March 2013 arXiv papers — page 66

Kameron Decker Harris, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

We study binary state dynamics on a network where each node acts in response to the average state of its neighborhood. Allowing varying amounts of stochasticity in both the network and node responses, we find different outcomes in random and deterministic versions of the model. In the limit of a large, dense network, however, we show that these dynamics coin

Falk Hassler, Dieter Lust

In this paper we discuss the construction of non-geometric Q- and R-branes as sources of non-geometric Q- and R-fluxes in string compactifications. The non-geometric Q-branes, being obtained via T-duality from the NS 5-brane or respectively from the KK-monopole, are still local solutions of the standard NS action, where however the background fields G and B

Michael E. Crenshaw

We adopt the continuum limit of a linear, isotropic, homogeneous, transparent, dispersion-negligible dielectric of refractive index $n$ and examine the consequences of the effective speed of light in a stationary dielectric, $c/n$, for D'Alembert's principle and the Lagrange equations. The principles of dynamics in the dielectric-filled space are the

Andrey Kretinin, Anindya Das, Hadas Shtrikman

Half a century ago Brian Josephson made a series of striking predictions related to a tunnelling barrier sandwiched between two superconductors. One particular prediction, later became known as the a.c.-Josephson effect, said that under a finite d.c. bias the tunnelling current contains an a.c. supercurrent component, oscillating at microwave frequency. This

Shinji Mukohyama

We suggest a new scenario of gravitation in which gravity at the fundamental level is described by a Riemannian (i.e. locally Euclidean) theory without the notion of time. The Lorentzian metric structure and the notion of time emerge as effective properties at long distances. On the other hand, at short distances, higher derivative terms compatible with the

José M. M. Senovilla

I present the junction conditions for F(R) theories of gravity and their implications: the generalized Israel conditions and equations. These junction conditions are necessary to construct global models of stars, galaxies, etc., where a vacuum region surrounds a finite body in equilibrium, as well as to describe shells of matter and braneworlds, and they are

Kazim Buyukboduk

Ochiai has previously proved that the Beilinson-Kato Euler systems for modular forms interpolate in nearly-ordinary $p$-adic families (Howard has obtained a similar result for Heegner points), based on which he was able to prove a half of the two-variable main conjectures. The principal goal of this article is to generalize Ochiai's work in the level of

Joachim Hamm, Fabian Renn, Ortwin Hess

We present a corrective subcell averaging technique that improves on the accuracy of the volume-averaged finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in the presence of dispersive material interfaces. The method is based on an alternative effective-medium formulation that captures field discontinuities at interfaces as electric and magnetic surface currents.

Remi Janner, Jan Swoboda

We lay the foundations of a Morse homology on the space of connections on a principal $G$-bundle over a compact manifold $Y$, based on a newly defined gauge-invariant functional $\mathcal J$. While the critical points of $\mathcal J$ correspond to Yang-Mills connections on $P$, its $L^2$-gradient gives rise to a novel system of elliptic equations. This contr

Paweł Sobocinski, Owen Stephens

We introduce a novel technique for checking reachability in Petri nets that relies on a recently introduced compositional algebra of nets. We prove that the technique is correct, and discuss our implementation. We report promising experimental results on some well-known examples.

N. Bachelard, S. Gigan, X. Noblin, P. Sebbah

A laser is not necessarily a sophisticated device: Pumping energy into an amplifying medium randomly filled with scatterers, a powder for instance, makes a perfect "random laser." In such a laser, the absence of mirrors greatly simplifies laser design, but control over emission directionality or frequency tunability is lost, seriously hindering prosp

Jean Alexandre, Martyna Kostacinska

Using the multiplicity of solutions for the projectable case of the covariant extension of Horava-Lifshitz Gravity, we show that an appropriate choice for the auxiliary field allows for an effective description of galaxy rotation curves. This description is based on static and spherically symmetric solutions of covariant Horava-Lifshitz Gravity and does not

Graham Hugh Cross

Textbooks state that the successful application of Maxwell's Equations in physical optics problems requires light to interact with matter where any inhomogeneities are spaced by less than or equal to the wavelength of light; the 'dense' limit. This untested statement is proved correct in the experiment reported here and a precise dense limit is f

V. M. García-Suárez, R. Ferradás, D. Carrascal, J. Ferrer

We analyze the low-voltage transport response of large molecular wires bridging graphene electrodes, where the molecules are physisorbed onto the graphene sheets by planar anchor groups. In our study, the sheets are pulled away to vary the gap length and the relative atomic positions. The molecular wires are also translated in directions parallel and perpend

Joan C. Artés, Alex C. Rezende, Regilene D. S. Oliveira

The goal is to make a global study of the family QsnSN of all real quadratic polynomial differential systems which have a finite semi-elemental saddle-node and an infinite saddle-node formed by the collision of two infinite singular points. This family can be divided into three different subfamilies, all of them with the finite saddle-node in the origin of t

Yi-Jie Li, Guang-Zhi Xu, Kui-Yong Liu, Yu-Jie Zhang

The relativistic corrections to the productions of double J/psi, double Upsilon, and J/psi+Upsilon at the Tevatron and the LHC were investigated within the frame of nonrelativistic QCD. The ratios of short distance coefficients between relativistic correction and leading order result for color singlet and color octet states in large p_T limit are approximate

Won Chang, Murali Haran, Roman Olson, Klaus Keller

How will the climate system respond to anthropogenic forcings? One approach to this question relies on climate model projections. Current climate projections are considerably uncertain. Characterizing and, if possible, reducing this uncertainty is an area of ongoing research. We consider the problem of making projections of the North Atlantic meridional over

Andreas Frommer, Karsten Kahl, Stefan Krieg, Björn Leder

In lattice QCD computations a substantial amount of work is spent in solving discretized versions of the Dirac equation. Conventional Krylov solvers show critical slowing down for large system sizes and physically interesting parameter regions. We present a domain decomposition adaptive algebraic multigrid method used as a precondtioner to solve the "clo

Jung Yeol Kim, K. -I. Goh

Distinct channels of interaction in a complex networked system define network layers, which co-exist and co-operate for the system's function. Towards realistic modeling and understanding such multiplex systems, we introduce and study a class of growing multiplex network models in which different network layers coevolve, and examine how the entangled gro

Ira M. Gessel, Ji Li

We study formulas expressing Fibonacci numbers as sums over compositions using free submonoids of the free monoid of compositions with parts 1 and 2.

Maciej Dominik Śpiewanowski, Adam Etches, Lars Bojer Madsen

We investigate the effect on high-order harmonic generation of the distortion of molecular orbitals by the driving laser field. Calculations for high-order harmonic generation including orbital distortion are performed for N2. Our results allow us to suggest that field-distortion is the reason why the two-center interference minimum has never been observed e

A. Mooser, H. Kracke, K. Blaum, S. A. Braeuninger

The spin magnetic moment of a single proton in a cryogenic Penning trap was coupled to the particle's axial motion with a superimposed magnetic bottle. Jumps in the oscillation frequency indicate spin-flips and were identified using a Bayesian analysis.

B. King, H. Ruhl

We isolate the two-step mechanism involving a real intermediate photon from the one-step mechanism involving a virtual photon for the trident process in a constant crossed field. The two-step process is shown to agree with an integration over polarised sub-processes. At low to moderate quantum non-linearity parameter, the one-step process is found to be supp

Wei Li, Christina A. Hacker, Yiran Liang, Curt A. Richter

Resist residue from the device fabrication process is a general and significant source of the metal/graphene contact interface contamination. In this paper, Ultraviolet-Ozone (UVO) treatment is proven to be an effective way of cleaning the metal/graphene interface. Electrical measurements of devices, which were fabricated by using UVO treatment of the metal/

Tommaso Giannantonio, Ashley J. Ross, Will J. Percival, Robert Crittenden

We present the strongest robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) from currently available galaxy surveys, combining large-scale clustering measurements and their cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background. We update the data sets used by Giannantonio et al. (2012), and broaden that analysis to include the full set of two-point cor

I. B. Khriplovich, A. S. Rudenko

If torsion exists, it generates gravitational four-fermion interaction (GFFI), essential on the Planck scale. We analyze the influence of this interaction on the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology. Explicit analytical solution is derived for the problem where both the energy-momentum tensor generated by GFFI and the common ultrarelativistic

Tomoyuki Yamakami

A unary constraint (on the Boolean domain) is a function from {0,1} to the set of real numbers. A free use of auxiliary unary constraints given besides input instances has proven to be useful in establishing a complete classification of the computational complexity of approximately solving weighted counting Boolean constraint satisfaction problems (or #CSPs)

Sen Miao, Chung-Lin Shan, Yu-Feng Zhou

In this paper, we introduce model-independent data analysis procedures for identifying inelastic WIMP-nucleus scattering as well as for reconstructing the mass and the mass splitting of inelastic WIMPs simultaneously and separately. Our simulations show that, with O(50) observed WIMP signals from one experiment, one could already distinguish the inelastic WI

Erwan Brugalle, Hannah Markwig

We illustrate the use of tropical methods by generalizing a formula due to Abramovich and Bertram, extended later by Vakil. Namely, we exhibit relations between enumerative invariants of the Hirzebruch surfaces $Σ_n$ and $Σ_{n+2}$, obtained by deforming the first surface to the latter. Our strategy involves a tropical counterpart of deformations of Hirzebruc

Dan Geiger, David Heckerman

We examine two types of similarity networks each based on a distinct notion of relevance. For both types of similarity networks we present an efficient inference algorithm that works under the assumption that every event has a nonzero probability of occurrence. Another inference algorithm is developed for type 1 similarity networks that works under no restri

David Heckerman

I introduce a temporal belief-network representation of causal independence that a knowledge engineer can use to elicit probabilistic models. Like the current, atemporal belief-network representation of causal independence, the new representation makes knowledge acquisition tractable. Unlike the atemproal representation, however, the temporal representation

David Heckerman, Michael Shwe

We compare the diagnostic accuracy of three diagnostic inference models: the simple Bayes model, the multimembership Bayes model, which is isomorphic to the parallel combination function in the certainty-factor model, and a model that incorporates the noisy OR-gate interaction. The comparison is done on 20 clinicopathological conference (CPC) cases from the

Evgeny Sevost'yanov

The paper is devoted to the study of mappings with non--bounded characteristics of quasiconformality. We investigate the interconnection between the classes of the so-called ring $Q$-mappings and lower ring $Q$-mappings. It is proved that open discrete lower ring $Q$-mappings are ring $Q^{n-1}$-mappings at fixed point. As consequence we obtain the equicontin

Ivan Losev, Ben Webster

In this paper, we propose an axiomatic definition for a tensor product categorification. A tensor product categorification is an abelian category with a categorical action of a Kac-Moody algebra g in the sense of Rouquier or Khovanov-Lauda whose Grothendieck group is isomorphic to a tensor product of simple modules. However, we require a much stronger struct

Denis Belomestny, Fabian Dickmann, Tigran Nagapetyan

In this article we propose a novel approach to reduce the computational complexity of various approximation methods for pricing discrete time American options. Given a sequence of continuation values estimates corresponding to different levels of spatial approximation and time discretization, we propose a multi-level low biased estimate for the price of an A

Christian Buth

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is combined with resonant x-ray excitation of a core electron into the transient valence vacancy that is created in the course of the HHG process. To describe this setting, I develop a two-active-electron quantum theory for a single atom assuming no Coulomb interaction among the electrons; one electron performs a typical

Daniele Guido, Tommaso Isola

The definitions and main properties of the Ihara and Bartholdi zeta functions for infinite graphs are reviewed. The general question of the validity of a functional equation is discussed, and various possible solutions are proposed.

G. S. Bali, F. Bruckmann, G. Endrodi, F. Gruber

We study the influence of strong external magnetic fields on gluonic and fermionic observables in the QCD vacuum at zero and nonzero temperatures, via lattice simulations with N_f=1+1+1 staggered quarks of physical masses. The gluonic action density is found to undergo magnetic catalysis at low temperatures and inverse magnetic catalysis near and above the t

Jianmin Chen, Yanan Lin, Pin Liu, Shiquan Ruan

Using cluster tilting theory, we investigate tilting objects in the stable category of vector bundles on a weighted projective line of weight type $(2, 2, 2, 2)$. More precisely, a tilting object consisting of rank-two bundles is constructed via cluster tilting mutation. Moreover, the cluster tilting approach also provides a new method to classify the endomo

Thomas J. Haworth, Tim J. Harries, David M. Acreman, David A. Rundle

We investigate observational signatures of triggered star formation in bright rimmed clouds (BRCs) by using molecular line transfer calculations based on radiation-hydrodynamic radiatively-driven-implosion models. We find that for BRCs the separation in velocity between the line profile peak of an optically thick and an optically thin line is determined by b

D. Psiachos

We examine, using mixed classical-quantum electron-ion dynamics, electron transfer in a donor-acceptor-like molecular junction system based on polyacetylene. We identify two qualitatively-different transfer regimes: hopping and tunnelling. We discuss the criteria for achieving each one and for minimizing inelastic scattering and decoherence arising from the

Kazumasa Hattori

We develop a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method based on a strong-coupling expansion for Anderson impurity models with phonon-assisted hybridizations for arbitrary number of phonon modes. As a benchmark, we investigate the two-channel Anderson model with a single phonon, and numerically demonstrate that an SO(5) susceptibility composed of localized-e

Harald O. Jeschke, Francesc Salvat-Pujol, Roser Valenti

Herbertsmithite (ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2) is often discussed as the best realization of the highly frustrated antiferromagnetic kagome lattice known so far. We employ density functional theory calculations to determine eight exchange coupling constants of the underlying Heisenberg Hamiltonian. We find the nearest neighbour coupling J1 to exceed all other couplings by

Masaya Fujioka, Saleem James Denholme, Toshinori Ozaki, Hiroyuki Okazaki

We obtained amorphous-FeAs-free SmFeAsO1-xFx using a low temperature sintering with slow cooling. SmFeAsO1-xFx is sintered at 980 °C for 40 hours and cooled slowly down to 600 °C. The low temperature sintering suppresses the formation of amorphous FeAs, and the slow cooling introduces much fluorine into SmFeAsO1-xFx. The superconductivity of this sample appe

Boris Kruglikov, Dennis The

The infinitesimal symmetry algebra of any Cartan geometry has maximum dimension realized by the flat model, but often this dimension drops significantly when considering non-flat geometries, so a gap phenomenon arises. For general (regular, normal) parabolic geometries of type (G,P), we use Tanaka theory to derive a universal upper bound on the submaximal sy

Ryuichi Takahashi, Hideki Asada

The latest result in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search (SQLS) has set the first cosmological constraints on negative-mass compact objects and Ellis wormholes. There are no multiple images lensed by the above two exotic objects for $\sim 50000$ distant quasars in the SQLS data. Therefore, an upper bound is put on the cosmic abundances of these l

Rasul Shafikov, Kaushal Verma

We give a sufficient condition for a meromorphic correspondence to be a holomorphic correspondence in a neighbourhood of a smooth real hypersurface

Hyong-Chol O, Ning Wan

We provide analytical pricing formula of corporate defaultable bond with both expected and unexpected default in the case with stochastic default intensity. In the case with constant short rate and exogenous default recovery using PDE method, we gave some pricing formula of the defaultable bond under the conditions that 1)expected default recovery is the sam

A. G. Nikitin

Quantum nonrelativistic systems with $2\times2$ matrix potentials are investigated. Physically, they simulate charged or neutral fermions with non-trivial dipole momenta, interacting with an external electric field. Assuming rotationally invariance of the Hamiltonian all such systems allowing second order integrals of motion are identified. It is shown that

M. S. Jackson

The autonomous control system of PoGOLite is presented. PoGOLite is a balloon borne X-ray polarimeter designed to observe point sources. To obtain scientific data with optimal efficiency, independent of the ground connection, the payload control system has been made autonomous in most functions. The overall system architecture and the interconnections betwee

Clemens Gneiting, Klaus Hornberger

We evaluate the nonlocal spatial interference displayed by Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entangled particle pairs after they pass through a double grating arrangement. An entanglement criterion is derived which serves to certify the underlying entanglement only from the observed spatial correlations. We discuss the robustness of the scheme along with a number of p

Qiong Li, D. Z. Xu, C. Y. Cai, C. P. Sun

The scattering of a single photon with sufficiently high energy can cause a recoil of a motional scatterer. We study its backaction on the photon's coherent transport in one dimension by modeling the motional scatterer as a two-level system, which is trapped in a harmonic potential. While the reflection spectrum is of a single peak in the Lamb-Dicke limi

Michael Falk

Replacing the spectral measure by a random vector $\bfZ$ allows the representation of a max-stable distribution on $\R^d$ with standard negative margins via a norm, called \emph{$D$-norm}, whose generator is $\bfZ$. The set of $D$-norms can be equipped with a commutative multiplication type operation, making it a semigroup with an identity element. This mult

Christian Hennig, Cinzia Viroli

Quantile classifiers for potentially high-dimensional data are defined by classifying an observation according to a sum of appropriately weighted component-wise distances of the components of the observation to the within-class quantiles. An optimal percentage for the quantiles can be chosen by minimizing the misclassification error in the training sample. I

P. Novak, K. Knizek, J. Kunes

A method to calculate the crystal field parameters {\it ab initio} is proposed and applied to trivalent rare earth impurities in yttrium aluminate and to Tb$^{3+}$ ion in TbAlO$_3$. To determine crystal field parameters local Hamiltonian expressed in basis of Wannier functions is expanded in a series of spherical tensor operators. Wannier functions are obtai

Takahiro Matsushita

We prove that a graph whose chromatic number is 2 is a homotopy test graph. We also prove that there is a graph $K$ with two involutions $γ_1$ and $γ_2$ such that $(K,γ_1)$ is a Stiefel-Whitney test graph, but $(K,γ_2)$ is not. These are answers to some of the problems suggested by Kozlov.

Dimitri O. Ledenyov

The nonlinear surface resistance Rs of the YBa2Cu3O7-x superconducting thin films on the MgO substrates was researched in the Hakki-Coleman dielectric resonator at the microwave signal powers from -18 dBm to +30 dBm at the ultra high frequency of 25 GHz in the range of temperatures from 12 K to 85 K. The dependences of the surface resistance on the temperatu

Wolfgang Lueck, Wolfgang Steimle

We present an elementary construction of the non-connective algebraic K-theory spectrum associated to an additive category following the contracted functor approach due to Bass. It comes with a universal property that easily allows us to identify it with other constructions, for instance with the one of Pedersen-Weibel in terms of Z^i-graded objects and boun

Yu-Feng Li, Ivor W. Tsang, James T. Kwok, Zhi-Hua Zhou

In this paper, we study the problem of learning from weakly labeled data, where labels of the training examples are incomplete. This includes, for example, (i) semi-supervised learning where labels are partially known; (ii) multi-instance learning where labels are implicitly known; and (iii) clustering where labels are completely unknown. Unlike supervised l

Giuseppe Colucci, Armen Sedrakian, Dirk H. Rischke

We apply thermal field theory methods to compute microscopically the nucleon self-energy arising from one-pion exchange in isospin-symmetric nuclear matter and neutron matter. A self-consistent numerical scheme is introduced and its convergence is demonstrated. The repulsive contribution from the Fock exchange diagram to the energy per nucleon in symmetric n

Péter Kálmán, Dániel Péter Kis, Tamás Keszthelyi

The change of the probability of proton emission in nuclear photoeffect due to an intense coherent (laser) field is discussed near the threshold, where the hindering effect of the Coulomb field of the remainder nucleus is essential. The ratio of laser-assisted and laser free differential cross section is deduced and found to be independent of the polarizatio

A. I. Ahmadov, D. G. Kostunin, M. K. Volkov

In the extended NJL model the total cross sections of the processes $e^+e^- \to (η, η', η(1295), η(1405))γ$ at energies up to 2 GeV are calculated. The intermediate vector mesons $ρ(770)$, $ω(782)$, $ϕ(1020)$, $ρ' (1450)$, $ω' (1420)$ and $ϕ' (1680)$ are taken into account. The latter three mesons are treated as the first radial excited state

Sheng-Wen Li, Li-Ping Yang, C. P. Sun

We study the Markovian process of a multi-mode open system connecting with a non-equilibrium environment, which consists of several heat baths with different temperatures. As an illustration, we study the steady state of three linearly coupled harmonic oscillators in long time evolution, two of which contact with two independent bosonic heat baths with diffe

Péter Kálmán, Tamás Keszthelyi

It is recognized that in the family of heavy charged particle and electron assisted double nuclear processes resonance-like behavior can appear. The transition rates of the heavy particle assisted 3rd-order and electron assisted 4th-order resonance like double nuclear processes are determined. The power of low energy nuclear reactions in $Ni-H$ systems forme

Spyros Alexakis, Arick Shao

The main objective of this paper is to control the geometry of a future outgoing truncated null cone extending smoothly toward infinity in an Einstein-vacuum spacetime. In particular, we wish to do this under minimal regularity assumptions, namely, at the (weighted) L^2-curvature level. We show that if the curvature flux and the data on an initial sphere of

Subir Ghosh

We show that the Equivalence Principle (EP) is violated by Quantum Gravity (QG) effects. The predicted violations are compared to experimental observations for Gravitational Redshift, Law of Reciprocal Action and Universality of Free Fall. This allows us to derive explicit bounds for $β$ - the QG scale. In our approach, there appears a deviation in the geode

Teruaki Suyama, Shuichiro Yokoyama

We provide a general formula for calculating correlators of arbitrary function of a Gaussian field. This work extends the standard leading-order approximation based on the delta N formalism to the case where truncation of the delta N at some low order does not yield the correct answer. As an application of this formula, we investigate 2, 3 and 4-point functi

Yong Wang, L. J. Sham

We present a theory of magnetization dynamics driven by spin-polarized current in terms of the quantum master equation. In the spin coherent state representation, the master equation becomes a Fokker-Planck equation, which naturally includes the spin transfer and quantum fluctuation. The current electron scattering state is correlated to the magnet quantum s

Kenkichi Miyabayashi

The most recent measurements of three CP violation angles of Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity triangle is reviewed.

Kevin Earl, Katy Hartling, Heather E. Logan, Terry Pilkington

Models in which the Higgs sector is extended by a single electroweak scalar multiplet X can possess an accidental global U(1) symmetry at the renormalizable level if X has isospin T greater or equal to 2. We show that all such U(1)-symmetric models are excluded by the interplay of the cosmological relic density of the lightest (neutral) component of X and it

Xiang-Dong Li

In this paper, we prove Hamilton's Harnack inequality and the gradient estimates of the logarithmic heat kernel for the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemainnian manifolds. As applications, we prove the $W$-entropy formula for the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds, and prove a family of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on complete Riemanni

Satoshi Mochizuki

The main objective of this paper is to determine generators of the topological filtrations on the higher K-theory of a noetherian commutative ring with unit A. We introduce the concept of Koszul cubes and give a comparison theorem between the K-theory of Koszul cubes with that of topological filtrations.

Taichi Kato, Hiroyuki Maehara

We analyzed a Kepler light curve of KIC 8751494, a recently recognized novalike cataclysmic variable in the Kepler field. We detected a stable periodicity of 0.114379(1) d, which we identified as being the binary's orbital period. The stronger photometric period around 0.12245 d, which had been detected from the ground-based observation, was found to be

Yongkang Luo, Chao Cao, Bingqi Si, Yuke Li

Motivated by the rich interplay among electronic correlation, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), crystal-field splitting, and geometric frustrations in the honeycomb-like lattice, we systematically investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of Li$_2$RhO$_3$. The material is semiconducting with a narrow band gap of $Δ\sim$78 meV, and its temperature dependen

Jun Jiang, Yongjun Cheng, J. Mitroy

Dispersion coefficients between the alkali metal atoms (Li-Rb) and alkaline-earth metal atoms (Be-Sr) are evaluated using matrix elements computed from frozen core configuration interaction calculations. Besides dispersion coefficients with both atoms in their respective ground states, dispersion coefficients are also given for the case where one atom is in

Jun Song, Feng-lan Shao

Experimental data at RHIC and SPS energies suggest a systematic correlation between yield ratio $\bar{p}/p$ and $K^{-}/K^{+}$, which reveal some universality of hadron production in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We propose an explanation based on the quark combination mechanism in which the production asymmetry between baryons and antibaryons is focused

M. L. Wall, L. D. Carr

We study the effective dipole-dipole interactions in ultracold quantum gases on optical lattices as a function of asymmetry in confinement along the principal axes of the lattice. In particular, we study the matrix elements of the dipole-dipole interaction in the basis of lowest band Wannier functions which serve as a set of low-energy states for many-body p

Nicos Georgiou, Firas Rassoul-Agha, Timo Seppäläinen, Atilla Yilmaz

We introduce a random walk in random environment associated to an underlying directed polymer model in $1+1$ dimensions. This walk is the positive temperature counterpart of the competition interface of percolation and arises as the limit of quenched polymer measures. We prove this limit for the exactly solvable log-gamma polymer, as a consequence of almost

Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul Ricker, Ronald Taam

The progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are still under debate. Based on recent hydrodynamics simulations, non-degenerate companions in the single-degenerate scenario (SDS) should survive the supernova impact. One way to distinguish between the SDS and the double-degenerate scenario is to search for the post-impact remnant stars (PIRSs) in SN I

K. D. Cherednichenko, S. Cooper, S. Guenneau

We study the behaviour of the spectrum of a family of one-dimensional operators with periodic high-contrast coefficients as the period goes to zero, which may represent e.g. the elastic or electromagnetic response of a two-component composite medium. Compared to the standard operators with moderate contrast, they exhibit a number of new effects due to the un

Mikhail Cherdantsev, Kirill Cherednichenko, Stefan Neukamm

We study the homogenisation of geometrically nonlinear elastic composites with high contrast. The composites we analyse consist of a perforated matrix material, which we call the &#34;stiff&#34; material, and a &#34;soft&#34; material that fills the pores. We assume that the pores are of size $0<\varepsilon\ll 1$ and are periodically distributed with period

R. Szczȩśniak, D. Szczȩśniak, K. M. Huras

The thermodynamic parameters of the superconducting state in PtH at the pressure 76 GPa have been examined. The calculations have been carried out in the framework of the Eliashberg formalism. It has been found that the critical temperature changes in the range from 30.6 K to 16.8 K, depending on the assumed value of the Coulomb pseudopotential (0.1, 0.2 and

Bent Flyvbjerg, Mette K. Skamris Holm, Søren L. Buhl

This article presents results from the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in transportation infrastructure projects. Based on a sample of 258 transportation infrastructure projects worth US$90 billion and representing different project types, geographical regions, and historical periods, it is found with overwhelming statistical signifi

J. A. Nieto

We briefly describe the importance of division algebras and Poincaré conjecture in both mathematical and physical scenarios. Mathematically, we argue that using the torsion concept one can combine the formalisms of division algebras and Poincaré conjecture. Physically, we show that both formalisms may be the underlying mathematical tools in special relativit

N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. Wallis, D. H. Wallis, M. K. Wallis

The ingress of micrometeorites of cometary origin with densities below ~ 1 g cm-3 into the Earth could average at least 5 tonne per day. Although much of this is burnt upon entry through the atmosphere as meteors, a non-trivial fraction (~10%) which have sizes of ~ 1 m could end up in the form of Polonnaruwa-type meteorites that have mostly gone unnoticed.

Nour-Eddine Fahssi

These lecture notes are based on a master course given at University Hassan II - Agdal in spring 2012.

N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. Wallis, D. H. Wallis, Anil Samaranayake

We report the discovery for the first time of diatom frustules in a carbonaceous meteorite that fell in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka on 29 December 2012. Contamination is excluded by the circumstance that the elemental abundances within the structures match closely with those of the surrounding matrix. There is also evidence of structures morpholo

Jamie Wallis, Nori Miyake, Richard B. Hoover, Andrew Oldroyd

Results of X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis, Triple Oxygen Isotope analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM) studies are presented for stone fragments recovered from the North Central Province of Sri Lanka following a witnessed fireball event on 29 December 2012. The existence of numerous nitrogen depleted highly carbonaceous fossilized biological str

Nora Bretón, Ariadna Montiel

The luminosity distance describing the effect of local inhomogeneities in the propagation of light proposed by Zeldovich-Kantowski-Dyer-Roeder (ZKDR) is tested with two probes for two distinct ranges of redshifts: supernovae Ia (SNe Ia) in 0.015 < z < 1.414 and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in 1.547 < z < 3.57. Our analysis is performed by a Markov Chain Monte Car

Dale E. Gary, Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita

We have developed a general framework for modeling gyrosynchrotron and free-free emission from solar flaring loops and used it to test the premise that 2D maps of source parameters, particularly magnetic field, can be deduced from spatially resolved microwave spectropolarimetry data. In this paper we show quantitative results for a flaring loop with a realis

Qiao-Wei Huang, Jiang Zhang, Adam Berlie, Zhen-Xing Qin

The structural and vibrational properties of phenanthrene are measured at high pressures up to 30.2 GPa by Raman spectroscopy and synchrotron x-ray diffraction techniques. Two phase transitions are observed in raman spectra under pressures of 2.3 GPa and 5.4 GPa with significant changes of intermolecular and intramolecular vibrational modes, and all the rama

Lei Wang, Rodrigo C. de Lamare

This paper proposes a reduced-rank scheme for adaptive beamforming based on the constrained joint iterative optimization of filters. We employ this scheme to devise two novel reduced-rank adaptive algorithms according to the constant modulus (CM) criterion with different constraints. The first devised algorithm is formulated as a constrained joint iterative

Luiz Felipe C. Pereira, Davide Donadio

We investigate the effect of strain and isotopic disorder on thermal transport in suspended graphene by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the thermal conductivity of unstrained graphene, calculated from the fluctuations of the heat current at equilibrium is finite and converges with size at finite temperature. In contrast, the thermal

D. Zhelyazov, D. Han-Kwan, J. D. M. Rademacher

We study a two-fluid description of high and low temperature components of the electron velocity distribution of an idealized tokamak plasma. We refine previous results on the laminar steady-state solution. On the one hand, we prove global stability outside a parameter set of possible linear instability. On the other hand, for a large set of parameters, we p

P. Gandhi, M. Yamanaka, M. Tanaka, T. Nozawa

We present a study of SN 2009js in NGC 918. Multi-band Kanata optical photometry covering the first ~120 days show the source to be a Type IIP SN. Reddening is dominated by that due to our Galaxy. One-year-post-explosion photometry with the NTT, and a Subaru optical spectrum 16 days post-discovery, both imply a good match with the well-studied subluminous SN

D. Zaborov

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. HAWC will consist of 300 large water tanks covering an area of about 22000 square meters and instrumented with 4 photomultipliers each. The experimental design allows for highly efficient detection of photon-induced air

Tianhong Wang, Guo-Li Wang, Wan-Li Ju, Yue Jiang

The $1^1D_2 (c\bar c)$ state is the ground state of spin-singlet D-wave charmonia. Although it has not been found yet, the experimental data accumulate rapidly. This charmonium attracts more and more attention, especially when the BaBar Collaboration finds that the X(3872) particle has negative parity. In this paper we calculate the double-gamma and double-g

Yanpei Liu, Stark C. Draper, Nam Sung Kim

In this paper we study the power-performance relationship of power-efficient computing from a queuing theoretic perspective. We investigate the interplay of several system operations including processing speed, system on/off decisions, and server farm size. We identify that there are oftentimes &#34;sweet spots&#34; in power-efficient operations: there exist

Simon M. Freedman

We calculate the subleading corrections to the thrust rate using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory to factorize the rate and match onto jet and soft operators that describe the degrees of freedom of the relevant scales. We work in the perturbative regime where all the scales are well above Λ_QCD. The thrust rate involves an incomplete sum over final states tha

Yi Gao, Tao Zhou, Huaixiang Huang, C. S. Ting

Based on a phenomenological model with $s_{\pm}$ or s-wave pairing symmetry, the mixed-state effect on the low-energy spin dynamics in optimally-doped iron pnictide superconductors is studied by solving Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. Our results of the spin susceptibility at $\mathbf{q}=\mathbf{Q}$ in the normal, superconducting and mixed states agree quali