28 research outputs found
Statistics of electromagnetic transitions as a signature of chaos in many-electron atoms
Using a configuration interaction approach we study statistics of the dipole
matrix elements (E1 amplitudes) between the 14 lower odd states with J=4 and
21st to 100th even states with J=4 in the Ce atom (1120 lines). We show that
the distribution of the matrix elements is close to Gaussian, although the
width of the Gaussian distribution, i.e. the root-mean-square matrix element,
changes with the excitation energy. The corresponding line strengths are
distributed according to the Porter-Thomas law which describes statistics of
transition strengths between chaotic states in compound nuclei. We also show
how to use a statistical theory to calculate mean squared values of the matrix
elements or transition amplitudes between chaotic many-body states. We draw
some support for our conclusions from the analysis of the 228 experimental line
strengths in Ce [J. Opt. Soc. Am. v. 8, p. 1545 (1991)], although direct
comparison with the calculations is impeded by incompleteness of the
experimental data. Nevertheless, the statistics observed evidence that highly
excited many-electron states in atoms are indeed chaotic.Comment: 16 pages, REVTEX, 4 PostScript figures (submitted to Phys Rev A
Irreducible tensor-form of the relativistic corrections to the M1 transition operator
The relativistic corrections to the magnetic dipole moment operator in the
Pauli approximation were derived originally by Drake (Phys. Rev. A 3(1971)908).
In the present paper, we derive their irreducible tensor-operator form to be
used in atomic structure codes adopting the Fano-Racah-Wigner algebra for
calculating its matrix elements.Comment: 26 page
Guess what moves: unsupervised video and image segmentation by anticipating motion
Motion, measured via optical flow, provides a powerful cue to discover and learn objects in images and videos. However, compared to using appearance, it has some blind spots, such as the fact that objects become invisible if they do not move. In this work, we propose an approach that combines the strengths of motion-based and appearance-based segmentation. We propose to supervise an image segmentation network with the pretext task of predicting regions that are likely to contain simple motion patterns, and thus likely to correspond to objects. As the model only uses a single image as input, we can apply it in two settings: unsupervised video segmentation, and unsupervised image segmentation. We achieve state-of-the-art results for videos, and demonstrate the viability of our approach on still images containing novel objects. Additionally we experiment with different motion models and optical flow backbones and find the method to be robust to these change. Project page and code available at https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/gwm
Guess what moves: unsupervised video and image segmentation by anticipating motion
Motion, measured via optical flow, provides a powerful cue to discover and learn
objects in images and videos. However, compared to using appearance, it has some
blind spots, such as the fact that objects become invisible if they do not move. In
this work, we propose an approach that combines the strengths of motion-based and
appearance-based segmentation. We propose to supervise an image segmentation network with the pretext task of predicting regions that are likely to contain simple motion patterns, and thus likely to correspond to objects. As the model only uses a single image as input, we can apply it in two settings: unsupervised video segmentation,
and unsupervised image segmentation. We achieve state-of-the-art results for videos,
and demonstrate the viability of our approach on still images containing novel objects.
Additionally we experiment with different motion models and optical flow backbones
and find the method to be robust to these change. Project page and code available at
https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/gwm