71 citations · 237 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for
15 papers
Work Extraction via Backward Motion in Optimal Closed-Loop Stochastic Control
Luis Frieder Reinalter, Emanuele Panizon, Lokesh Muruga +1
We experimentally realize finite-time feedback control in an overdamped colloidal system using real-time optical tweezers with in situ reinforcement learning (RL). By varying the p…
Optimal Control of a Mesoscopic Information Engine
Emanuele Panizon
We analytically solve the finite-time control problem of driving an overdamped particle via an optical trap under costly measurement. By formulating this mesoscopic information eng…
Striped twisted state in the orientational epitaxy on quasicrystals
Nicola Manini, Mario Forzanini, Sebastiano Pagano +9
The optimal "twisted" geometry of a crystalline layer on a crystal is long known, but that on a quasicrystal is still unknown and open. We predict analytically that the layer equil…
Counterfactual rewards promote collective transport using individually controlled swarm microrobots
Veit-Lorenz Heuthe, Emanuele Panizon, Hongri Gu +1
Swarm robots offer fascinating opportunities to perform complex tasks beyond the capabilities of individual machines. Just as a swarm of ants collectively moves a large object, sim…
Olfactory search
Antonio Celani, Emanuele Panizon
The task of olfactory search is ubiquitous in nature and in technology, from animals in the quest of food or of a mating partner, to robots searching for the source of hazardous fu…
Machine learning at the mesoscale: a computation-dissipation bottleneck
Alessandro Ingrosso, Emanuele Panizon
The cost of information processing in physical systems calls for a trade-off between performance and energetic expenditure. Here we formulate and study a computation-dissipation bo…
Frictionless nanohighways on crystalline surfaces
Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Silva, Xin Cao +5
The understanding of friction at nano-scales, ruled by the regular arrangement of atoms, is surprisingly incomplete. Here we provide a unified understanding by studying the interlo…
Moiré-pattern evolution couples rotational and translational friction at crystalline interfaces
Xin Cao, Andrea Silva, Emanuele Panizon +4
The sliding motion of objects is typically governed by their friction with the underlying surface. Compared to translational friction, however, rotational friction has received muc…
Stable cooperation emerges in stochastic multiplicative growth
Lorenzo Fant, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Emanuele Panizon +1
Understanding the evolutionary stability of cooperation is a central problem in biology, sociology, and economics. There exist only a few known mechanisms that guarantee the existe…
Pervasive orientational and directional locking at geometrically heterogeneous sliding interfaces
Xin Cao, Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Vanossi +3
Understanding the drift motion and dynamical locking of crystalline clusters on patterned substrates is important for the diffusion and manipulation of nano- and micro-scale object…
Reinforcement Learning assisted Quantum Optimization
Matteo M. Wauters, Emanuele Panizon, Glen B. Mbeng +1
We propose a reinforcement learning (RL) scheme for feedback quantum control within the quan-tum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). QAOA requires a variational minimization…
Thermolubricity and the Jarzynski equality
Franco Pellegrini, Emanuele Panizon, Giuseppe Santoro +1
We discuss and qualify a previously unnoticed connection between two different phenomena in the physics of nanoscale friction, general in nature and also met in experiments includi…
Analytic understanding and control of dynamical friction
Emanuele Panizon, Giuseppe E. Santoro, Erio Tosatti +2
Recent model simulations discovered unexpected non-monotonic features in the wear-free dry phononic friction as a function of the sliding speed. Here we demonstrate that a rather s…
Friction Anomalies at First-Order Transition Spinodals: 1T-TaS
Emanuele Panizon, Torben Marx, Dirk Dietzel +4
Revealing phase transitions of solids through mechanical anomalies in the friction of nanotips sliding on their surfaces is an unconventional and instructive tool for continuous tr…
Ballistic thermophoresis of adsorbates on free-standing graphene
Emanuele Panizon, Roberto Guerra, Erio Tosatti
The textbook thermophoretic force which acts on a body in a fluid is proportional to the local temperature gradient. The same is expected to hold for the macroscopic drift behavior…