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We study the relation between the persistent homology and the spectral sequence of a filtered chain complex over a field. Our method is based on a decomposition of the persistent homology. We demonstrate that, under fairly general…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Peiqi Yang , Yingfeng Hu , Hao Wu

We present general design principles for engineering and discovering periodic systems with flat bands. Our paradigm exploits spin-orbit assisted orbital frustration on a lattice to produce band structures that contain multiplets of narrowly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-02 Zachariah Addison , Nandini Trivedi

We present $\vec{k}$-dependent one-particle spectra and corresponding effective bandstructures for the $2d$ Hubbard model calculated within the dynamical molecular field theory (DMFT). This method has proven to yield highly nontrivial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Th. Pruschke , Th. Obermeier , J. Keller , M. Jarrell

Artificially fabricated structures with periodically modulated parameters such as photonic crystals offer novel ways of controlling the flow of light due to the existence of a range of forbidden frequencies associated with a photonic…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya V. Shadrivov , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

The introduction of structural defects in otherwise periodic media is well known to grant exceptional space control and localization of waves in various physical fields, including elasticity. Despite the variety of designs proposed so far,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Marco Miniaci , Florian Allein , Raj Kumar Pal

Complex unit gain graphs may exhibit various kinds of symmetry. In this work, we explore structural symmetry, spectral symmetry and sign-symmetry in such graphs, and their respective relations to one-another. Our main result is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Pepijn Wissing , Edwin R. van Dam

The coupling space of perceptrons with continuous as well as with binary weights gets partitioned into a disordered multifractal by a set of $p=\gamma N$ random input patterns. The multifractal spectrum $f(\alpha)$ can be calculated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Weigt , A. Engel

Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

We study bandstructure properties of periodic optical systems composed of lossy and intrinsically dispersive materials. To this end, we develop an analytical framework based on adjoint modes of a lossy periodic electromagnetic system and…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-19 Christian Wolff , Kurt Busch , N. Asger Mortensen

It has recently been shown that periodic layered media can reflect strongly for all incident angles and polarizations in a given frequency range. The standard treatment gets these band gaps from an eigenvalue equation for the Bloch factor…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. J. Monzon , T. Yonte , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

We show that there is a natural restriction on the smoothness of spaces where the transfer operator for a continuous dynamical system has a spectral gap. Such a space cannot be embedded in a H\"older space with H\"older exponent greater…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Ian Melbourne , Nicolo Paviato , Dalia Terhesiu

Genetic sequences are known to possess non-trivial composition together with symmetries in the frequencies of their components. Recently, it has been shown that symmetry and structure are hierarchically intertwined in DNA, suggesting a…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-28 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Mirko Degli Esposti , Eduardo G. Altmann

We study the band structure and scattering of in-plane coupled longitudinal and shear stress waves in linear layered media and observe that exceptional points (EP) appear for elastic (lossless) media, when parameterized with real-valued…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Vahidreza Alizadeh , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

The linear properties of the angular gap in a one dimensional photonic band gap structure containing single negative material layers are investigated. This gap forms at oblique incidence due to total internal reflection into air when the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-18 Munazza Zulfiqar Ali , Tariq Abdullah

We present a method for bounding, and in some cases computing, the spectral gap for systems of many particles evolving under the influence of a random collision mechanism. In particular, the method yields the exact spectral gap in a model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Michael Loss

We describe a non-perturbative method for computing the energy band structures of one-dimensional models with general point potentials sitting at equally spaced sites. This is done thanks to a Bethe ansatz approach and the method is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-05 V. Caudrelier , N. Crampe

The main purpose of this article is to alert spectroscopists, particularly those involved in surveys, to the fact that rapidly pulsating sources induce periodic structures in spectra. This would allow the detection of new classes of objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-18 Ermanno F. Borra

A simple model of 1D structure based on a Fibonacci sequence with variable atomic spacings is proposed. The model allows for observation of the continuous transition between periodic and non-periodic diffraction patterns. The diffraction…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Buczek , Lorenzo Sadun , Janusz Wolny

A general analytical approach to the statistical description of quantum graph spectra based on the exact periodic orbit expansions of quantum levels is discussed. The exact and approximate expressions obtained in \cite{Anima} for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. Dabaghian

Dimension reduction techniques for multivariate time series decompose the observed series into a few useful independent/orthogonal univariate components. We develop a spectral domain method for multivariate second-order stationary time…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-12 Raanju R. Sundararajan