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Charge-Density-Wave Transitions of Dirac Fermions Coupled to Phonons
The spontaneous generation of charge-density-wave order in a Dirac fermion
system via the natural mechanism of electron-phonon coupling is studied in the
framework of the Holstein model on the honeycomb lattice. Using two independent
and unbiased quantum Monte Carlo methods, the phase diagram as a function of
temperature and coupling strength is determined. It features a quantum critical
point as well as a line of thermal critical points. Finite-size scaling appears
consistent with fermionic Gross-Neveu-Ising universality for the quantum phase
transition, and bosonic Ising universality for the thermal phase transition.
The critical temperature has a maximum at intermediate couplings. Our findings
motivate experimental efforts to identify or engineer Dirac systems with
sufficiently strong and tunable electron-phonon coupling.Comment: 4+3 pages, 4+2 figure
Emergence of Blind Areas in Information Spreading
Recently, contagion-based (disease, information, etc.) spreading on social
networks has been extensively studied. In this paper, other than traditional
full interaction, we propose a partial interaction based spreading model,
considering that the informed individuals would transmit information to only a
certain fraction of their neighbors due to the transmission ability in
real-world social networks. Simulation results on three representative networks
(BA, ER, WS) indicate that the spreading efficiency is highly correlated with
the network heterogeneity. In addition, a special phenomenon, namely
\emph{Information Blind Areas} where the network is separated by several
information-unreachable clusters, will emerge from the spreading process.
Furthermore, we also find that the size distribution of such information blind
areas obeys power-law-like distribution, which has very similar exponent with
that of site percolation. Detailed analyses show that the critical value is
decreasing along with the network heterogeneity for the spreading process,
which is complete the contrary to that of random selection. Moreover, the
critical value in the latter process is also larger that of the former for the
same network. Those findings might shed some lights in in-depth understanding
the effect of network properties on information spreading
Attention Clusters: Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification
Recently, substantial research effort has focused on how to apply CNNs or
RNNs to better extract temporal patterns from videos, so as to improve the
accuracy of video classification. In this paper, however, we show that temporal
information, especially longer-term patterns, may not be necessary to achieve
competitive results on common video classification datasets. We investigate the
potential of a purely attention based local feature integration. Accounting for
the characteristics of such features in video classification, we propose a
local feature integration framework based on attention clusters, and introduce
a shifting operation to capture more diverse signals. We carefully analyze and
compare the effect of different attention mechanisms, cluster sizes, and the
use of the shifting operation, and also investigate the combination of
attention clusters for multimodal integration. We demonstrate the effectiveness
of our framework on three real-world video classification datasets. Our model
achieves competitive results across all of these. In particular, on the
large-scale Kinetics dataset, our framework obtains an excellent single model
accuracy of 79.4% in terms of the top-1 and 94.0% in terms of the top-5
accuracy on the validation set. The attention clusters are the backbone of our
winner solution at ActivityNet Kinetics Challenge 2017. Code and models will be
released soon.Comment: The backbone of the winner solution at ActivityNet Kinetics Challenge
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Symmetry Enforced Self-Learning Monte Carlo Method Applied to the Holstein Model
Self-learning Monte Carlo method (SLMC), using a trained effective model to
guide Monte Carlo sampling processes, is a powerful general-purpose numerical
method recently introduced to speed up simulations in (quantum) many-body
systems. In this work, we further improve the efficiency of SLMC by enforcing
physical symmetries on the effective model. We demonstrate its effectiveness in
the Holstein Hamiltonian, one of the most fundamental many-body descriptions of
electron-phonon coupling. Simulations of the Holstein model are notoriously
difficult due to the combination of the typical cubic scaling of fermionic
Monte Carlo and the presence of extremely long autocorrelation times. Our
method addresses both bottlenecks. This enables simulations on large lattices
in the most difficult parameter regions, and evaluation of the critical point
for the charge density wave transition at half-filling with high precision. We
argue that our work opens a new research area of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC),
providing a general procedure to deal with ergodicity in situations involving
Hamiltonians with multiple, distinct low energy states.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures with 2 pages supplemental materia
Partition Function Expansion on Region-Graphs and Message-Passing Equations
Disordered and frustrated graphical systems are ubiquitous in physics,
biology, and information science. For models on complete graphs or random
graphs, deep understanding has been achieved through the mean-field replica and
cavity methods. But finite-dimensional `real' systems persist to be very
challenging because of the abundance of short loops and strong local
correlations. A statistical mechanics theory is constructed in this paper for
finite-dimensional models based on the mathematical framework of partition
function expansion and the concept of region-graphs. Rigorous expressions for
the free energy and grand free energy are derived. Message-passing equations on
the region-graph, such as belief-propagation and survey-propagation, are also
derived rigorously.Comment: 10 pages including two figures. New theoretical and numerical results
added. Will be published by JSTAT as a lette
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