901 research outputs found
An analytic study towards instabilities of the glasma
Strong longitudinal color flux fields will be created in the initial stage of
high-energy nuclear collisions. We investigate analytically time evolution of
such boost-invariant color fields from Abelian-like initial conditions, and
next examine stability of the boost-invariant configurations against rapidity
dependent fluctuations. We find that the magnetic background field has an
instability induced by the lowest Landau level whose amplitude grows
exponentially. For the electric background field there is no apparent
instability although pair creations due to the Schwinger mechanism should be
involved.Comment: 4p, 3figs; poster contribution to QM200
Can children with autism read emotions from the eyes? The eyes test revisited
This study aimed to test two new, simplified tasks related to the eye-test, targeting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and typically developing controls (TD). Test-1 assessed the recognition of emotion/mental states with displays using one word and two eye-pictures, whereas Test-2 presented displays using two words and one eye-picture. Black and white photographs of children were used as materials. A cross-cultural study (Caucasian/East-Asian) with adults was initially carried out to verify generalizability across different ethnic groups. Cross-sectional trajectory analyses were used to compare emotion recognition from the eyes in the two tests. Trajectories were constructed linking performance on both tests either to chronological age or to different measures of mental age (receptive vocabulary based on the BPVS, CARS or ASQ for the ASD group). Performance improved with chronological age in both the ASD and TD groups of children. However, performance in Test-1 was significantly superior in children with ASD, who showed delayed onset and slower rate of improvement than TD children in Test-2. In both the ASD and TD groups the lowest error rate was recorded for the item ‘anger’, suggesting that threat-detection cue mechanisms may be intact in Autism. In general, all children showed good performance on our novel tests, thus making them good candidates for assessing younger children and those with lower general abilities
Chiral Condensate and Short-Time Evolution of QCD(1+1) on the Light-Cone
Chiral condensates in the trivial light-cone vacuum emerge if defined as
short-time limits of fermion propagators. In gauge theories, the necessary
inclusion of a gauge string in combination with the characteristic light-cone
infrared singularities contain the relevant non-perturbative ingredients
responsible for formation of the condensate, as demonstrated for the 't Hooft
model.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex
Dephasing of coupled spin qubit system during gate operations due to background charge fluctuations
It has been proposed that a quantum computer can be constructed based on
electron spins in quantum dots or based on a superconducting nanocircuit.
During two-qubit operations, the fluctuation of the coupling parameters is a
critical factor. One source of such fluctuation is the stirring of the
background charges. We focused on the influence of this fluctuation on a
coupled spin qubit system. The induced fluctuation in exchange coupling changes
the amount of entanglement, fidelity, and purity. In our previous study, the
background charge fluctuations were found to be an important channel of
dephasing for a single Josephson qubit.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure. to be publishe
A possible phase diagram of a t-J ladder model
We investigate a t-J ladder model by numerical diagonalization method. By
calculating correlation functions and assuming the Luttinger liquid relation,
we obtained a possible phase diagram of the ground state as a function of J/t
and electron density . We also found that behavior of correlation functions
seems to consist with the prediction of Luttinger liquid relation. The result
suggests that the superconducting phase appear in the region of for high electron density and for low electron density.Comment: Latex, 10 pages, figures available upon reques
Quantum Hamiltonian Reduction of the Schwinger Model
We reexamine a unitary-transformation method of extracting a physical
Hamiltonian from a gauge field theory after quantizing all degrees of freedom
including redundant variables. We show that this {\it quantum Hamiltonian
reduction} method suffers from crucial modifications arising from
regularization of composite operators. We assess the effects of regularization
in the simplest gauge field theory, the Schwinger model. Without
regularization, the quantum reduction yields the identical Hamiltonian with the
classically reduced one. On the other hand, with regularization incorporated,
the resulting Hamiltonian of the quantum reduction disagrees with that of the
classical reduction. However, we find that the discrepancy is resolved by
redefinitions of fermion currents and that the results are again consistent
with those of the classical reduction.Comment: 23 pages, LaTeX file, UT-Komaba 94-
Quasi-One-Dimensional Spin-Density-Wave States with Two Kinds of Periodic Potentials and a Interchain Misfit
Spin density wave (SDW) states of a quasi-one-dimensional system with an
incommensurate wave vector perpendicular to the chain have been studied in the
presence of two kinds of commensurate potentials, which originate in a
quarter-filled band and dimerization along the chain. In terms of a phase
variable of the SDW order parameter, we treat classically the two-dimensional
Hamiltonian, which includes both acoustic excitations with long wave length and
a vortex excitation with short wave length. A phase diagram on the plane of
temperature and chemical potential (where the latter corresponds to the
deviation of the transverse wave vector from the commensurate one) exhibits a
variety of states given by the commensurate SDW state without charge density,
the commensurate SDW state with charge density, the incommensurate SDW state
and the disordered state
CGC, Hydrodynamics, and the Parton Energy Loss
Hadron spectra in Au+Au collisions at RHIC are calculated by hydrodynamics
with initial conditions from the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). Minijet
components with parton energy loss in medium are also taken into account by
using parton density obtained from hydrodynamical simulations. We found that
CGC provides a good initial condition for hydrodynamics in Au+Au collisions at
RHIC.Comment: Quark Matter 2004 contribution, 4 pages, 2 figure
Parallel Online Time Warping for Real-Time Audio-to-Score Alignment in Multi-core Systems
[EN] The Audio-to-Score framework consists of two separate stages: pre- processing and alignment. The alignment is commonly solved through offline Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), which is a method to find the path over the distortion matrix with the minimum cost to determine the relation between the performance and the musical score times. In this work we propose a par- allel online DTW solution based on a client-server architecture. The current version of the application has been implemented for multi-core architectures (x86, x64 and ARM), thus covering either powerful systems or mobile devices. An extensive experimentation has been conducted in order to validate the software. The experiments also show that our framework allows to achieve a good score alignment within the real-time window by using parallel computing techniques.This work has been partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and FEDER under Projects TEC2012-38142-C04-01, TEC2012-38142-C04-03, TEC2012-38142-C04-04, TEC2015-67387-C4-1-R, TEC2015-67387-C4-3-R, TEC2015-67387-C4-4-R, the European Union FEDER (CAPAP-H5 network TIN2014-53522-REDT), and the Generalitat Valenciana under Grant PROMETEOII/2014/003.Alonso-Jordá, P.; Cortina, R.; RodrÃguez-Serrano, F.; Vera-Candeas, P.; Alonso-González, M.; Ranilla, J. (2017). Parallel Online Time Warping for Real-Time Audio-to-Score Alignment in Multi-core Systems. The Journal of Supercomputing. 73(1):126-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-016-1647-5S126138731Joder C, Essid S, Richard G (2011) A conditional random field framework for robust and scalable audio-to-score matching. 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