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Qiang Fu

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arXiv2018

Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites as Promising Substrates for Pt Single-Atom Catalysts

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) combine the best of two worlds by bridging heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. The superior catalytic properties of SACs, however, can hardly be exploited without a suitable substrate. Here, we explore the possibility of using hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites as supporting materials for single transition-metal atoms. By means of first-principles calculations, we predict that single Pt atoms can be incorporated into methylammonium lead iodide surfaces by replacing the methylammonium groups at the outermost layer. The iodide anions at the surface provide potentially uniform anchoring sites for the Pt atoms and donate electrons, generating negatively-charged Pt$_{1}^{δ-}$ species that allow for preferential O$_{2}$ adsorption in the presence of CO. Such Pt sites are able to catalyze CO oxidation and may also play a role in CO$_{2}$ reduction. The fundamental understanding generated here will shed light on potential applications of hybrid perovskites in the field of (photo)catalysis.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2018

Extracting nuclear form factors with coherent neutrino scattering

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) can be used to determine the neutron part of nuclear form factors, unlocking intrinsic properties of nuclear structure. In contrast with other such methods, CEvNS is free from both strong interaction effects and Coulomb distortions. We propose precision measurements of CEvNS with an upcoming accelerator facility and determine the corresponding requirements for such a neutrino detector. We find that most significant backgrounds come from fast neutrons, induced by cosmogenic muons or from the pion decays at rest in the target station. With ton-scale liquid noble gas detectors, we will not only achieve percent level precision in the measurement of neutron radii but also clarify contributions of higher-order moments to nuclear form factors.

physics.ins-det↗

arXiv2018

Gottfried sum rule from maximum entropy method quark distributions with DGLAP evolution and DGLAP evolution with GLR-MQ-ZRS corrections

A new method to test the valence quark distribution of nucleon obtained from the maximum entropy method using Gottfried sum rule by performing DGLAP equations with the GLR-MQ-ZRS corrections and original LO~/~NLO DGLAP equations are outlined. The test relies on a knowledge of the unpolarized electron-proton structure function $F_2^{ep}$ and electron-neutron structure function $F_2^{en}$ and the assumption that Bjorken scaling is satisfied. In this work, the original Gottfried summation value obtained by the integrals of the structure function at different Q$^{2}$ is in accordance with the theoretical value 1/3 under the premise of light-quark flavour symmetry of nucleon sea, whether it is the result from the dynamics evolution equations or the result from global QCD fits of PDFs. Finally, we present the summation value of the LO / NLO DGLAP global fits of PDFs under the premise of light-quark flavour asymmetry of nucleon sea. According to analysis the original Gottfried summation value with two evolution equations at different $Q^{2}$, we can know that the valence quark distributions of nucleon obtained by the maximum entropy method are effective and reliable.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Some binary BCH codes with length $n=2^m+1$

Under research for near sixty years, Bose-$\!$Ray-$\!$Chaudhuri-$\!$Hocquenghem(BCH) codes have played increasingly important roles in many applications such as communication systems, data storage and information security. However, the dimension and minimum distance of BCH codes are seldom solved until now because of their intractable characteristics. The objective of this paper is to study the dimensions of some BCH codes of length $n=2^m+1$ with $m=2t+1$, $4t+2$, $8t+4$ and $m\geq 10$. Some new techniques are employed to investigate coset leaders modulo $n$. For each type of $m$ above, the first five largest coset leaders modulo $n$ are determined, the dimension of some BCH codes of length $n$ with designed distance $δ>2^{\lceil \frac{m}{2} \rceil}$ is presented. These new techniques and results may be helpful to study other families of cyclic codes over finite fields.

cs.IT↗

arXiv2017

Testing violation of the Leggett-Garg-type inequality in neutrino oscillations of the Daya Bay experiment

The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI), derived under the assumption of realism, acts as the temporal Bell's inequality. It is studied in electromagnetic and strong interaction like photonics, superconducting qu-bits and nuclear spin. Until the weak interaction two-state oscillations of neutrinos affirmed the violation of Leggett-Garg-type inequalities (LGtI). We make an empirical test for the deviation of experimental results with the classical limits by analyzing the survival probability data of reactor neutrinos at a distinct range of baseline dividing energies, as an analog to a single neutrino detected at different time. A study of the updated data of Daya-Bay experiment unambiguously depicts an obvious cluster of data over the classical bound of LGtI and shows a $6.1σ$ significance of the violation of them.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2017

Coherent photoproductions of $J/Ψ$ and $Υ$ mesons in pp and PbPb ultraperipheral collisions from dynamical gluon distribution

We present calculations of coherent photoproduction of vector mesons ($J/Ψ$ and $Υ$) with leading-order parton distribution functions to check new kinds of corrections of the DGLAP equations and nuclear modifications. The input gluon distribution of the proton is the dynamical parton model from the DGLAP equations with GLR-MQ-ZRS (Gribov-Levin-Ryskin, Mueller-Qiu, Zhu-Ruan-Shen) modifications. From comparison between several other gluon distribution models, we find that the dynamical gluon distribution fits with the results of meson photoproduction experiments in the high energy region. The calculation of the differential cross sections using dynamical and other gluon distributions is compared with the experimental data from the HERA, ZEUS and LHCb Collaborations. Although there is little data for the rapidity distribution of vector meson photoproduction near zero rapidity, the dynamical gluon distribution works well with the data in the large rapidity region.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2017

Hyperspectral Light Field Stereo Matching

In this paper, we describe how scene depth can be extracted using a hyperspectral light field capture (H-LF) system. Our H-LF system consists of a 5 x 6 array of cameras, with each camera sampling a different narrow band in the visible spectrum. There are two parts to extracting scene depth. The first part is our novel cross-spectral pairwise matching technique, which involves a new spectral-invariant feature descriptor and its companion matching metric we call bidirectional weighted normalized cross correlation (BWNCC). The second part, namely, H-LF stereo matching, uses a combination of spectral-dependent correspondence and defocus cues that rely on BWNCC. These two new cost terms are integrated into a Markov Random Field (MRF) for disparity estimation. Experiments on synthetic and real H-LF data show that our approach can produce high-quality disparity maps. We also show that these results can be used to produce the complete plenoptic cube in addition to synthesizing all-focus and defocused color images under different sensor spectral responses.

cs.CV↗

arXiv2017

Code review and cooperative pair programming best practice

We need ways to improve the code quality. Programmers have different level of tenure and experience. Standard and programming languages change and we are forced to re-use legacy code with minimum revision. Programmers develop their habits and can be slow to incorporate new technologies to simplify the code or improve the performance. We rolled out our customized code review and pair programming process to address these issues. The paper discusses the about the improvement of mandatory code review and pair programming practiced in the commercial software development, and also proposes effective approaches to customize the code review and pair programming to avoid the pitfalls and keep the benefits.

cs.SE↗

arXiv2017

Global study of nuclear modifications on parton distribution functions

A global analysis of nuclear medium modifications of parton distributions is presented using deeply inelastic scattering data of various nuclear targets. Two obtained data sets are provided for quark and gluon nuclear modification factors, referred as nIMParton16. One is from the global fit only to the experimental data of isospin-scalar nuclei (Set A), and the other is from the fit to all the measured nuclear data (Set B). The scale-dependence is described by DGLAP equations with nonlinear corrections in this work. The Fermi motion and off-shell effect, nucleon swelling, and parton-parton recombination are taken into account together for modeling the complicated $x$-dependence of nuclear modification. The nuclear gluon shadowing in this paper is dynamically generated by the QCD evolution of parton splitting and recombination processes with zero gluon density at the input scale. Sophisticated nuclear dependence of nuclear medium effects is studied with only two free parameters. With the obtained free parameters from the global analysis, the nuclear modifications of parton distribution functions of unmeasured nuclei can be predicted in our model. Nuclear modification of deuteron is also predicted and shown with recent measurement at JLab.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2015

The comultiplication of modified quantum affine $\frak{sl}_n$

Let $\dot{\mathbf{U}}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_n)$ be the modified quantum affine $\frak{sl}_n$ and let ${\bf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_N)^+$ be the positive part of quantum affine $\frak{sl}_N$. Let $\dot{\mathbf{B}}(n)$ be the canonical basis of $\dot{\mathbf{U}}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_n)$ and let $\mathbf{B}(N)^{\mathrm{ap}}$ be the canonical basis of ${\bf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_N)^+$. It is proved in \cite{FS} that each structure constant for the multiplication with respect to $\dot{\mathbf{B}}(n)$ coincide with a certain structure constant for the multiplication with respect to $\mathbf{B}(N)^{\mathrm{ap}}$ for $n<N$. In this paper we use the theory of affine quantum Schur algebras to prove that the structure constants for the comultiplication with respect to $\dot{\mathbf{B}}(n)$ are determined by the structure constants for the comultiplication with respect to $\mathbf{B}(N)^{\mathrm{ap}}$ for $n<N$. In particular, the positivity property for the comultiplication of $\dot{\mathbf{U}}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_n)$ follows from the positivity property for the comultiplication of ${\bf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_N)^+$.

math.QA↗

arXiv2015

On the hyperalgebra of the loop algebra ${\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n}$

Let $\widetilde{\mathcal U}_{\mathbb Z}({\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n})$ be the Garland integral form of ${\mathcal U}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)$ introduced by Garland \cite{Ga}, where ${\mathcal U}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)$ is the universal enveloping algebra of ${\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n}$. Using Ringel--Hall algebras, a certain integral form ${\mathcal U}_{\mathbb Z}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)$ of ${\mathcal U}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)$ was constructed in \cite{Fu13}. We prove that the Garland integral form $\widetilde{\mathcal U}_{\mathbb Z}({\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n})$ coincides with ${\mathcal U}_{\mathbb Z}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)$. Let ${\mathpzc k}$ be a commutative ring with unity and let ${\mathcal U}_{\mathpzc k}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)={\mathcal U}_{\mathbb Z}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)\otimes{\mathpzc k}$. For $h\geq 1$, we use Ringel--Hall algebras to construct a certain subalgebra, denoted by ${\mathtt{u}}_{\!\vartriangle\!}(n)_h$, of ${\mathcal U}_{\mathpzc k}(\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n)$. The algebra ${\mathtt{u}}_{\!\vartriangle\!}(n)_h$ is the affine analogue of ${\mathtt{u}}({\frak{gl}}_n)_h$, where ${\mathtt{u}}({\frak{gl}}_n)_h$ is a certain subalgebra of the hyperalgebra associated with ${\frak{gl}}_n$ introduced by Humhpreys \cite{Hum}. The algebra ${\mathtt{u}}({\frak{gl}}_n)_h$ plays an important role in the modular representation theory of ${\frak{gl}}_n$. In this paper we give a realization of ${\mathtt{u}}_{\!\vartriangle\!}(n)_h$ using affine Schur algebras.

math.RT↗

arXiv2015

Noise Robust IOA/CAS Speech Separation and Recognition System For The Third 'CHIME' Challenge

This paper presents the contribution to the third 'CHiME' speech separation and recognition challenge including both front-end signal processing and back-end speech recognition. In the front-end, Multi-channel Wiener filter (MWF) is designed to achieve background noise reduction. Different from traditional MWF, optimized parameter for the tradeoff between noise reduction and target signal distortion is built according to the desired noise reduction level. In the back-end, several techniques are taken advantage to improve the noisy Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance including Deep Neural Network (DNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long short-term memory (LSTM) using medium vocabulary, Lattice rescoring with a big vocabulary language model finite state transducer, and ROVER scheme. Experimental results show the proposed system combining front-end and back-end is effective to improve the ASR performance.

cs.SD↗

arXiv2015

IsoDAR Neutrino Experiment Simulation with Proton and Deuteron Beams

In this paper we consider high-intensity source of electron antineutrinos from the production and subsequent decay of 8Li. It opens a wide range of possible searches for beyond standard model physics via studies of the inverse beta decay interaction. In IsoDAR experiments Lithium 8 is a short lived beta emitter producing a high intensity anti-neutrinos, which is very suitable for making several important neutrino experiments. In this paper we used the GEANT4 program. to simulate neutrino production using proton and deuteron beams. We find that the neutrino production rate is about 3 times from deuteron beam than from proton beam in low energy region.

physics.ins-det↗

arXiv2015

Presenting affine Schur Algebras

The universal enveloping algebra ${\mathcal U}({\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n})$ of ${\widehat{\frak{gl}}_n}$ was realized in \cite[Ch. 6]{DDF} using affine Schur algebras. In particular some explicit multiplication formulas in affine Schur algebras were derived. We use these formulas to study the structure of affine Schur algebras. In particular, we give a presentation of the affine Schur algebra ${\mathcal S}_{\!\vartriangle}(n,r)_{\mathbb Q}$.

math.RT↗

arXiv2015

Bayesian De-quantization and Data Compression for Low-Energy Physiological Signal Telemonitoring

We address the issue of applying quantized compressed sensing (CS) on low-energy telemonitoring. So far, few works studied this problem in applications where signals were only approximately sparse. We propose a two-stage data compressor based on quantized CS, where signals are compressed by compressed sensing and then the compressed measurements are quantized with only 2 bits per measurement. This compressor can greatly reduce the transmission bit-budget. To recover signals from underdetermined, quantized measurements, we develop a Bayesian De-quantization algorithm. It can exploit both the model of quantization errors and the correlated structure of physiological signals to improve the quality of recovery. The proposed data compressor and the recovery algorithm are validated on a dataset recorded on 12 subjects during fast running. Experiment results showed that an averaged 2.596 beat per minute (BPM) estimation error was achieved by jointly using compressed sensing with 50% compression ratio and a 2-bit quantizer. The results imply that we can effectively transmit n bits instead of n samples, which is a substantial improvement for low-energy wireless telemonitoring.

cs.IT↗

arXiv2014

Positivity properties for canonical bases of modified quantum affine $\frak{sl}_n$

The positivity property for canonical bases asserts that the structure constants of the multiplication for the canonical basis are in ${\mathbb N}[v,v^{-1}]$. Let $\mathbf U$ be the quantum group over ${\mathbb Q}(v)$ associated with a symmetric Cartan datum. The positivity property for the positive part ${\mathbf U}^+$ of ${\mathbf U}$ was proved by Lusztig. He conjectured that the positivity property holds for the modified form $\dot{\mathbf U}$ of ${\mathbf U}$. In this paper, we prove that the structure constants for the canonical basis of $\dot{\mathbf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_n)$ coincide with certain structure constants for the canonical basis of ${\mathbf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_N)^+$ for $n<N$. In particular, the positivity property for $\dot{\mathbf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_n)$ follows from the positivity property for ${\mathbf U}(\widehat{\frak{sl}}_N)^+$.

math.QA↗

arXiv2014

Calibration of Multiple Fish-Eye Cameras Using a Wand

Fish-eye cameras are becoming increasingly popular in computer vision, but their use for 3D measurement is limited partly due to the lack of an accurate, efficient and user-friendly calibration procedure. For such a purpose, we propose a method to calibrate the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters (including radial distortion parameters) of two/multiple fish-eye cameras simultaneously by using a wand under general motions. Thanks to the generic camera model used, the proposed calibration method is also suitable for two/multiple conventional cameras and mixed cameras (e.g. two conventional cameras and a fish-eye camera). Simulation and real experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, we develop the camera calibration toolbox, which is available online.

cs.CV↗

arXiv2014

Stochastic parallel gradient descent optimization based on decoupling of the software and hardware

We classified the decoupled stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) optimization model into two different types: software and hardware decoupling methods. A kind of software decoupling method is then proposed and a kind of hardware decoupling method is also proposed depending on the Shack-Hartmann (S-H) sensor. Using the normal sensor to accelerate the convergence of algorithm, the hardware decoupling method seems a capable realization of decoupled method. Based on the numerical simulation for correction of phase distortion in atmospheric turbulence, our methods are analyzed and compared with basic SPGD model and also other decoupling models, on the aspects of different spatial resolutions, mismatched control channels and noise. The results show that the phase distortion can be compensated after tens iterations with a strong capacity of noise tolerance in our model.

astro-ph.IM↗