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Remote pivot decoupler pylon: Wing/store flutter suppressor
A device for suspending a store from an aerodynamic support surface, such an an aircraft wing, and more specifically, for improving upon singlet pivot decoupler pylons by reducing both frequency of active store, alignment, and alignment system space and power requirements. Two links suspend a lower pylon/rack section and releasable attached store from an upper pylon section mounted under the wing. The links allow the lower pylon section to rotate in pitch about a remote pivot point. A leaf spring connected between the lower section and electrical alignment system servomechanism provides pitch alignment of the lower section/store combination. The servomechanism utilizes an electric servomotor to drive the gear train and reversibly move the leaf spring, thereby maintaining the pitch attitude of the store within acceptable limits. The damper strokes when the lower section rotates to damp large oscillations of store
Thermal conductance as a probe of the non-local order parameter for a topological superconductor with gauge fluctuations
We investigate the effect of quantum phase slips on a helical quantum wire
coupled to a superconductor by proximity. The effective low-energy description
of the wire is that of a Majorana chain minimally coupled to a dynamical
gauge field. Hence the wire emulates a matter-coupled gauge
theory, with fermion parity playing the role of the gauged global symmetry.
Quantum phase slips lift the ground state degeneracy associated with unpaired
Majorana edge modes at the ends of the chain, a change that can be understood
as a transition between the confined and the Higgs-mechanism regimes of the
gauge theory. We identify the quantization of thermal conductance at the
transition as a robust experimental feature separating the two regimes. We
explain this result by establishing a relation between thermal conductance and
the Fredenhagen-Marcu string order-parameter for confinement in gauge theories.
Our work indicates that thermal transport could serve as a measure of non-local
order parameters for emergent or simulated topological quantum order.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; v2: different introduction, added references,
updated figure 2; published version to appear in PR
Nonzero temperature effects on antibunched photons emitted by a quantum point contact out of equilibrium
Electrical current fluctuations in a single-channel quantum point contact can
produce photons (at frequency omega close to the applied voltage V x e/hbar)
which inherit the sub-Poissonian statistics of the electrons. We extend the
existing zero-temperature theory of the photostatistics to nonzero temperature
T. The Fano factor F (the ratio of the variance and the average photocount) is
1 for T>T_c (bunched photons). The
crossover temperature T_c ~ Deltaomega x hbar/k_B is set by the band width
Deltaomega of the detector, even if hbar x Deltaomega << eV. This implies that
narrow-band detection of photon antibunching is hindered by thermal
fluctuations even in the low-temperature regime where thermal electron noise is
negligible relative to shot noise.Comment: 4 pages, 2 pages appendix, 3 figure
Flat-lens focusing of electrons on the surface of a topological insulator
We propose the implementation of an electronic Veselago lens on the
conducting surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (such as
Bi2Te3). The negative refraction needed for such a flat lens results from the
sign change of the curvature of the Fermi surface, changing from a circular to
a snowflake-like shape across a sufficiently large electrostatic potential
step. No interband transition (as in graphene) is needed. For this reason, and
because the topological insulator provides protection against backscattering,
the potential step is able to focus a broad range of incident angles. We
calculate the quantum interference pattern produced by a point source,
generalizing the analogous optical calculation to include the effect of a
noncircular Fermi surface (having a nonzero conic constant).Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Changes in the polar vortex: Effects on Antarctic total ozone observations at various stations
October mean total column ozone data from four Antarctic stations form the basis for understanding the evolution of the ozone hole since 1960. While these stations show similar emergence of the ozone hole from 1960 to 1980, the records are divergent in the last two decades. The effects of long-term changes in vortex shape and location are considered by gridding the measurements by equivalent latitude. A clear eastward shift of the mean position of the vortex in October with time is revealed, which changes the fraction of ozone measurements taken inside/outside the vortex for stations in the vortex collar region. After including only those measurements made inside the vortex, ozone behavior in the last two decades at the four stations is very similar. This suggests that dynamical influence must be considered when interpreting and intercomparing ozone measurements from Antarctic stations for detecting ozone recovery and ozone-related changes in Antarctic climate
Nilpotent Networks and 4D RG Flows
Starting from a general SCFT, we study the network of
SCFTs obtained from relevant deformations by nilpotent mass
parameters. We also study the case of flipper field deformations where the mass
parameters are promoted to a chiral superfield, with nilpotent vev. Nilpotent
elements of semi-simple algebras admit a partial ordering connected by a
corresponding directed graph. We find strong evidence that the resulting fixed
points are connected by a similar network of 4D RG flows. To illustrate these
general concepts, we also present a full list of nilpotent deformations in the
case of explicit SCFTs, including the case of a single
D3-brane probing a - or -type F-theory 7-brane, and 6D conformal
matter compactified on a , as described by a single M5-brane probing a
- or -type singularity. We also observe a number of numerical
coincidences of independent interest, including a collection of theories with
rational values for their conformal anomalies, as well as a surprisingly nearly
constant value for the ratio for the entire
network of flows associated with a given UV SCFT. The
submission also includes the full dataset of theories which
can be accessed with a companion script.Comment: v2: 73 pages, 12 figures, clarifications and references adde
Design and Fabrication of the NASA Decoupler Pylon for the F-16 Aircraft
The NASA Decoupler Pylon is a passive means of suppressing wing-store flutter. The feasibility of demonstrating this concept on the F-16 aircraft was established through model wind tunnel tests and analyses. As a result of these tests and studies a ship set of Decoupler Pylons was designed and fabricated for a flight test demonstration on the F-16 aircraft. Basic design criteria were developed during the analysis study pertaining to pylon pitch stiffness, alignment system requirements, and damping requirements. A design was developed which utilized an electrical motor for the pylon alignment system. The design uses a four pin, two link pivot design which results in a remote pivot located at the center of gravity of the store when the store is in the aligned position. The pitch spring was fabricated from a tapered constant stress cantilevered beam. The pylon has the same external lines as the existing production pylon and is designed to use a MAU-12 ejection rack which is the same as the one used with the production pylon. The detailed design and fabrication was supported with a complete ground test of the pylon prior to shipment to NASA
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