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Solid deformation by material point method
Solid materials are responsible for many interesting phenomena. There are various types of them, such as deformable objects and granular materials. In this paper, we present an MPM based framework to simulate the wide range of solid materials. In this framework, solid mechanics is based on the elastoplastic model following small deformation theory. We use von Mises criterion for deformable objects, and the Drucker–Prager model with nonassociated plastic flow rules for granular materials. As a result, we can simulate different kinds of deformation of deformable objects and sloping failure for granular materials
Consistency check of charged hadron multiplicities and fragmentation functions in SIDIS
We derived the conditions on certain combinations of integrals of the
fragmentation functions of pion using HERMES data of the sum for the charged
pion multiplicities from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) off
the deuteron target. In our derivation the nucleon parton distribution
functions (PDFs) are assumed to be isospin SU(2) symmetric. Similar conditions
have also been obtained for the fragmentation functions (FFs) of kaon by the
sum of charged kaon multiplicities as well. We have chosen several FFs to study
the impact of those conditions we have derived. Among those FFs, only that
produced in the nonlocal chiral-quark model (NLQM) constantly satisfy the
conditions. Furthermore, the ratios of the strange PDFs and the
nonstrange PDFs extracted from the charged pion and kaon
multiplicities differ from each other significantly. Finally, we demonstrate
that the HERMES pion multiplicity data is unlikely to be compatible with the
two widely-used PDFs, namely CTEQ6M and NNPDF3.0.Comment: 11 pages, 5 fig
Reducing Spurious Correlations for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Variational Information Bottleneck and Contrastive Learning
Deep learning techniques have dominated the literature on aspect-based
sentiment analysis (ABSA), yielding state-of-the-art results. However, these
deep models generally suffer from spurious correlation problems between input
features and output labels, which creates significant barriers to robustness
and generalization capability. In this paper, we propose a novel Contrastive
Variational Information Bottleneck framework (called CVIB) to reduce spurious
correlations for ABSA. The proposed CVIB framework is composed of an original
network and a self-pruned network, and these two networks are optimized
simultaneously via contrastive learning. Concretely, we employ the Variational
Information Bottleneck (VIB) principle to learn an informative and compressed
network (self-pruned network) from the original network, which discards the
superfluous patterns or spurious correlations between input features and
prediction labels. Then, self-pruning contrastive learning is devised to pull
together semantically similar positive pairs and push away dissimilar pairs,
where the representations of the anchor learned by the original and self-pruned
networks respectively are regarded as a positive pair while the representations
of two different sentences within a mini-batch are treated as a negative pair.
To verify the effectiveness of our CVIB method, we conduct extensive
experiments on five benchmark ABSA datasets and the experimental results show
that our approach achieves better performance than the strong competitors in
terms of overall prediction performance, robustness, and generalization
Noise-Constrained Performance Optimization by Simultaneous Gate and Wire Sizing Based on Lagrangian Relaxation
Noise, as well as area, delay, and power, is one of the most important concerns in the design of deep sub-micron ICs. Currently existing algorithms can not handle simultaneous switching conditions of signals for noise minimization. In this paper, we model not only physical coupling capacitance, but also simultaneous switching behavior for noise optimization. Based on Lagrangian relaxation, we present an algorithm that can optimally solve the simultaneous noise, area, delay, and power optimization problem by sizing circuit components. Our algorithm, with linear memory requirement overall and linear runtime per iteration, is very effective and efficient. For example, for a circuit of 6144 wires and 3512 gates, our algorithm solves the simultaneous optimization problem using only 2.1 MB memory and 47 minute runtime to achieve the precision of within 1% error on a SUN UltraSPARC-I workstation
Three-dimensional Magnetic Restructuring in Two Homologous Solar Flares in the Seismically Active NOAA AR 11283
We carry out a comprehensive investigation comparing the three-dimensional
magnetic field restructuring, flare energy release, and the helioseismic
response, of two homologous flares, the 2011 September 6 X2.1 (FL1) and
September 7 X1.8 (FL2) flares in NOAA AR 11283. In our analysis, (1) a twisted
flux rope (FR) collapses onto the surface at a speed of 1.5 km/s after a
partial eruption in FL1. The FR then gradually grows to reach a higher altitude
and collapses again at 3 km/s after a fuller eruption in FL2. Also, FL2 shows a
larger decrease of the flux-weighted centroid separation of opposite magnetic
polarities and a greater change of the horizontal field on the surface. These
imply a more violent coronal implosion with corresponding more intense surface
signatures in FL2. (2) The FR is inclined northward, and together with the
ambient fields, it undergoes a southward turning after both events. This agrees
with the asymmetric decay of the penumbra observed in the peripheral regions.
(3) The amounts of free magnetic energy and nonthermal electron energy released
during FL1 are comparable to those of FL2 within the uncertainties of the
measurements. (4) No sunquake was detected in FL1; in contrast, FL2 produced
two seismic emission sources S1 and S2 both lying in the penumbral regions.
Interestingly, S1 and S2 are connected by magnetic loops, and the stronger
source S2 has weaker vertical magnetic field. We discuss these results in
relation to the implosion process in the low corona and the sunquake
generation.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journa
Multiple Unpinned Dirac Points in Group-Va Single-layers with Phosphorene Structure
Emergent Dirac fermion states underlie many intriguing properties of
graphene, and the search for them constitute one strong motivation to explore
two-dimensional (2D) allotropes of other elements. Phosphorene, the ultrathin
layers of black phosphorous, has been a subject of intense investigations
recently, and it was found that other group-Va elements could also form 2D
layers with similar puckered lattice structure. Here, by a close examination of
their electronic band structure evolution, we discover two types of Dirac
fermion states emerging in the low-energy spectrum. One pair of (type-I) Dirac
points is sitting on high-symmetry lines, while two pairs of (type-II) Dirac
points are located at generic -points, with different anisotropic
dispersions determined by the reduced symmetries at their locations. Such
fully-unpinned (type-II) 2D Dirac points are discovered for the first time. In
the absence of spin-orbit coupling, we find that each Dirac node is protected
by the sublattice symmetry from gap opening, which is in turn ensured by any
one of three point group symmetries. The spin-orbit coupling generally gaps the
Dirac nodes, and for the type-I case, this drives the system into a quantum
spin Hall insulator phase. We suggest possible ways to realize the unpinned
Dirac points in strained phosphorene.Comment: 30 pages, 6 figure
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