461 research outputs found
High Pressure Effects on Thermal Properties of MgO
Using the non-empirical Variational Induced Breathing (VIB) model, the
thermal properties of periclase (MgO) under high pressures and temperatures are
investigated using molecular dynamics, which includes all anharmonic effects.
Equations of state for temperatures up to 3000K and pressures up to 310 GPa
were calculated. Bulk modulus, thermal expansivity, Anderson-Gruneisen
parameter, thermal pressure, Gruneisen parameter and their pressure and
temperature dependencies are studied in order to better understand high
pressure effects on thermal properties. The results agree very well with
experiments and show that the thermal expansivity decreases with pressure up to
about 100 GPa (=0.73), and is almost pressure and temperature independent
above this compression. It is also effected by anharmonicity at zero pressure
and temperatures above 2500K. The thermal pressure changes very little with
increasing pressures and temperatures, and the Gruneisen parameter is
temperature independent and decreases slightly with pressure.Comment: Geophys. Res. Lett., in press, 7 pages, 4 figures, uuencoded ps fil
Candidate Tree Codes via Pascal Determinant Cubes
Tree codes are combinatorial structures introduced by Schulman [Schulman, 1993] as key ingredients in interactive coding schemes. Asymptotically-good tree codes are long known to exist, yet their explicit construction remains a notoriously hard open problem. Even proposing a plausible construction, without the burden of proof, is difficult and the defining tree code property requires structure that remains elusive. To the best of our knowledge, only one candidate appears in the literature, due to Moore and Schulman [Moore and Schulman, 2014].
We put forth a new candidate for an explicit asymptotically-good tree code. Our construction is an extension of the vanishing rate tree code by Cohen-Haeupler-Schulman [Cohen et al., 2018], and its correctness relies on a conjecture that we introduce on certain Pascal determinants indexed by the points of the Boolean hypercube. Furthermore, using the vanishing distance tree code by Gelles et al. [Gelles et al., 2016] enables us to present a construction that relies on an even weaker assumption. We furnish evidence supporting our conjecture through numerical computation, combinatorial arguments from planar path graphs and based on well-studied heuristics from arithmetic geometry
Kaizer Hill (Modi‘in), a pre-pottery neolithic a quarry site – the terraced slopes
The research of the Kaizer Hill site (the Hilltop and its Terraces), recognized as a Pre Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) quarry site, involved studies of the rock damage associated with the quarrying activities as well as of the recovered material remains, mostly chipped stone artifacts. We present here the results of our on-site explorations (excavations, surveys and surface-collections), focusing on the findings deriving from the Terraces. Diverse rock damage patterns were identified and described, portraying systematic rock mass-exploitation through quarrying fronts, natural rock joints and fissures enlargement, drilling and chiseling. There are multiple indications that the local bedrock (Bi’na Formation, Turonian) comprising flint and limestone was quarried under a systematic quality evaluation, leaving residual flint unsuitable for exploitation. Of interest to note that nearly all of the flint artifacts excavated and collected on the Terraces were made on raw material transported from the Hilltop (Mishash Formation, Campanian), knapped in-situ, on the quarried rock surfaces of the slopes. The flint tools bear witness to intensive use involving mainly boring and drilling. The dominant tool type is the flint axe for which a variety of waste products related to its production were found in-situ, enabling the reconstruction of axe reduction sequence. Similar axes and waste products were found in many PPN sites indicating that there was a common, widely-used scheme of making flint axes during the PPN. Interestingly, besides the flint waste, there were also limestone waste products typical of the last shaping and thinning stages of axe production, indicating that limestone axes were shaped technologically similar to the flint ones, contrary to what has been assumed before. Rare findings, such as obsidian pieces, originating from much further a-field indicate ties with other PPN communities, near and/or far. Overall, this study provides unique and novel insights on Levantine PPN lifeways
Effects of pressure on diffusion and vacancy formation in MgO from non-empirical free-energy integrations
The free energies of vacancy pair formation and migration in MgO were
computed via molecular dynamics using free-energy integrations and a
non-empirical ionic model with no adjustable parameters. The intrinsic
diffusion constant for MgO was obtained at pressures from 0 to 140 GPa and
temperatures from 1000 to 5000 K. Excellent agreement was found with the zero
pressure diffusion data within experimental error. The homologous temperature
model which relates diffusion to the melting curve describes well our high
pressure results within our theoretical framework.Comment: 4 pages, latex, 1 figure, revtex, submitted to PR
Comparison of the Electronic Structures and Energetics of Ferroelectric LiNbO3 and LiTaO3
This paper explains the origin of the ferroelectric instability in LiNbO3 and
LiTaO3 and compares the electronic structures and energetics of the two
materials.Comment: 31 pages, 11 Postscript figure
MyStyle: A Personalized Generative Prior
We introduce MyStyle, a personalized deep generative prior trained with a few
shots of an individual. MyStyle allows to reconstruct, enhance and edit images
of a specific person, such that the output is faithful to the person's key
facial characteristics. Given a small reference set of portrait images of a
person (~100), we tune the weights of a pretrained StyleGAN face generator to
form a local, low-dimensional, personalized manifold in the latent space. We
show that this manifold constitutes a personalized region that spans latent
codes associated with diverse portrait images of the individual. Moreover, we
demonstrate that we obtain a personalized generative prior, and propose a
unified approach to apply it to various ill-posed image enhancement problems,
such as inpainting and super-resolution, as well as semantic editing. Using the
personalized generative prior we obtain outputs that exhibit high-fidelity to
the input images and are also faithful to the key facial characteristics of the
individual in the reference set. We demonstrate our method with fair-use images
of numerous widely recognizable individuals for whom we have the prior
knowledge for a qualitative evaluation of the expected outcome. We evaluate our
approach against few-shots baselines and show that our personalized prior,
quantitatively and qualitatively, outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives.Comment: Project webpage: https://mystyle-personalized-prior.github.io/,
Video: https://youtu.be/QvOdQR3tlO
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