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Magnetometer with miniature transducer and automatic transducer scanning apparatus
Magnetometer is simple to operate and has fast response. Transducer is rugged and flat and can measure magnetic fields as close as 0.08 mm from any relatively flat surface. Magnetometer has active region of approximately 0.64 by 0.76 mm and is capable of good spatial resolution of magnetic fields as low as 0.02 Oe (1.6 A/m)
A magnetic field measurement technique using a miniature transducer
The development, fabrication, and application of a magnetometer are described. The magnetometer has a miniature transducer and is capable of automatic scanning. The magnetometer described here is capable of detecting static magnetic fields as low as 1.6 A/m and its transducer has an active area 0.64 mm by 0.76 mm. Thin and rugged, the transducer uses wire, 0.05 mm in diameter, which is plated with a magnetic film, enabling measurement of transverse magnetic fields as close as 0.08 mm from a surface. The magnetometer, which is simple to operate and has a fast response, uses an inexpensive clip-on milliammeter (commonly found in most laboratories) for driving and processing the electrical signals and readout. A specially designed transducer holding mechanism replaces the XY recorder ink pen; this mechanism provides the basis for an automatic scanning technique. The instrument has been applied to the measurements of magnetic fields arising from remanent magnetization in experimental plated-wire memory planes and regions of magnetic activity in geological rock specimens
Vapor phase growth of group 3, 4, and 5 compounds by HCl transport of elements
Technique has been devised for vapor-phase epitaxial growth of group 3, 4, and 5 binary, ternary, or quaternary compounds by HCl transport of the constituent elements or dopants. Technique uses all the constituents of the alloy system in their elemental form. Transport of these elements by an HCl + H2 carrier gas facilitates their transport as subchlorides
Mariner Mars 1971 optical navigation demonstration
The feasibility of using a combination of spacecraft-based optical data and earth-based Doppler data to perform near-real-time approach navigation was demonstrated by the Mariner Mars 71 Project. The important findings, conclusions, and recommendations are documented. A summary along with publications and papers giving additional details on the objectives of the demonstration are provided. Instrument calibration and performance as well as navigation and science results are reported
General Rotating Black Holes in String Theory: Greybody Factors and Event Horizons
We derive the wave equation for a minimally coupled scalar field in the
background of a general rotating five-dimensional black hole. It is written in
a form that involves two types of thermodynamic variables, defined at the inner
and outer event horizon, respectively. We model the microscopic structure as an
effective string theory, with the thermodynamic properties of the left and
right moving excitations related to those of the horizons. Previously known
solutions to the wave equation are generalized to the rotating case, and their
regime of validity is sharpened. We calculate the greybody factors and
interpret the resulting Hawking emission spectrum microscopically in several
limits. We find a U-duality invariant expression for the effective string
length that does not assume a hierarchy between the charges. It accounts for
the universal low-energy absorption cross-section in the general non-extremal
case.Comment: 33 pages, latex; minor typos corrected; version to appear in PR
Comments on Black Holes in Matrix Theory
The recent suggestion that the entropy of Schwarzschild black holes can be
computed in matrix theory using near-extremal D-brane thermodynamics is
examined. It is found that the regime in which this approach is valid actually
describes black strings stretched across the longitudinal direction, near the
transition where black strings become unstable to the formation of black holes.
It is argued that the appropriate dynamics on the other (black hole) side of
the transition is that of the zero modes of the corresponding super Yang-Mills
theory. A suggestive mean field theory argument is given for the entropy of
black holes in all dimensions. Consequences of the analysis for matrix theory
and the holographic principle are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, harvmac, minor errors correcte
Supertubes
It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be
`blown-up', in a {\it Minkowski vacuum} background, to a (1/4)-supersymmetric
tubular D2-brane, supported against collapse by the angular momentum generated
by crossed electric and magnetic Born-Infeld fields. This `supertube' can be
viewed as a worldvolume realization of the sigma-model Q-lump.Comment: Revision includes mention of some configurations dual to the
supertub
Can the effective string see higher partial waves?
The semi-classical cross-sections for arbitrary partial waves of ordinary
scalars to fall into certain five-dimensional black holes have a form that
seems capable of explanation in terms of the effective string model. The
kinematics of these processes is analyzed in detail on the effective string and
is shown to reproduce the correct functional form of the semi-classical
cross-sections. But it is necessary to choose a peculiar value of the effective
string tension to obtain the correct scaling properties. Furthermore, the
assumptions of locality and statistics combine to forbid the effective string
from absorbing more than a finite number of partial waves. The relation of this
limitation to cosmic censorship is discussed.Comment: 19 pages, uses harvmac, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Theoretical study of finite temperature spectroscopy in van der Waals clusters. I. Probing phase changes in CaAr_n
The photoabsorption spectra of calcium-doped argon clusters CaAr_n are
investigated at thermal equilibrium using a variety of theoretical and
numerical tools. The influence of temperature on the absorption spectra is
estimated using the quantum superposition method for a variety of cluster sizes
in the range 6<=n<=146. At the harmonic level of approximation, the absorption
intensity is calculated through an extension of the Gaussian theory by Wadi and
Pollak [J. Chem. Phys. vol 110, 11890 (1999)]. This theory is tested on simple,
few-atom systems in both the classical and quantum regimes for which highly
accurate Monte Carlo data can be obtained. By incorporating quantum anharmonic
corrections to the partition functions and respective weights of the isomers,
we show that the superposition method can correctly describe the
finite-temperature spectroscopic properties of CaAr_n systems. The use of the
absorption spectrum as a possible probe of isomerization or phase changes in
the argon cluster is discussed at the light of finite-size effects.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Effective spatial dimension of extremal non-dilatonic black p-branes and the description of entropy on the world volume
By investigating the critical behavior appearing at the extremal limit of the
non-dilatonic, black p-branes in (d+p) dimensions, we find that some critical
exponents related to the critical point obey the scaling laws. From the scaling
laws we obtain that the effective spatial dimension of the non-dilatonic black
holes and black strings is one, and is p for the non-dilatonic black p-branes.
For the dilatonic black holes and black p-branes, the effective dimension will
depend on the parameters in theories. Thus, we give an interpretation why the
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy may be given a simple world volume interpretation
only for the non-dilatonic black p-branes.Comment: 4 pages, RevTex, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
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