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Shock wave loading and spallation of copper bicrystals with asymmetric Σ3〈110〉tilt grain boundaries
We investigate the effect of asymmetric grain boundaries (GBs) on the shock response of Cu bicrystals with molecular dynamics simulations. We choose a representative Σ3〈110〉tilt GB type, (110)_1/(114)_2, and a grain size of about 15 nm. The shock loading directions lie on the GB plane and are along [001] and [221] for the two constituent crystals. The bicrystal is characterized in terms of local structure, shear strain, displacement, stress and temperature during shock compression, and subsequent release and tension. The shock response of the bicrystal manifests pronounced deviation from planar loading as well as strong stress and strain concentrations, due to GBs and the strong anisotropy in elasticity and plasticity. We explore incipient to full spallation. Voids nucleate either at GBs or on GB-initiated shear planes, and the spall damage also depends on grain orientation
Unsupervised Learning of Long-Term Motion Dynamics for Videos
We present an unsupervised representation learning approach that compactly
encodes the motion dependencies in videos. Given a pair of images from a video
clip, our framework learns to predict the long-term 3D motions. To reduce the
complexity of the learning framework, we propose to describe the motion as a
sequence of atomic 3D flows computed with RGB-D modality. We use a Recurrent
Neural Network based Encoder-Decoder framework to predict these sequences of
flows. We argue that in order for the decoder to reconstruct these sequences,
the encoder must learn a robust video representation that captures long-term
motion dependencies and spatial-temporal relations. We demonstrate the
effectiveness of our learned temporal representations on activity
classification across multiple modalities and datasets such as NTU RGB+D and
MSR Daily Activity 3D. Our framework is generic to any input modality, i.e.,
RGB, Depth, and RGB-D videos.Comment: CVPR 201
Heavy surface state in a possible topological Kondo insulator: Magneto-thermoelectric transport on the (011)-plane of SmB
Motivated by the high sensitivity to Fermi surface topology and scattering
mechanisms in magneto-thermoelectric transport, we have measured the
thermopower and Nernst effect on the (011)-plane of the proposed topological
Kondo insulator SmB. These experiments, together with electrical
resistivity and Hall effect measurements, demonstrate that the (011)-plane also
harbors a metallic surface with the effective mass in the order of 10-10
. The surface and bulk conductances are well distinguished in these
measurements and are categorized into metallic and non-degenerate
semiconducting regimes, respectively. Electronic correlations play an important
role in enhancing scattering and also contribute to the heavy surface state.Comment: 4 figures, 1 tabl
Entanglement distribution over the subsystems and its invariance
We study the entanglement dynamics of two qubits, each of which is embedded
into its local amplitude-damping reservoir, and the entanglement distribution
among all the bipartite subsystems including qubit-qubit, qubit-reservoir, and
reservoir-reservoir. It is found that the entanglement can be stably
distributed among all components, which is much different to the result
obtained under the Born-Markovian approximation by C. E. L\'{o}pez {\it et al.}
[Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{101}, 080503 (2008)], and particularly it also
satisfies an identity. Our unified treatment includes the previous results as
special cases. The result may give help to understand the physical nature of
entanglement under decoherence.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
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