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Mutual information has many applications in image alignment and matching, mainly due to its ability to measure the statistical dependence between two images, even if the two images are from different modalities (e.g., CT and MRI). It…

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Calculations and mechanistic explanations for the probabilistic movement of objects at the highly relevant cm length scales has been lacking and overlooked due to the complexity of current techniques. Predicting the final-configuration…

We report a numerical study accounting for the electrical response of a slipping multi-contact interface and of their variations with the sliding speed. We characterize these variations by analyzing the voltage noise across the contact from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Eddy Chevallier

Recent developments of experimental techniques in the field of ultra-cold gases open a path to study the crossover from 'few' to 'many' on the quantum level. In this case, accurate description of inter-particle correlations is very…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-23 Marcin Płodzień , Dariusz Wiater , Andrzej Chrostowski , Tomasz Sowiński

Research on strongly correlated electron systems faces a fundamental challenge due to the complex nature of intrinsic many-body correlations. A key strategy to address this challenge lies in advancing experimental methods that can directly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Yuehua Su , Guoya Zhang , Chao Zhang , Dezhong Cao

The impact of a two-dimensional elastic disk with a wall is numerically studied. It is clarified that the coefficient of restitution (COR) decreases with the impact velocity. The result is not consistent with the recent quasi-static theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisao Hayakawa , Hiroto Kuninaka

This paper presents a method for online estimation of contact properties during in-hand sliding manipulation with a parallel gripper. We estimate the static and Coulomb friction as well as the contact radius from tactile measurements of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Gabriel Arslan Waltersson , Yiannis Karayiannidis

We investigate finite number effects in collisions between two states of an initially well known number of identical bosons with contact interactions, oscillating in the presence of harmonic confinement in one dimension. We investigate two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-30 David I. H. Holdaway , Christoph Weiss , Simon A. Gardiner

We considered the thermodynamics in spaces with deformed commutation relation leading to existence of the minimal length. We developed a classical method of the partition function evaluation. We calculated the partition function and heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Taras Fityo

Our knowledge about the "cold" Universe often relies on molecular spectra. A general property of such spectra is that the energy level populations are rarely at local thermodynamic equilibrium. Solving the radiative transfer thus requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 Jérôme Loreau , François Lique , Alexandre Faure

The estimation of surface integrals on the boundary of an unknown body is a challenge for nonparametric methods in statistics, with powerful applications to physics and image analysis, among other fields. Provided that one can determine…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-09 Raúl Jiménez , J. E. Yukich

Mass measurement of a particle whose decay products including invisible particles is a challenging task at colliders. For a new physics model involving a dark matter candidate $N$ and a $Z_2$ symmetry that stabilizes it, a typical new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-13 Qian-Fei Xiang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Qi-Shu Yan , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu

Estimating 3D humans from images often produces implausible bodies that lean, float, or penetrate the floor. Such methods ignore the fact that bodies are typically supported by the scene. A physics engine can be used to enforce physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shashank Tripathi , Lea Müller , Chun-Hao P. Huang , Omid Taheri , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas

We compare ten transport codes for a system confined in a box, aiming at improved handling of the production of $\Delta$ resonances and pions, which is indispensable for constraining high-density symmetry energy from observables such as the…

We explore the evolution of the mass distribution of dust in collision-dominated debris disks, using the collisional code introduced in our previous paper. We analyze the equilibrium distribution and its dependence on model parameters by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 András Gáspár , Dimitrios Psaltis , George H. Rieke , Feryal Özel

We introduce a method for efficiently computing the exact shortest path to the boundary of a mesh from a given internal point in the presence of self-intersections. We provide a formal definition of shortest boundary paths for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 He Chen , Elie Diaz , Cem Yuksel

There is little known about the methods used by the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians to arrive at their recorded estimates of the value of Pi. A surprisingly accurate estimate of Pi was recently revealed coded within a verse in the book of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-05-07 David Neustadter

Experimental comparisons of performance represent an important aspect of research on optimization algorithms. In this work we present a methodology for defining the required sample sizes for designing experiments with desired statistical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Felipe Campelo , Fernanda Takahashi

In this work, we introduce a collision model specifically tailored for the simulation of inextensible textiles. The model considers friction, contacts, and inextensibility constraints all at the same time without any decoupling.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Franco Coltraro , Jaume Amorós , Maria Alberich-Carramiñana , Carme Torras

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the in-hand 6D pose of an object in contact with multiple vision-based tactile sensors. We reason on the possible spatial configurations of the sensors along the object surface.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Gabriele M. Caddeo , Nicola A. Piga , Fabrizio Bottarel , Lorenzo Natale