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  • Open Access
5 Citations
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19 Pages

29 October 2024

We study the zeros of the partition function in the complex temperature plane (Fisher zeros) and in the complex external field plane (Lee–Yang zeros) of a frustrated Ising model with competing nearest-neighbor (J1>0) and next-nearest-neighbo...

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  • Open Access
287 Views
12 Pages

15 December 2025

The spin-one Ising model on the honeycomb lattice has never been solved exactly in spite of its simplicity. Even its exact critical temperature is not known. The exact integer values for the density of states of the spin-one Ising model on the L&time...

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  • Open Access
592 Views
12 Pages

6 November 2025

The heat capacity decomposition method, a well-established analytical approach in polymer thermodynamics for elucidating thermal transitions in homogeneous polymers, is extended here to heterogeneous systems. We demonstrate that the decomposition of...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,460 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2025

We exploit the equivalence between the partition function of an adsorbing Dyck walk model and the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (ASEP) normalization to obtain the thermodynamic limit of the locus of the ASEP normalization zeros from a conformal...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,375 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2019

The complex zeros of the canonical (fixed walk-length) partition function are calculated for both the self-avoiding trails model and the vertex-interacting self-avoiding walk model, both in bulk and in the presence of an attractive surface. The finit...

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  • Open Access
2,368 Views
19 Pages

Exploration of Free Energy Surface of the Au10 Nanocluster at Finite Temperature

  • Francisco Eduardo Rojas-González,
  • César Castillo-Quevedo,
  • Peter Ludwig Rodríguez-Kessler,
  • José Oscar Carlos Jimenez-Halla,
  • Alejandro Vásquez-Espinal,
  • Rajagopal Dashinamoorthy Eithiraj,
  • Manuel Cortez-Valadez and
  • José Luis Cabellos

18 July 2024

The first step in comprehending the properties of Au10 clusters is understanding the lowest energy structure at low and high temperatures. Functional materials operate at finite temperatures; however, energy computations employing density functional...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,520 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2002

We compare two recently proposed methods for the characterization of phase transitions in small systems. The usefulness of these techniques is evaluated for the case of structural transition in alanine-based peptides.

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  • Open Access
1,927 Views
13 Pages

Lee–Yang Zeroes in the Baryon Fugacity Plane: The Role of High Densities

  • Nikolai Gerasimeniuk,
  • Vitaly Bornyakov,
  • Vladimir Goy,
  • Roman Rogalyov,
  • Anatolii Korneev,
  • Alexander Molochkov and
  • Atsushi Nakamura

7 September 2023

We compute the canonical partition functions and the Lee–Yang zeros in Nf=2 lattice QCD at temperature T=1.20Tc lying above the Roberge–Weiss phase transition temperature TRW. The phase transition is characterized by the discontinuities i...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,864 Views
18 Pages

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of service conditions on lightweight partitions in residential buildingsusing life-cycle assessments (LCAs). Three alternative service conditions were included as follows: light/moderate, standard, and...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,610 Views
10 Pages

27 March 2024

We evaluate here the quantum gravity partition function that counts the dimension of the Hilbert space of a simply connected spatial region of a fixed proper volume in the context of Lovelock gravity, generalizing the results for Einstein gravity. It...

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  • Open Access
479 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2025

To address the challenge of frequent extreme events causing power grid failures and traditional post-fault recovery modes struggling to meet the rigid demand for continuous power supply to critical loads, this paper proposes a partition-based two-lay...

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  • Open Access
2,321 Views
18 Pages

Side Information Design in Zero-Error Coding for Computing

  • Nicolas Charpenay,
  • Maël Le Treust and
  • Aline Roumy

16 April 2024

We investigate the zero-error coding for computing problems with encoder side information. An encoder provides access to a source X and is furnished with side information g(Y). It communicates with a decoder that possesses side information Y and aims...

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  • Open Access
448 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Function Computation over a Directed Acyclic Network

  • Xiufang Sun,
  • Ruze Zhang,
  • Dan Li and
  • Xuan Guang

3 December 2025

The problem of multi-function computation over a directed acyclic network is investigated in this paper. In such a network, a sink node is required to compute with zero error multiple vector-linear functions, where each vector-linear function has dis...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,953 Views
28 Pages

2 April 2021

A method of the Riemann–Hilbert problem is applied for Zhang’s conjecture 1 proposed in Philo. Mag. 87 (2007) 5309 for a ferromagnetic three-dimensional (3D) Ising model in the zero external field and the solution to the Zhang’s conjecture 1 is const...

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  • Open Access
2,509 Views
12 Pages

Clustering Vertex-Weighted Graphs by Spectral Methods

  • Juan-Luis García-Zapata and
  • Clara Grácio

9 November 2021

Spectral techniques are often used to partition the set of vertices of a graph, or to form clusters. They are based on the Laplacian matrix. These techniques allow easily to integrate weights on the edges. In this work, we introduce a p-Laplacian, or...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
916 Views
11 Pages

5 August 2025

This paper addresses the controller design problem for linear systems with time-varying delays. By constructing a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional incorporating delay-partitioning techniques, we establish delay-dependent stability criteria...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,982 Views
25 Pages

28 September 2023

We study the excess minimum risk in statistical inference, defined as the difference between the minimum expected loss when estimating a random variable from an observed feature vector and the minimum expected loss when estimating the same random var...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,648 Views
16 Pages

Individual Topological Analysis of Synchronization-Based Brain Connectivity

  • Angela Lombardi,
  • Nicola Amoroso,
  • Domenico Diacono,
  • Alfonso Monaco,
  • Sabina Tangaro and
  • Roberto Bellotti

8 May 2020

Functional connectivity analysis aims at assessing the strength of functional coupling between the signal responses in distinct brain areas. Usually, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series connections are estimated through zero-lag...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,899 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2019

The concept of universality is a cornerstone of theories of critical phenomena. It is very well understood in most systems, especially in the thermodynamic limit. Finite-size systems present additional challenges. Even in low dimensions, universality...

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6 Citations
1,880 Views
9 Pages

17 November 2023

We have recently shown that the critical Anderson electron in D=3 dimensions effectively occupies a spatial region of the infrared (IR) scaling dimension dIR8/3. Here, we inquire about the dimensional substructure involved. We partition space...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,512 Views
18 Pages

25 June 2025

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO), which is also called hyperparameter tuning, is a vital component of developing machine learning models. These parameters, which regulate the behavior of the machine learning algorithm and cannot be directly learned...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,732 Views
16 Pages

Clusters in Separated Tubes of Tilted Dipoles

  • Jeremy R. Armstrong,
  • Aksel S. Jensen,
  • Artem G. Volosniev and
  • Nikolaj T. Zinner

1 April 2020

A few-body cluster is a building block of a many-body system in a gas phase provided the temperature at most is of the order of the binding energy of this cluster. Here we illustrate this statement by considering a system of tubes filled with dipolar...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,687 Views
16 Pages

Biodegradable Acid-Based Fe2MnO4 Nanoparticles for Water Remediation

  • Rabia Ahmad,
  • Elham A. Alzahrani,
  • Poonam Dwivedi,
  • Sumbul Hafeez,
  • Jyoti Deswal,
  • Bushra Fatima,
  • Sharf Ilahi Siddiqui and
  • Seungdae Oh

15 August 2024

This study demonstrated the synthesis of Fe2MnO4 modified by citric acid, a biodegradable acid, using a simple co-precipitation method. Characterization was performed using qualitative analysis techniques such as Fourier-transformed infrared spectros...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,325 Views
13 Pages

Recent work has shown that local supersymmetry on a spacetime boundary in N-extended AdS supergravity in chiral variables implies coupling to a boundary OSp(N|2)C super Chern–Simons theory. Consequently there has been a proposal to define and c...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,128 Views
18 Pages

Energy Levels in Pentacoordinate d5 to d9 Complexes

  • Ján Titiš,
  • Cyril Rajnák and
  • Roman Boča

Energy levels of pentacoordinate d5 to d9 complexes were evaluated according to the generalized crystal field theory at three levels of sophistication for two limiting cases of pentacoordination: trigonal bipyramid and tetragonal pyramid. The electro...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,464 Views
23 Pages

Theoretical Prediction of Structures, Vibrational Circular Dichroism, and Infrared Spectra of Chiral Be4B8 Cluster at Different Temperatures

  • Carlos Emiliano Buelna-García,
  • Eduardo Robles-Chaparro,
  • Tristan Parra-Arellano,
  • Jesus Manuel Quiroz-Castillo,
  • Teresa del-Castillo-Castro,
  • Gerardo Martínez-Guajardo,
  • Cesar Castillo-Quevedo,
  • Aned de-León-Flores,
  • Gilberto Anzueto-Sánchez and
  • Jose Luis Cabellos
  • + 3 authors

28 June 2021

Lowest-energy structures, the distribution of isomers, and their molecular properties depend significantly on geometry and temperature. Total energy computations using DFT methodology are typically carried out at a temperature of zero K; thereby, ent...

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  • Open Access
211 Views
31 Pages

26 January 2026

This paper addresses the problem of cooperative coverage control for heterogeneous Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) swarms operating in complex underwater environments. The objective is to achieve optimal coverage of a target region while simultan...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,515 Views
20 Pages

26 May 2023

To solve the voltage stability problem of electric vehicles connected to the distribution network in the limit state, a reactive power compensation strategy based on the holomorphic embedding method and electrical distance is proposed. Firstly, the l...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,427 Views
15 Pages

IOTA-BT: A P2P File-Sharing System Based on IOTA

  • Li-Yuan Hou,
  • Tsung-Yi Tang and
  • Tyng-Yeu Liang

BitTorrent (BT) is the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing system. According to official BT information, more than 100 million active users use BT for file transfers every month. However, BT mainly relies on either a central tracker (tracker) or d...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,180 Views
20 Pages

6 January 2022

A new daily water balance model is developed and tested in this paper. The new model has a similar model structure to the existing probability distributed rainfall runoff models (PDM), such as HyMOD. However, the model utilizes a new distribution fun...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,631 Views
31 Pages

Properties of a Random Bipartite Geometric Associator Graph Inspired by Vehicular Networks

  • Kaushlendra Pandey,
  • Abhishek K. Gupta,
  • Harpreet S. Dhillon and
  • Kanaka Raju Perumalla

4 December 2023

We consider a point process (PP) generated by superimposing an independent Poisson point process (PPP) on each line of a 2D Poisson line process (PLP). Termed PLP-PPP, this PP is suitable for modeling networks formed on an irregular collection of lin...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,128 Views
9 Pages

30 March 2023

Background: The 6-min walk test (6MWT) provides information regarding functional capacity, response to therapy and prognosis in a variety of chronic cardiovascular disorders. Variability in body size and composition, particularly in obese people, con...

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  • Open Access
781 Views
19 Pages

Integrating Genetic Mapping and BSR-Seq Analysis to Identify Candidate Genes Controlling Fruitfulness in Camellia sinensis

  • Shizhuo Kan,
  • Dandan Tang,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Yuxin Gu,
  • Shenxin Zhao,
  • Lu Long,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Xiaoqin Tan,
  • Liqiang Tan and
  • Qian Tang

24 September 2025

As nutrient allocation trade-offs occur between reproductive and vegetative development in crops, optimizing their partitioning holds promise for improving agricultural productivity and quality. Herein, we characterize the phenotypic diversity of the...