July 2019 arXiv papers — page 12

Claude Crépeau, Nan Yang

The foundation of zero-knowledge is the simulator: a weak machine capable of pretending to be a weak verifier talking with all-powerful provers. To achieve this, simulators need some kind of advantage such as the knowledge of a trapdoor. In existing zero-knowledge multi-prover protocols, this advantage is essentially signalling, something that the provers ar

Federico Corberi, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Andrea Gambassi

We study the dynamics of the fluctuations of the variance $s$ of the order parameter of the Gaussian model, following a temperature quench of the thermal bath. At each time $t$, there is a critical value $s_c(t)$ of $s$ such that fluctuations with $s>s_c(t)$ are realized by condensed configurations of the systems, i.e., a single degree of freedom contributes

Tom Sercu, Neil Mallinar

We introduce Multi-Frame Cross-Entropy training (MFCE) for convolutional neural network acoustic models. Recognizing that similar to RNNs, CNNs are in nature sequence models that take variable length inputs, we propose to take as input to the CNN a part of an utterance long enough that multiple labels are predicted at once, therefore getting cross-entropy lo

Stefan Reissl, Robert Brauer, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Pellegrini

We present an updated version of POLARIS, a well established code designated for dust polarisation and line radiative transfer (RT) in arbitrary astrophysical environments. We extend the already available capabilities with a synchrotron feature for polarised emission. Here, we combine state-of-the-art solutions of the synchrotron RT coefficients with numeric

Anastasios Dimas, Dionysios S. Kalogerias, Athina P. Petropulu

While millimeter wave (mmWave) communications promise high data rates, their sensitivity to blockage and severe signal attenuation presents challenges in their deployment in urban settings. To overcome these effects, we consider a distributed cooperative beamforming system, which relies on static relays deployed in clusters with similar channel characteristi

Arno Botha, Conrad Beyers, Pieter de Villiers

A new procedure is presented for the objective comparison and evaluation of default definitions. This allows the lender to find a default threshold at which the financial loss of a loan portfolio is minimised, in accordance with Basel II. Alternative delinquency measures, other than simply measuring payments in arrears, can also be evaluated using this optim

Farid Bouya, Bogdan Oporowski

Seymour's Second-Neighborhood Conjecture states that every directed graph whose underlying graph is simple has at least one vertex $v$ such that the number of vertices of out-distance $2$ from $v$ is at least as large as the number of vertices of out-distance $1$ from it. We present alternative statements of the conjecture in the language of linear algebra.

Messaoud Ahmed Ouameur, Daniel Massicotte

Deep learning is playing an instrumental role in the design of the next generation of communication systems. In this letter, we address the massive MIMO interconnect's bandwidth constraint relaxation using autoencoders. The autoencoder is trained to learn the received signal structure so that a low dimension latent variable is transferred as opposed to the o

Conor A. Nixon, Todd M. Ansty, Nicholas A. Lombardo, Gordon L. Bjoraker

From 2004 to 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, completing 127 close flybys of its largest moon, Titan. Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS), one of 12 instruments carried on board, profiled Titan in the thermal infrared (7-1000 microns) throughout the entire 13-year mission. CIRS observed on both targeted encounters (flybys) and more d

Amol B. Rahane, Pinaki Saha, N. Sukumar, Vijay Kumar

Using density functional theory calculations, we study doping of a Cr, Mo, and W atom in boron clusters in the size range of 18-24 atoms and report the finding of metal atom encapsulated fullerene-like cage structures with 20 to 24 boron atoms in contrast to a fullerene-like structure of pure boron with 40 atoms. Our results show that bicapped drum-shaped st

Rachael A. Mansbach, Inga V. Leus, Jitender Mehla, Cesar A. Lopez

Gram-negative bacteria are a serious health concern due to the strong multidrug resistance that they display, partly due to the presence of a permeability barrier comprising two membranes with active efflux. New approaches are urgently needed to design antibiotics effective against these pathogens. In this work, we present a novel topological fragment-based

Ruochen Lu, Yansong Yang, Ming-Huang Li, Michael Breen

We present the first group of acoustic delay lines (ADLs) at 5 GHz, using the first-order antisymmetric (A1) mode in Z-cut lithium niobate thin films. The demonstrated ADLs significantly surpass the operation frequency of the previous works with similar feature sizes, because of its simultaneously fast phase velocity, large coupling coefficient, and low-loss

M. Junaid Amin, Sabine Petry, Haw Yang, Joshua W. Shaevitz

Multifocal microscopy (MFM) offers high-speed three-dimensional imaging through the simultaneous image capture from multiple focal planes. Conventional MFM systems use a fabricated grating in the emission path for a single emission wavelength band and one set of focal plane separations. While a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) can add more flexibility, the rela

Erhan Bilal

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been the dominant optimization method for training deep neural networks due to its many desirable properties. One of the more remarkable and least understood quality of SGD is that it generalizes relatively well on unseen data even when the neural network has millions of parameters. We hypothesize that in certain cases i

R. E. F. Silva, Javier del Pino, Francisco J. García-Vidal, Johannes Feist

Conventional approaches to probing ultrafast molecular dynamics rely on the use of synchronized laser pulses with a well-defined time delay. Typically, a pump pulse excites a wavepacket in the molecule. A subsequent probe pulse can then dissociates or ionizes the molecule, and measurement of the molecular fragments provides information about where the wavepa

Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias, Pablo M. Poggi, Poul S. Jessen, Ivan H. Deutsch

We study a method to simulate quantum many-body dynamics of spin ensembles using measurement-based feedback. By performing a weak collective measurement on a large ensemble of two-level quantum systems and applying global rotations conditioned on the measurement outcome, one can simulate the dynamics of a mean-field quantum kicked top, a standard paradigm of

Victor M. Calo, Alexandre Ern, Ignacio Muga, Sergio Rojas

We design and analyze a new adaptive stabilized finite element method. We construct a discrete approximation of the solution in a continuous trial space by minimizing the residual measured in a dual norm of a discontinuous test space that has inf-sup stability. We formulate this residual minimization as a stable saddle-point problem which delivers a stabiliz

Francesco Romeo

We demonstrate the existence of localized states in close vicinity of a linear defect in graphene. These states have insulating or conducting character. Insulating states form a flat band, while conducting states present a slowdown of the group velocity which is not originated by many-body interactions and it is controlled by the interface properties. For ap

Song He, Hongfei Shu

In this paper, we regard the $T\bar{T}$/$J\bar{T}$-deformed CFTs as perturbation theories and calculate the first order correction of the correlation functions due to the $T\bar{T}$/$J\bar{T}$-deformation. As applications, we study the R\'enyi entanglement entropy of excited state in the $T\bar{T}$/$J\bar{T}$-deformed two-dimensional CFTs. We find, up to the

Rahul Kumar Thakur, Bhupendra Nath Tiwari, Rahul Nigam

In this paper, we investigate the stability properties of soft gluons in SIBYLL 2.1 with reference to its original version 1.7 that corresponds to hadronic hard interactions. In order to investigate the stability structures, we classify the regions of the gluon density fluctuations in its double leading logarithmic approximation and its equivalent descriptio

Fan Yang, Stephen F. Taylor, Stephen D. Edkins, Johanna Palmstrom

The SQCRAMscope is a recently realized Scanning Quantum CRyogenic Atom Microscope that utilizes an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to measure magnetic fields emanating from solid-state samples. The quantum sensor does so with unprecedented DC sensitivity at micron resolution from room-to-cryogenic temperatures. An additional advantage of the SQCRAMscope is t

Abootaleb Shirvani, Svetlozar T. Rachev, Frank J. Fabozzi

Subordination is an often used stochastic process in modeling asset prices. Subordinated Levy price processes and local volatility price processes are now the main tools in modern dynamic asset pricing theory. In this paper, we introduce the theory of multiple internally embedded financial time-clocks motivated by behavioral finance. To be consistent with dy

Mostafa Amini

Let R be a ring. In this paper, Gorenstein (n,d)-flat and (n,d)-Gorenstein (n,d)-injective modules and some of their basic properties are studied. Moreover, some characterizations of rings over Gorenstein (n,d)-flat and (n,d)-Gorenstein (n,d)-injective modules are given. Also, some known results can be obtained as corollaries

Shouvik Roy Choudhury, Steen Hannestad

In this work we update the bounds on $\sum m_{\nu}$ from latest publicly available cosmological data and likelihoods using Bayesian analysis, while explicitly considering particular neutrino mass hierarchies. In the minimal $\Lambda\textrm{CDM}+\sum m_{\nu}$ model with most recent CMB data from Planck 2018 TT,TE,EE, lowE, and lensing; and BAO data from BOSS

Jose M. P. Carmelo, Tilen Cadez, David K. Campbell, Michael Sing

The electronic dispersions of the quasi-one-dimensional organic conductor TTF-TCNQ are studied by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) with higher angular resolution and accordingly smaller step width than in previous studies. Our experimental results suggest that a refinement of the single-band 1D Hubbard model that includes finite-range intera

Zhicheng Cui, Bradley A Fritz, Christopher R King, Michael S Avidan

Logistic regression (LR) is widely used in clinical prediction because it is simple to deploy and easy to interpret. Nevertheless, being a linear model, LR has limited expressive capability and often has unsatisfactory performance. Generalized additive models (GAMs) extend the linear model with transformations of input features, though feature interaction is

Michael D Seifert

In conventional gravitational physics, the so-called "bootstrap procedure" can be used to extrapolate from a linear model of a rank-2 tensor to a full non-linear theory of gravity (i.e., general relativity) via a coupling to the stress-energy of the model. In this work, I extend this procedure to a "Lorentz-violating" gravitational model, in which the linear

F. Skara, L. Perivolaropoulos

The existence of the cosmological particle horizon as the maximum measurable length $l_{max}$ in the universe leads to a generalization of the quantum uncertainty principle (GUP) to the form $\Delta x \Delta p \geq \frac{\hbar}{2}\frac{1}{1-\alpha\Delta x^2} $, where $\alpha\equiv l_{max}^{-2}$. The effects of this GUP on simple quantum mechanical systems ha

Yu Rong, Thomas H. Puzia, Paul Eigenthaler, Yasna Ordenes-Briceno

Using the photometric data from the Next Generation Fornax Survey, we find a significant radial alignment signal among the Fornax dwarf galaxies. For the first time, we report that the radial alignment signal of nucleated dwarfs is stronger than that of non-nucleated ones at 2.4$\sigma$ confidence level, and the dwarfs located in the outer region ($R>R_{\rm{

M. Čemeljić, W. Kluźniak, V. Parthasarathy

To obtain a simple description of a geometrically thin magnetic accretion disk, we apply the method of asymptotic expansion. For the first time we write a full set of stationary asymptotic approximation equations of a thin magnetic accretion disk. As the obtained equations cannot be solved without knowledge of the solutions at the disk surface, we combine th

Jarrett L. Lancaster, Joseph P. Godoy

The existence of quasi-long range order is demonstrated in nonequilibrium steady states in isotropic $XY$ spin chains including of two types of additional terms that each generate a gap in the energy spectrum. The system is driven out of equilibrium by initializing a domain-wall magnetization profile through application of an external magnetic field and swit

Fande Kong

The multigroup neutron transport criticality calculations using modern supercomputers have been widely employed in a nuclear reactor analysis for studying whether or not a system is self-sustaining. However, the design and development of efficient parallel algorithms for the transport criticality calculations is challenging especially when the number of proc

Peter D. Hoff

This article develops $p$-values for evaluating means of normal populations that make use of indirect or prior information. A $p$-value of this type is based on a biased test statistic that is optimal on average with respect to a probability distribution that encodes indirect information about the mean parameter, resulting in a smaller $p$-value if the indir

Mehroz Iqbal, Jameela Fatheema, Malika Rani, Ren-Kui Zheng

This study reports first synthesis of MXene-derived co-existing phases. New family of two-dimensional materials such as Ti3C2 namely MXene, having transition metal forming hexagonal structure with carbon atoms have attracted tremendous interest now a days. We have reported structural, optical and magnetic properties of undoped and La-doped Ti3C2Tx MXene synt

Mathieu Florence, Giancarlo Lucchini Arteche

We extend to the context of algebraic groups a classic result on extensions of abstract groups relating the set of isomorphism classes of extensions of $G$ by $H$ with that of extensions of $G$ by the center $Z$ of $H$. The proof should be easily generalizable to other contexts. We also study the subset of classes of split extensions and give a quick applica

William H. Guss, Brandon Houghton, Nicholay Topin, Phillip Wang

The sample inefficiency of standard deep reinforcement learning methods precludes their application to many real-world problems. Methods which leverage human demonstrations require fewer samples but have been researched less. As demonstrated in the computer vision and natural language processing communities, large-scale datasets have the capacity to facilita

Rikkert Frederix, Davide Pagani, Ioannis Tsinikos

In this work we calculate and provide precise predictions for the signature that is typically exploited at the LHC for the measurement of t-channel single-top production: 1 lepton, 1 light jet, 1 b-jet, missing-ET and no additional jets or leptons. We apply the cuts that define the fiducial region and we take into account all the contributions to this signat

Lilikoi J. Latimer, Amy E. Reines, Richard M. Plotkin, Thomas D. Russell

Nearby blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies are arguably our best local analogues of galaxies in the earlier Universe that may host relics of black hole (BH) seeds. Here we present high-resolution Chandra X-ray Observatory and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations of five nearby BCDs with stellar masses of less than the Small Magellanic Cloud ($M_\

Renato M. Fonseca

Until recently little was known about the high-dimensional operators of the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). However, in the past few years the number of these operators has been counted up to mass dimension 15 using techniques involving the Hilbert series. In this work I will show how to perform the same counting with a different method. This

Philip Taranto, Felix A. Pollock, Kavan Modi

Generic non-Markovian quantum processes have infinitely long memory, implying an exact description that grows exponentially in complexity with observation time. Here, we present a finite memory ansatz that approximates (or recovers) the true process with errors bounded by the strength of the non-Markovian memory. The introduced memory strength is an operatio

June Nahmgoong

We study the superconformal index of 6d SCFTs from their 't Hooft anomalies. In the Cardy limit where the angular momenta on $S^5$ are large, we show that the leading free energy, as well as a few subleading corrections, can be computed from the 6d anomaly polynomials. Our large $N$ free energy accounts for the entropy of supersymmetric black holes in dual $

M. E. J. Newman, George T. Cantwell, Jean-Gabriel Young

The information theoretic quantity known as mutual information finds wide use in classification and community detection analyses to compare two classifications of the same set of objects into groups. In the context of classification algorithms, for instance, it is often used to compare discovered classes to known ground truth and hence to quantify algorithm

Krisztián Vida, Katalin Oláh, Zsolt Kővári, Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

We analyze the light curve of the M5.5 dwarf Proxima Centauri obtained by the TESS in Sectors 11 and 12. In the $\approx 50$ day-long light curve we identified and analyzed 72 flare events. The flare rate was 1.49 events per day, in total, 7.2% of the data was classified as flaring. The estimated flare energies were in the order of $10^{30}-10^{32}$ ergs in

Simone Notarnicola, Mario Collura, Simone Montangero

We show how to implement a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of an Abelian (1+1)-D lattice gauge theory. The implementation locally codifies the degrees of freedom of a $\mathbf{Z}_3$ gauge field, once the matter field is integrated out by means of the Gauss' local symmetries. The quantum simulator scheme is based on curren

Marcos Jardim, Antony Maciocia

We consider Bridgeland stability conditions for three-folds conjectured by Bayer-Macr\`i-Toda in the case of Picard rank one. We study the differential geometry of numerical walls, characterizing when they are bounded, discussing possible intersections, and showing that they are essentially regular. Next, we prove that walls within a certain region of the up

Michael Pretko, Zhengzheng Zhai, Leo Radzihovsky

We demonstrate several explicit duality mappings between elasticity of two-dimensional crystals and fracton tensor gauge theories, expanding on recent works by two of the present authors. We begin by dualizing the quantum elasticity theory of an ordinary commensurate crystal, which maps directly onto a fracton tensor gauge theory, in a natural tensor analogu

Manasvi Lingam, Abraham Loeb

Photosynthesis offers a convenient means of sustaining biospheres. We quantify the constraints for photosynthesis to be functional on the permanent nightside of tidally locked rocky exoplanets via reflected light from their exomoons. We show that the exomoons must be at least half the size of Earth's moon in order for conventional oxygenic photosynthesis to

Lia Medeiros, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Özel

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is taking the first images of black holes resolved at horizon scales to measure their shadows and probe accretion physics. A promising avenue for testing the hypothesis that astrophysical black holes are described by the Kerr solution to Einstein's equations is to compare the size and shape of the shadow a black hole casts o

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Adolfo del Campo

We formulate limits to perception under continuous quantum measurements by comparing the quantum states assigned by agents that have partial access to measurement outcomes. To this end, we provide bounds on the trace distance and the relative entropy between the assigned state and the actual state of the system. These bounds are expressed solely in terms of

Tassos Fragos, Jeff J. Andrews, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Georges Meynet

Over forty years of research suggests that the common envelope phase, in which an evolved star engulfs its companion upon expansion, is the critical evolutionary stage forming short-period, compact-object binary systems, such as coalescing double compact objects, X-ray binaries, and cataclysmic variables. In this work, we adapt the one-dimensional hydrodynam

Bo Yang, Ying-Hai Wu, Zlatko Papic

Topological phases of matter are distinguished by topological invariants, such as Chern numbers and topological spins, that quantize their response to electromagnetic currents and changes of ambient geometry. Intriguingly, in the $\nu=2/5$ fractional quantum Hall effect, prominent theoretical approaches -- the composite fermion theory and conformal field the

Susan Gardner, Xinshuai Yan

Scalars that carry lepton number can help mediate would-be lepton-number-violating processes, such as neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay or lepton-scattering-mediated nucleon-antinucleon conversion. Here we show that such new scalars can also solve the anomaly in precision determinations of the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ from atom interferometry and fro

Aaron Chew, David F. Mross, Jason Alicea

Time crystals form when arbitrary physical states of a periodically driven system spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce one-dimensional time-crystalline topological superconductors, for which time-translation symmetry breaking and topological physics intertwine---yielding anomalous Floquet Majorana modes that are not possible i

Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song

Goos-Hanchen (GH) and Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts are lateral and transverse displacements of a wavepacket reflecting off a surface. A dramatic real-space manifestation of wavepacket phases, they have traditionally been analyzed in a model dependent fashion. Here we argue that GH and IF shifts admit a general geometrical description and arise from a gauge inv

Andras Szabo, Roderich Moessner, Bitan Roy

Recently, the notion of topological phases of matter has been extended to higher-order incarnations, supporting gapless modes on even lower dimensional boundaries, such as corners and hinges. We here identify a collection of cubic spin-3/2 fermions with biquadratic touching of Kramers degenerate valence and conduction bands as a platform to strain-engineer h

Laura Jennings, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Elizabeth Pinel

This project examined perceptions of the vegan lifestyle using surveys and social media to explore barriers to choosing veganism. A survey of 510 individuals indicated that non-vegans did not believe veganism was as healthy or difficult as vegans. In a second analysis, Instagram posts using #vegan suggest content is aimed primarily at the female vegan commun

Lei Xiao, Tianshu Deng, Kunkun Wang, Gaoyan Zhu

Bulk-boundary correspondence, a central principle in topological matter relating bulk topological invariants to edge states, breaks down in a generic class of non-Hermitian systems that have so far eluded experimental effort. Here we theoretically predict and experimentally observe non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence, a fundamental generalization of t

N. Sanchis-Gual, F. Di Giovanni, M. Zilhão, C. Herdeiro

We perform numerical evolutions of the fully non-linear Einstein-(complex, massive)Klein-Gordon and Einstein-(complex)Proca systems, to assess the formation and stability of spinning bosonic stars. In the scalar/vector case these are known as boson/Proca stars. Firstly, we consider the formation scenario. Starting with constraint-obeying initial data, descri

Kyle Kremer, Claire S. Ye, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez

As self-gravitating systems, dense star clusters exhibit a natural diffusion of energy from their innermost to outermost regions, which leads to a slow and steady contraction of the core until it ultimately collapses under gravity. However, in spite of the natural tendency toward so-called "core collapse," the globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way exhibit

Evgeni Grishin, Dimitri Veras

The discovery of the intact minor planet embedded in the debris disc orbiting SDSS J1228+1040 raises questions about the dynamical history of the system. Further, the recent passage of the potentially interstellar object 1I/'Oumuamua within the solar system has re-ignited interest in minor body flux through exoplanetary systems. Here, we utilize the new anal

Alberto Mangiagli, Matteo Bonetti, Alberto Sesana, Monica Colpi

In current stellar evolutionary models, the occurrence of pair instability supernovae implies the lack of stellar black holes (BHs) with masses between about $[60, \, 120] \, \rm{M}_\odot$, resulting in the presence of an upper mass gap in the BH mass distribution. In this Letter, we develop a fiducial model describing BHs beyond the pair instability gap, by

Pietro Benetti Genolini, Paul Richmond

In this note, we define a holographic dual to four-dimensional superconformal field theories formulated on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds equipped with a Killing vector. Moreover, assuming smoothness of the bulk solution, we study the variation of the holographically renormalized supergravity action in the class of metrics on the boundary four-manifold with

D. Kleiner, B. S. Koribalski, P. Serra, M. T. Whiting

We present a Wide-field ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) study of the nearby ($v_{\rm sys}$ = 915 km s$^{-1}$) spiral galaxy IC 5201 using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). IC 5201 is a blue, barred spiral galaxy that follows the known scaling relations between stellar mass, SFR, HI mass and diameter. We create a fou

Cloves G. Rodrigues, Carlos A. B. Silva, Jose Galvao Ramos, Roberto Luzzi

Thermal transport in classical fluids is analyzed in terms of a Higher-Order Generalized Hydrodynamics (or Mesoscopic Hydro-Thermodynamics), that is, depending on the evolution of the energy density and its fluxes of all orders. It is derived in terms of a Kinetic Theory based on the Non-Equilibrium Statistical Ensemble Formalism. The general system of coupl

Koji Umemoto

We show that the entanglement wedge cross section (EWCS) can become larger than the quantum entanglement measures such as the entanglement of formation in the AdS/CFT correspondence. We then discuss a series of holographic duals to the optimized correlation measures, finding a novel geometrical measure of correlation, the \textit{entanglement wedge mutual in

Philipp Böer, Ahmet Kokulu, Jan-Niklas Toelstede, Danny van Dyk

We revisit the decay $\Lambda_b^0\to \Lambda_c^+ \ell^-\bar\nu$ ($\ell = e,\mu,\tau$) with a subsequent two-body decay $\Lambda_c^+ \to \Lambda^0 \pi^+$ in the Standard Model and in generic New Physics models. The decay's joint four-differential angular distribution can be expressed in terms of ten angular observables, assuming negligible polarization of the

Zhituo Wang

In this paper we study the low temperature ($T\rightarrow 0$) behaviors of the weakly interacting Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice with a bare chemical potential, which takes values in a small neighborhood of the renormalized chemical potential $\mu$, which is fixed to be $1$. We prove that the two-point Schwinger's function is an analytic function of

Christopher Triola, Jorge Cayao, Annica M. Black-Schaffer

In this article we review recent progress in the understanding of multiband superconductivity and its relationship to odd-frequency pairing. We begin our discussion by reviewing the emergence of odd-frequency pairing in a simple two-band model, providing a brief pedagogical overview of the formalism. We then examine several examples of multiband superconduct

Supriya Pan, Weiqiang Yang, Eleonora Di Valentino, Arman Shafieloo

Consistent observations indicate that some of the important cosmological parameters measured through the local observations are in huge tension with their measurements from the global observations (within the minimal $\Lambda$CDM cosmology). The tensions in those cosmological parameters have been found to be either weakened or reconciled with the introductio

N. A. Carella

The recent technique for estimating lower bounds of the prime counting function $\pi(x)=#\{p \leq x: p\text{ prime}\}$ by means of the irrationality measures $\mu(\zeta(s)) \geq 2$ of special values of the zeta function claims that $\pi(x) \gg \log \log x/\log \log \log x$. This note improves the lower bound to $\pi(x) \gg \log x$, and extends the analysis t

Cheng-An Chen, Chen-Lung Hung

We experimentally study universal nonequilibrium dynamics of two-dimensional atomic Bose gases quenched from repulsive to attractive interactions. We observe the manifestation of modulational instability that, instead of causing collapse, fragments a large two-dimensional superfluid into multiple wave packets universally around a threshold atom number necess

Wei Yan

BRICKxAR is a novel Augmented Reality (AR) instruction method for construction toys such as LEGO. With BRICKxAR, physical LEGO construction is guided by virtual bricks. Compared with the state-of-the-art, accuracy of the virtual - physical model alignment is significantly improved through a new design of marker-based registration, which can achieve an averag

Isaac Harris, Christopher J. Ciccarino, Johannes Flick, Dirk R. Englund

Color centers in diamond have emerged as leading solid-state artificial atoms for a range of quantum technologies, from quantum sensing to quantum networks. Concerted research activities are now underway to identify new color centers that combine stable spin and optical properties of the nitrogen vacancy (NV$^-$) with the spectral stability of the silicon va

Kuldeep Singh, Indranil Chattopadhyay

We study relativistic magnetized outflows using relativistic equation of state having variable adiabatic index ($\Gamma$) and composition parameter $(\xi)$. We study the outflow in special relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic regime, from sub-Alfv\'enic to super-fast domain. We showed that, after the solution crosses the fast point, magnetic field collimates th

Wuchen Li

We prove a one-parameter family of diffusion hypercontractivity and present the associated Log-Sobolev, Poincare and Talagrand inequalities. A mean-field type Bakry-Emery iterative calculus and volume measure based integration formula (Yano's formula) are presented. Our results are based on the interpolation among divergence functional, generalized diffusion

Dylan Cashman, Genevieve Patterson, Abigail Mosca, Nathan Watts

We present RNNbow, an interactive tool for visualizing the gradient flow during backpropagation training in recurrent neural networks. RNNbow is a web application that displays the relative gradient contributions from Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) cells in a neighborhood of an element of a sequence. We describe the calculation of backpropagation through tim

Maysam Maysami Sadr

The pseudo-amenability of Brandt Banach semigroup algebras is considered.

Shuo Li

The notion of palindromic length of a finite word, as well as an infinite word, was first introduced by Frid, Puzynina and Zamboni\cite{FRID2013737}. They conjectured that if the palindromic length of an infinite word is bounded, then this sequence is eventually periodic. In this article, we give a formal expression of the palindromic length of Thue-Morse se

Noeloikeau Charlot, Daniel Canaday, Andrew Pomerance, Daniel J. Gauthier

We introduce a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) based on an ultra-fast chaotic network known as a Hybrid Boolean Network (HBN) implemented on a field programmable gate array. The network, consisting of $N$ coupled asynchronous logic gates displaying dynamics on the sub-nanosecond time scale, acts as a `digital fingerprint' by amplifying small manufacturi

M. A. Anacleto, F. A. Brito, J. A. V. Campos, E. Passos

In this paper we focus on the partial wave method with the aim of exploring the scattering of massless scalar waves due to the noncommutative Schwarzschild black hole via Lorentzian smeared mass distribution. We determine the phase shift analytically in low-frequency limit and we show that the scattering and absorption cross section is modified. Specially, w

Felix Ringer, Bo-Wen Xiao, Feng Yuan

We investigate the effect of PT-broadening on jet substructure observables in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. As an example, we focus on the opening angle of the two branches that satisfy the soft drop grooming condition in a highly energetic jet. The medium modification of the angular distribution can provide important information on the jet transport prop

Yifei Guan, Ravi Sankar Vaddi, Alberto Aliseda, Igor Novosselov

An electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow in a point-to-ring corona configuration is investigated experimentally, analytically and via a multiphysics numerical model. The interaction between the accelerated ions and the neutral gas molecules is modeled as an external body force in the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE). The gas flow characteristics are solved from conserv

Zi-Yu Shi, Hao Tang, Zhen Feng, Yao Wang

Hitting the exit node from the entrance node faster on a graph is one of the properties that quantum walk algorithms can take advantage of to outperform classical random walk algorithms. Especially, continuous-time quantum walks on central-random glued binary trees have been investigated in theories extensively for their exponentially faster hitting speed ov

Maria A. Skugoreva, Alexey V. Toporensky

We consider the cosmological evolution of a flat anisotropic Universe in $f(T)$ gravity in the presence of a perfect fluid. It is shown that the matter content of the Universe has a significant impact of the nature of a cosmological singularity in the model studied. Depending on the parameters of the $f(T)$ function and the equation of state of the perfect f

Chaozhen Wei, Luchan Zhang, Jian Han, David J. Srolovitz

The microstructure of polycrystalline materials consists of networks of grain boundaries (GBs) and triple junctions (TJs), along which three GBs meet. The evolution of such microstructures may be driven by surface tension (capillarity), applied stresses, or other means that lead to a jump in chemical potential across the GBs. Here, we develop a model for the

Andrew Cook, Bappaditya Mandal, Donna Berry, Matthew Johnson

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to insufficient or definition error(s) in the ethics approval protocol. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) impact the cognitive, social, communicative and behavioral abilities of an individual. The development of new clinical decision support systems is of importance in reducing the delay between presentation of

Niclas Kruff, Jaume Llibre, Chara Pantazi, Sebastian Walcher

We discuss criteria for the nonexistence, existence and computation of invariant algebraic surfaces for three-dimensional complex polynomial vector fields, thus transferring a classical problem of Poincar\'e from dimension two to dimension three. Such surfaces are zero sets of certain polynomials which we call semi-invariants of the vector fields. The main p

A. F. Santos, Faqir C. Khanna

A non-Abelian gauge theory describes the strong interactions among particles with the commutator of generators are non-zero. An $SU(3)$ gauge theory describes the interactions that lead to nuclear forces among particles. The Lagrangian density refers to fermions with colour and flavour and the gauge field quanta implying gluons. The gauge theory is treated a

Floyd L. Williams

Using a resonance nonlinear Schrodinger equation as a bridge,we explore a direct connection of cold plasma physics to two-dimensional black holes.Namely,we compute and diagonalize a metric attached to the propagation of magneto-acoustic waves in a cold plasma subject to a transverse magnetic field,and we construct an explicit change of variables by which thi

Ingo Runkel

A string-net model associates a vector space to a surface in terms of graphs decorated by objects and morphisms of a pivotal fusion category modulo local relations. String-net models are usually considered for spherical fusion categories, and in this case the vector spaces agree with the state spaces of the corresponding Turaev-Viro topological quantum field

Ángeles Moliné, Jascha A. Schewtschenko, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella

One possible and natural derivation from the collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) standard cosmological framework is the assumption of the existence of interactions between dark matter (DM) and photons or neutrinos. Such possible interacting dark matter (IDM) model would imply a suppression of small-scale structures due to a large collisional damping effect,

Walter Strauss, Yilun Wu

A rotating star may be modeled as a continuous system of particles attracted to each other by gravity and with a given total mass and prescribed angular velocity. Mathematically this leads to the Euler-Poisson system. A white dwarf star is modeled by a very particular, and rather delicate, equation of state for the pressure as a function of the density. We p

Robert Lunde, Purnamrita Sarkar

We establish a general theory for subsampling network data generated by the sparse graphon model. In contrast to previous work for networks, we demonstrate validity under minimal assumptions; the main requirement is weak convergence of the functional of interest. We study the properties of two procedures: vertex subsampling and $p$-subsampling. For the first

Jianshen Hu, Fan Wu, Lianyi He, Xia-Ji Liu

We develop an effective field theory to describe the superfluid pairing in strongly interacting fermions with arbitrary short-range attractions, by extending Kaplan's idea of coupling fermions to a fictitious boson state in Nucl. Phys. B \textbf{494}, 471 (1997). This boson field is assigned with unconventional kinetic term to recover the exact scattering ph

J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, S. Archambault, J. J. Beatty

RNO is the mid-scale discovery instrument designed to make the first observation of neutrinos from the cosmos at extreme energies, with sensitivity well beyond current instrument capabilities. This new observatory will be the largest ground-based neutrino telescope to date, enabling the measurement of neutrinos above $10^{16}$ eV, determining the nature of t

Alireza Shamsoshoara, Ashwija Korenda, Fatemeh Afghah, Sherali Zeadally

The vast areas of applications for IoTs in future smart cities, smart transportation systems, and so on represent a thriving surface for several security attacks with economic, environmental and societal impacts. This survey paper presents a review of the security challenges of emerging IoT networks and discusses some of the attacks and their countermeasures

Juntao Yu, Bernd Bohnet, Massimo Poesio

Mention detection is an important preprocessing step for annotation and interpretation in applications such as NER and coreference resolution, but few stand-alone neural models have been proposed able to handle the full range of mentions. In this work, we propose and compare three neural network-based approaches to mention detection. The first approach is ba

Yijing Zhou, Wei Cai

A path integral Monte Carlo method (PIMC) based on Feynman-Kac formula for mixed boundary conditions of elliptic equations is proposed to solve the forward problem of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) on the boundary to obtain electrical potentials. The forward problem is an important part for iterative algorithms of the inverse problem of EIT, which has

Niles Armstrong, Ivan Blank

We give background which shows the connection between the mean value theorem and the obstacle problem, and then we prove that a set is a mean value set for an elliptic operator of the form $Lu := \partial_i (a^{ij}(x) \partial_j u(x))$ if and only if it arises as the noncontact set of an obstacle problem involving the Green's function of the operator.

Diana Rojas-Ciofalo, Adriana Cordero, Jaime Hernandez-Sanchez, Venus Keus

We analyse new signals of Dark Matter (DM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) where only one doublet acquires a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV), preserving a parity $Z_2$. The other two doublets are inert and do not develop a VEV, leading to a dark scalar sector controlled by $Z_2$, with the lightest CP-even dark scalar $H_1$