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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 1, no. 5
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. William Wadé Harris, Prophet-Evangelist of West Africa: His Life, Message, Praxis, Heritage, and Legacy. 2. William Wadé Harris. 3. Recent Print and Digital Resources Related to Christianity in Africa
Manipulation of single-photon states encoded in transverse spatial modes: possible and impossible tasks
Controlled generation and manipulation of photon states encoded in their
spatial degrees of freedom is a crucial ingredient in many quantum information
tasks exploiting higher-than-two dimensional encoding. Here, we prove the
impossibility to arbitrarily modify -level state superpositions (quits)
for , encoded in the transverse modes of light, with optical components
associated to the group of symplectic transforms (Gaussian operations).
Surprisingly, we also provide an explicit construction of how non-Gaussian
operations acting on mode subspaces do enable to overcome the limit . In
addition, this set of operations realizes the full SU(3) algebra.Comment: Published in PR
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 3, no. 1
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. âCreole Sagaâ: The Gambiaâs Liberated African Community in the 19th Century: The Stories of J. A. B. Horton, G. C. Nicol, J. R. Maxwell, and J. D. Richards by Asi Florence Mahoney. Introduction by Gabriel Leonard Allen. 2. The Contribution of Daniel William Alexander to the Birth and Growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in East Africa. 3. Biographies by Stephan Hayes and Louise Pirouet. Introduction by Fr. Evangelos Thiani. 4. Recent Print and Digital Resources Related to Christianity in Africa
In Pursuit of Perfection: The Economic Dynamic of Japan As Seen Through the Eyes of Contemporary Confucianism After World War II
Tracing the development of Confucianism in China to contemporary Confucianism in Modern Japan helps us understand her miraculous economy after the ruin of World War II. Deconstructing this socio-cultural phenomenon allows one to weigh the value of Confucianism -- a system of ethics for the individual and the state -- in our modern day times -- especially East Asia
An efficient sampling algorithm for Variational Monte Carlo
We propose a new algorithm for sampling the -body density in the Variational Monte Carlo (VMC)
framework. This algorithm is based upon a modified Ricci-Ciccotti
discretization of the Langevin dynamics in the phase space
improved by a Metropolis acceptation/rejection step. We show through some
representative numerical examples (Lithium, Fluorine and Copper atoms, and
phenol molecule), that this algorithm is superior to the standard sampling
algorithm based on the biased random walk (importance sampling).Comment: 23 page
Toward a More Systematic Drafting and Interpreting of the Internal Revenue Code: Expenses, Losses and Bad Debts
upposE that you, as a reasonable man, are asked whether the following
two sets of rules mean exactly the same thing. If they do and if you
intend to communicate your message as effectively as possible, which
of the two sets would you choose to state the organizational rules of your
law school?
Set 1
A. The financial committee shall be
chosen from among the general committee.
B. No one shall be a member of both
the general and library committees
unless he is also on the financial committee.
C. No member of the library committee
shall be on the financial committee.,
Set 2
A. The financial committee shall be
chosen from among the general committee.
B. No member of the general committee
shall be on the library committee.
We suspect that most readers will have little difficulty in deciding the second
question; but even after careful reading of the two sets of rules, they will
remain a little puzzled as to whether both sets say the same thing. We further
suspect that lawyers waste a great deal of their mental energy by using inadequate
and inappropriate intellectual tools to figure out similar logical problems
in their everyday work. A symbolic logician could quickly ascertain that the
two sets of rules are equivalent and relieve his mind to focus on the more important
problem of deciding which is the more appropriate choice
Quasiparticles and phonon satellites in spectral functions of semiconductors and insulators: Cumulants applied to full first principles theory and Fr\"ohlich polaron
The electron-phonon interaction causes thermal and zero-point motion shifts
of electron quasiparticle (QP) energies . Other consequences of
interactions, visible in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)
experiments, are broadening of QP peaks and appearance of sidebands, contained
in the electron spectral function
, where is the retarded Green's
function. Electronic structure codes (e.g. using density-functional theory) are
now available that compute the shifts and start to address broadening and
sidebands. Here we consider MgO and LiF, and determine their nonadiabatic
Migdal self energy. The spectral function obtained from the Dyson equation
makes errors in the weight and energy of the QP peak and the position and
weight of the phonon-induced sidebands. Only one phonon satellite appears, with
an unphysically large energy difference (larger than the highest phonon energy)
with respect to the QP peak. By contrast, the spectral function from a cumulant
treatment of the same self energy is physically better, giving a quite accurate
QP energy and several satellites approximately spaced by the LO phonon energy.
In particular, the positions of the QP peak and first satellite agree closely
with those found for the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian by Mishchenko
(2000) using diagrammatic Monte Carlo. We provide a detailed comparison between
the first-principles MgO and LiF results and those of the Fr\"ohlich
Hamiltonian. Such an analysis applies widely to materials with infra-red active
phonons. We also compare the retarded and time-ordered cumulant treatments:
they are equivalent for the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian, and only slightly differ in
first-principles electron-phonon results for wide-band gap materials.Comment: 21 pages, 19 figure
Screening of charged spheroidal colloidal particles
We study the effective screened electrostatic potential created by a
spheroidal colloidal particle immersed in an electrolyte, within the mean field
approximation, using Poisson--Botzmann equation in its linear and nonlinear
forms, and also beyond the mean field by means of Monte Carlo computer
simulation. The anisotropic shape of the particle has a strong effect on the
screened potential, even at large distances (compared to the Debye length) from
it. To quantify this anisotropy effect, we focus our study on the dependence of
the potential on the position of the observation point with respect with the
orientation of the spheroidal particle. For several different boundary
conditions (constant potential, or constant surface charge) we find that, at
large distance, the potential is higher in the direction of the large axis of
the spheroidal particle
Classical and quantum properties of cylindrically polarized states of light
We investigate theoretical properties of beams of light with non-uniform
polarization patterns. Specifically, we determine all possible configurations
of cylindrically polarized modes (CPMs) of the electro-magnetic field,
calculate their total angular momentum and highlight the subtleties of their
structure. Furthermore, a hybrid spatio-polarization description for such modes
is introduced and developed. In particular, two independent Poincar\'e spheres
have been introduced to represent simultaneously the polarization and spatial
degree of freedom of CPMs. Possible mode-to-mode transformations accomplishable
with the help of conventional polarization and spatial phase retarders are
shown within this representation. Moreover, the importance of these CPMs in the
quantum optics domain due to their classical features is highlighted.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure
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