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Analysis for Dynamic Metrology

January 30, 2014
Author(s)
Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Paul D. Hale
Diverse measurement contexts require estimates of time varying quantities. Ideally the measurement device responds to signal variations significantly more rapidly than the modulation of the signal itself. If so, then well-developed techniques may be used

Measurement Science R&D Roadmap for Windstorm and Coastal Inundation Impact Reduction

January 30, 2014
Author(s)
William Coulbourne, Jon Galsworthy, Horia Hangan, Christopher Jones, Chris Letchford, Thomas Smith
Windstorms, storm surge, and other coastal inundation events caused 4,045 fatalities and property losses of $250 billion (in 2012 dollars) in the United States during the period of 1996-2012. More people are moving toward the nation's coastlines and thus

Strong coupling of single emitters interacting with phononic infrared antennae

January 30, 2014
Author(s)
Ruben Esteban, Javier Aizpurua, Garnett W. Bryant
A single emitter can couple with an electromagnetic mode excited in dielectric cavities or metallic particles. In a similar manner, it can couple with a phononic mode supported by a nearby infrared antenna. We consider an emitter with a sufficiently large

The neural representation of faces and bodies in motion and at rest

January 29, 2014
Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Alice O'Toole, Vaidehi Natu, Xiaobo An, Rice Allyson, James Ryland
The neural organization of person processing relies on brain regions functionally selective for faces or bodies, with a subset of these regions preferring moving stimuli. Although the response properties of the individual areas are well established, less

Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory

January 28, 2014
Author(s)
Felix Bussieres, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, Boris Korzh, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Alban Ferrier, Harald Hermann, Christine Silberhorn, Wolfgang Sohler, Mikael Afzelius, Nicolas Gisin
In quantum teleportation [1], the state of a single quantum system is disembodied into classical information and purely quantum correlations, to be later reconstructed onto a second system that has never directly interacted with the first one. This

Comment on Detection of Microwave Spin Pumping Using the Inverse Spin Hall Effect

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Mathias A. Weiler, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw
In a recent Letter, Hahn et al. reported on the detection of an ac voltage in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) bilayer under the condition of parametrically excited resonance. The authors observe an ac voltage at the frequency of the magnetization

Optimal Spread in Network Consensus Models

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Fern Y. Hunt
Suppose we seek a set of nodes in a network that will enable the fastest spread of information in a decentralized communication environment. If communication resources are limited there are constraints on the number of nodes that can be selected. In this

Phase-slip lines as a resistance mechanism in transition-edge sensors

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom
The fundamental mechanism of resistance in voltage-biased superconducting films is poorly understood despite its importance as the basis of transition-edge sensors (TESs). TESs are utilized in state-of- the-art microbolometers and microcalorimeters

Si3N4 optomechanical crystals in the resolved-sideband regime

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Marcelo I. Davanco, Serkan Ates, Yuxiang Liu, Kartik A. Srinivasan
We demonstrate sideband-resolved Si3N4 optomechanical crystals supporting 105 quality factor optical modes at 980 nm, coupled to approximately 4 GHz frequency mechanical modes with quality factors of approximately 3000. Optomechanical electromagnetically

Optical phase-noise dynamics of Titanium:sapphire optical frequency combs

January 24, 2014
Author(s)
Qudsia Quraishi, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg
Stabilized optical frequency combs (OFC) can have remarkable levels of coherence across their broad spectral bandwidth. We study the scaling of the optical noise across hundreds of nanometers of optical spectra. We measure the residual phase noise between

IREX IV: Part 2 Compression Profiles for Iris Image Compression

January 23, 2014
Author(s)
George Quinn, Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Nick Rymer
The IREX IV evaluation builds upon IREX III as a performance test of one-to-many iris recognition. This report is the second part of the IREX IV evaluation, which specifically, evaluates the ability of automated iris recognition algorithms to match heavily

Nanoscale mechanics by tomographic contact resonance atomic force microscopy

January 23, 2014
Author(s)
Gheorghe NMN Stan, Santiago Solares, Bede Pittenger, Natalia Erina, Chanmin Su
We report on a quantifiable depth-dependent contact resonance AFM (CR-AFM) measurements over polystyrene-polypropylene (PS-PP) polymer blends to detail surface and sub-surface features in terms of elastic modulus and mechanical dissipation. The depth

Optimally Focused Cold Atom Systems Obtained Using Density-Density Correlations

January 23, 2014
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Andika Putra, Daniel Campbell, Ryan Price, Subhadeep De
Resonant absorption imaging is a common technique for detecting the two-dimensional column density of ultracold atom systems. In many cases, the system’s thickness along the imaging direction greatly exceeds the imaging system’s depth of field, making the

Review of Past Performance and Further Development of Modeling Techniques for Collapse Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings

January 23, 2014
Author(s)
Kenneth Elwood, Jack Baker, Craig Comartin, William Holmes, Jack Moehle, Peter Somers
The first phase of work of the Program Plan, documented in this report, included the identification of critical deficiencies, refinement of the list of common deficiencies, and development of collapse mitigation strategies for older reinforced concrete

Adaptive Composite B-Spline Grid Generation for Interactive 3D Visualizations

January 22, 2014
Author(s)
Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang, Brian Antonishek
We describe an adaptive grid generation technique based on the composition of tensor product B-spline mappings, T and Phi, where Phi maps the unit square onto itself and T maps the unit square onto the desired physical domain. Variational methods are used

NIST 1-kilonewton sine force calibration system

January 22, 2014
Author(s)
Akobuije D. Chijioke, Ricky L. Seifarth, Zeina J. Kubarych
Many force-measurement applications are of a dynamic nature, and in recent decades there has been much progress in demonstrating and developing dynamic calibration systems for force transducers. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U

Ghost Modes and Continuum Scattering in the Dimerized Distorted Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet Rb 2 Cu 3 SnF 12

January 21, 2014
Author(s)
K. Matan, Y. Nambu, Yang Zhao, T.J. Sato, Y. Fukumoto, T. Ono, H. Tanaka, Collin L. Broholm, A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers
Magnetic excitations of the pinwheel valence bond solid state in the distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet Rb 2Cu 3SnF 12 were studied using high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering. A weakly dispersive mode around 5 meV and duplicate triplet
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