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Controlled Quantum Secret Sharing
We present a new protocol in which a secret multiqubit quantum state
is shared by players and controllers, where
is the encoding state of a quantum secret sharing scheme. The players may be
considered as field agents responsible for carrying out a task, using the
secret information encrypted in , while the controllers are
superiors who decide if and when the task should be carried out and who to do
it. Our protocol only requires ancillary Bell states and Bell-basis
measurements.Comment: 6 pages, 0 figure, RevTeX4; published version with minor change
Automated Long-Term Monitoring of Parallel Microfluidic Operations Applying a Machine Vision-Assisted Positioning Method
As microfluidics has been applied extensively in many cell and biochemical applications, monitoring the related processes is an important requirement. In this work, we design and fabricate a high-throughput microfluidic device which contains 32 microchambers to perform automated parallel microfluidic operations and monitoring on an automated stage of a microscope. Images are captured at multiple spots on the device during the operations for monitoring samples in microchambers in parallel; yet the device positions may vary at different time points throughout operations as the device moves back and forth on a motorized microscopic stage. Here, we report an image-based positioning strategy to realign the chamber position before every recording of microscopic image. We fabricate alignment marks at defined locations next to the chambers in the microfluidic device as reference positions. We also develop image processing algorithms to recognize the chamber positions in real-time, followed by realigning the chambers to their preset positions in the captured images. We perform experiments to validate and characterize the device functionality and the automated realignment operation. Together, this microfluidic realignment strategy can be a platform technology to achieve precise positioning of multiple chambers for general microfluidic applications requiring long-term parallel monitoring of cell and biochemical activities
Experimental demonstration of 10 Gb/s multilevel carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for short range optical communication systems
2012-2013 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe
Search for D to phi l nu and measurement of the branching fraction for D to phi pi
Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of about 33 pb collected
around 3.773 GeV with the BESII detector at the BEPC collider, the semileptonic
decays , and the hadronic
decay are studied. The upper limits of the branching
fractions are set to be 2.01% and 2.04% at the 90% confidence level. The ratio of the
branching fractions for relative to is measured to be . In addition, the
branching fraction for is obtained to be .Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Eur.Phys.J.
Spectro-Temporal Modulation Transfer Functions and Speech Intelligibility
Detection thresholds for spectral and temporal modulations are measuredusing broadband spectra with sinusoidally rippled profiles that drift up or down the log-frequency axis at constant velocities. Spectro-temporal Modulation Transfer Functions (MTF) are derived as a function of ripple peak density (cycles/octave) and drifting velocity (Hz). MTFs exhibit a lowpass function with respect to both dimensions, with 50 percent bandwidths ofabout 16 Hz and 2 cycles/octave. The data replicate (as special cases) previously measured purely temporal MTFs [Viemeister, 1979] and purely spectral MTFs [Green, 1986].We present a computational auditory model that exhibits spectro-temporal MTFs consistent with the salient trends in the data.The model is used to demonstrate the potential relevance of these MTFsto the assessment of speech intelligibility in noise and reverberantconditions
Measurements of branching fractions for inclusive K0~/K0 and K*(892)+- decays of neutral and charged D mesons
Using the data sample of about 33 pb-1 collected at and around 3.773 GeV with
the BES-II detector at the BEPC collider, we have studied inclusive K0~/K0 and
K*(892)+- decays of D0 and D+ mesons. The branching fractions for the inclusive
K0~/K0 and K*(892)- decays are measured to be BF(D0 to K0~/K0
X)=(47.6+-4.8+-3.0)%, BF(D+ to K0~/K0 X)=(60.5+-5.5+-3.3)%, BF(D0 to K*-
X)=(15.3+- 8.3+- 1.9)% and BF(D+ to K*- X)=(5.7+- 5.2+- 0.7)%. The upper limits
of the branching fractions for the inclusive K*(892)+ decays are set to be
BF(D0 to K*+ X)<3.6% and BF(D+ to K*+ X) <20.3% at 90% confidence level
An Algorithm for Preferential Selection of Spectroscopic Targets in LEGUE
We describe a general target selection algorithm that is applicable to any
survey in which the number of available candidates is much larger than the
number of objects to be observed. This routine aims to achieve a balance
between a smoothly-varying, well-understood selection function and the desire
to preferentially select certain types of targets. Some target-selection
examples are shown that illustrate different possibilities of emphasis
functions. Although it is generally applicable, the algorithm was developed
specifically for the LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and
Exploration (LEGUE) survey that will be carried out using the Chinese Guo Shou
Jing Telescope. In particular, this algorithm was designed for the portion of
LEGUE targeting the Galactic halo, in which we attempt to balance a variety of
science goals that require stars at fainter magnitudes than can be completely
sampled by LAMOST. This algorithm has been implemented for the halo portion of
the LAMOST pilot survey, which began in October 2011.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in RA
BOB-RED queue management for IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks
This study is aimed at exploring why many economists propose a transfer scheme and debt mutualisation for the Eurozone. This would equip the Eurozone with better tools to deal with an economic shock, like the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis, thus making it more financially stable. After the theoretical presentation, the study presents a unique institutional design with an EU Treasury that manages debt mutualisation and a transfer scheme as well as other competences that address other present economic challenges. Crucial to the study are the issues of moral hazard and adverse selection that arise when thinking of European economic integration.L’objectiu del treball és explorar la raó per la qual molts economistes proposen un sistema de transferències fiscals i la mutualització del deute a l’Eurozona. Així se la dotaria amb eines més efectives per pal·liar un xoc econòmic, com la crisi del deute sobirà del 2010-2012. A continuació, es presenta un disseny institucional únic d’un Tresor de l’Euro que gestionaria les competències esmentades (i d’altres) per combatre alguns dels reptes econòmics actuals. El risc moral i de selecció adversa, qüestions que sorgeixen en pensar la drecera que ha de prendre la integració econòmica Europea, són cabdals per aquest estudi
Experimental study of decays to \K^+ K^- \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0 final states
final states are studied using a sample of
decays collected with the Beijing Spectrometer
(BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Position Collider. The branching fractions of
decays to , , , , , and are determined. The first two agree with previous
measurements, and the last five are first measurements.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figure
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