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We investigate electron paring in a two-dimensional electron system mediated by vacuum fluctuations inside a nanoplasmonic terahertz cavity. We show that the structured cavity vacuum can induce long-range attractive interactions between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Frank Schlawin , Andrea Cavalleri , Dieter Jaksch

Spin models are the prime example of simplified manybody Hamiltonians used to model complex, real-world strongly correlated materials. However, despite their simplified character, their dynamics often cannot be simulated exactly on…

Micron-sized particles moving through solution in response to self-generated chemical gradients serve as model systems for studying active matter. Their far-reaching potential applications will require the particles to sense and respond to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-09 W. E. Uspal , M. N. Popescu , S. Dietrich , M. Tasinkevych

Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPMs) is an established benchmark to examine the ability to perform high-level abstract visual reasoning (AVR). Despite the current success of algorithms that solve this task, humans can generalize beyond a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kalliopi Basioti , Pritish Sahu , Qingze Tony Liu , Zihao Xu , Hao Wang , Vladimir Pavlovic

Image-based Virtual Try-On (VTON) concerns the synthesis of realistic person imagery through garment re-rendering under human pose and body constraints. In practice, however, existing approaches are typically optimized for specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhaotong Yang , Yong Du , Shengfeng He , Yuhui Li , Xinzhe Li , Yangyang Xu , Junyu Dong , Jian Yang

Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy from their environment and converting it into directed motion.…

We investigate the collective motion of self-propelled agents in an environment filled with obstacles that are tethered to fixed positions via springs. The active particles are able to modify the environment by moving the obstacles through…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Diane Peurichard , Lorenzo Sala

Recent progress in deep generative models has led to tremendous breakthroughs in image generation. However, while existing models can synthesize photorealistic images, they lack an understanding of our underlying 3D world. We present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jun-Yan Zhu , Zhoutong Zhang , Chengkai Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , William T. Freeman

In this paper, the author aims to establish a mathematical model for a mimic computer. To this end, a novel automaton is proposed. First, a one-dimensional cellular automaton is used for expressing some dynamic changes in the structure of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Weijun Zhu

We investigate the dynamics of a single deformable self-propelled particle which undergoes a spinning motion in a two-dimensional space. Equations of motion are derived from the symmetry argument for three kinds of variables. One is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-09 Mitsusuke Tarama , Takao Ohta

We consider programmable matter that consists of computationally limited devices (called particles) that are able to self-organize in order to achieve some collective goal without the need for central control or external intervention. We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Joshua J. Daymude , Robert Gmyr , Andrea W. Richa , Christian Scheideler , Thim Strothmann

Fabrication of diamond structures by self-assembly is a fundamental challenge in making three-dimensional photonic crystals. We simulate a system of model hard particles with attractive patches and show that they can self-assemble into a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-18 Zhenli Zhang , Aaron S. Keys , Ting Chen , Sharon C. Glotzer

Everting, soft growing vine robots benefit from reduced friction with their environment, which allows them to navigate challenging terrain. Vine robots can use air pouches attached to their sides for lateral steering. However, when all…

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) offer a scalable paradigm for self-supervised learning by predicting latent representations rather than reconstructing high-entropy observations. However, existing formulations rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yongchao Huang

Over the past three decades, countless embodied yet virtual agents have freely evolved inside computer simulations, but vanishingly few were realized as physical robots. This is because evolution was conducted at a level of abstraction that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zihan Guo , Muhan Li , Shuzhe Zhang , Sam Kriegman

Many forms of programmable matter have been proposed for various tasks. We use an abstract model of self-organizing particle systems for programmable matter which could be used for a variety of applications, including smart paint and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Alexandra Porter , Andréa W. Richa

A new computational method is presented for study suspensions of charged soft particles undergoing fluctuating hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions. The proposed model is appropriate for polymers, proteins and porous particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-14 Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz , Juan J. de Pablo

Active matter classifies systems consisting of self-propelled units which convert the energy stored locally or extracted from their environment into directed motion. It has recently attracted considerable attention due to rich new physics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Volodymyr Nosenko

Self-assembly of nanoparticles at fluid-fluid interfaces is a promising route to fabricate functional materials from the bottom-up. However, directing and controlling particles into highly tunable and predictable structures -- while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-25 Qingguang Xie , Gary B. Davies , Jens Harting

In a previous work we considered a two-dimensional lattice of particles and calculated its time evolution by using an interaction law based on the spatial position of the particles themselves. The model reproduced the behaviour of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Ramiro dell'Erba