We consider an interferometer based on artificially induced topological superconductivity and chiral 1D Majorana fermions. The (non-topological) superconducting island inducing the correlations in substrate is assumed to be floating. This allows probing physics of interfering modes via microwave response, i.e., frequency dependent impedance between earth. Namely, charging discharging controlled...

The double minimum potential (DMP), which Hund assumed to explain the quantum-mechanical stability of enantiomers, was discussed, by citing three typical examples of DMP: inversion, internal rotation, and puckering. They expanded the classical scope of chirality, as defined by Kelvin, and indicated that a new bridge could be formed between the three low-frequency DMP modes and the asymmetric sy...

We study field theories in the limit that a compactified dimension becomes lightlike. In almost all cases the amplitudes at each order of perturbation theory diverge in the limit, due to strong interactions among the longitudinal zero modes. The lightlike limit generally exists nonperturbatively, but is more complicated than might have been assumed. Some implications for the matrix theory conje...

Orientational autocorrelations and cross-correlations are considered for vectors rigidly affixed to bonds subject to configurational transitions in a long polymer chain. Transitions of bonds from one rotational isomeric state to the other are assumed to be dependent on the state of the neighboring bonds. Bond transition rates are obtained from Kramers' expression in the high-friction limit. The...

Many measures have been employed to quantify an aspect of healthy, skilled movement, which has been termed “movement smoothness” of which jerk is the most common. We propose a new, biologicallymotivated quantification of “movement smoothness”: submovement overlap. In previous work, changes in submovements have been linked to changes in movement smoothness. Further investigation revealed that in...

We present here a study of XMM-Newton data of two distant galaxy cluster candidates. One of these was discovered serendipitously in near infrared data, CL J0533-2411, the other one corresponds to the cluster EIS J0533-2412 part of the EIS cluster survey. The estimated redshift of CL J0533-2411 is z = 1.2 − 1.7. EIS J0533-2412 is a rich system (Λcl = 299), with a spectroscopically confirmed reds...

failure mode and effects analysis (fmea) is a method based on teamwork to identify potential failures and problems in a system, design, process and service in order to remove them. the important part of this method is determining the risk priorities of failure modes using the risk priority number (rpn). however, this traditional rpn method has several shortcomings. therefore, in this paper we p...