October 2008 arXiv papers — page 53

Hugues de Riedmatten, Mikael Afzelius, Matthias Staudt, Christoph Simon

Coherent and reversible mapping of quantum information between light and matter is an important experimental challenge in quantum information science. In particular, it is a decisive milestone for the implementation of quantum networks and quantum repeaters. So far, quantum interfaces between light and atoms have been demonstrated with atomic gases, and with

M. G. Vergniory, V. M. Silkin, I. G. Gurtubay, J. M. Pitarke

We present it ab initio calculations of the electronic energy loss of charged particles moving outside a magnesium surface, from a realistic description of the one-electron band structure and a full treatment of the dynamical electronic response of valence electrons. Our results indicate that the finite width of the plasmon resonance, which is mainly due to

A. C. Rovero, G. E. Romero, I. Allekotte, X. Bertou

We have searched for possible sites in Argentina for the installation of large air Cherenkov telescope arrays and water Cherenkov systems. At present seven candidates are identified at altitudes from 2500 to 4500 m. The highest sites are located at the Northwest of the country, in La Puna. Sites at 2500 and 3100 m are located in the West at El Leoncito Obser

Ryosuke Yano, Kojiro Suzuki, Hisayasu Kuroda

The previously developed Flux-Vector-Splitting (FVS) method was formulated here for the first-order version of Z4 formalism. Then, the characteristics of this method formulated for Z4 formalism were studied by numerically analyzing the evolution of two types of black holes (free and stuffed). Finally, these numerical results from the FVS method were compared

Takashi Mori, Seiji Miyashita

We study the structure of the time evolution of the density matrix in contact with a thermal bath in a standard projection operator sheme. The reduced density matrix of the system in the steady state is obtained by tracing out the degree of freedom of the thermal bath from the equilibrium density matrix of the total system. This reduced density matrix is mod

Hanns P. Petsch, Christian Theis

Modeling interacting galaxies to reproduce observed systems is still a challenge due to the extended parameter space (among other problems). Orbit and basic galaxy parameters can be tackled by fast simulation techniques like the restricted N-body method, applied in the fundamental work by Toomre & Toomre (1972). This approach allows today for the study of mi

Bo Yan, Yisheng Ma, Yuzhu Wang

We propose a new scheme of microwave frequency standards based on pulsed coherent optical information storage. Unlike the usual frequency reference where the Ramsey fringe is printed on the population of a certain state, we print the Ramsey fringe on the coherence. Then the coherence is detected in the form of a retrieval light. The central line of the Ramse

J. Gonzalez Lopez, K. Jansen, A. Shindler

The Schroedinger functional provides a valuable tool to perform non-perturbative renormalization on the lattice, in particular in a mass independent scheme. We study two different types of chirally rotated Schroedinger functional boundary conditions which have been recently proposed to retain the bulk automatic O(a) improvement of massless Wilson fermions in

O. V. Selyugin, O. V. Teryaev

In the framework of the new t-dependence of the General Parton Distributions (GPDs), which reproduce the electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron at small and large momentum transfer, the gravitational form factors of the nucleons and a separate contribution of the quarks to them are obtained.

Richard de Grijs, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, Simon P. Goodwin

The diagnostic age versus mass-to-light ratio diagram is often used in attempts to constrain the shape of the stellar initial mass function, and the stability and the potential longevity of extragalactic young to intermediate-age massive star clusters. Here, we explore the pitfalls associated with this approach and its potential for use with Galactic open cl

S. Bahr, C. J. Milios, L. F. Jones, E. K. Brechin

We present magnetization measurements on the single molecule magnet Mn6, revealing various tunnel transitions inconsistent with a giant-spin description. We propose a dimeric model of the molecule with two coupled spins S=6, which involves crystal-field anisotropy, symmetric Heisenberg exchange interaction, and antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange in

A. R. Mkrtchyan, A. A. Saharian, V. V. Parazian

In the present paper we investigate coherent bremsstrahlung of high energy electrons moving in a periodically deformed single crystal with a complex base. The formula for corresponding differential cross-section is derived for an arbitrary deformation field. The conditions are discussed under which the influence of the deformation is important. The case is c

Antonio Brotas

The "rigid bodies" must be in Relativity the "deformable bodies" where the longitudinal waves propagate with the maximun speed $c$. In 1909, Born studied the "relativistic underformable body" but made the mistake of calling it "rigid". The "rigid body" one can find in all Relativity books is, in fact, Born's "u

Daniel Friedan, Anatoly Konechny

We consider the general supersymmetric one-dimensional quantum system with boundary, critical in the bulk but not at the boundary. The renormalization group flow on the space of boundary conditions is generated by the boundary beta functions β^{a}(λ) for the boundary coupling constants λ^{a}. We prove a gradient formula \partial\ln z/\partialλ^{a} =-g_{ab}^{

G. Prando, P. Carretta, S. R. Giblin, J. Lago

A study of the modifications of the magnetic properties of Ho$_{2-x}$Y$_x$Sn$_2$O$_7$ upon varying the concentration of diamagnetic Y$^{3+}$ ions is presented. Magnetization and specific heat measurements show that the Spin Ice ground-state is only weakly affected by doping for $x\leq 0.3$, even if non-negligible changes in the crystal field at Ho$^{3+}$ occ

Luiza P. Kondaurova, Sergey K. Nemirovskii

Numerical simulation of stochastic dynamics of vortex filaments under action of random (Langevin) force is fulfilled. Calculations are performed on base of the full Biot--Savart law for different intensities of the Langevin force. A new algorithm, which is based on consideration of crossing lines, is used for vortex reconnection procedure. After some transie

Dorota Kotlorz, Andrzej Kotlorz

Predictions for the spin dependent structure function $g_1$ of the nucleon are presented. We use an unified approach incorporating the LO DGLAP evolution and the resummation of double logarithmic terms $ln^2(x)$. We show, that the singular input parametrisation as $x\to 0$ can be a substitute of the $ln^2(x)$ resummation. An impact of the `more running'

Stephan Mertens, Sebastian Mingramm

The classical problem of the brachistochrone asks for the curve down which a body sliding from rest and accelerated by gravity will slip (without friction) from one point to another in least time. In undergraduate courses on classical mechanics, the solution of this problem is the primary example of the power of the variational calculus. Here we address the

L. M. Mugnier, J. -F. Sauvage, T. Fusco, A. Cornia

The phase diversity technique is a useful tool to measure and pre-compensate for quasi-static aberrations, in particular non-common path aberrations, in an adaptive optics corrected imaging system. In this paper, we propose and validate by simulations an extension of the phase diversity technique that uses long exposure adaptive optics corrected images for s

Josip Globevnik

Let D be a bounded domain in the complex plane whose boundary bD consists of finitely many pairwise disjoint real analytic simple closed curves. Let f be an integrable function on bD. In the paper we show how to compute the candidates for poles of a meromorphic extension of f through D and thus reduce the question of meromorphic extendibility to the question

A. D. Barbour, Torgny Lindvall

The paper is concerned with approximating the distribution of a sum W of n integer valued random variables Y_i, whose distributions depend on the state of an underlying Markov chain X. The approximation is in terms of a translated Poisson distribution, with mean and variance chosen to be close to those of W, and the error is measured with respect to the tota

R. Bonciani, A. Ferroglia, T. Gehrmann, D. Maitre

We describe the analytic calculation of the fermionic two-loop QCD corrections to the heavy-quark pair production process in the quark-antiquark channel.

William Y. C. Chen, Sabrina X. M. Pang, Ellen X. Y. Qu

The Boros-Moll polynomials arise in the evaluation of a quartic integral. The original double summation formula does not imply the fact that the coefficients of these polynomials are positive. Boros and Moll proved the positivity by using Ramanujan's Master Theorem to reduce the double sum to a single sum. Based on the structure of reluctant functions in

Oliver Johnson

We adapt arguments concerning information-theoretic convergence in the Central Limit Theorem to the case of dependent random variables under Rosenblatt mixing conditions. The key is to work with random variables perturbed by the addition of a normal random variable, giving us good control of the joint density and the mixing coefficient. We strengthen results

Yanxia Cui, Sailing He

The extraordinary transmission of light through a nano slit in a metal film is enhanced by introducing a nano cavity antenna formed by a nearby metallic nano-strip over the slit opening. For a fixed wavelength, the width of the metallic nano-strip should be chosen to make the horizontal metal-insulator-metal waveguide of finite length resonant as a Fabry-Per

Pietro Corvaja, Carlo Petronio, Umberto Zannier

We consider the question of existence of ramified covers over P_1 matching certain prescribed ramification conditions. This problem has already been faced in a number of papers, but we discuss alternative approaches for an existence proof, involving elliptic curves and universal ramified covers with signature. We also relate the geometric problem with finite

Dawei Yang, Shaobo Gan

We prove that for $C^1$ generic diffeomorphisms, every expansive homoclinic class is hyperbolic.

S. V. Naydenov, V. D. Ryzhikov, G. M. Onyshchenko, P. Lecoq

In this paper we report a spectrometric approach to dual-energy digital radiography that has been developed and applied to identify specific organic substances and discern small differences in their effective atomic number. An experimental setup has been designed, and a theoretical description proposed based on the experimental results obtained. The proposed

Matthew Shetrone, Michael H. Siegel, David O. Cook, Tammy Bosler

We use previously-published moderate-resolution spectra in combination with stellar atmosphere models to derive the first measured chemical abundance ratios in the Leo II dSph galaxy. We find that for spectra with SNR > 24, we are able to measure abundances from weak Ti, Fe and Mg lines located near the calcium infrared triplet (CaT). We also quantify and di

Josh Genauer

In this paper we study the topology of cobordism categories of manifolds with corners. Specifically, if {Cob}_{d,<k>} is the category whose objets are a fixed dimension d, with corners of codimension less than or equal to k, then we identify the homotopy type of the classifying space B{Cob}_{d,<k>} as the zero space of a homotopy colimit of certain diagram o

Zuoxiang Peng, Jiaona Li, Saralees Nadarajah

Let $M_n^{(k)}$ denote the $k$th largest maximum of a sample $(X_1,X_2,...,X_n)$ from parent $X$ with continuous distribution. Assume there exist normalizing constants $a_n>0$, $b_n\in \mathbb{R}$ and a nondegenerate distribution $G$ such that $a_n^{-1}(M_n^{(1)}-b_n)\stackrel{w}{\to}G$. Then for fixed $k\in \mathbb{N}$, the almost sure convergence of \[\fra

Chengjie Yu

In this article, we obtain some further estimates of fundamental solutions comparing to the result of Chau-Tam-Yu and give some applications of the estimates on asymptotic behaviors of fundamental solutions.

Chengjie Yu

Chau-Tam-Yu has proved the non-positivity of Perelman&#39;s new Li-Yau-Hamilton type expression on noncompact manifolds. In this article, we further prove that $v$ is negative if the Ricci flow is not end up with an Euclidean space.

Chengjie Yu

In this article, we give a geometric proof of the classification of complex vector cross product due to Lee-Leung.

Chengjie Yu

Let $g(t)$ with $t\in [0,T)$ be a complete solution to the Kaehler-Ricci flow: $\frac{d}{dt}g_{i\bar j}=-R_{i\bar j}$ where $T$ may be $\infty$. In this article, we show that the curvatures of $g(t)$ is uniformly bounded if the solution $g(t)$ is uniformly equivalet. This result is stronger than the main result in Šešum \cite{sesum} within the category of Kä

Brigitta Vermesi

We prove existence of intersection exponents xi(k,lambda) for biased random walks on d-dimensional half-infinite discrete cylinders, and show that, as functions of lambda, these exponents are real analytic. As part of the argument, we prove convergence to stationarity of a time-inhomogeneous Markov chain on half-infinite random paths. Furthermore, we show th

M. N. Achasov, V. M. Aulchenko, K. I. Beloborodov, A. V. Berdyugin

The cross section of the process e+e-\toμ+μ- was measured in the SND experiment at the VEPP-2M e+e- collider in the energy region \sqrt{s}=980, 1040 -- 1380 MeV. The event numbers of the process e+e-\toμ+μ- were normalized to the integrated luminosity measured using e+e-\to e+e- and e+e-\toγγprocesses. The ratio of the measured cross section to the theoretic

Adam J. Burgasser

The transition between the two lowest-luminosity spectral classes of brown dwarfs--the L dwarfs and T dwarfs--is traversed by nearly all brown dwarfs as they cool over time. Yet distinct features of this transition, such as the &#34;J-band bump&#34; and an unusually high rate of multiplicity, remain outstanding problems, although evidence points to condensat

Adam J. Burgasser, Sebastien Lepine, Nicolas Lodieu, Ralf-Dieter Scholz

Ultracool subdwarfs are low luminosity, late-type M and L dwarfs that exhibit spectroscopic indications of subsolar metallicity and halo kinematics. Their recent discovery and ongoing investigation have led to new insights into the role of metallicity in the opacity structure, chemistry (e.g. dust formation) and evolution of low-temperature atmospheres; the

Andrei V. Zavarnitsine

We find the nonabelian finite simple groups with order prime divisors not exceeding 1000. More generally, we determine the sets of nonabelian finite simple groups whose maximal order prime divisor is a fixed prime less than 1000. Our results are based on calculations in the computer algebra system GAP.

Andrew Thangaraj, Safitha J Raj

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes over GF$(2^m)$ have traditionally been the most popular non-binary codes in almost all practical applications. The distance properties of RS codes result in excellent performance under hard-decision bounded-distance decoding. However, efficient and implementable soft decoding for high-rate (about 0.9) RS codes over large fields (GF(25

Feng Liu

We present Dalitz-plot analyses of $B^+\to K^+π^-π^+$ and $B^0\to K^+π^-π^0$ using the data sample collected at the $Υ(4S)$ by the BABAR detector. We have found evidence for direct CP-violation in the decay $B^\pm\toρ^0 K^\pm$, with a CP-violation parameter ${\cal A}_{CP}={Γ_{B^+}-Γ_{B^-}\over Γ_{B^+}+Γ_{B^-}}= (+44\pm10\pm4^{+5}_{-13})%$, where $Γ_{B^\pm}$

Changsuk Noh, A. Chia, Hyunchul Nha, M. J. Collett

Requirements for the successful teleportation of a beam of light, including its temporal correlations, are discussed. Explicit expressions for the degrees of first- and second-order optical coherence are derived. Teleportation of an antibunched photon stream illustrates our results.

CS Collaboration, N. Ukita, S. Aoki, N. Ishii

We present simulation details and results for the light hadron spectrum in N f = 2 + 1 lattice QCD with the nonperturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson quark action and the Iwasaki gauge action. Simulations are carried out at a lattice spacing of 0.09 fm on a (2.9fm)^3 box using the PACS-CS computer. We employ the Luscher&#39;s domain-decomposed HMC algorithm wit

M. J. Ireland, M. Scholz, P. R. Wood

We describe the Cool Opacity-sampling Dynamic EXtended (CODEX) atmosphere models of Mira variable stars, and examine in detail the physical and numerical approximations that go in to the model creation. The CODEX atmospheric models are obtained by computing the temperature and the chemical and radiative states of the atmospheric layers, assuming gas pressure

Toshiyuki Tanaka

We discuss a classical reinterpretation of quantum-mechanics-based analysis of classical Markov chains with detailed balance, that is based on the quantum-classical correspondence. The classical reinterpretation is then used to demonstrate that it successfully reproduces a sufficient condition for cooling schedule in classical simulated annealing, which has

Kevin Zumbrun

We present a family of numerical implementations of Kato&#39;s ODE propagating global bases of analytically varying invariant subspaces, of which the first-order version is a surprising simple &#34;greedy algorithm&#34; that is both stable and easy to program and the second-order version a relaxation of a first-order scheme of Brin and Zumbrun. The method ha

Stefan Boettcher, Stephan Mertens

The Karmarkar-Karp differencing algorithm is the best known polynomial time heuristic for the number partitioning problem, fundamental in both theoretical computer science and statistical physics. We analyze the performance of the differencing algorithm on random instances by mapping it to a nonlinear rate equation. Our analysis reveals strong finite size ef

C. Deluca, M. Martinez, R. Culbertson, S. -S. Yu

We present preliminary results on inclusive direct photon production in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV, using data collected with the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab in Run II, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 451 pb$^{-1}$. Measurements are performed as a function of the photon transverse momentum for photons with $p_{T}>$30

Jens Konrath

We present recent measurements of the top quark pair production cross-section in the dilepton, lepton+jets and lepton+tau final states with the D0 detector in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV.

Kris T. Delaney, Maxim Mostovoy, Nicola A. Spaldin

We demonstrate that magnetic vortices in which spins are coupled to polar lattice distortions via superexchange exhibit an unusually large linear magnetoelectric response. We show that the periodic arrays of vortices formed by frustrated spins on Kagom\'e lattices provide a realization of this concept; our {\it ab initio} calculations for such a model struct

J. S. Dowker

The temperature inversion properties of the internal energy, E, on odd spheres, and its derivatives, together with their expression in elliptic terms, as expounded in previous papers, are extended to the integrals of E, thence making contact with the theory of modular forms with rational period functions. I point out that the period functions of (holomorphic

C. Deibel, A. Baumann, V. Dyakonov

We determined the dominant polaron recombination loss mechanism in pristine and annealed polythiophene:fullerene blend solar cells by applying the photo-induced charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage (photo-CELIV) method in dependence on temperature. In pristine samples, we find a strongly temperature dependent bimolecular polaron recombination rat

Gunnar Bjork, Jonas Almlof, Isabel Sainz

We examine the efficiency of pure, nondegenerate quantum-error correction-codes for Pauli channels. Specifically, we investigate if correction of multiple errors in a block is more efficient than using a code that only corrects one error per block. Block coding with multiple-error correction cannot increase the efficiency when the qubit error-probability is

E. Ramirez Barreto, Y. A. Coutinho, J. Sa Borges

We establish some signatures of the extra bilepton boson ${X^0}$ predicted in the ${SU (3)_C \times SU (3)_L \times U (1)_X}$ model with right-handed neutrinos. We analyze the process $p + p \longrightarrow X^0 +X^{0*} + {\hbox {anything}}$, for center of mass energy regime of the Large Hadron Collider. The main contributions for the neutral bilepton product

Farhad H. Jafarpour, Ali Aghamohammadi

We consider a generalized coagulation-decoagulation system on a one-dimensional discrete lattice with reflecting boundaries. It is known that a Bernoulli shock measure with two shock fronts might have a simple random-walk dynamics, provided that some constraints on the microscopic reaction rates of this system are fulfilled. Under these constraints the stead

L. M. McGuire, Mark Friesen, K. A. Slinker, S. N. Coppersmith

We present the theory and measurement of valley splitting in a quantum point contact (QPC) in a modulation doped Si/SiGe heterostructure. Our measurements are performed on a submicron Schottky-gated device. An effective mass theory is developed for a QPC formed in a quantum well, grown on a miscut substrate. Both theory and experiments include a perpendicula

Éanna É. Flanagan, Eran Rosenthal, Ira M. Wasserman

We derive an expression for the luminosity distance as a function of redshift for a flat Robertson-Walker spacetime perturbed by arbitrary scalar perturbations possibly produced by a modified gravity theory with two different scalar perturbation potentials. Measurements of the luminosity distance as function of redshift provide a constraint on a combination

Bart de Keijzer

We prove the following results for task allocation of indivisible resources: - The problem of finding a leximin-maximal resource allocation is in P if the agents have max-utility functions and atomic demands. - Deciding whether a resource allocation is Pareto-optimal is coNP-complete for agents with (1-)additive utility functions. - Deciding whether there ex

Laurent Simard

The NEMO experiment is investigating the neutrinoless double beta decay. The NEMO-3 detector is taking data in the Frejus Underground Laboratory. The goal of the SuperNEMO detector is to reach a sensitivity on the order of 10^26 year on the half-life of the bb0nu process. The chosen isotopes for the future detector are 82Se and 150Nd, because of the reduced

Tomotsugu Goto, Hitoshi Hanami, Myungshin Im, Koji Imai

There is a huge gap between properties of red-sequence selected massive galaxy clusters at z<1 and Lyman-break selected proto-clusters at z>3. It is important to understand when and how the z>3 proto-clusters evolve into passive clusters at z<1. We aim to fill this cluster desert by using the space-based N4(4um) imaging with the AKARI. The z&#39;-N4 color is

Jorge Bellorin

We perform the characterization program for the supersymmetric configurations and solutions of the $\mathcal{N}=1$, $d=5$ Supergravity Theory coupled to an arbitrary number of vectors, tensors and hypermultiplets and with general non-Abelian gaugins. By using the conditions yielded by the characterization program, new exact supersymmetric solutions are found

P. Suranyi, Cenalo Vaz, L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Black branes are studied in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. Evaporation drives black branes towards one of two singularities depending on the sign of $α$, the Gauss-Bonnet coupling. For positive $α$ and sufficiently large ratio $\sqrtα/L$, where $L/2π$ is the radius of compactification, black branes avoid the Gregory-Laflamme (GL) instability before rea

C. D. Froggatt, R. Nevzorov, H. B. Nielsen

It is well known that global symmetries protect local supersymmetry and a zero value for the cosmological constant in no--scale supergravity. A particular breakdown of these symmetries, which ensures the vanishing of the vacuum energy density, leads to the natural realisation of the multiple point principle (MPP). In the MPP inspired SUGRA models the cosmolo

Dan Mazur, Jeremy S. Heyl

The density fluctuations that we observe in the universe today are thought to originate from quantum fluctuations produced during a phase of the early universe called inflation. By evolving a wavefunction describing two coupled Fourier modes of a scalar field forward through an inflationary epoch, we demonstrate that non-linear effects can result in a genera

Mark Tomforde

The purpose of this short note is to prove that if $A$ and $B$ are unital C*-algebras and $\phi : A \to B$ is a unital *-preserving ring homomorphism, then $\phi$ is contractive; i.e., $\| \phi (a) \| \leq \| a \|$ for all $a \in A$. (Note that we do not assume $\phi$ is linear.) We use this result to deduce a number of corollaries as well as characterize th

S. F. King, R. Luo, D. J. Miller, R. Nevzorov

We calculate flavour dependent lepton asymmetries within the $E_6$ inspired Supersymmetric Standard Model. Our analysis reveals that the substantial lepton CP asymmetries can be induced even if $M_1\simeq 10^6 {GeV}$.

G. Maier

We report on VERITAS observations at energies above 200 GeV of known or potential galactic gamma-ray sources. The observed objects comprise pulsars, pulsar wind nebulae, high-mass X-ray binaries and gamma-ray sources with unknown counterparts in other wavelengths. Among the highlights are the observation of variable gamma-ray emission from the X-ray binary L

S. Hesselbach, D. J. Miller, G. Moortgat-Pick, R. Nevzorov

We argue that the allowed range of the mass of the lightest neutralino in the MNSSM is limited. We establish the theoretical upper bound on the lightest neutralino mass and obtain an approximate solution for this mass.

Tyler Lawson

This is an expository article on the theory of formal group laws in homotopy theory, with the goal of leading to the connection with higher-dimensional abelian varieties and automorphic forms. These are roughly based on a talk at the conference &#34;New Topological Contexts for Galois Theory and Algebraic Geometry.&#34;

Laurent Beaudou, Antoine Gerbaud, Roland Grappe, Frederic Palesi

We prove that two disjoint graphs must always be drawn separately on the Klein bottle, in order to minimize the crossing number of the whole drawing.

M. Turcato

A search for events with one or more isolated leptons in the final state is performed on a data sample collected in e+-p collisions with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at the HERA collider. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of ~1 fb-1, representing the full HERA high-energy data set. The yields of single, di- and tri-lepton events are measur

Niall O Murchadha

Given an d-dimensional manifold with two commuting Killing vectors, together with an d - 1 dimensional submanifold in which one of the Killing vectors lies, then the lapse and shift of the second Killing vector, relative to this slice, remain constant along the orbits of the `surface&#39; Killing vector. Alternatively, the six dot products that can be formed

G. Marchiori

We report on our recent measurements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa CP-violating phase gamma and of related CP-asymmetries and branching fraction ratios. The measurements have been performed on samples of up to 465 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory in the years 1999-2007.

Amin Jafarian, Sriram Vishwanath

In this paper, we investigate upper and lower bounds on the capacity of two-user fading broadcast channels where one of the users has a constant (non-fading) channel. We use the Costa entropy power inequality (EPI) along with an optimization framework to derive upper bounds on the sum-capacity and superposition coding to obtain lower bounds on the sum-rate f

Sevil Salur

Jets can be used to probe the physical properties of the high energy density matter created in collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Measurements of strong suppression of inclusive hadron distributions and di-hadron correlations at high $p_{T}$ have already provided evidence for partonic energy loss. However, these measurements suffer fro

George Georgiou, Valeria L. Gili, Rodolfo Russo

We provide a direct prescription for computing the mixing among gauge invariant operators in N=4 SYM. Our approach is based on the action of the superalgebra on the states of the theory and thus it can be also applied to resolve the mixing in the dual string description. As an example, we focus on the supermultiplet containing the BMN operators with two impu

Hannah G. Sheldon, D. J. Durian

We measure the flux of spherical glass beads through a hole as a systematic function of both tilt angle and hole diameter, for two different size beads. The discharge increases with hole diameter in accord with the Beverloo relation for both horizontal and vertical holes, but in the latter case with a larger small-hole cutoff. For large holes the flux decrea

Zhi-Wei Sun, Li-Lu Zhao

The famous Erdos-Heilbronn conjecture plays an important role in the development of additive combinatorics. In 2007 Z. W. Sun made the following further conjecture (which is the linear extension of the Erdos-Heilbronn conjecture): For any finite subset A of a field F and nonzero elements $a_1,...,a_n$ of F, the set {a_1x_1+...+a_nx_n: x_1,....,x_n are distin

I. F. Allison, K. Y. Wong, C. T. H. Davies, C. McNeile

We provide a new determination of the charm quark mass using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action, finding m_c(3 GeV) = 0.983(23) GeV. Our determination makes extensive use of second order lattice perturbation theory in matching the bare lattice mass to the MSbar scheme. This matching utilises both traditional diagrammatic perturbation theory an

M. Baptista, R. Schmitz, B. Duenweg

A variational approach is used to develop a robust numerical procedure for solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Following Maggs et al., we construct an appropriate constrained free energy functional, such that its Euler-Lagrange equations are equivalent to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. We then develop, implement, and test an algorithm for its

Bjoern Baeuchle, Marcus Bleicher

Direct photon emission in heavy-ion collisions is calculated within the relativistic microscopic transport model UrQMD. We compare the results from the pure transport calculation to a hybrid-model calculation, where the high-density part of the evolution is replaced by an ideal 3-dimensional fluiddynamic calculation. The effects of viscosity, present in the

Warner A. Miller

An increase in the dimension of state space for quantum key distribution (QKD) can decrease its fidelity requirements while also increasing its bandwidth. A significant obstacle for QKD with qudits (d>2) has been an efficient and practical quantum state sorter for photons whose complex fields are modulated in both amplitude and phase. We propose such a sorte

Ilya Karzhemanov

We give a classification of Fano threefolds $X$ with canonical Gorenstein singularities such that $X$ possess a regular involution, which acts freely on some smooth surface in $|-K_X|$, and the linear system $|-K_X|$ gives a morphism which is not an embedding. From this classification one gets, in particular, a description of some natural class of Fano--Enri

Farzad Fathizadeh, Masoud Khalkhali

We extend the Adler-Manin trace on the algebra of pseudodifferential symbols to a twisted setting.

G. B. Xavier, T. Ferreira da Silva, G. Vilela de Faria, G. P. Temporao

A simple protocol which takes advantage of the inherent random times of detections in single photon counting modules is presented for random active basis choices when using entanglement-based protocols for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). It may also be applicable to the BB84 protocol in certain cases. The scheme presented uses the single photon detectors alr

L. Dell&#39;Anna, S. Fantoni, P. Sodano, A. Trombettoni

For a non-interacting Bose gas on a lattice we compute the shift of the critical temperature for condensation when random-bond and onsite disorder are present. We evidence that the shift depends on the space dimensionality D and the filling fraction f. For D -> infinity (infinite-range model), using results from the theory of random matrices, we show that th

Pablo G. Camara

We summarize the structure of N=2 multi-instanton and string loop corrections to the Kähler potential and the gauge kinetic function in type I toroidal orbifold models. For that aim, we exploit perturbative calculations of the physical gauge couplings on the heterotic dual, whenever such a perturbative description is available.

Carsten Allefeld, Harald Atmanspacher, Jiri Wackermann

Correlations between psychological and physiological phenomena form the basis for different medical and scientific disciplines, but the nature of this relation has not yet been fully understood. One conceptual option is to understand the mental as &#34;emerging&#34; from neural processes in the specific sense that psychology and physiology provide two differ

Zheng Sun

We show that in O&#39;Raifeartaigh models of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, R-symmetries can be broken by non-zero values of fields at tree level, rather than by vacuum expectation values of pseudomoduli at loop level. As a complement of the recent result by Shih, we show that there must be a field in the theory with R-charge different from zero and two

L. Fox Machado, W. J. Schuster, C. Zurita, J. L. Ochoa

While testing a Stromgren spectrophotometer attached to the 1.5-m telescope at the San Pedro Martir observatory, Mexico, a number of A-type stars were observed, one of which, HD 207331, presented clear indications of photometric variability. CCD photometric data acquired soon after, confirmed its variability. In order to determine its pulsation behaviour mor

C. D. Froggatt, H. B. Nielsen

It is suggested that there is a fine tuning principle remarkably arranging the top-quark Yukawa coupling to be just so as to make the mass $m_{12}$ of a bound state of 6 top + 6 anti-top quarks become very small. The value of the top Yukawa needed for Higgs and gluon etc. exchanges just binding the 12 quarks to make this mass zero is $g_t|_{m_{12}=0} =1.01 \

Sean A. Hartnoll, Kentaroh Yoshida

We show that the recent string theory embedding of a spacetime with nonrelativistic Schrodinger symmetry can be generalised to a twenty one dimensional family of solutions with that symmetry. Our solutions include IIB backgrounds with no three form flux turned on, and arise as near horizon limits of branewave spacetimes. We show that there is a hypersurface

J. Holder

The recent discovery by the Pierre Auger collaboration of anisotropy in the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays, correlated with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei, encourages the search for counterpart TeV gamma-ray emission. Approximately half of the sky viewed by the southern hemisphere Pierre Auger experiment is also visible

Dong Wang

In this paper we prove that the partition function in the random matrix model with external source is a KP $τ$ function.

Heesung Shin

In 1980, G. Kreweras gave a recursive bijection between forests and parking functions. In this paper we construct a nonrecursive bijection from forests onto parking functions, which answers a question raised by R. Stanley. As a by-product, we obtain a bijective proof of Gessel and Seo&#39;s formula for lucky statistic on parking functions.

K. Benslama, C. Belanger-Champagne, M. Bosman, R. Brenner

Many theoretical models, like the Standard Model or SUSY at large tan(beta), predict Higgs bosons or new particles which decay more abundantly to final states including tau leptons than to other leptons. At the energy scale of the LHC, the identification of tau leptons, in particular in the hadronic decay mode, will be a challenging task due to an overwhelmi

Jan O. Eeg, Svjetlana Fajfer, Jernej F. Kamenik

We determine chiral loop corrections to the B meson decay amplitudes to positive and negative parity charmed mesons within a framework which combines heavy quark and chiral symmetries. We find that corrections due to states of opposite parity are competitive with the contributions arising from K and eta meson loops. Since lattice studies rely on the chiral b

S. Dittmaier, P. Uwer, S. Weinzierl

We report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of top--antitop-quark pairs in association with a hard jet at the Tevatron and at the LHC. Results for integrated and differential cross sections are presented. We find a significant reduction of the scale dependence. In most cases the corrections are below 20% indica

T. Boness, K. Kudo, T. S. Monteiro

We show that the dynamics of a doubly-excited 1D Heisenberg ferromagnetic chain, subject to short pulses from a parabolic magnetic field may be analyzed as a pair of quantum kicked rotors. By focusing on the two-magnon dynamics in the kicked XXZ model we investigate how the anisotropy parameter - which controls the strength of the magnon-magnon interaction -