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Phase diagram of doped BaFeAs superconductor under broken symmetry
We develop a minimal multiorbital tight-binding model with realistic hopping
parameters. The model breaks the symmetry of the tetragonal point group by
lowering it from to , which accurately describes the Fermi
surface evolution of the electron-doped BaFeCoAs and hole-doped
BaKFeAs compounds. An investigation of the phase diagram
with a mean-field -- Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian results in
agreement with the experimentally observed electron- and hole-doped phase
diagram with only one set of , and parameters. Additionally, the
self-consistently calculated superconducting order parameter exhibits
-wave pairing symmetry with a small d-wave pairing admixture in the
entire doping range, % The superconducting -wave order parameter
which is the subtle result of the weakly broken symmetry and competing
interactions in the multiorbital mean-field Hamiltonian
DGPO: Discovering Multiple Strategies with Diversity-Guided Policy Optimization
Recent algorithms designed for reinforcement learning tasks focus on finding
a single optimal solution. However, in many practical applications, it is
important to develop reasonable agents with diverse strategies. In this paper,
we propose Diversity-Guided Policy Optimization (DGPO), an on-policy framework
for discovering multiple strategies for the same task. Our algorithm uses
diversity objectives to guide a latent code conditioned policy to learn a set
of diverse strategies in a single training procedure. Specifically, we
formalize our algorithm as the combination of a diversity-constrained
optimization problem and an extrinsic-reward constrained optimization problem.
And we solve the constrained optimization as a probabilistic inference task and
use policy iteration to maximize the derived lower bound. Experimental results
show that our method efficiently finds diverse strategies in a wide variety of
reinforcement learning tasks. We further show that DGPO achieves a higher
diversity score and has similar sample complexity and performance compared to
other baselines
Strain rate dependent mechanical properties in single crystal nickel nanowires
We measure the strain rate dependence of 0.2% offset yield stress in single-crystal nickel
nanowires with diameters ranging from 80 to 300 nm. In situ tensile experiments with strain rates
from 10 4 s 1 to 10 2 s 1 were conducted, and the small activation volume ( 10b3, where b is
the Burgers vector length) and high strain-rate sensitivity ( 0.1) were obtained. These results
agreed with atomistic simulations. Our work provides insights into the strength-limiting and
rate-controlling mechanism of plasticity at the nanoscale
Atomistic characterization of pseudoelasticity and shape memory in NiTi nanopillars
Abstract Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study the atomistic mechanisms governing the pseudoelasticity and shape memory in nickel-titanium (NiTi) nanostructures. For a h1 1 0i -oriented nanopillar subjected to compressive loading-unloading, we observe either a pseudoelastic or shape memory response, depending on the applied strain and temperature that control the reversibility of phase transformation and deformation twinning. We show that irreversible twinning arises owing to the dislocation pinning of twin boundaries, while hierarchically twinned microstructures facilitate the reversible twinning. The nanoscale size effects are manifested as the load serration, stress plateau and large hysteresis loop in stress-strain curves that result from the high stresses required to drive the nucleationcontrolled phase transformation and deformation twinning in nanosized volumes. Our results underscore the importance of atomistically resolved modeling for understanding the phase and deformation reversibilities that dictate the pseudoelasticity and shape memory behavior in nanostructured shape memory alloys
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