In a nonlocal scenario, physically isolated players each have a device that inputs and outputs classical information. Certain correlations between the joint input and output of the devices almost uniquely identify the quantum state that they share. This phenomenon is known as self-testing and has applications in quantum cryptography with untrusted devices. It was for example shown that for ever...

Fabio Caruso,1,2 Patrick Rinke,1,2 Xinguo Ren,1,3 Angel Rubio,4,1,2 and Matthias Scheffler1,2 1Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 2European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility 3Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China 4Nano-Bio Spectroscopy group and ETSF Scientific Development ...

Quantum technologies promise advantages over their classical counterparts in the fields of computation, security and sensing. It is thus desirable that classical users are able to obtain guarantees on quantum devices, even without any knowledge of their inner workings. That such classical certification is possible at all is remarkable: it is a consequence of the violation of Bell inequalities b...

together many earlier observations. It explains why bone marrow HSCs seem to be severely compromised immediately after G-CSF treatment. Furthermore, the article helps resolve a paradox that surrounds the effects of G-CSF on HSC self-renewal. Many hematopoietic stresses, such as blood loss, infection, inflammation, or chemotherapy, can induce HSC proliferation. In those cases, sustained prolifer...

In this paper, analysis of the information content of discretely ring neurons in unsupervised neural networks is presented, where information is measured according to the network's ability to reconstruct its input from its output with minimum mean square Euclidean error. It is shown how this type of network can self-organise into multiple winner-take-all subnetworks, each of which tackles only ...

The study of partial clones on 2 := {0, 1} was initiated by R. V. Freivald. In his fundamental paper published in 1966, Freivald showed, among other things, that the set of all monotone partial functions and the set of all self-dual partial functions are both maximal partial clones on 2. Several papers dealing with intersections of maximal partial clones on 2 have appeared after Freivald work. ...

We consider the self-assembly of composite structures from a group of nanocomponents, each consisting of particles within an N-atom system. Self-assembly pathways and rates for nanocomposites are derived via a multiscale analysis of the classical Liouville equation. From a reduced statistical framework, rigorous stochastic equations for population levels of beginning, intermediate, and final ag...

Comments on the original article "Do people's self-views matter? Self-concept and self-esteem in everyday life," by W. B. Swann, Jr., C. Chang-Schneider, and K. L. McClarty. Swann et al argued that people's self-views, and their global self-esteem in particular, yield a suite of behavioral effects that are beneficial to the individual and to society at large. The Swann et al article is the late...

We reduce the problem of proving the convergence of a randomized self-stabilizing algorithm under k-bounded policies to the convergence of the same algorithm under a specific policy. As a consequence, all k-bounded schedules are equivalent : a given algorithm is self-stabilizing under one of them if and only if it is self-stabilizing under any of them.