Quantum annealing is a novel method for combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we discuss the appropriate choice of quantum fluctuations in quantum annealing. The existence of room of choices of quantum fluctuations is an advantage of quantum annealing over simulated annealing. We...

The 12 March 2001 landslide at a slate quarry in Okayama, Japan killed three workers. Composite studies based on field surveys of the landslide slope, interviews with local residents and quarry workers, and inspections of hydrological and seismological data have been used to clarify the causes...

Social inequality manifested across different strata of human existence can be quantified in several ways. Here we compute non-entropic measures of inequality such as Lorenz curve, Gini index and the recently introduced k index analytically from known distribution functions. We characterize the...

We propose an approach to explain fluctuations in time intervals of financial markets data from the view-point of the Gini index. We show the explicit form of the Gini index for a Weibull distribution: A good candidate to describe the first passage time of foreign exchange rate. The analytical...

We introduce a simple cellular-network model to explain the capacity of the plants as memory devices. Following earlier observations (Bose (The Nervous Mechanism of Plants, Longmans, London, 1923) and others), we regard the plant as a network in which each of the elements (plant cells) are...

Possible distributions are discussed for intertrade durations and first-passage processes in financial markets. The view-point of renewal theory is assumed. In order to represent market data with relatively long durations, two types of distributions are used, namely a distribution derived from...