205 research outputs found
Effects of arbitrarily directed field on spin phase oscillations in biaxial molecular magnets
Quantum phase interference and spin-parity effects are studied in biaxial
molecular magnets in a magnetic field at an arbitrarily directed angle. The
calculations of the ground-state tunnel splitting are performed on the basis of
the instanton technique in the spin-coherent-state path-integral
representation, and complemented by exactly numerical diagonalization. Both the
Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin exponent and the preexponential factor are obtained
for the entire region of the direction of the field. Our results show that the
tunnel splitting oscillates with the field for the small field angle, while for
the large field angle the oscillation is completely suppressed. This distinct
angular dependence, together with the dependence of the tunnel splitting on the
field strengh, provide an independent test for spin-parity effects in biaxial
molecular magnets. The analytical results for the molecular Fe magnet,
are found to be in good areement with the numerical simulations, which suggests
that even the molecular magnet with total spin S=10 is large enough to be
treated as a giant spin system.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure
Macroscopic quantum coherence in antiferromagnetic molecular magnets
The macroscopic quantum coherence in a biaxial antiferromagnetic molecular
magnet in the presence of magnetic field acting parallel to its hard anisotropy
axis is studied within the two-sublattice model. On the basis of instanton
technique in the spin-coherent-state path-integral representation, both the
rigorous Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin exponent and preexponential factor for the
ground-state tunnel splitting are obtained. We find that the quantum
fluctuations around the classical paths can not only induce a new quantum phase
previously reported by Chiolero and Loss (Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 169 (1998)), but
also have great influnence on the intensity of the ground-state tunnel
splitting. Those features clearly have no analogue in the ferromagnetic
molecular magnets. We suggest that they may be the universal behaviors in all
antiferromagnetic molecular magnets. The analytical results are complemented by
exact diagonalization calculation.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
Low energy exciton states in a nanoscopic semiconducting ring
We consider an effective mass model for an electron-hole pair in a simplified
confinement potential, which is applicable to both a nanoscopic self-assembled
semiconducting InAs ring and a quantum dot. The linear optical susceptibility,
proportional to the absorption intensity of near-infrared transmission, is
calculated as a function of the ring radius . Compared with the
properties of the quantum dot corresponding to the model with a very small
radius , our results are in qualitative agreement with the recent
experimental measurements by Pettersson {\it et al}.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, revised and accepted by Phys. Rev.
Online Container Scheduling for Low-Latency IoT Services in Edge Cluster Upgrade: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Internet of Things (IoT) devices offload
computationally-intensive tasks to edge nodes, where they are executed within
containers, reducing the reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. Frequent
upgrades are essential to maintain the efficient and secure operation of edge
clusters. However, traditional cloud cluster upgrade strategies are ill-suited
for edge clusters due to their geographically distributed nature and resource
limitations. Therefore, it is crucial to properly schedule containers and
upgrade edge clusters to minimize the impact on running tasks. In this paper,
we propose a low-latency container scheduling algorithm for edge cluster
upgrades. Specifically: 1) We formulate the online container scheduling problem
for edge cluster upgrade to minimize the total task latency. 2) We propose a
policy gradient-based reinforcement learning algorithm to address this problem,
considering the unique characteristics of MEC. 3) Experimental results
demonstrate that our algorithm reduces total task latency by approximately 27\%
compared to baseline algorithms
{2-[(Benzylphenylphosphanyl-κP)methyl]phenyl-κC 1}iodidobis(trimethylphosphane)cobalt(II)
In the title compound, [Co(C20H18P)I(C3H9P)2], the CoII atom has a distorted square-pyramidal geometry, the base of which is comprised of two trans PMe3 groups, an I atom, and a C atom of the benzyl group. This benzyl group is tethered to the P atom at the apex of the pyramid, thereby forming a five-membered chelated Co—C—C—C—P ring
Ethyl 6-methyl-2-p-tolylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine-5-carboxylate
In the title molecule, C18H18N2O2, the bicyclic ring system and the benzene ring form a dihedral angle of 13.45 (3)°. In the crystal structure, weak intermolecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link molecules into chains propagated along [201]
Efficient Serverless Function Scheduling at the Network Edge
Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its
inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and
economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues
of significant cold start latency and highly dynamic workloads in serverless
function scheduling, which are exacerbated at the resource-limited network
edge. In this paper, we formulate the Serverless Function Scheduling (SFS)
problem for resource-limited edge computing, aiming to minimize the average
response time. To efficiently solve this intractable scheduling problem, we
first consider a simplified offline form of the problem and design a
polynomial-time optimal scheduling algorithm based on each function's weight.
Furthermore, we propose an Enhanced Shortest Function First (ESFF) algorithm,
in which the function weight represents the scheduling urgency. To avoid
frequent cold starts, ESFF selectively decides the initialization of new
function instances when receiving requests. To deal with dynamic workloads,
ESFF judiciously replaces serverless functions based on the function weight at
the completion time of requests. Extensive simulations based on real-world
serverless request traces are conducted, and the results show that ESFF
consistently and substantially outperforms existing baselines under different
settings
BASM: A Bottom-up Adaptive Spatiotemporal Model for Online Food Ordering Service
Online Food Ordering Service (OFOS) is a popular location-based service that
helps people to order what you want. Compared with traditional e-commerce
recommendation systems, users' interests may be diverse under different
spatiotemporal contexts, leading to various spatiotemporal data distribution,
which limits the fitting capacity of the model. However, numerous current works
simply mix all samples to train a set of model parameters, which makes it
difficult to capture the diversity in different spatiotemporal contexts.
Therefore, we address this challenge by proposing a Bottom-up Adaptive
Spatiotemporal Model(BASM) to adaptively fit the spatiotemporal data
distribution, which further improve the fitting capability of the model.
Specifically, a spatiotemporal-aware embedding layer performs weight adaptation
on field granularity in feature embedding, to achieve the purpose of
dynamically perceiving spatiotemporal contexts. Meanwhile, we propose a
spatiotemporal semantic transformation layer to explicitly convert the
concatenated input of the raw semantic to spatiotemporal semantic, which can
further enhance the semantic representation under different spatiotemporal
contexts. Furthermore, we introduce a novel spatiotemporal adaptive bias tower
to capture diverse spatiotemporal bias, reducing the difficulty to model
spatiotemporal distinction. To further verify the effectiveness of BASM, we
also novelly propose two new metrics, Time-period-wise AUC (TAUC) and City-wise
AUC (CAUC). Extensive offline evaluations on public and industrial datasets are
conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed modle. The online
A/B experiment also further illustrates the practicability of the model online
service. This proposed method has now been implemented on the Ele.me, a major
online food ordering platform in China, serving more than 100 million online
users
tert-Butyl N-(5-bromo-1H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-ylmethyl)carbamate
In the molecule of the title compound, C12H15BrN4O2, the imidazole and pyridine rings are strictly coplanar [maximum deviation 0.006 (3) Å]. In the crystal structure, molecules are linked into chains running parallel to the a axis by intermolecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Centrosymmetrically related chains are further connected by N—H⋯N hydrogen-bonding interactions to form a two-dimensional layer structure parallel to the ab plane
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