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The performance of a combined solar photovoltaic (PV) and thermoelectric generator (TEG) system
The performance of a combined solar photovoltaic (PV) and thermoelectric
generator (TEG) system is examined using an analytical model for four different
types of commercial PVs and a commercial bismuth telluride TEG. The TEG is
applied directly on the back of the PV, so that the two devices have the same
temperature. The PVs considered are crystalline Si (c-Si), amorphous Si (a-Si),
copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) cells.
The degradation of PV performance with temperature is shown to dominate the
increase in power produced by the TEG, due to the low efficiency of the TEG.
For c-Si, CIGS and CdTe PV cells the combined system produces a lower power and
has a lower efficiency than the PV alone, whereas for an a-Si cell the total
system performance may be slightly increased by the TEG.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
The lifetime cost of a magnetic refrigerator
The total cost of a 25 W average load magnetic refrigerator using commercial
grade Gd is calculated using a numerical model. The price of magnetocaloric
material, magnet material and cost of operation are considered, and all
influence the total cost. The lowest combined total cost with a device lifetime
of 15 years is found to be in the range \^{+++}$ refrigeration unit. In a
rough life time cost comparison between the magnetic refrigeration device and
such a unit we find similar costs, the former being slightly cheaper, assuming
the cost of the magnet can be recuperated at end of life.Comment: 17 pages, 17 figure
Entanglement of 2xK quantum systems
We derive an analytical expression for the lower bound of the concurrence of
mixed quantum states of composite 2xK systems. In contrast to other, implicitly
defined entanglement measures, the numerical evaluation of our bound is
straightforward. We explicitly evaluate its tightness for general mixed states
of 2x3 systems, and identify a large class of states where our expression gives
the exact value of the concurrence.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Europhysics Lette
Post-carboniferous tectonics in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma: Evidence from side-looking radar imagery
The Anadarko Basin of western Oklahoma is a WNW-ESE elongated trough filled with of Paleozoic sediments. Most models call for tectonic activity to end in Pennsylvanian times. NASA Shuttle Imaging Radar revealed a distinctive and very straight lineament set extending virtually the entire length of the Anadarko Basin. The lineaments cut across the relatively flat-lying Permian units exposed at the surface. The character of these lineaments is seen most obviously as a tonal variation. Major streams, including the Washita and Little Washita rivers, appear to be controlled by the location of the lineaments. Subsurface data indicate the lineaments may be the updip expression of a buried major fault system, the Mountain View fault. Two principal conclusions arise from this analysis: (1) the complex Mountain View Fault system appears to extend southeast to join the Reagan, Sulphur, and/or Mill Creek faults of the Arbuckle Mountains, and (2) this fault system has been reactivated in Permian or younger times
A Note on Asymptotic Freedom at High Temperatures
This short note considers, within the external field approach outlined in
hep-ph/0202026, the role of the lowest lying gluon Landau mode in QCD in the
high temperature limit. Its influence on a temperature- and field-dependent
running coupling constant is examined. The thermal imaginary part of the mode
is temperature-independent in our approach and exactly cancels the well-known
zero temperature imaginary part, thus rendering the Savvidy vacuum stable.
Combining the real part of the mode with the contributions from the higher
lying Landau modes and the vacuum contribution, a field-independent coupling
alpha_s(T) is obtained. It can be interpreted as the ordinary zero temperature
running coupling constant with average thermal momenta \approx 2pi T for
gluons and \approx pi T for quarks.Comment: 4 pages; minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
McStas and Mantid integration
McStas and Mantid are two well established software frameworks within the
neutron scattering community. McStas has been primarily used for simulating the
neutron transport of instruments, while Mantid has been primarily used for data
reduction. We report here the status of our work done on the interoperability
between the instrument simulation software McStas and the data reduction
software Mantid. This provides a demonstration of how to successfully link
together two software that otherwise have been developed independently, and in
particular here show how this has been achieved for an instrument simulation
software and a data reduction software. This paper will also provide examples
of some of the expected future enhanced analysis that can be achieved from
combining accurate instrument and sample simulations with software for
correcting raw data. In the case of this work for raw data collected at large
scale neutron facilities.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures, POSTPRINT with proofs of article submitted to
Journal of Neutron Researc
Phase boundaries in deterministic dense coding
We consider dense coding with partially entangled states on bipartite systems
of dimension , studying the conditions under which a given number of
messages, , can be deterministically transmitted. It is known that the
largest Schmidt coefficient, , must obey the bound , and considerable empirical evidence points to the conclusion that there
exist states satisfying for every and except the
special cases and . We provide additional conditions under
which this bound cannot be reached -- that is, when it must be that
-- yielding insight into the shapes of boundaries separating
entangled states that allow messages from those that allow only . We
also show that these conclusions hold no matter what operations are used for
the encoding, and in so doing, identify circumstances under which unitary
encoding is strictly better than non-unitary.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
-kaon cross section in meson exchange model
We calculate the cross section for the dissociation of by kaons
within the framework of a meson exchange model including anomalous parity
interactions. Off-shell effects at the vertices were handled with QCD sum rule
estimates for the running coupling constants. The total -kaon cross
section was found to be mb for 4.1\leq\sqrt{s}\leq5 \GeV.Comment: 13 pages, 4 eps figure
Fault-tolerant quantum computation with cluster states
The one-way quantum computing model introduced by Raussendorf and Briegel
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (22), 5188-5191 (2001)] shows that it is possible to
quantum compute using only a fixed entangled resource known as a cluster state,
and adaptive single-qubit measurements. This model is the basis for several
practical proposals for quantum computation, including a promising proposal for
optical quantum computation based on cluster states [M. A. Nielsen,
arXiv:quant-ph/0402005, accepted to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.]. A significant
open question is whether such proposals are scalable in the presence of
physically realistic noise. In this paper we prove two threshold theorems which
show that scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation may be achieved in
implementations based on cluster states, provided the noise in the
implementations is below some constant threshold value. Our first threshold
theorem applies to a class of implementations in which entangling gates are
applied deterministically, but with a small amount of noise. We expect this
threshold to be applicable in a wide variety of physical systems. Our second
threshold theorem is specifically adapted to proposals such as the optical
cluster-state proposal, in which non-deterministic entangling gates are used. A
critical technical component of our proofs is two powerful theorems which
relate the properties of noisy unitary operations restricted to act on a
subspace of state space to extensions of those operations acting on the entire
state space.Comment: 31 pages, 54 figure
Generalized information theoretic measure to discern the quantumness of correlations
A novel measure, quantumness of correlations is introduced here for bipartite
states, by incorporating the required measurement scheme crucial in defining
any such quantity. Quantumness coincides with the previously proposed measures
in special cases and it vanishes for separable states - a feature not captured
by the measures proposed earlier. It is found that an optimal generalized
measurement on one of the parts leaves the overall state in its closest
separable form, which shares the same marginal for the other part, implying
that quantumness is non-zero for all entangled bipartite states and it serves
as an upper bound to the relative entropy of entanglement.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, Revtex, Minor changes; Accepted for publication
in Physical Review Letter
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