October 2010 arXiv papers — page 14

Magali Lécureux-Mercier

Consider the general scalar balance law $\partial_t u + \mathrm{Div} f(t, x, u) = F(t, x, u)$ in several space dimensions. The aim of this note is to improve the results of Colombo, Mercier, Rosini who gave an estimate of the dependence of the solutions from the flow f and from the source F. The improvements are twofold: first the expression of the coefficie

John Bowlan, Anthony Liang, Walt A. de Heer

Cryogenic cluster beam experiments have provided crucial insights into the evolution of the metallic state from the atom to the bulk. Surprisingly, one of the most fundamental metallic properties, the ability of a metal to efficiently screen electric fields, is still poorly understood in small clusters. Theory has predicted that many small Na clusters are un

J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, J. Martin-Albo, M. Sorel, P. Ferrario

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a very active field in which the number of proposals for next-generation experiments has proliferated. In this paper we attempt to address both the sense and the sensitivity of such proposals. Sensitivity comes first, by means of proposing a simple and unambiguous statistical recipe to derive the sensitivity t

Shawn Bishop, Ramon Egli

Approximately 2.8 Myr before the present our planet was subjected to the debris of a supernova explosion. The terrestrial proxy for this event was the discovery of live atoms of 60Fe in a deep-sea ferromanganese crust. The signature for this supernova event should also reside in magnetite Fe3O4 microfossils produced by magnetotactic bacteria extant at the ti

Shun Maeta

J. Eells and L. Lemaire introduced k-harmonic maps, and Wang Shaobo showed the first variational formula. When, k=2, it is called biharmonic maps (2-harmonic maps). There have been extensive studies in the area. In this paper, We study k-harmonic immersion into a sphere, and get the rerationship between radious and "k" of k-harmonic. And we also cons

Kh. Saaidi, A. Aghamohammadi, H. Hossienkhani

We study the dynamical evolution of an $f(R)$ model of gravity in a viscous and anisotropic background which is given by a Bianchi type-I model of the Universe. We find viable forms of $f(R)$ gravity in which one is exactly the Einsteinian model of gravity with a cosmological constant and other two are power law $f(R)$ models. We show that these two power la

V. M. Kolomietz, S. V. Lukyanov, A. I. Sanzhur

The radii of nucleon distribution and neutron skin in nuclei beyond the β-stability line are studied within the extended Thomas-Fermi approximation. We show that the growth of neutron skin in unstable nuclei does not obey the saturation condition because of the neutron coat. The neutron coat indicates the possibility of giant neutron halo which is growing wi

Yushuang Fan, Weidong Gao, Qinghai Zhong

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group. The Erd{\H o}s--Ginzburg--Ziv constant $\mathsf s (G)$ of $G$ is defined as the smallest integer $l \in \mathbb N$ such that every sequence \ $S$ \ over $G$ of length $|S| \ge l$ \ has a zero-sum subsequence $T$ of length $|T| = \exp (G)$. If $G$ has rank at most two, then the precise value of $\mathsf s (G)$ is known (for

M. I. Katsnelson

Self-trapping of an electron due to its interaction with bending fluctuations in a flexible crystalline membrane is considered. Due to the dependence of the electron energy on the corrugations of the membrane, the electron can create around itself an anomalously flat (or anomalously corrugated, depending on the sign of the interaction constant) region and be

Eduardo Bravo, Leandro G. Althaus, Enrique García-Berro, Inmaculada Domínguez

Gravitational settling of 22Ne in cooling white dwarfs can affect the outcome of thermonuclear supernovae. We investigate how the supernova energetics and nucleosynthesis are in turn influenced by this process. We use realistic chemical profiles derived from state-of-the-art white dwarf cooling sequences. The cooling sequences provide a link between the whit

Francesco Sala

We provide a generalization of Mehta-Ramanathan theorems to framed sheaves: we prove that the restriction of a $μ$-semistable framed sheaf on a nonsingular projective irreducible variety, of dimension greater or equal than two, to a general hypersurface of sufficiently high degree is again $μ$-semistable. The same holds for $μ$-stability under some additiona

Arnd Bäcker, Roland Ketzmerick, Steffen Löck, Holger Schanz

For two-dimensional quantum billiards we derive the partial Weyl law, i.e. the average density of states, for a subset of eigenstates concentrating on an invariant region $Γ$ of phase space. The leading term is proportional to the area of the billiard times the phase-space fraction of $Γ$. The boundary term is proportional to the fraction of the boundary whe

Rémy Colin, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Jean-Christophe Castaing, Rajesh Goyal

The microscopic dynamics and aging of a soft thermosensitive suspension was investigated by looking at the thermal fluctuations of tracers in the suspension. Below and above the glass transition, the dense microgel particles suspension was found to develop an heterogeneous dynamics, featured by a non Gaussian Probability Distribution Function (PDF) of the pr

Jean-Michel Mignot, Julien Robert, Gilles André, Alexandre M. Bataille

Elastic and inelastic neutron scattering measurements have been performed on powder and single-crystal samples of orthorhombic CeRu2Al10. The order forming below T0 = 27 K was identified as a long-range antiferromagnetic state with the wave vector k = (1,0,0). The magnetic spectral response in the ordered phase, measured on powder, is characterized by a spin

Nikolay A. Gromov

The electroweak model, which lepton sector correspond to the contracted gauge group $ SU(2;j)\times U(1), j \rightarrow 0 $, whereas boson and quark sectors are standard one, is suggested. This model describe in a natural manner why neutrinos so rarely interact with matter, as well as why neutrinos cross-section increase with the energy. Dimensionfull parame

Fei Liu, Hong Lei

Motivated by recent progresses in nonequilibrium Fluctuation Relations, we present a generalized time reversal for stochastic master equation systems with discrete states that is defined as a splitting of the rate matrix into irreversible and reversible parts. An immediate advantage of this definition is that a variety of fluctuation relations can be attribu

John Augustine, Ning Chen, Edith Elkind, Angelo Fanelli

An important task in the analysis of multiagent systems is to understand how groups of selfish players can form coalitions, i.e., work together in teams. In this paper, we study the dynamics of coalition formation under bounded rationality. We consider settings where each team's profit is given by a convex function, and propose three profit-sharing schem

Cyril Houdayer, Sorin Popa, Stefaan Vaes

We prove the uniqueness of the group measure space Cartan subalgebra in crossed products A \rtimes Γcovering certain cases where Γis an amalgamated free product over a non-amenable subgroup. In combination with Kida&#39;s work we deduce that if Σ< SL(3,\Z) denotes the subgroup of matrices g with g_31 = g_32 = 0, then any free ergodic probability measure pres

Anastasia Doikou, Theodora Ioannidou

We construct SU(n+1) BPS spherically symmetric monopoles with minimal symmetry breaking by solving the full Weyl equation. In this context, we explore and discuss the existence of open spin chain-like part within the Weyl equation. For instance, in the SU(3) case the relevant spin chain is the 2-site spin 1/2 XXX chain with open boundary conditions. We explo

Hiroaki Terashima

Four types of photon counters are discussed in terms of information, fidelity, and physical reversibility: conventional photon counter, quantum counter, and their quantum nondemolition (QND) versions. It is shown that when a photon field to be measured is in an arbitrary superposition of vacuum and one-photon states, the quantum counter is the most reversibl

Fernando G. S. L. Brandao, Jens Eisert, Michal Horodecki, Dong Yang

Entangled inputs can enhance the capacity of quantum channels, this being one of the consequences of the celebrated result showing the non-additivity of several quantities relevant for quantum information science. In this work, we answer the converse question (whether entangled inputs can ever render noisy quantum channels have maximum capacity) to the negat

Nilok Bose, A. S. Majumdar

The present acceleration of the universe leads to the formation of a cosmological future event horizon. We explore the effects of the event horizon on cosmological backreaction due to inhomogeneities in the universe. Beginning from the onset of the present accelerated era, we show that backreaction in presence of the event horizon causes acceleration to slow

A. Alfonsov, F. Murányi, V. Kataev, G. Lang

We report a detailed investigation of GdO$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$FeAs (x = 0, 0.07 and 0.14) samples by means of high-field/high-frequency electron spin resonance (HF-ESR) together with measurements of thermodynamic and transport properties. The parent GdOFeAs compound exhibits Fe long-range magnetic order below 128 K, whereas both doped samples do not show such orde

Tom Ilmanen, Brian White

We prove that the density of a topologically nontrivial, area-minimizing hypercone with an isolated singularity must be greater than the square root of 2. The Simons&#39; cones show that this is the best possible constant. If one of the components of the complement of the cone has nontrivial kth homotopy group, we prove a better bound in terms of k; that bou

Yun-Feng Xiao, Chang-Ling Zou, Yi-Wen Hu, Yan Li

Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) can absorb large-area incident sunlight, then emit luminescence with high quantum efficiency, which finally be collected by a small photovoltaic (PV) system. The light-harvesting area of the PV system is much smaller than that of the LSC system, potentially improving the efficiency and reducing the cost of solar cells. He

Xuanmin Zhu, Shengshi Pang, Shengjun Wu, Quanhui Liu

In this paper, we investigate the classicality and quantumness of a quantum ensemble. We define a quantity called classicality to characterize how classical a quantum ensemble is. An ensemble of commuting states that can be manipulated classically has a unit classicality, while a general ensemble has a classicality less than 1. We also study how quantum an e

Yamila Miguel, Octavio M. Guilera, Adrián Brunini

In order to explain the main characteristics of the observed population of extrasolar planets and the giant planets in the Solar System, we need to get a clear understanding of which are the initial conditions that allowed their formation. To this end we develop a semi-analytical model for computing planetary systems formation based on the core instability m

W. Galleas

We obtain a new representation for the partition function of the six vertex model with domain wall boundaries using a functional equation recently derived by the author. This new representation is given in terms of a sum over the permutation group where the partial homogeneous limit can be taken trivially. We also show by construction that this partition fun

Stefan Ivanov, Alexander Petkov

We show that on an HKT manifold the holonomy of the Obata connection is contained in SL(n,H) if and only if the Lee form is an exact one form. As an application, we show compact HKT manifolds with holomorphically trivial canonical bundle which are not balanced. A simple criterion for non-existence of HKT metric on hypercomplex manifold is given in terms of t

Ramon Lapiedra, A. Perez

We propose a definition of determinism for a physical system that includes, besides the measurement device, the surrounding environment. This enlarged system is assumed to follow a predefined trajectory starting from some (unknown) initial conditions that play the role of hidden variables for the experiment. These assumptions, which are different from realis

A. Gonzalez-Tudela, D. Martin-Cano, E. Moreno, L. Martin-Moreno

We investigate qubit-qubit entanglement mediated by plasmons supported by one-dimensional waveguides. We explore both the situation of spontaneous formation of entanglement from an unentangled state and the emergence of driven steady-state entanglement under continuous pumping. In both cases, we show that large values for the concurrence are attainable for q

Nail R. Khusnutdinov

We consider the van der Waals energy of an atom near the infinitely thin sphere with finite conductivity which model the fullerene. We put the sphere into spherical cavity inside the infinite dielectric media, then calculate the energy of vacuum fluctuations in framework of the zeta-function approach. The energy for a single atom is obtained from this expres

Qiao-Jun Cao, Yi-Xin Chen, Kai-Nan Shao

We study black hole phase transitions in (deformed) Hořava-Lifshitz (H-L) gravity, including the charged black hole and KS black hole. Stability of black holes in H-L gravity and the phase transition signals are investigated. The Ricci scalar of the thermodynamical metrics of black holes in H-L gravity are calculated for the purpose of verifying or falsifyin

Zhengliang Zhang, Bin Qian, Wei Liu

In this paper, We establish the weighted Poincaré inequalities and Log-Sobolev inequalities for Cauchy distributions with optimal weight functions.

Benjamin Girard

In this paper, we study a combinatorial problem originating in the following conjecture of Erdos and Lemke: given any sequence of n divisors of n, repetitions being allowed, there exists a subsequence the elements of which are summing to n. This conjecture was proved by Kleitman and Lemke, who then extended the original question to a problem on a zero-sum in

Hua-Bi Zeng, Wei-Min Sun, Hong-Shi Zong

The p-wave and $p+ip$-wave holographic superconductors with fixed DC supercurrent are studied by introducing a non-vanishing vector potential. We find that close to the critical temperature $T_c$ of zero current, the numerical results of both the p wave model and the $p+ip$ model are the same as those of Ginzburg-Landau (G-L) theory, for example, the critica

Takuto Kawakami, Takeshi Mizushima, Kazushige Machida

The possible stable singular vortex (SV) and half-quantum vortex (HQV) of the superfluid $^3$He-A phase confined in restricted geometries are investigated. The associated low-energy excitations are calculated in connection with the possible existence of Majorana zero modes obeying non-Abelian statistics. The energetics between those vortices is carefully exa

Yiping Yu

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to an error in section 7. There is a new version: arXiv:1011.3352.

Lucien Szpiro, Michael Tepper, Phillip Williams

We study the minimal resultant divisor of self-maps of the projective line over a number field or a function field and its relation to the conductor. The guiding focus is the exploration of a dynamical analog to Theorem 1.1, which bounds the degree of the minimal discriminant of an elliptic surface in terms of the conductor. We study minimality and semi-stab

Roman Orus, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Hong-Hao Tu

Here we investigate the phase diagram of the SO(n) bilinear-biquadratic quantum spin chain by studying the global quantum correlations of the ground state. We consider the cases of n=3,4 and 5 and focus on the geometric entanglement in the thermodynamic limit. Apart from capturing all the known phase transitions, our analysis shows a number of novel distinct

Pengsheng Ji, Jiashun Jin

Consider a linear model $Y=Xβ+z$, $z\sim N(0,I_n)$. Here, $X=X_{n,p}$, where both $p$ and $n$ are large, but $p>n$. We model the rows of $X$ as i.i.d. samples from $N(0,\frac{1}{n}Ω)$, where $Ω$ is a $p\times p$ correlation matrix, which is unknown to us but is presumably sparse. The vector $β$ is also unknown but has relatively few nonzero coordinates, and

Robert Lazarsfeld, Mihnea Popa, Christian Schnell

We show that the total cohomology of the canonical bundle of a smooth projective variety, seen as a module over an exterior algebra, splits into a natural direct sum of submodules which are generated in degree zero and have a linear free resolution. This improves a previous result of the first two authors.

Chris H. Fleming, Nick I. Cummings

We consider open quantum systems with dynamics described by master equations that have perturbative expansions in the system-environment interaction. We show that, contrary to intuition, full-time solutions of order-2n accuracy require an order-(2n+2) master equation. We give two examples of such inaccuracies in the solutions to an order-2n master equation:

Muamer Kadic, Guillaume Dupont, Sebastien Guenneau, Stefan Enoch

Transformational optics allow for a markedly enhanced control of the electromagnetic wave trajectories within metamaterials with interesting applications ranging from perfect lenses to invisibility cloaks, carpets, concentrators and rotators. Here, we present a review of curved anisotropic heterogeneous meta-surfaces designed using the tool of transformation

Reik V. Donner, Michael Small, Jonathan F. Donges, Norbert Marwan

Complex networks are an important paradigm of modern complex systems sciences which allows quantitatively assessing the structural properties of systems composed of different interacting entities. During the last years, intensive efforts have been spent on applying network-based concepts also for the analysis of dynamically relevant higher-order statistical

Chongsheng Cao, Edriss S. Titi

The three--dimensional incompressible viscous Boussinesq equations, under the assumption of hydrostatic balance, govern the large scale dynamics of atmospheric and oceanic motion, and are commonly called the primitive equations. To overcome the turbulence mixing a partial vertical diffusion is usually added to the temperature advection (or density stratifica

Stanislav Dubrovskiy

We consider local invariants of general connections (with torsion). The group of origin-preserving diffeomorphisms acts on a space of jets of general connections. Dimensions of moduli spaces of generic connections are calculated. Poincaré series of the geometric structure of connection is constructed, and shown to be a rational function, confirming the finit

Stam Nicolis

Field theories with extra dimensions live in a limbo. While their classical solutions have been the subject of considerable study, their quantum aspects are difficult to control. A special class of such theories are anisotropic gauge theories. The anisotropy was originally introduced to localize chiral fermions. Their continuum limit is of practical interest

R. D. Baldi, M. Chiaberge, A. Capetti, W. Sparks

Using HST NICMOS 2 observations we have measured 1.6-micron near infrared nuclear luminosities of 100 3CR radio galaxies with z<0.3, by modeling and subtracting the extended emission from the host galaxy. We performed a multi-wavelength statistical analysis (including optical and radio data) of the properties of the nuclei following classification of the obj

S. L. Carvalho, D. H. U. Marchetti, W. F. Wreszinski

We consider off-diagonal Jacobi matrices $J$ with (faster-than-exponential) sparse perturbations. We prove (Theorem \ref{onehalf}) that the Fourier transform $\hat{\left\| f\right\| ^{2}dρ}(t)$ of the spectral measure $ρ$ of $J$, whose sparse perturbations are at least separated by a distance $\exp \left(cj(\ln j)^{2}\right) /δ^{j}$, for some $c>1/2,$ $0<δ<1

J. B. Lamb, M. S. Oey, J. K. Werk, L. D. Ingleby

There is much debate on how high-mass star formation varies with environment, and whether the sparsest star-forming environments are capable of forming massive stars. To address this issue, we have observed eight apparently isolated OB stars in the SMC using HST&#39;s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Five of these objects appear as isolated stars, two of which a

Olaf Scholten, Krijn D. de Vries, Klaus Werner

The generic properties of the emission of coherent radiation from a moving charge distribution are discussed. The general structure of the charge and current distributions in an extensive air shower are derived. These are subsequently used to develop a very intuitive picture for the properties of the emitted radio pulse. Using this picture can be seen that t

Atsushi Wakamiko

Let $\A$ be an irreducible Coxeter arrangement and $\bfk$ be a multiplicity of $\A$. We study the derivation module $D(\A, \bfk)$. Any two-dimensional irreducible Coxeter arrangement with even number of lines is decomposed into two orbits under the action of the Coxeter group. In this paper, we will {explicitly} construct a basis for $D(\A, \bfk)$ assuming $

James G. Scott

This paper considers the problem of using MCMC to fit sparse Bayesian models based on normal scale-mixture priors. Examples of this framework include the Bayesian LASSO and the horseshoe prior. We study the usefulness of parameter expansion (PX) for improving convergence in such models, which is notoriously slow when the global variance component is near zer

Tahir Yaqoob, Kendrah D. Murphy

We present new, high signal-to-noise ratio results from a Monte Carlo study of the properties of the Compton shoulder of the Fe Kalpha emission line in the toroidal X-ray reprocessor model of Murphy & Yaqoob (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1549). The model comprehensively covers the Compton-thin to Compton-thick regimes and we find that the variety of Compton shoulder pr

N. V. Radchenko, A. V. Dmitriev

Experimental data on total and differential elastic cross sections for $p+p(\bar{p})$, $n+p(\bar{p})$, $K^\pm+p$, $K^\pm+n$, $π^\pm+p$ starting from energy 3.5 GeV in CMS are used to determine parameters of vacuum contribution and parameters of basic non vacuum reggeons: $f$, $ω$, $ρ$ and $A_2$. It is argued that non vacuum contributions to proton-proton and

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Carl J. Grillmair, Steven R. Majewski

We have measured the mean three-dimensional kinematics of stars in Kapteyn&#39;s Selected Area (SA) 76 (l=209.3, b=26.4 degrees) that were selected to be Anticenter Stream (ACS) members on the basis of their radial velocities, proper motions, and location in the color-magnitude diagram. From a total of 31 stars ascertained to be ACS members primarily from it

P. Badica, S. Salem-Sugui, A. D. Alvarenga, G. Jakob

We report on magnetization data obtained as a function of temperature and magnetic field in Li2 (Pd0.8Pt0.2)3B and Li2Pd3B non-centro-symmetric superconductors. Reversible magnetization curves were plotted as M1/2 vs. T. This allows study of the asymptotic behavior of the averaged order parameter amplitude (gap) near the superconducting transition. Results o

Sam R. Dolan, Leor Barack

To model the radiative evolution of extreme mass-ratio binary inspirals (a key target of the LISA mission), the community needs efficient methods for computation of the gravitational self-force (SF) on the Kerr spacetime. Here we further develop a practical `$m$-mode regularization&#39; scheme for SF calculations, and give details of a first implementation.

Daniele Binosi

We review the Pinch Technique - Background Field Method (PT-BFM) framework for formulating and solving the Schwinger-Dyson equations of Yang-Mills theories. In particular, we show how within this framework it is possible to write a new set of Schwinger-Dyson equations that (i) accommodate the dynamical gluon mass generation through Schwinger&#39;s mechanism,

Andrey Katz, Minho Son, Brock Tweedie

Strongly coupled models at the TeV scale often predict one or more neutral spin-one resonances (Z&#39;) which have appreciable branching fractions to electroweak bosons, namely the Higgs and longitudinal W and Z. These resonances are usually believed to have multi-TeV mass due to electroweak precision constraints, placing them on the edge of LHC discovery re

Deatrick Foster, Phil Charles, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

We comment on the recent observation of a 115-day modulation in the X-ray flux of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 5408 X-1, and in particular, the interpretation of this modulation as the orbital period. We suggest that this modulation may instead be due to a precessing jet, and is thus superorbital in nature. Comparing the properties of this ULX wi

Sara L. Ellison, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Trevor Mendel

Composite spectra of 85 proximate absorbers (log N(HI)>20 and velocity difference between the absorption and emission redshift, dv<10,000 km/s) in the SDSS are used to investigate the trends of metal line strengths with velocity separation from the QSO. We construct composites in 3 velocity bins: dv<3000 km/s, 3000<dv<6000 km/s and dv>6000 km/s, with further

M. Gliozzi, F. Panessa, F. La Franca, I. Saviane

Based on previous spectral and temporal optical studies, Q2122-444 has been classified as a naked AGN or true type 2 AGN, that is, an AGN that genuinely lacks a broad line region (BLR). Its optical spectrum seemed to possess only narrow forbidden emission lines that are typical of type 2 (obscured) AGNs, but the long-term optical light curve, obtained from a

Heino Falcke, Sera Markoff, Geoffrey C. Bower, Charles F. Gammie

In this paper we review and discuss some of the intriguing properties of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole candidate Sgr A*. Of all possible black hole sources, the event horizon of Sgr A*, subtends the largest angular scale on the sky. It is therefore a prime candidate to study and image plasma processes in strong gravity and it even allows imagin

Aldo-Hilario Cruz-Cota

A hex sphere is a singular Euclidean sphere with four cone points whose cone angles are (integer) multiples of $\frac{2π}{3}$ but less than $2π$. We prove that the Moduli space of hex spheres of unit area is homeomorphic to the the space of similarity classes of Voronoi polygons in the Euclidean plane. This result gives us as a corollary that each unit-area

S. Patsourakos, A. Vourlidas, G. Stenborg

The study of fast, eruptive events in the low solar corona is one of the science objectives of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imagers on the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which take full disk images in ten wavelengths with arcsecond resolution and 12 sec cadence. We study with AIA the formation of an impulsive coronal mass eject

Alan Lai

In attempts to combine non-commutative geometry and quantum gravity, Aastrup-Grimstrup-Nest construct a semi-finite spectral triple, modeling the space of G-connections for G=U(1) or SU(2). AGN show that the interaction between the algebra of holonomy loops and the Dirac-type operator D reproduces the Poisson structure of General Relativity in Ashtekar&#39;s

Veronique Letort, Paul Mahe, Paul-Henry Cournède, Philippe De Reffye

Background and Aims: Prediction of phenotypic traits from new genotypes under untested environmental conditions is crucial to build simulations of breeding strategies to improve target traits. Although the plant response to environmental stresses is characterized by both architectural and functional plasticity, recent attempts to integrate biological knowled

Michael H. Siegel, Erik A. Hoversten, Peter W. A. Roming, Wayne B. Landsman

At present, the precision of deep ultraviolet photometry is somewhat limited by the dearth of faint ultraviolet standard stars. In an effort to improve this situation, we present a uniform catalog of eleven new faint (u sim17) ultraviolet standard stars. High-precision photometry of these stars has been taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Galaxy Evol

Adrian Dumitru

Substantial anisotropies should occur in the hot expanding QCD plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions due to non-vanishing shear viscosity. We discuss the form of the real-time, hard thermal loop resummed propagator for static gluons in the presence of such anisotropies and the consequences for quarkonium binding. It has been predicted that the

Antonio Pich

In multi-Higgs-doublet models, the alignment in flavour space of all Yukawa matrices coupling to a given right-handed fermion guarantees the absence of tree-level flavour-changing neutral couplings, while introducing new sources of CP violation. With N Higgs doublets (and no right-handed neutrinos) the Yukawa Lagrangian is characterized by the fermion masses

Liang-You Zheng, Bo-Cheng Wang, Shan T. Lai

In this paper we propose a small bipolaron model for the superconductivity in the Chalcogenide glasses (c-As2Te3 and c-GeTe). The results are agree with the experiments.

C. A. Schroeder, G. S. Agarwal

We investigate the nature of the pulse sequence so that unwanted transitions in quantum systems can be inhibited optimally. For this purpose we show that the sequence of pulses proposed by Uhrig [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{98}, 100504 (2007)] in the context of inhibition of environmental dephasing effects is optimal. We derive exact results for inhibiting the

Eleonora Nagali, Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Francesco De Martini

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, associated with a helical structure of the wavefunction, has a great potential for quantum photonics, as it allows attaching a higher dimensional quantum space to each photon. Hitherto, however, the use of OAM has been hindered by its difficult manipulation. Here, exploiting the recently demonstrated spin-OAM info

Giuseppina Nigro, Pierlugi Veltri

Using the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description, we develop a nonlinear dynamo model that couples the evolution of the large scale magnetic field with turbulent dynamics of the plasma at small scale by electromotive force (e.m.f.) in the induction equation at large scale. The nonlinear behavior of the plasma at small scale is described by using a MHD shell m

Carl G. Jockusch, Paul E. Schupp

Generic computability has been studied in group theory and we now study it in the context of classical computability theory. A set A of natural numbers is generically computable if there is a partial computable function f whose domain has density 1 and which agrees with the characteristic function of A on its domain. A set A is coarsely computable if there i

B. M. Escher, G. Bensky, J. Clausen, G. Kurizki

We analyze quantum state-transfer optimization within hybrid open systems, from a &#34;noisy&#34; (write-in) qubit to its &#34;quiet&#34; counterpart (storage qubit). Intriguing interplay is revealed between our ability to avoid bath-induced errors that profoundly depend on the bath-memory time and the limitations imposed by leakage out of the operational su

Zhi Jiang

Let X be a very general complete intersection in complex projective space and we denote by $F_r(X)$ the variety of r-planes in X, for $r\geq 1$. We show that the Picard number of $F_r(X)$ is 1, as soon as $\dim F_r(X)\geq 2$, except when X is a quadric of dimension 2r or 2r+2, or X is a complete intersection of two quadrics of dimension 2r+2. We also apply t

Giulia Macario, Maxim Markevitch, Simona Giacintucci, Gianfranco Brunetti

We present new Chandra X-ray and Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) radio observations of the nearby merging galaxy cluster Abell 754. Our X-ray data confirm the presence of a shock front by obtaining the first direct measurement of a gas temperature jump across the X-ray brightness edge previously seen in the imaging data. A754 is only the fourth galaxy

Michael E. Picollelli

We consider the following random graph process: starting with n isolated vertices, add edges uniformly at random provided no such edge creates a copy of C_4. We show that, with probability tending to 1 as $n \to \infty$, the final graph produced by this process has maximum degree O((n \log n)^{1/3}) and consequently size O(n^{4/3}\log(n)^{1/3}), which are sh

Michael E. Picollelli

Let K_4^- denote the diamond graph, formed by removing an edge from the complete graph K_4. We consider the following random graph process: starting with n isolated vertices, add edges uniformly at random provided no such edge creates a copy of K_4^-. We show that, with probability tending to 1 as $n \to \infty$, the final size of the graph produced is $Θ(\s

Michael E. Picollelli

A 3-simplex is a collection of four sets A_1,...,A_4 with empty intersection such that any three of them have nonempty intersection. We show that the maximum size of a set system on n elements without a 3-simplex is $2^{n-1} + \binom{n-1}{0} + \binom{n-1}{1} + \binom{n-1}{2}$ for all $n \ge 1$, with equality only achieved by the family of sets either contain

Xiao-Gang He, Lu-Hsing Tsai

We study the possibility of identifying the CP violating phases in the PMNS mixing matrix in the lepton sector and also that in the CKM mixing matrix in the quark sector with the phase responsible for the spontaneous CP violation in the Higgs potential, and some implications. Since the phase in the CKM mixing matrix is determined by experimental data, the ph

Scot Rafkin

A review of non-local, deep transport mechanisms in the atmosphere of Earth provides a good foundation for examining whether similar mechanisms are operating in the atmospheres of Mars and Titan. On Earth, deep convective clouds in the tropics constitute the upward branch of the Hadley Cell and provide a conduit through which energy, moisture, momentum, aero

Sebastian Fischetti, James Healy, Laura Cadonati, Lionel London

Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in numerical relativity and an ever improving performance of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors. In preparation for Advanced LIGO and a new era in gravitational wave astronomy, the numerical relativity and gravitational wave data analysis communities are collaborating to ascertain the mos

P. Benjamin Woiczikowski, Tomáš Kubař, Rafael Gutiérrez, Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The electrical conduction properties of G4-DNA are investigated using a hybrid approach, which combines electronic structure calculations, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and the formulation of an effective tight-binding model Hamiltonian. Charge transport is studied by computing transmission functions along the MD trajectories. Though G4-DNA is structu

E. A. Jagla

I adapted a model recently introduced in the context of seismic phenomena, to study creep rupture of materials. It consists of linear elastic fibers that interact in an equal load sharing scheme, complemented with a local viscoelastic relaxation mechanism. The model correctly describes the three stages of the creep process, namely an initial Andrade regime o

Md. Nasim, Lokesh Kumar, Pawan Kumar Netrakanti, Bedangadas Mohanty

We have compared the experimental data on charged particle elliptic flow parameter (v2) in Au+Au collisions at midrapidity for \surd sNN = 9.2, 19.6, 62.4 and 200 GeV with results from various models in heavy-ion collisions like UrQMD, AMPT, and HIJING. We observe that the average <v2> from the transport model UrQMD agrees well with the measurements at \surd

E. R. Vaughan

We give a self-contained proof that for all positive integers $r$ and all $ε> 0$, there is an integer $N = N(r, ε)$ such that for all $n \ge N$ any regular multigraph of order $2n$ with multiplicity at most $r$ and degree at least $(1+ε)rn$ is 1-factorizable. This generalizes results of Perkovi{ć} and Reed, and Plantholt and Tipnis.

G. Ben Arous, O. Gun

We consider Random Hopping Time (RHT) dynamics of the Sherrington - Kirkpatrick (SK) model and p-spin models of spin glasses. For any of these models and for any inverse temperature we prove that, on time scales that are sub-exponential in the dimension, the properly scaled clock process (time-change process) of the dynamics converges to an extremal process.

Yuri Berest, Alimjon Eshmatov, Farkhod Eshmatov

We describe the structure of the automorphism groups of algebras Morita equivalent to the first Weyl algebra $ A_1 $. In particular, we give a geometric presentation for these groups in terms of amalgamated products, using the Bass-Serre theory of groups acting on graphs. A key rôle in our approach is played by a transitive action of the automorphism group o

J. I. Collar

Taking liquid xenon detectors as a case study, the importance of a robust recoil energy calibration as a prerequisite to a search for light-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) is emphasized. Important shortfalls in the analysis of existing measurements of the relative scintillation efficiency and ionization yield for nuclear recoils in liquid x

Emiliano Cadelano, Pier Luca Palla, Stefano Giordano, Luciano Colombo

There exist three conformers of hydrogenated graphene, referred to as chair-, boat-, or washboard-graphane. These systems have a perfect two-dimensional periodicity mapped onto the graphene scaffold, but they are characterized by a $sp^3$ orbital hybridization, have different crystal symmetry, and otherwise behave upon loading. By first principles calculatio

A. L. De Paoli, M. C. Rocca

In this work, we generalize previous results about the Fractionary Schrödinger Equation within the formalism of the theory of Tempered Ultradistributions. Several examples of the use of this theory are given. In particular we evaluate the Green&#39;s function for a free particle in the general case, for an arbitrary order of the derivative index.

Ehud Moshe Baruch

We give a new and simple proof of the Hankel inversion formula for the classical Hankel transform which holds for a complex order with real part greater than -1. Using the proof of this formula we obtain the full description of the Kirillov model for discrete series representations of SL(2,R) and GL(2,R).

Tieyan Si

An optical model of classical photons propagating through array of many beam splitters is developed to give a physical analogy of Parrondo&#39;s game and Parrondo-Harmer-Abbott game. We showed both the two games are reasonable game without so-called game paradox and they are essentially the same. We designed the games with long-term memory on loop lattice an

Patricio Felmer, Alexander Quaas, Boyan Sirakov

We study the existence and the properties of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for uniformly elliptic second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman operators, depending on the principal eigenvalues of the operator.

Klaus Frick, Dirk A. Lorenz, Elena Resmerita

The Augmented Lagrangian Method as an approach for regularizing inverse problems received much attention recently, e.g. under the name Bregman iteration in imaging. This work shows convergence (rates) for this method when Morozov&#39;s discrepancy principle is chosen as a stopping rule. Moreover, error estimates for the involved sequence of subgradients are

A. V. Zasov, A. V. Khoperskov, A. S. Saburova

We use the marginal stability condition for galactic disks and the stellar velocity dispersion data published by different authors to place upper limits on the disk local surface density at two radial scalelengths $R=2h$. Extrapolating these estimates, we constrain the total mass of the disks and compare these estimates to those based on the photometry and c