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Population inversion of driven two-level systems in a structureless bath
We derive a master equation for a driven double-dot damped by an unstructured
phonon bath, and calculate the spectral density. We find that bath mediated
photon absorption is important at relatively strong driving, and may even
dominate the dynamics, inducing population inversion of the double dot system.
This phenomenon is consistent with recent experimental observations.Comment: 4 Pages, Added Reference [30] to Dykman, 1979, available at
http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/dykman/pub/Sov.J.LowTemp.Phys_5.pd
Study of radiation hazards to man on extended near earth missions
Radiation hazards to man on extended near earth mission
First order phase transition in the anisotropic quantum orbital compass model
We investigate the anisotropic quantum orbital compass model on an infinite
square lattice by means of the infinite projected entangled-pair state
algorithm. For varying values of the and coupling constants of the
model, we approximate the ground state and evaluate quantities such as its
expected energy and local order parameters. We also compute adiabatic time
evolutions of the ground state, and show that several ground states with
different local properties coexist at . All our calculations are
fully consistent with a first order quantum phase transition at this point,
thus corroborating previous numerical evidence. Our results also suggest that
tensor network algorithms are particularly fitted to characterize first order
quantum phase transitions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, major revision with new result
Arkansas Cotton Variety Test 2004
The primary aim of the Arkansas Cotton Variety Test is to provide unbiased data regarding the agronomic performance of cotton varieties and advanced breeding lines in the major cotton-growing areas of Arkansas. This information helps seed dealers establish marketing strategies and assists producers in choosing varieties to plant
Symmetric extension in two-way quantum key distribution
We introduce symmetric extensions of bipartite quantum states as a tool for
analyzing protocols that distill secret key from quantum correlations. Whether
the correlations are coming from a prepare-and-measure quantum key distribution
scheme or from an entanglement-based scheme, the protocol has to produce
effective states without a symmetric extension in order to succeed. By
formulating the symmetric extension problem as a semidefinite program, we solve
the problem for Bell-diagonal states. Applying this result to the six-state and
BB84 schemes, we show that for the entangled states that cannot be distilled by
current key distillation procedures, the failure can be understood in terms of
a failure to break a symmetric extension.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures; v2: published version, hyperlinked reference
Supporting security-oriented, inter-disciplinary research: crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains
How many people have had a chronic disease for longer than 5-years in Scotland? How has this impacted upon their choices of employment? Are there any geographical clusters in Scotland where a high-incidence of patients with such long-term illness can be found? How does the life expectancy of such individuals compare with the national averages? Such questions are important to understand the health of nations and the best ways in which health care should be delivered and measured for their impact and success. In tackling such research questions, e-Infrastructures need to provide tailored, secure access to an extensible range of distributed resources including primary and secondary e-Health clinical data; social science data, and geospatial data sets amongst numerous others. In this paper we describe the security models underlying these e-Infrastructures and demonstrate their implementation in supporting secure, federated access to a variety of distributed and heterogeneous data sets exploiting the results of a variety of projects at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) at the University of Glasgow
Evolution and CNO yields of Z=10^-5 stars and possible effects on CEMP production
Our main goals are to get a deeper insight into the evolution and final fates
of intermediate-mass, extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars. We also aim to
investigate their C, N, and O yields. Using the Monash University Stellar
Evolution code we computed and analysed the evolution of stars of metallicity Z
= 10^-5 and masses between 4 and 9 M_sun, from their main sequence until the
late thermally pulsing (super) asymptotic giant branch, TP-(S)AGB phase. Our
model stars experience a strong C, N, and O envelope enrichment either due to
the second dredge-up, the dredge-out phenomenon, or the third dredge-up early
during the TP-(S)AGB phase. Their late evolution is therefore similar to that
of higher metallicity objects. When using a standard prescription for the mass
loss rates during the TP-(S)AGB phase, the computed stars lose most of their
envelopes before their cores reach the Chandrasekhar mass, so our standard
models do not predict the occurrence of SNI1/2 for Z = 10^-5 stars. However, we
find that the reduction of only one order of magnitude in the mass-loss rates,
which are particularly uncertain at this metallicity, would prevent the
complete ejection of the envelope, allowing the stars to either explode as an
SNI1/2 or become an electron-capture SN. Our calculations stop due to an
instability near the base of the convective envelope that hampers further
convergence and leaves remnant envelope masses between 0.25 M_sun for our 4
M_sun model and 1.5 M_sun for our 9 M_sun model. We present two sets of C, N,
and O yields derived from our full calculations and computed under two
different assumptions, namely, that the instability causes a practically
instant loss of the remnant envelope or that the stars recover and proceed with
further thermal pulses. Our results have implications for the early chemical
evolution of the Universe.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&
Study of the Distillability of Werner States Using Entanglement Witnesses and Robust Semidefinite Programs
We use Robust Semidefinite Programs and Entanglement Witnesses to study the
distillability of Werner states. We perform exact numerical calculations which
show 2-undistillability in a region of the state space which was previously
conjectured to be undistillable. We also introduce bases which yield
interesting expressions for the {\em distillability witnesses} and for a tensor
product of Werner states with arbitrary number of copies.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure
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