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Dynamic facilitation explains democratic particle motion of metabasin transitions
Transitions between metabasins in supercooled liquids seem to occur through
rapid "democratic" collective particle rearrangements. Here we show that this
apparent homogeneous particle motion is a direct consequence of dynamic
facilitation. We do so by studying metabasin transitions in facilitated spin
models and constrained lattice gases. We find that metabasin transitions occur
through a sequence of locally facilitated events taking place over a relatively
short time frame. When observed on small enough spatial windows these events
appear sudden and homogeneous. Our results indicate that metabasin transitions
are essentially "non-democratic" in origin and yet another manifestation of
dynamical heterogeneity in glass formers.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Survey of digitisation of core readings in UK Higher Education
A survey of the digitisation of core reading in UK higher education was undertaken by Jane Secker (LSE) and June Hedges (UCL) in March 2009. The survey was designed to collect information primarily about current practices relating to the digitisation of core reading to support taught courses across the sector, but also touched on wider issues
After-School Programs for High School Students: An Evaluation of After School Matters
Evaluates outcomes for teens in Chicago's After School Matters apprenticeship-like program, finding statistically significant benefits on some measures of youth development and reduced problem behaviors but not in job skills or school performance
A Generalised Quantifier Theory of Natural Language in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics with Bialgebras
Categorical compositional distributional semantics is a model of natural language; it combines the statistical vector space models of words with the compositional models of grammar. We formalise in this model the generalised quantifier theory of natural language, due to Barwise and Cooper. The underlying setting is a compact closed category with bialgebras. We start from a generative grammar formalisation and develop an abstract categorical compositional semantics for it, then instantiate the abstract setting to sets and relations and to finite dimensional vector spaces and linear maps. We prove the equivalence of the relational instantiation to the truth theoretic semantics of generalised quantifiers. The vector space instantiation formalises the statistical usages of words and enables us to, for the first time, reason about quantified phrases and sentences compositionally in distributional semantics
A Frattini Theory for Leibniz Algebras
A Frattini theory for non-associative algebras was developed by Towers and
results for particular classes of algebras have appeared in various articles.
Especially plentiful are results on Lie algebras. It is the purpose of this
paper to extend some of the Lie algebra results to Leibniz algebras
Matrix elements of atomic interaction operators for d sup n configurations
Tabulation of matrix elements of atomic interaction operators for various configuration
Photon echo quantum memories in inhomogeneously broadened two level atoms
Here we propose a solid-state quantum memory that does not require spectral
holeburning, instead using strong rephasing pulses like traditional photon echo
techniques. The memory uses external broadening fields to reduce the optical
depth and so switch off the collective atom-light interaction when desired. The
proposed memory should allow operation with reasonable efficiency in a much
broader range of material systems, for instance Er3+ doped crystals which have
a transition at 1.5 um. We present analytic theory supported by numerical
calculations and initial experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
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