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  1. J. Farihi, M. Jura, J. -E. Lee, B. Zuckerman

    Spitzer Space Telescope IRAC 3-8 micron and AKARI IRC 2-4 micron photometry are reported for ten white dwarfs with photospheric heavy elements; nine relatively cool stars with photospheric calcium, and one hotter star with a peculiar high carbon abundance. A substantial infrared excess is detected at HE 2221-1630, while modest excess emissions are identified

  2. V. G. Kravets, F. Schedin, A. V. Kabashin, A. N. Grigorenko

    We present the first experimental study of optical response of collective plasmon resonances in regular arrays of nanoresonators to local environment. Recently observed collective plasmon modes arise due to diffractive coupling of localised plasmons and yield almost an order of magnitude improvement in resonance quality. We measure the response of these mode

  3. S. S. Bulanov, V. D. Mur, N. B. Narozhny, J. Nees

    The scheme of simultaneous multiple pulse focusing on one spot naturally arises from the structural features of projected new laser systems, such as ELI and HiPER. It is shown that the multiple pulse configuration is beneficial for observing $e^+e^-$ pair production from vacuum under the action of sufficiently strong electromagnetic fields. The field of the

  4. Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Yu-Hsiu Wang, David A. Christian, Dennis E. Discher

    We study phase separation in mixed monolayers of neutral and highly negatively charged lipids, induced by the addition of divalent positively charged counterions. We find good agreement between experiments on mixtures of pip2 and sopc and simulations of a simplified model in which only the essential electrostatic interactions are retained. Thus, our results

  5. Sergey V. Ludkovsky

    Differential equations with constant and variable coefficients over octonions are investigated. It is found that different types of differential equations over octonions can be resolved. For this purpose non-commutative line integration is used. Such technique is applied to linear and non-linear partial differential equations in real variables. Possible area

  6. Andrew Gelman

    We review some approaches and philosophies of causal inference coming from sociology, economics, computer science, cognitive science, and statistics

  7. John R. Klauder

    The main principle of affine quantum gravity is the strict positivity of the matrix \{\hat g_{ab}(x)\} composed of the spatial components of the local metric operator. Canonical commutation relations are incompatible with this principle, and they can be replaced by noncanonical, affine commutation relations. Due to the partial second-class nature of the quan

  8. Vipul Goyal, Sugata Sanyal, Dharma P. Agrawal

    The traditional web caching is currently limited to static documents only. A page generated on the fly from a server side script may have different contents on different accesses and hence cannot be cached. A number of proposals for attacking the problem have emerged based on the observation that different instances of a dynamic document are usually quite si

  9. H. Lin, R. S. Markiewicz, L. A. Wray, L. Fu

    We have investigated several classes of strong spin-orbit chalcogenides related to the (Pb,Sn)Te series studied in connection with the Dirac fermion physics in the 1980s. Our first-principle theoretical calculations suggest that ternary chalcogenides TlBiX$_2$ and TlSbX$_2$ (X=Te, Se, S) series harbor small bandgap topological insulators with single Dirac co

  10. Alok Ojha, Hongmei Deng, Dharma P. Agrawal, S. Sanyal

    In cluster-based routing protocol (CBRP), two-level hierarchical structure is successfully used to reduce over-flooding in wireless Ad Hoc networks. As it is vulnerable to a single point of failure, we propose a new adaptive distributed threshold scheme to replace the cluster head by a group of cluster heads within each cluster, called COUNCIL, and distribut

  11. Zhi-Feng Huang, Ken Elder

    Morphological properties of strained epitaxial films are examined through a mesoscopic approach developed to incorporate both the film crystalline structure and standard continuum theory. Film surface profiles and properties, such as surface energy, liquid-solid miscibility gap and interface thickness, are determined as a function of misfit strains and film

  12. Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Nicolas Agraït, Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

    We report the fabrication and the characterization of carbon fibre tips for their use in combined scanning tunnelling and force microscopy based on piezoelectric quartz tuning fork force sensors. We find that the use of carbon fibre tips results in a minimum impact on the dynamics of quartz tuning fork force sensors yielding a high quality factor and consequ

  13. Yi Gao, Tao Zhou, C. S. Ting, Wu-Pei Su

    The doping dependence of spin excitations in Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ is studied based on a two-orbital model under RPA approximation. The interplay between the spin-density-wave (SDW) and superconductivity (SC) is considered in our calculation. Our results for the spin susceptibility are in good agreement with neutron scattering (NS) experiments

  14. Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Nicolas Agraït, Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

    We have performed an experimental characterization of the dynamics of oscillating quartz tuning forks which are being increasingly used in scanning probe microscopy as force sensors. We show that tuning forks can be described as a system of coupled oscillators. Nevertheless, this description requires the knowledge of the elastic coupling constant between the

  15. Chenwei Wang, Ercai Chen

    Let $\{S_i\}_{i=1}^{l}$ be an iterated function system(IFS) on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with attractor K. Let $π$ be the canonical projection. In this paper we define a new concept called "projection pressure" $P_π(ϕ)$ for $ϕ\in C(\mathbb{R}^d)$ under certain affine IFS, and show the variational principle about the projection pressure. Furthermore we check tha

  16. B. Osorio Rodrigues, M. E. Bracco, M. Nielsen, F. S. Navarra

    We calculate the form factors and the coupling constant in the $D^{*}D ρ$ vertex in the framework of QCD sum rules. We evaluate the three point correlation functions of the vertex considering both $ D $ and $ ρ$ mesons off--shell. The form factors obtained are very different but give the same coupling constant: $g_{D^{*}D ρ} = 4.1 \pm 0.1$ GeV$^{-1}$.

  17. Stanislav Kikot

    Sahlqvist formulas are a syntactically specified class of modal formulas proposed by Hendrik Sahlqvist in 1975. They are important because of their first-order definability and canonicity, and hence axiomatize complete modal logics. The first-order properties definable by Sahlqvist formulas were syntactically characterized by Marcus Kracht in 1993. The prese

  18. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Karthik Uppulury

    The motion of molecules across channels is critically important for understanding mechanisms of cellular processes. Here we investigate the mechanism of interactions in the molecular transport by analyzing exactly solvable discrete stochastic models. It is shown that the strength and spatial distribution of molecule/channel interactions can strongly modify t

  19. Shufang Ban, Jacek Dobaczewski, Jonathan Engel, A. Shukla

    We calculate the Schiff moments of the nuclei 199Hg and 211Ra in completely self-consistent odd-nucleus mean-field theory by modifying the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov code HFODD. We allow for arbitrary shape deformation, and include the effects of nucleon dipole moments alongside those of a CP-violating pion-exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction. The results for

  20. Stephan Bialonski, Klaus Lehnertz

    We investigate two recently proposed multivariate time series analysis techniques that aim at detecting phase synchronization clusters in spatially extended, nonstationary systems with regard to field applications. The starting point of both techniques is a matrix whose entries are the mean phase coherence values measured between pairs of time series. The fi

  21. Jonathan E. Moussa

    The limits of direct unitary transformation of many-fermion Hamiltonians are explored. Practical application of such transformations requires that effective many-body interactions be discarded over the course of a calculation. The truncation of the Hamiltonian leads to finite errors and in some cases divergences. A new formalism is proposed to manage errors

  22. Julie Dinerman, Lea F. Santos

    We investigate how dynamical decoupling methods may be used to manipulate the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. These methods consist of sequences of external control operations designed to induce a desired dynamics. The systems considered for the analysis are one-dimensional spin-1/2 models, which, according to the parameters of the Hamiltonian,

  23. Fredrik Engström, Philipp Schlicht

    Every permutation invariant Borel subset of the space of countable structures is definable in $\La_{ω_1ω}$ by a theorem of Lopez-Escobar. We prove variants of this theorem relative to fixed relations and fixed non-permutation invariant quantifiers. Moreover we show that for every closed subgroup $G$ of the symmetric group $S_{\infty}$, there is a closed bina

  24. Igor Kharin

    The stochastic differential and integral equations describing the system of particles weakly interacting among themselves which are absorbed and scattered by particles of a medium are considered. The time-dependent transport equation with scattering is studied taking into account stochastic nature of parameters in nuclear imaging. Using dynamic attenuated Ra

  25. Christian Spiering

    This talk presents conclusions for KM3NeT which may be drawn from latest IceCube results and from optimization studies of the IceCube configuration. It discusses possible coordinated efforts between IceCube and KM3NeT (or, for the time being, IceCube and ANTARES). Finally, it lists ideas for formal relations between neutrino telescopes on the cubic kilometer

  26. Robert Coquereaux

    We obtain formulae giving global dimensions for fusion categories defined by Lie groups G at level k and for the associated module-categories obtained via conformal embeddings. The results can be expressed in terms of Lie quantum superfactorials of type G. The later are related, for the type Ar, to the quantum Barnes function.

  27. B. J. Anthony-Twarog, C. P. Deliyannis, B. A. Twarog, J. D. Cummings

    High-dispersion spectra of 89 potential members of the old, super-metal-rich open cluster, NGC 6253, have been obtained with the HYDRA multi-object spectrograph. Based upon radial-velocity measurements alone, 47 stars at the turnoff of the cluster color-magnitude diagram (CMD) and 18 giants are identified as potential members. Five turnoff stars exhibit evid

  28. Francesca A. Lisi

    In this paper we address an issue that has been brought to the attention of the database community with the advent of the Semantic Web, i.e. the issue of how ontologies (and semantics conveyed by them) can help solving typical database problems, through a better understanding of KR aspects related to databases. In particular, we investigate this issue from t

  29. Kirsten Martens, Eric Bertin, Michel Droz

    The definition of a nonequilibrium temperature through generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations relies on the independence of the fluctuation-dissipation temperature from the observable considered. We argue that this observable independence is deeply related to the uniformity of the phase-space probability distribution on the hypersurfaces of constant e

  30. Jacek Brodzki, Graham A. Niblo, Nick Wright

    We give a new perspective on the homological characterisations of amenability given by Johnson in the context of bounded cohomology and by Block and Weinberger in the context of uniformly finite homology. We examine the interaction between their theories and explain the relationship between these characterisations. We apply these ideas to give a new proof of

  31. D. Wang, B. Neyenhuis, M. H. G. de Miranda, K. -K. Ni

    We demonstrate a scheme for direct absorption imaging of an ultracold ground-state polar molecular gas near quantum degeneracy. A challenge in imaging molecules is the lack of closed optical cycling transitions. Our technique relies on photon shot-noise limited absorption imaging on a strong bound-bound molecular transition. We present a systematic character

  32. Asaf Pe'er, Felix Ryde

    Recent analyses show evidence for a thermal emission component that accompanies the non-thermal emission during the prompt phase of GRBs. First, we show the evidence for the existence of this component; Second, we show that this component is naturally explained by considering emission from the photosphere, taking into account high latitude emission from opti

  33. Ferran V. Garcia-Ferrer, Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Germán J. de Valcárcel, Eugenio Roldán

    We discuss the possibility of generating noncritical quadrature squeezing by spontaneous polarization symmetry breaking. We consider first type-II frequency-degenerate optical parametric oscillators, but discard them for a number of reasons. Then we propose a four-wave mixing cavity in which the polarization of the output mode is always linear but has an arb

  34. Nicholas Moskovitz, Mark Willman, Thomas Burbine, Richard Binzel

    V-type asteroids in the inner Main Belt (a < 2.5 AU) and the HED meteorites are thought to be genetically related to one another as collisional fragments from the surface of the large basaltic asteroid 4 Vesta. We investigate this relationship by comparing the near-infrared (0.7-2.5 micron) spectra of 39 V-type asteroids to laboratory spectra of HED meteorit

  35. Olga Podvigina

    We consider a classical problem of linear stability of convective rolls in a plane layer with stress-free horizontal boundaries near the onset of convection. The problem has been studied by a number of authors, who have shown that rolls of wave number $k$ are unstable with respect to perturbations of different types, if some inequalities relating $k$ and the

  36. Thomas Archer, Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju, Stefano Sanvito

    Co-doped ZnO is the prototypical dilute magnetic oxide showing many of the characteristics of ferromagnetism. The microscopic origin of the long range order however remains elusive, since the conventional mechanisms for the magnetic interaction, such as super-exchange and double exchange, fail either at the fundamental or at a quantitative level. Intriguingl

  37. Hajime Sotani

    In order to examine the rotational effect around neutron star in tensor-vector-scalar (TeVeS) theory, we consider the slowly rotating relativistic stars with a uniform angular velocity. As a result, we find that similar to the case in general relativity (GR), the angular momentum is proportional to the angular velocity. Additionally, as the value of coupling

  38. Pierre Berthelot

    If $X$ is a smooth scheme over a perfect field of characteristic $p$, and if $\sD_X$ is the sheaf of differential operators on $X$ [EGAIV], it is well known that giving an action of $\sD_X$ on an $\sO_X$-module $\sE$ is equivalent to giving an infinite sequence of $\sO_X$-modules descending $\sE$ via the iterates of the Frobenius endomorphism of $X$. We show

  39. A. Mesa-Delgado, C. Esteban

    We present results of long-slit spectroscopy in several slit positions that cover different morphological structures of the central parts of three bright Galactic HII regions: M8, M17 and NGC7635. We study the spatial distributions of a large number of nebular parameters such as the extinction coefficient, line fluxes, physical conditions and ionic abundance

  40. Marija Vlajić

    Recent studies of outer spiral disks have given rise to an abundance of new results. We discuss the observational and theoretical advances that have spurred the interest in disk outskirts, as well as where we currently stand in terms of our understanding of outer disk structure, ages and metallicities.

  41. Albert P. Linnell, Paula Szkody, Richard M. Plotkin, Jon Holtzman

    {\it GALEX} near ultraviolet (NUV) and far-ultraviolet (FUV) light curves of three extremely low accretion rate polars show distinct modulations in their UV light curves. While these three systems have a range of magnetic fields from 13 to 70 MG, and of late type secondaries (including a likely brown dwarf in SDSSJ121209.31+013627.7), the accretion rates are

  42. Peter Bruin

    We give algorithms for computing with divisors on projective curves over finite fields, and with their Jacobians, using the algorithmic representation of projective curves developed by Khuri-Makdisi. We show that many desirable operations can be done efficiently in this setting: decomposing divisors into prime divisors; computing pull-backs and push-forwards

  43. Hajer Bahouri, Mohamed Majdoub, Nader Masmoudi

    This paper is devoted to the description of the lack of compactness of $H^1_{rad}(\R^2)$ in the Orlicz space. Our result is expressed in terms of the concentration-type examples derived by P. -L. Lions. The approach that we adopt to establish this characterization is completely different from the methods used in the study of the lack of compactness of Sobole

  44. A. Nicolaou, V. Brouet, M. Zacchigna, I. Vobornik

    We study with ARPES the electronic structure of CoO2 slabs, stacked with rock-salt (RS) layers exhibiting a different (misfit) periodicity. Fermi Surfaces (FS) in phases with different doping and/or periodicities reveal the influence of the RS potential on the electronic structure. We show that these RS potentials are well ordered, even in incommensurate pha

  45. A. Nicolaou, V. Brouet, M. Zacchigna, I. Vobornik

    Previous ARPES experiments in NaxCoO2 reported both a strongly renormalized bandwidth near the Fermi level and moderately renormalized Fermi velocities, leaving it unclear whether the correlations are weak or strong and how they could be quantified. We explain why this situation occurs and solve the problem by extracting clearly the coherent and incoherent p

  46. S. Basilakos, M. Plionis

    The clustering of X-ray selected AGN appears to be a valuable tool for extracting cosmological information. Using the recent high-precision angular clustering results of ~30000 XMM-Newton soft (0.5-2 keV) X-ray sources (Ebrero et al. 2009), which have a median redshift of $z\sim 1$, and assuming a flat geometry, a constant in comoving coordinates AGN cluster

  47. D. Yu. Tsvetkov, L. Elenin

    Multiple outbursts of type Ia SNe in one galaxy present a unique opportunity to study the homogeneity of these objects. NGC 3147 is only the second known galaxy with three SNe Ia, another one is NGC 1316. We present CCD UBVRI photometry for SN Ia 2008fv and compare the light and color curves of this object with those for SNe Ia discovered earlier in NGC 3147

  48. Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier

    We discuss a new one-dimensional non-LTE time-dependent radiative-transfer technique for the simulation of supernova (SN) spectra and light curves. Starting from a hydrodynamical input characterizing the homologously-expanding ejecta at a chosen post-explosion time, we model the evolution of the entire ejecta, including gas and radiation. Non-LTE, which hold

  49. Jean-Luc Marichal, Pierre Mathonet

    By considering a least squares approximation of a given square integrable function f:[0,1]^n --> R by a shifted L-statistic function (a shifted linear combination of order statistics), we define an index which measures the global influence of the k-th largest variable on f. We show that this influence index has appealing properties and we interpret it as an

  50. Claudio Conti, Andrea Fratalocchi, Silvia Gentilini

    We investigate Anderson localization of light as occurring in ultra-short excitations. A theory based on time dependent coupled-mode equations predicts universal features in the spectrum of the transmitted pulse. In particular, the process of strong localization of light is shown to correspond to the formation of peaks in both the amplitude and in the group

  51. T. Schilling, H. J. Schope, M. Oettel, G. Opletal

    We report on a large scale computer simulation study of crystal nucleation in hard spheres. Through a combined analysis of real and reciprocal space data, a picture of a two-step crystallization process is supported: First dense, amorphous clusters form which then act as precursors for the nucleation of well-ordered crystallites. This kind of crystallization

  52. Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Rommert Dekker, Jan van den Berg

    VOS is a new mapping technique that can serve as an alternative to the well-known technique of multidimensional scaling. We present an extensive comparison between the use of multidimensional scaling and the use of VOS for constructing bibliometric maps. In our theoretical analysis, we show the mathematical relation between the two techniques. In our experim

  53. M. R. Pennington

    Light scalar mesons abound in hadron processes, like the alligators in the Florida Everglades. Moreover, scalars are intimately tied to the vacuum structure of QCD. They are the product of many decays. Consequently, a rich source of recent information about them has come from experiments producing heavy flavour mesons. Indeed, scalars will continue to domina

  54. Laurent Deniau

    The C Object System (Cos) is a small C library which implements high-level concepts available in Clos, Objc and other object-oriented programming languages: uniform object model (class, meta-class and property-metaclass), generic functions, multi-methods, delegation, properties, exceptions, contracts and closures. Cos relies on the programmable capabilities

  55. Eran Nevo, T. Kyle Petersen, Bridget Eileen Tenner

    We prove that the $γ$-vector of the barycentric subdivision of a simplicial sphere is the $f$-vector of a balanced simplicial complex. The combinatorial basis for this work is the study of certain refinements of Eulerian numbers used by Brenti and Welker to describe the $h$-vector of the barycentric subdivision of a boolean complex.

  56. B. G. Carlsson, J. Dobaczewski

    We extend density-matrix expansions in nuclei to higher orders in derivatives of densities and test their convergence properties. The expansions allow for converting the interaction energies characteristic to finite- and short-range nuclear effective forces into quasi-local density functionals. We also propose a new type of expansion that has excellent conve

  57. Gregory Sivashinsky

    The Hamilton-Jacobi equation of relativistic quantum mechanics is revisited. The equation is shown to permit solutions in the form of breathers (nondispersive oscillating/spinning solitons), displaying simultaneous particle-like and wave-like behavior adaptable to the properties of the de Broglie clock. Within this formalism the de Broglie wave acquires the

  58. M. Ladra, U. A. Rozikov

    We introduce an (evolution) algebra identifying the coefficients of inheritance of a bisexual population as the structure constants of the algebra. The basic properties of the algebra are studied. We prove that this algebra is commutative (and hence flexible), not associative and not necessarily power associative. We show that the evolution algebra of the bi

  59. Joerg Jaeckel

    In these proceedings we illustrate that light, very weakly interacting particles can arise naturally from physics which is fundamentally connected to very high energy scales. Searching for them therefore may give us interesting new insights into the structure of fundamental physics. Prime examples are the axion, and more general axion-like particles, as well

  60. T. Ju. Bohonova, I. P. Gavrilyuk, V. L. Makarov, V. Vasylyk

    A new exponentially convergent algorithm is proposed for an abstract the first order differential equation with unbounded operator coefficient possessing a variable domain. The algorithm is based on a generalization of the Duhamel integral for vector-valued functions. This technique translates the initial problem to a system of integral equations. Then the s

  61. Massimo Bianchi, Wayne de Paula

    We analyze the isometries of Type IIB flux vacua based on the Papadopolous-Tseytlin ansatz and identify the related massless bulk vector fields. To this end we devise a general ansatz, valid in any flux compactification, for the fluctuations of the metric and p-forms that diagonalizes the coupled equations. We then illustrate the procedure in the simple case

  62. Oleksandr Kapikranian, Yurij Holovatch

    The study gives a decisive answer to the recently risen question about the type and origin of interaction between spin vortices and spin vacancies in 2D spin models. The approach is based on the low-temperature approximation of the 2D XY model known as the Villain model and does not involve any additional approximations, thus preserving the lattice structure

  63. Roman Cherniha, Phil Broadbridge, Liliia Myroniuk

    A symmetry group classification for fourth-order reaction-diffusion equations, allowing for both second-order and fourth-order diffusion terms, is carried out. The fourth order equations are treated, firstly, as systems of second-order equations that bear some resemblance to systems of coupled reaction-diffusion equations with cross diffusion, secondly, as s

  64. A. V. Latyshev, A. A. Yushkanov

    The kinetic equation of Wigner -- Vlasov -- Boltzmann with collision integral in relaxation BGK (Bhatnagar, Gross and Krook) form in coordinate space for quantum non--degenerate (Maxwellian) collisional plasma is used. Exact expression (within the limits of considered model) is found. The analysis of longitudinal dielectric permeability is done. It is shown

  65. Philipp Haas, Fabien Tran, Peter Blaha, Luana S. Pedroza

    Eleven density functionals are compared with regard to their performance for the lattice constants of solids. We consider standard functionals, such as the local-density approximation and the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) generalized-gradient approximation (GGA), as well as variations of PBE GGA, such as PBEsol and similar functionals, PBE-type functionals em

  66. David Berardan, Lidong Zhao, Loreynne Pinsard-Gaudart, Nita Dragoe

    We report on the electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power and electronic phase diagram of rhodium-doped NdFeAsO. Rhodium doping suppresses the structural phase transition and spin density wave observed in the undoped material, and superconductivity emerges at x close to 0.05, despite the distortion of FeAs4 tetrahedra induced by the large size difference

  67. A. Zare, T. Dahm, N. Schopohl

    We demonstrate that in a d-wave superconductor the bulk nonlinear Meissner effect is dominated by a surface effect due to Andreev bound states at low temperatures. The contribution of this surface effect to the nonlinear response coefficient follows a 1/T^3 law with opposite sign compared to the bulk 1/T behavior. The cross-over from bulk dominated behavior

  68. S. Mondal, C. C. Lin, W. P. Chen, Z. -W. Zhang

    The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) project has collected more than a billion photometric measurements since 2005 January. These sky survey data-covering timescales from a fraction of a second to a few hundred days-are a useful source to study stellar variability. A total of 167 star fields, mostly along the ecliptic plane, have been selected fo

  69. Luca Sapienza, Henri Thyrrestrup, Søren Stobbe, Pedro David Garcia

    A major challenge in quantum optics and quantum information technology is to enhance the interaction between single photons and single quantum emitters. Highly engineered optical cavities are generally implemented requiring nanoscale fabrication precision. We demonstrate a fundamentally different approach in which disorder is used as a resource rather than a

  70. Martin Schlichenmaier

    This article is a review on Berezin-Toeplitz operator and Berezin-Toeplitz deformation quantization for compact quantizable Kaehler manifolds. The basic objects, concepts, and results are given. This concerns the correct semi-classical limit behaviour of the operator quantization, the unique Berezin-Toeplitz deformation quantization (star product), covariant

  71. Mark Davis, Sebastien Lleo

    In this paper, we extend the jump-diffusion model proposed by Davis and Lleo to include jumps in asset prices as well as valuation factors. The criterion, following earlier work by Bielecki, Pliska, Nagai and others, is risk-sensitive optimization (equivalent to maximizing the expected growth rate subject to a constraint on variance.) In this setting, the Ha

  72. Q. E. Goddard, R. C. Kennicutt, E. V. Ryan-Weber

    We have compared far-ultraviolet (FUV), near-ultraviolet (NUV), and Halpha measurements for star forming regions in 21 galaxies, in order to characterise the properties of their discs at radii beyond the main optical radius (R25). In our representative sample of extended and non-extended UV discs we find that half of the extended UV discs also exhibit extend

  73. E. Peyghan, A. Tayebi

    In this paper, we define a new metric on Cartan manifolds and obtain a Kähler structure on their cotangent bundles. We prove that on a Cartan manifold M of negative constant flag curvature, (T* M_0, G, J) has a Käahlerian structure. For Cartan manifolds of positive constant flag curvature, we show that the tube around the zero section has a Käahlerian struct

  74. R. A. W. Maier, C. Marzok, C. Zimmermann, Ph. W. Courteille

    Understanding superfluidity with higher order partial waves is crucial for the understanding of high-$T_c$ superconductivity. For the realization of a superfluid with anisotropic order parameter, spin-polarized fermionic lithium atoms with strong p-wave interaction are the most promising candidates to date. We apply rf-spectroscopy techniques that do not suf

  75. Xi Chen, I. Lizuain, A. Ruschhaupt, D. Guery-Odelin

    We propose a method to transfer the population and control the state of two-level and three-level atoms speeding-up Adiabatic Passage techniques while keeping their robustness versus parameter variations. The method is based on supplementing the standard laser beam setup of Adiabatic Passage methods with auxiliary steering laser pulses of orthogonal polariza

  76. B. Mayil Vaganan, D. Pandiaraja, M. Senthilkumaran

    A generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation (GKPE) $(u_t+u u_x + β(t)u +γ(t)u_{xxx})_x+σ(t)u_{yy}\ = \ 0$ is shown to admit an infinite-dimensional Lie group of symmetries when $\bt(t), \ga(t)$ and $\si(t)$ are arbitrary. The Lie algebra of this symmetry group contains two arbitrary functions $f(t)$ and $g(t)$. Further, low-dimensional subalgebras and phys

  77. D. Pandiaraja, B. Mayil Vaganan

    The symmetry classification of the two dimensional Burgers equation with variable coefficient is considered. Symmetry algebra is found and a classification of its subalgebras, up to conjugacy, is obtained. Similarity reductions are performed for each class.

  78. S. Bux, E. Lucioni, H. Bender, T. Bienaime

    We have studied the interplay between disorder and cooperative scattering for single scattering limit in the presence of a driving laser. Analytical results have been derived and we have observed cooperative scattering effects in a variety of experiments, ranging from thermal atoms in an optical dipole trap, atoms released from a dark MOT and atoms in a BEC,

  79. S. Emre Tuna

    Sufficient conditions for synchronization of coupled Lienard-type oscillators are investigated via averaging technique. Coupling considered here is pairwise, unidirectional, and described by a nonlinear function (whose graph resides in the first and third quadrants) of some projection of the relative distance (between the states of the pair being coupled) ve

  80. Jindrich Kolorenc, Shuming Hu, Lubos Mitas

    We investigate how the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo energy of solids depends on single-particle orbitals used in Slater--Jastrow wave functions. We demonstrate that the dependence can be significant, in particular in the case of 3d transition-metal compounds, which we adopt as examples. We illustrate how exchange-correlation functionals with variable exa

  81. L. Mátyás, I. F. Barna

    We present a study of the chaotic behavior of the bouncing ball billiard. The work is realised on the purpose of finding at least certain causes of separation of the neighbouring trajectories. Having in view the geometrical construction of the system, we report a clear origin of chaoticity of the bouncing ball billiard. By this we claim that in case when the

  82. Linqing Wen, Yanbei Chen

    We report for the first time general geometrical expressions for the angular resolution of an arbitrary network of interferometric gravitational-wave (GW) detectors when the arrival-time of a GW is unknown. We show explicitly elements that decide the angular resolution of a GW detector network. In particular, we show the dependence of the angular resolution

  83. Robin Kaiser

    The quest for Anderson localization of light is at the center of many experimental and the- oretical activities. Atomic vapors play a particular role in this research field, as they show a number of specific properties which makes them quite different from other materials used to look for Anderson localization. The very narrow resonance of the atomic line, t

  84. Radu Miron

    The book can be divided in three parts: the Lagrange geometry of order $k$, presented in the first three chapters, the geometrical theory of the dual manifolds $T^{*k}M$ - chapters 4-7 and the geometry of Hamilton spaces of order $k$ and their subspaces, contained in the last four chapters. They are studied directly and as &#39;dual&#39; geometry, via Legend

  85. Myung Gyoon Lee, Hong Soo Park, Ho Seong Hwang

    Globular clusters are found usually in galaxies and they are an excellent tracer of dark matter. Long ago it was suggested that there may exist intracluster globular clusters (IGCs) bound to a galaxy cluster rather than to any single galaxy. Here we present a map showing the large scale distribution of globular clusters over the entire Virgo cluster. It show

  86. Stefan J. Wijnholds, Alle-Jan van der Veen

    The radio astronomy community is currently building a number of phased array telescopes. The calibration of these telescopes is hampered by the fact that covariances of signals from closely spaced antennas are sensitive to noise coupling and to variations in sky brightness on large spatial scales. These effects are difficult and computationally expensive to

  87. Lajos Soukup

    We show that it is consistent that the continuum is as large as you wish, and for each uncountable cardinal $κ$ below the continuum, there are a subset $T$ of the reals and a family $A$ of countable subsets of $T$ such that (1) both $T$ and $A$ have cardinality $κ$, (2) $|\bar{a}\cap T|=κ$ for each $a\in A$, (3) for each uncountable subset of $T$ contains so

  88. Vladimir S. Zhgoon

    Following Skorobogatov and Serganova we construct the embeddings of universal torsors over del Pezzo surfaces in the cones over flag varieties, considered as the closed orbits in the projectivization of quasiminiscule representations. We give the approach that allows us to construct the embeddings of universal torsors over del Pezzo surfaces of the degree on

  89. Frank Meier

    This conference proceeding presents the first results of the full CMS Tracker alignment based on several million reconstructed tracks from the cosmic data taken during the commissioning runs with the detector in its final position and magnetic field present. The all-silicon design of the CMS Tracker poses new challenges in aligning a complex system with 15\,

  90. N. Mennekens, D. Vanbeveren, J. P. De Greve, E. De Donder

    We investigate the contribution of different formation scenarios for type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies. The single degenerate scenario (a white dwarf accreting from a late main sequence or red giant companion) is tested against the double degenerate scenario (the spiral-in and merging of two white dwarfs through the emission of gravitational wave rad

  91. I. M. Trishin

    Because of its multiplicativity, the Berezinian is the character of the one-dimensional representation of the general linear supergroup. We give an explicit construction of this representation on a space of tensors. Similarly, we construct the representation such that its character is the inverse of the Berezinian.

  92. Ortwin Gerhard

    A brief review is given of different methods used to determine the pattern speeds of the Galactic bar and spiral arms. The Galactic bar rotates rapidly, with corotation about halfway between the Galactic center and the Sun, and outer Lindblad resonance not far from the solar orbit, R0. The Galactic spiral arms currently rotate with a distinctly slower patter

  93. Yu-hua Xue, Jian Wang, Liang Li, Daren He

    We find that transport on scale-free random networks depends strongly on degree-correlated network topologies whereas transport on Erd$\ddot{o}$s-R$\acute{e}$nyi networks is insensitive to the degree correlation. An approach for the tuning of scale-free network transport efficiency through assortative or dissortative topology is proposed. We elucidate that t

  94. B. Mamurov

    By analogue of [1,2] we define a cubic stochastic process and study evolution (dynamics) of a system $E$ which contains at least three elements.

  95. O. Abbasi, M. K. Tavassoly

    Nonlinear coherent states (CSs) and their {\it dual families} were introduced recently. In this paper we want to obtain their superposition and investigate their non-classical properties such as antibunching effect, quadrature squeezing and amplitude squared squeezing. For this purpose two types of superposition are considered. In the first type we neglect t

  96. Satoshi Naito, Daisuke Sagaki

    Using Lakshmibai-Seshadri paths, we give a combinatorial realization of the crystal basis of an extremal weight module of integral extremal weight over the quantized universal enveloping algebra associated to the infinite rank affine Lie algebra of type $B_{\infty}$, $C_{\infty}$, or $D_{\infty}$. Moreover, via this realization, we obtain an explicit descrip

  97. Zhao-Yu Zuo, Xiang-Dong Li

    We have modeled the displacement of luminous X-ray binaries from star clusters in star-burst galaxies with an evolutionary population synthesis code developed by Hurley et al. (2000, 2002). In agreement with Kaaret et al. (2004), we find significant spatial offset of X-ray sources from their parent clusters, and the apparent X-ray luminosity vs. displacement

  98. L. C. Garcia de Andrade

    Recently Vishik anti-fast dynamo theorem, has been tested against non-stretching flux tubes [Phys Plasmas 15 (2008)]. In this paper, another anti-dynamo theorem, called Cowling&#39;s theorem, which states that axisymmetric magnetic fields cannot support dynamo action, is carefully tested against thick tubular and curved Riemannian untwisted flows, as well as

  99. L. C. Garcia de Andrade

    Recently Guenther et al the globally diagonalized $α^{2}$ dynamo operator spectrum [J Phys A 2007) in mean field media, and its Krein space related perturbation theory [J Phys A 2006). Earlier, an example of fast dynamos in stretch shear and fold Anosov maps have been given by Gilbert [PRSA [1993)). In this paper, analytical solutions representing general tu

  100. Paul Larson, Itay Neeman, Saharon Shelah

    A subset of a topological space is said to be \emph{universally measurable} if it is measured by the completion of each countably additive $σ$-finite Borel measure on the space, and \emph{universally null} if it has measure zero for each such atomless measure. In 1908, Hausdorff proved that there exist universally null sets of real numbers of cardinality $\a