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Periodic shedding of vortex dipoles from a moving penetrable obstacle in a Bose-Einstein condensate
We investigate vortex shedding from a moving penetrable obstacle in a highly
oblate Bose-Einstein condensate. The penetrable obstacle is formed by a
repulsive Gaussian laser beam that has the potential barrier height lower than
the chemical potential of the condensate. The moving obstacle periodically
generates vortex dipoles and the vortex shedding frequency linearly
increases with the obstacle velocity as , where is a
critical velocity. Based on periodic shedding behavior, we demonstrate
deterministic generation of a single vortex dipole by applying a short linear
sweep of a laser beam. This method will allow further controlled vortex
experiments such as dipole-dipole collisions.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Critical Velocity for Vortex Shedding in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
We present measurements of the critical velocity for vortex shedding in a
highly oblate Bose-Einstein condensate with a moving repulsive Gaussian laser
beam. As a function of the barrier height , the critical velocity
shows a dip structure having a minimum at , where is
the chemical potential of the condensate. At fixed , we
observe that the ratio of to the speed of sound monotonically
increases for decreasing , where is the beam width and
is the condensate healing length. The measured upper bound for
is about 0.4, which is in good agreement with theoretical predictions for a
two-dimensional superflow past a circular cylinder. We explain our results with
the density reduction effect of the soft boundary of the Gaussian obstacle,
based on the local Landau criterion for superfluidity.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Relaxation of superfluid turbulence in highly oblate Bose-Einstein condensates
We investigate thermal relaxation of superfluid turbulence in a highly oblate
Bose-Einstein condensate. We generate turbulent flow in the condensate by
sweeping the center region of the condensate with a repulsive optical
potential. The turbulent condensate shows a spatially disordered distribution
of quantized vortices and the vortex number of the condensate exhibits
nonexponential decay behavior which we attribute to the vortex pair
annihilation. The vortex-antivortex collisions in the condensate are identified
with crescent-shaped, coalesced vortex cores. We observe that the
nonexponential decay of the vortex number is quantitatively well described by a
rate equation consisting of one-body and two-body decay terms. In our
measurement, we find that the local two-body decay rate is closely proportional
to , where is the temperature and is the chemical potential.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure
Convergent and divergent patterns of morphological differentiation provide more evidence for reproductive character displacement in a wood cricket Gryllus fultoni (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In ecological character displacement, traits involved in reproductive isolation may not evolve in arbitrary directions when changes in these traits are by-products of adaptation to an ecological niche. In reproductive character displacement, however, selection acts directly on reproductive characters to enhance the degree of reproductive isolation between sympatric populations. Thus, the direction of change in reproductive characters may be arbitrary in relation to changes in other morphological characters. We characterized both tegminal characters and characters indicative of body size in sympatric and allopatric populations of <it>Gryllus fultoni</it>, a species displaying character displacement in its calling song characters in areas of sympatry with <it>G. vernalis </it>populations, to infer the nature and direction of selection acting on reproductive and morphological characters in sympatry.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Except for mirror area, the number of teeth in a file, and ovipositor length of <it>G. fultoni</it>, all male and female morphological characters in <it>G. fultoni </it>and <it>G. vernalis </it>exhibited a uniform tendency to decrease in size with increasing latitude. There was no significant variation in female morphological characters between sympatric and allopatric <it>G. fultoni </it>populations. However, males of sympatric and allopatric <it>G. fultoni </it>populations significantly differed in head width, hind femur length, and mirror area even after controlling for clinal factors. Head width and hind femur length of <it>G. fultoni </it>were more similar to those of <it>G. vernalis </it>in sympatric populations than in allopatric populations, resulting in morphological convergence of <it>G. fultoni </it>and <it>G. vernalis </it>in sympatry. However, the mirror area of <it>G. fultoni </it>displayed the divergent pattern in relation to the sympatric <it>G. vernalis </it>populations.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Divergence-enhancing selection may be acting on mirror area as well as calling song characters, whereas local adaptation or clinal effects may explain variation in other morphological characters in sympatric populations of <it>G. fultoni</it>. This study also suggests that structures and behaviors that directly enhance reproductive isolation may evolve together, independently of other morphological traits.</p
Observation of a Geometric Hall Effect in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate with a Skyrmion Spin Texture
For a spin-carrying particle moving in a spatially varying magnetic field,
effective electromagnetic forces can arise due to the geometric phase
associated with adiabatic spin rotation of the particle. We report the
observation of a geometric Hall effect in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
with a skyrmion spin texture. Under translational oscillations of the spin
texture, the condensate resonantly develops a circular motion in a harmonic
trap, demonstrating the existence of an effective Lorentz force. When the
condensate circulates, quantized vortices are nucleated in the boundary region
of the condensate and the vortex number increases over 100 without significant
heating. We attribute the vortex nucleation to the shearing effect of the
effective Lorentz force from the inhomogeneous effective magnetic field.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figure
Tsunami Flooding Probability determined by Probability Distribution Type
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Criteria Tell You More than Ratings: Criteria Preference-Aware Light Graph Convolution for Effective Multi-Criteria Recommendation
The multi-criteria (MC) recommender system, which leverages MC rating
information in a wide range of e-commerce areas, is ubiquitous nowadays.
Surprisingly, although graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to
develop various recommender systems due to GNN's high expressive capability in
learning graph representations, it has been still unexplored how to design MC
recommender systems with GNNs. In light of this, we make the first attempt
towards designing a GNN-aided MC recommender system. Specifically, rather than
straightforwardly adopting existing GNN-based recommendation methods, we devise
a novel criteria preference-aware light graph convolution CPA-LGC method, which
is capable of precisely capturing the criteria preference of users as well as
the collaborative signal in complex high-order connectivities. To this end, we
first construct an MC expansion graph that transforms user--item MC ratings
into an expanded bipartite graph to potentially learn from the collaborative
signal in MC ratings. Next, to strengthen the capability of criteria preference
awareness, CPA-LGC incorporates newly characterized embeddings, including
user-specific criteria-preference embeddings and item-specific criterion
embeddings, into our graph convolution model. Through comprehensive evaluations
using four real-world datasets, we demonstrate (a) the superiority over
benchmark MC recommendation methods and benchmark recommendation methods using
GNNs with tremendous gains, (b) the effectiveness of core components in
CPA-LGC, and (c) the computational efficiency.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables; 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on
Knowledge Discovery & Data (KDD 2023) (to appear) (Please cite our conference
version.
Metal/graphene sheets as p-type transparent conducting electrodes in GaN light emitting diodes
We demonstrate the use of graphene based transparent sheets as a p-type current spreading layer in GaN light emitting diodes (LEDs). Very thin Ni/Au was inserted between graphene and p-type GaN to reduce contact resistance, which reduced contact resistance from similar to 5.5 to similar to 0.6 Omega/ cm(2), with no critical optical loss. As a result, LEDs with metal-graphene provided current spreading and injection into the p-type GaN layer, enabling three times enhanced electroluminescent intensity compared with those with graphene alone. We confirmed very strong blue light emission in a large area of the metal-graphene layer by analyzing image brightness.open281
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