November 2004 arXiv papers — page 4

Kamil Trojan, Marcel Ausloos

The ballistic deposition on a one dimensional substrate of grains with one degree of freedom, called spin, is studied with respect to relaxation processes during deposition. The "spin" represents the grain anisotropy, e.g. its longest axis with respect to the vertical. The grains interact through some contact energy (J) and are allowed to flip with a

Alberto Imparato, Luca Peliti

We derive and solve a differential equation satisfied by the probability distribution of the work done on a single biomolecule in a mechanical unzipping experiment. The unzipping is described as a thermally activated escape process in an energy landscape. The Jarzynski equality is recovered as an identity, independent of the pulling protocol. This approach a

J. J. Arenzon, M. Sellitto

We investigate the Kovacs (or crossover) effect in facilitated $f$-spin models of glassy dynamics. Although the Kovacs hump shows a behavior qualitatively similar for all cases we have examined (irrespective of the facilitation parameter $f$ and the spatial dimension $d$), we find that the dependence of the Kovacs peak time on the temperature of the second q

Nissim Kanekar, Jayaram N. Chengalur

We report a deep search for HI 21cm emission from the $z= 0.00632$ sub-DLA toward PG1216+069 with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. No emission was detected and our $5σ$ upper limit on the mass of any associated galaxy is $M_{\rm HI} \lesssim 10^7 M_\odot$, nearly 3 orders of magnitude less than M$_{\rm HI}^\star$. The $z \sim 0.006$ absorber is thus the

S. Juneau, K. Glazebrook, D. Crampton, P. J. McCarthy

We examine the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) and its dependence on galaxy stellar mass over the redshift range 0.8 < z < 2 using data from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey (GDDS). The SFR in the most massive galaxies (M > 10^{10.8} M_sun) was six times higher at z = 2 than it is today. It drops steeply from z = 2, reaching the present day value at z ~ 1. In co

Daniel H. McIntosh, Eric F. Bell, Hans-Walter Rix, Christian Wolf

We combine HST/ACS imaging from the GEMS survey with redshifts and rest-frame quantities from COMBO-17 to study the evolution of morphologically early-type galaxies with red colors since z=1. We use a new large sample of 728 galaxies with centrally-concentrated radial profiles (Sersic n>2.5) and rest-frame U-V colors on the red sequence. By appropriate compa

Michael D. Smith, Alex Rosen

We present hydrodynamic simulations of molecular outflows driven by jets with a long period of precession, motivated by observations of arc-like features and S-symmetry in outflows associated with young stars. We simulate images of not only H2 vibrational and CO rotational emission lines, but also of atomic emission. The density cross section displays a jaw-

R. Ortiz, S. Lorenz-Martins, W. J. Maciel, E. M. Rangel

We investigate the evolution of oxygen- and carbon-rich AGB stars, post-AGB objects, and planetary nebulae using data collected mainly from the MSX catalogue. Magnitudes and colour indices are compared with those calculated from a grid of synthetic spectra that describe the post-AGB evolution beginning at the onset of the superwind. We find that carbon stars

P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, A. Franceschini, E. Daddi

We present a detailed analysis of the evolution of the rest-frame B-band morphology of K-selected galaxies with 0 < z < 2.5. This work is based on the K20 spectroscopic sample (Ks<20) located within the Chandra Deep Field South area, coupled with the public deep GOODS HST+ACSmulti-band optical imaging available in that field. Thanks to the spectroscopic comp

Sara L. Ellison, Lisa J. Kewley, Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas

We have obtained optical spectra of four galaxies associated with MgII QSO absorbers at redshifts 0.10 < z < 0.45. We calculate the gas-phase oxygen abundance of these galaxies using the empirical R23 strong line method. The absolute B-band magnitudes of the galaxies span -20.6 < M_B < -18.3. If the metallicities lie on the R23 upper branch (8.4 < log (O/H)

M. Fellhauer, P. Kroupa

After the stars of a new, embedded star cluster have formed they blow the remaining gas out of the cluster. Especially winds of high mass stars and definitely the on-set of the first super novae can remove the residual gas from a cluster. This leads to a very violent mass-loss and leaves the cluster out of virial equilibrium. Standard models predict that the

Christopher S. Reynolds, Laura W. Brenneman, John T. Stocke

We present an observation of the radio-galaxy 3C401 and the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM) of its host galaxy cluster by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This luminous radio-galaxy is notable in that it has characteristics intermediate between the FRI and FRII morphologies. We clearly detect point-like emission coincident with the radio-core of 3C401, a

A. De Rujula

I outline a unified model of high-energy astrophysics, in which the gamma background radiation, cluster &#34;cooling flows&#34;, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray flashes and cosmic-ray electrons and nuclei of all energies -share a common origin. The mechanism underlying these phenomena is the emission of relativistic &#34;cannonballs&#34; by ordinary supernovae, anal

J. Moultaka

The stellar population synthesis in unresolved composite objects is a very tricky problem. Indeed, it is a degenerate problem since many parameters affect the observables. The stellar population synthesis issue thus deserves a deep and rigourous analysis. In this paper we present a method of inversion which uses as observables the intensities at each pixel o

Remo Ruffini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Pascal Chardonnet, Federico Fraschetti

It is shown that the concept of a fireball with a definite filamentary structure naturally emerges from the analysis of the spectra of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These results, made possible by the recently obtained analytic expressions of the equitemporal surfaces in the GRB afterglow, depend crucially on the single parameter R describing the effective area o

Ignacio Negueruela

The study of massive X-ray binaries provides important observational diagnostics for a number of fundamental astrophysical issues, such as the evolution of massive stars, the stellar winds of massive stars, the formation of compact objects and accretion processes. More than three decades of study have led to a coherent picture of their formation and evolutio

E. I. Vorobyov, Shantanu Basu

We perform numerical hydrodynamic modeling of various physical processes that can form an HI ring as is observed in Holmberg I. Three energetic mechanisms are considered: multiple supernova explosions (SNe), a hypernova explosion associated with a gamma ray burst (GRB), and the vertical impact of a high velocity cloud (HVC). The total released energy has an

V. M. Lipunov, A. V. Krylov, V. G. Kornilov, G. V. Borisov

We present the first russian robot-telescope designed to make prompt observations of gamma-ray bursts (http://observ.pereplet.ru). The telescopes are near Moscow. The system of telescopes with prompt pointing rates connects to the internet. The main parameters are the following: Richter-Slefogt system telescope (355 mm, f/d=2.4); Richter-Slefogt system teles

G. Bono, M. Marconi, S. Cassisi, F. Caputo

We present new Period-Age (PA) and Period-Age-Color (PAC) relations for fundamental and first overtone classical Cepheids. Current predictions rely on homogeneous sets of evolutionary and pulsation models covering a broad range of stellar masses and chemical compositions. We found that PA and PAC relations present a mild dependence upon metal content. Moreov

P. Mucciarelli, L. Zampieri, A. Pastorello

We present the results of a new XMM-Newton observation of the interacting supernova 1995N, performed on July 27, 2003. We find that the 0.2-10.0 keV flux has dropt at a level of 1.44e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1, about one order of magnitude lower than that of a previous ASCA observation performed on January 1998. The X-ray spectral analysis shows statistically signif

T. G. Arshakian, V. H. Chavushyan, E. Ros, M. Kadler

We combine Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data for $\sim100$ active galactic nuclei (AGN) available from the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) 2 cm imaging survey and optical spectroscopy to investigate the relationships in the emission-line region--central engine--radio jet system. Here, we present the diversity of spectral types among the brightes

Richard H. Durisen, Kai Cai, Annie C. Mejia, Megan K. Pickett

The core-accretion mechanism for gas giant formation may be too slow to create all observed gas giant planets during reasonable gas disk lifetimes, but it has yet to be firmly established that the disk instability model can produce permanent bound gaseous protoplanets under realistic conditions. Based on our recent simulations of gravitational instabilities

Andreas Gustavsson

Guided by the paper hep-th/0002106 by Polyakov and Rychkov, we compute the second variational derivative of a wavy plane Wilson surface observable, to find that a necessary condition for a proposed surface equation to be satisfied in the large $N$ limit is that we are in the critical dimension D=6.

S. Dickmann, I. V. Kukushkin

We report on a study of the zero-momentum cyclotron spin-flip excitation in the V=2 quantum Hall regime. Using the excitonic representation the excitation energy is calculated up to the second order Coulomb corrections. A considerable negative exchange shift relative to the cyclotron gap is established for cyclotron spin-flip excitations in the the spin-unpo

N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer

The linear k_\perp-factorization is part and parcel of the pQCD description of high energy hard processes off free nucleons. In the case of heavy nuclear targets the very concept of nuclear parton density becomes ill-defined as exemplified by the recent derivation [2] of nonlinear nuclear k_\perp-factorization for forward dijet production in DIS off nuclei.

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We present a search for anomalous production of heavy-flavor quark jets in association with a W boson at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar Collider. This search is conducted through an examination of the exclusive jet spectrum of W+jets final states in which the heavy-flavor quark content has been enhanced by requiring at least one tagged jet in an event. Jets are

Satoshi X. Nakamura

A relation between nuclear forces derived using a phenomenological approach and nuclear effective field theory (NEFT) is proposed from a renormalization group point of view. A phenomenological nuclear force (V_ph) and an NEFT-based NN-potential (V_EFT) are satisfactorily related to each other through the Wilsonian renormalization group (WRG) method. It is cl

K. Glampedakis, N. Andersson

Motivated by their gravitational-wave driven instability, we investigate the influence of the crust on r-mode oscillations in a neutron star. Using a simplistic model of an elastic neutron star crust with constant shear modulus, we carry out an analytic calculation with the main objective of deriving an expression for the ``slippage&#39;&#39; between the cor

N. Andersson, G. L. Comer, K. Glampedakis

We discuss the effects of superfluidity on the shear viscosity in a neutron star core. Our study combines existing theoretical results for the viscosity coefficients with data for the various superfluid energy gaps into a consistent description. In particular, we provide a simple model for the electron viscosity which is relevant both when the protons form a

N. Andersson, K. Glampedakis, B. Haskell, A. L. Watts

In this paper we discuss the spin-equilibrium of accreting neutron stars in LMXBs. We demonstrate that, when combined with a naive spin-up torque, the observed data leads to inferred magnetic fields which are at variance with those of galactic millisecond radiopulsars. This indicates the need for either additional spin-down torques (eg. gravitational radiati

Satoshi X. Nakamura

We show that the so-called more effective effective field theory (MEEFT) is essentially equivalent to the proper nuclear effective field theory (NEFT) in describing low-energy electroweak processes in nuclei. A key to understanding their equivalence is the relation between a NEFT-based NN-potential and a phenomenological potential through the Wilsonian renor

P. N. Bibikov

We suggest a family of spin-ladder models with exact singlet-rung vacuum. In addition to the terms describing interactions along legs and rungs the Hamiltonian has frustration and cyclic terms. Using coordinate Bethe ansatze all one- and two-dimensional states are constructed. The explicit formula for zero-temperature Raman scattering cross section is derive

F. Darabi, A. Rastkar

We revisit the classical and quantum cosmology of a universe in which a self interacting scalar field is coupled to gravity with a flat FRW type metric undergoing continuous signature transition. We arrange for quantum cosmologically allowed discontinuity in the classical solutions at the signature changing hypersurface, provided these solutions be dual in s

H. Sadeghi, S. Bayegan

The cross section of neutron-deuteron radiative capture $n d\to {^3H}γ$ is calculated at energies relevant to Big-Bang nucleosynthesis ($ 20 \leq E \leq 200 $ Kev) with pionless Effective Field Theory. At these energies, magnetic transition M1 gives the dominant contribution. The M1 amplitude is calculated up to next-to-next-to leading order(N$^2$LO) with in

Y. G. Ma, G. L. Ma, X. Z. Cai, J. G. Chen

The $Δ$-scaling method has been applied to the total multiplicity distribution of the relativistic ion collisions of p+p, C+C and Pb+Pb which were simulated by a Monte Carlo package, LUCIAE 3.0. It is found that the $Δ$-scaling parameter decreases with the increasing of the system size. Moreover, the heat capacities of different mesons and baryons have been

Katja Pluto, Dirk Tasche

For credit risk management purposes in general, and for allocation of regulatory capital by banks in particular (Basel II), numerical assessments of the credit-worthiness of borrowers are indispensable. These assessments are expressed in terms of probabilities of default (PD) that should incorporate a certain degree of conservatism in order to reflect the pr

Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We examine static charged perfect fluid configurations in the presence of a dilaton field. A method for construction of interior solutions is given. An explicit example of an interior solution which matches continuously the external Gibbons-Maeda-Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger solution is presented. Extremely charged perfect fluid configurations with a dilato

Josh Isralowitz

In this short note, we provide an elementary complex analytic method for converting known real integrals into numerous strange and interesting looking real integrals.

Mai Suan Li, D. K. Klimov, D. Thirumalai

Finite size effects on the cooperative thermal denaturation of proteins are considered. A dimensionless measure of cooperativity, Omega, scales as N^zeta, where N is the number of amino acids. Surprisingly, we find that zeta is universal with zeta = 1 + gamma, where the exponent gamma characterizes the divergence of the susceptibility for a self-avoiding wal

D. M. Layton, R. Bundschuh

Computational RNA secondary structure prediction is rather well established. However, such prediction algorithms always depend on a large number of experimentally measured parameters. Here, we study how sensitive structure prediction algorithms are to changes in these parameters. We find that already for changes corresponding to the actual experimental error

Emmanuel Tannenbaum, James L. Sherley, Eugene I. Shakhnovich

This paper develops a point-mutation model describing the evolutionary dynamics of a population of adult stem cells. Such a model may prove useful for quantitative studies of tissue aging and the emergence of cancer. We consider two modes of chromosome segregation: (1) Random segregation, where the daughter chromosomes of a given parent chromosome segregate

Seung-Il Nam, Atsushi Hosaka, Hyun-Chul Kim

We investigate Theta^+ production via photon and nucleon induced reactions. We observe that the positive parity Theta^+ production provides about ten times larger total cross sections than those of the negative parity one in both photon and nucleon induced reactions due to P-wave enhancement of the K-N-Theta vertex. We also consider the model independent met

Federico Toschi, Sauro Succi

A modified lattice Boltzmann model with a stochastic relaxation mechanism mimicking &#34;virtual&#39;&#39; collisions between free-streaming particles and solid walls is introduced. This modified scheme permits to compute plane channel flows in satisfactory agreement with analytical results over a broad spectrum of Knudsen numbers, ranging from the hydrodyna

Bengt Bischof, Andrei N. Slavin, Hartmut Benner, Yuri Kivshar

We generate experimentally spin-wave envelope dark solitons from rectangular high-frequency dark input pulses with externally introduced phase shifts in yttrium-iron garnet magnetic fims. We observe the generation of both odd and even numbers of magnetic dark solitons when the external phase shift varies. The experimental results are in a good qualitative ag

Vicente Muñoz, Bai-Ling Wang

We determine the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology groups of the three-manifold which is the product of a surface of genus $g \geq 1$ times the circle, together with its ring structure, for spin-c structures which are non-trivial on the three-manifold. We give applications to computing Seiberg-Witten invariants of four-manifolds which are connected sums along su

Alexander Berenstein

Let G be a countable group. We proof that there is a model companion for the approximate theory of a Hilbert space with a group G of automorphisms. We show that G is amenable if and only if the structure induced by countable copies of the regular representation of G is existentially closed.

Antonio F. Costa, Darryl McCullough

We examine free orientation-reversing group actions on orientable handlebodies, and free actions on nonorientable handlebodies. A classification theorem is obtained, giving the equivalence classes and weak equivalence classes of free actions in terms of algebraic invariants that involve Nielsen equivalence. This is applied to describe the sets of free action

A. Leroy, A. Ozturk

Let $R$ denote a 2-fir. The notions of F-independence and algebraic subsets of R are defined. The decomposition of an algebraic subset into similarity classes gives a simple way of translating the F-independence in terms of dimension of some vector spaces. In particular to each element $a \in R$ is attached a certain algebraic set of atoms and the above deco

Chien-Hao Liu, Shing-Tung Yau

The study of open/closed string duality and large $N$ duality suggests a Gromov-Witten theory for conifolds that sits on the border of both a closed Gromov-Witten theory and an open Gromov-Witten theory. In this work we employ the result of Jun Li on Gromov-Witten theory for a projective singular variety of the gluing form $Y_1\cup_D Y_2$ to extract Gromov-W

D. Aleksandrova, P. Bozhilov

Based on the recently considered classical string configurations, in the framework of the semi-classical limit of the string/gauge theory correspondence, we describe a procedure for obtaining exact classical string solutions in general string theory backgrounds, when the string embedding coordinates depend non-linearly on the worldsheet spatial parameter. Th

Utpal Chattopadhyay, Pran Nath

An analysis of dark matter within the framework of modular invariant soft breaking is given. In such scenarios inclusion of the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking constraint determines $\tanβ$ which leads to a more constrained analysis. It is shown that for $μ$ positive for this constrained system the WMAP data leads to upper limits on sparticle masses

Andrew Pawl

Analytical and numerical estimates show that a charged Affleck-Dine condensate will fracture into Q-balls only when the Hubble time is significantly larger than the inverse soft-breaking mass of the field in question. This would generally imply that the decay of the field into light fermions will compete with Q-ball formation. We will show that for typical f

A. E. Dorokhov, N. I. Kochelev

Within the composite quark model taking into account the interaction of quarks in the bag with vacuum fields of QCD the masses of H (I=0,S=-2,J=0,1^C) and H* (I=0,S=-2,J=1,1^C) dihyperons are estimated: M_H=2.16 GeV, M_H*=2.34 GeV. It is shown that the leading effect giving a stable with respect to strong decays H dihyperon is the instanton interaction formi

Toru Goto

We study effects of SUSY particles in the unitarity triangle analysis and the CP asymmetries in b -> s decays. We consider three different SUSY models, the minimal supergravity, SU(5) SUSY GUT with right-handed neutrinos, and MSSM with U(2) flavor symmetry, and show that the patterns and correlations of deviations from the standard model will be useful to di

Toru Goto

We study the effect of the neutralino polarization in a squark cascade decay $\tilde{q} \to q \tildeχ^0_2 \to q l^\pm \tilde{l}^\mp \to q l^\pm \tilde{l}^\mp \to q l^\pm l^\mp \tildeχ^0_1$. Charge asymmetry in the lepton-jet invariant mass distribution appears depending on the chirality structure of the sfermion-fermion-neutralino coupling. With use of the M

Sourendu Gupta

Plasmas screen electromagnetic waves of frequency less than the plasma frequency, omega_p, with a skin depth, delta, specified by the electrical conductivity, sigma. Current estimates of the transport properties of the QCD plasma indicates that photons with energy less than 250--500 MeV would be screened with a skin depth of 2--4 fm. In a hadron gas, a littl

K. Itoh, M. Kato, M. Murata, H. Sawanaka

We investigate exact symmetries of a staggered fermion in D dimensions. The Dirac operator is reformulated by SO(2D) Clifford algebra. The chiral symmetry, rotational invariance and parity symmetries are clarified in any dimension. Local scalar and pseudo-scalar modes are definitely determined, in which we find non-standard modes. The relation to Ichimatsu-p

Francesco-L. Navarria

The results of various searches for new physical phenomena beyond the Standard Model using data from the four LEP experiments are summarized. Topics presented include the search for flavour-changing neutral currents with single top production, compositeness leading to the production of excited leptons, and manifestations of extra dimensions.

Luigi Frunzio, Andreas Wallraff, David Schuster, Johannes Majer

We present fabrication and characterization procedures of devices for circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED). We have made 3 GHz cavities with quality factors in the range 10^4--10^6, which allow access to the strong coupling regime of cQED. The cavities are transmission line resonators made by photolithography. They are coupled to the input and output ports

M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev, K. Turitsyn

Considering the dynamics of a polymer with finite extensibility placed in a chaotic flow with large mean shear, we explain how the statistics of polymer extension changes with Weissenberg number, ${\it Wi}$, defined as the product of the polymer relaxation time and the Lyapunov exponent of the flow. Four regimes, of the ${\it Wi}$ number, are identified. One

M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev, K. Turitsyn

A polymer placed in chaotic flow with large mean shear tumbles, making a-periodic flips. We describe the statistics of angular orientation, as well as of tumbling time (separating two subsequent flips) of polymers in this flow. The probability distribution function (PDF) of the polymer orientation is peaked around a shear-preferred direction. The tails of th

Valery S. Shchesnovich, Solange B. Cavalcanti

We predict the existence of an energy barrier for collapse in a system of two tunnel-coupled repulsive and attractive quasi two-dimensional condensates trapped in a double-well potential. The ground state in such a system can have a lower energy than that of the collapsing state. We find such ground states numerically and analytically determine the domain of

M. S. Pierce, C. R. Buechler, L. B. Sorensen, J. J. Turner

Using coherent x-ray speckle metrology, we have measured the influence of disorder on major loop return point memory (RPM) and complementary point memory (CPM) for a series of perpendicular anisotropy Co/Pt multilayer films. In the low disorder limit, the domain structures show no memory with field cycling--no RPM and no CPM. With increasing disorder, we obs

Ming-Che Chang

In a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, there are two spin-split energy surfaces connected with a degenerate point. Both the energy surfaces and the topology of the Fermi surfaces can be varied by an in-plane magnetic field. We find that, if the chemical potential falls between the bottom of the upper band and the

M. Civelli, M. Capone, S. S. Kancharla, O. Parcollet

The evolution from an anomalous metallic phase to a Mott insulator within the two-dimensional Hubbard model is investigated by means of the Cellular Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. We show that the density-driven Mott metal-insulator transition is approached in a non-uniform way in different regions of the momentum space. This gives rise to a breakup of the Fer

Michael S. Pierce, Rob G. Moore, Larry B. Sorensen, Stephen D. Kevan

We have used coherent, resonant, x-ray magnetic speckle patterns to measure the statistical evolution of the microscopic magnetic domains in perpendicular magnetic films as a function of the applied magnetic field. Our work constitutes the first direct, ensemble-averaged study of microscopic magnetic return point memory, and demonstrates the profound impact

W. A. Coish, Daniel Loss

We review our theoretical work on the dynamics of a localized electron spin interacting with an environment of nuclear spins. Our perturbative calculation is valid for arbitrary polarization p of the nuclear spin system and arbitrary nuclear spin I in a sufficiently large magnetic field. In general, the electron spin shows rich dynamics, described by a sum o

M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury

We present empirical data on frequency and pattern of misprints in citations to twelve high-profile papers. We find that the distribution of misprints, ranked by frequency of their repetition, follows Zipf&#39;s law. We propose a stochastic model of citation process, which explains these findings, and leads to the conclusion that 70-90% of scientific citatio

Alex S. Hill, Daniel R. Stinebring, Curtis T. Asplund, Daniel E. Berwick

We have detected a strong deflection of radio waves from the pulsar PSR B0834+06 in scintillation observations. Interference between the undeflected pulsar image and deflected subimages allows single dish interferometry of the interstellar medium with sub-milliarcsecond resolution. We infer the presence of scattering structure(s) similar to those that are th

Timothy C. Beers

I was asked at the end of this conference to provide a few comments on the present status of the field of cosmic abundances, which I summarize (and extend upon) in this contribution. A discussion of the present ``state of play&#39;&#39; is given, along with some suggested directions for the future.

M. Gavilan, J. F. Buell, M. Molla

We present a set of low and intermediate mass star yields based on a modeling of the TP--AGB phase which affects the production of nitrogen and carbon. These yields are evaluated by using them in a Galaxy Chemical Evolution model, with which we analyze the evolution of carbon abundances. By comparing the results with those obtained with other yield sets, and

Yasushi Fukazawa, Kazuo Makishima, Takaya Ohashi

Utilizing ASCA archival data of about 300 objects of elliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies, we performed systematic measurements of the X-ray properties of hot gas in their systems, and compiled them in this paper. The steepness of the luminosity--temperature (LT) relation, $L_{\rm X}\propto(kT)^α$, in the range of $kT=$1.5--15 keV is $α=3.17

Michael A. Ivanov

The basic cosmological conjecture about the Dopplerian nature of redshifts may be false if gravitons are super-strong interacting particles. A quantum mechanism of classical gravity and the main features of a new cosmological paradigm based on it are described here.

Paolo Ciarcelluti

We describe the implications on the structure formation, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the large scale structure (LSS) for a Universe in which a significant part of dark matter is made of mirror baryons. Being the microphysics of the mirror baryons identical to the one of the usual baryons, we need only two extra thermodynamical parameters to des

Peter Biltzinger, Klaus Oswald Thielheim

Selfconsistent magnetospheres of rotating cosmic magnets (neutron stars/pulsars) with arbitrary inclination of the magnetic against the rotation axis are considered. Present studies concentrate on the regime dominated by the force--free surface (FFS). A macroscopic fluid description is applied and radiation reaction is taken into account. As in earlier work

Manuela Campanelli

Understanding the fate of merging supermassive black holes in galactic mergers, and the gravitational wave emission from this process, are important LISA science goals. To this end, we present results from numerical relativity simulations of binary black hole mergers using the so-called Lazarus approach to model gravitational radiation from these events. In

Zi-Wei Lin, Che Ming Ko, Bao-An Li, Bin Zhang

We describe in detail how the different components of a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model, that uses the Heavy Ion Jet Interaction Generator (HIJING) for generating the initial conditions, Zhang's Parton Cascade (ZPC) for modeling partonic scatterings, the Lund string fragmentation model or a quark coalescence model for hadronization, and A Relativistic Tra

Marcelo Botta Cantcheff

We propose a modification of standard linear electrodynamics in four dimensions, where effective non-trivial interactions of the electromagnetic field with itself and with matter fields induce Lorentz violating Chern-Simons terms. This yields two consequences: it provides a more realistic and general scenario for the breakdown of Lorentz symmetry in electrom

Emanuele Berti, Alessandra Buonanno, Clifford M. Will

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings on the estimation of parameters for inspiralling compact binaries of massive black holes, and for neutron stars inspiralling into intermediate-mass black holes, using hypothetical data from the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We work both in Einstein&#39;s theory and in alter

Srubabati Goswami, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Effects of the 1-3 leptonic mixing on the solar neutrino observables are studied and the signatures of non-zero $θ_{13}$ are identified. For this we have re-derived the formula for $3ν$-survival probability including all relevant corrections and constructed the iso-contours of observables in the $\sin^2 θ_{12} - \sin^2 θ_{13}$ plane. Analysis of the solar ne

Yasaman Farzan

To embed the seesaw mechanism in the MSSM, two or three right-handed neutrino supermultiplets, $N_i$, have to be added to the model. In the presence of these new superfields, the soft supersymmetry breaking potential includes a lepton number violating mass term which is known as the neutrino $B$-term, $M B_ν\tilde{N}\tilde{N}/2$. In this paper, we study the

Emanuele Macri

We study stability conditions on the derived categories of coherent sheaves on some projective varieties. We give a complete description of the stability manifold for smooth projective curves and we examine a connected open subset of the stability manifold for projective spaces and del Pezzo surfaces.

Egor Babaev, J. Martin Speight

Traditionally, superconductors are categorized as type-I or type-II. Type-I superconductors support only Meissner and normal states, while type-II superconductors form magnetic vortices in sufficiently strong applied magnetic fields. Recently there has been much interest in superconducting systems with several species of condensates, in fields ranging from C

Sergey Maksymenko

Let $f:R^m \to R$ be a smooth function such that $f(0)=0$. We give a condition on $f$ when for arbitrary preserving orientation diffeomorphism $ϕ:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $ϕ(0)=0$ the function $ϕ\circ f$ is right equivalent to $f$, i.e. there exists a diffeomorphism $h:\mathbb{R}^m \to \mathbb{R}^m$ such that $ϕ\circ f = f \circ h$ at $0\in \math

P. Marconcini, M. Macucci, G. Iannaccone, B. Pellegrini

We present a numerical investigation of shot noise suppression in mesoscopic cavities and an intuitive semiclassical explanation of the behavior observed in the presence of an orthogonal magnetic field. In particular, we conclude that the decrease of shot noise for increasing magnetic field is the result of the interplay between the diameter of classical cyc

P. D. Jarvis, J. D. Bashford, J. G. Sumner

A dynamical picture of phylogenetic evolution is given in terms of Markov models on a state space, comprising joint probability distributions for character types of taxonomic classes. Phylogenetic branching is a process which augments the number of taxa under consideration, and hence the rank of the underlying joint probability state tensor. We point out the

Dominic Vella, L. Mahadevan

Objects that float at the interface between a liquid and a gas interact because of interfacial deformation and the effect of gravity. We highlight the crucial role of buoyancy in this interaction, which, for small particles, prevails over the capillary suction that is often assumed to be the dominant effect. We emphasize this point using a simple classroom d

Ludwik Dabrowski, Giovanni Landi, Andrzej Sitarz, Walter van Suijlekom

We construct a 3^+ summable spectral triple (A(SU_q(2)),H,D) over the quantum group SU_q(2) which is equivariant with respect to a left and a right action of U_q(su(2)). The geometry is isospectral to the classical case since the spectrum of the operator D is the same as that of the usual Dirac operator on the 3-dimensional round sphere. The presence of an e

E. Nakano, H. Yabu

We study the density-wave states of quasi-one-dimensional atomic gas mixture of one- and two-component boson and fermion using the mean-field approximation. Owing to the Peierls instability in the quasi-one-dimensional fermion system, the ground state of the system shows the fermion density wave and the periodic Bose-Einstein condensation induced by the boso

S. W. Ham, Y. S. Jeong, S. K. Oh

The Higgs potential of the standard model with an additional real Higgs singlet is studied in order to examine if it may allow the strongly first order electroweak phase transition. It is found that there are parameter values for which this model at the one-loop level with finite temperature effect may allow the desired phase transition. Those parameter valu

E. Nakano, T. Tatsumi

A density wave in quark matter is discussed at finite temperature, which occurs along with the chiral condensation, and is described by a dual standing wave in scalar and pseudo-scalar condensates on the chiral circle. The mechanism is quite similar to that for the spin density wave suggested by Overhauser, and entirely reflects many-body effects. It is foun

Andrew M. Lance, Thomas Symul, Warwick P. Bowen, Barry C. Sanders

Quantum state sharing is a protocol where perfect reconstruction of quantum states is achieved with incomplete or partial information in a multi-partite quantum networks. Quantum state sharing allows for secure communication in a quantum network where partial information is lost or acquired by malicious parties. This protocol utilizes entanglement for the se

Yu. I. Bogdanov, M. V. Chekhova, S. P. Kulik, G. A. Maslennikov

The novel experimental realization of three-state optical quantum systems is presented. We use the polarization state of biphotons,propagating in single frequency- and spatial mode, to generate an arbitrary qutrits. In particular the specific sequence of states that are used in the extended version of BB84 quantum key distribution protocol was generated and

Mehrdad Ghaemi, Nasrollah Rezaei-Ghaleh, Mohammad-Nabi Sarbolouki

The rate-limiting step of some enzymatic reactions is a physical step, i.e. diffusion. The efficiency of such reactions can be improved through an increase in the arrival rate of the substrate molecules, e.g. by a directed passage of substrate (ligand) to active site after its random encounter with the enzyme surface. Herein, we introduce a cellular automata

Yazdan Asgari, Mehrdad Ghaemi, Mohammad Ghasem Mahjani

The critical points of the two-layer Ising and Potts models for square lattice have been calculated with high precision using probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) with Glauber algorithm. The critical temperature is calculated for the isotropic and symmetric case (Kx=Ky=Kz=K), where Kx and Ky are the nearest-neighbor interactions within each layer in the x a

Armando Barrañón

Copernican Cosmography was used to discover the path linking Cebu islands and Acapulco via Kuro-Shivo Stream, as registered in Physica Speculatio, first physics book written in New Spain. Teaching and practice of Copernican theory were an outcome of both Spanish expansion into the Pacific Ocean and native elite instruction devised by Augustinian friars. Cope

Juraj Kotulic Bunta, Stefan Gmuca

Relativistic mean-field theory with $δ$ meson, nonlinear isoscalar self-interactions and isoscalar-isovector cross interaction terms with parametrizations obtained to reproduce Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculations for nuclear matter is used to study asymmetric nuclear matter properties in $β$-equilibrium, including hyperon degrees of freedom and (hidden

Richard Seto

This is an overview of the results from the first 3 years of RHIC experiments. RHIC is a collider built to accelerate nuclei to center of mass energies of 200 GeV per nucleon for the study of QCD in bulk systems. The most important result so far is the observation of the suppression of high p$_T$ hadrons in central Au-Au collisions followed by the subsequent

A. Leroy, J. Matczuk

Let $R$ be a ring, $σ$ an injective endomorphism of $R$ and $δ$ a $σ$-derivation of $R$. We prove that if $R$ is semiprime left Goldie then the same holds for the Ore extension $R[x;σ,δ]$ and both rings have the same left uniform dimension.

E. Ostrovsky

We prove in this article the generalizations on the exponential Orlicz spaces Markov&#39;s - Bernstein&#39;s inequalities for algebraic polynomials and rational functions.