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SRC seal testing
Small venthole drilled in semisealed silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) cavity eliminates entrapped helium. Although these devices show slightly greater leak than those before lead installation, it is now possible to distinguish device with good hermetic seal from defective one
Practical learning method for multi-scale entangled states
We describe a method for reconstructing multi-scale entangled states from a
small number of efficiently-implementable measurements and fast
post-processing. The method only requires single particle measurements and the
total number of measurements is polynomial in the number of particles. Data
post-processing for state reconstruction uses standard tools, namely matrix
diagonalisation and conjugate gradient method, and scales polynomially with the
number of particles. Our method prevents the build-up of errors from both
numerical and experimental imperfections
A Processor Extension for Cycle-Accurate Real-Time Software
Certain hard real-time tasks demand precise timing of events, but the usual software solution of periodic interrupts driving a scheduler only provides precision in the millisecond range. NOP-insertion can provide higher precision, but is tedious to do manually, requires predictable instruction timing, and works best with simple algorithms. To achieve high-precision timing in software, we propose instruction-level access to cycle-accurate timers. We add an instruction that waits for a timer to expire then reloads it synchronously. Among other things, this provides a way to exactly specify the period of a loop. To validate our approach, we implemented a simple RISC processor with our extension on an FPGA and programmed it to behave like a video controller and an asynchronous serial receiver. Both applications were much easier to write and debug than their hardware counterparts, which took roughly four times as many lines in VHDL. Simple processors with our extension brings software-style development to a class of applications that were once only possible with hardware
Quantum communication using a bounded-size quantum reference frame
Typical quantum communication schemes are such that to achieve perfect
decoding the receiver must share a reference frame with the sender. Indeed, if
the receiver only possesses a bounded-size quantum token of the sender's
reference frame, then the decoding is imperfect, and we can describe this
effect as a noisy quantum channel. We seek here to characterize the performance
of such schemes, or equivalently, to determine the effective decoherence
induced by having a bounded-size reference frame. We assume that the token is
prepared in a special state that has particularly nice group-theoretic
properties and that is near-optimal for transmitting information about the
sender's frame. We present a decoding operation, which can be proven to be
near-optimal in this case, and we demonstrate that there are two distinct ways
of implementing it (corresponding to two distinct Kraus decompositions). In
one, the receiver measures the orientation of the reference frame token and
reorients the system appropriately. In the other, the receiver extracts the
encoded information from the virtual subsystems that describe the relational
degrees of freedom of the system and token. Finally, we provide explicit
characterizations of these decoding schemes when the system is a single qubit
and for three standard kinds of reference frame: a phase reference, a Cartesian
frame (representing an orthogonal triad of spatial directions), and a reference
direction (representing a single spatial direction).Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure, comments welcome; v2 published versio
Verifying multi-partite mode entanglement of W states
We construct a method for verifying mode entanglement of N-mode W states. The
ideal W state contains exactly one excitation symmetrically shared between N
modes, but our method takes the existence of higher numbers of excitations into
account, as well as the vacuum state and other deviations from the ideal state.
Moreover, our method distinguishes between full N-party entanglement and states
with M-party entanglement with M<N, including mixtures of the latter. We
specialize to the case N=4 for illustrative purposes. In the optical case,
where excitations are photons, our method can be implemented using linear
optics.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figure
Internal structure and physical properties of the Asteroid 2008 TC3 inferred from a study of the Almahata Sitta meteorites
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Shock-Wave Experiment with the Chelyabinsk LL5 Meteorite : Experimental Parameters and the Texture of the Shock-Affected Material
A spherical geometry shock experiment with the light-colored lithology material of the Chelyabinsk LL5 ordinary chondrite was carried out. The material was affected by shock and thermal metamorphism whose grade ranged from initial stage S3-4 to complete melting. The temperature and pressure were estimated at >2000 degrees C and >90 GPa. The textural shock effects were studied by optical and electron microscopy. A single experimental impact has produced the whole the range of shock pressures and temperatures and, correspondingly, four zones identified by petrographic analysis: (1) a melt zone, (2) a zone of melting silicates, (3) a black ring zone, and (4) a zone of weakly shocked initial material. The following textural features of the material were identified: displacement of the metal and troilite phases from the central melt zone; the development of a zone of mixed lithology (light-colored fragments in silicate melt); the origin of a dark-colored lithology ring; and the generation of radiating shock veinlets. The experimental sample shows four textural zones that correspond to the different lithology types of the Chelyabinsk LL5 meteorite found in fragments of the meteoritic shower in the collection at the Ural Federal University. Our results prove that shock wave loading experiment can be successfully applied in modeling of space shocks and can be used to experimentally model processes at the small bodies of the solar system.Peer reviewe
Anisotropy and internal field distribution of MgB2 in the mixed state at low temperatures
Magnetization and muon spin relaxation on MgB2 were measured as a function of
field at 2 K. Both indicate an inverse-squared penetration depth strongly
decreasing with increasing field H below about 1 T. Magnetization also suggests
the anisotropy of the penetration depth to increase with increasing H,
interpolating between a low Hc1 and a high Hc2 anisotropy. Torque vs angle
measurements are in agreement with this finding, while also ruling out drastic
differences between the mixed state anisotropies of the two basic length scales
penetration depth and coherence length.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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