The sparse signal processing literature often uses random sensing matrices to obtain performance guarantees. Unfortunately, in the real world, sensing matrices do not always come from random processes. It is therefore...
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The sparse signal processing literature often uses random sensing matrices to obtain performance guarantees. Unfortunately, in the real world, sensing matrices do not always come from random processes. It is therefore desirable to evaluate whether an arbitrary matrix, or frame, is suitable for sensing sparse signals. To this end, the present paper investigates two parameters that measure the coherence of a frame: worst-case and average coherence. We first provide several examples of frames that have small spectral norm, worst-case coherence, and average coherence. Next, we present a new lower bound on worst-case coherence and compare it to the Welch bound. Later, we propose an algorithm that decreases the average coherence of a frame without changing its spectral norm or worst-case coherence. Finally, we use worst-case and average coherence, as opposed to the Restricted Isometry Property, to garner near-optimal probabilistic guarantees on both sparse signal detection and reconstruction in the presence of noise. This contrasts with recent results that only guarantee noiseless signal recovery from arbitrary frames, and which further assume independence across the nonzero entries of the signal-in a sense, requiring small average coherence replaces the need for such an assumption.
A common failure mechanism in metallic thin-film interconnects is void propagation driven by electric fields and thermomechanical stresses. In this paper, a multiscale computational analysis is presented for predictiv...
A common failure mechanism in metallic thin-film interconnects is void propagation driven by electric fields and thermomechanical stresses. In this paper, a multiscale computational analysis is presented for predictive modeling of transgranular void dynamics. The modeling approach is hierarchical and involves atomistic simulations for property database development, molecular-dynamics simulations for understanding of void-tip mechanisms, and self-consistent mesoscopic simulations based on boundary-element methods and techniques for moving boundary propagation. An extremely rich void dynamical behavior is predicted, which includes faceting, facet selection, propagation of slits from the void surface, as well as formation of fine-scale crack-like features on the void surface, in agreement with recent experimental data.
A model of phase-separation kinetics in systems exposed to energetic particle irradiation has been extended to include the effects of mobile dislocations. It is shown that when dislocations are allowed to participate ...
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A model of phase-separation kinetics in systems exposed to energetic particle irradiation has been extended to include the effects of mobile dislocations. It is shown that when dislocations are allowed to participate in the decomposition reaction, phase separation can occur at temperatures above the coherent spinodal, which is in agreement with several experiments on irradiated alloys. A linear stability analysis of the governing kinetic equations is performed and three regimes of microstructural evolution are identified within the parameter space of damage cascade size vs incident flux: complete phase separation, solid-solution behavior, and compositional patterning. In addition, numerical simulations of the evolving dislocation density and composition fields are performed. The numerical results provide the amplitude and wavelength of the stable patterns that can form under irradiation and elucidate the role of misfit dislocations in reducing the coherency strain due to atomic size mismatch.
Compressive sensing (CS) is a new approach to simultaneous sensing and compression for sparse and compressible signals. While the discrete Fourier transform has been widely used for CS of frequency-sparse signals, it ...
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The problem of model selection arises in a number of contexts, such as subset selection in linear regression, estimation of structures in graphical models, and signal denoising. This paper studies non-asymptotic model...
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The problem of model selection arises in a number of contexts, such as subset selection in linear regression, estimation of structures in graphical models, and signal denoising. This paper studies non-asymptotic model selection for the general case of arbitrary (random or deterministic) design matrices and arbitrary nonzero entries of the signal. In this regard, it generalizes the notion of incoherence in the existing literature on model selection and introduces two fundamental measures of coherence- termed as the worst-case coherence and the average coherence-among the columns of a design matrix. It utilizes these two measures of coherence to provide an in-depth analysis of a simple, model-order agnostic one-step thresholding (OST) algorithm for model selection and proves that OST is feasible for exact as well as partial model selection as long as the design matrix obeys an easily verifiable property, which is termed as the coherence property. One of the key insights offered by the ensuing analysis in this regard is that OST can successfully carry out model selection even when methods based on convex optimization such as the lasso fail due to the rank deficiency of the submatrices of the design matrix. In addition, the paper establishes that if the design matrix has reasonably small worst-case and average coherence then OST performs near-optimally when either (i) the energy of any nonzero entry of the signal is close to the average signal energy per nonzero entry or (ii) the signal-to-noise ratio in the measurement system is not too high. Finally, two other key contributions of the paper are that (i) it provides bounds on the average coherence of Gaussian matrices and Gabor frames, and (ii) it extends the results on model selection using OST to low-complexity, model-order agnostic recovery of sparse signals with arbitrary nonzero entries. In particular, this part of the analysis in the paper implies that an Alltop Gabor frame together with OST can successfully carr
Understanding the interaction between atomic hydrogen and solid tungsten is important for the development of fusion reactors in which proposed tungsten walls would be bombarded with high energy particles including hyd...
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We propose a nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) for semiconductors based on the expected asymptotic behavior of its susceptibility function. The KEDF’s kernel depends on both the electron density and t...
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We propose a nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) for semiconductors based on the expected asymptotic behavior of its susceptibility function. The KEDF’s kernel depends on both the electron density and the reduced density gradient, with an internal parameter formally related to the material’s static dielectric constant. We determine the accuracy of the KEDF within orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) by applying it to a variety of common semiconductors. With only two adjustable parameters, the KEDF reproduces quite well the exact noninteracting KEDF (i.e., Kohn-Sham DFT) predictions of bulk moduli, equilibrium volumes, and equilibrium energies. The two parameters in our KEDF are sensitive primarily to changes in the local crystal structure (such as atomic coordination number) and exhibit good transferability between different tetrahedrally-bonded phases. This local crystal structure dependence is rationalized by considering Thomas-Fermi dielectric screening theory.
The emergence of low-cost sensing architectures for diverse modalities has made it possible to deploy sensor networks that acquire large amounts of very high-dimensional data. To cope with such a data deluge, manifold...
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Compositional lipid domains (lipid rafts) in plasma membranes are believed to be important components of many cellular processes. The mechanisms by which cells regulate the sizes, lifetimes, and spatial localization o...
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Compositional lipid domains (lipid rafts) in plasma membranes are believed to be important components of many cellular processes. The mechanisms by which cells regulate the sizes, lifetimes, and spatial localization of these domains are rather poorly understood at the moment. We propose a robust mechanism for the formation of finite-sized lipid raft domains in plasma membranes, the competition between phase separation in an immiscible lipid system and active cellular lipid transport processes naturally leads to the formation of such domains. Simulations of a continuum model reveal that the raft size distribution is broad and the average raft size is strongly dependent on the rates of cellular and interlayer lipid transport processes. We demonstrate that spatiotemporal variations in the recycling may enable the cell to localize larger raft aggregates at specific parts along the membrane. Moreover, we show that membrane compartmentalization may further facilitate spatial localization of the raft domains. Finally, we demonstrate that local interactions with immobile membrane proteins can spatially localize the rafts and lead to further clustering.
Compositional lipid microdomains (“lipid rafts”) in mammalian plasma membranes are believed to facilitate many important cellular processes. While several physically distinct scenarios predicting the presence of fin...
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Compositional lipid microdomains (“lipid rafts”) in mammalian plasma membranes are believed to facilitate many important cellular processes. While several physically distinct scenarios predicting the presence of finite-sized microdomains in vivo have been proposed in the past, direct experimental verification or falsification of model predictions has remained elusive. Herein, we demonstrate that the combination of the spatial correlation and temporal fluctuation spectra of the lipid domains can be employed to unambiguously differentiate between the existing theoretical scenarios. Furthermore, the differentiation of the raft formation mechanisms using this methodology can be achieved by collecting data at physiologically relevant conditions without the need to tune control parameters.
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