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cs.DC2016★ 1 cited

Parallel Digital Predistortion Design on Mobile GPU and Embedded Multicore CPU for Mobile Transmitters

Kaipeng Li, Amanullah Ghazi, Chance Tarver +6

Digital predistortion (DPD) is a widely adopted baseband processing technique in current radio transmitters. While DPD can effectively suppress unwanted spurious spectrum emissions…

math.GT2016

Meromorphic quadratic differentials and measured foliations on a Riemann surface

Subhojoy Gupta, Michael Wolf

We describe the space of measured foliations induced on a compact Riemann surface by meromorphic quadratic differentials. We prove that any such foliation is realized by a unique s…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 22 cited

Fragmentation of Kozai-Lidov Disks

Wen Fu, Stephen H. Lubow, Rebecca G. Martin

We analyze the gravitational instability (GI) of a locally isothermal inclined disk around one component of a binary system. Such a disk can undergo global Kozai-Lidov (KL) cycles…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 39 cited

Nonlinear photoluminescence imaging of isotropic and liquid crystalline dispersions of graphene oxide

Bohdan Senyuk, Natnael Behabtu, Benjamin G. Pacheco +5

We report a visible-range nonlinear photoluminescence (PL) from graphene oxide (GO) flakes excited by near-infrared femtosecond laser light. PL intensity has nonlinear dependence o…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 131 cited

Shape-dependent oriented trapping and scaffolding of plasmonic nanoparticles by topological defects for self-assembly of colloidal dimers in liquid crystals

Bohdan Senyuk, Julian S. Evans, Paul J. Ackerman +6

We demonstrate scaffolding of plasmonic nanoparticles by topological defects induced by colloidal microspheres to match their surface boundary conditions with a uniform far-field a…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 17 cited

Relativistic Shear Flow Between Electron-Ion and Electron-Positron Plasmas and Astrophysical Applications

Edison Liang, Wen Fu, Markus Böttcher

We present Particle-in-Cell simulation results of relativistic shear boundary layers between electron-ion and electron-positron plasmas and discuss their potential applications to…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 13 cited

Lattice model parameters for ultracold nonreactive molecules: chaotic scattering and its limitations

Michael L. Wall, Rick Mukherjee, Shah Saad Alam +2

We calculate the parameters of the recently-derived many-channel Hubbard model that is predicted to describe ultracold nonreactive molecules in an optical lattice, going beyond the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 16 cited

Microscopic derivation of multi-channel Hubbard models for ultracold nonreactive molecules in an optical lattice

Michael L. Wall, Nirav P. Mehta, Rick Mukherjee +2

Recent experimental advances in the cooling and manipulation of bialkali dimer molecules have enabled the production of gases of ultracold molecules that are not chemically reactiv…

quant-ph2016★ 7 cited

Geometric representation of spin correlations and applications to ultracold systems

Rick Mukherjee, Anthony E. Mirasola, Jacob Hollingsworth +2

We provide a one-to-one map between the spin correlations and certain three-dimensional shapes, analogous to the map between single spins and Bloch vectors, and demonstrate its uti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 73 cited

Three-dimensional patterning of solid microstructures through laser reduction of colloidal graphene oxide in liquid-crystalline dispersions

Bohdan Senyuk, Natnael Behabtu, Angel Martinez +6

Graphene materials and structures have become an essential part of modern electronics and photovoltaics. However, despite many production methods, applications of graphene-based st…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 4 cited

Correlations generated from high-temperature states: nonequilibrium dynamics in the Fermi-Hubbard model

Ian G. White, Randall G. Hulet, Kaden R. A. Hazzard

We study interaction quenches of the Fermi-Hubbard model initiated from various high-temperature and high-energy states, motivated by cold atom experiments, which currently operate…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 1 cited

Multi-Photon Transitions in Coupled Plasmon-Cyclotron Resonance Measured by Millimeter-Wave Reflection

Jie Zhang, Ruiyuan Liu, Rui-Rui Du +2

We construct a low-temperature microwave waveguide interferometer for measuring high-frequency properties of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). Coupled plasmon-cyclotron reson…

physics.geo-ph2016★ 19 cited

Identifying potentially induced seismicity and assessing statistical significance in Oklahoma and California

Mark McClure, Riley Gibson, Kitkwan Chiu +1

We develop a statistical method for identifying induced seismicity from large datasets and apply the method to decades of wastewater disposal and seismicity data in California and…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 19 cited

Spin anisotropy due to spin-orbit coupling in optimally hole-doped BaKFeAs

Yu Song, Haoran Man, Rui Zhang +9

We use polarized inelastic neutron scattering to study the temperature and energy dependence of spin space anisotropies in the optimally hole-doped iron pnictide BaK$_{0.3…

math.NA2016

An accelerated Poisson solver based on multidomain spectral discretization

Tracy Babb, Adrianna Gillman, Sijia Hao +1

This paper presents a numerical method for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs with mostly smooth solutions on two dimensional domains. The PDE is discretized via a multi-domain spe…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 49 cited

Accretion and Magnetic Reconnection in the Classical T Tauri Binary DQ Tau

Benjamin M. Tofflemire, Robert D. Mathieu, David R. Ardila +5

Binary star-formation theory predicts that close binaries (a<100 AU) will experience periodic pulsed accretion events as streams of material form at the inner edge of a circumbinar…

stat.ML2016★ 15 cited

A Probabilistic Framework for Deep Learning

Ankit B. Patel, Tan Nguyen, Richard G. Baraniuk

We develop a probabilistic framework for deep learning based on the Deep Rendering Mixture Model (DRMM), a new generative probabilistic model that explicitly capture variations in…

q-bio.PE2016

Modular knowledge systems accelerate human migration in asymmetric random environments

Dong Wang, Michael W. Deem

Migration is a key mechanism for expansion of communities. In spatially heterogeneous environments, rapidly gaining knowledge about the local environment is key to the evolutionary…

hep-ex2016★ 45 cited

Search for heavy gauge W' bosons in events with an energetic lepton and large missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for W' bosons in events with an electron or muon and large missing transverse momentum, using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collected with…

hep-ex2016★ 40 cited

Measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma with two jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma and two jets is performed, where the W boson decays leptonically. The data used in the analysis correspond to an integrat…

hep-ex2016★ 48 cited

Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for new massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in l nu quark anti-quark and quark anti-quark quark anti-quark final states. Results are based on d…

cond-mat.soft2016

Force percolation of contractile active gels

José Alvarado, Misha Sheinman, Abhinav Sharma +2

Cells and tissues exert forces and can actively change shape. This strikingly autonomous behavior is powered by the cytoskeleton, which includes an active gel of actin filaments, c…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 77 cited

Critical Phenomena and Kibble-Zurek Scaling in the Long-Range Quantum Ising Chain

Daniel Jaschke, Kenji Maeda, Joseph D. Whalen +2

We investigate an extension of the quantum Ising model in one spatial dimension including long-range interactions in its statics and dynamics with possible applications f…

math.OC2016★ 7 cited

A Convex Program for Mixed Linear Regression with a Recovery Guarantee for Well-Separated Data

Paul Hand, Babhru Joshi

We introduce a convex approach for mixed linear regression over features. This approach is a second-order cone program, based on L1 minimization, which assigns an estimate regr…