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Quantum cloning attacks against PUF-based quantum authentication systems
With the advent of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), PUF-based quantum
authentication systems (QAS) have been proposed for security purposes and
recently proof-of-principle experiment has been demonstrated. As a further step
towards completing the security analysis, we investigate quantum cloning
attacks against PUF-based quantum authentication systems and prove that quantum
cloning attacks outperform the so-called challenge-estimation attacks. We
present the analytical expression of the false accept probability by use of the
corresponding optimal quantum cloning machines and extend the previous results
in the literature. In light of these findings, an explicit comparison is made
between PUF-based quantum authentication systems and quantum key distribution
(QKD) protocols in the context of cloning attacks. Moreover, from an
experimental perspective, a trade-off between the average photon number and the
detection efficiency is discussed in detail.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Global Existence and Optimal Decay Rates of Solutions for Compressible Hall-MHD Equations
In this paper, we are concerned with global existence and optimal decay rates
of solutions for the three-dimensional compressible Hall-MHD equations. First,
we prove the global existence of strong solutions by the standard energy method
under the condition that the initial data are close to the constant equilibrium
state in -framework. Second, optimal decay rates of strong solutions in
-norm are obtained if the initial data belong to additionally.
Finally, we apply Fourier splitting method by Schonbek [Arch.Rational Mech.
Anal. 88 (1985)] to establish optimal decay rates for higher order spatial
derivatives of classical solutions in -framework, which improves the work
of Fan et al.[Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 22 (2015)].Comment: 31 page
Spatially covariant gravity with velocity of the lapse function: the Hamiltonian analysis
We investigate a large class of gravity theories that respect spatial
covariance, and involve kinetic terms for both the spatial metric and the lapse
function. Generally such kind of theories propagate four degrees of freedom,
one of which is an unwanted scalar mode. Through a detailed Hamiltonian
analysis, we find that the condition requiring the kinetic terms to be
degenerate is not sufficient to evade the unwanted scalar mode in general. This
is because the primary constraint due to the degeneracy condition does not
necessarily induce a secondary constraint, if the mixing terms between temporal
and spatial derivatives are present. In this case, the second condition that we
dub as the consistency condition must be imposed in order to ensure the
existence of the secondary constraint and thus to remove the unwanted mode. We
also show how our formalism works through an explicit example, in which the
degeneracy condition is not sufficient and thus the consistency condition must
be imposed.Comment: 37 pages; v4, matching the JCAP versio
Estimation for Dynamic and Static Panel Probit Models with Large Individual Effects
For discrete panel data, the dynamic relationship between successive
observations is often of interest. We consider a dynamic probit model for short
panel data. A problem with estimating the dynamic parameter of interest is that
the model contains a large number of nuisance parameters, one for each
individual. Heckman proposed to use maximum likelihood estimation of the
dynamic parameter, which, however, does not perform well if the individual
effects are large. We suggest new estimators for the dynamic parameter, based
on the assumption that the individual parameters are random and possibly large.
Theoretical properties of our estimators are derived and a simulation study
shows they have some advantages compared to Heckman's estimator.Comment: 22 page
High-efficient thermoelectric materials: The case of orthorhombic IV-VI compounds
Improving the thermoelectric efficiency is one of the greatest challenges in
materials science. The recent discovery of excellent thermoelectric performance
in simple orthorhombic SnSe crystal offers new promise in this prospect [Zhao
et al. Nature 508, 373 (2014)]. By calculating the thermoelectric properties of
orthorhombic IV-VI compounds GeS,GeSe,SnS,and SnSe based on the
first-principles combined with the Boltzmann transport theory, we show that the
Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity of
orthorhombic SnSe are in agreement with the recent experiment. Importantly,
GeS,GeSe,and SnS exhibit comparative thermoelectric performance compared to
SnSe. Especially, the Seebeck coefficients of GeS,GeSe,and SnS are even larger
than that of SnSe under the studied carrier concentration and temperature
region. We also use the Cahill's model to estimate the lattice thermal
conductivities at the room temperature. The large Seebeck coefficients, high
power factors, and low thermal conductivities make these four orthorhombic
IV-VI compounds promising candidates for high-efficient thermoelectric
materials.Comment: To be published in Sci. Rep. 5, 9567 (2015
Spatially covariant gravity: Perturbative analysis and field transformations
We make a perturbative analysis of the number of degrees of freedom in a
large class of metric theories respecting spatial symmetries, of which the
Lagrangian includes kinetic terms of both the spatial metric and the lapse
function. We show that, as long as the kinetic terms are degenerate, the theory
propagates a single scalar mode at the linear order in perturbations around a
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. Nevertheless, an unwanted mode will
reappear pathologically, either at nonlinear orders around the
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background, or at linear order around an
inhomogeneous background. In both cases, it turns out that a consistency
condition has to be imposed in order to remove the unwanted mode. This
perturbative approach provides an alternative and also complementary point of
view of the conditions derived in a Hamiltonian analysis. We also discuss the
relation under field redefinitions, between theories with and without the time
derivative of the lapse function.Comment: 20 pages, v2, matches the PRD versio
Boundary Layer Problems for the Two-dimensional Inhomogeneous Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics Equations
In this paper, we study the well-posedness of boundary layer problems for the
inhomogeneous incompressible magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) equations, which are
derived from the two dimensional density-dependent incompressible MHD
equations.Under the assumption that initial tangential magnetic field is not
zero and density is a small perturbation of the outer constant flow in
supernorm,the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of inhomogeneous
incompressible MHD boundary layer equation are established in weighted Conormal
Sobolev spaces by energy method. As a byproduct, the local-in-time
well-posedness of homogeneous incompressible MHD boundary layer equations with
any large initial data can be obtained.Comment: 52 page
Strong Solution to the Density-dependent Incompressible Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows
In this paper, we investigate the density-dependent incompressible nematic
liquid crystal flows in or dimensional bounded domain. More
precisely, we obtain the local existence and uniqueness of the solutions when
the viscosity coefficient of fluid depends on density. Moreover, we establish
blowup criterions for the regularity of the strong solutions in dimension two
and three respectively. In particular, we build a blowup criterion just in
terms of the gradient of density if the initial direction field satisfies some
geometric configuration. For these results, the initial density needs not be
strictly positive.Comment: 46 page. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1204.4966,
arXiv:1211.0131 by other author
Machine Learning methods for interatomic potentials: application to boron carbide
Total energies of crystal structures can be calculated to high precision
using quantum-based density functional theory (DFT) methods, but the
calculations can be time consuming and scale badly with system size. Cluster
expansions of total energy as a linear superposition of pair, triplet and
higher interactions can efficiently approximate the total energies but are best
suited to simple lattice structures. To model the total energy of boron
carbide, with a complex crystal structure, we explore the utility of machine
learning methods (-penalized regression, neural network, Gaussian process
and support vector regression) that capture certain non-linear effects
associated with many-body interactions despite requiring only pair frequencies
as input. Our interaction models are combined with Monte Carlo simulations to
evaluate the thermodynamics of chemical ordering
Robust Hypothesis Testing Using Wasserstein Uncertainty Sets
We develop a novel computationally efficient and general framework for robust
hypothesis testing. The new framework features a new way to construct
uncertainty sets under the null and the alternative distributions, which are
sets centered around the empirical distribution defined via Wasserstein metric,
thus our approach is data-driven and free of distributional assumptions. We
develop a convex safe approximation of the minimax formulation and show that
such approximation renders a nearly-optimal detector among the family of all
possible tests. By exploiting the structure of the least favorable
distribution, we also develop a tractable reformulation of such approximation,
with complexity independent of the dimension of observation space and can be
nearly sample-size-independent in general. Real-data example using human
activity data demonstrated the excellent performance of the new robust
detector
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