August 2010 arXiv papers — page 10

Shuji Watanabe

One of long-standing problems in mathematical studies of superconductivity is to show that the solution to the BCS gap equation is continuous in the temperature. In this paper we address this problem. We regard the BCS gap equation as a nonlinear integral equation on a Banach space consisting of continuous functions of both $T$ and $x$. Here, $T (\geq 0)$ st

Gábor Hetyei

We introduce the short toric polynomial associated to a graded Eulerian poset. This polynomial contains the same information as the two toric polynomials introduced by Stanley, but allows different algebraic manipulations. The intertwined recurrence defining Stanley's toric polynomials may be replaced by a single recurrence, in which the degree of the di

Raheel Shah, Tariq M. Mohiuddin

Impact of induced strain on charge carrier mobility is investigated for a monolayer graphene sheet. Mobility is computed within Born approximation by including impurity scattering, surface roughness effects and interaction with lattice phonons. Unlike its sSi counterpart, strained graphene shows a drop in mobility with increasing strain. Main reason for this

Abbas Mehrabian

We consider the game of Cops and Robber played on the Cartesian product of two trees. Assuming the players play perfectly, it is shown that if there are two cops in the game, then the length of the game (known as the 2-capture time of the graph) is equal to half the diameter of the graph. In particular, the 2-capture time of the m x n grid is proved to be fl

D. Jido, E. Oset, T. Sekihara

The K^- induced production of Lambda(1405) in the K^- d to pi Sigma n reaction is investigated having in mind the conditions of the DAFNE facility at Frascati where kaons are obtained from the decay of slow moving phi mesons. We find that the K^- d to Lambda(1405) n process favors the production of Lambda(1405) initiated by the K^- p channel, which gives lar

Takayasu Sekihara, Alberto Martinez Torres, Daisuke Jido, Eulogio Oset

We study the photoproduction of phi mesons in deuteron, paying attention to the modification of the cross section from bound protons to the free ones with the aim of comparing with recent results at LEPS. For this purpose we take into account Fermi motion in single scattering and rescattering of the phi to account for phi absorption on a second nucleon as we

Yunshuang Du, Hongsheng Zhang, Xin-Zhou Li

Recently, type Ia supernovae data appear to support a dark energy whose equation of state $w$ crosses -1, which is a much more amazing problem than the acceleration of the universe. We show that it is possible for the equation of state to cross the phantom divide by a scalar field in the gravity with an additional inverse power-law term of Ricci scalar in th

T. Harada, I. Ohkubo, M. Lippmaa, Y. Matsumoto

Ferromagnetic insulator Pr0.8Ca0.2Mn1-yCoyO3 (0 <= y <= 0.7) thin films were epitaxially grown on (LaAlO3)0.3-(SrAl0.5Ta0.5O3)0.7 (100) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. To probe the ferromagnetic insulator state of hole-doped manganites, the Co content dependences of the structural, magnetic, and transport properties were studied. Variation of lattice

Ke Sun, Huadong Meng, Fabian Lapierre, Xiqin Wang

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is a well-known technique in detecting slow-moving targets in the presence of a clutter-spreading environment. When considering the STAP system deployed with conformal radar array (CFA), the training data are range-dependent, which results in poor detection performance of traditional statistical-based algorithms. Current

Alberto Montina

Recently we have presented a hidden variable model of measurements for a qubit where the hidden variable state space dimension is one-half the quantum state manifold dimension. The absence of a short memory (Markov) dynamics is the price paid for this dimensional reduction. The conflict between having the Markov property and achieving the dimensional reducti

De-Zi Liu, Cong Ma, Tong-Jie Zhang, Zhi-Liang Yang

We propose two efficient numerical methods of evaluating the luminosity distance in the spatially flat ΛCDM universe. The first method is based on the Carlson symmetric form of elliptic integrals, which is highly accurate and can replace numerical quadratures. The second method, using a modified version of Hermite interpolation, is less accurate but involves

Hai-Yang Cheng

Owing to a different treatment of the vacuum alignment, the strong CP-violating Lagrangian obtained by Di Vecchia, Veneziano and Witten (DVW) 3 decades ago do not look quite the same as the one originally derived by Baluni at the quark or hadron level. We show that they are consistent with each other and emphasize that, within the DVW approach, the $θG\tilde

J. Romero, J. Leach, B. Jack, M. R. Dennis

We report the entanglement of topological features, namely, isolated, linked optical vortex loops in the light from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). In three dimensions, optical vortices are lines of phase singularity and vortices of energy flow which percolate through all optical fields. This example of entanglement is between features that ex

Wojciech Krolikowski

Operating with the recently proposed model of hidden sector of the Universe, based on the idea of photonic portal, we consider a new possible astrophysical process of weak photoproduction of sterile scalars from the cold dark matter consisting of sterile Dirac fermions. Subsequently, these scalars weakly decay into secondary couples of photons. Then, primary

Jie Ding, Jane Hillston

In order to avoid the state space explosion problem encountered in the quantitative analysis of large scale PEPA models, a fluid approximation approach has recently been proposed, which results in a set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to approximate the underlying continuous time Markov chain (CTMC). This paper presents a mapping semantics from PEP

George W. Preston

I report some results of an echelle spectroscopic survey of RR Lyrae stars begun in 2006 that I presented in my Henry Norris Lecture of January 4, 2010. Topics include (1) atmospheric velocity gradients, (2) phase-dependent envelope turbulence as it relates to Peterson&#39;s discoveries of axial rotation on the horizontal branch and to Stothers&#39; explanat

Jean V. Bellissard, Matilde Marcolli, Kamran Reihani

Let (A,H,D) be a spectral triple, namely: A is a C*-algebra, H is a Hilbert space on which A acts and D is a selfadjoint operator with compact resolvent such that the set of elements of A having a bounded commutator with D is dense. A spectral metric space, the noncommutative analog of a complete metric space, is a spectral triple (A,H,D) with additional pro

K. Kreckel, E. Platen, M. A. Aragón-Calvo, J. H. van Gorkom

Void galaxies, residing within the deepest underdensities of the Cosmic Web, present an ideal population for the study of galaxy formation and evolution in an environment undisturbed by the complex processes modifying galaxies in clusters and groups, as well as provide an observational test for theories of cosmological structure formation. We have completed

Haiyan Wang

The existence, multiplicity and nonexistence of nontrivial radial convex solutions of a system of two weakly coupled Monge-Ampere equations are established with asymptotic assumptions for an appropriately chosen parameter. The proof of the results is based on Krasnoselskii&#39;s fixed point theorem in a cone.

Vianney Combet

For the L2 supercritical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation, we proved in a previous article the existence and uniqueness of an N-parameter family of N-solitons. Recall that, for any N given solitons, we call N-soliton a solution of the equation which behaves as the sum of these N solitons asymptotically as time goes to infinity. In the present paper, we

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We study the limiting behaviour of the empirical measure of a system of diffusions interacting through their ranks when the number of diffusions tends to infinity. We prove that the limiting dynamics is given by a McKean-Vlasov evolution equation. Moreover, we show that in a wide range of cases the evolution of the cumulative distribution function under the

Steven Furlanetto, Adam Lidz

We show that comparisons of HeII Lyman-alpha forest lines of sight to nearby quasar populations can strongly constrain the lifetimes and emission geometry of quasars. By comparing the HeII and HI Lyman-alpha forests along a particular line of sight, one can trace fluctuations in the hardness of the radiation field (which are driven by fluctuations in the HeI

Richard J. Mathar

The Feigenbaum-Cvitanovic equation -lambda * g(x)= g(g(lambda * x)) is solved over the interval 0 <= x <= 1 with a Chebyshev series representation of g(x). Accurate expansion coefficients are tabulated for solutions g(x) = 1+O(x^z) with even exponents from z=2 up to z=14.

G. Barcza, Ö. Legeza, K. H. Marti, M. Reiher

We have studied transition metal clusters from a quantum information theory perspective using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. We demonstrate the competition between entanglement and interaction localization. We also discuss the application of the configuration interaction based dynamically extended active space procedure which signifi

Przemyslaw Koscik, Anna Okopinska

The convergence of the Rayleigh-Ritz method with nonlinear parameters optimized through minimization of the trace of the truncated matrix is demonstrated by a comparison with analytically known eigenstates of various quasi-solvable systems. We show that the basis of the harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions with optimized frequency ? enables determination of bo

Przemyslaw Koscik, Anna Okopinska

Entropic entanglement measures of a two-dimensional system of two Coulombically interacting particles confined in an anisotropic harmonic potential are discussed in dependence on the anisotropy and the interaction strength. The harmonic approximation appears exact in the strong interaction limit, allowing determination of the asymptotic expression for the li

E. A. Chekhovich, A. B. Krysa, M. S. Skolnick, A. I. Tartakovskii

We use photoluminescence spectroscopy of &#39;&#39;bright&#39;&#39; and &#39;&#39;dark&#39;&#39; exciton states in single InP/GaInP quantum dots to measure hyperfine interaction of the valence band hole with nuclear spins polarized along the sample growth axis. The ratio of the hyperfine constants for the hole (C) and electron (A) is found to be C/A~-0.11. I

Jeffrey M. Hawkins, John R. Thompson, Michael Wittmann

In a series of ten two-dimensional graphical vector addition questions with varying visual representations, most students stuck to a single solution method, be it correct or incorrect. Changes to the visual representation include placing vectors on a grid, making the vectors arrangements symmetric, varying the separation between vectors, and reversing the di

Dominique Naef, Michel Mayor, Gaspare Lo Curto, Francois Bouchy

In this paper, we present our HARPS radial-velocity data for eight low-activity solar-type stars belonging to the HARPS volume-limited sample: HD6718, HD8535, HD28254, HD290327, HD43197, HD44219, HD148156, and HD156411. Keplerian fits to these data reveal the presence of low-mass companions around these targets. With minimum masses ranging from 0.58 to 2.54

S. M. Rucinski, K. Zwintz, M. Hareter, G. Pojmanski

The more massive counterparts of T Tauri stars, Herbig Ae/Be stars, are known to vary in a complex way with no variability mechanism clearly identified. We attempt to characterize the optical variability of HD~37806 (MWC 120) on time scales ranging between minutes and several years. A continuous, one-minute resolution, 21 day-long sequence of MOST (Microvari

Jesus Leaños, Mbe Koua Christophe Ndjatchi, Luis Manuel Rivera-Martinez

Let L be a simple Euclidean arrangement of n pseudolines. It is shown that if L has exactly one (>=5)=gon P, and k is the number of edges of P that are adjacent to an unbounded cell of the subarrangement of L induced by the pseudolines in P, then L has exactly n-k triangles and k+n(n-5)/2 quadrilaterals. We also prove that if each pseudoline of L is adjacent

Avinash Khare, Kim Ø. Rasmussen, Mogens R. Samuelsen, Avadh Saxena

We point out that the nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger lattice with a saturable nonlinearity also admits staggered periodic as well as localized pulse-like solutions. Further, the same model also admits solutions with a short period. We examine the stability of these solutions and find that the staggered as well as the short period solutions are stable in most cases.

Avinash Khare, Kim Ø. Rasmussen, Mogens R. Samuelsen, Avadh Saxena

We show that the two-dimensional, nonlinear Schrödinger lattice with a saturable nonlinearity admits periodic and pulse-like exact solutions. We establish the general formalism for the stability considerations of these solutions and give examples of stability diagrams. Finally, we show that the effective Peierls-Nabarro barrier for the pulse-like soliton sol

Antonio Di Lorenzo

It is demonstrated that the the statistics for a joint measurement of two conjugate variables in Quantum Mechanics are expressed through an equation identical to the classical one, provided that joint classical probabilities are substituted by Wigner functions and that the interaction between system and detectors is accounted for. This constitutes an extensi

Asaf Pe&#39;er, Felix Ryde

We consider the emission of photons from the inner parts of a relativistically expanding plasma outflow, characterized by a constant Lorentz factor, Gamma. Photons that are injected in regions of high optical depth are advected with the flow until they escape at the photosphere. Due to multiple scattering below the photosphere, the locally emerging comoving

N. A. Hatch, C. De Breuck, A. Galametz, G. K. Miley

We study the environments of 6 radio galaxies at 2.2 < z < 2.6 using wide-field near-infrared images. We use colour cuts to identify galaxies in this redshift range, and find that three of the radio galaxies are surrounded by significant surface overdensities of such galaxies. The excess galaxies that comprise these overdensities are strongly clustered, sugg

Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Cushing

[Abridged] We present 2.12-2.23 um high contrast integral field spectroscopy of the extrasolar planet HR 8799 b. Our observations were obtained with OSIRIS on the Keck II telescope and sample the 2.2 um CH4 feature, which is useful for spectral classification and as a temperature diagnostic for ultracool objects. The spectrum of HR 8799 b is relatively featu

Lisa May Walker, Kelsey E. Johnson, Sarah C. Gallagher, John E. Hibbard

Compact galaxy groups are at the extremes of the group environment, with high number densities and low velocity dispersions that likely affect member galaxy evolution. To explore the impact of this environment in detail, we examine the distribution in the mid-infrared (MIR) 3.6-8.0 micron colorspace of 42 galaxies from 12 Hickson compact groups in comparison

Carsten Weidner, Ian A. Bonnell, Nickolas Moeckel

With the use of N-body calculations the amount and properties of escaping stars from low-N (N = 100 and 1000) young embedded star clusters prior to gas expulsion are studied over the first 5 Myr of their existence. Besides the number of stars also different initial radii and binary populations are examined as well as virialised and collapsing clusters. It is

John E. Gizis

We present a sample of 968 K5-M6 dwarfs detected in the AKARI-IRC Point Source Catalog. The vast majority of these low-mass stars have brightnesses in the AKARI broad 9-micron (S9W) filter that match expectations of model photospheres. Mismatched double stars have been excluded. Hot (200-600K) debris disks can produce excesses in this mid-infrared filter. We

J. M. Deutsch, M. Olvera de la Cruz

We study self avoiding random walks in an environment where sites are excluded randomly, in two and three dimensions. For a single polymer chain, we study the statistics of the time averaged monomer density and show that these are well described by multifractal statistics. This is true even far from the percolation transition of the disordered medium. We inv

Steven A. Rodney, John L. Tonry

The IfA Deep survey uncovered ~130 thermonuclear supernovae (TNSNe, i.e. Type Ia) candidates at redshifts from z=0.1 out to beyond z=1. The TNSN explosion rates derived from these data have been controversial, conflicting with evidence emerging from other surveys. This work revisits the IfA Deep survey to re-evaluate the photometric evidence. Applying the SO

Michael W. Thomas, Erik Schnetter

Computational Science on large high performance computing resources is hampered by the complexity of these systems. Much of this complexity is due to low-level details on these resources that are exposed to the application and the end user. This includes (but is not limited to) mechanisms for remote access, configuring and building applications from source c

V. Skokov, B. Friman, K. Redlich

Thermodynamics and the phase structure of the Polyakov loop-extended two flavors chiral quark--meson (PQM) model is explored beyond the mean-field approximation. The analysis of the PQM model is based on the functional renormalization group (FRG) method. We formulate and solve the renormalization group flow equation for the scale-dependent thermodynamic pote

S. -L. -Y. Xu, X. Illa, J. M. Schwarz

Using a system of repulsive, soft particles as a model for a jammed solid, we analyze its force network as characterized by the magnitude of the contact force between two particles, the local contact angle subtended between three particles, and the local coordination number. In particular, we measure the local contact angle distribution as a function of the

Leonardo Macarini, Felix Schlenk

Let M be a closed manifold whose based loop space is ``complicated&#39;&#39;. Examples are rationally hyperbolic manifolds and manifolds whose fundamental group has exponential growth. We prove that the topological entropy of any Reeb flow on the spherization of T*M is positive. Moreover, given q in M, for almost every q&#39; in M the number of Reeb orbits f

P. Rost, G. Fettweis

In this paper, a framework for the analysis of the transmission-computation-energy tradeoff in wireless and fixed networks is introduced. The analysis of this tradeoff considers both the transmission energy as well as the energy consumed at the receiver to process the received signal. While previous work considers linear decoder complexity, which is only ach

Yan-Qin Qu, Xiu-Lian Xu, Shan Guan, Kai-Jun Li

We present a model, in which some nodes (called interconnecting nodes) in two networks merge and play the roles in both the networks. The model analytic and simulation discussions show a monotonically increasing dependence of interconnecting node topological position difference and a monotonically decreasing dependence of the interconnecting node number on f

Isaac Childres, Luis A. Jauregui, Mike Foxe, Jifa Tian

Electron beam exposure is a commonly used tool for fabricating and imaging graphene-based devices. Here we present a study of the effects of electron-beam irradiation on the electronic transport properties of graphene and the operation of graphene field-effect transistors (GFET). Exposure to a 30 keV electron-beam caused negative shifts in the charge-neutral

Thomas Görnitz

From a theory of an abstract quantum information the theory of general relativity can be deduced by means of few and physically good founded reasons. &#34;Abstract&#34; quantum information means that primarily no special meaning is connected with it. Therefore it is named with a new denotation: Protyposis. From the Protyposis and by using group-theoretical m

Dan Saracino

Let S_n(321) (respectively, S_n(132)) denote the set of all permutations of {1,2,...,n} that avoid the pattern 321 (respectively, the pattern 132). Elizalde and Pak gave a bijection Theta from S_n(321) to S_n(132) that preserves the numbers of fixed points and excedances for each element of S_n(321), and commutes with the operation of taking inverses. Bloom

Ignacio Ferrin

In support of the EPOXI mission, we have compiled the secular light curve (SLC) of comet 103P/Hartley 2, the next target of EPOXI. a) Of the order of 30 photometric parameters are measured, over 20 of them new. The turn on point of activity is -4.2 +/- 0.1 AU from the Sun, which corresponds to -400 +/- 40 d before perihelion. The total active time is TACTIVE

Martin M. Block, Phuoc Ha, Douglas W. McKay

We update our estimates of charged and neutral current neutrino total cross sections on isoscalar nucleons at ultrahigh energies using a global (x, Q^2) fit, motivated by the Froissart bound, to the F_2 (electron-proton) structure function utilizing the most recent analysis of the complete ZEUS and H1 data sets from HERA I. Using the large Q^2, small Bjorken

B. D. Dudson, X. Q. Xu, M. V. Umansky, H. R. Wilson

The BOUT++ code is used to simulate ELMs in a shifted circle equilibrium. Reduced ideal MHD simulations are first benchmarked against the linear ideal MHD code ELITE, showing good agreement. Diamagnetic drift effects are included finding the expected suppression of high toroidal mode number modes. Nonlinear simulations are performed, making the assumption th

Mark K. Transtrum, Gianluigi Catelani, James P. Sethna

We study the superheating field of a bulk superconductor within Ginzburg-Landau theory, which is valid near the critical temperature. We calculate, as functions of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter $κ$, the superheating field $\Hsh$ and the critical momentum $k_c$ characterizing the wavelength of the instability of the Meissner state to flux penetration. By mapp

M. N. Chernodub, Martin Lundgren, Antti J. Niemi

We present a numerical Monte Carlo analysis of a continuos spin Ising chain that can describe the statistical proterties of folded proteins. We find that depending on the value of the Metropolis temperature, the model displays the three known nontrivial phases of polymers: At low temperatures the model is in a collapsed phase, at medium temperatures it is in

Guanfeng Liang, Nitin Vaidya

In this report, building on the deterministic multi-valued one-to-many Byzantine agreement (broadcast) algorithm in our recent technical report [2], we introduce a deterministic multi-valued all-to-all Byzantine agreement algorithm (consensus), with linear complexity per bit agreed upon. The discussion in this note is not self-contained, and relies heavily o

Jean Marcel Fokam

We prove existence of infinitely many classical periodic solutions with periodic boundary conditions for a class of monotone semilinear wave equations. Our argument relies on some new estimates for the linear problem with periodic boundary conditions by combining Littewood-Paley techniques, the Hausdorff-Young theorem and a variational formulation due to Rab

T. Kim

In this paper, we give new identities involving Phillips q-Bernstein polynomials and we derive some interesting properties of q-Berstein polynomials associated with q-Stirling numbers and q-Bernoulli polynomials.

A. De Rújula

Cloet and Miller, in arXiv:1008.4345, state that &#34;existing data rule out a value of the third Zemach moment large enough to explain the current puzzle with the proton charge radius determined from the Lamb shift in muonic Hydrogen. This is in contrast with the recent claim of De Rújula [arXiv:1008.3861]&#34;. To be more precise: it is not. It is, however

Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Terrence M. Girard, Vladimir I. Korchagin, William F. van Altena

(abridged) We have measured the absolute proper motions of nine low-latitude, inner Galaxy globular clusters, namely NGC 6273 (M 19), NGC 6284, NGC 6287, NGC 6293, NGC 6333 (M 9), NGC 6342, NGC 6356, NGC 6388 and NGC 6441. These are the first determinations ever made for these clusters. The proper motions are on the ICRS via Hipparcos. The proper-motion erro

Poonam Mehta

In a recent paper [arXiv:0901.0790], we showed that there is a neat geometric interpretation of two flavor neutrino oscillation formulae, and that the geometric phase involved in the physics of oscillations is restricted to be topological as long as CP is conserved. This paper has been criticised by Bhandari [arXiv:1006.5935]. In the present note, we show th

Piotr M. Kowalski

The DQ white dwarfs are stars whose atmosphere is enriched with carbon, which for cool stars ($T_{\rm eff}<8000\rm \, K$) is indicated by the Swan bands of $\rm C_2$ in the optical part of their spectra. With decreasing effective temperature these molecular bands undergo a significant blueshift ($\sim 100-300 Å$). The origin of this phenomenon has been dispu

D. A. Badjin, S. I. Blinnikov, K. A. Postnov

We present methodology and results of numerical modeling of the interaction of GRB prompt emission with the circumburst medium using a modified version of the multi-group radiation hydrocode STELLA. The modification includes the nonstationary photoionization, the photoionization heating and the Compton heating along with the hydrodynamics and radiation trans

R. Khasanov, M. Bendele, A. Bussmann-Holder, H. Keller

The currently available results of the isotope effect on the superconducting transition temperature T_c in Fe-based high-temperature superconductors (HTS) are highly controversial. The values of the Fe isotope effect (Fe-IE) exponent α_Fe for various families of Fe-based HTS were found to be as well positive, as negative, or even be exceedingly larger than t

D. Jacob, J. J. Palacios

We study the performance of two different electrode models in quantum transport calculations based on density functional theory: Parametrized Bethe lattices and quasi-one dimensional wires or nanowires. A detailed account of implementation details in both cases is given. From the systematic study of nanocontacts made of representative metallic elements, we c

Wouter M. Koolen, Tim van Erven

In prediction with expert advice the goal is to design online prediction algorithms that achieve small regret (additional loss on the whole data) compared to a reference scheme. In the simplest such scheme one compares to the loss of the best expert in hindsight. A more ambitious goal is to split the data into segments and compare to the best expert on each

P. Osland, A. A. Pankov, A. V. Tsytrinov, N. Paver

We discuss the signatures of the spin-2 graviton excitations predicted by the Randall-Sundrum model with one warped extra dimension, in dilepton and diphoton production at LHC. By using a specific angular analysis, we assess the ranges in mass and coupling constant where such gravitons can be discriminated against competitor spin-1 and spin-0 objects, that p

Maxim V. Pavlov

This paper is devoted to a description of integrable Hamiltonian hydrodynamic chains associated with Dorfman Poisson brackets. Three main classes of these hydrodynamic chains are selected. Generating functions of conservation laws and commuting flows are found. Hierarchies of these Hamiltonian hydrodynamic chains are extended on negative moments and negative

Helen Kirk, Jaime E. Pineda, Doug Johnstone, Alyssa Goodman

We utilize the extensive datasets available for the Perseus molecular cloud to analyze the relationship between the kinematics of small-scale dense cores and the larger structures in which they are embedded. The kinematic measures presented here can be used in conjunction with those discussed in our previous work as strong observational constraints that nume

Martin Durant, Tariq Shahbaz, Poshak Gandhi, Remon Cornelisse

Using simultaneous observations in X-rays and optical, we have performed a homogeneous analysis of the cross-correlation behaviours of four X-ray binaries: SWIFT J1753.5-0127, GX 339-4, Sco X-1, and Cyg X-2. With high time-resolution observations using ULTRACAM and RXTE, we concentrate on the short time-scale, dt<20 s, variability in these sources. Here we p

Andreas Sinner, Nils Hasselmann, Peter Kopietz

We investigate the single-particle spectral density of interacting bosons within the non-perturbative functional renormalization group technique. The flow equations for a Bose gas are derived in a scheme which treats the two-particle density-density correlations exactly but neglects irreducible correlations among three and more particles. These flow equation

Sarah Andreas, Andreas Ringwald

Hidden sector particles with sub-GeV masses like hidden U(1) gauge bosons, the NMSSM CP-odd Higgs, and other axion-like particles are experimentally little constrained as they interact only very weakly with the visible sector. For masses below the muon threshold, we present constraints from meson decays, g - 2 as well as beam-dump and reactor experiments. Th

Simon Brain, Walter D. van Suijlekom

We present an account of the ADHM construction of instantons on Euclidean space-time $\mathbb{R}^4$ from the point of view of noncommutative geometry. We recall the main ingredients of the classical construction in a coordinate algebra format, which we then deform using a cocycle twisting procedure to obtain a method for constructing families of instantons o

Rolf Kuiper, Hubert Klahr, Henrik Beuther, Thomas Henning

We present radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the collapse of massive pre-stellar cores. We treat frequency dependent radiative feedback from stellar evolution and accretion luminosity at a numerical resolution down to 1.27 AU. In the 2D approximation of axially symmetric simulations, it is possible for the first time to simulate the whole accretion phas

Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, Atanas Stefanov

We prove dispersive decay estimates for the one-dimensional Dirac operator and use them to prove asymptotic stability of small gap solitons in the nonlinear Dirac equations with quintic and higher-order nonlinear terms.

S. Sergeenkov, V. A. G. Rivera, E. Marega, F. M. Araujo-Moreira

We report on some unusual behavior of the measured current-voltage characteristics (CVC) in artificially prepared two-dimensional unshunted array of overdamped Nb-AlO_x-Nb Josephson junctions. The obtained nonlinear CVC are found to exhibit a pronounced (and practically temperature independent) crossover at some current I_{cr}=\left(\frac{1}{2β_C}-1\right)I_

J. Millen, G. Lochead, M. P. A. Jones

We report the creation of an interacting cold Rydberg gas of strontium atoms. We show that the excitation spectrum of the inner valence electron is sensitive to the interactions in the Rydberg gas, even though they are mediated by the outer Rydberg electron. By studying the evolution of this spectrum we observe density-dependent population transfer to a stat

V. P. Yashchuk, E. A. Tikhonov, O. A. Prygodiuk

The random lasing (RL) emission of dyed vesicular polymeric films in diffusive regime of light propagation was investigated under helium temperature. It represents itself the coupling effect of stimulated emission and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Due to the effect a set of Raman lines reveal in RL spectrum. Distinguishing feature of the effect is the s

Artie Prendergast-Smith

We give a proof of the Morrison--Kawamata cone conjecture for abelian varieties. The proof is a straightforward deduction from well-known results on the real endomorphism algebra of an abelian variety and reduction theory for self-dual homogeneous convex cones.

M. G. Rudavets

We predict the effect of the nuclear spin density fluctuations on NMR spectra of critical solutions of spin-carrying atoms in closed carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The total effective dipolar coupling of nuclear spin-carrying of 129^Xe atoms is the sum of 2 terms i.e. g_0 of non-correlated 129^Xe atoms and g_1 depending on density fluctuations of Xe atoms. The cou

M. Mugrauer, N. Vogt, R. Neuhäuser, T. O. B. Schmidt

Aims: We study the formation of substellar objects (exoplanets and brown dwarfs) as companions to young nearby stars. Methods: With high contrast AO imaging obtained with NACO at ESO&#39;s VLT we search for faint companion-candidates around our targets, whose companionship can be confirmed with astrometry. Results: In the course of our imaging campaign we fo

E. Megias, H. J. Pirner, K. Veschgini

We calculate the pressure, entropy density, trace anomaly and speed of sound of the gluon plasma using the dilaton potential of Ref. arXiv:0911.0627[hep-ph] in the dilaton-gravity theory of AdS/QCD. The finite temperature observables are calculated from the Black Hole solutions of the Einstein equations, and using the Bekenstein-Hawking equality of the entro

M. N. M. van Lieshout

We propose new summary statistics for intensity-reweighted moment stationary point processes that generalise the well known J-, empty space, and nearest-neighbour distance distribution functions, represent them in terms of generating functionals and conditional intensities, and relate them to the inhomogeneous reduced second moment function. Extensions to sp

Simon Kreuzer, H. -W. Hammer

Understanding the volume dependence of the triton binding energy is an important step towards lattice simulations of light nuclei. We calculate the triton binding energy in a finite cubic box with periodic boundary conditions to leading order in the pionless effective field theory. Higher order corrections are estimated and the proper renormalization of our

Florent Krzakala, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, David Sherrington, Lenka Zdeborová

Krzakala, Ricci-Tersenghi and Zdeborova have shown recently that the random field Ising model with non-negative interactions and arbitrary external magnetic field on an arbitrary lattice does not have a static spin glass phase. In this paper we generalize the proof to a soft scalar spin version of the Ising model: the Ginzburg-Landau model with random magnet

H. Ulbrich, D. Senff, P. Steffens, O. J. Schumann

We present diffraction data on a single-layered manganite La(0.42)Sr(1.58)MnO4 with hole doping (x>0.5). Overdoped La(0.42)Sr(1.58)MnO4 exhibits a complex ordering of charges, orbitals and spins. Single crystal neutron diffraction experiments reveal three incommensurate and one commensurate order parameters to be tightly coupled. The position and the shape o

B. N. J. Persson

We calculate the friction force acting on a hard cylinder or spherical ball rolling on a flat surface of a viscoelastic solid. The rolling friction coefficient depends non-linearly on the normal load and the rolling velocity. For a cylinder rolling on a viscoelastic solid characterized by a single relaxation time Hunter has obtained an exact result for the r

G. Orlandini, N. Barnea, W. Leidemann

A different formulation of the effective interaction hyperspherical harmonics (EIHH) method, suitable for non-local potentials, is presented. The EIHH method for local interactions is first shortly reviewed to point out the problems of an extension to non-local potentials. A viable solution is proposed and, as an application, results on the ground-state prop

Vladimir A. Sablikov

We develop a realistic and analytically tractable model to describe the spin current which arises in a quantum point contact (QPC) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) upon a small voltage is applied. In the model, the QPC is considered as a saddle point of two-dimensional potential landscape. The SOI acts within a finite region and is absent deep in the reserv

S. Dubnicka, A. Z. Dubnickova

The utility of an application of the analyticity in a phenomenology of electro-weak structure of hadrons is demonstrated in a number of obtained new and experimentally verifiable results. With this aim first the problem of an inconsistency of the asymptotic behavior of VMD model with the asymptotic behavior of form factors of baryons and nuclei is solved gen

B. N. J. Persson, A. I. Volokitin, H. Ueba

We study the heat transfer between weakly coupled systems with flat interface. We present simple analytical results which can be used to estimate the heat transfer coefficient. As applications we consider the heat transfer across solid-solid contacts, and between a membrane (graphene) and a solid substrate (amorphous SiO2). For the latter system the calculat

Reza Sazeedeh

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring of Krull dimension $d$ admitting a dualizing complex $D$ and let $\frak a$ be any ideal of $R$, we prove that $Γ_{\frak a}(G)$ is Gorenstein injective for any Gorenstein injective $R$-module $G$. Let $(R,\frak m)$ be a local ring and $M$ be a finitely generated $R$-module. We show that ${\rm Gid}{\bf R}Γ_{\frak m}(M)<

Alexis Matter, Bruno Lopez, Stéphane Lagarde, William C. Danchi

The observable quantities in optical interferometry, which are the modulus and the phase of the complex visibility, may be corrupted by parasitic fringes superimposed on the genuine fringe pattern. These fringes are due to an interference phenomenon occurring from straylight effects inside an interferometric instrument. We developed an analytical approach to

T. Delsate

We generalize the vacuum static black brane solutions of Einstein&#39;s equations with negative cosmological constant recently discussed in literature, by introducing rotations and an electromagnetic field. We investigate numerically the thermodynamical properties of the charged and of the rotating $AdS$ black brane and we provide evidences for the existence

S. M. Yusuf, A. K. Bera, N. S. Kini, I. Mirebeau

The magnetic correlations in the quasi-two dimensional spin-1/2 square-lattice system Zn2VO(PO4)2 have been investigated by neutron diffraction technique. A long-range antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering below 3.75 K (TN) has been observed with a reduced moment of 0.66(2) μB per V ion at 1.5 K. In a given ab plane, the AFM spin arrangement is Néel type and the

E. Dalessandro, M. Salaris, F. R. Ferraro, S. Cassisi

We present an accurate analysis of the peculiar Horizontal Branch (HB) of the massive Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808, based on high-resolution far-UV and optical images of the central region of the cluster obtained with HST. We confirm the multimodal distribution of stars along the HB: 4 sub-populations separated by gaps are distinguishable. The detailed

Mario Pasquato

Black holes are fascinating objects. As a class of solutions to the Einstein equations they have been studied a great deal, yielding a wealth of theoretical results. But do they really exist? What do astronomers really mean when they claim to have observational evidence of their existence? To answer these questions, I will focus on a particular range of blac

Hua Y. Geng, Ying Chen, Yasunori Kaneta, Motoyasu Kinoshita

Self-defect clusters in bulk matrix might affect the thermodynamic behavior of fission gases in nuclear fuel such as uranium dioxide. With first-principles LSDA+U calculations and taking xenon as a prototype, we find that the influence of oxygen defect clusters on the thermodynamics of gas atoms is prominent, which increases the solution energy of xenon by a

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Thomas Bertram, Roberto Ragazzoni, Jacopo Farinato

LINC-NIRVANA will realize the interferometric imaging focal station of the Large Binocular Telescope. A double Layer Oriented multi-conjugate adaptive optics system assists the two arms of the interferometer, supplying high order wave-front correction. In order to counterbalance the field rotation, mechanical derotation for the two ground wave-front sensors,