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  1. The CLEO Collaboration, D. Besson, D. P. Hogan, T. K. Pedlar

    We report on a study of exclusive radiative decays of the Upsilon(1S) resonance into a final state consisting of a photon and two K0s candidates. We find evidence for a signal for Upsilon(1S)->gamma f_2'(1525); f_2'(1525)->K0sK0s, at a rate (4.0+/-1.3+/-0.6)x10^{-5}, consistent with previous observations of Upsilon(1S)->gamma f_2'(1525); f_2'

  2. Hussein Aluie

    We use a coarse-graining approach to prove that inter-scale transfer of kinetic energy in compressible turbulence is dominated by local interactions. Locality here means that interactions between disparate scales decay at least as fast as a power-law function of the scale-disparity ratio. In particular, our results preclude transfer of kinetic energy from la

  3. Giorgio Torrieri, Igor Mishustin

    We argue that a so far neglected dimensionless scale, the number of neighbors in a closely packed system, is relevant for the convergence of the large $N_c$ expansion at high chemical potential. It is only when the number of colors is large w.r.t. this new scale ($\sim \order{10}$) that a convergent large $N_c$ limit is reached. This provides an explanation

  4. Andrea Banfi

    We present precision results for distributions in global event shapes that can be measured at hadron colliders within experimental limitations. These predictions are obtained by combining exact next-to-leading order (NLO) with the all-order resummation of large logarithms of soft and collinear origin. We then discuss how event-shape measurements can be used

  5. António Caetano, Abel Carvalho

    The Hausdorff dimension of the graphs of the functions in Hölder and Besov spaces (in this case with integrability p \geq 1) on fractal d-sets is studied. Denoting by s \in (0,1] the smoothness parameter, the sharp upper bound min{d+1-s,d/s} is obtained. In particular, when passing from d \geq s to d<s there is a change of behaviour from d+1-s to d/s which i

  6. Michael D. Perlman, Jon A. Wellner

    Do there exist circular and spherical copulas in $R^d$? That is, do there exist circularly symmetric distributions on the unit disk in $R^2$ and spherically symmetric distributions on the unit ball in $R^d$, $d\ge3$, whose one-dimensional marginal distributions are uniform? The answer is yes for $d=2$ and 3, where the circular and spherical copulas are uniqu

  7. Amanda Maxham, Bin-Bin Zhang, Bing Zhang

    Recent observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) revealed a power law decay feature of the high energy emission (above 100 MeV), which led to the suggestion that it originates from a (probably radiative) external shock. We analyze four GRBs (080916C, 090510, 090902B and 090926A) jointly detected by Fermi LAT and Gamma-ra

  8. Marek Zawadowski

    We construct explicitly the weights on the simplicial category so that the colimits and limits of 2-functors with those weights provide the Kleisli objects and the Eilenberg-Moore objects, respectively, in any 2-category.

  9. Madhur Srivastava, Prateek Katiyar, Yashwant Yashu, Satish K. Singha

    An algorithm is proposed for the segmentation of image into multiple levels using mean and standard deviation in the wavelet domain. The procedure provides for variable size segmentation with bigger block size around the mean, and having smaller blocks at the ends of histogram plot of each horizontal, vertical and diagonal components, while for the approxima

  10. Martin Ehler

    Finding a sparse representation of a possibly noisy signal can be modeled as a variational minimization with l_q-sparsity constraints for q less than one. Especially for real-time, on-line, or iterative applications, in which problems of this type have to be solved multiple times, one needs fast algorithms to compute these minimizers. Identifying the exact m

  11. Walter Grimus

    We motivate the usage of finite groups as symmetries of the Lagrangian. After a presentation of basic group-theoretical concepts, we introduce the notion of characters and character tables in the context of irreducible representations and discuss their applications. We exemplify these theoretical concepts with the groups S_4 and A_4. Finally, we discuss the

  12. Jure Zupan

    We first review the methods for determining gamma from B->D K decays that appeared after CKM 2008. We then discuss the theoretical errors in gamma extraction. The errors due to neglected D-Dbar and B_{d,s}-Bbar_{d,s} mixing can be avoided by including their effects in the fits. The ultimate theoretical error is then given by electroweak corrections that we e

  13. Ronald L. Snell, Gopal Narayanan, Min S. Yun, Mark Heyer

    The 3 mm wavelength spectra of 10 galaxies have been obtained at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory using a new, very broadband receiver and spectrometer, called the Redshift Search Receiver (RSR). The RSR has an instantaneous bandwidth of 37 GHz covering frequencies from 74 to 111 GHz, and has a spectral resolution of 31 MHz (~100 km/s). During te

  14. André Xuereb, Peter Horak, Tim Freegarde

    We investigate optomechanical forces on a nearly lossless scatterer, such as an atom pumped far off-resonance or amicromirror, inside an optical ring cavity. Our model introduces two additional features to the cavity: an isolator is used to prevent circulation and resonant enhancement of the pump laser field and thus to avoid saturation of or damage to the s

  15. Jason Morton

    It remains an open question whether the apparent additional power of quantum computation derives inherently from quantum mechanics, or merely from the flexibility obtained by &#34;lifting&#34; Boolean functions to linear operators and evaluating their composition cleverly. Holographic algorithms provide a useful avenue for exploring this question. We describ

  16. D. Yu. Krylov, V. O. Manturov

    In the present paper we give a simple proof of the fact that the set of virtual links with orientable atoms is closed. More precisely, the theorem states that if two virtual diagrams $K$ and $K&#39;$ have orientable atoms and they are equivalent by Reidemeister moves, then there is a sequence of diagrams $K = K_1 \to...\to K_n=K&#39;$ all having orientable a

  17. Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Robert Bell

    We present an investigation of chemical influences on the growth of ice crystals from water vapor. In one set of experiments, we grew ice crystals in a vapor diffusion chamber, observing crystal morphologies at temperatures from 0 C to -25 C in different background gases and with a variety of gaseous chemical additives. In a second set of experiments, we mea

  18. V. E. Guiseppe, S. R. Elliott, A. Hime, K. Rielage

    The next generation low-background detectors operating underground aim for unprecedented low levels of radioactive backgrounds. Although the radioactive decays of airborne radon (particularly Rn-222) and its subsequent progeny present in an experiment are potential backgrounds, also problematic is the deposition of radon progeny on detector materials. Exposu

  19. H. Moradi, S. M. Hanasoge

    In sequel to Moradi et al. [2009, ApJ, 690, L72], we employ two established numerical forward models (a 3D ideal MHD solver and MHD ray theory) in conjunction with time-distance helioseismology to probe the lateral extent of wave-speed perturbations produced in regions of strong, near-surface magnetic fields. We continue our comparisons of forward modeling a

  20. D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

    We present a measurement of the inclusive top quark pair production cross section in \ppbar collisions at (\sqrt{s}=1.96) TeV utilizing data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of \lumi\ collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We consider final states containing one high-$p_{T}$ isolated electron or muon and at least two jets,

  21. Martin Ehler, Jennifer Galanis

    Distinguishing between uniform and non-uniform sample distributions is a common problem in directional data analysis; however for many tests, non-uniform distributions exist that fail uniformity rejection. By merging directional statistics with frame theory, we find that probabilistic tight frames yield non-uniform distributions that minimize directional pot

  22. Geoffrey C. Bower, Destry Saul

    We present a search for radio transients in the field of the bright radio source 3C 286 using archival observations from the Very Large Array. These observations span 23 years and include 1852 epochs at 1.4 GHz in the C and D configurations. We find no transients in the field. The sensitivity of the observations is limited by dynamic range effects in the ima

  23. P. Di Vecchia, R. Marotta, I. Pesando, F. Pezzella

    We construct the six-dimensional Lagrangian for the massless twisted open strings with one end-point ending on a stack of D5 and the other on a stack of D9 branes, interacting with the gauge multiplets living respectively on the D5 and D9 branes. It is first obtained by uplifting to six dimensions the four-dimensional Lagrangian of the N=2 hypermultiplet and

  24. Srijit Bhattacharjee, Ayan Chatterjee

    In a consistent heterotic string theory, the Kalb-Ramond field, which is the source of spacetime torsion, is augmented by Yang-Mills and gravitational Chern-Simons terms. When compactified to 4-dimensions and in the field theory limit, such additional terms give rise to interactions with interesting astrophysical predictions like rotation of plane of polariz

  25. A. A. Alves, J. Magnin

    The LHC offers a unique opportunity to investigate an ample spectra of phenomenous ranging from the Electro-Weak (EW) to the QCD sector of the Standard Model (SM). Among the quantities which can be measured in the LHC experiments are the CP and production asymmetries for several particles in a wide variety of decay modes. In this work we discuss about the in

  26. Jakub Kallas, Manfred Kufleitner, Alexander Lauser

    We consider fragments of first-order logic and as models we allow finite and infinite words simultaneously. The only binary relations apart from equality are order comparison < and the successor predicate +1. We give characterizations of the fragments Sigma2 = Sigma2[<,+1] and FO2 = FO2[<,+1] in terms of algebraic and topological properties. To this end we i

  27. M. Cinal, A. Holas

    The reported new algorithm determines the exact exchange potential v_x in a iterative way using energy and orbital shifts (ES, OS) obtained - with finite-difference formulas - from the solutions (occupied orbitals and their energies) of the Hartree-Fock-like equation and the Kohn-Sham-like equation, the former used for the initial approximation to v_x and th

  28. Shi-Fang Guo, Suqing Duan, Yan Xie, Wei-Dong Chu

    We investigate the photon emission in coupled quantum dots based on symmetry considerations. With the help of a new theorem we proved, we reveal the origin of the various emission patterns, which is the combinative symmetry in the time domain and spectrum domain. We are able to tailor the emission patterns and obtain emission spectra with odd harmonics only,

  29. Sourendu Gupta

    Developments in QCD at finite density are reviewed. I begin by discussing some new algorithms which have been applied to other theories with sign problems. Then I discuss the method of analytic continuation in QCD using a series expansion and review some of the results obtained using this method. By now there are several different simulations using the metho

  30. Bobby Samir Acharya, Mahdi Torabian

    We calculate and explore the moduli potential for M-Theory compactified on G_2-manifolds in which the superpotential is dominated by a single membrane instanton term plus one from an asymptotically free hidden sector gauge interaction. We show that all moduli can be stabilized and that hidden sector gauge symmetries can be Higgsed at a high scale. We then co

  31. Sergio España, Arturo González, Óscar Pastor, Marcela Ruiz

    This document presents a lab demo that exemplifies the manual derivation of an OO Method conceptual model, taking as input a Communication Analysis requirements model. In addition, it is described how the conceptual model is created in the OLIVANOVA Modeler tool. The lab demo corresponds to part of the business processes of a fictional small and medium enter

  32. Anjan K, Jibi Abraham, Mamatha Jadhav

    Computer network is unpredictable due to information warfare and is prone to various attacks. Such attacks on network compromise the most important attribute, the privacy. Most of such attacks are devised using special communication channel called &#34;Covert Channel&#34;. The word &#34;Covert&#34; stands for hidden or non-transparent. Network Covert Channel

  33. G. E. Astrakharchik, M. D. Girardeau

    The ground state properties of a single-component one-dimensional Coulomb gas are investigated. We use Bose-Fermi mapping for the ground state wave function which permits to solve the Fermi sign problem in the following respects (i) the nodal surface is known, permitting exact calculations (ii) evaluation of determinants is avoided, reducing the numerical co

  34. Diana Duplij

    The Dissertation is focused on the studies of associations between functional elements in human genome and their nucleotide structure. The asymmetry in nucleotide content (skew, bias) was chosen as the main feature for nucleotide structure. A significant difference in nucleotide content asymmetry was found for human exons vs. introns. Specifically, exon sequ

  35. Yves Colin de Verdière, Victor Guillemin, David Jerison

    Let $-λ_j$ be the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator on the unit disk with Dirichlet conditions. The distribution $h(t) = \sum_j e^{i\sqrtλ_j t}$ is the trace of the solution operator of the wave equation on the disk. It is well known that $h$ has isolated singularities at the lengths of the reflecting geodesics. In particular, $h$ is singular at $t_k$, the

  36. Zbigniew Czechowski, Mariusz Białecki

    Ito equations are derived for simple stochastic cellular automaton with parameters and compared with results obtained from the histogram method. Good agreement for various parameters supports wide applicability of the Ito equation as a macroscopic model.

  37. Makarov Volodymyr, Dragunov Denis

    In the paper a new numerical-analytical method for solving the Cauchy problem for systems of ordinary differential equations of special form is presented. The method is based on the idea of the FD-method for solving the operator equations of general form, which was proposed by V.L. Makarov. The sufficient conditions for the method converges with a superexpon

  38. Mikael Passare, Jean-Jacques Risler

    For a real smooth algebraic curve $A \subset (\mathhbb{C}^*)^2$, the amoeba $\mathcal{A} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ is the image of $A$ under the map Log : $(x,y) \mapsto (\log |x|, \log | y |)$. We describe an universal bound for the total curvature of the real amoeba $\mathcal{A}_{\mathbb{R} A}$ and we prove that this bound is reached if and only if the curve $

  39. Suhas Gangadharaiah, Bernd Braunecker, Pascal Simon, Daniel Loss

    We show that one-dimensional electron systems in proximity of a superconductor that support Majorana edge states are extremely susceptible to electron-electron interactions. Strong interactions generically destroy the induced superconducting gap that stabilizes the Majorana edge states. For weak interactions, the renormalization of the gap is nonuniversal an

  40. Markus Wittmann, Georg Hager

    Task parallelism as employed by the OpenMP task construct or some Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) components, although ideal for tackling irregular problems or typical producer/consumer schemes, bears some potential for performance bottlenecks if locality of data access is important, which is typically the case for memory-bound code on ccNUMA systems.

  41. Gerald Schubert, Georg Hager, Holger Fehske, Gerhard Wellein

    We evaluate optimized parallel sparse matrix-vector operations for two representative application areas on widespread multicore-based cluster configurations. First the single-socket baseline performance is analyzed and modeled with respect to basic architectural properties of standard multicore chips. Going beyond the single node, parallel sparse matrix-vect

  42. Mikael Kuusela, Eric Malmi, Risto Orava, Tommi Vatanen

    Multivariate machine learning techniques provide an alternative to the rapidity gap method for event-by-event identification and classification of diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions. Traditionally, such methods assign each event exclusively to a single class producing classification errors in overlap regions of data space. As an alternative to this so c

  43. Vladislav Polnikov

    The time-space evolution of the field is described by the transport equation for the 2-dimensional wave energy spectrum density, S(x,t), spread in the space, x, and time, t. This equation has the forcing named the source function, F, depending on both the wave spectrum, S, and the external wave-making factors: local wind, W(x, t), and local current, U(x, t).

  44. Tapan Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri, D. N. Basu

    Comments by Dr. I. Angeli and Dr. J. Csikai raise concerns and questions regarding omission of references, proper name of the model, energy dependence of the radius and average chord length as 4R/3 which are briefly replied.

  45. R. Handberg, T. L. Campante

    Context: Asteroseismology has entered a new era with the advent of the NASA Kepler mission. Long and continuous photometric observations of unprecedented quality are now available which have stimulated the development of a number of suites of innovative analysis tools. Aims: The power spectra of solar-like oscillations are an inexhaustible source of informat

  46. Robert Alicki

    A simple microscopic model of a small superconducting loop interrupted by Josephson junction (flux qubit) allows to compute from the experimental data of Wal et.al \cite{Wal} an important parameter - the density of Cooper pairs at zero temperature. This density is determined by the cut-off energy in the BCS model and agrees with the original BCS suggestion b

  47. Evgenii Vityaev, Boris Kovalerchuk, Leonid Perlovsky, Stanislav Smerdov

    The purpose of this paper is to develop further the main concepts of Phenomena Dynamic Logic (P-DL) and Cognitive Dynamic Logic (C-DL), presented in the previous paper. The specific character of these logics is in matching vagueness or fuzziness of similarity measures to the uncertainty of models. These logics are based on the following fundamental notions:

  48. Christoph Moehr

    This paper investigates market-consistent valuation of insurance liabilities in the context of, for instance, Solvency II and to some extent IFRS 4. We propose an explicit and consistent framework for the valuation of insurance liabilities which incorporates the Solvency II approach as a special case. The proposed framework is based on dynamic replication ov

  49. R. A. Ryutin, V. A. Petrov, A. E. Sobol

    We study the possibilities to analyse the data on leading neutrons production at first LHC runs. These data could be used to extract from it $π^+ p$ and $π^+π^+$ cross-sections. In this note we estimate relative contributions of $π$, $ρ$ and $a_2$ reggeons to charge exchanges and discuss related problems of measurements.

  50. V. F. Gopka, O. M. Ulyanov, S. M. Andrievsky, A. V. Shavrina

    We discuss some statistical results on the evolution of magnetic CP stars in the framework of the supposition about their binary nature.

  51. Shekhar Chandra, Imants Svalbe, Jeanpierre Guedon, Andrew Kingston

    The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) underpins the solution to many inverse problems commonly possessing missing or un-measured frequency information. This incomplete coverage of Fourier space always produces systematic artefacts called Ghosts. In this paper, a fast and exact method for de-convolving cyclic artefacts caused by missing slices of the DFT is pr

  52. Chang-Ling Zou, Xu-Bo Zou, Fang-Wen Sun, Zheng-Fu Han

    A potential experimental system, based on the Silicon Nitride (SiN) material, is proposed to generate steady-state room-temperature optomechanical entanglement. In the proposed structure, the nanostring interacts dispersively and reactively with the microdisk cavity via the evanescent field. We study the role of both dispersive and reactive coupling in gener

  53. Alexander P. Seyranian, Anton O. Belyakov

    We consider twirling of a hula-hoop when the waist of a sportsman moves along an elliptic trajectory close to a circle. For the case of the circular trajectory, two families of exact solutions are obtained. Both of them correspond to twirling of the hula-hoop with a constant angular speed equal to the speed of the excitation. We show that one family of solut

  54. S. Mallik, G. Chaudhuri, S. Das Gupta

    For projectile fragmentation we work out details of a model whose origin can be traced back to the Bevalac era. The model positions itself between the phenomenological EPAX parametrization and microscopic transport models like &#34;Heavy Ion Phase Space Exploration Model&#34; (HIPSE) and antisymmetrised molecular dynamics(AMD). We apply the model to some rec

  55. The ATLAS Collaboration

    Jet shapes have been measured in inclusive jet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using 3 pb^{-1} of data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with transverse momentum 30 GeV < pT < 600 GeV and rapidity in the region |y| < 2.8. The data are corrected for detector effects and co

  56. Akbari Jahan, D. K. Choudhury

    In recent years, Fractal Inspired Models of quark and gluon densities at small x have been proposed. In this paper, we investigate longitudinal structure function F-L (x, Q2) within this approach. We make predictions using the QCD based approximate relation between the longitudinal structure function and the gluon density. As the Altarelli-Martinelli equatio

  57. Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen, Robert Stelzer

    Univariate superpositions of Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type processes (OU), called supOU processes, provide a class of continuous time processes capable of exhibiting long memory behavior. This paper introduces multivariate supOU processes and gives conditions for their existence and finiteness of moments. Moreover, the second-order moment structure is explicitly

  58. Iván Santos, Luis A. Marqués, Lourdes Pelaz, Luciano Colombo

    We have analyzed the atomic rearrangements underlying self-diffusion in amorphous Si during annealing using tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations. Two types of amorphous samples with different structural features were used to analyze the influence of coordination defects. We have identified several types of atomic rearrangement mechanisms, and we have

  59. Alexander E. Rodin

    We suggest a new approach to the detection of gravitational waves using observations of a group of millisecond pulsars. In contrast to the usual method, based on increasing the accuracy of the arrival times of pulses by excluding possible distorting factors, our method supposes that the additive phase noise that is inevitably present even in the most accurat

  60. Anton O. Belyakov

    The author considers the planar rotational motion of the mathematical pendulum with its pivot oscillating both vertically and horizontally, so the trajectory of the pivot is an ellipse close to a circle. The analysis is based on the exact rotational solutions in the case of circular pivot trajectory and zero gravity. The conditions for existence and stabilit

  61. Peter Kramer

    The experimental discovery of quasicrystals by D Shechtman, D Gratias, I Blech, and J W Cahn in 1984 provided the paradigm for a new type of long-range order of solid matter in nature. This discovery stimulated an explosion of new experimental and theoretical research. In years prior to the discovery, there was a very active development of various gateways t

  62. Renaud Marty, Knut Sølna

    We consider waves propagating in a randomly layered medium with long-range correlations. An example of such a medium is studied in \citeMS and leads, in particular, to an asymptotic travel time described in terms of a fractional Brownian motion. Here we study the asymptotic transmitted pulse under very general assumptions on the long-range correlations. In t

  63. S. V. Berdyugina, A. V. Berdyugin, D. M. Fluri, V. Piirola

    We report first multicolor polarimetric measurements (UBV bands) for the hot Jupiters HD189733b and confirm our previously reported detection of polarization in the B band (Berdyugina et al. 2008). The wavelength dependence of polarization indicates the dominance of Rayleigh scattering with a peak in the blue B and U bands of ~10^-4+/-10^-5 and at least a fa

  64. Eric Filiol

    Using cryptography to protect information and communication has bacically two major drawbacks. First, the specific entropy profile of encrypted data makes their detection very easy. Second, the use of cryptography can be more or less regulated, not to say forbidden, according to the countries. If the right to freely protect our personal and private data is a

  65. Jagbeer Singh

    In this paper I have study to Reduce the time Complexity of Earliest Deadline First (EDF), a global scheduling scheme for Earliest Deadline First in Real Time System tasks on a Multiprocessors system. Several admission control algorithms for Earliest Deadline First (EDF) are presented, both for hard and soft real-time tasks. The average performance of these

  66. Kelai Meng, Jun Pan, Istvan Szapudi, Longlong Feng

    The zeroth-order component of the cosine expansion of the projected three-point correlation function is proposed for clustering analysis of cosmic large scale structure. These functions are third order statistics but can be measured similarly to the projected two-point correlations. Numerical experiments with N-body simulations indicate that the advocated st

  67. Johannes Blümlein, Helmut Böttcher

    The results of a recent next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the world data on polarized deep inelastic scattering are reported. New parameterizations are derived for the quark and gluon distributions, accounting for the massive Wilson coefficient for the charm quarks, and the value of $α_s(M_z^2)$ is determined with correlated errors. We obtain $α_s^{\rm N

  68. I. A. Nekrasov, M. V. Sadovskii

    We present LDA band structure of novel hole doped high temperature superconductors (Tc~30K) KxFe2Se2 and CsxFe2Se2 and compare it with previously studied electronic structure of isostructural FeAs superconductor BaFe2As2 (Ba122). We show that stoichiometric KFe2Se2 and CsFe2Se2 have rather different Fermi surfaces as compared with Ba122. However at about 60%

  69. Rotimi Kehinde, Abdullahi Umar

    Let ${\cal I}_n$ be the symmetric inverse semigroup on $X_n = \{1, 2,..., n\}$ and let ${\cal DP}_n$ and ${\cal ODP}_n$ be its subsemigroups of partial isometries and of order-preserving partial isometries of $X_n$, respectively. In this paper we investigate the cycle structure of a partial isometry and characterize the Green&#39;s relations on ${\cal DP}_n$

  70. Xia Cui, Heng Peng, Songqiao Wen, Lixing Zhu

    Similar to variable selection in the linear regression model, selecting significant components in the popular additive regression model is of great interest. However, such components are unknown smooth functions of independent variables, which are unobservable. As such, some approximation is needed. In this paper, we suggest a combination of penalized regres

  71. Seppo Hassi, Sergii Kuzhel

    The paper is devoted to a development of the theory of self-adjoint operators in Krein spaces (J-self-adjoint operators) involving some additional properties arising from the existence of C-symmetries. The main attention is paid to the recent notion of stable C-symmetry for J-self-adjoint extensions of a symmetric operator S. The general results are speciali

  72. Robert Ball, James R. Beene, Yan Benhammou, Meny Ben Moshe

    Plasma Display Panels (PDP), the underlying engine of panel plasma television displays, are being investigated for their utility as radiation detectors called Plasma Panel Sensors (PPS). The PPS a novel variant of a micropattern radiation detector, is intended to be a fast, high resolution detector comprised of an array of plasma discharge cells operating in

  73. Tom H. Anderson, Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

    The Alcubierre spacetime was simulated by means of a Tamm medium which is asymptotically identical to vacuum and has constitutive parameters which are ontinuous functions of the spatial coordinates. Accordingly, the Tamm medium is amenable to physical realization as a nanostructured metamaterial. A comprehensive characterization of ray trajectories in the Ta

  74. Saumen Datta, Sourendu Gupta

    The thermodynamics of the deconfined phase of the SU(N) gauge theory is studied. Careful study is made of the approach to the continuum limit. The latent heat of the deconfinement transition is studied, for the theories with 3, 4 and 6 colors. Continuum estimates of various thermodynamic quantities are studied, and the approach to conformality investigated.

  75. Biman Jana, Bharat V. Adkar, Rajib Biswas, Biman Bagchi

    The catalytic conversion of ATP and AMP to ADP by adenylate kinase (ADK) involves large amplitude, ligand induced domain motions, involving the opening and the closing of LID and NMP domains, during the repeated catalytic cycle. We discover and analyze an interesting dynamical coupling between the motions of the two domains during the opening, using large sc

  76. Xifeng Ren, Aiping Liu, Changling Zou, Lulu Wang

    The interference patterns of the surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs) on the metal surface from a &#34;point&#34; source are observed. These interference patterns come from the forward SPPs and the reflected one from the obstacles, such as straightedge,corner, and ring groove structure. Innovation to the previous works, a &#34;point&#34; SPPs source with diamete

  77. Jiapu Zhang

    The Lennard-Jones (LJ) Potential Energy Problem is to construct the most stable form of $N$ atoms of a molecule with the minimal LJ potential energy. This problem has a simple mathematical form $f(x) = 4\sum_{i=1}^N \sum_{j=1,j<i}^N (\frac{1}{τ_{ij}^6} - \frac{1}{τ_{ij}^3} {subject to} x\in \mathbb{R}^n$, where $τ_{ij} = (x_{3i-2} - x_{3j-2})^2 + (x_{3i-1} -

  78. W. Kriwattanawong, C. Moss, P. A. James, D. Carter

    Photometric and spectroscopic observations of the galaxy population of the galaxy cluster Abell 1367 have been obtained, over a field of 34 by 90 arcmin, covering the cluster centre out to a radius of about 2.2 Mpc. U, B and R broad-band and H alpha narrow-band imaging observations were carried out using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on the 2.5m INT. J and K n

  79. Yoichi Tamura, Ryohei Kawabe, Kotaro Kohno, Masayuki Fukuhara

    The Millimeter Sky Transparency Imager (MiSTI) is a small millimeter-wave scanning telescope with a 25-cm diameter dish operating at 183 GHz. MiSTI is installed at Atacama, Chile, and it measures emission from atmospheric water vapor and its fluctuations to estimate atmospheric absorption in the millimeter to submillimeter. MiSTI observes the water vapor dis

  80. Emilie Charlier, Narad Rampersad

    A set $X\subseteq\mathbb N$ is S-recognizable for an abstract numeration system S if the set $\rep_S(X)$ of its representations is accepted by a finite automaton. We show that the growth function of an S-recognizable set is always either $Θ((\log(n))^{c-df}n^f)$ where $c,d\in\mathbb N$ and $f\ge 1$, or $Θ(n^r θ^{Θ(n^q)})$, where $r,q\in\mathbb Q$ with $q\le

  81. The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

    We present a new measurement of the inclusive forward-backward t-tbar production asymmetry and its rapidity and mass dependence. The measurements are performed with 5.3 fb^{-1} of p-pbar collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV, recorded with CDF II at the Fermilab Tevatron. Significant inclusive asymmetries are observed in the laboratory and t-tbar rest frame, and

  82. Michael Brannan

    In this paper, we consider families of operators $\{x_r\}_{r \in Λ}$ in a tracial C$^\ast$-probability space $(\mathcal A, ϕ)$, whose joint $\ast$-distribution is invariant under free complexification and the action of the hyperoctahedral quantum groups $\{H_n^+\}_{n \in \N}$. We prove a strong form of Haagerup&#39;s inequality for the non-self-adjoint opera

  83. Li Zheng, Chui-Ping Yang, Franco Nori

    We study the spatial decoherence dynamics for the relative position of two atoms in a singlemode ring cavity. We find that the spatial decoherence of the two atoms depends strongly on their relative position. Taking into account the spatial degrees of freedom, we investigate the entanglement dynamics of the internal states of the two atoms. It is shown that

  84. S. Shankaranarayanan

    Hawking radiation and Bekenstein--Hawking entropy are the two robust predictions of a yet unknown quantum theory of gravity. Any theory which fails to reproduce these predictions is certainly incorrect. While several approaches lead to Bekenstein--Hawking entropy, they all lead to different sub-leading corrections. In this article, we ask a question that is

  85. Giorgio Torrieri, Jorge Noronha

    After reviewing the evidence that QCD matter at ultrarelativistic energies behaves as a very good fluid, we describe the connection of QCD fluidity to heavy quark observables. We review the way in which heavy quark spectra can place tighter limits on the viscosity of QCD matter. Finally, we show that correlations between flow observables and the event-by-eve

  86. Nemanja Kaloper, Albion Lawrence, Lorenzo Sorbo

    We study an inflationary model developed by Kaloper and Sorbo, in which the inflaton is an axion with a sub-Planckian decay constant, whose potential is generated by mixing with a topological 4-form field strength. This gives a 4d construction of &#34;axion monodromy inflation&#34;: the axion winds many times over the course of inflation and draws energy fro

  87. C. A. M. de Melo, B. M. Pimentel, J. A. Ramirez

    Using Schwinger Variational Principle we solve the problem of quantum harmonic oscillator with time dependent frequency. Here, we do not take the usual approach which implicitly assumes an adiabatic behavior for the frequency. Instead, we propose a new solution where the frequency only needs continuity in its first derivative or to have a finite set of remov

  88. Jun-Ting Kao, Jo-Tzu Hung, Pochung Chen, Chung-Yu Mou

    We investigate the feasibility for the preservation of coherence and entanglement of one and two spin qubits coupled to an interacting quantum spin-1/2 chain within the dynamical decoupling (DD) scheme. The performance is examined by counting number of computing pulses that can be applied periodically with period of $T$ before qubits become decoherent, while

  89. Maria Basterra, Michael A. Mandell

    BP is an E_4 ring spectrum. The E_4 structure is unique up to automorphism.

  90. Richard A. Moy

    Given a finite set of nonnegative integers A with no 3-term arithmetic progressions, the Stanley sequence generated by A, denoted S(A), is the infinite set created by beginning with A and then greedily including strictly larger integers which do not introduce a 3-term arithmetic progressions in S(A). Erdos et al. asked whether the counting function, S(A,x),

  91. A. Ramanathan, K. C. Wright, S. R. Muniz, M. Zelan

    We have created a long-lived (~ 40 s) persistent current in a toroidal Bose-Einstein condensate held in an all-optical trap. A repulsive optical barrier creates a tunable weak link in the condensate circuit, which can affect the current around the loop. Superflow stops abruptly at a barrier strength such that the local flow velocity exceeds a critical veloci

  92. R. K. P. Zia

    We consider a system of $N$ individuals consisting of $S$ species that interact pairwise: $x_m+x_\ell \rightarrow 2x_m\,\,$ with arbitrary probabilities $p_m^\ell $. With no spatial structure, the master equation yields a simple set of rate equations in a mean field approximation, the focus of this note. Generalizing recent findings of cyclically competing t

  93. Michael Gekhtman, Michael Shapiro, Alek Vainshtein

    We study natural cluster structures in the rings of regular functions on simple complex Lie groups and Poisson-Lie structures compatible with these cluster structures. According to our main conjecture, each class in the Belavin-Drinfeld classification of Poisson-Lie structures on $\G$ corresponds to a cluster structure in $Ø(\G)$. We prove a reduction theore

  94. Jing Zhu, Sabre Kais, Patrick Rebentrost, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

    We present a detailed theoretical study of the transfer of electronic excitation energy through the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) pigment-protein complex, using the new developed modified scaled hierarchical approach [Shi Q. et al, J Chem Phys 2009, 130, 084105]. We show that this approach is computationally more efficient than the original hierarchical approac

  95. P. Ronhovde, S. Chakrabarty, M. Sahu, K. K. Sahu

    Recent decades have seen the discovery of numerous complex materials. At the root of the complexity underlying many of these materials lies a large number of possible contending atomic- and larger-scale configurations and the intricate correlations between their constituents. For a detailed understanding, there is a need for tools that enable the detection o

  96. Mehdi Kargarian, Jun Wen, Gregory A. Fiete

    In this work we investigate the phase diagram of heavy (4d and 5d) transition metal oxides on the pyrochlore lattice, such as those of the form $\mathrm{A_2M_2O_7}$, where A is a rare earth element and M is a transition metal element. We focus on the competition between Coulomb interaction, spin-orbit coupling, and lattice distortion when these energy scales

  97. Masashi Hamanaka

    We discuss extension of soliton theory and integrable systems to noncommutative spaces, focusing on integrable aspects of noncommutative anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations. We give wide class of exact solutions by solving a Riemann-Hilbert problem for the Atiyah-Ward ansatz and present Backlund transformations for the G=U(2) noncommutative anti-self-dual Ya

  98. Davide Astolfi, Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti, Gianluca Grignani, Troels Harmark

    We revisit the calculation of curvature corrections to the pp-wave energy of type IIA string states on AdS_4 x CP^3 initiated in arXiv:0807.1527. Using the near pp-wave Hamiltonian found in arXiv:0912.2257, we compute the first non-vanishing correction to the energy of a set of bosonic string states at order 1/R^2, where R is the curvature radius of the back

  99. P. A. N. Machado, H. Nunokawa, R. Zukanovich Funchal

    We consider a model where sterile neutrinos can propagate in a large compactified extra dimension giving rise to Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes and the standard model left-handed neutrinos are confined to a 4-dimensional spacetime brane. The KK modes mix with the standard neutrinos modifying their oscillation pattern. We examine former and current experiments such

  100. Christopher C. Hayward, Dušan Kereš, Patrik Jonsson, Desika Narayanan

    We perform 3-D dust radiative transfer (RT) calculations on hydrodynamic simulations of isolated and merging disk galaxies in order to quantitatively study the dependence of observed-frame submillimeter (submm) flux density on galaxy properties. We find that submm flux density and star formation rate (SFR) are related in dramatically different ways for quies