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Lattice Boltzmann Thermohydrodynamics
We introduce a lattice Boltzmann computational scheme capable of modeling
thermohydrodynamic flows of monatomic gases. The parallel nature of this
approach provides a numerically efficient alternative to traditional methods of
computational fluid dynamics. The scheme uses a small number of discrete
velocity states and a linear, single-time-relaxation collision operator.
Numerical simulations in two dimensions agree well with exact solutions for
adiabatic sound propagation and Couette flow with heat transfer.Comment: 11 pages, Physical Review E: Rapid Communications, in pres
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Layer expansion of layered silicates in solid polymer matrices by compression
Perturbational approach to the quantum capacity of additive Gaussian quantum channel
For a quantum channel with additive Gaussian quantum noise, at the large
input energy side, we prove that the one shot capacity is achieved by the
thermal noise state for all Gaussian state inputs, it is also true for
non-Gaussian input in the sense of first order perturbation. For a general case
of copies input, we show that up to first order perturbation, any
non-Gaussian perturbation to the product thermal state input has a less quantum
information transmission rate when the input energy tend to infinitive.Comment: 5 page
Magnetically-induced electric polarization in an organo-metallic magnet
The coupling between magnetic order and ferroelectricity has been under
intense investigation in a wide range of transition-metal oxides. The strongest
coupling is obtained in so-called magnetically-induced multiferroics where
ferroelectricity arises directly from magnetic order that breaks inversion
symmetry. However, it has been difficult to find non-oxide based materials in
which these effects occur. Here we present a study of copper dimethyl sulfoxide
dichloride (CDC), an organo-metallic quantum magnet containing Cu
spins, in which electric polarization arises from non-collinear magnetic order.
We show that the electric polarization can be switched in a stunning hysteretic
fashion. Because the magnetic order in CDC is mediated by large organic
molecules, our study shows that magnetoelectric interactions can exist in this
important class of materials, opening the road to designing magnetoelectrics
and multiferroics using large molecules as building blocks. Further, we
demonstrate that CDC undergoes a magnetoelectric quantum phase transition where
both ferroelectric and magnetic order emerge simultaneously as a function of
magnetic field at very low temperatures
Effects of noise suppression and envelope dynamic range compression on the intelligibility of vocoded sentences for a tonal language
Vocoder simulation studies have suggested that the carrier signal type employed affects the intelligibility of vocoded speech. The present work further assessed how carrier signal type interacts with additional signal processing, namely, single-channel noise suppression and envelope dynamic range compression, in determining the intelligibility of vocoder simulations. In Experiment 1, Mandarin sentences that had been corrupted by speech spectrum-shaped noise (SSN) or two-talker babble (2TB) were processed by one of four single-channel noise-suppression algorithms before undergoing tone-vocoded (TV) or noise-vocoded (NV) processing. In Experiment 2, dynamic ranges of multiband envelope waveforms were compressed by scaling of the mean-removed envelope waveforms with a compression factor before undergoing TV or NV processing. TV Mandarin sentences yielded higher intelligibility scores with normal-hearing (NH) listeners than did noise-vocoded sentences. The intelligibility advantage of noise-suppressed vocoded speech depended on the masker type (SSN vs 2TB). NV speech was more negatively influenced by envelope dynamic range compression than was TV speech. These findings suggest that an interactional effect exists between the carrier signal type employed in the vocoding process and envelope distortion caused by signal processing
Chiral geometry and rotational structure for Cs in the projected shell model
The projected shell model with configuration mixing for nuclear chirality is
developed and applied to the observed rotational bands in the chiral nucleus
Cs. For the chiral bands, the energy spectra and electromagnetic
transition probabilities are well reproduced. The chiral geometry illustrated
in the and the is confirmed to be stable against the
configuration mixing. The other rotational bands are also described in the same
framework
A Comparative Study on the Use of Classification Algorithms in Financial Forecasting
Financial forecasting is a vital area in computational finance, where several studies have taken place over the years. One way of viewing financial forecasting is as a classification problem, where the goal is to find a model that represents the predictive relationships between predictor attribute values and class attribute values. In this paper we present a comparative study between two bio-inspired classification algorithms, a genetic programming algorithm especially designed for financial forecasting, and an ant colony optimization one, which is designed for classification problems. In addition, we compare the above algorithms with two other state-of-the-art classification algorithms, namely C4.5 and RIPPER. Results show that the ant colony optimization classification algorithm is very successful, significantly outperforming all other algorithms in the given classification problems, which provides insights for improving the design of specific financial forecasting algorithms
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