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In theories with topological sectors, such as lattice QCD and four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories with periodic boundary conditions, conventional update algorithms suffer from topological freezing due to large action barriers separating…

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We introduce a new method for inverse design of nanophotonic devices which guarantees that resulting designs satisfy strict length scale constraints - including minimum width and spacing constraints required by commercial semiconductor…

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Inverse problems associated with designing cylindrical thermal cloaking shells are studied. Using the optimization method these inverse problems are reduced to corresponding control problems in which the diagonal components of diagonal in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Gennady Alekseev , Dmitry Tereshko

Deterministic loading of single atoms onto arbitrary two-dimensional lattice points has recently been demonstrated, where by dynamically controlling the optical-dipole potential, atoms from a probabilistically loaded lattice were relocated…

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The purpose of this work is two-fold. First, we introduce an efficient homogenization-based approach to perform topology optimization of coated structures with orthotropic infill material. By making use of the relaxed design space, we can…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jeroen Groen , Jun Wu , Ole Sigmund

Inverse patchy colloids are nano- to micro-scale particles with a surface divided into differently charged regions. This class of colloids combines directional, selective bonding with a relatively simple particle design: owing to the…

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We design fast protocols to separate or recombine two ions in a segmented Paul trap. By inverse engineering the time evolution of the trapping potential composed of a harmonic and a quartic term, it is possible to perform these processes in…

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Like the letters in the alphabet forming words, reusing components of a heterogeneous mixture is an efficient strategy for assembling a large number of target structures. Examples range from synthetic DNA origami to proteins self-assembling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Félix Benoist , Pablo Sartori

In this paper we introduce a new method to design interparticle interactions to target arbitrary crystal structures via the process of self-assembly. We show that it is possible to exploit the curvature of the crystal nucleation free-energy…

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As an increasingly powerful technique in integrated photonics, inverse design uses optimization algorithms to automatically create compact, high-performance photonic structures, often yielding non-intuitive layouts far more compact than…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Junho Park , Taehan Kim , Mohammad Ali , Di Liang

This paper focuses on the day-ahead forecasting of the aggregate power of a pool of smart buildings equipped with thermostatically-controlled loads. We first propose the modeling of the aggregate behavior of its power trajectory by using a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-25 Ricardo Fernández-Blanco , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

The development of inverse design, where computational optimization techniques are used to design devices based on certain specifications, has led to the discovery of many compact, non-intuitive structures with superior performance. Among…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-25 Tyler W. Hughes , Momchil Minkov , Ian A. D. Williamson , Shanhui Fan

Recent advances enable the creation of nanoscale building blocks with complex geometries and interaction specificities for self-assembly. This nearly boundless design space necessitates design principles for defining the mutual interactions…

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Machine learning techniques for the solution of inverse problems have become an attractive approach in the last decade, while their theoretical foundations are still in their infancy. In this chapter we want to pursue the study of…

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Despite the success statistical physics has enjoyed at predicting the properties of materials for given parameters, the inverse problem, identifying which material parameters produce given, desired properties, is only beginning to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-17 Marc Z. Miskin , Gurdaman S. Khaira , Juan J. de Pablo , Heinrich M. Jaeger

This work presents an approach to the inverse design of scattering systems by modifying the transmission matrix using reinforcement learning. We utilize Proximal Policy Optimization to navigate the highly non-convex landscape of the object…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Yuhao Kang

We present a new algorithm to design lightweight cellular materials with required properties in a multi-physics context. In particular, we focus on a thermo-mechanical setting, by promoting the design of unit cells characterized both by an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Matteo Gavazzoni , Nicola Ferro , Simona Perotto , Stefano Foletti

Inverse design aims to design the input variables of a physical system to optimize a specified objective function, typically formulated as a search or optimization problem. However, in 3D domains, the design space grows exponentially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuze Hao , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

In equilibrium statistical mechanics or thermodynamics formalism one of the main objectives is to describe the behavior of families of equilibrium measures for a potential parametrized by the inverse temperature $\beta$. Here we consider…

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