April 2008 arXiv papers — page 2

Margarida Mendes Lopes, Rita Pardini, Miles Reid

We prove that an etale cover Y of degree 8 of a Campedelli surface S is a complete intersection of four quadrics in P^6, obtaining as a consequence that Y is the universal cover of S, the covering group G=Gal(Y/S)is the topological fundamental group of S and that G cannot be the dihedral group of order 8. This paper patches up an incomplete manuscript of the

Hiroaki Kohyama

We construct the phase diagram of the chiral and diquark condensates at finite temperature and density in the 1+1 dimensional (2D) two flavor massless Gross Neveu model. The resultant phase diagram shows (I) the chiral condensed phase at low temperature and density, (II) the diquark condensed phase at low temperature and high density, and (III) the chiral an

Anudeep Kanwar, Luc Simard, David Schade, Stephen D. J. Gwyn

The formation and growth of galaxy disks over cosmic time is crucial to our understanding of galaxy formation. Despite steady improvements in the size and quality of disk samples over the last decade, many aspects of galaxy disk evolution remain unclear. Using two square degrees of deep, wide-field i'-band imaging from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Emmanuel Monfrini, Yann Guermeur

Using a support vector machine requires to set two types of hyperparameters: the soft margin parameter C and the parameters of the kernel. To perform this model selection task, the method of choice is cross-validation. Its leave-one-out variant is known to produce an estimator of the generalization error which is almost unbiased. Its major drawback rests in

David Covert, Derrick Hart, Alex Iosevich, Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero

We prove that if the cardinality of a subset of the 2-dimensional vector space over a finite field with $q$ elements is $\ge ρq^2$, with $\frac{1}{\sqrt{q}}<<ρ\leq 1$, then it contains an isometric copy of $\ge cρq^3$ triangles.

Cyrille Marquet

Measuring correlations between forward dijets in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC will further test the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) picture of the nuclear wavefunction at small-x, which successfully predicted the suppressed production of high-p_T particles at forward rapidities in d+Au collisions: R_dA<1. I present predictions for the correlation in azimuth

Murray Peshkin

It has been suggested that the temporal oscillations in the rate of decay of Pr ions reported in the GSI K-capture experiment arise from interference between different values of the momentum of the Pr ions. It is shown here that any such interference cannot contribute to the decay rate of those ions.

Yuri Shtanov, Alexander Viznyuk, Luis Norberto Granda

We derive a system of cosmological equations for a braneworld with induced curvature which is a junction between several bulk spaces. The permutation symmetry of the bulk spaces is not imposed, and the values of the fundamental constants, and even the signatures of the extra dimension, may be different on different sides of the brane. We then consider the us

D. A. Bagrets, I. V. Gornyi, A. D. Mirlin, D. G. Polyakov

The Luttinger liquid model, which describes interacting electrons in a single-channel quantum wire, is completely integrable in the absence of disorder and as such does not exhibit any relaxation to equilibrium. We consider relaxation processes induced by inelastic electron-electron interactions in a disordered Luttinger liquid, focusing on the equilibration

Alexander High, Aaron Hammack, Leonid Butov, Leonidas Mouchliadis

We introduced an elevated trap technique and exploited it for lowering the effective temperature of indirect excitons. We observed narrow photoluminescence lines which correspond to the emission of individual states of indirect excitons in a disorder potential. We studied the effect of exciton-exciton interaction on the localized and delocalized exciton stat

C. Owen, F. Biocca, C. Bohil, J. Conley

SimDialog is a visual editor for dialog in computer games. This paper presents the design of SimDialog, illustrating how script writers and non-programmers can easily create dialog for video games with complex branching structures and dynamic response characteristics. The system creates dialog as a directed graph. This allows for play using the dialog with a

Vicky Choi

We show that the NP-hard quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem on a graph $G$ can be solved using an adiabatic quantum computer that implements an Ising spin-1/2 Hamiltonian, by reduction through minor-embedding of $G$ in the quantum hardware graph $U$. There are two components to this reduction: embedding and parameter setting. The embe

Michael Robinson

This dissertation describes the space of heteroclinic orbits for a class of semilinear parabolic equations, focusing primarily on the case where the nonlinearity is a second degree polynomial with variable coefficients. Along the way, a new and elementary proof of existence and uniqueness of solutions is given. Heteroclinic orbits are shown to be characteriz

Abul K. Azad, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J. Taylor, Elshan Akhadov

We characterize planar electric terahertz metamaterials fabricated on thin, flexible substrates using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. Quasi-three-dimensional metamaterials are formed by stacking multiple metamaterial layers. Transmission measurements reveal resonant band-stop behavior that becomes stronger with an increasing number of layers. Extracted m

S. R. Nelatury, J. A. Polo, A. Lakhtakia

The propagation of Dyakonov surface waves (DSWs) at the planar interface between an isotropic material and a linear electro-optic birefringent material can be dynamically controlled using the Pockels effect. The range of directions for DSW propagation has been previously found to be rather narrow. By careful choice of various parameters, this range of direct

Felipe Canoura Fernandez

In this Ph. D. Thesis we concentrate on the study of the extension of the AdS/CFT correspondence to theories with less supersymmetry. In particular, we search for the possibility of adding supersymmetric D-branes in type IIB supergravity solutions which are dual to N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions. In the probe approximation we perform a

V. Ossenkopf, M. Krips, J. Stutzki

The Delta-variance analysis is an efficient tool for measuring the structural scaling behaviour of interstellar turbulence in astronomical maps. In paper I we proposed essential improvements to the Delta-variance analysis. In this paper we apply the improved Delta-variance analysis to i) a hydrodynamic turbulence simulation with prominent density and velocit

Ricardo G. Durán, Fernando López García

If $Ω\subset\R^n$ is a bounded domain, the existence of solutions ${\bf u}\in H^1_0(Ω)^n$ of ${div} {\bf u} = f$ for $f\in L^2(Ω)$ with vanishing mean value, is a basic result in the analysis of the Stokes equations. In particular it allows to show the existence of a solution $({\bf u},p)\in H^1_0(Ω)^n\times L^2(Ω)$, where ${\bf u}$ is the velocity and $p$ t

Stefan Maubach, Pierre-Marie Poloni

A polynomial automorphism $F$ is called {\em shifted linearizable} if there exists a linear map $L$ such that $LF$ is linearizable. We prove that the Nagata automorphism $N:=(X-YΔ-ZΔ^2,Y+ZΔ, Z)$ where $Δ=XZ+Y^2$ is shifted linearizable. More precisely, defining $L_{(a,b,c)}$ as the diagonal linear map having $a,b,c$ on its diagonal, we prove that if $ac=b^2$

A. Ferraro, D. Cavalcanti, A. Garcia-Saez, A. Acin

Does bound entanglement naturally appear in quantum many-body systems? We address this question by showing the existence of bound-entangled thermal states for harmonic oscillator systems consisting of an arbitrary number of particles. By explicit calculations of the negativity for different partitions, we find a range of temperatures for which no entanglemen

Lalitha Sankar, Elza Erkip, H. Vincent Poor

The problem of resource allocation is studied for two-sender two-receiver fading Gaussian interference channels (IFCs) and compound multiaccess channels (C-MACs). The senders in an IFC communicate with their own receiver (unicast) while those in a C-MAC communicate with both receivers (multicast). The instantaneous fading state between every transmit-receive

Fabricio Benevenuto, Fernando Duarte, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida

Video sharing sites, such as YouTube, use video responses to enhance the social interactions among their users. The video response feature allows users to interact and converse through video, by creating a video sequence that begins with an opening video and followed by video responses from other users. Our characterization is over 3.4 million videos and 400

S. Patsourakos, E. Pariat, A. Vourlidas, S. K. Antiochos

We report on the first stereoscopic observations of polar coronal jets made by the EUVI/SECCHI imagers on board the twin STEREO spacecraft. The significantly separated viewpoints ($\sim$ 11$^\circ$) allowed us to infer the 3D dynamics and morphology of a well-defined EUV coronal jet for the first time. Triangulations of the jet&#39;s location in simultaneous

Mahmoud Abdel-Aty

We analyze a controllable generation of maximally entangled mixed states of a circuit containing two-coupled superconducting charge qubits. Each qubit is based on a Cooper pair box connected to a reservoir electrode through a Josephson junction. Illustrative variational calculations were performed to demonstrate the effect on the two-qubits entanglement. At

Madeleine Jotz, Karl-Hermann Neeb

In this note we show that for any proper action of a Banach--Lie group $G$ on a Banach manifold $M$, the corresponding tangent maps $\g \to T_x(M)$ have closed range for each $x \in M$, i.e., the tangent spaces of the orbits are closed. As a consequence, for each free proper action on a Hilbert manifold, the quotient $M/G$ carries a natural manifold structur

Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Sandhya Choubey, Srubabati Goswami, S. T. Petcov

We do a re-analysis to asses the impact of the results of the Borexino experiment and the recent 2.8 KTy KamLAND data on the solar neutrino oscillation parameters. The current Borexino results are found to have no impact on the allowed solar neutrino parameter space. The new KamLAND data causes a significant reduction of the allowed range of $Δm^2_{21}$, det

Alexandru Buium, Santiago R. Simanca

We classify ``arithmetic convection equations&#39;&#39; on modular curves, and describe their space of solutions. Certain of these solutions involve the Fourier expansions of the Eisenstein modular forms of weight 4 and 6, while others involve the Serre-Tate expansions of the same modular forms; in this sense, our arithmetic convection equations can be seen

B. Georges, J. Grollier, V. Cros, A. Fert

Spin Transfer Nano-Oscillators (STNOs) are good candidates for applications to telecommunications, but their output power is very low, under the nW. A possible solution to overcome this problem is to synchronize an assembly of STNOs. For manufacturing purposes, large number of STNOs will have to be electrically connected. In this letter, we study analyticall

C. C. T. Pringle, Y. Duguet, R. R. Kerswell

The recent theoretical discovery of finite-amplitude travelling waves in pipe flow has re-ignited interest in the transitional phenomena that Osborne Reynolds studied 125 years ago. Despite all being unstable, these waves are providing fresh insight into the flow dynamics. Here we describe two new classes of highly-symmetric travelling waves (possessing rota

A. S. Kingsep, Yu. A. Fridman

We obtain an expression for the energy of the density wave propagating in a multicomponent gravitating medium in the form well known from electrodynamics. Using the above, the possibility of &#34;triple production&#34; of the quasi-particles, or waves, with their energies summing up to zero, in a non-equilibrium medium is demonstrated. That kind of resonance

L. C. Davis

Two diversion schemes that apportion demand between two on-ramps to reduce congestion and improve throughput on a freeway are analyzed. In the first scheme, drivers choose to merge or to divert to a downstream on-ramp based on information about average travel times for the two routes: (1) merge and travel on the freeway or (2) divert and travel on a surface

N. P. Landsman

We clarify the role of the Born rule in the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics by deriving it from Bohr&#39;s doctrine of classical concepts, translated into the following mathematical statement: a quantum system described by a noncommutative C*-algebra of observables is empirically accessible only through associated commutative C*-algebras. The

Daniel Král&#39;, Oriol Serra, Lluís Vena

Green [Geometric and Functional Analysis 15 (2005), 340--376] established a version of the Szemerédi Regularity Lemma for abelian groups and derived the Removal Lemma for abelian groups as its corollary. We provide another proof of his Removal Lemma that allows us to extend its statement to all finite groups. We also discuss possible extensions of the Remova

Mikhail Lemeshko, Bretislav Friedrich

We examine the effects of a linearly polarized nonresonant radiative field on the dynamics of rotationally inelastic $\text{Na}^{+} + \text{N}_2$ collisions at eV collision energies. Our treatment is based on the Fraunhofer model of matter wave scattering and its recent extension to collisions in electric fields [arXiv:0804.3318v1]. The nonresonant radiative

Nicolo&#39; Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Sandro Giacomini, Fabio Sciarrino

We present the realization of a ultra fast shutter for optical fields, which allows to preserve a generic polarization state, based on a self-stabilized interferometer. It exhibits high (or low) transmittivity when turned on (or inactive), while the fidelity of the polarization state is high. The shutter is realized through two beam displacing prisms and a l

I. Jaegle, T. Mertens, A. V. Anisovich, J. C. S. Bacelar

Quasi-free photoproduction of eta-mesons off nucleons bound in the deuteron has been measured with the CBELSA/TAPS detector for incident photon energies up to 2.5 GeV at the Bonn ELSA accelerator. The eta-mesons have been detected in coincidence with recoil protons and recoil neutrons, which allows a detailed comparison of the quasi-free n(gamma,eta)n and p(

S. Serrano-Guisan, K. Rott, G. Reiss, J. Langer

We explore the fundamental time limit of ultra fast spin torque induced magnetization reversal of a magnetic memory cell. Spin torque precession during a spin torque current pulse and free precessional magnetization ringing after spin torque pulse excitation is detected by time resolved magneto transport. Adapting the duration of the spin torque excitation p

M. Neek-Amal, G. Tayebirad, M. Molayem, M. E. Foulaadvand

Ground state energies for confined hydrogen (H) and helium (He) atoms, inside a penetrable/impenetrable compartment have been calculated using Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method. Specifically, we have investigated spherical and ellipsoidal encompassing compartments of a few nanometer size. The potential is held fixed at a constant value on the surface of the

Renaud Papoular

Silicon carbide, a refractory material, condenses near the photospheres of C-rich AGB stars, giving rise to a conspicuous emission feature at 11.3 mu. In the presence of a stellar wind, the SiC grains are carried outwards to colder regions, where less refractory carbonaceous material can condense, either by itself or in mantles upon SiC grains. Enough carbon

Fredrik Strömberg

In this paper, a heuristic method to compute the Selberg zeta function for Hecke triangle groups, $G_q$ ($q>=3$) is described. The algorithm is based on the transfer operator method and an overview of the relevant background is given. We give numerical support for the claim that the method works and can be used to compute the Selberg Zeta function for $G_q$

Felipe Canoura

We study the stringy description of N=1 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory on R^{1,2}xS^1. Our description is based on the known Maldacena-Nunez solution, properly modified to account for the compact dimension. The most interesting of its properties is that extra BPS M-branes are present, which generate a non-perturbative superpotential that we explicitly com

Norbert Nemec, Klaus Richter, Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We study transport length scales in carbon nanotubes and graphene ribbons under the influence of Anderson disorder. We present generalized analytical expressions for the density of states, the elastic mean free path and the localization length in arbitrarily structured quantum wires. These allow us to analyze the electrical response over the full energy rang

N. T. Bagraev, N. G. Galkin, W. Gehlhoff, L. E. Klyachkin

We present the findings of the 0.7(2e2/h) feature in the hole quantum conductance staircase that is caused by silicon one-dimensional channels prepared by the split-gate method inside the p-type silicon quantum well (SQW) on the n-type Si (100) surface. Firstly, the interplay of the spin depolarisation with the evolution of the 0.7(2e2/h) feature from the e2

P. M. W. Kalberla, L. Dedes

Aims: We derive the 3-D HI volume density distribution for the Galactic disk out to R = 60 kpc. Methods: Our analysis is based on parameters for the warp and rotation curve derived previously. The data are taken from the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn all sky 21-cm line survey. Results: The Milky Way HI disk is significantly warped but shows a coherent structure out

Yaping Dan, Stephane Evoy, A. T. Charlie Johnson

Chemical gas sensors based on nanowires can find a wide range of applications in clinical assaying, environmental emission control, explosive detection, agricultural storage and shipping, and workplace hazard monitoring. Sensors in the forms of nanowires are expected to have significantly enhanced performance due to high surface-volume ratio and quasi-one-di

Claudio Giannetti, Giacomo Coslovich, Federico Cilento, Gabriele Ferrini

Photoinduced phase transitions from insulating to metallic states, accompanied by structural re-arrangements, have been recently reported in complex transition-metal oxides. However, the optical control of a purely electronic phase transition, where the thermodynamic phase is determined by the distribution of excitations, has remained elusive. Here we report

R. M. Albuquerque, M. Nielsen

We use QCD sum rules to test the nature of the recently observed mesons Y(4260), Y(4350) and Y(4660), assumed to be exotic four-quark $(c\bar{c}q\bar{q})$ or $(c\bar{c}s\bar{s})$ states with $J^{PC}=1^{--}$. We work at leading order in $α_s$, consider the contributions of higher dimension condensates and keep terms which are linear in the strange quark mass

C. A. K. Robinson, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Anand S. Sengupta

Data from a network of gravitational wave detectors can be analyzed in coincidence to increase detection confidence and reduce non-stationarity of the background. We propose and explore a geometric algorithm to combine the data from a network of detectors. The algorithm makes optimal use of the variances and covariances that exist amongst the different param

Patrik Floréen, Marja Hassinen, Petteri Kaski, Jukka Suomela

In a bipartite max-min LP, we are given a bipartite graph $\myG = (V \cup I \cup K, E)$, where each agent $v \in V$ is adjacent to exactly one constraint $i \in I$ and exactly one objective $k \in K$. Each agent $v$ controls a variable $x_v$. For each $i \in I$ we have a nonnegative linear constraint on the variables of adjacent agents. For each $k \in K$ we

Dimitrios Cheliotis, Balint Virag

We consider random walk on a mildly random environment on finite transitive d- regular graphs of increasing girth. After scaling and centering, the analytic spectrum of the transition matrix converges in distribution to a Gaussian noise. An interesting phenomenon occurs at d = 2: as the limit graph changes from a regular tree to the integers, the noise becom

Carsten Müller, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel

Positronium decay into a muon-antimuon pair by virtue of the interaction with a superintense laser field of linear polarization is considered. The minimum laser intensity required amounts to a few 10^22 W/cm^2 in the near-infrared frequency range. Within the framework of laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics, the total reaction rate is calculated and related

Chao Zhang, Yanling Li, Xiaojia Chen, Ruiqin Zhang

We study the electronic and lattice dynamical properties of compressed solid germane in the pressure range up to 200 GPa with density functional theory. A stable metallic structure, Aba2, with a base-centered orthorhombic symmetry was found to be the lowest enthalpy phase for pressure from 23 to 177 GPa, suggesting an insulator to metal phase transition arou

X. Huang, E. Szirmai, F. Gebhard, J. Sólyom

We investigate the half-filled Hubbard chain with additional nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor spin exchange, J1 and J2, using bosonization and the density-matrix renormalization group. For J2 = 0 we find a spin-density-wave phase for all positive values of the Hubbard interaction U and the Heisenberg exchange J1. A frustrating spin exchange J2 induces a bo

Pierre Courrieu

Many neural learning algorithms require to solve large least square systems in order to obtain synaptic weights. Moore-Penrose inverse matrices allow for solving such systems, even with rank deficiency, and they provide minimum-norm vectors of synaptic weights, which contribute to the regularization of the input-output mapping. It is thus of interest to deve

Pierre Courrieu

The solving of least square systems is a useful operation in neurocomputational modeling of learning, pattern matching, and pattern recognition. In these last two cases, the solution must be obtained on-line, thus the time required to solve a system in a plausible neural architecture is critical. This paper presents a recurrent network of Sigma-Pi neurons, w

Joseph I. Kapusta

The possibility that experiments at high-energy accelerators could create new forms of matter that would ultimately destroy the Earth has been considered several times in the past quarter century. One consequence of the earliest of these disaster scenarios was that the authors of a 1993 article in &#34;Physics Today&#34; who reviewed the experiments that had

V. Sterr, R. Krauss, K. I. Morozov, I. Rehberg

We report on the controlled transport of drops of magnetic liquid, which are swimming on top of a non-magnetic liquid layer. A magnetic field which is rotating in a vertical plane creates a torque on the drop. Due to surface stresses within the immiscible liquid beneath, the drop is propelled forward. We measure the drop speed for different field amplitudes,

Leonhard Euler

This is an English translation of Euler&#39;s article &#34;Principia motus fluidorum&#34; in which the Euler equation (in two three dimensions) has been established for the first time in 1752. The actual publication has been delayed by nine years. Finally, this article has been published in 1761 in Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae.

Writambhara Chakraborty, Ujjal Debnath

Recently tachyonic field has been depicted as dark energy model to represent the present acceleration of the Universe. In this paper we have considered mixture of tachyonic fluid with a perfect fluid. For this purpose we have considered barotropic fluid and Generalized Chaplygin gas(G.C.G.). We have considered a particular form of the scale factor. We have s

Luca Motto Ros

We show that if $\mathcal{F}$ is any &#34;well-behaved&#34; subset of the Borel functions and we assume the Axiom of Determinacy then the hierarchy of degrees on $\pow(\mathbb{R})$ induced by $\mathcal{F}$ turns out to look like the Wadge hierarchy (which is the special case where $\mathcal{F}$ is the set of continuous functions).

Carl Bracken, Eimear Byrne, Nadya Markin, Gary McGuire

We present two infinite families of APN functions where the degree of the field is divisible by 3 but not 9. Our families contain two already known families as special cases. We also discuss the inequivalence proof (by computation) which shows that these functions are new.

Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Mark Brodwin, Anthony H. Gonzalez, S. Adam Stanford

We have identified 335 galaxy cluster and group candidates, 106 of which are at z > 1, using a 4.5 um selected sample of objects from a 7.25 deg^2 region in the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Shallow Survey. Clusters were identified as 3-dimensional overdensities using a wavelet algorithm, based on photometric redshift probability distributions derived

Dong Pyo Chi, Jeong Woon Choi, Jeong San Kim, Taewan Kim

In this work, we investigate what kinds of quantum states are feasible to perform perfectly secure secret sharing, and present its necessary and sufficient conditions. We also show that the states are bipartite distillable for all bipartite splits, and hence the states could be distillable into the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state. We finally exhibit a clas

Mohsen Asgharzadeh, Massoud Tousi

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring. The notion of regular sequences with respect to a Serre class of $R$-modules is introduced and some of their essential properties are given. Then in the local case, we explore a theory of Cohen-Macaulayness with respect to Serre classes.

Z. Salman, K. H. Chow, R. I. Miller, A. Morello

The magnetic properties of a monolayer of Mn12 single molecule magnets grafted onto a Si substrate have been investigated using depth-controlled $β$-detected nuclear magnetic resonance. A low energy beam of spin polarized radioactive 8Li was used to probe the local static magnetic field distribution near the Mn12 monolayer in the Si substrate. The resonance

H. Sato, N. Sawado

SU(3) collective coordinate quantization to the regular solution of the B=2 axially symmetric Einstein-Skyrme system is performed. For the symmetry breaking term, a perturbative treatment as well as the exact diagonalization method called Yabu-Ando approach are used. The effect of the gravity on the mass spectra of the SU(3) dibaryons and the symmetry breaki

F. A. Hashmi, M. A. Bouchene

We present the theory of a new method to slow a linearly polarized probe pulse as it propagates through a duplicated two-level system driven by an orthogonally polarized control field. The method makes use of Zeeman coherence oscillations (CZO) that arise in the atomic system because of the spatial and temporal modulation of the total polarization. This meth

F. Senziani, G. K. Skinner, P. Jean, M. Hernanz

Classical novae are expected to emit gamma rays during their explosions. The most important contribution to the early gamma-ray emission comes from the annihilation with electrons of the positrons generated by the decay of 13N and 18F. The photons are expected to be down-scattered to a few tens of keV, and the emission is predicted to occur some days before

Damian Heard, Craig Hodgson, Bruno Martelli, Carlo Petronio

In this paper we enumerate and classify the ``simplest&#39;&#39; pairs (M,G) where M is a closed orientable 3-manifold and G is a trivalent graph embedded in M. To enumerate the pairs we use a variation of Matveev&#39;s definition of complexity for 3-manifolds, and we consider only (0,1,2)-irreducible pairs, namely pairs (M,G) such that any 2-sphere in M int

Masatoshi Sato

In this paper, we determine the abelianization of the level d mapping class group for d=2 and odd d. We also extend the homomorphism of the Torelli group defined by Heap to a homomorphism of the level 2 mapping class group.

Tatjana Gericke, Peter Würtz, Daniel Reitz, Tim Langen

Our knowledge on ultracold quantum gases is strongly influenced by our ability to probe these objects. In situ imaging combined with single atom sensitivity is an especially appealing scenario as it can provide direct information on the structure and the correlations of such systems. For a precise characterization a high spatial resolution is mandatory. In p

R. Cleyton, J. Lauret, Y. S. Poon

The existence of a flat torsion-free connection, or left symmetric algebra structure on a Lie algebra g gives rise to a canonically defined complex structure on g+g and a symplectic structure on g+g^*. We verify that the associated differential Gerstenhaber algebras controlling the deformation theories of the complex and symplectic form are isomorphic. This

W. T. Lin, B. Piette

We study the vibration modes of the Skyrme model within the rational map ansatz. We show that the vibrations of the radial profiles and the rational maps are decoupled and we consider explicitly the case B=1, B=2 and B=4. We then compare our results with the vibration modes obtained numerically by Barnes et al. and show that qualitatively the rational map re

Narciso Roman-Roy, Modesto Salgado, Silvia Vilarino

For k-symplectic Hamiltonian field theories, we study infinitesimal transformations generated by certain kinds of vector fields which are not Noether symmetries, but which allow us to obtain conservation laws by means of a suitable generalization of the Noether theorem.

J. Fernando Barbero G., Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

We introduce, in a systematic way, a set of generating functions that solve all the different combinatorial problems that crop up in the study of black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity. Specifically we give generating functions for: The different sources of degeneracy related to the spectrum of the area operator, the solutions to the projection constrain

P. Castelo Ferreira, J. Dias de Deus

The effects of pions for vacuum polarization in background magnetic fields are considered. The effects of quark condensates is also briefly addresses. Although these effects are out of the measurement accuracy of laboratory experiments they may be relevant for gamma-ray burst propagation. In particular, for emissions from the center of the galaxy, we show th

G. L. Alberghi, A. Y. Kamenshchik, A. Tronconi, G. P. Vacca

The conditions for the cancellation of one loop contributions to vacuum energy (both U.V. divergent and finite) coming from the Standard Model (SM) fields are examined. It is proven that this is not possible unless one introduces besides several bosons, at least one massive fermion having mass within specific ranges. On examining one of the simplest SM exten

S. Soubeyrand, F. Carpentier, N. Desassis, J. Chadœuf

In order to estimate model parameters and circumvent possible difficulties encountered with the likelihood function, we propose to replace the likelihood in the formula of the posterior distribution by a function depending on a contrast. The properties of the contrast-based (CB) posterior distribution and MAP estimator are studied to understand what the cons

Peter Renton

The central value and theoretical uncertainties on the cross section ratio sigma_W/sigma_Z at the Tevatron are evaluated using the NNLO calculations and the latest MSTW PDFs. The partial width, total width and branching ratios of the W boson in the Standard Model, in the light of the latest electroweak calculations, are also updated.

Weidong Xu, Jia Wang, Jun Sun

In 1998, Zhang and Yeung found the first unconditional non-Shannon-type information inequality. Recently, Dougherty, Freiling and Zeger gave six new unconditional non-Shannon-type information inequalities. This work generalizes their work and provides a method to systematically derive non-Shannon-type information inequalities. An application of this method r

C. S. an, D. O. Riska

There is a natural cancellation between the contributions of the $qqq$ and $qqqq\bar q$ components to the axial charge of the N(1535) resonance. While the probability of the former is larger than that of the latter, its coefficient in the axial charge expression is exceptionally small. The magnitude of two of the corresponding coefficients of the $qqqq\bar q

V. V. Mazurenko, S. L. Skornyakov, V. I. Anisimov, F. Mila

We report on a first-principles investigation of the electronic structure and of the magnetic properties of the quasi-two-dimensional Mott insulator SrCu$_{2}$(BO$_{3}$)$_{2}$. Based on the hopping integrals and Coulomb interactions calculated with LDA and LSDA+U, we provide a microscopic explanation of the symmetric Heisenberg and antisymmetric Dzyaloshinsk

I. Lizuain, S. V. Mousavi, D. Seidel, J. G. Muga

We study the effect of quantum motion in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer where ultracold, two-level atoms cross a $π/2 $-$π$-$π/2$ configuration of separated, laser illuminated regions. Explicit and exact expressions are obtained for transmission amplitudes of monochromatic, incident atomic waves using recurrence relations which take into account all possible

Y. C. Lin, Y. L. Wang, Y. Liu, T. M. Hong

A pressure chamber is designed to study the crumpling process under an ambient force. The compression force and its resulting radius for the ball obey a power law with an exponent that is independent of the thickness and initial size of the sheet. However, the exponent is found to be material-dependent and less than the universal value, 0.25, claimed by the

Orr Shalit

We study the connection between conjugations of a special kind of dynamical systems, called P-configurations, and solutions to homogeneous Cauchy type functional equations. We find that any two regular P-configurations are conjugate by a homeomorphism, but cannot be conjugate by a diffeomorphism. This leads us to the following conclusion (resolving an open p

Yasuhiro Hatsugai, Takahiro Fukui, Hideo Aoki

We point out that the zero-energy Landau level of Dirac fermions in graphene can be, in the presence of a repulsive electron-electron interaction, split into two (levels) associated with a &#34;bond ordering&#34; formation having a &#34;Kekule pattern&#34;, which respects the chiral symmetry. Since the Kekule pattern has a three-fold degeneracy, domain struc

C. Martin-Zaidi, M. Deleuil, J. Le Bourlot, J. -C. Bouret

We observed molecular hydrogen around a sample of pre-main sequence stars in order to better characterize their gaseous CS environments. We analyzed the FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) spectra of a sample of Herbig Ae/Be stars (HAeBes) covering a broad spectral range, including the main-sequence A5 star Beta-Pictoris. To better diagnose the ori

Rifki Muhida, Riza Muhida, Wilson A. Dino, Hiroshi Nakanishi

We present here a novel, cost-effective method for increasing and controlling the ortho para H2 (o p H2) conversion yield. First, we invoke two processes derived from fundamental, surface science insights, based on the effect of molecular orientation on the hydrogen solid surface reaction, i.e., dynamical quantum filtering and steering, and apply them to enh

A. K. Bhattacharjee, Gautam I. Menon, R. Adhikari

We propose an efficient numerical scheme, based on the method of lines, for solving the Landau-de Gennes equations describing the relaxational dynamics of nematic liquid crystals. Our method is computationally easy to implement, balancing requirements of efficiency and accuracy. We benchmark our method through the study of the following problems: the isotrop

Hardian Reza Dharmayanda, Taesam Kang, Young Jae Lee, Sangkyung Sung

This paper presents how to use feedback controller with helicopter dynamics state space model. A simplified analysis is presented for controller design using LQR of small scale helicopters for axial and forward flights. Our approach is simple and gives the basic understanding about how to develop controller for solving the stability of linear helicopter flig

Bambang Riyanto, Imam Arifin

This paper presents the positive real analysis and synthesis for Networked Control Systems (NCS) in discrete time. Based on the definition of passivity, the sufficient condition of NCS is given by stochastic Lyapunov functional. The controller via state feedback is designed to guarantee the stability of NCS and closed-loop positive realness. It is shown that

C. E. Huang, J. S. Chen

In this paper, a wavelet-based iterative learning control (WILC) scheme with Fuzzy PD feedback is presented for a pneumatic control system with nonsmooth nonlinearities and uncertain parameters. The wavelet transform is employed to extract the learnable dynamics from measured output signal before it can be used to update the control profile. The wavelet tran

M. A. Moelyadi, G. Sachs

Simulation results on dynamic yaw stability derivatives of a gull bird by means of computational fluid dynamics are presented. Two different kinds of motions are used for determining the dynamic yaw stability derivatives CNr and CNbeta . Concerning the first one, simple lateral translation and yaw rotary motions in yaw are considered. The second one consists

J. Alvarez-Muñiz, J. Dias de Deus, C. Pajares

We argue that the increase of the ratio baryon/meson due to the presence of strong colour fields and percolation in ultra-high energy hadronic collisions, helps to explain some of the global features of ultra-high energy cosmic ray cascades at E>10^18 eV and, in particular the observed excess in the number of muons with respect to current models of hadronic

Heru Tjahjana, Iwan Pranoto, Hari Muhammad, J. Naiborhu

In this paper, a model of a pair of Dubins vehicles is considered. The vehicles move from an initial position and orientation to final position and orientation. A long the motion, the two vehicles are not allowed to collide however the two vehicles cant to far each other. The optimal control of the vehicle is found using the Pontryagins Maximum Principle (PM

Wen Yuh Jywe, Shih Shin Chen, Hung-Shu Wang, Chien Hung Liu

For the tracking stage path planning, we design a two-axis cross-coupling control system which uses the PI controller to compensate the contour error between axes. In this paper, the stage adoptive is designed by our laboratory (Precision Machine Center of National Formosa University). The cross-coupling controller calculates the actuating signal of each axi

Cosimo Bambi

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle arises from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle when gravity is taken into account, so the leading order correction to the standard formula is expected to be proportional to the gravitational constant $G_N = L_{Pl}^2$. On the other hand, the emerging picture suggests a set of departures from the standard theory which de

J. -P. Nikkarila, M. Koskinen, M. Manninen

Magnetic properties of two and three-dimensional clusters of quantum dots are studied with exact diagonalization of a generalized Hubbard model. We study the weak coupling limit, where the electrons interact only within a quantum dot and consider cases where the second or third harmonic oscillator shell is partially filled. The results show that in the case

V. Arvind, Pushkar S. Joglekar

Given a k-dimensional subspace M\subseteq \R^n and a full rank integer lattice L\subseteq \R^n, the \emph{subspace avoiding problem} SAP is to find a shortest vector in L\setminus M. Treating k as a parameter, we obtain new parameterized approximation and exact algorithms for SAP based on the AKS sieving technique. More precisely, we give a randomized $(1+ε)

Lesedi Masisi, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo, Tshilidzi Marwala

This paper aims to showcase the measure of structural diversity of an ensemble of 9 classifiers and then map a relationship between this structural diversity and accuracy. The structural diversity was induced by having different architectures or structures of the classifiers The Genetical Algorithms (GA) were used to derive the relationship between diversity