April 2002 arXiv papers — page 2

M. E. J. Newman

The study of social networks, and in particular the spread of disease on networks, has attracted considerable recent attention in the physics community. In this paper, we show that a large class of standard epidemiological models, the so-called susceptible/infective/removed (SIR) models can be solved exactly on a wide variety of networks. In addition to the

Eric J. Barth, Brian B. Laird, Benedict J. Leimkuhler

We present a general molecular-dynamics simulation scheme, based on the Nose' thermostat, for sampling according to arbitrary phase space distributions. We formulate numerical methods based on both Nose'-Hoover and Nose'-Poincare' thermostats for two specific classes of distributions; namely, those that are functions of the system Hamiltonian

B. H. Hoerman, B. M. Nichols, B. W. Wessels

An analysis of the dynamic dielectric and electro-optic relaxation response of thin film ferroelectrics is presented. The analysis is based upon the relaxation of ferroelectric domains with a continuous distribution of sizes given by percolation theory. The resulting temporal response is described by the expression (t^-m) exp(-(t/tau)^beta). The analysis was

J. E. Hirsch

Dynamic Hubbard models have been proposed as extensions of the conventional Hubbard model to describe the orbital relaxation that occurs upon double occupancy of an atomic orbital. These models give rise to pairing of holes and superconductivity in certain parameter ranges. Here we explore the changes in carrier effective mass and quasiparticle weight and in

P. Kumar, A. Saxena

The well known scaling laws relating critical exponents in a second order phase transition have been generalized to the case of an arbitrarily higher order phase transition. In a higher order transition, such as one suggested for the superconducting transition in Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$BiO$_3$ and in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_8$, there are singularities in higher o

I. Karakurt, A. J. Dahm

We probe the strength of electron-electron interactions using magnetoconductivity measurements of two-dimensional non-degenerate electrons on liquid helium at 1.22 K. Our data extend to electron densities that are two orders of magnitude smaller than previously reported. We span both the independent-electron regime where the data are qualitatively described

Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Fausto Rossi

A rigorous microscopic theory for the description of quantum-transport phenomena in systems with open boundaries is proposed. We shall show that the application of the conventional Wigner-function formalism to this problem leads to unphysical results, like injection of coherent electronic states from the contacts. To overcome such basic limitation, we propos

Paolo G. Radaelli, Sang-Wook Cheong

The structural properties of LaCoO3 were studied by means of high-resolution neutron powder diffraction in the temperature range 5<T<1000 K. Changes of the Co+3 spin states in this temperature interval are shown to affect not only the unit cell volume, as previously known, but also internal parameters such as the metal-oxygen bond lengths. These data, as wel

S. Lubeck, A. Hucht

We consider two mean-field like models which belong to the universality class of absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field. In both cases we derive analytically the order parameter as function of the control parameter and of an external field conjugated to the order parameter. This allows us to calculate the universal scaling function of the mean-fi

M. Grousson, V. Krakoviack, G. Tarjus, P. Viot

We study the Langevin dynamics of the soft-spin, continuum version of the Coulomb frustrated Ising ferromagnet. By using the dynamical mode-coupling approximation, supplemented by reasonable approximations for describing the equilibrium static correlation function, and the somewhat improved dynamical self-consistent screening approximation, we find that the

J. H. Barry, K. A. Muttalib

We consider a S=1 kagomé Ising model with triquadratic interactions around each triangular face of the kagomé lattice, single-ion anisotropy and an applied magnetic field. A mapping establishes an equivalence between the magnetic canonical partition function of the model and the grand canonical partition function of a kagomé lattice-gas model with localized

V. Gurarie, J. T. Chalker

We consider non-interacting bosonic excitations in disordered systems, emphasising generic features of quadratic Hamiltonians in the absence of Goldstone modes. We discuss relationships between such Hamiltonians and the symmetry classes established for fermionic systems. We examine the density ρ(ω) of excitation frequencies ω, showing how the universal behav

P. Henelius, P. Fröbrich, P. J. Kuntz, C. Timm

The stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo method is used to study thin ferromagnetic films, described by a Heisenberg model including local anisotropies. The magnetization curve is calculated, and the results compared to Schwinger boson and many-body Green&#39;s function calculations. A transverse field is introduced in order to study the reorienta

Keshav N. Shrivastava

An effort is made to understand the phenomenological composite fermion model of the quantum Hall effect. The odd denominators are composed by adding plus minus 1 to the even numbers 2, 4, 6 and 8. Although the denominators are phenomenologically made to agree with the experimental data, the physics of the CF model, i.e., the even flux quanta attachment to th

D. Sornette, Y. Malevergne, J. F. Muzy

Finance is about how the continuous stream of news gets incorporated into prices. But not all news have the same impact. Can one distinguish the effects of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack or of the coup against Gorbachev on Aug., 19, 1991 from financial crashes such as Oct. 1987 as well as smaller volatility bursts? Using a parsimonious autoregressive process with

Takashi Yanagisawa, Soh Koike, Mitake Miyazaki, Kunihiko Yamaji

The non-uniform ground state of the two-dimensional three-band Hubbard model for the oxide high-Tc superconductors is investigated using a variational Monte Carlo method. We examine the effect produced by holes doped into the antiferromagnetic (AF) background in the underdoped region. It is shown that the AF state with spin modulations and stripes is stabili

J. M. Schwarz, Daniel S. Fisher

A model of an elastic manifold driven through a random medium by an applied force F is studied focussing on the effects of inertia and elastic waves, in particular {\it stress overshoots} in which motion of one segment of the manifold causes a temporary stress on its neighboring segments in addition to the static stress. Such stress overshoots decrease the c

Kazutaka Nakamura, Robert Morelos-Zaragoza, David Saad, Yoshiyuki Kabashima

We investigate the use of Gallager&#39;s low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes in a broadcast channel, one of the fundamental models in network information theory. Combining linear codes is a standard technique in practical network communication schemes and is known to provide better performance than simple timesharing methods when algebraic codes are used.

Stuart Wyithe, Abraham Loeb

Intensive monitoring campaigns have recently attempted to measure the time delays between multiple images of gravitational lenses. Some of the resulting light-curves show puzzling low-level, rapid variability which is unique to individual images, superimposed on top of (and concurrent with) longer time-scale intrinsic quasar variations which repeat in all im

A. M. Hopkins, R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, I. O. Drozdovsky

We determine and examine the star-formation rates of 50 well known, local Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies based on their 1.4 GHz and 60 $μ$m luminosities. We find that in cases for which both radio and far-infrared luminosities are available, the resulting star-formation rates agree extremely well with one another. We determine that the star-formation rate

R. A. Swaters, M. Balcells

R-band surface photometry is presented for 171 late-type dwarf and irregular galaxies. For a subsample of 46 galaxies B-band photometry is presented as well. We present surface brightness profiles as well as isophotal and photometric parameters including magnitudes, diameters and central surface brightnesses. Absolute photometry is accurate to 0.1 mag or bet

R. A. Swaters, T. S. van Albada, J. M. van der Hulst, R. Sancisi

Neutral hydrogen observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope are presented for a sample of 73 late-type dwarf galaxies. These observations are part of the WHISP project (Westerbork HI Survey of Spiral and Irregular Galaxies). Here we present HI maps, velocity fields, global profiles and radial surface density profiles of HI, as well as HI mass

Aprajita Verma, Michael Rowan-Robinson, Richard McMahon, Andreas Efstathiou

We present 7-180micron photometry of a sample of hyperluminous infrared galaxies (HyLIGs) obtained with the photometer and camera mounted on the Infrared Space Observatory. We have used radiative transfer models of obscured starbursts and dusty torii to model their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). We find that F00235+1024, F14218+3845 and F15307+3252 re

Sidney van den Bergh

Among 330 normal spirals of types Sa-Sc the fraction of objects exhibiting ``ring&#39;&#39;, ``intermediate&#39;&#39; and ``spiral&#39;&#39; arm varieties does not correlated with environment. A similar conclusion appears to apply to the arm varieties of 123 barred spirals of types SBa-SBc. It is concluded that, among the northern Shapley-Ames galaxies, the

F. G. Alvarenga, J. C. Fabris, S. V. B. Gonçalves, G. Tadaiesky

A cosmological model with pressurelless matter and a fluid of negative pressure is studied. At perturbative level, fluctuations of both fluids are considered. It is shown that at least at very large scales, the fluid of negative pressure, which represents the dark energy content of the universe, clusters like the dust fluid. Numerical integration reveals tha

Robert H. Sanders, Stacy S. McGaugh

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an empirically motivated modification of Newtonian gravity or inertia suggested by Milgrom as an alternative to cosmic dark matter. The basic idea is that at accelerations below a0 ~ 10^{-8} cm/s^2 ~ cH0/6 the effective gravitational attraction approaches sqrt{gN*a0} where gN is the usual Newtonian acceleration. This sim

Reinhard Prix, Michel Rieutord

We present results concerning the linear (radial and non-radial) oscillations of non-rotating superfluid neutron stars in Newtonian physics. We use a simple two-fluid model to describe the superfluid neutron star, where one fluid consists of the superfluid neutrons,while the second fluid contains all the comoving constituents (protons, electrons). The two fl

A. James, L. Dunne, S. Eales, M. G. Edmunds

Using a new technique we have determined a value for the constant of proportionality between submillimetre emission and dust mass, the dust mass absorption coefficient at 850 microns. Our method has an advantage over previous methods in that we avoid assumptions about the properties of dust in the interstellar medium. Our only assumption is that the fraction

James Murray, Dalia Chakrabarty, Graham Wynn, Louisa Kramer

We demonstrate that measurable vertical structure can be excited in the accretion disc of a close binary system by a dipolar magnetic field centred on the secondary star. We present the first high resolution hydrodynamic simulations to show the initial development of a uniform warp in a tidally truncated accretion disc. The warp precesses retrogradely with r

Anisa T. Bajkova

A range of nonlinear image reconstruction procedures based on extremizing the generalized Shannon entropy, Kullback-Leibler cross-entropy and Renyi information measures and proposed by the author in early papers is presented. The ``generalization&#39;&#39; assumes search for the solution over the space of real bipolar or complex functions. Such an approach a

H. J. Martinez, A. Zandivarez, M. Dominguez, M. E. Merchan

We estimate the fraction of star forming galaxies in a catalogue of groups, constructed from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey by Merchán & Zandivarez. We use the $η$ spectral type parameter of galaxies and subdivide the sample of galaxies in groups into four types depending on the values of the $η$ parameter following Madgwick et al. We obtain a strong correla

H. Liszt

Molecular hydrogen is quite underabundant in damped Lyman-alpha systems at high redshift, when compared to the interstellar medium near the Sun. This has been interpreted as implying that the gas in damped Lyman-alpha systems is warm. like the nearby neutral intercloud medium, rather than cool, as in the clouds which give rise to most H I absorption in the M

A. Pappa, I. Georgantopoulos, M. Ward, A. L. Zezas

We present Bepposax observations of the starburst/Seyfert composite galaxy Mrk609. This enigmatic object has an optical spectrum dominated by the features of starburst galaxies, yet its X-ray luminosity (6.3$\times10^{42}$\lunits) is typical of an AGN. The X-ray spectrum of Mrk609 can be parameterised by a single power-law model with a photon index $Γ\sim1.6

David Eichler

It is suggested that magnetars eventually become unstable to a dynamic overturning instability that destroys most of their dipole moment in a single event. It is further suggested that such an instability would produce a supergiant version of the largest soft gamma ray bursts that have thus far been observed, and that they could be observed out to tens or ev

Melvyn B. Davies, Hans Ritter, Andrew King

The binaries PSR J1141-6545 and PSR B2303+46 each appear to contain a white dwarf which formed before the neutron star. We describe an evolutionary pathway to produce these two systems. In this scenario, the primary transfers its envelope onto the secondary which is then the more massive of the two stars, and indeed sufficiently massive later to produce a ne

Sui-Jian Xue, Xiang-Ping Wu

We present a new estimate of the projected X-ray mass of Abell 1689 observed with Chandra, in an attempt to clarify the issue of whether or not there exists a discrepancy between X-ray and gravitational lensing mass estimates claimed in previous investigations based on {\it Einstein}, {\it ROSAT} and {\it ASCA} observations. A particular attention is paid to

M. Birkinshaw, D. M. Worrall, M. J. Hardcastle

Chandra ACIS observations of PKS 0521-365 find that the X-ray emission of this BL Lac object consists of emission from an unresolved core, a diffuse halo, and a 2 arcsec jet feature coincident with the inner radio/optical jet. A comparison with a new ATCA 8.6-GHz map also finds X-ray emission from the bright hotspot south-east of the nucleus. The jet spectru

I. D. Karachentsev, M. E. Sharina, D. I. Makarov, A. E. Dolphin

We present Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 images of eighteen galaxies situated in the vicinity of the Local Group (LG) as part of an ongoing snapshot survey of nearby galaxies. Their distances derived from the magnitude of the tip of the red giant branch are 1.92+-0.10 Mpc (ESO 294-010), 3.06+-0.37 (NGC404), 3.15+-0.32 (UGCA105), 1.36+-0.07 (SexB), 1.33+-0.08

G. Maheswar, P. Manoj, H. C. Bhatt

The geometrical relationship between the distribution of circumstellar matter, observed optical linear polarization, outflows and binary orbital plane in Herbig Ae/Be stars is investigated. Optical linear polarization measurements carried out for a number of Herbig Ae/Be stars that are either known to be in binary systems and/or have bipolar jets are present

K. Aoki, T. Murayama, K. Denda

We obtained near-infrared spectroscopy of the z=5.74 QSO, SDSSp J104433.04-012 502.2 with the Infrared Camera and Spectrograph of the Subaru telescope. The redshift of 5.74 corresponds to a cosmological age of 1.0 Gyr for the current Lambda-dominated cosmology. We found a similar strength of the Fe II (3000-3500 A) emission lines in SDSSp J104433.04-012502.2

C. V. Manning

According to the discussion on Birkhoff&#39;s theorem by Peebles (1993), a void with a negative perturbation δmay evolve as a separate homogeneous universe with a local expansion parameter H_V\simeq H_0(1-δ/3). This slightly low density ``universe&#39;&#39; will diverge from the mean, producing a void of ever lower density. As a result, the contents of voids

Michael P. Muno, Feryal Ozel, Deepto Chakrabarty

We present a comprehensive observational and theoretical analysis of the amplitudes and profiles of oscillations that occur during thermonuclear X-ray bursts from weakly-magnetized neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries. Our sample contains 59 oscillations from six sources observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The oscillations that we examined occ

Jean-Luc Thiffeault

As a streak of dye is advected by a chaotic flow, it stretches and folds and becomes indistinguishable from a one-dimensional idealized material line. The variation along a material line of the total stretching experienced by fluid elements is examined, and it is found that it can be decomposed into an overall time-dependent factor, constant along the line,

John N. Bahcall, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Carlos Peña-Garay

We present &#34;Before and After&#34; global oscillation solutions, as well as predicted &#34;Before and After&#34; values and ranges for ten future solar neutrino observables (for BOREXINO, KamLAND, SNO, and a generic p-p neutrino detector). We have performed global analyses using the full SNO day-night energy spectrum and, alternatively, just the SNO CC an

L. Anguelova, C. I. Lazaroiu

We develop methods to study the singularities of certain $G_2$ cones related to toric hyperkahler spaces and Einstein selfdual orbifolds. This allows us to determine the low energy gauge groups of chiral N=1 compactifications of M-theory on a large family of such backgrounds, which includes the models recently studied by Acharya and Witten. All M-theory comp

Peter Arnold, Guy D. Moore, Laurence G. Yaffe

We recently derived, using diagrammatic methods, the leading-order hard photon emission rate in ultra-relativistic plasmas. This requires a correct treatment of multiple scattering effects which limit the coherence length of emitted radiation (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect). In this paper, we provide a more physical derivation of this result, and exte

Ahmed Jellal, El Hassan Saidi, Hendrik B. Geyer

We propose a matrix model to describe a class of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states for a system of (N_1+N_2) electrons with filling factor more general than in the Laughlin case. Our model, which is developed for FQH states with filling factor of the form ν_{k_1k_2}=\frac{k_1+k_2}{k_1k_2} (k_1 and k_2 odd integers), has a U(N_1)\times U(N_2) gauge invaria

Eric G. Blackman, Axel Brandenburg

We supplement the mean field dynamo growth equation with the total magnetic helicity evolution equation. This provides an explicitly time dependent model for alpha quenching in dynamo theory. For dynamos without shear, this approach accounts for the observed large scale field growth and saturation in numerical simulations. After a significant kinematic phase

F. Becattini, G. Pettini

An effective model with constituent quarks as fundamental degrees of freedom is used to predict the relative strangeness production pattern in both high energy elementary and heavy ion collisions. The basic picture is that of the statistical hadronization model, with hadronizing color-singlet clusters assumed to be at full chemical equilibrium at constituent

P. V. Pobylitsa

New positivity bounds are derived for generalized (off-forward) parton distributions using the impact parameter representation. These inequalities are stable under the evolution to higher normalization points. The full set of inequalities is infinite. Several particular cases are considered explicitly.

R. Escribano, A. Gallegos, J. L. Lucio M., G. Moreno

Using the pole approach we determine the mass and width of the $f_0(980)$; in particular, we analyze the possibility that two nearby poles are associated to it. We restrict our analysis to a neighborhood of the resonance, using $ππ$ data for the phase shift and inelasticity, and the invariant mass spectrum of the $J/ψ\toϕππ, ϕK\bar K$ decays. The formalism w

Guilhem Semerjian, Leticia F. Cugliandolo

We study the dynamics of a dilute spherical model with two body interactions and random exchanges. We analyze the Langevin equations and we introduce a functional variational method to study generic dilute disordered models. A crossover temperature replaces the dynamic transition of the fully-connected limit. There are two asymptotic regimes, one determined

A. Bramon, R. Escribano, J. L. Lucio M., M. Napsuciale

The complementarity between Chiral Perturbation Theory and the Linear Sigma Model is exploited to study $π^0π^0$ production in $ϕ$ radiative decays, where the effects of the $f_0(980)$ scalar resonance, and those of its more controversial $σ(500)$ partner, should become manifest via the $ϕ\to K^+ K^- (γ)\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay chain. The recently reported data on

Joerg Evers, David Bullock, Christoph H. Keitel

We discuss quantum interference effects in a three-level atom in lambda-configuration, where both transitions from the upper state to the lower states are driven by a single monochromatic laser field. Although the system has two lower states, quantum interference is possible because there are interfering pathways to each of the two lower states. The addition

Anirban Basu

We consider C/Z_N and C^2/Z_N orbifolds of heterotic string theories and Z_N orbifolds of AdS_3. We study theories with N=2 worldsheet superconformal invariance and construct RG flows. Following Harvey, Kutasov, Martinec and Moore, we compute g_cl and show that it decreases monotonically along RG flows- as conjectured by them. For the heterotic string theori

P. Ohberg, L. Santos

We analyze in detail the expansion of a 1D Bose gas after removing the axial confinement. We show that during its one-dimensional expansion the density of the Bose gas does not follow a self-similar solution, but on the contrary, it asymptotically approaches a Tonks-Girardeau profile. Our analysis is based on a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with variable no

H. Jirari, R. Mélin, N. Stefanakis

We consider the proximity effect in multiterminal ferromagnet superconductor (FSF) hybrid structures in which two or three electrodes are connected to a superconductor. We show that two competing effects take place in these systems: (i) pair breaking effects due to the response to the exchange field induced in the superconductor; (ii) a reduction of the \SOP

I. Ya. Aref&#39;eva, A. A. Giryavets

By diagonalizing the three-string vertex and using a special coordinate representation the matter part of the open superstring star is identified with the continuous Moyal product of functions of anti-commuting variables. We show that in this representation the identity and sliver have simple expressions. The relation with the half-string fermionic variables

D. Falcone

A simplified but very instructive analysis of the seesaw mechanism is here performed. Assuming a nearly diagonal Dirac neutrino mass matrix, we study the forms of the Majorana mass matrix of right-handed neutrinos, which reproduce the effective mass matrix of left-handed neutrinos. As a further step, the important effect of a non diagonal Dirac neutrino mass

F. Radu, M. Etzkorn, R. Siebrecht, T. Schmitte

We have carried out detailed experimental studies of the exchange bias effect of a series of CoO/Co(111) textured bilayers with different Co layer thickness, using the magneto-optical Kerr effect, SQUID magnetometry, polarized neutron reflectivity, x-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy. All samples exhibit a pronounced asymmetry of the magnetic hyst

H. Lu

We construct a new (singular) cohomogeneity-three metric of G_2 holonomy. The solution can be viewed as a triple intersection of smeared Taub-NUTs. The metric comprises three non-compact radial-type coordinates, with the principal orbits being a T^3 bundle over S^1. We consider an M-theory vacuum (Minkowski)_4\times M_7 where M_7 is the G_2 manifold. Upon re

Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Somasri Sen, Soumitra SenGupta

We consider spacetime with torsion in a Randall-Sundrum (RS) scenario where torsion, identified with the rank-2 Kalb-Ramond field, exists in the bulk together with gravity. While the interactions of both graviton and torsion in the bulk are controlled by the Planck mass, an additional exponential suppression comes for the torsion zero-mode on the visible bra

Manuel A. Valle Basagoiti

We show how to compute transport coefficients in gauge theories by considering the expansion of the Kubo formulas in terms of ladder diagrams in the imaginary time formalism. All summations over Matsubara frequencies are performed and the analytical continuation to get the retarded correlators is done. As an illustration of the procedure, we present a deriva

Hiromitsu Takayanagi, Tadashi Takayanagi

In this paper we study the superstring version of the exactly solvable string model constructed by Russo and Tseytlin. This model represents superstring theory in a curved spacetime and can be seen as a generalization of the Melvin background. We investigate D-branes in this model as probes of the background geometry by constructing the boundary states. We f

Mikael Rordam

An example is given of a simple, unital C*-algebra which contains an infinite and a non-zero finite projection. This C*-algebra is also an example of an infinite simple C*-algebra which is not purely infinite. A corner of this C*-algebra is a finite, simple, unital C*-algebra which is not stably finite. Our example shows that the type decomposition for von N

E. O. Iltan, M. E. T. U, Ankara

We study Z--> l^+ l^- and W--> nu_l l^+ decays in the standard model including the noncommutative effects. We observe that these effects appear in the flavor dependent part of the decay widths of the processes under consideration and therefore, they are more effective for the heavy lepton decays.

Curtis J. Saxton, Geoffrey V. Bicknell, Ralph S. Sutherland

The radio lobes of the radio galaxy Hercules A contain intriguing ring-like structures concentric with the jet axis. To investigate the occurrence of such features, we have used hydrodynamic simulations of jets with a range of Mach numbers (from M=2 to 50) and densities (down to a ratio of 1E-4 relative to the background) to generate ray-traced images simula

H. Kawai, S. Kawamoto, T. Kuroki, T. Matsuo

For the purpose of analyzing non-perturbative dynamics of string theory, Nishimura and Sugino have applied an improved mean field approximation (IMFA) to IIB matrix model. We have extracted the essence of the IMFA and obtained a general scheme, an improved Taylor expansion, that can be applied to a wide class of series which is not necessarily convergent. Th

Takahiro Yamamoto, Rumi Manago, Yoshihiro Mori, Chikara Ishii

Magnetization processes of frustrated Kondo necklace model are studied by means of a density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method and an elementary band theory based on a bond-operator formalism. The DMRG calculations clearly show the cusp singularity in a low-magnetization region ($0<m<1/2$) besides that in a high-magnetization region ($1/2<m<1$) whic

V. V. Anisovich, A. V. Sarantsev

We present the results of the current analysis of the partial wave IJ^{PC}=00^{++} based on the available data for meson spectra (pi-pi, K\bar K, eta-eta, eta-eta&#39;, pi-pi-pi-pi). In the framework of the K-matrix approach, the analytical amplitude has been restored in the mass region 280 MeV< \sqrt s <1900 MeV. The following scalar-isoscalar states are se

N. J. Rattenbury, I. A. Bond, J. Skuljan, P. C. M. Yock

Simulations of planetary microlensing at high magnification that were carried out on a cluster computer are presented. It was found that the perturbations due to two-thirds of all planets occur in the time interval [-0.5t_FWHM, 0.5t_ FWHM] with respect to the peak of the microlensing light curve, where t_FWHM is typically about 14 hours. This implies that on

Hugues de Riedmatten, Ivan Marcikic, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin

We present a new scheme to generate high dimensional entanglement between two photonic systems. The idea is based on parametric down conversion with a sequence of pump pulses generated by a mode-locked laser. We prove experimentally the feasibility of this scheme by performing a Franson-type Bell test using a 2-way interferometer with path-length difference

A. Carollo, M. Franca Santos, V. Vedral

Geometric phases are well known in classical electromagnetism and quantum mechanics since the early works of Pantcharatnam and Berry. Their origin relies on the geometric nature of state spaces and has been studied in many different systems such as spins, polarized light and atomic physics. Recent works have explored their application in interferometry and q

Jaline Gerardin, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The Bragg regime shifts when conventional materials in a multilayer distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) are replaced by artificial materials with the so-called negative index of refraction. This provides an avenue for characterizing the latter class of materials.

Kevin H. Knuth, Wilson A. Truccolo, Steven L. Bressler, Mingzhou Ding

In neuroelectrophysiology one records electric potentials or magnetic fields generated by ensembles of synchronously active neurons in response to externally presented stimuli. These evoked responses are often produced by multiple generators in the presence of ongoing background activity. While source localization techniques or current source density estimat

S. D. Bergeson, R. L. Spencer

We use cold plasma theory to calculate the response of an ultracold neutral plasma to an applied rf field. The free oscillation of the system has a continuous spectrum and an associated damped quasimode. We show that this quasimode dominates the driven response. We use this model to simulate plasma oscillations in an expanding ultracold neutral plasma, provi

Constantin Piron

Following P. A. M. Dirac&#39;s critique in ``Lectures on Quantum Field Theory&#39;&#39; of the usual formalism, I will discuss the role of the time parameter to solve R. Haag&#39;s no-go theorem on the non-equivalence of the conventional Schrödinger picture and the Heisenberg picture. This is possible by first defining in a correct way the concept of the vac

W. C. Haxton, T. Luu

The effective interaction/operator problem in nuclear physics is believed to be highly nonperturbative, requiring extended high-momentum spaces for accurate solution. We trace this to difficulties that arise at both short and long distances when the included space is defined in terms of a basis of harmonic oscillator Slater determinants. We show, in the simp

Shmuel Fishman, Saar Rahav

For a class of idealized chaotic systems (hyperbolic systems) correlations decay exponentially in time. This result is asymptotic and rigorous. The decay rate is related to the Ruelle-Pollicott resonances. Nearly all chaotic model systems, that are studied by physicists, are not hyperbolic. For many such systems it is known that exponential decay takes place

Leo Kadanoff, Susan Coppersmith, Maximino Aldana

This paper reviews a class of generic dissipative dynamical systems called N-K models. In these models, the dynamics of N elements, defined as Boolean variables, develop step by step, clocked by a discrete time variable. Each of the N Boolean elements at a given time is given a value which depends upon K elements in the previous time step. We review the work

Bernd Kuckert

We give an overview on a couple of recent results concerning the KMS-condition and the characterization of thermodynamic equilibrium states from a moving observer&#39;s point of view. These results include a characterization of vacuum states in relativistic quantum field theory and a general derivation of the Unruh effect.

S. G. Dani

We construct examples of two-step and three-step nilpotent Lie groups whose automorphism groups are `small&#39; in the sense of either not having a dense orbit for the action on the Lie group, or being nilpotent (the latter being stronger). From the results we get also new examples of compact manifolds covered by two-step simply connected Lie groups, which d

Philippe Leroux

This paper is an attempt to unify coassociative coalgebra theory and random walks on oriented graphs.

Gregor Fels, Alan Huckleberry

A real form $G$ of a complex semisimple Lie group $G^C$ has only finitely many orbits in any given $G^C$-flag manifold $Z=G^C/Q$. The complex geometry of these orbits is of interest, e.g., for the associated representation theory. The open orbits $D$ generally possess only the constant holomorphic functions, and the relevant associated geometric objects are

Stefan Bauer, Mikio Furuta

The monopole map defines an element in an equivariant stable cohomotopy group refining the Seiberg-Witten invariant. This first of two articles presents the details of the definition of the stable cohomotopy invariant and discusses its relation to the integer valued Seiberg-Witten invariant.

Peter Schauenburg

Let $L$ be a quantum semigroupoid, more precisely a $\times_R$-bialgebra in the sense of Takeuchi. We describe a procedure replacing the algebra $R$ by any Morita equivalent, or in fact more generally any $\sqrt{\text{Morita}}$ equivalent (in the sense of Takeuchi) algebra $S$ to obtain a $\times_S$-bialgebra $\widetilde H$ with the same monoidal representat

Peter Schauenburg

Let H be a finite-dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra. We show for each quotient quasibialgebra Q of H that Q is a quasi-Hopf algebra whose dimension divides the dimension of H.

Sebastien Boucksom

Using currents with minimal singularities, we construct pointwise minimal multiplicities for a real pseudo-effective $(1,1)$-class $α$ on a compact complex $n$-fold $X$, which are the local obstructions to the numerical effectivity of $α$. The negative part of $α$ is then defined as the real effective divisor $N(α)$ whose multiplicity along a prime divisor $

Claudio Gorodski, Gudlaugur Thorbergsson

We prove that an isometric action of a compact Lie group on a compact symmetric space is variationally complete if and only if it is hyperpolar.

Alexander Schmidt

In this paper we extend the unramified class field theory for arithmetic surfaces of K. Kato and S. Saito to the relative case. Let X be a regular proper arithmetic surface and let Y be the support of divisor on X. Let CH_0(X,Y) denote the relative Chow group of zero cycles and let \tilde π_1^t(X,Y)^ {ab} denote the abelianized modified tame fundamental grou

Gaywalee Yamskulna

Let L be a rank one positive definite even lattice. We prove that a vertex operator algebra (VOA) V_L^+ satisfies the C_2 condition. Here, V_L^+ is a fixed point sub-VOA of the VOA V_L associated with the automorphism lifted from the -1 isometry of L.

Stefan Schroeer, Gabriele Vezzosi

We prove two results about vector bundles on singular algebraic surfaces. First, on proper surfaces there are vector bundles of rank two with arbitrarily large second Chern number and fixed determinant. Second, on separated normal surfaces any coherent sheaf is the quotient of a vector bundle. As a consequence, for such surfaces the Quillen K-theory of vecto

Gaywalee Yamskulna

Let V be a simple vertex operator algebra and let G be a finite automorphism group of V. In [DY], it was shown that any irreducible V-module is a completely reducible V^G-module where V^G is the G-invariant sub-vertex operator algebra of V. In this paper, we give an alternative proof of this fact using the theory of skew group algebras. We also extend this r

Anand Dessai

We show that the indices of certain twisted Dirac operators vanish on a $Spin$-manifold $M$ of positive sectional curvature if the symmetry rank of $M$ is $\geq 2$ or if the symmetry rank is one and $M$ is two connected. We also give examples of simply connected manifolds of positive Ricci curvature which do not admit a metric of positive sectional curvature

R. Menezes, J. R. S. Nascimento, R. F. Ribeiro, C. Wotzasek

We study the equivalence between the $B\wedge F$ self-dual ($SD_{B\wedge F}$) and the $B\wedge F$ topologically massive ($TM_{B\wedge F}$) models including the coupling to dynamical, U(1) charged fermionic matter. This is done through an iterative procedure of gauge embedding that produces the dual mapping. In the interactive cases, the minimal coupling adop

G. Akemann

We describe in detail the solution of the extension of the chiral Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (chGUE) into the complex plane. The correlation functions of the model are first calculated for a finite number of N complex eigenvalues, where we exploit the existence of orthogonal Laguerre polynomials in the complex plane. When taking the large-N limit we derive ne

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman, Sebastian Nowak

Doubly Special Relativity (DSR) theory is a recently proposed theory with two observer-independent scales (of velocity and mass), which is to describe a kinematic structure underlining the theory of Quantum Gravity. We observe that there is infinitely many DSR constructions of the energy-momentum sector, each of whose can be promoted to the $κ$-Poincaré quan

J. Wosiek

The new approach to quantum mechanical problems is proposed. Quantum states are represented in an algebraic program, by lists of variable length, while operators are well defined functions on these lists. Complete numerical solution of a given system can then be automatically obtained. The method is applied to Wess-Zumino quantum mechanics and D=2 and D=4 su

Hsin-Chia Cheng, Konstantin T. Matchev, Martin Schmaltz

Extra-dimensional theories contain a number of almost degenerate states at each Kaluza-Klein level. If extra dimensional momentum is at least approximately conserved then the phenomenology of such nearly degenerate states depends crucially on the mass splittings between KK modes. We calculate the complete one-loop radiative corrections to KK masses in genera

H. H. Asatryan, H. M. Asatrian, C. Greub, M. Walker

In a recent paper, we presented the calculation of the order (alpha_s) virtual corrections to b->s l+ l- and of those bremsstrahlung terms which are needed to cancel the infrared divergences. In the present paper we work out the remaining order(alpha_s) bremsstrahlung corrections to b->s l+ l- which do not suffer from infrared and collinear singularities. Th