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Validity of adiabaticity in Cavity QED
This paper deals with the concept of adiabaticity for fully quantum
mechanically cavity QED models. The physically interesting cases of Gaussian
and standing wave shapes of the cavity mode are considered. An analytical
approximate measure for adiabaticity is given and compared with numerical wave
packet simulations. Good agreement is obtained where the approximations are
expected to be valid. Usually for cavity QED systems, the large atom-field
detuning case is considered as the adiabatic limit. We, however, show that
adiabaticity is also valid, for the Gaussian mode shape, in the opposite limit.
Effective semiclassical time dependent models, which do not take into account
the shape of the wave packet, are derived. Corrections to such an effective
theory, which are purely quantum mechanical, are discussed. It is shown that
many of the results presented can be applied to time dependent two-level
systems.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Thermal and hydrodynamic effects in the ordering of lamellar fluids
Phase separation in a complex fluid with lamellar order has been studied in
the case of cold thermal fronts propagating diffusively from external walls.
The velocity hydrodynamic modes are taken into account by coupling the
convection-diffusion equation for the order parameter to a generalised
Navier-Stokes equation. The dynamical equations are simulated by implementing a
hybrid method based on a lattice Boltzmann algorithm coupled to finite
difference schemes. Simulations show that the ordering process occurs with
morphologies depending on the speed of the thermal fronts or, equivalently, on
the value of the thermal conductivity {\xi}. At large value of {\xi}, as in
instantaneous quenching, the system is frozen in entangled configurations at
high viscosity while consists of grains with well ordered lamellae at low
viscosity. By decreasing the value of {\xi}, a regime with very ordered
lamellae parallel to the thermal fronts is found. At very low values of {\xi}
the preferred orientation is perpendicular to the walls in d = 2, while
perpendicular order is lost moving far from the walls in d = 3.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phil. Trans. of Royal
Soc, Ser
Coupling internal atomic states in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate via an optical lattice: Extended Mott-superfluid transitions
An ultracold gas of coupled two-component atoms in an optical field is
studied. Due to the internal two-level structure of the atoms, three competing
energy terms exist; atomic kinetic, atomic internal, and atom-atom interaction
energies. A novel outcome of this interplay, not present in the regular
Bose-Hubbard model, is that in the single band and tight binding approximations
four different phases appear: two superfluid and two Mott phases. When passing
through the critical point between the two superfluid or the two Mott phases, a
swapping of the internal atomic populations takes place. By means of the strong
coupling expansion, we find the full phase diagram for the four different
phases.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Air data position-error calibration using state reconstruction techniques
During the highly maneuverable aircraft technology (HiMAT) flight test program recently completed at NASA Ames Research Center's Dryden Flight Research Facility, numerous problems were experienced in airspeed calibration. This necessitated the use of state reconstruction techniques to arrive at a position-error calibration. For the HiMAT aircraft, most of the calibration effort was expended on flights in which the air data pressure transducers were not performing accurately. Following discovery of this problem, the air data transducers of both aircraft were wrapped in heater blankets to correct the problem. Additional calibration flights were performed, and from the resulting data a satisfactory position-error calibration was obtained. This calibration and data obtained before installation of the heater blankets were used to develop an alternate calibration method. The alternate approach took advantage of high-quality inertial data that was readily available. A linearized Kalman filter (LKF) was used to reconstruct the aircraft's wind-relative trajectory; the trajectory was then used to separate transducer measurement errors from the aircraft position error. This calibration method is accurate and inexpensive. The LKF technique has an inherent advantage of requiring that no flight maneuvers be specially designed for airspeed calibrations. It is of particular use when the measurements of the wind-relative quantities are suspected to have transducer-related errors
Negative thermal expansion in the Prussian Blue analog Zn3[Fe(CN)6]2: X-ray diffraction and neutron vibrational studies
The cubic Prussian Blue (PB) analog, Zn3 [Fe(CN)6]2, has been studied by
X-ray powder diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering (INS). X-ray data
collected at 300 and 84 K revealed negative thermal expansion (NTE) behaviour
for this material. The NTE coefficient was found to be -31.1 x 10-6 K-1. The
neutron vibrational spectrum for Zn3[Fe(CN)6]2.xH2O, was studied in detail. The
INS spectrum showed well-defined, well-separated bands corresponding to the
stretching of and deformation modes of the Fe and Zn octahedra, all below 800
cm-1.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
The LISA Gravitational Wave Foreground: A Study of Double White Dwarfs
Double white dwarfs are expected to be a source of confusion-limited noise
for the future gravitational wave observatory LISA. In a specific frequency
range, this 'foreground noise' is predicted to rise above the instrumental
noise and hinder the detection of other types of signals, e.g., gravitational
waves arising from stellar mass objects inspiraling into massive black holes.
In many previous studies only detached populations of compact object binaries
have been considered in estimating the LISA gravitational wave foreground
signal. Here, we investigate the influence of compact object detached and
Roche-Lobe Overflow Galactic binaries on the shape and strength of the LISA
signal. Since >99% of remnant binaries which have orbital periods within the
LISA sensitivity range are white dwarf binaries, we consider only these
binaries when calculating the LISA signal. We find that the contribution of
RLOF binaries to the foreground noise is negligible at low frequencies, but
becomes significant at higher frequencies, pushing the frequency at which the
foreground noise drops below the instrumental noise to >6 mHz. We find that it
is important to consider the population of mass transferring binaries in order
to obtain an accurate assessment of the foreground noise on the LISA data
stream. However, we estimate that there still exists a sizeable number (~11300)
of Galactic double white dwarf binaries which will have a signal-to-noise ratio
>5, and thus will be potentially resolvable with LISA. We present the LISA
gravitational wave signal from the Galactic population of white dwarf binaries,
show the most important formation channels contributing to the LISA disc and
bulge populations and discuss the implications of these new findings.Comment: ApJ accepted. 28 pages, 11 figures (low resolution), 5 tables, some
new references and changed content since last astro-ph versio
Overview of VideoCLEF 2009: New perspectives on speech-based multimedia content enrichment
VideoCLEF 2009 offered three tasks related to enriching video content for improved multimedia access in a multilingual environment. For each task, video data (Dutch-language television, predominantly documentaries) accompanied by speech recognition transcripts were provided.
The Subject Classification Task involved automatic tagging of videos with subject theme labels. The best performance was achieved by approaching subject tagging as an information retrieval task and using both speech recognition transcripts and archival metadata. Alternatively, classifiers were trained using either the training data provided or data collected from Wikipedia or via general Web search. The Affect Task involved detecting narrative peaks, defined as points where viewers perceive heightened dramatic tension. The task was carried out on the “Beeldenstorm” collection containing 45 short-form documentaries on the visual arts. The best runs exploited affective vocabulary and audience directed speech. Other approaches included using topic changes, elevated speaking pitch, increased speaking intensity and radical visual changes. The Linking Task, also called “Finding Related Resources Across Languages,” involved linking video to material on the same subject in a different language.
Participants were provided with a list of multimedia anchors (short video segments) in the Dutch-language “Beeldenstorm” collection and were expected to return target pages drawn from English-language Wikipedia. The best performing methods used the transcript of the
speech spoken during the multimedia anchor to build a query to search an index of the Dutch language Wikipedia. The Dutch Wikipedia pages returned were used to identify related English pages. Participants also experimented with pseudo-relevance feedback, query translation and methods that targeted proper names
Flows, Fragmentation, and Star Formation. I. Low-mass Stars in Taurus
The remarkably filamentary spatial distribution of young stars in the Taurus
molecular cloud has significant implications for understanding low-mass star
formation in relatively quiescent conditions. The large scale and regular
spacing of the filaments suggests that small-scale turbulence is of limited
importance, which could be consistent with driving on large scales by flows
which produced the cloud. The small spatial dispersion of stars from gaseous
filaments indicates that the low-mass stars are generally born with small
velocity dispersions relative to their natal gas, of order the sound speed or
less. The spatial distribution of the stars exhibits a mean separation of about
0.25 pc, comparable to the estimated Jeans length in the densest gaseous
filaments, and is consistent with roughly uniform density along the filaments.
The efficiency of star formation in filaments is much higher than elsewhere,
with an associated higher frequency of protostars and accreting T Tauri stars.
The protostellar cores generally are aligned with the filaments, suggesting
that they are produced by gravitational fragmentation, resulting in initially
quasi-prolate cores. Given the absence of massive stars which could strongly
dominate cloud dynamics, Taurus provides important tests of theories of
dispersed low-mass star formation and numerical simulations of molecular cloud
structure and evolution.Comment: 32 pages, 9 figures: to appear in Ap
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