We experimentally demonstrate an improved heralded single photon source using a photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detector compared to that using a conventional bucket detector. This work delineates a p...
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The synthesis, crystal structure, and physical properties (magnetization, resistivity, heat capacity) in combination with theoretical calculations of the electronic structure and phonon properties are reported for int...
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The synthesis, crystal structure, and physical properties (magnetization, resistivity, heat capacity) in combination with theoretical calculations of the electronic structure and phonon properties are reported for intermetallic compounds LiPd2X (X=Si, Ge, and Sn). LeBail refinement of powder x-ray diffraction data confirms that all compounds belong to the Heusler family (space group Fm−3m, No. 225). The lattice parameter increases with atomic size of X, and its value varies from a=5.9059(4)Å for LiPd2Si and a=6.0082(3)Å for LiPd2Ge, to a=6.2644(1)Å for LiPd2Sn. The first compound, LiPd2Si, has apparently not been previously reported. All measured quantities demonstrate that LiPd2Ge exhibits superconductivity below Tc=1.96K and the normal- and superconducting-state data indicate that it is a weak-strength type-I superconductor (C/γTc=1.38) with electron-phonon coupling constant λe−p=(0.53−0.56). LiPd2Si and LiPd2Sn are not superconducting above 1.68 K. The experimental observations are supported by theoretical calculations which show that LiPd2Ge has the highest computed λe−p and Tc of the group. A strong softening of the acoustic phonon mode is calculated, and in the case of X=Ge and Sn, imaginary phonon frequencies were computed. The soft mode is most pronounced in the case of LiPd2Ge, which suggests its correlation with superconductivity.
We propose a radiative seesaw model with a light dark matter candidate (DM) under modular A4 and gauged U(1)B−L symmetries, in which neutrino masses are generated via one-loop level, and we have a bosonic DM candidate...
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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a well-known and popular stochastic optimization method. The Lévy Flight (LF) properties were used to improve the canonical PSO known as premature convergence. The Lévy F...
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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a well-known and popular stochastic optimization method. The Lévy Flight (LF) properties were used to improve the canonical PSO known as premature convergence. The Lévy Flight was applied to change each particle walk on the fitness landscape. We analyze the literature modifications that concluded that Levy flight improved the PSO providing better search space exploration. Based on this conclusion, we propose new approaches to integrate Lévy Flight with PSO by changing initial points in the search space and learning strategies as inertia and constriction coefficients. We use seven standard test functions for an experimental evaluation and scores based on ranking to compare PSO variants. The ranked benchmarks were average performance, standard deviation, and best and worst found solutions obtained from multiple trials. The main contributions are a systematic overview of LF modifications applied in PSO and three new LF applications in canonical PSO procedure. The new approaches are swarm initialization based on LF, lower dimension LF inertia coefficient, and LF-based constriction factor. Another contribution is numerical evaluations on various benchmark functions with diverse characteristics. Two of the proposed modifications performed better or equal, and the third was only 2% worse than the best canonical PSO from the trial.
Machine learning is a powerful tool for predicting human-related outcomes, from creditworthiness to heart attack risks. But when deployed transparently, learned models also affect how users act in order to improve out...
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Machine learning is a powerful tool for predicting human-related outcomes, from creditworthiness to heart attack risks. But when deployed transparently, learned models also affect how users act in order to improve outcomes. The standard approach to learning predictive models is agnostic to induced user actions and provides no guarantees as to the effect of actions. We provide a framework for learning predictors that are accurate, while also considering interactions between the learned model and user decisions. For this, we introduce look-ahead regular-ization which, by anticipating user actions, encourages predictive models to also induce actions that improve outcomes. This regularization carefully tailors the uncertainty estimates that govern confidence in this improvement to the distribution of model-induced actions. We report the results of experiments on real and synthetic data that show the effectiveness of this approach.
We study a general class of interacting particle systems over a countable state space V where on each site x ∈ V the particle mass η(x) ≥ 0 follows a stochastic differential equation. We construct the corresponding...
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We improve a single photon source based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion by heralding one of the output modes using a photon number resolving superconducting nanowire detector. We measure a reduced magnitude ...
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In this research work, an effective Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm-based artificial neural network (LMA-BANN) model is presented to find an accurate series solution for micropolar flow in a porous channel with mass inj...
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The kagome lattice [1] is an intriguing and rich platform [2–5] for discovering, tuning and understanding the diverse phases of quantum matter, which is a necessary premise for utilizing quantum materials in all area...
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