April 2013 arXiv papers — page 3

Sergey I. Senashov, Alexander Yakhno

In this paper, all the known classical solutions of plane perfect plasticity system under Saint Venant -- Tresca -- von Mises yield criterion are associated with some group of point symmetries. The equations of slip-line families for all solutions are constructed, which permits to determine explicitly boundaries of plastic areas. It is shown, how one can det

Mary Alberg, Gerald A. Miller

In a recent Comment [arXiv:1206.3671] on our calculation of the pion contributions to the self-energy of the nucleon [arXiv:1201.4184], Ji, Melnitchouk and Thomas (JMT) correctly state that we obtain the same result as given by the pseudovector (PV) theory. We point out that this result is expected by the equivalence theorem, since our pion-nucleon effective

P. A. Sturrock, E. Fischbach, J. T. Gruenwal, D. Javorsek

Claims by the DAMA (DArk MAtter) collaboration to have detected an annually varying signal consistent with models of dark matter appear to be at variance with results from other dark-matter searches. To further understand the DAMA results, we have carried out an independent analysis of DAMA data reconstructed from published figures. In addition to reexaminin

Ronald Petrlic, Stephan Sekula

We present a solution to the problem of privacy invasion in a multiparty digital rights management scheme. (Roaming) users buy content licenses from a content provider and execute it at any nearby content distributor. Our approach, which does not need any trusted third party--in contrast to most related work on privacy-preserving DRM--is based on a re-encryp

Mohit Singh, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

In this paper we study the problem of computing max-entropy distributions over a discrete set of objects subject to observed marginals. Interest in such distributions arises due to their applicability in areas such as statistical physics, economics, biology, information theory, machine learning, combinatorics and, more recently, approximation algorithms. A k

Sergey V. Zharikov, Dmitry A. Zyuzin, Yuri A. Shibanov, Ronald E. Mennickent

The young radio pulsar J1124-5916 is associated with a Cas A like supernova remnant G292.0+1.8. It powers a compact torus-like pulsar wind nebula with a jet first detected in X-rays and then identified in the optical and mid-infrared. We carried out deep near-infrared observations of the pulsar field to identify the pulsar and its nebula in this range. The d

Ole Andersson, Hoshang Heydari

Geometric effects make evolution time vary for different evolution curves that connect the same two quantum states. Thus, it is important to be able to control along which path a quantum state evolve to achieve maximal speed in quantum calculations. In this paper we establish fundamental relations between Hamiltonian dynamics and Riemannian structures on the

Sergey Loyka, Victoria Kostina, Francois Gagnon

Convexity properties of error rates of a class of decoders, including the ML/min-distance one as a special case, are studied for arbitrary constellations, bit mapping and coding. Earlier results obtained for the AWGN channel are extended to a wide class of noise densities, including unimodal and spherically-invariant noise. Under these broad conditions, symb

I. Sevonkaev, V. Privman, D. Goia

In colloid and nanoparticle chemistry, particle size, shape, crystallinity, surface morphology and composition are controlled by employing the mechanisms of burst nucleation, diffusional growth, aggregation, or their combinations. Here we review and survey practical examples of recently developed methods for preparing metal colloids and nanoparticles for ind

Jack S. Calcut, Patrick V. Haggerty

We study connected sum at infinity on smooth, open manifolds. This operation requires a choice of proper ray in each manifold summand. In favorable circumstances, the connected sum at infinity operation is independent of ray choices. For each m at least 3, we construct an infinite family of pairs of m-manifolds on which the connected sum at infinity operatio

P. Shanmugavadivu, V. Sivakumar

In this paper, a novel method for edge detection of microcalcification clusters in mammogram images is presented using the concept of Fractal Dimension and Hurst co-efficient that enables to locate the microcalcifications in the mammograms. This technique detects the edges accurately than the ones obtained by the conventional Sobel method. Generally, Sobel m

H. Najafi, M. S. Moslehian

We investigate the deformation of involution and multiplication in a unital $C^*$-algebra when its norm is fixed. Our main result is to present all multiplications and involutions on a given $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ under which $\mathcal{A}$ is still a $C^*$-algebra whereas we keep the norm unchanged. For each invertible element $a\in\mathcal{A}$ we also

Sónia Dias, Paula Brito

Symbolic Data Analysis works with variables for which each unit or class of units takes a finite set of values/categories, an interval or a distribution (an histogram, for instance). When to each observation corresponds an empirical distribution, we have a histogram-valued variable; it reduces to the case of an interval-valued variable if each unit takes val

Aditya Bhaskara, Moses Charikar, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We give a robust version of the celebrated result of Kruskal on the uniqueness of tensor decompositions: we prove that given a tensor whose decomposition satisfies a robust form of Kruskal's rank condition, it is possible to approximately recover the decomposition if the tensor is known up to a sufficiently small (inverse polynomial) error. Kruskal's

Helen Afanasyeva

The goal of the research is statistical analyzes of air traffic in airport 'Riga' zone. Special statistical methods oriented to the concrete object area - airspace of Latvia are developed. Some experiments are made to discover season's and during twenty-four hours unstationarity of this process. Air traffic intensity for some stationary period fo

N. Schlömer, M. V. Miloševıć, Bart Partoens, Wim Vanroose

The stable and unstable solutions of a square 2D extreme type-II superconductor are studied in the field of a magnetic disc. We use a preconditioned Newton-Krylov solver to find the solutions and use numerical continuation to track the solutions as the field strength varies. For a disc with a small radius, we have identified generic scenarios through which t

Paweł Dłotko, Hubert Wagner

In this paper we focus on preprocessing for persistent homology computations. We adapt some techniques which were successfully used for standard homology computations. The main idea is to reduce the complex prior to generating its boundary matrix, which is costly to store and process. We discuss the following reduction methods: elementary collapses, coreduct

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero, F. Aharonian

The quasar PKS 1510-089 (z=0.361) was observed with the H.E.S.S. array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes during high states in the optical and GeV bands, to search for very high energy (VHE, defined as E >= 0.1 TeV) emission. VHE γ-rays were detected with a statistical significance of 9.2 standard deviations in 15.8 hours of H.E.S.S. data taken dur

Marcello Bellomi, Marco Caliari, Marco Squassina

We compute the first eigenpair for variable exponent eigenvalue problems. We compare the homogeneous definition of first eigenvalue with previous nonhomogeneous notions in the literature. We highlight the symmetry breaking phenomena

Enif Gutierrez, Aftab Ahmad, Alejandro Ayala, Adnan Bashir

We study the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). For this purpose we employ the Schwinger-Dyson equations (SDEs) technique and construct a truncation of the infinite tower of equations by demanding a matching with the lattice results for the quark-anti-quark condensate at finite temperature (T), for zero quark chemical potential (mu), that is, the

A. R. Yeates, G. Hornig

A topological flux function is introduced to quantify the topology of magnetic braids: non-zero line-tied magnetic fields whose field lines all connect between two boundaries. This scalar function is an ideal invariant defined on a cross-section of the magnetic field, whose integral over the cross-section yields the relative magnetic helicity. Recognising th

Alessandro Cresti, Frank Ortmann, Thibaud Louvet, Dinh Van Tuan

The role of defect-induced zero-energy modes on charge transport in graphene is investigated using Kubo and Landauer transport calculations. By tuning the density of random distributions of monovacancies either equally populating the two sublattices or exclusively located on a single sublattice, all conduction regimes are covered from direct tunneling throug

D. H. Hathaway

Daily records of sunspot group areas compiled by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from May of 1874 through 1976 indicate a curious history for the penumbral areas of the smaller sunspot groups. On average, the ratio of penumbral area to umbral area in a sunspot group increases from 5 to 6 as the total sunspot group area increases from 100 to 2000 microHem (

J. P. Ramos, P. A. Orellana

In this paper we study the formation of bound states in the continuum in a quantum dot molecule coupled to leads. Based in the combination of bound states in the continuum and Fano effect, we propose a new design of a spin-dependent polarizer. By lifting the spin degeneracy of the carriers in the quantum dots by means of a magnetic field the system can be us

Frank Krennrich, Matthew Orr

A brief white paper discussing the connections between the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) and fundamental physics through gamma-ray observations is provided.

Kapildeb Dolui, Ivan Rungger, Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju, Stefano Sanvito

Density functional theory is used to systematically study the electronic and magnetic properties of doped MoS$_2$ monolayers, where the dopants are incorporated both via S/Mo substitution or as adsorbates. Among the possible substitutional dopants at the Mo site, Nb is identified as suitable p-type dopant, while Re is the donor with the lowest activation ene

Robert Fischer, Elton Fireman, Jose Renan Gomes

While non-specialist teaching increasingly becomes an object of public interest, there is little data available on the actual educational background of teachers giving classes outside their specialisation. This work analyses the data collected by the Brazilian Ministry of Education from public and private schools in Alagoas (Brazil), with a special focus on

P. V. Gorskyi

The field dependence of power factor for a layered thermoelectric material with a closed Fermi surface in a quantizing magnetic field and at helium temperatures has been studied in the geometry where the temperature gradient and the magnetic field are perpendicular to the material lasyers. The calculations are carried out in the constant relaxation time appr

Nicolas Gisin

I analyse a recent quantum communication protocol by Salih et al. that allows one to communicate without any particle carrying the information from the sender to the receiver. I show how this can equally be achieved using classical communication.

Adam Lidz, Eric J. Baxter, Peter Adshead, Scott Dodelson

The statistical properties of the primordial perturbations contain clues about the origins of those fluctuations. Although the Planck collaboration has recently obtained tight constraints on primordial non-gaussianity from cosmic microwave background measurements, it is still worthwhile to mine upcoming data sets in effort to place independent or competitive

Daniel Goldstein, R. Daniel Mauldin

H. Steinhaus asked in the 1950's whether there exists a set in the plane R^2 meeting every isometric copy of Z^2 in precisely one point. Such a "Steinhaus set" was constructed by Jackson and Mauldin. What about three-space R^3? Is there a subset of R^3 meeting every isometric copy of Z^3 in exactly one point? We offer heuristic evidence that the

V. V. Mazurenko, S. N. Iskakov, A. N. Rudenko, I. V. Kashin

We study the role of static and dynamical Coulomb correlation effects on the electronic and magnetic properties of individual Mn, Fe and Co adatoms deposited on the CuN surface. For these purposes, we construct a realistic Anderson model, solve it by using finite-temperature exact diagonalization method and compare the calculated one-particle spectral functi

Gelu Popescu

This paper is an attempt to unify the multivariable operator model theory for ball-like domains and commutative polydiscs, and extend it to a more general class of noncommutative polydomains. An important role in our study is played by noncommutative Berezin transforms associated with the elements of the polydomain.

K. Filintoglou, N. Papadopoulos, J. Arvanitidis, D. Christofilos

The pressure evolution of the Raman spectrum of graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition on polycrystalline copper is investigated with the use of a polar and a non-polar pressure transmitting medium (PTM). The G and 2D Raman bands exhibit similar pressure slopes for both PTM irrespectively of any unintentional initial doping and/or strain of the samples

Josef Ludescher, Avi Gozolchiani, Mikhail I. Bogachev, Armin Bunde

Although anomalous episodical warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific, dubbed El Niño by Peruvian fishermen, has major (and occasionally devastating) impacts around the globe, robust forecasting is still limited to about six months ahead. A significant extension of the pre-warming time would be instrumental for avoiding some of the worst damages such as ha

Jackelyn M. Kembro, Ana Georgina Flesia, Raquel M. Gleiser, María A. Perillo

The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a classical method of fractal analysis, Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), in the analysis of the dynamics of animal behavior time series. In order to correctly use DFA to assess the presence of long-range correlation, previous authors using statistical model systems have stated that different aspec

I. Birindelli, F. Demengel

In this paper we shall establish some regularity results of solutions of a class of fully nonlinear equations, with a first order term which is sub-linear. We prove local Hölder regularity of the gradient both in the interior and up to the boundary.

Takahiro Nishinaka

We study the wall-crossing phenomena of BPS D4-D2-D0 states on the conifold and orbifold C^2/Z_2, from the viewpoint of the quiver quantum mechanics on the D-branes. The Kahler moduli dependence of the BPS index is translated into the FI parameter dependence of the Witten index. The wall-crossing phenomena are related to the Seiberg dualities of the quiver q

P. Stadler, C. Holmqvist, W. Belzig

Josephson currents are carried by sharp Andreev states within the superconducting energy gap. We theoretically study the electronic transport of a magnetically tunable nanoscale junction consisting of a quantum dot connected to two superconducting leads and coupled to the spin of a molecular magnet. The exchange interaction between the molecular magnet and t

Rafik Zitouni, Stefan Ataman, Marie Mathian, Laurent George

This paper reports an implementation of the PHY specifications of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for the frequency band 868 915 MHz on a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform. This standard is defined for low power, low data rate and low cost wireless networks. These specifications are used by the Zigbee technology for various applications such as home automatio

Marzieh Parandehgheibi, Hyang-Won Lee, Eytan Modiano

We consider protection problems in multilayer networks. In single-layer networks, a pair of disjoint paths can be used to provide protection for a source-destination pair. However, this approach cannot be directly applied to layered networks where disjoint paths may not always exist. In this paper, we take a new approach which is based on finding a set of pa

Benjamin Dodson

In this paper we prove that the defocusing, mass - critical generalized KdV initial value problem is globally well-posed and scattering for $u_{0} \in L^{2}(\mathbf{R})$. We prove this via a concentration compactness argument.

Modesto Montoya

In this paper, the distribution of mass and kinetic energy in the cold region of the thermal neutron induced fission of U 233, U 235 and Pu 239, respectively, is interpreted in terms of nucleon pair-breaking and the Coulomb interaction energy between complementary fragments (Coulomb effect). In order to avoid the erosive consequences of neutron emission, one

Hiroshi Yokoya

A collider probe of the radiative seesaw models are considered. Two key ingredients of these models, the extended Higgs sector and the source of the Majorana mass, although these details differ model by model, would be studied at the TeV-scale electron-positron and electron-electron colliders. The searches and mass determinations in the inert doublet model,

O. L. Ramírez Suárez, J-M. Sparenberg

We propose a method to compute, for a given potential model, an arbitrary coefficient of the effective-range function expanded as a power series in energy. The method is based on a set of recurrence relations at low energy, that allows a compact and general description to any order in energy for neutral and charged cases. By using the Lagrange mesh technique

Gerhard Kurz, Igor Gilitschenski, Simon Julier, Uwe D. Hanebeck

Directional estimation is a common problem in many tracking applications. Traditional filters such as the Kalman filter perform poorly because they fail to take the periodic nature of the problem into account. We present a recursive filter for directional data based on the Bingham distribution in two dimensions. The proposed filter can be applied to circular

A. Furniss, M. Fumagalli, A. Falcone, D. A. Williams

Collecting experimental insight into the relativistic particle populations and emission mechanisms at work within TeV-emitting blazar jets, which are spatially unresolvable in most bands and have strong beaming factors, is a daunting task. New observational information has the potential to lead to major strides in understanding the acceleration site paramete

Tom Britton, Peter Neal

Consider a homogeneous time-continuous branching process where individuals have constant birth rate $δ$, and life length distribution $Q$ having mean $E(Q)=1$. Let $X(u)$ denote the number of individuals alive at time $u$, and assume that $X(0)=1$. Let $K$ be a positive integer and define $A_K:=\int_0^\infty 1_{\{X(u)=K\}}du$, the accumulated time that the b

Daniel Fiorilli

We establish a conditional equivalence between quantitative unboundedness of the analytic rank of elliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$ and the existence of highly biased elliptic curve prime number races. We show that conditionally on a Riemann Hypothesis and on a hypothesis on the multiplicity of the zeros of $L(E,s)$, large analytic ranks translate into an ext

S. M. Perepelytsya, S. N. Volkov

The conformational vibrations of Z-DNA with counterions are studied in framework of phenomenological model developed. The structure of left-handed double helix with counterions neutralizing the negatively charged phosphate groups of DNA is considered as the ion-phosphate lattice. The frequencies and Raman intensities for the modes of Z-DNA with Na+ and Mg2+

Andrei Tokovinin, Markus Hartung, Thomas L. Hayward

Hipparcos astrometric binaries were observed with the NICI adaptive optics system at Gemini-S, completing the work of Paper I (Tokovinin et al. 2012). Among the 65 F, G, K dwarfs within 67pc of the Sun studied here, we resolve 18 new sub-arcsecond companions, re-measure 7 known astrometric pairs, and establish the physical nature of yet another three wider c

Marco Leonetti, Claudio Conti, Cefe Lopez

Controlling the flow of energy in a random medium is a research frontier with a wide range of applications. As recently demonstrated, the effect of disorder on the transmission of optical beams, may be partially compensated by wavefront shaping, but losing control over individual light paths. Here we report on a novel physical effect whereby energy is spatia

V. Bocharova, O. Zavalov, K. MacVittie, M. A. Arugula

The present study aims at integrating drug-releasing materials with signal-processing biocomputing systems. Enzymes alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST)---biomarkers for liver injury---were logically processed by a biocatalytic cascade realizing Boolean AND gate. Citrate produced in the system was used to trigger a drug-mimicking relea

David Cook, Sonja Mapes, Gwyneth Whieldon

We introduce the package Posets for Macaulay2. This package provides a data structure and the necessary methods for working with partially ordered sets, also called posets. In particular, the package implements methods to enumerate many commonly studied classes of posets, perform operations on posets, and calculate various invariants associated to posets.

Oliver Krüger

We analyze the Odd/odd vertex removal game introduced by P. Ottaway. We prove that every bipartite graph has Grundy value 0 or 1 only depending on the parity of the number of edges in the graph, which is a generalization of a conjecture of K. Shelton. We also answer a question originally posed by both Shelton and Ottaway about the existance of graphs for eve

Volker Bach, Sébastien Breteaux, Hans Konrad Knörr, Edmund Menge

In the spirit of the generalized one-particle density matrix for fermions, we introduce generalized one- and two-particle density matrices to state representability conditions up to second order for boson systems without assuming particle number-conservation. Furthermore, we show for both particle species that, for a semibounded Hamiltonian, the in?mum of th

Slavko Simić, Matti Vuorinen

We give study the Lipschitz continuity of Möbius transformations of a punctured disk onto another punctured disk with respect to the distance ratio metric.

Romain Absil, Hadrien Mélot

We present Digenes, a new discovery system that aims to help researchers in graph theory. While its main task is to find extremal graphs for a given (function of) invariants, it also provides some basic support in proof conception. This has already been proved to be very useful to find new conjectures since the AutoGraphiX system of Caporossi and Hansen (Dis

Andrea Taschin, Paolo Bartolini, Agnese Marcelli, Roberto Righini

The low frequency vibrational spectra of hydrated porous silica are specifically sensitive to the hydrogen bond interactions and provides a wealth of information on the structural and dynamical properties of the water contained in the pores of the matrix. We investigate systematically this spectral region of Vycor porous silica (pore size about 4 nm) for a s

Rui-Zhi Yang, Lei Feng, Xiang Li, Yi-Zhong Fan

The dark matter distribution in the very inner region of our Galaxy is still in debate. In the N-body simulations a cuspy dark matter halo density profile is favored. Several dissipative baryonic processes however are found to be able to significantly flatten dark matter distribution and a cored dark matter halo density profile is possible. The baryons domin

Fabian Hadiji, Kristian Kersting, Christian Bauckhage, Babak Ahmadi

Many collective human activities have been shown to exhibit universal patterns. However, the possibility of universal patterns across timing events of researcher migration has barely been explored at global scale. Here, we show that timing events of migration within different countries exhibit remarkable similarities. Specifically, we look at the distributio

S. A. Pustilnik, J. -M. Martin, Y. A. Lyamina, A. Y. Kniazev

SDSS J0015+0104 is the lowest metallicity low surface brightness dwarf (LSBD) galaxy known. The oxygen abundance in its HII region SDSS J001520.70+010436.9 (at ~1.5 kpc from the galaxy centre) is 12+log(O/H)=7.07 (Guseva et al.). This galaxy, at the distance of 28.4 Mpc, appears to reside deeply in the volume devoid of luminous massive galaxies, known as the

Jishan Hu, Min Yan

We prove that under a very general setting, a system of ODE passes the Painleve test if and only if there is a good change of variable, such that the pole singularity solutions are converted to regular power series, while the converted ODE system is still kept regular. A consequence is that all principal balances of an ODE system converge. We also prove that

R. Michel, J. Echevarria, J. V. Hernandez-Santisteban

Aims. We present new photometry of the faint and poorly studied cataclysmic variable SDSS J152419.33+220920.0, analyze its light curve and provide an accurate ephemeris for this system. Methods. Time-resolved CCD differential photometry was carried out using the 1.5m and 0.84m telescopes at the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional at San Pedro Martir. Results.

Martin Kalinowski, Marc Wagner

We present preliminary results of an ongoing lattice QCD computation of the spectrum of $D$ mesons and $D_s$ mesons and of charmonium using 2+1+1 flavors of twisted mass sea and valence quarks.

Tomonari Sei, Alfred Kume

In this paper we implement the holonomic gradient method to exactly compute the normalising constant of Bingham distributions. This idea is originally applied for general Fisher-Bingham distributions in Nakayama et al. (2011). In this paper we explicitly apply this algorithm to show the exact calculation of the normalising constant; derive explicitly the Pfa

Olivier Pages, Rami Hajj Hussein, Vitor J. B. Torres

We formalize within the percolation scheme, that operates along the linear chain approximation, namely at one dimension (1D), an intrinsic ability behind Raman scattering to achieve a quantitative insight into local clustering or anticlustering in an alloy, using SiGe as a case study. For doing so, we derive general expressions of the individual fractions of

Yi Fang, Lin Wang, Guanrong Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative scheme to enhance the performance of multiple-access (MA) differential-chaos-shift-keying (DCSK) systems. We provide the bit-error-rate (BER) performance and throughput analyses for the new system with a decode-and-forward (DF) protocol over Nakagami-$m$ fading channels. Our simulated results not only show that t

Ye Luo

Using a potential theory on metric graphs "Gamma", we introduce the notion of tropical convexity to the space "RDiv^d(Gamma)" of effective R-divisors of degree d on "Gamma" and show that a natural metric can be defined on "RDiv^d(Gamma)". In addition, we extend the notion of reduced divisors which is conventionally defined in

Elena V. Kazantseva, Andrey I. Maimistov

We consider the coupled electromagnetic waves propagating in a waveguide array, which consists of alternating waveguides of positive and negative refraction indexes. Due to zigzag configuration there are interactions between both nearest and next nearest neighboring waveguides exist. It is shown that there is a stop band in the spectrum of linear waves. The

Andrea Camposeo, Marco Polo, Silvia Tavazzi, Leonardo Silvestri

Polarized superradiant emission and exciton delocalization in tetracene single crystals are reported. Polarization-, time-, and temperature-resolved spectroscopy evidence the complete polarization of the zero-phonon line of the intrinsic tetracene emission from both the lower (F state) and the upper (thermally activated) Davydov excitons. The superradiance o

Haiyan Zhang, Guoqing Wang

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group, and let $m>0$ with $\exp(G)\mid m$. Let $s_{m}(G)$ be the generalized Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv invariant which denotes the smallest positive integer $d$ such that any sequence of elements in $G$ of length $d$ contains a subsequence of length $m$ with sum zero in $G$. For any integer $r>0$, let $\mathcal{I}_m^{(r)}$ be the collect

Wenlian Lu, Jianfeng Feng, Shun-ichi Amari, David Waxman

How can precise control be realised in intrinsically noisy systems? Here, we develop a general theoretical framework that provides a way to achieve precise control in signal-dependent noisy environments. When the control signal has Poisson or supra-Poisson noise, precise control is not possible. If, however, the control signal has sub-Poisson noise, then pre

Daniela Bertacchi, Fabio Zucca, Sergio Foresti, Davide Mangioni

Sequential monotherapy is the most widely used therapeutic approach in the treatment of HBV chronic infection. Unfortunately, under therapy, in some patients the hepatitis virus mutates and gives rise to variants which are drug resistant. We conjecture that combination therapy is able to delay drug resistance for a longer time than sequential monotherapy. To

P. G. Steeneken, J. J. M. Ruigrok, S. Kang, J. T. M. van Beek

In this paper it is shown how the equivalent circuit parameters of a MEMS resonator can be simply obtained from an eigenfrequency simulation. Additionally, it is demonstrated that the Q-factor as a result of support losses in a MEMS resonator can be determined using a matched boundary layer. The method is applied to calculate the frequency dependent admittan

Emilie Liboz

We extend to all parameters the constructions of the geometric and combinatorial orders on Irr G(l,1,n) due to I. Gordon, as well as the relations with the a and c-functions. This allows us to generalize these properties for the group G(l,e,n), at least when n is not divided by e.

Niel de Beaudrap, Vittorio Giovannetti, Simone Severini, Richard Wilson

For any graph, we define a rank-1 operator on a bipartite tensor product space, with components associated to the set of vertices and edges respectively. We show that the partial traces of the operator are the Laplacian and the edge-Laplacian. This provides an interpretation of the von Neumann entropy of the (normalized)\ Laplacian as the amount of quantum e

Tomaz Prosen, Enej Ilievski, Vladislav Popkov

A new type of quantum transfer matrix, arising as a Cholesky factor for the steady state density matrix of a dissipative Markovian process associated with the boundary-driven Lindblad equation for the isotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg (XXX) chain, is presented. The transfer matrix forms a commuting family of non-Hermitian operators depending on the spectral para

Michele Filannino, Gavin Brown, Goran Nenadic

This paper describes a temporal expression identification and normalization system, ManTIME, developed for the TempEval-3 challenge. The identification phase combines the use of conditional random fields along with a post-processing identification pipeline, whereas the normalization phase is carried out using NorMA, an open-source rule-based temporal normali

S. I. Godunov, M. I. Vysotsky

The influence of the finiteness of the proton radius and mass on the energies of a hydrogen atom and hydrogen-like ions in a superstrong magnetic field is studied. The finiteness of the nucleus size pushes the ground energy level up leading to a nontrivial dependence of the value of critical nucleus charge on the external magnetic field.

Sarah M. Sweet, Gerhardt Meurer, Michael J. Drinkwater, Virginia Kilborn

Hα observations centred on galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS, Barnes et al. 2001) typically show one and sometimes two star-forming galaxies within the approximately 15-arcminute beam of the Parkes 64-m HI detections. In our Survey of Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SINGG, Meurer et al. 2006) we found fifteen cases of HIPASS sou

Pattrawut Chansangiam

In this paper, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between operator monotone functions on the nonnegative reals and finite Borel measures on the unit interval. This correspondence appears as an integral representation of special operator monotone functions $x \mapsto 1\,!_t\,x$ for $t \in [0,1]$ with respect to a finite Borel measure on $[0,1]$

Yang Zhou, Xi Zou, Lu You, Rui Guo

By using piezoelectric force microscopy and scanning Kelvin probe microscopy, we have investigated the domain evolution and space charge distribution in planar BiFeO3 capacitors with different electrodes. It is observed that charge injection at the film/electrode interface leads to domain pinning and polarization fatigue in BiFeO3. Furthermore, the Schottky

S. Miyakoshi, Y. Ohta

We study the effects of electron correlations on the topological phase transition in the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model using the variational cluster approach where the short-range spatial correlations are taken into account exactly. We calculate the spin Chern number and local magnetic moment to show that the topologically nontrivial antiferromagnetic order ex

Adriaan Barri, Ann Dooms, Peter Schelkens

The dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) is an enhancement of the conventional discrete wavelet transform (DWT) due to a higher degree of shift-invariance and a greater directional selectivity, finding its applications in signal and image processing. This paper presents a quantitative proof of the superiority of the DTCWT over the DWT in case of modul

P. Barone, T. Rauch, D. Di Sante, J. Henk

By means of a comprehensive theoretical investigation, we show that external pressure can induce topological phase transitions in IV-VI semiconducting chalcogenides with rock-salt structure. These materials satisfy mirror symmetries that are needed to sustain topologically protected surface states, at variance with time-reversal symmetry responsible for gapl

Danil W. Boukhvalov

Based on first principles density functional theory calculations we explore the energetics of the conversion of carbon mono and dioxide to methane over graphene oxide surfaces. Similar to the recently discovered hydration of various organic species over this catalyst, the transfer of hydrogen atoms from hydroxyl groups of graphene oxide provide a step by ste

Paul Meissner, Erik Leitinger, Markus Fröhle, Klaus Witrisal

Indoor localization systems that are accurate and robust with respect to propagation channel conditions are still a technical challenge today. In particular, for systems based on range measurements from radio signals, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) situations can result in large position errors. In this paper, we address these issues using measurements in a repres

Stefan Witzel, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

It is known that the Burau representation of the 4-strand braid group is faithful if and only if certain matrices f and k generate a (non-abelian) free group. Regarding f and k as isometries of a euclidean building we show that f^3 and k^3 generate a free group. We give two proofs, one utilizing the metric geometry of the building, and the other using simpli

Gabriela Barenboim, J. A. Oteo

The analytical solution of the three--dimensional linear pendulum in a rotating frame of reference is obtained, including Coriolis and centrifugal accelerations, and expressed in terms of initial conditions. This result offers the possibility of treating Foucault and Bravais pendula as trajectories of the very same system of equations, each of them with part

Bas Lemmens, Roger Nussbaum

This is a survey article concerning applications of Hilbert's metric in the analysis and dynamics of linear and nonlinear mappings on cones. It will appear as a chapter in the "Handbook of Hilbert geometry", ed. G. Besson, A. Papadopoulos and M. Troyanov, European Mathematical Society Publishing House, Zürich.

Joris M. Mooij, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf

We show how, and under which conditions, the equilibrium states of a first-order Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) system can be described with a deterministic Structural Causal Model (SCM). Our exposition sheds more light on the concept of causality as expressed within the framework of Structural Causal Models, especially for cyclic models.

Krzysztof Bartoszek, Michal Krzeminski

Birth-and-death models are now a common mathematical tool to describe branching patterns observed in real-world phylogenetic trees. Liggett and Schinazi (2009) is one such example. The authors propose a simple birth-and-death model that is compatible with phylogenetic trees of both influenza and HIV, depending on the birth rate parameter. An interesting spec

Ladislav Mišta,, Natalia Korolkova

We investigate the physical mechanism behind the counterintuitive phenomenon, the distribution of continuous-variable entanglement between two distant modes by sending a third separable auxiliary mode between them. For this purpose, we propose a new more simple and more efficient protocol resulting in distributed entanglement with more than an order of the m

Luisa Beghin

We are interested in the differential equations satisfied by the density of the Geometric Stable processes $\mathcal{G}_α^β=\left\{\mathcal{G}_α^β(t);t\geq 0\right\} $, with stability \ index $% α\in (0,2]$ and asymmetry parameter $β\in \lbrack -1,1]$, both in the univariate and in the multivariate cases. We resort to their representation as compositions of

Roberto Fontana, Fabio Rapallo, Maria-Piera Rogantin

In this paper we study saturated fractions of factorial designs under the perspective of Algebraic Statistics. We define a criterion to check whether a fraction is saturated or not with respect to a given model. The proposed criterion is based purely on combinatorial objects. Our technique is particularly useful when several fractions are needed. We also sho

I. Ruo Berchera, I. P. Degiovanni, S. Olivares, M. Genovese

In the last years quantum correlations received large attention as key ingredient in advanced quantum metrology protocols, in this letter we show that they provide even larger advantages when considering multiple-interferometer setups. In particular we demonstrate that the use of quantum correlated light beams in coupled interferometers leads to substantial

Silvana Botti, Miguel A. L. Marques

The self-consistent GW band gaps are known to be significantly overestimated. We show that this overestimation is, to a large extent, due to the neglect of the contribution of the lattice polarization to the screening of the electron-electron interaction. To solve this problem, we derive within the GW formalism a generalized plasmon-pole model that accounts

Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Santiago Garcia-Burillo, Annie Hughes

We use the high spatial and spectral resolution of the PAWS CO(1-0) survey of the inner 9 kpc of the iconic spiral galaxy M51 to examine the effect of gas streaming motions on the star-forming properties of individual GMCs. We compare our view of gas flows in M51 -- which arise due to departures from axi-symmetry in the gravitational potential (i.e. the nucl

David Breyel, Henning Soller, Thomas L. Schmidt, Andreas Komnik

We investigate an ensemble of excitons in a coupled quantum well excited via an applied laser field. Using an effective disordered quantum Ising model, we perform a numerical simulation of the experimental procedure and calculate the probability distribution function $P(M)$ to create $M$ excitons as well as their correlation function. It shows clear evidence