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Diamond electro-optomechanical resonators integrated in nanophotonic circuits
Diamond integrated photonic devices are promising candidates for emerging
applications in nanophotonics and quantum optics. Here we demonstrate active
modulation of diamond nanophotonic circuits by exploiting mechanical degrees of
freedom in free-standing diamond electro-optomechanical resonators. We obtain
high quality factors up to 9600, allowing us to read out the driven
nanomechanical response with integrated optical interferometers with high
sensitivity. We are able to excite higher order mechanical modes up to 115 MHz
and observe the nanomechanical response also under ambient conditions.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Evaporative Cooling of a Guided Rubidium Atomic Beam
We report on our recent progress in the manipulation and cooling of a
magnetically guided, high flux beam of atoms. Typically
atoms per second propagate in a magnetic guide providing a
transverse gradient of 800 G/cm, with a temperature K, at an
initial velocity of 90 cm/s. The atoms are subsequently slowed down to cm/s using an upward slope. The relatively high collision rate (5 s)
allows us to start forced evaporative cooling of the beam, leading to a
reduction of the beam temperature by a factor of ~4, and a ten-fold increase of
the on-axis phase-space density.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
High-Q optomechanical circuits made from polished nanocrystalline diamond thin films
We demonstrate integrated optomechanical circuits with high mechanical
quality factors prepared from nanocrystalline diamond thin films. Using
chemomechanical polishing, the RMS surface roughness of as grown
polycrystalline diamond films is reduced below 3nm to allow for the fabrication
of high-quality nanophotonic circuits. By integrating free-standing
nanomechanical resonators into integrated optical devices, efficient read-out
of the thermomechanical motion of diamond resonators is achieved with on-chip
Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Mechanical quality factors up to 28,800 are
measured for four-fold clamped optomechanical resonators coupled to the
evanescent near-field of nanophotonic waveguides. Our platform holds promise
for large-scale integration of optomechanical circuits for on-chip metrology
and sensing applications
The Machine Learning Landscape of Top Taggers
Based on the established task of identifying boosted, hadronically decaying
top quarks, we compare a wide range of modern machine learning approaches.
Unlike most established methods they rely on low-level input, for instance
calorimeter output. While their network architectures are vastly different,
their performance is comparatively similar. In general, we find that these new
approaches are extremely powerful and great fun.Comment: Yet another tagger included
Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant
The mean life of the positive muon has been measured to a precision of 11 ppm
using a low-energy, pulsed muon beam stopped in a ferromagnetic target, which
was surrounded by a scintillator detector array. The result, tau_mu =
2.197013(24) us, is in excellent agreement with the previous world average. The
new world average tau_mu = 2.197019(21) us determines the Fermi constant G_F =
1.166371(6) x 10^-5 GeV^-2 (5 ppm). Additionally, the precision measurement of
the positive muon lifetime is needed to determine the nucleon pseudoscalar
coupling g_P.Comment: As published version (PRL, July 2007
Разработка инструментов управленческого учета: опыт России и Франции
Объектом исследования является компания Mr.Bricolage, использующая информационную систему поддержки принятия решений для организации управленческого учета. Предметом исследования является информационный инструментарий управленческого учета на предприятии. Цель работы - разработка системы поддержки принятия управленческих решений посредством модели тестирования данных в рамках BI проекта для создания инструментария управленческого учета компании Mr.Bricolage.
В результате исследования была предложена модель тестирования данных в рамках BI-проекта по разработке инструментария управленческого учета компании Mr.Bricolage.L'objet de la recherche est la société Mr.Bricolage, qui utilise le système d'aide à la décision de l'information pour l'organisation de la comptabilité de gestion.
Le sujet de l'étude est l'outil d'information de la comptabilité de gestion dans l'entreprise.
Le but de la recherche est le développement de la gestion du système d'aide à la décision grâce à des tests de modèle de données au sein d'un projet BI de la création des outils informatiques du controle de gestion de Mr.Bricolage.
Le résultat de l'étude est un modèle de la recette de l'ensemble de données au sein de BI-projet chez Mr.Bricolage
Ab initio Pseudopotential Plane-wave Calculations of the Electronic Structure of YBa_2Cu_3O_7
We present an ab initio pseudopotential local density functional calculation
for stoichiometric high-Tc cuprate YBa_2Cu_3O_7 using the plane-wave basis set.
We have overcome well-known difficulties in applying pseudopotential methods to
first-row elements, transition metals, and rare-earth materials by carefully
generating norm-conserving pseudopotentials with excellent transferability and
employing an extremely efficient iterative diagonalization scheme optimized for
our purpose. The self-consistent band structures, the total and site-projected
densities of states, the partial charges and their symmetry-decompositions, and
some characteristic charge densities near E_f are presented. We compare our
results with various existing (F)LAPW and (F)LMTO calculations and establish
that the ab initio pseudopotential method is competitive with other methods in
studying the electronic structure of such complicated materials as high-Tc
cuprates. [8 postscript files in uuencoded compressed form]Comment: 14 pages, RevTeX v3.0, 8 figures (appended in postscript file), SNUTP
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