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Entanglement detection in hybrid optomechanical systems
2011
We study a device formed by a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) coupled to the field of a cavity with a moving end-mirror and find a working point such that the mirror-light entanglement is reproduced by the BEC-light quantum correlations. This provides an experimentally viable tool for inferring mirror-light entanglement with only a limited set of assumptions. We prove the existence of tripartite entanglement in the hybrid device, persisting up to temperatures of a few milli-Kelvin, and discuss a scheme to detect it.
Cold-Atom-Induced Control of an Optomechanical Device
2010
We consider a cavity with a vibrating end mirror and coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate. The cavity field mediates the interplay between mirror and collective oscillations of the atomic density. We study the implications of this dynamics and the possibility of an indirect diagnostic. Our predictions can be observed in a realistic setup that is central to the current quest for mesoscopic quantumness.
ESB: Ext2 Split Block Device
2012
Solid State Disks (SSDs) start to replace rotating media (hard disks, HDD) in many areas, but are still not as cost efficient concerning capacity to completely replace them. One approach to use their superior performance properties is to use them as a cache for magnetic disks to speed up overall storage operations. In this paper, we present and evaluate a file system level optimization based on ext2. We split metadata and data and store the metadata on a SDD while the data remains on a common HDD. We evaluate our system with filebench under a file server, web server, and web proxy scenario and compare the results with flashcache. We find that many of the scenarios do not contain enough meta…
Usability analysis of a novel biometric authentication approach for android-based mobile devices
2014
Mobile devices are widely replacing the standard personal computers thanks to their small size and user-friendly use. As a consequence, the amount of information, often confidential, exchanged through these devices is raising. This makes them potential targets of malicious network hackers. The use of simple passwords or PIN are not sufficient to provide a suitable security level for those applications requiring high protection levels on data and services. In this paper a biometric authentication system, as a running Android application, has been developed and implemented on a real mobile device. A system test on real users has been also carried out in order to evaluate the human-machine int…
DESIGN OPTIMIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF A NEW REAR UNDERRUN PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR TRUCK
2010
In this paper the optimization process of a new High Energy Absorption Rear Underrun Protective Device called HEARUPD is discussed. The main objectives of the HEARUPD design optimization process have been related to the reduction in car decelerations (high crashworthiness) and avoiding the car underrun (high structure stability). In the implemented optimization process, the crash between an economy car (GEO Metro) and the rear part of a truck has been simulated by numerical models. A linear function of the decelerations measured on the car has been used as objective to minimize, the main dimensional values of the rear underrun protective device, instead, have been chosen as design variables…
Repetition times for Gibbsian sources
1999
In this paper we consider the class of stochastic stationary sources induced by one-dimensional Gibbs states, with Holder continuous potentials. We show that the time elapsed before the source repeats its first n symbols, when suitably renormalized, converges in law either to a log-normal distribution or to a finite mixture of exponential random variables. In the first case we also prove a large deviation result.
FPGA-based embedded Logic Controllers
2014
In general case, reconfigurable logic controllers (RLC) are included into reactive digital embedded systems, carrying out control for several processes proceeding concurrently. The paper presents a practical application of a formal, rule-based specification language in Gentzen sequent logic, which is used as an intermediate textual description of a control interpreted Petri net. On the other hand exactly the same description serves also as logic design expressions, related with different versions of functionally equivalent concurrent state machine models, considered on Register Transfer Level. The symbolic rule-based specification of Petri net-based embedded Logic Controllers (LCs) can be s…
Convivere con le emergenze. Design e nuovi scenari domestici
2023
The contribution leads a reflection around the physical-relational processes that have always characterized the domestic interior and that the recent state of health emergency Covid-19 (and the even more recent Russian-Ukrainian war conflict) has catalysed and accentuated, if not exasperated, offering new complex and sometimes contradictory visions. The contribution points to focus on new meanings and new projections, in terms of interactions and relationships, assumed by the consolidated physical-cultural criteria of proximity/remoteness, familiarity/foreignness, inside/outside. Within these profound transformations, an opportunity and a new role are looming for the disciplines of design. …
A micellar multitasking device: sensing pH windows and gauging the lipophilicity of drugs with fluorescent signals.
2010
A multitasking fluorescent device can be obtained by forming micelles of Triton X-100, containing a lipophilic macrocyclic Cu(2+) complex and the coordinating fluorophore Coumarin 343 (C343), which features a COOH moiety. At low pH the two micellised components do not interact, and the fluorescence of Courmarin 343 (C343) is intense. At intermediate pH, C343 is deprotonated and coordinates to the Cu(2+) centre in its apical position, with fluorescence quenching. At higher pH the deprotonated C343 is displaced from Cu(2+) by the formation of an OH(-) complex, and the fluorescence is revived. This allows the system to carry out its first task as it behaves as an "on-off-on" fluorescent sensor…
Improvement of Hall Effect Current Transducer Metrological Performances in the Presence of Harmonic Distortion
2010
The performance of Hall effect current transducers (HECTs), under distorted waveform conditions, is usually characterized by means of a frequency response test. In this paper, it was investigated if frequency response is able to correctly evaluate the ratio and the phase errors under distorted conditions. Two HECTs, with the accuracy class level of 1% and 0.5%, respectively, were experimentally characterized under two conditions: 1) sinusoidal excitation with frequencies ranging from 50 to 750 Hz, which is the well-known frequency response test, and 2) nonsinusoidal excitation using fundamental frequency and one harmonic with adjusted amplitude and phase shift. It was found that ratio and p…