@article{14710,
  abstract     = {The self-assembly of complex structures from a set of non-identical building blocks is a hallmark of soft matter and biological systems, including protein complexes, colloidal clusters, and DNA-based assemblies. Predicting the dependence of the equilibrium assembly yield on the concentrations and interaction energies of building blocks is highly challenging, owing to the difficulty of computing the entropic contributions to the free energy of the many structures that compete with the ground state configuration. While these calculations yield well known results for spherically symmetric building blocks, they do not hold when the building blocks have internal rotational degrees of freedom. Here we present an approach for solving this problem that works with arbitrary building blocks, including proteins with known structure and complex colloidal building blocks. Our algorithm combines classical statistical mechanics with recently developed computational tools for automatic differentiation. Automatic differentiation allows efficient evaluation of equilibrium averages over configurations that would otherwise be intractable. We demonstrate the validity of our framework by comparison to molecular dynamics simulations of simple examples, and apply it to calculate the yield curves for known protein complexes and for the assembly of colloidal shells.},
  author       = {Curatolo, Agnese I. and Kimchi, Ofer and Goodrich, Carl Peter and Krueger, Ryan K. and Brenner, Michael P.},
  issn         = {2041-1723},
  journal      = {Nature Communications},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{A computational toolbox for the assembly yield of complex and heterogeneous structures}},
  doi          = {10.1038/s41467-023-43168-4},
  volume       = {14},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14715,
  abstract     = {We consider N trapped bosons in the mean-field limit with coupling constant λN = 1/(N − 1). The ground state of such systems exhibits Bose–Einstein condensation. We prove that the probability of finding ℓ particles outside the condensate wave function decays exponentially in ℓ.},
  author       = {Mitrouskas, David Johannes and Pickl, Peter},
  issn         = {1089-7658},
  journal      = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
  number       = {12},
  publisher    = {AIP Publishing},
  title        = {{Exponential decay of the number of excitations in the weakly interacting Bose gas}},
  doi          = {10.1063/5.0172199},
  volume       = {64},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14716,
  abstract     = {Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health threat, and an accurate prediction of bacterial resistance patterns is critical for effective treatment and control strategies. In recent years, machine learning (ML) approaches have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing large-scale bacterial AMR data. However, ML methods often ignore evolutionary relationships among bacterial strains, which can greatly impact performance of the ML methods, especially if resistance-associated features are attempted to be detected. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) methods like linear mixed models accounts for the evolutionary relationships in bacteria, but they uncover only highly significant variants which have already been reported in literature.

Results: In this work, we introduce a novel phylogeny-related parallelism score (PRPS), which measures whether a certain feature is correlated with the population structure of a set of samples. We demonstrate that PRPS can be used, in combination with SVM- and random forest-based models, to reduce the number of features in the analysis, while simultaneously increasing models’ performance. We applied our pipeline to publicly available AMR data from PATRIC database for Mycobacterium tuberculosis against six common antibiotics.

Conclusions: Using our pipeline, we re-discovered known resistance-associated mutations as well as new candidate mutations which can be related to resistance and not previously reported in the literature. We demonstrated that taking into account phylogenetic relationships not only improves the model performance, but also yields more biologically relevant predicted most contributing resistance markers.},
  author       = {Yurtseven, Alper and Buyanova, Sofia and Agrawal, Amay Ajaykumar A. and Bochkareva, Olga and Kalinina, Olga V V.},
  issn         = {1471-2180},
  journal      = {BMC Microbiology},
  number       = {1},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Machine learning and phylogenetic analysis allow for predicting antibiotic resistance in M. tuberculosis}},
  doi          = {10.1186/s12866-023-03147-7},
  volume       = {23},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14717,
  abstract     = {We count primitive lattices of rank d inside Zn as their covolume tends to infinity, with respect to certain parameters of such lattices. These parameters include, for example, the subspace that a lattice spans, namely its projection to the Grassmannian; its homothety class and its equivalence class modulo rescaling and rotation, often referred to as a shape. We add to a prior work of Schmidt by allowing sets in the spaces of parameters that are general enough to conclude the joint equidistribution of these parameters. In addition to the primitive d-lattices Λ themselves, we also consider their orthogonal complements in Zn⁠, A1⁠, and show that the equidistribution occurs jointly for Λ and A1⁠. Finally, our asymptotic formulas for the number of primitive lattices include an explicit bound on the error term.},
  author       = {Horesh, Tal and Karasik, Yakov},
  issn         = {1464-3847},
  journal      = {Quarterly Journal of Mathematics},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {1253--1294},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
  title        = {{Equidistribution of primitive lattices in ℝn}},
  doi          = {10.1093/qmath/haad008},
  volume       = {74},
  year         = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{14718,
  abstract     = {Binary decision diagrams (BDDs) are one of the fundamental data structures in formal methods and computer science in general. However, the performance of BDD-based algorithms greatly depends on memory latency due to the reliance on large hash tables and thus, by extension, on the speed of random memory access. This hinders the full utilisation of resources available on modern CPUs, since the absolute memory latency has not improved significantly for at least a decade. In this paper, we explore several implementation techniques that improve the performance of BDD manipulation either through enhanced memory locality or by partially eliminating random memory access. On a benchmark suite of 600+ BDDs derived from real-world applications, we demonstrate runtime that is comparable or better than parallelising the same operations on eight CPU cores. },
  author       = {Pastva, Samuel and Henzinger, Thomas A},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design},
  isbn         = {9783854480600},
  location     = {Ames, IA, United States},
  pages        = {122--131},
  publisher    = {TU Vienna Academic Press},
  title        = {{Binary decision diagrams on modern hardware}},
  doi          = {10.34727/2023/isbn.978-3-85448-060-0_20},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14719,
  abstract     = {Lithium–sulfur batteries are regarded as an advantageous option for meeting the growing demand for high-energy-density storage, but their commercialization relies on solving the current limitations of both sulfur cathodes and lithium metal anodes. In this scenario, the implementation of lithium sulfide (Li2S) cathodes compatible with alternative anode materials such as silicon has the potential to alleviate the safety concerns associated with lithium metal. In this direction, here, we report a sulfur cathode based on Li2S nanocrystals grown on a catalytic host consisting of CoFeP nanoparticles supported on tubular carbon nitride. Nanosized Li2S is incorporated into the host by a scalable liquid infiltration–evaporation method. Theoretical calculations and experimental results demonstrate that the CoFeP–CN composite can boost the polysulfide adsorption/conversion reaction kinetics and strongly reduce the initial overpotential activation barrier by stretching the Li–S bonds of Li2S. Besides, the ultrasmall size of the Li2S particles in the Li2S–CoFeP–CN composite cathode facilitates the initial activation. Overall, the Li2S–CoFeP–CN electrodes exhibit a low activation barrier of 2.56 V, a high initial capacity of 991 mA h gLi2S–1, and outstanding cyclability with a small fading rate of 0.029% per cycle over 800 cycles. Moreover, Si/Li2S full cells are assembled using the nanostructured Li2S–CoFeP–CN cathode and a prelithiated anode based on graphite-supported silicon nanowires. These Si/Li2S cells demonstrate high initial discharge capacities above 900 mA h gLi2S–1 and good cyclability with a capacity fading rate of 0.28% per cycle over 150 cycles.},
  author       = {Mollania, Hamid and Zhang, Chaoqi and Du, Ruifeng and Qi, Xueqiang and Li, Junshan and Horta, Sharona and Ibáñez, Maria and Keller, Caroline and Chenevier, Pascale and Oloomi-Buygi, Majid and Cabot, Andreu},
  issn         = {1944-8252},
  journal      = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
  number       = {50},
  pages        = {58462–58475},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Nanostructured Li₂S cathodes for silicon-sulfur batteries}},
  doi          = {10.1021/acsami.3c14072},
  volume       = {15},
  year         = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{14735,
  abstract     = {Scaling blockchain protocols to perform on par with the expected needs of Web3.0 has been proven to be a challenging task with almost a decade of research. In the forefront of the current solution is the idea of separating the execution of the updates encoded in a block from the ordering of blocks. In order to achieve this, a new class of protocols called rollups has emerged. Rollups have as input a total ordering of valid and invalid transactions and as output a new valid state-transition.
If we study rollups from a distributed computing perspective, we uncover that rollups take as input the output of a Byzantine Atomic Broadcast (BAB) protocol and convert it to a State Machine Replication (SMR) protocol. BAB and SMR, however, are considered equivalent as far as distributed computing is concerned and a solution to one can easily be retrofitted to solve the other simply by adding/removing an execution step before the validation of the input.
This “easy” step of retrofitting an atomic broadcast solution to implement an SMR has, however, been overlooked in practice. In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that after BAB is solved, traditional impossibility results for consensus no longer apply towards an SMR. Leveraging this we propose a distributed execution protocol that allows reduced execution and storage cost per executor (O(log2n/n)) without relaxing the network assumptions of the underlying BAB protocol and providing censorship-resistance. Finally, we propose efficient non-interactive light client constructions that leverage our efficient execution protocols and do not require any synchrony assumptions or expensive ZK-proofs.},
  author       = {Stefo, Christos and Xiang, Zhuolun and Kokoris Kogias, Eleftherios},
  booktitle    = {27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security},
  isbn         = {9783031477539},
  issn         = {0302-9743},
  location     = {Bol, Brac, Croatia},
  pages        = {3--20},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Executing and proving over dirty ledgers}},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_1},
  volume       = {13950},
  year         = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{14736,
  abstract     = {Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising technology to improve the scalability of cryptocurrencies. PCNs, however, face the challenge that the frequent usage of certain routes may deplete channels in one direction, and hence prevent further transactions. In order to reap the full potential of PCNs, recharging and rebalancing mechanisms are required to provision channels, as well as an admission control logic to decide which transactions to reject in case capacity is insufficient. This paper presents a formal model of this optimisation problem. In particular, we consider an online algorithms perspective, where transactions arrive over time in an unpredictable manner. Our main contributions are competitive online algorithms which come with provable guarantees over time. We empirically evaluate our algorithms on randomly generated transactions to compare the average performance of our algorithms to our theoretical bounds. We also show how this model and approach differs from related problems in classic communication networks.},
  author       = {Bastankhah, Mahsa and Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Maddah-Ali, Mohammad Ali and Schmid, Stefan and Svoboda, Jakub and Yeo, Michelle X},
  booktitle    = {27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security},
  isbn         = {9783031477539},
  issn         = {1611-3349},
  location     = {Bol, Brac, Croatia},
  pages        = {309--325},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control}},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18},
  volume       = {13950},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14737,
  abstract     = {John’s fundamental theorem characterizing the largest volume ellipsoid contained in a convex body $K$ in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ has seen several generalizations and extensions. One direction, initiated by V. Milman is to replace ellipsoids by positions (affine images) of another body $L$. Another, more recent direction is to consider logarithmically concave functions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ instead of convex bodies: we designate some special, radially symmetric log-concave function $g$ as the analogue of the Euclidean ball, and want to find its largest integral position under the constraint that it is pointwise below some given log-concave function $f$. We follow both directions simultaneously: we consider the functional question, and allow essentially any meaningful function to play the role of $g$ above. Our general theorems jointly extend known results in both directions. The dual problem in the setting of convex bodies asks for the smallest volume ellipsoid, called Löwner’s ellipsoid, containing $K$. We consider the analogous problem for functions: we characterize the solutions of the optimization problem of finding a smallest integral position of some log-concave function $g$ under the constraint that it is pointwise above $f$. It turns out that in the functional setting, the relationship between the John and the Löwner problems is more intricate than it is in the setting of convex bodies.},
  author       = {Ivanov, Grigory and Naszódi, Márton},
  issn         = {1687-0247},
  journal      = {International Mathematics Research Notices},
  keywords     = {General Mathematics},
  number       = {23},
  pages        = {20613--20669},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
  title        = {{Functional John and Löwner conditions for pairs of log-concave functions}},
  doi          = {10.1093/imrn/rnad210},
  volume       = {2023},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14739,
  abstract     = {Attempts to incorporate topological information in supervised learning tasks have resulted in the creation of several techniques for vectorizing persistent homology barcodes. In this paper, we study thirteen such methods. Besides describing an organizational framework for these methods, we comprehensively benchmark them against three well-known classification tasks. Surprisingly, we discover that the best-performing method is a simple vectorization, which consists only of a few elementary summary statistics. Finally, we provide a convenient web application which has been designed to facilitate exploration and experimentation with various vectorization methods.},
  author       = {Ali, Dashti and Asaad, Aras and Jimenez, Maria-Jose and Nanda, Vidit and Paluzo-Hidalgo, Eduardo and Soriano Trigueros, Manuel},
  issn         = {1939-3539},
  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  keywords     = {Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Software},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {14069--14080},
  publisher    = {IEEE},
  title        = {{A survey of vectorization methods in topological data analysis}},
  doi          = {10.1109/tpami.2023.3308391},
  volume       = {45},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{14742,
  abstract     = {Chromosomal rearrangements (CRs) have been known since almost the beginning of genetics.
While an important role for CRs in speciation has been suggested, evidence primarily stems
from theoretical and empirical studies focusing on the microevolutionary level (i.e., on taxon
pairs where speciation is often incomplete). Although the role of CRs in eukaryotic speciation at
a macroevolutionary level has been supported by associations between species diversity and
rates of evolution of CRs across phylogenies, these findings are limited to a restricted range of
CRs and taxa. Now that more broadly applicable and precise CR detection approaches have
become available, we address the challenges in filling some of the conceptual and empirical
gaps between micro- and macroevolutionary studies on the role of CRs in speciation. We
synthesize what is known about the macroevolutionary impact of CRs and suggest new research avenues to overcome the pitfalls of previous studies to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary significance of CRs in speciation across the tree of life.},
  author       = {Lucek, Kay and Giménez, Mabel D. and Joron, Mathieu and Rafajlović, Marina and Searle, Jeremy B. and Walden, Nora and Westram, Anja M and Faria, Rui},
  issn         = {1943-0264},
  journal      = {Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology},
  keywords     = {General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology},
  number       = {11},
  publisher    = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press},
  title        = {{The impact of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation: From micro- to macroevolution}},
  doi          = {10.1101/cshperspect.a041447},
  volume       = {15},
  year         = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{14743,
  abstract     = {Leader-based consensus algorithms are fast and efficient under normal conditions, but lack robustness to adverse conditions due to their reliance on timeouts for liveness. We present QuePaxa, the first protocol offering state-of-the-art normal-case efficiency without depending on timeouts. QuePaxa uses a novel randomized asynchronous consensus core to tolerate adverse conditions such as denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, while a one-round-trip fast path preserves the normal-case efficiency of Multi-Paxos or Raft. By allowing simultaneous proposers without destructive interference, and using short hedging delays instead of conservative timeouts to limit redundant effort, QuePaxa permits rapid recovery after leader failure without risking costly view changes due to false timeouts. By treating leader choice and hedging delay as a multi-armed-bandit optimization, QuePaxa achieves responsiveness to prevalent conditions, and can choose the best leader even if the current one has not failed. Experiments with a prototype confirm that QuePaxa achieves normal-case LAN and WAN performance of 584k and 250k cmd/sec in throughput, respectively, comparable to Multi-Paxos. Under conditions such as DoS attacks, misconfigurations, or slow leaders that severely impact existing protocols, we find that QuePaxa remains live with median latency under 380ms in WAN experiments.},
  author       = {Tennage, Pasindu and Basescu, Cristina and Kokoris Kogias, Eleftherios and Syta, Ewa and Jovanovic, Philipp and Estrada-Galinanes, Vero and Ford, Bryan},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
  isbn         = {9798400702297},
  location     = {Koblenz, Germany},
  pages        = {281--297},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  title        = {{QuePaxa: Escaping the tyranny of timeouts in consensus}},
  doi          = {10.1145/3600006.3613150},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17860,
  abstract     = {Radicals are unique molecular systems for applications in electronic devices due to their open-shell electronic structures. Radicals can function as good electrical conductors and switches in molecular circuits while also holding great promise in the field of molecular spintronics. However, it is both challenging to create stable, persistent radicals and to understand their properties in molecular junctions. The goal of this Perspective is to address this dual challenge by providing design principles for the synthesis of stable radicals relevant to molecular junctions, as well as offering current insight into the electronic properties of radicals in single-molecule devices. By exploring both the chemical and physical properties of established radical systems, we will facilitate increased exploration and development of radical-based molecular systems.},
  author       = {Li, Liang and Prindle, Claudia R. and Shi, Wanzhuo and Nuckolls, Colin and Venkataraman, Latha},
  issn         = {1520-5126},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {33},
  pages        = {18182--18204},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Radical single-molecule junctions}},
  doi          = {10.1021/jacs.3c04487},
  volume       = {145},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17861,
  abstract     = {Molecular one-dimensional topological insulators (1D TIs), described by the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, are a new class of molecular electronic wires whose low-energy topological edge states endow them with high electrical conductivity. However, when these 1D TIs become long, the high conductance is not sustained because the coupling between the edge states decreases with increasing length. Here, we present a new design where we connect multiple short 1D SSH TI units linearly or in a cycle to create molecular wires with a continuous topological state density. Using a tight-binding method, we show that the linear system gives a length-independent conductance. The cyclic systems show an interesting odd-even effect, with unit transmission in the topological limit, but zero transmission in the trivial limit. Furthermore, based on our calculations, we predict that these systems can support resonant transmission with a quantum of conductance. We can further expand these results to phenylene-based linear and cyclic 1D TI systems and confirm the length-dependent conductance in such systems. },
  author       = {Li, Liang and Nuckolls, Colin and Venkataraman, Latha},
  issn         = {1948-7185},
  journal      = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters},
  number       = {22},
  pages        = {5141--5147},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Designing long and highly conducting molecular wires with multiple nontrivial topological states}},
  doi          = {10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01081},
  volume       = {14},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17862,
  abstract     = {Electric field acceleration of alkyl hydroperoxide activation to acylate amines in the scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction is reported. Alkyl hydroperoxide mixtures, generated from hydrocarbon autoxidation in air, were found to be competent reagents for the functionalization of gold surfaces. Intermolecular coupling on the surface in the presence of amines was observed, yielding normal alkylamides. This novel mode of alkyl hydroperoxide activation to generate acylium equivalents was found to be responsive to the magnitude of the bias in the break junction, indicating an electric field influence on this novel reactivity.},
  author       = {Wang, Xiye and Zhang, Boyuan and Fowler, Brandon and Venkataraman, Latha and Rovis, Tomislav},
  issn         = {1520-5126},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {22},
  pages        = {11903--11906},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Alkane solvent-derived acylation reaction driven by electric fields}},
  doi          = {10.1021/jacs.3c02064},
  volume       = {145},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17863,
  abstract     = {Understanding and tuning charge transport over a single molecule is a fundamental topic in molecular electronics. Single-molecule junctions composed of individual molecules attached to two electrodes are the most common components built for single-molecule charge transport studies. During the past two decades, rapid technical and theoretical advances in single-molecule junctions have increased our understanding of the conductance properties and functions of molecular devices. In this perspective article, we introduce the basic principles of charge transport in single-molecule junctions, then give an overview of recent progress in modulating single-molecule transport through external stimuli such as electric field and potential, light, mechanical force, heat, and chemical environment. Lastly, we discuss challenges and offer views on future developments in molecular electronics.},
  author       = {Zou, Qi and Qiu, Jin and Zang, Yaping and Tian, He and Venkataraman, Latha},
  issn         = {2667-1417},
  journal      = {eScience},
  number       = {3},
  publisher    = {Elsevier BV},
  title        = {{Modulating single-molecule charge transport through external stimulus}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.esci.2023.100115},
  volume       = {3},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17864,
  abstract     = {Molecular one-dimensional topological insulators (1D TIs), which conduct through energetically low-lying topological edge states, can be extremely highly conducting and exhibit a reversed conductance decay, affording them great potential as building blocks for nanoelectronic devices. However, these properties can only be observed at the short length limit. To extend the length at which these anomalous effects can be observed, we design topological oligo[n]emeraldine wires using short 1D TIs as building blocks. As the wire length increases, the number of topological states increases, enabling an increased electronic transmission along the wire; specifically, we show that we can drive over a microampere current through a single ∼5 nm molecular wire, appreciably more than what has been observed in other long wires reported to date. Calculations and experiments show that the longest oligo[7]emeraldine with doped topological states has over 106 enhancements in the transmission compared to its pristine form. The discovery of these highly conductive, long organic wires helps overcome a fundamental hurdle to implementing molecules in complex, nanoscale circuitry: their structures become too insulating at lengths that are useful in designing nanoscale circuits.},
  author       = {Li, Liang and Louie, Shayan and Evans, Austin M. and Meirzadeh, Elena and Nuckolls, Colin and Venkataraman, Latha},
  issn         = {1520-5126},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {2492--2498},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Topological radical pairs produce ultrahigh conductance in long molecular wires}},
  doi          = {10.1021/jacs.2c12059},
  volume       = {145},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17865,
  abstract     = {Understanding how molecular geometry affects the electronic properties of single-molecule junctions experimentally has been challenging. Typically, metal–molecule–metal junctions are measured using a break-junction method where electrode separation is mechanically evolving during measurement. Here, to probe the impact of the junction geometry on conductance, we apply a sinusoidal modulation to the molecular junction electrode position. Simultaneously, we probe the nonlinearity of the current–voltage characteristics of each junction through a modulation in the applied bias at a different frequency. In turn, we show that junctions formed with molecules that have different molecule–electrode interfaces exhibit statistically distinguishable Fourier-transformed conductances. In particular, we find a marked bias dependence for the modulation of junctions where transmission is mediated thorough the van der Waals (vdW) interaction. We attribute our findings to voltage-modulated vdW interactions at the single-molecule level.},
  author       = {Wei, Yujing and Li, Liang and Greenwald, Julia E. and Venkataraman, Latha},
  issn         = {1530-6992},
  journal      = {Nano Letters},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {567--572},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Voltage-modulated van der waals interaction in single-molecule junctions}},
  doi          = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04098},
  volume       = {23},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{17866,
  abstract     = {Electric fields have been used to control and direct chemical reactions in biochemistry and enzymatic catalysis, yet directly applying external electric fields to activate reactions in bulk solution and to characterize them ex situ remains a challenge. Here we utilize the scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction technique to investigate the electric field driven homolytic cleavage of the radical initiator 4-(methylthio)benzoic peroxyanhydride at ambient temperatures in bulk solution, without the use of co-initiators or photochemical activators. Through time-dependent ex situ quantification by high performance liquid chromatography using a UV-vis detector, we find that the electric field catalyzes the reaction. Importantly, we demonstrate that the reaction rate in a field increases linearly with the solvent dielectric constant. Using density functional theory calculations, we show that the applied electric field decreases the dissociation energy of the O–O bond and stabilizes the product relative to the reactant due to their different dipole moments.},
  author       = {Zhang, Boyuan and Schaack, Cedric and Prindle, Claudia R. and Vo, Ethan A. and Aziz, Miriam and Steigerwald, Michael L. and Berkelbach, Timothy C. and Nuckolls, Colin and Venkataraman, Latha},
  issn         = {2041-6539},
  journal      = {Chemical Science},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {1769--1774},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Electric fields drive bond homolysis}},
  doi          = {10.1039/d2sc06411a},
  volume       = {14},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{18179,
  abstract     = {Linnik type problems concern the distribution of projections of integral points on the unit sphere as their norm increases, and different generalizations of this phenomenon. Our work addresses a question of this type: we prove the uniform distribution of the projections of primitive Z2 points in the p-adic unit sphere, as their (real) norm tends to infinity. The proof is via counting lattice points in semi-simple S-arithmetic groups.},
  author       = {Guilloux, Antonin and Horesh, Tal},
  issn         = {2592-6616},
  journal      = {Publications mathématiques de Besançon - Algèbre et Théorie des nombres},
  pages        = {85--107},
  publisher    = {Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté},
  title        = {{p-adic directions of primitive vectors}},
  doi          = {10.5802/pmb.50},
  volume       = {2023},
  year         = {2023},
}

