December 2005 arXiv papers — page 38

A. Boccaletti, D. Mouillet, T. Fusco, P. Baudoz C. Cavarroc

In the context of extrasolar planet direct detection, we evaluated the performance of differential imaging with ground-based telescopes. This study was carried out in the framework of the VLT-Planet Finder project and is further extended to the case of Extremely Large Telescopes. Our analysis is providing critical specifications for future instruments mostly

I. Baraffe, Y. Alibert, G. Chabrier, W. Benz

This paper presents a consistent description of the formation and the subsequent evolution of gaseous planets, with special attention to short-period, low-mass hot-Neptune planets characteristic of $μ$ Ara-like systems. We show that core accretion including migration and disk evolution and subsequent evolution taking into account irradiation and evaporation

A. Y. Potekhin, G. Chabrier, D. Lai, W. C. G. Ho

We study the equation of state, polarization and radiation properties for nonideal, strongly magnetized plasmas which compose outer envelopes of magnetic neutron stars. Detailed calculations are performed for partially ionized hydrogen atmospheres and for condensed hydrogen or iron surfaces of these stars. This is a companion paper to astro-ph/0511803

C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, A. Pramesh Rao

We report the GMRT observations of V4641 Sgr during the May 2002 outburst at radio frequencies of 610 and 244 MHz. This is the lowest frequency radio detection of this source. The present low frequency radio observations clearly showed spectral evolution from the optically thick to thin state. This behavior is broadly consistent with the expanding bubble mod

Jan E. Staff, Christian Fendt, Rachid Ouyed

We investigate possible formation sites of the cannonballs (in the gamma ray bursts context) by calculating their physical parameters, such as density, magnetic field and temperature close to the origin. Our results favor scenarios where the cannonballs form as instabilities (knots) within magnetized jets from hyperaccreting disks. These instabilities would

L. Villain, P. Haensel

The influence of nucleons superfluidity on the beta relaxation time of degenerate neutron star cores, composed of neutrons, protons and electrons, is investigated. We numerically calculate the implied reduction factors for both direct and modified Urca reactions, with isotropic pairing of protons or anisotropic pairing of neutrons. We find that due to the no

V. V. Flambaum, E. V. Shuryak

We address the emerging discrepancy between the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis data and standard cosmology, which asks for a bit longer evolution time. If this effect is real, one possible implication (in a framework of brane cosmology model) is that there is a ``dark radiation'' component which is negative and makes few percents of ordinary matter density

Mihaela Iftime, John Stachel

The hole argument was developed by Einstein in 1913 while he was searching for a relativistic theory of gravitation. Einstein used the language of coordinate systems and coordinate invariance, rather than the language of manifolds and diffeomorphism invariance. He formulated the hole argument against covariant field equations and later found a way to avoid i

Louis H. Kauffman, Pedro Lopes

In this article we take up the calculation of the minimum number of colors needed to produce a non-trivial coloring of a knot. This is a knot invariant and we use the torus knots of type (2, n) as our case study. We calculate the minima in some cases. In other cases we estimate upper bounds for these minima leaning on the features of modular arithmetic. We i

Richard J. Mathar

The Feynman diagrams of the Green's function expansion of fermions interacting with a non-relativistic 2-body interaction are displayed in first, second and third order of the interaction as 2, 10 and 74 diagrams, respectively. A name convention for the diagrams is proposed and then used to tabulate the 706 diagrams of fourth order. The Hartree-Fock appr

F. Berruto, T. Blum, K. Orginos, A. Soni

We present a study of the neutron electric dipole moment ($\vec d_N$) within the framework of lattice QCD with two flavors of dynamical lig ht quarks. The dipole moment is sensitive to the topological structure of the gaug e fields, and accuracy can only be achieved by using dynamical, or sea quark, calc ulations. However, the topological charge evolves slow

Enrico Nardi, Yosef Nir, Juan Racker, Esteban Roulet

We discuss the effects of various processes that can be active during the leptogenesis era, and present the Boltzmann equations that take them into account appropriately. A non-vanishing Higgs number asymmetry is always present, enhancing the washout of the lepton asymmetry. This is the main new effect when leptogenesis takes place at $T>10^{12}$ GeV, reduci

Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, Robert H. Becker, Richard L. White

We study the evolution of the ionization state of the IGM at the end of the reionization epoch using spectra of a sample of nineteen quasars at 5.74<z<6.42 discovered in the SDSS. Three methods are used to trace IGM properties: (a) the evolution of the Gunn-Peterson optical depth in the Ly alpha,beta, and gamma; (b) the distribution of dark absorption gaps,

A. D. Alhaidari

Using the theory of orthogonal polynomials, their associated recursion relations and differential formulas we develop a method for evaluating new integrals. The method is illustrated by obtaining a closed-form expression for the value of an integral that involves the Bessel function and associated Laguerre polynomial. The result, which is given by Eq. (19) i

M. Ali-Akbari, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, M. Torabian

In this paper we consider all consistent extensions of the AdS_5 x S^5 superalgebra, psu(2,2|4), to incorporate brane charges by introducing both bosonic and fermionic (non)central extensions. We study the Inonu-Wigner contraction of the extended psu(2,2|4) under the Penrose limit to obtain the most general consistent extension of the plane-wave superalgebra

Gautam Bhattacharyya, Kumar Rao, K. Sridhar

Theories of quantum gravity suggest the existence of a minimal length scale. We study the consequences of a particular implementation of the idea of a minimal length scale in the model of large extra dimensions, the ADD model. To do this we have looked at real graviton production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. In the minimal length scenario,

L. -A. Wu, M. S. Sarandy, D. A. Lidar, L. J. Sham

Density functional theory (DFT) is shown to provide a novel conceptual and computational framework for entanglement in interacting many-body quantum systems. DFT can, in particular, shed light on the intriguing relationship between quantum phase transitions and entanglement. We use DFT concepts to express entanglement measures in terms of the first or second

William Crawley-Boevey

We develop a theory of general sheaves over weighted projective lines. We define and study a canonical decomposition, analogous to Kac&#39;s canonical decomposition for representations of quivers, study subsheaves of a general sheaf, general ranks of morphisms, and prove analogues of Schofield&#39;s results on general representations of quivers. Using these,

William Crawley-Boevey

We prove an analogue of Kac&#39;s Theorem, describing the dimension vectors of indecomposable coherent sheaves, or parabolic bundles, over weighted projective lines. We use a theorem of Peng and Xiao to associate a Lie algebra to the category of coherent sheaves for a weighted projective line over a finite field, and find elements of this Lie algebra which s

Mohsen Alishahiha, Batool Safarzadeh, Hossein Yavartanoo

We study supergravity solutions of type II branes wrapping a Melvin universe. These solutions provide the gravity description of non-commutative field theories with non-constant non-commutative parameter. Typically these theories are non-supersymmetric, though they exhibit some feature of their corresponding supersymmetric theories. An interesting feature of

Matthew Kahle

For a graph G, the neighborhood complex N[G] is the simplicial complex having all subsets of vertices with a common neighbor as its faces. It is a well known result of Lovasz that if N[G] is k-connected, then the chromatic number of G is at least k + 3. We prove that the connectivity of the neighborhood complex of a random graph is tightly concentrated, almo

N. F. Nasrallah

The couplings of the eta and eta&#39; mesons to the nucleon are obtained from the U_A(1) Goldberger-Treiman relation. The chiral symmetry breaking corrections are very large and bring the calculated values of the coupling constants G_etaNN and G_eta&#39;NN close to values obtained from potential models.

Ruixiang Guo, Julien Laurat, Jiangrui Gao, Changde Xie

A laser-diode-pumped intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:YAP/KTP laser is presented. Over 110 mw of TEM00 single-frequency output power at 540-nm wavelength was obtained. The output green laser was employed to pump a semimonolithic nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator to produce intensity quantum correlated twin beams at 1080 nm, and the maximum quantum

E. Wu, Vincent Jacques, Heping Zeng, Philippe Grangier

We report on the observation of single colour centers in natural diamond samples emitting in the near infrared region when optically excited. Photoluminescence of these single emitters have several striking features, such as a narrow-band fully polarized emission (FWHM 2 nm) around 780 nm, a short excited-state lifetime of about 2 ns, and perfect photostabil

Qi-Ren Zhang

We show that the collapse of the entangled quantum state makes the entropy increase in an isolated system. The second law of thermodynamics is thus proven in its most general form.

Qi-Ren Zhang

We show that in the quantum transition of a system induced by the interaction with an intense laser of circular frequency $ω$, the energy difference between the initial and the final states of the system is not necessarily being an integer multiple of the quantum energy $\hbarω$.

Geoffroy Guéna, Christophe Poulard, Anne-Marie Cazabat

Alkane mixtures are model systems where the influence of surface tension gradients during the spreading and the evaporation of wetting drops can be easily studied. The surface tension gradients are mainly induced by concentration gradients, mass diffusion being a stabilising process. Depending on the relative concentration of the mixture, a rich pattern of b

E. Swartz

The main result is a proof that the g-vector of a simplicial complex with a convex ear decomposition is an M-vector. This is a generalization of similar results for matroid complexes. We also show that a finite building has a convex ear decomposition. This leads to connections between higher Cohen-Macaulay connectivity and increasing h-vectors.

Eric Bergshoeff, Stefan Vandoren, Antoine Van Proeyen

We review the map between hypercomplex manifolds that admit a closed homothetic Killing vector (i.e. `conformal hypercomplex&#39; manifolds) and quaternionic manifolds of 1 dimension less. This map is related to a method for constructing supergravity theories using superconformal techniques. An explicit relation between the structure of these manifolds is pr

Florent Benaych-Georges

We prove that independent rectangular random matrices, when embedded in a space of larger square matrices, are asymptotically free with amalgamation over a commutative finite dimensional subalgebra $D$ (under an hypothesis of unitary invariance). Then we consider elements of a finite von Neumann algebra containing $D$, which have kernel and range projection

Faina I. Solov&#39;eva

For each r, 0 <= r <= m, it is presented the class of quaternary linear codes LRM(r,m) whose images under the Gray map are binary codes with parameters of Reed-Muller RM(r,m) code of order r.

Ashot Minasyan

$H$ is called a $G$-subgroup of a hyperbolic group $G$ if for any finite subset $M\subset G$ there exists a homomorphism from $G$ onto a non-elementary hyperbolic group $G_1$ that is surjective on $H$ and injective on $M$. In his paper in 1993 A. Ol&#39;shanskii gave a description of all $G$-subgroups in any given non-elementary hyperbolic group $G$. Here we

Ashot Minasyan

We present some results about quasiconvex subgroups of infinite index and their products. After that we extend the standard notion of a subgroup commensurator to an arbitrary subset of a group, and generalize some of the previously known results.

C. F. Berger, M. Perelstein, F. Petriello

We study the shifts in the gauge couplings of the top quark induced in the Littlest Higgs model with and without T parity. We find that the ILC will be able to observe the shifts throughout the natural range of model parameters.

N. G. Stefanis

I elaborate on the implementation of analyticity of hadronic quantities at the amplitude level and show that it amounts to the extension of Analytic Perturbation Theory of Shirkov and Solovtsov to non-integer (fractional) powers of the strong running coupling. I give evidence that at the NLO of the factorized pion&#39;s electromagnetic form factor this frame

V. G. Bornyakov, M. I. Polikarpov, G. Schierholz, T. Suzuki

After fixing the Maximal Abelian gauge in SU(2) lattice gauge theory we decompose the nonabelian gauge field into the so called monopole field and the modified nonabelian field with monopoles removed. We then calculate respective static potentials and find that the potential due to the modified nonabelian field is nonconfining while, as is well known, the mo

Sergey Kozyrev

We present the static spherically symmetric vacuum solutions of the Jordan, Brans-Dicke field equations. The new solutions are obtained by considering a polar Gaussian, isothermal and radial hyperbolic metrics.

D. S. Novikov, L. S. Levitov

The energy of electron Fermi sea perturbed by external potential, represented as energy anomaly which accounts for the contribution of the deep-lying states, is analyzed for massive d = 1+1 Dirac fermions on a circle. The anomaly is a universal function of the applied field, and is related to known field-theoretic anomalies. We express transverse polarizabil

Theja N. De Silva, Erich J. Mueller

A sum rule approach is used to calculate the zero temperature oscillation frequencies of a two component trapped atomic Fermi gas in the BCS-Bose Einstein condensation crossover region. These sum rules are evaluated using a local density approximation which explicitly includes Feshbach molecules. Breathing modes show non-monotonic behavior as a function of t

J. T. Mendel, K. A. Venn, C. R. Proffitt, A. M. Brooks

(Abridged) New boron abundances for seven main-sequence B-type stars are determined from HST STIS spectroscopy around the BIII 2066A line. Boron abundances provide a unique and critical test of stellar evolution models that include rotational mixing since boron is destroyed in the surface layers of stars through shallow mixing long before other elements are

R. J. Foley, D. A. Perley, D. Pooley, J. X. Prochaska

The bright GRB 050408 was localized by HETE-II near local midnight, enabling an impressive ground-based followup effort as well as space-based followup from Swift. The Swift data from the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and our own optical photometry and spectrum of the afterglow provide the cornerstone for our analysis. Under the traditional assumption that the visib

Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, Gordon T. Richards, Joseph F. Hennawi

We present the discovery of seven quasars at z>5.7, selected from ~2000 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The new quasars have redshifts z from 5.79 to 6.13. Five are selected as part of a complete flux-limited sample in the SDSS Northern Galactic Cap; two have larger photometric errors and are not part of the complete

Mikhail V. Medvedev, Luis O. Silva, Marc Kamionkowski

The origin of the micro-Gauss magnetic fields in galaxy clusters is one of the outstanding problem of modern cosmology. We have performed three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the nonrelativistic Weibel instability in an electron-proton plasma, in conditions typical of cosmological shocks. These simulations indicate that cluster fields could have

Maxim Raginsky

The problem of joint universal source coding and identification is considered in the setting of fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. For a wide class of bounded distortion measures, it is shown that any compactly parametrized family of $\R^d$-valued i.i.d. sources with absolutely continuous distributions satisfying appropriate s

P. Frank Winkler, Knox S. Long

New optical images of the young SNR G292.0+1.8, obtained from the 0.9-m telescope at CTIO, show a more extensive network of filaments than had been known previously. Filaments emitting in [O III] are distributed throughout much of the 8 arcmin diameter shell seen in X-ray and radio images, including a few at the very outermost shell limits. We have also dete

Kostya Trachenko

We propose that an onset of glass transition can be defined as the point at which a supercooled liquid acquires the stress relaxation mechanism of a solid glass. We translate this condition into the rate equation for local relaxation events. This equation simultaneously gives two main signatures of glass transition, stretched-exponential relaxation and the V

N. N Achasov, A. V. Kiselev

The high-statistical KLOE data on the $ϕ\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay are described simultaneously with the data on $ππ$ scattering and the $ππ\to K\bar K$ reaction. The description is carried out taking into account the chiral shielding of the putative $σ(600)$ meson and it&#39;s mixing with the well-established $f_0(980)$ meson. It is shown that the data don&#39;t con

D. Reznik, L. Pintschovius, M. Ito, S. Iikubo

The attempt to understand cuprate superconductors is complicated by the presence of multiple strong interactions. While many believe that antiferromagnetism is important for the superconductivity, there has been revived interest in the role of electron-lattice coupling. The recently studied conventional superconductor MgB2 has a very strong electron-lattice

Ingo Runkel, Jens Fjelstad, Jurgen Fuchs, Christoph Schweigert

Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) can be defined through its correlation functions. These must satisfy certain consistency conditions which arise from the cutting of world sheets along circles or intervals. The construction of a (rational) CFT can be divided into two steps, of which one is complex-analytic and one purely algebraic. We realise the

Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier

Minor technical changes. Section 4 improved.

T. Padmanabhan

This article addresses some issues related to statistical description of gravitating systems in an expanding backgrounds. In particular, I describe (a) how the non linear mode-mode coupling transfers power from one scale to another in the Fourier space if the initial power spectrum is sharply peaked at a given scale and (b) what are the asymptotic characteri

Brijesh Dongol, Doug Goldson

This paper describes a logic of progress for concurrent programs. The logic is based on that of UNITY, molded to fit a sequential programming model. Integration of the two is achieved by using auxiliary variables in a systematic way that incorporates program counters into the program text. The rules for progress in UNITY are then modified to suit this new sy

Samir Kunkri, Sujit K. Choudhary, Ali Ahanj, Promod Joag

Here we deal with a nonlocality argument proposed by Cabello which is more general than Hardy&#39;s nonlocality argument but still maximally entangled states do not respond. However, for most of the other entangled states maximum probability of success of this argument is more than that of the Hardy&#39;s argument.

Frederick A. Matsen

This article presents a new way to understand the descriptive ability of tree shape statistics. Where before tree shape statistics were chosen by their ability to distinguish between macroevolutionary models, the ``resolution&#39;&#39; presented in this paper quantifies the ability of a statistic to differentiate between similar and different trees. We term

Vladimir S. Melezhik

We have suggested a method for treating different quantum few-body dynamics without usual partial-wave analysis. With this approach new results were obtained in the physics of ultracold atom-atom collisions and ionization and excitation/deexitation of helium ions. The developed computational scheme opens new possibilities for analysis the actual problem of u

G. Van Hooydonk

A first deception of QM on antiH already appears in one-center integrals for two-center systems (G. Van Hooydonk, physics/0511115). In reality, full QM is a theory for chiral systems but the QM establishment was wrong footed with a permutation of reference frames. With chiral quantum mechanics (CQM), the theoretical ban on natural antiH must be lifted as soo

B. Julia-Diaz, B. Saghai, T. -S. H. Lee, F. Tabakin

A coupled channel model with $γN$, $KY$ and $πN$ channels has been used to analyze the recent data of $γp \to K^+ Λ$. The non-resonant interactions within the subspace $KY \oplus πN$ are derived from effective Lagrangians using a unitary transformation method. The direct photoproduction reaction is obtained from a chiral constituent quark model with $SU(6)\o

Nicolas Borghini

The large elliptic flow observed in Au-Au collisions at RHIC is often put forward as a compelling evidence for the formation of a strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma. The main argument is that the measured elliptic flow is as large as the value given by fluid-dynamics models that assume complete thermalization. It is argued that this claim may not be jus

D. Adamova, CERES Collaboration

We report a measurement of $ϕ$ meson production in central Pb+Au collisions at E$_{lab}$/A=158 GeV. For the first time in heavy-ion collisions, $ϕ$ mesons were reconstructed in the same experiment both in the K$^+$K$^-$ and the dilepton decay channel. Near mid-rapidity, this yields rapidity densities, corrected for production at the same rapidity value, of 2

H. Denz, P. Amaudruz, J. T. Brack, J. Breitschopf

Differential cross sections for pi- p and pi+ p elastic scattering were measured at five energies between 19.9 and 43.3 MeV. The use of the CHAOS magnetic spectrometer at TRIUMF, supplemented by a range telescope for muon background suppression, provided simultaneous coverage of a large part of the full angular range, thus allowing very precise relative cros

Guo-Li Wang

In a previous letter, we computed the decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar mesons in the framework of relativistic (instantaneous) Bethe-Salpeter method (full $0^-$ Salpeter equation), in this letter, we solve the full $1^-$ Salpeter equation and compute the leptonic decay constants of heavy-heavy and heavy-light vector mesons. The theoretical estimate of m

Amir Mafi

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring, $\fa$ an ideal of $R$, and let $M$ be a finitely generated $R$-module. For a non-negative integer $t$, we prove that $H_{\fa}^t(M)$ is $\fa$-cofinite whenever $H_{\fa}^t(M)$ is Artinian and $H_{\fa}^i(M)$ is $\fa$-cofinite for all $i<t$. This result, in particular, characterizes the $\fa$-cofiniteness property of loc

Joseph J. Kohn, Andreea Nicoara

Let M be a smooth, compact, orientable, weakly pseudoconvex manifold of dimension 3, embedded in C^N (N greater than or equal to 2), of codimension one or more in C^N, and endowed with the induced CR structure. Assuming that the tangential Cauchy-Riemann operator \bar\partial_b has closed range in L^2 in order to rule out the Rossi example, we push regularit

Andreea Nicoara

Let M of real dimension 2n-1 be a compact, orientable, weakly pseudoconvex manifold of dimension at least five, embedded in C^N (n less than or equal to N), of codimension one or more in C^N, and endowed with the induced CR structure. We show the tangential Cauchy-Riemann operator has closed range on such a manifold M, hence we get global existence and regul

Jean-Louis Tu, Ping Xu

For an orbifold X and $α\in H^3(X, Z)$, we introduce the twisted cohomology $H^*_c(X, α)$ and prove that the Connes-Chern character establishes an isomorphism between the twisted K-groups $K_α^* (X) \otimes C$ and twisted cohomology $H^*_c(X, α)$. This theorem, on the one hand, generalizes a classical result of Baum-Connes, Brylinski-Nistor, and others, that

Sergei P. Maydanyuk, Liliya M. Saryan

An appropriateness of a space asymmetry of shape invariant potentials with scaling of parameters and potentials of Shabat and Spiridonov in calculation of their forms, wave functions and discrete energy spectra has proved and has demonstrated on a simple example. Parameters, defined space asymmetry, have found. A new type of a hyerarchy, in which superpotent

Guenther Dissertori

Starting in two years from now, particle physics will enter a new regime in terms of energies and luminosities, thanks to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. This report summarizes the status of the preparations, both for the machine and the detectors, as of fall 2005. The commissioning and start-up scenarios are outlined and some highlights from the ve

Maxim Titov

In this paper searches are presented for the pair production of first and second generation scalar leptoquarks and limits are given on the quark-lepton compositeness scale from proton-antiproton collision data at a center-of-mass energy 1.96 TeV, collected with Run II D0 Detector in 2002-2004. No evidence for a leptoquark signal has been observed. From the u

Antares Kleber, José P. S. Lemos, Vilson T. Zanchin

The Majumdar-Papapetrou system is the subset of the Einstein-Maxwell-charged dust matter theory, when the charge of each particle is equal to its mass. Solutions for this system are less difficult to find, in general one does not need even to impose any spatial symmetry a priori. For instance, any number of extreme Reissner-Nordstrom solutions (which in vacu

Farhad Meshkati, Mung Chiang, H. Vincent Poor, Stuart C. Schwartz

A game-theoretic model for studying power control in multi-carrier CDMA systems is proposed. Power control is modeled as a non-cooperative game in which each user decides how much power to transmit over each carrier to maximize its own utility. The utility function considered here measures the number of reliable bits transmitted over all the carriers per Jou

Lifeng Lai, Hesham El Gamal

We adopt a game theoretic approach for the design and analysis of distributed resource allocation algorithms in fading multiple access channels. The users are assumed to be selfish, rational, and limited by average power constraints. We show that the sum-rate optimal point on the boundary of the multipleaccess channel capacity region is the unique Nash Equil

J. C. Phillips

The self-organized dopant percolative filamentary model, entirely orbital in character (no spins), explains the evolution with doping of Fermi arcs observed by ARPES, including the abrupt transitions in quasiparticle strength observed near optimal doping in cuprate high temperature superconductors. Similarly abrupt transitions are also observed in time-resol

C. C. Wu, E. Ehrenfreund, J. J. Gutierrez, J. P. Ferraris

The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of dilute solution and single crystals of distyrylbenzene show unique temperature dependent vibronic structures. The characteristic single frequency progression at high temperatures is modulated by a low frequency progression series at low temperatures. None of the series side band modes corresponds to any of the distyrylbe

Lorenzo Stella, Giuseppe E. Santoro, Erio Tosatti

We present results for a variety of Monte Carlo annealing approaches, both classical and quantum, benchmarked against one another for the textbook optimization exercise of a simple one-dimensional double-well. In classical (thermal) annealing, the dependence upon the move chosen in a Metropolis scheme is studied and correlated with the spectrum of the associ

Santanu Sinha, Vimal Kishore, S. B. Santra

Self-organized criticality is characterized by power law correlations in the non-equilibrium steady state of externally driven systems. A dynamical system proposed here self-organizes itself to a critical state with no characteristic size at ``dynamical equilibrium&#39;&#39;. The system is a random solid in contact with an aqueous solution and the dynamics i

V. Parihar, D. Drosdoff, A. Widom, Y. N. Srivastava

A derivation is given for the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann thermal activation law for the glassy state of a bulk polymer. Our microscopic considerations involve the entropy of closed polymer molecular chains (i.e. polymer closed strings). For thin film polymer glasses, one obtains open polymer strings in that the boundary surfaces serve as possible string endpoint

Cristian Predescu

This paper is withdrawn due to copyright restrictions. The final version will become available at this url: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jpcbfh/

Kei Sawada, Naoto Nagaosa

We theoretically propose that the optical analog of a Lorentz force acting on a ray of light is realized in multiferroic materials such as GaFeO$_3$ showing the magnetoelectric effect. The toroidal moment plays the role of a ``vector potential&#34; while its rotation corresponds to a &#34;magnetic field&#34; for photons. Hence, the light is subject to the Lo

Ya. S. Greenberg, E. Il&#39;ichev, A. Izmalkov

We have analyzed the interaction of a dissipative two level quantum system with high and low frequency excitation. The system is continuously and simultaneously irradiated by these two waves. If the frequency of the first signal is close to the level separation the response of the system exhibits undamped low frequency oscillations whose amplitude has a clea

Yunori Nisikawa, Kosaku Yamada

We discuss the possibility of spin-triplet superconductivity in a two-dimensional Hubbard model on a triangular lattice within the third-order perturbation theory. When we vary the symmetry in the dispersion of the bare energy band from D_2 to D_6, spin-singlet superconductivity in the D_2-symmetric system is suppressed and we obtain spin-triplet superconduc

Yunori Nisikawa, Hiroaki Ikeda, Kosaku Yamada

We reformulate the Eliashberg&#39;s equation for the superconducting transition within the quasi-particle description, which takes account of the heavy electron mass. We discuss the superconductivity of CeIr_{x}Co_{1-x}In_5 by using such a renormalized formula. On the basis of an effective two-dimensional Hubbard model which represents the most heavy quasi-t

Yunori Nisikawa, Kosaku Yamada

We investigate the superconducting mechanism and the transition temperature of heav y fermion superconductor UPd_2Al_3 on the basis of a single band two-dimensional Hubbard model on triangular lattice, whi ch represents the most heavy band of UPd_2Al_3. Both normal and anomalous self-energies are calculated up to third order with respect to the Coulomb repul

M. C. Bento, O. Bertolami, N. M. C. Santos, A. A. Sen

We use the Type Ia Supernova gold sample to constrain the parameters of dark energy models namely the Cardassian, Dvali-Turner (DT) and generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) models. In our best fit analysis for these dark energy proposals we consider flat and the non-flat priors. For all models, we find that relaxing the flatness condition implies that data favors

Yoko Funato, Junichiro Makino, Piet Hut, Eiichiro Kokubo

Recent observations (Burnes2002,Veillet2002,Margot2002a) have revealed an unexpectedly high binary fraction among the Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) that populate the Kuiper Belt. The TNO binaries are strikingly different from asteroid binaries in four respects (Veillet2002): their frequency is an order of magnitude larger, the mass ratio of their components

N. Escudero, C. Munoz, A. M. Teixeira

We conduct a general discussion of supersymmetric models with three families in the Higgs sector. We analyse the scalar potential, and investigate the minima conditions, deriving the mass matrices for the scalar, pseudoscalar and charged states. Depending on the Yukawa couplings and the Higgs spectrum, the model might allow the occurrence of potentially dang

Stephen D. H. Hsu, Brian M. Murray

Taking seriously the interpretation of black hole entropy as the logarithm of the number of microstates, we argue that thermal gravitons may undergo a phase transition to a kind of black hole condensate. The phase transition proceeds via nucleation of black holes at a rate governed by a saddlepoint configuration whose free energy is of order the inverse temp

Zheng Zheng, David H. Weinberg

Adopting the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), we investigate the ability of galaxy clustering measurements to simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters and galaxy bias. Starting with a fiducial cosmological model and galaxy HOD, we calculate spatial clustering observables on a range of length and mass scales, dynamical clustering o

Karsten Jedamzik, Ki-Young Choi, Leszek Roszkowski, Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis at baryonic density as inferred by WMAP implies a primordial Li7 abundance factor of two to three larger than that inferred by observations of low--metallicity halo stars. Recent observations of Li6 in halo stars suggest a pre--galactic origin of this isotope, which is exceedingly difficult to explain by putative high redshi

Alexei Tonyushkin, Tycho Sleator

Interference fringes of total atomic density with period $λ/4$ and $λ/2$ for optical wavelength $λ$, have been produced in de Broglie atom interferometer and directly imaged by means of an ``optical mask&#39;&#39; technique. The imaging technique allowed us to observe sub-wavelength periodic patterns with a resolution of $λ/16$. The quantum dynamics near the

Diana Vaman, York-Peng Yao

We show how by reassembling the tree level gluon Feynman diagrams in a convenient gauge, space-cone, we can explicitly derive the BCFW recursion relations. Moreover, the proof of the gluon recursion relations hinges on an identity in momentum space which we show to be nothing but the Fourier transform of the largest time equation. Our approach lends itself t

Krishna Rajagopal, Andreas Schmitt

At sufficiently high densities, cold dense three-flavor quark matter is in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase, in which all nine quarks pair in a particularly symmetric fashion. Once the heaviness of the strange quark (mass $m_s$) and the requirements of electric and color neutrality are taken into account, the CFL pattern of color superconductivity require

Mihail G. Neagu

Let A_1,A_2,...,A_s be a finite sequence of (not necessarily disjoint, or even distinct) non-empty sets of positive integers satisfying a certain condition. It is shown that an independent family U_1,U_2,...,U_s of random NxN permutation matrices with cycle lengths restricted to A_1,A_2,...,A_s, respectively, converges in *-distribution as N goes to infinity

P. Bicudo

This paper presents the first study of mesons with a quark and an antiquark with different and finite masses, in a simple confining and chiral invariant quark-antiquark interaction, leading to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and to constituent quarks. In the false chiral invariant vacuum, the chiral partners are degenerate, and tachyons occur in the lig

James Babington

We consider the holographic dual of SQCD in the conformal phase. It is based on a higher derivative gravity theory, which ensures the correct field theory anomalies. This is then related to a six dimensional gravity theory via S^1 compactification. Some speculations are then made about the correspondence, Seiberg duality, and the nature of confinement from a

M. Dugger

Many measurements of pseudoscalar mesons with S = 0 photoproduced on the proton have been made recently. These new data are particularly useful in theoretical investigations of nucleon resonances. How the new data from various labs complement each other and help fill in the gaps in the world data set is disscussed, with a glance at measurements to be made in

F. S. Kitaura, H. -Th. Janka, W. Hillebrandt

We present results of simulations of stellar collapse and explosions in spherical symmetry for progenitor stars in the 8-10 solar mass range with an O-Ne-Mg core. The simulations were continued until nearly one second after core bounce and were performed with the Prometheus/Vertex code with a variable Eddington factor solver for the neutrino transport, inclu

A. Donini, E. Fernandez-Martinez, D. Meloni, S. Rigolin

We study the measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters, $θ_{23}$ and $Δm^2_{23}$, at the $ν_μ$ disappearance channel at three conventional beam facilities, the SPL, T2K-phase I and NO$ν$A. These two parameters have been shown to be of crucial importance in the measurement of two of the unknowns of the PMNS mixing matrix, $θ_{13}$ and the

V. Mukhanov, A. Vikman

We show that in theories with a nontrivial kinetic term the contribution of the gravitational waves to the CMB fluctuations can be substantially larger than that is naively expected in simple inflationary models. This increase of the tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio leads to a larger B-component of the CMB polarization, thus making the prospects for futur

J. Negro, M. A. del Olmo, J. Tosiek

Relativistic and nonrelativistic anyons are described in a unified formalism by means of the coadjoint orbits of the symmetry groups in the free case as well as when there is an interaction with a constant electromagnetic field. To deal with interactions we introduce the extended Poincaré and Galilei Maxwell groups.

Olivier Morizot, Yves Colombe, Vincent Lorent, Hélène Perrin

We propose a new kind of toroidal trap, designed for ultracold atoms. It relies on a combination of a magnetic trap for rf-dressed atoms, which creates a bubble-like trap, and a standing wave of light. This new trap is well suited for investigating questions of low dimensionality in a ring potential. We study the trap characteristics for a set of experimenta