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2020-01-09
Photon correlation measurements of stochastic limit cycles emerging from high-$Q$ nonlinear silicon photonic crystal microcavities
We performed measurements of photon correlation [$g^{(2)}(\tau)$] in driven nonlinear high-$Q$ silicon (Si) photonic crystal (PhC) microcavities. The measured $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ exhibits a damped oscillatory behavior when input pump power exceeds a critical value. From comparison between experiments and simulations, we attribute the measured oscillation of $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ to self-pulsing (a limit cycle) emerging from an interplay between photon, carrier, and thermal dynamics. Namely, the oscillation frequency of $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ corresponds to the oscillation period of the limit cycle, while its finite coherence (damping) time originates from the stochastic nature of the limit cycle. From the standpoint of phase reduction theory, we interpret the measured coherence time of $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ as the coherence (diffusion) time of a generalized phase of the limit cycle. Furthermore, we show that an increase in laser input power enhances the coherence time of $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ up to the order of microseconds, which could be a demonstration of the stabilization of a stochastic limit cycle through pumping.
2001.02838v2
2020-01-12
Linear programming bounds for quantum amplitude damping codes
Given that approximate quantum error-correcting (AQEC) codes have a potentially better performance than perfect quantum error correction codes, it is pertinent to quantify their performance. While quantum weight enumerators establish some of the best upper bounds on the minimum distance of quantum error-correcting codes, these bounds do not directly apply to AQEC codes. Herein, we introduce quantum weight enumerators for amplitude damping (AD) errors and work within the framework of approximate quantum error correction. In particular, we introduce an auxiliary exact weight enumerator that is intrinsic to a code space and moreover, we establish a linear relationship between the quantum weight enumerators for AD errors and this auxiliary exact weight enumerator. This allows us to establish a linear program that is infeasible only when AQEC AD codes with corresponding parameters do not exist. To illustrate our linear program, we numerically rule out the existence of three-qubit AD codes that are capable of correcting an arbitrary AD error.
2001.03976v1
2020-01-22
Small data blow-up for the wave equation with a time-dependent scale invariant damping and a cubic convolution for slowly decaying initial data
In the present paper, we study the Cauchy problem for the wave equation with a time-dependent scale invariant damping, i.e.$\frac{2}{1+t}\partial_t v$ and a cubic convolution $(|x|^{-\gamma}*v^2)v$ with $\gamma\in (0,n)$, where $v=v(x,t)$ is an unknown function on $\mathbb{R}^n\times[0,T)$. Our aim of the present paper is to prove a small data blow-up result and show an upper estimate of lifespan of the problem for slowly decaying positive initial data $(v(x,0),\partial_t v(x,0))$ such as $\partial_t v(x,0)=O(|x|^{-(1+\nu)})$ as $|x|\rightarrow\infty$. Here $\nu$ belongs to the scaling supercritical case $\nu<\frac{n-\gamma}{2}$. Our main new contribution is to estimate the convolution term in high spatial dimensions, i.e. $n\ge 4$. This paper is the first blow-up result to treat wave equations with the cubic convolution in high spatial dimensions ($n\ge 4$).
2001.07985v1
2020-01-22
Testing a Quantum Error-Correcting Code on Various Platforms
Quantum error correction plays an important role in fault-tolerant quantum information processing. It is usually difficult to experimentally realize quantum error correction, as it requires multiple qubits and quantum gates with high fidelity. Here we propose a simple quantum error-correcting code for the detected amplitude damping channel. The code requires only two qubits. We implement the encoding, the channel, and the recovery on an optical platform, the IBM Q System, and a nuclear magnetic resonance system. For all of these systems, the error correction advantage appears when the damping rate exceeds some threshold. We compare the features of these quantum information processing systems used and demonstrate the advantage of quantum error correction on current quantum computing platforms.
2001.07998v1
2020-01-22
Dynamic state reconstruction of quantum systems subject to pure decoherence
The article introduces efficient quantum state tomography schemes for qutrits and entangled qubits subject to pure decoherence. We implement the dynamic state reconstruction method for open systems sent through phase-damping channels which was proposed in: Open Syst. Inf. Dyn. 23, 1650019 (2016). In the current article we prove that two distinct observables measured at four different time instants suffice to reconstruct the initial density matrix of a qutrit with evolution given by a phase-damping channel. Furthermore, we generalize the approach in order to determine the optimal criteria for quantum tomography of entangled qubits. Finally, we prove two universal theorems concerning the minimal number of distinct observables required for quantum tomography of qudits. We believe that dynamic state reconstruction schemes bring significant advancement and novelty to quantum tomography since they allow to reduce the number of distinct measurements required to solve the problem, which is important from the experimental point of view.
2001.08167v1
2020-01-28
Rate of Estimation for the Stationary Distribution of Stochastic Damping Hamiltonian Systems with Continuous Observations
We study the problem of the non-parametric estimation for the density $\pi$ of the stationary distribution of a stochastic two-dimensional damping Hamiltonian system $(Z_t)_{t\in[0,T]}=(X_t,Y_t)_{t \in [0,T]}$. From the continuous observation of the sampling path on $[0,T]$, we study the rate of estimation for $\pi(x_0,y_0)$ as $T \to \infty$. We show that kernel based estimators can achieve the rate $T^{-v}$ for some explicit exponent $v \in (0,1/2)$. One finding is that the rate of estimation depends on the smoothness of $\pi$ and is completely different with the rate appearing in the standard i.i.d.\ setting or in the case of two-dimensional non degenerate diffusion processes. Especially, this rate depends also on $y_0$. Moreover, we obtain a minimax lower bound on the $L^2$-risk for pointwise estimation, with the same rate $T^{-v}$, up to $\log(T)$ terms.
2001.10423v1
2020-01-28
Image polaritons in boron nitride for extreme polariton confinement with low losses
Polaritons in two-dimensional materials provide extreme light confinement that is difficult to achieve with metal plasmonics. However, such tight confinement inevitably increases optical losses through various damping channels. Here we demonstrate that hyperbolic phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride can overcome this fundamental trade-off. Among two observed polariton modes, featuring a symmetric and antisymmetric charge distribution, the latter exhibits lower optical losses and tighter polariton confinement. Far-field excitation and detection of this high-momenta mode becomes possible with our resonator design that can boost the coupling efficiency via virtual polariton modes with image charges that we dub image polaritons. Using these image polaritons, we experimentally observe a record-high effective index of up to 132 and quality factors as high as 501. Further, our phenomenological theory suggests an important role of hyperbolic surface scattering in the damping process of hyperbolic phonon polaritons.
2001.10583v2
2020-02-06
Fractional derivative order determination from harmonic oscillator damping factor
This article analysis differential equations which represents damped and fractional oscillators. First, it is shown that prior to using physical quantities in fractional calculus, it is imperative that they are turned dimensionless. Afterwards, approximated expressions that relate the two equations parameters for the case that the fractional order is close to an integer number are presented. Following, a numerical regression is made using power series expansion, and, also from fractional calculus, the fact that both equations cannot be equivalent is concluded. In the end, from the numerical regression data, the analytical approximated expressions that relate the two equations' parameters are refined.
2002.02479v1
2020-02-11
A numerical damped oscillator approach to constrained Schrödinger equations
This article explains and illustrates the use of a set of coupled dynamical equations, second order in a fictitious time, which converges to solutions of stationary Schr\"{o}dinger equations with additional constraints. We include three qualitative different numerical examples: the radial Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the hydrogen atom; the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator with degenerate excited states; and finally a non-linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for rotating states. The presented method is intuitive, with analogies in classical mechanics for damped oscillators, and easy to implement, either in own coding, or with software for dynamical systems. Hence, we find it suitable to introduce it in a continuation course in quantum mechanics or generally in applied mathematics courses which contain computational parts.
2002.04400v2
2020-02-12
Fast computation of optimal damping parameters for linear vibrational systems
We formulate the quadratic eigenvalue problem underlying the mathematical model of a linear vibrational system as an eigenvalue problem of a diagonal-plus-low-rank matrix $A$. The eigenvector matrix of $A$ has a Cauchy-like structure. Optimal viscosities are those for which $trace(X)$ is minimal, where $X$ is the solution of the Lyapunov equation $AX+XA^{*}=GG^{*}$. Here $G$ is a low-rank matrix which depends on the eigenfrequencies that need to be damped. After initial eigenvalue decomposition of linearized problem which requires $O(n^3)$ operations, our algorithm computes optimal viscosities for each choice of external dampers in $O(n^2)$ operations, provided that the number of dampers is small. Hence, the subsequent optimization is order of magnitude faster than in the standard approach which solves Lyapunov equation in each step, thus requiring $O(n^3)$ operations. Our algorithm is based on $O(n^2)$ eigensolver for complex symmetric diagonal-plus-rank-one matrices and fast $O(n^2)$ multiplication of linked Cauchy-like matrices.
2002.04917v2
2020-02-13
Low-loss two-dimensional plasmon modes in antimonene
The effects of spin-orbit (SOC) and electron-phonon coupling on the collective excitation of doped monolayer Sb$_2$ are investigated using density functional and many-body perturbation theories. The spin-orbit coupling is exclusively important for the monolayer Sb$_2$ and it leads to the reconstruction of the electronic band structure. In particular, plasmon modes of monolayer Sb$_2$ are quite sensitive to the SOC and are characterized by very low damping rates owing to small electron-phonon scatterings. Our results show plasmons in antimonene are significantly less damped compared to monolayer graphene when plasmon energies are $\hbar \omega> 0.2$ eV due to smaller plasmon-phonon coupling in the former material.
2002.05302v1
2020-02-13
Quantization of the damped harmonic oscillator based on a modified Bateman Lagrangian
An approach to quantization of the damped harmonic oscillator (DHO) is developed on the basis of a modified Bateman Lagrangian (MBL); thereby some quantum mechanical aspects of the DHO are clarified. We treat the energy operator for the DHO, in addition to the Hamiltonian operator that is determined from the MBL and corresponds to the total energy of the system. It is demonstrated that the energy eigenvalues of the DHO exponentially decrease with time and that transitions between the energy eigenstates occur in accordance with the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. Also, it is pointed out that a new critical parameter discriminates different behaviours of transition probabilities.
2002.05435v1
2020-02-17
Charge Transfer Through Redox Molecular Junctions in Non-Equilibrated Solvents
Molecular conduction operating in dielectric solvent environments are often described using kinetic rates based on Marcus theory of electron transfer at a molecule-metal electrode interface. However, the successive nature of charge transfer in such system implies that the solvent does not necessarily reach equilibrium in such process. Here we generalize the theory to account for solvent nonequilibrium and consider a molecular junction consisting of an electronic donor-acceptor system coupled to two metallic electrodes and placed in a polarizable solvent. We determine the nonequilbrium distribution of the solvent by solving diffusion equations in the strong- and weak-friction limits and calculate the charge current and its fluctuating behavior. In extreme limits: the absence of the solvent or fast solvent relaxation, the charge transfer statistics is Poissonian, while it becomes correlated by the dynamic solvent in between these limits. A Kramers-like turnover of the nonequilibrium current as a function of the solvent damping is found. Finally, we propose a way to tune the solvent-induced damping using geometrical control of the solvent dielectric response in nanostructured solvent channels.
2002.06932v1
2020-02-19
Diagnostics of plasma ionisation using torsional Alfén waves
Using the recently observed torsional Alfv\'en waves in solar prominences, we determine the ionisation state of the plasma by taking into account that Alfv\'en waves propagate in a partially ionised prominence plasma. We derive the evolutionary equation of waves and compare the analytical solutions to observations to determine the number density of neutrals. Using a single fluid plasma approximation, where the wave damping is provided by the Cowling resistivity, we study the temporal evolution of waves. By comparing the solution of equations with observational data (period, amplitude, propagation speed), we determined the value of the Cowling resistivity that led us to draw a conclusion on the amount of neutrals in the partially ionised plasma, a quantity that cannot be measured directly or indirectly. Our results show that damped torsional Alfv\'en waves are an ideal diagnostic tool for the ionisation state of the plasma. Using a simple model, we find that at the observational temperature of torsional Alfv\'en waves, the number of neutrals is of the order of $5\times 10^{10}$ cm$^{-3}$.
2002.08441v1
2020-02-27
Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in half-metallic Co$_2$FeAl Heusler alloy
We report on optically induced, ultrafast magnetization dynamics in the Heusler alloy $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$, probed by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. Experimental results are compared to results from electronic structure theory and atomistic spin-dynamics simulations. Experimentally, we find that the demagnetization time ($\tau_{M}$) in films of $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$ is almost independent of varying structural order, and that it is similar to that in elemental 3d ferromagnets. In contrast, the slower process of magnetization recovery, specified by $\tau_{R}$, is found to occur on picosecond time scales, and is demonstrated to correlate strongly with the Gilbert damping parameter ($\alpha$). Our results show that $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$ is unique, in that it is the first material that clearly demonstrates the importance of the damping parameter in the remagnetization process. Based on these results we argue that for $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$ the remagnetization process is dominated by magnon dynamics, something which might have general applicability.
2002.12255v1
2020-04-14
Stability results of an elastic/viscoelastic transmission problem of locally coupled waves with non smooth coefficients
We investigate the stabilization of a locally coupled wave equations with only one internal viscoelastic damping of Kelvin-Voigt type. The main novelty in this paper is that both the damping and the coupling coefficients are non smooth. First, using a general criteria of Arendt-Batty, combined with an uniqueness result, we prove that our system is strongly stable. Next, using a spectrum approach, we prove the non-exponential (uniform) stability of the system. Finally, using a frequency domain approach, combined with a piecewise multiplier technique and the construction of a new multiplier satisfying some ordinary differential equations, we show that the energy of smooth solutions of the system decays polynomially of type t^{-1}.
2004.06758v1
2020-04-16
Ergodicity effects on transport-diffusion equations with localized damping
The main objective of this paper is to study the time decay of transport-diffusion equation with inhomogeneous localized damping in the multi-dimensional torus. The drift is governed by an autonomous Lipschitz vector field and the diffusion by the standard heat equation with small viscosity parameter $\nu$. In the first part we deal with the inviscid case and show some results on the time decay of the energy using in a crucial way the ergodicity and the unique ergodicity of the flow generated by the drift. In the second part we analyze the same problem with small viscosity and provide quite similar results on the exponential decay uniformly with respect to the viscosity in some logarithmic time scaling of the \mbox{type $t\in [0,C_0\ln(1/\nu)]$}.
2004.07712v1
2020-04-17
Majorization-Minimization-Based Levenberg--Marquardt Method for Constrained Nonlinear Least Squares
A new Levenberg--Marquardt (LM) method for solving nonlinear least squares problems with convex constraints is described. Various versions of the LM method have been proposed, their main differences being in the choice of a damping parameter. In this paper, we propose a new rule for updating the parameter so as to achieve both global and local convergence even under the presence of a convex constraint set. The key to our results is a new perspective of the LM method from majorization-minimization methods. Specifically, we show that if the damping parameter is set in a specific way, the objective function of the standard subproblem in LM methods becomes an upper bound on the original objective function under certain standard assumptions. Our method solves a sequence of the subproblems approximately using an (accelerated) projected gradient method. It finds an $\epsilon$-stationary point after $O(\epsilon^{-2})$ computation and achieves local quadratic convergence for zero-residual problems under a local error bound condition. Numerical results on compressed sensing and matrix factorization show that our method converges faster in many cases than existing methods.
2004.08259v3
2020-04-23
Many-body Decay of the Gapped Lowest Excitation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
We study the decay mechanism of the gapped lowest-lying excitation of a quasi-pure box-trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. Owing to the absence of lower-energy modes, or direct coupling to an external bath, this excitation is protected against one-body (linear) decay and the damping mechanism is exclusively nonlinear. We develop a universal theoretical model that explains this fundamental nonlinear damping as a process whereby two quanta of the gapped lowest excitation mode couple to a higher-energy mode, which subsequently decays into a continuum. We find quantitative agreement between our experiments and the predictions of this model. Finally, by strongly driving the system below its (lowest) resonant frequency we observe third-harmonic generation, a hallmark of nonlinear behavior.
2004.11363v1
2020-05-05
Hydrodynamic memory can boost enormously driven nonlinear diffusion and transport
Hydrodynamic memory force or Basset force is known since the 19th-century. Its influence on Brownian motion remains, however, mostly unexplored. Here, we investigate its role in nonlinear transport and diffusion within a paradigmatic model of tilted washboard potential. In this model, a giant enhancement of driven diffusion over its potential-free limit presents a well-established paradoxical phenomenon. In the overdamped limit, it occurs at a critical tilt of vanishing potential barriers. However, for weak damping, it takes place surprisingly at another critical tilt, where the potential barriers are clearly expressed. Recently we showed that Basset force could make such a diffusion enhancement enormously large. In this paper, we discover that even for moderately strong damping, where the overdamped theory works very well when the memory effects are negligible, substantial hydrodynamic memory unexpectedly makes a strong impact. First, the diffusion boost occurs at non-vanishing potential barriers and can be orders of magnitude larger. Second, transient anomalous diffusion regimes emerge over many time decades and potential periods. Third, particles' mobility can also be dramatically enhanced, and a long transient super-transport regime emerges.
2005.01984v2
2020-05-05
Diffraction losses of a Fabry-Perot cavity with nonidentical non-spherical mirrors
Optical cavities with both optimized resonant conditions and high quality factors are important metrological tools. In particular, they are used for laser gravitational wave (GW) detectors. It is necessary to suppress the parametric instability by damping the resonant conditions of harmful higher order optical modes (HOOM) in order to have high cavity powers in GW detectors. This can be achieved effectively by using non spherical mirrors in symmetric Fabry-Perot (FP) cavities by increasing roundtrip losses of HOOMs. Fabry-Perot cavities in most of the GW detectors have non-identical mirrors to optimize clipping losses and reduce thermal noise by reducing the beam size on one side of the cavity facing to the beam splitter and recycling cavities. We here present a general method to design non spherical non-identical mirrors in non-symmetric FP cavities to damp HOOMs. The proposed design allows to the suppress the loss of the arm power caused by point absorbers on test masses.
2005.02033v1
2020-05-11
Sound Absorption in Partially Ionized Hydrogen Plasma and Heating Mechanism of Solar Chromosphere
The temperature dependence of rates of electron impact ionization and two electrons recombination are calculated using Wannier cross section of electron impact ionization of neutral hydrogen atom. Entropy production and power dissipation are derived for the case when the ionization degree deviates from its equilibrium value. This is the special case of the obtained general formula for entropy production accompanying chemical reactions. Damping rate of the sound waves is calculated and the conditions when ionization processes dominate are considered. A quasi-classical approximation for the heating mechanism of solar chromosphere is proposed. Several analogous phenomena for damping rates in liquids and crystals are shortly discussed, for example, deaf sound of a glass of beer or English salt solution. An explicit expression for the second or bulk (or volume) viscosity of hydrogen plasma is calculated from firsts principles. For the first time some second viscosity is calculated from first principles.
2005.05056v4
2020-05-12
Calculating RF current condensation with self-consistent ray-tracing
By exploiting the nonlinear amplification of the power deposition of RF waves, current condensation promises new pathways to the stabilisation of magnetic islands. We present a numerical analysis of current condensation, coupling a geometrical optics treatment of wave propagation and damping to a thermal diffusion equation solver in the island. Taking into account the island geometry and relativistic damping, previous analytical theory can be made more precise and specific scenarios can be realistically predicted. With this more precise description, bifurcations and associated hysteresis effects could be obtained in an ITER-like scenario at realistic parameter values. Moreover, it is shown that dynamically varying the RF wave launching angles can lead to hysteresis and help to avoid the nonlinear shadowing effect.
2005.05997v1
2020-05-13
Sustaining a temperature difference
We derive an expression for the minimal rate of entropy that sustains two reservoirs at different temperatures $T_0$ and $T_\ell$. The law displays an intuitive $\ell^{-1}$ dependency on the relative distance and a characterisic $\log^2 (T_\ell/T_0)$ dependency on the boundary temperatures. First we give a back-of-envelope argument based on the Fourier Law (FL) of conduction, showing that the least-dissipation profile is exponential. Then we revisit a model of a chain of oscillators, each coupled to a heat reservoir. In the limit of large damping we reobtain the exponential and squared-log behaviors, providing a self-consistent derivation of the FL. For small damping "equipartition frustration" leads to a well-known balistic behaviour, whose incompatibility with the FL posed a long-time challenge.
2005.06289v2
2020-05-13
Numerical simulations of unsteady viscous incompressible flows using general pressure equation
In fluid dynamics, an important problem is linked to the knowledge of the fluid pressure. Recently, another approach to study incompressible fluid flow was suggested. It consists in using a general pressure equation (GPE) derived from compressible Navier-Stokes equation. In this paper, GPE is considered and compared with the Chorin's artificial compressibility method (ACM) and the Entropically damped artificial compressibility (EDAC) method. The three methods are discretized in a staggered grid system with second order centered schemes in space and a third order Runge-Kutta scheme in time. Three test cases are realized: two-dimensional Taylor-Green vortex flow, the traveling wave and the doubly periodic shear layers. It is demonstrated that GPE is accurate and efficient to capture the correct behavior for unsteady incompressible flows. The numerical results obtained by GPE are in excellent agreement with those obtained by ACM, EDAC and a classical finite volume method with a Poisson equation. Furthermore, GPE convergence is better than ACM convergence. The proposed general pressure equation (GPE) allows to solve general, time-accurate , incompressible Navier-Stokes flows. Finally, the parametric study realized in terms of Mach and Prandtl numbers shows that the velocity divergence can be limited by an arbitrary maximum and that acoustic waves can be damped.
2005.06448v1
2020-05-15
Response of the BGO Calorimeter to Cosmic Ray Nuclei in the DAMPE Experiment on Orbit
This paper is about a study on the response of the BGO calorimeter of DAMPE experiment. Four elements in Cosmic Ray nuclei are used as sources for this analysis. A feature resulting from the geomagnetic cutoff exhibits in the energy spectrum, both in simulated and reconstructed data, and is compared between them.
2005.07621v1
2020-05-18
Linear inviscid damping for shear flows near Couette in the 2D stably stratified regime
We investigate the linear stability of shears near the Couette flow for a class of 2D incompressible stably stratified fluids. Our main result consists of nearly optimal decay rates for perturbations of stationary states whose velocities are monotone shear flows $(U(y),0)$ and have an exponential density profile. In the case of the Couette flow $U(y)=y$, we recover the rates predicted by Hartman in 1975, by adopting an explicit point-wise approach in frequency space. As a by-product, this implies optimal decay rates as well as Lyapunov instability in $L^2$ for the vorticity. For the previously unexplored case of more general shear flows close to Couette, the inviscid damping results follow by a weighted energy estimate. Each outcome concerning the stably stratified regime applies to the Boussinesq equations as well. Remarkably, our results hold under the celebrated Miles-Howard criterion for stratified fluids.
2005.09058v2
2020-05-19
High-redshift Damped Ly-alpha Absorbing Galaxy Model Reproducing the N(HI)-Z Distribution
We investigate how damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) at z ~ 2-3, detected in large optical spectroscopic surveys of quasars, trace the population of star-forming galaxies. Building on previous results, we construct a model based on observed and physically motivated scaling relations in order to reproduce the bivariate distributions of metallicity, Z, and HI column density, N(HI). Furthermore, the observed impact parameters for galaxies associated to DLAs are in agreement with the model predictions. The model strongly favours a metallicity gradient, which scales with the luminosity of the host galaxy, with a value of $\gamma$* = -0.019 $\pm$ 0.008 dex kpc$^{-1}$ for L* galaxies that gets steeper for fainter galaxies. We find that DLAs trace galaxies over a wide range of galaxy luminosities, however, the bulk of the DLA cross-section arises in galaxies with L ~ 0.1 L* at z ~ 2.5 broadly consistent with numerical simulations.
2005.09660v1
2020-05-20
Dynamical phase transitions in dissipative quantum dynamics with quantum optical realization
We study dynamical phase transitions (DPT) in the driven and damped Dicke model, realizable for example by a driven atomic ensemble collectively coupled to a damped cavity mode. These DPTs are characterized by non-analyticities of certain observables, primarily the overlap of time evolved and initial state. Even though the dynamics is dissipative, this phenomenon occurs for a wide range of parameters and no fine-tuning is required. Focusing on the state of the 'atoms' in the limit of a bad cavity, we are able to asymptotically evaluate an exact path integral representation of the relevant overlaps. The DPTs then arise by minimization of a certain action function, which is related to the large deviation theory of a classical stochastic process. From a more general viewpoint, in the considered system, non-analyticities emerge generically in a Fock space representation of the state. Finally, we present a scheme which allows a measurement of the DPT in a cavity-QED setup.
2005.10013v2
2020-05-21
The critical exponent for nonlinear damped $σ$-evolution equations
In this paper, we derive suitable optimal $L^p-L^q$ decay estimates, $1\leq p\leq q\leq \infty$, for the solutions to the $\sigma$-evolution equation, $\sigma>1$, with structural damping and power nonlinearity $|u|^{1+\alpha}$ or $|u_t|^{1+\alpha}$, \[ u_{tt}+(-\Delta)^\sigma u +(-\Delta)^\theta u_t=\begin{cases} |u|^{1+\alpha}, \\ |u_t|^{1+\alpha}, \end{cases}\] where $t\geq0$ and $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$. Using these estimates, we can solve the problem of finding the critical exponents for the two nonlinear problems above in the so-called non-effective case, $\theta\in(\sigma/2,\sigma]$. This latter is more difficult than the effective case $\theta\in[0,\sigma/2)$, since the asymptotic profile of the solution involves a diffusive component and an oscillating one. The novel idea in this paper consists in treating separately the two components to neglect the loss of decay rate created by the interplay of the two components. We deal with the oscillating component, by localizing the low frequencies, where oscillations appear, in the extended phase space. This strategy allows us to recover a quasi-scaling property which replaces the lack of homogeneity of the equation.
2005.10946v1
2020-05-22
Particle pairs and trains in inertial microfluidics
Staggered and linear multi-particle trains constitute characteristic structures in inertial microfluidics. Using lattice-Boltzmann simulations, we investigate their properties and stability, when flowing through microfluidic channels. We confirm the stability of cross-streamline pairs by showing how they contract or expand to their equilibrium axial distance. In contrast, same-streamline pairs quickly expand to a characteristic separation but even at long times slowly drift apart. We reproduce the distribution of particle distances with its characteristic peak as measured in experiments. Staggered multi-particle trains initialized with an axial particle spacing larger than the equilibrium distance contract non-uniformly due to collective drag reduction. Linear particle trains, similar to pairs, rapidly expand towards a value about twice the equilibrium distance of staggered trains and then very slowly drift apart non-uniformly. Again, we reproduce the statistics of particle distances and the characteristic peak observed in experiments. Finally, we thoroughly analyze the damped displacement pulse traveling as a microfluidic phonon through a staggered train and show how a defect strongly damps its propagation.
2005.12701v2
2020-05-27
Experimental diagnostics of entanglement swapping by a collective entanglement test
The paper reports on experimental diagnostics of entanglement swapping protocol by means of collective entanglement witness. Our approach is suitable to detect disturbances occurring in the preparation of quantum states, quantum communication channel and imperfect Bell-state projection. More specifically we demonstrate that our method can distinguish disturbances such as depolarization, phase-damping, amplitude-damping and imperfect Bell-state measurement by observing four probabilities and estimating collective entanglement witness. Since entanglement swapping is a key procedure for quantum repeaters, quantum relays, device-independent quantum communications or entanglement assisted error correction, this can aid in faster and practical resolution of quality-of-transmission related problems as our approach requires less measurements then other means of diagnostics.
2005.13292v2
2020-05-27
Magnon antibunching in a nanomagnet
We investigate the correlations of magnons inside a nanomagnet and identify a regime of parameters where the magnons become antibunched, i.e., where there is a large probability for occupation of the single-magnon state. This antibunched state is very different from magnons at thermal equilibrium and microwave-driven coherent magnons. We further obtain the steady state analytically and describe the magnon dynamics numerically, and ascertain the stability of such antibunched magnons over a large window of magnetic anisotropy, damping and temperature. This means that the antibunched magnon state is feasible in a wide class of low-damping magnetic nanoparticles. To detect this quantum effect, we propose to transfer the quantum information of magnons to photons by magnon-photon coupling and then measure the correlations of photons to retrieve the magnon correlations. Our findings may provide a promising platform to study quantum-classical transitions and for designing a single magnon source.
2005.13637v1
2020-05-31
Existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the system of interaction between a compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier fluid and a damped plate equation
The article is devoted to the mathematical analysis of a fluid-structure interaction system where the fluid is compressible and heat conducting and where the structure is deformable and located on a part of the boundary of the fluid domain. The fluid motion is modeled by the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system and the structure displacement is described by a structurally damped plate equation. Our main results are the existence of strong solutions in an $L^p-L^q$ setting for small time or for small data. Through a change of variables and a fixed point argument, the proof of the main results is mainly based on the maximal regularity property of the corresponding linear systems. For small time existence, this property is obtained by decoupling the linear system into several standard linear systems whereas for global existence and for small data, the maximal regularity property is proved by showing that the corresponding linear coupled {\em fluid-structure} operator is $\mathcal{R}-$sectorial.
2006.00488v1
2020-06-03
Giant voltage control of spin Hall nano-oscillator damping
Spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) are emerging spintronic devices for microwave signal generation and oscillator based neuromorphic computing combining nano-scale footprint, fast and ultra-wide microwave frequency tunability, CMOS compatibility, and strong non-linear properties providing robust large-scale mutual synchronization in chains and two-dimensional arrays. While SHNOs can be tuned via magnetic fields and the drive current, neither approach is conducive for individual SHNO control in large arrays. Here, we demonstrate electrically gated W/CoFeB/MgO nano-constrictions in which the voltage-dependent perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, tunes the frequency and, thanks to nano-constriction geometry, drastically modifies the spin-wave localization in the constriction region resulting in a giant 42 % variation of the effective damping over four volts. As a consequence, the SHNO threshold current can be strongly tuned. Our demonstration adds key functionality to nano-constriction SHNOs and paves the way for energy-efficient control of individual oscillators in SHNO chains and arrays for neuromorphic computing.
2006.02151v1
2020-06-05
Controlling the nonlinear relaxation of quantized propagating magnons in nanodevices
Relaxation of linear magnetization dynamics is well described by the viscous Gilbert damping processes. However, for strong excitations, nonlinear damping processes such as the decay via magnon-magnon interactions emerge and trigger additional relaxation channels. Here, we use space- and time-resolved microfocused Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and micromagnetic simulations to investigate the nonlinear relaxation of strongly driven propagating spin waves in yttrium iron garnet nanoconduits. We show that the nonlinear magnon relaxation in this highly quantized system possesses intermodal features, i.e., magnons scatter to higher-order quantized modes through a cascade of scattering events. We further show how to control such intermodal dissipation processes by quantization of the magnon band in single-mode devices, where this phenomenon approaches its fundamental limit. Our study extends the knowledge about nonlinear propagating spin waves in nanostructures which is essential for the construction of advanced spin-wave elements as well as the realization of Bose-Einstein condensates in scaled systems.
2006.03400v2
2020-06-08
Rogue wave, interaction solutions to the KMM system
In this paper, the consistent tanh expansion (CTE) method and the truncated Painlev$\acute{\rm e}$ analysis are applied to the Kraenkel-Manna-Merle (KMM) system, which describes propagation of short wave in ferromagnets. Two series of analytic solutions of the original KMM system (free of damping effect) are obtained via the CTE method. The interaction solutions contain an arbitrary function, which provides a wide variety of choices to acquire new propagation structures. Particularly, the breather soliton, periodic oscillation soliton and multipole instanton are obtained. Furthermore, we obtain some exact solutions of the damped-KMM equation at the first time. On the other hand, a coupled equation containing quadri-linear form and tri-linear form for the original KMM system is obtained by the truncated Painlev$\acute{\rm e}$ analysis, and the rogue wave solution and interaction solutions between rogue wave and multi-soliton for the KMM system are discussed.
2006.04312v1
2020-06-10
Interpolation between Residual and Non-Residual Networks
Although ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide insights for designing network architectures, its relationship with the non-residual convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is still unclear. In this paper, we present a novel ODE model by adding a damping term. It can be shown that the proposed model can recover both a ResNet and a CNN by adjusting an interpolation coefficient. Therefore, the damped ODE model provides a unified framework for the interpretation of residual and non-residual networks. The Lyapunov analysis reveals better stability of the proposed model, and thus yields robustness improvement of the learned networks. Experiments on a number of image classification benchmarks show that the proposed model substantially improves the accuracy of ResNet and ResNeXt over the perturbed inputs from both stochastic noise and adversarial attack methods. Moreover, the loss landscape analysis demonstrates the improved robustness of our method along the attack direction.
2006.05749v4
2020-06-15
Multimode cold-damping optomechanics with delayed feedback
We investigate the role of time delay in cold-damping optomechanics with multiple mechanical resonances. For instantaneous electronic response, it was recently shown in \textit{Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{123}, 203605 (2019)}, that a single feedback loop is sufficient to simultaneously remove thermal noise from many mechanical modes. While the intrinsic delayed response of the electronics can induce single mode and mutual heating between adjacent modes, we propose to counteract such detrimental effects by introducing an additional time delay to the feedback loop. For lossy cavities and broadband feedback, we derive analytical results for the final occupancies of the mechanical modes within the formalism of quantum Langevin equations. For modes that are frequency degenerate collective effects dominate, mimicking behavior similar to Dicke super- and subradiance. These analytical results, corroborated with numerical simulations of both transient and steady state dynamics, allow to find suitable conditions and strategies for efficient single or multimode feedback optomechanics.
2006.08430v2
2020-06-12
Analytic solution of the SEIR epidemic model via asymptotic approximant
An analytic solution is obtained to the SEIR Epidemic Model. The solution is created by constructing a single second-order nonlinear differential equation in $\ln S$ and analytically continuing its divergent power series solution such that it matches the correct long-time exponential damping of the epidemic model. This is achieved through an asymptotic approximant (Barlow et. al, 2017, Q. Jl Mech. Appl. Math, 70 (1), 21-48) in the form of a modified symmetric Pad\'e approximant that incorporates this damping. The utility of the analytical form is demonstrated through its application to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2006.09818v2
2020-06-20
On The Energy Transfer To High Frequencies In The Damped/Driven Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (Extended Version)
We consider a damped/driven nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in an $n$-cube $K^{n}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, $n$ is arbitrary, under Dirichlet boundary conditions \[ u_t-\nu\Delta u+i|u|^2u=\sqrt{\nu}\eta(t,x),\quad x\in K^{n},\quad u|_{\partial K^{n}}=0, \quad \nu>0, \] where $\eta(t,x)$ is a random force that is white in time and smooth in space. It is known that the Sobolev norms of solutions satisfy $ \| u(t)\|_m^2 \le C\nu^{-m}, $ uniformly in $t\ge0$ and $\nu>0$. In this work we prove that for small $\nu>0$ and any initial data, with large probability the Sobolev norms $\|u(t,\cdot)\|_m$ of the solutions with $m>2$ become large at least to the order of $\nu^{-\kappa_{n,m}}$ with $\kappa_{n,m}>0$, on time intervals of order $\mathcal{O}(\frac{1}{\nu})$.
2006.11518v2
2020-06-23
The Contour Method: a new approach to finding modes of non-adiabatic stellar pulsations
The contour method is a new approach to calculating the non-adiabatic pulsation frequencies of stars. These frequencies can be found by solving for the complex roots of a characteristic equation constructed from the linear non-adiabatic stellar pulsation equations. A complex-root solver requires an initial trial frequency for each non adiabatic root. A standard method for obtaining initial trial frequencies is to use a star's adiabatic pulsation frequencies, but this method can fail to converge to non-adiabatic roots, especially as the growth and/or damping rate of the pulsations becomes large. The contour method provides an alternative way for obtaining initial trial frequencies that robustly converges to non-adiabatic roots, even for stellar models with extremely non-adiabatic pulsations and thus large growth/damping rates. We describe the contour method implemented in the GYRE stellar pulsation code and use it to calculate the non-adiabatic pulsation frequencies of $10\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$ and $20\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$ $\beta$ Cephei star models, and of a $0.9\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$ extreme helium star model.
2006.13223v2
2020-06-24
The Complex Permeability of Split-Ring Resonator Arrays Measured at Microwave Frequencies
We have measured the relative permeability of split-ring resonator (SRR) arrays used in metamaterials designed to have $\mu^\prime< 0$ over a narrow range of microwave frequencies. The SRR arrays were loaded into the bore of a loop-gap resonator (LGR) and reflection coefficient measurements were used to determine both the real and imaginary parts of the array's effective permeability. Data were collected as a function of array size and SRR spacing. The results were compared to those obtained from continuous extended split-ring resonators (ESRRs). The arrays of planar SRRs exhibited enhanced damping and a narrower range of frequencies with $\mu^\prime<0$ when compared to the ESRRs. The observed differences in damping, however, were diminished considerably when the array size was expanded from a one-dimensional array of $N$ SRRs to a $2\times 2\times N$ array. Our method can also be used to experimentally determine the effective permeability of other metamaterial designs.
2006.13861v1
2020-06-25
Sharp decay estimates and asymptotic behaviour for 3D magneto-micropolar fluids
We characterize the $L^2$ decay rate of solutions to the 3D magneto-micropolar system in terms of the decay character of the initial datum. Due to a linear damping term, the micro-rotational field has a faster decay rate. We also address the asymptotic behaviour of solutions by comparing them to solutions to the linear part. As a result of the linear damping, the difference between the micro-rotational field and its linear part also decays faster. As part of the proofs of these results, we prove estimates for the derivatives of solutions which might be of independent interest.
2006.14427v2
2020-06-27
Measurement-Based Estimation of System State Matrix for AC Power Systems with Integrated VSCs
In this paper, a wide-area measurement system (WAMS)-based method is proposed to estimate the system state matrix for AC system with integrated voltage source converters (VSCs) and identify the electromechanical modes. The proposed method is purely model-free, requiring no knowledge of accurate network topology and system parameters. Numerical studies in the IEEE 68-bus system with integrated VSCs show that the proposed measurementbased method can accurately identify the electromechanical modes and estimate the damping ratios, the mode shapes, and the participation factors. The work may serve as a basis for developing WAMS-based damping control using VSCs in the future.
2006.15244v1
2020-06-29
Quadratic optomechanical cooling of a cavity-levitated nanosphere
We report on cooling the center-of-mass motion of a nanoparticle due to a purely quadratic coupling between its motion and the optical field of a high finesse cavity. The resulting interaction gives rise to a Van der Pol nonlinear damping, which is analogous to conventional parametric feedback where the cavity provides passive feedback without measurement. We show experimentally that like feedback cooling the resulting energy distribution is strongly nonthermal and can be controlled by the nonlinear damping of the cavity. As quadratic coupling has a prominent role in proposed protocols to generate deeply nonclassical states, our work represents a first step for producing such states in a levitated system.
2006.16103v1
2020-07-01
Entanglement of quantum oscillators coupled to different heat baths
We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two coupled oscillators interacting with their own heat baths of quantum scalar fields at different temperature $T_1$ and $T_2$ with bilinear couplings between them. We particularly focus on the entanglement or inseparability property of their quantum states. The critical temperatures of two respective oscillators, $T_{1c}$ and $T_{2c}$, higher than which the entanglement disappears, can be determined. It is found that when two damping parameters are largely different, say $\gamma_1 \ll \gamma_2$, the critical temperature $T_{1c}$ with respect to the frequency $\Omega_+$, the higher frequency among two normal modes frequencies, can be very large, $T_{1c} \gg \Omega_+$, while $T_{2c} \propto \Omega_+$ with the possibility of hot entanglement. The entanglement of two oscillators with the temperature-dependent damping parameters $\gamma_{1;2,T}$ from heat baths is also discussed.
2007.00288v2
2020-07-01
Stabilization of the critical and subcritical semilinear inhomogeneous and anisotropic elastic wave equation
{\bf Abstract} \,\,We prove exponential decay of the critical and subcritical semilinear inhomogeneous and anisotropic elastic wave equation with locally distributed damping on bounded domain. One novelty compared to previous results, is to give a checkable condition of the inhomogeneous and anisotropic medias. Another novelty is to establish a framework to study the stability of the damped semilinear inhomogeneous and anisotropic elastic wave equation, which is hard to apply Carleman estimates to deal with. We develop the Morawetz estimates and the compactness-uniqueness arguments for the semiliear elastic wave equation to prove the unique continuation, observability inequality and stabilization result. It is pointing that our proof is different from the classical method (See Dehman et al.\cite{ZYY11}, Joly et al.\cite{ZYY16} and Zuazua \cite{ZYY43}), which succeeds for the subcritical semilinear wave equation and fails for the critical semilinear wave equation.
2007.00813v1
2020-07-06
Collective excitations and universal broadening of cyclotron absorption in Dirac semimetals in a quantizing magnetic field
The spectrum of electromagnetic collective excitations in Dirac semimetals placed in a quantizing magnetic field is considered. We have found the Landau damping regions using the energy and momentum conservation law for allowed transitions between one-particle states of electron excitations. Analysis of dispersion equations for longitudinal and transverse waves near the window boundaries in the Landau damping regions reveals different types of collective excitations. We also indicate the features of universal broadening of cyclotron absorption for a magnetic field variation in systems with linear dispersion of the electron spectrum. The use of the obtained spectrum also allows us to predict a number of oscillation and resonance effects in the field of magneto-optical phenomena.
2007.02979v1
2020-07-06
Fast convex optimization via a third-order in time evolution equation: TOGES-V an improved version of TOGES
In a Hilbert space setting H, for convex optimization, we analyze the fast convergence properties as t tends to infinity of the trajectories generated by a third-order in time evolution system. The function f to minimize is supposed to be convex, continuously differentiable, with a nonempty set of minimizers. It enters into the dynamic through its gradient. Based on this new dynamical system, we improve the results obtained by [Attouch, Chbani, Riahi: Fast convex optimization via a third-order in time evolution equation, Optimization 2020]. As a main result, when the damping parameter $\alpha$ satisfies $\alpha > 3$, we show that the convergence of the values at the order 1/t3 as t goes to infinity, as well as the convergence of the trajectories. We complement these results by introducing into the dynamic an Hessian driven damping term, which reduces the oscillations. In the case of a strongly convex function f, we show an autonomous evolution system of the third order in time with an exponential rate of convergence. All these results have natural extensions to the case of a convex lower semicontinuous function with extended real values. Just replace f with its Moreau envelope.
2007.03062v1
2021-02-01
Performance and limits of feedback cooling methods for levitated oscillators: a direct comparison
Cooling the centre-of-mass motion is an important tool for levitated optomechanical systems, but it is often not clear which method can practically reach lower temperatures for a particular experiment. We directly compare the parametric and velocity feedback damping methods, which are used extensively for cooling the motion of single trapped particles in a range of traps. By performing experiments on the same particle, and with the same detection system, we demonstrate that velocity damping cools the oscillator to lower temperatures and is more resilient to imperfect experimental conditions. We show that these results are consistent with analytical limits as well as numerical simulations that include experimental noise.
2102.01060v3
2021-02-16
A homogenized damping model for the propagation of elastic wave in a porous solid
This paper develops an averaging technique based on the combination of the eigenfunction expansion method and the collaboration method to investigate the multiple scattering effect of the SH wave propagation in a porous medium. The semi-analytical averaging technique is conducted using Monto Carlo method to understand the macroscopic dispersion and attenuation phenomena of the stress wave propagation in a porous solid caused by the multiple scattering effects. The averaging technique is verified by finite element analysis. Finally, a simple homogenized elastic model with damping is proposed to describe the macroscopic dispersion and attenuation effects of SH waves in porous media.
2102.08334v1
2021-02-11
Semi-linear Poisson-mediated Flocking in a Cucker-Smale Model
We propose a family of compactly supported parametric interaction functions in the general Cucker-Smale flocking dynamics such that the mean-field macroscopic system of mass and momentum balance equations with non-local damping terms can be converted from a system of partial integro-differential equations to an augmented system of partial differential equations in a compact set. We treat the interaction functions as Green's functions for an operator corresponding to a semi-linear Poisson equation and compute the density and momentum in a translating reference frame, i.e. one that is taken in reference to the flock's centroid. This allows us to consider the dynamics in a fixed, flock-centered compact set without loss of generality. We approach the computation of the non-local damping using the standard finite difference treatment of the chosen differential operator, resulting in a tridiagonal system which can be solved quickly.
2102.08772v1
2021-02-22
Robust formation of nanoscale magnetic skyrmions in easy-plane thin film multilayers with low damping
We experimentally demonstrate the formation of room-temperature skyrmions with radii of about 25\,nm in easy-plane anisotropy multilayers with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We detect the formation of individual magnetic skyrmions by magnetic force microscopy and find that the skyrmions are stable in out-of-plane fields up to about 200 mT. We determine the interlayer exchange coupling as well as the strength of the interfacial DMI. Additionally, we investigate the dynamic microwave spin excitations by broadband magnetic resonance spectroscopy. From the uniform Kittel mode we determine the magnetic anisotropy and low damping $\alpha_{\mathrm{G}} < 0.04$. We also find clear magnetic resonance signatures in the non-uniform (skyrmion) state. Our findings demonstrate that skyrmions in easy-plane multilayers are promising for spin-dynamical applications.
2102.11117v1
2021-02-22
Asymptotics of solutions with a compactness property for the nonlinear damped Klein-Gordon equation
We consider the nonlinear damped Klein-Gordon equation \[ \partial_{tt}u+2\alpha\partial_{t}u-\Delta u+u-|u|^{p-1}u=0 \quad \text{on} \ \ [0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R}^N \] with $\alpha>0$, $2 \le N\le 5$ and energy subcritical exponents $p>2$. We study the behavior of solutions for which it is supposed that only one nonlinear object appears asymptotically for large times, at least for a sequence of times. We first prove that the nonlinear object is necessarily a bound state. Next, we show that when the nonlinear object is a non-degenerate state or a degenerate excited state satisfying a simplicity condition, the convergence holds for all positive times, with an exponential or algebraic rate respectively. Last, we provide an example where the solution converges exactly at the rate $t^{-1}$ to the excited state.
2102.11178v1
2021-02-23
The tipping effect of delayed interventions on the evolution of COVID-19 incidence
We combine infectious disease transmission and the non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) response to disease incidence into one closed model consisting of two coupled delay differential equations for the incidence rate and the time-dependent reproduction number. The model contains three free parameters, the initial reproduction number, the intervention strength, and the response delay relative to the time of infection. The NPI response is modeled by assuming that the rate of change of the reproduction number is proportional to the negative deviation of the incidence rate from an intervention threshold. This delay dynamical system exhibits damped oscillations in one part of the parameter space, and growing oscillations in another, and these are separated by a surface where the solution is a strictly periodic nonlinear oscillation. For parameters relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic, the tipping transition from damped to growing oscillations occurs for response delays of the order of one week, and suggests that effective control and mitigation of successive epidemic waves cannot be achieved unless NPIs are implemented in a precautionary manner, rather than merely as a response to the present incidence rate.
2102.11750v1
2021-06-06
Non-delay limit in the energy space from the nonlinear damped wave equation to the nonlinear heat equation
We consider a singular limit problem from the damped wave equation with a power type nonlinearity to the corresponding heat equation. We call our singular limit problem non-delay limit. Our proofs are based on the argument for non-relativistic limit from the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation by the second author, Nakanishi, and Ozawa (2002), Nakanishi (2002), and Masmoudi and Nakanishi (2002). We can obtain better results for the non-delay limit problem than that for the non-relativistic limit problem due to the dissipation property. More precisely, we get the better convergence rate of the $L^2$-norm and we also obtain the global-in-time uniform convergence of the non-delay limit in the $L^2$-supercritical case.
2106.03030v1
2021-06-10
Symmetrical emergence of extreme events at multiple regions in a damped and driven velocity-dependent mechanical system
In this work, we report the emergence of extreme events in a damped and driven velocity-dependent mechanical system. We observe that the extreme events emerge at multiple points. We further notice that the extreme events occur symmetrically in both positive and negative values at all the points of emergence. We statistically confirm the emergence of extreme events by plotting the probability distribution function of peaks and interevent intervals. We also determine the mechanism behind the emergence of extreme events at all the points and classify these points into two categories depending on the region at which the extreme events emerge. Finally, we plot the two parameter diagram in order to have a complete overview of the system.
2106.05510v2
2021-06-11
On global existence for semilinear wave equations with spacedependent critical damping
The global existence for semilinear wave equations with space-dependent critical damping $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+\frac{V_0}{|x|}\partial_t u=f(u)$ in an exterior domain is dealt with, where $f(u)=|u|^{p-1}u$ and $f(u)=|u|^p$ are in mind. Existence and non-existence of global-in-time solutions are discussed. To obtain global existence, a weighted energy estimate for the linear problem is crucial. The proof of such a weighted energy estimate contains an alternative proof of energy estimates established by Ikehata--Todorova--Yordanov [J.\ Math.\ Soc.\ Japan (2013), 183--236] but this clarifies the precise independence of the location of the support of initial data. The blowup phenomena is verified by using a test function method with positive harmonic functions satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition.
2106.06107v1
2021-06-13
Invariant measures for a stochastic nonlinear and damped 2D Schrödinger equation
We consider a stochastic nonlinear defocusing Schr\"{o}dinger equation with zero-order linear damping, where the stochastic forcing term is given by a combination of a linear multiplicative noise in the Stratonovich form and a nonlinear noise in the It\^o form. We work at the same time on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary and on relatively compact smooth domains with either the Dirichlet or the Neumann boundary conditions, always in dimension 2. We construct a martingale solution using a modified Faedo-Galerkin's method, following arXiv:1707.05610. Then by means of the Strichartz estimates deduced from arXiv:math/0609455 but modified for our stochastic setting we show the pathwise uniqueness of solutions. Finally, we prove the existence of an invariant measure by means of a version of the Krylov-Bogoliubov method, which involves the weak topology, as proposed by Maslowski and Seidler. This is the first result of this type for stochastic NLS on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary and on relatively compact smooth domains even for an additive noise. Some remarks on the uniqueness in a particular case are provided as well.
2106.07043v4
2021-06-13
Blow-up and lifespan estimates for solutions to the weakly coupled system of nonlinear damped wave equations outside a ball
In this paper, we consider the initial-boundary value problems with several fundamental boundary conditions (the Dirichlet/Neumann/Robin boundary condition) for the multi-component system of semi-linear classical damped wave equations outside a ball. By applying a test function approach with a judicious choice of test functions, which approximates the harmonic functions being subject to these boundary conditions on $\partial \Omega$, simultaneously we have succeeded in proving the blow-up result in a finite time as well as in catching the sharp upper bound of lifespan estimates for small solutions in two and higher spatial dimensions. Moreover, such kind of these results will be discussed in one-dimensional case at the end of this work.
2106.07050v2
2021-06-14
An Overview of Energy-Optimal Impedance Control of Cooperative Robot Manipulators
An impedance-based control scheme is introduced for cooperative manipulators grasping a rigid load. The position and orientation of the load are to be maintained close to a desired trajectory, trading off tracking accuracy by low energy consumption and maintaining stability. To this end, the augmented dynamics of the robots, their actuators and the load is formed, and an impedance control is adopted. A virtual control strategy is used to decouple torque control from actuator control. An optimization problem is then formulated using energy balance equations. The optimization finds the damping and stiffness gains of the impedance relation such that the energy consumption is minimized. Furthermore, L2 stability techniques are used to allow for time-varying damping and stiffness in the desired impedance. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the results.
2106.07491v1
2021-06-17
Adaptive Low-Rank Regularization with Damping Sequences to Restrict Lazy Weights in Deep Networks
Overfitting is one of the critical problems in deep neural networks. Many regularization schemes try to prevent overfitting blindly. However, they decrease the convergence speed of training algorithms. Adaptive regularization schemes can solve overfitting more intelligently. They usually do not affect the entire network weights. This paper detects a subset of the weighting layers that cause overfitting. The overfitting recognizes by matrix and tensor condition numbers. An adaptive regularization scheme entitled Adaptive Low-Rank (ALR) is proposed that converges a subset of the weighting layers to their Low-Rank Factorization (LRF). It happens by minimizing a new Tikhonov-based loss function. ALR also encourages lazy weights to contribute to the regularization when epochs grow up. It uses a damping sequence to increment layer selection likelihood in the last generations. Thus before falling the training accuracy, ALR reduces the lazy weights and regularizes the network substantially. The experimental results show that ALR regularizes the deep networks well with high training speed and low resource usage.
2106.09677v1
2021-06-23
Effect of different additional $L^{m}$ regularity on semi-linear damped $σ$-evolution models
The motivation of the present study is to discuss the global (in time) existence of small data solutions to the following semi-linear structurally damped $\sigma$-evolution models: \begin{equation*} \partial_{tt}u+(-\Delta)^{\sigma}u+(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}\partial_{t}u=\left|u\right| ^{p}, \ \sigma\geq 1, \ \ p>1, \end{equation*} where the Cauchy data $(u(0,x), \partial_{t}u(0,x))$ will be chosen from energy space on the base of $L^{q}$ with different additional $L^{m}$ regularity, namely \begin{equation*} u(0,x)\in H^{\sigma,q}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\cap L^{m_{1}}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) , \ \ \partial_{t}u(0,x)\in L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\cap L^{m_{2}}(\mathbb{R}^{n}), \ \ q\in(1,\infty),\ \ m_{1}, m_{2}\in [1,q). \end{equation*} Our new results will show that the critical exponent which guarantees the global (in time) existence is really affected by these different additional regularities and will take \textit{two different values} under some restrictions on $m_{1}, m_{2}$, $q$, $\sigma$ and the space dimension $n\geq1$. Moreover, in each case, we have no loss of decay estimates of the unique solution with respect to the corresponding linear models.
2106.12286v1
2021-06-29
Damping effect in innovation processes: case studies from Twitter
Understanding the innovation process, that is the underlying mechanisms through which novelties emerge, diffuse and trigger further novelties is undoubtedly of fundamental importance in many areas (biology, linguistics, social science and others). The models introduced so far satisfy the Heaps' law, regarding the rate at which novelties appear, and the Zipf's law, that states a power law behavior for the frequency distribution of the elements. However, there are empirical cases far from showing a pure power law behavior and such a deviation is present for elements with high frequencies. We explain this phenomenon by means of a suitable "damping" effect in the probability of a repetition of an old element. While the proposed model is extremely general and may be also employed in other contexts, it has been tested on some Twitter data sets and demonstrated great performances with respect to Heaps' law and, above all, with respect to the fitting of the frequency-rank plots for low and high frequencies.
2106.15528v1
2021-07-01
Local available quantum correlations of X states: The symmetric and anti-symmetric cases
Local available quantum correlations (LAQC), as defined by Mundarain et al., are analyzed for 2-qubit X states with local Bloch vectors of equal magnitude. Symmetric X-states are invariant under the exchange of subsystems, hence having the same {local} Bloch vector. On the other hand, anti-symmetric X states have {local} Bloch vectors with an equal magnitude but opposite direction {(anti-parallel)}. In both cases, we obtain exact analytical expressions for their LAQC quantifier. We present some examples and compare this quantum correlation to concurrence and quantum discord. We have also included Markovian decoherence, with Werner states under amplitude damping decoherence. As is the case for depolarization and phase damping, no sudden death behavior occurs for the LAQC of these states with this quantum channel.
2107.00158v3
2021-07-06
Dynamical System Parameter Identification using Deep Recurrent Cell Networks
In this paper, we investigate the parameter identification problem in dynamical systems through a deep learning approach. Focusing mainly on second-order, linear time-invariant dynamical systems, the topic of damping factor identification is studied. By utilizing a six-layer deep neural network with different recurrent cells, namely GRUs, LSTMs or BiLSTMs; and by feeding input-output sequence pairs captured from a dynamical system simulator, we search for an effective deep recurrent architecture in order to resolve damping factor identification problem. Our study results show that, although previously not utilized for this task in the literature, bidirectional gated recurrent cells (BiLSTMs) provide better parameter identification results when compared to unidirectional gated recurrent memory cells such as GRUs and LSTM. Thus, indicating that an input-output sequence pair of finite length, collected from a dynamical system and when observed anachronistically, may carry information in both time directions for prediction of a dynamical systems parameter.
2107.02427v1
2021-07-14
Explaining the pseudogap through damping and antidamping on the Fermi surface by imaginary spin scattering
The mechanism of the pseudogap observed in hole-doped cuprates remains one of the central puzzles in condensed matter physics. We analyze this phenomenon via a Feynman-diagrammatic inspection of the Hubbard model. Our approach captures the pivotal interplay between Mott localization and Fermi surface topology beyond weak-coupling spin fluctuations, which would open a spectral gap near hot spots. We show that strong coupling and particle-hole asymmetry trigger a very different mechanism: a large imaginary part of the spin-fermion vertex promotes damping of antinodal fermions and, at the same time, protects the nodal Fermi arcs (antidamping). Our analysis naturally explains puzzling features of the pseudogap observed in experiments, such as Fermi arcs being cut off at the antiferromagnetic zone boundary and the subordinate role of hot spots.
2107.06529v2
2021-07-17
Blow--up for the wave equation with hyperbolic dynamical boundary conditions, interior and boundary nonlinear damping and sources
The aim of this paper is to give global nonexistence and blow--up results for the problem $$ \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+P(x,u_t)=f(x,u) \qquad &\text{in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$,}\\ u=0 &\text{on $(0,\infty)\times \Gamma_0$,}\\ u_{tt}+\partial_\nu u-\Delta_\Gamma u+Q(x,u_t)=g(x,u)\qquad &\text{on $(0,\infty)\times \Gamma_1$,}\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x),\quad u_t(0,x)=u_1(x) & \text{in $\overline{\Omega}$,} \end{cases}$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded open $C^1$ subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\ge 2$, $\Gamma=\partial\Omega$, $(\Gamma_0,\Gamma_1)$ is a partition of $\Gamma$, $\Gamma_1\not=\emptyset$ being relatively open in $\Gamma$, $\Delta_\Gamma$ denotes the Laplace--Beltrami operator on $\Gamma$, $\nu$ is the outward normal to $\Omega$, and the terms $P$ and $Q$ represent nonlinear damping terms, while $f$ and $g$ are nonlinear source terms. These results complement the analysis of the problem given by the author in two recent papers, dealing with local and global existence, uniqueness and well--posedness.
2107.08213v2
2021-07-22
Collisional Growth Within the Solar System's Primordial Planetesimal Disk and the Timing of the Giant Planet Instability
The large scale structure of the Solar System has been shaped by a transient dynamical instability that may have been triggered by the interaction of the giants planets with a massive primordial disk of icy debris. In this work, we investigate the conditions under which this primordial disk could have coalesced into planets using analytic and numerical calculations. In particular, we perform numerical simulations of the Solar System's early dynamical evolution that account for the viscous stirring and collisional damping within the disk. We demonstrate that if collisional damping would have been sufficient to maintain a temperate velocity dispersion, Earth mass trans-Neptunian planets could have emerged within a timescale of 10 Myr. Therefore, our results favor a scenario wherein the dynamical instability of the outer Solar System began immediately upon the dissipation of the gaseous nebula to avoid the overproduction of Earth mass planets in the outer Solar System.
2107.10403v1
2021-11-01
Achieving increased Phasor POD performance by introducing a Control-Input Model
In this paper, an enhancement to the well known Phasor Power Oscillation Damper is proposed, aiming to increase its performance. Fundamental to the functioning of this controller is the estimation of a phasor representing oscillatory behaviour at a particular frequency in a measured signal. The phasor is transformed to time domain and applied as a setpoint signal to a controllable device. The contribution in this paper specifically targets the estimation algorithm of the controller: It is found that increased estimation accuracy and thereby enhanced damping performance can be achieved by introducing a prediction-correction scheme for the estimator, in the form of a Kalman Filter. The prediction of the phasor at the next step is performed based on the control signal that is applied at the current step. This enables more precise damping of the targeted mode. The presented results, which are obtained from simulations on a Single-Machine Infinite Bus system and the IEEE 39-Bus system, indicate that the proposed enhancement improves the performance of this type of controller.
2111.00968v2
2021-11-02
Escape kinetics of self-propelled particles from a circular cavity
We numerically investigate the mean exit time of an inertial active Brownian particle from a circular cavity with single or multiple exit windows. Our simulation results witness distinct escape mechanisms depending upon the relative amplitudes of the thermal length and self-propulsion length compared to the cavity and pore sizes. For exceedingly large self-propulsion lengths, overdamped active particles diffuse on the cavity surface, and rotational dynamics solely governs the exit process. On the other hand, the escape kinetics of a very weakly damped active particle is largely dictated by bouncing effects on the cavity walls irrespective of the amplitude of self-propulsion persistence lengths. We show that the exit rate can be maximized for an optimal self-propulsion persistence length, which depends on the damping strength, self-propulsion velocity, and cavity size. However, the optimal persistence length is insensitive to the opening windows' size, number, and arrangement. Numerical results have been interpreted analytically based on qualitative arguments. The present analysis aims to understand the transport controlling mechanism of active matter in confined structures.
2111.01324v1
2021-11-05
Giant oscillatory Gilbert damping in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions
Interfaces between materials with differently ordered phases present unique opportunities for exotic physical properties, especially the interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity in the ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures. The investigation of zero- and pi-junctions has been of particular interest for both fundamental physical science and emerging technologies. Here, we report the experimental observation of giant oscillatory Gilbert damping in the superconducting Nb/NiFe/Nb junctions with respect to the NiFe thickness. This observation suggests an unconventional spin pumping and relaxation via zero-energy Andreev bound states that exist only in the Nb/NiFe/Nb pi-junctions, but not in the Nb/NiFe/Nb zero-junctions. Our findings could be important for further exploring the exotic physical properties of ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures, and potential applications of ferromagnet pi-junctions in quantum computing, such as half-quantum flux qubits.
2111.03233v1
2021-11-09
Quantum Control of the Time-Dependent Interaction between a Three-Level $Ξ$-Type Atom and a Two-Mode Field with Damping Term
The purpose of this paper is to investigate some properties through a three-level $\Xi$-type atom interacting with a two-mode field. We test this system in the presence of the photon assisted atomic phase damping, detuning parameter and Kerr nonlinearity. Also, the coupling parameter modulated to be time-dependent. The problem solution of this model is given by using the Schr\H{o}dinger equation when the atom and the field are initially prepared in the excited state and coherent state, respectively. We used the results to calculate some aspects such as atomic population inversion and concurrence. The results show that the time-dependent coupling parameter and the detuning parameter can be considered as a quantum control parameters of the atomic population inversion and quantum entanglement in the considered model.
2111.05449v1
2021-11-10
On the Convergence of Orthogonal/Vector AMP: Long-Memory Message-Passing Strategy
Orthogonal/vector approximate message-passing (AMP) is a powerful message-passing (MP) algorithm for signal reconstruction in compressed sensing. This paper proves the convergence of Bayes-optimal orthogonal/vector AMP in the large system limit. The proof strategy is based on a novel long-memory (LM) MP approach: A first step is a construction of LM-MP that is guaranteed to converge systematically. A second step is a large-system analysis of LM-MP via an existing framework of state evolution. A third step is to prove the convergence of state evolution recursions for Bayes-optimal LM-MP via a new statistical interpretation of existing LM damping. The last is an exact reduction of the state evolution recursions for Bayes-optimal LM-MP to those for Bayes-optimal orthogonal/vector AMP. The convergence of the state evolution recursions for Bayes-optimal LM-MP implies that for Bayes-optimal orthogonal/vector AMP. Numerical simulations are presented to show the verification of state evolution results for damped orthogonal/vector AMP and a negative aspect of LM-MP in finite-sized systems.
2111.05522v2
2021-11-15
Spectral analysis of a viscoelastic tube conveying fluid with generalised boundary conditions
We study the spectral problem associated with the equation governing the small transverse motions of a viscoelastic tube of finite length conveying an ideal fluid. The boundary conditions considered are of general form, accounting for a combination of elasticity and viscous damping acting on both the slopes and the displacements of the ends of the tube. These include many standard boundary conditions as special cases such as the clamped, free, hinged, and guided conditions. We derive explicit asymptotic formulae for the eigenvalues for the case of generalised boundary conditions and specialise these results to the clamped case and the case in which damping acts on the slopes but not on the displacements. In particular, the dependence of the eigenvalues on the parameters of the problem is investigated and it is found that all eigenvalues are located in certain sectorial sets in the complex plane.
2111.07697v5
2021-11-18
Confronting cosmic ray electron and positron excesses with hybrid triplet Higgs portal dark matter
We perform a detailed study of scalar dark matter with triplet Higgs extensions of the Standard Model in order to explain the cosmic ray electron and positron excesses reported by AMS-02 and DAMPE. A detailed analysis of AMS-02 positron excess reveals that for different orderings (normal, inverted and quasi-degenerate) of neutrino mass, the hybrid triplet Higgs portal framework is more favored with respect to the single triplet Higgs portal for TeV scale dark matter. We also show that the resonant peak and continuous excess in DAMPE cosmic ray data can be well explained with the hybrid triplet Higgs portal dark matter when a dark matter sub-halo nearby is taken into account.
2111.09559v3
2021-11-30
Damping via the hyperfine interaction of a spin-rotation mode in a two-dimensional strongly magnetized electron plasma
We address damping of a Goldstone spin-rotation mode emerging in a quantum Hall ferromagnet due to laser pulse excitation. Recent experimental data show that the attenuation mechanism, dephasing of the observed Kerr precession, is apparently related not only to spatial fluctuations of the electron Land\'e factor in the quantum well, but to a hyperfine interaction with nuclei, because local magnetization of GaAs nuclei should also experience spatial fluctuations. The motion of the macroscopic spin-rotation state is studied microscopically by solving a non-stationary Schr\"odinger equation. Comparison with the previously studied channel of transverse spin relaxation (attenuation of Kerr oscilations) shows that relaxation via nuclei involves a longer quadratic stage of time-dependance of the transverse spin, and, accordingly, an elongated transition to a linear stage, so that a linear time-dependance may not be revealed.
2111.15433v1
2021-11-30
Heating of Magnetically Dominated Plasma by Alfvén-Wave Turbulence
Magnetic energy around astrophysical compact objects can strongly dominate over plasma rest mass. Emission observed from these systems may be fed by dissipation of Alfv\'en wave turbulence, which cascades to small damping scales, energizing the plasma. We use 3D kinetic simulations to investigate this process. When the cascade is excited naturally, by colliding large-scale Alfv\'en waves, we observe quasithermal heating with no nonthermal particle acceleration. We also find that the particles are energized along the magnetic field lines and so are poor producers of synchrotron radiation. At low plasma densities, our simulations show the transition to "charge-starved" cascades, with a distinct damping mechanism.
2111.15578v2
2022-07-07
Control of Oscillatory Temperature Field in a Building via Damping Assignment to Nonlinear Koopman Mode
This paper addresses a control problem on air-conditioning systems in buildings that is regarded as a control practice of nonlinear distributed-parameter systems. Specifically, we consider the design of a controller for suppressing an oscillatory response of in-room temperature field. The main idea in this paper is to apply the emergent theory of Koopman operator and Koopman mode decomposition for nonlinear systems, and to formulate a technique of damping assignment to a nonlinear Koopman mode in a fully data-driven manner. Its effectiveness is examined by numerical simulations guided by measurement of a practical room space.
2207.03219v1
2022-07-07
New perspectives on transient stability between grid-following and grid-forming VSCs
The grid-following and grid-forming controls in voltage-source converters are considered as different operation modes and the synchronization mechanism of them are studied separately. In this article, the intrinsic relationships between gridfollowing and grid-forming controlled converters are established as follows: 1) the proportional gain of PLL is in inverse proportion to damping; 2) the integral gain of PLL is similar to integral droop; 3) PLL has no practical inertia but acts like grid-forming control in zero inertia cases. Further, a general stability-enhanced method combining damping and inertia is proposed, and the modified energy function is obtained to estimate the region of attraction for the system. Finally, these findings are corroborated by simulation tests with an intuitive conclusion.
2207.03273v1
2022-07-11
Rapid Stabilization of Timoshenko Beam by PDE Backstepping
In this paper, we present a rapid boundary stabilization of a Timoshenko beam with anti-damping and anti-stiffness at the uncontrolled boundary, by using PDE backstepping. We introduce a transformation to map the Timoshenko beam states into a (2+2) x (2+2) hyperbolic PIDE-ODE system. Then backstepping is applied to obtain a control law guaranteeing closed-loop stability of the origin in the H^1 sense. Arbitrarily rapid stabilization can be achieved by adjusting control parameters. Finally, a numerical simulation shows that the proposed controller can rapidly stabilize the Timoshenko beam. This result extends a previous work which considered a slender Timoshenko beam with Kelvin-Voigt damping, allowing destabilizing boundary conditions at the uncontrolled boundary and attaining an arbitrarily rapid convergence rate.
2207.04746v1
2022-07-20
MsSpec-DFM (Dielectric function module): Towards a multiple scattering approach to plasmon description
We present here the MsSpec Dielectric Function module (MsSpec-DFM), which generates dielectric functions in an electron gas or a liquid, either isolated or embedded into an environment. In addition to standard models such as the plasmon pole and the RPA, this module also provides more involved methods incorporating local field corrections (in order to account for correlations), Boltzmann-Vlasov hydrodynamical methods, the relaxation-damped Mermin and the diffusion-damped Hu-O'Connell methods, as well as moment-based methods using either a Nevanlinna function or a memory function. Ultimately, through the use of form factors, the MsSpec-DFM module will be able to address a wide range of materials such as metals, semiconductors, including inversion layers, hetero-structures, superconductors, quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots, Dirac materials such as graphene, and liquids.
2207.09924v1
2022-07-25
Extreme bursting events via pulse-shaped explosion in mixed Rayleigh-Lienard nonlinear oscillator
We study the dynamics of a parametrically and externally driven Rayleigh-Lienard hybrid model and report the emergence of extreme bursting events due to a novel pulse-shaped explosion mechanism. The system exhibits complex periodic and chaotic bursting patterns amid small oscillations as a function of excitation frequencies. In particular, the advent of rare and recurrent chaotic bursts that emerged for certain parameter regions is characterized as extreme events. We have identified that the appearance of a sharp pulse-like transition that occurred in the equilibrium points of the system is the underlying mechanism for the development of bursting events. Further, the controlling aspect of extreme events is attempted by incorporating a linear damping term, and we show that for sufficiently strong damping strength, the extreme events are eliminated from the system, and only periodic bursting is feasible.
2207.11916v1
2022-07-26
The Global Existence of Martingale Solutions to Stochastic Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Density-dependent Viscosity
The global existence of martingale solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations driven by stochastic external forces, with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum, is established in this paper. This work can be regarded as a stochastic version of the deterministic Navier-Stokes equations \cite{Vasseur-Yu2016} (Vasseur-Yu, Invent. Math., 206:935--974, 2016.), in which the global existence of weak solutions was established for adiabatic exponent $\gamma > 1$. For the stochastic case, the regularity of density and velocity is even worse for passing the limit in nonlinear terms. We design a regularized system to approximate the original system. To make up for the lack of regularity of velocity, we need to add an artificial Rayleigh damping term besides the artificial viscosity and damping forces in \cite{Vasseur-Yu-q2016,Vasseur-Yu2016}. Moreover, we have to send the artificial terms to $0$ in a different order.
2207.12835v5
2017-04-03
Sensing Coherent Phonons with Two-photon Interference
Detecting coherent phonons pose different challenges compared to coherent photons due to the much stronger interaction between phonons and matter. This is especially true for high frequency heat carrying phonons, which are intrinsic lattice vibrations experiencing many decoherence events with the environment, and are thus generally assumed to be incoherent. Two photon interference techniques, especially coherent population trapping (CPT) and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), have led to extremely sensitive detection, spectroscopy and metrology. Here, we propose the use of two photon interference in a three level system to sense coherent phonons. Unlike prior works which have treated phonon coupling as damping, we account for coherent phonon coupling using a full quantum-mechanical treatment. We observe strong asymmetry in absorption spectrum in CPT and negative dispersion in EIT susceptibility in the presence of coherent phonon coupling which cannot be accounted for if only pure phonon damping is considered. Our proposal has application in sensing heat carrying coherent phonons effects and understanding coherent bosonic multi-pathway interference effects in three coupled oscillator systems.
1704.00446v1
2017-04-03
Simulating spin-boson models with trapped ions
We propose a method to simulate the dynamics of spin-boson models with small crystals of trapped ions where the electronic degree of freedom of one ion is used to encode the spin while the collective vibrational degrees of freedom are employed to form an effective harmonic environment. The key idea of our approach is that a single damped mode can be used to provide a harmonic environment with Lorentzian spectral density. More complex spectral functions can be tailored by combining several individually damped modes. We propose to work with mixed-species crystals such that one species serves to encode the spin while the other species is used to cool the vibrational degrees of freedom to engineer the environment. The strength of the dissipation on the spin can be controlled by tuning the coupling between spin and vibrational degrees of freedom. In this way the dynamics of spin-boson models with macroscopic and non-Markovian environments can be simulated using only a few ions. We illustrate the approach by simulating an experiment with realistic parameters and show by computing quantitative measures that the dynamics is genuinely non-Markovian.
1704.00629v1
2017-04-07
Coherent-induced state ordering with fixed mixedness
In this paper, we study coherence-induced state ordering with Tsallis relative entropy of coherence, relative entropy of coherence and $l_{1}$ norm of coherence. Firstly, we show that these measures give the same ordering for single-qubit states with a fixed mixedness or a fixed length along the direction $\sigma_{z}$. Secondly, we consider some special cases of high dimensional states, we show that these measures generate the same ordering for the set of high dimensional pure states if any two states of the set satisfy majorization relation. Moreover, these three measures generate the same ordering for all $X$ states with a fixed mixedness. Finally, we discuss dynamics of coherence-induced state ordering under Markovian channels. We find phase damping channel don't change the coherence-induced state ordering for some single-qubit states with fixed mixedness, instead amplitude damping channel change the coherence-induced ordering even though for single-qubit states with fixed mixedness.
1704.02244v1
2017-04-13
A possible connection between the spin temperature of damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems and star formation history
We present a comprehensive analysis of the spin temperature/covering factor degeneracy, T/f, in damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems. By normalising the upper limits and including these via a survival analysis, there is, as previously claimed, an apparent increase in T/f with redshift at z > 1. However, when we account for the geometry effects of an expanding Universe, neglected by the previous studies, this increase in T/f at z > 1 is preceded by a decrease at z < 1. Using high resolution radio images of the background continuum sources, we can transform the T/f degeneracy to T/d^2, where d is the projected linear size of the absorber. Again, there is no overall increase with redshift, although a dip at z ~ 2 persists. Furthermore, we find d^2/T to follow a similar variation with redshift as the star formation rate. This suggests that, although the total hydrogen column density shows little relation to the SFR, the fraction of the cold neutral medium may. Therefore, further efforts to link the neutral gas with the star formation history should also consider the cool component of the gas.
1704.04294v2
2017-04-17
Magnetic field line random walk in two-dimensional dynamical turbulence
The field line random walk (FLRW) of magnetic turbulence is one of the important topics in plasma physics and astrophysics. In this article by using the field line tracing method mean square displacements (MSD) of FLRW is calculated in all possible length scales for pure two-dimensional turbulence with damping dynamical model. We demonstrate that in order to describe FLRW with damping dynamical model a new dimensionless quantity $R$ is needed to be introduced. In different length scales dimensionless MSD shows different relationship with the dimensionless quantity $R$. Although temporal effect impacts MSD of FLRW and even changes regimes of FLRW, it dose not affect the relationship between the dimensionless MSD and dimensionless quantity $R$ in all possible length scales.
1704.05059v3
2017-04-19
Quantum simulation of quantum channels in nuclear magnetic resonance
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an efficient framework for the quantum simulation of quantum channels in NMR. Our approach relies on the suitable decomposition of non-unitary operators in a linear combination of $d$ unitary ones, which can be then experimentally implemented with the assistance of a number of ancillary qubits that grows logarithmically in $d$. As a proof-of-principle demonstration, we realize the quantum simulation of three quantum channels for a single-qubit: phase damping (PD), amplitude damping (AD), and depolarizing (DEP) channels. For these paradigmatic cases, we measure key features, such as the fidelity of the initial state and the associated von Neuman entropy for a qubit evolving through these channels. Our experiments are carried out using nuclear spins in a liquid sample and NMR control techniques.
1704.05593v2
2017-04-24
Beating the Classical Limits of Information Transmission using a Quantum Decoder
Encoding schemes and error-correcting codes are widely used in information technology to improve the reliability of data transmission over real-world communication channels. Quantum information protocols can further enhance the performance in data transmission by encoding a message in quantum states, however, most proposals to date have focused on the regime of a large number of uses of the noisy channel, which is unfeasible with current quantum technology. We experimentally demonstrate quantum enhanced communication over an amplitude damping noisy channel with only two uses of the channel per bit and a single entangling gate at the decoder. By simulating the channel using a photonic interferometric setup, we experimentally increase the reliability of transmitting a data bit by greater than 20% for a certain damping range over classically sending the message twice. We show how our methodology can be extended to larger systems by simulating the transmission of a single bit with up to eight uses of the channel and a two-bit message with three uses of the channel, predicting a quantum enhancement in all cases.
1704.07036v2
2017-04-24
Quasilinear diffusion coefficients in a finite Larmor radius expansion for ion cyclotron heated plasmas
In this paper, a reduced model of quasilinear diffusion by a small Larmor radius approximation is derived to couple the Maxwell's equations and the Fokker-Planck equation self-consistently for ion cyclotron range of frequency waves in a tokamak. The reduced model ensures the important properties of the full model by Kennel-Engelmann diffusion, such as diffusion directions, wave polarizations, and H-theorem. The kinetic energy change (W-dot) is used to derive the reduced model diffusion coefficients for the fundamental damping and the second harmonic damping to the lowest order of the finite Larmor radius expansion. The quasilinear diffusion coefficients are implemented in a coupled code (TORIC-CQL3D) with the equivalent reduced model of dielectric tensor. We also present the simulations of the ITER minority heating scenario, in which the reduced model is verified within the allowable errors from the full model results.
1704.07283v1
2017-04-27
Chirality-induced Antisymmetry in Magnetic Domain-Wall Speed
In chiral magnetic materials, numerous intriguing phenomena such as built in chiral magnetic domain walls (DWs) and skyrmions are generated by the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI). The DMI also results in asymmetric DW speed under in plane magnetic field, which provides a useful scheme to measure the DMI strengths. However, recent findings of additional asymmetries such as chiral damping have disenabled unambiguous DMI determination and the underlying mechanism of overall asymmetries becomes under debate. By extracting the DMI-induced symmetric contribution, here we experimentally investigated the nature of the additional asymmetry. The results revealed that the additional asymmetry has a truly antisymmetric nature with the typical behavior governed by the DW chirality. In addition, the antisymmetric contribution changes the DW speed more than 100 times, which cannot be solely explained by the chiral damping scenario. By calibrating such antisymmetric contributions, experimental inaccuracies can be largely removed, enabling again the DMI measurement scheme.
1704.08751v1
2017-05-04
Phase-space mixing in dynamically unstable, integrable few-mode quantum systems
Quenches in isolated quantum systems are currently a subject of intense study. Here, we consider quantum few-mode systems that are integrable in their classical mean-field limit and become dynamically unstable after a quench of a system parameter. Specifically, we study a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double-well potential and an antiferromagnetic spinor BEC constrained to a single spatial mode. We study the time dynamics after the quench within the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) and find that system relaxes to a steady state due to phase-space mixing. Using the action-angle formalism and a pendulum as an illustration, we derive general analytical expressions for the time evolution of expectation values of observables and their long-time limits. We find that the deviation of the long-time expectation value from its classical value scales as $1/O(\ln N )$, where $N$ is the number of atoms in the condensate. Furthermore, the relaxation of an observable to its steady state value is a damped oscillation and the damping is Gaussian in time. We confirm our results with numerical TWA simulations.
1705.01702v1
2017-05-11
Quantum Correlations and Bell Inequality Violation under Decoherence
Quantum Correlations are studied extensively in quantum information domain. Entanglement Measures and Quantum Discord are good examples of these actively studied correlations. Detection of violation in Bell inequalities is also a widely active area in quantum information theory world. In this work, we revisit the problem of analyzing the behavior of quantum correlations and violation of Bell inequalities in noisy channels. We extend the problem defined in [1] by observing the changes in negativity measure, quantum discord and a modified version of Horodecki measure for violation of Bell inequalities under amplitude damping, phase damping and depolarizing channels. We report different interesting results for each of these correlations and measures. All these correlations and measures decrease under decoherence channels, but some changes are very dramatical comparing to others. We investigate also separability conditions of example studied states.
1705.03882v2
2017-05-18
Local and global existence of solutions to a strongly damped wave equation of the $p$-Laplacian type
This article focuses on a quasilinear wave equation of $p$-Laplacian type: $$ u_{tt} - \Delta_p u - \Delta u_t=0$$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with a sufficiently smooth boundary $\Gamma=\partial\Omega$ subject to a generalized Robin boundary condition featuring boundary damping and a nonlinear source term. The operator $\Delta_p$, $2 < p < 3$, denotes the classical $p$-Laplacian. The nonlinear boundary term $f (u)$ is a source feedback that is allowed to have a supercritical exponent, in the sense that the associated Nemytskii operator is not locally Lipschitz from $W^{1,p}(\Omega)$ into $L^2(\Gamma)$. Under suitable assumptions on the parameters we provide a rigorous proof of existence of a local weak solution which can be extended globally in time provided the source term satisfies an appropriate growth condition.
1705.06696v2
2017-05-23
Unifying description of the damping regimes of a stochastic particle in a periodic potential
We analyze the classical problem of the stochastic dynamics of a particle confined in a periodic potential, through the so called Il'in and Khasminskii model, with a novel semi-analytical approach. Our approach gives access to the transient and the asymptotic dynamics in all damping regimes, which are difficult to investigate in the usual Brownian model. We show that the crossover from the overdamped to the underdamped regime is associated with the loss of a typical time scale and of a typical length scale, as signaled by the divergence of the probability distribution of a certain dynamical event. In the underdamped regime, normal diffusion coexists with a non Gaussian displacement probability distribution for a long transient, as recently observed in a variety of different systems. We rationalize the microscopic physical processes leading to the non-Gaussian behavior, as well as the timescale to recover the Gaussian statistics. The theoretical results are supported by numerical calculations and are compared to those obtained for the Brownian model.
1705.08083v2
2017-05-27
Experimental Observation of Electron-Acoustic Wave Propagation in Laboratory Plasma
In the field of fundamental plasma waves, direct observation of electron-acoustic wave (EAW) propagation in laboratory plasmas remains a challenging problem, mainly because of heavy damping. In the MaPLE device, the wave is observed and seen to propagate with phase velocity $\sim1.8$ times the electron thermal velocity. A small amount of cold, drifting electrons, with moderate bulk to cold temperature ratio ($\approx 2 - 3$), is present in the device. It plays a crucial role in reducing the damping. Our calculation reveals that the drift relaxes the stringent condition on the temperature ratio for wave destabilization. Growth rate becomes positive above a certain drift velocity even if the temperature ratio is moderate. The observed phase velocity agrees well with the theoretical estimate. Experimental realization of the mode may open up a new avenue in EAW research.
1705.09806v1
2017-06-08
Superconductivity around nematic quantum critical point in two-dimensional metals
We study the properties of $s$-wave superconductivity induced around a nematic quantum critical point in two-dimensional metals. The strong Landau damping and the Cooper pairing between incoherent fermions have dramatic mutual influence on each other, and hence should be treated on an equal footing. This problem is addressed by analyzing the self-consistent Dyson-Schwinger equations for the superconducting gap and Landau damping rate. We solve the equations at zero temperature without making any linearization, and show that the superconducting gap is maximized at the quantum critical point and decreases rapidly as the system departs from this point. The interplay between nematic fluctuation and an additional pairing interaction, caused by phonon or other boson mode, is also investigated. The total superconducting gap generated by such interplay can be several times larger than the direct sum of the gaps separately induced by these two pairing interactions. This provides a promising way to achieve remarkable enhancement of superconductivity.
1706.02583v2