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Efficient measurements, purification, and bounds on the mutual information
When a measurement is made on a quantum system in which classical information
is encoded, the measurement reduces the observers average Shannon entropy for
the encoding ensemble. This reduction, being the {\em mutual information}, is
always non-negative. For efficient measurements the state is also purified;
that is, on average, the observers von Neumann entropy for the state of the
system is also reduced by a non-negative amount. Here we point out that by
re-writing a bound derived by Hall [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 55}, 100 (1997)], which
is dual to the Holevo bound, one finds that for efficient measurements, the
mutual information is bounded by the reduction in the von Neumann entropy. We
also show that this result, which provides a physical interpretation for Hall's
bound, may be derived directly from the Schumacher-Westmoreland-Wootters
theorem [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 76}, 3452 (1996)]. We discuss these bounds, and
their relationship to another bound, valid for efficient measurements on pure
state ensembles, which involves the subentropy.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex4. v3: rewritten and reinterpreted somewha
Effects of quenching on phase transformations and ferroelectric properties of 0.35BCZT-0.65KBT ceramics
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Solid solutions of 0.35(Ba,Ca)(Zr,Ti)O3-0.65(K0.5Bi0.5)TiO3 (BCZT-KBT) having various Ca and Zr contents were synthesized by solid state reaction. The sintered ceramics exhibited interesting features comprising core-shell type microstructures and relaxor ferroelectric behaviour. The influence of air-quenching on structure and electrical properties has been systematically investigated. The results indicate that the compositional heterogeneity in the shell regions, for the slow-cooled state, was reduced by air quenching. Improvements are evident in ferroelectric tetragonal phase content, accompanied by increased polarisation values and depolarisation temperatures. Comparing the results obtained for two BCZT compositions, it was demonstrated that the stability of the ferroelectric tetragonal phase in slow-cooled BCZT-KBT samples was improved for the ceramic with lower Ca and Zr concentrations, denoted x = 0.06, comparing with that for higher levels, denoted x = 0.15. Furthermore, the electric field-induced ferroelectric state in the quenched ceramic with x = 0.06 was found to be more stable during heating, yielding an enhanced depolarisation temperature
Anomalies on orbifolds with gauge symmetry breaking
We embed two 4D chiral multiplets of opposite representations in the 5D N=2
gauge theory compactified on an orbifold .
There are two types of orbifold boundary conditions in the extra dimension to
obtain the 4D N=1 gauge theory from the bulk: in
Type I, one has the bulk gauge group at and the unbroken gauge group at
while in Type II, one has the unbroken gauge group at both fixed
points. In both types of orbifold boundary conditions, we consider the zero
mode(s) as coming from a bulk -plet and brane fields at the fixed
point(s) with the unbroken gauge group. We check the consistency of this
embedding of fields by the localized anomalies and the localized FI terms. We
show that the localized anomalies in Type I are cancelled exactly by the
introduction of a bulk Chern-Simons term. On the other hand, in some class of
Type II, the Chern-Simons term is not enough to cancel all localized anomalies
even if they are globally vanishing. We also find that for the consistent
embedding of brane fields, there appear only the localized log FI terms at the
fixed point(s) with a U(1) factor.Comment: LaTeX file of 19 pages with no figure, published versio
Universal geometric approach to uncertainty, entropy and information
It is shown that for any ensemble, whether classical or quantum, continuous
or discrete, there is only one measure of the "volume" of the ensemble that is
compatible with several basic geometric postulates. This volume measure is thus
a preferred and universal choice for characterising the inherent spread,
dispersion, localisation, etc, of the ensemble. Remarkably, this unique
"ensemble volume" is a simple function of the ensemble entropy, and hence
provides a new geometric characterisation of the latter quantity. Applications
include unified, volume-based derivations of the Holevo and Shannon bounds in
quantum and classical information theory; a precise geometric interpretation of
thermodynamic entropy for equilibrium ensembles; a geometric derivation of
semi-classical uncertainty relations; a new means for defining classical and
quantum localization for arbitrary evolution processes; a geometric
interpretation of relative entropy; and a new proposed definition for the
spot-size of an optical beam. Advantages of the ensemble volume over other
measures of localization (root-mean-square deviation, Renyi entropies, and
inverse participation ratio) are discussed.Comment: Latex, 38 pages + 2 figures; p(\alpha)->1/|T| in Eq. (72) [Eq. (A10)
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Suggestion, hypnosis and hypnotherapy: a survey of use, knowledge and attitudes of anaesthetists
Publisher's copy made available with the permission of the publisher © Australian Society of AnaesthetistsClinical hypnosis is a skill of using words and gestures (frequently called suggestions) in particular ways to achieve specific outcomes. It is being increasingly recognised as a useful intervention for managing a range of symptoms, especially pain and anxiety. We surveyed all 317 South Australian Fellows and trainees registered with ANZCA to determine their use, knowledge of, and attitudes towards positive suggestion, hypnosis and hypnotherapy in their anaesthesia practice. The response rate was 218 anaesthetists (69%). The majority of respondents (63%) rated their level of knowledge on this topic as below average. Forty-eight per cent of respondents indicated that there was a role for hypnotherapy in clinical anaesthesia, particularly in areas seen as traditional targets for the modality, i.e. pain and anxiety states. Nearly half of the anaesthetists supported the use of hypnotherapy and positive suggestions within clinical anaesthesia. Those respondents who had experience of clinical hypnotherapy were more likely to support hypnosis teaching at undergraduate or postgraduate level when compared with those with no experience.http://www.aaic.net.au/Article.asp?D=200408
A gauge model for quantum mechanics on a stratified space
In the Hamiltonian approach on a single spatial plaquette, we construct a
quantum (lattice) gauge theory which incorporates the classical singularities.
The reduced phase space is a stratified K\"ahler space, and we make explicit
the requisite singular holomorphic quantization procedure on this space. On the
quantum level, this procedure furnishes a costratified Hilbert space, that is,
a Hilbert space together with a system which consists of the subspaces
associated with the strata of the reduced phase space and of the corresponding
orthoprojectors. The costratified Hilbert space structure reflects the
stratification of the reduced phase space. For the special case where the
structure group is , we discuss the tunneling probabilities
between the strata, determine the energy eigenstates and study the
corresponding expectation values of the orthoprojectors onto the subspaces
associated with the strata in the strong and weak coupling approximations.Comment: 38 pages, 9 figures. Changes: comments on the heat kernel and
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Corrections to the Central Limit Theorem for Heavy-Tailed Probability Densities
Classical Edgeworth expansions provide asymptotic correction terms to the
Central Limit Theorem (CLT) up to an order that depends on the number of
moments available. In this paper, we provide subsequent correction terms beyond
those given by a standard Edgeworth expansion in the general case of regularly
varying distributions with diverging moments (beyond the second). The
subsequent terms can be expressed in a simple closed form in terms of certain
special functions (Dawson's integral and parabolic cylinder functions), and
there are qualitative differences depending on whether the number of moments
available is even, odd or not an integer, and whether the distributions are
symmetric or not. If the increments have an even number of moments, then
additional logarithmic corrections must also be incorporated in the expansion
parameter. An interesting feature of our correction terms for the CLT is that
they become dominant outside the central region and blend naturally with known
large-deviation asymptotics when these are applied formally to the spatial
scales of the CLT
Landscape equivalent of the shoving model
It is shown that the shoving model expression for the average relaxation time
of viscous liquids follows largely from a classical "landscape" estimation of
barrier heights from curvature at energy minima. The activation energy involves
both instantaneous bulk and shear moduli, but the bulk modulus contributes less
than 8% to the temperature dependence of the activation energy. This reflects
the fact that the physics of the two models are closely related.Comment: 4 page
Up Quark Masses from Down Quark Masses
The quark and charged lepton masses and the angles and phase of the CKM
mixing matrix are nicely reproduced in a model which assumes SU(3)xSU(3)
flavour symmetry broken by the v.e.v.'s of fields in its bi-fundamental
representation. The relations among the quark mass eigenvalues, m_u/m_c \approx
m_c/m_t \approx m^2_d/m^2_s \approx m^2_s/m^2_b \approx
\Lambda^2_{GUT}/M^2_{Pl}, follow from the broken flavour symmetry. Large
tan(beta) is required which also provides the best fits to data for the
obtained textures. Lepton-quark grandunification with a field that breaks both
SU(5) and the flavour group correctly extends the predictions to the charged
lepton masses. The seesaw extension of the model to the neutrino sector
predicts a Majorana mass matrix quadratically hierarchical as compared to the
neutrino Dirac mass matrix, naturally yielding large mixings and low mass
hierarchy for neutrinos.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure. Published version: model improved, references
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