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Electrical noise properties in aging materials
The electric thermal noise has been measured in two aging materials, a
colloidal suspension (Laponite) and a polymer (polycarbonate), presenting very
slow relaxation towards equilibrium. The measurements have been performed
during the transition from a fluid-like to a solid-like state for the gel and
after a quench for the polymer. For both materials we have observed that the
electric noise is characterized by a strong intermittency, which induces a
large violation of the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem (FDT) during the aging
time, and may persist for several hours at low frequency. The statistics of
these intermittent signals and their dependance on the quench speed for the
polymer or on sample concentration for the gel are studied. The results are in
a qualitative agreement with recent models of aging, that predict an
intermittent dynamics.Comment: SPIE Proceeding Journa
Intermittent origin of the large violations of the fluctuation dissipation relations in an aging polymer glass
The fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR) is measured on the dielectric
properties of a polymer glass (polycarbonate)in the range . It
is found that after a quench below the glass transition temperature the
fluctuation dissipation theorem is strongly violated. The amplitude and the
persistence time of this violation are decreasing functions of frequency. At
frequencies larger than 1Hz it persists for about . The origin of this
violation is a highly intermittent dynamics characterized by large
fluctuations. The relevance of these results for recent models of aging
dynamics are discussed.Comment: to be published in Europhysics Letter
Machine Learning Classification of SDSS Transient Survey Images
We show that multiple machine learning algorithms can match human performance
in classifying transient imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
supernova survey into real objects and artefacts. This is a first step in any
transient science pipeline and is currently still done by humans, but future
surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will necessitate
fully machine-enabled solutions. Using features trained from eigenimage
analysis (principal component analysis, PCA) of single-epoch g, r and
i-difference images, we can reach a completeness (recall) of 96 per cent, while
only incorrectly classifying at most 18 per cent of artefacts as real objects,
corresponding to a precision (purity) of 84 per cent. In general, random
forests performed best, followed by the k-nearest neighbour and the SkyNet
artificial neural net algorithms, compared to other methods such as na\"ive
Bayes and kernel support vector machine. Our results show that PCA-based
machine learning can match human success levels and can naturally be extended
by including multiple epochs of data, transient colours and host galaxy
information which should allow for significant further improvements, especially
at low signal-to-noise.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures. In this version extremely minor adjustments to
the paper were made - e.g. Figure 5 is now easier to view in greyscal
Thermal noise properties of two aging materials
In this lecture we review several aspects of the thermal noise properties in
two aging materials: a polymer and a colloidal glass.
The measurements have been performed after a quench for the polymer and
during the transition from a fluid-like to a solid-like state for the gel. Two
kind of noise has been measured: the electrical noise and the mechanical noise.
For both materials we have observed that the electric noise is characterized
by a strong intermittency, which induces a large violation of the Fluctuation
Dissipation Theorem (FDT) during the aging time, and may persist for several
hours at low frequency. The statistics of these intermittent signals and their
dependance on the quench speed for the polymer or on sample concentration for
the gel are studied. The results are in a qualitative agreement with recent
models of aging, that predict an intermittent dynamics. For the mechanical
noise the results are unclear. In the polymer the mechanical thermal noise is
still intermittent whereas for the gel the violation of FDT, if it exists, is
extremely small.Comment: to be published in the Proceedings of the XIX Sitges Conference on
''Jammming, Yielding and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter'',
M.-C.Miguel and M. Rubi eds.,Springer Verlag, Berli
Decoherence processes in a current biased dc SQUID
A current bias dc SQUID behaves as an anharmonic quantum oscillator
controlled by a bias current and an applied magnetic flux. We consider here its
two level limit consisting of the two lower energy states | 0 \right> and |
1 \right>. We have measured energy relaxation times and microwave absorption
for different bias currents and fluxes in the low microwave power limit.
Decoherence times are extracted. The low frequency flux and current noise have
been measured independently by analyzing the probability of current switching
from the superconducting to the finite voltage state, as a function of applied
flux. The high frequency part of the current noise is derived from the
electromagnetic environment of the circuit. The decoherence of this quantum
circuit can be fully accounted by these current and flux noise sources.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Intermittency of glassy relaxation and the emergence of a non-equilibrium spontaneous measure in the aging regime
We consider heat exchange processes between non-equilibrium aging systems (in
their activated regime) and the thermal bath in contact. We discuss a scenario
where two different heat exchange processes concur in the overall heat
dissipation: a stimulated fast process determined by the temperature of the
bath and a spontaneous intermittent process determined by the fact that the
system has been prepared in a non-equilibrium state. The latter is described by
a probability distribution function (PDF) that has an exponential tail of width
given by a parameter , and satisfies a fluctuation theorem (FT)
governed by that parameter. The value of is proportional to the
so-called effective temperature, thereby providing a practical way to
experimentally measure it by analyzing the PDF of intermittent events.Comment: Latex file, 8 pages + 5 postscript figure
Off equilibrium fluctuations in a polymer glass
The fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR) is measured on the dielectric
properties a polymer glass (polycarbonate). It is observed that the fluctuation
dissipation theorem is strongly violated for a quench from above to below the
glass transition temperature. The amplitude and the persistence time of this
violation are decreasing functions of frequency. Around it may persist
for several hours. The origin of this violation is a highly intermittent
dynamics characterized by large fluctuations a strongly non-Gaussian
statistics. The intermittent dynamics depends on the quenching rate and it
disappears after slow quenches. The relevance of these results for recent
models of aging are discussed.Comment: submitted to Physica
Intermittent quakes and record dynamics in the thermoremanent magnetization of a spin-glass
A novel method for analyzing the intermittent behavior of linear response
data in aging systems is presented and applied to spin-glass thermoremanent
magnetization (TRM) (Rodriguez et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 037203, 2003).
The probability density function (PDF) of magnetic fluctuations is shown to
have an asymmetric exponential tail, demonstrating that the demagnetization
process is carried by intermittent, significant, spin rearrangements or
\emph{quakes}. These quakes are most pronounced shortly after the field
removal, and in the non-equilibrium aging regime .
For a broad temperature range, we study the dependence of the TRM decay rate on
, the time since the initial quench and on , the time at which the
magnetic field is cut. The and dependence of the rate is extracted
numerically from the data and described analytically using the assumption that
the linear response is subordinated to the intermittent process which
spasmodically release the initial imbalances created by the quench.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures. The paper has been expanded and restructured, the
figures have been enlarged and improved. Final version, to appear in Phy.
Rev.
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