May 2020 arXiv papers — page 13

Shady Ahmed, Suraj Pawar, Omer San, Adil Rasheed

In this paper, we put forth a long short-term memory (LSTM) nudging framework for the enhancement of reduced order models (ROMs) of fluid flows utilizing noisy measurements. We build on the fact that in a realistic application, there are uncertainties in initial conditions, boundary conditions, model parameters, and/or field measurements. Moreover, conventio

Nassim Rafiefard, Azam Iraji zad, Ali Esfandiar, Pezhman Sasanpour

In this work, the room temperature polar vapor sensing behavior of two dimentional (2D) heterojunction Graphene-TiS3 materials and TiS3 nanoribbons is investigated. TiS3 nanoribbons were synthesized via chemical vapor transport (CVT) and their structure was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (

Aritra K. Mukhopadhyay, Peter Schmelcher

We demonstrate the control of vortical motion of neutral classical particles in driven superlattices. Our superlattice consists of a superposition of individual lattices whose potential depths are modulated periodically in time but with different phases. This driving scheme breaks the spatial reflection symmetries and allows an ensemble of particles to rotat

Jonah Kudler-Flam, Masahiro Nozaki, Shinsei Ryu, Mao Tian Tan

We study the robustness of quantum and classical information to perturbations implemented by local operator insertions. We do this by computing multipartite entanglement measures in the Hilbert space of local operators in the Heisenberg picture. The sensitivity to initial conditions that we explore is an illuminating manifestation of the butterfly effect in

James Walden

Context: The Heartbleed vulnerability brought OpenSSL to international attention in 2014. The almost moribund project was a key security component in public web servers and over a billion mobile devices. This vulnerability led to new investments in OpenSSL. Objective: The goal of this study is to determine how the Heartbleed vulnerability changed the softwar

O. B. Zaslavskii

We consider collision of two particles 1 and 2 near the horizon of the extremal rotating axially symmetric neutral generic black hole producing particles 3 and 4. We discuss the scenario in which both particles 3 and 4 fall into a black hole and move in a white hole region. If particle 1 is fine-tuned, the energy $E_{c.m.}$ in the centre of mass grows unboun

Andrew Swan

We define a class of higher inductive types that can be constructed in the category of sets under the assumptions of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory without the axiom of choice or the existence of uncountable regular cardinals. This class includes the example of unordered trees of any arity.

V. L. Oknyansky, H. Winkler, S. S. Tsygankov, V. M. Lipunov

We present results of the long-term multi-wavelength study of optical, UV and X-ray variability of the nearby changing-look (CL) Seyfert NGC 1566 observed with the Swift Observatory and the MASTER Global Robotic Network from 2007 to 2019. We started spectral observations with South African Astronomical Observatory 1.9-m telescope soon after the brightening w

Donghwan Kim, Alhun Aydin, Alvar Daza, Kobra N. Avanaki

We develop the coherent state representation of lattice vibrations to describe their interactions with charge carriers. In direct analogy to quantum optics, the coherent state representation leads from quantized lattice vibrations (phonons) naturally to a quasiclassical field limit, i.e., the deformation potential. To an electron, the deformation field is a

Jiuwen Zhu, Hu Han, S. Kevin Zhou

With the mushrooming use of computed tomography (CT) images in clinical decision making, management of CT data becomes increasingly difficult. From the patient identification perspective, using the standard DICOM tag to track patient information is challenged by issues such as misspelling, lost file, site variation, etc. In this paper, we explore the feasibi

Neeraj Kumar, Y. Soh, Yihao Wang, Junbo Li

The macroscopic signature for Weyl nodes so far has been the negative longitudinal magnetoresistance arising from the chiral anomaly. However, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance is not unique to chiral anomaly and can arise due to completely different mechanisms such as current jetting or in ferromagnetic systems due to the suppression of scattering wit

Muhammad Ahmad

Traditional Active/Self/Interactive Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC) increases the size of the training set without considering the class scatters and randomness among the existing and new samples. Second, very limited research has been carried out on joint spectral-spatial information and finally, a minor but still worth mentioning is

Roozbeh Hazrat, Lia Vas

Let $\Gamma$ be the infinite cyclic group on a generator $x.$ To avoid confusion when working with $\mathbb Z$-modules which also have an additional $\mathbb Z$-action, we consider the $\mathbb Z$-action to be a $\Gamma$-action instead. Starting from a directed graph $E$, one can define a cancellative commutative monoid $M_E^\Gamma$ with a $\Gamma$-action wh

Gaetano Perone

The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a severe respiratory infection that officially occurred in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. In late February, the disease began to spread quickly across the world, causing serious health, social, and economic emergencies. This paper aims to forecast the short to medium-term incidence of COVID-19 epidemic through the

Debasish Chaudhuri, Abhishek Dhar

We consider an active Brownian particle in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap, in the presence of translational diffusion. While the Fokker-Planck equation can not in general be solved to obtain a closed form solution of the joint distribution of positions and orientations, as we show, it can be utilized to evaluate the exact time dependence of all moments, usi

Stefan Hochwarter, Salla Atkins, Vinod K. Diwan, Nabil Zary

Health research capacity strengthening is of importance to reach health goals. The ARCADE projects' aim was to strengthen health research across Africa and Asia using innovative educational technologies. In the four years of the EU funded projects, challenges also of technical nature were identified. This article reports on a study conducted within the ARCAD

Matt Clay, Johanna Mangahas

This paper is a continuation of our previous work with Margalit where we studied group actions on projection complexes. In that paper, we demonstrated sufficient conditions so that the normal closure of a family of subgroups of vertex stabilizers is a free product of certain conjugates of these subgroups. In this paper, we study both the quotient of the proj

Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Véronique Hussin, James Moran, Kevin Zelaya

We explore the quantization of classical models with position-dependent mass (PDM) terms constrained to a bounded interval in the canonical position. This is achieved through the Weyl-Heisenberg covariant integral quantization by properly choosing a regularizing function $\Pi(q,p)$ on the phase space that smooths the discontinuities present in the classical

Marc Chalé, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Jeffery Weir

The number of cyber threats against both wired and wireless computer systems and other components of the Internet of Things continues to increase annually. In this work, an algorithm selection framework is employed on the NSL-KDD data set and a novel paradigm of machine learning taxonomy is presented. The framework uses a combination of user input and meta-f

Celso A. M. Lopes Junior, Matheus Henrique M. da Silva, Byron Leite Dantas Bezerra, Bruno Jose Torres Fernandes

Although secular, handwritten signature is one of the most reliable biometric methods used by most countries. In the last ten years, the application of technology for verification of handwritten signatures has evolved strongly, including forensic aspects. Some factors, such as the complexity of the background and the small size of the region of interest - si

Edwin A. Bedolla-Montiel, Luis Carlos Padierna, Ramón Castañeda-Priego

Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) seeks to understand the microscopic interactions of matter at the quantum and atomistic levels, and describes how these interactions result in both mesoscopic and macroscopic properties. CMP overlaps with many other important branches of science, such as Chemistry, Materials Science, Statistical Physics, and High-Performance Co

Erik J. Davies, Dylan K. Spaulding, Sarah T. Stewart

Here we describe the implementation and calibration of a streaked visible spectrometer (SVS) for optical pyrometry and emission/absorption spectroscopy on light gas gun platforms in the UC Davis Shock Compression Laboratory. The diagnostic consists of an optical streak camera coupled to a spectrometer to provide temporally and spectrally-resolved records of

C. H. Zepeda-Fernández, L. F. Rebolledo-Herrera, M. Rodríguez-Cahuantzi, E. Moreno-Barbosa

The silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are commonly used in the construction of radiation detectors such as those used in high energy experiments and its applications, where an excellent time resolution is required for triggering. In most of this cases, the trigger systems electric charge information is discarded due to limitations in data acquisition. In thi

Valeriano Aiello, Daniele Guido, Tommaso Isola

The Sierpinski gasket admits a locally isometric ramified self-covering. A semifinite spectral triple is constructed on the resulting solenoidal space, and its main geometrical features are discussed.

Evelyn Sander, Thomas Wanner

In the study of equilibrium solutions for partial differential equations there are so many equilibria that one cannot hope to find them all. Therefore one usually concentrates on finding individual branches of equilibrium solutions. On the one hand, a rigorous theoretical understanding of these branches is ideal but not generally tractable. On the other hand

Ozge Nilay Yalcin, Nouf Abukhodair, Steve DiPaola

There is a growing recognition that artists use valuable ways to understand and work with cognitive and perceptual mechanisms to convey desired experiences and narrative in their created artworks (DiPaola et al., 2010; Zeki, 2001). This paper documents our attempt to computationally model the creative process of a portrait painter, who relies on understandin

J. Florencio, O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim

We review various theoretical methods that have been used in recent years to calculate dynamical correlation functions of many-body systems. Time-dependent correlation functions and their associated frequency spectral densities are the quantities of interest, for they play a central role in both the theoretical and experimental understanding of dynamic prope

Yao Ji, Henry Lamm, Shuchen Zhu

Efficient digitization is required for quantum simulations of gauge theories. Schemes based on discrete subgroups use fewer qubits at the cost of systematic errors. We systematize this approach by deriving a single plaquette action for approximating general continuous gauge groups through integrating out field fluctuations. This provides insight into the eff

Arsham Mostaani, Thang X. Vu, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten

Various applications for inter-machine communications are on the rise. Whether it is for autonomous driving vehicles or the internet of everything, machines are more connected than ever to improve their performance in fulfilling a given task. While in traditional communications the goal has often been to reconstruct the underlying message, under the emerging

CMS Collaboration

We present the first study of charged-hadron production associated with jets originating from b quarks in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The data sample used in this study was collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 27.4 pb$^{-1}$. To characterize the jet substructure, t

Emna Zedini, Abla Kammoun, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Due to recent advances in laser satellite communications technology, free-space optical (FSO) links are presented as an ideal alternative to the conventional radio frequency (RF) feeder links of the geostationary satellite for next generation very high throughput satellite (VHTS) systems. In this paper, we investigate the performance of multibeam VHTS system

C. A. Escobar, A. Martín-Ruiz, O. J. Franca, Marcos A. G. Garcia

We determine the effect of Lorentz invariance violation in the vacuum energy and stress between two parallel plates separated by a distance $L$, in the presence of a massive real scalar field. We parametrize the Lorentz-violation in terms of a symmetric tensor $h^{\,\mu\nu}$ that represents a constant background. Through the Green's function method, we obtai

Edward Shuryak, Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We discuss the potential of light-nuclei measurement in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies for the search of the hypothetical QCD critical end-point. A previous proposal based on neutron density fluctuations has brought appealing experimental evidences of a maximum in a ratio involving tritons, protons and deuterons, ${\cal O}_{tpd}$. However thes

Ruma Rani Maity, Apala Majumdar, Neela Nataraj

We study a system of semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations with a lower order cubic nonlinear term, and inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, relevant for two-dimensional bistable liquid crystal devices, within a reduced Landau-de Gennes framework. The main results are (i) a priori error estimates for the energy norm, within the Nitsche'

Saikat Dutta

Bokeh effect is used in photography to capture images where the closer objects look sharp and every-thing else stays out-of-focus. Bokeh photos are generally captured using Single Lens Reflex cameras using shallow depth-of-field. Most of the modern smartphones can take bokeh images by leveraging dual rear cameras or a good auto-focus hardware. However, for s

Yifan Dai, Yien Xu, Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan

We introduce BOURBON, a log-structured merge (LSM) tree that utilizes machine learning to provide fast lookups. We base the design and implementation of BOURBON on empirically-grounded principles that we derive through careful analysis of LSM design. BOURBON employs greedy piecewise linear regression to learn key distributions, enabling fast lookup with mini

Ben Ortiz, Laura Kahn, Marc Bosch, Philip Bogden

New crisis response and management approaches that incorporate the latest information technologies are essential in all phases of emergency preparedness and response, including the planning, response, recovery, and assessment phases. Accurate and timely information is as crucial as is rapid and coherent coordination among the responding organizations. We are

José P. S. Lemos, Diogo L. F. G. Silva

We find a specific coordinate system that goes from the Painlev\'e-Gullstrand partial extension to the Kruskal-Szekeres maximal extension and thus exhibit the maximal extension of the Schwarzschild metric in a unified picture. We do this by adopting two time coordinates, one being the proper time of a congruence of outgoing timelike geodesics, the other bein

Michał Eckstein, Tomasz Trześniewski

Different approaches to quantum gravity generally predict that the dimension of spacetime at the fundamental level is not 4. The principal tool to measure how the dimension changes between the IR and UV scales of the theory is the spectral dimension. On the other hand, the noncommutative-geometric perspective suggests that quantum spacetimes ought to be char

Claudia Aguilera-Gómez, Julio Chanamé, Marc H. Pinsonneault

High lithium-7 ($\mathrm{^7Li}$) abundances in giants are indicative of non-standard physical processes affecting the star. Mechanisms that could produce this signature include contamination from an external source, such as planets, or internal production and subsequent mixing to the stellar surface. However, distinguishing between different families of solu

Rodrigo Fernández, Francois Foucart, Jonas Lippuner

We investigate mass ejection from accretion disks formed in mergers of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). The third observing run of the LIGO/Virgo interferometers provided BH-NS candidate events that yielded no electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. The broad range of disk configurations expected from BH-NS mergers motivates a thorough exploration of pa

Gero von Gersdorff

We present realistic models of flavor in SU(5) and SO(10) grand unified theories (GUTs). The models are renormalizable and do not require any exotic representations in order to accommodate the necessary GUT breaking effects in the Yukawa couplings. They are based on a simple clockwork Lagrangian whose structure is enforced with just two (one) vectorlike U(1)

Ankita Bera, Kanan K. Datta, Saumyadip Samui

We study prospects of constraining the primordial magnetic field (PMF) and its evolution during the dark ages and cosmic dawn in light of EDGES 21-cm signal. Our analysis has been carried out on a `colder IGM' background which is one of the promising avenues to interpret the EDGES signal. We consider the dark matter-baryon interactions for the excess cooling

Carlos Hoyos, Niko Jokela, Matti Jarvinen, Javier G. Subils

Motivated by the possible presence of deconfined quark matter in neutron stars and their mergers and the important role of transport phenomena in these systems, we perform the first-ever systematic study of different viscosities and conductivities of dense quark matter using the gauge/gravity duality. Utilizing the V-QCD model, we arrive at results that are

Francesco Capozzi, Madhurima Chakraborty, Sovan Chakraborty, Manibrata Sen

Neutrinos in a core-collapse supernova can undergo fast flavor conversions with a possible impact on the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis. We perform the first non-linear simulations of fast conversions in the presence of three neutrino flavors. The recent supernova simulations with muon production call for such an analysis, as they relax the standard

Grant M. Kennedy, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Myriam Benisty

RZ Psc is a young Sun-like star with a bright and warm infrared excess that is occasionally dimmed significantly by circumstellar dust structures. Optical depth arguments suggest that the dimming events do not probe a typical sight line through the circumstellar dust, and are instead caused by structures that appear above an optically thick mid-plane. This s

P. Thapa, N. K. Byrnes, A. A. Denisenko, F. W. Foss,

Single molecule fluorescence detection of barium is investigated for enhancing the sensitivity and robustness of a neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) search in $^{136}$Xe, the discovery of which would alter our understanding of the nature of neutrinos and the early history of the Universe. A key developmental step is the synthesis of barium-se

Ananthan Karunakaran, Kristine Spekkens, Dennis Zaritsky, Richard Donnerstein

We present neutral hydrogen (HI) observations using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) of 70 optically-detected UDG candidates in the Coma region from the Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies survey (SMUDGes). We detect HI in 18 targets, confirming 9 to be gas-rich UDGs and the remainder to be foreground dwarfs. None of our HI-detected

J. W. Bredall, B. J. Shappee, E. Gaidos, T. Jayasinghe

Some young stellar objects such as T Tauri-like "dipper" stars vary due to transient partial occultation by circumstellar dust, and observations of this phenomenon inform us of conditions in the planet-forming zones close to these stars. Although many dipper stars have been identified with space missions such as $Kepler$/$K2$, ground-based telescopes offer l

Grant M. Kennedy

This paper shows that the eccentric debris rings seen around the stars Fomalhaut and HD 202628 are narrower than expected in the standard eccentric planet perturbation scenario (sometimes referred to as "pericenter glow"). The standard scenario posits an initially circular and narrow belt of planetesimals at semi-major axis $a$, whose eccentricity is increas

David W. Hogg, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Boris Leistedt

A product of two Gaussians (or normal distributions) is another Gaussian. That's a valuable and useful fact! Here we use it to derive a refactoring of a common product of multivariate Gaussians: The product of a Gaussian likelihood times a Gaussian prior, where some or all of those parameters enter the likelihood only in the mean and only linearly. That is,

R. B. Versteeg, A. Chiocchetta, F. Sekiguchi, A. I. R. Aldea

Excitation by light pulses enables the manipulation of phases of quantum condensed matter. Here, we photoexcite high-energy holon-doublon pairs as a way to alter the magnetic free energy landscape of the Kitaev-Heisenberg magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, with the aim to dynamically stabilize a proximate spin liquid phase. The holon-doublon pair recombination throug

E. Jonathan Torres-Herrera, Isaías Vallejo-Fabila, Andrei J. Martínez-Mendoza, Lea F. Santos

In a disordered system, a quantity is self-averaging when the ratio between its variance for disorder realizations and the square of its mean decreases as the system size increases. Here, we consider a chaotic disordered many-body quantum system and search for a relationship between self-averaging behavior and the properties of the distributions over disorde

Hanrui Wang, Zhanghao Wu, Zhijian Liu, Han Cai

Transformers are ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, but they are difficult to be deployed on hardware due to the intensive computation. To enable low-latency inference on resource-constrained hardware platforms, we propose to design Hardware-Aware Transformers (HAT) with neural architecture search. We first construct a large design space

Stéphane Gaubert, Marianne Akian, Xavier Allamigeon, Marin Boyet

We portray the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic during the crisis of March-April 2020 in the Paris area, by analyzing the medical emergency calls received by the EMS of the four central departments of this area (Centre 15 of SAMU 75, 92, 93 and 94). Our study reveals strong dissimilarities between these departments. We show that the logarithm of each epide

Andrea M. Salazar, Stephanie L. Olson, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Haynes Stephens

The potential habitability of tidally locked planets orbiting M-dwarf stars has been widely investigated in recent work, typically with a non-dynamic ocean and without continents. On Earth, ocean dynamics are a primary means of heat and nutrient distribution. Continents are a critical source of nutrients, strongly influence ocean dynamics, and participate in

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata

We present the first search for bosonic super-WIMPs as keV-scale dark matter candidates performed with the GERDA experiment. GERDA is a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment which operates high-purity germanium detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge in an ultra-low background environment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN in Italy. Search

Nicola D. Kelly, Siân E. Dutton

This study examines the lanthanide calcium oxyborates Ca$_4$LnO(BO$_3$)$_3$ (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Er, Yb). The reported monoclinic structure (space group $Cm$) was confirmed using powder X-ray diffraction. The magnetic Ln$^{3+}$ ions are situated in well-separated chains parallel to the c axis in a quasi-one-dimensional array. Here we

Andrei Neguţ

We consider the R-matrix of the quantum toroidal algebra of type gl_1, both abstractly and in Fock space representations. We provide a survey of a certain point of view on this object which involves the elliptic Hall and shuffle algebras, and show how to obtain certain explicit formulas.

Hugo Tremonte de Carvalho, Flávio Rainho Ávila, Luiz Wagner Pereira Biscainho

A common defect found when reproducing old vinyl and gramophone recordings with mechanical devices are the long pulses with significant low-frequency content caused by the interaction of the arm-needle system with deep scratches or even breakages on the media surface. Previous approaches to their suppression on digital counterparts of the recordings depend o

Johannes Alt, Raphael Ducatez, Antti Knowles

We analyse the eigenvectors of the adjacency matrix of a critical Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $\mathbb G(N,d/N)$, where $d$ is of order $\log N$. We show that its spectrum splits into two phases: a delocalized phase in the middle of the spectrum, where the eigenvectors are completely delocalized, and a semilocalized phase near the edges of the spectrum, where th

Shane G. Henderson, Sean P. Meyn

We use simulation to estimate the steady-state performance of a stable multiclass queueing network. Standard estimators have been seen to perform poorly when the network is heavily loaded. We introduce two new simulation estimators. The first provides substantial variance reductions in moderately-loaded networks at very little additional computational cost.

Liang Kong, Tian Lan, Xiao-Gang Wen, Zhi-Hao Zhang

We introduce the notion of algebraic higher symmetry, which generalizes higher symmetry and is beyond higher group. We show that an algebraic higher symmetry in a bosonic system in $n$-dimensional space is characterized and classified by a local fusion $n$-category. We find another way to describe algebraic higher symmetry by restricting to symmetric sub Hil

Ioannis Karatzas, Jan Maas, Walter Schachermayer

We study the temporal dissipation of variance and relative entropy for ergodic Markov Chains in continuous time, and compute explicitly the corresponding dissipation rates. These are identified, as is well known, in the case of the variance in terms of an appropriate Hilbertian norm; and in the case of the relative entropy, in terms of a Dirichlet form which

Karlheinz Gröchenig, Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà

We study the relationship between sampling sequences in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces of analytic functions and Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities in subspaces of polynomials. We focus on the study of the Hardy space and the Bergman space in one variable because they provide two settings with a strikingly different behavior.

L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson, J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) provides high resolution observations of the solar atmosphere through UV spectroscopy and imaging. Since the launch of IRIS in June 2013, we have conducted systematic observation campaigns in coordination with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma. The SST provides complementary high-resolution

Koichi Harada

The quantum toroidal algebra of $gl_1$ provides many deformed W-algebras associated with (super) Lie algebras of type A. The recent work by Gaiotto and Rapcak suggests that a wider class of deformed W-algebras including non-principal cases are obtained by gluing the quantum toroidal algebras of $gl_1$. These algebras are expected to be related with 5d AGT co

Ivan Galinskiy, Yeghishe Tsaturyan, Michał Parniak, Eugene S. Polzik

Generation of non-Gaussian quantum states of macroscopic mechanical objects is key to a number of challenges in quantum information science, ranging from fundamental tests of decoherence to quantum communication and sensing. Heralded generation of single-phonon states of mechanical motion is an attractive way towards this goal, as it is, in principle, not li

I. R. Goumiri, K. J. McCollam, A. A. Squitieri, D. J. Holly

Programmable control of the inductive electric field enables advanced operations of reversed-field pinch (RFP) plasmas in the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) device and further develops the technical basis for ohmically heated fusion RFP plasmas. MST's poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields ($B_\text{p}$ and $B_\text{t}$) can be sourced by programmable power su

Jiarui Qin, Weinan Zhang, Xin Wu, Jiarui Jin

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a key role in modern online personalization services. In practice, it is necessary to capture user's drifting interests by modeling sequential user behaviors to build an accurate CTR prediction model. However, as the users accumulate more and more behavioral data on the platforms, it becomes non-trivial for the seque

Jing Ma, Lucas D. Valdez, Lidia A. Braunstein

Power-law behaviors are common in many disciplines, especially in network science. Real-world networks, like disease spreading among people, are more likely to be interconnected communities, and show richer power-law behaviors than isolated networks. In this paper, we look at the system of two communities which are connected by bridge links between a fractio

Longlong Jing, Yucheng Chen, Ling Zhang, Mingyi He

Most of the existing self-supervised feature learning methods for 3D data either learn 3D features from point cloud data or from multi-view images. By exploring the inherent multi-modality attributes of 3D objects, in this paper, we propose to jointly learn modal-invariant and view-invariant features from different modalities including image, point cloud, an

Victor Chernozhukov, Hiroyuki Kasaha, Paul Schrimpf

This paper evaluates the dynamic impact of various policies adopted by US states on the growth rates of confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths as well as social distancing behavior measured by Google Mobility Reports, where we take into consideration people's voluntarily behavioral response to new information of transmission risks. Our analysis finds that both

Zeinab Shadram, Tuan M. Nguyen, Athanasios Sideris, William A. Sirignano

In this paper, neural network (NN)-based models are generated to replace flamelet tables for sub-grid modeling in large-eddy simulations of a single-injector liquid-propellant rocket engine. In the most accurate case, separate NNs for each of the flame variables are designed and tested by comparing the NN output values with the corresponding values in the ta

Victoria J Wright, Stefan Weigert

Gleason-type theorems for quantum theory allow one to recover the quantum state space by assuming that (i) states consistently assign probabilities to measurement outcomes and that (ii) there is a unique state for every such assignment. We identify the class of general probabilistic theories which also admit Gleason-type theorems. It contains theories satisf

Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Mann, Nick Ryder, Melanie Subbiah

Recent work has demonstrated substantial gains on many NLP tasks and benchmarks by pre-training on a large corpus of text followed by fine-tuning on a specific task. While typically task-agnostic in architecture, this method still requires task-specific fine-tuning datasets of thousands or tens of thousands of examples. By contrast, humans can generally perf

E. W. Rosenthal, I. Larkin, A. Goffin, T. Produit

We present space and time resolved measurements of the air hydrodynamics induced by ultrafast laser pulse excitation of the air gap between two electrodes at high potential difference. We explore both plasma-based and plasma-free gap excitation. The former uses the plasma left in the wake of femtosecond filamentation, while the latter exploits air heating by

S. K. Greif, K. Hebeler, J. M. Lattimer, C. J. Pethick

We explore constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter based on microscopic calculations up to nuclear densities and observations of neutron stars. In a previous work we showed that predictions based on modern nuclear interactions derived within chiral effective field theory and the observation of two-solar-mass neutron stars result in

Wen-Yuan Ai, Marco Drewes

We present a simple and intuitive description of both, the Schwinger effect and false vacuum decay through bubble nucleation, as tunneling problems in one-dimensional relativistic quantum mechanics. Both problems can be described by an effective potential that depends on a single variable of dimension length, which measures the separation of the particles in

H. Lane, C. Stock, S. -W. Cheong, F. Demmel

We analyze the low-energy dynamics of quasi one dimensional, large-$S$ quantum antiferromagnets with easy-axis anisotropy, using a semi-classical non-linear sigma model. The saddle point approximation leads to a sine Gordon equation which supports soliton solutions. These correspond to the movement of spatially extended domain walls. Long-range magnetic orde

L. Paolozzi, R. Cardarelli, S. Débieux, Y. Favre

SiGe BiCMOS technology can be used to produce ultra-fast, low-power silicon pixel sensors that provide state-of-the-art time resolution even without an internal gain mechanism. The development of such sensors requires the identification of the main factors that may degrade the timing performance and the characterisation of the dependance of the sensor time r

Martin Aubé, Alexandre Simoneau, Casiana Munoz-Tunon, Javier Diaz-Castro

The propagation of artificial light into real environments is complex. To perform its numerical modelling with accuracy one must consider hyperspectral properties of the lighting devices and their geographic positions, the hyperspectral properties of the ground reflectance, the size and distribution of small-scale obstacles, the blocking effect of topography

Franziska Glassmeier, Fabian Hoffmann, Jill S. Johnson, Takanobu Yamaguchi

The effect of anthropogenic aerosol on the reflectivity of stratocumulus cloud decks through changes in cloud amount is a major uncertainty in climate projections. The focus of this study is the frequently occurring non-precipitating stratocumulus. In this regime, cloud amount can decrease through aerosol-enhanced cloud-top mixing. The climatological relevan

Ran Huo

If dark matter particle can be decelerated due to its dissipative self scattering, except for sinking at the galaxy scale to speed up structure formation, it can also be accreted onto local celestial bodies such as the Sun, forming a compact halo. With some simplified assumptions we develop the Boltzmann equation set based on the partition function of the el

Peter Koymans, Carlo Pagano

Fix an integer $l$ such that $|l|$ is a prime $3$ modulo $4$. Let $d > 0$ be a squarefree integer and let $N_d(x, y)$ be the principal binary quadratic form of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{d})$. Building on a breakthrough of Alexander Smith, we give an asymptotic formula for the solubility of $N_d(x, y) = l$ in integers $x$ and $y$ as $d$ varies among squarefree intege

Mohammad Sina Kiarostami, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli, Ali Oliayi

Nowadays, the field of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games (AI in Games) is going to be more alluring since computer games challenge many aspects of AI with a wide range of problems, particularly general problems. One of these kinds of problems is Exploration, which states that an unknown environment must be explored by one or several agents. In this w

Mary Knapp, Sara Seager, Brice-Olivier Demory, Akshata Krishnamurthy

ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research In Astrophysics) is a 6U CubeSat space telescope (10 cm x 20 cm x 30 cm, 10 kg). ASTERIA's primary mission objective was demonstrating two key technologies for reducing systematic noise in photometric observations: high-precision pointing control and high-stabilty thermal control. ASTERIA demonstrated 0.5

Fabiano F. Santos, Henrique Boschi-Filho

In this work we consider Horndesky gravity deformed by a parameter in its kinetic terms embedded in asymptotically Lifshitz spacetimes. We obtain black brane solutions in this geometry and study their thermodynamical properties. We show that the $\kappa$-deformation on the Horndeski kinetic terms allow for arbitrary values of the critical exponents character

Utkarsh Bajpai, Branislav K. Nikolic

We analyze a quantum-classical hybrid system of steadily precessing slow classical localized magnetic moments, forming a head-to-head domain wall, embedded into an open quantum system of fast nonequilibrium electrons. The electrons reside within a metallic wire connected to macroscopic reservoirs. The model captures the essence of dynamical noncollinear and

Evan Miller

In this paper, we will prove a new, scale critical regularity criterion for solutions of the Navier--Stokes equation that are sufficiently close to being eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. This estimate improves previous regularity criteria requiring control on the $\dot{H}^\alpha$ norm of $u,$ with $2\leq \alpha<\frac{5}{2},$ to a regularity criterion requiri

Eduardo I. Guendelman, Ramon Herrera, Pedro Labrana

The instant preheating mechanism in the framework of a scale invariant two measures theory is studied. We introduce this mechanism into a non oscillating inflationary model as another possible solution to the reheating of the universe in this theory. In this framework, we consider that the model includes two scalar matter fields, the first a dilaton field, t

Yishai Oltchik, Oded Schwartz

Network contention frequently dominates the run time of parallel algorithms and limits scaling performance. Most previous studies mitigate or eliminate contention by utilizing one of several approaches: communication-minimizing algorithms; hotspot-avoiding routing schemes; topology-aware task mapping; or improving global network properties, such as bisection

Jakob Jordan, Maximilian Schmidt, Walter Senn, Mihai A. Petrovici

Continuous adaptation allows survival in an ever-changing world. Adjustments in the synaptic coupling strength between neurons are essential for this capability, setting us apart from simpler, hard-wired organisms. How these changes can be mathematically described at the phenomenological level, as so called "plasticity rules", is essential both for understan

Mi Jiang

Can the antiferromagnetic (AF) order be induced via the local moments' hybridization with the heavy electrons instead of conduction electrons? We address this intriguingly fundamental question via a prototypical model to describe the interplay between local moments and heavy electrons. We discover that the AF order can be mediated via the heavy electrons thr

M. Bahraminasr, A. Vafaei Sadr

"IMDb" as a user-regulating and one the most-visited portal has provided an opportunity to create an enormous database. Analysis of the information on Internet Movie Database - IMDb, either those related to the movie or provided by users would help to reveal the determinative factors in the route of success for each movie. As the lack of a comprehensive data

Amber K. Lenon, Alexander H. Nitz, Duncan A. Brown

Two binary neutron star mergers, GW170817 and GW190425, have been detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. These signals were detected by matched-filter searches that assume the star's orbit has circularized by the time their gravitational-wave emission is observable. This suggests that their eccentricity is low, but full parameter estimation of their eccentrici

A. E. Koshelev

We consider a clean layered magnetic superconductor in which a continuous magnetic transition takes place inside superconducting state and the exchange interaction between superconducting and magnetic subsystems is weak so that superconductivity is not destroyed at the magnetic transition. An example of such material is RbEuFe$_{4}$As$_{4}$. We investigate t

Ch. Helling, Y. Kawashima, V. Graham, D. Samra

Having a short orbital period and being tidally locked makes WASP-43b an ideal candidate for JWST observations. Phase curve observations of an entire orbit will enable the mapping of the atmospheric structure across the planet, with different wavelengths of observation allowing different atmospheric depths to be seen. We provide insight into the details of t

A. Rodriguez, M. S. Jaman, O. Acikgoz, B. Wang

Ti$_3$C$_2$T$_X$ nano-sheets (MXenes) are an emerging class of two-dimensional materials with outstanding potential to be employed in energy storage, catalysis, and triboelectric applications, on length scales ranging from the nano- to macroscopic. Despite rapidly accelerating interest in this new class of materials, their nanoscale frictional properties and

Yusuke Nomura, Masatoshi Imada

Pursuing fractionalized particles that do not bear properties of conventional measurable objects, exemplified by bare particles in the vacuum such as electrons and elementary excitations such as magnons, is a challenge in physics. Here we show that a machine-learning method for quantum many-body systems that has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy reveals the