3 papers
cs.DC2026
Fast Tendermint: Speeding Up a Foundational Consensus Protocol
Preston Vander Vos, Daniel Cason
Tendermint is among the most widely studied and deployed Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, owing in part to its native leader-rotation mechanism that subsumes com…
physics.optics2026
Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Semiconductor Nanostructures by Solving Coupled Volume Integral and Two-fluid Hydrodynamic Equations
Doolos Aibek Uulu, Meruyert Khamitova, Rui Chen +3
Semiconductor-based plasmonic nanostructures support localized surface plasmon modes in the infrared region. Unlike metallic nanostructures, they support both free electrons and ho…
physics.comp-ph2026
A Thin Sheet Volume Integral Equation Solver for Simulation of Bianisotropic Metasurfaces
Sebastian Celis Sierra, Meruyert Khamitova, Ran Zhao +2
A thin-sheet (TS) volume integral equation (VIE) formulation incorporating generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) is presented for the simulation of three-dimensional (3D)…