Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Dmitriy Smirnov, Michael Gharbi, Matthew Fisher, Vitor Guizilini, Alexei A. Efros | Summary: Artists and video game designers often construct 2D animations using libraries of sprites — textured patches of objects and characters. We propose a deep learning approach that decomposes sprite-based video animations into a disentangled […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark J. Bowick | First 5 Authors: Zhitao Chen, Duanduan Wan, Mark J. Bowick, , | Summary: Very thin elastic sheets, even at zero temperature, exhibit nonlinear elastic response by virtue of their dominant bending modes. Their behavior is even richer at finite temperature. Here we use molecular dynamics (MD) to study the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Leon Balents | First 5 Authors: Takamori Park, Mengxing Ye, Leon Balents, , | Summary: We study electronic instabilities of a kagome metal with a Fermi energy close to saddle points at the hexagonal Brillouin zone face centers. Using parquet renormalization group, we determine the leading and subleading instabilities, finding superconducting, charge, orbital […]
Kavli Affiliate: David J. Gross | First 5 Authors: David J. Gross, Vladimir Rosenhaus, , , | Summary: Motivated by the desire to understand chaos in the $S$-matrix of string theory, we study tree level scattering amplitudes involving highly excited strings. While the amplitudes for scattering of light strings have been a hallmark of string […]
Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Tobias Hinz, Matthew Fisher, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, Stefan Wermter | Summary: We introduce CharacterGAN, a generative model that can be trained on only a few samples (8 – 15) of a given character. Our model generates novel poses based on keypoint locations, which can be modified […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Gross | First 5 Authors: Felipe Montealegre-Mora, Denis Rosset, Jean-Daniel Bancal, David Gross, | Summary: We present a performant and rigorous algorithm for certifying that a matrix is close to being a projection onto an irreducible subspace of a given group representation. This addresses a problem arising when one seeks solutions to […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Gross | First 5 Authors: Arne Heimendahl, Markus Heinrich, David Gross, , | Summary: Stabiliser operations occupy a prominent role in fault-tolerant quantum computing. They are defined operationally: by the use of Clifford gates, Pauli measurements and classical control. These operations can be efficiently simulated on a classical computer, a result which […]
Kavli Affiliate: Boris I. Shraiman | First 5 Authors: Farzan Vafa, Mark J. Bowick, Boris I. Shraiman, M. Cristina Marchetti, | Summary: Recent experiments in various cell types have shown that two-dimensional tissues often display local nematic order, with evidence of extensile stresses manifest in the dynamics of topological defects. Using a mesoscopic model where […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark J. Bowick | First 5 Authors: Suraj Shankar, Anton Souslov, Mark J. Bowick, M. Cristina Marchetti, Vincenzo Vitelli | Summary: Active matter encompasses different nonequilibrium systems in which individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale. This review provides an elementary introduction to the role of topology in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Leon Balents | First 5 Authors: Kasra Hejazi, Zhu-Xi Luo, Leon Balents, , | Summary: We study untwisted heterobilayers of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials, with in particular a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the ferromagnetic layer. A continuum low energy field theory is utilized to study such systems. We develop a phase […]