22 research outputs found
Lifshitz-like argument for low-lying states in a strong magnetic field
We propose a Lifshitz argument in order to analyse the low energy spectrum of
an electron moving in a strong magnetic field and scattered by randomly
distributed repulsive zero-range impurities. The typical configurations of
disorder which give rise to low energy states are identified as clusters of
impurities. This allows for an interpretation of low-lying states localized
around these clusters.Comment: 9 page
Random Aharonov-Bohm vortices and some funny families of integrals
A review of the random magnetic impurity model, introduced in the context of
the integer Quantum Hall effect, is presented. It models an electron moving in
a plane and coupled to random Aharonov-Bohm vortices carrying a fraction of the
quantum of flux. Recent results on its perturbative expansion are given. In
particular, some funny families of integrals show up to be related to the
Riemann and .Comment: 10 page
The grand canonical ABC model: a reflection asymmetric mean field Potts model
We investigate the phase diagram of a three-component system of particles on
a one-dimensional filled lattice, or equivalently of a one-dimensional
three-state Potts model, with reflection asymmetric mean field interactions.
The three types of particles are designated as , , and . The system is
described by a grand canonical ensemble with temperature and chemical
potentials , , and . We find that for
the system undergoes a phase transition from a
uniform density to a continuum of phases at a critical temperature . For other values of the chemical potentials the system
has a unique equilibrium state. As is the case for the canonical ensemble for
this model, the grand canonical ensemble is the stationary measure
satisfying detailed balance for a natural dynamics. We note that , where is the critical temperature for a similar transition in
the canonical ensemble at fixed equal densities .Comment: 24 pages, 3 figure
Cycle-based Cluster Variational Method for Direct and Inverse Inference
We elaborate on the idea that loop corrections to belief propagation could be
dealt with in a systematic way on pairwise Markov random fields, by using the
elements of a cycle basis to define region in a generalized belief propagation
setting. The region graph is specified in such a way as to avoid dual loops as
much as possible, by discarding redundant Lagrange multipliers, in order to
facilitate the convergence, while avoiding instabilities associated to minimal
factor graph construction. We end up with a two-level algorithm, where a belief
propagation algorithm is run alternatively at the level of each cycle and at
the inter-region level. The inverse problem of finding the couplings of a
Markov random field from empirical covariances can be addressed region wise. It
turns out that this can be done efficiently in particular in the Ising context,
where fixed point equations can be derived along with a one-parameter log
likelihood function to minimize. Numerical experiments confirm the
effectiveness of these considerations both for the direct and inverse MRF
inference.Comment: 47 pages, 16 figure
One-dimensional Particle Processes with Acceleration/Braking Asymmetry
The slow-to-start mechanism is known to play an important role in the
particular shape of the Fundamental diagram of traffic and to be associated to
hysteresis effects of traffic flow.We study this question in the context of
exclusion and queueing processes,by including an asymmetry between deceleration
and acceleration in the formulation of these processes. For exclusions
processes, this corresponds to a multi-class process with transition asymmetry
between different speed levels, while for queueing processes we consider
non-reversible stochastic dependency of the service rate w.r.t the number of
clients. The relationship between these 2 families of models is analyzed on the
ring geometry, along with their steady state properties. Spatial condensation
phenomena and metastability is observed, depending on the level of the
aforementioned asymmetry. In addition we provide a large deviation formulation
of the fundamental diagram (FD) which includes the level of fluctuations, in
the canonical ensemble when the stationary state is expressed as a product form
of such generalized queues.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
Dynamic Time-Lag Regression: Predicting what & when
This paper tackles a new regression problem, called Dynamic Time-Lag Regression (DTLR), where a cause signal drives an effect signal with an unknown time delay. The motivating application, pertaining to space weather modelling, aims to predict the near-Earth solar wind speed based on estimates of the Sun’s coronal magnetic field. DTLR differs from mainstream regression and from sequence-to-sequence learning in two respects: firstly, no ground truth (e.g., pairs of associated sub-sequences) is available; secondly, the cause signal contains much information irrelevant to the effect signal (the solar magnetic field governs the solar wind propagation in the heliosphere, of which the Earth’s magnetosphere is but a minuscule region).A Bayesian approach is presented to tackle the specifics of the DTLR problem,with theoretical justifications based on linear stability analysis. A proof of concept on synthetic problems is presented. Finally, the empirical results on the solar wind modelling task improve on the state of the art in solar wind forecasting
Functionals of the Brownian motion, localization and metric graphs
We review several results related to the problem of a quantum particle in a
random environment.
In an introductory part, we recall how several functionals of the Brownian
motion arise in the study of electronic transport in weakly disordered metals
(weak localization).
Two aspects of the physics of the one-dimensional strong localization are
reviewed : some properties of the scattering by a random potential (time delay
distribution) and a study of the spectrum of a random potential on a bounded
domain (the extreme value statistics of the eigenvalues).
Then we mention several results concerning the diffusion on graphs, and more
generally the spectral properties of the Schr\"odinger operator on graphs. The
interest of spectral determinants as generating functions characterizing the
diffusion on graphs is illustrated.
Finally, we consider a two-dimensional model of a charged particle coupled to
the random magnetic field due to magnetic vortices. We recall the connection
between spectral properties of this model and winding functionals of the planar
Brownian motion.Comment: Review article. 50 pages, 21 eps figures. Version 2: section 5.5 and
conclusion added. Several references adde
Density correlations of magnetic impurities and disorder
We consider an electron coupled to a random distribution of point vortices in the plane (magnetic impurities). We analyze the effect of the magnetic impurities on the density of states of the test particle, when the magnetic impurities have a spatial probability distribution governed by Bose or Fermi statistic at a given temperature. Comparison is made with the Poisson distribution, showing that the zero temperature Fermi distribution corresponds to less disorder. A phase diagram describing isolated impurities versus Landau level oscillations is proposed