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An Interpretation of Flat Density Cores of Clusters of Galaxies by Degeneracy Pressure of Fermionic Dark Matter: A Case Study of Abell 1689
Flat density cores have been obtained for a limited number of clusters of
galaxies by strong gravitational lensing. This paper explores the possibility
that the degeneracy pressure of fermionic dark matter accounts for the flat top
density profiles. This is a case study of A1689 for which the density profile
has been obtained from the inner region out to 1Mpc by the combination of
strong and weak lensing. In the case that the dark matter consists of the
mixture of degenerate relic neutrinos and collisionless cold dark matter
particles, the acceptable mass range for relic neutrinos is between 1 and 2 eV,
if the ratio of the two kinds of dark matter particles is fixed to its cosmic
value.Comment: Accepted for Publication in ApJ. Companion paper to astro-ph/060709
Boosting computational power through spatial multiplexing in quantum reservoir computing
Quantum reservoir computing provides a framework for exploiting the natural
dynamics of quantum systems as a computational resource. It can implement
real-time signal processing and solve temporal machine learning problems in
general, which requires memory and nonlinear mapping of the recent input stream
using the quantum dynamics in computational supremacy region, where the
classical simulation of the system is intractable. A nuclear magnetic resonance
spin-ensemble system is one of the realistic candidates for such physical
implementations, which is currently available in laboratories. In this paper,
considering these realistic experimental constraints for implementing the
framework, we introduce a scheme, which we call a spatial multiplexing
technique, to effectively boost the computational power of the platform. This
technique exploits disjoint dynamics, which originate from multiple different
quantum systems driven by common input streams in parallel. Accordingly, unlike
designing a single large quantum system to increase the number of qubits for
computational nodes, it is possible to prepare a huge number of qubits from
multiple but small quantum systems, which are operationally easy to handle in
laboratory experiments. We numerically demonstrate the effectiveness of the
technique using several benchmark tasks and quantitatively investigate its
specifications, range of validity, and limitations in detail.Comment: 15 page
Nonlinear Pressure Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of Copper Sulfide CuS
The superconducting transition temperatures of copper sulfide CuS are measured as a function of hydrostatic pressure up to about 9 katm by an ice bomb technique. The superconducting transition is detected with the ac Hartshorn mutual inductance bridge. In contrast to ordinary superconductors the curve of the shift of the transition temperature with increasing pressure decrease nonlinearly with downward curvature over the whole range of applied pressures and its slope changes discontinuously at about 3.5 katm. The maximum peak of the imaginary part of the ac susceptibility vanishes under pressurs above about 1.6 katm. It is discussed that the observed unusual behaviour of the transition temperature is probably attributed to a change of the Fermi surface of the type proposed by Lifshitz
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