December 2008 arXiv papers — page 9

Spyros Konitopoulos, George Savvidy

We consider the production of charged spin-two gauge bosons in the gluon-gluon scattering and calculate polarized cross sections for each set of helicity orientations of initial and final particles. The angular dependence of this cross section is compared with the gluon-gluon scattering cross section in QCD .

Doron Gazit, Sofia Quaglioni, Petr Navratil

The chiral low-energy constants c_D and c_E are constrained by means of accurate ab initio calculations of the A=3 binding energies and, for the first time, of the triton beta decay. We demonstrate that these low-energy observables allow a robust determination of the two undetermined constants. The consistency of the interactions and currents in chiral effec

Peter D. Turney

Many AI researchers and cognitive scientists have argued that analogy is the core of cognition. The most influential work on computational modeling of analogy-making is Structure Mapping Theory (SMT) and its implementation in the Structure Mapping Engine (SME). A limitation of SME is the requirement for complex hand-coded representations. We introduce the La

Petr Horava

We propose a quantum theory of membranes designed such that the ground-state wavefunction of the membrane with compact spatial topology Σ_h reproduces the partition function of the bosonic string on worldsheet Σ_h. The construction involves worldvolume matter at quantum criticality, described in the simplest case by Lifshitz scalars with dynamical critical e

Olaf Müller, Miguel Sánchez

We characterize those spacetimes which admit a isometric (or conformal) embedding in some Lorentz-Minkowski space L^N. In particular, any globally hyperbolic spacetime can be isometrically embedded in L^N. This is proven by a result of its own interest: the construction of a smooth time function whose gradient is bounded away from zero -and, thus, an orthogo

Masato Arai, Claus Montonen, Shin Sasaki

We study BPS solitons in N=6 U(N) \times U(N) Chern-Simons-matter theory deformed by an F-term mass. The F-term mass generically breaks N=6 supersymmetry down to N=2. At vacua, M2-branes are polarized into a fuzzy S^3 forming a spherical M5-brane with topology \mathbf{R}^{1,2} \times S^3. The polarization is interpreted as Myers' dielectric effect caused

Hiroshi Isono, Ta-Sheng Tai, Wen-Yu Wen

We apply a recently proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence to extremal supersymmetric five-dimensional charged spinning black holes, constructed by Breckenridge, Myers, Peet and Vafa. By computing the central charge of the dual CFT and Frolov-Thorne temperature, Cardy's formula succeeds in reproducing Bekenstein-Hawking area law.

Nicolas Boulanger, Carlo Iazeolla, Per Sundell

Following the general formalism presented in arXiv:0812.3615 -- referred to as Paper I -- we derive the unfolded equations of motion for tensor fields of arbitrary shape and mass in constantly curved backgrounds by radial reduction of Skvortsov's equations in one higher dimension. The complete unfolded system is embedded into a single master field, value

Y. Sherkunov, J. Zhang, N. d'Ambrumenil, B. Muzykantskii

Electron transport in mesoscopic contacts at low temperatures is accompanied by logarithmically divergent equilibrium noise. We show that this equilibrium noise can be dramatically suppressed in the case of a tunnel junction with modulated (time-dependent) transparency, and identify the optimal protocol. We show how such a contact could be used either as an

Andrea J. Garcia, J. E. Miraglia

We re-calculate electron yields and stopping power of protons colliding with surfaces of NaCl-type insulators. In this article, the projectile is considered to move taking into account the static and polarization potentials with all the individual ions forming the surface lattice unlike our previous work (Phys. Rev. A 75, 042904 (2007)) where the projectile

Mamadou Ndong, Hillel Tal-Ezer, Ronnie Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch

We present a propagation scheme for time-dependent inhomogeneous Schrödinger equations which occur for example in optimal control theory or in reactive scattering calculations. A formal solution based on a polynomial expansion of the inhomogeneous term is derived. It is subjected to an approximation in terms of Chebychev polynomials. Different variants for t

Nick K. Hon, Kevin K. Tsia, Daniel R. Solli, Bahram Jalali

We propose a new class of photonic devices based on periodic stress fields in silicon that enable second-order nonlinearity as well as quasi-phase matching. Periodically-poled silicon (PePSi) adds the periodic poling capability to silicon photonics, and allows the excellent crystal quality and advanced manufacturing capabilities of silicon to be harnessed fo

Peter Albers, Urs Frauenfelder

If the homology of the free loop space of a closed manifold B is infinite dimensional then generically there exist infinitely many leaf-wise intersection points for fiber-wise star-shaped hypersurfaces in T*B.

N. Castagna, G. Bison, G. Di Domenico, A. Hofer

We have manufactured more than 250 nominally identical paraffin-coated Cs vapor cells (30 mm diameter bulbs) for multi-channel atomic magnetometer applications. We describe our dedicated cell characterization apparatus. For each cell we have determined the intrinsic longitudinal, $\sGamma{01}$, and transverse, $\sGamma{02}$, relaxation rates. Our best cell s

A. F. Ho, M. A. Cazalilla, T. Giamarchi

We study the conditions under which, using a canonical transformation, the phases sought after for the repulsive Hubbard model, namely a Mott insulator in the paramagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic phases, and a putative d-wave superfluid can be deduced from observations in an optical lattice loaded with a spin-imbalanced ultra-cold Fermi gas with attractive in

M. Henze, W. Pietsch, G. Sala, M. Della Valle

Short supersoft X-ray source (SSS) states (durations < 100 days) of classical novae (CNe) indicate massive white dwarfs that are candidate progenitors of supernovae type Ia. We carry out a dedicated optical and X-ray monitoring program of CNe in the bulge of M 31. We discovered M31N 2007-11a and determined its optical and X-ray light curve. We used the robot

A. Bolaños, O. G. Miranda, A. Palazzo, M. A. Tórtola

Most neutrino mass extensions of the standard electroweak model entail non-standard interactions which, in the low energy limit, can be parametrized in term of effective four-fermion operators $ν_αν_β\bar f f $. Typically of sub-weak strength, $ε_{αβ} G_F$, these are characterized by dimensionless coupling parameters, $ε_{αβ}$, which may be relatively sizeab

David Parker, Igor Mazin

The discovery of the new class of pnictide superconductors has engendered a controversy about their pairing symmetry, with proposals ranging from an extended s-wave or &#34;s$_{\pm}$&#34; symmetry to nodal or nodeless d-wave symmetry to still more exotic order parameters such as p-wave. In this paper, building on the earlier, similar work performed for the c

M. Gazdzicki

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. These goals will be reached by measurements of hadron production properties in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-lead interactions as a function of collision energy and size of the colliding

Etienne Racine, Alessandra Buonanno, Lawrence E. Kidder

We compute the flux of linear momentum carried by gravitational waves emitted from spinning binary black holes at 2PN order for generic orbits. In particular we provide explicit expressions of three new types of terms, namely next-to-leading order spin-orbit terms at 1.5 PN order, spin-orbit tail terms at 2PN order, and spin-spin terms at 2PN order. Restrict

E. Christova, H. Eberl, E. Ginina, W. Majerotto

We study effects of CP violation in the associated production of a charged Higgs boson and a top quark at the LHC, $pp \to tH^\pm + X$. We calculate the CP violating asymmetry between the total cross section for $H^+$ and $H^-$ production at next-to-leading order in the MSSM, and perform a detailed numerical analysis. In the production the asymmetry is of th

George Sterman

This talk reviewed some classic results and recent progress in the resummation of leading and nonleading enhancements in QCD cross sections and of poles in dimensionally-regularized hard-scattering amplitudes.

Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj, Andrzej Rostworowski

We discuss the nonlinear origin of the power-law tail in the long-time evolution of a spherically symmetric self-gravitating massless scalar field in even-dimensional spacetimes. Using third-order perturbation method, we derive explicit expressions for the tail (the decay rate and the amplitude) for solutions starting from small initial data and we verify th

Barbara Betz, Jorge Noronha, Giorgio Torrieri, Miklos Gyulassy

We solve (3+1)-dimensional ideal hydrodynamical equations with source terms that describe punch-through and fully stopped jets in order to compare their final away-side angular correlations in a static medium. For fully stopped jets, the backreaction of the medium is described by a simple Bethe-Bloch-like model which leads to an explosive burst of energy and

J. E. Gonzalez, C. G. Lacey, C. M. Baugh, C. S. Frenk

The huge size and uniformity of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey makes possible an exacting test of current models of galaxy formation. We compare the predictions of the GALFORM semi-analytical galaxy formation model for the luminosities, morphologies, colours and scale-lengths of local galaxies. GALFORM models the luminosity and size of the disk and bulge compo

Shih-Yuin Lin, B. L. Hu

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some misunderstandings of entanglement dynamics. We find that there is spatial dependence of quantum entanglement in the stable regime

U. Buchenau

The shear flow is modeled in terms of local structural rearrangements. Most of these rearrangements are strongly asymmetric, because the embedding matrix tends to be elastically adapted to the initial state and to have a marked elastic misfit with regard to the final state. As one approaches the Maxwell time, the asymmetry becomes time-dependent, thus enabli

A. Bevan

These proceedings are based on lectures given at the Helmholtz International Summer School Heavy Quark Physics at the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Dubna, Russia, during August 2008. I review the current status of CP violation in B meson decays from the B factories. These results can be used, along with measurements of the sides of the Unitar

M. Beccaria, G. Macorini, E. Mirabella, L. Panizzi

The process of stop-chargino production at LHC has been calculated in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model at the complete electroweak one-loop level, assuming a mSUGRA symmetry breaking scheme. Several properties of the angular and invariant mass distributions of the basic bottom-gluon to stop-chargino amplitudes have been derived. For a meaningful col

D. L. Shepelyansky, A. S. Pikovsky, J. Schmidt, F. Spahn

We propose a new mechanism which explains the existence of enormously sharp edges in the rings of Saturn. This mechanism is based on the synchronization phenomenon due to which the epicycle rotational phases of particles in the ring, under certain conditions, become synchronized with the phase of external satellite, e.g. with the phase of Mimas in the case o

O. V. Selyugin, J. -R. Cudell

The impact-parameter representation of the spin-flip amplitude of hadron elastic scattering is examined in different unitarisation schemes, taking the Born term of the spin-flip amplitude from the Dubna Dynamical Model (DDM). It is shown that the basic properties of the unitarisation schemes are independent of the functional form used for unitarisation but h

R. Klén, Y. Li, S. K. Sahoo, M. Vuorinen

We study two metrics, the quasihyperbolic metric and the distance ratio metric of a subdomain $G \subset {\mathbb R}^n$. In the sequel, we investigate a class of domains, so called $φ$-uniform domains, defined by the property that these two metrics are comparable with respect to a homeomorphism $φ$ from $[0,\infty)$ to itself. Finally, we discuss a number of

Alberto Abbondandolo, Matthias Schwarz

We study the action functional associated to a smooth Lagrangian function on the cotangent bundle of a manifold, having quadratic growth in the velocities. We show that, although the action functional is in general not twice differentiable on the Hilbert manifold consisting of H^1 curves, it is a Lyapunov function for some smooth Morse-Smale vector field, un

Changhyun Ahn

The holographic nonsupersymmetric renormalization group flows in four dimensions are found. The mass-deformed N=2, 4 Chern-Simons matter theories can be reproduced from N=1 Chern-Simons matter theory by putting some constraints in the mass terms. We construct the geometric superpotential, from an eleven dimensional M-theory lift, which provides M2-brane prob

Juergen Schmidhuber

I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively simpler and more beautiful. Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel an

Ryo Saito, Jun&#39;ichi Yokoyama

Formation of significant number of primordial black holes (PBHs) is realized if and only if primordial density fluctuations have a large amplitude, which means that tensor perturbations generated from these scalar perturbations as a second order effect are also large and comparable to the observational data. We show that pulsar timing observation could find/

J. Yamagata-Sekihara, D. Jido, H. Nagahiro, S. Hirenzaki

We study theoretically the in-flight ($K^-,N$) reactions for the formation of light kaonic nuclear systems to get deeper physical insights on the expected spectra, and to investigate the experimental feasibility of the reaction at new facilities like J-PARC. We show the expected spectra for the formation of the $K^-pp, K^-pn$, $K^-nn$ and $K^-$-$^{11}$B syst

Ronald Meester, Pieter Trapman

We introduce a new percolation model to describe and analyze the spread of an epidemic on a general directed and locally finite graph. We assign a two-dimensional random weight vector to each vertex of the graph in such a way that the weights of different vertices are i.i.d., but the two entries of the vector assigned to a vertex need not be independent. The

N. Camara, G. Rius, J-R. Huntzinger, A. Tiberj

We present an investigation of large, isolated, graphene ribbons grown on the C-face of on-axis semi-insulating 6H-SiC wafers. Using a graphite cap to cover the SiC sample, we modify the desorption of the Si species during the Si sublimation process. This results in a better control of the growth kinetics, yielding very long (about 300 microns long, 5 micron

E. G. Drukarev, M. G. Ryskin, V. A. Sadovnikova

We show that at certain values of QCD condensates the nucleon QCD sum rules with &#34;pole+continuum&#34; model for the hadron spectrum obtain an unphysical solution. This provides constrains for the values of condensates to be consistent with existence of a physical solutions. The constrains become much weaker if the radiative corrections are included pertu

A. Y. Potekhin, G. Chabrier, F. J. Rogers

We develop analytic approximations of thermodynamic functions of fully ionized nonideal electron-ion plasma mixtures. In the regime of strong Coulomb coupling, we use our previously developed analytic approximations for the free energy of one-component plasmas with rigid and polarizable electron background and apply the linear mixing rule (LMR). Other thermo

K. K. Nandi, I. R. Kizirgulov, O. V. Mikolaychuk, N. P. Mikolaychuk

Using a unified approach of optical-mechanical analogy in a semiclassical formula, we evaluate the effect of Chern-Simons modified gravity on the quantum phase shift of de Broglie waves in neutron interferometry. The phase shift calculated here reveals, in a single equation, a combination of effects coming from Newtonian gravity, inertial forces, Schwarzschi

Anders Szepessy

Ehrenfest, Born-Oppenheimer, Langevin and Smoluchowski dynamics are shown to be accurate approximations of time-independent Schr\"odinger observables for a molecular system avoiding caustics, in the limit of large ratio of nuclei and electron masses, without assuming that the nuclei are localized to vanishing domains. The derivation, based on a Hamiltonian s

Athanasios Dedes, Janusz Rosiek, Philip Tanedo

During the last few years the Tevatron has dramatically improved the bounds on rare B-meson decays into two leptons. In the case of B_s --> mu+ mu-, the current bound is only ten times greater than the Standard Model expectation. Sensitivity to this decay is one of the benchmark goals for LHCb performance and physics. The Higgs penguin dominates this rate in

Masato Ito

This paper has been withdrawn by the author.

Yi Liao

The electric dipole moments (EDMs) of charged leptons are significantly suppressed in standard model. It has been found previously that they are even more severely suppressed in seesaw type models by powers of tiny neutrino masses as far as a leptonic CP source is concerned. We investigate whether a Majorana-type Yukawa coupling between charged leptons and a

Robert L. Kosut

For an initially well designed but imperfect quantum information system, the process matrix is almost sparse in an appropriate basis. Existing theory and associated computational methods (L1-norm minimization) for reconstructing sparse signals establish conditions under which the sparse signal can be perfectly reconstructed from a very limited number of meas

E. Berg, Y. Oreg, E. -A. Kim, F. von Oppen

We propose ways to create and detect fractionally charged excitations in \emph{integer} quantum Hall edge states. The charge fractionalization occurs due to the Coulomb interaction between electrons propagating on different edge channels. The fractional charge of the soliton-like collective excitations can be observed in time resolved or frequency dependent

A. Niazi, S. L. Bud&#39;ko, D. L. Schlagel, J. Q. Yan

The compound CaV2O4 contains V^{+3} cations with spin S = 1 and has an orthorhombic structure at room temperature containing zigzag chains of V atoms running along the c-axis. We have grown single crystals of CaV2O4 and report crystallography, static magnetization, magnetic susceptibility χ, ac magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity Cp, and thermal expansion

L. Muzzi, V. Corato

In modeling the properties of superconducting multi-filamentary strands, the filament twist pitch and the inter-filament transverse resistivity play a crucial role in the definition of the current transfer length. This affects the AC losses of NbTi strands, or the transport properties of Nb3Sn wires subject to a bending strain. Although the effect of filamen

E. N. Bogachek, I. A. Romanovsky, Uzi Landman

Low frequency plasma oscillations in superconducting tubes are considered. The emergence of two different dimensionality regimes of plasma oscillations in tubes, exhibiting a crossover from one-dimensional to two-dimensional behavior, depending on whether $k R\ll 1$ or $k R\gg 1$, where $k$ is the plasmon wave vector and $R$ is the radius of the tube, is dis

Avare Stewart, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl

The proliferation of media sharing and social networking websites has brought with it vast collections of site-specific user generated content. The result is a Social Networking Divide in which the concepts and structure common across different sites are hidden. The knowledge and structures from one social site are not adequately exploited to provide new inf

Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Cai-Nicolas Ziegler

The advent of the Semantic Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the existence of central authorities superfluous and even impossible. At the same time, recommender systems are gaining considerable impact in e-commerce, providing people with recommendat

Stefan Kolb, Jasper V. Stokman

Reflection equation algebras and related U_q(g)-comodule algebras appear in various constructions of quantum homogeneous spaces and can be obtained via transmutation or equivalently via twisting by a cocycle. In this paper we investigate algebraic and representation theoretic properties of such so called `covariantized&#39; algebras, in particular concerning

CDF collaboration, T. Aaltonen

A measurement of the $\bjet$ production cross section is presented for events containing a $Z$ boson produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. $Z$ bosons are selected in the electron and muon decay modes. Jets are considered w

M. Topsakal, E. Akturk, S. Ciraci

This paper presents a systematic study of two and one dimensional honeycomb structure of boron nitride (BN) using first-principles plane wave method. Two-dimensional (2D) graphene like BN is a wide band gap semiconductor with ionic bonding. Phonon dispersion curves demonstrate the stability of 2D BN flakes. Quasi 1D armchair BN nanoribbon are nonmagnetic sem

Markus Q. Huber, Reinhard Alkofer, Kai Schwenzer

The three-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices of Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory are investigated in the low momentum regime. Due to ghost dominance in the infrared we can use the known power law behavior for the propagators to determine analytically the complete momentum dependence of the dressing functions. Besides a uniform, i. e. all momenta going to zero, div

Rolf Schimmrigk

The program of constructing spacetime geometry from string theoretic modular forms is extended to Calabi-Yau varieties of dimensions two, three, and four, as well as higher rank motives. Modular forms on the worldsheet can be constructed from the geometry of spacetime by computing the L-functions associated to omega motives of Calabi-Yau varieties, generated

S. Alekhin, S. Kulagin, R. Petti

We present an analysis of the nucleon strange sea extracted from a global Parton Distribution Function fit including the neutrino and anti-neutrino dimuon data by the CCFR and NuTeV collaborations, the inclusive charged lepton-nucleon Deep Inelastic Scattering and Drell-Yan data. The (anti-)neutrino induced dimuon analysis is constrained by the semi-leptonic

P. Deuar, A. G. Sykes, D. M. Gangardt, M. J. Davis

The behavior of the spatial two-particle correlation function is surveyed in detail for a uniform 1D Bose gas with repulsive contact interactions at finite temperatures. Both long-, medium-, and short-range effects are investigated. The results span the entire range of physical regimes, from ideal gas, to strongly interacting, and from zero temperature to hi

A. N. Yakunin

In frameworks of scaling theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena the structure of melt-crystallized polymers is discussed. The model constructed follows drawing polymeric materials and dissipating the energy during the transition from isotropic to oriented state. It is possible to estimate temperatures of secondary relaxation transitions. The entr

Napoleon Hernandez, Richard H. Price

The periodic standing wave method studies circular orbits of compact objects coupled to helically symmetric standing wave gravitational fields. From this solution an approximation is extracted for the strong field, slowly inspiralling motion of binary black holes and binary neutron stars. Previous work on this project has developed a method using a few multi

Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khanna

In the Survivable Network Design problem (SNDP), we are given an undirected graph $G(V,E)$ with costs on edges, along with a connectivity requirement $r(u,v)$ for each pair $u,v$ of vertices. The goal is to find a minimum-cost subset $E^*$ of edges, that satisfies the given set of pairwise connectivity requirements. In the edge-connectivity version we need t

Rachid Ouyed, Denis Leahy

We explore the dynamical and thermal evolution of the ejected neutron star crust in a Quark-Nova explosion. Typical explosion energies and ejected crust masses result in relativistic ejection with Lorentz factors of a few to a few hundred. The ejecta undergoes a rapid cooling and stretching resulting in break up into many small pieces (clumps) when the eject

Mauricio Cataldo, Sergio del Campo, Paul Minning, Patricio Salgado

In this paper we study the possibility of sustaining an evolving wormhole via exotic matter made of phantom energy in the presence of a cosmological constant. We derive analytical evolving wormhole geometries by supposing that the radial tension of the phantom matter, which is negative to the radial pressure, and the pressure measured in the tangential direc

V. Shklyar, H. Lenske

We show that the gauge-invariant coupling suggested by Pascalutsa removes non-pole terms from a spin-$\fth$ propagator only for a specific choice of free parameter. For the general case the problem can be solved by including higher order derivatives of spin-$\fth$ fields or by modifying the original coupling. In the latter case the obtained Lagrangian depend

Jean-Camille Birget

We study the monoid generalization M_{k,1} of the Thompson-Higman groups, and we characterize the R- and the L-preorder of M_{k,1}. Although M_{k,1} has only one non-zero J-class and k-1 non-zero D-classes, the R- and the L-preorder are complicated; in particular, <_R is dense (even within an L-class), and <_L is dense (even within an R-class). We study the

Javier Mas, Jonathan P. Shock, Javier Tarrio

We study the conductivity, susceptibility and diffusion of a strongly coupled quark gluon plasma from the holographic perspective. We calculate general expressions for these quantities in the presence of finite baryon density and show that in this context, for the D3/D7 intersection the Einstein relation holds, providing another non-trivial check of the holo

Roberto A Sussman

We interpret as shear viscosity the anisotropic pressure that emerges in inhomogeneous spherically symmetric spacetimes described by the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) metric in a comoving frame. By assuming that local isotropic pressure and energy density satisfy a generic ideal gas equation of state, we reduce the field equations to a set of evolution equatio

A. Daoud-Aladine, B. Kundys, C. Martin, P. G. Radaelli

FeVO$_4$ has been studied by heat capacity, magnetic susceptibility, electric polarization and single crystal neutron diffraction experiments. The triclinic crystal structure is made of \emph{S}-shaped clusters of six Fe$^{3+}$ ions, linked by VO$_4^{3-}$ groups. Two long-range magnetic ordering transitions occur at T$_{N1}$=22K and T$_{N2}$=15K. Both magnet

Pei-Lin You

The linear Stark effect shows that the first excited state of hydrogen atom has large permanent electric dipole moment (EDM), d(H)=3eao (ao is Bohr radius). Using special capacitors our experiments discovered that the ground state K, Rb or Cs atom is polar atom with a large EDM of the order of eao as hydrogen atom of excited state. Their capacitance(C) at di

Sarah K. Leyton, Tobias J. Osborne

In this paper we describe a quantum algorithm to solve sparse systems of nonlinear differential equations whose nonlinear terms are polynomials. The algorithm is nondeterministic and its expected resource requirements are polylogarithmic in the number of variables and exponential in the integration time. The best classical algorithm runs in a time scaling li

R. Acharyya, H. Y. T. Nguyen, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt

From measurements of the current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) total specific resistance (AR = area times resistance) of sputtered Pd/Ir multilayers, we derive the interface specific resistance, 2AR(Pd/Ir) = 1.02 +/- 0.06 fOhmm^2, for this metal pair with closely similar lattice parameters. Assuming a single fcc crystal structure with the average lattice para

K. S. Babu, Yanzhi Meng, Zurab Tavartkiladze

We suggest predictive scenarios for neutrino masses which provide a common origin for CP violation in early universe cosmology and in neutrino oscillations. Our setup is the seesaw mechanism in the context of MSSM with two quasi-degenerate right-handed neutrinos, with baryon asymmetry generated via resonant leptogenesis. Three different models are found with

Zdenek Stuchlik, Andrea Kotrlova, Gabriel Torok

High-frequency twin peak quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in four microquasars, i.e., Galactic black hole binary systems, with frequency ratio very close to 3:2. In the microquasar GRS 1915+105, the structure of QPOs exhibits additional frequencies, and more than two frequencies are observed in the Galaxy nuclei Sgr A*, or in some extragalactic

Mikhail Gordin

A stationary random sequence admits under some assumptions a representation as the sum of two others: one of them is a martingale difference sequence, and another is a so-called coboundary. Such a representation can be used for proving some limit theorems by means of the martingale approximation. A multivariate version of such a decomposition is presented in

L. P. Gamberg, A. Mukherjee, P. J. Mulders

We investigate the spectral properties of quark-quark-gluon correlators and use this to study gluonic pole matrix elements. Such matrix elements appear in principle both for distribution functions such as the Sivers function and fragmentation functions such as the Collins function. We find that for a large class of spectator models, the contribution of the g

N. K. Jackson, M. J. Church, M. Balucinska-Church

We present results of a combined investigation of the spectral and kHz QPO evolution around the Z-track in GX 5-1 based on high-quality RXTE data. The Extended ADC emission model provides very good fits to the spectra, the results pointing clearly to a model for the nature of the Z-track, in agreement with previous results for the similar source GX 340+0. In

A. K. Nasirov, G. Giardina, F. Hanappe, S. Heinz

The yields of evaporation residues, fusion-fission and quasifission fragments in the $^{48}$Ca+$^{144,154}$Sm and $^{16}$O+$^{186}$W reactions are analyzed in the framework of the combined theoretical method based on the dinuclear system concept and advanced statistical model. The measured yields of evaporation residues for the $^{48}$Ca+$^{154}$Sm reaction

Matthew Headrick

We present detailed solutions to 81 of the 202 problems in J. Polchinski&#39;s two-volume textbook &#34;String Theory&#34;.

Dmytro Volin

We formulate the BES/FRS equation as a functional equation in the rapidity space and perform its strong coupling expansion in the limit when $\ell=j/4g$ is kept finite. We obtain a result which is consistent with the previous calculations at tree level and one loop and which differs from the two-loop calculation in 0805.4615 by a term singular at $\ell=0$.

C. A. Lamas, D. C. Cabra, N. Grandi

We study the presence of Pomeranchuk instabilities induced by interactions on a Fermi liquid description of a graphene layer. Using a recently developed generalization of Pomeranchuk method we present a phase diagram in the space of fillings versus on-site and nearest neighbors interactions. Interestingly, we find that for both interactions being repulsive a

A. Oemler, A. Dressler, D. Kelson, J. Rigby

We use extensive new observations of the very rich z ~ 0.4 cluster of galaxies A851 to examine the nature and origin of starburst galaxies in intermediate-redshift clusters. New HST observations, Spitzer photometry and ground-based spectroscopy cover most of a region of the cluster about 10 arcmin across, corresponding to a clustercentric radial distance of

L. Deych, J. Rubin

The interaction of whispering gallery modes (WGM) of optical microresonators with subwavelength imperfections has been studied both experimentally and theoretically. This interaction is responsible for the formation of spectral doublets in place of single resonance peaks, and for degrading of Q-factors of the resonances. Within the currently accepted framewo

Gábor Braun

We obtain a new important basic result on splice-quotient singularities in an elegant combinatorial-geometric way: every level of the divisorial filtration of the ring of functions is generated by monomials of the defining coordinate functions. The elegant way is the language of of line bundles based on Okuma&#39;s description of the function ring of the uni

Dae Sung Hwang, Hyungsuk Son

We calculate the decay rate ratios for OZI allowed decays of Upsilon(5S) to two B mesons by using the decay amplitudes which incorporate the wave function of the Upsilon(5S) state. We obtain the results that the branching ratio of the Upsilon(5S) decay to Bs* Bs*bar is much larger than the branching ratio to Bs Bs*bar or Bsbar Bs*, in good agreement with rec

J. Trujillo Bueno

This paper reviews some of the developments that over the last 10 years have allowed us to go from deciphering the physical origin of several of the enigmatic features of the second solar spectrum to discovering unknown aspects of the Sun&#39;s hidden magnetism via sophisticated radiative transfer modeling. The second solar spectrum is the observational sign

Bozidar Jovanovic

This is a survey on finite-dimensional integrable dynamical systems related to Hamiltonian $G$-actions. Within a framework of noncommutative integrability we study integrability of $G$-invariant systems, collective motions and reduced integrability. We also consider reductions of the Hamiltonian flows restricted to their invariant submanifolds generalizing c

Kathrin Bringmann, Ben Kane

Andrews, Dyson, and Hickerson showed that 2 $q$-hypergeometric series, going back to Ramanujan, are related to real quadratic fields, which explains interesting properties of their Fourier coefficients. There is also an interesting relation of such series to automorphic forms. Here we construct more such examples arising from interesting combinatorial statis

Sascha Husa

These notes summarize basic concepts underlying numerical relativity and in particular the numerical modeling of black hole dynamics as a source of gravitational waves. Main topics are the 3+1 decomposition of general relativity, the concept of a well-posed initial value problem, the construction of initial data for general relativity, trapped surfaces and g

M. Gomes, T. Mariz, J. R. Nascimento, A. F. Santos

In a 4D four-fermion model we study the dynamical restoration of Lorentz and CPT symmetries at finite temperature. We evaluate the gap equation both at zero and at finite temperature and observe that, depending on the parameters of the theory, there is a critical temperature at which the Lorentz and CPT symmetries are restored.

Najib Mahdou, Khalid Ouarghi

In this paper, we show that the Gorenstein global dimension of trivial ring extensions is often infinite. Also we study the transfer of Gorenstein properties between a ring and its trivial ring extensions. We conclude with an example showing that, in general, the transfer of the notion of Gorenstein projective module does not carry up to pullback constructio

Benedetto Piccoli, Andrea Tosin

In this paper we systematically apply the mathematical structures by time-evolving measures developed in a previous work to the macroscopic modeling of pedestrian flows. We propose a discrete-time Eulerian model, in which the space occupancy by pedestrians is described via a sequence of Radon positive measures generated by a push-forward recursive relation.

Nicolas Chamel, Jérôme Margueron, Elias Khan

The inner crust of neutron stars, formed of a crystal lattice of uclear clusters immersed in a sea of unbound neutrons, may be the nique example of periodic nuclear systems. We have calculated the neutron specific heat in the shallow part of the crust using the band theory of solids with Skyrme nucleon-nucleon interactions. We have also tested the validity o

Thiago F. Viscondi, K. Furuya, M. C. de Oliveira

The generalized purity is employed for investigating the process of coherence loss and delocalization of the Q-function in the Bloch sphere of a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate in a symmetrical double well with cross-collision. Quantum phase transition of the model is signaled by the generalized purity as a function of an appropriate parameter of the Hamil

K. S. Glavatskiy, D. Bedeaux

In this paper we first apply the general analysis described in our first paper to a binary mixture of cyclohexane and $n$-hexane. We use the square gradient model for the continuous description of a non-equilibrium surface and obtain numerical profiles of various thermodynamic quantities in various stationary state conditions. In the second part of this pape

S. K. Adhikari

From an extensive calculation of static properties of a trapped Fermi superfluid at zero temperature using a density-functional formulation, we demonstrate a universal behavior of its observables, such as energy, chemical potential, radius etc., over the crossover from the BCS limit to unitarity leading to scaling over many orders of magnitude in fermion num

M. Baur, S. Filipp, R. Bianchetti, J. M. Fink

We present spectroscopic measurements of the Autler-Townes doublet and the sidebands of the Mollow triplet in a driven superconducting qubit. The ground to first excited state transition of the qubit is strongly pumped while the resulting dressed qubit spectrum is probed with a weak tone. The corresponding transitions are detected using dispersive read-out o

A. Borowiec

Toy cosmological models based on non-minimal coupling between gravity and scalar dilaton-like field are presented in the framework of Palatini formalism. They have the following property: preceding to a given cosmological epoch is a dark energy epoch with an accelerated expansion. The next (future) epoch becomes dominated by some kind of dark matter.

Luca Antonio Forte

In this note, we present the formalism to start a quantum analysis for the recent billiard representation introduced by Damour, Henneaux and Nicolai in the study of the cosmological singularity. In particular we use the theory of Maass automorphic forms and recent mathematical results about arithmetical dynamical systems. The predictions of the billiard mode