Probing dipole-forbidden autoionizing states by isolated attosecond pulses

We propose a general technique to retrieve the information of dipole-forbidden resonances in the autoionizing region. In the simulation, a helium atom is pumped by an isolated attosecond pulse in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) combined with a few-femtosecond laser pulse. The excited wave packet consists of the $^1S$, $^1P$, and $^1D$ states, including the background continua, near the $2s2p(^1P)$ doubly excited state. The resultant electron spectra with various laser intensities and time delays between the EUV and laser pulses are obtained by a multilevel model and an ab initio time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation calculation. By taking the ab initio calculation as a "virtual measurement", the dipole-forbidden resonances are characterized by the multilevel model. We found that in contrast to the common assumption, the nonresonant coupling between the continua plays a significant role in the time-delayed electron spectra, which shows the correlation effect between photoelectrons before they leave the core. This technique takes the advantages of ultrashort pulses uniquely and would be a timely test for the current attosecond technology.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure

Adaptive just-in-time code diversification

We present a method to regenerate diversified code dynamically in a Java bytecode JIT compiler, and to update the diversification frequently during the execution of the program. This way, we can significantly reduce the time frame in which attackers can let a program leak useful address space information and subsequently use the leaked information in memory exploits. A proof of concept implementation is evaluated, showing that even though code is recompiled frequently, we can achieved smaller overheads than the previous state of the art, which generated diversity only once during the whole execution of a program

Flavor-twisted boundary condition for simulations of quantum many-body systems

We present an approximative simulation method for quantum many-body systems based on coarse graining the space of the momentum transferred between interacting particles, which leads to effective Hamiltonians of reduced size with the flavor-twisted boundary condition. A rapid, accurate, and fast convergent computation of the ground-state energy is demonstrated on the spin-1/2 quantum antiferromagnet of any dimension by employing only two sites. The method is expected to be useful for future simulations and quick estimates on other strongly correlated systems.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure