Efficient generation of graph states for quantum computation

We present an entanglement generation scheme which allows arbitrary graph states to be efficiently created in a linear quantum register via an auxiliary entangling bus. The dynamics of the entangling bus is described by an effective non-interacting fermionic system undergoing mirror-inversion in which qubits, encoded as local fermionic modes, become entangled purely by Fermi statistics. We discuss a possible implementation using two species of neutral atoms stored in an optical lattice and find that the scheme is realistic in its requirements even in the presence of noise.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTex 4; v2 - Major changes and new result

Evaluation of wood basic density as an indirect measurement of the volume of wood raw material

The manufacturing process of wood agglomerate integrates distinct unit that transforms wood raw material into wood agglomerate. The yield of wood agglomerate produced is influenced by the density and the quality of the initial raw material. This work has compared two distinct methodologies aimed at defining the yield of the process through an indirect measurement at the precursor material. Samples (logs of differentiated sizes) were collected immediately at the industry entrance and several parameters were measured. The logs basic density and the moisture content was annotated, through analysis of the corresponding dry and wet mass. Log bark percentage has estimated also at the level of dry and wet basis. These parameters were used to determine the wood volume from different provenance and species in the beginning of the industrial process. The results indicated that wasn’t a great difference between the two different methods to determine the wood basic density and the wood volume in m3. Principal components analysis was used to investigate the differences between different provenances and different species for the wood basic density, and we conclude there is a great variability in wood basic density for the hardwood species than the observed for the softwood and there isn’t a great variability between different provenances. We study too the difference off wood moisture that could be occurring before the evaluation of wood basic density

Unitary transformation approach for the trapped ion dynamics

We present a way of treating the problem of the interaction of a single trapped ion with laser beams based on successive aplications of unitary transformations onto the Hamiltonian. This allows the diagonalization of the Hamiltonian, by means of recursive relations, without performing the Lamb-Dicke approximation.Comment: 8 page

Beyond Counting: New Perspectives on the Active IPv4 Address Space

In this study, we report on techniques and analyses that enable us to capture Internet-wide activity at individual IP address-level granularity by relying on server logs of a large commercial content delivery network (CDN) that serves close to 3 trillion HTTP requests on a daily basis. Across the whole of 2015, these logs recorded client activity involving 1.2 billion unique IPv4 addresses, the highest ever measured, in agreement with recent estimates. Monthly client IPv4 address counts showed constant growth for years prior, but since 2014, the IPv4 count has stagnated while IPv6 counts have grown. Thus, it seems we have entered an era marked by increased complexity, one in which the sole enumeration of active IPv4 addresses is of little use to characterize recent growth of the Internet as a whole. With this observation in mind, we consider new points of view in the study of global IPv4 address activity. Our analysis shows significant churn in active IPv4 addresses: the set of active IPv4 addresses varies by as much as 25% over the course of a year. Second, by looking across the active addresses in a prefix, we are able to identify and attribute activity patterns to network restructurings, user behaviors, and, in particular, various address assignment practices. Third, by combining spatio-temporal measures of address utilization with measures of traffic volume, and sampling-based estimates of relative host counts, we present novel perspectives on worldwide IPv4 address activity, including empirical observation of under-utilization in some areas, and complete utilization, or exhaustion, in others.Comment: in Proceedings of ACM IMC 201

Aspectos climáticos da captação de água de chuva no Estado de Pernambuco.

Captação de água de chuva tem sido uma técnica popular em muitas partes do mundo, especialmente em regiões áridas e semi-áridas (que são aproximadamente 30% da superfície da terra). A captação de água de chuva é especialmente usada em áreas semi-áridas, onde a precipitação ocorre somente durante em alguns meses e em diferentes locais, como o semi-árido do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil. O governo brasileiro está construindo 1 milão de cisternas para fornecer água de beber para 1 milhão de famílias do Semi-Árido brasileiro. Em Pernambuco serão construidas 22% do total de cisternas. A variabilidade da precipitação no Estado é decisiva para determinar a área de captação ideal para o abastecimento das cisternas nas diferentes regiões do estado. Esse estudo usou dados de precipitação anual para o estado de Pernambuco. Foi estimada a ocorrência de probabilidade de chuva usando a Distribuição Normal de Probabilidade dos quantis. Os resultados mostraram que em anos normais, nas áreas mais secas do estado, a precipitação média foi 400 mm. Este valor deve ser considerado para escolha do tamanho da cisterna e da área de captação para diferentes regiões de estado. A cisterna construída pelo governo tem capacidade para armazenar 16m³, para isso, é necessária uma área de captação de 60m² para garantir a eficiência e o abastecimento de água nas regiões mais secas de Pernambuco, com garantia em 80% dos anos

Detecting hydroclimatic changes using spatio-temporal analysis in the sub-medium São Francisco-PE basin, Brazil.

The São Francisco river basin is the third largest drainage basin of Brazil and the only one entirely within its frontiers

On the multiplicity of the hyperelliptic integrals

Let $I(t)= \oint_{\delta(t)} \omega$ be an Abelian integral, where $H=y^2-x^{n+1}+P(x)$ is a hyperelliptic polynomial of Morse type, $\delta(t)$ a horizontal family of cycles in the curves $\{H=t\}$, and $\omega$ a polynomial 1-form in the variables $x$ and $y$. We provide an upper bound on the multiplicity of $I(t)$, away from the critical values of $H$. Namely: $ord\ I(t) \leq n-1+\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$if$\deg \omega <\deg H=n+1$. The reasoning goes as follows: we consider the analytic curve parameterized by the integrals along$\delta(t)$of the$n$``Petrov'' forms of$H$(polynomial 1-forms that freely generate the module of relative cohomology of$H$), and interpret the multiplicity of$I(t)$as the order of contact of$\gamma(t)$and a linear hyperplane of$\textbf C^ n$. Using the Picard-Fuchs system satisfied by$\gamma(t)$, we establish an algebraic identity involving the wronskian determinant of the integrals of the original form$\omega$along a basis of the homology of the generic fiber of$H$. The latter wronskian is analyzed through this identity, which yields the estimate on the multiplicity of$I(t)$. Still, in some cases, related to the geometry at infinity of the curves$\{H=t\} \subseteq \textbf C^2$, the wronskian occurs to be zero identically. In this alternative we show how to adapt the argument to a system of smaller rank, and get a nontrivial wronskian. For a form$\omega$of arbitrary degree, we are led to estimating the order of contact between$\gamma(t)$and a suitable algebraic hypersurface in$\textbf C^{n+1}$. We observe that$ord I(t)$grows like an affine function with respect to$\deg \omega$.Comment: 18 page