INTRODUCTION: Recently a novel 3D fast-spin-echo sequence (3D-FSE-Cube) has been developed for structural imaging of the head, abdomen and extremities [1,2]. The application of parallel imaging, phased-array coils and partial Fourier acquisition alters the spatial and statistical distributions of image noise, respectively [3]. This study measured noise via noise-only acquisitions (acquired with...

We study the barrier crossing of a particle driven by white symmetric Lévy noise of index alpha and intensity D for three different generic types of potentials: (a) a bistable potential, (b) a metastable potential, and (c) a truncated harmonic potential. For the low noise intensity regime we recover the previously proposed algebraic dependence on D of the characteristic escape time, T_{esc} app...

T. Szczepański, V. K. Dugaev, 2 J. Barnaś∗,3 J. P. Cascales, and F. G. Aliev Department of Physics, Rzeszów University of Technology, al. Powstańców Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland Department of Physics and CFIF, Instituto Superior Técnico, TU Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Pol...

This work is aimed to evaluate the role of nanoclay in the protective performance of an eco-friendly silane sol-gel layer applied on mild steel substrate in 0.1M sodium chloride solution. At the first step, the effect of pH of the silane solution, consisting of a mixture of γ-glycidoxypropiltrimethoxysilane and methyltriethoxysilane and tetraethoxysilane, on the coating performance was evaluate...

In this work we show a barrier towards proving a randomness-efficient parallel repetition, a promising avenue for achieving many tight inapproximability results. Feige and Kilian (STOC'95) proved an impossibility result for randomnessefficient parallel repetition for two prover games with small degree, i.e., when each prover has only few possibilities for the question of the other prover. In re...

The quantum Langevin equation is used as the basis for a discussion of dissipative quantum tunneling. A general analysis, including strong coupling and non-markovian (memory) effects, is given for the case oftunneling through a parabolic barrier at zero temperature in the presenceof linear passive dissipation. It is shown that dissipation always decreases the tunneling rate below the barrier an...

A major obstacle to using superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) as qubits is flux noise. We propose that the heretofore mysterious spins producing flux noise could be O_{2} molecules adsorbed on the surface. Using density functional theory calculations, we find that an O_{2} molecule adsorbed on an α-alumina surface has a magnetic moment of ~1.8 μ_{B}. The spin is oriented perpe...

A model of barrier crossing dynamics governed by fractional Gaussian noise and the generalized Langevin equation is used to study the reaction kinetics of single enzymes subject to conformational fluctuations. The direct application of Kramers's flux-over-population method to this model yields analytic expressions for the time-dependent transmission coefficient and the distribution of waiting t...