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arXiv papers from June 2000

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  1. C. Lannert, Matthew P. A. Fisher, T. Senthil

    We study the nature of the zero-temperature phase transition between a d-wave superconductor and a Mott insulator in two dimensions. In this ``quantum confinement transition'', spin and charge are confined to form the electron in the Mott insulator. Within a dual formulation, direct transitions from d-wave superconductors at half-filling to insulators with s

  2. S. Jadach, B. F. L. Ward, Z. Was

    We present the new Coherent Exclusive Exponentiation (CEEX), the older Exclusive Exponentiation (EEX) and the semi-analytical Inclusive Exponentiation (IEX) for the process $e^+e^-\to f\bar{f} +n\gamma$, $f=\mu,\tau,d,u,s,c,b$ with validity for centre of mass energies from $\tau$ lepton threshold to 1TeV, that is for LEP1, LEP2, SLC, future Linear Colliders,

  3. Siu A. Chin, Donald W. Kidwell

    We show that a recently discovered fourth order symplectic algorithm, which requires one evaluation of force gradient in addition to three evaluations of the force, when iterated to higher order, yielded algorithms that are far superior to similarly iterated higher order algorithms based on the standard Forest-Ruth algorithm. We gauge the accuracy of each al

  4. Harald A. Forbert, Siu A. Chin

    We develop a fourth order simulation algorithm for solving the stochastic Langevin equation. The method consists of identifying solvable operators in the Fokker-Planck equation, factorizing the evolution operator for small time steps to fourth order and implementing the factorization process numerically. A key contribution of this work is to show how certain

  5. B. R. Schlei, L. Prasad, A. N. Skourikhine

    We present a new method to transform the spectral pixel information of a micrograph into an affine geometric description, which allows us to analyze the morphology of granular materials. We use spectral and pulse-coupled neural network based segmentation techniques to generate blobs, and a newly developed algorithm to extract dilated contours. A constrained

  6. Wayne Hu, Masataka Fukugita, Matias Zaldarriaga, Max Tegmark

    We show that recent measurements of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies by BOOMERanG and MAXIMA can be characterized by four observables, the position of the first acoustic peak l_1= 206 pm 6, the height of the first peak relative to COBE normalization H_1= 7.6 pm 1.4, the height of the second peak relative to the first H_2 = 0.38

  7. Richard Beigel, David Eppstein

    We consider worst case time bounds for NP-complete problems including 3-SAT, 3-coloring, 3-edge-coloring, and 3-list-coloring. Our algorithms are based on a constraint satisfaction (CSP) formulation of these problems. 3-SAT is equivalent to (2,3)-CSP while the other problems above are special cases of (3,2)-CSP; there is also a natural duality transformation

  8. Ronald A. Downes, Hilmar W. Duerbeck

    An optical imaging study of recent 30 novae has been undertaken using both ground-based and space-based observations. Resolved shells have been detected around 9 objects in the ground-based data, while another four objects have shells detected by HST observations; for RW UMi, we fail to detect a shell which was observed five years earlier. Images in H-alpha,

  9. C. R. Canizares, D. P. Huenemoerder, D. S. Davis, D. Dewey

    High resolution spectra of the active binary Capella (G8 III + G1 III) covering the energy range 0.4-8.0 keV (1.5-30 Angstroms) show a large number of emission lines, demonstrating the performance of the HETGS. A preliminary application of plasma diagnostics provides information on coronal temperatures and densities. Lines arising from different elements in

  10. F. Maltoni, J. M. Niczyporuk, S. Willenbrock

    We derive a model-independent upper bound on the scale of Majorana-neutrino mass generation. The upper bound is $4\pi v^2/\sqrt 3 m_\nu$, where $v \simeq 246$ GeV is the weak scale and $m_\nu$ is the Majorana neutrino mass. For neutrino masses implied by neutrino oscillation experiments, all but one of these bounds are less than the Planck scale, and they ar

  11. Arkadiusz Wojs, John J. Quinn

    The energy spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the fractional quantum Hall regime interacting with an optically injected valence band hole is studied as a function of the filling factor $\nu$ and the separation $d$ between the electron and hole layers. The response of the 2DEG to the hole changes abruptly at $d$ of the order of the magnetic

  12. C. R. Stephens

    The effect of genetic operators other than selection, such as mutation and recombination, on the genotype-phenotype map is considered. In particular, when the genotypic fitness landscape exhibits a ``symmetry'', i.e. many genotypes corresponding to the same phenotype have equal fitness values, it is shown that such operators can break this symmetry. The cons

  13. The BTeV Collaboration

    We discuss the physics goals and rationale for a detector to study Beauty and Charm decays in the forward direction at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We then describe the BTeV detector which has been designed to achieve these goals and present its physics reach based on extensive simulation. We conclude by comparing BTeV to other experiments designed to exp

  14. C. R. Stephens

    In evolution theory the concept of a fitness landscape has played an important role, evolution itself being portrayed as a hill-climbing process on a rugged landscape. In this article it is shown that in general, in the presence of other genetic operators such as mutation and recombination, hill-climbing is the exception rather than the rule. This descrepenc

  15. Ziwei Lin, T. G. Di, C. M. Ko

    Using the local flavor SU(4) gauge invariance in the limit of vanishing vector meson masses, we extend our previous study of charm meson scattering cross sections by pion and rho meson, which is based only on the pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar-vector meson couplings, to include also contributions from the couplings among three vector mesons and among four particl

  16. C. R. Stephens, H. Waelbroeck, R. Aguirre

    We analyze the schema theorem and the building block hypothesis using a recently derived, exact schemata evolution equation. We derive a new schema theorem based on the concept of effective fitness showing that schemata of higher than average effective fitness receive an exponentially increasing number of trials over time. The building block hypothesis is a

  17. John F. Hawley, Julian H. Krolik

    We present a detailed three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation describing the inner region of a disk accreting onto a black hole. To avoid the technical complications of general relativity, the dynamics are treated in Newtonian fashion using the pseudo-Newtonian Pacz\'ynski-Wiita potential. The disk evolves due to angular momentum transport whi

  18. Benjamin Wieland

    We prove a conjecture of Cohn and Propp, which refines a conjecture of Bosley and Fidkowski about the symmetry of the set of alternating sign matrices (ASMs). We examine data arising from the representation of an ASM as a collection of paths connecting 2n vertices and show it to be invariant under the dihedral group D_{2n} rearranging those vertices, which i

  19. Tony Gherghetta, Ewald Roessl, Mikhail Shaposhnikov

    We consider spherically symmetric higher-dimensional solutions of Einstein's equations with a bulk cosmological constant and n transverse dimensions. In contrast to the case of one or two extra dimensions we find no solutions that localize gravity when $n\geq 3$, for strictly local topological defects. We discuss global topological defects that lead to the l

  20. C. R. Stephens, H. Waelbroeck

    In the light of a recently derived evolution equation for genetic algorithms we consider the schema theorem and the building block hypothesis. We derive a schema theorem based on the concept of effective fitness showing that schemata of higher than average effective fitness receive an exponentially increasing number of trials over time. The equation makes ma

  21. Lin Wan, Ruth A. Daly, E. J. Guerra

    Multi-frequency radio observations of the radio bridge of a powerful classical double radio source can be used to determine: the beam power of the jets emanating from the AGN; the total time the source will actively produce jets that power large-scale radio emission; the thermal pressure of the medium in the vicinity of the radio source; and the total mass,

  22. H. A. De Raedt, A. H. Hams, V. V. Dobrovitski, M. Al-Saqer

    We calculate the tunneling splittings in a Mn$_{12}$ magnetic molecule taking into account its internal many-spin structure. We discuss the precision and reliability of these calculations and show that restricting the basis (limiting the number of excitations taken into account) may lead to significant error (orders of magnitude) in the resulting tunneling s

  23. Manoelito M de Souza

    The physical meaning, the properties and the consequences of a discrete scalar field are discussed; limits for a continuous mathematical description of fundamental physics is a natural outcome of discrete fields with discrete interactions. The discrete scalar field is ultimately the gravitational field of general relativity, necessarily, and there is no plac

  24. E. J. Guerra, Ruth A. Daly, Lin Wan

    A sample of 20 powerful extended radio galaxies with redshifts between zero and two were used to determine constraints on global cosmological parameters. Data for six radio sources were obtained from the VLA archive, analyzed, and combined with the sample of 14 radio galaxies used previously by Guerra & Daly to determine cosmological parameters. The results

  25. Carlos Ribeiro, Andre Zuquete, Paulo Ferreira, Paulo Guedes

    With the advent of wide security platforms able to express simultaneously all the policies comprising an organization's global security policy, the problem of inconsistencies within security policies become harder and more relevant. We have defined a tool based on the CHR language which is able to detect several types of inconsistencies within and between se

  26. B. F. L. Ward

    In the perturbative QCD approach to exclusive B decays to two light mesons, the leading twist contribution corresponds to those diagrams in the Lepage-Brodsky expansion in which the would be spectator quark receives its recoil momentum via one gluon exchange. We show that the resulting amplitude, which in the spectator model is real, acquires an imaginary pa

  27. William H. Kinney, Martina Brisudova

    The discrepancy between dynamical mass measures of objects such as galaxies and the observed distribution of luminous matter in the universe is typically explained by invoking an unseen ``dark matter'' component. Dark matter must necessarily be non-baryonic. We introduce a simple hypothesis to do away with the necessity for dark matter by introducing an addi

  28. Wellington da Cruz

    We consider the concept of fractons as particles or quasiparticles which obey a specific fractal statistics in connection with a one-dimensional Luttinger liquid theory. We obtain a dual statistics parameter ${\tilde{\nu}}=\nu+1$ which is identified with the controlling parameter $e^{-2\phi}$ of the Luttinger model. In this way, a bosonic system characterize

  29. E. A. Kolganova, A. K. Motovilov, Y. K. Ho

    The work is devoted to comparison of two different approaches to calculation of three-body resonances on the basis of the Faddeev differential equations. The first one is the well known complex scaling approach. The second method is based on an immediate calculation of the zeros of the scattering matrix continued to the physical sheet.

  30. Simon R. Schultz, Huw D. R. Golledge, Stefano Panzeri

    Does synchronization between action potentials from different neurons in the visual system play a substantial role in solving the binding problem? The binding problem can be studied quantitatively in the broader framework of the information contained in neural spike trains about some external correlate, which in this case is object configurations in the visu

  31. D. Blaschke, V. Pervushin, G. Roepke

    We show that the class of functions of topologically nontrivial gauge transformations in QCD includes a zero-mode of the Gauss law constraint. The equivalent unconstrained system compatible with Feynman's integral is derived in terms of topological invariant variables, where the zero-mode is identified with the winding number collective variable and leads to

  32. Anna Beliakova, Christian Blanchet

    We construct four series of modular categories from the two-variable Kauffman polynomial, without use of the representation theory of quantum groups at roots of unity. The specializations of this polynomial corresponding to quantum groups of types B, C and D produce series of pre-modular categories. One of them turns out to be modular and three others satisf

  33. Harrison B. Prosper

    After making some general remarks, I consider two examples that illustrate the use of Bayesian Probability Theory. The first is a simple one, the physicist's favorite "toy," that provides a forum for a discussion of the key conceptual issue of Bayesian analysis: the assignment of prior probabilities. The other example illustrates the use of Bayesian ideas in

  34. Jason D. Schmidt, Barbara S. Ryden, Adrian L. Melott

    The sizes and shapes of voids in a galaxy survey depend not only on the physics of structure formation, but also on the sampling density of the survey and on the algorithm used to define voids. Using an N-body simulation with a CDM power spectrum, we study the properties of voids in samples with different number densities of galaxies, both in redshift space

  35. Bo-Qiang Ma, Ivan Schmidt, Jian-Jun Yang

    We investigate the spin structure of the nucleon in an extended Jaffe-Lipkin quark model. In addition to the conventional $3q$ structure, different $(3q)(Q\bar{Q})$ admixtures in the nucleon wavefunction are also taken into account. The contributions to the nucleon spin from various components of the nucleon wavefunction are discussed. The effect due to the

  36. Rene Messina, Christian Holm, Kurt Kremer

    The effect of fixed discrete colloidal charges in the primitive model is investigated for spherical macroions. Instead of considering a central bare charge, as it is traditionally done, we distribute \textit{discrete} charges randomly on the sphere. We use molecular dynamics simulations to study this effect on various properties such as overcharging, counter

  37. Shinji Tsujikawa, Bruce A. Bassett, Fermin Viniegra

    Fermion creation during preheating in the presence of multiple scalar fields exhibits a range of interesting behaviour relevant to estimating post-inflation gravitino abundances. We present non-perturbative analysis of this phenomenon over a 6-dimensional parameter space in an expanding background paying particular attention to the interplay between instant

  38. P. Q. Hung

    There are now strong hints suggesting that neutrinos do have a mass after all. If they do have a mass, it would have to be tiny. Why is it so? Is it Dirac or Majorana? Can one build a model in which a teeny, tiny Dirac neutrino mass arises in a natural way? Can one learn something else other than just neutrino masses? What are the extra phenomenological cons

  39. Mark Heiligman

    Given two unsorted lists each of length N that have a single common entry, a quantum computer can find that matching element with a work factor of $O(N^{3/4}\log N)$ (measured in quantum memory accesses and accesses to each list). The amount of quantum memory required is $O(N^{1/2})$. The quantum algorithm that accomplishes this consists of an inner Grover s

  40. S. M. Asida, David Arnett

    Two dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of convective oxygen burning shell in the presupernova evolution of a 20 solar-mass star are extended to later times. We used the VULCAN code to simulate longer evolution times than previously possible. Our results confirm the previous work of Bazan and Arnett (98) over their time span of 400s. However, at 1200s, we

  41. Rene Messina, Christian Holm, Kurt Kremer

    In this letter, we study the ground state of two spherical macroions of identical radius, but asymmetric bare charge ((Q_{A}>Q_{B})). Electroneutrality of the system is insured by the presence of the surrounding divalent counterions. Using Molecular Dynamics simulations within the framework of the primitive model, we show that the ground state of such a syst

  42. Taekoon Lee

    It is shown that the quark mass aligns QCD $\theta$ vacuum in such a way that the strong CP is conserved, resolving the strong CP problem.

  43. Daniel Christlein

    We present luminosity functions for galaxies in loose groups in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey, differentiated by their environment (defined by the line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma of the host groups) and also by their spectral type (emission or non-emission, defined by the equivalent width of the 3727-Angstrom [OII] line). We find systematic variat

  44. Mikhail S. Plyushchay

    Deformed Heisenberg algebra with reflection appeared in the context of Wigner's generalized quantization schemes underlying the concept of parafields and parastatistics of Green, Volkov, Greenberg and Messiah. We review the application of this algebra for the universal description of ordinary spin-$j$ and anyon fields in 2+1 dimensions, and discuss the intim

  45. A. Lai

    The decay rate of the neutral long-lived K meson into the e+ e- e+ e- final state has been measured with the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS. Using data collected in 1999, a total of 132 events has been observed with negligible background. The total number of kaons was determined to be 5.1 x 10^10. This observation corresponds to a preliminary branching ratio

  46. T. Senthil, Matthew P. A. Fisher

    The precise theoretical characterization of a fractionalized phase in spatial dimensions higher than one is through the concept of ``topological order''. We describe a physical effect that is a robust and direct consequence of this hidden order that should enable a precise experimental characterization of fractionalized phases. In particular, we propose spec

  47. M. L. Ciccolini, C. D. Fosco, F. A. Schaposnik

    We present an alternative derivation of the parity anomaly for a massless Dirac field in 2+1 dimensions coupled to a gauge field. The anomaly functional, a Chern-Simons action for the gauge field, is obtained from the non-trivial Jacobian corresponding to a non local symmetry of the Pauli-Villars regularized action. That Jacobian is well-defined, finite, and

  48. Sebastien Blais-Ouellette, Philippe Amram, Claude Carignan

    New high resolution CFHT Fabry-Perot data, combined with published VLA 21 cm observations are used to determine the mass distribution of NGC 3109 and IC 2574. The multi-wavelength rotation curves allow to test with confidence different dark halo functional forms from the pseudo-isothermal sphere to some popular halo distributions motivated by N-body simulati

  49. T. Senthil, Matthew P. A. Fisher

    Recently, we have elucidated the physics of electron fractionalization in strongly interacting electron systems using a $Z_2$ gauge theory formulation. Here we discuss the connection with the earlier U(1) gauge theory approaches based on the slave boson mean field theory. In particular, we identify the relationship between the holons and Spinons of the slave

  50. J. Vidal, G. Montambaux, B. Doucot

    We propose a simple formalism to calculate the conductance of any quantum network made of one-dimensional quantum wires. We apply this method to analyze, for two periodic systems, the modulation of this conductance with respect to the magnetic field. We also study the influence of an elastic disorder on the periodicity of the AB oscillations and we show that

  51. Bernd J Schroers

    In the Chern-Simons formulation of Einstein gravity in 2+1 dimensions the phase space of gravity is the moduli space of flat G-connections, where G is a typically non-compact Lie group which depends on the signature of space-time and the cosmological constant. For Euclidean signature and vanishing cosmological constant, G is the three-dimensional Euclidean g

  52. Peter Gacs, John Tromp, Paul Vitanyi

    While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content of an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the relation between an individual data sample and an individual model summarizing the information in the data, for example, a finite set (or probability distribution) where the data sample typically ca

  53. O. Mauritz, G. Goldoni, E. Molinari, F. Rossi

    We present a theoretical approach to calculate the {\it local} absorption spectrum of excitons confined in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using the density-matrix formalism, we derive a microscopic expression for the non-local susceptibility, both in the linear and non-linear regimes, which includes a three-dimensional description of electronic quantum state

  54. W. Lerche, A. Lutken, C. Schweigert

    The spectrum of D2-branes wrapped on an ALE space of general ADE type is determined, by representing them as boundary states of N=2 superconformal minimal models. The stable quantum states have RR charges which precisely represent the gauge fields of the corresponding Lie algebra. This provides a simple and direct physical link between the ADE classification

  55. Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Elina Sihvola

    We have studied big bang nucleosynthesis in the presence of regions of antimatter. Depending on the distance scale of the antimatter region, and thus the epoch of their annihilation, the amount of antimatter in the early universe is constrained by the observed abundances. Small regions, which annihilate after weak freezeout but before nucleosynthesis, lead t

  56. S. J. Papadakis, E. P. De Poortere, M. Shayegan, R. Winkler

    We present quantitative measurements and calculations of the spin-orbit induced zero-magnetic-field spin-splitting in two-dimensional (2D) hole systems in modulation-doped GaAs (311)A quantum wells. The results show that the splitting is large and tunable. In particular, via a combination of back- and front-gate biases, we can tune the splitting while keepin

  57. The KLOE Collaboration

    KLOE, a new state of the art detector recently commissioned for physics operation at DAFNE, has many innovative interesting features, especially in the DAQ and Trigger areas. Custom electronics assert a trigger in a 2 microseconds decision time and distributes it to the FEE with a 50 ps time resolution. Data are read out using 10 front-end data acquisition c

  58. Eric Laenen, George Sterman, Werner Vogelsang

    We give a brief account of recent theoretical developments in prompt photon production.

  59. J. Weyman

    We prove two results on the defining ideals of certain varieties of matrices. Let us fix two positive integers r, e. Let M(r) be the set of r x r matrices over a field K. We consider the closed subscheme of the nilpotent variety of M(r) over K defined by the conditions char_A(T)=T^r, A^e=0. We prove that when the characteristic of K is zero this scheme is re

  60. Branislav Jurco, Stefan Schraml, Peter Schupp, Julius Wess

    An enveloping algebra valued gauge field is constructed, its components are functions of the Lie algebra valued gauge field and can be constructed with the Seiberg-Witten map. This allows the formulation of a dynamics for a finite number of gauge field components on non-commutative spaces.

  61. V. V. Dyadichev, D. V. Gal'tsov

    We derive a closed expression for the SU(2) Born-Infeld action with the symmetrized trace for static spherically symmetric purely magnetic configurations. The lagrangian is obtained in terms of elementary functions. Using it, we investigate glueball solutions to the flat space NBI theory and their self-gravitating counterparts. Such solutions, found previous

  62. J. Alberto Lobo

    The rigoruos mathematical theory of the coupling and response of a spherical gravitational wave detector endowed with a set of resonant transducers is presented and developed. A perturbative series in ascending powers of the square root of the ratio of the resonator to the sphere mass is seen to be the key to the solution of the problem. General layouts of a

  63. F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi, G. Ghisellini, A. Celotti

    We present BeppoSAX observations of three gamma-ray emitting quasars, namely 0836+710, 1510-089 and 2230+114. The three objects have been detected up to 100 keV showing extremely flat power-law spectra above 2 keV (energy index alpha_{2-10}=0.3-0.5). The soft X-ray spectrum of 0836+710 implies either an absorption column density higher than the galactic one

  64. Ramin Golestanian, Elie Raphael

    The dynamics of the deformations of a moving contact line is formulated. It is shown that an advancing contact line relaxes more quickly as compared to the equilibium case, while for a receding contact line there is a corresponding slowing down. For a receding contact line on a heterogeneous solid surface, it is found that a roughening transition takes place

  65. Steven D. Bass

    Gluonic degrees of freedom induce a contact term in the effective chiral Lagrangian description of the low-energy pp -> pp eta' reaction. The strength of this contact term is, in part, related to the amount of spin carried by polarised gluons in a polarised proton.

  66. Koumarane Valavane

    The non commutative geometry is a possible framework to regularize Quantum Field Theory in a nonperturbative way. This idea is an extension of the lattice approximation by non commutativity that allows to preserve symmetries. The supersymmetric version is also studied and more precisely in the case of the Schwinger model on supersphere [14]. This paper is a

  67. Matthias Blau, George Thompson

    The Seiberg-Witten analysis of the low-energy effective action of d=4 N=2 SYM theories reveals the relation between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten (SW) monopole invariants. Here we apply analogous reasoning to d=3 N=4 theories and propose a general relationship between Rozansky-Witten (RW) and 3-dimensional Abelian monopole invariants. In particular, we de

  68. F. Simkovic, P. Domin, S. V. Semenov

    The hypothesis of the single state dominance (SSD) in the calculation of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Mo100 is tested by exact consideration of the energy denominators of the perturbation theory. Both transitions to the ground state as well as to the 0+ and 2+ excited states of the final nucleus Ru100 are considered. We demonstrate, that by experime

  69. Rene Messina, Christian Holm, Kurt Kremer

    We report a mechanism which can lead to long range attractions between like-charged spherical macroions, stemming from the existence of metastable ionized states. We show that the ground state of a single highly charged colloid plus a few excess counterions is overcharged. For the case of two highly charged macroions in their neutralizing divalent counterion

  70. M. I. Dykman, T. Sharpee, P. M. Platzman

    We consider the effect of electron correlations on tunneling from a 2D electron layer in a magnetic field parallel to the layer. A tunneling electron can exchange its momentum with other electrons, which leads to an exponential increase of the tunneling rate compared to the single-electron approximation. Explicit results are obtained for a Wigner crystal. Th

  71. H. Arenhoevel

    As first topic, the GDH sume rule is discussed in the context of a more general class of sum rules associated with the various contributions to the total photoabsorption cross section for target and beam polarization. Then I address the question of whether the GDH sum rule for the neutron can be determined from the one for the deuteron. It appears that this

  72. J. Ambjorn, D. Arnaudon, A. Sedrakyan, T. Sedrakyan

    The generalization of the Yang-Baxter equations (YBE) in the presence of Z_2 grading along both chain and time directions is presented and an integrable model of t-J type with staggered disposition along a chain of shifts of the spectral parameter is constructed. The Hamiltonian of the model is computed in fermionic formulation. It involves three neighbour s

  73. T. Dolinszky

    In scattering by singular potentials $g^2U(s;r)$, the coupling constant $g^2$ is continuously decreased to zero while the stage $s$ of singularity raised simultaneously beyond all limits by some functional relation $F(g^2;s)=0$. In the extreme situation of this double limit, even the mere existence of a nontrivial physical scattering problem is questionable.

  74. M. E. S. Borelli, H. Kleinert

    We calculate the quantum corrections to the classical action of a particle with coordinate-dependent mass. The result is made self-consistent by a variational approach, thus making it applicable to strong-couplings and singular potentials. By including thermal fluctuations, the we obtain an effective action whose classical Euler-Lagrange equation describes t

  75. Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Mario Nicodemi

    We study a model for the dynamics of vortices in type II superconductors. In particular, we discuss glassy ``off equilibrium'' properties and ``aging'' in magnetic creep. At low temperatures a crossover point is found, Tg, where relaxation times seem to diverge a' la Vogel-Tamman-Fulcher. Magnetic creep changes by crossing Tg: above Tg power law creep is fou

  76. Jan-Åke Larsson

    By probabilistic means, the concept of contextuality is extended so that it can be used in non-ideal situations. An inequality is presented, which at least in principle enables a test to discard non-contextual hidden-variable models at low error rates, in the spirit of the Kochen-Specker theorem. Assuming that the errors are independent, an explicit error bo

  77. Kenneth R. Beesley, Lauri Karttunen

    Finite-state morphology in the general tradition of the Two-Level and Xerox implementations has proved very successful in the production of robust morphological analyzer-generators, including many large-scale commercial systems. However, it has long been recognized that these implementations have serious limitations in handling non-concatenative phenomena. W

  78. Chuan-Hung Chen, Hsiang-nan Li

    We predict branching ratios and CP asymmetries of the $B\to KK$ decays using perturbative QCD factorization theorem, in which tree, penguin, and annihilation contributions, including both factorizable and nonfactorizable ones, are expressed as convolutions of hard six-quark amplitudes with universal meson wave functions. The unitarity angle $\phi_3= 90^o$ an

  79. Uma Mahanta

    In this report we investigate the Goldberger-Wise (GW) mechanism of radion stabilization with quartic potential on the hidden brane and quadratic potential on the visible brane. The advantage of our simplified scenario over the original GW mechanism is that the modulus potential can be evaluated for finite $\lv$ and $\lh$. This enables us to probe how the mo

  80. M. Oettel, R. Alkofer, L. von Smekal

    In the covariant quark-diquark model the effective Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equations for the nucleon and the $\Delta$ are solved including scalar {\em and axialvector} diquark correlations. Their quark substructure is effectively taken into account in both, the interaction kernel of the BS equations and the currents employed to calculate nucleon observables. Ele

  81. M. Kutschera, J. Niemiec

    The influence of the nuclear symmetry energy on the formation of a mixed quark-nucleon phase in neutron star cores is studied. We use simple parametrizations of the nuclear matter equation of state, and the bag model for the quark phase. The behavior of nucleon matter isobars, which is responsible for the existence of the mixed phase, is investigated. The ro

  82. G. M. Zhao, Y. S. Wang, D. J. Kang, W. Prellier

    Recent research suggests that the charge carriers in the paramagnetic state of the magnetoresistive manganites are small polarons. Here we report studies of the oxygen-isotope effects on the intrinsic resistivity and thermoelectric power in several ferromagnetic manganites. The precise measurements of these isotope effects allow us to make a quantitative dat

  83. Michael Lönne

    Monodromy in analytic families of smooth complex surfaces yields groups of isotopy classes of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms for each family member X. For all deformation classes of minimal elliptic surfaces with p_g>q=0, we determine the monodromy group of a representative X, i.e. the group of isometries of the intersection lattice L_X:=H_2/torsion

  84. Hendryk Pfeiffer

    We give an explicit construction of the factorizing twists for the Yangian Y(sl_2) in evaluation representations (not necessarily finite-dimensional). The result is a universal expression for the factorizing twist that holds in all these representations. The method is general enough to recover the universal R-matrix of Y(sl_2) up to its character in the form

  85. M. Micu, Fl. Stancu

    Based on the tensor method, a q-analoque of the spin-orbit coupling is introduced in a q-deformed Schroedinger equation, previously derived for a central potential. Analytic expressions for the matrix elemnets of the representation j=l\pm 1/2 are derived. The spectra of the harmonic oscillator and the Coulomb potential are calculated numerically as a functio

  86. Ruslan A. Sharipov

    Fermat Last Theorem, which inspired mathematicians during 300 years, is proved by Andrew Wiles. Even among mathematicians there is a narrow circle of specialists, who can read this proof and understand all details. Is it a reason for pessimism? No, since arithmetics if entire numbers contains broad variety of problems with a simple statement, which might be

  87. J. Ebbecke, G. Bastian, M. Blöcker, K. Pierz

    We present the experimental realization of different approaches to increase the amount of quantized current which is driven by surface acoustic waves through split gate structures in a two dimensional electron gas. Samples with driving frequencies of up to 4.7 GHz have been fabricated without a deterioration of the precision of the current steps, and a paral

  88. G. Giacomelli

    The measurements of the hadron-hadron total cross sections are the first measurements performed when a new hadron accelerator opens up a new energy region; the measurements were made as function of the incoming beam momentum or c.m. energy and have often been repeated with improved accuracy and finer energy spacing.

  89. S. Piechowiak, J. Rodriguez

    In this paper we present a rule based formalism for filtering variables domains of constraints. This formalism is well adapted for solving dynamic CSP. We take diagnosis as an instance problem to illustrate the use of these rules. A diagnosis problem is seen like finding all the minimal sets of constraints to be relaxed in the constraint network that models

  90. Andrea Malchiodi

    We deal with a Newtonian system like x'' + V'(x) = 0. We suppose that V: \R^n \to \R possesses an (n-1)-dimensional compact manifold M of critical points, and we prove the existence of arbitrarity slow periodic orbits. When the period tends to infinity these orbits, rescaled in time, converge to some closed geodesics on M.

  91. T. Tyc

    The k-electron correlation function of a free chaotic electron beam is derived with the spin degree of freedom taken into account. It is shown that it can be expressed with the help of correlation functions for a polarized electron beam of all orders up to k and the degree of spin polarization. The form of the correlation function suggests that if the electr

  92. M. van den Bossche, P. Azaria, P. Lecheminant, F. Mila

    The low-energy properties of the SU(4) spin-orbital model on a two-leg ladder are studied by a variety of analytical and numerical techniques. Like in the case of SU(2) models, there is a singlet-multiplet gap in the spectrum, but the ground-state is two-fold degenerate. An interpretation in terms of SU(4)-singlet plaquettes is proposed. The implications for

  93. Pascal Cedraschi, Markus Buttiker

    We discuss the phase coherence properties of a mesoscopic normal ring coupled to an electric environment via Coulomb interactions. This system can be mapped onto the Caldeira-Leggett model with a flux dependent tunneling amplitude. We show that depending on the strength of the coupling between the ring and the environment the free energy can be obtained eith

  94. A. M. Gasparian, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart, L. Kondratyuk

    A model calculation for the reactions $pp\to p\Lambda K^+$ and $pp\to N\Sigma K$ near their thresholds is presented. It is argued that the experimentally observed strong suppression of $\Sigma^0$ production compared to $\Lambda$ production at the same excess energy could be due to a destructive interference between the $\pi$ and $K$ exchange contributions in

  95. I. Heckenberger

    Let A be a cosemisimple Hopf *-algebra with antipode S and let $\Gamma$ be a left-covariant first order differential *-calculus over A such that $\Gamma$ is self-dual and invariant under the Hopf algebra automorphism S^2. A quantum Clifford algebra $\Cl(\Gamma,\sigma,g)$ is introduced which acts on Woronowicz' external algebra $\Gamma^\wedge$. A minimal left

  96. J. M. Aguirregabiria, A. Chamorro, L. P. Chimento, N. A. Zuccalá

    We use exact general solutions for the spatially flat FRW and the anisotropic Bianchi I cosmologies to show that generically uncoupled scalar fields cooperate to make inflation more probable, while the presence of several interacting fields hinders the occurrence of the phenomenon, in accordance with previous results based on particular power-law solutions.

  97. Zu-Guo Yu, Bin Wang

    A time series model of CDS sequences in complete genome is proposed. A map of DNA sequence to integer sequence is given. The correlation dimensions and Hurst exponents of CDS sequences in complete genome of bacteria are calculated. Using the average of correlation dimensions, some interesting results are obtained.

  98. V. K. B. Kota, R. Sahu

    Employing hamiltonians defined by two-body embedded Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of random matrices(EGOE(2)) plus a mean-field producing one-body part, strength functions (for states defined by the one-body part) are constructed for various values of the strength of the chaos generating two-body part. Numerical calculations for six and seven fermion systems

  99. Zu-Guo Yu, V. V. Anh, Bin Wang

    This paper considers three kinds of length sequences of the complete genome. Detrended fluctuation analysis, spectral analysis, and the mean distance spanned within time $L$ are used to discuss the correlation property of these sequences. The values of the exponents from these methods of these three kinds of length sequences of bacteria indicate that the lon

  100. S. Anantha Ramakrishna, N. Kumar

    We reconsider the problem of diffusion of particles at constant speed and present a generalization of the Telegrapher process to higher dimensional stochastic media ($d>1$), where the particle can move along $2^d$ directions. We derive the equations for the probability density function using the ``formulae of differentiation'' of Shapiro and Loginov. The mod