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Large diameter astromast development, phase 1
Coilable-longeron lattice columns called Astromasts (trademark) were manufactured for a variety of spacecraft missions. These flight structures varied in diameter from 0.2 to 0.5 meter (9 to 19 in.), and the longest Astromast of this type deploys to a length of 30 meters (100 feet). A double-laced diagonal Astromast design referred to as the Supermast (trademark) which, because it has shorter baylengths than an Astromast, is approximately four times as strong. The longeron cross section and composite material selection for these structures are limited by the maximum strain associated with stowage and deployment. As a result, future requirements for deployable columns with high stiffness and strength require the development of both structures in larger diameters. The design, development, and manufacture of a 6.1-m-long (20-ft), 0.75-m-diameter (30-in.), double-laced diagonal version of the Astromast is described
Leading, Learning, and Leadership Support
Offers a framework for improving learning-focused leadership through the use of data and evidence, reallocation of resources, redefined roles and responsibilities, assessment of leadership performance, better governance, and a focus on high schools
Scalar Field Theory on Non-commutative Snyder Space-Time
We construct a scalar field theory on the Snyder non-commutative space-time.
The symmetry underlying the Snyder geometry is deformed at the co-algebraic
level only, while its Poincar\'e algebra is undeformed. The Lorentz sector is
undeformed at both algebraic and co-algebraic level, but the co-product for
momenta (defining the star-product) is non-co-associative. The Snyder-deformed
Poincar\'e group is described by a non-co-associative Hopf algebra. The
definition of the interacting theory in terms of a non-associative star-product
is thus questionable. We avoid the non-associativity by the use of a space-time
picture based on the concept of realization of a non-commutative geometry. The
two main results we obtain are: (i) the generic (namely for any realization)
construction of the co-algebraic sector underlying the Snyder geometry and (ii)
the definition of a non-ambiguous self interacting scalar field theory on this
space-time. The first order correction terms of the corresponding Lagrangian
are explicitly computed. The possibility to derive Noether charges for the
Snyder space-time is also discussed.Comment: 10 pages; v2: introduction rewritten, co-algebraic analysis improved,
references added; to appear in PR
Topological Exchange Statistics in One Dimension
The standard topological approach to indistinguishable particles formulates
exchange statistics by using the fundamental group to analyze the connectedness
of the configuration space. Although successful in two and more dimensions,
this approach gives only trivial or near trivial exchange statistics in one
dimension because two-body coincidences are excluded from configuration space.
Instead, we include these path-ambiguous singular points and consider
configuration space as an orbifold. This orbifold topological approach allows
unified analysis of exchange statistics in any dimension and predicts novel
possibilities for anyons in one-dimensional systems, including non-abelian
anyons obeying alternate strand groups. These results clarify the
non-topological origin of fractional statistics in one-dimensional anyon
models.Comment: v3: major revision and expansion from last edition; 16 pgs., 5 figs.,
109 ref
B- and A-Type Stars in the Taurus-Auriga Star Forming Region
We describe the results of a search for early-type stars associated with the
Taurus-Auriga molecular cloud complex, a diffuse nearby star-forming region
noted as lacking young stars of intermediate and high mass. We investigate
several sets of possible O, B and early A spectral class members. The first is
a group of stars for which mid-infrared images show bright nebulae, all of
which can be associated with stars of spectral type B. The second group
consists of early-type stars compiled from (i) literature listings in SIMBAD;
(ii) B stars with infrared excesses selected from the Spitzer Space Telescope
survey of the Taurus cloud; (iii) magnitude- and color-selected point sources
from the 2MASS; and (iv) spectroscopically identified early-type stars from the
SDSS coverage of the Taurus region. We evaluated stars for membership in the
Taurus-Auriga star formation region based on criteria involving: spectroscopic
and parallactic distances, proper motions and radial velocities, and infrared
excesses or line emission indicative of stellar youth. For selected objects, we
also model the scattered and emitted radiation from reflection nebulosity and
compare the results with the observed spectral energy distributions to further
test the plausibility of physical association of the B stars with the Taurus
cloud. This investigation newly identifies as probable Taurus members three
B-type stars: HR 1445 (HD 28929), tau Tau (HD 29763), 72 Tau (HD 28149), and
two A-type stars: HD 31305 and HD 26212, thus doubling the number of stars A5
or earlier associated with the Taurus clouds. Several additional early-type
sources including HD 29659 and HD 283815 meet some, but not all, of the
membership criteria and therefore are plausible, though not secure, members.Comment: 31 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in The
Astrophysical Journa
Learning-Focused Leadership and Leadership Support: Meaning and Practice in Urban Systems
Synthesizes three reports on what good education leadership means and how it can best be supported, including the role of the school leader and the transformation of central district offices to focus more on improving instruction. Outlines key practices
Decomposition of time-covariant operations on quantum systems with continuous and/or discrete energy spectrum
Every completely positive map G that commutes which the Hamiltonian time
evolution is an integral or sum over (densely defined) CP-maps G_\sigma where
\sigma is the energy that is transferred to or taken from the environment. If
the spectrum is non-degenerated each G_\sigma is a dephasing channel followed
by an energy shift. The dephasing is given by the Hadamard product of the
density operator with a (formally defined) positive operator. The Kraus
operator of the energy shift is a partial isometry which defines a translation
on R with respect to a non-translation-invariant measure.
As an example, I calculate this decomposition explicitly for the rotation
invariant gaussian channel on a single mode.
I address the question under what conditions a covariant channel destroys
superpositions between mutually orthogonal states on the same orbit. For
channels which allow mutually orthogonal output states on the same orbit, a
lower bound on the quantum capacity is derived using the Fourier transform of
the CP-map-valued measure (G_\sigma).Comment: latex, 33 pages, domains of unbounded operators are now explicitly
specified. Presentation more detailed. Implementing the shift after the
dephasing is sometimes more convenien
Efficient solvability of Hamiltonians and limits on the power of some quantum computational models
We consider quantum computational models defined via a Lie-algebraic theory.
In these models, specified initial states are acted on by Lie-algebraic quantum
gates and the expectation values of Lie algebra elements are measured at the
end. We show that these models can be efficiently simulated on a classical
computer in time polynomial in the dimension of the algebra, regardless of the
dimension of the Hilbert space where the algebra acts. Similar results hold for
the computation of the expectation value of operators implemented by a
gate-sequence. We introduce a Lie-algebraic notion of generalized mean-field
Hamiltonians and show that they are efficiently ("exactly") solvable by means
of a Jacobi-like diagonalization method. Our results generalize earlier ones on
fermionic linear optics computation and provide insight into the source of the
power of the conventional model of quantum computation.Comment: 6 pages; no figure
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