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Vessel trajectory clustering, which aims to find similar trajectory patterns, has been widely leveraged in overwater applications. Most traditional methods use predefined rules and thresholds to identify discrete vessel behaviors. They aim for high-quality clustering and conduct clustering on entire sequences, whether the original trajectory or its sub-trajectories, failing to represent their evolution. To resolve this problem, we propose a Predictive Clustering of Hierarchical Vessel Behavior (PC-HiV). PC-HiV first uses hierarchical representations to transform every trajectory into a behavioral sequence. Then, it predicts evolution at each timestamp of the sequence based on the representations. By applying predictive clustering and latent encoding, PC-HiV improves clustering and predictions simultaneously. Experiments on real AIS datasets demonstrate PC-HiV's superiority over existing methods, showcasing its effectiveness in capturing behavioral evolution discrepancies between vessel types (tramp vs. liner) and within emission control areas. Results show that our method outperforms NN-Kmeans and Robust DAA by 3.9% and 6.4% of the purity score.

Recently, the structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between structural disorder and band topology is still unclear. In this work, we investigate the effects of structural disorder on a quantum spin Hall insulator phase and a higher-order topological phase in a two-dimensional Amman-Beenker tiling quasicrystalline lattice, respectively. We demonstrate that the structural disorder can induce a topological phase transition from a quasicrystalline normal insulator phase to an amorphous quantum spin Hall insulator phase, which is confirmed by bulk gap closing and reopening, robust edge states, quantized spin Bott index and conductance. Furthermore, the structural disorder-induced higher-order topological phase transition from a quasicrystalline normal insulator phase to an amorphous higher-order topological phase characterized by quantized quadrupole moment and topological corner states is also found. More strikingly, the disorder-induced higher-order topological insulator with eight corner states represents a distinctive topological state that eludes realization in conventional crystalline systems. Our work extends the study of the interplay between disorder effects and topologies to quasicrystalline and amorphous systems., Comment: 9 pages,7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.04971

Semiconductor quantum dots in close proximity to superconductors may provoke localized bound states within the superconducting energy gap known as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) state, which is a promising candidate for constructing Majorana zero modes and topological qubits. Side-coupled double quantum dot systems are ideal platforms revealing the secondary proximity effect. Numerical renormalization group calculations show that, if the central quantum dot can be treated as a noninteracting resonant level, it acts as a superconducting medium due to the ordinary proximity effect. The bound state in the side dot behaves as the case of a single impurity connected to two superconducting leads. The side dot undergoes quantum phase transitions between a singlet state and a doublet state as the Coulomb repulsion, the interdot coupling strength, or the energy level sweeps. Phase diagrams indicate that the phase boundaries could be well illustrated by $\Delta \approx c {T_{K2}}$ in all cases, with $\Delta$ is the superconducting gap, $T_{K2}$ is the side Kondo temperature and $c$ is of the order $1.0$. These findings offer valuable insights into the secondary proximity effect, and show great importance for designing superconducting quantum devices.

We use direct numerical simulation (DNS) to explore the effect of tilt on two-dimensional turbulent thermal convection on a half-soap bubble that is heated at its equator.In the DNS, the bubble is tilted by an angle $\delta\in[0^{\circ},90^{\circ}]$, the Rayleigh number is varied between $Ra\in[3\times10^6, 3\times10^9]$, and the Prandlt number is fixed at $Pr=7$.The DNS reveals two qualitatively different flow regimes: the dynamic plume regime (DPR) and the stable plume regime (SPR).In the DPR, small dynamic plumes constantly emerge from random locations on the equator and dissipate on the bubble.In the SPR, the flow is dominated by a single large and stable plume rising from the lower edge of the bubble.The scaling behaviour of the Nusselt number $Nu$ and Reynolds number $Re$ are different in these two regimes,with $Nu\propto Ra^{0.3}$ for the DPR and $Nu\propto Ra^{0.24}$ for the SPR. Concerning $Re$, the scaling in the DPR lies between $Re\propto Ra^{0.48}$ and $Re\propto Ra^{0.53}$ depending on $Ra$ and $\delta$,while in the SPR, the scaling lies between $Re\propto Ra^{0.44}$ and $Re\propto Ra^{0.45}$ depending on $\delta$.The turbulent thermal and kinetic energy dissipation rates ($\epsilon_{T^{\prime}}$ and $\epsilon_{u^{\prime}}$, respectively) are also very different in the DPR and SPR.The probability density functions (PDF) of the normalized $\log\epsilon_{T^{\prime}}$ and $\log\epsilon_{u^{\prime}}$ are close to a Gaussian PDF for small fluctuations, but deviate considerably from a Gaussian at large fluctuations in the DPR.

Viscoelasticity weakens the asymmetry of laminar shedding flow behind a blunt body in a free domain. In the present study, this finding is confirmed by four unsteady viscoelastic flows with asymmetric flow configuration, i.e., flow over an inclined flat plate with various angles of incidence, flow over a rotating circular cylinder, flow over a circular cylinder with asymmetric slip boundary distribution, and flow over an inclined row of eight equally closely spaced circular cylinders (which can be considered as a single large blunt body) through direct numerical simulation combined with the Peterlin approximation of the finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE-P) model. At high Weissenberg number, an arc shape region with high elastic stress, which is similar to shock wave, forms in the frontal area of the blunt body. This region acts as a stationary shield to separate the flow into different regions. Thus, the free stream resembles to pass this shield instead of the original blunt body. As this shield has symmetric feature, the wake flow restores symmetry., Comment: 34pages and 37 figures. Physics of Fluids (2022)

The investigation on significantly enhancing the coupling to NV centers at single-quanta level is of great key point to further explore its application in quantum information processing (QIP). We here study a joint scheme to further enhance NV-phonon coherent coupling with two methods working together in a hybrid optomechanical systems. Both methods are mechanic-induced mode field coupling (MFC) leading to the modification of the spatial distribution of the optical field, and the mechanical parametric amplification (MPA) realized by modulating the mechanical spring constant in time, respectively. With the joint assistance of MFC and MPA, the coherent coupling between the NV spin and one supermode of the mechanical resonators (MRs) can be further enhanced significantly, with the rate ne^r, several potential applications on this proposal are also discussed in this work. For the ultimate target of enhancing the coupling to NV spin at single-quanta level, this attempt may provide a promising spin-phonon platform for implementing the more active control.