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Disentanglement of two harmonic oscillators in relativistic motion
We study the dynamics of quantum entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt
detectors, one stationary (Alice), and another uniformly accelerating (Rob),
with no direct interaction but coupled to a common quantum field in (3+1)D
Minkowski space. We find that for all cases studied the initial entanglement
between the detectors disappears in a finite time ("sudden death"). After the
moment of total disentanglement the correlations between the two detectors
remain nonzero until late times. The relation between the disentanglement time
and Rob's proper acceleration is observer dependent. The larger the
acceleration is, the longer the disentanglement time in Alice's coordinate, but
the shorter in Rob's coordinate.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures; typos added, minor changes in Secs. I and
Design of Scalable Continuous Media Servers with Dynamic Replication
Multimedia applications place high demands for quality-of-service (QoS),
performance, and reliability on systems. These stringent requirements
make design of cost-effective and scalable systems difficult.
Therefore efficient adaptive and dynamic resource management techniques
in conjunction with data placement techniques can be of great help in
improving performance, scalability and reliability of such systems.
In this paper, we first focus on data placement.
In the recent past, a great deal of work has focused on "wide" data
striping as a way of dealing with load imbalance problems caused by
skews in data access patterns. Another approach to dealing with load imbalance
problems is replication. The appropriate compromise between the degree
of striping and the degree of replication is key to the design of
scalable continuous media (CM) servers. In this work we focus on evaluation
of this compromise in the context of a hybrid CM server design.
Changes in data access patterns lead to other questions:
(1) when should the system alter the number of copies of a CM object, and
(2) how to accomplish this change. We address (1) through an adaptive
threshold-based approach, and we use dynamic replication policies in
conjunction with a mathematical model of user behavior to address (2).
We do this without any knowledge of data access patterns and with
provisions for full use of VCR functionality. Through a performance
study, we show that not only does the use of this mathematical model
in conjunction with dynamic resource management policies improves the
system's performance but that it also facilitates reduced sensitivity
to changes in:(a) workload characteristics, (b) skewness of data access
patterns, and (c) frequency of changes in data access patterns.
We believe that not only is this a desirable property for a CM server,
in general, but that furthermore, it suggests the usefulness of these
techniques across a wide range of continuous media applications.
(Cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-2001-21
A simple variational approach to the quantum Frenkel-Kontorova model
We present a simple and complete variational approach to the one-dimensional
quantum Frenkel-Kontorova model. Dirac's time-dependent variational principle
is adopted together with a Hatree-type many-body trial wavefunction for the
atoms. The single-particle state is assumed to have the Jackiw-Kerman form. We
obtain an effective classical Hamiltonian for the system which is simple enough
for a complete numerical solution for the static ground state of the model.
Numerical results show that our simple approach captures the essence of the
quantum effects first observed in quantum Monte Carlo studies.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Inelastic diffraction and color-singlet gluon-clusters in high-energy hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron collisions
It is proposed, that ``the colorless objects'' which manifest themselves in
large-rapidity-gap events are color-singlet gluon-clusters due to
self-organized criticality (SOC), and that optical-geometrical concepts and
methods are useful in examing the space-time properties of such objects. A
simple analytical expression for the -dependence of the inelastic single
diffractive cross section ( is the four-momentum transfer
squared) is derived. Comparison with the existing data and predictions for
future experiments are presented. The main differences and similarities between
the SOC-approach and the ``Partons in the Pomeron (Pomeron and
Reggeon)''-approach are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Remote Data Retrieval for Bioinformatics Applications: An Agent Migration Approach
Some of the approaches have been developed to retrieve data automatically from one or multiple remote biological data sources. However, most of them require researchers to remain online and wait for returned results. The latter not only requires highly available network connection, but also may cause the network overload. Moreover, so far none of the existing approaches has been designed to address the following problems when retrieving the remote data in a mobile network environment: (1) the resources of mobile devices are limited; (2) network connection is relatively of low quality; and (3) mobile users are not always online. To address the aforementioned problems, we integrate an agent migration approach with a multi-agent system to overcome the high latency or limited bandwidth problem by moving their computations to the required resources or services. More importantly, the approach is fit for the mobile computing environments. Presented in this paper are also the system architecture, the migration strategy, as well as the security authentication of agent migration. As a demonstration, the remote data retrieval from GenBank was used to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed approach
Election turnout statistics in many countries: similarities, differences, and a diffusive field model for decision-making
We study in details the turnout rate statistics for 77 elections in 11
different countries. We show that the empirical results established in a
previous paper for French elections appear to hold much more generally. We find
in particular that the spatial correlation of turnout rates decay
logarithmically with distance in all cases. This result is quantitatively
reproduced by a decision model that assumes that each voter makes his mind as a
result of three influence terms: one totally idiosyncratic component, one
city-specific term with short-ranged fluctuations in space, and one long-ranged
correlated field which propagates diffusively in space. A detailed analysis
reveals several interesting features: for example, different countries have
different degrees of local heterogeneities and seem to be characterized by a
different propensity for individuals to conform to the cultural norm. We
furthermore find clear signs of herding (i.e. strongly correlated decisions at
the individual level) in some countries, but not in others.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, 7 table
Quantitative test of the barrier nucleosome model for statistical positioning of nucleosomes up- and downstream of transcription start sites
The positions of nucleosomes in eukaryotic genomes determine which parts of
the DNA sequence are readily accessible for regulatory proteins and which are
not. Genome-wide maps of nucleosome positions have revealed a salient pattern
around transcription start sites, involving a nucleosome-free region (NFR)
flanked by a pronounced periodic pattern in the average nucleosome density.
While the periodic pattern clearly reflects well-positioned nucleosomes, the
positioning mechanism is less clear. A recent experimental study by Mavrich et
al. argued that the pattern observed in S. cerevisiae is qualitatively
consistent with a `barrier nucleosome model', in which the oscillatory pattern
is created by the statistical positioning mechanism of Kornberg and Stryer. On
the other hand, there is clear evidence for intrinsic sequence preferences of
nucleosomes, and it is unclear to what extent these sequence preferences affect
the observed pattern. To test the barrier nucleosome model, we quantitatively
analyze yeast nucleosome positioning data both up- and downstream from NFRs.
Our analysis is based on the Tonks model of statistical physics which
quantifies the interplay between the excluded-volume interaction of nucleosomes
and their positional entropy. We find that although the typical patterns on the
two sides of the NFR are different, they are both quantitatively described by
the same physical model, with the same parameters, but different boundary
conditions. The inferred boundary conditions suggest that the first nucleosome
downstream from the NFR (the +1 nucleosome) is typically directly positioned
while the first nucleosome upstream is statistically positioned via a
nucleosome-repelling DNA region. These boundary conditions, which can be
locally encoded into the genome sequence, significantly shape the statistical
distribution of nucleosomes over a range of up to ~1000 bp to each side.Comment: includes supporting materia
Transcriptional regulation of human eosinophil RNases by an evolutionary- conserved sequence motif in primate genome
Porosity and hole diameter tuning on nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide membranes by one-step anodization
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