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  1. Pouyan Ghaemi, Ashvin Vishwanath

    In several members of the ferro-pnictides, spin density wave (SDW) order coexists with superconductivity over a range of dopings. In this letter we study the anomalous magnetic Zeeman response of this coexistence state and show that it can be used to confirm the extended s-wave gap structure as well as structure of superconducting (SC) gap in coexisting phas

  2. Ugur Gul

    In this work we study the essential spectra of composition operators on Hardy spaces of analytic functions which might be termed as "quasi-parabolic". This is the class of composition operators on H^{2} with symbols whose conjugate with the Cayley transform on the upper half-plane are of the form ϕ(z) = z+ψ(z) where ψ\in H^{2}(\mathbb{H}) and \Im(ψ(z

  3. Igor Khavkine, Renate Loll, Paul Reska

    We present a possibility of coupling a point-like, non-singular, mass distribution to four-dimensional quantum gravity in the nonperturbative setting of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). In order to provide a point of comparison for the classical limit of the matter-coupled CDT model, we derive the spatial volume profile of the Euclidean Schwarzschild-d

  4. Hugo Ribeiro, J. R. Petta, Guido Burkard

    We theoretically demonstrate that nuclear spins can be harnessed to coherently control two-electron spin states in a double quantum dot. Hyperfine interactions lead to an avoided crossing between the spin singlet state and the ms = +1 triplet state, T_+ . We show that a coherent superposition of singlet and triplet states can be achieved using finite-time La

  5. J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Laursen, C. Ledoux, A. K. Durgapal

    We have initiated a survey using the newly commissioned X-shooter spectrograph to target candidate relatively metal-rich damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs). The spectral coverage of X-shooter allows us to search for not only Lyman-alpha emission, but also rest-frame optical emission lines. We have chosen DLAs where the strongest rest-frame optical lines ([O

  6. Gabriele Ghisellini

    The new high energy data coming mainly from the Fermi and Swift satellites and from the ground based Cerenkov telescopes are making possible to study not only the energetics of blazar jets, but also their connection to the associated accretion disks. Furthermore, the black hole mass of the most powerful objects can be constrained through IR-optical emission,

  7. Arie Gurfinkel, Marsha Chechik

    There is a growing interest in techniques for detecting whether a logic specification is satisfied too easily, or vacuously. For example, the specification "every request is eventually followed by an acknowledgment" is satisfied vacuously by a system that never generates any requests. Vacuous satisfaction misleads users of model-checking into thinkin

  8. Charles Dunkl, Stephen Griffeth

    We apply the Dunkl-Opdam operators and generalized Jack polynomials to study category O for the rational Cherednik algebra of type G(r,1,n). We determine the set of aspherical values, and answer a question of Iain Gordon on the ordering of category O.

  9. Lorenzo Iorio

    We numerically investigate the impact on the two-body range by several Newtonian and non-Newtonian dynamical effects for some Earth-planet (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) pairs in view of the expected cm-level accuracy in some future planned or proposed interplanetary ranging operations (abridged).

  10. Romuald A. Janik, Piotr Surowka, Andrzej Wereszczynski

    We explore how to compute, classically at strong coupling, correlation functions of local operators corresponding to classical spinning string states. The picture we obtain is of `fattened' Witten diagrams, the evaluation of which turns out to be surprisingly subtle and requires a modification of the naive classical action due to a necessary projection o

  11. S. H. Pereira

    In this work we investigate the thermodynamic properties satisfied by an expanding universe filled with a monoatomic ideal gas. We show that the equations for the energy density, entropy density and chemical potential remain the same of an ideal gas confined to a constant volume V . In particular the Sackur-Tetrode equation for the entropy of the ideal gas i

  12. Subhash Kak

    This paper is a review of archaeoastronomy in India.

  13. Irina Marinova, Shardha Jogee, Neil Trentham, Henry C. Ferguson

    We use ACS data from the HST Treasury survey of the Coma cluster (z~0.02) to study the properties of barred galaxies in the Coma core, the densest environment in the nearby Universe. This study provides a complementary data point for studies of barred galaxies as a function of redshift and environment. From ~470 cluster members brighter than M_I = -11 mag, w

  14. Gyula Bene, Adelinda Csapo

    A version of the Swiss-cheese model is investigated. The flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe is modified by the addition of several spherical regions with Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi metric. We discuss light propagation in this model in detail to pave the way for a detailed numerical study of the Hubble diagram.

  15. Ayse Karaman

    Let p be a maximal palindrome in a Sturmian word s=ul_1pl_2v so that p is a palindrome and l_1pl_2 is not for letters l_1 and l_2. Let α(p,p') be a morphism mapping letters a and b respectively to a^pb and a^p'b, |p-p'|=1. In this paper, we characterize the palindromes in a Sturmian word and show that the number of maximal palindromes in a Sturmi

  16. H. -W. Hammer, Dean Lee

    We derive the generalization of Wigner's causality bounds and Bethe's integral formula for the effective range parameter to arbitrary dimension and arbitrary angular momentum. We also discuss the impact of these constraints on the separation of low- and high-momentum scales and universality in low-energy scattering. Some of our results were summarize

  17. O. Mendoza, E. C. Saenz, V. Santiago, M. J. Souto Salorio

    We show that the relative Auslander-Buchweitz context on a triangulated category $\T$ coincides with the notion of co-$t$-structure on certain triangulated subcategory of $\T$ (see Theorem \ref{M2}). In the Krull-Schmidt case, we stablish a bijective correspondence between co-$t$-structures and cosuspended, precovering subcategories (see Theorem \ref{corresp

  18. Ayse Karaman

    In this paper, we analyze the periodic factors of Sturmian words for the findings to lead to a linear-time algorithm for the computation of runs in this class of words which, to our best knowledge, is an open problem in literature.

  19. V. Yu. Shaprynskii, B. M. Vernikov

    We completely determine all lower-modular elements of the lattice of all semigroup varieties. As a corollary, we show that a lower-modular element of this lattice is modular.

  20. Adrian Ioana

    We consider group measure space II$_1$ factors $M=L^{\infty}(X)\rtimesΓ$ arising from Bernoulli actions of ICC property (T) groups $Γ$ (more generally, of groups $Γ$ containing an infinite normal subgroup with relative property (T)) and prove a rigidity result for *--homomorphisms $θ:M\to M\bar{\otimes}M$. We deduce that the action $Γ\curvearrowright X$ is W

  21. D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

    The inclusive dijet production double differential cross section as a function of the dijet invariant mass and of the largest absolute rapidity of the two jets with the largest transverse momentum in an event is measured in proton anti-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV using 0.7 fb^{-1} integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermil

  22. E. Leon-Cardenal, Willem Veys, W. A. Zuniga-Galindo

    In this paper, we give a description of the possible poles of the local zeta function attached to a complex or real analytic mapping in terms of a log-principalization of an ideal associated to the mapping. When the mapping is a non-degenerate one, we give an explicit list for the possible poles of the corresponding local zeta function in terms of the normal

  23. A. de Souza Dutra, J. A. de Oliveira, R. A. C. Correa, W. de Paula

    In this work we construct a general class of exactly solvable non-relativistic bi-dimensional quantum systems with position-dependent masses (PDM). These systems are isospectral to a given system with constant mass. The case of a charged particle with a PDM interacting with an external magnetic field is included in the present investigation. We apply the app

  24. Maxim Perelstein, Bibhushan Shakya

    Energetic positrons produced in annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in the Milky Way can serve as an important indirect signature of dark matter. Computing the positron flux expected in a given dark matter model involves solving transport equations, which account for interaction of positrons with matter and galactic magnetic fields. Existing calcu

  25. Léa Jaccoud El-Jaick, Bartolomeu D. B. Figueiredo

    We find transformations of variables which preserve the form of the equation for the kernels of integral relations among solutions of the Heun equation. These transformations lead to new kernels for the Heun equation, given by single hypergeometric functions (Lambe-Ward-type kernels) and by products of two hypergeometric functions (Erdélyi-type). Such kernel

  26. D. L. Shepelyansky, O. V. Zhirov

    We apply the approach of the Google matrix, used in computer science and World Wide Web, to description of properties of neuronal networks. The Google matrix ${\bf G}$ is constructed on the basis of neuronal network of a brain model discussed in PNAS {\bf 105}, 3593 (2008). We show that the spectrum of eigenvalues of ${\bf G}$ has a gapless structure with lo

  27. Richard D. Ball, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Alberto Guffanti

    We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology: NNPDF2.0. Experimental data include deep-inelastic scattering with the combined HERA-I dataset, fixed target Drell-Yan production, collider weak boson production and inclusive jet production. Next-to-leading order QCD i

  28. Hubie Chen

    It is frequently suggested that predictions made by game theory could be improved by considering computational restrictions when modeling agents. Under the supposition that players in a game may desire to balance maximization of payoff with minimization of strategy complexity, Rubinstein and co-authors studied forms of Nash equilibrium where strategies are m

  29. Mathieu Rubin

    We analytically and numerically study the effect of perturbative gluons emission on the "Filtering analysis", which is part of a subjet analysis procedure proposed two years ago to possibly identify a low-mass Higgs boson decaying into b\bar{b} at the LHC. This leads us to examine the non-global structure of the resulting perturbative series in the l

  30. R. N. Bhowmik

    The present report is dedicated to show that ferromagnetic La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 (LCMN) particles can be better described in the framework of ferrimagnetic model. To confirm the ferrimagnetic signature in ferromagnetic LCMN particles, the temperature dependence of the inverse of magnetic susceptibility in the paramagnetic state of the samples was taken as a tool

  31. Vincent Guirardel, Gilbert Levitt

    This paper and its companion arXiv:0911.3173 have been replaced by arXiv:1602.05139. We define the compatibility JSJ tree of a group G over a class of subgroups. It exists whenever G is finitely presented and leads to a canonical tree (not a deformation space) which is invariant under automorphisms. Under acylindricity hypotheses, we prove that the (usual) J

  32. Christophe Giraud, Vincent Verneuil

    In this paper we address the problem of protecting elliptic curve scalar multiplication implementations against side-channel analysis by using the atomicity principle. First of all we reexamine classical assumptions made by scalar multiplication designers and we point out that some of them are not relevant in the context of embedded devices. We then describe

  33. Jae-Weon Lee, Hyeong-Chan Kim, Jungjai Lee

    We conjecture that the total quantum entanglement of matter and vacuum in the universe tends to increase with time, like entropy, and that an effective force is associated with this tendency. We also suggest that gravity and dark energy are types of quantum entanglement forces, similar to Verlinde's entropic force, and give holographic dark energy with a

  34. Y. Sasaki, A. Miyazaki, A. Ishida, T. Namba

    Interference between different energy eigenstates in a quantum system results in an oscillation with a frequency which is proportional to the difference in energy between the states. Such an oscillation is observable in polarized positronium when it is placed in a magnetic field. In order to measure the hyperfine splitting of positronium, we perform the prec

  35. C. J. Short, P. A. Thomas, O. E. Young, F. R. Pearce

    We use numerical simulations to investigate, for the first time, the joint effect of feedback from supernovae (SNe) and active galactic nuclei (AGN) on the evolution of galaxy cluster X-ray scaling relations. Our simulations are drawn from the Millennium Gas Project and are some of the largest hydrodynamical N-body simulations ever carried out. Feedback is i

  36. Pasquale Calabrese, Pierre Le Doussal, Alberto Rosso

    We study the directed polymer of length $t$ in a random potential with fixed endpoints in dimension 1+1 in the continuum and on the square lattice, by analytical and numerical methods. The universal regime of high temperature $T$ is described, upon scaling 'time' $t \sim T^5/κ$ and space $x = T^3/κ$ (with $κ=T$ for the discrete model) by a continuum

  37. David Brizuela, Gerhard Schaefer

    An approximation to General Relativity is presented that agrees with the Einstein field equations up to and including the fourth post-Newtonian (PN) order. This approximation is formulated in a fully constrained scheme: all involved equations are explicitly elliptic except the wave equation that describes the two independent degrees of freedom of the gravita

  38. Gerd Grubb

    For selfadjoint extensions tilde-A of a symmetric densely defined positive operator A_min, the lower boundedness problem is the question of whether tilde-A is lower bounded {\it if and only if} an associated operator T in abstract boundary spaces is lower bounded. It holds when the Friedrichs extension A_gamma has compact inverse (Grubb 1974, also Gorbachuk-

  39. Ashish Khisti

    We study a wiretap channel model where the sender has $M$ transmit antennas and there are two groups consisting of $J_1$ and $J_2$ receivers respectively. Each receiver has a single antenna. We consider two scenarios. First we consider the compound wiretap model -- group 1 constitutes the set of legitimate receivers, all interested in a common message, where

  40. Johannes S. Seldenthuis, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Mark A. Ratner, Joseph M. Thijssen

    We have combined ab initio quantum chemistry calculations with a rate-equation formalism to analyze electroluminescence spectra in single-molecule junctions, measured recently by several groups in Scanning Tunneling Microscope setups. In our method, the entire vibrational spectrum is taken into account. Our method leads to good quantitative agreement with bo

  41. Anton S. Galaev

    This paper has been withdrawn by the author, since some results of the paper have been already obtained in [J.~Lewandowski, Class. Quantum Grav. 9 (1992), no. 10, L147--L151.]

  42. Radoslav Fulek

    We prove that any finite set of half-planes can be colored by two colors so that every point of the plane, which belongs to at least three half-planes in the set, is covered by half-planes of both colors. This settles a problem of Keszegh.

  43. Debashish Bose, Shobha Madan

    In this paper we study spectral sets which are unions of finitely many intervals in R. We show that any spectrum associated with such a spectral set is periodic, with the period an integral multiple of the measure of the set. As a consequence we get a structure theorem for such spectral sets and observe that the generic case is that of the equal interval cas

  44. Guohuai Zhu

    The QCD factorization (QCDF) method usually contains infrared divergences which introduce large model dependence to its predictions on charmless B decays. The amplitudes of charmless B decays can be decomposed into "tree" and "penguin" parts which are conventionally defined, not from the topology of the dominant diagrams, but through their as

  45. Martin Weigel, Wolfhard Janke

    Besides the well-known effect of autocorrelations in time series of Monte Carlo simulation data resulting from the underlying Markov process, using the same data pool for computing various estimates entails additional cross correlations. This effect, if not properly taken into account, leads to systematically wrong error estimates for combined quantities. Us

  46. Tabea Rebafka, François Roueff

    We consider the problem of estimating the mixing density $f$ from $n$ i.i.d. observations distributed according to a mixture density with unknown mixing distribution. In contrast with finite mixtures models, here the distribution of the hidden variable is not bounded to a finite set but is spread out over a given interval. We propose an approach to construct

  47. Christian Flindt, Tomas Novotny, Alessandro Braggio, Antti-Pekka Jauho

    Recent experimental progress has made it possible to detect in real-time single electrons tunneling through Coulomb blockade nanostructures, thereby allowing for precise measurements of the statistical distribution of the number of transferred charges, the so-called full counting statistics. These experimental advances call for a solid theoretical platform f

  48. P. Khuntia, A. V. Mahajan

    We report the synthesis, x-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements on polycrystalline samples of undoped LiNi2P3O10 and samples with non-magnetic impurity (Zn2+, S = 0) and magnetic impurity (Cu2+, S = 1/2) at the Ni site. The magnetic susceptibility data show a broad maximum at around 10 K and a small anomaly at about 7 K in

  49. Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

    Graph invariants provide a powerful analytical tool for investigation of abstract structures of graphs. They, combined in convenient relations, carry global and general information about a graph and its various substructures such as cycle structures, factors, matchings, colorings, coverings, and so on, whose discovery is the primary problem of graph theory.

  50. Nen Saito, Yukito Iba, Koji Hukushima

    A method based on multicanonical Monte Carlo is applied to the calculation of large deviations in the largest eigenvalue of random matrices. The method is successfully tested with the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE), sparse random matrices, and matrices whose components are subject to uniform density. Specifically, the probability that all eigenvalues of

  51. Prithvi Narayan, Sandip P. Trivedi

    We consider two infinite families of Non-Supersymmetric $AdS_4$ vacua, called Type 2) and Type 3) vacua, that arise in massive IIA supergravity with flux. We show that both families are perturbatively stable. We then examine non-perturbative decays of these vacua to other supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric $AdS_4$ vacua mediated by instantons in the thin

  52. G. F. Burgio, H. -J. Schulze

    We study the structure of protoneutron stars within the finite-temperature Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone theoretical approach, paying particular attention to how it is joined to a low-density nuclear equation of state (EOS). We find a slight sensitivity of the minimum value of the protoneutron star mass on the low-density equation of state, whereas the maximum m

  53. Yasutaka Taniguchi, Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo, Masaaki Kimura, Kiyomi Ikeda

    Superdeformed (SD) states in $^{40}$Ar have been studied using the deformed-basis antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. Low energy states were calculated by the parity and angular momentum projection (AMP) and the generator coordinate method (GCM). Basis wave functions were obtained by the energy variation with a constraint on the quadrupole deformation parame

  54. Gabriella Böhm, Stephen Lack, Ross Street

    We define a weak bimonad as a monad T on a monoidal category M with the property that the Eilenberg-Moore category M^T is monoidal and the forgetful functor from M^T to M is separable Frobenius. Whenever M is also Cauchy complete, a simple set of axioms is provided, that characterizes the monoidal structure of M^T as a weak lifting of the monoidal structure

  55. Laura Pilozzi, Monique Combescot, Odile Betbeder-Matibet, Andrea D'Andrea

    The exciton-exciton effective scattering which rules the time evolution of two excitons is studied as a function of initial momentum difference, scattering angle and electron-to-hole mass ratio. We show that this effective scattering can collapse for energy-conserving configurations provided that the difference between the two initial exciton momenta is larg

  56. G. Cynolter, E. Lendvai

    A Lorentz and gauge symmetry preserving regularization method is proposed in 4 dimension based on momentum cutoff. We use the conditions of gauge invariance or freedom of shift of the loop-momentum to define the evaluation of the terms carrying Lorentz indices, e.g. proportional to k_μk_ν. The remaining scalar integrals are calculated with a four dimensional

  57. I. V. Kirnos, S. A. Pavluchenko, A. V. Toporensky

    We investigated a flat multidimensional cosmological model in Gauss-Bonnet gravity in presence of a matter in form of perfect fluid. We found analytically new stationary regimes (these results are valid for arbitrary number of spatial dimensions) and studied their stability by means of numerical recipes in 4+1-dimensional case. In the vicinity of the station

  58. Maxim Trushin, Janik Kailasvuori, John Schliemann, A. H. MacDonald

    Boltzmann transport theory fails near the linear band-crossing of single-layer graphene and near the quadratic band-crossing of bilayer graphene. We report on a numerical study which assesses the role of inter-band coherence in transport when the Fermi level lies near the band-crossing energy of bilayer graphene. We find that interband coherence enhances con

  59. Sébastien Peirani

    (Abridged) Our aim is to investigate whether the presence of baryons can have any significant influence on the properties of the local Hubble flow which has proved to be "cold". We use two cosmological zoom simulations in the standard LCDM cosmology with the same set of initial conditions to study the formation of a local group-like system within a s

  60. Wen-Long You, Yu-Li Dong

    We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two interacting qubits in a spin environment, which is described by an XY model with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interaction. The competing effects of environmental noise and interqubit coupling on entanglement generation for various system parameters are studied. We find that the entanglement generation is suppresse

  61. Sambit Roychowdhury, Jayaram N. Chengalur, Ayesha Begum, Igor D. Karachentsev

    We determine the intrinsic axial ratio distribution of the 'gas' disks of extremely faint M_B > -14.5 dwarf irregular galaxies. We start with the measured (beam corrected) distribution of apparent axial ratios in the HI 21cm images of dwarf irregular galaxies observed as part of the Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey (FIGGS). Assuming that the disks

  62. Keigo Takeuchi, Mikko Vehkaperae, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Ralf R. Mueller

    This paper presents a large-system analysis of the performance of joint channel estimation, multiuser detection, and per-user decoding (CE-MUDD) for randomly-spread multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems. A suboptimal receiver based on successive decoding in conjunction with linear minimum mean-s

  63. Hiroaki Ikeda, Ryotaro Arita, Jan Kuneš

    Doping dependence of the spin fluctuations and the electron correlations in the effective five-band Hubbard model for iron pnictides is investigated using the fluctuation-exchange approximation. For a moderate hole doping, we find a dominant low-energy spin excitation at Q=(π,0), which becomes critical at low temperature. The low-energy spin excitations in t

  64. Renxin Xu

    The state of cold quark matter really challenges both astrophysicists and particle physicists, even many-body physicists. It is conventionally suggested that BCS-like color superconductivity occurs in cold quark matter; however, other scenarios with a ground state rather than of Fermi gas could still be possible. It is addressed that quarks are dressed and c

  65. Yun Soo Myung

    We investigate the Lifshitz black holes from the Hořava-Lifshitz gravity by comparing with the Lifshitz black hole from the 3D new massive gravity. We note that these solutions all have single horizons. These black holes are very similar to each other when studying their thermodynamics. It is shown that a second order phase transition is unlikely possible to

  66. Netta Engelhardt, Ann E. Nelson, Jonathan R. Walsh

    We consider searching for light sterile fermions and new forces by using long baseline oscillations of neutrinos and antineutrinos. A new light sterile state and/or a new force can lead to apparent CPT violation in muon neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. As an example, we present an economical model of neutrino masses containing a sterile neutrino. The

  67. Anyi Li

    The existence of the QCD critical point at non-zero baryon density is not only of great interest for experimental physics but also a challenge for the theory. Any hint of the existence of the first order phase transition and, particularly, its critical point will be valuable towards a full understanding of the QCD phase diagram. We use lattice simulation bas

  68. Akira Ishii, Sanae Umemura, Takefumi Hayashi, Naoya Matsuda

    The mathematical model for hit phenomena in entertainments is presented as a nonlinear, dynamical and non-equilibrium phenomena. The purchase intention for each person is introduced and direct and indirect communications are expressed as two-body and three-body interaction in our model. The mathematical model is expressed as coupled nonlinear differential eq

  69. Galen Reeves, Michael Gastpar

    Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a small number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In this paper, the high-dimensional setting is considered. It is shown that if the measurement rate and per-sample signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are finite constants independent of the length

  70. Masaru Ikehata

    This paper gives a note on an application of the enclosure method to an inverse obstacle scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is shown that one can uniquely determine the convex hull of an unknown sound-hard polygonal obstacle from the trace of the total wave that was exerted by a single point source onto a known circle

  71. Henry Towsner

    We present a short proof of Szemerédi's Theorem using a dynamical system enriched by ideas from model theory. The resulting proof contains features reminiscent of proofs based on both ergodic theory and on hypergraph regularity.

  72. L. Giomi, L. Mahadevan

    We investigate the statistical mechanics of long developable ribbons of finite width and very small thickness. The constraint of isometric deformations in these ribbon-like structures that follows from the geometric separation of scales introduces a coupling between bending and torsional degrees of freedom. Using analytical techniques and Monte Carlo simulat

  73. Joe Suzuki

    We proposed a learning algorithm for nonparametric estimation and on-line prediction for general stationary ergodic sources. We prepare histograms each of which estimates the probability as a finite distribution, and mixture them with weights to construct an estimator. The whole analysis is based on measure theory. The estimator works whether the source is d

  74. N. Nettelmann, U. Kramm, R. Redmer, R. Neuhaeuser

    GJ 436b is the first extrasolar planet discovered that resembles Neptune in mass and radius. The particularly interesting property of Neptune-sized planets is that their mass Mp and radius Rp are close to theoretical M-R relations of water planets. Given Mp, Rp, and equilibrium temperature, however, various internal compositions are possible. A broad set of

  75. Jarrett Lancaster, Aditi Mitra

    Results are presented for the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum $XXZ$-spin chain whose spins are initially arranged in a domain wall profile via the application of a magnetic field in the $z$-direction which is spatially varying along the chain. The system is driven out of equilibrium in two ways: a). by rapidly turning off the magnetic field, b). by rapi

  76. Arthur Parzygnat, Karen K. Y. Lee, Yehuda Avniel, Steven G. Johnson

    We prove, via an elementary variational method, 1d and 2d localization within the band gaps of a periodic Schrodinger operator for any mostly negative or mostly positive defect potential, V, whose depth is not too great compared to the size of the gap. In a similar way, we also prove sufficient conditions for 1d and 2d localization below the ground state of

  77. Ken-ichi Sasaki, Katsunori Wakabayashi, Toshiaki Enoki

    Standing waves near the zigzag and armchair edges, and their Berry's phases are investigated. It is suggested that the Berry's phase for the standing wave near the zigzag edge is trivial, while that near the armchair edge is non-trivial. A non-trivial Berry's phase implies the presence of a singularity in parameter space. We have confirmed that t

  78. M. Patel, S. J. Warren, D. J. Mortlock, J. P. U. Fynbo

    Aims: We reanalyse optical spectra of the z=6.7 gamma-ray burst GRB 080913, adding hitherto unpublished spectra, in order to reassess the measurement of the neutral fraction of the IGM at high redshifts. Methods: In the data reduction we take particular care to minimise systematic errors in the sky subtraction, which are evident in the published spectrum, an

  79. Ozgur E. Akman, Maria Luisa Guerriero, Laurence Loewe, Carl Troein

    Circadian clocks are oscillatory genetic networks that help organisms adapt to the 24-hour day/night cycle. The clock of the green alga Ostreococcus tauri is the simplest plant clock discovered so far. Its many advantages as an experimental system facilitate the testing of computational predictions. We present a model of the Ostreococcus clock in the stochas

  80. Roberto S. Costas-Santos, Joaquin F. Sanchez-Lara

    In this paper we study the orthogonality conditions satisfied by the classical q-orthogonal polynomials that are located at the top of the q-Hahn tableau (big q-jacobi polynomials (bqJ)) and the Nikiforov-Uvarov tableau (Askey-Wilson polynomials (AW)) for almost any complex value of the parameters and for all non-negative integers degrees. We state the degen

  81. Giuseppe Battistoni, Annarita Margiotta, Silvia Muraro, Maximiliano Sioli

    FLUKA is a multipurpose Monte Carlo code, which can transport particles over a wide range of energies in user-defined geometries. Here we present a new FLUKA library, which allows the interaction and propagation of high energy cosmic rays in the Earth atmosphere and the transport of high energy muons in underground/underwater environments

  82. George Chapline

    As developed previously the physical behavior of space-time near to an event horizon can be surmised from the behavior of a superfluid near to a critical point where the speed of sound vanishes. In this talk we note that this critical behavior can be given a geometrical interpretation by regarding the tuning parameter as a radial coordinate for anti-de Sitte

  83. Hiroshi Oda, Mami Machida, Kenji E. Nakamura, Ryoji Matsumoto

    We obtained thermal equilibrium solutions for optically thin, two-temperature black hole accretion disks incorporating magnetic fields. The main objective of this study is to explain the bright/hard state observed during the bright/slow transition of galactic black hole candidates. We assume that the energy transfer from ions to electrons occurs via Coulomb

  84. Gary Steigman

    In a recent article R. T. Cahill claims that the cosmological model based on his "new physics of a dynamical 3-space" resolves the CMB-BBN Lithium-7 and Helium-4 abundance anomalies. In this note it is shown that this conclusion is wrong, resulting from a misunderstanding. In fact, primordial nucleosynthesis in this non-standard cosmological model ex

  85. Mindaugas Bloznelis

    Given b>0, integers n, m=bn and a probability measure Q on {0, 1,..., m}, consider the random intersection graph on the vertex set [n]={1, ..., n}, where i and j are declared adjacent whenever S(i) and S(j) intersect. Here S(1), ..., S(n) denote iid random subsets of [m] such that P(|S(i)|=k)=Q(k). For sparse random intersection graphs we establish a first o

  86. Rami Younes

    We study minimal graphs in the homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifold $\widetilde{PSL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ and we give examples of invariant surfaces. We derive a gradient estimate for solutions of the minimal surface equation in this space and develop the machinery necessary to prove a Jenkins-Serrin type theorem for solutions defined over bounded domains of the hype

  87. Marko Lindner

    In this article we demonstrate and compare two modified versions of the classical finite section method for band-dominated operators in case the latter is not stable. For both methods we give explicit criteria for their applicability.

  88. Alexey V. Mironov, Andrey I. Zakharov, Mikhail E. Prokhorov, Feodor N. Nikolaev

    The space photometric project "Lyra" is developed now in Russia.The project purpose is determination of the photometric information and coordinates of the natural and artificial space objects, from the brightest ones to 16^m in visual lights. It is supposed to obtain the data for about 40-400 million objects from board of International Space Station,

  89. Ahmad Mohammadi, Franziska Kaminski, Vahid Sandoghdar, Mario Agio

    We investigate the properties of finite gold nanocones as optical antennas for enhancing molecular fluorescence. We compute the modification of the excitation rate, spontaneous emission rate, and quantum efficiency as a function of the nanocone base and length, showing that the maximum field and fluorescence enhancements do not occur for the same nanocone pa

  90. Vitus J. Leung, Randall A. LaViolette

    We study a simple exchange model in which price is fixed and the amount of a good transferred between actors depends only on the actors' respective budgets and the existence of a link between transacting actors. The model induces a simply-connected but possibly multi-component bipartite graph. A trading session on a fixed graph consists of a sequence of

  91. K. V. Samokhin

    Effects of disorder on superconducting properties of noncentrosymmetric compounds are discussed. Elastic impurity scattering, even for scalar impurities, leads to a strongly anisotropic mixing of the electron states in the bands split by the spin-orbit coupling. We focus on the calculation of the critical temperature, the upper critical field, and the spin s

  92. Howard Baer, Senarath de Alwis, Kevin Givens, Shibi Rajagopalan

    We examine the supersymmetry phenomenology of a novel scenario of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking which we call Gaugino Anomaly Mediation, or inoAMSB. This is suggested by recent work on the phenomenology of flux compactified type IIB string theory. The essential features of this scenario are that the gaugino masses are of the anomaly-mediated SUSY breaking (A

  93. Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Yi-Kai Liu, David Poulin

    In this note, we describe a method for reconstructing matrix product states from a small number of efficiently-implementable measurements. Our method is exponentially faster than standard tomography, and it can also be used to certify that the unknown state is an MPS. The basic idea is to use local unitary operations to measure in the Schmidt basis, giving d

  94. David B. Henley, Robin L. Shelton

    We present measurements of the soft X-ray background (SXRB) O VII and O VIII intensity between $l = 120\degr$ and $l = 240\degr$, the first results of a survey of the SXRB using archival XMM-Newton observations. We do not restrict ourselves to blank-sky observations, but instead use as many observations as possible, removing bright or extended sources by han

  95. Tara Murphy, Martin Cohen, Ronald D. Ekers, Anne J. Green

    We present radio and infrared observations of 4 hyper-compact HII regions and 4 ultra-compact HII regions in the southern Galactic plane. These objects were selected from a blind survey for UCHII regions using data from two new radio surveys of the southern sky; the Australia Telescope 20 GHz survey (AT20G) and the 2nd epoch Molonglo Galactic Plane Survey (M

  96. Joan R. Najita, John S. Carr, Stephen E. Strom, Dan M. Watson

    We report sensitive Spitzer IRS spectroscopy in the 10-20 micron region of TW Hya, a nearby T Tauri star. The unusual spectral energy distribution of the source, that of a transition object, indicates that the circumstellar disk in the system has experienced significant evolution, possibly as a result of planet formation. The spectrum we measure is strikingl

  97. G. Lesur, G. I. Ogilvie

    The mechanism of angular momentum transport in accretion discs has long been debated. Although the magnetorotational instability appears to be a promising process, poorly ionized regions of accretion discs may not undergo this instability. In this letter, we revisit the possibility of transporting angular momentum by turbulent thermal convection. Using high-

  98. R. Srianand, N. Gupta, P. Petitjean, P. Noterdaeme

    We report the detection of 21-cm and H2 absorption lines in the same DLA system (log N(HI)=21.36+-0.10) at zabs=3.17447 towards SDSSJ133724+315254 (z=3.174). We estimate the spin temperature of the gas to be, Ts~600 K, intermediate between the expected values for cold and warm neutral media. This suggests that the HI absorption originates from a mixture of d

  99. A. Izidoro, O. C. Winter, M. Tsuchida

    Saturn is the only known planet to have coorbital satellite systems. In the present work we studied the process of mass accretion as a possible mechanism for coorbital satellites formation. The system considered is composed of Saturn, a proto-satellite and a cloud of planetesimals distributed in the coorbital region around a triangular Lagrangian point. The

  100. Arezky H. Rodríguez, Y. Moreno

    The use of {\it dyadic interaction} between agents, in combination with {\it homophily} (the principle that ``likes attract'') in the Axelrod model for the study of cultural dissemination has two important problems: the prediction of monoculture in large societies and an extremely narrow window of noise levels in which diversity with local convergenc