December 2008 arXiv papers — page 51

R. Gonzalez Felipe, A. Perez Martinez

The stability of magnetized strange quark matter (MSQM) is investigated within the phenomenological MIT bag model, taking into account the variation of the relevant input parameters, namely, the strange quark mass, baryon density, magnetic field and bag parameter. We obtain that the energy per baryon decreases as the magnetic field increases, and its minimum

A. Allaoua, O. Guillaudin, S. Higueret, D. Husson

The AMANDE facility at IRSN-Cadarache produces mono-energetic neutron fields from 2 keV to 20 MeV with metrological quality. To be considered as a standard facility, characteristics of neutron field i.e fluence distribution must be well known by a device using absolute measurements. The development of new detector systems allowing a direct measurement of neu

Paolo Salucci, Stefano Borgani, Carlos Frenk, Lauro Moscardini

In the study of the process of cosmic structure formation numerical simulations are crucial tools to interface observational data to theoretical models and to investigate issues otherwise unexplored. Enormous advances have been achieved in the last years thanks to the availability of sophisticated codes, now allowing to tackle the problem of cosmic structure

B. M. Mognetti, P. Virnau, L. Yelash, W. Paul

The prediction of the equation of state and the phase behavior of simple fluids (noble gases, carbon dioxide, benzene, methane, short alkane chains) and their mixtures by Monte Carlo computer simulation and analytic approximations based on thermodynamic perturbation theory is discussed. Molecules are described by coarse grained (CG) models, where either the

Sophie Frisch, Günter Lettl

Let f in Z[X,Y,Z] be a non-constant, absolutely irreducible, homogeneous polynomial with integer coefficients, such that the projective curve given by f=0 has a function field isomorphic to the rational function field Q(t). We show that all integral solutions of the Diophantine equation f=0 (up to those corresponding to some singular points) can be parametri

Yonina C. Eldar, Helmut Bolcskei

We consider compressed sensing of block-sparse signals, i.e., sparse signals that have nonzero coefficients occuring in clusters. Based on an uncertainty relation for block-sparse signals, we define a block-coherence measure and we show that a block-version of the orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm recovers block k-sparse signals in no more than k steps i

W. J. Kim, M. Brown-Hayes, D. A. R. Dalvit, J. H. Brownell

We report on measurements of forces acting between two conducting surfaces in a spherical-plane configuration in the 35 nm-1 micrometer separation range. The measurements are obtained by performing electrostatic calibrations followed by a residual analysis after subtracting the electrostatic-dependent component. We find in all runs optimal fitting of the cal

Yu-Jun Cui, Anh-Minh Tang, Cyril Loiseau, Pierre Delage

Highly compacted sand-bentonite mixtures are often considered as possible engineered barriers in deep high-level radioactive waste disposals. In-situ, the saturation of these barriers from their initially unsaturated state is a complex hydro-mechanical coupled process in which temperature effects also play a role. The key parameter of this process is the uns

Iain McDonald, Jacco Th. van Loon, Leen Decin, Martha L. Boyer

We present spectral energy distribution modelling of 6875 stars in omega Centauri, obtaining stellar luminosities and temperatures by fitting literature photometry to state-of-the-art MARCS stellar models. By comparison to four different sets of isochrones, we provide a new distance estimate to the cluster of 4850 +/- 200 (random) +/- 120 (systematic error)

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov

We present our recent results for the pion elastic form factor [1] obtained within a local-duality three-point sum rule (a Borel sum rule in the limit of an infinite Borel parameter). Our analysis includes the O(1) and O(α_s) contributions and is therefore applicable in a broad range of spacelike momentum transfers. Our results demonstrate in essentially mod

KASCADE Collaboration, W. D. Apel

The KASCADE experiment measures extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays in the energy range around the so-called knee. The data of KASCADE have been used in a composition analysis showing the knee at 3-5 PeV to be caused by a steepening in the light-element spectra. Since the applied unfolding analysis depends crucially on simulations of air showers, di

Gwenaël Joret

In the Stackelberg Network Pricing problem, one has to assign tariffs to a certain subset of the arcs of a given transportation network. The aim is to maximize the amount paid by the user of the network, knowing that the user will take a shortest st-path once the tariffs are fixed. Roch, Savard, and Marcotte (Networks, Vol. 46(1), 57-67, 2005) proved that th

Ersen Ekrem, Sennur Ulukus

We study the security of communication between a single transmitter and multiple receivers in a broadcast channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider several special classes of channels. As the first model, we consider the degraded multi-receiver wiretap channel where the legitimate receivers exhibit a degradedness order while the eavesdropper is

David Barnes

We give a new proof that for a finite group G, the category of rational G-equivariant spectra is Quillen equivalent to the product of the model categories of chain complexes of modules over the rational group ring of the Weyl group of H in G, as H runs over the conjugacy classes of subgroups of G. Furthermore the Quillen equivalences of our proof are all sym

S. M. Gerasyuta, V. I. Kochkin

The relativistic four-quark equations are found in the framework of coupled-channel formalism. The dynamical mixing of the meson-meson states with the four-quark states is considered. The four-quark amplitudes of the tetraquarks with hidden bottom, including u, d, s and bottom quarks, are constructed. The poles of these amplitudes determine the masses and wi

Guy Buss

The Bers embebbing realizes the Teichmüller space of a Fuchsian group $G$ as a open, bounded and contractible subset of the complex Banach space of bounded quadratic differentials for $G$. It utilizes the schlicht model of Teichmüller space, where each point is represented by an injective holomorphic function on the disc, and the map is constructed via the S

David Barnes

If C is a stable model category with a monoidal product then the set of homotopy classes of self-maps of the unit S forms a commutative ring. An idempotent e of this ring will split the homotopy category. We prove that provided the localised model structures exist, this splitting of the homotopy category comes from a splitting of the model category, that is,

Björn Ivarsson, Frank Kutzschebauch

We solve Gromov's Vaserstein problem. Namely, we show that a null-homotopic holomorphic mapping from a finite dimensional reduced Stein space into SL_n(C) can be factored into a finite product of unipotent matrices with holomorphic entries.

Claire L. Raftery, Peter T. Gallagher, Ryan O. Milligan, James A. Klimchuk

This paper investigates the temporal evolution of temperature, emission measure, energy loss and velocity in a C-class solar flare from both an observational and theoretical perspective. The properties of the flare were derived by following the systematic cooling of the plasma through the response functions of a number of instruments -- RHESSI (>5 MK), GOES-

R Ignace, S Hubrig, M Scholler

We report on low resolution (R~3000) spectropolarimetry of the A0 supergiant star HD 92207. This star is well-known for significant spectral variability. The source was observed on seven different nights spanning approximately 3 months in time. With a rotation period of approximately 1 year, our data covers approximately a quarter of the star's rotationa

R. Härtle, C. Benesch, M. Thoss

Vibrational nonequilibrium effects in charge transport through single-molecule junctions are investigated. Focusing on molecular bridges with multiple electronic states, it is shown that electronic-vibrational coupling triggers a variety of vibronic emission and absorption processes, which influence the conductance properties and mechanical stability of sing

A. Neronov, M. Ribordy

We present a hadronic model of activity for Galactic gamma-ray-loud binaries, in which the multi-TeV neutrino flux from the source can be much higher and/or harder than the detected TeV gamma-ray flux. This is related to the fact that most neutrinos are produced in pp interactions close to the bright massive star, in a region optically thick for the TeV gamm

Duncan Forgan, Ken Rice, Dimitris Stamatellos, Anthony Whitworth

A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al (2007), and flux limited diffusion (e.g. Mayer et al 2007). This hybrid method preserves the strengths of its individual components

M. V. Sadovskii

We present a review of basic experimental facts on the new class of high - temperature superconductors - iron based layered compounds like REOFeAs (RE=La,Ce,Nd,Pr,Sm...), AFe_2As_2 (A=Ba,Sr...), AFeAs (A=Li,...) and FeSe(Te). We discuss electronic structure, including the role of correlations, spectrum and role of collective excitations (phonons, spin waves)

Joachim Kalden, Kathrin Sebald, Juergen Gutowski, Christian Tessarek

We present investigations of the optical properties of stacked InGaN quantum dot layers and demonstrate their advantage over single quantum dot layer structures. Measurements were performed on structures containing a single layer with quantum dots or threefold stacked quantum dot layers, respectively. A superlinear increase of the quantum dot related photolu

Christophe Labbez, Bo Jonsson, Michal Skarba, Michal Borkovec

Confronting grand canonical titration Monte Carlo simulations (MC) with recently published titration and charge reversal (CR) experiments on silica surfaces by Dove et al. and van der Heyden it et al, we show that ion-ion correlations quantitatively explain why divalent counterions strongly promote surface charge which, in turn, eventually causes a charge re

Jan Wehrheim

We consider the symplectic vortex equations for a linear Hamiltonian torus action. We show that the associated genus zero moduli space itself is homotopic (in the sense of a homotopy of regular G-moduli problems) to a toric manifold with combinatorial data directly obtained from the original torus action. This allows to view the wall crossing formula of Ciel

R. Sordo, A. Vallenari, J. C. Bouret, I. Brott

High resolution synthetic stellar libraries are of fundamental importance for the preparation of the Gaia Mission. We present new sets of spectral stellar libraries covering two spectral ranges: 300 --1100 nm at 0.1 nm resolution, and 840 -- 890 nm at 0.001 nm resolution. These libraries span a large range in atmospheric parameters, from super-metal-rich to

Claus Kiefer

Quantum geometrodynamics is canonical quantum gravity with the three-metric as the configuration variable. Its central equation is the Wheeler--DeWitt equation. Here I give an overview of the status of this approach. The issues discussed include the problem of time, the relation to the covariant theory, the semiclassical approximation as well as applications

A. Vallenari, R. Sordo

The Gaia mission is expected to provide highly accurate astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic measurements for about $10^9$ objects. Automated classification of detected sources is a key part of the data processing. Here a few aspects of the Gaia classification process are presented. Information from other surveys at longer wavelengths, and from follow

V. N. Yershov

An oscillating universe model is discussed, in which the singularity of the initial state of the universe is avoided by postulating an upper limit on spacetime curvature. This also results in the devising of the simplest possible structure - a primitive particle (usually called preon), which can be considered as the basic constituent of matter that have no p

C. T. M. Clack, I. Ballai, M. S. Ruderman

In the approximation of linear dissipative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) it can be shown that driven MHD waves in magnetic plasmas with high Reynolds number exhibit a near resonant behaviour if the frequency of the wave becomes equal to the local Alfven (or slow) frequency of a magnetic surface. This near resonant behaviour is confined to a thin region, known a

Andrew J. Kerman, Joel K. W. Yang, Richard J. Molnar, Eric A. Dauler

We investigate the role of electrothermal feedback in the operation of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). It is found that the desired mode of operation for SNSPDs is only achieved if this feedback is unstable, which happens naturally through the slow electrical response associated with their relatively large kinetic inductance. If th

G. Grosche, O. Terra, K. Predehl, T. Haensch

We investigated the measurement floor and link stability for the transfer of an ultra-stable optical frequency via an optical fiber link. We achieved a near-delay-limited instability of 3x10^(-15)/(tau x Hz) for 147 km deployed fiber, and 10^(-20) (integrations time tau = 4000 s) for the noise floor.

M. Maciejewski, S. Colombi, V. Springel, C. Alard

A new multi-dimensional Hierarchical Structure Finder (HSF) to study the phase-space structure of dark matter in N-body cosmological simulations is presented. The algorithm depends mainly on two parameters, which control the level of connectivity of the detected structures and their significance compared to Poisson noise. By working in 6D phase-space, where

Christopher Brav

Kirillov has described a McKay correspondence for finite subgroups of PSL_{2}(C) that associates to each `height' function an affine Dynkin quiver together with a derived equivalence between equivariant sheaves on the projective line P^1 and representations of this quiver. The equivalences for different height functions are then related by reflection fun

H. M. Guenther, J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Herbig Ae/Be stars (HAeBe) are pre-main sequence objects in the mass range between 2 and 8 solar masses. Their X-ray properties are uncertain and, as yet, unexplained. We want to elucidate the X-ray generating mechanism in HAeBes. We present a XMM-Newton observation of the HAeBe HD 163296. We analyse the light curve, the broad band and the grating spectra, f

Christopher M. Homan, Sven Kosub

We present dichotomy theorems regarding the computational complexity of counting fixed points in boolean (discrete) dynamical systems, i.e., finite discrete dynamical systems over the domain {0,1}. For a class F of boolean functions and a class G of graphs, an (F,G)-system is a boolean dynamical system with local transitions functions lying in F and graphs i

Sergey Kafanov, Per Delsing

We have systematically measured the shot noise in a single electron transistor (SET) as a function of bias and gate voltages. By embedding a SET in a resonance circuit we have been able to measure its shot noise at the resonance frequency 464 MHz, where the 1/f noise is negligible. We can extract the Fano factor which varies between 0.5 and 1 depending on th

Timothy Garn, Paul Alexander

We investigate the infrared / radio correlation using the technique of source stacking, in order to probe the average properties of radio sources that are too faint to be detected individually. We compare the two methods used in the literature to stack sources, and demonstrate that the creation of stacked images leads to a loss of information. We stack infra

E. Ros, M. Kadler, Y. Y. Kovalev, H. D. Aller

The radio loud galaxy NGC 1052 is being studied in an intensive multi-band campaign including X-ray brigthness monitoring and spectroscopic observations, single-dish radio brightness monitoring at centimetre wavelengths, and a high-frequency very-long-baseline interferometry monitoring program. Here we present a progress report on our studies from this progr

Hiroki Saito, Yuki Kawaguchi, Masahito Ueda

It is shown that the interface in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in which one component exhibits a dipole-dipole interaction spontaneously forms patterns similar to those formed in a magnetic liquid subject to a magnetic field. A hexagonal pattern, hysteretic behavior, and soliton-like structure are numerically demonstrated. A phenomenon simi

Jean-Yves Welschinger

We introduce a contravariant functor, called Floer functor, from the category of Lagrangian conductors of a symplectic manifold to the homotopy category of bounded chain complexes of open strings in this manifold. The latter two categories are defined for all symplectic manifolds, whereas Floer functor is defined for semipositive manifolds which are either c

Madhavan Varadarajan

In contrast to previous work in the field, we construct the Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) of the flat isotropic model with a massless scalar field in the absence of higher order curvature corrections to the gravitational part of the Hamiltonian constraint. The matter part of the constraint contains the inverse triad operator which can be quantized with or wit

V. Maillot, D. Rössler

Pour tout $t\in\mN$ nous définissons un certain entier positif $\N_t$ et nous conjecturons: si $H$ est un fibré de Gauss-Manin d'une fibration semi-stable alors la $t$-ème classe de Chern de $H$ est annulée par $\N_t$. Nous démontrons diverses conséquences de cette conjecture. For any $t\in\mN$, we define a certain positive integer $\N_t$ and we conjectu

Rodion Kolevatov, Urs Achim Wiedemann

Heavy ion collisions at RHIC and at the LHC give access to the medium-induced suppression patterns of heavy-flavored single inclusive hadron spectra at high transverse momentum. This opens novel opportunities for a detailed characterization of the medium produced in the collision. In this note, we point out that the capacity of a QCD medium to absorb the rec

Paul M. Woods, Karen Willacy

We investigate the gas-phase and grain-surface chemistry in the inner 30 AU of a typical protoplanetary disk using a new model which calculates the gas temperature by solving the gas heating and cooling balance and which has an improved treatment of the UV radiation field. We discuss inner-disk chemistry in general, obtaining excellent agreement with recent

Ekaterina Christova, Helmut Eberl, Elena Ginina

CP violation in H^\pm decays into the three possible decay modes into ordinary particles, 1) H^\pm \to tb, 2) H^\pm \to ντand 3) H^\pm \to W^\pm h^0 is considered. Analytic expressions and numerical results for the CP violating decay rate asymmetries in the MSSM are obtained. Increasing \tanβthe asymmetries for the fermionic decays, H^\pm \to tb and H^\pm \t

Philipp Mayr

The purpose of this paper is to apply and evaluate the bibliometric method Bradfordizing for information retrieval (IR) experiments. Bradfordizing is used for generating core document sets for subject-specific questions and to reorder result sets from distributed searches. The method will be applied and tested in a controlled scenario of scientific literatur

Emilia Witkowska, Paweł Ziń, Mariusz Gajda

We formulate a classical fields method for description of relativistic interacting bosonic particles at nonzero temperatures. The method relays on the assumption that at low temperatures the Bose field can be described by a c-number function. We discuss a very important role of the cut-off momentum which divides the field into dominant classical part and a s

Manuel Saorin

We show that if H is a hereditary finite dimensional algebra, M is a finitely generated H-module and B is a semisimple subalgebra of the endomorphism algebra of M, then the representation dimension of the corresponding triangular matrix algebra is less or equal to 3 whenever one of the following conditions hold: i) H is of finite representation type; ii) H i

Eugene Kazantsev

The use of data assimilation technique to identify optimal topography is discussed in frames of time-dependent motion governed by non-linear barotropic ocean model. Assimilation of artificially generated data allows to measure the influence of various error sources and to classify the impact of noise that is present in observational data and model parameters

P. Marziani, J. W. Sulentic, G. M. Stirpe, S. Zamfir

[Abridged] We present new VLT ISAAC spectra for 30 quasars, which we combine with previous data to yield a sample of 53 intermediate redshift (z ~ 0.9 - 3.0) sources. The sample is used to explore properties of prominent lines in the Hbeta spectral region of these very luminous quasars. We find two major trends: (1) a systematic increase of minimum FWHM Hbet

Michael Feast

Evidence on the ages and masses of Mira variables is reviewed. Period increases with increasing initial mass. Miras of logP about 3.0 have initial masses of near 4 solar masses. It is suggestd that the apparent gap in the LMC PL relation at about this period may be due to the onset of hot bottom burning and that this adds about 15 to 20 percent to the stella

C. Pallis

We consider the well motivated model of the (standard) supersymmetric F-term hybrid inflation (FHI) which can be realized close to the grand unification scale. The predicted scalar spectral index $n_s$ cannot be smaller than 0.98 and can exceed unity including corrections from minimal supergravity, if the number of e-foldings corresponding to the pivot scale

Holger Merlitz, Gui-Li He, Chen-Xu Wu, Jens-Uwe Sommer

Via computer simulations, we demonstrate how a densely grafted layer of polymers, a {\it brush}, could be turned into an efficient switch through chemical modification of some of its end-monomers. In this way, a surface coating with reversibly switchable properties can be constructed. We analyze the fundamental physical principle behind its function, a recen

Guillermo Roman-Perez, Jose M. Soler

We present an efficient implementation of the van der Waals density functional of Dion et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)], which expresses the nonlocal correlation energy as a double spacial integral. We factorize the integration kernel and use fast Fourier transforms to evaluate the selfconsistent potential, total energy, and atomic forces, in N log

Allard Jan van Marle, Stanley P. Owocki, Nir J. Shaviv

Stars can produce steady-state winds through radiative driving as long as the mechanical luminosity of the wind does not exceed the radiative luminosity at its base. This upper bound on the mass loss rate is known as the photon-tiring limit. Once above this limit, the radiation field is unable to lift all the material out of the gravitational potential of th

George F R Ellis

Current theoretical physics suggests the flow of time is an illusion: the entire universe just is, with no special meaning attached to the present time. This paper points out that this view, in essence represented by usual space-time diagrams, is based on time-reversible microphysical laws, which fail to capture essential features of the time-irreversible na

Johannes Kofler

The descriptions of the quantum realm and the macroscopic classical world differ significantly not only in their mathematical formulations but also in their foundational concepts and philosophical consequences. When and how physical systems stop to behave quantum mechanically and begin to behave classically is still heavily debated in the physics community a

Miriam Giorgini

New measurements of the total and partial fragmentation cross sections in the energy range 0.3-10 A GeV of Fe^{26+}, Si^{14+} and C^{6+} beams on polyethylene, CR39 and aluminum targets are presented. The exposures were made at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA, and Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC), Japan. The CR39 nuclear track detecto

Bo Feng, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren

The angular momentum mixing in a non-spherical CSC with nonzero azimuthal quantum number and therefore violating time reversal invariance has been examined. The mixing is bound to occur because of the equal strength of the pairing potential mediated by one-gluon exchange for all partial waves to the leading order QCD running coupling constant and the nonline

Namit Mahajan

The CP asymmetry in $B^0\to K^+π^-$ is expected to be similar to that in $B^+\to K^+π^0$. The experimental data however show $\sim 5σ$ difference between the two, leading to the so called $Δ{A}_{Kπ}$ puzzle. Employing sum rule(s) following from (approximate) flavour symmetry, we show that it is possible to accommodate the observed experimental values within

Alexander Hertsch, Gerd Rudolph, Matthias Schmidt

We determine the orbit types of the action of the group of local gauge transformations on the space of connections in a principal bundle with structure group O(n), SO(n) or $Sp(n)$ over a closed, simply connected manifold of dimension 4. Complemented with earlier results on U(n) and SU(n) this completes the classification of the orbit types for all classical

Yaron Silberberg, Yoav Lahini, Yaron Bromberg, Eran Small

When a periodic 1D system described by a tight-binding model is uniformly initialized with equal amplitudes at all sites, yet with completely random phases, it evolves into a thermal distribution with no spatial correlations. However, when the system is nonlinear, correlations are spontaneously formed. We find that for strong nonlinearities, the intensity hi

Sebastien Michotte

A flux qubit readout scheme involving a dispersive technique coupled to a microstrip squid amplifier has been tested experimentally. Thanks to the almost quantum limited noise of this amplifier at low temperature, this readout device is very promising for a design with actual qubits. It's proof of principle and low noise performance have been tested by s

Chantal L. Hutchison, J. M. Gambetta, Alexandre Blais, F. K. Wilhelm

In this paper we derive an effective master equation and quantum trajectory equation for multiple qubits in a single resonator and in the large resonator decay limit. We show that homodyne measurement of the resonator transmission is a weak measurement of the collective qubit inversion. As an example of this result, we focus on the case of two qubits and sho

Rudra Banerjee, Abhijit Mookerjee

In an earlier communication we have developed a recursion based approach to the study of phase stability and transition of binary alloys. We had combined the recursion method introduced by Haydock, Heine and Kelly and the our augmented space approach with the orbital peeling technique proposed by Burke to determine the small energy differences involved in th

Luca Tomassini

We show that strictly local observables with arbitrarily small support in space-time exist in covariant free open bosonic string field theory. The main ingredient of the proof is a modified version of the well known DDF operators, which we rigourously define. This result allows in principle the definition of a net of local observable algebras and should be c

Jens Köplinger

Using spin 1/2 particle elastic scattering on a fixed target, in a 1/|x| potential on Euclidean metric, a minimum scattering cross section appears from the spin contribution. Interpreted as semi-classical limit of an earlier proposed operator formulation of four dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity, using non-associative complex octonion algebra, this is un

F. M. Izrailev, N. M. Makarov

In a unified approach, we study the transport properties of periodic-on-average bi-layered photonic crystals, metamaterials and electron superlattices. Our consideration is based on the analytical expression for the localization length derived for the case of weakly fluctuating widths of layers, that also takes into account possible correlations in disorder.

Ke Yi, Qin Zhang

We consider the the problem of tracking heavy hitters and quantiles in the distributed streaming model. The heavy hitters and quantiles are two important statistics for characterizing a data distribution. Let $A$ be a multiset of elements, drawn from the universe $U=\{1,...,u\}$. For a given $0 \le ϕ\le 1$, the $ϕ$-heavy hitters are those elements of $A$ who

Yuanming Liu, Robert E. Ecke

We present experimental heat transport measurements of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with rotation about a vertical axis. The fluid, water with Prandtl number ($σ$) about 6, was confined in a cell which had a square cross section of 7.3 cm$\times$7.3 cm and a height of 9.4 cm. Heat transport was measured for Rayleigh numbers $2\times 10^5 <$ Ra $ < 5\

K. Kaneko, Y. Sun, M. Hasegawa, T. Mizusaki

The structure of neutron-rich Cr isotopes is systematically investigated by using the spherical shell model. The calculations reproduce well the known energy levels for the even-even $^{52-62}$Cr and odd-mass $^{53-59}$Cr nuclei, and predict a lowering of excitation energies around neutron number N=40. The calculated $B(E2;2_{1}^{+}\to 0_{1}^{+})$ systematic

Jagadish Kumar, Rumi De, G. Ananthakrishna

We report a comprehensive investigation of a model for peeling of an adhesive tape along with a nonlinear time series analysis of experimental acoustic emission signals in an effort to understand the origin of intermittent peeling of an adhesive tape and its connection to acoustic emission. The model represents the acoustic energy dissipated in terms of Rayl

Yong Wang

For even dimensional manifolds, we prove some twisted anomaly cancellation formulas which generalize some well-known cancellation formulas. For odd dimensional manifolds, we obtain some modularly invariant characteristic forms by the Chern-Simons transgression and we also get some twisted anomaly cancellation formulas.

J. Mason, D. W. Hughes, S. M. Tobias

The operation of an interface dynamo (as has been suggested for the Sun and other stars with convective envelopes) relies crucially upon the effective transport of magnetic flux between two spatially disjoint generation regions. In the simplest models communication between the two regions is achieved solely by diffusion. Here we incorporate a highly simplifi

Andrea Montanari, Amin Saberi

Coordination games describe social or economic interactions in which the adoption of a common strategy has a higher payoff. They are classically used to model the spread of conventions, behaviors, and technologies in societies. Here we consider a two-strategies coordination game played asynchronously between the nodes of a network. Agents behave according to

Gunnar Carlsson, Vin de Silva

We describe a new methodology for studying persistence of topological features across a family of spaces or point-cloud data sets, called zigzag persistence. Building on classical results about quiver representations, zigzag persistence generalises the highly successful theory of persistent homology and addresses several situations which are not covered by t

Satoshi Aoki, Akimichi Takemura

A new class of two-level non-regular fractional factorial designs is defined. We call this class an {\it affinely full-dimensional factorial design}, meaning that design points in the design of this class are not contained in any affine hyperplane in the vector space over $\mathbb{F}_2$. The property of the indicator function for this class is also clarified

Jeffrey M. Dick

[abridged] Background: The distribution of chemical species in an open system at metastable equilibrium can be expressed as a function of environmental variables which can include temperature, oxidation-reduction potential and others. Calculations of metastable equilibrium for various model systems were used to characterize chemical transformations among pro

Eriita G. Jones, Charles H. Lineweaver

Our current knowledge of life on Earth indicates a basic requirement for liquid water. The locations of present liquid water are therefore the logical sites to search for current life on Mars. We develop a picture of where on Mars the regions with the highest potential near-surface liquid water abundance can be found through a study of gullies. We also use r

Don Hadwin, Jiankui Li, Junhao Shen, Liguang Wang

In the paper, we prove that reduced free products of unital AH algebras with respect to given faithful tracial states, in the sense of Voiculescu, are Blackadar and Kirhcberg&#39;s MF algebras. We also show that the reduced free products of unital AH algebras with respect to given faithful tracial states, under mild conditions, are not quasidiagonal. Therefo

A. Melikyan, A. Pinzul

We investigate the quantum integrability of the Landau-Lifshitz model and solve the long-standing problem of finding the local quantum Hamiltonian for the arbitrary n-particle sector. The particular difficulty of the LL model quantization, which arises due to the ill-defined operator product, is dealt with by simultaneously regularizing the operator product,

Stefanos Orfanos

We define a broad class of crossed product C*-algebras of the form C(G)xG, where G is a discrete countable amenable residually finite group, and G is a profinite completion of G. We show that they are unital separable simple nuclear quasidiagonal C*-algebras, or real rank zero, stable rank one, with comparability of projections and with a unique trace.

Allan Adams, Alexander Maloney, Aninda Sinha, Samuel E. Vazquez

We argue that higher-curvature terms in the gravitational Lagrangian lead, via non-relativistic gauge-gravity duality, to finite renormalization of the dynamical exponent of the dual conformal field theory. Our argument includes a proof of the non-renormalization of the Schrodinger and Lifshitz metrics beyond rescalings of their parameters, directly generali

S. Garcia, L. Ghivelder, I. Felner

In this paper we investigate the magnetic state and the role of the crystalline structure in RuSr2Eu1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10 (Ru-1222). Measurements were made in the isomorphic series (Nb1-xRux)Sr2Eu1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10 [(Nb,Ru)-1222], with x between 0 and 1. 3D XY fluctuations above the magnetic transition were not observed in Ru-1222, suggesting a weak inter-plane couplin

A. A. Kokin, V. A. Kokin

As a nuclear spin model of scalable quantum register, the one-dimensional chain of the magnetic atoms with nuclear spins 1/2 substituting the basic atoms in the plate of nuclear spin free easy-axis 3D antiferromagnet is considered. It is formulated the generalized antiferromagnet Hamiltonian in spin-wave approximation (low temperatures) considering the inhom

H. Krebs, E. Epelbaum, U. -G. Meißner

We prove that any bilinear coupling of a massive spin-3/2 field can be brought into a gauge invariant form suggested by Pascalutsa by means of a non-linear field redefinition. The corresponding field transformation is given explicitly in a closed form and the implications for chiral effective field theory with explicit Delta (1232) isobar degrees of freedom

Uffe Haagerup, Gabriel Picioroaga

We find new presentations for the Thompson&#39;s groups $F$, the derived group $F^{&#39;}$ and the intermediate group $D$. These presentations have a common ground in that their relators are the same and only the generating sets differ. As an application of these presentations we extract the following consequences: the cost of the group $F^{&#39;}$ is 1 henc

W. J. Kim, M. Brown-Hayes, D. A. R. Dalvit, J. H. Brownell

We have performed precision electrostatic calibrations in the sphere-plane geometry and observed anomalous behavior. Namely, the scaling exponent of the electrostatic signal with distance was found to be smaller than expected on the basis of the pure Coulombian contribution and the residual potential found to be distance dependent. We argue that these findin

Thomas M. Brown, Kailash Sahu, Manuela Zoccali, Alvio Renzini

[Abridged] When WFC3 is installed on HST, the community will have powerful new tools for investigating resolved stellar populations. The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury program will obtain deep imaging on 4 low-extinction fields. These non-proprietary data will enable a variety of science investigations not possible with previous data sets. To aid in planning f

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We show that the excellent optical and gamma-ray data available for GRB 080319B rule out the internal shock model for the prompt emission. The data instead point to a model in which the observed radiation was produced close to the deceleration radius ($\sim10^{17}$ cm) by a turbulent source with random Lorentz factors $\sim10$ in the comoving frame. The opti

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