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quant-ph2020★ 7 cited

Dissipative failure of adiabatic quantum transport as a dynamical phase transition

Fergus Barratt, Aleix Bou Comas, Philip J. D. Crowley +3

Entanglement is the central resource in adiabatic quantum transport. Dephasing affects the availability of that resource by biasing trajectories, driving transitions between succes…

econ.TH2020

Negative votes to depolarize politics

Karthik H. Shankar

The controversies around the 2020 US presidential elections certainly casts serious concerns on the efficiency of the current voting system in representing the people's will. Is th…

nlin.PS2020★ 7 cited

Arnol'd Tongues in Oscillator Systems with Nonuniform Spatial Driving

Alexander Golden, Allyson E. Sgro, Pankaj Mehta

Nonlinear oscillator systems are ubiquitous in biology and physics, and their control is a practical problem in many experimental systems. Here we study this problem in the context…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Search for Low-energy Electron Antineutrinos in KamLAND Associated with Gravitational Wave Events

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +65

We present the results of a search for MeV-scale electron antineutrino events in KamLAND in coincident with the 60 gravitational wave events/candidates reported by the LIGO/Virgo c…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 3 cited

When Will an Elevator Arrive?

Zhijie Feng, S. Redner

We present and analyze a minimalist model for the vertical transport of people in a tall building by elevators. We focus on start-of-day operation in which people arrive at the gro…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

Green Bank Telescope Observations of : Planetary Nebulae

T. M. Bania, Dana S. Balser

We use the Green Bank Telescope to search for emission from a sample of four Galactic planetary nebulae: NGC 3242, NGC 6543, NGC 6826, and NGC 7009. During the era of prim…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 30 cited

VHE gamma-ray detection of FSRQ QSO B1420+326 and modeling of its enhanced broadband state in 2020

V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +230

Context. QSO B1420+326 is a blazar classified as a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ). In the beginning of 2020 it underwent an enhanced flux state. An extensive multiwavelength cam…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

Observation of a sudden cessation of a very-high-energy gamma-ray flare in PKS 1510-089 with H.E.S.S. and MAGIC in May 2016

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +430

The flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1510-089 is known for its complex multiwavelength behavior, and is one of only a few FSRQs detected at very high energy (VHE, GeV…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

The magnetic field in the dense photodissociation region of DR 21

Atanu Koley, Nirupam Roy, Karl M. Menten +3

Measuring interstellar magnetic fields is extremely important for understanding their role in different evolutionary stages of interstellar clouds and of star formation. However, d…

q-bio.NC2020★ 1 cited

Non-genetic acoustic stimulation of single neurons by a tapered fiber optoacoustic emitter

Linli Shi, Ying Jiang, Fernando R. Fernandez +6

As an emerging technology, transcranial focused ultrasound has been demonstrated to successfully evoke motor responses in mice, rabbits, and sensory/motor responses in humans. Yet,…

math.PR2020★ 6 cited

Change Detection: A functional analysis perspective

Julio Enrique Castrillon-Candas, Mark Kon

We develop a new approach for detecting changes in the behavior of stochastic processes and random fields based on tensor product representations such as the Karhunen-Loève expansi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 8 cited

Hopf bifurcation in addition-shattering kinetics

Stanislav S. Budzinskiy, Sergey A. Matveev, Pavel L. Krapivsky

In aggregation-fragmentation processes, a steady state is usually reached in the long time limit. This indicates the existence of a fixed point in the underlying system of ordinary…

cond-mat.other2020

Nanomechanical Measurement of the Brownian Force Noise in a Viscous Liquid

Atakan B. Ari, M. Selim Hanay, Mark R. Paul +1

We study the spectral properties of the thermal force giving rise to the Brownian motion of a continuous mechanical system -- namely, a nanomechanical beam resonator -- in a viscou…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Higher-dimensional Hong-Ou-Mandel effect and state redistribution with linear-optical multiports

Shuto Osawa, David S. Simon, Alexander V. Sergienko

We expand the two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect onto a higher-dimensional set of spatial modes and introduce an effect that allows controllable redistribution of quantum state…

cs.DC2020★ 157 cited

The Future is Big Graphs! A Community View on Graph Processing Systems

Sherif Sakr, Angela Bonifati, Hannes Voigt +38

Graphs are by nature unifying abstractions that can leverage interconnectedness to represent, explore, predict, and explain real- and digital-world phenomena. Although real users a…

hep-ex2020★ 43 cited

Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search using a 0.37 MegatonYear Exposure of Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +196

As a baryon number violating process with , neutron-antineutron oscillation () provides a unique test of baryon number conservation. We have performed a search fo…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Exploiting BERT to improve aspect-based sentiment analysis performance on Persian language

H. Jafarian, A. H. Taghavi, A. Javaheri +1

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a more detailed task in sentiment analysis, by identifying opinion polarity toward a certain aspect in a text. This method is attracting m…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 38 cited

Multiwavelength variability and correlation studies of Mrk 421 during historically low X-ray and -ray activity in 20152016

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +224

We report a characterization of the multi-band flux variability and correlations of the nearby (z=0.031) blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) using data from Metsähovi, Swift, Fermi-LAT,…

cond-mat.dis-nn2020★ 102 cited

A constructive theory of the numerically accessible many-body localized to thermal crossover

Philip J. D. Crowley, Anushya Chandran

The many-body localised (MBL) to thermal crossover observed in exact diagonalisation studies remains poorly understood as the accessible system sizes are too small to be in an asym…

hep-ex2020★ 4 cited

Measurement of the Z boson differential production cross section using its invisible decay mode (Z ) in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the total and differential fiducial cross sections for the Z boson decaying into two neutrinos are presented at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-m…

hep-ex2020★ 108 cited

Search for supersymmetry in final states with two oppositely charged same-flavor leptons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for phenomena beyond the standard model in final states with two oppositely charged same-flavor leptons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The search uses a dat…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 90 cited

Universality in the onset of quantum chaos in many-body systems

Tyler LeBlond, Dries Sels, Anatoli Polkovnikov +1

We show that the onset of quantum chaos at infinite temperature in two many-body one-dimensional lattice models, the perturbed spin-1/2 XXZ and Anderson models, is characterized by…

hep-ex2020★ 281 cited

Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

CMS Collaboration

The performance is presented of the reconstruction and identification algorithms for electrons and photons with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The reported results are based on pro…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

Periocular Embedding Learning with Consistent Knowledge Distillation from Face

Yoon Gyo Jung, Jaewoo Park, Cheng Yaw Low +3

Periocular biometric, the peripheral area of the ocular, is a collaborative alternative to the face, especially when the face is occluded or masked. However, in practice, sole peri…