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We consider the statistical inference problem of recovering an unknown perfect matching, hidden in a weighted random graph, by exploiting the information arising from the use of two different distributions for the weights on the edges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-10 Guilhem Semerjian , Gabriele Sicuro , Lenka Zdeborová

We theoretically demonstrate a non-hermitian metamaterial exhibiting broadband and wide-angle nonreciprocity. The metamaterial consists of planar metal-dielectric layers with a Parity-Time (PT) symmetric distrubtion of loss and gain. With…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-07 David Barton , Mark Lawrence , Hadiseh Alaeian , Jennifer Dionne

We derive entropy conserving and entropy dissipative overlapping domain formulations for systems of nonlinear hyperbolic equations in conservation form, such as would be approximated by overset mesh methods. The entropy conserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-05 David A. Kopriva , Gregor J. Gassner , Jan Nordstrom

Prior support constrained compressed sensing has of late become popular due to its potential for applications. The existing results on recovery guarantees provide global recovery bounds in the sense that they deal with full support.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 K. Z. Najiya , Munnu Sonkar , C. S. Sastry

It is shown that the Self-Consistent RPA (SCRPA) approach allows in a very natural way to restore symmetries, spontaneously broken on the mean field level. This is achieved via the introduction of a second Lagrange multiplier which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rabhi , P. Schuck , R. Bennaceur , G. Chanfray , J. Dukelsky

The concept of cloaking -- hiding objects from external detection -- has seen wide success in linear systems. Yet, translating these advancements to nonlinear mechanical systems remains an open challenge. Here, we present a new approach to…

We theoretically investigate the possibility of using a metamaterial structure as a spacer, named as metaspacer, which can be integrated with other materials in microfabrication. We show that such metaspacers can provide new optical…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-22 Muhammad I. Aslam , Durdu Ö. Güney

Recently, parametric mappings have emerged as highly effective surface representations, yielding low reconstruction error. In particular, the latest works represent the target shape as an atlas of multiple mappings, which can closely encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zhantao Deng , Jan Bednařík , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

The novel combination of a strongly-resonant optical metasurface with the MoS$_2$/WSe$_2$ hetero-bilayer is proposed for efficient free-space lasing enabled by the enhanced coupling between the optical and matter (exciton) states. The…

Recently, the coexistence of parity-time (PT) symmetric laser and absorber has gained tremendous research attention. While the PT symmetric absorber has been observed in microwave metamaterials, the experimental demonstration of PT…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhiyuan Gu , Nan Zhang , Quan Lyu , Meng Li , Shumin Xiao , Qinghai Song

Dispersion pre-compensation is shown to potentially lead to a substantial non-linearity reduction in PM-QPSK links that use a mixture of high and low dispersion fibers. However, the much larger PAPR of the pre-compensated signal poses…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-08 A. Carena , Y. Jiang , P. Poggiolini , G. Bosco , V. Curri , F. Forghieri

This paper presents a novel algorithm, the particle-based, rapid incremental smoother (PaRIS), for efficient online approximation of smoothed expectations of additive state functionals in general hidden Markov models. The algorithm, which…

Computation · Statistics 2014-12-25 Jimmy Olsson , Johan Westerborn

This paper describes performance bounds for compressed sensing (CS) where the underlying sparse or compressible (sparsely approximable) signal is a vector of nonnegative intensities whose measurements are corrupted by Poisson noise. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Maxim Raginsky , Rebecca M. Willett , Zachary T. Harmany , Roummel F. Marcia

Uncovering new mechanisms for rectification of stochastic fluctuations has been a longstanding problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Here, using a model parity violating metamaterial that is allowed to interact with a bath of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Zhenghan Liao , William T. M. Irvine , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We show from ab initio laser theory that by choosing an appropriate spatial pump profile, many different spatial modes of a typical microlaser can be turned on at the same pump energy, substantially increasing the number, N, of simultaneous…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-28 Li Ge , Hui Cao , A. Douglas Stone

The absence of functional arm joints, such as the wrist, in upper extremity prostheses leads to compensatory motions in the users' daily activities. Compensatory motions have been previously studied for varying task protocols and evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Qihan Yang , Yuri Gloumakov , Adam J. Spiers

We present a framework for the end-to-end optimization of metasurface imaging systems that reconstruct targets using compressed sensing, a technique for solving underdetermined imaging problems when the target object exhibits sparsity (i.e.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Gaurav Arya , William F. Li , Charles Roques-Carmes , Marin Soljačić , Steven G. Johnson , Zin Lin

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful control over electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces exhibiting not only…

We provide another framework of iterative algorithms based on thresholding, feedback and null space tuning for sparse signal recovery arising in sparse representations and compressed sensing. Several thresholding algorithms with various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Shidong Li , Yulong Liu , Tiebin Mi

In nature, metachronal coordination is an efficient strategy for fluid pumping and self-propulsion. Yet, mimetic systems for this type of organization are scarce. Recently, metachronal motion was observed in a bead-based magnetocapillary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-07 Sebastian Ziegler , Megan Delens , Ylona Collard , Maxime Hubert , Nicolas Vandewalle , Ana-Sunčana Smith