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  1. Markus Kissler-Patig, Andres Jordan, Nate Bastian

    At which masses does the regime of globular clusters end and the one of dwarf galaxies begin? And what separates these two classes of hot stellar systems? We examine to what extend very massive (>10^7 Mo) young star clusters are similar to their lower mass counter parts and to which degree they resemble other objects in their mass regime (dwarf--globular tra

  2. MT Crosta, F Mignard

    The detectors designed for Gaia, the next ESA space astrometry mission to be launched in 2011, will allow to observe repeatedly stars very close to Jupiter's limb. This will open a unique opportunity to test General Relativity by performing many Eddington-like experiments through the comparison between the pattern of a starfield observed with or without

  3. K. L. Page, A. R. King, A. J. Levan, P. T. O'Brien

    GRB 050911, discovered by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope, was not seen 4.6 hr later by the Swift X-ray Telescope, making it one of the very few X-ray non-detections of a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglow at early times. The gamma-ray light-curve shows at least three peaks, the first two of which (~T_0 - 0.8 and T_0 + 0.2 s, where T_0 is the trigger time) were

  4. S. Dye, S. A. Eales, M. L. N. Ashby, J. -S. Huang

    We investigate the redshift dependence of the contribution to the extragalactic far-infrared/sub-millimeter background from galaxies detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope at 8um and 24um. Using seven-band optical to mid-infrared photometry, we estimate photometric redshifts for the Spitzer sources which appear to be mostly L* galaxies at a median redshift

  5. J. K. Kotilainen, R. Falomo, A. Treves, M. Uslenghi

    We present VLT/ISAAC near-infrared imaging of the host galaxies of 15 low luminosity quasars at 1 < z < 2. This work complements our studies to trace the cosmological evolution of the host galaxies of high luminosity quasars. The radio-loud (RLQ) and radio-quiet (RQQ) quasars have similar distribution of redshift and luminosity, and together the high and low

  6. A. Kucinskas, P. H. Hauschildt, H. -G. Ludwig, I. Brott

    To assess the current status in the theoretical modeling of the spectral properties of late-type giants, we provide a comparison of synthetic photometric colors of late-type giants (calculated with PHOENIX, MARCS and ATLAS model atmospheres) with observations, at [M/H]=0.0 and -2.0. Overall, there is a good agreement between observed and synthetic colors, an

  7. A. Kucinskas, H. -G. Ludwig, P. H. Hauschildt

    We show that contrary to what is expected from 1D stationary model atmospheres, 3D hydrodynamical modeling predicts a considerable influence of convection on the spectral properties of late-type giants. This is due to the fact that convection overshoots into the formally stable outer atmospheric layers producing a notable granulation pattern in the 3D hydrod

  8. D. M. Bramich, Keith Horne

    We describe a method of estimating the abundance of short-period extrasolar planets based on the results of a photometric survey for planetary transits. We apply the method to a 21-night survey with the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope of \~32000 stars in a ~0.5 deg by 0.5 deg square field including the open cluster NGC 7789. From the colour-magnitude diagram we

  9. B. E. Penprase, E. Berger, D. B. Fox, S. R. Kulkarni

    We present a high-resolution, high signal-to-noise optical spectrum of the afterglow of GRB 051111 obtained with the HIRES spectrograph on the Keck I 10-m telescope. The spectrum exhibits three redshifted absorption systems with the highest, at z=1.54948, arising in the GRB host galaxy. While the Ly-alpha feature is outside the range of our spectrum, the hig

  10. Stanislav Boldyrev, Fausto Cattaneo, Robert Rosner

    We investigate analytically the amplification of a weak magnetic field in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow lacking reflectional symmetry (helical turbulence). We propose that the spectral distributions of magnetic energy and magnetic helicity can be found as eigenmodes of a self-adjoint, Schrödinger-type system of evolution equations. We argue that

  11. Jin Zhou, Junan Lu, Jinhu Lu

    This brief paper further investigates the locally and globally adaptive synchronization of an uncertain complex dynamical network. Several network synchronization criteria are deduced. Especially, our hypotheses and designed adaptive controllers for network synchronization are rather simple in form. It is very useful for future practical engineering design.

  12. V. Zlatic, R. Monnier, J. Freericks, K. W. Becker

    A number of recent experiments report the low-temperature thermopower $α$ and specific heat coefficients $γ=C_V/T$ of strongly correlated electron systems. Describing the charge and heat transport in a thermoelectric by transport equations, and assuming that the charge current and the heat current densities are proportional to the number density of the charg

  13. M. O. Hase, S. R. Salinas

    The Langevin dynamics of a $d$-dimensional mean spherical model with competing interactions along $m\leq d$ directions of a hypercubic lattice is analysed. After a quench at high temperatures, the dynamical behaviour is characterized by two distinct time scales associated with stationary and aging regimes. The asymptotic expressions for the autocorrelation a

  14. M. Bonamente, M. Joy, S. La Roque, J. Carlstrom

    We determine the distance to 38 clusters of galaxies in the redshift range 0.14 < z < 0.89 using X-ray data from Chandra and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association interferometric arrays. The cluster plasma and dark matter distributions are analyzed using a hydrostatic equilibrium

  15. W. -H. Wang, L. L. Cowie, A. J. Barger

    We use new deep near-infrared (NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) observations to analyze the 850$~\mu$m image of the GOODS HDF-N region. We show that much of the submillimeter background at this wavelength is picked out by sources with $H(AB)$ or 3.6um (AB)<23.25 (1.8 uJy). These sources contribute an 850um background of 24\pm2 Jy deg^-2. This is a much higher fra

  16. T. Rieger, T. Junglen, S. A. Rangwala, G. Rempe

    We report the creation of a confined slow beam of heavy-water (D2O) molecules with a translational temperature around 1 kelvin. This is achieved by filtering slow D2O from a thermal ensemble with inhomogeneous static electric fields exploiting the quadratic Stark shift of D2O. All previous demonstrations of electric field manipulation of cold dipolar molecul

  17. Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

    We define a Floer-homology invariant for links in $S^3$, and study its properties.

  18. Mustafa Salti, Oktay Aydogdu

    This paper has been removed by arXiv administrators because it plagiarizes gr-qc/0301090, gr-qc/0303034, gr-qc/0212018, and gr-qc/9601044.

  19. J. L. Diaz-Cruz, O. Felix-Beltran, M. Gomez-Bock, R. Noriega-Papaqui

    We study the SUSY flavor problem in the MSSM, we are namely interested in estimating the size of the SUSY flavor problem and its dependence on the MSSM parameters. For that, we made a numerical analysis randomly generating the entries of the sfermion mass matrices and then determinated which percentage of the points are consistent with current bounds on the

  20. J. Pumplin, A. Belyaev, J. Huston, D. Stump

    We study the global analysis for parton distributions as a function of the QCD strong coupling strength alpha_s, and present a new series of distributions that span the range 0.110 < alpha_s(m_Z) < 0.128. We use these distributions to explore the correlation between alpha_s and the gluon distribution; the viability of global analysis as a method to measure a

  21. B. Oezyilmaz, G. Richter, N. Muesgens, M. Fraune

    Focused-ion-beam milling is used to fabricate nanostencil masks suitable for the fabrication of magnetic nanostructures relevant for spin transfer torque studies. Nanostencil masks are used to define the device dimensions prior to the growth of the thin film stack. They consist of a wet etch resistant top layer and an insulator on top of a pre-patterned bott

  22. R. F. Avila, M. J. Menon

    We discuss some formal and practical aspects related to the replacement of Integral Dispersion Relations (IDR) by derivative forms, without high-energy approximations. We first demonstrate that, for a class of functions with physical interest as forward scattering amplitudes, this replacement can be analytically performed, leading to novel Extended Derivativ

  23. Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar, Jose Oswald Tellez-Vazquez, Joannis E. Paschalis

    We apply a non-linear matrix transformation of Lie-Backlund type on a seed soliton configuration in order to obtain a new solitonic solution in the framework of the 5D low-energy effective field theory of the bosonic string. The seed solution represents a stationary axisymmetric two-soliton configuration previously constructed through the inverse scattering

  24. B Collaboration, I. Abt

    A new measurement of the b-bbar production cross section in 920 GeV proton-nucleus collisions is presented by the HERA-B collaboration. The b-bbar production is tagged via inclusive bottom quark decays into J/psi mesons, by exploiting the longitudinal separation of J/psi->ll decay vertices from the primary proton-nucleus interaction point. Both e+e- and mu+m

  25. D. -W. Kim, W. A. Barkhouse, E. R. Colmenero, P. J. Green

    (abridged) We have investigated 136 Chandra extragalactic sources without broad optical emission lines, including 93 galaxies with narrow emission lines (NELG) and 43 with only absorption lines (ALG). Based on fx/fo, Lx, X-ray spectral hardness and optical emission line diagnostics, we have conservatively classified 36 normal galaxies (20 spirals and 16 elli

  26. Reuven Opher, Ana Pelinson

    (abridged)We present a model which predicts inflation without the presence of inflaton fields, based on the εR^2 and Starobinsky models. It links the above models to the observable universe, in particular, to the ratio r of tensor to scalar fluctuations. In our model, we assume the existence of particles with the mass M that have a long decay time. These par

  27. Delphine Nna-Mvondo, Jesus Martinez-Frias

    Komatiites are fascinating volcanic rocks. They are among the most ancient lavas of the Earth following the 3.8 Ga pillow basalts at Isua and they represent some of the oldest ultramafic magmatic rocks preserved in the Earth&#39;s crust at 3.5 Ga. This fact, linked to their particular features (high magnesium content, high melting temperatures, low dynamic v

  28. G. Van Buren

    While yields of Sigma0 have been measured in many different colliding systems, no measurements exist in high energy nuclear collisions. It also remains unexplored whether the relative yields of Sigma0 and Lambda change in collisions of heavy ions where a dense medium may permit alternate production mechanisms, such as quark coalescence. The STAR detector at

  29. LIGO Scientific Collaboration, TAMA Collaboration

    We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an inter-collaboration coincidence search during times when TAMA300 and only one of the LIGO sites were operational. We find no evidence of any gravitational wave s

  30. Nathalie Deruelle, Joseph Katz

    The &#34;conformal mass prescriptions&#34; were used recently to calculate the mass of spacetimes in higher dimensional and higher curvature theories of gravity. These definitions are closely related to Komar integrals for spacetimes that are conformally flat at great distances from the sources. We derive these relations without using the conformal infinity

  31. S. Y. Liu, Norman J. M. Horing, X. L. Lei

    Employing a nonequilibrium Green&#39;s function approach, we examine the effects of long-range hole-impurity scattering on spin-Hall current in $p$-type bulk semiconductors within the framework of the self-consistent Born approximation. We find that, contrary to the null effect of short-range scattering on spin-Hall current, long-range collisions do produce

  32. L. V. Fil&#39;kov, V. L. Kashevarov

    A fit of the experimental data to the total cross section of the process $γγ->π^+π^-$ in the energy region from threshold to 2500 MeV has been carried out using dispersion relations with subtractions for the invariant amplitudes, where the dipole and the quadrupole polarizabilities of the charged pion are free parameters. As a result, the sum and the differe

  33. Cesar A. Hidalgo R

    Interevent times have been studied across various disciplines in search for correlations. In this paper we show analytical and numerical evidence that at the population level a power-law can be obtained by assuming poissonian agents with different characteristic times, and at the individual level by assuming poissonian agents that change the rates at which t

  34. Christian Beck

    The physical nature of the currently observed dark energy in the universe is completely unclear, and many different theoretical models co-exist. Nevertheless, if dark energy is produced by vacuum fluctuations then there is a chance to probe some of its properties by simple laboratory tests based on Josephson junctions. These electronic devices can be used to

  35. S. Pilgram, P. Samuelsson, H. Forster, M. Buttiker

    We present a stochastic path integral method to calculate the full counting statistics of conductors with energy conserving dephasing probes and dissipative voltage probes. The approach is explained for the experimentally important case of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, but is easily generalized to more complicated setups. For all geometries where dephasing

  36. L. Campanelli, M. Giannotti

    It has been pointed out in the literature that in the presence of an external magnetic field the axion mass receives an electromagnetic contribution. We show that if a magnetic field with energy density larger than ~10^{-8} times the energy density of the Universe existed at temperatures of a few GeV, that contribution would be dominant and consequently the

  37. X. Artru, K. Benhizia

    Thanks to the Dirac equation, the hydrogen-like atom at high $Z$ offers a precise model of relativistic bound state, allowing to test properties of unpolarized and polarized structure functions analogous to the hadronic ones, in particular: Sivers effect, sum rules for the vector, axial, tensor charges and for the magnetic moment, positivity constraints, sea

  38. A. Kanel-Belov, A. Berzins, R. Lipyanski

    Let $A=A(x_{1},...,x_{n})$ be a free associative algebra in $\mathcal{A}$ freely generated over $K$ by a set $X=\{x_{1},...,x_{n}\}$, $End A$ be the semigroup of endomorphisms of $A$, and $Aut End A$ be the group of automorphisms of the semigroup $End A$. We investigate the structure of the groups $Aut End A$ and $Aut \mathcal{A}^{\circ}$, where $\mathcal{A}

  39. Yoshikazu Yamaguchi

    We consider the Reidemeister torsion associated with SL(2, C)-representations of a knot group. A bifurcation point in the SL(2, C)-character variety of a knot group is a character which is given by both an abelian SL(2, C)-representation and a non-abelian one. We show that there exist limits of the non-acyclic Reidemeister torsion at bifurcation points and t

  40. O. Vives

    We prove that taking correctly into account the lepton flavour dependence of the CP asymmetries and washout processes, it is possible to obtain successful thermal leptogenesis from the decays of the second right-handed neutrino. The asymmetries in the muon and tau-flavour channels are then not erased by the inverse decays of the lightest right-handed neutrin

  41. Yoshikazu Yamaguchi

    We show a relationship between the non-acyclic Reidemeister torsion and a zero of the acyclic Reidemeister torsion for a lambda-regular SU(2) or SL(2, C)-representation of a knot group. Then we give a method to calculate the non-acyclic Reidemeister torsion of a knot exterior. We calculate a new example and investigate the behavior of the non-acyclic Reideme

  42. J. G. Körner, Z. Merebashvili, M. Rogal

    In a recent paper we have presented results for a set of massive scalar one-loop master integrals needed in the NNLO parton model description of the hadroproduction of heavy flavors. The one--loop integrals were evaluated in $n=4-2\ep$ dimension and the results were presented in terms of a Laurent series expansion up to ${\cal O}(\ep^2)$. We found that some

  43. Staphen Baier, Liangyi Zhao

    We establish a result on the large sieve with square moduli. These bounds impro ve recent results by S. Baier(math.NT/0512228) and L. Zhao(math.NT/0508125).

  44. Liangyi Zhao

    In this paper, we develop a large sieve type inequality with quadratic amplitude. We use the double large sieve to establish non-trivial bounds.

  45. Yucai Su

    This paper is cancelled

  46. Marc Lackenby

    We establish new strong lower bounds on the (subnormal) subgroup growth of a large class of groups. This includes the fundamental groups of all finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds and all (free non-abelian)-by-cyclic groups. The lower bound is nearly exponential, which should be compared with the fastest possible subgroup growth of any finitely generated gr

  47. Forough Nasseri

    Within the framework of a model universe with time variable space dimension (TVSD) model, known as decrumpling or TVSD model, we study the time variation of the gravitational coupling constant. Using observational bounds on the present time variation of the gravitational Newton&#39;s constant in three-dimensional space we are able to obtain a constraint on t

  48. Kevin Goldstein, Rudra P. Jena, Gautam Mandal, Sandip P. Trivedi

    We present a c-function for spherically symmetric, static and asymptotically flat solutions in theories of four-dimensional gravity coupled to gauge fields and moduli. The c-function is valid for both extremal and non-extremal black holes. It monotonically decreases from infinity and in the static region acquires its minimum value at the horizon, where it eq

  49. H. Boos, Th. Feldmann, T. Mannel, B. D. Pecjak

    We study radiative corrections to $\bar{B} \to X_c \ell \barν_\ell$ decays assuming the power counting $m_c \sim \sqrt{Λ_QCD m_b}$ for the charm-quark mass. Concentrating on the shape-function region, we use effective field-theory methods to calculate the hadronic tensor at NLO accuracy. From this we deduce a shape-function independent relation between parti

  50. Wei-Long She

    It is currently believed that light quantum or the quantization of light energy is beyond classical physics and the picture of wave-particle duality, which was criticized by Einstein but attracted a number of experimental researches, is necessary for the description of light. We show in this paper, however, that the quantization of light energy in vacuum, wh

  51. Nyong-Chol Kim, Soonkeon Nam, Yunseok Seo

    We consider a supersymmetric matrix model which is related to the non-critical superstring theory. We find new non-singlet terms in the supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics. The new non-singlet terms give rise to nontrivial interactions. These new non-singlet terms from fermions, can eliminate other non-singlet terms from generators of U(N) subalgebra and

  52. J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, J. S. Guzman

    We report on an experimental and theoretical study of the dynamic (ac) Stark effect on a forbidden transition. A general framework for parameterizing and describing off-resonant ac-Stark shifts is presented. A model is developed to calculate spectral line shapes resulting from resonant excitation of atoms in an intense standing light-wave in the presence of

  53. F. Rahaman, M. Kalam, M. Sarker, K. Gayen

    A new solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes with Phantom Energy. The model suggests that the existence of wormhole is supported by arbitrarily small quantity of Phantom Energy.

  54. Takeshi Ikeda, Hiroshi Mizukawa, Tatsuhiro Nakajima, Hiro-Fumi Yamada

    Formulas are obtained that express the Schur S-functions indexed by Young diagrams of rectangular shape as linear combinations of &#34;mixed&#34; products of Schur&#39;s S- and Q-functions. The proof is achieved by using representations of the affine Lie algebra of type A_1^{(1)}. A realization of the basic representation that is of ``D_2^{(2)}&#39;&#39;-typ

  55. Amit Hagar, Meir Hemmo

    A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halvorson (2003)(CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information--theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philosophical significance of the theorem is that quantum theory should be regarded as a ``principle&#39;&#39; theory about (quantum) information rather than a ``constructive&#39;&#39; th

  56. Brian R. Greene, Amanda Weltman

    We study the effects of $ α&#39;$ corrections to the Kähler potential on volume stabilisation and racetrack inflation. In a region where classical supergravity analysis is justified, stringy corrections can nevertheless be relevant for correctly analyzing moduli stabilisation and the onset of inflation.

  57. Andrew M. Lance, Hyunseok Jeong, Nicolai B. Grosse, Thomas Symul

    We present a scheme to conditionally engineer an optical quantum system via continuous-variable measurements. This scheme yields high-fidelity squeezed single photon and superposition of coherent states, from input single and two photon Fock states respectively. The input Fock state is interacted with an ancilla squeezed vacuum state using a beam-splitter. W

  58. Jiajun Wang

    In this paper, we prove that there are no truly cosmetic surgeries on genus one classical knots. If the two surgery slopes have the same sign, we give the only possibilities of reflectively cosmetic surgeries. The result is an application of Heegaard Floer theory and number theory.

  59. Jose L. Salmeron, Florentin Smarandache

    IS success is a complex concept, and its evaluation is complicated, unstructured and not readily quantifiable. Numerous scientific publications address the issue of success in the IS field as well as in other fields. But, little efforts have been done for processing indeterminacy and uncertainty in success research. This paper shows a formal method for mappi

  60. Xiaolong Su, Aihong Tan, Xiaojun Jia*, Changde Xie

    The quantum entanglement of amplitude and phase quadratures between two intense optical beams with the total intensity of 22mW and the frequency difference of 1nm, which are produced from an optical parametric oscillator operating above threshold, is experimentally demonstrated with two sets of unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometers. The measured quantum co

  61. Kurt Jacobs

    We present a concise derivation of Landauer&#39;s erasure principle from the postulates of statistical mechanics, along with a small number of additional but uncontroversial axioms.

  62. C. R. Myers, R. Laflamme

    We give an overview of linear optics quantum computing, focusing on the results from the original KLM paper. First we give a brief summary of the advances made with optics for quantum computation prior to KLM. We next discuss the KLM linear optics scheme, giving detailed examples. Finally we go through quantum error correction for the LOQC theory, showing ho

  63. Reinhold A. Bertlmann, Katharina Durstberger, Yuji Hasegawa

    We study two different decoherence modes for entangled qubits by considering a Liouville - von Neumann master equation. Mode A is determined by projection operators onto the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian and mode B by projectors onto rotated states. We present solutions for general and for Bell diagonal states and calculate for the later the mixedness and t

  64. A. K. Rajagopal, R. W. Rendell

    The maximum von Neumann entropy principle subject to given constraints of mean values of some physical observables determines the density matrix. Similarly the stationary action principle in the case of time-dependent (dissipative) situations under similar constraints yields the density matrix. The free energy and measures of entanglement are expressed in te

  65. Christoph Maschler, Helmut Ritsch, Andras Vukics, Peter Domokos

    Atom-field entanglement is shown to play a crucial role for the onset of spatial self-organization of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice within a high-Q cavity. Like particles on a seesaw, the atoms feel a different potential depending on their spatial distribution. The system possesses two stable configurations, where all atoms occupy either only even or

  66. Ll. Masanes

    Consider a scenario where $N$ separated quantum systems are measured, each with one among two possible dichotomic observables. Assume that the $N$ events corresponding to the choice and performance of the measurement in each site are space-like separated. In the present paper, the correlations among the measurement outcomes that arise in this scenario are an

  67. Garry Bowen, Stefano Mancini

    We provide some examples of quantum channels where the addition of noise is able to enhance the information transmission rate. This may happen for both quantum and classical uses and realizes stochastic resonance effects.

  68. Geoffrey Sewell

    We formulate the dynamics of the generic quantum system S_{c} comprising a microsystem S and a macroscopic measuring instrument I, whose pointer positions are represented by orthogonal subspaces of the Hilbert space of its pure states. These subspaces are simultaneous eigenspaces of a set of coarse grained intercommuting macroscopic observables and, most cru

  69. Eric A. Galapon, Roland F. Caballar, Ricardo Bahague

    We give full account of our recent report in [E.A. Galapon, R. Caballar, R. Bahague {\it Phys. Rev. Let.} {\bf 93} 180406 (2004)] where it is shown that formulating the free quantum time of arrival problem in a segment of the real line suggests rephrasing the quantum time of arrival problem to finding a complete set of states that evolve to unitarily arrive

  70. V. P. Belavkin

    Time-continuous non-anticipating quantum processes of nondemolition measurements are introduced as the dynamical realizations of the causal quasi-measurements, which are described in this paper by the adapted operator-valued probability measures on the trajectory spaces of the generalized temporal observations in quantum open systems. In particular, the noti

  71. X. L. Zhang, M. Feng, K. L. Gao

    Quantum cluster states and entangled state analyzers are essential to measurement-based quantum computing. We propose to generate a quantum cluster-state and to make multipartite entanglement analyzer by using noninteracting free electrons or conduction electrons in quantum dots, based on polarizing beam splitters, charge detectors and single-spin rotations.

  72. Demetrios Kalamidas

    We present, at the gedanken level, a possibly novel non-statistical demonstration of nonlocality for two maximally entangled particles. The argument requires only two alternative experimental contexts, only one and the same single-particle observable, and leads to a contradiction with a constrained form of local realism in 50% of experimental runs. However,

  73. G. Camelo-Neto, Ana T. C. Silva, L. Giuggioli, V. M. Kenkre

    Effects of predators of juvenile mice on the spread of the Hantavirus are analyzed in the context of a recently proposed model. Two critical values of the predation probability are identified. When the smaller of them is exceeded, the hantavirus infection vanishes without extinguishing the mice population. When the larger is exceeded, the entire mice populat

  74. S. V. Utyuzhnikov

    The paper is devoted to the generalized wall functions of Robin-type and their application to near-wall turbulent flows. The wall functions are based on the transfer of a boundary condition from a wall to some intermediate boundary near the wall. The boundary conditions on the intermediate boundary are of Robin-type and represented in a differential form. Th

  75. Sergei A. Zibrov, V. L. Velichansky, A. V. Taichenachev, V. I. Yudin

    We propose a simple and effective way of creating pure dark superposition states. The generation of pure states is carried out by using bichromatic radiation with controllable polarization ellipticity. We derived analytic formulas for polarization elipticity to obtain pure dark states of different Zeeman sublevels of alkali atoms. Experimentally we accumulat

  76. T. Bountis, Ch. Skokos

    We apply the Smaller ALignment Index (SALI) method to a 4--dimensional mapping of accelerator dynamics in order to distinguish rapidly, reliably and accurately between ordered and chaotic motion. The main advantage of this index is that it tends {\it exponentially} to zero in the case of chaotic orbits, while it fluctuates around non--zero values in the case

  77. Jesus Martinez-Frias, David Hochberg, Fernando Rull

    The World Year of Physics (2005) is an international celebration to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein&#39;s &#34;Annus Mirabilis&#34;. The United Nations has officially declared 2005 the International Year of Physics. However, the impact of Einstein&#39;s ideas was not restricted to physics. Among numerous other disciplines, Einstein also

  78. Stephen Jewson, Christopher Casey, Jeremy Penzer

    Annual levels of US landfalling hurricane activity averaged over the last 11 years (1995-2005) are higher than those averaged over the previous 95 years (1900-1994). How, then, should we best predict hurricane activity rates for next year? Based on the assumption that the higher rates will continue we use an optimal combination of averages over the long and

  79. Kunimasa Saitoh, Yukihiro Tsuchida, Masanori Koshiba, Niels Asger Mortensen

    In this paper we evaluate the cut-off properties of holey fibers (HFs) with a triangular lattice of air holes and the core formed by the removal of a single (HF1) or more air holes (HF3 and HF7). With the aid of finite-element simulations we determine the single-mode and multi-mode phases and also find the air hole diameters limiting the endlessly single-mod

  80. Xiao Jianhua

    Special relativity theory is well established and confirmed by experiments. This research establishes an operational measurement way to express the great theory in a geometrical form. This may be valuable for understanding the underlying concepts of relativity theory. In four-dimensional spacetime continuum, the displacement field of matter motion is measura

  81. Reginald T. Cahill

    A theory of 3-space explains the phenomenon of gravity as arising from the time-dependence and inhomogeneity of the differential flow of this 3-space. The emergent theory of gravity has two gravitational constants: G - Newton&#39;s constant, and a dimensionless constant - alpha. Various experiments and astronomical observations have shown that alpha is the f

  82. F. Bradamante, I. Koop, A. Otboev, V. Parkhomchuk

    Two possible options of polarized proton-antiproton collider at the future HESR storage ring are considered. It is shown that the modifications of the present HESR project which are needed to arrange for the polarized proton-antiproton collisions are relatively moderate. An achievable luminosity of 5x10^31 cm^-2 sec^-1 will provide a possibility to carry out

  83. K. Malarz, D. Stauffer, K. Kulakowski

    Numerical simulations are reported on the Bonabeau model on a fully connected graph, where spatial degrees of freedom are absent. The control parameter is the memory factor f. The phase transition is observed at the dispersion of the agents power h_i. The critical value f_C shows a hysteretic behavior with respect to the initial distribution of h_i. f_C decr

  84. Ulrich W. Heinz

    The bulk of the hot and dense matter created at RHIC behaves like an almost ideal fluid. I present the evidence for this and also discuss what we can learn about the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) from the gradual breakdown of ideal fluid dynamic behavior at large transverse momenta, lower beam energies, larger impact parameters, and fo

  85. Joseph N. Ginocchio

    We show that a Dirac Hamiltonian with equal scalar and vector harmonic oscillator potentials has not only a spin symmetry but an U(3) symmetry and that a Dirac Hamiltonian with scalar and vector harmonic oscillator potentials equal in magnitude but opposite in sign has not only a pseudospin symmetry but a pseudo-U(3) symmetry. We derive the generators of the

  86. Ulrich W. Heinz

    I review recent and not so recent progress on formulating and numerically implementing a consistent set of relativistic equations which describe the space-time evolution of viscous relativistic fluids without violating causality.

  87. A. Hoell, P. Maris, C. D. Roberts, S. V. Wright

    We explore the viability of using solely spacelike information about a Schwinger function to extract properties of bound states. In a concrete example it is not possible to determine properties of states with masses \gsim 1.2 GeV. Modern Dyson-Schwinger equation methods supply a well-constrained tool that provide access to hadron masses and σ-terms. We repor

  88. D. Bonatsos, D. Lenis, D. Petrellis, P. A. Terziev

    The following special solutions of the Bohr Hamiltonian are briefly described: 1) Z(5) (approximately separable solution in five dimensions with gamma close to 30 degrees), 2) Z(4) (exactly separable gamma-rigid solution in four dimensions with gamma = 30 degrees), 3) X(3) (exactly separable gamma-rigid solution in three dimensions with gamma =0). The analyt

  89. V. O. Nesterenko, J. Kvasil, W. Kleinig, P. -G. Reinhard

    The self-consistent separable RPA (random phase approximation) method is formulated for Skyrme forces with pairing. The method is based on a general self-consistent procedure for factorization of the two-body interaction. It is relevant for various density- and current-dependent functionals. The contributions of the time-even and time-odd Skyrme terms as wel

  90. H. Lenske, V. Shklyar, U. Mosel

    Meson production on the proton is described in a coupled channels K-matrix approach. Both hadronic and photonic scenarios are taken into account on the same theoretical footing. At tree-level the Born amplitudes are obtained from an effective Lagrangian with phenomenologically adjustable coupling constants. The spectral distributions, resonances and their wi

  91. C. -P. Liu, C. H. Hyun, B. Desplanques

    By looking at the parity-nonconserving (PNC) asymmetries at different energies in $\vec{p} p$ scattering, it is in principle possible to determine the PNC $ρNN$ and $ωNN$ couplings of a single-meson-exchange model of the PNC $NN$ force. The analysis of the experimental data at 13.6, 45 and 221 MeV simultaneously has been performed by Carlson \textit{et al.},

  92. V. A. Rodin, Amand Faessler, F. Šimkovic, Petr Vogel

    The nuclear matrix elements $M^{0ν}$ of the neutrinoless double beta decay ($0νββ$) of most nuclei with known $2νββ$-decay rates are systematically evaluated using the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) and Renormalized QRPA (RQRPA). The experimental $2νββ$-decay rate is used to adjust the most relevant parameter, the strength of the particle-pa

  93. Robert I McLachlan, Stephen Marsland

    The Euler equations associated with diffeomorphism groups have received much recent study because of their links with fluid dynamics, computer vision, and mechanics. In this paper, we consider the dynamics of $N$ point particles or `blobs&#39; moving under the action of the Euler equations associated with the group of diffeomorphisms of the plane in a variet

  94. G. Kalosakas

    Multi-peaked localized stationary solutions of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger (DNLS) equation are presented in one (1D) and two (2D) dimensions. These are excited states of the discrete spectrum and correspond to multi-breather solutions. A simple, very fast, and efficient numerical method, suggested by Aubry, has been used for their calculation. The met

  95. Hiroko Koyama, Tetsuro Konishi

    We study the formation of fractal structure in one-dimensional many-body systems with attractive power-law potentials. Numerical analysis shows that the range of the index of the power for which fractal structure emerges is limited. Dependence of the growth rate on wavenumber and power-index is obtained by linear analysis of the collisionless Boltzmann equat

  96. J. Schmiegel, O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen, H. C. Eggers

    We present a general class of spatio-temporal stochastic processes describing the causal evolution of a positive-valued field in space and time. The field construction is based on independently scattered random measures of Levy type whose weighted amplitudes are integrated within a causality cone. General n-point correlations are derived in closed form. As a

  97. Anthony Henderson

    Using a general result of Lusztig, we find the decomposition into irreducibles of certain induced characters of the projective general linear group over a finite field of odd characteristic.

  98. F. Marcellan, A. Martinez-Finkelshtein, P. Martinez-Gonzalez

    We give a survey concerning both very classical and recent results on the electrostatic interpretation of the zeros of some well-known families of polynomials, and the interplay between these models and the asymptotic distribution of their zeros when the degree of the polynomials tends to infinity. The leading role is played by the differential equation sati

  99. Vladimir Guletskii

    Let X --> S be a smooth projective family of surfaces over a smooth curve S such that the generic fiber is a surface with Weil H^2 spanned by divisors and trivial H^1. We prove that if the relative motive of X/S is finite-dimensional the Chow group CH^2(X) with coefficients in Q is generated by a multisection and vertical cycles, i.e. one-dimensional cycles

  100. V. P. Belavkin

    A characterisation of quantum stochastic positive definite (PD) exponent is given in terms of the conditional positive definiteness (CPD) of their form-generator. The pseudo-Hilbert dilation of the stochastic form-generator and the pre-Hilbert dilation of the corresponding dissipator is found. The structure of quasi-Poisson stochastic generators giving rise