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Reduced-Order Modelling of Parametric Systems via Interpolation of Heterogeneous Surrogates
Shaping of molecular weight distribution by iterative learning probability density function control strategies
A mathematical model is developed for the molecular weight distribution (MWD) of free-radical styrene polymerization in a simulated semi-batch reactor system. The generation function technique and moment method are employed to establish the MWD model in the form of Schultz-Zimmdistribution. Both static and dynamic models are described in detail. In order to achieve the closed-loop MWD shaping by output probability density function (PDF) control, the dynamic MWD model is further developed by a linear B-spline approximation. Based on the general form of the B-spline MWD model, iterative learning PDF control strategies have been investigated in order to improve the MWD control performance. Discussions on the simulation studies show the advantages and limitations of the methodology
Probing New Physics From CP Violation in Radiative B Decays
When new CP-violating interactions are dominated by flavor changing neutral
particle exchanges, that may occur in many extensions of the standard model. We
examine a type 3 two Higgs doublet model and find that direct CP asymmetries
can be as large as about 25% . Time-dependent and time-integrated
mixing-induced CP asymmetries up to 85 and 40 %, respectively, are possible
without conflict with other constraints. It mainly requirs an enhanced
chromo-magnetic dipole decay to be close to the present experimental
bound.Comment: 7 pages, latex, no figure
Slave particle approach to the finite temperature properties of ultracold Bose gases in optical lattices
By using slave particle (slave boson and slave fermion) technique on the
Bose-Hubbard model, we study the finite temperature properties of ultracold
Bose gases in optical lattices. The phase diagrams at finite temperature are
depicted by including different types of slave particles and the effect of the
finite types of slave particles is estimated. The superfluid density is
evaluated using the Landau second order phase transition theory. The atom
density, excitation spectrum and dispersion curve are also computed at various
temperatures, and how the Mott-insulator evolves as the temperature increases
is demonstrated. For most quantities to be calculated, we find that there are
no qualitatively differences in using the slave boson or the slave fermion
approaches. However, when studying the stability of the mean field state, we
find that in contrast to the slave fermion approach, the slave boson mean field
state is not stable. Although the slave boson mean field theory gives a
qualitatively correct phase boundary, it corresponds to a local maximum of
Landau free energy and can not describe the second order phase transition
because the coefficient of the fourth order term is always negative in
the free energy expansion.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figures, final version for publicatio
Symmetry-preserving Loop Regularization and Renormalization of QFTs
A new symmetry-preserving loop regularization method proposed in \cite{ylw}
is further investigated. It is found that its prescription can be understood by
introducing a regulating distribution function to the proper-time formalism of
irreducible loop integrals. The method simulates in many interesting features
to the momentum cutoff, Pauli-Villars and dimensional regularization. The loop
regularization method is also simple and general for the practical calculations
to higher loop graphs and can be applied to both underlying and effective
quantum field theories including gauge, chiral, supersymmetric and
gravitational ones as the new method does not modify either the lagrangian
formalism or the space-time dimension of original theory. The appearance of
characteristic energy scale and sliding energy scale offers a
systematic way for studying the renormalization-group evolution of gauge
theories in the spirit of Wilson-Kadanoff and for exploring important effects
of higher dimensional interaction terms in the infrared regime.Comment: 13 pages, Revtex, extended modified version, more references adde
Multi-Stability of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Atom-Assisted Optomechanical Cavities
We study how an oscillating mirror affects the electromagnetically induced
transparency (EIT) of an atomic ensemble, which is confined in a gas cell
placed inside a micro-cavity with an oscillating mirror in one end. The
oscillating mirror is modeled as a quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator. The
cavity field acts as a probe light of the EIT system and also produces a light
pressure on the oscillating mirror. The back-action from the mirror to the
cavity field results in several (from one to five) steady-states for this
atom-assisted optomechanical cavity, producing a complex structure in its EIT.
We calculate the susceptibility with respect to the few (from one to three)
stable solutions found here for the equilibrium positions of the oscillating
mirror. We find that the EIT of the atomic ensemble can be significantly
changed by the oscillating mirror, and also that the various steady states of
the mirror have different effects on the EIT.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Robust signal processing for material noise suppression in ultrasonic nondestructive testing
Ultrasonic nondestructive inspection of materials is often limited by the presence of backscattered echoes from the material structure, known as material or grain noise. The material noise can be difficult to distinguish from flaw echoes because their spectra overlap to a large extent. Due to the overlapping, application of conventional linear filters is generally not adequate for attenuating this type of noise. However, a suitable choice of the inspection frequency will cause the grain response to be considerable more noncoherent than the flaw response. This property arise from the fact that the material noise can be considered as an interference pattern made up of unresolved scatterers, while the flaw echoes will bear more resemblance to specular reflections. The implication of this difference is that the material noise can be suppressed by means of frequency diversity techniques which take advantage of its noncoherent nature
Multi-Atomic Mirror for Perfect Reflection of Single Photons in A Wide Band of Frequency
A resonant two level atom doped in one dimensional waveguide behaves as a
mirror, but this single-atom "mirror" can only reflect single photon perfectly
at a specific frequency. For a one dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide, we
propose to extend the perfect reflection region from a specific frequency to a
wide band by placing many atoms individually in the resonators in a finite
coordinate region of the waveguide. Such a doped resonator array promises us to
control the propagation of a practical photon wave packet with certain momentum
distribution instead of a single photon, which is ideally represented by a
plane wave with specific momentum. The studies based on the discrete-coordinate
scattering theory display that such hybrid structure indeed provides a
near-perfect reflection for single photon in a wide band. We also calculated
photon group velocity distribution, which shows that the perfect reflection
with wide band exactly corresponds to the stopping light region.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
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