442 research outputs found
Three Dimensional Raman Cooling using Velocity Selective Rapid Adiabatic Passage
We present a new and efficient implementation of Raman cooling of trapped
atoms. It uses Raman pulses with an appropriate frequency chirp to realize a
velocity selective excitation through a rapid adiabatic passage. This method
allows to address in a single pulse a large number of non zero atomic velocity
classes and it produces a nearly unity transfer efficiency. We demonstrate this
cooling method using cesium atoms in a far-detuned crossed dipole trap.
Three-dimensional cooling of atoms down to K is
performed in 100 ms. In this preliminary experiment the final atomic density is
at/cm (within a factor of 2) and the phase-space
density increase over the uncooled sample is 20. Numerical simulations indicate
that temperatures below the single photon recoil temperature should be
achievable with this method.Comment: OSA TOPS on Ultracold Atoms and BEC 7 (1997) 5
Condensation Energy of a Spin-1/2 Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
We report a measurement of the condensation energy of a two-component Fermi
gas with tunable interactions. From the equation of state of the gas, we infer
the properties of the normal phase in the zero-temperature limit. By comparing
the pressure of the normal phase at T=0 to that of the low-temperature
superfluid phase, we deduce the condensation energy, i.e. the energy gain of
the system in being in the superfluid rather than normal state. We compare our
measurements to a ladder approximation description of the normal phase, and to
a fixed node Monte-Carlo approach, finding excellent agreement. We discuss the
relationship between condensation energy and pairing gap in the BEC-BCS
crossover.Comment: 4 figure
Gene Similarity-based Approaches for Determining Core-Genes of Chloroplasts
In computational biology and bioinformatics, the manner to understand
evolution processes within various related organisms paid a lot of attention
these last decades. However, accurate methodologies are still needed to
discover genes content evolution. In a previous work, two novel approaches
based on sequence similarities and genes features have been proposed. More
precisely, we proposed to use genes names, sequence similarities, or both,
insured either from NCBI or from DOGMA annotation tools. Dogma has the
advantage to be an up-to-date accurate automatic tool specifically designed for
chloroplasts, whereas NCBI possesses high quality human curated genes (together
with wrongly annotated ones). The key idea of the former proposal was to take
the best from these two tools. However, the first proposal was limited by name
variations and spelling errors on the NCBI side, leading to core trees of low
quality. In this paper, these flaws are fixed by improving the comparison of
NCBI and DOGMA results, and by relaxing constraints on gene names while adding
a stage of post-validation on gene sequences. The two stages of similarity
measures, on names and sequences, are thus proposed for sequence clustering.
This improves results that can be obtained using either NCBI or DOGMA alone.
Results obtained with this quality control test are further investigated and
compared with previously released ones, on both computational and biological
aspects, considering a set of 99 chloroplastic genomes.Comment: 4 pages, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine (BIBM 2014
Building a Chaotic Proven Neural Network
International audienceChaotic neural networks have received a great deal of attention these last years. In this paper we establish a precise correspondence between the so-called chaotic iterations and a particular class of artificial neural networks: global recurrent multi-layer perceptrons. We show formally that it is possible to make these iterations behave chaotically, as defined by Devaney, and thus we obtain the first neural networks proven chaotic. Several neural networks with different architectures are trained to exhibit a chaotical behavior
Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency ?
Atom interferometers allow the measurement of the acceleration of freely
falling atoms with respect to an experimental platform at rest on Earth's
surface. Such experiments have been used to test the universality of free fall
by comparing the acceleration of the atoms to that of a classical freely
falling object. In a recent paper, M\"uller, Peters and Chu [Nature {\bf 463},
926-929 (2010)] argued that atom interferometers also provide a very accurate
test of the gravitational redshift when considering the atom as a clock
operating at the Compton frequency associated with the rest mass. We analyze
this claim in the frame of general relativity and of different alternative
theories. We show that the difference of "Compton phases" between the two paths
of the interferometer is actually zero in a large class of theories, including
general relativity, all metric theories of gravity, most non-metric theories
and most theoretical frameworks used to interpret the violations of the
equivalence principle. Therefore, in most plausible theoretical frameworks,
there is no redshift effect and atom interferometers only test the universality
of free fall. We also show that frameworks in which atom interferometers would
test the redshift pose serious problems, such as (i) violation of the Schiff
conjecture, (ii) violation of the Feynman path integral formulation of quantum
mechanics and of the principle of least action for matter waves, (iii)
violation of energy conservation, and more generally (iv) violation of the
particle-wave duality in quantum mechanics. Standard quantum mechanics is no
longer valid in such frameworks, so that a consistent interpretation of the
experiment would require an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics. As
such an alternative has not been proposed to date, we conclude that the
interpretation of atom interferometers as testing the gravitational redshift is
unsound.Comment: 26 pages. Modified version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravit
Finding the Core-Genes of Chloroplasts
Due to the recent evolution of sequencing techniques, the number of available
genomes is rising steadily, leading to the possibility to make large scale
genomic comparison between sets of close species. An interesting question to
answer is: what is the common functionality genes of a collection of species,
or conversely, to determine what is specific to a given species when compared
to other ones belonging in the same genus, family, etc. Investigating such
problem means to find both core and pan genomes of a collection of species,
\textit{i.e.}, genes in common to all the species vs. the set of all genes in
all species under consideration. However, obtaining trustworthy core and pan
genomes is not an easy task, leading to a large amount of computation, and
requiring a rigorous methodology. Surprisingly, as far as we know, this
methodology in finding core and pan genomes has not really been deeply
investigated. This research work tries to fill this gap by focusing only on
chloroplastic genomes, whose reasonable sizes allow a deep study. To achieve
this goal, a collection of 99 chloroplasts are considered in this article. Two
methodologies have been investigated, respectively based on sequence
similarities and genes names taken from annotation tools. The obtained results
will finally be evaluated in terms of biological relevance
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