Asymptotic Entanglement Dynamics and Geometry of Quantum States

A given dynamics for a composite quantum system can exhibit several distinct properties for the asymptotic entanglement behavior, like entanglement sudden death, asymptotic death of entanglement, sudden birth of entanglement, etc. A classification of the possible situations was given in [M. O. Terra Cunha, {\emph{New J. Phys}} {\bf{9}}, 237 (2007)] but for some classes there were no known examples. In this work we give a better classification for the possibile relaxing dynamics at the light of the geometry of their set of asymptotic states and give explicit examples for all the classes. Although the classification is completely general, in the search of examples it is sufficient to use two qubits with dynamics given by differential equations in Lindblad form (some of them non-autonomous). We also investigate, in each case, the probabilities to find each possible behavior for random initial states.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; revised version accepted for publication in J. Phys. A: Math. Theo

A importância da verificação das sondas na secagem industrial de madeira

Comunicação apresentada no 4.º Congresso Florestal Nacional que decorreu em Évora em 2001.A grande vantagem da secagem artificial é permitir obter madeira com um teor de água mais adequado para o fim a que se destina, o que nem sempre é possível na secagem natural. No entanto, nunca devemos deixar de ter presente que a madeira é um material higroscópico, anisotrópico e heterogéneo, e portanto, a homogeneidade final pretendida é muito difícil de obter. Como as condições dos secadores são normalmente estabelecidas em função da humidade da madeira em secagem, e os programas prevêem um número relativamente elevado de alterações nas variáveis envolvidas no processo, torna-se necessário estimar frequentemente o teor de humidade da madeira. Portanto essas estimativas devem ser ao mesmo tempo precisas e práticas. Verificou-se, através do teste de Scheffe a 95% de confiança, que a secagem dentro da mesma peça de madeira não é homogénea para valores iguais ou inferiores a 12%, sendo necessário efectuar a leitura em vários pontos da mesma. Para valores de 14% e 15% não existem diferenças significativas do teor em água ao longa da peça. Efectuou-se um estudo preliminar onde se pretende comprovar a importância da posição da colocação das sondas na madeira, e também tentar aplicar as normas europeias às dificuldades existentes em Portugal

The Geometry of Entanglement Sudden Death

In open quantum systems, entanglement can vanish faster than coherence. This phenomenon is usually called sudden death of entanglement. In this paper sudden death of entanglement is discussed from a geometrical point of view, in the context of two qubits. A classification of possible scenarios is presented, with important known examples classified. Theoretical and experimental construction of other examples is suggested as well as large dimensional and multipartite versions of the effect.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, references added, initial paragraph corrected, sectioning adopted, some parts rewritten; accepted by New J. Phy

Kiln dry probes verification for maritime pine and eucalyptus wood

Comunicação apresentada na 8th International IUFRO Wood Drying Conference, que decorreu de 28 a 29 de Agosto em Brasov na Roménia.Proper technical drying is a condition for processing sawn timber into high quality products. The drying process is a phase with an extreme importance in wood transformation process, because it gives a significant improvement to the characteristics of workability, prevents damage during transport and insects or fungi attack (Tsoumis, 1991; Walker, 1993). One of the most critical and important phases in the kiln dry is the perfect knowledge of moisture evolution in wood that is drying and is given by the probes measures. Therefore, it became necessary estimate frequently the wood moisture content, which should be at the same time accurate and practical. The objective of the present study is to verify the fiability of the data given by different probes types, and between the values given by this and the ones obtains by laboratory. This work was done in 2 different industrial dryers and in a laboratory dryer. There were executed several simple regression analysis to evaluated the existent relation between this ones and the ones obtain in laboratory; it was observed that to values until 30% of moisture it exist a strong correlation between this two parameters but the same it wasn’t observed to higher moisture contents. It was made the confrontation between the result obtain in Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) and Eucalyptus (Eucaliptus globulus), and it was observed that the probes can evaluated the moisture content with higher accuracy in pine comparing with eucalyptus. So, it is necessary have some caution when the probes are disconnected, during the kiln dry process, specially to moisture content values are higher then 30%, because the values given by them are some times liable to error