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Integrable Minisuperspace Models with Liouville Field: Energy Density Self-Adjointness and Semiclassical Wave Packets
The homogeneous cosmological models with a Liouville scalar field are
investigated in classical and quantum context of Wheeler-DeWitt
geometrodynamics. In the quantum case of quintessence field with potential
unbounded from below and phantom field, the energy density operators are not
essentially self-adjoint and self-adjoint extensions contain ambiguities.
Therefore the same classical actions correspond to a family of distinct quantum
models. For the phantom field the energy spectrum happens to be discrete. The
probability conservation and appropriate classical limit can be achieved with a
certain restriction of the functional class. The appropriately localized wave
packets are studied numerically using the Schrodinger's norm and a conserved
Mostafazadeh's norm introduced from techniques of pseudo-Hermitian quantum
mechanics. These norms give a similar packet evolution that is confronted with
analytical classical solutions.Comment: Main points emphasized, less important material shortened; 24 pages,
13 figure
Spatially resolved characterization of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot structures by scanning spreading resistance microscopy
Cross-sectional scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM) is used to investigate stacked InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot(QD)structures with different doping schemes. Spatially resolved imaging of the QDs by SSRM is demonstrated. The SSRM contrast obtained for the QD layers is found to depend on doping in the structure. In the undoped structures both QD-layers and QDs within the layers could be resolved, while in the dopedstructures the QD layers appear more or less uniformly broadened. The origin of the SSRM contrast in the QD layer in the different samples is discussed and correlated with doping schemes.T. Hakkarainen, O. Douhéret, and S. Anand would like
to acknowledge the Swedish Research Council VR for fi-
nancial support and the Kurt-Alice Wallenberg KAW foundation
for financing the microscope. L. Fu, H. H. Tan, and C.
Jagadish would like to acknowledge the Australian Research
Council ARC for financial support and Australian National
Fabrication Facility ANFF for access to the facilities
Online Fault Classification in HPC Systems through Machine Learning
As High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems strive towards the exascale goal,
studies suggest that they will experience excessive failure rates. For this
reason, detecting and classifying faults in HPC systems as they occur and
initiating corrective actions before they can transform into failures will be
essential for continued operation. In this paper, we propose a fault
classification method for HPC systems based on machine learning that has been
designed specifically to operate with live streamed data. We cast the problem
and its solution within realistic operating constraints of online use. Our
results show that almost perfect classification accuracy can be reached for
different fault types with low computational overhead and minimal delay. We
have based our study on a local dataset, which we make publicly available, that
was acquired by injecting faults to an in-house experimental HPC system.Comment: Accepted for publication at the Euro-Par 2019 conferenc
Coherent control of photon transmission : slowing light in coupled resonator waveguide doped with Atoms
In this paper, we propose and study a hybrid mechanism for coherent
transmission of photons in the coupled resonator optical waveguide (CROW) by
incorporating the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect into
the controllable band gap structure of the CROW. Here, the configuration setup
of system consists of a CROW with homogeneous couplings and the artificial
atoms with -type three levels doped in each cavity. The roles of three
levels are completely considered based on a mean field approach where the
collection of three-level atoms collectively behave as two-mode spin waves. We
show that the dynamics of low excitations of atomic ensemble can be effectively
described by an coupling boson model. The exactly solutions show that the light
pulses can be stopped and stored coherently by adiabatically controlling the
classical field.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Phonon quarticity induced by changes in phonon-tracked hybridization during lattice expansion and its stabilization of rutile TiO
Although the rutile structure of TiO is stable at high temperatures, the
conventional quasiharmonic approximation predicts that several acoustic phonons
decrease anomalously to zero frequency with thermal expansion, incorrectly
predicting a structural collapse at temperatures well below 1000\,K. Inelastic
neutron scattering was used to measure the temperature dependence of the phonon
density of states (DOS) of rutile TiO from 300 to 1373\,K. Surprisingly,
these anomalous acoustic phonons were found to increase in frequency with
temperature. First-principles calculations showed that with lattice expansion,
the potentials for the anomalous acoustic phonons transform from quadratic to
quartic, stabilizing the rutile phase at high temperatures. In these modes, the
vibrational displacements of adjacent Ti and O atoms cause variations in
hybridization of electrons of Ti and electrons of O atoms. With
thermal expansion, the energy variation in this "phonon-tracked hybridization"
flattens the bottom of the interatomic potential well between Ti and O atoms,
and induces a quarticity in the phonon potential.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, supplemental material (3 figures
Whoâs got my back? Comparing consumersâ reactions topeerâprovided and firmâprovided customer support
This study demonstrates that when an individual encounters a productârelated problem, fellow consumers (i.e., oneâs peers) have a unique advantage in providing social support to the affected consumer. Specifically, we find that social support can be a dominant driver of consumer satisfaction when the risk of customer defection is at its highest (i.e., following an unsuccessful attempt to solve the consumerâs problem). Using realâworld data from an online support community, a pilot study finds that if the problem that a consumer faces goes unsolved, satisfaction is greater when consumers receive peerâprovided versus firmâprovided support. Study 1 replicates this finding in a controlled experiment that realistically simulates an actual customer support incident in realâtime. Study 2 identifies social support as the mechanism that underlies this effect and investigates whether firm employees can take steps to appear more customerâlike and thereby replicate the advantage of peerâprovided support. Finally, Study 3 reveals an alternative strategy (i.e., utilizing multiple employees) that firms can use to enhance social support and provides evidence that peerâprovided support not only enhances satisfaction but also positively influences consumersâ behavioral intentions
2014 Audio Contest winner in prose : Eggtooth
PodcastThis week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we are featuring the last of our three winners from the 2014 Audio Contest. The winning prose piece was the short story "Eggtooth" by Steve De Jarnatt, with music and mixing by Stephen Day, and a voice performance by O-Lan Jones
Devil's staircases without particle-hole symmetry
We present and analyze spin models with long-range interactions whose ground state features a so-called devilâs staircase and where plateaus of the staircase are accessed by varying two-body interactions. This is in contrast to the canonical devilâs staircase, for example occurring in the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions, where typically a single-body chemical potential is varied to scan through the plateaus. These systems, moreover, typically feature a particle-hole symmetry which trivially connects the hole part of the staircase (filling fraction f â„ 1/2) to its particle part (f †1/2). Such symmetry is absent in our models and hence the particle sector and the hole sector can be separately controlled, resulting in exotic hybrid staircases
Entanglement of remote atomic qubits
We report observations of entanglement of two remote atomic qubits, achieved
by generating an entangled state of an atomic qubit and a single photon at Site
A, transmitting the photon to Site B in an adjacent laboratory through an
optical fiber, and converting the photon into an atomic qubit. Entanglement of
the two remote atomic qubits is inferred by performing, locally, quantum state
transfer of each of the atomic qubits onto a photonic qubit and subsequent
measurement of polarization correlations in violation of the Bell inequality
|S| <2. We experimentally determine S =2.16 +/- 0.03. Entanglement of two
remote atomic qubits, each qubit consisting of two independent spin wave
excitations, and reversible, coherent transfer of entanglement between matter
and light, represent important advances in quantum information science.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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