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We develop a linear theory of electron transport for a system of two identical quantum wires in a wide range of the wire length L, unifying both the ballistic and diffusive transport regimes. The microscopic model, involving the interaction…

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We consider the following geometric optics problem: Construct a system of two reflectors which transforms a spherical wavefront generated by a point source into a beam of parallel rays. This beam has a prescribed intensity distribution. We…

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Plasmodium of \emph{Physarum polycephalum} is a single cell visible by unaided eye. On a non-nutrient substrate the plasmodium propagates as a traveling localization, as a compact wave-fragment of protoplasm. The plasmodium-localization…

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Physarum polycephalum is a large single amoeba cell, which in its plasmodial phase,forages and connects nearby food sources with protoplasmic tubes. The organism forages for food by growing these tubes towards detected food stuffs, this…

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We introduce a numerical strategy to efficiently solve the out-of-equilibrium Dyson equation in the transient regime. By discretizing the equation into a compact matrix form and applying state-of-the-art matrix compression techniques, we…

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In this paper, we introduce the solver ConvexFlows for the convex flow problem first defined in the authors' previous work. In this problem, we aim to optimize a concave utility function depending on the flows over a graph. However, unlike…

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We describe an exact and highly efficient numerical algorithm for solving a special but important class of convection-diffusion equations. These equations occur in many problems in physics, chemistry, or biology, and they are usually hard…

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Potential functionals have been introduced recently as an important tool for the analysis of coupled scalar systems (e.g. density evolution equations). In this contribution, we investigate interesting properties of this potential. Using the…

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An application design is offered, which students of physics can use when authoring a solver for mechanical systems with constraints. A 'chainlist' concept is introduced to capture a constrained mechanical system configuration and to pass…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-03-17 Vladimir Vasilich Tregub

The problem of nonlinear transport in a two dimensional superconductor with an applied oscillating electric field is solved by the holographic method. The complex conductivity can be computed from the dynamics of the current for both near-…

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We propose a method for verifying that a given feasible point for a polynomial optimization problem is globally optimal. The approach relies on the Lasserre hierarchy and the result of Lasserre regarding the importance of the convexity of…

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In this work, we focus on separable convex optimization problems with box constraints and a set of triangular linear constraints. The solution is given in closed-form as a function of some Lagrange multipliers that can be computed through…

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The new generation of manufacturing technologies such as e.g. additive manufacturing and automated fiber placement has enabled the development of material systems with desired functional and mechanical properties via particular designs of…

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We suggest a new optical solution for solving the YES/NO version of the Exact Cover problem by using the massive parallelism of light. The idea is to build an optical device which can generate all possible solutions of the problem and then…

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We derive a steady-state, electromagnetic solution for collisional plasma and apply it to computing the total conductance for a vertically stratified ionosphere interrogated by a 3D signal with finite transverse wavelength, which we compare…

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We develop a new approach to recurrence and the existence of non-constant harmonic functions on infinite weighted graphs. The approach is based on the capacity of subsets of metric boundaries with respect to intrinsic metrics. The main tool…

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In this work, we introduce an iterative linearised finite element method for the solution of Bingham fluid flow problems. The proposed algorithm has the favourable property that a subsequence of the sequence of iterates generated converges…

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This paper investigates the convexity of the solution set of the linear complementarity problems over tensor spaces (TLCPs). We introduce the notion of a $T$-column sufficient tensor and study its properties and relationships with several…

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The aim of this work is to present a parallel solver for a formulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain method. The fluid subproblem,…

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We propose that Feynman integral reduction is controlled by solutions of the Landau equations. We study integral relations with prescribed propagator powers using syzygy methods and discuss how syzygies can be expressed as a sum over…

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