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Development and fabrication of high strength alloy fibers for use in metal-metal matrix composites
Metal fiber reinforced superalloys are being considered for construction of critical components in turbine engines that operate at high temperature. The problems involved in fabricating refractory metal alloys into wire form in such a manner as to maximize their strength properties without developing excessive structural defects are described. The fundamental principles underlying the development of such alloy fibers are also briefly discussed. The progress made to date in developing tungsten, tantalum and columbium base alloys for fiber reinforcement is reported and future prospects for alloy fiber development considered
Saturated laser fluorescence in turbulent sooting flames at high pressure
The primary objective was to develop a quantitative, single pulse, laser-saturated fluorescence (LSF) technique for measurement of radical species concentrations in practical flames. The species of immediate interest was the hydroxyl radical. Measurements were made in both turbulent premixed diffusion flames at pressures between 1 and 20 atm. Interferences from Mie scattering were assessed by doping with particles or by controlling soot loading through variation of equivalence ratio and fuel type. The efficacy of the LSF method at high pressure was addressed by comparing fluorescence and adsorption measurements in a premixed, laminar flat flame at 1-20 atm. Signal-averaging over many laser shots is sufficient to determine the local concentration of radical species in laminar flames. However, for turbulent flames, single pulse measurements are more appropriate since a statistically significant number of laser pulses is needed to determine the probability function (PDF). PDFs can be analyzed to give true average properties and true local kinetics in turbulent, chemically reactive flows
Hopf algebras and characters of classical groups
Schur functions provide an integral basis of the ring of symmetric functions.
It is shown that this ring has a natural Hopf algebra structure by identifying
the appropriate product, coproduct, unit, counit and antipode, and their
properties. Characters of covariant tensor irreducible representations of the
classical groups GL(n), O(n) and Sp(n) are then expressed in terms of Schur
functions, and the Hopf algebra is exploited in the determination of
group-subgroup branching rules and the decomposition of tensor products. The
analysis is carried out in terms of n-independent universal characters. The
corresponding rings, CharGL, CharO and CharSp, of universal characters each
have their own natural Hopf algebra structure. The appropriate product,
coproduct, unit, counit and antipode are identified in each case.Comment: 9 pages. Uses jpconf.cls and jpconf11.clo. Presented by RCK at
SSPCM'07, Myczkowce, Poland, Sept 200
Maximization of capacity and p-norms for some product channels
It is conjectured that the Holevo capacity of a product channel \Omega
\otimes \Phi is achieved when product states are used as input. Amosov, Holevo
and Werner have also conjectured that the maximal p-norm of a product channel
is achieved with product input states. In this paper we establish both of these
conjectures in the case that \Omega is arbitrary and \Phi is a CQ or QC channel
(as defined by Holevo). We also establish the Amosov, Holevo and Werner
conjecture when \Omega is arbitrary and either \Phi is a qubit channel and p=2,
or \Phi is a unital qubit channel and p is integer. Our proofs involve a new
conjecture for the norm of an output state of the half-noisy channel I \otimes
\Phi, when \Phi is a qubit channel. We show that this conjecture in some cases
also implies additivity of the Holevo capacity
Entangled inputs cannot make imperfect quantum channels perfect
Entangled inputs can enhance the capacity of quantum channels, this being one
of the consequences of the celebrated result showing the non-additivity of
several quantities relevant for quantum information science. In this work, we
answer the converse question (whether entangled inputs can ever render noisy
quantum channels have maximum capacity) to the negative: No sophisticated
entangled input of any quantum channel can ever enhance the capacity to the
maximum possible value; a result that holds true for all channels both for the
classical as well as the quantum capacity. This result can hence be seen as a
bound as to how "non-additive quantum information can be". As a main result, we
find first practical and remarkably simple computable single-shot bounds to
capacities, related to entanglement measures. As examples, we discuss the qubit
amplitude damping and identify the first meaningful bound for its classical
capacity.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, an error in the argument on the quantum capacity
corrected, version to be published in the Physical Review Letter
Average output entropy for quantum channels
We study the regularized average Renyi output entropy \bar{S}_{r}^{\reg} of
quantum channels. This quantity gives information about the average noisiness
of the channel output arising from a typical, highly entangled input state in
the limit of infinite dimensions. We find a closed expression for
\beta_{r}^{\reg}, a quantity which we conjecture to be equal to \Srreg. We
find an explicit form for \beta_{r}^{\reg} for some entanglement-breaking
channels, and also for the qubit depolarizing channel as a
function of the parameter . We prove equality of the two quantities in
some cases, in particular we conclude that for both are
non-analytic functions of the variable .Comment: 32 pages, several plots and figures; positivity condition added for
Theorem on entanglement breaking channels; new result for entrywise positive
channel
The Racialized Pandemic: Wave One of COVID-19 and the Reproduction of Global North Inequalities
We document the broad patterns of COVID-19 as it affects minority communities. We present a theoretical framework rooted in Global North democracies' racial and ethnic legacies to analyze the health and economic disparities between these communities and the white majority population. Marshalling first-cut empirical evidence from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden, we find patterns of the pandemic's distribution consistent with how the burden of racial and ethnic legacies endures: people from minority communities have worse health and economic outcomes under normal circumstances, inequalities the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated. The comparison shows that the impact of racial and ethnic discrimination on pandemic policy outcomes is not unique to the United States. Health inequalities stemming in part from patterns of institutional racism and discrimination perversely help reproduce these societal inequities. We find that governments' initial responses have failed to mitigate the disproportionate impact of this health and economic crisis on minority communities because they did not acknowledge or address the particular challenges that these groups face
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