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Engineering of IT Management Automation along Task Analysis, Loops, Function Allocation, Machine Capabilities
Relaxation to persistent currents in a Hubbard trimer coupled to fermionic baths
We consider a ring of fermionic quantum sites, modeled by the Fermi-Hubbard
Hamiltonian, in which electrons can move and interact strongly via the Coulomb
repulsion. The system is coupled to fermionic cold baths which by the exchange
of particles and energy induce relaxation in the system. We eliminate the baths
and describe the system effectively by the Lindblad master equations in various
versions valid for different coupling parameter regimes. The early relaxation
phase proceeds in a universal way, irrespective of the relative couplings and
approximations. The system settles down to its low-energy sector and is
consecutively well approximated by the Heisenberg model. In the late
relaxation, different Lindblad approaches push the system towards different
final states with opposite, extreme spin orders, from ferromagenetic to
antiferromagnetic. Due to spin frustration in the trimer (a three site ring),
degenerate ground states are formed by spin waves (magnons). The system
described by the global coherent version of the Lindblad operators relaxes
towards the final states carrying directed persistent spin currents. We
numerically confirm these predictions.Comment: 24 pages, 14 figure
Neue Wege für die Einbindung des Schienengüterverkehrs in die Wertschöpfungsketten der Logistik: Neue Wege für die Einbindung des Schienengüterverkehrs in die Wertschöpfungsketten der Logistik
Der Schienengüterverkehr in
Deutschland weist nach langer
Stagnation erstmals wieder eine
höhere Wachstumsrate als der
Straßengüterverkehr auf. Die
hierbei erreichten Positionen
können jedoch langfristig nur
ausgebaut werden, wenn es
gelingt, die Zukunftsfähigkeit
des Schienengüterverkehrs in
den Lieferketten der Industrie
und des Handels zu sichern.
Der Überwindung existierender
und neuer Engpässe bei der
Nutzung der notwendigen
Ressourcen, wie zum Beispiel
der Gleisinfrastruktur, kommt
dabei eine herausragende
Bedeutung zu. Kurz- und mittelfristig
gefragt sind daher
Ansätze für eine effizientere
Nutzung der vorhandenen
Ressourcen. Im Beitrag werden
dazu an den Schnittstellen zwischen
Schienengüterverkehr
und Logistik neue strategische
und operative Ansätze für ein
prozess- und strukturübergreifendes
Ressourcenmanagement
vorgestellt.For the first time after years of
decline, rail freight transport in
Germany is returning a higher
growth rate than road transport.
The success of recent years can
only be perpetuated, however, if
the growing demands of
consignors can be fulfilled under
conditions of increasing cost
pressure. Meanwhile, the
recent dynamic growth in transport
volume is leading to first
bottlenecks regarding the
necessary resources for rail
freight operation, e.g. railway
infrastructure. New paths and
solutions are thus required, with
a strong focus on more efficient
use of the existing resources.
This paper presents new
approaches to process and
cross-company resource
management, based on existing
potentials at the interfaces
between the operational
concepts of freight railways,
logistics and production
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Casting of Gold Nanoparticles with High Aspect Ratios inside DNA Molds
DNA nanostructures provide a powerful platform for the programmable assembly of nanomaterials. Here this approach is extended to synthesize rod-like gold nanoparticles in a full DNA controlled manner. The approach is based on DNA molds containing elongated cavities. Gold is deposited inside the molds using a seeded-growth procedure. By carefully exploring the growth parameters it is shown that gold nanostructures with aspect ratios of up to 7 can be grown from single seeds. The highly anisotropic growth is in this case controlled only by the rather soft and porous DNA walls. The optimized seeded growth procedure provides a robust and simple routine to achieve continuous gold nanostructures using DNA templating
Smart Chips for Smart Surroundings -- 4S
The overall mission of the 4S project (Smart Chips for Smart Surroundings) was to define and develop efficient flexible, reconfigurable core building blocks, including the supporting tools, for future Ambient System Devices. Reconfigurability offers the needed flexibility and adaptability, it provides the efficiency needed for these systems, it enables systems that can adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions, it enables communication over heterogeneous wireless networks, and it reduces risks: reconfigurable systems can adapt to standards that may vary from place to place or standards that have changed during and after product development. In 4S we focused on heterogeneous building blocks such as analogue, hardwired functions, fine and coarse grain reconfigurable tiles and microprocessors. Such a platform can adapt to a wide application space without the need for specialized ASICs. A novel power aware design flow and runtime system was developed. The runtime system decides dynamically about the near-optimal application mapping to the given hardware platform. The overall concept was verified on hardware platforms based on an existing SoC and in a second step with novel silicon. DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) and MPEG4 Video applications have been implemented on the platforms demonstrating the adaptability of the 4S concept
Angiographic and intravascular ultrasound analysis of overlapped beta-radiation fields on vessel geometry after manual stepping brachytherapy
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