Many arguments have been advanced for the view that “Why be moral?” is a pseudo-question. In this paper I address one of the most widely known and influential of them, one that comes from John Hospers and J. C. Thornton. I do so partly because, strangely, an important phase of that argument has escaped close attention. It warrants such attention because, firstly, not only is it important to the...

The effect of device noise on oscillator phase noise in a close vicinity of average oscillator frequency is analyzed. We show that for 1/f noise, the line shape of a free-running oscillator changes from power to approximately Gaussian function very close to the oscillator frequency. The Gaussian regime occurs when the relationship between device noise and oscillator spectrum is strongly nonline...

By factorization of the Hamiltonian describing the quantum mechanics of the continuous q-Hermite polynomial, the creation and annihilation operators of the qoscillator are obtained. They satisfy a q-oscillator algebra as a consequence of the shape-invariance of the Hamiltonian. A second set of q-oscillator is derived from the exact Heisenberg operator solution. Now the q-oscillator stands on th...

Oxide material can make transparent devices with transparent electrodes. We developed a transparent oscillator and rectifier circuits with oxide TFTs. The source/drain and gate electrodes were made by indium thin oxide (ITO), and active layer made by transparent material of IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) on a glass substrate. The RC oscillator was composed of bootstrapped inverters, and 813 k...

The paper analyzes the interaction of an atomic system with a quantum damped harmonic oscillator. Such an oscillator is the building block in the recently proposed models of bulk dielectrics and may also serve as a simple model of a small dielectric body. Dispersion and losses are taken into account by assuming the oscillator to be coupled to a zero-temperature reservoir consisting of an infini...

we present here the numerical solution of damped forced oscillator problem using haar wavelet and compare the numerical results obtained with some well-known numerical methods such as runge-kutta fourth order classical and taylor series methods. numerical results show that the present haar wavelet method gives more accurate approximations than above said numerical methods.

It is known that continuous variable quantum information cannot be protected against naturally occurring noise using Gaussian states and operations only. Noh, Girvin, Jiang proposed bosonic oscillator-to-oscillator codes relying on non-Gaussian resource as an alternative, showed these encodings can lead to a reduction of the effective error strength at logical level measured by variance classic...