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2020-11-02
On the stability of Bresse and Timoshenko systems with hyperbolic heat conduction
We investigate the stability of three thermoelastic beam systems with hyperbolic heat conduction. First, we study the Bresse-Gurtin-Pipkin system, providing a necessary and sufficient condition for the exponential stability and the optimal polynomial decay rate when the condition is violated. Second, we obtain analogous results for the Bresse-Maxwell-Cattaneo system, completing an analysis recently initiated in the literature. Finally, we consider the Timoshenko-Gurtin-Pipkin system and we find the optimal polynomial decay rate when the known exponential stability condition does not hold. As a byproduct, we fully recover the stability characterization of the Timoshenko-Maxwell-Cattaneo system. The classical "equal wave speeds" conditions are also recovered through singular limit procedures. Our conditions are compatible with some physical constraints on the coefficients as the positivity of the Poisson's ratio of the material. The analysis faces several challenges connected with the thermal damping, whose resolution rests on recently developed mathematical tools such as quantitative Riemann-Lebesgue lemmas.
2011.00994v2
2020-11-21
A Trace-restricted Kronecker-Factored Approximation to Natural Gradient
Second-order optimization methods have the ability to accelerate convergence by modifying the gradient through the curvature matrix. There have been many attempts to use second-order optimization methods for training deep neural networks. Inspired by diagonal approximations and factored approximations such as Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature (KFAC), we propose a new approximation to the Fisher information matrix (FIM) called Trace-restricted Kronecker-factored Approximate Curvature (TKFAC) in this work, which can hold the certain trace relationship between the exact and the approximate FIM. In TKFAC, we decompose each block of the approximate FIM as a Kronecker product of two smaller matrices and scaled by a coefficient related to trace. We theoretically analyze TKFAC's approximation error and give an upper bound of it. We also propose a new damping technique for TKFAC on convolutional neural networks to maintain the superiority of second-order optimization methods during training. Experiments show that our method has better performance compared with several state-of-the-art algorithms on some deep network architectures.
2011.10741v1
2020-12-12
Stabilized explicit Adams-type methods
In this work we present explicit Adams-type multistep methods with extended stability interval, which are analogous to the stabilized Chebyshev Runge--Kutta methods. It is proved that for any $k\geq 1$ there exists an explicit $k$-step Adams-type method of order one with stability interval of length $2k$. The first order methods have remarkably simple expressions for their coefficients and error constant. A damped modification of these methods is derived. In general case to construct a $k$-step method of order $p$ it is necessary to solve a constrained optimization problem in which the objective function and $p$ constraints are second degree polynomials in $k$ variables. We calculate higher-order methods up to order six numerically and perform some numerical experiments to confirm the accuracy and stability of the methods.
2012.06767v1
2020-12-18
Intermodal Brillouin scattering in solid-core photonic crystal fibers
We investigate intermodal forward Brillouin scattering in a solid-core PCF, demonstrating efficient power conversion between the HE11 and HE21 modes, with a maximum gain coefficient of 21.4/W/km. By exploring mechanical modes of different symmetries, we observe both polarization-dependent and polarization-independent intermodal Brillouin interaction. Finally, we discuss the role of squeeze film air damping and leakage mechanisms, ultimately critical to the engineering of PCF structures with enhanced interaction between high order optical modes through flexural mechanical modes.
2012.10007v1
2021-04-25
Multiphoton resonance in a driven Kerr oscillator in presence of high-order nonlinearities
We considered the multiphoton resonance in the periodically driven quantum oscillator with Kerr nonlinearity in the presence of weak high-order nonlinearities. Multiphoton resonance leads to the emergence of peaks and dips in the dependence of the stationary occupations of the stable states on detuning. We demonstrated that due to high-order nonlinearities, these peaks and dips acquire additional fine structure and split into several closely spaced ones. Quasiclassically, multiphoton resonance is treated as tunneling between the regions of the oscillator phase portrait, and the fine structure of the multiphoton resonance is a consequence of a special quasienergy dependence of the tunneling rate between different regions of the classical phase portrait. For different values of damping and high-order nonlinearity coefficients, we identified the domain of quasienergies where tunneling strongly influences the system kinetics. The corresponding tunneling term in the Fokker-Planck equation in quasienergy space was derived directly from the quantum master equation.
2104.12140v2
2021-04-27
Green's functions and the Cauchy problem of the Burgers hierarchy and forced Burgers equation
We consider the Cauchy problem for the Burgers hierarchy with general time dependent coefficients. The closed form for the Green's function of the corresponding linear equation of arbitrary order $N$ is shown to be a sum of generalised hypergeometric functions. For suitably damped initial conditions we plot the time dependence of the Cauchy problem over a range of $N$ values. For $N=1$, we introduce a spatial forcing term. Using connections between the associated second order linear Schr\"{o}dinger and Fokker-Planck equations, we give closed form expressions for the corresponding Green's functions of the sinked Bessel process with constant drift. We then apply the Green's function to give time dependent profiles for the corresponding forced Burgers Cauchy problem.
2104.12976v1
2021-05-27
Polarization-dependent excitons and plasmon activity in nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS
The optical properties of bulk ZrSiS nodal-line semimetal are theoretically studied within a many-body formalism. The G0W0 bands are similar to those calculated within the density functional theory, except near the {\Gamma} point; in particular, no significant differences are found around the Fermi energy. On the other hand, the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation reveals a significant excitonic activity, mostly as dark excitons which appear in a wide energy range. Bright excitons, on the contrary, are less numerous, but their location and intensity depend greatly on the polarization of the incident electric field, as the absorption coefficient itself does. The binding energy of these excitons correlate well with their spatial distribution functions. In any case, a good agreement with available experimental data for absorption-reflection is achieved. Finally, the possible activation of plasma oscillations at low energies is discarded, because these are damped by producing electron-hole pairs, more importantly for q along the {\Gamma}-M path.
2105.13285v1
2021-07-07
Growth of Aggregates with Liquid-Like Ice-Shells in Protoplanetary Discs
During the first stages of planet formation, the collision growth of dust aggregates in protoplanetary discs (PPDs) is interrupted at the bouncing barrier. Dust aggregates coated by different species of ice turn out to be helpful to shift the bouncing barrier towards larger sizes due to their enhanced sticking properties in some cases. A rarely noticed fact is that H$_2$O- and H$_2$O-CH$_3$OH-NH$_3$-ice behave liquid-like when UV-irradiated within a PPD-similar environment. Dust aggregates coated by these ice species might be damped in collisions due to the liquid-like ice-shell which would effectively results in an increase of the sticking velocity. In this work, collisions of dust aggregates covered by the liquid-like H$_2$O-CH$_3$OH-NH$_3$-ice-shell are considered numerically. The coefficient of restitution and the sticking velocity are calculated for different thicknesses of the ice-shell. The simulation predicts that an ice-shell-thickness of few microns would be sufficient to allow the growth of cm-sized clusters in the PPD.
2107.03188v1
2021-07-08
A Comparison of Data-Driven Techniques for Power Grid Parameter Estimation
Power grid parameter estimation involves the estimation of unknown parameters, such as inertia and damping coefficients, using observed dynamics. In this work, we present a comparison of data-driven algorithms for the power grid parameter estimation problem. First, we propose a new algorithm to solve the parameter estimation problem based on the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) approach, which uses linear regression to infer the parameters that best describe the observed data. We then compare its performance against two benchmark algorithms, namely, the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) approach and the physics-informed neural networks (PINN) approach. We perform extensive simulations on IEEE bus systems to examine the performance of the aforementioned algorithms. Our results show that the SINDy algorithm outperforms the PINN and UKF algorithms in being able to accurately estimate the power grid parameters over a wide range of system parameters (including high and low inertia systems). Moreover, it is extremely efficient computationally and so takes significantly less time than the PINN algorithm, thus making it suitable for real-time parameter estimation.
2107.03762v1
2021-08-09
Learning Langevin dynamics with QCD phase transition
In this proceeding, the deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are deployed to recognize the order of QCD phase transition and predict the dynamical parameters in Langevin processes. To overcome the intrinsic randomness existed in a stochastic process, we treat the final spectra as image-type inputs which preserve sufficient spatiotemporal correlations. As a practical example, we demonstrate this paradigm for the scalar condensation in QCD matter near the critical point, in which the order parameter of chiral phase transition can be characterized in a $1+1$-dimensional Langevin equation for $\sigma$ field. The well-trained CNNs accurately classify the first-order phase transition and crossover from $\sigma$ field configurations with fluctuations, in which the noise does not impair the performance of the recognition. In reconstructing the dynamics, we demonstrate it is robust to extract the damping coefficients $\eta$ from the intricate field configurations.
2108.03987v1
2021-08-21
Consistent SPH simulations of the anisotropic dispersion of a contaminant plume
Solute transport through heterogeneous porous media is governed by fuid advection, molecular diffusion and anisotropic dispersion. The dispersion is assumed to obey Fick's law and the dispersion coefficient is defined as a second rank tensor. However, this problem has revealed to be a very difficult one because independently of the numerical methods employed, the solutions are seen to exhibit artificial oscillations and negative concentrations when the dispersivity becomes anisotropic. Here we report consistent SPH simulations of the anisotropic dispersion of a Gaussian contaminant plume in porous media using the open source code DualSPHysics. Consistency of the SPH method is restored by increasing the spatial resolution along with the number of neighbours within the compact support of the interpolating kernel. The solution shows that as the number of neighbours is increased with resolution, full convergence of the numerical solutions is guaranteed regardless of the dispersivity. However, despite the restored consistency, negative concentrations, albeit at a lower level, are still present. This suggests that a compromise between the number of neighbours and the size of the smoothing length must be guaranteed such that sufficient implicit numerical diffusion remains to damp out unphysical oscillations.
2108.09488v1
2021-11-01
Retesting the no-hair theorem with GW150914
For a distorted black hole (BH), its ringdown waveform is a superposition of quasi-normal modes (QNMs). In general relativity (GR), the lower order QNM frequencies and damping rates can be well approximated by a polynomial of BH's dimensionless spin and overall scaled by BH's mass. That is to say, we can test the no-hair theorem of BH in GR model-independently by allowing not only an overall fractional deviation (as M. Isi {\it et al.} did) but also a set of fractional deviation for every coefficient. In the paper, we will apply the latter method to retest the no-hair theorem with GW150914 and probe hairs' behaviors if hairs exist. Eventually, we find the data favors GR.
2111.00953v2
2021-11-17
Global stability dynamics of the timelike extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski space
This paper aims to study the relationship between the timelike extremal hypersurfaces and the classical minimal surfaces. This target also gives the long time dynamics of timelike extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{1+M}$ with the dimension $2\leq M\leq7$. In this dimension, the stationary solution of timelike extremal hypersurface equation is the solution of classical minimal surface equation, which only admits the hyperplane solution by Bernstein theorem. We prove that this hyperplane solution as the stationary solution of timelike extremal hypersurface equation is asymptotic stablely by finding the hidden dissipative structure of linearized equation. Here we overcome that the vector field method (based on the energy estimate and bootstrap argument) is lose effectiveness due to the lack of time-decay of solution for the linear perturbation equation. Meanwhile, a global well-posed result of linear damped wave with variable time-space coefficients is established. Hence, our result construct a unique global timelike non-small solution near the hyperplane.
2111.08877v3
2021-11-17
A Generalized Proportionate-Type Normalized Subband Adaptive Filter
We show that a new design criterion, i.e., the least squares on subband errors regularized by a weighted norm, can be used to generalize the proportionate-type normalized subband adaptive filtering (PtNSAF) framework. The new criterion directly penalizes subband errors and includes a sparsity penalty term which is minimized using the damped regularized Newton's method. The impact of the proposed generalized PtNSAF (GPtNSAF) is studied for the system identification problem via computer simulations. Specifically, we study the effects of using different numbers of subbands and various sparsity penalty terms for quasi-sparse, sparse, and dispersive systems. The results show that the benefit of increasing the number of subbands is larger than promoting sparsity of the estimated filter coefficients when the target system is quasi-sparse or dispersive. On the other hand, for sparse target systems, promoting sparsity becomes more important. More importantly, the two aspects provide complementary and additive benefits to the GPtNSAF for speeding up convergence.
2111.08952v1
2021-12-07
Complexity for Open Quantum System
We study the complexity for an open quantum system. Our system is a harmonic oscillator coupled to a one-dimensional massless scalar field, which acts as the bath. Specifically, we consider the reduced density matrix by tracing out the bath degrees of freedom for both regular and inverted oscillator and computed the complexity of purification (COP) and complexity by using the operator-state mapping. We found that when the oscillator is regular the COP saturates quickly for both underdamped and overdamped oscillators. Interestingly, when the oscillator is underdamped, we discover a kink like behaviour for the saturation value of COP with varying damping coefficient. For the inverted oscillator, we found a linear growth of COP with time for all values of bath-system interaction. However, when the interaction is increased the slope of the linear growth decreases, implying that the unstable nature of the system can be regulated by the bath.
2112.03955v1
2021-12-14
Strong coupling in a Au plasmonic antenna-SiO$_{2}$ layer system: a hybrid mode analysis
A detailed analysis of the optical response of a system accommodating several coupled modes is needed for the complete understanding of the strong coupling effect. In this paper, we report on the analysis of scattering cross section spectra of Au antennas on a SiO$_{2}$ layer on a Si substrate in the IR region. A classical model of coupled oscillators is used for determining the resonant energies, damping rates and coupling strengths of four phonon polariton modes in the SiO$_{2}$ layer coupled to a localized surface plasmon mode in a Au antenna. The calculated Hopfield mixing coefficients then show the contribution of the individual uncoupled modes to the hybrid modes of the coupled system.
2112.07767v1
2021-12-22
Dynamic structure factor of the magnetized one-component plasma: crossover from weak to strong coupling
Plasmas in strong magnetic fields have been mainly studied in two distinct limiting cases--that of weak and strong nonideality with very different physical properties. While the former is well described by the familiar theory of Braginskii, the latter regime is closer to the behavior of a Coulomb liquid. Here we study in detail the transition between both regimes. We focus on the evolution of the dynamic structure factor of the magnetized one-component plasma from weak to strong coupling, which is studied with first-principle molecular dynamics simulations. The simulations show the vanishing of Bernstein modes and the emergence of higher harmonics of the upper hybrid mode across the magnetic field, a redistribution of spectral power between the two main collective modes under oblique angles, and a suppression of plasmon damping along the magnetic field. Comparison with results from various models, including the random phase approximation, a Mermin-type dielectric function, and the Quasi-Localized Charge Approximation show that none of the theories is capable of reproducing the crossover that occurs when the coupling parameter is on the order of unity. The findings are relevant to the scattering spectra, stopping power, and transport coefficients of correlated magnetized plasmas.
2112.11981v1
2021-12-29
Stabilization results for delayed fifth order KdV-type equation in a bounded domain
Studied here is the Kawahara equation, a fifth order Korteweg-de Vries type equation, with time-delayed internal feedback. Under suitable assumptions on the time delay coefficients we prove that solutions of this system are exponentially stable. First, considering a damping and delayed system, with some restriction of the spatial length of the domain, we prove that the Kawahara system is exponentially stable for $T> T_{\min}$. After that, introducing a more general delayed system, and by introducing suitable energies, we show using Lyapunov approach, that the energy of the Kawahara equation goes to zero exponentially, considering the initial data small and a restriction in the spatial length of the domain. To remove these hypotheses, we use the compactness-uniqueness argument which reduces our problem to prove an observability inequality, showing a semi-global stabilization result.
2112.14854v1
2022-01-25
Dissipative Hamiltonian Neural Networks: Learning Dissipative and Conservative Dynamics Separately
Understanding natural symmetries is key to making sense of our complex and ever-changing world. Recent work has shown that neural networks can learn such symmetries directly from data using Hamiltonian Neural Networks (HNNs). But HNNs struggle when trained on datasets where energy is not conserved. In this paper, we ask whether it is possible to identify and decompose conservative and dissipative dynamics simultaneously. We propose Dissipative Hamiltonian Neural Networks (D-HNNs), which parameterize both a Hamiltonian and a Rayleigh dissipation function. Taken together, they represent an implicit Helmholtz decomposition which can separate dissipative effects such as friction from symmetries such as conservation of energy. We train our model to decompose a damped mass-spring system into its friction and inertial terms and then show that this decomposition can be used to predict dynamics for unseen friction coefficients. Then we apply our model to real world data including a large, noisy ocean current dataset where decomposing the velocity field yields useful scientific insights.
2201.10085v2
2022-02-08
Spin waves in spin hydrodynamics
The propagation properties of spin degrees of freedom are analyzed in the framework of relativistic hydrodynamics with spin based on the de Groot--van Leeuwen--van Weert definitions of the energy-momentum and spin tensors. We derive the analytical expression for the spin wave velocity for arbitrary statistics and show that it goes to half the speed of light in the ultra-relativistic limit. We find that only the transverse degrees of freedom propagate, analogously to electromagnetic waves. Finally, we consider the effect of dissipative corrections and calculate the damping coefficients for the case of Maxwell-J\"uttner statistics.
2202.03952v2
2022-03-14
Eliashberg theory of the Jahn-Teller-Hubbard model
We study a multiorbital Hubbard model coupled to local Jahn-Teller phonons to investigate the superconducting state realized in fullerides. A weak-coupling approach is employed in combination with a local self-energy approximation. In addition to the normal and anomalous self-energies of the electrons, we consider the phonon self-energy, which allows a self-consistent treatment of the energetics. The frequency dependence of the self-energies and their characteristic coefficients, such as renormalization factors and dampings, are investigated in detail using numerical calculations. It is clarified that the anisotropic phonons play an important role in the stabilization of the superconducting state. By comparing the full results to those without phonon self-energies, we show that the superconductivity is stabilized by the softening of the phonon frequency. The effects of electronic fluctuations are also considered, which leads to the coupling to orbitons, an analog of plasmons in the electron gas. This additional contribution further stabilizes the superconducting state.
2203.06946v1
2022-04-20
A theoretical framework for the Hamiltonian of angular momentum optomechanical system
Photon carries linear momentum and angular momentum simultaneously. Within the light-matter interaction process, exchange of linear momentum results in optical forces, whereas exchange of angular momentum leads to optical torques. Use of optical forces (light pressure or damping) have been long and wide in quantum optomechanics, however, those of optical torque and optical angular momentum are not. Here we propose a theoretical framework based on optical angular momentum and optical torques to derive the Hamiltonians of cavity orbital and spin angular momentum optomechanical systems, respectively. Moreover, based on the method, we successfully obtain the Hamiltonian of the complex angular momentum optomechanical systems consisting of micro-cavity and several torsional oscillators, whose reflection coefficients are non-unit. Our results indicate the general applicability of our theoretical framework for the Hamiltonian of angular momentum optomechanical systems and extend the research scope of quantum optomechanics.
2204.09446v2
2022-05-17
Acoustic gravitational interaction revised
In this paper, we deduce the expression of the gravito-acoustic force between two oscillating bubbles using the hypothesis that this type of force is a force of scattering-absorption of the energy of excitatory waves. The expression of the gravito-acoustic force at resonance highlights the dependence of this force on the product of the virtual masses of the two bubbles and on an acoustic gravitational constant. The acoustic gravitational constant depends on the absorption damping coefficient. We may say also that the expression of the acoustic gravitational constant is analogous to the expression of the gravitational constant in the electromagnetic world, that one obtained in the Einstein-Sciama model and the Dirac-Eddington large numbers hypothesis. The results obtained for this type of phenomenon in the acoustic world support the similarity between the acoustic world and the electromagnetic world.
2206.00435v1
2022-06-03
Kinetic chemotaxis tumbling kernel determined from macroscopic quantities
Chemotaxis is the physical phenomenon that bacteria adjust their motions according to chemical stimulus. A classical model for this phenomenon is a kinetic equation that describes the velocity jump process whose tumbling/transition kernel uniquely determines the effect of chemical stimulus on bacteria. The model has been shown to be an accurate model that matches with bacteria motion qualitatively. For a quantitative modeling, biophysicists and practitioners are also highly interested in determining the explicit value of the tumbling kernel. Due to the experimental limitations, measurements are typically macroscopic in nature. Do macroscopic quantities contain enough information to recover microscopic behavior? In this paper, we give a positive answer. We show that when given a special design of initial data, the population density, one specific macroscopic quantity as a function of time, contains sufficient information to recover the tumbling kernel and its associated damping coefficient. Moreover, we can read off the chemotaxis tumbling kernel using the values of population density directly from this specific experimental design. This theoretical result using kinetic theory sheds light on how practitioners may conduct experiments in laboratories.
2206.01629v2
2022-06-28
Origin of the spontaneous oscillations in a simplified coagulation-fragmentation system driven by a source
We consider a system of aggregated clusters of particles, subjected to coagulation and fragmentation processes with mass dependent rates. Each monomer particle can aggregate with larger clusters, and each cluster can fragment into individual monomers with a rate directly proportional to the aggregation rate. The dynamics of the cluster densities is governed by a set of Smoluchowski equations, and we consider the addition of a source of monomers at constant rate. The whole dynamics can be reduced to solving a unique non-linear differential equation which displays self-oscillations in a specific range of parameters, and for a number of distinct clusters in the system large enough. This collective phenomenon is due to the presence of a fluctuating damping coefficient and is closely related to the Li\'enard self-oscillation mechanism observed in a more general class of physical systems such as the van der Pol oscillator.
2206.13884v1
2022-07-25
Modelling and well-posedness of evolutionary differential variational-hemivariational inequalities
In this paper, we study the well-posedness of a class of evolutionary variational-hemivariational inequalities coupled with a nonlinear ordinary differential equation in Banach spaces. The proof is based on an iterative approximation scheme showing that the problem has a unique mild solution. In addition, we established continuity of the flow map with respect to the initial data. Under the general framework, we consider two new applications for modelling of frictional contact with viscoelastic materials, where the friction coefficient $\mu$ depends on an external state variable $\alpha$ and the slip rate $|\dot{u}_\tau|$. In the first application, we consider Coulomb friction with normal compliance, and in the second, normal damped response. In both cases, we present a new first-order approximation of the Dieterich rate-and-state friction law.
2207.12284v2
2022-08-05
Giant oscillations of diffusion in ac-driven periodic systems
We revisit the problem of diffusion in a driven system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric time-periodic force. We reveal parameter domains in which diffusion is normal in the long time limit and exhibits intriguing giant damped quasiperiodic oscillations as a function of the external driving amplitude. As the mechanism behind this effect we identify the corresponding oscillations of difference in the number of locked and running trajectories which carries the leading contribution to the diffusion coefficient. Our findings can be verified experimentally in a multitude of physical systems including colloidal particles, Josephson junction or cold atoms dwelling in optical lattices, to name only a few.
2208.03223v2
2022-08-24
Out-of-equilibrium optomechanical resonance self-excitation
The fundamental sensitivity limit of atomic force microscopy is strongly correlated to the thermal noise of the cantilever oscillation. A method to suppress this unwanted noise is to reduce the bandwidth of the measurement, but this approach is limited by the speed of the measurement and the width of the cantilever resonance, commonly defined through the quality factor Q. However, it has been shown that optomechanical resonances in interferometers might affect the cantilever oscillations resulting in an effective quality factor Q$_{eff}$ . When the laser power is sufficiently increased the cantilever oscillations might even reach the regime of self-oscillation. In this self-oscillation state, the noise of the system is partially determined by the interaction with the laser light far from equilibrium. Here, we show and discuss how tuning of the laser power leads to nonlinear optomechanical effects that can dramatically increase the effective quality factor of the cantilever leading to out-of-equilibrium noise. We model the effects using a fourth order nonlinearity of the damping coefficient.
2208.11390v1
2022-09-19
Stationary states of an active Brownian particle in a harmonic trap
We study the stationary states of an over-damped active Brownian particle (ABP) in a harmonic trap in two dimensions, via mathematical calculations and numerical simulations. In addition to translational diffusion, the ABP self-propels with a certain velocity, whose magnitude is constant, but its direction is subject to Brownian rotation. In the limit where translational diffusion is negligible, the stationary distribution of the particle's position shows a transition between two different shapes, one with maximum and the other with minimum density at the centre, as the trap stiffness is increased. We show that this non-intuitive behaviour is captured by the relevant Fokker-Planck equation, which, under minimal assumptions, predicts a continuous ``phase transition" between the two different shapes. As the translational diffusion coefficient is increased, both these distributions converge into the equilibrium, Boltzmann form. Our simulations support the analytical predictions, and also show that the probability distribution of the orientation angle of the self-propulsion velocity undergoes a transition from unimodal to bimodal forms in this limit. We also extend our simulations to a three dimensional trap, and find similar behaviour.
2209.09184v2
2022-10-07
Optimal Energy Shaping Control for a Backdrivable Hip Exoskeleton
Task-dependent controllers widely used in exoskeletons track predefined trajectories, which overly constrain the volitional motion of individuals with remnant voluntary mobility. Energy shaping, on the other hand, provides task-invariant assistance by altering the human body's dynamic characteristics in the closed loop. While human-exoskeleton systems are often modeled using Euler-Lagrange equations, in our previous work we modeled the system as a port-controlled-Hamiltonian system, and a task-invariant controller was designed for a knee-ankle exoskeleton using interconnection-damping assignment passivity-based control. In this paper, we extend this framework to design a controller for a backdrivable hip exoskeleton to assist multiple tasks. A set of basis functions that contains information of kinematics is selected and corresponding coefficients are optimized, which allows the controller to provide torque that fits normative human torque for different activities of daily life. Human-subject experiments with two able-bodied subjects demonstrated the controller's capability to reduce muscle effort across different tasks.
2210.03777v2
2022-10-18
Nanoscale friction controlled by top layer thickness in [LaMnO$_{3}$]$_{m}$/[SrMnO$_{3}$]$_{n}$ superlattices
We conducted lateral force microscopy measurements on seven [LaMnO$_{3}$]$_{m}$/[SrMnO$_{3}$]$_{n}$ superlattices with varied layer thicknesses. We observe that the friction forces and the friction coefficients initially increase with increasing LaMnO3 top layer thickness, followed by saturation when the top layer thickness exceeds a few nanometers. These observations clearly demonstrate that sliding friction is affected by sub-surface material properties to a depth of several nanometers and is not just determined by dynamics in the contact interface. We argue that the sub-surface dissipated energy is governed by damping in the elastically strained volume below the AFM tip, an effect which we estimate via thermoelasticity. The absence of a correlation between friction and the thermal resistivity of our superlattices shows furthermore that high-frequency phonons and heat conduction do not play a role in determining friction. Our observations thus demonstrate that friction can be tailored by sub-surface material properties.
2210.09677v1
2022-12-15
Resonant and off-resonant magnetoacoustic waves in epitaxial Fe$_3$Si/GaAs hybrid structures
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) provide an efficient dynamical coupling between strain and magnetization in micro/nano-metric devices. Using a hybrid device composed of a piezoelectric, GaAs, and a ferromagnetic Heusler alloy thin film, Fe$_3$Si, we are able to quantify the amplitude of magnetoacoustic waves generated with SAWs via magnetic imaging in an X-ray photoelectron microscope. The cubic anisotropy of the sample together with a low damping coefficient allows for the observation of resonant and non-resonant magnetoelastic coupling. Additionally, via micromagnetic simulation, we verify the experimental behavior and quantify the magnetoelastic shear strain component in Fe$_3$Si that appears to be very large ($b_2=14\times 10^6$ J/m$^3$), much larger than the one found in Nickel.
2212.07994v1
2022-12-22
State-and-rate friction in contact-line dynamics
In order to probe the dynamics of contact-line motion, we study the macroscopic properties of sessile drops deposited on and then aspirated from carefully prepared horizontal surfaces. By measuring the contact angle and drop width simultaneously during droplet removal, we determine the changes in the shape of the drop as it depins and recedes. Our data indicate that there is a force which opposes the motion of the contact line that depends both on the amount of time that the drop has been in contact with the surface and on the withdrawal rate. For water on silanized glass, we capture the experimentally observed behavior with an overdamped dynamical model of contact-line motion in which the phenomenological drag coefficient and the assumed equilibrium contact angle are the only inputs. For other liquid/substrate pairs, the observed contact-line motion suggests that a maximum static friction force is important in addition to damping. The dependence on time of contact and withdrawal rate, reminiscent of rate-and-state friction between solid surfaces, is qualitatively consistent across three substrate-liquid pairs.
2212.11759v1
2023-02-07
SDYN-GANs: Adversarial Learning Methods for Multistep Generative Models for General Order Stochastic Dynamics
We introduce adversarial learning methods for data-driven generative modeling of the dynamics of $n^{th}$-order stochastic systems. Our approach builds on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with generative model classes based on stable $m$-step stochastic numerical integrators. We introduce different formulations and training methods for learning models of stochastic dynamics based on observation of trajectory samples. We develop approaches using discriminators based on Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), training protocols using conditional and marginal distributions, and methods for learning dynamic responses over different time-scales. We show how our approaches can be used for modeling physical systems to learn force-laws, damping coefficients, and noise-related parameters. The adversarial learning approaches provide methods for obtaining stable generative models for dynamic tasks including long-time prediction and developing simulations for stochastic systems.
2302.03663v1
2023-02-26
Topology optimization method with nonlinear diffusion
This paper is concerned with topology optimization based on a level set method using (doubly) nonlinear diffusion equations. Topology optimization using the level set method is called level set-based topology optimization, which is possible to determine optimal configurations that minimize objective functionals by updating level set functions. In this paper, as an update equation for level set functions, (doubly) nonlinear diffusion equations with reaction terms are derived, and then the singularity and degeneracy of the diffusion coefficient are applied to obtain fast convergence of configurations and damping oscillation on boundary structures. In particular, the reaction terms in the proposed method do not depend on the topological derivatives, and therefore, sensitivity analysis to determine a descent direction for objective functionals is relaxed. Furthermore, a numerical algorithm for the proposed method is constructed and applied to typical minimization problems to show numerical validity. This paper is a justification and generalization of the method using reaction-diffusion equations developed by one of the authors in Yamada et al. (2010).
2302.13310v1
2023-02-27
Natural Gradient Hybrid Variational Inference with Application to Deep Mixed Models
Stochastic models with global parameters $\bm{\theta}$ and latent variables $\bm{z}$ are common, and variational inference (VI) is popular for their estimation. This paper uses a variational approximation (VA) that comprises a Gaussian with factor covariance matrix for the marginal of $\bm{\theta}$, and the exact conditional posterior of $\bm{z}|\bm{\theta}$. Stochastic optimization for learning the VA only requires generation of $\bm{z}$ from its conditional posterior, while $\bm{\theta}$ is updated using the natural gradient, producing a hybrid VI method. We show that this is a well-defined natural gradient optimization algorithm for the joint posterior of $(\bm{z},\bm{\theta})$. Fast to compute expressions for the Tikhonov damped Fisher information matrix required to compute a stable natural gradient update are derived. We use the approach to estimate probabilistic Bayesian neural networks with random output layer coefficients to allow for heterogeneity. Simulations show that using the natural gradient is more efficient than using the ordinary gradient, and that the approach is faster and more accurate than two leading benchmark natural gradient VI methods. In a financial application we show that accounting for industry level heterogeneity using the deep model improves the accuracy of probabilistic prediction of asset pricing models.
2302.13536v1
2023-05-03
An identification method for oscillators with response-dependent inertia
This paper is concerned with identifying the instantaneous modal parameters of forced oscillatory systems with response-dependent generalized inertia (mass, inductance, or equivalent) based on their measured dynamics. An identification method is proposed, which is a variation of the "FORCEVIB" method. The method utilizes analytic signal representation and the properties of the Hilbert transform to obtain an analytic relationship between a system's natural frequency and damping coefficient to its response and excitation signals. The proposed method is validated by comparing the identification results to the asymptotic solution of a simple system with response-dependent inertia and is then demonstrated, numerically and experimentally, for other more complicated nonlinear systems.
2305.02135v2
2023-05-06
Asymptotic stability of Couette flow in a strong uniform magnetic field for the Euler-MHD system
In this paper, we prove the asymptotic stability of Couette flow in a strong uniform magnetic field for the Euler-MHD system, when the perturbations are in Gevrey-$\frac{1}{s}$, $(\frac12<s\leq 1)$ and of size smaller than the resistivity coefficient $\mu$. More precisely, we prove (1) the $\mu^{-\frac13}$-amplification of the perturbed vorticity, namely, the size of the vorticity grows from $\|\omega_{\mathrm{in}}\|_{\mathcal{G}^{\lambda_{0}}}\lesssim \mu$ to $\|\omega_{\infty}\|_{\mathcal{G}^{\lambda'}}\lesssim \mu^{\frac23}$; (2) the polynomial decay of the perturbed current density, namely, $\left\|j_{\neq}\right\|_{L^2}\lesssim \frac{c_0 }{\langle t\rangle^2 }\min\left\{\mu^{-\frac13},\langle t \rangle\right\}$; (3) and the damping for the perturbed velocity and magnetic field, namely, \[ \left\|(u^1_{\neq},b^1_{\neq})\right\|_{L^2}\lesssim \frac{c_0\mu }{\langle t\rangle }\min\left\{\mu^{-\frac13},\langle t \rangle\right\}, \quad \left\|(u^2,b^2)\right\|_{L^2}\lesssim \frac{c_0\mu }{\langle t\rangle^2 }\min\left\{\mu^{-\frac13},\langle t \rangle\right\}. \] We also confirm that the strong uniform magnetic field stabilizes the Euler-MHD system near Couette flow.
2305.04052v1
2023-05-06
Robust optimization of control parameters for WEC arrays using stochastic methods
This work presents a new computational optimization framework for the robust control of parks of Wave Energy Converters (WEC) in irregular waves. The power of WEC parks is maximized with respect to the individual control damping and stiffness coefficients of each device. The results are robust with respect to the incident wave direction, which is treated as a random variable. Hydrodynamic properties are computed using the linear potential model, and the dynamics of the system is computed in the frequency domain. A slamming constraint is enforced to ensure that the results are physically realistic. We show that the stochastic optimization problem is well posed. Two optimization approaches for dealing with stochasticity are then considered: stochastic approximation and sample average approximation. The outcomes of the above mentioned methods in terms of accuracy and computational time are presented. The results of the optimization for complex and realistic array configurations of possible engineering interest are then discussed. Results of extensive numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed computational framework.
2305.04130v2
2023-05-17
Composite operators of stochastic model A
By means of the field-theoretic renormalization group, we study the damping of the viscosity coefficient near the superfluid phase transition. We utilize the fact that in the infrared region, the complex model used to describe the phase transition belongs to the same universality class as the well-known stochastic model A. This allows us a determination of the critical behavior of viscosity using composite operators for model A. Our analysis is based on the $\varepsilon$-expansion near the upper critical dimension $d_c = 4$ of model A. The critical exponent of viscosity is then calculated from the critical dimensions of composite operators of massless two-component model A. In particular, we present results for critical dimensions of a selected class of composite operators with the canonical dimension $8$ to the leading order.
2305.10094v1
2023-05-30
Gravitational traces of bumblebee gravity in metric-affine formalism
This work explores various manifestations of bumblebee gravity within the metric-affine formalism. We investigate the impact of the Lorentz violation parameter, denoted as $X$, on the modification of the Hawking temperature. Our calculations reveal that as $X$ increases, the values of the Hawking temperature attenuate. To examine the behavior of massless scalar perturbations, specifically the quasinormal modes, we employ the WKB method. The transmission and reflection coefficients are determined through our calculations. The outcomes indicate that a stronger Lorentz-violating parameter results in slower damping oscillations of gravitational waves. To comprehend the influence of the quasinormal spectrum on time-dependent scattering phenomena, we present a detailed analysis of scalar perturbations in the time-domain solution. Additionally, we conduct an investigation on shadows, revealing that larger values of $X$ correspond to larger shadow radii. Furthermore, we constrain the magnitude of the shadow radii using the EHT horizon-scale image of $Sgr A^*$. Finally, we calculate both the time delay and the deflection angle.
2305.18871v2
2023-06-22
Global dynamics of a predator-prey model with alarm-taxis
This paper concerns with the global dynamics of classical solutions to an important alarm-taxis ecosystem, which demonstrates the behaviors of prey that attract secondary predator when threatened by primary predator. And the secondary predator pursues the signal generated by the interaction of the prey and primary predator. However, it seems that the necessary gradient estimates for global existence cannot be obtained in critical case due to strong coupled structure. Thereby, we develop a new approach to estimate the gradient of prey and primary predator which takes advantage of slightly higher damping power. Then the boundedness of classical solutions in two dimension with Neumann boundary conditions can be established by energy estimates and semigroup theory. Moreover, by constructing Lyapunov functional, it is proved that the coexistence homogeneous steady states is asymptotically stability and the convergence rate is exponential under certain assumptions on the system coefficients.
2306.12828v1
2023-07-13
Current status and desired accuracy of the isotopic production cross-sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays II. Fluorine to Silicon (and updated LiBeB)
High-precision cosmic-ray data from ongoing and recent past experiments (Voyager, ACE-CRIS, PAMELA, ATIC, CREAM, NUCLEON, AMS-02, CALET, DAMPE) are being released in the tens of MeV/n to multi-TeV/n energy range. Astrophysical and dark matter interpretations of these data are limited by the precision of nuclear production cross-sections. In Paper I, PRC 98, 034611 (2018), we set up a procedure to rank nuclear reactions whose desired measurements will enable us to fully exploit currently available data on CR Li to N ($Z=3-7$) species. Here we extend these rankings to O up to Si nuclei ($Z=8-14$), also updating our results on the LiBeB species. We also highlight how comprehensive new high precision nuclear data, that could e.g. be obtained at the SPS at CERN, would be a game-changer for the determination of key astrophysical quantities (diffusion coefficient, halo size of the Galaxy) and indirect searches for dark matter signatures.
2307.06798v1
2023-08-18
Numerical analysis of the Maxwell-Cattaneo-Vernotte nonlinear model
In the literature, one can find numerous modifications of Fourier's law from which the first one is called Maxwell-Cattaneo-Vernotte heat equation. Although this model has been known for decades and successfully used to model low-temperature damped heat wave propagation, its nonlinear properties are rarely investigated. In this paper, we aim to present the functional relationship between the transport coefficients and the consequences of their temperature dependence. Furthermore, we introduce a particular implicit numerical scheme in order to solve such nonlinear heat equations reliably. We investigate the scheme's stability, dissipation, and dispersion attributes as well. We demonstrate the effect of temperature-dependent thermal conductivity on two different initial-boundary value problems, including time-dependent boundaries and heterogeneous initial conditions.
2308.09494v1
2023-08-20
On the Approximation of Operator-Valued Riccati Equations in Hilbert Spaces
In this work, we present an abstract theory for the approximation of operator-valued Riccati equations posed on Hilbert spaces. It is demonstrated here, under the assumption of compactness in the coefficient operators, that the error of the approximate solution to the operator-valued Riccati equation is bounded above by the approximation error of the governing semigroup. One significant outcome of this result is the correct prediction of optimal convergence for finite element approximations of the operator-valued Riccati equations for when the governing semigroup involves parabolic, as well as hyperbolic processes. We derive the abstract theory for the time-dependent and time-independent operator-valued Riccati equations in the first part of this work. In the second part, we prove optimal convergence rates for the finite element approximation of the functional gain associated with model one-dimensional weakly damped wave and thermal LQR control systems. These theoretical claims are then corroborated with computational evidence.
2308.10130v4
2023-09-14
Where are the Pevatrons that Form the Knee in the Spectrum of the Cosmic Ray Nucleon Component around 4 PeV?
The paper discusses an approach that made it possible to estimate the distance to the nearest pevatrons, which form a knee in the spectrum of the cosmic ray nucleon component of about $4$ PeV. It is based on the spectra of nucleons and electrons obtained by the authors in the framework of the superdiffusion model of nonclassical cosmic rays diffusion, which have a knee, on the assumption that nucleons and electrons are accelerated by the same type sources and their propagation in an inhomogeneous turbulent galactic medium is characterized by the same diffusion coefficient, and also on the knee in the spectrum of the electronic component in the region of $0.9$ TeV, established in the DAMPE experiment. It is shown that pevatrons, which form a knee in the spectrum of the cosmic ray nucleon component of about $4$ PeV, are located at distances of the order of $0.75$ kpc from the Earth.
2309.07421v1
2023-09-25
Magnetism on the thermal dynamics of 2D antiferromagnetic membranes
We developed a theoretical scheme of incorporating the magnetoelastic contribution into the thermal elastic dynamics for the thin membranes of 2D antiferromagnetic material with restricted geometry. We extended the elastic Gr\"uneisen relation into an effective version which includes the magnetic counterpart to the volume change of internal energy. Based on the specific heat and thermal conductivity from the elastic and magnetic origins we predicted the dependency of observables, such as effective Gr\"uneisen parameter, thermal expansion coefficient, and the damping factor, with respect to a wide range of temperature across the phase transition. Our model of analysis as been validated by applying to the case of FePS3 flake resonator and the theoretical predictions fits well with the reported experiment data.
2309.13991v2
2023-09-27
Stochastic Differential Equation for a System Coupled to a Thermostatic Bath via an Arbitrary Interaction Hamiltonian
The conventional Langevin equation offers a mathematically convenient framework for investigating open stochastic systems interacting with their environment or a bath. However, it is not suitable for a wide variety of systems whose dynamics rely on the nature of the environmental interaction, as the equation does not incorporate any specific information regarding that interaction. Here, we present a universal formulation of the stochastic differential equation (SDE) for an open system coupled to a thermostatic bath via an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian. This SDE encodes the interaction information to a fictitious potential (mean force) and a position-dependent damping coefficient. Surprisingly, we find that the conventional Langevin equation can be recovered in the presence of arbitrary strong interactions given two conditions: translational invariance of the potential and disjoint separability of the bath particles. Our results provide a universal framework for studying open stochastic systems with an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian and yield deeper insight into why various experiments fit the conventional Langevin description regardless of the strength or type of interaction.
2309.15359v1
2023-09-28
A Lagrangian theory for galaxy shape statistics
We formulate the Lagrangian perturbation theory of galaxy intrinsic alignments and compute the resulting auto and cross power spectra of galaxy shapes, densities and matter to 1-loop order. Our model represents a consistent effective-theory description of galaxy shape including the resummation of long-wavelength displacements which damp baryon acoustic oscillations, and includes one linear, three quadratic and two cubic dimensionless bias coefficients at this order, along with counterterms and stochastic contributions whose structure we derive. We compare this Lagrangian model against the three-dimensional helicity spectra of halo shapes measured in N-body simulations by Akitsu et al (2023) and find excellent agreement on perturbative scales while testing a number of more restrictive bias parametrizations. The calculations presented are immediately relevant to analyses of both cosmic shear surveys and spectroscopic shape measurements, and we make a fast FFTLog-based code spinosaurus publicly available with this publication.
2309.16761v2
2023-10-09
Anomaly and Brownian fluid particle in Navier-Stokes turbulence
We investigate the Navier-Stokes turbulence driven by a stochastic random Gaussian force. Using a field-theoretic approach, we uncover an anomaly that brings hidden structure to the theory. The anomaly is generated by a non-self-adjoint operator of the Jacobian and it follows the symmetries of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation. We calculate the anomaly and demonstrate that by forcing the anomaly to vanish, the velocity field is constrained and a monopole-type object with a constant charge is formed. When the viscosity is zero, the anomaly can be interpreted as the Brownian damping coefficient of a random fluid particle. We provide the Brownian particle equation and its solution in the presence of a pump and viscosity. Our results suggest that the anomaly is an inherent feature of stochastic turbulence and must be taken into account in all stochastic turbulence calculations. This constitutes an additional law for the original set of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations.
2310.06007v3
2023-10-23
Forget metamaterial: It does not improve sound absorption performance as it claims
The term `sub-wavelength' is commonly used to describe innovative sound-absorbing structures usually labeled as `metamaterials'. Such structures, however, inherently do not bring groundbreaking advancements. This study addresses the limitations imposed by the thickness criterion of Yang et al. by introducing the concept of equivalent mass-spring-damping parameters within the resonator framework. This innovative approach introduces an index of `half-absorption bandwidth' to effectively overcome the thickness restriction. Four practical cases are then presented to correct prevalent misleading conceptions about low-frequency, broadband absorption as claimed. The phenomenon of mass disappearing in the expression of sound absorption coefficient supports the conclusion that volume is the only determinant factor in sound absorption performance. Any attempts to improve sound absorption solely through geometry and structural designs would inevitably sacrifice the half-absorption bandwidth. Additionally, the concept of negative stiffness or bulk modulus is merely a mathematical convention without any real improvement in absorption performance. Overall, this research focuses on the physical mechanism of sound-absorbing structures by correcting traditional misunderstandings, and offers a comprehensive framework for assessing and enhancing sound absorption.
2310.14638v1
2023-10-30
Optimal control theory for maximum power of Brownian heat engines
The pursuit of achieving the maximum power in microscopic thermal engines has gained increasing attention in recent studies of stochastic thermodynamics. We employ the optimal control theory to study the performance of Brownian heat engines and determine the optimal heat-engine cycles in generic damped situation, which were previously known only in the overdamped and the underdamped limits. These optimal cycles include two isothermal processes, two adiabatic processes, and an extra isochoric relaxation process at the upper stiffness constraint. Our results not only interpolate the optimal cycles between the overdamped and the underdamped limits, but also determine the appropriate friction coefficient of the Brownian heat engine to achieve the maximum power. These findings offer valuable insights for the development of high-performance Brownian heat engines in experimental setups.
2310.19622v1
2023-11-15
On the interaction between compressible inviscid flow and an elastic plate
We address a free boundary model for the compressible Euler equations where the free boundary, which is elastic, evolves according to a weakly damped fourth order hyperbolic equation forced by the fluid pressure. This system captures the interaction of an inviscid fluid with an elastic plate. We establish a priori estimates on local-in-time solutions in low regularity Sobolev spaces, namely with velocity and density initial data v0,R0 in H3. The main new device is a variable coefficients space tangential-time differential operator of order 1 with non-homogeneous boundary conditions, which captures the hyperbolic nature of the compressible Euler equations as well as the coupling with the structural dynamics.
2311.08731v1
2023-11-28
Data-Driven Constraints on Cosmic-Ray Diffusion: Probing Self-Generated Turbulence in the Milky Way
We employ a data-driven approach to investigate the rigidity and spatial dependence of the diffusion of cosmic rays in the turbulent magnetic field of the Milky Way. Our analysis combines data sets from the experiments Voyager, AMS-02, CALET, and DAMPE for a range of cosmic ray nuclei from protons to oxygen. Our findings favor models with a smooth behavior in the diffusion coefficient, indicating a good qualitative agreement with the predictions of self-generated magnetic turbulence models. Instead, the current cosmic-ray data do not exhibit a clear preference for or against inhomogeneous diffusion, which is also a prediction of these models. Future progress might be possible by combining cosmic-ray data with gamma rays or radio observations, enabling a more comprehensive exploration.
2311.17150v1
2023-12-13
Efficient solution of sequences of parametrized Lyapunov equations with applications
Sequences of parametrized Lyapunov equations can be encountered in many application settings. Moreover, solutions of such equations are often intermediate steps of an overall procedure whose main goal is the computation of quantities of the form $f(X)$ where $X$ denotes the solution of a Lyapunov equation. We are interested in addressing problems where the parameter dependency of the coefficient matrix is encoded as a low-rank modification to a \emph{seed}, fixed matrix. We propose two novel numerical procedures that fully exploit such a common structure. The first one builds upon recycling Krylov techniques, and it is well-suited for small dimensional problems as it makes use of dense numerical linear algebra tools. The second algorithm can instead address large-scale problems by relying on state-of-the-art projection techniques based on the extended Krylov subspace. We test the new algorithms on several problems arising in the study of damped vibrational systems and the analyses of output synchronization problems for multi-agent systems. Our results show that the algorithms we propose are superior to state-of-the-art techniques as they are able to remarkably speed up the computation of accurate solutions.
2312.08201v1
2023-12-24
Resonance effects for linear wave equations with scale invariant oscillating damping
We consider an abstract linear wave equation with a time-dependent dissipation that decays at infinity with the so-called scale invariant rate, which represents the critical case. We do not assume that the coefficient of the dissipation term is smooth, and we investigate the effect of its oscillations on the decay rate of solutions. We prove a decay estimate that holds true regardless of the oscillations. Then we show that oscillations that are too fast have no effect on the decay rate, while oscillations that are in resonance with one of the frequencies of the elastic part can alter the decay rate. In the proof we first reduce ourselves to estimating the decay of solutions to a family of ordinary differential equations, then by using polar coordinates we obtain explicit formulae for the energy decay of these solutions, so that in the end the problem is reduced to the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of suitable oscillating integrals.
2312.15531v2
2024-01-26
Maximum plasmon thermal conductivity of a thin metal film
Due to their extremely long propagation lengths compared to the wavelengths, surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been considered as a key in enhancing thermal conductivity in thin metal films. This study explores the conditions at which the plasmon thermal conductivity is maximized, considering the thickness-dependent metal permittivity. We derived the analytical solutions for the plasmon thermal conductivity in both the thin-film and thick-film limits to analyze the effect of the permittivities of metals and substrates. From the analytical solutions of plasmon thermal conductivity, we deduced that the plasmon thermal conductivity is proportional to the electron thermal conductivity based on the Wiedemann-Franz law. Additionally, we analyzed the conditions where the enhancement ratio of the thermal conductivity via SPPs is maximized. Metals with high plasma frequency and low damping coefficient are desirable for achieving the maximum plasmon thermal conductivity as well as the maximum enhancement ratio of thermal conductivity among metals. Significantly, 10-cm-long and 14-nm-thick Al film demonstrates most superior in-plane heat transfer via SPPs, showing a 53.5\% enhancement in thermal conductivity compared to its electron thermal counterpart on a lossless glass substrate.
2401.14677v1
2024-02-19
Subspace methods for the simulation of molecular response properties on a quantum computer
We explore Davidson methods for obtaining excitation energies and other linear response properties within quantum self-consistent linear response (q-sc-LR) theory. Davidson-type methods allow for obtaining only a few selected excitation energies without explicitly constructing the electronic Hessian since they only require the ability to perform Hessian-vector multiplications. We apply the Davidson method to calculate the excitation energies of hydrogen chains (up to H$_{10}$) and analyze aspects of statistical noise for computing excitation energies on quantum simulators. Additionally, we apply Davidson methods for computing linear response properties such as static polarizabilities for H$_2$, LiH, H$_2$O, OH$^-$, and NH$_3$, and show that unitary coupled cluster outperforms classical projected coupled cluster for molecular systems with strong correlation. Finally, we formulate the Davidson method for damped (complex) linear response, with application to the nitrogen K-edge X-ray absorption of ammonia, and the $C_6$ coefficients of H$_2$, LiH, H$_2$O, OH$^-$, and NH$_3$.
2402.12186v1
2024-03-06
Non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity for acoustic wave attenuation in weakly compressible methods
A major limitation of the weakly compressible approaches to simulate incompressible flows is the appearance of artificial acoustic waves that introduce a large mass conservation error and lead to spurious oscillations in the force coefficients. In this work, we propose a non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity term to effectively damp the acoustic waves. By implementing this term in a computational framework based on the recently proposed general pressure equation, we demonstrate that the non-homogeneous and anisotropic nature of the term makes it significantly more effective than the isotropic homogeneous version widely used in the literature. Moreover, it is computationally more efficient than the pressure (or mass) diffusion term, which is an alternative mechanism used to suppress acoustic waves. We simulate a range of benchmark problems to comprehensively investigate the performance of the bulk viscosity on the effective suppression of acoustic waves, mass conservation error, order of convergence of the solver, and computational efficiency. The proposed form of the bulk viscosity enables fairly accurate modelling of the initial transients of unsteady simulations, which is highly challenging for weakly compressible approaches, and to the best of our knowledge, existing approaches can't provide an accurate prediction of such transients.
2403.03475v1
2024-03-07
Experimental amplification and squeezing of a motional state of an optically levitated nanoparticle
A contactless control of fluctuations of phase space variables of a nanoobject belongs among the key methods needed for ultra-precise nanotechnology and the upcoming quantum technology of macroscopic systems. Here we utilize the experimental platform of a single levitating nanoparticle (NP) to demonstrate essential protocols providing linear amplification of the mechanical phase space variables together with squeezing of phase space probability distribution. The protocol combines a controlled fast switching between the parabolic trapping potential and either weak parabolic or inverted parabolic amplifying potential leading to amplification of mean value and variance (fluctuations) along an arbitrary phase space variable and squeezing along the complementary one. The protocol is completed with cold damping scheme to control the initial fluctuations of the NP phase space variables. We reached the amplification gain $|G|>2$, the squeezing coefficient above 4 dB, and the second-order energy correlation function approaching 3 which corresponds to a maximum for a stochastic non-equilibrium classical state. These experimental results will already allow pre-amplification and manipulation of nanomechanical NP motion for all quantum protocols if the NP cooling towards the ground state is applied.
2403.04302v1
2024-03-14
Dynamical Friction and Black Holes in Ultralight Dark Matter Solitons
We numerically simulate the motion of a black hole as it plunges radially through an ultralight dark matter soliton. We investigate the timescale in which dynamical friction reduces the kinetic energy of the black hole to a minimum, and consider the sensitivity of this timescale to changes in the ULDM particle mass, the total soliton mass, and the mass of the black hole. We contrast our numerical results with a semi-analytic treatment of dynamical friction, and find that the latter is poorly suited to this scenario. In particular, we find that the back-reaction of the soliton to the presence of the black hole is significant, resulting in oscillations in the coefficient of dynamical friction which cannot be described in the simple semi-analytical framework. Furthermore, we observe a late-time reheating effect, in which a significant amount of kinetic energy is transferred back to the black hole after an initial damping phase. This complicates the discussion of ULDM dynamical friction on the scales relevant to the final parsec problem.
2403.09038v1
2024-03-21
Partially explicit splitting scheme with explicit-implicit-null method for nonlinear multiscale flow problems
In this work, we present an efficient approach to solve nonlinear high-contrast multiscale diffusion problems. We incorporate the explicit-implicit-null (EIN) method to separate the nonlinear term into a linear term and a damping term, and then utilise the implicit and explicit time marching scheme for the two parts respectively. Due to the multiscale property of the linear part, we further introduce a temporal partially explicit splitting scheme and construct suitable multiscale subspaces to speed up the computation. The approximated solution is splitted into these subspaces associated with different physics. The temporal splitting scheme employs implicit discretization in the subspace with small dimension that representing the high-contrast property and uses explicit discretization for the other subspace. We exploit the stability of the proposed scheme and give the condition for the choice of the linear diffusion coefficient. The convergence of the proposed method is provided. Several numerical tests are performed to show the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed approach.
2403.14220v1
2024-03-13
The q-ary Gilbert-Varshamov bound can be improved for all but finitely many positive integers q
For any positive integer $q\geq 2$ and any real number $\delta\in(0,1)$, let $\alpha_q(n,\delta n)$ denote the maximum size of a subset of $\mathbb{Z}_q^n$ with minimum Hamming distance at least $\delta n$, where $\mathbb{Z}_q=\{0,1,\dotsc,q-1\}$ and $n\in\mathbb{N}$. The asymptotic rate function is defined by $ R_q(\delta) = \limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{1}{n}\log_q\alpha_q(n,\delta n).$ The famous $q$-ary asymptotic Gilbert-Varshamov bound, obtained in the 1950s, states that \[ R_q(\delta) \geq 1 - \delta\log_q(q-1)-\delta\log_q\frac{1}{\delta}-(1-\delta)\log_q\frac{1}{1-\delta} \stackrel{\mathrm{def}}{=}R_\mathrm{GV}(\delta,q) \] for all positive integers $q\geq 2$ and $0<\delta<1-q^{-1}$. In the case that $q$ is an even power of a prime with $q\geq 49$, the $q$-ary Gilbert-Varshamov bound was firstly improved by using algebraic geometry codes in the works of Tsfasman, Vladut, and Zink and of Ihara in the 1980s. These algebraic geometry codes have been modified to improve the $q$-ary Gilbert-Varshamov bound $R_\mathrm{GV}(\delta,q)$ at a specific tangent point $\delta=\delta_0\in (0,1)$ of the curve $R_\mathrm{GV}(\delta,q)$ for each given integer $q\geq 46$. However, the $q$-ary Gilbert-Varshamov bound $R_\mathrm{GV}(\delta,q)$ at $\delta=1/2$, i.e., $R_\mathrm{GV}(1/2,q)$, remains the largest known lower bound of $R_q(1/2)$ for infinitely many positive integers $q$ which is a generic prime and which is a generic non-prime-power integer. In this paper, by using codes from geometry of numbers introduced by Lenstra in the 1980s, we prove that the $q$-ary Gilbert-Varshamov bound $R_\mathrm{GV}(\delta,q)$ with $\delta\in(0,1)$ can be improved for all but finitely many positive integers $q$. It is shown that the growth defined by $\eta(\delta)= \liminf_{q\rightarrow\infty}\frac{1}{\log q}\log[1-\delta-R_q(\delta)]^{-1}$ for every $\delta\in(0,1)$ has actually a nontrivial lower bound.
2403.08727v2
2002-06-27
Initial-amplitude dependence in weakly damped oscillators
A pedagogically instructive experimental procedure is suggested for distinguishing between different damping terms in a weakly damped oscillator, which highclights the connection between non-linear damping and initial-amplitude dependence. The most common damping terms such as contact friction, air resistance, viscous drag, and electromagnetic damping have velocity dependences of the form constant, v, or v^2. The corresponding energy dependences of the form \sqrt{E}, E, or E\sqrt{E} in the energy loss equation give rise to characteristic dependence of the amplitude decay slope on the initial amplitude.
0206086v1
2006-05-22
The entanglement of damped noon-state and its performance in phase measurement
The state evolution of the initial optical \textit{noon} state is investigated. The residue entanglement of the state is calculated after it is damped by amplitude and phase damping. The relative entropy of entanglement of the damped state is exactly obtained. The performance of direct application of the damped \textit{noon} state is compared with that of firstly distilling the docoherence damped state then applying it in measurement.
0605184v1
2007-10-04
Channel-Adapted Quantum Error Correction for the Amplitude Damping Channel
We consider error correction procedures designed specifically for the amplitude damping channel. We analyze amplitude damping errors in the stabilizer formalism. This analysis allows a generalization of the [4,1] `approximate' amplitude damping code of quant-ph/9704002. We present this generalization as a class of [2(M+1),M] codes and present quantum circuits for encoding and recovery operations. We also present a [7,3] amplitude damping code based on the classical Hamming code. All of these are stabilizer codes whose encoding and recovery operations can be completely described with Clifford group operations. Finally, we describe optimization options in which recovery operations may be further adapted according to the damping probability gamma.
0710.1052v1
2010-03-24
Dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binaries
Certain numerical frameworks used for the evolution of binary black holes make use of a gamma driver, which includes a damping factor. Such simulations typically use a constant value for damping. However, it has been found that very specific values of the damping factor are needed for the calculation of unequal mass binaries. We examine carefully the role this damping plays, and provide two explicit, non-constant forms for the damping to be used with mass-ratios further from one. Our analysis of the resultant waveforms compares well against the constant damping case.
1003.4681v1
2011-11-30
Local phase damping of single qubits sets an upper bound on the phase damping rate of entangled states
I derive an inequality in which the phase damping rates of single qubits set an upper bound for the phase damping rate of entangled states of many qubits. The derivation is based on two assumptions: first, that the phase damping can be described by a dissipator in Lindblad form and, second, that the phase damping preserves the population of qubit states in a given basis.
1111.7152v2
2012-05-11
Quantum dynamics of the damped harmonic oscillator
The quantum theory of the damped harmonic oscillator has been a subject of continual investigation since the 1930s. The obstacle to quantization created by the dissipation of energy is usually dealt with by including a discrete set of additional harmonic oscillators as a reservoir. But a discrete reservoir cannot directly yield dynamics such as Ohmic damping (proportional to velocity) of the oscillator of interest. By using a continuum of oscillators as a reservoir, we canonically quantize the harmonic oscillator with Ohmic damping and also with general damping behaviour. The dynamics of a damped oscillator is determined by an arbitrary effective susceptibility that obeys Kramers-Kronig relations. This approach offers an alternative description of nano-mechanical oscillators and opto-mechanical systems.
1205.2545v1
2014-02-28
Escape rate for the power-law distribution in low-to-intermediate damping
Escape rate in the low-to-intermediate damping connecting the low damping with the intermediate damping is established for the power-law distribution on the basis of flux over population theory. We extend the escape rate in the low damping to the low-to-intermediate damping, and get an expression for the power-law distribution. Then we apply the escape rate for the power-law distribution to the experimental study of the excited-state isomerization, and show a good agreement with the experimental value. The extra current and the improvement of the absorbing boundary condition are discussed.
1402.7194v2
2015-03-21
On damping created by heterogeneous yielding in the numerical analysis of nonlinear reinforced concrete frame elements
In the dynamic analysis of structural engineering systems, it is common practice to introduce damping models to reproduce experimentally observed features. These models, for instance Rayleigh damping, account for the damping sources in the system altogether and often lack physical basis. We report on an alternative path for reproducing damping coming from material nonlinear response through the consideration of the heterogeneous character of material mechanical properties. The parameterization of that heterogeneity is performed through a stochastic model. It is shown that such a variability creates the patterns in the concrete cyclic response that are classically regarded as source of damping.
1503.07122v1
2016-01-20
Introduction to Landau Damping
The mechanism of Landau damping is observed in various systems from plasma oscillations to accelerators. Despite its widespread use, some confusion has been created, partly because of the different mechanisms producing the damping but also due to the mathematical subtleties treating the effects. In this article the origin of Landau damping is demonstrated for the damping of plasma oscillations. In the second part it is applied to the damping of coherent oscillations in particle accelerators. The physical origin, the mathematical treatment leading to the concept of stability diagrams and the applications are discussed.
1601.05227v1
2018-07-25
Regularity and asymptotic behaviour for a damped plate-membrane transmission problem
We consider a transmission problem where a structurally damped plate equation is coupled with a damped or undamped wave equation by transmission conditions. We show that exponential stability holds in the damped-damped situation and polynomial stability (but no exponential stability) holds in the damped-undamped case. Additionally, we show that the solutions first defined by the weak formulation, in fact have higher Sobolev space regularity.
1807.09730v1
2002-11-03
Damping of coupled phonon--plasmon modes
The effect of free carriers on dispersion and damping of coupled phonon-plasmon modes is considered in the long-wave approximation. The electron and phonon scattering rate as well as Landau damping are taken into account.
0211040v1
2002-02-01
On "the authentic damping mechanism" of the phonon damping model
Some general features of the phonon damping model are presented. It is concluded that the fits performed within this model have no physical content.
0202006v1
2018-01-28
Observations of excitation and damping of transversal oscillation in coronal loops by AIA/SDO
The excitation and damping of transversal coronal loop oscillations and quantitative relation between damping time, damping quality (damping time per period), oscillation amplitude, dissipation mechanism and the wake phenomena are investigated. The observed time series data with the \textit{Atmospheric Imaging Assembly} (AIA) telescope on NASA's \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) satellite on 2015 March 2, consisting of 400 consecutive images with 12 seconds cadence in the 171 $ \rm{{\AA}}$ pass band is analyzed for evidence of transversal oscillations along the coronal loops by Lomb-Scargle periodgram. In this analysis signatures of transversal coronal loop oscillations that are damped rapidly were found with dominant oscillation periods in the range of $\rm{P=12.25-15.80}$ minutes. Also, damping times and damping qualities of transversal coronal loop oscillations at dominant oscillation periods are estimated in the range of $ \rm{\tau_d=11.76-21.46}$ minutes and $ \rm{\tau_d/P=0.86-1.49}$, respectively. The observational results of this analysis show that damping qualities decrease slowly with increasing the amplitude of oscillation, but periods of oscillations are not sensitive function of amplitude of oscillations. The order of magnitude of the damping qualities and damping times are in good agreement with previous findings and the theoretical prediction for damping of kink mode oscillations by dissipation mechanism. Furthermore, oscillation of loop segments attenuate with time roughly as $t^{-\alpha}$ that magnitude values of $\alpha$ for 30 different segments change from 0.51 to 0.75.
1801.09217v1
1999-11-16
Probing supernovae ejecta by Halpha damping wings
It is predicted that H$\alpha$ emission line at the early nebular epoch of type II-P supernovae may display robust observational effects of damping wings. This is illustrated by Monte-Carlo simulations. The strength of damping wing effects may be used to constrain parameters of the line-emitting zone. An anomalous redshift, width and red wing of H$\alpha$ revealed by SN 1997D on day 150 are explained in terms of damping wing effects.
9911300v1
2009-01-23
Rheological Interpretation of Rayleigh Damping
Damping is defined through various terms such as energy loss per cycle (for cyclic tests), logarithmic decrement (for vibration tests), complex modulus, rise-time or spectrum ratio (for wave propagation analysis), etc. For numerical modeling purposes, another type of damping is frequently used : it is called Rayleigh damping. It is a very convenient way of accounting for damping in numerical models, although the physical or rheological meaning of this approach is not clear. A rheological model is proposed to be related to classical Rayleigh damping : it is a generalized Maxwell model with three parameters. For moderate damping (<25%), this model perfectly coincide with Rayleigh damping approach since internal friction has the same expression in both cases and dispersive phenomena are negligible. This is illustrated by finite element (Rayleigh damping) and analytical (generalized Maxwell model) results in a simple one-dimensional case.
0901.3717v1
2009-05-20
Eigenvalue asymptotics, inverse problems and a trace formula for the linear damped wave equation
We determine the general form of the asymptotics for Dirichlet eigenvalues of the one-dimensional linear damped wave operator. As a consequence, we obtain that given a spectrum corresponding to a constant damping term this determines the damping term in a unique fashion. We also derive a trace formula for this problem.
0905.3242v1
2015-05-06
Remarks on the asymptotic behavior of the solution of an abstract damped wave equation
We study an abstract damped wave equation. We prove that the solution of the damped wave equation becomes closer to the solution of a heat type equation as time tend to infinity. As an application of our approach, we also study the asymptotic behavior of the damped wave equation in Euclidean space under the geometric control condition.
1505.01794v2
2017-01-18
Two types of spurious damping forces potentially modeled in numerical seismic nonlinear response history analysis
The purpose of this paper is to provide practitioners with further insight into spurious damping forces that can be generated in nonlinear seismic response history analyses (RHA). The term 'spurious' is used to refer to damping forces that are not present in an elastic system and appear as nonlinearities develop: such damping forces are not necessarily intended and appear as a result of modifications in the structural properties as it yields or damages due to the seismic action. In this paper, two types of spurious damping forces are characterized. Each type has often been treated separately in the literature, but each has been qualified as 'spurious', somehow blurring their differences. Consequently, in an effort to clarify the consequences of choosing a particular viscous damping model for nonlinear RHA, this paper shows that damping models that avoid spurious damping forces of one type do not necessarily avoid damping forces of the other type.
1701.05092v1
2017-02-02
Exponential stability for a coupled system of damped-undamped plate equations
We consider the transmission problem for a coupled system of undamped and structurally damped plate equations in two sufficiently smooth and bounded subdomains. It is shown that, independently of the size of the damped part, the damping is strong enough to produce uniform exponential decay of the energy of the coupled system.
1702.00637v1
2017-09-11
Comparison of damping mechanisms for transverse waves in solar coronal loops
We present a method to assess the plausibility of alternative mechanisms to explain the damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) transverse waves in solar coronal loops. The considered mechanisms are resonant absorption of kink waves in the Alfv\'en continuum, phase-mixing of Alfv\'en waves, and wave leakage. Our methods make use of Bayesian inference and model comparison techniques. We first infer the values for the physical parameters that control the wave damping, under the assumption of a particular mechanism, for typically observed damping time-scales. Then, the computation of marginal likelihoods and Bayes factors enable us to quantify the relative plausibility between the alternative mechanisms. We find that, in general, the evidence is not large enough to support a single particular damping mechanism as the most plausible one. Resonant absorption and wave leakage offer the most probable explanations in strong damping regimes, while phase mixing is the best candidate for weak/moderate damping. When applied to a selection of 89 observed transverse loop oscillations, with their corresponding measurements of damping times scales and taking into account data uncertainties, we find that only in a few cases positive evidence for a given damping mechanism is available.
1709.03347v1
2019-03-25
Distributed Inter-Area Oscillation Damping Control for Power Systems by Using Wind Generators and Load Aggregators
This paper investigates the potential of wind turbine generators (WTGs) and load aggregators (LAs) to provide supplementary damping control services for low frequency inter-area oscillations (LFOs) through the additional distributed damping control units (DCUs) proposed in their controllers. In order to provide a scalable methodology for the increasing number of WTGs and LAs, a novel distributed control framework is proposed to coordinate damping controllers. Firstly, a distributed algorithm is designed to reconstruct the system Jacobian matrix for each damping bus (buses with damping controllers). Thus, the critical LFO can be identified locally at each damping bus by applying eigen-analysis to the obtained system Jacobian matrix. Then, if the damping ratio of the critical LFO is less than a preset threshold, the control parameters of DCUs will be tuned in a distributed and coordinated manner to improve the damping ratio and minimize the total control cost at the same time. The proposed control framework is tested in a modified IEEE 39-bus test system. The simulation results with and without the proposed control framework are compared to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
1903.10135v1
2020-12-05
On Periodical Damping Ratio of a Controlled Dynamical System with Parametric Resonances
This report provides an interpretation on the periodically varying damping ratio of a dynamical system with direct control of oscillation or vibration damping. The principal parametric resonance of the system and a new type of parametric resonance, named "zero-th order" parametric resonance, are investigated by using the method of multiple scales to find approximate, analytical solutions of the system, which provide an interpretation on such damping variations.
2012.02932v1
2021-06-22
Sharp decay rate for the damped wave equation with convex-shaped damping
We revisit the damped wave equation on two-dimensional torus where the damped region does not satisfy the geometric control condition. We show that if the damping vanishes as a H\"older function $|x|^{\beta}$, and in addition, the boundary of the damped region is strictly convex, the wave is stable at rate $t^{-1+\frac{2}{2\beta+7}}$, which is better than the known optimal decay rate $t^{-1+\frac{1}{\beta+3}}$ for strip-shaped dampings of the same H\"older regularity. Moreover, we show by example that the decay rate is optimal. This illustrates the fact that the energy decay rate depends not only on the order of vanishing of the damping, but also on the shape of the damped region. The main ingredient of the proof is the averaging method (normal form reduction) developed by Hitrick and Sj\"ostrand (\cite{Hi1}\cite{Sj}).
2106.11782v3
2021-08-09
Effect of stepwise adjustment of Damping factor upon PageRank
The effect of adjusting damping factor {\alpha}, from a small initial value {\alpha}0 to the final desired {\alpha}f value, upon then iterations needed for PageRank computation is observed. Adjustment of the damping factor is done in one or more steps. Results show no improvement in performance over a fixed damping factor based PageRank.
2108.04150v1
2021-08-17
Asymptotic behaviour of the wave equation with nonlocal weak damping, anti-damping and critical nonlinearity
In this paper we prove the existence of the global attractor for the wave equation with nonlocal weak damping, nonlocal anti-damping and critical nonlinearity.
2108.07395v2
1997-11-20
Symmetric matrices and quantum codes
This paper has been withdrawn since a Gilbert-Varshamov bound for general quantum codes has already appeared in Ekert and Macchiavello, Prys. Rev. Lett. 77, p. 2585, and a Gilbert-Varshamov bound for stabilizer codes connected with orthogonal geometry, or equivalently, with symmetric matrices as in this paper, has been proved by Calredbank, Rains, Shor and Sloane, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, p. 405. I would like to thank Robert Calderbank for pointing out these references to me.
9711026v2
1994-06-09
Black Holes from Blue Spectra
Blue primordial power spectra with a spectral index $n>1$ can lead to a significant production of primordial black holes in the very early Universe. The evaporation of these objects leads to a number of observational consequences and a model independent upper limit of $n \approx 1.4$. In some cases this limit is strengthened to $n=1.3$. Such limits may be employed to define the boundary to the region of parameter space consistent with generalized inflationary predictions. [To appear in Proceedings of the CASE WESTERN CMB WORKSHOP, April 22-24 1994. Figures available on request from J.H.Gilbert@qmw.ac.uk]
9406028v1
1995-06-14
Inversions in astronomy and the SOLA method
This paper was presented at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications workshop "Inverse problems in wave propagation" and will appear in the series IMA volumes (Springer). A brief overview of applications of inversions within astronomy is presented and also an inventory of techniques commonly in use. Most of this paper is focussed on the method of Subtractive Optimally Localized Averages (SOLA) which is an adaptation of the Backus and Gilbert method. This method was originally developed for use in helioseismology where the Backus and Gilbert method is computationally too slow. Since then it has also been applied to the problem of reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei and the differences between this inverse problem and the ones of helioseismology are also discussed.
9506084v1
1997-11-11
No Need for MACHOS in the Halo
A simple interpretation of the more than dozen microlensing events seen in the direction of the LMC is a halo population of MACHOs which accounts for about half of the mass of the Galaxy. Such an interpretation is not without its problems, and we show that current microlensing data can, with some advantage, be explained by dark components of the disk and spheroid, whose total mass is only about 10% of the mass of the Galaxy.
9711110v1
2006-02-11
Likelihood Functions for Galaxy Cluster Surveys
Galaxy cluster surveys offer great promise for measuring cosmological parameters, but survey analysis methods have not been widely studied. Using methods developed decades ago for galaxy clustering studies, it is shown that nearly exact likelihood functions can be written down for galaxy cluster surveys. The sparse sampling of the density field by galaxy clusters allows simplifications that are not possible for galaxy surveys. An application to counts in cells is explicitly tested using cluster catalogs from numerical simulations and it is found that the calculated probability distributions are very accurate at masses above several times 10^{14}h^{-1} solar masses at z=0 and lower masses at higher redshift.
0602251v3
2000-03-25
Thermokinetic approach of the generalized Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with spin polarized current
In order to describe the recently observed effect of current induced magnetization reversal in magnetic nanostructures, the thermokinetic theory is applied to a metallic ferromagnet in contact with a reservoir of spin polarized conduction electrons. The spin flip relaxation of the conduction electrons is described thermodynamically as a chemical reaction. The diffusion equation of the chemical potential (or the giant magnetoresistance) and the usual Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation are derived from the entropy variation. The expression of the conservation laws of the magnetic moments, including spin dependent scattering processes, leads then to the generalized LLG equation with spin polarized current. The equation is applied to the measurements obtained on single magnetic Ni nanowires.
0003409v1
2004-05-26
Nonequilibrium Extension of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation for Magnetic Systems
Using the invariant operator method for an effective Hamiltonian including the radiation-spin interaction, we describe the quantum theory for magnetization dynamics when the spin system evolves nonadiabatically and out of equilibrium, $d \hat{\rho}/dt \neq 0$. It is shown that the vector parameter of the invariant operator and the magnetization defined with respect to the density operator, both satisfying the quantum Liouville equation, still obey the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.
0405599v1
2006-10-16
Properties of Codes with the Rank Metric
In this paper, we study properties of rank metric codes in general and maximum rank distance (MRD) codes in particular. For codes with the rank metric, we first establish Gilbert and sphere-packing bounds, and then obtain the asymptotic forms of these two bounds and the Singleton bound. Based on the asymptotic bounds, we observe that asymptotically Gilbert-Varsharmov bound is exceeded by MRD codes and sphere-packing bound cannot be attained. We also establish bounds on the rank covering radius of maximal codes, and show that all MRD codes are maximal codes and all the MRD codes known so far achieve the maximum rank covering radius.
0610099v2
1994-08-26
On the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps with prescribed singularities
Let $\M$ be a classical Riemannian globally symmetric space of rank one and non-compact type. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps into $\M$ with prescribed singularities along a closed submanifold of the domain. This generalizes our previous work where such maps into the hyperbolic plane were constructed. This problem, in the case where $\M$ is the complex-hyperbolic plane, has applications to equilibrium configurations of co-axially rotating charged black holes in General Relativity.
9408005v1
1997-08-15
One-Loop Minimization Conditions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
We study, in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, the electroweak symmetry breaking conditions obtained from the one-loop effective potential. Novel model-independent lower and upper bounds on $\tan \beta$, involving the other free parameters of the model, are inferred and determined analytically. We discuss briefly some of the related issues and give an outlook for further applications.
9708368v1
2004-05-31
On a Penrose Inequality with Charge
We construct a time-symmetric asymptotically flat initial data set to the Einstein-Maxwell Equations which satisfies the inequality: m - 1/2(R + Q^2/R) < 0, where m is the total mass, R=sqrt(A/4) is the area radius of the outermost horizon and Q is the total charge. This yields a counter-example to a natural extension of the Penrose Inequality to charged black holes.
0405602v3
2004-07-26
Automorphisms of free groups have asymptotically periodic dynamics
We show that every automorphism $\alpha$ of a free group $F_k$ of finite rank $k$ has {\it asymptotically periodic} dynamics on $F_k$ and its boundary $\partial F_k$: there exists a positive power $\alpha^q$ such that every element of the compactum $F_k \cup \partial F_k$ converges to a fixed point under iteration of $\alpha^q$.
0407437v2