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Secure Grouping Protocol Using a Deck of Cards
We consider a problem, which we call secure grouping, of dividing a number of
parties into some subsets (groups) in the following manner: Each party has to
know the other members of his/her group, while he/she may not know anything
about how the remaining parties are divided (except for certain public
predetermined constraints, such as the number of parties in each group). In
this paper, we construct an information-theoretically secure protocol using a
deck of physical cards to solve the problem, which is jointly executable by the
parties themselves without a trusted third party. Despite the non-triviality
and the potential usefulness of the secure grouping, our proposed protocol is
fairly simple to describe and execute. Our protocol is based on algebraic
properties of conjugate permutations. A key ingredient of our protocol is our
new techniques to apply multiplication and inverse operations to hidden
permutations (i.e., those encoded by using face-down cards), which would be of
independent interest and would have various potential applications
Single crystal MgB2 with anisotropic superconducting properties
The discovery of superconductor in magnesium diboride MgB2 with high Tc (39
K) has raised some challenging issues; whether this new superconductor
resembles a high temperature cuprate superconductor(HTS) or a low temperature
metallic superconductor; which superconducting mechanism, a phonon- mediated
BCS or a hole superconducting mechanism or other new exotic mechanism may
account for this superconductivity; and how about its future for applications.
In order to clarify the above questions, experiments using the single crystal
sample are urgently required. Here we have first succeeded in obtaining the
single crystal of this new MgB2 superconductivity, and performed its electrical
resistance and magnetization measurements. Their experiments show that the
electronic and magnetic properties depend on the crystallographic direction.
Our results indicate that the single crystal MgB2 superconductor shows
anisotropic superconducting properties and thus can provide scientific basis
for the research of its superconducting mechanism and its applications.Comment: 7 pages pdf fil
A Phase-Space Approach to Collisionless Stellar Systems Using a Particle Method
A particle method for reproducing the phase space of collisionless stellar
systems is described. The key idea originates in Liouville's theorem which
states that the distribution function (DF) at time t can be derived from
tracing necessary orbits back to t=0. To make this procedure feasible, a
self-consistent field (SCF) method for solving Poisson's equation is adopted to
compute the orbits of arbitrary stars. As an example, for the violent
relaxation of a uniform-density sphere, the phase-space evolution which the
current method generates is compared to that obtained with a phase-space method
for integrating the collisionless Boltzmann equation, on the assumption of
spherical symmetry. Then, excellent agreement is found between the two methods
if an optimal basis set for the SCF technique is chosen. Since this
reproduction method requires only the functional form of initial DFs but needs
no assumptions about symmetry of the system, the success in reproducing the
phase-space evolution implies that there would be no need of directly solving
the collisionless Boltzmann equation in order to access phase space even for
systems without any special symmetries. The effects of basis sets used in SCF
simulations on the reproduced phase space are also discussed.Comment: 16 pages w/4 embedded PS figures. Uses aaspp4.sty (AASLaTeX v4.0). To
be published in ApJ, Oct. 1, 1997. This preprint is also available at
http://www.sue.shiga-u.ac.jp/WWW/prof/hozumi/papers.htm
Meta-orbital Transition in Heavy-fermion Systems: Analysis by Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Self-consistent Renormalization Theory of Orbital Fluctuations
We investigate a two-orbital Anderson lattice model with Ising orbital
intersite exchange interactions by means of dynamical mean field theory
combined with the static mean field approximation of the intersite orbital
interactions. Focusing on Ce-based heavy-fermion compounds, we examine the
orbital crossover between the two orbital states, when the total f-electron
number per site n_f is n_f ~ 1. We show that a "meta-orbital" transition, at
which the occupancy of the two orbitals changes steeply, occurs when the
hybridization between the ground-state f-electron orbital and conduction
electrons are smaller than that between the excited f-electron orbital and
conduction electrons. Near the meta-orbital critical end point, the orbital
fluctuations are enhanced, and couple with the charge fluctuations. A critical
theory of the meta-orbital fluctuations is also developed by applying the
self-consistent renormalization theory of itinerant electron magnetism to the
orbital fluctuations. The critical end point, first-order transition and
crossover are described within Gaussian approximations of orbital fluctuations.
We discuss the relevance of our results to CeAl2, CeCu2Si2, CeCu2Ge2 and the
related compounds, which all have low-lying crystalline-electric-field excited
states.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 79, (2010) 11471
Dynamics of Binary Mixtures with Ions: Dynamic Structure Factor and Mesophase Formation
Dynamic equations are presented for polar binary mixtures containing ions in
the presence of the preferential solvation. In one-phase states, we calculate
the dynamic structure factor of the composition accounting for the ion motions.
Microphase separation can take place for sufficiently large solvation asymmetry
of the cations and the anions. We show two-dimensional simulation results of
the mesophase formation with an antagonistic salt, where the cations are
hydrophilic and the anions are hydrophobic. The structure factor S(q) in the
resultant mesophase has a sharp peak at an intermediate wave number on the
order of the Debye-Huckel wave number. As the quench depth is increased, the
surface tension nearly vanishes in mesophases due to an electric double layer.Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed
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ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM GROUNDWATER USING INDIGENOUS IRON AND MANGANESE OXDIZING BACTERIA
Joint Research on Environmental Science and Technology for the Eart
Transmission Spectroscopy of Molecular Spin Ensembles in the Dispersive Regime
The readout in the dispersive regime is originally developedâand it is now largely exploitedâfor non-demolitive measurement of super- and semiconducting qubits. More recently it has been successfully applied to probe collective spin excitations in ferro(i)magnetic bulk samples or collections of paramagnetic spin centers embedded into microwave cavities. The use of this readout technique within a semiclassical limit of excitation is only marginally investigated although it holds for a wide class of problems, including advanced magnetic resonance techniques. In this work, the coupling between a coplanar microwave resonator and diphenyl-nitroxide organic radical diluted in a fully deuterated benzophenone single crystal is investigated. Two-tone transmission spectroscopy experiments demonstrate the possibility to reconstruct the spectrum of the spin system with little loss of sensitivity with respect to the resonant regime. Likewise, pulse sequences of detuned microwave frequency allow the measurement of the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1). The independent tunability of the probe and the drive power enables one to adjust the signal-to-noise ratio of the spectroscopy. These results suggest that electron spin dispersive spectroscopy can be used as a complementary tool of electron spin resonance to investigate the spin response
Modeling of Rotational Nonequilibrium in Post-Normal Shock Flow Analyses
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