May 2008 arXiv papers — page 22

F. Cornu, J. Piasecki

We study the stationary state of a rough granular sphere immersed in a thermal bath composed of point particles. When the center of mass of the sphere is fixed the stationary angular velocity distribution is shown to be Gaussian with an effective temperature lower than that of the bath. For a freely moving rough sphere coupled to the thermostat via inelastic

Jenny G. Fuselier

For primes p congruent to 1 mod 12, we present an explicit relation between the traces of Frobenius on a family of elliptic curves with j-invariant 1728/t and values of a particular 2F1-hypergeometric function over F_p. Additionally, we determine a formula for traces of Hecke operators T_k(p) on spaces of cusp forms of weight k and level 1 in terms of the sa

Xiaoting Wang, Sonia Schirmer

We present detailed analysis of the convergence properties and effectiveness of Lyapunov control design for bilinear Hamiltonian quantum systems based on the application of LaSalle's invariance principle and stability analysis from dynamical systems and control theory. For a certain class of Hamiltonians, strong convergence results can be obtained for bo

Kenneth Wachter

A quarter-century of statistical research has shown that census coverage surveys, valuable as they are in offering a report card on each decennial census, do not provide usable estimates of geographical differences in coverage. The determining reason is the large number of ``doubly missing'' people missing both from the census enumeration and from co

S. McGlynn, S. Foley, S. McBreen, L. Hanlon

INTEGRAL has observed 47 long-duration GRBs (T_90 > 2s) and 1 short-duration GRB (T_90 < 2s) in five years of observation since October 2002. This work presents the properties of the prompt emission of GRB 070707, which is the first short hard GRB observed by INTEGRAL. The spectral and temporal properties of GRB 070707 were determined using the two sensitive

Susan Holmes

This paper presents exploratory techniques for multivariate data, many of them well known to French statisticians and ecologists, but few well understood in North American culture. We present the general framework of duality diagrams which encompasses discriminant analysis, correspondence analysis and principal components, and we show how this framework can

Fa-Qiang Wang, Zhi-Ming Zhang, Rui-Sheng Liang

The decoherence of two initially entangled qubits in anisotropic band gap photonic crystal has been studied analytically without Born or Markovian approximation. It is shown that the decoherence dynamics of two qubits in photonic crystal is greatly different from that of two qubits in vacuum or subjected to usual non-Markovian reservoir. The results also sho

Lara B. Anderson, Yang-Hui He, Andre Lukas

In this paper, we study positive monad vector bundles on complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds in the context of E8 x E8 heterotic string compactifications. We show that the class of such bundles, subject to the heterotic anomaly condition, is finite and consists of about 7000 models. We explain how to compute the complete particle spectrum for these mo

HARP Collaboration

Measurements of the double-differential charged pion production cross-section in the range of momentum 100 MeV/c < p < 800 MeV/c and angle 0.35 < θ< 2.15 rad in proton-beryllium, proton-carbon, proton-aluminium, proton-copper, proton-tin, proton-tantalum and proton-lead collisions are presented. The data were taken with the large acceptance HARP detector in

G. Morchio, F. Strocchi

The Lie-Rinehart algebra of a manifold M, defined by the Lie structure of the vector fields, their action and their module structure on the infinitely differentiable functions on M, is a common, diffeomorphism invariant, algebra for both classical and quantum mechanics. Its (noncommutative) Poisson universal enveloping algebra contains a central variable Z w

Emre Alkan, Kevin Ford, Alexandru Zaharescu

We prove a strong simultaneous Diophantine approximation theorem for values of additive and multiplicative functions provided that the functions have certain regularity on the primes.

R. V. Gavai, Sayantan Sharma

The thermodynamics of massless ideal gas of overlap quarks has been investigated numerically for both zero and nonzero baryon chemical potential $μ$. While the parameter M has been shown to be irrelevant in the continuum limit, it is shown numerically that the continuum limit can be reached with relatively coarser lattices for certain range of M. Numerical l

Pierre Mozer, Michael Baumann, G. Chevreau, Jocelyne Troccaz

This paper is about the application of a 3D ultrasound data fusion technique to the 3D reconstruction of prostate biopies in a reference volume. The method is introduced and its evaluation on a series of data coming from 15 patients is described.

Byron P. Roe

Recent results from MiniBooNE are described. These include neutrino oscillation results, low energy anomaly, and neutrino/antineutrino cross sections.

R. Brito, H. Enríquez, S. Godoy, R. Soto

We investigate the segregation of a dense binary mixture of granular particles that only differ in their restitution coefficient. The mixture is vertically vibrated in the presence of gravity. We find a partial segregation of the species, where most dissipative particles submerge in the less dissipative ones. The segregation occurs even if one type of the pa

J. E. Geach, Ian Smail, P. N. Best, J. Kurk

We present results from a near-infrared narrow-band survey of emission-line galaxies at z=2.23, using the Wide Field Camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. The H2S1 narrow-band filter (lambda_c=2.121um) we employ selects the H-alpha emission line redshifted to z=2.23, and is thus suitable for selecting &#39;typical&#39; star forming galaxies and ac

Ronny Richter, Jörg Frauendiener

In this article we describe applications of the numerical method of discrete differential forms in computational GR. In particular we consider the initial value problem for vacuum space-times that admit plane gravitational waves. As described in an earlier paper the discrete differential form approach can provide accurate results in spherically symmetric spa

N. Verellen, A. V. Silhanek, V. Metlushko, W. Gillijns

We present evidence of magnetically controlled guided vortex motion in a hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet nanosystem consisting of an Al film on top of a square array of permalloy square rings. When the rings are magnetized with an in-plane external field H, an array of point-like dipoles with moments antiparallel to H, is formed. The resulting magnetic tem

Michael G. Bertolli, Thomas Papenbrock

We compute the energy functional of a three-level Lipkin model via a Legrendre transform and compare exact numerical results with analytical solutions obtained from the random phase approximation (RPA). Except for the region of the phase transition, the RPA solutions perform very well. We also study the case of three non-degenerate levels and again find that

Feng Xia, Longhua Ma, Jinxiang Dong, Youxian Sun

Technical advances in ubiquitous sensing, embedded computing, and wireless communication are leading to a new generation of engineered systems called cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS promises to transform the way we interact with the physical world just as the Internet transformed how we interact with one another. Before this vision becomes a reality, howev

I. E. Papadakis, E. Chatzopoulos, D. Athanasiadis, A. Markowitz

We present the results from a detailed X-ray variability analysis of 66 AGN in the Lockman Hole, which have optical spectroscopic identifications. We compare, quantitatively, their variability properties with the properties of local AGN, and we study the &#34;variability-luminosity&#34; relation as a function of redshift, and the &#34;variability-redshift&#3

Y. Hernandez, V. Nicolosi, M. Lotya, F. Blighe

Graphene is at the centre of nanotechnology research. In order to fully exploit its outstanding properties, a mass production method is necessary. Two main routes are possible: large-scale growth or large-scale exfoliation. Here, we demonstrate graphene dispersions with concentrations up to ~0.01 mg/ml by dispersion and exfoliation of graphite in organic sol

Sebastian Getfert, Mykhaylo Evstigneev, Peter Reimann

Single-molecule force spectroscopy experiments, as well as a number of other physical systems, are governed by thermally activated transitions out of a metastable state under the action of a steadily increasing external force. The main observable in such experiments is the distribution of the forces, at which the escape events occur. The challenge in interpr

M. Scala, B. Militello, A. Messina, S. Maniscalco

We provide a microscopic derivation for the non-Markovian master equation for an atom-cavity system with cavity losses and show that they can induce population trapping in the atomic excited state, when the environment outside the cavity has a non-flat spectrum. Our results apply to hybrid solid state systems and can turn out to be helpful to find the most a

Robert Berman, David Witt Nystrom

Let $L$ be a holomorphic line bundle on a compact complex manifold $X$ of dimension $n,$ and let $e^{-ϕ}$ be a continuous metric on $L.$ Fixing a measure $dμ$ on $X$ gives a sequence of Hilbert spaces consisting of holomorphic sections of tensor powers of $L.$ We prove that the corresponding sequence of scaled Bergman measures converges, in the high tensor p

Diana B. Petitti, Wansu Chen

The Women&#39;s Health Initiative randomized clinical trial of hormone therapy found no benefit of hormones in preventive cardiovascular disease, a finding in striking contrast with a large body of observational research. Understanding whether better methodology and/or statistical adjustment might have prevented the erroneous conclusions of observational res

H. J. Lehto, S. Kotiranta, M. J. Valtonen, P. Heinamaki

In this paper we carry out a quantitative analysis of the three-body systems and map them as a function of decaying time and intial conguration, look at this problem as an example of a simple deterministic system, and ask to what extent the orbits are really predictable. We have investigated the behavior of about 200 000 general Newtonian three body systems

R. Garcia Lopez, B. Nisini, T. Giannini, J. Eisloeffel

We present VLT-ISAAC medium resolution spectroscopy of the HH34 and HH1 jets. Our aim is to derive the kinematics and the physical parameters and to study how they vary with jet velocity. We use several important diagnostic lines such as [FeII] 1.644um, 1.600um and H2 2.122um. In the inner jet region of HH34 we find that both the atomic and molecular gas pre

Richard Berk, Brian Kriegler, Donald Ylvisaker

Over the past two decades, a variety of methods have been used to count the homeless in large metropolitan areas. In this paper, we report on an effort to count the homeless in Los Angeles County, one that employed the sampling of census tracts. A number of complications are discussed, includingÊ the need to impute homeless counts to areas of Êthe CountyÊ no

N. Belmechri, G. Abramovici, M. Heritier

We investigate the possible superconducting pairing symmetries which would account for the latest experimental results on the Bechgaard salts. Using a renormalization group (R.G) technique we calculate the couplings of the singlet and triplet interactions in the quasi 1D Hamiltonian. In the presence of interchain interactions, the singlet and triplet couplin

E. L. Lehmann

This paper tries to tell the story of the general linear model, which saw the light of day 200 years ago, and the assumptions underlying it. We distinguish three principal stages (ignoring earlier more isolated instances). The model was first proposed in the context of astronomical and geodesic observations, where the main source of variation was observation

Kazunari Shima, Motomu Tsuda

In the relation between the linear (L) supersymmetry (SUSY) representation and the nonlinear (NL) SUSY representation we discuss the role of the Wess-Zumino gauge. We show in two dimensional spacetime that a spontaneously broken LSUSY theory with mass and Yukawa interaction terms for a minimal off-shell vector supermultiplet is obtained from a general superf

Lawrence Brown, Zhanyun Zhao

The U.S. Census Bureau provides an estimate of the true population as a supplement to the basic census numbers. This estimate is constructed from data in a post-censal survey. The overall procedure is referred to as dual system estimation. Dual system estimation is designed to produce revised estimates at all levels of geography, via a synthetic estimation p

S. S. Afonin

The axial-vector coupling $g_A$ of a constituent quark is estimated from matching the constituent quark model to the operator product expansion in QCD in the limit of large number of colours under some assumptions. The obtained relation is $g_A\simeq\sqrt{7/11}\approx0.80$, which is in agreement with the existing model estimates.

J. Roland, S. Britzen, N. A. Kudryavtseva, A. Witzel

We present a new method to fit the variations of both coordinates of a VLBI component as a function of time, assuming that the nucleus of the radio source contains a binary black hole system (BBH system). The presence of a BBH system produces 2 perturbations of the trajectory of the ejected VLBI components. By using only the VLBI coordinates, the problem we

Anita Buckley, Tomaz Kosir

Let $C$ be a smooth curve in $\PP^2$ given by an equation F=0 of degree $d$. In this paper we parametrise all linear pfaffian representations of $F$ by an open subset in the moduli space $M_C(2,K_C)$. We construct an explicit correspondence between pfaffian representations of $C$ and rank 2 vector bundles on $C$ with canonical determinant and no sections.

Claudio Asci

This paper is about the rate of convergence of the Markov chain $X_{n+1}=AX_{n}+B_{n}$ (mod $p$), where $A$ is an integer matrix with nonzero eigenvalues and ${B_{n}}_{n}$ is a sequence of independent and identically distributed integer vectors, with support not parallel to a proper subspace of $Q^{k}$ invariant under $A$. If $|λ_{i}|\not=1$ for all eigenval

Stephen P. Klein

Assessment of learning in higher education is a critical concern to policy makers, educators, parents, and students. And, doing so appropriately is likely to require including constructed response tests in the assessment system. We examined whether scoring costs and other concerns with using open-end measures on a large scale (e.g., turnaround time and inter

Pulak Ranjan Giri

A model of an electron and a Dirac monopole interacting through an axially symmetric non-hermitian but \mathcal{PT}-symmetric potential is discussed in detail. The intriguing localization of the wave-packet as a result of the anomalous breaking of the scale symmetry is shown to provide a scale for the system. The symmetry algebra for the system, which is the

Bogdan Malaescu

We present an update of the measurement of alpha_s(m_tau) from ALEPH tau hadronic spectral functions. We report a study of the perturbative prediction(s) showing that the fixed-order perturbation theory manifests convergence problems not presented in the contour-improved calculation. Potential systematic effects from quark-hadron duality violations are estim

T. Krühler, A. Küpcü Yoldaş, J. Greiner, C. Clemens

We present optical and near-infrared photometry of the afterglow of the long Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 070802 at redshift 2.45 obtained with the ESO/MPI 2.2 m telescope equipped with the multi-channel imager GROND. Follow-up observations in g&#39;r&#39;i&#39;z&#39; and JHK_S bands started ~17 min and extended up to 28 h post burst. We find an increase in brightnes

Martin Schumacher

The Goldberger-Treiman relation $M=2π/\sqrt{3}f^{\rm cl}_π$ where $M$ is the constituent quark mass in the chiral limit (cl) and $f^{\rm cl}_π$ the pion decay constant in the chiral limit predicts constituent quark masses of $m_u=328.8\pm 1.1$ MeV and $m_d=332.3\pm 1.1$ MeV for the up and down quark, respectively, when $f^{\rm cl}_π=89.8\pm 0.3$ MeV is adopt

Michele Ceriotti, Thomas Kuehne, Michele Parrinello

We present a method to compute the Fermi function of the Hamiltonian for a system of independent fermions, based on an exact decomposition of the grand-canonical potential. This scheme does not rely on the localization of the orbitals and is insensitive to ill-conditioned Hamiltonians. It lends itself naturally to linear scaling, as soon as the sparsity of t

Daniel Markiewicz, Robert T. Powers

This paper concerns the structure of the group of local unitary cocycles, also called the gauge group, of an E_0-semigroup. The gauge group of a spatial E_0-semigroup has a natural action on the set of units by operator multiplication. Arveson has characterized completely the gauge group of E_0-semigroups of type I, and as a consequence it is known that in t

P. A. James, J. O&#39;Neill, N. S. Shane

We present a search for star-forming satellite galaxies that are close enough to their parent galaxies to be considered analogues of the Magellanic Clouds. Our search technique relied on the detection of the satellites in continuum-subtracted narrow-band H alpha imaging of the central galaxies, which removes most of the background and foreground line-of-sigh

Sorin Dumitrescu

We prove that holomorphic normal projective connections on compact complex surfaces are flat. We show that a holomorphic torsion-free affine connection $\nabla$ on a compact complex surface is locally modelled on a translations-invariant affine connection on $\C^2$, except if $\nabla$ is a generic connection on a principal elliptic bundle over a Riemann surf

Knud Thomsen

At the core of the Ouroboros Model lies a self-referential recursive process with alternating phases of data acquisition and evaluation. Memory entries are organized in schemata. Activation at a time of part of a schema biases the whole structure and, in particular, missing features, thus triggering expectations. An iterative recursive monitor process termed

Sean A. Hayward

Gravitational radiation in plane-symmetric space-times can be encoded in a complex potential, satisfying a non-linear wave equation. An effective energy tensor for the radiation is given, taking a scalar-field form in terms of the potential, entering the field equations in the same way as the matter energy tensor. It reduces to the Isaacson energy tensor in

Mark F. Flanagan

A coded modulation system is considered in which nonbinary coded symbols are mapped directly to nonbinary modulation signals. It is proved that if the modulator-channel combination satisfies a particular symmetry condition, the codeword error rate performance is independent of the transmitted codeword. It is shown that this result holds for both linear-progr

F. Cianfrani, G. Montani

We perform a canonical quantization of gravity in a second-order formulation, taking as configuration variables those describing a 4-bein, not adapted to the space-time splitting. We outline how, neither if we fix the Lorentz frame before quantizing, nor if we perform no gauge fixing at all, is invariance under boost transformations affected by the quantizat

Andrés Viña

We determine conditions under which two Hamiltonian torus actions on a symplectic manifold $M$ are homotopic by a family of Hamiltonian torus actions, when $M$ is a toric manifold and when $M$ is a coadjoint orbit.

Morris L. Eaton

In this expository paper we describe a relatively elementary method of establishing the existence of a Dutch book in a simple multivariate normal prediction setting. The method involves deriving a nonstandard predictive distribution that is motivated by invariance. This predictive distribution satisfies an interesting identity which in turn yields an element

M. Dieng, K. D. T. -R. McLaughlin

We present a new method for obtaining sharp asymptotics of solutions of the defocussing nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation, based on dbar methods and under essentially minimal regularity assumptions on initial data.

K. Azizi, R. Khosravi, V. Bashiry

Taking into account the gluon correction contributions to the correlation function, the form factors relevant to the rare $B_c \rar X ν\barν$ decays are calculated in the framework of the three point QCD sum rules, where $X$ stands for axial vector particle, $AV(D_{s1})$, and vector particles, $V(D^*,D^*_s)$. The total decay width as well as the branching ra

Tatsuya Masubuchi

We report a search for Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson production in association with a $W^{\pm}$ boson. This search uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $\math rm{1.9 fb^{-1}}$ collected with the CDF detector at Tevatron. We select events matching the $W$ + jets signature and require at least one jets to be identified as $b$-quark jets . T

Paul Humphreys

This paper argues for the status of formal probability theory as a mathematical, rather than a scientific, theory. David Freedman and Philip Stark&#39;s concept of model based probabilities is examined and is used as a bridge between the formal theory and applications.

M. Dzero, E. A. Yuzbashyan, B. L. Altshuler

We investigate the stability of spatially uniform solutions for the collisionless dynamics of a fermionic superfluid. We demonstrate that, if the system size is larger than the superfluid coherence length, the solution characterized by a periodic in time order parameter is unstable with respect to spatial fluctuations. The instability is due to the parametri

Sungho Hong, Brian N. Lundstrom, Adrienne Fairhall

In many cases, the computation of a neural system can be reduced to a receptive field, or a set of linear filters, and a thresholding function, or gain curve, which determines the firing probability; this is known as a linear/nonlinear model. In some forms of sensory adaptation, these linear filters and gain curve adjust very rapidly to changes in the varian

Yoe Itokawa, Ryoichi Kobayashi

We give a metric characterization of the Euclidean sphere in terms of the lower bound of the sectional curvature and the length of the shortest closed geodesics.

Hideaki Aoyama, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Iyetomi, Yoshi Fujiwara

We study productivity dispersions across workers, firms and industrial sectors. Empirical study of the Japanese data shows that they all obey the Pareto law, and also that the Pareto index decreases with the level of aggregation. In order to explain these two stylized facts, we propose a theoretical framework built upon the basic principle of statistical phy

Youngshin Byun, Guanghao Jin, Jin-Hee Yoon, Dongwoo Cha

We examine the common belief that the $N_pN_n$ scheme is manifested as a direct consequence of the valence proton-neutron interaction which has proven to be a dominant factor in developing collectivity in nuclei. We show that the simplification of the $N_pN_n$-plot of the lowest $2^+$ excitation energy is introduced merely because the excitation energy alway

N. A. Sinitsyn, J. Ohkubo

In Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 66}, 847 (1991), T. B. Kepler and M. L. Kagan derived a geometric phase shift in dissipative limit cycle evolution. This effect was considered as an extension of the geometric phase in classical mechanics. We show that the converse is also true, namely, this geometric phase can be identified with the classical mechanical Hannay angle

Nobuya Maeshima, Kenji Yonemitsu

We discuss photogenerated midgap states of a one-dimensional (1D) dimerized Mott insulator, potassium-tetracyanoquinodimethane (K-TCNQ). Two types of phonon modes are taken into account: intermolecular and intramolecular vibrations. We treat these phonon modes adiabatically and analyze a theoretical model by using the density-matrix renormalization group (DM

William Y. C. Chen, Donna Q. J. Dou, Robert L. Tang, Arthur L. B. Yang

We show that the shifted rank, or srank, of any partition $λ$ with distinct parts equals the lowest degree of the terms appearing in the expansion of Schur&#39;s $Q_λ$ function in terms of power sum symmetric functions. This gives an affirmative answer to a conjecture of Clifford. As pointed out by Clifford, the notion of the srank can be naturally extended

Isaac Tamblyn, Jean-Yves Raty, Stanimir A. Bonev

A series of electronic and structural transitions are predicted in molten lithium from first principles. A new phase with tetrahedral local order characteristic of $sp^3$ bonded materials and poor electrical conductivity is found at pressures above 150 GPa and temperatures as high as 1000 K. Despite the lack of covalent bonding, weakly bound tetrahedral clus

Z. X. Zhang, J. J. Sanz-Cillero, X. Y. Shen, N. Wu

We propose a measurement on the elastic $ππ$ scattering phase shift difference $δ^0_0-δ^2_0$ through $Ψ&#39;\to J/Ψπ^+ π^-$ process in future high statistics BES-III experiment. The decay amplitude is constructed with seven Lorentz invariant form-factors and is compared with their theoretical estimation. It is found that the phase shift difference can be obt

Supti Sadhukhan, Janett Prehl, Peter Blaudeck, K. H. Hoffmann

Cracking and peeling of a layer of clay on desiccation has been simulated using a spring model. A vertical section through the layer with finite thickness is represented by a rectangular array of nodes connected by linear springs on a square lattice. The effect of reduction of the natural length of the springs, which mimics the drying is studied. Varying the

Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Afshin Rostamizadeh

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of sample selection bias correction. The sample bias correction technique commonly used in machine learning consists of reweighting the cost of an error on each training point of a biased sample to more closely reflect the unbiased distribution. This relies on weights derived by various estimation techniques based o

Isabella Novik, Ed Swartz

We use Klee&#39;s Dehn-Sommerville relations and other results on face numbers of homology manifolds without boundary to (i) prove Kalai&#39;s conjecture providing lower bounds on the f-vectors of an even-dimensional manifold with all but the middle Betti number vanishing, (ii) verify Kühnel&#39;s conjecture that gives an upper bound on the middle Betti numb

Kosuke Sato, Kyoko Matsushita, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Noriko Y. Yamasaki

Temperature and abundance distributions of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in the NGC 507 group of galaxies were studied with Suzaku. Observed concentric annular spectra were well-represented by a two temperature model for ICM, and we found steeper abundance gradients for Mg, Si, S, and Fe compared with O in the central region. Abundance ratios of alpha-eleme

Kengo Matsumoto

We present a class of subshifts $Z_N, N = 1,2,...$ whose associated $C^*$-algebras ${\cal O}_{Z_N}$ are simple, purely infinite and not stably isomorphic to any Cuntz-Krieger algebra nor to Cuntz algebra. The class of the subshifts is the first examples whose associated $C^*$-algebras are not stably isomorphic to any Cuntz-Krieger algebra nor to Cuntz algebr

Philip Goyal

In a companion paper (hereafter referred to as Paper I), we have presented an attempt to derive the finite-dimensional abstract quantum formalism within the framework of information geometry. In this paper, we formulate a correspondence principle, the Average-Value Correspondence Principle, that allows relations between measurement results which are known to

Philip Goyal

In this paper and a companion paper, we show how the framework of information geometry, a geometry of discrete probability distributions, can form the basis of a derivation of the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon a few elementary features of quantum phenomena, such as the statistical nature of measurements, complementarity, and global gauge invar

M. Francardi, L. Balet, A. Gerardino, N. Chauvin

We report direct evidence of enhanced spontaneous emission in a photonic crystal (PhC) light-emitting diode. The device consists of p-i-n heterojunction embedded in a suspended membrane, comprising a layer of self-assembled quantum dots. Current is injected laterally from the periphery to the center of the PhC. A well-isolated emission peak at 1300nm from th

Sonia Schirmer, Daniel Oi, Simon Devitt

We consider the task of intrinsic control system identification for quantum devices. The problem of experimental determination of subspace confinement is considered, and simple general strategies for full Hamiltonian identification and decoherence characterization of a controlled two-level system are presented.

Yuxin Dong

In this paper, we show that the calibrated method can also be used to detect indefinite minimal Lagrangian submanifolds in $C_k^m$. We introduce the notion of indefinite special Lagrangian submanifolds in $C_k^m$ and generalize the well-known work of Harvey-Lawson to the indefinite case.

D. Zablocki, D. Blaschke, R. Anglani

The relationship between mesonic correlations and quantum condensates in the quark matter phase diagram is explored within a quantum field theoretical approach of the Nambu and Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type. Mean-field values in the scalar meson and diquark channels are order parameters signalling the occurrence of quark condensates, entailing chiral symmetry brea

Bryan C. Daniels, Yan-Jiun Chen, James P. Sethna, Ryan N. Gutenkunst

The functioning of many biochemical networks is often robust -- remarkably stable under changes in external conditions and internal reaction parameters. Much recent work on robustness and evolvability has focused on the structure of neutral spaces, in which system behavior remains invariant to mutations. Recently we have shown that the collective behavior of

Eitan Sayag

We prove that (GL_{2n}(C),Sp_{2n}(C)) is a Gelfand pair. More precisely, we show that for an irreducible smooth admissible Frechet representation (π,E) of GL_{2n}(C) the space of continuous functionals Hom_{Sp_{2n}(\cc)}(E,C) is at most one dimensional. For this we show that any distribution on GL_{2n}(C) invariant with respect to the double action Sp_{2n}(C

Brian D. Sutton

An algorithm is developed to compute the complete CS decomposition (CSD) of a partitioned unitary matrix. Although the existence of the CSD has been recognized since 1977, prior algorithms compute only a reduced version (the 2-by-1 CSD) that is equivalent to two simultaneous singular value decompositions. The algorithm presented here computes the complete 2-

Sumio Yamada

We construct a Weil-Petersson geodesic completion of Teichmuller space through the formalism of Coxeter complex with the Teichmuller space as its non-linear non-homogeneous fundamental domain. We show that the metric and geodesic completions both satisfy a finite rank property, demonstrating a similarity with the non-compact symmetric spaces of semi-simple L

Fionn Murtagh

An ultrametric topology formalizes the notion of hierarchical structure. An ultrametric embedding, referred to here as ultrametricity, is implied by a hierarchical embedding. Such hierarchical structure can be global in the data set, or local. By quantifying extent or degree of ultrametricity in a data set, we show that ultrametricity becomes pervasive as di

Kendrick M. Smith, Dragan Huterer

We revisit recent claims that there is a &#34;cold spot&#34; in both number counts and brightness of radio sources in the NVSS survey, with location coincident with the previously detected cold spot in WMAP. Such matching cold spots would be difficult if not impossible to explain in the standard LCDM cosmological model. Contrary to the claim, we find no sign

Anton A. Klyachko, Yulia B. Melnikova

We give a short proof and some strengthening of the Khukhro--Makarenko theorem that each group virtually satisfying an outer commutator identity contains a finite-index characteristic subgroup satisfying this identity. An estimate for the index of this characteristic subgroup is obtained.

Stefan Grosskinsky, Paul Chleboun, Gunter M. Schütz

The zero-range process is a stochastic interacting particle system that is known to exhibit a condensation transition. We present a detailed analysis of this transition in the presence of quenched disorder in the particle interactions. Using rigorous probabilistic arguments we show that disorder changes the critical exponent in the interaction strength below

Fionn Murtagh

Data analysis and data mining are concerned with unsupervised pattern finding and structure determination in data sets. The data sets themselves are explicitly linked as a form of representation to an observational or otherwise empirical domain of interest. &#34;Structure&#34; has long been understood as symmetry which can take many forms with respect to any

Maciej Niebrzydowski, Jozef H. Przytycki

We prove that the fundamental quandle of the trefoil knot is isomorphic to the projective primitive subquandle of transvections of the symplectic space $\Z \oplus \Z$. The last quandle can be identified with the Dehn quandle of the torus and the cord quandle on a 2-sphere with four punctures. We also show that the fundamental quandle of the long trefoil knot

Takuya Kanazawa

In order to get a clue to understanding the volume-dependence of vortex free energy (which is defined as the ratio of the twisted against the untwisted partition function), we investigate the relation between vortex free energies defined on lattices of different sizes. An equality is derived through a simple calculation which equates a general linear combina

Masoud Mohseni, Patrick Rebentrost, Seth Lloyd, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Energy transfer within photosynthetic systems can display quantum effects such as delocalized excitonic transport. Recently, direct evidence of long-lived coherence has been experimentally demonstrated for the dynamics of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein complex [Engel et al., Nature 446, 782 (2007)]. However, the relevance of quantum dynamical process

P. Osland, A. A. Pankov, N. Paver, A. V. Tsytrinov

The determination of the spin of the quantum states exchanged in the various non-standard interactions is a relevant aspect in the identification of the corresponding scenarios. We discuss the identification reach at LHC on the spin-2 of the lowest-lying Randall-Sundrum resonance, predicted by gravity with one warped extra dimension, against spin-1 and spin-

Ding-fang Zeng

We construct some AdS/QCD models by the systematic procedure of GKN. These models reflect three rather different asymptotics the gauge theory beta functions approach at the infrared region, $β\propto-λ^2, -λ^3$ and $β\propto-λ$, where $λ$ is the &#39;t Hooft coupling constant. We then calculate the heavy quark potentials in these models by holographic method

Wee Teck Gan, Shuichiro Takeda

We show that the local Langlands conjecture for $Sp(2n)$ follows from that for $GSp(2n)$. In particular, we prove the local Langlands conjecture for $Sp(4)$, based on our previous work on the local Langlands conjecture for $GSp(4)$. We also determine the possible sizes of $L$-packets for $Sp(4)$.

Manjari Bagchi

I study stellar structures $i.e.$ the mass, the radius, the moment of inertia and the oblateness parameter at different spin frequencies for strange stars and neutron stars in a comparative manner. I also calculate the values of the radii of the marginally stable orbits and Keplerian orbital frequencies. By equating kHz QPO frequencies to Keplerian orbital f

Luiz Gustavo Farah

We study the local well-posedness of the initial-value problem for the nonlinear &#34;good&#34; Boussinesq equation with data in Sobolev spaces \textit{$H^s$} for negative indices of $s$.

Su-Peng Kou

Quantum computers are predicted to utilize quantum states to perform memory and to process tasks far faster than those of conventional classical computers. In this paper we show a new road towards building fault tolerance quantum computer by tuning quantum tunneling effect of the degenerate quantum states in topological order, instead of by braiding anyons.

E. Catsigeras, H. Enrich

For continuous maps on a compact manifold M, particularly for those that do not preserve the Lebesgue measure m, we define the observable invariant probability measures as a generalization of the physical measures. We prove that any continuous map has observable measures, and characterize those that are physical in terms of the observability. We prove that t

Paulo Varandas

We study decay of correlations, the asymptotic distribution of hitting times and fluctuations of the return times for a robust class of multidimensional non-uniformly hyperbolic transformations. Oliveira and Viana [15] proved that there is a unique equilibrium state for a large class of non- uniformly expanding transformations and Holder continuous potential

Matjaz Perc, Marko Gosak, Samo Kralj

We study the impact of static and dynamic disorder on the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR) in a representative soft matter system. Due to their extreme susceptibility to weak perturbations soft matter systems appear to be excellent candidates for the observation of SR. Indeed, we derive generic SR equations from a polymer stabilized ferroelectric liqu

D. Bambusi, C. Bardelle

We generalize to some PDEs a theorem by Nekhoroshev on the persistence of invariant tori in Hamiltonian systems with $r$ integrals of motion and $n$ degrees of freedom, $r\leq n$. The result we get ensures the persistence of an $r$-parameter family of $r$-dimensional invariant tori. The parameters belong to a Cantor-like set. The proof is based on the Lyapun

Seth Lloyd

Adiabatic quantum computation for performing quantum computations such as Shor&#39;s algorithm is protected against thermal errors by an energy gap of size $O(1/n)$, where $n$ is the length of the computation to be performed.