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Noncommutativity relations in type IIB theory and their supersymmetry
In the present paper we investigate noncommutativity of and -brane
world-volumes embedded in space-time of type IIB superstring theory. Boundary
conditions, which preserve half of the initial supersymmetry, are treated as
canonical constraints. Solving the constraints we obtain original coordinates
in terms of the effective coordinates and momenta. Presence of momenta induces
noncommutativity of string endpoints. We show that noncommutativity relations
are connected by N=1 supersymmetry transformations and noncommutativity
parameters are components of N=1 supermultiplet
Optimization of Excitation in FDTD Method and Corresponding Source Modeling
Source and excitation modeling in FDTD formulation has a significant impact on the method performance and the required simulation time. Since the abrupt source introduction yields intensive numerical variations in whole computational domain, a generally accepted solution is to slowly introduce the source, using appropriate shaping functions in time. The main goal of the optimization presented in this paper is to find balance between two opposite demands: minimal required computation time and acceptable degradation of simulation performance. Reducing the time necessary for source activation and deactivation is an important issue, especially in design of microwave structures, when the simulation is intensively repeated in the process of device parameter optimization. Here proposed optimized source models are realized and tested within an own developed FDTD simulation environment
Measurement of Antenna Surfaces from In- and Out-Of-Focus Beam Maps using Astronomical Sources
We present a technique for the accurate estimation of large-scale errors in
an antenna surface using astronomical sources and detectors. The technique
requires several out-of-focus images of a compact source and the
signal-to-noise ratio needs to be good but not unreasonably high. For a given
pattern of surface errors, the expected form of such images can be calculated
directly. We show that it is possible to solve the inverse problem of finding
the surface errors from the images in a stable manner using standard numerical
techniques. To do this we describe the surface error as a linear combination of
a suitable set of basis functions (we use Zernike polynomials). We present
simulations illustrating the technique and in particular we investigate the
effects of receiver noise and pointing errors. Measurements of the 15-m James
Clerk Maxwell telescope made using this technique are presented as an example.
The key result is that good measurements of errors on large spatial scales can
be obtained if the input images have a signal-to-noise ratio of order 100 or
more. The important advantage of this technique over transmitter-based
holography is that it allows measurements at arbitrary elevation angles, so
allowing one to characterise the large scale deformations in an antenna as a
function of elevation.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures (accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Performance Improvement of QPSK Signal Predetection EGC Diversity Receiver
This paper proposes a modification of quadrature phase-shift-keying (QPSK) signal diversity reception with predetection equal gain combiner (EGC). The EGC combining is realized by using the constant modulus algorithm (CMA). Carrier synchronization is performed by the phase locked loop (PLL). Comparative analysis of the modified and ordinary diversity receiver in the presence of carrier frequency offset in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, as well as in Rician fading channel is shown. The proposed diversity receiver allows significant frequency offset compared to the diversity receiver that uses only PLL, and the error probability of the proposed receiver is very close to the error probability of the receiver with only PLL and zero frequency offset. The functionality of the proposed diversity receiver, as well as its properties is experimentally verified on a system based on universal software radio peripheral (USRP) hardware. The performed comparison confirms the expected behavior of the system
Symmetry Based Properties of the Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes
The full geometrical symmetry groups (the line groups) of the monolayered,
2Hb and 3R polytypes of the inorganic MoS2 and WS2 micro- and nanotubes of
arbitrary chirality are found. This is used to find the coordinates of the
representative atoms sufficient to determine completely geometrical structure
of tubes. Then some physical properties which can be deduced from the symmetry
are discussed: electron band degeneracies, selection rules, general forms of
the second rank tensors and potentials, phonon spectra.Comment: 6 pages 1 figur
Out-Of-Focus Holography at the Green Bank Telescope
We describe phase-retrieval holography measurements of the 100-m diameter
Green Bank Telescope using astronomical sources and an astronomical receiver
operating at a wavelength of 7 mm. We use the technique with parameterization
of the aperture in terms of Zernike polynomials and employing a large defocus,
as described by Nikolic, Hills & Richer (2006). Individual measurements take
around 25 minutes and from the resulting beam maps (which have peak signal to
noise ratios of 200:1) we show that it is possible to produce low-resolution
maps of the wavefront errors with accuracy around a hundredth of a wavelength.
Using such measurements over a wide range of elevations, we have calculated a
model for the wavefront-errors due to the uncompensated gravitational
deformation of the telescope. This model produces a significant improvement at
low elevations, where these errors are expected to be the largest; after
applying the model, the aperture efficiency is largely independent of
elevation. We have also demonstrated that the technique can be used to measure
and largely correct for thermal deformations of the antenna, which often exceed
the uncompensated gravitational deformations during daytime observing.
We conclude that the aberrations induced by gravity and thermal effects are
large-scale and the technique used here is particularly suitable for measuring
such deformations in large millimetre wave radio telescopes.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures (accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
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