443 research outputs found
Soil Improvement for Storage Tank Foundations
Three 30,000m3 storage tanks are located at a hydraulic-filled reclamation site and close to an earthquake active area in Taiwan. In order to reduce the risk of liquefaction in loose silty sand of foundations, the soil improvement methods of both dynamic compaction and vibro-replacement stone column are applied. One storage tank foundation was improved using vibro-replacement stone column approach only, and the treatment pattern consisted of stone columns on a triangular grid arrangement with three spacing patterns. A combination of the dynamic compaction and vibro-replacemenr stone column technique was utilized on foundations of the others. The dynamic compaction was performed at two different storage tank foundations with two types of impact energy first, then vibro-replacement stone column technique was carried out. To understand the effect of time on soil strength after soil improvement, CPT soundings were frequently performed at short interval time. It was found from results of CPT that soil strength increased with decreasing spacing of stone columns and increasing dynamic compaction impact energy. But during the short period of time after improvement, soil strength has no obvious change with time
Nonclassicality of Thermal Radiation
It is demonstrated that thermal radiation of small occupation number is
strongly nonclassical. This includes most forms of naturally occurring
radiation. Nonclassicality can be observed as a negative weak value of a
positive observable. It is related to negative values of the Margenau-Hill
quasi-probability distribution.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Prescribing pattern of antidepressants in psychiatric unit of a tertiary care hospital
Background: The objective was to study the prescribing pattern of antidepressants in psychiatric unit of a tertiary care hospital.Methods: An observational study was carried out at psychiatry out-patient department (OPD). The data which were collected included information about age, gender, education, occupation, marital status and drug prescription included trade name, generic name, dosage, and frequency of 100 outpatients who attended the psychiatry OPD.Results: Among 100 patients with major depression 66% were females and 34% were males. Depression was more commonly seen between patients with age group 21-40 years. Depression was more common among housewives (44%) and next was students (18%). Percentage of depression was more in educated people with (72%) than in uneducated with (28%). Depression was more commonly seen in married people with (77%) than in unmarried people (23%). Most commonly prescribed antidepressant as monotherapy was fluoxetine and as combination therapy was fluoxetine and escitalopram.Conclusions: Depression is more commonly seen in married people predominantly in females and housewives. Fluoxetine is more commonly used followed by escitalopram. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are preferred over other antidepressant because of their relative lesser side effects
Perturbative Hamiltonian constraints for higher order theories
We present a method for constructing a consistent low energy canonical
formalism for higher order time-derivative theories, extending the Dirac method
to include perturbative Hamiltonian constraints. We apply it to two
paradigmatic examples: the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator and the Bernard-Duncan
scalar field. We also compare the results, both at the classical and quantum
level, with the ones corresponding to a direct perturbative construction
applied to the exact higher order theory. This comparison highligths the
soundness of the present formalism.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figures; review section shortened and appendices change
Rotations associated with Lorentz boosts
It is possible to associate two angles with two successive non-collinear
Lorentz boosts. If one boost is applied after the initial boost, the result is
the final boost preceded by a rotation called the Wigner rotation. The other
rotation is associated with Wigner's O(3)-like little group. These two angles
are shown to be different. However, it is shown that the sum of these two
rotation angles is equal to the angle between the initial and final boosts.
This relation is studied for both low-speed and high-speed limits. Furthermore,
it is noted that the two-by-two matrices which are under the responsibility of
other branches of physics can be interpreted in terms of the transformations of
the Lorentz group, or vice versa. Classical ray optics is mentioned as a case
in point.Comment: LaTeX, 16 Pages, 4 epsfigure
Iwasawa Effects in Multi-layer Optics
There are many two-by-two matrices in layer optics. It is shown that they can
be formulated in terms of a three-parameter group whose algebraic property is
the same as the group of Lorentz transformations in a space with two space-like
and one time-like dimensions, or the group which is a standard
theoretical tool in optics. Among the interesting mathematical properties of
this group, the Iwasawa decomposition drastically simplifies the matrix algebra
under certain conditions, and leads to a concise expression for the S-matrix
for transmitted and reflected rays. It is shown that the Iwasawa effect can be
observed in multi-layer optics, and a sample calculation of the S-matrix is
given.Comment: RevTex 10 pages including 1 psfi
Recursive Construction of Generator for Lagrangian Gauge Symmetries
We obtain, for a subclass of structure functions characterizing a first class
Hamiltonian system, recursive relations from which the general form of the
local symmetry transformations can be constructed in terms of the independent
gauge parameters. We apply this to a non-trivial Hamiltonian system involving
two primary constraints, as well as two secondary constraints of the Nambu-Goto
type.Comment: 10 pages, Late
Factorisation of analytic representations in the unit disk and number-phase statistics of a quantum harmonic oscillator
The inner-outer part factorisation of analytic representations in the unit
disk is used for an effective characterisation of the number-phase statistical
properties of a quantum harmonic oscillator. It is shown that the factorisation
is intimately connected to the number-phase Weyl semigroup and its properties.
In the Barut-Girardello analytic representation the factorisation is
implemented as a convolution. Several examples are given which demonstrate the
physical significance of the factorisation and its role for quantum statistics.
In particular, we study the effect of phase-space interference on the
factorisation properties of a superposition state.Comment: to appear in J. Phys. A, LaTeX, 13 pages, no figures. More
information on http://www.technion.ac.il/~brif/science.htm
Analytic representations based on SU(1,1) coherent states and their applications
We consider two analytic representations of the SU(1,1) Lie group: the
representation in the unit disk based on the SU(1,1) Perelomov coherent states
and the Barut-Girardello representation based on the eigenstates of the SU(1,1)
lowering generator. We show that these representations are related through a
Laplace transform. A ``weak'' resolution of the identity in terms of the
Perelomov SU(1,1) coherent states is presented which is valid even when the
Bargmann index is smaller than one half. Various applications of these
results in the context of the two-photon realization of SU(1,1) in quantum
optics are also discussed.Comment: LaTeX, 15 pages, no figures, to appear in J. Phys. A. More
information on http://www.technion.ac.il/~brif/science.htm
Semiquantal dynamics of fluctuations: Ostensible quantum chaos
The time-dependent variational principle using generalized Gaussian trial
functions yields a finite dimensional approximation to the full quantum
dynamics and is used in many disciplines. It is shown how these 'semi-quantum'
dynamics may be derived via the Ehrenfest theorem and recast as an extended
classical gradient system with the fluctuation variables coupled to the average
variables. An extended potential is constructed for a one-dimensional system.
The semiquantal behavior is shown to be chaotic even though the system has
regular classical behavior and the quantum behavior had been assumed regular.Comment: 9 pages, TeX, 2 figures (not attached; hard copies available
immediately on request). To appear in Physical Review Letter
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