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  1. Sławomir Dinew

    We prove uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem for the complex Monge-Ampère equation on compact Kähler manifolds in the case of measures vanishing on pluripolar sets. As a by-product we generalize Xing's stability theorem.

  2. Luca Capogna, Giovanna Citti, Maria Manfredini

    Minimal surfaces in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group can be constructed by means of a Riemannian approximation scheme, as limit of Riemannian minimal surfaces. We study the regularity of Lipschitz, non-characteristic minimal surfaces which arise as such limits. Our main results are a-priori estimates on the solutions of the approximating Riemannian PDE an

  3. M. Hennemann, S. M. Birkmann, O. Krause, D. Lemke

    Using the ISOPHOT Serendipity Survey (ISOSS) at 170um a sample of galactic star-forming regions exhibiting very cold dust temperatures (< 20 K) and high masses (> 100 M_sun) has been established. We characterise the star-forming content of five regions that were selected as potential sites for early stage high-mass star formation using SCUBA (JCMT) and Spitz

  4. Randall L. Cooper, Lars Bildsten

    We investigate the crystallization rate of a one-component plasma (OCP) in the context of classical nucleation theory. From our derivation of the free energy of an arbitrary distribution of solid clusters embedded in a liquid phase, we derive the steady-state nucleation rate of an OCP as a function of the Coulomb coupling parameter. Our result for the rate i

  5. Todd A. Thompson

    I consider the physics of gravitational instabilities in the presence of dynamically important radiation pressure and gray radiative diffusion, governed by a constant opacity, kappa. For any non-zero radiation diffusion rate on an optically-thick scale, the medium is unstable unless the classical gas-only isothermal Jeans criterion is satisfied. When diffusi

  6. John Watrous

    This article surveys quantum computational complexity, with a focus on three fundamental notions: polynomial-time quantum computations, the efficient verification of quantum proofs, and quantum interactive proof systems. Properties of quantum complexity classes based on these notions, such as BQP, QMA, and QIP, are presented. Other topics in quantum complexi

  7. A. G. Ramm

    A rigorous theory of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by small perfectly conducting particles is developed. The limiting case when the number of particles tends to infinity is discussed.

  8. A. G. Ramm

    A reduction of the Maxwell&#39;s system to a Fredholm second-kind integral equation with weakly singular kernel is given for electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by one and many small bodies. This equation is solved asymptotically as the characteristic size of the bodies tends to zero. The technique developed is used for solving the many-body EM wave scatter

  9. Mukremin Kilic, J. Farihi, Atsuko Nitta, S. K. Leggett

    Here, we present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of 15 helium atmosphere, metal-rich white dwarfs obtained at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. While a connection has been demonstrated between the most highly polluted, hydrogen atmosphere white dwarfs and the presence of warm circumstellar dust and gas, their frequency at the helium atmosphere v

  10. P. Arevalo, I. M. McHardy, D. P. Summons

    To investigate further the comparison between AGN and black hole X-ray binaries, we have studied the main X-ray variability properties of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy Markarian 335. We put particular emphasis on the X-ray time lags, which is a potentially important diagnostic of physical models. From a 100 ksec observation by XMM-Newton we show that the power spectr

  11. T. H. Troland, C. Heiles, A. P. Sarma, G. J. Ferland

    We present a summary of the conference &#34;The Cosmic Agitator: Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy&#34; held in Lexington KY in 2008 Mar 26-29. The presentation draws primarily from material in the slides prepared for the Conference Summary by one of us (Carl Heiles). Interested readers may navigate to the conference web site given in the paper to view the poste

  12. Jian-Xin Zhu, I. Martin, A. R. Bishop

    We study the interplay between the spin-liquid and Kondo physics, as related to the non-magnetic part of the phase diagram of heavy fermion materials. Within the unrestricted mean-field treatment of the infinite-$U$ 2D Anderson-Heisenberg model, we find that there are two topologically distinct non-degenerate uniform heavy Fermi liquid states that may form a

  13. Cesar I. Fuentes, Matthew J. Holman

    We present the results of a survey for trans-neptunian objects (TNOs) based on Subaru archival images, originally collected by Sheppard et al. (2005) as part of a search for irregular satellites of Uranus. The survey region covers 2.8 deg^2, centered on Uranus and observed near opposition on two adjacent nights. Our survey reaches half its maximum detection

  14. A. G. Ramm

    We prove that if $F$ is twice Frechet differentiable and coercivity conditions hold, then $F$ is surjective, i.e., the equation $F(u)=h$ is solvable for every $h\in H$. This is a basic result in the theory of monotone operators. Our aim is to give a simple and short proof of this result based on the Dynamical Systems Method (DSM), developed in the monograph

  15. William Lee, Stefano Sanvito

    The non equilibrium Green function formalism is today the standard computational method for describing elastic transport in molecular devices. This can be extended to include inelastic scattering by the so called self-consistent Born approximation (SCBA), where the interaction of the electrons with the vibrations of the molecule is assumed to be weak and it

  16. N. S. Hoang, A. G. Ramm

    An iterative scheme for solving ill-posed nonlinear operator equations with monotone operators is introduced and studied in this paper. A Dynamical Systems Method (DSM) algorithm for stable solution of ill-posed operator equations with monotone operators is proposed and its convergence is proved. A new discrepancy principle is proposed and justified. A prior

  17. S. Jabbari-Farouji, D. Mizuno, D. Derks, G. H. Wegdam

    We have investigated the validity of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) and the applicability of the concept of effective temperature in a number of non-equilibrium soft glassy materials. Using a combination of passive and active microrheology to measure displacement fluctuations and the mechanical response function of probe particles embedded in the

  18. M. Williams, M. Bellis, C. A. Meyer

    A common situation in experimental physics is to have a signal which can not be separated from a non-interfering background through the use of any cut. In this paper, we describe a procedure for determining, on an event-by-event basis, a quality factor (Q-factor) that a given event originated from the signal distribution. This Q-factor can then be used as an

  19. Uma Gorti, David Hollenbach

    We present self-consistent models of gas in optically-thick dusty disks and calculate its thermal, density and chemical structure. The models focus on an accurate treatment of the upper layers where line emission originates, and at radii $\gtrsim 0.7$ AU. We present results of disks around $\sim 1{\rm M}_{\odot}$ stars where we have varied dust properties, X

  20. Massimo Giovannini, Kerstin E. Kunze

    The high- and low-frequency descriptions of the pre-decoupling plasma are deduced from the Vlasov-Landau treatment generalized to curved space-times and in the presence of the relativistic fluctuations of the geometry. It is demonstrated that the interplay between one-fluid and two-fluid treatments is mandatory for a complete and reliable calculation of the

  21. Wei Liu, Scott C. Hsu, Hui Li, Shengtai Li

    Nonlinear ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the propagation and expansion of a magnetic &#34;bubble&#34; plasma into a lower density, weakly-magnetized background plasma are presented. These simulations mimic the geometry and parameters of the Plasma Bubble Expansion Experiment (PBEX) [A. G. Lynn, Y. Zhang, S. C. Hsu, H. Li, W. Liu, M. Gilmore,

  22. P. Casella, G. Ponti, A. Patruno, T. Belloni

    We describe a new method to estimate the mass of black holes in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs). The method is based on the recently discovered ``variability plane&#39;&#39;, populated by Galactic stellar-mass black-hole candidates (BHCs) and supermassive active galactic nuclei (AGNs), in the parameter space defined by the black-hole mass, accretion rate

  23. Michael Wehrstedt, Hans-Peter Gail

    The detection of significant concentrations of crystalline silicates in comets indicates an extensive radial mixing in the primordial solar nebula. In studying the radial transport of matter within protoplanetary disks by numerical model calculations it is essential to resolve the vertical disk structure since matter is mixed radially inward and outward by a

  24. Thomas M. Brown, Ed Smith, Henry C. Ferguson, Allen V. Sweigart

    Using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained deep far-ultraviolet images of the compact elliptical galaxy M32. When combined with earlier near-ultraviolet images of the same field, these data enable the construction of an ultraviolet color-magnitude diagram of the hot horizontal branch (HB) population and oth

  25. T. Kyle Petersen, Pavlo Pylyavskyy, Brendon Rhoades

    We show that Schützenberger&#39;s promotion on two and three row rectangular Young tableaux can be realized as cyclic rotation of certain planar graphs introduced by Kuperberg. Moreover, following work of the third author, we show that this action admits the cyclic sieving phenomenon.

  26. Mankei Tsang, Demetri Psaltis

    The problem of pattern formation in resonantly-enhanced near-field lithography by the use of dielectric or plasmonic planar resonators is investigated. Sub-diffraction-limited bright or dark spots can be produced by taking advantage of the rotational invariance of planar resonators. To increase the spatial bandwidth of the resonant enhancement, an array of c

  27. P. Cheinet, S. Trotzky, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger

    We report on the observation of an interaction blockade effect for ultracold atoms in optical lattices, analogous to Coulomb blockade observed in mesoscopic solid state systems. When the lattice sites are converted into biased double wells, we detect a discrete set of steps in the well population for increasing bias potentials. These correspond to tunneling

  28. Lian-Ao Wu, Dvira Segal

    By revisiting previous definitions of the heat current operator, we show that one can define a heat current operator that satisfies the continuity equation for a general Hamiltonian in one dimension. This expression is useful for studying electronic, phononic and photonic energy flow in linear systems and in hybrid structures. The definition allows us to ded

  29. M. J. Hardcastle, L. W. Looney

    We have observed a small sample of powerful double radio sources (radio galaxies and quasars) at frequencies around 90 GHz with the BIMA millimetre array, with the intention of constraining the resolved high-frequency spectra of radio galaxies. When combined with other sources we have previously observed and with data from the BIMA archive, these observation

  30. Radim Filip

    In a recent continuous-variable quantum memory experiment, one quadrature of light pulse is directly uploaded by the light-atom coupling whereas complementary quadrature is obtained by homodyne measurement of the out-coupled light. Subsequently, information from homodyne mea- surement is written into the memory by feed-back electro-optical control of the ato

  31. Martin Bojowald, Barbara Sandhoefer, Aureliano Skirzewski, Artur Tsobanjan

    An effective formalism for quantum constrained systems is presented which allows manageable derivations of solutions and observables, including a treatment of physical reality conditions without requiring full knowledge of the physical inner product. Instead of a state equation from a constraint operator, an infinite system of constraint functions on the qua

  32. Veit Schwämmle, Fernando D. Nobre, Constantino Tsallis

    The stability of $q$-Gaussian distributions as particular solutions of the linear diffusion equation and its generalized nonlinear form, $\pderiv{P(x,t)}{t} = D \pderiv{^2 [P(x,t)]^{2-q}}{x^2}$, the \emph{porous-medium equation}, is investigated through both numerical and analytical approaches. It is shown that an \emph{initial} $q$-Gaussian, characterized b

  33. Leonhard Mayrhofer, Milena Grifoni

    The low energy spectrum of finite size metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes SWNTs) is determined. Starting from a tight binding model for the $p_{z}$ electrons, we derive the low energy Hamiltonian containing all relevant scattering processes resulting from the Coulomb interaction, including the short ranged contributions becoming relevant for small diame

  34. J. Bass, A. Sharma, Z. Wei, M. Tsoi

    MacDonald and co-workers recently predicted that high current densities could affect the magnetic order of antiferromagnetic (AFM) multilayers, in ways similar to those that occur in ferromagnetic (F) multilayers, and that changes in AFM magnetic order can produce an antiferromagnetic Giant Magnetoresistance (AGMR). Four groups have now studied current-drive

  35. David Barnes

    The category of rational O(2)-equivariant spectra splits as a product of cyclic and dihedral parts. Using the classification of rational G-equivariant spectra for finite groups G, we classify the dihedral part of rational O(2)-equivariant spectra in terms of an algebraic model.

  36. Z. P. Yin, S. Lebègue, M. J. Han, B. Neal

    When either electron or hole doped at concentrations $x\sim 0.1$, the LaOFeAs family displays remarkably high temperature superconductivity with T$_c$ up to 55 K. In the most energetically stable $\vec Q_M = (π,π)$ antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase comprised of tetragonal-symmetry breaking alternating chains of aligned spins, there is a deep pseudogap in the Fe

  37. J. C. Bond, D. S. Lauretta, C. G. Tinney, R. P. Butler

    We present elemental abundances of 118 stars (28 of which are known extrasolar planetary host stars) observed as part of the Anglo-Australian Planet Search. Abundances of O, Mg, Cr, Y, Zr, Ba, Nd and Eu (along with previously published abundances for C and Si) are presented. This study is one of the first to specifically examine planetary host stars for the

  38. Inga Kuznetsova, Johann Rafelski

    Yields of Delta(1230), Sigma(1385) resonances produced in heavy ion collisions are studied within the framework of a kinetic master equation. The time evolution is driven by the process Delta(1230) \leftrightarrow N π, Sigma(1385) \leftrightarrow Λπ. We obtain resonance yield both below and above chemical equilibrium, depending on initial hadronization condi

  39. F. De Lorenzi, O. Gerhard, L. Coccato, M. Arnaboldi

    Recent results from the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (PN.S) survey have revealed a rapidly falling velocity dispersion profile in the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 3379, casting doubts on whether this intermediate-luminosity galaxy has the kind of dark matter halo expected in LambdaCDM cosmology. We present a detailed dynamical study of this galaxy, combinin

  40. Alexander Elgart

    Consider the 3D Anderson model with a zero mean and bounded i.i.d. random potential. Let $λ$ be the coupling constant measuring the strength of the disorder, and $σ(E)$ the self energy of the model at energy $E$. For any $ε>0$ and sufficiently small $λ$, we derive almost sure localization in the band $E \le -σ(0)-λ^{4-ε}$. In this energy region, we show that

  41. Jun&#39;ichi Sato, Masayuki Umemura, Keisuke Sawada

    We consider the effect of a supernova (SN) explosion in a very massive binary that is expected to form in a portion of Population III stars with the mass higher than 100$M_\odot$. In a Population III binary system, a more massive star can result in the formation of a BH and a surrounding accretion disc. Such BH accretion could be a significant source of the

  42. Alexander Smogunov, Andrea Dal Corso, Erio Tosatti

    Platinum monatomic nanowires were predicted to spontaneously develop magnetism, involving a sizable orbital moment via spin orbit coupling, and a colossal magnetic anisotropy. We present here a fully-relativistic (spin-orbit coupling included) pseudo-potential density functional calculation of electronic and magnetic properties, and of Landauer ballistic con

  43. W. J. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth, T. Toutain

    In a previous paper we suggested that, for a given p mode, the excitation function is the same as the component of the solar background noise that has an identical surface spherical harmonic projection (over the corresponding range of temporal frequency). An important consequence of this surmise is that the excitation of overtones of a given angular degree a

  44. Kun Tao, V. S. Stepanyuk, P. Bruno, D. I. Bazhanov

    The state of the art ab initio calculations reveal the effect of a scanning tunnelling microscopy tip on magnetic properties and conductance of a benzene-adatom sandwich on Cu(001). We concentrate on a benzene-Co system interacting with a Cr tip. Our studies give a clear evidence that magnetism and conductance in molecule-adatom junctions can be tailored by

  45. Jan A. Bergstra, Alban Ponse

    A meadow is a zero totalised field (0^{-1}=0), and a cancellation meadow is a meadow without proper zero divisors. In this paper we consider differential meadows, i.e., meadows equipped with differentiation operators. We give an equational axiomatization of these operators and thus obtain a finite basis for differential cancellation meadows. Using the Zarisk

  46. Olaf Szewczyk, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren, Jesper Storm

    We have obtained deep infrared $J$ and $K$ band observations of five fields located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) bar with the ESO New Technology Telescope equipped with the SOFI infrared camera. In our fields, 65 RR Lyrae stars catalogued by the OGLE collaboration were identified. Using different theoretical and empirical calibrations of the period-lu

  47. Ranojoy Bose, James F. McMillan, Jie Gao, Kelly M. Rickey

    We present the first time-resolved cryogenic observations of Forster energy transfer in large, monodisperse lead sulphide quantum dots with ground state transitions near 1.5 um (0.83 eV), in environments from 160 K to room temperature. The observed temperature-dependent dipole-dipole transfer rate occurs in the range of (30-50 ns)^(-1), measured with our con

  48. F. Campelo, A. Hernandez-Machado

    A mechanism of extraction of tubular membranes from a lipid vesicle is presented. A concentration gradient of anchoring amphiphilic polymers generates tubes from bud-like vesicle protrusions. We explain this mechanism in the framework of the Canham-Helfrich model. The energy profile is analytically calculated and a tube with a fixed length, corresponding to

  49. So-Young Baek, Stanislav S. Straupe, Alexander P. Shurupov, Sergei P. Kulik

    We report interferometric schemes to prepare arbitrary states of four-dimensional qudits (ququarts) based on biphoton states of ultrafast-pumped frequency-nondegenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Preparation and tomographic characterization of a few examples of general single-ququart states, a pure state, a completely mixed state, and a partiall

  50. Ashley J. Ross, Robert J. Brunner, Adam D. Myers

    We present a novel technique to measure $σ_8$, by measuring the dependence of the second-order bias of a density field on $σ_8$ using two separate techniques. Each technique employs area-averaged angular correlation functions ($\barω_N$), one relying on the shape of $\barω_2$, the other relying on the amplitude of $s_3$ ($s_3 =\barω_3/\barω_2^2$). We confirm

  51. A. Bonanni, A. Navarro-Quezada, Tian Li, M. Wegscheider

    The control on the distribution of magnetic ions into a semiconducting host is crucial for the functionality of magnetically doped semiconductors. Through a structural analysis at the nanoscale, we give experimental evidence that the aggregation of Fe ions in (Ga,Fe)N and consequently the magnetic response of the material are affected by growth rate and co-d

  52. G. Veneziano, J. Wosiek

    We analyze further a recently proposed S-matrix description of transplanckian scattering in the specific case of axisymmetric collisions of extended sources, where some of the original approximations are not necessary. We confirm the claim that such an approximate description appears to capture the essential features of (the quantum counterpart of) classical

  53. Erik Koch, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Olle Gunnarsson

    We analyze cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) and the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA). We derive exact sum-rules for the hybridization functions and give examples for DMFT, CDMFT, and DCA. For impurity solvers based on a Hamiltonian, these sum-rules can be used to monitor convergence of the bath-parametrization. We further discuss how the sym

  54. Avi Marchewka, Er&#39;el Granot

    A simple decay model is introduced. The model comprises of a point potential well, which experiences an abrupt change. Due to the temporal variation the initial quantum state can either escape from the well or stay localized as a new bound state. The model allows for an exact analytical solution while having the necessary features of a decay process. The res

  55. Ya. V. Pavlenko, A. Evans, T. Kerr, L. Yakovina

    The recurrent nova RS Oph undergoes nova eruptions every ~ 10-20years as a result of thermonuclear runaway on the surface of a white dwarf close to the Chandrasekhar limit. Both the progress of the eruption, and its aftermath, depend on the (poorly known) composition of the red giant in the RS Oph system. Our aim is to understand better the effect of the gia

  56. E. S. Kyoseva, N. V. Vitanov

    An exact analytic solution is presented for coherent resonant excitation of a two-state quantum system driven by a time-dependent pulsed external field with a hyperbolic-secant shape in the presence of dephasing. Analytic results are derived for the amplitude and the phase shift of the damped Rabi oscillations.

  57. E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma

    We investigate transport and Coulomb drag properties of semiconductor-based electron-hole bilayer systems. Our calculations are motivated by recent experiments in undoped electron-hole bilayer structures based on GaAs-AlGaAs gated double quantum well systems. Our results indicate that the background charged impurity scattering is the most dominant resistive

  58. Kasper Risager

    This thesis describes some of the recent (and some less recent) developments in calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. The focus is on on-shell recursion relations in complex momenta and on the use of unitarity methods for loop calculations. In particular, on-shell recursion is related to the MHV rules for computing tree-

  59. Katsuji Koyama, Yojiro Takikawa, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Tatsuya Inui

    The high energy resolution and low background, particularly in the hard X-ray band, of the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer onboard Suzaku provide excellent spectra of the Galactic center diffuse X-rays (GCDX). This paper reports on the results of spatially resolved spectroscopy of GCDX. The most pronounced features of GCDX are the K-shell transition lines from ne

  60. Dmitry B. Rokhlin

    We give a new proof of the Dalang-Morton-Willinger theorem, relating the no-arbitrage condition in stochastic securities market models to the existence of an equivalent martingale measure with bounded density for a $d$-dimensional stochastic sequence $(S_n)_{n=0}^N$ of stock prices. Roughly speaking, the proof is reduced to the assertion that under the no-ar

  61. Klaus Gottstein, Nele Matz

    It is the role of the scientific community to provide for the knowledge of scientific facts and technical capabilities as a background for political decision-making. The reasons are given why governments are sometimes not ready to accept well-founded advice. The legal relationship between governments and scientific research are considered. The options availa

  62. A. Borowiec, J. Lukierski, V. N. Tolstoy

    This paper together with the previous one (arXiv:hep-th/0604146) presents the detailed description of all quantum deformations of D=4 Lorentz algebra as Hopf algebra in terms of complex and real generators. We describe here in detail two quantum deformations of the D=4 Lorentz algebra o(3,1) obtained by twisting of the standard q-deformation U_{q}(o(3,1)). F

  63. S. Yu. Favorov, O. I. Udododva

    Suppose that an almost periodic in Besicovitch&#39;s sense function $f(x)$ of several variables is the restriction to the real hyperplane of an entire function of exponential type $b$. Then its spectrum is contained in the ball of radius $b$ with the center in the origin.

  64. Iddo Eliazar, Joseph Klafter

    The notion of fractality, in the context of positive-valued probability distributions, is conventionally associated with the class of Paretian probability laws. In this research we show that the Paretian class is merely one out of six classes of probability laws - all equally entitled to be ordained fractal, all possessing a characteristic power-law structur

  65. Sven van Teeffelen, Hartmut Löwen, Christos N. Likos

    We employ density functional theory to study in detail the crystallization of super-paramagnetic particles in two dimensions under the influence of an external magnetic field that lies perpendicular to the confining plane. The field induces non-fluctuating magnetic dipoles on the particles, resulting into an interparticle interaction that scales as the inver

  66. O. O. Brovko, P. A. Ignatiev, V. S. Stepanyuk, P. Bruno

    We present a novel approach to spin manipulation in atomic-scale nanostructures. Our ab initio calculations clearly demonstrate that it is possible to tune magnetic properties of sub-nanometer structures by adjusting the geometry of the system. By the example of two surface-based systems we demonstrate that (i) the magnetic moment of a single adatom coupled

  67. Matts Roos

    Explanations to the accelerated expansion of the Universe are usually sought either in modifications of Einstein gravity or in new forms of energy density. An example of modified gravity is the braneworld Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) model which is characterized by a length scale which marks the cross-over between physics occurring in our four-dimensional b

  68. V. G. Klochkova, E. L. Chentsov, V. E. Panchuk

    For the first time high-resolution optical spectroscopy of the variable star V2324Cyg associated with the IR-source IRAS20572+4919 is made. More than 200 absorption features (mostly FeII, TiII, CrII, YII, BaII, and YII) are identified within the wavelength interval 4549-7880AA. The spectral type and rotation velocity of the star are found to be F0III and Vsi

  69. Riccardo Franco

    In this article we consider an experimental study showing the influence of emotion regulation strategies on human memory performance: part of such experimental results are difficult to explain within a classic cognitive allocation model. We provide a first attempt to build a model of human memory processes based on a quantum algorithm, the Grover&#39;s algor

  70. Peter J. Forrester, Eric Nordenstam

    Our study is initiated by a multi-component particle system underlying the tiling of a half hexagon by three species of rhombi. In this particle system species $j$ consists of $\lfloor j/2 \rfloor$ particles which are interlaced with neigbouring species. The joint probability density function (PDF) for this particle system is obtained, and is shown in a suit

  71. E. Lima, J. M. Vargas, R. D. Zysler, H. R. Rechenberg

    We report unusual magnetic behavior in iron oxide hollow nanospheres of 9.3 $nm$ in diameter. The large fraction of atoms existing at the inner and outer surfaces gives rise to a high magnetic disorder. The overall magnetic behavior can be explained considering the coexistence of a soft superparamagnetic phase and a hard phase corresponding to the highly fru

  72. Rudolf Philippe Rohr

    Let $\Lie{g}$ be a simple complex Lie algebra and $\Lie{h}$ a Cartan subalgebra. In this article we explain how to obtain the principal basis of $\Lie{h}$ starting form a set of generators $\{p_1,...,p_r\}$,$r=\rank(\Lie{g})$, of the invariants polynomials $\Sgg$. For each invariant polynomial $p$, we define a $G$-equivariant map $Dp$ form $\Lie{g}$ to $\Lie

  73. Stefan Engblom, Lars Ferm, Andreas Hellander, Per Lötstedt

    Stochastic chemical systems with diffusion are modeled with a reaction-diffusion master equation. On a macroscopic level, the governing equation is a reaction-diffusion equation for the averages of the chemical species. On a mesoscopic level, the master equation for a well stirred chemical system is combined with Brownian motion in space to obtain the reacti

  74. V. Ahufinger, B. A. Malomed, G. Birkl, R. Corbalan

    We investigate collisions of solitons of the gap type, supported by a lattice potential in repulsive Bose-Einstein condensates, with an effective double-barrier potential that resembles a Fabry-Perot cavity. We identify conditions under which the trapping of the entire incident soliton in the cavity is possible. Collisions of the incident soliton with an ear

  75. Gamal Gergess Lamee Nashed

    We apply the energy-momentum tensor to calculate energy, momentum and angular-momentum of two different tetrad fields. This tensor is coordinate independent of the gravitational field established in the Hamiltonian structure of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR). The spacetime of these tetrad fields is the charged dilaton. Our results s

  76. Petre Dita

    The aim of the paper is to propose one paradigm change of CKM global fits on experimental data from electroweak sector. The change refers to using in fits the exact unitarity constraints expressed in terms of four invariant parameters, such as moduli of the CKM matrix, and to take into account an important set of the available experimental data. In the paper

  77. M. Zientara, D. Jakubczyk, K. Kolwas, M. Kolwas

    The evaporation coefficients of water in air and nitrogen were found as a function of temperature, by studying the evaporation of pure water droplet. The droplet was levitated in an electrodynamic trap placed in a climatic chamber maintaining atmospheric pressure. Droplet radius evolution and evaporation dynamics were studied with high precision by analyzing

  78. Gergely J. Szollosi, Imre Derenyi

    Conventional population genetics considers the evolution of a limited number of genotypes corresponding to phenotypes with different fitness. As model phenotypes, in particular RNA secondary structure, have become computationally tractable, however, it has become apparent that the context dependent effect of mutations and the many-to-one nature inherent in t

  79. Diana Dorobantu

    This paper studies an optimal stopping problem for Lévy processes. We give a justification of the form of the Snell envelope using standard results of optimal stopping. We also justify the convexity of the value function, and without a priori restriction to a particular class of stopping times, we deduce that the smallest optimal stopping time is necessarily

  80. Andras Czovek, Gergely J. Szollosi, Imre Derenyi

    Conventional kinesin is a motor protein, which is able to walk along a microtubule processively. The exact mechanism of the stepping motion and force generation of kinesin is still far from clear. In this paper we argue that neck linker docking is a crucial element of this mechanism, without which the experimentally observed dwell times of the steps could no

  81. M. Kobayashi, Y. Ishida, J. I. Hwang, G. S. Song

    The electronic structure of the Cr ions in the diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor Zn$_{1-x}$Cr$_x$Te ($x=0.03$ and 0.15) thin films has been investigated using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and photoemission spectroscopy (PES). Magnetic-field ($H$) and temperature ($T$) dependences of the Cr $2p$ XMCD spectra well correspond to the magnetization

  82. D. V. Senthilkumar, M. Lakshmanan, J. Kurths

    The notion of phase synchronization in time-delay systems, exhibiting highly non-phase-coherent attractors, has not been realized yet even though it has been well studied in chaotic dynamical systems without delay. We report the identification of phase synchronization in coupled nonidentical piece-wise linear and in coupled Mackey-Glass time-delay systems wi

  83. Santiago Fernández, Alex Graves, Juergen Schmidhuber

    We compare the performance of a recurrent neural network with the best results published so far on phoneme recognition in the TIMIT database. These published results have been obtained with a combination of classifiers. However, in this paper we apply a single recurrent neural network to the same task. Our recurrent neural network attains an error rate of 24

  84. Olivier Finkel

    We show that, from the topological point of view, 2-tape Büchi automata have the same accepting power as Turing machines equipped with a Büchi acceptance condition. The Borel and the Wadge hierarchies of the class RAT_omega of infinitary rational relations accepted by 2-tape Büchi automata are equal to the Borel and the Wadge hierarchies of omega-languages a

  85. Mingxing Luo, Sibo Zheng

    String instanton effects in Higgs physics are discussed through a type IIA model based on T^{6}/(Z^{2}\times Z^{&#39;2}) orentifold compactifaction. By inclusion of rigid E2-branes, the model exhibits a MSSM-like spectrum, as well as extra mu and quartic Higgs couplings. These extra couplings are induced via E2 instantons non-perturbatively. Setting the stri

  86. J. Sejnoha, M. Sejnoha, J. Zeman, J. Sykora

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  87. Rui Zhang

    This paper is concerned with dynamic resource allocation in a cellular wireless network with slow fading for support of data traffic having heterogeneous transmission delay requirements. The multiple-input single-output (MISO) fading broadcast channel (BC) is of interest where the base station (BS) employs multiple transmit antennas to realize simultaneous d

  88. Takao Yamazaki

    We formulate (and prove under a certain assumption) a conjecture relating the order of Somekawa&#39;s Milnor $K$-group attached to a torus $T$ and the value of the Artin $L$-function attached to the cocharacter group of $T$ (regarded as an Artin representation) at $s=-1$. The case $T=\G_m$ reduces to the classical Birch-Tate conjecture.

  89. Rui Zhang, Mehdi Mohseni, John M. Cioffi

    This paper is concerned with the fading MIMO-MAC with multiple receive antennas at the base station (BS) and multiple transmit antennas at each mobile terminal (MT). Two multiple-access techniques are considered for scheduling transmissions from each MT to the BS at the same frequency, which are space-division multiple-access (SDMA) and time-division multipl

  90. Ø. Langangen, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson, V. H. Hansteen

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  91. A. Nordio, C-F. Chiasserini, E. Viterbo

    We focus on a multidimensional field with uncorrelated spectrum, and study the quality of the reconstructed signal when the field samples are irregularly spaced and affected by independent and identically distributed noise. More specifically, we apply linear reconstruction techniques and take the mean square error (MSE) of the field estimate as a metric to e

  92. Gerard Ascensi, Joaquim Bruna

    We prove that the unique Gabor atom with analytical model space is the Gaussian function. We give an analogous result for the wavelet transform. For the general case we give a new approach to study the irregular Gabor and wavelet frames. We improve some results for Gabor atoms in the Feichtinger algebra, and for a special class of wavelets.

  93. Gerard Ascensi, Joaquim Bruna

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  94. K. Ichimoto, Y. Katsukawa, T. Tarbell, R. A. Shine

    On-orbit performance of the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard Hinode is described with some attentions on its unpredicted aspects. In general, SOT revealed an excellent performance and has been providing outstanding data. Some unexpected features exist, however, in behaviors of the focus position, throughput and structural stability. Most of them are reco

  95. M. Baldo, V. Palmisano

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  96. Jan Chwedeńczuk, Wojciech Wasilewski

    We investigate intensity of the parametric down conversion of ultrashort, ultraviolet pulse both in a low- and high-conversion regime. In the first regime, we develop a simple analytical expressions for the photon flux of the fluorescence. Numerical simulations using three-dimensional stochastic Wigner method provide results in the latter regime. We find tha

  97. Barry I. Graubard, Paul S. Levy, Gordon B. Willis

    Born January 11, 1921 in New York City, Monroe Sirken grew up in a suburb of Pasadena, California. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology at UCLA in 1946 and 1947, and a Ph.D. in 1950 in sociology with a minor in mathematics at the University of Washington in 1950 where Professor Z. W. Birnbaum was his mentor and thesis advisor. As a Post-Doctoral Fell

  98. Ronald Christensen, Wesley Johnson

    Seymour Geisser received his bachelor&#39;s degree in Mathematics from the City College of New York in 1950, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina in 1952 and 1955, respectively. He then held positions at the National Bureau of Standards and the National Institute of Mental Health until 1961. From 1961

  99. Sebastien G. R. Louis, W. J. Munro, T. P. Spiller, Kae Nemoto

    We provide a characterization and analysis of the effects of dissipation on oscillator assisted (qubus) quantum gates. The effects can be understood and minimized by looking at the dynamics of the signal coherence and its entanglement with the continuous variable probe. Adding loss in between successive interactions we obtain the effective quantum operations

  100. P. V. Dong, H. N. Long

    In this report the SU(3)_C X SU(3)_L X U(1)_X gauge model with minimal scalar sector, two Higgs triplets, is presented in detail. One of the vacuum expectation values $u$ is a source of lepton-number violations and a reason for mixing among charged gauge bosons--the standard model W^\pm and the bilepton gauge bosons Y^\pm as well as among the neutral non-Her