269 research outputs found
Short Term Topological Changes of Coronal Holes Associated with Prominence Eruptions and Subsequent CMEs
We study the short--term topological changes of equatorial and polar coronal
hole (CH) boundaries, such as a variation of their area and disintegration,
associated to reconnection with nearby (within 15 distance) quiescent
prominence magnetic fields leading to eruptions and subsequent Coronal Mass
Ejections (CMEs). The examples presented here correspond to the recent solar
minimum years 2008 and 2009. We consider a temporal window of one day between
the CH topological changes and the start and end times of prominence eruptions
and onset of CMEs. To establish this association we took into account
observational conditions related to the instability of prominence/filaments,
the occurrence of a CME, as well as the subsequent evolution after the CME. We
found an association between short--term local topological changes in CH
boundaries and the formation/disappearance of bright points near them, as well
as, between short--term topological changes within the whole CH and eruptions
of nearby quiescent prominences followed by the appearance of one or more CMEs.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures; Journal Advances Space Research (2012
Integrating Research Data Management into Geographical Information Systems
Ocean modelling requires the production of high-fidelity computational meshes
upon which to solve the equations of motion. The production of such meshes by
hand is often infeasible, considering the complexity of the bathymetry and
coastlines. The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is therefore a
key component to discretising the region of interest and producing a mesh
appropriate to resolve the dynamics. However, all data associated with the
production of a mesh must be provided in order to contribute to the overall
recomputability of the subsequent simulation. This work presents the
integration of research data management in QMesh, a tool for generating meshes
using GIS. The tool uses the PyRDM library to provide a quick and easy way for
scientists to publish meshes, and all data required to regenerate them, to
persistent online repositories. These repositories are assigned unique
identifiers to enable proper citation of the meshes in journal articles.Comment: Accepted, camera-ready version. To appear in the Proceedings of the
5th International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives
(http://sda2015.dke-research.de/), held in Pozna\'n, Poland on 18 September
2015 as part of the 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of
Digital Libraries (http://tpdl2015.info/
Efficient Photon Coupling from a Diamond Nitrogen Vacancy Centre by Integration with Silica Fibre
A central goal in quantum information science is to efficiently interface
photons with single optical modes for quantum networking and distributed
quantum computing. Here, we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a compact
and efficient method for the low-loss coupling of a solid-state qubit, the
nitrogen vacancy (NV) centre in diamond, with a single-mode optical fibre. In
this approach, single-mode tapered diamond waveguides containing exactly one
high quality NV memory are selected and integrated on tapered silica fibres.
Numerical optimization of an adiabatic coupler indicates that
near-unity-efficiency photon transfer is possible between the two modes.
Experimentally, we find an overall collection efficiency between 18-40 % and
observe a raw single photon count rate above 700 kHz. This integrated system
enables robust, alignment-free, and efficient interfacing of single-mode
optical fibres with single photon emitters and quantum memories in solids
Target detection through quantum illumination
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2012."February 2012." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70).Classical target detection can suffer large error probabilities in noisy and lossy environments when noise photons are mistaken for signal photons reflected from an object. It has been shown theoretically that the correlation between entangled photons can be used to better discriminate between the signal photons reflected by an object and noise photons, thus reducing the probability of error [13, 15, 17, 7, 6]. This thesis presents the first experimental implementation of target detection enhanced by quantum illumination (QI). Nondegenerate, time entangled signal and idler beams are created through Type-O spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC). The signal is attenuated and combined with large levels of noise. The signal is phase modulated to improve the observation by shifting it from DC to 16 kHz. The return signal and idler are recombined in an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) which captures the phase correlation between the two beams. It is found that only 10% of the total signal and idler photons interact at the OPA due to the multi-mode nature of the SPDC emission which does not match the pump spatial mode and thus experience lower gains at the OPA. Considering only the power interacting at the OPA, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of QI agrees with the theoretical model.by Sara L. Mouradian.M.Eng
Entanglement-Enhanced Sensing in a Lossy and Noisy Environment
Nonclassical states are essential for optics-based quantum information processing, but their fragility limits their utility for practical scenarios in which loss and noise inevitably degrade, if not destroy, nonclassicality. Exploiting nonclassical states in quantum metrology yields sensitivity advantages over all classical schemes delivering the same energy per measurement interval to the sample being probed. These enhancements, almost without exception, are severely diminished by quantum decoherence. Here, we experimentally demonstrate an entanglement-enhanced sensing system that is resilient to quantum decoherence. We employ entanglement to realize a 20% signal-to-noise ratio improvement over the optimum classical scheme in an entanglement-breaking environment plagued by 14Â dB of loss and a noise background 75Â dB stronger than the returned probe light. Our result suggests that advantageous quantum-sensing technology could be developed for practical situations.United States. Army Research Office (Grant W911NF-10-1-0430)United States. Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-13-1-0774
Enhanced nonlinear spectral compression in fiber by external sinusoidal phase modulation
We propose a new, simple approach to enhance the spectral compression process arising from nonlinear pulse propagation in an optical fiber. We numerically show that an additional sinusoidal temporal phase modulation of the pulse enables efficient reduction of the intensity level of the side lobes in the spectrum that are produced by the mismatch between the initial linear negative chirp of the pulse and the self-phase modulation-induced nonlinear positive chirp. Remarkable increase of both the extent of spectrum narrowing and the quality of the compressed spectrum is afforded by the proposed approach across a wide range of experimentally accessible parameters
TELEMAC model archive: Integrating open–source tools for the management and visualisation of model data
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