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Electron Band Structure in a Two Dimensional Periodic Magnetic Field
In this paper we study the energy spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas
(2DEG) in a two dimensional periodic magnetic field. Both a square magnetic
lattice and a triangular one are considered. We consider the general case where
the magnetic field in a cell can be of any shape. A general feature of the band
structure is bandwidth oscillation as a function of the Landau index. A
triangular magnetic lattice on a 2DEG can be realized by the vortex lattice of
a superconductor film coated on top of a heterojunction. Our calculation
indicates a way of relating the energy spectrum of the 2DEG to the vortex
structure. We have also derived conditions under which the effects of a weak
magnetic modulation, periodic or not, may be reproduced by an electric
potential modulation, and vice versa.Comment: 16 pages in TeX and 5 uuencoded figure
Adaptive just-in-time code diversification
We present a method to regenerate diversified code dynamically in a Java bytecode JIT compiler, and to update the diversification frequently during the execution of the program. This way, we can significantly reduce the time frame in which attackers can let a program leak useful address space information and subsequently use the leaked information in memory exploits. A proof of concept implementation is evaluated, showing that even though code is recompiled frequently, we can achieved smaller overheads than the previous state of the art, which generated diversity only once during the whole execution of a program
Co-movements of Shanghai and New York Stock prices by time-varying regressions
We estimate a time-varying regression model to study the relationship between returns in the Shanghai and New York stock markets, with possible inclusion of lagged returns. The parameters of the regressions reveal that the effect of the current stock return for New York on that for Shanghai steadily increases after the 1997 Asian financial crisis and turns significantly and persistently positive after 2002, when China entered WTO. The effect of the current return for Shanghai on New York also becomes significantly positive and increasing after 2002. The upward trend has been interrupted during the recent global financial crisis, but reaches the level of about 0.4 to 0.5 in 2010 for both markets. Our results show that China’s stock market has become more and more integrated into the world market in the past twenty years, with interruptions occurring during the recent global economic downturn.China; globalization; rate of return; stock markets; time-varying parameter regression
Relay Assisted Cooperative OSTBC Communication with SNR Imbalance and Channel Estimation Errors
In this paper, a two-hop relay assisted cooperative Orthogonal Space-Time
Block Codes (OSTBC) transmission scheme is considered for the downlink
communication of a cellular system, where the base station (BS) and the relay
station (RS) cooperate and transmit data to the user equipment (UE) in a
distributed fashion. We analyze the impact of the SNR imbalance between the
BS-UE and RS-UE links, as well as the imperfect channel estimation at the UE
receiver. The performance is analyzed in the presence of Rayleigh flat fading
and our results show that the SNR imbalance does not impact the spatial
diversity order. On the other hand, channel estimation errors have a larger
impact on the system performance. Simulation results are then provided to
confirm the analysis.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conferenc
Two qubit copying machine for economical quantum eavesdropping
We study the mapping which occurs when a single qubit in an arbitrary state
interacts with another qubit in a given, fixed state resulting in some unitary
transformation on the two qubit system which, in effect, makes two copies of
the first qubit. The general problem of the quality of the resulting copies is
discussed using a special representation, a generalization of the usual Schmidt
decomposition, of an arbitrary two-dimensional subspace of a tensor product of
two 2-dimensional Hilbert spaces. We exhibit quantum circuits which can
reproduce the results of any two qubit copying machine of this type. A simple
stochastic generalization (using a ``classical'' random signal) of the copying
machine is also considered. These copying machines provide simple embodiments
of previously proposed optimal eavesdropping schemes for the BB84 and B92
quantum cryptography protocols.Comment: Minor changes. 26 pages RevTex including 7 PS figure
Separable states and the geometric phases of an interacting two-spin system
It is known that an interacting bipartite system evolves as an entangled
state in general, even if it is initially in a separable state. Due to the
entanglement of the state, the geometric phase of the system is not equal to
the sum of the geometric phases of its two subsystems. However, there may exist
a set of states in which the nonlocal interaction does not affect the
separability of the states, and the geometric phase of the bipartite system is
then always equal to the sum of the geometric phases of its subsystems. In this
paper, we illustrate this point by investigating a well known physical model.
We give a necessary and sufficient condition in which a separable state remains
separable so that the geometric phase of the system is always equal to the sum
of the geometric phases of its subsystems.Comment: 13 page
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