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  1. Jun-Wei Luo, Shu-Shen Li, Alex Zunger

    The experimental assessment of the strength ($α_R$) of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is rather indirect and involves the measurement of the spin relaxation length from magnetotransport, together with a model of weak antilocalization. The analysis of the spin relaxation length in nanowires, however, clouds the experimental assessment of the $α_R$ and leads t

  2. Anibal Sierra, Susana Lizano

    It is known that the millimeter dust thermal emission of protoplanetary disks is affected by scattering, such that for optically thick disks the emission decreases with respect to the pure absorption case and the spectral indices can reach values below 2. The latter can also be obtained with temperature gradients. Using simple analytical models of radiative

  3. Markus D. Foote, Philip E. Dennison, Andrew K. Thorpe, David R. Thompson

    The strong radiative forcing by atmospheric methane has stimulated interest in identifying natural and anthropogenic sources of this potent greenhouse gas. Point sources are important targets for quantification, and anthropogenic targets have potential for emissions reduction. Methane point source plume detection and concentration retrieval have been previou

  4. Dinislam Abdulgalimov, Reuben Kirkham, James Nicholson, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos

    Employee voice and workplace democracy have a positive impact on employee wellbeing and the performance of organizations. In this paper, we conducted interviews with employees to identify facilitators and inhibitors for the voice within the workplace and a corresponding set of appropriate qualities: Civility, Validity, Safety and Egalitarianism. We then oper

  5. Kazuhiro Seki, Yusuke Ikuta

    This paper describes our work on developing a new business sentiment index using daily newspaper articles. We adopt a recurrent neural network (RNN) with Gated Recurrent Units to predict the business sentiment of a given text. An RNN is initially trained on Economy Watchers Survey and then fine-tuned on news texts for domain adaptation. Also, a one-class sup

  6. Cyrus Rashtchian, Aneesh Sharma, David P. Woodruff

    All-pairs set similarity is a widely used data mining task, even for large and high-dimensional datasets. Traditionally, similarity search has focused on discovering very similar pairs, for which a variety of efficient algorithms are known. However, recent work highlights the importance of finding pairs of sets with relatively small intersection sizes. For e

  7. Kasra Amini, Jens Biegert

    Knowledge of molecular structure is paramount in understanding, and ultimately influencing, chemical reactivity. For nearly a century, diffractive imaging has been used to identify the structures of many biologically-relevant gas-phase molecules with atomic (i.e. Angstrom, A; 1 A = 10$^{-10}$ m) spatial resolution. Unravelling the mechanisms of chemical reac

  8. J. Kalt, M. Sternik, B. Krause, I. Sergueev

    We determined the lattice dynamics of metastable, surface-stabilized $α$-phase FeSi$_2$ nanoislands epitaxially grown on the Si(111) surface with average heights and widths ranging from 1.5 to 20 nm and 18 to 72 nm, respectively. The crystallographic orientation, surface morphology and local crystal structure of the nanoislands were investigated by reflectio

  9. Gennaro Notomista, Siddharth Mayya, Mario Selvaggio, Maria Santos

    Executing multiple tasks concurrently is important in many robotic applications. Moreover, the prioritization of tasks is essential in applications where safety-critical tasks need to precede application-related objectives, in order to protect both the robot from its surroundings and vice versa. Furthermore, the possibility of switching the priority of tasks

  10. E. E. Eischen

    We prove the nonvanishing of the twisted central critical values of a class of automorphic $L$-functions for twists by all but finitely many unitary characters in particular infinite families. While this paper focuses on $L$-functions associated to certain automorphic representations of unitary groups, it illustrates how decades-old nonarchimedean methods fr

  11. Izzet Coskun, Eric Larson, Isabel Vogt

    In this paper, we prove that the normal bundle of a general Brill-Noether space curve of degree $d$ and genus $g \geq 2$ is stable if and only if $(d,g) \not\in \{ (5,2), (6,4) \}$. When $g\leq1$ and the characteristic of the ground field is zero, it is classical that the normal bundle is strictly semistable. We show that this fails in characteristic $2$ for

  12. Calin Chindris, Daniel Kline

    We consider the problem of simultaneously finding lower-dimensional subspace structures in a given $m$-tuple of possibly corrupted, high-dimensional data sets all of the same size. We refer to this problem as simultaneous robust subspace recovery (SRSR) and provide a quiver invariant theoretic approach to it. We show that SRSR is a particular case of the mor

  13. Aditya Golatkar, Alessandro Achille, Stefano Soatto

    We describe a procedure for removing dependency on a cohort of training data from a trained deep network that improves upon and generalizes previous methods to different readout functions and can be extended to ensure forgetting in the activations of the network. We introduce a new bound on how much information can be extracted per query about the forgotten

  14. Philippe Lewalle, Cyril Elouard, Andrew N. Jordan

    Entanglement generation and preservation is a key task in quantum information processing, and a variety of protocols exist to entangle remote qubits via measurement of their spontaneous emission. We here propose feedback methods, based on monitoring the fluorescence of two qubits and using only local pi-pulses for control, to increase the yield and/or lifeti

  15. Julio Leite, América Morales, José W. F. Valle, Carlos A. Vaquera-Araujo

    We propose a simple extension of the standard model where neutrinos get naturally small "scotogenic" Dirac masses from an unbroken gauged $B-L$ symmetry, ensuring dark matter stability. The associated gauge boson gets mass through the Stueckelberg mechanism. Two scenarios are identified, and the resulting phenomenology briefly sketched.

  16. Neophytos Charalambides, Mert Pilanci, Alfred O. Hero

    A cumbersome operation in numerical analysis and linear algebra, optimization, machine learning and engineering algorithms; is inverting large full-rank matrices which appears in various processes and applications. This has both numerical stability and complexity issues, as well as high expected time to compute. We address the latter issue, by proposing an a

  17. Spencer Klein, Al Mueller, Bo-Wen Xiao, Feng Yuan

    This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the average transverse momentum squared of the incoming photon can be calculated in the equivalent photon approximation. We f

  18. Mickael Albertus

    The main goal of this article is to study how an auxiliary information can be used to improve the efficiency of two famous statistical tests: the $ Z$-test and the chi-square test. Many definitions of auxiliary information can be found in the statistical literature. In this article, the notion of auxiliary information is discussed from a very general point o

  19. Trambak Banerjee, Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya, Gourab Mukherjee

    An important problem in contemporary immunology studies based on single-cell protein expression data is to determine whether cellular expressions are remodeled post infection by a pathogen. One natural approach for detecting such changes is to use non-parametric two-sample statistical tests. However, in single-cell studies, direct application of these tests

  20. Paul Balmer, Greg Stevenson

    We propose a general method to construct new triangulated categories, relative stable categories, as additive quotients of a given one. This construction enhances results of Beligiannis, particularly in the tensor-triangular setting. We prove a birationality result showing that the original category and its relative stable quotient are equivalent on some ope

  21. Aliaksandr Hubin, Geir Storvik, Florian Frommlet

    Regression models are used in a wide range of applications providing a powerful scientific tool for researchers from different fields. Linear, or simple parametric, models are often not sufficient to describe complex relationships between input variables and a response. Such relationships can be better described through flexible approaches such as neural net

  22. Prapanch Nair, Sebastian Mühlbauer, Shantanu Roy, Thorsten Poeschel

    We show that the permeability of porous media can be reliably predicted from the Minkowski tensors (MTs) describing the pore microstructure geometry. To this end, we consider a large number of simulations of flow through periodic unit cells containing complex shaped obstacles. The prediction is achieved by training a deep neural network (DNN) using the simul

  23. Laurent Lafleche, Chiara Saffirio

    We consider the semiclassical limit from the Hartree to the Vlasov equation with general singular interaction potential including the Coulomb and gravitational interactions, and we prove explicit bounds in the strong topologies of Schatten norms. Moreover, in the case of fermions, we provide estimates on the size of the exchange term in the Hartree-Fock equa

  24. Takuma Nakamura, Josue Davila-Rodriguez, Holly Leopardi, Jeff A. Sherman

    Optical atomic clocks are poised to redefine the SI second, thanks to stability and accuracy more than one hundred times better than the current microwave atomic clock standard. However, the best optical clocks have not seen their performance transferred to the electronic domain, where radar, navigation, communications, and fundamental research rely on less

  25. Faiz Ahmad, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Tom H. Anderson, Peter B. Monk

    A coupled optoelectronic model was implemented along with the differential evolution algorithm to assess the efficacy of grading the bandgap of the CZTSSe layer for enhancing the power conversion efficiency of thin-film CZTSSe solar cells. Both linearly and sinusoidally graded bandgaps were examined, with the molybdenum backreflector in the solar cell being

  26. Bin Gui

    Let $V$ be a vertex operator subalgebra of $U$. Assume that $U$, $V$, and its commutant $V^c$ in $U$ are CFT-type, self-dual, and regular VOAs. Assume also that the double commutant $V^{cc}$ equals $V$. We prove that any intertwining operator of $V$ is a compression of intertwining operators of $U$.

  27. Richard Stiskalek, John Veitch, Chris Messenger

    The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational wave detectors have detected a population of binary black hole mergers in their first two observing runs. For each of these events we have been able to associate a potential sky location region represented as a probability distribution on the sky. Thus, at this point we may begin to ask the question of wheth

  28. Dmitry S. Ageev

    We propose a charged falling particle in an AdS space as a holographic model of local charged quench generalizing model of arXiv:1302.5703. The quench is followed by evolving currents and inhomogeneous distribution of chemical potential. We derive the analytical formula describing the evolution of the entanglement entropy. At some characteristic time after t

  29. Igor Makhlin

    The main goal of this paper is to give explicit descriptions of two maximal cones in the Gröbner fan of the Plücker ideal. These cones correspond to the monomial ideals given by semistandard and PBW-semistandard Young tableaux. For the first cone, as an intermediate result we obtain the description of a maximal cone in the Gröbner fan of any Hibi ideal. For

  30. Jeffrey C. Everts, Miha Ravnik

    We investigate the effects of electric double layers and flexoelectricity on the surface anchoring in general nematic fluids. Within a simplified model, we demonstrate for a nematic electrolyte how the surface anchoring strength can be affected by the surface charge, bulk ion concentration and/or flexoelectricity, effectively changing not only the magnitude

  31. Xiangyu Wu, Mark W. Mueller

    Limited flight range is a common problem for multicopters. To alleviate this problem, we propose a method for finding the optimal speed and heading of a multicopter when flying a given path to achieve the longest flight range. Based on a novel multivariable extremum seeking controller with adaptive step size, the method (a) does not require any power consump

  32. Yichen Zhang, Chen Chen, Tianqi Hong, Bai Cui

    The capability to switch between grid-connected and islanded modes has promoted adoption of microgrid technology for powering remote locations. Stabilizing frequency during the islanding event, however, is a challenging control task, particularly under high penetration of converter-interfaced sources. In this paper, a numerical optimal control (NOC)-based co

  33. Ilker Bayram

    We consider a separation problem where the observation consists of the sum of a high amplitude smooth signal and a low amplitude transient signal. We propose a method for decomposition that relies on solving instances of a `constrained filtering problem', which is posed as a convex minimization problem. We provide a fast algorithm for solving the minimiz

  34. Esther Derman, Shie Mannor

    Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) has enabled to prove the equivalence between robustness and regularization in classification and regression, thus providing an analytical reason why regularization generalizes well in statistical learning. Although DRO's extension to sequential decision-making overcomes $\textit{external uncertainty}$ through th

  35. Liliana Apolinário, João Barata, Guilherme Milhano

    We study the breaking of Casimir scaling, $C_F/C_A$, due to the evolution of jets in a hot and extended medium. By using JEWEL, a medium modified Monte Carlo event generator validated for a wide set of observables, we are able to study separately the development of quark and gluon-initiated jets produced back-to-back with a $Z-$boson. Focusing on the $p_T$ d

  36. Zhenkun Li

    Sutured instanton Floer homology was introduced by Kronheimer and Mrowka. In this paper, we prove that for a taut balanced sutured manifold with vanishing second homology, the dimension of the sutured instanton Floer homology provides a bound on the minimal depth of all possible taut foliations on that balanced sutured manifold. The same argument can be adap

  37. Tigran Hakobyan

    A quite general finite-size chain of fermions with $N$ internal degrees of freedom (flavors) and $O(N)$ symmetry is considered. In the case of the free boundary condition, we prove that the ground state in the invariant sector having exactly $m$ flavors with an odd particle number is represented by a single rank-$m$ antisymmetric multiplet. For the even-leng

  38. Arpan Mukhopadhyay, Ravi R. Mazumdar, Rahul Roy

    We study binary opinion dynamics in a fully connected network of interacting agents. The agents are assumed to interact according to one of the following rules: (1) Voter rule: An updating agent simply copies the opinion of another randomly sampled agent; (2) Majority rule: An updating agent samples multiple agents and adopts the majority opinion in the sele

  39. Bartomeu Fiol, Jairo Martínez-Montoya, Alan Rios Fukelman

    We obtain the perturbative expansion of the free energy on $S^4$ for four dimensional Lagrangian ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal field theories, to all orders in the 't Hooft coupling, in the planar limit. We do so by using supersymmetric localization, after rewriting the 1-loop factor as an effective action involving an infinite number of single and double trac

  40. Mitchell A. Gordon, Kevin Duh

    We explore best practices for training small, memory efficient machine translation models with sequence-level knowledge distillation in the domain adaptation setting. While both domain adaptation and knowledge distillation are widely-used, their interaction remains little understood. Our large-scale empirical results in machine translation (on three language

  41. Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda, Masahiro Sato

    Laser technology has developed and accelerated photo-induced nonequilibrium physics from both scientific and engineering viewpoints. The Floquet engineering, i.e., controlling material properties and functionalities by time-periodic drives, is a forefront of quantum physics of light-matter interaction, but limited to ideal dissipationless systems. For the Fl

  42. Hao Fang, Wei Wei

    In this paper, we consider conformal metrics on a unit 4-disc with an asymptotically hyperbolic end and possible isolated conic singularities. We define a mass term of the AH end. If the $σ_{2}$ curvature has lower bound $σ_{2}\geq\frac{3}{2}$, we prove a Penrose type inequality relating the mass and contributions from singularities. We also classify sharp c

  43. Yoshihiko Nishikawa, Koji Hukushima

    The understanding of thermodynamic glass transition has been hindered by the lack of proper models beyond mean-field theories. Here, we propose a three-dimensional lattice glass model on a simple cubic lattice that exhibits the typical dynamics observed in fragile supercooled liquids such as two-step relaxation, super-Arrhenius growth in the relaxation time,

  44. Mikhail Karpukhin, Nikolai Nadirashvili, Alexei V. Penskoi, Iosif Polterovich

    The paper is concerned with the maximization of Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces of given volume with a Riemannian metric in a fixed conformal class. A significant progress on this problem has been recently achieved by Nadirashvili-Sire and Petrides using related, though different methods. In particular, it was shown that for a given $k$, the maximum of the $

  45. Mihaela Dimovska, Donatello Materassi

    Reconstructing a network of dynamic systems from observational data is an active area of research. Many approaches guarantee a consistent reconstruction under the relatively strong assumption that the network dynamics is governed by strictly causal transfer functions. However, in many practical scenarios, strictly causal models are not adequate to describe t

  46. Adam Shimi, Armando Castañeda

    Round-based models are very common message-passing models; combinatorial topology applied to distributed computing provides sweeping results like general lower bounds. We combine both to study the computability of k-set agreement. Among all the possible round-based models, we consider oblivious ones, where the constraints are given only round per round by a

  47. Xiaoyuan Huang, Qiang Yuan, Yi-Zhong Fan

    Significant flares of GeV $γ$-ray emission from the Crab Nebula have been found by AGILE and Fermi-LAT years ago, indicating that extreme particle acceleration and radiation occurs in young pulsar wind nebulae. To enlarge the flare sample and to investigate their statistical properties will be very useful in understanding the nature of the $γ$-ray flares. In

  48. Laura Morselli, Giulia Rodighiero, Andrea Enia, Edvige Corbelli

    In the second work of this series, we analyse the connection between the availability of gas and the position of a region with respect to the spatially resolved main sequence (MS) relation. Following the procedure presented in Paper I we obtain 500pc scales estimates of stellar mass and star formation rate surface densities ($Σ_{\star}$ and $Σ_{\rm{SFR}}$).

  49. Luca V. Iliesiu, Gustavo J. Turiaci

    An important open question in black hole thermodynamics is about the existence of a "mass gap" between an extremal black hole and the lightest near-extremal state within a sector of fixed charge. In this paper, we reliably compute the partition function of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m near-extremal black holes at temperature scales comparable to the conjectured ga

  50. Peter Athron, Csaba Balazs, Andrew Fowlie, Yang Zhang

    We present a C++ software package called PhaseTracer for mapping out cosmological phases, and potential transitions between them, for Standard Model extensions with any number of scalar fields. PhaseTracer traces the minima of effective potential as the temperature changes, and then calculates the critical temperatures, at which the minima are degenerate. Ph

  51. J. Avila, E. Prada, P. San-Jose, R. Aguado

    We show that the microwave (MW) spectra in semiconductor-nanowire-based transmon qubits provide a strong signature of the presence of Majorana bound states in the junction. This occurs as an external magnetic field tunes the wire into the topological regime and the energy splitting of the emergent Majorana modes oscillates around zero energy owing to their w

  52. Adam Chalabi, Andy O'Bannon, Brandon Robinson, Jacopo Sisti

    In conformal field theories (CFTs) of dimension $d>3$, two-dimensional (2d) conformal defects are characterised in part by central charges defined via the defect's contribution to the trace anomaly. However, in general for interacting CFTs these central charges are difficult to calculate. For superconformal 2d defects in supersymmetric (SUSY) CFTs (SCFTs

  53. Yuji Nozawa, Kouhei Fukai

    We present a rigorous explicit expression for an extensive number of local conserved quantities in the XYZ spin-1/2 chain with general coupling constants. All the coefficients of operators in each local conserved quantity are calculated. We also confirm that our result can be applied to the case of the XXZ chain with a magnetic field in the z-axis direction.

  54. J. Avila, E. Prada, P. San-Jose, R. Aguado

    We theoretically study superconducting islands based on semiconductor-nanowire Josephson junctions and take into account the presence of subgap quasiparticle excitations in the spectrum of the junction. Our method extends the standard model Hamiltonian for a superconducting charge qubit and replaces the Josephson potential by the Bogoliubov--de Gennes Hamilt

  55. Iosif Bena, Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas P. Warner

    With one exception, all known non-supersymmetric AdS$_4$ and AdS$_5$ vacua of gauged maximal supergravities that descend from string and M theory have been shown to have modes with mass below the BF bound. The remaining non-supersymmetric AdS solution is perturbatively stable within gauged maximal supergravity, and hence appears to contradict recent conjectu

  56. Yi-Fan Jiang, Hong Yao, Fan Yang

    Whether the doped t-J model on the Kagome lattice supports exotic superconductivity has not been decisively answered. In this paper, we propose a new class of variational states for this model and perform large-scale variational Monte Carlo simulation on it. The proposed variational states are parameterized by the SU(2)-gauge-rotation angles, as the SU(2)-ga

  57. Yi-Ting Hsu, Fengcheng Wu, S. Das Sarma

    Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the continuously tunable band widths controlled by an applied displacement field and twist angle, these moire bands also posse

  58. Emilian Dudas, Lucien Heurtier, Yann Mambrini, Keith A. Olive

    We propose a model where a long-lived pseudoscalar EeV particle can be produced with sufficient abundance so as to account for the cold dark matter density, despite having a Planck mass suppressed coupling to the thermal bath. Connecting this state to a hidden sterile neutrino sector through derivative couplings, induced by higher dimensional operators, allo

  59. Conrad Chan, Bernhard Mueller

    We introduce a new discrete-ordinate scheme for solving the general relativistic Boltzmann transport equation in the context of core-collapse supernovae. Our algorithm avoids the need to spell out the complicated advection terms in energy and angle that arise when the transport equation is formulated in spherical polar coordinates, in the comoving frame, or

  60. Nathan Benjamin, Hirosi Ooguri, Shu-Heng Shao, Yifan Wang

    We show that every compact, unitary two-dimensional CFT with an abelian conserved current has vanishing twist gap for charged primary fields with respect to the $\mathfrak{u}(1)\times$Virasoro algebra. This means that either the chiral algebra is enhanced by a charged primary field with zero twist or there is an infinite family of charged primary fields that

  61. Jennifer Hom, Sungkyung Kang, JungHwan Park

    The fusion number of a ribbon knot is the minimal number of 1-handles needed to construct a ribbon disk. The strong homotopy fusion number of a ribbon knot is the minimal number of 2-handles in a handle decomposition of a ribbon disk complement. We demonstrate that these invariants behave completely differently under cabling by showing that the (p,1)-cable o

  62. Rui Chao, Dawei Ding, Andras Gilyen, Cupjin Huang

    We describe an algorithm for finding angle sequences in quantum signal processing, with a novel component we call halving based on a new algebraic uniqueness theorem, and another we call capitalization. We present both theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the performance of the new algorithm. In particular, these two algorithmic ideas allow

  63. Xin An

    We review the recent development on a systematic deterministic formalism describing dynamics of both bulk and fluctuations in an arbitrary relativistic hydrodynamic flow carrying conserved charges. In particular, we discuss the implementation of such general formalism near the QCD critical point.

  64. Michèle Levi, Andrew J. McLeod, Matthew von Hippel

    In this paper we derive for the first time the N$^3$LO gravitational spin-orbit coupling at order $G^4$ in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation within the effective field theory (EFT) of gravitating spinning objects. This represents the first computation in a spinning sector involving three-loop integration. We provide a comprehensive account of the topolog

  65. A. A. Michailidis, C. J. Turner, Z. Papić, D. A. Abanin

    Relaxation to a thermal state is the inevitable fate of non-equilibrium interacting quantum systems without special conservation laws. While thermalization in one-dimensional (1D) systems can often be suppressed by integrability mechanisms, in two spatial dimensions thermalization is expected to be far more effective due to the increased phase space. In this

  66. Min-Hung Chen, Baopu Li, Yingze Bao, Ghassan AlRegib

    Despite the recent progress of fully-supervised action segmentation techniques, the performance is still not fully satisfactory. One main challenge is the problem of spatiotemporal variations (e.g. different people may perform the same activity in various ways). Therefore, we exploit unlabeled videos to address this problem by reformulating the action segmen

  67. Behnood Rasti, Danfeng Hong, Renlong Hang, Pedram Ghamisi

    Hyperspectral images provide detailed spectral information through hundreds of (narrow) spectral channels (also known as dimensionality or bands) with continuous spectral information that can accurately classify diverse materials of interest. The increased dimensionality of such data makes it possible to significantly improve data information content but pro

  68. Sana Tonekaboni, Shalmali Joshi, Kieran Campbell, David Duvenaud

    Explanations of time series models are useful for high stakes applications like healthcare but have received little attention in machine learning literature. We propose FIT, a framework that evaluates the importance of observations for a multivariate time-series black-box model by quantifying the shift in the predictive distribution over time. FIT defines th

  69. Mostafa Hadadian Nejad Yousefi, Amirmasoud Ghiassi, Boshra Sadat Hashemi, Maziar Goudarzi

    Smart devices have become an indispensable part of our lives and gain increasing applicability in almost every area. Latency-aware applications such as Augmented Reality (AR), autonomous driving, and online gaming demand more resources such as network bandwidth and computational capabilities. Since the traditional mobile networks cannot fulfill the required

  70. Brian Swenson, Ryan Murray, H. Vincent Poor, Soummya Kar

    In centralized settings, it is well known that stochastic gradient descent (SGD) avoids saddle points and converges to local minima in nonconvex problems. However, similar guarantees are lacking for distributed first-order algorithms. The paper studies distributed stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD)--a simple network-based implementation of SGD. Conditions u

  71. Lucas Nunes Sequeira, Bruno Moreschi, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, Bernardo Fontes

    In this research, we have established, through empirical testing, a law that relates the number of translating hops to translation accuracy in sequential machine translation in Google Translate. Both accuracy and size decrease with the number of hops; the former displays a decrease closely following a power law. Such a law allows one to predict the behavior

  72. Michael Stewart, Joonhyuk Kwon, Alfonso Lanuza, Dominik Schneble

    The characteristics of spontaneous emission can be strongly modified by the mode structure of the vacuum. In waveguide quantum-electrodynamics based on photonic crystals, this modification is exploited to engineer atom-photon interactions near a band edge, but the physics of coupling to an entire band has not yet been explored in experiments. Using ultracold

  73. Leonardo Abbrescia, Jared Speck

    We derive new, localized geometric integral identities for solutions to the $3D$ compressible Euler equations under an arbitrary equation of state when the sound speed is positive. The identities are coercive in the first derivatives of the specific vorticity and the second derivatives of the entropy, and the error terms exhibit remarkable regularity and nul

  74. Devlin Gualtieri

    I present a chaotic pendulum based on the repulsive force between a random array of point sources of air flow and the conical tip of a rigid pendulum. Source code is provided for generation of random aperture arrays. The chaotic motion was analyzed using machine vision techniques. A computer simulation of this system is also presented, as are the results of

  75. CMS Collaboration

    Central exclusive and semiexclusive production of $π^+π^-$ pairs is measured with the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at center-of-mass energies of 5.02 and 13 TeV. The theoretical description of these nonperturbative processes, which have not yet been measured in detail at the LHC, poses a significant challenge to models. The two pions a

  76. Haixu Wang

    The Hawkes process is a self-exciting sample point process. It has wide applications in finance, social networks, criminology, seismology, and many other fields. With the development of storage technology, data-driven models are attracting more attention. Furthermore, in reality, events are often recorded in a discrete-time scheme. However, Hawkes process is

  77. Yogesh Sawant, S. V. Suryanarayana, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena

    The variances of the fission fragment mass distributions for symmetric fission over a wide range of the fissility of the compound nucleus have been investigated within the frame work of Random Neck Rupture Model (RNRM) proposed by Brosa et. al.,. The shape of the fissioning nucleus is generated using crel=1 in the RNRM model, which results in a smooth and co

  78. Rumen N. Georgiev, Sara O. Toscano, William E. Uspal, Bram Bet

    Comprehensive understanding of particle motion in microfluidic devices is essential to unlock novel technologies for shape-based separation and sorting of microparticles like microplastics, cells and crystal polymorphs. Such particles interact hydrodynamically with confining surfaces, thus altering their trajectories. These hydrodynamic interactions are shap

  79. Igor V. Tetko, Pavel Karpov, Ruud Van Deursen, Guillaume Godin

    We investigated the effect of different training scenarios on predicting the (retro)synthesis of chemical compounds using a text-like representation of chemical reactions (SMILES) and Natural Language Processing neural network Transformer architecture. We showed that data augmentation, which is a powerful method used in image processing, eliminated the effec

  80. Oguzhan Akgun, Alain Pirotte, Giovanni Urga, Zhenlin Yang

    We propose two types of equal predictive ability (EPA) tests with panels to compare the predictions made by two forecasters. The first type, namely $S$-statistics, focuses on the overall EPA hypothesis which states that the EPA holds on average over all panel units and over time. The second, called $C$-statistics, focuses on the clustered EPA hypothesis wher

  81. Jesse F. Giron, Richard F. Lebed

    We study the fine structure in the spectrum of known and predicted negative-parity hidden-charm exotic meson states, which comprise the lowest $P$-wave multiplet in the dynamical diquark model. Starting with a form previously shown to successfully describe the $S$-wave states, we develop a 5-parameter Hamiltonian that includes spin-orbit and tensor terms. Af

  82. Glencora Borradaile, William Maxwell, Amir Nayyeri

    We study two optimization problems on simplicial complexes with homology over $\mathbb{Z}_2$, the minimum bounded chain problem: given a $d$-dimensional complex $\mathcal{K}$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ and a null-homologous $(d-1)$-cycle $C$ in $\mathcal{K}$, find the minimum $d$-chain with boundary $C$, and the minimum homologous chain problem: given a

  83. Zhengwei Wang, Qi She, Alan F. Smeaton, Tomas E. Ward

    Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are increasingly attracting attention in the computer vision, natural language processing, speech synthesis and similar domains. However, evaluating the performance of GANs is still an open and challenging problem. Existing evaluation metrics primarily measure the dissimilarity between real and generated images using au

  84. P. Q. Hung

    The existence of a magnetic monopole, if it exists, remains elusive. Experimental searches have been carried out and are continuing in this quest. Of great uncertainty is the mass of the monopole which is model-dependent and ranging from some Grand Unified scale to the electroweak scale. In this paper, we propose a model where topologically stable, finite-en

  85. Renato Calleja, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, David Martinez-del-Rio, Arturo Olvera

    The search of high-order periodic orbits has been typically restricted to problems with symmetries that help to reduce the dimension of the search space. Well-known examples include reversible maps with symmetry lines. The present work proposes a new method to compute high-order periodic orbits in twist maps without the use of symmetries. The method is a com

  86. Youngkyu Sung, Antti Vepsäläinen, Jochen Braumüller, Fei Yan

    System noise identification is crucial to the engineering of robust quantum systems. Although existing quantum noise spectroscopy (QNS) protocols measure an aggregate amount of noise affecting a quantum system, they generally cannot distinguish between the underlying processes that contribute to it. Here, we propose and experimentally validate a spin-locking

  87. Célestin Kurujyibwami, Roman O. Popovych

    We study admissible and equivalence point transformations between generalized multidimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations and classify Lie symmetries of such equations. We begin with a wide superclass of Schrödinger-type equations, which includes all the other classes considered in the paper. Showing that this superclass is not normalized, we partition

  88. V. De Luca, G. Franciolini, P. Pani, A. Riotto

    Primordial black holes in the mass range of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors can comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Mass and spin measurements from coalescences can be used to distinguish between an astrophysical or a primordial origin of the binary black holes. In standard scenarios the spin of primordial black holes is very small

  89. Christophe Charlier, Jonatan Lenells

    We develop an inverse scattering transform formalism for the "good" Boussinesq equation on the line. Assuming that the solution exists, we show that it can be expressed in terms of the solution of a $3 \times 3$ matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem. The Riemann-Hilbert problem is formulated in terms of two reflection coefficients whose definitions involve

  90. Soumitra Hazra, Allan Sacha Brun, Dibyendu Nandy

    Predictions of solar cycle 24 obtained from advection-dominated and diffusion-dominated kinematic dynamo models are different if the Babcock-Leighton mechanism is the only source of the poloidal field. Yeates et al. (2008) argue that the discrepancy arises due to different memories of the solar dynamo for advection- and diffusion-dominated solar convection z

  91. Jaseung Ku, Xuexin Xu, Markus Brink, David C. McKay

    Mitigating crosstalk errors, whether classical or quantum mechanical, is critically important for achieving high-fidelity entangling gates in multi-qubit circuits. For weakly anharmonic superconducting qubits, unwanted $ZZ$ interactions can be suppressed by combining qubits with opposite anharmonicity. We present experimental measurements and theoretical mod

  92. Semanti Dutta, B. Sathiapalan, H. Sonoda

    In this paper the fixed-point Wilson action for the critical $O(N)$ model in $D=4-\eps$ dimensions is written down in the $\eps$ expansion to order $\eps^2$. It is obtained by solving the fixed-point Polchinski Exact Renormalization Group equation (with anomalous dimension) in powers of $\eps$. This is an example of a theory that has scale and conformal inva

  93. Yukako Kezuka

    Given any integer $N>1$ prime to $3$, we denote by $C_N$ the elliptic curve $x^3+y^3=N$. We first study the $3$-adic valuation of the algebraic part of the value of the Hasse-Weil $L$-function $L(C_N,s)$ of $C_N$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ at $s=1$, and we exhibit a relation between the $3$-part of its Tate-Shafarevich group and the number of distinct prime divisors

  94. I. I. Ryzhov, V. O. Kozlov, N. S. Kuznetsov, I. Yu. Chestnov

    Bose-Einstein condensates of exciton-polaritons are known for their fascinating coherent and polarization properties. The spin state of the condensate is reflected in polarization of the exciton-polariton emission, with temporal fluctuations of this polarization being, in general, capable of reflecting quantum statistics of polaritons in the condensate. To s

  95. Jun Nian, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

    Using $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory we recover important aspects of the near-extremal thermodynamics of AdS$_5$ black holes including both the outer and the inner horizons with their corresponding entropy and energy. This $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory approach to black hole thermodynamics leads to an effective CFT$_2$ in

  96. Daniel Ish, Andrew Lohn, Christian Curriden

    Motivated by recent interest in the status and consequences of competition between the U.S. and China in A.I. research, we analyze 60 years of abstract data scraped from Scopus to explore and quantify trends in publications on A.I. topics from institutions affiliated with each country. We find the total volume of publications produced in both countries grows

  97. Maurizio Tavelli, Simone Chiocchetti, Evgeniy Romenski, Alice-Agnes Gabriel

    We are concerned with the numerical solution of a unified first order hyperbolic formulation of continuum mechanics that originates from the work of Godunov, Peshkov and Romenski (GPR model) and which is an extension of nonlinear hyperelasticity that is able to describe simultaneously nonlinear elasto-plastic solids at large strain, as well as viscous and id

  98. Tianyu Liu, Xin Zheng, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui

    Many recent studies have shown that for models trained on datasets for natural language inference (NLI), it is possible to make correct predictions by merely looking at the hypothesis while completely ignoring the premise. In this work, we manage to derive adversarial examples in terms of the hypothesis-only bias and explore eligible ways to mitigate such bi

  99. W. T. Gowers, Barnabás Janzer

    Considering a natural generalization of the Ruzsa-Szemerédi problem, we prove that for any fixed positive integers $r,s$ with $r<s$, there are graphs on $n$ vertices containing $n^{r}e^{-O(\sqrt{\log{n}})}=n^{r-o(1)}$ copies of $K_s$ such that any $K_r$ is contained in at most one $K_s$. We also give bounds for the generalized rainbow Turán problem $\operato

  100. Jean-Philippe Labbé

    Multitriangulations, and more generally subword complexes, yield a large family of simplicial complexes that are homeomorphic to spheres. Until now, all attempts to prove or disprove that they can be realized as convex polytopes faced major obstacles. In this article, we lay out the foundations of a framework -- built upon notions from algebraic combinatoric