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Effect of incommensurate disorder on the resonant tunneling through Majorana bound states on the topological superconductor chains
We study the transport through the Kitaev's chain with incommensurate
potentials coupled to two normal leads by the numerical operator method. We
find a quantized linear conductance of , which is independent to the
disorder strength and the gate voltage in a wide range, signaling the Majorana
bound states. While the incommensurate disorder suppresses the current at
finite voltage bias, and then narrows the linear response regime of the
curve which exhibits two plateaus corresponding to the superconducting gap and
the band edge respectively. The linear conductance abruptly drops to zero as
the disorder strength reaches the critical value with the
p-wave pairing amplitude, corresponding to the transition from the topological
superconducting phase to the Anderson localized phase. Changing the gate
voltage will also cause an abrupt drop of the linear conductance by driving the
chain into the topologically trivial superconducting phase, whose curve
exhibits an exponential shape.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Promoting information spreading by using contact memory
Promoting information spreading is a booming research topic in network
science community. However, the exiting studies about promoting information
spreading seldom took into account the human memory, which plays an important
role in the spreading dynamics. In this paper we propose a non-Markovian
information spreading model on complex networks, in which every informed node
contacts a neighbor by using the memory of neighbor's accumulated contact
numbers in the past. We systematically study the information spreading dynamics
on uncorrelated configuration networks and a group of real-world networks,
and find an effective contact strategy of promoting information spreading,
i.e., the informed nodes preferentially contact neighbors with small number of
accumulated contacts. According to the effective contact strategy, the high
degree nodes are more likely to be chosen as the contacted neighbors in the
early stage of the spreading, while in the late stage of the dynamics, the
nodes with small degrees are preferentially contacted. We also propose a
mean-field theory to describe our model, which qualitatively agrees well with
the stochastic simulations on both artificial and real-world networks.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Shallow Water Depth Inversion Based on Data Mining Models
This thesis focuses on applying machine-learning algorithms on water depth inversion from remote sensing images, with a case study in Michigan lake area. The goal is to assess the use of the public available Landsat images on shallow water depth inversion. Firstly, ICESAT elevation data were used to determine the absolute water surface elevation. Airborne bathymetry Lidar data provide systematic measure of water bottom elevation. Subtracting water bottom elevation from water surface elevation will result in water depth. Water depth is associated with reflectance recorded as DN value in Landsat images. Water depth inversion was tested on ANN models, SVM models with four different kernel functions and regression tree model that exploit the correlation between water depth and image band ratios. The result showed that the RMSE (root-mean-square error) of all models are smaller than 1.5 meters and the R2 of them are greater than 0.81. The conclusion is Landsat images can be used to measure water depth in shallow area of the lakes. Potentially, water volume change of the Great Lakes can be monitored by using the procedure explored in this research
Dust in the Local Group
How dust absorbs and scatters starlight as a function of wavelength (known as
the interstellar extinction curve) is crucial for correcting for the effects of
dust extinction in inferring the true luminosity and colors of reddened
astrophysical objects. Together with the extinction spectral features, the
extinction curve contains important information about the dust size
distribution and composition. This review summarizes our current knowledge of
the dust extinction of the Milky Way, three Local Group galaxies (i.e., the
Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and M31), and galaxies beyond the Local
Group.Comment: 21 pages, 11 figures; invited review article published in "LESSONS
FROM THE LOCAL GROUP -- A Conference in Honour of David Block and Bruce
Elmegreen" eds. Freeman, K.C., Elmegreen, B.G., Block, D.L. & Woolway, M.
(SPRINGER: NEW YORK), pp. 85-10
Learning Social Affordance Grammar from Videos: Transferring Human Interactions to Human-Robot Interactions
In this paper, we present a general framework for learning social affordance
grammar as a spatiotemporal AND-OR graph (ST-AOG) from RGB-D videos of human
interactions, and transfer the grammar to humanoids to enable a real-time
motion inference for human-robot interaction (HRI). Based on Gibbs sampling,
our weakly supervised grammar learning can automatically construct a
hierarchical representation of an interaction with long-term joint sub-tasks of
both agents and short term atomic actions of individual agents. Based on a new
RGB-D video dataset with rich instances of human interactions, our experiments
of Baxter simulation, human evaluation, and real Baxter test demonstrate that
the model learned from limited training data successfully generates human-like
behaviors in unseen scenarios and outperforms both baselines.Comment: The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA
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