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Topological current of point defects and its bifurcation
From the topological properties of a three dimensional vector order
parameter, the topological current of point defects is obtained. One shows that
the charge of point defects is determined by Hopf indices and Brouwer degrees.
The evolution of point defects is also studied. One concludes that there exist
crucial cases of branch processes in the evolution of point defects when the
Jacobian .Comment: revtex,14 pages,no figur
Evolution of the Chern-Simons Vortices
Based on the gauge potential decomposition theory and the -mapping
theory, the topological inner structure of the Chern-Simons-Higgs vortex has
been showed in detail. The evolution of CSH vortices is studied from the
topological properties of the Higgs scalar field. The vortices are found
generating or annihilating at the limit points and encountering, splitting or
merging at the bifurcation points of the scalar field Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure
Goos-H\"{a}nchen-Like Shifts in Atom Optics
We consider the propagation of a matter wavepacket of two-level atoms through
a square potential created by a super-Gaussian laser beam. We explore the
matter wave analog of Goos-H\"{a}nchen shift within the framework of atom
optics where the roles of atom and light is exchanged with respect to
conventional optics. Using a vector theory, where atoms are treated as
particles possessing two internal spin components, we show that not only large
negative but also large positive Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts can occur in the
reflected atomic beam.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Identifying Retweetable Tweets with a Personalized Global Classifier
In this paper we present a method to identify tweets that a user may find
interesting enough to retweet. The method is based on a global, but
personalized classifier, which is trained on data from several users,
represented in terms of user-specific features. Thus, the method is trained on
a sufficient volume of data, while also being able to make personalized
decisions, i.e., the same post received by two different users may lead to
different classification decisions. Experimenting with a collection of approx.\
130K tweets received by 122 journalists, we train a logistic regression
classifier, using a wide variety of features: the content of each tweet, its
novelty, its text similarity to tweets previously posted or retweeted by the
recipient or sender of the tweet, the network influence of the author and
sender, and their past interactions. Our system obtains F1 approx. 0.9 using
only 10 features and 5K training instances.Comment: This is a long paper version of the extended abstract titled "A
Personalized Global Filter To Predict Retweets", of the same authors, which
was published in the 25th ACM UMAP conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, in
July 201
New application of decomposition of U(1) gauge potential:Aharonov-Bohm effect and Anderson-Higgs mechanism
In this paper we study the Aharonov-Bohm (A-B) effect and Anderson-Higgs
mechanism in Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductors from the perspective of
the decomposition of U(1) gauge potential. By the Helmholtz theorem, we derive
exactly the expression of the transverse gauge potential in A-B
experiment, which is gauge-invariant and physical. For the case of a bulk
superconductor, we find that the gradient of the total phase field
provides the longitudinal component , which reflects the
Anderson-Higgs mechanism. For the case of a superconductor ring, the gradient
of the longitudinal phase field provides the longitudinal component
, while the transverse phase field produces
new physical effects such as the flux quantization inside a superconducting
ring.Comment: 6 pages, no figures, final version to appear in Modern Physics
Letters
Tunnel splitting and quantum phase interference in biaxial ferrimagnetic particles at excited states
The tunneling splitting in biaxial ferrimagnetic particles at excited states
with an explicit calculation of the prefactor of exponent is obtained in terms
of periodic instantons which are responsible for tunneling at excited states
and is shown as a function of magnetic field applied along an arbitrary
direction in the plane of hard and medium axes. Using complex time
path-integral we demonstrate the oscillation of tunnel splitting with respect
to the magnitude and the direction of the magnetic field due to the quantum
phase interference of two tunneling paths of opposite windings . The
oscillation is gradually smeared and in the end the tunnel splitting
monotonously increases with the magnitude of the magnetic field when the
direction of the magnetic field tends to the medium axis. The oscillation
behavior is similar to the recent experimental observation with Fe
molecular clusters. A candidate of possible experiments to observe the effect
of quantum phase interference in the ferrimagnetic particles is proposed.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, acceptted to be pubblished in Physical Review
Evolution of influenza A(H7N9) viruses from waves I to IV
The H7N9 influenza virus that emerged in East China in early 2013 has caused 736 human infections with a fatality rate of 38.5%, through four outbreak waves. Our previous studies revealed that this virus was generated by reassortment between viruses from wild bird H7 and N9 viruses (surface genes) and poultry H9N2 viruses (internal genes), and that while the H7N9 wave I viruses had highly similar surface genes, the surface genes of the wave II viruses developed into regionally distinct clades. The H7N9 viruses continued to reassort with different H9N2 viruses to obtain internal gene segments, thereby generating multiple variants or genotypes. Our ongoing surveillance suggests that the H7N9 virus has become enzootic in chickens, and disseminated to most regions of China during waves III and IV of the outbreak. In this study, we have generated more than 800 H7N9 virus full genome sequences, and are analyzing these together with all genomes available in public databases. We are exploring the following scientific questions: (i) what is the continuing evolutionary behavior of the H7N9 virus lineage; (ii) what are the interactions or gene transfers between circulating H7N9 viruses and other enzootic influenza viruses, and the changes in genotypes over the four waves; (iii) what are the interactions among sub-lineages or clades, i.e. predominance and/or sub-lineage replacement; and (iv) what is the development and dissemination of the H7N9 viruses from a phylogeographic perspective. We hope that the information generated by this project will provide insights into methods to manage the development of the H7N9 outbreak and help to avert similar situations from arising.published_or_final_versio
Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2
Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter [1-12] hosting the condensed
matter physics counterpart of relativisticWeyl fermion [13] originally
introduced in high energy physics. The Weyl semimetal realized in the TaAs
class features multiple Fermi arcs arising from topological surface states [10,
11, 14-16] and exhibits novel quantum phenomena, e.g., chiral anomaly induced
negative mag-netoresistance [17-19] and possibly emergent supersymmetry [20].
Recently it was proposed theoretically that a new type (type-II) of Weyl
fermion [21], which does not have counterpart in high energy physics due to the
breaking of Lorentz invariance, can emerge as topologically-protected touching
between electron and hole pockets. Here, we report direct spectroscopic
evidence of topological Fermi arcs in the predicted type-II Weyl semimetal
MoTe2 [22-24]. The topological surface states are confirmed by directly
observing the surface states using bulk-and surface-sensitive angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and the quasi-particle interference (QPI)
pattern between the two putative Fermi arcs in scanning tunneling microscopy
(STM). Our work establishes MoTe2 as the first experimental realization of
type-II Weyl semimetal, and opens up new opportunities for probing novel
phenomena such as exotic magneto-transport [21] in type-II Weyl semimetals.Comment: submitted on 01/29/2016. Nature Physics, in press. Spectroscopic
evidence of the Fermi arcs from two complementary surface sensitive probes -
ARPES and STS. A comparison of the calculated band structure for T_d and 1T'
phase to identify the topological Fermi arcs in the T_d phase is also
included in the supplementary informatio
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