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Bi-HKT and bi-Kaehler supersymmetric sigma models
We study CKT (or bi-HKT) N = 4 supersymmetric quantum mechanical sigma
models. They are characterized by the usual and the mirror sectors displaying
each HKT geometry. When the metric involves isometries, a Hamiltonian reduction
is possible. The most natural such reduction with respect to a half of bosonic
target space coordinates produces an N = 4 model, related to the twisted
Kaehler model due to Gates, Hull and Rocek, but including certain extra F-terms
in the superfield action.Comment: 31 pages, minor corrections in the published versio
Microwave band on-chip coil technique for single electron spin resonance in a quantum dot
Microwave band on-chip microcoils are developed for the application to single
electron spin resonance measurement with a single quantum dot. Basic properties
such as characteristic impedance and electromagnetic field distribution are
examined for various coil designs by means of experiment and simulation. The
combined setup operates relevantly in the experiment at dilution temperature.
The frequency responses of the return loss and Coulomb blockade current are
examined. Capacitive coupling between a coil and a quantum dot causes photon
assisted tunneling, whose signal can greatly overlap the electron spin
resonance signal. To suppress the photon assisted tunneling effect, a technique
for compensating for the microwave electric field is developed. Good
performance of this technique is confirmed from measurement of Coulomb blockade
oscillations.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Rev. Sci. Instrum.
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Surface tension in an intrinsic curvature model with fixed one-dimensional boundaries
A triangulated fixed connectivity surface model is investigated by using the
Monte Carlo simulation technique. In order to have the macroscopic surface
tension \tau, the vertices on the one-dimensional boundaries are fixed as the
edges (=circles) of the tubular surface in the simulations. The size of the
tubular surface is chosen such that the projected area becomes the regular
square of area A. An intrinsic curvature energy with a microscopic bending
rigidity b is included in the Hamiltonian. We found that the model undergoes a
first-order transition of surface fluctuations at finite b, where the surface
tension \tau discontinuously changes. The gap of \tau remains constant at the
transition point in a certain range of values A/N^\prime at sufficiently large
N^\prime, which is the total number of vertices excluding the fixed vertices on
the boundaries. The value of \tau remains almost zero in the wrinkled phase at
the transition point while \tau remains negative finite in the smooth phase in
that range of A/N^\prime.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Spectral cross-calibration of VIIRS enhanced vegetation index with MODIS: A case study using year-long global data
© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In this study, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) was spectrally cross-calibrated with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) EVI using a year-long, global VIIRS-MODIS dataset at the climate modeling grid (CMG) resolution of 0.05°-by-0.05°. Our cross-calibration approach was to utilize a MODIS-compatible VIIRS EVI equation derived in a previous study [Obata et al., J. Appl. Remote Sens., vol.7, 2013] and optimize the coefficients contained in this EVI equation for global conditions. The calibrated/optimized MODIS-compatible VIIRS EVI was evaluated using another global VIIRS-MODIS CMG dataset of which acquisition dates did not overlap with those used in the calibration. The calibrated VIIRS EVI showed much higher compatibility with the MODIS EVI than the original VIIRS EVI, where the mean error (MODIS minus VIIRS) and the root mean square error decreased from -0.021 to -0.003 EVI units and from 0.029 to 0.020 EVI units, respectively. Error reductions on the calibrated VIIRS EVI were observed across nearly all view zenith and relative azimuth angle ranges, EVI dynamic range, and land cover types. The performance of the MODIS-compatible VIIRS EVI calibration appeared limited for high EVI values (i.e., EVI > 0.5) due likely to the maturity of the VIIRS dataset used in calibration/optimization. The cross-calibration methodology introduced in this study is expected to be useful for other spectral indices such as the normalized difference vegetation index and two-band EVI
Localization of the Grover walks on spidernets and free Meixner laws
A spidernet is a graph obtained by adding large cycles to an almost regular
tree and considered as an example having intermediate properties of lattices
and trees in the study of discrete-time quantum walks on graphs. We introduce
the Grover walk on a spidernet and its one-dimensional reduction. We derive an
integral representation of the -step transition amplitude in terms of the
free Meixner law which appears as the spectral distribution. As an application
we determine the class of spidernets which exhibit localization. Our method is
based on quantum probabilistic spectral analysis of graphs.Comment: 32 page
Increase in systolic blood pressure and improvement in laboratory parameters following polymyxin B-immobilized fiber treatment in septic shock
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