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Lattice QCD Analysis for Gluons
Nonperturbative properties of gluons are studied in SU(3) lattice QCD at the
quenched level. The first subject is a functional-form analysis of the gluon
propagator in the Landau gauge. We find that the gluon
propagator obtained in lattice QCD is well described by
the four-dimensional (4D) Yukawa-type function with MeV for the Euclidean 4D distance fm. In momentum space,
the gluon propagator ( GeV) is
found to be well approximated with a new-type propagator of ,
which corresponds to 4D Fourier image of the Yukawa-type function. Associated
with the Yukawa-type gluon propagator, we derive analytical expressions for the
zero-spatial-momentum propagator , the effective mass ,
and the spectral function of the gluon field. The mass parameter
turns out to be the infrared effective mass of gluons. The obtained gluon
spectral function is almost negative-definite for ,
except for a positive -functional peak at . The second
subject is a lattice-QCD determination of the relevant gluonic
momentum-component for color confinement. As a remarkable fact, the string
tension is found to be almost unchanged even after cutting off the
high-momentum gluon component above 1.5 GeV in the Landau gauge. In fact, the
relevant gluonic scale for color confinement is concluded to be below 1.5 GeV.Comment: Invited talk at International Workshop on QCD Green's Functions,
Confinement, and Phenomenology - QCD-TNT09, September 07 - 11 2009, ECT
Trento, Ital
Web-based environment for user generation of spoken dialog for virtual assistants
In this paper, a web-based spoken dialog generation environment which enables users to edit dialogs with a video virtual assistant is developed and to also select the 3D motions and tone of voice for the assistant. In our proposed system, “anyone” can “easily” post/edit contents of the dialog for the dialog system. The dialog type corresponding to the system is limited to the question-and-answer type dialog, in order to avoid editing conflicts caused by editing by multiple users. The spoken dialog sharing service and FST generator generates spoken dialog content for the MMDAgent spoken dialog system toolkit, which includes a speech recognizer, a dialog control unit, a speech synthesizer, and a virtual agent. For dialog content creation, question-and-answer dialogs posted by users and FST templates are used. The proposed system was operated for more than a year in a student lounge at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, where users added more than 500 dialogs during the experiment. Images were also registered to 65% of the postings. The most posted category is related to “animation, video games, manga.”
The system was subjected to open examination by tourist information staff who had no prior experience with spoken dialog systems. Based on their impressions of tourist use of the dialog system, they shortened the length of some of the system’s responses and added pauses to the longer responses to make them easier to understand
MMDAE : Dialog scenario editor for MMDAgent on the web browser
We have developed MMDAgent (a fully open-source toolkit for voice interaction systems), which runs on a variety of platforms such as personal computers and smartphones. From this, the editing environment of the dialog scenario also needs to be operated on various platforms. So, we develop a scenario editor that is implemented on a Web browser. The purpose of this paper also includes making it easy to edit the scenario. Experiments were conducted for subjects using the proposed scenario editor. It was found that our proposed system provides better readability of a scenario and allows easier editing
Asperity characteristics of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Properties of the Olami-Feder-Christensen (OFC) model of earthquakes are
studied by numerical simulations. The previous study indicated that the model
exhibits ``asperity''-like phenomena, {\it i.e.}, the same region ruptures many
times near periodically [T.Kotani {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 77}, 010102
(2008)]. Such periodic or characteristic features apparently coexist with
power-law-like critical features, {\it e.g.}, the Gutenberg-Richter law
observed in the size distribution. In order to clarify the origin and the
nature of the asperity-like phenomena, we investigate here the properties of
the OFC model with emphasis on its stress distribution. It is found that the
asperity formation is accompanied by self-organization of the highly
concentrated stress state. Such stress organization naturally provides the
mechanism underlying our observation that a series of asperity events repeat
with a common epicenter site and with a common period solely determined by the
transmission parameter of the model. Asperity events tend to cluster both in
time and in space
Finite-temperature phase diagram of two-component bosons in a cubic optical lattice: Three-dimensional t-J model of hard-core bosons
We study the three-dimensional bosonic t-J model, i.e., the t-J model of
"bosonic electrons", at finite temperatures. This model describes the Heisenberg spin model with the anisotropic exchange coupling
and doped {\it bosonic} holes, which is an effective
system of the Bose-Hubbard model with strong repulsions. The bosonic "electron"
operator at the site with a two-component (pseudo-)spin
is treated as a hard-core boson operator, and represented by a
composite of two slave particles; a "spinon" described by a Schwinger boson
(CP boson) and a "holon" described by a hard-core-boson field
as . By means of Monte Carlo
simulations, we study its finite-temperature phase structure including the
dependence, the possible phenomena like appearance of checkerboard
long-range order, super-counterflow, superfluid, and phase separation, etc. The
obtained results may be taken as predictions about experiments of two-component
cold bosonic atoms in the cubic optical lattice.Comment: 8 pages, 14 figures, Size of figures has been adjuste
A FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON BASEBALL BATTING MOVEMENT FOCUS ON SLAPPING
The purpose of this study is to generate baseball batting style to hit more certainly and to investigate effectiveness it. The idea for new batting referred to bunt and slap hitting used by softball. This new batting style was named A Kourituteki Batting (AKB). 4 male university students participate in this experiment. Subject tried to swing 30 fast balls thrown from pitching machine. 30 trials were divided into 3 groups (right-handed, left-handed, AKB). The result of AKB is higher than left-handed groups. And, the height of loin for AKB is higher than the other groups. This result shows that it may be possible for a using AKB hit a ball more in batter box him always in. This experiment will be useful for considering more developed batting technique in baseball after this
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