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Testing the Reliability of Financial Sustainability. The Case of Spanish Local Governments
Local Governments (LGs) have strengthened the financial control as a consequence of mandatory requirements to ensure financial sustainability in their management. The aim of this study is to determine whether financial indicators about financial conditions defined in Spanish regulation are backed by worldwide generally accepted financial benchmarking indicators. For this purpose, we analyze the relationship between Spanish indicators of financial sustainability based on European Union (EU) regulations and Financial Trends Monitoring System Indicators (FTMS) of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). For this purpose, two methodologies are applied: discriminant analysis and logistic regression, where the dependent variables are each of the Spanish financial indicators and the independent variables are ICMA indicators. The evidence supports that variables that are related to the control of expenditures, debt and the revenues show a greater explanatory power of financial sustainability, being the most important elements which offer relevant information about the financial sustainability measurement of LGs
Ground state cooling of atoms in optical lattices
We propose two schemes for cooling bosonic and fermionic atoms that are
trapped in a deep optical lattice. The first scheme is a quantum algorithm
based on particle number filtering and state dependent lattice shifts. The
second protocol alternates filtering with a redistribution of particles by
means of quantum tunnelling. We provide a complete theoretical analysis of both
schemes and characterize the cooling efficiency in terms of the entropy. Our
schemes do not require addressing of single lattice sites and use a novel
method, which is based on coherent laser control, to perform very fast
filtering.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Split Instability of a Vortex in an Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensate
An attractive Bose-Einstein condensate with a vortex splits into two pieces
via the quadrupole dynamical instability, which arises at a weaker strength of
interaction than the monopole and the dipole instabilities. The split pieces
subsequently unite to restore the original vortex or collapse.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, added figures and references, revised tex
Tratamiento quirúrgico percutáneo del hallux valgus mediante osteotomías múltiples
Objetivo: Se presenta la experiencia del tratamiento del hallux valgus mediante la realización de osteotomía distal del primer metatarsiano y osteotomía de la falange con liberación del abductor por técnicas percutáneas. Material y método: Desde junio de 1996 hasta junio de 1997 han sido intervenidos 64 pacientes, la mayor parte mujeres con hallux valgus de grado moderado con un ángulo intermetatarsiano medio de 14.5° y un ángulo del complejo articular proximal (PASA) de 17,7° de media. Resultados: Los resultados obtenidos desde el punto de vista radiológico pusieron de manifiesto una corrección media de 5° del ángulo intermetatarsal y se obtiene un valor medio del PASA de 8,2°. La consolidación de las osteotomías se consiguió en el 100% de los pies sin retardos de consolidación significativos, salvo en un caso que precisó más de tres meses. Por lo que se refiere a las complicaciones, al no utilizar ningún medio de fijación, el desplazamiento de las osteotomías fue muy frecuente, pero sólo en un 8% de la serie tuvieron repercusión clínica. El acortamiento del primer metarsiano fue la norma alcanzando como media 0,7 cm, lo que se intentó compensar con un descenso de la cabeza del primer metatarsiano; la metatarsalgia por trasferencia en esta serie ocurrió en el 25% de los casos. No se presentaron alteraciones neurológicas, infección ni síndromes flebíticos postquiriírgicos. Conclusión: Parece que la técnica de Reverdin-Isham, por vía percutánea, es un buen método para el tratamiento del hallux valgus. ya que proporciona unos resultados clínicos muy aceptables, sin presentar complicaciones importantes; en el momento actual hay que asociar con mucha más frecuencia la realineación metatarsal a la cirugía del hallux valgus para evitar las metatarsalgias por trasferencia
Structural instability of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
In this paper we study a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and show
that: (i) A minimum value of the interaction is needed for the existence of
stable persistent currents. (ii) Vorticity is not a fundamental invariant of
the system, as there exists a conservative mechanism which can destroy a vortex
and change its sign. (iii) This mechanism is suppressed by strong interactions.Comment: 4 pages with 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Inducing nonclassical lasing via periodic drivings in circuit quantum electrodynamics
We show how a pair of superconducting qubits coupled to a microwave cavity mode can be used to engineer a single-atom laser that emits light into a nonclassical state. Our scheme relies on the dressing of the qubit-field coupling by periodic modulations of the qubit energy. In the dressed basis, the radiative decay of the first qubit becomes an effective incoherent pumping mechanism that injects energy into the system, hence turning dissipation to our advantage. A second, auxiliary qubit is used to shape the decay within the cavity, in such a way that lasing occurs in a squeezed basis of the cavity mode. We characterize the system both by mean-field theory and exact calculations. Our work may find applications in the generation of squeezing and entanglement in circuit QED, as well as in the study of dissipative few- and many-body phase transitions
Scalable Ion Trap Quantum Computing without Moving Ions
A hybrid quantum computing scheme is studied where the hybrid qubit is made
of an ion trap qubit serving as the information storage and a solid-state
charge qubit serving as the quantum processor, connected by a superconducting
cavity. In this paper, we extend our previous work [1] and study the
decoherence, coupling and scalability of the hybrid system. We present our
calculations of the decoherence of the coupled ion - charge system due to the
charge fluctuations in the solid-state system and the dissipation of the
superconducting cavity under laser radiation. A gate scheme that exploits rapid
state flips of the charge qubit to reduce decoherence by the charge noise is
designed. We also study a superconducting switch that is inserted between the
cavity and the charge qubit and provides tunable coupling between the qubits.
The scalability of the hybrid scheme is discussed together with several
potential experimental obstacles in realizing this scheme
Stable and unstable vortices in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates
We study the stability and dynamics of vortices in two-species condensates as
prepared in the recent JILA experiment (M. R. Andrews {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 83 (1999) 2498). We find that of the two available configurations, in
which one specie has vorticity and the other one has , only one is
linearly stable, which agrees with the experimental results. However, it is
found that in the unstable case the vortex is not destroyed by the instability,
but may be transfered from one specie to the other or display complex
spatiotemporal dynamics.Comment: 4 EPS figures, now features a three-dimensional stud
The Bose–Hubbard model with squeezed dissipation
The stationary properties of the Bose–Hubbard model under squeezed dissipation are investigated. The dissipative model does not possess aU (1) symmetry but conserves parity. We find that 〈a j 〉 = 0 always holds, so no symmetry breaking occurs. Without the onsite repulsion, the linear case is known to be critical. At the critical point the system freezes to an EPR state with infinite two mode entanglement. We show here that the correlations are rapidly destroyed whenever the repulsion is switched on. As we increase the latter, the system approaches a thermal state with an effective temperature defined in terms of the squeezing parameter in the dissipators. We characterize this transition by means of a Gutzwiller ansatz and the Gaussian Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov approximation
Coherent control of trapped ions using off-resonant lasers
In this paper we develop a unified framework to study the coherent control of
trapped ions subject to state-dependent forces. Taking different limits in our
theory, we can reproduce two different designs of a two-qubit quantum gate
--the pushing gate [1] and the fast gates based on laser pulses from Ref.
[2]--, and propose a new design based on continuous laser beams. We demonstrate
how to simulate Ising Hamiltonians in a many ions setup, and how to create
highly entangled states and induce squeezing. Finally, in a detailed analysis
we identify the physical limits of this technique and study the dependence of
errors on the temperature. [1] J.I. Cirac, P. Zoller, Nature, 404, 579, 2000.
[2] J.J. Garcia-Ripoll, P. Zoller, J.I. Cirac, PRL 67, 062318, 200
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