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This research work introduces the structure of invariant and screen semi-invariant lightlike submanifolds of a metallic semi-Riemannian manifold with a quarter symmetric non-metric connection, elaborated with examples. It delves into the characterization of integrability and parallelism of distributions inherent in the structure of these submanifolds. Additionally, it presents findings pertaining to totally geodesic foliations for invariant and screen semi-invariant submanifolds.

In this paper, we discuss some aspects of the energetics of a quantum Brownian particle placed in a harmonic trap, also known as the dissipative quantum oscillator. Based on the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, we analyze two distinct notions of thermally-averaged energy that can be ascribed to the oscillator. These energy functions, respectively dubbed hereafter as the mean energy and the internal energy, are found to be unequal for arbitrary system-bath coupling strength, when the bath spectral function has a finite cutoff frequency, as in the case of a Drude bath. Remarkably, both the energy functions satisfy the quantum counterpart of the energy equipartition theorem, but with different probability distribution functions on the frequency domain of the heat bath. Moreover, the Gibbs approach to thermodynamics provides us with yet another thermally-averaged energy function. In the weak-coupling limit, all the above-mentioned energy expressions reduce to $\epsilon = \frac{\hbar \omega_0}{2} \coth \big(\frac{ \hbar \omega_0}{2 k_B T}\big)$, which is the familiar result. We generalize our analysis to the case of the three-dimensional dissipative magneto-oscillator, i.e., when a charged dissipative oscillator is placed in a spatially-uniform magnetic field., Comment: Preliminary version, comments are welcome

This paper studies the geometric properties of contact CR-submanifolds of Sasakian statistical manifold. The integrability of invariant and anti-invariant distributions of contact CR-submanifolds has been characterized. Results on D-totally geodesic, mixed totally geodesic and D-umbilic contact CR submanifolds with regard to dual connections in statistical manifolds have been developed. The statistical version of contact CR-product of Sasakian statistical manifold has been introduced., Comment: 13 pages

This research article introduces the concept of lightlike submanifolds of an indefinite Kenmotsu statistical manifold. Various results on geometry of contact CR and SCR-lightlike submanifolds have been developed. Some characterization theorems on the integrability of distributions and on the geodesicity of these submanifolds have been obtained. Appropriate examples have been presented., Comment: 15 pages

In this paper, we analyze dissipative diamagnetism, arising due to dissipative cyclotron motion in two dimensions, in the light of the quantum counterpart of energy equipartition theorem. We consider a charged quantum particle moving in a harmonic well, in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, and coupled to a quantum heat bath which is taken to be composed of an infinite number of independent quantum oscillators. The quantum counterpart of energy equipartition theorem tells us that it is possible to express the mean kinetic energy of the dissipative oscillator as a two-fold average, where, the first averaging is performed over the Gibbs canonical state of the heat bath while the second one is governed by a probability distribution function $P_k(\omega)$. We analyze this result further, and also demonstrate its consistency in the weak-coupling limit. Following this, we compute the equilibrium magnetic moment of the system, and reveal an interesting connection with the quantum counterpart of energy equipartition theorem. The expressions for kinetic energy and magnetic moment are reformulated in the context of superstatistics, i.e. the superposition of two statistics. A comparative study of the present results with those obtained from the more traditional Gibbs approach is performed and a perfect agreement is obtained., Comment: v1: Preliminary version: 11 pages, 5 figures; v2: Minor changes; v3: Substantial changes, figures changed, new section added, title modified; v4: To appear in Physica A

Recently, the quantum counterpart of energy equipartition theorem has drawn considerable attention. Motivated by this, we formulate and investigate an analogous statement for the free energy of a quantum oscillator linearly coupled to a passive heat bath consisting of an infinite number of independent harmonic oscillators. We explicitly demonstrate that the free energy of the Brownian oscillator can be expressed in the form $F(T) = \langle f(\omega,T) \rangle $ where $f(\omega,T)$ is the free energy of an individual bath oscillator. The overall averaging process involves two distinct averages: the first one is over the canonical ensemble for the bath oscillators, whereas the second one signifies averaging over the entire bath spectrum of frequencies from zero to infinity. The latter is performed over a relevant probability distribution function $\mathcal{P}(\omega)$ which can be derived from the knowledge of the generalized susceptibility encountered in linear response theory. The effect of different dissipation mechanisms is also exhibited. We find two remarkable consequences of our results. First, the quantum counterpart of energy equipartition theorem follows naturally from our analysis. The second corollary we obtain is a natural derivation of the third law of thermodynamics for open quantum systems. Finally, we generalize the formalism to three spatial dimensions in the presence of an external magnetic field.

In this brief report, following the recent developments on formulating a quantum analogue of the classical energy equipartition theorem for open systems where the heat bath comprises of independent oscillators, i.e. bosonic degrees of freedom, we present an analogous result for fermionic systems. The most general case where the system is connected to multiple reservoirs is considered and the mean energy in the steady state is expressed as an integral over the reservoir frequencies. Physically this would correspond to summing over the contributions of the bath degrees of freedom to the mean energy of the system over a suitable distribution function $\rho(\omega)$ dependent on the system parameters. This result holds for nonequilibrium steady states, even in the nonlinear regime far from equilibrium. We also analyze the zero temperature behaviour and low temperature corrections to the mean energy of the system.

We revisit the optimal performance of a thermoelectric generator within the endoreversible approximation, while imposing a finite physical dimensions constraint (FPDC) in the form of a fixed total area of the heat exchangers. Our analysis is based on the linear-irreversible law for heat transfer between the reservoir and the working medium, in contrast to Newton's law usually assumed in literature. The optimization of power output is performed with respect to the thermoelectric current as well as the fractional area of the heat exchangers. We describe two alternate designs for allocating optimal areas to the heat exchangers. Interestingly, for each design, the use of linear-irreversible law yields the efficiency at maximum power in the well-known form, $2\eta_{\rm C}^{}/ (4-\eta_{\rm C}^{})$, earlier obtained for the case of thermoelectric generator under exoreversible approximation, i.e. assuming only the internal irreversibility due to Joule heating. On the other hand, the use of Newton's law yields Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures

In this paper, we formulate and study the quantum counterpart of the energy equipartition theorem for a charged quantum particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to a passive quantum heat bath through coordinate variables. The bath is modelled as a collection of independent quantum harmonic oscillators. We derive the closed form expressions for the mean kinetic and potential energies of the charged-dissipative-magneto-oscillator in the form $E_k = \langle \mathcal{E}_k \rangle$ and $E_p = \langle \mathcal{E}_p \rangle$ respectively, where $\mathcal{E}_k$ and $\mathcal{E}_p$ denote the average kinetic and potential energies of individual thermostat oscillators. The net averaging is two-fold, the first one being over the Gibbs canonical state for the thermostat, giving $\mathcal{E}_k$ and $\mathcal{E}_p$ and the second one denoted by $\langle . \rangle$ being over the frequencies $\omega$ of the bath oscillators which contribute to $E_k$ and $E_p$ according to probability distributions $\mathcal{P}_k(\omega)$ and $\mathcal{P}_p(\omega)$ respectively. The relationship of the present quantum version of the equipartition theorem with that of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (within the linear-response theory framework) is also explored. Further, we investigate the influence of the external magnetic field and the effect of different dissipation processes through Gaussian decay, Drude and radiation bath spectral density functions, on the typical properties of $\mathcal{P}_k(\omega)$ and $\mathcal{P}_p(\omega)$. Finally, the role of system-bath coupling strength and the memory effect is analyzed in the context of average kinetic and potential energies of the dissipative charged magneto-oscillator.

Quantum coherence is a prime resource in quantum computing and quantum communication. Quantum coherence of an arbitrary qubit state can be created at a remote location using maximally entangled state, local operation and classical communication. However, if there is a noisy channel acting on one side of the shared resource, then, it is not possible to create perfect quantum coherence remotely. Here, we present a method for the creation of quantum coherence at a remote location via the use of entangled state and indefinite causal order. We show this specifically for the superposition of two completely depolarizing channels, two partially depolarizing channels and one completely depolarizing channel along with a unitary operator. We find that when the indefinite causal order of channels act on one-half of the entangled pair, then the shared state looses entanglement, but can retain non-zero quantum discord. This finding may have some interesting applications on its own where discord can be consumed as a resource. Our results suggest that the indefinite causal order along with a tiny amount of quantum discord can act as a resource in creating non-zero quantum coherence in the absence of entanglement., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, Quantum Information Processing volume 22, Article number: 107 (2023)

The possibility of fingerprinting the search keywords issued by a user on popular web search engines is a significant threat to user privacy. This threat has received surprisingly little attention in the network traffic analysis literature. In this work, we consider the problem of keyword fingerprinting of HTTPS traffic -- we study the impact of several factors, including client platform diversity, choice of search engine, feature sets as well as classification frameworks. We conduct both closed-world and open-world evaluations using nearly 4 million search queries collected over a period of three months. Our analysis reveals several insights into the threat of keyword fingerprinting in modern HTTPS traffic.

Thermoelectricity is traditionally explained via Onsager's irreversible, flux-force framework. The coupled flows of heat and electric charge are modelled as steady-state flows, driven by the thermodynamic forces defined in terms of the gradients of local, intensive parameters like temperature and electrochemical potential. A thermoelectric generator is a device with a finite extension, and its performance is measured in terms of total power output and total entropy generation. These global quantities are naturally expressed in terms of discrete or global forces derived from their local counterparts. We analyze the thermodynamics of thermoelectricity in terms of global flux-force relations. These relations clearly show the additional quadratic dependence of the driver flux on global forces, corresponding to the process of Joule heating. We discuss the global kinetic coefficients defined by these flux-force relations and prove that the equality of the global cross-coefficients is derived from a similar property of the local coefficients. Finally, we clarify the differences between the global framework for thermoelectric energy conversion and the recently proposed minimally nonlinear irreversible thermodynamic model., Comment: Revtex4-1, 6 pages, 1 figure, Comments are welcome

Accurately forecasting urban development and its environmental and climate impacts critically depends on realistic models of the spatial structure of the built environment, and of its dependence on key factors such as population and economic development. Scenario simulation and sensitivity analysis, i.e., predicting how changes in underlying factors at a given location affect urbanization outcomes at other locations, is currently not achievable at a large scale with traditional urban growth models, which are either too simplistic, or depend on detailed locally-collected socioeconomic data that is not available in most places. Here we develop a framework to estimate, purely from globally-available remote-sensing data and without parametric assumptions, the spatial sensitivity of the (\textit{static}) rate of change of urban sprawl to key macroeconomic development indicators. We formulate this spatial regression problem as an image-to-image translation task using conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs), where the gradients necessary for comparative static analysis are provided by the backpropagation algorithm used to train the model. This framework allows to naturally incorporate physical constraints, e.g., the inability to build over water bodies. To validate the spatial structure of model-generated built environment distributions, we use spatial statistics commonly used in urban form analysis. We apply our method to a novel dataset comprising of layers on the built environment, nightlighs measurements (a proxy for economic development and energy use), and population density for the world's most populous 15,000 cities., Comment: 8 pages

There are few exact results on optimal power conditions for a thermoelectric generator in the presence of both external and internal irreversibilities---modelled as non-ideal thermal contacts and Joule heating, respectively. Simplified cases, where only one kind of irreversibility is assumed, yield some well-known expressions for efficiency at maximum power (EMP), such as Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency for endoreversible model. In this work, we analyze situations under the simultaneous presence of internal and external irreversibilities. To simplify, we neglect heat leaks, and each kind of irreversibility is assumed only on the side of one of the thermal contacts. We also present the symmetric case---where each kind of irreversibility contributes with equal strengths towards the side of each thermal contact. We show the bounds satisfied by EMP in each of these regimes and compare its properties for thermal impedence matching and close to equilibrium, where we find step-wise changes in EMP., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, revtex

In this study we propose a new method to simulate hyper-realistic urban patterns using Generative Adversarial Networks trained with a global urban land-use inventory. We generated a synthetic urban "universe" that qualitatively reproduces the complex spatial organization observed in global urban patterns, while being able to quantitatively recover certain key high-level urban spatial metrics., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures

Urban planning applications (energy audits, investment, etc.) require an understanding of built infrastructure and its environment, i.e., both low-level, physical features (amount of vegetation, building area and geometry etc.), as well as higher-level concepts such as land use classes (which encode expert understanding of socio-economic end uses). This kind of data is expensive and labor-intensive to obtain, which limits its availability (particularly in developing countries). We analyze patterns in land use in urban neighborhoods using large-scale satellite imagery data (which is available worldwide from third-party providers) and state-of-the-art computer vision techniques based on deep convolutional neural networks. For supervision, given the limited availability of standard benchmarks for remote-sensing data, we obtain ground truth land use class labels carefully sampled from open-source surveys, in particular the Urban Atlas land classification dataset of $20$ land use classes across $~300$ European cities. We use this data to train and compare deep architectures which have recently shown good performance on standard computer vision tasks (image classification and segmentation), including on geospatial data. Furthermore, we show that the deep representations extracted from satellite imagery of urban environments can be used to compare neighborhoods across several cities. We make our dataset available for other machine learning researchers to use for remote-sensing applications., Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures

Citation metrics are becoming pervasive in the quantitative evaluation of scholars, journals and institutions. More then ever before, hiring, promotion, and funding decisions rely on a variety of impact metrics that cannot disentangle quality from quantity of scientific output, and are biased by factors such as discipline and academic age. Biases affecting the evaluation of single papers are compounded when one aggregates citation-based metrics across an entire publication record. It is not trivial to compare the quality of two scholars that during their careers have published at different rates in different disciplines in different periods of time. We propose a novel solution based on the generation of a statistical baseline specifically tailored on the academic profile of each researcher. Our method can decouple the roles of quantity and quality of publications to explain how a certain level of impact is achieved. The method is flexible enough to allow for the evaluation of, and fair comparison among, arbitrary collections of papers --- scholar publication records, journals, and entire institutions; and can be extended to simultaneously suppresses any source of bias. We show that our method can capture the quality of the work of Nobel laureates irrespective of number of publications, academic age, and discipline, even when traditional metrics indicate low impact in absolute terms. We further apply our methodology to almost a million scholars and over six thousand journals to measure the impact that cannot be explained by the volume of publications alone., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, and 1 table

Given the growing use of impact metrics in the evaluation of scholars, journals, academic institutions, and even countries, there is a critical need for means to compare scientific impact across disciplinary boundaries. Unfortunately, citation-based metrics are strongly biased by diverse field sizes and publication and citation practices. As a result, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of newly proposed metrics that claim to be "universal." However, there is currently no way to objectively assess whether a normalized metric can actually compensate for disciplinary bias. We introduce a new method to assess the universality of any scholarly impact metric, and apply it to evaluate a number of established metrics. We also define a very simple new metric hs, which proves to be universal, thus allowing to compare the impact of scholars across scientific disciplines. These results move us closer to a formal methodology in the measure of scholarly impact., Comment: Accepted in Journal of Informetrics

Understanding the factors driving innovation in energy technologies is of critical importance to mitigating climate change and addressing other energy-related global challenges. Low levels of innovation, measured in terms of energy patent filings, were noted in the 1980s and 90s as an issue of concern and were attributed to low investment in public and private research and development (R&D). Here we build a comprehensive global database of energy patents covering the period 1970-2009 which is unique in its temporal and geographical scope. Analysis of the data reveals a recent, marked departure from historical trends. A sharp increase in rates of patenting has occurred over the last decade, particularly in renewable technologies, despite continued low levels of R&D funding. To solve the puzzle of fast innovation despite modest R&D increases we develop a model that explains the nonlinear response observed in the empirical data of technological innovation to various types of investment. The model reveals a regular relationship between patents, R&D funding, and growing markets across technologies, and accurately predicts patenting rates at different stages of technological maturity and market development. We show quantitatively how growing markets have formed a vital complement to public R&D in driving innovative activity; these two forms of investment have each leveraged the effect of the other in driving patenting trends over long periods of time.

The birth and decline of disciplines are critical to science and society. However, no quantitative model to date allows us to validate competing theories of whether the emergence of scientific disciplines drives or follows the formation of social communities of scholars. Here we propose an agent-based model based on a \emph{social dynamics of science,} in which the evolution of disciplines is guided mainly by the social interactions among scientists. We find that such a social theory can account for a number of stylized facts about the relationships between disciplines, authors, and publications. These results provide strong quantitative support for the key role of social interactions in shaping the dynamics of science. A "science of science" must gauge the role of exogenous events, such as scientific discoveries and technological advances, against this purely social baseline.

We participated in three of the protein-protein interaction subtasks of the Second BioCreative Challenge: classification of abstracts relevant for protein-protein interaction (IAS), discovery of protein pairs (IPS) and text passages characterizing protein interaction (ISS) in full text documents. We approached the abstract classification task with a novel, lightweight linear model inspired by spam-detection techniques, as well as an uncertainty-based integration scheme. We also used a Support Vector Machine and the Singular Value Decomposition on the same features for comparison purposes. Our approach to the full text subtasks (protein pair and passage identification) includes a feature expansion method based on word-proximity networks. Our approach to the abstract classification task (IAS) was among the top submissions for this task in terms of the measures of performance used in the challenge evaluation (accuracy, F-score and AUC). We also report on a web-tool we produced using our approach: the Protein Interaction Abstract Relevance Evaluator (PIARE). Our approach to the full text tasks resulted in one of the highest recall rates as well as mean reciprocal rank of correct passages. Our approach to abstract classification shows that a simple linear model, using relatively few features, is capable of generalizing and uncovering the conceptual nature of protein-protein interaction from the bibliome. Since the novel approach is based on a very lightweight linear model, it can be easily ported and applied to similar problems. In full text problems, the expansion of word features with word-proximity networks is shown to be useful, though the need for some improvements is discussed.