September 2009 arXiv papers — page 15

Yilun Shang

In this paper, we consider a leader-following consensus problem for networks of continuous-time integrator agents with a time-varying leader under measurement noises. We propose a neighbor-based state-estimation protocol for every agent to track the leader, and time-varying consensus gains are introduced to attenuate the noises. By combining the tools of sto

W. C. Stwalley, J. RayMajumder, M. Bellos, R. Carollo

Promising pathways for photoassociative formation of ultracold heteronuclear alkali metal dimers in their lowest rovibronic levels (denoted X(0,0)) are examined using high quality ab initio calculations of potential energy curves currently available. A promising pathway for KRb, involving the resonant coupling of the $2 ^1Π$ and $1 ^1Π$ states just below the

Lina Guo, Jiulin Du

Based on the generalized Boltzmann equation and the reverse function of the distribution function, we investigate the two-parameter generalized statistics and get an expression between the two parameters (k,r) and the physical quantities about the system considered. We find that the two parameters can define some characteristics of the system. As examples, t

A. J. Schwartz

The LHC physics era is about to commence; here we discuss a complementary physics program that would be realized at a high luminosity flavor factory. A flavor factory experiment can search for new physics in CP asymmetries, inclusive decay processes, rare leptonic processes, absolute branching fractions, and other measurements that are challenging or not fea

James A. Nesteroff, Dmitri V. Averin

The transformation cycle and associated inequality are suggested for the basic demonstration of the wavefunction reduction in a mesoscopic qubit in measurements with quantum-limited detectors. Violation of the inequality would show directly that the qubit state changes in a way dictated by the probabilistic nature of the wavefunction and inconsistent with th

Paolo Ferragina, Travis Gagie, Giovanni Manzini

In this paper we describe algorithms for computing the BWT and for building (compressed) indexes in external memory. The innovative feature of our algorithms is that they are lightweight in the sense that, for an input of size $n$, they use only ${n}$ bits of disk working space while all previous approaches use $\Th{n \log n}$ bits of disk working space. Mor

Shintaro Hoshino, Junya Otsuki, Yoshio Kuramoto

Highly accurate numerical results for single-particle spectrum and order parameter are obtained for the magnetically ordered Kondo lattice by means of the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method. Hybridized energy bands involving local spins are identified in the Néel state as a hallmark of itinerant antiferro

D. M. Tideswell, G. A. Fuller, T. J. Millar, A. J. Markwick

We aim to investigate the chemistry and gas phase abundance of HNCO and the variation of the HNCO/CS abundance ratio as a diagnostic of the physics and chemistry in regions of massive star formation. A numerical-chemical model has been developed which self-consistently follows the chemical evolution of a hot core. The model comprises of two distinct stages.

R. Harris, J. Johansson, A. J. Berkley, M. W. Johnson

A novel rf-SQUID flux qubit that is robust against fabrication variations in Josephson junction critical currents and device inductance has been implemented. Measurements of the persistent current and of the tunneling energy between the two lowest lying states, both in the coherent and incoherent regime, are presented. These experimental results are shown to

M. Lopez-Caniego, M. Massardi, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, L. Lanz

The detection of polarized sources in the WMAP 5-year data is a very difficult task. The maps are dominated by instrumental noise and only a handful of sources show up as clear peaks in the Q and U maps. Optimal linear filters applied at the position of known bright sources detect with a high level of significance a polarized flux P from many more sources, b

J. E. Owen, B. Ercolano, C. J. Clarke, R. D. Alexander

(Abridged) We present the first radiation-hydrodynamic model of a protoplanetary disc irradiated with an X-EUV spectrum. In a model where the total ionizing luminosity is divided equally between X-ray and EUV luminosity, we find a photoevaporation rate of 1.4e-8 M_sun/yr, which is two orders of magnitude greater than the case of EUV photoevaporation alone. T

Patrick Plötz, Michael Lubasch, Sandro Wimberger

The fidelity, defined as overlap of eigenstates of two slightly different Hamiltonians, is proposed as an efficient detector of avoided c rossings in the energy spectrum. This new application of fidelity is motivated for model systems, and its value for analyzing complex qua ntum spectra is underlined by applying it to a random matrix model and a tilted Bose

Jonathan Chang, David M. Blei

We develop the relational topic model (RTM), a hierarchical model of both network structure and node attributes. We focus on document networks, where the attributes of each document are its words, that is, discrete observations taken from a fixed vocabulary. For each pair of documents, the RTM models their link as a binary random variable that is conditioned

I. Babushkin

We show that scar-like structures (SLS) in a wide aperture vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) can be formed even in a perfectly square geometry due to interaction of polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of light. We show also that dissipation in the system induces an order among the cavity modes, so that SLS become preferred at lasing thre

Bojan Mohar

A graph is nearly embedded in a surface if it consists of graph $G_0$ that is embedded in the surface, together with a bounded number of vortices having no large transactions. It is shown that every large wall (or grid minor) in a nearly embedded graph, many rows of which intersect the embedded subgraph $G_0$ of the near-embedding, contains a large subwall t

C. D. Fassnacht, L. V. E. Koopmans, K. C. Wong

We compare galaxy number counts in HST/ACS fields containing moderate-redshift (0.2<z<1.0) strong gravitational lenses with those in two control samples: (1) the first square degree of the COSMOS survey, comprising 259 ACS fields and (2) 20 &#34;pure parallel&#34; fields randomly located on the sky. Through a Bayesian analysis we determine the expectation va

David Nesvorny, Peter Jenniskens, Harold F. Levison, William F. Bottke

The zodiacal cloud is a thick circumsolar disk of small debris particles produced by asteroid collisions and comets. Here, we present a zodiacal cloud model based on the orbital properties and lifetimes of comets and asteroids, and on the dynamical evolution of dust after ejection. The model is quantitatively constrained by IRAS observations of thermal emiss

Brian J. Smith, P. Mahou, Offir Cohen, J. S. Lundeen

We study both experimentally and theoretically the generation of photon pairs by spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) in standard birefringent optical fibers. The ability to produce a range of two-photon spectral states, from highly correlated (entangled) to completely factorable, by means of cross-polarized birefringent phase matching, is explored. A simple

M. Gieles

Star clusters are often used as tracers of major star formation events in external galaxies as they can be studied up to much larger distances than individual stars. It is vital to understand their evolution if they are used to derive, for example, the star formation history of their host galaxy. More specifically, we want to know how cluster lifetimes depen

S. G. Parsons, T. R. Marsh, C. M. Copperwheat, V. S. Dhillon

We derive precise system parameters for the pre-cataclysmic binary, NN Ser. From light curve fitting we find an orbital inclination of i = 89.6 +/- 0.2 deg. From the HeII absorption line we find K_{WD}= 62.3 +/- 1.9 km/s. The irradiation-induced emission lines from the surface of the secondary star give a range of observed radial velocities. The corrected va

Martin Hairer, Andrew J Majda

The use of linear response theory for forced dissipative stochastic dynamical systems through the fluctuation dissipation theorem is an attractive way to study climate change systematically among other applications. Here, a mathematically rigorous justification of linear response theory for forced dissipative stochastic dynamical systems is developed. The ma

Frank J. Palladino

We study the following system of two rational difference equations x_n=(β_k x_(n-k)+γ_k y_(n-k))/(A+Σ_(j=1)^l[B_j x_(n-j) ]+Σ_(j=1)^l[C_j y_(n-j) ]), n \in N, y_n=(δ_k x_(n-k)+\in_k y_(n-k))/(q+Σ_(j=1)^l[D_j x_(n-j) ]+Σ_(j=1)^l[E_j y_(n-j) ]), n\in N, with nonnegative parameters and nonnegative initial conditions. We assume that B_j=C_j=D_j=E_j=0 for j=k, 2k

Vigleik Angeltveit, Teena Gerhardt

We show that K_{2i}(Z[x,y]/(xy),(x,y)) is free abelian of rank 1 and that K_{2i+1}(Z[x,y]/(xy),(x,y)) is finite of order (i!)^2. We also compute K_{2i+1}(Z[x,y]/(xy),(x,y)) in low degrees.

Igor F. Herbut

The core of the vortex in a general superconducting order parameter in graphene is argued to be ordered, with the possible order parameters forming the algebra U(1) X Cl(3), where Cl(3) is the three dimensional Clifford algebra. A sufficiently strong Zeeman coupling of the magnetic field of the vortex to the electron spin breaks the degeneracy in the core in

Masanori Kohno

The spectral properties of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice in a magnetic field are investigated using a weak-interchain-coupling approach combined with exact solutions of a chain. Dominant modes induced by interchain interactions in a magnetic field behave as quasiparticles which show distinctive features such as

Chris McDaniel

In this paper we prove that a deformed tensor product of two Lefschetz algebras is a Lefschetz algebra. We then use this result in conjunction with some basic Schubert calculus to prove that the coinvariant ring of a finite reflection has the strong Lefschetz property.

M. I. Nagy

New exact solutions of relativistic perfect fluid hydrodynamics are described, including the first family of exact rotating solutions. The method used to search for them is an investigation of the relativistic hydrodynamical equations and the collisionless Boltzmann equation. Possible connections to the evolution of hot and dense partonic matter in heavy-ion

Oscar Randal-Williams

We describe partial semi-simplicial resolutions of moduli spaces of surfaces with tangential structure. This allows us to prove a homological stability theorem for these moduli spaces, which often improves the known stability ranges and give explicit stability ranges in many new cases. In each of these cases the stable homology can be identified using the me

Jaume Lopez Carballo, Adrian R. Lugo, Jorge G. Russo

We find various supersymmetric configurations of toroidal M2 brane solutions in $\AdS_4 \times S^7$ or, more generally, in $\AdS_4 \times S^7/Z_k$. In this class we identify solutions preserving 1/4 and 1/8 supersymmetries of the background. The supersymmetric M2 branes have angular momenta and winding on $S^7$, and null world-volumes. In certain cases they

Morihiko Saito, Christian Schnell

We study a variant of the Neron models over curves which is recently found by the second named author in a more general situation using the theory of Hodge modules. We show that its identity component is a certain open subset of an iterated blow-up along smooth centers of the Zucker extension of the family of intermediate Jacobians and that the total space i

B. Riaz, N. Lodieu, J. E. Gizis

We present Spitzer/IRAC and MIPS 24mu archival observations for 28 brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius (UppSco) region. We find a disk fraction of 10.7%^(+8.7%)_(-3.3%). One object shows a small excess at 24mu but none at shorter wavelengths, and may be a candidate transition disk. Three objects show emission in the 10mu silicate feature and we present compos

M. G. Volz, M. Brazil, C. J. Ras, K. J. Swanepoel

We investigate the problem of designing a minimum cost flow network interconnecting n sources and a single sink, each with known locations in a normed space and with associated flow demands. The network may contain any finite number of additional unprescribed nodes from the space; these are known as the Steiner points. For concave increasing cost functions,

M. Latour, G. Fontaine, P. Brassard, P. Chayer

We started a program to construct several grids of suitable model atmospheres and synthetic spectra for hot subdwarf O stars computed, for comparative purposes, in LTE, NLTE, with and without metals. For the moment, we use our grids to perform fits on our spectrum of SDSS J160043.6+074802.9 (J1600+0748 for short), this unique pulsating sdO star. Our best fit

Jarosław Buczyński, J. M. Landsberg

We introduce subspace rank as a tool for studying ranks of tensors and X-rank more generally. We derive a new upper bound for the rank of a tensor and determine the ranks of partially symmetric tensors in C^2 \otimes C^b \otimes C^b. We review the literature from a geometric perspective.

A. L. Ivanov, E. A. Muljarov, L. Mouchliadis, R. Zimmermann

This is a comment on M. Stern, V. Garmider, E. Segre, M. Rappaport, V. Umansky, Y. Levinson, and I. Bar-Joseph, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257402 (2008).

Nicolas Yunes, Alessandra Buonanno, Scott A. Hughes, M. Coleman Miller

We present the first models of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, focusing on quasi-circular orbits into non-rotating black holes. We show that the phase difference and (Newtonian normalized) amplitude difference between analytical EOB and numerical Teukolsky-based gravitational waveforms can be reduced to less than 1

Olalekan S. Akinola, Adenike O. Osofisan

Software inspection is a necessary and important tool for software quality assurance. Since it was introduced by Fagan at IBM in 1976, arguments exist as to which method should be adopted to carry out the exercise, whether it should be paper based or tool based, and what reading technique should be used on the inspection document. Extensive works have been d

E. M. Lipmanov

The quark Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix is a fundamental part of the Standard Model accurately determined to fit world data analysis. In this paper the CKM matrix elements are high accurately rendered via simple compact parameterization by one small dimensionless parameter. Unique value of the KM CP-violating phase -65.53 deg is derived in agreemen

M. Chertkov, L. Kroc, F. Krzakala, M. Vergassola

Methods to extract information from the tracking of mobile objects/particles have broad interest in biological and physical sciences. Techniques based on simple criteria of proximity in time-consecutive snapshots are useful to identify the trajectories of the particles. However, they become problematic as the motility and/or the density of the particles incr

F. A R Navarro, J. F. V. Flores

Herein, in the context of third version of nonextensive statistical mechanics, theory generalizing the Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon statistics, we displayed a solution for an anomaly found by calculating the internal energy for a composite A+B, of 2 spines 1/2, with additive Hamiltonian H= H_A+ H_B; specifically, the calculation of the internal energy in the full

Ryan Broderick, Yann Bugeaud, Lior Fishman, Dmitry Kleinbock

Given $b > 1$ and $y \in \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$, we consider the set of $x\in \mathbb{R}$ such that $y$ is not a limit point of the sequence $\{b^n x \bmod 1: n\in\mathbb{N}\}$. Such sets are known to have full Hausdorff dimension, and in many cases have been shown to have a stronger property of being winning in the sense of Schmidt. In this paper, by utiliz

Matt Braby, Jingyi Chao, Thomas Schaefer

We compute the thermal conductivity of color-flavor locked (CFL) quark matter. At temperatures below the scale set by the gap in the quark spectrum, transport properties are determined by collective modes. In this work we focus on the contribution from the lightest modes, the superfluid phonon and the massive neutral kaon. The calculation is done in the fram

Daniel Labardini-Fragoso

This paper is a representation-theoretic extension of Part I. It has been inspired by three recent developments: surface cluster algebras studied by Fomin-Shapiro-Thurston, the mutation theory of quivers with potentials initiated by Derksen-Weyman-Zelevinsky, and string modules associated to arcs on unpunctured surfaces by Assem-Brustle-Charbonneau-Plamondon

J. C. Brown, R. Turkmani, E. P. Kontar, A. L. MacKinnon

The collisional thick target model (CTTM) of solar hard X-ray (HXR) bursts has become an almost &#39;Standard Model&#39; of flare impulsive phase energy transport and radiation. However, it faces various problems in the light of recent data, particularly the high electron beam density and anisotropy it involves.} {We consider how photon yield per electron ca

Jacob Ziv

We consider pairs of finite-length individual sequences that are realizations of unknown, finite alphabet, stationary sources in a clas M of sources with vanishing memory (e.g. stationary Markov sources). The task of a universal classifier is to decide whether the two sequences are emerging from the same source or are emerging from two distinct sources in M,

Fen Zuo

I propose to change the sign of the dilaton in the infrared~(IR) soft-wall AdS/QCD model, in order to implement confinement. The deformed model exhibits interesting properties, especially in describing chiral symmetry breaking. The expectation value of the scalar field $X$, which determines the quark mass and condensate, approaches a constant in the IR limit

Rudranil Basu, Samir K Paul

We consider gravity in 2+1 space-time dimensions, with negative cosmological constant and a `Barbero-Immirzi&#39; (B-I) like parameter, when the space-time topology is of the form $ T^2 \times \mathbbm{R}$. The phase space structure, both in covariant and canonical framework is analyzed. Full quantization of the theory in the &#39;constrain first&#39; approa

Inti Lehmann

The standard model and Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) have undergone rigorous tests at distances much shorter than the size of a nucleon. Up to now, the predicted phenomena are reproduced rather well. However, at distances comparable to the size of a nucleon, new experimental results keep appearing which cannot be described consistently by effective theories b

Alexander V. Krivov, Fabian Herrmann, Alexis Brandeker, Philippe Thébault

Disks around young stars are known to evolve from optically thick, gas-dominated protoplanetary disks to optically thin, almost gas-free debris disks. It is thought that the primordial gas is largely removed at ages of ~10 Myr, but it is difficult to discern the true gas densities from gas observations. This suggests using observations of dust: it has been a

ZEUS Collaboration

Isolated photon production in deep inelastic ep scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 320pb^-1. Measurements were made in the isolated-photon transverse-energy and pseudorapidity ranges 4 < E_T < 15 GeV and -0.7 < eta < 0.9 for exchanged photon virtualities, Q^2, in the range 10 < Q^2 < 350 GeV and for

Antonio M. Cegarra

This paper contains some contributions to the study of the relationship between 2-categories and the homotopy types of their classifying spaces. Mainly, generalizations are given of both Quillen&#39;s Theorem B and Thomason&#39;s Homotopy Colimit Theorem to 2-functors.

I. A. G. Snellen, E. J. W. de Mooij, A. Burrows

We present our analysis of the red-channel CoRoT data of CoRoT-2b. A deep secondary eclipse is detected at a level of 1.02+-0.20 x10-4, which suggests that all of the planet-signal detected previously in white light by Alonso et al. (2009) originates from the red channel. CoRoT-2b is the coolest exoplanet that has been detected in the optical so far. In cont

Maurizio Serva

In this paper we compute exactly the ground state energy and entropy of the dilute ferromagnetic Ising model. The two thermodynamic quantities are also computed when a magnetic field with random locations is present. The result is reached in the replica approach frame by a class of replica order parameters introduced by Monasson. The strategy is first illust

Francisco Navarro-Lerida, D. H. Tchrakian

In this Letter we present new, genuinely non-Abelian vortex solutions in SU(2) Yang-Mills--Higgs theory with only one {\it isovector} scalar field. These non-Abelian solutions branch off their Abelian counterparts (Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen vortices) for precise values of the Higgs potential coupling constant $λ$. For all values of $λ$, their energies lie bel

J. Otterbach, J. Ruseckas, R. G. Unanyan, G. Juzeliunas

We describe a method to create effective gauge potentials for stationary-light polaritons in two or three spatial dimensions. When stationary light is created in the interaction with a uniformly rotating ensemble of coherently driven double $Λ$ atoms, the equation of motion is that of a massive Schrödinger particle in an effective magnetic field. In addition

Tomoyuki Arakawa, Peter Fiebig

We study the restricted category O for an affine Kac--Moody algebra at the critical level. In particular, we prove the first part of the Feigin-Frenkel conjecture: the linkage principle for restricted Verma modules. Moreover, we prove a version of the BGGH-reciprocity principle and we determine the block decomposition of the restricted category O. For the pr

Xavier Roy, Thomas Buchert

In the framework of spatially averaged inhomogeneous cosmologies in classical general relativity, effective Einstein equations govern the dynamics of averaged scalar variables in a scale--dependent way. A particular cosmology may be characterized by a cosmic equation of state, closing the hierarchy of effective equations. In this context a natural candidate

Piotr Dzierzak, Wlodzimierz Piechocki

The cosmological singularities of the Bianchi I universe are analyzed in the setting of loop geometry underlying the loop quantum cosmology. We solve the Hamiltonian constraint of the theory and find the Lie algebra of elementary observables. Physical compound observables are defined in terms of elementary ones. Modification of classical theory by holonomy a

A. V. Paraskevov, S. E. Savel&#39;ev

We report the results of molecular dynamics simulation of a spatiotemporal evolution of the locally photoexcited electrons and holes localized in two separate layers. It is shown that the ring-shaped spatial pattern of luminescence forms due to the strong in-layer Coulomb interaction at high photoexcitation power. In addition, the results predict (i) station

Anders Tranberg, Andres Hernandez, Thomas Konstandin, Michael G. Schmidt

We study a mechanism that generates the baryon asymmetry of the Universe during a tachyonic electroweak phase transition. We utilize as sole source of CP violation an operator that was recently obtained from the Standard Model by integrating out the quarks.

Salima Rafai, Levan Jibuti, Philippe Peyla

The measurement of a quantitative and macroscopic parameter to estimate the global motility of a large population of swimming biological cells is a challenge Experiments on the rheology of active suspensions have been performed. Effective viscosity of sheared suspensions of live unicellular motile micro-algae (\textit{Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii}) is far great

Franziska Synatschke, Holger Gies, Andreas Wipf

Dynamical supersymmetry breaking is an important issue for applications of supersymmetry in particle physics. The functional renormalization group equations allow for a nonperturbative approach that leaves supersymmetry intact. Therefore they offer a promising tool to investigate dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Here we will employ this method to derive the

Lital Marcipar, Oren Ofer, Amit Keren, Emily A. Nytko

Using muon spin resonance we examine the organometallic hybrid compound Cu(1,3-benzenedicarboxylate) [Cu(1,3-bdc)], which has structurally perfect spin 1/2 copper kagome planes separated by pure organic linkers. This compound has antiferromagnetic interactions with Curie-Weiss temperature of -33 K. We found slowing down of spin fluctuations starting at T=1.8

Jörg Lehmann, Jakob Bernasconi

A new class of probabilistic models for cascading failure propagation in interconnected systems is proposed. The models take into account important characteristics of real systems that are not considered in existing generic approaches. Specifically, it is assumed that the load increments after a failure are proportional to the failed load and that the load r

Cyril Lecuire, Jean-Marc Schlenker

We consider quasifuchsian manifolds with &#34;particles&#34;, i.e., cone singularities of fixed angle less than $π$ going from one connected component of the boundary at infinity to the other. Each connected component of the boundary at infinity is then endowed with a conformal structure marked by the endpoints of the particles. We prove that this defines a

Valentin V. Sokolov, Oleg V. Zhirov, Yaroslav A. Kharkov

By the example of a kicked quartic oscillator we investigate the dynamics of classically chaotic quantum systems with few degrees of freedom affected by persistent external noise. Stability and reversibility of the motion are analyzed in detail in dependence on the noise level $\sigma$. The critical level $\sigma_c(t)$, below which the response of the system

N. P. Gibson, D. Pollacco, S. Barros, C. Benn

We present seven light curves of the exoplanet system HAT-P-3, taken as part of a transit timing program using the RISE instrument on the Liverpool Telescope. The light curves are analysed using a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo algorithm to update the parameters of the system. The inclination is found to be i = 86.75^{+0.22}_{-0.21} deg, the planet-star radius rat

Steven Abel, Valentin V. Khoze

Despite the compelling simplicity of minimal supersymmetric unification, the proton does not decay as predicted. A possible explanation is that real unification takes place in a theory which is an electric dual of the MSSM GUT with messengers, which has Landau poles below the GUT scale. As was recently pointed out, unification predictions would be transmitte

Vinita Suyal, Awadhesh Prasad, Harinder P. Singh

This paper deals with the analysis of sunspot number time series using the Hurst exponent. We use the rescaled range (R/S) analysis to estimate the Hurst exponent for 259-year and 11360-year sunspot data. The results show a varying degree of persistence over shorter and longer time scales corresponding to distinct values of the Hurst exponent. We explain the

Fabian Eichstaedt, Stefan Leupold, Ulrich Mosel

Drell-Yan pair production is investigated. We reexamine a model where the quark momentum fraction is defined as the ratio of the corresponding light cone components of the quark and parent nucleon in a naive parton-model approach. It is shown that results differ from the standard parton model. This is due to unphysical solutions for the momentum fractions wi

J. Cepila, J. Nemchik

We study a significant nuclear suppression of the relative production rates (p(d)+A)/(p+d(p)) for the Drell-Yan process at large Feynman xF. Since this is the region of minimal values for the light-front momentum fraction variable x2 in the target nucleus, it is tempting to interpret this as a manifestation of coherence or of a Color Glass Condensate. We dem

Agata M. Branczyk, T. C. Ralph, Wolfram Helwig, Christine Silberhorn

The generation of heralded pure Fock states via spontaneous parametric down conversion (PDC) relies on perfect photon-number correlations in the output modes. Correlations in any other degree of freedom, however, degrade the purity of the heralded state. In this paper, we investigate spectral entanglement between the two output modes of a periodically poled

Takaya Nozawa, Takashi Kozasa, Nozomu Tominaga, Keiichi Maeda

We investigate the formation of dust grains in the ejecta of a SN IIb and their evolution in the shocked gas in the SNR by considering the uniform and power-law density structures for the CSM. Based on these calculations, we also simulate the time evolution of thermal emission from the shock-heated dust in the SNR and compare the results with the observation

Zhi-Gang Wang

In this article, we study the vertexes $\Omega_Q^*\Omega_Q \phi$ with the light-cone QCD sum rules, then assume the vector meson dominance of the intermediate $\phi(1020)$, and calculate the radiative decays $\Omega_Q^*\to \Omega_Q \gamma$.

Edgar E. Enochs, Zhaoyong Huang

The principle &#34;Every result in classical homological algebra should have a counterpart in Gorenstein homological algebra&#34; is given in [3]. There is a remarkable body of evidence supporting this claim (cf. [2] and [3]). Perhaps one of the most glaring exceptions is provided by the fact that tensor products of Gorenstein projective modules need not be

Christian Corda

After a review of a traditional analysis, it is shown a variation of a more recent treatment on the spectrum of relic gravitational waves (GWs). Then, a connection between the two different treatments will be analysed. Such a connection permits to obtain an interesting equation for the inflaton field. This equation gives a value that agrees with the slow rol

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present the first measurements of identified hadron production, azimuthal anisotropy, and pion interferometry from Au+Au collisions below the nominal injection energy at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) facility. The data were collected using the large acceptance STAR detector at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 9.2 GeV from a test run of the collider in the y

Jin-Zhang Tang, Bin Chen

In this paper we seek static spherically symmetric solutions of Horava-Lifshitz-like gravity with projectability condition. We consider the most general form of gravity action without detailed balance, and require the spacetime metric to respect the projectability condition. We find that for any value of $λ$, it may exists the solutions of topology $R\times

James B. Dent, Sourish Dutta, Robert J. Scherrer

We reexamine the evolution of thermal relic particle abundances for the case where the interaction rate depends on the particle velocities. For the case of Sommerfeld enhancement, we show that the standard analytic approximation, modified in a straightforward way, provides an estimate of the relic particle abundance that is accurate to within 10% (in compari

Susama Agarwala

In this paper, I compare the generators of the renormalization group flow, or the geometric $β$-functions for dimensional regularization and operator regularization. I then extend the analysis to show that the geometric $β$-function for a scalar field theory on a closed compact Riemannian manifold is defined on the entire manifold. I then extend the analysis

Susama Agarwala

A global connection on the Connes Marcolli renormalization bundle relates $β$-functions of a class of regularization schemes by gauge transformations, as well as local solutions to $β$-functions over curved space-time.

Massimiliano Esposito, Katja Lindenberg, Igor M. Sokolov

Current statistics can be calculated in various ways. Event-based approaches use the statistics of the number of events occuring during a given time. Time-based approaches use the statistics of the time needed to reach a given number of events. By analyzing normal as well as anomalous statistics of nonequilibrium currents through a two level system in contac

Shigeru Yamashita, Igor L. Markov

We perform formal verification of quantum circuits by integrating several techniques specialized to particular classes of circuits. Our verification methodology is based on the new notion of a reversible miter that allows one to leverage existing techniques for circuit simplification of quantum circuits. For reversible circuits which arise as runtime bottlen

F. Y. Li, N. Yang, Z. Y. Fang, R. M. L. Baker

A coupling system between Gaussian type-microwave photon flux, static magnetic field and fractal membranes (or other equivalent microwave lenses) can be used to detect high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) in the microwave band. We study the signal photon flux, background photon flux and the requisite minimal accumulation time of the signal in the coupl

Xiao-yu Chen, Li-zhen Jiang

The calculating of the coherent information is a fundamental step in obtaining the quantum capacity of a quantum channel. We introduce orthogonal and complete code basis to evaluate the coherent information per channel use when the input is the maximal mixture of stabilizer codewords. In the code basis, the output density matrix is diagonal, the joint output

Fabien Rogister

The three goals of this PhD thesis are to improve the understanding of the mechanisms underlying the dynamical instabilities observed in semiconductor lasers subject to external optical feedback, to propose a technique to suppress these instabilities and finally to take advantage of them, for instance for secure communications or to generate microwave time-p

Erik Talvila

If $F$ is a continuous function on the real line and $f=F&#39;$ is its distributional derivative then the continuous primitive integral of distribution $f$ is $\int_a^bf=F(b)-F(a)$. This integral contains the Lebesgue, Henstock--Kurzweil and wide Denjoy integrals. Under the Alexiewicz norm the space of integrable distributions is a Banach space. We define th

C. Aruta, C. Adamo, A. Galdi, P. Orgiani

The magnetic and electronic modifications induced at the interfaces in (SrMnO$_{3}$)$_{n}$/(LaMnO$_{3}$)$_{2n}$ superlattices have been investigated by linear and circular magnetic dichroism in the Mn L$_{2,3}$ x-ray absorption spectra. Together with theoretical calculations, our data demonstrate that the charge redistribution across interfaces favors in-pla

Ernesto A. Matute

We go beyond the Standard Model guided by presymmetry, the discrete electroweak quark-lepton symmetry hidden by topological effects which explain quark fractional charges as in condense matter physics. Partners of the particles of the Standard Model and the discrete symmetry associated with this partnership appear as manifestations of a residual presymmetry

Benjamin Dodson

In this paper, we consider the global well-posedness of the defocusing, $L^{2}$ - critical nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation in dimensions $n \geq 3$. Using the I-method, we show the problem is globally well-posed in $n = 3$ when $s > {2/5}$, and when $n \geq 4$, for $s > \frac{n - 2}{n}$. We combine energy increments for the I-method, interaction Morawetz es

A. Yu. Nikitin, Sergio G. Rodrigo, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno

Surface electromagnetic modes supported by metal surfaces have a great potential for uses in miniaturised detectors and optical circuits. For many applications these modes are excited locally. In the optical regime, Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) have been thought to dominate the fields at the surface, beyond a transition region comprising 3-4 wavelengths

George W. Preston

Radial velocity observations accumulated during the past 16 years are used to derive a preliminary orbit for the CEMP star CS 22881-036. The velocity amplitude is very small. No velocity variation is found for three additional CEMP stars observed over roughly the same time interval. Searches for companions of two CEMP double-lined spectroscopic binaries and

Georgi D. Gospodinov

We state Bennequin inequalities in the relative case, and show that the relative invariants are additive under relative connected sums. We show they exhibit similar limitations as their classical analogues. We study relatively Legendrian simple knots and give some classification results.

S. Salem-Sugui, J. Mosqueira, A. D. Alvarenga

We report on isofield curves of $\sqrt{-M}$ vs. T, where M is the reversible magnetization, of YBa_2Cu_3O_{6.95}, YBa_2Cu_3O_{6.65}, and Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+x} with the magnetic field, H, applied parallel to the c-axis of the samples (and also parallel to the ab- planes for YBaCuO). For temperatures close to the critical temperature, T_c, the quantity \sqrt{-

Christopher Briscoe, Chaoming Song, Ping Wang, Hernan A. Makse

The nature of randomness in disordered packings of frictional and frictionless spheres is investigated using theory and simulations of identical spherical grains. The entropy of the packings is defined through the force and volume ensemble of jammed matter and shown difficult to calculate analytically. A mesoscopic ensemble of isostatic states is then utiliz

Mohammad Alidoust, Jacob Linder, Gholamreza Rashedi, Asle Sudbø

We study the thermodynamic properties of a dirty ferromagnetic S$\mid$F$\mid$S Josephson junction with s-wave superconducting leads in the low-temperature regime. We employ a full numerical solution with a set of realistic parameters and boundary conditions, considering both a uniform and non-uniform exchange field in the form of a Bloch domain wall ferromag

Eyal Lubetzky, Allan Sly

Introduced in 1963, Glauber dynamics is one of the most practiced and extensively studied methods for sampling the Ising model on lattices. It is well known that at high temperatures, the time it takes this chain to mix in $L^1$ on a system of size $n$ is $O(\log n)$. Whether in this regime there is cutoff, i.e. a sharp transition in the $L^1$-convergence to

Andres Escala

We study the large-scale triggering of star formation in galaxies. We find that the largest mass-scale not stabilized by rotation, a well defined quantity in a rotating system and with clear dynamical meaning, strongly correlates with the star formation rate in a wide range of galaxies. We find that this relation can be explained in terms of the threshold fo

Georgi D. Gospodinov

We define relative versions of the classical invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds for knots that are homologous to a fixed reference knot. We show these invariants are well-defined and give some basic properties.

Geir Agnarsson, Jill Bigley Dunham

For $n\in\nats$ and $3\leq k\leq n$ we compute the exact value of $E_k(n)$, the maximum number of edges of a simple planar graph on $n$ vertices where each vertex bounds an $\ell$-gon where $\ell\geq k$. The lower bound of $E_k(n)$ is obtained by explicit construction, and the matching upper bound is obtained by using Integer Programming (IP.) We then use th