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Gang Li

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arXiv2018

Testing Topological Protection of Edge States in Hexagonal Quantum Spin Hall Candidate Materials

We analyze the detailed structure of topological edge mode protection occuring in hexagonal quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials. We focus on bismuthene, antimonene, and arsenene on a SiC substrate, which, due to their large bulk gap, may offer new opportunities for room-temperature QSH applications. While time reversal symmetry is responsible for the principal symmetry protected character of QSH states, the hexagonal edge terminations yield further aspects of crystal symmetry which affect the topological protection. We show that armchair QSH edge states remain gapless under an in-plane magnetic field in the direction along the edge, a hallmark of their topological crystalline protection. In contrast, an out-of-plane magnetic field opens a gap of the order of a few meV within realistic ranges of parameters. We use these intriguing signatures of armchair QSH edge states to predict experimentally testable fingerprints of their additional topological crystalline character and their helicity emerging in tunneling spectroscopy and ballistic magnetotransport.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2018

A Training-based Identification Approach to VIN Adversarial Examples

With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the problem of AI security has gradually emerged. Most existing machine learning algorithms may be attacked by adversarial examples. An adversarial example is a slightly modified input sample that can lead to a false result of machine learning algorithms. The adversarial examples pose a potential security threat for many AI application areas, especially in the domain of robot path planning. In this field, the adversarial examples obstruct the algorithm by adding obstacles to the normal maps, resulting in multiple effects on the predicted path. However, there is no suitable approach to automatically identify them. To our knowledge, all previous work uses manual observation method to estimate the attack results of adversarial maps, which is time-consuming. Aiming at the existing problem, this paper explores a method to automatically identify the adversarial examples in Value Iteration Networks (VIN), which has a strong generalization ability. We analyze the possible scenarios caused by the adversarial maps. We propose a training-based identification approach to VIN adversarial examples by combing the path feature comparison and path image classification. We evaluate our method using the adversarial maps dataset, show that our method can achieve a high-accuracy and faster identification than manual observation method.

cs.CR↗

arXiv2018

Searching for weak singlet charged scalar at lepton colliders

A weak singlet charged scalar exists in many new physics models beyond the Standard Model. The discovery potential of the singlet charged scalar is explored at future lepton colliders, e.g. the CEPC, ILC-350 and ILC-500. We demonstrate that one can discover the singlet charged scalar up to 118 GeV at the CEPC with an integrated luminosity of $5~\mathrm{ab}^{-1}$. At the ILC-350 and the ILC-500 with an integrated luminosity of $1~\mathrm{ab}^{-1}$ such a discovery limit can be further improved to 136 GeV and 160 GeV, respectively.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Period spacings of $γ$ Doradus pulsators in the Kepler field: detection methods and application to 22 slow rotators

In $γ$ Doradus stars, the g-mode period spacing shows an approximately linear relation with period. The slope is a new asteroseismic diagnostic, related to the rotation rate and the azimuthal order $m$. We report two automated methods, the `moving-window Fourier transform' and the `cross-correlation', to detect and measure the period spacings based on four-year light curves from the \textit{Kepler} satellite. The results show that the cross-correlation method performs better at detecting the period spacings and their slopes. In this paper, we apply our method to 22 $γ$ Dor stars with g-mode multiplets split by rotation. The rotation periods are similar to the g-mode period spacings, causing the multiplets to overlap. To clarify the overlapping patterns, we use the échelle diagram and introduce a `copy-shift' diagram to discern and measure the splittings. The first observational relation between slopes and splittings is shown. The slope deviates from zero when the splitting increases, as the theory predicts. We found that what appears to be rotational splittings in two stars is in fact caused by two nearly-identical overlapping patterns from binaries.

astro-ph.SR↗

arXiv2018

Impact of the 125 GeV Higgs boson on the singlet fermion dark matter searches at the LHC

The search for singlet fermion dark matter at high-energy colliders is commonly analyzed with a singlet scalar mediator, which however violates the standard model (SM) gauge invariance, renormalizability and unitarity. These problems can be cured by introducing a mixing between the singlet scalar $s$ and the SM Higgs boson $h$. Thus one has to consider two scalar mediators $h_1$ and $h_2$, where $h_1$ is identified as the discovered 125 GeV Higgs boson. As a specific example, we consider the dark matter (DM) search in the $t \bar{t} + E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$ channel. According to the masses of dark matter and two scalar mediators, we classify the process into four cases. By investigating the total cross sections and differential distributions, we find that the contribution of the 125~GeV Higgs boson $h_1$ cannot be neglected in all cases and can even dominate once $h_1$ is on-shell in dark matter production. Further, we study the impact of $h_1$ on the LHC bounds of dark matter searches in the hadronic and semileptonic channels with the integrated luminosity of $36~\text{fb}^{-1}$. Finally we make a brief comment that $h_1$ should be also considered in the vector DM search at high-energy colliders.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Probing the Puzzle of Behind-the-Limb $γ$-ray Flares: Data-driven Simulations of Magnetic Connectivity and CME-driven Shock Evolution

Recent detections of high-energy $γ$-rays from behind-the-limb (BTL) solar flares by the \emph{Fermi $γ$-ray Space Telescope} pose a puzzle and challenge on the particle acceleration and transport mechanisms. In such events, the $γ$-ray emission region is located away from the BTL flare site by up to tens of degrees in heliogrpahic longitude. It is thus hypothesized that particles are accelerated at the shock driven by the coronal mass ejection (CME) and then travel from the shock downstream back to the front side of the Sun to produce the observed $γ$-rays. To test this scenario, we performed data-driven, global magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the CME associated with a well-observed BTL flare on 2014 September 1. We found that part of the CME-driven shock develops magnetic connectivity with the $γ$-ray emission region, facilitating transport of particles back to the Sun. Moreover, the observed increase in $γ$-ray flux is temporally correlated with (1) the increase of the shock compression ratio and (2) the presence of a quasi-perpendicular shock over the area that is magnetically connected to the $γ$-ray emitting region, both conditions favoring the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of particles. These results support the above hypothesis and can help resolve another puzzle, i.e., long-duration (up to 20 hours) $γ$-rays flares. We suggest that, in addition to DSA, stochastic acceleration by plasma turbulence may also play a role, especially in the shock downstream region and during the early stage when the shock Alfvén Mach number is small.

astro-ph.SR↗

arXiv2018

Decay patterns of low-lying $N_{s\bar{s}}$ states to the strangeness channels

Here we investigate the decay patterns of the low-lying hidden strangeness nucleon resonances ($\equiv N_{s\bar{s}}$) to the strangeness channels by employing the chiral Lagrangian approach, where the $N_{s\bar{s}}$ states are treated as compact pentaquark states. The $S$-wave decays of these states to the $PB$ (pseudoscalar meson and baryon) and $VB$ (vector meson and baryon) channels are studied. According to the obtained masses and decay properties, we find four states, namely, $N_{s\bar{s}}(1874)$ with quantum numbers $I(J^{P})=1/2(1/2^{-})$, $N_{s\bar{s}}(1885)$ with $I(J^{P})=1/2(3/2^{-})$, $N_{s\bar{s}}(2327)$ with $I(J^{P})=1/2(1/2^{-})$, and $N_{s\bar{s}}(2252)$ with $I(J^{P})=1/2(3/2^{-})$, may be associated to the well established nucleon resonances $N^*(1895)$, $N^{*}(1875)$, and the newly predicted $N^{*}(2355)$ and $N^{*}(2250)$ by CLAS collaboration, respectively. In addition, several other obtained hidden strangeness nucleon resonances may be expected to be dominant components of the predicted missing resonances in the literatures.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Design and characterization of high energy micro-CT with a laser-based X-ray source

The increasingly demand for machining accuracy and product quality excites a great interest in high-resolution non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, but spatial resolution of conventional high-energy computed tomography (CT) is limited to sub-millimeter because of large X-ray spot size. Therefore, we propose a novel high-resolution high-energy CT based on laser-driven X-ray source and prove its feasibility to allow high-spatial-resolution tomographic imaging of dense objects. A numerical model is developed with a consideration of realistic factors including parameter fluctuations, statistical noise and detecting efficiency. By using modulation transfer functions, the system performance is quantitatively characterized and optimized in terms of source characteristics, detector aperture, geometrical configuration and projection parameters. As a result, the simulated tomography for a high-density object (up to 19.35g/cm3) achieves a basic spatial resolution of 64.9μm. This concept expands the prospects of laser-based compact X-ray sources and shows a great potential to achieve high-perspectivity micro-CT imaging for various industrial applications.

physics.ins-det↗

arXiv2018

All "Magic Angles" Are "Stable" Topological

We show that the electronic structure of the low-energy bands in the small angle-twisted bilayer graphene consists of a series of semi-metallic and topological phases. In particular we are able to prove, using an approximate low-energy particle-hole symmetry, that the gapped set of bands that exist around all magic angles has what we conjecture to be a stable topological index stabilized by a magnetic symmetry and reflected in the odd winding of the Wilson loop in the Moiré BZ. The approximate, emergent particle-hole symmetry is essential to the topology of graphene: when strongly broken, non-topological phases can appear. Our paper underpins topology as the crucial ingredient to the description of low-energy graphene. We provide a $4$-band short range tight-binding model whose $2$ lower bands have the same topology, symmetry, and flatness as those of the twisted graphene, and which can be used as an effective low-energy model. We then perform large-scale ($11000$ atoms per unit cell, 40 days per $\bf k$-point computing time) ab-initio calculations of a series of small angles, from $3^\circ$ to $1^\circ$, which show a more complex and somewhat qualitatively different evolution of the symmetry of the low-energy bands than that of the theoretical Moiré model, but which confirms the topological nature of the system. At certain angles, we find no insulating filling in graphene at $-4$ electrons per Moiré unit cell. The ab-initio evolution of gaps tends to differ from that of the continuum Moiré model.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2018

Is the enhancement of type II radio bursts during CME interactions related to the associated solar energetic particle event?

We investigated 64 pairs of interacting-CME events identified by the simultaneous observations of SOHO and STEREO spacecraft from 2010 January to 2014 August, to examine the relationship between the large SEP events in the energy of 25-60MeV and the properties of the interacting CMEs. We found that during CME interactions the large SEP events in this study were all generated by CMEs with the presence of enhanced type II radio bursts, which also have wider longitudinal distributions comparing to events with the absence of type II radio burst or its enhancement (almost associated with small SEP events). It seems that the signature of type II radio bursts enhancement is a good discriminator between large SEP and small or none SEP event producers during CME interactions. The type II radio burst enhancement is more likely to be generated by CME interactions, with the main CME having larger speed (v), angular width (WD), mass (m) and kinetic energy (E_k), that taking over the preceding CMEs which also have higher v, WD, m and E_k, than those preceding CMEs in CME pairs missing the type II radio bursts or enhancements. Our analysis also revealed that the intensities of associated SEP events correlate negatively with the intersection height of the two CMEs. Most of type-II-enhanced events and SEP events are coincidentally and almost always made by the fast and wide main CMEs that sweeping fully over a relatively slower and narrower preceding CMEs. We suggest that a fast CME with enough energy completely overtaking a relatively narrower preceding CME, especially in low height, can drive more energetic shock signified by the enhanced type II radio bursts. The shock may accelerate ambient particles and lead to large SEP event more easily.

astro-ph.SR↗

arXiv2018

Photoproduction of $f_0(980)$ and $f_0(1500)$ resonances off a proton target

We study the $γp \to p f_0$ [$f_0(980)$ and $f_0(1500)$] reaction close to threshold within an effective Lagrangian approach. The production process is described by $s$-channel nucleon pole or $t$-channel $ρ$ and $ω$ exchange. The $K^0 \bar{K}^0$ invariant mass distributions of the $γp\to f_0(980)p \to K^0 \bar{K}^0$ and $γp\to f_0(1500)p \to K^0 \bar{K}^0 p$ reactions are investigated, where the two kaons have been separated in $S$ wave decaying from $f_0(980)$ and $f_0(1500)$. It is shown that the $s$-channel process is favored for the production of $f_0(980)$, while for the $f_0(1500)$ production, the experimental measurements can be described quite well by the $t$-channel process. It is expected that the theoretical results can be tested by further experiments at CLAS.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Scalable Sparse Cox's Regression for Large-Scale Survival Data via Broken Adaptive Ridge

This paper develops a new scalable sparse Cox regression tool for sparse high-dimensional massive sample size (sHDMSS) survival data. The method is a local $L_0$-penalized Cox regression via repeatedly performing reweighted $L_2$-penalized Cox regression. We show that the resulting estimator enjoys the best of $L_0$- and $L_2$-penalized Cox regressions while overcoming their limitations. Specifically, the estimator is selection consistent, oracle for parameter estimation, and possesses a grouping property for highly correlated covariates. Simulation results suggest that when the sample size is large, the proposed method with pre-specified tuning parameters has a comparable or better performance than some popular penalized regression methods. More importantly, because the method naturally enables adaptation of efficient algorithms for massive $L_2$-penalized optimization and does not require costly data driven tuning parameter selection, it has a significant computational advantage for sHDMSS data, offering an average of 5-fold speedup over its closest competitor in empirical studies.

stat.ME↗

arXiv2018

A new paradigm for the quantum spin Hall effect at high temperatures

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) has formed the seed for contemporary research on topological quantum states of matter. Since its discovery in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells and AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures, all such systems have so far been suffering from extremely low operating temperatures, rendering any technological application out of reach. We formulate a theoretical paradigm to accomplish the high temperature QSHE in monolayer-substrate heterostructures. Specifically, we explicate our proposal for hexagonal compounds formed by monolayers of heavy group-V elements (As, Sb, Bi) on a SiC substrate. We show how orbital filtering due to substrate hybridization, a tailored multi-orbital density of states at low energies, and large spin-orbit coupling can conspire to yield QSH states with bulk gaps of several hundreds of meV. Combined with the successful realization of Bi/SiC (0001), with a measured bulk gap of 800 meV reported previously [Reis et al., 10.1126/science.aai8142 (2017)], our paradigm elevates the QSHE from an intricate quantum phenomenon at low temperatures to a scalable effect amenable to device design and engineering.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2018

Gradient Band-based Adversarial Training for Generalized Attack Immunity of A3C Path Finding

As adversarial attacks pose a serious threat to the security of AI system in practice, such attacks have been extensively studied in the context of computer vision applications. However, few attentions have been paid to the adversarial research on automatic path finding. In this paper, we show dominant adversarial examples are effective when targeting A3C path finding, and design a Common Dominant Adversarial Examples Generation Method (CDG) to generate dominant adversarial examples against any given map. In addition, we propose Gradient Band-based Adversarial Training, which trained with a single randomly choose dominant adversarial example without taking any modification, to realize the "1:N" attack immunity for generalized dominant adversarial examples. Extensive experimental results show that, the lowest generation precision for CDG algorithm is 91.91%, and the lowest immune precision for Gradient Band-based Adversarial Training is 93.89%, which can prove that our method can realize the generalized attack immunity of A3C path finding with a high confidence.

cs.LG↗

arXiv2018

Searching for Weak Singlet Charged Scalar at the Large Hadron Collider

Weak singlet charged scalar exists in many new physics models beyond the Standard Model. In this work we show that a light singlet charged scalar with mass above 65~GeV is still allowed by the LEP and LHC data. The interactions of the singlet charged scalar with the Standard Model particles are described by operators up to dimension-5. Dominant decay modes of the singlet charged scalar are obtained, and a subtlety involving field redefinition and gauge fixing due to a dimension-5 operator is also clarified. We demonstrate that it is promising to observe the singlet charged scalar at the LHC.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Orientational migration of halide ion in lead halide perovskites

With the rapid evolution of lead halide perovskite solar cells, there are considerable evidences that the mobile ions strongly impact their properties. However, except the activation energy, the other properties of ionic migration are mostly explored with first principle calculations. Here we investigate the migration of halide ion (vacancy) in lead bromide perovskite single crystalline microplates. In contrast to conventional studies with external bias voltages, we introduce built-in potentials into the microplates via low-energy electron beams and study the corresponding ionic migrations. By aligning the potentials along particular crystal planes, the reduction of Pb2+ to Pb0 has been observed at the un-irradiated center of each cell, demonstrating that the migration of halide ion has preferred directions for the first time. Our observations are consistent with the recent theoretical models and shall open up a new route to improve the performances of perovskite solar cells.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2018

Reconstruction of physics objects at the Circular Electron Positron Collider with Arbor

After the Higgs discovery, precise measurements of the Higgs properties and the electroweak observables become vital for the experimental particle physics. A powerful Higgs/Z factory, the Circular Electron Positron Collider(CEPC) is proposed. The Particle Flow oriented detector design is proposed to the CEPC and a Particle Flow algorithm, Arbor is optimized accordingly. We summarize the physics object reconstruction performance of the Particle Flow oriented detector design with Arbor algorithm and conclude that this combination fulfills the physics requirement of CEPC.

hep-ex↗

arXiv2018

Entanglement of remote material qubits through nonexciting interaction with single photons

We propose a scheme to entangle multiple material qubits through interaction with single photons via non-exciting processes associated with strongly coupling systems. The basic idea is based on the material state dependent reflection and transmission for the input photons. Thus, the material qubits in several systems can be entangled when one photon interacts with each system in cascade and the photon paths are mixed by the photon detection. The character of non-exciting of the material qubits does not change the state of material qubit and thus ensures the possibility of purifying entangled states by using more photons under realistic imperfect parameters. It also guarantees directly scaling up the scheme to entangle more qubits. Detailed analysis of fidelity and success probability of the scheme in the frame of an optical Fabry-Pérot (FP) cavity based strongly coupling system is presented. It is shown that a two-qubit entangled state with fidelity above 0.99 is promised with only two photons by using currently feasible experimental parameters. Our scheme can also be directly implemented on other strongly coupled system.

quant-ph↗