A density-functional study for the liquid-vapor coexistence curve of nitrogen fluid

We have used a density-functional theory based on the interaction site model to predict the liquid-vapor coexistence curve of nitrogen fluid. The pressure and chemical potential were calculated from thermodynamic integrations. The different paths of thermodynamic integration provide slightly different predictions for the liquid-vapor coexistence curve. However, these critical points and coexistence curves evaluated by the theory are in qualitative agreement with the experimental data. The theoretical coexistence curves scaled to critical constants agree with the experimental data quantitatively.     

Performance of optical fibers for transmission of high-peak-power XeCl excimer laser pulses

The simple and efficient fiber delivery of 5-ns pulses from a XeCl excimer laser operating at a wavelength of 308 nm is demonstrated. The coupling scheme uses all of the output energy of the XeCl excimer laser and benefits from a simple and easy-to-adjust fiber coupling. Experiments on the 308-nm fiber delivery for more than 2.5 million laser pulses of 8-ns pulse width (FWHM) and up to 8-mJ stabilized pulse energy are performed. The long-time pulsed UV laser transmission is found to be different for individual samples of optical fibers that perform very similarly in low-intensity UV light applications. For applications with strict demands on the long-time stability, a critical evaluation of the fiber performance with the 308-nm laser under operating conditions is necessary. Measurements between 1 and 200 Hz show a negligible dependence of the fiber delivery performance on the repetition rate of the transmitted laser pulses. PACS 42.55.Lt; 42.81.Cn; 07.69.Vg     

Power of entanglement in quantum communication

A communication channel is a physical system that transfers information from one place to another. Examples of communication channels include wires, optical fibers, and chains of spins that propagate spin waves through a medium. This Letter shows that the power-limited communication capacity of a multimode optical fiber or a set of parallel spin chains can be enhanced by introducing nonlinear couplings between the modes or chains. In particular, M coupled, entangled modes can send M bits in the same time it takes a single mode to send a single bit, and in the same time it takes M uncoupled, unentangled modes to send sqrt[M] bits.     

Definition and properties of ideal amorphous solids

It is proposed that two ideal amorphous structures, type I and type II, based on maximally random jammed packing of spheres of equal size, form a distinct class of ideal amorphous solids. The ideal amorphous structures contain wide variations in local density, limited by the condition of solidity. Four distinct characteristics, based on statistical geometry and topology, are shown to define this class. Voronoi tessellations carried out on simulated cells of random packed spheres and amorphous polymers give a broad distribution of individual volumes, skewed, with a tail at the high volume end.     

Lines of periodic hole structures produced by laser ablation using interfering femtosecond lasers split by a transmission grating

Long lines of periodic hole structures were produced on a gold film, a glass slide and polystyrene by laser ablation using interfering femtosecond lasers split by a transmission grating. An optical system comprising a cylindrical lens added to an imaging system with a transmission grating was used to obtain the interference of two beams along a long length, and high laser fluence was used to achieve laser ablation. The separation of each hole was 6.25 m, and the total length of the structure produced reached 6 mm, which is longest periodic structure produced by a shot of femtosecond laser. PACS 42.62.-b; 07.60.Ly; 42.40.Eq     

信噪比对偏振耦合测试影响分析

以白光麦克尔逊干涉仪对双折射保偏光纤的偏振耦合进行测试,并基于仪器结构建立了测试扫描结果的数学模型.分析及仿真了信噪比对耦合强度及耦合位置检测的影响大小及变化趋势.信噪比大于32dB,可满足偏振耦合测试的要求.     

Calculation of electric fields induced by body and head motion in high-field MRI

In modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), patients are exposed to strong, nonuniform static magnetic fields outside the central imaging region, in which the movement of the body may be able to induce electric currents in tissues which could be possibly harmful. This paper presents theoretical investigations into the spatial distribution of induced electric fields and currents in the patient when moving into the MRI scanner and also for head motion at various positions in the magnet. The numerical calculations are based on an efficient, quasi-static, finite-difference scheme and an anatomically realistic, full-body, male model. 3D field profiles from an actively shielded 4T magnet system are used and the body model projected through the field profile with a range of velocities. The simulation shows that it possible to induce electric fields/currents near the level of physiological significance under some circumstances and provides insight into the spatial characteristics of the induced fields. The results are extrapolated to very high field strengths and tabulated data shows the expected induced currents and fields with both movement velocity and field strength.     

On the commutator of the Marcinkiewicz integral

boundedness is considered for the commutator of higher-dimensional Marcinkiewicz integral. Some conditions implying the and the boundedness for the commutator of the Marcinkiewicz integral are obtained.     

Queueing Dynamics and Maximal Throughput Scheduling in Switched Processing Systems

We study a processing system comprised of parallel queues, whose individual service rates are specified by a global service mode (configuration). The issue is how to switch the system between various possible service modes, so as to maximize its throughput and maintain stability under the most workload-intensive input traffic traces (arrival processes). Stability preserves the job inflow–outflow balance at each queue on the traffic traces. Two key families of service policies are shown to maximize throughput, under the mild condition that traffic traces have long-term average workload rates. In the first family of cone policies, the service mode is chosen based on the system backlog state belonging to a corresponding cone. Two distinct policy classes of that nature are investigated, MaxProduct and FastEmpty. In the second family of batch policies (BatchAdapt), jobs are collectively scheduled over adaptively chosen horizons, according to an asymptotically optimal, robust schedule. The issues of nonpreemptive job processing and non-negligible switching times between service modes are addressed. The analysis is extended to cover feed-forward networks of such processing systems/nodes. The approach taken unifies and generalizes prior studies, by developing a general trace-based modeling framework (sample-path approach) for addressing the queueing stability problem. It treats the queueing structure as a deterministic dynamical system and analyzes directly its evolution trajectories. It does not require any probabilistic superstructure, which is typically used in previous approaches. Probability can be superposed later to address finer performance questions (e.g., delay). The throughput maximization problem is seen to be primarily of structural nature. The developed methodology appears to have broader applicability to other queueing systems.     

L~p(R~m× R~n) boundedness for the Marcinkiewicz integral on product spaces

Lp(Rm × Rn) boundedness is considered for the multiple Marcinkiewicz integral. Some size conditions implying the LP(Rm × Rn) boundedness of the multiple Marcinkiewicz integral for some fixed 1 < p <∞ are obtained.