Nonlocal information as condition for violations of Bell inequality and information causality

On the basis of local realism theory, nonlocal information is necessary for violation of Bell's inequality. From a theoretical point of view, nonlocal information is essentially the mutual information on distant outcome and measurement setting. In this work we prove that if the measurement is free and unbiased, the mutual information about the distant outcome and setting is both necessary for the violation of Bell's inequality in the case with unbiased marginal probabilities. In the case with biased marginal probabilities, we point out that the mutual information about distant outcome cease to be necessary for violation of Bell's inequality, while the mutual information about distant measurement settings is still required. We also prove that the mutual information about distant measurement settings must be contained in the transmitted messages due to the freedom of measurement choices. Finally we point out that the mutual information about both distant outcome and measurement settings are necessary for a violation of information causality.     

Mutual information of ising systems

We obtain the mutual information of Ising systems, which shows singular behavior near the critical point. We connect the mutual information with the magnetization and the correlation function. The mutual information is a suitable measure for the critical behavior of Ising systems.     

Implementation and Evaluation of Age-Aware Downlink Scheduling Policies in Push-Based and Pull-Based Communication

As communication systems evolve to better cater to the needs of machine-type applications such as remote monitoring and networked control, advanced perspectives are required for the design of link layer protocols. The age of information (AoI) metric has firmly taken its place in the literature as a metric and tool to measure and control the data freshness demands of various applications. AoI measures the timeliness of transferred information from the point of view of the destination. In this study, we experimentally investigate AoI of multiple packet flows on a wireless multi-user link consisting of a transmitter (base station) and several receivers, implemented using software-defined radios (SDRs). We examine the performance of various scheduling policies under push-based and pull-based communication scenarios. For the push-based communication scenario, we implement age-aware scheduling policies from the literature and compare their performance with those of conventional scheduling methods. Then, we investigate the query age of information (QAoI) metric, an adaptation of the AoI concept for pull-based scenarios. We modify the former age-aware policies to propose variants that have a QAoI minimization objective. We share experimental results obtained in a simulation environment as well as on the SDR testbed.     

Unoccupied band critical point energies of noble metals determined with Bremsstrahlung isochromat spectroscopy

We show that Bremsstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy (BIS) is a powerful and simple tool to determine unoccupied band critical point energies of solids. We determine some critical point energies of the noble metals and compare these to band structure calculations. We also determine the energy dependent lifetime broadening providing information about the imaginary part of the self energy corrections.     

物联网技术研究进展

目前,物联网因其巨大的应用前景而受到各国政府、学术界和工业界的广泛重视,成为国内外信息通信领域的新研究热点;物联网产业己经成为推动世界经济增长的重要新兴产业,我国已将物联网的发展列为信息产业发展的下一个战略高点;首先总结了物联网的国内外研究进展,其次对物联网的概念、实现原理与体系结构进行了分析,归纳了物联网涉及的关键技术,然后介绍了物联网的一些典型应用,最后指出了物联网进一步研究的方向以及制约国内物联网发展的问题及解决对策。     

Two-species Coulomb chains for quantum information

We study from the point of view of quantum information the properties of the collective oscillations of a linear chain of ions trapped in a linear Paul trap and composed of two ion species. We discuss extensively sympathetic cooling of the chain and the effect of anharmonicity on laser-cooling and quantum-information processing. Received 19 May 2000     

An introduction to physical theory of molecular evolution

This work is a tutorial in Molecular Evolution from the point of view of Physics. We discuss Eigen's model, a link between evolutionary theory and physics. We will begin by assuming the existence of (marco) molecules or replicators with the template property, that is, the capacity to self-replicate. According to this assumption, information will be randomly generated and destroyed by mutations in the code (i.e., errors in the copying process) and new bits of information will be fixed (made stable) by the existence of an external pressure on the system (i.e., selection), and the ability of the molecules to replicate themselves. Our aim is to build a model in order to describe molecular evolution from as general a standpoint as possible. As we will see, even very simple models from the theoretical point of view will have surprisingly deep consequences.     

Information entropy in cosmology

The effective evolution of an inhomogeneous cosmological model may be described in terms of spatially averaged variables. We point out that in this context, quite naturally, a measure arises which is identical to a fluid model of the Kullback-Leibler relative information entropy, expressing the distinguishability of the local inhomogeneous mass density field from its spatial average on arbitrary compact domains. We discuss the time evolution of "effective information" and explore some implications. We conjecture that the information content of the Universe-measured by relative information entropy of a cosmological model containing dust matter-is increasing.     

Phase detection and contrast loss in magnetic resonance imaging

Several recent articles have assessed the relative efficiency of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) pulse sequences. One consideration that has received little attention is the effect on image contrast of displaying images without information on the sign of the reconstructed signals. The radiofrequency receivers currently used on most NMR imaging systems are quadrature detectors that preserve both the magnitude and sign of the NMR signal. Usually, however, sign or phase information is not used in the final image presentation. We point out that in imaging sequences that may have negative signals, such as inversion recovery, this loss of sign information produces a reduction in contrast between some tissues in an NMR image. We discuss the tissue parameters and interpulse delay times that result in contrast loss in inversion recovery and indicate the extent of contrast loss. We point out that for some tissues with unequal hydrogen spin densities, the region of contrast loss coincides with the region where maximum contrast would occur if sign information were preserved.     

动态像面法测量水面落点位置及误差分析

为了测量弹丸水面落点的位置, 建立了基于CCD相机动态像面的测量模型。该模型通过CCD相机辅助采集相关点位的图像信息, 对水面落点的位置函数以及误差进行了研究。首先, 利用空间几何获得靶船上三定点相对于测量船的方位、俯仰信息。接着, 结合t时刻观测图像上定点的像面坐标, 运用底片常数模型建立像面坐标和角度信息两套参量之间的关系函数, 从而得到目标落点的方位、俯仰信息, 再利用异面交会法计算出目标落点位置。最后, 分析了目标落点位置的误差来源(质心误差, 位置误差)、误差以及各误差源与位置坐标之间的关系。实验结果表明:在测量船位置精度达到0.05 m, 图像质心定位精度达到0.5 pixel时, 在最小交会误差的情况下, 目标落点的位置测量误差分别为2.8, 4.9, 4.3 m。     

The symmetry energy in nuclei and in nuclear matter

We discuss to what extent information on ground-state properties of finite nuclei (energies and radii) can be used to obtain constraints on the symmetry energy in nuclear matter and its dependence on the density. The starting point is a generalized Weizs?cker formula for ground-state energies. In particular, effects from the Wigner energy and shell structure on the symmetry energy are investigated. Strong correlations in the parameter space prevent a clear isolation of the surface contribution. Use of neutron skin information improves the situation. The result of the analysis appears consistent with a rather soft density dependence of the symmetry energy in nuclear matter.     

Some New Solutions of Jacobi Elliptic Functions to mBBM Equation

The modified mapping method is further improved by the expanded expression of u（ξ） that contains the terms of the first-order derivative of function f（ξ）. Some new exact solutions to the mBBM equation are determined by means of the method. We can obtain many new solutions in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions of the equation.     

Invariant information and quantum state estimation

The invariant information, introduced by C. Brukner and A. Zeilinger [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3354 (1999)], is reconsidered from the point of view of quantum state estimation. We show that this quantity is directly related to the mean error of the standard reconstruction from the measurement of a complete set of mutually complementary observables. We give its generalization in terms of the Fisher information. Provided that the optimum reconstruction is adopted, the information loses its invariant character.     

Statistics of close visits to the indifferent fixed point of an interval map

We study a dynamical system defined by a map of the interval [0, 1] which has 0 as an indifferent fixed point but is otherwise expanding. We prove that the sequence of successive entrance times in a small neighborhood [0,a] converges in law when suitably normalized to a homogeneous Poisson point process.     

Fisher Information Matrix of Husimi Distribution

We calculate the Fisher information matrix of Husimi distribution in the Fock–Bargmann representation. It turns out that the Fisher information of the position and that of the momentum move in opposite directions, and that a weighted trace of the Fisher information matrix is a constant independent of the Husimi distribution. This may be interpreted as a kind of uncertainty relation (in the spirit of Heisenberg uncertainty principle) from the statistical inference point of view.     

Reaction imaging with interferometry

We analyze scattering into a double-slit interferometer with target-fragment recoil detection as a monitor of quantum correlation and entanglement in few-body reaction amplitudes. We thus investigate two-slit interference with which-way information as an enhancement to modern reaction-fragment detection. We briefly consider charged-particle scattering with recoil-ion detection from the point of view of quantum information.     

Information modification and particle collisions in distributed computation

Distributed computation can be described in terms of the fundamental operations of information storage, transfer, and modification. To describe the dynamics of information in computation, we need to quantify these operations on a local scale in space and time. In this paper we extend previous work regarding the local quantification of information storage and transfer, to explore how information modification can be quantified at each spatiotemporal point in a system. We introduce the separable information, a measure which locally identifies information modification events where separate inspection of the sources to a computation is misleading about its outcome. We apply this measure to cellular automata, where it is shown to be the first direct quantitative measure to provide evidence for the long-held conjecture that collisions between emergent particles therein are the dominant information modification events.     

基于凸组合核函数的化合物太赫兹透射光谱分类

物质的太赫兹光谱包含着非常丰富的物理和化学信息。它对化合物晶体具有高的灵敏度、 单光子能量低等特点。但受到检测人员知识背景、 背景噪声、 识别算法精度等因素的影响,光谱样本识别准确率和效率较低。为了提高对太赫兹光谱的检测能力,提出应用基于凸组合核函数的support vector machines(SVM)对化合物的THz脉冲透射谱进行分类。在使用小波变换对数据进行滤波预处理之后,提取了传统波峰、 波谷位置特征和term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) 最大间隔特征。TF-IDF方法使用信息论的原理确定每个采样点的权重,选择权重较大的点作为特征。针对太赫兹透射谱特征相似、 维数较低带来的分类困难问题,构建基于凸组合核函数的SVM分类模型。并利用核评价的方法,通过高维非线性规划方程求解最优凸组合参数。当最优凸组合参数被确定时,构建分类模型进行分类和预测。相比较于单一核函数,凸组合核函数将透射谱特征与分类模型融合起来。对于不同的检测样本,数据经过凸组合核函数映射到高维空间后,特征具有更显著的区分度。使用不同的太赫兹透射谱样本进行分类实验,结果表明,分类准确率得到极大提高。     

Discontinuity and Protection of Quantum Fisher Information for a Two-Qubit System

We analytically investigate the dynamics of quantum Fisher information of two qubits in independent environments for both uncorrelated and entangled input states. Especially, we observe that, in the non-Markovian regime and resonant case, quantum Fisher information of uncorrelated input state vanishes only at discrete time point whereas that of entangled input state can disappear during finite time interval. It shows that quantum Fisher information, which determines the parameter estimation precision, is strongly affected by the environment memory effects, and the advantage of entanglement-enhance metrology no longer exists even for a very short time. We also note that quantum Fisher information for two kinds of input states can be preserved under appropriate qubit-reservoir detuning.     

Stochastic analysis of an agent-based model

We analyze the dynamics of a forecasting game that exhibits the phenomenon of information cascades. Each agent aims at correctly predicting a binary variable and he/she can either look for independent information or herd on the choice of others. We show that dynamics can be analytically described in terms of a Langevin equation and its collective behavior is described by the solution of a Kramers’ problem. This provides very accurate results in the region where the vast majority of agents herd, that corresponds to the most interesting one from a game theoretic point of view.