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Parallel String Sample Sort
We discuss how string sorting algorithms can be parallelized on modern
multi-core shared memory machines. As a synthesis of the best sequential string
sorting algorithms and successful parallel sorting algorithms for atomic
objects, we propose string sample sort. The algorithm makes effective use of
the memory hierarchy, uses additional word level parallelism, and largely
avoids branch mispredictions. Additionally, we parallelize variants of multikey
quicksort and radix sort that are also useful in certain situations.Comment: 34 pages, 7 figures and 12 table
Response to sub-threshold stimulus is enhanced by spatially heterogeneous activity
Sub-threshold stimuli cannot initiate excitations in active media, but
surprisingly as we show in this paper, they can alter the time-evolution of
spatially heterogeneous activity by modifying the recovery dynamics. This
results in significant reduction of waveback velocity which may lead to spatial
coherence, terminating all activity in the medium including spatiotemporal
chaos. We analytically derive model-independent conditions for which such
behavior can be observed.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Modeling the Field Emission Current Fluctuation in Carbon Nanotube Thin Films
Owing to their distinct properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have emerged as
promising candidate for field emission devices. It has been found
experimentally that the results related to the field emission performance show
variability. The design of an efficient field emitting device requires the
analysis of the variabilities with a systematic and multiphysics based modeling
approach. In this paper, we develop a model of randomly oriented CNTs in a thin
film by coupling the field emission phenomena, the electron-phonon transport
and the mechanics of single isolated CNT. A computational scheme is developed
by which the states of CNTs are updated in time incremental manner. The device
current is calculated by using Fowler-Nordheim equation for field emission to
study the performance at the device scale.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Linear independence of Gamma values in positive characteristic
We investigate the arithmetic nature of special values of Thakur's function
field Gamma function at rational points. Our main result is that all linear
independence relations over the field of algebraic functions are consequences
of the known relations of Anderson and Thakur arising from the functional
equations of the Gamma function.Comment: 51 page
Elasticity of semi-flexible polymers
We present a numerical solution of the Worm-Like Chain (WLC) model for
semi-flexible polymers. We display graphs for the end-to-end distance
distribution and the force-extension relation expected from the model. We
predict the expected level of fluctuations around the mean value in
force-extension curves. Our treatment analyses the entire range of polymer
lengths and reproduces interesting qualitative features seen in recent computer
simulations for polymers of intermediate length. These results can be tested
against experiments on single molecules. This study is relevant to mechanical
properties of biological molecules.Comment: five pages revtex five figures, slightly improved version with recent
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The statistical laws of popularity: Universal properties of the box office dynamics of motion pictures
Are there general principles governing the process by which certain products
or ideas become popular relative to other (often qualitatively similar)
competitors? To investigate this question in detail, we have focused on the
popularity of movies as measured by their box-office income. We observe that
the log-normal distribution describes well the tail (corresponding to the most
successful movies) of the empirical distributions for the total income, the
income on the opening week, as well as, the weekly income per theater. This
observation suggests that popularity may be the outcome of a linear
multiplicative stochastic process. In addition, the distributions of the total
income and the opening income show a bimodal form, with the majority of movies
either performing very well or very poorly in theaters. We also observe that
the gross income per theater for a movie at any point during its lifetime is,
on average, inversely proportional to the period that has elapsed after its
release. We argue that (i) the log-normal nature of the tail, (ii) the bimodal
form of the overall gross income distribution, and (iii) the decay of gross
income per theater with time as a power law, constitute the fundamental set of
{\em stylized facts} (i.e., empirical "laws") that can be used to explain other
observations about movie popularity. We show that, in conjunction with an
assumption of a fixed lower cut-off for income per theater below which a movie
is withdrawn from a cinema, these laws can be used to derive a Weibull
distribution for the survival probability of movies which agrees with empirical
data. The connection to extreme-value distributions suggests that popularity
can be viewed as a process where a product becomes popular by avoiding failure
(i.e., being pulled out from circulation) for many successive time periods. We
suggest that these results may apply to popularity in general.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Structural Transitions in A Crystalline Bilayer : The Case of Lennard Jones and Gaussian Core Models
We study structural transitions in a system of interacting particles arranged
as a crystalline bilayer, as a function of the density and the distance
between the layers. As is decreased a sequence of transitions involving
triangular, rhombic, square and centered rectangular lattices is observed. The
sequence of phases and the order of transitions depends on the nature of
interactions.Comment: 11 pages,6 figure
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