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Rigid body interactions are fundamental to numerous scientific disciplines, but remain challenging to simulate due to their abrupt nonlinear nature and sensitivity to complex, often unknown environmental factors. These challenges call for…

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Statistical analysis on object data presents many challenges. Basic summaries such as means and variances are difficult to compute. We apply ideas from topology to study object data. We present a framework for using persistence landscapes…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Vic Patrangenaru , Peter Bubenik , Robert L. Paige , Daniel Osborne

There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals, and topological defects that represent immutable…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Zhi-Kang Lin , Qiang Wang , Yang Liu , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong , Jian-Hua Jiang

A primary hypothesis that drives scientific and engineering studies is that data has structure. The dominant paradigms for describing such structure are statistics (e.g., moments, correlation functions) and signal processing (e.g.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Alexander D. Smith , Pawel Dlotko , Victor M. Zavala

Topology forms a cornerstone in modern condensed matter and statistical physics, offering a new framework to classify the phases and phase transitions beyond the traditional Landau paradigm. However, it is widely believed that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-05 Xue-Jia Yu , Limei Xu , Hai-Qing Lin

We introduce a topology, which we call the regional topology, on the space of all real functions on a given locally compact metric space. Next we obtain a new versions of Schauder's fixed point theorem and Ascoli's theorem. We use these…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Janusz Migda

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Alexandr Prishlyak

In topological quantum computing, information is encoded in "knotted" quantum states of topological phases of matter, thus being locked into topology to prevent decay. Topological precision has been confirmed in quantum Hall liquids by…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Eric C. Rowell , Zhenghan Wang

Neuroscience is undergoing a period of rapid experimental progress and expansion. New mathematical tools, previously unknown in the neuroscience community, are now being used to tackle fundamental questions and analyze emerging data sets.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-28 Carina Curto

Topological physics opens up a plethora of exciting phenomena allowing to engineer disorder-robust unidirectional flows of light. Recent advances in topological protection of electromagnetic waves suggest that even richer functionalities…

Physicists study a wide variety of phenomena creating new interdisciplinary research fields by applying theories and methods originally developed in physics in order to solve problems in economics, social science, biology, medicine,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

An idealised experiment estimating the spacetime topology is considered in both classical and quantum frameworks. The latter is described in terms of histories approach to quantum theory. A procedure creating combinatorial models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. B. Breslav , G. N. Parfionov , R. R. Zapatrin

The concept of typed topological space is introduced, for which open sets in a topology on a finite set will be assigned types (from lattice). The neighborhood system of a point, the closure and the connectedness can be defined according to…

General Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Wanjun Hu

A clear understanding of topology of higher-dimensional objects is important in many branches of both pure and applied mathematics. In this survey we attempt to present some results of higher-dimensional topology in a way which makes clear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-06 A. Skopenkov

Represented spaces form the general setting for the study of computability derived from Turing machines. As such, they are the basic entities for endeavors such as computable analysis or computable measure theory. The theory of represented…

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The physical models of a successful unified theory about the Universe must operate in different phase of matter evolution and different fields of physics. The attempts to build such wide range theory as a bunch of theories developed for…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sarg

On objects of a triangulated category with a stability condition, we construct a topology.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 So Okada

Topological quantum computation started as a niche area of research aimed at employing particles with exotic statistics, called anyons, for performing quantum computation. Soon it evolved to include a wide variety of disciplines. Advances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jiannis K. Pachos , Steven H. Simon

Topological effects typically discussed in the context of quantum physics are emerging as one of the central paradigms of physics. Here, we demonstrate the role of topology in energy transport through dimerized micro- and nano-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Chih-Chun Chien , Kirill A. Velizhanin , Yonatan Dubi , B. Robert Ilic , Michael Zwolak

Complex prediction models such as deep learning are the output from fitting machine learning, neural networks, or AI models to a set of training data. These are now standard tools in science. A key challenge with the current generation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Meng Liu , Tamal K. Dey , David F. Gleich