August 2010 arXiv papers — page 48

Dmitry Nesterov, Sergey N. Solodukhin

Reformulating our recent result (arXiv:1007.1246 [hep-th]) in coordinate space we point out that no matter how regular is short-distance behavior of Green's function the entanglement entropy in the corresponding quantum field theory is always UV divergent. In particular, we discuss a recent example by Padmanabhan (arXiv:1007.5066 [gr-qc]) of a regular Gr

A. S. Moskvitin, T. A. Fatkhullin, V. V. Sokolov, V. N. Komarova

This paper describes the aims, objectives and first results of the observational program for the study of distant core-collapse supernovae (SNe) with redshifts z < 0.3. This work is done within the framework of an international cooperation program on the SNe monitoring at the 6-m BTA telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy o

Akbar Dehghan Nezhad, Mehdi Nadjafikhah, Seyed Mohammad Moosavi Nejad

Algebraic hyperstructures represent a natural extension of classical algebraic structures. In a classical algebraic structure, the composition of two elements is an element, while in an algebraic hyperstructure, the composition of two elements is a set. Algebraic hyperstructure theory has a multiplicity of applications to other disciplines. The main purpose

Sami K. Solanki, Bernd Inhester, Manfred Schüssler

The magnetic field of the Sun is the underlying cause of the many diverse phenomena combined under the heading of solar activity. Here we describe the magnetic field as it threads its way from the bottom of the convection zone, where it is built up by the solar dynamo, to the solar surface, where it manifests itself in the form of sunspots and faculae, and b

Guenter Last, Mathew D. Penrose

The lilypond model on a point process in $d$-space is a growth-maximal system of non-overlapping balls centred at the points. We establish central limit theorems for the total volume and the number of components of the lilypond model on a sequence of Poisson or binomial point processes on expanding windows. For the lilypond model over a homogeneous Poisson p

Mark Israelit

In the Weyl-Dirac (W-D) framework a spatially closed cosmological model is considered. It is assumed that the space-time of the universe has a chaotic Weylian microstructure but is described on a large scale by Riemannian geometry. Locally fields of the Weyl connection vector act as creators of massive bosons having spin 1. It is suggested that these bosons,

D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, J. F. Mitchell, L. C. Chapon

Spin correlations in the geometrically frustrated RBaCo4O7 compounds, usually described as an alternating stacking of Kagome and triangular layers on a hexagonal lattice, have been studied by mean-field approach and by Monte-Carlo simulations. The behavior of the system was modelled with an isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian as a function of the relevant param

E. G. Floratos, G. K. Leontaris, N. D. Vlachos

We consider quantum mechanical effects of the modified Newtonian potential in the presence of extra compactified dimensions. We develop a method to solve the resulting Schroedinger equation and determine the energy shifts caused by the Yukawa-type corrections of the potential. We comment on the possibility of detecting the modified gravitational bound state

Oscar Ordaz, Andreas Philipp, Irene Santos, Wolfgang A. Schmid

A subset $S$ of a finite abelian group, written additively, is called zero-sumfree if the sum of the elements of each non-empty subset of $S$ is non-zero. We investigate the maximal cardinality of zero-sumfree sets, i.e., the (small) Olson constant. We determine the maximal cardinality of such sets for several new types of groups; in particular, $p$-groups w

M. K. Barker, A. M. N. Ferguson, A. A. Cole, R. Ibata

The outer regions of disc galaxies are becoming increasingly recognized as key testing sites for models of disc assembly and evolution. Important issues are the epoch at which the bulk of the stars in these regions formed and how discs grow radially over time. To address these issues, we use Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging to study

Y. Terada, M. Ishida, A. Bamba, K. Mukai

The X-ray observation of AM Her in a very low state was performed with {\it Suzaku} in October 2008. One flare event with a time scale of $\sim$ 3700 sec was detected at the X-ray luminosity of $6.0 \times 10^{29} {\rm ~erg ~sec}^{-1}$ in the 0.5 -- 10 keV band assuming at a distance of 91 pc. The X-ray spectrum is represented by a thermal plasma emission mo

Carmen Pellicer-Lostao, Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

Economy is demanding new models, able to understand and predict the evolution of markets. To this respect, Econophysics is offering models of markets as complex systems, such as the gas-like model, able to predict money distributions observed in real economies. However, this model reveals some technical hitches to explain the power law (Pareto) distribution,

Zhineng Chen, Juan Cao, Yicheng Song, Yongdong Zhang

This paper presents a novel approach for web video categorization by leveraging Wikipedia categories (WikiCs) and open resources describing the same content as the video, i.e., content-duplicated open resources (CDORs). Note that current approaches only col-lect CDORs within one or a few media forms and ignore CDORs of other forms. We explore all these resou

Sören Christensen

Autoregressive processes are intensively studied in statistics and other fields of applied stochastics. For many applications the overshoot and the threshold-time are of special interest. When the upward innovations are in the class of phasetype distributions we determine the joint distribution of this two quantities and apply this result to problems of opti

R. Zamanov

This paper summarizes our recent results on tidal interaction in high mass X-ray binaries and symbiotic stars. We demonstrate that the giant in symbiotic stars with orbital periods <1200 d are co-rotating (synchronized). The symbiotics MWC 560 and CD-4314304 probably have high orbital eccentricity. The giants in symbiotic binaries rotate faster than the fiel

Joana S. Santos, Paolo Tozzi, Piero Rosati, Hans Boehringer

Cool-core clusters are characterized by strong surface brightness peaks in the X-ray emission from the Intra Cluster Medium (ICM). This phenomenon is associated with complex physics in the ICM and has been a subject of intense debate and investigation in recent years. In order to quantify the evolution in the cool-core cluster population, we robustly measure

J. E. Amaro, C. Maieron, M. B. Barbaro, J. A. Caballero

Two-particle two-hole contributions to electromagnetic response functions are computed in a fully relativistic Fermi gas model. All one-pion exchange diagrams that contribute to the scattering amplitude in perturbation theory are considered, including terms for pionic correlations and meson-exchange currents (MEC). The pionic correlation terms diverge in an

Pinaki Pal, Supriyo Paul, Pankaj Wahi, Mahendra K. Verma

In this paper we present various convective states of zero-Prandtl number Rayleigh-Bénard convection using direct numerical simulations (DNS) and a 27-mode low-dimensional model containing the energetic modes of DNS. The origin of these convective states have been explained using bifurcation analysis. The system is chaotic at the onset itself with three coex

Mikhail Klin, István Kovács

The paper concerns the automorphism groups of Cayley graphs over cyclic groups which have a rational spectrum (rational circulant graphs for short). With the aid of the techniques of Schur rings it is shown that the problem is equivalent to consider the automorphism groups of orthogonal group block structures of cyclic groups. Using this observation, the req

A. V. Kotikov, V. G. Krivokhizhin, B. G. Shaikhatdenov, G. Parente

We give a brief review of our recent QCD analysis carried out over the deep inelastic scattering data on F2 structure function and in the non-singlet approximation to the accuracy up to next-to-next-to-leading-order. Specifically, analysis was performed over high statistics deep inelastic scattering data provided by BCDMS, SLAC, NMC and BFP collaborations. F

M. Majumder, K. Ghoshray, A. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay

139La NMR study was performed in grain aligned (c|| H0) sample of LaCoPO and polycrystalline LaFePO. Knight shift is isotropic and temperature independent in LaFePO. It is strongly temperature dependent and anisotropic in LaCoPO. The spin-lattice relaxation rate in LaCoPO clearly reveals the existence of 3D spin fluctuations both in the paramagnetic and ferr

Ya-Fen Hsu, Guang-Yu Guo

Recent experiments indicate that AA-stacked bilayer graphenes (BLG) could exist. Since the energy bands of the AA-stacked BLG are different from both the monolayer and AB-stacked bilayer graphenes, different integer quantum Hall effect in the AA-stacked graphene is expected. We have thus calculated the quantized Hall conductivity $σ_{xy}$ and also longitudin

Tsvi Tlusty, Roy Bar-Ziv, Albert Libchaber

One of the major functions of RecA protein in the cell is to bind single-stranded DNA exposed upon damage, thereby triggering the SOS repair response.We present fluorescence anisotropy measurements at the binding onset, showing enhanced DNA length discrimination induced by adenosine triphosphate consumption. Our model explains the observed DNA length sensing

Milan Sindelka, Nimrod Moiseyev, Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We show that dressing of diatomic molecules by running laser waves gives rise to conical intersections (CIs). Due to presence of such CIs, the rovibronic molecular motions are strongly coupled. A pronounced impact of the CI on the spectrum of $Na_2$ molecule is demonstrated via numerical calculation for weak and moderate laser intensity, and an experiment is

Fabian Sinz, Matthias Bethge

Tractable generalizations of the Gaussian distribution play an important role for the analysis of high-dimensional data. One very general super-class of Normal distributions is the class of $ν$-spherical distributions whose random variables can be represented as the product $\x = r\cdot \u$ of a uniformly distribution random variable $\u$ on the $1$-level se

Akashdeep Kamra, Bahniman Ghosh, Tarun K. Ghosh

We investigate spin transport in InSb/InAlSb heterostructure using the Monte Carlo approach, generalized by including density matrix description of spin for taking spin dynamics into account. In addition to the dominant Dyakonov-Perel (DP) mechanism for spin control and relaxation, we consider magnetic interaction between electrons which assumes importance d

David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang

Astronomical instruments make intensity measurements; any precise astronomical experiment ought to involve modeling those measurements. People make catalogues, but because a catalogue requires hard decisions about calibration and detection, no catalogue can contain all of the information in the raw pixels relevant to most scientific investigations. Here we a

Roy Bar-Ziv, Tsvi Tlusty, Albert Libchaber

The assembly of RecA on single-stranded DNA is measured and interpreted as a stochastic finite-state machine that is able to discriminate fine differences between sequences, a basic computational operation. RecA filaments efficiently scan DNA sequence through a cascade of random nucleation and disassembly events that is mechanistically similar to the dynamic

Jianquan Liu, Meixia Tao, Youyun Xu, Xiaodong Wang

In two-way relay channels, bitwise XOR and symbol-level superposition coding are two popular network-coding based relaying schemes. However, neither of them can approach the capacity bound when the channels in the broadcast phase are asymmetric. In this paper, we present a new physical layer network coding (PLNC) scheme, called \emph{superimposed XOR}. The n

Yun-Bin Zhao

The Kantorovich function $(x^TAx)(x^T A^{-1} x)$, where $A$ is a positive definite matrix, is not convex in general. From matrix/convex analysis point of view, it is interesting to address the question: When is this function convex? In this paper, we investigate the convexity of this function by the condition number of its matrix. In 2-dimensional space, we

P B Jones

Cross-sections for Rutherford scattering, Coulomb bremsstrahlung and pair creation, have been calculated at very high magnetic fields in order to investigate the photo-production of protons at the polar caps of pulsars whose spin is antiparallel with the polar magnetic flux density. The Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect at very high magnetic fields is include

Peng Cheng, Meixia Tao, Wenjun Zhang

Signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio (SLNR) is a promising criterion for linear precoder design in multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. It decouples the precoder design problem and makes closed-form solution available. In this letter, we present a new linear precoding scheme by slightly relaxing the SLNR maximization for MU-MIMO system

Rui Wang, Meixia Tao

Spectrum sensing is a fundamental and critical issue for opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks. Among the many spectrum sensing methods, the information theoretic criteria (ITC) based method is a promising blind method which can reliably detect the primary users while requiring little prior information. In this paper, we provide an intens

Roland Grappin, Wolf-Christian Müller

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral direct numerical simulations with large-scale isotropic forcing. Examining the radial energy distribution for various ang

I. O. Cherednikov, N. G. Stefanis

We discuss the state-of-the-art of the theory of transverse-momentum dependent parton densities (TMD)s, paying special attention to their renormalization properties, the structure of the gauge links in the operator definition, and the role of the soft factor in the factorization formula within the TMD approach to the semi-inclusive processes. We argue that t

Bartlomiej Waclaw, Rosalind J. Allen, Martin R. Evans

Migration between different habitats is ubiquitous among biological populations. In this Letter, we study a simple quasispecies model for evolution in two different habitats, with different fitness landscapes, coupled through one-way migration. Our model applies to asexual, rapidly evolving organisms such as microbes. Our key finding is a dynamical phase tra

Fumie Tazaki, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yukiko Ishino, Satoshi Eguchi

We report the results from a deep Suzaku observation of 4C 50.55 (IGR J 21247+5058), the brightest broad-line radio galaxy in the hard X-ray (> 10 keV) sky. The simultaneous broad band spectra over 1-60 keV can be represented by a cut-off power law with two layers of absorption and a significant reflection component from cold matter with a solid angle of Ω/2

Xin Gao, Hongbao Zhang

With the probe limit, we investigate the behavior of the electric permittivity and effective magnetic permeability and related optical properties in the s-wave holographic superconductors. In particular, our result shows that unlike the strong coupled systems which admit a gravity dual of charged black holes in the bulk, the electric permittivity and effecti

Alexander Eberspächer, Jörg Main, Günter Wunner

The fractal Weyl law connects the asymptotic level number with the fractal dimension of the chaotic repeller. We provide the first test for the fractal Weyl law for a three-dimensional open scattering system. For the four-sphere billiard, we investigate the chaotic repeller and discuss the semiclassical quantization of the system by the method of cycle expan

Arbel D. Tadmor, Tsvi Tlusty

We propose a biophysical model of Escherichia coli that predicts growth rate and an effective cellular composition from an effective, coarse-grained representation of its genome. We assume that E. coli is in a state of balanced exponential steadystate growth, growing in a temporally and spatially constant environment, rich in resources. We apply this model t

Patrícia Damas Beites, Alexander Petrovich Pozhidaev

It is proved that there exist no simple finite-dimensional Filippov superalgebras of type A(m,n) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0.

Rezsö L. Lovas, István Mezö

We study some interesting properties of Furstenberg&#39;s topology of the integers. We show that it is metrizable, totally disconnected, and (Z,+,.) is a topological ring with respect to this topology. As an application, we show that any two disjoint sets of primes can be separated by arithmetic progressions.

S. Simón-Díaz, A. Herrero, K. Uytterhoeven, N. Castro

The spectra of O and B supergiants are known to be affected by a significant form of extra line broadening (usually referred to as macroturbulence) in addition to that produced by stellar rotation. Recent analyses of high resolution spectra have shown that the interpretation of this line broadening as a consequence of large scale turbulent motions would impl

Li Ma

In this paper, we study how to get the Ricci expanders from W+-functional through the heat kernel estimate of the conjugate heat equation to the type III singularity of Ricci flow. The Gaussian upper and lower bounds are established for the related heat kernel in accordance to the interesting work of Cao-Zhang for the type I Rici flow.

Rainer Sommer

Lectures given at the Summer School on &#34;Modern perspectives in lattice QCD&#34;, Les Houches, August 3-28, 2009

Toshitaka Tatsumi

Magnetic properties of quark matter are discussed. The possibility of ferromagnetic transition is studied by using the one-gluon-exchange interaction. Magnetic susceptibility is evaluated within Landau Fermi liquid theory, and the important roles of the screening for the gluon propagation are elucidated. Static screening for the longitudinal gluons improves

C. E. Creffield, F. Sols, D. Ciampini, O. Morsch

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of cold atoms held in an optical lattice potential. The expansion of an initially confined atom cloud occurs in two phases: an initial quadratic expansion followed by a ballistic behaviour at long times. Accounting for this gives a good description of recent experimental results, and provides a robust method to extract t

Allen Lavoie, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy

Computer generated academic papers have been used to expose a lack of thorough human review at several computer science conferences. We assess the problem of classifying such documents. After identifying and evaluating several quantifiable features of academic papers, we apply methods from machine learning to build a binary classifier. In tests with two hund

Paul Fearnhead, Benjamin M. Taylor

This paper introduces a new model and methodology for estimating the ability of NBA players. The main idea is to directly measure how good a player is by comparing how their team performs when they are on the court as opposed to when they are off it. This is achieved in a such a way as to control for the changing abilities of the other players on court at di

Sudarshan Fernando, Murat Gunaydin

Minimal unitary representation of SO*(8) = SO(6,2) realized over the Hilbert space of functions of five variables and its deformations labeled by the spin t of an SU(2) subgroup correspond to massless conformal fields in six dimensions as was shown in arXiv:1005.3580. In this paper we study the minimal unitary supermultiplet of OSp(8*|2N) with the even subgr

Emily J. Pritchett, Colin Benjamin, Andrei Galiautdinov, Michael R. Geller

We introduce a protocol for the fast simulation of $n$-dimensional quantum systems on $n$-qubit quantum computers with tunable couplings. A mapping is given between the control parameters of the quantum computer and the matrix elements of $H_{\rm s}(t)$, an arbitrary, real, time-dependent $n\times n$ dimensional Hamiltonian that is simulated in the $n$-dimen

Kyle Pula

A Jordan loop is a commutative loop satisfying the Jordan identity $(x^2 y) x = x^2 (y x)$. We establish several identities involving powers in Jordan loops and show that there is no nonassociative Jordan loop of order $9$.

Kyle Pula

For a finite loop $Q$, let $P (Q)$ be the set of elements that can be represented as a product containing each element of $Q$ precisely once. Motivated by the recent proof of the Hall-Paige conjecture, we prove several universal implications between the following conditions: (A) $Q$ has a complete mapping, i.e. the multiplication table of $Q$ has a transvers

M. A. Jafarizadeh, N. Behzadi

In this work, new types of EWs are introduced. They are constructed by using real skew-symmetric operators defined on a single party subsystem of a bipartite dxd system and a maximal entangled state in that system. A canonical form for these witnesses is proposed which is called canonical EW in corresponding to canonical real skew-symmetric operator. Also fo

Ramazan Koc, Eser Olgar

A novel method is proposed to determine an analytical expression for eigenfunctions and numerical result for eigenvalues of the Schrödinger type equations, within the context of Taylor expansion of a function. Optimal truncation of the Taylor series gives a best possible analytical expression for eigenfunctions and numerical result for eigenvalues.

Z. Y. Li, S. Qiao, Z. Q. Yang, R. Q. Wu

Spin-orbit splitting in graphene on Ni, Au, or Ag (111) substrates was examined on the basis of density-functional theory. Graphene grown on the three metals was found to have Rashba splitting of a few or several tens of meV. The strong splitting obtained on Au or Ag substrates was mainly ascribed to effective hybridization of graphene $p_{z}$ state with Au

M. Sharif, Aisha Siddiqa

In this paper, we study dynamics of the charged plane symmetric gravitational collapse. For this purpose, we discuss non-adiabatic flow of a viscous fluid and deduce the results for adiabatic case. The Einstein and Maxwell field equations are formulated for general plane symmetric spacetime in the interior. Junction conditions between the interior and exteri

Omar Khazamov, Magomed Ramadanov

One of the breakthrough areas of physical science over the past decade has been research in the field of nanostructured materials of various substances, almost all of the properties of which differ sharply from the properties of macroscopic size. It is difficult to list the areas of science and technology, where nanomaterials are not implemented due to their

M. Sharif, M. Zubair

Spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type $VI_0$ cosmological models with cosmological constant are investigated in the presence of anisotropic dark energy. We examine the effects of electromagnetic field on the dynamics of the universe and anisotropic behavior of dark energy. The law of variation of the mean Hubble parameter is used to find exact s

C. E. Aalseth, A. R. Day, D. A. Haas, E. W. Hoppe

On-Site Inspection (OSI) is a key component of the verification regime for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Measurements of radionuclide isotopes created by an underground nuclear explosion are a valuable signature of a Treaty violation. Argon-37 is produced from neutron interaction with calcium in soil, 40Ca(n,α)37Ar. For OSI, the 35-day ha

M. A. Jafarizadeha, M. Mahdian

This paper was concerned with the spin-momentum correlation in single-particle quantum states, which is described by the mixed states under Lorentz transformations. For convenience, instead of using the superposition of momenta we use only two momentum eigen states (p1 and p2) that are perpendicular to the Lorentz boost direction. Consequently, in 2D momentu

Jozef Skakala, Matt Visser

Finsler spacetimes have become increasingly popular within the theoretical physics community over the last two decades. Because physicists need to use pseudo-Finsler structures to describe propagation}of signals, there will be nonzero null vectors in both the tangent and cotangent spaces --- this causes significant problems in that many of the mathematical r

Venky P. Krishnan, Eric Todd Quinto

In this article, we analyze the microlocal properties of the linearized forward scattering operator $F$ and the reconstruction operator $F^{*}F$ appearing in bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging. In our model, the radar source and detector travel along a line a fixed distance apart. We show that $F$ is a Fourier integral operator, and we give the mappin

Yoshihiro Takeyama

We obtain a class of quadratic relations for a q-analogue of multiple zeta values (qMZV&#39;s). In the limit q->1, it turns into Kawashima&#39;s relation for multiple zeta values. As a corollary we find that qMZV&#39;s satisfy the linear relation contained in Kawashima&#39;s relation. In the proof we make use of a q-analogue of Newton series and Bradley&#39;

R. Foot

Mirror dark matter offers a framework to explain the existing dark matter direct detection experiments. Here we confront this theory with the most recent experimental data, paying attention to the various known systematic uncertainties, in quenching factor, detector resolution, galactic rotational velocity and velocity dispersion. We perform a detailed analy

N. Kurita, M. Kimata, K. Kodama, A. Harada

High-pressure electrical resistivity measurements up to 3.0GPa have been performed on EuFe2As2 single crystals with residual resistivity ratios RRR=7 and 15. At ambient pressure, a magnetic / structural transition related to FeAs-layers is observed at T0 =190K and 194K for samples with RRR=7 and 15, respectively. Application of hydrostatic pressure suppresse

Jin-Yi Cai, Pinyan Lu, Mingji Xia

Valiant introduced matchgate computation and holographic algorithms. A number of seemingly exponential time problems can be solved by this novel algorithmic paradigm in polynomial time. We show that, in a very strong sense, matchgate computations and holographic algorithms based on them provide a universal methodology to a broad class of counting problems st

R. J. Snow, A. F. Wright, C. Y. Fong

In the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method, a local potential, basis functions, and projector functions form an All-Electron (AE) basis for valence wave functions in the application of Density Functional Theory (DFT). The construction of these potentials, basis functions and projector functions for each element can be complex, and several codes capable of

K. Kanakoglou, C. Daskaloyannis, A. Herrera-Aguilar

The mathematical structure of a mixed paraparticle system (combining both parabosonic and parafermionic degrees of freedom) commonly known as the Relative Parabose Set, will be investigated and a braided group structure will be described for it. A new family of realizations of an arbitrary Lie superalgebra will be presented and it will be shown that these re

Lei Fang, K. Deniz Bozdag, Chia-Yi Chen, P. A. Truitt

We report the successful extraction of spin polarized current from the organic-based room temperature ferrimagnetic semiconductor V[TCNE]x (x~2, TCNE: tetracyanoethylene; TC ~ 400 K, EG ~ 0.5 eV, s ~ 10-2 S/cm) and its subsequent injection into a GaAs/AlGaAs light-emitting diode (LED). The spin current tracks the magnetization of V[TCNE]x~2, is weakly temper

Adam Sciambi, Matthew Pelliccione, Michael P. Lilly, Seth R. Bank

We demonstrate a mechanism for a dual layer, vertical field-effect transistor, in which nearly-depleting one layer will extend its wavefunction to overlap the other layer and increase tunnel current. We characterize this effect in a specially designed GaAs/AlGaAs device, observing a tunnel current increase of two orders of magnitude at cryogenic temperatures

David K. Ferry, Laszlo B. Kish

From the beginning of quantum mechanics, there has been a discussion about the concept of reality, as exemplified by the EPR paradox. To many, the idea of the paradox and the possibility of local hidden variables was dismissed by the Bell inequality. Yet, there remains considerable evidence that this inequality can be violated even by classical systems, so t

K Deguchi, Y Mizuguchi, Y Kawasaki, T Ozaki

We found that hot alcoholic beverages were effective in inducing superconductivity in FeTe$_{0.8}$S0$_{.2}$. Heating FeTe$_{0.8}$S0$_{.2}$ compound in various alcoholic beverages enhances the superconducting properties compared to pure water-ethanol mixture as a control. Heating with red wine for 24 hours leads to the largest shielding volume fraction of 62.

Thanasis Balafoutis, Kostas Stergiou

A key factor that can dramatically reduce the search space during constraint solving is the criterion under which the variable to be instantiated next is selected. For this purpose numerous heuristics have been proposed. Some of the best of such heuristics exploit information about failures gathered throughout search and recorded in the form of constraint we

Anton Kapustin, Natalia Saulina

We study topological boundary conditions in abelian Chern-Simons theory and line operators confined to such boundaries. From a mathematical point of view, their relationships are described by a certain 2-category associated to an even integer-valued symmetric bilinear form (the matrix of Chern-Simons couplings). We argue that boundary conditions correspond t

Marc Wagner, Christian Wiese

We compute the static-light baryon spectrum with N_f = 2 flavors of sea quarks using Wilson twisted mass lattice QCD. As light valence quarks we consider quarks, which have the same mass as the sea quarks with corresponding pion masses in the range 340 MeV < m_PS < 525 MeV, as well as partially quenched quarks, which have the mass of the physical s quark. We

Ido Adam, Amit Dekel, Yaron Oz

In this note we consider a fermionic T-duality of the coset realization of the type IIA sigma-model on AdS_4 \times CP^3 with respect to the three flat directions in AdS_4, six of the fermionic coordinates and three of the CP^3 directions. We show that the Buscher procedure fails as it leads to a singular transformation and discuss the result and its implica

Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes

The annihilation of huge quantities of captured dark matter (DM) particles inside low-mass stars has been shown to change some of the stellar properties, such as the star&#39;s effective temperature or the way the energy is transported throughout the star. While in the classical picture, without DM, a star of 1 M_sun is expected to have a radiative interior

Felix Berkhahn, Dennis D. Dietrich, Stefan Hofmann

Relevant deformations of gravity present an exciting window of opportunity to probe the rigidity of gravity on cosmological scales. For a single-graviton theory, the leading relevant deformation constitutes a graviton mass term. In this paper, we investigate the classical and quantum stability of massive cosmological gravitons on generic Friedman backgrounds

Christopher D. Carone, Joshua Erlich, Reinard Primulando

We construct an explicit, TeV-scale model of decaying dark matter in which the approximate stability of the dark matter candidate is a consequence of a global symmetry that is broken only by instanton-induced operators generated by a non-Abelian dark gauge group. The dominant dark matter decay channels are to standard model leptons. Annihilation of the dark

Ying Zu, C. S. Kochanek, Bradley. M. Peterson

Motivated by recent progress in the statistical modeling of quasar variability, we develop a new approach to measuring emission-line reverberation lags to estimate the size of broad-line regions (BLRs) in active galactic nuclei. Assuming that all emission-line light curves are scaled, smoothed, and displaced versions of the continuum, this alternative approa

Jerome Gaillard, Dario Martelli

We study supergravity solutions corresponding to fivebranes wrapped on a three-sphere inside a G_2 holonomy manifold. By changing a parameter the solutions interpolate between a G_2 manifold X_i \cong S^3 x R^4 with flux on a three-sphere and a distinct G_2 manifold X_j \cong S^3 x R^4 with branes on another three-sphere. Therefore, these realise a G_2 geome

Phillip Zukin, Edmund Bertschinger

N-body simulations have revealed a wealth of information about dark matter halos however their results are largely empirical. Using analytic means, we attempt to shed light on simulation results by generalizing the self-similar secondary infall model to include tidal torque. In this first of two papers, we describe our halo formation model and compare our re

Fabian Schmidt, Marc Kamionkowski

We show how the peak-background split can be generalized to predict the effect of non-local primordial non-Gaussianity on the clustering of halos. Our approach is applicable to arbitrary primordial bispectra. We show that the scale-dependence of halo clustering predicted in the peak-background split (PBS) agrees with that of the local-biasing model on large

Ryan J. Foley, Armin Rest, Maximilian Stritzinger, Giuliano Pignata

We present observations of supernova (SN) 2008ge, which is spectroscopically similar to the peculiar SN 2002cx, and its pre-explosion site that indicate that its progenitor was probably a white dwarf. NGC 1527, the host galaxy of SN 2008ge, is an S0 galaxy with no evidence of star formation or massive stars. Astrometrically matching late-time imaging of SN 2

Robert de Mello Koch, Antal Jevicki, Kewang Jin, João P. Rodrigues

We pursue the construction of higher-spin theory in AdS_4 from CFT_3 of the O(N) vector model in terms of canonical collective fields. In null plane quantization an exact map is established between the two spaces. The coordinates of the AdS_4 space-time are generated from the collective coordinates of the bi-local field. This, in the light cone gauge, provid

Simona Settepanella

A referee found an error in the proof of the Theorem 2 that we could not fix. More precisely, the proof of Lemma 2.1 is incorrect. Hence the fact that integer cohomology of complement of toric Weyl arrangements is torsion free is still a conjecture. ----- A toric arrangement is a finite set of hypersurfaces in a complex torus, every hypersurface being the ke

Raman Sharma, Suranjana Ghosh, Utpal Roy, Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The orthogonality of cat and displaced cat states, underlying Heisenberg limited measurement in quantum metrology, is studied in the limit of large number of states. The asymptotic expression for the corresponding state overlap function, controlled by the sub-Planck structures arising from phase space interference, is obtained exactly. The validity of large

Roman M. Lutchyn, Tudor Stanescu, S. Das Sarma

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor. We show that when odd number of subbands are occupied the system realizes non-trivial topological state supporting Majorana modes localized at the ends. We study the topological quantum phase transition in this system and analytically calculate the phase diagram as a

Li Ge, Y. D. Chong, A. Douglas Stone

We improve the steady-state ab initio laser theory (SALT) of Tureci et al. by expressing its fundamental self-consistent equation in a basis set of threshold constant flux states that contains the exact threshold lasing mode. For cavities with non-uniform index and/or non-uniform gain, the new basis set allows the steady-state lasing properties to be compute

Hannah Petersen, Guang-You Qin, Steffen A. Bass, Berndt Müller

The first calculation of triangular flow $v_3$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200A$ GeV from an event-by-event (3+1)-d transport+hydrodynamics hybrid approach is presented. As a response to the initial triangularity $ε_3$ of the collision zone, $v_3$ is computed in a similar way to the standard event-plane analysis for elliptic flow $v_2$. It is f

Horace Yuen

We analyze the fundamental security significance of the quantitative criteria on the final generated key K in quantum key generation including the quantum criterion d, the attacker&#39;s mutual information on K, and the statistical distance between her distribution on K and the uniform distribution. For operational significance a criterion has to produce gua

A. Ferreira, Xiangfan Xu, Chang-Lin Tan, Sukang Bae

We study the effect of extended charge defects in electronic transport properties of graphene. Extended defects are ubiquitous in chemically and epitaxially grown graphene samples due to internal strains associated with the lattice mismatch. We show that at low energies these defects interact quite strongly with the 2D Dirac fermions and have an important ef

Jan A. Bergstra

Formalist positions towards money are considered from a perspective of formal methods in computing. The Formaleuro (FEUR) as a dimension for monetary quantities is proposed as well as the Formalbitcoin (FBTC) which represents an item ready for circulation in a model of informational money. An attempt is made to understand the concept of money from scratch. I

Ian Block, Frank Scheffold

Accurate characterization using static light scattering (SLS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) methods mandates the measurement and analysis of singly-scattered light. In turbid samples, the suppression of multiple scattering is therefore required to obtain meaningful results. One powerful technique for achieving this, known as 3D cross-correlation, uses t

Daniele Bertacca, Nicola Bartolo, Sabino Matarrese

In this work we analyze and review cosmological models in which the dynamics of a single scalar field accounts for a unified description of the Dark Matter and Dark Energy sectors, dubbed Unified Dark Matter (UDM) models. In this framework, we consider the general Lagrangian of k-essence, which allows to find solutions around which the scalar field describes

Holger Mueller, Michael A. Hohensee, Nan Yu

A recent measurement of the gravitational redshift was based on interference of matter waves. Operation in microgravity can improve it by a factor of $10^5$ and, in some models, even $10^{10}$.

Michael A. Hohensee, Holger Mueller

For most theories which parametrize modifications of General Relativity, including those which violate the equivalence principle, gravitational redshift tests typically offer weaker constraints on such test parameters than do precision measurements of the universality of free fall (UFF) and local Lorentz invariance (LLI). Although redshift anomalies are ofte

B. M. Tanygin, O. V. Tychko

The energy and structure of planar Bloch domain walls with opposite directions (right- and left-handed) and different paths of magnetization vector rotation have been systemized. The theory covers arbitrary oriented plates of cubic m3m symmetry magnetically ordered medium with negative anisotropy. The general approach is created and applied to most plates ty

Termeh Kousha

In this paper, we obtain a large and moderate deviation principle for the law of the maximum of a random Dyck path. Our result extend the results of Chung, Kennedy, Kaigh and Khorunzhiy and Marckert.