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Optical characteristics of single wavelength-tunable InAs/InGaAsP/InP(100) quantum dots emitting at 1.55 um
We have studied the emission properties of individual InAs quantum dots (QDs)
grown in an InGaAsP matrix on InP(100) by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy.
Low-temperature microphotoluminescence spectroscopy shows emission from single
QDs around 1550 nm with characteristic exciton-biexciton behavior, and a
biexciton antibinding energy of more than 2 meV. Temperature-dependent
measurements reveal negligible optical-phonon induced broadening of the exciton
line up to 50 K, and emission from the exciton state clearly persists above 70
K. Furthermore, we find no measurable polarized fine structure splitting of the
exciton state within the experimental precision. These results are encouraging
for the development of a controllable photon source for fiber-based quantum
information and cryptography systems.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, submitted AP
Glasgow University at TRECVID 2006
In the first part of this paper we describe our experiments in the automatic and interactive search tasks of TRECVID 2006. We submitted five fully automatic runs, including a text baseline, two runs based on visual features, and two runs that combine textual and visual features in a graph model. For the interactive search, we have implemented a new video search interface with relevance feedback facilities, based on both textual and visual features.
The second part is concerned with our approach to the high-level feature extraction task, based on textual information extracted from speech recogniser and machine translation outputs. They were aligned with shots and associated with high-level feature references. A list of significant words was created for each feature, and it was in turn utilised for identification of a feature during the evaluation
3D visual speech animation using 2D videos
In visual speech animation, lip motion accuracy is of paramount importance for speech intelligibility, especially for the hard of hearing or foreign language learners. We present an approach for visual speech animation that uses tracked lip motion in front-view 2D videos of a real speaker to drive the lip motion of a synthetic 3D head. This makes use of a 3D morphable model (3DMM), built using 3D synthetic head poses, with corresponding landmarks identified in the 2D videos and the 3DMM. We show that using a wider range of synthetic head poses for different phoneme intensities to create a 3DMM, as well as a combination of front and side photographs of the real speakers rather than just front photographs to produce initial neutral 3D synthetic head poses, gives better animation results when compared to ground truth data consisting of front-view 2D videos of real speakers
Logarithmic scaling in the near-dissipation range of turbulence
A logarithmic scaling for structure functions, in the form , where is the Kolmogorov dissipation scale and
are the scaling exponents, is suggested for the statistical
description of the near-dissipation range for which classical power-law scaling
does not apply. From experimental data at moderate Reynolds numbers, it is
shown that the logarithmic scaling, deduced from general considerations for the
near-dissipation range, covers almost the entire range of scales (about two
decades) of structure functions, for both velocity and passive scalar fields.
This new scaling requires two empirical constants, just as the classical
scaling does, and can be considered the basis for extended self-similarity
Viscous Instanton for Burgers' Turbulence
We consider the tails of probability density functions (PDF) for different
characteristics of velocity that satisfies Burgers equation driven by a
large-scale force. The saddle-point approximation is employed in the path
integral so that the calculation of the PDF tails boils down to finding the
special field-force configuration (instanton) that realizes the extremum of
probability. We calculate high moments of the velocity gradient
and find out that they correspond to the PDF with where is the
Reynolds number. That stretched exponential form is valid for negative
with the modulus much larger than its root-mean-square (rms)
value. The respective tail of PDF for negative velocity differences is
steeper than Gaussian, , as well as
single-point velocity PDF . For high
velocity derivatives , the general formula is found:
.Comment: 15 pages, RevTeX 3.
An inertial range length scale in structure functions
It is shown using experimental and numerical data that within the traditional
inertial subrange defined by where the third order structure function is linear
that the higher order structure function scaling exponents for longitudinal and
transverse structure functions converge only over larger scales, , where
has scaling intermediate between and as a function of
. Below these scales, scaling exponents cannot be determined for any
of the structure functions without resorting to procedures such as extended
self-similarity (ESS). With ESS, different longitudinal and transverse higher
order exponents are obtained that are consistent with earlier results. The
relationship of these statistics to derivative and pressure statistics, to
turbulent structures and to length scales is discussed.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figure
Hydration in a new semiaromatic polyamide observed by humidity-controlled dynamic viscoelastometry and X-ray diffraction
This is a preprint of an article published in JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS 2005; 43(13): 1640-1648ArticleJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS. 43(13): 1640-1648 (2005)journal articl
Analysis of Velocity Derivatives in Turbulence based on Generalized Statistics
A theoretical formula for the probability density function (PDF) of velocity
derivatives in a fully developed turbulent flow is derived with the
multifractal aspect based on the generalized measures of entropy, i.e., the
extensive Renyi entropy or the non-extensive Tsallis entropy, and is used,
successfully, to analyze the PDF's observed in the direct numerical simulation
(DNS) conducted by Gotoh et al.. The minimum length scale r_d/eta in the
longitudinal (transverse) inertial range of the DNS is estimated to be
r_d^L/eta = 1.716 (r_d^T/eta = 2.180) in the unit of the Kolmogorov scale eta.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
Longitudinal Structure Functions in Decaying and Forced Turbulence
In order to reliably compute the longitudinal structure functions in decaying
and forced turbulence, local isotropy is examined with the aid of the isotropic
expression of the incompressible conditions for the second and third order
structure functions. Furthermore, the Karman-Howarth-Kolmogorov relation is
investigated to examine the effects of external forcing and temporally
decreasing of the second order structure function. On the basis of these
investigations, the scaling range and exponents of the longitudinal
structure functions are determined for decaying and forced turbulence with the
aid of the extended-self-similarity (ESS) method. We find that 's are
smaller, for , in decaying turbulence than in forced turbulence. The
reasons for this discrepancy are discussed. Analysis of the local slopes of the
structure functions is used to justify the ESS method.Comment: 15 pages, 16 figure
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