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arXiv papers from April 2004

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  1. Tzu-Chieh Wei, Marie Ericsson, Paul M. Goldbart, William J. Munro

    As two of the most important entanglement measures--the entanglement of formation and the entanglement of distillation--have so far been limited to bipartite settings, the study of other entanglement measures for multipartite systems appears necessary. Here, connections between two other entanglement measures--the relative entropy of entanglement and the geo

  2. George F. Viamontes, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes

    Quantum algorithms and circuits can, in principle, outperform the best non-quantum (classical) techniques for some hard computational problems. However, this does not necessarily lead to useful applications. To gauge the practical significance of a quantum algorithm, one must weigh it against the best conventional techniques applied to useful instances of th

  3. Tomas Ortin

    Introductory lectures on classical and quantum string black holes (supergravity, branes and dualities) given at the VII School "La Hechicera" of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics, held in the University of Los Andes, Merida (Venezuela) 2001. Fully in Spanish.

  4. Emil Saucan

    We prove that a Kleinian group $G$ acting upon $\mathbb{H}^{n}$ admits a non-constant $G$-automorphic function, even if it has torsion elements, provided that the orders of the elliptic (torsion) elements are uniformly bounded. This is accomplished by developing a technique for mashing distinct fat triangulations while preserving fatness.

  5. John Swain

    Given the interest in relating the large $N$ limit of SU(N) to groups of area-preserving diffeomorphisms, we consider the topologies of these groups and show that both in terms of homology and homotopy, they are extremely different. Similar conclusions are drawn for other infinite dimensional classical groups.

  6. John Swain

    The Majorana representation of spin-$\frac{n}{2}$ quantum states by sets of points on a sphere allows a realization of SU(n) acting on such states, and thus a natural action on the two-dimensional sphere $S^2$. This action is discussed in the context of the proposed connection between $SU(\infty)$ and the group $SDiff(S^2)$ of area-preserving diffeomorphisms

  7. Bela Bollobas, Vladimir Nikiforov

    Yuster and Caro initiated the study of the sum of powers of the degrees of graphs with forbidden subgraphs. We settle two of their conjectures.

  8. V. Timoshevskii, N. Madini, M. Cote, R. Leonelli

    Optical properties of GaAsN system with nitrogen concentrations in the range of 0.9-3.7% are studied by full-potential LAPW method in a supercell approach. The E+ transition is identified by calculating the imaginary part of the dielectric function. The evolution of the energy of this transition with nitrogen concentration is studied and the origin of this t

  9. John M. Cannon, Evan D. Skillman

    We present new multi-frequency radio continuum imaging of the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 625 obtained with the Very Large Array. Data at 20, 6, and 3.6 cm reveal global continuum emission dominated by free-free emission, with only mild synchrotron components. Each of the major HII regions is detected; the individual spectral indices are thermal for the young

  10. Christopher J. Conselice, Jeffrey A. Blackburne, Casey Papovich

    The evolution of rest-frame B-band luminosities, stellar masses, and number densities of field galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North and South are studied as a function of rest-frame B-band morphological type out to redshifts z~3 using a sample of 1231 I < 27 galaxies with spectroscopic and photometric redshifts. We find that the co-moving number, and rela

  11. Thomas B. Bahder

    Clock synchronization is the backbone of applications such as high-accuracy satellite navigation, geolocation, space-based interferometry, and cryptographic communication systems. The high accuracy of synchronization needed over satellite-to-ground and satellite-to-satellite distances requires the use of general relativistic concepts. The role of geometrical

  12. Shuichi Murakami

    The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon of inducing spin current by an external electric field. We recently proposed that this effect can occur in p-type semiconductors without relying upon any disorder scattering [S. Murakami et al., Science 301, 1348 (2003)]. This intrinsic effect is due to the ``Berry phase in momentum space'', representing topological struc

  13. A. Melikidze, Kun Yang

    During the reconstruction of the edge of a quantum Hall liquid, Coulomb interaction energy is lowered through the change in the structure of the edge. We use theory developed earlier by one of the authors [K. Yang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 036802 (2003)] to calculate the electron spectral functions of a reconstructed edge, and study the consequences of the edge

  14. Sergey Bravyi

    Notions of a Gaussian state and a Gaussian linear map are generalized to the case of anticommuting (Grassmann) variables. Conditions under which a Gaussian map is trace preserving and (or) completely positive are formulated. For any Gaussian map an explicit formula relating correlation matrices of input and output states is presented. This formalism allows t

  15. A. Majumder

    We propose the formulation of a dihadron fragmentation function in terms of parton matrix elements. Under the collinear factorization approximation and facilitated by the cut-vertex technique, the two hadron inclusive cross section at leading order (LO) in e+ e- annihilation is shown to factorize into a short distance parton cross section and the long distan

  16. Florentin Smarandache

    In this paper we define a function $L$ which will allow us to (separately or simultaneously) generalize many theorems from Number Theory obtained by Wilson, Fermat, Euler, Gauss, Lagrange, Leibniz, Moser, and Sierpinski.

  17. Bela Bollobas, Vladimir Nikiforov

    We introduce a measure of discrepancy of Hermitian matrices and establish an inequality between the second singular value of a Hermitian matrix and its discrepancy. These results are applied to answer two questions of Fan Chung about graph eigenvalues.

  18. Volker Schomerus

    Over the last few years, string theory has changed profoundly. Most importantly, novel duality relations have emerged which involve gauge theories of brane excitations on one side and various closed string backgrounds on the other. In this lecture, we introduce the fundamental ingredients of modern string theory and explain how they are modeled through 2D (b

  19. Wojtek Slowikowski, Erik B. Nielsen

    We use notions and techniques of Quantum Field Theory to formulate and investigate basic concepts and mechanisms of human communication. We start with attitudes which correspond to photons frequencies, then we introduce states-of-mind which correspond to wave functions. Finally, by way of the second quantization, we come to states-of-opinions which correspon

  20. H. Pu, L. O. Baksmaty, S. Yi, N. P. Bigelow

    We consider the vortex structure of a rapidly rotating trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a co-rotating periodic optical lattice potential. We observe a rich variety of structural phases which reflect the interplay of the vortex-vortex and vortex-lattice interactions. The lattice structure is very sensitive to the ratio of vortices to

  21. Zvi Bern, Lance J. Dixon, David A. Kosower

    Splitting amplitudes are universal functions governing the collinear behavior of scattering amplitudes for massless particles. We compute the two-loop g -> gg splitting amplitudes in QCD, N=1, and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theories, which describe the limits of two-loop n-point amplitudes where two gluon momenta become parallel. They also represent an ingredient

  22. Florian Marquardt, Veniamin A. Abalmassov

    We calculate electron and nuclear spin relaxation rates in a quantum dot due to the combined action of Nyquist noise and electron-nuclei hyperfine or spin-orbit interactions. The relaxation rate is linear in the resistance of the gate circuit and, in the case of spin-orbit interaction, it depends essentially on the orientations of both the static magnetic fi

  23. PACS Collaboration, K. Ide, S. Aoki, R. Burkhalter

    Renormalization constants ($Z$-factors) of vector and axial-vector currents are determined non-perturbatively in quenched QCD for a renormalization group improved gauge action and a tadpole improved clover quark action using the Schr\"odinger functional method. Non-perturbative values of $Z$-factors turn out to be smaller than one-loop perturbative values by

  24. Alonso Botero, Benni Reznik

    We show that with respect to any bipartite division of modes, pure fermion gaussian states display the same type of structure in its entanglement of modes as that of the BCS wave function, namely, that of a tensor product of entangled two-mode squeezed fermion states. We show that this structure applies to a wider class of "isotropic" mixed fermion states, f

  25. Thomas Hertog, Kengo Maeda

    We consider N=8 gauged supergravity in D=4 and D=5. We show one can weaken the boundary conditions on the metric and on all scalars with $m^2 <-{(D-1)^2 \over 4}+1$, while preserving the asymptotic anti-de Sitter (AdS) symmetries. Each scalar admits a one-parameter family of AdS-invariant boundary conditions for which the metric falls off slower than usual.

  26. Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas, Bogdan Florea

    We find IIb compactifications on Calabi-Yau orientifolds in which all Kahler moduli are stabilized, along lines suggested by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi.

  27. B. F. Bayman, F. Zardi

    This paper has been withdrawn because it draws incorrect conclusions from the results of its calculations.

  28. Jose L. F. Barbon, Carlos Hoyos, David Mateos, Robert C. Myers

    In the string holographic dual of large-N_c QCD with N_f flavours of Kruczenski et al, the eta' meson is massless at infinite N_c and dual to a collective fluctuation of N_f D6-brane probes in a supergravity background. Here we identify the string diagrams responsible for the generation of a mass of order N_f/N_c, consistent with the Witten-Veneziano formula

  29. L. Wei, M. J. Jamieson, A. Dalgarno

    We present a quantum mechanical study of the diatomic hydrogen $H(^{2}S)$ and oxygen $O(^{3}P)$ collision and energy transfer for its four molecular symmetry $(X^{2}\Pi, ^{2}\Sigma^{-}, ^{4}\Pi, ^{4}\Sigma^{-})$, which is important for the investigation of many processes of astrophysical and chemical interests including the one on molecular cooling, trapping

  30. T. S. Cubitt, F. Verstraete, J. I. Cirac

    We investigate entanglement dynamics in multipartite systems, establishing a quantitative concept of entanglement flow: both flow through individual particles, and flow along general networks of interacting particles. In the former case, the rate at which a particle can transmit entanglement is shown to depend on that particle's entanglement with the rest of

  31. Jeff Crowder, Neil J. Cornish

    The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect thousands of gravitational wave sources. Many of these sources will be overlapping in the sense that their signals will have a non-zero cross-correlation. Such overlaps lead to source confusion, which adversely affects how well we can extract information about the individual sources. Here we study how

  32. Yuri A. Neretin

    Let $D(s)$ be a fractional derivation of order $s$. For a real $p\ne 0$, we construct an integral operator $A(p)$ in an appropriate functional space such that $A(p) D(s) A(p)^{-1}=D(p s)$ for all $s$. The kernel of the operator $A(p)$ is expressed in terms of a function similar to the stable densities.

  33. Brian Seed

    A direct calculation of the elements of the photon polarization vector for arbitrary momentum in the helicity basis shows that it is not a vector but a complex bivector. The bivector real and imaginary parts can be directly equated with electromagnetic field amplitudes and the associated field equations are the Maxwell equations in time-imaginary space. The

  34. J. X. Wang, J. E. Rhoads, S. Malhotra, S. Dawson

    The Lyman-alpha emitters found at z ~ 4.5 by the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey have high equivalent widths in the Lyman-alpha line, which can be produced by either narrow-lined active galactic nuclei (AGNs) or by stellar populations with a very high proportion of young, massive stars. To investigate the AGN scenario, we obtained two deep Chandra expos

  35. A. Mikovic

    We give a short review of the spin foam models of quantum gravity, with an emphasis on the Barret-Crane model. After explaining the shortcomings of the Barret-Crane model, we briefly discuss two new approaches, one based on the 3d spin foam state sum invariants for the embedded spin networks, and the other based on representing the string scattering amplitud

  36. Gabriel Picioroaga

    In this paper we prove that the general version, F(N) of the Thompson group is inner amenable. As a consequence we generalize a result of P.Jolissaint. To do so, we prove first that F(N) together with a normal subgroup are i.c.c (infinite conjugacy classes) groups. Then, we investigate the relative McDuff property out of which we extract property $\Gamma$ fo

  37. M. Skeide

    We describe three methods to determine the structure of (sufficiently continuous) representations of the algebra B^a(E) of all adjointable operators on a Hilbert B-module E by operators on a Hilbert C-module. While the last and latest proof is simple and direct and new even for normal representations of B(H) (H some Hilbert space), the other ones are direct

  38. L. Moriconi, F. A. S. Nobre

    A dual lattice vortex formulation of homogeneous turbulence is developed, within the Martin-Siggia-Rose field theoretical approach. It consists of a generalization of the usual dipole version of the Navier-Stokes equations, known to hold in the limit of vanishing external forcing. We investigate, as a straightforward application of our formalism, the dynamic

  39. H. Schild, M. Guedel, R. Mewe, W. Schmutz

    We present XMM-Newton observations of gamma^2 Velorum (WR 11, WC8+O7.5III, P = 78.53 d), a nearby Wolf-Ray binary system, at its X-ray high and low states. At high state, emission from a hot collisional plasma dominates from about 1 to 8 keV. At low state, photons between 1 and 4 keV are absorbed. The hot plasma is identified with the shock zone between the

  40. A. V. Andreev, V. Gurarie, L. Radzihovsky

    We consider a two-species degenerate Fermi gas coupled by a diatomic Feshbach resonance. We show that the resulting superfluid can exhibit a form of coherent BEC-to-BCS oscillations in response to a nonadiabatic change in the system's parameters, such as for example a sudden shift in the position of the Feshbach resonance. In the narrow resonance limit, the

  41. David A. Turnshek, Sandhya M. Rao, Daniel B. Nestor, Daniel Vanden Berk

    We report the discovery of two damped Ly-alpha absorption-line systems (DLAs) near redshift z=1 along a single quasar sightline (Q1727+5302) with neutral hydrogen column densities of N(HI) = (1.45\pm0.15)\times10^{21} and (2.60\pm0.20)\times10^{21} atoms/cm2. Their sightline velocity difference of 13,000 km/s corresponds to a proper separation of 106h_{70}^{

  42. Jens Erler, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

    The study of low energy weak interactions of light quarks and leptons continues to provide important insights into both the Standard Model as well as the physics that may lie beyond it. We review the status and future prospects for low energy electroweak physics. Recent important experimental and theoretical developments are discussed and open theoretical is

  43. Dmitri Antonov, Dietmar Ebert

    Field correlators and the string representation are used as two complementary approaches for the description of confinement in the SU(N)-inspired dual Abelian-Higgs-type model. In the London limit of the simplest, SU(2)-inspired, model, bilocal electric field-strength correlators have been derived with accounting for the contributions to these averages produ

  44. Andrei Kryjevski, David B. Kaplan, Thomas Schaefer

    We consider order $\alpha_s$ corrections to the squared masses of the pseudo-Goldstone excitations about the ground state of dense quark matter. We show that these contributions tend to destabilize the vacuum, leading to a surprisingly complex phase structure for quark matter as a function of quark mass, even for small $\alpha_s$. In particular we find two n

  45. L. Salasnich, A. Parola, L. Reatto

    We investigate the effects of dimensional reduction in Bose gases induced by a strong harmonic confinement in the transverse cylindric radial direction. By using a generalized Lieb-Liniger theory, based on a variational treatment of the transverse width of the Bose gas, we analyze the transition from a 3D Bose-Einstein condensate to the 1D Tonks-Girardeau ga

  46. Charles D. Dermer

    This rapporteur review summarizes results presented in Parallel Session GBT2 (Gamma Ray Burst Theory 2) on the Collapsar and Supranova Models held 25 July 2003 at the 10th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A central issue in GRB studies is the process whereby energy is released from the GRB engine. One scenario is the co

  47. Eduard Masso, Francesc Rota, Gabriel Zsembinszki

    We consider a model with a small explicit breaking of a global symmetry, as suggested by gravitational arguments. Our model has one scalar field transforming under a non-anomalous U(1) symmetry, and coupled lo matter and to gauge bosons. The spontaneous breaking of the explicitly broken symmetry gives rise to a massive pseudo-Goldstone boson. We analyze ther

  48. K. Petrovay, A. Kerekes

    Parker's interface dynamo is generalized to the case when a homogeneous flow is present in the high-diffusivity (upper) layer in the lateral direction (i.e. perpendicular to the shear flow in the lower layer). This is probably a realistic first representation of the situation near the bottom of the solar convective zone, as the strongly subadiabatic stratifi

  49. M. Combescot, O. Betbeder-Matibet

    We first predict the splitting of a spin degenerate impurity level when this impurity is irradiated by a circularly polarized laser beam tuned in the transparency region of a semiconductor. This splitting, which comes from different exchange processes between the impurity electron and the virtual pairs coupled to the pump beam, induces a spin precession arou

  50. A. Das, J. Frenkel, S. H. Pereira, J. C. Taylor

    We study some aspects of the quantum theory of a charged particle moving in a time-independent, uni-directional magnetic field. When the field is uniform, we make a few clarifying remarks on the use of angular momentum eigenstates and momentum eigenstates with the diamagnetism of a free electron gas as an example. When the field is non-uniform but weakly var

  51. Damien Gayet

    On a compact oriented four-manifold with an orientation preserving involution c, we count solutions of Seiberg-Witten equations, which are moreover symmetrical in relation to c, to construct "real" Seiberg-Witten invariants. Using Taubes' results, we prove that on a symplectic almost complex manifold with an antisymplectic and antiholomorphic involution, thi

  52. A. Grassi, G. M. Lombardo, G. G. N. Angilella, N. H. March

    In a recent study by Kornath et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 118 (2003) 6957], the Li_n clusters with n=2, 4 and 8 have been isolated in argon matrices at 15 K and characterized by Raman spectroscopy. This has prompted us to carry out a theoretical study on such clusters up to n=10, using Hartree-Fock theory, plus low-order Moeller-Plesset perturbation corrections. T

  53. S. G. Low

    The Hilbert space of the unitary irreducible representations of a Lie group that is a quantum dynamical group are identified with the quantum state space. Hermitian representation of the algebra are observables. The eigenvalue equations for the representation of the set of Casimir invariant operators define the field equations of the system. A general class

  54. P. Dimopoulos, K. Farakos

    So far it has been found by using lattice techniques that in the anisotropic five--dimensional Abelian Higgs model, a layered Higgs phase exists in addition to the expected five--dimensional one. The exploration of the phase diagram has shown that the two Higgs phases are separated by a phase transition from the confining phase. This transition is known to b

  55. Giuseppe Melfi

    A survey of recent results in elementary number theory is presented in this paper. Special attention is given to structure and asymptotic properties of certain families of positive integers.

  56. Patricio Leboeuf, Amaury Mouchet

    Degeneracies in the spectrum of an adiabatically transported quantum system are important to determine the geometrical phase factor, and may be interpreted as magnetic monopoles. We investigate the mechanism by which constraints acting on the system, related to local symmetries, can create arbitrarily large monopole charges. These charges are associated with

  57. S. Anton, I. W. A. Browne, M. J. M. Marcha, M. Bondi

    We address the question of why low-luminosity radio sources with similar flat radio spectra show a range of optical activity. The investigation is based on the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of objects from the 200 mJy sample. We gathered new data from the VLA at 43 GHz, from SCUBA in the JCMT at 2000, 1350 and 850 micron and from the ISOPHOT instrumen

  58. A. Grassi, G. M. Lombardo, R. Pucci, G. G. N. Angilella

    Motivated by solid-state studies on the cleavage force in Si, and the consequent stretching of chemical bonds, we here study bond stretching in the, as yet unsynthesized, free space molecule Si6H6. We address the question as to whether substantial bond stretching (but constrained to uniform scaling on all bonds) can result in a transition from ring current b

  59. Warren Siegel

    The twistor superstring, which describes N=4 super Yang-Mills trees, is taken off-shell (for loops) by generalizing Penrose twistors (which describe on-shell momenta) to Atiyah-Drinfel'd-Hitchin-Manin twistors (which include the usual spacetime coordinates). The resulting string is then shown to be the tensionless limit of a Quantum ChromoDynamics-like super

  60. Maria Massi

    LSI+61303 is one of the most observed Be/X-ray binary systems because, peculiarly, it has periodical radio and X-ray emission together with strong, variable gamma-ray emission. This source remains, however, quite enigmatic. Some properties of this system can be explained assuming that the unseen companion is a non-accreting young pulsar with a relativistic w

  61. T. Djama

    In this paper, we introduced the 3D-Quantum Stationary Hamilton Jacobi Equation for a central potential, and established the 3D quantum law of motion of an electron in the presence of such a potential. We established a system of three differential equations from which, and as a numerical application, we plotted the 3D quantum trajectories of the Hydrogen's e

  62. Ralph Blumenhagen, Joseph P. Conlon, Kerim Suruliz

    We construct Type IIA orientifolds for general supersymmetric Z_N orbifolds. In particular, we provide the methods to deal with the non-factorisable six-dimensional tori for the cases Z7, Z8, Z8', Z12 and Z12'. As an application of these methods we explicitly construct many new orientifold models.

  63. Thibault Damour, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Bala R. Iyer

    We provide a method for analytically constructing high-accuracy templates for the gravitational wave signals emitted by compact binaries moving in inspiralling eccentric orbits. By contrast to the simpler problem of modeling the gravitational wave signals emitted by inspiralling {\it circular} orbits, which contain only two different time scales, namely thos

  64. J. P. L. Hatchett, A. C. C. Coolen

    We study graded response attractor neural networks with asymmetrically extremely dilute interactions and Langevin dynamics. We solve our model in the thermodynamic limit using generating functional analysis, and find (in contrast to the binary neurons case) that even in statics one cannot eliminate the non-persistent order parameters. The macroscopic dynamic

  65. Winfried K. Hensinger, Amaury Mouchet, Paul S. Julienne, Dominique Delande

    Dynamical tunnelling is a quantum phenomenon where a classically forbidden process occurs, that is prohibited not by energy but by another constant of motion. The phenomenon of dynamical tunnelling has been recently observed in a sodium Bose-Einstein condensate. We present a detailed analysis of these experiments using numerical solutions of the three dimens

  66. Yves Brihaye, Betti Hartmann

    Fullerenes and nanotubes consist of a large number of carbon atoms sitting on the sites of a regular lattice. For pratical reasons it is often useful to approximate the equations on this lattice in terms of the continuous equation. At the moment, the best candidate for such an equation is the modified non-linear Schroedinger equation. In this paper, we study

  67. Simon Chiossi, Andrew Swann

    The equations for a G_2-structure with torsion on a product M^7 = N^6 x S^1 are studied in relation to the induced SU(3)-structure on N^6. All solutions are found in the case when the Lee-form of the G_2-structure is non-zero and N^6 is a six-dimensional nilmanifold with half-integrable SU(3)-structure. Special properties of the torsion of these solutions ar

  68. Laurence P. David, Joshua Kempner

    Abell 1758 was classified as a single rich cluster of galaxies by Abell, but a ROSAT observation showed that this system consists of two distinct clusters (A1758N and A1758S) separated by approximately $8\arcmin$ (a projected separation of 2 Mpc in the rest frame of the clusters). Only a few galaxy redshifts have been published for these two clusters, but th

  69. B. H. Lavenda

    Entropies must correspond to mean values for them to be measurable. The Shannon entropy corresponds to the weighted arithmetic mean, whereas the Renyi entropy corresponds to the exponential mean. These means refer to code lengths, which are converted into entropies by replacing the length of a sequence by the negative logarithm of the probability of its occu

  70. Ch Skokos, Ch Antonopoulos, T C Bountis, M N Vrahatis

    We use the Smaller Alignment Index (SALI) to distinguish rapidly and with certainty between ordered and chaotic motion in Hamiltonian flows. This distinction is based on the different behavior of the SALI for the two cases: the index fluctuates around non--zero values for ordered orbits, while it tends rapidly to zero for chaotic orbits. We present a detaile

  71. David W. Kribs

    This is an exposition of some of the aspects of quantum computation and quantum information that have connections with operator theory. After a brief introduction, we discuss quantum algorithms. We outline basic properties of quantum channels, or equivalently, completely positive trace preserving maps. The main theorems for quantum error detection and correc

  72. S. Albino, B. A. Kniehl, G. Kramer, W. Ochs

    We perform fits of $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}$ and the gluon fragmentation function $D(x,Q)$ at initial scale $Q_0 \gg\Lambda_{\rm QCD}$ to charged light hadron momentum spectra data by evolving in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation. Without additional assumptions, we achieve a good description of the available data for $\xi=\ln(1/x)$ up to and around the

  73. N. Masetti, D. Dal Fiume, L. Amati, S. Del Sordo

    A pointed observation of the low-luminosity galactic source 4U 2206+54 was carried out in November 1998 with BeppoSAX. The light curve of 4U 2206+54 shows erratic variability on a timescale of about 1 hour; neither hardness variations nor time periodicities are detected throughout this 67 ks long observation. Thanks to the wide spectral coverage capabilities

  74. Anne-Laure Biolley

    On one side, from the properties of Floer cohomology, invariant associated to a symplectic manifold, we define and study a notion of symplectic hyperbolicity and a symplectic capacity measuring it. On the other side, the usual notions of complex hyperbolicity can be straightforwardly generalized to the case of almost-complex manifolds by using pseudo-holomor

  75. M. Argyrou, A. B. Lahanas, D. V. Nanopoulos, V. C. Spanos

    We present an improved partial wave analysis of the dominant LSP annihilation channel to a fermion-antifermion pair which avoids the non-relativistic expansion being therefore applicable near thresholds and poles. The method we develop allows of contributions of any partial wave in the total angular momentum J in contrast to partial wave analyses in terms of

  76. T. Senthil, Leon Balents, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath

    We describe characteristic physical properties of the recently introduced class of deconfined quantum critical points. Using some simple models, we highlight observables which clearly distinguish such critical points from those described by the conventional Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson framework: such a distinction can be made quite precisely even though both clas

  77. M. J. Carson, J. C. Davies, E. Daw, R. J. Hollingworth

    Simulations of the neutron background for future large-scale particle dark matter detectors are presented. Neutrons were generated in rock and detector elements via spontaneous fission and (alpha,n) reactions, and by cosmic-ray muons. The simulation techniques and results are discussed in the context of the expected sensitivity of a generic liquid xenon dark

  78. Q. Daniel Wang, Frazer Owen, Michael Ledlow

    We present an 82 ksec Chandra ACIS-I observation of a large-scale hierarchical complex, which consists of various clusters/groups of galaxies and low-surface brightness X-ray emission at z = 0.247. This high-resolution {\sl Chandra} observation allows us for the first time to separate unambiguously the X-ray contributions from discrete sources and large-scal

  79. J. R. Petta, S. K. Slater, D. C. Ralph

    We present measurements of magnetic tunnel junctions made using a self-assembled-monolayer molecular barrier. Ni/octanethiol/Ni samples were fabricated in a nanopore geometry. The devices exhibit significant changes in resistance as the angle between the magnetic moments in the two electrodes is varied, demonstrating that low-energy electrons can traverse th

  80. D. Haegele, S. Pfalz, M. Oestreich

    We observe signatures of stimulated bosonic scattering of excitons, a precursor of Bose-Einstein-Condensation (BEC), in the photoluminescence of semiconductor quantum wells. The optical decay of a spinless molecule of two excitons (biexciton) into an exciton and a photon with opposite angular momenta is subject to bosonic enhancement in the presence of other

  81. Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt, Volker Springel

    We use the LUQAS sample (Kim et al. 2004), a set of 27 high-resolution and high signal-to-noise QSO absorption spectra at a median redshift of z=2.25, and the data from Croft et al. (2002) at a median redshift of z=2.72, together with a large suite of high-resolution large box-size hydro-dynamical simulations, to estimate the linear dark matter power spectru

  82. T. D. Lee

    We discuss the possibility that the existence of dark energy may be due to the presence of a spin zero field $\phi(x)$, either elementary or composite. In the presence of other matter field, the transformation $\phi(x)\to \phi(x) +$ constant can generate a negative pressure, like the cosmological constant. In this picture, our universe can be thought as a ve

  83. Yoshihiko Kondo, Osamu Morimatsu, Tetsuo Nishikawa

    We point out that naive pentaquark correlations function include two-hadron-reducible contributions, which are given by convolution of baryon and meson correlation functions and have nothing to do with pentaquark. We show that the two-hadron-reducible contributions are large in the operator product expansion of the correlation functions of three existing wor

  84. S. N. Shevchenko

    We study the weak link between current-carrying superconductors, both conventional and d-wave. The state of the system is controlled by two parameters: the order parameter phase difference $\phi$ and the superfluid velocity $v_{s}$, which parameterizes the parallel to the boundary transport supercurrent which is injected externally. The low-temperature curre

  85. Jitesh Bhatt, Raghavan Rangarajan

    We derive the kinetic equation for fermions and antifermions interacting with a planar Higgs bubble wall during the electroweak phase transition using the `evenisation' procedure. Equations of motion in a relativistic quantum theory do not mirror classical relations unless one uses evenised operators. We give a brief introduction to evenisation and then use

  86. Alberto Elduque, Noriaki Kamiya, Susumu Okubo

    A noncommutative Jordan algebra of a specific type is attached to any (-1,-1)-balanced Freudenthal Kantor triple system, in such a way that the triple product in this system is determined by the binary product in the algebra. Over fields of characteristic zero, the simple noncommutative Jordan algebras of this type are classified.

  87. Hyunjae Kim, Yong Wook Cheong, Hai-Woong Lee

    We present linear optical schemes to perform generalized measurements for conclusive teleportation when the sender and the receiver share nonmaximal entanglement resulting from amplitude errors during propagation or generation. Three different cases are considered for which the states to be teleported are unknown superpositions of (a) single-photon and vacuu

  88. G. L. Alberghi, R. Casadio, A. Tronconi

    We study particle production in the tachyon condensation process as described by different effective actions for the tachyon. By making use of invariant operators, we are able to obtain exact results for the density of produced particles, which is shown to depend strongly on the specific action. In particular, the rate of particle production remains finite o

  89. Erik Sjöqvist

    It is shown that a recently suggested concept of mixed state geometric phase in cyclic evolutions [2004 {\it J. Phys. A} {\bf 37} 3699] is gauge dependent.

  90. R. Fichtl, P. Lunkenheimer, J. Hemberger, V. Tsurkan

    Broadband dielectric spectroscopy has been performed on single-crystalline FeCr2S4 revealing a transition into a low-temperature orbital glass phase and on polycrystalline FeCr2S4 where long-range orbital order is established via a cooperative Jahn-Teller transition. The freezing of the orbital moments is revealed by a clear relaxational behavior of the diel

  91. Roberto Paoletti

    Suppose a compact Lie group acts on a polarized complex projective manifold (M,L). Under favorable circumstances, the Hilbert-Mumford quotient for the action of the complexified group may be described as a symplectic quotient (or reduction). This paper addresses some metric questions arising from this identification, by analyzing the relationship between the

  92. Martin Treiber, Arne Kesting, Dirk Helbing

    We generalize a wide class of time-continuous microscopic traffic models to include essential aspects of driver behaviour not captured by these models. Specifically, we consider (i) finite reaction times, (ii) estimation errors, (iii) looking several vehicles ahead (spatial anticipation), and (iv) temporal anticipation. The estimation errors are modelled as

  93. S. Atag, B. D. Sahin

    We discuss the degree of spin polarization of single top quarks produced via $Wg$ fusion process in $ep$ collision at TESLA+HERAp and CLIC+LHC energies $\sqrt{s}=1.6$ and 5.3 TeV. For $eb \to t \bar{\nu}$ subprocess we show that the top quark spin is completely polarized when the spin basis is chosen in the direction of the incoming positron beam in the rest

  94. Remi Lafaye, Tilman Plehn, Dirk Zerwas

    SFITTER is a new analysis tool to determine supersymmetric model parameters from collider measurements. Using the set of supersymmetric mass measurements at the LC and at the LHC we show how both colliders probe different sectors of the MSSM Lagrangian. This observation is a strong motivation to move from a parameter fit assuming a certain model to the uncon

  95. M. Vogel, S. C. Glotzer

    Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study spatially heterogeneous dynamics in a model of viscous silica above and below the critical temperature of the mode coupling theory, $T_{MCT}$. Specifically, we follow the evolution of the dynamic heterogeneity as the temperature dependence of the transport coefficients shows a crossover from non-Arrhenius

  96. Ll. Bel

    We model the system Earth-Moon-Sun from the point of view of a frame of reference co-moving with the Earth and we derive a detailed prediction of the outcome of future Kennedy-Thorndike's type experiments to be seen as light tides.

  97. Kei-Ichi Kondo

    We show that a certain type of color magnetic condensation originating from magnetic monopole configurations is sufficient to provide the mass for off-diagonal gluons in the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory under the Cho--Faddeev--Niemi decomposition. We point out that the generated gluon mass can cure the instability of the Savvidy vacuum. In fact, such a novel type

  98. Nathalie Deruelle

    Friedmann-Lemaitre universes driven by a scalar field, spatially closed and bouncing, were recently studied by Martin and Peter in [1], with the conclusion that the spectrum of their large scale matter perturbations was generically modified when going through the bounce. In this Note we give the properties of the scalar field potentials which underly such mo

  99. P. Merlatti, F. Sannino

    We extend the Veneziano Yankielowicz (VY) effective theory in order to account for ordinary glueball states. We propose a new form of the superpotential including a chiral superfield for the glueball degrees of freedom. When integrating it ``out'' we obtain the VY superpotential while the N vacua of the theory naturally emerge. This fact has a counterpart in

  100. Takeo Araki, Katsushi Ito

    We study N=2 supersymmetric U(1) gauge theory in non(anti)commutative N=2 harmonic superspace with the singlet deformation, which preserves chirality. We construct a Lagrangian which is invariant under both the deformed gauge and supersymmetry transformations. We find the field redefinition such that the N=2 vector multilplet transforms canonically under the