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2023-08-25
The time dimensional reduction method to determine the initial conditions without the knowledge of damping coefficients
This paper aims to reconstruct the initial condition of a hyperbolic equation with an unknown damping coefficient. Our approach involves approximating the hyperbolic equation's solution by its truncated Fourier expansion in the time domain and using a polynomial-exponential basis. This truncation process facilitates the elimination of the time variable, consequently, yielding a system of quasi-linear elliptic equations. To globally solve the system without needing an accurate initial guess, we employ the Carleman contraction principle. We provide several numerical examples to illustrate the efficacy of our method. The method not only delivers precise solutions but also showcases remarkable computational efficiency.
2308.13152v1
2023-08-25
A Game of Bundle Adjustment -- Learning Efficient Convergence
Bundle adjustment is the common way to solve localization and mapping. It is an iterative process in which a system of non-linear equations is solved using two optimization methods, weighted by a damping factor. In the classic approach, the latter is chosen heuristically by the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm on each iteration. This might take many iterations, making the process computationally expensive, which might be harmful to real-time applications. We propose to replace this heuristic by viewing the problem in a holistic manner, as a game, and formulating it as a reinforcement-learning task. We set an environment which solves the non-linear equations and train an agent to choose the damping factor in a learned manner. We demonstrate that our approach considerably reduces the number of iterations required to reach the bundle adjustment's convergence, on both synthetic and real-life scenarios. We show that this reduction benefits the classic approach and can be integrated with other bundle adjustment acceleration methods.
2308.13270v1
2023-08-30
Stochastic Thermodynamics of Brownian motion in Temperature Gradient
We study stochastic thermodynamics of a Brownian particle which is subjected to a temperature gradient and is confined by an external potential. We first formulate an over-damped Ito-Langevin theory in terms of local temperature, friction coefficient, and steady state distribution, all of which are experimentally measurable. We then study the associated stochastic thermodynamics theory. We analyze the excess entropy production (EP) both at trajectory level and at ensemble level, and derive the Clausius inequality as well as the transient fluctuation theorem (FT). We also use molecular dynamics to simulate a Brownian particle inside a Lennard-Jones fluid and verify the FT. Remarkably we find that the FT remains valid even in the under-damped regime. We explain the possible mechanism underlying this surprising result.
2308.15764v3
2023-09-04
Sphaleron damping and effects on vector and axial charge transport in high-temperature QCD plasmas
We modify the anomalous hydrodynamic equations of motion to account for dissipative effects due to QCD sphaleron transitions. By investigating the linearized hydrodynamic equations, we show that sphaleron transitions lead to nontrivial effects on vector and axial charge transport phenomena in the presence of a magnetic field. Due to the dissipative effects of sphaleron transitions, a wavenumber threshold $k_{\rm CMW}$ emerges characterizing the onset of chiral magnetic waves. Sphaleron damping also significantly impacts the time evolution of both axial and vector charge perturbations in a QCD plasma in the presence of a magnetic field. Based on our analysis of the linearized hydrodynamic equations, we also investigate the dependence of the vector charge separation on the sphaleron transition rate, which may have implications for the experimental search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy Ion Collisions.
2309.01726v1
2023-09-05
Signatures and characterization of dominating Kerr nonlinearity between two driven systems with application to a suspended magnetic beam
We consider a model of two harmonically driven damped harmonic oscillators that are coupled linearly and with a cross-Kerr coupling. We show how to distinguish this combination of coupling types from the case where a coupling of optomechanical type is present. This can be useful for the characterization of various nonlinear systems, such as mechanical oscillators, qubits, and hybrid systems. We then consider a hybrid system with linear and cross-Kerr interactions and a relatively high damping in one of the modes. We derive a quantum Hamiltonian of a doubly clamped magnetic beam, showing that the cross-Kerr coupling is prominent there. We discuss, in the classical limit, measurements of its linear response as well as the specific higher-harmonic responses. These frequency-domain measurements can allow estimating the magnitude of the cross-Kerr coupling or its magnon population.
2309.02204v2
2023-09-07
Strong coupling between WS$_2$ monolayer excitons and a hybrid plasmon polariton at room temperature
Light-matter interactions in solid-state systems have attracted considerable interest in recent years. Here, we report on a room-temperature study on the interaction of tungsten disulfide (WS$_2$) monolayer excitons with a hybrid plasmon polariton (HPP) mode supported by nanogroove grating structures milled into single-crystalline silver flakes. By engineering the depth of the nanogroove grating, we can modify the HPP mode at the A-exciton energy from propagating surface plasmon polariton-like (SPP-like) to localized surface plasmon resonance-like (LSPR-like). Using reflection spectroscopy, we demonstrate strong coupling between the A-exciton mode and the lower branch of the HPP for a SPP-like configuration with a Rabi splitting of 68 meV. In contrast, only weak coupling between the constituents is observed for LSPR-like configurations. These findings demonstrate the importance to consider both the plasmonic near-field enhancement and the plasmonic damping during the design of the composite structure since a possible benefit from increasing the coupling strength can be easily foiled by larger damping.
2309.03560v1
2023-09-07
Neutron spin echo is a "quantum tale of two paths''
We describe an experiment that strongly supports a two-path interferometric model in which the spin-up and spin-down components of each neutron propagate coherently along spatially separated parallel paths in a typical neutron spin echo small angle scattering (SESANS) experiment. Specifically, we show that the usual semi-classical, single-path treatment of Larmor precession of a polarized neutron in an external magnetic field predicts a damping as a function of the spin echo length of the SESANS signal obtained with a periodic phase grating when the transverse width of the neutron wave packet is finite. However, no such damping is observed experimentally, implying either that the Larmor model is incorrect or that the transverse extent of the wave packet is very large. In contrast, we demonstrate theoretically that a quantum-mechanical interferometric model in which the two mode-entangled (i.e. intraparticle entangled) spin states of a single neutron are separated in space when they interact with the grating accurately predicts the measured SESANS signal, which is independent of the wave packet width.
2309.03987v2
2023-09-07
An explicit multi-time stepping algorithm for multi-time scale coupling problems in SPH
Simulating physical problems involving multi-time scale coupling is challenging due to the need of solving these multi-time scale processes simultaneously. In response to this challenge, this paper proposed an explicit multi-time step algorithm coupled with a solid dynamic relaxation scheme. The explicit scheme simplifies the equation system in contrast to the implicit scheme, while the multi-time step algorithm allows the equations of different physical processes to be solved under different time step sizes. Furthermore, an implicit viscous damping relaxation technique is applied to significantly reduce computational iterations required to achieve equilibrium in the comparatively fast solid response process. To validate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm, two distinct scenarios, i.e., a nonlinear hardening bar stretching and a fluid diffusion coupled with Nafion membrane flexure, are simulated. The results show good agreement with experimental data and results from other numerical methods, and the simulation time is reduced firstly by independently addressing different processes with the multi-time step algorithm and secondly decreasing solid dynamic relaxation time through the incorporation of damping techniques.
2309.04010v1
2023-09-15
Limiting absorption principles and linear inviscid damping in the Euler-Boussinesq system in the periodic channel
We consider the long-time behavior of solutions to the two dimensional non-homogeneous Euler equations under the Boussinesq approximation posed on a periodic channel. We study the linearized system near a linearly stratified Couette flow and prove inviscid damping of the perturbed density and velocity field for any positive Richardson number, with optimal rates. Our methods are based on time-decay properties of oscillatory integrals obtained using a limiting absorption principle, and require a careful understanding of the asymptotic expansion of the generalized eigenfunction near the critical layer. As a by-product of our analysis, we provide a precise description of the spectrum of the linearized operator, which, for sufficiently large Richardson number, consists of an essential spectrum (as expected according to classical hydrodynamic problems) as well as discrete neutral eigenvalues (giving rise to oscillatory modes) accumulating towards the endpoints of the essential spectrum.
2309.08445v2
2023-09-15
Breakdown of sound in superfluid helium
Like elementary particles carry energy and momentum in the Universe, quasiparticles are the elementary carriers of energy and momentum quanta in condensed matter. And, like elementary particles, under certain conditions quasiparticles can be unstable and decay, emitting pairs of less energetic ones. Pitaevskii proposed that such processes exist in superfluid helium, a quantum fluid where the very concept of quasiparticles was borne, and which provided the first spectacular triumph of that concept. Pitaevskii's decays have important consequences, including possible breakdown of a quasiparticle. Here, we present neutron scattering experiments, which provide evidence that such decays explain the collapsing lifetime (strong damping) of higher-energy phonon-roton sound-wave quasiparticles in superfluid helium. This damping develops when helium is pressurized towards crystallization or warmed towards approaching the superfluid transition. Our results resolve a number of puzzles posed by previous experiments and reveal the ubiquity of quasiparticle decays and their importance for understanding quantum matter.
2309.08790v1
2023-09-18
Nonlinear dynamics and magneto-elasticity of nanodrums near the phase transition
Nanomechanical resonances of two-dimensional (2D) materials are sensitive probes for condensed-matter physics, offering new insights into magnetic and electronic phase transitions. Despite extensive research, the influence of the spin dynamics near a second-order phase transition on the nonlinear dynamics of 2D membranes has remained largely unexplored. Here, we investigate nonlinear magneto-mechanical coupling to antiferromagnetic order in suspended FePS$_3$-based heterostructure membranes. By monitoring the motion of these membranes as a function of temperature, we observe characteristic features in both nonlinear stiffness and damping close to the N\'{e}el temperature $T_{\rm{N}}$. We account for these experimental observations with an analytical magnetostriction model in which these nonlinearities emerge from a coupling between mechanical and magnetic oscillations, demonstrating that magneto-elasticity can lead to nonlinear damping. Our findings thus provide insights into the thermodynamics and magneto-mechanical energy dissipation mechanisms in nanomechanical resonators due to the material's phase change and magnetic order relaxation.
2309.09672v1
2023-09-21
Quantum State Reconstruction in a Noisy Environment via Deep Learning
Quantum noise is currently limiting efficient quantum information processing and computation. In this work, we consider the tasks of reconstructing and classifying quantum states corrupted by the action of an unknown noisy channel using classical feedforward neural networks. By framing reconstruction as a regression problem, we show how such an approach can be used to recover with fidelities exceeding 99% the noiseless density matrices of quantum states of up to three qubits undergoing noisy evolution, and we test its performance with both single-qubit (bit-flip, phase-flip, depolarising, and amplitude damping) and two-qubit quantum channels (correlated amplitude damping). Moreover, we also consider the task of distinguishing between different quantum noisy channels, and show how a neural network-based classifier is able to solve such a classification problem with perfect accuracy.
2309.11949v1
2023-10-20
Exponential weight averaging as damped harmonic motion
The exponential moving average (EMA) is a commonly used statistic for providing stable estimates of stochastic quantities in deep learning optimization. Recently, EMA has seen considerable use in generative models, where it is computed with respect to the model weights, and significantly improves the stability of the inference model during and after training. While the practice of weight averaging at the end of training is well-studied and known to improve estimates of local optima, the benefits of EMA over the course of training is less understood. In this paper, we derive an explicit connection between EMA and a damped harmonic system between two particles, where one particle (the EMA weights) is drawn to the other (the model weights) via an idealized zero-length spring. We then leverage this physical analogy to analyze the effectiveness of EMA, and propose an improved training algorithm, which we call BELAY. Finally, we demonstrate theoretically and empirically several advantages enjoyed by BELAY over standard EMA.
2310.13854v1
2023-10-22
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators
The gyrokinetic theory of the residual flow, in the electrostatic limit, is revisited, with optimized stellarators in mind. We consider general initial conditions for the problem, and identify cases that lead to a non-zonal residual electrostatic potential, i.e. one having a significant component that varies within a flux surface. We investigate the behavior of the ``intermediate residual'' in stellarators, a measure of the flow that remains after geodesic acoustic modes have damped away, but before the action of the slower damping that is caused by unconfined particle orbits. The case of a quasi-isodynamic stellarator is identified as having a particularly large such residual, owing to the small orbit width achieved by optimization.
2310.14218v2
2023-10-23
Adam through a Second-Order Lens
Research into optimisation for deep learning is characterised by a tension between the computational efficiency of first-order, gradient-based methods (such as SGD and Adam) and the theoretical efficiency of second-order, curvature-based methods (such as quasi-Newton methods and K-FAC). We seek to combine the benefits of both approaches into a single computationally-efficient algorithm. Noting that second-order methods often depend on stabilising heuristics (such as Levenberg-Marquardt damping), we propose AdamQLR: an optimiser combining damping and learning rate selection techniques from K-FAC (Martens and Grosse, 2015) with the update directions proposed by Adam, inspired by considering Adam through a second-order lens. We evaluate AdamQLR on a range of regression and classification tasks at various scales, achieving competitive generalisation performance vs runtime.
2310.14963v1
2023-10-24
Observation of Damped Oscillations in Chemical-Quantum-Magnetic Interactions
Fundamental interactions are the basis of the most diverse phenomena in science that allow the dazzling of possible applications. In this work, we report a new interaction, which we call chemical-quantum-magnetic interaction. This interaction arises due to the difference in valence that the Fe3O4/PANI nanostructure acquires under certain conditions. In this study, PANI activates the chemical part of the oscillations, leaving the quantum and magnetic part for the double valence effect and consequently for changing the number of spins of the nanostructure sites. We also observed using interaction measurements that chemical-quantum-magnetic interactions oscillate in a subcritical regime satisfying the behavior of a damped harmonic oscillator.
2310.15775v1
2023-10-26
Do Graph Neural Networks Dream of Landau Damping? Insights from Kinetic Simulations of a Plasma Sheet Model
We explore the possibility of fully replacing a plasma physics kinetic simulator with a graph neural network-based simulator. We focus on this class of surrogate models given the similarity between their message-passing update mechanism and the traditional physics solver update, and the possibility of enforcing known physical priors into the graph construction and update. We show that our model learns the kinetic plasma dynamics of the one-dimensional plasma model, a predecessor of contemporary kinetic plasma simulation codes, and recovers a wide range of well-known kinetic plasma processes, including plasma thermalization, electrostatic fluctuations about thermal equilibrium, and the drag on a fast sheet and Landau damping. We compare the performance against the original plasma model in terms of run-time, conservation laws, and temporal evolution of key physical quantities. The limitations of the model are presented and possible directions for higher-dimensional surrogate models for kinetic plasmas are discussed.
2310.17646v2
2023-10-29
Impact of Medium Anisotropy on Quarkonium Dissociation and Regeneration
Quarkonium production in ultra-relativistic collisions plays a crucial role in probing the existence of hot QCD matter. This study explores quarkonia states dissociation and regeneration in the hot QCD medium while considering momentum anisotropy. The net quarkonia decay width ($\Gamma_{D}$) arises from two essential processes: collisional damping and gluonic dissociation. The quarkonia regeneration includes the transition from octet to singlet states within the anisotropic medium. Our study utilizes a medium-modified potential that incorporates anisotropy via particle distribution functions. This modified potential gives rise to collisional damping for quarkonia due to the surrounding medium, as well as the transition of quarkonia from singlet to octet states due to interactions with gluons. Furthermore, we employ the detailed balance approach to investigate the regeneration of quarkonia within this medium. Our comprehensive analysis spans various temperature settings, transverse momentum values, and anisotropic strengths. Notably, we find that, in addition to medium temperatures and heavy quark transverse momentum, anisotropy significantly influences the dissociation and regeneration of various quarkonia states.
2310.18909v1
2023-10-31
Stability threshold of nearly-Couette shear flows with Navier boundary conditions in 2D
In this work, we prove a threshold theorem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations posed on the periodic channel, $\mathbb{T} \times [-1,1]$, supplemented with Navier boundary conditions $\omega|_{y = \pm 1} = 0$. Initial datum is taken to be a perturbation of Couette in the following sense: the shear component of the perturbation is assumed small (in an appropriate Sobolev space) but importantly is independent of $\nu$. On the other hand, the nonzero modes are assumed size $O(\nu^{\frac12})$ in an anisotropic Sobolev space. For such datum, we prove nonlinear enhanced dissipation and inviscid damping for the resulting solution. The principal innovation is to capture quantitatively the \textit{inviscid damping}, for which we introduce a new Singular Integral Operator which is a physical space analogue of the usual Fourier multipliers which are used to prove damping. We then include this SIO in the context of a nonlinear hypocoercivity framework.
2311.00141v1
2023-11-10
Moment expansion method for composite open quantum systems including a damped oscillator mode
We consider a damped oscillator mode that is resonantly driven and is coupled to an arbitrary target system via the position quadrature operator. For such a composite open quantum system, we develop a numerical method to compute the reduced density matrix of the target system and the low-order moments of the quadrature operators. In this method, we solve the evolution equations for quantities related to moments of the quadrature operators, rather than for the density matrix elements as in the conventional approach. The application to an optomechanical setting shows that the new method can compute the correlation functions accurately with a significant reduction in the computational cost. Since the method does not involve any approximation in its abstract formulation itself, we investigate the numerical accuracy closely. This study reveals the numerical sensitivity of the new approach in certain parameter regimes. We find that this issue can be alleviated by using the position basis instead of the commonly used Fock basis.
2311.06113v1
2023-11-22
Analytic formulas for the D-mode Robinson instability
The passive superconducting harmonic cavity (PSHC) scheme is adopted by several existing and future synchrotron light source storage rings, as it has a relatively smaller R/Q and a relatively larger quality factor (Q), which can effectively reduce the beam-loading effect and suppress the mode-one instability. Based on the mode-zero Robinson instability equation of uniformly filled rigid bunches and a search algorithm for minimum, we have revealed that the PSHC fundamental mode with a large loaded-Q possibly triggers the D-mode Robinson instability [T. He, et al., Mode-zero Robinson instability in the presence of passive superconducting harmonic cavities, PRAB 26, 064403 (2023)]. This D-mode Robinson instability is unique because it is anti-damped by the radiation-damping effect. In this paper, analytical formulas for the frequency and growth rate of the D-mode Robinson instability are derived with several appropriate approximations. These analytical formulas will facilitate analyzing and understanding the D-mode Robinson instability. Most importantly, useful formulas for the D-mode threshold detuning calculation have finally been found.
2311.13205v1
2023-11-27
Learning Reionization History from Quasars with Simulation-Based Inference
Understanding the entire history of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is at the frontier of astrophysics and cosmology. A promising method to achieve this is by extracting the damping wing signal from the neutral IGM. As hundreds of redshift $z>6$ quasars are observed, we anticipate determining the detailed time evolution of the ionization fraction with unprecedented fidelity. However, traditional approaches to parameter inference are not sufficiently accurate. We assess the performance of a simulation-based inference (SBI) method to infer the neutral fraction of the universe from quasar spectra. The SBI method adeptly exploits the shape information of the damping wing, enabling precise estimations of the neutral fraction $\left<x_{\rm HI}\right>_{\rm v}$ and the wing position $w_p$. Importantly, the SBI framework successfully breaks the degeneracy between these two parameters, offering unbiased estimates of both. This makes the SBI superior to the traditional method using a pseudo-likelihood function. We anticipate that SBI will be essential to determine robustly the ionization history of the Universe through joint inference from the hundreds of high-$z$ spectra we will observe.
2311.16238v1
2023-12-05
DemaFormer: Damped Exponential Moving Average Transformer with Energy-Based Modeling for Temporal Language Grounding
Temporal Language Grounding seeks to localize video moments that semantically correspond to a natural language query. Recent advances employ the attention mechanism to learn the relations between video moments and the text query. However, naive attention might not be able to appropriately capture such relations, resulting in ineffective distributions where target video moments are difficult to separate from the remaining ones. To resolve the issue, we propose an energy-based model framework to explicitly learn moment-query distributions. Moreover, we propose DemaFormer, a novel Transformer-based architecture that utilizes exponential moving average with a learnable damping factor to effectively encode moment-query inputs. Comprehensive experiments on four public temporal language grounding datasets showcase the superiority of our methods over the state-of-the-art baselines.
2312.02549v1
2023-12-05
THz-Driven Coherent Magnetization Dynamics in a Labyrinth Domain State
Terahertz (THz) light pulses can be used for an ultrafast coherent manipulation of the magnetization. Driving the magnetization at THz frequencies is currently the fastest way of writing magnetic information in ferromagnets. Using time-resolved resonant magnetic scattering, we gain new insights to the THz-driven coherent magnetization dynamics on nanometer length scales. We observe ultrafast demagnetization and coherent magnetization oscillations that are governed by a time-dependent damping. This damping is determined by the interplay of lattice heating and magnetic anisotropy reduction revealing an upper speed limit for THz-induced magnetization switching. We show that in the presence of nanometer-sized magnetic domains, the ultrafast magnetization oscillations are associated with a correlated beating of the domain walls. The overall domain structure thereby remains largely unaffected which highlights the applicability of THz-induced switching on the nanoscale.
2312.02654v1
2023-12-07
Enhanced high-dimensional teleportation in correlated amplitude damping noise by weak measurement and environment-assisted measurement
High-dimensional teleportation provides various benefits in quantum networks and repeaters, but all these advantages rely on the high-quality distribution of high-dimensional entanglement over a noisy channel. It is essential to consider correlation effects when two entangled qutrits travel consecutively through the same channel. In this paper, we present two strategies for enhancing qutrit teleportation in correlated amplitude damping (CAD) noise by weak measurement (WM) and environment-assisted measurement (EAM). The fidelity of both approaches has been dramatically improved due to the probabilistic nature of WM and EAM. We have observed that the correlation effects of CAD noise result in an increase in the probability of success. A comparison has demonstrated that the EAM scheme consistently outperforms the WM scheme in regard to fidelity. Our research expands the capabilities of WM and EAM as quantum techniques to combat CAD noise in qutrit teleportation, facilitating the development of advanced quantum technologies in high-dimensional systems.
2312.03988v1
2023-12-11
Collisions and collective flavor conversion: Integrating out the fast dynamics
In dense astrophysical environments, notably core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can spawn flavor conversion on very short scales. Scattering with the background medium can impact collective flavor conversion in various ways, either damping oscillations or possibly setting off novel collisional flavor instabilities (CFIs). A key feature in this process is the slowness of collisions compared to the much faster dynamics of neutrino-neutrino refraction. Assuming spatial homogeneity, we leverage this hierarchy of scales to simplify the description accounting only for the slow dynamics driven by collisions. We illustrate our new approach both in the case of CFIs and in the case of fast instabilities damped by collisions. In both cases, our strategy provides new equations, the slow-dynamics equations, that simplify the description of flavor conversion and allow us to qualitatively understand the final state of the system after the instability, either collisional or fast, has saturated.
2312.07612v2
2023-12-15
Position-momentum conditioning, relative entropy decomposition and convergence to equilibrium in stochastic Hamiltonian systems
This paper is concerned with a class of multivariable stochastic Hamiltonian systems whose generalised position is related by an ordinary differential equation to the momentum governed by an Ito stochastic differential equation. The latter is driven by a standard Wiener process and involves both conservative and viscous damping forces. With the mass, diffusion and damping matrices being position-dependent, the resulting nonlinear model of Langevin dynamics describes dissipative mechanical systems (possibly with rotational degrees of freedom) or their electromechanical analogues subject to external random forcing. We study the time evolution of the joint position-momentum probability distribution for the system and its convergence to equilibrium by decomposing the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation (FPKE) and the Kullback-Leibler relative entropy with respect to the invariant measure into those for the position distribution and the momentum distribution conditioned on the position. This decomposition reveals a manifestation of the Barbashin-Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and higher-order dissipation inequalities for the relative entropy as a Lyapunov functional for the FPKE.
2312.09475v1
2023-12-16
Continuous Phase Transition in Anyonic-PT Symmetric Systems
We reveal the continuous phase transition in anyonic-PT symmetric systems, contrasting with the discontinuous phase transition corresponding to the discrete (anti-) PT symmetry. The continuous phase transition originates from the continuity of anyonic-PT symmetry. We find there are three information-dynamics patterns for anyonic-PT symmetric systems: damped oscillations with an overall decrease (increase) and asymptotically stable damped oscillations, which are three-fold degenerate and distorted using the Hermitian quantum R\'enyi entropy or distinguishability. It is the normalization of the non-unitary evolved density matrix causes the degeneracy and distortion. We give a justification for non-Hermitian quantum R\'enyi entropy being negative. By exploring the mathematics and physical meaning of the negative entropy in open quantum systems, we connect the negative non-Hermitian quantum R\'enyi entropy and negative quantum conditional entropy, opening up a new journey to rigorously investigate the negative entropy in open quantum systems.
2312.10350v4
2023-12-16
Spin-torque nano-oscillator based on two in-plane magnetized synthetic ferrimagnets
We report the dynamic characterization of the spin-torque-driven in-plane precession modes of a spin-torque nano-oscillator based on two different synthetic ferrimagnets: a pinned one characterized by a strong RKKY interaction which is exchange coupled to an antiferromagnetic layer; and a second one, non-pinned characterized by weak RKKY coupling. The microwave properties associated with the steady-state precession of both SyFs are characterized by high spectral purity and power spectral density. However, frequency dispersion diagrams of the damped and spin transfer torque modes reveal drastically different dynamical behavior and microwave emission properties in both SyFs. In particular, the weak coupling between the magnetic layers of the non-pinned SyF raises discontinuous dispersion diagrams suggesting a strong influence of mode crossing. An interpretation of the different dynamical features observed in the damped and spin torque modes of both SyF systems was obtained by solving simultaneously, in a macrospin approach, a linearized version of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation including the spin transfer torque term.
2312.10451v2
2023-12-20
Quadrature squeezing enhances Wigner negativity in a mechanical Duffing oscillator
Generating macroscopic non-classical quantum states is a long-standing challenge in physics. Anharmonic dynamics is an essential ingredient to generate these states, but for large mechanical systems, the effect of the anharmonicity tends to become negligible compared to decoherence. As a possible solution to this challenge, we propose to use a motional squeezed state as a resource to effectively enhance the anharmonicity. We analyze the production of negativity in the Wigner distribution of a quantum anharmonic resonator initially in a squeezed state. We find that initial squeezing enhances the rate at which negativity is generated. We also analyze the effect of two common sources of decoherence, namely energy damping and dephasing, and find that the detrimental effects of energy damping are suppressed by strong squeezing. In the limit of large squeezing, which is needed for state-of-the-art systems, we find good approximations for the Wigner function. Our analysis is significant for current experiments attempting to prepare macroscopic mechanical systems in genuine quantum states. We provide an overview of several experimental platforms featuring nonlinear behaviors and low levels of decoherence. In particular, we discuss the feasibility of our proposal with carbon nanotubes and levitated nanoparticles.
2312.12986v1
2023-12-21
Subsonic time-periodic solution to damped compressible Euler equations with large entropy
In this paper, one-dimensional nonisentropic compressible Euler equations with linear damping $\alpha(x)\rho u$ are analyzed.~We want to explore the conditions under which a subsonic temporal periodic boundary can trigger a time-periodic $C^{1}$ solution. To achieve this aim, we use a technically constructed iteration scheme and give the sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence, uniqueness and stability of the $C^{1}$ time-periodic solutions on the perturbation of a subsonic Fanno flow.~It is worthy to be pointed out that the entropy exhibits large amplitude under the assumption that the inflow sound speed is small.~However, it is crucial to assume that the boundary conditions possess a kind of dissipative structure at least on one side, which is used to cancel the nonlinear accelerating effect in the system.~The results indicate that the time-periodic feedback boundary control with dissipation can stabilize the nonisentropic compressible Euler equations around the Fanno flows.
2312.13546v1
2023-12-27
Universal orbital and magnetic structures in infinite-layer nickelates
We conducted a comparative study of the rare-earth infinite-layer nickelates films, RNiO2 (R = La, Pr, and Nd) using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). We found that the gross features of the orbital configurations are essentially the same, with minor variations in the detailed hybridization. For low-energy excitations, we unambiguously confirm the presence of damped magnetic excitations in all three compounds. By fitting to a linear spin-wave theory, comparable spin exchange coupling strengths and damping coefficients are extracted, indicating a universal magnetic structure in the infinite-layer nickelates. Interestingly, while signatures of a charge order are observed in LaNiO2 in the quasi-elastic region of the RIXS spectrum, it is absent in NdNiO2 and PrNiO2. This prompts further investigation into the universality and the origins of charge order within the infinite-layer inickelates.
2312.16444v1
2024-01-05
Response solutions for beam equations with nonlocal nonlinear damping and Liouvillean frequencies
Response solutions are quasi-periodic ones with the same frequency as the forcing term. The present work is devoted to the construction of response solutions for $d$-dimensional beam equations with nonlocal nonlinear damping, which model frictional mechanisms affecting the bodies based on the average. By considering $\epsilon$ in a domain that does not include the origin and imposing a small quasi-periodic forcing with Liouvillean frequency vector, which is weaker than the Diophantine or Brjuno one, we can show the existence of the response solution for such a model. We present an alternative approach to the contraction mapping principle (cf. [5,33]) through a combination of reduction and the Nash--Moser iteration technique. The reason behind this approach lies in the derivative losses caused by the nonlocal nonlinearity.
2401.02628v1
2024-01-10
Stochastic modelling of blob-like plasma filaments in the scrape-off layer: Continuous velocity distributions
A stochastic model for a superposition of uncorrelated pulses with a random distribution of amplitudes, sizes, and velocities is analyzed. The pulses are assumed to move radially with fixed shape and amplitudes decreasing exponentially in time due to linear damping. The pulse velocities are taken to be time-independent but randomly distributed. The implications of a broad distribution of pulse amplitudes and velocities, as well as correlations between these, are investigated. Fast and large-amplitude pulses lead to broad and flat average radial profiles with order unity relative fluctuations in the scrape-off layer. For theoretically predicted blob velocity scaling relations, the stochastic model reveals average radial profiles similar to the case of a degenerate distribution of pulse velocities but with more intermittent fluctuations. The average profile e-folding length is given by the product of the average pulse velocity and the linear damping time due to losses along magnetic field lines. The model describes numerous common features from experimental measurements and underlines the role of large-amplitude fluctuations for plasma-wall interactions in magnetically confined fusion plasmas.
2401.05198v1
2024-01-11
Optical and acoustic plasmons in the layered material Sr$_2$RuO$_4$
We use momentum-dependent electron energy-loss spectroscopy in transmission to study collective charge excitations in the "strange" layer metal Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. We cover a complete range between in-plane and out-of-plane oscillations. Outside of the classical range of electron-hole excitations, leading to a Landau damping, we observe well defined plasmons. The optical (acoustic) plasmon due to an in-phase (out-of-phase) charge oscillation of neighbouring layers exhibits a quadratic (linear) dispersion. Using a model for the Coulomb interaction of the charges in a layered system, it is possible to describe the complete range of plasmon excitations in a mean-field random phase approximation without taking correlation effects into account. There are no signs of over-damped plasmons predicted by holographic theories. This indicates that long wavelength charge excitations are not influenced by local correlation effects such as on-site Coulomb interaction and Hund's exchange interaction.
2401.05880v1
2024-01-12
Robust fully discrete error bounds for the Kuznetsov equation in the inviscid limit
The Kuznetsov equation is a classical wave model of acoustics that incorporates quadratic gradient nonlinearities. When its strong damping vanishes, it undergoes a singular behavior change, switching from a parabolic-like to a hyperbolic quasilinear evolution. In this work, we establish for the first time the optimal error bounds for its finite element approximation as well as a semi-implicit fully discrete approximation that are robust with respect to the vanishing damping parameter. The core of the new arguments lies in devising energy estimates directly for the error equation where one can more easily exploit the polynomial structure of the nonlinearities and compensate inverse estimates with smallness conditions on the error. Numerical experiments are included to illustrate the theoretical results.
2401.06492v1
2024-01-12
Semilinear damped wave equations on the Heisenberg group with initial data from Sobolev spaces of negative order
In this paper, we focus on studying the Cauchy problem for semilinear damped wave equations involving the sub-Laplacian $\mathcal{L}$ on the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$ with power type nonlinearity $|u|^p$ and initial data taken from Sobolev spaces of negative order homogeneous Sobolev space $\dot H^{-\gamma}_{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbb{H}^n), \gamma>0$, on $\mathbb{H}^n$. In particular, in the framework of Sobolev spaces of negative order, we prove that the critical exponent is the exponent $p_{\text{crit}}(Q, \gamma)=1+\frac{4}{Q+2\gamma},$ for some $\gamma\in (0, \frac{Q}{2})$, where $Q:=2n+2$ is the homogeneous dimension of $\mathbb{H}^n$. More precisely, we establish a global-in-time existence of small data Sobolev solutions of lower regularity for $p>p_{\text{crit}}(Q, \gamma)$ in the energy evolution space; a finite time blow-up of weak solutions for $1<p<p_{\text{crit}}(Q, \gamma)$ under certain conditions on the initial data by using the test function method. Furthermore, to precisely characterize the blow-up time, we derive sharp upper bound and lower bound estimates for the lifespan in the subcritical case.
2401.06565v2
2024-01-12
Universal Modelling of Emergent Oscillations in Fractional Quantum Hall Fluids
Density oscillations in quantum fluids can reveal their fundamental characteristic features. In this work, we study the density oscillation of incompressible fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids created by flux insertion. For the model Laughlin state, we find that the complex oscillations seen in various density profiles in real space can be universally captured by a simple damped oscillator model in the occupation-number space. It requires only two independent fitting parameters or characteristic length scales: the decay length and the oscillation wave number. Realistic Coulomb quasiholes can be viewed as Laughlin quasiholes dressed by magnetorotons which can be modeled by a generalized damped oscillator model. Our work reveals the fundamental connections between the oscillations seen in various aspects of FQH fluids such as in the density of quasiholes, edge, and the pair correlation function. The presented model is useful for the study of quasihole sizes for their control and braiding in experiments and large-scale numerical computation of variational energies.
2401.06856v1
2024-01-19
Quantum circuit model for discrete-time three-state quantum walks on Cayley graphs
We develop qutrit circuit models for discrete-time three-state quantum walks on Cayley graphs corresponding to Dihedral groups $D_N$ and the additive groups of integers modulo any positive integer $N$. The proposed circuits comprise of elementary qutrit gates such as qutrit rotation gates, qutrit-$X$ gates and two-qutrit controlled-$X$ gates. First, we propose qutrit circuit representation of special unitary matrices of order three, and the block diagonal special unitary matrices with $3\times 3$ diagonal blocks, which correspond to multi-controlled $X$ gates and permutations of qutrit Toffoli gates. We show that one-layer qutrit circuit model need $O(3nN)$ two-qutrit control gates and $O(3N)$ one-qutrit rotation gates for these quantum walks when $N=3^n$. Finally, we numerically simulate these circuits to mimic its performance such as time-averaged probability of finding the walker at any vertex on noisy quantum computers. The simulated results for the time-averaged probability distributions for noisy and noiseless walks are further compared using KL-divergence and total variation distance. These results show that noise in gates in the circuits significantly impacts the distributions than amplitude damping or phase damping errors.
2401.11023v1
2024-01-22
Exact Normal Modes of Quantum Plasmas
The normal modes, i.e., the eigen solutions to the dispersion relation equation, are the most fundamental properties of a plasma, which also of key importance to many nonlinear effects such as parametric and two-plasmon decay, and Raman scattering. The real part indicates the intrinsic oscillation frequency while the imaginary part the Landau damping rate. In most of the literatures, the normal modes of quantum plasmas are obtained by means of small damping approximation (SDA), which is invalid for high-$k$ modes. In this paper, we solve the exact dispersion relations via the analytical continuation (AC) scheme, and, due to the multi-value nature of the Fermi-Dirac distribution, reformation of the complex Riemann surface is required. It is found that the change of the topological shape of the root locus in quantum plasmas is quite different from classical plasmas, in which both real and imaginary frequencies of high-$k$ modes increase with $k$ in a steeper way than the typical linear behaviour as appears in classical plasmas. As a result, the temporal evolution of a high-$k$ perturbation in quantum plasmas is dominated by the ballistic modes.
2401.11894v1
2024-01-23
On the stability and emittance growth of different particle phase-space distributions in a long magnetic quadrupole channel
The behavior of K-V, waterbag, parabolic, conical and Gaussian distributions in periodic quadrupole channels is studied by particle simulations. It is found that all these different distributions exhibit the known K-V instabilities. But the action of the K-V type modes becomes more and more damped in the order of the types of distributions quoted above. This damping is so strong for the Gaussian distribution that the emittance growth factor after a large number of periods is considerably lower than in the case of an equivalent K-V distribution. In addition, the non K-V distributions experience in only one period of the channel a rapid initial emittance growth, which becomes very significant at high beam intensities. This growth is attributed to the homogenization of the space-charge density, resulting in a conversion of electric-field energy into transverse kinetic and potential energy. Two simple analytical formulae are derived to estimate the upper and lower boundary values for this effect and are compared with the results obtained from particle simulations.
2401.12595v2
2024-01-26
Double pulse all-optical coherent control of ultrafast spin-reorientation in antiferromagnetic rare-earth orthoferrite
A pair of circularly polarized laser pulses of opposite helicities are shown to control the route of spin reorientation phase transition in rare-earth antiferromagnetic orthoferrite SmTbFeO$_3$. The route can be efficiently controlled by the delay between the pulses and the sample temperature. Simulations employing earlier published models of laserinduced spin dynamics in orthoferrites failed to reproduce the experimental results. It is suggested that the failure is due to neglected temperature dependence of the antiferromagnetic resonance damping in the material. Taking into account the experimentally deduced temperature dependence of the damping, we have been able to obtain a good agreement between the simulations and the experimental results.
2401.15009v1
2024-01-31
Observer-based Controller Design for Oscillation Damping of a Novel Suspended Underactuated Aerial Platform
In this work, we present a novel actuation strategy for a suspended aerial platform. By utilizing an underactuation approach, we demonstrate the successful oscillation damping of the proposed platform, modeled as a spherical double pendulum. A state estimator is designed in order to obtain the deflection angles of the platform, which uses only onboard IMU measurements. The state estimator is an extended Kalman filter (EKF) with intermittent measurements obtained at different frequencies. An optimal state feedback controller and a PD+ controller are designed in order to dampen the oscillations of the platform in the joint space and task space respectively. The proposed underactuated platform is found to be more energy-efficient than an omnidirectional platform and requires fewer actuators. The effectiveness of our proposed system is validated using both simulations and experimental studies.
2401.17676v1
2024-02-02
Long-time dynamics of stochastic wave equation with dissipative damping and its full discretization: exponential ergodicity and strong law of large numbers
For stochastic wave equation, when the dissipative damping is a non-globally Lipschitz function of the velocity, there are few results on the long-time dynamics, in particular, the exponential ergodicity and strong law of large numbers, for the equation and its numerical discretization to our knowledge. Focus on this issue, the main contributions of this paper are as follows. First, based on constructing novel Lyapunov functionals, we show the unique invariant measure and exponential ergodicity of the underlying equation and its full discretization. Second, the error estimates of invariant measures both in Wasserstein distance and in the weak sense are obtained. Third, the strong laws of large numbers of the equation and the full discretization are obtained, which states that the time averages of the exact and numerical solutions are shown to converge to the ergodic limit almost surely.
2402.01137v1
2024-02-05
Symmetries and conservation laws of a fifth-order KdV equation with time-dependent coefficients and linear damping
A fifth-order KdV equation with time dependent coefficients and linear damping has been studied. Symmetry groups have several different applications in the context of nonlinear differential equations. For instance, they can be used to determine conservation laws. We obtain the symmetries of the model applying Lie's classical method. The choice of some arbitrary functions of the equation by the equivalence transformation enhances the study of Lie symmetries of the equation. We have determined the subclasses of the equation which are nonlinearly self-adjoint. This allow us to obtain conservation laws by using a theorem proved by Ibragimov which is based on the concept of adjoint equation for nonlinear differential equations.
2402.03265v1
2024-02-07
Curvature-Informed SGD via General Purpose Lie-Group Preconditioners
We present a novel approach to accelerate stochastic gradient descent (SGD) by utilizing curvature information obtained from Hessian-vector products or finite differences of parameters and gradients, similar to the BFGS algorithm. Our approach involves two preconditioners: a matrix-free preconditioner and a low-rank approximation preconditioner. We update both preconditioners online using a criterion that is robust to stochastic gradient noise and does not require line search or damping. To preserve the corresponding symmetry or invariance, our preconditioners are constrained to certain connected Lie groups. The Lie group's equivariance property simplifies the preconditioner fitting process, while its invariance property eliminates the need for damping, which is commonly required in second-order optimizers. As a result, the learning rate for parameter updating and the step size for preconditioner fitting are naturally normalized, and their default values work well in most scenarios. Our proposed approach offers a promising direction for improving the convergence of SGD with low computational overhead. We demonstrate that Preconditioned SGD (PSGD) outperforms SoTA on Vision, NLP, and RL tasks across multiple modern deep-learning architectures. We have provided code for reproducing toy and large scale experiments in this paper.
2402.04553v1
2024-02-08
A non-damped stabilization algorithm for multibody dynamics
The stability of integrators dealing with high order Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs) is a major issue. The usual procedures give rise to instabilities that are not predicted by the usual linear analysis, rendering the common checks (developed for ODEs) unusable. The appearance of these difficult-toexplain and unexpected problems leads to methods that arise heavy numerical damping for avoiding them. This has the undesired consequences of lack of convergence of the methods, along with a need of smaller stepsizes. In this paper a new approach is presented. The algorithm presented here allows us to avoid the interference of the constraints in the integration, thus allowing the linear criteria to be applied. In order to do so, the integrator is applied to a set of instantaneous minimal coordinates that are obtained through the application of the null space. The new approach can be utilized along with any integration method. Some experiments using the Newmark method have been carried out, which validate the methodology and also show that the method behaves in a predictable way if one considers linear stability criteria.
2402.05768v1
2024-02-09
Constraints on Quasinormal modes from Black Hole Shadows in regular non-minimal Einstein Yang-Mills Gravity
This work deals with the scalar quasinormal modes using higher order WKB method and black hole shadow in non-minimal Einstein Yang-Mills theory. To validate the results of quasinormal modes, time domain profiles are also investigated. We found that with an increase in the magnetic charge of the black hole, the ring-down gravitational wave increases non-linearly and damping rate decreases non-linearly. The presence of magnetic charge also results in a decrease in the black hole shadow non-linearly. It is found that for large values of the coupling parameter, the black hole changes to a solitonic solution and the corresponding ring-down gravitational wave frequency increases slowly with a decrease in the damping rate. For the solitonic solutions, the shadow is also smaller. The constraints on the model parameters calculated using shadow observations of M87* and Sgr A* and an approximate analytic relation between quasinormal modes and shadow at the eikonal limit is discussed.
2402.06186v1
2024-02-14
The impact of load placement on grid resonances during grid restoration
As inverter-based generation is being massively deployed in the grid, these type of units have to take over the current roles of conventional generation, including the capability of restoring the grid. In this context, the resonances of the grid during the first steps of a black start can be concerning, given that the grid is lightly loaded. Especially relevant are the low frequency resonances, that may be excited by the harmonic components of the inverter. A typical strategy to avoid or minimize the effect of such resonances relies on connecting load banks. This was fairly feasible with conventional generation, but given the limited ratings of inverters, the amount of load that can be connected at the beginning is very limited. In this paper we consider the energization of a transmission line, and investigate the optimal location of a load along a line in order to maximize the damping in the system. By analysing the spectral properties as a function of the load location, we formally prove that placing the load in the middle of the transmission line maximizes the damping ratio of the first resonance of the system.
2402.09294v1
2024-02-19
Gravitational wave asteroseismology of dark matter hadronic stars
The influence of the dark matter mass~($M_{\chi}$) and the Fermi momentum~($k_{F}^{\dm}$) on the $f_0$-mode oscillation frequency, damping time parameter, and tidal deformability of hadronic stars are studied by employing a numerical integration of hydrostatic equilibrium, nonradial oscillation, and tidal deformability equations. The matter inside the hadronic stars follows the NL3* equation of state. We obtain that the influence of $M_{\chi}$ and $k_F^{\dm}$ is observed in the $f_0$-mode, damping tome parameter, and tidal deformability. Finally, the correlation between the tidal deformability of the GW$170817$ event with $M_{\chi}$ and $k_F^{\dm}$ are also investigated.
2402.12600v1
2024-02-21
Landau damping, collisionless limit, and stability threshold for the Vlasov-Poisson equation with nonlinear Fokker-Planck collisions
In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) equation with a small collision frequency $0 < \nu \ll 1$, exploring the interplay between the regularity and size of perturbations in the context of the asymptotic stability of the global Maxwellian. Our main result establishes the Landau damping and enhanced dissipation phenomena under the condition that the perturbation of the global Maxwellian falls within the Gevrey-$\frac{1}{s}$ class and obtain that the stability threshold for the Gevrey-$\frac{1}{s}$ class with $s>s_{\mathrm{k}}$ can not be larger than $\gamma=\frac{1-3s_{\mathrm{k}}}{3-3s_{\mathrm{k}}}$ for $s_{\mathrm{k}}\in [0,\frac{1}{3}]$. Moreover, we show that for Gevrey-$\frac{1}{s}$ with $s>3$, and for $t\ll \nu^{\frac13}$, the solution to VPFP converges to the solution to Vlasov-Poisson equation without collision.
2402.14082v2
2024-02-22
Long-time asymptotics of the damped nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a delta potential
We consider the damped nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a delta potential \begin{align*} \partial_{t}^2u-\partial_{x}^2u+2\alpha \partial_{t}u+u-\gamma {\delta}_0u-|u|^{p-1}u=0, \ & (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}, \end{align*} where $p>2$, $\alpha>0,\ \gamma<2$, and $\delta_0=\delta_0 (x)$ denotes the Dirac delta with the mass at the origin. When $\gamma=0$, C\^{o}te, Martel and Yuan proved that any global solution either converges to 0 or to the sum of $K\geq 1$ decoupled solitary waves which have alternative signs. In this paper, we first prove that any global solution either converges to 0 or to the sum of $K\geq 1$ decoupled solitary waves. Next we construct a single solitary wave solution that moves away from the origin when $\gamma<0$ and construct an even 2-solitary wave solution when $\gamma\leq -2$. Last we give single solitary wave solutions and even 2-solitary wave solutions an upper bound for the distance between the origin and the solitary wave.
2402.14381v2
2024-02-22
Low-frequency Resonances in Grid-Forming Converters: Causes and Damping Control
Grid-forming voltage-source converter (GFM-VSC) may experience low-frequency resonances, such as synchronous resonance (SR) and sub-synchronous resonance (SSR), in the output power. This paper offers a comprehensive study on the root causes of low-frequency resonances with GFM-VSC systems and the damping control methods. The typical GFM control structures are introduced first, along with a mapping between the resonances and control loops. Then, the causes of SR and SSR are discussed, highlighting the impacts of control interactions on the resonances. Further, the recent advancements in stabilizing control methods for SR and SSR are critically reviewed with experimental tests of a GFM-VSC under different grid conditions.
2402.14543v1
2024-02-27
Unified study of viscoelasticity and sound damping in hard and soft amorphous solids
Recent research has made significant progress in understanding the non-phonon vibrational states present in amorphous materials. It has been established that their vibrational density of states follows non-Debye scaling laws. Here, we show that the non-Debye scaling laws play a crucial role in determining material properties of a broad range of amorphous solids, from ``hard" amorphous solids like structural glasses to ``soft" amorphous solids such as foams and emulsions. We propose a unified framework of viscoelasticity and sound damping for these materials. Although these properties differ significantly between hard and soft amorphous solids, they are determined by the non-Debye scaling laws. We also validate our framework using numerical simulations.
2402.17335v1
2024-03-02
Diffusive Decay of Collective Quantum Excitations in Electron Gas
In this work the multistream quasiparticle model of collective electron excitations is used to study the energy-density distribution of collective quantum excitations in an interacting electron gas with arbitrary degree of degeneracy. Generalized relations for the probability current and energy density distributions is obtained which reveals a new interesting quantum phenomenon of diffusive decay of pure quasiparticle states at microscopic level. The effects is studied for various cases of free quasiparticles, quasiparticle in an infinite square-well potential and half-space collective excitations. It is shown that plasmon excitations have the intrinsic tendency to decay into equilibrium state with uniform energy density spacial distribution. It is found that plasmon levels of quasipaticle in a square-well potential are unstable decaying into equilibrium state due to the fundamental property of collective excitations. The decay rates of pure plasmon states are determined analytically. Moreover, for damped quasiparticle excitations the non-vanishing probability current divergence leads to imaginary energy density resulting in damping instability of energy density dynamic. The pronounced energy density valley close to half-space boundary at low level excitations predicts attractive force close to the surface. Current research can have implications with applications in plasmonics and related fields. Current analysis can be readily generalized to include external potential and magnetic field effects.
2403.01099v1
2024-03-04
Successive quasienergy collapse and the driven Dicke phase transition in the few-emitter limit
The emergent behavior that arises in many-body systems of increasing size follows universal laws that become apparent in order-to-disorder transitions. While this behavior has been traditionally explored for large numbers of emitters, recent progress allows for the exploration of the few-emitter limit, where correlations can be measured and connected to microscopic models to gain further insight into order-to-disorder transitions. We explore this few-body limit in the driven and damped Tavis--Cummings model, which describes a collection of atoms interacting with a driven and damped cavity mode. Our exploration revolves around the dressed states of the atomic ensemble and field, whose energies are shown to collapse as the driving field is increased to mark the onset of a dissipative quantum phase transition. The collapse occurs in stages and is an effect of light-matter correlations that are overlooked for single atoms and neglected in mean-field models. The implications of these correlations over the macroscopic observables of the system are presented. We encounter a shift in the expected transition point and an increased number of parity-broken states to choose from once the ordered phase is reached.
2403.02417v1
2024-03-05
Domain-Agnostic Mutual Prompting for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Conventional Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) strives to minimize distribution discrepancy between domains, which neglects to harness rich semantics from data and struggles to handle complex domain shifts. A promising technique is to leverage the knowledge of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models for more guided adaptation. Despite some endeavors, current methods often learn textual prompts to embed domain semantics for source and target domains separately and perform classification within each domain, limiting cross-domain knowledge transfer. Moreover, prompting only the language branch lacks flexibility to adapt both modalities dynamically. To bridge this gap, we propose Domain-Agnostic Mutual Prompting (DAMP) to exploit domain-invariant semantics by mutually aligning visual and textual embeddings. Specifically, the image contextual information is utilized to prompt the language branch in a domain-agnostic and instance-conditioned way. Meanwhile, visual prompts are imposed based on the domain-agnostic textual prompt to elicit domain-invariant visual embeddings. These two branches of prompts are learned mutually with a cross-attention module and regularized with a semantic-consistency loss and an instance-discrimination contrastive loss. Experiments on three UDA benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of DAMP over state-of-the-art approaches.
2403.02899v1
2024-03-12
Spatially oscillating correlation functions in $\left(2+1\right)$-dimensional four-fermion models: The mixing of scalar and vector modes at finite density
In this work, we demonstrate that the mixing of scalar and vector condensates produces spatially oscillating, but exponentially damped correlation functions in fermionic theories at finite density and temperature. We find a regime exhibiting this oscillatory behavior in a Gross-Neveu-type model that also features vector interactions within the mean-field approximation. The existence of this regime aligns with expectations based on symmetry arguments, that are also applicable to QCD at finite baryon density. We compute the phase diagram including both homogeneous phases and regions with spatially oscillating, exponentially damped correlation functions at finite temperature and chemical potential for different strengths of the vector coupling. Furthermore, we find that inhomogeneous condensates are disfavored compared to homogeneous ones akin to previous findings without vector interactions. We show that our results are valid for a broad class of $\left(2+1\right)$-dimensional models with local four-fermion interactions.
2403.07430v1
2024-03-13
Painlevé Analysis, Prelle-Singer Approach, Symmetries and Integrability of Damped Hénon-Heiles System
We consider a modified damped version of H\'enon-Heiles system and investigate its integrability. By extending the Painlev\'e analysis of ordinary differential equations we find that the modified H\'enon-Heiles system possesses the Painlev\'e property for three distinct parametric restrictions. For each of the identified cases, we construct two independent integrals of motion using the well known Prelle-Singer method. We then derive a set of nontrivial non-point symmetries for each of the identified integrable cases of the modified H\'enon-Heiles system. We infer that the modified H\'enon-Heiles system is integrable for three distinct parametric restrictions. Exact solutions are given explicitly for two integrable cases.
2403.08410v1
2024-03-15
Delayed interactions in the noisy voter model through the periodic polling mechanism
We investigate the effects of delayed interactions on the stationary distribution of the noisy voter model. We assume that the delayed interactions occur through the periodic polling mechanism and replace the original instantaneous two-agent interactions. In our analysis, we require that the polling period aligns with the delay in announcing poll outcomes. As expected, when the polling period is relatively short, the model with delayed interactions is effectively identical to the original model. As the polling period increases, oscillatory behavior emerges, but the model with delayed interactions still converges to stationary distribution. The stationary distribution resembles a Beta-binomial distribution, with its shape parameters scaling with the polling period. The observed scaling behavior is non-trivial. As the polling period increases, fluctuation damping also intensifies, yet there is a critical intermediate polling period for which fluctuation damping reaches its maximum intensity.
2403.10277v1
2024-03-16
CETASim: A numerical tool for beam collective effect study in storage rings
We developed a 6D multi-particle tracking program CETASim in C++ programming language to simulate intensity-dependent effects in electron storage rings. The program can simulate the beam collective effects due to short-range/long-range wakefields for single/coupled-bunch instability studies. It also features to simulate interactions among charged ions and the trains of electron bunches, including both fast ion and ion trapping effects. The bunch-by-bunch feedback is also included so that the user can simulate the damping of the unstable motion when its growth rate is faster than the radiation damping rate. The particle dynamics is based on the one-turn map, including the nonlinear effects of amplitude-dependent tune shift, high-order chromaticity, and second-order momentum compaction factor. A skew quadrupole can also be introduced by the users, which is very useful for the emittance sharing and the emittance exchange studies. This paper describes the code structure, the physics models, and the algorithms used in CETASim. We also present the results of its application to PETRA-IV storage ring.
2403.10973v1
2024-03-18
Mitigation of the Microbunching Instability Through Transverse Landau Damping
The microbunching instability has been a long-standing issue for high-brightness free-electron lasers (FELs), and is a significant show-stopper to achieving full longitudinal coherence in the x-ray regime. This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of microbunching instability mitigation through transverse Landau damping, based on linear optics control in a dispersive region. Analytical predictions for the microbunching content are supported by numerical calculations of the instability gain and confirmed through the experimental characterization of the spectral brightness of the FERMI FEL under different transverse optics configurations of the transfer line between the linear accelerator and the FEL.
2403.11594v1
2024-03-19
Calculating quasinormal modes of extremal and non-extremal Reissner-Nordström black holes with the continued fraction method
We use the numerical continued fraction method to investigate quasinormal mode spectra of extremal and non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in the low and intermediate damping regions. In the extremal case, we develop techniques that significantly expand the calculated spectrum from what had previously appeared in the literature. This allows us to determine the asymptotic behavior of the extremal spectrum in the high damping limit, where there are conflicting published results. Our investigation further supports the idea that the extremal limit of the non-extremal case, where the charge approaches the mass of the black hole in natural units, leads to the same vibrational spectrum as in the extremal case despite the qualitative differences in their topology. In addition, we numerically explore the quasinormal mode spectrum for a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in the small charge limit.
2403.13074v1
2024-03-19
Uniform vorticity depletion and inviscid damping for periodic shear flows in the high Reynolds number regime
We study the dynamics of the two dimensional Navier-Stokes equations linearized around a shear flow on a (non-square) torus which possesses exactly two non-degenerate critical points. We obtain linear inviscid damping and vorticity depletion estimates for the linearized flow that are uniform with respect to the viscosity, and enhanced dissipation type decay estimates. The main task is to understand the associated Rayleigh and Orr-Sommerfeld equations, under the natural assumption that the linearized operator around the shear flow in the inviscid case has no discrete eigenvalues. The key difficulty is to understand the behavior of the solution to Orr-Sommerfeld equations in three distinct regimes depending on the spectral parameter: the non-degenerate case when the spectral parameter is away from the critical values, the intermediate case when the spectral parameter is close to but still separated from the critical values, and the most singular case when the spectral parameter is inside the viscous layer.
2403.13104v1
2024-03-26
Greybody Factors Imprinted on Black Hole Ringdowns. II. Merging Binary Black Holes
The spectral amplitude of the merger-ringdown gravitational wave (GW) emitted by a comparable mass-ratio black hole merger is modeled by the greybody factor of the remnant black hole. Our model does not include fitting parameters except for a single overall spectral amplitude. We perform the mass-spin inference from the SXS data without introducing fitting parameters and without tuning the data range of each SXS template. Also, we find that the exponential damping in the ringdown spectral amplitude can be modeled well with the exponential damping in the greybody factor at high frequencies. Based on the findings, we propose a conjecture that the light ring of the remnant black hole, which sources the ringdown, forms as early as during the merger stage. We discuss the formation of the light ring in the static binary solution as a first step towards the understanding of how the separation of merging black holes may affect the formation of the light ring.
2403.17487v1
2024-03-27
Fractional variational integrators based on convolution quadrature
Fractional dissipation is a powerful tool to study non-local physical phenomena such as damping models. The design of geometric, in particular, variational integrators for the numerical simulation of such systems relies on a variational formulation of the model. In [19], a new approach is proposed to deal with dissipative systems including fractionally damped systems in a variational way for both, the continuous and discrete setting. It is based on the doubling of variables and their fractional derivatives. The aim of this work is to derive higher-order fractional variational integrators by means of convolution quadrature (CQ) based on backward difference formulas. We then provide numerical methods that are of order 2 improving a previous result in [19]. The convergence properties of the fractional variational integrators and saturation effects due to the approximation of the fractional derivatives by CQ are studied numerically.
2403.18362v1
2024-04-02
High-energy neutrinos flavour composition as a probe of neutrino magnetic moments
Neutrino propagation in the Galactic magnetic field is considered. To describe neutrino flavour and spin oscillations on the galactic scale baselines an approach using wave packets is developed. Evolution equations for the neutrino wave packets in a uniform and non-uniform magnetic field are derived. Analytical expressions for neutrino flavour and spin oscillations probabilities accounting for damping due to wave packet separation are obtained for the case of uniform magnetic field. It is shown that for oscillations on magnetic frequencies $\omega_i^B = \mu_i B_\perp$ the coherence lengths that characterizes the damping scale is proportional to the cube of neutrino average momentum $p_0^3$. Probabilities of flavour and spin oscillations are calculated numerically for neutrino interacting with the non-uniform Galactic magnetic field. Flavour compositions of high-energy neutrino flux coming from the Galactic centre are calculated accounting for neutrino interaction with the magnetic field. It is shown that for neutrino magnetic moments $\sim 10^{-13} \mu_B$ and larger these flavour compositions significantly differ from ones predicted by the vacuum neutrino oscillations scenario.
2404.02027v1
2024-04-09
Calculation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode mode structure in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry
A workflow is developed based on the ideal MHD model to investigate the linear physics of various Alfv\'en eigenmodes in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry, by solving the coupled shear Alfv\'en wave (SAW) and ion sound wave (ISW) equations in ballooning space. The model equations are solved by the FALCON code in the singular layer, and the corresponding solutions are then taken as the boundary conditions for calculating parallel mode structures in the whole ballooning space. As an application of the code, the frequencies and mode structures of toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmode (TAE) are calculated in the reference equilibria of the Divertor Tokamak Test facility (DTT) with positive and negative triangularities, respectively. By properly handling the boundary conditions, we demonstrate finite TAE damping due to coupling with the local acoustic continuum, and find that the damping rate is small for typical plasma parameters.
2404.06296v1
2018-06-27
Deterministics descriptions of the turbulence in the Navier-Stokes equations
This PhD thesis is devoted to deterministic study of the turbulence in the Navier- Stokes equations. The thesis is divided in four independent chapters.The first chapter involves a rigorous discussion about the energy's dissipation law, proposed by theory of the turbulence K41, in the deterministic setting of the homogeneous and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, with a stationary external force (the force only depends of the spatial variable) and on the whole space R3. The energy's dissipation law, also called the Kolmogorov's dissipation law, characterizes the energy's dissipation rate (in the form of heat) of a turbulent fluid and this law was developed by A.N. Kolmogorov in 1941. However, its deduction (which uses mainly tools of statistics) is not fully understood until our days and then an active research area consists in studying this law in the rigorous framework of the Navier-Stokes equations which describe in a mathematical way the fluids motion and in particular the movement of turbulent fluids. In this setting, the purpose of this chapter is to highlight the fact that if we consider the Navier-Stokes equations on R3 then certain physical quantities, necessary for the study of the Kolmogorov's dissipation law, have no a rigorous definition and then to give a sense to these quantities we suggest to consider the Navier-Stokes equations with an additional damping term. In the framework of these damped equations, we obtain some estimates for the energy's dissipation rate according to the Kolmogorov's dissipation law.In the second chapter we are interested in study the stationary solutions of the damped Navier- Stokes introduced in the previous chapter. These stationary solutions are a particular type of solutions which do not depend of the temporal variable and their study is motivated by the fact that we always consider the Navier-Stokes equations with a stationary external force. In this chapter we study two properties of the stationary solutions : the first property concerns the stability of these solutions where we prove that if we have a control on the external force then all non stationary solution (with depends of both spatial and temporal variables) converges toward a stationary solution. The second property concerns the decay in spatial variable of the stationary solutions. These properties of stationary solutions are a consequence of the damping term introduced in the Navier-Stokes equations.In the third chapter we still study the stationary solutions of Navier-Stokes equations but now we consider the classical equations (without any additional damping term). The purpose of this chapter is to study an other problem related to the deterministic description of the turbulence : the frequency decay of the stationary solutions. Indeed, according to the K41 theory, if the fluid is in a laminar setting then the stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations must exhibit a exponential frequency decay which starts at lows frequencies. But, if the fluid is in a turbulent setting then this exponential frequency decay must be observed only at highs frequencies. In this chapter, using some Fourier analysis tools, we give a precise description of this exponential frequency decay in the laminar and in the turbulent setting.In the fourth and last chapter we return to the stationary solutions of the classical Navier-Stokes equations and we study the uniqueness of these solutions in the particular case without any external force. Following some ideas of G. Seregin, we study the uniqueness of these solutions first in the framework of Lebesgue spaces of and then in the a general framework of Morrey spaces.
1806.10430v2
2019-03-04
Constant angle surfaces in 4-dimensional Minkowski space
We first define a complex angle between two oriented spacelike planes in 4-dimensional Minkowski space, and then study the constant angle surfaces in that space, i.e. the oriented spacelike surfaces whose tangent planes form a constant complex angle with respect to a fixed spacelike plane. This notion is the natural Lorentzian analogue of the notion of constant angle surfaces in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. We prove that these surfaces have vanishing Gauss and normal curvatures, obtain representation formulas for the constant angle surfaces with regular Gauss maps and construct constant angle surfaces using PDE's methods. We then describe their invariants of second order and show that a surface with regular Gauss map and constant angle $\psi\neq 0\ [\pi/2]$ is never complete. We finally study the special cases of surfaces with constant angle $\pi/2\ [\pi],$ with real or pure imaginary constant angle and describe the constant angle surfaces in hyperspheres and lightcones.
1903.01554v1
2020-05-17
Universal constants and natural systems of units in a spacetime of arbitrary dimension
We study the properties of fundamental physical constants using the threefold classification of dimensional constants proposed by J.-M. L{\'e}vy-Leblond: constants of objects (masses, etc.), constants of phenomena (coupling constants), and "universal constants" (such as $c$ and $\hbar$). We show that all of the known "natural" systems of units contain at least one non-universal constant. We discuss the possible consequences of such non-universality, e.g., the dependence of some of these systems on the number of spatial dimensions. In the search for a "fully universal" system of units, we propose a set of constants that consists of $c$, $\hbar$, and a length parameter and discuss its origins and the connection to the possible kinematic groups discovered by L{\'e}vy-Leblond and Bacry. Finally, we give some comments about the interpretation of these constants.
2005.08196v3
2020-11-13
Losing the trace to find dynamical Newton or Planck constants
We show that promoting the trace part of the Einstein equations to a trivial identity results in the Newton constant being an integration constant. Thus, in this formulation the Newton constant is a global dynamical degree of freedom which is also a subject to quantization and quantum fluctuations. This is similar to what happens to the cosmological constant in the unimodular gravity where the trace part of the Einstein equations is lost in a different way. We introduce a constrained variational formulation of these modified Einstein equations. Then, drawing on analogies with the Henneaux-Teitelboim action for unimodular gravity, we construct different general-covariant actions resulting in these dynamics. The inverse of dynamical Newton constant is canonically conjugated to the Ricci scalar integrated over spacetime. Surprisingly, instead of the dynamical Newton constant one can formulate an equivalent theory with a dynamical Planck constant. Finally, we show that an axion-like field can play a role of the gravitational Newton constant or even of the quantum Planck constant.
2011.07055v2
2008-11-24
Artificial contradiction between cosmology and particle physics: the lambda problem
It is shown that the usual choice of units obtained by taking G = c = Planck constant = 1, giving the Planck units of mass, length and time, introduces an artificial contradiction between cosmology and particle physics: the lambda problem that we associate with Planck constant. We note that the choice of Planck constant = 1 does not correspond to the scale of quantum physics. For this scale we prove that the correct value is Planck constant \hbar; 1/10^122, while the choice of Planck constant = 1 corresponds to the cosmological scale. This is due to the scale factor of 10^61 that converts the Planck scale to the cosmological scale. By choosing the ratio G/c^3 = constant = 1, which includes the choice G = c = 1, and the momentum conservation mc = constant, we preserve the derivation of the Einstein field equations from the action principle. Then the product Gm/c^2 = rg, the gravitational radius of m, is constant. For a quantum black hole we prove that Planck constant \hbar; rg^2 \hbar; (mc)^2. We also prove that the product lambda x Planck constant is a general constant of order one, for any scale. The cosmological scale implies lambda \hbar; Planck constant \hbar; 1, while the Planck scale gives lambda \hbar; 1/Planck constant \hbar; 10^122. This explains the lambda problem. We get two scales: the cosmological quantum black hole (QBH), size \Lambda; 10^28 cm, and the quantum black hole (qbh) that includes the fundamental particles scale, size \Lambda; 10^-13 cm, as well as the Planck scale, size \Lambda; 10^-33 cm.
0811.3933v2
2003-02-07
Lattice constant in diluted magnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)As
We use the density-functional calculations to investigate the compositional dependence of the lattice constant of (Ga,Mn)As containing various native defects. The lattice constant of perfect mixed crystals does not depend much on the concentration of Mn. The lattice parameter increases if some Mn atoms occupy interstitial positions. The same happens if As antisite defects are present. A quantitative agreement with the observed compositional dependence is obtained for materials close to a complete compensation due to these two donors. The increase of the lattice constant of (Ga,Mn)As is correlated with the degree of compensation: the materials with low compensation should have lattice constants close to the lattice constant of GaAs crystal.
0302150v1
2002-12-04
Implications of a Time-Varying Fine Structure Constant
Much work has been done after the possibility of a fine structure constant being time-varying. It has been taken as an indication of a time-varying speed of light. Here we prove that this is not the case. We prove that the speed of light may or may not vary with time, independently of the fine structure constant being constant or not. Time variations of the speed of light, if present, have to be derived by some other means and not from the fine structure constant. No implications based on the possible variations of the fine structure constant can be imposed on the speed of light.
0212020v1
2005-12-20
Local Experiments See Cosmologically Varying Constants
We describe a rigorous construction, using matched asymptotic expansions, which establishes under very general conditions that local terrestrial and solar-system experiments will measure the effects of varying `constants' of Nature occurring on cosmological scales to computable precision. In particular, `constants' driven by scalar fields will still be found to evolve in time when observed within virialised structures like clusters, galaxies, and planetary systems. This provides a justification for combining cosmological and terrestrial constraints on the possible time variation of many assumed `constants' of Nature, including the fine structure constant and Newton's gravitation constant.
0512117v2
1992-12-22
The Third Electromagnetic Constant of an Isotropic Medium:
In addition to the dielectric and magnetic permeability constants, another constant is generally needed to describe the electrodynamic properties of a linear isotropic medium. We discuss why the need for the third constant arises and what sort of physical situations can give rise to a non-zero value for it. This additional constant, which we call the {\em ``Activity Constant''} and denote by $\zeta$, can explain optical activity and other phenomena from a purely macroscopic and phenomenological point of view.
9212300v2
2001-09-15
Two-dimensional Finsler metrics of constant curvature
A Riemannian metric is of constant curvature if and only if it is locally projectively flat. There are infinitely many locally projectively flat Finsler metrics of constant curvature, that are special solutions to the Hilbert's Fourth Problem. In this paper, we use the technique in the paper titled "Finsler metrics with K=0 and S=0" (math.DG/0109060) to construct infinitely many Finsler metrics on the 2-sphere with constant curvature K=1 and infinitely many Finsler metrics on the 2-disk with constant curvature K = -1. These metrics are not projectively flat. So far, the classification of Finsler metrics of constant curvature has not been completely done yet. These examples are important to the classification problem.
0109097v1
2002-09-04
Experimental Consequences of Time Variations of the Fundamental Constants
We discuss the experimental consequences of hypothetical time variations of the fundamental constants. We emphasize that from a purely phenomenological point of view, only dimensionless fundamental constants have significance. Two classes of experiments are identified that give results that are essentially independent of the values of all constants. Finally, we show that experiments that are generally interpreted in terms of time variations of the dimensioned gravitional constant $G$ are better interpreted as giving limits on the variation of the dimensionless constant $\alpha_G=Gm_p^2/\hbar c$.
0209016v1
2008-10-13
A note on Artin's constant
We suggest a new approach to Artin's constant that leads to its representation as an infinite sum divided by another infinite sum. The same approach works well for Stephens' constant and higher rank Artin's constants. The main results are theoretical but there are interesting experimental and computational aspects.
0810.2325v4
2009-03-27
Effect of non-zero constant vorticity on the nonlinear resonances of capillary water waves
The influence of an underlying current on 3-wave interactions of capillary water waves is studied. The fact that in irrotational flow resonant 3-wave interactions are not possible can be invalidated by the presence of an underlying current of constant non-zero vorticity. We show that: 1) wave trains in flows with constant non-zero vorticity are possible only for two-dimensional flows; 2) only positive constant vorticities can trigger the appearance of three-wave resonances; 3) the number of positive constant vorticities which do trigger a resonance is countable; 4) the magnitude of a positive constant vorticity triggering a resonance can not be too small.
0903.4813v1
2010-04-09
A New Construction for Constant Weight Codes
A new construction for constant weight codes is presented. The codes are constructed from $k$-dimensional subspaces of the vector space $\F_q^n$. These subspaces form a constant dimension code in the Grassmannian space $\cG_q(n,k)$. Some of the constructed codes are optimal constant weight codes with parameters not known before. An efficient algorithm for error-correction is given for the constructed codes. If the constant dimension code has an efficient encoding and decoding algorithms then also the constructed constant weight code has an efficient encoding and decoding algorithms.
1004.1503v3
2011-07-01
Mimicking the cosmological constant: constant curvature spherical solutions in a non-minimally coupled model
The purpose of this study is to describe a perfect fluid matter distribution that leads to a constant curvature region, thanks to the effect of a non-minimal coupling. This distribution exhibits a density profile within the range found in the interstellar medium and an adequate matching of the metric components at its boundary. By identifying this constant curvature with the value of the cosmological constant, and superimposing the spherical distributions arising from different matter sources throughout the universe, one is able to mimic a large-scale homogeneous cosmological constant solution.
1107.0225v1
2013-11-09
On Maxwell's and Poincare's Constants
We prove that for bounded and convex domains in three dimensions, the Maxwell constants are bounded from below and above by Friedrichs' and Poincar\'e's constants. In other words, the second Maxwell eigenvalues lie between the square roots of the second Neumann-Laplace and the first Dirichlet-Laplace eigenvalue.
1311.2186v4
2015-01-08
On the optimal constants in Korn's and geometric rigidity estimates, in bounded and unbounded domains, under Neumann boundary conditions
We are concerned with the optimal constants: in the Korn inequality under tangential boundary conditions on bounded sets $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, and in the geometric rigidity estimate on the whole $\mathbb{R}^2$. We prove that the latter constant equals $\sqrt{2}$, and we discuss the relation of the former constants with the optimal Korn's constants under Dirichlet boundary conditions, and in the whole $\mathbb{R}^n$, which are well known to equal $\sqrt{2}$. We also discuss the attainability of these constants and the structure of deformations/displacement fields in the optimal sets.
1501.01917v1
2016-05-16
A Constant-Factor Bi-Criteria Approximation Guarantee for $k$-means++
This paper studies the $k$-means++ algorithm for clustering as well as the class of $D^\ell$ sampling algorithms to which $k$-means++ belongs. It is shown that for any constant factor $\beta > 1$, selecting $\beta k$ cluster centers by $D^\ell$ sampling yields a constant-factor approximation to the optimal clustering with $k$ centers, in expectation and without conditions on the dataset. This result extends the previously known $O(\log k)$ guarantee for the case $\beta = 1$ to the constant-factor bi-criteria regime. It also improves upon an existing constant-factor bi-criteria result that holds only with constant probability.
1605.04986v1
2016-11-01
Existence of conformal metrics with constant scalar curvature and constant boundary mean curvature on compact manifolds
We study the problem of deforming a Riemannian metric to a conformal one with nonzero constant scalar curvature and nonzero constant boundary mean curvature on a compact manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$. We prove the existence of such conformal metrics in the cases of $n=6,7$ or the manifold is spin and some other remaining ones left by Escobar. Furthermore, in the positive Yamabe constant case, by normalizing the scalar curvature to be $1$, there exists a sequence of conformal metrics such that their constant boundary mean curvatures go to $+\infty$.
1611.00229v2
2019-05-31
Hyperbolicity constants for pants and relative pants graphs
The pants graph has proved to be influential in understanding 3-manifolds concretely. This stems from a quasi-isometry between the pants graph and the Teichm\"uller space with the Weil-Petersson metric. Currently, all estimates on the quasi-isometry constants are dependent on the surface in an undiscovered way. This paper starts effectivising some constants which begins the understanding how relevant constants change based on the surface. We do this by studying the hyperbolicity constant of the pants graph for the five-punctured sphere and the twice punctured torus. The hyperbolicity constant of the relative pants graph for complexity 3 surfaces is also calculated. Note, for higher complexity surfaces, the pants graph is not hyperbolic or even strongly relatively hyperbolic.
1905.13595v1
2019-11-28
Constant mean curvature Isometric Immersions into $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ and related results
In this article, we study constant mean curvature isometric immersions into $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ and we classify these isometric immersions when the surface has constant intrinsic curvature. As applications, we use the sister surface correspondence to classify the constant mean curvature surfaces with constant intrinsic curvature in the $3-$dimensional homogenous manifolds $\mathbb{E}(\kappa, \tau)$ and we use the Torralbo-Urbano correspondence to classify the parallel mean curvature surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^2$ and $\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{H}^2$ with constant intrinsic curvature. It is worthwhile to point out that these classifications provide new examples.
1911.12630v1
2020-12-21
A Couple of Transcendental Prime-Representing Constants
It is well known that the arithmetic nature of Mills' prime-representing constant is uncertain: we do not know if Mills' constant is a rational or irrational number. In the case of other prime-representing constants, irrationality can be proved, but it is not known whether these constants are algebraic or transcendental numbers. By using Liouville or Roth's theorems about approximation by rationals, we find a couple of prime-representing constants that can be proved to be transcendental numbers.
2012.11750v2
2021-03-17
Complex nilmanifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature
A well known conjecture in complex geometry states that a compact Hermitian manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature must be K\"ahler if the constant is non-zero and must be Chern flat if the constant is zero. The conjecture is confirmed in complex dimension $2$, by the work of Balas-Gauduchon in 1985 (when the constant is zero or negative) and by Apostolov-Davidov-Muskarov in 1996 (when the constant is positive). For higher dimensions, the conjecture is still largely unknown. In this article, we restrict ourselves to the class of complex nilmanifolds and confirm the conjecture in that case.
2103.09571v1
2021-03-25
Universal Constants as Manifestations of Relativity
We study the possible interpretation of the "universal constants" by the classification of J.~M.~L\'evy-Leblond. $\hbar$ and $c$ are the most common example of constants of this type. Using Fock's principle of the relativity w.r.t. observation means, we show that both $c$ and $\hbar$ can be viewed as manifestations of certain relativity. We also show that there is a possibility to interpret the Boltzmann's constant in a similar way, and make some comments about the relativistic interpretation of the constant spacetime curvature and gravitational constant $G$.
2103.13854v2
2022-03-30
Convex bodies of constant width in spaces of constant curvature and the extremal area of Reuleaux triangles
Extending Blaschke and Lebesgue's classical result in the Euclidean plane, it has been recently proved in spherical and the hyperbolic cases, as well, that Reuleaux triangles have the minimal area among convex domains of constant width $D$. We prove an essentially optimal stability version of this statement in each of the three types of surfaces of constant curvature. In addition, we summarize the fundamental properties of convex bodies of constant width in spaces of constant curvature, and provide a characterization in the hyperbolic case in terms of horospheres.
2203.16636v1
2022-05-23
On Computing Coercivity Constants in Linear Variational Problems Through Eigenvalue Analysis
In this work, we investigate the convergence of numerical approximations to coercivity constants of variational problems. These constants are essential components of rigorous error bounds for reduced-order modeling; extension of these bounds to the error with respect to exact solutions requires an understanding of convergence rates for discrete coercivity constants. The results are obtained by characterizing the coercivity constant as a spectral value of a self-adjoint linear operator; for several differential equations, we show that the coercivity constant is related to the eigenvalue of a compact operator. For these applications, convergence rates are derived and verified with numerical examples.
2205.11580v1
2022-08-07
Spacelike Curves of Constant-Ratio in Pseudo-Galilean Space
In the theory of differential geometry curves, a curve is said to be of constant-ratio if the ratio of the length of the tangential and normal components of its position vector function is constant. In this paper, we study and characterize a spacelike admissible curve of constant-ratio in terms of its curvature functions in pseudo-Galilean space. Some special curves of constant-ratio such as T and N constant types are investigated. As an application of our main results, some examples are given.
2208.03686v1
2022-08-24
New Geometric Constant Related to the P-angle Function in Banach Spaces
In this paper, combined with the P-angle function of Banach spaces and the geometric constants that can characterize Hilbert spaces, the new angular geometric constant is defined. Firstly, this paper explores the basic properties of the new constant and obtains some inequalities with significant geometric constants. Then according to the derived inequalities, this paper studies the relationship between the new constant and the geometric properties of Banach spaces. Furthermore, the necessary and sufficient condition for uniform non-squareness, and the sufficient conditions for uniform convexity, the normal structure and the fixed point property will be established.
2208.11239v1
2022-09-22
Kemeny's constant and Wiener index on trees
On trees of fixed order, we show a direct relation between Kemeny's constant and Wiener index, and provide a new formula of Kemeny's constant from the relation with a combinatorial interpretation. Moreover, the relation simplifies proofs of several known results for extremal trees in terms of Kemeny's constant for random walks on trees. Finally, we provide various families of co-Kemeny's mates, which are two non-isomorphic connected graphs with the same Kemeny's constant, and we also give a necessary condition for a tree to attain maximum Kemeny's constant for trees with fixed diameter.
2209.11271v1
2023-12-18
Asymptotic products of binomial and multinomial coefficients revisited
In this note, we consider asymptotic products of binomial and multinomial coefficients and determine their asymptotic constants and formulas. Among them, special cases are the central binomial coefficients, the related Catalan numbers, and binomial coefficients in a row of Pascal's triangle. For the latter case, we show that it can also be derived from a limiting case of products of binomial coefficients over the rows. The asymptotic constants are expressed by known constants, for example, the Glaisher--Kinkelin constant. In addition, the constants lie in certain intervals that we determine precisely. Subsequently, we revisit a related result of Hirschhorn and clarify the given numerical constant by showing the exact expression.
2312.11369v1
2023-12-23
The Table of the Structure Constants for the Complex Simple Lie Algebra of Type G_2 and Chevalley Commutator Formulas in the Chevalley Group of Type G_2 over a Field
This article is the second in the series and is devoted to the type G_2. The work consists of two parts. In the first part we calculate the structure constants of the complex simple Lie algebra of type G_2. All structure constants are represented as functions of the structure constants corresponding to extraspecial pairs. The results obtained are used to calculate the commutator Chevalley formulas for [x_r(u),x_s(y)], when the sum r+s is a root. Further, in the second part there is a table of structure constants and Chevalley commutator formulas in the special case, when all structure constants corresponding to extraspecial pairs are positive.
2312.15226v1
2003-10-21
Cosmological model with $Ω_M$-dependent cosmological constant
The idea here is to set the cosmical constant $\lambda$ proportional to the scalar of the stress-energy tensor of the ordinary matter. We investigate the evolution of the scale factor in a cosmological model in which the cosmological constant is proportional to the scalar of the stress-energy tensor.
0310609v1