292 research outputs found
Junction of three off-critical quantum Ising chains and two-channel Kondo effect in a superconductor
We show that a junction of three off-critical quantum Ising chains can be
regarded as a quantum spin chain realization of the two-channel spin-1/2
overscreened Kondo effect with two superconducting leads. We prove that, as
long as the Kondo temperature is larger than the superconducting gap, the
equivalent Kondo model flows towards the 2 channel Kondo fixed point. We argue
that our system provides the first controlled realization of 2 channel Kondo
effect with superconducting leads. This, besides its the theoretical interest,
is of importance for potential applications to a number of context, including
the analysis of the quantum entanglement properties of a Kondo system.Comment: 14 pages, 4 .eps figure
Josephson versus Kondo coupling in a quantum dot connected to two superconductors
We apply a Gutzwiller-like variational technique to study Josephson
conduction across a quantum dot with an odd number of electrons connected to
two superconducting leads. Our method projects out all states on the dot but
the Kondo singlet and is valid when Kondo correlations are dominant and no
Andreev bound states localized at the dot are available for Kondo screening. In
these conditions superconducting pairing is a competing effect and the junction
is like, to optimize antiferromagnetic correlations on the dot. As the
superconducting gap increases, the Josephson current also increases, but its
phase dependence becomes strongly non sinusoidal
General purpose readout board {\pi} LUP: overview and results
This work gives an overview of the PCI-Express board LUP, focusing on
the motivation that led to its development, the technological choices adopted
and its performance. The LUP card was designed by INFN and University of
Bologna as a readout interface candidate to be used after the Phase-II upgrade
of the Pixel Detector of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at LHC. The same team in
Bologna is also responsible for the design and commissioning of the ReadOut
Driver (ROD) board - currently implemented in all the four layers of the ATLAS
Pixel Detector (Insertable B-Layer, B-Layer, Layer-1 and Layer-2) - and
acquired in the past years expertise on the ATLAS readout chain and the
problematics arising in such experiments. Although the LUP was designed to
fulfill a specific task, it is highly versatile and might fit a wide variety of
applications, some of which will be discussed in this work. Two
7-generation Xilinx FPGAs are mounted on the board: a Zynq-7 with an
embedded dual core ARM Processor and a Kintex-7. The latter features sixteen
12.5Gbps transceivers, allowing the board to interface easily to any other
electronic board, either electrically and/or optically, at the current
bandwidth of the experiments for LHC. Many data-transmission protocols have
been tested at different speeds, results will be discussed later in this work.
Two batches of LUP boards have been fabricated and tested, two boards in
the first batch (version 1.0) and four boards in the second batch (version
1.1), encapsulating all the patches and improvements required by the first
version.Comment: 6 pages, 10 figures, 21th Real Time Conference, winner of "2018 NPSS
Student Paper Award Second Prize
L'elettrolisi: un'occasione per riflettere sulla Chimica, ma anche sulla storia, l'economia, l'ambiente
Pensiamo che partire da esempi tratti dal mondo che ci circonda, in cui le procedure della Chimica, sia teoriche che sperimentali, appaiano in tutto il loro intreccio con le attivitaÌ umane, possa costituire un metodo efficace per fornire a vari livelli unâimmagine della disciplina corretta. CioÌ puoÌ aiutare ad approcciarsi ad essa senza paure e senza trionfalismi. Nellâarticolo in particolare si tratteranno alcuni significativi processi di elettrolisi, evidenziando il loro sviluppo storico e le loro implicazioni dal punto di vista produttivo e del rapporto con uomo e ambiente.We believe that an effective way to provide, at various levels, a correct image of Chemistry could be based on examples from the world around us, in which the procedures of the discipline, both theoretical and experimental, appear in all their interweaving with human activities. This may help to approach it without fear and without triumphalism. In the article in particular we discuss some significant electrolysis processes, highlighting their his- torical development and their implications from the point of view of production and the rela- tionship with man and environment
Classification Trees for Ordinal Responses in R: The rpartScore Package
This paper introduces rpartScore (Galimberti, Soffritti, and Di Maso 2012), a new R package for building classification trees for ordinal responses, that can be employed whenever a set of scores is assigned to the ordered categories of the response. This package has been created to overcome some problems that produced unexpected results from the package rpartOrdinal (Archer 2010). Explanations for the causes of these unexpected results are provided. The main functionalities of rpartScore are described, and its use is illustrated through some examples
Human parvovirus B19 and blood product safety. A tale of twenty years of improvements
Parvovirus B19 (B19V), long known to be the causative agent of erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), is not a newly emerging agent. The aim of this review is to analyse the role played by this virus in compromising safety in transfusion medicine and the progressive measures to reduce the risks associated with the virus
La diagnostica per la conoscenza storica e artistica delle opere d'arte. Il ruolo delle analisi sui pigmenti nel restauro degli affreschi di Michelangelo nella Cappella Sistina
Il pensiero inerente la tutela delle opere dâarte ha subito una notevole evo- luzione nel corso della storia ed oggi eÌ diventato indispensabile affiancare la scienza della conservazione alle consuete metodologie di restauro. Le scienze applicate ai Beni Culturali coinvolgono studiosi provenienti da diversi campi di ricerca e la collaborazione diventa una prerogativa imprescindibile per il successo dellâintervento conservativo e, soprattutto, per la conoscenza approfondita dellâopera in tutti i suoi aspetti, dai materiali costitutivi alla tecnica di realizzazione.
Nellâarticolo illustreremo quanto detto soffermandoci tra lâaltro sul restauro degli affre- schi di Michelangelo della Cappella Sistina. Questo eÌ stato definito come il primo restauro moderno, proprio percheÌ le analisi hanno accompagnato ogni intervento tecnico sugli affre- schi, i quali sono tornati allo splendore originario nel rispetto dei principi teorici del restauro.
In questo e in altri casi la diagnostica eÌ diventata quindi un importante ausilio per lo stu- dio dei Beni Culturali, anche se la scelta della tecnica analitica deve essere relazionata sempre alla domanda alla quale si cerca la risposta. Le scienze applicate permettono di approfondire la storia dellâopera, la tecnica dellâartista, caratterizzano i materiali, ricostruendone le antiche rotte commerciali; tutte queste informazioni permettono di raggiungere una conoscenza senza pari, indispensabile per la valorizzazione, la tutela e la conservazione dei Beni Culturali.he approach to the protection of artwork has considerably evolved through- out history; placing side by side the conservation science and the usual methods of restoration has today become unavoidable. Science Applied to Cultural Heritage involves scholars from different research fields making their collaboration of paramount importance for the success of the conservation process and, above all, for the in-depth knowledge of the artwork in all its aspects, from the constituent materials to the realization technique.
This article will discuss this topic taking into particular account the restoration of Michelangeloâs frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. This was defined as the first modern restoration, because scientific tests have accompanied for the first time any technical intervention on the frescoes, which were returned to their original splendor in respect of the theoretical principles of restoration.
In this specific case and in other ones, the diagnostics has therefore become an important aid in Cultural Heritage studies, provided that the choice of the analytical technique is always related to the answer that one is trying to pursue. Applied sciences provide an insight into the history of the artworks, the artistsâ techniques, the knowledge of employed materials â that allow one to reconstruct the ancient trade routes; all this information can accomplish an unsurpassed knowledge, which is becoming essential for the development, protection and conservation of Cultural Heritage
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