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Origin of Mass. Mass and Mass-Energy Equation from Classical-Mechanics Solution
We establish the classical wave equation for a particle formed of a massless
oscillatory elementary charge generally also traveling, and the resulting
electromagnetic waves, of a generally Doppler-effected angular frequency \w,
in the vacuum in three dimensions. We obtain from the solutions the total
energy of the particle wave to be \eng=\hbarc\w, 2\pi \hbarc being a
function expressed in wave-medium parameters and identifiable as the Planck
constant. In respect to the train of the waves as a whole traveling at the
finite velocity of light , \eng=mc^2 represents thereby the translational
kinetic energy of the wavetrain, m=\hbarc\w/c^2 being its inertial mass and
thereby the inertial mass of the particle. Based on the solutions we also write
down a set of semi-empirical equations for the particle's de Broglie wave
parameters. From the standpoint of overall modern experimental indications we
comment on the origin of mass implied by the solution.Comment: 13 pages, no figure. Augmented introductio
Nonclassical microwave radiation from the dynamical Casimir effect
We investigate quantum correlations in microwave radiation produced by the
dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting waveguide terminated and
modulated by a superconducting quantum interference device. We apply
nonclassicality tests and evaluate the entanglement for the predicted field
states. For realistic circuit parameters, including thermal background noise,
the results indicate that the produced radiation can be strictly nonclassical
and can have a measurable amount of intermode entanglement. If measured
experimentally, these nonclassicalilty indicators could give further evidence
of the quantum nature of the dynamical Casimir radiation in these circuits.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Iterative solutions to the steady state density matrix for optomechanical systems
We present a sparse matrix permutation from graph theory that gives stable
incomplete Lower-Upper (LU) preconditioners necessary for iterative solutions
to the steady state density matrix for quantum optomechanical systems. This
reordering is efficient, adding little overhead to the computation, and results
in a marked reduction in both memory and runtime requirements compared to other
solution methods, with performance gains increasing with system size. Either of
these benchmarks can be tuned via the preconditioner accuracy and solution
tolerance. This reordering optimizes the condition number of the approximate
inverse, and is the only method found to be stable at large Hilbert space
dimensions. This allows for steady state solutions to otherwise intractable
quantum optomechanical systems.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Interlaced particle systems and tilings of the Aztec diamond
Motivated by the problem of domino tilings of the Aztec diamond, a weighted
particle system is defined on lines, with line containing
particles. The particles are restricted to lattice points from 0 to , and
particles on successive lines are subject to an interlacing constraint. It is
shown that marginal distributions for this particle system can be computed
exactly. This in turn is used to give unified derivations of a number of
fundamental properties of the tiling problem, for example the evaluation of the
number of distinct configurations and the relation to the GUE minor process. An
interlaced particle system associated with the domino tiling of a certain half
Aztec diamond is similarly defined and analyzed.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
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