June 2008 arXiv papers — page 3

M. Orienti, D. Dallacasa

The knowledge of physical conditions in young radio sources is important for defining the framework of models describing radio source evolution. We investigate whether young radio sources are in equipartition (i.e. minimum energy) conditions by comparing the equipartition magnetic fields of 5 High Frequency Peakers (HFP) with values directly inferred from th

Peng Gao

The Density Conjecture of Katz and Sarnak associates a classical compact group to each reasonable family of $L$-functions. Under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, Rubinstein computed the $n$-level density of low-lying zeros for the family of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions in the case that the Fourier transform $\hat{f}(u)$ of any test

J. J. Mazo, F. Naranjo, K. Segall

We study the thermal depinning of single fluxons in rings made of Josephson junctions. Due to thermal fluctuations a fluxon can be excited from its energy minima and move through the array, causing a voltage across each junction. We find that for the initial depinning, the fluxon behaves as a single particle and follows a Kramers-type escape law. However, un

M. M. Qazilbash, Z. Q. Li, V. Podzorov, M. Brehm

We investigate the changes in the infrared response due to charge carriers introduced by electrostatic doping of the correlated insulator vanadium dioxide (VO2) integrated in the architecture of the field effect transistor. Accumulation of holes at the VO2 interface with the gate dielectric leads to an increase in infrared absorption. This phenomenon is obse

Marco Tessarotto, Claudio Cremaschini, Piero Nicolini, Massimo Tessarotto

A key aspect of fluid dynamics is the correct definition of the \textit{% phase-space} Lagrangian dynamics which characterizes arbitrary fluid elements of an incompressible fluid. Apart being an unsolved theoretical problem of fundamental importance, the issue is relevant to exhibit the connection between fluid dynamics and the classical dynamical systems un

Beatriz Gato-Rivera

In 1998 the Adapted Ordering Method was developed for the study of the representation theory of the superconformal algebras in two dimensions. It allows: to determine the maximal dimension for a given type of space of singular vectors, to identify all singular vectors by only a few coefficients, to spot subsingular vectors and to set the basis for constructi

Marco Tessarotto, Enrico Fonda, Massimo Tessarotto

It is well-known that in fluid dynamics an alternative to customary direct solution methods (based on the discretization of the fluid fields) is provided by so-called \emph{particle simulation methods}. Particle simulation methods rely typically on appropriate \emph{kinetic models} for the fluid equations which permit the evaluation of the fluid fields in te

Koji Nishida, Bernd Ulrich

The j-multiplicity is an invariant that can be defined for any ideal in a Noetherian local ring $(R, m)$. It is equal to the Hilbert-Samuel multiplicity if the ideal is $m$-primary. In this paper we explore the computability of the j-multiplicity, giving another proof for the length formula and the additive formula.

Piero Nicolini, Massimo Tessarotto

The gyrokinetic description of particle dynamics faces a basic difficulty when a special type of canonical variables is sought, i.e., the so-called \textit{gyrokinetic canonical variables}. These are defined in such a way that two of them are respectively identified with the gyrophase-angle, describing the fast particle gyration motion around magnetic field

Yun-Juan Bao, Ning-Hua Tong, Qing-Feng Sun, Shun-Qing Shen

Quantum spin transport is studied in an interacting quantum dot. It is found that a conductance "plateau" emerges in the non-linear charge conductance by a spin bias in the Kondo regime. The conductance plateau, as a complementary to the Kondo peak, originates from the strong electron correlation and exchange processes in the quantum dot, and can be

M. Tessarotto, M. Ellero, N. Aslan, M. Mond

An important aspect of computational fluid dynamics is related to the determination of the fluid pressure in isothermal incompressible fluids. In particular this concerns the construction of an exact evolution equation for the fluid pressure which replaces the Poisson equation and yields an algorithm which is a Poisson solver, i.e., it permits to time-advanc

F. Peano, J. Vieira, R. A. Fonseca, R. Mulas

A method is proposed for producing monoergetic, high-quality ion beams in vacuum, via direct acceleration by the electromagnetic field of two counterpropagating, variable-frequency lasers: ions are trapped and accelerated by a beat-wave structure with variable phase velocity, allowing for fine control over the energy and the charge of the beam via tuning of

S. Dorbolo, D. Terwagne, N. Vandewalle, T. Gilet

When an oil droplet is placed on a quiescent oil bath, it eventually collapses into the bath due to gravity. The resulting coalescence may be eliminated when the bath is vertically vibrated. The droplet bounces periodically on the bath, and the air layer between the droplet and the bath is replenished at each bounce. This sustained bouncing motion is achieve

Bin Zhou, Hai-Zhou Lu, Rui-Lin Chu, Shun-Qing Shen

The solutions for the helical edge states for an effective continuum model for the quantum spin Hall effect in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells are presented. For a sample of a large size, the solution gives the linear dispersion for the edge states. However, in a finite strip geometry, the edge states at two sides will couple with each other, which leads to a finite

Inyong Cho, Taekyung Kim, Yoonbai Kim

We investigate the BPS configuration of the multi D-vortices produced from the D2${\bar {\rm D}}$2 system. Based on the DBI-type action with a Gaussian-type runaway potential for a complex tachyon field, the BPS limit is achieved when the tachyon profile is thin. The solution states randomly-distributed $n$ static D-vortices with zero interaction. With the o

Masayuki Hashisaka, Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Shuji Nakamura, Shinya Kasai

We present a new scheme to detect the quantum shot noise in coupled mesoscopic systems. By applying the noise thermometry to the capacitively coupled quantum point contacts (QPCs) we prove that the noise temperature of one QPC is in perfect proportion to that of the other QPC which is driven to non-equilibrium to generate quantum shot noise. We also found an

H. Nakamura, N. Hayashi, N. Nakai, M. Machida

A puzzle in the iron-based superconductor LaFeAsO_{1-x}F_x is that the magnetic moment obtained by first-principle electronic structure calculations is unexpectedly much larger than the experimentally observed one. For example, the calculated value is ~ 2.0 μ_B in the mother compound, while it is ~ 0.3 μ_B in experiments. We find that the puzzle is solved wi

Yoav Freund, Daniel Hsu

We present a new online learning algorithm for cumulative discounted gain. This learning algorithm does not use exponential weights on the experts. Instead, it uses a weighting scheme that depends on the regret of the master algorithm relative to the experts. In particular, experts whose discounted cumulative gain is smaller (worse) than that of the master a

Dmytro Savchuk, Yaroslav Vorobets

We construct a family of automata with n states, n>3, acting on a rooted binary tree that generate the free products of cyclic groups of order 2.

Kazuyuki Furuuchi

Closed string field theory is constructed by stochastically quantizing a matrix model for Polyakov loops that describes phases of a large N gauge theory at finite temperature. Coherent states in this string field theory describes winding string condensation which has been expected to cause a topology change from thermal AdS geometry to AdS-Schwarzschild blac

Yuji Sakai, Kouji Kashiwa, Hiroaki Kouno, Masayuki Matsuzaki

Effects of the vector-type four-quark interaction on QCD phase structure are investigated in the imaginary chemical potential region, by using the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model with the extended Z3 symmetry. In the course to this end, we clarify analytically the Roberge-Weiss periodicity and symmetry properties of various quantities

S. Kawasaki, K. Katayama, H. Sugawara, D. Kikuchi

We report $^{123}$Sb nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements of the filled skutterudite heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$ under high pressure. The temperature dependence of NQR frequency and the spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ indicate that the crystal-electric-field splitting $Δ_{\rm CEF}$ between the ground state $Γ_1$ singlet and

Takehiro Miyakawa, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Jeroen Homan, Koji Saito

We have analyzed 200 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the black hole candidate GX 339--4, all from the bright hard state periods between 1996 and 2005. Purpose of our study is to investigate the radiation mechanisms in the hard state of GX 339--4. The broadband 3--200 keV spectra were successfully modeled by a simple analytic model, power--law wit

P. Firth, M. J. Drinkwater, A. M. Karick

We have extended the search for luminous (M_{b_J} <= -10.5) compact stellar systems (CSSs) in the Virgo and Fornax galaxy clusters by targeting with the recently commissioned AAOmega spectrograph three cluster environments -- the cluster cores around M87 and NGC 1399, intracluster space, and a major galaxy merger site (NGC 1316). We have significantly increa

P. D. Jarvis, S. O. Morgan

We consider the world-line quantisation of a system invariant under the symmetries of reciprocal relativity. Imposition of the first class constraint, the generator of local time reparametrisations, on physical states enforces identification of the world-line cosmological constant with a fixed value of the quadratic Casimir of the quaplectic symmetry group Q

G. B. Andresen, W. Bertsche, P. D. Bowe, C. C. Bray

Control of the radial profile of trapped antiproton clouds is critical to trapping antihydrogen. We report the first detailed measurements of the radial manipulation of antiproton clouds, including areal density compressions by factors as large as ten, by manipulating spatially overlapped electron plasmas. We show detailed measurements of the near-axis antip

Pierre Bieliavsky, Stéphane Detournay, Philippe Spindel

We describe the space of (all) invariant deformation quantizations on the hyperbolic plane as solutions of the evolution of a second order hyperbolic differential operator. The construction is entirely explicit and relies on non-commutative harmonic analytical techniques on symplectic symmetric spaces. The present work presents a unified method producing eve

Ilka Brunner, Hans Jockers, Daniel Roggenkamp

In this paper D-brane monodromies are studied from a world-sheet point of view. More precisely, defect lines are used to describe the parallel transport of D-branes along deformations of the underlying bulk conformal field theories. This method is used to derive B-brane monodromies in Kahler moduli spaces of non-linear sigma models on projective hypersurface

Hirosi Ooguri, Yutaka Ookouchi, Chang-Soon Park, Jaewon Song

In the gauge mediation mechanism, the effects of the hidden sector are characterized by a set of correlation functions of the global symmetry current of the hidden sector. We present methods to compute these correlators in cases with strongly coupled hidden sectors. Several examples are presented to demonstrate the technique explicitly.

Alain Berthomieu

A version of smooth K-theory is constructed, which is adapted to the total Chern class instead of the Chern character (contrarily to previous theories). Some total Chern class morphism from this K-theory to Cheeger-Simons differential characters is constructed. This answers a question raised by U. Bunke.

Dmitry V. Belyaev, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

To construct rigidly or locally supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary actions, one needs an extension of the usual tensor calculus. Its key ingredients are the extended (F-, D-, etc.) density formulas and the rule for the decomposition of bulk multiplets into (co-dimension one) boundary multiplets. Working out these ingredients for d=4 N=1 Poincaré supergravity,

Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The dyadic Green functions for a uniaxial dielectric-magnetic medium, together with a reversible field transformation, were implemented to derive a formulation of the Huygens principle appropriate to a uniaxial dielectric-magnetic medium with gyrotropic-like magnetoelectric properties.

Vladimir Privman

We review theoretical explanation of mechanisms of control of uniformity in growth of nanosize particles and colloids. The nanoparticles are synthesized as nanocrystals, by burst nucleation from solution. The colloids are self-assembled by aggregation of these nanocrystals. The two kinetic processes are coupled, and both are driven by diffusional transport.

Amir Jafari

This is a sequel to our previous paper (joint with Furusho). It will give a more natural framework for constructing elements in the Hopf algebra of framed mixed Tate motives according to Bloch and Kriz. This framework allows us to extend our previous results to interpret all multiple zeta values (including the divergent ones) and the multiple polylogarithms

Olivier Schneider

The subject of particle-antiparticle mixing in the neutral B meson systems is reviewed. The formalism of B0-B0bar mixing is recalled and basic Standard Model predictions are given, before experimental issues are discussed and the latest combinations of experimental results on mixing parameters are presented, including those on mixing-induced CP violation, ma

Charles M. Beck

We examine four WTC 7 descent curves, labeled &#34;C,&#34; &#34;E,&#34; &#34;N,&#34; and &#34;O,&#34; either anonymously published, or confidentially communicated to us. Descent curve describes apparent height of a collapsing building as a function of time. The set &#34;C&#34; suggests that there are three active phases of collapse. Phase I is a free fall fo

Andrew Chamblin, Fred Cooper, Gouranga C. Nayak

LHC is expected to be a top quark factory. If the fundamental Planck scale is near a TeV, then we also expect the top quarks to be produced from black holes via Hawking radiation. In this paper we calculate the cross sections for top quark production from black holes at the LHC and compare it with the direct top quark cross section via parton fusion processe

Herman Haverkort, Freek van Walderveen

Space-filling curves can be used to organise points in the plane into bounding-box hierarchies (such as R-trees). We develop measures of the bounding-box quality of space-filling curves that express how effective different space-filling curves are for this purpose. We give general lower bounds on the bounding-box quality measures and on locality according to

Vladimir Braverman, Kai-Min Chung, Zhenming Liu, Michael Mitzenmacher

In their seminal work, Alon, Matias, and Szegedy introduced several sketching techniques, including showing that 4-wise independence is sufficient to obtain good approximations of the second frequency moment. In this work, we show that their sketching technique can be extended to product domains $[n]^k$ by using the product of 4-wise independent functions on

Randy Lewis, R. M. Woloshyn

Bottom baryon masses are calculated based on a 2+1 flavor dynamical lattice QCD simulation. The gauge field configurations were computed by the CP-PACS and JLQCD collaborations using an improved clover action. The bottom quark is described using lattice NRQCD. Results are presented for single and double-b baryons at one lattice spacing. Comparison with exper

Marcus Tegel, Marianne Rotter, Veronika Weiss, Falko M. Schappacher

The structural and magnetic phase transitions of the ternary iron arsenides SrFe2As2 and EuFe2As2 were studied by temperature-dependent x-ray powder diffraction and 57-Fe Moessbauer spectroscopy. Both compounds crystallize in the tetragonal ThCr2Si2-type structure at room temperature and exhibit displacive structural transitions at 203 K (SrFe2As2) or 190 K

Adilet Imambekov, Leonid I. Glazman

One-dimensional quantum fluids are conventionally described by using an effective hydrodynamic approach known as Luttinger liquid theory. As the principal simplification, a generic spectrum of the constituent particles is replaced by a linear one, which leads to a linear hydrodynamic theory. We show that to describe the measurable dynamic response functions

C. Feruglio, F. Fiore, F. La Franca, N. Sacchi

We present optical identifications and a multi-band catalogue of a sample of 478 X-ray sources in the XMM and Chandra surveys of the central 0.6 deg^2 of the ELAIS-S1 field. The optical/infrared counterpart of each X-ray source was identified using R and IRAC 3.6 um bands. This method was complemented by the precise positions obtained through Chandra observa

Igor A. Bandos, Paul K. Townsend

We present the light-cone gauge fixed Lagrangian for the M5-brane; it has a residual `exotic&#39; gauge invariance with the group of 5-volume preserving diffeomorphisms, SDiff(5), as gauge group. For an M5-brane of topology R2 x M3, for closed 3-manifold M3, we find an infinite tension limit that yields an SO(8)-invariant (1+2)-dimensional field theory with

H. Blaine Lawson, John Wermer

Let X be a complex manifold and c a simple closed curve in X. We address the question: What conditions on c ensure the existence of a 1-dimensional complex subvariety V with boundary c in X. When X = C^n, an answer to this question involves the polynomial hull of gamma. When X = P^n, complex projective space, the projective hull hat{c} of c comes into play.

Antun Balaz, Aleksandar Bogojevic, Ivana Vidanovic, Axel Pelster

By recursively solving the underlying Schr\&#34; odinger equation, we set up an efficient systematic approach for deriving analytic expressions for discretized effective actions. With this we obtain discrete short-time propagators for both one and many particles in arbitrary dimension to orders which have not been accessible before. They can be used to subst

Eric Shellef

We consider the internal diffusion limited aggregation (IDLA) process on the infinite cluster in supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation on Euclidean lattices. It is shown that the process on the cluster behaves like it does on the Euclidean lattice, in that the aggregate covers all the vertices in a Euclidean ball around the origin, such that the ratio of

Boris Tomasik

A Monte Carlo generator of the final state of hadrons emitted from an ultrarelativistic nuclear collision is introduced. An important feature of the generator is a possible fragmentation of the fireball and emission of the hadrons from fragments. Phase space distribution of the fragments is based on the blast wave model extended to azimuthally non-symmetric

Morten Brøns, Anders Skajaa, Ove Skovgaard

We carry out a computational experiment inspired by a physical experiment by Ouellette and Gollub (PRL 99, 194502 (2007)) where a topological transition of the velocity field in a fluid flow is generated by a grid of magnets. At a well-defined Reynolds number Re the motion of the stagnation points becomes so strong that they may merge and annihilate. Replaci

Shige Peng, Detang Zhou

In this work we consider viscosity solutions to second order partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds. We prove maximum principles for solutions to Dirichlet problem on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Using a different method, we generalize maximum principles of Omori and Yau to a viscosity version.

A. Tirziu, A. A. Tseytlin

Motivated by desire to shed light on the strong coupling behaviour of anomalous dimensions of &#34;short&#34; gauge theory operators we consider the famous example of folded spinning string in AdS_5 in the limit of small semiclassical spin parameter §= S/sqrt[lambda]. In this limit the string becomes short and is moving in a near-flat central region of AdS_5

F. Trousselet, D. Poilblanc, R. Moessner

We study a model of strongly correlated S=1/2 fermions on the planar pyrochlore, or checkerboard, lattice, at fractional (1/8) filling. Starting with the extended Hubbard model in the limit of strong Coulomb repulsion, low-energy configurations can be mapped onto hard-core dimer configurations whose dimers carry a spin degree of freedom. An effective Hamilto

Jinshuang Jin, Xin-Qi Li, Meng Luo, YiJing Yan

The generalized quantum master equation with transport particle number resolution, like its conventional unconditioned counterpart, has also the time-local and time-nonlocal prescriptions.The latter is found to be more suitable for the effect of electrodes bandwidth on quantum transport and noise spectrum for weak system-reservoir coupling, as calibrated wit

Ángel Rivas, Alfredo Luis

We develop practical schemes for the measurement of the covariance matrix for intrinsic angular-momentum variables in quantum optics. We particularize this approach to two-beam polarimetry and interferometry, as well as to ensembles of two-level atoms interacting with classical fields. We show the practical advantages of noisy simultaneous measurements.

Naoki Yamamoto, Hendra I. Nurdin, Matthew R. James, Ian R. Petersen

In this paper, we consider a linear quantum network composed of two distantly separated cavities that are connected via a one-way optical field. When one of the cavity is damped and the other is undamped, the overall cavity state obtains a large amount of entanglement in its quadratures. This entanglement however immediately decays and vanishes in a finite t

X. L. Zhang, R. S. Fletcher, S. L. Rolston

We present the first observation of an instability in an expanding ultracold plasma. We observe periodic emission of electrons from an ultracold plasma in weak, crossed magnetic and electric fields, and a strongly perturbed electron density distribution in electron time-of-flight projection images. We identify this instability as a high-frequency electron dr

Kazuma Nakamura, Ryotaro Arita, Masatoshi Imada

Effective Hamiltonians for LaFeAsO and LaFePO are derived from the downfolding scheme based on first-principles calculations and provide insights for newly discovered superconductivity in the family of LnFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_x$, Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, and Gd. Extended Hubbard Hamiltonians for five maximally localized Wannier orbitals per Fe are constructed domi

Hiroyuki Abe, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Ohki

We study (4+2n)-dimensional N=1 super Yang-Mills theory on the orbifold background with non-vanishing magnetic flux. In particular, we study zero-modes of spinor fields. The flavor structure of our models is different from one in magnetized torus models, and would be interesting in realistic model building.

Alexandr Savinov

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is aimed at describing the structure and behaviour of objects by hiding the mechanism of their representation and access in primitive references. In this article we describe an approach, called concept-oriented programming (COP), which focuses on modelling references assuming that they also possess application-specific struc

C. Sasaki, K. Redlich

We discuss transport properties of dynamical fluid composed of quasi-particles whose masses depend on temperature and charge chemical potentials. Based on the relativistic kinetic theory formulated under the relaxation time approximation, we derive a general expression for the bulk viscosity in the quasi-particle medium. We show that dynamically generated pa

H. Ohki, H. Fukaya, S. Hashimoto, T. Kaneko

We calculate the nucleon sigma term in two-flavor lattice QCD utilizing the Feynman-Hellman theorem. Both sea and valence quarks are described by the overlap fermion formulation, which preserves exact chiral and flavor symmetries on the lattice. We analyse the lattice data for the nucleon mass using the analytical formulae derived from the baryon chiral pert

S. Vennes, A. Kawka

We re-examine the evidence for the existence of ultra-massive (M > 1.1 M_sun) white dwarfs based on gravitational redshift of white dwarfs in common proper motion binaries or in clusters, on parallax measurements, on orbital solutions, and, finally, on the analysis of hydrogen line profiles. We conclude that the best evidence is largely based on the analysis

Rinat Ofer, Amit Keren, Omar Chmaissem, Alex Amato

Using muon spin rotation we determine the zero temperature staggered antiferromagnetic order parameter M0 versus hole doping measured from optimum Dp_m, in the (Ca_{x}La_{1-x})(Ba_{1.75-x}La_{0.25+x})Cu_{3}O_{y} system. In this system the maximum Tc and the superexchange J vary by 30% between families (x). M0(x,Dp_m) is found to be x-independent. Using neutr

Dibyendu Roy, Abhishek Dhar

The role of quadratic onsite pinning potentials on determining the size (N) dependence of the disorder averaged steady state heat current <J>, in a isotopically disordered harmonic chain connected to stochastic heat baths, is investigated. For two models of heat baths, namely white noise baths and Rubin&#39;s model of baths, we find that the N dependence of

Weng Lee Lim, Andrew Higgins, Sergei Urazhdin

We demonstrate the predicted out-of-plane precession induced by spin transfer in magnetic nanostructures with in-plane magnetic field. We show that other magnetic excitations have a significant effect on the stability of the out-of plane precession, making it extremely sensitive to the orientation of the applied magnetic field. The data are supported with mi

Victor Chernozhukov, Ivan Fernandez-Val, Alfred Galichon

Suppose that a target function is monotonic, namely, weakly increasing, and an available original estimate of this target function is not weakly increasing. Rearrangements, univariate and multivariate, transform the original estimate to a monotonic estimate that always lies closer in common metrics to the target function. Furthermore, suppose an original sim

Jonatan Lenells

A supersymmetric extension of the Hunter-Saxton equation is constructed. We present its bi-Hamiltonian structure and show that it arises geometrically as a geodesic equation on the space of superdiffeomorphisms of the circle that leave a point fixed endowed with a right-invariant metric.

David P. Feldman, Carl S. McTague, James P. Crutchfield

Intrinsic computation refers to how dynamical systems store, structure, and transform historical and spatial information. By graphing a measure of structural complexity against a measure of randomness, complexity-entropy diagrams display the range and different kinds of intrinsic computation across an entire class of system. Here, we use complexity-entropy d

Chunlei Liu

We present the latest $B$ hadron lifetimes, $B^0_s$ mixing, and $D^0$ mixing measurements using up to 3.0 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by CDF and D0 experiments at Fermilab. The $B^0_s$ lifetime is measured from both $J/ψϕ$ (CP admixture) and flavor specific channels, and the $B_c$ lifetime is obtained from semileptonic channels. Following the $B^0_s$ oscilla

Allen L. Mann

Ordinary first-order logic has the property that two formulas ϕand ψhave the same meaning in a structure if and only if the formula ``ϕiff ψ&#39;&#39; is true in the structure. We prove that independence-friendly logic does not have this property.

Johan Mentink, Servaas Kokkelmans

We propose an easy to use model to solve for interacting atoms in an optical lattice. This model allows for the whole range of weakly to strongly interacting atoms, and it includes the coupling between relative and center-of-mass motion via anharmonic lattice terms. We apply this model to a high-precision spin dynamics experiment, and we discuss the correcti

J. K. Freericks, H. R. Krishnamurthy, Th. Pruschke

The theory for time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy as applied to pump-probe experiments is developed and solved for the generic case of a strongly correlated material. The formal development incorporates all of the nonequilibrium effects of the pump pulse and the finite time width of the probe pulse. While our formal development is completely general, i

Francois Englert, Laurent Houart

Claudio&#39;s warm and endearing personality adds to our admiration for his achievements in physics a sense of friendliness. His constant interest in fundamental questions motivated the following presentation of our attempt to understand the nature of fermions. This problem is an essential element of the quantum world and might be related to the quest for qu

Francesco Mallamace, Elpidio Tombari, Giuseppe Salvetti, Gyan P. Johari

We investigate whether an interpretation of water&#39;s thermodynamics [Science, 319, 582 (2008)] by using analogy with the binary metal alloys lambda-type ordering transition or buckminsterfullerene&#39;s orientational-ordering transition has merit. On examining the heat capacity data used for the nanoconfined water, the construction of the heat capacity pe

Ofir Shalvi, Naftali Sommer, Meir Feder

Motivated by signal processing, we present a new class of channel codes, called signal codes, for continuous-alphabet channels. Signal codes are lattice codes whose encoding is done by convolving an integer information sequence with a fixed filter pattern. Decoding is based on the bidirectional sequential stack decoder, which can be implemented efficiently u

C. Thanassoulas

The seismogenic area in the lithosphere is considered as an open physical system. The mathematical analysis of its inflow - outflow energy balance reveals the presence of specific energy flow physical models. The later comply with what has been observed by seismologists as &#34;accelerated deformation&#34; and &#34;seismic quiescence&#34;. These physical mod

Subhanjoy Mohanty, Frank H. Shu

Previous analyses of magnetospheric accretion and outflow in classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs), within the context of both the X-wind model and other theoretical scenarios, have assumed a dipolar geometry for the stellar magnetic field if it were not perturbed by the presence of an accreting, electrically conducting disk. However, CTTS surveys reveal that accr

Julián Candia, Ezequiel V. Albano

In the magnetic Eden model (MEM), particles have a spin and grow in contact with a thermal bath. Although Ising-like interactions affect the growth dynamics, deposited spins are frozen and not allowed to flip. This review article focuses on recent developments and future prospects, such as spontaneous switching phenomena, critical behavior associated with fr

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

We put forward new properties of lattice solitons in materials and geometries where both, the linear refractive index and the nonlinearity are spatially modulated. We show that the interplay between linear and out-of-phase nonlinear refractive index modulations results in new soliton properties, including modifications of the soliton stability and transverse

Scott E Pollack, Stephan Schlamminger, Jens Gundlach

Variations in the electrostatic surface potential between the proof mass and electrode housing in the space-based gravitational wave mission LISA is one of the largest contributors of noise at frequencies below a few mHz. Torsion balances provide an ideal testbed for investigating these effects in conditions emulative of LISA. Our apparatus consists of a Au

Teppei Baba

We estimate the effect of leptonic CP violating phases in the minimal seesaw model with two heavy neutrinos $N$ by imposing the approximately $μ-τ$ symmetry on the model. For $N$ subject to the $μ-τ$ symmetry, we find that neutrinos show the normal mass hierarchy and obtain the general phase structure that contains only two phases which arise from $μ-τ$ symm

Anvarjon Akhmedov

In this paper we study the almost everywhere convergence of the expansions related to the self-adjoint extension of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the unit sphere. The sufficient conditions for summability is obtained. The more general properties and representation by the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of the Liouville space $L_1^\a$ is us

Vladimir Kanovei, Vassily Lyubetsky

For any abelian Polish sigma-compact group H there exist a sigma-ideal Z over N and a Borel Z-approximate homomorphism f : H --> H^N which is not Z-approximable by a continuous true homomorphism g : H --> H^N.

A. S. Garkun, V. I. Kudin, A. V. Minkevich

Analysis of regular inflationary cosmological models with two torsion functions filled with scalar field with quadratic potential and ultrarelativistic matter is carried out numerically. Properties of different stages of regular inflationary cosmological solutions are studied, restrictions on admissible values of parameters and initial conditions at transiti

K. V. Kavokin

The mechanisms that determine spin relaxation times of localized electrons in impurity bands of n-type semiconductors are considered theoretically and compared with available experimental data. The relaxation time of the non-equilibrium angular momentum is shown to be limited either by hyperfine interaction, or by spin-orbit interaction in course of exchange

T. G. Philbin, U. Leonhardt

Barash has calculated the Casimir forces between parallel birefringent plates with optical axes parallel to the plate boundaries [Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn.\ Zaved., Radiofiz., {\bf 12}, 1637 (1978)]. The interesting new feature of the solution compared to the case of isotropic plates is the existence of a Casimir torque which acts to line up the optical axes if th

Laszlo Erdoes, Manfred Salmhofer, Horng-Tzer Yau

We review our proof that in a scaling limit, the time evolution of a quantum particle in a static random environment leads to a diffusion equation. In particular, we discuss the role of Feynman graph expansions and of renormalization.

Alexandr Savinov

In this paper we present a new approach to data modelling, called the concept-oriented model (CoM), and describe its main features and characteristics including data semantics and operations. The distinguishing feature of this model is that it is based on the formalism of nested ordered sets where any element participates in two structures simultaneously: hi

Yu. P. Goncharov

The confinement mechanism earlier proposed by author is applied to describe the (possible) ground state of toponium $η_t$. For this aim the nonperturbative consistent approach is elaborated in both relativistic and nonrelativistic cases. The study entails estimates for parameters of the confining SU(3)-gluonic field in the above quarkonium, those estimates b

S. Albeverio, B. A. Omirov, A. Kh. Khudoyberdiyev

In this work we investigate the complex Leibniz superalgebras with characteristic sequence $(n-1, 1 | m_1, ..., m_k)$ and with nilindex equal to $n+m.$ We prove that such superalgebras with the condition $m_2\neq0$ have nilindex less than $n+m$. Therefore the complete classification of Leibniz algebras with characteristic sequence $(n-1, 1 | m_1, ..., m_k)$

Ankan Das, Kinsuk Acharyya, Sonali Chakrabarti, Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti

We study the formation of water and methanol in the dense cloud conditions to find the dependence of its production rate on the binding energies, reaction mechanisms, temperatures, and grain site number. We wish to find the effective grain surface area available for chemical reaction and the effective recombination timescales as functions of grain and gas pa

H. Rebel, O. Sima, A. Haungs, C. Manailescu

The muon charge ratio of the lateral muon density distributions in single EAS is studied by simulations, in context of recent proposals to measure this observable in coincidence with EAS observations. While effects of the hadronic interaction do not lead to significant differences of the total muon plus and muon minus content, the differences of the azimutha

L. Warszawski, A. Melatos

A cellular automaton model of pulsar glitches is described, based on the superfluid vortex unpinning paradigm. Recent analyses of pulsar glitch data suggest that glitches result from scale-invariant avalanches \citep{Melatos07a}, which are consistent with a self-organized critical system (SOCS). A cellular automaton provides a computationally efficient means

Sang Won Choi, Sae-Young Chung

The multiplexing gain (MUXG) of $K$-user interference channel (IC) with partially connected interfering links is analyzed. The motivation for the partially connected IC comes from the fact that not all interferences are equally strong in practice. The MUXG is characterized as a function of the number ($K$) of users and the number ($N \geq 1$) of interfering

Noga Alon, Shai Gutner

There is substantial literature dealing with fixed parameter algorithms for the dominating set problem on various families of graphs. In this paper, we give a $k^{O(dk)} n$ time algorithm for finding a dominating set of size at most $k$ in a $d$-degenerated graph with $n$ vertices. This proves that the dominating set problem is fixed-parameter tractable for

James Hirschorn

Hausdorff&#39;s gap condition was satisfied by his original 1936 construction of an (omega-1,omega-1) gap in P(N)/Fin. We solve an open problem in determining whether Hausdorff&#39;s condition is actually stronger than the more modern indestructibility condition, by constructing an indestructible (omega-1,omega-1) gap not equivalent to any gap satisfying Hau

Daniel Feldman, Zuowei Liu, Pran Nath

New results which correlate SUSY dark matter with LHC signals are presented, and a brief review of recent developments in supersymmetric and hidden sector dark matter is given. It is shown that the direct detection of dark matter is very sensitive to the hierarchical SUSY sparticle spectrum and the spectrum is very useful in distinguishing models. It is show

Levi Lopes de Lima, Wayne Rossman

We show that the index of a constant mean curvature 1 surface in hyperbolic 3-space is completely determined by the compact Riemann surface and secondary Gauss map that represent it in Bryant&#39;s Weierstrass representation. We give three applications of this observation. Firstly, it allows us to explicitly compute the index of the catenoid cousins and some

Jean Thierry-Mieg

The interactions and even the number of the Higgs scalar fields are not fixed in the SU(2)U(1) standard model of the electro-weak interactions and the intrinsically chiral nature of the weak interactions is not explained. Embedding SU(2)U(1) into the Lie super-algebra SU(2/1) fills these gaps. The 2 smallest representations of SU(2/1) adequately describe the

Patrick Rebentrost, Masoud Mohseni, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The role of quantum coherence and the environment in the dynamics of excitation energy transfer is not fully understood. In this work, we introduce the concept of dynamical contributions of various physical processes to the energy transfer efficiency. We develop two complementary approaches, based on a Green&#39;s function method and energy transfer suscepti