November 2010 arXiv papers — page 21

S. Murakawa, Y. Wada, Y. Tamura, M. Wasai

The superfluid $^3$He B phase, one of the oldest unconventional fermionic condensates experimentally realized, is recently predicted to support Majorana fermion surface states. Majorana fermion, which is characterized by the equivalence of particle and antiparticle, has a linear dispersion relation referred to as the Majorana cone. We measured the transverse

Shin Nan Yang

We demonstrate that the Dubna-Mainz-Taipei (DMT) meson-exchange dynamical model, which starts from an effective chiral Lagrangian, for pion photoproduction provides an excellent and economic framework to describe both the pi^0 threshold production and the Delta deformation, two features dictated by chiral dynamics.

David Sobral, Philip Best, Ian Smail, Jim Geach

At z=0, clusters are primarily populated by red, elliptical and massive galaxies, while blue, spiral and lower-mass galaxies are common in low-density environments. Understanding how and when these differences were established is of absolute importance for our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, but results at high-z remain contradictory. By tak

Wenhan Dai, Yi Gai, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Qing Zhao

In the classic Bayesian restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problem, there are $N$ arms, with rewards on all arms evolving at each time as Markov chains with known parameters. A player seeks to activate $K \geq 1$ arms at each time in order to maximize the expected total reward obtained over multiple plays. RMAB is a challenging problem that is known to be PS

Baohua Fu, Jun-Muk Hwang

The prolongation g^{(k)} of a linear Lie algebra g \subset gl(V) plays an important role in the study of symmetries of G-structures. Cartan and Kobayashi-Nagano have given a complete classification of irreducible linear Lie algebras g \subset gl(V) with non-zero prolongations. If g is the Lie algebra aut(\hat{S}) of infinitesimal linear automorphisms of a pr

Yi Gai, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Rahul Jain

In the classic multi-armed bandits problem, the goal is to have a policy for dynamically operating arms that each yield stochastic rewards with unknown means. The key metric of interest is regret, defined as the gap between the expected total reward accumulated by an omniscient player that knows the reward means for each arm, and the expected total reward ac

H. Saito, S. Aoki, K. Kanaya, H. Ohno

We study the quark mass dependence of the QCD phase transition by an effective potential defined through the distribution function of observables. As a test of the method, we study the first order deconfinement phase transition in the heavy quark mass limit and its fate at lighter quark masses. We confirm that the distribution function for the plaquette has

Ziyu Zhang

This paper studies deformations and birational maps between singular moduli spaces of semistable sheaves with 2-divisible Mukai vectors on K3 surfaces. It is showed that under certain conditions, two such moduli spaces of the same dimension can be connected by deformations and birational maps.

Florian Richoux

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) constitute a convenient way to capture many combinatorial problems. The general CSP is known to be NP-complete, but its complexity depends on a template, usually a set of relations, upon which they are constructed. Following this template, there exist tractable and intractable instances of CSPs. It has been proved that

José M. Gracia-Bondía, Joseph C. Várilly

The determination of the two-body density functional from its one-body density is achieved for Moshinsky's harmonium model, using a phase-space formulation, thereby resolving its phase dilemma. The corresponding sign rules can equivalently be obtained by minimizing the ground-state energy.

Guillaume Adenier, Noboru Watanabe, Andrei Khrennikov, Irina Basieva

We propose a new type of attack on Ekert protocol in which, rather surprisingly, Eve drives a violation of Bell inequalities in Alice's and Bob's detectors with a mixture of separable states. She does so by sending correlated pulses containing several photons at frequencies where only multiple-photon absorptions are possible in their detectors. Whene

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, Benjamin L. Lev

We theoretically study dynamic scalar polarizabilities of the ground and select long-lived excited states of dysprosium, a highly magnetic atom recently laser cooled and trapped. We demonstrate that there are a set of magic wavelengths of the unpoarized lattice laser field for each pair of states which includes the ground state and one of these excited state

Somnath Bhowmick, Vijay B. Shenoy

Using a continuum Dirac theory, we study the density and spin response of zigzag edge terminated graphene ribbons subjected to edge potentials and Zeeman fields. Our analytical calculations of the density and spin responses of the closed system (fixed particle number) to the static edge fields, show a highly nonlinear Weber-Fechner type behavior where the re

Mauricio Romo

We analyze orbifolds with discrete torsion of the ABJM theory by a finite subgroup $Γ$ of $SU(2)\times SU(2)$ . Discrete torsion is implemented by twisting the crossed product algebra resulting after orbifolding. It is shown that, in general, the order $m$ of the cocycle we chose to twist the algebra by enters in a non trivial way in the moduli space. To be

Masahiko Egami, Kazutoshi Yamazaki

The optimal dividend problem by De Finetti (1957) has been recently generalized to the spectrally negative Lévy model where the implementation of optimal strategies draws upon the computation of scale functions and their derivatives. This paper proposes a phase-type fitting approximation of the optimal strategy. We consider spectrally negative Lévy processes

Michael Movshev, Albert Schwarz, Renjun Xu

We study the homology and cohomology groups of super Lie algebra of supersymmetries and of super Poincare algebra. We discuss in detail the calculation in dimensions D=10 and D=6. Our methods can be applied to extended supersymmetry algebra and to other dimensions.

Hideyuki Saio

In order to understand the periodic and semi-periodic variations of luminous O- B- A-type stars, linear nonadiabatic stability analyses for radial and nonradial oscillations have been performed for massive evolutionary models ($8M_\odot - 90M_\odot$). In addition to radial and nonradial oscillations excited by the kappa-mechanism and strange-mode instability

Aprilia, Umin Lee, Hideyuki Saio

We have studied the stability of low degree $g$-modes in uniformly rotating B-type stars, taking into account the effects of the Coriolis force and the rotational deformation. From an analysis treating rotation frequency as a small parameter it is found that slow rotation tends to $destabilize$ high radial-order $retrograde$ $g$-modes, although the effect is

Kai Pan, Alexander P. McCauley, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, M. T. Homer Reid

We show how to compute Casimir forces at nonzero temperatures with time-domain electromagnetic simulations, for example using a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Compared to our previous zero-temperature time-domain method, only a small modification is required, but we explain that some care is required to properly capture the zero-frequency contr

Roy Timo, Alex Grant, Gerhard Kramer

The broadcast phase (downlink transmission) of the two-way relay network is studied in the source coding and joint source-channel coding settings. The rates needed for reliable communication are characterised for a number of special cases including: small distortions, deterministic distortion measures, and jointly Gaussian sources with quadratic distortion m

Hai Wei, Ming Gong, G-C Guo, Lixin He

We present full atomistic calculations of the spin-flip time (T$_{1}$) of electrons and holes mediated by acoustic phonons in self-assembled In$_{1-x}$Ga$_x$As/GaAs quantum dots at zero magnetic field. At low magnetic field, the first-order process is suppressed, and the second-order process becomes dominant. We find that the spin-phonon-interaction induced

Alexander Ivanchin

The modern theory of the potential does not give a solution of Poisson's equation. In the present work its solution has been found via generalized functions and a nonpotential solution of the continuity equation has been obtained. The method is demonstrated by the solution of elasticity equations using the example of a crack in the infinite specimen and

Madeleine B. Thompson, Radford M. Neal

The shrinking rank method is a variation of slice sampling that is efficient at sampling from multivariate distributions with highly correlated parameters. It requires that the gradient of the log-density be computable. At each individual step, it approximates the current slice with a Gaussian occupying a shrinking-dimension subspace. The dimension of the ap

Deli Wang, Huolin L. Xin, Yingchao Yu, Hongsen Wang

A simple method for the preparation of PdCo@Pd core-shell nanoparticles supported on carbon has been developed using an adsorbate-induced surface segregation effect. The stability and electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen reduction of PdCo@Pd nanoparticles was enhanced by a small amount of Pt, deposited via a spontaneous displacement reaction. The facile

Robert A. Wittenmyer, C. G. Tinney, Simon J. O'Toole, H. R. A. Jones

The Anglo-Australian Planet Search has now accumulated 12 years of radial-velocity data with long-term instrumental precision better than 3 m/s. In this paper, we expand on earlier simulation work, to probe the frequency of near-circular, long-period gas-giant planets residing at orbital distances of 3-6 AU -- the so-called "Jupiter analogs." We pres

Wen-Li Yang, Xi Chen, Jun Feng, Kun Hao

With the help of the F-basis provided by the Drinfeld twist or factorizing F-matrix for the open XXZ spin chain with non-diagonal boundary terms, we obtain the determinant representations of the scalar products of Bethe states of the model.

Facundo Carreiro

Model theoretic results such as Characterization and Definability give important information about different logics. It is well known that the proofs of those results for several modal logics have, somehow, the same 'taste'. A general proof for most modal logics below first order is still too ambitious. In this thesis we plan to isolate sufficient co

Paul Baird, Michael Eastwood

We use the CR geometry of the standard hyperquadric in complex projective three-space to give a detailed twistor description of conformal foliations in Euclidean three-space.

Zi-Xiang Hu, Ki Hoon Lee, E. H. Rezayi, Xin Wan

We study the scaling behavior in the tunneling amplitude when quasiparticles tunnel along a straight path between the two edges of a fractional quantum Hall annulus. Such scaling behavior originates from the propagation and tunneling of charged quasielectrons and quasiholes in an effective field analysis. In the limit when the annulus deforms continuously in

Qingshan Chen, Zhen Qin, Roger Temam

A new method is proposed to improve the numeri- cal simulation of time dependent problems when the initial and boundary data are not compatible. Unlike earlier methods limited to space dimension one, this method can be used for any space dimension. When both methods are applicable (in space dimen- sion one), the improvements in precision are comparable, but

H. Witala, W. Gloeckle

Large discrepancies between quasi-free neutron-neutron (nn) cross section data from neutron-deuteron (nd) breakup and theoretical predictions based on standard nucleon-nucleon (NN) and three-nucleon (3N) forces are pointed out. The nn 1S0 interaction is shown to be dominant in that configuration and has to be increase to bring theory and data into agreement.

Hiroaki Kusunose, Yuki Fuseya, Kazumasa Miyake

Since the first theoretical proposal by Berezinskii, an odd-frequency superconductivity has encountered the fundamental problems on its thermodynamic stability and rigidity of a homogenous state accompanied by unphysical Meissner effect. Recently, Solenov {\it et al}. [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79} (2009) 132502.] have asserted that the path-integral formulation get

Anand B. Subramaniam, Jiandi Wan, Arvind Gopinath, Howard A. Stone

We report a simple route to form robust, inorganic, semi-permeable compartments composed of montmorillonite, a natural plate-like clay mineral that occurs widely in the environment. Mechanical forces due to shear in a narrow gap assemble clay nanoplates from an aqueous suspension onto air bubbles. Translucent vesicles suspended in a single-phase liquid are p

Gergely Berczi

The Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture says that for every complex projective algebraic variety $X$ of general type there exists a proper algebraic subvariety of $X$ containing all nonconstant entire holomorphic curves $f:\mathbb{C} \to X$. We construct a compactification of the invariant jet differentials bundle over complex manifolds motivated by an algebraic

Matan Prasma

Normal maps between discrete groups $N\rightarrow G$ were characterized [FS] as those which induce a compatible topological group structure on the homotopy quotient $EN\times_N G$. Here we deal with topological group (or loop) maps $N\rightarrow G$ being normal in the same sense as above and hence forming a homotopical analogue to the inclusion of a topologi

Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo, Benjamin Doyon

In this paper we develop a new approach to the investigation of the bi-partite entanglement entropy in integrable quantum spin chains. Our method employs the well-known replica trick, thus taking a replica version of the spin chain model as starting point. At each site i of this new model we construct an operator T_i which acts as a cyclic permutation among

Juan Martínez-Sykora, Viggo Hansteen, Fernando Moreno-Insertis

have forced the definition of a new type of spicule, "type II's", that are characterized by rising rapidly, having short lives, and by fading away at the end of their lifetimes. Here, we report on features found in realistic 3D simulations of the outer solar atmosphere that resemble the observed type II spicules. These features evolve naturally f

Dean Baskin

In this article we prove a family of local (in time) weighted Strichartz estimates with derivative losses for the Klein-Gordon equation on asymptotically de Sitter spaces and provide a heuristic argument for the non-existence of a global dispersive estimate on these spaces. The weights in the estimates depend on the mass parameter and disappear in the "l

Najla El Gharbi, Rafik Absi, Ahmed Benzaoui

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models (such as k-εmodels) are still widely used for engineering applications because of their relatively simplicity and robustness. In fully developed plane channel flow (i.e. the flow between two infinitely large plates), even if available models and near-wall treatments provide adequate mean flow velocitie

Camilo Arias Abad, Florian Schaetz

We use Chen's iterated integrals to integrate representations up to homotopy. That is, we construct an A_infty functor from the representations up to homotopy of a Lie algebroid to those of its infinity groupoid. This construction extends the usual integration of representations in Lie theory. We discuss several examples including Lie algebras and Poisso

Marius Ghergu, Steven D. Taliaferro

We study the semilinear elliptic inequality $-Δu\geqφ(δ_K(x))f(u)$ in $R^N\setminus K,$ where $φ, f$ are non-negative and continuous functions, $K\subset R^N$ $(N\geq 2)$ is a compact set and $δ_K(x)={\rm dist}(x,\partial K)$. We obtain optimal conditions in terms of $φ$ and $f$ for the existence of $C^2$ positive solutions. Our analysis emphasizes the role

Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, Robert Colby

The strong interest in graphene has motivated the scalable production of high quality graphene and graphene devices. Since large-scale graphene films synthesized to date are typically polycrystalline, it is important to characterize and control grain boundaries, generally believed to degrade graphene quality. Here we study single-crystal graphene grains synt

Sophie Ramananarivo, Ramiro Godoy-Diana, Benjamin Thiria

Saving energy and enhancing performance are secular preoccupations shared by both nature and human beings. In animal locomotion, flapping flyers or swimmers rely on the flexibility of their wings or body to passively increase their efficiency using an appropriate cycle of storing and releasing elastic energy. Despite the convergence of many observations poin

Yutaka Uejima, Tomoharu Terashima, Ryo Maezono

We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a (single core CPU with double precision), getting 23.6 (11.0) times faster calculations in single (double) precision trea

Chuanzhong Li

The $(N,M)$-bigraded Toda hierarchy is an extension of the original Toda lattice hierarchy. The pair of numbers $(N,M)$ represents the band structure of the Lax matrix which has $N$ upper and $M$ lower diagonals, and the original one is referred to as the $(1,1)$-bigraded Toda hierarchy. Because of this band structure, one can introduce $M+N-1$ commuting flo

Stefan Friedl, Mark Powell

In the study of homology cobordisms, knot concordance and link concordance, the following technical problem arises frequently: let $π$ be a group and let $M \to N$ be a homomorphism between projective $\Z[π]$-modules such that $\Z_p \otimes_{\Z[π]} M\to \Z_p \otimes_{\Z[π]} N$ is injective; for which other right $\Z[π]$-modules $V$ is the induced map $V \oti

L. Zhao, M. P. Y. Wu, K. W. Yeh, M. K. Wu

We report the magnetic, dielectric and ferroelectric properties of polycrystalline iron vanadate(FeVO4), which has been recently found to exhibit multiferroicity in low temperature with noncollinear magnetic orderings. The influence of external magnetic field up to 9T on these properties is systematically investigated. Besides the suppressing effect on the o

Kejin Zhou, Milan Radovic, Justine Schlappa, Vladimir Strocov

Understanding the nature of electrical conductivity, superconductivity and magnetism between layers of oxides is of immense importance for the design of electronic devices employing oxide heterostructures. We demonstrate that resonant inelastic X-ray scattering can be applied to directly probe the carriers in oxide heterostructures. Our investigation on epit

Maarit J. Mantere, Elizabeth Cole

Numerous studies have investigated the role of thermal instability in regulating the phase transition between the cold cloudy and warm diffuse medium of the interstellar medium. Considerable interest has also been devoted in investigating the properties of turbulence in thermally unstable flows, special emphasis on molecular clouds and the possibility of sta

Benoit Roland

Studies of forward processes are important tests of the standard model and inputs for Monte Carlo tuning. A measurement of the energy flow in the forward pseudorapidity region of CMS, $3.15 < \vert \eta \vert < 4.9$, is presented for 3 values of the centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 0.9 TeV, 2.36 TeV and 7 TeV. The forward energy flow is measured for minimu

Taha Sochi

The current report presents the work to investigate the recombination lines of CII in the spectra of planetary nebulae. Two CIII targets were prepared and used to generate theoretical data required in the investigation of recombination lines that arise from collisions between electrons and ions in thin plasma found in planetary nebulae and other astrophysica

D. Arnaudov, R. C. Rashkov

Recently there has been progress on the computation of two- and three-point correlation functions with two &#34;heavy&#34; states via semiclassical methods. We extend this analysis to the case of AdS_4 x CP^3, and examine the suggested procedure for the case of several simple string solutions. By making use of AdS/CFT duality, we derive the relevant correlat

Long Zhang, Su-Peng Kou, Youjin Deng

We study the quench dynamics of the topological quantum phase transition in the two-dimensional transverse Wen-plaquette model, which has a phase transition from a Z2 topologically ordered to a spin-polarized state. By mapping the Wen-plaquette model onto a one-dimensional quantum Ising model, we calculate the expectation value of the plaquette operator Fi d

G. E. Volovik

We discuss the dispersionless spectrum with zero energy in the linear topological defects - vortices. The flat band emerges inside the vortex living in the bulk medium containing topologically stable Fermi points in momentum space. The boundaries of the flat band in the vortex are determined by projections of the Fermi points in bulk to the vortex axis. This

Qing Lin, Bing He

The controlled Z (CZ) operations acting separately on pairs of qubits are commonly adopted in the schemes of generating graph states, the multi-partite entangled states for the one-way quantum computing. For this purpose, we propose a setup of cascade CZ operation on a whole group of qubits in sequence. The operation of the setup starts with entangling an an

Kohji Yanagawa

For a monomial ideal $I$ of a polynomial ring $S$, a &#34;polarization&#34; of $I$ is a \textit{squarefree} monomial ideal $J$ of a larger polynomial ring $S&#39;$ such that $S/I$ is a quotient of $S&#39;/J$ by a regular sequence (consisting of degree 1 elements). We show that a Borel fixed ideal admits a &#34;non-standard&#34; polarization. For example, whi

T. M. Aliev, M. Savci, Kwei-Chou Yang

The tensor form factors of $B$ into p--wave axial vector meson transition are calculated within light cone QCD sum rules method. The parametrizations of the tensor form factors based on the series expansion are presented.

L. Rutherford, J. Goold, Th. Busch, J. F. McCann

Recent experiments have demonstrated how quantum-mechanical impurities can be created within strongly correlated quantum gases and used to probe the coherence properties of these systems [S. Palzer, C. Zipkes, C. Sias, and M. Köhl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150601 (2009).]. Here we present a phenomenological model to simulate such an output coupler for a Tonks-G

Bofeng Huo, Xueliang Li, Yongtang Shi

For a given simple graph $G$, the energy of $G$, denoted by $E(G)$, is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. Let $P_n^{\ell}$ be the unicyclic graph obtained by connecting a vertex of $C_\ell$ with a leaf of $P_{n-\ell}$\,. In [G. Caporossi, D. Cvetković, I. Gutman, P. Hansen, Variable neighborhood search for e

F. Fohr, Y. Fukuma, S. Kaltenborn, L. Wang

We determine the dynamic magnetization induced in non-magnetic metal wedges composed of silver, copper and platinum by means of Brillouin light scattering (BLS) microscopy. The magnetization is transferred from a ferromagnetic Ni80Fe20 layer to the metal wedge via the spin pumping effect. The spin pumping efficiency can be controlled by adding an insulating

Seoktae Koh, Masato Minamitsuji

We discuss the hybrid inflation model where the inflaton field is nonminimally coupled to gravity. In the Jordan frame, the potential contains $ϕ^4$ term as well as terms in the original hybrid inflation model. In our model, inflation can be classified into the type (I) and the type (II). In the type (I), inflation is terminated by the tachyonic instability

Jaume Barcelo, Boris Bellalta, Cristina Cano, Anna Sfairopoulou

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Enhanced Collision Avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is a distributed MAC protocol that allows collision-free access to the medium in WLAN. The only difference between CSMA/ECA and the well-known CSMA/CA is that the former uses a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions. Collision-free operation is reached after a transient

Sebastian Goette, Kiyoshi Igusa

We use a variation of a classical construction of A. Hatcher to construct virtually all stable exotic smooth structures on compact smooth manifold bundles whose fibers have sufficiently large odd dimension (at least twice the base dimension plus 3). Using a variation of the Dwyer-Weiss-Williams smoothing theory which we explain in a separate joint paper with

Karim Adiprasito

Solving a long-standing open question in convex geometry, we will show that typical convex surfaces contain points of infinite curvature in all tangent directions. To prove this, we use an easy curvature definition imitating the idea of Alexandrov spaces of bounded curvature, and show continuity properties for this notion. Along the way, we show a theorem fo

Karim Adiprasito

Generalizing results by Valette, Zamfirescu and Laczkovich, we will prove that a convex body $K$ is a polytope if there are sufficiently many tilings which contain a tile similar to $K$. Furthermore, we give an example that this can not be improved.

L. Fletcher, R. Turkmani, H. S. Hudson, S. L. Hawley

A white paper prepared for the Space Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences (USA), for its Decadal Survey of Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics), reviewing and encouraging studies of flare physics in the chromosphere.

Sung Rak Choi

We prove that the cone of mobile divisors and the cone of curves birationally movable in codimension 1 are dual in the $(K+B)$-negative part for a klt pair $(X/Z,B)$. We also prove the structure theorem and the contraction theorem for the expanded cone of curves birationally movable in codimension 1. The duality of the cones gives a partial answer to the pro

David S. Choi, Patrick J. Wolfe, Edoardo M. Airoldi

We present asymptotic and finite-sample results on the use of stochastic blockmodels for the analysis of network data. We show that the fraction of misclassified network nodes converges in probability to zero under maximum likelihood fitting when the number of classes is allowed to grow as the root of the network size and the average network degree grows at

J. -N. Zhang, C. -P. Sun, S. Yi, Franco Nori

We investigate the Stückelberg oscillations of a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a spatially inhomogeneous transverse magnetic field and a periodic longitudinal field. We show that the time-domain Stückelberg oscillations result in interference fringes in the density profiles of all spin components due to the spatial inhomogeneity of the transvers

Zeqian Chen

We consider the Cauchy problem for the Gross-Pitaevskii infinite linear hierarchy of equations on $\mathbb{R}^n.$ By introducing a (F)-norm in certain Sobolev type spaces of sequences of marginal density matrices, we establish local existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions. Explicit space-time type estimates for the solutions are obtained as well. In

Vassily Olegovich Manturov

We construct various functorial maps (projections) from virtual knots to classical knots. These maps are defined on diagrams of virtual knots; in terms of Gauss diagram each of them can be represented as a deletion of some chords. The construction relies upon the notion of parity. As corollaries, we prove that the minimal classical crossing number for classi

Raktim Abir, Carsten Greiner, Mauricio Martinez, Munshi G. Mustafa

We generalise the most extensively used Gunion-Bertsch formula for the soft gluon emission in a perturbative QCD, which could be very important for the phenomenology of the hot and dense matter produced in the heavy-ion collisions.

Stephen C. Anco, S. Ali, Thomas Wolf

A symmetry group method is used to obtain exact solutions for a semilinear radial heat equation in $n>1$ dimensions with a general power nonlinearity. The method involves an ansatz technique to solve an equivalent first-order PDE system of similarity variables given by group foliations of this heat equation, using its admitted group of scaling symmetries. Th

Denis Constales, Nelson Faustino, Soeren Krausshar

We investigate the representations of the solutions to Maxwell&#39;s equations based on the combination of hypercomplex function-theoretical methods with quantum mechanical methods. Our approach provides us with a characterization for the solutions to the time-harmonic Maxwell system in terms of series expansions involving spherical harmonics resp. spherical

Marcelo Samuel Berman, Fernando de Mello Gomide

We consider a General Relativistic generalized RW&#39;s metric,and find a field of Universal rotational global centripetal acceleration, numerically coincident with the value of the Pioneers Anomalous one.Related subjects are also treated.The rotation defined here is different from older frameworks, because we propose a Gaussian metric, whose tri-space rotat

Arijit Sarkar, Mahesh S Tirumkudulu

The consolidation of colloidal particles in drying colloidal dispersions is influenced by various factors such as particle size and shape, and inter-particle potential. The capillary pressure induced by the menisci, formed between the top layer of particles in the packed bed, compresses the bed of particles while the constraints enforced by the boundaries re

Juan Miguel Campanario

I studied the distribution of ranks of values of 2949 β-decay half-lives according to an empirical beta law with two exponents. β-decay half-life ranks showed good fit to a beta function with two exponents.

C. Marinoni

The theme of this book chapter is to discuss algorithms for identifying and reconstructing groups and clusters of galaxies out of the general galaxy distribution. I review the progress of detection techniques through time, from the very first visual-like algorithms to the most performant geometrical methods available today. This will allow readers to underst

Wei Liu, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Ilya V. Shadrivov

We introduce the concept of polychromatic plasmonics and suggest an broadband plasmonic lens for nanofocusing of surface plasmon polaritons. The lens employs a parabolically modulated metal-dielectric-metal structure. This plasmonic lens has a bandwidth of more than an optical octave thus opening new opportunities for broadband plasmonic applications.

J. Cuevas, B. Sánchez-Rey, M. Salerno

Ratchet dynamics of topological solitons of the forced and damped discrete double sine-Gordon system are studied. Directed transport occurring both in regular and in chaotic regions of the phase space and its dependence on damping, amplitude and frequency of the driving, asymmetry parameter, coupling constant, has been extensively investigated. We show that

Francesca Vidotto

Quantum cosmology is usually studied quantizing symmetry-reduced variables. Is it possible, instead, to define quantum cosmology starting from the full quantum gravity theory? In Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), it is possible to cut the degrees of freedom in a suitable way, in order to define a cosmological model. Such a model provides a tool for describing gene

Qingshan Chen, Ming-Cheng Shiue, Roger Temam, Joseph Tribbia

A new set of nonlocal boundary conditions are proposed for the higher modes of the 3D inviscid primitive equations. Numerical schemes using the splitting-up method are proposed for these modes. Numerical simulations of the full nonlinear primitive equations are performed on a nested set of domains, and the results are discussed.

Eran Rosenthal

A classical model for the extension of singular spacetime geometries across their singularities is presented. The regularization introduced by this model is based on the following observation. Among the geometries that satisfy Einstein&#39;s field equations there is a class of geometries, with certain singularities, where the components of the metric density

Zach Medin, Andrew Cumming

We discuss the effect of chemical separation as matter freezes at the base of the ocean of an accreting neutron star, and argue that the retention of light elements in the liquid acts as a source of buoyancy that drives a slow but continual mixing of the ocean, enriching it substantially in light elements, and leading to a relatively uniform composition with

G. F. Cerofolini, M. Ferri, E. Romano, A. Roncaglia

The observation that the thermal conductivity of single-crystalline silicon nanowires with diameter on the length scale of 25 nm is lower than that of bulk material by two orders of magnitude has attracted the interest onto silicon as a potentially effective thermoelectric material. However, the potential interest has a hope of transforming in a practical in

Pavel Mayer, Horst Drechsel, Jiří Kubát, Miroslav Šlechta

We analyse new spectra of the multiple system SZ Cam because previous studies found different values of the primary radial velocity amplitude. The older solutions of light curves also have different ratios of secondary to primary luminosity as inferred from the observed equivalent widths of spectral lines. We therefore reanalyse the light curves of the eclip

Nicolae Manolache

We construct lci nilpotent scheme structures $Y \subset P$ on a smooth variety $X$ embedded in a smooth variety $P$, which are, locally, (i.e. in $\widehat{\mathcal O}_{p,P}$ ) given by ideals of the form $(y^2+x^n, xy, z_1,...,z_r)$, $(y^3+x^n, xy, z_1 ,...z_r)$

Yu. V. Stenkin

It is shown that a &#34;second (iron) knee&#34; in cosmic ray spectrum expected at energy about 100 PeV could not probably be found there. The reason is very simple: the position of the &#34;iron knee&#34; depends on an answer to the questions: &#34;What do we see at 3-5 PeV? Is the knee seen at this energy associated with proton or iron primaries?&#34;

Sylvain Crovisier

In the first part of this text we give a survey of the properties satisfied by the C1-generic conservative diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces. The main result that we will discuss is that a C1-generic conservative diffeomorphism of a connected compact surface is transitive. It is obtain as a consequence of a connecting lemma for pseudo-orbits. In the last p

Ziyu Zhang

This paper studies formality of the differential graded algebra $RHom(E,E)$, where $E$ is a semistable sheaf on a K3 surface. The main tool is Kaledin&#39;s theorem on formality in families. For a large class of sheaves $E$, this DG algebra is formal, therefore we have an explicit description of the singularity type of the moduli space of semistable sheaves

Carlos Pedro Gonçalves

Category computation theory deals with a web-based systemic processing that underlies the morphic webs, which constitute the basis of categorial logical calculus. It is proven that, for these structures, algorithmically incompressible binary patterns can be morphically compressed, with respect to the local connectivities, in a binary morphic program. From th

Daniel Bertrand

We study self-duality of Grothendieck&#39;s blended extensions (extensions panachées) in the context of a tannakian category. The set of equivalence classes of symmetric, resp. antisymmetric, blended extensions is naturally endowed with a torsor structure, which enables us to compute the unipotent radical of the associated monodromy groups in various situati

Min Yu, Dallas R. Trinkle, Richard M. Martin

We propose a method to decompose the total energy of a supercell containing defects into contributions of individual atoms, using the energy density formalism within density functional theory. The spatial energy density is unique up to a gauge transformation, and we show that unique atomic energies can be calculated by integrating over Bader and charge-neutr

Andrea Roli, Stefano Benedettini, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani

We study the properties of the distance between attractors in Random Boolean Networks, a prominent model of genetic regulatory networks. We define three distance measures, upon which attractor distance matrices are constructed and their main statistic parameters are computed. The experimental analysis shows that ordered networks have a very clustered set of

Andrea Spiro, Fabio Podesta&#39;

Let M be a six dimensional manifold, endowed with a cohomogeneity one action of G= SU_2 x SU_2, and M_reg its subset of regular points. We show that M_reg admits a smooth, 2-parameter family of G-invariant, non-isometric strict nearly Kaehler structures and that a 1-parameter subfamily of such structures smoothly extend over a singular orbit of type S^3. Thi

Yakov Kopelevich, Igor A. Luk&#39;yanchuk

Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was given for &#34;groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.&#34; In fact, before graphene has been extracted from graphite and measured, some of its fundamental physical properties have already been experimentally uncovered in bulk graphite. In this Letter to the Nobel Committee we propose to inc

Fabrizio Margaroli

The top quark has been discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 experiments located at the two beam-crossing points at the Tevatron ppbar collider. The top quark is the most massive of the known elementary particles. At hadron-hadron colliders, top quarks are mostly produced in pairs through strong interactions. The measurement of the cross section for top quark

H. Bartolf, K. Inderbitzin, L. B. Gómez, A. Engel

We present results of a fabrication-process development for the lithographic pattern transfer into the sub-100nm range by combining electron-beam lithography and reactive dry etching to obtain high quality niobium-based light-sensitive superconducting devices. To achieve this spatial resolution, we systematically investigated the stability of the positive or

Jacques Demongeot, Sylvain Sené

In this report, we present a formal approach that addresses the problem of emergence of phase transitions in stochastic and attractive nonlinear threshold Boolean automata networks. Nonlinear networks considered are informally defined on the basis of classical stochastic threshold Boolean automata networks in which specific interaction potentials of neighbou

Manuel Kauers, Doron Zeilberger

We provide guessed recurrence equations for the counting sequences of rook paths on d-dimensional chess boards starting at (0..0) and ending at (n..n), where d=2,3,...,12. Our recurrences suggest refined asymptotic formulas of these sequences. Rigorous proofs of the guessed recurrences as well as the suggested asymptotic forms are posed as challenges to the