November 2011 arXiv papers — page 2

N. G. Stefanis, Alexander P. Bakulev, S. V. Mikhailov, A. V. Pimikov

We present an extended analysis of the data for the pion-photon transition form factor from different experiments, CELLO, CLEO, and BaBar, and discuss various theoretical approaches which try to reason from them. We focus on the divergent behavior of the BaBar data for the pion and those for the $η(η')$ pseudoscalar mesons and comment on recently propose

Marcelo S. Custódio, Cesar Manchein, Marcus W. Beims

The dynamics in weakly chaotic Hamiltonian systems strongly depends on initial conditions and little can be affirmed about generic behaviors. Using two distinct Hamiltonian systems, namely one particle in an open rectangular billiard and four particles globally coupled on a discrete lattice, we show that in these models the transition from integrable motion

Erandy Ramirez, Dominik J. Schwarz

We find the best-fit cosmological parameters for a scenario of inflation with only the sufficient amount of accelerated expansion for the $λϕ^4$ potential. While for the simplest scenario of chaotic inflation all observable primordial fluctuations cross the Hubble horizon during the slow-roll epoch, for the scenario of just-enough inflation the slow-roll con

Jean-Michel Arbona, Jean-Pierre Aimé, Juan Elezgaray

DNA based nanostructures built on a long single stranded DNA scaffold, known as DNA origamis, offer the possibility to organize various molecules at the nanometer scale in one pot experiments. The folding of the scaffold is guaranteed by the presence of short, single stranded DNA sequences (staples), that hold together separate regions of the scaffold. In th

S. Roy, A. Pikovsky

We study properties of energy spreading in a lattice of elastically colliding harmonic oscillators (Ding-Dong model). We demonstrate that in the regular lattice the spreading from a localized initial state is mediated by compactons and chaotic breathers. In a disordered lattice the compactons do not exist, and the spreading eventually stops, resulting in a f

Igor Khavkine

A class of diffeomorphism invariant, physical observables, so-called astrometric observables, is introduced. A particularly simple example, the time delay, which expresses the difference between two initially synchronized proper time clocks in relative inertial motion, is analyzed in detail. It is found to satisfy some interesting inequalities related to the

Marco Mamone Capria, Maria-Grazia Manini

The unification of electricity and magnetism achieved by special relativity has remained for decades a model of unification in theoretical physics. We discuss the relationship between electric and magnetic fields from a classical point of view, and then examine how the four main relevant authors (Lorentz, Poincaré, Einstein, Minkowski) dealt with the problem

Calin-Grigore Ambrozie

We characterize the existence of the Lebesgue integrable solutions of the truncated problem of moments in several variables on unbounded supports by the existence of some maximum entropy -- type representing densities and discuss a few topics on their approximation in a particular case, of two variables and 4th order moments.

Filippo Bracci, Andrea Iannuzzi, Benjamin McKay

Let $M$ be a Kobayashi hyperbolic homogenous manifold. Let $\mathcal F$ be a holomorphic foliation on $M$ invariant under a transitive group $G$ of biholomorphisms. We prove that the leaves of $\mathcal F$ are the fibers of a holomorphic $G$-equivariant submersion $π\colon M \to N$ onto a $G$-homogeneous complex manifold $N$. We also show that if $\mathcal Q

Audrey Cottet, Takis Kontos, Alfredo Levy Yeyati

We suggest a way to characterize the coherence of the split Cooper pairs emitted by a double-quantum-dot based Cooper pair splitter (CPS), by studying the radiative response of such a CPS inside a microwave cavity. The coherence of the split pairs manifests in a strongly nonmonotonic variation of the emitted radiation as a function of the parameters controll

Péter Pál Pach, Michael Pinsker, Gabriella Pluhár, András Pongrácz

We determine, up to the equivalence of first-order interdefinability, all structures which are first-order definable in the random partial order. It turns out that these structures fall into precisely five equivalence classes. We achieve this result by showing that there exist exactly five closed permutation groups which contain the automorphism group of the

Offer Kella, Sundareswaran Ramasubramanian

A reflection map, induced by the deterministic Skorohod problem on the nonnegative orthant, is applied to an $\mathbb{R}^n$ valued function $X$ on $[0,\infty)$ and then to $a+X$, where $a$ is a nonnegative constant vector. A question that has been open for over 15 years is under what conditions the difference between the two resulting regulated functions con

Nicolas Huth, Frédéric Abergel

Lead/lag relationships are an important stylized fact at high frequency. Some assets follow the path of others with a small time lag. We provide indicators to measure this phenomenon using tick-by-tick data. Strongly asymmetric cross-correlation functions are empirically observed, especially in the future/stock case. We confirm the intuition that the most li

Richard J. Gardner, Paolo Gronchi, Thorsten Theobald

The following problem, arising from medical imaging, is addressed: Suppose that $T$ is a known tetrahedron in $\R^3$ with centroid at the origin. Also known is the orthogonal projection $U$ of the vertices of the image $ϕT$ of $T$ under an unknown rotation $ϕ$ about the origin. Under what circumstances can $ϕ$ be determined from $T$ and $U$?

Jian Zhao

We study the nonabelian vortex counting problem on $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z}_p$. At first we calculate vortex partition functions on the orbifold space using localization techniques, then we find how to extract orbifold vortex partitions function from orbifold linear quiver instanton partition functions. Finally, we study the AGT like relation between orbifold

Vikram Soni

We consider the newly found high mass and low magnetic field binary pulsar PSR J1614-2230 in a model in which magnetars owe their strong magnetic fields to a high baryon density, magnetized core. In our magnetar model all neutron stars above a certain threhold mass are magnetars. This confronts us with the very basic paradox as to why this high mass star, PS

Wenbin Zhang

We introduce the classical theory of the interplay between group theory and topology into the context of operads and explore some applications to homotopy theory. We first propose a notion of a group operad and then develop a theory of group operads, extending the classical theories of groups, spaces with actions of groups, covering spaces and classifying sp

Martin Kleinsteuber, Hao Shen

Matrix Joint Diagonalization (MJD) is a powerful approach for solving the Blind Source Separation (BSS) problem. It relies on the construction of matrices which are diagonalized by the unknown demixing matrix. Their joint diagonalizer serves as a correct estimate of this demixing matrix only if it is uniquely determined. Thus, a critical question is under wh

Tamas Palmai

A general and systematic regularization is developed for the exact solitonic form factors of exponential operators in the (1+1)-dimensional sine-Gordon model by analytical continuation of their integral representations. The procedure is implemented in Mathematica. Test results are shown for four- and six- soliton form factors.

Daniel Hug, Jan Rataj, Wolfgang Weil

The Brunn-Minkowski theory relies heavily on the notion of mixed volumes. Despite its particular importance, even explicit representations for the mixed volumes of two convex bodies in Euclidean space are available only in special cases. Here we investigate a new integral representation of such mixed volumes, in terms of flag measures of the involved convex

Yuichi Mizutani, Tomohiro Inagaki

Relativistic quantum field theories for complex scalar and Dirac fields are investigated in non-equilibrium thermo field dynamics. The thermal vacuum is defined by the Bogoliubov transformed creation and annihilation operators. Two independent Bogoliubov parameters are introduced for a charged field. Its difference naturally induces the chemical potential. T

Ovidiu-Cristinel Stoica

It is shown that the Kerr-Newman solution, representing charged and rotating stationary black holes, admits analytic extension at the singularity. This extension is obtained by using new coordinates, in which the metric tensor becomes smooth on the singularity ring. On the singularity, the metric is degenerale - its determinant cancels. The analytic extensio

Marita Krause

Radio continuum and polarization observations of several nearby galaxies allowed to determine their vertical scaleheights, magnetic field strengths and large-scale magnetic field patterns. They all show a similar large-scale magnetic field pattern, which is parallel to the galactic disk along the midplane and X-shaped further away from the disk plane, indepe

Tilmann Gneiting

Isotropic positive definite functions on spheres play important roles in spatial statistics, where they occur as the correlation functions of homogeneous random fields and star-shaped random particles. In approximation theory, strictly positive definite functions serve as radial basis functions for interpolating scattered data on spherical domains. We review

T. Iye, Y. Nakai, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida

The coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in the isovalent-P-substituted BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ has been investigated microscopically by $^{31}$P-NMR measurements. We found that superconducting (SC) transition occurs in a magnetic region with static ordered moments and that the moments are reduced below the SC transition temperature $T_{\rm c

Y. C. Zhou

Random lateral translocation of lipids and proteins is a universal process on membrane surfaces. Local aggregation or organization of lipids and proteins can be induced when this lateral random diffusion is mediated by the electrostatic interactions and membrane curvature. Though the lateral diffusion rates of lipids on membrane of various compositions are m

Paulina Marian, Tudor A. Marian

We analyze the Uhlmann fidelity of a pair of $n$-mode Gaussian states of the quantum radiation field. This quantity is shown to be the product of an exponential function depending on the relative average displacement and a factor fully determined by the symplectic spectrum of the covariance matrix of a specific Gaussian state. However, it is difficult to han

Liang Li, Pinyan Lu, Yitong Yin

We give a complete characterization of the two-state anti-ferromagnetic spin systems which are of strong spatial mixing on general graphs. We show that a two-state anti-ferromagnetic spin system is of strong spatial mixing on all graphs of maximum degree at most $Δ$ if and only if the system has a unique Gibbs measure on infinite regular trees of degree up t

M. C. Kumar, Prakash Mathews, V. Ravindran, Satyajit Seth

We study the prospects of probing large extra dimension model at the LHC through neutral triple gauge boson production processes. In theories with extra dimensions these processes result from the exchange of a tower of massive graviton modes between the SM particles. We consider γγγ, γγZ, γZ Z and ZZZ production processes, and present our results for various

Yi Yang, Wai Bong Yeung

The Quadratic Gravitational Lagrangian with torsion provides us with a richer number of solutions than the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian does. With proper interpretation, these solutions, together, seem to give good explanations of the form of the galactic rotation curves, of the amount of intergalactic gravitational lensings, and of the accelerating expansion

Raf Cluckers, Julia Gordon, Immanuel Halupczok

Let $G$ be a connected reductive algebraic group over a non-Archimedean local field $K$, and let $g$ be its Lie algebra. By a theorem of Harish-Chandra, if $K$ has characteristic zero, the Fourier transforms of orbital integrals are represented on the set of regular elements in $g(K)$ by locally constant functions, which, extended by zero to all of $g(K)$, a

Alexei M. Frolov

The hyperfine structure splittings are determined for all five bound $S(L = 0)-$states in the three symmetric muonic molecular ions: $ppμ, ddμ$ and $ttμ$. The expectation values of all interparticle delta-functions used in our calculations have been determined in recent highly accurate computations.

Benjamin A. Burton

Computational knot theory and 3-manifold topology have seen significant breakthroughs in recent years, despite the fact that many key algorithms have complexity bounds that are exponential or greater. In this setting, experimentation is essential for understanding the limits of practicality, as well as for gauging the relative merits of competing algorithms.

W. Yi, S. Diehl, A. J. Daley, P. Zoller

We discuss the preparation of many-body states of cold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice via controlled dissipative processes induced by coupling the system to a reservoir. Based on a mechanism combining Pauli blocking and phase locking between adjacent sites, we construct complete sets of jump operators describing coupling to a reservoir that leads to d

Antonio C. Cancio, C. Y. Fong

We study the exchange and correlation hole of the valence shell of second row atoms using variational Monte Carlo techniques, especially correlated estimates, and norm-conserving pseudopotentials. The well-known scaling of the valence shell provides a tool to probe the behavior of exchange and correlation as a functional of the density and thus test models o

Bo-Qiang Ma

This report presents a brief review on the experimental measurements of the muon neutrino velocities from the OPERA, Fermilab and MINOS experiments and that of the (anti)-electron neutrino velocities from the supernova SN1987A, and consequently on the theoretical attempts to attribute the data as signals for superluminality of neutrinos. Different scenarios

Golan Bel, Yosef Ashkenazy

We study the statistics of wind-driven open ocean currents. Using the Ekman layer model for the integrated currents, we investigate, analytically and numerically, the relation between the wind distribution and its temporal correlations and the statistics of the open ocean currents. We find that temporally long-range correlated wind results in currents whose

F. Dahmani, V. Guirardel, D. Osin

We introduce and study the notions of hyperbolically embedded and very rotating families of subgroups. The former notion can be thought of as a generalization of the peripheral structure of a relatively hyperbolic group, while the later one provides a natural framework for developing a geometric version of small cancellation theory. Examples of such families

Ardian Nata Atmaja, Hasan Abu Kassim, Norhasliza Yusof

We study the screening length of a quark-antiquark pair moving in a hot plasma living in two sphere $S^2$ manifold using AdS/CFT correspondence where the background metric is four dimensional Schwarzschild-AdS black hole. The geodesic solution of the string ends at the boundary is given by a stationary motion in the equatorial plane as such the separation le

Matthew F. Brown

Here it is shown that the unitary dynamics of a quantum object may be obtained as the conditional expectation of a counting process of object-clock interactions. Such a stochastic process arises from the quantization of the clock, and this is derived naturally from the matrix-algebra representation of the nilpotent Newton-Leibniz time differential [Belavkin]

Sergey E. Koposov, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, G. Gilmore

The structure of the Sagittarius stream in the Southern Galactic hemisphere is analysed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8. Parallel to the Sagittarius tidal track, but ~ 10deg away, there is another fainter and more metal-poor stream. We provide evidence that the two streams follow similar distance gradients but have distinct morphological pro

Alexander Burinskii

The observable gravitational and electromagnetic parameters of an electron: mass $m$, spin $J=\hbar/2$, charge $e$ and magnetic moment $ea = e\hbar /(2m)$ indicate unambiguously that the electron should had the Kerr-Newman background geometry -- exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell gravity for a charged and rotating black hole. Contrary to the widespread o

Shamil Shakirov

Recent studies in several interrelated areas -- from combinatorics and representation theory in mathematics to quantum field theory and topological string theory in physics -- have independently revealed that many classical objects in these fields admit a relatively novel one-parameter deformation. This deformation, known in different contexts under the name

Kazuo Ghoroku, Kouki Kubo, Tomoki Taminato, Fumihiko Toyoda

We study glueballs in the holographic gauge theories, supersymmetric and non-super symmetric cases, which are given by the type IIB superstring solutions with non-trivial dilaton. In both cases, the dilaton reflects the condensate of the gauge field strength, $<F^2>$, which is responsible to the linear confining potential between the quark and anti-quark. Th

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou, T. Abu-Zayyad

Context. Transient neutrino sources such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are hypothesized to emit bursts of high-energy neutrinos on a time-scale of \lesssim 100 s. While GRB neutrinos would be produced in high relativistic jets, core-collapse SNe might host soft-relativistic jets, which become stalled in the outer layers of the progenitor st

Jian Deng

Let $Ω$ be an open, bounded domain in the plane with connected and smooth boundary, and $ω$ an eigenfunction of the Neumann Laplacian corresponding to some Neumann eigenvalue $μ> 0$. If the boundary value of $ω$ is a nonzero constant along the boundary, denoting $0 = μ_1(Ω) < μ_2(Ω) <= ...$ the set of all Neumann eigenvalues for the Laplacian on $Ω$, we show

Fermi GBM Collaboration, Fermi LAT Collaboration, B. R. Dennis, R. A. Schwartz

The GOES M2-class solar flare, SOL2010-06-12T00:57, was modest in many respects yet exhibited remarkable acceleration of energetic particles. The flare produced an ~50 s impulsive burst of hard X- and γ-ray emission up to at least 400 MeV observed by the Fermi GBM and LAT experiments. The remarkably similar hard X-ray and high-energy γ-ray time profiles sugg

K. L. J. Rygl, A. Brunthaler, A. Sanna, K. M. Menten

Whether the Cygnus X complex consists of one physically connected region of star formation or of multiple independent regions projected close together on the sky has been debated for decades. The main reason for this puzzling scenario is the lack of trustworthy distance measurements. We aim to understand the structure and dynamics of the star-forming regions

Daniel A. Ramras, Romain Tessera, Guoliang Yu

Decomposition complexity for metric spaces was recently introduced by Guentner, Tessera, and Yu as a natural generalization of asymptotic dimension. We prove a vanishing result for the continuously controlled algebraic K-theory of bounded geometry metric spaces with finite decomposition complexity. This leads to a proof of the integral K-theoretic Novikov co

S. I. Sadavoy, J. Di Francesco, Ph. Andre, S. Pezzuto

We present continuum observations of the Perseus B1-E region from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey. These Herschel data reveal a loose grouping of substructures at 160 - 500 micron not seen in previous submillimetre observations. We measure temperature and column density from these data and select the nine densest and coolest substructures for follow-up spectr

C Sivaram, Kenath Arun

The current observational evidences suggest there are about hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe and within each, on an average, about hundred billion stars. But no cosmological model indicates as to why there are these many galaxies and stars. In this paper we invoke the property of non-irrotational hydrodynamic flow in order to explain how a

H. L. Thang

Flatness measurement of a surface plate is an intensive and old research topic. However ISO definition related and other measurement methods seem uneasy in measuring and/ or complicated in data analysis. Especially in reality, the mentioned methods don&#39;t take a clear and straightforward care on the inclining angle which is always included in any given fl

A. M. Stewart

Foreman and Lomer proposed in 1957 a method of estimating the harmonic forces between parallel planes of atoms of primitive cubic crystals by Fourier transforming the squared frequencies of phonons propagating along principal directions. A generalized form of this theorem is derived in this paper and it is shown that it is more appropriate to apply the metho

Daniel Arnold

In the framework of chiral perturbation theory we investigate whether, in the presence of nucleons, a many-particle system may lower its energy density by changing its mesonic vacuum from a homogeneous to a spiral configuration. Numerical values for the critical particle number densities for the spiral configuration to occur are given. They lie in the region

Paolo Mantero, Yu Xie

Given a finite module $M$ over a Noetherian local ring $(R, \m)$, we introduce the concept of $j$-stretched ideals on $M$. Thanks to a crucial specialization lemma, we show that this notion greatly generalizes (to arbitrary ideals, and with respect to modules) the classical definition of stretched $\m$-primary ideals of Sally and Rossi-Valla, as well as the

Alex C. Carciofi, Jon E. Bjorkman, Sebastián A. Otero, Atsuo T. Okazaki

Be stars possess gaseous circumstellar decretion disks, which are well described using standard $α$-disk theory. The Be star 28 CMa recently underwent a long outburst followed by a long period of quiescence, during which the disk dissipated. Here we present the first time-dependent models of the dissipation of a viscous decretion disk. By modeling the rate o

Michael Shats, Hua Xia, Horst Punzmann

We show that ripples on the surface of deep water which are driven parametrically by monochromatic vertical vibration represent ensembles of oscillating solitons, or quasi-particles, rather than waves. Horizontal mobility of oscillons determines the broadening of spectral lines and transitions from chaos to regular patterns. It is found that microscopic addi

E. Ben-Naim, P. L. Krapivsky

We investigate the growth of connectivity in a network. In our model, starting with a set of disjoint nodes, links are added sequentially. Each link connects two nodes, and the connection rate governing this random process is proportional to the degrees of the two nodes. Interestingly, this network exhibits two abrupt transitions, both occurring at finite ti

J. Greensite

I present numerical tests of several recent proposals for the Yang-Mills vacuum wavefunctional in D=2+1 dimensions. In these tests the predicted relative values of the squared wavefunctional, evaluated on a finite set of abelian plane wave and non-abelian constant configurations, are compared to the corresponding values for the true ground state, extracted f

T. L. Wilson, S. Casassus, Katie M. Keating

High angular resolution radio continuum images of NGC 1976 (M42, Orion A) at frequency=330 MHz (wavelength=91 cm), 1.5 GHz (20 cm) and 10.6 GHz (2.8 cm), have been aligned, placed on a common grid, smoothed to common resolutions of 80&#34; (=0.16 pc at 420 pc) and 90&#34; (=0.18 pc) and compared on a position-by-position basis. The results are not consistent

Matija Ćuk

The Moon has suffered intense impact bombardment ending at 3.9 Gyr ago, and this bombardment probably affected all of the inner Solar System. Basin magnetization signatures and lunar crater size-distributions indicate that the last episode of bombardment at about 3.85 Gyr ago was less extensive than previously thought. We explore the contribution of the prim

L. Orosz, F. Réveret, F. Médard, P. Disseix

Polariton relaxation mechanisms are analysed experimentally and theoretically in a ZnO-based polariton laser. A minimum lasing threshold is obtained when the energy difference between the exciton reservoir and the bottom of the lower polariton branch is resonant with the LO phonon energy. Tuning off this resonance increases the threshold, and exciton-exciton

Máximo Bañados, Miguel Pino

We report full agreement between the Bekenstein-Hawking semiclassical entropy and Cardy&#39;s formula for black holes in 3d (massive) bigravity. Since this theory does have local bulk local excitations (a massive graviton) and black holes are not locally AdS this example provides a non-trivial test of the robustness of the Cardy formula.

Adam A. Stabile, Luisa Whittaker, Tai Lung Wu, Peter Marley

NbSe3 exhibits remarkable anisotropy in most of its physical properties and has been a model system for studies of quasi-one-dimensional charge-density-wave (CDW) phenomena. Herein, we report the synthesis, characterization, and electrical transport of single-crystalline NbSe3 nanoribbons by a facile one-step vapour transport process involving the transport

Michael Huber

In the splitting model, information theoretic authentication codes allow non-deterministic encoding, that is, several messages can be used to communicate a particular plaintext. Certain applications require that the aspect of secrecy should hold simultaneously. Ogata-Kurosawa-Stinson-Saido (2004) have constructed optimal splitting authentication codes achiev

L. Heggland, V. H. Hansteen, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson

We present the results of numerical simulations of wave propagation and jet formation in solar atmosphere models with different magnetic field configurations. The presence in the chromosphere of waves with periods longer than the acoustic cutoff period has been ascribed to either strong inclined magnetic fields, or changes in the radiative relaxation time. O

C. S. Reynolds, L. W. Brenneman, A. M. Lohfink, M. L. Trippe

In addition to providing vital clues as to the formation and evolution of black holes, the spin of black holes may be an important energy source in the Universe. Over the past couple of years, tremendous progress has been made in the realm of observational measurements of spin. In particular, detailed characterization and modeling of X-ray spectral features

Kate Maguire, Anders Jerkstrand, Stephen J. Smartt, Claes Fransson

We present a study of the nebular phase spectra of a sample of Type II-Plateau supernovae with identified progenitors or restrictive limits. The evolution of line fluxes, shapes, and velocities are compared within the sample, and interpreted by the use of a spectral synthesis code. The small diversity within the dataset can be explained by strong mixing occu

Eric D. Miller, Marshall Bautz, Jithin George, Richard Mushotzky

The outskirts of galaxy clusters, near the virial radius, remain relatively unexplored territory and yet are vital to our understanding of cluster growth, structure, and mass. In this presentation, we show the first results from a program to constrain the state of the outer intracluster medium (ICM) in a large sample of galaxy clusters, exploiting the streng

Dennis Borisov, Justin Noel

Derived differential manifolds are constructed using the usual homotopy theory of simplicial rings of smooth functions. They are proved to be equivalent to derived differential manifolds of finite type, constructed using homotopy sheaves of homotopy rings (D.Spivak), thus preserving the classical cobordism ring. This reduction to the usual algebraic homotopy

Gérald Kembellec, Imad Saleh, Catherine Sauvaget

This article presents a concept model, and the associated tool to help advanced learners to find adapted bibliography. The purpose is the use of an IT representation as educational research software for newcomers in research. We use an ontology based on the ACM&#39;s Computing Classification System in order to find scientific articles directly related to the

David Gleich, C. Seshadhri

The communities of a social network are sets of vertices with more connections inside the set than outside. We theoretically demonstrate that two commonly observed properties of social networks, heavy-tailed degree distributions and large clustering coefficients, imply the existence of vertex neighborhoods (also known as egonets) that are themselves good com

L. D. Matthews, M. Marengo, N. R. Evans, G. Bono

Recently published Spitzer observations of the classical Cepheid archetype delta Cephei revealed an extended dusty nebula surrounding this star and its hot companion. The infrared emission resembles a bow shock aligned with the direction of space motion of the star, indicating that delta Cep is undergoing mass-loss through a stellar wind. Here we report HI 2

Dimitrios Psaltis

Observations of stars and pulsars orbiting the black hole in the center of the Milky Way offer the potential of measuring not only the mass of the black hole but also its spin and quadrupole moment, thereby providing observational verification of the no-hair theorem. The relativistic effects that will allow us to measure these higher moments of the gravitati

G. S. Bali, S. Collins, M. Gockeler, R. Horsley

We determine the quark contributions to the nucleon spin Delta s, Delta u and Delta d as well as their contributions to the nucleon mass, the sigma-terms. This is done by computing both, the quark line connected and disconnected contributions to the respective matrix elements, using the non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert Wilson Fermionic acti

A. Lazarian, G. Eyink, E. Vishniac

Astrophysical fluids are generically turbulent and this must be taken into account for most transport processes. We discuss how the preexisting turbulence modifies magnetic reconnection and how magnetic reconnection affects the MHD turbulent cascade. We show the intrinsic interdependence and interrelation of magnetic turbulence and magnetic reconnection, in

C. J. Olson Reichhardt, A. Libal, C. Reichhardt

We show that in colloidal models of artificial kagome and modified square ice systems, a variety of ordering and disordering regimes occur as a function of biasing field, temperature, and colloid-colloid interaction strength, including ordered monopole crystals, biased ice rule states, thermally induced ice rule ground states, biased triple states, and disor

Christoph Kohstall, Matteo Zaccanti, Michael Jag, Andreas Trenkwalder

Ultracold Fermi gases with tuneable interactions represent a unique test bed to explore the many-body physics of strongly interacting quantum systems. In the past decade, experiments have investigated a wealth of intriguing phenomena, and precise measurements of ground-state properties have provided exquisite benchmarks for the development of elaborate theor

S. Campana, G. Lodato, P. D&#39;Avanzo, N. Panagia

The tidal disruption of a solar mass star around a supermassive black hole has been extensively studied analytically and numerically. In these events the star develops into an elongated banana-shaped structure. After completing an eccentric orbit, the bound debris fall onto the black hole, forming an accretion disk and emitting radiation. The same process ma

R. Smolec, G. Houdek, D. O. Gough

We revisit a phenomenological description of turbulent thermal convection along the lines proposed by Gough (1977) in which eddies grow solely by extracting energy from the unstably stratified mean state and are subsequently destroyed by internal shear instability. This work is part of an ongoing investigation for finding a procedure to calculate the turbule

R. Smolec, I. Soszynski, P. Moskalik, A. Udalski

We report on the discovery of the first BL Herculis star displaying period-doubling behaviour as predicted by the hydrodynamic models of Buchler & Moskalik. The star, with P=2.4d, is located in the Galactic bulge and was discovered with OGLE-III photometry. We present new nonlinear convective models, which, together with recent evolutionary tracks, put const

Jorge Moreno

In this work I investigate the statistical properties of a huge catalog of closely interacting pairs of dark matter haloes, extracted from the Millennium Simulation database. Only haloes that reach a minimum mass greater than 8.6 \times 10^10 Msun/h (corresponding to 100 particles) are considered. Close pairs are selected if they come within a critical dista

Cameron Hummels, Greg Bryan

We carry out adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological simulations of Milky-Way mass halos in order to investigate the formation of disk-like galaxies in a Λ-dominated Cold Dark Matter model. We evolve a suite of five halos to z = 0 and find gaseous-disk formation in all; however, in agreement with previous SPH simulations (that did not include a subgrid f

Mohammad Alidoust, Granville Sewell, Jacob Linder

Generic conditions are established for producing a non-Fraunhofer response of the critical supercurrent subject to an external magnetic field in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions. Employing the quasiclassical Keldysh-Usadel method, we demonstrate theoretically that an inhomogeneity in the magnitude of the energy scales in the system, including Thouless energ

D. Sluse, V. Chantry, P. Magain, F. Courbin

(abridged) Gravitationally lensed quasars can be used as powerful cosmological and astrophysical probes. We can (i) infer the Hubble constant based on the time-delay technique, (ii) unveil substructures along the l.o.s. toward distant galaxies, and (iii) compare the shape and the slope of baryons and dark matter distributions in galaxies. To reach these goal

Benjamin A. Mazin, Bruce Bumble, Seth R. Meeker, Kieran O&#39;Brien

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, have proven to be a powerful cryogenic detector technology due to their sensitivity and the ease with which they can be multiplexed into large arrays. A MKID is an energy sensor based on a photon-variable superconducting inductance in a lithographed microresonator, and is capable of functioning as a photon de

Jonathan M. Arnold, Bartosz Fornal

We study the effect of color octet scalars on the high transverse momenta four-jet cross section at the LHC. We consider both weak singlet and doublet scalars, concentrating on the case of small couplings to quarks. We find that a relatively early discovery at the LHC is possible for a range of scalar masses.

Matthias Stute, Jose Gracia

Analytical radially self-similar models are the best available solutions describing disk-winds but need several improvements. In a previous article, we introduced models of jets from truncated disks, i.e. evolved in time numerical simulations based on a radially self-similar MHD solution but including the effects of a finite radius of the jet-emitting disk a

S. Schippers, D. Bernhardt, A. Müller, M. Lestinsky

The hyperfine induced 2s 2p 3P0 -> 2s2 1S0 transition rate in Be-like sulfur was measured by monitoring the decay of isotopically pure beams of 32-S12+ and 33-S12+ ions in a heavy-ion storage ring. Within the 4% experimental uncertainty the experimental value of 0.096(4)/s agrees with the most recent theoretical results of Cheng et al. [Phys. Rev. A 77, 0525

Una Hwang, J. Martin Laming

We present a survey of the X-ray emitting ejecta in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant based on an extensive analysis of over 6000 spectral regions extracted on 2.5-10&#34; angular scales using the Chandra 1 Ms observation. We interpret these results in the context of hydrodynamical models for the evolution of the remnant. The distributions of fitted tempera

Kasey W. Schultz, Kevin M. Huffenberger

We stack WMAP 7-year temperature data around extragalactic point sources, showing that the profiles are consistent with WMAP&#39;s beam models, in disagreement with the findings of Sawangwit & Shanks (2010). These results require that the source sample&#39;s selection is not biased by CMB fluctuations. We compare profiles from sources in the standard WMAP ca

Nicolas Burq, Gilles Lebeau

In this article, we give probabilistic versions of Sobolev embeddings on any Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. More precisely, we prove that for natural probability measures on $L^2(M)$, almost every function belong to all spaces $L^p(M)$, $p<+\infty$. We then give applications to the study of the growth of the $L^p$ norms of spherical harmonics on spheres $\math

Magali Lécureux-Mercier

In this note, we introduce some models of pedestrian traffic and prove existence and uniqueness for these models.

Y. H. Shen, S. Pal, J. Mandal, T. Sun

Three different types of Er doped photosensitive fibers, germanium/erbium (Ge/Er) fiber, tin/germanium/erbium fiber (Sn/Er) and antimony/germanium/erbium fiber (Sb/Er) have been manufactured and studied for use in optical sensor systems. Their characteristics of photosensitivity, the temperature sustainability of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) written into thes

Ivan Alata, Michel Broquier, Claude Dedonder, Christophe Jouvet

The photo-fragmentation spectrum of protonated fluorene has been recorded in the visible spectral region, largely red shifted as compared to the first excited state absorption of neutral fluorene. The spectrum shows two different vibrational progressions, separated by 0.19 eV that are assigned to the absorption of two isomers. As in protonated linear PAHs, c

Kazem Faghei

In this paper, the self-similar solution of resistive advection dominated accretion flows (ADAF) in the presence of a pure azimuthal magnetic field is investigated. The mechanism of energy dissipation is assumed to be the viscosity and the magnetic diffusivity due to turbulence in the accretion flow. It is assumed that the magnetic diffusivity and the kinema

Rémi Arcangéli, Juan José Torrens

We collect and extend results on the limit of $σ^{1-k}(1-σ)^k |v|_{l+σ,p,Ω}^p$ as $σ$ tends to $0^+$ or $1^-$, where $Ω$ is $\mathbb{R}^n$ or a smooth bounded domain, $k$ is 0 or 1, $l$ is a nonnegative integer, $p\in[1,\infty)$, and $|.|_{l+σ,p,Ω}$ is the intrinsic semi-norm of order $l+σ$ in the Sobolev space $W^{l+σ,p}(Ω)$. In general, the above limit is

Anirban Dhar, Ivan Kasik, Ondrej Podrazky, Vlastimil Matejec

The fabrication of Er-doped ZrO2-based nanocrystalline phase-separated silica optical preforms by the MCVD and solution doping techniques is presented. Fabricated preform cores are nearly transparent and contain phase-separated rare-earth doped nanocrystalline particles with diameters mainly in a range from 20 to 80 nm. High concentrations of erbium and alum

Thomas Fernique, Damien Regnault

This paper introduces a Markov process inspired by the problem of quasicrystal growth. It acts over dimer tilings of the triangular grid by randomly performing local transformations, called {\em flips}, which do not increase the number of identical adjacent tiles (this number can be thought as the tiling energy). Fixed-points of such a process play the role

Trieu Le

For $E$ a Hilbert space, let $\mathcal{H}(E)$ denote the Segal-Bargmann space (also known as the Fock space) over $E$, which is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with kernel $K(x,y)=\exp(< x,y>)$ for $x,y$ in $E$. If $ϕ$ is a mapping on $E$, the composition operator $C_ϕ$ is defined by $C_ϕh = h\circϕ$ for $h\in \mathcal{H}(E)$ for which $h\circϕ$ also belo