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Synchronously-pumped OPO coherent Ising machine: benchmarking and prospects
The coherent Ising machine (CIM) is a network of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) that solves for the ground state of Ising problems through OPO bifurcation dynamics. Here, we present experimental results comparing the performance of the CIM to quantum annealers (QAs) on two classes of NP-hard optimization problems: ground state calculation of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model and MAX-CUT. While the two machines perform comparably on sparsely-connected problems such as cubic MAX-CUT, on problems with dense connectivity, the QA shows an exponential performance penalty relative to CIMs. We attribute this to the embedding overhead required to map dense problems onto the sparse hardware architecture of the QA, a problem that can be overcome in photonic architectures such as the CIM
Bringing the Good Food Purchasing Program to Buffalo, Challenges and Lessons Learned
The Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) builds on locally established community initiatives and goals to leverage institutional purchasing with the hope of transforming the food system. The program focuses on five core values: local economies, nutrition, a valued workforce, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare. The City of Buffalo shows tremendous potential to benefit from the GFPP. In the Buffalo Niagara region alone, “public institutions feed 163,000 public school students, 89,000 college students, and 6,000 correctional facility inmates each year—a total of 258,000 people.” Los Angeles, California has demonstrated the positive effects that the GFPP has had on the local food system. In order to bring the program to the City of Buffalo a better understanding of the program is necessary. The goal of this report is to aid the organizations in Buffalo who are working to bring the GFPP to the city. The report does this by outlining the time and steps involved in the program, identifying opportunities and challenges, identifying lessons learned, and providing recommendations
Synchronously-pumped OPO coherent Ising machine: benchmarking and prospects
The coherent Ising machine (CIM) is a network of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) that solves for the ground state of Ising problems through OPO bifurcation dynamics. Here, we present experimental results comparing the performance of the CIM to quantum annealers (QAs) on two classes of NP-hard optimization problems: ground state calculation of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model and MAX-CUT. While the two machines perform comparably on sparsely-connected problems such as cubic MAX-CUT, on problems with dense connectivity, the QA shows an exponential performance penalty relative to CIMs. We attribute this to the embedding overhead required to map dense problems onto the sparse hardware architecture of the QA, a problem that can be overcome in photonic architectures such as the CIM
Exceptional surgeries on alternating knots
We give a complete classification of exceptional surgeries on hyperbolic
alternating knots in the 3-sphere. As an appendix, we also show that the
Montesinos knots M (-1/2, 2/5, 1/(2q + 1)) with q at least 5 have no
non-trivial exceptional surgeries. This gives the final step in a complete
classification of exceptional surgery on arborescent knots.Comment: 30 pages, 19 figures. v2: recomputation performed via the newest
version of hikmot, v3: revised according to referees' comments, to appear in
Comm. Anal. Geo
Multiple inflation and the WMAP 'glitches' II. Data analysis and cosmological parameter extraction
Detailed analyses of the WMAP data indicate possible oscillatory features in
the primordial curvature perturbation, which moreover appears to be suppressed
beyond the present Hubble radius. Such deviations from the usual inflationary
expectation of an approximately Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum are expected in the
supergravity-based 'multiple inflation' model wherein phase transitions during
inflation induce sudden changes in the mass of the inflaton, thus interrupting
its slow-roll. In a previous paper we calculated the resulting curvature
perturbation and showed how the oscillations arise. Here we perform a Markov
Chain Monte Carlo fitting exercise using the 3-year WMAP data to determine how
the fitted cosmological parameters vary when such a primordial spectrum is used
as an input, rather than the usually assumed power-law spectrum. The
'concordance' LCDM model is still a good fit when there is just a 'step' in the
spectrum. However if there is a 'bump' in the spectrum (due e.g. to two phase
transitions in rapid succession), the precision CMB data can be well-fitted by
a flat Einstein-de Sitter cosmology without dark energy. This however requires
the Hubble constant to be h ~ 0.44 which is lower than the locally measured
value. To fit the SDSS data on the power spectrum of galaxy clustering requires
a ~10% component of hot dark matter, as would naturally be provided by 3
species of neutrinos of mass ~0.5 eV. This CHDM model cannot however fit the
position of the baryon acoustic peak in the LRG redshift two-point correlation
function. It may be possible to overcome these difficulties in an inhomogeneous
Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi cosmological model with a local void, which can
potentially also account for the SN Ia Hubble diagram without invoking cosmic
acceleration.Comment: 27 pages, 18 figures (RevTex); Tables revised to include the \chi^2
and "Akaike information criterion" in comparison of cosmological models; Fits
to WMAP3 EE spectrum shown; Additional references added; Accepted for
publication in in Phys Rev
Space Complexity Analysis of RSA and ECC Based Security Algorithms in Cloud Data
Cloud computing is an important development trend in information technology all over the world. Nowadays, the cloud data security technique exploits the symmetric encryption and asymmetric encryption algorithms within the capability of the stronger authentication techniques. A major risk of data security in cloud computing environment becomes a serious problem by reason of the data which is stored diversely over the cloud. Both the data security and privacy are the two main characteristics of cloud information technologies for user’s concern. We discuss in this paper, a number of existing techniques used to provide security in the field of cloud computing on the basis of different parameters. It will be helpful to improve assure the security of data storage in a cloud environment
Funnels in Energy Landscapes
Local minima and the saddle points separating them in the energy landscape
are known to dominate the dynamics of biopolymer folding. Here we introduce a
notion of a "folding funnel" that is concisely defined in terms of energy
minima and saddle points, while at the same time conforming to a notion of a
"folding funnel" as it is discussed in the protein folding literature.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to European Conference on Complex
Systems 200
Kinetics of the Wako-Saito-Munoz-Eaton Model of Protein Folding
We consider a simplified model of protein folding, with binary degrees of
freedom, whose equilibrium thermodynamics is exactly solvable. Based on this
exact solution, the kinetics is studied in the framework of a local equilibrium
approach, for which we prove that (i) the free energy decreases with time, (ii)
the exact equilibrium is recovered in the infinite time limit, and (iii) the
folding rate is an upper bound of the exact one. The kinetics is compared to
the exact one for a small peptide and to Monte Carlo simulations for a longer
protein, then rates are studied for a real protein and a model structure.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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