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Coarse Graining Makes It Hard to See Micro-Macro Entanglement
Observing quantum effects such as superpositions and entanglement in
macroscopic systems requires not only a system that is well protected against
environmental decoherence, but also sufficient measurement precision. Motivated
by recent experiments, we study the effects of coarse-graining in photon number
measurements on the observability of micro-macro entanglement that is created
by greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled pair. We compare the results
obtained for a unitary quantum cloner, which generates micro-macro
entanglement, and for a measure-and-prepare cloner, which produces a separable
micro-macro state. We show that the distance between the probability
distributions of results for the two cloners approaches zero for a fixed
moderate amount of coarse-graining. Proving the presence of micro-macro
entanglement therefore becomes progressively harder as the system size
increases.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Data Management Systems (DMS): Complex data types study. Volume 1: Appendices A-B. Volume 2: Appendices C1-C5. Volume 3: Appendices D1-D3 and E
Two categories were chosen for study: the issue of using a preprocessor on Ada code of Application Programs which would interface with the Run-Time Object Data Base Standard Services (RODB STSV), the intent was to catch and correct any mis-registration errors of the program coder between the user declared Objects, their types, their addresses, and the corresponding RODB definitions; and RODB STSV Performance Issues and Identification of Problems with the planned methods for accessing Primitive Object Attributes, this included the study of an alternate storage scheme to the 'store objects by attribute' scheme in the current design of the RODB. The study resulted in essentially three separate documents, an interpretation of the system requirements, an assessment of the preliminary design, and a detailing of the components of a detailed design
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On the tensile strength of soil grains in Hertzian response
The breakage initiation of soil grains is controlled by its tensile capacity. Despite the importance of tensile strength, it is often disregarded due to difficulties in measurement. This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation on the effect of tensile strength on Hertzian response of a single soil grain. Hertz theory is commonly used in numerical simulation to present the contact constitutive behaviour of a purely elastic grain under normal loading. This normal force:displacement comes from stress distribution and concentration inside the grain. When the stress reaches the tensile capacity, a crack initiates. A series of numerical tests have been conducted to determine the sensitivity of Hertzian response to the selected tensile strength used as an input data. An elastic-damage constitutive model has been employed for spherical grains in a combined finite-discrete element framework. The interpretation of results was enriched by considering previous theoretical work. In addition, systematic experimental tests have been carried out on both spherical glass beads and grains of two different sands, i.e. Leighton Buzzard silica sand and coarse carbonate sand from Persian Gulf. The preliminary results suggest that lower tensile strength leads to a softer response under normal loading. The wider range of responses obtained for the carbonate sand, are believed to be related to the large variety of grain shape associated with bioclastic origin of the constituent grains
Level Crossing Analysis of Burgers Equation in 1+1 Dimensions
We investigate the average frequency of positive slope ,
crossing the velocity field in the Burgers equation.
The level crossing analysis in the inviscid limit and total number of positive
crossing of velocity field before creation of singularities are given. The main
goal of this paper is to show that this quantity, , is a good
measure for the fluctuations of velocity fields in the Burgers turbulence.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Uncertainty in the Fluctuations of the Price of Stocks
We report on a study of the Tehran Price Index (TEPIX) from 2001 to 2006 as
an emerging market that has been affected by several political crises during
the recent years, and analyze the non-Gaussian probability density function
(PDF) of the log returns of the stocks' prices. We show that while the average
of the index did not fall very much over the time period of the study, its
day-to-day fluctuations strongly increased due to the crises. Using an approach
based on multiplicative processes with a detrending procedure, we study the
scale-dependence of the non-Gaussian PDFs, and show that the temporal
dependence of their tails indicates a gradual and systematic increase in the
probability of the appearance of large increments in the returns on approaching
distinct critical time scales over which the TEPIX has exhibited maximum
uncertainty.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to appear in IJMP
Properties of Early-Type, Dry Galaxy Mergers and the Origin of Massive Elliptical Galaxies
The luminosity dependence of kinematical and isophotal properties of
elliptical galaxies is investigated using numerical simulations of galaxy
merging, combined with semi-analytical models of hierarchical structure
formation. Mergers of spiral galaxies as the only formation mechanism for
elliptical galaxies can neither reproduce the kinematical and photometric
properties of very massive elliptical galaxies nor the change from rotationally
flattened disky to anisotropic boxy systems with increasing luminosity. We
present numerical simulations showing that binary mergers of early-type
galaxies open an additional channel for the formation of anisotropic, slowly
rotating and boxy ellipticals. Including this channel in a semi-analytical
model we can successfully reproduce the observed trend that more luminous giant
ellipticals are more boxy and less flattened by rotation. This trend can be
strengthened by suppressing residual gas infall and star formation for galaxies
with stellar bulge masses . Hence we
propose that mergers of early-type galaxies play an important role for the
assembly of massive elliptical galaxies.Comment: accepted for publication by ApJ
Long range correlation in cosmic microwave background radiation
We investigate the statistical anisotropy and Gaussianity of temperature
fluctuations of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) data from {\it
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe} survey, using the multifractal detrended
fluctuation analysis, rescaled range and scaled windowed variance methods. The
multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis shows that CMB fluctuations has a
long range correlation function with a multifractal behavior. By comparing the
shuffled and surrogate series of CMB data, we conclude that the multifractality
nature of temperature fluctuation of CMB is mainly due to the long-range
correlations and the map is consistent with a Gaussian distribution.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, V2: Added comments, references and major
correction
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On the torsional loading of elastoplastic spheres in contact
The mechanical interaction between two bodies involves normal loading in combination with tangential, torsional and rotational loading. This paper focuses on the torsional loading of two spherical bodies which leads to twisting moment. The theoretical approach for calculating twisting moment between two spherical bodies has been proposed by Lubkin [1]. Due to the complexity of the solution, this has been simplified by Deresiewicz for discrete element modelling [2]. Here, the application of a simplified model for elastoplastic spheres is verified using computational modelling. The single grain interaction is simulated in a combined finite discrete element domain. In this domain a grain can deform using a finite element formulation and can interact with other objects based on discrete element principles. For an elastoplastic model, the contact area is larger in comparison with the elastic model, under a given normal force. Therefore, the plastic twisting moment is stiffer. The results presented here are important for describing any granular system involving torsional loading of elastoplastic grains. In particular, recent research on the behaviour of soil has clearly shown the importance of plasticity on grain interaction and rearrangement
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