Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:08:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 debarba_t_me_ift.pdf: 382014 bytes, checksum: 4afa66c6a4a88da9339ed53d43aa49c9 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Quando temos sistemas quânticos sem análogo clássico a descrição de Weyl- Wigner, para o espaço de fase quântico, não pode ser utilizada, pois a mesma não representa graus de liberdade associados a grandezas discretas. Um exemplo desses sistemas são os estados emaranhados bipartites de spin 1/2. Para tal, se faz necessária a descrição de um espaço de fase quântico discreto e de dimensão finita. Nessa descrição é possível se obter a caracterização do emaranhamento, bem como quantificar o grau dessas correlações entre os sub sistemas; além do que, há a possibilidade de calcular a evolução temporal nessa descrição, tanto para o sistema como um todo quanto para o emaranhamento / For quantum systems without classical analog the Weyl-Wigner description associated to quantum phase space can not be used, since it does not represent degrees of freedom associated with discrete quantities. An example of these systems are spin 1/2 bipartite entangled states. For them, it is needed a discrete quantum phase space description which have nite dimension. In this description, it is possible to obtain entanglement characterization, and to quantify the correlation degree between the subsystems; there is also the possibility of calculating the time evolution, in this description, both for the system as a whole as well as for the entanglement

Desde que surgiu, o computador vem sendo utilizado na modelagem de fenômenos em todas as áreas do conhecimento. Em neurociências, a modelagem computacional é utilizada para descrever, reproduzir e fazer previsões sobre o comportamento dos diferentes componentes do sistema nervoso. Assim como em outras áreas das ciências, este procedimento tem-se mostrado eficiente no estudo e aprimoramento das teorias a respeito da função cerebral. Com o crescente aumento do poder computacional, maiores e mais detalhados modelos podem ser construídos com um grau de realismo biológico cada vez maior. Neste trabalho, apresentamos modelos computacionais biologicamente plausíveis de neurônios corticais do sistema somestésico primário. Os modelos foram construídos com base no formalismo de Hodgkin-Huxley para a implementação de canais iônicos e na técnica de compartimentalização de Rall para modelar sua extensão espacial. Os parâmetros foram ajustados a partir de resultados experimentais 'in vivo' e 'in vitro' com neurônios, retirados da literatura. Os resultados das simulações mostraram que os modelos são biologicamente aceitáveis e de qualidade superior a de outros modelos construídos anteriormente, possibilitando a construção de modelos de redes neuronais em larga escala mais precisos. / Since its appearance, the computer has been used to model phenomena in all areas of knowledge. In neuroscience, computer modeling is used to describe, reproduce and predict behaviors of different components of the nervous system. As well as in other areas of sciences, this procedure has been shown to be efficient in the study and improvement of theories on brain function. With the increasing power of computers, larger and more detailed models can be constructed with an increasing degree of biological realism. In this work, we present biologically plausible computer models of cortical neurons from the primary somatosensory system. The models have been implemented based on the Hodgkin-Huxley formalism for ionic channels and the Rall´s compartmental technique for spatial extent. The parametrs have been adjusted based on in vivo and in vitro experimental results taken from the literature. Simulation results have shown that the models are biologically acceptable and of superior quality in comparison with previous models, allowing the construction of more precise large-scale neuronal network models.

This thesis concerns the numerical simulation of creeping rays and their contribution to high frequency scattering problems. Creeping rays are a type of diffracted rays which are generated at the shadow line of the scatterer and propagate along geodesic paths on the scatterer surface. On a perfectly conducting convex body, they attenuate along their propagation path by tangentially shedding diffracted rays and losing energy. On a concave scatterer, they propagate on the surface and importantly, in the absence of dissipation, experience no attenuation. The study of creeping rays is important in many high frequency problems, such as design of sophisticated and conformal antennas, antenna coupling problems, radar cross section (RCS) computations and control of scattering properties of metallic structures coated with dielectric materials. First, assuming the scatterer surface can be represented by a single parameterization, we propose a new Eulerian formulation for the ray propagation problem by deriving a set of escape partial differential equations in a three-dimensional phase space. The equations are solved on a fixed computational grid using a version of fast marching algorithm. The solution to the equations contain information about all possible creeping rays. This information includes the phase and amplitude of the ray field, which are extracted by a fast post-processing. The advantage of this formulation over the standard Eulerian formulation is that we can compute multivalued solutions corresponding to crossing rays. Moreover, we are able to control the accuracy everywhere on the scatterer surface and suppress the problems with the traditional Lagrangian formulation. To compute all possible creeping rays corresponding to all shadow lines, the algorithm is of computational order O(N3 log N), with N3 being the total number of grid points in the computational phase space domain. This is expensive for computing the wave field for only one shadow line, but if the solutions are sought for many shadow lines (for many illumination angles), the phase space method is more efficient than the standard methods such as ray tracing and methods based on the eikonal equation. Next, we present a modification of the single-patch phase space method to a multiple-patch scheme in order to handle realistic problems containing scatterers with complicated geometries. In such problems, the surface is split into multiple patches where each patch has a well-defined parameterization. The escape equations are solved in each patch, individually. The creeping rays on the scatterer are then computed by connecting all individual solutions through a fast post-processing. We consider an application to mono-static radar cross section problems where creeping rays from all illumination angles must be computed. The numerical results of the fast phase space method are presented. / QC 20101119

Short-term load forecasting (STLF) deals with forecasting of hourly system demand with a lead time ranging from one hour to 168 hours. The basic objective of the STLF is to provide for economic, reliable and secure operation of the power system. This dissertation establishes a new approach to artificial neural network (ANN) based STLF. It first decomposes the prediction problem into representation and function approximation problems. The representation problem is solved using phase-space embedding which identifies time delay variables from load time series that are used in forecasting. The concept is inherently different from the methods used so far because it does not use correlated variables for forecasting. Temperature variables are included as well using identified embedding parameters. Function approximation problem is approached using ANN ensemble and active selection of a training set. Training set is selected based on predicted weather parameters for a prediction horizon. Selection is done applying the k-nearest neighbors technique in a temperature-based vector space. A novel approach of pilot set simulation is used to determine the number of hidden units for every forecast period. Ensemble consists of two ANNs which are trained and cross validated on complementary training sets. Final prediction is obtained by a simple average of two trained ANNs. The described technique is used for predicting one week’s load in four selected months in summer peaking and winter peaking US utilities. Mean absolute percent errors (MAPEs) for 24-hour lead time predictions are slightly greater than 2% for all months. For 120-hour lead time (weekday) predictions, MAPEs are around 2.3%. MAPEs for 48- hour lead time (weekend) predictions are around 2.5%. Maximal errors for these cases are around 7%. Predictions for one-hour lead time are slightly higher than 1% for all months, with maximal errors not exceeding 4.99%. Peak load MAPEs are 2.3% for both utilities. Maximal peak-load errors do not exceed 6%. The technique shows very good performance faced with sudden and large changes in weather. For changes in temperature larger than 20° F for two consecutive days, forecasting error is smaller than 3.58%. / Ph. D.

Quantum systems with finite Hilbert space where position x and momentum p take values in Z(d) (integers modulo d) are considered. Symplectic tranformations S(2ξ,Z(p)) in ξ-partite finite quantum systems are studied and constructed explicitly. Examples of applying such simple method is given for the case of bi-partite and tri-partite systems. The quantum correlations between the sub-systems after applying these transformations are discussed and quantified using various methods. An extended phase-space x-p-X-P where X, P ε Z(d) are position increment and momentum increment, is introduced. In this phase space the extended Wigner and Weyl functions are defined and their marginal properties are studied. The fourth order interference in the extended phase space is studied and verified using the extended Wigner function. It is seen that for both pure and mixed states the fourth order interference can be obtained.

Recently, there has been interest to integrate VMC++ into the commercial treatment planning system at VCU as another Monte Carlo code option, since it has been shown to increase efficiency dramatically without introducing a significant amount of systematic error. Also, independent validation of VMC++ for photon beams is of interest since this has not been performed previously in literature. This study included several tests required to integrate VMC++. Output factor normalization was performed and found to agree with experiment to within 1% for all field sizes except 1x1 cm2. Geometric validation was successful. Dosimetric validation was performed with respect to DOSXYZnrc on a water phantom, resulting in agreement within statistical uncertainty except for slight differences at the surface of the phantom. Dosimetric comparison was made for a head-and-neck patient case, showing that 5% of the voxels did not agree within 2.8% of maximum dose. The ability of VMC++ to compute dose-to-water was compared to an in-house algorithm and found to agree within statistical uncertainty.

A voz humana apresenta flutuações na frequência, amplitude e formato de onda. Esse comportamento característico pode ser estudado usando técnicas de análise não linear, além das técnicas convencionais. O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar sinais de vozes normais e patológicas (com nódulos e edemas) usando seção de Poincaré de vários trechos do espaço de fase reconstruído e calcular a dispersão em relação ao ponto médio da seção e em relação à distribuição dos pontos sobre os eixos coordenados. Essa dispersão será calculada utilizando o conceito estatístico de desvio padrão. Foram analisados 48 sinais de voz humanas, divididos em 3 grupos (16 normais, 16 com nódulo e 16 com edema de Reinke). Foram selecionados trechos de 500m do sinal temporal nas regiões de maior estacionariedade, descartando os trechos iniciais e finais do sinal para evitar possíveis transitórios. A partir do espaço de fase bidimensional, a seção de Poincaré foi traçada em 10 trechos distintos da trajetória. Em seguida, foi gerado o espaço de fase em 3 dimensões contendo os pontos da seção. Foi feita uma rotação tridimensional dos pontos utilizando a reta tangente à trajetória de modo que a seção ficasse paralela ao plano x = O. Da seção resultante foram extraídas as componentes principais e em seguida calculado o desvio padrão da dispersão e o desvio padrão dos pontos projetados no plano em relação aos eixos coordenados (y;z). A validação da ferramenta desenvolvida para esse estudo foi realizada utilizando um sinal senoidal inserindo gradativamente Jitter e Shimmer, onde se verificou uma variação proporcional da média da dispersão. Os resultados obtidos para esse conjunto de vozes mostraram que o desvio padrão da dispersão e o desvio padrão em relação aos eixos coordenados dos pontos de vozes normais é menor do que os encontrados para vozes com edema e com nódulo. Concluiu-se que a ferramenta proposta conseguiu diferenciar vozes normais das vozes patológicas. Portanto, a ferramenta é promissora para análise e avaliação desse grupo vozes. / The human voice, normal or pathological, has fluctuations in the frequency, amplitude and waveform. This characteristic behavior can be studied using techniques of nonlinear analysis, in addition to conventional techniques. The aim of this study is to analyze signals of normal and pathological voices (with nodules and edema) using the Poincaré section of several parts of the reconstructed phase space and calculate the dispersion in relation to the midpoint of the section and in relation to the distribution of points on coordinate axes. This dispersion is calculated using the statistical concept of standard deviation. We analyzed 48 human voice signals divided into 3 groups (16 normal, 16 with nodules and 16 with Reinke\'s edema). It was selected 500m signal frames presenting good stationarity, discarding the initial and final portions of the signal to avoid possible transient. From the two-dimensional phase space, the Poincaré section was drawn on 10 different stretches of the path. It was then generated the three-dimensional phase space containing the points of the section. We conducted a three dimensional rotation of the points using the tangent to the trajectory so that the section stayed parallel to the plane. From the resulting section, principal components were extracted and then calculated the standard deviation of the dispersion and the standard deviation of the coordinate axes of the projected points of the section in the plan. The validation tool developed for this study was performed using a sinusoidal signal gradually inserting jitter and shimmer, where there was a proportional variation of the dispersion media. The results for this set of voices showed that the standard deviation of the dispersion and the standard deviation related to the coordinate axes of the points of normal voices is smaller than those found for voices with edema and nodule. It was concluded that the proposal was promising tool for analyzing and evaluating this group voices.

A voz humana apresenta flutuações na frequência, amplitude e formato de onda. Esse comportamento característico pode ser estudado usando técnicas de análise não linear, além das técnicas convencionais. O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar sinais de vozes normais e patológicas (com nódulos e edemas) usando seção de Poincaré de vários trechos do espaço de fase reconstruído e calcular a dispersão em relação ao ponto médio da seção e em relação à distribuição dos pontos sobre os eixos coordenados. Essa dispersão será calculada utilizando o conceito estatístico de desvio padrão. Foram analisados 48 sinais de voz humanas, divididos em 3 grupos (16 normais, 16 com nódulo e 16 com edema de Reinke). Foram selecionados trechos de 500m do sinal temporal nas regiões de maior estacionariedade, descartando os trechos iniciais e finais do sinal para evitar possíveis transitórios. A partir do espaço de fase bidimensional, a seção de Poincaré foi traçada em 10 trechos distintos da trajetória. Em seguida, foi gerado o espaço de fase em 3 dimensões contendo os pontos da seção. Foi feita uma rotação tridimensional dos pontos utilizando a reta tangente à trajetória de modo que a seção ficasse paralela ao plano x = O. Da seção resultante foram extraídas as componentes principais e em seguida calculado o desvio padrão da dispersão e o desvio padrão dos pontos projetados no plano em relação aos eixos coordenados (y;z). A validação da ferramenta desenvolvida para esse estudo foi realizada utilizando um sinal senoidal inserindo gradativamente Jitter e Shimmer, onde se verificou uma variação proporcional da média da dispersão. Os resultados obtidos para esse conjunto de vozes mostraram que o desvio padrão da dispersão e o desvio padrão em relação aos eixos coordenados dos pontos de vozes normais é menor do que os encontrados para vozes com edema e com nódulo. Concluiu-se que a ferramenta proposta conseguiu diferenciar vozes normais das vozes patológicas. Portanto, a ferramenta é promissora para análise e avaliação desse grupo vozes. / The human voice, normal or pathological, has fluctuations in the frequency, amplitude and waveform. This characteristic behavior can be studied using techniques of nonlinear analysis, in addition to conventional techniques. The aim of this study is to analyze signals of normal and pathological voices (with nodules and edema) using the Poincaré section of several parts of the reconstructed phase space and calculate the dispersion in relation to the midpoint of the section and in relation to the distribution of points on coordinate axes. This dispersion is calculated using the statistical concept of standard deviation. We analyzed 48 human voice signals divided into 3 groups (16 normal, 16 with nodules and 16 with Reinke\'s edema). It was selected 500m signal frames presenting good stationarity, discarding the initial and final portions of the signal to avoid possible transient. From the two-dimensional phase space, the Poincaré section was drawn on 10 different stretches of the path. It was then generated the three-dimensional phase space containing the points of the section. We conducted a three dimensional rotation of the points using the tangent to the trajectory so that the section stayed parallel to the plane. From the resulting section, principal components were extracted and then calculated the standard deviation of the dispersion and the standard deviation of the coordinate axes of the projected points of the section in the plan. The validation tool developed for this study was performed using a sinusoidal signal gradually inserting jitter and shimmer, where there was a proportional variation of the dispersion media. The results for this set of voices showed that the standard deviation of the dispersion and the standard deviation related to the coordinate axes of the points of normal voices is smaller than those found for voices with edema and nodule. It was concluded that the proposal was promising tool for analyzing and evaluating this group voices.

Tunneling in 1D describes the effect that quantum particles can penetrate a classically insurmountable potential energy barrier. The extension to classically forbidden transitions in phase space generalizes the tunneling concept. A typical 1D Hamiltonian system has a mixed phase space. It contains regions of regular and chaotic dynamics, the so-called regular islands and the chaotic sea. These different phase space components are classically separated by dynamically generated barriers. Quantum mechanically they are, however, connected by dynamical tunneling. We perform a semiclassical quantization of almost resonance-free regular islands and transporting island chains of quantum maps. This yields so-called quasimodes, which are used for the investigation of direct dynamical tunneling from an almost resonance-free regular island to the chaotic sea. We derive a formula which allows for the determination of dynamical tunneling rates. Good agreement between this analytical prediction and numerical results is found over several orders of magnitude for two example systems. / Der 1D Tunneleffekt bezeichnet das Durchdringen einer klassisch nicht überwindbaren potentiellen Energiebarriere durch Quantenteilchen. Eine Verallgemeinerung des Tunnelbegriffs ist die Erweiterung auf jegliche Art von klassisch verbotenen Übergangsprozessen im Phasenraum. Der Phasenraum eines typischen 1D Hamiltonschen Systems ist gemischt. Er besteht aus Bereichen regulärer und chaotischer Dynamik, den sogenannten regulären Inseln und der chaotischen See. Während diese verschiedenen Phasenraumbereiche klassisch durch dynamisch generierte Barrieren voneinander getrennt sind, existiert quantenmechanisch jedoch eine Verknüpfung durch den dynamischen Tunnelprozess. In dieser Arbeit wird eine semiklassische Quantisierung von praktisch resonanz-freien regulären Inseln und transportierenden Inselketten von Quantenabbildungen durchgeführt. Die daraus folgenden sogenannten Quasimoden werden für die Untersuchung des direkten dynamischen Tunnelns aus einer praktisch resonanz-freien regulären Insel in die chaotische See verwendet, was auf eine Tunnelraten vorhersagende Formel führt. Ihre anschlie?ßende Anwendung auf zwei Modellsysteme zeigt eine gute Übereinstimmung zwischen Numerik und analytischer Vorhersage über viele Größenordnungen.

We investigate systems with a mixed phase space, where regular and chaotic dynamics coexist. Classically, regions with regular motion, the regular islands, are dynamically not connected to regions with chaotic motion, the chaotic sea. Typically, this is also reflected in the quantum properties, where eigenstates either concentrate on the regular or the chaotic regions. However, it was shown that quantum mechanically, due to the tunneling process, a coupling is induced and flooding of regular islands may occur. This happens when the Heisenberg time, the time needed to resolve the discrete spectrum, is larger than the tunneling time from the regular region to the chaotic sea. In this case the regular eigenstates disappear. We study this effect by the time evolution of wave packets initially started in the chaotic sea and find increasing probability in the regular island. Using random matrix models a quantitative prediction is derived. We find excellent agreement with numerical data obtained for quantum maps and billiards systems. For open systems we investigate the phenomenon of flooding and disappearance of regular states, where the escape time occurs as an additional time scale. We discuss the reappearance of regular states in the case of strongly opened systems. This is demonstrated numerically for quantum maps and experimentally for a mushroom shaped microwave resonator. The reappearance of regular states is explained qualitatively by a matrix model. / Untersucht werden Systeme mit gemischtem Phasenraum, in denen sowohl reguläre als auch chaotische Dynamik auftritt. In der klassischen Mechanik sind Gebiete regulärer Bewegung, die sogenannten regulären Inseln, dynamisch nicht mit den Gebieten chaotischer Bewegung, der chaotischen See, verbunden. Dieses Verhalten spiegelt sich typischerweise auch in den quantenmechanischen Eigenschaften wider, so dass Eigenfunktionen entweder auf chaotischen oder regulären Gebieten konzentriert sind. Es wurde jedoch gezeigt, dass aufgrund des Tunneleffektes eine Kopplung auftritt und reguläre Inseln geflutet werden können. Dies geschieht wenn die Heisenbergzeit, das heißt die Zeit die das System benötigt, um das diskrete Spektrum aufzulösen, größer als die Tunnelzeit vom Regulären ins Chaotische ist, wobei reguläre Eigenzustände verschwinden. Dieser Effekt wird über eine Zeitentwicklung von Wellenpaketen, die in der chaotischen See gestartet werden, untersucht. Es kommt zu einer ansteigenden Wahrscheinlichkeit in der regulären Insel. Mithilfe von Zufallsmatrixmodellen wird eine quantitative Vorhersage abgeleitet, welche die numerischen Daten von Quantenabbildungen und Billardsystemen hervorragend beschreibt. Der Effekt des Flutens und das Verschwinden regulärer Zustände wird ebenfalls mit offenen Systemen untersucht. Hier tritt die Fluchtzeit als zusätzliche Zeitskala auf. Das Wiederkehren regulärer Zustände im Falle stark geöffneter Systeme wird qualitativ mithilfe eines Matrixmodells erklärt und numerisch für Quantenabbildungen sowie experimentell für einen pilzförmigen Mikrowellenresonator belegt.