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Entanglement versus mixedness for coupled qubits under a phase damping channel
Quantification of entanglement against mixing is given for a system of
coupled qubits under a phase damping channel. A family of pure initial joint
states is defined, ranging from pure separable states to maximally entangled
state. An ordering of entanglement measures is given for well defined initial
state amount of entanglement.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures. Replaced with final published versio
Late-Time Tails of Wave Propagation in Higher Dimensional Spacetimes
We study the late-time tails appearing in the propagation of massless fields
(scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational) in the vicinities of a
D-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole. We find that at late times the fields
always exhibit a power-law falloff, but the power-law is highly sensitive to
the dimensionality of the spacetime. Accordingly, for odd D>3 we find that the
field behaves as t^[-(2l+D-2)] at late times, where l is the angular index
determining the angular dependence of the field. This behavior is entirely due
to D being odd, it does not depend on the presence of a black hole in the
spacetime. Indeed this tails is already present in the flat space Green's
function. On the other hand, for even D>4 the field decays as t^[-(2l+3D-8)],
and this time there is no contribution from the flat background. This power-law
is entirely due to the presence of the black hole. The D=4 case is special and
exhibits, as is well known, the t^[-(2l+3)] behavior. In the extra dimensional
scenario for our Universe, our results are strictly correct if the extra
dimensions are infinite, but also give a good description of the late time
behaviour of any field if the large extra dimensions are large enough.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4. Version to appear in Rapid
Communications of Physical Review
Automatic speaker segmentation using multiple features and distance measures: a comparison of three approaches
This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised speaker change detection. Three systems based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) are tested. The first system investigates the AudioSpectrumCentroid and the AudioWaveformEnvelope features, implements a dynamic thresholding followed by a fusion scheme, and finally applies BIC. The second method is a real-time one that uses a metric-based approach employing the line spectral pairs and the BIC to validate a potential speaker change point. The third method consists of three modules. In the first module, a measure based on second-order statistics is used; in the second module, the Euclidean distance and T2 Hotelling statistic are applied; and in the third module, the BIC is utilized. The experiments are carried out on a dataset created by concatenating speakers from the TIMIT database, that is referred to as the TIMIT data set. A comparison between the performance of the three systems is made based on t-statistics
Quasinormal modes of d-dimensional spherical black holes with a near extreme cosmological constant
We derive an expression for the quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations in
near extreme d-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Reissner-Nordstrom-de
Sitter black holes. We show that, in the near extreme limit, the dynamics of
the scalar field is characterized by a Poschl-Teller effective potential. The
results are qualitatively independent of the spacetime dimension and field
mass.Comment: 5 pages, REVTeX4, version to be published in Physical Review
High pressure high temperature (HPHT) synthesis and magnetization of Magneto-Superconducting RuSr2(LnCe2)Cu2O12.25 (Ru-1232) compounds (Ln = Y and Dy)
RuSr2(LnCe2)Cu2O12.25 (Ru-1232) compounds with Ln = Y and Dy being
synthesized by high pressure high temperature (6GPa, 12000C) solid state
synthesis route do crystallize in space group P4/mmm in near single phase form
with small quantities of SrRuO3 and RuSr2(RE1.5Ce0.5)Cu2O10 (Ru-1222). Both
samples exhibit magnetic transitions (Tmag.) at ~90 K with significant
branching of zfc (zero-field-cooled) and fc (field-cooled) magnetization and a
sharp cusp in zfc at ~ 70 K, followed by superconducting transitions at ~ 30 K.
Both compounds show typical ferromagnetic hysteresis loops in magnetic moment
(M) versus field (H) magnetization right upto Tmag. i.e. < 90K. To our
knowledge these are the first successfully synthesized Ru-1232 compounds in
near single phase with lanthanides including Y and Dy. The results are compared
with widely reported Gd/Ru-1222 and Ru-1212 (RuSr2GdCu2O8) compounds. In
particular, it seems that the Ru moments magnetic ordering temperature (Tmag.)
scales with the c-direction distance between magnetic RuO6 octahedras in
Ru-1212/1222 or 1232 systems.Comment: 15 pages of TEXT and Fig
Nernst branes from special geometry
We construct new black brane solutions in gauged
supergravity with a general cubic prepotential, which have entropy density
as and thus satisfy the Nernst Law. By using
the real formulation of special geometry, we are able to obtain analytical
solutions in closed form as functions of two parameters, the temperature
and the chemical potential . Our solutions interpolate between
hyperscaling violating Lifshitz geometries with at the
horizon and at infinity. In the zero temperature limit,
where the entropy density goes to zero, we recover the extremal Nernst branes
of Barisch et al, and the parameters of the near horizon geometry change to
.Comment: 37 pages. v2: numerical pre-factors of scalar fields q_A corrected in
Section 3. No changes to conclusions. References adde
Numerical analysis of quasinormal modes in nearly extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes
We calculate high-order quasinormal modes with large imaginary frequencies
for electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations in nearly extremal
Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes. Our results show that for low-order
quasinormal modes, the analytical approximation formula in the extremal limit
derived by Cardoso and Lemos is a quite good approximation for the quasinormal
frequencies as long as the model parameter is small enough, where
and are the black hole horizon radius and the surface gravity,
respectively. For high-order quasinormal modes, to which corresponds
quasinormal frequencies with large imaginary parts, on the other hand, this
formula becomes inaccurate even for small values of . We also find
that the real parts of the quasinormal frequencies have oscillating behaviors
in the limit of highly damped modes, which are similar to those observed in the
case of a Reissner-Nordstr{\" o}m black hole. The amplitude of oscillating
as a function of approaches a non-zero
constant value for gravitational perturbations and zero for electromagnetic
perturbations in the limit of highly damped modes, where denotes the
quasinormal frequency. This means that for gravitational perturbations, the
real part of quasinormal modes of the nearly extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter
spacetime appears not to approach any constant value in the limit of highly
damped modes. On the other hand, for electromagnetic perturbations, the real
part of frequency seems to go to zero in the limit.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Physical Review
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