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Development of a MATLAB/Simulink - Arduino environment for experimental practices in control engineering teaching
This project presents the steps followed when implementing a platform based on MATLAB/Simulink and Arduino for the restoration of digital control practices. During this project, an Arduino shield has being designed. Along with this, a web page has also been created where all the material done during all this project is available and can be freely used. So anyone interested on doing a project can have a starting point instead of starting a project from scratch, which most of times this results hard to implement. Taking all this into account, the document is structured in the following manner. The first chapter talks about the hardware used and designed. The second one explains the software used and the configurations done on the laboratory’s PCs. After that, the web page Duino-Based Learning is explained, where you can find the five projects carried out in the "Control Automà tic" subject with their corresponding results. In this section too, as an additional research, the implemented indirect adaptive control will be explained, where the parameter estimation has been done by the Recursive Least Square algorithm. The last four sections before presenting the conclusions of the work, correspond to a satisfaction questionnaire done to the teachers that have used the setup, the costs and saves of the project, the environmental impact and the planning of the project respectively
Relativistic quantum mechanics with trapped ions
We consider the quantum simulation of relativistic quantum mechanics, as
described by the Dirac equation and classical potentials, in trapped-ion
systems. We concentrate on three problems of growing complexity. First, we
study the bidimensional relativistic scattering of single Dirac particles by a
linear potential. Furthermore, we explore the case of a Dirac particle in a
magnetic field and its topological properties. Finally, we analyze the problem
of two Dirac particles that are coupled by a controllable and confining
potential. The latter interaction may be useful to study important phenomena as
the confinement and asymptotic freedom of quarks.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
Entanglement generation and Hamiltonian simulation in Continuous-Variable Systems
Several recent experiments have demonstrated the promise of atomic ensembles
for quantum teleportation and quantum memory. In these cases the collective
internal state of the atoms is well described by continuous variables and the interaction with the optical field () by a quadratic
Hamiltonian . We show how this interaction can be used optimally to
create entanglement and squeezing. We derive conditions for the efficient
simulation of quadratic Hamiltonians and the engineering of all Gaussian
operations and states.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure; v2: general improvements (some proofs
generalized, typos corrected, 2 figures added
Series expansion for a stochastic sandpile
Using operator algebra, we extend the series for the activity density in a
one-dimensional stochastic sandpile with fixed particle density p, the first
terms of which were obtained via perturbation theory [R. Dickman and R.
Vidigal, J. Phys. A35, 7269 (2002)]. The expansion is in powers of the time;
the coefficients are polynomials in p. We devise an algorithm for evaluating
expectations of operator products and extend the series to O(t^{16}).
Constructing Pade approximants to a suitably transformed series, we obtain
predictions for the activity that compare well against simulations, in the
supercritical regime.Comment: Extended series and improved analysi
Classical simulation of noninteracting-fermion quantum circuits
We show that a class of quantum computations that was recently shown to be
efficiently simulatable on a classical computer by Valiant corresponds to a
physical model of noninteracting fermions in one dimension. We give an
alternative proof of his result using the language of fermions and extend the
result to noninteracting fermions with arbitrary pairwise interactions, where
gates can be conditioned on outcomes of complete von Neumann measurements in
the computational basis on other fermionic modes in the circuit. This last
result is in remarkable contrast with the case of noninteracting bosons where
universal quantum computation can be achieved by allowing gates to be
conditioned on classical bits (quant-ph/0006088).Comment: 26 pages, 1 figure, uses wick.sty; references added to recent results
by E. Knil
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