437 research outputs found
Boundary effect and dressed states of a giant atom in a topological waveguide
The interaction between the quantum emitter and topological photonic system
makes the photon behave in exotic ways. We here study the properties of a giant
atom coupled to two sites of a one-dimensional topological waveguide, which is
described by the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain. We find that the giant atom
can act as an effective boundary and induce the chiral zero modes, which are
similar to those in the SSH model with open boundary, for the waveguide under
the periodical boundary. Except for the boundary effect, we also find that the
giant atom can lift energy degeneracy inside the energy bands of the SSH chain
and adjust spatial symmetry of the photon distributions for the states of the
dressed giant atom and waveguide. That is, the giant atom can be used to change
the properties of the topological environment. Our work may stimulate more
studies on the interaction between matter and topological environment.Comment: 7 Pages, 4 Figure
Editorial: Ionizing radiation reprograms tumor immune microenvironment by inducing immunogenic cell death.
DILF: Differentiable Rendering-Based Multi-View Image-Language Fusion for Zero-Shot 3D Shape Understanding
Zero-shot 3D shape understanding aims to recognize “unseen” 3D categories that are not present in training data. Recently, Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown promising open-world performance in zero-shot 3D shape understanding tasks by information fusion among language and 3D modality. It first renders 3D objects into multiple 2D image views and then learns to understand the semantic relationships between the textual descriptions and images, enabling the model to generalize to new and unseen categories. However, existing studies in zero-shot 3D shape understanding rely on predefined rendering parameters, resulting in repetitive, redundant, and low-quality views. This limitation hinders the model’s ability to fully comprehend 3D shapes and adversely impacts the text–image fusion in a shared latent space. To this end, we propose a novel approach called Differentiable rendering-based multi-view Image–Language Fusion (DILF) for zero-shot 3D shape understanding. Specifically, DILF leverages large-scale language models (LLMs) to generate textual prompts enriched with 3D semantics and designs a differentiable renderer with learnable rendering parameters to produce representative multi-view images. These rendering parameters can be iteratively updated using a text–image fusion loss, which aids in parameters’ regression, allowing the model to determine the optimal viewpoint positions for each 3D object. Then a group-view mechanism is introduced to model interdependencies across views, enabling efficient information fusion to achieve a more comprehensive 3D shape understanding. Experimental results can demonstrate that DILF outperforms state-of-the-art methods for zero-shot 3D classification while maintaining competitive performance for standard 3D classification. The code is available at https://github.com/yuzaiyang123/DILP
Experimental preparation and verification of quantum money
A quantum money scheme enables a trusted bank to provide untrusted users with
verifiable quantum banknotes that cannot be forged. In this work, we report an
experimental demonstration of the preparation and verification of unforgeable
quantum banknotes. We employ a security analysis that takes experimental
imperfections fully into account. We measure a total of states
in one verification round, limiting the forging probability to based
on the security analysis. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of preparing
and verifying quantum banknotes using currently available experimental
techniques.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Experimental Research on the Grassland Rodent Control by a Way of Training the \u3ci\u3eVulpes fulva\u3c/i\u3e Return to a Wild State
A Neural-Guided Dynamic Symbolic Network for Exploring Mathematical Expressions from Data
Symbolic regression (SR) is a powerful technique for discovering the
underlying mathematical expressions from observed data. Inspired by the success
of deep learning, recent efforts have focused on two categories for SR methods.
One is using a neural network or genetic programming to search the expression
tree directly. Although this has shown promising results, the large search
space poses difficulties in learning constant factors and processing
high-dimensional problems. Another approach is leveraging a transformer-based
model training on synthetic data and offers advantages in inference speed.
However, this method is limited to fixed small numbers of dimensions and may
encounter inference problems when given data is out-of-distribution compared to
the synthetic data. In this work, we propose DySymNet, a novel neural-guided
Dynamic Symbolic Network for SR. Instead of searching for expressions within a
large search space, we explore DySymNet with various structures and optimize
them to identify expressions that better-fitting the data. With a topology
structure like neural networks, DySymNet not only tackles the challenge of
high-dimensional problems but also proves effective in optimizing constants.
Based on extensive numerical experiments using low-dimensional public standard
benchmarks and the well-known SRBench with more variables, our method achieves
state-of-the-art performance in terms of fitting accuracy and robustness to
noise
Context-Aware Sparse Deep Coordination Graphs
Learning sparse coordination graphs adaptive to the coordination dynamics
among agents is a long-standing problem in cooperative multi-agent learning.
This paper studies this problem and proposes a novel method using the variance
of payoff functions to construct context-aware sparse coordination topologies.
We theoretically consolidate our method by proving that the smaller the
variance of payoff functions is, the less likely action selection will change
after removing the corresponding edge. Moreover, we propose to learn action
representations to effectively reduce the influence of payoff functions'
estimation errors on graph construction. To empirically evaluate our method, we
present the Multi-Agent COordination (MACO) benchmark by collecting classic
coordination problems in the literature, increasing their difficulty, and
classifying them into different types. We carry out a case study and
experiments on the MACO and StarCraft II micromanagement benchmark to
demonstrate the dynamics of sparse graph learning, the influence of graph
sparseness, and the learning performance of our method
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