March 2005 arXiv papers — page 6

Alexander S. Balankin, Daniel Morales Matamoros

We note that in a system far from equilibrium the interface roughening may depend on the system size which plays the role of control parameter. To detect the size effect on the interface roughness, we study the scaling properties of rough interfaces formed in paper combustion experiments. Using paper sheets of different width λL, we found that the turbulent

Alexander O. Govorov

The mechanisms of energy and spin transfer in quantum dot pairs coupled via the Coulomb interaction are studied. Exciton transfer can be resonant or phonon-assisted. In both cases, the transfer rates strongly depend on the resonance conditions. The spin selection rules in the transfer process come from the exchange and spin-orbit interactions. The character

Udo Seifert

For stochastic non-equilibrium dynamics like a Langevin equation for a colloidal particle or a master equation for discrete states, entropy production along a single trajectory is studied. It involves both genuine particle entropy and entropy production in the surrounding medium. The integrated sum of both $Δs\t$is shown to obey a fluctuation theorem $<\exp[

A. M. Scarfone

We present, in the framework of the canonical quantization, a class of nonlinear Schroedinger equations with a complex nonlinearity describing, in the mean field approximation, systems of collectively interacting particles. The quantum evolution equation is obtained starting from the study of a N-body classical system where the underlined nonlinear kinetics

J. Milton Pereira, R. N. Costa Filho

A microscopic model is employed to calculate the spectrum of spin waves in quasiperiodic magnetic multilayers in the dipole-exchange regime. Results are presented for structures in which thin ferromagnetic films are separated by non-magnetic spacers following a Fibonacci sequence and extend previous magnetostatic calculations. The results show the splitting

Frederic da Cruz, Sacha Emam, Michael Prochnow, Jean-Noel Roux

We study the steady plane shear flow of a dense assembly of frictional, inelastic disks using discrete simulation and prescribing the pressure and the shear rate. We show that, in the limit of rigid grains, the shear state is determined by a single dimensionless number, called inertial number I, which describes the ratio of inertial to pressure forces. Small

S. Ciuchi, G. Sangiovanni, M. Capone

In a system where a boson (e.g, a phonon) of finite frequency $ω_0$ is coupled to electrons, two phenomena occur as the coupling is increased: electron pairing and polarization of the boson field. Within a path integral formalism and a Dynamical Mean-Field approach, we introduce {\it ad hoc} distribution function which allow us to pinpoint the two effects. W

M. Farzaneh, XF. Liu, M. El-Batanouny, F. C. Chou

Structure and lattice dynamics of the (001) surface of Sr$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$ have been studied by helium atom scattering (HAS). Analysis of diffraction patterns obtained by elastic HAS revealed a surface periodicity consistent with bulk termination, and confirms that the surface is non-polar and stable which favors a SrCl surface termination. Bulk and surface

A. Mildenberger, F. Evers, R. Narayanan, A. D. Mirlin

Two dimensional disordered superconductors with broken spin-rotation and time-reversal invariance, e.g. with p_x+ip_y pairing, can exhibit plateaus in the thermal Hall coefficient (the thermal quantum Hall effect). Our numerical simulations show that the Hall insulating regions of the phase diagram can support a sub-phase where the quasiparticle density of s

Edward McCann, Vladimir I. Fal&#39;ko

We present a theoretical study of degeneracy breaking due to short-ranged impurities in finite, single-wall, metallic carbon nanotubes. The effective mass model is used to describe the slowly varying spatial envelope wavefunctions of spinless electrons near the Fermi level at two inequivalent valleys (K-points) in terms of the four component Dirac equation f

Tullio Scopigno, Giancarlo Ruocco, Francesco Sette

The experimental results relevant for the understanding of the microscopic dynamics in liquid metals are reviewed, with special regards to the ones achieved in the last two decades. Inelastic Neutron Scattering played a major role since the development of neutron facilities in the sixties. The last ten years, however, saw the development of third generation

Kyungsik Kim, K. H. Chang, M. -K. Yum, J. S. Choi

We study the decay process for the reaction-diffusion process of three species on the small-world network. The decay process is manipulated from the deterministic rate equation of three species in the reaction-diffusion system. The particle density and the global reaction rate on a two dimensional small-world network adding new random links is discussed nume

K. K. Rajagopal

This report is based on my incomplete Phd thesis. The final part of the work on the 2D Yukawa bosons/vortices in a confined geometry is not complete and subject to futher development.

P. Padhan, W. Prellier

The exchange coupling at the interfaces of magnetic superlattices consisting of ferromagnetic $SrRuO_3$ and antiferromagnetic $SrMnO_3$ grown on (001) oriented $SrTiO_3$ is studied with in-plane and out-of-plane orientations, with respect to the substrate plane, of the cooling magnetic field. The magnetization of the in-plane, field cooled hysteresis loop is

Franz J. Giessibl

We review the progress in the spatial resolution of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in vacuum. After an introduction of the basic principle and a conceptual comparison to scanning tunneling microscopy, the main challenges of AFM and the solutions that have evolved in the first twenty years of its existence are outlined. Some crucial steps along the AFM&#39;s p

V. I. Yukalov

The basic notions and the main historical facts on the Bose-Einstein condensation are surveyed.

L. Petit, A. Svane, Z. Szotek, W. M. Temmerman

The self-interaction-corrected local-spin-density approximation is used to describe the electronic structure of dioxides, REO$_2$, and sesquioxides, RE$_2$O$_3$, for the rare earths, RE=Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy and Ho. The valencies of the rare earth ions are determined from total energy minimization. We find Ce, Pr, Tb in their dioxides to have th

Petr Casek, Christian Bernhard, Josef Humlicek, Dominik Munzar

The in-plane infrared response of the high-Tc cuprate superconductors was studied using the spin-fermion model, where charged quasiparticles of the copper-oxygen planes are coupled to spin fluctuations. First, we analyzed structures of the superconducting-state conductivity reflecting the coupling of the quasiparticles to the resonance mode observed by neutr

Junya Otsuki, Hiroaki Kusunose, Yoshio Kuramoto

Dynamics of the singlet-triplet crystalline electric field (CEF) system at finite temperatures is discussed by use of the non-crossing approximation. Even though the Kondo temperature is smaller than excitation energy to the CEF triplet, the Kondo effect appears at temperatures higher than the CEF splitting, and accordingly only quasi-elastic peak is found i

Dirk Fuchs, Peter Schweiss, Thorsten Schwarz, Rudolf Schneider

We show for the system La1-xCexCoO3 (0.1 <= x <= 0.4) that it is possible to synthesize electron-doped cobaltites by the growth of epitaxial thin films. For La1-xCexCoO3, ferromagnetic order is observed within the entire doping range (with the maximum of the Curie temperature, Tc, at x ca. 0.3), resulting in a magnetic phase diagram similar to that of hole-d

M. Pissas, V. Psycharis, D. Stamopoulos, G. Papavassiliou

We studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy the Na$_{0.82}$CoO$_2$ compound using 1% $^{57}$Fe as a local probe which substitutes for the Co ions. Mössbauer spectra at T=300 K revealed two sites which correspond to Fe$^{3+}$ and Fe$^{4+}$. The existence of two distinct values of the quadrupole splitting instead of a continuous distribution should be related with th

J. Singleton, N. Harrison, R. McDonald, P. A. Goddard

After a brief introduction to crystalline organic superconductors and metals, we shall describe two recently-observed exotic phases that occur only in high magnetic fields. The first involves measurements of the non-linear electrical resistance of single crystals of the charge-density-wave (CDW) system (Per)$_2$Au(mnt)$_2$ in static magnetic fields of up to

M. Cristina Marchetti

We review in these notes the dynamics of extended condensed matter systesm, such as vortex lattices in type-II superconductors and charge density waves in anisotropic metals, driven over quenched disorder. We focus in particular on the case of strong disorder, where topological defects are generated in the driven lattice. In this case the repsonse is plastic

N. P. Konstantinidis

The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model is considered for spins $s_{i}={1/2}$ located on the vertices of the dodecahedron and the icosahedron, which belong to the point symmetry group $I_{h}$. Taking into account the permutational and spin inversion symmetries of the Hamiltonian results in a drastic reduction of the dimensionality of the problem, leading to f

Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, D. J. Frantzeskakis, P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider a one-dimensional defocusing Gross--Pitaevskii equation with a parabolic potential. Dark solitons oscillate near the center of the potential trap and their amplitude decays due to radiative losses (sound emission). We develop a systematic asymptotic multi-scale expansion method in the limit when the potential trap is flat. The first-order approxi

Ajit K. Mahapatro, Subhasis Ghosh, David B. Janes

Pairs of electrodes with nanometer separation (nano-gap) are achieved through an electromigration-induced break-junction (EIBJ) technique at room temperature. Lithographically defined gold (Au) wires are formed by e-beam evaporation over oxide coated silicon substrates silanized with (3-Mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane (MPTMS) and then subjected to electromig

R. Monaco, R. J. Rivers

If systems change as fast as possible as they pass through a phase transition then the initial domain structure is constrained by causality. We shall show how we can trace these causal horizons by measuring the spontaneous production of flux in annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions as a function of the quench time $τ_{Q}$ into the superconducting phase. A speci

Yasuhiro Utsumi

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh approach and the drone (Majorana) fermion representation, we evaluate current distribution in a single-electron transistor in a regime where a total tunnel resistance is small. Nonequilibrium quantum fluctuations of charge induce a lifetime broadening of charge-state level, as well as renormalization of system parameters. We find

M. Grajcar, A. Izmalkov, S. H. W. van der Ploeg, S. Linzen

We have demonstrated strong antiferromagnetic coupling between two three-junction flux qubits based on a shared Josephson junction, and therefore not limited by the small inductances of the qubit loops. The coupling sign and magnitude were measured by coupling the system to a high-quality superconducting tank circuit. Design modifications allowing to continu

K. V. Krutitsky, M. Timmer, R. Graham

We investigate the superfluid--Mott-insulator quantum phase transition of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice created by pairs of counterpropagating linearly polarized laser beams, driving an $F_g=1$ to $F_e=1$ internal atomic transition. The whole parameter space of the resulting two-component Bose-Hubbard model is studied. We find that the phase transition

M. Grajcar, A. Izmalkov, E. Il&#39;ichev

We show that an LC parametric transducer can be effectively used to monitor an adiabatic evolution of the superconducting flux qubit. We propose a new scheme to measure the qubit&#39;s state, which is a quantum nondemolition measurement. The scheme can be easily extended to a three-qubit system, and allows the reading out of the qubits&#39; states while the

Adam Muzzin, Gillian Wilson, Mark Lacy

We have measured the 3.6 micron cluster luminosity function (LF) using a sample of 123 galaxy clusters selected from the 4 degree^2 Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS). The clusters were selected on the basis of their R - 3.6 micron colors using the cluster red-sequence technique of Gladders & Yee (2000). The binned LFs are well-fit by a Schechter function at al

Michael L. Balogh, Chris Miller, Robert Nichol, Ann Zabludoff

We present UFTI K-band imaging observations of 222 galaxies that are selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to have unusually strong Hdelta absorption equivalent widths, W(Hd)>4A. Using GIM2D, the images are fit with two-dimensional surface brightness models consisting of a simple disk and bulge component to derive B/T, the fraction of luminosity in the

Gillian Wilson, Adam Muzzin, Mark Lacy, the FLS Team

We present an infrared adaptation of the Cluster Red-Sequence method. We modify the two filter technique of Gladders & Yee (2000) to identify clusters based on their R-[3.6] color. We apply the technique to the 4 degree^2 Spitzer First Look Survey and detect 123 clusters spanning the redshift range 0.09 < z < 1.4. Our results demonstrate that the Spitzer Spa

W. Gieren, J. Storm, T. G. Barnes, P. Fouque

We have applied the infrared surface brightness (ISB) technique to derive distances to 13 Cepheids in the LMC which span a period range from 3 to 42 days. From the absolute magnitudes of the variables calculated from these distances, we find that the LMC Cepheids define tight period-luminosity relations in the V, I, W, J and K bands which agree exceedingly w

Cara E. Rakowski

The topic of this review is the current state of our knowledge about the degree of initial equilibration between electrons, protons and ions at supernova remnant (SNR) shocks. Specifically, the question has been raised as to whether there is an inverse relationship between the shock velocity and the equilibration similar to the relationship between equilibra

Andrea Isella, Antonella Natta

This paper discusses the properties of the inner puffed-up rim which forms in circumstellar disks when dust evaporates. We argue that the rim shape is controlled by a fundamental property of circumstellar disks, namely their very large vertical density gradient, through the dependence of grain evaporation temperature on gas density. As a result, the bright s

C. C. Cheung, J. F. C. Wardle, T. Chen

Archival Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 images were used to search for optical emission associated with the radio jets of a number of luminous quasars. From this search, we report new optical hotspot detections in the well-known blazar 3C~454.3 and the lobe-dominated quasars 3C~275.1 and 3C~336. We also find optical emission in the vicinity of the hotspot in 3

Gary J. Ferland, Nick Abel, Kris Davidson, Nathan Smith

Conditions within the Homunculus nebula around Eta Car are determined by many of the same physical processes that occur in molecular clouds in the interstellar medium. But there is one major exception -- we know when the ejection occurred and something about its composition and initial state. The gas was warm, ionized, and dust-free when it was located withi

A. Dey, C. Bian, B. T. Soifer, K. Brand

We report the discovery of a very large, spatially extended Ly alpha -emitting nebula at z=2.656 associated with a luminous mid-infrared source. The bright mid-infrared source (F(24um)=0.86 mJy) was first detected in observations made using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Existing broad-band imaging data from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey revealed the mid-inf

D. Lazzati, M. Begelman, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini

After many years of speculation, recent observations have confirmed the association of gamma-ray bursts with core-collapse supernova explosions from massive stars. This association carries with it important consequences. The burst relativistic jet has to propagate through the cold dense stellar material before it reaches the transparency radius and the burst

Dirk Terrell, Ulisse Munari, Tomaz Zwitter, George Wolf

We present photometric and spectroscopic data on the early-type binary MP Centauri. The photometric data are analyzed simultaneously with radial velocities to derive preliminary absolute dimensions for the binary components. Analysis of the spectra shows that the stars rotate synchronously and that the line of sight to the system crosses two kinematically sh

S. R. Majewski, P. M. Frinchaboy, W. E. Kunkel, R. Link

The question of the existence of active tidal disruption around various dSph galaxies remains controversial. That debate often centers on the nature (bound vs. unbound) of extended populations of stars. However, the more fundamental issue of the very existence of the extended populations is still contentious. We present an evaluation of the debate centering

W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, F. Bresolin

We have obtained deep near-infrared images in J and K filters of three fields in the Sculptor galaxy NGC 300 with the ESO VLT and ISAAC camera. For 16 Cepheid variables in these fields, we have determined J and K magnitudes at two different epochs, and have derived their mean magnitudes in these bands. The slopes of the resulting period-luminosity relations

Michael Werner

The Spitzer Space Telescope, born as the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) and later the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (still SIRTF), was under discussion and development within NASA and the scientific community for more than 30 years prior to its launch in 2003. This brief history chronicles a few of the highlights and the lowlights of those 3

Stefano Bianchi, Giovanni Miniutti, Andrew C. Fabian, Kazushi Iwasawa

We present the analysis of the XMM-Newton EPIC pn spectrum of the Seyfert 2 galaxy, Mrk3. We confirm that the source is dominated by a pure Compton reflection component and an iron K$α$ line, both produced as reflection from a Compton-thick torus, likely responsible also for the large column density which is pierced by the primary powerlaw only at high energ

J. A. R. Cembranos, A. Dobado, A. L. Maroto

In brane-world models with low tension, massive branons are natural candidates for dark matter. The phenomenology of these WIMP-like particles is completely determined by their mass, the brane tension and, in the case of effects due to radiative corrections, by the cutoff setting the scale of validity of the branon effective theory. In this paper, we review

E. Aprile, K. L. Giboni, P. Majewski, K. Ni

Liquid Xenon (LXe) is expected to be an excellent target and detector medium to search for dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Knowledge of LXe ionization and scintillation response to low energy nuclear recoils expected from the scattering of WIMPs by Xe nuclei is important for determining the sensitivity of LXe direct d

S. Piatek, C. Pryor, P. Bristow, E. Olszewski

This article presents a measurement of the proper motion of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy determined from images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in two distinct fields.

Fabien Malbet, Régis Lachaume, Jean-Philippe Berger, M. Mark Colavita

We report new near-infrared, long-baseline interferometric observations at the AU scale of the pre-main-sequence star FU Orionis with the PTI, IOTA and VLTI interferometers. This young stellar object has been observed on 42 nights over a period of 6 years from 1998 to 2003. We have obtained 287 independent measurements of the fringe visibility with 6 differe

J. A. Stevens, M. J. Page, R. J. Ivison, F. J. Carrera

We present an analysis of the submillimetre/X-ray properties of 19 X-ray absorbed, Compton-thin quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) selected to have luminosities and redshifts which represent the peak of cosmic QSO activity. i.e. ~L* objects at 1<z<3. Of these, we present new data for 11 objects not previously observed at submillimetre wavelengths and additional da

I. Golombek, J. C. Niemeyer

We show that a flame tracking/capturing scheme originally developed for deflagration fronts can be used to model thermonuclear detonations in multidimensional explosion simulations of type Ia supernovae. After testing the accuracy of the front model, we present a set of two-dimensional simulations of delayed detonations with a physically motivated off-center

Jun Ma, Xu Zhou, Jiansheng Chen, Zhenyu Wu

In this paper we present catalogs of photometric and spectroscopic data for M81 globular clusters (GCs). The catalogs include B- and V- photometric and reddening data of 95 GCs, and spectroscopic metallicities of 40 GCs in M81. Using these data, we make some statistical correlations. The results show that the distributions of intrinsic B and V colors and met

Jun Ma, Xu Zhou, Jiansheng Chen

Using the theoretical stellar population synthesis models of BC96, Kong et al. (2003) showed that some BATC colors and color indices could be used to disentangle the age and metallicity effect. They found that there is a very good relation between the flux ratio of L_{8510}/L_{9170} and the metallicity for stellar populations older than 1 Gyr. In this paper,

Radoslaw Smolec

The microlensing surveys, such as OGLE or MACHO, have led to the discovery of thousands of RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic Bulge and in the Magellanic Clouds, allowing for detailed investigation of these stars, specially the still mysterious Blazhko phenomenon. Higher incidence rate of Blazhko (BL) variables in the more metal-rich Galactic Bulge than in the L

F. Haberl, W. Pietsch

XMM-Newton archival observations of the Be/X-ray binary candidate RX J0103.6-7201 revealed pulsations with a period of ~1323 s. This makes RX J0103.6-7201 the X-ray pulsar with the longest period known in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). More than 150 X-ray observations of RX J0103.6-7201 by ROSAT, Chandra and XMM-Newton show flux variations by a factor of

S. Schmeja, R. S. Klessen, D. Froebrich

Embedded clusters usually contain young stellar objects in different evolutionary stages. We investigate number ratios of objects in these classes in the star-forming regions rho Ophiuchi, Serpens, Taurus, Chamaeleon I, NGC 7129, IC 1396A, and IC 348. They are compared to the temporal evolution of young stars in numerical simulations of gravoturbulent fragme

Luis J. Goicoechea, Rodrigo Gil-Merino, Aurora Ullan

We present an analysis of infrared/optical/ultraviolet spectra of the two images of the first gravitationally lensed quasar Q0957+561A, B. The Hubble Space Telescope observations of Q0957+561A and Q0957+561B are separated in time by the known time delay in this system, so we can directly deduce the flux ratios. These flux ratios of images lead to important i

Roberto A Sussman, Israel Quiros, Osmel Martin Gonzalez

We derive and analyze a class of spherically symmetric cosmological models whose source is an interactive mixture of inhomogeneous cold dark matter (DM) and a generic homogeneous dark energy (DE) fluid. If the DE fluid corresponds to a quintessense scalar field, the interaction term can be associated with a well motivated non--minimal coupling to the DM comp

Kazuyasu Shigemoto

We give the comment why the supermassive black hole exists at the center of almost all galaxies. We consider the origin of the supermassive black hole from the point of view of the density of the matter. If the density of the matter is fixed and such matter can come together by the gravitational attraction, such stellar object eventually becomes the black ho

R. H. Mendez, D. Thomas, R. P. Saglia, C. Maraston

This paper presents deep spectra of 14 planetary nebulae (PNs) at a variety of angular distances from the center of the flattened elliptical galaxy NGC 4697. Both near the center and among the most outlying PNs we have found several examples of very strong [O III] 5007, about 20 times brighter than Hbeta. This, together with strong [Ne III] lines, implies a

Annapurni Subramaniam, Tushar P. Prabhu

Stellar radial velocity in the central region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is used to estimate the radial velocity curve along various position angles (PA) including the line of nodes (LON). The central part of the radial velocity profile, along the LON, shows a V-shaped profile - a clear indication of counterrotation. The counterrotating region and t

T. Forveille, J. -L. Beuzit, P. Delorme, D. Ségransan

We present the discovery of a tight M8V binary, with a separation of only 1.2 astronomical units, obtained with the PUEO and NACO adaptive optics systems, respectively at the CFHT and VLT telescopes. The estimated period of LP 349-25 is approximately 5 years, and this makes it an excellent candidate for a precise mass measurement.

Andrew J. S. Hamilton

This second paper of two companion papers on the estimation of power spectra specializes to the topic of estimating galaxy power spectra at large, linear scales using maximum likelihood methods. As in the first paper, the aims are pedagogical, and the emphasis is on concepts rather than technical detail. The paper covers most of the salient issues, including

Andrew J. S. Hamilton

This paper and its companion form an extended version of notes provided to participants in the Valencia September 2004 summer school on Data Analysis in Cosmology. The papers offer a pedagogical introduction to the problem of estimating the power spectrum from galaxy surveys. The intention is to focus on concepts rather than on technical detail, but enough m

Asantha Cooray, Milos Milosavljevic

We reanalyze the galaxy-mass correlation function measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to obtain host dark matter halo masses at galaxy and galaxy group scales. We extend the data to galaxy clusters in the 2MASS catalog and study the relation between central galaxy luminosity and halo mass. While the central galaxy luminosity scales as ~M^{0.7-0.8} at lo

Karyn Le Hur

We investigate the dephasing of mesoscopic interferences by electron-electron interactions in a strictly one-dimensional geometry composed of two weakly-coupled (clean and very long) Luttinger liquids. The main goal of this paper is to demonstrate that interactions in one dimension can produce a visible attenuation of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations. Through a Ny

James Conant

In recent work with J.Mostovoy and T.Stanford,the author found that for every natural number n, a certain polynomial in the coefficients of the Conway polynomial is a primitive integer-valued degree n Vassiliev invariant, but that modulo 2, it becomes degree n-1. The conjecture then naturally suggests itself that these primitive invariants are congruent to i

T. Yaqoob, J. N. Reeves, A. Markowitz, P. J. Serlemitsos

We report on the results of detailed X-ray spectroscopy of the Fe K region in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 from five ~170 ks observations with the Chandra high energy gratings. Monitoring was conducted over an interval of ~125 days in 2001. The combined data constitute the highest signal-to-noise Fe K spectrum having the best velocity resolution in the Fe K

Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard, Li Guo

In this paper we study the adjoint functors between the category of Rota-Baxter algebras and the categories of dendriform dialgebras and trialgebras. In analogy to the well-known theory of the adjoint functor between the category of associative algebras and Lie algebras, we first give an explicit construction of free Rota-Baxter algebras and then apply it to

Tim Bratten

In this manuscript we make a general study of the representations realized, for a reductive Lie group of Harish-Chandra class, on the compactly supported sheaf cohomology groups of an irreducible finite-rank polarized homogeneous vector bundle defined in a generalized complex flag space. In particular, we show that the representations obtained are minimal gl

Thomas Chen

We study a class of Schrödinger operators on $\Z^2$ with a random potential decaying as $|x|^{-\dex}$, $0<\dex\leq\frac12$, in the limit of small disorder strength $λ$. For the critical exponent $\dex=\frac12$, we prove that the localization length of eigenfunctions is bounded below by $2^{λ^{-\frac14+η}}$, while for $0<\dex<\frac12$, the lower bound is $λ^{

Hirotaka Shimizu, George Sterman, Werner Vogelsang, Hiroshi Yokoya

It has recently been suggested that collisions of transversely polarized protons and antiprotons at the GSI could be used to determine the nucleon&#39;s transversity densities from measurements of the double-spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan process. We analyze the role of higher-order perturbative QCD corrections in this kinematic regime, in terms of the ava

Subir Sarkar

Precision measurements of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background and of the clustering of large-scale structure have supposedly confirmed that the primordial density perturbation has a (nearly) scale-invariant spectrum. However this conclusion is based on assumptions about the world model and the nature of the dark matter. Physical models of inflati

Joseph Emerson, Etera Livine, Seth Lloyd

Efficient methods for generating pseudo-randomly distributed unitary operators are needed for the practical application of Haar distributed random operators in quantum communication and noise estimation protocols. We develop a theoretical framework for analyzing pseudo-random ensembles generated through a random circuit composition. We prove that the measure

Ivan Werner

Discrete time random dynamical systems with countably many maps which admit countable Markov partitions on complete metric spaces such that the resulting Markov systems are uniform continuous and contractive are considered. A notion of a generating communication class of such a system is introduced, which includes every communication class if the system has

E. L. Koschmieder

We will show that one half of the rest mass of the electron is equal to the sum of the rest masses of electron neutrinos and that the other half of the rest mass of the electron is given by the energy in the sum of electric oscillations. With this composition we can explain the rest mass, the electric charge, the spin and the magnetic moment of the electron.

Benton L. Duncan

We study a class of matrix function algebras, here denoted $\mathcal{T}^{+}(\mathcal{C}_n)$. We introduce a notion of point derivations, and classify the point derivations for certain finite dimensional representations of $\mathcal{T}^{+}(\mathcal{C}_n)$. We use point derivations and information about $n \times n$ matrices to show that every $\mathcal{T}^{+}

Daniel Caro

Nous définissons et étudions les dévissages des $F$-complexes de $\mathcal{D}$-modules arithmétiques en $F$-isocristaux surconvergents. Nous prouvons que les $F$-complexes surholonomes sont dévissables en $F$-isocristaux surconvergents. On établit ensuite une formule cohomologique, étendant celle d&#39;Étesse et Le Stum, des fonctions $L$ associées aux duaux

H. I. Ha, A. G. Lebed, M. J. Naughton

We report angle-dependent magnetoresistance measurements on (TMTSF)2ClO4 that provide strong support for a new macroscopic quantum phenomenon, the interference commensurate (IC) effect, in quasi-one dimensional metals. In addition to observing rich magnetoresistance oscillations, and fitting them with one-electron calculations, we observe a clear demarcation

M. Marklund, P. K. Shukla, L. Stenflo, G. Brodin

We present exact electromagnetic solitary pulses that can be experimentally obtained within nonlinear left-handed metamaterials. The effect of pulse decoherence on the modulation instability of partially incoherent electromagnetic waves is also investigated. The results may contribute to a better understanding of nonlinear electromagnetic pulse propagation i

T. V. Borkova, V. A. Marsakov

We present a compiled catalogue of effective temperatures, surface gravities, iron and magnesium abundances, distances, velocity components, and orbital elements for stars in the solar neighborhood. The atmospheric parameters and iron abundances are averages of published values derived from model synthetic spectra for a total of about 2000 values in 80 publi

Fabrice P. Laussy, Alexey Kavokin, Guillaume Malpuech

We show theoretically that the emission spectrum of a single large quantum dot strongly coupled to a single photon mode in a microcavity can be qualitatively different from the spectrum obtained with an atom in a cavity. Instead of the well-known Mollow triplet we predict appearance of multiplets with the number of peaks a function of the quantum dot size an

D. Gaiotto, A. Strominger, X. Yin

A simple equality is proposed between the BPS partition function of a general 4D IIA Calabi-Yau black hole and that of a 5D spinning M-theory Calabi-Yau black hole. Combining with recent results then leads to a new relation between the 5D spinning BPS black hole partition function and the square of the N=2 topological string partition function.

Glenn Merlet

Let A(n) be a sequence of i.i.d. topical (i.e. isotone and additively homogeneous) operators. Let $x(n,x_0)$ be defined by $x(0,x_0)=x_0$ and $x(n,x_0)=A(n)x(n-1,x_0)$. This can modelize a wide range of systems including, task graphs, train networks, Job-Shop, timed digital circuits or parallel processing systems. When A(n) has the memory loss property, we u

Young-Jun Yu, Han-Eol Noh, Mun-Heon Hong, I. T. Jeong

We have performed near-field spectroscopy and microscopy of the InAs/AlGaAs quantum-dot-based nanoclusters. It is observed that the photoluminescence spectra of spatially confined excitons in the nanoclusters is blue-shifted up to 20 meV as the power density is increased. In particular, the near-field photoluminescence images have shown that excitons became

Dmitri Orlov

In this paper we establish an equivalence between the category of graded D-branes of type B in Landau-Ginzburg models with homogeneous superpotential W and the triangulated category of singularities of the fiber of W over zero. The main result is a theorem that shows that the graded triangulated category of singularities of the cone over a projective variety

Boaz Tsaban

In this issue we celebrate the appearance of the proceedings of the first SPM Workshop, announce several mathematical breakthroughs, have two extended contributions by Babinkostova, and a new open problem by Kalenda. Contents: Editor&#39;s note; Proceedings of the first workshop on Coverings, Selections, and Games in Topology; A five element basis for the un

Edward A. Olszewski

The primary emphasis of this study has been to explain how modifying a cake recipe by changing either the dimensions of the cake or the amount of cake batter alters the baking time. Restricting our consideration to the genoise, one of the basic cakes of classic French cuisine, we have obtained a semi-empirical formula for its baking time as a function of ove

Paolo Padoan, John Scalo

Low-energy cosmic rays (CRs) are confined by self-generated MHD waves in the mostly neutral ISM. We show that the CR transport equation can be expressed as a continuity equation for the CR number density involving an effective convection velocity. Assuming balance between wave growth and ion-neutral damping, this equation gives a steady-state condition n_cr

K. Esashika, H. Nakada, K. Tanabe

By applying the particle-number projection to the finite-temperature BCS theory, the $S$-shaped heat capacity, which has recently been claimed to be a fingerprint of the superfluid-to-normal phase transition in nuclei, is reexamined. It is found that the particle-number (or number-parity) projection gives $S$-shapes in the heat capacity of nuclei which look

Albert C. Fannjiang

We propose a phase-space formulation for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a white-noise potential in order to shed light on two issues: the rate of spread and the singularity formation in the average sense. Our main tools are the energy law and the variance identity. The method is completely elementary. For the problem of wave spread, we show that the

Kiwoon Choi, Adam Falkowski, Hans Peter Nilles, Marek Olechowski

We examine the structure of soft supersymmetry breaking terms in KKLT models of flux compactification with low energy supersymmetry. Moduli are stabilized by fluxes and nonperturbative dynamics while a de Sitter vacuum is obtained by adding supersymmetry breaking anti-branes. We discuss the characteristic pattern of mass scales in such a set-up as well as so

Thomas Becher, Richard J. Hill, Matthias Neubert

The factorization properties of the radiative decays B->V gamma are analyzed at leading order in 1/m_b using the soft-collinear effective theory. It is shown that the decay amplitudes can be expressed in terms of a B->V form factor evaluated at q^2=0, light-cone distribution amplitudes of the B and V mesons, and calculable hard-scattering kernels. The renorm

C. G. Torre

We present a computation of the coherent state path integral for a generic linear system using ``functional methods&#39;&#39; (as opposed to discrete time approaches). The Gaussian phase space path integral is formally given by a determinant built from a first-order differential operator with coherent state boundary conditions. We show how this determinant c

S. J. van Enk

For entangled states of light both the amount of entanglement and the sensitivity to noise generally increase with the number of photons in the state. The entanglement-sensitivity tradeoff is investigated for a particular set of states, multi-dimensional entangled coherent states. Those states possess an arbitrarily large amount of entanglement $E$ provided

Lov K. Grover

The quantum search algorithm consists of an alternating sequence of selective inversions and diffusion type operations, as a result of which it can find a target state in an unsorted database of size N in only sqrt(N) queries. This paper shows that by replacing the selective inversions by selective phase shifts of Pi/3, the algorithm gets transformed into so

Jun Hasegawa, Fumitaka Yura

In this paper, we analyze the quantum counting under the decoherence, which can find the number of solutions satisfying a given oracle. We investigate probability distributions related to the first order term of the error rate on the quantum counting with the depolarizing channel. We also implement two circuits for the quantum counting -- the ascending-order

V. N. Gorbachev, A. I. Trubilko

Large number of multimode entangled states of light generated in down conversion processes belongs to a collection which is natural generalization of the W class. A brief overview of these states, schemes for their preparation, experimental implementations and possible applications are presented.

Guang-Ping He

The model of the quantum protocols sealing a classical bit is studied. It is shown that there exist upper bounds on its security. For any protocol where the bit can be read correctly with the probability $α$, and reading the bit can be detected with the probability $β$, the upper bounds are $% β\leqslant 1/2$ and $α+β\leqslant 9/8$.