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Photoacoustic wave propagating from normal into superconductive phases in Pb single crystals
Photoacoustic (PA) wave has been examined in a superconductor of the first
kind, Pb single crystal. The PA wave is induced by optical excitation of
electronic state and propagates from normal into superconductive phases below
T. It is clearly shown by wavelet analysis that the measured PA wave
includes two different components. The high-frequency component is
MHz-ultrasonic and the relative low-frequency one is induced by thermal wave.
The latter is observed in a similar manner irrespective of T. On the
other hand, the MHz-frequency component is obviously enhanced below T. The behavior is reproduced by the change of attenuation of longitudinal
ultrasonic wave and is consistent with BCS theory.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures (fig.3 is colored), RevTeX4; the text is modifie
New Dissipation Relaxation Phenomenon in Oscillating Solid He-4
We describe the first observations on the time-dependent dissipation when the
drive level of a torsional oscillator containing solid He-4 is abruptly
changed. The relaxation of dissipation in solid He-4 shows rich dynamical
behavior including exponential and logarithmic time-dependent decays,
hysteresis, and memory effects.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Oscillation Frequency Dependence of Non-Classical Rotation Inertia of Solid He
The non-classical rotational inertia fraction of the identical cylindrical
solid He below 300 mK is studied at 496 and 1173 Hz by a double resonance
torsional oscillator. Below 35 mK, the fraction is the same at sufficiently low
rim velocities. Above 35 mK, the fraction is greater for the higher than the
lower mode. The dissipation peak of the lower mode occurs at a temperature
4 mK lower than that of the higher mode. The drive dependence of the two
modes shows that the reduction of the fraction is characterized by critical
velocity, \textit{not} amplitude nor acceleration.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Tidal effects on magnetic gyration of a charged particle in Fermi coordinates
We examine the gyration motion of a charged particle, viewed from a reference
observer falling along the Z axis into a Schwarzschild black hole. It is
assumed that the magnetic field is constant and uniform along the Z axis, and
that the particle has a circular orbit in the X-Y plane far from the
gravitational source. When the particle as well as the reference observer
approaches the black hole, its orbit is disrupted by the tidal force. The final
plunging velocity increases in the non-relativistic case, but decreases if the
initial circular velocity exceeds a critical value, which is approximately
0.7c. This toy model suggests that disruption of a rapidly rotating star due to
a velocity-dependent tidal force may be quite different from that of a
non-relativistic star. The model also suggested that collapse of the orbit
after the disruption is slow in general, so that the particle subsequently
escapes outside the valid Fermi coordinates.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figure
Resonant growth of stellar oscillations by incident gravitational waves
Stellar oscillation under the combined influences of incident gravitational
wave and radiation loss is studied in a simple toy model. The star is
approximated as a uniform density ellipsoid in the Newtonian gravity including
radiation damping through quadrupole formula. The time evolution of the
oscillation is significantly controlled by the incident wave amplitude ,
frequency and damping time . If a combination
exceeds a threshold value, which depends on the resonance mode, the resonant
growth is realized.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for the publication in Classical and
Quantum Gravit
Hydrothermal Ethanol Flames in Co-Flow Jets
Results on the autoignition and stabilization of ethanol hydrothermal flames in a Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) reactor operating at constant pressure are reported. The flames are observed as luminous reaction zones occurring in supercritical water; i.e., water at conditions above its critical point (approximately 22 MPa and 374 C). A co-flow injector is used to inject fuel (inner flow), comprising an aqueous solution ranging from 20%-v to 50%-v ethanol, and air (annular flow) into a reactor filled with supercritical water at approximately 24.3 MPa and 425 C. Results show hydrothermal flames are autoignited and form diffusion flames which exhibit laminar and/or turbulent features depending upon flow conditions. Two orthogonal camera views are used; one providing a backlit shadowgraphic image of the co-flow jet and the other providing color images of the flame. In addition, spectroscopic measurements of flame emissions in the UV and visible spectrum are discussed
Reflectance measurement of two-dimensional photonic crystal nanocavities with embedded quantum dots
The spectra of two-dimensional photonic crystal slab nanocavities with
embedded InAs quantum dots are measured by photoluminescence and reflectance.
In comparing the spectra taken by these two different methods, consistency with
the nanocavities' resonant wavelengths is found. Furthermore, it is shown that
the reflectance method can measure both active and passive cavities. Q-factors
of nanocavities, whose resonant wavelengths range from 1280 to 1620 nm, are
measured by the reflectance method in cross polarization. Experimentally,
Q-factors decrease for longer wavelengths and the intensity, reflected by the
nanocavities on resonance, becomes minimal around 1370 nm. The trend of the
Q-factors is explained by the change of the slab thickness relative to the
resonant wavelength, showing a good agreement between theory and experiment.
The trend of reflected intensity by the nanocavities on resonance can be
understood as effects that originate from the PC slab and the underlying air
cladding thickness. In addition to three dimensional finite-difference
time-domain calculations, an analytical model is introduced that is able to
reproduce the wavelength dependence of the reflected intensity observed in the
experiment.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figures, corrected+full versio
The Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the quantum Nonlinear Schrodinger equation
We consider the dynamical correlation functions of the quantum Nonlinear
Schrodinger equation. In a previous paper we found that the dynamical
correlation functions can be described by the vacuum expectation value of an
operator-valued Fredholm determinant. In this paper we show that a
Riemann-Hilbert problem can be associated with this Fredholm determinant. This
Riemann-Hilbert problem formulation permits us to write down completely
integrable equations for the Fredholm determinant and to perform an asymptotic
analysis for the correlation function.Comment: 21 pages, Latex, no figure
The Long-Short Story of Movie Description
Generating descriptions for videos has many applications including assisting
blind people and human-robot interaction. The recent advances in image
captioning as well as the release of large-scale movie description datasets
such as MPII Movie Description allow to study this task in more depth. Many of
the proposed methods for image captioning rely on pre-trained object classifier
CNNs and Long-Short Term Memory recurrent networks (LSTMs) for generating
descriptions. While image description focuses on objects, we argue that it is
important to distinguish verbs, objects, and places in the challenging setting
of movie description. In this work we show how to learn robust visual
classifiers from the weak annotations of the sentence descriptions. Based on
these visual classifiers we learn how to generate a description using an LSTM.
We explore different design choices to build and train the LSTM and achieve the
best performance to date on the challenging MPII-MD dataset. We compare and
analyze our approach and prior work along various dimensions to better
understand the key challenges of the movie description task
Flavor-oscillation clocks, continuous quantum measurements and a violation of Einstein equivalence principle
The relation between Einstein equivalence principle and a continuous quantum
measurement is analyzed in the context of the recently proposed
flavor-oscillation clocks, an idea pioneered by Ahluwalia and Burgard (Gen. Rel
Grav. Errata 29, 681 (1997)). We will calculate the measurement outputs if a
flavor-oscillation clock, which is immersed in a gravitational field, is
subject to a continuous quantum measurement. Afterwards, resorting to the weak
equivalence principle, we obtain the corresponding quantities in a freely
falling reference frame. Finally, comparing this last result with the
measurement outputs that would appear in a Minkowskian spacetime it will be
found that they do not coincide, in other words, we have a violation of
Einstein equivalence principle. This violation appears in two different forms,
namely: (i) the oscillation frequency in a freely falling reference frame does
not match with the case predicted by general relativity, a feature previously
obtained by Ahluwalia; (ii) the probability distribution of the measurement
outputs, obtained by an observer in a freely falling reference frame, does not
coincide with the results that would appear in the case of a Minkowskian
spacetime.Comment: 16 pages, accepted in Mod. Phys. Letts.
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