Blog
Bacterial chemotaxis considering memory effects (letter)
Chemotaxis in bacteria such as \textit{E.\ coli} is controlled by the slow methylation of chemoreceptors. As a consequence, intrinsic time and length scales of tens of seconds and hundreds of micrometers emerge, making the Keller–Segel equations invalid when the chemical signal changes...
Antenna Arrays for CRES-based Neutrino Mass Measurement
CRES is a technique for precision measurements of kinetic energies of charged particles, pioneered by the Project 8 experiment to measure the neutrino mass using the tritium endpoint method. It was recently employed for the first time to measure the molecular tritium...
Starspots on eclipsing giant stars I.: The sample and eclipse mapping examples
Spotted stars in eclipsing binary systems allow us to gather significant information about the stellar surface inhomogeneities that is otherwise impossible from only photometric data. Starspots can be scanned using the eclipse (or transit) mapping technique, which takes advantage of the passage...
Stringent Limits on H$_3^+$ Emission from the Hot Jupiters WASP-80b and WASP-69b
Observations of auroras on exoplanets would provide numerous insights into planet-star systems, including potential detections of the planetary magnetic fields, constraints on host-star wind properties, and information on the thermal structures of planets. However, there have not yet been any discoveries of...
A Quadratic Control Framework for Dynamic Systems
This article presents a unified approach to quadratic optimal control for both linear and nonlinear discrete-time systems, with a focus on trajectory tracking. The control strategy is based on minimizing a quadratic cost function that penalizes deviations of system states and control...
Non-Hermitian wave turbulence
Wave turbulence describes the long-time statistical behavior of out-of-equilibrium systems composed of weakly interacting waves. Non-Hermitian media ranging from open quantum systems to active materials can sustain wave propagation in so-called $PT$-symmetric states where gain and loss are effectively balanced. Here, we...
Controlling the rate of resonant tunneling between quantum wells by relocating the wave function within a quantum well
The possibility of controlling the tunneling time between quantum wells by relocation of the subband wave function within the quantum well by varying the configuration of thin tunnel-transparent barriers embedded into the well is demonstrated. Este artículo explora los viajes en el...
On optimality and bounds for internal solutions generated from boundary data-driven Gramians
We consider the computation of internal solutions for a time domain plasma wave equation with unknown coefficients from the data obtained by sampling its transfer function at the boundary. The computation is performed by transforming known background snapshots using the Cholesky decomposition...
A stochastic method to estimate a zero-inflated two-part mixed model for human microbiome data
Human microbiome studies based on genetic sequencing techniques produce compositional longitudinal data of the relative abundances of microbial taxa over time, allowing to understand, through mixed-effects modeling, how microbial communities evolve in response to clinical interventions, environmental changes, or disease progression. In...
$k$-Inductive and Interpolation-Inspired Barrier Certificates for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
We introduce two notions of barrier certificates that use multiple functions to provide a lower bound on the probabilistic satisfaction of safety for stochastic dynamical systems. A barrier certificate for a stochastic dynamical system acts as a nonnegative supermartingale, and provides a...