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Thermodynamical description of heavy ion collisions
We analyze the thermodynamical state of nuclear matter in transport
descriptions of heavy ion reactions. We determine thermodynamical variables
from an analysis of local momentum space distributions and compare to blast
model parameters from an analysis of fragment energy spectra. These
descriptions are applied to spectator and fireball matter in semi-central and
central Au+Au collisions at SIS-energies, respectively.Comment: 4 pages, 2 postscript-figures, to be published in the proceedings of
Bologna2000: Structure of the Nucleus at the Dawn of the Century, Bologna,
Italy, 29 May - 3 Jun 200
Computational characterization and prediction of metal-organic framework properties
In this introductory review, we give an overview of the computational
chemistry methods commonly used in the field of metal-organic frameworks
(MOFs), to describe or predict the structures themselves and characterize their
various properties, either at the quantum chemical level or through classical
molecular simulation. We discuss the methods for the prediction of crystal
structures, geometrical properties and large-scale screening of hypothetical
MOFs, as well as their thermal and mechanical properties. A separate section
deals with the simulation of adsorption of fluids and fluid mixtures in MOFs
Criteria for Continuous-Variable Quantum Teleportation
We derive an experimentally testable criterion for the teleportation of
quantum states of continuous variables. This criterion is especially relevant
to the recent experiment of Furusawa et al. [Science 282, 706-709 (1998)] where
an input-output fidelity of was achieved for optical coherent
states. Our derivation demonstrates that fidelities greater than 1/2 could not
have been achieved through the use of a classical channel alone; quantum
entanglement was a crucial ingredient in the experiment.Comment: 12 pages, to appear in Journal of Modern Optic
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