February 2010 arXiv papers — page 28

Vincent Dousset, Alban Pothérat

We investigate the laminar shedding of hairpin vortices in the wake of a truncated square cylinder placed in a duct, for Reynolds numbers around the critical threshold of the onset of vortex shedding. We single out the formation mechanism of the hairpin vortices by means of a detailed analysis of the flow patterns in the steady regime. We show that unlike in

Sriram Balasubramanian

We prove a Caratheodory-Fejer type interpolation theorem for certain matrix convex sets in $\C^d$ using the Blecher-Ruan-Sinclair characterization of abstract operator algebras. Our results generalize the work of Dmitry S. Kalyuzhnyi-Verbovetzkii for the d-dimensional non-commutative polydisc.

Wiet de Ronde, Filipe Tostevin, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Living cells are continually exposed to environmental signals that vary in time. These signals are detected and processed by biochemical networks, which are often highly stochastic. To understand how cells cope with a fluctuating environment, we therefore have to understand how reliably biochemical networks can transmit time-varying signals. To this end, we

Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational wave observations will be excellent tools for making precise measurements of processes that occur in very strong-field regions of spacetime. Extreme mass ratio systems, formed by the capture of a stellar mass body compact by a massive black hole, will be targets for planned space-based interferometers such as LISA and DECIGO. These systems will

C. S. Chang, E. Ros, Y. Y. Kovalev, M. L. Lister

A bright feature 80 pc away from the core in the powerful jet of M87 shows highly unusual properties. Earlier radio, optical and X-ray observations have shown that this feature, labeled HST-1, is superluminal, and is possibly connected with the TeV flare detected by HESS in 2005. It has been claimed that this feature might have a blazar nature, due to these

Lasse Laurson, M. -Carmen Miguel, Mikko J. Alava

Dislocation assemblies exhibit a jamming or yielding transition at a critical external shear stress value $σ=σ_c$. Nevertheless the nature of this transition has not been ascertained. Here we study the heterogeneous and collective nature of dislocation dynamics within a crystal plasticity model close to $σ_c$, by considering the first-passage properties of t

L. Stojchevska, P. Kusar, T. Mertelj, V. V. Kabanov

We investigate the quasiparticle relaxation and low-energy electronic structure in undoped SrFe_2As_2 exhibiting spin-density wave (SDW) ordering using optical pump-probe femtosecond spectroscopy. A remarkable critical slowing down of the quasiparticle relaxation dynamics at the SDW transition temperature T_SDW = 200K is observed. From temperature dependence

Simone Alioli, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari, Emanuele Re

In this work we illustrate the POWHEG BOX, a general computer code framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs according to the POWHEG method. Aim of this work is to provide an illustration of the needed theoretical ingredients, a view of how the code is organized and a description of what a user should provide in order to use

Titus Sandu, Radu I. Iftimie

The bandgap and band bowing parameter of semiconductor alloys are calculated with a fast and realistic approach. The method is a dielectric scaling approximation that is based on a scissor approximation. It adds an energy shift to the bandgap provided by the local density approximation (LDA) of the density functional theory (DFT). The energy shift consists o

Joerg Endrullis, Dimitri Hendriks, Jan Willem Klop

Fixed point combinators (and their generalization: looping combinators) are classic notions belonging to the heart of lambda-calculus and logic. We start with an exploration of the structure of fixed point combinators (fpc's), vastly generalizing the well-known fact that if Y is an fpc, Y(SI) is again an fpc, generating the Boehm sequence of fpc's. U

R. M. Kashaev

The construction of quantum knot invariants from solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation (R-matrices) is reviewed with the emphasis on a class of R-matrices admitting an interpretation in intrinsically three-dimensional terms.

C. L. Poppett, J. R. Allington-Smith

We investigate the dependence on length of optical fibres used in astronomy, especially the focal ratio degradation (FRD) which places constraints on the performance of fibre-fed spectrographs used for multiplexed spectroscopy. To this end we present a modified version of the FRD model proposed by Carrasco and Parry \cite{Carrasco1994} to quantify the the nu

2 Collaboration, F. Archilli, D. Badoni, D. Babusci

The technical design report of the Inner Tracker for the KLOE-2 experiment is presented

A. Bik, E. Puga, L. B. F. M. Waters, M. Horrobin

We present VLT/SINFONI integral field spectroscopy of RCW 34 along with Spitzer/IRAC photometry of the surroundings. RCW 34 consists of three different regions. A large bubble has been detected on the IRAC images in which a cluster of intermediate- and low-mass class II objects is found. At the northern edge of this bubble, an HII region is located, ionized

Danuta Paraficz, Jens Hjorth

We present a simultaneous analysis of 18 galaxy lenses with time delay measurements. For each lens we derive mass maps using pixelated simultaneous modeling with shared Hubble constant. We estimate the Hubble constant to be 66_{-4}^{+6} km/s/Mpc (for a flat Universe with Ω_m=0.3, Ω_Λ=0.7). We have also selected a subsample of five relatively isolated early t

P. Gerhold

Motivated by the advent of the Large Hadron Collider the aim of the present work is the non-perturbative determination of the cutoff-dependent upper and lower mass bounds of the Standard Model Higgs boson based on first principle calculations, in particular not relying on additional information such as the triviality property of the Higgs-Yukawa sector or in

Remo Garattini

We consider the contribution of Zero Point Energy on the induced Cosmological Constant and on the induced Electric/Magnetic charge in absence of matter fields. The method is applicable to every spherically symmetric background. Extensions to a generic $f(R) $ theory are also allowed. Only the graviton appears to be fundamental to the determination of Zero Po

Christian Serpe

We show that equivariant K-theory satisfies descent with respect to the isovariant Nisnevich topology. The main step is to show that the isovariant Nisnevich topology is a regular, complete and bounded cd topology.

Michael W. Davis, Boris Okun

We compute: * the cohomology with group ring coefficients of Artin groups (or actually, of their associated Salvetti complexes), Bestvina-Brady groups, and graph products of groups, * the L^2-Betti numbers of Bestvina-Brady groups and of graph products of groups, * the weighted L^2-Betti numbers of graph products of Coxeter groups. In the case of arbitrary g

Anna Curir, Valentina de Romeri, Giuseppe Murante

The bar formation is still an open problem in modern astrophysics. In this paper we present numerical simulation performed with the aim of analyzing the growth of the bar instability inside stellar-gaseous disks, where the star formation is triggered, and a central black hole is present. The aim of this paper is to point out the impact of such a central mass

Yoshinori Akaishi, Toshimitsu Yamazaki, Mitsuaki Obu, Masanobu Wada

We have studied the structure of K- pp by solving this system in a variational treatment, starting from ansatz that Lambda(1405) is a K-p quasi-bound state, Lambda* with mass 1405 MeV/c2. The structure of K-pp reveals a molecular feature, namely, the K- in an "atomic center", Lambda*, plays a key role in producing strong covalent bonding with the oth

Jean-charles Sunyé

We prove the following Artin type approximation theorem for smooth CR mappings: given M a connected real-analytic CR submanifold in C^N that is minimal at some point, M' a real-analytic subset of C^N', and H:M->M' a smooth CR mapping, there exists a dense open subset O in M such that for any q in O and any positive integer k there exists a germ a

Tomas Brazdil, Petr Jancar, Antonin Kucera

We consider two-player turn-based games with zero-reachability and zero-safety objectives generated by extended vector addition systems with states. Although the problem of deciding the winner in such games is undecidable in general, we identify several decidable and even tractable subcases of this problem obtained by restricting the number of counters and/o

Álvar Ibeas Martín

This article addresses the problem of enumerating the tilings of a plane by lozenges, under the restriction that these tilings be doubly periodic. Kasteleyn's Pfaffian method is applied to compute the generating function of those permutations. The monomials of this function represent the different types of tilings, grouping them according to the number o

M. Swoboda, T. Fordell, K. Klünder, J. M. Dahlström

We study resonant two-color two-photon ionization of Helium via the 1s3p 1P1 state. The first color is the 15th harmonic of a tunable titanium sapphire laser, while the second color is the fundamental laser radiation. Our method uses phase-locked high-order harmonics to determine the {\it phase} of the two-photon process by interferometry. The measurement of

Franco Carillo, Gianpaolo Papari, Daniela Stornaiuolo, Detlef Born

The properties of single submicron high-temperature superconductor (HTS) rings are investigated. The Little-Parks effect is observed and is accompanied by an anomalous behavior of the magnetic dependence of the resistance, which we ascribe to non-uniform vorticity (superfluid angular momentum) within the ring arms. This effect is linked to the peculiar HTS-r

I. Dubovyk, A. Shebeko

The clothing procedure, put forward in quantum field theory by Greenberg and Schweber, is applied for the description of nucleon-nucleon (N-N) scattering. We consider pseudoscalar, vector and scalar meson fields interacting with 1/2 spin fermion ones via the Yukawa-type couplings to introduce trial interactions between "bare" particles. The subsequen

Dennis Dieks, Andrea Lubberdink

The symmetrization postulates of quantum mechanics (symmetry for bosons, antisymmetry for fermions) are usually taken to entail that \emph{quantum particles} of the same kind (e.g., electrons) are all in exactly the same state and therefore indistinguishable in the strongest possible sense. These symmetrization postulates possess a general validity that surv

B. Tatischeff, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson

This paper aims to give further evidence for the existence of low mass exotic baryons. Narrow structures in baryonic missing mass or baryonic invariant mass were observed during the last twelve years. Since their evidence is still under debate, various data, measured with incident hadrons, by different collaborations, are reanalyzed to bring evidence on thes

V. Celebonovic, J. Souchay

This contribution is a first step aiming to address a general question: what can be concluded on impact craters which exist on various planetary system objects, by combining astronomical data and known theoretical results from solid state physics. Assuming that the material of the target body is of crystaline structure,it is shown that a simple calculation g

Igor N. Mishustin, Claudio Ebel, Walter Greiner

Due to a first order phase transition, a compact star may have a discontinuous distribution of baryon as well as electric charge densities, as e.g. at the surface of a strange quark star. The induced separation of positive and negative charges may lead to generation of supercritical electric fields in the vicinity of such a discontinuity. We study this effec

Paloma Quiroga-Arias, Jose Guilherme Milhano, Urs Achin Wiedemann

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from electron-proton and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear parton distributions (nPDF) has attracted much interest in recent years. nPDFs are needed as benchmarks for the character

A. N. Rudenko, F. J. Keil, M. I. Katsnelson, A. I. Lichtenstein

The adsorption of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine diatomic molecules on graphene has been investigated using density functional theory with taking into account nonlocal correlation effects by means of vdW-DF approach. It is shown that the van der Waals interaction plays a crucial role in the formation of chemical bonding between graphene and halogen

Rogemar A. Riffel, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Rogerio Riffel, Miriani Pastoriza

We report the first two-dimensional stellar population synthesis in the near-infrared of the nuclear region of an active galaxy, namely Mrk1066. We have used integral field spectroscopy with adaptive optics at the Gemini North Telescope to map the to map the age distribution of the stellar population in the inner 300 pc at a spatial resolution of 35 pc. An o

A. Drezet, J. C. Woehl, S. Huant

Light diffraction through a subwavelength aperture located at the apex of a metallic screen with conical geometry is investigated theoretically. A method based on a multipole field expansion is developed to solve Maxwell's equations analytically using boundary conditions adapted both for the conical geometry and for the finite conductivity of a real meta

Juan Hua, C. s Kim, Ying Li

The branching ratio and direct CP asymmetry of the decay mode $B_s \to ϕπ^0$ have been calculated within the QCD factorization approach in both the standard model (SM) and the non-universal $Z^\prime$ model. In the standard model, the CP averaged branching ratio is about $1.3\times 10^{-7}$. Considering the effect of $Z^\prime$ boson, we found the branching

Juan Hua, C. s Kim, Ying Li

We study charmless pure annihilation type radiative B decays within the QCD factorization approach. After adding the vertex corrections to the naive factorization approach, we find that the branching ratios of $\bar{B}^0_d\toϕγ$, $\bar{B}^0_s\toρ^0γ$ and $\bar{B}^0_s\toωγ$ within the standard model are at the order of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-12})$, $\mathcal{O}(10

J. Yamaguchi, A. Sekiyama, M. Y. Kimura, H. Sugiyama

Dependence of the spectral functions on temperature and rare-earth substitution was examined in detail for Kondo semiconductor alloys Sm1-xEuxB6 and Yb1-xLuxB12 by bulk-sensitive photoemission. It is found that the 4f lattice coherence and intrinsic (small) energy gap are robust for SmB6 against the Eu substitution up to x = 0.15 while both collapse by Lu su

D. Andreica, P. Dalmas de Reotier, A. Yaouanc, A. Amato

We report muon spin spectroscopy data (muSR) obtained under hydrostatic pressure on a large single crystal of the itinerant helimagnet MnSi, and recorded down to 0.235 K and up to 15.1 kbar. Up to the critical pressure p_c = 14.9 (2) kbar, where the magnetic order is suppressed, the muSR data unambiguously demonstrate that the ground state of the system is m

B. Wittmann, S. N. Danilov, V. V. Bel'kov, S. A. Tarasenko

We describe the observation of the circular and linear photogalvanic effects in HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells. The interband absorption of mid-infrared radiation as well as the intrasubband absorption of terahertz (THz) radiation in the QWs structures is shown to cause a dc electric current due to these effects. The photocurrent magnitude and direction varies wi

A. Jagadeesan, K. Duraiswamy

Human users have a tough time remembering long cryptographic keys. Hence, researchers, for so long, have been examining ways to utilize biometric features of the user instead of a memorable password or passphrase, in an effort to generate strong and repeatable cryptographic keys. Our objective is to incorporate the volatility of the users biometric features

A. del Campo, G. De Chiara, G. Morigi, M. B. Plenio

The non-equilibrium dynamics of an ion chain in a highly anisotropic trap is studied when the transverse trap frequency is quenched across the value at which the chain undergoes a continuous phase transition from a linear to a zigzag structure. Within Landau theory, an equation for the order parameter, corresponding to the transverse size of the zigzag struc

Ajita Rattani, Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Manuele Bicego, Massimo Tistarelli

The aim of this paper is to study the fusion at feature extraction level for face and fingerprint biometrics. The proposed approach is based on the fusion of the two traits by extracting independent feature pointsets from the two modalities, and making the two pointsets compatible for concatenation. Moreover, to handle the problem of curse of dimensionality,

C. Sivaram

Even if only a small fraction of neutron dipole moments are aligned in a neutron star, observed pulsar radiation loses provide a stringent limit on the neutron electric dipole moment of <10-29 ecm, more stringent than best current experimental limits.

Natalia Dzyurkevich, Mario Flock, Neal J. Turner, Hubert Klahr

The poorly-ionized interior of the protoplanetary disk is the location where dust coagulation processes may be most efficient. However even here, planetesimal formation may be limited by the loss of solid material through radial drift, and by collisional fragmentation of the particles. Our aim is to investigate the possibility that solid particles are trappe

Armin Scrinzi

It is shown that exterior complex scaling provides for complete absorption of outgoing flux in numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with strong infrared fields. This is demonstrated by computing high harmonic spectra and wave-function overlaps with the exact solution for a one-dimensional model system and by three-dimensional calcul

Tran N. Truong

This paper is a brief review of low energy soft hadronic physics, starting from the invention of the low energy effective range theory in the late 40&#39;s due to Bethe and Schwinger for nucleon-nucleon scattering, and its generalization to the static Chew-Low model for pion nucleon scattering, to the present development of the Lehmann and Weinberg Chiral Pe

Mark Swinbank, Ian Smail, Scott Chapman, Colin Borys

We present a quantitative morphological analysis using HST NICMOS H160- and ACS I775- band imaging of 25 spectroscopically confirmed submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) which have redshifts between z=0.7-3.4. Our analysis also employs a comparison sample of more typical star-forming galaxies at similar redshifts (such as LBGs) which have lower far-infrared luminos

D. Babusci, G. Dattoli, D. Sacchetti

The Airy transform is an ideally suited tool to treat problem in classical and quantum optics. Even though the relevant mathematical aspects have been thoroughly investigated, the possibility it offers are wide and some aspects, as the link with special functions and polynomials, still contains unexplored aspects. In this note we will show that the so called

Clemens Gneiting, Klaus Hornberger

We describe the dissociation of a diatomic Feshbach molecule due to a time-varying external magnetic field in a realistic trap and guide setting. An analytic expression for the asymptotic state of the two ultracold atoms is derived, which can serve as a basis for the analysis of dissociation protocols to generate motionally entangled states. For instance, th

Ch. C. Moustakidis, K. Ch. Chatzisavvas, N. S. Nikolaidis, C. P. Panos

We apply the statistical measure of complexity, introduced by López-Ruiz, Mancini and Calbet to a hard-sphere dilute Fermi gas whose particles interact via a repulsive hard-core potential. We employ the momentum distribution of this system to calculate the information entropy, the disequilibrium and the statistical complexity. We examine possible connections

Michael Kinza, Jutta Ortloff, Carsten Honerkamp

We present a functional renormalization group (fRG) treatment of trigonal graphene nanodiscs and composites thereof, modeled by finite-size Hubbard-like Hamiltonians with honeycomb lattice structure. At half filling, the noninteracting spectrum of these structures contains a certain number of half-filled states at the Fermi level. For the case of trigonal na

Vladimir V. Uchaikin, Dexter O. Cahoy, Renat T. Sibatov

Fractional generalizations of the Poisson process and branching Furry process are considered. The link between characteristics of the processes, fractional differential equations and Levy stable densities are discussed and used for construction of the Monte Carlo algorithm for simulation of random waiting times in fractional processes. Numerical calculations

Rija Erves, Janez Zerovnik

Mixed connectivity is a generalization of vertex and edge connectivity. A graph is $(p,0)$-connected, $p>0$, if the graph remains connected after removal of any $p-1$ vertices. A graph is $(p,q)$-connected, $p\geq 0$, $q>0$, if it remains connected after removal of any $p$ vertices and any $q-1$ edges. Cartesian graph bundles are graphs that generalize both

Michel E. Beleza Yamagishi

Dr. Hatchwell [2010] has proposed that the BAK1 gene variants were likely due to sequencing of a processed gene on chromosome 20. However, in response, Dr. Gottlieb and co-authors [2010] have argued that &#34;some but not all of the sequence changes present in the BAK1 sequence of our abdominal aorta samples are also present in the chromosome 20 BAK1 sequenc

F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt, D. Kasen, S. E. Woosley

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a prime tool in observational cosmology. A relation between their peak luminosities and the shapes of their light curves allows to infer their intrinsic luminosities and to use them as distance indicators. This relation has been established empirically. However, a theoretical understanding is necessary in order to get a handle

C. Bodet, J. Estève, M. K. Oberthaler, T. Gasenzer

The dynamical evolution of squeezing correlations in an ultracold Bose-Einstein distributed across two modes is investigated theoretically in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model. It is shown that the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian do not exploit the full region allowed by Heisenberg&#39;s uncertainty relation for number and phase fluctuations. The develo

J. Vranjes, S. Poedts

The effects of friction on the ion acoustic (IA) wave in fully and partially ionized plasmas are studied. In a quasi-neutral electron-ion plasma the friction between the two species cancels out exactly and the wave propagates without any damping. If the Poisson equation is used instead of the quasi-neutrality, however, the IA wave is damped and the damping i

Pierre Cardaliaguet, Olivier Ley

Geometric flows related to shape optimization problems of Bernoulli type are investigated. The evolution law is the sum of a curvature term and a nonlocal term of Hele-Shaw type. We introduce generalized set solutions, the definition of which is widely inspired by viscosity solutions. The main result is an inclusion preservation principle for generalized sol

Olli Martio, Vladimir M. Miklyukov, Matti K. Vuorinen

Generalizations of the theorems of Wiman and of Arima on entire functions are proved for spatial quasiregular mappings.

P. Samuelsson, Arne Brataas

We present a theory for a complete reconstruction of non-local spin correlations in ferromagnet-normal conductors. This quantum spin tomography is based on cross correlation measurements of electric currents into ferromagnetic terminals with controllable magnetization directions. For normal injectors, non-local spin correlations are universal and strong. The

Ralph L. Cohen, Ib Madsen

In this paper we present a new proof of the homological stability of the moduli space of closed surfaces in a simply connected background space $K$, which we denote by $S_g (K)$. The homology stability of surfaces in $K$ with an arbitrary number of boundary components, $S_{g,n} (K)$ was studied by the authors in \cite{cohenmadsen}. The study there relied on

Xin-Zhong Yan, C. S. Ting

The derivation for the transport coefficients of an electron system in the presence of temperature gradient and the electric and magnetic fields are presented. The Nernst conductivity and the transverse thermoelectric power of the Dirac fermions in graphene under charged impurity scatterings and weak magnetic field are calculated on basis of the self-consist

Kenji Fukushima, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Harmen J. Warringa

In quantum chromodynamics, a gauge field configuration with nonzero topological charge generates a difference between the number of left- and right-handed quarks. When a (electromagnetic) magnetic field is added to this configuration, an electromagnetic current is induced along the magnetic field; this is called the chiral magnetic effect. We compute this cu

Louis-Gregory Strolger, Tomas Dahlen, Adam G. Riess

Using the Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging of the GOODS North and South fields during Cycles 11, 12, and 13, we derive empirical constraints on the delay-time distribution function for type Ia supernovae. We extend our previous analysis to the three-year sample of 56 SNe Ia over the range 0.2<z<1.8, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo to determine the best-fi

Khalid Fataoui, Bernard Pateyron, Nicolas Calve, Mohamed El Ganaoui

During plasma spray process hot droplet of melted metal or ceramic inpinge cold target. In some processes this target should be destroyed by the thermal flux. It is why in this report the freezing and layering of the droplet on the cold substrate is studied with a special interest on the thermal penetration in the sustrate.

S. Deguchi, J. Nakashima, Y. Zhang, S. S. N. Chong

We present the result of radio observations of red supergiants in the star cluster, Stephenson&#39;s #2, and candidates for red supergiants in the star clusters, Mercer et al. (2005)&#39;s #4, #8, and #13, in the SiO and H$_2$O maser lines.The Stephenson&#39;s #2 cluster and nearby aggregation at the South-West contain more than 15 red supergiants. We detect

Alexander M. Petersen, Boris Podobnik, Davor Horvatic, H. Eugene Stanley

Public debt is one of the important economic variables that quantitatively describes a nation&#39;s economy. Because bankruptcy is a risk faced even by institutions as large as governments (e.g. Iceland), national debt should be strictly controlled with respect to national wealth. Also, the problem of eliminating extreme poverty in the world is closely conne

Thierry Gallay, Yasunori Maekawa

Burgers vortices are explicit stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations which are often used to describe the vortex tubes observed in numerical simulations of three-dimensional turbulence. In this model, the velocity field is a two-dimensional perturbation of a linear straining flow with axial symmetry. The only free parameter is the Reynolds numbe

Claudia Kluppelberg, Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

We investigate optimal consumption and investment problems for a Black-Scholes market under uniform restrictions on Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall. We formulate various utility maximization problems, which can be solved explicitly. We compare the optimal solutions in form of optimal value, optimal control and optimal wealth to analogous problems under

Claudia Kluppelberg, Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

We investigate optimal consumption problems for a Black-Scholes market under uniform restrictions on Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall for logarithmic utility functions. We find the solutions in terms of a dynamic strategy in explicit form, which can be compared and interpreted. This paper continues our previous work, where we solved similar problems for

B. Feigin, A. Hoshino, J. Shibahara, J. Shiraishi

We introduce an analogue $K_n(x,z;q,t)$ of the Cauchy-type kernel function for the Macdonald polynomials, being constructed in the tensor product of the ring of symmetric functions and the commutative algebra $\mathcal{A}$ over the degenerate $\mathbb{C} \mathbb{P}^1$. We show that a certain restriction of $K_n(x,z;q,t)$ with respect to the variable $z$ is n

B. Geyer, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko

We investigate the thermal Casimir interaction between two magnetodielectric plates made of real materials. On the basis of the Lifshitz theory, it is shown that for diamagnets and for paramagnets in the broad sense (with exception of ferromagnets) the magnetic properties do not influence the magnitude of the Casimir force. For ferromagnets, taking into acco

Pankaj K. Jha, Yuri V. Rostovtsev

We present an analytical treatment of coherent excitation of a Two-Level Atom driven by a far-off resonant classical field. A class of pulse envelope is obtained for which this problem is exactly solvable. The solutions are given in terms of Heun function which is a generalization of the Hypergeometric function. The degeneracy of Heun to Hypergeometric equat

Kazuma Eto, A. A. Taskin, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando

We measured magnetotransport properties of PbS single crystals which exhibit the quantum linear magnetoresistance (MR) as well as the static skin effect that creates a surface layer of additional conductivity. The Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the longitudinal MR signify the peculiar role of spin-orbit coupling. In the angular-dependent MR, sharp peaks a

D. J. Scheeres, C. M. Hartzell, P. Sanchez, M. Swift

The scaling of physical forces to the extremely low ambient gravitational acceleration regimes found on the surfaces of small asteroids is performed. Resulting from this, it is found that van der Waals cohesive forces between regolith grains on asteroid surfaces should be a dominant force and compete with particle weights and be greater, in general, than ele

J. L. Caswell, G. A. Fuller, J. A. Green, A. Avison

We have conducted a Galactic plane survey of methanol masers at 6668 MHz using a 7-beam receiver on the Parkes telescope. Here we present results from the first part, which provides sensitive unbiased coverage of a large region around the Galactic Centre. Details are given for 183 methanol maser sites in the longitude range 345$^{\circ}$ through the Galactic

Andrew Mugler, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Chris H. Wiggins

Intracellular transmission of information via chemical and transcriptional networks is thwarted by a physical limitation: the finite copy number of the constituent chemical species introduces unavoidable intrinsic noise. Here we provide a method for solving for the complete probabilistic description of intrinsically noisy oscillatory driving. We derive and n

A. A. Ivanov

The energy spectra of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (CRs) measured with giant extensive air shower (EAS) arrays exhibit discrepancies between the flux intensities and/or estimated CR energies exceeding experimental errors. The well-known intensity correction factor due to the dispersion of the measured quantity in the presence of a rapidly falling energy spe

T. Masuda, S. Kitaoka, S. Takamizawa, N. Metoki

Spin dynamics of the square lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet, \BaMnGeO, is studied by a combination of bulk measurements, neutron diffraction, and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. Easy plane type antiferromagnetic order is identified at $T \le 4.0$ K. The exchange interactions are estimated as $J_1$ = 27.8(3)$μ$eV and $J_2$ = 1.0(1) $μ$eV, and the

Wei Zhou, Shan-shan Zhou, Qing-hua Xu

We study the longitudinal polarization of hyperons and anti-hyperons at forward pseudorapidity, $2.5<η<4$, in singly polarized $pp$ collisions at RHIC energies by using different parameterizations of the polarized parton densities and different models for the polarized fragmentation functions. The results show that the $Σ^+$ polarization is able to distingui

Ismar Volic

We study the cohomology of spaces of string links and braids in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\geq 3$ using configuration space integrals. For $n>3$, these integrals give a chain map from certain diagram complexes to the deRham algebra of differential forms on these spaces. For $n=3$, they produce all finite type invariants of string links and braids.

Fazhan Shi, Xing Rong, Nanyang Xu, Ya Wang

The nitrogen-vacancy defect center (NV center) is a promising candidate for quantum information processing due to the possibility of coherent manipulation of individual spins in the absence of the cryogenic requirement. We report a room-temperature implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm by encoding both a qubit and an auxiliary state in the electron s

Douglas R. Anderson, Steven Noren, Brent Perreault

Young&#39;s integral inequality is reformulated with upper and lower bounds for the remainder. The new inequalities improve Young&#39;s integral inequality on all time scales, such that the case where equality holds becomes particularly transparent in this new presentation. The corresponding results for difference equations are given, and several examples ar

R. Guandalini

Context. The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase marks the end of the evolution for low- and intermediate-mass stars, which are fundamental contributors to the mass return to the interstellar medium and to the chemical evolution of galaxies. The detailed understanding of mass loss processes is hampered by the poor knowledge of the luminosities and distances

Yositake Takane

We study the conductivity of disordered zigzag graphene nanoribbons in the incoherent regime by using the Boltzmann equation approach. The band structure of zigzag nanoribbons contains two energy valleys, and each valley has an excess one-way channel. The crucial point is that the numbers of conducting channels for two propagating directions are imbalanced i

Kenza Guenda

We give the class of finite groups which arise as the permutation groups of cyclic codes over finite fields. Furthermore, we extend the results of Brand and Huffman et al. and we find the properties of the set of permutations by which two cyclic codes of length p^r can be equivalent. We also find the set of permutations by which two quasi-cyclic codes can be

C Atilgan, Z N Gerek, S B Ozkan, A R Atilgan

Using the perturbation-response scanning (PRS) technique, we study a set of 23 proteins that display a variety of conformational motions upon ligand binding (e.g. shear, hinge, allosteric). In most cases, PRS determines residues that may be manipulated to achieve the resulting conformational change. PRS reveals that for some proteins, binding induced conform

Mark R. Swain, Pieter Deroo, Caitlin A. Griffith, Giovanna Tinetti

Detection of molecules using infrared spectroscopy probes the conditions and compositions of exoplanet atmospheres. Water (H2O), methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and carbon monoxide (CO) have been detected in two hot Jupiters. These previous results relied on space-based telescopes that do not provide spectroscopic capability in the 2.4 - 5.2 micron spec

Dixan Peña Peña, Frank Sommen

Solutions to the Dirac equation are obtained by considering functions of axial type. This indeed gives rise to Vekua systems that can be solved in terms of special functions. In this paper we investigate axial symmetry for the solutions of the two-sided monogenic system and we give examples involving Bessel functions.

Alessandro Fedrizzi, Bojan Škerlak, Tomasz Paterek, Marcelo P. de Almeida

We demonstrate that the concept of information offers a more complete description of complementarity than the traditional approach based on observables. We present the first experimental test of information complementarity for two-qubit pure states, achieving close agreement with theory; We also explore the distribution of information in a comprehensive rang

Ralf Lehnert, Thomas J. Weiler

The effect of the higher-energy 2nd resonance and the associated adiabatic-to-nonadiabatic transition on neutrino propagation in solar matter is presented. For WIMP-annihilation neutrinos injected with energies in the &#34;sweet region&#34; between 300 MeV and 10 GeV at the Sun&#39;s center, a significant and revealing dependence on the neutrino mass hierarc

Marco Tomamichel, Christian Schaffner, Adam Smith, Renato Renner

The Leftover Hash Lemma states that the output of a two-universal hash function applied to an input with sufficiently high entropy is almost uniformly random. In its standard formulation, the lemma refers to a notion of randomness that is (usually implicitly) defined with respect to classical side information. Here, we prove a (strictly) more general version

G. Tinetti, P. Deroo, M. R. Swain, C. A. Griffith

We report here the first infrared spectrum of the hot-Jupiter XO-1b. The observations were obtained with NICMOS instrument onboard the Hubble Space Telescope during a primary eclipse of the XO-1 system. Near photon-noise-limited spectroscopy between 1.2 and 1.8 micron allows us to determine the main composition of this hot-Jupiter&#39;s planetary atmosphere

Rama Cont, David-Antoine Fournié

We develop a nonanticipative calculus for functionals of a continuous semimartingale, using an extension of the Ito formula to path-dependent functionals which possess certain directional derivatives. The construction is based on a pathwise derivative, introduced by Dupire, for functionals on the space of right-continuous functions with left limits. We show

G. A. Hiary

A practical method to compute the Riemann zeta function is presented. The method can compute $\zeta(1/2+it)$ at any $\lfloor T^{1/4} \rfloor$ points in $[T,T+T^{1/4}]$ using an average time of $T^{1/4+o(1)}$ per point. This is the same complexity as the Odlyzko-Sch\"onhage algorithm over that interval. Although the method far from competes with the Odlyzko-S

Christoph Ambuehl, Bernd Gaertner, Bernhard von Stengel

The list update problem is a classical online problem, with an optimal competitive ratio that is still open, known to be somewhere between 1.5 and 1.6. An algorithm with competitive ratio 1.6, the smallest known to date, is COMB, a randomized combination of BIT and the TIMESTAMP algorithm TS. This and almost all other list update algorithms, like MTF, are pr

David Cook

We introduce a new Macaulay 2 package, SimplicialDecomposability, which works in conjunction with the extant package SimplicialComplexes in order to compute a shelling order, if one exists, of a specified simplicial complex. Further, methods for determining vertex-decomposability are implemented, along with methods for determining k-decomposability.

Nicholas A. Bond, John J. Feldmeier, Ana Matkovic, Caryl Gronwall

We present the results of a high-spatial-resolution study of the line emission in a sample of z=3.1 Lyman-Alpha-Emitting Galaxies (LAEs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. Of the eight objects with coverage in our HST/WFPC2 narrow-band imaging, two have clear detections and an additional two are barely detected (~2-sigma). The clear detections are wit

Iain W. Stewart, Frank J. Tackmann, Wouter J. Waalewijn

In hard collisions at a hadron collider the most appropriate description of the initial state depends on what is measured in the final state. Parton distribution functions (PDFs) evolved to the hard collision scale Q are appropriate for inclusive observables, but not for measurements with a specific number of hard jets, leptons, and photons. Here the incomin