--- OA_place: repository _id: '17351' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Contractive coupling rates have been recently introduced by Conforti as a\r\ntool to establish convex Sobolev inequalities (including modified log-Sobolev\r\nand Poincar\\'{e} inequality) for some classes of Markov chains. In this work,\r\nwe show how contractive coupling rates can also be used to prove stronger\r\ninequalities, in the form of curvature lower bounds for Markov chains and\r\ngeodesic convexity of entropic functionals. We illustrate this in several\r\nexamples discussed by Conforti, where in particular, after appropriately\r\nchoosing a parameter function, we establish positive curvature in the entropic\r\nand (discrete) Bakry--\\'{E}mery sense. In addition, we recall and give\r\nstraightforward generalizations of some notions of coarse Ricci curvature, and\r\nwe discuss some of their properties and relations with the concepts of\r\ncouplings and coupling rates: as an application, we show exponential\r\ncontraction of the $p$-Wasserstein distance for the heat flow in the\r\naforementioned examples." article_number: '2308.00516' article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Francesco full_name: Pedrotti, Francesco id: d3ac8ac6-dc8d-11ea-abe3-e2a9628c4c3c last_name: Pedrotti citation: ama: Pedrotti F. Contractive coupling rates and curvature lower bounds for Markov chains. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2308.00516 apa: Pedrotti, F. (n.d.). Contractive coupling rates and curvature lower bounds for Markov chains. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.00516 chicago: Pedrotti, Francesco. “Contractive Coupling Rates and Curvature Lower Bounds for Markov Chains.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.00516. ieee: F. Pedrotti, “Contractive coupling rates and curvature lower bounds for Markov chains,” arXiv. . ista: Pedrotti F. Contractive coupling rates and curvature lower bounds for Markov chains. arXiv, 2308.00516. mla: Pedrotti, Francesco. “Contractive Coupling Rates and Curvature Lower Bounds for Markov Chains.” ArXiv, 2308.00516, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2308.00516. short: F. Pedrotti, ArXiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2024-07-31T08:02:16Z date_published: 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:00:02Z day: '02' department: - _id: JaMa doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.00516 external_id: arxiv: - '2308.00516' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.00516 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: arXiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '20040' relation: later_version status: public - id: '17336' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Contractive coupling rates and curvature lower bounds for Markov chains type: preprint user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14461' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Communication-reduction techniques are a popular way to improve scalability in data-parallel training of deep neural networks (DNNs). The recent emergence of large language models such as GPT has created the need for new approaches to exploit data-parallelism. Among these, fully-sharded data parallel (FSDP) training is highly popular, yet it still encounters scalability bottlenecks. One reason is that applying compression techniques to FSDP is challenging: as the vast majority of the communication involves the model’s weights, direct compression alters convergence and leads to accuracy loss. We present QSDP, a variant of FSDP which supports both gradient and weight quantization with theoretical guarantees, is simple to implement and has essentially no overheads. To derive QSDP we prove that a natural modification of SGD achieves convergence even when we only maintain quantized weights, and thus the domain over which we train consists of quantized points and is, therefore, highly non-convex. We validate this approach by training GPT-family models with up to 1.3 billion parameters on a multi-node cluster. Experiments show that QSDP preserves model accuracy, while completely removing the communication bottlenecks of FSDP, providing end-to-end speedups of up to 2.2x.' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp acknowledgement: The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 805223 ScaleML), as well as experimental support from the IST Austria IT department, in particular Stefano Elefante, Andrei Hornoiu, and Alois Schloegl. AV acknowledges the support of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), under grant ANR-21-CE48-0016 (project COMCOPT), the support of Fondation Hadamard with a PRMO grant, and the support of CNRS with a CoopIntEER IEA grant (project ALFRED). alternative_title: - PMLR article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Ilia full_name: Markov, Ilia id: D0CF4148-C985-11E9-8066-0BDEE5697425 last_name: Markov - first_name: Adrian full_name: Vladu, Adrian last_name: Vladu - first_name: Qi full_name: Guo, Qi last_name: Guo - first_name: Dan-Adrian full_name: Alistarh, Dan-Adrian id: 4A899BFC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Alistarh orcid: 0000-0003-3650-940X citation: ama: 'Markov I, Vladu A, Guo Q, Alistarh D-A. Quantized distributed training of large models with convergence guarantees. In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning. Vol 202. ML Research Press; 2023:24020-24044.' apa: 'Markov, I., Vladu, A., Guo, Q., & Alistarh, D.-A. (2023). Quantized distributed training of large models with convergence guarantees. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (Vol. 202, pp. 24020–24044). Honolulu, Hawaii, HI, United States: ML Research Press.' chicago: Markov, Ilia, Adrian Vladu, Qi Guo, and Dan-Adrian Alistarh. “Quantized Distributed Training of Large Models with Convergence Guarantees.” In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, 202:24020–44. ML Research Press, 2023. ieee: I. Markov, A. Vladu, Q. Guo, and D.-A. Alistarh, “Quantized distributed training of large models with convergence guarantees,” in Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, HI, United States, 2023, vol. 202, pp. 24020–24044. ista: 'Markov I, Vladu A, Guo Q, Alistarh D-A. 2023. Quantized distributed training of large models with convergence guarantees. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR, vol. 202, 24020–24044.' mla: Markov, Ilia, et al. “Quantized Distributed Training of Large Models with Convergence Guarantees.” Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, vol. 202, ML Research Press, 2023, pp. 24020–44. short: I. Markov, A. Vladu, Q. Guo, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2023, pp. 24020–24044. conference: end_date: 2023-07-29 location: Honolulu, Hawaii, HI, United States name: 'ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning' start_date: 2023-07-23 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-10-29T23:01:17Z date_published: 2023-07-30T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:00:54Z day: '30' department: - _id: DaAl ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2302.02390' intvolume: ' 202' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.02390 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 24020-24044 project: - _id: 268A44D6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '805223' name: Elastic Coordination for Scalable Machine Learning publication: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning publication_identifier: eissn: - 2640-3498 publication_status: published publisher: ML Research Press quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '17490' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Quantized distributed training of large models with convergence guarantees type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 202 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '17174' abstract: - lang: eng text: We prove that a class of weakly perturbed Hamiltonians of the form $H_λ= H_0 + λW$, with $W$ being a Wigner matrix, exhibits prethermalization. That is, the time evolution generated by $H_λ$ relaxes to its ultimate thermal state via an intermediate prethermal state with a lifetime of order $λ^{-2}$. Moreover, we obtain a general relaxation formula, expressing the perturbed dynamics via the unperturbed dynamics and the ultimate thermal state. The proof relies on a two-resolvent law for the deformed Wigner matrix $H_λ$. article_number: '2310.06677' article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: László full_name: Erdös, László id: 4DBD5372-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Erdös orcid: 0000-0001-5366-9603 - first_name: Sven Joscha full_name: Henheik, Sven Joscha id: 31d731d7-d235-11ea-ad11-b50331c8d7fb last_name: Henheik orcid: 0000-0003-1106-327X - first_name: Jana full_name: Reker, Jana id: e796e4f9-dc8d-11ea-abe3-97e26a0323e9 last_name: Reker - first_name: Volodymyr full_name: Riabov, Volodymyr id: 1949f904-edfb-11eb-afb5-e2dfddabb93b last_name: Riabov citation: ama: Erdös L, Henheik SJ, Reker J, Riabov V. Prethermalization for deformed Wigner Matrices. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2310.06677 apa: Erdös, L., Henheik, S. J., Reker, J., & Riabov, V. (n.d.). Prethermalization for deformed Wigner Matrices. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.06677 chicago: Erdös, László, Sven Joscha Henheik, Jana Reker, and Volodymyr Riabov. “Prethermalization for Deformed Wigner Matrices.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.06677. ieee: L. Erdös, S. J. Henheik, J. Reker, and V. Riabov, “Prethermalization for deformed Wigner Matrices,” arXiv. . ista: Erdös L, Henheik SJ, Reker J, Riabov V. Prethermalization for deformed Wigner Matrices. arXiv, 2310.06677. mla: Erdös, László, et al. “Prethermalization for Deformed Wigner Matrices.” ArXiv, 2310.06677, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2310.06677. short: L. Erdös, S.J. Henheik, J. Reker, V. Riabov, ArXiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2024-06-26T08:56:52Z date_published: 2023-12-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:02:12Z day: '23' department: - _id: LaEr doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.06677 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2310.06677' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.06677 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 62796744-2b32-11ec-9570-940b20777f1d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020331' name: Random matrices beyond Wigner-Dyson-Mehta publication: arXiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '18764' relation: later_version status: public - id: '20575' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '17164' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Prethermalization for deformed Wigner Matrices type: preprint user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '17173' abstract: - lang: eng text: Consider the random variable $\mathrm{Tr}( f_1(W)A_1\dots f_k(W)A_k)$ where $W$ is an $N\times N$ Hermitian Wigner matrix, $k\in\mathbb{N}$, and choose (possibly $N$-dependent) regular functions $f_1,\dots, f_k$ as well as bounded deterministic matrices $A_1,\dots,A_k$. We give a functional central limit theorem showing that the fluctuations around the expectation are Gaussian. Moreover, we determine the limiting covariance structure and give explicit error bounds in terms of the scaling of $f_1,\dots,f_k$ and the number of traceless matrices among $A_1,\dots,A_k$, thus extending the results of [Cipolloni, Erdős, Schröder 2023] to products of arbitrary length $k\geq2$. As an application, we consider the fluctuation of $\mathrm{Tr}(\mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i} tW}A_1\mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i} tW}A_2)$ around its thermal value $\mathrm{Tr}(A_1)\mathrm{Tr}(A_2)$ when $t$ is large and give an explicit formula for the variance. article_number: '2307.11028' article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Jana full_name: Reker, Jana id: e796e4f9-dc8d-11ea-abe3-97e26a0323e9 last_name: Reker citation: ama: Reker J. Multi-point functional central limit theorem for Wigner Matrices. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2307.11028 apa: Reker, J. (n.d.). Multi-point functional central limit theorem for Wigner Matrices. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.11028 chicago: Reker, Jana. “Multi-Point Functional Central Limit Theorem for Wigner Matrices.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.11028. ieee: J. Reker, “Multi-point functional central limit theorem for Wigner Matrices,” arXiv. . ista: Reker J. Multi-point functional central limit theorem for Wigner Matrices. arXiv, 2307.11028. mla: Reker, Jana. “Multi-Point Functional Central Limit Theorem for Wigner Matrices.” ArXiv, 2307.11028, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2307.11028. short: J. Reker, ArXiv (n.d.). date_created: 2024-06-26T08:54:56Z date_published: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:02:12Z day: '21' department: - _id: LaEr doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.11028 external_id: arxiv: - '2307.11028' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.11028 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: arXiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '18762' relation: later_version status: public - id: '17164' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Multi-point functional central limit theorem for Wigner Matrices type: preprint user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12716' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The process of detecting and evaluating sensory information to guide behaviour is termed perceptual decision-making (PDM), and is critical for the ability of an organism to interact with its external world. Individuals with autism, a neurodevelopmental condition primarily characterised by social and communication difficulties, frequently exhibit altered sensory processing and PDM difficulties are widely reported. Recent technological advancements have pushed forward our understanding of the genetic changes accompanying this condition, however our understanding of how these mutations affect the function of specific neuronal circuits and bring about the corresponding behavioural changes remains limited. Here, we use an innate PDM task, the looming avoidance response (LAR) paradigm, to identify a convergent behavioural abnormality across three molecularly distinct genetic mouse models of autism (Cul3, Setd5 and Ptchd1). Although mutant mice can rapidly detect threatening visual stimuli, their responses are consistently delayed, requiring longer to initiate an appropriate response than their wild-type siblings. Mutant animals show abnormal adaptation in both their stimulus- evoked escape responses and exploratory dynamics following repeated stimulus presentations. Similarly delayed behavioural responses are observed in wild-type animals when faced with more ambiguous threats, suggesting the mutant phenotype could arise from a dysfunction in the flexible control of this PDM process.\r\nOur knowledge of the core neuronal circuitry mediating the LAR facilitated a detailed dissection of the neuronal mechanisms underlying the behavioural impairment. In vivo extracellular recording revealed that visual responses were unaffected within a key brain region for the rapid processing of visual threats, the superior colliculus (SC), indicating that the behavioural delay was unlikely to originate from sensory impairments. Delayed behavioural responses were recapitulated in the Setd5 model following optogenetic stimulation of the excitatory output neurons of the SC, which are known to mediate escape initiation through the activation of cells in the underlying dorsal periaqueductal grey (dPAG). In vitro patch-clamp recordings of dPAG cells uncovered a stark hypoexcitability phenotype in two out of the three genetic models investigated (Setd5 and Ptchd1), that in Setd5, is mediated by the misregulation of voltage-gated potassium channels. Overall, our results show that the ability to use visual information to drive efficient escape responses is impaired in three diverse genetic mouse models of autism and that, in one of the models studied, this behavioural delay likely originates from differences in the intrinsic excitability of a key subcortical node, the dPAG. Furthermore, this work showcases the use of an innate behavioural paradigm to mechanistically dissect PDM processes in autism." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: PreCl - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc - _id: M-Shop - _id: CampIT alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Laura full_name: Burnett, Laura id: 3B717F68-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Burnett orcid: 0000-0002-8937-410X citation: ama: Burnett L. To flee, or not to flee? Using innate defensive behaviours to investigate rapid perceptual decision-making through subcortical circuits in mouse models of autism. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12716 apa: Burnett, L. (2023). To flee, or not to flee? Using innate defensive behaviours to investigate rapid perceptual decision-making through subcortical circuits in mouse models of autism. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12716 chicago: Burnett, Laura. “To Flee, or Not to Flee? Using Innate Defensive Behaviours to Investigate Rapid Perceptual Decision-Making through Subcortical Circuits in Mouse Models of Autism.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12716. ieee: L. Burnett, “To flee, or not to flee? Using innate defensive behaviours to investigate rapid perceptual decision-making through subcortical circuits in mouse models of autism,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Burnett L. 2023. To flee, or not to flee? Using innate defensive behaviours to investigate rapid perceptual decision-making through subcortical circuits in mouse models of autism. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Burnett, Laura. To Flee, or Not to Flee? Using Innate Defensive Behaviours to Investigate Rapid Perceptual Decision-Making through Subcortical Circuits in Mouse Models of Autism. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12716. short: L. Burnett, To Flee, or Not to Flee? Using Innate Defensive Behaviours to Investigate Rapid Perceptual Decision-Making through Subcortical Circuits in Mouse Models of Autism, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-03-08T15:19:45Z date_published: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:25:15Z day: '10' ddc: - '599' - '573' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: MaJö doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12716 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 6c6d9cc2c4cdacb74e6b1047a34d7332 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: lburnett date_created: 2023-03-08T15:08:46Z date_updated: 2023-03-08T15:08:46Z file_id: '12717' file_name: Burnett_Thesis_2023.docx file_size: 23029260 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: cebc77705288bf4382db9b3541483cd0 content_type: application/pdf creator: lburnett date_created: 2023-03-08T15:08:46Z date_updated: 2023-03-08T15:08:46Z file_id: '12718' file_name: Burnett_Thesis_2023_pdfA.pdf file_size: 11959869 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-03-08T15:08:46Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '178' project: - _id: 2634E9D2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '756502' name: Circuits of Visual Attention publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Maximilian A full_name: Jösch, Maximilian A id: 2BD278E6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jösch orcid: 0000-0002-3937-1330 title: To flee, or not to flee? Using innate defensive behaviours to investigate rapid perceptual decision-making through subcortical circuits in mouse models of autism type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14547' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures currently capture a significant amount of research interest and they serve as the physical platform in many proposals towards topological quantum computation.\r\nDespite being under extensive investigations, historically using transport techniques, the basic properties of the interface between the superconductor and the semiconductor remain to be understood.\r\n\r\nIn this thesis, two separate studies on the Al-InAs heterostructures are reported with the first focusing on the physics of the material motivated by the emergence of a new phase, the Bogoliubov-Fermi surface. \r\nThe second focuses on a technological application, a gate-tunable Josephson parametric amplifier.\r\n\r\nIn the first study, we investigate the hypothesized unconventional nature of the induced superconductivity at the interface between the Al thin film and the InAs quantum well.\r\nWe embed a two-dimensional Al-InAs hybrid system in a resonant microwave circuit allowing measurements of change in inductance.\r\nThe behaviour of the resonance in a range of temperature and in-plane magnetic field has been studied and compared with the theory of conventional s-wave superconductor and a two-component theory that includes both contribution of the $s$-wave pairing in Al and the intraband $p \\pm ip$ pairing in InAs.\r\nMeasuring the temperature dependence of resonant frequency, no discrepancy is found between data and the conventional theory.\r\nWe observe the breakdown of superconductivity due to an applied magnetic field which contradicts the conventional theory.\r\nIn contrast, the data can be captured quantitatively by fitting to a two-component model.\r\nWe find the evidence of the intraband $p \\pm ip$ pairing in the InAs and the emergence of the Bogoliubov-Fermi surfaces due to magnetic field with the characteristic value $B^* = 0.33~\\mathrm{T}$.\r\nFrom the fits, the sheet resistance of Al, the carrier density and mobility in InAs are determined.\r\nBy systematically studying the anisotropy of the circuit response, we find weak anisotropy for $B < B^*$ and increasingly strong anisotropy for $B > B^*$ resulting in a pronounced two-lobe structure in polar plot of frequency versus field angle.\r\nStrong resemblance between the field dependence of dissipation and superfluid density hints at a hidden signature of the Bogoliubov-Fermi surface that is burried in the dissipation data.\r\n\r\nIn the second study, we realize a parametric amplifier with a Josephson field effect transistor as the active element.\r\nThe device's modest construction consists of a gated SNS weak link embedded at the center of a coplanar waveguide resonator.\r\nBy applying a gate voltage, the resonant frequency is field-effect tunable over a range of 2 GHz.\r\nModelling the JoFET minimally as a parallel RL circuit, the dissipation introduced by the JoFET can be quantitatively related to the gate voltage.\r\nWe observed gate-tunable Kerr nonlinearity qualitatively in line with expectation.\r\nThe JoFET amplifier has 20 dB of gain, 4 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth, and a 1dB compression point of -125.5 dBm when operated at a fixed resonant frequency.\r\nIn general, the signal-to-noise ratio is improved by 5-7 dB when the JoFET amplifier is activated compared.\r\nThe noise of the measurement chain and insertion loss of relevant circuit elements are calibrated to determine the expected and the real noise performance of the JoFET amplifier.\r\nAs a quantification of the noise performance, the measured total input-referred noise of the JoFET amplifier is in good agreement with the estimated expectation which takes device loss into account.\r\nWe found that the noise performance of the device reported in this document approaches one photon of total input-referred added noise which is the quantum limit imposed in nondegenerate parametric amplifier." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: NanoFab - _id: Bio alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Duc T full_name: Phan, Duc T id: 29C8C0B4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Phan citation: ama: Phan DT. Resonant microwave spectroscopy of Al-InAs. 2023. doi:10.15479/14547 apa: Phan, D. T. (2023). Resonant microwave spectroscopy of Al-InAs. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/14547 chicago: Phan, Duc T. “Resonant Microwave Spectroscopy of Al-InAs.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/14547. ieee: D. T. Phan, “Resonant microwave spectroscopy of Al-InAs,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Phan DT. 2023. Resonant microwave spectroscopy of Al-InAs. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Phan, Duc T. Resonant Microwave Spectroscopy of Al-InAs. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/14547. short: D.T. Phan, Resonant Microwave Spectroscopy of Al-InAs, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-11-17T13:45:26Z date_published: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:25:52Z day: '16' ddc: - '530' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: AnHi doi: 10.15479/14547 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: db0c37d213bc002125bd59690e9db246 content_type: application/pdf creator: pduc date_created: 2023-11-17T13:36:44Z date_updated: 2023-11-22T09:46:06Z file_id: '14548' file_name: Phan_Thesis_pdfa.pdf file_size: 34828019 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 8d3bd6afa279a0078ffd13e06bb6d56d content_type: application/zip creator: pduc date_created: 2023-11-17T13:44:53Z date_updated: 2023-11-17T13:47:54Z file_id: '14549' file_name: dissertation_src.zip file_size: 279319709 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2023-11-22T09:46:06Z has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - superconductor-semiconductor - superconductivity - Al - InAs - p-wave - superconductivity - JPA - microwave language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '80' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '13264' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '10851' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Andrew P full_name: Higginbotham, Andrew P id: 4AD6785A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Higginbotham orcid: 0000-0003-2607-2363 title: Resonant microwave spectroscopy of Al-InAs tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14058' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Females and males across species are subject to divergent selective pressures arising\r\nfrom di↵erent reproductive interests and ecological niches. This often translates into a\r\nintricate array of sex-specific natural and sexual selection on traits that have a shared\r\ngenetic basis between both sexes, causing a genetic sexual conflict. The resolution of\r\nthis conflict mostly relies on the evolution of sex-specific expression of the shared genes,\r\nleading to phenotypic sexual dimorphism. Such sex-specific gene expression is thought\r\nto evolve via modifications of the genetic networks ultimately linked to sex-determining\r\ntranscription factors. Although much empirical and theoretical evidence supports this\r\nstandard picture of the molecular basis of sexual conflict resolution, there still are a\r\nfew open questions regarding the complex array of selective forces driving phenotypic\r\ndi↵erentiation between the sexes, as well as the molecular mechanisms underlying sexspecific adaptation. I address some of these open questions in my PhD thesis.\r\nFirst, how do patterns of phenotypic sexual dimorphism vary within populations,\r\nas a response to the temporal and spatial changes in sex-specific selective forces? To\r\ntackle this question, I analyze the patterns of sex-specific phenotypic variation along\r\nthree life stages and across populations spanning the whole geographical range of Rumex\r\nhastatulus, a wind-pollinated angiosperm, in the first Chapter of the thesis.\r\nSecond, how do gene expression patterns lead to phenotypic dimorphism, and what\r\nare the molecular mechanisms underlying the observed transcriptomic variation? I\r\naddress this question by examining the sex- and tissue-specific expression variation in\r\nnewly-generated datasets of sex-specific expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila\r\nmelanogaster. I additionally used two complementary approaches for the study of the\r\ngenetic basis of sex di↵erences in gene expression in the second and third Chapters of\r\nthe thesis.\r\nThird, how does intersex correlation, thought to be one of the main aspects constraining the ability for the two sexes to decouple, interact with the evolution of sexual\r\ndimorphism? I develop models of sex-specific stabilizing selection, mutation and drift\r\nto formalize common intuition regarding the patterns of covariation between intersex\r\ncorrelation and sexual dimorphism in the fourth Chapter of the thesis.\r\nAlltogether, the work described in this PhD thesis provides useful insights into the\r\nlinks between genetic, transcriptomic and phenotypic layers of sex-specific variation,\r\nand contributes to our general understanding of the dynamics of sexual dimorphism\r\nevolution." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Gemma full_name: Puixeu Sala, Gemma id: 33AB266C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Puixeu Sala orcid: 0000-0001-8330-1754 citation: ama: 'Puixeu Sala G. The molecular basis of sexual dimorphism: Experimental and theoretical characterization of phenotypic, transcriptomic and genetic patterns of sex-specific adaptation. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14058' apa: 'Puixeu Sala, G. (2023). The molecular basis of sexual dimorphism: Experimental and theoretical characterization of phenotypic, transcriptomic and genetic patterns of sex-specific adaptation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14058' chicago: 'Puixeu Sala, Gemma. “The Molecular Basis of Sexual Dimorphism: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Phenotypic, Transcriptomic and Genetic Patterns of Sex-Specific Adaptation.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14058.' ieee: 'G. Puixeu Sala, “The molecular basis of sexual dimorphism: Experimental and theoretical characterization of phenotypic, transcriptomic and genetic patterns of sex-specific adaptation,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Puixeu Sala G. 2023. The molecular basis of sexual dimorphism: Experimental and theoretical characterization of phenotypic, transcriptomic and genetic patterns of sex-specific adaptation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Puixeu Sala, Gemma. The Molecular Basis of Sexual Dimorphism: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Phenotypic, Transcriptomic and Genetic Patterns of Sex-Specific Adaptation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14058.' short: 'G. Puixeu Sala, The Molecular Basis of Sexual Dimorphism: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Phenotypic, Transcriptomic and Genetic Patterns of Sex-Specific Adaptation, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-08-15T10:20:40Z date_published: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:25:34Z day: '15' ddc: - '576' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: NiBa - _id: BeVi doi: 10.15479/at:ista:14058 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 4e44e169f2724ee8c9324cd60bcc2b71 content_type: application/zip creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-08-16T18:15:17Z date_updated: 2023-08-17T06:55:24Z file_id: '14075' file_name: Thesis_latex_forpdfa.zip file_size: 10891454 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: e10b04cd8f3fecc0d9ef6e6868b6e1e8 content_type: application/pdf creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-08-18T10:47:55Z date_updated: 2023-08-18T10:47:55Z file_id: '14079' file_name: PhDThesis_PuixeuG.pdf file_size: 19856686 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-08-18T10:47:55Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '230' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 9B9DFC9E-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A grant_number: '25817' name: 'Sexual conflict: resolution, constraints and biomedical implications' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-035-0 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '9803' relation: research_data status: public - id: '12933' relation: research_data status: public - id: '6831' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '14077' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Beatriz full_name: Vicoso, Beatriz id: 49E1C5C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Vicoso orcid: 0000-0002-4579-8306 - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 title: 'The molecular basis of sexual dimorphism: Experimental and theoretical characterization of phenotypic, transcriptomic and genetic patterns of sex-specific adaptation' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14077' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The regulatory architecture of gene expression is known to differ substantially between sexes in Drosophila, but most studies performed\r\nso far used whole-body data and only single crosses, which may have limited their scope to detect patterns that are robust across tissues\r\nand biological replicates. Here, we use allele-specific gene expression of parental and reciprocal hybrid crosses between 6 Drosophila\r\nmelanogaster inbred lines to quantify cis- and trans-regulatory variation in heads and gonads of both sexes separately across 3 replicate\r\ncrosses. Our results suggest that female and male heads, as well as ovaries, have a similar regulatory architecture. On the other hand,\r\ntestes display more and substantially different cis-regulatory effects, suggesting that sex differences in the regulatory architecture that\r\nhave been previously observed may largely derive from testis-specific effects. We also examine the difference in cis-regulatory variation\r\nof genes across different levels of sex bias in gonads and heads. Consistent with the idea that intersex correlations constrain expression\r\nand can lead to sexual antagonism, we find more cis variation in unbiased and moderately biased genes in heads. In ovaries, reduced cis\r\nvariation is observed for male-biased genes, suggesting that cis variants acting on these genes in males do not lead to changes in ovary\r\nexpression. Finally, we examine the dominance patterns of gene expression and find that sex- and tissue-specific patterns of inheritance\r\nas well as trans-regulatory variation are highly variable across biological crosses, although these were performed in highly controlled\r\nexperimental conditions. This highlights the importance of using various genetic backgrounds to infer generalizable patterns." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp acknowledgement: We thank members of the Vicoso Group for comments on the manuscript, the Scientific Computing Unit at ISTA for technical support, and 2 anonymous reviewers for useful feedback. GP is the recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (DOC 25817) and received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant (agreement no. 665385). article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Gemma full_name: Puixeu Sala, Gemma id: 33AB266C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Puixeu Sala orcid: 0000-0001-8330-1754 - first_name: Ariana full_name: Macon, Ariana id: 2A0848E2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Macon - first_name: Beatriz full_name: Vicoso, Beatriz id: 49E1C5C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Vicoso orcid: 0000-0002-4579-8306 citation: ama: 'Puixeu Sala G, Macon A, Vicoso B. Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2023;13(8). doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkad121' apa: 'Puixeu Sala, G., Macon, A., & Vicoso, B. (2023). Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad121' chicago: 'Puixeu Sala, Gemma, Ariana Macon, and Beatriz Vicoso. “Sex-Specific Estimation of Cis and Trans Regulation of Gene Expression in Heads and Gonads of Drosophila Melanogaster.” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Oxford University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad121.' ieee: 'G. Puixeu Sala, A. Macon, and B. Vicoso, “Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster,” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, vol. 13, no. 8. Oxford University Press, 2023.' ista: 'Puixeu Sala G, Macon A, Vicoso B. 2023. Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 13(8).' mla: 'Puixeu Sala, Gemma, et al. “Sex-Specific Estimation of Cis and Trans Regulation of Gene Expression in Heads and Gonads of Drosophila Melanogaster.” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, vol. 13, no. 8, Oxford University Press, 2023, doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkad121.' short: 'G. Puixeu Sala, A. Macon, B. Vicoso, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 13 (2023).' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-08-18T06:52:14Z date_published: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:25:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: BeVi - _id: NiBa - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad121 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001002997200001' pmid: - '37259621' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c62e29fc7c5efbf8356f4c60cab4a2d1 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-11-07T09:00:19Z date_updated: 2023-11-07T09:00:19Z file_id: '14498' file_name: 2023_G3_Puixeu.pdf file_size: 845642 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-11-07T09:00:19Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13' isi: 1 issue: '8' keyword: - Genetics (clinical) - Genetics - Molecular Biology language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 9B9DFC9E-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A grant_number: '25817' name: 'Sexual conflict: resolution, constraints and biomedical implications' publication: 'G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics' publication_identifier: issn: - 2160-1836 publication_status: published publisher: Oxford University Press quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '12933' relation: research_data status: public - id: '14058' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13264' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We build a parametric amplifier with a Josephson field-effect transistor (JoFET) as the active element. The resonant frequency of the device is field-effect tunable over a range of 2 GHz. The JoFET amplifier has 20 dB of gain, 4 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth, and a 1-dB compression point of -125.5 dBm when operated at a fixed resonance frequency.\r\n\r\n" acknowledged_ssus: - _id: NanoFab - _id: M-Shop acknowledgement: We thank Shyam Shankar for helpful feedback on the manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the ISTA nanofabrication facility, the Miba Machine Shop, and the eMachine Shop. The NYU team acknowledges support from Army Research Office Grant No. W911NF2110303. article_number: '064032' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Duc T full_name: Phan, Duc T id: 29C8C0B4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Phan - first_name: Paul full_name: Falthansl-Scheinecker, Paul id: 85b43b21-15b2-11ec-abd3-e2c252cc2285 last_name: Falthansl-Scheinecker - first_name: Umang full_name: Mishra, Umang id: 4328fa4c-f128-11eb-9611-c107b0fe4d51 last_name: Mishra - first_name: W. M. full_name: Strickland, W. M. last_name: Strickland - first_name: D. full_name: Langone, D. last_name: Langone - first_name: J. full_name: Shabani, J. last_name: Shabani - first_name: Andrew P full_name: Higginbotham, Andrew P id: 4AD6785A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Higginbotham orcid: 0000-0003-2607-2363 citation: ama: Phan DT, Falthansl-Scheinecker P, Mishra U, et al. Gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier. Physical Review Applied. 2023;19(6). doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064032 apa: Phan, D. T., Falthansl-Scheinecker, P., Mishra, U., Strickland, W. M., Langone, D., Shabani, J., & Higginbotham, A. P. (2023). Gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier. Physical Review Applied. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064032 chicago: Phan, Duc T, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, Umang Mishra, W. M. Strickland, D. Langone, J. Shabani, and Andrew P Higginbotham. “Gate-Tunable Superconductor-Semiconductor Parametric Amplifier.” Physical Review Applied. American Physical Society, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064032. ieee: D. T. Phan et al., “Gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier,” Physical Review Applied, vol. 19, no. 6. American Physical Society, 2023. ista: Phan DT, Falthansl-Scheinecker P, Mishra U, Strickland WM, Langone D, Shabani J, Higginbotham AP. 2023. Gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier. Physical Review Applied. 19(6), 064032. mla: Phan, Duc T., et al. “Gate-Tunable Superconductor-Semiconductor Parametric Amplifier.” Physical Review Applied, vol. 19, no. 6, 064032, American Physical Society, 2023, doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064032. short: D.T. Phan, P. Falthansl-Scheinecker, U. Mishra, W.M. Strickland, D. Langone, J. Shabani, A.P. Higginbotham, Physical Review Applied 19 (2023). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-07-23T22:01:12Z date_published: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:25:51Z day: '09' department: - _id: AnHi - _id: OnHo doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064032 external_id: arxiv: - '2206.05746' isi: - '001012022600004' intvolume: ' 19' isi: 1 issue: '6' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05746 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: Physical Review Applied publication_identifier: eissn: - 2331-7019 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14547' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 19 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12933' abstract: - lang: eng text: Datasets of the publication "Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster". article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Gemma full_name: Puixeu Sala, Gemma id: 33AB266C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Puixeu Sala orcid: 0000-0001-8330-1754 citation: ama: 'Puixeu Sala G. Data from: Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster. 2023. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:12933' apa: 'Puixeu Sala, G. (2023). Data from: Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12933' chicago: 'Puixeu Sala, Gemma. “Data from: Sex-Specific Estimation of Cis and Trans Regulation of Gene Expression in Heads and Gonads of Drosophila Melanogaster.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12933.' ieee: 'G. Puixeu Sala, “Data from: Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Puixeu Sala G. 2023. Data from: Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 10.15479/AT:ISTA:12933.' mla: 'Puixeu Sala, Gemma. Data from: Sex-Specific Estimation of Cis and Trans Regulation of Gene Expression in Heads and Gonads of Drosophila Melanogaster. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:12933.' short: G. Puixeu Sala, (2023). contributor: - first_name: Ariana id: 2A0848E2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Macon - first_name: Beatriz id: 49E1C5C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Vicoso orcid: 0000-0002-4579-8306 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-05-10T10:00:49Z date_published: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:25:33Z day: '15' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: NiBa - _id: BeVi doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:12933 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 0ba0bcd0bb8b18d84792136a4370df90 content_type: text/csv creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-05-10T09:41:43Z date_updated: 2023-05-10T09:41:43Z file_id: '12934' file_name: Dataset_S1.csv file_size: 8029982 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: a62aa9a6d4904e0fdb699cf752640863 content_type: text/csv creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-05-10T09:41:43Z date_updated: 2023-05-10T09:41:43Z file_id: '12935' file_name: Dataset_S2.csv file_size: 13667640 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: e20ea7f4f8a9bdf1b3849a44664ae58b content_type: text/csv creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-05-10T09:41:48Z date_updated: 2023-05-10T09:41:48Z file_id: '12936' file_name: Dataset_S3.csv file_size: 8369141 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: f6156e5fc44446c907ddd0d7289d4cf8 content_type: text/csv creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-05-10T09:41:50Z date_updated: 2023-05-10T09:41:50Z file_id: '12937' file_name: Dataset_S4.csv file_size: 19543247 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: ae9f54c77a1c42b666ae6c1dfd33ac86 content_type: text/plain creator: gpuixeus date_created: 2023-05-11T12:50:18Z date_updated: 2023-05-11T12:50:18Z file_id: '12944' file_name: readme.txt file_size: 4566 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-05-11T12:50:18Z has_accepted_license: '1' month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '14077' relation: used_in_publication status: public - id: '14058' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: 'Data from: Sex-specific estimation of cis and trans regulation of gene expression in heads and gonads of Drosophila melanogaster' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: research_data user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12885' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'High-performance semiconductors rely upon precise control of heat and charge transport. This can be achieved by precisely engineering defects in polycrystalline solids. There are multiple approaches to preparing such polycrystalline semiconductors, and the transformation of solution-processed colloidal nanoparticles is appealing because colloidal nanoparticles combine low cost with structural and compositional tunability along with rich surface chemistry. However, the multiple processes from nanoparticle synthesis to the final bulk nanocomposites are very complex. They involve nanoparticle purification, post-synthetic modifications, and finally consolidation (thermal treatments and densification). All these properties dictate the final material’s composition and microstructure, ultimately affecting its functional properties. This thesis explores the synthesis, surface chemistry and consolidation of colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles into dense solids. In particular, the transformations that take place during these processes, and their effect on the material’s transport properties are evaluated. ' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: EM-Fac - _id: NanoFab alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Mariano full_name: Calcabrini, Mariano id: 45D7531A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Calcabrini orcid: 0000-0003-4566-5877 citation: ama: 'Calcabrini M. Nanoparticle-based semiconductor solids: From synthesis to consolidation. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12885' apa: 'Calcabrini, M. (2023). Nanoparticle-based semiconductor solids: From synthesis to consolidation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12885' chicago: 'Calcabrini, Mariano. “Nanoparticle-Based Semiconductor Solids: From Synthesis to Consolidation.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12885.' ieee: 'M. Calcabrini, “Nanoparticle-based semiconductor solids: From synthesis to consolidation,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Calcabrini M. 2023. Nanoparticle-based semiconductor solids: From synthesis to consolidation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Calcabrini, Mariano. Nanoparticle-Based Semiconductor Solids: From Synthesis to Consolidation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12885.' short: 'M. Calcabrini, Nanoparticle-Based Semiconductor Solids: From Synthesis to Consolidation, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-05-02T07:58:57Z date_published: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:26:14Z day: '28' ddc: - '546' - '541' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: MaIb doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12885 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 9347b0e09425f56fdcede5d3528404dc content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: mcalcabr date_created: 2023-05-02T07:43:18Z date_updated: 2023-05-02T07:43:18Z file_id: '12887' file_name: Thesis_Calcabrini.docx file_size: 99627036 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 2d188b76621086cd384f0b9264b0a576 content_type: application/pdf creator: mcalcabr date_created: 2023-05-02T07:42:45Z date_updated: 2023-05-02T07:42:45Z file_id: '12888' file_name: Thesis_Calcabrini_pdfa.pdf file_size: 8742220 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-05-02T07:43:18Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '82' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-028-2 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '12237' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '10806' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '10123' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '10042' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '9118' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Maria full_name: Ibáñez, Maria id: 43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibáñez orcid: 0000-0001-5013-2843 title: 'Nanoparticle-based semiconductor solids: From synthesis to consolidation' type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12732' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Nonergodic systems, whose out-of-equilibrium dynamics fail to thermalize, provide a fascinating research direction both for fundamental reasons and for application in state of the art quantum devices.\r\nGoing beyond the description of statistical mechanics, ergodicity breaking yields a new paradigm in quantum many-body physics, introducing novel phases of matter with no counterpart at equilibrium.\r\nIn this Thesis, we address different open questions in the field, focusing on disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL) and on weak ergodicity breaking in kinetically constrained models.\r\nIn particular, we contribute to the debate about transport in kinetically constrained models, studying the effect of $U(1)$ conservation and inversion-symmetry breaking in a family of quantum East models.\r\nUsing tensor network techniques, we analyze the dynamics of large MBL systems beyond the limit of exact numerical methods.\r\nIn this setting, we approach the debated topic of the coexistence of localized and thermal eigenstates separated by energy thresholds known as many-body mobility edges.\r\nInspired by recent experiments, our work further investigates the localization of a small bath induced by the coupling to a large localized chain, the so-called MBL proximity effect.\r\n\r\nIn the first Chapter, we introduce a family of particle-conserving kinetically constrained models, inspired by the quantum East model.\r\nThe system we study features strong inversion-symmetry breaking, due to the nature of the correlated hopping.\r\nWe show that these models host so-called quantum Hilbert space fragmentation, consisting of disconnected subsectors in an entangled basis, and further provide an analytical description of this phenomenon.\r\nWe further probe its effect on dynamics of simple product states, showing revivals in fidelity and local observalbes.\r\nThe study of dynamics within the largest subsector reveals an anomalous transient superdiffusive behavior crossing over to slow logarithmic dynamics at later times.\r\nThis work suggests that particle conserving constrained models with inversion-symmetry breaking realize new universality classes of dynamics and invite their further theoretical and experimental studies.\r\n\r\nNext, we use kinetic constraints and disorder to design a model with many-body mobility edges in particle density.\r\nThis feature allows to study the dynamics of localized and thermal states in large systems beyond the limitations of previous studies.\r\nThe time-evolution shows typical signatures of localization at small densities, replaced by thermal behavior at larger densities.\r\nOur results provide evidence in favor of the stability of many-body mobility edges, which was recently challenged by a theoretical argument.\r\nTo support our findings, we probe the mechanism proposed as a cause of delocalization in many-body localized systems with mobility edges suggesting its ineffectiveness in the model studied.\r\n\r\nIn the last Chapter of this Thesis, we address the topic of many-body localization proximity effect.\r\nWe study a model inspired by recent experiments, featuring Anderson localized coupled to a small bath of free hard-core bosons.\r\nThe interaction among the two particle species results in non-trivial dynamics, which we probe using tensor network techniques.\r\nOur simulations show convincing evidence of many-body localization proximity effect when the bath is composed by a single free particle and interactions are strong.\r\nWe furthter observe an anomalous entanglement dynamics, which we explain through a phenomenological theory.\r\nFinally, we extract highly excited eigenstates of large systems, providing supplementary evidence in favor of our findings." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pietro full_name: Brighi, Pietro id: 4115AF5C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Brighi orcid: 0000-0002-7969-2729 citation: ama: Brighi P. Ergodicity breaking in disordered and kinetically constrained quantum many-body systems. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12732 apa: Brighi, P. (2023). Ergodicity breaking in disordered and kinetically constrained quantum many-body systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12732 chicago: Brighi, Pietro. “Ergodicity Breaking in Disordered and Kinetically Constrained Quantum Many-Body Systems.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12732. ieee: P. Brighi, “Ergodicity breaking in disordered and kinetically constrained quantum many-body systems,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Brighi P. 2023. Ergodicity breaking in disordered and kinetically constrained quantum many-body systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Brighi, Pietro. Ergodicity Breaking in Disordered and Kinetically Constrained Quantum Many-Body Systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12732. short: P. Brighi, Ergodicity Breaking in Disordered and Kinetically Constrained Quantum Many-Body Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-03-17T13:30:48Z date_published: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:26:32Z day: '21' ddc: - '530' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: MaSe doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12732 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 5d2de651ef9449c1b8dc27148ca74777 content_type: application/zip creator: pbrighi date_created: 2023-03-23T16:42:56Z date_updated: 2023-03-23T16:42:56Z file_id: '12753' file_name: Thesis_sub_PBrighi.zip file_size: 42167561 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 7caa153d4a5b0873a79358787d2dfe1e content_type: application/pdf creator: pbrighi date_created: 2023-03-23T16:43:14Z date_updated: 2023-03-23T16:43:14Z file_id: '12754' file_name: Thesis_PBrighi.pdf file_size: 13977000 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-03-23T16:43:14Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '158' project: - _id: 23841C26-32DE-11EA-91FC-C7463DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '850899' name: 'Non-Ergodic Quantum Matter: Universality, Dynamics and Control' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '12750' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '11470' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '8308' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '11469' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Maksym full_name: Serbyn, Maksym id: 47809E7E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Serbyn orcid: 0000-0002-2399-5827 title: Ergodicity breaking in disordered and kinetically constrained quantum many-body systems tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12826' abstract: - lang: eng text: "During navigation, animals can infer the structure of the environment by computing the optic flow cues elicited by their own movements, and subsequently use this information to instruct proper locomotor actions. These computations require a panoramic assessment of the visual environment in order to disambiguate similar sensory experiences that may require distinct behavioral responses. The estimation of the global motion patterns is therefore essential for successful navigation. Yet, our understanding of the algorithms and implementations that enable coherent panoramic visual perception remains scarce. Here I pursue this problem by dissecting the functional aspects of interneuronal communication in the lobula plate tangential cell network in Drosophila melanogaster. The results presented in the thesis demonstrate that the basis for effective interpretation of the optic flow in this circuit are stereotyped synaptic connections that mediate the formation of distinct subnetworks, each extracting a particular pattern of global motion. \r\nFirstly, I show that gap junctions are essential for a correct interpretation of binocular motion cues by horizontal motion-sensitive cells. HS cells form electrical synapses with contralateral H2 neurons that are involved in detecting yaw rotation and translation. I developed an FlpStop-mediated mutant of a gap junction protein ShakB that disrupts these electrical synapses. While the loss of electrical synapses does not affect the tuning of the direction selectivity in HS neurons, it severely alters their sensitivity to horizontal motion in the contralateral side. These physiological changes result in an inappropriate integration of binocular motion cues in walking animals. While wild-type flies form a binocular perception of visual motion by non-linear integration of monocular optic flow cues, the mutant flies sum the monocular inputs linearly. These results indicate that rather than averaging signals in neighboring neurons, gap-junctions operate in conjunction with chemical synapses to mediate complex non-linear optic flow computations.\r\nSecondly, I show that stochastic manipulation of neuronal activity in the lobula plate tangential cell network is a powerful approach to study the neuronal implementation of optic flow-based navigation in flies. Tangential neurons form multiple subnetworks, each mediating course-stabilizing response to a particular global pattern of visual motion. Application of genetic mosaic techniques can provide sparse optogenetic activation of HS cells in numerous combinations. These distinct combinations of activated neurons drive an array of distinct behavioral responses, providing important insights into how visuomotor transformation is performed in the lobula plate tangential cell network. This approach can be complemented by stochastic silencing of tangential neurons, enabling direct assessment of the functional role of individual tangential neurons in the processing of specific visual motion patterns.\r\n\tTaken together, the findings presented in this thesis suggest that establishing specific activity patterns of tangential cells via stereotyped synaptic connectivity is a key to efficient optic flow-based navigation in Drosophila melanogaster." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Victoria full_name: Pokusaeva, Victoria id: 3184041C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pokusaeva orcid: 0000-0001-7660-444X citation: ama: Pokusaeva V. Neural control of optic flow-based navigation in Drosophila melanogaster. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12826 apa: Pokusaeva, V. (2023). Neural control of optic flow-based navigation in Drosophila melanogaster. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12826 chicago: Pokusaeva, Victoria. “Neural Control of Optic Flow-Based Navigation in Drosophila Melanogaster.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12826. ieee: V. Pokusaeva, “Neural control of optic flow-based navigation in Drosophila melanogaster,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Pokusaeva V. 2023. Neural control of optic flow-based navigation in Drosophila melanogaster. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Pokusaeva, Victoria. Neural Control of Optic Flow-Based Navigation in Drosophila Melanogaster. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12826. short: V. Pokusaeva, Neural Control of Optic Flow-Based Navigation in Drosophila Melanogaster, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-04-14T14:56:04Z date_published: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:26:49Z day: '18' ddc: - '570' - '571' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: MaJö - _id: GradSch doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12826 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 5f589a9af025f7eeebfd0c186209913e content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: vpokusae date_created: 2023-04-20T09:14:38Z date_updated: 2023-04-20T09:26:51Z file_id: '12857' file_name: Thesis_Pokusaeva.docx file_size: 14507243 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: bbeed76db45a996b4c91a9abe12ce0ec content_type: application/pdf creator: vpokusae date_created: 2023-04-20T09:14:44Z date_updated: 2023-04-20T09:14:44Z file_id: '12858' file_name: Thesis_Pokusaeva.pdf file_size: 10090711 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-04-20T09:26:51Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '106' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Maximilian A full_name: Jösch, Maximilian A id: 2BD278E6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jösch orcid: 0000-0002-3937-1330 title: Neural control of optic flow-based navigation in Drosophila melanogaster tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '13286' abstract: - lang: eng text: Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems are the harbour of many intriguing mesoscopic phenomena. This material combination leads to spatial variations of the superconducting properties, which gives rise to Andreev bound states (ABSs). Some of these states might exhibit remarkable properties that render them highly desirable for topological quantum computing. The most prominent and hunted of such states are Majorana zero modes (MZMs), quasiparticles equals to their own quasiparticles that they follow non-abelian statistics. In this thesis, we first introduce the general framework of such hybrid systems and, then, we unveil a series of mesoscopic phenomena that we discovered. Firstly, we show tunneling spectroscopy experiments on full-shell nanowires (NWs) showing that unwanted quantum-dot states coupled to superconductors (Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states) can mimic MZMs signatures. Then, we introduce a novel protocol which allowed the integration of tunneling spectroscopy with Coulomb spectroscopy within the same device. Employing this approach on both full-shell NWs and partial-shell NWs, we demonstrated that longitudinally confined states reveal charge transport phenomenology similar to the one expected for MZMs. These findings shed light on the intricate interplay between superconductivity and quantum confinement, which brought us to explore another material platform, i.e. a two-dimensional Germanium hole gas. After developing a robust way to induce superconductivity in such system, we showed how to engineer the proximity effect and we revealed a superconducting hard gap. Finally, we created a superconducting radio frequency driven ideal diode and a generator of non-sinusoidal current-phase relations. Our results open the path for the exploration of protected superconducting qubits and more complex hybrid devices in planar Germanium, like Kitaev chains and hybrid qubit devices. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: NanoFab - _id: M-Shop alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Marco full_name: Valentini, Marco id: C0BB2FAC-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425 last_name: Valentini citation: ama: 'Valentini M. Mesoscopic phenomena in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanodevices : From full-shell nanowires to two-dimensional hole gas in germanium. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:13286' apa: 'Valentini, M. (2023). Mesoscopic phenomena in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanodevices : From full-shell nanowires to two-dimensional hole gas in germanium. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:13286' chicago: 'Valentini, Marco. “Mesoscopic Phenomena in Hybrid Semiconductor-Superconductor Nanodevices : From Full-Shell Nanowires to Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in Germanium.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:13286.' ieee: 'M. Valentini, “Mesoscopic phenomena in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanodevices : From full-shell nanowires to two-dimensional hole gas in germanium,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Valentini M. 2023. Mesoscopic phenomena in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanodevices : From full-shell nanowires to two-dimensional hole gas in germanium. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Valentini, Marco. Mesoscopic Phenomena in Hybrid Semiconductor-Superconductor Nanodevices : From Full-Shell Nanowires to Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in Germanium. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:13286.' short: 'M. Valentini, Mesoscopic Phenomena in Hybrid Semiconductor-Superconductor Nanodevices : From Full-Shell Nanowires to Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in Germanium, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-07-24T14:10:45Z date_published: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:27:22Z day: '21' ddc: - '530' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: GeKa doi: 10.15479/at:ista:13286 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 666ee31c7eade89679806287c062fa14 content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: mvalenti date_created: 2023-08-11T09:27:39Z date_updated: 2023-08-11T10:01:34Z file_id: '14033' file_name: PhD_thesis_Valentini_final.zip file_size: 56121429 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 0992f2ebef152dee8e70055350ebbb55 content_type: application/pdf creator: mvalenti date_created: 2023-08-11T14:39:17Z date_updated: 2023-08-11T14:39:17Z file_id: '14035' file_name: PhD_thesis_Valentini_final_validated.pdf file_size: 38199711 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2023-08-11T14:39:17Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '184' project: - _id: 262116AA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Hybrid Semiconductor - Superconductor Quantum Devices - _id: 237E5020-32DE-11EA-91FC-C7463DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '862046' name: TOPOLOGICALLY PROTECTED AND SCALABLE QUANTUM BITS - _id: 34a66131-11ca-11ed-8bc3-a31681c6b03e grant_number: F8606 name: 'Center for Correlated Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Systems: Conventional and unconventional topological superconductors' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '12522' relation: research_data status: public - id: '13312' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '12118' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '8910' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Georgios full_name: Katsaros, Georgios id: 38DB5788-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Katsaros orcid: 0000-0001-8342-202X title: 'Mesoscopic phenomena in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanodevices : From full-shell nanowires to two-dimensional hole gas in germanium' tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14374' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Superconductivity has many important applications ranging from levitating trains over qubits to MRI scanners. The phenomenon is successfully modeled by Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. From a mathematical perspective, BCS theory has been studied extensively for systems without boundary. However, little is known in the presence of boundaries. With the help of numerical methods physicists observed that the critical temperature may increase in the presence of a boundary. The goal of this thesis is to understand the influence of boundaries on the critical temperature in BCS theory and to give a first rigorous justification of these observations. On the way, we also study two-body Schrödinger operators on domains with boundaries and prove additional results for superconductors without boundary.\r\n\r\nBCS theory is based on a non-linear functional, where the minimizer indicates whether the system is superconducting or in the normal, non-superconducting state. By considering the Hessian of the BCS functional at the normal state, one can analyze whether the normal state is possibly a minimum of the BCS functional and estimate the critical temperature. The Hessian turns out to be a linear operator resembling a Schrödinger operator for two interacting particles, but with more complicated kinetic energy. As a first step, we study the two-body Schrödinger operator in the presence of boundaries.\r\nFor Neumann boundary conditions, we prove that the addition of a boundary can create new eigenvalues, which correspond to the two particles forming a bound state close to the boundary.\r\n\r\nSecond, we need to understand superconductivity in the translation invariant setting. While in three dimensions this has been extensively studied, there is no mathematical literature for the one and two dimensional cases. In dimensions one and two, we compute the weak coupling asymptotics of the critical temperature and the energy gap in the translation invariant setting. We also prove that their ratio is independent of the microscopic details of the model in the weak coupling limit; this property is referred to as universality.\r\n\r\nIn the third part, we study the critical temperature of superconductors in the presence of boundaries. We start by considering the one-dimensional case of a half-line with contact interaction. Then, we generalize the results to generic interactions and half-spaces in one, two and three dimensions. Finally, we compare the critical temperature of a quarter space in two dimensions to the critical temperatures of a half-space and of the full space." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Barbara full_name: Roos, Barbara id: 5DA90512-D80F-11E9-8994-2E2EE6697425 last_name: Roos orcid: 0000-0002-9071-5880 citation: ama: Roos B. Boundary superconductivity in BCS theory. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14374 apa: Roos, B. (2023). Boundary superconductivity in BCS theory. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14374 chicago: Roos, Barbara. “Boundary Superconductivity in BCS Theory.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14374. ieee: B. Roos, “Boundary superconductivity in BCS theory,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Roos B. 2023. Boundary superconductivity in BCS theory. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Roos, Barbara. Boundary Superconductivity in BCS Theory. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14374. short: B. Roos, Boundary Superconductivity in BCS Theory, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-09-28T14:23:04Z date_published: 2023-09-30T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:27:39Z day: '30' ddc: - '515' - '539' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: RoSe doi: 10.15479/at:ista:14374 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ef039ffc3de2cb8dee5b14110938e9b6 content_type: application/pdf creator: broos date_created: 2023-10-06T11:35:56Z date_updated: 2023-10-06T11:35:56Z file_id: '14398' file_name: phd-thesis-draft_pdfa_acrobat.pdf file_size: 2365702 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 81dcac33daeefaf0111db52f41bb1fd0 content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: broos date_created: 2023-10-06T11:38:01Z date_updated: 2023-10-06T11:38:01Z file_id: '14399' file_name: Version5.zip file_size: 4691734 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2023-10-06T11:38:01Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '206' project: - _id: 25C6DC12-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '694227' name: Analysis of quantum many-body systems - _id: bda63fe5-d553-11ed-ba76-a16e3d2f256b grant_number: I06427 name: Mathematical Challenges in BCS Theory of Superconductivity publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '10850' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '13207' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Robert full_name: Seiringer, Robert id: 4AFD0470-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Seiringer orcid: 0000-0002-6781-0521 title: Boundary superconductivity in BCS theory tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '13312' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Superconductor/semiconductor hybrid devices have attracted increasing\r\ninterest in the past years. Superconducting electronics aims to complement\r\nsemiconductor technology, while hybrid architectures are at the forefront of\r\nnew ideas such as topological superconductivity and protected qubits. In this\r\nwork, we engineer the induced superconductivity in two-dimensional germanium\r\nhole gas by varying the distance between the quantum well and the aluminum. We\r\ndemonstrate a hard superconducting gap and realize an electrically and flux\r\ntunable superconducting diode using a superconducting quantum interference\r\ndevice (SQUID). This allows to tune the current phase relation (CPR), to a\r\nregime where single Cooper pair tunneling is suppressed, creating a $ \\sin\r\n\\left( 2 \\varphi \\right)$ CPR. Shapiro experiments complement this\r\ninterpretation and the microwave drive allows to create a diode with $ \\approx\r\n100 \\%$ efficiency. The reported results open up the path towards monolithic\r\nintegration of spin qubit devices, microwave resonators and (protected)\r\nsuperconducting qubits on a silicon technology compatible platform." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: M-Shop - _id: NanoFab acknowledgement: "The authors acknowledge Alexander Brinkmann, Alessandro Crippa, Andrew Higginbotham, Andrea Iorio, Giordano\r\nScappucci and Christian Schonenberger for helpful discussions. We thank Marcel Verheijen for the support in the\r\nTEM analysis. This research and related results were made\r\npossible with the support of the NOMIS Foundation. It was\r\nsupported by the Scientific Service Units of ISTA through resources provided by the MIBA Machine Shop and the\r\nnanofabrication facility, the European Union’s Horizon 2020\r\nresearch and innovation programme under Grant Agreement\r\nNo 862046, the HORIZON-RIA 101069515 project and the\r\nFWF Projects #P-32235, #P-36507 and #F-8606. R.S.S.\r\nacknowledges Spanish CM “Talento Program” Project No.\r\n2022-T1/IND-24070." article_number: '2306.07109' article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Marco full_name: Valentini, Marco id: C0BB2FAC-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425 last_name: Valentini - first_name: Oliver full_name: Sagi, Oliver id: 71616374-A8E9-11E9-A7CA-09ECE5697425 last_name: Sagi - first_name: Levon full_name: Baghumyan, Levon last_name: Baghumyan - first_name: Thijs de full_name: Gijsel, Thijs de last_name: Gijsel - first_name: Jason full_name: Jung, Jason id: 4C9ACE7A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jung - first_name: Stefano full_name: Calcaterra, Stefano last_name: Calcaterra - first_name: Andrea full_name: Ballabio, Andrea last_name: Ballabio - first_name: Juan Aguilera full_name: Servin, Juan Aguilera last_name: Servin - first_name: Kushagra full_name: Aggarwal, Kushagra id: b22ab905-3539-11eb-84c3-fc159dcd79cb last_name: Aggarwal orcid: 0000-0001-9985-9293 - first_name: Marian full_name: Janik, Marian id: 396A1950-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Janik orcid: 0009-0003-9037-8831 - first_name: Thomas full_name: Adletzberger, Thomas id: 38756BB2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Adletzberger - first_name: Rubén Seoane full_name: Souto, Rubén Seoane last_name: Souto - first_name: Martin full_name: Leijnse, Martin last_name: Leijnse - first_name: Jeroen full_name: Danon, Jeroen last_name: Danon - first_name: Constantin full_name: Schrade, Constantin last_name: Schrade - first_name: Erik full_name: Bakkers, Erik last_name: Bakkers - first_name: Daniel full_name: Chrastina, Daniel last_name: Chrastina - first_name: Giovanni full_name: Isella, Giovanni last_name: Isella - first_name: Georgios full_name: Katsaros, Georgios id: 38DB5788-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Katsaros orcid: 0000-0001-8342-202X citation: ama: Valentini M, Sagi O, Baghumyan L, et al. Radio frequency driven superconducting diode and parity conserving  Cooper pair transport in a two-dimensional germanium hole gas. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2306.07109 apa: Valentini, M., Sagi, O., Baghumyan, L., Gijsel, T. de, Jung, J., Calcaterra, S., … Katsaros, G. (n.d.). Radio frequency driven superconducting diode and parity conserving  Cooper pair transport in a two-dimensional germanium hole gas. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07109 chicago: Valentini, Marco, Oliver Sagi, Levon Baghumyan, Thijs de Gijsel, Jason Jung, Stefano Calcaterra, Andrea Ballabio, et al. “Radio Frequency Driven Superconducting Diode and Parity Conserving  Cooper Pair Transport in a Two-Dimensional Germanium Hole Gas.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07109. ieee: M. Valentini et al., “Radio frequency driven superconducting diode and parity conserving  Cooper pair transport in a two-dimensional germanium hole gas,” arXiv. . ista: Valentini M, Sagi O, Baghumyan L, Gijsel T de, Jung J, Calcaterra S, Ballabio A, Servin JA, Aggarwal K, Janik M, Adletzberger T, Souto RS, Leijnse M, Danon J, Schrade C, Bakkers E, Chrastina D, Isella G, Katsaros G. Radio frequency driven superconducting diode and parity conserving  Cooper pair transport in a two-dimensional germanium hole gas. arXiv, 2306.07109. mla: Valentini, Marco, et al. “Radio Frequency Driven Superconducting Diode and Parity Conserving  Cooper Pair Transport in a Two-Dimensional Germanium Hole Gas.” ArXiv, 2306.07109, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2306.07109. short: M. Valentini, O. Sagi, L. Baghumyan, T. de Gijsel, J. Jung, S. Calcaterra, A. Ballabio, J.A. Servin, K. Aggarwal, M. Janik, T. Adletzberger, R.S. Souto, M. Leijnse, J. Danon, C. Schrade, E. Bakkers, D. Chrastina, G. Isella, G. Katsaros, ArXiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-07-26T11:17:20Z date_published: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:27:22Z day: '13' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: GeKa - _id: M-Shop doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2306.07109 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2306.07109' keyword: - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07109 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 237E5020-32DE-11EA-91FC-C7463DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '862046' name: TOPOLOGICALLY PROTECTED AND SCALABLE QUANTUM BITS - _id: 237B3DA4-32DE-11EA-91FC-C7463DDC885E call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P32235 name: Towards scalable hut wire quantum devices - _id: bd8bd29e-d553-11ed-ba76-f0070d4b237a grant_number: P36507 name: Merging spin and superconducting qubits in planar Ge - _id: 34a66131-11ca-11ed-8bc3-a31681c6b03e grant_number: F8606 name: 'Center for Correlated Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Systems: Conventional and unconventional topological superconductors' - _id: eb9b30ac-77a9-11ec-83b8-871f581d53d2 name: Protected states of quantum matter publication: arXiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '13286' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Radio frequency driven superconducting diode and parity conserving Cooper pair transport in a two-dimensional germanium hole gas tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: preprint user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13207' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the linear BCS equation, determining the BCS critical temperature, in the presence of a boundary, where Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed. In the one-dimensional case with point interactions, we prove that the critical temperature is strictly larger than the bulk value, at least at weak coupling. In particular, the Cooper-pair wave function localizes near the boundary, an effect that cannot be modeled by effective Neumann boundary conditions on the order parameter as often imposed in Ginzburg–Landau theory. We also show that the relative shift in critical temperature vanishes if the coupling constant either goes to zero or to infinity. acknowledgement: We thank Egor Babaev for encouraging us to study this problem, and Rupert Frank for many fruitful discussions. scussions. Funding. Funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the ERC grant agreement No. 694227 (Barbara Roos and Robert Seiringer) is gratefully acknowledged. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Hainzl, Christian last_name: Hainzl - first_name: Barbara full_name: Roos, Barbara id: 5DA90512-D80F-11E9-8994-2E2EE6697425 last_name: Roos orcid: 0000-0002-9071-5880 - first_name: Robert full_name: Seiringer, Robert id: 4AFD0470-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Seiringer orcid: 0000-0002-6781-0521 citation: ama: Hainzl C, Roos B, Seiringer R. Boundary superconductivity in the BCS model. Journal of Spectral Theory. 2023;12(4):1507–1540. doi:10.4171/JST/439 apa: Hainzl, C., Roos, B., & Seiringer, R. (2023). Boundary superconductivity in the BCS model. Journal of Spectral Theory. EMS Press. https://doi.org/10.4171/JST/439 chicago: Hainzl, Christian, Barbara Roos, and Robert Seiringer. “Boundary Superconductivity in the BCS Model.” Journal of Spectral Theory. EMS Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4171/JST/439. ieee: C. Hainzl, B. Roos, and R. Seiringer, “Boundary superconductivity in the BCS model,” Journal of Spectral Theory, vol. 12, no. 4. EMS Press, pp. 1507–1540, 2023. ista: Hainzl C, Roos B, Seiringer R. 2023. Boundary superconductivity in the BCS model. Journal of Spectral Theory. 12(4), 1507–1540. mla: Hainzl, Christian, et al. “Boundary Superconductivity in the BCS Model.” Journal of Spectral Theory, vol. 12, no. 4, EMS Press, 2023, pp. 1507–1540, doi:10.4171/JST/439. short: C. Hainzl, B. Roos, R. Seiringer, Journal of Spectral Theory 12 (2023) 1507–1540. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-07-10T16:35:45Z date_published: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:27:39Z day: '18' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: RoSe doi: 10.4171/JST/439 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2201.08090' isi: - '000997933500008' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 5501da33be010b5c81440438287584d5 content_type: application/pdf creator: alisjak date_created: 2023-07-11T08:19:15Z date_updated: 2023-07-11T08:19:15Z file_id: '13208' file_name: 2023_EMS_Hainzl.pdf file_size: 304619 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-07-11T08:19:15Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1507–1540 project: - _id: 25C6DC12-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '694227' name: Analysis of quantum many-body systems publication: Journal of Spectral Theory publication_identifier: eissn: - 1664-0403 issn: - 1664-039X publication_status: published publisher: EMS Press quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14374' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Boundary superconductivity in the BCS model tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 12 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14539' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Stochastic systems provide a formal framework for modelling and quantifying uncertainty in systems and have been widely adopted in many application domains. Formal\r\nverification and control of finite state stochastic systems, a subfield of formal methods\r\nalso known as probabilistic model checking, is well studied. In contrast, formal verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems have received comparatively\r\nless attention. However, infinite state stochastic systems commonly arise in practice.\r\nFor instance, probabilistic models that contain continuous probability distributions such\r\nas normal or uniform, or stochastic dynamical systems which are a classical model for\r\ncontrol under uncertainty, both give rise to infinite state systems.\r\nThe goal of this thesis is to contribute to laying theoretical and algorithmic foundations\r\nof fully automated formal verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems,\r\nwith a particular focus on systems that may be executed over a long or infinite time.\r\nWe consider formal verification of infinite state stochastic systems in the setting of\r\nstatic analysis of probabilistic programs and formal control in the setting of controller\r\nsynthesis in stochastic dynamical systems. For both problems, we present some of the\r\nfirst fully automated methods for probabilistic (a.k.a. quantitative) reachability and\r\nsafety analysis applicable to infinite time horizon systems. We also advance the state\r\nof the art of probability 1 (a.k.a. qualitative) reachability analysis for both problems.\r\nFinally, for formal controller synthesis in stochastic dynamical systems, we present a\r\nnovel framework for learning neural network control policies in stochastic dynamical\r\nsystems with formal guarantees on correctness with respect to quantitative reachability,\r\nsafety or reach-avoid specifications.\r\n" alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Dorde full_name: Zikelic, Dorde id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zikelic orcid: 0000-0002-4681-1699 citation: ama: Zikelic D. Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems. 2023. doi:10.15479/14539 apa: Zikelic, D. (2023). Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/14539 chicago: Zikelic, Dorde. “Automated Verification and Control of Infinite State Stochastic Systems.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/14539. ieee: D. Zikelic, “Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Zikelic D. 2023. Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Zikelic, Dorde. Automated Verification and Control of Infinite State Stochastic Systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/14539. short: D. Zikelic, Automated Verification and Control of Infinite State Stochastic Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-11-15T13:39:10Z date_published: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:27:56Z day: '15' ddc: - '000' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: KrCh - _id: GradSch doi: 10.15479/14539 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f23e002b0059ca78e1fbb864da52dd7e content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-11-15T13:43:28Z date_updated: 2023-11-15T13:43:28Z file_id: '14540' file_name: main.pdf file_size: 2116426 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: closed checksum: 80ca37618a3c7b59866875f8be9b15ed content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-11-15T13:44:24Z date_updated: 2023-11-15T13:44:24Z file_id: '14541' file_name: thesis_source.zip file_size: 35884057 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2023-11-15T13:44:24Z language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '256' project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-036-7 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '10414' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '12000' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '9644' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '12511' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '14600' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '14601' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '1194' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X title: Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14587' abstract: - lang: eng text: "This thesis concerns the application of variational methods to the study of evolution problems arising in fluid mechanics and in material sciences. The main focus is on weak-strong stability properties of some curvature driven interface evolution problems, such as the two-phase Navier–Stokes flow with surface tension and multiphase mean curvature flow, and on the phase-field approximation of the latter. Furthermore, we discuss a variational approach to the study of a class of doubly nonlinear wave equations.\r\nFirst, we consider the two-phase Navier–Stokes flow with surface tension within a bounded domain. The two fluids are immiscible and separated by a sharp interface, which intersects the boundary of the domain at a constant contact angle of ninety degree. We devise a suitable concept of varifolds solutions for the associated interface evolution problem and we establish a weak-strong uniqueness principle in case of a two dimensional ambient space. In order to focus on the boundary effects and on the singular geometry of the evolving domains, we work for simplicity in the regime of same viscosities for the two fluids.\r\nThe core of the thesis consists in the rigorous proof of the convergence of the vectorial Allen-Cahn equation towards multiphase mean curvature flow for a suitable class of multi- well potentials and for well-prepared initial data. We even establish a rate of convergence. Our relative energy approach relies on the concept of gradient-flow calibration for branching singularities in multiphase mean curvature flow and thus enables us to overcome the limitations of other approaches. To the best of the author’s knowledge, our result is the first quantitative and unconditional one available in the literature for the vectorial/multiphase setting.\r\nThis thesis also contains a first study of weak-strong stability for planar multiphase mean curvature flow beyond the singularity resulting from a topology change. Previous weak-strong results are indeed limited to time horizons before the first topology change of the strong solution. We consider circular topology changes and we prove weak-strong stability for BV solutions to planar multiphase mean curvature flow beyond the associated singular times by dynamically adapting the strong solutions to the weak one by means of a space-time shift.\r\nIn the context of interface evolution problems, our proofs for the main results of this thesis are based on the relative energy technique, relying on novel suitable notions of relative energy functionals, which in particular measure the interface error. Our statements follow from the resulting stability estimates for the relative energy associated to the problem.\r\nAt last, we introduce a variational approach to the study of nonlinear evolution problems. This approach hinges on the minimization of a parameter dependent family of convex functionals over entire trajectories, known as Weighted Inertia-Dissipation-Energy (WIDE) functionals. We consider a class of doubly nonlinear wave equations and establish the convergence, up to subsequences, of the associated WIDE minimizers to a solution of the target problem as the parameter goes to zero." acknowledgement: The research projects contained in this thesis have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 948819). alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Alice full_name: Marveggio, Alice id: 25647992-AA84-11E9-9D75-8427E6697425 last_name: Marveggio citation: ama: Marveggio A. Weak-strong stability and phase-field approximation of interface evolution problems in fluid mechanics and in material sciences. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14587 apa: Marveggio, A. (2023). Weak-strong stability and phase-field approximation of interface evolution problems in fluid mechanics and in material sciences. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14587 chicago: Marveggio, Alice. “Weak-Strong Stability and Phase-Field Approximation of Interface Evolution Problems in Fluid Mechanics and in Material Sciences.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14587. ieee: A. Marveggio, “Weak-strong stability and phase-field approximation of interface evolution problems in fluid mechanics and in material sciences,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Marveggio A. 2023. Weak-strong stability and phase-field approximation of interface evolution problems in fluid mechanics and in material sciences. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Marveggio, Alice. Weak-Strong Stability and Phase-Field Approximation of Interface Evolution Problems in Fluid Mechanics and in Material Sciences. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14587. short: A. Marveggio, Weak-Strong Stability and Phase-Field Approximation of Interface Evolution Problems in Fluid Mechanics and in Material Sciences, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-11-21T11:41:05Z date_published: 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:28:13Z day: '21' ddc: - '515' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: JuFi doi: 10.15479/at:ista:14587 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 6c7db4cc86da6cdc79f7f358dc7755d4 content_type: application/pdf creator: amarvegg date_created: 2023-11-29T09:09:31Z date_updated: 2023-11-29T09:09:31Z file_id: '14626' file_name: thesis_Marveggio.pdf file_size: 2881100 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: closed checksum: 52f28bdf95ec82cff39f3685f9c48e7d content_type: application/zip creator: amarvegg date_created: 2023-11-29T09:10:19Z date_updated: 2024-03-20T12:28:32Z file_id: '14627' file_name: Thesis_Marveggio.zip file_size: 10189696 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-03-20T12:28:32Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '228' project: - _id: 0aa76401-070f-11eb-9043-b5bb049fa26d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '948819' name: Bridging Scales in Random Materials publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '11842' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '14597' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Julian L full_name: Fischer, Julian L id: 2C12A0B0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fischer orcid: 0000-0002-0479-558X title: Weak-strong stability and phase-field approximation of interface evolution problems in fluid mechanics and in material sciences tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14651' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'For self-incompatibility (SI) to be stable in a population, theory predicts that sufficient inbreeding depression (ID) is required: the fitness of offspring from self-mated individuals must be low enough to prevent the spread of self-compatibility (SC). Reviews of natural plant populations have supported this theory, with SI species generally showing high levels of ID. However, there is thought to be an under-sampling of self-incompatible taxa in the current literature. In this thesis, I study inbreeding depression in the SI plant species Antirrhinum majus using both greenhouse crosses and a large collected field dataset. Additionally, the gametophytic S-locus of A. majus is highly heterozygous and polymorphic, thus making assembly and discovery of S-alleles very difficult. Here, 206 new alleles of the male component SLFs are presented, along with a phylogeny showing the high conservation with alleles from another Antirrhinum species. Lastly, selected sites within the protein structure of SLFs are investigated, with one site in particular highlighted as potentially being involved in the SI recognition mechanism.' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Louise S full_name: Arathoon, Louise S id: 2CFCFF98-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Arathoon orcid: 0000-0003-1771-714X citation: ama: Arathoon LS. Investigating inbreeding depression and the self-incompatibility locus of Antirrhinum majus. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14651 apa: Arathoon, L. S. (2023). Investigating inbreeding depression and the self-incompatibility locus of Antirrhinum majus. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14651 chicago: Arathoon, Louise S. “Investigating Inbreeding Depression and the Self-Incompatibility Locus of Antirrhinum Majus.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14651. ieee: L. S. Arathoon, “Investigating inbreeding depression and the self-incompatibility locus of Antirrhinum majus,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Arathoon LS. 2023. Investigating inbreeding depression and the self-incompatibility locus of Antirrhinum majus. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Arathoon, Louise S. Investigating Inbreeding Depression and the Self-Incompatibility Locus of Antirrhinum Majus. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14651. short: L.S. Arathoon, Investigating Inbreeding Depression and the Self-Incompatibility Locus of Antirrhinum Majus, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-12-11T19:30:37Z date_published: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:28:30Z day: '12' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: NiBa doi: 10.15479/at:ista:14651 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 520bdb61e95e66070e02824947d2c5fa content_type: application/pdf creator: larathoo date_created: 2023-12-13T15:37:55Z date_updated: 2023-12-13T15:37:55Z file_id: '14684' file_name: Phd_Thesis_LA.pdf file_size: 34101468 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: closed checksum: d8e59afd0817c98fba2564a264508e5c content_type: application/zip creator: larathoo date_created: 2023-12-13T15:42:23Z date_updated: 2023-12-14T08:58:18Z file_id: '14685' file_name: Phd_Thesis_LA.zip file_size: 31052872 relation: source_file - access_level: closed checksum: 9a778c949932286f4519e1f1fca2820d content_type: application/zip creator: larathoo date_created: 2023-12-11T19:24:59Z date_updated: 2023-12-14T08:58:18Z file_id: '14681' file_name: Supplementary_Materials.zip file_size: 10713896 relation: supplementary_material file_date_updated: 2023-12-14T08:58:18Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '96' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '11411' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 title: Investigating inbreeding depression and the self-incompatibility locus of Antirrhinum majus type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ...