October 2008 arXiv papers — page 39

Ronaldo Garcia, Jorge Sotomayor

In this paper are given examples of tori T^2 embedded in S^3 with all their asymptotic lines dense.

J. -U. Ness, J. J. Drake, S. Starrfield, M. F. Bode

The evolution of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi was followed with 12 X-ray grating observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton. We present detailed spectral analyses using two independent approaches. From the best dataset, taken on day 13.8 after outburst, we reconstruct the temperature distribution and derive elemental abundances. We find

Dong-Ling Deng, Jing-Ling Chen

In a celebrated paper ([Phys. Rev. A 58, 883 (1998)]), K. Zyczkowski, P. Horodecki, A. Sanpera,and M. Lewenstein proved for the frst time a very interesting theorem that the volume of separable quantum states is nonzero. Inspired by their ideas, we obtain a general analytical lower bound of the volume of separable states (VOSS) for arbitrary N-dimensional sy

I. F. Bikmaev, R. A. Burenin, M. G. Revnivtsev, S. Yu. Sazonov

The results of optical identifications of five hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane region from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey are presented. The X-ray data on one source (IGRJ20216+4359) are published for the first time. The optical observations were performed with 1.5-m RTT-150 telescope (TUBITAK National Observatory, Antalya, Turkey) and 6-m BTA telescop

S. Ananiev, P. Nikrityuk, K. Eckert

The paper proposes a new fragmentation mechanism of dendrite arms. The theoretical basis of this mechanism is a shift in the thermodynamical equilibrium at the solid-liquid interface due to the presence of elastic energy. This effect is modelled by the generalized Gibbs-Thomson condition [1], where each term is calculated analytically using a simple Bernoull

Teemu Pennanen, Irina Penner

We study superhedging of contingent claims with physical delivery in a discrete-time market model with convex transaction costs. Our model extends Kabanov's currency market model by allowing for nonlinear illiquidity effects. We show that an appropriate generalization of Schachermayer's robust no arbitrage condition implies that the set of claims hed

Kazunari Shima, Motomu Tsuda

We show systematically the relation between a N = 2 nonlinear supersymmetric (NLSUSY) model and a N = 2 SUSY QED theory by means of the superfield formulation in two dimensional spacetime without imposing a priori any special gauge conditions for a gauge superfield.

Fang-Yu Hong, Shi-Jie Xiong

We propose a scheme for long-distance distribution of quantum entanglement in which the entanglement between qubits at intermediate stations of the channel is established by using bright light pulses in squeezed states coupled to the qubits in cavities with a weak dispersive interaction. The fidelity of the entanglement between qubits at the neighbor station

Michael Larsen

With suitable order of limits, as p, m, and n all tend to infinity, the distribution of the normalized trace of Frobenius on H^1 of a "random" plane curve of degree n over the field with p^m elements, tends to a Gaussian distribution. The same is true of a "random" curve of genus g over the field with p^m elements.

Chuan Wang, Yu-Bo Sheng, Xi-Han Li, Fu-Guo Deng

Recently Xiao et al. proposed a scheme for entanglement purification based on doubly entangled photon states (Phys. Rev. A 77(2008) 042315). We modify their scheme for improving the efficiency of entanglement purification. This modified scheme contains two steps, i.e., the bit-flip error correction and the entanglement purification of phase-flip errors. All

Heng Lian

A popular model selection approach for generalized linear mixed-effects models is the Akaike information criterion, or AIC. Among others, \cite{vaida05} pointed out the distinction between the marginal and conditional inference depending on the focus of research. The conditional AIC was derived for the linear mixed-effects model which was later generalized b

Giovanni Carraro, Edgardo Costa

The detailed spiral structure in the outer Galactic disk is still poorly known, and for several Galactic directions we rely on model extrapolations. One of these regions is the fourth Galactic quadrant, in the sector comprised between Vela and Carina (270 <l< 300) where no spiral arms have been detected so far in the optical beyond 270. By means of deep UBVI

V. Krasnoholovets, S. Skliarenko, O. Strokach

We present studies of the behavior of the permittivity of such liquid systems as pure distilled water, alcohol and 50%-aqueous solutions of alcohol as affected by the inerton field generated by a special signal generator contained within a wrist-watch or bracelet made by so-called Teslar technology. It has been found that the changes in fact are significant.

K. Ranjith

The stability of steady, dynamic, anti-plane slipping at a planar interface between two dissimilar anisotropic linear elastic solids is studied. The solids are assumed to possess a plane of symmetry normal to the slip direction, so that in-plane displacements and normal stress changes on the slip plane do not occur. Friction at the interface is assumed to fo

Mark R. Dennis

C points, that is isolated points of circular polarization in transverse fields of varying polarization, are classified morphologically into three distinct types, known as lemons, stars and monstars. These morphologies are interpreted here according to two natural parameters associated with the singularity, namely the anisotropy of the C point, and the polar

Akaki Tikaradze

We prove that the center of an infinitesimal Cherednik algebra of $\mf{gl}_2$ is the polynomial algebra of two variables over the field of characteristic 0. In positive characteristic we show that any infinitesimal Cherednik algebra is a finitely generated module over its center.

Bing-Long Chen, Siu-Hung Tang, Xi-Ping Zhu

In this paper, we completely classify all compact 4-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature. We show that they are diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{S}^4,$ or $\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^4$ or quotients of $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$ by a cocompact fixed point free subgroup of the isometry group of the standard metric of $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$, or a conne

Kim Fook Lee

Polarization correlations of two distant observers are observed by using coherent light fields based on Stapp&#39;s formulation of nonlocality. Using a 50/50 beam splitter transformation, a vertically polarized coherent light field is found to be entangled with a horizontally polarized coherent noise field. The superposed light fields at each output port of

Yan-Yang Zhang, Jiangping Hu, B. A. Bernevig, X. R. Wang

We investigate disordered graphene with strong long-range impurities. Contrary to the common belief that delocalization should persist in such a system against any disorder, as the system is ex-pected to be equivalent to a disordered two-dimensional Dirac Fermionic system, we find that states near the Dirac points are localized for sufficiently strong disord

Kenji Yonemitsu

Nonequilibrium dynamics are studied near the quantum phase transition point in the one-dimensional quantum Blume-Emery-Griffiths model. Its pseudo-spin component $ S^z $ represents an electric polarization, and $ (S^z)^2 $ corresponds to ionicity, in mixed-stack charge-transfer complexes that exhibit a transition between neutral quantum-paraelectric and ioni

Donghyung Lee, Kieron Burke, Lucian A. Constantin, John P. Perdew

We study the asymptotic expansion of the neutral-atom energy as the atomic number Z goes to infinity, presenting a new method to extract the coefficients from oscillating numerical data. We find that recovery of the correct expansion is an exact condition on the Kohn-Sham kinetic energy that is important for the accuracy of approximate kinetic energy functio

Axel Boldt, Michael Janich

We propose to improve medical decision making and reduce global health care costs by employing a free Internet-based medical information system with two main target groups: practicing physicians and medical researchers. After acquiring patients&#39; consent, physicians enter medical histories, physiological data and symptoms or disorders into the system; an

Florent Pignatel, Maxime Nicolas, Elisabeth Guazzelli, David Saintillan

This fluid dynamics video presents experiments and simulations of gravity-driven particulate jets in viscous fluids at low Reynolds number. An initially straight jet is shown to develop varicose modulations of its diameter as it sediments under the action of gravity. While this instability is qualitatively reminiscent of the classical Rayleigh-Plateau instab

Bixiang Wang

The existence of a random attractor in H^1(R^3) \times L^2(R^3) is proved for the damped semilinear stochastic wave equation defined on the entire space R^3. The nonlinearity is allowed to have a cubic growth rate which is referred to as the critical exponent. The uniform pullback estimates on the tails of solutions for large space variables are established.

Yuqin Yao, Yunbo Zeng

We show that the KdV6 equation recently studied in [1,2] is equivalent to the Rosochatius deformation of KdV equation with self-consistent sources (RD-KdVESCS) recently presented in [9]. The $t$-type bi-Hamiltonian formalism of KdV6 equation (RD-KdVESCS) is constructed by taking $x$ as evolution parameter. Some new solutions of KdV6 equation, such as soliton

George Chapline

In this paper we suggest a novel explanation for the alpha-delta transition in plutonium based on an analogy between the evolution of the actinide ground state as a function of spin orbit coupling and the behaviour of thin film superconductors in a magnetic field. The key point is that in metals with a low carrier density spin-orbit interactions give rise to

Carlos L. Perez, Jonathan D. Posner

In non-dilute colloidal suspensions, gradients in particle volume fraction result in gradients in electrical conductivity and permittivity. An externally applied electric field couples with gradients in electrical conductivity and permittivity and, under some conditions, can result in electric body forces that drive the flow unstable forming vortices. The ex

T. Gokmen, Medini Padmanabhan, M. Shayegan

We measure the effective mass (m*) of interacting two-dimensional electrons confined to an AlAs quantum well while we change the conduction-band valley occupation and the spin polarization via the application of strain and magnetic field, respectively. Compared to its band value, m* is enhanced unless the electrons are fully valley and spin polarized. Incide

Christopher A. Onken, Juna A. Kollmeier

We present a method for obtaining accurate black hole (BH) mass estimates from the MgII emission line in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Employing the large database of AGN measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) presented by Shen et al., we find that AGNs in the redshift range 0.3-0.9, for which a given object can have both H-beta and MgII line

Simone Speziale

I review the definition of n-point functions in loop quantum gravity, discussing what has been done and what are the main open issues. Particular attention is dedicated to gauge aspects and renormalization.

Adrian C. Ottewill, Barry Wardell

We extend our previous calculation of the quasi-local contribution to the self-force on a scalar particle to general (not necessarily geodesic) motion in a general spacetime. In addition to the general case and the case of a particle at rest in a stationary spacetime, we consider as examples a particle held at rest in Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman space

Ozren Perse

Let $L_{D_{\ell}}(-\ell +{3/2},0)$ (resp. $L_{B_{\ell}}(-\ell +{3/2},0)$) be the simple vertex operator algebra associated to affine Lie algebra of type $D_{\ell}^{(1)}$ (resp. $B_{\ell}^{(1)}$) with the lowest admissible half-integer level $-\ell + {3/2}$. We show that $L_{D_{\ell}}(-\ell +{3/2},0)$ is a vertex subalgebra of $L_{B_{\ell}}(-\ell +{3/2},0)$ w

Jason A. Behrstock, Yair N. Minsky

We study a notion of a Lipschitz, permutation-invariant &#34;centroid&#34; for triples of points in mapping class groups MCG(S), which satisfies a certain polynomial growth bound. A consequence (via work of Drutu-Sapir or Chatterji-Ruane) is the Rapid Decay Property for MCG(S).

M. L. Olsen, J. D. Perreault, T. D. Cumby, D. S. Jin

We create atom-molecule superpositions in a Bose-Fermi mixture of Rb-87 and K-40 atoms. The superpositions are generated by ramping an applied magnetic field near an interspecies Fano-Feshbach resonance to coherently couple atom and molecule states. Rabi- and Ramsey-type experiments show oscillations in the molecule population that persist as long as 150 mic

Bin W. Zhang, Daniel M. Zuckerman, David Jasnow

The &#34;weighted ensemble&#34; method, introduced by Huber and Kim, [G. A. Huber and S. Kim, Biophys. J. 70, 97 (1996)], is one of a handful of rigorous approaches to path sampling of rare events. Expanding earlier discussions, we show that the technique is statistically exact for a wide class of Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics. The derivation is based

Matthew D. Kistler, Hasan Yuksel, Shin&#39;ichiro Ando, John F. Beacom

The legacy of solar neutrinos suggests that large neutrino detectors should be sited underground. However, to instead go underwater bypasses the need to move mountains, allowing much larger water Cherenkov detectors. We show that reaching a detector mass scale of ~5 Megatons, the size of the proposed Deep-TITAND, would permit observations of neutrino &#34;mi

Dimitri A. Gadotti

We have performed 2D bulge/bar/disc decompositions using g, r and i-band images of a representative sample of nearly 1000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that the Petrosian concentration index is a better proxy for bulge-to-total ratio than the global Sersic index. We show that pseudo-bulges can be distinguished from classical bulges as o

Alexandre Alves, O. J. P. Eboli, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, J. K. Mizukoshi

We study the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to probe the spin of new massive vector boson resonances predicted by Higgsless models. We consider its production via weak boson fusion which relies only on the coupling between the new resonances and the weak gauge bosons. We show that the LHC will be able to unravel the spin of the particles a

Mark R. Dennis, Alasdair C. Hamilton, Johannes Courtial

Waves are superoscillatory where their local phase gradient exceeds the maximum wavenumber in their Fourier spectrum. We consider the superoscillatory area fraction of random optical speckle patterns. This follows from the joint probability density function of intensity and phase gradient for isotropic gaussian random wave superpositions. Strikingly, this fr

J. S. White, V. Hinkov, R. W. Heslop, R. J. Lycett

We report on small-angle neutron scattering studies of the intrinsic vortex lattice (VL) structure in detwinned YBa2Cu3O7 at 2 K, and in fields up to 10.8 T. Because of the suppressed pinning to twin-domain boundaries, a new distorted hexagonal VL structure phase is stabilized at intermediate fields. It is separated from a low-field hexagonal phase of differ

Roderick R. La Foy, Tadd T. Truscott, Alexandra H. Techet

This fluid dynamics video shows the impact of a hydrophobic sphere impacting a water surface. The sphere has a mass ratio of m* = 1.15, a wetting angle of 110 degrees, a diameter of 9.5 mm, and impacts the surface with a Froude number of Fr = 9.2. The first sequence shows an impact of a sphere on the free surface illustrating the formation of the splash crow

Bernard Pannetier, Herve&#39; Courtois, Sukumar Rajauria

In a hybrid Superconductor - Insulator - Normal metal tunnel junction biased just below the gap, the extraction of hot electrons out of the normal metal results in electronic cooling effect. The quasiparticles injected in the superconductor accumulate near the tunnel interface, thus increasing the effective superconductor temperature. We propose a simple mod

C. Adam, P. Klimas, J. Sanchez-Guillen, A. Wereszczynski

A procedure allowing for the construction of Lorentz invariant integrable models living in d+1 dimensional space-time and with an n dimensional target space is provided. Here, integrability is understood as the existence of the generalized zero-curvature formulation and infinitely many conserved quantities. A close relation between the Lagrange density of th

Lutz Hille, Markus Perling

In this article we consider exceptional sequences of invertible sheaves on smooth complete rational surfaces. We show that to every such sequence one can associate a smooth complete toric surface in a canonical way. We use this structural result to prove various theorems on exceptional and strongly exceptional sequences of invertible sheaves on rational surf

S. Pastore, R. Schiavilla, J. L. Goity

Nuclear electromagnetic currents are derived in time-ordered perturbation theory within an effective-field-theory framework including explicit nucleons, $Δ$ isobars, and pions up to one loop, or N$^3$LO. The currents obtained at N$^2$LO, {\it i.e.} ignoring loop corrections, are used in a study of neutron radiative captures on protons and deuterons at therma

Ricardo Gallego Torrome

We show that there are not pure $\mathcal{C}^5$ regular y-global Landsberg surfaced. The proof is based on the averaged connection associated with the linear Chern&#39;s connection and the classification of irreducibles holonomies of torsion-free affine connections. The structure consists on exausting all the possible cases and showing that in dimension 2 La

Jonah Sinick

We consider a class of generating functions analogous to the generating function of the partition function and establish a bound on the primes $\ell$ for which their coefficients $c(n)$ obey congruences of the form $c(\ell n + a) \equiv 0 \pmod \ell$. We apply this result to obtain a complete characterization of the congruences of the same form that the sequ

C. M. Hui

As a calibrated laser pulse propagates through the atmosphere, the intensity of the Rayleigh scattered light arriving at the VERITAS telescopes can be calculated precisely. This allows for absolute calibration of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) to be simple and straightforward. In these proceedings, we present the comparison between laser dat

M. B. Tsang, Jenny Lee, S. C. Su, J. Y. Dai

We have extracted 565 neutron spectroscopic factors of sd and fp shell nuclei by systematically analyzing more than 2000 measured (d,p) angular distributions. We are able to compare 125 of the extracted spectroscopic factors to values predicted by large-basis shell-model calculations and evaluate the accuracies of spectroscopic factors predicted by different

Ivan Cheltsov, Constantin Shramov

We prove the existence of Kahler-Einstein metrics on a nonsingular section of the Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}(2, 5)\subset\mathbb{P}^9$ by a linear subspace of codimension 3, and the Fermat hypersurface of degree 6 in $\mathbb{P}(1,1,1,2,3)$. We also show that a global log canonical threshold of the Mukai--Umemura variety is equal to 1/2.

M. M. Fogler

The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and hole puddles. Statistical properties of this density distribution as well as the charge compressibility of the system are

D. Garcia-Senz, A. Relano, R. M. Cabezon, E. Bravo

The axisymmetric form of the hydrodynamic equations within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) formalism is presented and checked using idealized scenarios taken from astrophysics (free fall collapse, implosion and further pulsation of a sun-like star), gas dynamics (wall heating problem, collision of two streams of gas) and inertial confinement fusion

Changrim Ahn, Rafael I. Nepomechie

We have recently proposed an S-matrix for the planar limit of the N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory of Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis and Maldacena which leads to the all-loop Bethe ansatz equations conjectured by Gromov and Vieira. An unusual feature of this proposal is that the scattering of A and B particles is reflectionless. We consider here an alterna

C. M. Hui

During the 2007/2008 season, VERITAS was used for observations at E>200 GeV of several extragalactic non-blazar objects such as galaxy clusters, starburst and interacting galaxies, dwarf galaxies, and nearby galaxies. In these proceedings, we present preliminary results from our observations of dwarf galaxies and M87. Results from observation of other non-bl

A. Bellini, G. Piotto, L. R. Bedin, J. Anderson

Omega Centauri is the most well studied Globular Cluster because of its numerous puzzling features. Intensive spectroscopic follow-up observing campaigns targeting stars at different positions on the color-magnitude diagram promises to clarify some of these peculiarities. To able to target cluster members reliably during spectroscopic surveys and both spatia

Takahiro Kitayama

We study an invariant of a 3-manifold which consists of Reidemeister torsion for linear representations which pass through a finite group. We show a Dehn surgery formula on this invariant and compute that of a Seifert manifold over $S^2$. As a consequence we obtain a necessary condition for a result of Dehn surgery along a knot to be Seifert fibered, which c

Juan Zhao

We study a class of stochastic integral equations with jumps under non-Lipschitz conditions. We use the method of Euler approximations to obtain the existence of the solution and give some sufficient conditions for the strong uniqueness.

Patrick E. Müller, Jorick S. Vink

Stellar winds are an important aspect of our understanding of the evolution of massive stars and their input into the interstellar medium. Here we present solutions for the velocity field and mass-loss rates for stellar outflows as well as for the case of mass accretion through the use of the so-called Lambert W-function. For the case of a radiation-driven w

Geza Odor, Bartosz Liedke, Karl-Heinz Heinig

We show that a 2+1 dimensional discrete surface growth model exhibiting Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class scaling can be mapped onto a two dimensional conserved lattice gas model of directed dimers. In case of KPZ height anisotropy the dimers follow driven diffusive motion. We confirm by numerical simulations that the scaling exponents of the dimer model are i

Jae Wook Kim, S. Y. Haam, Y. S. Oh, S. Park

The study of abrupt increases in magnetization with magnetic field known as metamagnetic transitions has opened a rich vein of new physics in itinerant electron systems, including the discovery of quantum critical end points with a marked propensity to develop new kinds of order. However, the electric analogue of the metamagnetic critical end point, a &#34;m

R. Conte, A. M. Grundland, B. Huard

A modified version of the conditional symmetry method, together with the classical method, is used to obtain new classes of elliptic solutions of the isentropic ideal compressible fluid flow in (3+1) dimensions. We focus on those types of solutions which are expressed in terms of the Weierstrass P-functions of Riemann invariants. These solutions are of speci

Jeffrey Winicour

I review the development of numerical evolution codes for general relativity based upon the characteristic initial value problem. Progress in characteristic evolution is traced from the early stage of 1D feasibility studies to 2D axisymmetric codes that accurately simulate the oscillations and gravitational collapse of relativistic stars and to current 3D co

BES Collaboration

Based on 58 million J/Psi events collected with the BESII detector at the BEPC, the baryon pair processes J/Psi to $Σ^+ \barΣ^-$ and J/Psi to $Ξ^0 \barΞ^0$ are observed for the first time. The branching fractions are measured to be ${\cal B}(J/Psi to Σ^+ \barΣ^-)=(1.50\pm 0.10\pm 0.22)\times 10^{-3}$ and ${\cal B}(J/Psi to Ξ^0 \barΞ^0)=(1.20\pm 0.12\pm 0.21)

Junji Hisano, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kazunori Kohri, Kazunori Nakayama

The positron excess observed by the PAMELA experiment may come from dark matter annihilation, if the annihilation cross section is large enough. We show that the dark matter annihilation scenarios to explain the positron excess may also be compatible with the discrepancy of the cosmic lithium abundances between theory and observations. The wino-like neutrali

J. Niederle, A. G. Nikitin

Galilei-invariant equations for massless fields are obtained via contractions of relativistic wave equations. It is shown that the collection of non-equivalent Galilei-invariant wave equations for massless fields with spin equal 1 and 0 is very reach and corresponds to various contractions of the representations of the Lorentz group to those of the Galilei o

C. R. Gilson, J. J. C. Nimmo, C. M. Sooman

Matrix solutions of a noncommutative KP and a noncommutative mKP equation which can be expressed as quasideterminants are discussed. In particular, we investigate interaction properties of two-soliton solutions.

Boris V. Fine

Superlattice of spin vortices has been proposed in an earlier article as an alternative to the stripe interpretation of spin modulations in 1/8-doped lanthanum cuprates. The present article addresses several additional characteristics of the spin vortex lattice, namely: (i) the nature of extended charge states; (ii) the position of neutron spin peaks as a fu

Tadd T. Truscott, Jeffrey M. Aristoff, Alexandra H. Techet

The hydrodynamics associated with water-entry of spheres can be highly variable with respect to the material and kinematic properties of the sphere. This series of five fluid dynamics videos illustrates several subtle but interesting variations. The first series of videos contrasts the nature of impact between a hydrophilic and hydrophobic sphere, and illust

Philippe Charpentier, Yves Dupain

We introduce the notion of extremal basis of tangent vector fields at a boundary point of finite type of a pseudo-convex domain in $\mathbb{C}^n$. Then we define the class of geometrically separated domains at a boundary point, and give a description of their complex geometry. Examples of such domains are given, for instance, by locally lineally convex domai

Semjon Stepanow, Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

We formulate the statistical mechanical description of liquid systems for both polarizable and polar systems in an electric field in the $\mathbf{E}$-ensemble, which is the pendant to the thermodynamic description in terms of the free energy at constant potential. The contribution of the electric field to the configurational integral $\tilde{Q}_{N}(\mathbf{E

E. Minguzzi

A classical result in Lorentzian geometry states that a strongly causal spacetime is globally hyperbolic if and only if the Lorentzian distance is finite valued for every metric choice in the conformal class. It is proven here that a non-total imprisoning spacetime is globally hyperbolic if and only if for every metric choice in the conformal class the Loren

Toby Gee

We prove a variety of results on the existence of automorphic Galois representations lifting a residual automorphic Galois representation. We prove a result on the structure of deformation rings of local Galois representations, and deduce from this and the method of Khare and Wintenberger a result on the existence of modular lifts of specified type for Galoi

O. Tal, M. Kiguchi, W. H. A. Thijssen, D. Djukic

The simplicity of single-molecule junctions based on direct bonding of a small molecule between two metallic electrodes make them an ideal system for the study of fundamental questions related to molecular electronics. Here we study the conductance properties of six different molecules suspended between Pt electrodes. All the molecular junctions show a typic

Paul T. P. Ho, Pablo Altamirano, Chia-Hao Chang, Shu-Hao Chang

The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA) is the first interferometer dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation at 3mm wavelength. The choice of 3mm was made to minimize the contributions from foreground synchrotron radiation and Galactic dust emission. The initial configuration of seven 0.6m telescopes m

Ryo Tsutsui, Takashi Nakamura, Daisuke Yonetoku, Toshio Murakami

We consider two empirical relations using data only from the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), peak energy ($E_p$) - peak luminosity ($L_p$) relation (so called Yonetoku relation) and $E_p$-isotropic energy ($E_{\rm iso}$) relation (so called Amati relation). We first suggest the independence of the two relations although they have been considered

H. J. Blümer, D. Gora, M. Roth, A. Tamburro

The Pierre Auger Observatory has the capability of detecting neutrino-induced extensive air showers by searching for very inclined showers with a significant electromagnetic component. In order to study the detector response of the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory, Monte Carlo simulations of up-going and down-going neutrino showers for all flavo

A. -K. Jappsen, M. -M. Mac Low, S. C. O. Glover, R. S. Klessen

The formation of the first stars out of metal-free gas appears to result in stars at least an order of magnitude more massive than in the present-day case. We here consider what controls the transition from a primordial to a modern initial mass function. It has been proposed that this occurs when effective metal line cooling occurs at a metallicity threshold

Liviu Ornea, Radu Pantilie

We introduce a natural notion of holomorphic map between generalized complex manifolds and we prove some related results on Dirac structures and generalized Kaehler manifolds.

J. Ferrer, V. M. Garcia-Suarez

We present a theoretical study of the transport characteristics of molecular junctions, where first-row diatomic molecules are attached to (001) gold and platinum electrodes. We find that the conductance of all of these junctions is of the order of the conductance quantum unit $G_0$, spelling out that they belong to the transparent regime. We further find th

Laurent Pagani, Charlotte Vastel, Edouard Hugo, Viatcheslav Kokoouline

Context. The high degree of deuteration observed in some prestellar cores depends on the ortho-to-para H2 ratio through the H3+ fractionation. Aims. We want to constrain the ortho/para H2 ratio across the L183 prestellar core. This is mandatory to correctly describe the deuter- ation amplification phenomenon in depleted cores such as L183 and to relate the t

S. Valk, N. Delsate, A. Lemaitre, T. Carletti

In this paper we provide an extensive analysis of the global dynamics of high-area-to-mass ratios geosynchronous (GEO) space debris, applying a recent technique developed by Cincotta et al. (2000), Mean Exponential Growth factor of Nearby Orbits (MEGNO), which provides an efficient tool to investigate both regular and chaotic components of the phase space. W

Michael Baake, Eike Lau, Vytautas Paskunas

It is well-known that the Artin-Mazur dynamical zeta function of a hyperbolic or quasi-hyperbolic toral automorphism is a rational function, which can be calculated in terms of the eigenvalues of the corresponding integer matrix. We give an elementary proof of this fact that extends to the case of general toral endomorphisms without change. The result is a c

M. Jakimowicz, J. Tafel

A class of SO(n+1) symmetric solutions of the (N+n+1)-dimensional Einstein equations is found. It contains 5-dimensional metrics of Gross and Perry and Millward.

H. Ikeda

We investigate interplay between magnetic fluctuations and superconductivity in the effective five-band Hubbard model for iron-oxypnictide superconductors on the basis of the fluctuation-exchange approximation. As for the normal-state properties, we find the pseudogap behavior in the NMR relaxation rate and the spectral weight in the electron-doped region, w

E. Friedman

Parameters of nuclear density distributions are derived from least-squares fits to strong interaction observables in exotic atoms. Global analyses of antiprotonic and pionic atoms show reasonably good agreement between the two types of probes regarding the average behaviour of root-mean-square radii of the neutron distributions. Apparent conflict regarding t

G. G. Kozlov

For a one dimensional half-infinite chain with diagonal disorder we calculated the ultimate at $t\to\infty$ value of the average excitation density at the edge site $D$ if at $t=0$ the excitation was localised at the edge site (Anderson&#39; s creterium). We obtained the following results: i) for the binary disordered chain we derived the close expression fo

Gabriel Stoltz, Michele Lazzeri, Francesco Mauri

We present a study of the phononic thermal conductivity of isotopically disordered carbon nanotubes. In particular, the behavior of the thermal conductivity as a function of the system length is investigated, using Green&#39;s function techniques to compute the transmission across the system. The method is implemented using linear scaling algorithms, which a

R. Martinez-Casado, A. S. Sanz, G. Rojas-Lorenzo, S. Miret-Artes

The diffusion and low vibrational motions of adsorbates on surfaces can be well described by a purely stochastic model, the so-called interacting single adsorbate model, for low-moderate coverages (\theta \lesssim 0.12). Within this model, the effects of thermal surface phonons and adsorbate-adsorbate collisions are accounted for by two uncorrelated noise fu

C. -C. Chou, A. S. Sanz, S. Miret-Artes, R. E. Wyatt

Wave-packet interference is investigated within the complex quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism using a hydrodynamic description. Quantum interference leads to the formation of the topological structure of quantum caves in space-time Argand plots. These caves consist of the vortical and stagnation tubes originating from the isosurfaces of the amplitude of the

Emeric Gioan, Christophe Paul

In this paper, we revisit the split decomposition of graphs and give new combinatorial and algorithmic results for the class of totally decomposable graphs, also known as the distance hereditary graphs, and for two non-trivial subclasses, namely the cographs and the 3-leaf power graphs. Precisely, we give strutural and incremental characterizations, leading

R. Gladwin Pradeep, V. K. Chandrasekar, M. Senthilvelan, M. Lakshmanan

We present a system of $N$-coupled Liénard type nonlinear oscillators which is completely integrable and possesses explicit $N$ time-independent and $N$ time-dependent integrals. In a special case, it becomes maximally superintegrable and admits $(2N-1)$ time-independent integrals. The results are illustrated for the N=2 and arbitrary number cases. General e

Norihito Hiasa, Ryusuke Ikeda

We examine the depairing field $H_{c2}(T)$ of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with a spin-orbit coupling larger than the Zeeman energy at $H_{c2}(0)$ by taking account of the mixing of spin-singlet and triplet pairing states due to the missing parity. When the singlet and triplet pairing components are mixed with an equal weight in a cubic non-centrosymm

R Gladwin Pradeep, V K Chandrasekar, M Senthilvelan, M Lakshmanan

In this paper we point out the existence of a remarkable nonlocal transformation between the damped harmonic oscillator and a modified Emden type nonlinear oscillator equation with linear forcing, $\ddot{x}+αx\dot{x}+βx^3+γx=0,$ which preserves the form of the time independent integral, conservative Hamiltonian and the equation of motion. Generalizing this t

S. Kawasaki, K. Shimada, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo

We report $^{75}$As nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) studies on superconducting oxypnictide LaFeAsO$_{0.92}$F$_{0.08}$ ($T_{\rm c}$ = 23 K). The temperature dependence of the spin lattice relaxation rate (1/$T_1$) decreases below $T_{\rm c}$ without a coherence (Hebel-Slichter) peak and shows a temperature dependence that is not simple power-law nor expone

Kohta Murase, Hajime Takami

We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient UHECR sources and required isotropic cosmic-ray energy input per burst as 0.1 Gpc^-3 yr^-1 < rho_0 < 10^3.5 Gpc^-3 yr^-1

Siavash Ghabezloo, Jean Sulem, Jérémie Saint-Marc

The effect of undrained heating on volume change and induced pore pressure increase is an important point to properly understand the behaviour and evaluate the integrity of an oil well cement sheath submitted to rapid temperature changes. This thermal pressurization of the pore fluid is due to the discrepancy between the thermal expansion coefficients of the

Thierry Désoyer

The problem of the molecular diffusion in a biphasic fluid mixture is studied here from the two complementary points of view of Continuum Mechanics - in a somewhat different manner from Truesdell in &#34;Mechanical basis of diffusion&#34; (J. Chem. Physics (U.S.), 37 (1962) 2336-2344) - and that of Thermodynamics. It is established that the force involved in

Yukinobu Toda, Takehiko Yasuda

We explain the isomorphism between the $G$-Hilbert scheme and the F-blowup from the noncommutative viewpoint after Van den Bergh. In doing this, we immediately and naturally arrive at the notion of $D$-modules. We also find, as a byproduct, a canonical way to construct a noncommutative resolution at least for a few classes of singularities in positive charac

Hongbin Sun, Shicheng Wang, Jianchun Wu, Hao Zheng

For each closed oriented 3-manifold $M$ in Thurston&#39;s picture, the set of degrees of self-maps on $M$ is given.

Madeleine E. Jetter

We consider the Steiner polynomial of a C^2 convex body K in R^n (n \leq 5). The opposites of the real parts of the roots of the Steiner polynomial are bounded below by the minimum value and above by the maximum value of the principal radii of curvature of the boundary of K.