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Multi-criticality of the three-dimensional Ising model with plaquette interactions: An extension of Novotny's transfer-matrix formalism
Three-dimensional Ising model with the plaquette-type (next-nearest-neighbor
and four-spin) interactions is investigated numerically. This extended Ising
model, the so-called gonihedric model, was introduced by Savvidy and Wegner as
a discretized version of the interacting (closed) surfaces without surface
tension. The gonihedric model is notorious for its slow relaxation to the
thermal equilibrium (glassy behavior), which deteriorate the efficiency of the
Monte Carlo sampling. We employ the transfer-matrix (TM) method, implementing
Novotny's idea, which enables us to treat arbitrary number of spins for one
TM slice even in three dimensions. This arbitrariness admits systematic
finite-size-scaling analyses. Accepting the extended parameter space by Cirillo
and co-worker, we analyzed the (multi) criticality of the gonihedric model for
N \le 13. Thereby, we found that, as first noted by Cirillo and co-worker
analytically (cluster-variation method), the data are well described by the
multi-critical (crossover) scaling theory. That is, the previously reported
nonstandard criticality for the gonihedric model is reconciled with a crossover
exponent and the ordinary three-dimensional-Ising universality class. We
estimate the crossover exponent and the correlation-length critical exponent at
the multi-critical point as \phi=0.6(2) and \nu=0.45(15), respectively
Tunable asymmetric reflectance in silver films near the percolation threshold
We report on the optical characterization of semicontinuous nanostructured
silver films exhibiting tunable optical reflectance asymmetries. The films are
obtained using a multi-step process, where a nanocrystalline silver film is
first chemically deposited on a glass substrate and then subsequently coated
with additional silver via thermal vacuum-deposition. The resulting films
exhibit reflectance asymmetries whose dispersions may be tuned both in sign and
in magnitude, as well as a universal, tunable spectral crossover point. We
obtain a correlation between the optical response and charge transport in these
films, with the spectral crossover point indicating the onset of charge
percolation. Such broadband, dispersion-tunable asymmetric reflectors may find
uses in future light-harvesting systems.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Journal of Applied Physic
Population Synthesis via k-Nearest Neighbor Crossover Kernel
The recent development of multi-agent simulations brings about a need for
population synthesis. It is a task of reconstructing the entire population from
a sampling survey of limited size (1% or so), supplying the initial conditions
from which simulations begin. This paper presents a new kernel density
estimator for this task. Our method is an analogue of the classical
Breiman-Meisel-Purcell estimator, but employs novel techniques that harness the
huge degree of freedom which is required to model high-dimensional nonlinearly
correlated datasets: the crossover kernel, the k-nearest neighbor restriction
of the kernel construction set and the bagging of kernels. The performance as a
statistical estimator is examined through real and synthetic datasets. We
provide an "optimization-free" parameter selection rule for our method, a
theory of how our method works and a computational cost analysis. To
demonstrate the usefulness as a population synthesizer, our method is applied
to a household synthesis task for an urban micro-simulator.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM) 201
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