November 2007 arXiv papers — page 48

Yi-Fang Chang

Using the similar formulas of the preference relation and the utility function, we propose the confidence relations and the corresponding influence functions that represent various interacting strengths of different families, cliques and systems of organization. Since they can affect products, profit and prices, etc., in an economic system, and are usually i

Igor Chilingarian, Francois Bonnarel, Mireille Louys, Ivan Zolotukhin

Three cornerstones for the 3D data support in the Virtual Observatory are: (1) data model to describe them, (2) data access services providing access to fully-reduced datasets, and (3) client applications which can deal with 3D data. Presently all these components became available in the VO. We demonstrate an application of the IVOA Characterisation data mod

Philippe G. LeFloch, Roberto Natalini

We study the limiting behavior of the solutions to a class of conservation laws with vanishing nonlinear diffusion and dispersion terms. We prove the convergence to the entropy solution of the first order problem under a condition on the relative size of the diffusion and the dispersion terms. This work is motivated by the pseudo-viscosity approximation intr

Doug Pickrell

This paper is an exposition of several questions linking heat kernel measures on infinite dimensional Lie groups, limits associated with critical Sobolev exponents, and Feynmann-Kac measures for sigma models.

J. N. Milstein, Christof Koch

Based upon the membrane currents generated by an action potential in a biologically realistic model of a pyramidal, hippocampal cell within rat CA1, we perform a moment expansion of the extracellular field potential. We decompose the potential into both inverse and classical moments and show that this method is a rapid and efficient way to calculate the extr

Philippe G. LeFloch, Jian-Guo Liu

Solutions to conservation laws satisfy the monotonicity property: the number of local extrema is a non-increasing function of time, and local maximum/minimum values decrease/increase monotonically in time. This paper investigates this property from a numerical standpoint. We introduce a class of fully discrete in space and time, high order accurate, differen

Steven Duplij, Gerald A. Goldin, Vladimir M. Shtelen

We first write down a very general description of nonlinear classical electrodynamics, making use of generalized constitutive equations and constitutive tensors. Our approach includes non-Lagrangian as well as Lagrangian theories, allows for electromagnetic fields in the widest possible variety of media (anisotropic, piroelectric, chiral and ferromagnetic),

Philippe G. LeFloch

Hyperbolic conservation laws posed on manifolds arise in many applications to geophysical flows and general relativity. Recent work by the author and his collaborators attempts to set the foundations for a study of weak solutions defined on Riemannian or Lorentzian manifolds and includes an investigation of the existence and qualitative behavior of solutions

D. Altbir, J. Escrig, P. Landeros, F. S. Amaral

The effect of dipolar interactions among cylindrical nanodots, with a vortex-core magnetic configuration, is analyzed by means of analytical calculations. The cylinders are placed in a N x N square array in two configurations - core oriented parallel to each other and with antiparallel alignment between nearest neighbors. Results comprise the variation in th

T. A. Johnson, E. Urban, T. Henage, L. Isenhower

We demonstrate Rabi flopping of small numbers of $\rm{^{87}Rb}$ atoms between ground and Rydberg states with $n\le 43$. Coherent population oscillations are observed for single atom flopping, while the presence of two or more atoms decoheres the oscillations. We show that these observations are consistent with van der Waals interactions of Rydberg atoms.

Leonid S. Metlov

A new mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamic approach is developed. The approach is based on the thermodynamic identity associated the first and second law of thermodynamics. In the framework of the approach different internal dissipative channels of energy are taken in account in an explicit form, namely, the thermal channel and channels of defect subsyst

David N. LeBard, Dmitry V. Matyushov

We report applications of analytical formalisms and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to the calculation of redox entropy of plastocyanin metalloprotein in aqueous solution. The goal of our analysis is to establish critical components of the theory required to describe polar solvation at the mesoscopic scale. The analytical techniques include a microscopic

Alex E Athey

We have performed uniform analysis of a sample of 54 nearby, early-type galaxies observed with \emph{Chandra}. In this work we present the spectral results for both the diffuse Interstellar Medium, ISM, and low-mass X-ray binaries, LMXBs. We determine the metallicity of the hot ISM in the 22 brightest galaxies and find a narrow range of abundance ratios rela

P. S. Cornaglia, Gonzalo Usaj, C. A. Balseiro

The low-temperature transport properties of a molecule are studied in the field-effect transitor geometry. The molecule has an internal mechanical mode that modulates its electronic levels and renormalizes both the interactions and the coupling to the electrodes. For a soft mechanical mode the spin fluctuations in the molecule are dominated by the bare coupl

W. Bentz, I. C. Cloët, T. Ito, A. W. Thomas

We determine the quark distributions and structure functions for both unpolarized and polarized DIS of leptons on nucleons and nuclei. The scalar and vector mean fields in the nucleus modify the motion of the quarks inside the nucleons. By taking into account this medium modification, we are able to reproduce the experimental data on the unpolarized EMC effe

Gabor Furesz, Lee W. Hartmann, S. Thomas Megeath, Andrew H. Szentgyorgyi

We present results from 1351 high resolution spectra of 1215 stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) and the surrounding Orion 1c association, obtained with the Hectochelle multiobject echelle spectrograph on the 6.5m MMT. We confirmed 1111 stars as members, based on their radial velocity and/or H-alpha emission. The radial velocity distribution of members s

Omer Kavaklioglu, Baruch Schneider

In this article, we present the derivation of the asymptotic forms of the equations corresponding to the scattering coefficients of the exterior electric and magnetic fields of an infinite grating of insulating dielectric circular cylinders for vertically polarized and obliquely incident plane electromagnetic waves. Exploiting the generalized forms of the Tw

W. Bentz, I. C. Cloët, T. Ito, A. W. Thomas

Nuclear parton distributions and structure functions are determined in an effective chiral quark theory. We also discuss an extension of our model to fragmentation functions.

Sylvain Bénito, Charles-Henri Bruneau, Thierry Colin, Cyprien Gay

A variety of complex fluids consist in soft, round objects (foams, emulsions, assemblies of copolymer micelles or of multilamellar vesicles -- also known as onions). Their dense packing induces a slight deviation from their prefered circular or spherical shape. As a frustrated assembly of interacting bodies, such a material evolves from one conformation to a

M. Daraktchiev, B. Van de Moortele, R. Schaller, E. Couteau

Mechanical properties of zirconia polycrystals decrease drastically at high temperature due to thermally activated grain boundary (GB) sliding, leading to plastic or even super-plastic deformation. As GB sliding is a source of energy dissipation in the material, mechanical loss measurements are well suited to study such a mechanism. They reveal, in general,

A. W. Shafter, R. M. Quimby

We report spectroscopic observations of the nova M31N-2007-06b, which was found to be spatially coincident with the M31 globular cluster Bol 111. This nova is the first out of more than 700 discovered in M31 over the past century to be associated with one of the galaxy's globular clusters. A total of three spectra of the nova were obtained 3, 6, and 36 d

R. Carretero-Gonzalez, B. P. Anderson, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study the formation of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) that has been prepared by allowing isolated and independent condensed fragments to merge together. We focus on the experimental setup of Scherer {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 98}, 110402 (2007)], where three BECs are created in a magnetic trap that is segmented into three regions by

Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri, Debashis Barik, Suman Kumar Banik

Based on the system heat bath approach where the bath is nonlinearly modulated by an external Gaussian random force, we propose a new microscopic model to study directed motion in the overdamped limit for a nonequilibrium open system. Making use of the coupling between the heat bath and the external modulation as a small perturbation we construct a Langevin

Benjamin Bahr, Thomas Thiemann

We investigate a certain distributional extension of the group of spatial diffeomorphisms in Loop Quantum Gravity. This extension, which is given by the automorphisms Aut(P) of the path groupoid P, was proposed by Velhinho and is inspired by category theory. This group is much larger than the group of piecewise analytic diffeomorphisms. In particular, we wil

Christophe Giraud

We propose a procedure to handle the problem of Gaussian regression when the variance is unknown. We mix least-squares estimators from various models according to a procedure inspired by that of Leung and Barron (2007). We show that in some cases the resulting estimator is a simple shrinkage estimator. We then apply this procedure in various statistical sett

M. Chaichian, P. P. Kulish, A. Tureanu, R. B. Zhang

Within the context of the twisted Poincaré algebra, there exists no noncommutative analogue of the Minkowski space interpreted as the homogeneous space of the Poincaré group quotiented by the Lorentz group. The usual definition of commutative classical fields as sections of associated vector bundles on the homogeneous space does not generalise to the noncomm

Giorgio Parisi

In talk I will review the theoretical results that have been obtained for spin glasses, paying a particular attention to finite dimensional spin glasses. I will concentrate my attention on the formulation of the mean field approach and on its numerical and experimental verifications. I will mainly considered equilibrium properties at zero magnetic field, whe

Remi Soummer, Laurent Pueyo, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Robert J. Vanderbei

We present a new method for numerical propagation through Lyot-style coronagraphs using finite occulting masks. Standard methods for coronagraphic simulations involve Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) of very large arrays, and computing power is an issue for the design and tolerancing of coronagraphs on segmented Extremely Large Telescopes (ELT) in order to hand

G. Morvai, S. Yakowitz, L. Gyorfi

The setting is a stationary, ergodic time series. The challenge is to construct a sequence of functions, each based on only finite segments of the past, which together provide a strongly consistent estimator for the conditional probability of the next observation, given the infinite past. Ornstein gave such a construction for the case that the values are fro

Mehmet Akçakaya, Vahid Tarokh

In this paper, we study the number of measurements required to recover a sparse signal in ${\mathbb C}^M$ with $L$ non-zero coefficients from compressed samples in the presence of noise. For a number of different recovery criteria, we prove that $O(L)$ (an asymptotically linear multiple of $L$) measurements are necessary and sufficient if $L$ grows linearly

Wei Yuan, Huan Chen, Yu-xin Liu

We study the stability of the highest symmetric solution (Wigner-solution) of Dyson-Schwinger equations in chiral limit and at zero temperature. Our results confirm that if the chemical potential is not very large, the QCD vacuum is in the chiral symmetry breaking phase and the quantum phase-transition of the chiral symmetry restoration is in first order. Me

omer Kavaklioglu, Baruch Schneider

In this article, we present the asymptotic solution for the matrix system of equations representing the multiple scattering coefficients of an infinite grating of insulating dielectric circular cylinders associated with vertically polarized obliquely incident plane electromagnetic waves.

Chris Antonopoulos, Tassos Bountis

We introduce a new methodology for a fast and reliable discrimination between ordered and chaotic orbits in multidimensional Hamiltonian systems which we call the Linear Dependence Index (LDI). The new method is based on the recently introduced theory of the Generalized Alignment Indices (GALI). LDI takes advantage of the linear dependence (or independence)

Marek Szydlowski, Aleksandra Kurek

We develop a simple method of dark energy reconstruction using a geometrical form of the luminosity-distance relation. In this method the FRW dynamical system with dark energy is reconstructed instead of the equation of state parameter. We give several examples which illustrate the usefulness of our method in fitting the redshift transition from the decelera

Andrés Viña

Let $M$ be a quantizable symplectic manifold acted on by $T=(S^1)^r$ in a Hamiltonian fashion and $J$ a moment map for this action. Suppose that the set $M^{T}$ of fixed points is discrete and denote by $α_{pj}\in{\mathbb Z}^r$ the weights of the isotropy representation at $p$. By means of the $α_{pj}$'s we define a partition ${\mathcal Q}_+$, ${\mathcal

Harry P. Warren, Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, David H. Brooks, Jonathan W. Cirtain

We present observations of transient active region heating events observed with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) and X-ray Telescope (XRT) on Hinode. This initial investigation focuses on NOAA active region 10940 as observed by Hinode on February 1, 2007 between 12 and 19 UT. In these observations we find numerous examples of transient heat

Serge Burckel

Alice wants to send an arbitrary binary word to Bob. We show here that there is no problem for her to do that with only two bits. Of course, we consider here information like a signal in 4D.

Kevin Leung, Martijn Marsman

Accurate calculations of electrostatic potentials and treatment of substrate polarizability are critical for predicting the permeation of ions inside water-filled nanopores. The {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics method (AIMD), based on Density Functional Theory (DFT), accounts for the polarizability of materials, water, and solutes, and it should be the met

The IceCube Collaboration

This paper bundles 40 contributions by the IceCube collaboration that were submitted to the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference ICRC 2007. The articles cover studies on cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrinos, searches for non-localized, extraterrestrial electron, muon and tau neutrino signals, scans for steady and intermittent neutrino point sources, sea

G. Morvai, B. Weiss

Let $\{X_n\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ be a stationary real-valued time series with unknown distribution. Our goal is to estimate the conditional expectation of $X_{n+1}$ based on the observations $X_i$, $0\le i\le n$ in a strongly consistent way. Bailey and Ryabko proved that this is not possible even for ergodic binary time series if one estimates at all values of $

Riccardo Sturani, Roberto Terenzi

We present a new method of wavelet packet decomposition to be used in gravitational wave detection. An issue in wavelet analysis is what is the time-frequency resolution which is best suited to analyze data when in quest of a signal of unknown shape, like a burst. In the other wavelet methods currently employed, like LIGO WaveBurst, the analysis is performed

Bernd Braßel, Michael Hanus, Marion Muller

This paper proposes an environment to support high-level database programming in a declarative programming language. In order to ensure safe database updates, all access and update operations related to the database are generated from high-level descriptions in the entity- relationship (ER) model. We propose a representation of ER diagrams in the declarative

Martin Heller, Henrik Bruus

We present a model including diffusion and particle-size dispersion for separation of particles in deterministic lateral displacement devices also known as bumper arrays. We determine the upper critical diameter for diffusion-dominated motion and the lower critical diameter for pure convection-induced displacement. Our model explains the systematic deviation

J. P. C. Greenlees, G. R. Williams

We make explicit Poincaré duality for the equivariant $K$-theory of equivariant complex projective spaces. The case of the trivial group provides a new approach to the $K$-theory orientation.

Roberto Bagnara, Patricia Hill, Enea Zaffanella

ECLAIR is a Prolog-based prototype system aiming to provide a functionally complete environment for the study, development and evaluation of programming language analysis and implementation tools. In this paper, we sketch the overall structure of the system, outlining the main methodologies and technologies underlying its components. We also discuss the appr

Guillem Marpons-Ucero, Julio Mariño, Ángel Herranz, Lars-Åke Fredlund

Some approaches to increasing program reliability involve a disciplined use of programming languages so as to minimise the hazards introduced by error-prone features. This is realised by writing code that is constrained to a subset of the a priori admissible programs, and that, moreover, may use only a subset of the language. These subsets are determined by

Tomasz Dietl

The author reviews the present understanding of the hole-mediated ferromagnetism in magnetically doped semiconductors and oxides as well as the origin of high temperature ferromagnetism in materials containing no valence band holes. It is argued that in these systems spinodal decomposition into regions with a large and a small concentration of magnetic compo

Ivan Zolotukhin, Nikolay Samokhvalov, Francois Bonnarel, Igor Chilingarian

We use PostgreSQL DBMS for storing XML metadata, described by the IVOA Characterisation Data Model. Initial XML type support in the PostgreSQL has recently been implemented. We make heavy use of this feature in order to provide comprehensive search over Characterisation metadata tree. We built a prototype of the Characterisation metadata query service, imple

Igor Chilingarian, Victor Afanasiev, Francois Bonnarel, Serguei Dodonov

ASPID stands for the "Archive of Spectral, Photometric, and Interferometric Data". The world largest collection of raw 3D spectroscopic observations of galactic and extragalactic sources is provided. ASPID-SR is a prototype of an archive of heterogeneous science ready data, fed by ASPID, where we try to exploit all the power of the IVOA Characterisat

Tomasz Dietl

This paper reviews the present understanding of the origin of ferromagnetic response of diluted magnetic semiconductors and diluted magnetic oxides as well as in some nominally magnetically undoped materials. It is argued that these systems can be grouped into four classes. To the first belong composite materials in which precipitations of a known ferromagne

Alessandro Chiodo, Dimitri Zvonkine

The universal curve p:C->\Mbar over the moduli space \Mbar of stable r-spin maps to a target Kähler manifold X carries a universal spinor bundle L->C. Therefore the moduli space \Mbar itself carries a natural K-theory class Rp_*L. We introduce a twisted r-spin Gromov-Witten potential of X enriched with Chern characters of Rp_*L. We show that the twisted pote

Z. Fodor

Recent results on QCD thermodynamics are presented. The nature of the T>0 transition is determined, which turns out to be an analytic cross-over. The absolute scale for this transition is calculated. The temperature dependent static potential is given. The results were obtained by using a Symanzik improved gauge and stout-link improved fermionic action. In o

Gargi Shaw, G. J. Ferland, R. Srianand, N. P. Abel

The spatial distribution of the cosmic-ray flux is important in understanding the Interstellar Medium (ISM) of the Galaxy. This distribution can be analyzed by studying different molecular species along different sight lines whose abundances are sensitive to the cosmic-ray ionization rate. Recently several groups have reported an enhanced cosmic-ray ionizati

Daniel Grieser

This is an expository article that results from a talk given to second year students at Oldenburg university. The aim of the talk was to show what beautiful and unexpected results may be obtained if one plays with daring analogies in a way that is usually not done in undergraduate education (unfortunately): We start from the fact that the sum of diagonal ent

Gilles Esposito-Farese

More than 50 abstracts were submitted to the A4 session on "Alternatives Theories of Gravity" at the GRG18 conference. About 30 of them were scheduled as oral presentations, that we summarize below. We do not intend to give a critical review, but rather pointers to the corresponding papers. The main topics were (i) brane models both from the mathemat

Steven Diehl, Masanori Nakamura, Hui Li, David Rafferty

We present results from magneto-hydrodynamic jet simulations in the magnetically dominated regime and find that they inflate cavities into the intracluster medium. Mock Chandra X-ray observations of our simulations show a strong resemblance to real cavities observed in X-ray images of clusters, both in terms of their morphology and thermodynamic structure. A

Roman V. Baluev

The least-squares (or Lomb-Scargle) periodogram is a powerful tool which is used routinely in many branches of astronomy to search for periodicities in observational data. The problem of assessing statistical significance of candidate periodicities for different periodograms is considered. Based on results in extreme value theory, improved analytic estimatio

Jonathan Irwin, Simon Hodgkin, Suzanne Aigrain, Jerome Bouvier

We report on the results of an I-band time-series photometric survey of NGC 2547 using the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope with WFI, achieving better than 1% photometric precision per data point over 14 <~ I <~ 18. Candidate cluster members were selected from a V vs V-I colour magnitude diagram over 12.5 < V < 24 (covering masses from 0.9 Msol down to below the brown

Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lionel Sacks, Ognjen Prnjat

The Grid technology is evolving into a global, service-orientated architecture, a universal platform for delivering future high demand computational services. Strong adoption of the Grid and the utility computing concept is leading to an increasing number of Grid installations running a wide range of applications of different size and complexity. In this pap

Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lionel Sacks, Ognjen Prnjat

Wider adoption of the Grid concept has led to an increasing amount of federated computational, storage and visualisation resources being available to scientists and researchers. Distributed and heterogeneous nature of these resources renders most of the legacy cluster monitoring and management approaches inappropriate, and poses new challenges in workflow sc

Ioannis Liabotis, Ognjen Prnjat, Tope Olukemi, Adrian Li Mow Ching

This paper presents basic concepts, architectural principles and algorithms for efficient resource and security management in cluster computing environments and the Grid. The work presented in this paper is funded by BTExacT and the EPSRC project SO-GRM (GR/S21939).

V. V. Abramov

Experimental data on transverse single-spin asymmetry, hyperon polarization and vector meson alignment in h+h, h+A and A+A-collisions have been analyzed. A new mechanism for the origin of single spin effects is proposed, which takes into account the interaction of massive constituent quarks via their chromomagnetic moment with an effective inhomogeneous chro

Steven Diehl, Chris Fryer, Falk Herwig

We present preliminary results from Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of common envelope evolution. We qualitatively compare the interaction between a 0.9M red giant with two different companion masses: a 0.05M brown dwarf and a 0.25M white dwarf companion.

Jian-Jun Wang, Ru-Min Wang, Yuan-Guo Xu, Ya-Dong Yang

We study the rare decays $B^{+}_u\to π^{+}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$, $ρ^{+}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ and $B^{0}_d \to \ell^{+} \ell^{-}(\ell=e,μ)$ in the R-parity violating supersymmetric standard model. From the latest upper limits of $\mathcal{B}(B^+_u\toπ^+\ell^+\ell^-)$ and $\mathcal{B}(B^0_d\to\ell^+\ell^-)$, we have derived new upper bounds on the relevant R-parity vi

J. R. Hauptmann, J. Paaske, P. E. Lindelof

Manipulation of the spin-states of a quantum dot by purely electrical means is a highly desirable property of fundamental importance for the development of spintronic devices such as spin-filters, spin-transistors and single-spin memory as well as for solid-state qubits. An electrically gated quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime can be tuned to hold a

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov et al

We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B_{s2}* in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B_{s2}* meson is measured to be {5839.6 +- 1.1 (stat.) +- 0.7 (syst.) MeV/c^2, and its production rate relative to the B+ meson is measured to be [1.15 +- 0.23 (stat.) +- 0.13 (syst.)] %.

F. Mancini, F. P. Mancini, A. Naddeo

We study the phase diagram at finite temperature of a system of Fermi particles on the sites of the Bethe lattice with coordination number z and interacting through onsite U and nearest-neighbor V interactions. This is a physical realization of the extended Hubbard model in the atomic limit. By using the equations of motion method, we exactly solve the model

Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lionel Sacks

As the Grid evolves from a high performance cluster middleware to a multipurpose utility computing framework, a good understanding of Grid applications, their statistics and utilisation patterns is required. This study looks at job execution times and resource utilisations in a Grid environment, and their significance in cluster and network dimensioning, loc

Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lionel Sacks

Effective resource utilisation monitoring and highly granular yet adaptive measurements are prerequisites for a more efficient Grid scheduler. We present a suite of measurement applications able to monitor per-process resource utilisation, and a customisable tool for emulating observed utilisation models.

Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lionel Sacks

As Grid computing is becoming an inevitable future, managing, scheduling and monitoring dynamic, heterogeneous resources will present new challenges. Solutions will have to be agile and adaptive, support self-organization and autonomous management, while maintaining optimal resource utilisation. Presented in this paper are basic principles and architectural

Alex B. Nielsen

This talk gives a brief introduction to black hole horizons and their role in black hole thermodynamics. In particular a distinction is made between quasi-locally defined horizons and event horizons. Currently some new techniques have led to interesting developments and the field seems to be growing in two distinct directions. We will show how thermodynamics

Eric Schmutz

For random maps, the expected value of the order (i.e. the period of the sequence of compositional iterates) is approximated asymptotically. It is much smaller than the expected value for the product of the cycle lengths.

Stefan Scherer

We will give a short introduction to the one-nucleon sector of chiral perturbation theory and will address the issue of a consistent power counting and renormalization. We will discuss the infrared regularization and the extended on-mass-shell scheme. Both allow for the inclusion of further degrees of freedom beyond pions and nucleons and the application to

Sujin Babu, Jean Christophe Gimel, Taco Nicolai, C. De Michele

Hard spheres interacting through a square-well potential were simulated using two different methods: Brownian Cluster Dynamics (BCD) and Event Driven Brownian Dynamics (EDBD). The structure of the equilibrium states obtained by both methods were compared and found to be almost the identical. Self diffusion coefficients ($D$) were determined as a function of

P. Esposito, A. Tiengo, S. Zane, R. Turolla

The soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1806-20 has been attracting a lot of attention owing to the fact that in December 2004 it emitted the most powerful giant flare ever observed. Here we present the results of the first Suzaku observation of SGR 1806-20, that seems to have reached a state characterized by a flux close to the pre-flare level and by a relatively s

Vasily E. Tarasov

The fractal distribution of charged particles is considered. An example of this distribution is the charged particles that are distributed over fractal. The fractional integrals are used to describe fractal distribution. These integrals are considered as approximations of integrals on fractals. Typical turbulent media could be of a fractal structure and the

Reuven Cohen, Niloofar Fazlollahi, David Starobinski

Advanced channel reservation is emerging as an important feature of ultra high-speed networks requiring the transfer of large files. Applications include scientific data transfers and database backup. In this paper, we present two new, on-line algorithms for advanced reservation, called BatchAll and BatchLim, that are guaranteed to achieve optimal throughput

Nick Evans, Andrew Tedder

We study hadronization of the final state in a particle-antiparticle annihilation using a holographic gravity dual description of QCD. At the point of hadronization we match the events to a simple (Gaussian) energy distribution in the five dimensional theory. The final state multiplicities are then modelled by calculating the overlap between the Gaussian and

L. Espanol, J. M. Garcia Calcines, M. C. Minguez

In this article a sequential theory in the category of spaces and proper maps is described and developed. As a natural extension a sequential theory for exterior spaces and maps is obtained.

K. Akabli, H. T. Diep

It has been shown experimentally a long time ago that the magnetic ordering causes an anomalous behavior of the electron resistivity in ferromagnetic crystals. Phenomenological explanations based on the interaction between itinerant electron spins and lattice spins have been suggested to explain these observations. We show by extensive Monte Carlo simulation

V. Thanh Ngo, H. T. Diep

We show in this paper by using the Wang-Landau flat-histogram Monte Carlo method that the phase transition in the XY stacked triangular antiferromagnet is clearly of first-order, confirming results from latest Monte Carlo simulation and from a nonperturbative renormalization group, putting an end to a long-standing controversial issue.

Maayan Moshe, C. W. Schneider, G. Bensky, R. G. Mints

We consider theoretically and numerically magnetic field dependencies of the maximum supercurrent across Josephson tunnel junctions with spatially alternating critical current density. We find that two flux-penetration fields and one-splinter-vortex equilibrium state exist in long junctions.

R. Govindaraj, R. Sielemann

In electron irradiated Ge$_{0.98}$Si$_{0.02}$, In-vacancy and In-interstitial complexes were observed in analogy with defects in pure Ge. Isochronal annealing measurements reveal that the temperature of dissociation of In-defect complexes deviate from pure Ge subjected to identical e-irradiation, which is explained on the basis of strain induced by undersize

A. Freise, A. Bunkowski, R. Schnabel

Diffraction gratings have been proposed as core optical elements in future laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we derive equations for the coupling between alignment noise and phase noise at diffraction gratings. In comparison to a standard reflective component (mirror or beam splitter) the diffractive nature of the gratings cau

V. Eisler, D. Karevski, T. Platini, I. Peschel

We study zero-temperature XX chains and transverse Ising chains and join an initially separate finite piece on one or on both sides to an infinite remainder. In both critical and non-critical systems we find a typical increase of the entanglement entropy after the quench, followed by a slow decay towards the value of the homogeneous chain. In the critical ca

Edward Anderson

I show how there is an ambiguity in how one treats auxiliary variables in gauge theories including general relativity cast as 3 + 1 geometrodynamics. Auxiliary variables may be treated pre-variationally as multiplier coordinates or as the velocities corresponding to cyclic coordinates. The latter treatment works through the physical meaninglessness of auxili

Andrew E. M. Lewis

We investigate issues surrounding an old question of Yates&#39; as to the existence of a minimal Turing degree with no strong minimal cover, specifically with respect to the hyperimmune-free degrees.

Yuji Kajiyama

In this talk, we investigate Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) tau decay by R-Parity Violating (RPV) operators controlled by a non-Abelian discrete $Q_6$ family symmetry. We assume that only a family symmetry determines the whole flavor structure of a model, and the model indicates specific predictions of LFV tau decay processes by RPV operators. We predict $BR(

Edward Anderson

This paper concerns relational first principles from which the Dirac procedure exhaustively picks out the geometrodynamics corresponding to general relativity as one of a handful of consistent theories. This was accompanied by a number of results and conjectures about matter theories and general features of physics -- such as gauge theory, the universal ligh

Hagen Neidhardt, Valentin A. Zagrebnov

The paper is devoted to the problem of existence of propagators for an abstract linear non-autonomous evolution Cauchy problem of hyperbolic type in separable Banach spaces. The problem is solved using the so-called evolution semigroup approach which reduces the existence problem for propagators to a perturbation problem of semigroup generators. The results

Guodong Liu, Guiling Wang, Yong Zhu, Hongbo Zhang

The design and performance of the first vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) laser-based angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) system are described. The VUV laser with a photon energy of 6.994 eV and bandwidth of 0.26 meV is achieved from the second harmonic generation using a novel non-linear optical crystal KBe2BO3F2 (KBBF). The new VUV laser-based ARPES system exhibi

Christer Sandin

Models describing dust-driven winds are important for understanding the physical mechanism and properties of mass loss on the asymptotic giant branch. These models are becoming increasingly realistic with more detailed physics included, but also more computationally demanding. The purpose of this study is to clarify to what extent the applied numerical appro

Frantisek Maca, Josef Kudrnovsky, Vaclav Drchal, Georges Bouzerar

We perform a theoretical study of the magnetism induced in transition metal dioxides ZrO2 and TiO2 by substitution of the cation by a vacancy or an impurity from the groups 1A or 2A of the periodic table, where the impurity is either K or Ca. In the present study both supercell and embedded cluster methods are used. It is demonstrated that the vacancy and th

P. Lenz, A. A. Pamyatnykh, M. Breger

The Petersen diagram is a frequently used tool to constrain model parameters such as metallicity of radial double-mode pulsators. In this diagram the period ratio of the radial first overtone to the fundamental mode, P_1/P_0, is plotted against the period of the fundamental mode. The period ratio is sensitive to the chemical composition as well as to the rot

N. Burq, F. Planchon

We prove that the defocusing quintic wave equation, with Neumann boundary conditions, is globally wellposed on $H^1_N(Ω) \times L^2(Ω)$ for any smooth (compact) domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. The proof relies on one hand on $L^p$ estimates for the spectral projector by Smith and Sogge, and on the other hand on a precise analysis of the boundary value proble

J. Wicht

We report searches for the radiative penguin decays Bs to phi gamma and Bs to gamma gamma based on a 23.6 fb-1 data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- energy-asymmetric collider operating at the Upsilon(5S) resonance.

Andrea Gabrielli, Michael Joyce

We study how the two-point density correlation properties of a point particle distribution are modified when each particle is divided, by a stochastic process, into an equal number of identical &#34;daughter&#34; particles. We consider generically that there may be non-trivial correlations in the displacement fields describing the positions of the different

Tanja Gernhard, Dennis Wong

We calculate the density and expectation for the number of lineages in a reconstructed tree with $n$ extant species. This is done with conditioning on the age of the tree as well as with assuming a uniform prior for the age of the tree.

Freddy Bouchet, Thierry Dauxois, David Mukamel, Stefano Ruffo

We study a generalized isotropic XY-model which includes both two-spin and four-spin mean-field interactions. This model can be solved in the microcanonical ensemble. It is shown that in certain parameter regions the model exhibits gaps in the magnetization at fixed energy, resulting in ergodicity breaking. This phenomenon has previously been reported in ani

M. J. Martinez Gonzalez, M. Collados, B. Ruiz Cobo, C. Beck

We study the contradictory magnetic field strength distributions retrieved from independent analyses of spectropolarimetric observations in the near-infrared (1.56 micron) and in the visible (630 nm) at internetwork regions. In order to solve this apparent controversy, we present simultaneous and co-spatial 1.56 micron and 630 nm observations of an internetw