November 2019 arXiv papers — page 15

Florian Griese, Sarah Latus, Matthias Schlüter, Matthias Graeser

Purpose: Using 4D magnetic particle imaging (MPI), intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) catheters are tracked in real time in order to compensate for image artifacts related to relative motion. Our approach demonstrates the feasibility for bimodal IVOCT and MPI in-vitro experiments. Material and Methods: During IVOCT imaging of a stenosis phant

Miguel A. Porras, Claudio Conti

In any form of wave propagation, strong spatiotemporal coupling appears when non-elementary, three-dimensional wave-packets are composed by superimposing pure plane waves, or spontaneously generated by light-matter interaction and nonlinear processes. Ultrashort pulses with orbital angular momentum (OAM), or ultrashort vortices, furnish a critical paradigm i

Bianca Iancu, Gabriele Mazzola, Kyriakos Psarakis, Panagiotis Soilis

One of the best ways for developers to test and improve their skills in a fun and challenging way are programming challenges, offered by a plethora of websites. For the inexperienced ones, some of the problems might appear too challenging, requiring some suggestions to implement a solution. On the other hand, tagging problems can be a tedious task for proble

Cayo da Silva Lima, M. Verdier, F. Robaut, J. Ghanbaja

The microstructural evolution of a dissimilar metal weld (DMW) obtained by narrow-gap gas tungsten arc welding (NG-GTAW) was investigated after it was subjected to a post-weld heat treatment (PWHT). The case studied here is a joint between low-alloy steel pipes and a stainless steel steam generator using a nickel based alloy as filler material. The fusion bo

Ilaria Xausa, Robert Baier, Olivier Bokanowski, Matthias Gerdts

We consider the problem of computing safety regions, modeled as nonconvex backward reachable sets, for a nonlinear car collision avoidance model with time-dependent obstacles. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman framework is used. A new formulation of level set functions for obstacle avoidance is given and sufficient conditions for granting the obstacle avoidance on

Mohsen Aliabadi

Given a cyclic group $G$ of order $p^r$, where $p$ is a prime and $r\in\mathbb{N}$. It is well-known that the order of its greatest proper subgroup $\psi(G)$ and the number of its generators $\phi(G)$ satisfy $\psi(G)+\phi(G)=p^r$. In this paper, we give a linear version of this group theory theorem for primitive subspaces in a field extension using tools fr

Ricardo Avila, Jose R. Nascimento, Albert Yu. Petrov, Carlos M. Reyes

We canonically quantize $(2+1)$-dimensional electrodynamics including a higher-derivative Chern-Simons term. The effective theory describes a standard photon and an additional degree of freedom associated with a massive ghost. We find the Hamiltonian and the algebra satisfied by the field operators. The theory is characterized by an indefinite metric in the

Bodan Arsovski

Let $p$ be a prime number and let $k\geq 2$ be an integer. In this article we study the semi-simple reductions modulo $p$ of two-dimensional irreducible crystalline $p$-adic Galois representations with Hodge-Tate weights $0$ and $k-1$ and large slopes. Berger--Li--Zhu proved by using the theory of $(\varphi,\Gamma)$-modules that this reduction is constant wh

Vladimir Y. Chernyak, Nikolai A. Sinitsyn, Chen Sun

We discuss a class of models that generalize the two-state Landau-Zener (LZ) Hamiltonian to both the multistate and multitime evolution. It is already known that the corresponding quantum mechanical evolution can be understood in great detail. Here, we present an approach to classify such solvable models, namely, to identify all their independent families fo

Carlos Enrique Gutierrez, Henrik Skibbe, Ken Nakae, Hiromichi Tsukada

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) allows non-invasive investigation of whole-brain connectivity, which can potentially help to reveal the brain's global network architecture and abnormalities involved in neurological and mental disorders. However, the reliability of connection inferences from dMRI-based fiber tracking is still debated, due

Christina A. C. Garcia, Joshua D. Bocarsly, Ram Seshadri

An exciting development over the past few decades has been the use of high-throughput computational screening as a means of identifying promising candidate materials for a variety of structural or functional properties. Experimentally, it is often found that the highest-performing materials contain substantial atomic site disorder. These are frequently overl

Jean-Paul Vila, Gael Richard, Didier Bresch, Nicolas Cellier

In this paper, we introduce a new extended version of the shallow water equations with surface tension which is skew-symmetric with respect to the L2 scalar product and allows for large gradients of fluid height. This result is a generalization of the results published by P. Noble and J.-P. Vila in [SIAM J. Num. Anal. (2016)] and by D. Bresch, F. Couderc, P.

Liantao Ma, Chaohe Zhang, Yasha Wang, Wenjie Ruan

Predicting the patient's clinical outcome from the historical electronic medical records (EMR) is a fundamental research problem in medical informatics. Most deep learning-based solutions for EMR analysis concentrate on learning the clinical visit embedding and exploring the relations between visits. Although those works have shown superior performances in h

François Dubois, Benjamin Graille, S. V. Raghurama Rao

In this contribution, we study a stability notion for a fundamental linear one-dimensional lattice Boltzmann scheme, this notion being related to the maximum principle. We seek to characterize the parameters of the scheme that guarantee the preservation of the non-negativity of the particle distribution functions. In the context of the relative velocity sche

Haitian Zheng, Haofu Liao, Lele Chen, Wei Xiong

Example-guided image synthesis has been recently attempted to synthesize an image from a semantic label map and an exemplary image. In the task, the additional exemplary image serves to provide style guidance that controls the appearance of the synthesized output. Despite the controllability advantage, the previous models are designed on datasets with specif

Yuwei Fan, Lexing Ying

This paper proposes a neural network approach for solving two classical problems in the two-dimensional inverse wave scattering: far field pattern problem and seismic imaging. The mathematical problem of inverse wave scattering is to recover the scatterer field of a medium based on the boundary measurement of the scattered wave from the medium, which is high

Hang Li, Bei Ding, Jie Chen, Zefang Li

We report on the observation of a large topological Hall effect (THE) over a wide temperature region in a geometrically frustrated Fe3Sn2 magnet with a kagome-bilayer structure. We found that the magnitude of the THE resistivity increases with temperature and reaches -0.875 {\mu}{\Omega}.cm at 380 K. Moreover, the critical magnetic fields with the change of

Luca Berti, Laetitia Giraldi, Christophe Prud'Homme

We address the swimming problem at low Reynolds number. This regime, which is typically used for micro-swimmers, is described by Stokes equations. We couple a PDE solver of Stokes equations, derived from the Feel++ finite elements library, to a quaternion-based rigid-body solver. We validate our numerical results both on a 2D exact solution and on an exact s

Ryan M. L. McFadden, Aris Chatzichristos, David L. Cortie, Derek Fujimoto

We report $\beta$-detected nuclear magnetic resonance ($\beta$-NMR) measurements in Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$:Ca (BSC) and Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$:Mn (BTM) single crystals using $^{8}$Li$^{+}$ implanted to depths on the order of 100 nm. Above $\sim 200$ K, spin-lattice relaxation (SLR) reveals diffusion of $^{8}$Li$^{+}$, with activation energies of $\sim 0.4$ eV ($\sim 0.2

Wayne Jordan Chetcuti, Claudio Sanavio, Salvatore Lorenzo, Tony J. G. Apollaro

The coherent transfer of excitations between different locations of a quantum many-body system is of primary importance in many research areas, from transport properties in spintronics and atomtronics to quantum state transfer in quantum information processing. We address the transfer of $n>1$ bosonic and fermionic excitations between the edges of a one-dime

Edward Wheatcroft, Henry Wynn, Chris J. Dent, Jim Q. Smith

Scenario Analysis is a risk assessment tool that aims to evaluate the impact of a small number of distinct plausible future scenarios. In this paper, we provide an overview of important aspects of Scenario Analysis including when it is appropriate, the design of scenarios, uncertainty and encouraging creativity. Each of these issues is discussed in the conte

A. Simonin, Jocelyn Achard, K. Achkasov, S. Béchu

Since the signature of the ITER treaty in 2006, a new research programme targeting the emergence of a new generation of Neutral Beam (NB) system for the future fusion reactor (DEMO Tokamak) has been underway between several laboratories in Europe. The specifications required to operate a NB system on DEMO are very demanding: the system has to provide plasma

D. O. Sabulsky, J. Junca, G. Lefèvre, X. Zou

We describe the realization and characterization of a compact, autonomous fiber laser system that produces the optical frequencies required for laser cooling, trapping, manipulation, and detection of $^{87}$Rb atoms - a typical atomic species for emerging quantum technologies. This device, a customized laser system from the Muquans company, is designed for u

Elena F. Sheka

The article discusses carbocatalysis provided with amorphous carbons. The discussion is conducted from the standpoint of the spin chemistry of graphene molecules, in the framework of which the amorphous carbocatalysts are a conglomerate of graphene-oxynitrothiohydride stable radicals presenting the basic structural units (BSUs) of the species. The chemical a

Jiayun Wang, Yubei Chen, Rudrasis Chakraborty, Stella X. Yu

Deep convolutional neural networks are hindered by training instability and feature redundancy towards further performance improvement. A promising solution is to impose orthogonality on convolutional filters. We develop an efficient approach to impose filter orthogonality on a convolutional layer based on the doubly block-Toeplitz matrix representation of t

J. -P. Gazeau, T. Koide

We revisit the problem of the uncertainty relation for angle by using quantum hydrodynamics formulated in the stochastic variational method (SVM), where we need not define the angle operator. We derive both the Kennard and Robertson-Schroedinger inequalities for canonical variables in polar coordinates. The inequalities have state-dependent minimum values wh

Liantao Ma, Junyi Gao, Yasha Wang, Chaohe Zhang

Deep learning-based health status representation learning and clinical prediction have raised much research interest in recent years. Existing models have shown superior performance, but there are still several major issues that have not been fully taken into consideration. First, the historical variation pattern of the biomarker in diverse time scales plays

Claudia S. Bianchini, Fabrizio Borgia, Maria de Marsico

One of the continuing challenges of Human Computer Interaction research is the full inclusion of people with special needs into the digital world. In particular, this crucial category includes people that experiences some kind of limitation in exploiting traditional information communication channels. One immediately thinks about blind people, and several re

Olayidé Boussari, Laurent Bordes, Gaëlle Romain, Marc Colonna

Cure models have been widely developed to estimate the cure fraction when some subjects never experience the event of interest. However these models were rarely focused on the estimation of the time-to-cure i.e. the delay elapsed between the diagnosis and "the time from which cure is reached", an important indicator, for instance to address the question of a

Carlo Heissenberg

Motivated by connections with observable phenomena, in particular with soft factorization theorems for scattering amplitudes and with memory effects, renewed interest has been recently shown in the subject of asymptotic symmetries at null infinity. The two main goals of this Ph.D. thesis are, first, to review the main aspects of the connection between such s

Kevin Dimmitt, Gabriel Larios, Praxitelis Ntokos, Oscar Varela

Vacua of different gaugings of $D=4$ ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity that preserve the same supersymmetries and bosonic symmetry tend to exhibit the same universal mass spectrum within their respective supergravities. For AdS$_4$ vacua in gauged supergravities that arise upon consistent truncation of string/M-theory, we show that this universality is lost at highe

Fabian Batsch

We describe a method to overcome the triggering jitter of a streak camera to obtain less noisy images of a self-modulated proton bunch over long time scales ($\sim$ 400 ps to ns) with the time resolution ($\sim$ 1 ps) of the short time scale images (73 ps). We also determine that this method, using a reference laser pulse with a variable delay, leads to the

Pawel Gomoluch, Dalal Alrajeh, Alessandra Russo, Antonio Bucchiarone

Heuristic forward search is currently the dominant paradigm in classical planning. Forward search algorithms typically rely on a single, relatively simple variation of best-first search and remain fixed throughout the process of solving a planning problem. Existing work combining multiple search techniques usually aims at supporting best-first search with an

Ana Lucic, Harrie Oosterhuis, Hinda Haned, Maarten de Rijke

Model interpretability has become an important problem in machine learning (ML) due to the increased effect that algorithmic decisions have on humans. Counterfactual explanations can help users understand not only why ML models make certain decisions, but also how these decisions can be changed. We frame the problem of finding counterfactual explanations as

Florencia Leonardi, Rodrigo R. S. Carvalho

We propose a penalized pseudo-likelihood criterion to estimate the graph of conditional dependencies in a discrete Markov random field that can be partially observed. We prove the convergence of the estimator in the case of a finite or countable infinite set of nodes. In the finite case, the underlying graph can be recovered with probability one, while in th

Bastian B. Brandt, Francesca Cuteri, Gergely Endrodi, Sebastian Schmalzbauer

We investigate the QCD phase diagram for small values of baryon and strange quark chemical potentials from simulations at non-zero isospin chemical potential. Simulations at pure isospin chemical potential are not hindered by the sign problem and pion condensation can be observed for sufficiently large isospin chemical potentials. We study how the related ph

Lennon Ó Náraigh, Daniel R. Jansen van Vuuren

In this article we use analytical and numerical modeling to describe parallel viscous two-phase flows in microchannels. The focus is on idealized two-dimensional geometries, with a view to validating the various methodologies for future work in three dimensions. In the first instance, we use analytical Orr--Sommerfeld theory to describe the linear instabilit

Fabrizio Borgia, Claudia S. Bianchini, Maria de Marsico

Deaf people are more heavily affected by the digital divide than many would expect. Moreover, most accessibility guidelines addressing their needs just deal with captioning and audio-content transcription. However, this approach to the problem does not consider that deaf people have big troubles with vocal languages, even in their written form. At present, o

Marcell Gaál, Béla Nagy, Zsuzsanna Nagy-Csiha, Szilárd Révész

In this paper, we investigate discrete logarithmic energy problems in the unit circle. We study the equilibrium configuration of $n$ electrons and $n-1$ pairs of external protons of charge $+1/2$. It is shown that all the critical points of the discrete logarithmic energy are global minima, and they are the solutions of certain equations involving Blaschke p

Rudolf Smorka, Martin Žonda, Michael Thoss

The spinless Falicov-Kimball model exhibits outside the particle-hole symmetric point different stable nonhomogeneous charge orderings. These include the well known charge stripes and a variety of orderings with phase separated domains, which can significantly influence the charge transport through the correlated electron system. We show this by investigatin

Souvik Priyam Adhya, Carlos A. Salgado, Martin Spousta, Konrad Tywoniuk

Detailed insight into the interplay between parton energy loss and the way deconfined medium created in heavy-ion collisions expands is of great importance for improving the understanding of the jet quenching phenomenon. In this paper we study the impact of the expansion of deconfined medium on the single-gluon emission spectrum, its resummation and the jet

Eleanor Scerri, Erik M. Gauger, Cristian Bonato

Decoherence, resulting from unwanted interaction between a qubit and its environment, poses a serious challenge towards the development of quantum technologies. Recently, researchers have started analysing how real-time Hamiltonian learning approaches, based on estimating the qubit state faster than the environmental fluctuations, can be used to counteract d

Tilak Poudel, Yanfa Yan, Xunming Deng

Monoclinic scheelite bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) is a promising photoanode for water splitting yet the PEC performance is limited due to its relatively higher (2.4 eV) band gap. Here, we successfully decreased its the band gap to 1.72 eV by controlled antimony alloying. Low bandgap antimony alloyed bismuth vanadium oxide (Sb:BiVO4) thin film was prepared by RF

E. Altynbaev, N. Martin, A. Heinemann, L. Fomicheva

We study the evolution of the magnetic phase diagram of Mn$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$Ge alloys with concentration $x$ ($0 \leq x \leq 0.3$) by small-angle neutron scattering. We unambiguously observe the absence of a skyrmion lattice (or A-phase) in bulk MnGe and its onset under a small Mn/Fe substitution. The A-phase is there endowed with an exceptional skyrmion densi

A. Babič, S. Kovalenko, M. I. Krivoruchenko, F. Šimkovic

We study a mechanism of generation of Majorana neutrino mass due to spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry (SBCS) accompanied by the formation of a quark condensate. The effect of the condensate is transmitted to the neutrino sector via Lepton-Number Violating (LNV) lepton-quark dimension-$7$ operators known in the literature as an origin of the neutrino-ma

Tilak Poudel, Baicheng Weng, Corey Grice, Yanfa Yan

Bismuth based ternary oxide photocatalysts are of considerable interest in photoelectrochemical water splitting. Yet these oxides are highly stable in different environment, their relative inertness limits the available synthesis routes to obtain desired stoichiometry on the final product. This report describes a method to prepare barium bismuth niobate (spe

Ankan Mukhopadhyay, Sarathlal Koyiloth Vayalil, Dominik Graulich, Imran Ahamed

The magnetic proximity effect in top and bottom Pt layers induced by Co in Ta/Pt/Co/Pt multilayers has been studied by interface sensitive, element specific x-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity. The asymmetry ratio for circularly polarized x-rays of left and right helicity has been measured at the Pt $L_3$ absorption edge (11567 eV) with an in-plane magnetic

Dmitro Martynowych, David Veysset, Alexei A. Maznev, Yuchen Sun

We describe a high-speed single-shot multi-frame interferometric imaging technique enabling multiple interferometric images with femtosecond exposure time over a 50 ns event window to be recorded following a single laser-induced excitation event. The stroboscopic illumination of a framing camera is made possible through the use of a doubling cavity which pro

Bret Zeldow, Laura A. Hatfield

Difference-in-differences (diff-in-diff) is a study design that compares outcomes of two groups (treated and comparison) at two time points (pre- and post-treatment) and is widely used in evaluating new policy implementations. For instance, diff-in-diff has been used to estimate the effect that increasing minimum wage has on employment rates and to assess th

Uri Malamud, Hagai Perets

We make use of a new hybrid method to simulate the long-term, multiple-orbit disc formation through tidal disruptions of rocky bodies by white dwarfs, at high-resolution and realistic semi-major axis. We perform the largest-yet suite of simulations for dwarf and terrestrial planets, spanning four orders of magnitude in mass, various pericentre distances and

Harish Bhatt, Abhinandan Chowdhury

This manuscript introduces a fourth-order Runge-Kutta based implicit-explicit scheme in time along with compact fourth-order finite difference scheme in space for the solution of one-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions, respectively. The proposed scheme takes full advantage of method of line (MOL) and par

S. Salvador, E. Barlerin, J. Perronnel, C. Vandamme

In this work, we report on the timing performances of the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) apparatus of the FRACAS large acceptance mass spectrometer designed to measure the fragmentation cross sections of a $^{12}$C beam in hadrontherapy. The TOF system is composed of a Parallel Plate Avalanche Counter and scintillating detectors to create so-called $\Delta$E---TOF map

Michele Ancona, Thomas Letendre

We study the number of real roots of a Kostlan random polynomial of degree $d$ in one variable. More generally, we are interested in the distribution of the counting measure of the set of real roots of such a polynomial. We compute the asymptotics of the central moments of any order of these random variables, in the large degree limit. As a consequence, we p

Luigi Spinoglio, Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros, Sabrina Mordini

To study the dust obscured phase of the galaxy evolution during the peak of the Star Formation Rate (SFR) and the Black Hole Accretion Rate (BHAR) density functions ($z = 1 - 4$), rest frame mid-to-far infrared (IR) spectroscopy is needed. At these frequencies, dust extinction is at its minimum and a variety of atomic and molecular transitions, tracing most

Dorota Gotfryd, Ekaterina M. Paerschke, Jiri Chaloupka, Andrzej M. Oles

The concept of the entanglement between spin and orbital degrees of freedom plays a crucial role in understanding various phases and exotic ground states in a broad class of materials, including orbitally ordered materials and spin liquids. We investigate how the spin-orbital entanglement in a Mott insulator depends on the value of the spin-orbit coupling of

Michele Conforti, Samuel Fiorini, Tony Huynh, Stefan Weltge

Let $G$ be an $n$-node graph without two disjoint odd cycles. The algorithm of Artmann, Weismantel and Zenklusen (STOC'17) for bimodular integer programs can be used to find a maximum weight stable set in $G$ in strongly polynomial time. Building on structural results characterizing sufficiently connected graphs without two disjoint odd cycles, we construct

Elad Hazan, Sham M. Kakade, Karan Singh

We consider the problem of controlling an unknown linear dynamical system in the presence of (nonstochastic) adversarial perturbations and adversarial convex loss functions. In contrast to classical control, the a priori determination of an optimal controller here is hindered by the latter's dependence on the yet unknown perturbations and costs. Instead, we

Caishi Wang, Yuling Tang, Suling Ren

Quantum Bernoulli noises (QBN, for short) are the family of annihilation and creation operators acting on Bernoulli functionals, which satisfy a canonical anti-commutation relation (CAR) in equal-time. In this paper, by using QBN, we first introduce a class of self-adjoint operators acting on Bernoulli functionals, which we call the weighted number operators

Alfons I. Ooms

Let L be a finite dimensional Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero. Denote by U(L) its enveloping algebra with quotient division ring D(L). In 1974, at the end of his book "Algebres enveloppantes", Jacques Dixmier listed 40 open problems, of which the fourth one asked if the center Z(D(L)) is always a purely transcendental

Luigi Spinoglio, Juan Antonio Fernández-Ontiveros

The motivation of the "unified model" is to explain the main properties of the large zoo of active galactic nuclei with a single physical object. The discovery of broad permitted lines in the polarized spectrum of type 2 Seyfert galaxies in the mid 80's led to the idea of an obscuring torus, whose orientation with respect to our line of sight was the reason

D. B. McReynolds, Mark Pengitore

For finitely generated groups $G$ and $H$ equipped with word metrics, a translation-like action of $H$ on $G$ is a free action where each element of $H$ moves elements of $G$ a bounded distance. Translation-like actions provide a geometric generalization of subgroup containment. Extending work of Cohen, we show that cocompact lattices in a general semisimple

YuanDong Wang, ZhenGang Zhu, JianHua Wei, YiJing Yan

We theoretically investigate the quantum transport properties of a triangular triple quantum dot (TTQD) ring connected with two reservoirs by means of analytical derivation and accurate hierarchical-equations-of-motion calculation. A bias-induced chiral current in the absence of magnetic field is firstly demonstrated, which results from that the coupling bet

Faniry H. Razafindrazaka, Konstantin Poelke, Konrad Polthier, Leonid Goubergrits

The Hodge decomposition provides a very powerful mathematical method for the analysis of 2D and 3D vector fields. It states roughly that any vector field can be $L^2$-orthogonally decomposed into a curl-free, divergence-free, and a harmonic field. The harmonic field itself can be further decomposed into three components, two of which are closely tied to the

Toke Meier Carlsen, Eun Ji Kang

We enlarge the class of $C^*$-algebras of Boolean dynamical systems in order to include all weakly left-resolving normal labelled space $C^*$-algebras in it. We prove a gauge-invariant uniqueness theorem and classify all gauge-invariant ideals of these $C^*$-algebras of generalized Boolean dynamical systems and describe the corresponding quotients as $C^*$-a

Tilak Poudel, Corey Grice, Yanfa Yan, Xunming Deng

In this paper, RF sputtered antimony vanadium oxide (SbVO4) thin films and its characterization are reported. High purity sputtering targets were fabricated by sintering a mixture of Sb2O3 and V2O5 powders. Thin films were deposited by reactive sputtering at various temperature and argon/oxygen partial pressures. Several growth parameters and surface chemist

Mausoom Sarkar, Milan Aggarwal, Arneh Jain, Hiresh Gupta

Structure extraction from document images has been a long-standing research topic due to its high impact on a wide range of practical applications. In this paper, we share our findings on employing a hierarchical semantic segmentation network for this task of structure extraction. We propose a prior based deep hierarchical CNN network architecture that enabl

Sabrina Hartmann, Jens Jenewein, Enno Giese, Sven Abend

We provide a comprehensive study of atomic Raman and Bragg diffraction when coupling to a pair of counterpropagating light gratings (double diffraction) or to a single one (single diffraction) and discuss the transition from one case to the other in a retroreflective geometry as the Doppler detuning changes. In contrast to single diffraction, double Raman lo

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams

Open heavy flavor hadrons provide unique probes of the medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Due to their increased mass relative to light-flavor hadrons, long lifetime, and early production in hard-scattering interactions, they provide access to the full evolution of the partonic medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. This paper report

F. A. Shiha

In this paper, we introduce the $r$-central factorial numbers with even indices of the first and second kind, as extended versions of the central factorial numbers with even indices of both kinds. We obtain several fundamental properties and identities related to these numbers. We show that the unsigned $r$-central factorial numbers with even indices of the

P. Hein, S. Jauernik, H. Erk, L. Yang

The selective excitation of coherent phonons provides unique capabilities to control fundamental properties of quantum materials on ultrafast time scales. For instance, in the presence of strong electron-phonon coupling, the electronic band structure can become substantially modulated. Recently, it was predicted that by this means even topologically protecte

Jongmin Kim, Andris Gulans, Claudia Draxl

The possibility of modifying the work function of electrodes is important for optimizing the energy barriers for charge-injection (extraction) at the interface to an organic material. In this study, we perform density-functional-theory calculations to investigate the impact of dithiol-terminated polyethylene glycol (PEG(thiol)) based self-assembled monolayer

Raphaël Ponge

In this paper we establish uniqueness theorems for the noncommutative residue and the canonical trace on pseudodifferential operators on noncommutative tori of arbitrary dimension. The former is the unique trace up to constant multiple on integer order pseudodifferential operators.The latter is the unique trace up to constant multiple on non-integer order ps

M. Horio, Q. Wang, V. Granata, K. P. Kramer

Electronic band structures in solids stem from a periodic potential reflecting the structure of either the crystal lattice or an electronic order. In the stoichiometric ruthenate Ca$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$, numerous Fermi surface sensitive probes indicate a low-temperature electronic reconstruction. Yet, the causality and the reconstructed band structure remain unsol

François Tessier, Maxime Martinasso, Matteo Chesi, Mark Klein

Complex applications and workflows needs are often exclusively expressed in terms of computational resources on HPC systems. In many cases, other resources like storage or network are not allocatable and are shared across the entire HPC system. By looking at the storage resource in particular, any workflow or application should be able to select both its pre

David Zimmerer, Jens Petersen, Klaus Maier-Hein

Variational Auto-Encoders have often been used for unsupervised pretraining, feature extraction and out-of-distribution and anomaly detection in the medical field. However, VAEs often lack the ability to produce sharp images and learn high-level features. We propose to alleviate these issues by adding a new branch to conditional hierarchical VAEs. This enfor

Tuhin Majumder, Ayanendranath Basu, Abhik Ghosh

The ordinary Bayes estimator based on the posterior density suffers from the potential problems of non-robustness under data contamination or outliers. In this paper, we consider the general set-up of independent but non-homogeneous (INH) observations and study a robustified pseudo-posterior based estimation for such parametric INH models. In particular, we

Héctor Andrade-Loarca, Gitta Kutyniok, Ozan Öktem

Semantic edge detection has recently gained a lot of attention as an image processing task, mainly due to its wide range of real-world applications. This is based on the fact that edges in images contain most of the semantic information. Semantic edge detection involves two tasks, namely pure edge detecion and edge classification. Those are in fact fundament

Indaco Biazzo, Abolfazl Ramezanpour

We know that maximal efficiency in physical systems is attained by reversible processes. It is then interesting to see how irreversibility affects efficiency in other systems, e.g., in a city. In this study, we focus on a cyclic process of movements (home to workplace and back to home) in a city to investigate the above question. To this end, we present a mi

Thomas Mieling

We analyse the influence of Earth's rotation (both around its own axis and around the Sun) on the propagation of light in optical media. This is done using both geometrical optics and a perturbative calculation based on Maxwell's equations in rotating coordinates in flat spacetime. Considering light propagation in cylindrical step-index waveguides in particu

Alexandre Défossez, Nicolas Usunier, Léon Bottou, Francis Bach

Source separation for music is the task of isolating contributions, or stems, from different instruments recorded individually and arranged together to form a song. Such components include voice, bass, drums and any other accompaniments.Contrarily to many audio synthesis tasks where the best performances are achieved by models that directly generate the wave

Ming Hao Zhao

Based on various non-MZV approaches we evaluate certain logarithmic integrals and harmonic sums. More specifically, 85 LIs, 89 ESs, 263 PLIs, 28 non-alt QESs, 39 GESs, 26 BESs,14 IBESs with weight no more than 5, 193 QLIs, 172 QPLIs, 83 QESs, 7 QBESs, 3 IQBESs with weight no more than 4. With help of MZV theory we evaluate other 10 QESs with weight no more t

Lingjie Yu, Chenzhi Yuan, Renduo Qi Yidong Huang, Wei Zhang

We propose a hybrid silicon waveguide scheme to avoid the impact of noise photons induced by pump lights in application scenarios of quantum photonic circuits with quantum light sources. The scheme is composed of strip waveguide and shallow-ridge waveguide structures. It utilizes the difference of biphoton spectra generated by spontaneous four wave mixing (S

L. Ruggiero, A. Sodo, M. Cestelli-Guidi, M. Romani

In the last years, significant research efforts have been devoted to the reduction of environmental impact of biocides and to the improvement of their effectiveness over time against degradation of stone artifacts. This work reports the spectroscopic characterization of two silica nanosystems, with different geometry and structure, loaded with a biologically

Linbin Huang, Jeremy Coulson, John Lygeros, Florian Dörfler

We employ a novel data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm in voltage source converter (VSC) based high-voltage DC (HVDC) stations to perform safe and optimal wide-area control for power system oscillation damping. Conventional optimal wide-area control is model-based. However, in practice detailed and accurate parametric power system models are rar

Michele Pizzochero, Ravi Yadav, Oleg V. Yazyev

The marked interplay between the crystalline, electronic, and magnetic structure of atomically thin magnets has been regarded as the key feature for designing next-generation magneto-optoelectronic devices. In this respect, a detailed understanding of the microscopic interactions underlying the magnetic responses of these crystals is of primary importance. H

F. Murphy-Armando

We use first-principles electronic structure methods to calculate the electronic thermoelectric properties (i.e. due to electronic transport only) of single-crystalline bulk $n$-type silicon-germanium alloys vs Ge composition, temperature, doping concentration and strain. We find excellent agreement to available experiments for the resistivity, mobility and

Ke Yang, Dongsheng Li, Yong Dou

It is challenging for weakly supervised object detection network to precisely predict the positions of the objects, since there are no instance-level category annotations. Most existing methods tend to solve this problem by using a two-phase learning procedure, i.e., multiple instance learning detector followed by a fully supervised learning detector with bo

Ludovic Godard-Cadillac

We define a new rearrangement, called rearrangement by tamping, for non-negative measurable functions defined on R+. This rearrangement has many properties in common with the well-known Schwarz non-increasing rearrangement such as the P{\'o}lya-Szeg{\"o} inequality. Contrary to the Schwarz rearrangement, the tamping also preserves the homogeneous Dirichlet b

Fredrik Jørgensen, Tobias Aasmoe, Anne-Stine Ruud Husevåg, Lilja Øvrelid

This paper presents NorNE, a manually annotated corpus of named entities which extends the annotation of the existing Norwegian Dependency Treebank. Comprising both of the official standards of written Norwegian (Bokm{\aa}l and Nynorsk), the corpus contains around 600,000 tokens and annotates a rich set of entity types including persons, organizations, locat

F. Murphy-Armando, É. D. Murray, I. Savić, M. Trigo

We investigate from first-principles theory and experiment the generation of phonons on picosecond timescales and the relaxation of carriers in multiple conduction band valleys of photo-excited Ge by inter-valley electron-phonon scattering. We provide a full description of the phonon and electron relaxation dynamics without adjustable parameters. Simulations

A. L. Kuzemsky

The effective approach to the foundation of the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics on the basis of dynamics was formulated by Bogoliubov in his seminal works. His ideas of reduced description were proved as very powerful and found a broad applicability to quite general time-dependent problems of physics and mechanics. In this paper we analyzed thoroughly t

Alexis Tantet, Mickaël Chekroun, J. David Neelin, Henk Dijkstra

The response of a low-frequency mode of climate variability, El Ni{\~n}o-Southern Oscillation, to stochastic forcing is studied in a high-dimensional model of intermediate complexity, the fully-coupled Cane-Zebiak model [ZC87], from the spectral analysis of Markov operators governing the decay of correlations and resonances in the power spectrum. Noise-induc

Johannes Henn, Bláithín Power, Simone Zoia

The massless QCD Lagrangian is conformally invariant and, as a consequence, so are the tree-level scattering amplitudes. However, the implications of this powerful symmetry at loop level are only beginning to be explored systematically. Even for finite loop amplitudes, the way conformal symmetry manifests itself may be subtle, e.g. in the form of anomalous c

Vladimir Plujko, Oleksandr Gorbachenko, Kateryna Solodovnyk

The description of photoabsorption cross-sections of cold nuclei by closed-form Lorentzian models of photon strength functions for photoexcitation by electric dipole gamma-rays is considered. Systematics of the GDR parameters are given and input parameters of different analytical models are discussed The experimental data are compared with theoretical calcul

Qiao-Le He, Liming Zhao

Prominent features of simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography processes in the downstream processing is based on the determination of operating conditions. However, effects of different types of uncertainties have to be studied and analysed whenever the triangle theory or numerical optimization approaches are applied. In this study, a Bayesian inference ba

Frédéric Fabre, Jérôme Coville, Nik J. Cunniffe

Increasing rates of global trade and travel, as well as changing climatic patterns, have led to more frequent outbreaks of plant disease epidemics worldwide. Mathematical modelling is a key tool in predicting where and how these new threats will spread, as well as in assessing how damaging they might be. Models can also be used to inform disease management,

Chengfeng Cai, Hong-Hao Zhang, Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Mads T. Frandsen

We propose a new non-thermal mechanism of dark matter production based on vacuum misalignment. A global $X$-charge asymmetry is generated at high temperatures, under which both the will-be Higgs and the dark matter are charged. At lower energies, the vacuum changes alignment and breaks the $U(1)_X$, leading to the emergence of the Higgs and of a fraction of

Gianluca Occhetta, Eleonora A. Romano, Luis E. Solá Conde, Jarosław A. Wiśniewski

In this paper we study smooth projective varieties and polarized pairs with an action of a one dimensional complex torus. As a main tool, we define birational geometric counterparts of these actions, that, under certain assumptions, encode the information necessary to reconstruct them. In particular, we consider some cases of actions of low complexity -- mea

Xiangxiang Chu, Tianbao Zhou, Bo Zhang, Jixiang Li

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is now a widely disseminated weight-sharing neural architecture search method. However, it suffers from well-known performance collapse due to an inevitable aggregation of skip connections. In this paper, we first disclose that its root cause lies in an unfair advantage in exclusive competition. Through experiments,

Luis J. Goicoechea, Vyacheslav N. Shalyapin

Because follow-up observations of quadruple gravitational lens systems are of extraordinary importance for astrophysics and cosmology, we present single-epoch optical spectra and $r$--band light curves of PS J0147+4630. This recently discovered system mainly consists of four images ABCD of a background quasar around a foreground galaxy G that acts as a gravi