John Wheeler devised a gedanken experiment in which a piece of apparatus can be altered just before the arrival of particle, and this “delayed choice” can, seemingly, alter the quantum state of the particle at a much earlier time, long before the choice is made. A slightly different gedanken experiment, which exhibits the same conceptual difficulty, is analyzed using the techniques of consisten...

We propose simple randomized strategies for sequential prediction under imperfect monitoring, that is, when the forecaster does not have access to the past outcomes but rather to a feedback signal. The proposed strategies are consistent in the sense that they achieve, asymptotically, the best possible average reward. It was Rustichini [11] who first proved the existence of such consistent predi...

An MCHF atomic-structure package is presented based on dynamic memory allocation, sparse matrix methods, and a recently developed angular library. It is meant for large-scale calculations in a basis of orthogonal orbitals for groups of LS terms of arbitrary parity. For Breit-Pauli calculations, all operators – spin-orbit, spin-other orbit, spin-spin, and orbit-orbit – may be included. For trans...

III. Homonuclear Diatomics: Second-Row Elements 14 A. The diatomic boron molecule 16 1. Σg state 16 2. Σg state 19 B. The diatomic oxygen and carbon molecules in their lowest states 20 1. O2 20 2. Reflection symmetry 21 3. Electron repulsion 23 4. MCSCF calculations for O2 24 5. The C2 molecule 25 C. Spectroscopic notation for diatomic molecules 28 D. States of other homonuclear diatomic molecu...

The synthesis of write-ahead logging has developed redundancy, and current trends suggest that the investigation of the Ethernet will soon emerge. Given the current status of clientserver models, cyberneticists predictably desire the construction of systems, which embodies the confirmed principles of theory [114, 114, 188, 62, 70, 62, 179, 68, 95, 68, 54, 152, 191, 114, 59, 168, 148, 54, 99, 58...

An introduction is given to an algebraic formulation and generalisation of the consistent histories approach to quantum theory. The main technical tool in this theory is an orthoalgebra of history propositions that serves as a generalised temporal analogue of the lattice of propositions of standard quantum logic. Particular emphasis is placed on those cases in which the history propositions can...

We elaborate on the distinction between geometric and dynamical phase in quantum theory and we show that the former is intrinsically linked to the quantum mechanical probabilistic structure. In particular, we examine the appearance of the Berry phase in the consistent histories scheme and establish that it is the basic building block of the decoherence functional. These results are consequences...

In this paper, a displacement-based, variationally consistent, two variable refined theory for shear deformable beams is presented. The beam is assumed to be of linearly elastic, homogeneous, isotropic material and has a uniform rectangular cross-section. In this theory, the beam axial displacement and beam transverse displacement consist of bending components and shearing components. The assum...

In designing structured P2P networks, scalability, resilience, and load balancing are features that are needed to be handled meticulously. The P2P overlay has to handle large scale of nodes while maintaining minimized path lengths in performing lookups. It has also to be resilient to nodes’ failure and be able to distribute the load uniformly over its participant. In this paper, we introduce SH...