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Semiparametric Analysis of the Socio-Demographic and Spatial Determinants of Undernutrition in Two African Countries
We estimate semiparametric regression models of chronic undernutrition (stunting) using the 1992 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from Tanzania and Zambia. We focus particularly on the influence of the child's age, the mother's body mass index, and spatial influences on chronic undernutrition. Conventional parametric regression models are not flexible enough to cope with possibly nonlinear effects of the continuous covariates and cannot flexibly model spatial influences. We present a Bayesian semiparametric analysis of the effects of these two covariates on chronic undernutrition. Moreover, we investigate spatial determinants of undernutrition in these two countries. Compared to previous work with a simple fixed effects approach for the influence of provinces, we model small scale district specific effects using flexible spatial priors. Inference is fully Bayesian and uses recent Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques
Operators for scattering of particles with spin
Operators for simulating the scattering of two particles with spin are
constructed. Three methods are shown to give the consistent lattice operators
for PN, PV, VN and NN scattering, where P, V and N denote pseudoscalar meson,
vector meson and nucleon. The projection method leads to one or several
operators that transform according to a given irreducible
representation and row r. However, it gives little guidance on which
continuum quantum numbers of total J, spin S, orbital momentum L or
single-particle helicities will be related with a given
operator. This is remedied with the helicity and partial-wave methods. There
first the operators with good continuum quantum numbers
or are constructed and then subduced to the irreps of the
discrete lattice group. The results indicate which linear combinations
of various n have to be employed in the simulations in order
to enhance couplings to the states with desired continuum quantum numbers. The
total momentum of two hadrons is restricted to zero since parity P is a good
quantum number in this case.Comment: 7 pages, talk presented at the 34th International Symposium on
Lattice Field Theory, 24-30 July 2016, Southampton, U
The anomaly-free quantization of two-dimensional relativistic string. I
An anomaly-free quantum theory of a relativistic string is constructed in
two-dimensional space-time. The states of the string are found to be similar to
the states of a massless chiral quantum particle. This result is obtained by
generalizing the concept of an ``operator'' in quantum field theory.Comment: LaTeX, 19 pages, no figure
Randomisation of Pulse Phases for Unambiguous and Robust Quantum Sensing
We develop theoretically and demonstrate experimentally a universal dynamical
decoupling method for robust quantum sensing with unambiguous signal
identification. Our method uses randomisation of control pulses to suppress
simultaneously two types of errors in the measured spectra that would otherwise
lead to false signal identification. These are spurious responses due to
finite-width pulses, as well as signal distortion caused by pulse
imperfections. For the cases of nanoscale nuclear spin sensing and AC
magnetometry, we benchmark the performance of the protocol with a single
nitrogen vacancy centre in diamond against widely used non-randomised pulse
sequences. Our method is general and can be combined with existing multipulse
quantum sensing sequences to enhance their performance
Ferroelectric properties of charge-ordered alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3
A detailed investigation of the out-of-plane electrical properties of
charge-ordered alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 provides clear evidence for
ferroelectricity. Similar to multiferroic alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Cl, the
polar order in this material is ascribed to the occurrence of bond- and
site-centered charge order. Dielectric response typical for relaxor
ferroelectricity is found deep in the charge-ordered state. We suggest an
explanation in terms of the existence of polar and nonpolar stacks of the
organic molecules in this material, preventing long-range ferroelectricity. The
results are discussed in relation to the formation or absence of electronic
polar order in related charge-transfer salts.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Revised version as accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev.
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