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M. Ozawa

Publications and source records attributed to M. Ozawa.

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arXiv2020

Predicting plasticity in disordered solids from structural indicators

Amorphous solids lack long-range order. Therefore identifying structural defects -- akin to dislocations in crystalline solids -- that carry plastic flow in these systems remains a daunting challenge. By comparing many different structural indicators in computational models of glasses, under a variety of conditions we carefully assess which of these indicators are able to robustly identify the structural defects responsible for plastic flow in amorphous solids. We further demonstrate that the density of defects changes as a function of material preparation and strain in a manner that is highly correlated with the macroscopic material response. Our work represents an important step towards predicting how and when an amorphous solid will fail from its microscopic structure.

cond-mat.soft↗

arXiv2009

Doppler-Broadened Iron X-ray Lines from Tycho's Supernova Remnant

We use \suzaku observations to measure the spatial variation of the Fe K$α$ line with radius in the \tycho supernova remnant. The Fe line widths show a significant decrease from a FWHM value of 210 eV at the center to 130 eV at the rim. Over the same radial range the line center energy remains nearly constant. These observations are consistent with a scenario in which the shell of Fe-emitting ejecta in \tycho is expanding at speeds of 2800--3350 km s$^{-1}$. The minimum line width we measure is still a factor of two larger than expected from a single component plasma emission model. If thermal Doppler broadening is the dominant additional source of broadening, we infer an ion temperature of $(1--3) \times 10^{10}$ K.

astro-ph.HE↗

arXiv2006

N-body-extended Channel Estimation for Low-Noise Parameters

The notion of low-noise channels was recently proposed and analyzed in detail in order to describe noise-processes driven by environment [M. Hotta, T. Karasawa and M. Ozawa, Phys. Rev. A72, 052334 (2005)]. An estimation theory of low-noise parameters of channels has also been developed. In this report, we address the low-noise parameter estimation problem for the $N$-body extension of low-noise channels. We perturbatively calculate the Fisher information of the output states in order to evaluate the lower-bound of the mean-square error of the parameter estimation. We show that the maximum of the Fisher information over all input states can be attained by a factorized input state in the leading order of the low-noise parameter. Thus, to achieve optimal estimation, it is not necessary for there to be entanglement of the $N$ subsystems, as long as the true low-noise parameter is sufficiently small.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2004

Quantum Estimation by Local Observables

Quantum estimation theory provides optimal observations for various estimation problems for unknown parameters in the state of the system under investigation. However, the theory has been developed under the assumption that every observable is available for experimenters. Here, we generalize the theory to problems in which the experimenter can use only locally accessible observables. For such problems, we establish a Cram{é}r-Rao type inequality by obtaining an explicit form of the Fisher information as a reciprocal lower bound for the mean square errors of estimations by locally accessible observables. Furthermore, we explore various local quantum estimation problems for composite systems, where non-trivial combinatorics is needed for obtaining the Fisher information.

quant-ph↗