323 research outputs found
Quantum Signatures of Topological Phase in Bosonic Quadratic System
Quantum entanglement and classical topology are two distinct phenomena that
are difficult to be connected together. Here we discover that an open bosonic
quadratic chain exhibits topology-induced entanglement effect. When the system
is in the topological phase, the edge modes can be entangled in the steady
state, while no entanglement appears in the trivial phase. This finding is
verified through the covariance approach based on the quantum master equations,
which provide exact numerical results without truncation process. We also
obtain concise approximate analytical results through the quantum Langevin
equations, which perfectly agree with the exact numerical results. We show the
topological edge states exhibit near-zero eigenenergies located in the band gap
and are separated from the bulk eigenenergies, which match the
system-environment coupling (denoted by the dissipation rate) and thus the
squeezing correlations can be enhanced. Our work reveals that the stationary
entanglement can be a quantum signature of the topological phase in bosonic
systems, and inversely the topological quadratic systems can be powerful
platforms to generate robust entanglement.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figure
The Behavior of Error Bounds via Moreau Envelopes
In this paper, we first establish the equivalence of three types of error
bounds: uniformized Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (u-KL) property, uniformized
level-set subdifferential error bound (u-LSEB) and uniformized H\"{o}lder error
bound (u-HEB) for prox-regular functions. Then we study the behavior of the
level-set subdifferential error bound (LSEB) and the local H\"{o}lder error
bound (LHEB) which is expressed respectively by Moreau envelopes, under
suitable assumptions. Finally, in order to illustrate our main results and to
compare them with those of recent references, some examples are also given.Comment: 12 page
An in-depth analysis of system-level techniques for Simultaneous Multi-threaded Processors in Clouds
To improve the overall system utilization, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) has become a norm in clouds. Usually, Hardware threads are viewed and deployed directly as physical cores for attempts to improve resource utilization and system throughput. However, context switches in virtualized systems might incur severe resource waste, which further led to significant performance degradation. Worse, virtualized systems suffer from performance variations since the rescheduled vCPU may affect other hardware threads on the same physical core. In this paper, we perform an in-depth experimental study about how existing system software techniques improves the utilization of SMT Processors in Clouds. Considering the default Linux hypervisor vanilla KVM as the baseline, we evaluated two update-to-date kernel patches IdlePoll and HaltPoll through the combination of 14 real-world workloads. Our results show that mitigating they could significantly mitigate the number of context switches, which further improves the overall system throughput and decreases its latency. Based on our findings, we summarize key lessons from the previous wisdom and then discuss promising directions to be explored in the future
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