920 research outputs found
Noémia de Sousa: the historical voice of Mozambique
La producción literaria de Noémia se sitúa entre los años 40 y 50 y exclusivamente en Mozambique; durante los periodos en que vivió en Portugal (donde terminaría muriendo en 2001) o en Francia, detuvo su labor poética.
Esta peculiaridad de su actividad literaria delata una de sus características principales: la concepción de la literatura como espacio de resistencia y organización en una encrucijada histórica donde la elaboración de un proyecto nacional dominaba sobre cual- quier impulso lírico o intimista. La denuncia de la esclavitud, la necesidad de repensar el ser africano, pasaba por la necesidad de erigir una voz común, en su sentido más literal, esto es: fundar, dar validez, a una expresión nueva y compartida capaz de cohesionar culturalmente un territorio de inequívoca heterogeneidad
Visual threats and visual efficacy: ideas of image reception in the arguments of Lucas Tudense about the changes in the Crucifixion (c.1230)
In this paper, I examine the ideas regarding image reception that can be extracted from the
De altera uita, a theological treatise written by the Iberian bishop Lucas de Tui in ca. 1230. In this book, he devotes one chapter to rejecting the changes that were taking place at the time in the image of the Crucifixion, especially concerning the variation in the number of nails and the shape of the cross. I will show that this text provides illuminating references regarding image reception, mainly through Lucas’s concerns about the visual misleading of the faithful and their devotional responses to artworks. By examining this work, which I will set against the theological and devotional background of its time, I will argue that this treatise reflects the importance of sight within the religious experienc of late-medieval EuropeThis scientific publication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 950248). The project, entitled “The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th–15th century)-SenSArt” (PI Prof. Zuleika Murat) is being carried out at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua in 2021–2026.S
Advances in Streaming Novelty Detection
153 p.En primer lugar, en esta tesis se aborda un problema de confusión entre términos y problemas en el cual el mismo término es utilizado para referirse a diferentes problemas y, de manera similar, el mismo problema es llamado con diferentes términos indistintamente. Esto motiva una dificultad de avance en elcampo de conocimiento dado que es difícil encontrar literatura relacionada y propicia la repetición detrabajos. En la primera contribución se propone una asignación individual de términos a problemas y una formalización de los escenarios de aprendizaje para tratar de estandarizar el campo. En segundo lugar, se aborda el problema de Streaming Novelty Detection. En este problema, partiendo de un conjunto de datos supervisado, se aprende un modelo. A continuación, el modelo recibe nuevas instancias no etiquetadas para predecir su clase de manera online o en stream. El modelo debe actualizarse para hacer frente al concept-drift. En este escenario de clasificación, se asume que puedensurgir nuevas clases de forma dinámica. Por lo tanto, el modelo debe ser capaz de descubrir nuevas clases de manera automática y sin supervisión. En este contexto, esta tesis propone 2 contribuciones. En primerlugar una solución basada en mixturas de Guassianas donde cada clase en modelada con una de lascomponentes de la mixtura. En segundo lugar, se propone el uso de redes neuronales, tales como las redes Autoencoder, y las redes Deep Support Vector Data Description para trabajar con serie stemporales
Exciting with quantum light
Tesis Doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada. Fecha de lectura: 22-11-2019A two-level system—the idealization of an atom with only two energy levels—is the most
fundamental quantum object. As such, it has long been at the forefront of the research in
Quantum Optics: its emission spectrum is simply a Lorentzian distribution, and the light it
produces is the most quantum that can be. The temporal distribution of the photon emission
displays a perfect antibunching, meaning that such a system will never emit two (or more)
photons simultaneously, which is consistent with the intuition that the two-level system can
only sustain a single excitation at any given time. Although these two properties have been
known for decades, it was not until the advent of the Theory of Frequency-filtered and Time-resolved
Correlations that it was observed that the perfect antibunching is not the end of the story: the
correlations between photons possess an underlying structure, which is unveiled when one
retains the information about the color of the photons. This is a consequence of the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle: measuring perfect antibunching implies an absolute knowledge about
the time at which the photons have been emitted, which in turn implies an absolute uncertainty
on their energy. Thus, keeping some information about the frequency of the emitted photons
affects the correlations between them. This means that a two-level system can be turned into
a versatile source of quantum light, providing light with a large breadth of correlation types
well beyond simply antibunching. Furthermore, when the two-level system is driven coherently
in the so-called Mollow regime (in which the two-level system becomes dressed by the laser
and the emission line is split into three), the correlations blossom: one can find every type of
statistics—from antibunching to super-bunching—provided that one measures the photons
emitted at the adequate frequency window of the triplet. In fact, the process of filtering the
emission at the frequencies corresponding to N-photon transitions is the idea behind the
Bundler, a source of light whose emission is always in bundles of exactly N photons.
The versatility of the correlations decking the emitted light motivates the topic of this
Dissertation, in which I focus on the theoretical study of the behaviour that arises when
physical systems are driven with quantum light, i.e., with light that cannot be described through
the classical theory of electromagnetism. As the canon of excitation used in the literature is
restricted to classical sources, namely lasers and thermal reservoirs, our description starts
with the most fundamental objects that can be considered as the optical targets: a harmonic
oscillator (which represents the field for non-interacting bosonic particles) and a two-level
system (which in turn represents the field for fermionic particles). We describe which regions
of the Harmonic oscillator’s Hilbert space can be accessed by driving the harmonic oscillator
with the light emitted by a two-level system, i.e., which quantum steady states can be realized.
Analogously, we find that the quality of the single-photon emission from a two-level system
can be enhanced when it is driven by quantum light. Once the advantages of using quantum,
rather than classical, sources of light are demonstrated with the fundamental optical targets, we
turn to the quantum excitation of more involved systems, such as the strong coupling between
a harmonic oscillator and either a two-level system—whose description is made through the
Jaynes-Cummings model—or a nonlinear harmonic oscillator—which can be realized in systems
of, e.g., exciton-polaritons. Here we find that the statistical versatility of the light emitted by
the Mollow triplet allows to perform Quantum Spectroscopy on these systems, thus gaining
knowledge of its internal structure and dynamics, and in particular to probe their interactions
with the least possible amount of particles: two. In the process of exciting with quantum light,
we are called to further examine the source itself. In fact, there is even the need to revisit the
concept of a single-photon source, for which we propose more robust criterion than g(2). We also
turn to toy-models of the Bundler so as to use it effectively as an optical source. We can then
xix study the advantages that one gets and shortcomings that one faces when using this source of
light to drive all the systems considered on excitation with the emission of a two-level system.
Finally, we go from the continuous to the pulsed regime of excitation, which is of higher interest
for applications and comes with its own set of fundamental questions
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