We show that the response rate of ~i! a static source interacting with Hawking radiation of a massless scalar field in Schwarzschild spacetime ~with the Unruh vacuum! and that of ~ii! a uniformly accelerated source with the same proper acceleration in Minkowski spacetime ~with the Minkowski vacuum! are equal. We show that this equality will not hold if the Unruh vacuum is replaced by the Hartle...

.The exhaustive changes of the hardware context in configurable computing machines increase the risk of configuration errors and signal contentions-two situations that produce erroneous processing, reduce system life, or even cause permanent system damnge. Excessive chip heat can also be caused by the peculiarities of a machine configuration: Fine-grain pipeiined data paths, heavily loaded buse...

Periodically, commercially available (commercial off the shelf, COTS) optical fiber cable assemblies are characterized for space flight usage under the NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging Program (NEPP). The purpose of this is to provide a family of optical fiber cable options to a variety of different harsh environments typical to space flight missions. The optical fiber cables under test are ...

In Thermal Field Dynamics, thermal states are obtained from restrictions of vacuum states on a doubled field algebra. It is shown that the suitably doubled Fock representations of the Heisenberg algebra do not need to be introduced by hand but can be canonically handed down from deformations of the extended Heisenberg bialgebra. No artificial redefinitions of fields are necessary to obtain the ...

Upgrade of a commercial ultra-high vacuum four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy system for atomic resolution capability and thermal stability is reported. To improve the mechanical and thermal performance of the system, we introduced extra vibration isolation, magnetic damping, and double thermal shielding, and we redesigned the scanning structure and thermal links. The success of the upgrad...

We compare the evolution of entanglement for a system of two two-level atoms interacting with (i) a common reservoir being in the vacuum state and (ii) a common thermal reservoir at non-zero temperature. The Markovian master equation is used to describe the evolution of entanglement which is quantified by concurrence. Phenomena of sudden death, revival, and sudden birth of entanglement are disc...

BACKGROUND High-quality vacuum cleaners and vacuum cleaner bags are often recommended to allergic patients as a means of reducing indoor allergen exposure. A number of vacuum cleaners on the market today claim to capture 99.9% of particles 0.3 microm or larger entering the vacuum cleaner, and many vacuum cleaner bags are now being sold as microfiltration bags. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this st...

It is shown how the results of Deser and Levin on the response of accelerated detectors in anti-de Sitter space can be understood from the same general perspective as other thermality results in spacetimes with bifurcate Killing horizons. A detector with linear acceleration a in the Minkowski vacuum sees a thermal bath at the temperature T U = a/2π [1], while an inertial detector in de Sitter (...

We make the observation that a brane universe accelerates through its bulk spacetime, and so may be interpreted as an Unruh observer. The bulk vacuum is perceived to be a thermal bath that heats matter fields on the brane. It is shown that, aside from being relevant in the early universe, an asymptotic temperature exists for the brane universe corresponding to late time thermal equilibrium with...