March 2005 arXiv papers — page 4

Aleksander M. Iksanov, Zbigniew J. Jurek, Bertram M. Schreiber

We prove that the convolution of a selfdecomposable distribution with its background driving law is again selfdecomposable if and only if the background driving law is s-selfdecomposable. We will refer to this as the factorization property of a selfdecomposable distribution; let L^f denote the set of all these distributions. The algebraic structure and vario

Vincent Beffara

We prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the trace of SLE_6 is almost surely 7/4 and give a more direct derivation of the result (due to Lawler-Schramm-Werner) that the dimension of its boundary is 4/3. We also prove that, for all κ<8, the SLE_κ trace has cut-points.

J. Wosiek

In ten space-time dimensions the number of Majorana-Weyl fermions is not conserved, not only during the time evolution, but also by rotations. As a consequence the empty Fock state is not rotationally symmetric. We construct explicitly the simplest singlet state which provides the starting point for building up invariant SO(9) subspaces. The state has non-ze

S. C. Jing, Q. Y. Liu, H. Y. Fan

We introduce new representations to formulate quantum mechanics on noncommutative coordinate space, which explicitly display entanglement properties between degrees of freedom of different coordinate components and hence could be called entangled state representations. Furthermore, we derive unitary transformations between the new representations and the ord

Sanjay Siwach

Recently a number of authors have used a system of branes and antibranes at finite temperature for microscopic modeling of non-extremal black holes in string theory. The entropy of the system is derived from the simplified assumption of decoupled gas of open strings on the stacks of branes and antibranes and extremizing the total entropy with respect to the

Hinnerk Albert

This is a review to classify all finite energy solutios of the two dimensional non-linear sigma model. These solutions could be important in understanding the vacuum structure of the non-linear sigma model.

Kenji Suzuki

We study the glueballs in a four-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ super Yang-Mills theory with fundamental matters in terms of the supergravity dual. The supergravity background is constructed by $N$ D3 brane with a probe D7 brane. We numerically compute the glueball masses for $0^{++}$ and $1^{--}$ in the background. We find that the mass ratio of $0^{++}$ glueball

Marcio A. M. Gomes, R. R. Landim

We show that the linking number of two homologically trivial disjoint $p$ and $(D-p-1)$-dimensional submanifolds of a $D$-dimensional manifold can be derived from the topologically massive $BC$ theory in low energy regime.

A. I. Lengyel, M. V. T. Machado

Based on the QCD dipole picture of the BFKL Pomeron, we investigate the role played by the saturation scale, Q_{sat}, in obtaining physical values for the affective strong coupling in phenomenological fits to small-x HERA data. The dependence on this scale appears since the collection of color dipoles characterizing the proton target have average size 1/Q_{s

V. G. Baryshevsky, A. R. Shirvel

The phenomena of deuteron birefringence in a matter and an electric field should be accurately considered when preparing experiments for the EDM search with a storage ring, because they could imitate the spin rotation due to the EDM. Moreover, study of these effects in such experiments could provide to measure both the spin-dependent part of the amplitude of

J. Lowe, M. D. Scadron

We use recent data on K^+ -> pi^+e^+e^-, together with known values for the pion form factor, to derive the kaon electromagnetic form factor for 0 <q^2 <0.125 (GeV/c)^2. The results are then compared with predictions of the Linear sigma Model, a quark-triangle model and Vector Meson Dominance. The first two models describe the data at least qualitatively, bu

Andreas Juttner

The phenomenology of the pseudo scalar mesons D_s and B_s and of the vector mesons D_s* and B_s* was investigated in simulations of quenched lattice QCD. The work is particularly focused on the continuum limit and the minimisation of all systematic errors within the quenched approximation. The decay constants F_Ds and F_Ds* and the difference in the masses b

The NOvA Collaboration, D. Ayres

This is an updated version of the NOvA proposal. The detector is a 30 kiloton tracking calorimeter, 15.7 m by 15.7 m by 132 m long, with alternating horizontal and vertical rectangular cells of liquid scintillator contained in PVC extrusion modules. Light from each 15.7 m long cell of liquid scintillator filled PVC is collected by a wavelength shifting fiber

The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi

We have studied hadronic events from e+e- annihilation data at centre-of-mass energies from 91 to 209 GeV. We present distributions of event shape observables and their moments at each energy and compare with QCD Monte Carlo models. From the event shape distributions we extract the strong coupling alpha_s and test its evolution with energy scale. The results

Richard Umstätter, Nelson Christensen, Martin Hendry, Renate Meyer

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational radiation from a large number of compact binary systems. We present a method by which these signals can be identified and have their parameters estimated. Our approach uses Bayesian inference, specifically the application of a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. The simulation stu

John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos

Generic cosmological models in non-critical string theory have a time-dependent dilaton background at a late epoch. The cosmological deceleration parameter Q_0 is given by the square of the string coupling, g_s^2, up to a negative sign. Hence the expansion of the Universe must accelerate eventually, and the observed value of Q_0 coresponds to g_s^2 ~ 0.6. In

Feng Luo, Hongya Liu

Special relativity is generalized to extra dimensions and quantized energy levels of particles are obtained. By calculating the probability of particles&#39; motion in extra dimensions at high temperature of the early universe, it is proposed that the branes may have not existed since the very beginning of the universe, but formed later. Meanwhile, before th

Paul S. Wesson

Following fresh attempts to resolve the problem of the energy density of the vacuum, we reconsider the case where the cosmological constant is derived from a higher-dimensional version of general relativity, and interpret the gauge-dependence of $Λ$ as a dynamical effect. This leads to a relation between the change in $Λ$ and the line element (action) which

Travis Gagie

We present a new algorithm for dynamic prefix-free coding, based on Shannon coding. We give a simple analysis and prove a better upper bound on the length of the encoding produced than the corresponding bound for dynamic Huffman coding. We show how our algorithm can be modified for efficient length-restricted coding, alphabetic coding and coding with unequal

P. Nefyodov, V. Reztsov, O. Riabinina

In this paper the distribution of charged particles is constructed under the approximation of ambipolar diffusion. The results of mathematical modelling in two-dimensional case taking into account the velocities of the system are presented.

M. Mayr, A. Gonzalez, A. Moreo, E. Dagotto

The dynamical properties of a recently introduced phenomenological model for high temperature superconductors are investigated. In the clean limit, it was observed that none of the homogeneous or striped states that are induced by the model at low temperatures can reproduce the recent angle-resolved photoemission results for LSCO (Yoshida et al., Phys. Rev.

Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala, Srdjan Simunovic

This paper presents two main results. The first result indicates that in materials with broadly distributed microscopic heterogeneities, the fracture strength distribution corresponding to the peak load of the material response does not follow the commonly used Weibull and (modified) Gumbel distributions. Instead, a {\it lognormal} distribution describes mor

D. C. Johnston, S. -H. Baek, X. Zong, F. Borsa

7Li NMR measurements on LiV2O4 from 0.5 to 4.2 K are reported. A small concentration of magnetic defects within the structure drastically changes the 7Li nuclear magnetization relaxation versus time from a pure exponential as in pure LiV2O4 to a stretched exponential, indicating glassy behavior of the magnetic defects. The stretched exponential function is d

Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala, Srdjan Simunovic

{\it Critical slowing down} associated with the iterative solvers close to the critical point often hinders large-scale numerical simulation of fracture using discrete lattice networks. This paper presents a block circlant preconditioner for iterative solvers for the simulation of progressive fracture in disordered, quasi-brittle materials using large discre

A. Malinowski, M. F. Hundley, C. Capan, F. Ronning

We present the results of out-of-plane electrical transport measurements on the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_{5}$ at temperatures from 40 mK to 400 K and in magnetic field up to 9 T. For $T <$ 10 K transport measurements show that the zero-field resistivity $ρ_{c}$ changes linearly with temperature and extrapolates nearly to zero at 0 K, indicative o

Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala, Srdjan Simunovic

The high computational cost involved in modeling of the progressive fracture simulations using large discrete lattice networks stems from the requirement to solve {\it a new large set of linear equations} every time a new lattice bond is broken. To address this problem, we propose an algorithm that combines the multiple-rank sparse Cholesky downdating algori

A. Rosch, P. C. Howell

We calculate the low-frequency optical conductivity sigma(w) of clean metals and superconductors at zero temperature neglecting the effects of impurities and phonons. In general, the frequency and temperature dependences of sigma have very little in common. For small Fermi surfaces in three dimensions (but not in 2D) we find for example that Re sigma(w>0)=co

David Sanchez, Rosa Lopez, Mahn-Soo Choi

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of quantum-dot based structures where Kondo correlations dominate the electronic dynamics. The coupling to ferromagnetic leads with parallel magnetizations is known to give rise to nontrivial effects in the local density of states of a single quantum dot. We show that this influence strongly depends on w

Michael Potthoff

The self-energy-functional approach (SFA) is discussed in the context of different variational principles for strongly correlated electron systems. Formal analogies between static and dynamical variational approaches, different types of approximation strategies and the relations to density-functional and dynamical mean-field theory are emphasized. The discus

E. Sasioglu, I. Galanakis, L. M. Sandratskii, P. Bruno

Based on first-principles electron structure calculations and employing the frozen-magnon approximation we study the exchange interactions in a series of transition-metal binary alloys crystallizing in the zinc-blende structure and calculate the Curie temperature within both the mean-field approximation (MFA) and random-phase approximation (RPA). We study tw

P. K. Siwach, H. K. Singh, O. N. Srivastava

In this paper, we have studied the effect of strain relaxation on magneto-transport properties of La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3 epitaxial films (200 nm thick), which were deposited by pulsed laser deposition technique under identical conditions. All the films are epitaxial and have cubic unit cell. The amount of strain relaxation has been varied by taking three differen

Enis Tuncer

Dielectric properties of material mixtures are of importance in diagnostics, characterization and design of systems in various engineering fields. In this Letter, we propose a peculiar dielectric mixture expression, which is based on the dielectric relaxation phenomena and the spectral density representation [E. Tuncer J. Phys. Condens. Matter 17(12) L125 (2

F. J. Garcia-Vidal, E. Moreno, J. A. Porto, L. Martin-Moreno

In this Letter we show that a single rectangular hole exhibits transmission resonances that appear near the cutoff wavelength of the hole waveguide. For light polarized with the electric field pointing along the short axis, it is shown that the normalized-to-area transmittance at resonance is proportional to the ratio between the long and short sides, and to

X. N. Lin, Z. X. Zhou, V. Durairaj, P. Schlottmann

Transport and magnetic studies of Ca3Ru2O7 for temperatures ranging from 0.4 K to 56 K and magnetic fields, B, up to 45 T leads to strikingly different behavior when the field is applied along the different crystal axes. A ferromagnetic (FM) state with full spin polarization is achieved for B||a-axis, but colossal magnetoresistance is realized only for B||b-

S. Caprara, M. Grilli, B. Leridon, J. Lesueur

We reconsider transport experiments in strongly anisotropic superconducting cuprates and we find that universal Aslamazov-Larkin (AL) paraconductivity in two dimensions is surprisingly robust even in the underdoped regime below the pseudogap crossover temperature T^*. We also establish that the underlying normal state resistivity in the pseudogap phase is (a

Ivan G. Szendro, Juan M. López

We numerically investigate the critical behavior of the synchronization transition of two unidirectionally coupled delayed chaotic systems. We map the problem to a spatially extended system to show that the synchronization transition in delayed systems exhibits universal critical properties. We find that the synchronization transition is absorbing and generi

Juan M. López, Mario Castro, Rafael Gallego

We argue that symmetries and conservation laws greatly restrict the form of the terms entering the long wavelength description of growth models exhibiting anomalous roughening. This is exploited to show by dynamic renormalization group arguments that intrinsic anomalous roughening cannot occur in local growth models. However some conserved dynamics may displ

A. O. Sousa, K. Malarz, S. Galam

Galam reshuffling introduced in opinion dynamics models is investigated under the nearest neighbor Ising model on a square lattice using Monte Carlo simulations. While the corresponding Galam analytical critical temperature T_C \approx 3.09 [J/k_B] is recovered almost exactly, it is proved to be different from both values, not reshuffled (T_C=2/arcsinh(1) \a

Eleni Ziambaras, Per Hyldgaard

We determine the size effect on the lattice thermal conductivity of nanoscale wire and multilayer structures formed in and by some typical semiconductor materials, using the Boltzmann transport equation and focusing on the Knudsen flow effect. For both types of nanostructured systems we find that the phonon transport is reduced significantly below the bulk v

K. K. Rajagopal, P. Vignolo, M. P. Tosi

We discuss the atom-atom scattering problem across a Feshbach resonance in a two-dimensional dilute Bose gas at zero temperature, in the limit where the s-wave scattering length exceeds the width of the vertical confinement. We determine a tunable coupling-strength parameter and by controlling it we evaluate how the condensate wave function spreads out with

L. Vaccaro, M. Cannas, B. Boizot

The relationship between the luminescence at 1.9 eV and the absorption bands at 2.0 eV and at 4.8 eV were investigated in a wide variety of synthetic silica samples exposed to different gamma- and beta-ray irradiation doses. We found that the intensities of these optical bands are linearly correlated in agreement with the model in which they are assigned to

Jose-Maria Delgado-Sanchez, Jose-Maria Martin-Olalla, Maria-Carmen Gallardo, Saturio Ramos

The specific heat, heat flux (DTA trace) and dielectric constant of KDP ferroelectric crystal have been measured simultaneously for various electric fields with a conduction calorimeter. The specific heat presents a strong anomaly but these simultaneous measurements allow us to evaluate the latent heat accurately. Latent heat decreases with field and the val

Alexander S. Balankin

A new type of elasticity of random (multifractal) structures is suggested. A closed system of constitutive equations is obtained on the basis of two proposed phenomenological laws of reversible deformations of multifractal structures. The results may be used for predictions of the mechanical behavior of materials with multifractal microstructure, as well as

G. V. Astakhov, D. R. Yakovlev, V. V. Rudenkov, P. C. M. Christianen

The ground state of negatively charged excitons (trions) in high magnetic fields is shown to be a dark triplet state, confirming long-standing theoretical predictions. Photoluminescence (PL), reflection, and PL excitation spectroscopy of CdTe quantum wells reveal that the dark triplet trion has lower energy than the singlet trion above 24 Tesla. The singlet-

Matthew S. Turner, Pierre Sens, Nicholas D. Socci

We present a model for the kinetics of spontaneous membrane domain (raft) assembly that includes the effect of membrane recycling ubiquitous in living cells. We show that the domains have a broad power-law distribution with an average radius that scales with the 1/4 power of the domain lifetime when the line tension at the domain edges is large. For biologic

Mauro M. Doria, Antonio R. de C. Romaguera, Welles A. M. Morgado

A vortex line is shaped by a zigzag of pinning centers and we study here how far the stretched vortex line is able to follow this path. The pinning center is described by an insulating sphere of coherence length size such that in its surface the de Gennes boundary condition applies. We calculate the free energy density of this system in the framework of the

D. P. Schneider, P. B. Hall, G. T. Richards, D. E. Vanden Berk

We present the third edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 46,420 objects in the SDSS Third Data Release that have luminosities larger than M_i = -22 (in a cosmology with H_0 = 70 km/s/Mpc, Omega_M = 0.3, and Omega_Lambda = 0.7), have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000 km/s or are unambi

Stefan Immler, Robert A. Fesen, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Kurt W. Weiler

We present results from observations of SN 1979C with XMM-Newton in X-rays and in the UV, archival X-ray and HST data, and follow-up ground-based optical imaging. The XMM-Newton MOS spectrum shows two-temperature thermal plasma emission characteristics of both the forward (4.1 keV) and reverse shock (0.78 keV) with no intrinsic absorption. The long-term X-ra

J. M. Borrero, A. Lagg, S. K. Solanki, M. Collados

We investigate the fine structure of the sunspot penumbra by means of a model that allows for a flux tube in horizontal pressure balance with the magnetic background atmosphere in which it is embedded. We apply this model to spectropolarimetric observations of two neutral iron lines at 1.56 $μ$m and invert several radial cuts in the penumbra of the same suns

Jenny E. Greene, Luis C. Ho

To investigate the relationship between black holes and their host galaxies, many groups have used the width of the [O III] 5007 line as a substitute for the stellar velocity dispersion (sigma*) of galaxy bulges. We directly test this assumption with a large and homogeneous sample of narrow-line active galactic nuclei from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We co

Juna A. Kollmeier, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Renyue Cen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present predictions of Ly-alpha forest-galaxy correlations at z=3 from Eulerian simulations that include the effects of galactic winds, driven primarily by supernova explosions. Galactic winds produce expanding bubbles of shock-heated gas within ~0.5 comoving Mpc/h of luminous galaxies in the simulation, which have space density similar to that of observe

Miriam I. Krauss, Zhongxiang Wang, Allyn Dullighan, Adrienne M. Juett

We report the precise optical and X-ray localization of the 3.2 ms accretion-powered X-ray pulsar XTE J1814-338 with data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory as well as optical observations conducted during the 2003 June discovery outburst. Optical imaging of the field during the outburst of this soft X-ray transient reveals an R = 18 star at the X-ray positi

K. E. Young, P. M. Harvey, T. Y. Brooke, N. Chapman

We present maps of over 1.5 square degrees in Chamaeleon (Cha) II at 24, 70, and 160 micron observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) and a 1.2 square degree millimeter map from SIMBA on the Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST). The c2d Spitzer Legacy Team&#39;s data reduction pipeline is described in det

Ming Feng Gu, Mike Schmidt, Peter Beiersdorfer, Hui Chen

We present high resolution laboratory spectra of K-shell X-ray lines from inner-shell excited and ionized ions of oxygen, obtained with a reflection grating spectrometer on the electron beam ion trap (EBIT-I) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Only with a multi-ion model including all major atomic collisional and radiative processes, are we able

Elena Pierpaoli, Sandrine Anthoine

We present a new method for component separation from multifrequency maps aimed to extract Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) galaxy clusters from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. This method is best suited to recover non--Gaussian, spatially localized and sparse signals. We apply our method on simulated maps of the ACBAR experiment. We find that this meth

R. Della Ceca, L. Ballo, V. Braito, T. Maccacaro

The XMM-Newton observation of the optically Type 1 AGN AXJ0447-0627 (z=0.214) unambiguously reveals a complex, bright and prominent set of lines in the 4-8 keV rest frame energy range. Although, from a phenomenological point of view, the observed properties can be described by a simple power law model plus 5 narrow Gaussian lines (at rest frame energies of n

V. Bozza, L. Mancini

In the neighborhood of Sgr A*, several stars (S2, S12, S14, S1, S8, S13) enjoy an accurate determination of their orbital parameters. General Relativity predicts that the central black hole acts as a gravitational lens on these stars, generating a secondary image and two infinite series of relativistic images. For each of these six stars, we calculate the li

I. Hunter, P. L. Dufton, R. S. I. Ryans, D. J. Lennon

An analysis of high-resolution VLT/UVES spectra of two B-type main sequence stars, NGC 346-11 and AV 304, in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), has been undertaken, using the non-LTE TLUSTY model atmospheres to derive the stellar parameters and chemical compositions of each star. The chemical compositions of the two stars are in reasonable agreement. Moreover

James P. Lloyd, Anand Sivaramakrishnan

The direct detection of extrasolar planets by imaging means is limited by the large flux of light from the host star being scattered into the region of interest by a variety of processes, including diffraction. Coronagraphs are devices that suppress the undesirable scattering of light caused by diffraction. In a coronagraph the sensitivity limit for high dyn

C. Lovis, M. Mayor, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe

We report on the detection of three Saturn-mass planets discovered with the HARPS instrument. HD 93083 shows radial-velocity (RV) variations best explained by the presence of a companion of 0.37 M_Jup orbiting in 143.6 days. HD 101930 b has an orbital period of 70.5 days and a minimum mass of 0.30 M_Jup. For HD 102117, we present the independent detection of

T. L. Parker, A. J. Norton, K. Mukai

We present an analysis of 30 archival ASCA and RXTE X-ray observations of 16 intermediate polars to investigate the nature of their orbital modulation. We show that X-ray orbital modulation is widespread amongst these systems, but not ubiquitous as indicated by previous studies that included fewer objects. Only seven of the sixteen systems show a clearly sta

Eduardo Battaner, Estrella Florido

Following the model of magnetically supported rotation of spiral galaxies, the inner disk rotation is dominated by gravity but magnetism is not negligible at radii where the rotation curve becomes flat, and indeed becomes dominant at very large radii. Values of the order of 1 $μ$G, or even less, produce a centripetal force when the absolute value of the slop

W. Nowotny, T. Lebzelter, J. Hron, S. Hoefner

Originating in different depths of the very extended atmospheres of AGB stars, various molecular spectral lines observable in the near-infrared show diverse behaviours and can be used to probe atmospheric dynamics throughout the outer layers of these pulsating red giants. In Nowotny et al. (2005, Paper I) time series of synthetic high-resolution spectra were

W. Nowotny, B. Aringer, S. Hoefner, R. Gautschy-Loidl

Atmospheres of evolved AGB stars are heavily affected by pulsation, dust formation and mass loss, and they can become very extended. Time series of observed high-resolution spectra proved to be a useful tool to study atmospheric dynamics throughout the outer layers of these pulsating red giants. Originating at various depths, different molecular spectral lin

H. Zhang, D. Sokoloff, I. Rogachevskii, D. Moss

We continue our attempt to connect observational data on current helicity in solar active regions with solar dynamo models. In addition to our previous results about temporal and latitudinal distributions of current helicity (Kleeorin et al. 2003), we argue that some information concerning the radial profile of the current helicity averaged over time and lat

L. R. Bedin, J. Anderson, G. Piotto, Y. Momany

We show the astrometric potential of the Wide Field Imager at the focus of the MPI-ESO 2.2m Telescope. Currently, we are able to measure the position of a well-exposed star with a precision of $\sim$4 mas/frame in each coordinate (under 0.8 arcsec seeing conditions). We present some preliminary results here.

S. P. Bamford, B. Milvang-Jensen, A. Aragon-Salamanca, L. Simard

We have measured maximum rotation velocities (Vrot) for a sample of 111 emission-line galaxies with 0.1 < z < 1, observed in the fields of 6 clusters. From these data we construct &#39;matched&#39; samples of 58 field and 22 cluster galaxies, covering similar ranges in redshift (0.25 < z < 1.0) and luminosity (M_B < -19.5 mag), and selected in a homogeneous

S. Mieske, M. Hilker, L. Infante

We present I-band Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) measurements for 16 early type galaxies (3 giants, 13 dwarfs) in the central region of the Hydra cluster, based on deep photometric data in 7 fields obtained with VLT FORS1. From the SBF-distances to the galaxies in our sample we estimate the distance of the Hydra cluster to be 41.2 +/- 1.4 Mpc ((m-M)=3

S. Colafrancesco

In this Letter we derive the SZ effect (SZE) observable in the direction of the giant X-ray cavities found in the atmospheres of galaxy clusters. We explore specifically the case of the cluster MS0735.6+7421. The SZE produced in the cavities embedded in the cluster thermal atmosphere is of non-thermal nature: it dominates the overall cluster SZE at the frequ

Yoshiaki Taniguchi, N. Z. Scoville, D. B. Sanders, B. Mobasher

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) treasury project.The COSMOS aims to perform a 2 square degree imaging survey of an equatorial field in $I$(F814W) band, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Such a wide field survey, combined with ground-based photometric and spectroscopic data, is essential to understand the inte

L. Knox, Y. -S. Song, J. A. Tyson

Small distortions in the observed shapes of distant galaxies, a cosmic shear due to gravitational lensing, can be used to simultaneously determine the distance-redshift relation, r(z), and the density contrast growth factor, g(z). Both of these functions are sensitive probes of the acceleration. Their simultaneous determination allows for a consistency test

Louise M. Ord, Martin Kunz, Hugues Mathis, Joseph Silk

If the voids that we see today in the distribution of galaxies existed at recombination, they will leave an imprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). On the other hand, if these voids formed much later, their effect on the CMB will be negligible and will not be observed with the current generation of experiments. In this paper presented at the 2004 A

T. Hayakawa, T. Shizuma, T. Kajino, S. Chiba

We study a new s-process path through an isomer of $^{186}$Re to improve a $^{187}$Re-$^{187}$Os nucleo-cosmochronometer. The nucleus $^{187}$Re is produced by this new path of $^{185}$Re(n,$γ$)$^{186}$Re$^m$(n,$γ$)$^{187}$Re. We measure a ratio of neutron capture cross-sections for the $^{185}$Re(n,$γ$)$^{186}$Re$^m$ and $^{185}$Re(n,$γ$)$^{186}$Re$^{gs}$ r

Anthony L. Piro, Phil Arras, Lars Bildsten

We follow the time dependent thermal evolution of a white dwarf (WD) undergoing sudden accretion in a dwarf nova outburst, using both simulations and analytic estimates. The post-outburst lightcurve clearly separates into early times when the WD flux is high, and late times when the flux is near the quiescent level. The break between these two regimes, occur

S. C. Gandhi, C. J. Efthimiou

We present a pedagogical description of the inversion of Gamow&#39;s tunnelling formula and we compare it with the corresponding classical problem. We also discuss the issue of uniqueness in the solution and the result is compared with that obtained by the method of Gel&#39;fand and Levitan. We hope that the article will be a valuable source to students who

N. Kiriushcheva, S. V. Kuzmin, D. G. C. McKeon

The peculiarities of doing a canonical analysis of the first order formulation of the Einstein-Hilbert action in terms of either the metric tensor $g^{αβ}$ or the metric density $h^{αβ}= \sqrt{-g}g^{αβ}$ along with the affine connection are discussed. It is shown that the difference between using $g^{αβ}$ as opposed to $h^{αβ}$ appears only in two spacetime

Cristian R. Ghezzi, Patricio S. Letelier

The time evolution of a set of 22 Mo unstable charged stars that collapse is computed integrating the Einstein-Maxwell equations. The model simulate the collapse of an spherical star that had exhausted its nuclear fuel and have or acquires a net electric charge in its core while collapsing. When the charge to mass ratio is Q/M >= 1 the star do not collapse a

BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present results from an analysis of B0 -> rho+rho- using 232 million Upsilon(4S) decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at SLAC. We measure the longitudinal polarization fraction f_L = 0.978 +- 0.014 (stat) +0.021 -0.029 (syst) and the CP-violating parameters SLong = -0.33 +- 0.24 (stat) +0.08 -0.14 (syst) and

A. C. Johnson, J. R. Petta, J. M. Taylor, A. Yacoby

The spin of a confined electron, when oriented originally in some direction, will lose memory of that orientation after some time. Physical mechanisms leading to this relaxation of spin memory typically involve either coupling of the electron spin to its orbital motion or to nuclear spins. Relaxation of confined electron spin has been previously measured onl

Pinaki Chaudhuri, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta, H. R. Krishnamurthy

The phase diagram of a polydisperse hard sphere system is examined by numerical minimization of a discretized form of the Ramakrishnan-Yussouff free energy functional. Crystalline and glassy local minima of the free energy are located and the phase diagram in the density-polydispersity plane is mapped out by comparing the free energies of different local min

I. Soszynski, W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski

We present an empirical method for converting single-point near-infrared J, H, and K measurements of fundamental-mode Cepheids to mean magnitudes, using complete light curves in V or I bands. The algorithm is based on the template light curves in the near-infrared bandpasses. The mean uncertainty of the method is estimated to about 0.03 mag, which is smaller

M. B. Barbaro, R. Cenni, M. R. Quaglia

We present here analytic expressions for the generalised Lindhard function, also referred to as Fermi Gas polarisation propagator, in a relativistic kinematic framework and in the presence of various resonances and vertices. Particular attention is payed to its real part, since it gives rise to substantial difficulties in the definition of the currents enter

Takayuki Hibi, Satoshi Murai

Let $S = K[x_1, ..., x_n]$ denote the polynomial ring in $n$ variables over a field $K$ with each $°x_i = 1$. Let $Δ$ be a simplicial complex on $[n] = \{1, ..., n \}$ and $I_Δ\subset S$ its Stanley--Reisner ideal. We write $Δ^e$ for the exterior algebraic shifted complex of $Δ$ and $Δ^c$ for a combinatorial shifted complex of $Δ$. Let $β_{ii+j}(I_Δ) = \dim_

Felix Finster

We formulate a variational principle for a collection of projectors in an indefinite inner product space. The existence of minimizers is proved in various situations.

Michael M. Wolf

We investigate the scaling of the entanglement entropy in an infinite translational invariant Fermionic system of any spatial dimension. The states under consideration are ground states and excitations of tight-binding Hamiltonians with arbitrary interactions. We show that the entropy of a finite region typically scales with the area of the surface times a l

Peter Jacobs

I review the status and future directions of jet-related measurements in high energy nuclear collisions and their application as a probe of QCD matter.

K. M. R. Audenaert, J. Eisert

The quantum relative entropy is frequently used as a distance, or distinguishability measure between two quantum states. In this paper we study the relation between this measure and a number of other measures used for that purpose, including the trace norm distance. More precisely, we derive lower and upper bounds on the relative entropy in terms of various

Megumi Harada, Tara S Holm, Lisa C Jeffrey, Augustin-Liviu Mare

For a compact, connected, simply-connected Lie group G, the loop group LG is the infinite-dimensional Hilbert Lie group consisting of H^1-Sobolev maps S^1-->G. The geometry of LG and its homogeneous spaces is related to representation theory and has been extensively studied. The space of based loops Omega(G) is an example of a homogeneous space of $LG$ and h

E. Gourgoulhon, J. L. Jaramillo

The isolated horizon formalism recently introduced by Ashtekar et al. aims at providing a quasi-local concept of a black hole in equilibrium in an otherwise possibly dynamical spacetime. In this formalism, a hierarchy of geometrical structures is constructed on a null hypersurface. On the other side, the 3+1 formulation of general relativity provides a power

J. Spinelly, E. R. Bezerra de Mello

In this paper we analyze the vacuum polarization effects of a massless scalar field in the background of a global monopole considering a inner structure to it. Specifically we investigate the effect of its structure on the vacuum expectation value of the square of the field operator, $<\hatΦ^2(x)>$, admitting a non-minimal coupling between the field with the

A. Alvarez, F. R. Romero, J. F. R. Archilla, J. Cuevas

We study the dynamics of moving discrete breathers in an interfaced piecewise DNA molecule. This is a DNA chain in which all the base pairs are identical and there exists an interface such that the base pairs dipole moments at each side are oriented in opposite directions. The Hamiltonian of the Peyrard--Bishop model is augmented with a term that includes th

A. Sibirtsev, Ulf-G. Meißner, A. W. Thomas

We investigate OZI rule violation in omega and phi-meson photoproduction off nucleons. Data on the total cross sections indicate a large phi/omega ratio of about 0.8 at the maximal available photon energy that is in good agreement with expectations from QCD. On the other hand, data at large four momentum transfer exhibit a ratio of about 0.07, showing that t

O. Sakai, Y. Shimizu, Y. Kaneta

The band calculation scheme for $f$ electron compounds is developed on the basis of the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and the LMTO method. The auxiliary impurity problem is solved by a method named as NCA$f^{2}$v&#39;, which includes the correct exchange process of the $f^{1} \to f^{2}$ virtual excitation as the vertex correction to the non-crossing app

Jose Burillo, Sean Cleary, Melanie Stein, Jennifer Taback

We discuss metric and combinatorial properties of Thompson&#39;s group T, including normal forms for elements and unique tree pair diagram representatives. We relate these properties to those of Thompson&#39;s group F when possible, and highlight combinatorial differences between the two groups. We define a set of unique normal forms for elements of T arisin

Sergey A. Serov, Svetlana S. Serova

In the article, correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert method and the Enskog error are considered. The equations system of multi-component nonequilibrium gas-dynamics is derived, that corresponds to the first order in the approximate method for solution of the kinetic Boltzmann equation within the Str

Takeo Araki, Katsushi Ito, Akihisa Ohtsuka

We study a reduction of deformation parameters in non(anti)commutative N=2 harmonic superspace to those in non(anti)commutative N=1 superspace. By this reduction we obtain the exact gauge and supersymmetry transformations in the Wess-Zumino gauge of non(anti)commutative N=2 supersymmetric U(1) gauge theory defined in the deformed harmonic superspace. We also

I. L. Landau, H. R. Ott

We reanalyze published magnetization data and demonstrate that the conclusion of the original authors, claiming enhanced two-dimensional properties of the cuprate superconductor Tl-1234, is not supported by the experimental results. Our analysis shows that the magnetic field dependence of the mixed-state magnetization for this particular sample is amazingly

A. D. Dolgov, S. H. Hansen, A. Yu. Smirnov

Neutrinos may possibly violate the spin-statistics theorem, and hence obey Bose statistics or mixed statistics despite having spin half. We find the generalized equilibrium distribution function of neutrinos which depends on a single fermi-bose parameter, κ, and interpolates continuously between the bosonic and fermionic distributions when κchanges from -1 t

L. Roca, E. Oset, J. Singh

We make a theoretical study of the s-wave interaction of the nonet of vector mesons with the octet of pseudoscalar mesons starting from a chiral invariant Lagrangian and implementing unitarity in coupled channels. By looking for poles in the unphysical Riemann sheets of the unitarized scattering amplitudes, we get two octets and one singlet of axial-vector d

Inge S. Helland

We derive essential elements of quantum mechanics from a parametric structure extending that of traditional mathematical statistics. The basic setting is a set $\mathcal{A}$ of incompatible experiments, and a transformation group $G$ on the cartesian product $Π$ of the parameter spaces of these experiments. The set of possible parameters is constrained to li