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Shear-band arrest and stress overshoots during inhomogeneous flow in a metallic glass
At the transition from a static to a dynamic deformation regime of a shear band in bulk metallic glasses, stress transients in terms of overshoots are observed. We interpret this phenomenon with a repeated shear-melting transition and are able to access a characteristic time for a liquidlike to solidlike transition in the shear band as a function of temperature, enabling us to understand why shear bands arrest during inhomogenous serrated flow in bulk metallic glasses
A portable platform for accelerated PIC codes and its application to GPUs using OpenACC
We present a portable platform, called PIC_ENGINE, for accelerating
Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes on heterogeneous many-core architectures such as
Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The aim of this development is efficient
simulations on future exascale systems by allowing different parallelization
strategies depending on the application problem and the specific architecture.
To this end, this platform contains the basic steps of the PIC algorithm and
has been designed as a test bed for different algorithmic options and data
structures. Among the architectures that this engine can explore, particular
attention is given here to systems equipped with GPUs. The study demonstrates
that our portable PIC implementation based on the OpenACC programming model can
achieve performance closely matching theoretical predictions. Using the Cray
XC30 system, Piz Daint, at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), we
show that PIC_ENGINE running on an NVIDIA Kepler K20X GPU can outperform the
one on an Intel Sandybridge 8-core CPU by a factor of 3.4
Low energy physical properties of high-Tc superconducting Cu oxides: A comparison between the resonating valence bond and experiments
In a recent review by Anderson and coworkers\cite{Vanilla}, it was pointed
out that an early resonating valence bond (RVB) theory is able to explain a
number of unusual properties of high temperature superconducting (SC)
Cu-oxides. Here we extend previous calculations \cite{anderson87,FC
Zhang,Randeria} to study more systematically low energy physical properties of
the plain vanilla d-wave RVB state, and to compare results with the available
experiments. We use a renormalized mean field theory combined with variational
Monte Carlo and power Lanczos methods to study the RVB state of an extended
model in a square lattice with parameters suitable for the hole doped
Cu-oxides. The physical observable quantities we study include the specific
heat, the linear residual thermal conductivity, the in-plane magnetic
penetration depth, the quasiparticle energy at the antinode , the
superconducting energy gap, the quasiparticle spectra and the Drude weight. The
traits of nodes (including , the Fermi velocity and the velocity
along Fermi surface ), as well as the SC order parameter are also
studied. Comparisons of the theory and the experiments in cuprates show an
overall qualitative agreement, especially on their doping dependences.Comment: 12 pages, 14 figures, 1 tabl
Faster Algorithms for Multivariate Interpolation with Multiplicities and Simultaneous Polynomial Approximations
The interpolation step in the Guruswami-Sudan algorithm is a bivariate
interpolation problem with multiplicities commonly solved in the literature
using either structured linear algebra or basis reduction of polynomial
lattices. This problem has been extended to three or more variables; for this
generalization, all fast algorithms proposed so far rely on the lattice
approach. In this paper, we reduce this multivariate interpolation problem to a
problem of simultaneous polynomial approximations, which we solve using fast
structured linear algebra. This improves the best known complexity bounds for
the interpolation step of the list-decoding of Reed-Solomon codes,
Parvaresh-Vardy codes, and folded Reed-Solomon codes. In particular, for
Reed-Solomon list-decoding with re-encoding, our approach has complexity
, where are the
list size, the multiplicity, the number of sample points and the dimension of
the code, and is the exponent of linear algebra; this accelerates the
previously fastest known algorithm by a factor of .Comment: Version 2: Generalized our results about Problem 1 to distinct
multiplicities. Added Section 4 which details several applications of our
results to the decoding of Reed-Solomon codes (list-decoding with re-encoding
technique, Wu algorithm, and soft-decoding). Reorganized the sections, added
references and corrected typo
Gyrokinetic simulations of microturbulence in tokamak plasmas presenting an electron internal transport barrier, and development of a global version of the GENE code
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Clarifications to the limitations of the s-α equilibrium model for gyrokinetic computations of turbulence
In the context of gyrokinetic flux-tube simulations of microturbulence in magnetized toroidal plasmas, different treatments of the magnetic equilibrium are examined. Considering the Cyclone DIII-D base case parameter set [Dimits et al., Phys. Plasmas 7, 969 (2000)], significant differences in the linear growth rates, the linear and nonlinear critical temperature gradients, and the nonlinear ion heat diffusivities are observed between results obtained using either an or an MHD equilibrium. Similar disagreements have been reported previously [Redd et al., Phys. Plasmas 6, 1162 (1999)]. In this paper it is shown that these differences result primarily from the approximation made in the standard implementation of the model, in which the straight field line angle is identified to the poloidal angle, leading to inconsistencies of order ( is the inverse aspect ratio, the minor radius and the major radius). An equilibrium model with concentric, circular flux surfaces and a correct treatment of the straight field line angle gives results very close to those using a finite , low MHD equilibrium. Such detailed investigation of the equilibrium implementation is of particular interest when comparing flux tube and global codes. It is indeed shown here that previously reported agreements between local and global simulations in fact result from the order inconsistencies in the model, coincidentally compensating finite effects in the global calculations, where with the ion sound Larmor radius. True convergence between local and global simulations is finally obtained by correct treatment of the geometry in both cases, and considering the appropriate limit in the latter case
Interaction of Alfvénic modes and turbulence via the nonlinear modification of the equilibrium profiles
The in-plane electrodynamics of the superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d: energy scales and spectral weight distribution
The in-plane infrared and visible (3 meV-3 eV) reflectivity of
Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d (Bi-2212) thin films is measured between 300 K and 10 K for
different doping levels with unprecedented accuracy. The optical conductivity
is derived through an accurate fitting procedure. We study the transfer of
spectral weight from finite energy into the superfluid as the system becomes
superconducting. In the over-doped regime, the superfluid develops at the
expense of states lying below 60 meV, a conventional energy of the order of a
few times the superconducting gap. In the underdoped regime, spectral weight is
removed from up to 2 eV, far beyond any conventional scale. The intraband
spectral weight change between the normal and superconducting state, if
analyzed in terms of a change of kinetic energy is ~1 meV. Compared to the
condensation energy, this figure addresses the issue of a kinetic energy driven
mechanism.Comment: 13 pages with 9 figures include
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