September 2007 arXiv papers — page 38

Meera M. Parish, Stefan K. Baur, Erich J. Mueller, David A. Huse

We calculate the zero temperature phase diagram of a polarized two-component Fermi gas in an array of weakly-coupled parallel one-dimensional (1D) 'tubes' produced by a two-dimensional optical lattice. Increasing the lattice strength drives a crossover from three-dimensional (3D) to 1D behavior, stabilizing the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO)

Eran Nevo, Uli Wagner

We consider a generalization of the van Kampen-Flores Theorem and relate it to the long-standing $g$-conjecture for simplicial spheres.

Antonio F. Crepaldi, Camilo Rodrigues Neto, Fernando F. Ferreira, Gerson Francisco

The search for more realistic modeling of financial time series reveals several stylized facts of real markets. In this work we focus on the multifractal properties found in price and index signals. Although the usual Minority Game (MG) models do not exhibit multifractality, we study here one of its variants that does. We show that the nonsynchronous MG mode

Shengyuan A. Yang, Di Xiao, Qian Niu

We formulate a theory on the dynamics of conduction electrons in the presence of moving magnetic textures in ferromagnetic materials. We show that the variation of local magnetization in both space and time gives rise to topological fields, which induce electromotive forces on the electrons. Universal results are obtained for the emf induced by both transver

Bau-Sen Du, Ming-Chia Li, Mikhail Malkin

In this paper, we study the Arneodo-Coullet-Tresser map $ F(x,y,z)=(ax-b(y-z), bx+a(y-z), cx-dx^k+e z)$ where $a,b,c,d,e$ are real with $bd\neq 0$ and $k>1$ is an integer. We obtain stability regions for fixed points of $F$ and symmetric period-2 points while $c$ and $e$ vary as parameters. Varying $a$ and $e$ as parameters, we show that there is a hyperboli

Steven B. Giddings

Black hole production in high-energy collisions is briefly surveyed. Included is a summary of recent developments and open problems relevant to collider (LHC) production, as well as of some theoretical issues pointing towards fundamental principles of quantum gravity.

Jounghun Lee, Volker Springel, Ue-Li Pen, Gerard Lemson

The formation of dark matter halos tends to occur anisotropically along the filaments of the Cosmic Web, which induces both ellipticity-ellipticity (EE) correlations between the shapes of halos, as well as ellipticity-direction (ED) cross-correlations between halo shapes and the directions to neighboring halos. We analyze the halo catalogue and the semi-anal

David W. Lyons, Scott N. Walck, Stephanie A. Blanda

Nonproduct n-qubit pure states with maximum dimensional stabilizer subgroups of the group of local unitary transformations are precisely the generalized n-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states and their local unitary equivalents, for n greater than or equal to 3 but not equal to 4. We characterize the Lie algebra of the stabilizer subgroup for these state

Marios Kampakoglou, Roberto Trotta, Joe Silk

We consider an analytic model of cosmic star formation which incorporates supernova feedback, gas accretion and enriched outflows, reproducing the history of cosmic star formation, metallicity, supernovae type II rates and the fraction of baryons allocated to structures. We present a new statistical treatment of the available observational data on the star f

Harish Sethu, Thomas Gerety

Each node in a wireless multi-hop network can adjust the power level at which it transmits and thus change the topology of the network to save energy by choosing the neighbors with which it directly communicates. Many previous algorithms for distributed topology control have assumed an ability at each node to deduce some location-based information such as th

Juha Kinnunen, Riikka Korte

We present isocapacitary characterizations of Sobolev inequalities in very general metric measure spaces.

S. Jain, T. Yamano

We study the persistence phenomenon in a socio-econo dynamics model using computer simulations at a finite temperature on hypercubic lattices in dimensions up to 5. The model includes a ` social\rq local field which contains the magnetization at time $t$. The nearest neighbour quenched interactions are drawn from a binary distribution which is a function of

D. V. Denisov, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, T. H. Johansen

The distributions of electrical current and magnetic field in a thin-film superconductor ring is calculated by solving the London equation. The maximum amount of flux trapped by the hole, the fluxoid saturation number, is obtained by limiting the current density by the depairing current. The results are compare it with similar results derived for the bulk ca

D. Boer, C. J. Bomhof, D. S. Hwang, P. J. Mulders

We consider polarized Lambda hyperon production in proton-proton scattering, p p -> (Λ^\uparrow jet) jet X, in the kinematical region of the LHC experiments, in particular the ALICE experiment. We present a new Lambda polarization observable that arises from the Sivers effect in the fragmentation process. It can be large even at midrapidity and therefore, is

Simon Christiansen, Paolo Sibani

The interpretation of experimental and numerical data describing off-equilibrium aging dynamics crucially depends on the connection between spontaneous and induced fluctuations. The hypothesis that linear response fluctuations are statistically subordinated to irreversible outbursts of energy, so-called quakes, leads to predictions for averages and fluctuati

Michael Dinsdale, Marko Ternick, Stefan Weinzierl

We present an implementation of a parton shower algorithm for hadron colliders and electron-positron colliders based on the dipole factorisation formulae. The algorithm treats initial-state partons on equal footing with final-state partons. We implemented the algorithm for massless and massive partons.

O. Kiriyama

The phase structure of neutral two-flavor quark matter at nonzero temperature is studied. Our analysis is performed within the framework of a gauged Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model and the mean-field approximation. We compute the free energy of the gluonic phase (gluonic cylindrical phase II) in a self-consistent manner and investigate the phase transition from th

Cas Cremers

A recent development in formal security protocol analysis is the Protocol Composition Logic (PCL). We identify a number of problems with this logic as well as with extensions of the logic, as defined in [DDMP05,HSD+05,He05,Dat05,Der06,DDMR07]. The identified problems imply strong restrictions on the scope of PCL, and imply that some currently claimed PCL pro

Vladimir Azarin

In this course of lectures we give an account of the growth theory of subharmonic functions, which is directed towards its applications to entire functions of one and several complex variables.

Laszlo B. Szabados

The eigenvalue problem for Dirac operators, constructed from two connections on the spinor bundle over closed spacelike 2-surfaces, is investigated. A class of divergence free vector fields, built from the eigenspinors, are found, which, for the lowest eigenvalue, reproduce the rotation Killing vectors of metric spheres, and provide rotation BMS vector field

Michele Campisi, Donald H. Kobe

We derive the microcanonical ensemble from the Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP) using the phase space volume entropy of P. Hertz. Maximizing this entropy with respect to the probability distribution with the constraints of normalization and average energy, we obtain the condition of constant energy. This approach is complementary to the traditional derivation

H. K. Eriksen, J. B. Jewell, C. Dickinson, A. J. Banday

We describe and implement an exact, flexible, and computationally efficient algorithm for joint component separation and CMB power spectrum estimation, building on a Gibbs sampling framework. Two essential new features are 1) conditional sampling of foreground spectral parameters, and 2) joint sampling of all amplitude-type degrees of freedom (e.g., CMB, for

J. E. Birkholz, V. Meden

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the lateral confinement of the two-dimensional electron gas to the one-dimensional wire geometry. We generalize a situation sugge

Stephane Norte

Computer games are motivating and beneficial in learning different educational skills. Most people use their fingers, hands, and arms when using a computer game. However, for people with motor disabilities this task can be a barrier. We present a new Sudoku game for people whose motion is impaired, called Sudoku 4ALL. With this special interface a person can

M. Stoitsov, N. Michel, K. Matsuyanagi

We propose a new method to solve the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations for weakly bound nuclei, which works for both spherical and axially deformed cases. In this approach, the quasiparticle wave functions are expanded in a complete set of analytical Poschl-Teller-Ginocchio and Bessel/Coulomb wave functions. Correct asymptotic properties of the quasiparticle

Maxim S. Borshch, Valery I. Zhdanov

We use a connection between relativistic hydrodynamics and scalar field theory to generate exact analytic solutions describing non-stationary inhomogeneous flows of the perfect fluid with one-parametric equation of state (EOS) $p = p(\epsilon)$. For linear EOS $p = \kappa \epsilon$ we obtain self-similar solutions in the case of plane, cylindrical and spheri

Shinji Watanabe, Masatoshi Imada

We show theoretically that the second layer of 3He adsorbed on graphite and solidified at 4/7 of the first-layer density is close to the fluid-solid boundary with substantial density fluctuations on the third layer. The solid shows a translational symmetry breaking as in charge-ordered insulators of electronic systems. We construct a minimal model beyond the

Mike Bisset, Jun Li, Nick Kersting, Ran Lu

Heavy neutral Higgs boson production and decay into neutralino and chargino pairs is studied at the Large Hadron Collider in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Higgs boson decays into the heavier neutralino and chargino states, i.e., H^0 or A^0 to tilde{chi}_i^0 tilde{chi}_j^0 (i,j = 2,3,4) as well as H^0 or A^0 to tilde{chi}_1^{pm} ti

Marcelo A. Marchiolli, Diogenes Galetti

We introduce a new class of unitary transformations based on the su(1,1) Lie algebra that generalizes, for certain particular representations of its generators, well-known squeezing transformations in quantum optics. To illustrate our results, we focus on the two-mode bosonic representation and show how the parametric amplifier model can be modified in order

J. Schaffner-Bielich

The modern phase diagram of strongly interacting matter reveals a rich structure at high-densities due to phase transitions related to the chiral symmetry of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the phenomenon of color superconductivity. These exotic phases have significant impacts on high-density astrophysics as the properties of neutron stars and the evolution

Kenichi Kasamatsu, Makoto Tsubota

In this review, we give an overview of the experimental and theoretical advances in the physics of quantized vortices in dilute atomic-gas Bose--Einstein condensates in a trapping potential, especially focusing on experimental research activities and their theoretical interpretations. Making good use of the atom optical technique, the experiments have reveal

J. J. Brey, A. Prados, M. I. Garcia de Soria, P. Maynar

The presence of the aging phenomenon in the homogeneous cooling state (HCS) of a granular fluid composed of inelastic hard spheres or disks is investigated. As a consequence of the scaling property of the $N$-particle distribution function, it is obtained that the decay of the normalized two-time correlation functions slows down as the time elapsed since the

D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen

Based on the Mehler heat kernel of the Schroedinger operator for a free electron in a constant magnetic field an estimate for the kernel of E_A is derived, where E_A represents the kinetic energy of a Dirac electron within the pseudorelativistic no-pair Brown-Ravenhall model. This estimate is used to provide the bottom of the essential spectrum for the two-p

Ayman Kachmar

This paper is concerned with the discrete spectrum of the self-adjoint realization of the semi-classical Schrödinger operator with constant magnetic field and associated with the de Gennes (Fourier/Robin) boundary condition. We derive an asymptotic expansion of the number of eigenvalues below the essential spectrum (Weyl-type asymptotics). The methods of pro

Umpei Miyamoto

A simple master equation for the static perturbation of charged black strings is derived while employing the gauge proposed by Kol. As the charge is varied it is found that the potential in the master equation for the perturbations becomes positive exactly when the specific heat turns positive thus forbidding a bound state and the onset of the Gregory-Laflam

Marios Georgiou, Georgios Varelogiannis, Peter Thalmeier

In usual superconductivity (SC), the pairs have zero total momentum irrespective of their symmetry. Staggered SC would involve, instead, pairs with a finite commensurate total momentum, but such exotic states have never been proven to be realized in nature. Here we study for the first time the influence of particle-hole asymmetry on the competition of stagge

Youichi Yamada

The decay $b\to sν\barν$ is discussed in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with general flavor mixing for squarks, at large $\tanβ$. In this case, in addition to the chargino loop contributions which were analyzed in previously studies, $\tanβ$-enhanced contributions from the gluino and charged Higgs boson loops might become sizable compared with the

Inyong Cho, Gungwon Kang, Sang Pyo Kim, Chul H. Lee

We investigate geometrical properties of 5D cylindrical vacuum solutions with a transverse spherical symmetry. The metric is uniform along the fifth direction and characterized by tension and mass densities. The solutions are classified by the tension-to-mass ratio. One particular example is the well-known Schwarzschild black string which has a curvature sin

Pei-Hong Gu, Hong-Jian He, Utpal Sarkar

We propose a new model for naturally light Dirac neutrinos and explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe through neutrinogenesis. We extend the standard model with a real singlet scalar, a heavy singlet Dirac fermion and a heavy doublet scalar besides three right-handed neutrinos, respecting lepton number conservation and a Z_2 symmetry. The neutrinos acq

Hideaki Obuse, Arvind R. Subramaniam, Akira Furusaki, Ilya A. Gruzberg

We investigate boundary multifractality of critical wave functions at the Anderson metal-insulator transition in two-dimensional disordered non-interacting electron systems with spin-orbit scattering. We show numerically that multifractal exponents at a corner with an opening angle θ=3π/2 are directly related to those near a straight boundary in the way dict

Thiago R. de Oliveira, Gustavo Rigolin, Marcos C. de Oliveira, E. Miranda

We analyze the bipartite and multipartite entanglement for the ground state of the one-dimensional XY model in a transverse magnetic field in the thermodynamical limit. We explicitly take into account the spontaneous symmetry breaking in order to explore the relation between entanglement and quantum phase transitions. As a result we show that while both bipa

F. Acero, J. Ballet, A. Decourchelle

The density of the ambient medium where the supernova remnant evolves is a relevant parameter for its hydrodynamical evolution, for the mechanism of particle acceleration, and for the emission at TeV energies. Using XMM-Newton X-ray observations, we present a study of the ambient medium density of the historical supernova remnant SN 1006. We modelled the pos

Ettore Vicari

In the framework of the renormalization-group (RG) approach, critical phenomena can be investigated by studying the RG flow of multi-parameter $Φ^4$ field theories with an $N$-component fundamental field, containing up to 4th-order polynomials of the field. Some physically interesting systems require $Φ^4$ field theories with several quadratic and quartic pa

Yasumi Abe

The space-time symmetry of noncommutative quantum field theories with a deformed quantization is described by the twisted Poincaré algebra, while that of standard commutative quantum field theories is described by the Poincaré algebra. Based on the equivalence of the deformed theory with a commutative field theory, the correspondence between the twisted Poin

Takashi Tamaki, Umpei Miyamoto

We reconsider spherically symmetric black hole solutions in Einstein-Aether theory with the condition that this theory has identical PPN parameters as those for general relativity, which is the main difference from the previous research. In contrast with previous study, we allow superluminal propagation of a spin-0 Aether-gravity wave mode. As a result, we o

S. Albeverio, Ya. Belopolskaya

We reduce the construction of a weak solution of the Cauchy problem for the Navier-Stokes system to the construction of a solution to a stochastic problem. Namely, we construct diffusion processes which allow us to obtain a probabilistic representation of a weak (in distributional sense) solution to the Cauchy problem for the Navier- Stokes system.

Roberto A. Sussman

We examine numerically and qualitatively the Lema\^ıtre--Tolman--Bondi (LTB) inhomogeneous dust solutions as a 3--dimensional dynamical system characterized by six critical points. One of the coordinates of the phase space is an average density parameter, $<Ω>$, which behaves as the ordinary $Ω$ in Friedman-Lema\^ıtre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) dust spacetime

F. T. Farrell, P. Ontaneda

We study the Teichmüller space of negatively curved metrics on a high dimensional manifold, with applications to bundles with negatively curved fibers.

The E949 Collaboration

Experiment E949 at Brookhaven National Laboratory studied the rare decay \$K^+\toπ^+ν\barν$ and other processes with an exposure of $1.77\times 10^{12}$ $K^+$&#39;s. The data were analyzed using a blind analysis technique yielding one candidate event with an estimated background of $0.30\pm0.03$ events. Combining this result with the observation of two candi

T. Suzuki, H. Bhang, J. Chiba, S. Choi

We have observed an intense high-energy component in an inclusive $^4$He(stopped $K^-$, $d$) spectrum. For back-to-back $Λd$ pairs a prominent event cluster has been found just below the $m_{^4\textrm{He}}+m_{K^-}-m_{n}$ mass threshold in the $Λd$ invariant mass spectrum of $Λdn$ events, which is evidence for a three-nucleon absorption process of $K^-$ in $^

Dan Drake

We develop a combinatorial model of the associated Hermite polynomials and their moments, and prove their orthogonality with a sign-reversing involution. We find combinatorial interpretations of the moments as complete matchings, connected complete matchings, oscillating tableaux, and rooted maps and show weight-preserving bijections between these objects. S

Deena Al-Kadi

In this paper we study the second Hochschild cohomology group ${HH}^2(Λ)$ of a finite dimensional algebra $Λ$. In particular, we determine ${HH}^2(Λ)$ where $Λ$ is a finite dimensional self-injective algebra of finite representation type over an algebraically closed field $K$ and show that this group is zero for most such $Λ$; we give a basis for ${HH}^2(Λ)$

Stephen Amsel, Joshua Berger, Robert H. Brandenberger

Line discontinuities in cosmic microwave background anisotropy maps are a distinctive prediction of models with cosmic strings. These signatures are visible in anisotropy maps with good angular resolution and should be identifiable using edge detection algorithms. One such algorithm is the Canny algorithm. We study the potential of this algorithm to pick out

Hai-Bo Li, Mao-Zhi Yang

In this paper, we calculate the decay rates of $D^+ \to D^0 e^+ ν$, $D^+_S \to D^0 e^+ ν$, $B^0_S \to B^+ e^- \barν$, $D^+_S \to D^+ e^- e^+$ and $B^0_S \to B^0 e^-e^+$ semileptonic decay processes, in which only the light quarks decay, while the heavy flavors remain unchanged. The branching ratios of these decay processes are calculated with the flavor SU(3

R. K. Campbell, T. E. Harrison, A. D. Schwope, S. B. Howell

We present phase-resolved low resolution infrared spectra of the polar EF Eridani obtained over a period of 2 years with SPEX on the IRTF. The spectra, covering the wavelength range 0.8 to 2.4 microns, are dominated by cyclotron emission at all phases. We use a ``Constant Lambda&#39;&#39; prescription to attempt to model the changing cyclotron features seen

T. Inami, K. Ohwada, Y. H. Matsuda, Z. W. Ouyang

Resonant magnetic x-ray diffraction experiments on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice TbB$_4$ were carried out under strong pulsed magnetic fields up to 30 T. TbB$_4$ exhibits a multi-step magnetization process above 16 T when magnetic fields are applied along the c-axis. We examined the intensity of the 010 magnetic reflection as a function of magnetic field an

Bruce Allison, Stephen Berman, John Faulkner, Arturo Pianzola

An important theorem in the theory of infinite dimensional Lie algebras states that any affine Kac-Moody algebra can be realized (that is to say constructed explicitly) using loop algebras. In this paper, we consider the corresponding problem for a class of Lie algebras called extended affine Lie algebras (EALAs) that generalize affine algebras. EALAs occur

Lucien Birgé

Our purpose in this paper is to apply the general methodology for model selection based on T-estimators developed in Birgé [Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 42 (2006) 273--325] to the particular situation of the estimation of the unknown mean measure of a Poisson process. We introduce a Hellinger type distance between finite positive measures to serve

Feng-Yin Chang, Pisin Chen, Guey-Lin Lin, Kevin Reil

Magnetowave induced plasma wakefield acceleration (MPWA) in a relativistic astrophysical outflow has been proposed as a viable mechanism for the acceleration of cosmic particles to ultra high energies. Here we present simulation results that clearly demonstrate the viability of this mechanism for the first time. We invoke the high frequency and high speed wh

Ernie Croot, Christian Elsholtz

It is well-known that any sequence of at least N integers contains a subsequence whose sum is 0 (mod N). However, there can be very few subsequences with this property (e.g. if the initial sequence is just N 1&#39;s, then there is only one subsequence). When the length L of the sequence is much longer, we might expect that there are 2^L/N subsequences with t

Hendrik Bluhm, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Martin E. Huber, Kathryn A. Moler

The authors report magnetic measurements of fluxoid transitions in mesoscopic, superconducting aluminum rings. The transitions are induced by applying a flux to the ring so that the induced supercurrent approaches the critical current. In a temperature range near $T_c$, only a single fluxoid enters or leaves at a time, leading to a final state above the grou

Tommaso Toffoli, Silvio Capobianco, Patrizia Mentrasti

Both cellular automata (CA) and lattice-gas automata (LG) provide finite algorithmic presentations for certain classes of infinite dynamical systems studied by symbolic dynamics; it is customary to use the term `cellular automaton&#39; or `lattice gas&#39; for the dynamic system itself as well as for its presentation. The two kinds of presentation share many

F. Combes, S. Garcia-Burillo, J. Braine, E. Schinnerer

We present the results of a CO(1-0) emission survey with the IRAM 30m of 30 galaxies at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.2-0.6) to explore galaxy evolution and in particular the star formation efficiency, in the redshift range filling the gap between local and very high-z objects. Our detection rate is about 50%. One of the bright objects was mapped at high resoluti

Silas Beane, Thomas Luu, Kostas Orginos, Assumpta Parreno

The K+K+ scattering length is calculated in fully-dynamical lattice QCD with domain-wall valence quarks on the MILC asqtad-improved gauge configurations with rooted staggered sea quarks. Three-flavor mixed-action chiral perturbation theory at next-to-leading order, which includes the leading effects of the finite lattice spacing, is used to extrapolate the r

Daniel Lemire, Martin Brooks, Yuhong Yan

Monotonicity is a simple yet significant qualitative characteristic. We consider the problem of segmenting a sequence in up to K segments. We want segments to be as monotonic as possible and to alternate signs. We propose a quality metric for this problem using the l_inf norm, and we present an optimal linear time algorithm based on novel formalism. Moreover

Stathis Filippas, Luisa Moschini, Achilles Tertikas

In this article, motivated by a work of Caffarelli and Cordoba in phase transitions analysis, we prove new weighted anisotropic Sobolev type inequalities, that is Sobolev type inequalities where different derivatives have different weight functions. The inequalities we are dealing with, are also intimately connected to weighted Sobolev inequalities for Grush

Charles J. Lada, August A. Muench, Jill M. Rathborne, Joao F. Alves

In this paper we present the results of a systematic investigation of an entire population of starless dust cores within a single molecular cloud. Analysis of extinction data shows the cores to be dense objects characterized by a narrow range of density. Analysis of C18O and NH3 molecular-line observations reveals very narrow lines. The non-thermal velocity

Chiou-Fu Wang, Ronald Hanson, Tatyana Feygelson, Jie Yang

Diamond-based photonic devices offer exceptional opportunity to study cavity QED at room temperature. Here we report fabrication and optical characterization of high quality photonic crystal (PC) microcavities based on nanocrystalline diamond. Fundamental modes near the emission wavelength of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) centers (637 nm) with qu

C. Wafo Soh

We obtain iso-spectral Euler-Bernoulli beams by using factorization and Lie symmetry techniques. The canonical Euler-Bernoulli beam operator is factorized as the product of a second-order linear differential operator and its adjoint. The factors are then reversed to obtain iso-spectral beams. The factorization is possible provided the coefficients of the fac

Andrew Kresch, Yuri Tschinkel

We study Brauer-Manin obstructions to integral points on open subsets of the projective plane.

C. Wafo Soh

We completely solve the equivalence problem for Euler-Bernoulli equation using Lie symmetry analysis. We show that the quotient of the symmetry Lie algebra of the Bernoulli equation by the infinite-dimensional Lie algebra spanned by solution symmetries is a representation of one of the following Lie algebras: $2A_1$, $A_1\oplus A_2$, $3A_1$, or $A_{3,3}\oplu

Alexander Leshansky, Oded Kenneth

In this work we address the &#34;smoking ring&#34; propulsion technique, originally proposed by E. M. Purcell. We first consider self-locomotion of a doughnut-shaped swimmer powered by surface tank-treading. Different modes of surface motion are assumed and propulsion velocity and swimming efficiency are determined. The swimmer is propelled against the direc

Julia A. Berashevich, Adam D. Bookatz, Tapash Chakraborty

The velocity of polaron migration in the long poly-DNA chain (~40 base pairs) in an applied electric field has been studied within a polaron model. We found that the polaron velocity strongly depends on the polaron size. A small polaron shows a slow propagation and strong tolerance to the electric field, while a large polaron is much faster and less stable w

A. Rebei, J. Hohlfeld

Magnetization reversal by a femtosecond circularly polarized laser pulse has been recently demonstrated in rare-earth doped transition metals (RE-TM). The switching mechanism has been attributed to an inverse Faraday effect and thermal effects. Based on the parameters provided in the experimental work, we show that this claim is unlikely to give rise to femt

Andrey Tydnyuk

We investigate the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov linear differential system. The coefficients of this system are rational functions. We have proved that the solution of the KZ system is rational when k is equal to two and n is equal to three (see [5]) . In this paper, we construct the corresponding solution in the explicit form.

Bryce Croll, Jaymie M. Matthews, Jason F. Rowe, Brett Gladman

We have made a comprehensive transit search for exoplanets down to ~1.5 - 2 Earth radii in the HD 189733 system, based on 21-days of nearly uninterrupted broadband optical photometry obtained with the MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) satellite in 2006. We have searched these data for realistic limb-darkened transits from exoplanets other than

Kurt W. Weiler, Christopher L. Williams, Nino Panagia, Christopher J. Stockdale

We present our observations of the radio emission from supernova (SN) 1993J, in M 81 (NGC 3031), made with the VLA, from 90 to 0.7 cm, as well as numerous measurements from other telescopes. The combined data set constitutes probably the most detailed set of measurements ever established for any SN outside of the Local Group in any wavelength range. Only SN

Igor Cialenco, Sergey V. Lototsky

A parameter estimation problem is considered for a stochastic parabolic equation with multiplicative noise under the assumption that the equation can be reduced to an infinite system of uncoupled diffusion processes. From the point of view of classical statistics, this problem turns out to be singular not only for the original infinite-dimensional system but

Lev Glebsky, Luis Manuel Rivera

We will say that the permutations f_1,...,f_n is an e-solution of an equation if the normalized Hamming distance between its l.h.p. and r.h.p. is less than e. We give a sufficient conditions when near to an e-solution exists an exact solution and some examples when there does not exist such a solution.

A. P. Willard, D. Chandler

We use a coarse grained solvent model to study the self assembly of two nano-scale hydrophobic particles in water. We show how solvent degrees of freedom are involved in the process. By using tools of transition path sampling, we elucidate the reaction coordinates describing the assembly. In accord with earlier expectations, we find that fluctuations of the

Young-June Kim, G. D. Gu, T. Gog, D. Casa

We report a comprehensive x-ray scattering study of charge density wave (stripe) ordering in $\rm La_{2-x}Ba_xCuO_4 (x \approx 1/8)$, for which the superconducting $T_c$ is greatly suppressed. Strong superlattice reflections corresponding to static ordering of charge stripes were observed in this sample. The structural modulation at the lowest temperature wa

Stephen Semmes

Some aspects of analysis on disconnected sets are briefly discussed, more along the lines of regions with infinitely many components than Cantor sets.

Rachel Bean, Eanna E. Flanagan, Mark Trodden

We consider theories with a nontrivial coupling between the matter and dark energy sectors. We describe a small scale instability that can occur in such models when the coupling is strong compared to gravity, generalizing and correcting earlier treatments. The instability is characterized by a negative sound speed squared of an effective coupled dark matter/

M. Montoya, E. Saettone, J. Rojas

The mass and kinetic energy distribution of nuclear fragments from thermal neutron induced fission of 235U have been studied using a Monte-Carlo simulation. Besides reproducing the pronounced broadening on the standard deviation of the final fragment kinetic energy distribution $σ_{e}(m)$ around the mass number m = 109, our simulation also produces a second

Beatriz Abadie

We discuss the crossed product by the dual action of the circle on the crossed product of a C*-algebra A by a Hilbert C*-bimodule X. When X is an A-A Morita equivalence bimodule, the double crossed product is shown to be Morita equivalent to the C*-algebra A.

Dan Yasaki

Let Gamma be a congruence subgroup of the Picard modular group of an imaginary number field k, and let D be the associated symmetric space. We describe a method to compute the integral cohomology of the locally symmetric space Gamma\D. The method is implemented for the case k=Q(i) and k=Q(sqrt(-3)), and the cohomology is computed for various Gamma.

J. Martin, A. Molina, E. Ruiz

We use a recent result by Cabezas et al. to build up an approximate solution to the gravitational field created by a rigidly rotating polytrope. We solve the linearized Einstein equations inside and outside the surface of zero pressure including second-order corrections due to rotational motion to get an asymptotically flat metric in a global harmonic coordi

A. Narduzzo A. Enayati-Rad, S. Horii, N. E. Hussey

In the chain compound PrBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$ localization appears simultaneously with a dimensional crossover in the electronic ground state when the scattering rate in the chains exceeds the hopping rate between the chains. Here we report the discovery of a large, transverse magnetoresistance in PrBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$ in the localized regime. This result suggests

Nick Indriolo, Thomas R. Geballe, Takeshi Oka, Benjamin J. McCall

Using high resolution infrared spectroscopy we have surveyed twenty sightlines for H3+ absorption. H3+ is detected in eight diffuse cloud sightlines with column densities varying from 0.6x10^14 cm^-2 to 3.9x10^14 cm^-2. This brings to fourteen the total number of diffuse cloud sightlines where H3+ has been detected. These detections are mostly along sightlin

Eric V. Linder

Redshift distortion measurements from galaxy surveys include sensitivity to the gravitational growth index distinguishing other theories from Einstein gravity. This gravitational sensitivity is substantially free from uncertainty in the effective equation of state of the cosmic expansion history. We also illustrate the bias in the traditional application to

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

We introduce a novel type of surface waves that form at the edge of guiding structures consisting of several concentric rings. Such surface waves rotate steadily upon propagation and, in contrast to nonrotating waves, for high rotation frequencies they do not exhibit power thresholds for their existence. There exists an upper limit for the surface wave ro-ta

E. Bois, N. Rambaux

One major objective of MESSENGER and BepiColombo spatial missions is to accurately measure Mercury&#39;s rotation and its obliquity in order to obtain constraints on internal structure of the planet. Which is the obliquity&#39;s dynamical behavior deriving from a complete spin-orbit motion of Mercury simultaneously integrated with planetary interactions? We

Pierre Bieliavsky

We define a universal deformation formula (UDF) for the actions of the affine group on Frechet algebras. More precisely, starting with any associative Frechet algebra which the affine group acts on in a strongly continuous and isometrical manner, the UDF produces a family of topological associative algebra structures on the space of smooth vectors of the act

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

I discuss the possibility of using a massive vector field to generate the density perturbation in the Universe. I find that a scale-invariant superhorizon spectrum of vector field perturbations is possible to generate during inflation. The associated curvature perturbation is imprinted onto the Universe following the curvaton scenario. The mechanism does not

M. Ciszak, A. Montina, F. T. Arecchi

We study how a coupled array of spiking chaotic systems synchronizes to an external driving in a short time. Synchronization means spike separation at adjacent sites much shorter than the average inter-spike interval; a local lack of synchronization is called a defect. The system displays sudden spontaneous defect disappearance at a critical coupling strengt

Peter D. Hislop, Peter A. Perry, Siu-Hung Tang

The purpose of this paper is to describe certain CR-covariant differential operators on a strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold $M$ as residues of the scattering operator for the Laplacian on an ambient complex Kähler manifold $X$ having $M$ as a `CR-infinity.&#39; We also characterize the CR $Q$-curvature in terms of the scattering operator. Our results paralle

Christof Wetterich

Within the scenario of chiral freedom we compute the quark and lepton masses of the first two generations in terms of their chiral couplings. This allows us to make a rough estimate of the size of the chiral couplings, narrowing down the uncertainty in the chiron contribution to low energy observables, like the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We also

Claude Aslangul

I study the time-evolution of a particle prepared in the ground state of an infinite well after the latter is suddenly expanded. It turns out that the probability density $|Ψ(x, t)|^{2}$ shows up quite a surprising behaviour: for definite times, {\it plateaux} appear for which $|Ψ(x, t)|^{2}$ is constant on finite intervals for $x$. Elements of theoretical e

Haifeng Wang, Stephen B. Pope

PDF model calculations have been performed of the Cabra lifted hydrogen flame in a vitiated co-flow. Particle trajectories are extracted from the Lagrangian particle method used to solve the modeled PDF equation. The particle trajectories in the mixture fraction-temperature plane reveal (at successive downstream locations): essentially inert mixing between t

Cherif Smaili, Maan El Badaoui El Najjar, François Charpillet

This paper presents a multi-sensor fusion strategy for a novel road-matching method designed to support real-time navigational features within advanced driving-assistance systems. Managing multihypotheses is a useful strategy for the road-matching problem. The multi-sensor fusion and multi-modal estimation are realized using Dynamical Bayesian Network. Exper