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Publications (43)

physics.optics2021

Second-Harmonic Generation in Etchless Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Waveguides with Bound States in the Continuum

Fan Ye, Yue Yu, Xiang Xi +1

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have been extensively studied in various systems since its first proposal in quantum mechanics. Photonic BICs can enable optical mode confineme…

math.GT2026

Guts of nearly fibered knots

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

The guts of a knot is an invariant defined for the knot complement by Agol-Zhang. Nearly fibered knots, which are defined as knots whose Floer homology has dimension two in the top…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Impact of Zr substitution on the electronic structure of ferroelectric hafnia

Jinhai Huang, Ge-Qi Mao, Kan-Hao Xue +4

-based dielectrics are promising for nanoscale ferroelectric applications, and the most favorable material within the family is Zr-substituted hafnia, i.e., $\mathr…

cs.CV2024

STS MICCAI 2023 Challenge: Grand challenge on 2D and 3D semi-supervised tooth segmentation

Yaqi Wang, Yifan Zhang, Xiaodiao Chen +24

Computer-aided design (CAD) tools are increasingly popular in modern dental practice, particularly for treatment planning or comprehensive prognosis evaluation. In particular, the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Embedded metal nanopatterns for near-field scattering-enhanced optical absorption

Fan Ye, Michael J. Burns, Michael J. Naughton

Simulations of metal nanopatterns embedded in a thin photovoltaic absorber show significantly enhanced absorbance within the semiconductor, with a more than 300% increase for λ =…

math.OC2016

Solving the Dual Problems of Dynamic Programs via Regression

Helin Zhu, Fan Ye, Enlu Zhou

In recent years, information relaxation and duality in dynamic programs have been studied extensively, and the resulted primal-dual approach has become a powerful procedure in solv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Shell DFT-1/2 method towards engineering accuracy for semiconductors: GGA versus LDA

Hanli Cui, Shengxin Yang, Jun-Hui Yuan +5

The Kohn-Sham gaps of density functional theory (DFT) obtained in terms of local density approximation (LDA) or generalized gradient approximation (GGA) cannot be directly linked t…

physics.optics2024

Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analog link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation

Yunxiang Song, Yaowen Hu, Xinrui Zhu +13

The rapid growth in artificial intelligence and modern communication systems demands innovative solutions for increased computational power and advanced signaling capabilities. Int…

math.OC2014

Weakly Coupled Dynamic Program: Information and Lagrangian Relaxations

Fan Ye, Helin Zhu, Enlu Zhou

"Weakly coupled dynamic program" describes a broad class of stochastic optimization problems in which multiple controlled stochastic processes evolve independently but subject to a…

math.GT2024

Instanton Floer homology, sutures, and Euler characteristics

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

This is a companion paper to an earlier work of the authors. In this paper, we provide an axiomatic definition of Floer homology for balanced sutured manifolds and prove that the g…

hep-ex2025

Design and Verification of the JUNO Liquid Filling Control System

Jiajun Li, Yuekun Heng, Tao Huang +7

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large-scale neutrino experiment with multiple physics goals including neutrino mass hierarchy, accurate measurement of neutrin…

math.GT2021

Instanton Floer homology, sutures, and Heegaard diagrams

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

This paper establishes a new technique that enables us to access some fundamental structural properties of instanton Floer homology. As an application, we establish, for the first…

eess.SY2020

Online Detection of Low-Quality Synchrophasor Data Considering Frequency Similarity

Wenyun Ju, Horacio Silva-Saravia, Neeraj Nayak +4

This letter proposes a new approach for online detection of low-quality synchrophasor data under both normal and event conditions. The proposed approach utilizes the features of sy…

math.GT2026

SU(2) representations and a large surgery formula

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

A knot is called -abundant if it satisfies two conditions: first, for all but finitely many , there exists an irreducible repre…

math.GT2025

Instanton 2-torsion and Dehn surgeries

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

In our earlier work on -torsion in instanton Floer homology, we considered only integral surgeries on a knot and showed that the absence of -torsion forces

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Environmental Instability and Degradation of Single- and Few-Layer WTe2 Nanosheets in Ambient Conditions

Fan Ye, Jaesung Lee, Jin Hu +3

Since the discovery of large, non-saturating magnetoresistance in bulk WTe2 which allows microexfoliation, single- and few-layer WTe2 crystals have attracted increasing interests.…

math.GT2025

Singular instanton homology of dual knots

Fan Ye

We establish a dimension formula for the unreduced singular instanton homology of dual knots for a knot : $$ \dim I^\sharp(S…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Atomic Layer MoS2-Graphene van der Waals Heterostructure Nanomechanical Resonators

Fan Ye, Jaesung Lee, Philip X. -L. Feng

Heterostructures play significant roles in modern semiconductor devices and micro/nanosystems in a plethora of applications in electronics, optoelectronics, and transducers. While…

cs.LG2024

Reconstructing MODIS Normalized Difference Snow Index Product on Greenland Ice Sheet Using Spatiotemporal Extreme Gradient Boosting Model

Fan Ye, Qing Cheng, Weifeng Hao +1

The spatiotemporally continuous data of normalized difference snow index (NDSI) are key to understanding the mechanisms of snow occurrence and development as well as the patterns o…

cs.CV2020

GFTE: Graph-based Financial Table Extraction

Yiren Li, Zheng Huang, Junchi Yan +3

Tabular data is a crucial form of information expression, which can organize data in a standard structure for easy information retrieval and comparison. However, in financial indus…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Multi-terminal electrical transport measurements of molybdenum disulphide using van der Waals heterostructure device platform

Xu Cui, Gwan-Hyoung Lee, Young Duck Kim +15

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors such as molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) hold great promise in electrical, optical, and mechanical devices and display novel physica…

cs.CV2022

Identification and classification of exfoliated graphene flakes from microscopy images using a hierarchical deep convolutional neural network

Soroush Mahjoubi, Fan Ye, Yi Bao +2

Identification of the mechanically exfoliated graphene flakes and classification of the thickness is important in the nanomanufacturing of next-generation materials and devices tha…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Ultrawide Frequency Tuning of Atomic Layer van der Waals Heterostructure Electromechanical Resonators

Fan Ye, Arnob Islam, Teng Zhang +1

We report on the experimental demonstration of atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-graphene van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure nanoelectromechanical resonators with ultraw…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Single- and Few-Layer WTe2 and Their Suspended Nanostructures: Raman Signatures and Nanomechanical Resonances

Jaesung Lee, Fan Ye, Zenghui Wang +5

Single crystal tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) has recently been discovered to exhibit non-saturating extreme magnetoresistance in bulk; it has also emerged as a new layered material f…

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

math.GT2025

Knot surgery formulae for instanton Floer homology II: applications

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

This is a companion paper to earlier work of the authors, which proved an integral surgery formula for framed instanton homology. First, we present an enhancement of the large surg…

math.GT2020

Sutured instanton homology and Heegaard diagrams

John A. Baldwin, Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

Suppose H is an admissible Heegaard diagram for a balanced sutured manifold (M,γ). We prove that the number of generators of the associated sutured Heegaard Floer complex is an up…

math.OC2014

Information Relaxation and Dual Formulation of Controlled Markov Diffusions

Fan Ye, Enlu Zhou

Information relaxation and duality in Markov decision processes have been studied recently by several researchers with the goal to derive dual bounds on the value function. In this…

math.GT2026

2-torsion in instanton Floer homology

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

This paper studies the existence of -torsion in instanton Floer homology with coefficients for closed -manifolds and singular knots. First, we show that the non-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Very High Interfacial Thermal Conductance in Fully hBN-Encapsulated MoS2 van der Waals Heterostructure

Fan Ye, Qingchang Liu, Baoxing Xu +2

We report experimental and computational studies of thermal transport properties in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulated molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) structure using refined o…

math.GT2026

An infinity-categorical TQFT from instantons

Fan Ye

In this paper, we upgrade the instanton TQFT from ordinary categories to a functor from an -cobordism category for instantons to an -derived cate…

physics.optics2016

Deep Imaging in Scattering Media with Single Photon Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM)

Adithya Kumar Pediredla, Shizheng Zhang, Ben Avants +6

In most biological tissues, light scattering due to small differences in refractive index limits the depth of optical imaging systems. Two-photon microscopy (2PM), which significan…

math.GT2025

Instanton dimensions of knot surgeries over arbitrary fields

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

Suppose is a knot and suppose and are co-prime integers with . For any field , we establish a dimension formula for the framed instanton…

cs.CE2017

A simple Python code for computing effective properties of 2D and 3D representative volume element under periodic boundary conditions

Fan Ye, Hu Wang

Multiscale optimization is an attractive research field recently. For the most of optimization tools, design parameters should be updated during a close loop. Therefore, a simple P…

cs.DB2022

PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching

Pengfei Wang, Xiaocan Zeng, Lu Chen +4

Entity Matching (EM), which aims to identify whether two entity records from two relational tables refer to the same real-world entity, is one of the fundamental problems in data m…

q-fin.CP2013

Fast Estimation of True Bounds on Bermudan Option Prices under Jump-diffusion Processes

Helin Zhu, Fan Ye, Enlu Zhou

Fast pricing of American-style options has been a difficult problem since it was first introduced to financial markets in 1970s, especially when the underlying stocks' prices follo…

math.GT2024

An enhanced Euler characteristic of sutured instanton homology

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

For a balanced sutured manifold , we construct a decomposition of with respect to torsions in , which generalizes the decomposition of $I^\…

math.GT2024

Knot surgery formulae for instanton Floer homology I: the main theorem

Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

We prove an integral surgery formula for framed instanton homology for any knot in a -manifold with and . Though…

math.GT2021

Constrained knots in lens spaces

Fan Ye

In this paper, we study a special family of knots called constrained knots, which includes 2-bridge knots in the 3-sphere and simple knots in lens spaces. Constrained…

math.GT2026

Monopole triangle over integers

Haochen Qiu, Fan Ye

We prove the surgery exact triangle for monopole (Seiberg--Witten) Floer homology over integer coefficients, extending the work of Kronheimer--Mrowka--Ozsváth--Szabó over $\mathb…

math.GT2021

Small Dehn surgery and SU(2)

John A. Baldwin, Zhenkun Li, Steven Sivek +1

We prove that the fundamental group of 3-surgery on a nontrivial knot in the 3-sphere always admits an irreducible SU(2)-representation. This answers a question of Kronheimer and M…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Disconnection-Mediated Twin/Twin-Junction Migration in FCC metals

Mingjie Xu, Kongtao Chen, Fan Cao +7

We present the results of novel, time-resolved, in situ HRTEM observations, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and disconnection theory that elucidate the mechanism by which the…

math.GT2025

Instanton 2-torsion and fibered knots

Deeparaj Bhat, Zhenkun Li, Fan Ye

We prove that the unreduced singular instanton homology has -torsion for any null-homologous fibered knot of genus in a closed -manifold…