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The role of interactions, tunneling and harmonic confinement on the adiabatic loading of bosons in an optical lattice
We calculate entropy-temperature curves for interacting bosons in unit filled
optical lattices for both homogeneous and harmonically trapped situations, and
use them to understand how adiabatic changes in the lattice depth affect the
temperature of the system. In a translationally invariant lattice, the zero
tunneling limit facilitates a rather detailed analytic description. Unlike the
non-interacting bosonic system which is always cooled upon adiabatic loading
for low enough initial temperature, the change in the excitation spectrum
induced by interactions can lead to heating. Finite tunneling helps to reduce
this heating. Finally, we study the spatially inhomogeneous system confined in
a parabolic potential and show that the presence of the trap can significantly
reduce the final available temperature, due to the non-vanishing superfluid
component at the edge of the cloud which is present in trapped systems.Comment: 9 pages and 6 figures. Two typos in Sec.IIIA were corrected and some
references were update
Tuneable defect interactions and supersolidity in dipolar quantum gases on a lattice potential
Point defects in self-assembled crystals, such as vacancies and
interstitials, attract each other and form stable clusters. This leads to a
phase separation between perfect crystalline structures and defect
conglomerates at low temperatures. We propose a method that allows one to tune
the effective interactions between point defects from attractive to repulsive
by means of external periodic fields. In the quantum regime, this allows one to
engineer strongly-correlated many-body phases. We exemplify the microscopic
mechanism by considering dipolar quantum gases of ground state polar molecules
and weakly bound molecules of strongly magnetic atoms trapped in a weak optical
lattice in a two-dimensional configuration. By tuning the lattice depth, defect
interactions turn repulsive, which allows us to deterministically design a
novel supersolid phase in the continuum limit.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
CEPS Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Technology, Governance and Policy Challenges Task Force Evaluation of the HLEG Trustworthy AI Assessment List (Pilot Version). CEPS Task Force Report 22 January 2020
The Centre for European Policy Studies launched a Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Cybersecurity in September 2019. The goal of this Task Force is to bring attention to the market,
technical, ethical and governance challenges posed by the intersection of AI and cybersecurity,
focusing both on AI for cybersecurity but also cybersecurity for AI. The Task Force is multi-stakeholder
by design and composed of academics, industry players from various sectors, policymakers and civil
society.
The Task Force is currently discussing issues such as the state and evolution of the application of AI
in cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI; the debate on the role that AI could play in the dynamics
between cyber attackers and defenders; the increasing need for sharing information on threats and
how to deal with the vulnerabilities of AI-enabled systems; options for policy experimentation; and
possible EU policy measures to ease the adoption of AI in cybersecurity in Europe.
As part of such activities, this report aims at assessing the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on AI Ethics
Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, presented on April 8, 2019. In particular, this report analyses and
makes suggestions on the Trustworthy AI Assessment List (Pilot version), a non-exhaustive list aimed
at helping the public and the private sector in operationalising Trustworthy AI. The list is composed
of 131 items that are supposed to guide AI designers and developers throughout the process of
design, development, and deployment of AI, although not intended as guidance to ensure
compliance with the applicable laws. The list is in its piloting phase and is currently undergoing a
revision that will be finalised in early 2020.
This report would like to contribute to this revision by addressing in particular the interplay between
AI and cybersecurity. This evaluation has been made according to specific criteria: whether and how
the items of the Assessment List refer to existing legislation (e.g. GDPR, EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights); whether they refer to moral principles (but not laws); whether they consider that AI attacks
are fundamentally different from traditional cyberattacks; whether they are compatible with
different risk levels; whether they are flexible enough in terms of clear/easy measurement,
implementation by AI developers and SMEs; and overall, whether they are likely to create obstacles
for the industry.
The HLEG is a diverse group, with more than 50 members representing different stakeholders, such
as think tanks, academia, EU Agencies, civil society, and industry, who were given the difficult task of
producing a simple checklist for a complex issue. The public engagement exercise looks successful
overall in that more than 450 stakeholders have signed in and are contributing to the process.
The next sections of this report present the items listed by the HLEG followed by the analysis and
suggestions raised by the Task Force (see list of the members of the Task Force in Annex 1)
Transmissive optomechanical platforms with engineered spatial defects
We investigate the optomechanical photon-phonon coupling of a single light
mode propagating through an array of vibrating mechanical elements. As recently
shown for the particular case of a periodic array of membranes embedded in a
high-finesse optical cavity [A. Xuereb, C. Genes and A. Dantan, Phys. Rev.
Lett., \textbf{109}, 223601, (2012)], the intracavity linear optomechanical
coupling can be considerably enhanced over the single element value in the
so-called \textit{transmissive regime}, where for motionless membranes the
whole system is transparent to light. Here, we extend these investigations to
quasi-periodic arrays in the presence of engineered spatial defects in the
membrane positions. In particular we show that the localization of light modes
induced by the defect combined with the access of the transmissive regime
window can lead to additional enhancement of the strength of both linear and
quadratic optomechanical couplings
Bragg spectroscopy of trapped one dimensional strongly interacting bosons in optical lattices: Probing the cake-structure
We study Bragg spectroscopy of strongly interacting one dimensional bosons
loaded in an optical lattice plus an additional parabolic potential. We
calculate the dynamic structure factor by using Monte Carlo simulations for the
Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian, exact diagonalizations and the results of a recently
introduced effective fermionization (EF) model. We find that, due to the
system's inhomogeneity, the excitation spectrum exhibits a multi-branched
structure, whose origin is related to the presence of superfluid regions with
different densities in the atomic distribution. We thus suggest that Bragg
spectroscopy in the linear regime can be used as an experimental tool to unveil
the shell structure of alternating Mott insulator and superfluid phases
characteristic of trapped bosons.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
The Economics of Next Generation Access Networks and Regulatory Governance: Towards Geographic Patterns of Regulation
This paper examines the mix of technical, regulatory, and business strategy issues that arise in implementing next generation broadband platforms in Europe. Our review of some European studies on NGAN in Europe and our specific focus on the Italian situation, in particular on the competitive situation in Milano, shows the relevant flaw of continuing to advocate national patterns of regulation. In fact, the deployment of NGAN calls for a radical shift of regulation on a geographic level. The recognition that a NGAN business case does exist for OLO in a number of local areas, mainly metropolitan ones, has relevant regulatory implications.In the first place, since the conditions of competition differ significantly among local areas, regulation should promote both incumbents' and OLO's investments in NGAN by limiting ex ante interventions to those enduring economic bottlenecks found at a specific geographic markets level. In the second place, market definition is the most important step in the market analysis procedure to help decide whether to regulate a given service provided over a NGAN or not. We have proposed a taxonomy of local areas that may be adopted in a country like Italy for a correct geographic definition of markets 4 and 5 and, as a consequence, for the imposition of appropriate remedies.Next Generation Networks, geographic markets, geographic remedies, infrastructure sharing, market definition
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