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The partition function pertaining to finite--temperature decoding of a (typical) randomly chosen code is known to have three types of behavior, corresponding to three phases in the plane of rate vs. temperature: the {\it ferromagnetic…
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Scientific codes are an indispensable link between theory and experiment; in (astro-)plasma physics, such numerical tools are one window into the universe's most extreme flows of energy. The discretization of Maxwell's equations - needed to…
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This paper establishes the exact strong converse exponent of the soft covering problem in the classical setting. This exponent characterizes the slowest achievable convergence speed of the total variation to one when a code of rate below…
The Airy$_\beta$ point process, $a_i \equiv N^{2/3} (\lambda_i-2)$, describes the eigenvalues $\lambda_i$ at the edge of the Gaussian $\beta$ ensembles of random matrices for large matrix size $N \to \infty$. We study the probability…
We develop a theory for the analytic computation of the free energy of band insulators in the presence of a uniform and constant electric field. The two key ingredients are a perturbation-like expression of the Wannier-Stark energy spectrum…
If $A_q(\beta, \alpha, k)$ is the scattering amplitude, corresponding to a potential $q\in L^2(D)$, where $D\subset\R^3$ is a bounded domain, and $e^{ik\alpha \cdot x}$ is the incident plane wave, then we call the radiation pattern the…
We study the soft covering phenomenon through the lens of Neyman--Pearson hypothesis testing: given a channel output sequence $y^n$, can one decide whether it was produced when the channel was driven by a random codeword, or generated…
We study a random code ensemble with a hierarchical structure, which is closely related to the generalized random energy model with discrete energy values. Based on this correspondence, we analyze the hierarchical random code ensemble by…
A sender holds a word x consisting of n blocks x_i, each of t bits, and wishes to broadcast a codeword to m receivers, R_1,...,R_m. Each receiver R_i is interested in one block, and has prior side information consisting of some subset of…
In previous papers of this series, we presented a formalism able to account for both statistical equilibrium of a multilevel atom and coherent and incoherent scatterings (partial redistribution). aims: This paper provides theoretical…
Synaptic interactions structure the phase space of the dynamics of neural circuits and constrain neural computation. Understanding how requires methods that handle those discrete interactions, yet few exist. Recently, it was discovered that…
In many experimental designs -- split-plots, blocked or nested layouts, fractional factorials, and studies with missing or unequal replication -- standard ANOVA procedures no longer tell us exactly how many independent pieces of information…
The aim of this study is to analyze the interaction of charged particles (ions and electrons) with randomly formed particle scatterers (e.g.\ large scale local "magnetic fluctuations" or "coherent magnetic irregularities"), using the set up…
Isospin effect of the statistical emission fragments from the equilibrated source is investigated in the frame of statistical binary decay implemented into GEMINI code, isoscaling behavior is observed and the dependences of isoscaling…
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