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Designs chiral photonic structures using machine learning for efficient optical properties.

problem Optimizing chiral photonic nanostructures for light-matter interactions.
method Evolutionary algorithm and neural network approach for rapid optimization.
result Frequency-dependent modification in reflected light's degree of circular polarization.

Optimizes plasmonic mirror filters using multi-fidelity Gaussian processes.

problem Optimizing transmission properties of plasmonic mirror color filters.
method Combining numerical methods with FDTD simulations and multi-fidelity Gaussian processes.
result Demonstrates improved optimization performance with multi-fidelity Gaussian processes.

Study improves chiral photonic metasurface design using neural networks and genetic algorithms.

problem Optimizing chiral photonic metasurfaces for high chiral dichroism and reflectivity.
method Combines neural network and genetic algorithm approaches with improved fitness functions and data augmentation.
result Demonstrates a significant increase in chiral dichroism and reflectivity.

Efficient DL reduces EM nanostructure design complexity.

problem Designing and optimizing electromagnetic nanostructures efficiently.
method Autoencoder-based dimensionality reduction for one-to-one problem reformulation.
result Significant reduction in computational complexity for EM nanostructures.

Optimizes parameter reconstruction for optical scatterometry using Gaussian process regression.

problem Efficiently reconstructing geometry parameters of micro/nanostructures from scatterometry measurements.
method Bayesian optimization with Gaussian-process regression to find optimal parameter values.
result Gaussian process regression accelerates the optimization process for numerical simulations.

Study on black holes and photon surfaces in 4D spacetimes, proving uniqueness theorems.

problem Uniqueness of black hole and photon surfaces in 4D spacetimes.
method Potential theory approach, self-contained proofs for known and new cases.
result Proves new results for connected photon spheres and photon surfaces in the extremal case, and super-extremal case.

The paper characterizes photon surfaces in static spacetimes and proves their uniqueness.

problem Characterizing and proving uniqueness of photon surfaces in static spacetimes.
method Local characterization and proof of uniqueness using specific spacetime properties.
result Static, vacuum, asymptotically isotropic spacetimes with equipotential photon surfaces are isometric to Schwarzschild spacetime.

Paper proves uniqueness of black holes and photon surfaces in higher dimensions.

problem Proving uniqueness of static vacuum black holes and photon surfaces in higher dimensions.
method Combining and generalizing techniques from previous works by Müller zum Hagen, Robinson, and Seifert, the authors prove geometric inequalities for connected (n+1)-dimensional spacetimes.
result Recovering and extending known uniqueness results for black holes and photon surfaces in higher dimensions.

In a recent paper the first author established the uniqueness of photon spheres, suitably defined, in static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes by adapting Israel's proof of static black hole uniqueness. In this note we establish uniqueness of photon spheres by adapting the argument of Bunting and Masood-ul-Alam, wh…

2015-04-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper simplifies FLRW photon propagators using geometric embeddings.

problem Understanding Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spaces.
method Differential-geometric methods applied to FLRW spaces as submanifolds in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+2}\).
result New and simplified expressions for the photon propagator in four dimensions.

Machine learning classifies topological phases in leaky photonic lattices.

problem Classifying topological phases in leaky photonic lattices using limited data.
method A fully connected neural network trained on bulk intensity measurements.
result Accurate determination of topological properties from intensity distributions.

New proofs of unique photon surfaces in 4D spacetimes, extending previous work.

problem Proving uniqueness of photon surfaces in 4D static vacuum spacetimes.
method Different proofs based on black hole uniqueness and Willmore inequality.
result Partial proof of Willmore inequality in 3D.

Photonic chip speeds up option pricing with GAN for financial efficiency.

problem Bottleneck in classical computing limits financial industry development.
method Unary approach, photonic chip, quantum amplitude estimation, GAN for asset distribution.
result Quadratic speedup over classical Monte Carlo methods.

In a recent paper, the authors established the uniqueness of photon spheres in static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes by adapting Bunting and Masood-ul-Alam's proof of static vacuum black hole uniqueness. Here, we establish uniqueness of suitably defined sub-extremal photon spheres in static electro-vacuum asympt…

2015-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for photon and massive particle hypersurfaces in stationary spacetimes.

problem Understanding photon and massive particle hypersurfaces in stationary spacetimes.
method Unified framework using Killing-invariant timelike hypersurfaces and associated Finsler structures.
result Conditions for a hypersurface to be a photon or massive particle hypersurface are established.

Photonic co-processor speeds up training of large neural networks.

problem Training large neural networks with backpropagation is inefficient and communication is a bottleneck.
method Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA) with a photonic accelerator.
result Photonic accelerator can compute random projections with trillions of parameters.

We propose a method to build quantum memristors in quantum photonic platforms. We firstly design an effective beam splitter, which is tunable in real-time, by means of a Mach-Zehnder-type array with two equal 50:50 beam splitters and a tunable retarder, which allows us to control its reflectivity. Then, we show that th…

2017-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach confirms Kruskal-Szekeres extension for Schwarzschild spacetime.

problem Confirming the Kruskal-Szekeres extension for Schwarzschild spacetime.
method Reformulating the problem as an ODE and showing the ODE admits a solution if and only if the horizon is non-degenerate.
result Photon surfaces approaching the Killing horizon must necessarily cross it.

Study reveals optimal scaling conditions for photonic neural networks.

problem Impact of reservoir size and learning routines on convergence-speed during learning.
method Used a greedy algorithm to train a photonic neural network for chaotic signals prediction.
result Determined convergence speed of learning as a function of reservoir size and found close to linear scaling.

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in tubular neighbourhoods of complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds immersed in the Euclidean space. We show that the essential spectrum coincides with the spectrum of a planar tube provided that the second fundamental form of the manifold vanishes at infinity and the transport of…

2012-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Detecting a change point is a crucial task in statistics that has been recently extended to the quantum realm. A source state generator that emits a series of single photons in a default state suffers an alteration at some point and starts to emit photons in a mutated state. The problem consists in identifying the poin…

2018-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Active learning method for neural population dynamics using optogenetics.

problem Efficiently selecting neurons to stimulate for identifying neural population dynamics.
method Developed active learning procedure for low-rank regression to determine informative photostimulation patterns.
result Demonstrated a two-fold reduction in data required for predictive power using low-rank linear dynamical systems model.

The paper extends IPC framework to stationary physical systems and validates it with a photonic system.

problem Characterizing the computational capabilities of stationary physical systems in a principled, data-efficient way.
method Extended IPC framework, established fundamental results, derived asymptotic bias, introduced data-efficient estimation methods.
result IPC strongly correlates with machine-learning performance and provides a reliable estimate of system dimensionality.

New model enhances SPIM for solving low-rank combinatorial optimization and statistical learning problems.

problem Solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems efficiently.
method Proposed a new computing model for SPIM that can handle low-rank interaction matrices.
result Demonstrated efficient learning, classification, and sampling of MNIST images using the model.

Study maximal representations of surface groups via pleated surfaces in pseudo-Riemannian space.

problem Maximal representations of surface groups and their geometric properties.
method Introduction of ρ\rho-invariant pleated surfaces and construction of shear cocycles.
result Properties of ρ\rho-invariant pleated surfaces, including embeddedness, acausality, and hyperbolic structure.

The paper develops methods for monitoring TPL machine health.

problem Inaccurate and untimely maintenance of TPL systems leads to poor quality and inefficiencies.
method Physics-informed data-driven predictive models integrated with statistical approaches.
result The methods achieve high accuracy across various scenarios and conditions.

oPoW proposes a new PoW algorithm to reduce mining costs and environmental impact.

problem Scalability issues, environmental concerns, and systemic risks in Bitcoin PoW.
method oPoW is a novel PoW algorithm that shifts mining costs from electricity to hardware (CAPEX).
result oPoW reduces mining costs and improves network scalability, decentralization, and issuance.

The paper solves the isoperimetric problem in Riemannian optical geometry, proving circles minimize lengths with area constraints.

problem Optical geometry of static spherically symmetric spacetimes.
method Applying isoperimetric problem results to curves in Riemannian optical geometry.
result Length-minimizing curves with area constraints are circles, with implications for photon spheres.

Study null energy condition impacts on special hypersurfaces in static spacetimes.

problem Effects of null energy condition on totally umbilic hypersurfaces.
method Characterization of embedded surfaces and photon surfaces using Alexandrov Theorem and other methods.
result Full characterization of embedded surfaces with constant spacetime mean curvature.

MarmoNet automates analysis of marmoset brain axonal projections.

problem Automatically detect and segment axonal tracer signals in noisy, cluttered images.
method Uses machine learning, specifically CNNs and image registration, to process and map axonal projections.
result Automated pipeline extracts and maps axonal projections robustly.

Paper tackles Bayesian image restoration in low-photon Poisson imaging problems.

problem Bayesian inference in challenging low-photon Poisson imaging problems.
method Plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies with accelerated methods and mirror sampling.
result Effective PnP Langevin sampling methods for low-photon Poisson imaging problems.

Combines spatial context priors with data term for better dendritic spine segmentation.

problem Poor segmentation results due to overlapping pixel intensity distributions.
method Combines nonparametric context priors with learned-intensity data term and nonparametric shape priors.
result Significant improvements in dendritic spine segmentation.

Researchers use statistical methods to infer transmission matrices in complex media.

problem Comprehending and exploiting photon scattering through disordered media.
method Pseudolikelihood decimation to learn the coupling matrix via random sampling.
result Transmission matrices can be inferred and used like normal optical elements.
Research in Econophysicscond-mat.stat-mech

This article is written for the online newspaper "The Photon" published by the Department of Physics, University of Maryland. The article describes econophysics research done in the group of Victor Yakovenko. It briefly surveys the subjects "Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth" and "Probability Distribut…

2003-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗