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Redundancy approaches in bubble domain memories
Fabrication of integrated circuit chips to compensate for faulty memory elements is discussed. Procedure for testing chips to determine extent of redundancy and faults is described. Mathematical model to define operation is presented. Schematic circuit diagram of test equipment is provided
Memory difference control of unknown unstable fixed points: Drifting parameter conditions and delayed measurement
Difference control schemes for controlling unstable fixed points become
important if the exact position of the fixed point is unavailable or moving due
to drifting parameters. We propose a memory difference control method for
stabilization of a priori unknown unstable fixed points by introducing a memory
term. If the amplitude of the control applied in the previous time step is
added to the present control signal, fixed points with arbitrary Lyapunov
numbers can be controlled. This method is also extended to compensate arbitrary
time steps of measurement delay. We show that our method stabilizes orbits of
the Chua circuit where ordinary difference control fails.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures. See also chao-dyn/9810029 (Phys. Rev. E 70,
056225) and nlin.CD/0204031 (Phys. Rev. E 70, 046205
Robustness of predator-prey models for confinement regime transitions in fusion plasmas
Energy transport and confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas is usually determined by the coupled nonlinear interactions of small-scale drift turbulence and larger scale coherent nonlinear structures, such as zonal flows, together with free energy sources such as temperature gradients. Zero-dimensional models, designed to embody plausible physical narratives for these interactions, can help to identify the origin of enhanced energy confinement and of transitions between confinement regimes. A prime zero-dimensional paradigm is predator-prey or Lotka-Volterra. Here, we extend a successful three-variable (temperature gradient; microturbulence level; one class of coherent structure) model in this genre [M. A. Malkov and P. H. Diamond, Phys. Plasmas 16, 012504 (2009)], by adding a fourth variable representing a second class of coherent structure. This requires a fourth coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equation. We investigate the degree of invariance of the phenomenology generated by the model of Malkov and Diamond, given this additional physics. We study and compare the long-time behaviour of the three-equation and four-equation systems, their evolution towards the final state, and their attractive fixed points and limit cycles. We explore the sensitivity of paths to attractors. It is found that, for example, an attractive fixed point of the three-equation system can become a limit cycle of the four-equation system. Addressing these questions which we together refer to as “robustness” for convenience is particularly important for models which, as here, generate sharp transitions in the values of system variables which may replicate some key features of confinement transitions. Our results help to establish the robustness of the zero-dimensional model approach to capturing observed confinement phenomenology in tokamak fusion plasmas
Intermittency as a universal characteristic of the complete chromosome DNA sequences of eukaryotes: From protozoa to human genomes
Large-scale dynamical properties of complete chromosome DNA sequences of
eukaryotes are considered. By the proposed deterministic models with
intermittency and symbolic dynamics we describe a wide spectrum of large-scale
patterns inherent in these sequences, such as segmental duplications, tandem
repeats, and other complex sequence structures. It is shown that the recently
discovered gene number balance on the strands is not of random nature, and a
complete chromosome DNA sequence exhibits the properties of deterministic
chaos.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Control of gradient-driven instabilities using shear Alfv\'en beat waves
A new technique for manipulation and control of gradient-driven instabilities
through nonlinear interaction with Alfv\'en waves in a laboratory plasma is
presented. A narrow field-aligned density depletion is created in the Large
Plasma Device (LAPD), resulting in coherent unstable fluctuations on the
periphery of the depletion. Two independent kinetic Alfv\'en waves are launched
along the depletion at separate frequencies, creating a nonlinear beat-wave
response at or near the frequency of the original instability. When the
beat-wave has sufficient amplitude, the original unstable mode is suppressed,
leaving only the beat-wave response at a different frequency, generally at
lower amplitude.Comment: Submitted for Publication in Physical Review Letters. Revision 2
reflects changes suggested by referees for PRL submission. One figure
removed, several major changes to another figure, and a number of major and
minor changes to the tex
Avalanches in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Collisional avalanches are identified to be responsible for an 8-fold
increase of the initial loss rate of a large 87-Rb condensate. We show that the
collisional opacity of an ultra-cold gas exhibits a critical value. When
exceeded, losses due to inelastic collisions are substantially enhanced. Under
these circumstances, reaching the hydrodynamic regime in conventional BEC
experiments is highly questionable.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
Multistability in nonlinear left-handed transmission lines
Employing a nonlinear left-handed transmission line as a model system, we
demonstrate experimentally the multi-stability phenomena predicted
theoretically for microstructured left-handed metamaterials with a nonlinear
response. We show that the bistability is associated with the period doubling
which at higher power may result in chaotic dynamics of the transmission line
Non-geometric tilt-to-length coupling in precision interferometry: mechanisms and analytical descriptions
This paper is the second in a set of two investigating tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling. TTL describes the cross-coupling of angular or lateral jitter into an interferometric phase signal and is an important noise source in precision interferometers, including space gravitational wave detectors like LISA. We discussed in 10.1088/2040-8986/ac675e the TTL coupling effects originating from optical path length changes, i.e. geometric TTL coupling. Within this work, we focus on the wavefront and detector geometry dependent TTL coupling, called non-geometric TTL coupling, in the case of two interfering fundamental Gaussian beams. We characterise the coupling originating from the properties of the interfering beams, i.e. their absolute and relative angle at the detector, their relative offset and the individual beam parameters. Furthermore, we discuss the dependency of the TTL coupling on the geometry of the detecting photodiode. Wherever possible, we provide analytical expressions for the expected TTL coupling effects. We investigate the non-geometric coupling effects originating from beam walk due to the angular or lateral jitter of a mirror or a receiving system. These effects are directly compared with the corresponding detected optical path length changes in 10.1088/2040-8986/ac675e. Both together provide the total interferometric readout. We discuss in which cases the geometric and non-geometric TTL effects cancel one-another. Additionally, we list linear TTL contributions that can be used to counteract other TTL effects. Altogether, our results provide key knowledge to minimise the total TTL coupling noise in experiments by design or realignment
Triggering up states in all-to-all coupled neurons
Slow-wave sleep in mammalians is characterized by a change of large-scale
cortical activity currently paraphrased as cortical Up/Down states. A recent
experiment demonstrated a bistable collective behaviour in ferret slices, with
the remarkable property that the Up states can be switched on and off with
pulses, or excitations, of same polarity; whereby the effect of the second
pulse significantly depends on the time interval between the pulses. Here we
present a simple time discrete model of a neural network that exhibits this
type of behaviour, as well as quantitatively reproduces the time-dependence
found in the experiments.Comment: epl Europhysics Letters, accepted (2010
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