May 2009 arXiv papers — page 26

Christos Charmousis, Gustavo Niz, Antonio Padilla, Paul M. Saffin

By studying perturbations about the vacuum, we show that Horava gravity suffers from two different strong coupling problems, extending all the way into the deep infra-red. The first of these is associated with the principle of detailed balance and explains why solutions to General Relativity are typically not recovered in models that preserve this structure.

S. Shankaranarayanan

In the usual cosmological inflationary scenarios, the scalar field -- inflaton -- is usually assumed to be an elementary field. In this essay, we ask: What are the observational signatures, if the scalar field is a spinor condensate? and Is there a way to distinguish between the canonical scalar field and the spinor condensate driven models? In the homogeneo

Jiunn-Wei Chen, Maarten Golterman, Donal O'Connell, Andre Walker-Loud

We correct a mistake in the literature regarding the additive lattice spacing corrections to the mixed valence-sea meson mass and discuss the consequences for mixed action extrapolation formulae.

H. L. Gomez, L. Dunne, R. Ivison, E. M. Reynoso

Whether or not supernovae contribute significantly to the overall dust budget is a controversial subject. Submillimetre (submm) observations, sensitive to cold dust, have shown an excess at 450 and 850 microns in young remnants Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and Kepler. Some of the submm emission from Cas A has been shown to be contaminated by unrelated material along

A. T. Goritschnig, P. Kroll, W. Schweiger

The process p-pbar -> Lambda_c-Antilambda_c is investigated within the handbag approach. It is shown that the dominant dynamical mechanism, characterized by the partonic subprocess u-ubar -> c-cbar factorizes in the sense that only the subprocess contains highly virtual partons, a gluon to lowest order of perturbative QCD, while the hadronic matrix elements

Olivier Schiffmann, Eric Vasserot

In this paper we compute the convolution algebra in the equivariant K-theory of the Hilbert scheme of A^2. We show that it is isomorphic to the elliptic Hall algebra, and hence to the spherical DAHA of GL_\infty. We explain this coincidence via the geometric Langlands correspondence for elliptic curves, by relating it also to the convolution algebra in the e

H. Casini, M. Huerta

In this review we first introduce the general methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for free fields, within the Euclidean and the real time formalisms. Then we describe the particular examples which have been worked out explicitly in two, three and more dimensions.

A. Portaa

Double Chooz main target is to measure Theta13 oscillation parameter by comparing reactor neutrino fluxes in two identical detectors located respectively at 400 m and 1 km away from the 2 Chooz reactor cores. The far detector is now under construction, while we have just completed the design phase of the near one. In this report I will discuss the detector p

A. A. Saberi

Extensive Monte Carlo study of two-dimensional Ising model is done to investigate the statistical behavior of spin clusters and interfaces as a function of temperature, $T$. We use a \emph{tie-breaking} rule to define interfaces of spin clusters on square lattice with strip geometry and show that such definition is consistent with conformal invariant propert

Anna Kostouki

Applying a novel non-perturbative functional method framework to a two-dimensional bosonic sigma model with tachyon, dilaton and graviton backgrounds we construct exact (non perturbative in the Regge slope) inflationary solutions, consistent with world-sheet Weyl Invariance. The mechanism for inflation entails a (partial) "alignment" between tachyon

Xavier Guitart, Jordi Quer

The main result of this paper is a characterization of the abelian varieties $B/K$ defined over Galois number fields with the property that the zeta function $L(B/K;s)$ is equivalent to the product of zeta functions of non-CM newforms for congruence subgroups $\Gamma_1(N)$. The characterization involves the structure of End(B), isogenies between the Galois c

Ricardo Eusebi, CDF collaboration, D0 collaboration

During the past years the CDF and D0 detectors have collected large amounts of data obtaining a relatively pure sample of pair-produced top quarks and a well understood sample containing singly-produced top quarks. These samples have been used for the precise measurement of the top quark properties, and have set stringent limits on new physics in the top sam

Delia Kesner

Many different systems with explicit substitutions have been proposed to implement a large class of higher-order languages. Motivations and challenges that guided the development of such calculi in functional frameworks are surveyed in the first part of this paper. Then, very simple technology in named variable-style notation is used to establish a theory of

Timothy J. Hollowood, J. Luis Miramontes

We show that the dressing transformation method produces a new type of dyonic CP^n magnon in terms of which all the other known solutions are either composites or arise as special limits. In particular, this includes the embedding of Dorey's dyonic magnon via an RP^3 subspace of CP^n. We also show how to generate Dorey's dyonic magnon directly in the

Luca Fabbri

We consider the Principle of Equivalence along with Weyl theorem to discuss the interpretation of gravity as a geometric effect; we study what are the restrictions on the connections that must be required for this geometrization to occur in the most general case.

Sönke Rollenske

We describe explicitly the possible degenerations of a class of double Kodaira fibrations in the moduli space of stable surfaces. Using deformation theory we also show that under some assumptions we get a connected component of the moduli space of stable surfaces.

Gilles Ledoux, David Amans, Christophe Dujardin, Karine Masenelli-Varlot

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of pulsed laser ablation in liquids as a fast screening synthesis method able to prepare even complex compositions at the nanoscale. Nanoparticles of Y2O3:Eu3+, Lu2O2S: Eu3+, Gd2SiO5:Ce3+ and Lu3TaO7:Gd3+,Tb3+ are successfully synthesized by pulsed laser ablation in liquids. The phase and stoichiometries of the original

David J. Wraith

We show that the moduli space of Ricci positive metrics on certain homotopy spheres has infinitely many connected components.

L. Cerrito

Preliminary results on the measurement of four selected properties of the top quark are presented. The relative fraction of $t\bar{t}$ production through gluon fusion has been measured in the $t\bar{t}$ dilepton decay channel by the CDF Collaboration as $F_{gg}=0.53^{+0.36}_{-0.38}$. Using an integrated luminosity of 2.7 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the CDF II d

C. Andreopoulos, A. Bell, D. Bhattacharya, F. Cavanna

GENIE is a new neutrino event generator for the experimental neutrino physics community. The goal of the project is to develop a `canonical' neutrino interaction physics Monte Carlo whose validity extends to all nuclear targets and neutrino flavors from MeV to PeV energy scales. Currently, emphasis is on the few-GeV energy range, the challenging boundary bet

Alexander P. Bakulev, A. V. Pimikov, N. G. Stefanis

We present results of a calculation of the electromagnetic pion form factor within the framework of QCD Sum Rules with nonlocal condensates, using a perturbative spectral density which includes $O(α_s)$ contributions.

Nobuyuki Kanematsu

This work addresses computing techniques for dose calculations in treatment planning with proton and ion beams, based on an efficient kernel-convolution method referred to as grid-dose spreading (GDS) and accurate heterogeneity-correction method referred to as Gaussian beam splitting. The original GDS algorithm suffered from distortion of dose distribution f

J. J. M. in 't Zand, P. G. Jonker, C. G. Bassa, C. B. Markwardt

An X-ray monitoring campaign with Chandra and Swift confirms that 1RXS J171824.2-402934 is accreting at the lowest rate among the known persistently accreting low-mass X-ray binaries. A thermonuclear X-ray burst was detected with the all-sky monitor on RXTE. This is only the second such burst seen in 1RXS J171824.2-402934 in more than 20 Ms of observations d

Bin Jia

This paper gives a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence of an (X, s)-arc-transitive imprimitive graph which is not a multicover of a given quotient graph.

V. S. S. Kartikeya Vanamali, Shrisha Rao

The relationship between fuzzy algebras and semirings is explored with fuzzy algebra operators replacing the arithmetic operators of semirings. A new class of fuzzy structures which are similar to semirings is defined. Results of partial ordering on fuzzy algebras are shown. The zero-sum free property of semirings on fuzzy structures is shown. The semiring p

Christian Corda

Even if Einstein's General Relativity achieved a great success and overcame lots of experimental tests, it also showed some shortcomings and flaws which today advise theorists to ask if it is the definitive theory of gravity. In this essay we show that, if advanced projects on the detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) will improve their sensitivity, all

Christoffer Wittmann, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

The discrimination of non-orthogonal quantum states with reduced or without errors is a fundamental task in quantum measurement theory. In this work, we investigate a quantum measurement strategy capable of discriminating two coherent states probabilistically with significantly smaller error probabilities than can be obtained using non-probabilistic state di

Robert E. Smith, Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo, Uros Seljak

We investigate the impact of nonlinear evolution of the gravitational potentials in the LCDM model on the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) contribution to the CMB temperature power spectrum, and on the cross-power spectrum of the CMB and a set of biased tracers of the mass. We use an ensemble of N-body simulations to directly follow the potentials and compare re

G. Feofilov, O. Kochebina

Experimental data on the onset of a so-called anomalous J/psi suppression in PbPb collisions at the SPS are considered in the framework of string percolation model. This onset is observed at a certain collision centrality, characterized by the number of nucleons-participants (Npart) related to the impact-parameter. Modified Bjorken formula calculations are p

Martin Goebel

In the global fit of the Standard Model using Gfitter, electroweak precision observables as well as constraints from direct Higgs searches have been compared with state-of-the-art electroweak predictions. We use the most recent results for direct Higgs searches at LEP and Tevatron and the latest measurements of m_t and M_W. Example results are an estimation

Lenneke M. Jong, Andrew D. Greentree, Vincent I. Conrad, Lloyd C. L Hollenberg

The use of adiabatic passage techniques to mediate particle transport through real space, rather than phase space is becoming an interesting possibility. We have investigated the properties of Coherent Tunneling Adiabatic Passage (CTAP) with alternating tunneling matrix elements. This geometry, not previously considered in the donor in silicon paradigm, prov

L. G. Molinari, G. N. Lacagnina

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-Hermitian tridiagonal periodic random matrices are studied by means of the Hatano-Nelson deformation. The deformed spectrum is annular-shaped, with inner radius measured by the complex Thouless formula. The inner bounding circle and the annular halo are stuctures that correspond to the two-arc and wings observed by Hatano

Lubos Buzna, Sergi Lozano, Albert Diaz-Guilera

We analyze populations of Kuramoto oscillators with a particular distribution of natural frequencies. Inspired by networks where there are two groups of nodes with opposite behaviors, as for instance in power-grids where energy is either generated or consumed at different locations, we assume that the frequencies can take only two different values. Correlati

Raj Gandhi, Abhijit Samanta, Atsushi Watanabe

It is widely believed that charm meson production and decay may play an important role in high energy astrophysical sources of neutrinos, especially those that are baryon-rich, providing an environment conducive to pp interactions. Using slow-jet supernovae (SJS) as an example of such a source, we study the detectability of high-energy neutrinos, paying part

Hedvika Kadlecova, Andrei Zelnikov, Pavel Krtous, Jiri Podolsky

We present and analyze exact gyraton and nonexpanding gravitational wave solutions of algebraic type II on backgrounds which are a direct-product of two 2-spaces of constant curvature, or more general type D spacetimes. This family of electro-vacuum background spacetimes contains the Nariai, anti-Nariai and Plebanski-Hacyan universes, conformally flat Bertot

José Antonio Belinchón

We study several cosmological models with Bianchi VI_0&III symmetries under the self-similar approach. We find new solutions for the "classical" perfect fluid model as well as for the vacuum model although they are really restrictive for the equation of state. We also study a perfect fluid model with time-varying constants, $G$ and $Λ.$ As in other m

Mustapha Ishak, Jason Dossett

The growth rate of matter perturbations can be used to distinguish between different gravity theories and to distinguish between dark energy and modified gravity at cosmological scales as an explanation to the observed cosmic acceleration. We suggest here parameterizations of the growth index as functions of the redshift. The first one is given by $\gamma(a)

L. Shen, J. B. Yi, B. C. Zhao, S. C. Xiang

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JLQCD, TWQCD collaborations, :, S. Aoki

We calculate pion vector and scalar form factors in two-flavor lattice QCD and study the chiral behavior of the vector and scalar radii <r^2>_{V,S}. Numerical simulations are carried out on a 16^3 x 32 lattice at a lattice spacing of 0.12 fm with quark masses down to \sim m_s/6, where m_s is the physical strange quark mass. Chiral symmetry, which is essentia

Daniel Harlow

I provide a straightforward proof that a simple harmonic oscillator perturbed by an (almost) arbitrary positive interaction has a perturbative expansion for any finite-time Euclidian transition amplitude which obeys the following result: the difference of the sum of the first N terms of the series and the exact result is bounded in absolute value by the next

Chunhua Shen, Junae Kim, Hanzi Wang

In this work we generalize the plain MS trackers and attempt to overcome standard mean shift trackers&#39; two limitations. It is well known that modeling and maintaining a representation of a target object is an important component of a successful visual tracker. However, little work has been done on building a robust template model for kernel-based MS trac

Wang Yao, Yu Luo

In a coupled double quantum dot system, we present a theory for the interplay between electron and nuclear spins when the two-electron singlet state is brought into resonance with one triplet state in moderate external magnetic field. We show that the quantum interference between first order and second order hyperfine processes can lead to a feedback mechani

Serguei A. Mokhov

We present the requirements and design specification of the open-source Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework (DMARF), a distributed extension of MARF. The distributed version aggregates a number of distributed technologies (e.g. Java RMI, CORBA, Web Services) in a pluggable and modular model along with the provision of advanced distributed systems

Kentaro Saji

We shall give useful criteria of lips, beaks and swallowtail singularities of smooth map from the plane into the plane. As an application of criteria, we will discuss the singularities of Cauchy problem of single conservation law.

Alexei M. Frolov

Rates of the two-, three-, four- and five-photon annihilations of the electron-positron pairs are determined numerically for the three-body positronium ion Ps$^-$ ($e^- e^+ e^-$) and four-body bi-positronium `molecule&#39; Ps$_2$ ($e^- e^+ e^- e^+$). The values obtained in our computations are $Γ_{2 γ}($Ps$^-) \approx$ 2.08048530525$\cdot 10^{9}$ $sec^{-1}$,

Zhongzhi Zhang, Jihong Guan, Bailu Ding, Lichao Chen

Spatially constrained planar networks are frequently encountered in real-life systems. In this paper, based on a space-filling disk packing we propose a minimal model for spatial maximal planar networks, which is similar to but different from the model for Apollonian networks [J. S. Andrade, Jr. et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 94}, 018702 (2005)]. We present a

Lev Truskinovsky, Anna Vainchtein

We introduce the concept of kinetic equations representing a natural extension of the more conventional notion of a kinetic relation. Algebraic kinetic relations, widely used to model dynamics of dislocations, cracks and phase boundaries, link the instantaneous value of the velocity of a defect with an instantaneous value of the driving force. The new approa

Li-yun Hu, Hong-yi Fan

By using the thermo entangled state representation we solve the master equation for a dissipative cavity with Kerr medium to obtain density operators&#39; infinite operator-sum representation}$ρ(t) =\sum_{m,n,l=0}^{\infty}M_{m,n,l}ρ_{0}\mathcal{M}_{m,n,l}^{\dagger}.$ It is noticeable that}$M_{m,n,l}$ is not hermite conjugate to $\mathcal{M}_{m,n,l}^{\dagger}

Xiang He, Aylin Yener

In this work, we prove that a positive secure degree of freedom is achievable for a large class of Gaussian channels as long as the channel is not degraded and the channel is fully connected. This class includes the MAC wire-tap channel, the 2-user interference channel with confidential messages, the 2-user interference channel with an external eavesdropper.

Felipe A. Cruz, Matthew G. Knepley, L. A. Barba

Fast algorithms for the computation of $N$-body problems can be broadly classified into mesh-based interpolation methods, and hierarchical or multiresolution methods. To this last class belongs the well-known fast multipole method (FMM), which offers O(N) complexity. This paper presents an extensible parallel library for $N$-body interactions utilizing the F

Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng, Lada A. Adamic

The paper citation network is a traditional social medium for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. In this paper we view citation networks from the perspective of information diffusion. We study the structural features of the information paths through the citation networks of publications in computer science, and analyze the impact of various citation choice

Andriy Myronenko, Xubo Song

Point set registration is a key component in many computer vision tasks. The goal of point set registration is to assign correspondences between two sets of points and to recover the transformation that maps one point set to the other. Multiple factors, including an unknown non-rigid spatial transformation, large dimensionality of point set, noise and outlie

W. L. Yang, P. O. Velasco, J. D. Denlinger, A. P. Sorini

Using x-ray absorption and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, charge dynamics at and near the Fe $L$ edges is investigated in Fe pnictide materials, and contrasted to that measured in other Fe compounds. It is shown that the XAS and RIXS spectra for 122 and 1111 Fe pnictides are each qualitatively similar to Fe metal. Cluster diagonalization, multiplet, an

Astrid Morreale

The polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory provide a unique environment to observe hard scattering between gluons and quarks. The PHENIX experiment has recorded collisions at $\sqrt(s_{NN})=$200 GeV and 62.4 GeV to yield data which are complementary to those measured by deep inelastic scattering experi

Victor Vakaryuk, Anthony J. Leggett

We present a variational analysis for a half-quantum vortex (HQV) in the equal-spin-pairing superfluid state which, under suitable conditions, is believed to be realized in Sr2RuO4 and 3He-A. Our approach is based on a description of the HQV in terms of a BCS-like wave function with a spin-dependent boost. We predict a novel feature: the HQV, if stable, shou

Arik Yochelis, Moshe Sheintuch

Propagation of solitary waves in the presence of autocatalysis, diffusion, and symmetry breaking (differential) advection, is being studied. The focus is on drifting (propagating with advection) pulses that form via a convective instability at lower reaction rates of the autocatalytic activator, i.e. the advective flow overcomes the fast excitation and induc

J. A. S. Lima, R. F. L. Holanda, J. V. Cunha

A kinematic method to access cosmic acceleration based exclusively on the Sunyaev-Zel&#39;dovich effect (SZE) and X-ray surface brightness data from galaxy clusters is proposed. By using the SZE/X-ray data from 38 galaxy clusters [Bonament et al., Astrop. J. 647, 25 (2006)], we find that the present Universe is accelerating and that the transition from an ea

A. Sandoval-Villalbazo, D. Brun

It is shown that thermal fluctuations present in a simple non-degenerate relativistic fluid satisfy a wave equation in the Euler regime. The characteristic propagation speeds are calculated and the classical expression for the speed of sound is recovered at the non relativistic limit. Implications and generalizations of this work are analyzed.

C. Pfleiderer

Intermetallic compounds containing f-electron elements display a wealth of superconducting phases, that are prime candidates for unconventional pairing with complex order parameter symmetries. For instance, superconductivity has been found at the border of magnetic order as well as deep within ferro- and antiferromagnetically ordered states, suggesting that

Matthew M. Glenz, Leonard Parker

We examine the spectrum of inflaton fluctuations resulting from any given long period of exponential inflation. Infrared and ultraviolet divergences in the inflaton dispersion summed over all modes do not appear in our approach. We show how the scale-invariance of the perturbation spectrum arises. We also examine the spectrum of scalar perturbations of the m

Estelle Basor, Yang Chen, Torsten Ehrhardt

In this paper we study the simplest deformation on a sequence of orthogonal polynomials, namely, replacing the original (or reference) weight $w_0(x)$ defined on an interval by $w_0(x)e^{-tx}.$ It is a well-known fact that under such a deformation the recurrence coefficients denoted as $α_n$ and $β_n$ evolve in $t$ according to the Toda equations, giving ris

Kevin Zumbrun

Combining work of Serre and Zumbrun, Benzoni-Gavage, Serre, and Zumbrun, and Texier and Zumbrun, we propose as a mechanism for the onset of cellular instability of viscous shock and detonation waves in a finite-cross-section duct the violation of the refined planar stability condition of Zumbrun--Serre, a viscous correction of the inviscid planar stability c

A. Verdini, M. Velli, E. Buchlin

We study the formation and evolution of a turbulent spectrum of Alfvén waves driven by reflection off the solar wind density gradients, starting from the coronal base up to 17 solar radii, well beyond the Alfvénic critical point. The background solar wind is assigned and 2D shell models are used to describe nonlinear interactions. We find that the turbulent

Pedro J. Mendez-Hernandez, Minoru Murata

We consider nonnegative solutions of a parabolic equation in a cylinder $D \timesI$, where $D$ is a noncompact domain of a Riemannian manifold and $I =(0,T)$ with $0 < T \le \infty$ or $I=(-\infty,0)$. Under the assumption [SSP] (i.e., the constant function 1 is a semismall perturbation of the associated elliptic operator on $D$), we establish an integral re

Cyrill B. Muratov

We establish the behavior of the energy of minimizers of non-local Ginzburg-Landau energies with Coulomb repulsion in two space dimensions near the onset of multi-droplet patterns. Under suitable scaling of the background charge density with vanishing surface tension the non-local Ginzburg-Landau energy becomes asymptotically equivalent to a sharp interface

Maxime Dion, David Fournier, Mario Poirier, Kim D. Truong

Discontinuities in elastic constants are detected at the superconducting transition of layered organic conductors \kappa-(BEDT-TTF)_{2}X by longitudinal and transverse ultrasonic velocity measurements. Symmetry arguments show that discontinuities in shear elastic constants can be explained in the orthorhombic compound only if the superconducting order parame

A. L. Wysocki, R. F. Sabirianov, M. van Schilfgaarde, K. D. Belashchenko

Spin-disorder resistivity of Fe and Ni and its temperature dependence are analyzed using noncollinear density functional calculations within the supercell method. Different models of thermal spin disorder are considered, including the mean-field approximation and the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg model. Spin-disorder resistivity is found to depend weakly on ma

Jie Gao, Dengpan Zhou

A spanner graph on a set of points in $R^d$ contains a shortest path between any pair of points with length at most a constant factor of their Euclidean distance. In this paper we investigate new models and aim to interpret why good spanners &#39;emerge&#39; in reality, when they are clearly built in pieces by agents with their own interests and the construc

Francisco Fontenele, Frederico Xavier

The Bieberbach estimate, a pivotal result in the classical theory of univalent functions, states that any injective holomorphic function $f$ on the open unit disc $D$ satisfies $|f&#34;(0)|\leq 4 |f&#39;(0)|$. We generalize the Bieberbach estimate by proving a version of the inequality that applies to all injective smooth conformal immersions $f : D\to \Bbb

Pavel Shvartsman

We study a variant of the Whitney extension problem for the space $C^kΛ^m_ω(R^n)$ of functions whose partial derivatives of order $k$ satisfy the generalized Zygmund condition. We identify $C^kΛ^m_ω(R^n)$ with a space of Lipschitz mappings from a metric space $(R^{n+1}_+,ρ_ω)$ supplied with a hyperbolic metric $ρ_ω$ into a metric space $({\cal P}_{k+m-1}\tim

Jiri Hrivnak, Petr Novotny

We consider finite-dimensional complex Lie algebras. Using certain complex parameters we generalize the concept of cohomology cocycles of Lie algebras. A special case is generalization of 1-cocycles with respect to the adjoint representation - so called $(α,β,γ)$--derivations. Parametric sets of spaces of cocycles allow us to define complex functions which a

Anders Johansen

The role of magnetic fields for the formation of planets is reviewed. Protoplanetary disc turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability has a huge influence on the early stages of planet formation. Small dust grains are transported both vertically and radially in the disc by turbulent diffusion, counteracting sedimentation to the mid-plane and trans

Gy. M. Szabo, A. E. Simon

Asteroids can be considered as sources of contamination of point sources and also sources of confusion noise, depending whether their presence is detected in the image or their flux is under the detection limit. We estimate that at low ecliptic latitudes, ~10,000--20,000 asteroids/sq. degree will be detected with an E-ELT like telescope, while by the end of

N. R. Deacon, P. J. Groot, J. E. Drew, R. Greimel

We present a proper motion survey of the Galactic plane, using IPHAS data and POSS-I Schmidt plate data as a first epoch, that probes down to proper motions below 50 milliarcseconds per year. The IPHAS survey covers the northern plane ($|b| < 5^{\circ}$) with CCD photometry in the $r$, $i$ and H$α$ passbands. We examine roughly 1400 sq. deg. of the IPHAS sur

P. A. Ivanov, S. S. Ivanov, N. V. Vitanov, A. Mering

We present a novel system for the simulation of quantum phase transitions of collective internal qubit and phononic states with a linear crystal of trapped ions. The laser-ion interaction creates an energy gap in the excitation spectrum, which induces an effective phonon-phonon repulsion and a Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard interaction. This system shows features e

A. Yu. Aladyshkin, J. Fritzsche, V. V. Moshchalkov

We investigated experimentally the transport properties of a superconducting cross-shaped aluminium microbridge fabricated on top of ferromagnetic BaFe12O19 single crystal. It was demonstrated that a one-dimensional domain structure in the ferromagnetic substrate can induce the formation of superconducting channels above magnetic domains. This leads to a gia

Jose Beltran Jimenez, Antonio L. Maroto

Is there an absolute cosmic electric potential?. The recent discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe could be indicating that this is certainly the case. In this essay we show that the consistency of the covariant and gauge invariant theory of electromagnetism is truly questionable when considered on cosmological scales. Out of the four compone

L. S. Matthews, T. W. Hyde

This study examines the effect that dipole-dipole charge interactions between fractal aggregates have on the growth of dust grains. Aggregates in a plasma or radiative environment will have charge distributed over their extended surface, which leads to a net dipole moment for the charged grains. A self-consistent N-body code is used to model the dynamics of

Ben A. Ayliffe, Matthew R. Bate

We present accretion rates obtained from three-dimensional self-gravitating radiation hydrodynamical models of giant planet growth. We investigate the dependence of accretion rates upon grain opacity and core/protoplanet mass. The accretion rates found for low mass cores are inline with the results of previous one-dimensional models that include radiative tr

Ho Seong Hwang, Changbom Park

We study the galaxy morphology-luminosity-environmental relation and its redshift evolution using a spectroscopic sample of galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). In the redshift range of $0.4\leq z\leq1.0$ we detect conformity in morphology between neighboring galaxies. The realm of conformity is confined within the virialized regi

M. A. M. Souza, J. D. Dantas

The discovery of atomic nucleus by E. Rutherford, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the Nuclear Physics original landmark. From then, a series of experiments in which beams of particles composed of neutrons, protons and others, brought to collide with a nucleus in order to unravel its structure or produce artificial elements through nuclear tran

Eva Robbrecht, Spiros Patsourakos, Angelos Vourlidas

The availability of high quality synoptic observations of the EUV and visible corona during the SOHO mission has advanced our understanding of the low corona manifestations of CMEs. The EUV imager/white light coronagraph connection has been proven so powerful, it is routinely assumed that if no EUV signatures are present when a CME is observed by a coronagra

N. Sanna, G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, A. Pietrinferni

We investigate the stellar content of the starburst dwarf galaxy IC10 using accurate and deep optical data collected with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The comparison between theory and observations indicates a clear change in age distribution when moving from the center toward

M. S. Safronova, M. G. Kozlov, W. R. Johnson, Dansha Jiang

We develop a theoretical method within the framework of relativistic many-body theory to accurately treat correlation corrections in atoms with few valence electrons. This method combines the all-order approach currently used in precision calculations of properties of monovalent atoms with the configuration-interaction approach that is applicable for many-el

Irene Tamborra

When the neutrino density is very high, as in core-collapse supernovae, neutrino-neutrino interactions are not negligible and can appreciably affect the evolution of flavour. The physics of these phenomena is briefly highlighted, and their effects are shown on observable energy spectra from a future galactic supernova within two-neutrino and three-neutrino f

Panos Papasoglu, Eric L Swenson

We show how to associate an R-tree to the set of cut points of a continuum. If X is a continuum without cut points we show how to associate an R-tree to the set of cut pairs of X.

Gilles Esposito-Farese

Although general relativity (GR) passes all present experimental tests with flying colors, it remains important to study alternative theories of gravity for several theoretical and phenomenological reasons that we recall in these lecture notes. The various possible ways of modifying GR are presented, and we notably show that the motion of massive bodies may

Jonathan A. Hillman, Daniel S. Silver, Susan G. Williams

Given a knot and an SL(n,C) representation of its group that is conjugate to its dual, the representation that replaces each matrix with its inverse-transpose, the associated twisted Reidemeister torsion is reciprocal. An example is given of a knot group and SL(3,Z) representation that is not conjugate to its dual for which the twisted Reidemeister torsion i

Sergio Frasca, Pia Astone

A typical problem in the detection of the gravitational waves in the data of gravitational antennas is the non-stationarity of the Gaussian noise (and so the varying sensitivity) and the presence of big impulsive disturbances. In such conditions the estimation of the standard deviation of the Gaussian process done with a classical estimator applied after a &

Ariadne Vergou

Non-extensive statistics, namely Tsallis statistics, is applied on a case of a supercritical string cosmology and interesting cosmological modifications are obtained. The two main results we focus on in this work are: fractal scaling for relativisitic matter which occurs naturally in a radiation dominated era and effects (maybe considerable) on the relic abu

J. Dajka, M. Mierzejewski, J. Luczka, P. Hanggi

We study the dephasing of a single qubit coupled to a bosonic bath. In particular, we investigate the case when the bath is initially prepared in a pure state known as the Schrödinger cat. In clear contradistinction to the time-evolution of an initial coherent state, the time evolutions of the purity and the coherence factor now depend on the particular choi

I. Froehlich, T. Galatyuk, R. Holzmann, J. Markert

We present the design of the simulation package Pluto, aimed at the study of hadronic interactions at SIS and FAIR energies. Its main mission is to offer a modular framework with an object-oriented structure, thereby making additions such as new particles, decays of resonances, new models up to modules for entire changes easily applicable. Overall consistenc

J. Guettinger, C. Stampfer, T. Frey, T. Ihn

We report transport experiments on graphene quantum dots. We focus on excited state spectra in the near vicinity of the charge neutrality point and signatures of the electron-hole crossover as a function of a perpendicular magnetic field. Coulomb blockade resonances of a 50 nm wide and 80 nm long dot are visible at all gate voltages across the transport gap

Zdenek Mikulasek, Gabriel Szasz, Jiri Krticka, Juraj Zverko

Magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars of the upper part of the main sequence usually exhibit strictly periodic variations of their light, spectrum and magnetic field. These changes can be well explained using the oblique rotator model of the rigidly rotating star with persistent photometric spots, uneven horizontal abundance of chemical elements and dipol

Omer Angel, Itai Benjamini, Ori Gurel-Gurevich, Tom Meyerovitch

We consider a planar Poisson process and its associated Voronoi map. We show that there is a proper coloring with 6 colors of the map which is a deterministic isometry-equivariant function of the Poisson process. As part of the proof we show that the 6-core of the corresponding Delaunay triangulation is empty. Generalizations, extensions and some open questi

James M. Cline, Sabine Kraml, Guillaume Laporte, Hiroki Yamashita

We reconsider the strength of the electroweak phase transition in the singlet Majoron extension of the Standard Model, with a low (~TeV) scale of the singlet VEV. A strongly first order phase transition, of interest for electroweak baryogenesis, is found in sizeable regions of the parameter space, especially when the cross-coupling lambda_{hs}|S|^2|H|^2 betw

Laurent Bruneau, Alain Joye, Marco Merkli

We consider a finite quantum system S coupled to two environments of different nature. One is a heat reservoir R (continuous interaction) and the other one is a chain C of independent quantum systems E (repeated interaction). The interactions of S with R and C lead to two simultaneous dynamical processes. We show that for generic such systems, any initial st

A. M. Grundland, I. Yurdusen

We study analytic descriptions of conformal immersions of the Riemann sphere S^2 into the CP^(N-1) sigma model. In particular, an explicit expression for two-dimensional (2-D) surfaces, obtained from the generalized Weierstrass formula, is given. It is also demonstrated that these surfaces coincide with the ones obtained from the Sym-Tafel formula. These two

Luca Scodellaro, the CDF, D0 Collaborations

In this paper, we present the latest results of the searches for beyond standard model Higgs boson production at the Tevatron collider of Fermilab. Analyses have been carried out on samples of about 1-4 inverse fb of data collected by the CDF and D0 detectors. In particular, Higgs bosons in supersymmetric models and fermiophobic scenario have been investigat

Tilahun Abebaw, Rikard Bogvad

We calculate the decomposition series of the D-module defined as the push-forward of a rank one linear system on the complement of a normal crossings hyperplane configuration and use data of a resolution of singularities to give a sufficient criterion of the irreducibility of the corresponding module in general.