January 2010 arXiv papers — page 24

G. Rosenberg, M. Franz

It has been noted a long time ago that a term of the form theta (e^2/2πh) B dot E may be added to the standard Maxwell Lagrangian without modifying the familiar laws of electricity and magnetism. theta is known to particle physicists as the 'axion' field and whether or not it has a nonzero expectation value in vacuum remains a fundamental open questi

Olfa Ben Sik Ali, Christian Cardinal, Francois Gagnon

Based on a stochastic geometry framework, we establish an analysis of the multi-hop spatial reuse aloha protocol (MSR-Aloha) in ad hoc networks. We compare MSR-Aloha to a simple routing strategy, where a node selects the next relay of the treated packet as to be its nearest receiver with a forward progress toward the final destination (NFP). In addition, per

Mahesh K. Banavar, Anthony D. Smith, Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Andreas Spanias

A distributed detection problem over fading Gaussian multiple-access channels is considered. Sensors observe a phenomenon and transmit their observations to a fusion center using the amplify and forward scheme. The fusion center has multiple antennas with different channel models considered between the sensors and the fusion center, and different cases of ch

Joshua D. Simon, Anna Frebel, Andrew McWilliam, Evan N. Kirby

We present high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy of the brightest star in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Leo IV. We measure an iron abundance of [Fe/H] = -3.2, adding to the rapidly growing sample of extremely metal-poor stars being identified in Milky Way satellite galaxies. The star is enhanced in the alpha elements Mg, Ca, and Ti by ~0.3 dex, very simi

Pierre Guillard

Spitzer space telescope spectroscopy reveal a new class of H2-luminous galaxies with enhanced H2 line emission, but where star formation is strongly suppressed. This is in sharp contrast with what is observed in standard star forming galaxies. These sources are all in active phases of galaxy evolution (galaxy interactions, AGN feedback, gas accretion in gala

Gino Isidori

Lectures content: (1) Flavour physics within the SM and the flavour problem; (2) B-physics phenomenology: mixing, CP violation, and rare decays; (3) Flavour physics beyond the SM: models and predictions.

Douglas R. Anderson, Christopher C. Tisdell

We exhibit an alternative method for solving inhomogeneous second--order linear ordinary dynamic equations on time scales, based on reduction of order rather than variation of parameters. Our form extends recent (and long-standing) analysis on $\R$ to a new form for difference equations, quantum equations, and arbitrary dynamic equations on time scales.

Xianpeng Hu, Dehua Wang

The existence and uniqueness of local in time strong solution with large initial data for the three-dimensional compressible viscoelastic fluid is established. The strong solution has weaker regularity than the classical solution. The Lax-Milgram theorem and the Schauder-Tychonoff fixed-point argument are applied.

Xianpeng Hu, Dehua Wang

The existence and uniqueness of the local strong solution to the three-dimensional compressible viscoelastic fluids near the equilibrium is established. In addition to the uniform estimates on the velocity, some essential uniform estimates on the density and the deformation gradient are also obtained.

Nickolas Moeckel, Matthew R. Bate

We investigate the evolution, following gas dispersal, of a star cluster produced from a hydrodynamical calculation. We find that when the gas, initially comprising 60% of the mass, is removed, the system settles into a bound cluster containing 30-40% of the stellar mass surrounding by an expanding halo of ejected stars. The bound cluster expands from an ini

N. D. Richardson, D. R. Gies, T. J. Henry, E. Fernandez-Lajus

We report on H-alpha spectroscopy of the 2009.0 spectroscopic event of eta Carinae collected via SMARTS observations using the CTIO 1.5 m telescope and echelle spectrograph. Our observations were made almost every night over a two month interval around the predicted minimum of eta Car. We observed a significant fading of the line emission that reached a mini

Brian Siana, Harry I Teplitz, Henry C. Ferguson, Thomas M. Brown

We have obtained deep Hubble Space Telescope far-UV images of 15 starburst galaxies at z~1.3 in the GOODS fields to search for escaping Lyman continuum photons. These are the deepest far-UV images m_{AB}=28.7, 3σ, 1" diameter) over this large an area (4.83 arcmin^2) and provide the best escape fraction constraints for any galaxy at any redshift. We do no

Aaron A. Dutton, Frank C. van den Bosch

We use a disk formation model to study the effects of galactic outflows (a.k.a. feedback) on the rotation velocity - stellar mass - disk size, gas fraction - stellar mass, and gas phase metalicity - stellar mass scaling relations of disk galaxies. We show that models without outflows are unable to explain these scaling relations, having both the wrong slopes

John Whitbeck, Vania Conan

In this paper we propose HYMAD, a Hybrid DTN-MANET routing protocol which uses DTN between disjoint groups of nodes while using MANET routing within these groups. HYMAD is fully decentralized and only makes use of topological information exchanges between the nodes. We evaluate the scheme in simulation by replaying real life traces which exhibit this highly

M. Karovska, T. J. Gaetz, C. L. Carilli, W. Hack

Jets have been detected in only a few symbiotic binaries to date, and CH Cyg is one of them. In 2001, a non-relativistic jet was detected in CH Cyg for the first time in X-rays. We carried out coordinated Chandra, HST, and VLA observations in 2008 to study the propagation of this jet and its interaction with the circumbinary medium. We detected the jet with

Szymon M. Walczak

We discuss the geometry of warped foliations. After examining the Levi-Civita connection, we describe the formulae for sectional, Ricci and scalar curvatures. In the final part of this note, we present some examples.

Ronald Fisch

Monte Carlo studies of the 3D random field $XY$ model on simple cubic lattices of size $64^3$, using two different isotropic random-field probability distributions of moderate strength, show a glassy freezing behavior above $T_c$, and long-range order below $T_c$, consistent with our earlier results for weaker and stronger random fields. This model should de

Youssef Nasser, H. Farhat, Jean-François Hélard

Future Communication networks are tending towards a diverse wireless networking world where the positioning information (PI) could be helpful in different techniques like the dynamic resource allocation. On the other hand, the PI could be widely used for cooperative techniques in the relay and/or routing selection process. In this paper, we propose to use th

Abbass Marouni, Youssef Nasser, Maryline Hélard, Haidar El-Mokdad

The technique of cooperative communication has recently gained momentum in the research community; this technique utilizes the notion of relay, as an intermediate node between the source and the destination, to enhance the overall system performance. In this paper we ex-plored the benefits of adaptive cooperation, in which the relay adapts its relaying proce

T. P. Singh

When a mountaineer is ascending one of the great peaks of the Himalayas she knows that an entirely new vista awaits her at the top, whose ramifications will be known only after she gets there. Her immediate goal though, is to tackle the obstacles on the way up, and reach the summit. In a similar vein, one of the immediate goals of contemporary theoretical ph

Danilo Silva, Frank R. Kschischang

This paper considers the problem of securing a linear network coding system against an adversary that is both an eavesdropper and a jammer. The network is assumed to transport n packets from source to each receiver, and the adversary is allowed to eavesdrop on μarbitrarily chosen links and also to inject up to t erroneous packets into the network. The goal o

A D Martin, J Ruostekoski

We study quantum dynamics of bosonic atoms that are excited to form a phase kink, or several kinks, by an imprinting potential in a one-dimensional trap. We calculate dissipation due to quantum and thermal fluctuations in soliton trajectories, collisions and the core structure. Single-shot runs show weak filling of a soliton core, typically deeper solitons i

J. M. F. Bassalo, P. T. S. Alencar, D. G. da Silva, A. Nassar

In this paper we present the Feynman-de Broglie-Bohm propagator for a semiclassical formulation of the Gross-Pitaeviskii equation.

T. Aparicio Villegas, E. J. Alfaro, J. Cabrera-Cano, M. Moles

This paper presents the characterization of the optical range of the ALHAMBRA photometric system, a 20 contiguous, equal-width, medium-band CCD system with wavelength coverage from 3500A to 9700A. The photometric description of the system is done by presenting the full response curve as a product of the filters, CCD and atmospheric transmission curves, and u

T. Padmanabhan

The purpose of the paper is five-fold: (a) Argue that the question in the title can be presented in a meaningful manner and that it requires an answer. (b) Discuss the conventional answers and explain why they are unsatisfactory. (c) Suggest that a key ingredient in the answer could be the instability arising due to the `wrong' sign in the Hilbert action

Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Alexandre Faure, Jonathan Tennyson, Chris H. Greene

We present theoretical thermally-averaged rate constants for vibrational and rotational (de-)excitation of the H3+ ion by electron impact. The constants are calculated using the multi-channel quantum-defect approach. The calculation includes processes that involve a change Delta J<=2 in the rotational angular momentum J of H3+. The rate constants are calcula

Scott W. McIntosh, Davina E. Innes, Bart De Pontieu, Robert J. Leamon

Plumes are one of the most ubiquitous features seen at the limb in polar coronal holes and are considered to be a source of high density plasma streams to the fast solar wind. We analyze STEREO observations of plumes and aim to reinterpret and place observations with previous generations of EUV imagers within a new context that was recently developed from Hi

J. S. Dehesa, A. R. Plastino, P. Sanchez-Moreno, C. Vignat

The Cramer-Rao product of the Fisher information and the variance of a probability density ρ(x), defined on a domain Δ\in R^D, is found to have a minimum value reached by the density associated with the ground state of the harmonic oscillator in Δ, when Δis an unbounded domain. If Δis bounded, the minimum value of the Fisher information is achieved by the gr

S. Reynaud, A. Canaguier-Durand, R. Messina, A. Lambrecht

We present the scattering approach which is nowadays the best tool for describing the Casimir force in realistic experimental configurations. After reminders on the simple geometries of 1d space and specular scatterers in 3d space, we discuss the case of stationary arbitrarily shaped mirrors in electromagnetic vacuum. We then review specific calculations bas

Yong-Tae Kim, Jung Hee Han, Byung Hee Hong, Young-Uk Kwon

We report on the synthesis of CdSe quantum dots on a graphene surface by an electrochemical deposition method. By using a mesoporous silica film formed on the graphene surface as a template and a potential equalizer between the edge/defect sites and the basal plane of the graphene, CdSe quantum dots can be grown on the basal plane into a regular hexagonal ar

Alessandro Cobbe

The Steinitz class of a number field extension K/k is an ideal class in the ring of integers O_k of k, which, together with the degree [K:k] of the extension determines the O_k-module structure of O_K. We call R_t(k,G) the classes which are Steinitz classes of a tamely ramified G-extension of k. We will say that those classes are realizable for the group G;

K. Ziegler, A. Sinner

We study the optical conductivity in the low-energy regime of gapped mono- and bilayer graphene. A scaling relation is found, in which the four parameters frequency, gap, Fermi energy and temperature appear only as combination of three independent parameters. The ratio of the optical conductivity of bilayer and mononlayer graphene is exactly 2.

Nadia Jamal, Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar, Patrick Mitran

We consider collocated primary and secondary networks that have simultaneous access to the same frequency bands. Particularly, we examine three different levels at which primary and secondary networks may coexist: pure interference, asymmetric co-existence, and symmetric co-existence. At the asymmetric co-existence level, the secondary network selectively de

David E. Robillard

This thesis introduces PEMS2, an improvement to PEMS (Parallel External Memory System). PEMS executes Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) algorithms in an External Memory (EM) context, enabling computation with very large data sets which exceed the size of main memory. Many parallel algorithms have been designed and implemented for Bulk-Synchronous Parallel mode

Yi Zhang

Let $R=k[x_1,..., x_n]$ be a polynomial ring over a field $k$ of characteristic $p>0,$ and let $I=(f_1,...,f_s)$ be an ideal of $R.$ We prove that every associated prime $P$ of $H^i_I(R)$ satisfies $\text{dim}R/P\geqslant n-\sum\text{deg}f_i.$ In characteristic 0 the question is open.

Fernando Febres Cordero, Laura Reina, Doreen Wackeroth

We present total and differential cross sections for W b anti-b and Z b anti-b production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider including Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD corrections and full bottom-quark mass effects. We discuss the scale uncertainty of the total cross sections due to the residual renormalization- and factorization-scale dependence of the trunca

Giampiero Passarino, Christian Sturm, Sandro Uccirati

The relation between physical observables measured at LHC and Tevatron and standard model Higgs pseudo-observables (production cross section and partial decay widths) is revised by extensively using the notion of the Higgs complex pole on the second Riemann sheet of the $S $-matrix. The extension of their definition to higher orders is considered, confrontin

Huan-Qiang Zhou

A possible pairing mechanism for high temperature superconductivity in the cuprates is discussed.

F. Alarcon Oseguera, E. Perez, A. Gama Goicochea

We have studied a bulk electrolyte, and polyelectrolyte solutions with surfactants or multivalent salt with the explicit presence of counterions and solvent molecules by means of the mesoscopic dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method in the Grand Canonical ensemble. The electrostatic interactions are calculated using the Ewald sum method and the structure

Shachar Lovett

We study two conjectures in additive combinatorics. The first is the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture, which relates to the structure of sets with small doubling. The second is the inverse Gowers conjecture for $U^3$, which relates to functions which locally look like quadratics. In both cases a weak form, with exponential decay of parameters is known, an

A. Monin, M. B. Voloshin

We consider the electron-positron pair creation by a photon in an external constant electric field. The presented treatment is based on a purely quasiclassical calculation of the imaginary part of the on-shell photon polarization operator. By using this approach we find the pair production rate for photons with polarization parallel as well as orthogonal to

A. Akturk, K. Eng, J. Hamlet, S. Potbhare

Compact modeling of MOSFETs from a 0.35 micron SOI technology node operating at 4 K is presented. The Verilog-A language is used to modify device equations for BSIM models and more accurately reproduce measured DC behavior, which is not possible with the standard BSIM model set. The Verilog-A approach also allows the embedding of nonlinear length, width and

E. Golbraikh, A. Eidelman, A. Soloviev

Turbulent ship wake conservation at a long distance is one of unsolved problems at present. It is well known that wakes have a rotational structure and slowly expand with distance. Nevertheless, experimental data on their structure and properties are not sufficient. On the other hand, these experimental data show that the divergence of wakes does not change

F. Alarcon-Oseguera, M. Pena-Gomar, A. Garcia-Valenzuela, F. Castillo

We present the viability of obtaining the particle size and surface coverage in a monolayer of polystyrene particles adsorbed on a glass surface from optical coherent reflectance data around the critical angle in an internal reflection configuration. We have found that fitting a CSM to optical reflectivity curves in an internal reflection configuration aroun

J. P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett, V Batista, A Cassan

There is a remarkable synergy between requirements for Dark Energy probes by cosmic shear measurements and planet hunting by microlensing. Employing weak and strong gravitational lensing to trace and detect the distribution of matter on cosmic and Galactic scales, but as well as to the very small scales of exoplanets is a unique meeting point from cosmology

Lijuan Ruan

Data taken over the last several years have demonstrated that RHIC has created a hot, dense medium with partonic degrees of freedom. Identified particle spectra at high transverse momentum ($p_T$) and heavy flavor are thought to be well calibrated probes thus serve as ideal tools to study the properties of the medium. We present $p_T$ distributions of partic

Aurélien Deya, Andreas Neuenkirch, Samy Tindel

In this article, we study the numerical approximation of stochastic differential equations driven by a multidimensional fractional Brownian motion (fBm) with Hurst parameter greater than 1/3. We introduce an implementable scheme for these equations, which is based on a second order Taylor expansion, where the usual Levy area terms are replaced by products of

Sheng-Hao Li, Qian-Qian Shi, Huan-Qiang Zhou

The ground-state phase diagram of the two-dimensional t-J model is investigated in the context of the tensor network algorithm in terms of the graded Projected Entangled-Pair State representation of the ground-state wave functions. There is a line of phase separation between the Heisenberg anti-ferromagnetic state without hole and a hole-rich state. For both

O. Henrich, F. Weysser, M. E. Cates, M. Fuchs

Brownian dynamics simulations of bidisperse hard discs moving in two dimensions in a given steady and homogeneous shear flow are presented close to and above the glasstransition density. The stationary structure functions and stresses of shear-melted glass are compared quantitatively to parameter-free numerical calculations of monodisperse hard discs using m

Jonathan Keeling, Marzena H. Szymanska, Peter B. Littlewood

Solid state quantum condensates often differ from previous examples of condensates (such as Helium, ultra-cold atomic gases, and superconductors) in that the quasiparticles condensing have relatively short lifetimes, and so as for lasers, external pumping is required to maintain a steady state. On the other hand, compared to lasers, the quasiparticles are ge

M. Fraser, P. L. Dufton, I. Hunter, R. S. I. Ryans

High resolution optical spectra of 57 Galactic B-type supergiant stars have been analyzed to determine their rotational and macroturbulent velocities. In addition, their atmospheric parameters (effective temperature, surface gravity and microturbulent velocity) and surface nitrogen abundances have been estimated using a non-LTE grid of model atmospheres. Com

David Winter, Peter Virnau, Kurt Binder

Flat walls facilitate the condensation of a supersaturated vapor: Classical theory of heterogeneous nucleation predicts that the free energy barrier $ΔF_{\rm het}^*$ which needs to be overcome for the formation of sphere-cap shaped nucleation seeds is smaller than the barrier $ΔF^*_{\rm hom}$ for spherical droplets in the bulk by a factor $0<f(θ)<1$, which o

David Bitauld, Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero, Francesco Mattioli

The study of optical phenomena on the subwavelength scale is becoming increasingly important in photonics, particularly in the fields of nanoemitters, photonic crystals and plasmonics. Subwavelength field patterns are evanescent and must thus be investigated with near-field techniques. The light powers emitted by nanoscale sources are extremely low, undermin

Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Danny Hermelin, Dror Rawitz

We consider the Vertex Cover problem in intersection graphs of axis-parallel rectangles on the plane. We present two algorithms: The first is an EPTAS for non-crossing rectangle families, rectangle families $\calR$ where $R_1 \setminus R_2$ is connected for every pair of rectangles $R_1,R_2 \in \calR$. This algorithm extends to intersection graphs of pseudo-

Abhishek Parakh, Subhash Kak

This paper presents a recursive computational multi-secret sharing technique that hides k-2 secrets of size b each into n shares of a single secret S of size b, such that any k of the n shares suffice to recreate the secret S as well as all the hidden secrets. This may act as a steganographic channel to transmit hidden information or used for authentication

F. A. Garcia, J. G. S. Duque, P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori

In this work we report electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements in the semiconducting Ce1-xGdxFe4P12 (x ~ 0.001) filled skutterudite compounds. Investigation of the temperature (T) dependence of the ESR spectra and relaxation process suggests, that in the T-interval of 140-160 K, the onset of a &#34;weak&#34; metal-insulator (M-I) transition takes place du

Pascal Lefèvre, Daniel Li, Hervé Queffélec, Luis Rodriguez-Piazza

We generalize, on one hand, some results known for composition operators on Hardy spaces to the case of Hardy-Orlicz spaces $H^Ψ$: construction of a &#34;slow&#34; Blaschke product giving a non-compact composition operator on $H^Ψ$; construction of a surjective symbol whose composition operator is compact on $H^Ψ$ and, moreover, is in all the Schatten classe

Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz, Jaime Sanudo, Xavier Calbet

In this communication, the derivation of the Boltzmann-Gibbs and the Maxwellian distributions is presented from a geometrical point of view under the hypothesis of equiprobability. It is shown that both distributions can be obtained by working out the properties of the volume or the surface of the respective geometries delimited in phase space by an additive

V. A. Moskalenko, L. A. Dohotaru, D. F. Digor, I. D. Cebotari

Diagrammatic analysis for normal state of Hubbard model proposed in our previous paper [1] is generalized and used to investigate superconducting state of this model. We use the notion of charge quantum number to describe the irreducible Green&#39;s function of the superconducting state. As in the previous paper we introduce the notion of tunneling Green&#39

Giovanni Panti

A Kakutani-von Neumann map is the push-forward of the group rotation (Z_2,+1) to a unit simplex via an appropriate topological quotient. The usual quotient towards the unit interval is given by the base 2 expansion of real numbers, which in turn is induced by the doubling map. In this paper we replace the doubling map with an n-dimensional generalization of

M. Bersanelli, N. Mandolesi, R. C. Butler, A. Mennella

In this paper we present the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), designed and developed as part of the Planck space mission, the ESA program dedicated to precision imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Planck-LFI will observe the full sky in intensity and polarisation in three frequency bands centred at 30, 44 and 70 GHz, while higher frequencies (10

Clark Downum, Jirina Stone, Ted Barnes, Eric Swanson

We report on investigations of the applicability of non-relativistic constituent quark models to the low-energy nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction. The major innovations of a resulting NN potential are the use of the $^3$P$_0$ decay model and quark model wave functions to derive nucleon-nucleon-meson form-factors, and the use of a colored spin-spin contact hyp

Ille C. Gebeshuber, Burhanuddin Y. Majlis

Biomimetic nanotechnology is a prominent research area at the meeting place of life sciences with engineering and physics: it is a continuously growing field that deals with knowledge transfer from biology to nanotechnology. Biomimetic nanotechnology is a field that has the potential to substantially support successful mastering of major global challenges. T

Alessandro Patruno, Luca Zampieri

We present a theoretical study on the nature of the ultra-luminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2. We evolved a set of binaries with high mass donor stars orbiting a 20 M_Sun or a 50-100 M_Sun black hole. Using constraints from optical observations we restricted the candidate binary system for NGC 1313 X-2 to be either a 50-100 M_Sun black hole accreting from a 1

G. Boffetta, A. Mazzino, S. Musacchio, L. Vozella

We study the effects of polymer additives on turbulence generated by the ubiquitous Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Numerical simulations of complete viscoelastic models provide clear evidence that the heat transport is enhanced up to 50% with respect to the Newtonian case. This phenomenon is accompanied by a speed up of the mixing layer growth. We give a pheno

F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, U. Marzolino

The usual notion of separability has to be reconsidered when applied to states describing identical particles. A definition of separability not related to any a priori Hilbert space tensor product structure is needed: this can be given in terms of commuting subalgebras of observables. Accordingly, the results concerning the use of the quantum Fisher informat

Andrey M Pupasov, Boris F Samsonov, Jean-Marc Sparenberg, Daniel Baye

We propose a new kind of supersymmetric (SUSY) transformation in the case of the two-channel scattering problem with equal thresholds, for partial waves of the same parity. This two-fold transformation is based on two imaginary factorization energies with opposite signs and with mutually conjugated factorization solutions. We call it an eigenphase preserving

M. S. Si, G. P. Zhang

For nearly a decade, it has been a mystery why the small average number of photons absorbed per atom from an ultrashort laser pulse is able to induce a strong magnetization within a few hundred femtoseconds. Here we resolve this mystery by directly computing the number of photons per atom layer by layer as the light wave propagates inside the sample. We find

F. A. Garcia, G. G. Cabrera

We give an extensive treatment of the pairing symmetry in the ferromagnetic superconductor $UGe_{2}$. We show that one can draw important conclusions concerning the superconducting state, considering only the transformation properties of the pairing function, without assumptions about the form of the pairing amplitudes.

Rossella Agliardi

This work illustrates how several new pricing formulas for exotic options can be derived within a Levy framework by employing a unique pricing expression. Many existing pricing formulas of the traditional Gaussian model are obtained as a by-product.

Jesus Zavala, Volker Springel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, the gamma-ray radiation produced in their annihilation offers an attractive possibility for dark matter detection. This process may contribute significantly to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) radiation, which is being measured by the FERMI satellite with unprecedented sensitivity. Using the high-resolut

Hai Yen Nguyen, Fre&#39;de&#39;ric Dias, Robert Conte

We consider a Boussinesq system describing one-dimensional internal waves which develop at the boundary between two immiscible fluids, and we restrict to its traveling waves. The method which yields explicitly all the elliptic or degenerate elliptic solutions of a given nonlinear, any order algebraic ordinary differential equation is briefly recalled. We the

P. F. Bortignon, G. Colò, H. Sagawa

We discuss different approaches to the problem of reproducing the observed features of nuclear single-particle (s.p.) spectra. In particular, we analyze the dominant energy peaks, and the single-particle strength fragmentation, using the example of neutron states in 208Pb. Our main emphasis is the interpretation of that fragmentation as due to particle-vibra

Helena Sofia Rodrigues, M. Teresa T. Monteiro, Delfim F. M. Torres

The incidence of Dengue epidemiologic disease has grown in recent decades. In this paper an application of optimal control in Dengue epidemics is presented. The mathematical model includes the dynamic of Dengue mosquito, the affected persons, the people&#39;s motivation to combat the mosquito and the inherent social cost of the disease, such as cost with ill

E. M. Drobyshevski, M. E. Drobyshevski, V. A. Pikulin

Detection of the September maximum in the primary near-Earth daemon flux at high (~60o) Northern latitudes by our set-up with a plane horizontal scintillator is plagued by purely geometric factors; indeed, because of the Earth&#39;s rotation axis being tilted, the daemons catching up with the Earth in outer Near-Earth, Almost Circular Heliocentric Orbits (NE

Raffaele Tito D&#39;Agnolo

Using an effective Lagrangian approach we analyze a generic Higgsless model with composite heavy fermions, transforming as SU(2)_{L+R} Doublets. Assuming that the Standard Model fermions acquire mass through mixing with the new heavy fermions, we constrain the free parameters of the effective Lagrangian studying Flavour Changing Neutral Current processes. In

Paolo Longo, Peter Schmitteckert, Kurt Busch

We present a detailed analysis of the dynamics of photon transport in waveguiding systems in the presence of a two-level system. In these systems, quantum interference effects generate a strong effective optical nonlinearity on the few-photon level. We clarify the relevant physical mechanisms through an appropriate quantum many-body approach. Based on this,

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo

Context: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is to date the only normal external galaxy that has been detected in high-energy gamma rays. High-energy gamma rays trace particle acceleration processes and gamma-ray observations allow the nature and sites of acceleration to be studied. Aims: We characterise the distribution and sources of cosmic rays in the LMC fr

Ersen Ekrem, Sennur Ulukus

We study the two-user Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with common and confidential messages. In this channel, the transmitter sends a common message to both users, and a confidential message to each user which is kept perfectly secret from the other user. We obtain the entire capacity region of this channel. We also explore t

Akondi Vyas, M. B. Roopashree, B. Raghavendra Prasad

We present the details of predicting atmospheric turbulence by mining Zernike moment data obtained from simulations as well as experiments. Temporally correlated optical wave-fronts were simulated such that they followed Kolmogorov phase statistics. The wave-fronts reconstructed either by modal or zonal methods can be represented in terms of Zernike moments.

Jan Naudts, Tobias Verhulst

We consider a lattice model in which phonons scatter with pairs of electrons. All eigenvalues and eigenvectors can be obtained analytically. For a suitable choice of parameters the ground state consists of a Fermi sea of non-interacting electrons, with on top a layer of paired electrons. The binding energy of the electron pairs is partly cancelled by an incr

Eberhard Klempt

The proton mass arises from spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry and the formation of constituent quarks. Their dynamics cannot be tested by proton tomography but only by studying excited baryons. However, the number of excited baryons is much smaller than expected within quark models; even worse, the existence of many known states has been challenged in

Boualem Djehiche, Said Hamadène, Marie Amélie Morlais

We consider a finite horizon optimal stopping problem related to trade-off strategies between expected profit and cost cash-flows of an investment under uncertainty. The optimal problem is first formulated in terms of a system of Snell envelopes for the profit and cost yields which act as obstacles to each other. We then construct both a minimal and a maxima

Karine Beauchard, Camille Laurent

We consider a linear Schrödinger equation, on a bounded interval, with bilinear control, that represents a quantum particle in an electric field (the control). We prove the controllability of this system, in any positive time, locally around the ground state. Similar results were proved for particular models (by the first author and with J.M. Coron), in non

F. A. Garcia, D. J. Garcia, M. A. Avila, J. M. Vargas

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) measurements performed on the filled skutterudite system Ce1-x$YbxFe4P12 (x< 0.003) unequivocally reveal the coexistence of two Yb3+ resonances, associated with sites of considerably different occupations and temperature behaviors. Detailed analysis of the ESR data suggests a scenario where the fraction of oversized (Fe2P3)4 cag

Anzor A. Khelashvili, Teimuraz P. Nadareishvili

Exploring the idea that equation for radial wave function must be compatible with the full Schrodinger equation, a boundary condition is derived.

Andrea Portz, Armin Seyfried

Several spatially continuous pedestrian dynamics models have been validated against empirical data. We try to reproduce the experimental fundamental diagram (velocity versus density) with simulations. In addition to this quantitative criterion, we tried to reproduce stop-and-go waves as a qualitative criterion. Stop-and-go waves are a characteristic phenomen

Wlodzimierz Piechocki

We present results concerning the nature of the cosmological big bounce(BB) transition within the loop geometry underlying loop quantum cosmology (LQC). Our canonical quantization method is an alternative to the standard LQC. An evolution parameter we use has clear interpretation both at classical and quantum levels. The physical volume operator has discrete

M. T. Cidade, C. R. Leal, P. Patricio

The experimental and theoretical study of the electrorheological (ER) effect observed in the nematic phase of the 4-n-hepthyl-4&#39;-cyanobiphenyl (K21) is the aim of this work. The K21 liquid crystal (LC) appears to be a model system where all the observed rheologial behaviours can be interpreted by the Leslie-Ericksen (L-E) continuum theory for low molecul

Luis Caballero

In this work the experimental study of the 144Sm(alpha, 2n) fusion-evaporation reaction is presented. The experiment was carried out at the IKP of the University of Cologne in order to identify double octupole states and two-particle configurations in the 146Gd nucleus. The target was surrounded by a compact array of nine individual Ge detectors and one EURO

M. Steffen, R. Cayrel, P. Bonifacio, H. -G. Ludwig

Based on 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres computed with the CO5BOLD code and 3D non-LTE (NLTE) line formation calculations, we study the effect of the convection-induced line asymmetry on the derived 6Li abundance for a range in effective temperature, gravity, and metallicity covering the stars of the Asplund et al. (2006) sample. When the asymmetry effec

L. Craco, M. S. Laad

The normal state of the recently discovered Iron Selenide (FeSe)-based superconductors shows a range of inexplicable features. Along with bad-metallic resistivity, characteristic pseudogap features and proximity to insulating states, reminiscent of the underdoped high-Tc cuprates, mark these systems as strongly correlated non-Fermi Liquid metals. Here, using

Martin T. Wells

Born in New Zealand, Shayle Robert Searle earned a bachelor&#39;s degree (1949) and a master&#39;s degree (1950) from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. After working for an actuary, Searle went to Cambridge University where he earned a Diploma in mathematical statistics in 1953. Searle won a Fulbright travel award to Cornell University, where he

S. L. Parameswaran, S. Randjbar-Daemi, A. Salvio

We outline a general strategy to deal with perturbations in brane world models. We illustrate the method by studying simple 6D brane world compactifications. We introduce the background geometries induced by the branes, and summarize the main physical features observed in the fluctuation spectra. We compare these results with 5D brane world models and the tr

Przemyslaw Malkiewicz

In this paper we argue that the compactified Milne space is a promising model of the cosmological singularity. It is shown that extended objects like strings propagate in a well-defined manner across the singularity of the embedding space. Then a proposal for quantization of extended objects in the case of a membrane is given.

V. Celebonovic

The Hubbard model describes interacting electrons on a lattice,a situation which occurs in various solid state materials and devices. The aim of the present paper is to briefly discuss this model and its applications in the study of transport properties of Q1D and Q2D systems. Several examples are taken from materials and fields that have been intensively st

Bernd R. Schuh

Whether the satisfiability of any formula F of propositional calculus can be determined in polynomial time is an open question. I propose a simple procedure based on some real world mechanisms to tackle this problem. The main result is the blueprint for a machine which is able to test any formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF) for satisfiability in linear

Thomas Meinguet, Johan Segers

When a spatial process is recorded over time and the observation at a given time instant is viewed as a point in a function space, the result is a time series taking values in a Banach space. To study the spatio-temporal extremal dynamics of such a time series, the latter is assumed to be jointly regularly varying. This assumption is shown to be equivalent t

Sascha Vogel, Joerg Aichelin, Marcus Bleicher

One of the most fundamental questions in the field of relativistic heavy ion physics is how to reach and explore densities which are needed to cross the chiral and/or the deconfinement phase transition. In this analysis we investigate the information we can gather by analyzing baryonic and mesonic resonances on the hot and dense phase in such nuclear reactio

Ilango Sriram, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini

Cloud computing is the latest effort in delivering computing resources as a service. It represents a shift away from computing as a product that is purchased, to computing as a service that is delivered to consumers over the internet from large-scale data centres - or &#34;clouds&#34;. Whilst cloud computing is gaining growing popularity in the IT industry,