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Thermodynamic Geometry of the Born-Infeld-anti-de Sitter black holes
Thermodynamic geometry is applied to the Born-Infeld-anti-de Sitter black
hole (BIAdS) in the four dimensions, which is a nonlinear generalization of the
Reissner-Norstr\"Aom-AdS black hole (RNAdS). We compute the Weinhold as well as
the Ruppeiner scalar curvature and find that the singular points are not the
same with the ones obtained using the heat capacity. Legendre-invariant metric
proposed by Quevedo and the metric obtained by using the free energy as the
thermodynamic potential are obtained and the corresponding scalar curvatures
diverge at the Davies points.Comment: Latex,19 pages,14 figure
Quantum Logic Processor: A Mach Zehnder Interferometer based Approach
Quantum Logic Processors can be implemented with Mach Zehnder
Interferometer(MZI) configurations for the Quantum logic operations and gates.
In this paper, its implementation for both optical and electronic system has
been presented. The correspondence between Jones matrices for photon
polarizations and Pauli spin matrices for electrons gives a representation of
all the unitary matrices for the quantum gate operations. A novel quantum
computation system based on a Electronic Mach Zehnder Interferometer(MZI) has
also been proposed. It uses the electron spin as the primary qubit. Rashba
effect is used to create Unitary transforms on spin qubits. A mesoscopic Stern
Gerlach apparatus can be used for both spin injection and detection. An
intertwined nanowire design is used for the MZI. The system can implement all
single and double qubit gates. It can easily be coupled to form an array. Thus
the Quantum Logic Processor (QLP) can be built using the system as its
prototype.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures, 8 Table
On the Thermodynamic Geometry of Hot QCD
We study the nature of the covariant thermodynamic geometry arising from the
free energy of hot QCD. We systematically analyze the underlying equilibrium
thermodynamic configurations of the free energy of 2- and 3-flavor hot QCD with
or without including thermal fluctuations in the neighborhood of the QCD
transition temperature. We show that there exists a well-defined thermodynamic
geometric notion for QCD thermodynamics. The geometry thus obtained has no
singularity as an intrinsic Riemannian manifold. We further show that there is
a close connection of this geometric approach with the existing studies of
correlations and quark number susceptibilities in hot QCD.Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures, Keywords: Thermodynamic Geometry, Hot QCD,
Quasi-particles, PACS: 12.38.-t; 05.70.Fh; 02.40.Ky; 12.40.E
Photons from Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at Ultra-Relativistic Energies
We compare the photon emission rates from hot hadronic matter with in-medium
mass shift and Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). It is observed that the WA98 data can
be well reproduced by hadronic initial state with initial temperature MeV if the universal scaling of temperature dependent hadronic masses are
assumed and the evolution of temperature with time is taken from transport
model or (3+1) dimensional hydrodynamics. The data can also be reproduced by
QGP initial state with similar initial temperature and non-zero initial radial
velocity.Comment: Talk given in the International Nuclear Physics Conference, at the
University of California, Berkeley, USA, during July 30 - August 3, 200
Redundant Wavelet Watermarking using Spread Spectrum Modulation
Spread Spectrum modulation has become a preferred paradigm in many watermarking applications. This paper analyzes the performance of such a blind watermarking scheme under discrete wavelet frame rather than a traditional orthonormal wavelet expansion. The over complete representation offered by the redundant frame facilitates the identification of significant image features via a simple correlation operation across scales. The performance and resiliency of the proposed technique are analyzed against several volumetric distortion sources. The experimental results of this oblivious algorithm illustrate better visual and statistical imperceptibility and robustness compared to the usually critically sampled discrete wavelet transform. This algorithmic architecture utilizes the existing allocated bandwidth in the data transmission channel in a more efficient manner
Electrical transport properties of nanostructured ferromagnetic perovskite oxides La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO_3 and La_0.5Sr_0.5CoO_3 at low temperatures (5 K > T >0.3 K) and high magnetic field
We report a comprehensive study of the electrical and magneto-transport
properties of nanocrystals of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO_3 (LCMO) (with size down to 15
nm) and La_0.5Sr_0.5CoO_3 (LSCO) (with size down to 35 nm) in the temperature
range 0.3 K to 5 K and magnetic fields upto 14 T. The transport,
magnetotransport and non-linear conduction (I-V curves) were analysed using the
concept of Spin Polarized Tunnelling in the presence of Coulomb blockade. The
activation energy of transport, \Delta, was used to estimate the tunnelling
distances and the inverse decay length of the tunnelling wave function (\chi)
and the height of the tunnelling barrier (\Phi_B). The magnetotransport data
were used to find out the magnetic field dependences of these tunnelling
parameters. The data taken over a large magnetic field range allowed us to
separate out the MR contributions at low temperatures arising from tunnelling
into two distinct contributions. In LCMO, at low magnetic field, the transport
and the MR are dominated by the spin polarization, while at higher magnetic
field the MR arises from the lowering of the tunnel barrier by the magnetic
field leading to an MR that does not saturate even at 14 T. In contrast, in
LSCO, which does not have substantial spin polarization, the first contribution
at low field is absent, while the second contribution related to the barrier
height persists. The idea of inter-grain tunnelling has been validated by
direct measurements of the non-linear I-V data in this temperature range and
the I-V data was found to be strongly dependent on magnetic field. We made the
important observation that a gap like feature (with magnitude ~ E_C, the
Coulomb charging energy) shows up in the conductance g(V) at low bias for the
systems with smallest nanocrystal size at lowest temperatures (T < 0.7 K). The
gap closes as the magnetic field and the temperature are increased.Comment: 13 figure
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