March 2010 arXiv papers — page 13

Adrian Tanasa

We review here the construction of a translation-invariant scalar model which was proved to be perturbatively renormalizable on Moyal space. Some general considerations on nonlocal renormalizability are given. Finally, we present perspectives for generalizing these quantum field theoretical techniques to group field theory, a new setting for quantum gravity.

David Raimundo

We extend the results of Schapira and Schneiders on relative regularity and finiteness of elliptic pairs to the framework of $\shd[[\hbar]]$-modules and $\R$-constructible sheaves of $\C[[\h]]$-modules. We also construct a relative duality morphism for elliptic pairs in the smooth case and we prove that it is an isomorphism if the elliptic pair satisfies the

Lachezar S. Georgiev

We demonstrate that the differential magnetic susceptibility of a fractional quantum Hall disk, representing a Coulomb island in a Fabry--Perot interferometer, is exactly proportional to the island's conductance and its paramagnetic peaks are the equilibrium counterparts of the Coulomb blockade conductance peaks. Using as a thermodynamic potential the pa

Oleg Pikhurko, Oleg Verbitsky

We discuss the definability of finite graphs in first-order logic with two relation symbols for adjacency and equality of vertices. The logical depth $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is equal to the minimum quantifier depth of a sentence defining $G$ up to isomorphism. The logical width $W(G)$ is the minimum number of variables occurring in such a sentence. The logical

S. J. Lee, A. Z. Mekjian

A study of properties of the symmetry energy of nuclei is presented based on density functional theory. Calculations for finite nuclei are given so that the study includes isospin dependent surface symmetry considerations as well as isospin independent surface effects. Calculations are done at both zero and non-zero temperature. It is shown that the surface

T. Gaitanos, A. B. Larionov, H. Lenske, U. Mosel

The nuclear breathing-mode giant monopole resonance is studied within an improved relativistic Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) transport approach. As a new feature, the numerical treatment of ground state nuclei and their phase-space evolution is realized with the same semiclassical energy density functional. With this new method a very good stability of g

Andreas Osterloh, Jens Siewert

Characterization and quantification of multipartite entanglement is one of the challenges in state-of-the-art experiments in quantum information processing. According to theory, this is achieved via entanglement monotones, that is, functions that do not increase under stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC). Typically such monotones i

David Martinez-Delgado, R. Jay Gabany, Ken Crawford, Stefano Zibetti

[Abridged] Within the hierarchical framework for galaxy formation, minor merging and tidal interactions are expected to shape all large galaxies to the present day. As a consequence, most seemingly normal disk galaxies should be surrounded by spatially extended stellar 'tidal features' of low surface brightness. As part of a pilot survey for such int

Th. Jolicoeur, J. G. Luque

Fractional quantum Hall states of particles in the lowest Landau levels are described by multivariate polynomials. The incompressible liquid states when described on a sphere are fully invariant under the rotation group. Excited quasiparticle/quasihole states are member of multiplets under the rotation group and generically there is a nontrivial highest weig

Miguel Abadi, Benoit Saussol

We prove that for any $α$-mixing stationnary process the hitting time of any $n$-string $A_n$ converges, when suitably normalized, to an exponential law. We identify the normalization constant $λ(A_n)$. A similar statement holds also for the return time. To establish this result we prove two other results of independent interest. First, we show a relation be

Ismael G. Yero, Juan A. Rodriquez-Velazquez

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph. The distance between two vertices $u,v\in V$, denoted by $d(u, v)$, is the length of a shortest $u-v$ path in $G$. The distance between a vertex $v\in V$ and a subset $P\subset V$ is defined as $min\{d(v, x): x \in P\}$, and it is denoted by $d(v, P)$. An ordered partition $\{P_1,P_2, ...,P_t\}$ of vertices of a graph $G$,

Pierre Gillibert, Friedrich Wehrung

Let A, B, S be categories, let F:A-->S and G:B-->S be functors. We assume that for "many" objects a in A, there exists an object b in B such that F(a) is isomorphic to G(b). We establish a general framework under which it is possible to transfer this statement to diagrams of A. These diagrams are all indexed by posets in which every principal ideal i

M. Bondi, M-A. Perez-Torres

We present first pc-scale radio imaging of the radio-quiet candidate binary black hole system SDSS J1536+0441. The observations were carried out by the European VLBI Network at the frequency of 5 GHz and allowed to image SDSS J1536+0441 with a resolution of about 10 mas (50 pc). Two compact radio cores are detected at the position of the kpc-scale components

Andrea Bedini, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

Combining tree decomposition and transfer matrix techniques provides a very general algorithm for computing exact partition functions of statistical models defined on arbitrary graphs. The algorithm is particularly efficient in the case of planar graphs. We illustrate it by computing the Potts model partition functions and chromatic polynomials (the number o

Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski

We study electoral campaign management scenarios in which an external party can buy votes, i.e., pay the voters to promote its preferred candidate in their preference rankings. The external party's goal is to make its preferred candidate a winner while paying as little as possible. We describe a 2-approximation algorithm for this problem for a large clas

Nolwen Huet

We show that the conjecture of Kannan, Lovász, and Simonovits on isoperimetric properties of convex bodies and log-concave measures, is true for log-concave measures of the form $ρ(|x|_B)dx$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $ρ(t,|x|_B) dx$ on $\mathbb{R}^{1+n}$, where $|x|_B$ is the norm associated to any convex body $B$ already satisfying the conjecture. In particular

Susumu Ariki, Nicolas Jacon, Cédric Lecouvey

For the affine Hecke algebra of type A at roots of unity, we make explicit the correspondence between geometrically constructed simple modules and combinatorially constructed simple modules and prove the modular branching rule. The latter generalizes work by Vazirani.

Armin Nikkhah Shirazi

Historically, the discovery of symmetries has played an important role in the progress of our fundamental understanding of nature. This paper will demonstrate that there exists in Newtonian theory in a spherical gravitational field a formal symmetry between the kinetic (KE) and gravitational potential energy (GPE) of a test mass. Put differently, there exist

Sperello di Serego Alighieri, Fabio Finelli, Matteo Galaverni

We report on an update of the test on the rotation of the plane of linear polarization for light traveling over cosmological distances, using a comparison between the measured direction of the UV polarization in 8 radio galaxies at z>2 and the direction predicted by the model of scattering of anisotropic nuclear radiation, which explains the polarization. No

Cosimo Bambi, Tomohiro Harada, Rohta Takahashi, Naoki Yoshida

In this paper we continue our study on the accretion process onto super-spinning Kerr objects with no event horizon (super-spinars). We discuss the counterpart of the Bondi accretion onto black holes. We first report the results of our numerical simulations. We found a quasi steady-state configuration for any choice of the parameters of our model. The most i

John Schliemann

We study the dielectric function of the homogeneous hole gas in p-doped zinc-blende III-V bulk semiconductors within random phase approximation with the valence band being modeled by Luttinger's Hamiltonian in the spherical approximation. In the static limit we find a beating of Friedel oscillations between the two Fermi momenta for heavy and light holes

Liping Wang

In this paper we consider the Hecke algebra $\mathcal {H}$ associated to an extended affine Weyl group of type $\widetilde{B_2}$. We give some interesting formulas on $C_{rt}S_λ$, which imply some relations between the Kazhdan-Lusztig coefficients $μ(y,w)$ and representations of some algebraic groups. Here $C_{rt}$ is one element in the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis

T. Fukui

We explore Majorana zero modes bound to a vortex line in a three dimensional topological superconductor model, focusing our attention on the validity of the index theorem previously derived. We first solve the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation at the zero energy to obtain the analytical index. We next calculate the topological index given by the order parameters

Dang Vu Giang

We prove that if an integral equation has a positive solution then all complex roots of the famous Riemann zeta function are distinct and having the real part 1/2. We also prove that the minimal distance between two consecutive real simple roots of the function $Ξ$ in $(0,T)$ is less than $\frac 1{A\ln T}$.

T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitz

It is shown that columnar fluctuations, in conjunction with weak quenched disorder, lead to a T^{3/2} temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity. This is proposed as an explanation of the observed non-Fermi-liquid behavior in the helimagnet MnSi, with one possible realization of the columnar fluctuations provided by skyrmion lines that have indepen

Tudor Dimofte, Sergei Gukov

The volume conjecture states that for a hyperbolic knot K in the three-sphere S^3 the asymptotic growth of the colored Jones polynomial of K is governed by the hyperbolic volume of the knot complement S^3\K. The conjecture relates two topological invariants, one combinatorial and one geometric, in a very nonobvious, nontrivial manner. The goal of the present

I. L. Buchbinder, N. G. Pletnev, I. B. Samsonov

We study the low-energy effective actions for gauge superfields induced by quantum N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric matter fields in three-dimensional Minkowski space. Analyzing the superconformal invariants in the N=2 superspace we propose a general form of the N=2 gauge invariant and superconformal effective action. The leading terms in this action are fixed by

Helen Au-Yang, Jacques H. H. Perk

We show how $Z$-invariance in the chiral Potts model provides a strategy to calculate the pair correlation in the general integrable chiral Potts model using only the superintegrable eigenvectors. When the distance between the two spins in the correlation function becomes infinite it becomes the square of the order parameter. In this way, we show that the sp

Johannes Ruf

It is shown that delta hedging provides the optimal trading strategy in terms of minimal required initial capital to replicate a given terminal payoff in a continuous-time Markovian context. This holds true in market models where no equivalent local martingale measure exists but only a square-integrable market price of risk. A new probability measure is cons

Pilwon Kim

We study various solution behaviors of scale equations which are recently proposed in \cite{Kim}. On the contrary to conventional mathematical tools, scale equations are capable to accommodate various behaviors at different scale levels into one integrated solution. Some solutions of scale equations often retain strong stochastic properties such as fractiona

Xiaolong Lü, Xiangguo Yin, Yunbo Zhang

We consider a strongly interacting one-dimensional (1D) Bose-Fermi mixture confined in a hard wall trap or a harmonic oscillator trap with a tunable $δ$-function barrier at the trap center. The mixture consists of 1D Bose gas with repulsive interactions and of 1D noninteracting spin-aligned Fermi gas, both species interacting through hard-core interactions.

Archil Kobakhidze, Nadine Pesor, Raymond R. Volkas

Based on the stochastic superspace mechanism for softly breaking supersymmetry, we present improved sparticle spectra computations for the minimal model and examine extensions through R-parity violation and the type-I seesaw mechanism that incorporate non-zero neutrino masses for more realistic models. Performing the calculations to two-loop accuracy, we obs

R. S. Costas-Santos, C. R. Johnson

In this paper we prove that for a general tree $T$, if $A$ is T-TP, all the submatrices of $A$ associated with the deletion of pendant vertices are $P$-matrices, and $\det A>0$, then the smallest eigenvalue has an eigenvector signed according to $T$.

Ze'ev Surujon, Patipan Uttayarat

Little Higgs models often feature spontaneously broken extra global symmetries, which must also be explicitly broken in order to avoid massless Goldstone modes in the spectrum. We show that a possible conflict with collective symmetry breaking then implies light modes coupled to the Higgs boson, leading to interesting phenomenology. Moreover, spontaneous CP

Florian Loder, Arno P. Kampf, Thilo Kopp

The magnetic flux periodicity in superconducting loops is reviewed. Whereas quantization of the magnetic flux with hc/2e prevails in sufficiently thick loops with current free interior, the supercurrent in narrow loops is either hc/2e or hc/e periodic with the external magnetic flux. The periodicity depends on the properties of the condensate state, in parti

Prateek Sharma, Ian J. Parrish, Eliot Quataert

Observations of the cores of nearby galaxy clusters show H$α$ and molecular emission line filaments. We argue that these are the result of {\em local} thermal instability in a {\em globally} stable galaxy cluster core. We present local, high resolution, two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thermal instability for conditions appropriate to the i

Gyemin Lee, William Finn, Clayton Scott

Flow cytometry is a technology that rapidly measures antigen-based markers associated to cells in a cell population. Although analysis of flow cytometry data has traditionally considered one or two markers at a time, there has been increasing interest in multidimensional analysis. However, flow cytometers are limited in the number of markers they can jointly

V. P. Neznamov, A. A. Sadovoy, A. S. Ul'yanov

The paper compares the methods used to calculate matrix elements of the operator of radail electron coordinates in an arbitrary order in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation and with the use of the Dirac equation for 1s-states of the hydrogen-like and helium-like ions of transuranic elements. The obtained analytical and numerical results for 1s-states of the

Alistair Savage

These are notes for a lecture series given at the Fields Institute Summer School in Geometric Representation Theory and Extended Affine Lie Algebras, held at the University of Ottawa in June 2009. We give an introduction to the geometric realization of crystal graphs via the quiver varieties of Lusztig and Nakajima. The emphasis is on motivating the construc

L. H. Ho, L. J. Taskinen, A. P. Micolich, A. R. Hamilton

We discuss the development of a sensitive electrometer that utilizes a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall regime. As a demonstration, we measure the evolution of the Landau levels in a second, nearby 2DEG as the applied perpendicular magnetic field is changed, and extract an effective mass for electrons in GaAs that agrees within experim

Francisco M. Fernández

We present a simple one-dimensional quantum-mechanical model for a particle attached to a surface. We solve the Schrödinger equation in terms of Weber functions and discuss the behavior of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. We derive the virial theorem and other exact relationships as well as the asymptotic behaviour of the eigenvalues. We calculate the zer

Kiran Jain, S. C. Tripathy, S. Kholikov, F. Hill

We apply ring-diagram analysis and spherical harmonic decomposition methods to compute 3-dimensional power spectra of magnetograms obtained by the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) during quiet periods of solar activity. This allows us to investigate the power distribution in acoustic waves propagating in localized directions on the solar disk. We find

Andreas Koch, Andrew McWilliam

We present LTE chemical abundances for five red giants and one AGB star in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) M5 based on high resolution spectroscopy using the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan 6.5-m Clay telescope. Our results are based on a line-by-line differential abundance analysis relative to the well-studied red giant Arcturus. The stars in our sampl

Aimé Lachal

Let $(S_k)_{k\ge 1}$ be the classical Bernoulli random walk on the integer line with jump parameters $p\in(0,1)$ and $q=1-p$. The probability distribution of the sojourn time of the walk in the set of non-negative integers up to a fixed time is well-known, but its expression is not simple. By modifying slightly this sojourn time--through a particular countin

Lucien Hardy, Robert Spekkens

We discuss the motivation for pursuing research on the foundations of quantum theory.

Dimitris Papamichail, Celine C. Lesaulnier, Steven Skiena, Sean R. McCorkle

Population analysis is persistently challenging but important, leading to the determination of diversity and function prediction of microbial community members. Here we detail our bioinformatics methods for analyzing population distribution and diversity in large microbial communities. This was achieved via (i) a homology based method for robust phylotype de

Bob Coecke, Bill Edwards, Robert W. Spekkens

We describe a general framework in which we can precisely compare the structures of quantum-like theories which may initially be formulated in quite different mathematical terms. We then use this framework to compare two theories: quantum mechanics restricted to qubit stabiliser states and operations, and Spekkens's toy theory. We discover that viewed wi

O. P. Ferreira, M. L. N. Goncalves, P. R. Oliveira

The Gauss-Newton's method for solving nonlinear least squares problems is studied in this paper. Under the hypothesis that the derivative of the function associated with the least square problem satisfies a majorant condition, a local convergence analysis is presented. This analysis allow us to obtain the optimal convergence radius, the biggest range for

Dipak Munshi, Joseph Smidt, Alan Heavens, Peter Coles

Owing to their more extensive sky coverage and tighter control on systematic errors, future deep weak lensing surveys should provide a better statistical picture of the dark matter clustering beyond the level of the power spectrum. In this context, the study of non-Gaussianity induced by gravity can help tighten constraints on the background cosmology by bre

Wolfgang Lueck

This article will explore the K- and L-theory of group rings and their applications to algebra, geometry and topology. The Farrell-Jones Conjecture characterizes K- and L-theory groups. It has many implications, including the Borel and Novikov Conjectures for topological rigidity. Its current status, and many of its consequences are surveyed.

A. Tramacere

We present the results of a deep spectral analysis of all Swift observations of Mrk 421 between April 2006 and July 2006, when it reached its highest X-ray flux recorded until the end of 2006. We completed this data set with other historical X-ray observations. We used the full data set to investigate the correlation between the spectral parameters. We found

Vladimir Mikhailets, Volodymyr Molyboga

Let ${γ_q(n)}_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be the lengths of spectral gaps in a continuous spectrum of the Hill-Schrödinger operators S(q)u=-u''+q(x)u,\quad x\in \mathbb{R}, with 1-periodic real-valued potentials $q \in L^{2}(\mathbb{T})$. Let weight function $ω:\;[1,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$. We prove that under the condition \exists s\in [0,\infty):\quad k^{s}

N. L. Thomas, A. J. Norton, D. Pollacco, R. G. West

We investigated whether the predictions and results of Stanishev et al (2002) concerning a possible relationship between eclipse depths in PX And and its retrograde disc precession phase, could be confirmed in long term observations made by SuperWASP. In addition, two further CVs (DQ Her and V795 Her) in the same SuperWASP data set were investigated to see w

Michael Kesden, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti

Numerical-relativity simulations indicate that the black hole produced in a binary merger can recoil with a velocity up to v_max ~ 4,000 km/s with respect to the center of mass of the initial binary. This challenges the paradigm that most galaxies form through hierarchical mergers, yet retain supermassive black holes at their centers despite having escape ve

U. Maio, B. Ciardi, K. Dolag, L. Tornatore

We present results from the first cosmological simulations which study the onset of primordial, metal-free (population III), cosmic star formation and the transition to the present-day, metal-rich star formation (population II-I), including molecular (H$_2$, HD, etc.) evolution, tracing the injection of metals by supernovæ into the surrounding intergalactic

Anzhong Wang

In this brief report, we summarize our recent studies in brane cosmology in both string theory and M-Theory on $S^{1}/Z_{2}$. In such setups, we find that the radion is stable and its mass, with a very conservative estimation, can be of the order of $0. 1 \sim 0.01$ GeV. The hierarchy problem can be addressed by combining the large extra dimension, warped fa

W. R. Webber, P. R. Higbie

Using new calculations of 10Be production in the Earths atmosphere which are based on direct measurements of the 11-year solar modulation effects on galactic cosmic rays and spacecraft measurements of the cosmic ray energy spectrum, we have calculated the yearly average production of 10Be in the Earths atmosphere by galactic and solar cosmic rays since 1939.

Lee R. Spitler

Data products from the Advanced Camera for Surveys Virgo Cluster Survey are used to understand the bulge star formation history in early-type galaxies at redshifts z > 2. A new technique is developed whereby observed high-redshift age-metallicity relationships are utilized to constrain the typical formation epochs of metal-rich or "bulge" globular cl

Philip M. Hinz, Timothy J. Rodigas, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Suresh Sivanandam

We present direct imaging observations at wavelengths of 3.3, 3.8 (L',band), and 4.8 (M band) microns, for the planetary system surrounding HR 8799. All three planets are detected at L'. The c and d component are detected at 3.3 microns, and upper limits are derived from the M band observations. These observations provide useful constraints on warm g

David A. Thilker, Luciana Bianchi, David Schiminovich, Armando Gil de Paz

We have discovered recent star formation in the outermost portion (1-4x R_25) of the nearby lenticular (S0) galaxy NGC 404 using GALEX UV imaging. FUV-bright sources are strongly concentrated within the galaxy's HI ring (formed by a merger event according to del Rio et al.), even though the average gas density is dynamically subcritical. Archival HST ima

Nishant Malik, B. Ashok, J. Balakrishnan

For a system of type-I neurons bidirectionally coupled through a nonlinear feedback mechanism, we discuss the issue of noise-induced complete synchronization (CS). For the inputs to the neurons, we point out that the rate of change of instantaneous frequency with the instantaneous phase of the stochastic inputs to each neuron matches exactly with that for th

R. Chacon, A. M. Lacasta

We uncover and characterize different chaotic transport scenarios on perfect periodic surfaces by controlling the chaotic dynamics of particles subjected to periodic external forces in the absence of a ratchet effect. After identifying relevant {\it symmetries} of chaotic solutions, analytical estimates in parameter space for the occurrence of different tran

Mark C. Sweeney, Martin P. Gelfand

We have extended Brandt's method for accurate, efficient calculations within Ginzburg-Landau theory for periodic vortex lattices at arbitrary mean induction to lattices of "doubly quantized" vortices.

Viktor P. Zastavnyi

Nikol'skii known theorem for the kernels satisfying a condition $A^*_n$, is proved and for kernels from wider class. Explicit formulas for calculating the value of an approximation of classes $\W^{r, β}_{p, n} $ by convolution operators of special form are obtained. Here $ β\in\Z $, $r> 0 $, $n\in\N $, and $p=1 $ or $p =\infty $. As particular cases obta

Xin-She Yang

Pressure solution is an important process in sedimentary basins, and its behaviour depends mainly on the sediment rheology and temperature distribution. The compaction relation of pressure solution is typically assumed to be a viscous one and is often written as a relationship between effective stress and strain rate. A new derivation of viscous compaction r

Y. D. Chong, Li Ge, Hui Cao, A. D. Stone

We show that an arbitrary body or aggregate can be made perfectly absorbing at discrete frequencies if a precise amount of dissipation is added under specific conditions of coherent monochromatic illumination. This effect arises from the interaction of optical absorption and wave interference, and corresponds to moving a zero of the elastic S-matrix onto the

Robert D. Klauber

The convention dependence of one-way light speed is explained in a manner accessible to those unaccustomed to the concept. That logic is used to challenge the claim by Greaves et al that their experiment detected one-way light speed. The reason for the result obtained is then presented and followed by an explanation of why the Romer experiment did not measur

Paz Carmi, Lilach Chaitman

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, we show how to compute in $O(n \log n)$ time a subgraph of their Delaunay triangulation that has maximum degree 7 and is a strong planar $t$-spanner of $P$ with $t =(1+ \sqrt{2})^2 *δ$, where $δ$ is the spanning ratio of the Delaunay triangulation. Furthermore, given a Delaunay triangulation, we show a distributed

Kohta Murase, John F. Beacom

Motivated by Pierre Auger Observatory results favoring a heavy nuclear composition for ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic rays, we investigate implications for the cumulative neutrino background. The requirement that nuclei not be photodisintegrated constrains their interactions in sources, therefore limiting neutrino production via photomeson interactions. Assum

Xin-She Yang, Young Z. L. Yang

A small-world cellular automaton network has been formulated to simulate the long-range interactions of complex networks using unconventional computing methods in this paper. Conventional cellular automata use local updating rules. The new type of cellular automata networks uses local rules with a fraction of long-range shortcuts derived from the properties

Yu-Ao Chen, Sebastian D. Huber, Stefan Trotzky, Immanuel Bloch

The Landau-Zener model of a quantum mechanical two-level system driven with a linearly time dependent detuning has served over decades as a textbook paradigm of quantum dynamics. In their seminal work [L. D. Landau, Physik. Z. Sowjet. 2, 46 (1932); C. Zener, Proc. Royal Soc. London 137, 696 (1932)], Landau and Zener derived a non-perturbative prediction for

A. van Hameren

Kaleu is an independent, true phase space generator. After providing it with some information about the field theory and the particular multi-particle scattering process under consideration, it returns importance sampled random phase space points. Providing it also with the total weight of each generated phase space point, it further adapts to the integratio

Vincenzo Marotta, Adele Naddeo

By exploiting the notion of Morita equivalence for field theories on noncommutative tori and choosing rational values of the noncommutativity parameter theta (in appropriate units), a one-to-one correspondence between an abelian noncommutative field theory (NCFT) and a non-abelian theory of twisted fields on ordinary space can be established. Starting from t

Janos Englander, Nandor Sieben

Using a high performance computer cluster, we run simulations regarding an open problem about d-dimensional critical branching random walks in a random IID environment The environment is given by the rule that at every site independently, with probability p>0, there is a cookie, completely suppressing the branching of any particle located there. Abstract. Th

Xin-She Yang

The small-world networks recently introduced by Watts and Strogatz [Nature 393, 440 (1998)] has attracted much interests in studying the interesting properties of the networks without time-delay. However, a signal or influence travelling on the small-world networks often associated with time-delay features which are very common in biological and physical net

Qian-shen Wang, Xin-She Yang, Chuan-zhen Wu, Hong-gang Guo

The variations of gravity were measured with a high precision LaCoste-Romberg D gravimeter during a total solar eclipse to investigate the effect of solar eclipse on the gravitational field. The observed anomaly $(7.0 \pm 2.7) \times 10^{-8}$ m/s$^2$ during the eclipse implies that there may be a shielding property of gravitation.

A. Dutta, M. Bhattacharya, P. Mukherjee, N. Gayathri

We carry out the molecular statics simulations of depinning of an edge dislocation at voids of diameters of the order of ~1 nm. We show that the dislocation-void interactions are non-trivial as the applied shear load is found to enhance the pinning strength of the nanovoid itself. This leads to the surprising observation of multiple CRSS values for a given n

Ryan Prescott Adams, George E. Dahl, Iain Murray

Probabilistic matrix factorization (PMF) is a powerful method for modeling data associated with pairwise relationships, finding use in collaborative filtering, computational biology, and document analysis, among other areas. In many domains, there is additional information that can assist in prediction. For example, when modeling movie ratings, we might know

Corey Reed

The spectra of charged hadrons produced near mid-rapidity in d+Au, p+Au and n+Au collisions at 200 GeV center of mass energy per nucleon pair are presented as a function of transverse momentum and centrality. These measurements were performed using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Nucleon-nucleus interactions were extracted

Xin-She Yang

A nonlinear small-world network model has been presented to investigate the effect of nonlinear interaction and time delay on the dynamic properties of small-world networks. Both numerical simulations and analytical analysis for networks with time delay and nonlinear interaction show chaotic features in the system response when nonlinear interaction is stron

Y. Arredondo, O. Navarro

Electron pairing in one-dimensional binary Hubbard chains is studied for different values of the band-filling using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method. The systems consist of linear arrays of sites with two types of on-site correlations defined by two potentials: U_A being attractive (< 0), and U_B repulsive (> 0). The atomic levels of the syste

M. E. Gómez, S. Lola, P. Naranjo, J. Rodríguez-Quintero

We study the predictions for sfermion masses and Lepton Flavour Violation (LFV) for the WMAP preferred parameter space in $b-τ$ Yukawa-unified models with massive neutrinos. A soft term structure as predicted by an Abelian flavour symmetry combined with SU(5) RGEs for scales above $M_{GUT}$, results to an efficient suppression of the off-diagonal terms in th

Gianluca Occhetta, Valentina Paterno

In this paper we study smooth complex projective polarized varieties (X,H) of dimension n \ge 2 which admit a dominating family V of rational curves of H-degree 3, such that two general points of X may be joined by a curve parametrized by V, and such that there is a covering family of rational curves of H-degree one. Our main result is that the Picard number

Shibananda Biswas, Gadadhar Misra

A short proof of the &#34;Rigidity theorem&#34; using the sheaf theoretic model for Hilbert modules over polynomial rings is given. The joint kernel for a large class of submodules is described. The completion $[\mathcal I]$ of a homogeneous (polynomial) ideal $\mathcal I$ in a Hilbert module is a submodule for which the joint kernel is shown to be of the fo

Denis Parganlija, Francesco Giacosa, Dirk H. Rischke

We present a two-flavour linear sigma model with global chiral symmetry and vector and axial-vector mesons. We calculate pion-pion scattering lengths and the decay widths of scalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons. It is demonstrated that vector and axial-vector meson degrees of freedom play an important role in these low-energy processes and that a reasonab

Umberto Bertolozzo, Stefania Residori, Patrick Sebbah

In a disordered medium with Kerr-type nonlinearity, the transmitted speckle pattern was predicted to become unstable, as a result of the positive feedback between the intensity fluctuations and the nonlinear dependence of the local refractive index. We present the first experimental evidence of speckle instability of light transversally scattered in a liquid

Richard Hostein, Remy Braive, Luc Le Gratiet, Anne Talneau

We report on lasing at room temperature and at telecommunications wavelength from photonic crystal nanocavities based on InAsP/InP quantum dots. Such laser cavities with a small modal volume and high quality factor display a high spontaneous emission coupling factor beta. Lasing is confirmed by measuring the second order autocorrelation function. A smooth tr

M. Chabab, M. Oulne

We derive exact analytical solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation for Makarov potential by means of the asymptotic iteration method. The energy eigenvalues are given in a closed form and the corresponding normalized eigenfunctions are obtained in terms of the generalized Laguerre polynomials and hypergeometrical functions.

Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, Gerhard Klimeck

A highly phosphrous delta-doped Si device is modeled with a quantum well with periodic boundary conditions and the semi-empirical spds* tight-binding band model. Its temperature-dependent electronic properties are studied. To account for high doping density with many electrons, a highly parallelized self-consistent Schroedinger-Poisson solver is used with at

Amine Chellali, Cédric Dumas, Isabelle Milleville-Pennel, Eric Nouri

Virtual collaborative environment are 3D shared spaces in which people can work together. To collaborate through these systems, users must have a shared comprehension of the environment. The objective of this experimental study was to determine if visual stable landmarks improve the construction of a common representation of the virtual environment and thus

Marcelo L. Costa, Amilcar R. Queiroz, Ademir E. Santana

The real-time operator formalism for thermal quantum field theories, thermofield dynamics, is formulated in terms of a path-integral approach in non-commutative spaces. As an application, the two-point function for a thermal non-commutative $λϕ^4$ theory is derived at the one-loop level. The effect of temperature and the non-commutative parameter, competing

Cédric Bonnafé, Jean Michel

Let G be a connected reductive group defined over a finite field with q elements. We prove that the Mackey formula for the Lusztig induction and restriction holds in G whenever q>2 or G does not have a component of type E.

Jérôme Lelong

We study the convergence rate of randomly truncated stochastic algorithms, which consist in the truncation of the standard Robbins-Monro procedure on an increasing sequence of compact sets. Such a truncation is often required in practice to ensure convergence when standard algorithms fail because the expected-value function grows too fast. In this work, we g

Laurent Poinsot

Due to implementation constraints the XOR operation is widely used in order to combine plaintext and key bit-strings in secret-key block ciphers. This choice directly induces the classical version of the differential attack by the use of XOR-kind differences. While very natural, there are many alternatives to the XOR. Each of them inducing a new form for its

Sonia Fourati

Lewis and Mordecki have computed the Wiener-Hopf factorization of a Lévy process whose restriction on $]0,+\infty[$ of their Lévy measure has a rational Laplace transform. That allows to compute the distribution of $(X_t,\inf_{0\leq s\leq t}X_s)$. For the same class of Lévy processes, we compute the distribution of $ (X_t,\inf_{0\leq s\leq t}X_s,\sup_{0\leq

Elisabetta Caffau, Luca Sbordone, Hans-Günter Ludwig, Piercarlo Bonifacio

Sulphur is a volatile alpha-element which is not locked into dust grains in the interstellar medium (ISM). Hence, its abundance does not need to be corrected for dust depletion when comparing the ISM to the stellar atmospheres. The abundance of sulphur in the photosphere of metal-poor stars is a matter of debate: according to some authors, [S/Fe] versus [Fe/

Thomas Brougham, Stephen M. Barnett, Igor Jex

We investigate multi-boson interference. A Hamiltonian is presented that treats pairs of bosons as a single composite boson. This Hamiltonian allows two pairs of bosons to interact as if they were two single composite bosons. We show that this leads to the composite bosons exhibiting novel interference effects such as Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. We then inv

W. Tian, A. D. Christianson, J. L. Zarestky, S. Jia

We report neutron diffraction studies of TbCo$_2$Zn$_{20}$ and TbFe$_2$Zn$_{20}$, two isostructural compounds which exhibit dramatically different magnetic behavior. In the case of TbCo$_2$Zn$_{20}$, magnetic Bragg peaks corresponding to antiferromagnetic order are observed below $T_N$ $\approx$ 2.5 K with a propagation vector of (0.5 0.5 0.5). On the other

David Fletcher

We give a constructive method that can decrease the number of prototiles needed to tile a space. We achieve this by exchanging edge to edge matching rules for a small atlas of permitted patches. This method is illustrated with Wang tiles, and we apply our method to present via these rules a single prototile that can only tile $R^3$ aperiodically, and a pair

Marie-Céline Bezat, Vincent Roussarie, Kronland-Martinet Richard, Solvi Ystad

Among environmental sounds, we have chosen to study a class of action-related impact sounds: automobile door closure sounds. We propose to describe these sounds using a model composed of perceptual properties. The development of the perceptual model was derived from the evaluation of many door closure sounds measured under controlled laboratory listening con