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arXiv2016

Negative thermal expansion and local lattice distortion in the (Sc1-xTix)F3 and related solid solutions

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is unusual but important property for control of thermal expansion. In the present study, the chemical modification is utilized to engineer controllable thermal expansion in cubic NTE ScF3. A broad window of the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE = -1.51 ~ -3.4*10^-6 K-1, 300-800 K) has been achieved in Sc1-xMxF3 (M = Ti, Al and Ga). The long-range crystallographic structure of (Sc1-xTix)F3 adheres to the cubic Pm-3m symmetry according to the analysis of high-energy synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of synchrotron X-ray total scattering was performed to investigate the local lattice distortion. It was found that the weakness of NTE has a close correlation with the local lattice distortion. Based on the coupled rotation model, it is presumably that this local distortion might dampen the transverse vibration of F atoms and thus reduce NTE. The present work provides a possible reference for the design of controllable NTE in open framework solids.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗
arXiv2016

When is Noisy State Information at the Encoder as Useless as No Information or as Good as Noise-Free State?

For any binary-input channel with perfect state information at the decoder, if the mutual information between the noisy state observation at the encoder and the true channel state is below a positive threshold determined solely by the state distribution, then the capacity is the same as that with no encoder side information. A complementary phenomenon is revealed for the generalized probing capacity. Extensions beyond binary-input channels are developed.

cs.IT↗
arXiv2016

Optical Levitation of Nanodiamonds by Doughnut Beams in Vacuum

Optically levitated nanodiamonds with nitrogen-vacancy centers promise a high-quality hybrid spin-optomechanical system. However, the trapped nanodiamond absorbs energy form laser beams and causes thermal damage in vacuum. We propose to solve the problem by trapping a composite particle (a nanodiamond core coated with a less absorptive silica shell) at the center of strongly focused doughnut-shaped laser beams. Systematical study on the trapping stability, heat absorption, and oscillation frequency concludes that the azimuthally polarized Gaussian beam and the linearly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian beam ${\rm LG}_{03}$ are the optimal choices. With our proposal, particles with strong absorption coefficients can be trapped without obvious heating and, thus, the spin-optomechanical system based on levitated nanodiamonds are made possible in high vacuum with the present experimental techniques.

physics.optics↗
arXiv2016

Experimental Phase Diagram of a One-Dimensional Topological Superconductor

Topological superconductors can host Majorana quasiparticles which supersede the fermion/boson dichotomy and offer a pathway to fault tolerant quantum computation. In one-dimensional systems zero-energy Majorana states are bound to the ends of the topologically superconducting regions. An experimental signature of a Majorana bound state is a conductance peak at zero source-drain voltage bias in a tunneling experiment. Here, we identify the bulk topological phase in a semiconductor nanowire coupled to a conventional superconductor. We map out its phase diagram through the dependence of zero-bias peak on the chemical potential and magnetic field. Our findings are consistent with calculations for a finite-length topological nanowire. Knowledge of the phase diagram makes it possible to predictably tune nanowire segments in and out of the topological phase, thus controlling the positions and couplings of multiple Majorana bound states. This ability is a prerequisite for Majorana braiding, an experiment in which Majorana quantum states are exchanged in order to both demonstrate their non-abelian character and realize topological quantum bits.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗
arXiv2016

Shock responses of nanoporous aluminum by molecular dynamics simulations

We present systematic investigations on the shock responses of nanoporous aluminum (np-Al) by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The dislocation nucleation sites are found to concentrate in low latitude region near the equator of the spherical void surfaces. We propose a continuum wave reflection theory and a resolved shear stress model to explain the distribution of dislocation nucleation sites. The simulations reveals two mechanisms of void collapse: the plasticity mechanism and the internal jetting mechanism. The plasticity mechanism, which leads to transverse collapse of voids, prevails under relatively weaker shocks; while the internal jetting mechanism, which leads to longitudinal filling of the void vacuum, plays more significant role as the shock intensity increases. In addition, an abnormal thermodynamic phenomenon (i.e., arising of temperature with pressure dropping) in shocked np-Al is discovered. This phenomenon is incompatible with the conventional Rankine-Hugoniot theory, and is explained by the nonequilibrium processes involved in void collapse. The influences of void collapse on spall fracture of np-Al is studied. Under the same loading velocity, the spall strength of np-Al is found to be lower than that of single-crystal Al; but the spall resistance is higher in np-Al than in single-crystal Al. This is explained by the combined influences of thermal dissipation and stress attenuation during shock wave propagation in np-Al.

physics.comp-ph↗
arXiv2016

On Optimal Fronthaul Compression and Decoding Strategies for Uplink Cloud Radio Access Networks

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited fronthaul links. The BSs compress the received signals with Wyner-Ziv coding and send the representation bits to the CP; the CP performs the decoding of all the users' messages. Under this setup, this paper makes progress toward the optimal structure of the fronthaul compression and CP decoding strategies for the compress-and-forward scheme in C-RAN. On the CP decoding strategy design, this paper shows that under a sum fronthaul capacity constraint, a generalized successive decoding strategy of the quantization and user message codewords that allows arbitrary interleaved order at the CP achieves the same rate region as the optimal joint decoding. Further, it is shown that a practical strategy of successively decoding the quantization codewords first, then the user messages, achieves the same maximum sum rate as joint decoding under individual fronthaul constraints. On the joint optimization of user transmission and BS quantization strategies, this paper shows that if the input distributions are assumed to be Gaussian, then under joint decoding, the optimal quantization scheme for maximizing the achievable rate region is Gaussian. Moreover, Gaussian input and Gaussian quantization with joint decoding achieve to within a constant gap of the capacity region of the Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink C-RAN model. Finally, this paper addresses the computational aspect of optimizing uplink MIMO C-RAN by showing that under fixed Gaussian input, the sum rate maximization problem over the Gaussian quantization noise covariance matrices can be formulated as convex optimization problems, thereby facilitating its efficient solution.

cs.IT↗
arXiv2016

Investigating Energetic X-Shaped Flares on the Outskirts of A Solar Active Region

Typical solar flares display two quasi-parallel, bright ribbons on the chromosphere. In between is the polarity inversion line (PIL) separating concentrated magnetic fluxes of opposite polarity in active regions (ARs). Intriguingly a series of flares exhibiting X-shaped ribbons occurred at the similar location on the outskirts of NOAA AR 11967, where magnetic fluxes were scattered, yet three of them were alarmingly energetic. The X shape, whose center coincided with hard X-ray emission, was similar in UV/EUV, which cannot be accommodated in the standard flare model. Mapping out magnetic connectivities in potential fields, we found that the X morphology was dictated by the intersection of two quasi-separatrix layers, i.e., a hyperbolic flux tube (HFT), within which a separator connecting a double null was embedded. This topology was not purely local but regulated by fluxes and flows over the whole AR. The nonlinear force-free field model suggested the formation of a current layer at the HFT, where the current dissipation can be mapped to the X-shaped ribbons via field-aligned heat conduction. These results highlight the critical role of HFTs in 3D magnetic reconnection and have important implications for astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.

astro-ph.SR↗
arXiv2016

A New Embedded-Atom Method Approach Based On the p-th Moment Approximation

Large scale atomistic simulations with suitable interatomic potentials are widely employed by scientists or engineers of different areas. Quick generation of high-quality interatomic potentials is of urgent need under present circumstances, which largely relies on the developments of potential construction methods and algorithms in this area. Quantities of interatomic potential models have been proposed and parameterized with various methods, such as analytic method, force-matching approach and multi-object optimization method, in order to make the potentials more transferable. Without apparently lowing precisions for describing the target system, potentials of fewer fitting parameters (FPs) are somewhat more physically reasonable. Thus, studying methods of reducing FP number is helpful to understand the underline physics of simulated systems and generalize the construction methods to other similar systems. However, few reported works concentrate on methods of reducing the number of FPs without affecting precisions. In this work, the methods of reducing the FP number while keeping the precisions are discussed from two aspects. Firstly, the physical ideas of constructions of the embedded-atom method (EAM) potential model are modified to make the potential more robust, flexible and scalable without introducing too many FPs.Secondly, the smaller reference data set (SRD), compared with the target reference database for describing the mechanical behaviors of aluminum, is employed in our construction procedures.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗
arXiv2016

The Sum Rate of Vector Gaussian Multiple Description Coding with Tree-Structured Covariance Distortion Constraints

A single-letter lower bound on the sum rate of multiple description coding with tree-structured distortion constraints is established by generalizing Ozarow's celebrated converse argument through the introduction of auxiliary random variables that form a Markov tree. For the quadratic vector Gaussian case, this lower bound is shown to be achievable by an extended version of the El Gamal-Cover scheme, yielding a complete sum-rate characterization.

cs.IT↗
arXiv2016

Why is a flare-rich active region CME-poor?

Solar active regions (ARs) are the major sources of two kinds of the most violent solar eruptions, namely flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The largest AR in the past 24 years, NOAA AR 12192, crossed the visible disk from 2014 October 17 to 30, unusually produced more than one hundred flares, including 32 M-class and 6 X-class ones, but only one small CME. Flares and CMEs are believed to be two phenomena in the same eruptive process. Why is such a flare-rich AR so CME-poor? We compared this AR with other four ARs; two were productive in both and two were inert. The investigation of the photospheric parameters based on the SDO/HMI vector magnetogram reveals that the flare-rich AR 12192, as the other two productive ARs, has larger magnetic flux, current and free magnetic energy than the two inert ARs, but contrast to the two productive ARs, it has no strong, concentrated current helicity along both sides of the flaring neutral line, indicating the absence of a mature magnetic structure consisting of highly sheared or twisted field lines. Furthermore, the decay index above the AR 12192 is relatively low, showing strong constraint. These results suggest that productive ARs are always large and have enough current and free energy to power flares, but whether or not a flare is accompanied by a CME is seemingly related to (1) if there is mature sheared or twisted core field serving as the seed of the CME, (2) if the constraint of the overlying arcades is weak enough.

astro-ph.SR↗
arXiv2016

Caching and Delivery via Interference Elimination

We propose a new caching scheme where linear combinations of the file segments are cached at the users, for the cases where the number of files is no greater than the number of users. When a user requests a certain file in the delivery phase, the other file segments in the cached linear combinations can be viewed as interferences. The proposed scheme combines rank metric codes and maximum distance separable codes to facilitate the decoding and elimination of these interferences, and also to simultaneously deliver useful contents to the intended users. The performance of the proposed scheme can be explicitly evaluated, and we show that the tradeoff points achieved by this scheme can strictly improve known tradeoff inner bounds in the literature; for certain special cases, the new tradeoff points can be shown to be optimal.

cs.IT↗
arXiv2016

Stereoscopic Observation of Slipping Reconnection in A Double Candle-Flame-Shaped Solar Flare

The 2011 January 28 M1.4 flare exhibits two side-by-side candle-flame-shaped flare loop systems underneath a larger cusp-shaped structure during the decay phase, as observed at the northwestern solar limb by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The northern loop system brightens following the initiation of the flare within the southern loop system, but all three cusp-shaped structures are characterized by ~ 10 MK temperatures, hotter than the arch-shaped loops underneath. The "Ahead" satellite of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) provides a top view, in which the post-flare loops brighten sequentially, with one end fixed while the other apparently slipping eastward. By performing stereoscopic reconstruction of the post-flare loops in EUV and mapping out magnetic connectivities, we found that the footpoints of the post-flare loops are slipping along the footprint of a hyperbolic flux tube (HFT) separating the two loop systems, and that the reconstructed loops share similarity with the magnetic field lines that are traced starting from the same HFT footprint, where the field lines are relatively flexible. These results argue strongly in favor of slipping magnetic reconnection at the HFT. The slipping reconnection was likely triggered by the flare and manifested as propagative dimmings before the loop slippage is observed. It may contribute to the late-phase peak in Fe XVI 33.5 nm, which is even higher than its main-phase counterpart, and may also play a role in the density and temperature asymmetry observed in the northern loop system through heat conduction.

astro-ph.SR↗
arXiv2016

A Source-Channel Separation Theorem with Application to the Source Broadcast Problem

A converse method is developed for the source broadcast problem. Specifically, it is shown that the separation architecture is optimal for a variant of the source broadcast problem and the associated source-channel separation theorem can be leveraged, via a reduction argument, to establish a necessary condition for the original problem, which unifies several existing results in the literature. Somewhat surprisingly, this method, albeit based on the source-channel separation theorem, can be used to prove the optimality of non-separation based schemes and determine the performance limits in certain scenarios where the separation architecture is suboptimal.

cs.IT↗
arXiv2015

Structure, Stability, and Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes from the Perspective of Magnetic Twist

We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region 11817 during 2013 August 10--12, when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by two eruptive, flares. These C-and-above flares are all associated with a magnetic flux rope (MFR) located along the major polarity inversion line, where shearing and converging photospheric flows are present. Aided by the nonlinear force-free field modeling, we identify the MFR through mapping magnetic connectivities and computing the twist number $\mathcal{T}_w$ for each individual field line. The MFR is moderately twisted ($|\mathcal{T}_w| < 2$) and has a well-defined boundary of high squashing factor $Q$. We found that the field line with the extremum $|\mathcal{T}_w|$ is a reliable proxy of the rope axis, and that the MFR's peak $|\mathcal{T}_w|$ temporarily increases within half an hour before each flare while it decreases after the flare peak for both confined and eruptive flares. This pre-flare increase in $|\mathcal{T}_w|$ has little effect on the active region's free magnetic energy or any other parameters derived for the whole region, due to its moderate amount and the MFR's relatively small volume, while its decrease after flares is clearly associated with the stepwise decrease in free magnetic energy due to the flare. We suggest that $\mathcal{T}_w$ may serve as a useful parameter in forewarning the onset of eruption, and therefore, the consequent space weather effects. The helical kink instability is identified as the prime candidate onset mechanism for the considered flares.

astro-ph.SR↗
arXiv2015

Ferroic properties of Fe-doped and Cu-doped K0.45Na0.49Li0.06NbO3 ceramics

Ferroelectric and magnetic properties of Fe-doped K0.45Na0.49Li0.06NbO3 (KNLN) and Cu-doped KNLN ceramics were investigated. Comparing with pure KNLN ceramic, Fe-doped KNLN shows ferromagnetic and ferroelectric properties simultaneously while Cu-doped KNLN shows stronger diamagnetic and ferroelectric properties. The magnetic property in KNLN matrix are believed to be induced by point defects. The ferromagnetism of Fe-doped KNLN can be explained by the F-center exchange mechanism, while the antiferroelectric-like loop and diamagnetism of Cu-doped KNLN was explained by the special defect structure and Cu1+ ion at A site.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗
arXiv2015

A straightforward method to assess motion blur for different types of displays

A simulation method based on the liquid crystal response and the human visual system is suitable to characterize motion blur for LCDs but not other display types. We propose a more straightforward and widely applicable method to quantify motion blur based on the width of the moving object. We thus compare various types of displays objectively. A perceptual experiment was conducted to validate the proposed method. We test varying motion velocities for nine commercial displays. We compare the three motion blur evaluation methods (simulation, human perception, and our method) using z-scores. Our comparisons indicate that our method accurately characterizes motion blur for various display types.

cs.CV↗
arXiv2015

Outer Bounds on the Admissible Source Region for Broadcast Channels with Correlated Sources

Two outer bounds on the admissible source region for broadcast channels with correlated sources are presented: the first one is strictly tighter than the existing outer bound by Gohari and Anantharam while the second one provides a complete characterization of the admissible source region in the case where the two sources are conditionally independent given the common part. These outer bounds are deduced from the general necessary conditions established for the lossy source broadcast problem via suitable comparisons between the virtual broadcast channel (induced by the source and the reconstructions) and the physical broadcast channel.

cs.IT↗