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Retrieval of bilingual Spanish-English information by means of a standard automatic translation system
This paper describes our participation in bilingual retrieval (queries in Spanish on documents in English), by means of an information retrieval system based on the vector model. The queries, formulated in Spanish, were translated into English by means of a commercial automatic translation system; the terms extracted from the resulting translations were filtered in order to get rid of empty words and then they were normalised by stemming. Results are poorer than those obtained through monolingual retrieval with the original queries in English slightly above 15%
Understanding the tsunami with a simple model
In this paper, we use the approximation of shallow water waves (Margaritondo
G 2005 Eur. J. Phys. 26 401) to understand the behaviour of a tsunami in a
variable depth. We deduce the shallow water wave equation and the continuity
equation that must be satisfied when a wave encounters a discontinuity in the
sea depth. A short explanation about how the tsunami hit the west coast of
India is given based on the refraction phenomenon. Our procedure also includes
a simple numerical calculation suitable for undergraduate students in physics
and engineering
Web Page Retrieval by Combining Evidence
The participation of the REINA Research Group in WebCLEF 2005 focused in the monolingual mixed task. Queries or topics are of two types: named and home pages. For both, we first perform a search by thematic contents; for the same query, we do a search in several elements of information from every page (title, some meta tags, anchor text) and then we combine the results. For queries about home pages, we try to detect using a method based in some keywords and their patterns of use. After, a re-rank of the results of the thematic contents retrieval is performed, based on Page-Rank and Centrality coeficients
Quantum Resonances of Kicked Rotor and SU(q) group
The quantum kicked rotor (QKR) map is embedded into a continuous unitary
transformation generated by a time-independent quasi-Hamiltonian. In some
vicinity of a quantum resonance of order , we relate the problem to the {\it
regular} motion along a circle in a -component inhomogeneous
"magnetic" field of a quantum particle with intrinsic degrees of freedom
described by the group. This motion is in parallel with the classical
phase oscillations near a non-linear resonance.Comment: RevTeX, 4 pages, 3 figure
Textural and chemical changes in slate-forming phyllosilicates across the external-internal zones transition in the low-grade metamorphic belt of the NW Iberian Variscan Chain
18 páginas, 11 figuras, 4 tablas.-- Nombre actual de la revista "Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology".Differences in the chemistry and texture of slate-forming phyllosilicates representative of foreland and hinterland
rocks of the Iberian Variscan Orogenic Belt have been determined by scanning and transmission electron
microscopy. Based on a previous X-ray diffraction study, representative samples of both internal and external domains were selected revealing clearly different characteristics. The two samples corresponding to the foreland rocks
have similar texture, showing a mixture of sedimentary and metamorphic features at the backscattered electron
scale, independently of their respective epizone and anchizone illite crystallinity indices. At the crystalline lattice
level, mica and chlorite packets form subparallel low-angle intergrowths and show strain features, more obvious in
chlorite than in mica. The only difference justifying their different crystallinity indices concerns quantitative characteristics such as crystallite size and frequency of defects. The two hinterland samples are very similar and are formed
by perfect, defect-free micrometer-size phyllosilicates in a typically metamorphic parallel orientation. The foreland
samples are chemically heterogeneous, with each individual analysis being affected by variable degrees of illitic,
phengitic and ferrimuscovitic substitutions. In contrast, the hinterland samples have evolved to more homogeneous
compositions approaching the end-member muscovite. The effect of tectonic strain was fundamental both in the
development of a metamorphic texture and the approach to chemical equilibrium.This research was supported by Research Projects nos
BT2000-0582 and BTE2000-1490-C02-01 and FPI research grant to I. A., all from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and Research Group RNM-0179
of the Junta de Andalucía.Peer reviewe
Magnetic long-range order induced by quantum relaxation in single-molecule magnets
Can magnetic interactions between single-molecule magnets (SMMs) in a crystal
establish long-range magnetic order at low temperatures deep in the quantum
regime, where the only electron spin-fluctuations are due to incoherent
magnetic quantum tunneling (MQT)? Put inversely: can MQT provide the
temperature dependent fluctuations needed to destroy the ordered state above
some finite Tc, although it should basically itself be a T-independent process?
Our experiments on two novel Mn4 SMMs provide a positive answer to the above,
showing at the same time that MQT in the SMMs has to involve spin-lattice
coupling at a relaxation rate equaling that predicted and observed recently for
nuclear spin-mediated quantum relaxation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
The multicomponent 2D Toda hierarchy: Discrete flows and string equations
The multicomponent 2D Toda hierarchy is analyzed through a factorization
problem associated to an infinite-dimensional group. A new set of discrete
flows is considered and the corresponding Lax and Zakharov--Shabat equations
are characterized. Reductions of block Toeplitz and Hankel bi-infinite matrix
types are proposed and studied. Orlov--Schulman operators, string equations and
additional symmetries (discrete and continuous) are considered. The
continuous-discrete Lax equations are shown to be equivalent to a factorization
problem as well as to a set of string equations. A congruence method to derive
site independent equations is presented and used to derive equations in the
discrete multicomponent KP sector (and also for its modification) of the theory
as well as dispersive Whitham equations.Comment: 27 pages. In the revised paper we improved the presentatio
Structural and energetic properties of nickel clusters:
The four most stable structures of Ni clusters with from 2 to 150
have been determined using a combination of the embedded-atom method in the
version of Daw, Baskes and Foiles, the {\it variable metric/quasi-Newton}
method, and our own {\it Aufbau/Abbau} method. A systematic study of
energetics, structure, growth, and stability of also larger clusters has been
carried through without more or less severe assumptions on the initial
geometries in the structure optimization, on the symmetry, or on bond lengths.
It is shown that cluster growth is predominantly icosahedral with of
{\it fcc}, {\it tetrahedral} and {\it decahedral} growth. For the first time in
unbiased computations it is found that Ni is the multilayer (third
Mackay) icosahedron. Further, we point to an enhanced ability of {\it fcc}
clusters to compete with the icosahedral and decahedral structures in the
vicinity of N=79. In addition, it is shown that conversion from the {\it
hcp}/anti-Mackay kind of icosahedral growth to the {\it fcc}/Mackay one occurs
within a transition layer including several cluster sizes. Moreover, we present
and apply different analytical tools in studying structural and energetic
properties of such a large class of clusters. These include means for
identifying the overall shape, the occurrence of atomic shells, the similarity
of the clusters with, e.g., fragments of the {\it fcc} crystal or of a large
icosahedral cluster, and a way of analysing whether the -atom cluster can be
considered constructed from the -atom one by adding an extra atom. In
addition, we compare in detail with results from chemical-probe experiment.
Maybe the most central result is that first for clusters with above 80
general trends can be identified.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figure
Nonextensive thermodynamic functions in the Schr\"odinger-Gibbs ensemble
Schr\"odinger suggested that thermodynamical functions cannot be based on the
gratuitous allegation that quantum-mechanical levels (typically the orthogonal
eigenstates of the Hamiltonian operator) are the only allowed states for a
quantum system [E. Schr\"odinger, Statistical Thermodynamics (Courier Dover,
Mineola, 1967)]. Different authors have interpreted this statement by
introducing density distributions on the space of quantum pure states with
weights obtained as functions of the expectation value of the Hamiltonian of
the system.
In this work we focus on one of the best known of these distributions, and we
prove that, when considered in composite quantum systems, it defines partition
functions that do not factorize as products of partition functions of the
noninteracting subsystems, even in the thermodynamical regime. This implies
that it is not possible to define extensive thermodynamical magnitudes such as
the free energy, the internal energy or the thermodynamic entropy by using
these models. Therefore, we conclude that this distribution inspired by
Schr\"odinger's idea can not be used to construct an appropriate quantum
equilibrium thermodynamics.Comment: 32 pages, revtex 4.1 preprint style, 5 figures. Published version
with several changes with respect to v2 in text and reference
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