August 2010 arXiv papers — page 4

Susana Coito, George Rupp, Eef van Beveren

The nature of the X(3872) enhancement is analysed in the framework of the Resonance-Spectrum Expansion, by studying it as a regular $J^{PC}=1^{++}$ charmonium state, though strongly influenced and shifted by open-charm decay channels. The observed but Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka-forbidden $ρ^0 J/ψ$ and $ωJ/ψ$ channels are coupled as well, but effectively smeared out

V. Baran, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro, R. Zus

We present new features of the transition from nuclear multifragmentation to neck fragmentation in semi-central heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies as obtained within a microscopic transport model, Stochastic Mean Field (SMF). We show that along this transition specific hierarchy phenomena of some kinematic observables associated with the intermediate mas

Cormac O'Sullivan, Morten S. Risager

We prove recursive formulas for the Taylor coefficients of cusp forms, such as Ramanujan's Delta function, at points in the upper half-plane. This allows us to show the non-vanishing of all Taylor coefficients of Delta at CM points of small discriminant as well as the non-vanishing of certain Poincaré series. At a "generic" point all Taylor coeff

Gudrun Hiller, Katri Huitu, Jari Laamanen, Timo Rüppell

We study the prospects and opportunities of a large muon electric dipole moment (EDM) of the order (10^{-24} - 10^{-22}) ecm. We investigate how natural such a value is within the general minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model with CP violation from lepton flavor violation in view of the experimental constraints. In models with hybrid gauge-g

George Raptis

Let $\mathcal{A}_{g,d}$ be the (topological) cobordism category of orientable surfaces whose connected components are homeomorphic to either $S^1 \times I$ with one incoming and one outgoing boundary component or the surface $Σ_{g,d}$ of genus $g$ and $d$ boundary components that are all incoming. In this paper, we study the homotopy type of the classifying

G. A. P. Franco, F. O. Alves, J. M. Girart

We use R-band CCD linear polarimetry collected for about 12000 background field stars in 46 fields of view toward the Pipe nebula to investigate the properties of the polarization across this dark cloud. Based on archival 2MASS data we estimate that the surveyed areas present total visual extinctions in the range 0.6 < Av < 4.6. While the observed polarizati

Z. Papic, B. A. Bernevig, N. Regnault

Entanglement in topological phases of matter has so far been investigated through the perspective of their ground-state wave functions. In contrast, we demonstrate that the \emph{excitations} of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems also contain information to identify the system&#39;s topological order. Entanglement spectrum of the FQH quasihole (QH) excita

Liviu I. Nicolaescu

We prove a Chern-Lashof type formula computing the expected number of critical points of smooth function on a smooth manifold $M$ randomly chosen from a finite dimensional subspace $V\subset C^\infty(M)$ equipped with a Gaussian probability measure. We then use this formula this formula to find the asymptotics of the expected number of critical points of a r

Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort, Jean Baptiste Poline, Bertrand Thirion

Spontaneous brain activity, as observed in functional neuroimaging, has been shown to display reproducible structure that expresses brain architecture and carries markers of brain pathologies. An important view of modern neuroscience is that such large-scale structure of coherent activity reflects modularity properties of brain connectivity graphs. However,

Olivier Couronné, Nathanaël Enriquez, Lucas Gerin

For First Passage Percolation in Z^d with large d, we construct a path connecting the origin to {x_1 =1}, whose passage time has optimal order \log d/d. Besides, an improved lower bound for the &#34;diagonal&#34; speed of the cluster combined with a result by Dhar (1988) shows that the limiting shape in FPP with exponential passage times (and thus that of Ed

M. Kobayashi, R. Yonamine, T. Tomioka, A. Aoza

Argon with an admixture of CF4 is expected to be a good candidate for the gas mixture to be used for a time projection chamber (TPC) in the future linear collider experiment because of its small transverse diffusion of drift electrons especially under a strong magnetic field. In order to confirm the superiority of this gas mixture over conventional TPC gases

N. Huelamo, H. Bouy, C. Pinte, F. Menard

Par-Lup3-4 is a very low-mass star (spectral type M5) in the Lupus III star-forming region. The object is underluminous by ~4 mag when compared to objects of similar mass in the same association. To better understand the origin of its underluminosity, we have analyzed high angular resolution near-IR imaging data and mid-IR spectroscopy. We have also compared

F. Ardalan, N. Sadooghi

A generalized translational invariant noncommutative field theory is analyzed in detail, and a complete description of translational invariant noncommutative structures is worked out. The relevant gauge theory is described, and the planar and nonplanar axial anomalies are obtained.

S. M. Gusein-Zade, I. Luengo, A. Melle Hernandez

In this note we discuss a generalization (&#34;extension&#34;) of the pre-lambda structure on the Grothendieck ring of quasi-projective varieties and of the corresponding power structure over it to the Grothendieck ring of stacks, discuss some of their properties and give some explicit formulae for the Kapranov zeta function for some stacks.

Remigiusz Augusiak, Joonwoo Bae, Łukasz Czekaj, Maciej Lewenstein

Very recently a conjecture saying that the so-called structural physical approximations (SPAa) to optimal positive maps (optimal entanglement witnesses) give entanglement breaking (EB) maps (separable states) has been posed [J. K. Korbicz {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 78}, 062105 (2008)]. The main purpose of this contribution is to explore this subject. Fi

Masaaki Fukasawa

We study specific nonlinear transformations of the Black-Scholes implied volatility to show remarkable properties of the volatility surface. Model-free bounds on the implied volatility skew are given. Pricing formulas for the European options which are written in terms of the implied volatility are given. In particular, we prove elegant formulas for the fair

J. E. Prieto, I. Markov

We have studied the effect of the misfit on the equilibrium shape of three-dimensional pyramidal islands grown on a foreign substrate in the case of incomplete wetting (Volmer-Weber mode of growth). We have found that tensile islands have smaller aspect ratios compared with compressed islands owing to its better adhesion to the substrate. The average strains

01 Collaboration

Measurement of the chemical and isotopic composition of cosmic rays is essential for the precise understanding of their propagation in the galaxy. While the model parameters are mainly determined using the B/C ratio, the study of extended sets of ratios can provide stronger constraints on the propagation models. In this paper the relative abundances of the l

A. Katsikatsou

Supersymmetric GUTs are the most natural extension of the Standard model unifying electroweak and strong forces. Despite their indubitable virtues, among these the gauge coupling unification and the quantization of the electric charge, one of their shortcomings is the large number of parameters used to describe the high energy thresholds (HET), which are har

Rong-Gen Cai, Bin Hu, Hong-Bo Zhang

In this note we study the linear dynamics of scalar graviton in a de Sitter background in the infrared limit of the healthy extension of Hořava-Lifshitz gravity with the dynamical critical exponent $z=3$. Both our analytical and numerical results show that the non-zero Fourier modes of scalar graviton oscillate with an exponentially damping amplitude on the

Taras Panov

These are notes of the lectures given during the Toric Topology Workshop at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in February 2010. We describe several approaches to moment-angle manifolds and complexes, including the intersections of quadrics, complements of subspace arrangements and level sets of moment maps. We overview the known results

Guangqing Bi, Yuekai Bi

We establish the mapping relations between analytic functions and periodic functions using the abstract operators $\cos(h\partial_x)$ and $\sin(h\partial_x)$, including the mapping relations between power series and trigonometric series, and by using such mapping relations we obtain a general method to find the sum function of a trigonometric series. Accordi

Matthias R. Risch

A priority of physics instruction is to help students make the connection between the formulae they think they are required to memorize and the real world in which they interact every day. If you ask students to describe a situation in real life involving physical principles, the most commonly cited examples will pertain to vehicular motion. One situation in

Volker Arhelger, Felix Kasten, Detlef Gliedstein, Marie-Sofie Lafontaine

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging might provide a more specific insight into disease process, progression and therapeutic response of multiple sclerosis. We present an extension of a previously published approach for the simultaneous mapping of brain T1, T2* and total water content. In addition to those three parameters, the method presented in the cur

Ugo Boscain, Grégoire Charlot, Roberta Ghezzi

Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. Generically, there are three types of points: Riemannian points where the two vector fields are linearly independent, Grushin points where the

Itaï Ben Yaacov

We discuss the notion of \emph{uniform canonical bases}, both in an abstract manner and specifically for the theory of atomless $L_p$ lattices. We also discuss the connection between the definability of the set of uniform canonical bases and the existence of the theory of beautiful pairs (i.e., with the finite cover property), and prove in particular that th

Brian P. Dolan

The thermodynamics of black holes in various dimensions are described in the presence of a negative cosmological constant which is treated as a thermodynamic variable, interpreted as a pressure in the equation of state. The black hole mass is then identified with the enthalpy, rather than the internal energy, and heat capacities are calculated at constant pr

Yoji Michishita

We consider decomposition of coordinate independent states into SO(9)xSU(2) representations in SU(2) Matrix theory. To see what and how many representations appear in the decomposition, we compute the character, which is given by a trace over the coordinate independent states, and decompose it into the sum of products of SO(9) and SU(2) characters.

Jared Speck

In this article, we use an electromagnetic gauge-free framework to establish the existence of small-data global solutions to the Maxwell-Born-Infeld (MBI) system on the Minkowski space background in 1 + 3 dimensions. Because the nonlinearities in the system satisfy a version of the null condition, we are also able to show that these solutions decay at exactl

E. G. Cavalcanti, Q. Y. He, M. D. Reid, H. M. Wiseman

Wiseman and co-workers (Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 140402, 2007) proposed a distinction between the nonlocality classes of Bell&#39;s nonlocality, steering and entanglement based on whether or not an overseer trusts each party in a bipartite scenario where they are asked to demonstrate entanglement. Here we extend that concept to the multipartite case and derive i

Masahiro Kawasaki, Naoya Kitajima, Kazunori Nakayama

We show that a supersymmetric axion model naturally induces a hybrid inflation with the waterfall field identified as a Peccei-Quinn scalar. The Peccei-Quinn scale is predicted to be around 10^{15}GeV for reproducing the large-scale density perturbation of the Universe. After the built-in late-time entropy-production process, the axion becomes a dark matter

Kazuyuki Furuuchi, Kazumi Okuyama

We construct classical solutions in quiver gauge theories on D0-branes probing toric del Pezzo singularities in Calabi-Yau manifolds. Our solutions represent D4-branes wrapped around fuzzy del Pezzo surfaces. We study the fluctuation spectrum around the fuzzy CP^2 solution in detail. We also comment on possible applications of our fuzzy del Pezzo surfaces to

Yungui Gong, Xiao-ming Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu

We apply the Union2 compilation of 557 supernova Ia data, the baryon acoustic oscillation measurement of distance, the cosmic microwave background radiation data from the seven year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, and the Hubble parameter data to study the geometry of the Universe and the property of dark energy by using models and parametrizations wit

Suman Ghosh, Anirvan Dasgupta, Sayan Kar

In this article, we explore the kinematics of timelike geodesic congruences in warped five dimensional bulk spacetimes, with and without thick or thin branes. Beginning with geodesic flows in the Randall--Sundrum AdS (Anti de Sitter) geometry without and with branes we find analytical expressions for the expansion scalar and comment on the effects of includi

Hajime Fujita, Mikio Furuta, Takahiko Yoshida

This paper is the third of the series concerning the localization of the index of Dirac-type operators. In our previous papers we gave a formulation of index of Dirac-type operators on open manifolds under some geometric setting, whose typical example was given by the structure of a torus fiber bundle on the ends of the open manifolds. We introduce two equiv

Xin Zhang, Guizhen Liu, Jian-Liang Wu

A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn on the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, we establish a local property of 1-planar graphs which describes the structure in the neighborhood of small vertices (i.e. vertices of degree no more than seven). Meanwhile, some new classes of light graphs in 1-planar graphs with

Anand Pal, M. Tropeano, Mushahid Hussain, Hari Kishan

We synthesized bulk polycrystalline samples of RECoAsO (RE=La, Nd and Sm) by solid state reaction route in an evacuated sealed quartz tube. All these compounds are crystallized in a tetragonal structure with space group P4/nmm. The Co, in these compounds is in itinerant ferromagnetic state with its paramagnetic moment above 1.5 microB and the same orders fer

Shoichiro Saito, Tomoya Ono

The detailed analysis of the structural variations of three GeO$_2$ and SiO$_2$ polymorphs ($α$-quartz, $α$-cristobalite, and rutile) under compression and expansion pressure is reported. First-principles total-energy calculations reveal that the rutile structure is the most stable phase among the phases of GeO$_2$, while SiO$_2$ preferentially forms quartz.

Latham Boyle

Porcupines are networks of gravitational wave detectors in which the detectors and the distances between them are short relative to the gravitational wavelengths of interest. Perfect porcupines are special configurations whose sensitivity to a gravitational plane wave is independent of the propagation direction or polarization of the wave. I develop the theo

Lan-Hsuan Huang, Richard Schoen, Mu-Tao Wang

We show that it is possible to perturb arbitrary vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes to new ones having exactly the same energy and linear momentum, but with center of mass and angular momentum equal to any preassigned values measured with respect to a fixed affine frame at infinity. This is in contrast to the axisymmetric situation where a bound on the an

K. Sakai, T. Kawasaki, H. Aihara, K. Arinstein

We present the result of a search for charge asymmetry in B^+ -> J/psi K^+ decays. The CP-violating charge asymmetry is measured to be A_CP(B^+ -> J/psi K^+) = [-0.76 +/- 0.50 (stat) +/- 0.22 (syst)]%.

A. Bhattacharyay

We investigate a symmetry broken dimer constrained to move in a particular direction when in contact with a heat-bath at a constant temperature. The dimer is not driven by any external force. The system gains kinetic energy from the heat-bath. The symmetry broken system can use this energy in directed transport. At the hard core collision limit between the p

Karl J. Obermeyer, Anurag Ganguli, Francesco Bullo

This article presents a distributed algorithm for a group of robotic agents with omnidirectional vision to deploy into nonconvex polygonal environments with holes. Agents begin deployment from a common point, possess no prior knowledge of the environment, and operate only under line-of-sight sensing and communication. The objective of the deployment is for t

Noriaki Kitazawa

The first string excited state can be observed as a resonance in dijet invariant mass distributions at the LHC, if the scenario of low-scale string with large extra dimensions is realized. A distinguished property of the dijet resonance by string excited states from that the other &#34;new physics&#34; is that many almost degenerate states with various spin

Seth Olsen, Ross H. McKenzie

We derive structure-property relationships for methine (&#34;Brooker&#34;) dyes relating the color of the dye and its symmetric parents to its bond alternation in the ground state and also to the dipole properties associated with its low-lying charge-resonance (or charge-transfer) transition. We calibrate and test these relationships on an array of different

An Huang, Chul-hee Lee

The aim of this paper is to get a complete list of positive definite symmetric matrices with integer entries $\a&b\b&d\$ such that all complex solutions to the system of equations $1-x_1=x_1^ax_2^b\ 1-x_2=x_1^bx_2^d$ are real. This result is related to Nahm&#39;s conjecture in rank 2 case.

Allen Knutson, Kevin Purbhoo

The Belkale-Kumar product on H*(G/P) is a degeneration of the usual cup product on the cohomology ring of a generalized flag manifold. In the case G=GL_n, it was used by N. Ressayre to determine the regular faces of the Littlewood-Richardson cone. We show that for G/P a (d-1)-step flag manifold, each Belkale-Kumar structure constant is a product of d(d-1)/2

Anna Simon

Radiative double electron capture (RDEC) is a one-step process where two free (or quasi-free) target electrons are captured into a bound state of the projectile, e.g. into an empty K-shell, and the energy excess is released as a single photon. This process can be treated as a time inverse of double photoionization. However, unlike in case of photoionization

George I. Hagstrom, P. J. Morrison

The Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian (Eq. (1) below) describes the interaction of a discrete harmonic oscillator with a continuous bath of harmonic oscillators. This system is a standard model of dissipation in macroscopic low temperature physics, and has applications to superconductors, quantum computing, and macroscopic quantum tunneling. The similarities betw

Thanasis Balafoutis, Anastasia Paparrizou, Kostas Stergiou, Toby Walsh

Max Restricted Path Consistency (maxRPC) is a local consistency for binary constraints that can achieve considerably stronger pruning than arc consistency. However, existing maxRRC algorithms suffer from overheads and redundancies as they can repeatedly perform many constraint checks without triggering any value deletions. In this paper we propose techniques

A. Grossheim, J. Hu, A. Olin

A method for the precise measurement of drift times for the high-precision drift chambers used in the TWIST detector is described. It is based on the iterative correction of the space-time relationships by the time residuals of the track fit, resulting in a measurement of the effective drift times. The corrected drift time maps are parametrised individually

YongJu Choie, Min Ho Lee

Given modular forms $f$ and $g$ of weights $k$ and $\ell$, respectively, their Rankin-Cohen bracket $[f,g]^{(k, \ell)}_n$ corresponding to a nonnegative integer $n$ is a modular form of weight $k +\ell +2n$, and it is given as a linear combination of the products of the form $f^{(r)} g^{(n-r)}$ for $0 \leq r \leq n$. We use a correspondence between quasimodu

Satoshi Fujimoto

We propose a possible mechanism of topological Hall effect in inhomogeneous superconducting states. In our scenario, the Berry phase effect associated with spatially modulated superconducting order parameter gives rise to a fictitious Lorentz force acting on quasiparticles. In the case of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state, the topological Hall effec

Vincent Bruneau, Pablo Miranda, Georgi Raikov

We consider the unperturbed operator $H_0 : = (-i \nabla - A)^2 + W$, self-adjoint in $L^2(\R^2)$. Here $A$ is a magnetic potential which generates a constant magnetic field $b>0$, and the edge potential $W$ is a non-decreasing non constant bounded function depending only on the first coordinate $x \in \R$ of $(x,y) \in \R^2$. Then the spectrum of $H_0$ has

Biagio Lucini, Gregory Moraitis, Agostino Patella, Antonio Rago

We measure on the lattice the quenched pseudoscalar and vector meson masses at a fixed value of the lattice spacing for SU(N) gauge theory with fermions in the adjoint, in the symmetric and in the antisymmetric representations of the gauge group. Simulations are performed for N=3,4,6 in all those representations, with the addition of N=2 for the adjoint repr

Rongkuo Zhao, Thomas Koschny, Costas M. Soukoulis

After the prediction that strong enough optical activity may result in negative refraction and negative reflection, more and more artificial chiral metamaterials were designed and fabricated at difference frequency ranges from microwaves to optical waves. Therefore, a simple and robust method to retrieve the effective constitutive parameters for chiral metam

Hugo Corrales, Carlos E. Valencia

Given a graph G with a distinguished vertex s, the critical group of (G,s) is the cokernel of their reduced Laplacian matrix L(G,s). In this article we generalize the concept of the critical group to the cokernel of any matrix with entries in a commutative ring with identity. In this article we find diagonal matrices that are equivalent to some matrices that

David S. Meier, Jean L. Turner, Sara C. Beck, Varoujan Gorjian

We present a first look at the local LIRG, IRAS04296+2923. This barred spiral, overlooked because of its location in the Galactic plane, is among the half dozen closest LIRGs. More IR-luminous than either M82 or the Antennae, it may be the best local example of a nuclear starburst caused by bar-mediated secular evolution. We present Palomar J and Pa beta ima

Gerardo Aquino, Robert G. Endres

The physical limit with which a cell senses external ligand concentration corresponds to the perfect absorber, where all ligand particles are absorbed and overcounting of same ligand particles does not occur. Here we analyze how the lateral diffusion of receptors on the cell membrane affects the accuracy of sensing ligand concentration. Specifically, we conn

Abdelsalam Amer, Fayez Gebali

In this paper we develop an intergraded model for request mechanism and data transmission in the uplink phase in the presence of channel noise. This model supports quality of service. The wireless channel is prone to many impairments. Thus, certain techniques have to be developed to deliver data to the receiver. We calculated the performance parameters for s

Alexey L. Krugly

The model is a particular case of causal set. This is a discrete model of spacetime in a microscopic level. In paper the most general properties of the model are investigated without any reference to a dynamics. The dynamics of the model is introduced in [arXiv: 1004.5077]. These two papers introduce a consistent description of the model.

G. Mazzeo, E. Yablonovitch, H. W. Jiang

We report the fabrication and characterization of an electrostatic quantum dot in pure Germanium with an integrated charge measurement transistor. The device uses the Al2O3/Germanium interface for the confinement of carriers in the Germanium and an hybrid design with an electron quantum dot and hole transistor for the charge detection. The hole transistor, u

Saket Navlakha, Carl Kingsford

Often questions arise about old or extinct networks. What proteins interacted in a long-extinct ancestor species of yeast? Who were the central players in the Last.fm social network 3 years ago? Our ability to answer such questions has been limited by the unavailability of past versions of networks. To overcome these limitations, we propose several algorithm

Brian McFee, Gert Lanckriet

In many applications involving multi-media data, the definition of similarity between items is integral to several key tasks, e.g., nearest-neighbor retrieval, classification, and recommendation. Data in such regimes typically exhibits multiple modalities, such as acoustic and visual content of video. Integrating such heterogeneous data to form a holistic si

Adrian Dumitru

Perturbative unitarization from non-linear effects is thought to deplete the gluon density for transverse momenta below the saturation scale. Such effects also modify the distribution of gluons produced in heavy-ion collisions in transverse impact parameter space. I discuss some of the consequences for the initial conditions for hydrodynamic models of heavy-

S. Pittalis, E. Rasanen

The exchange-correlation potentials stemming from the local-density approximation and several generalized-gradient approximations are known to have incorrect asymptotic decay. This failure is independent of the dimensionality, but so far the problem has been corrected -- within the mentioned approximations -- only in three dimensions. Here we provide a cured

F. Bezrukov, A. Magnin, M. Shaposhnikov, S. Sibiryakov

We analyse the self-consistency of inflation in the Standard Model, where the Higgs field has a large non-minimal coupling to gravity. We determine the domain of energies in which this model represents a valid effective field theory as a function of the background Higgs field. This domain is bounded above by the cutoff scale which is found to be higher than

Alexandre Yale, T. Padmanabhan

The Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity constitute the most general theories of gravity in D dimensions which satisfy (a) the principle of of equivalence, (b) the principle of general co-variance, and (c) have field equations involving derivatives of the metric tensor only up to second order. The mth order Lanczos-Lovelock Lagrangian is a polynomial of degree

Clifford Cheung, Yasunori Nomura

Ultraviolet physics typically induces a kinetic mixing between gauge singlets which is marginal and hence non-decoupling in the infrared. In singlet extensions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model, e.g. the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, this furnishes a well motivated and distinctive portal connecting the visible sector to any hidden

Gareth F. Kennedy, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Juna A. Kollmeier

Although the powering mechanism for quasars is now widely recognized to be the accretion of matter in a geometrically thin disk, the transport of matter to the inner region of the disk where luminosity is emitted remains an unsolved question. Miralda-Escudé & Kollmeier (2005) proposed a model whereby quasars are fuelled when stars are captured by the accreti

Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Anyi Li

We explore the sign problem in strongly coupled lattice QED with one flavor of Wilson fermions in four dimensions using the fermion bag formulation. We construct rules to compute the weight of a fermion bag and show that even though the fermions are confined into bosons, fermion bags with negative weights do exist. By classifying fermion bags as either simpl

A. Brandenburg, N. E. L. Haugen, N. Babkovskaia

Direct numerical simulations and mean-field theory are used to model reactive front propagation in a turbulent medium. In the mean-field approach, memory effects of turbulent diffusion are taken into account to estimate the front speed in cases when the Damkohler number is large. This effect is found to saturate the front speed to values comparable with the

Paul Tumaneng, Sagar A. Pandit, Guijun Zhao, H. L. Scott

The connection between membrane inhomogeneity and the structural basis of lipid rafts has sparked interest in the lateral organization of model lipid bilayers of two and three components. In an effort to investigate anisotropic lipid distribution in mixed bilayers, a self-consistent mean-field theoretical model is applied to palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholin

José R. Morales, Edixon Rojas

This paper is devoted to prove the S. L. Singh&#39;s common fixed point Theorem for commuting mappings in cone metric spaces. In this framework, we introduce the notions of Generalized Kannan Con- traction, Generalized Zamfirescu Contraction and Generalized Weak Contraction for a pair of mappings, proving afterward their respective fixed point results.

Laurent Decreusefond, Eduardo Ferraz

Given a Poisson process on a bounded interval, its random geometric graph is the graph whose vertices are the points of the Poisson process and edges exist between two points if and only if their distance is less than a fixed given threshold. We compute explicitly the distribution of the number of connected components of this graph. The proof relies on inver

H. Inada, D. Su, R. F. Egerton, M. Konno

We report our detailed investigation of high-resolution imaging using secondary electrons (SE) with a subnanometer probe in an aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope, Hitachi HD2700C. This instrument also allows us to acquire the corresponding annular-dark-field (ADF) images simultaneously and separately. We demonstrate that atomic SE imaging

Todd A. Thompson, Brian D. Metzger, Niccolò Bucciantini

The millisecond proto-magnetar model for the central engine of long-duration gamma-ray bursts is briefly reviewed. Limitations and uncertainties in the model are highlighted. A short discussion of the maximum energy, maximum duration, radiative efficiency, jet formation mechanism, late-time energy injection, and (non-)association with supernovae of milliseco

M. B. Hastings

These lecture notes focus on the application of ideas of locality, in particular Lieb-Robinson bounds, to quantum many-body systems. We consider applications including correlation decay, topological order, a higher dimensional Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem, and a nonrelativistic Goldstone theorem. The emphasis is on trying to show the ideas behind the calculat

Renaud Papoular

Computational chemistry is used here to build a set of carbonaceous structures whose combined spectra approximately mimic typical UIB (Unidentified Infrared Band) spectra. A large number of relatively small hydrocarbon structures, containing traces of heteroatoms (oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur) were considered, including aliphatic chains, compact and concatena

E. Gozzi, R. Penco

In this paper we study three different functional approaches to classical thermal field theory, which turn out to be the classical counterparts of three well-known different formulations of quantum thermal field theory: the Closed-Time Path (CTP) formalism, the Thermofield Dynamics (TFD) and the Matsubara approach.

Steven Hair

We introduce a large scale analogue of the classical fixed-point property for continuous maps, which shall apply to coarse maps. We also develop a coarse version of degree for coarse maps on Euclidean spaces. Then, applying a coarse degree-theoretic argument, we prove that every coarse map from a Euclidean half-space to itself has the coarse fixed-point prop

Sarah Crown Rundell

Let $G$ be a simple graph with $n$ vertices. The coloring complex $Δ(G)$ was defined by Steingr\&#39;ımsson, and the homology of $Δ(G)$ was shown to be nonzero only in dimension $n-3$ by Jonsson. Hanlon recently showed that the Eulerian idempotents provide a decomposition of the homology group $H_{n-3}(Δ(G))$ where the dimension of the $j^{th}$ component in

Jean-Francois Rajotte

Charged hadron differential distributions from muon-induced deep inelastic scattering, DIS, on a $^6$LiD target are presented as function of the DIS variables $x_{Bj}$, $Q^2$, $W^2$ and the hadron variables $p_T$ and $z$. They can be used as benchmark to verify the reliability of theoretical model. The $p_T^2$ distributions are fitted with a Gaussian functio

Jens Homfeld, Ivan Protopopov, Stephan Rachel, Alexander Shnirman

We investigate the charge transport in one-dimensional arrays of Josephson junctions. In the interesting regime of &#34;small charge solitons&#34; (polarons), the charge dynamics is strongly influenced by the polaronic effects, i.e., by dressing of a Cooper pair by charge dipoles. In particular, the soliton&#39;s mass in this regime scales approximately as i

Gonzalo A. Alvarez, D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao, Lucio Frydman, Gershon Kurizki

We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate the purity (polarization) control of qubits entangled with multiple spins, using induced dephasing in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) setups to simulate repeated quantum measurements. We show that one may steer the qubit ensemble towards a quasi-equilibrium state of certain purity, by choosing suitable time in

Federico Foieri, Liliana Arrachea

We investigate the behavior of the time-dependent voltage drop in a periodically driven quantum conductor sensed by weakly coupled dynamical voltages probes. We introduce the concepts of ac-dc local voltage and four point impedance in an electronic system driven by ac fields. We discuss the properties of the different components of these quantities in a simp

Nathan R. McDonald, Robinson E. Pino, Peter J. Rozwood, Bryant T. Wysocki

The value memristor devices offer to the neuromorphic computing hardware design community rests on the ability to provide effective device models that can enable large scale integrated computing architecture application simulations. Therefore, it is imperative to develop practical, functional device models of minimum mathematical complexity for fast, reliabl

F. dell&#39;Isola, E. G. Henneke, M. Porfiri

This paper proves that it is possible to damp mechanical vibrations of some beam frames by means of piezoelectric actuators interconnected via passive networks. We create a kind of electromechanical wave guide where the electrical velocity group equals the mechanical one thus enabling an electromechanical energy transfer. Numerical simulations are presented

S. Alessandroni, F. dell&#39;Isola, F. Frezza

A new way of coupling electrical and mechanical waves, using piezoelectric effect, is presented here. Since the energy exchange between two systems supporting wave propagation is maximum when their evolution is governed by similar equations, hence, an optimal electromechanical coupling is obtained by designing an electric network which is &#34;analog&#34; to

Thomas März

We study the Dirichlet problem for first order hyperbolic quasi-linear functional PDEs on a simply connected bounded domain of $\R^2$, where the domain has an interior outflow set and a mere inflow boundary. While the question of existence of a solution has already been answered in its predecessor, the present paper discusses the uniqueness and continuous de

Pauline Lafitte, Corrado Mascia

We analyze numerically a forward-backward diffusion equation with a cubic-like diffusion function, -emerging in the framework of phase transitions modeling- and its &#34;entropy&#34; formulation determined by considering it as the singular limit of a third-order pseudo-parabolic equation. Precisely, we propose schemes for both the second and the third order

Ann M. Martin, Emmanouil Papastergis, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes

The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey has completed source extraction for 40% of its total sky area, resulting in the largest sample of HI-selected galaxies to date. We measure the HI mass function from a sample of 10,119 galaxies with 6.2 < log (M_HI/M_Sun) < 11.0 and with well-described mass errors that accurately reflect our knowledge of low-mass

G. M. Stiehl, H. M. Cho, G. C. Hilton, K. D. Irwin

Time-division SQUID multiplexers are used in many applications that require exquisite control of systematic error. One potential source of systematic error is the pickup of external magnetic fields in the multiplexer. We present measurements of the field sensitivity figure of merit, effective area, for both the first stage and second stage SQUID amplifiers i

Wei Xue

We construct an N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory from z=3 Lifshitz field theory. By modifying the supersymmetry (susy) algebra based on the spacetime symmetry SO(3) $\times$ scaling symmetry, we get a supersymmetric Lagrangian with scalar, fermion and gauge fields, all of whom have the same limiting speed. This solves some naturalness problems of the original

Jord Boeijink, Walter D. van Suijlekom

We generalize to topologically non-trivial gauge configurations the description of the Einstein-Yang-Mills system in terms of a noncommutative manifold, as was done previously by Chamseddine and Connes. Starting with an algebra bundle and a connection thereon, we obtain a spectral triple, a construction that can be related to the internal Kasparov product in

M. O. Lavrentovich, R. K. P. Zia

We consider a system in a non-equilibrium steady state by joining two semi-infinite Ising chains coupled to thermal reservoirs with {\em different} temperatures, $T$ and $T^{\prime}$. To compute the energy flux from the hot bath through our system into the cold bath, we exploit Glauber heat-bath dynamics to derive an exact equation for the two-spin correlati

Fabrizio Scarpa, Luca Boldrin, Hua-Xin Peng, Chrystel Remillat

The temperature-dependent transverse mechanical properties of single-walled nanotubes are studied using a molecular mechanics approach. The stretching and bond angle force constants describing the mechanical behaviour of the sp^{2} bonds are resolved in the temperature range between 0 K and 1600 K, allowing to identify a temperature dependence of the nanotub

Nick Dorey, Manuel Losi

We analyse semiclassical strings in AdS in the limit of one large spin. In this limit, classical string dynamics is described by a finite number of collective coordinates corresponding to spikes or cusps of the string. The semiclassical spectrum consists of two branches of excitations corresponding to &#34;large&#34; and &#34;small&#34; spikes respectively.

We-Fu Chang, I-Ting Chen, Siao-Cing Liou

We study the Zee model in the framework of the split fermion model in $M_4\times S_1/Z_2$ spacetime. Neutrino masses are generated through 1-loop diagrams without the right-handed neutrinos introduced. By assuming an order one anarchical complex 5D Yukawa couplings, all the effective 4D Yukawa couplings are determined by the wave function overlap between the

John R. Clem

I consider a Corbino-geometry SNS (superconducting-normal-superconducting) Josephson weak link in a thin superconducting film, in which current enters at the origin, flows outward, passes through an annular Josephson weak link, and leaves radially. In contrast to sandwich-type annular Josephson junctions, in which the gauge-invariant phase difference obeys t