Atmospheric temperature time series for the nine climate regions of the contiguous U.S. are accurately reproduced by the superposition of oscillatory modes, representing the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), on a monotonic mode representing, at least in part, the effect of radiant forcing due to increasing atmospheric CO2. The relative importance...

The method of superposition and separation variables is applied to gain analytical solutions to the transient heat conduction for a two dimensional cylindrical fin. The temperature distributions are generalized for a linear combination of the product of Bessel function, Fourier series and exponential type for nine different cases. The solutions presented in this study can be used to verify the ...

Quantum computing algorithms require that the quantum register be initially present in a superposition state. To achieve this, we consider the practical problem of creating a coherent superposition state of several qubits. Owing to considerations of quantum statistics, this requires that the entropy of the system go down. This, in turn, has two practical implications: (i) the initial state cann...

We model the arm of a star polymer as an anchored random walk in an array of fixed obstacles with the added assumption of an energetic cost associated with the walk retracing its previous step. By including this energetic penalty for such “hairpin” turns on the chain, we are able to account for the thermorheological complexity of long-branched hydrogenated polybutadiene yet not introduce deviat...

In this paper, we describe the hitherto largely overlooked effect of temperature on the pupil of insect compound eyes. In the turnip moth Agrotis segetum and in two other nocturnal insects with superposition eyes, the lacewing Euroleon nostras and the codling moth Cydia pomonella, the pupil not only opens and closes with changes in the ambient light level, as expected, but also with changes in ...

Many instruments used to measure viscoelastic properties are only capable of subjecting a sample to a limited range of loading frequencies. For thermorheologically simple materials, it is assumed that a change in temperature is equivalent to a shift of the viscoelastic behavior on the log frequency or time axis. For many materials, time–temperature superposition appears to work well for modulus...

We have examined the structure formations in symmetric blend films of polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate) during phase separation and coalescence in the melt. We qualitatively verify the principle of time–temperature superposition by observing morphology development in which characteristic structures develop independently of annealing temperature and initial morphology. Domain structures ...