January 2013 arXiv papers

José Burillo, Eric López Platón

Metric estimates are quantities that approximate the word metric of a finitely presented group up to multiplicative constants. In this paper, they are computed for some nilpotent groups and used to compute the distortion functions of several embeddings between them.

E. R. Cazaroto, V. P. Goncalves, F. S. Navarra, M. Nielsen

In this paper we discuss the origin of the asymmetry present in D meson production and its energy dependence. In particular, we have applied the meson cloud model to calculate the asymmetries in D^-/D^+ meson production in high energy p-p collisions and find a good agreement with recent LHCb data. Although small, this non-vanishing asymmetry may shed light o

Alexandre Mauroy, Igor Mezic, Jeff Moehlis

For asymptotically periodic systems, a powerful (phase) reduction of the dynamics is obtained by computing the so-called isochrons, i.e. the sets of points that converge toward the same trajectory on the limit cycle. Motivated by the analysis of excitable systems, a similar reduction has been attempted for non-periodic systems admitting a stable fixed point.

G. Schwiete, A. M. Finkel'stein

We discuss the kinetics of the disordered interacting Bose gas using the Boltzmann transport equation. The theory may serve as a unifying framework for studying questions of dynamics of the expanding Bose gas at different stages of the expansion. We show that the transport theory allows us to straightforwardly reproduce and generalize a number of results pre

Adam Rycerz

We investigate the effect of strain-induced gauge fields on statistical distribution of energy levels of triangular graphene nanoflakes with zigzag edges. In the absence of strain fields but in the presence of weak potential disorder such systems were found in Ref. [1] to display the spectral statistics of the Gaussian unitary ensemble (GUE) due to the effec

Claudia de Rham, Kurt Hinterbichler, Rachel A. Rosen, Andrew J. Tolley

Non-linear partially massless (PM) gravity, if it exists, is a theory of massive gravity in which the graviton has four propagating degrees of freedom. In PM gravity, a scalar gauge symmetry removes one of the five modes of the massive graviton. This symmetry ties the value of the cosmological constant to the mass of the graviton, which in turn can be kept s

Andrei Smolyakov, Alexander Poye, Olivier Agullo, Sadruddin Benkadda

A novel asymptotic matching procedure is developed to revisit the problem of magnetic island saturation in case of a finite current gradient at the rational surface. Nonlinear dispersion relation is derived for saturated magnetic island. It is shown that arbitrary normalization factors that were present in previous theories are fully specified with the asymp

Sebastien Guillot, Mathieu Servillat, Natalie A. Webb, Robert E. Rutledge

This paper presents the measurement of the neutron star (NS) radius using the thermal spectra from quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries (qLMXBs) inside globular clusters (GCs). Recent observations of NSs have presented evidence that cold ultra dense matter -- present in the core of NSs -- is best described by "normal matter" equations of state (EoSs). S

Adolfo Avella, Peter Horsch, Andrzej M. Oleś

We address the role played by charged defects in doped Mott insulators with active orbital degrees of freedom. It is observed that defects feature a rather complex and rich physics, which is well captured by a degenerate Hubbard model extended by terms that describe crystal-field splittings and orbital-lattice coupling, as well as by terms generated by defec

Rana Ali Amjad, Georg Böcherer

Fixed-to-variable length (f2v) matchers are used to reversibly transform an input sequence of independent and uniformly distributed bits into an output sequence of bits that are (approximately) independent and distributed according to a target distribution. The degree of approximation is measured by the informational divergence between the output distributio

Abhijit Gadde, Sergei Gukov, Pavel Putrov

In this paper we analyze various half-BPS defects in a general three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory T. They correspond to closed paths in SUSY parameter space and their tension is computed by evaluating period integrals along these paths. In addition to such defects, we also study wall defects that interpolate between T and its SL(2,Z) transform

Stephen M. Feeney, Hiranya V. Peiris, Licia Verde

It has been suggested that recent cosmological and flavor-oscillation data favor the existence of additional neutrino species beyond the three predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. We apply Bayesian model selection to determine whether there is indeed any evidence from current cosmological datasets for the standard cosmological model to be ext

Wenxing Nie, Hosho Katsura, Masaki Oshikawa

We compare the groundstate energies of bosons and fermions with the same form of the Hamiltonian. If both are noninteracting, the groundstate energy of bosons is always lower, owing to Bose-Einstein Condensation. However, the comparison is nontrivial when bosons do interact. We first prove that, when the hopping is unfrustrated (all the hopping amplitudes ar

Wan-Zhe Feng, Anupam Mazumdar, Pran Nath

We consider the possibility that some primordial fields decay purely into the dark sector creating asymmetric dark matter. This asymmetry is subsequently transmuted into leptons and baryons. Within this paradigm we compute the amount of asymmetric dark matter created from the out of equilibrium decays of the primordial fields with CP violating Yukawa couplin

Stephen R. Kane

The detection of exoplanets through direct imaging has produced numerous new positive identifications in recent years. The technique is biased towards planets at wide separations due to the difficulty in removing the stellar signature at small angular separations. Planets in eccentric orbits will thus move in and out of the detectable region around a star as

Ryan Chornock, E. Berger, A. Rest, D. Milisavljevic

We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery of PS1-10afx, a unique hydrogen-deficient superluminous supernova (SLSN) at z=1.388. The light curve peaked at z_P1=21.7 mag, making PS1-10afx comparable to the most luminous known SNe, with M_u = -22.3 mag. Our extensive optical and NIR observations indicate that the bolometric light curve of PS1-10afx rose on the unusua

A. Rodriguez-Puebla, V. Avila-Reese, N. Drory

We infer the local stellar-to-halo/subhalo mass relations (MRs) for central and satellite galaxies separately. We constraint this relations by using several combinations of observational data, consisting of the total galaxy stellar mass function, its decomposition into centrals and satellites, and the projected two-point correlation functions measured in dif

Donnino Anderhalden, Juerg Diemand

In a standard cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, microhalos at the CDM cutoff scale are the first and smallest objects expected to form in the universe. Here we present results of high resolution simulations of three representative roughly Earth-mass microhalos in order to determine their inner density profile. We find that CDM microhalos in simulations witho

Carlos Guedes, Daniele Oriti, Matti Raasakka

The phase space given by the cotangent bundle of a Lie group appears in the context of several models for physical systems. A representation for the quantum system in terms of non-commutative functions on the (dual) Lie algebra, and a generalized notion of (non-commutative) Fourier transform, different from standard harmonic analysis, has been recently devel

Sergio Galeani, Didier Henrion, Alain Jacquemard, Luca Zaccarian

We consider the design problem for a Marx generator electrical network, a pulsed power generator. The engineering specification of the design is that a suitable resonance condition is satisfied by the circuit so that the energy initially stored in a number of storage capacitors is transferred in finite time to a single load capacitor which can then store the

Spencer Dowdall, Ilya Kapovich, Christopher J. Leininger

Given a free-by-cyclic group $G = F_N \rtimes_φ\mathbb{Z}$ determined by any outer automorphism $φ\in \mathrm{Out}(F_N)$ which is represented by an expanding irreducible train-track map $f$, we construct a $K(G,1)$ $2$-complex $X$ called the folded mapping torus of $f$, and equip it with a semiflow. We show that $X$ enjoys many similar properties to those pr

Flávio Codeço Coelho, Renato Rocha Souza, Álvaro Justen, Flávio Amieiro

This paper presents a distributed platform for Natural Language Processing called PyPLN. PyPLN leverages a vast array of NLP and text processing open source tools, managing the distribution of the workload on a variety of configurations: from a single server to a cluster of linux servers. PyPLN is developed using Python 2.7.3 but makes it very easy to incorp

E. Ribeiro, K. Bezerra

The aim of this note is to give an explicit description of quasi-Einstein metrics on $\Bbb{H}^{n}\times \Bbb{R}.$ We shall construct two examples of quasi-Einstein metrics on this manifold and then we shall prove the uniqueness of these examples. Finally, we shall describe the closed relation between quasi-Einstein metrics and static metrics in the quoted sp

Andrea Mauri, Alberto Santambrogio, Stefano Scoleri

We study the planar asymptotic dilatation operator of ABJM theory in the SU(2) x SU(2) sector up to eight loops. Combining Bethe Ansatz techniques and N = 2 superspace methods, we are able to fix all the coefficients appearing in the maximal-reshuffling terms. In particular, we can directly compute from Feynman diagrams the leading order coefficient of the d

M. Ivanyan, V. Tsakanov, A. Grigoryan, A. Tsakanian

The regularities of narrow-band resonance in a two-layer circular waveguide due to the radiation of the bunch, moving along its axis are investigated. Its connection with the synchronous component of a two-layer TM01 mode of the waveguide is established. Also performed numerical and analytical calculations of wake functions (particle radiation fields) and ar

Eric Christensen, Pilar Coloma, Patrick Huber

We investigate the minimal performance, in terms of beam luminosity and detector size, of a neutrino factory to achieve a competitive physics reach for the determination of the mass hierarchy and the discovery of leptonic CP violation. We find that a low luminosity of $2\times 10^{20}$ useful muon decays per year and 5 GeV muon energy aimed at a 10 kton magn

Gunnar Carlsson, Facundo Mémoli, Alejandro Ribeiro, Santiago Segarra

This paper considers networks where relationships between nodes are represented by directed dissimilarities. The goal is to study methods for the determination of hierarchical clusters, i.e., a family of nested partitions indexed by a connectivity parameter, induced by the given dissimilarity structures. Our construction of hierarchical clustering methods is

Boris Grube

The COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (COMPASS) is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. In the naive Constituent Quark Model (CQM) mesons are bound states of quarks and antiquarks. QCD, however, predict the existence of hadrons

Piotr Mironowicz, Rodrigo Gallego, Marcin Pawlowski

We demonstrate that amplification of arbitrarily weak randomness is possible using quantum resources. We present a randomness amplification protocol that involves Bell experiments. We find a Bell inequality which can amplify arbitrarily weak randomness and give a detailed analysis of the protocol involving it. Our analysis includes finding a sufficient viola

S. K. Karna, Y. K. Vohra, P. Kung, S. T. Weir

Boron-doped single crystal diamond films were grown homoepitaxially on synthetic (100) Type Ib diamond substrates using microwave plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition. A modification in surface morphology of the film with increasing boron concentration in the plasma has been observed using atomic force microscopy. Use of nitrogen during boron doping has

Rodrigo Nemmen

I give a brief review of the observational properties of low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs). I outline some unresolved issues in the study of LLAGNs, emphasizing the uncertainties in the role of the truncated thin accretion disk, the dusty obscuring torus and the origin of high-energy radiation (X-rays and gamma-rays). I discuss key future directions for progress,

Gabor Pataki

The facial reduction algorithm of Borwein and Wolkowicz and the extended dual of Ramana provide a strong dual for the conic linear program $$ (P) \sup {<c, x> | Ax \leq_K b} $$ in the absence of any constraint qualification. The facial reduction algorithm solves a sequence of auxiliary optimization problems to obtain such a dual. Ramana&#39;s dual is applica

Yoe Alexander Herrera Jaramillo

For a compact surface $S$ with constant negative curvature $-κ$ (for some $κ>0$) and genus $g\geq2$, we show that the tails of the distribution of $i(α,β)/l(α)l(β)$ (where $i(α,β)$ is the intersection number of the closed geodesics and $l(\cdot)$ denotes the geometric length) are estimated by a decreasing exponential function. As a consequence, we find the a

Ben Rathaus, Ely D. Kovetz, Nissan Itzhaki

Studies of the peculiar velocity bulk flow based on different tools and datasets have been consistent so far in their estimation of the direction of the flow, which also happens to lie in close proximity to several features identified in the cosmic microwave background, providing motivation to use new compilations of type-Ia supernovae measurements to pinpoi

Orchidea Maria Lecian, Giovanni Montani, Nakia Carlevaro

A novel analysis of the gauge theory of the local Lorentz group is implemented both in flat and in curved space-time, and the resulting dynamics is analyzed in view of the geometrical interpretation of the gauge potential. The Yang-Mills picture of local Lorentz transformations is first approached in a second-order formalism. For the Lagrangian approach to r

Marcin Wysokiński, Jozef Spałek

Thermopower of graphene-superconductor (GS) junction is analyzed within the extended Blonder- Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism. Within this approach we have also calculated the temperature de- pendence of the zero-bias conductance for GS junction. Both quantities reflect quasi-relativistic nature of massless Dirac fermions in graphene. Both, the linear and the non

George Karabatsos, Elizabeth Talbott, Stephen G. Walker

In a meta-analysis, it is important to specify a model that adequately describes the effect-size distribution of the underlying population of studies. The conventional normal fixed-effect and normal random-effects models assume a normal effect-size population distribution, conditionally on parameters and covariates. For estimating the mean overall effect siz

Arjun Arul, Julien Reichert

In robot games on Z, two players add integers to a counter. Each player has a finite set from which he picks the integer to add, and the objective of the first player is to let the counter reach 0. We present an exponential-time algorithm for deciding the winner of a robot game given the initial counter value, and prove a matching lower bound.

Rui Machado, Salvador Abreu, Daniel Diaz

Local search is a successful approach for solving combinatorial optimization and constraint satisfaction problems. With the progressing move toward multi and many-core systems, GPUs and the quest for Exascale systems, parallelism has become mainstream as the number of cores continues to increase. New programming models are required and need to be better unde

George W A Constable, Alan J McKane, Tim Rogers

The theory of slow manifolds is an important tool in the study of deterministic dynamical systems, giving a practical method by which to reduce the number of relevant degrees of freedom in a model, thereby often resulting in a considerable simplification. In this article we demonstrate how the same basic methodology may also be applied to stochastic dynamica

Itzhak Tamo, Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos, Alexandros G. Dimakis

Petabyte-scale distributed storage systems are currently transitioning to erasure codes to achieve higher storage efficiency. Classical codes like Reed-Solomon are highly sub-optimal for distributed environments due to their high overhead in single-failure events. Locally Repairable Codes (LRCs) form a new family of codes that are repair efficient. In partic

Jean-Christophe Mourrat

Divergence-form operators with stationary random coefficients homogenize over large scales. We investigate the effect of certain perturbations of the medium on the homogenized coefficients. The perturbations that we consider are rare at the local level, but when occurring, have an effect of the same order of magnitude as the initial medium itself. The main r

Elena Canovi, Alexander Moreno, Alejandro Muramatsu

We study transport at finite bias, i.e. beyond the linear regime, through two interacting resonant levels connected by a Fermi sea, by means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group. We first consider methodological issues, like the protocol that leads to a current-currying state and the characterization of the steady state. At finite sizes bot

Anatolij Gelimson, Jonas Cremer, Erwin Frey

The spatial arrangement of individuals is thought to overcome the dilemma of cooperation: When cooperators engage in clusters they might share the benefit of cooperation while being more protected against non-cooperating individuals, which benefit from cooperation but save the cost of cooperation. This is paradigmatically shown by the spatial prisoner&#39;s

A. F. Rappazzo, M. Velli, G. Einaudi

We present simulations modeling closed regions of the solar corona threaded by a strong magnetic field where localized photospheric vortical motions twist the coronal field lines. The linear and nonlinear dynamics are investigated in the reduced magnetohydrodynamic regime in Cartesian geometry. Initially the magnetic field lines get twisted and the system be

Xiao-Gang Wen

Recently, it was realized that quantum states of matter can be classified as long-range entangled (LRE) states (i.e. with non-trivial topological order) and short-range entangled (SRE) states (\ie with trivial topological order). We can use group cohomology class ${\cal H}^d(SG,R/Z)$ to systematically describe the SRE states with a symmetry $SG$ [referred as

Alasdair Routh

We construct a &#34;Chern-Simons-like&#34; action for N=1 Topologically Massive Supergravity from the Chern-Simons actions of N=1 Supergravity and Conformal Supergravity. We convert this action into Hamiltonian form and use this to demonstrate that the theory propagates a single massive (2, 3/2) supermultiplet.

Graham Moir, Michael Peardon, Sinead M. Ryan, Christopher E. Thomas

We present spectra of highly excited D and Ds mesons up to around 3.8 GeV determined using dynamical lattice QCD. We employ novel computational techniques and the variational method with a large basis of carefully constructed operators in order to extract and reliably identify the continuum spin of an extensive set of excited states. These include states wit

Friedrich Haslinger

The spectrum of the d-bar-Neumann Laplacian on the Fock space $L^2(\mathbb{C}^n, e^{-|z|^2})$ is explicitly computed. It turns out that it consists of positive integer eigenvalues each of which is of infinite multiplicity. Spectral analysis of the d-bar-Neumann Laplacian on the Fock space is closely related to Schrödinger operators with magnetic field and to

Tomo Lazovich

We present techniques used to estimate the backgrounds in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H->WW*->lvlv decay channel with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to 13 fb-1 of integrated luminosity taken at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. Only the final states with an electron, muon, and zero or one jet are presented h

Heron Caldas, Mucio A. Continentino

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of a candidate to the Fulde-Ferrell (FF) and the Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO) states in one dimensional (1D) atomic Fermi gases, we study the quantum phase transitions in these enigmatic, finite momentum-paired superfluids. We focus on the FF state and investigate the effects of the induced interaction on the stabi

Chao Cao, Fuchun Zhang

The electronic structure of the vacancy-ordered K$_{0.5}$Fe$_{1.75}$Se$_2$ iron-selenide compound (278 phase) is studied using the first-principles density functional method. The ground state of the 278 phase is stripe-like antiferromagnetic, and its bare electron susceptibility shows a large peak around $(π, π)$ in the folded Brillouin zone. Near Fermi leve

Zhi-zhong Xing

If the massive neutrinos are the Majorana particles, how to pin down the Majorana CP-violating phases will eventually become an unavoidable question relevant to the future neutrino experiments. We argue that a study of neutrino-antineutrino oscillations will greatly help in this regard, although the issue remains purely academic at present. In this work we f

Tryfon Antonakakis, Richard Craster, Sébastien Guenneau

Platonic crystals (PCs) are the elastic plate analogue of the photonic crystals widely used in optics, and are thin structured elastic plates along which flexural waves cannot propagate within certain stop band frequency intervals. The practical importance of PCs is twofold: these can be used either in the design of microstructured acoustic metamaterials or

A. P. Kouretsis, M. Stathakopoulos, P. C. Stavrinos

We briefly review some basic concepts of parallel displacement in Finsler geometry. In general relativity, the parallel translation of objects along the congruence of the fundamental observer corresponds to the evolution in time. By dropping the quadratic restriction on the measurement of an infinitesimal distance, the geometry is generalized to a Finsler st

Victor J. W. Guo, C. Krattenthaler

We first prove that if $a$ has a prime factor not dividing $b$ then there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $\binom {an+bn} {an}$ is not divisible by $bn+1$. This confirms a recent conjecture of Z.-W. Sun. Moreover, we provide some new divisibility properties of binomial coefficients: for example, we prove that $\binom {12n} {3n}$ and $\bin

Kristian Debrabant, Andreas Rößler

The multi-level Monte Carlo method proposed by M. Giles (2008) approximates the expectation of some functionals applied to a stochastic process with optimal order of convergence for the mean-square error. In this paper, a modified multi-level Monte Carlo estimator is proposed with significantly reduced computational costs. As the main result, it is proved th

P Alquier, K Meziani, G Peyré

In the framework of noisy quantum homodyne tomography with efficiency parameter $1/2 < η\leq 1$, we propose a novel estimator of a quantum state whose density matrix elements $ρ_{m,n}$ decrease like $Ce^{-B(m+n)^{r/ 2}}$, for fixed $C\geq 1$, $B>0$ and $0<r\leq 2$. On the contrary to previous works, we focus on the case where $r$, $C$ and $B$ are unknown. Th

Tzipora Halevi, Jim Lewis, Nasir Memon

Phishing attacks have become an increasing threat to online users. Recent research has begun to focus on the factors that cause people to respond to them. Our study examines the correlation between the Big Five personality traits and email phishing response. We also examine how these factors affect users behavior on Facebook, including posting personal infor

Amine Laghaout, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Ioannes Rigas, Christian Kragh

We present a scheme for the amplification of Schrodinger cats that collapses two smaller states onto their constructive interference via a homodyne projection. We analyze the performance of the amplification in terms of fidelity and success rate when the input consists of either exact coherent state superpositions or of photon-subtracted squeezed vacua. The

Anh Cat Le Ngo, Kenneth Li-Minn Ang, Guoping Qiu, Jasmine Kah-Phooi Seng

The bottom-up saliency, an early stage of humans&#39; visual attention, can be considered as a binary classification problem between centre and surround classes. Discriminant power of features for the classification is measured as mutual information between distributions of image features and corresponding classes . As the estimated discrepancy very much dep

Claudio Bonati, Massimo D&#39;Elia, Haralambos Panagopoulos, Ettore Vicari

We investigate the dependence of four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories on the topological theta term at finite temperature and, in particular, across the deconfinement transition. For this purpose, we exploit the lattice formulation of the theory and present numerical results for the expansion of the free energy up to O(theta^6), for N=3 and N=6. Our numeric

Dimiter Dobrev

Two different definitions of the Artificial Intelligence concept have been proposed in papers [1] and [2]. The first definition is informal. It says that any program that is cleverer than a human being, is acknowledged as Artificial Intelligence. The second definition is formal because it avoids reference to the concept of human being. The readers of papers

Eugene Gorsky, András Némethi

We compute the Heegaard-Floer link homology of algebraic links in terms of the multivariate Hilbert function of the corresponding plane curve singularities. The main result of the paper identifies four homologies: (a) the Heegaard-Floer link homology of the local embedded link of the germ, (b) the lattice homology associated with the Hilbert function, (c) th

Makoto Miura

We consider smooth complete intersection Calabi-Yau 3-folds in minuscule Schubert varieties, and study their mirror symmetry by degenerating the ambient Schubert varieties to Hibi toric varieties. We list all possible Calabi-Yau 3-folds of this type up to deformation equivalences, and find a new example of smooth Calabi-Yau 3-folds of Picard number one; a co

S. Ferguson, N. McGara, B. Cavness, D. Gonzales

Carbon nanotubes have been observed to emit ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation when exposed to microwave fields. We have performed experiments in which both single-walled (~1 nm diameters) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (>50 nm diameters) were exposed to 2.45 GHz microwaves during several irradiation and cooling cycles at a pressure of ~10-6 tor

D. Babusci, D. Badoni, I. Balwierz-Pytko, G. Bencivenni

We have carried out a new direct search for the CP violating decay KS -> 3pi0 with 1.7 fb^-1 of e+e- collisions collected by the KLOE detector at the phi-factory DAFNE. We have searched for this decay in a sample of about 5.9 x 10^8 KS KL events tagging the KS by means of the KL interaction in the calorimeter and requiring six prompt photons. With respect to

C. Florentino, S. Lawton

Let G be a complex reductive algebraic group (not necessarily connected), let K be a maximal compact subgroup, and let A be a finitely generated Abelian group. We prove that the conjugation orbit space Hom(A,K)/K is a strong deformation retract of the GIT quotient space Hom(A,G)//G. As a corollary, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the cha

David Cook

Every artinian quotient of $K[x,y]$ has the strong Lefschetz property if $K$ is a field of characteristic zero or is an infinite field whose characteristic is greater than the regularity of the quotient. We improve this bound in the case of monomial ideals. Using this we classify when both bounds are sharp. Moreover, we prove that the artinian quotient of a

Henri Thyrrestrup, Alex Hartsuiker, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

We have theoretically studied the effect of deterministic temporal control of spontaneous emission in a dynamic optical microcavity. We propose a new paradigm in light emission: we envision an ensemble of two-level emitters in an environment where the local density of optical states is modified on a time scale shorter than the decay time. A rate equation mod

R. R. Nair, I-Ling Tsai, M. Sepioni, O. Lehtinen

A possibility to control magnetic properties by using electric fields is one of the most desirable characteristics for spintronics applications. Finding a suitable material remains an elusive goal, with only a few candidates found so far. Graphene is one of them and offers a hope due to its weak spin-orbit interaction, the ability to control electronic prope

Ivan Arraut

I introduce the spatial curvature effects inside the formalism of Relative Locality as a non-commutative structure of the momentum space in agreement with the very well known concepts of Quantum Groups. This gives a natural red-shift effect in agreement with an extended version of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and in agreement with the standard

Erik Andreas Martens, Shashi Thutupalli, Antoine Fourrière, Oskar Hallatschek

The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fascinating manifestation of self-organization that nature employs to orchestrate essential processes of life, such as the beating of the heart. Although it was long thought that synchrony or disorder were mutually exclusive steady states for a network of identical oscillators, numerous theoretical studies in r

T. Sentjabrskaja, E. Babaliari, J. Hendricks, M. Laurati

The rheological response, in particular the non-linear response, to oscillatory shear is experimentally investigated in colloidal glasses. The glasses are highly concentrated binary hard-sphere mixtures with relatively large size disparities. For a size ratio of 0.2, a strong reduction of the normalized elastic moduli, the yield strain and stress and, for so

Pritibhajan Byakti, Tirtha Sankar Ray

A 125 GeV Higgs renders the simpler GMSB models unnatural, essentially pushing the soft spectrum beyond the LHC reach. A direct coupling of the matter and messenger fields, that facilitates an enhanced mixing in the squark sector, is a way to ameliorate this deficiency. We construct all possible messenger-matter interaction terms considering the messenger mu

Min Chih Lin, Michel J. Mizrahi, Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

Say that an edge of a graph G dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of edges E&#39; of E which dominates all edges of G. In particular, if every edge of G is dominated by exactly one edge of E&#39; then E&#39; is a dominating induced matching. It is known that not every graph admits a do

Arul Lakshminarayan

The probability that there are $k$ real eigenvalues for an $n$ dimensional real random matrix is known. Here we study this for the case of products of independent random matrices. Relating the problem of the probability that the product of two real 2 dimensional random matrices has real eigenvalues to an issue of optimal quantum entanglement, this is fully a

Si-Yuan Liu, Bo Li, Wen-Li Yang, Heng Fan

We introduce the concept of monogamy deficit for quantum correlation by combining together two types of monogamy inequalities depending on different measurement sides. For tripartite pure state, we demonstrate a relation which connects two types of monogamy inequalities for quantum discord and provide the difference between them. By using this relation, we o

M. V. Gorbatenko, V. P. Neznamov

As opposed to Arminjon statements, in this work we again assert the absence of the non-uniqueness problem of the Dirac theory in a curved and flat spacetime and illustrate this with a number of examples. Dirac Hamiltonians in arbitrary, including time-dependent, gravitational fields uniquely determine physical characteristics of quantum-mechanical systems ir

Nanao Kita

A graph $G$ with a perfect matching is called saturated if $G+e$ has more perfect matchings than $G$ for any edge $e$ that is not in $G$. Lovász gave a characterization of the saturated graphs called the cathedral theorem, with some applications to the enumeration problem of perfect matchings, and later Szigeti gave another proof. In this paper, we give a ne

M. A. Vronsky, M. V. Gorbatenko, N. S. Kolesnikov, V. P. Neznamov

Nondecaying bound states of elementary spin-half particles are validated and calculated numerically for the Schwarzschild gravitational field using a self-conjugate Hamiltonian with a flat scalar product for any value of the gravitational coupling constant. Hilbert condition g_{00}>0 leads to a boundary condition such that components of the vector of current

Krzysztof R. Apt, Evangelos Markakis, Sunil Simon

Recently, we introduced in arXiv:1105.2434 a model for product adoption in social networks with multiple products, where the agents, influenced by their neighbours, can adopt one out of several alternatives. We identify and analyze here four types of paradoxes that can arise in these networks. To this end, we use social network games that we recently introdu

Paulo J. A. Simões, Eduard P. Kontar

The interrelation of hard X-ray (HXR) emitting sources and the underlying physics of electron acceleration and transport presents one of the major questions in high-energy solar flare physics. Spatially resolved observations of solar flares often demonstrate the presence of well-separated sources of bremsstrahlung emission, so-called coronal and footpoint so

D. V. Senthilkumar, R. Suresh, M. Lakshmanan, J. Kurths

We show that global generalized synchronization (GS) exists in structurally different time-delay systems, even with different orders, with quite different fractal (Kaplan-Yorke) dimensions, which emerges via partial GS in symmetrically coupled regular networks. We find that there exists a smooth transformation in such systems, which maps them to a common GS

J. McDonnell, N. Schunck, W. Nazarewicz

We evaluate the performance of modern nuclear energy density functionals for predicting inner and outer fission barrier heights and energies of fission isomers of even-even actinides. For isomer energies and outer barrier heights, we find that the self-consistent theory at the HFB level is capable of providing quantitative agreement with empirical data.

Eddwi H. Hasdeo, Ahmad R. T. Nugraha, Kentaro Sato, Riichiro Saito

Fano resonance spectra for the G band in metallic carbon nanotubes are calculated as a function of laser excitation energy in which the origin of the resonance is given by an interference between the continuous electronic Raman spectra and the discrete phonon spectra. We found that the second-order scattering process of the non-zero q electron-electron inter

Debottam Das, Ulrich Ellwanger, Ana M. Teixeira

Constraints from searches for squarks and gluinos at the LHC at sqrt{s}=8 TeV are applied to the parameter space of the NMSSM with universal squark/slepton and gaugino masses at the GUT scale, but allowing for non-universal soft Higgs mass parameters (the sNMSSM). We confine ourselves to regions of the parameter space compatible with a 125 GeV Higgs boson wi

J. A. Gracey

We review the large N method of calculating high order information on the renormalization group functions in a quantum field theory which is based on conformal integration methods. As an example these techniques are applied to a typical graph contributing to the beta-function of O(N) phi^4 theory at O(1/N^2). The possible future directions for the large N me

Matthias Berwein

We discuss the cyclic Wilson loop, i.e. a rectangular Wilson loop that spans the entire compactified time axis in the imaginary time formalism. The result of a perturbative calculation at $O(α_s^2)$ is given, with the main focus on the ultraviolet divergences of this operator. Based on a general analysis of divergences in loop diagrams, we find that, unlike

A S Sharma, B J McKeon

A new theory of coherent structure in wall turbulence is presented. The theory is the first to predict packets of hairpin vortices and other structure in turbulence, and their dynamics, based on an analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations, under an assumption of a turbulent mean profile. The assumption of the turbulent mean acts as a restriction on the class

G. C. Fadda, D. Lairez, Z. Guennouni, A. Koutsioubas

We address the problem of antimicrobial peptides that create pores in lipid bilayers, focusing on voltage-temperature dependence of pore opening. Two novel experiments (voltage-clamp with alamethicin as an emblematic representative of these peptides and neutron reflectivity of lipid-monolayer at solid/water interface under electric field) serve to revise the

Giacomo M. D&#39;Ariano, Franco Manessi, Paolo Perinotti

Causality has been often confused with the notion of determinism. It is mandatory to separate the two notions in view of the debate about quantum foundations. Quantum theory provides an example of causal not-deterministic theory. Here we introduce a toy operational theory that is deterministic and non-causal, thus proving that the two notions of causality an

Damiano Anselmi

We investigate the renormalization of gauge theories without assuming cohomological properties. We define a renormalization algorithm that preserves the Batalin-Vilkovisky master equation at each step and automatically extends the classical action till it contains sufficiently many independent parameters to reabsorb all divergences into parameter-redefinitio

Wen-Yu He, Zhao-Dong Chu, Lin He

The perfect transmission in graphene monolayer and the perfect reflection in Bernal graphene bilayer for electrons incident in the normal direction of a potential barrier are viewed as two incarnations of the Klein paradox. Here we show a new and unique incarnation of the Klein paradox. Owing to the different chiralities of the quasiparticles involved, the c

Mourad Bellassoued, Raymond Brummelhuis, Michel Cristofol, Eric Soccorsi

The Black-Scholes model gives vanilla Europen call option prices as a function of the volatility. We prove Lipschitz stability in the inverse problem of determining the implied volatility, which is a function of the underlying asset, from a collection of quoted option prices with different strikes.

Roland Bacher

Seeds of sunflowers are often modelled by the map $n\longmapsto φ_θ(n)=\sqrt{n}e^{2iπnθ}$ leading to a roughly uniform repartition with two consecutive seeds separated by the divergence angle $2πθ$ for $θ$ the golden ratio. We associate to an arbitrary real divergence angle $2πθ$ a geodesic path $γ_θ: \mathbb R_{>0}\longrightarrow \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb Z)\b

Amir Sonee, Ghosheh Abed Hodtani

In this paper, we study relay networks with orthogonal components in presence of noncausal channel state information (CSI) available at the source. We propose an upper bound on the capacity of the discrete memoryless model (DM)for the case in which just the source component intended for the destination is encoded against the CSI known non-causally at the sou

A. C. Callan-Jones, R. Voituriez

We develop a model of amoeboid cell motility based on active gel theory. Modeling the motile apparatus of a eukaryotic cell as a confined layer of finite length of poroelastic active gel permeated by a solvent, we first show that, due to active stress and gel turnover, an initially static and homogeneous layer can undergo a contractile-type instability to a

S. N. Gninenko

Several models of dark matter suggest the existence of hidden sectors consisting of SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y singlet fields. The interaction between the ordinary and hidden sectors could be transmitted by new Abelian U&#39;(1) gauge bosons A&#39; (dark or hidden photons) mixing with ordinary photons. If such A&#39;s have masses below the π^0 meson mass, th

Xiaofei Qi, Jinchuan Hou, Juan Deng

Let ${\mathcal N}$ and ${\mathcal M}$ be nests on Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$ over the (real or complex) field $\mathbb F$ and let $\mbox{\rm Alg}{\mathcal N}$ and $\mbox{\rm Alg}{\mathcal M}$ be the associated nest algebras, respectively. It is shown that a map $Φ:{\rm Alg}{\mathcal N}\rightarrow{\rm Alg}{\mathcal M}$ is a Lie ring isomorphism (i.e., $Φ$ is a