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Fractal Methods for Flaw Detection in NDE Imagery
Detection and measurement of flaws play a major role in an emerging âfail-safeâ philosophy of structural design and evaluation [1]. This philosophy allows the existence of flaws in parts in service but requires that the flaws be identified, measured and evaluated to determine if they could lead to catastrophic failure during the design life of the part. In this way greater use is made of the part, leading to considerable savings in materials and manufacturing costs. These savings come at the expense of the development of nondestructive inspection technologies that are required for flaw detection, identification and sizing
Quantum mechanical and quasiclassical investigation of the time domain nonadiabatic dynamics of NO2 close to the bottom of the X2A1-A2B2 conical intersection
We use the effective Hamiltonian that we recently fitted against the first
306 experimentally observed vibronic transitions of NO2 [J. Chem. Phys. 119,
5923 (2003)] to investigate the time domain nonadiabatic dynamics of this
molecule on the coupled X2A1 and A2B2 electronic states, using both quantum
mechanical and quasiclassical techniques. From the quantum mechanical point of
view, we show that the transfer of population to the electronic ground state
originating from a wave packet launched on the excited state occurs in a
stepwise fashion. The evolution of wave packets launched on the electronic
ground state is instead more complex because the crossing seam is located close
to the bottom of the electronic excited state. We next use the mapping
formalism, which replaces the discrete electronic degrees of freedom by
continuous ones, to obtain a classical description of the coupled electronic
states. We propagate gaussian swarms of trajectories to show that this approach
can be used to calculate the populations in each electronic state. We finally
propose a very simple trajectory surface hopping model, which assumes that
trajectories have a constant probability to jump onto the other state in a
particular region of the phase space and a null hopping probability outside
from this region. Quasiclassical calculations show that this model enables a
precise estimation of complex quantities, like for example the projection of
the instantaneous probability density on given planes.Comment: accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phy
Shifting Bordering and Rescue Practices in the Central Mediterranean Sea, October 2013âOctober 2015
This counterâmapping project illustrates the areas of intervention of different operations geared toward rescue and enforcement between 2013 and 2015, including the Italian Navy's âMare Nostrumâ search and rescue mission, the EU border agency Frontex's âTritonâ enforcement operation, the humanitarian interventions of commercial vessels, and the action of civilâsociety rescue vessels such as those operated by MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres (MSFâDoctors Without Borders). The project offers a spatial understanding of the Mediterranean borderâscape, the practices of rescue and enforcement that occur within it, and the risk of seaâcrossing at this particular moment. Through these maps, the Central Mediterranean Sea emerges as a striking laboratory from which novel legal arrangements, surveillance technologies, and institutional assemblages converge
Shifting Bordering and Rescue Practices in the Central Mediterranean Sea, October 2013-October 2015
This counterâmapping project illustrates the areas of intervention of different operations geared toward rescue and enforcement between 2013 and 2015, including the Italian Navy's âMare Nostrumâ search and rescue mission, the EU border agency Frontex's âTritonâ enforcement operation, the humanitarian interventions of commercial vessels, and the action of civilâsociety rescue vessels such as those operated by MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres (MSFâDoctors Without Borders). The project offers a spatial understanding of the Mediterranean borderâscape, the practices of rescue and enforcement that occur within it, and the risk of seaâcrossing at this particular moment. Through these maps, the Central Mediterranean Sea emerges as a striking laboratory from which novel legal arrangements, surveillance technologies, and institutional assemblages converge
Baryonic Operators for Lattice Simulations
The construction of baryonic operators for determining the N* excitation
spectrum is discussed. The operators are designed with one eye towards
maximizing overlaps with the low-lying states of interest, and the other eye
towards minimizing the number of sources needed in computing the required quark
propagators. Issues related to spin identification are outlined. Although we
focus on tri-quark baryon operators, the construction method is applicable to
both mesons and penta-quark operators.Comment: 3 pages, poster presented at Lattice2003(spectrum), Tsukuba, Japan,
July 15-19, 200
On the glueball spectrum in O(a)-improved lattice QCD
We calculate the light `glueball' mass spectrum in N_f=2 lattice QCD using a
fermion action that is non-perturbatively O(a) improved. We work at lattice
spacings a ~0.1 fm and with quark masses that range down to about half the
strange quark mass. We find the statistical errors to be moderate and under
control on relatively small ensembles. We compare our mass spectrum to that of
quenched QCD at the same value of a. Whilst the tensor mass is the same (within
errors), the scalar mass is significantly smaller in the dynamical lattice
theory, by a factor of ~(0.84 +/- 0.03). We discuss what the observed m_q
dependence of this suppression tells us about the dynamics of glueballs in QCD.
We also calculate the masses of flux tubes that wind around the spatial torus,
and extract the string tension from these. As we decrease the quark mass we see
a small but growing vacuum expectation value for the corresponding flux tube
operators. This provides clear evidence for `string breaking' and for the
(expected) breaking of the associated gauge centre symmetry by sea quarks.Comment: 33pp LaTeX. Version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Scattering Theory of Kondo Mirages and Observation of Single Kondo Atom Phase Shift
We explain the origin of the Kondo mirage seen in recent quantum corral
Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) experiments with a scattering theory of
electrons on the surfaces of metals. Our theory combined with experimental data
provides the first direct observation of a single Kondo atom phase shift. The
Kondo mirage at the empty focus of an elliptical quantum corral is shown to
arise from multiple electron bounces off the walls of the corral in a manner
analagous to the formation of a real image in optics. We demonstrate our theory
with direct quantitive comparision to experimental data.Comment: 13 pages; significant clarifications of metho
Correlation of fluctuating forces with the sound radiation from rigid flow spoilers
Effects of aerodynamic forces on jet engine noise from rigid flow spoiler
Extracting from small lattices: unquenched results
We calculate the response of the microscopic Dirac spectrum to an imaginary
isospin chemical potential for QCD with two dynamical flavors in the chiral
limit. This extends our previous calculation from the quenched to the
unquenched theory. The resulting spectral correlation function in the
-regime provides here, too, a new and efficient way to measure
on the lattice. We test the method in a hybrid Monte Carlo simulation
of the theory with two staggered quarks.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
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