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Low-momentum Pion Enhancement Induced by Chiral Symmetry Restoration
The thermal and nonthermal pion production by sigma decay and its relation
with chiral symmetry restoration in a hot and dense matter are investigated.
The nonthermal decay into pions of sigma mesons which are popularly produced in
chiral symmetric phase leads to a low-momentum pion enhancement as a possible
signature of chiral phase transition at finite temperature and density.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
The Effects of Evolutionary Adaptations on Spreading Processes in Complex Networks
A common theme among the proposed models for network epidemics is the
assumption that the propagating object, i.e., a virus or a piece of
information, is transferred across the nodes without going through any
modification or evolution. However, in real-life spreading processes, pathogens
often evolve in response to changing environments and medical interventions and
information is often modified by individuals before being forwarded. In this
paper, we investigate the evolution of spreading processes on complex networks
with the aim of i) revealing the role of evolution on the threshold,
probability, and final size of epidemics; and ii) exploring the interplay
between the structural properties of the network and the dynamics of evolution.
In particular, we develop a mathematical theory that accurately predicts the
epidemic threshold and the expected epidemic size as functions of the
characteristics of the spreading process, the evolutionary dynamics of the
pathogen, and the structure of the underlying contact network. In addition to
the mathematical theory, we perform extensive simulations on random and
real-world contact networks to verify our theory and reveal the significant
shortcomings of the classical mathematical models that do not capture
evolution. Our results reveal that the classical, single-type bond-percolation
models may accurately predict the threshold and final size of epidemics, but
their predictions on the probability of emergence are inaccurate on both random
and real-world networks. This inaccuracy sheds the light on a fundamental
disconnect between the classical bond-percolation models and real-life
spreading processes that entail evolution. Finally, we consider the case when
co-infection is possible and show that co-infection could lead the order of
phase transition to change from second-order to first-order.Comment: Submitte
Thermal and Nonthermal Pion Enhancements with Chiral Symmetry Restoration
The pion production by sigma decay and its relation with chiral symmetry
restoration in a hot and dense matter are investigated in the framework of the
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The decay rate for the process sigma -> 2pion to the
lowest order in a 1/N_c expansion is calculated as a function of temperature T
and chemical potential mu. The thermal and nonthermal enhancements of pions
generated by the decay before and after the freeze-out present only in the
crossover region of the chiral symmetry transition. The strongest nonthermal
enhancement is located in the vicinity of the endpoint of the first-order
transition.Comment: Latex2e, 12 pages, 8 Postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Hysteretic current-voltage characteristics and resistance switching at an epitaxial oxide Schottky junction SrRuO/SrTiNbO
Transport properties have been studied for a perovskite heterojunction
consisting of SrRuO (SRO) film epitaxially grown on
SrTiNbO (Nb:STO) substrate. The SRO/Nb:STO interface
exhibits rectifying current-voltage (-) characteristics agreeing with
those of a Schottky junction composed of a deep work-function metal (SRO) and
an -type semiconductor (Nb:STO). A hysteresis appears in the -
characteristics, where high resistance and low resistance states are induced by
reverse and forward bias stresses, respectively. The resistance switching is
also triggered by applying short voltage pulses of 1 s - 10 ms duration.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, Appl. Phys. Lett., in pres
Electronic and magnetic states in doped LaCoO_3
The electronic and magnetic states in doped perovskite cobaltites, (La,
Sr)CoO_3, are studied in the numerically exact diagonalization method on
Co_2O_{11} clusters. For realistic parameter values, it is shown that a high
spin state and an intermediate spin state coexist in one-hole doped clusters
due to strong p-d mixing. The magnetic states in the doped cobaltites obtained
in the calculation explain various experimental results.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, epsfj.st
Spectral and dynamic characteristics of buried-heterostructure single quantum well (Al,Ga)As lasers
We demonstrate that, as predicted, (Al,Ga)As single quantum well (SQW) lasers have substantially narrower spectral linewidths than bulk double-heterostructure lasers. We have observed a further major reduction (>3×) in the linewidth of these SQW lasers when the facet reflectivities are enhanced. This observation is explained theoretically on the basis of the very low losses in coated SQW lasers and the value of the spontaneous emission factor at low threshold currents. We also report on the modulation frequency response parameter of these SQW lasers
Max-Fusion U-Net for Multi-Modal Pathology Segmentation with Attention and Dynamic Resampling
Automatic segmentation of multi-sequence (multi-modal) cardiac MR (CMR)
images plays a significant role in diagnosis and management for a variety of
cardiac diseases. However, the performance of relevant algorithms is
significantly affected by the proper fusion of the multi-modal information.
Furthermore, particular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, display
irregular shapes on images and occupy small regions at random locations. These
facts make pathology segmentation of multi-modal CMR images a challenging task.
In this paper, we present the Max-Fusion U-Net that achieves improved pathology
segmentation performance given aligned multi-modal images of LGE, T2-weighted,
and bSSFP modalities. Specifically, modality-specific features are extracted by
dedicated encoders. Then they are fused with the pixel-wise maximum operator.
Together with the corresponding encoding features, these representations are
propagated to decoding layers with U-Net skip-connections. Furthermore, a
spatial-attention module is applied in the last decoding layer to encourage the
network to focus on those small semantically meaningful pathological regions
that trigger relatively high responses by the network neurons. We also use a
simple image patch extraction strategy to dynamically resample training
examples with varying spacial and batch sizes. With limited GPU memory, this
strategy reduces the imbalance of classes and forces the model to focus on
regions around the interested pathology. It further improves segmentation
accuracy and reduces the mis-classification of pathology. We evaluate our
methods using the Myocardial pathology segmentation (MyoPS) combining the
multi-sequence CMR dataset which involves three modalities. Extensive
experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model which
outperforms the related baselines.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, conference pape
Exclusive Decays and CP Violation in the General two-Higgs-doublet Model
We calculate all the branching ratios and direct CP violations of
decays in a most general two-Higgs-doublet model with spontaneous CP violation.
As the model has rich CP-violating sources, it is shown that the new physics
effects to direct CP violations and branching ratios in some channels can be
significant when adopting the generalized factorization approach to evaluate
the hadronic matrix elements, which provides good signals for probing new
physics beyond the SM in the future B experiments.Comment: 21 page
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