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Processing and Transmission of Information
Contains reports on two research projects.Lincoln Laboratory (Purchase Order DDL-B187)Department of the ArmyDepartment of the NavyDepartment of the Air Force under Contract AF19(122)-45
Experimental study of wing leading-edge devices for improved maneuver performance of a supercritical maneuvering fighter configuration
Wind tunnel tests were conducted to examine the use of wing leading-edge devices for improved subsonic and transonic maneuver performance. These devices were tested on a fighter configuration which utilized supercritical-wing technology. The configuration had a leading-edge sweep of 45 deg and an aspect ratio of 3.28. The tests were conducted at Mach numbers of 0.60 and 0.85 with angles of attack from -0.5 deg to 22 deg. At both Mach numbers, sharp leading-edge flaps produced vortices which greatly altered the flow pattern on the wing and resulted in substantial reductions in drag at high lift. Underwing or pylon-type vortex generators also reduced drag at high lift. The vortex generators worked better at a Mach number of 0.60. The vortex generators gave the best overall results with zero toe-in angle and when mounted on either the outboard part of the wing or at both an outboard location and halfway out the semispan. Both the flaps and the vortex generators had a minor effect on the pitching moment. Fluorescent minitufts were found to be useful for flow visualization at transonic maneuver conditions
A survey of parallel algorithms for fractal image compression
This paper presents a short survey of the key research work that has been undertaken in the application of parallel algorithms for Fractal image compression. The interest in fractal image compression techniques stems from their ability to achieve high compression ratios whilst maintaining a very high quality in the reconstructed image. The main drawback of this compression method is the very high computational cost that is associated with the encoding phase. Consequently, there has been significant interest in exploiting parallel computing architectures in order to speed up this phase, whilst still maintaining the advantageous features of the approach. This paper presents a brief introduction to fractal image compression, including the iterated function system theory upon
which it is based, and then reviews the different techniques that have been, and can be, applied in order to parallelize the compression algorithm
Processing and Transmission of Information
Contains research objectives and reports on one research project.Lincoln Laboratory (Purchase Order DDL-B187)Department of the ArmyDepartment of the NavyDepartment of the Air Force under Contract AF19(122)-45
Precision neutron interferometric measurement of the nd coherent neutron scattering length and consequences for models of three-nucleon forces
We have performed the first high precision measurement of the coherent
neutron scattering length of deuterium in a pure sample using neutron
interferometry. We find b_nd = (6.665 +/- 0.004) fm in agreement with the world
average of previous measurements using different techniques, b_nd = (6.6730 +/-
0.0045) fm. We compare the new world average for the nd coherent scattering
length b_nd = (6.669 +/- 0.003) fm to calculations of the doublet and quartet
scattering lengths from several modern nucleon-nucleon potential models with
three-nucleon force (3NF) additions and show that almost all theories are in
serious disagreement with experiment. This comparison is a more stringent test
of the models than past comparisons with the less precisely-determined nuclear
doublet scattering length of a_nd = (0.65 +/- 0.04) fm.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Matroids and Quantum Secret Sharing Schemes
A secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic protocol to distribute a secret
state in an encoded form among a group of players such that only authorized
subsets of the players can reconstruct the secret. Classically, efficient
secret sharing schemes have been shown to be induced by matroids. Furthermore,
access structures of such schemes can be characterized by an excluded minor
relation. No such relations are known for quantum secret sharing schemes. In
this paper we take the first steps toward a matroidal characterization of
quantum secret sharing schemes. In addition to providing a new perspective on
quantum secret sharing schemes, this characterization has important benefits.
While previous work has shown how to construct quantum secret sharing schemes
for general access structures, these schemes are not claimed to be efficient.
In this context the present results prove to be useful; they enable us to
construct efficient quantum secret sharing schemes for many general access
structures. More precisely, we show that an identically self-dual matroid that
is representable over a finite field induces a pure state quantum secret
sharing scheme with information rate one
Constraints on a Parity-Conserving/Time-Reversal-Non-Conserving Interaction
Time-Reversal-Invariance non-conservation has now been unequivocally
demonstrated in a direct measurement at CPLEAR. What about tests of
time-reversal-invariance in systems other than the kaon system? Tests of
time-reversal-invariance belong to two classes: searches for parity violating
(P-odd)/time-reversal-invariance-odd (T-odd) interactions, and for P-even/T-odd
interactions (assuming CPT conservation this implies C-conjugation
non-conservation). Limits on a P-odd/T-odd interaction follow from measurements
of the electric dipole moment of the neutron (with a present upper limit of 6 x
10^-26 e.cm [95% C.L.]). It provides a limit on a P-odd/T-odd pion-nucleon
coupling constant which is less than 10^-4 times the weak interaction strength.
Experimental limits on a P-even/T-odd interaction are much less stringent.
Following the standard approach of describing the nucleon-nucleon interaction
in terms of meson exchanges, it can be shown that only charged rho-meson
exchange and A_1 meson exchange can lead to a P-even/T-odd interaction. The
better constraints stem from measurements of the electric dipole moment of the
neutron and from measurements of charge-symmetry breaking in neutron-proton
elastic scattering. The latter experiments were executed at TRIUMF (497 and 347
MeV) and at IUCF (183 MeV). Weak decay experiments may provide limits which
will possibly be comparable. All other experiments, like gamma decay
experiments, detailed balance experiments, polarization - analyzing power
difference determinations, and five-fold correlation experiments with polarized
incident nucleons and aligned nuclear targets, have been shown to be at least
an order of magnitude less sensitive.Comment: 15 pages LaTeX, including 5 PostScript figures. Uses ijmpe1.sty. To
appear in International Journal of Modern Physics E (IJMPE). Slight change in
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Anisotropic infrared response of vanadium dioxide microcrystals
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) undergoes a phase transition at a temperature of 340 K between an insulating monoclinic M-1 phase and a conducting rutile phase. Accurate measurements of possible anisotropy of the electronic properties and phonon features of VO2 in the insulating monoclinic M-1 and metallic rutile phases are a prerequisite for understanding the phase transition in this correlated system. Recently, it has become possible to grow single domain untwinned VO2 microcrystals, which makes it possible to investigate the true anisotropy of VO2. We performed polarized transmission infrared micro-spectroscopy on these untwinned microcrystals in the spectral range between 200 cm(-1) and 6000 cm(-1) and have obtained the anisotropic phonon parameters and low frequency electronic properties in the insulating monoclinic M-1 and metallic rutile phases. We have also performed ab initio GGA+U total energy calculations of phonon frequencies for both phases. We find our measurements and calculations to be in good agreement. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.11512
Far-Infrared Blocked Impurity Band Detector Development
DRS Sensors & Targeting Systems, supported by detector materials supplier Lawrence Semiconductor Research Laboratory, is developing far-infrared detectors jointly with NASA Langley under the Far-IR Detector Technology Advancement Partnership (FIDTAP). The detectors are intended for spectral characterization of the Earth's energy budget from space. During the first year of this effort we have designed, fabricated, and evaluated pilot Blocked Impurity Band (BIB) detectors in both silicon and germanium, utilizing pre-existing customized detector materials and photolithographic masks. A second-year effort has prepared improved silicon materials, fabricated custom photolithographic masks for detector process, and begun detector processing. We report the characterization results from the pilot detectors and other progress
High-Sensitivity Measurement of 3He-4He Isotopic Ratios for Ultracold Neutron Experiments
Research efforts ranging from studies of solid helium to searches for a
neutron electric dipole moment require isotopically purified helium with a
ratio of 3He to 4He at levels below that which can be measured using
traditional mass spectroscopy techniques. We demonstrate an approach to such a
measurement using accelerator mass spectroscopy, reaching the 10e-14 level of
sensitivity, several orders of magnitude more sensitive than other techniques.
Measurements of 3He/4He in samples relevant to the measurement of the neutron
lifetime indicate the need for substantial corrections. We also argue that
there is a clear path forward to sensitivity increases of at least another
order of magnitude.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
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