May 2009 arXiv papers — page 19

Tzu-Chieh Wei, Michele Mosca, Ashwin Nayak

Computing the ground-state energy of interacting electron (fermion) problems has recently been shown to be hard for QMA, a quantum analogue of the complexity class NP. Fermionic problems are usually hard, a phenomenon widely attributed to the so-called sign problem occurring in Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The corresponding bosonic problems are, accordin

Amit Mizrahi, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Fabio Bonomelli, Vitaliy Lomakin

We introduce a new fundamental property of waveguides induced by the forces of the guided light, namely, the ability to self align or be in instability. A nanoscale waveguide broken by an offset and a gap may tend to self align to form a continuous waveguide. Conversely, depending on the geometry and light polarization, the two parts of the waveguide may be

Lucien Cremaldi, David A. Sanders, Peter Sonnek, Donald J. Summers

We have designed a threshold Cherenkov detector at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory to identify muons with momenta between 230 and 350 MeV/c. We investigated the properties of three aerogels for the design. The nominal indexes of refraction were n = 1.03, 1.07, 1.12, respectively. Two of the samples are of high density aerogel not commonly used for Cherenk

Jinfeng Liao, Volker Koch

A new method for solving relativistic ideal hydrodynamics in (1+3)D is developed. Longitudinal and transverse radial flows are explicitly embedded and the hydrodynamic equations are reduced to a single equation for the transverse velocity field only, which is much more tractable. As an application we use the method to find analytically all possible solutions

Laurent Duvernet

Some asymptotic properties of a Brownian motion in multifractal time, also called multifractal random walk, are established. We show the almost sure and $L^1$ convergence of its structure function. This is an issue directly connected to the scale invariance and multifractal property of the sample paths. We place ourselves in a mixed asymptotic setting where

M. Pedani

We present the measurements of sky surface brightness on Mount Graham International Observatory obtained during the first binocular-mode science runs at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). A total of 860 images obtained on 23 moonless nights in the period Feb 2008-Jun 2008 were analyzed with our data quality assessment procedure. These data, taken at the so

S. V. Lotkhov, A. Kemppinen, S. Kafanov, J. P. Pekola

Pumping characteristics were studied of the hybrid normal-metal/superconductor single-electron transistor embedded in a high-ohmic environment. Two 3 micrometer-long microstrip resistors of CrOx with a sum resistance R=80kOhm were placed adjacent to this hybrid device. Substantial improvement of pumping and reduction of the subgap leakage were observed in th

Michael L. Balogh, Sean L. McGee, Dave Wilman, Richard G. Bower

(Abridged) We present new optical and near-infrared imaging for a sample of 98 spectroscopically-selected galaxy groups at 0.25<z<0.55. We measure accurate colours for group members and the surrounding field population, statistically complete above a stellar mass limit of M=1E10 Msun. The overall colour distribution is bimodal in both the field and group sam

A. Ofir, H. J. Deeg, C. H. S. Lacy

Aims. We search for transiting circumbinary (CB) planets around eclipsing binaries (EBs). Methods. CB-BLS is a recently-introduced algorithm for the detection of transiting CB planets around EBs.We describe progress in search sensitivity, generality and capability of CB-BLS, and detection tests of CB-BLS on simulated data. We also describe an analytical appr

T. Ihn, Simon Gustavsson, Urszula Gasser, Bruno Küng

The detection of the quantum dot charge state using a quantum point contact charge detector has opened a new exciting route for the investigation of quantum dot devices in recent years. In particular, time-resolved charge detection allowed the precise measurement of quantum dot shot noise at sub-femtoampere current levels, and the full counting statistics of

Christian L. Klix, Ken-ichiro Murata, Hajime Tanaka, Stephen R. Williams

We study metastable clusters in a colloidal system with competing interactions. A short-ranged polymer-induced attraction drives clustering, while a weak, long-ranged electrostatic repulsion prevents extensive aggregation. We compare experimental yields of cluster structures expected from theory, which assumes simple addition of the competing isotropic inter

Ting Lu, David G. Gilbank, Michael L. Balogh, Adam Bognat

The global star formation rate has decreased significantly since z ~ 1, for reasons that are not well understood. Red-sequence galaxies, dominating in galaxy clusters, represent the population that have had their star formation shut off, and may therefore be the key to this problem. In this work, we select 127 rich galaxy clusters at 0.17<z<0.36, from 119 sq

J. A. Eisner, J. D. Monnier, P. Tuthill, S. Lacour

We present mid-IR observations from Gemini/TReCS that spatially resolve the dust emission around SR 21. The protoplanetary disk around SR 21 is believed to have a cleared gap extending from stellocentric radii of ~0.5 AU to ~20 AU, based on modeling of the observed spectral energy distribution. Our new observations resolve the dust emission, and our data are

Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes, Joseph V. Hollweg

Different results for the cascade power in strong, incompressible MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity appear in the literature. In this paper, we discuss the conditions under which these different results are valid. We define z+ to be the rms amplitude of Alfven waves propagating parallel to the background magnetic field, and z- to be the rms amplitud

Franz Lehner

A formula expressing cumulants in terms of iterated integrals of the distribution function is derived. It generalizes results of Jones and Balakrishnan who computed expressions for cumulants up to order 4.

Luigi Ambrosio, Stefan Wenger

Aim of this paper is a finer analysis of the group of flat chains with coefficients in $Z_p$ introduced in a recent paper by Ambrosio-Katz, by taking quotients of the group of integer rectifiable currents, along the lines of the the Ziemer and Federer approach. We investigate the typical questions of the theory of currents, namely rectifiability of the measu

Tansel Karabacak, Hasan Guclu, Murat Yuksel

We present a new network modeling approach for various thin film growth techniques that incorporates re-emitted particles due to the non-unity sticking coefficients. We model re-emission of a particle from one surface site to another one as a network link, and generate a network model corresponding to the thin film growth. Monte Carlo simulations are used to

Olivier Espinosa

Given a connected (multi)graph G, consisting of V vertices and I lines, we consider a class of multidimensional sums constructed in the following way: - orient the lines of the graph in some (arbitrary) fashion - assign to each line i a positive variable q_i and an integer summation variable n_i - assign to each vertex v an integer variable N_v - construct t

V. B. Semikoz, D. D. Sokoloff, J. W. F. Valle

A tiny hypermagnetic field generated before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) associated to the generation of elementary particle masses can polarize the early Universe hot plasma at huge redshifts z > 10^15. The anomalous violation of the right-handed electron current characteristic of the EWPT converts the lepton asymmetry into a baryon asymmetry. Un

Isaac Freund

The minor axes of, and the normals to, the polarization ellipses that surround singular lines of linear polarization in three dimensional optical ellipse fields are shown to be organized into Mobius strips and into structures we call rippled rings (r-rings). The Mobius strips have two full twists, and can be either right- or left-handed. The major axes of th

Caslav Brukner

All our statements about the physical world are expressed in terms of everyday notions and thus in terms of classical physics. This necessity is behind each of our attempt to extract meaning out of empirical data and to communicate this knowledge to others. As such, it must apply also to the account of measurement arrangements and to the outcome in quantum e

W. Barreto

It is shown that observers in the standard ADM 3+1 treatment of matter are the same as the observers used in the matter treatment of Bondi: they are comoving and local Minkowskian. Bondi&#39;s observers are the basis of the post--quasitatic approximation (PQSA) to study a contracting distribution of matter. This correspondence suggests the possibility of usi

R. Lopez-Ruiz, A. Nagy, E. Romera, J. Sanudo

A two-parameter family of complexity measures $\tilde{C}^{(α,β)}$ based on the Rényi entropies is introduced and characterized by a detailed study of its mathematical properties. This family is the generalization of a continuous version of the LMC complexity, which is recovered for $α=1$ and $β=2$. These complexity measures are obtained by multiplying two qu

Ath. Kehagias, G. Hollinger, A. Gelastopoulos

One or more searchers must capture an invisible evader hiding in the nodes of a graph. We study this graph search problem; we emphasize that we study the capture of a node-located evader, which has received less attention than edge search. We show that in general graphs the problem of node search is easier than that of edge search (however node search is NP-

Frank Aurzada

We study the a.s. sample path regularity of Gaussian processes. To this end we relate the path regularity directly to the theory of small deviations. In particular, we show that if the process is $n$-times differentiable then the exponential rate of decay of its small deviations is at most $\varepsilon^{-1/n}$. We also show a similar result if $n$ is not an

George Parfionov, Romàn Zapatrin

We develop a macro-model of information retrieval process using Game Theory as a mathematical theory of conflicts. We represent the participants of the Information Retrieval process as a game of two abstract players. The first player is the `intellectual crowd&#39; of users of search engines, the second is a community of information retrieval systems. In ord

Vitaly V. Ganusov, Jose Borghans, Rob De Boer

Estimation of division and death rates of lymphocytes in different conditions is vital for quantitative understanding of the immune system. Deuterium, in the form of deuterated glucose or heavy water, can be used to measure rates of proliferation and death of lymphocytes in vivo. Inferring these rates from labeling and delabeling curves has been subject to c

M. Shaked, G. Gibor, B. Attali, Z. Schuss

We applied a periodic magnetic field of frequency 16 Hz and amplitude 16 nT to a human I_Ks channel, expressed in a Xenopus oocyte and varied the membrane depolarization between -100 mV and +100 mV. We observed a maximal increase of about 9% in the potassium current at membrane depolarization between 0 mV and 8 mV (see Figure 3). A similar measurement of the

Ivana Stoklasová, Pierre Ferruit, Eric Emsellem, Bruno Jungwiert

We map narrow-line regions (NLRs) of 11 nearby Seyfert 2 galaxies with the optical integral-field spectrograph OASIS mounted at CFHT. We model emission-line profiles of 5 forbidden-line doublets and 2 Balmer lines, correcting for the underlying stellar absorption by reconstructing stellar spectra with synthetic evolutionary stellar population models. For eac

Haris Aziz, Mike Paterson

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere and manipulative behaviour. We examine the computational complexity of false-name manipulation in weighted voting games which are an important class of coalitional voting games. Weighted voting games have received increased interest in the mul

Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Information distance is a parameter-free similarity measure based on compression, used in pattern recognition, data mining, phylogeny, clustering, and classification. The notion of information distance is extended from pairs to multiples (finite lists). We study maximal overlap, metricity, universality, minimal overlap, additivity, and normalized information

Konstantine Zelator

In this work, we prove the following result(Theorem 1): Suppose that n is a positive integer, p an odd prime, and such that either n is congruent to 0 modulo4 and p congruent to 3 modulo8; or alternatively, n is congruent to 2 modulo4 and p congruent to 7 modulo 8. In addition to the above, assume that one of the following holds: Either (i) n^2-p>0 and the p

M. Chernyakova, A. Neronov, F. Aharonian, Y. Uchiyama

PSR B1259-63 is a 48 ms radio pulsar in a highly eccentric 3.4 year orbit with a Be star SS 2883. Unpulsed gamma-ray, X-ray and radio emission components are observed from the binary system. It is likely that the collision of the pulsar wind with the anisotropic wind of the Be star plays a crucial role in the generation of the observed non-thermal emission.

G. Alecian, M. Gebran, M. Auvergne, O. Richard

HgMn Chemically Peculiar stars are among the quietest stars of the main-sequence. However, according to theoretical predictions, these stars could have pulsations related to the very strong overabundances of iron peak elements, which are produced by atomic diffusion in upper layers. Such pulsations have never been detected from ground based observations. Our

Luís C. B. Crispino, Sam R. Dolan, Ednilton S. Oliveira

We analyze the scattering of a planar monochromatic electromagnetic wave incident upon a Schwarzschild black hole. We obtain accurate numerical results from the partial wave method for the electromagnetic scattering cross section, and show that they are in excellent agreement with analytical approximations. The scattering of electromagnetic waves is compared

Jessie Rosenberg, Qiang Lin, Kerry J. Vahala, Oskar Painter

Here we propose and demonstrate an all-optical wavelength-routing approach which uses a tuning mechanism based upon the optical gradient force in a specially-designed nano-optomechanical system. The resulting mechanically-compliant &#34;spiderweb&#34; resonantor realizes seamless wavelength routing over a range of 3000 times the intrinsic channel width, with

Elias Khan

Nuclei are propitious tools to investigate the role of the superfluidity in the compressibility of a Fermionic system. The centroid of the Giant Monopole Resonance (GMR) in Tin isotopes is predicted using a constrained Hartree-Fock Bogoliubov approach, ensuring a full self-consistent treatment. Superfluidity is found to favour the compressibitily of nuclei.

Bernard Jancovici, Ladislav Samaj

We continue studying long-ranged quantum correlations of surface charge densities on the interface between two media of distinct dielectric functions which are in thermal equilibrium with the radiated electromagnetic field. Two regimes are considered: the non-retarded one with the speed of light $c$ taken to be infinitely large and the retarded one with fini

T. Varga, A. Kumar, E. Vlahos, S. Denev

We report the magnetic and electrical characteristics of a polycrystalline specimen of FeTiO3 synthesized at high pressure that is isostructural with acentric LiNbO3 (LBO). Piezoresponse force microscopy, optical second harmonic generation, and magnetometry demonstrate that FeTiO3-II is ferroelectric at and below room temperature and weakly ferromagnetic bel

K. Jansen, C. Urbach

We discuss a program suite for simulating Quantum Chromodynamics on a 4-dimensional space-time lattice. The basic Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm is introduced and a number of algorithmic improvements are explained. We then discuss the implementations of these concepts as well as our parallelisation strategy in the actual simulation code. Finally, we provide a

Dmitri Antonov

Shear viscosity of the gluon plasma in SU(3) YM theory is calculated nonperturbatively, within the stochastic vacuum model. The result for the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density, proportional to the squared chromo-magnetic gluon condensate and the fifth power of the correlation length of the chromo-magnetic vacuum, falls off with the increas

A. E. Allahverdyan, Zh. S. Gevorkian, Chin-Kun Hu, Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

The thermally induced denaturation of DNA in the presence of attractive solid surface is studied. The two strands of DNA are modeled via two coupled flexible chains without volume interactions. If the two strands are adsorbed on the surface, the denaturation phase-transition disappears. Instead, there is a smooth crossover to a weakly naturated state. Our se

A. Mijatovic, H. Lo

It is well documented that a model for the underlying asset price process that seeks to capture the behaviour of the market prices of vanilla options needs to exhibit both diffusion and jump features. In this paper we assume that the asset price process $S$ is Markov with cadlag paths and propose a scheme for computing the law of the realized variance of the

Mikhael Balabane

This paper gives a geometric description of functional spaces related to Domain Decomposition techniques for computing solutions of Laplace and Helmholtz equations. Understanding the geometric structure of these spaces leads to algorithms for solving the equations. It leads also to a new interpretation of classical algorithms, enhancing convergence. The algo

Pierre Hosteins, Rolf Kappl, Michael Ratz, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Higher-dimensional models of grand unification allow us to relate the top Yukawa coupling y_t to the gauge coupling g. The tree level relation y_t=g at the scale of grand unification implies, in the framework of the MSSM, a rather small ratio of Higgs expectation values tan beta. We find that, in the presence of localized Fayet-Iliopoulos terms, y_t is suppr

M. Kanduc, A. Naji, Y. S. Jho, P. A. Pincus

We present general arguments for the importance, or lack thereof, of the structure in the charge distribution of counterions for counterion-mediated interactions between bounding symmetrically charged surfaces. We show that on the mean field or weak coupling level, the charge quadrupole contributes the lowest order modification to the contact value theorem a

T. Yamada, M. Kajisawa, M. Akiyama, T. Ichikawa

We investigate the X-ray properties of the K-band-selected galaxies at redshift 2 < z < 4 by using our deep near-infrared images obtained in the MOIRCS Deep Survey project and the published Chandra X-ray source catalog. 61 X-ray sources with the 2-10 keV luminosity L_X = 10^{42}-10^{44} erg/s are identified with the K-selected galaxies and we found that they

Edan Lerner, Itamar Procaccia

Strongly correlated amorphous solids are a class of glass-formers whose inter-particle potential admits an approximate inverse power-law form in a relevant range of inter-particle distances. We study the steady-state plastic flow of such systems, firstly in the athermal, quasi-static limit, and secondly at finite temperatures and strain rates. In all cases w

Maarten Hijzelendoorn, Crit Cremers

This paper is about the technical design of a large computational lexicon, its storage, and its access from a Prolog environment. Traditionally, efficient access and storage of data structures is implemented by a relational database management system. In Delilah, a lexicon-based NLP system, efficient access to the lexicon by the semantic generator is vital.

Liang Sun

In the first part, the stability of two-dimensional parallel flow is discussed. A more restrictively general stability criterion for inviscid parallel flow is obtained analytically. In the second part, we report the numerical simulations of the partial-penetrating flow in horizontal convection within a squire cavity tank at high Rayleigh numbers $10^7<Ra<10^

Rodica D. Costin

The return map for planar vector fields with nilpotent linear part (having a center or a focus and under an assumption generically satisfied) is found as a convergent power series whose terms can be calculated iteratively. The first nontrivial coefficient is the value of an Abelian integral, and the following ones are explicitly given as iterated integrals b

J. M. Pittard

The powerful wind-wind collision in massive star binaries creates a region of high temperature plasma and accelerates particles to relativistic energies. I briefly summarize the hydrodynamics of the wind-wind interaction and the observational evidence, including recent $γ$-ray detections, of non-thermal emission from such systems. I then discuss existing mod

A. A. Namgaladze, O. V. Zolotov, I. E. Zakharenkova, I. I. Shagimuratov

The GPS derived anomalous TEC disturbances before earthquakes were discovered in the last years using global and regional TEC maps, measurements over individual stations as well as measurements along individual GPS satellite passes. For strong mid-latitudinal earthquakes the seismo-ionospheric anomalies look like local TEC enhancements or decreases located i

Måns Elenius, Fredrik H. M. Zetterling, Mikhail Dzugutov, Daniel C. Fredrickson

While performing molecular dynamics simulations of a simple monatomic liquid, we observed the crystallization of a material displaying octagonal symmetry in its simulated diffraction pattern. Inspection of the atomic arrangements in the crystallization product reveals large grains of the beta-Mn structure aligned along a common 4-fold axis, with 45 degree ro

J. A. Zurita Heras, S. Chaty, J. A. Tomsick

IGR J09026-4812 was discovered by INTEGRAL in 2006 as a new hard X-ray source. Thereafter, an observation with Chandra pinpointed a single X-ray source within the ISGRI error circle, showing a hard spectrum, and improving its high-energy localisation to a subarcsecond accuracy. Thus, the X-ray source was associated to the infrared counterpart 2MASS J09023731

George Rupp, Susana Coito, Eef van Beveren

A multichannel description of the light scalar mesons in the framework of the Resonance-Spectrum Expansion is generalised by including vector-vector and scalar-scalar channels, besides the usual pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar channels. Experimental data for the isoscalar, isodoublet and isovector cases are fitted up to energies well above 1 GeV. The resulting pol

Brian Stout, Jean-Claude Auger, Alexis Devilez

A matrix balanced version of the Recursive Centered T Matrix Algorithm (RCTMA) applicable to systems possessing resonant inter-particle couplings is presented. Possible domains of application include systems containing interacting localized plasmon resonances, surface resonances, and photonic jet phenomena. This method is of particular interest when consider

L. E. Marcucci, A. Kievsky, L. Girlanda, S. Rosati

The application of the hyperspherical harmonic approach to the case of the N-d scattering problem below deuteron breakup threshold is described. The nuclear Hamiltonian includes two- and three-nucleon interactions, in particular the Argonne v_{18}, the N3LO-Idaho, and the V_{low k} two-nucleon, and the Urbana IX and N2LO three-nucleon interactions. Some of t

Amalia I. Coldea, C. M. J. Andrew, J. G. Analytis, R. D. McDonald

We report a de Haas-van Alphen effect study of the Fermi surface of CaFe2P2 using low temperature torque magnetometry up to 45 T. This system is a close structural analogue of the collapsed tetragonal non-magnetic phase of CaFe2As2. We find the Fermi surface of CaFe2P2 to differ from other related ternary phosphides in that its topology is highly dispersive

Claus Hertling, Luuk Hoevenaars, Hessel Posthuma

We consider the construction of Frobenius manifolds associated to projective special geometry and analyse the dependence on choices involved. In particular, we prove that the underlying F-manifold is canonical. We then apply this construction to integrable systems of Hitchin type.

S. Coito, G. Rupp, E. van Beveren

We study the puzzling vector meson X(2175) in a multichannel generalisation of the Resonance-Spectrum-Expansion model. Besides the usual P-wave pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar, pseudoscalar-vector, and vector-vector channels that couple to mesons with vector quantum numbers, we also include the important S-wave vector-scalar, pseudoscalar-axialvector and vector-ax

Animesh Datta

We calculate the quantum discord between two free modes of a scalar field which start in a maximally entangled state and then undergo a relative, constant acceleration. In a regime where there is no distillable entanglement due to the Unruh effect, we show that there is a finite amount of quantum discord, which is a measure of purely quantum correlations in

Yong-Feng Li, Li-Fang Zhu, San-Dong Guo, Ye-Chuan Xu

We use the state-of-the-arts density-functional-theory method to study various magnetic orders and their effects on the electronic structures of the FeSe. Our calculated results show that, for the spins of the single Fe layer, the striped antiferromagnetic orders with distortion are more favorable in total energy than the checkerboard antiferromagnetic order

I. Gyongy, N. Krylov

We give sufficient conditions under which the convergence of finite difference approximations in the space variable of possibly degenerate second order parabolic and elliptic equations can be accelerated to any given order of convergence by Richardson&#39;s method.

Armen E. Allahverdyan, Chin-Kun Hu

Selection in a time-periodic environment is modeled via the two-player replicator dynamics. For sufficiently fast environmental changes, this is reduced to a multi-player replicator dynamics in a constant environment. The two-player terms correspond to the time-averaged payoffs, while the three and four-player terms arise from the adaptation of the morphs to

Alessandro Murgia, Giulio Concas, Michele Marchesi, Roberto Tonelli

We introduced a new approach to describe Java software as graph, where nodes represent a Java file - called compilation unit (CU) - and an edges represent a relations between them. The software system is characterized by the degree distribution of the graph properties, like in-or-out links, as well as by the distribution of Chidamber and Kemerer metrics comp

H. Diehl, V. A. Shalygin, L. E. Golub, S. A. Tarasenko

We report on the observation of nonlinear magneto-gyrotropic photogalvanic effect in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells. The interband absorption of mid-infrared radiation as well as the intrasubband absorption of terahertz radiation in the heterostructures is shown to cause a dc electric current in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. A cubic in magnetic fiel

Dmytro M. Lytvynenko, Yuriy V. Slyusarenko

The problem of the equilibrium state of the charged many-particle system above dielectric surface is formulated.We consider the case of the presence of the external attractive pressing field and the case of its absence. The equilibrium distributions of charges and the electric field, which is generated by these charges in the system in the case of ideally pl

Annette Werner

We describe the stabilizers of points in the Bruhat-Tits building of the group SL with tropical geometry. There are several compactifications of this building associated to algebraic representations of SL. We show that the fans used to compactify apartments in this theory are given by tropical Schur polynomials.

VERITAS Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen

We present evidence that the very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission coincident with the supernova remnant IC 443 is extended. IC 443 contains one of the best-studied sites of supernova remnant/molecular cloud interaction and the pulsar wind nebula CXOU J061705.3+222127, both of which are important targets for VHE observations. VERITAS observe

Thomas Haettel

The space of closed subgroups of a locally compact topological group is endowed with a natural topology, called the Chabauty topology. We completely describe the space of closed sugroups of the group RxZ, which is not trivial : for example, its fundamental group is uncountable.

Rhoda J. Hawkins, Simon H. Tindemans, Bela M. Mulder

The plant microtubule cortical array is a striking feature of all growing plant cells. It consists of a more or less homogeneously distributed array of highly aligned microtubules connected to the inner side of the plasma membrane and oriented transversely to the cell growth axis. Here we formulate a continuum model to describe the origin of orientational or

Alessandro Murgia, Giulio Concas, Sandro Pinna, Roberto Tonelli

We analyse the time evolution of two open source Java projects: Eclipse and Netbeans, both developed following agile practices, though to a different extent. Our study is centered on quality analysis of the systems, measured as defects absence, and its relation with software metrics evolution. The two projects are described through a software graph in which

Tobias Kramer, Eric J. Heller, Robert E. Parrott

Low frequency AC-measurements are commonly used to determine the voltage and currents through mesoscopic devices. We calculate the effect of the alternating Hall voltage on the recorded time-averaged voltage in the presence of a top-gate covering a large part of the device. The gate is kept on a constant voltage, while the Hall voltage is recorded using an i

Sergey S. Kokarev

Three small lectures are devoted to three Newton&#39;s laws, lying in the foundation of classical mechanics. These laws are analyzed from the viewpoint of our contemporary knowledge about space, time and physical interactions. The lectures were delivered for students of YarGU in RSEC &#34;Logos&#34;.

V. N. Dubinin, D. Karp

Potential theory on the complement of a subset of the real axis attracts a lot of attention both in function theory and applied sciences. The paper discusses one aspect of the theory - the logarithmic capacity of closed subsets of the real line. We give simple but precise upper and lower bounds for the logarithmic capacity of multiple intervals and a lower b

Saieed Akbari, Saeid Alikhani, Yee-hock Peng

Let G be a simple graph of order n. The domination polynomial of G is the polynomial D(G,x)=\sum_{i=γ(G)}^{n} d(G,i) x^{i}, where d(G,i) is the number of dominating sets of G of size i, and γ(G) is the domination number of G. In this paper we study the domination polynomials of cubic graphs of order 10. As a consequence, we show that the Petersen graph is de

G. A. McKenna, R. Nepstad, J. F. McCann, D. Dundas

We investigate the effect of dynamic electron correlation on high-harmonic generation in helium atoms using intense visible light (λ=390nm). Two complementary approaches are used which account for correlation in an approximate manner: time-dependent density-functional theory and a single-active-electron model. For intensities I~10^{14} W/cm^2, the theories a

R. Barnard, U. Kolb

We use arguments developed in previous work to identify a second black hole candidate associated with a M31 globular cluster, Bo 144, on the basis of X-ray spectral and timing properties. The 2002 XMM-Newton observation of the associated X-ray source (hereafter XBo 144) revealed behaviour that is common to all low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the low-hard

Dündar E. Yılmaz, Ceyhun Bulutay, Tahir Çağın

Strain has a crucial effect on the optical and electronic properties of nanostructures. We calculate the atomistic strain distribution in silicon nanocrystals up to a diameter of 3.2 nm embedded in an amorphous silicon dioxide matrix. A seemingly conflicting picture arises when the strain field is expressed in terms of bond lengths versus volumetric strain.

V. F. Suleimanov, A. Y. Potekhin, K. Werner

Observed X-ray spectra of some isolated magnetized neutron stars display absorption features, sometimes interpreted as ion cyclotron lines. Modeling the observed spectra is necessary to check this hypothesis and to evaluate neutron star parameters.We develop a computer code for modeling magnetized neutron star atmospheres in a wide range of magnetic fields (

F. A. Muller, M. P. Seevinck

We extend the quantum-mechanical results of Muller & Saunders (2008) establishing the weak discernibility of an arbitrary number of similar fermions in finite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces in two ways: (a) from fermions to bosons for all finite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces; and (b) from finite-dimensional to infinite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces for all elementary

P. F. Chen

More and more evidence indicates that &#34;EIT waves&#34; are strongly related to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, it is still not clear how the two phenomena are related to each other. We investigate a CME event on 1997 September 9, which was well observed by both EUV imaging telescope (EIT) and the high-cadence MK3 coronagraph at Mauna Loa Solar Obs

Amir Karton, David Gruzman, Jan M. L. Martin

The thermochemistry of linear and branched alkanes with up to eight carbons has been reexamined by means of W4, W3.2lite and W1h theories. `Quasi-W4&#39; atomization energies have been obtained via isodesmic and hypohomodesmotic reactions. Our best atomization energies at 0 K (in kcal/mol) are: 1220.04 n-butane, 1497.01 n-pentane, 1774.15 n-hexane, 2051.17 n

Saeid Alikhani, Yee-hock Peng

Let G=(V,E) be a simple graph. A set S\subset V is a dominating set of G, if every vertex in V§is adjacent to at least one vertex in S. Let {\mathcal C}_n^i be the family of dominating sets of a cycle C_n with cardinality i, and let d(C_n,i) = |{\mathcal C}_n^i. In this paper, we construct {\mathcal C}_n^i, and obtain a recursive formula for d(C_n, i). Using

Asim Ghosh, Anindya Sundar Chakrabarti, Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We study the dynamics of some uniform learning strategy limits or a probabilistic version of the &#34;Kolkata Paise Restaurant&#34; problem, where N agents choose among N equally priced but differently ranked restaurants every evening such that each agent can get dinner in the best possible ranked restaurant (each serving only one customer and the rest arriv

V. K. Anand, Z. Hossain, G. Chen, M. Nicklas

We report magnetic and transport properties of a new quaternary borocarbide PrRh$_{2}$B$_{2}$C, based on magnetisation, resistivity and specific heat studies. This compound forms in LuNi$_{2}$B$_{2}$C-type tetragonal structure (space group {\it I4/mmm}) and does not exhibit magnetic ordering or superconductivity down to 0.5 K. The crystal field analysis of s

Guido Altarelli

We present a very concise summary of the status of our knowledge and understanding of neutrino masses and mixing.

Oram Gedalia, Gino Isidori, Gilad Perez

The Randall-Sundrum (RS) framework has a built in protection against flavour violation, but still generically suffers from little CP problems. The most stringent bound on flavour violation is due to epsilon_K, which is inversely proportional to the fundamental Yukawa scale. Hence the RS epsilon_K problem can be ameliorated by effectively increasing the Yukaw

Davide Proment, Sergey Nazarenko, Miguel Onorato

We present a numerical study of turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates within the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We concentrate on the direct energy cascade in forced-dissipated systems. We show that behavior of the system is very sensitive to the properties of the model at the scales greater than the forcing scale, and we identify three different universal

Thomas H. Greif

The primary concern of this thesis is to understand the formation and properties of the first galaxies, as well as the influence of the first stars in terms of radiative, mechanical and chemical feedback. In particular, we elucidate the role of turbulence, ionizing radiation by massive Population III stars, mechanical feedback by highly energetic supernovae,

Run-Hui Li, Cai-Dian Lu, Yu-Ming Wang

The transition form factors of $\bar B_s^0\to D_{s}^+(2317)$ and $\bar B_s^0\to D_s^+(1968)$ at large recoil region are investigated in the light cone sum rules approach, where the heavy quark effective theory is adopted to describe the form factors at small recoil region. With the form factors obtained, we carry out a detailed analysis on both the semilepto

G. Bensky, E. Brion, F. Carlier, V. M. Akulin

We propose a technique that allows to simultaneously perform universal control of the evolution operator and compensate for the first order contribution of an arbitrary Hermitian constant noise. We show that, at least, a three-valued Hamiltonian is needed in order to protect the system against any such noise. This technique is illystrated by an explicit algo

Hiroshi Shinaoka, Masatoshi Imada

Interplay of electron correlation and randomness is studied by using the Anderson-Hubbard model within the Hartree-Fock approximation. Under the coexistence of short-range interaction and diagonal disorder, we obtain the ground-state phase diagram in three dimensions, which includes an antiferromagnetic insulator, an antiferromagnetic metal, a paramagnetic i

R. W. Bruggeman, R. J. Miatello

We obtain an asymptotic formula for a weighted sum over cuspidal eigenvalues in a specific region, for $\SL_2$ over a totally real number field $F$, with discrete subgroup of Hecke type $Γ_0(I)$ for a non-zero ideal $I$ in the ring of integers of $F$. The weights are products of Fourier coefficients. This implies in particular the existence of infinitely man

E. Calvo, M. Cerrada, C. Fernández-Bedoya, I. Gil-Botella

This paper describes the characterization studies under low magnetic fields of the Hamamatsu R7081 photomultipliers that are being used in the Double Chooz experiment. The design and performances of the magnetic shielding that has been developed for these photomultipliers are also reported.

Lianlin Li, Fang Li

In this report, a novel efficient algorithm for recovery of jointly sparse signals (sparse matrix) from multiple incomplete measurements has been presented, in particular, the NESTA-based MMV optimization method. In a nutshell, the jointly sparse recovery is obviously superior to applying standard sparse reconstruction methods to each channel individually. M

Denis Borisov, Pedro Freitas

We determine the general form of the asymptotics for Dirichlet eigenvalues of the one-dimensional linear damped wave operator. As a consequence, we obtain that given a spectrum corresponding to a constant damping term this determines the damping term in a unique fashion. We also derive a trace formula for this problem.

Svante Janson

We use the theory of graph limits to study several quasi-random properties, mainly dealing with various versions of hereditary subgraph counts. The main idea is to transfer the properties of (sequences of) graphs to properties of graphons, and to show that the resulting graphon properties only can be satisfied by constant graphons. These quasi-random propert

I. S. Kristensen, M. Paulsson, K. S. Thygesen, K. W. Jacobsen

We present first-principles calculations of the dI/dV characteristics of an H2 molecule sandwiched between Au and Pt electrodes in the presence of electron-phonon interactions. The conductance is found to decrease by a few percentage at threshold voltages corresponding to the excitation energy of longitudinal vibrations of the H2 molecule. In the case of Pt