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Heating and thermal squeezing in parametrically-driven oscillators with added noise
In this paper we report a theoretical model based on Green functions, Floquet
theory and averaging techniques up to second order that describes the dynamics
of parametrically-driven oscillators with added thermal noise. Quantitative
estimates for heating and quadrature thermal noise squeezing near and below the
transition line of the first parametric instability zone of the oscillator are
given. Furthermore, we give an intuitive explanation as to why heating and
thermal squeezing occur. For small amplitudes of the parametric pump the
Floquet multipliers are complex conjugate of each other with a constant
magnitude. As the pump amplitude is increased past a threshold value in the
stable zone near the first parametric instability, the two Floquet multipliers
become real and have different magnitudes. This creates two different effective
dissipation rates (one smaller and the other larger than the real dissipation
rate) along the stable manifolds of the first-return Poincare map. We also show
that the statistical average of the input power due to thermal noise is
constant and independent of the pump amplitude and frequency. The combination
of these effects cause most of heating and thermal squeezing. Very good
agreement between analytical and numerical estimates of the thermal
fluctuations is achieved.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. E, 29 pages, 12 figures. arXiv admin note:
substantial text overlap with arXiv:1108.484
Hidden unity in the quantum description of matter
We introduce an algebraic framework for interacting quantum systems that
enables studying complex phenomena, characterized by the coexistence and
competition of various broken symmetry states of matter. The approach unveils
the hidden unity behind seemingly unrelated physical phenomena, thus
establishing exact connections between them. This leads to the fundamental
concept of {\it universality} of physical phenomena, a general concept not
restricted to the domain of critical behavior. Key to our framework is the
concept of {\it languages} and the construction of {\it dictionaries} relating
them.Comment: 10 pages 2 psfigures. Appeared in Recent Progress in Many-Body
Theorie
Renormalization of chiral nuclear forces with multiple subtractions in peripheral channels
We analyse the renormalization of the of two-nucleon interaction with
multiple subtractions in peripheral waves considering two chiral forces at
N3LO. Phase shifts at low energies are then computed with several subtraction
points below \mu = 10 / fm. We show that for most peripheral waves the phase
shifts have nearly no dependence on the renormalization scale. In two cases the
phase shifts converge slowly as the renormalization scale approaches \mu = 1 /
fm and in one case the phase shifts presented oscillations with respect to the
subtraction point \mu.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures, to appear in the special issue "Few-Body
Systems in High Energy Physics" (AHEP
Contractions: to align or not to align, that is the question
This paper performs a detailed analysis on the alignment of Portuguese contractions, based on a previously aligned bilingual corpus. The alignment task was performed manually in a subset of the English-Portuguese CLUE4Translation Alignment Collection. The initial parallel corpus was pre-processed and a decision was made as to whether the contraction should be maintained or decomposed in the alignment. Decomposition was required in the cases in which the two words that have been concatenated, i.e., the preposition and the determiner or pronoun, go in two separate translation alignment pairs (PT - [no seio de] [a União Europeia] EN - [within] [the European Union]). Most contractions required decomposition in contexts where they are positioned at the end of a multiword unit. On the other hand, contractions tend to be maintained when they occur at the beginning or in the middle of the multiword unit, i.e., in the frozen part of the multiword (PT - [no que diz respeito a] EN - [with regard to] or PT - [além disso] EN - [in addition]. A correct alignment of multiwords and phrasal units containing contractions is instrumental for machine translation, paraphrasing, and variety adaptationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Machine translation of non-contiguous multiword units
Non-adjacent linguistic phenomena such as non-contiguous multiwords and other phrasal units containing insertions, i.e., words that are not part of the unit, are difficult to process and remain a problem for NLP applications. Non-contiguous multiword units are common across languages and constitute some of the most important challenges to high quality machine translation. This paper presents an empirical analysis of non-contiguous multiwords, and highlights our use of the Logos Model and the Semtab function to deploy semantic knowledge to align non-contiguous multiword units with the goal to translate these units with high fidelity. The phrase level manual alignments illustrated in the paper were produced with the CLUE-Aligner, a Cross-Language Unit Elicitation alignment tool.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
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