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Entanglement of two individual neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade
We report the generation of entanglement between two individual Rb
atoms in hyperfine ground states and which are held in
two optical tweezers separated by 4 m. Our scheme relies on the Rydberg
blockade effect which prevents the simultaneous excitation of the two atoms to
a Rydberg state. The entangled state is generated in about 200 ns using pulsed
two-photon excitation. We quantify the entanglement by applying global Raman
rotations on both atoms. We measure that 61% of the initial pairs of atoms are
still present at the end of the entangling sequence. These pairs are in the
target entangled state with a fidelity of 0.75.Comment: text revised, with additional reference
Fluctuations of g-factors in metal nanoparticles: Effects of electron-electron interaction and spin-orbit scattering
We investigate the combined effect of spin-orbit scattering and
electron-electron interactions on the probability distribution of -factors
of metal nanoparticles. Using random matrix theory, we find that even a
relatively small interaction strength %(ratio of exchange constant and mean
level %spacing \spacing ) significantly increases -factor
fluctuations for not-too-strong spin-orbit scattering (ratio of spin-orbit rate
and single-electron level spacing 1/\tau_{\rm so} \spacing \lesssim 1), and
leads to the possibility to observe -factors larger than two.Comment: RevTex, 2 figures inserte
Nonextensive statistical effects in the quark-gluon plasma formation at relativistic heavy-ion collisions energies
We investigate the relativistic equation of state of hadronic matter and
quark-gluon plasma at finite temperature and baryon density in the framework of
the non-extensive statistical mechanics, characterized by power-law quantum
distributions. We impose the Gibbs conditions on the global conservation of
baryon number, electric charge and strangeness number. For the hadronic phase,
we study an extended relativistic mean-field theoretical model with the
inclusion of strange particles (hyperons and mesons). For the quark sector, we
employ an extended MIT-Bag model. In this context we focus on the relevance of
non-extensive effects in the presence of strange matter.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
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VarSight: prioritizing clinically reported variants with binary classification algorithms.
BackgroundWhen applying genomic medicine to a rare disease patient, the primary goal is to identify one or more genomic variants that may explain the patient's phenotypes. Typically, this is done through annotation, filtering, and then prioritization of variants for manual curation. However, prioritization of variants in rare disease patients remains a challenging task due to the high degree of variability in phenotype presentation and molecular source of disease. Thus, methods that can identify and/or prioritize variants to be clinically reported in the presence of such variability are of critical importance.MethodsWe tested the application of classification algorithms that ingest variant annotations along with phenotype information for predicting whether a variant will ultimately be clinically reported and returned to a patient. To test the classifiers, we performed a retrospective study on variants that were clinically reported to 237 patients in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.ResultsWe treated the classifiers as variant prioritization systems and compared them to four variant prioritization algorithms and two single-measure controls. We showed that the trained classifiers outperformed all other tested methods with the best classifiers ranking 72% of all reported variants and 94% of reported pathogenic variants in the top 20.ConclusionsWe demonstrated how freely available binary classification algorithms can be used to prioritize variants even in the presence of real-world variability. Furthermore, these classifiers outperformed all other tested methods, suggesting that they may be well suited for working with real rare disease patient datasets
The imprints of superstatistics in multiparticle production processes
We provide an update of the overview of imprints of Tsallis nonextensive
statistics seen in a multiparticle production processes. They reveal an
ubiquitous presence of power law distributions of different variables
characterized by the nonextensivity parameter q > 1. In nuclear collisions one
additionally observes a q-dependence of the multiplicity fluctuations
reflecting the finiteness of the hadronizing source. We present sum rules
connecting parameters q obtained from an analysis of different observables,
which allows us to combine different kinds of fluctuations seen in the data and
analyze an ensemble in which the energy (E), temperature (T) and multiplicity
(N) can all fluctuate. This results in a generalization of the so called
Lindhard's thermodynamic uncertainty relation. Finally, based on the example of
nucleus-nucleus collisions (treated as a quasi-superposition of nucleon-nucleon
collisions) we demonstrate that, for the standard Tsallis entropy with degree
of nonextensivity q < 1, the corresponding standard Tsallis distribution is
described by q' = 2 - q > 1.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Based on invited talk given by Z.Wlodarczyk at
SigmaPhi2011 conference, Larnaka, Cyprus, 11-15 July 2011. To be published in
Cent. Eur. J. Phys. (2011
Regional calibration of the Pitman model for the Okavango River
This paper reports on the application of a monthly rainfall-runoff model for the Okavango River Basin. Streamflow is mainly generated in Angola where the Cuito and Cubango rivers arise. They then join and cross the Namibia/Angola border, flowing into the Okavango wetland in Botswana. The model is a modified version of the Pitman model, including more explicit ground and surface water interactions. Significant limitations in access to climatological data, and lack of sufficiently long records of observed flow for the eastern sub-basins represent great challenges to model calibration. The majority of the runoff is generated in the wetter headwater tributaries, while the lower sub-basins are dominated by channel loss processes with very little incremental flow contributions, even during wet years. The western tributaries show significantly higher seasonal variation in flow, compared to the baseflow dominated eastern tributaries: observations that are consistent with their geological differences. The basin was sub-divided into 24 sub-basins, of which 18 have gauging stations at their outlet. Satisfactory simulations were achieved with sub-basin parameter value differences that correspond to the spatial variability in basin physiographic characteristics. The limited length of historical rainfall and river discharge data over Angola precluded the use of a split sample calibration/validation test. However, satellite generated rainfall data, revised to reflect the same frequency characteristics as the historical rainfall data, were used to validate the model against the available downstream flow data during the 1990s. The overall conclusion is that the model, in spite of the limited data access, adequately represents the hydrological response of the basin and that it can be used to assess the impact of future development scenarios
Consequences of temperature fluctuations in observables measured in high energy collisions
We review the consequences of intrinsic, nonstatistical temperature
fluctuations as seen in observables measured in high energy collisions. We do
this from the point of view of nonextensive statistics and Tsallis
distributions. Particular attention is paid to multiplicity fluctuations as a
first consequence of temperature fluctuations, to the equivalence of
temperature and volume fluctuations, to the generalized thermodynamic
fluctuations relations allowing us to compare fluctuations observed in
different parts of phase space, and to the problem of the relation between
Tsallis entropy and Tsallis distributions. We also discuss the possible
influence of conservation laws on these distributions and provide some examples
of how one can get them without considering temperature fluctuations.Comment: Revised version of the invited contribution to The European Physical
Journal A (Hadrons and Nuclei) topical issue about 'Relativistic Hydro- and
Thermodynamics in Nuclear Physics' guest eds. Tamas S. Biro, Gergely G.
Barnafoldi and Peter Va
Nonextensive thermal sources of cosmic rays?
The energy spectrum of cosmic rays (CR) exhibits power-like behavior with a
very characteristic "knee" structure. We consider a possibility that such a
spectrum could be generated by some specific nonstatistical temperature
fluctuations in the source of CR with the "knee" structure reflecting an abrupt
change of the pattern of such fluctuations. This would result in a generalized
nonextensive statistical model for the production of CR. The possible physical
mechanisms leading to these effects are discussed together with the resulting
chemical composition of the CR, which follows the experimentally observed
abundance of nuclei.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, rewritten and updated version, to be published
in Centr. Eur. J. Phy
Inelaticity in hadron-nucleus collisions from emulsion chamber studies
The inelasticity of hadron-carbon nucleus collisions in the energy region
exceeding 100 TeV is estimated from the carbon-emulsion chamber data at Pamirs
to be . When combined with the recently presented data on
hadron-lead nucleus collisions taken at the same energy range it results in the
mass number dependence of inelasticity. The evaluated partial
inelasticity for secondary () interactions, ,
suggests that the second and higher interactions of the excited hadron inside
the nucleus proceed with only slight energy losses.Comment: LaTeX file and 5 LaTeX files with figures, 11 pages altogether.
Thoroughly rewritten and modified, one figure addded one removed. To be
published in Phys. Rev.
Equivalence of volume and temperature fluctuations in power-law ensembles
Relativistic particle production often requires the use of Tsallis statistics
to account for the apparently power-like behavior of transverse momenta
observed in the data even at a few GeV/c. In such an approach this behavior is
attributed to some specific intrinsic fluctuations of the temperature in
the hadronizing system and is fully accounted by the nonextensivity parameter
. On the other hand, it was recently shown that similar power-law spectra
can also be obtained by introducing some specific volume fluctuations,
apparently without invoking the introduction of Tsallis statistics. We
demonstrate that, in fact, when the total energy is kept constant, these volume
fluctuations are equivalent to temperature fluctuations and can be derived from
them. In addition, we show that fluctuations leading to multiparticle power-law
Tsallis distributions introduce specific correlations between the considered
particles. We then propose a possible way to distinguish the fluctuations in
each event from those occurring from event-to-event. This could have
applications in the analysis of high density events at LHC (and especially in
ALICE).Comment: Revised version with new figure, footnotes and references adde
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