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FD-TD numerical simulation of an entire lightning strike on the C160 aircraft
Experimental transient electromagnetic field measurements were performed on a Transall C160 aircraft during in-flight lightning strikes. The data allow a test of the predictive capabilities of a three dimensional time domain finite difference code (ALICE) developed at ONERA in order to investigate lightning-aircraft interactions. Using a transfer function technique in the 3D code, it is shown that a bi-leader attached to an aircraft can be simulated by a linear model, and so the electromagnetic fields can be calculated anywhere on the vehicle. Comparison of experimental and numerical results were made for several lightning strikes. Skin current density and electromagnetic field distributions are discussed in detail
Assessment of MISR and MODIS cloud top heights through inter-comparison with a back-scattering lidar at SIRTA
One year of back-scattering lidar cloud boundaries and optical depth were analysed for coincident inter-comparison with the latest processed versions of the NASA-TERRA MISR stereo and MODIS CO2-slicing operational cloud top heights. Optically thin clouds were found to be accurately characterised by the MISR cloud top height product as long as no other cloud was present at lower altitude. MODIS cloud top heights were generally found within the cloud extent retrieved by lidar; agreement improved as cloud optical depth increased and when CO2-slicing was the only technique used for the retrieval. The difference between Lidar and MISR cloud top heights was found to lie between â0.1 and 0.4 km for low clouds and between 0.1 and 3.1 km for high clouds. The difference between Lidar and MODIS cloud top heights was found to lie between â1.2 and 1.5 km for low clouds and between â1.4 and 2.7 km for high clouds
EmergĂȘncia de sementes de castanha-do-brasil em função do tamanho e da idade.
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Classical Optimizers for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Devices
We present a collection of optimizers tuned for usage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. Optimizers have a range of applications in quantum computing, including the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and Quantum Approximate Optimization (QAOA) algorithms. They are also used for calibration tasks, hyperparameter tuning, in machine learning, etc. We analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of different optimizers in a VQE case study. VQE is a hybrid algorithm, with a classical minimizer step driving the next evaluation on the quantum processor. While most results to date concentrated on tuning the quantum VQE circuit, we show that, in the presence of quantum noise, the classical minimizer step needs to be carefully chosen to obtain correct results. We explore state-of-the-art gradient-free optimizers capable of handling noisy, black-box, cost functions and stress-test them using a quantum circuit simulation environment with noise injection capabilities on individual gates. Our results indicate that specifically tuned optimizers are crucial to obtaining valid science results on NISQ hardware, and will likely remain necessary even for future fault tolerant circuits
Radiology and the law in South Africa
ArticleThe original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaIn terms of regulations gazetted in 1973, the Department of Health has control of the practice of medical radiology in South Africa. The regulations and the rules of the South African Medical and Dental Council that apply to radiology are discussed, and the legal position of workers is noted.Publishersâ versio
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Exact Results for Evaporating Black Holes in Curvature-Squared Lovelock Gravity: Gauss-Bonnet Greybody Factors
Lovelock gravity is an important extension of General Relativity that
provides a promising framework to study curvature corrections to the Einstein
action, while avoiding ghosts and keeping second order field equations. This
paper derives the greybody factors for D-dimensional black holes arising in a
theory with a Gauss-Bonnet curvature-squared term. These factors describe the
non-trivial coupling between black holes and quantum fields during the
evaporation process: they can be used both from a theoretical viewpoint to
investigate the intricate spacetime structure around such a black hole, and for
phenomenological purposes in the framework of braneworld models with a low
Planck scale. We derive exact spectra for the emission of scalar, fermion and
gauge fields emitted on the brane, and for scalar fields emitted in the bulk,
and demonstrate how the Gauss-Bonnet term can change the bulk-to-brane emission
rates ratio in favour of the bulk channel in particular frequency regimes.Comment: 29 pages, Latex file, 11 figures, Data files (greybody factors)
available at http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/ams/greybody/, typos corrected, references
added, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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