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Thermal treatment and mechanical properties of aluminum-2021
Mechanical properties, after thermal treatments, are summarized for sheet and plate of copper-rich, high-strength, heat-treatable aluminum-2021. The alloy is quench sensitive, quench rate and variations in aging affect corrosion behavior. Aging effects on yield strength, tensile strength, and elongation of sheet and plate are compared
Magnetic noise spectrum measurement by an atom laser in gravity
Bose-Einstein condensates of ultracold atoms can be used to sense
fluctuations of the magnetic field by means of transitions into untrapped
hyperfine states. It has been shown recently that counting the outcoupled atoms
can yield the power spectrum of the magnetic noise. We calculate the spectral
resolution function which characterizes the condensate as a noise measurement
device in this scheme. We use the description of the radio-frequency
outcoupling scheme of an atom laser which takes into account the gravitational
acceleration. Employing both an intuitive and the exact three-dimensional and
fully quantum mechanical approach we derive the position-dependent spectral
resolution function for condensates of different size and shape
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