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Quantum field and uniformly accelerated oscillator
We present an exact treatment of the influences on a quantum scalar field in
its Minkowski vacuum state induced by coupling of the field to a uniformly
accelerated harmonic oscillator. We show that there are no radiation from the
oscillator in the point of view of a uniformly accelerating observer. On the
other hand, there are radiations in the point of view of an inertial observer.
It is shown that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) like correlations of Rindler
particles in Minkowski vacuum states are modified by a phase factor in front of
the momentum-symmetric Rindler operators. The exact quantization of a
time-dependent oscillator coupled to a massless scalar field was given.Comment: 28 pages, LaTe
Miniature mobile sensor platforms for condition monitoring of structures
In this paper, a wireless, multisensor inspection system for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of materials is described. The sensor configuration enables two inspection modes-magnetic (flux leakage and eddy current) and noncontact ultrasound. Each is designed to function in a complementary manner, maximizing the potential for detection of both surface and internal defects. Particular emphasis is placed on the generic architecture of a novel, intelligent sensor platform, and its positioning on the structure under test. The sensor units are capable of wireless communication with a remote host computer, which controls manipulation and data interpretation. Results are presented in the form of automatic scans with different NDE sensors in a series of experiments on thin plate structures. To highlight the advantage of utilizing multiple inspection modalities, data fusion approaches are employed to combine data collected by complementary sensor systems. Fusion of data is shown to demonstrate the potential for improved inspection reliability
Development of a CCD for ultraviolet imaging using a CCD photocathode combination
CCD in the electron-in mode, coupled with a bi-alkali photocathode to produce UV photon conversion, provides the following desirable features: (1) high UV response of the bi-alkali photocathode; (2) excellent imaging quality of a CCD area array; and (3) high signal-to-noise ratio due to the EBS (electron bombarded silicon) gain of the CCD operating in a tube configuration. This paper describes the rationale and progress made in developing a CCD for use as an UV imager
Black plane solutions in four dimensional spacetimes
The static, plane symmetric solutions and cylindrically symmetric solutions
of Einstein-Maxwell equations with a negative cosmological constant are
investigated. These black configurations are asymptotically anti-de Sitter not
only in the transverse directions, but also in the membrane or string
directions. Their causal structure is similar to that of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m
black holes, but their Hawking temperature goes with , where is
the ADM mass density. We also discuss the static plane solutions in
Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity with a Liouville-type dilaton potential. The
presence of the dilaton field changes drastically the structure of solutions.
They are asymptotically ``anti-de Sitter'' or ``de Sitter'' depending on the
parameters in the theory.Comment: 8 pages, RevTex, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Radiation from a uniformly accelerating harmonic oscillator
We consider a radiation from a uniformly accelerating harmonic oscillator
whose minimal coupling to the scalar field changes suddenly. The exact time
evolutions of the quantum operators are given in terms of a classical solution
of a forced harmonic oscillator. After the jumping of the coupling constant
there occurs a fast absorption of energy into the oscillator, and then a slow
emission follows. Here the absorbed energy is independent of the acceleration
and proportional to the log of a high momentum cutoff of the field. The emitted
energy depends on the acceleration and also proportional to the log of the
cutoff. Especially, if the coupling is comparable to the natural frequency of
the detector () enormous energies are radiated away
from the oscillator.Comment: 26 pages, 1 eps figure, RevTeX, minor correction in grammar, add a
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Budget feasible mechanisms on matroids
Motivated by many practical applications, in this paper we study budget feasible mechanisms where the goal is to procure independent sets from matroids. More specifically, we are given a matroid =(,) where each ground (indivisible) element is a selfish agent. The cost of each element (i.e., for selling the item or performing a service) is only known to the element itself. There is a buyer with a budget having additive valuations over the set of elements E. The goal is to design an incentive compatible (truthful) budget feasible mechanism which procures an independent set of the matroid under the given budget that yields the largest value possible to the buyer. Our result is a deterministic, polynomial-time, individually rational, truthful and budget feasible mechanism with 4-approximation to the optimal independent set. Then, we extend our mechanism to the setting of matroid intersections in which the goal is to procure common independent sets from multiple matroids. We show that, given a polynomial time deterministic blackbox that returns -approximation solutions to the matroid intersection problem, there exists a deterministic, polynomial time, individually rational, truthful and budget feasible mechanism with (3+1) -approximation to the optimal common independent set
Rotating Black Holes at Future Colliders. III. Determination of Black Hole Evolution
TeV scale gravity scenario predicts that the black hole production dominates
over all other interactions above the scale and that the Large Hadron Collider
will be a black hole factory. Such higher dimensional black holes mainly decay
into the standard model fields via the Hawking radiation whose spectrum can be
computed from the greybody factor. Here we complete the series of our work by
showing the greybody factors and the resultant spectra for the brane localized
spinor and vector field emissions for arbitrary frequencies. Combining these
results with the previous works, we determine the complete radiation spectra
and the subsequent time evolution of the black hole. We find that, for a
typical event, well more than half a black hole mass is emitted when the hole
is still highly rotating, confirming our previous claim that it is important to
take into account the angular momentum of black holes.Comment: typoes in eqs(82)-(84) corrected; version to appear in Phys. Rev. D;
references and a footnote added; same manuscript with high resolution
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