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The motion of electrons under homogeneously applied electric fields in low-dimensional systems with non-zero off-diagonal effective mass (ODEM) is studied. The equation describing the time evolution of a probability coefficient of finding…
Scientific and engineering problems often involve parametric partial differential equations (PDEs), such as uncertainty quantification, optimizations, and inverse problems. However, solving these PDEs repeatedly can be prohibitively…
We consider the problem of extrapolating the perturbation series for the dilute Fermi gas in three dimensions to the unitary limit of infinite scattering length and into the BEC region, using the available strong-coupling information to…
Recently a non-empirical stochastic walker algorithm has been developed to search for the minimum-energy escape paths (MEP) from the minima of the potential surface [J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 87, 063801 (2018)]. This algorithm is novel in that it…
Finding index-1 saddle points is crucial for understanding phase transitions. In this work, we propose a simple yet efficient approach, the spring pair method (SPM), to accurately locate saddle points. Without requiring Hessian information,…
In this paper, we consider the following query problem: given two weighted point sets $A$ and $B$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, we want to quickly determine that whether their earth mover's distance (EMD) is larger or smaller than…
Extracting scientific results from high-energy collider data involves the comparison of data collected from the experiments with synthetic data produced from computationally-intensive simulations. Comparisons of experimental data and…
The asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) is a paradigm for non-equilibrium physics that appears as a building block to model various low-dimensional transport phenomena, ranging from intracellular traffic to quantum dots. We review…
The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is a method for obtaining the most likely distribution functions of observables from statistical systems, by maximizing entropy under constraints. The MEP has found hundreds of applications in ergodic and…
Electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation is a crucial tool for power system dynamic analysis because of its detailed component modeling and high simulation accuracy. However, it suffers from computational burdens for large power grids…
The ground state energy of a many-electron system can be approximated by an variational approach in which the total energy of the system is minimized with respect to one and two-body reduced density matrices (RDM) instead of many-electron…
Faced with the complexities of managing natural gas-dependent power system amid the surge of renewable integration and load unpredictability, this study explores strategies for navigating emergency transitions to costlier secondary fuels.…
This paper addresses the motion control problem for underactuated mechanical systems with full attitude control and one translational force input to manage the six degrees of freedom involved in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. These…
Electron tomography (ET) has been demonstrated to be a powerful tool in addressing challenging problems, such as understanding 3D interactions among various microstructures. Advancing ET to broader applications requires novel…
The NP-hard maximum-entropy sampling problem (MESP) seeks a maximum (log-)determinant principal submatrix, of a given order, from an input covariance matrix $C$. We give an efficient dynamic-programming algorithm for MESP when $C$ (or its…
The industrial drying process consumes approximately 12% of the total energy used in manufacturing, with the potential for a 40% reduction in energy usage through improved process controls and the development of new drying technologies. To…
The continued miniaturization of semiconductor devices, represented by Moore's law, has reached the atomic scale limit, requiring nanoscale quantum mechanical effects to be included in device simulations without empirical parameters. For…
We explore training deep neural network models in conjunction with physics simulations via partial differential equations (PDEs), using the simulated degrees of freedom as latent space for a neural network. In contrast to previous work,…
This paper proposes a way to combine the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm with the Cross-Entropy (CE) method for non smooth constrained optimization. The CE method is used as a Search step by the MADS algorithm. The result of…
We propose NEP_MiniMax, a novel computational method for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems (NEPs) $T(\lambda)\mathbf{u}= 0$ on compact continua $\Omega \subset \mathbb{C}$. The method combines two key components: (1) a rational minimax…