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When inclusions with extreme conductivity (insulator or perfect conductor) are closely located, the gradient of the solution to the conductivity equation can be arbitrarily large. And computation of the gradient is extremely challenging due…
This paper studies field concentration between two nearly touching conductors separated by imperfect low-conductivity interfaces, modeled by Robin boundary conditions. It is known that for any sufficiently small interfacial bonding…
If two conducting or insulating inclusions are closely located, the gradient of the solution may become arbitrarily large as the distance between inclusions tends to zero, resulting in high concentration of stress in between two inclusions.…
We investigate higher derivative estimates for the Lam\'e system with hard inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. As the distance $\varepsilon$ between two closely spaced hard inclusions approaches zero, the stress in…
In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport…
It is interesting to study the stress concentration between two adjacent stiff inclusions in composite materials, which can be modeled by the Lam\'e system with partially infinite coefficients. To overcome the difficulty from the lack of…
In the region between two closely located stiff inclusions, the stress, which is the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} system with partially infinite coefficients, may become arbitrarily large as the distance between interfacial…
Binary embedding is the problem of mapping points from a high-dimensional space to a Hamming cube in lower dimension while preserving pairwise distances. An efficient way to accomplish this is to make use of fast embedding techniques…
In the perfect conductivity problem of composites, the electric field may become arbitrarily large as $\varepsilon$, the distance between the inclusions and the matrix boundary, tends to zero. The main contribution of this paper lies in…
The aim of this paper is to design a band-limited optimal input with power constraints for identifying a linear multi-input multi-output system. It is assumed that the nominal system parameters are specified. The key idea is to use the…
In this paper, we study an insulation problem that seeks to determine the optimal distribution of a given amount $m>0$ of insulating material coating an insulated boundary part $\Gamma_I\subseteq \partial\Omega$ of a thermally conducting…
The detectability lemma is a useful tool for probing the structure of gapped ground states of frustration-free Hamiltonians of lattice spin models. The lemma provides an estimate on the error incurred by approximating the ground space…
This paper presents two approaches to the precise design of maximally flat antireflection coatings reducing the reflectance of the substrate to near zero in a certain region around the central frequency. The first ideal case concerns…
Implicit inverse problems, in which noisy observations of a physical quantity are used to infer a nonlinear functional applied to an associated function, are inherently ill posed and often exhibit non uniqueness of solutions. Such problems…
In this paper, we study optimal experimental design problems with a broad class of smooth convex optimality criteria, including the classical A-, D- and p th mean criterion. In particular, we propose an interior point (IP) method for them…
We introduce a learning-based algorithm to obtain a measurement matrix for compressive sensing related recovery problems. The focus lies on matrices with a constant modulus constraint which typically represent a network of analog phase…
Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…
We detect an inclusion with infinite conductivity from boundary measurements represented by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the conductivity equation. We use both the enclosure method and the probe method. We use the enclosure method to…
In this paper, we investigate the limiting absorption principle associated to and the well-posedness of the Helmholtz equations with sign changing coefficients which are used to model negative index materials. Using the reflecting technique…
The dynamical conductivity of interacting multiband electronic systems derived in Ref.[1] is shown to be consistent with the general form of the Ward identity. Using the semiphenomenological form of this conductivity formula, we have…