Information Geometry of Randomized Quantum State Tomography.

Suppose that a -dimensional Hilbert space H ≃ C d admits a full set of mutually unbiased bases | 1 ( a ) 〉 , ⋯ , | d ( a ) 〉 , where a = 1 , ⋯ , d + 1 . A randomized quantum state tomography is a scheme for estimating an unknown quantum state on H through iterative applications of measurements M ( a ) = | 1 ( a ) 〉 〈 1 ( a ) | , ⋯ , | d ( a ) 〉 〈 d ( a ) | for a = 1 , ⋯ , d + 1 , where the numbers of applications of these measurements are random variables. We show that the space of the resulting probability distributions enjoys a mutually orthogonal dualistic foliation structure, which provides us with a simple geometrical insight into the maximum likelihood method for the quantum state tomography.

Management Effectiveness of a Secondary Coniferous Forest for Landscape Appreciation and Psychological Restoration.

We investigated the influence of forest management on landscape appreciation and psychological restoration in on-site settings by exposing respondents to an unmanaged, dense coniferous (crowding) forest and a managed (thinned) coniferous forest; we set the two experimental settings in the forests of the Fuji Iyashinomoroi Woodland Study Center. The respondents were individually exposed to both settings while sitting for 15 min and were required to answer three questionnaires to analyze the psychological restorative effects before and after the experiment (feeling (the Profile of Mood States), affect (the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), and subjective restorativeness (the Restorative Outcome Scale). To compare landscape appreciation, they were required to answer another two questionnaires only after the experiment, for scene appreciation (the semantic differential scale) and for the restorative properties of each environment (the Perceived Restorativeness Scale).

Utilizing the Cyberforest live sound system with social media to remotely conduct woodland bird censuses in Central Japan.

We have developed a system that streams and archives live sound from remote areas across Japan via an unmanned automatic camera. The system was used to carry out pilot bird censuses in woodland; this allowed us to examine the use of live sound transmission and the role of social media as a mediator in remote scientific monitoring. The system has been streaming sounds 8 h per day for more than five years.

Impact of viewing vs. not viewing a real forest on physiological and psychological responses in the same setting.

We investigated the impact of viewing versus not viewing a real forest on human subjects' physiological and psychological responses in the same setting. Fifteen healthy volunteers (11 males, four females, mean age 36 years) participated. Each participant was asked to view a forest while seated in a comfortable chair for 15 min (Forest condition) vs.

Reassessment of structure of smectic phases: nano-segregation in smectic E phase in 4-n-alkyl-4'-isothiocyanato-1,1'-biphenyls.

Based on new diffraction data from aligned samples of smectic E (SmE) phase of 4-n-alkyl-4'-isothiocyanato-1,1'-biphenyls, systematics against the alkyl chain length n is analyzed. In order to perform the analysis, the molecular form factor approximated by a box-shaped distribution is calculated while taking the rounding of the distribution at corners into account. The analysis clearly shows the nano-segregated layered structure, which does not fit to the traditional structural view of SmE phase but does fit to the model the present authors proposed recently.

Experimental demonstration of adaptive quantum state estimation.

The first experimental demonstration of an adaptive quantum state estimation (AQSE) is reported. The strong consistency and asymptotic efficiency of AQSE have been mathematically proven [A. Fujiwara, J.