Superconducting Fountain Effect

Fountain rainbows.

We present the first measurements of radiance spectra of rainbows. The bows on two sunny days (3 and 6 June 2008) were produced by the fountain in the Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, that consists of a rectangular perimeter of 40 spray nozzles. Optical thickness of the spray from each nozzle was approximately 0.5. Spectral purity of the primary bow was highest for orange and blue, reach...

Fountain Codes

Fountain codes are record-breaking sparse-graph codes for channels with erasures – such as the internet, where files are transmitted in multiple small packets, each of which is either received without error or not received. Standard file-transfer protocols simply chop a file up into K packet-sized pieces, then repeatedly transmit each packet until it is successfully received. A back-channel is ...

Piṅgala’s Fountain

Piṅgala is a mathematician (c. 300 BCE) who authored Chandah. śāstra (the science of Sanskrit metres). This is a brief note on a mathematical art project completed at the Chennai Mathematical Institute to honour Piṅgala who was responsible for the discovery of binary expansion of numbers in the context of enumeration of metres, and of the binomial coefficients which were later made explicit by ...

Meissner effect in superconducting microtraps.

We report on the realization and characterization of a magnetic microtrap for ultracold atoms near a straight superconducting Nb wire with circular cross section. The trapped atoms are used to probe the magnetic field outside the superconducting wire. The Meissner effect shortens the distance between the trap and the wire, reduces the radial magnetic-field gradients, and lowers the trap depth. ...

Analysis of Fountain Effect for Tiltrotor Configuration Using