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Roma Tre University
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About: Roma Tre University is a education organization based out in Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Galaxy. The organization has 4434 authors who have published 15352 publications receiving 374888 citations. The organization is also known as: Universita degli Studi Roma Tre & RomaTre.
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TL;DR: In this article, a finite element approach is used to study flow around slabs, which are prescribed based on a transient stage of upper mantle subduction from a laboratory model, focusing on the toroidal vs. poloidal components as a function of boundary conditions, plate width, and viscosity contrast between slab and mantle.
Abstract: [1] We conduct three-dimensional subduction experiments by a finite element approach to study flow around slabs, which are prescribed based on a transient stage of upper mantle subduction from a laboratory model. Instantaneous velocity field solutions are examined, focusing on the toroidal vs. poloidal components as a function of boundary conditions, plate width, and viscosity contrast between slab and mantle. We show how the slab-to-mantle viscosity ratio determines the strength of toroidal flow, and find that the toroidal flow component peaks for slab/mantle viscosity ratios ∼100, independent of slab width or geometry.
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TL;DR: This paper constructs a highly efficient and provably secure PDP technique based entirely on symmetric key cryptography, while not requiring any bulk encryption, and allows outsourcing of dynamic data, i.e, it efficiently supports operations, such as block modification, deletion and append.
Abstract: Storage outsourcing is a rising trend which prompts a number of interesting security issues, many of which have been extensively investigated in the past. However, Provable Data Possession (PDP) is a topic that has only recently appeared in the research literature. The main issue is how to frequently, efficiently and securely verify that a storage server is faithfully storing its client’s (potentially very large) outsourced data. The storage server is assumed to be untrusted in terms of both security and reliability. (In other words, it might maliciously or accidentally erase hosted data; it might also relegate it to slow or off-line storage.) The problem is exacerbated by the client being a small computing device with limited resources. Prior work has addressed this problem using either public key cryptography or requiring the client to outsource its data in encrypted form. In this paper, we construct a highly efficient and provably secure PDP technique based entirely on symmetric key cryptography, while not requiring any bulk encryption. Also, in contrast with its predecessors, our PDP technique allows outsourcing of dynamic data, i.e, it efficiently supports operations, such as block modification, deletion and append.
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TL;DR: It is derived necessary and sufficient conditions for projective measurements acting on pure states to saturate the ultimate theoretical bound on precision given by the quantum Fisher information matrix.
Abstract: A quantum theory of multiphase estimation is crucial for quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging and may link quantum metrology to more complex quantum computation and communication protocols. In this Letter, we tackle one of the key difficulties of multiphase estimation: obtaining a measurement which saturates the fundamental sensitivity bounds. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for projective measurements acting on pure states to saturate the ultimate theoretical bound on precision given by the quantum Fisher information matrix. We apply our theory to the specific example of interferometric phase estimation using photon number measurements, a convenient choice in the laboratory. Our results thus introduce concepts and methods relevant to the future theoretical and experimental development of multiparameter estimation.
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INAF1, Spanish National Research Council2, National Institute for Space Research3, University of Leicester4, Polish Academy of Sciences5, University of Helsinki6, Roma Tre University7, Stockholm University8, Royal Institute of Technology9, University of Oulu10, University of Valencia11, University of Tübingen12, Max Planck Society13, Marshall Space Flight Center14, Alenia Aeronautica15, University of Pisa16, University of Cagliari17, University of Palermo18, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic19, University of Birmingham20, University of Cambridge21, Tsinghua University22, University of Iowa23, Cornell University24, Centre national de la recherche scientifique25, University of Wrocław26, Russian Academy of Sciences27, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology28, Harvard University29, Georgia Institute of Technology30, University College London31
TL;DR: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) as mentioned in this paper was proposed in 2012 to the first ESA call for a small mission with a launch in 2017, but the proposal was, unfortunately, not selected.
Abstract: X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging, allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to be studied. X-ray polarimetry investigates the acceleration process, for example, including those typical of magnetic reconnection in solar flares, but also emission in the strong magnetic fields of neutron stars and white dwarfs. It detects scattering in asymmetric structures such as accretion disks and columns, and in the so-called molecular torus and ionization cones. In addition, it allows fundamental physics in regimes of gravity and of magnetic field intensity not accessible to experiments on the Earth to be probed. Finally, models that describe fundamental interactions (e.g. quantum gravity and the extension of the Standard Model) can be tested. We describe in this paper the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE), proposed in June 2012 to the first ESA call for a small mission with a launch in 2017. The proposal was, unfortunately, not selected. To be compliant with this schedule, we designed the payload mostly with existing items. The XIPE proposal takes advantage of the completed phase A of POLARIX for an ASI small mission program that was cancelled, but is different in many aspects: the detectors, the presence of a solar flare polarimeter and photometer and the use of a light platform derived by a mass production for a cluster of satellites. XIPE is composed of two out of the three existing JET-X telescopes with two Gas Pixel Detectors (GPD) filled with a He-DME mixture at their focus. Two additional GPDs filled with a 3-bar Ar-DME mixture always face the Sun to detect polarization from solar flares. The Minimum Detectable Polarization of a 1 mCrab source reaches 14 % in the 2–10 keV band in 105 s for pointed observations, and 0.6 % for an X10 class solar flare in the 15–35 keV energy band. The imaging capability is 24 arcsec Half Energy Width (HEW) in a Field of View of 14.7 arcmin × 14.7 arcmin. The spectral resolution is 20 % at 6 keV and the time resolution is 8 μs. The imaging capabilities of the JET-X optics and of the GPD have been demonstrated by a recent calibration campaign at PANTER X-ray test facility of the Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Germany). XIPE takes advantage of a low-earth equatorial orbit with Malindi as down-link station and of a Mission Operation Center (MOC) at INPE (Brazil). The data policy is organized with a Core Program that comprises three months of Science Verification Phase and 25 % of net observing time in the following 2 years. A competitive Guest Observer program covers the remaining 75 % of the net observing time.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the possible detection of redshifted iron line emission in the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray burst GRB 970508 observed by BeppoSAX.
Abstract: We report the possible detection (99.3% of statistical significance) of redshifted iron line emission in the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray burst GRB 970508 observed by BeppoSAX. Its energy is consistent with the redshift of the putative host galaxy determined from optical spectroscopy. The line disappeared ~1 day after the burst. We have also analyzed the spectral variability during the outburst event that characterizes the X-ray afterglow of this gamma-ray burst. The spectrum gets harder during the flare, then becoming steep when the flux decreases. The variability, intensity, and width of the line indicate that the emitting region should have a mass 0.5 M☉ (assuming that the iron abundance is similar to its solar value), should have a size of ~3×1015 cm, is distributed anisotropically, and is moving with subrelativistic speed. In contrast to the fairly clean environment expected in the merging of two neutron stars, the observed line properties would imply that the site of the burst is embedded in a large mass of material, consistent with preexplosion ejecta of a very massive star. This material could be related with the outburst observed in the afterglow 1 day after the GRB and with the spectral variations measured during this phase.
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Andrew White | 149 | 1494 | 113874 |
Sw. Banerjee | 146 | 1906 | 124364 |
Fuqiang Wang | 145 | 1518 | 95014 |
Stefano Giagu | 139 | 1651 | 101569 |
Silvia Masi | 139 | 669 | 97618 |
Filippo Ceradini | 131 | 1016 | 82732 |
Mattias Ellert | 131 | 1022 | 82637 |
Francesco Lacava | 130 | 1042 | 79680 |
Giovanni Organtini | 129 | 1438 | 85866 |
Georg Zobernig | 129 | 1125 | 83321 |
Monica Verducci | 129 | 896 | 76002 |
Marzio Nessi | 129 | 1046 | 78641 |
Cristian Stanescu | 128 | 922 | 76446 |
Domizia Orestano | 128 | 982 | 78297 |
Lashkar Kashif | 128 | 782 | 74072 |