--- _id: '324' abstract: - lang: eng text: Neuronal networks in the brain consist of two main types of neuron, glutamatergic principal neurons and GABAergic interneurons. Although these interneurons only represent 10–20% of the whole population, they mediate feedback and feedforward inhibition and are involved in the generation of high-frequency network oscillations. A hallmark functional property of GABAergic interneurons, especially of the parvalbumin‑expressing (PV+) subtypes, is the speed of signaling at their output synapse across species and brain regions. Several molecular and subcellular factors may underlie the submillisecond signaling at GABAergic synapses. Such as the selective use of P/Q type Ca2+ channels and the tight coupling between Ca2+ channels and Ca2+ sensors of exocytosis. However, whether the molecular identity of the release sensor contributes to these signaling properties remains unclear. Besides, these interneurons are mainly show depression in response to train of stimuli. How could they keep sufficient release to control the activity of postsynaptic principal neurons during high network activity, is largely elusive. For my Ph.D. work, we firstly examined the Ca2+ sensor of exocytosis at the GABAergic basket cell (BC) to Purkinje cell (PC) synapse in the cerebellum. Immunolabeling suggested that BC terminals selectively expressed synaptotagmin 2 (Syt2), whereas synaptotagmin 1 (Syt1) was enriched in excitatory terminals. Genetic elimination of Syt2 reduced action potential-evoked release to ~10% compared to the wild-type control, identifying Syt2 as the major Ca2+ sensor at BC‑PC synapses. Differential adenovirus-mediated rescue revealed Syt2 triggered release with shorter latency and higher temporal precision, and mediated faster vesicle pool replenishment than Syt1. Furthermore, deletion of Syt2 severely reduced and delayed disynaptic inhibition following parallel fiber stimulation. Thus, the selective use of Syt2 as the release sensor at BC–PC synapse ensures fast feedforward inhibition in cerebellar microcircuits. Additionally, we tested the function of another synaptotagmin member, Syt7, for inhibitory synaptic transmission at the BC–PC synapse. Syt7 is thought to be a Ca2+ sensor that mediates asynchronous transmitter release and facilitation at synapses. However, it is strongly expressed in fast-spiking, PV+ GABAergic interneurons and the output synapses of these neurons produce only minimal asynchronous release and show depression rather than facilitation. How could Syt7, a facilitation sensor, contribute to the depressed inhibitory synaptic transmission needs to be further investigated and understood. Our results indicated that at the BC–PC synapse, Syt7 contributes to asynchronous release, pool replenishment and facilitation. In combination, these three effects ensure efficient transmitter release during high‑frequency activity and guarantee frequency independence of inhibition. Taken together, our results confirmed that Syt2, which has the fastest kinetic properties among all synaptotagmin members, is mainly used by the inhibitory BC‑PC synapse for synaptic transmission, contributing to the speed and temporal precision of transmitter release. Furthermore, we showed that Syt7, another highly expressed synaptotagmin member in the output synapses of cerebellar BCs, is used for ensuring efficient inhibitor synaptic transmission during high activity. alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Chong full_name: Chen, Chong id: 3DFD581A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chen citation: ama: Chen C. Synaptotagmins ensure speed and efficiency of inhibitory neurotransmitter release. 2018. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_997 apa: Chen, C. (2018). Synaptotagmins ensure speed and efficiency of inhibitory neurotransmitter release. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_997 chicago: Chen, Chong. “Synaptotagmins Ensure Speed and Efficiency of Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Release.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_997. ieee: C. Chen, “Synaptotagmins ensure speed and efficiency of inhibitory neurotransmitter release,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018. ista: Chen C. 2018. Synaptotagmins ensure speed and efficiency of inhibitory neurotransmitter release. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Chen, Chong. Synaptotagmins Ensure Speed and Efficiency of Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Release. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_997. short: C. Chen, Synaptotagmins Ensure Speed and Efficiency of Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Release, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:49Z date_published: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-27T12:26:03Z day: '01' ddc: - '571' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: PeJo doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_997 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 8e163ae9e927401b9fa7c1b3e6a3631a content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:13:58Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:04Z file_id: '5046' file_name: IST-2018-997-v1+1_Thesis_chong_a.pdf file_size: 8719458 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: f7d7260029a5fbb5c982db61328ade52 content_type: application/octet-stream creator: dernst date_created: 2019-04-05T09:25:26Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:04Z file_id: '6221' file_name: 2018_Thesis_chong_source.pages file_size: 47841940 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:04Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '110' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria publist_id: '7541' pubrep_id: '997' related_material: record: - id: '1117' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '749' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Peter M full_name: Jonas, Peter M id: 353C1B58-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jonas orcid: 0000-0001-5001-4804 title: Synaptotagmins ensure speed and efficiency of inhibitory neurotransmitter release 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: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '742' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We give a detailed and easily accessible proof of Gromov’s Topological Overlap Theorem. Let X be a finite simplicial complex or, more generally, a finite polyhedral cell complex of dimension d. Informally, the theorem states that if X has sufficiently strong higher-dimensional expansion properties (which generalize edge expansion of graphs and are defined in terms of cellular cochains of X) then X has the following topological overlap property: for every continuous map (Formula presented.) there exists a point (Formula presented.) that is contained in the images of a positive fraction (Formula presented.) of the d-cells of X. More generally, the conclusion holds if (Formula presented.) is replaced by any d-dimensional piecewise-linear manifold M, with a constant (Formula presented.) that depends only on d and on the expansion properties of X, but not on M.' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) author: - first_name: Dominic full_name: Dotterrer, Dominic last_name: Dotterrer - first_name: Tali full_name: Kaufman, Tali last_name: Kaufman - first_name: Uli full_name: Wagner, Uli id: 36690CA2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Wagner orcid: 0000-0002-1494-0568 citation: ama: Dotterrer D, Kaufman T, Wagner U. On expansion and topological overlap. Geometriae Dedicata. 2018;195(1):307–317. doi:10.1007/s10711-017-0291-4 apa: Dotterrer, D., Kaufman, T., & Wagner, U. (2018). On expansion and topological overlap. Geometriae Dedicata. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-017-0291-4 chicago: Dotterrer, Dominic, Tali Kaufman, and Uli Wagner. “On Expansion and Topological Overlap.” Geometriae Dedicata. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-017-0291-4. ieee: D. Dotterrer, T. Kaufman, and U. Wagner, “On expansion and topological overlap,” Geometriae Dedicata, vol. 195, no. 1. Springer, pp. 307–317, 2018. ista: Dotterrer D, Kaufman T, Wagner U. 2018. On expansion and topological overlap. Geometriae Dedicata. 195(1), 307–317. mla: Dotterrer, Dominic, et al. “On Expansion and Topological Overlap.” Geometriae Dedicata, vol. 195, no. 1, Springer, 2018, pp. 307–317, doi:10.1007/s10711-017-0291-4. short: D. Dotterrer, T. Kaufman, U. Wagner, Geometriae Dedicata 195 (2018) 307–317. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:48:16Z date_published: 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-27T12:29:57Z day: '01' ddc: - '514' - '516' department: - _id: UlWa doi: 10.1007/s10711-017-0291-4 external_id: isi: - '000437122700017' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d2f70fc132156504aa4c626aa378a7ab content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-01-15T13:44:05Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:58Z file_id: '5835' file_name: s10711-017-0291-4.pdf file_size: 412486 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:58Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 195' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 307–317 project: - _id: 25FA3206-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: PP00P2_138948 name: 'Embeddings in Higher Dimensions: Algorithms and Combinatorics' publication: Geometriae Dedicata publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '6925' pubrep_id: '912' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1378' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On expansion and topological overlap 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: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 195 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '70' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process in a critical scaling parametrized by a≥0, which creates a shock in the particle density of order aT−1/3, T the observation time. When starting from step initial data, we provide bounds on the limiting law which in particular imply that in the double limit lima→∞limT→∞ one recovers the product limit law and the degeneration of the correlation length observed at shocks of order 1. This result is shown to apply to a general last-passage percolation model. We also obtain bounds on the two-point functions of several airy processes. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Peter full_name: Nejjar, Peter id: 4BF426E2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Nejjar citation: ama: Nejjar P. Transition to shocks in TASEP and decoupling of last passage times. Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. 2018;15(2):1311-1334. doi:10.30757/ALEA.v15-49 apa: Nejjar, P. (2018). Transition to shocks in TASEP and decoupling of last passage times. Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada. https://doi.org/10.30757/ALEA.v15-49 chicago: Nejjar, Peter. “Transition to Shocks in TASEP and Decoupling of Last Passage Times.” Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, 2018. https://doi.org/10.30757/ALEA.v15-49. ieee: P. Nejjar, “Transition to shocks in TASEP and decoupling of last passage times,” Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, vol. 15, no. 2. Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, pp. 1311–1334, 2018. ista: Nejjar P. 2018. Transition to shocks in TASEP and decoupling of last passage times. Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. 15(2), 1311–1334. mla: Nejjar, Peter. “Transition to Shocks in TASEP and Decoupling of Last Passage Times.” Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, vol. 15, no. 2, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, 2018, pp. 1311–34, doi:10.30757/ALEA.v15-49. short: P. Nejjar, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 15 (2018) 1311–1334. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:28Z date_published: 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-10T13:11:29Z day: '01' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: LaEr - _id: JaMa doi: 10.30757/ALEA.v15-49 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1705.08836' isi: - '000460475800022' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2ded46aa284a836a8cbb34133a64f1cb content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-02-14T09:44:10Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:46Z file_id: '5981' file_name: 2018_ALEA_Nejjar.pdf file_size: 394851 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:46Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1311-1334 project: - _id: 258DCDE6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '338804' name: Random matrices, universality and disordered quantum systems - _id: 256E75B8-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '716117' name: Optimal Transport and Stochastic Dynamics publication: Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics publication_identifier: issn: - 1980-0436 publication_status: published publisher: Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Transition to shocks in TASEP and decoupling of last passage times type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 15 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '44' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Recent realization of a kinetically constrained chain of Rydberg atoms by Bernien et al., [Nature (London) 551, 579 (2017)] resulted in the observation of unusual revivals in the many-body quantum dynamics. In our previous work [C. J. Turner et al., Nat. Phys. 14, 745 (2018)], such dynamics was attributed to the existence of “quantum scarred” eigenstates in the many-body spectrum of the experimentally realized model. Here, we present a detailed study of the eigenstate properties of the same model. We find that the majority of the eigenstates exhibit anomalous thermalization: the observable expectation values converge to their Gibbs ensemble values, but parametrically slower compared to the predictions of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Amidst the thermalizing spectrum, we identify nonergodic eigenstates that strongly violate the ETH, whose number grows polynomially with system size. Previously, the same eigenstates were identified via large overlaps with certain product states, and were used to explain the revivals observed in experiment. Here, we find that these eigenstates, in addition to highly atypical expectation values of local observables, also exhibit subthermal entanglement entropy that scales logarithmically with the system size. Moreover, we identify an additional class of quantum scarred eigenstates, and discuss their manifestations in the dynamics starting from initial product states. We use forward scattering approximation to describe the structure and physical properties of quantum scarred eigenstates. Finally, we discuss the stability of quantum scars to various perturbations. We observe that quantum scars remain robust when the introduced perturbation is compatible with the forward scattering approximation. In contrast, the perturbations which most efficiently destroy quantum scars also lead to the restoration of “canonical” thermalization.' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp article_number: '155134' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: C J full_name: Turner, C J last_name: Turner - first_name: Alexios full_name: Michailidis, Alexios id: 36EBAD38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Michailidis orcid: 0000-0002-8443-1064 - first_name: D A full_name: Abanin, D A last_name: Abanin - first_name: Maksym full_name: Serbyn, Maksym id: 47809E7E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Serbyn orcid: 0000-0002-2399-5827 - first_name: Z full_name: Papić, Z last_name: Papić citation: ama: 'Turner CJ, Michailidis A, Abanin DA, Serbyn M, Papić Z. Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations. Physical Review B. 2018;98(15). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155134' apa: 'Turner, C. J., Michailidis, A., Abanin, D. A., Serbyn, M., & Papić, Z. (2018). Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations. Physical Review B. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155134' chicago: 'Turner, C J, Alexios Michailidis, D A Abanin, Maksym Serbyn, and Z Papić. “Quantum Scarred Eigenstates in a Rydberg Atom Chain: Entanglement, Breakdown of Thermalization, and Stability to Perturbations.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155134.' ieee: 'C. J. Turner, A. Michailidis, D. A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, and Z. Papić, “Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations,” Physical Review B, vol. 98, no. 15. American Physical Society, 2018.' ista: 'Turner CJ, Michailidis A, Abanin DA, Serbyn M, Papić Z. 2018. Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations. Physical Review B. 98(15), 155134.' mla: 'Turner, C. J., et al. “Quantum Scarred Eigenstates in a Rydberg Atom Chain: Entanglement, Breakdown of Thermalization, and Stability to Perturbations.” Physical Review B, vol. 98, no. 15, 155134, American Physical Society, 2018, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155134.' short: C.J. Turner, A. Michailidis, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Z. Papić, Physical Review B 98 (2018). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:19Z date_published: 2018-10-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-10T13:28:49Z day: '22' department: - _id: MaSe doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155134 external_id: arxiv: - '1806.10933' isi: - '000447919100001' intvolume: ' 98' isi: 1 issue: '15' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10933 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: Physical Review B publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society publist_id: '8010' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations' type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 98 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '328' abstract: - lang: eng text: The drag of turbulent flows can be drastically decreased by adding small amounts of high molecular weight polymers. While drag reduction initially increases with polymer concentration, it eventually saturates to what is known as the maximum drag reduction (MDR) asymptote; this asymptote is generally attributed to the dynamics being reduced to a marginal yet persistent state of subdued turbulent motion. Contrary to this accepted view, we show that, for an appropriate choice of parameters, polymers can reduce the drag beyond the suggested asymptotic limit, eliminating turbulence and giving way to laminar flow. At higher polymer concentrations, however, the laminar state becomes unstable, resulting in a fluctuating flow with the characteristic drag of the MDR asymptote. Our findings indicate that the asymptotic state is hence dynamically disconnected from ordinary turbulence. © 2018 American Physical Society. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: SSU acknowledgement: The authors thank Philipp Maier and the IST Austria workshop for their dedicated technical support. article_number: '124501' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: George H full_name: Choueiri, George H id: 448BD5BC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Choueiri - first_name: Jose M full_name: Lopez Alonso, Jose M id: 40770848-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lopez Alonso orcid: 0000-0002-0384-2022 - first_name: Björn full_name: Hof, Björn id: 3A374330-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hof orcid: 0000-0003-2057-2754 citation: ama: Choueiri GH, Lopez Alonso JM, Hof B. Exceeding the asymptotic limit of polymer drag reduction. Physical Review Letters. 2018;120(12). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.124501 apa: Choueiri, G. H., Lopez Alonso, J. M., & Hof, B. (2018). Exceeding the asymptotic limit of polymer drag reduction. Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.124501 chicago: Choueiri, George H, Jose M Lopez Alonso, and Björn Hof. “Exceeding the Asymptotic Limit of Polymer Drag Reduction.” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.124501. ieee: G. H. Choueiri, J. M. Lopez Alonso, and B. Hof, “Exceeding the asymptotic limit of polymer drag reduction,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 120, no. 12. American Physical Society, 2018. ista: Choueiri GH, Lopez Alonso JM, Hof B. 2018. Exceeding the asymptotic limit of polymer drag reduction. Physical Review Letters. 120(12), 124501. mla: Choueiri, George H., et al. “Exceeding the Asymptotic Limit of Polymer Drag Reduction.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 120, no. 12, 124501, American Physical Society, 2018, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.124501. short: G.H. Choueiri, J.M. Lopez Alonso, B. Hof, Physical Review Letters 120 (2018). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:51Z date_published: 2018-03-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-10T13:27:44Z day: '19' department: - _id: BjHo doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.124501 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000427804000005' intvolume: ' 120' isi: 1 issue: '12' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06271 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme - _id: 25152F3A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '306589' name: Decoding the complexity of turbulence at its origin publication: Physical Review Letters publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society publist_id: '7537' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Exceeding the asymptotic limit of polymer drag reduction type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 120 year: '2018' ...