April 2013 arXiv papers — page 12

Boris A. Arbuzov

The non-perturbative approach based on Bogoliubov compensation principle is applied to the calculation of a contribution to the muon $g-2$. Using the previous results on the spontaneous generation of the effective anomalous three-boson interaction the contribution is calculated and shown to be in agreement with the well-known discrepancy. The calculated quan

M. Stangalini, S. K. Solanki, R. Cameron, V. Martìnez Pillet

Small-scale magnetic fields are thought to play an important role in the heating of the outer solar atmosphere. By taking advantage of the unprecedented high-spatial and temporal cadence of IMaX, the filter vector polarimeter on board the Sunrise balloon-borne observatory, we study the transversal and longitudinal velocity oscillations in small magnetic elem

Daniel Sherman, Boris Gorshunov, Shachaf Poran, John Jesudasan

The interplay between disorder and superconductivity has intrigued physicists for decades. Of particular interest is the influence of disorder on the superconducting energy gap $Δ$. In the absence of Coulomb interactions between electrons, disorder leads to emergent granularity of the local order parameter resulting in a pseudogap at temperatures above the c

Kyosuke Hirochi

We compute the entropies for general curvature squared gravities in arbitrary dimensions using the conserved charge and Virasoro algebra from surface term. We introduce an auxiliary tensor field in order to obtain the boundary action which establish a variational principle. Our results reproduce those in some specific models, that is, the Gauss-Bonnet, new m

T. Henych, P. Pravec

Photometric observations of asteroids show that some of them are in non-principal axis rotation state (free precession), called tumbling. Collisions between asteroids have been proposed as a possible asteroid rotation excitation mechanism. We simulated subcatastrophic collisions between asteroids of various physical and material parameters to find out whethe

Guotao Lu, Ying Huang

Bismaleimide (BMI) resin/ titania nanocomposites were synthesized from allylated-phenolic modified bismaleimide resin and TiO2 via the sol-gel process of tetrabutyltitanate (Ti(OnBu)4, TBT). These nanocomposite materials were characterized by FT-IR, XRD, FE-SEM, TGA and DMA. It was found that the nano-scale TiO2 particles were formed in the AP-BMI resin matr

A. M. Bykov, A. Brandenburg, M. A. Malkov, S. M. Osipov

Energetic nonthermal particles (cosmic rays, CRs) are accelerated in supernova remnants, relativistic jets and other astrophysical objects. The CR energy density is typically comparable with that of the thermal components and magnetic fields. In this review we discuss mechanisms of magnetic field amplification due to instabilities induced by CRs. We derive C

Tomohiro Taniguchi, Hiroshi Imamura

The optimum condition of the magnetization alignment to maximize the spin torque diode voltage is derived by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We show that the optimized diode voltage can be one order of magnitude larger than that of the conventional alignment where the easy axes of the free and the pinned layers are parallel. These analytical pr

J. -B. Baillon, P. L. Combettes, R. Cominetti

In general there exists no relationship between the fixed point sets of the composition and of the average of a family of nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we establish an asymptotic principle connecting the cycles generated by under-relaxed compositions of nonexpansive operators to the fixed points of the average of these operators. I

Marco A. C. Potenza, Andrea Manca, Sandra Veen, Bart Weber

Using the critical Casimir force, we study the attractive-strength dependence of diffusion-limited colloidal aggregation in microgravity. By means of near field scattering we measure both the static and dynamic structure factor of the aggregates as the aggregation process evolves. The simultaneous measurement of both the static and dynamic structure factor u

P. A. Jones, M. G. Burton, M. R. Cunningham, N. F. H. Tothill

We have imaged 24 spectral lines in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) around the Galactic Centre, in the range 42 to 50 GHz. The lines include emission from the CS, CH3OH, HC3N, SiO, HNCO, HOCO+, NH2CHO, OCS, HCS+, CCS, C34S, 13CS, 29SiO, H13CCCN, HCC13CN and HC5}N molecules, and three hydrogen recombination lines. The area covered is Galactic longitude -0.7

Michael Brand

"The Baron's omni-sequence", B(n), first defined by Khovanova and Lewis (2011), is a sequence that gives for each n the minimum number of weighings on balance scales that can verify the correct labeling of n identically-looking coins with distinct integer weights between 1 gram and n grams. A trivial lower bound on B(n) is log_3(n), and it has be

D K Choudhury, Krishna Kingkar Pathak

We make a review of the different works of Quark Model which are based on Perturbation theory. We make a critical analysis of taking linear part of the Potential as perturbation with Coulombic part as parent and its reverse case. We find in the analysis that the linear part can be treated as perturbation for a set of larger values of $α_{s}$ in the range $0.

Priyanka Negi, Anupama Mishra, B. B. Gupta

Tremendous and extraordinary growths in the field of internet, intranet, extranet and its users have developed an innovative era of great global competition and contention. Denial of service attack by multiple nodes is accomplished of disturbing the services of rival servers. The attack can be for multiple reasons. So it is a major threat for cloud environme

Chang Jin Wan, Li Qiang Zhu, Yi Shi, Qing Wan

Learning and logic are fundamental brain functions that make the individual to adapt to the environment, and such functions are established in human brain by modulating ionic fluxes in synapses. Nanoscale ionic/electronic devices with inherent synaptic functions are considered to be essential building blocks for artificial neural networks. Here, Multi-termin

Jakob Ablinger, Johannes Blümlein

In these introductory lectures we discuss classes of presently known nested sums, associated iterated integrals, and special constants which hierarchically appear in the evaluation of massless and massive Feynman diagrams at higher loops. These quantities are elements of stuffle and shuffle algebras implying algebraic relations being widely independent of th

Ki-ahm Lee, Minha Yoo

This paper deals with the homogenization of fully nonlinear second order equation with an oscillating Dirichlet boundary data when the operator and boundary data are $\e$-periodic. We will show that the solution $u_\e$ converges to some function $\bar u(x)$ uniformly on every compact subset $K$ of the domain $D$. Moreover, $\bar u$ is a solution to some boun

Trond Abrahamsen, Vegard Lima, Olav Nygaard

If $X$ is an infinite-dimensional uniform algebra, if $X$ has the Daugavet property or if $X$ is a proper $M$-embedded space, every relatively weakly open subset of the unit ball of the Banach space $X$ is known to have diameter 2, i.e., $X$ has the diameter 2 property. We prove that in these three cases even every finite convex combination of relatively wea

Tomohiro I, Wataru Matsubara, Kouji Shimohira, Shunsuke Inenaga

We solve the problems of detecting and counting various forms of regularities in a string represented as a Straight Line Program (SLP). Given an SLP of size $n$ that represents a string $s$ of length $N$, our algorithm compute all runs and squares in $s$ in $O(n^3h)$ time and $O(n^2)$ space, where $h$ is the height of the derivation tree of the SLP. We also

Jinpeng Yuan, Zhonghua Ji, Yanting Zhao, Xuefang Chang

We present a simple, reliable, and no-destructive method for the measurement of vacuum pressure in a magneto-optical trap. The vacuum pressure is verified to be proportional to collision rate constant between cold atoms and background gas with a coefficient k, which can be calculated by simple ideal gas law. The rate constant for loss due to collisions with

Tomohiro I, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai

We present an algorithm for computing the Lyndon factorization of a string that is given in grammar compressed form, namely, a Straight Line Program (SLP). The algorithm runs in $O(n^4 + mn^3h)$ time and $O(n^2)$ space, where $m$ is the size of the Lyndon factorization, $n$ is the size of the SLP, and $h$ is the height of the derivation tree of the SLP. Sinc

Wei Qin, Chuan Wang, Gui-Lu Long

In this paper, we investigate a high-dimensional quantum state transfer protocol. An arbitrary unknown high-dimensional state can be transferred with high fidelity between two remote registers through a XX coupling spin chain of arbitrary length. The evolution of the state transfer is determined by the natural dynamics of the chain without external modulatio

Ian Marquette

We introduce the most general quartic Poisson algebra generated by a second and a fourth order integral of motion of a 2D superintegrable classical system. We obtain the corresponding quartic (associative) algebra for the quantum analog and we extend Daskaloyannis' construction in obtained in context of quadratic algebras and we obtain the realizations a

Hui Li, Shuhao Wang, Jianlian Cui, Gui-Lu Long

The entanglement quantification and classification of multipartite quantum states are two important research fields in quantum information. In this work, we study the entanglement of arbitrary-dimensional multipartite pure states by looking at the averaged partial entropies of various bipartite partitions of the system, namely, the so-called Manhattan distan

Alexander K. Popov, Mikhail I. Shalaev, Sergey A. Myslivets, Vitaly V. Slabko

A possibility to greatly enhance frequency-conversion efficiency of stimulated Raman scattering is shown by making use of extraordinary properties of three-wave mixing of ordinary and backward waves. Such processes are commonly attributed to negative-index plasmonic metamaterials. This work demonstrates the possibility to replace such metamaterials that are

Zhihan Gao

We design a new LP-based algorithm for the graphic $s$-$t$ path Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), which achieves the best approximation factor of 1.5. The algorithm is based on the idea of narrow cuts due to An, Kleinberg, and Shmoys. It partly answers an open question of Sebő.

Chetan Jhurani

We describe an interface and an implementation for performing Kronecker product actions on NVIDIA GPUs for multiple small 2-D matrices and 3-D arrays processed in parallel as a batch. This method is suited to cases where the Kronecker product component matrices are identical but the operands in a matrix-free application vary in the batch. Any batched GEMM (G

Chetan Jhurani, Paul Mullowney

We present an interface and an implementation of the General Matrix Multiply (GEMM) routine for multiple small matrices processed simultaneously on NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). We focus on matrix sizes under 16. The implementation can be easily extended to larger sizes. For single precision matrices, our implementation is 30% to 600% faster than

Han Li, Chi-Keung Ng

We define spectral gap actions of discrete groups on von Neumann algebras and study their relations with invariant states. We will show that a finitely generated ICC group $Γ$ is inner amenable if and only if there exist more than one inner invariant states on the group von Neumann algebra $L(Γ)$. Moreover, a countable discrete group $Γ$ has property $(T)$ i

Chetan Jhurani

This is the second of two papers to describe a matrix sparsification algorithm that takes a general real or complex matrix as input and produces a sparse output matrix of the same size. The first paper presented the original algorithm, its features, and theoretical results. Since the output of this sparsification algorithm is a matrix rather than a vector, i

Chetan Jhurani

This is the first of two papers to describe a matrix sparsification algorithm that takes a general real or complex matrix as input and produces a sparse output matrix of the same size. The non-zero entries in the output are chosen to minimize changes to the singular values and singular vectors corresponding to the near null-space of the input. The output mat

Shahar Dobzinski, Renato Paes Leme

In settings where players have a limited access to liquidity, represented in the form of budget constraints, efficiency maximization has proven to be a challenging goal. In particular, the social welfare cannot be approximated by a better factor then the number of players. Therefore, the literature has mainly resorted to Pareto-efficiency as a way to achieve

Yash Deshpande, Andrea Montanari

Consider an Erdös-Renyi random graph in which each edge is present independently with probability 1/2, except for a subset $\sC_N$ of the vertices that form a clique (a completely connected subgraph). We consider the problem of identifying the clique, given a realization of such a random graph. The best known algorithm provably finds the clique in linear tim

Shane Cooper

A two phase elastic composite with weakly compressible elastic inclusions is considered. The homogenised two-scale limit problem is found, via a version of the method of two-scale convergence, and analysed. The microscopic part of the two-scale limit is found to solve a Stokes type problem and shown to have no microscopic oscillations when the composite is s

Julien M. Hendrickx, John N. Tsitsiklis

We consider continuous-time consensus seeking systems whose time-dependent interactions are cut-balanced, in the following sense: if a group of agents influences the remaining ones, the former group is also influenced by the remaining ones by at least a proportional amount. Models involving symmetric interconnections and models in which a weighted average of

Sébastien Clesse, Björn Garbrecht, Yi Zhu

For the original hybrid inflation as well as the supersymmetric F-term and D-term hybrid models, we calculate the level of non-gaussianities and the power spectrum of curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall, taking into account the contribution of entropic modes. We focus on the regime of mild waterfall, in which inflation continues for more t

Ricardo E. Gamboa Saraví, Marcela Sanmartino, Philippe Tchamitchian

We give simple conditions implying the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the propagation of classical scalar fields in general (n+2)-dimensional static and spherically symmetric spacetimes. They are related to properties of the underlying spatial part of the wave operator, one of which being the standard essentially self-adjointness. However, in many

Einan Gardi, Jennifer M. Smillie, Chris D. White

We study the structure of soft gluon corrections to multi-leg scattering amplitudes in a non-Abelian gauge theory by analysing the corresponding product of semi-infinite Wilson lines. We prove that diagrams exponentiate such that the colour factors in the exponent are fully connected. This completes the generalisation of the non-Abelian exponentiation theore

Andrew Winslow

Previous work by Demaine et al. (2012) developed a strong connection between smallest context-free grammars and staged self-assembly systems for one-dimensional strings and assemblies. We extend this work to two-dimensional polyominoes and assemblies, comparing staged self-assembly systems to a natural generalization of context-free grammars we call polyomin

Michael Brandenbursky, Egor Shelukhin

We prove that the vector space R^d of any finite dimension d with the standard metric embeds in a bi-Lipschitz way into the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms G of the two-sphere endowed with the L^p-metric for p>2. Along the way we show that the L^p-metric on the group G is unbounded for p>2 by elementary methods.

Christopher Ticknor

We present analysis of the excitation spectrum for a 2 component quasi2D Bose Einstein Condensate. We study how the character of the excitations change across the miscible to immiscible phase transition. We find that the bulk excitations are typical of a single-component BEC with the addition of interface bending excitations. We study how these excitations c

P. Singh, S. Sreenivasan, B. K. Szymanski, G. Korniss

A classical model for social-influence-driven opinion change is the threshold model. Here we study cascades of opinion change driven by threshold model dynamics in the case where multiple {\it initiators} trigger the cascade, and where all nodes possess the same adoption threshold $ϕ$. Specifically, using empirical and stylized models of social networks, we

Konrad J. Swanepoel

A well-known theorem of Sch\"utte (1963) gives a sharp lower bound for the ratio between the maximum distance and minimum distance between n+2 points in n-dimensional Euclidean space. In this brief note we adapt B\'ar\'any's elegant proof of this theorem to the space $\ell_4^n$. This gives a new proof that the largest cardinality of an equilateral set in $\e

Simon Maretzke, Björn Hof, Marc Avila

Non-normal transient growth of disturbances is considered as an essential prerequisite for subcritical transition in shear flows, i.e. transition to turbulence despite linear stability of the laminar flow. In this work we present numerical and analytical computations of linear transient growth covering all linearly stable regimes of Taylor--Couette flow. Our

O. Linnyk, V. P. Konchakovski, W. Cassing, E. L. Bratkovskaya

We study the transverse momentum spectrum and the elliptic flow v2 of photons produced in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV using the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. As sources for photon production, we incorporate the interactions of off-shell quarks and gluons in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (q+qbar->g+gamma and q/

Steffen Faik, Anna Tauschwitz, Mikhail M. Basko, Joachim A. Maruhn

In this work, we present the results of two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of a hohlraum target whose outgoing radiation is used to produce a homogeneously ionized carbon plasma for ion-beam stopping measurements. The cylindrical hohlraum with gold walls is heated by a frequency-doubled ($λ_l = 526.5$ $μm$) $1.4$ $ns$ long laser pulse with t

Paul Jouguet, Sébastien Kunz-Jacques, Eleni Diamanti

Establishing an information-theoretic secret key between two parties using a quantum key distribution (QKD) system is only possible when an accurate characterization of the quantum channel and proper device calibration routines are combined. Indeed, security loopholes due to inappropriate calibration routines have been shown for discrete-variable QKD. Here,

Hanming Zhou

In this paper we consider the local X-ray transform for general flows. We extend the results on the local and global invertibility of the geodesic ray transform proved by Uhlmann and Vasy \cite{UV} to the X-ray transform for a general flow. The key improvement is that our argument for the ellipticity of the conjugated operator $A_F$ (which is defined in Sect

Ajoy Sen, Amit Bhar, Debasis Sarkar

Local quantum uncertainty (in short LQU) was introduced by Girolami et. al.(Phy. Rev. Lett. \textbf{110}, 240402) as a measure of quantum uncertainty in a quantum state as achievable on single local measurement. However, such quantity do satisfy all necessary criteria to serve as measure of discord like quantum correlation and it has no closed formula except

Frank Ohme, Alex B. Nielsen, Drew Keppel, Andrew Lundgren

Identifying the source parameters from a gravitational-wave measurement alone is limited by our ability to discriminate signals from different sources and the accuracy of the waveform family employed in the search. Here we address both issues in the framework of an adapted coordinate system that allows for linear Fisher-matrix type calculations of waveform d

Tucker Jones, Richard S. Ellis, Matthew A. Schenker, Daniel P. Stark

The fraction of ionizing photons that escape from young star-forming galaxies is one of the largest uncertainties in determining the role of galaxies in cosmic reionization. Yet traditional techniques for measuring this fraction are inapplicable at the redshifts of interest due to foreground screening by the Lyman alpha forest. In an earlier study, we demons

Benedetto Piccoli, Francesco Rossi

The Wasserstein distances $W_p$ ($p\geq 1$), defined in terms of solution to the Monge-Kantorovich problem, are known to be a useful tool to investigate transport equations. In particular, the Benamou-Brenier formula characterizes the square of the Wasserstein distance $W_2$ as the infimum of the kinetic energy, or action functional, of all vector fields mov

David Curtin, Prerit Jaiswal, Patrick Meade, Pin-Ju Tien

The Standard Model (SM) has had resounding success in describing almost every measurement performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. In particular, these experiments have put many beyond the SM models of natural Electroweak Symmetry Breaking into tension with the data. It is therefore remarkable that it is still the LEP experiment, and not the LHC, which of

Javier M. Magan, Auditya Sharma

We provide a concrete and systematic connection between the statistical physics of the Ising ferromagnet on a Cayley tree, and the study of memory in exponentially expanding spaces. Memory turns out to be a clear signal of the `Bethe-Peierls' phase transition, and the average of memory divided by its standard deviation provides a clear signal of the `spi

Matti Heikinheimo, Antonio Racioppi, Martti Raidal, Christian Spethmann

We propose a model of a confining dark sector, dark technicolor, that communicates with the Standard Model through the Higgs portal. In this model electroweak symmetry breaking and dark matter share a common origin, and the electroweak scale is generated dynamically. Our motivation to suggest this model is the absense of evidence for new physics from recent

J. E. G. Peek, David Schiminovich

In order to study the properties and effects of high Galactic latitude dust we present an analysis of 373,303 galaxies selected from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) All-Sky Survey and Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) All-Sky Data Release. By examining the variation in aggregate ultraviolet colors and number density of these galaxies we measure the e

Gordan Krnjaic, Yuhsin Tsai

Supersymmetric (SUSY) models with R-parity generically predict sparticle decays with invisible neutralinos, which yield distinctive missing energy events at colliders. Since most LHC searches are designed with this expectation, the putative bounds on sparticle masses become considerably weaker if R-parity is violated so that squarks and gluinos decay to jets

T. Krühler, C. Ledoux, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. M. Vreeswijk

We present the discovery of molecular hydrogen (H_2), including the presence of vibrationally-excited H_2^* in the optical spectrum of the afterglow of GRB 120815A at z=2.36 obtained with X-shooter at the VLT. Simultaneous photometric broad-band data from GROND and X-ray observations by Swift/XRT place further constraints on the amount and nature of dust alo

D. Burgarella, V. Buat, C. Gruppioni, O. Cucciati

Using new homogeneous LFs in the FUV and in the FIR Herschel/PEP and Herschel/HerMES, we study the evolution of the dust attenuation with redshift. With this information in hand, we are able to estimate the redshift evolution of the total (FUV + FIR) star formation rate density SFRD_TOT. By integrating SFRD_TOT, we follow the mass building and analyze the re

David Drasin, Pekka Pankka

We show that given $n\ge 3$, $q\ge 1$, and a finite set $\{y_1,\ldots, y_q\}$ in $\mathbb R^n$ there exists a quasiregular mapping $\mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R^n$ omitting exactly points $y_1,\ldots, y_q$.

Ruth S. Bloom, Ming-Guang Hu, Tyler D. Cumby, Deborah S. Jin

Recent measurements of Efimov resonances in a number of ultracold atom species have revealed an unexpected universality, in which three-body scattering properties are determined by the van der Waals length of the two-body interaction potential. To investigate whether this universality extends to heteronuclear mixtures, we measure loss rate coefficients in an

Jafar Sadeghi, Hoda Farahani

In this paper we study the interaction between the general form of viscous varying modified cosmic Chaplygin gas and the Tachyon fluid in the framework of Einstein gravity. We want to reconstruct the Tachyon potential and total equation of state parameter graphically by using numerical methods. In the presence of deceleration parameter, the interaction betwe

Xi Geng, Zhongmin Qian

In the present paper, we prove that with probability one, the Stratonovich signatures of a multidimensional diffusion process (possibly degenerate) over [0,1], which is the collection of all iterated Stratonovich's integrals of the diffusion process over [0,1], determine the diffusion sample paths.

Graeme E. Addison, Gary Hinshaw, Mark Halpern

We constrain cosmological parameters using combined measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the correlation function of galaxies and Ly-αabsorbers that together cover 0.1 < z < 2.4. The BAO position measurements alone -- without fixing the absolute sound horizon `standard ruler&#39; length with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data

Steffen Lewitzka

The modal systems S1--S3 were introduced by C. I. Lewis as logics for strict implication. While there are Kripke semantics for S2 and S3, there is no known natural semantics for S1. We extend S1 by a Substitution Principle SP which generalizes a reference rule of S1. In system S1+SP, the relation of strict equivalence $φ\equivψ$ satisfies the identity axioms

José Edgar Madriz Aguilar, Luz Marina Reyes, Claudia Moreno, Mauricio Bellini

We develop a non-perturbative formalism for scalar metric fluctuations from a 5D extended version of general relativity in vacuum. In this work we concentrate our efforts on calculations valid on large cosmological scales, which are the dominant during the inflationary phase of the universe. The resulting metric in this limit is obtained after implementing a

B. Kliem, Y. N. Su, A. A. van Ballegooijen, E. E. DeLuca

The structure of the coronal magnetic field prior to eruptive processes and the conditions for the onset of eruption are important issues that can be addressed through studying the magnetohydrodynamic stability and evolution of nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) models. This paper uses data-constrained NLFFF models of a solar active region that erupted on 20

Shu Kawaguchi, Kazuhiko Yamaki

Let $(G, ω)$ be a hyperelliptic vertex-weighted graph of genus $g \geq 2$. We give a characterization of $(G, ω)$ for which there exists a smooth projective curve $X$ of genus $g$ over a complete discrete valuation field with reduction graph $(G, ω)$ such that the ranks of any divisors are preserved under specialization. We explain, for a given vertex-weight

Benjamin Antieau

We prove an etale local-global principle for the telescope conjecture and use it to show that the telescope conjecture holds for derived categories of Azumaya algebras on noetherian schemes as well as for many classifying stacks and gerbes. This specializes to give another proof of the fact that the telescope conjecture holds for noetherian schemes.

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta, B. Adeva

The production of J/psi and Upsilon mesons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector. The J/psi and Upsilon mesons are reconstructed in the mu+mu- decay mode and the signal yields are determined with a fit to the mu+mu- invariant mass distributions. The analysis is performed in the rapidity range 2.0<y<4.5 and transverse momentum

Alper Hayreter, German Valencia

Physics beyond the standard model (SM) can be parameterized with an effective Lagrangian that respects the symmetries of the standard model and contains many operators of dimension six. We consider the subset of these operators that is responsible for flavor diagonal anomalous color magnetic (CMDM) and electric (CEDM) dipole couplings between quarks and gluo

Yiling Yu, Lujun Huang, Linyou Cao

We theoretically demonstrate the fundamental limit in volume for given materials (e.g. Si, a-Si, CdTe) to fully absorb the solar radiation above bandgap, which we refer as solar superabsorption limit. We also point out the general principles for experimentally designing light trapping structures to approach the superabsorption. This study builds upon an intu

Satyendra Thoudam

Recently, the {\it{Fermi}} space telescope has discovered two large $γ$-ray emission regions, the so-called &#34;Fermi bubbles&#34;, that extend up to $\sim 50^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. The $γ$-ray emission from the bubbles are found to follow a hard spectrum with no significant spatial variation in intensity and spectral shape. The origin

Andrew T. Grier, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Benno S. Rem, Marion Delehaye

Following the bichromatic sub-Doppler cooling scheme on the D1 line of 40K recently demonstrated in (Fernandes et al. 2012), we introduce a similar technique for 7Li atoms and obtain temperatures of 60 uK while capturing all of the 5x10^8 atoms present from the previous stage. We investigate the influence of the detuning between the the two cooling frequenci

Ying-Wooi Wan, Claire M. Mach, Genevera Allen, Matthew L. Anderson

Dysregulated microRNA (miRNA) expression is a well-established feature of human cancer. However, the role of specific miRNAs in determining cancer outcomes remains unclear. Using Level 3 expression data from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), we identified 61 miRNAs that are associated with overall survival in 469 ovarian cancers profiled by microarray (p<0.01)

Konstantin Usevich, Ivan Markovsky

We consider the problem of finding for a given $N$-tuple of polynomials (real or complex) the closest $N$-tuple that has a common divisor of degree at least $d$. Extended weighted Euclidean seminorm of the coefficients is used as a measure of closeness. Two equivalent representations of the problem are considered: (i) direct parameterization over the common

A. Ereditato, C. C. Hsu, S. Janos, I. Kreslo

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is a prime type of detector for future large-mass neutrino observatories and proton decay searches. In this paper we present the design and operation, as well as experimental results from ARGONTUBE, a LArTPC being operated at the AEC-LHEP, University of Bern. The main goal of this detector is to prove the fea

Matteo Tommasini

We describe a bicategory $(\mathcal{R}ed\,\mathcal{O}rb)$ of reduced orbifolds in the framework of classical differential geometry (i.e. without any explicit reference to notions of Lie groupoids or differentiable stacks, but only using orbifold atlases, local lifts and changes of charts). In order to construct such a bicategory, we first define a $2$-catego

Jay Newby, Jon Chapman

A perturbation framework is developed to analyze metastable behavior in stochastic processes with random internal and external states. The process is assumed to be under weak noise conditions, and the case where the deterministic limit is bistable is considered. A general analytical approximation is derived for the stationary probability density and the mean

Denise M. Halverson, Dušan Repovš

We show that if $G$ is an upper semicontinuous decomposition of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geq 4$, into convex sets, then the quotient space $\mathbb{R}^n/G$ is a codimension one manifold factor. In particular, we show that $\mathbb{R}^n/G$ has the disjoint arc-disk property.

Jan Pieter van der Schaar, I-Sheng Yang

We clarify under what conditions slow-roll inflation can continue almost undisturbed, while briefly evolving through a (semi-classically) metastable false vacuum. Furthermore, we look at potential signatures in the primordial power spectrum that could point towards the existence of traversed metastable false vacua. Interestingly, the theoretical constraints

Jay M. Newby, Paul C. Bressloff, James P. Keener

We consider a stochastic version of an excitable system based on the Morris-Lecar model of a neuron, in which the noise originates from stochastic Sodium and Potassium ion channels opening and closing. One can analyze neural excitability in the deterministic model by using a separation of time scales involving a fast voltage variable and a slow recovery vari

Gabriel Gasse, Lafe Spietz, Christian Lupien, Bertrand Reulet

We report measurements of the low frequency current fluctuations of a tunnel junction placed at very low temperature biased by a time-dependent voltage $V(t)=V(1+\cos 2πνt)$. We observe that the excess noise generated by the ac excitation exhibits quantum oscillations as a function of the dc bias, with a period given by $hν/e$ with $e$ the charge of a single

Lutz Duembgen, Ehsan Zamanzade

Consider independent observations $(X_1,R_1)$, $(X_2,R_2)$, \ldots, $(X_n,R_n)$ with random or fixed ranks $R_i \in \{1,2,\ldots,k\}$, while conditional on $R_i = r$, the random variable $X_i$ has the same distribution as the $r$-th order statistic within a random sample of size $k$ from an unknown continuous distribution function $F$. Such observation schem

Geir-Arne Fuglstad, Finn Lindgren, Daniel Simpson, Håvard Rue

Gaussian random fields (GRFs) constitute an important part of spatial modelling, but can be computationally infeasible for general covariance structures. An efficient approach is to specify GRFs via stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) and derive Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) approximations of the solutions. We consider the construction of

Kai Groh, Kirill Krasnov, Christian F. Steinwachs

In the &#34;pure connection&#34; formulation General Relativity becomes a particular diffeomorphism invariant SL(2) gauge theory. Using this formalism, we compute the divergent contributions to the gravitational one-loop effective action. Calculations of the on-shell effective action simplify greatly if one specialises to an instanton background where only t

Claudio Coriano, Luigi Delle Rose, Emil Mottola, Mirko Serino

We investigate the structure of the constraints on three-point correlation functions emerging when conformal invariance is imposed in momentum space and in arbitrary space-time dimensions, presenting a derivation of their solutions for arbitrary scalar operators. We show that the differential equations generated by the requirement of symmetry under special c

Mizan R. Khan, Richard Magner, Steven Senger, Arne Winterhof

We give a lower bound for the number of ordinary lines spanned by a modular hyperbola when the modulus is a prime power. We also give a partial answer to a question of Shparlinski.

C T L Smeenk, L Arissian, A V Sokolov, M Spanner

The multiphoton ionization rate of molecules depends on the alignment of the molecular axis with respect to the ionizing laser polarization. By studying molecular frame photo-electron angular distributions from N$_2$, O$_2$ and benzene, we illustrate how the angle-dependent ionization rate affects the photo-electron cutoff energy. We find alignment can enhan

Yi-Fu Cai, Yu-Chiao Chang, Pisin Chen, Damien A. Easson

Within the framework of RG improved inflationary cosmology motivated by asymptotically safe gravity, we study the dynamics of a scalar field which can be interpreted as the Higgs field. The background trajectories of this model can provide sufficient inflationary e-folds and a graceful exit to a radiation dominated phase. We study the possibility of generati

Andrew R. Booker, Ghaith A. Hiary, Jon P. Keating

We present an algorithm, based on the explicit formula for $L$-functions and conditional on GRH, for proving that a given integer is squarefree with little or no knowledge of its factorization. We analyze the algorithm both theoretically and practically, and use it to prove that several RSA challenge numbers are not squarefull.

Chandrachur Chakraborty, Parthasarathi Majumdar

An exact expression derived in the literature for the rate of dragging of inertial frames (Lense-Thirring (LT) precession) in a general stationary spacetime, is reviewed. The exact LT precession frequencies for Kerr, Kerr-Taub-NUT and Taub-NUT spacetimes are explicitly derived. Remarkably, in the case of the zero angular momentum Taub-NUT spacetime, the fram

Christopher J. Wood, David G. Cory, Mohamed O. Abutaleb, Michael G. Huber

We investigate quantum coherences in the presence of noise by entangling the spin and path degrees of freedom of the output neutron beam from a noisy three-blade perfect crystal neutron interferometer. We find that in the presence of dephasing noise on the path degree of freedom the entanglement of the output state reduces to zero, however the quantum discor

Manuel Keglevic, Robert Sablatnig

This paper addresses the automatic recognition of handwritten temperature values in weather records. The localization of table cells is based on line detection using projection profiles. Further, a stroke-preserving line removal method which is based on gradient images is proposed. The presented digit recognition utilizes features which are extracted using a

Alexandre Deur

We have studied a large number of elliptical galaxies and found a correlation between their dark matter content and the ellipticity of their visible shape. The galaxies were strictly selected so that only typical medium-size elliptical galaxies were considered. Galaxies with unusual characteristics were rejected to minimize point-to-point data scatter and av

Belle Collaboration, E. Solovieva, R. Chistov, I. Adachi

Using 121.4 fb^{-1} of data collected with the Belle detector at the Y(5S) resonance at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider, we report evidence for the B_s^0 -> Lambda_c^+ Lambda-bar pi^- decay mode with a measured branching fraction (3.6 +- 1.1[stat.] {+0.3 -0.5}[syst.] +- 0.9[Lambda_c^+] +- 0.7[N_{Bs}]) * 10^{-4} and a significance of 4.4 standard d

Yoshitaka Hatta, Takahiro Ueda

In the context of inter-jet energy flow, we present the first quantitative result of the resummation of non-global logarithms at finite N_c. This is achieved by refining Weigert&#39;s approach in which the problem is reduced to the simulation of associated Langevin dynamics in the space of Wilson lines. We find that, in e+e- annihilation, the exact result is

Atsushi Naruko, Cyril Pitrou, Kazuya Koyama, Misao Sasaki

In the context of cosmological perturbation theory, we derive the second order Boltzmann equation describing the evolution of the distribution function of radiation without a specific gauge choice. The essential steps in deriving the Boltzmann equation are revisited and extended given this more general framework: i) the polarisation of light is incorporated

Saguy Benaim, Michael Benedikt, Rastislav Lenhardt, James Worrell

Verification of properties of first order logic with two variables FO2 has been investigated in a number of contexts. Over arbitrary structures it is known to be decidable with NEXPTIME complexity, with finitely satisfiable formulas having exponential-sized models. Over word structures, where FO2 is known to have the same expressiveness as unary temporal log

Béatrice Laurent, Clément Marteau, Cathy Maugis-Rabusseau

This work is concerned with the detection of a mixture distribution from a $\mathbb{R}$-valued sample. Given a sample $X_1,\dots,X_n$ and an even density $ϕ$, our aim is to detect whether the sample distribution is $ϕ(\cdot-μ)$ for some unknown mean $μ$, or is defined as a two-component mixture based on translations of $ϕ$. We propose a procedure which is ba