January 2013 arXiv papers — page 12

F. Ditrói, F. Tárkányi, S. Takács, A. Hermanne

As a part of our series of studies on deuteron induced reaction on various target materials excitation functions on natural cobalt have been measured by using stacked-foil technique. In these measurements 51Cr, 55;56;57;58Co, 51Cr, 52;54;56Mn and 56;57Ni radioisotopes have been identified. For the above isotopes the excitation functions were determined and c

Martin Cleven, Qian Wang, Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart

The decays of the $Z_b(10610)$ and the $Z_b(10650)$ to $Υ(nS)π$, $h_b(mP)π$ and $χ_{bJ}(mP)γ$ ($n=1,2,3$, $m=1,2$ and $J=0,1,2$) are investigated within a nonrelativistic effective field theory. It is argued that, while the decays to $Υ(nS) π$ suffer from potentially large higher order corrections, the $P$-wave transitions of the $Z_b$ states offer the best

Huichao Li, L. Sheng, R. Shen, L. B. Shao

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is known to be unstable to perturbations violating time-reversal symmetry. We show that creating a narrow ferromagnetic (FM) region near the edge of a QSH sample can push one of the counterpropagating edge states to the inner boundary of the FM region, and leave the other at the outer boundary, without changing their spin p

L. Fang, T. Osipov, B. Murphy, F. Tarantelli

We investigate molecular dynamics of multiple ionization in N2 through multiple core-level photoabsorption and subsequent Auger decay processes induced by intense, short X-ray free electron laser pulses. The timing dynamics of the photoabsorption and dissociation processes is mapped onto the kinetic energy of the fragments. Measurements of the latter allow u

Srikanth B. Pai, B. Sundar Rajan

In this paper, we derive a Singleton bound for lattice schemes and obtain Singleton bounds known for binary codes and subspace codes as special cases. It is shown that the modular structure affects the strength of the Singleton bound. We also obtain a new upper bound on the code size for non-constant dimension codes. The plots of this bound along with plots

Christoph Aistleitner

We prove the existence of a limit distribution for the normalized normality measure $\mathcal{N}(E_N)/\sqrt{N}$ (as $N \to \infty$) for random binary sequences $E_N$, by this means confirming a conjecture of Alon, Kohayakawa, Mauduit, Moreira and R{ö}dl. The key point of the proof is to approximate the distribution of the normality measure by the exiting pro

Se Kwon Kim, Oleg Tchernyshyov

Bloch points are magnetic topological defects. The discrete nature of a magnetic lattice creates a periodic potential that can pin a Bloch point. The pinning force is of the order of the exchange constant, a few piconewtons in a typical ferromagnet (permalloy). A domain wall containing a Bloch point can have a sizable depinning field in the tens of oersted.

Hiroyuki Miyata

Symmetries of geometric structures such as hyperplane arrangements, point configurations and polytopes have been studied extensively for a long time. However, symmetries of oriented matroids, a common combinatorial abstraction of them, are not understood well. In this paper, we aim to obtain a better understanding of symmetries of oriented matroids. First, w

Ewan Cameron, Anthony Pettitt

We investigate the utility to computational Bayesian analyses of a particular family of recursive marginal likelihood estimators characterized by the (equivalent) algorithms known as "biased sampling" or "reverse logistic regression" in the statistics literature and "the density of states" in physics. Through a pair of numerical examp

Y. Ozan Basciftci, C. Emre Koksal, Fusun Ozguner

We consider the wiretap channel model under the presence of a hybrid, half duplex adversary that is capable of either jamming or eavesdropping at a given time. We analyzed the achievable rates under a variety of scenarios involving different methods for obtaining transmitter CSI. Each method provides a different grade of information, not only to the transmit

Xi-Wen Guan, Murray T. Batchelor, Chaohong Lee

This article reviews theoretical and experimental developments for one-dimensional Fermi gases. Specifically, the experimentally realized two-component delta-function interacting Fermi gas -- the Gaudin-Yang model -- and its generalisations to multi-component Fermi systems with larger spin symmetries. The exact results obtained for Bethe ansatz integrable mo

Gabriel German, Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar, Dagoberto Malagon-Morejon, Israel Quiros

In this work we study a scenario with a warped 5D smooth braneworld with 4D Minkowski geometry builded from bulk scalar matter non-minimally coupled to gravity with an additional Gauss-Bonnet term. We present exact solutions for the full braneworld configuration in contrast to previous results where only approximate solutions were constructed due to the high

Robert J. Finkelstein

We describe a Lagrangian defining the preon sector of the knot model. The preons are the elements of the fundamental representation of SLq(2), and unexpectedly agree with the preons conjectured by Harari and by Shupe. The leptons, neutrinos, up and down quarks, described as $j=3/2$ representations, and the electroweak vectors, described as $j=3$ representati

Shi-Ju Ran, Bin Xi, Tao Liu, Gang Su

Based on the tensor network state representation, we develop a nonlinear dynamic theory coined as network contractor dynamics (NCD) to explore the thermodynamic properties of two-dimensional quantum lattice models. By invoking the rank-$1$ decomposition in the multi-linear algebra, the NCD scheme makes the contraction of the tensor network of the partition f

Jitender Kumar, K. V. Krishna

In order to study the structure of $A^+(B_n)$ -- the affine near-semiring over a Brandt semigroup -- this work completely characterizes the Green's classes of its semigroup reducts. In this connection, this work characterizes the elements of $A^+(B_n)$ and reports the size of $A^+(B_n)$. Further, idempotents and regular elements of the semigroup reducts

Juan P. Treviño, Omar López-Cruz, Sabino Chávez-Cerda

We propose the segmented Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT/GTM),as the largest spatial light modulator capable of producing vortex beams of integer topological charge. This observing mode could be applied for direct exoplanet searches in the millimeter or submillimeter regimes. We studied the stability of the vortex structure against aberrations and diffractio

Panagiotis Kouvaros, Alessio Lomuscio

A key problem in verification of multi-agent systems by model checking concerns the fact that the state-space of the system grows exponentially with the number of agents present. This makes practical model checking unfeasible whenever the system contains more than a few agents. In this paper we put forward a technique to establish a cutoff result, thereby sh

Feng Qi, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Wen-Hui Li

It is general knowledge that the harmonic mean $H(x,y)=\frac2{\frac1x+\frac1y}$ and that the geometric mean $G(x,y)=\sqrt{xy}\,$, where $x$ and $y$ are two positive numbers. In the paper, the authors show by several approaches that the harmonic mean $H_{x,y}(t)=H(x+t,y+t)$ and the geometric mean $G_{x,y}(t)=G(x+t,y+t)$ are all Bernstein functions of $t\in(-\

Feng Qi, Xiao-Jing Zhang

In the paper, the authors discover an integral representation, some inequalities, and complete monotonicity of Bernoulli numbers of the second kind.

Hideo Hasegawa

We have examined the validity of the time-dependent variational approximation (TDVA) to the Gaussian wavepacket method (GWM) for quantum double-well (DW) systems, by using the quasi-exact spectral method (SM). Comparisons between results of wavefunctions, averages of position and momentum, the auto-correlation function, and an uncertainty product calculated

B. Santhana Krishnan, Ayalvadi Ganesh, D. Manjunath

In a random key graph (RKG) of $n$ nodes each node is randomly assigned a key ring of $K_n$ cryptographic keys from a pool of $P_n$ keys. Two nodes can communicate directly if they have at least one common key in their key rings. We assume that the $n$ nodes are distributed uniformly in $[0,1]^2.$ In addition to the common key requirement, we require two nod

Alejandra Garrido, John S. Wilson

We give a structural description of the normal subgroups of subgroups of finite index in branch groups in terms of rigid stabilizers. This gives further insight into the structure lattices of branch groups introduced by the second author. We derive a condition concerning abstract commensurability of branch groups acting on the p-ary tree for any prime p.

Lev Sakhnovich

New inverse and half-inverse problems: {\it sliding problems} are introduced. In this way several physically important equations are recovered from the quantum defect. In particular, sliding problems are solved for radial Schrödinger equation, radial Dirac system and multidimensional Schrödinger equation. Systems with Coulomb-type potentials are considered a

Paul S. Wesson, James M. Overduin

Replacing 4D Minkowski space by 5D canonical space leads to a clearer derivation of the main features of wave mechanics, including the wave function and the velocity of de Broglie waves. Recent tests of wave-particle duality could be adapted to investigate whether de Broglie waves are basically 4D or 5D in nature.

Mevlut Tunc, Ibrahim Karabayir

In this paper we achieve some new Hadamard type inequalities using elementary well known inequalities for functions whose first derivatives absolute values are s-geometrically and geometrically convex. And also we get some applications for special means for positive numbers.

M. V. Sangaranarayanan

The partition function and magnetization equations are derived for the two-dimensional nearest neighbour Ising models in a magnetic field.

Mevlut Tunc, Ebru Yuksel

In this paper, we establish some new Hadamard type inequalities using elementary well known inequalities for functions whose inequalities absolute values are α-, m-, (α,m)-logarithmically convex.

Alan B. McIntosh, Aldo Bonasera, Zachary Kohley, Paul J. Cammarata

Recently, we observed a clear dependence of the nuclear caloric curve on neutron-proton asymmetry $\frac{N-Z}{A}$ through examination of fully reconstructed equilibrated quasi-projectile sources produced in heavy ion collisions at E/A = 35 MeV. In the present work, we extend our analysis using multiple light charged particle probes of the temperature. Temper

Mingsheng Ying, Yuang Feng, Nengkun Yu

Quantum cryptography has been extensively studied in the last twenty years, but information-flow security of quantum computing and communication systems has been almost untouched in the previous research. Duo to the essential difference between classical and quantum systems, formal methods developed for classical systems, including probabilistic systems, can

Cheng Wang

Real social networks are often compared to random graphs in order to assess whether their typological structure could be the result of random processes. However, an Erdős-Rényi random graph in large scale is often lack of local structure beyond the dyadic level and as a result we need to generate the clustered random graph instead of the simple random graph

Rebecca Smith

We study a sorting machine consisting of two stacks in series where the first stack has the added restriction such that entries in the stack must be in decreasing order from top to bottom. We give the basis of the class of permutations that are sortable by this machine which shows that it is enumerated by the Schröder numbers.

C. Yoshikawa, A. Leveling, N. V. Mokhov, J. Morgan

A precision measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_μ = (g-2)/2$, was previously performed at BNL with a result of 2.2 - 2.7 standard deviations above the Standard Model (SM) theoretical calculations. The same experimental apparatus is being planned to run in the new Muon Campus at Fermilab, where the muon beam is expected to have less pion con

Gabor Somlai

For every prime $p>3$ we prove that $Q \times \mathbb{Z}_p$ and $\mathbb{Z}_2^3 \times \mathbb{Z}_p$ are DCI- groups. This result completes the description of CI-groups of order $8p$.

Nihal Gowravaram, Ravi Jagadeesan

We investigate pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and generalizations thereof. First, we study pattern avoidance in an alternating analogue of Young diagrams. In particular, we extend Babson-West's notion of shape-Wilf equivalence to apply to alternating permutations and so generalize results of Backelin-West-Xin and Ouchterlony to alternating

Daniel Martín-de Blas, Mercedes Martín-Benito, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

The linearly polarized Gowdy $T^3$ model with a massless scalar field with the same symmetries as the metric is quantized by applying a hybrid approach. The homogeneous geometry degrees of freedom are loop quantized, fact which leads to the resolution of the cosmological singularity, while a Fock quantization is employed for both matter and gravitational inh

François Mériaux, Vineeth Varma, Samson Lasaulce

This work tackles the problem of energy-efficient distributed power control in wireless networks with a large number of transmitters. The problem is modeled by a dynamic game. Each transmitter-receiver communication is characterized by a state given by the available energy and/or the individual channel state and whose evolution is governed by certain dynamic

Helen Kirk, Philip C. Myers, Tyler L. Bourke, Robert A. Gutermuth

One puzzle in understanding how stars form in clusters is the source of mass -- is all of the mass in place before the first stars are born, or is there an extended period when the cluster accretes material which can continuously fuel the star formation process? We use a multi-line spectral survey of the southern filament associated with the Serpens South em

Reed L. Riddle, Mahesh P. Burse, Nicholas M. Law, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

Robo-AO is the first astronomical laser guide star adaptive optics (AO) system designed to operate completely independent of human supervision. A single computer commands the AO system, the laser guide star, visible and near-infrared science cameras (which double as tip-tip sensors), the telescope, and other instrument functions. Autonomous startup and shutd

William DeMeo

We prove a version of Dedekind's Transposition Principle that holds in lattices of equivalence relations.

Mariem Mhiri, Karim Cheikhrouhou, Abdelaziz Samet, François Mériaux

This work characterizes an important solution concept of a relevant spectrum game. Two energy-efficient sources communicating with their respective destination compete for an extra channel brought by a relay charging the used bandwidth through a pricing mechanism. This game is shown to possess a unique Nash bargaining solution, exploiting a time-sharing argu

D. S. Bollinger, V. G. Dudnikov, D. C. Faircloth, S. R. Lawrie

Factors limiting the operating lifetime of Compact Surface Plasma Sources (CSPS) are analyzed and possible treatments for lifetime enhancement are considered. Noiseless discharges with lower gas and cesium densities are produced in experiments with modified discharge cells. With these discharge cells it is possible to increase the emission aperture and extra

Jeroen Bédorf, Simon Portegies Zwart

Massive galaxies with a half-mass radius <~ 1kpc are observed in the early universe (z~>2), but not in the local universe. In the local universe similar-mass (within a factor of two) galaxies tend to be a factor of 4 to 5 larger. Dry minor mergers are known to drive the evolution of the size of a galaxy without much increasing the mass, but it is unclear if

P. Kharel, V. R. Shah, X. Z. Li, W. Y. Zhang

The structural and magnetic properties of Pr-alloyed MnBi (short MnBi-Pr) nanostructures with a range of Pr concentrations have been investigated. The nanostructures include thin films having Pr concentrations 0, 2, 3, 5 and 9 atomic percent and melt-spun ribbons having Pr concentrations 0, 2, 4 and 6 percent respectively. Addition of Pr into the MnBi lattic

Emanuele Sobacchi, Andrei Mesinger

An ionizing UV background (UVB) inhibits gas accretion and photo-evaporates gas from the shallow potential wells of small, dwarf galaxies. During cosmological reionization, this effect can result in negative feedback: suppressing star-formation inside HII regions, thus impeding their continued growth. It is difficult to model this process, given the enormous

Yuchen Zhao, Philip S. Yu

Graph clustering becomes an important problem due to emerging applications involving the web, social networks and bio-informatics. Recently, many such applications generate data in the form of streams. Clustering massive, dynamic graph streams is significantly challenging because of the complex structures of graphs and computational difficulties of continuou

Kassem Mustapha

We study the numerical solution for Volerra integro-differential equations with smooth and non-smooth kernels. We use a $h$-version discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method and derive nodal error bounds that are explicit in the parameters of interest. In the case of non-smooth kernel, it is justified that the start-up singularities can be resolved at superconverge

C. Grenier, J. Dubois, T. Jullien, P. Roulleau

A theoretical study of the single electron coherence properties of Lorentzian and rectangular pulses is presented. By combining bosonization and the Floquet scattering approach, the effect of interactions on a periodic source of voltage pulses is computed exactly. When such excitations are injected into one of the channels of a system of two copropagating qu

Emanuele Sobacchi, Andrei Mesinger

The reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) was likely inhomogeneous and extended. By heating the IGM and photo-evaporating gas from the outskirts of galaxies, this process can have a dramatic impact on the growth of structures. Using a suite of spherically-symmetric collapse simulations spanning a large parameter space, we study the impact of an ioni

V. A. Lebedev, A. V. Shemyakin, J. Steimel, M. Wendt

Fermilab is planning the construction of a prototype front end of the Project X linac. The Project X Injector Experiment (PXIE) is expected to accelerate 1 mA cw H- beam up to 30 MeV. Some of the major goals of the project are to test a cw RFQ and H- source, a broadband bunch-by-bunch beam chopper and a low-energy superconducting linac. The successful charac

Rainer Dietmann, Michael Harvey

Using the circle method, we show that for a fixed positive definite integral quadratic form $A$, the expected asymptotic formula for the number of representations of a positive definite integral quadratic form $B$ by $A$ holds true, providing that the dimension of $A$ is large enough in terms of the dimension of $B$ and the maximum ratio of the successive mi

D. M. Russell, E. Gallo, R. P. Fender

We revisit the paradigm of the dependency of jet power on black hole spin in accreting black hole systems. In a previous paper we showed that the luminosity of compact jets continuously launched due to accretion onto black holes in X-ray binaries (analogous to those that dominate the kinetic feedback from AGN) do not appear to correlate with reported black h

Zhixiang, Xu, Minmin Chen, Kilian Q. Weinberger

In text mining, information retrieval, and machine learning, text documents are commonly represented through variants of sparse Bag of Words (sBoW) vectors (e.g. TF-IDF). Although simple and intuitive, sBoW style representations suffer from their inherent over-sparsity and fail to capture word-level synonymy and polysemy. Especially when labeled data is limi

K. -Y. Choi, J. W. Hwang, P. Lemmens, D. Wulferding

In the spin ladder compound BiCu$_2$PO$_6$ there exists a decisive dynamics of spin excitations that we classify and characterize using inelastic light scattering. We observe low-energy singlets and a broad triplon continuum extending from 36 cm$^{-1}$ to 700 cm$^{-1}$ in ($aa$), ($bb$), and ($cc$) light scattering polarizations. Though isolated spin ladder

Boaz Katz, Doron Kushnir, Subo Dong

An exact relation between the Ni56 mass and the bolometric light curve of a type Ia supernova can be derived as follows, using the following excellent approximations: 1. the emission is powered solely by Ni56-> Co56 ->Fe56; 2. each mass element propagates at a non-relativistic velocity which is constant in time (free coasting); and 3. the internal energy is

F. G. G. Garcia, C. Johnstone, T. Kobilarcik, G. M. Koizumi

The Fermilab Linac delivers a variable intensity, 400-MeV beam to the The MuCool Test Area experimental hall via a beam line specifically designed to facilitate measurements of the Linac beam emittance and properties. A 10 m, dispersion-free and magnet-free straight utilizes an upstream quadrupole focusing triplet in combination with the necessary in-straigh

Jonathan D. Fraine, Drake Deming, Michaël Gillon, Emmanuël Jehin

We observed the transiting super-Earth exoplanet GJ1214b using Warm Spitzer at 4.5 microns wavelength during a 20-day quasi-continuous sequence in May 2011. The goals of our long observation were to accurately define the infrared transit radius of this nearby super-Earth, to search for the secondary eclipse, and to search for other transiting planets in the

Kun-lun Wang, Yu-xin Liu, Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts

In a strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma, collective excitations of gluons and quarks should dominate over the excitation of individual quasi-free gluon and quark modes. To explore this possibility, we computed screening masses for ground-state light-quark mesons and baryons at leading-order in a symmetry-preserving truncation scheme for the Dyson-Schwinger

P. J. Carter, D. Steeghs, E. de Miguel, W. Goff

We present time-resolved spectroscopy and photometry of the dwarf nova SBSS 1108+574, obtained during the 2012 outburst. Its quiescent spectrum is unusually rich in helium, showing broad, double-peaked emission lines from the accretion disc. We measure a line flux ratio HeI 5875/Halpha = 0.81 +/- 0.04, a much higher ratio than typically observed in cataclysm

Kyle A. Oman, Michael J. Hudson, Peter S. Behroozi

Physical processes regulating star formation in satellite galaxies represent an area of ongoing research, but the projected nature of observed coordinates makes separating different populations of satellites (with different processes at work) difficult. The orbital history of a satellite galaxy leads to its present-day phase space coordinates; we can also wo

Kurt Hinterbichler, Justin Khoury, Horatiu Nastase, Rogerio Rosenfeld

We attempt to incorporate inflation into a string theory realization of the chameleon mechanism. Previously, it was found that the volume modulus, stabilized by the supersymmetric potential used by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi (KKLT) and with the right choice of parameters, can generically work as a chameleon. In this paper, we ask whether inflation ca

Georgios Itsios, Carlos Nunez, Konstadinos Sfetsos, Daniel C. Thompson

We consider non-Abelian T-duality on N=1 supergravity backgrounds possessing well understood field theory duals. For the case of D3-branes at the tip of the conifold, we dualise along an SU(2) isometry. The result is a type-IIA geometry whose lift to M-theory is of the type recently proposed by Bah et. al. as the dual to certain N=1 SCFT quivers produced by

Stefano Forte, Graeme Watt

We review the current state of the art in the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, as expressed in terms of parton distribution functions (PDFs), and probed in high-energy lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions, and we assess their implications for current precision collider phenomenology, in particular at the Large Hadron Collider (L

Dylan Nelson, Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel, Debora Sijacki

We investigate the nature of gas accretion onto haloes and galaxies at z=2 using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run with the moving mesh code AREPO. Implementing a Monte Carlo tracer particle scheme to determine the origin and thermodynamic history of accreting gas, we make quantitative comparisons to an otherwise identical simulation run with the smo

Yongge Tian

This paper shows how to solve analytically the three fundamental linear matrix inequalities $$ AXB \succcurlyeq C \, (\succ C), \ \ AXA^*\succcurlyeq B \, (\succ B), \ \ AX +(AX)^{*} \succcurlyeq B \, (\succ B) $$ in the Löwner partial ordering by using ranks, inertias and generalized inverses of matrices.

Rutger van Haasteren, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Alberto Vecchio, Antoine Lassus

This is a summary of the methods we used to analyse the first IPTA Mock Data Challenge (MDC), and the obtained results. We have used a Bayesian analysis in the time domain, accelerated using the recently developed ABC-method which consists of a form of lossy linear data compression. The TOAs were first processed with Tempo2, where the design matrix was extra

Georgy I. Burde, Artur Sergyeyev

The classical problem of irrotational long waves on the surface of a shallow layer of an ideal fluid moving under the influence of gravity as well as surface tension is considered. A systematic procedure for deriving an equation for surface elevation for a prescribed relation between the orders of the two expansion parameters, the amplitude parameter $α$ and

S. Nagaitsev, A. Valishev, V. V. Danilov, D. N. Shatilov

Fermilab&#39;s Integrable Optics Test Accelerator is an electron storage ring designed for testing advanced accelerator physics concepts, including implementation of nonlinear integrable beam optics and experiments on optical stochastic cooling. The machine is currently under construction at the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator facility. In this rep

O. Aichholzer, L. E. Caraballo, J. M. Díaz-Báñez, R. Fabila-Monroy

Let $S$ be a set of $2n$ points on a circle such that for each point $p \in S$ also its antipodal (mirrored with respect to the circle center) point $p&#39;$ belongs to $S$. A polygon $P$ of size $n$ is called \emph{antipodal} if it consists of precisely one point of each antipodal pair $(p,p&#39;)$ of $S$. We provide a complete characterization of antipodal

M. Xiao

In era of NOvA operation, it is planned to slip-stack six on six Booster proton batches in the Recycler ring for a total intensity of 5 1013 protons/cycle. During the slip-stacking, the chromaticities are required to be jumped from (-2,-2) to (-20,-20). However, they can only be adjusted to (-12,-12) from (-2,-2) using existing 2 families of powered sextupol

Henning Krause

We discuss the notion of strongly unbounded type for abelian length categories; this is closely related to the Second Brauer-Thrall Conjecture for artin algebras. A new ingredient is the space of characters in the sense of Crawley-Boevey.

Hamidreza Chitsaz

In addition to the theoretical value of challenging optimal control problmes, recent progress in autonomous vehicles mandates further research in optimal motion planning for wheeled vehicles. Since current numerical optimal control techniques suffer from either the curse of dimens ionality, e.g. the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, or the curse of complexit

Michael W. Gaultois, Phillip T. Barton, Christina S. Birkel, Lauren M. Misch

Polycrystalline Nd2Ru2O7 samples have been prepared and examined using a combination of structural, magnetic, and electrical and thermal transport studies. Analysis of synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction patterns suggests some site disorder on the A-site in the pyrochlore sublattice: Ru substitutes on the Nd-site up to 7.0(3)%, regardless of the differ

Mattia Zorzi, Francesco Ticozzi, Augusto Ferrante

We propose a general framework for solving quantum state estimation problems using the minimum relative entropy criterion. A convex optimization approach allows us to decide the feasibility of the problem given the data and, whenever necessary, to relax the constraints in order to allow for a physically admissible solution. Building on these results, the var

Jacob T Vanderplas

In the past decade, weak gravitational lensing has become an important tool in the study of the universe at the largest scale, giving insights into the distribution of dark matter, the expansion of the universe, and the nature of dark energy. This thesis research explores several applications of Karhunen-Loeve (KL) analysis to speed and improve the compariso

A. Gabriel, Ł. Rudnicki, B. C. Hiesmayr

We investigate a-priori detection probabilities of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME). Even if one does not have knowledge about the basis in which a state is produced by a source, how a channel decoheres it or about the very working of the detectors used, we find that it is possible to detect GME with reasonably high probability in a feasible fashion.

A. Singer, U. Lorenz, F. Sorgenfrei, N. Gerasimova

We present measurements of second- and higher-order intensity correlation functions (so-called Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment) performed at the free-electron laser (FEL) FLASH in the non-linear regime of its operation. We demonstrate the high transverse coherence properties of the FEL beam with a degree of transverse coherence of about 80% and degeneracy

Koushik Balasubramanian

In this note, we propose gravity duals for 3+1 dimensional Lorentz invariant theories exhibiting discrete scale invariance. We construct non-singular solutions of a six dimensional gravitational theory that are warped products of $AdS_{5}$ and a circle. The presence of non-trivial warp factor explicitly breaks the symmetries of $AdS_{5}$ to discrete scale in

S. Kahwaji, R. A. Gordon, E. D. Crozier, S. Roorda

We present an investigation of Mn δ-doped layers in Si(001) grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We discovered that a Pb surfactant has significant effect on the structural and magnetic properties of the submonolayer of Mn, which depends on the Si capping layer growth temperature, T_Si, and the Mn coverage, θ_Mn. The results presented in this paper identify thre

D. Pesquera, R. Bachelet, G. Herranz, J. Fontcuberta

We analyze X-ray diffraction data used to extract cell parameters of ultrathin films on closely matching substrates. We focus on epitaxial La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 films grown on (001) SrTiO3 single crystalline substrates. It will be shown that, due to extremely high structural similarity of film and substrate, data analysis must explicitly consider the distinct phase

Daniel Chaim Halperin

Advances in the price, performance, and power consumption of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) technology have led to the adoption of wireless functionality in diverse consumer electronics. These trends have enabled an exciting vision of rich wireless applications that combine the unique features of different devices for a better user experience. To meet the needs of thes

C. R. O&#39;Dell, G. J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, Manuel Peimbert

We have performed a detailed analysis of the electron temperature and density in the the Ring Nebula using the calibrated HST WFC3 images described in the preceding paper. The electron temperature (Te) determined from [N II] and [O III] rises slightly and monotonically towards the central star. The observed equivalent width (EW) in the central region indicat

Roland Grinis, Alexander Kasprzyk

We describe an algorithm for determining whether two convex polytopes P and Q, embedded in a lattice, are isomorphic with respect to a lattice automorphism. We extend this to a method for determining if P and Q are equivalent, i.e. whether there exists an affine lattice automorphism that sends P to Q. Methods for calculating the automorphism group and affine

Carlo Marinelli, Alex Weissensteiner

We analyze the relation between earning forecast accuracy and expected profitability of financial analysts. Modeling forecast errors with a multivariate Gaussian distribution, a complete characterization of the payoff of each analyst is provided. In particular, closed-form expressions for the probability density function, for the expectation, and, more gener

C. R. O&#39;Dell, G. J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, Manuel Peimbert

We have performed a detailed analysis of the Ring Nebula (NGC 6720) using HST WFC3 images and derived a new 3-D model. Existing high spectral resolution spectra played an important supplementary role in our modeling. It is shown that the Main Ring of the nebula is an ionization-bounded irregular non-symmetric disk with a central cavity and perpendicular exte

A. Omont, C. J. Willott, A. Beelen, J. Bergeron

We report 250 GHz (1.2 mm) observations of a sample of 20 QSOs at redshifts 5.8<z<6.5 from the the Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey (CFHQS), using the Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO) array at the IRAM 30-metre telescope. A rms sensitivity <~ 0.6 mJy was achieved for 65% of the sample, and <~ 1.0 mJy for 90%. Only one QSO, CFHQS J142952+544717, was

Hernan L. Calvo, Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow, Horacio M. Pastawski, Stephan Roche

The use of Floquet theory combined with a realistic description of the electronic structure of illuminated graphene and graphene nanoribbons is developed to assess the emergence of non-adiabatic and non-perturbative effects on the electronic properties. Here, we introduce an efficient computational scheme and illustrate its use by applying it to graphene nan

Jonathan A. Kelner, Lorenzo Orecchia, Aaron Sidford, Zeyuan Allen Zhu

In this paper, we present a simple combinatorial algorithm that solves symmetric diagonally dominant (SDD) linear systems in nearly-linear time. It uses very little of the machinery that previously appeared to be necessary for a such an algorithm. It does not require recursive preconditioning, spectral sparsification, or even the Chebyshev Method or Conjugat

L. Samaj, E. Trizac

We study the ground-state structures of identical classical point charges with Coulomb interactions, confined between two symmetric parallel charged walls. For the well understood homogeneous dielectric case with no electrostatic images, the charges evenly condense on the opposite walls, thereby forming a bilayer Wigner crystal; five structures compete upon

Xiangnan Kong, Philip S. Yu, Xue Wang, Ann B. Ragin

Mining discriminative features for graph data has attracted much attention in recent years due to its important role in constructing graph classifiers, generating graph indices, etc. Most measurement of interestingness of discriminative subgraph features are defined on certain graphs, where the structure of graph objects are certain, and the binary edges wit

A. Biggs, H. M. Khudaverdian

Let $Δ$ be a linear differential operator acting on the space of densities of a given weight $\lo$ on a manifold $M$. One can consider a pencil of operators $\hPi(Δ)=\{Δ_ł\}$ passing through the operator $Δ$ such that any $Δ_ł$ is a linear differential operator acting on densities of weight $ł$. This pencil can be identified with a linear differential operat

Yan Gao Chris J. Pritchet

Studying the correlation of type Ia supernova rates (SNR) with host galaxy properties is an important step in understanding the exact nature of type Ia supernovae. We use SNe Ia from the SDSS-II sample, spectroscopically determined masses and star formation rates, and a new maximum likelihood method, to fit the Scannapieco and Bildsten rate model $SNR = A{\t

Thierry Combot

We prove that the only meromorphically integrable planar homogeneous potential of degree k <> -2,0,2 having a multiple Darboux point is the potential invariant by rotation. This case is a singular case of the Maciejewski-Przybylska relation on eigenvalues at Darboux points of homogeneous potentials, and needed before a case by case special analysis. The most

Shahid Hussain

Located at the South Pole, IceCube is a particle-astrophysics observatory composed of a square-kilometer surface air shower array (IceTop) and a 1.4 km deep cubic-kilometer optical Cherenkov detector array. We review results of measurements of the cosmic ray spectrum and average mass in the energy range 1 PeV to 1 EeV.

A. Omont, Chentao Yang, P. Cox, R. Neri

Using IRAM PdBI we report the detection of H2O in six new lensed ultra-luminous starburst galaxies at high redshift, discovered in the Herschel H-ATLAS survey. The sources are detected either in the 2_{02}-1_{11} or 2_{11}-2_{02} H_2O emission lines with integrated line fluxes ranging from 1.8 to 14 Jy.km/s. The corresponding apparent luminosities are mu x L

M. Laurent, A. Varvitsiotis

This paper addresses the following three topics: positive semidefinite (psd) matrix completions, universal rigidity of frameworks, and the Strong Arnold Property (SAP). We show some strong connections among these topics, using semidefinite programming as unifying theme. Our main contribution is a sufficient condition for constructing partial psd matrices whi

Marek Dwornik, Zoltán Keresztes, László Á. Gergely

Rotation curves of spiral galaxies are fundamental tools in the study of dark matter. Here we test the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter model against rotation curve data of High and Low Surface Brightness (HSB and LSB) galaxies, respectively. When the rotational velocities increase over the whole observed range, the fit of the BEC model is similar

Philip Kopp, Wayne Polyzou

We discuss a formulation of exactly Poincaré invariant quantum mechanics where the input is model Euclidean Green functions or their generating functional. We discuss the structure of the models, the construction of the Hilbert space, the construction and transformation properties of single-particle states, and the construction of GeV scale transition matrix

Andrew M. Steane

We discuss weak and strong links (`virtual connections&#39;) in the Shannon game. General properties of these links are discussed, leading to a method to find all links of given size by a suitably pruned exhaustive search. This is applied to links on graphs of up to 11 vertices. We discuss the concept of reducibility of such links. Three simple reductions ar

G. Filacchione, F. Capaccioni, R. N. Clark, P. D. Nicholson

Over the last eight years, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) aboard the Cassini orbiter has returned hyperspectral images in the 0.35-5.1 micron range of the icy satellites and rings of Saturn. These very different objects show significant variations in surface composition, roughness and regolith grain size as a result of their evolutionary

B. Ruta, G. Baldi, G. Monaco, Y. Chushkin

We present x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy measurements of the atomic dynamics in a Zr67Ni33 metallic glass, well below its glass transition temperature. We find that the decay of the density fluctuations can be well described by compressed, thus faster than exponential, correlation functions which can be modeled by the well-known Kohlrausch-Williams-W