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Introductory Remarks
On April 24, 1985, the Association of the Bar of the Cirty of New York sponsored a Symposium addressing the use and impact of the amended verstion of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. What follows is a transcript of those proceedings
Detection of Point Sources in Cosmic Ray Maps using the Mexican Hat Wavelet Family
An analysis of the sensitivity of gaussian and mexican hat wavelet family
filters to the detection of point sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays was
performed. A source embedded in a background was simulated and the number of
events and amplitude of this source was varied aiming to check the sensitivity
of the method to detect faint sources with low statistic of events.Comment: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Strong
Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars (Havana, Cuba, 2011). 6 pages, 4
figure
Superconductivity and incommensurate spin fluctuations in a generalized t-J model for the cuprates
We consider the slave-fermion Schwinger-boson decomposition of an effective
model obtained through a systematic low-energy reduction of the three-band
Hubbard Hamiltonian. The model includes a three-site term t'' similar to that
obtained in the large-U limit of the Hubbard model but of opposite sign for
realistic or large O-O hopping. For parameters close to the most realistic ones
for the cuprates, the mean-field solution exhibits d+s superconductivity
(predominantly d_{x^2-y^2}) with a dependence on doping x very similar to the
experimentally observed. We also obtained incommensurate peaks at wave vectors
near in the spin structure factor, which also agree with
experiment.Comment: 9 pages, latex, 2 figures, to appear in Europhys. Let
Gain and noise spectral density in an electronic parametric amplifier with added white noise
In this paper, we discuss the behavior of a linear classical parametric
amplifier (PA) in the presence of white noise and give theoretical estimates of
the noise spectral density based on approximate Green's functions obtained by
using averaging techniques. Furthermore, we give analytical estimates for
parametric amplification bandwidth of the amplifier and for the noisy
precursors to instability. To validate our theory we compare the analytical
results with experimental data obtained in an analog circuit. We describe the
implementation details and the setup used in the experimental study of the
amplifier. Near the threshold to the first parametric instability, and in
degenerate-mode amplification, the PA achieved very high gains in a very narrow
bandwidth centered on its resonance frequency. In quasi-degenerate mode
amplification, we obtained lower values of gain, but with a wider bandwidth
that is tunable. The experimental data were accurately described by the
predictions of the model. Moreover, we noticed spectral components in the
output signal of the amplifier which are due to noise precursors of
instability. The position, width, and magnitude of these components are in
agreement with the noise spectral density obtained by the theory proposed here
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