Minkowski sum, denoted by binary operator $\oplus$ in the paper, of convex polytopes in $\Re^d$ using their face lattice structures as input. In plane, the Minkowski sum of convex polygons can be computed in linear time of the total number of vertices of the polygons. In $\Re^d$, we first show how to compute the

Hong Liu, Maryam Sharifzadeh

We show that, in contrast to the integers setting, almost all even order abelian groups $G$ have exponentially fewer maximal sum-free sets than $2^{μ(G)/2}$, where $μ(G)$ denotes the size of a largest sum-free set in $G$. This confirms a conjecture of Balogh, Liu, Sharifzadeh and Treglown.

Takanori Ayano, Victor Buchstaber

The field of meromorphic functions on a sigma divisor of a hyperelliptic curve of genus $3$ is described in terms of the gradient of it's sigma function. Solutions of corresponding families of polynomial dynamical systems in $\mathbb{C}^4$ with two polynomial integrals are constructed as an application. These systems were introduced in the work of V. M.

Benjamin Biggs, Thomas Roddick, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Roberto Cipolla

We present a system to recover the 3D shape and motion of a wide variety of quadrupeds from video. The system comprises a machine learning front-end which predicts candidate 2D joint positions, a discrete optimization which finds kinematically plausible joint correspondences, and an energy minimization stage which fits a detailed 3D model to the image. In or

Tianxing Jiang, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads, Huan Yang

The gas metallicity of galaxies is often estimated using strong emission lines such as the optical lines of [OIII] and [OII]. The most common measure is "R23", defined as ([OII]$λ$$λ$3726, 3729 + [OIII]$λ$$λ$4959,5007)/H$β$. Most calibrations for these strong-line metallicity indicators are for continuum selected galaxies. We report a new empirical c

J. S. Greaves

(No abstract for this journals: article commences: ) Fairness is a key issue in the careers of astronomers. I examine here the anecdota l suggestion that "you're more likely to get time if you're on the TAC", using public and published data for a large international telescope facility...

Dan Hu, Haiguang Xu, Xi Kang, Weitian Li

We choose the bright compact group HCG 62, which was found to exhibit both excess X-ray emission and high Fe abundance to the southwest of its core, as an example to study the impact of mergers on chemical enrichment in the intragroup medium. We first reanalyze the high-quality Chandra and XMM-Newton archive data to search for the evidence for additional SN

Giovanni M. Mirouh, George C. Angelou, Daniel R. Reese, Guglielmo Costa

Oscillation modes in fast-rotating stars can be split into several subclasses, each with their own properties. To date, seismology of these stars cannot rely on regular pattern analysis and scaling relations. However, recently there has been the promising discovery of large separations observed in spectra of fast-rotating $δ$ Scuti stars: they were attribute

Augustin Moinat, Hendrik Weber

We prove an a priori bound for solutions of the dynamic $Φ^4_3$ equation. This bound provides a control on solutions on a compact space-time set only in terms of the realisation of the noise on an enlargement of this set, and it does not depend on any choice of space-time boundary conditions. We treat the large and small scale behaviour of solutions with com

Matthew J. Stott

Consistent frameworks of quantum gravity often predict the existence of large numbers of ultralight pseudoscalar degrees of freedom, forming the phenomenological landscape of the String Axiverse. The complexity of the extra-dimensional compactification manifolds and vacua determine that these fields could possess parameters with cosmologically significant sc

Ralph L. Stoop, Arthur V. Straube, Pietro Tierno

The performance of nanoscale magnetic devices is often limited by the presence of thermal fluctuations, while in micro-nanofluidic applications the same fluctuations may be used to spread reactants or drugs. Here we demonstrate the controlled motion and the enhancement of diffusion of magnetic nanoparticles that are manipulated and driven across a series of

Guozheng Cheng, Xiang Fang, Sen Zhu

In this paper we initiate the study of a fundamental yet untapped random model of non-selfadjoint, bounded linear operators acting on a separable complex Hilbert space. We replace the weights $w_n=1$ in the classical unilateral shift $T$, defined as $Te_n=w_ne_{n+1}$, where $\{e_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ form an orthonormal basis of a complex Hilbert space, by a seq

F. Kahil, T. L. Riethmüller, S. K. Solanki

Magnetic elements have an intensity contrast that depends on the type of region they are located in (e.g. quiet Sun, or active region plage). Observed values also depend on the spatial resolution of the data. Here we investigate the contrast-magnetic field dependence in active region plage observed near disk center with Sunrise during its second flight in 20

Manuel Martinez, Joan Serra-Sagristà

Marlin is a Variable-to-Fixed (VF) codec optimized for high decoding speed through the use of small sized dictionaries that fit in the L1 cache of most CPUs. While the size of Marlin dictionaries is adequate for decoding, they are still too large to be encoded fast. We address this problem by proposing two techniques to reduce the alphabet size. The first te

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

We analyse exotic tetraquark mesons - bound states formed by two quarks and two antiquarks - for the specific case of four different quark flavours within the framework of a well-defined limit of quantum chromodynamics characterized by the correlated growth without bound of the number of colour degrees of freedom and approach to zero of the coupling constant

Nikolai Christian Passler, Christopher R. Gubbin, Thomas Graeme Folland, Ilya Razdolski

We report the first observation of epsilon near zero (ENZ) phonon polaritons in an ultrathin AlN film fully hybridized with surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) supported by the adjacent SiC substrate. Employing a strong coupling model for the analysis of the dispersion and electric field distribution in these hybridized modes, we show that they share the most p

Martin Bäker

This document gives guidelines to set up, run, and postprocess correct simulations with the finite element method. It is not an introduction to the method itself, but rather a list of things to check and possible mistakes to watch out for when doing a finite element simulation.

Joseph Y. Halpern, Evan Piermont

We develop a modal logic to capture partial awareness. The logic has three building blocks: objects, properties, and concepts. Properties are unary predicates on objects; concepts are Boolean combinations of properties. We take an agent to be partially aware of a concept if she is aware of the concept without being aware of the properties that define it. The

Konstantin Gaul, Robert Berger

Electronic structure enhancement factors of simultaneous parity and time-reversal violation ($\mathcal{P,T}$-violation) caused by an electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM) and scalar-pseudoscalar nucleon-electron current (SPNEC) interactions are reported for various metal mono-hydroxides, several of which are considered laser--coolable and promising c

Sanjoy K. Mahatha, Maciej Dendzik, Charlotte E. Sanders, Matteo Michiardi

Large-area and high-quality single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides can be synthesized by epitaxial growth on single-crystal substrates. An important advantage of this approach is that the interaction between the single-layer and the substrate can be strong enough to enforce a single crystalline orientation of the layer. On the other hand, the same int

Zdzislaw Wojtkowiak

The fact that the double zeta values at n and m can be written as a sum of products of two zeta values and of zeta value at m+n, whenever n+m is odd is due to Euler. We shall show a weak version of this result for the Galois l-adic realization.

Andreas Fischer, Arkya Chatterjee, Thomas Speck

We study the motility-induced phase separation of active particles driven through the interconversion of two chemical species controlled by ideal reservoirs (chemiostats). As a consequence, the propulsion speed is non-constant and depends on the actual inter-particle forces, enhancing the positive feedback between increased density and reduced motility that

Saeid Rostami, Alexander R Albrecht, Azzurra Volpi, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae

We report the first demonstration of solid-state optical refrigeration of a Ho-doped material. A 1 mol% Ho-doped Yttrium Lithium Fluoride (YLF) crystal is cooled by mid-IR laser radiation, and its external quantum efficiency and parasitic background absorption are evaluated. Using detailed temperature-dependent spectroscopic analysis the minimum achievable t

Christoph Hube, Besnik Fetahu

Biased language commonly occurs around topics which are of controversial nature, thus, stirring disagreement between the different involved parties of a discussion. This is due to the fact that for language and its use, specifically, the understanding and use of phrases, the stances are cohesive within the particular groups. However, such cohesiveness does n

Ernesto Mordecki, Paavo Salminen

We solve an optimal stopping problem where the underlying diffusion is Brownian motion on $\bf R$ with a positive drift changing at zero. It is assumed that the drift $μ_1$ on the negative side is smaller than the drift $μ_2$ on the positive side. The main observation is that if $μ_2-μ_1>1/2$ then there exists values of the discounting parameter for which it

Christian Eder, Gerhard Pfister, Adrian Popescu

In this paper we state and explain techniques useful for the computation of strong Gröbner and standard bases over Euclidean domains: First we investigate several strategies for creating the pair set using an idea by Lichtblau. Then we explain methods for avoiding coefficient growth using syzygies. We give an in-depth discussion on normal form computation re

Safwat Nassar, Raphael Yuster

For an oriented graph $G$, let $f(G)$ denote the maximum chromatic number of an acyclic subgraph of $G$. Let $f(n)$ be the smallest integer such that every oriented graph $G$ with chromatic number larger than $f(n)$ has $f(G) > n$. Let $g(n)$ be the smallest integer such that every tournament $G$ with more than $g(n)$ vertices has $f(G) > n$. It is straightf

Arnab Dasgupta, Sin Kyu Kang, Oleg Popov

In this work we demonstrate how Scotogenic model can arise naturally from an $SU(7)$ grand unified theory. Our model also includes a low scale Pati-Salam $SU(4)_c\times SU(2)_L\times U(1)_R$ symmetry which unifies quarks and leptons. $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry needed for the realization of Scotogenic scenario is a residual symmetry and not $ad$ $hoc$. A short f

Stefania Bellavia, Natasa Krejic, Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

This paper deals with the minimization of large sum of convex functions by Inexact Newton (IN) methods employing subsampled functions, gradients and Hessian approximations. The Conjugate Gradient method is used to compute the inexact Newton step and global convergence is enforced by a nonmonotone line search procedure. The aim is to obtain methods with affor

Jiri Krticka, Jiri Kubat, Iva Krtickova

In wind-powered X-ray binaries, the radiatively driven stellar wind from the primary may be inhibited by the X-ray irradiation. This creates the feedback that limits the X-ray luminosity of the compact secondary. Wind inhibition might be weakened by the effect of small-scale wind inhomogeneities (clumping) possibly affecting the limiting X-ray luminosity. We

Umberto Straccia

We present the state of the art in representing and reasoning with fuzzy knowledge in Semantic Web Languages such as triple languages RDF/RDFS, conceptual languages of the OWL 2 family and rule languages. We further show how one may generalise them to so-called annotation domains, that cover also e.g. temporal and provenance extensions.

Yizhu Chen, Jinyong Leng, Hu Xiao, Tianfu Yao

Kilowatt-level high efficiency all-fiberized Raman fiber amplifier based on pure passive fiber is proposed for the first time in this paper. The laser system is established on master oscillator power amplification configuration while a piece of graded-index passive fiber is utilized as stokes shifting as well as gain medium, which is entirely irrelevant to r

Yufang Hou

Previous work on bridging anaphora resolution (Poesio et al., 2004; Hou et al., 2013b) use syntactic preposition patterns to calculate word relatedness. However, such patterns only consider NPs' head nouns and hence do not fully capture the semantics of NPs. Recently, Hou (2018) created word embeddings (embeddings_PP) to capture associative similarity (i

Tom Bäckström

Recent speech and audio coding standards such as 3GPP Enhanced Voice Services match the foreseeable needs and requirements in transmission of speech and audio, when using current transmission infrastructure and applications. Trends in Internet-of-Things technology and development in personal digital assistants (PDAs) however begs us to consider future requir

Alexander Bruns, Genko T. Genov, Marcel Hain, Nikolay V. Vitanov

We experimentally demonstrate composite stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (CSTIRAP), which combines the concepts of composite pulse sequences and adiabatic passage. The technique is applied for population transfer in a rare-earth doped solid. We compare the performance of CSTIRAP with conventional single and repeated STIRAP, either in the resonant or the hi

N. Carjan, M. Rizea

The scission neutron kinetic energy spectrum is calculated for $^{236}U$ in the frame of the dynamical scission model. The bi-dimensional time dependent Schrödinger equation with time dependent potential is used to propagate each neutron wave function during the scission process which is supposed to last $1\times 10^{-22}$ sec. At the end, we separate the un

Eduard Kirr, Vivek Natarajan

In this paper, we propose a method of finding all coherent structures supported by a given nonlinear wave equation. It relies on enhancing the recent global bifurcation theory as developed by Dancer, Toland, Buffoni and others, by determining all the limit points of the coherent structure manifolds at the boundary of the Fredholm domain. Local bifurcation th

Gabriel Morgado, Bogdan Nowakowski, Annie Lemarchand

The sensitivity to perturbations of the Fisher and Kolmogorov, Petrovskii, Piskunov front is used to find a quantity revealing perturbations of diffusion in a concentrated solution of two chemical species with different diffusivities. The deterministic dynamics includes cross-diffusion terms due to the deviation from the dilution limit. The behaviors of the

Thanasis Bouganis, Salvatore Mercuri

In this work we use the Rankin-Selberg method to obtain results on the analytic properties of the standard $L$-function attached to vector valued Siegel modular forms. In particular we provide a detailed description of its possible poles and obtain a non-vanishing result of the twisted $L$-function beyond the usual range of absolute convergence. We remark th

Nicholas M. Katz, Antonio Rojas-León, Pham Huu Tiep

We first develop some basic facts about hypergeometric sheaves on the multiplicative group ${\mathbb G}_m$ in characteristic $p >0$. Certain of their Kummer pullbacks extend to irreducible local systems on the affine line in characteristic $p>0$. One of these, of rank $23$ in characteristic $p=3$, turns out to have the Conway group $\mathrm{Co}_2$, in its ir

M. Tarik Altuncu, Erik Mayer, Sophia N. Yaliraki, Mauricio Barahona

Electronic Healthcare records contain large volumes of unstructured data in different forms. Free text constitutes a large portion of such data, yet this source of richly detailed information often remains under-used in practice because of a lack of suitable methodologies to extract interpretable content in a timely manner. Here we apply network-theoretical

Artur Zielinski, Mateusz Cieslik, Michal Sobaszek, Robert Bogdanowicz

In this paper, we describe the modification of Nanoscale Impedance Microscopy (NIM), namely, a combination of contact-mode atomic force microscopy with local impedance measurements. The postulated approach is based on the application of multifrequency voltage perturbation instead of standard frequency-by-frequency analysis, which among others offers more tim

Abderrahim Arabi, Hacène Belbachir, Jean-Philippe Dubernard

In this paper, we enumerate two families of polycubes, the directed plateau polycubes and the plateau polycubes, with respect to the width and a new parameter, the Lateral Area. We give an explicit formula and the generating function for each of the two families of polycubes. Moreover, some asymptotic results about plateau polycubes are provided. We also est

Zhi-Cheng Wang, Yi Liu, Si-Qi Wu, Ye-Ting Shao

CsCa$_2$Fe$_4$As$_4$F$_2$ is a newly discovered iron-based superconductor with $T_\mathrm{c}\sim$ 30 K containing double Fe$_2$As$_2$ layers that are separated by insulating Ca$_2$F$_2$ spacer layers. Here we report the transport and magnetization measurements on CsCa$_2$Fe$_4$As$_4$F$_2$ single crystals grown for the first time using the self flux of CsAs.

Jessica De Silva, Brady Gales, Bryson Kagy, David Offner

Landau, Reid, and Yershov [A Fair Division Solution to the Problem of Redistricting, \textit{Social Choice and Welfare}, 2008] propose a protocol for drawing legislative districts based on a two player fair division process, where each player is entitled to draw the districts for a portion of the state. We call this the \textit{LRY protocol}. Landau and Su [

Denis Demidov

The paper presents AMGCL -- an opensource C++ library implementing the algebraic multigrid method (AMG) for solution of large sparse linear systems of equations, usually arising from discretization of partial differential equations on an unstructured grid. The library supports both shared and distributed memory computation, allows to utilize modern massively

Emiliano Torti

In this article we prove level raising for cuspidal eigenforms modulo prime powers (for odd primes) of weight $k\geq 2$ and arbitrary character, extending the result in weight two established by the work of Tsaknias and Wiese and generalizing (partially) Diamond-Ribet's celebrated level raising theorems.

Manoj K. Mridha, Pooria Hosseini, David Novoa, Philip St. J. Russell

Coherent ultraviolet (UV) light has many uses, for example in the study of molecular species relevant in biology and chemistry. Very few if any laser materials offer UV transparency along with damage-free operation at high photon energies and laser power. Here we report efficient generation of deep and vacuum UV light using hydrogen-filled hollow-core photon

O. A. Malafeyev, N. D. Redinskikh, S. A. Nemnyugin, I. D. Kolesin

Any large functioning system consists of equipment that needs to be repaired during its lifetime. The methods of mathematical programming are used to formalize the optimization problem of preventive equipment repair planning in this paper. The method is used to find the annual optimal plan of preventive equipment repair. The goal of such plan is the uniform

Xiao He, Francesco Alesiani, Ammar Shaker

Many real-world large-scale regression problems can be formulated as Multi-task Learning (MTL) problems with a massive number of tasks, as in retail and transportation domains. However, existing MTL methods still fail to offer both the generalization performance and the scalability for such problems. Scaling up MTL methods to problems with a tremendous numbe

Luis Manzanillas

The SoLid collaboration is currently operating a 1.6 tons neutrino detector near the Belgian BR2 reactor, with main goal the observation of the oscillation of electron antineutrinos to previously undetected flavor states. The highly segmented SoLid detector employs a compound scintillation technology based on PVT scintillator in combination with a $^{6}$LiF:

Eveline Legendre

An almost Kähler structure is {\it extremal} if the Hermitian scalar curvature is a Killing potential [29]. When the almost complex structure is integrable it coincides with extremal Kähler metric in the sense of Calabi [8]. We observe that the existence of an extremal {\it toric} almost Kähler structure of involutive type implies uniform K-stability and we

Amer Rasheed, Imtiaz Ali

This article presents the phase dynamics of an inline long Josephson junction in voltage state under the influence of constant external magnetic field. Fractional calculus approach is used to model the evolution of the phase difference between the macroscopic wave functions of the two superconductors across the junction. The governing non-linear partial diff

P. Chen, W. -W. Pai, Y. -H. Chan, V. Madhavan

Single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are excellent candidates for electronic applications beyond the graphene platform; many of them exhibit novel properties including charge density waves (CDWs) and magnetic ordering. CDWs in these single layers are generally a planar projection of the corresponding bulk CDWs because of the quasi-two-di

Aiqi Jiang, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Online review platforms are a popular way for users to post reviews by expressing their opinions towards a product or service, as well as they are valuable for other users and companies to find out the overall opinions of customers. These reviews tend to be accompanied by a rating, where the star rating has become the most common approach for users to give t

Yixing Guan, Jinyu Zhao, Yiqin Qiu, Zheng Zhang

Automated melodic phrase detection and segmentation is a classical task in content-based music information retrieval and also the key towards automated music structure analysis. However, traditional methods still cannot satisfy practical requirements. In this paper, we explore and adapt various neural network architectures to see if they can be generalized t

Yasuhiro Tamayama, Takuya Yoshimura

Local electromagnetic field enhancement in resonant metamaterials is useful for efficient generation of nonlinear phenomena; however, the field enhancement is suppressed by losses of nonlinear elements in metamaterials. For overcoming this issue, we investigate the nonlinear response of an electromagnetically induced transparency like metasurface loaded with

Haifeng Zhang, Zilong Guo, Han Cai, Chris Wang

With the rapid growth of the express industry, intelligent warehouses that employ autonomous robots for carrying parcels have been widely used to handle the vast express volume. For such warehouses, the warehouse layout design plays a key role in improving the transportation efficiency. However, this work is still done by human experts, which is expensive an

Donatella Donatelli, Konstantina Trivisa

We investigate the global existence of weak solutions to a free boundary problem governing the evolution of finitely extensible bead-spring chains in dilute polymers. We construct weak solutions of the two-phase model by performing the asymptotic limit as the adiabatic exponent $γ$ goes to $\infty$ for a macroscopic model which arises from the kinetic theory

Hao Xiong, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

Discourse coherence plays an important role in the translation of one text. However, the previous reported models most focus on improving performance over individual sentence while ignoring cross-sentence links and dependencies, which affects the coherence of the text. In this paper, we propose to use discourse context and reward to refine the translation qu

Gina Belmonte, Vincenzo Ciancia, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink

Spatial and spatio-temporal model checking techniques have a wide range of application domains, among which large scale distributed systems and signal and image analysis. We explore a new domain, namely (semi-)automatic contouring in Medical Imaging, introducing the tool VoxLogicA which merges the state-of-the-art library of computational imaging algorithms

Yoshihito Kazashi, Frances Y. Kuo, Ian H. Sloan

An existence result is presented for the worst-case error of lattice rules for high dimensional integration over the unit cube, in an unanchored weighted space of functions with square-integrable mixed first derivatives. Existing studies rely on random shifting of the lattice to simplify the analysis, whereas in this paper neither shifting nor any other form

Antoine Le Calvez, Luc Le Magoarou, Stéphane Paquelet

Together with millimiter waves (mmWaves), massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are key technological components of fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems. In such a context, geometric considerations show that the largely adopted plane wave model (PWM) of the channel potentially loses its validity. An alternative is to consider

Tetsuya Minakawa, Joji Nasu, Akihisa Koga

We study low-energy properties of spin-$S$ Kitaev models in an anisotropic limit. The effective form of a local conserved quantity is derived in the low-energy subspace. We find this is the same as that of $S=1/2$ case for the half-integer spins but shows a different form for the integer spins. Applying the perturbation theory to the anisotropic Kitaev model

Martin S. Weidl, Dan Winske, Christoph Niemann

We show that the Bell instability, which is widely considered potentially important for cosmic-ray acceleration, is the low-frequency limit of a gyroresonant interaction between the protons of the interstellar medium and shear-Alfvén waves. At large cosmic-ray current densities, its growth rate is therefore limited by the proton gyrofrequency, and two modes

Rodrigo Alonso, Jorge Martin Camalich, Susanne Westhoff

This article summarizes recent developments in $B\to D^{(\ast)}τν$ decays. We explain how to extract the tau lepton's production properties from the kinematics of its decay products. The focus is on hadronic tau decays, which are most sensitive to the tau polarizations. We present new results for effects of new physics in tau polarization observables and

Tianxing Jiang, Sangeeta Malhotra, Huan Yang, James E. Rhoads

We explore the relation between the star formation rate surface density ($Σ$SFR) and the interstellar gas pressure for nearby compact starburst galaxies. The sample consists of 17 green peas and 19 Lyman break analogs. Green peas are nearby analogs of Ly$α$ emitters at high redshift and Lyman break analogs are nearby analogs of Lyman break galaxies at high r

Amar Kumar Banerjee, Anirban Paul

The idea of $C^*$-algebra valued metric spaces was given by Z. Ma et al \cite{111} in 2014. Here we have studied the ideas of $I$-Cauchy and $I^*$-Cauchy sequences and their properties in such spaces and also we give the idea of $C^*$-algebra valued normed spaces.

Ivan S. Maksymov, Andrew D. Greentree

Nonlinear optical processes are vital for fields including telecommunications, signal processing, data storage, spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging. As an independent research area, nonlinear optics began with the invention of the laser, because practical sources of intense light needed to generate optical nonlinearities were not previously available. However

Soumya Sanyal, Janakiraman Balachandran, Naganand Yadati, Abhishek Kumar

Developing accurate, transferable and computationally inexpensive machine learning models can rapidly accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. Some of the major challenges involved in developing such models are, (i) limited availability of materials data as compared to other fields, (ii) lack of universal descriptor of materials to predict

Alexander Gribov

The task of finding the optimal compression of a polyline with straight-line segments and arcs is performed in many applications, such as polyline compression, noise filtering, and feature recognition. Optimal compression algorithms find the best solution using the dynamic programming approach, which requires a significant amount of arc fitting. This paper d

Wentao Wu, Jian Liu, Hong Qin

Electron collisions, described by stochastic differential equations (SDEs), were simulated using a second-order weak convergence algorithm. Using stochastic analysis, we constructed an SDE for energetic electrons in Lorentz plasma to incorporate the collisions with heavy static ions as well as background thermal electrons. Instead of focusing on the errors o

Cheng-Hua Bai, Dong-Yang Wang, Shou Zhang, Hong-Fu Wang

We investigate a hybrid system consisting of an atomic ensemble trapped inside a dissipative optomechanical cavity assisted with the perturbative oscillator-qubit coupling. It is shown that such a hybrid system is very suitable for generating stationary squeezing of the mirror motion in the long-time limit under the unresolved sideband regime. Based on the a

Shinji Saito, Biman Bagchi, Iwao Ohmine

Properties of water have been well elucidated for temperatures above $\sim$230 K and yet mysteries remain in the deeply supercooled region. By performing extensive molecular dynamics simulations on this supercooled region, we find that structural and dynamical instabilities are hidden in the experimentally inaccessible region between 235 K and 150 K. We find

Junzhou Zhao, Shuo Shang, Pinghui Wang, John C. S. Lui

Cardinality constrained submodular function maximization, which aims to select a subset of size at most $k$ to maximize a monotone submodular utility function, is the key in many data mining and machine learning applications such as data summarization and maximum coverage problems. When data is given as a stream, streaming submodular optimization (SSO) techn

Yan Xing, Lu Qi, Ji Cao, Dong-Yang Wang

We study the effects of the position of the passive and active cavities on the spontaneous parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking behavior in non-Hermitian coupled cavities array model. We analyze and discuss the energy eigenvalue spectrums and PT symmetry in the topologically trivial and nontrivial regimes under three different cases in detail, i.e., the passiv

Calin Iuliu Lazaroiu, Mehdi Tavakol

We summarize the main results of our investigation of B-type topological Landau-Ginzburg models whose target is an arbitrary open Riemann surface. Such a Riemann surface need not be affine algebraic and in particular it may have infinite genus or an infinite number of Freudenthal ends. Under mild conditions on the Landau-Ginzburg superpotential, we give a co

Emma M. Keizer, Bjorn Bastian, Robert W. Smith, Ramon Grima

It is well known that the kinetics of an intracellular biochemical network is stochastic. This is due to intrinsic noise arising from the random timing of biochemical reactions in the network as well as due to extrinsic noise stemming from the interaction of unknown molecular components with the network and from the cell's changing environment. While the

Yizheng Liao, Yang Weng, Chin-Woo Tan, Ram Rajagopal

The growing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in urban distribution grids raises various reliability issues due to DER's uncertain and complex behaviors. With a large-scale DER penetration, traditional outage detection methods, which rely on customers making phone calls and smart meters' "last gasp" signals, will have limited

Dong-Yang Wang, Cheng-Hua Bai, Shutian Liu, Shou Zhang

In the usual optomechanical cooling, even if the system has no thermal component, it still has a quantum limit-known as the quantum backaction limit (QBL)-on the minimum phonon number related to shot noise. By studying the side-band cooling regime in optomechanical system (OMS), we find that the cooling can be improved significantly when the frequency modula

Yoshikazu Suzumura

Using a tight-binding model, we theoretically examine the anisotropic conductivity of the nodal line semimetal of a three-dimensional Dirac electron in a single-component molecular conductor [Pd(dddt)$_2$], which consists of four molecules with HOMO and LUMO orbitals per unit cell. The conductivity shows an anisotropy given by $σ_y > σ_x > σ_z$ in accordance

Shinji Saito, Biman Bagchi

Frequency dependent specific heat, introduced by Grest and Nagel, offers valuable insight into the vitrification of supercooled liquid. We calculate this quantity and other thermodynamic properties of supercooled liquid water by varying temperature and density across the "no man's land" all the way to the formation of amorphous ice. The calculati

Zhihui Zhu, Xiao Li, Kai Liu, Qiuwei Li

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), a special but important class of the general NMF, is demonstrated to be useful for data analysis and in particular for various clustering tasks. Unfortunately, designing fast algorithms for Symmetric NMF is not as easy as for the nonsymmetric counterpart, the latter admitting the splitting property that allow

E. M. Babalic, D. Doryn, C. I. Lazaroiu, M. Tavakol

We summarize the description of the open-closed TFT datum for B-type Landau-Ginzburg models with Stein manifold targets and discuss various constructions which lead to large classes of examples of such models.

Chiang-Mei Chen, Jian-Liang Liu, James M. Nester

The specification of energy for gravitating systems has been an unsettled issue since Einstein proposed his pseudotensor. It is now understood that energy-momentum is \emph{quasi-local} (associated with a closed 2-surface). Here we consider quasi-local proposals (including pseudotensors) in the Lagrangian-Noether-Hamiltonian formulations. There are two ambig