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A fast-neutron spectrometer of advanced design
Fast neutron spectrometer combines helium filled proportional counters with solid-state detectors to achieve the properties of high efficiency, good resolution, rapid response, and effective gamma ray rejection
Application of the Moessbauer technique to the study of probable lunar and planetary surface material and to the study of returned lunar surface samples Final report
Preliminary results from Mossbauer instrumental analysis of Apollo 12 lunar rock and soil sample
Fluctuation Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Aluminum Rings
Fluctuations are important near phase transitions, where they can be
difficult to describe quantitatively. Superconductivity in mesoscopic rings is
particularly intriguing because the critical temperature is an oscillatory
function of magnetic field. There is an exact theory for thermal fluctuations
in one-dimensional superconducting rings, which are therefore expected to be an
excellent model system. We measure the susceptibility of many rings, one ring
at a time, using a scanning SQUID that can isolate magnetic signals from seven
orders of magnitude larger background applied flux. We find that the
fluctuation theory describes the results and that a single parameter
characterizes the ways in which the fluctuations are especially important at
magnetic fields where the critical temperature is suppressed.Comment: Reprinted with permission from AAA
Anisotropic thermodynamics of d-wave superconductors in the vortex state
We show that the density of states and the thermodynamic properties of a 2D
d-wave superconductor in the vortex state with applied magnetic field
in the plane depend on the angle between and the order parameter nodes.
Within a semiclassical treatment of the extended quasiparticle states, we
obtain fourfold oscillations of the specific heat, measurement of which
provides a simple probe of gap symmetry. The frequency dependence of the
density of states and the temperature dependence of thermodynamic properties
obey different power laws for field in the nodal and anti-nodal direction. The
fourfold pattern is changed to twofold when orthorhombicity is considered.Comment: 5 pages, figures included, minor changes, published versio
A Terraced Scanning Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Susceptometer with Sub-Micron Pickup Loops
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) can have excellent spin
sensitivity depending on their magnetic flux noise, pick-up loop diameter, and
distance from the sample. We report a family of scanning SQUID susceptometers
with terraced tips that position the pick-up loops 300 nm from the sample. The
600 nm - 2 um pickup loops, defined by focused ion beam, are integrated into a
12-layer optical lithography process allowing flux-locked feedback, in situ
background subtraction and optimized flux noise. These features enable a
sensitivity of ~70 electron spins per root Hertz at 4K.Comment: See http://stanford.edu/group/moler/publications.html for an
auxiliary document containing additional fabrication details and discussio
Computing Inferences for Large-Scale Continuous-Time Markov Chains by Combining Lumping with Imprecision
If the state space of a homogeneous continuous-time Markov chain is too
large, making inferences - here limited to determining marginal or limit
expectations - becomes computationally infeasible. Fortunately, the state space
of such a chain is usually too detailed for the inferences we are interested
in, in the sense that a less detailed - smaller - state space suffices to
unambiguously formalise the inference. However, in general this so-called
lumped state space inhibits computing exact inferences because the
corresponding dynamics are unknown and/or intractable to obtain. We address
this issue by considering an imprecise continuous-time Markov chain. In this
way, we are able to provide guaranteed lower and upper bounds for the
inferences of interest, without suffering from the curse of dimensionality.Comment: 9th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and
Statistics (SMPS 2018
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