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Kaixuan He

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Cusp-singularity-enhanced Coriolis effect for ultrasensitive chip-scale gyroscopes

Gyroscopes, as fundamental inertial sensors, are crucial for rotation measurements in consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace industries, with the most widely used kind relying on the Coriolis effect. The chip-scale Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes (CVGs) show reduced size, weight, and cost, but remain far lower performance than traditional macroscale CVGs, as the weak intrinsic Coriolis factor sets a fundamental limit on scaling the sensitivity against the inherently louder Brownian noise in microchips compared to the macroscale ones. Here, to overcome this physical limit, for the first time, we propose and experimentally demonstrate the use of third-order singularities lying within cusp catastrophes in the phase-tracked oscillations of an on-chip CVG to facilitate a cubic-root scaling of the Coriolis-effect-induced frequency modulation. Employing this effect, we achieve a three-order-of-magnitude enhancement in the Coriolis factor, yielding a 253-fold improvement in signal-to-noise ratio and a 297-fold increase in precision. Moreover, the cusp singularity enables a previously unattainable ultrasensitive phase-modulated sublinear measurement, achieving a world-record signal-to-noise ratio performance for silicon-chip gyroscopes. These findings not only provide revolutionary advancements in gyroscope technologies, by filling the gap in observing and controlling the singularity-enhanced Coriolis effect, but also shed new light on other ultrasensitive sensing applications.

physics.ins-det

DORA: Dynamic Online Reinforcement Agent for Token Merging in Vision Transformers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) incur significant computational overhead due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention relative to the token sequence length. While existing token reduction methods mitigate this issue, they predominantly rely on fixed heuristic metrics, predefined ratios, or static offline masks, which lack the adaptability to capture input-dependent redundancy during inference. In this paper, we propose DORA (Dynamic Online Reinforcement Agent), the first reinforcement learning (RL)-driven online inference framework for dynamic token merging in ViTs. We formulate the merging process as a sequential Markov Decision Process (MDP), where a lightweight RL agent determines the merging strategy for each Transformer block based on the current feature state and layer-specific context. To balance computational efficiency and feature fidelity, the agent is optimized via a dense reward function incorporating a non-linear distillation-based penalty. We implement an asymmetric Actor-Critic architecture that utilizes a high-capacity Critic for stable offline training while retaining a minimal Actor head for low-computation online inference. Evaluations across multiple ViT scales (Tiny to Large) demonstrate that DORA improves the accuracy-efficiency Pareto front compared to current baselines. Under strict negligible accuracy-drop constraints (<= 0.05%), DORA achieves up to a 12.66% token merging rate, and delivers up to a 569.7% relative improvement over the most efficient baseline. On ImageNet-1K, under aligned accuracy constraints, DORA achieves up to a 76% relative improvement in computational savings compared to state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, on out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarks such as ImageNet-A and ImageNet-C, DORA attains a relative efficiency advantage of over 430%.

cs.CV

Dynamically encircling an exceptional point through phase-tracked closed-loop control

The intricate complex eigenvalues of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians manifest as Riemann surfaces in control parameter spaces. At the exceptional points (EPs), the degeneracy of both eigenvalues and eigenvectors introduces noteworthy topological features, particularly during the encirclement of the EPs. Traditional methods for probing the state information on the Riemann surfaces involve static measurements; however, realizing continuous encircling remains a formidable challenge due to non-adiabatic transitions that disrupt the transport paths. Here we propose an approach leveraging the phase-locked loop (PLL) technique to facilitate smooth, dynamic encircling of EPs while maintaining resonance. Our methodology strategically ties the excitation frequencies of steady states to their response phases, enabling controlled traversal along the Riemann surfaces of real eigenvalues. This study advances the concept of phase-tracked dynamical encircling and explores its practical implementation within a fully electrically controlled non-Hermitian microelectromechanical system, highlighting robust in-situ tunability and providing methods for exploring non-Hermitian topologies.

quant-ph