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Kinetics of Open Circuit Processes in Undischarged Li/SOC12 Cells
The kinetics of the heat producing processes in undischarged Li/SOCl2 cells under open circuit conditions were measured by heat-conduction microcalorimetry. The cells studied, Honeywell type G2666 reserve cells, were activated as needed and the rate of open circuit heat output determined as a function of time since activation and temperature. The results at each temperature can be described by an equation of the form q = Bktx where q is the rate of heat output, B is the heat produced per unit of reaction, k and x are empirical constants, and t is the time since activation. Both x and k are found to be functions of temperature; therefore, accelerated testing at elevated temperatures is probably not valid for these cells until the processes involved are better understood
Inequalities for quantum skew information
We study quantum information inequalities and show that the basic inequality
between the quantum variance and the metric adjusted skew information generates
all the multi-operator matrix inequalities or Robertson type determinant
inequalities studied by a number of authors. We introduce an order relation on
the set of functions representing quantum Fisher information that renders the
set into a lattice with an involution. This order structure generates new
inequalities for the metric adjusted skew informations. In particular, the
Wigner-Yanase skew information is the maximal skew information with respect to
this order structure in the set of Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew informations.
Key words and phrases: Quantum covariance, metric adjusted skew information,
Robertson-type uncertainty principle, operator monotone function,
Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information
Fast data parallel polygon rendering
Journal ArticleThis paper describes a data parallel method for polygon rendering on a massively parallel machine. This method, based on a simple shading model, is targeted for applications which require very fast rendering for extremely large sets of polygons. Such sets are found in many scienti c visualization applications. The renderer can handle arbitrarily complex polygons which need not be meshed. Issues involving load balancing are addressed and a data parallel load balancing algorithm is presented. The rendering and load balancing algorithms are implemented on both the CM-200 and the CM-5. Experimental results are presented. This rendering toolkit enables a scientist to display 3D shaded polygons directly from a parallel machine avoiding the transmission of huge amounts of data to a post-processing rendering system
Probing the Binary Black Hole Merger Regime with Scalar Perturbations
We present results obtained by scattering a scalar field off the curved
background of a coalescing binary black hole system. A massless scalar field is
evolved on a set of fixed backgrounds, each provided by a spatial hypersurface
generated numerically during a binary black hole merger. We show that the
scalar field scattered from the merger region exhibits quasinormal ringing once
a common apparent horizon surrounds the two black holes. This occurs earlier
than the onset of the perturbative regime as measured by the start of the
quasinormal ringing in the gravitational waveforms. We also use the scalar
quasinormal frequencies to associate a mass and a spin with each hypersurface,
and observe the compatibility of this measure with the horizon mass and spin
computed from the dynamical horizon framework.Comment: 10 Pages and 6 figure
Classical Disordered Ground States: Super-Ideal Gases, and Stealth and Equi-Luminous Materials
Using a collective coordinate numerical optimization procedure, we construct
ground-state configurations of interacting particle systems in various space
dimensions so that the scattering of radiation exactly matches a prescribed
pattern for a set of wave vectors. We show that the constructed ground states
are, counterintuitively, disordered (i.e., possess no long-range order) in the
infinite-volume limit. We focus on three classes of configurations with unique
radiation scattering characteristics: (i)``stealth'' materials, which are
transparent to incident radiation at certain wavelengths; (ii)``super-ideal''
gases, which scatter radiation identically to that of an ensemble of ideal gas
configurations for a selected set of wave vectors; and (iii)``equi-luminous''
materials, which scatter radiation equally intensely for a selected set of wave
vectors. We find that ground-state configurations have an increased tendency to
contain clusters of particles as one increases the prescribed luminosity.
Limitations and consequences of this procedure are detailed.Comment: 44 pages, 16 figures, revtek
Computational probes of molecular motion in the Lewis and Whanstrom model for ortho-terphenyl
We use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate translational and
rotational diffusion in a rigid three-site model of the fragile glass former
ortho-terphenyl, at 260 K < T < 346 K and ambient pressure. An Einstein
formulation of rotational motion is presented, which supplements the
commonly-used Debye model. The latter is shown to break down at supercooled
temperatures as the mechanism of molecular reorientation changes from small
random steps to large infrequent orientational jumps. We find that the model
system exhibits non-Gaussian behavior in translational and rotational motion,
which strengthens upon supercooling. Examination of particle mobility reveals
spatially heterogeneous dynamics in translation and rotation, with a strong
spatial correlation between translationally and rotationally mobile particles.
Application of the Einstein formalism to the analysis of translation-rotation
decoupling results in a trend opposite to that seen in conventional approaches
based on the Debye formalism, namely an enhancement in the effective rate of
rotational motion relative to translation upon supercooling.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl
Metric adjusted skew information: Convexity and restricted forms of superadditivity
We give a truly elementary proof of the convexity of metric adjusted skew
information following an idea of Effros. We extend earlier results of weak
forms of superadditivity to general metric adjusted skew informations.
Recently, Luo and Zhang introduced the notion of semi-quantum states on a
bipartite system and proved superadditivity of the Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
informations for such states. We extend this result to general metric adjusted
skew informations. We finally show that a recently introduced extension to
parameter values of the WYD-information is a special case of
(unbounded) metric adjusted skew information.Comment: An error in the literature is pointed ou
Continuous Damage Fiber Bundle Model for Strongly Disordered Materials
We present an extension of the continuous damage fiber bundle model to
describe the gradual degradation of highly heterogeneous materials under an
increasing external load. Breaking of a fiber in the model is preceded by a
sequence of partial failure events occurring at random threshold values. In
order to capture the subsequent propagation and arrest of cracks, furthermore,
the disorder of the number of degradation steps of material constituents, the
failure thresholds of single fibers are sorted into ascending order and their
total number is a Poissonian distributed random variable over the fibers.
Analytical and numerical calculations showed that the failure process of the
system is governed by extreme value statistics, which has a substantial effect
on the macroscopic constitutive behaviour and on the microscopic bursting
activity as well.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figure
Exact analytical solution of the collapse of self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations at zero temperature
We provide an exact analytical solution of the collapse dynamics of
self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations at zero
temperature. These systems are described by the Smoluchowski-Poisson system or
Keller-Segel model in which the diffusion term is neglected. As a result, the
dynamics is purely deterministic. A cold system undergoes a gravitational
collapse leading to a finite time singularity: the central density increases
and becomes infinite in a finite time t_coll. The evolution continues in the
post collapse regime. A Dirac peak emerges, grows and finally captures all the
mass in a finite time t_end, while the central density excluding the Dirac peak
progressively decreases. Close to the collapse time, the pre and post collapse
evolution is self-similar. Interestingly, if one starts from a parabolic
density profile, one obtains an exact analytical solution that describes the
whole collapse dynamics, from the initial time to the end, and accounts for non
self-similar corrections that were neglected in previous works. Our results
have possible application in different areas including astrophysics,
chemotaxis, colloids and nanoscience
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