32,060 research outputs found
Hydrogen-methane fuel control systems for turbojet engines
Design, development, and test of a fuel conditioning and control system utilizing liquid methane (natural gas) and liquid hydrogen fuels for operation of a J85 jet engine were performed. The experimental program evaluated the stability and response of an engine fuel control employing liquid pumping of cryogenic fuels, gasification of the fuels at supercritical pressure, and gaseous metering and control. Acceptably stable and responsive control of the engine was demonstrated throughout the sea level power range for liquid gas fuel and up to 88 percent engine speed using liquid hydrogen fuel
Centaur operations at the space station
A study was conducted on the feasibility of using a Centaur vehicle as a testbed to demonstrate critical OTV technologies at the Space Station. Two Technology Demonstration Missions (TDMs) were identified: (1) Accommodations, and (2) Operations. The Accommodations TDM contained: (1) berthing, (2) checkout, maintenance and safing, and (3) payload integration missions. The Operations TDM contained: (1) a cryogenic propellant resupply mission, and (2) Centaur deployment activities. A modified Space Station Co-Orbiting Platform (COP) was selected as the optimum refueling and launch node due to safety and operational considerations. After completion of the TDMs, the fueled Centaur would carry out a mission to actually test deployment and help offset TDM costs. From the Station, the Centaur could carry a single payload in excess of 20,000 pounds to geosynchronous orbit or multiple payloads
Entanglement molecules
We investigate the entanglement properties of multiparticle systems,
concentrating on the case where the entanglement is robust against disposal of
particles. Two qubits -belonging to a multipartite system- are entangled in
this sense iff their reduced density matrix is entangled. We introduce a family
of multiqubit states, for which one can choose for any pair of qubits
independently whether they should be entangled or not as well as the relative
strength of the entanglement, thus providing the possibility to construct all
kinds of ''Entanglement molecules''. For some particular configurations, we
also give the maximal amount of entanglement achievable.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Activating bound entanglement in multi-particle systems
We analyze the existence of activable bound entangled states in
multi-particle systems. We first give a series of examples which illustrate
some different ways in which bound entangled states can be activated by letting
some of the parties to share maximally entangled states. Then, we derive
necessary conditions for a state to be distillable as well as to be activable.
These conditions turn out to be also sufficient for a certain family of
multi-qubit states. We use these results to explicitely to construct states
displaying novel properties related to bound entanglement and its activation.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
The nucleotide sequence of a human immnnoglobulin C-gamma-1 gene
We report the nucleotide sequence of a gene encoding the constant region of a human immnnoglobulin γ1 heavy chain (Cγ1). A comparison of this sequence with those of the Cγ2 and Cγ4 genes reveals that these three human Cγ genes share considerable homology in both coding and noncoding regions. The nucleotide sequence differences indicate that these genes diverged from one another approximately 6–8 million years ago. An examination of hinge exons shows that these coding regions have evolved more rapidly than any other areas of the Cγ genes in terms of both base substitution and deletion–insertion events. Coding sequence diversity also is observed in areas of CH domains which border the hinge
North Atlantic Deep Water Formation
Various studies concerning differing aspects of the North Atlantic are presented. The three major topics under which the works are classified include: (1) oceanography; (2) paleoclimate; and (3) ocean, ice and climate modeling
Control means for a gas turbine engine
A means is provided for developing a signal representative of the actual compressor casing temperature, a second signal representative of compressor inlet gas temperature, and a third signal representative of compressor speed. Another means is provided for receiving the gas temperature and compressor speed signals and developing a schedule output signal which is a representative of a reference casing temperature at which a predetermined compressor blade stabilized clearance is provided. A means is also provided for comparing the actual compressor casing temperature signal and the reference casing temperature signal and developing a clearance control system representative of the difference. The clearance control signal is coupled to a control valve which controls a flow of air to the compressor casing to control the clearance between the compressor blades and the compressor casing. The clearance control signal can be modified to accommodate transient characteristics. Other embodiments are disclosed
On the capacities of bipartite Hamiltonians and unitary gates
We consider interactions as bidirectional channels. We investigate the
capacities for interaction Hamiltonians and nonlocal unitary gates to generate
entanglement and transmit classical information. We give analytic expressions
for the entanglement generating capacity and entanglement-assisted one-way
classical communication capacity of interactions, and show that these
quantities are additive, so that the asymptotic capacities equal the
corresponding 1-shot capacities. We give general bounds on other capacities,
discuss some examples, and conclude with some open questions.Comment: V3: extensively rewritten. V4: a mistaken reference to a conjecture
by Kraus and Cirac [quant-ph/0011050] removed and a mistake in the order of
authors in Ref. [53] correcte
When only two thirds of the entanglement can be distilled
We provide an example of distillable bipartite mixed state such that, even in
the asymptotic limit, more pure-state entanglement is required to create it
than can be distilled from it. Thus, we show that the irreversibility in the
processes of formation and distillation of bipartite states, recently proved in
[G. Vidal, J.I. Cirac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, (2001) 5803-5806], is not limited
to bound-entangled states.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, 1 figur
- …