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Nuclear pairing from microscopic forces: singlet channels and higher-partial waves
Background: An accurate description of nuclear pairing gaps is extremely
important for understanding static and dynamic properties of the inner crusts
of neutron stars and to explain their cooling process.
Purpose: We plan to study the behavior of the pairing gaps as a
function of the Fermi momentum for neutron and nuclear matter in all
relevant angular momentum channels where superfluidity is believed to naturally
emerge. The calculations will employ realistic chiral nucleon-nucleon
potentials with the inclusion of three-body forces and self-energy effects.
Methods: The superfluid states of neutron and nuclear matter are studied by
solving the BCS gap equation for chiral nuclear potentials using the method
suggested by Khodel et al., where the original gap equation is replaced by a
coupled set of equations for the dimensionless gap function defined
by and a non-linear algebraic equation for the
gap magnitude at the Fermi surface. This method is
numerically stable even for small pairing gaps, such as that encountered in the
coupled partial wave.
Results: We have successfully applied Khodel's method to singlet () and
coupled channel ( and ) cases in neutron and nuclear matter. Our
calculations agree with other ab-initio approaches, where available, and
provide crucial inputs for future applications in superfluid systems.Comment: 18 pages and 9 figure
Sum-Rate Analysis for High Altitude Platform (HAP) Drones with Tethered Balloon Relay
High altitude platform (HAP) drones can provide broadband wireless
connectivity to ground users in rural areas by establishing line-of-sight (LoS)
links and exploiting effective beamforming techniques. However, at high
altitudes, acquiring the channel state information (CSI) for HAPs, which is a
key component to perform beamforming, is challenging. In this paper, by
exploiting an interference alignment (IA) technique, a novel method for
achieving the maximum sum-rate in HAP-based communications without CSI is
proposed. In particular, to realize IA, a multiple-antenna tethered balloon is
used as a relay between multiple HAP drones and ground stations (GSs). Here, a
multiple-input multiple-output X network system is considered. The capacity of
the considered M*N X network with a tethered balloon relay is derived in
closed-form. Simulation results corroborate the theoretical findings and show
that the proposed approach yields the maximum sum-rate in multiple HAPs-GSs
communications in absence of CSI. The results also show the existence of an
optimal balloon's altitude for which the sum-rate is maximized.Comment: Accepted in IEEE Communications Letter
Fluvial dynamics and watermills location in Basilicata (Southern Italy)
Watermills (grain mills, waulk mills, olive mills, sawmills and
threshing machines) operated in the Basilicata Region from the Roman
Period until the early decades of the twentieth century, representing an
important feature of waterways that is today almost totally forgotten. Using
documentary sources, ancient maps and field survey it is possible to
catalogue and identify the location of these ancient hydraulic structures.
Watermills were usually placed far enough away from the river to avoid
inundation during floods, and near natural knickpoints or artificial steps
in the river long profile that were created by mill engineers. Mill construction
often had significant impacts on a rivers morphology, because
it was necessary to divert the river discharge towards the mill wheel, to
drive the grain-grinding mechanism. Watermill typological variations
have been examined in relation to variations in river pattern to assess
the ways in which the hydrographic and hydrological settings of the Basilicata
Region have affected mill siting and operation. Most Basilicata
watermills were built with a horizontal water-wheel and a tower. The
characteristics of the tower and the associated hydraulic structures varied
according to the environmental setting. Finally, mill positions define
also the locations on the river system that have already been used
to exploit hydraulic power and thus could be useful for future use in the
micro-hydroelectric secto
Preconditioning Kernel Matrices
The computational and storage complexity of kernel machines presents the
primary barrier to their scaling to large, modern, datasets. A common way to
tackle the scalability issue is to use the conjugate gradient algorithm, which
relieves the constraints on both storage (the kernel matrix need not be stored)
and computation (both stochastic gradients and parallelization can be used).
Even so, conjugate gradient is not without its own issues: the conditioning of
kernel matrices is often such that conjugate gradients will have poor
convergence in practice. Preconditioning is a common approach to alleviating
this issue. Here we propose preconditioned conjugate gradients for kernel
machines, and develop a broad range of preconditioners particularly useful for
kernel matrices. We describe a scalable approach to both solving kernel
machines and learning their hyperparameters. We show this approach is exact in
the limit of iterations and outperforms state-of-the-art approximations for a
given computational budget
Dual-PEEC Modeling of a Two-Port TEM Cell for VHF Applications
Two-port TEM cells with rectangular cross section are commonly used to produce plane electromagnetic waves with high electric field. The non-uniform structure makes the use of numerical methods extremely useful in the design phase in order to achieve a very good behavior of the TEM cell over a wide frequency range of operation. In this paper an extended version of PEEC is used to study a real device and results are compared with experimental ones
Converting NAD83 GPS heights into NAVD88 elevations with LVGEOID, a hybrid geoid height model for the Long Valley volcanic region, California
A GPS survey of leveling benchmarks done in Long
Valley Caldera in 1999 showed that the application of the
National Geodetic Survey (NGS) geoid model GEOID99 to
tie GPS heights to historical leveling measurements would
significantly underestimate the caldera ground deformation (known from other geodetic measurements). The NGS
geoid model was able to correctly reproduce the shape of the
deformation, but required a local adjustment to give a realistic estimate of the magnitude of the uplift. In summer 2006,
the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a new leveling survey
along two major routes crossing the Long Valley region from
north to south (Hwy 395) and from east to west (Hwy 203 â
Benton Crossing). At the same time, 25 leveling bench marks
were occupied with dual frequency GPS receivers to provide a
measurement of the ellipsoid heights. Using the heights from
these two surveys, we were able to compute a precise geoid
height model (LVGEOID) for the Long Valley volcanic region.
Our results show that although the LVGEOID and the latest
NGS GEOID03 model practically coincide in areas outside
the caldera, there is a difference of up to 0.2 m between the
two models within the caldera. Accounting for this difference
is critical when using the geoid height model to estimate the
ground deformation due to magmatic or tectonic activity in the
calder
The scale-free topology of market investments
We propose a network description of large market investments, where both
stocks and shareholders are represented as vertices connected by weighted links
corresponding to shareholdings. In this framework, the in-degree () and
the sum of incoming link weights () of an investor correspond to the number
of assets held (\emph{portfolio diversification}) and to the invested wealth
(\emph{portfolio volume}) respectively. An empirical analysis of three
different real markets reveals that the distributions of both and
display power-law tails with exponents and . Moreover, we find
that scales as a power-law function of with an exponent .
Remarkably, despite the values of , and differ across
the three markets, they are always governed by the scaling relation
. We show that these empirical findings can be
reproduced by a recent model relating the emergence of scale-free networks to
an underlying Paretian distribution of `hidden' vertex properties.Comment: Final version accepted for publication on Physica
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