April 2013 arXiv papers — page 30

Santosh Kumar, André Nock, Hans-Jürgen Sommers, Thomas Guhr

Scattering is an important phenomenon which is observed in systems ranging from the micro- to macroscale. In the context of nuclear reaction theory the Heidelberg approach was proposed and later demonstrated to be applicable to many chaotic scattering systems. To model the universal properties, stochasticity is introduced to the scattering matrix on the leve

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues, Isabel S. Labouriau

There are few explicit examples in the literature of vector fields exhibiting complex dynamics that may be proved analytically. We construct explicitly a {two parameter family of vector fields} on the three-dimensional sphere $\EU^3$, whose flow has a spiralling attractor containing the following: two hyperbolic equilibria, heteroclinic trajectories connecti

K. Phifer, T. Do, L. Meyer, A. M. Ghez

We present new observations and analysis of G2 - the intriguing red emission-line object which is quickly approaching the Galaxy's central black hole. The observations were obtained with the laser guide star adaptive optics systems on the W. M. Keck I and II telescopes and include spectroscopy (R ~ 3600) centered on the Hydrogen Br-gamma line as well as

Luis O. Silva, Julio H. Toloza

In this work we consider de Branges spaces where the multiplication operator by the independent variable is not densely defined. First, we study the canonical selfadjoint extensions of the multiplication operator as a family of rank-one perturbations from the viewpoint of the theory of de Branges spaces. Then, on the basis of the obtained results, we provide

Luis O. Silva, Julio H. Toloza

We study singular Schrödinger operators on a finite interval as selfadjoint extensions of a symmetric operator. We give sufficient conditions for the symmetric operator to be in the $n$-entire class, which was defined in our previous work, for some $n$. As a consequence of this classification, we obtain a detailed spectral characterization for a wide class o

Nikos Katzourakis

For a Hamiltonian $H \in C^2(\mathbb{R}^{N \times n})$ and a map $u:Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n /!\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$, we consider the supremal functional \[ \label{1} \tag{1} E_\infty (u,Ω) \ :=\ \big\|H(Du)\big\|_{L^\infty(Ω)} . \] The "Euler-Lagrange" PDE associated to \eqref{1} is the quasilinear system \[ \label{2} \tag{2} A_\infty u := \B

Monika Dryl, Agnieszka B. Malinowska, Delfim F. M. Torres

Both inflation and unemployment inflict social losses. When a tradeoff exists between the two, what would be the best combination of inflation and unemployment? A well known approach in economics to address this question consists to write the social loss as a function of the rate of inflation $p$ and the rate of unemployment $u$, with different weights, and

Hilário Alencar, Gregório Silva Neto, Detang Zhou

The motivation of this paper is to study a second order elliptic operator which appears naturally in Riemannian geometry, for instance in the study of hypersurfaces with constant $r$-mean curvature. We prove a generalized Bochner-type formula for such a kind of operators and as applications we obtain some sharp estimates for the first nonzero eigenvalues in

Anton Souslov, D. Zeb Rocklin, Paul M. Goldbart

The impact of impenetrable obstacles on the energetics and equilibrium structure of strongly repulsive directed polymers is investigated. As a result of the strong interactions, regions of severe polymer depletion and excess are found in the vicinity of the obstacle, and the associated free-energy cost is found to scale quadratically with the average polymer

N. Mowlavi, F. Barblan, S. Saesen, L. Eyer

Aims. We analyze the population of periodic variable stars in the open cluster NGC 3766 based on a 7-year multi-band monitoring campaign conducted on the 1.2 m Swiss Euler telescope at La Silla, Chili. Methods. The data reduction, light curve cleaning and period search procedures, combined with the long observation time line, allow us to detect variability a

Jonas Castillo Toloza

Since the mathematicians of ancient Greece until Fermat, since Gauss until today; the way how the primes along the numerical straight line are distributed has become perhaps the most difficult math problem; many people believe that their distribution is chaotic, governed only by the laws of chance. In this article the author tries to resolve satisfactorily a

Yuichiro Kitajima

A mathematical rigorous definition of EPR states has been introduced by Arens and Varadarajan for finite dimensional systems, and extended by Werner to general systems. In the present paper we follow a definition of EPR states due to Werner. Then we show that an EPR state for incommensurable pairs is Bell correlated, and that the set of EPR states for incomm

Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov, Lee Worden, Jonathan Dushoff

We consider the dynamics of an extension of the influential Granovetter model of social behavior, where individuals are affected by their personal preferences and observation of the neighbors' behavior. Individuals are arranged in a network (usually, the square lattice) and each has a state and a fixed threshold for behavior changes. We simulate the syst

Osamu Iyama, Michael Wemyss

In this paper we define and study triangulated categories in which the Hom-spaces have Krull dimension at most one over some base ring (hence they have a natural 2-step filtration), and each factor of the filtration satisfies some Calabi-Yau type property. If C is such a category, we say that C is Calabi-Yau with dimension at most one. We extend the notion o

Michael Hansen, Robert L. Goldstone, Andrew Lumsdaine

What factors impact the comprehensibility of code? Previous research suggests that expectation-congruent programs should take less time to understand and be less prone to errors. We present an experiment in which participants with programming experience predict the exact output of ten small Python programs. We use subtle differences between program versions

Ariel Dobry, Akbar Jaefari, Eduardo Fradkin

We use bosonization and renormalization group methods to determine the ground state phase diagram of a one-dimensional frustrated Kondo-Heisenberg system consisting of a one-dimensional spin-1/2 Luttinger liquid coupled by a Kondo exchange interaction $J_K$ to a frustrated quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain, with a nearest-neighbor exchange coupling

Michael Megrelishvili, Menachem Shlossberg

We study free topological groups defined over uniform spaces in some subclasses of the class NA of non-archimedean groups. Our descriptions of the corresponding topologies show that for metrizable uniformities the corresponding free balanced, free abelian and free Boolean NA groups are also metrizable. Graev type ultra-metrics determine the corresponding fre

Herve Zwirn

In a previous paper, we provided a formal definition for the concept of computational irreducibility (CIR), i.e. the fact for a function f from N to N that it is impossible to compute f(n) without following approximately the same path than computing successively all the values f(i) from i=1 to n. Our definition is based on the concept of E Turing machines (f

Sayan Dasgupta, Yair Goldberg, Michael Kosorok

We develop an approach for feature elimination in statistical learning with kernel machines, based on recursive elimination of features.We present theoretical properties of this method and show that it is uniformly consistent in finding the correct feature space under certain generalized assumptions.We present four case studies to show that the assumptions a

Douglas Spolyar, Martin Sahlén, Joe Silk

Modified gravity has garnered interest as a backstop against dark matter and dark energy (DE). As one possible modification, the graviton can become massive, which introduces a new scalar field - here with a Galileon-type symmetry. The field can lead to a nontrivial equation of state (EOS) of DE which is density-and-scale-dependent. Tension between Type Ia s

Alexander V. Belikov, Joseph Silk

We investigate the possibility of fitting the putative spectrum of gamma-rays from annihilating dark matter at the Galactic Center by a super-exponential template. By generating and analyzing mock data for several ongoing and future experiments (HESS, CTA and DMA), we find that the preference for a super-exponential template (over an exponential) is especial

Lyudmila Korobenko, Cristian Rios

The main result of the paper is on the continuity of weak solutions of infinitely degenerate quasilinear second order equations. Namely, we show that every weak solution to a certain class of degenerate quasilinear equations is continuous. More precisely, we show that it is Hölder continuous with respect to a certain metric associated to the operator. One of

Anca Radulescu

Recent studies have been using graph theoretical approaches to model complex networks (such as social, infrastructural or biological networks), and how their hardwired circuitry relates to their dynamic evolution in time. Understanding how configuration reflects on the coupled behavior in a system of dynamic nodes can be of great importance, for example in t

Andreas Kronwald, Florian Marquardt

Optomechanical systems have been shown both theoretically and experimentally to exhibit an analogon to atomic electromagnetically induced transparency, with sharp transmission features that are controlled by a second laser beam. Here we investigate these effects in the regime where the fundamental nonlinear nature of the optomechanical interaction becomes im

Chris Gordon, Paul M. Saffin

Current data are in good agreement with the predictions of single field inflation. However, the hemispherical asymmetry seen in the cosmic microwave background data, may hint at a potential problem. Generalizing to multi-field models may provide one possible explanation. A useful way of modeling perturbations in multi-field inflation is to investigate the pr

Tudor C. Ionescu, Alessandro Astolfi

In this paper we propose a solution to the problem of moment matching with preservation of the port Hamiltonian structure, in the framework of time-domain moment matching. We characterize several families of parameterized port Hamiltonian models that match the moments of a given port Hamiltonian system, at a set of finite interpolation points. We also discus

Zhen Lin Low

The Grothendieck universe axiom asserts that every set is a member of some set-theoretic universe U that is itself a set. One can then work with entities like the category of all U-sets or even the category of all locally U-small categories, where U is an "arbitrary but fixed" universe, all without worrying about which set-theoretic operations one ma

Aaron Chan

We study the relation between simple-minded systems and two-term tilting complexes for self-injective Nakayama algebras. More precisely, we show that any simple-minded system of a self-injective Nakayama algebra is the image of the set of simple modules under a stable equivalence, which is given by the restriction of a standard derived equivalence induced by

Marco Mondelli, S. Hamed Hassani, Rüdiger Urbanke

Motivated by the significant performance gains which polar codes experience under successive cancellation list decoding, their scaling exponent is studied as a function of the list size. In particular, the error probability is fixed and the trade-off between block length and back-off from capacity is analyzed. A lower bound is provided on the error probabili

Benoît Kloeckner

We study the geometry of the space of measures of a compact ultrametric space X, endowed with the L^p Wasserstein distance from optimal transportation. We show that the power p of this distance makes this Wasserstein space affinely isometric to a convex subset of l^1. As a consequence, it is connected by 1/p-Hölder arcs, but any a-Hölder arc with a>1/p must

Tristan C. Collins, Valentino Tosatti

We prove that the non-Kahler locus of a nef and big class on a compact complex manifold bimeromorphic to a Kahler manifold equals its null locus. In particular this gives an analytic proof of a theorem of Nakamaye and Ein-Lazarsfeld-Mustata-Nakamaye-Popa. As an application, we show that finite time non-collapsing singularities of the Kahler-Ricci flow on com

Naoki Yamatsu

In a supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified model with a horizontal symmetry SU(1,1), we discuss spontaneous generation of generations to produce three chiral generations of quarks and leptons and one generation of higgses by using one structure field with a half-integer spin of SU(1,1) and two structure fields with integer spins. In particular, the colored higg

Bernd Bank, Marc Giusti, Joos Heintz, Mohab Safey El Din

It is known that point searching in basic semialgebraic sets and the search for globally minimal points in polynomial optimization tasks can be carried out using $(s\,d)^{O(n)}$ arithmetic operations, where $n$ and $s$ are the numbers of variables and constraints and $d$ is the maximal degree of the polynomials involved.\spar \noindent We associate to each o

Georgios Itsios, Veselin G. Filev, Dimitrios Zoakos

We construct the gravity dual of N=1 Non-Commutative SYM theory coupled to Nf smeared massless fundamental flavors. Our solution is analytic and non-perturbative. Near the origin the background reduces to the one corresponding to an ordinary SYM theory. At large radial distances, the dilaton diverges signaling the presence of a UV Landau pole. Considering a

B. Yucesoy, Helmut G. Katzgraber, J. Machta

In Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 219701 (2013) [arXiv:1211.0843] Billoire et al. criticize the conclusions of our Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177204 (2012), arxiv:1206.0783]. They argue that considering the Edwards-Anderson and Sherrington-Kirkpatrick models at the same temperature is inappropriate and propose an interpretation based on the replica symmetry breaki

Christopher J. Eagle

We describe an infinitary logic for metric structures which is analogous to $L_{ω_1, ω}$. We show that this logic is capable of expressing several concepts from analysis that cannot be expressed in finitary continuous logic. Using topological methods, we prove an omitting types theorem for countable fragments of our infinitary logic. We use omitting types to

Daniel Disegni

Let $f$ be a primitive Hilbert modular form of parallel weight $2$ and level $N$ for the totally real field $F$, and let $p$ be a rational prime coprime to $2N$. If $f$ is ordinary at $p$ and $E$ is a CM extension of $F$ of relative discriminant $Δ$ prime to $Np$, we give an explicit construction of the $p$-adic Rankin-Selberg $L$-function $L_{p}(f_E,\cdot)$

Constantinos Pallis, Qaisar Shafi

The minimal supersymmetric (or F-term) hybrid inflation is defined by a unique renormalizable superpotential, fixed by a $U(1)$ R-symmetry, and it employs a canonical Kähler potential. The inflationary potential takes into account both radiative and supergravity corrections, as well as an important soft supersymmetry breaking term, with a mass coefficient in

M. Di Dio, L. Barbiero, A. Recati, M. Dalmonte

We investigate the effect of dipolar interactions in one-dimensional systems in connection with the possibility of observing exotic many-body effects with trapped atomic and molecular dipolar gases. By combining analytical and numerical methods, we show how the competition between short- and long-range interactions gives rise to frustrating effects which lea

Simon R Thomas, Mathew J Owens, Mike Lockwood

The ability to predict times of greater galactic cosmic ray (GCR) fluxes is important for reducing the hazards caused by these particles to satellite communications, aviation, or astronauts. The 11-year solar cycle variation in cosmic rays is highly correlated with the strength of the heliospheric magnetic field. Differences in GCR flux during alternate sola

Kiril Hristov, Chiara Toldo, Stefan Vandoren

We determine the thermodynamic properties of a class of spherically symmetric and static black holes in AdS4 with magnetic charges and scalar hair. These black holes are solutions in 4d N=2 gauged supergravity that can arise from eleven-dimensional supergravity compactified on S^7. At zero temperature, they preserve supersymmetry and hence are stable. At non

Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev

Our aim is to investigate ontology-based data access over temporal data with validity time and ontologies capable of temporal conceptual modelling. To this end, we design a temporal description logic, TQL, that extends the standard ontology language OWL 2 QL, provides basic means for temporal conceptual modelling and ensures first-order rewritability of conj

Sara Madariaga

In this paper we use the operadic framework to find Gröbner-Shirshov bases for the free quadri-algebra. We perform computations using the representation of the nonsymmetric operad by planar rooted trees in a very intuitive way. Gröbner-Shirshov bases for the free dendriform algebra are also found with this technique, simplifying the work by Chen and Wang in

Vlada Limic, Anna Talarczyk

Consider a standard ${Λ}$-coalescent that comes down from infinity. Such a coalescent starts from a configuration consisting of infinitely many blocks at time $0$, but its number of blocks $N_t$ is a finite random variable at each positive time $t$. Berestycki et al. [Ann. Probab. 38 (2010) 207-233] found the first-order approximation $v$ for the process $N$

Lei Tian, Jonathan C. Petruccelli, Qin Miao, Haris Kudrolli

We develop and implement a compressive reconstruction method for tomographic recovery of refractive index distribution for weakly attenuating objects in a microfocus X-ray system. This is achieved through the development of a discretized operator modeling both the transport of intensity equation and X-ray transform that is suitable for iterative reconstructi

N. L. Chuprikov

We present a new model of scattering a quantum particle on the potential step, which reconstructs the prehistory of the subensembles of transmitted and reflected particles by their final states. Unlike the conventional one this model predicts the existence of a transitional spatial region behind the potential step where the probability to find reflected part

V. H. P. Louzada, N. A. M. Araújo, J. S. Andrade, H. J. Herrmann

Global synchronization in a complex network of oscillators emerges from the interplay between its topology and the dynamics of the pairwise interactions among its numerous components. When oscillators are spatially separated, however, a time delay appears in the interaction which might obstruct synchronization. Here we study the synchronization properties of

Pengfei Zhu, H. Berger, J. Cao, J. Geck

We report the experimental demonstration of femtosecond electron diffraction using high-brightness MeV electron beams. High-quality, single-shot electron diffraction patterns for both polycrystalline aluminum and single-crystal 1T-TaS2 are obtained utilizing a 5 femto-Coulomb (~3x10^4 electrons) pulse of electrons at 2.8 MeV. The high quality of the electron

Ben Barber, Imre Leader

An infinite integer matrix A is called image partition regular if, whenever the natural numbers are finitely coloured, there is an integer vector x such that Ax is monochromatic. Given an image partition regular matrix A, can we also insist that each variable x_i is a multiple of some given d_i? This is a question of Hindman, Leader and Strauss. Our aim in t

Michal P. Heller, David Mateos, Wilke van der Schee, Miquel Triana

The holographic isotropization of a highly anisotropic, homogeneous, strongly coupled, non-Abelian plasma was simplified in arXiv:1202.0981 by linearizing Einstein's equations around the final, equilibrium state. This approximation reproduces the expectation value of the boundary stress tensor with a 20% accuracy. Here we elaborate on these results and e

Sho Iwamoto

SUSY searches at the LHC as well as the 126 GeV Higgs boson indicate that superparticles, especially squarks and gluinos, are not so light as we expected. It is important to investigate SUSY searches which do not rely on the colored superparticles. As a clue for the investigation, we focus on the muon g-2 anomaly, which can be explained by the SUSY contribut

Keisuke Hatada, Kuniko Hayakawa, Fabrizio Palumbo

The Two-Rotor Model predicts two levels above the Scissors Modes with degenerate intrinsic energy. They have $J^π= 0^+,2^+$ and are referred to as overtones. Their energy is below threshold for nucleon emission, which should make them observable. The $J^π=0^+$ overtone, that has the structure of an isovector breathing mode, has vanishing $E0$ amplitude so th

Muruhan Rathinam

We consider Markov processes in continuous time with state space $\posint^N$ and provide two sufficient conditions and one necessary condition for the existence of moments $E(\|X(t)\|^r)$ of all orders $r \in \nat$ for all $t \geq 0$. The sufficient conditions also guarantee an exponential in time growth bound for the moments. The class of processes studied

D. N. Aristov, P. Wölfle

We calculate the conductances of a three-terminal junction set-up of spinless Luttinger liquid wires threaded by a magnetic flux, allowing for different interaction strength g_3 != g in the third wire. We employ the fermionic representation in the scattering state picture, allowing for a direct calculation of the linear response conductances, without the nee

Joerg Bruedern, Trevor D. Wooley

We establish the Hasse Principle for systems of r simultaneous diagonal cubic equations whenever the number of variables exceeds 6r and the associated coefficient matrix contains no singular r x r submatrix, thereby achieving the theoretical limit of the circle method for such systems.

William Y. C. Chen, Jeremy J. F. Guo, Larry X. W. Wang

We introduce the notion of infinitely log-monotonic sequences. By establishing a connection between completely monotonic functions and infinitely log-monotonic sequences, we show that the sequences of the Bernoulli numbers, the Catalan numbers and the central binomial coefficients are infinitely log-monotonic. In particular, if a sequence $\{a_n\}_{n\geq 0}$

Naoki Seto

The Kozai mechanism for a hierarchical triple system could reduce the merger time of inner eccentric binary emitting gravitational waves (GWs), and has been qualitatively explained with the secular theory that is derived by averaging short-term orbital revolutions. However, with the secular theory, the minimum value of the inner pericenter distance could be

Elliot Anshelevich, John Postl, Tom Wexler

We study assignment games in which jobs select machines, and in which certain pairs of jobs may conflict, which is to say they may incur an additional cost when they are both assigned to the same machine, beyond that associated with the increase in load. Questions regarding such interactions apply beyond allocating jobs to machines: when people in a social n

Enric Pardo

For superconducting coils with many turns, it is widely believed that the magnetic field from magnetization currents is negligible compared to the one generated by the whole coil. This article shows that this is not true for coils with a considerably large number of turns (up to thousands). We introduce a method to accurately calculate the AC loss in coils w

Jin Takahashi, Eiji Yanagida

We consider solutions of the linear heat equation with time-dependent singularities. It is shown that if a singularity is weaker than the order of the fundamental solution of the Laplace equation, then it is removable. We also consider the removability of higher dimensional singular sets. An example of a non-removable singularity is given, which implies the

Stefan Schreieder

For any subfield K of the complex numbers which is not contained in an imaginary quadratic number field, we construct conjugate varieties whose algebras of K-rational (p,p)-classes are not isomorphic. This compares to the Hodge conjecture which predicts isomorphisms when K is contained in an imaginary quadratic number field; additionally, it shows that the c

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Colin D. Reid, George A. Willis

Let G be a totally disconnected, locally compact group. A closed subgroup of G is locally normal if its normaliser is open in G. We begin an investigation of the structure of the family of closed locally normal subgroups of G. Modulo commensurability, this family forms a modular lattice, called the structure lattice of G. We show that G admits a canonical ma

Shinsuke Hayashi, Makoto Tsubota, Hiromitsu Takeuchi

We theoretically study the instability of helical shear flows, in which one fluid component flows along the vortex core of the other, in phase-separated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates at zero temperature. The helical shear flows are hydrodynamically classified into two regimes: (1) a helical vortex sheet, where the vorticity is localized on the cyli

Julien Basset, David-Dominik Jarausch, Anna Stockklauser, Tobias Frey

We have realized a hybrid solid-state quantum device in which a single-electron semiconductor double quantum dot is dipole coupled to a superconducting microwave frequency transmission line resonator. The dipolar interaction between the two entities manifests itself via dispersive and dissipative effects observed as frequency shifts and linewidth broadenings

Irena Rusu

Common intervals of K permutations over the same set of n elements were firstly investigated by T. Uno and M.Yagiura (Algorithmica, 26:290:309, 2000), who proposed an efficient algorithm to find common intervals when K=2. Several particular classes of intervals have been defined since then, e.g. conserved intervals and nested common intervals, with applicati

Aleksander Ivanov, Barbara Majcher-Iwanow

We analyse logic actions of Polish groups which arise in continuous logic. We extend the generalised model theory of H.Becker to the case of Polish G-spaces when G is an arbitrary Polish group.

Clive Emary, Neill Lambert, Franco Nori

In contrast to the spatial Bell's inequalities, which probe entanglement between spatially-separated systems, the Leggett-Garg inequalities test the correlations of a single system measured at different times. Violation of a genuine Leggett-Garg test implies either the absence of a realistic description of the system or the impossibility of measuring the

Guillaume Poliquin

This paper is concerned with the lower bounds for the principal frequency of the $p$-Laplacian on $n$-dimensional Euclidean domains. In particular, we extend the classical results involving the inner radius of a domain and the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator to the case $p\neq2$. As a by-product, we obtain a lower bound on the size of the nodal set

Thilo A. Schmitt, Desislava Chetalova, Rudi Schäfer, Thomas Guhr

Financial markets are prominent examples for highly non-stationary systems. Sample averaged observables such as variances and correlation coefficients strongly depend on the time window in which they are evaluated. This implies severe limitations for approaches in the spirit of standard equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Nevertheless, we s

Xiaoqing Li, Stephan Schönecker, Jijun Zhao, Börje Johansson

Using \emph{ab initio} alloy theory formulated within the exact muffin-tin orbitals theory in combination with the coherent potential approximation, we investigate the ideal tensile strength (ITS) in the $[001]$ direction of bcc ferro-/ferrimagnetic (FFM) and paramagnetic (PM) Fe$_{1-x}M_{x}$ ($M=$ Al, V, Cr, Mn, Co, or Ni) random alloys. The ITS of ferromag

Fabrizio Nesti, Paolo Salucci

We derive the mass model of the Milky Way (MW) using a cored dark matter (DM) halo profile and recent data. The method used consists in fitting a spherically symmetric model of the Galaxy with a Burkert DM halo profile to available data: MW terminal velocities in the region inside the solar circle, circular velocity as recently estimated from maser star form

Yang Chen, Ping Zhou, You-Hua Chu

We find a linear relationship between the size of a massive star's main-sequence bubble in a molecular environment and the star's initial mass: R_b \approx 1.22M/Msun - 9.16 pc, assuming a constant interclump pressure. Since stars in the mass range of 8 to 25-30 Msun will end their evolution in the red supergiant phase without launching a Wolf-Rayet

Juergen Piest

The hydrodynamic equation derived by N-particle statistical mechanics is investigated. This is an attempt to provide additional information concerning the closure problem of turbulence theory. The equation is interpreted as mean velocity equation for turbulent fluid flow. The third-order term of the friction force is calculated. Multilinear mode coupling the

J. R. Pelaez, J. Nebreda, G. Ríos, J. Ruiz de Elvira

In this talk we review our recent developments on the understanding of the nature of the f_0(500) resonance---or sigma meson---coming from the N_c expansion, dispersion relations with Chiral Perturbation Theory, as well as finite energy sum rules and semi-local duality.

Miloslav Svec

Unitary evolution law describes isolated particle scattering processes in an empty Minkowski spacetime. We put forward a hypothesis that the physical Universe includes a quantum environment that interacts with particle scattering processes. While the scattering process is governed by the S-matrix the interaction evolves the produced state rho_f(S) to observe

Chiara Arina, Gianfranco Bertone, Hamish Silverwood

We investigate the prospects for reconstructing the mass, spin-independent and spin-dependent cross-sections of Dark Matter particles with a combination of future direct detection experiments such as XENON1T, and the IceCube neutrino telescope in the 86-string configuration including the DeepCore array. We quantify the degree of complementarity between the t

N. J. Lambert, M. Edwards, A. A. Esmail, F. A. Pollock

We measure an aluminum superconducting double quantum dot and find that its electrical impedance, specifically its quantum capacitance, depends on whether or not it contains a single broken Cooper pair. In this way we are able to observe, in real time, the thermally activated breaking and recombination of Cooper pairs. Furthermore, we apply external microwav

Moon Moon Devi, Anushree Ghosh, Daljeet Kaur, Lakshmi S. Mohan

The results of a Monte Carlo simulation study of the hadron energy response for the magnetized Iron CALorimeter detector, ICAL, proposed to be located at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is presented. Using a GEANT4 modeling of the detector ICAL, interactions of atmospheric neutrinos with target nuclei are simulated. The detector response to hadron

Max Wolff, Peter Kuhns, Georg Liesche, John F. Ankner

We have combined neutron reflectometry with rheology in order to investigate the solid boundary of liquids and polymers under shear deformation. Our approach allows one to apply a controlled stress to a material while resolving the structural arrangements on the sub nanometer length scale with neutron reflectivity, off-specular and small angle scattering at

Kira Riedl, Casper Drukier, Peter Zalom, Peter Kopietz

We show that in the two-component Bose gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling an arbitrarily small attractive interaction between bosons with opposite spin induces spontaneous ferromagnetism below a finite critical temperature $T_c$. In the ferromagnetic phase the single-particle spectrum exhibits a unique minimum in momentum space in the direction of the magne

Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan, Sohan Dsouza

Social mobilization, the ability to mobilize large numbers of people via social networks to achieve highly distributed tasks, has received significant attention in recent times. This growing capability, facilitated by modern communication technology, is highly relevant to endeavors which require the search for individuals that posses rare information or skil

Anders Mathias Lunde, Gloria Platero

We study the hyperfine interaction between the nuclear spins and the electrons in a HgTe quantum well, which is the prime experimentally realized example of a two-dimensional topological insulator. The hyperfine interaction is a naturally present, internal source of broken time-reversal symmetry from the point of view of the electrons. The HgTe quantum well

Radouane Gannouji, Md. Wali Hossain, M. Sami, Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate cosmological behavior in the quasi-Dilaton non-linear massive gravity. We perform a detailed dynamical analysis and examine the stable late-time solutions relevant to late time cosmic acceleration. We demonstrate that a dark-energy dominated, cosmological-constant-like solution is a late attractor of the dynamics. We also analyze the evolution

Suratna Das, Kinjalk Lochan, Satyabrata Sahu, T. P. Singh

The inflationary paradigm provides a mechanism to generate the primordial perturbations needed to explain the observed large scale structures in the universe. Inflation traces back all the inhomogeneities to quantum fluctuations although the structures look classical today. Squeezing of primordial quantum fluctuations along with the mechanism of decoherence

Margareta Segerståhl

A modeling formalism is proposed for the description and study of living and life-like systems. It provides an abstract conceptual model framework for real life and evolution of biological organisms. It is proposed, that this model formalism provides a novel system view and immediately applicable conceptual tools for understanding complex life and evolution.

Meng Zheng, Przemysław Pawełczak, Sławomir Stańczak, Haibin Yu

We pose a novel cellular network planning problem, considering the use of renewable energy sources and a fundamentally new concept of energy balancing, and propose a novel algorithm to solve it. In terms of the network capital and operational expenditure, we conclude that savings can be made by enriching cellular infrastructure with energy harvesting sources

Min Liang

Suppose some data have been encrypted, can you compute with the data without decrypting them? This problem has been studied as homomorphic encryption and blind computing. We consider this problem in the context of quantum information processing, and present the definitions of quantum homomorphic encryption (QHE) and quantum fully homomorphic encryption (QFHE

M. A. Pellegrini, A. E. Zalesski

Let G be a finite simple group of Lie type. In this paper we study characters of G that vanish at the non-semisimple elements and whose degree is equal to the order of a maximal unipotent subgroup of G. Such characters can be viewed as a natural generalization of the Steinberg character. For groups G of small rank we also determine the characters of this deg

D. García Yárnoz, J. P. Sánchez, C. R. McInnes

Asteroids and comets are of strategic importance for science in an effort to understand the formation, evolution and composition of the Solar System. Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are of particular interest because of their accessibility from Earth, but also because of their speculated wealth of material resources. The exploitation of these resources has long be

Claudianor O. Alves, Francisco Julio S. A. Corrêa

In this paper we establish the existence of two positive solutions for the obstacle problem $$ \displaystyle \int_{\Re}\left[u'(v-u)'+(1+λV(x))u(v-u)\right] \geq \displaystyle \int_{\Re} f(u)(v-u), \forall v\in \Ka $$ where $f$ is a continuous function verifying some technical conditions and $\Ka$ is the convex set given by $$ \Ka =\left\{v\in H^{1}(

Ming-Liang Hu, Heng Fan, Dong-Ping Tian

The information-theoretic definition of quantum correlation, e.g., quantum discord, is measurement dependent. By considering the more general quantum measurements, weak measurements, which include the projective measurement as a limiting case, we show that while weak measurements can enable one to capture more quantumness of correlation in a state, it can al

S. Iubini, S. Lepri, R. Livi, A. Politi

Suitable Langevin thermostats are introduced which are able to control both the temperature and the chemical potential of a one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear Schrödinger oscillators. The resulting non-equilibrium stationary states are then investigated in two limit cases (low temperatures and large particle densities), where the dynamics can be mapped ont

Paola Cristofori, Michele Mulazzani

We introduce a representation of compact 3-manifolds without spherical boundary components via (regular) 4-colored graphs, which turns out to be very convenient for computer aided study and tabulation. Our construction is a direct generalization of the one given in the eighties by S. Lins for closed 3-manifolds, which is in turn dual to the earlier construct

Jacek Swiatkowski

We show that trees of manifolds, the topological spaces introduced by Jakobsche, appear as boundaries at infinity of various spaces and groups. In particular, they appear as Gromov boundaries of some hyperbolic groups, of arbitrary dimension, obtained by the procedure of strict hyperbolization. We also recognize these spaces as boundaries of arbitrary Coxete

Jacek Swiatkowski

We present a construction, called the limit of a tree system of spaces (or, less formally, a tree of spaces). The construction is designed to produce compact metric spaces that resemble fractals, out of more regular spaces, such as closed manifolds, compact polyhedra, compact Menger manifolds, etc. Such spaces are potential candidates to be homeomorphic to i

Hichem Bannour, Céline Hudelot

This paper proposes a new methodology to automatically build semantic hierarchies suitable for image annotation and classification. The building of the hierarchy is based on a new measure of semantic similarity. The proposed measure incorporates several sources of information: visual, conceptual and contextual as we defined in this paper. The aim is to provi

Mariano Zeron-Medina Laris

We introduce a new real valued invariant for finitely presented groups called residual deficiency. Its main property is the following. Let G be a finitely presented group. If the residual deficiency of G is greater than one, then G has a finite index subgroup with deficiency greater than one. The latter property is strong. For instance, such a group is large

Anton V. Dolgikh, Daniel S. Kosov

We consider a chain of one-dimensional dipole moments connected to two thermal baths with different temperatures. The system is in nonequilibrium steady state and heat flows through it. Assuming that fluctuation of the dipole moment is a small parameter, we develop an analytically solvable model for the problem. The effect of disorder is introduced by random

Sostenes L. Lins, Lauro D. Lins

This paper poses some basic questions about instances (hard to find) of a special problem in 3-manifold topology. "Important though the general concepts and propositions may be with the modern industrious passion for axiomatizing and generalizing has presented us...nevertheless I am convinced that the special problems in all their complexity constitute t

L. Kaltenegger, D. Sasselov, S. Rugheimer

Planets composed of large quantities of water that reside in the habitable zone are expected to have distinct geophysics and geochemistry of their surfaces and atmospheres. We explore these properties motivated by two key questions: whether such planets could provide habitable conditions and whether they exhibit discernable spectral features that distinguish