Ground-state cooling and pure state preparation of a small object that is embedded in a thermal environment is an important challenge and a highly desirable quantum technology. This paper proves, with two different methods, that a fundamental constraint on the cooling dynamic implies that it is impossible to cool, via a unitary system-bath quantum evolution, a system that is embedded in a therm...

Temperature dependencies of thermal expansion coefficients for the alloys of Pd-Ag, Pd-Cu and Pd-Co binary systems were measured at temperatures up to 900 degrees C, with heating and cooling rates of 5 degrees C/min. The coefficient of thermal expansion of alloys with no transformation in the temperature range of interest in porcelain firing was well approximated by a linear equation of tempera...

background: a possible mechanism by which hyperthermia enhances tumor immunogenicity is the induction of nkg2d ligands on tumor cells. although the expression of mhc class i chain-related protein a and b (mica/b) has previously been reported in different carcinomas, there is no information about mica/b expression in liposarcomas. objective: to investigate mica/b induction in a human liposarcoma...

The Vereina railway tunnel drilled in Austroalpine nappes encountered little water inflows. The linear discharge rates vary between 0,003 and 0,006 l/s/m (Figure 1). Two different water temperatures series have been observed in both northern and southern parts of the tunnel trace. The northern thermal gradient is equal to 0,018°C/m while the southern thermal gradient is not very different with ...

Primarily opioidergic and adenosine mechanisms are considered to be involved in the antinociceptive effects of antidepressants. This study was designed to determine the efficacy of acute venlafaxine administration in alleviating symptoms of neuropathic pain and the role of endogenous adenosine and opioid systems in this effect of venlafaxine. We have evaluated the effect of caffeine, a non-sele...

We show that a non-thermal electron distribution may change the nature of ion acoustic solitons. If the ions are assumed to respond as a fluid to perturbations in the potential, with no significant trapping in a potential well, then a thermal plasma only supports a solitary waves with a density peak. However, with a suitable distribution of non-thermal particles, solitary waves with both densit...

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 ...

A mathematical treatment is given of the effect of thermal distortion on the thermal contact resistance between two semi-infinite solids of different materials. Good agreement is achieved with experimental observations of thermal rectification due to Clausing. It is shown that problems of this type sometimes have no steady state solution and it is suggested that this is attributable to the disc...

An (m,m,m)-array of order n is an n×n array such that each cell is assigned a set of at most m symbols from {1, . . . , n} such that no symbol occurs more than m times in any row or column. An (m,m,m)-array is called avoidable if there exists a Latin square such that no cell in the Latin square contains a symbol that also belongs to the set assigned to the corresponding cell in the array. We sh...