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most citedThe virtual crystal approximation revisited: Application to dielectric and piezoelectric properties of perovskites

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cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 16 cited

Quantum paraelastic two-dimensional materials

Tyler B. Bishop, Erin E. Farmer, Afsana Sharmin +3

We study the elastic energy landscape of two-dimensional tin oxide (SnO) monolayers and demonstrate a transition temperature of K using ab-initio molecular dynamic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 16 cited

On the magnetoelastic and magnetoelectric couplings across the antiferromagnetic transition in multiferroic BiFeO3

Mariusz Lejman, Charles Paillard, Vincent Juvé +7

Clear anomalies in the lattice thermal expansion (deviation from linear variation) and elastic properties (softening of the sound velocity) at the antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic…

gr-qc2018★ 5 cited

Curved Space, curved Time, and curved Space-Time in Schwarzschild geodetic geometry

Rafael T. Eufrasio, Nicholas A. Mecholsky, Lorenzo Resca

We investigate geodesic orbits and manifolds for metrics associated with Schwarzschild geometry, considering space and time curvatures separately. For `a-temporal' space, we solve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 266 cited

Spin scattering and noncollinear spin structure-induced intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in antiferromagnetic topological insulator

Seng Huat Lee, Yanglin Zhu, Yu Wang +8

has recently been established as an intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator and predicted to be an ideal platform to realize quantum anomalous…

cs.CV2018★ 4 cited

Image Processing in Quantum Computers

Aditya Dendukuri, Khoa Luu

Quantum Image Processing (QIP)is an exciting new field showing a lot of promise as a powerful addition to the arsenal of Image Processing techniques. Representing image pixel by pi…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 8 cited

Emergence of intrinsic superconductivity below 1.178 K in the topologically non-trivial semimetal state of CaSn3

Y. L. Zhu, J. Hu, F. N. Womack +4

Topological materials which are also superconducting are of great current interest, since they may exhibit a non-trivial topologically-mediated superconducting phase. Although ther…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 59 cited

Magnetic Interactions in BiFeO: a First-Principles Study

Changsong Xu, Bin Xu, Bertrand Dupé +1

First-principles calculations, in combination with the four-state energy mapping method, are performed to extract the magnetic interaction parameters of multiferroic BiFeO. Suc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 356 cited

Interplay between Kitaev interaction and single ion anisotropy in ferromagnetic CrI and CrGeTe monolayers

Changsong Xu, Junsheng Feng, Hongjun Xiang +1

Magnetic anisotropy is crucially important for the stabilization of two-dimensional (2D) magnetism, which is rare in nature but highly desirable in spintronics and for advancing fu…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 53 cited

Constraining the potential liquid water environment at Gale crater, Mars

Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, Raina V. Gough, Vincent F. Chevrier +3

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) has now made continuous in-situ meteorological measurements for several martian years at Gale crater…

cs.CV2018★ 1 cited

Automatic Face Aging in Videos via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Chi Nhan Duong, Khoa Luu, Kha Gia Quach +4

This paper presents a novel approach to synthesize automatically age-progressed facial images in video sequences using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The proposed method models facia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 34 cited

Injection current in ferroelectric group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers

Suman Raj Panday, Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Tonatiuh Rangel +1

We study the injection current response tensor (also known as circular photogalvanic effect or ballistic current) in ferrolectric monolayer GeS, GeSe, SnS, and SnSe. We find that t…

quant-ph2018★ 121 cited

On-Chip Chiral Single-Photon Interface: Isolation and Unidirectional Emission

Lei Tang, Jiangshan Tang, Weidong Zhang +5

Chiral quantum systems have received intensive attention in fundamental physics and applications in quantum information processing including optical isolation and photon unidirecti…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 11 cited

On the Nature of the X-ray Emission from the Ultraluminous X-ray Source, M33 X-8: New Constraints from NuSTAR and XMM-Newton

Lacey A. West, Bret D. Lehmer, Daniel Wik +12

We present nearly simultaneous NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the nearby (832 kpc) ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) M33 X-8. M33 X-8 has a 0.3-10 keV luminosity of LX ~ 1.4…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 16 cited

Variability-selected low-luminosity active galactic nuclei candidates in the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

N. Ding, B. Luo, W. N. Brandt +13

In deep X-ray surveys, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with a broad range of luminosities have been identified. However, cosmologically distant low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN, $L_{\mathrm…

cs.NE2018

Leveraging Product as an Activation Function in Deep Networks

Luke B. Godfrey, Michael S. Gashler

Product unit neural networks (PUNNs) are powerful representational models with a strong theoretical basis, but have proven to be difficult to train with gradient-based optimizers.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 60 cited

Water splits to degrade two-dimensional group-IV monochalcogenides in nanoseconds

Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Thaneshwor P. Kaloni

The experimental exfoliation of layered group-IV monochalcogenides --semiconductors isostructural to black phosphorus-- using processes similar to those followed in the production…

cs.CR2018★ 2 cited

Privacy-Preserving Multiparty Learning For Logistic Regression

Wei Du, Ang Li, Qinghua Li

In recent years, machine learning techniques are widely used in numerous applications, such as weather forecast, financial data analysis, spam filtering, and medical prediction. In…

cs.CR2018★ 5 cited

Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing of Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming to the Cloud

Ang Li, Wei Du, Qinghua Li

The increasing massive data generated by various sources has given birth to big data analytics. Solving large-scale nonlinear programming problems (NLPs) is one important big data…

cs.CR2018★ 8 cited

PhotoSafer: Content-Based and Context-Aware Private Photo Protection for Smartphones

Ang Li, David Darling, Qinghua Li

Nowadays many people store photos in smartphones. Many of the photos contain sensitive, private information, such as a photocopy of driver's license and credit card. An arising pri…

cs.IR2018★ 5 cited

Text Embeddings for Retrieval From a Large Knowledge Base

Tolgahan Cakaloglu, Christian Szegedy, Xiaowei Xu

Text embedding representing natural language documents in a semantic vector space can be used for document retrieval using nearest neighbor lookup. In order to study the feasibilit…

gr-qc2018★ 45 cited

Prospects of detecting the nonlinear gravitational wave memory

Aaron D. Johnson, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Andrew Osborne +2

In GW150914, approximately were radiated away as gravitational waves from the binary black hole system as it merged. The stress energy of the gravitational wave itself…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

de Haas-van Alphen study on three-dimensional topological semimetal pyrite PtBi2

Wenshuai Gao, Xiangde Zhu, Hongwei Zhang +7

We present the systematic de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) quantum oscillations studies on the recently discovered topological Dirac semimetal pyrite PtBi2 single crystals. Remarkable dHv…

cs.LG2018★ 16 cited

Fairness-aware Classification: Criterion, Convexity, and Bounds

Yongkai Wu, Lu Zhang, Xintao Wu

Fairness-aware classification is receiving increasing attention in the machine learning fields. Recently research proposes to formulate the fairness-aware classification as constra…

math.AC2018★ 1 cited

Gröbner bases and equations of the multi-Rees algebras

Babak Jabarnejad

In this paper we describe the equations defining the multi-Rees algebra , where is a Noetherian ring and the ideals are generated by subsets…