May 2012 arXiv papers — page 8

Thomas Brihaye, Véronique Bruyère, Julie De Pril, Hugo Gimbert

We study turn-based quantitative multiplayer non zero-sum games played on finite graphs with reachability objectives. In such games, each player aims at reaching his own goal set of states as soon as possible. A previous work on this model showed that Nash equilibria (resp. secure equilibria) are guaranteed to exist in the multiplayer (resp. two-player) case

Andrzej Krasiński

This is a supplement to an earlier paper (PRD 84, 023510 (2011)), where those shearfree normal cosmological models were identified, in which all light rays have repeatable paths. All of them are conformally flat, but less general than the Stephani model and more general than Robertson --Walker. In this note, their defining feature is identified: in each of t

M. L. Nekrasov

We examine the capabilities of the modified perturbation theory (MPT) for description of $W$-pair production and decay in $e^{+} e^{-}$ annihilation. In a model with Dyson-resummed propagators of unstable particles, we calculate even and odd contributions to the distribution in the cosine of the $W^{-}$ production angle relative to the $e^{-}$ beam. On compa

Lionel Barnett, Terry Bossomaier

Transfer entropy, an information-theoretic measure of time-directed information transfer between joint processes, has steadily gained popularity in the analysis of complex stochastic dynamics in diverse fields, including the neurosciences, ecology, climatology and econometrics. We show that for a broad class of predictive models, the log-likelihood ratio tes

C. D. Tunnell

Neutrinos from STORed Muons (nuSTORM; formerly VLENF) is a proposed experiment to use 3.8 GeV/c muon decay to produce a well-understood beam of electron and muon neutrinos that can be used for short baseline physics. A magnetized far detector allows for the wrong-sign muon appearance physics of electron-neutrino to muon-neutrino. This channel is the CPT of t

CMS Collaboration

A measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon-nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s[NN]) of 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 inverse microbarns, the number of W to mu mu-neutrino decays is extracted in the region of muon pseudorapidity abs(e

Juan Luis Vazquez

We establish the existence and uniqueness of fundamental solutions for the fractional porous medium equation introduced in \cite{PQRV1}. They are self-similar functions of the form $u(x,t)= t^{-α} f(|x|\,t^{-β})$ with suitable $α$ and $β$. As a main application of this construction, we prove that the asymptotic behaviour of general solutions is represented b

K. Shizuya

In a magnetic field bilayer graphene supports an octet of zero-energy Landau levels with an extra twofold degeneracy in Landau orbitals n=0 and n=1. It is shown that this orbital degeneracy is lifted due to Coulombic quantum fluctuations of the valence band (the Dirac sea); this is a quantum effect analogous to the Lamb shift in the hydrogen atom. A detailed

Benoit F. Sehba

We introduce another notion of bounded logarithmic mean oscillation in the N-torus and give an equivalent definition in terms of boundedness of multi-parameter paraproducts from the dyadic little BMO of Cotlar-Sadosky to the product BMO of Chang-Fefferman. We also obtain a sufficient condition for the boundedness of iterated commutators with Hilbert transfor

Krzysztof Chalupka, Christopher K. I. Williams, Iain Murray

Gaussian process (GP) predictors are an important component of many Bayesian approaches to machine learning. However, even a straightforward implementation of Gaussian process regression (GPR) requires O(n^2) space and O(n^3) time for a dataset of n examples. Several approximation methods have been proposed, but there is a lack of understanding of the relati

Mario G. Silveirinha, Nader Engheta

The speed of integrated circuits is ultimately limited by the mobility of electrons or holes, which depend on the effective mass in a semiconductor. Here, building on an analogy with electromagnetic metamaterials and transformation optics, we describe a new transport regime in a semiconductor superlattice characterized by extreme anisotropy of the effective

Sylvia Serfaty, Juan Luis Vazquez

In the limit of a nonlinear diffusion model involving the fractional Laplacian we get a "mean field" equation arising in superconductivity and superfluidity. For this equation, we obtain uniqueness, universal bounds and regularity results. We also show that solutions with finite second moment and radial solutions admit an asymptotic large time limiti

P. Zasche, A. Paschke

Aims: We aim to perform the first long-term analysis of the system HS Hya. Methods: We performed an analysis of the long-term evolution of the light curves of the detached eclipsing system HS Hya. Collecting all available photometric data since its discovery, the light curves were analyzed with a special focus on the evolution of system's inclination. Re

T. M. Aliev, K. Azizi, M. Savci

We calculate the mixing angles between the spin--1/2, $Ξ_{bc}$--$Ξ^\prime_{bc}$ and $Ω_{bc}$--$Ω^\prime_{bc}$ states of doubly heavy baryons within the QCD sum rules method. It is found that the mixing angles are large and have the values $φ_{Ξ_{bc}} = 16^0 \pm 5^0$ and $φ_{Ω_{bc}} = 18^0 \pm 6^0$, respectively. The mixing angles are slightly smaller compare

E. Tempel, A. Tamm, R. Kipper, P. Tenjes

Because of the 3D nature of galaxies, an algorithm for constructing spatial density distribution models of galaxies on the basis of galaxy images has many advantages over surface density distribution approximations. We present a method for deriving spatial structure and overall parameters of galaxies from images and estimate its accuracy and derived paramete

Mikhail A. Karpukhin

The $i$-th eigenvalue $λ_i$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a surface can be considered as a functional on the space of all Riemannian metrics of unit volume on this surface. Surprisingly only few examples of extremal metrics for these functionals are known. In the present paper a new countable family of extremal metrics on the torus is provided.

Xavier Allamigeon, Ricardo D. Katz

Tropical polyhedra are known to be representable externally, as intersections of finitely many tropical half-spaces. However, unlike in the classical case, the extreme rays of their polar cones provide external representations containing in general superfluous half-spaces. In this paper, we prove that any tropical polyhedral cone in R^n (also known as "t

Alberto Sorrentino, Adam M. Johansen, John A. D. Aston, Thomas E. Nichols

We consider the problem of estimating neural activity from measurements of the magnetic fields recorded by magnetoencephalography. We exploit the temporal structure of the problem and model the neural current as a collection of evolving current dipoles, which appear and disappear, but whose locations are constant throughout their lifetime. This fully reflect

Cristiana Bertolin, Ahmet Emin Tatar

The aim of this paper is to define and study the 3-category of extensions of Picard 2-stacks over a site S and to furnish a geometrical description of the cohomology groups Ext^i of length 3 complexes of abelian sheaves. More precisely, our main Theorem furnishes (1) a parametrization of the equivalence classes of objects, 1-arrows, 2-arrows, and 3-arrows of

Peter Bruin

We study the Green function gr_Γ for the Laplace operator on the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by a cofinite Fuchsian group Γ. We use a limiting procedure, starting from the resolvent kernel, and lattice point estimates for the action of Γ on the hyperbolic plane to prove an "approximate spectral representation" for gr_Γ. Combining this with bound

Seokcheon Lee

We investigate the growth index parameter γand the time variation of the gravitational constant G_{eff} by using the currently available growth function f(z) data at different redshifts, with and without scaling to the fiducial ΛCDM model. We inquire the four different models of γincluding a constant γ. From a χ^2 minimization, we constrain the parameter spa

Nicolae Cotfas, Daniela Dragoman

Weyl's formulation of quantum mechanics opened the possibility of studying the dynamics of quantum systems both in infinite-dimensional and finite-dimensional systems. Based on Weyl's approach, generalized by Schwinger, a self-consistent theoretical framework describing physical systems characterised by a finite-dimensional space of states has been c

Dainius Dzindzalieta

We obtain an optimal deviation from the mean upper bound \begin{equation} D(x)\=\sup_{f\in \F}μ\{f-\E_μ f\geq x\},\qquad\ \text{for}\ x\in\R\label{abstr} \end{equation} where $\F$ is the class of the integrable, Lipschitz functions on probability metric (product) spaces. As corollaries we get exact solutions of $\eqref{abstr}$ for Euclidean unit sphere $S^{n

Melanie Rupflin, Peter M. Topping

We introduce a flow of maps from a compact surface of arbitrary genus to an arbitrary Riemannian manifold which has elements in common with both the harmonic map flow and the mean curvature flow, but is more effective at finding minimal surfaces. In the genus 0 case, our flow is just the harmonic map flow, and it tries to find branched minimal 2-spheres as i

Thomas Burgener, Dirk Kadau, Hans Jürgen Herrmann

In this paper we present a new model for modeling the diffusion and relative dispersion of particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. We use an Heisenberg-like Hamiltonian to incorporate spatial correlations between fluid particles, which are modeled by stochastic processes correlated in time. We are able to reproduce the ballistic regime in the mean squ

Philipp Beck, Peter Brommer, Johannes Roth, Hans-Rainer Trebin

We have studied the dependence of metal oxide properties in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on the polarizability of oxygen ions. We present studies of both liquid and crystalline structures of silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO) and alumina (Al2O3). For each of the three oxides, two separately optimized sets of force fields were used: (i) Long-range Coulomb i

Giacomo Beccari, Nora Lützgendorf, Christoph Olczak, Francesco R. Ferraro

Using HST/WFPC2 data, we have performed a comparative study of the Blue Straggler Star (BSS) populations in the central regions of the globular clusters AM 1, Eridanus, Palomar 3, and Palomar 4. Located at distances RGC > 50 kpc from the Galactic Centre, these are (together with Palomar 14 and NGC 2419) the most distant clusters in the Halo. We determine the

Cecilia Lunardini, Irene Tamborra

We estimate the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) using the recent progenitor-dependent, long-term supernova simulations from the Basel group and including neutrino oscillations at several post-bounce times. Assuming multi-angle matter suppression of collective effects during the accretion phase, we find that oscillation effects are dominated by t

Piero Chiarelli, Bruna Vinci, Antonio Lanatá, Clara Lagomarsini

Making use of the poroelastic theory for hydrated polymeric matrices, the ultrasound (US) propagation in a gel medium filled by spherical cells is studied . The model describes the connection between the poroelastic structure of living means and the propagation behavior of the acoustic waves. The equation of fast compressional wave, its phase velocity and it

Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Piero Tartaglia, Francesco Sciortino

We present a numerical study of the effective potential $V_\mathrm{eff}$ between two hard-sphere colloids dispersed in a solvent of interacting particles, for several values of temperature and solvent density, approaching the solvent gas-liquid critical point. We investigate the stability of a system of particles interacting via $V_\mathrm{eff}$ to evaluate

Junnan He

In the theory of dynamics of closed relations on compact Hausdorff spaces, the definition for the Conley relation $f^Ω$ of an iterated closed relation $f$ is nontrivial. This paper establishes a new equivalent definition for $f^Ω$, and discusses its interpretation.

Vitaly Moroz, Jean Van Schaftingen

We consider a semilinear elliptic problem [- Δu + u = (I_α\ast \abs{u}^p) \abs{u}^{p - 2} u \quad\text{in (\mathbb{R}^N),}] where (I_α) is a Riesz potential and (p>1). This family of equations includes the Choquard or nonlinear Schrödinger-Newton equation. For an optimal range of parameters we prove the existence of a positive groundstate solution of the equ

Kei Kotake, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada, Tomoya Takiwaki

This is a status report on our endeavor to reveal the mechanism of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) by large-scale numerical simulations. Multi-dimensionality of the supernova engine, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, energy and lepton number transport by neutrinos emitted from the forming neutron star as well as nuclear interactions there, are all

Mirko D'Ovidio, Erkan Nane

We introduce a class of isotropic time dependent random fields on the non-homogeneous sphere represented by a time-changed spherical Brownian motion of order ν\in (0,1] with which some anisotrophies can be captured in Cosmology. This process is a time-changed rotational diffusion (TRD) or the stochastic solution to the equation involving the spherical Laplac

Yoshitaka Nishihara, Shuji Nakamura, Kensuke Kobayashi, Teruo Ono

We have measured the shot noise in a quantum point contact (QPC) fabricated by using InGaAs/InGaAsP heterostructure, whose conductance can be electrically tuned by the gate voltages. The reduced shot noise is observed when the QPC conductance equals to N(2e^2/h) (N=4, 5, and 6), which is the direct experimental evidence of the coherent quantized channel form

Xiao-Qing Shen, Shao-Feng Wu, Guo-Hong Yang

We study the spontaneously induced general relativity (GR) from the scalar-tensor gravity. We demonstrate by numerical methods that a novel inner core can be connected to the Schwarzschild exterior with cosmological constants and any sectional curvature. Deriving an analytic core metric for a general exterior, we show that all the nontrivial features of the

Ikuko Hamamoto

Neutron shell-structure and the resulting possible deformation in the neighborhood of neutron-drip-line nuclei are systematically discussed, based on both bound and resonant neutron one-particle energies obtained from spherical and deformed Woods-Saxon potentials. Due to the unique behavior of weakly-bound and resonant neutron one-particle levels with smalle

Mikjel Thorsrud, David F. Mota, Sigbjørn Hervik

Motivated by the couplings of the dilaton in four-dimensional effective actions, we investigate the cosmological consequences of a scalar field coupled both to matter and a Maxwell-type vector field. The vector field has a background isotropy-violating component. New anisotropic scaling solutions which can be responsible for the matter and dark energy domina

Muhammad A. Alam, M. Ryyan Khan

Elementary physics of photovoltaic energy conversion in a two-level atomic PV is considered. We explain the conditions for which the Carnot efficiency is reached and how it can be exceeded! The loss mechanisms - thermalization, angle entropy, and below-bandgap transmission - explain the gap between Carnot efficiency and the Shockley-Queisser limit. Wide vari

M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, M. P. Ledbetter, D. F. Jackson Kimball

Stable topological defects of light (pseudo)scalar fields can contribute to the Universe's dark energy and dark matter. Currently the combination of gravitational and cosmological constraints provides the best limits on such a possibility. We take an example of domain walls generated by an axion-like field with a coupling to the spins of standard-model p

Antoine Bret

Notes from a series of 13 one hour (or more) lectures on Plasma Physics given to Ramesh Narayan' research group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, between January and July 2012. Lectures 1 to 5 cover various key Plasma Physics themes. Lectures 6 to 12 mainly go over the Review Paper on "Multidimensional electron beam-plasma instabili

Pedro Allendes, Bernd Kniehl, Igor Kondrashuk, Eduardo A. Notte Cuello

We consider Mellin-Barnes transform of triangle ladder-like scalar diagram in d=4 dimensions. It is shown how the multi-fold MB transform of the momentum integral corresponding to an arbitrary number of rungs is reduced to the two-fold MB transform. For this purpose we use Belokurov-Usyukina reduction method for four-dimensional scalar integrals in the posit

Trung Van Pham, Thi Ha Duong Phan

It is well-known that the class of lattices generated by Chip Firing games (CFGs) is strictly included in the class of upper locally distributive lattices (ULD). However a necessary and sufficient criterion for this class is still an open question. In this paper we settle this problem by giving such a criterion. This criterion provides a polynomial-time algo

Martin Raum, Nathan C. Ryan, Nils-Peter Skoruppa, Gonzalo Tornaría

Unlike classical modular forms, there is currently no general way to implement the computation of Siegel modular forms of arbitrary weight, level and character, even in degree two. There is however, a way to do it in a unified way. After providing a survey of known computations we describe the implementation of a class modeling Siegel modular forms of degree

Tomasz R. Bielecki, Igor Cialenco, Rodrigo Rodriguez

We prove a version of First Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing under transaction costs for discrete-time markets with dividend-paying securities. Specifically, we show that the no-arbitrage condition under the efficient friction assumption is equivalent to the existence of a risk-neutral measure. We derive dual representations for the superhedging ask and

Hong-Tao Sun, Tetsu Yonezawa, Miriam M. Gillett-Kunnath, Yoshio Sakka

For the first time, we report that a single crystal of (K-crypt)2Bi2 containing [Bi2]2+ displays ultra-broad near-infrared photoluminescence (PL) peaking at around 1190 nm and having a full width at the half maximum of 212 nm, stemming from the inherent electronic transitions of [Bi2]2+.The results not only add to the number of charged Bi species with lumine

Nickos Papadatos

A class of examples concerning the relationship of linear regression and maximal correlation is provided. More precisely, these examples show that if two random variables have (strictly) linear regression on each other, then their maximal correlation is not necessarily equal to their (absolute) correlation.

The BABAR Collaboration

We present a measurement of the B -> omega l nu branching fraction based on a sample of 467 million BB pairs recorded by the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-2 e+e- collider. We observe 1125 +- 131 signal decays, corresponding to a branching fraction of BF(B -> omega l nu) = (1.21 +- 0.14 +- 0.08) x 10^{-4}, where the first error is statistical and the second

Weiping Zhu

Full likelihood has been widely used in loss tomography because most believe it can produce accurate estimates although the full likelihood estimators proposed so far are complex in structure and expensive in execution. We in this paper advocate a different likelihood called composite likelihood to replace the full likelihood in loss tomography for simplicit

Shi-Mei Ma

A remarkable identity involving the Eulerian polynomials of type D was obtained by Stembridge (Adv. Math. 106 (1994), p. 280, Lemma 9.1). In this paper we explore an equivalent form of this identity. We prove Brenti's real-rootedness conjecture for the Eulerian polynomials of type $D$.

Alan Frieze, Michael Krivelevich

Let $G$ be a finite graph with minimum degree $r$. Form a random subgraph $G_p$ of $G$ by taking each edge of $G$ into $G_p$ independently and with probability $p$. We prove that for any constant $ε>0$, if $p=\frac{1+ε}{r}$, then $G_p$ is non-planar with probability approaching 1 as $r$ grows. This generalizes classical results on planarity of binomial rando

E. Frossard

This communication establishes first, that basis of discontinuous granular materials mechanics, are the explicit result of a new approach of the physics of energy dissipation by friction, and second, that these mechanics of discontinua, transposed to the equivalent continuous media, as used in geomechanics, is directly responsible for a large set of practica

Alexander Komech, Elena Kopylova, Sergey Kopylov

We introduce a new class of piece-wise quadratic potentials for nonlinear wave equations with a kink solutions. The potentials allow an exact description of the spectral properties for the linearized equation at the kink. This description is necessary for the study of the stability properties of the kinks.

Tommi Hirvola

MIPS machine code is very structured: registers used before are likely to be used again, some instructions and registers are used more heavily than others, some instructions often follow each other and so on. Standard file compression utilities, such as gzip and bzip2, does not take full advantage of the structure because they work on byte-boundaries and don

Y. Wang, C. Sheng, H. Liu, Y. J. Zheng

We demonstrate that a transformation device can be emulated using a gradient-index waveguide. The effective index of the waveguide is spatially varied by tailoring a gradient thickness dielectric waveguide. Based on this technology, we demonstrate a transformation device guiding visible light around a sharp corner, with low scattering loss and reflection los

Jeremy Pecharich

Let $(X,ω_X)$ be a derived scheme with a 0-symplectic form and suppose there is a Hamiltonian $G$-action with a moment map for $G$ a reductive group. We prove, under no further assumptions, that symplectic reduction along any coadjoint orbit in the category of derived Artin stacks has a 0-symplectic form.

Dean M. Townsley, Kevin Moore, Lars Bildsten

Theoretical work has shown that intermediate mass (0.01Msun<M_He<0.1Msun) Helium shells will unstably ignite on the accreting white dwarf (WD) in an AM CVn binary. For more massive (M>0.8Msun) WDs, these helium shells can be dense enough (5x10^5 g/cc) that the convectively burning region runs away on a timescale comparable to the sound travel time across the

Mohammed Debbal, Mohamed Chikh-Bled

Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) are one of the most exciting recent developments in fiber optics. A MOF usually consists of a hexagonal arrangement of air holes running down the length of a silica fiber surrounding a central core of solid silica or, in some cases air. MOFs can exhibit a number of unique properties, including zero dispersion at visible

Christian Hill, Sergei N. Yurchenko, Jonathan Tennyson

Exoplanets, and in particular hot ones such as hot Jupiters, require a very significant quantities of molecular spectroscopic data to model radiative transport in their atmospheres or to interpret their spectra. This data is commonly provided in the form of very extensive transition line lists. The size of these line lists is such that constructing a single

James L. Friar, Terrance Goldman, Juan Pérez-Mercader

Data on the number of Open Reading Frames (ORFs) coded by genomes from the 3 domains of Life show some notable general features including essential differences between the Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, with the number of ORFs growing linearly with total genome size for the former, but only logarithmically for the latter. Assuming that the (protein) coding and

D. Pinna, Aditi Mitra, D. L. Stein, A. D. Kent

We simulate the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) dynamics of a uniaxial nanomagnet out to sub-millisecond timescales using a graphical processing unit based micromagnetic code and determine the effect of geometrical tilts between the spin-current and uniaxial anisotropy axes on the thermally assisted reversal dynamics. The asymptotic behavior of the

Karsten Gimre, Christine Guenther, James Isenberg

We study the behavior of the second order Renormalization Group flow on locally homogeneous metrics on closed three-manifolds. In the cases $\mathbb R^3$ and $\text{SO}(3)\times \R$, the flow is qualitatively the same as the Ricci flow. In the cases $\text{H}(3)$ and $\text{H}(2)\times \R$, if the curvature is small, then the flow expands as in the Ricci flo

Lei Xu, Shufeng Zhang

By using the quantum kinetic approach with the instantaneous local equilibrium approximation, we propose an equation that is capable of addressing magnetization dynamics for a wide range of temperatures. The equation reduces to the Landau-Lifshitz equation at low temperatures and to the paramagnetic Bloch equation at high temperatures. Near the Curie tempera

C. N. Papanicolas, E. Stiliaris

A novel method for extracting physical parameters from experimental and simulation data is presented. The method is based on statistical concepts and it relies on Monte Carlo simulation techniques. It identifies and determines with maximal precision parameters that are sensitive to the data. The method has been extensively studied and it is shown to produce

Luigi Delle Site, Luca M. Ghiringhelli, David Ceperley

We propose a theoretical/computational protocol based on the use of the Ground State (GS) Path Integral (PI) Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for the calculation of the kinetic and Coulomb energy density for a system of $N$ interacting electrons in an external potential. The idea is based on the derivation of the energy densities via the $N-1$-conditional probabili

Arthur Vaganyan, Vladimir Basov

Generalized pseudo-Hamiltonian normal forms (GPHNF) and an effective method of obtaining them are introduced for two-dimensional systems of autonomous ODEs with a Hamiltonian quasi-homogeneous unperturbed part of an arbitrary degree. The terms that can be additionally eliminated in a GPHNF are constructively distinguished, and it is shown that after removing

J. L. van Velsen

Recently, the page-proof, with corrections, of Einstein&#39;s 1920 publication on the &#34;Propagation of Sound in Partly Dissociated Gases&#34; was discovered in Leiden. The last two pages of the proof are crossed out and replaced by a sheet in Einstein&#39;s handwriting. In these notes, I briefly address the following two questions: A) Concerning the page

Jeffrey L. Linsky, Rachel Bushinsky, Tom Ayres, Kevin France

We compare high-resolution ultraviolet spectra of the Sun and thirteen solarmass main sequence stars with different rotational periods that serve as proxies for their different ages and magnetic field structures. In this the second paper in the series, we study the dependence of ultraviolet emission-line centroid velocities on stellar rotation period, as rot

Charles B. Chiu, Rudolph C. Hwa

A simple phenomenological relationship between the ridge distribution in $Δη$ and the single-particle distribution in $η$ can be established from the PHOBOS data on both distributions. The implication points to the possibility that there is no long-range longitudinal correlation. An interpretation of the relationship is then developed, based on the recogniti

Jason H. Steffen, Amol Upadhye, Alan Baumbaugh, Aaron S. Chou

We present data from our investigation of the anomalous orange-colored afterglow that was seen in the GammeV Chameleon Afterglow Search (CHASE). These data includes information about the broad band color of the observed glow, the relationship between the glow and the temperature of the apparatus, and other data taken prior to and during the science operation

M. Jung, M. D. Schroer, K. D. Petersson, J. R. Petta

We demonstrate charge sensing of an InAs nanowire double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a radio frequency (rf) circuit. We measure the rf signal reflected by the resonator using homodyne detection. Clear single dot and DQD behavior are observed in the resonator response. rf-reflectometry allows measurements of the DQD charge stability diagram in the few-electr

Adrian T. Potter

Rotation has a number of important effects on the evolution of stars. It decreases the surface gravity, causes enhanced mass loss and leads to surface abundance anomalies of various chemical isotopes. We have adapted the Cambridge stellar evolution code to incorporate a number of different physical models for rotation. We compare detailed grids of stellar ev

Persi Diaconis, Laurent Saloff-Coste

Repeated convolution of a probability measure on Z leads to the central limit theorem and other limit theorems. This paper investigates what kinds of results remain without positivity. It reviews theorems due to Schoenberg, Greville, and Thomee which are motivated by applications to data smoothing (Schoenberg and Greville) and finite difference schemes (Thom

Sergio Martin Ruiz

40 years have passed since the first molecular detection outside our Galaxy. Since then, our knowledge on the distribution, kinematics and composition of the molecular material in the extragalactic ISM has built up significantly based not only on the carbon monoxide observations but also in the more than 50 molecular species detected. In particular, line sur

Eliseu Fritscher, Carlos Hoppen, Israel Rocha, Vilmar Trevisan

We investigate the problem of ordering trees according to their Laplacian energy. More precisely, given a positive integer $n$, we find a class of cardinality approximately $\sqrt{n}$ whose elements are the $n$-vertex trees with largest Laplacian energy. The main tool for establishing this result is a new upper bound on the sum $S_k(T)$ of the $k$ largest La

X. Andrade, J. N. Sanders, A. Aspuru-Guzik

Compressed sensing is a method that allows a significant reduction in the number of samples required for accurate measurements in many applications in experimental sciences and engineering. In this work, we show that compressed sensing can also be used to speed up numerical simulations. We apply compressed sensing to extract information from the real-time si

Anthony L. Piro

It is expected on both evolutionary and empirical grounds that many merging neutron star (NS) binaries are composed of a highly magnetized NS in orbit with a relatively low magnetic field NS. I study the magnetic interactions of these binaries using the framework of a unipolar inductor model. The e.m.f. generated across the non-magnetic NS as it moves throug

Jonathan L. Feng, Ze&#39;ev Surujon, Hai-Bo Yu

Recent indications of a 125 GeV Higgs boson are challenging for gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking (GMSB), since radiative contributions to the Higgs boson mass are not enhanced by significant stop mixing. This challenge should not be considered in isolation, however, as GMSB also generically suffers from two other problems: unsuppressed electric dipole m

Brian Henning, Hitoshi Murayama

We examine the effects of relic dark matter annihilations on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). The magnitude of these effects have scale simply with the dark matter mass and annihilation cross-section, which we derive. Estimates based on these scaling behaviors indicate that BBN severely constrains hadronic and radiative dark matter annihilation channels in th

Adrian T. Potter, Shashikumar M. Chitre, Christopher A. Tout

Models of rotationally-driven dynamos in stellar radiative zones have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular momentum and chemical composition can dominate over the otherwise purely hydrodynamic processes. A proper consideration of the interaction between rotation and magnetic fields is therefore essential. Previous studies have focused on a

Jerome Guilet, Gordon I. Ogilvie

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in accretion discs is an important problem because of its role in the launching of jets and winds and in determining the intensity of turbulence. In this paper, we develop a formalism to calculate the transport magnetic flux in a thin accretion disc, thus determining its evolution on a viscous/resistive

H. Rampadarath, J. S. Morgan, S. J. Tingay, C. M. Trott

The first Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) conducted with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is presented. By consideration of the basic principles of interferometry, we show that VLBI is efficient at discriminating between SETI signals and human generated radio frequency interference (RFI). The target for this study was the star Gliese

Alejandro Mario Hernandez

In this report, we aim at establishing proper ways for model checking the global security of distributed systems, which are designed consisting of set of localised security policies that enforce specific issues about the security expected. The systems are formally specified following a syntax, defined in detail in this report, and their behaviour is clearly

Changhoon Lee, Erjun Kan, Hongjun Xiang, Reinhard K. Kremer

The spin reorientation (SR) phenomenon of the square-lattice antiferromagnets RMnAsO (R = Ce, Nd) was investigated by analyzing the spin exchange interactions between the rare-earth and transition-metal ions (R3+ and Mn2+, respectively) on the basis of density functional calculations. It is found that the symmetry and strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (D

P. Aurenche, B. G. Zakharov

We study the synchrotron-like gluon emission in $AA$-collisions from fast partons due to interaction with the coherent glasma color fields. Our results show that for RHIC and LHC conditions the contribution of this mechanism to parton energy loss is much smaller than the radiative energy loss in the plasma phase.

Sh. Barzanjeh, G. J. Milburn, D. Vitali, P. Tombesi

We propose a scheme for entangling the optical and microwave output modes of the respective cavities by using a micro mechanical resonator. The micro-mechanical resonator on one side is capacitively coupled to the microwave cavity and on the other side is coupled to a high finesses optical cavity. We then show how this continuous variable entanglement can be

Joseph W. Norman

This paper describes an approximate method for global optimization of polynomial programming problems with bounded variables. The method uses a reformulation and linearization technique to transform the original polynomial optimization problem into a pair of mixed binary-linear programs. The solutions to these two integer-linear reformulations provide upper

Krzysztof Burnecki, Agnieszka Wyłomańska, Aleksei Beletskii, Vsevolod Gonchar

We address the problem of recognizing alpha-stable Levy distribution with Levy index close to 2 from experimental data. We are interested in the case when the sample size of available data is not large, thus the power law asymptotics of the distribution is not clearly detectable, and the shape of empirical probability density function is close to a Gaussian.

Mark R. Dennis, Jörg B. Götte

The splitting of a high-order optical vortex into a constellation of unit vortices, upon total reflection, is described and analyzed. The vortex constellation generalizes, in a local sense, the familiar longitudinal Goos-Hänchen and transverse Imbert-Federov shifts of the centroid of a reflected optical beam. The centroid shift is related to the centre of th

Rastko Sknepnek, Monica Olvera de la Cruz

We use an elastic model to explore faceting of solid-wall vesicles with elastic heterogeneities. We show that faceting occurs in regions where the vesicle wall is softer, such as areas of reduced wall thicknesses or concentrated in crystalline defects. The elastic heterogeneities are modeled as a second component with reduced elastic parameters. Using simula

Eduard Feireisl, Antonin Novotny

We consider the full Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in the singular limit for the small Mach and large Reynolds and Peclet numbers, with ill prepared initial data on the three dimensional Euclidean space. The Euler-Boussinesq approximation is identified as the limit system.

A. V. Latyshev, A. A. Yushkanov

Formulas for calculation of transversal dielectric function and transversal electric conductivity in quantum non-degenerate collisional plasmas under arbitrary degree of degeneracy of the electron gas are received. The Wigner-Vlasov-Boltzmann kinetic equation with collision integral in BGK (Bhatnagar, Gross and Krook) form in coordinate space is used. Variou

Christina Vasilakopoulou

We study the universal measuring coalgebras P(A,B) of Sweedler and the universal measuring comodules Q(M,N) of Batchelor. We show that these universal objects exist in a very general context. We provide a detailed proof of an observation of Wraith, that the P(A,B) are the hom-objects of an enrichment of algebras in coalgebras. We show also that the Q(M,N) pr

David Hollenbach, M. J. Kaufman, D. Neufeld, M. Wolfire

We model the production of OH+, H2O+, and H3O+ in interstellar clouds, using a steady state photodissociation region code that treats the freeze-out of gas species, grain surface chemistry, and desorption of ices from grains. The code includes PAHs, which have important effects on the chemistry. All three ions generally have two peaks in abundance as a funct

Feng Guo, Li Wang, Guangming Zhou

This paper considers the optimization problem of minimizing a rational function. We reformulate this problem as polynomial optimization by the technique of homogenization. These two problems are shown to be equivalent under some generic conditions. The exact Jacobian SDP relaxation method proposed by Nie is used to solve the resulting polynomial optimization

Ping Chen, Maria Mitkova, Dmitri A. Tenne, Kasandra Wolf

In this study we investigated the sorption ability of Ge20Se80 thin films applied as active layers of quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for NO2 gas sensing. To identify the chalcogenide system appropriate for gas sensing, we provided data for the packing fraction of a number of chalcogenide systems and discussed their suitability. We performed Raman spectros

Bandla Srinivasa Rao, R. Satya Prasad, R. R. L. Kantham

The nature and complexity of software have changed significantly in the last few decades. With the easy availability of computing power, deeper and broader applications are made. It has been extremely necessary to produce good quality software with high precession of reliability right in the first place. Olden day&#39;s software errors and bugs were fixed at

Kevin D. Dayaratna, P. K. Kannan

Reference prices have long been studied in applied economics and business research. One of the classic formulations of the reference price is in terms of an iterative function of past prices. There are a number of limitations of such a formulation, however. Such limitations include burdensome computational time to estimate parameters, an inability to truly a

Einat Granot-Atedgi, Gašper Tkačik, Ronen Segev, Elad Schneidman

Neural populations encode information about their stimulus in a collective fashion, by joint activity patterns of spiking and silence. A full account of this mapping from stimulus to neural activity is given by the conditional probability distribution over neural codewords given the sensory input. To be able to infer a model for this distribution from large-

Cesar R. de Oliveira, Alessandra A. Verri

We restrict a quantum particle under a coulombian potential (i.e., the Schrödinger operator with inverse of the distance potential) to three dimensional tubes along the x-axis and diameter $\varepsilon$, and study the confining limit $\varepsilon\to0$. In the repulsive case we prove a strong resolvent convergence to a one-dimensional limit operator, which pr