Limitation of message size of the MMS technology is one of the important factors which make this technology less attractive. This limitation restricts the system developers in developing new mobile applications using ...
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The current work presents a computational pipeline to simulate transcranial direct current stimulation from image based models of the head with SCIRun [15]. The pipeline contains all the steps necessary to carry out t...
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(纸本)9781424441198
The current work presents a computational pipeline to simulate transcranial direct current stimulation from image based models of the head with SCIRun [15]. The pipeline contains all the steps necessary to carry out the simulations and is supported by a complete suite of open source software tools: image visualization, segmentation, mesh generation, tDCS electrode generation and efficient tDCS forward simulation.
Photonic crystals realized in LiNbO 3 have a great potential to reduce the size and increase the functionality of integrated optical devices. In order to accomplish these aims, fabrication know-how must be mastered y...
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Photonic crystals realized in LiNbO 3 have a great potential to reduce the size and increase the functionality of integrated optical devices. In order to accomplish these aims, fabrication know-how must be mastered yet it remains relatively uncharted. In this work we report the fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal structures in annealed proton exchanged (APE) LiNbO 3 waveguides. In our work, channel waveguides were fabricated by photolithography patterning followed by immersing LiNbO 3 wafers in molten benzoic acid at 235°C for 5 h. The thickness and the composition profiles of the APE waveguides were measured using the secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) method. The experimental characterization of the photonic crystal waveguides was performed and a photonic stop band with good sharpness can be observed from the transmission spectra.
For Petri net models whose legal reachability spaces are non-convex, one cannot optimally control them by the conjunctions of linear constraints. This work proposes a method to find a set of linear constraints such th...
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For Petri net models whose legal reachability spaces are non-convex, one cannot optimally control them by the conjunctions of linear constraints. This work proposes a method to find a set of linear constraints such that each constraint can forbid all first-met bad markings and every legal marking satisfies at least one constraint. Then, the disjunctions of the obtained constraints can make all legal markings reachable and forbid all first-met bad markings, i.e., the controlled net is live and maximally permissive. The work also develops an integer linear programming model to minimize the number of the constraints. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate the proposed method.
We demonstrated lasing in two-dimensional Thue-Morse structures fabricated in InAs quantum dots embedded GaAs membrane. We optimized structural aperiodicity by gradually changing the relative size of two scatters for ...
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(纸本)9781467318396
We demonstrated lasing in two-dimensional Thue-Morse structures fabricated in InAs quantum dots embedded GaAs membrane. We optimized structural aperiodicity by gradually changing the relative size of two scatters for the strongest light confinement.
In this paper, we study the unconditional security of the so-called measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDIQKD) with the basis-dependent flaw in the context of phase encoding schemes. We propose t...
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In this paper, we study the unconditional security of the so-called measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDIQKD) with the basis-dependent flaw in the context of phase encoding schemes. We propose two schemes for the phase encoding: The first one employs a phase locking technique with the use of non-phase-randomized coherent pulses, and the second one uses conversion of standard Bennett-Brassard 1984 (BB84) phase encoding pulses into polarization modes. We prove the unconditional security of these schemes and we also simulate the key generation rate based on simple device models that accommodate imperfections. Our simulation results show the feasibility of these schemes with current technologies and highlight the importance of the state preparation with good fidelity between the density matrices in the two bases. Since the basis-dependent flaw is a problem not only for MDIQKD but also for standard quantum key distribution (QKD), our work highlights the importance of an accurate signal source in practical QKD systems.
We report a direct measurement of the low-frequency noise spectrum in a superconducting flux qubit. Our method uses the noise sensitivity of a free-induction Ramsey interference experiment, comprising free evolution i...
We report a direct measurement of the low-frequency noise spectrum in a superconducting flux qubit. Our method uses the noise sensitivity of a free-induction Ramsey interference experiment, comprising free evolution in the presence of noise for a fixed period of time followed by single-shot qubit-state measurement. Repeating this procedure enables Fourier-transform noise spectroscopy with access to frequencies up to the achievable repetition rate, a regime relevant to dephasing in ensemble-averaged time-domain measurements such as Ramsey interferometry. Rotating the qubit's quantization axis allows us to measure two types of noise: effective flux noise and effective critical-current or charge noise. For both noise sources, we observe that the very same 1/f-type power laws measured at considerably higher frequencies (0.2−20 MHz) are consistent with the noise in the 0.01−100-Hz range measured here. We find no evidence of temperature dependence of the noises over 65−200 mK, and also no evidence of time-domain correlations between the two noises. These methods and results are pertinent to the dephasing of all superconducting qubits.
Instruction-level redundancy is an effective scheme to reduce the susceptibility of microprocessors to soft errors, offering high error detection and recovery capability;however, it usually incurs significant performa...
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(纸本)9781467344975
Instruction-level redundancy is an effective scheme to reduce the susceptibility of microprocessors to soft errors, offering high error detection and recovery capability;however, it usually incurs significant performance degradation due to resource racing. Motivated by the fact that narrow-width operands are commonly seen in applications, we exploit data-level parallelism to accelerate instruction-level redundancy. For the instructions within sphere of replication (SoR) of data-level redundancy, normal and redundant versions of the narrow-width operand of the instruction are folded into one register to share the same functional unit during execution hence alleviating resource racing. The other instructions are all protected by instructionlevel redundancy. We run SPECint2000 benchmarks on a modified version of SimpleScalar simulator, and synthesize the extra hardware to evaluate area overhead of the proposed pipeline. Experimental results show that our acceleration scheme outperforms conventional instruction-level redundancy by 13% in IPC. Besides, the extra area overhead is negligible.
A Kalman filter was used to decode hand trajectories from micro-electrocorticography recorded over motor cortex in human patients. In two cases, signals were recorded during stereotyped tasks, and the trajectories wer...
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(纸本)9781424441198
A Kalman filter was used to decode hand trajectories from micro-electrocorticography recorded over motor cortex in human patients. In two cases, signals were recorded during stereotyped tasks, and the trajectories were decoded offline, with maximum correlation coefficients between actual and predicted trajectories of 0.51 (x-direction position) and 0.54 (y-direction position). In a third setting, a human patient with full neural control of a computer cursor acquired onscreen targets within 6.24 sec on average, with no algorithmic constraints on the output trajectory. These practical results illustrate the potential utility of signals recorded at the cortical surface with high spatial resolution, demonstrating that surface potentials contain relevant and sufficient information to drive sophisticated brain-computer interface systems.
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) coupled to high quality optical microcavities provide essential components for solid state cavity quantum electrodynamics systems. Indium Arsenide (InAs) QDs are one of the most promis...
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