Many biological regulatory systems respond with a physiological delay when processing signals. A simple model of regulation which respects these features shows how the ability of a delayed output to transmit informati...
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Many biological regulatory systems respond with a physiological delay when processing signals. A simple model of regulation which respects these features shows how the ability of a delayed output to transmit information is limited: at short times by the time scale of the dynamic input, at long times by that of the dynamic output. We find that topologies of maximally informative networks correspond to commonly occurring biological circuits linked to stress response and that circuits functioning out of steady state may exploit absorbing states to transmit information optimally.
Mobile users face a tradeoff between cost, through-put, and delay in making their offloading decisions. To navigate this tradeoff, we propose AMUSE (Adaptive bandwidth Management through USer-Empowerment), a practical...
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Mobile users face a tradeoff between cost, through-put, and delay in making their offloading decisions. To navigate this tradeoff, we propose AMUSE (Adaptive bandwidth Management through USer-Empowerment), a practical, cost-aware WiFi offloading system that takes into account a user's throughput-delay tradeoffs and cellular budget constraint. Based on predicted future usage and WiFi availability, AMUSE decides which applications to offload to what times of the day. To practically enforce the assigned rate of each TCP application, we introduce a receiver-side TCP bandwidth control algorithm that adjusts the rate by controlling the TCP advertisement window from the user side. We implement AMUSE on Windows 7 tablets and evaluate its effectiveness with 3G and WiFi usage data obtained from a trial with 25 mobile users. Our results show that AMUSE improves user utility.
The structural and magnetic properties of Fen-mCam (n = 3 - 6, m = 0 - 2; n = 13, m = 0 - 3) alloy clusters have been studied using density functional theory. The substitutional doping is favourable for small cluste...
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The structural and magnetic properties of Fen-mCam (n = 3 - 6, m = 0 - 2; n = 13, m = 0 - 3) alloy clusters have been studied using density functional theory. The substitutional doping is favourable for small clusters with up to six atoms at low Ga concentration and substitutional Ga atoms in 13-atom clusters prefer surface sites. The Ca-doping generally could reduce the energetic stability but enhance the electronic stability of Fe clusters, along with a decrease of the local magnetic moments of Fe atoms around Ca dopants. These findings provide a microscopic insight into Fe-Ga alloys which are well:known magnetostriction materials.
Ab initio calculations have been performed on all solid phases of U metal and U-Zr alloy, the basis of a promising metallic fuel for fast nuclear reactors. Based on generalized gradient approximation, both density fun...
Ab initio calculations have been performed on all solid phases of U metal and U-Zr alloy, the basis of a promising metallic fuel for fast nuclear reactors. Based on generalized gradient approximation, both density functional theory (DFT) in its standard form and the so-called DFT plus Hubbard U (DFT+U) modification are evaluated. The evolution of calculated energetics, volume, magnetic moments, electronic structure, and f-orbital occupation as functions of the effective Hubbard U parameter, Ueff, is carefully examined at Ueff from 0 to 4 eV. DFT is found to overestimate energetics, underestimate volume, downward shift some f bands near Fermi level and overestimate f-orbital occupation against existing experimental and/or computational data. The error is ∼0.07 eV/atom in terms of enthalpy, which affects phase stability modeling for δ(U,Zr) and γ(U,Zr). DFT+U at Ueff=1−1.5 eV offers clear improvement on these calculated properties (∼0.05 eV/atom in terms of enthalpy) and in general still neither promotes ordered magnetic moments nor opens unphysical band gaps, which occur at higher Ueff values. The empirical Ueff values of 1–1.5 eV are close to but smaller than the theoretical estimations of 1.9–2.3 eV that we obtain from the linear response approach. Ueff is found to vary only slightly (≤0.24 eV) between different phases and at different compositions of U and U-Zr; thus, a single Ueff=1.24 eV, which is the statistical optimal from energetic fitting, is suggested for both U and U-Zr. Besides correlation, the relativistic effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is also systematically explored. SOC is found to lower energy, increase volume, and split the 5f shell above Fermi level and reduce f-orbital occupation. The effect predominates in the unoccupied states and is very small on all these calculated ground state properties (∼0.02 eV/atom in terms of enthalpy).
In the present paper, we investigate the linear instability and adiabaticity of a dark state during conversion of two species of fermionic atoms to stable molecules through the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage aided...
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In the present paper, we investigate the linear instability and adiabaticity of a dark state during conversion of two species of fermionic atoms to stable molecules through the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage aided by Feshbach resonance. We analytically obtain the regions for the appearance of linear instability. Moreover, taking 40K and 6Li atom molecule conversion systems as examples, we give the unstable regions numerically. We also attempt to obtain the adiabatic criterion for this nonlinear system with classical adiabatic dynamics and study the adibaticity of the dark state with the adiabatic condition.
We consider the Bethe equations for the isotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg quantum spin chain with periodic boundary conditions. We formulate a conjecture for the number of solutions with pairwise distinct roots of these e...
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We consider the Bethe equations for the isotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg quantum spin chain with periodic boundary conditions. We formulate a conjecture for the number of solutions with pairwise distinct roots of these equations, in terms of numbers of so-called singular (or exceptional) solutions. Using homotopy continuation methods, we find all such solutions of the Bethe equations for chains of length up to 14. The numbers of these solutions are in perfect agreement with the conjecture. We also discuss an indirect method of finding solutions of the Bethe equations by solving the Baxter T-Q equation. We briefly comment on implications for thermodynamical computations based on the string hypothesis.
We argue that many aspects of improper ferroelectric (FE) activity in orthorhombic manganites can be rationalized by considering the limit of infinite intra-atomic splitting between majority- and minority-spin states ...
We argue that many aspects of improper ferroelectric (FE) activity in orthorhombic manganites can be rationalized by considering the limit of infinite intra-atomic splitting between majority- and minority-spin states (or the double-exchange limit), which reduces the problem to the analysis of a spinless double-exchange (DE) Hamiltonian. We apply this strategy to the low-energy model, derived from the first-principles electronic-structure calculations, and combine it with the Berry-phase theory of electric polarization. We start with the analysis of the simplest two-orbital model, describing the behavior of the eg bands, and apply it to the E-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase, which in the DE limit effectively breaks up into one-dimensional zigzag chains. We derive an analytical expression for the electronic polarization (Pel) and explain how it depends on the orbital ordering and the energy splitting Δ between eg states. Then, we evaluate parameters of this model for the series of manganites. For these purposes, we start from a more general five-orbital model for all Mn 3d bands and construct a new downfolded model for the eg bands. From the analysis of these parameters, we conclude that the behavior of Pel in realistic manganites always corresponds to the limit of large Δ. This property holds for all considered compounds even in the local-density approximation, which typically underestimates Δ. We further utilize this property in order to derive an analytical expression for Pel in a general twofold periodic magnetic texture, based on the five-orbital model and the perturbation-theory expansion for the Wannier functions in the first order of 1/Δ. This expression explains the functional dependence of Pel on the relative directions of spins. Furthermore, it suggests that Pel is related to the asymmetry of transfer integrals, which should have simultaneously symmetric and antisymmetric components in the crystal-field representation. The main contribution to this asymm
The study of the ionization process of molecules in an intense infrared laser field is of paramount interest in strong-field physics and constitutes the foundation of imaging of molecular valence orbitals and attoseco...
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The study of the ionization process of molecules in an intense infrared laser field is of paramount interest in strong-field physics and constitutes the foundation of imaging of molecular valence orbitals and attosecond science. We show measurement of alignment-dependent ionization probabilities of the lower-lying orbitals of the molecules by experimentally detecting the alignment dependence of fluorescence emission from tunnel ionized carbon dioxide molecules. The experimental measurements are compared with the theoretical calculations of the strong field approximation and molecular Ammosov-Delone-Krainov models. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of an all-optical approach for probing the ionization dynamics of lower-lying orbitals of molecules, which is until now still difficult to achieve by other techniques. Moreover, the deviation between the experimental and theoretical results indicates the incompleteness of current theoretical models for describing strong field ionization of molecules.
We generate and study an ensemble of isostatic jammed hard-sphere lattices. These lattices are obtained by compression of a periodic system with an adaptive unit cell containing a single sphere until the point of mech...
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We generate and study an ensemble of isostatic jammed hard-sphere lattices. These lattices are obtained by compression of a periodic system with an adaptive unit cell containing a single sphere until the point of mechanical stability. We present detailed numerical data about the densities, pair correlations, force distributions, and structure factors of such lattices. We show that this model retains many of the crucial structural features of the classical hard-sphere model and propose it as a model for the jamming and glass transitions that enables exploration of much higher dimensions than are usually accessible.
By molecular dynamics simulations employing an embedded atom model potential, we investigate the fcc-to-bcc phase transition in single crystal Al, caused by uniform compression. Results show that the fcc structure is ...
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By molecular dynamics simulations employing an embedded atom model potential, we investigate the fcc-to-bcc phase transition in single crystal Al, caused by uniform compression. Results show that the fcc structure is unstable when the pressure is over 250 GPa, in reasonable agreement with the calculated value through the density flmctional theory. The morphology evolution of the structural transition and the corresponding transition mechanism are analysed in detail. The bcc (011) planes are transited from the fcc (111) plane and the (111) plane. We suggest that the transition mechanism consists mainly of compression, shear, slid and rotation of the lattice. In addition, our radial distribution flmction analysis explicitly indicates the phase transition of Al from fee phase to bce structure.
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