November 2005 arXiv papers — page 29

Natali Gulbahce, Francis J. Alexander, Gregory Johnson

We present an efficient computational approach to sample the histories of nonlinear stochastic processes. This framework builds upon recent work on casting a $d$-dimensional stochastic dynamical system into a $d+1$-dimensional equilibrium system using the path integral approach. We introduce a cluster algorithm that efficiently samples histories and discuss

Alexander Klyachko

A variant of the quantum marginal problem was known from early sixties as N-representability problem. In 1995 it was designated by National Research Council of USA as one of ten most prominent research challenges in quantum chemistry. In spite of this recognition the progress was very slow, until a couple of years ago the problem came into focus again, now i

Peter P. Rohde, Timothy C. Ralph

Photo-detection plays a fundamental role in experimental quantum optics and is of particular importance in the emerging field of linear optics quantum computing. Present theoretical treatment of photo-detectors is highly idealized and fails to consider many important physical effects. We present a physically motivated model for photo-detectors which accommod

Sudhir Kumar Singh, Sudebkumar Prasant Pal, Somesh Kumar, R. Srikanth

We develop graph theoretic methods for analysing maximally entangled pure states distributed between a number of different parties. We introduce a technique called {\it bicolored merging}, based on the monotonicity feature of entanglement measures, for determining combinatorial conditions that must be satisfied for any two distinct multiparticle states to be

Martin Howard, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

We investigate a mechanism for the robust identification of the center of a developing biological system. We assume the existence of two morphogen gradients, an activator emanating from the anterior, and a co-repressor from the posterior. The co-repressor inhibits the action of the activator in switching on target genes. We apply this system to Drosophila em

Stanislaw Cebrat, Andrzej Pekalski, Fabian Scharf

Biological genomes are divided into coding and non-coding regions. Introns are non-coding parts within genes, while the remaining non-coding parts are intergenic sequences. To study the evolutionary significance of recombination inside introns we have used two models based on the Monte Carlo method. In our computer simulations we have implemented the interna

Elizabeth S. Allman, John A. Rhodes

For a model of molecular evolution to be useful for phylogenetic inference, the topology of evolutionary trees must be identifiable. That is, from a joint distribution the model predicts, it must be possible to recover the tree parameter. We establish tree identifiability for a number of phylogenetic models, including a covarion model and a variety of mixtur

A. Nunes, M. M. Telo da Gama, M. G. M. Gomes

We investigate the dynamics of a simple epidemiological model for the invasion by a pathogen strain of a population where another strain circulates. We assume that reinfection by the same strain is possible but occurs at a reduced rate due to acquired immunity. The rate of reinfection by a distinct strain is also reduced due to cross-immunity. Individual bas

L. Deych, A. Roslyak

The paper deals with optical excitations arising in a one-dimensional chain of identical spheres due optical coupling of whispering gallery modes (WGM). The band structure of these excitations depends significantly on the inter-mixing between WGMs characterized by different values of angular quantum number, $l$. We develop a general theory of the photonic ba

G. Odriozola, J. F. Aguilar, J. López-Lemus

Na-montmorillonite hydrates in presence of ethane molecules are studied by means of hybrid Monte Carlo simulations in the NPzzT and MuPzzT ensembles. The NPzzT ensemble allows us to study the interlaminar distance as a function of water and ethane content. These data show clear plateaus for lower ethane contents and mainly for water contents consistent with

R. Chandrasekharan, A. Knecht, M. Messina, C. Regenfus

The possibility of efficient collection and detection of vacuum ultraviolet light as emitted by argon, krypton, and xenon gas is studied. Absolute quantum efficiencies of large area avalanche photodiodes (LAAPDs) are derived at these wavelengths. VUV light of wavelengths down to the 128nm of Ar emission is shown to be detectable with silicon avalanche photod

J. S. Berg, S. A. Bogacz, S. Caspi, J. Cobb

There have been active efforts in the U.S., Europe, and Japan on the design of a Neutrino Factory. This type of facility produces intense beams of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a high energy storage ring. In the U.S., a second detailed Feasibility Study (FS2) for a Neutrino Factory was completed in 2001. Since that report was published, new ideas in b

A. Johansen, I. Simonsen, M. H. Jensen

In recent publications, the authors have considered inverse statistics of the Dow Jones Industrial Averaged (DJIA) [1-3]. Specifically, we argued that the natural candidate for such statistics is the investment horizons distribution. This is the distribution of waiting times needed to achieve a predefined level of return obtained from detrended historic asse

Evangelos Chaliasos

A resolution of the Loschmidt paradox on the Boltzmann H theorem is proposed, based on some new concepts concerning motion backwards in time. The key to this resolution, taken from our interpretation of motion backwards in time, is the associated notion of negative mass, attributed to particles moving backwards in time, which we call retro particles, or simp

Caroline Champenois, Martina Knoop, Marie Houssin, Gaëtan Hagel

A recent evaluation of the frequency uncertainty expected for an optical frequency standard based on a single trapped $^{43}$Ca$^+$ ion was published in Phys. Rev. A {\bf 72} (2005) 043404. The paper contains some interesting information like systematic frequency shifts but fails to depict their uncertainty, leading to confuse accuracy and precision. The con

Constantin Vrejoiu, Cristian Stoica

Compact general formulae for the energy, momentum and angular momentum radiated by confined systems of charges and currents are presented in terms of their multipole Cartesian tensors. Besides the usual electric and magnetic multipoles, a family of toroid (anapole) electromagnetic tensors, as well as some mean squared radii contributions are standed out thro

O. I. Obolensky, V. V. Semenikhina, A. V. Solov'yov, W. Greiner

An evidence of importance of the T-shaped configuration of coronene dimer is presented. That is, the dimer's lowest energy configuration is not necessarily a stack, as it might had been expected a priori. This is a surprising result for dimer of such a large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) as coronene. The energy of the T-shaped configuration at al

P. Navratil, C. A. Bertulani, E. Caurier

Nuclear structure of 7Be, 8B and 7,8Li is studied within the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM). Starting from the high-precision CD-Bonn 2000 nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction, wave functions of 7Be and 8B bound states are obtained in basis spaces up to 10 hbar Omega and used to calculate channel cluster form factors (overlap integrals) of the 8B ground st

M. Mirea, Tassan-Got, C. Stephan, C. O. Bacri

The fine structure of the 0.7 MeV resonance in the 230Th neutron-induced cross section is investigated within the hybrid model. A very good agreement with experimental data is obtained. It is suggested that fine structure of the cross section quantify the changes of the intrinsic states of the nucleus during the disintegration process.

Y. M. Zhao, A. Arima, N. Yoshida, K. Ogawa

In this paper we study energy centroids such as those with fixed spin and isospin, those with fixed irreducible representations for bosons, in the presence of random two-body and/or three-body interactions. Our results show that regularities of energy centroids of fixed spin states reported in earlier works are more robust than expected.

J. Nickel, H. W. Schuermann

Based on a superposition method recently proposed to obtain 1-solitary wave solutions of the KdV-Burgers equation \cite{Yua2005}, we show that this method can also be used to find a 2-solitary wave solution of the Novikov-Veselov equation. Thus, it seems that the method of Yuanxi and Jiashi in general is not restricted to constructing 1-solitary wave solutio

Martin Hallnäs, Edwin Langmann

We consider the quantum Calogero model, which describes N non-distinguishable quantum particles on the real line confined by a harmonic oscillator potential and interacting via two-body interactions proportional to the inverse square of the inter-particle distance. We elaborate a novel solution algorithm which allows us to obtain fully explicit formulas for

S. De Bievre

These notes contain an extended version of lectures given at the ``Summer School on Large Coulomb Systems'' in Nordfjordeid, Norway, in august 2003. They furnish a short introduction to the theory of quantum harmonic systems, or free bose fields. The main issue addressed is the one of local states. I will adopt the definition of Knight of ``strictly

Lizhou Chen

We extend the integrability analysis for scalar evolution equations of type $$u_t=u_m+f(u,u_1,...,u_{m-1})$$ from the case that the right hand side is a $λ$-homogeneous formal power series to the case that it is a nonhomogeneous formal power series. It is proved that the existence of one nontrivial symmetry implies the existence of infinitely many, more prec

Hubert Flenner, Shulim Kaliman, Mikhail Zaidenberg

Following an approach of Dolgachev, Pinkham and Demazure, we classified in math.AG/0210153 normal affine surfaces with hyperbolic $\C^{*}$-actions in terms of pairs of $\Q$-divisors $(D_+,D_-)$ on a smooth affine curve. In the present paper we show how to obtain from this description a natural equivariant completion of these $\C^*$-surfaces. Using elementary

Alexander Grothendieck, Michele Raynaud

New updated edition by Yves Laszlo of the book ``Cohomologie locale des faisceaux cohérents et théorèmes de Lefschetz locaux et globaux (SGA 2)'', Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics 2, North-Holland Publishing Company - Amsterdam, 1968. Published by the Societe Mathematique de France http://smf.emath.fr/Publications/DocumentsMathematiques/ Original

Robert L. Griess

Mainly, we correct the uniqueness result by adding a projection requirement to condition X and give a better proof for the equivalence of commutator density, 2/4-generation and 3/4-generation.

Hui Xue

In the paper we prove an explicit formula for the central values of certain Rankin L-functions. These L-functions are L-functions of Hilbert newforms over a totally real field F, twisted by unitary Hecke characters of a totally imaginary quadratic extension of F. The formula generalizes our former result on L-functions twisted by finite characters. It also e

Randal Douc, Eric Moulines, Philippe Soulier

In this paper, we give quantitative bounds on the $f$-total variation distance from convergence of an Harris recurrent Markov chain on an arbitrary under drift and minorisation conditions implying ergodicity at a sub-geometric rate. These bounds are then specialized to the stochastically monotone case, covering the case where there is no minimal reachable el

Nasir Ganikhodjaev, Hasan Akin, Farrukh Mukhamedov

In the paper we prove that a quadratic stochastic process satisfies the ergodic principle if and only if the associated Markov process satisfies one.

Wendelin Werner

These are the lecture notes from a course given in July 2005 at the summer school in Les Houches. We describe some recent results concerning two-dimensional conformally invariant systems. In particular, we discuss conformally invariant measures on loops and conformal loop-ensembles (CLE).

Edward C. Waymire

This is largely an attempt to provide probabilists some orientation to an important class of non-linear partial differential equations in applied mathematics, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Particular focus is given to the probabilistic framework introduced by LeJan and Sznitman [Probab. Theory Related Fields 109 (1997) 343-366] and extended by

Jean Bertoin, Marc Yor

This text surveys properties and applications of the exponential functional $\int_0^t\exp(-ξ_s)ds$ of real-valued Lévy processes $ξ=(ξ_t,t\geq0)$.

Vitor O. Ferreira, Lucia S. I. Murakami

We show that the invariants of a free associative algebra of finite rank under a linear action of a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra generated by group-like and skew-primitive elements form a finitely generated algebra exactly when the action is scalar. This generalizes an analogous result for group actions by automorphisms obtained by Dicks and Formanek, and

Jean-Louis Clerc, Karl-Hermann Neeb

Let ${\cal D}$ be a bounded symmetric domain of tube type, $S$ its Shilov boundary, and $G$ the neutral component of its group of biholomorphic transforms. We classify the orbits of $G$ in the set $S\times S\times S$.

David Krejcirik

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in infinite two-dimensional strips defined as uniform tubular neighbourhoods of curves on ruled surfaces. We show that the negative Gauss curvature of the ambient surface gives rise to a Hardy inequality and use this to prove certain stability of spectrum in the case of asymptotically straight strips about mildly perturbed

Sandro Mattarei, Marina Avitabile

Borrowing some terminology from pro-p groups, thin Lie algebras are N-graded Lie algebras of width two and obliquity zero, generated in degree one. In particular, their homogeneous components have degree one or two, and they are termed diamonds in the latter case. In one of the two main subclasses of thin Lie algebras the earliest diamond after that in degre

Jeremy Martin, David Savitt, Ted Singer

Motivated by Gauss's first proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, we study the topology of harmonic algebraic curves. By the maximum principle, a harmonic curve has no bounded components; its topology is determined by the combinatorial data of a noncrossing matching. Similarly, every complex polynomial gives rise to a related combinatorial object t

Anne Pichereau

To each polynomial $\v\in\F[x,y,z]$ is associated a Poisson structure on $\F^3$, a surface and a Poisson structure on this surface. When $\v$ is weight homogeneous with an isolated singularity, we determine the Poisson cohomology and homology of the two Poisson varieties obtained.

Hubert Flenner, Shulim Kaliman, Mikhail Zaidenberg

We introduce the notion of a standard weighted graph and show that every weighted graph has an essentially unique standard model. Moreover we classify birational transformations between such models. Our central result shows that these are composed of elementary transformations. The latter ones are defined similarly to the well known elementary transformation

Konstanze Rietsch

The totally nonnegative part of a partial flag variety G/P is known to have a decomposition into semi-algebraic cells. We show that the closure of a cell is again a union of cells and give a combinatorial description of the closure relations. The totally nonnegative cells are defined by intersecting the totally nonnegative part with a certain stratification

Benita Ho, Sam Nelson

Finite quandles with n elements can be represented as n-by-n matrices. We show how to use these matrices to distinguish all isomorphism classes of finite quandles for a given cardinality n, as well as how to compute the automorphism group of each finite quandle. As an application, we classify finite quandles with up to 5 elements and compute the automorphism

Jan Obloj

This is a survey about the Skorokhod embedding problem. It presents all known solutions together with their properties and some applications. Some of the solutions are just described, while others are studied in detail and their proofs are presented. A certain unification of proofs, based on one-dimensional potential theory, is made. Some new facts which app

Kenichi Konishi, Giacomo Marmorini, Naoto Yokoi

We discuss some aspects of confinement and dynamical symmetry breaking in the so-called nonabelian Argyres-Douglas vacua, which occur very generally in supersymmetric theories. These systems are characterized by strongly-coupled nonabelian monopoles and dyons; confinement and dynamical symmetry breaking are caused by the condensation of monopole composites,

O. A. Ol'khov

Soon after the Yang-Mills work, the gauge invariance became one of the basic principles in the elementary particles theory. The gauge invariance idea is that Lagrangian has to be invariant not only with respect to the coordinates transformations corresponding to the Lorentz group (external symmetry). It is supposed that Lagrangian has also to be invariant wi

Siyavush Azakov

We solve the massless Schwinger model exactly in Hamiltonian formalism on a circle. We construct physical states explicitly and discuss the role of the spectral flow and nonperturbative vacua. Different thermodynamical correlation functions are calculated and after performing the analytical continuation are compared with the corresponding expressions obtaine

Shahar Hod

We advocate the idea that Unruh's quantum radiation, whose theoretical discovery was originally motivated by the physics of black holes, may have important implications on the structure and dynamics of elementary particles. To that end, we analyze the Unruh radiation effect experienced by an accelerated particle in atomic and nuclear systems. For atomic

D. Toublan

We show that the quark condensates for the two light up and down flavors can have significantly different values in the hadronic phase at nonzero temperature, baryon and isospin chemical potentials. We quantify this difference using a simple model.

P. Bechtle, K. Desch, P. Wienemann

This article presents the results of a realistic global fit of the Lagrangian parameters of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with no assumptions on the SUSY breaking mechanism using the fit program Fittino. The fit is performed using the precision of future mass measurements of superpartners at the LHC and mass and polarized topological cross-sectio

Jiri Chyla

Recent progress in application of higher order QCD calculations to jet and inclusive particle production in photon induced collisions is reviewed. Attention is paid to theoretical uncertainties of such calculations, particularly those coming from the choice of renormalization and factorization scales.

Carlo Giunti

The main aspects of the phenomenology of absolute neutrino masses are reviewed, focusing on the limits on neutrino masses obtained in tritium beta decay experiments, cosmological observations and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments.

R. Escribano

A phenomenological analysis of various decay processes is performed in order to test the large $N_c$ Chiral Perturbation Theory predictions for the octet and singlet pseudoscalar decay constants and mixing angles. The results obtained hint at a disagreement with the expectations of this theoretical framework although the statistical significance is still lim

Peter Minkowski, Wolfgang Ochs

We summarize some persistent problems in scalar spectroscopy and discuss what could be learned here from charmless B-decays. Recent experimental results are discussed in comparison with theoretical expectations: a simple model based on penguin dominance leads to various symmetry relations in good agreement with recent data; a factorisation approach yields ab

Ulrich Nierste

I present the status of the elements and parameters of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix and summarise the related theoretical progress since "Lepton-Photon 2003". One finds |V_{us}| = 0.2227 +/- 0.0017 from K and tau decays and |V_{cb}| = (41.6 +/- 0.5) * 10^{-3} from inclusive semileptonic B decays. The unitarity triangle can now be determ

H. Baer, J. Ferrandis, S. Kraml, W. Porod

We take a critical view of the treatment of threshold effects in SUSY spectrum computations from high-scale input. We discuss the two principal methods of (a) renormalization at a common SUSY scale versus (b) integrating out sparticles at their own mass scales. We point out problems in the implementations in public spectrum codes, together with suggestions f

Quentin G. Bailey

In this talk, the stationary limit of Lorentz-violating electrodynamics is discussed. As illustrated by some simple examples, the general solution includes unconventional mixing of electrostatic and magnetostatic effects. I discuss a high-sensitivity null-type measurement, exploiting Lorentz-violating electromagnetostatic effects, that could improve existing

H. Fukaya, T. Onogi, S. Hashimoto, T. Hirohashi

The topology conserving gauge action proposed by Luescher is expected to reduce the number of non-smooth gauge configurations as well as the topology change compared to the conventional actions for the same lattice spacings. We report our quenched QCD study of the topological stability and the scaling violation of the static quark potential. We find that the

Asit K. De, A. Harindranath, Jyotirmoy Maiti, Tilak Sinha

We investigate the topological charge in 1+1 dimensional $ϕ^4$ theory on a lattice with Anti Periodic Boundary Condition (APBC) in the spatial direction. We propose a simple order parameter for the lattice theory with APBC and we demonstrate its effectiveness. Our study suggests that kink condensation is a possible mechanism for the order-disorder phase tran

Asit K. De, A. Harindranath, Jyotirmoy Maiti, Tilak Sinha

In this work we perform a detailed numerical analysis of (1+1) dimensional lattice $ϕ^4$ theory. We explore the phase diagram of the theory with two different parameterizations. We find that symmetry breaking occurs only with a negative mass-squared term in the Hamiltonian. The renormalized mass $m_R$ and the field renormalization constant $Z$ are calculated

D. S. Carman

One of the unanswered and most fundamental questions in physics regards the nature of the confinement mechanism of quarks and gluons in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Exotic hybrid mesons manifest gluonic degrees of freedom and their detailed spectroscopy will provide the precision data necessary to test assumptions in lattice QCD and the specific phenomenolo

COMPASS Collaboration, E. S. Ageev

We present a determination of the gluon polarization Delta G/G in the nucleon, based on the helicity asymmetry of quasi-real photoproduction events, Q^2<1(GeV/c)^2, with a pair of large transverse-momentum hadrons in the final state. The data were obtained by the COMPASS experiment at CERN using a 160 GeV polarized muon beam scattered on a polarized 6-LiD ta

A. B. Balakin, Z. G. Murzakhanov, G. V. Kisun&#39;ko

We discuss a gravitationally induced nonlinearity in hierarchic systems. We consider the generation of extremely low-frequency radio waves with a frequency of the periodic gravitational radiation; the generation is due to an induced nonlinear self-action of electromagnetic radiation in the vicinity of the gravitational-radiation source. These radio waves are

Istvan Racz

It is shown that by making use of the Kodama vector field, as a preferred time evolution vector field, in spherically symmetric dynamical systems unexpected simplifications arise. In particular, the evolution equations relevant for the case of a massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity are investigated. The simplest form of these equations in the &

Bin Wang, Yungui Gong, Elcio Abdalla

We investigate the laws of thermodynamics in an accelerating universe driven by dark energy with a time-dependent equation of state. In the case we consider that the physically relevant part of the Universe is that envelopped by the dynamical apparent horizon, we have shown that both the first law and second law of thermodynamics are satisfied. On the other

Jay R. Yablon

The formalism of electric - magnetic duality, first pioneered by Reinich and Wheeler, extends General Relativity to encompass non-Abelian fields. Several energy Tensors T^uv with non-vanishing trace matter are developed solely as a function of the field strength tensor F^uv, including the Euler tensor, and tensors for matter in flux, pressure in flux, and st

M. E. Kahil

Path and path deviation equations for charged, spinning and spinning charged objects in different versions of Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory using a modified Bazanski Lagrangian have been derived. The significance of motion in five dimensions, especially for a charged spinning object, has been examined. We have also extended the modified Bazanski approach to deriv

Sebastian Bader, Pascal Hitzler

Research on integrated neural-symbolic systems has made significant progress in the recent past. In particular the understanding of ways to deal with symbolic knowledge within connectionist systems (also called artificial neural networks) has reached a critical mass which enables the community to strive for applicable implementations and use cases. Recent wo

Susumu Yamasaki

This paper treats logic programming with three kinds of negation: default, weak and strict negations. A 3-valued logic model theory is discussed for logic programs with three kinds of negation. The procedure is constructed for negations so that a soundness of the procedure is guaranteed in terms of 3-valued logic model theory.

Adam J Slagell, Rafael Bonilla

This report surveys different PKI technologies such as PKIX and SPKI and the issues of PKI that affect scalability. Much focus is spent on certificate revocation methodologies and status verification systems such as CRLs, Delta-CRLs, CRS, Certificate Revocation Trees, Windowed Certificate Revocation, OCSP, SCVP and DVCS.

R. M. Konik, T. M. Rice, A. M. Tsvelik

We analyze a model of two-leg Hubbard ladders weakly coupled by interladder tunneling. At half filling a semimetallic state with small Fermi pockets is induced beyond a threshold tunneling strength. The sign changes in the single electron Green&#39;s function relevant for the Luttinger Sum Rule now take place at surfaces with both zeroes and infinities with

Elijah Flenner, Grzegorz Szamel

We propose and use a novel, hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm that combines configurational bias particle swaps with parallel tempering. We use this new method to simulate a standard model of a glass forming binary mixture above and below the so-called mode-coupling temperature, Tmct. We find that an ansatz that was used previously to extrapolate thermodynamic qu

Matthew B. Stone, Igor A. Zaliznyak, Tao Hong, Collin L. Broholm

Much of modern condensed matter physics is understood in terms of elementary excitations, or quasiparticles - fundamental quanta of energy and momentum. Various strongly-interacting atomic systems are successfully treated as a collection of quasiparticles with weak or no interactions. However, there are interesting limitations to this description: the very e

Blanca Biel, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, Angel Rubio, Fernando Flores

The role of irradiation induced defects and temperature in the conducting properties of single-walled (10,10) carbon nanotubes has been analyzed by means of a first-principles approach. We find that di-vacancies modify strongly the energy dependence of the differential conductance, reducing also the number of contributing channels from two (ideal) to one. A

Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev, Josselin Garnier

We study the motion of bright matter wave solitons in nonlinear potentials, produced by periodic or random spatial variations of the atomic scattering length. We obtain analytical results for the soliton motion, the radiation of matter wave, and the radiative soliton decay in such configurations of the Bose-Einstein condensate. The stable regimes of propagat

Mario J. de Oliveira, Alberto Petri

We investigate the quench of Ising and Potts models via Monte Carlo dynamics, and find that the distribution of the site-site interaction energy has the same form as in the equilibrium case. This form directly derives from the Boltzmann statistics and allows to measure the instantaneous temperature during the systems relaxation. We find that, after an underc

Jeremy R. Nesbitt, Arthur F. Hebard

We present results of a study of tunnel junction aging in which the early time dynamics are captured by in situ monitoring of electrical properties of Al-AlOx-Al planar tunnel junctions beginning when the deposition of the counterelectrode is complete. The observed stretched exponential dependences of the conductance and the capacitance manifest hierarchical

Maria C. Abramo, Carlo Caccamo, Dino Costa, Romina Ruberto

Extensive molecular dynamics simulations show that a short-range central potential, suited to model C60, undergoes a high temperature transition to a glassy phase characterized by the positional disorder of the constituent particles. Crystallization, melting and sublimation, which also take place during the simulation runs, are illustrated in detail. It turn

M. E. Cates, Sriram Ramaswamy

Extended mode coupling theories for dense fluids predict that nonlinear current-density couplings cut off the singular `ideal glass transition&#39;, present in the standard mode coupling theory where such couplings are ignored. We suggest here that, rather than allowing for activated processes as sometimes supposed, contributions from current-density couplin

Luis E. Hueso, Gavin Burnell, Seung Nam Cha, Jae Eun Jang

The possibility of performing spintronics at the molecular level may be realized in devices that combine fully spin polarized oxides such as manganites with carbon nanotubes. However, it is not clear whether electrical transport between such different material systems is viable. Here we show that the room temperature conductance of manganite-nanotube-mangani

B. Noheda, D. E. Cox

Ceramic solid solutions of PbZr(1-x)TixO3 (PZT) with compositions of about x= 0.50 are well-known for their extraordinarily large piezoelectric responses. The latter are highly anisotropic, and it was recently shown that, for the rhombohedral compositions (x< 0.5), the piezoelectric coefficients were largest away from the polar direction, contrary to common

Fabricio Q. Potiguar, Hernan A. Makse

We present extensive computational results for the effective temperature, defined by the fluctuation-dissipation relation between the mean square displacement and the average displacement of grains, under the action of a weak, external perturbation, of a sheared, bi-disperse granular packing of compressible spheres. We study the dependence of this parameter

L. A. Maksimov, A. V. Paraskevov

It is shown that a Bose gas of two-level atoms in the intense resonant laser field at zero temperature is a mixture of two condensates with a definite ratio of the densities. The criteria of stability are found for the stationary states of such system against the increment of the amplitudes of quasi Bogoliubov elementary excitations. Besides the usual acoust

Y. Hirobe, Y. Ashikawa, R. Kawasaki, K. Noda

The Hall resistivity and magnetization have been investigated in the ferromagnetic state of the bilayered manganite La(2-2x)Sr(1+2x)Mn2O7 (x=0.36). The Hall resistivity shows an increase in both the ordinary and anomalous Hall coefficients at low temperatures below 50K, a region in which experimental evidence for the spin glass state has been found in a low

A. Rodriguez-Prieto, V. M. Silkin, A. Bergara, P. M. Echenique

Since recent both theoretical and experimental results have proved that the simple behaviour light alkaline metals present at equilibrium breaks when high pressures are applied, they have become an important object of study in Condensed Matter Physics. On the other hand, development of new techniques in the atomic manipulation allows the growth of atomic mon

B. Basu, P. Bandyopadhyay, S. Dhar

We have studied here the charge and statistics of quasiparticle excitations in FQH states on the basis of the Berry phase approach incorporating the fact that even number of flux quanta can be gauged away when the Berry phase is removed to the dynamical phase. It is observed that the charge $q$ and statistical parameter $θ$ of a quasiparticle at filling fact

B. H. Lavenda

Trigonometric and trigonometric-algebraic entropies are introduced. Regularity increases the entropy and the maximal entropy is shown to result when a regular $n$-gon is inscribed in a circle. A regular $n$-gon circumscribing a circle gives the largest entropy reduction, or the smallest change in entropy from the state of maximum entropy which occurs in the

K. Kodama, S. Iikubo, S. Shamoto

The finite size effects of the nanoparticles to the atomic pair distribution functions (PDF) are discussed by calculating the radial distribution functions (RDF) on nanoparticles with various shapes, such as sheet, belt, rod, tube and sphere, assuming continua. Their characteristics are shown depending on the shapes and the sizes of the nanoparticles. Altern

S. Shibasaki, I. Terasaki

We prepared polycrystalline samples of R$_2$PdO$_4$ (R = La, Nd, Sm and Gd) using a NaCl-flux technique. The measured resistivity is of the order of 10$^3-10^4$ $Ω$cm at room temperature, which is two orders of magnitude smaller than the values reported so far. We further studied the substitution effects of Ce for Nd in Nd$_{1.9}$Ce$_{0.1}$PdO$_4$, where the

K. Ebata, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori

We have investigated orbital ordering in the half-doped manganite La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{1.5}$MnO$_4$, which displays spin, charge and orbital ordering, by means of unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations on the multiband $p$-$d$ model. From recent experiment, it has become clear that La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{1.5}$MnO$_4$ exhibits a cross-type $(z^2-x^2/y^2-z^2)$ orbital order

E. Salonen, E. Terama, I. Vattulainen, M. Karttunen

Dielectrophoresis (DEP), the motion of polarizable particles in non-uniform electric fields, has become an important tool for the transport, separation, and characterization of microparticles in biomedical and nanoelectronics research. In this article we present, to our knowledge, the first molecular dynamics simulations of DEP of nanometer-sized colloidal p

Z. Horvath, P. A. Horvathy, L. Martina

The Bogoliubov particle considered in [cond-mat/0507125] admits, contrarily to the claim of the authors, an interesting Hamiltonian structure.

N. Kumar

We construct a model of non-uniform condensate having a spatially modulated complex order parameter that makes it kinematically an x-ray solid, i.e., a real mass density wave, but one admitting an associated superfluid flow. Intrinsic to this state is a non-classical translational inertia which we derive for the case of a potential flow. Connection to the no

Inanc Adagideli, Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The prediction of intrinsic spin Hall currents by Murakami \textit{et al.} and Sinova \textit{et al.} raised many questions about methods of detection and the effect of disorder. We focus on a contact between a Rashba type spin orbit coupled region with a normal two-dimensional electron gas and show that the spin Hall currents, though vanishing in the bulk o

K. Roszak, P. Machnikowski

We analyze and interpret recent optical experiments with semiconductor quantum dots. We derive a quantitative relation between the amount of information transferred into the environment and the optical polarization that may be observed in a spectroscopy experiment.

R. Shaltaf, E. Mete, S. Ellialtioglu

First-principles calculations using density functional theory based on norm-conserving pseudopotentials have been performed to investigate the Cs adsorption on the Si(001) surface for 0.5 and 1 ML coverages. We found that the saturation coverage corresponds to 1 ML adsorption with two Cs atoms occupying the double layer model sites. While the 0.5 ML covered

Soumen Roy, Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Recent renormalization group results predict non self averaging behaviour at criticality for relevant disorder. However, we find strong self averaging(SA) behaviour in the critical region of a quenched Ising model on an ensemble of small-world networks, despite the relevance of the random bonds at the pure critical point.

V. M. Axt, P. Machnikowski, T. Kuhn

We study the phonon-induced dephasing of the exciton state in a quantum dot excited by a sequence of ultra-short pulses. We show that the multiple-pulse control leads to a considerable improvement of the coherence of the optically excited state. For a fixed control time window, the optimized pulsed control often leads to a higher degree of coherence than the

Armando Bernui, Thyrso Villela

We present a method to search for large angular-scale correlations, termed topological signatures, in the angular distribution of cosmic objects, which does not depend on cosmological models or parameters and is based only on the angular coordinates of the objects. In order to explore Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations data, we applied this

John N. Bahcall, Aldo M. Serenelli, Sarbani Basu

We have evolved 10,000 solar models using 21 input parameters that are randomly drawn for each model from separate probability distributions for every parameter. We use the results of these models to determine the theoretical uncertainties in the predicted surface helium abundance, the profile of the sound speed versus radius, the profile of the density vers

Drake Deming, L. Jeremy Richardson, Sara Seager, Joseph Harrington

Recent Spitzer infrared (IR) observations of two transiting hot Jupiters during their secondary eclipses have provided the first direct detection of planets orbiting other stars (Charbonneau et al. 2005; Deming et al. 2005). We here elaborate on some aspects of our detection of HD209458b at 24 microns, and we compare to the detection of TrES-1 by Charbonneau