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Jensen Shannon divergence as a measure of the degree of entanglement
The notion of distance in Hilbert space is relevant in many scenarios. In
particular, distances between quantum states play a central role in quantum
information theory. An appropriate measure of distance is the quantum Jensen
Shannon divergence (QJSD) between quantum states. Here we study this distance
as a geometrical measure of entanglement and apply it to different families of
states.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the special issue of IJQI "Noise,
Information and Complexity at Quantum Scale", eds. S. Mancini and F.
Marcheson
Three-loop corrections to the lightest Higgs scalar boson mass in supersymmetry
I evaluate the largest three-loop corrections to the mass of the lightest
Higgs scalar boson in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in a
mass-independent renormalization scheme, using effective field theory and
renormalization group methods. The contributions found here are those that
depend only on strong and Yukawa interactions and on the leading and
next-to-leading logarithms of the ratio of a typical superpartner mass scale to
the top quark mass. The approximation assumes that all superpartners and the
other Higgs bosons can be treated as much heavier than the top quark, but does
not assume their degeneracy. I also discuss the consistent addition of the
three-loop corrections to a complete two-loop calculation.Comment: 9 page
La santificación del trabajo. El trabajo en la historia de la espiritualidad. [Reseña]
Reseña de José Luis ILLANES, La santificación del
trabajo. El trabajo en la historia de la espiritualidad,
10.ª ed. revisada y actualizada,
Palabra, Madrid 2001, 200 pp.,
14 x 22, ISBN 84-8239-533-5
Three field tests of a gas filter correlation radiometer
Test flights to remotely measure nonurban carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations by gas filter correlation radiometry are discussed. The inferred CO concentrations obtained through use of the Gas Filter Correlation Radiometer (GFCR) agreed with independent measurements obtained by gas chromatography air sample bottle analysis to within 20 percent. The equipment flown on board the aircraft, the flight test procedure, the gas chromatograph direct air sampling procedure, and the GFCR data analysis procedure are reported
Constraint-preserving boundary conditions in the 3+1 first-order approach
A set of energy-momentum constraint-preserving boundary conditions is
proposed for the first-order Z4 case. The stability of a simple numerical
implementation is tested in the linear regime (robust stability test), both
with the standard corner and vertex treatment and with a modified
finite-differences stencil for boundary points which avoids corners and
vertices even in cartesian-like grids. Moreover, the proposed boundary
conditions are tested in a strong field scenario, the Gowdy waves metric,
showing the expected rate of convergence. The accumulated amount of
energy-momentum constraint violations is similar or even smaller than the one
generated by either periodic or reflection conditions, which are exact in the
Gowdy waves case. As a side theoretical result, a new symmetrizer is explicitly
given, which extends the parametric domain of symmetric hyperbolicity for the
Z4 formalism. The application of these results to first-order BSSN-like
formalisms is also considered.Comment: Revised version, with conclusive numerical evidence. 23 pages, 12
figure
Carbon footprint of transhumant sheep farms: accounting for natural baseline emissions in Mediterranean systems
Purpose: Transhumance has rarely been analyzed through LCA approaches, and there is little evidence about its emissions level when conducted under different practices (by truck or on foot) or compared to sedentary livestock systems. Moreover, mobile pastoralism is strongly linked to natural resources by its seasonal grazing patterns, thereby occupying the niche of wild herbivores. Considering natural emission baselines in these ecosystems could have relevant effects when estimating their carbon footprint. Materials and methods: Inventory data of 20 sheep farms was collected to estimate the carbon footprint (CF) of lamb meat produced. Farms were divided into three sub-groups representing typical management practices in the region: (1) sedentary (SED), (2) transhumance by truck (THT), and (3) transhumance on foot (THF). Livestock GHG emissions were modeled according to herd structure and IPCC guidelines. Off-farm emissions from external feeds and fuels were accounted based on existent LCA databases. A natural baseline of wild herbivores was established from the population of red deer reported in a hunting preserve, previously considered to be a reference for the natural carrying capacity in Mediterranean ecosystems. GHG emissions of wild herbivores were estimated through two methods based on (1) IPCC guidelines and (2) allometric regression equations. Results and discussion: Carbon footprint ranged from 16.5 up to 26.9 kgCO2-eq/kg of lamb liveweight (LW). Significant differences were identified among sedentary and transhumant farms, the latter consistently showing lower CF values (SED: 25.1 kg CO2-eq/kg LW, THT: 18.3 kg CO2-eq/kg LW, THF: 18.2 kg CO2-eq/kg LW). Sedentary farms resulted in higher GHG emissions (+ 27%) and higher CO2 and N2O, contributions derived from the consumption of additional feeds. Both methods applied to compute emissions for wild herbivores led to similar results (25.3–26.8 Mg CO2-eq/km2), comparatively lower than estimation for transhumant sheep (47.7 Mg CO2-eq/km2). When considering natural baseline emissions, the CF of transhumant lamb meat is reduced by almost 30%, reaching values quite below those reported for intensive lamb production systems in Spain. Conclusions: From our results, mobility of grazing livestock can be considered as a strategy promoting climate change mitigation. This is achieved mainly by reducing the need of external feeds, while maximizing the use of local forage resources that otherwise would be difficult to valorize. Further reductions in the CF result when considering natural baseline emissions. The application of this new GHG accounting perspective could have relevant implications when aiming at climate neutrality of grazing-based ruminant systems.Purpose: Transhumance has rarely been analyzed through LCA approaches, and there is little evidence about its emissions level when conducted under different practices (by truck or on foot) or compared to sedentary livestock systems. Moreover, mobile pastoralism is strongly linked to natural resources by its seasonal grazing patterns, thereby occupying the niche of wild herbivores. Considering natural emission baselines in these ecosystems could have relevant effects when estimating their carbon footprint. Materials and methods: Inventory data of 20 sheep farms was collected to estimate the carbon footprint (CF) of lamb meat produced. Farms were divided into three sub-groups representing typical management practices in the region: (1) sedentary (SED), (2) transhumance by truck (THT), and (3) transhumance on foot (THF). Livestock GHG emissions were modeled according to herd structure and IPCC guidelines. Off-farm emissions from external feeds and fuels were accounted based on existent LCA databases. A natural baseline of wild herbivores was established from the population of red deer reported in a hunting preserve, previously considered to be a reference for the natural carrying capacity in Mediterranean ecosystems. GHG emissions of wild herbivores were estimated through two methods based on (1) IPCC guidelines and (2) allometric regression equations. Results and discussion: Carbon footprint ranged from 16.5 up to 26.9 kgCO2-eq/kg of lamb liveweight (LW). Significant differences were identified among sedentary and transhumant farms, the latter consistently showing lower CF values (SED: 25.1 kg CO2-eq/kg LW, THT: 18.3 kg CO2-eq/kg LW, THF: 18.2 kg CO2-eq/kg LW). Sedentary farms resulted in higher GHG emissions (+ 27%) and higher CO2 and N2O, contributions derived from the consumption of additional feeds. Both methods applied to compute emissions for wild herbivores led to similar results (25.3–26.8 Mg CO2-eq/km2), comparatively lower than estimation for transhumant sheep (47.7 Mg CO2-eq/km2). When considering natural baseline emissions, the CF of transhumant lamb meat is reduced by almost 30%, reaching values quite below those reported for intensive lamb production systems in Spain. Conclusions: From our results, mobility of grazing livestock can be considered as a strategy promoting climate change mitigation. This is achieved mainly by reducing the need of external feeds, while maximizing the use of local forage resources that otherwise would be difficult to valorize. Further reductions in the CF result when considering natural baseline emissions. The application of this new GHG accounting perspective could have relevant implications when aiming at climate neutrality of grazing-based ruminant systems
The Minimally Tuned Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
The regions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with the minimal
amount of fine-tuning of electroweak symmetry breaking are presented for
general messenger scale. No a priori relations among the soft supersymmetry
breaking parameters are assumed and fine-tuning is minimized with respect to
all the important parameters which affect electroweak symmetry breaking. The
superpartner spectra in the minimally tuned region of parameter space are quite
distinctive with large stop mixing at the low scale and negative squark soft
masses at the high scale. The minimal amount of tuning increases enormously for
a Higgs mass beyond roughly 120 GeV.Comment: 38 pages, including 2 appendices, 8 figure
New Production Mechanism of Neutral Higgs Bosons with Right scalar tau neutrino as the LSP
Motived by the neutrino oscillation data, we consider the lightest tau
sneutrino (which is mostly the right tau sneutrino) to be
the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) in the framework of the minimal
supersymmetric Standard Model. Both the standard and the non-standard trilinear
scalar coupling terms are included for the right tau sneutrino interactions.
The decay branching ratio of
can become so large that the production rate of the lightest neutral Higgs
boson () can be largely enhanced at electron or hadron colliders, either
from the direct production of or from the decay of
charginos, neutralinos, sleptons, and the cascade decay of squarks and gluinos,
etc. Furthermore, because of the small LSP annihilation rate, can be a good candidate for cold dark matter.Comment: 11 pages, RevTex, 3 eps figures. We clarify the theoretical framework
of this study, with a note added in the end, and correct an equation, with
updated figure
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