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Classification of the phases of 1D spin chains with commuting Hamiltonians
We consider the class of spin Hamiltonians on a 1D chain with periodic
boundary conditions that are (i) translational invariant, (ii) commuting and
(iii) scale invariant, where by the latter we mean that the ground state
degeneracy is independent of the system size. We correspond a directed graph to
a Hamiltonian of this form and show that the structure of its ground space can
be read from the cycles of the graph. We show that the ground state degeneracy
is the only parameter that distinguishes the phases of these Hamiltonians. Our
main tool in this paper is the idea of Bravyi and Vyalyi (2005) in using the
representation theory of finite dimensional C^*-algebras to study commuting
Hamiltonians.Comment: 8 pages, improved readability, added exampl
Protocolos para extração de DNA genômico de amostras de pêlo de bovinos.
Descreve uma experiência de padronização de protocolo de extração de DNA de células do bulbo capilar de pêlos coletados da vassoura da cauda de bovinos visando a utilização em análises por PCR.bitstream/item/24672/1/ct87-protocolos-extracaoDNA.pd
Graph Concatenation for Quantum Codes
Graphs are closely related to quantum error-correcting codes: every
stabilizer code is locally equivalent to a graph code, and every codeword
stabilized code can be described by a graph and a classical code. For the
construction of good quantum codes of relatively large block length,
concatenated quantum codes and their generalizations play an important role. We
develop a systematic method for constructing concatenated quantum codes based
on "graph concatenation", where graphs representing the inner and outer codes
are concatenated via a simple graph operation called "generalized local
complementation." Our method applies to both binary and non-binary concatenated
quantum codes as well as their generalizations.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figures. Figures of concatenated [[5,1,3]] and [[7,1,3]]
are added. Submitted to JM
Bath Adsorption Study of Methylene Blue Dye Onto Sunflower Seeds Husks Activated Carbon
Mesoporous activated carbon prepared from sunflower seeds husks (SSH) using physiochemical activation (potassium hydroxide treatment and carbon dioxide gasification). The optimum conditions for preparing activated carbon from (SSH) were found to be activation temperature of 500 oC, activation time of 1.0 h and chemical impregnation ratio of 1:1. The adsorptions of methylene blue (MB) onto sunflower seed husks activated carbon (SSHAC) were studied with respect to initial MB concentration. The experimental data were analyzed by the Langmuir isotherm, the Freundlich isotherm and the Temkin isotherm. Equilibrium data fitted well with the Langmuir model with maximum adsorption capacity of 410 mg/g at 30 oC for MB concentration range of 50-300 mg/L. Desorption-adsorption studies for the spent SSHAC (saturated with MB) using ethanol as solvent showed that regeneration efficiency around 85%. The results indicated that the SSHAC is very effective for the adsorption of MB from aqueous solutions and can be regenerate to use for more than two adsorption cycles
Ultra-Stretchable Interconnects for High-Density Stretchable Electronics
The exciting field of stretchable electronics (SE) promises numerous novel
applications, particularly in-body and medical diagnostics devices. However,
future advanced SE miniature devices will require high-density, extremely
stretchable interconnects with micron-scale footprints, which calls for proven
standardized (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-type) process
recipes using bulk integrated circuit (IC) microfabrication tools and
fine-pitch photolithography patterning. Here, we address this combined
challenge of microfabrication with extreme stretchability for high-density SE
devices by introducing CMOS-enabled, free-standing, miniaturized interconnect
structures that fully exploit their 3D kinematic freedom through an interplay
of buckling, torsion, and bending to maximize stretchability. Integration with
standard CMOS-type batch processing is assured by utilizing the Flex-to-Rigid
(F2R) post-processing technology to make the back-end-of-line interconnect
structures free-standing, thus enabling the routine microfabrication of
highly-stretchable interconnects. The performance and reproducibility of these
free-standing structures is promising: an elastic stretch beyond 2000% and
ultimate (plastic) stretch beyond 3000%, with 10
million cycles at 1000% stretch with <1% resistance change. This generic
technology provides a new route to exciting highly-stretchable miniature
devices.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure, journal publicatio
PARTICLE DEGRADATION
A linear air gun was used to examine the effect of particle velocity, impact angle, particle diameter, the number of impacts, target thickness and target material on the degradation of three types of spherical particles (Aluminum oxide, Polystyrene and Glass)
Simulations and cosmological inference: A statistical model for power spectra means and covariances
We describe an approximate statistical model for the sample variance
distribution of the non-linear matter power spectrum that can be calibrated
from limited numbers of simulations. Our model retains the common assumption of
a multivariate Normal distribution for the power spectrum band powers, but
takes full account of the (parameter dependent) power spectrum covariance. The
model is calibrated using an extension of the framework in Habib et al. (2007)
to train Gaussian processes for the power spectrum mean and covariance given a
set of simulation runs over a hypercube in parameter space. We demonstrate the
performance of this machinery by estimating the parameters of a power-law model
for the power spectrum. Within this framework, our calibrated sample variance
distribution is robust to errors in the estimated covariance and shows rapid
convergence of the posterior parameter constraints with the number of training
simulations.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, matches final version published in PR
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