Phase Diagrams of Bi1-xSbx Thin Films with Different Growth Orientations

A closed-form model is developed to evaluate the band-edge shift caused by quantum confinement for a two-dimensional non-parabolic carrier-pocket. Based on this model, the symmetries and the band-shifts of different carrier-pockets are evaluated for BiSb thin films that are grown along different crystalline axes. The phase diagrams for the BiSb thin film systems with different growth orientations are calculated and analyzed

Graphon Control of Large-scale Networks of Linear Systems

To achieve control objectives for extremely large-scale complex networks using standard methods is essentially intractable. In this work a theory of the approximate control of complex network systems is proposed and developed by the use of graphon theory and the theory of infinite dimensional systems. First, graphon dynamical system models are formulated in an appropriate infinite dimensional space in order to represent arbitrary-size networks of linear dynamical systems, and to define the convergence of sequences of network systems with limits in the space. Exact controllability and approximate controllability of graphon dynamical systems are then investigated. Second, the minimum energy state-to-state control problem and the linear quadratic regulator problem for systems on complex networks are considered. The control problem for graphon limit systems is solved in each case and approximations are defined which yield control laws for the original control problems. Furthermore, convergence properties of the approximation schemes are established. A systematic control design methodology is developed within this framework. Finally, numerical examples of networks with randomly sampled weightings are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the graphon control methodology.Comment: 16 pages. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020. Originally announced July 201

Spectral Representations of Graphons in Very Large Network Systems Control

Graphon-based control has recently been proposed and developed to solve control problems for dynamical systems on networks which are very large or growing without bound (see Gao and Caines, CDC 2017, CDC 2018). In this paper, spectral representations, eigenfunctions and approximations of graphons, and their applications to graphon-based control are studied. First, spectral properties of graphons are presented and then approximations based on Fourier approximated eigenfunctions are analyzed. Within this framework, two classes of graphons with simple spectral representations are given. Applications to graphon-based control analysis are next presented; in particular, the controllability of systems distributed over very large networks is expressed in terms of the properties of the corresponding graphon dynamical systems. Moreover, spectral analysis based upon real-world network data is presented, which demonstrates that low-dimensional spectral approximations of networks are possible. Finally, an initial, exploratory investigation of the utility of the spectral analysis methodology in graphon systems control to study the control of epidemic spread is presented.Comment: 8 pages, 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2019

Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg Spectroscopy of a Superconducting Flux Qubit

We proposed a new method to measure the energy spectrum of a superconducting flux qubit. Different from the conventional frequency spectroscopy, a short triangle pulse is used to drive the qubit through the anticrossing and generates Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg interference patterns, from which the information of the energy spectrum can be extracted. Without installing microwave lines one can simplify the experimental setup and reduce the unwanted effects of noise. Moreover, the method can be applied to other quantum systems, opening the possibility of calibrating and manipulating qubits with linear pulses.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Dilaton Black Holes in de Sitter or Anti-de Sitter Universe

Poletti and Wiltshire have shown that, with the exception of a pure cosmological constant, the solution of a dilaton black hole in the background of de Sitter or anti-de Sitter universe, does not exist in the presence of one Liouville-type dilaton potential. Here with the combination of three Liouville-type dilaton potentials, we obtain the dilaton black hole solutions in the background of de Sitter or anti-de Sitter universe.Comment: 13 pages,to appear in Phys. Rev.

Linear Quadratic Graphon Field Games

Linear quadratic graphon field games (LQ-GFGs) are defined to be LQ games which involve a large number of agents that are weakly coupled via a weighted undirected graph on which each node represents an agent. The links of the graph correspond to couplings between the agents' dynamics, as well as between the individual cost functions, which each agent attempts to minimize. We formulate limit LQ-GFG problems based on the assumption that these graphs lie in a sequence which converges to a limit graphon. First, under a finite-rank assumption on the limit graphon, the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the formulated limit LQ-GFG problem is established. Second, based upon the solutions to the limit LQ-GFG problem, epsilon-Nash equilibria are constructed for the corresponding game problems with a very large but finite number of players. This result is then generalized to the case with random initial conditions. It is to be noted that LQ-GFG problems are distinct from the class of graphon mean field game (GMFG) problems where a population is hypothesized to be associated with each node of the graph [Caines and Huang CDC 2018, 2019]

Age Problem in the Holographic Dark Energy Model

In this note, we test the original holographic dark energy model with some old high redshift objects. The main idea is very simple: the universe cannot be younger than its constituents. We find that the original holographic dark energy model can be ruled out, unless a lower Hubble constant is taken.Comment: 12 pages, 3 tables, 3 figures, revtex4; v2: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D; v3: published versio