We propose a method to identify the order of a quantum phase transition by using area measures of the ground state in phase space. We illustrate our proposal by analyzing the well known example of the quantum cusp and four different paradigmatic boson models: Dicke, Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick, interacting boson model, and vibron model.

Western medicine’s paradigmatic search for ‘magic bullet’ interventions is facing increasing difficulty: Between 1950 and 2010 the inflation-adjusted research cost per USFDAapproved drug has increased exponentially in time, an draconian inverse of the famous Moore’s Law of computing. A sequence of empirically-oriented statistical models suggests that carefully designed synergistic multifactoria...

By following a methodological approach, introduced in a previous work, a correct system specification in terms of CSP+T process algebra is systematically obtained from the UML-RT model of a real-time software system. Among other contributions, this article aims at integrating collaboration diagrams into our approach to facilitate the specification of capsules in UML-RT design models. Thus, an i...

The nu-calculus of Pitts and Stark was introduced as a paradigmatic functional language with a very basic local-state effect: references of unit type. These were called names, and the motto of the new language went as follows. “Names are created with local scope, can be tested for equality, and are passed around via function application, but that is all.” Because of this limited framework, the ...

Four Paradigmatic views that explain shortcomings of knowledge management systems (KMS) in literature are identified: Organizazional barriers, codification vs. personalization, importance of a clear working definition of knowledge and impossibility to manage knowledge or certain forms of it. Their validity is analyzed by comparing them to a case study in which shortcomings of two KMS in an inte...