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A novel continuously adjustable hydrodynamic bearing
A novel form of adjustable fluid film bearing has been devised whereby the hydrodynamic conditions can be changed in a continuously controlled manner during operation. The principle can be applied to conventionally orientated journal bearings, i.e. a shaft rotating within a stationary bearing housing; to inverse orientations, i.e. a rotor on a stationary shaft; and to thrust bearings.
A theoretical model and computerised solution technique were developed in which the fluid film profile, temperature, viscosity and pressure fields were simultaneously solved.
Experiments were conducted on journal bearing versions for which recently developed measurement techniques demonstrated stable operation at zero eccentricity, and the ability to move the rotational centre whilst in operation.
Performance characteristics predicted by the computer model have been demonstrated in practice. The novel bearing has shown significant improvements over conventional designs in tems of stiffness, damping, rotational accuracy, power losses and temperature rise
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Fluid Film Bearings
A hydrodynamic fluid film bearing in which a plurality of circumferentially spaced bearing elements are provided, defining areas of support for the rotating part of the bearing. At least some of the bearing elements are adjustable during operation to vary lubrication conditions in the fluid film. The bearing elements are of sufficiently high stiffness that the position of the entire bearing surface of each element is essentially independent of the pressure in the fluid film encountered during operation. The bearing allows complete control of the lubrication conditions and can be adjusted for optimum performance over a wide range of speed and load
Single cold atom as efficient stationary source of EPR-entangled light
The Stokes and anti-Stokes components of the spectrum of resonance fluorescence of a single trapped atom, which originate from the mechanical coupling between the scattered photons and the quantized motion of the atomic center of mass, exhibit quantum correlations which are of two-mode-squeezing type. We study and demonstrate the build-up of such correlations in a specific setup, which is experimentally accessible, and where the atom acts as efficient and continuous source of EPR-entangled, two-mode squeezed light
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Time-separated entangled light pulses from a single-atom emitter
The controlled interaction between a single, trapped, laser-driven atom and
the mode of a high-finesse optical cavity allows for the generation of
temporally separated, entangled light pulses. Entanglement between the
photon-number fluctuations of the pulses is created and mediated via the atomic
center-of-mass motion, which is interfaced with light through the mechanical
effect of atom-photon interaction. By means of a quantum noise analysis we
determine the correlation matrix which characterizes the entanglement, as a
function of the system parameters. The scheme is feasible in experimentally
accessible parameter regimes. It may be easily extended to the generation of
entangled pulses at different frequencies, even at vastly different
wavelengths.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures. Modified version, to appear in the New Journal
of Physic
Development of a low-power wireless acoustic emission sensor node for aerospace applications
Acoustic emission (AE) is the spontaneous release of energy caused by the growth of damage, the monitoring of which gives an indication of the presence of damage within a structure. The current standard for AE localisation is difficult to apply in a low‐power system as sensors must either be wired together or Node's time synchronised, which is power intensive. This paper proposes the use of a method of bonding three piezoelectric sensors in a small triangular array, which has previously been shown by Aljets et al. to be capable of locating sources in simple structures. In this prior work the wave's A0 mode was used to predict the angle of arrival and the distance the wave has travelled through single sensor modal analysis. This paper presents the development of hardware to apply this technique and testing that showed artificial sources could be located in simple plates to a good level of accuracy. The addition of complexity to structures significantly reduced accuracy. This prompted hardware modifications to use the S0 mode for angle prediction. Testing showed that this significantly improved performance in a complex composite structure. The power consumption of the device is very low, consuming 0.33 mW in sleep mode, 17.44 mW whilst waiting for an event and 38 mW to record, process and transmit an event. This level of consumption has the potential to be self‐powered via energy harvesting
Entanglement transfer from dissociated molecules to photons
We introduce and study the concept of a reversible transfer of the quantum
state of two internally-translationally entangled fragments, formed by
molecular dissociation, to a photon pair. The transfer is based on intracavity
stimulated Raman adiabatic passage and it requires a combination of processes
whose principles are well established.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Continuous variable entanglement and quantum state teleportation between optical and macroscopic vibrational modes through radiation pressure
We study an isolated, perfectly reflecting, mirror illuminated by an intense
laser pulse. We show that the resulting radiation pressure efficiently
entangles a mirror vibrational mode with the two reflected optical sideband
modes of the incident carrier beam. The entanglement of the resulting
three-mode state is studied in detail and it is shown to be robust against the
mirror mode temperature. We then show how this continuous variable entanglement
can be profitably used to teleport an unknown quantum state of an optical mode
onto the vibrational mode of the mirror.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figure
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