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Handbook explaining the fundamentals of nuclear and atomic physics
Indoctrination document presents nuclear, reactor, and atomic physics in an easy, straightforward manner. The entire subject of nuclear physics including atomic structure ionization, isotopes, radioactivity, and reactor dynamics is discussed
Output-input stability and minimum-phase nonlinear systems
This paper introduces and studies the notion of output-input stability, which
represents a variant of the minimum-phase property for general smooth nonlinear
control systems. The definition of output-input stability does not rely on a
particular choice of coordinates in which the system takes a normal form or on
the computation of zero dynamics. In the spirit of the ``input-to-state
stability'' philosophy, it requires the state and the input of the system to be
bounded by a suitable function of the output and derivatives of the output,
modulo a decaying term depending on initial conditions. The class of
output-input stable systems thus defined includes all affine systems in global
normal form whose internal dynamics are input-to-state stable and also all
left-invertible linear systems whose transmission zeros have negative real
parts. As an application, we explain how the new concept enables one to develop
a natural extension to nonlinear systems of a basic result from linear adaptive
control.Comment: Revised version, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
See related work in http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag and
http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~liberzo
Large Magnetic Moments of Arsenic-Doped Mn Clusters and their Relevance to Mn-Doped III-V Semiconductor Ferromagnetism
We report electronic and magnetic structure of arsenic-doped manganese
clusters from density-functional theory using generalized gradient
approximation for the exchange-correlation energy. We find that arsenic
stabilizes manganese clusters, though the ferromagnetic coupling between Mn
atoms are found only in MnAs and MnAs clusters with magnetic moments 9
and 17 , respectively. For all other sizes, 3, 5-10,
MnAs clusters show ferrimagnetic coupling. It is suggested that, if grown
during the low temperature MBE, the giant magnetic moments due to ferromagnetic
coupling in MnAs and MnAs clusters could play a role on the
ferromagnetism and on the variation observed in the Curie temperature of
Mn-doped III-V semiconductors.Comment: 4 Pages, 3 Figures[1 EPS and 2 JPG files], RevTeX
Economic Analysis in the Pacific Northwest Land Resources Project: Theoretical Considerations and Preliminary Results
The Pacific Northwest Land Resources Inventory Demonstration Project i s an a ttempt to combine a whole spectrum of heterogeneous geographic, institutional and applications elements in a synergistic approach to the evaluation of remote sensing techniques. This diversity is the prime motivating factor behind a theoretical investigation of alternative economic analysis procedures. For a multitude of reasons--simplicity, ease of understanding, financial constraints and credibility, among others--cost-effectiveness emerges as the most practical tool for conducting such evaluation determinatIons in the Pacific Northwest. Preliminary findings in two water resource application areas suggest, in conformity with most published studies, that Lands at-aided data collection methods enjoy substantial cost advantages over alternative techniques. The pntential for sensitivity analysis based on cost/accuracy tradeoffs is considered on a theoretical plane in the absence of current accuracy figures concerning the Landsat-aided approach
A Hybrid Observer for a Distributed Linear System with a Changing Neighbor Graph
A hybrid observer is described for estimating the state of an channel,
-dimensional, continuous-time, distributed linear system of the form
. The system's state is
simultaneously estimated by agents assuming each agent senses and
receives appropriately defined data from each of its current neighbors.
Neighbor relations are characterized by a time-varying directed graph
whose vertices correspond to agents and whose arcs depict
neighbor relations. Agent updates its estimate of at "event
times" using a local observer and a local parameter
estimator. The local observer is a continuous time linear system whose input is
and whose output is an asymptotically correct estimate of
where a matrix with kernel equaling the unobservable space of .
The local parameter estimator is a recursive algorithm designed to estimate,
prior to each event time , a constant parameter which satisfies the
linear equations , where is a small
positive constant and is the state estimation error of local observer
. Agent accomplishes this by iterating its parameter estimator state
, times within the interval , and by making use of
the state of each of its neighbors' parameter estimators at each iteration. The
updated value of at event time is then . Subject to the assumptions that (i) the neighbor graph
is strongly connected for all time, (ii) the system whose state
is to be estimated is jointly observable, (iii) is sufficiently large, it
is shown that each estimate converges to exponentially fast as
at a rate which can be controlled.Comment: 7 pages, the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Contro
Microwave Electronics
Contains a report on a research project.Lincoln Laboratory (Purchase Order DDL B-00283)United States ArmyUnited States Air Force (Contract AF19(604)-5200)United States Navy, Office of Naval Research (Nonr-1841(49)
Piezoconductivity of gated suspended graphene
We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The
effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice
distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation
formalism, whereas the gate causes inhomogeneous density redistribution. We use
the elasticity theory to find the profile of the graphene sheet and then
evaluate the conductivity by means of the transfer matrix approach. We find
that the two effects provide functionally different contributions to the
conductivity. For small deformations and not too high residual stress the
correction due to the charge redistribution dominates and leads to the
enhancement of the conductivity. For stronger deformations, the effect of the
lattice distortion becomes more important and eventually leads to the
suppression of the conductivity. We consider homogeneous as well as local
deformation. We also suggest that the effect of the charge redistribution can
be best measured in a setup containing two gates, one fixing the overall charge
density and another one deforming graphene locally
Public Policy Is Never a Substitute for Statutory Clarity: Rejecting the Notion That Pre-Petition Attorney-Fee Debts Are Nondischargeable in Chapter 7 Bankruptcies
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