University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

About: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee is a education organization based out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gravitational wave. The organization has 11839 authors who have published 28034 publications receiving 936438 citations. The organization is also known as: UWM & University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

One Individual, Two Identities: Frame Switching among Biculturals

Abstract: Bicultural bilingual individuals have incorporated two cultures within themselves and speak the languages of those cultures. When cued by a particular language, these individuals activate distinct sets of culture-specific concepts, or mental frames, which include aspects of their identities. Three studies show that language-triggered frame switching (i.e., switching from one set of mental frames to another) occurs only with biculturals, not with bilinguals who are not bicultural. The studies uncover frame switching at the within-individual level, and they include both qualitative and experimental evidence. They also provide a methodology to identify the relative activation strength of specific mental frames in different languages.

Tuning Dirac states by strain in the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3

Abstract: Bismuth selenide is a prototypical 3D topological insulator; its electronic spectrum features a Dirac cone populated by surface states. Now, it is experimentally and numerically shown that a bandgap forms beyond a certain critical compressive strain, destroying the surface states.

Excess power statistic for detection of burst sources of gravitational radiation

Abstract: We examine the properties of an excess power method to detect gravitational waves in interferometric detector data. This method is designed to detect short-duration $(\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.5$ s) burst signals of unknown waveform, such as those from supernovae or black hole mergers. If only the bursts' duration and frequency band are known, the method is an optimal detection strategy in both Bayesian and frequentist senses. It consists of summing the data power over the known time interval and frequency band of the burst. If the detector noise is stationary and Gaussian, this sum is distributed as a ${\ensuremath{\chi}}^{2}$ (non-central ${\ensuremath{\chi}}^{2})$ deviate in the absence (presence) of a signal. One can use these distributions to compute frequentist detection thresholds for the measured power. We derive the method from Bayesian analyses and show how to compute Bayesian thresholds. More generically, when only upper and/or lower bounds on the bursts duration and frequency band are known, one must search for excess power in all concordant durations and bands. Two search schemes are presented and their computational efficiencies are compared. We find that given reasonable constraints on the effective duration and bandwidth of signals, the excess power search can be performed on a single workstation. Furthermore, the method can be almost as efficient as matched filtering when a large template bank is required: for Gaussian noise the excess power method can detect a source to a distance at least half of the distance detectable by matched filtering if the product of duration and bandwidth of the signals is $\ensuremath{\lesssim}100,$ and to a much greater fraction of the distance when the size of the matched filter bank is large. Finally, we derive generalizations of the method to a network of several interferometers under the assumption of Gaussian noise. However, further work is required to determine the efficiency of the method in the realistic context of a detector network with non-Gaussian noise.