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Algebraic Bethe ansatz for the elliptic quantum group and its applications
We study the tensor product of the {\it higher spin representations} (see the
definition in Sect. 2.2) of the elliptic quantum group .
The transfer matrices associated with the -module are
exactly diagonalized by the nested Bethe ansatz method. Some special cases of
the construction give the exact solution for the Belavin model and for
the elliptic Ruijsenaars-Schneider model.Comment: 23 pages, latex file, to appear in Nucl. Phys.
Open Source-based Over-The-Air 5G New Radio Sidelink Testbed
The focus of this paper is to demonstrate an over-the-air (OTA) 5G new radio
(NR) sidelink communication prototype. 5G NR sidelink communications allow NR
UEs to transfer data independently without the assistance of a base station
(gNB), which enables V2X communications, including platooning, autonomous
driving, sensor extension, industrial IoT, public safety communication and much
more. Our design leverages the open-source OpenAirInterface5G (OAI) software,
which operates on software-defined radios (SDRs) and can be easily extended for
mesh networking. The software includes all signal processing components
specified by the 3GPP 5G sidelink standards, including Low-Density Parity Check
(LDPC) encoding/decoding, polar encoding/decoding, data and control
multiplexing, modulation/demodulation, and orthogonal frequency-division
multiplexing (OFDM) modulation/demodulation. It can be configured to operate
with different bands, bandwidths, and antenna settings. The first milestone in
this work was to demonstrate the completed Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel
(PSBCH) development, which conducts synchronization between a Synchronization
Reference (SyncRef) UE and a nearby UE. The SyncRef UE broadcasts a sidelink
synchronization signal block (S-SSB) periodically, which the nearby UE detects
and uses to synchronize its timing and frequency components with the SyncRef
UE. Once a connection is established, the next developmental milestone is to
transmit real data (text messages) via the Physical Sidelink Shared Channel
(PSSCH). Our PHY sidelink framework is tested using both an RF simulator and an
OTA testbed with multiple nearby UEs. Beyond the development of synchronization
and data transmission/reception in 5G sidelink, we conclude with various
performance tests and validation experiments. The results of these metrics show
that our simulator is comparable to the OTA testbed.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for MILCOM 202
DeepSoCS: A Neural Scheduler for Heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) Resource Scheduling
In this paper, we~present a novel scheduling solution for a class of
System-on-Chip (SoC) systems where heterogeneous chip resources (DSP, FPGA,
GPU, etc.) must be efficiently scheduled for continuously arriving hierarchical
jobs with their tasks represented by a directed acyclic graph. Traditionally,
heuristic algorithms have been widely used for many resource scheduling
domains, and Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time (HEFT) has been a dominating
state-of-the-art technique across a broad range of heterogeneous resource
scheduling domains over many years. Despite their long-standing popularity,
HEFT-like algorithms are known to be vulnerable to a small amount of noise
added to the environment. Our Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based SoC
Scheduler (DeepSoCS), capable of learning the "best" task ordering under
dynamic environment changes, overcomes the brittleness of rule-based schedulers
such as HEFT with significantly higher performance across different types of
jobs. We~describe a DeepSoCS design process using a real-time heterogeneous SoC
scheduling emulator, discuss major challenges, and present two novel neural
network design features that lead to outperforming HEFT: (i) hierarchical job-
and task-graph embedding; and (ii) efficient use of real-time task information
in the state space. Furthermore, we~introduce effective techniques to address
two fundamental challenges present in our environment: delayed consequences and
joint actions. Through an extensive simulation study, we~show that our DeepSoCS
exhibits the significantly higher performance of job execution time than that
of HEFT with a higher level of robustness under realistic noise conditions.
We~conclude with a discussion of the potential improvements for our DeepSoCS
neural scheduler.Comment: 18 pages, Accepted by Electronics 202
Visualization of multifractal superconductivity in a two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide in the weak-disorder regime
Eigenstate multifractality is a distinctive feature of non-interacting
disordered metals close to a metal-insulator transition, whose properties are
expected to extend to superconductivity. While multifractality in three
dimensions (3D) only develops near the critical point for specific
strong-disorder strengths, multifractality in 2D systems is expected to be
observable even for weak disorder. Here we provide evidence for multifractal
features in the superconducting state of an intrinsic weakly disordered
single-layer NbSe by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling
microscopy/spectroscopy. The superconducting gap, characterized by its width,
depth and coherence peaks' amplitude, shows a characteristic spatial modulation
coincident with the periodicity of the quasiparticle interference pattern.
Spatial inhomogeneity of the superconducting gap width, proportional to the
local order parameter in the weak-disorder regime, follows a log-normal
statistical distribution as well as a power-law decay of the two-point
correlation function, in agreement with our theoretical model. Furthermore, the
experimental singularity spectrum f() shows anomalous scaling behavior
typical from 2D weakly disordered systems
Electronic Structure, Surface Doping, and Optical Response in Epitaxial WSe2 Thin Films
High quality WSe2 films have been grown on bilayer graphene (BLG) with
layer-by-layer control of thickness using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The
combination of angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES), scanning tunneling
microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS), and optical absorption measurements reveal
the atomic and electronic structures evolution and optical response of
WSe2/BLG. We observe that a bilayer of WSe2 is a direct bandgap semiconductor,
when integrated in a BLG-based heterostructure, thus shifting the
direct-indirect band gap crossover to trilayer WSe2. In the monolayer limit,
WSe2 shows a spin-splitting of 475 meV in the valence band at the K point, the
largest value observed among all the MX2 (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se) materials. The
exciton binding energy of monolayer-WSe2/BLG is found to be 0.21 eV, a value
that is orders of magnitude larger than that of conventional 3D semiconductors,
yet small as compared to other 2D transition metal dichalcogennides (TMDCs)
semiconductors. Finally, our finding regarding the overall modification of the
electronic structure by an alkali metal surface electron doping opens a route
to further control the electronic properties of TMDCs
Refined Holographic Entanglement Entropy for the AdS Solitons and AdS black Holes
We consider the refinement of the holographic entanglement entropy for the
holographic dual theories to the AdS solitons and AdS black holes, including
the corrected ones by the Gauss-Bonnet term. The refinement is obtained by
extracting the UV-independent piece of the holographic entanglement entropy,
the so-called renormalized entanglement entropy which is independent of the
choices of UV cutoff. Our main results are (i) the renormalized entanglement
entropies of the AdS soliton for are neither monotonically
decreasing along the RG flow nor positive definite, especially around the
deconfinement/confinement phase transition; (ii) there is no topological
entanglement entropy for AdS soliton even with Gauss-Bonnet correction;
(iii) for the AdS black holes, the renormalized entanglement entropy obeys an
expected volume law at IR regime, and the transition between UV and IR regimes
is a smooth crossover even with Gauss-Bonnet correction; (iv) based on AdS/MERA
conjecture, we postulate that the IR fixed-point state for the non-extremal AdS
soliton is a trivial product state.Comment: 48 pages, 24 figures; v2: few typos corrected; v3: mistake on the
choice of dominant phase is corrected, differential subtraction scheme is
introduced to remove the UV cutoff-ambiguity, some of the conclusions on RG
flow are changed; v4: statement about C theorem revised; v5 Final version to
NP
Hedonic and utilitarian performances as determinants of mental health and pro-social behaviors among volunteer tourists
International volunteer tourism is an emerging and sustainable trend of the global tourism industry. In this study, we attempted to provide a clear comprehension of volunteer tourists’ mental health increase and pro-social intention formation. A survey method and quantitative approach were used. Our result from the structural analysis showed that hedonic and utilitarian performances, mental health, and volunteer tourism engagement had significant associations and that these relationships contributed to improving pro-social intention. In addition, results from the metric invariance assessment revealed that the volunteer tourism engagement and pro-social intention relation was under the significant influence of problem awareness and ascribed responsibility. Mental health and engagement acted as significant mediators. The comparative importance of volunteer tourism engagement was uncovered. Overall, our results provided a sufficient understanding of volunteer tourists’ pro-social decision-making process and behaviors
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