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Filtered Noise Can Mimic Low-Dimensional Chaotic Attractors, P. E. Rapp, Alfonso M. Albano, T. I. Schmah, L. A. Farwell Apr 1993

Filtered Noise Can Mimic Low-Dimensional Chaotic Attractors, P. E. Rapp, Alfonso M. Albano, T. I. Schmah, L. A. Farwell

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This contribution presents four results. First, calculations indicate that when examined by the Grassberger-Procaccia algorithm alone, filtered noise can mimic low-dimensional chaotic attractors. Given the ubiquity Of signal filtering in experimental investigations, this is potentially important. Second, a criterion is derived which provides an estimate of the minimum data accuracy needed to resolve the dimension of an attractor. Third, it is shown that a criterion derived by Eckmann and Ruelle [Physica D 56, 185 (1992)] to estimate the minimum number of data points required in a Grassberger-Procaccia calculation can be used to provide a further check on these dimension estimates. …


Dipole-Dipole Spin Relaxation In Solids. The Unrestricted Hopping Model And The Methyl Proton - Non-Methyl Proton Interaction, Christopher Palmer, Alfonso M. Albano, Peter A. Beckmann Jan 1993

Dipole-Dipole Spin Relaxation In Solids. The Unrestricted Hopping Model And The Methyl Proton - Non-Methyl Proton Interaction, Christopher Palmer, Alfonso M. Albano, Peter A. Beckmann

Physics Faculty Research and Scholarship

We report proton Zeeman relaxation rates R as a function of temperature T at 8.5 and 53 MHz in polycrystalline 1,9-dimethylphenanthrene (1,9-DMP) and l-trideuteriomethyl-9-methylphenanthrene (1, 9-DMP[1-d3]). The data are interpreted using a Davidson-Cole spectral density for intramolecular reorientation and the implications of this are discussed. R vs T−1data for 1,9-DMP[1-d3] are used to determine the parameters that characterize the reorientation of the 9-methyl group. By assuming that the parameters characterizing the dynamics of the 9-methyl group are the same in 1,9-DMP and 1,9-DMP[1-d3], we subtract out the R vs T−1 contribution of the 9-methyl group in 1,9-DMP to …