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    Entropy production in a photovoltaic cell

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    We evaluate entropy production in a photovoltaic cell that is modeled by four electronic levels resonantly coupled to thermally populated field modes at different temperatures. We use a formalism recently proposed, the so-called multiple parallel worlds, to consistently address the nonlinearity of entropy in terms of density matrix. Our result shows that entropy production is the difference between two flows: a semiclassical flow that linearly depends on occupational probabilities, and another flow that depends nonlinearly on quantum coherence and has no semiclassical analog. We show that entropy production in the cells depends on environmentally induced decoherence time and energy detuning. We characterize regimes where reversal flow of information takes place from a cold to hot bath. Interestingly, we identify a lower bound on entropy production, which sets limitations on the statistics of dissipated heat in the cells.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure

    Sutte Indicator: an approach to predict the direction of stock market movements

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    The purpose of this research is to apply technical analysis of Sutte Indicator in stock trading which will assist in the investment decision making process i.e. buying or selling shares. This research takes data of "A" on the Indonesia Stock Exchange(IDX or BEI) 29 November 2006 until 20 September 2016 period. To see the performance of Sutte Indicator, other technical analysis are used as a comparison, Simple Moving Average (SMA) and Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD). To see a comparison of the level of reliability prediction, the stock data were compared using the mean absolute deviation (MAD), mean of square error (MSE), and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The result of this research is that Sutte Indicator can be used as a reference in predicting stock movements, and if it is compared to other indicator methods (SMA and MACD) via MAD, MSE, and MAPE, the Sutte Indicator has a better level of reliability
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