July 2009 arXiv papers — page 55

D. R. Boito, R. Escribano

We present a model for the decay D+ --> K- pi+ pi+. The weak interaction part of this reaction is described using the effective weak Hamiltonian in the factorisation approach. Hadronic final state interactions are taken into account through the Kpi scalar and vector form factors fulfilling analyticity, unitarity and chiral symmetry constraints. The model has

Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo, Dania Gonzalez, Tame Gonzalez, Claudia Moreno

We apply the dynamical systems tools to study the (linear) cosmic dynamics of a Dirac-Born-Infeld-type field trapped in the braneworld. We focus,exclusively, in Randall-Sundrum and in Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati brane models. We analyze the existence and stability of asymptotic solutions for the AdS throat and the quadratic potential and a particular choice of t

Ilya Selyuzhenkov

Recent inclusive measurements with polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC provide significant constraints on the polarized gluon distribution, Delta g(x), integrated over the gluon momentum range 0.02 < x < 0.3. Di-jet and photon-jet coincidence measurements will allow to study the x-dependence of Delta g(x). In this report we present the status of photo

S. Caenepeel, I. Goyvaerts

Hom-structures (Lie algebras, algebras, coalgebras, Hopf algebras) have been investigated in the literature recently. We study Hom-structures from the point of view of monoidal categories; in particular, we introduce a symmetric monoidal category such that Hom-algebras coincide with algebras in this monoidal category, and similar properties for coalgebras, H

Maria Busl, Rafael Sánchez, Gloria Platero

We analyze coherent spin phenomena in triple quantum dots in triangular configuration under crossed DC and AC magnetic fields. In particular, we discuss the interplay between Aharonov-Bohm current oscillations, coherent electron trapping and spin blockade under electron spin resonance conditions. We demonstrate that, for certain field frequencies, AC magneti

Jenny Hide, Vlatko Vedral

We present a method for detecting the entanglement of a state using non-equilibrium processes. A comparison of relative entropies allows us to construct an entanglement witness. The relative entropy can further be related to the quantum Jarzynski equality, allowing non-equilibrium work to be used in entanglement detection. To exemplify our results, we consid

Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Xu-Bo Zou, Guang-Can Guo

Despite the great success of quantum mechanics, questions regarding its application still exist and the boundary between quantum and classical mechanics remains unclear. Based on the philosophical assumptions of macrorealism and noninvasive measurability, Leggett and Garg devised a series of inequalities (LG inequalities) involving a single system with a set

T. Paul, M. Albert, P. Schlagheck, P. Leboeuf

We consider the phase coherent transport of a quasi one-dimensional beam of Bose-Einstein condensed particles through a disordered potential of length L. Among the possible different types of flow identified in [T. Paul et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 210602 (2007)], we focus here on the supersonic stationary regime where Anderson localization exists. We genera

Elisa Prandini, Daniela Dorner, Nijil Mankuzhiyil, Mosè Mariotti

Very high energy gamma ray emission from the active galactic nucleus PG 1553+113 was observed during 2005 and 2006 by the MAGIC collaboration, for a total observation time of 18.8 hours. Here we present the results of follow up observations: more than 20 hours of good quality data collected by the MAGIC Telescope during the 2007 and 2008 campaigns. The obtai

A. C. Aguilar, D. Binosi, J. Papavassiliou

We study the structure and non-perturbative properties of a special Green&#39;s function, u(q), whose infrared behavior has traditionally served as the standard criterion for the realization of the Kugo-Ojima confinement mechanism. It turns out that, in the Landau gauge, u(q) can be determined from a dynamical equation, whose main ingredients are the gluon p

Kentaro Urasaki

It is well-known that the pointer basis of a quantum system satisfies the condition to diagonalize the interaction Hamiltonian between the subsystems. We show that this condition can be translated into the form $δΛ=0,$ where $Λ$, so-called the action, is the time integrated interaction energy: it is found out naturally in the phase of state vectors due to di

Selman Akbulut

We show that an infinite sequence of homotopy 4-spheres constructed by Cappell-Shaneson are all diffeomorphic to S^4. This generalizes previous results of Akbulut-Kirby and Gompf.

N. Rampersad, J. Shallit, Z. Xu

In this paper we consider the computational complexity of the following problems: given a DFA or NFA representing a regular language L over a finite alphabet Sigma is the set of all prefixes (resp., suffixes, factors, subwords) of all words of L equal to Sigma*? In the case of testing universality for factors of languages represented by DFA&#39;s, we find an

The PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili, B. Krusche

This document is the Technical Design Report covering the two large spectrometer magnets of the PANDA detector set-up. It shows the conceptual design of the magnets and their anticipated performance. It precedes the tender and procurement of the magnets and, hence, is subject to possible modifications arising during this process.

Johann Cigler

We give an easy approach to L. Slater&#39;s Bailey pairs A(1)-A(8) with the help of q-Lucas polynomials.

Masoud Khalkhali, Giovanni Landi, Walter D. van Suijlekom

We show that much of the structure of the 2-sphere as a complex curve survives the q-deformation and has natural generalizations to the quantum 2-sphere - which, with additional structures, we identify with the quantum projective line. Notably among these is the identification of a quantum homogeneous coordinate ring with the coordinate ring of the quantum p

Ryo Nikkuni

In 1983, Conway-Gordon showed that for every spatial complete graph on 6 vertices, the sum of the linking numbers over all of the constituent 2-component links is congruent to 1 modulo 2, and for every spatial complete graph on 7 vertices, the sum of the Arf invariants over all of the Hamiltonian knots is also congruent to 1 modulo 2. In this article, we giv

C S Yadav, P L Paulose

The transport and magnetic studies are performed on high quality FeTe0.60Se0.40 single crystals to determine the upper critical fields (Hc2), lower critical field (Hc1) and the Critical current density (Jc). The value of upper critical field Hc2 are very large, whereas the activation energy as determined from the slope of the Arrhenius plots are was found to

V. Pangon, S. Nagy, J. Polonyi, K. Sailer

A numerical algorithm is used to solve the bare and the effective potential for the scalar $ϕ^4$ model in the local potential approximation. An approximate dynamical Maxwell-cut is found which reveals itself in the degeneracy of the action for modes at some scale. This result indicates that the potential develop singular field dependence as far as one can se

J. E. Thomas

Fermi gases with magnetically tunable interactions provide a clean and controllable laboratory system for modeling interparticle interactions between fermions in nature. The s-wave scattering length, which is dominant a low temperature, is made to diverge by tuning near a collisional (Feshbach) resonance. In this regime, two-component Fermi gases are stable

David R. Bickel

By representing the range of fair betting odds according to a pair of confidence set estimators, dual probability measures on parameter space called frequentist posteriors secure the coherence of subjective inference without any prior distribution. The closure of the set of expected losses corresponding to the dual frequentist posteriors constrains decisions

Celine Engelbeen, Samuel Fiorini, Antje Kiesel

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a vector that can be written as a nonnegative integer linear combination of given 0-1 vectors, the generators, such that the l_1-distance between this vector and a given target vector is minimized. We prove that this closest vector problem is NP-hard to approximate within a O(d) additive error, where d is the

Paul A. Pearce, Jorgen Rasmussen, Philippe Ruelle

We consider the Grothendieck ring of the fusion algebra of the W-extended logarithmic minimal model WLM(1,p). Informally, this is the fusion ring of W-irreducible characters so it is blind to the Jordan block structures associated with reducible yet indecomposable representations. As in the rational models, the Grothendieck ring is described by a simple grap

W. Wasilewski, T. Fernholz, K. Jensen, L. S. Madsen

We analyse a novel squeezing and entangling mechanism which is due to correlated Stokes and anti-Stokes photon forward scattering in a multi-level atom vapour. Following the proposal we present an experimental demonstration of 3.5 dB pulsed frequency nondegenerate squeezed (quadrature entangled) state of light using room temperature caesium vapour. The sourc

Steve Hofmann, Svitlana Mayboroda

This note presents a correction to the paper ``Hardy and BMO spaces associated to divergence form elliptic operators&#34; by Steve Hofmann and Svitlana Mayboroda

J. M. Diederix, K. B. Gubbels, H. T. C. Stoof

We present an inhomogeneous theory for the low-temperature properties of a resonantly interacting Fermi mixture in a trap that goes beyond the local-density approximation. We compare the Bogoliubov-de Gennes and a Landau-Ginzburg approach and conclude that the latter is more appropriate when dealing with a first-order phase transition. Our approach incorpora

Andre Giesecke, Frank Stefani, Gunter Gerbeth

A crucial point for the understanding of the von-Kármán-Sodium (VKS) dynamo experiment is the influence of soft-iron impellers. We present numerical simulations of a VKS-like dynamo with a localized permeability distribution that resembles the shape of the flow driving impellers. It is shown that the presence of soft-iron material essentially determines the

Joachim A. Fuerst, Jesper G. Pedersen, Christian Flindt, Niels Asger Mortensen

Graphene antidot lattices constitute a novel class of nano-engineered graphene devices with controllable electronic and optical properties. An antidot lattice consists of a periodic array of holes which causes a band gap to open up around the Fermi level, turning graphene from a semimetal into a semiconductor. We calculate the electronic band structure of gr

A. P. Kobushkin, Ya. D. Krivenko-Emetov, S. Dubnicka

We discuss the elastic ed scattering beyond Born approximation. It is shown that the reaction amplitude contains six generalized form factors, but only three linearly independent combinations of them (we call them generalized charge, quadrupole and magnetic form factors) contribute to the reaction cross section in the second order perturbation theory. We exa

Martin Jung, Thomas Mannel

We analyse the breaking of U-spin on a group theoretical basis. Due to the simple behaviour of the weak effective hamiltonian under U-spin and the unique structure of the breaking terms such a group theoretical analysis leads to a manageable number of parameters. Several applications are discussed, including the decays B -> J/psi K and B -> D K.

Ruben Berenguel, Nuria Fagella

We study the class of entire transcendental maps of finite order with one critical point and one asymptotic value, which has exactly one finite pre-image, and having a persistent Siegel disc. After normalisation this is a one parameter family $f_a$ with $a\in\mathbb{C}^*$ which includes the semi-standard map $λze^z$ at $a=1$, approaches the exponential map w

Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Christian Mastrodonato, Roderich Tumulka

We discuss the content and significance of John von Neumann&#39;s quantum ergodic theorem (QET) of 1929, a strong result arising from the mere mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. The QET is a precise formulation of what we call normal typicality, i.e., the statement that, for typical large systems, every initial wave function $ψ_0$ from an energy sh

D. A. Ivanov, Ya. V. Fominov, M. A. Skvortsov, P. M. Ostrovsky

We revisit the problem of diffusive proximity systems involving superconductors and normal metals (or ferromagnets) with magnetic disorder. On the length scales much larger than its correlation length, the effect of sufficiently weak magnetic disorder may be incorporated as a local spin-flip term in the Usadel equations. We derive this spin-flip term in the

Geza Odor, Ronald Dickman

We study the lattice reaction diffusion model 3A -> 4A, A -> 0 (``triplet creation&#34;) using numerical simulations and n-site approximations. The simulation results provide evidence of a discontinuous phase transition at high diffusion rates. In this regime the order parameter appears to be a discontinuous function of the creation rate; no evidence of a st

Maria Silvia Garelli, John Schliemann

We report on Landauer-Büttiker studies of anomalous Hall transport in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetization provided by localized magnetic moments. Our system is described by a discretized tight-binding model in a four-terminal geometry. We consider both the case of magnetically disordered systems as well as balli

Masaru Ikehata

A simple method for some class of inverse obstacle scattering problems is introduced. The observation data are given by a wave field measured on a known surface surrounding unknown obstacles over a finite time interval. The wave is generated by an initial data with compact support outside the surface. The method yields the distance from a given point outside

Alexander D. Popov

We consider the Hermitian-Yang-Mills (HYM) equations for gauge potentials on a complex vector bundle E over an almost complex manifold X^6 which is the twistor space of an oriented Riemannian manifold M^4. Each solution of the HYM equations on such X^6 defines a pseudo-holomorphic structure on the bundle E. It is shown that the pull-back to X^6 of any anti-s

Piotr Garbaczewski, Vladimir Stephanovich

We study the long time asymptotics of probability density functions (pdfs) of Lévy flights in different confining potentials. For that we use two models: Langevin - driven and (Lévy - Schrödinger) semigroup - driven dynamics. It turns out that the semigroup modeling provides much stronger confining properties than the standard Langevin one. Since contractive

Carla Biggio, Mattias Blennow, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez

We derive model-independent bounds on production and detection non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). We find that the constraints for NSI parameters are around O(10^{-2}) to O(10^{-1}). Furthermore, we review and update the constraints on matter NSI. We conclude that the bounds on production and detection NSI are generally one order of magnitude stronger

B. V. Rajarama Bhat, Mithun Mukherjee

Here we generalize the concept of spatial tensor product, introduced by Skeide, of two product systems via a pair of normalized units. This new notion is called amalgamated tensor product of product systems, and now the amalgamation can be done using a contractive morphism. Index of amalgamation product (when done through units) adds up for normalized units

The KamLAND Collaboration

Radioactive isotopes produced through cosmic muon spallation are a background for rare-event detection in $ν$ detectors, double-$β$-decay experiments, and dark-matter searches. Understanding the nature of cosmogenic backgrounds is particularly important for future experiments aiming to determine the pep and CNO solar neutrino fluxes, for which the background

Dian-Yong Chen, Yu-Bing Dong

We estimate the two-photon exchange corrections to both proton and neutron electromagnetic physical observables in a relativistic light cone quark model. At a fixed momentum transfer the corrections are found to be small in magnitudes, but with a strong angular dependence. Our results are comparable to those from simple hadronic model in a moderate momentum

V. Gogokhia

The full gluon propagator relevant for the description of the truly non-perturbative QCD dynamics, the so-called intrinsically non-perturbative gluon propagator has been derived in our previous work. It explicitly depends on the regularized mass gap, which dominates its structure at small gluon momentum. It is automatically transversal in a gauge invariant w

J. -R. Chazottes, M. Hochman

We exhibit Lipschitz (and hence Hölder) potentials on the full shift $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{N}}$ such that the associated Gibbs measures fail to converge as the temperature goes to zero. Thus there are &#34;exponentially decaying&#34; interactions on the configuration space $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb Z}$ for which the zero-temperature limit of the associated Gibbs measure

Youri Davydov, Ilya Molchanov, Sergei Zuyev

Discrete stability extends the classical notion of stability to random elements in discrete spaces by defining a scaling operation in a randomised way: an integer is transformed into the corresponding binomial distribution. Similarly defining the scaling operation as thinning of counting measures we characterise the corresponding discrete stability property

Eric A. Cator, Hendrik P. Lopuhaä

We define the minimum covariance determinant functionals for multivariate location and scatter through trimming functions and establish their existence at any multivariate distribution. We provide a precise characterization including a separating ellipsoid property and prove that the functionals are continuous. Moreover, we establish asymptotic normality for

Lan Zhang, Miho Ishigaki, Wako Aoki, Gang Zhao

Chemical abundances of 26 metal-poor dwarfs and giants are determined from high-resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio spectra obtained with Subaru/HDS. The sample is selected so that most of the objects have outer-halo kinematics. Self-consistent atmospheric parameters were determined by an iterative procedure based on spectroscopic analysis. Abundances

Erhan Bayraktar, Qingshuo Song, Jie Yang

We determine a weaker sufficient condition than that of Theorem 5.2.1 in Fleming and Soner (2006) for the continuity of the value functions of stochastic exit time control problems.

Jumpei Takata, Ronald E. Taam

The spectral energy distribution from the X-ray to the very high energy regime ($>100$ GeV) has been investigated for the $γ$-ray binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883 as a function of orbital phase within the framework of a simple model of a pulsar wind nebula. The emission model is based on the synchrotron radiation process for the X-ray regime and the inverse

S. Pittalis, E. Rasanen, E. K. U. Gross

Electronic structure calculations are routinely carried out within the framework of density-functional theory, often with great success. For electrons in reduced dimensions, however, there is still a need for better approximations to the exchange-correlation energy functional. Furthermore, the need for properly describing current-carrying states represents a

Michael Assaf, Baruch Meerson

We investigate extinction of a long-lived self-regulating stochastic population, caused by intrinsic (demographic) noise. Extinction typically occurs via one of two scenarios depending on whether the absorbing state n=0 is a repelling (scenario A) or attracting (scenario B) point of the deterministic rate equation. In scenario A the metastable stochastic pop

Ilya G. Usoskin, Kalevi Mursula, Rainer Arlt, Gennady A. Kovaltsov

Because of the lack of reliable sunspot observation, the quality of sunspot number series is poor in the late 18th century, leading to the abnormally long solar cycle (1784--1799) before the Dalton minimum. Using the newly recovered solar drawings by the 18--19th century observers Staudacher and Hamilton, we construct the solar butterfly diagram, i.e. the la

Subir Sachdev

Transport measurements in the hole-doped cuprates show a &#34;strange metal&#34; normal state with an electrical resistance which varies linearly with temperature. This strange metal phase is often identified with the quantum critical region of a zero temperature quantum critical point (QCP) at hole density x=x_m, near optimal doping. A long-standing problem

S. S. Kutateladze

Boolean models are applied to deriving operator versions of the classical Farkas Lemma in the theory of simultaneous linear inequalities.

A. V. Isaev

We consider Levi non-degenerate tube hypersurfaces in $\CC^{n+1}$ that are $(k,n-k)$-spherical, i.e. locally CR-equivalent to the hyperquadric with Levi form of signature $(k,n-k)$, with $n\le 2k$. We show that the number of affine equivalence classes of such hypersurfaces is infinite (in fact, uncountable) in the following cases: (i) $k=n-2$, $n\ge 7$;\line

I. S. Borisov, N. Volodko

Hoeffding-type exponential inequalities are obtained for the distribution tails of canonical von Mises&#39; statistics of arbitrary order based on samples from a stationary sequence of random variables satisfying the φ-mixing condition. The present paper weakens the restrictions on the coefficient φ() which are contained in the paper &#34;Exponential inequal

Wen-Cong Chen, Xiang-Dong Li

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be used as the standard candlelight to determine the cosmological distances because they are thought to have a uniform fuel amount. Recent observations of several overluminous SNe Ia suggest that the white dwarf masses at supernova explosion may significantly exceed the canonical Chandrasekhar mass limit. These massive white d

Masanori Hino

In Euclidean space, the integration by parts formula for a set of finite perimeter is expressed by the integration with respect to a type of surface measure. According to geometric measure theory, this surface measure is realized by the one-codimensional Hausdorff measure restricted on the reduced boundary and/or the measure-theoretic boundary, which may be

Xi-Han Li, Bao-Kui Zhao, Yu-Bo Sheng, Fu-Guo Deng

We propose an efficient faithful polarization-state transmission scheme by utilizing frequency degree of freedom besides polarization and an additional qubit prepared in a fixed polarization. An arbitrary single-photon polarization state is protected against the collective noise probabilistically. With the help of frequency beam splitter and frequency shifte

Bao-Kui Zhao, Fu-Guo Deng, Feng-Shou Zhang, Hong-Yu Zhou

We explore the connection between quantum brachistochrone (time-optimal) evolution of a three-qubit system and its residual entanglement called three-tangle. The result shows that the entanglement between two qubits is not required for some brachistochrone evolutions of a three-qubit system. However, the evolution between two distinct states cannot be implem

Hong-Wei Ke, Zuo Li, Jing-Ling Chen, Yi-Bing Ding

It has been suggested that the high symmetries in the Schrödinger equation with the Coulomb or harmonic oscillator potentials may remain in the corresponding relativistic Dirac equation. If the principle is correct, in the Dirac equation the potential should have a form as ${(1+β)\over 2}V(r)$ where $V(r)$ is ${-e^2\over r}$ for hydrogen atom and $κr^2$ for

Yu-Bo Sheng, Fu-Guo Deng, Hong-Yu Zhou

We present a single-photon entanglement concentration protocol for long-distance quantum communication with quantum nondemolition detector. It is the first concentration protocol for single-photon entangled states and it dose not require the two parties of quantum communication to know the accurate information about the coefficient $α$ and $β$ of the less en

Richard Ehrenborg, MLE Slone

The set of acyclic orientations of a connected graph with a given sink has a natural poset structure. We give a geometric proof of a result of Jim Propp: this poset is the disjoint union of distributive lattices.

K. Michaelian

Understanding the thermodynamic function of life may shed light on its origin. Life, as are all irreversible processes, is contingent on entropy production. Entropy production is a measure of the rate of the tendency of Nature to explore available microstates. The most important irreversible process generating entropy in the biosphere, and thus facilitating

Jeff A. Sherman

Single trapped ions are ideal systems in which to test atomic physics at high precision: they are effectively isolated atoms held at rest and largely free from perturbing interactions. This thesis describes several projects developed to study the structure of singly-ionized barium and more fundamental physics. First, we describe a spin-dependent &#34;electro

Nicolas Barriere, Julien Rousselle, Peter von Ballmoos, Nikolai V. Abrosimov

Crystals are the elementary constituents of Laue lenses, an emerging technology which could allow the realization of a space borne telescope 10 to 100 times more sensitive than existing ones in the 100 keV - 1.5 MeV energy range. This study addresses the current endeavor to the development of efficient crystals for the realization of a Laue lens. In the theo

Durdu O. Guney, David A. Meyer

Electromagnetic negative refraction in metamaterials has attracted increasingly great interest, since its first experimental verification in 2001. It potentially leads to the applications superior to conventional devices including compact antennas for mobile stations, imaging beyond the diffraction limit, and high-resolution radars, not to mention the anamol

Vladimir Privman

We outline selected trends and results in theoretical modeling of quantum systems in support of the developing research field of quantum information processing. The resulting modeling tools have been applied to semiconductor materials and nanostructures that show promise for implementation of coherent, controlled quantum dynamics at the level of registers of

Fernando Guevara Vasquez, Graeme W. Milton, Daniel Onofrei

It is shown how a recently proposed method of cloaking is effective over a broad range of frequencies. The method is based on three or more active devices. The devices, while not radiating significantly, create a ``quiet zone&#39;&#39; between the devices where the wave amplitude is small. Objects placed within this region are virtually invisible. The cloaki

J. Gevertz, S. Torquato

Understanding the transport properties of a porous medium from a knowledge of its microstructure is a problem of great interest in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. Using a first-passage time method, we compute the mean survival time $τ$ of a Brownian particle among perfectly absorbing traps for a wide class of triply-periodic porous media, inc

B. Marsteller, T. C. Beers, T. Sivarani, S. Rossi

We develop an automated spectral synthesis technique for the estimation of metallicities ([Fe/H]) and carbon abundances ([C/Fe]) for metal-poor stars, including carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, for which other methods may prove insufficient. This technique, autoMOOG, is designed to operate on relatively strong features visible in even low- to medium-resolut

Scott Morrison

Let V be the 7-dimensional irreducible representation of the quantum group U_q(g_2). For each n, there is a map from the braid group B_n to the endomorphism algebra of the n-th tensor power of V, given by R-matrices. We can extend this linearly to a map on the braid group algebra. Lehrer and Zhang (MR2271576) prove this map is surjective, as a special case o

Hazer Inaltekin, Mung Chiang, H. Vincent Poor

This paper analyzes the behavior of selfish transmitters under imperfect location information. The scenario considered is that of a wireless network consisting of selfish nodes that are randomly distributed over the network domain according to a known probability distribution, and that are interested in communicating with a common sink node using common radi

J. Biddle, B. Wang, D. J. Priour, S. Das Sarma

Localization properties of particles in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices without interaction are investigated with models beyond the tight-binding Aubry-André (AA) model. Based on a tight-binding t_1 - t_2 model with finite next-nearest-neighbor hopping t_2, we find the localization properties qualitatively different from those of the AA model, signal

Huaiyu Duan

Neutrinos emitted from a core-collapse supernova can experience collective flavor transformation because of high neutrino fluxes. As a result, neutrinos of different flavors can have their energy spectra (partially) swapped, a phenomenon known as the (stepwise) spectral swapping or spectral split. We give a brief review of a simple model that explains this p

J. Adell, I. Ulfat, J. Sadowski, L. Ilver

Valence band photoemission with photon energies around the Mn2p excitation threshold has been used to study the development of nanowires catalyzed by MnAs particles. A gradual change in the spectra with increasing nanowire length is observed, such that the resonant photoemission eventually dominates over the Auger decay channel. The change is ascribed to dil

Jeff Kahn, Michael Neiman

We introduce the antipodal pairs property for probability measures on finite Boolean algebras and prove that conditional versions imply strong forms of log-concavity. We give several applications of this fact, including improvements of some results of Wagner; a new proof of a theorem of Liggett stating that ultra-log-concavity of sequences is preserved by co

Jonathan Perry, Lorin Matthews, Truell Hyde

The interaction between dust grains is an important process in fields as diverse as planetesimal formation or the plasma processing of silicon wafers into computer chips. This interaction depends in large part on the material properties of the grains, for example whether the grains are conducting, non-conducting, ferrous or non-ferrous. This work considers t

Victor Land, Bernard Smith, Lorin Matthews, Truell Hyde

A two-dimensional dust crystal levitated in the sheath of a modified Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) reference cell is manipulated by heating or cooling the lower electrode. The dust charge is obtained from top-view pictures of the crystal using a previously developed analytical model. By assuming a simple force balance, and measuring the radial confini

R. D. Young

We report on a recent chiral extrapolation, based on an SU(3) framework, of octet baryon masses calculated in 2+1-flavour lattice QCD. Here we further clarify the form of the extrapolation, the estimation of the infinite-volume limit, the extracted low-energy constants and the corrections in the strange-quark mass.

Victor Land, Erica Shen, Matthew Benesh, Lorin Matthews

By combining the results from a self-consistent 2D dusty plasma fluid model and a 3D N-body code, the equilibrium position and crystal structure were determined for dust particles levitated in the sheath in a modified Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) reference cell, in which the lower electrode was heated or cooled. The Debye length, charge and electric

Sigurd B. Angenent, M. Cristina Caputo, Dan Knopf

In this paper, we construct smooth forward Ricci flow evolutions of singular initial metrics resulting from rotationally symmetric neckpinches on S^(n+1), without performing an intervening surgery. In the restrictive context of rotational symmetry, this construction gives evidence in favor of Perelman&#39;s hope for a &#34;canonically defined Ricci flow thro

Kate H. R. Rubin, J. Xavier Prochaska, David C. Koo, Andrew C. Phillips

We study the cool gas around a galaxy at z = 0.4729 using Keck/LRIS spectroscopy of a bright (B = 21.7) background galaxy at z = 0.6942 at a transverse distance of 16.5/h_70 kpc. The background galaxy spectrum reveals strong FeII, MgII, MgI, and CaII absorption at the redshift of the foreground galaxy, with a MgII 2796 rest equivalent width of 3.93 +/- 0.08

S. V. Polikarpov, V. S. Dergachev, K. E. Rumyantsev, D. M. Golubchikov

This article describes a new type of artificial neuron, called the authors &#34;cyberneuron&#34;. Unlike classical models of artificial neurons, this type of neuron used table substitution instead of the operation of multiplication of input values for the weights. This allowed to significantly increase the information capacity of a single neuron, but also gr

J. D. Strand, D. J. Van Harlingen, J. B. Kycia, W. P. Halperin

We present data on the modulation of the critical current with applied magnetic field in UPt_3-Cu-Pb Josephson junctions and SQUIDs. The junctions were fabricated on polished surfaces of UPt_3 single crystals. The shape of the resulting diffraction patterns provides phase sensitive information on the superconducting order parameter. Our corner junction data

Didier Arnal, Mabrouk Ben Ammar, Bechir Dali

We entirely compute the cohomology for a natural and large class of $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2)$ modules $M$. We study the restriction to the $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$ cohomology of $M$ and apply our results to the module $M={\mathfrak D}_{λ,μ}$ of differential operators on the super circle, acting on densities.

Helmut Z. Baumert

The paper presents a theory of shear-generated turbulence at asymptotically high Reynolds numbers. It is based on an ensemble of dipole vortex tubes taken as quasi-particles and realized in form of rings, hairpins or filament couples of potentially finite length. In a not necesserily planar cross sectional area through a vortex tangle, taken locally orthogon

Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Heidi Perry, Peter Harrowell, David R. Reichman

Using computer simulations, we show that the localized low frequency normal modes of a configuration in a supercooled liquid are strongly correlated with the irreversible structural reorganization of the particles within that configuration. Establishing this correlation constitutes the identification of the aspect of a configuration that determines the heter

J. D. Moore, L. F. Cohen, Y. Yeshurun, A. D. Caplin

Oxypnictide superconductor NdFeAsO0.85 sample was irradiated with 2 GeV Ta ions at a fluence of 5x10^10 ions/cm2. High resolution transmission electron microscopy study revealed that the irradiation produced columnar-like defects. The effect of these defects on the irreversible magnetisation in polycrystalline randomly oriented fragments was studied as a fun

A. C. Fonseca, R. Machleidt, G. A. Miller

We show that using parameters consistent with the charge symmetry violating difference between the strong nn and pp scattering lengths provides significant constraints on the amplitude for the dd -> alpha pi0 reaction.

Gregory Norgard, Kamran Mohseni

This paper examines an averaging technique in which the nonlinear flux term is expanded and the convective velocities are passed through a low-pass filter. It is the intent that this modification to the nonlinear flux terms will result in an inviscid regularization of the homentropic Euler equations and Euler equations. The physical motivation for this techn

Michael Rowan-Robinson, Andreas Efstathiou

We explore whether our models for starbursts, quiescent star-forming galaxies and for AGN dust tori are able to model the full range of IRS spectra measured with Spitzer. The diagnostic plot of 9.7 mu silicate optical depth versus 6.2 mu PAH equivalent width, introduced by Spoon and coworkers in 2007, gives a good indication of the age and optical depth of a

Daniela Calzetti

Existing (Spitzer Space Telescope) and upcoming (Herschel Space Telescope) facilities are deepening our understanding of the role of dust in tracing the energy budget and chemical evolution of galaxies. The tools we are developing while exploring the local Universe will in turn become pivotal in the interpretation of the high redshift Universe when near--fut

James P. Vary, Pieter Maris, Esmond Ng, Chao Yang

The structure and reactions of light nuclei represent fundamental and formidable challenges for microscopic theory based on realistic strong interaction potentials. Several {\it ab initio} methods have now emerged that provide nearly exact solutions for some nuclear properties. The {\it ab initio} no core shell model (NCSM) and the no core full configuration

Hiraku Nozawa

A K-contact manifold is a smooth manifold M with a contact form whose Reeb flow preserves a Riemannian metric on M. Main examples are Sasakian manifolds. Our results in this paper are four results i), ii), iii) and iv) below obtained by the application of the Morse theory to the contact moment maps on closed 5-dimensional K-contact manifolds of rank 2. 5-dim

G. Acbas, M. -H. Kim, M. Cukr, V. Novak

We employ Faraday and Kerr effect spectroscopy in the infrared range to investigate the electronic structure of Ga1-xMnxAs near the Fermi energy. The band structure of this archetypical dilute-moment ferromagnetic semiconductor has been a matter of controversy, fueled partly by previous measurements of the unpolarized infrared absorption and their phenomenol

Ghassan Hamarneh

There are many applications of graph cuts in computer vision, e.g. segmentation. We present a novel method to reformulate the NP-hard, k-way graph partitioning problem as an approximate minimal s-t graph cut problem, for which a globally optimal solution is found in polynomial time. Each non-terminal vertex in the original graph is replaced by a set of ceil(

Daniela Calzetti, Robert C. Kennicutt

The arena of investigation of star formation and its scaling laws is slowly, but consistently, shifting from the realm of luminous galaxies to that of faint ones and to sub--galactic regions, as existing and new facilities enable investigators to probe regions of the combined parameter space of surface brightness, wavelength, and angular resolution that were

J. Mitra, Lei Feng, Michael G. Boyle, P. Dawson

We simulate the localized surface plasmon resonances of an Au nanoparticle within tunneling proximity of a Au substrate and demonstrate that the modes may be identified with those responsible for light emission from a scanning tunneling microscope. Relative to the modes of an isolated nanoparticle these modes show significant red-shifting, extending further

Susan M. Buchman, Ann B. Lee, Chad M. Schafer

We present nonparametric techniques for constructing and verifying density estimates from high-dimensional data whose irregular dependence structure cannot be modelled by parametric multivariate distributions. A low-dimensional representation of the data is critical in such situations because of the curse of dimensionality. Our proposed methodology consists