Simulação com o código GEANT4 de medida de espessura de revestimento metálico em metal por XRF

Nesta dissertação são apresentados resultados de simulações Monte Carlo de fluorescência de raios X (XRF), utilizando o programa GEANT4, para medidas de espessura de revestimento metálico (Ni e Zn) em base metálica (Fe). As simulações foram feitas para dois tamanhos de espessura para cada metal de revestimento, (5μm e 10μm), com passos de 0,1 μm e 0,001 μm e com 106 histórias. No cálculo da espessura do revestimento foram feitas as aproximações de feixe de raios X monoenegético, com a análise da transmissão apenas da energia do K-alfa e para uma geometria compatível com um sistema real de medição (ARTAX-200). Os resultados mostraram a eficiência da metodologia de simulação e do cálculo da espessura do revestimento, o que permitirá futuros cálculos, inclusive para multirevestimentos metálicos em base metálica.

Accurate vibration detection of a rough surface - art. no. 683118

Based on the semiconductor laser whose spectral line with width is compressed to be less than 1.2Mhz, a system was designed to measure and improve the amplitude and frequency of the real-time microvibration with sinusoidal modulation. real-time microvibration measurement was executed without alignment problem in the interferometry; and low-frequency disturbance of environment could be eliminated. Suggestions were also given to consummate the system. The system also has resistance against the low frequency disturbance of the environment.

液体多脉冲及2D NMR实验的计算机模拟

现代多脉冲及2D NMR技术是过去十年中发展起来的崭新的NMR实验方法。计算机模拟做为NMR实验的强有力分析手段已日益受到重视。国内这方面工作开展得尚很少；国外发表的工作主要采用的是数字模拟，存在分析结果不够直观、物理意义不够清晰等缺陷。本论文工作采用乘积算符方法研制出对分析多脉冲及2D NMR实验普适的模拟程序PROPER；在乘积算符基础上，针对磁等性自旋体系，提出了实用的对称化乘积算符及多量子积算符方法。一、多脉冲及2D NMR实验的计算机模拟 1. 采用乘积算符方法在本所PDP－11／23微机上研制了多脉冲及2D NMR实验的模拟程序PROPER。该程序对不超过4核（I ＝ 1／2）的同核及异核弱耦合自旋体系非选择性脉冲序列的分析是普遍适用的。受计算机内存的限制，PROPER程序所能处理的脉冲序列脉冲间隔数目一般不超过10。2. 应用PROPER模拟程序对INEP和DEPT脉冲序列进行了分析比较；特别对BIRD脉冲序列的各种相位变型进行了模拟分析，给出了分析结果，分析过程中考虑了影响BIRD作用效果的同核耦合因素。应用结果表明，PROPER程序计算正确、迅速、给出的模拟结果较通常的数字模拟方法简单、直观、物理意义清楚，便于分析。由于采用算符模拟，结果的输出打印比较费时。目前，PROPER程序正在改进和完善之中。二、多脉冲及2D NMR实验的密度算符描述 1. 针对磁等性自旋（I ＝ 1／2）体系，首次提出了对称化乘积算符描述方法。在通常的乘积算符基础上，引入了对称化乘积算符，并对其数理基础进行了详细论证。推导了算符循环对易关系决定的Liourill-Von Neumann方程的解，给出了算符间普遍存在的循环对易关系及其相应的演化公式。据此，以InS(I = 1/2, S = 1/2; n = 2,3)自旋体系为例，对DEPT脉冲序列进行了分析；结果表明，该方法较通常的乘积算符方法对磁等性自旋体系的分析要简单、实用，且物理意义更加明确。由于该方法涉及较多的算符对易关系，因此不易计算机编程。2. 在对称化乘积算符基础上引入了多量子积算符的概念。以In(I = 1/2; n = 2,3)体系为例，给出了两者的互换关系。推导出了具有标量耦合作用的两组合粒子体系普适的多量子积算符环对易关系及相应的演化解析式。多量子积算符方法可望将1／2－自旋磁等性组合粒子表象与自旋大于1／2的单粒子表象统一起来，并为计算机模拟提供新的数学方法。该方法尚有待于进一步研究。

三维双楔面定常激波相互作用

本文通过理论分析,将三维对称双楔面上定常激波相互作用简化到二维截面进行分析,利用二维非定常激波楔面反射理论求解该三维激波相互作用结构。同时,通过采用二阶精度的NND格式求解三维Euler方程,对该理论分析结果做出数值模拟验证。理论分析和数值模拟结果显示,对于三维双楔面超声速定常流动在取定的二维截面上激波结构兼有二维非定常及定常激波反射的性质,即形成了类似于二维非定常激波楔面反射的规则反射、单马赫反射、过渡马赫反射及双马赫反射等结构,同时其规则—马赫反射转变却遵循适用于二维定常激波反射的von Neumann准则。理论分析得出的各种反射结构的存在范围与数值模拟结果吻合良好。同时,探讨了两楔面间夹角以及楔面前缘后掠角对该激波结构的影响。

压缩真空场与原子非线性作用过程中的纠缠与消纠缠

用VonNeumann熵研究了附加克尔介质的压缩真空场与二能级原子依赖强度耦合相互作用量子体系的量子纠缠特性 .讨论了初始压缩真空场的压缩度以及克尔非线性作用的强度对该量子体系纠缠特性的影响 .结果表明 ,克尔介质的非线性作用的强弱可以改变体系量子纠缠的周期性 ;在初始压缩度较大 (r =5 )时 ,克尔介质的非线性作用可导致原子与场持续地处于最大纠缠态 ,无消纠缠态或持续地处于消纠缠态 .

Intelligence Without Reason

Computers and Thought are the two categories that together define Artificial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Artificial Intelligence over the last thirty years has had a strong influence on aspects of computer architectures. In this paper we also make the converse claim; that the state of computer architecture has been a strong influence on our models of thought. The Von Neumann model of computation has lead Artificial Intelligence in particular directions. Intelligence in biological systems is completely different. Recent work in behavior-based Artificial Intelligenge has produced new models of intelligence that are much closer in spirit to biological systems. The non-Von Neumann computational models they use share many characteristics with biological computation.

[Book review] Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour

Tony Mann provides a review of the book: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Princeton University Press, 1944.

On subspace lattices II. Continuity of Lat

We study the continuity of the map Lat sending an ultraweakly closed operator algebra to its invariant subspace lattice. We provide an example showing that Lat is in general discontinuous and give sufficient conditions for the restricted continuity of this map. As consequences we obtain that Lat is continuous on the classes of von Neumann and Arveson algebras and give a general approximative criterion for reflexivity, which extends Arvesonâ??s theorem on the reflexivity of commutative subspace lattices.

On subspace lattices I. Closedness type properties and tensor products

We study properties of subspace lattices related to the continuity of the map Lat and the notion of reflexivity. We characterize various “closedness” properties in different ways and give the hierarchy between them. We investigate several properties related to tensor products of subspace lattices and show that the tensor product of the projection lattices of two von Neumann algebras, one of which is injective, is reflexive.

Paul Karl Feyerabend Las proyecciones de la proliferación teórica en la relación ciencia-metafísica

La doctrina de la Proliferación teórica de Paul Karl Feyerabend ha sido interpretada por sus especialistas como un intento de salvaguardar el ideal del progreso científico. Aunque tales estudios hacen justicia, en parte, a la intencionalidad de nuestro filósofo no explicitan la crítica fundamental que implica para Feyerabend el pluralismo teórico. La proliferación teórica constituye en sí misma una reductio ad absurdum de los distintos intentos del positivismo lógico y del racionalismo crítico por definir la ciencia a expensas de lo metafísico. Este artículo presenta la proliferación teórica como una reivindicación del papel positivo que ocupa la metafísica en el quehacer científico. Se consigna la defensa que hace Feyerabend de la metafísica en cuanto que ésta constituye la posibilidad de superar el conservadurismo conceptual, aumentar de contenido empírico de la ciencia y recuperar el valor descriptivo de las teorías científicas.

Increasing entanglement through engineered disorder in the random Ising chain

The ground-state entanglement entropy between block of sites in the random Ising chain is studied by means of the Von Neumann entropy. We show that in presence of strong correlations between the disordered couplings and local magnetic fields the entanglement increases and becomes larger than in the ordered case. The different behavior with respect to the uncorrelated disordered model is due to the drastic change of the ground state properties. The same result holds also for the random three-state quantum Potts model.

Entanglement entropy dynamics of Heisenberg chains

By means of the time dependent density matrix renormalization group algorithm we study the zero-temperature dynamics of the Von Neumann entropy of a block of spins in a Heisenberg chain after a sudden quench in the anisotropy parameter. In the absence of any disorder the block entropy increases linearly with time and then saturates. We analyse the velocity of propagation of the entanglement as a function of the initial and final anisotropies and compare our results, wherever possible, with those obtained by means of conformal field theory. In the disordered case we find a slower ( logarithmic) evolution which may signal the onset of entanglement localization.

Extremal quantum correlations: Experimental study with two-qubit states

We explore experimentally the space of two-qubit quantum-correlated mixed states, including frontier states as defined by the use of quantum discord and von Neumann entropy. Our experimental setup is flexible enough to allow for high-quality generation of a vast variety of states. We address quantitatively the relation between quantum discord and a recently suggested alternative measure of quantum correlations.

Intermittency, quasiperiodicity and chaos in probe-induced ferroelectric domain switching

Memristive materials and devices, which enable information storage and processing on one and the same physical platform, offer an alternative to conventional von Neumann computation architectures. Their continuous spectra of states with intricate field-history dependence give rise to complex dynamics, the spatial aspect of which has not been studied in detail yet. Here, we demonstrate that ferroelectric domain switching induced by a scanning probe microscopy tip exhibits rich pattern dynamics, including intermittency, quasiperiodicity and chaos. These effects are due to the interplay between tip-induced polarization switching and screening charge dynamics, and can be mapped onto the logistic map. Our findings may have implications for ferroelectric storage, nanostructure fabrication and transistor-less logic.

Sets of multiplicity and closable multipliers on group algebras

We undertake a detailed study of the sets of multiplicity in a second countable locally compact group G and their operator versions. We establish a symbolic calculus for normal completely bounded maps from the space B(L-2(G)) of bounded linear operators on L-2 (G) into the von Neumann algebra VN(G) of G and use it to show that a closed subset E subset of G is a set of multiplicity if and only if the set E* = {(s,t) is an element of G x G : ts(-1) is an element of E} is a set of operator multiplicity. Analogous results are established for M-1-sets and M-0-sets. We show that the property of being a set of multiplicity is preserved under various operations, including taking direct products, and establish an Inverse Image Theorem for such sets. We characterise the sets of finite width that are also sets of operator multiplicity, and show that every compact operator supported on a set of finite width can be approximated by sums of rank one operators supported on the same set. We show that, if G satisfies a mild approximation condition, pointwise multiplication by a given measurable function psi : G -> C defines a closable multiplier on the reduced C*-algebra G(r)*(G) of G if and only if Schur multiplication by the function N(psi): G x G -> C, given by N(psi)(s, t) = psi(ts(-1)), is a closable operator when viewed as a densely defined linear map on the space of compact operators on L-2(G). Similar results are obtained for multipliers on VN(C).