Helstrom Bound for Squeezed Coherent States in Binary Communication

In quantum information processing, using a receiver device to differentiate between two non-orthogonal states leads to a quantum error probability. The minimum possible error is known as the Helstrom bound. In this work, we study the conditions for state discrimination using an alphabet of squeezed coherent states and compare them with conditions using the Glauber-Sudarshan, i.e., standard, coherent states.     

Modeling of MIG/MAG welding with experimental validation using an active contour algorithm applied on high speed movies

This paper investigates some issues in physical modeling of metal inert gas/metal active gas (MIG/MAG) welding process in the short arc mode. In this mode, a metal supply is molten in the arc state and then transferred to the weld pool during the short-circuit state. A hybrid model having two distinct continuous states whose switchings are controlled by two guard conditions is proposed. Due to the complexity of the physical phenomena involved in the welding process, simplifications are used to obtain a model accounting for the main physical contributions but simple enough to yield an efficient, fast and numerically tractable simulator which can be used intensively for evaluating different control strategies. In an attempt to validate the proposed model, different measurements have been made including supply voltage and current sampled synchronously with high speed digital video. In order to extract some relevant quantities representative of the metal transfer from image sequences, an active contour algorithm is developed and tested. The effectiveness of the proposed model in the prediction of major tendencies of a welding process, especially in the arc state, is shown using experimental data. Some limitations of the model during the metal transfer are also stressed and possible remedies are then proposed.     

Sur les automorphismes analytiques des variétés hyperboliques

Results of H. Cartan about holomorphic automorphisms on bounded domains are generalized to the case of hyperbolic manifolds in the sense of Kobayashi. In this setting, we give an identity theorem together with its topological version. We show also that a sequence of automorphisms which converges uniformly on some nonempty open set, has a limit on the whole space which is an automorphism. At the end of the paper, conditions are given for the sequence of iterates of a self holomorphic map in order to be an automorphism.     

Stochastic Lyapunov method

This paper is devoted to stability properties of solutions to stochastic differential equations obtained by a stochastic Lyapunov method.     

Computing the real roots of a polynomial by the exclusion algorithm

We describe a new algorithm for localizing the real roots of a polynomialP(x). This algorithm determines intervals on whichP(x) does not possess any root. The remainder set contains the real roots ofP(x) and can be arbitrarily small.     

H2-broadening coefficients in the ν3 band of CH3D at low temperatures

Using a diode-laser spectrometer, we have measured H₂-broadening coefficients of CH₃D at low temperatures (153.5, 183.5, and 223.5 K) for four lines in the ν₃ band. The collisional widths are obtained by fitting each absorption line with three lineshape models: the Voigt, Rautian, and Galatry profiles. The broadening coefficients are also calculated on the basis of a semiclassical model of interacting linear molecules by considering an atom-atom Lennard-Jones potential in addition to electrostatic contributions. By comparing the broadening coefficients at room and low temperatures the temperature dependence of these broadenings has been determined both experimentally and theoretically.     

Spectral Measures Associated with the Factorization of the Lebesgue Measure on a Set via Convolution

Let \(Q\) be a fundamental domain of some full-rank lattice in \({\mathbb {R}}^d\) and let \(\mu \) and \(\nu \) be two positive Borel measures on \({\mathbb {R}}^d\) such that the convolution \(\mu *\nu \) is a multiple of \(\chi _Q\) . We consider the problem as to whether or not both measures must be spectral (i.e. each of their respective associated \(L^2\) space admits an orthogonal basis of exponentials) and we show that this is the case when \(Q = [0,1]^d\) . This theorem yields a large class of examples of spectral measures which are either absolutely continuous, singularly continuous or purely discrete spectral measures. In addition, we propose a generalized Fuglede’s Conjecture for spectral measures on \({\mathbb {R}}^1\) and we show that it implies the classical Fuglede’s Conjecture on \({\mathbb {R}}^1\) .     

Tight Gabor Frames Associated with Non-separable Lattices and the Hyperbolic Secant

We consider Gabor systems generated by a window given by the hyperbolic secant function. We show that such a system forms a Parseval frame for L ²(?) when the translations and modulations of the window are associated with certain non-separable lattices in ?² which we explicitly describe. We also study the more general problem of characterizing the positive Borel measures μ on ?²ⁿ with the property that the short-time Fourier transform defines an isometric embedding from L ²(? ⁿ ) to L _μ ² (?²ⁿ ) when the window belongs to the Schwartz class and, in particular, we characterize the extreme points of this set. In the case where the window is the hyperbolic secant function, we consider the situation where the measure is discrete with constant weights and supported on a non-separable lattice yielding a Parseval frame. We provide arithmetic conditions on the parameters defining the lattice characterizing when the associated measure is an extreme point.