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    Acceleration insensitive fluid expansion compensator

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    Device compensates for temperature and acceleration effects on a fluid-floated mass in a sealed container of a high performance angular or acceleration sensing instrument. It is used in precision instruments for regulation of gases or liquids in a moving body

    Energy storage using high pressure electrolysis and methods for reconversion

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    Theoretical and experimental studies on high pressure electrolysis producing hydrogen and oxygen for energy storage and reconversion are reported. Moderate temperature, high pressure hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells with nickel electrodes are investigated for effects of pressure, temperature, and membrane porosity. Test results from an aphodid burner turbine generator combination obtained 40 percent kilowatt hours out of the fuel cell divided by kilowatt hours into the electrolyzer. It is concluded that high pressure hydrogenation of organic materials can be used to synthesize hydrozenes and methanes for making synthetic vehicular fuels

    A Hybrid Approach to Joint Estimation of Channel and Antenna impedance

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    This paper considers a hybrid approach to joint estimation of channel information and antenna impedance, for single-input, single-output channels. Based on observation of training sequences via synchronously switched load at the receiver, we derive joint maximum a posteriori and maximum-likelihood (MAP/ML) estimators for channel and impedance over multiple packets. We investigate important properties of these estimators, e.g., bias and efficiency. We also explore the performance of these estimators through numerical examples.Comment: 6 pages, two columns, 6 figures. References update

    Entanglement of a 3D generalization of the Kitaev model on the diamond lattice

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    We study the entanglement properties of a three dimensional generalization of the Kitaev honeycomb model proposed by Ryu [Phys. Rev. B 79, 075124, (2009)]. The entanglement entropy in this model separates into a contribution from a Z2Z_2 gauge field and that of a system of hopping Majorana fermions, similar to what occurs in the Kitaev model. This separation enables the systematic study of the entanglement of this 3D interacting bosonic model by using the tools of non-interacting fermions. In this way, we find that the topological entanglement entropy comes exclusively from the Z2Z_2 gauge field, and that it is the same for all of the phases of the system. There are differences, however, in the entanglement spectrum of the Majorana fermions that distinguish between the topologically distinct phases of the model. We further point out that the effect of introducing vortex lines in the Z2Z_2 gauge field will only change the entanglement contribution of the Majorana fermions. We evaluate this contribution to the entanglement which arises due to gapless Majorana modes that are trapped by the vortex lines.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures. Invited article to JSTAT Special Issue: Quantum Entanglement in Condensed Matter Physic

    Absence of topological insulator phases in non-Hermitian PT-symmetric Hamiltonians

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    In this work we consider a generalization of the symmetry classification of topological insulators to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians which satisfy a combined PTPT-symmetry (parity and time-reversal). We show via examples, and explicit bulk and boundary state proofs that the typical paradigm of forming topological insulator states from Dirac Hamiltonians is not compatible with the construction of non-Hermitian PTPT-symmetric Hamiltonians. The topological insulator states are PTPT-breaking phases and have energy spectra which are complex (not real) and thus such non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are not consistent quantum theories.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
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