August 2010 arXiv papers — page 49

Andy Shearer, Gottfried Kanbach, Aga Słowikowska, Cesare Barbieri

High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) concerns itself with observations on short scales normally defined as being lower than the conventional read-out time of a CCD. As such it is concerned with condensed objects such as neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs, surfaces with extreme magnetic reconnection phenomena, as well as with planetary scale obje

Patrick Johnson, Daniel Cole, Zohar Nussinov

By employing a mapping to classical anharmonic oscillators, we explore a class of solutions to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLSE) in 1+1 dimensions and, by extension, asymptotically in general dimensions. We discuss a possible way for creating approximate rogue wave like solutions to the NLSE by truncating exact solutions at their nodes and stitching

Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masahide Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We propose a new class of inflation model, G-inflation, which has a Galileon-like nonlinear derivative interaction of the form $G(ϕ, (\nablaϕ)^2)\Boxϕ$ in the Lagrangian with the resultant equations of motion being of second order. It is shown that (almost) scale-invariant curvature fluctuations can be generated even in the exactly de Sitter background and t

Paul Cuff

We consider theoretical limits of partial secrecy in a setting where an eavesdropper attempts to causally reconstruct an information sequence with low distortion based on an intercepted transmission and the past of the sequence. The transmitter and receiver have limited secret key at their disposal but not enough to establish perfect secrecy with a one-time

Gabriele Vezzosi

This note is supposed to answer some questions on deformation theory in derived algebraic geometry. We show that derived algebraic geometry allows for a geometrical interpretation of the full cotangent complex and gives a natural setting for deformation and obstruction theories.

Michel Van den Bergh

We prove that complete d-Calabi-Yau algebras in the sense of Ginzburg are derived from superpotentials.

A. K. Kolezhuk, T. Vekua

We study the magnetic phase diagram of spin-3/2 fermions in a spatially anisotropic square optical lattice at quarter filling (corresponding to one particle per lattice site). In the limit of the large on-site repulsion the system can be mapped to the so-called Sp(N) Heisenberg spin model with N=4. We analyze the Sp(N) spin model with the help of the large-N

Nikolai Shaposhnikov, Craig Markwardt, Jean Swank, Hans Krimm

We report on the discovery and monitoring observations of a new galactic black hole candidate XTE J1752-223 by Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The new source appeared on the X-ray sky on October 21 2009 and was active for almost 8 months. Phenomenologically, the source exhibited the low-hard/high-soft spectral state bi-modality and the variability evolut

Ramin Naimi, Jeffrey Shaw

The Johnson graph J(n,N) is defined as the graph whose vertices are the n-subsets of the set {1,2,...,N}, where two vertices are adjacent if they share exactly n - 1 elements. Unlike Johnson graphs, induced subgraphs of Johnson graphs (JIS for short) do not seem to have been studied before. We give some necessary conditions and some sufficient conditions for

J. U. Fürst, D. V. Strekalov, D. Elser, A. Aiello

Optical parametric downconversion has proven to be a valuable source of nonclassical light. The process is inherently able to produce twin beam correlations along with individual intensity squeezing of either parametric beam, when pumped far above threshold. Here, we present for the first time the direct observation of intensity squeezing of -1.2 dB of each

G. M. Falco, Andrei A. Fedorenko, Jacopo Giacomelli, Michele Modugno

We study the single particle density of states of a one-dimensional speckle potential, which is correlated and non-Gaussian. We consider both the repulsive and the attractive cases. The system is controlled by a single dimensionless parameter determined by the mass of the particle, the correlation length and the average intensity of the field. Depending on t

S. Pittalis, C. R. Proetto, A. Floris, A. Sanna

Finite temperature density functional theory provides, in principle, an exact description of the thermodynamical equilibrium of many-electron systems. In practical applications, however, the functionals must be approximated. Efficient and physically meaningful approximations can be developed if relevant properties of the exact functionals are known and taken

Kai-Nan Shao, Zhibai Zhang

Kerr/CFT correspondence exhibits many remarkable connections between the near horizon Kerr black hole and a CFT. Recently, a hidden conformal symmetry in the solution space of Kerr black hole is shown by Castro, Maloney and Strominger. Applying the formula on a rotating black hole with four independent U(1) charges derived in string theory which is known as

Russell O'Connor

Interactive theorem provers based on dependent type theory have the flexibility to support both constructive and classical reasoning. Constructive reasoning is supported natively by dependent type theory and classical reasoning is typically supported by adding additional non-constructive axioms. However, there is another perspective that views constructive l

M. D. Reed, S. D. Kawaler, R. H. Ostensen, S. Bloemen

We present the discovery of nonradial pulsations in five hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars based on 27 days of nearly continuous time-series photometry using the Kepler spacecraft. We find that every sdB star cooler than $\approx 27\,500\,$K that Kepler has observed (seven so far) is a long-period pulsator of the V1093~Her (PG~1716) class or a hybrid star with both

V. G. Kogan, Joerg Schmalian

It is shown that within the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approximation the order parameters Delta1(r, T) and Delta2(r, T) in two-band superconductors vary on the same length scale, the difference in the zero-T coherence lengths xi0_i ~vF_i/Delta_i(0), i = 1, 2 notwithstanding. This amounts to a single physical GL parameter kappa and the classic GL dichotomy: kappa <

G. Belanger, M. Kakizaki, E. K. Park, S. Kraml

In supersymmetric models with Dirac neutrino masses, a left-right mixed sneutrino can be a viable dark matter candidate. We examine the MSSM+$\tildeν_R$ parameter space where this is the case with particular emphasis on light sneutrinos with masses below 10 GeV. We discuss implications for direct and indirect dark matter searches, including the relevant unce

Hidetoshi Awata, Hiroyuki Fuji, Hiroaki Kanno, Masahide Manabe

Following a recent paper by Alday and Tachikawa, we compute the instanton partition function in the presence of the surface operator by the localization formula on the moduli space. For SU(2) theories we find an exact agreement with CFT correlation functions with a degenerate operator insertion, which enables us to work out the decoupling limit of the superc

Fan Yang, Tao Li

A variational theory is proposed for the quasiparticle excitation in high T$_{c}$ cuprates. The theory goes beyond the usual Gutzwiller projected mean field state description by including the spin-charge recombination effect in the RVB background. The spin-charge recombination effect is found to qualitatively alter the behavior of the quasiparticle charge as

Akira Kokado, Gaku Konisi, Takesi Saito

We summarize exact solutions of closed superstrings in a constant magnetic field, from a view point of the regularization criterion. Some models will be excluded according to this criterion. The spectrum-generating algebra is also constructed in these interacting models.

J. Moreira, B. Hiller, A. A. Osipov, A. H. Blin

An attempt is made to resolve certain incongruities within the Nambu - Jona-Lasinio (NJL) and Polyakov loop extended NJL models (PNJL) which currently are used to extract the thermodynamic characteristics of the quark-gluon system. It is argued that the most attractive resolution of these incongruities is the possibility to obtain the thermodynamic potential

A. V. Dodonov

We study the cavity field&#39;s and atomic asymptotic mean excitation numbers due to anti-rotating term (AMENDART) in the circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (circuit QED) system, composed of a two-level atom and a single cavity field mode, subject to Markovian damping and dephasing mechanisms. We show that the AMENDART are above the thermal values, and their be

Shelly Garion, Yair Glasner

An action of a group on a set is called k-transitive if it is transitive on ordered k-tuples and highly transitive if it is k-transitive for every k. We show that for n>3 the group Out(Fn) = Aut(Fn)/Inn(Fn) admits a faithful highly transitive action on a countable set.

Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez, Asterios Katsifodimos, Ioana Manolescu, Alexandra Roatis

We propose to demonstrate LiquidXML, a platform for managing large corpora of XML documents in large-scale P2P networks. All LiquidXML peers may publish XML documents to be shared with all the network peers. The challenge then is to efficiently (re-)distribute the published content in the network, possibly in overlapping, redundant fragments, to support effi

Alexandre A. Martins, Mario J. Pinheiro

The present work intends to identify the nature of the propulsive force that occurs during a positive corona discharge in nitrogen gas using an asymmetric capacitor geometry. We are going to apply the known theory of electrohydrodynamics (EHD) and electrostatics in order to compute all hydrodynamic and electrostatic forces that act on the considered geometry

S. Tölle, H. -W. Hammer, B. C. Metsch

Few-body systems with resonant short-range interactions display universal properties that do not depend on the details of their structure or their interactions at short distances. In the three-body system, these properties include the existence of a geometric spectrum of three-body Efimov states and a discrete scaling symmetry. Similar universal properties a

Selym Villalba-Chavez

The response of the QED vacuum in an asymptotically large electromagnetic field is studied. In this regime the vacuum energy is strongly influenced by the vacuum polarization effect. The possible interaction between the virtual electromagnetic radiation and a superstrong magnetic field suggests that a background of virtual photons is a source of magnetizatio

N. Naslim, C. S. Jeffery, A. Ahmad, N. T. Behara

The connection between helium-rich hot subdwarfs of spectral types O and B (He-sdB) has been relatively unexplored since the latter were found in significant numbers in the 1980&#39;s. In order to explore this connection further, we have analysed the surface composition of six He-sdB stars, including LB 1766, LB 3229, SB 21 (= Ton-S 137 = BPS 29503-0009), BP

H. Al Falou, A. Leprince, N. A. Orr

The near threshold structure of the unbound N=7 isotones 10Li and 9He has been investigated using proton removal and breakup from intermediate energy (35 MeV/nucleon) secondary beams of 11Be and 14,15B. The coincident detection of the beam velocity 9Li and 8He fragments and neutrons permitted the relative energy of the in-flight decay of 10Li and 9He to be r

Flavia Poma

We compute the étale cohomology groups H^i(X,G_m) in several cases, where X is a smooth tame Deligne-Mumford stack of dimension 1 over an algebraically closed field. We have complete results for orbicurves (and, more generally, for twisted nodal curves) and in the case all stabilizers are cyclic; we give some partial results and examples in the general case.

Nicolas Verzelen

Consider the standard Gaussian linear regression model $Y=Xθ+ε$, where $Y\in R^n$ is a response vector and $ X\in R^{n*p}$ is a design matrix. Numerous work have been devoted to building efficient estimators of $θ$ when $p$ is much larger than $n$. In such a situation, a classical approach amounts to assume that $θ_0$ is approximately sparse. This paper stud

Khurom H. Kiyani, Sandra C. Chapman, Fouad Sahraoui, Bogdan Hnat

The anisotropic nature of solar wind magnetic turbulence fluctuations is investigated scale-by-scale using high cadence in-situ magnetic field measurements from the Cluster and ACE spacecraft missions. The data span five decades in scales from the inertial range to the electron Larmor radius. In contrast to the inertial range, there is a successive increase

James D. E. Grant

Motivated by recent work of Choquet-Bruhat, Chrusciel, and Martin-Garcia, we prove monotonicity properties and comparison results for the area of slices of the null cone of a point in a Lorentzian manifold. We also prove volume comparison results for subsets of the null cone analogous to the Bishop-Gromov relative volume monotonicity theorem and Guenther&#39

Madars Virza

Determining the maximal separation between sensitivity and block sensitivity of Boolean functions is of interest for computational complexity theory. We construct a sequence of Boolean functions with bs(f) = 1/2 s(f)^2 + 1/2 s(f). The best known separation previously was bs(f) = 1/2 s(f)^2 due to Rubinstein. We also report results of computer search for func

Andrew McWilliam, Manuela Zoccali

From 2MASS infra-red photometry we find two red clump (RC) populations co-existing in the same fields toward the Galactic bulge at latitudes |b|>5.5 deg., ranging over ~13 degrees in longitude and 20 degrees in latitude. We can only understand the data if these RC peaks simply reflect two stellar populations separated by ~2.3 kpc; at (l,b)=(+1,-8) the two RC

Renyuan Liao, Joachim Brand

We study the superfluid pairing in a two-species gas of heteronuclear fermionic molecules with equal density. The interplay of the isotropic s-wave interaction and anisotropic long-range dipolar interaction reveals rich physics. We find that the single-particle momentum distribution has a characteristic ellipsoidal shape that can be reasonably represented by

J. J. Sławianowski, V. Kovalchuk, A. Martens, B. Gołubowska

In Part I of this series we presented the general ideas of applying group-algebraic methods for describing quantum systems. The treatment was there very &#34;ascetic&#34; in that only the structure of a locally compact topological group was used. Below we explicitly make use of the Lie group structure. Basing on differential geometry enables one to introduce

Yuji Kodama, Shigeki Matsutani, Emma Previato

M. Toda in 1967 (\textit{J. Phys. Soc. Japan}, \textbf{22} and \textbf{23}) considered a lattice model with exponential interaction and proved, as suggested by the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiments in the 1950s, that it has exact periodic and soliton solutions. The Toda lattice, as it came to be known, was then extensively studied as one of the completely integra

Akamine Kazuma, Ken Fukuchi, Akisato Kimura, Shigeru Takagi

Automatic video segmentation plays an important role in a wide range of computer vision and image processing applications. Recently, various methods have been proposed for this purpose. The problem is that most of these methods are far from real-time processing even for low-resolution videos due to the complex procedures. To this end, we propose a new and qu

Y. Hadad, Ben Z. Steinberg

When a linear chain of plasmonic nano-particles is subject to longitudinal magnetic field, it exhibits optical Faraday rotation. If the magnetized nano-particles are plasmonic ellipsoids arranged as a spiral chain, the interplay between the Faraday rotation and the geometrical spiral rotation (structural chirality) can strongly enhance non-reciprocity. This

Keith C. Hannabuss

Algebras associated with Quantum Electrodynamics and other gauge theories share some mathematical features with T-duality Exploiting this different perspective and some category theory, the full algebra of fermions and bosons can be regarded as a braided Clifford algebra over a braided commutative boson algebra, sharing much of the structure of ordinary Clif

Maria Harsoula, Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We study the orbital structure in a series of self-consistent $N$-body configurations simulating rotating barred galaxies with spiral and ring structures. We perform frequency analysis in order to measure the angular and the radial frequencies of the orbits at two different time snapshots during the evolution of each $N$-body system. The analysis is done sep

Nobuhiro Uekusa

The classification of relevant, marginal and irrelevant operators is studied in the Randall-Sundrum spacetime. We find that there exist marginal and interacting operators in the Randall-Sundrum spacetime unlike a higher-dimensional effective theory near the free-field fixed point. This gives a direction to treat quantum corrections in the field-theoretical f

Mark Lovell, Vincent Eke, Carlos Frenk, Adrian Jenkins

We calculate the orbital angular momentum of dark matter subhaloes in the Aquarius simulations of cold dark matter galactic haloes. We calculate the orientation of their angular momentum relative to that of the spin vector of their host halo and find a variety of different configurations. All six Aquarius haloes contain statistically significant populations

Yoshio Kitadono, Ryo Sahara, Tsuneo Uematsu, Takahiro Ueda

We discuss the resummation of the large logarithmic terms appearing in the heavy quark effects on parton distribution functions inside the virtual photon. We incorporate heavy quark mass effects by changing the initial condition of the leading-order DGLAP evolution equation. In a certain kinematical limit, we recover the logarithmic terms of the next-to-lead

Ja Kyung Koo, Dong Hwa Shin, Dong Sung Yoon

Let $φ(τ)=η((τ+1)/2)^2/\sqrt{2π}e^\frac{πi}{4}η(τ+1)$ where $η(τ)$ is the Dedekind eta-function. We show that if $τ_0$ is an imaginary quadratic number with $\mathrm{Im}(τ_0)>0$ and $m$ is an odd integer, then $\sqrt{m}φ(mτ_0)/φ(τ_0)$ is an algebraic integer dividing $\sqrt{m}$. This is a generalization of Theorem 4.4 given in [B. C. Berndt, H. H. Chan and L

Xing-Jiang Zhu, Eric Howell, David Blair

The upper limit on the energy density of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background obtained from the two-year science run (S5) of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is used to constrain the average GW production of core collapse supernovae (ccSNe). We assume that the ccSNe rate tracks the star formation history of the univer

Chul-Moon Yoo, Ken-ichi Nakao, Misao Sasaki

We study the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel&#39;dovich (kSZ) effect in a Lemître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) universe model whose distance-redshift relation agrees with that of the concordance $Λ$CDM model at redshifts $z\lesssim2$. This LTB universe model has a void with size comparable to the Hubble horizon scale. We first determine the decoupling epoch in this LTB universe

Akos Rapp, Stephan Mandt, Achim Rosch

As highly tunable interacting systems, cold atoms in optical lattices are ideal to realize and observe negative absolute temperatures, T < 0. We show theoretically that by reversing the confining potential, stable superfluid condensates at finite momentum and T < 0 can be created with low entropy production for attractive bosons. They may serve as `smoking g

Bin Zhang, Yong-Jun Zhang

We derive a Menta Carlo method to simulate kinetic equilibrium ensemble, and get the same sea-quark flavor asymmetry as the linear equations method in statistical model. In the recent paper, we introduce the spilt factors to indicate the quarks&#39; or gluons&#39; spilt $g\rightarrow q\bar{q}(gg)$ and $q\rightarrow qg$ ability. We obtain the almost fixed asy

Zhenhua Wu, J. Li, K. S. Chand

We applied the Floquet scattering-matrix formalism to studying the electronic transport properties in a mesoscopic Dirac system. Using the method, we investigate theoretically quantum pumping driven by a series of time-periodic potentials in graphene monolayer both in the adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes. Our numerical results demonstrate that adding harm

Masato Okado, Reiho Sakamoto

For an affine algebra of nonexceptional type in the large rank we show the fermionic formula depends only on the attachment of the node 0 of the Dynkin diagram to the rest, and the fermionic formula of not type A can be expressed as a sum of that of type A with Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. Combining this result with math.CO/9901037 and arXiv:1002.3715

Lifa Zhang, Jie Ren, Jian-Sheng Wang, Baowen Li

We provide a topological understanding on phonon Hall effect in dielectrics with Raman spinphonon coupling. A general expression for phonon Hall conductivity is obtained in terms of the Berry curvature of band structures. We find a nonmonotonic behavior of phonon Hall conductivity as a function of magnetic field. Moreover, we observe a phase transition in ph

A. Martínez Torres, D. Jido

We study the $KΛ(1405)$ configuration of the $K\bar{K}N$ system by considering $KπΣ$ as a coupled channel. We solve the Faddeev equations for these systems and find confirmation of the existence of a new $N^{*}$ resonance around 1920 MeV with $J^π=1/2^{+}$ predicted in a single-channel potential model and also found in a Faddeev calculation as an $a_{0}(980)

R. Friedberg, T. D. Lee

We propose a simple set of hypotheses governing the deviations of the leptonic mapping matrix from the Harrison-Perkins-Scott (HPS) form. These deviations are supposed to arise entirely from a perturbation of the mass matrix in the charged lepton sector. The perturbing matrix is assumed to be purely imaginary (thus maximally $T$-violating) and to have a stre

Joseph M. Renes, Renato Renner

The task of compressing classical information in the one-shot scenario is studied in the setting where the decompressor additionally has access to some given quantum side information. In this hybrid classical-quantum version of the famous Slepian-Wolf problem, the smooth max-entropy is found to govern the number of bits into which classical information can b

Joerg Schmalian

Almost half a century passed between the discovery of superconductivity by Kamerlingh Onnes and the theoretical explanation of the phenomenon by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer. During the intervening years the brightest minds in theoretical physics tried and failed to develop a microscopic understanding of the effect. A summary of some of those unsuccessful

Guillermo Henry, Daniela Rodriguez

Under a partially linear models we study a family of robust estimates for the regression parameter and the regression function when some of the predictor variables take values on a Riemannian manifold. We obtain the consistency and the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators. Also, we consider a robust cross validation procedure to select the smoothi

Jimmy Tseng

Approximation in this paper is of vectors on the unit $d$-cube by the projection of integer lattice points onto the same cube. We define badly approximable vectors on a rational quadratic variety and show that sets of these vectors, which are (naturally) indexed by $m \in \QQ$, are winning and strong winning in the sense of Schmidt games. From the winning pr

Jonathan T. L. Zwart, Farhan Feroz, Matthew L. Davies, Thomas M. O. Franzen

We present observations using the Small Array of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI; 14-18 GHz) of four Abell and three MACS clusters spanning 0.171-0.686 in redshift. We detect Sunyaev-Zel&#39;dovich (SZ) signals in five of these without any attempt at source subtraction, although strong source contamination is present. With radio-source measurements fro

Chang-Ran Wang, Wen-Sen Lu, Wei-Li Lee

We performed electric and thermoelectric transport measurements of bilayer graphene in a magnetic field up to 15 Tesla. The transverse thermoelectric conductivity $\rmα_{xy}$, determined from four transport coefficients, attains a peak value of $\rmα_{xy, peak}$ whenever chemical potential lies in the center of a Landau level. The temperature dependence of $

Yibei Ling, Jie Mi

Caching is an effective mechanism for reducing bandwidth usage and alleviating server load. However, the use of caching entails a compromise between content freshness and refresh cost. An excessive refresh allows a high degree of content freshness at a greater cost of system resource. Conversely, a deficient refresh inhibits content freshness but saves the c

Alexander Moore

The electrostatic interaction between metal spheres is an influential component in the assembly of many nanoscale materials in chemistry. Here we derive a method to calculate the energy and polarizations of metal spheres in arbitrary configurations to an arbitrary multipole order. This helps provide insight into the preferred configurations of charged metal

H. Wollny

Transverse spin and transverse momentum distribution functions of the constituents of the nucleon are a crucial input for a complete description of the nucleon. COMPASS measured such for longitudinally and transversely polarized deuterons and protons. In the following we will focus on recent results from the 2007 transverse proton data and on the results for

D. V. Ahluwalia, S. P. Horvath

In the very special relativity (VSR) proposal by Cohen and Glashow, it was pointed out that invariance under HOM(2) is both necessary and sufficient to explain the null result of the Michelson-Morely experiment. It is the quantum field theoretic demand of locality, or the requirement of P, T, CP, or CT invariance, that makes invariance under the Lorentz grou

Giniyat Khaliullin, Michiyasu Mori, Takami Tohyama, Sadamichi Maekawa

Recent experiments on Bi-based cuprate superconductors have revealed an unexpected enhancement of the pairing correlations near the interstitial oxygen dopant ions. Here we propose a possible mechanism -- based on local screening effects -- by which the oxygen dopants do modify the electronic parameters within the CuO_2 planes and strongly increase the super

Todd A. Brun, Mark M. Wilde

Bennett and Schumacher&#39;s postselected quantum teleportation is a model of closed timelike curves (CTCs) that leads to results physically different from Deutsch&#39;s model. We show that even a single qubit passing through a postselected CTC (P-CTC) is sufficient to do any postselected quantum measurement, and we discuss an important difference between &#

Elisenda Feliu, Michael Knudsen, Lars N. Andersen, Carsten Wiuf

Posttranslational modification of proteins is key in transmission of signals in cells. Many signaling pathways contain several layers of modification cycles that mediate and change the signal through the pathway. Here, we study a simple signaling cascade consisting of n layers of modification cycles, such that the modified protein of one layer acts as modifi

S. Ali Altug, Jacob Tsimerman

We formulate and prove the analogue of the Ramanujan Conjectures for modular forms of half-integral weight subject to some ramification restriction in the setting of a polynomial ring over a finite field. This is applied to give an effective solution to the problem of representations of elements of the ring by ternary quadratic forms. Our proof develops the

M. D. Girardeau

A harmonically trapped ultracold 1D spin-1 Bose gas with strongly repulsive or attractive 1D even-wave interactions induced by a 3D Feshbach resonance is studied. The exact ground state, a hybrid of Tonks-Girardeau (TG) and ideal Fermi gases, is constructed in the TG limit of infinite even-wave repulsion by a spinor Fermi-Bose mapping to a spinless ideal Fer

Elisenda Feliu, Lars N. Andersen, Michael Knudsen, Carsten Wiuf

We define a general mathematical framework for studying post-translational modification processes under the assumption of mass action kinetics.

J. L. Christiansen, E. Albin, T. Fletcher, J. Goldman

We search the COSMOS survey for pairs of galaxies consistent with the gravitational lensing signature of a cosmic string. The COSMOS survey imaged 1.64 square degrees using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our technique includes estimates of the efficiency for finding the lensed galaxy pair. We find no evidence f

C. L. S. Kantner, M. C. Langner, W. Siemons, J. L. Blok

We report time-resolved Kerr effect measurements of magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic SrRuO3. We observe that the demagnetization time slows substantially at temperatures within 15K of the Curie temperature, which is ~ 150K. We analyze the data with a phenomenological model that relates the demagnetization time to the spin flip time. In agreement with

Piotr M. Hajac, Atabey Kaygun, Bartosz Zielinski

From N-tensor powers of the Toeplitz algebra, we construct a multipullback C*-algebra that is a noncommutative deformation of the complex projective space CP(N). Using Birkhoff&#39;s Representation Theorem, we prove that the lattice of kernels of the canonical projections on components of the multipullback C*-algebra is free. This shows that our deformation

I. D. Ivanovic

The sets of after-measurement states for standard and generalized quantum measurements are compared. It is shown that for a SIC-POVM generalized measurement, the ratio of the volume of the set of after-measurement states and the volume of the simplex generated by individual outcomes quickly tends to zero with increase of the number of dimensions. The volumes

Adam Sciambi, Matthew Pelliccione, Seth R. Bank, Arthur C. Gossard

We propose a novel probe technique capable of performing local low-temperature spectroscopy on a 2D electron system (2DES) in a semiconductor heterostructure. Motivated by predicted spatially-structured electron phases, the probe uses a charged metal tip to induce electrons to tunnel locally, directly below the tip, from a &#34;probe&#34; 2DES to a &#34;subj

Franz Waldner, Rainer Klages

The stability analysis introduced by Lyapunov and extended by Oseledec is an excellent tool to describe the character of nonlinear n-dimensional flows by n global exponents if these flows are stable in time. However, there are two main shortcomings: (a) The local exponents fail to indicate the origin of instability where trajectories start to diverge. Instea

Liubin Pan, Evan Scannapieco

In many astrophysical environments, mixing of heavy elements occurs in the presence of a supersonic turbulent velocity field. Here we carry out the first systematic numerical study of such passive scalar mixing in isothermal supersonic turbulence. Our simulations show that the ratio of the scalar mixing timescale, $τ_{\rm c}$, to the flow dynamical time, $τ_

M. J. S. Houndjo

Quantum effects due to particle creation on a classical sudden singularity have been investigated in a previous work. The conclusion was that quantum effects do not lead to the avoidance nor the modification of the sudden future singularity. In this paper, we investigate quantum corrections coming from conformal anomaly near the sudden future singularity. We

Johannes Nordström

Let G be one of the Ricci-flat holonomy groups SU(n), Sp(n), Spin(7) or G_2, and M a compact manifold of dimension 2n, 4n, 8 or 7, respectively. We prove that the natural map from the moduli space of torsion-free G-structures on M to the moduli space of Ricci-flat metrics is open, and that the image is a smooth manifold. For the exceptional cases G = Spin(7)

S. Pilling, E. Seperuelo Duarte, A. Domaracka, H. Rothard

An experimental study on the interaction of heavy, highly charged, and energetic ions (52 MeV Ni^13+) with pure H2O, pure CO2 and mixed H2O:CO2 astrophysical ice analogs is presented. This analysis aims to simulate the chemical and the physicochemical interactions induced by heavy cosmic rays inside dense and cold astrophysical environments such as molecular

Lev Buhovsky, Yaron Ostrover

We study the class of norms on the space of smooth functions on a closed symplectic manifold, which are invariant under the action of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. Our main result shows that any such norm that is continuous with respect to the $C^{\infty}$-topology, is dominated from above by the $L_{\infty}$-norm. As a corollary, we obtain that

Thanasis Balafoutis, Kostas Stergiou

The two standard branching schemes for CSPs are d-way and 2-way branching. Although it has been shown that in theory the latter can be exponentially more effective than the former, there is a lack of empirical evidence showing such differences. To investigate this, we initially make an experimental comparison of the two branching schemes over a wide range of

H. Hildebrandt, S. Arnouts, P. Capak, L. A. Moustakas

Here we introduce PHAT, the PHoto-z Accuracy Testing programme, an international initiative to test and compare different methods of photo-z estimation. Two different test environments are set up, one (PHAT0) based on simulations to test the basic functionality of the different photo-z codes, and another one (PHAT1) based on data from the GOODS survey. The a

Frank Bauer

In a stochastic noise setting the Lepskij balancing principle for choosing the regularization parameter in the regularization of inverse problems is depending on a parameter $τ$ which in the currently known proofs is depending on the unknown noise level of the input data. However, in practice this parameter seems to be obsolete. We will present an explanatio

Dragomir Z. Djokovic

Base sequences BS(m,n) are quadruples (A;B;C;D) of {+1,-1}-sequences, with A and B of length m and C and D of length n, such that the sum of their nonperiodic autocorrelation functions is a delta-function. Normal sequences NS(n) are base sequences (A;B;C;D) in BS(n,n) such that A=B. We introduce a definition of equivalence for normal sequences NS(n), and con

Lars Sonnenschein

Vector boson plus jet production is interesting for Higgs search, beyond the Standard Model physics and provides standard candles for calibration. This is complementary to inclusive jet production measurements which provide precision tests of perturbative QCD. A multitude of W/Z plus heavy and light flavour jet measurements in ppbar collisions at a centre of

Tadeusz Iwaniec, Ngin-Tee Koh, Leonid V. Kovalev, Jani Onninen

The paper establishes the existence of homeomorphisms between two planar domains that minimize the Dirichlet energy. Specifically, among all homeomorphisms f : R -> R* between bounded doubly connected domains such that Mod (R) < Mod (R*) there exists, unique up to conformal authomorphisms of R, an energy-minimal diffeomorphism. No boundary conditions are imp

J. R. Maund, P. A. Hoeflich, F. Patat, J. C. Wheeler

We present a compilation of the geometry measures acquired using optical and IR spectroscopy and optical spectropolarimetry to probe the explosion geometry of Type Ia SNe. Polarization measurements are sensitive to asymmetries in the plane of the sky, whereas line profiles in nebular phase spectra are expected to trace asymmetries perpendicular to the plane

Michael R. Peterson, Z. Papic, S. Das Sarma

Two-component fractional quantum Hall systems are providing a major motivation for a large section of the physics community. Here we study two-component fractional quantum Hall systems in the spin-polarized half-filled lowest Landau level (filling factor 1/2) and second Landau level (filling factor 5/2) with exact diagonalization utilizing both the spherical

Adric R. Riedel, John P. Subasavage, Charlie T. Finch, Wei Chun Jao

We present trigonometric parallaxes of 64 stellar systems with proper motions between 0\farcs5 yr$^{-1}$ and 1\farcs0 yr$^{-1}$ from the ongoing RECONS (Research Consortium On Nearby Stars) parallax program at CTIO (the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory). All of the systems are south of DEC $= +30$, and 58 had no previous trigonometric parallaxes. In ad

P. H. Sell, S. Heinz, D. E. Calvelo, V. Tudose

We report the discovery of multi-scale X-ray jets from the accreting neutron star X-ray binary, Circinus X-1. The bipolar outflows show wide opening angles and are spatially coincident with the radio jets seen in new high-resolution radio images of the region. The morphology of the emission regions suggests that the jets from Circinus X-1 are running into a

Andrew N. Youdin, Jonathan L. Mitchell

The intense irradiation received by hot Jupiters suppresses convection in the outer layers of their atmospheres and lowers their cooling rates. &#34;Inflated&#34; hot Jupiters, i.e., those with anomalously large transit radii, require additional sources of heat or suppressed cooling. We consider the effect of forced turbulent mixing in the radiative layer, w

Omer Sidis, Re&#39;em Sari

Light refracted by the planet&#39;s atmosphere is usually ignored in analysis of planetary transits. Here we show that refraction can add shoulders to the transit light curve, i.e., an increase in the observed flux, mostly just before and after transit. During transit, light may be refracted away from the observer. Therefore, even completely transparent plan

P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, C. Ledoux, S. Lopez

We present the analysis of a sub-DLA system (log N(H^0)=20.0+/-0.15, z_abs=2.69) toward SDSS J123714+064759 (z_em=2.78). Using the VLT/UVES and X-shooter spectrographs, we detect H2, HD and CO molecules in absorption with log N(H2,HD,CO)=(19.21,14.48,14.17). The overall metallicity of the system is super-solar ([Zn/H]=+0.34) and iron is highly depleted ([Fe/

Rouven Essig, Roni Harnik, Jared Kaplan, Natalia Toro

Experiments designed to measure neutrino oscillations also provide major opportunities for discovering very weakly coupled states. In order to produce neutrinos, experiments such as LSND collide thousands of Coulombs of protons into fixed targets, while MINOS and MiniBooNE also focus and then dump beams of muons. The neutrino detectors beyond these beam dump

Steven L. Finkelstein, Seth H. Cohen, Rogier A. Windhorst, Russell E. Ryan

We present the highest redshift detections of resolved Lyman alpha emission, using Hubble Space Telescope/ACS F658N narrowband-imaging data taken in parallel with the Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science program in the GOODS CDF-S. We detect Lyman alpha emission from three spectroscopically confirmed z = 4.4 Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs), more th

Ferenc Szöllősi

In this paper we construct a new, previously unknown four-parameter family of complex Hadamard matrices of order 6, the entries of which are described by algebraic functions of roots of various sextic polynomials. We conjecture that the new, generic family G together with Karlsson&#39;s degenerate family K and Tao&#39;s spectral matrix S form an exhaustive l

Jens Gerlach Christensen

We present sampling theorems for reproducing kernel Banach spaces on Lie groups. Recent approaches to this problem rely on integrability of the kernel and its local oscillations. In this paper we replace the integrability conditions by requirements on the derivatives of the reproducing kernel. The results are then used to obtain frames and atomic decompositi

M. J. Ward, J. R. Mullaney, C. Jin, R. Davies

The spectra of AGN from the ultraviolet to the near infrared, exhibit emission lines covering a wide range of ionisation states, from neutral species such as [O I] 6300A, up to [Fe XIV] 5303A. Here we report on some recent studies of the properties of highly ionised lines (HILs), plus two case studies of individual objects. Future IFU observations at high sp