April 2013 arXiv papers — page 51

C. Robertson

A folding process is applied to fused a^(1)_r defects to construct defects for the non-simply laced affine Toda field theories of c^(1)_n, d^(2)_n and a^(2)_2n at the classical level. Support for the hypothesis that these defects are integrable in the folded theories is provided by the observation that transmitted solitons retain their form. Further support

Kenneth C. Wong, Ann I. Zabludoff, S. Mark Ammons, Charles R. Keeton

The best gravitational lenses for detecting distant galaxies are those with the largest mass concentrations and the most advantageous configurations of that mass along the line of sight. Our new method for finding such gravitational telescopes uses optical data to identify projected concentrations of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). LRGs are biased tracers of t

Koji Hashimoto, Norihiro Iizuka, Taro Kimura

We study transport phenomena of total angular momentum in holography, as a first step toward holographic understanding of spin transport phenomena. Spin current, which has both the local Lorentz index for spins and the space-time vector index for current, couples naturally to the bulk spin connection. Therefore the bulk spin connection becomes the source for

Jean-Luc Lehners, Paul J. Steinhardt

We show that results from the Planck satellite reported in 2013 are consistent with the simplest cyclic models for natural parameter ranges i.e., order unity dimensionless coefficients, assuming the standard entropic mechanism for generating curvature perturbations. With improved precision, forthcoming results from Planck and other experiments should be able

Linwei Xin, David A. Goldberg

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing inventory control policies which are robust to model misspecification. One approach is to posit that nature selects a worst-case distribution for any stochastic primitives from some pre-specified family. Several communities have observed that a subtle phenomena known as time inconsistency can arise in

Marc Hallin, Chintan Mehta

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) recently has attracted attention in the statistical literature as an alternative to elliptical models. Whereas k-dimensional elliptical densities depend on one single unspecified radial density, however, k-dimensional independent component distributions involve k unspecified component densities that for given sample size

Prayat Poudel

Taubes proved that the Casson invariant of an integral homology 3-sphere equals half the Euler characteristic of its instanton Floer homology. We extend this result to all closed oriented 3-manifolds with positive first Betti number by establishing a similar relationship between the Lescop invariant of the manifold and its instanton Floer homology. The proof

C. R. Das, L. V. Laperashvili, A. Tureanu

We consider a Graviweak Unification model with the assumption of the existence of the hidden (invisible) sector of our Universe parallel to the visible world. This Hidden World (HW) is assumed to be a Mirror World (MW) with broken mirror parity. We start with a diffeomorphism invariant theory of a gauge field valued in a Lie algebra g, which is broken sponta

David Arcoya, Colette De Coster, Louis Jeanjean, Kazunaga Tanaka

We consider the boundary value problem \begin{equation*} - Δu = λc(x)u+ μ(x) |\nabla u|^2 + h(x), \quad u \in H^1_0(Ω) \cap L^{\infty}(Ω) \eqno{(P_λ)} \end{equation*} where $Ω\subset \R^N, N \geq 3$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary. It is assumed that $c\gneqq 0$, $c,h$ belong to $L^p(Ω)$ for some $p > N/2$ and that $μ\in L^{\infty}(Ω).$ We explicit

Joshua Ryan Smith

Most attention to improving vacuum thermionic energy conversion device (TEC) technology has been on improving electron emission with little attention to collector optimization. A model was developed to characterize the output characteristics of a TEC where the collector features negative electron affinity (NEA). According to the model, there are certain cond

S. Salarpour, A. Sheykhi, Y. Bahrampour

In general, the field equations of $f(R)$ theory coupled to a matter field are very complicated and hence it is not easy to find exact analytical solutions. However, if one considers traceless energy-momentum tensor for the matter source as well as constant scalar curvature, one can derive some exact analytical solutions from $f(R)$ theory coupled to a matte

Ahmad Sheykhi

Padmanabhan [arXiv:1206.4916] argues that the cosmic acceleration can be understood from the perspective that spacetime dynamics is an emergence phenomena. By calculating the difference between the surface degrees of freedom and the bulk degrees of freedom in a region of space, he also arrives at the Friedmann equation in a flat universe. In this paper, by m

Marco Bonvini, Fabrizio Caola, Stefano Forte, Kirill Melnikov

We study the effect of QCD corrections to the $gg\to H\to W^+ W^-$ signal-background interference at the LHC for a heavy Higgs boson. We construct a soft-collinear approximation to the NLO and NNLO corrections for the background process, which is exactly known only at LO. We estimate its accuracy by constructing and comparing the same approximation to the ex

Khoa Nguyen

Let $n\geq 2$, and let $f$ be a polynomial of degree at least 2 with coefficients in a number field or a characteristic 0 function field $K$. We present two arithmetic applications of a recent theorem of Medvedev-Scanlon to the dynamics of the map $(f,...,f):\ (\bP^1_{K})^n\longrightarrow (\bP^1_K)^n$, namely the dynamical analogues of the Hasse principle an

Borut Bajc, Adrian R. Lugo

We study the transition of a scalar field in a fixed $AdS_{d+1}$ background between an extremum and a minimum of a potential. We compute analytically the solution to the perturbation equation for the vev deformation case by generalizing the usual matching method to higher orders and find the propagator of the boundary theory operator defined through the AdS-

Abed Bounemoura, Vadim Kaloshin

In this paper, we study small perturbations of a class of non-convex integrable Hamiltonians with two degrees of freedom, and we prove a result of diffusion for an open and dense set of perturbations, with an optimal time of diffusion which grows linearly with respect to the inverse of the size of the perturbation.

Stefan Le Coz, Dong Li, Tai-Peng Tsai

We study *infinite soliton trains* solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations (NLS), i.e. solutions behaving at large time as the sum of infinitely many solitary waves. Assuming the composing solitons have sufficiently large relative speeds, we prove the existence and uniqueness of such a soliton train. We also give a new construction of multi-solitons (i.

Sebastian Acosta

In this paper we develop a time reversal method for the radiative transport equation to solve two problems: an inverse problem for the recovery of an initial condition from boundary measurements, and the exact boundary controllability of the transport field with finite steering time. Absorbing and scattering effects, modeled by coefficients with low regulari

Björn Wehinger, Alexeï Bosak, Aleksandr Chumakov, Alessandro Mirone

The lattice dynamics of coesite has been studied by a combination of diffuse x-ray scattering, inelastic x-ray scattering and an ab initio lattice dynamics calculation. The combined technique gives access to the full lattice dynamics in harmonic description and thus eventually provides detailed information on the elastic properties, the stability and metasta

Yu. V. Popov, V. L. Shablov, K. A. Kouzakov, A. G. Galstyan

We inspect the first-order electron-electron capture scenario for transfer ionization that has been recently formulated by Voitkiv et al. (Phys. Rev. A 86, 012709 (2012) and references therein). Using the multichannel scattering theory for many-body systems with Coulomb interactions, we show that this scenario is just a part of the well-studied Oppenheimer-B

Rajender Adibhatla

For a rational prime $p \geq 3$ and an integer $n \geq 2$, we study the modularity of continuous 2-dimensional mod $p^n$ Galois representations of $\Gal(\bar{\Q}/\Q)$ whose residual representations are odd and absolutely irreducible. Under suitable hypotheses on the local structure of these representations and the size of their images we use deformation theo

Miguel Couceiro, Jean-Luc Marichal

It is known that several discrete integrals, including the Choquet and Sugeno integrals as well as some of their generalizations, are comonotonically modular functions. Based on a recent description of the class of comonotonically modular functions, we axiomatically identify more general families of discrete integrals that are comonotonically modular, includ

Masoud Sabzevari, Amir Hashemi, Benyamin M. -Alizadeh, Joel Merker

We consider the significant class of holomorphically nondegenerate CR manifolds of finite type that are represented by some weighted homogeneous polynomials and we derive some useful features which enable us to set up a fast effective algorithm to compute their Lie algebras of infinitesimal CR-automorphisms. This algorithm mainly relies upon a natural gradat

F. Taddia, M. D. Stritzinger, J. Sollerman, M. M. Phillips

The observational diversity displayed by various Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn) is explored and quantified. In doing so, a more coherent picture ascribing the variety of observed SNe IIn types to particular progenitor scenarios is sought. Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) optical and near-infrared light curves and visual-wavelength spectroscopy of the Type IIn

T. Xiao, S. Dobbs, A. Tomaradze, Kamal K. Seth

Using 586 pb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data taken with the CLEO-c detector at $\sqrt{s}=4170$ MeV, the peak of the charmonium resonance $ψ(4160)$, we analyze the decay $ψ(4160)\to π^+π^- J/ψ$, and report observation of the charged state $Z_c^\pm(3900)$ decaying into $π^\pm J/ψ$ at a significance level of $>5 σ$. We obtain $M(Z_c^\pm)=3886\pm4(\text{sta

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

The branching fraction of the rate decay $B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0}e^+e^-$ in the dilepton mass region from 30 to 1000 MeV$/c^2$ has been measured by the LHCb experiment, using $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb$^{-1}$, at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The decay mode $B^0 \rightarrow J/ψ(e^+e^-) K^{*0}$ is utilized as a

Amitabh Basu, Kipp Martin, Chris Ryan

Fourier-Motzkin elimination is a projection algorithm for solving finite linear programs. We extend Fourier-Motzkin elimination to semi-infinite linear programs which are linear programs with finitely many variables and infinitely many constraints. Applying projection leads to new characterizations of important properties for primal-dual pairs of semi-infini

Abdelmoubine Amar Henni, Marcos Jardim

We give a linear algebraic and a monadic descriptions of the Hilbert scheme of points on the affine space of dimension $n$ which naturally extends Nakajima's representation of the Hilbert scheme of points on the plane. As an application of our ideas and recent results from the literature on commuting matrices, we show that the Hilbert scheme of $c$ point

Norbert Bodendorfer, Yasha Neiman

We outline how the Wald entropy formula naturally arises in loop quantum gravity based on recently introduced dimension-independent connection variables. The key observation is that in a loop quantization of a generalized gravity theory, the analog of the area operator turns out to measure, morally speaking, the Wald entropy rather than the area. We discuss

Upasana Das, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We clarify important physics issues related to the recently established new mass limit for magnetized white dwarfs which is significantly super-Chandrasekhar. The issues include, justification of high magnetic field and the corresponding formation of stable white dwarfs, contribution of the magnetic field to the total density and pressure, flux freezing, var

G. Bruni, D. Dallacasa, K. -H. Mack, F. M. Montenegro-Montes

Broad absorption line quasars (BAL QSOs) belong to a class of objects not well-understood as yet. Their UV spectra show BALs in the blue wings of the UV resonance lines, owing to ionized gas with outflow velocities up to 0.2 c. They can have radio emission that is difficult to characterize and that needs to be studied at various wavelengths and resolutions.

B. K. Gibson, K. Pilkington, C. B. Brook, G. S. Stinson

We examine the role of energy feedback in shaping the distribution of metals within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of L* disc galaxies. While negative abundance gradients today provide a boundary condition for galaxy evolution models, in support of inside-out disc growth, empirical evidence as to whether abundance gradients steepen or flatten with t

Martin Kasparick, Gerhard Wunder

Interference mitigation techniques are essential for improving the performance of interference limited wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce novel interference mitigation schemes for wireless cellular networks with space division multiple access (SDMA). The schemes are based on a virtual layer that captures and simplifies the complicated interferenc

M. A. Braun, A. N. Tarasov

The amplitude for the collision of two hadrons with the lowest order pomeron loop is calculated. Numerical calculations show that the loop contribution to the amplitude begins to dominate the single pomeron exchange at rapidities 8-10. Full dependence of the triple-pomeron vertex on intermediate conformal weights is taken into account.

Marco Mattioli, Marcello Dalmonte, Wolfgang Lechner, Guido Pupillo

We investigate the zero-temperature phases of bosonic and fermionic gases confined to one dimension and interacting via a class of finite-range soft-shoulder potentials (i.e. soft-core potentials with an additional hard-core onsite interaction). Using a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we demonstrate the stabilization of critical quantum liqu

Carlos Castillo, Mohammed El-Haddad, Jürgen Pfeffer, Matt Stempeck

This paper presents a study of the life cycle of news articles posted online. We describe the interplay between website visitation patterns and social media reactions to news content. We show that we can use this hybrid observation method to characterize distinct classes of articles. We also find that social media reactions can help predict future visitation

Mauro Di Nasso

By using nonstandard analysis, and in particular iterated hyper-extensions, we give foundations to a peculiar way of manipulating ultrafilters on the natural numbers and their pseudo-sums. The resulting formalism is suitable for applications in Ramsey theory of numbers. To illustrate the use of our technique, we give a (rather) short proof of Milliken-Taylor

Lloyd P. Sanders, Bo Söderberg, Dirk Brockmann, Tobias Ambjörnsson

Herein we provide a closed form perturbative solution to a general $M$-node network SIS model using the transport rates between nodes as a perturbation parameter. We separate the dynamics into a short-time regime and a medium/long-time regime. We solve the short-time dynamics of the system and provide a limit before which our explicit, analytical result of t

A. Ghosh, S. Yarlagadda

We study a model (i.e., the $t_2-V$ model involving {\em next-nearest-neighbor hopping} and nearest-neighbor repulsion) in one-dimension that generically depicts the dominant transport mechanism in cooperative strong electron-phonon interaction systems. Using analytic and numerical approaches, hard-core-bosons are shown to typically undergo a striking discon

Federico Cantero Morán, Oscar Randal-Williams

We study the space of oriented genus g subsurfaces of a fixed manifold M, and in particular its homological properties. We construct a "scanning map" which compares this space to the space of sections of a certain fibre bundle over M associated to its tangent bundle, and show that this map induces an isomorphism on homology in a range of degrees. Our

Bernd Kniehl, Igor Kondrashuk, Eduardo A. Notte-Cuello, Ivan Parra Ferrada

In our previous paper [Nucl.Phys. B 870 (2013) 243], we showed that multi-fold Mellin-Barnes (MB) transforms of Usyukina-Davydychev (UD) functions may be reduced to two-fold MB transforms. The MB transforms were written there as polynomials of logarithms of ratios of squares of the external momenta with certain coefficients. We also showed that these coeffic

L. Merker, S. Kirchner, E. Muñoz, T. A. Costi

The low temperature electrical conductance through correlated quantum dots provides a sensitive probe of the physics (e.g., of Fermi-liquid vs non-Fermi-liquid behavior) of such systems. Here, we investigate the role of level asymmetry (gate voltage) and local Coulomb repulsion (charging energy) on the low temperature and low field scaling properties of the

Norman Zabusky

I examine contemporary work in fluids in motion to demonstrate strong connections between art, science and technology. In one burgeoning domain, falling liquid drops impacting solid substrates or pools it is valuable to compare how artists and scientists describe their goals and their use of high speed digital photography to capture and measure events. I als

Bryan Poling, Gilad Lerman

We present a new approach to rigid-body motion segmentation from two views. We use a previously developed nonlinear embedding of two-view point correspondences into a 9-dimensional space and identify the different motions by segmenting lower-dimensional subspaces. In order to overcome nonuniform distributions along the subspaces, whose dimensions are unknown

Sofia Olhede, David Ramírez, Peter J. Schreier

Detecting and analyzing directional structures in images is important in many applications since one-dimensional patterns often correspond to important features such as object contours or trajectories. Classifying a structure as directional or non-directional requires a measure to quantify the degree of directionality and a threshold, which needs to be chose

Sahazada Aziz, Buddhadeb Ghosh

We study the dynamics of electroweak bubbles in the scenario of a strong first order inverse electroweak phase transition at the TeV scale involving the global structure of the nonlinear sigma field in the littlest Higgs model with T parity. Employing the one-loop order finite temperature effective potential, we find that the pressure in the symmetric phase

Francesco Orabona, Koby Crammer, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

Online learning algorithms are fast, memory-efficient, easy to implement, and applicable to many prediction problems, including classification, regression, and ranking. Several online algorithms were proposed in the past few decades, some based on additive updates, like the Perceptron, and some on multiplicative updates, like Winnow. A unifying perspective o

E. J. Lindgren, J. Rotureau, C. Forssén, A. G. Volosniev

The nature of strongly interacting Fermi gases and magnetism is one of the most important and studied topics in condensed-matter physics. Still, there are many open questions. A central issue is under what circumstances strong short-range repulsive interactions are enough to drive magnetic correlations. Recent progress in the field of cold atomic gases allow

Jiwon Chang, Leonard F. Register, Sanjay K. Banerjee

We study the transport properties of deeply scaled monolayer MoS2 n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) using full-band ballistic quantum transport simulations with an atomistic tight-binding Hamiltonian obtained from density functional theory. Our simulations suggest that monolayer MoS2 MOSFETs can provide near-ideal subthre

Voicu Dolocan

We have calculated the total energy of the helium atom in higher excited state. The Coulomb and exchange integrals are evaluated via spherical harmonics. The interaction of the magnetic moments of the electrons between them and also with the magnetic moments of the nucleus was taken into account through a cosine term in the Coulomb potential. The obtained re

Ryan J. Tibshirani

We study trend filtering, a recently proposed tool of Kim et al. [SIAM Rev. 51 (2009) 339-360] for nonparametric regression. The trend filtering estimate is defined as the minimizer of a penalized least squares criterion, in which the penalty term sums the absolute $k$th order discrete derivatives over the input points. Perhaps not surprisingly, trend filter

Esther Bleich

The purpose of this paper is to obtain an upper bound for the fundamental solution for parabolic Cauchy problem u'=Au, where A is a second order elliptic partial differential operator with unbounded coefficients such that its potential and the potential of the formal adjoint of the operator A are bounded from below.

Shun Ogawa, Aurelio Patelli, Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

The mean-field theory tells that the classical critical exponent of susceptibility is the twice of that of magnetization. However, the linear response theory based on the Vlasov equation, which is naturally introduced by the mean-field nature, makes the former exponent half of the latter for families of quasistationary states having second order phase transi

Sultan Ullah, Zheng Xuefeng

An emerging internet based super computing model is represented by cloud computing. Cloud computing is the convergence and evolution of several concepts from virtualization, distributed storage, grid, and automation management to enable a more flexible approach for deploying and scaling applications. However, cloud computing moves the application software an

Yi-Jian Du, Bo Feng, Chih-Hao Fu

Recently, a BCJ dual of the color-ordered formula for Yang-Mills amplitude was proposed, where the dual-trace factor satisfies cyclic symmetry and KK-relation. In this paper, we present a systematic construction of the dual-trace factor based on its proposed relations to kinematic numerators in dual-DDM form. We show that the construction presented respects

Yuan Xi, Zhang Xing, Xie Xufei, Chen Zhongjing

A compact neutron spectrometer based on the liquid scintillator is presented for neutron energy spectrum measurements at the HL-2A tokamak. The spectrometer was well characterized and a fast digital pulse shape discrimination software was developed using the charge comparison method. A digitizer data acquisition system with a maximum frequency of 1 MHz can w

P. Jouzdani, E. Novais, E. R. Mucciolo

We study the resilience of the surface code to decoherence caused by the presence of a bosonic bath. This approach allows us to go beyond the standard stochastic error model commonly used to quantify decoherence and error threshold probabilities in this system. The full quantum mechanical system-bath dynamics is computed exactly over one quantum error correc

Kangwei Li, Kabe Moen, Wenchang Sun

In this paper, we study the weighted inequality for multilinear fractional maximal operators and fractional integrals. We give sharp weighted estimates for both operators.

Carlo Morosi, Livio Pizzocchero

In a previous paper of ours [Nonlinear Anal. 2012] we have considered the incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations on a d-dimensional torus T^d, in the functional setting of the Sobolev spaces H^n(T^d) of divergence free, zero mean vector fields (n > d/2+1). In the cited work we have presented a general setting for the a posteriori analysis of approximate

Teng-Fei Zhang, Zhaoyang Yin

In this paper we consider the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation in spatially inhomogeneous case. We prove the propagation of Gevrey regularity for the so-called smooth Maxwellian decay solutions to the Cauchy problem of spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation, and obtain Gevrey regularity of order $1/(2s)$ in the velocity variable $v$ and order 1 in the space

Ranbir Singh, Lokesh Kumar, Pawan Kumar Netrakanti, Bedangadas Mohanty

We review a subset of experimental results from the heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility at CERN. Excellent consistency is observed across all the experiments at the LHC (at center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV) for the measurements such as charged particle multiplicity density, azimuthal anisotropy coefficients and nuclear modificat

A. T. Costa, M. S. Ferreira, Toby Hallam, Georg S. Duesberg

We show that periodically folded graphene sheets with enhanced spin-orbit interaction due to curvature effects can carry spin polarized currents and have gaps in the electronic spectrum in the presence of weak magnetic fields. Our results indicate that such origami-like structures can be used efficiently in spintronic applications.

Ernesto Nungesser, Woei Chet Lim

The aim of this paper is to use the existing relation between polarized electromagnetic Gowdy spacetimes and vacuum Gowdy spacetimes to find explicit solutions for electromagnetic spikes by a procedure which has been developed by one of the authors for gravitational spikes. We present new inhomogeneous solutions which we call the EME and MEM electromagnetic

Nobuchika Okada, Toshifumi Yamada

We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) that incorporates a Majorana fermion dark matter and a charged scalar particle with a coupling to the SM leptons through renormalizable terms. Another renormalizable term involving the charged scalar and the Higgs boson gives rise to interactions between the dark matter and SM quarks at the one-loop l

J. M. TenBarge, G. G. Howes

We present the first study of the formation and dissipation of current sheets at electron scales in a wave-driven, weakly collisional, 3D kinetic turbulence simulation. We investigate the relative importance of dissipation associated with collisionless damping via resonant wave-particle interactions versus dissipation in small-scale current sheets in weakly

Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Ramsay Dyer, Arijit Ghosh

We introduce a parametrized notion of genericity for Delaunay triangulations which, in particular, implies that the Delaunay simplices of $δ$-generic point sets are thick. Equipped with this notion, we study the stability of Delaunay triangulations under perturbations of the metric and of the vertex positions. We quantify the magnitude of the perturbations u

Damiano Brigo, Giuseppe Di Graziano

We solve a version of the optimal trade execution problem when the mid asset price follows a displaced diffusion. Optimal strategies in the adapted class under various risk criteria, namely value-at-risk, expected shortfall and a new criterion called "squared asset expectation" (SAE), related to a version of the cost variance measure, are derived and

D. Pugliese, H. Quevedo, R. Ruffini

We investigate charged particles circular motion in the gravitational field of a charged mass distribution described by the Reissner-Nordström spacetime. We introduce a set of independent parameters completely characterizing the different spatial regions in which circular motion is allowed. We provide most complete classification of circular orbits for diffe

H. Babaei-Aghbolagh, Mohammad R. Garousi

Recently it has been speculated that the S-matrix elements on the world volume of D$_3$-branes should satisfy the ward identity corresponding to the S-duality transformations. For a single brane and in the low energy limit, this indicates that in the abelian Dirac-Born-Indeld-Chern-Simons theory the combination of contact terms and tree-level massless poles

Valentin Féray, Pierre-Loïc Méliot, Ashkan Nikeghbali

In this paper, we use the framework of mod-$ϕ$ convergence to prove precise large or moderate deviations for quite general sequences of real valued random variables $(X_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$, which can be lattice or non-lattice distributed. We establish precise estimates of the fluctuations $P[X_{n} \in t_{n}B]$, instead of the usual estimates for the rat

Flavio S. Nogueira, Ilya Eremin

A thin film of ferromagnetically ordered material proximate to the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator explicitly breaks the time-reversal symmetry of the surface states. For an out-of-plane ferromagnetic order parameter on the surface, the parity is also broken, since the Dirac fermions become massive. This leads in turn to the generation o

Pierre Degond, Amic Frouvelle, Jian-Guo Liu

We provide a complete and rigorous description of phase transitions for kinetic models of self-propelled particles interacting through alignment. These models exhibit a competition between alignment and noise. Both the alignment frequency and noise intensity depend on a measure of the local alignment. We show that, in the spatially homogeneous case, the phas

Leonhard Frerick, Enrique Jordá, Jochen Wengenroth

For a compact set, we characterize the existence of a linear extension operator E for the space of Whitney jets without loss of derivatives, that is, E satisfies the best possible continuity estimates: The supremum of all partial derivatives up to order n of E(f) is less or equal than a constant times the n-th Whitney norm of f. The characterization is a sur

F. Darabi, K. Atazadeh, A. Rezaei-Aghdam

We use the Noether symmetry approach to find $f(R)$ theory of $(2+1)$ dimensional gravity and $(2+1)$ dimensional black hole solution consistent with this $f(R)$ gravity and the associated symmetry. We obtain $f({R})=D_1 R({n}/{n+1})({R}/{K})^{1/n}+D_2 R+D_3$, where the constant term $D_3$ plays no dynamical role. Then, we find general spherically symmetric

Marco Winkler, Joerg Reichardt

Conventionally, pairwise relationships between nodes are considered to be the fundamental building blocks of complex networks. However, over the last decade the overabundance of certain sub-network patterns, so called motifs, has attracted high attention. It has been hypothesized, these motifs, instead of links, serve as the building blocks of network struct

Romain Bachelard, Michael Kastner

Dynamical properties of lattice systems with long-range pair interactions, decaying like 1/r^α with the distance r, are investigated, in particular the time scales governing the relaxation to equilibrium. Upon varying the interaction range α, we find evidence for the existence of a threshold at α=d/2, dependent on the spatial dimension d, at which the relaxa

Alexander Streltsov, Wojciech H. Zurek

Niels Bohr proposed that the outcome of the measurement becomes objective and real, and, hence, classical, when its results can be communicated by classical means. In this work we revisit Bohr's postulate using modern tools from the quantum information theory. We find a full confirmation of Bohr's idea: if a measurement device is in a nonclassical st

Itay Shomroni, Orel Bechler, Serge Rosenblum, Barak Dayan

We demonstrate a new type of weak measurement based on the dynamics of spontaneous emission. The pointer in our scheme is given by the Lorentzian distribution characterizing atomic exponential decay via emission of a single photon. We thus introduce weak measurement, so far demonstrated nearly exclusively with laser beams and Gaussian statistics, into the qu

M. Grünewald, J. Kleinlein, F. Syrowatka, F. Würthner

We report the successful fabrication of lateral organic spin valves with a channel length in the sub $100\,nm$ regime. The fabication process is based on in-situ shadow evaporation under UHV conditions and therefore yields clean and oxygen-free interfaces between the ferromagnetic metallic electrodes and the organic semiconductor. The spin valve devices cons

Giulio Chiribella, Yuxiang Yang, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

No process in nature can perfectly clone an arbitrary quantum state. But is it possible to engineer processes that replicate quantum information with vanishingly small error? Here we demonstrate the possibility of probabilistic super-replication phenomena where N equally prepared quantum clocks are transformed into a much larger number of M nearly perfect re

A. A. Ovchinnikov

We continue to study the excited states for the XXZ- spin chain corresponding to the complex roots of the Bethe Ansatz equations with the imaginary part equal to $π/2$. We propose the particle-hole symmetry which relates the eigenstates build up from the two different pseudovacuum states. We find the XXX- spin chain limit for the eigenstates with the complex

Marc Cámara, Edwin R. van Dam, Jack H. Koolen, Jongyook Park

A $t$-walk-regular graph is a graph for which the number of walks of given length between two vertices depends only on the distance between these two vertices, as long as this distance is at most $t$. Such graphs generalize distance-regular graphs and $t$-arc-transitive graphs. In this paper, we will focus on 1- and in particular 2-walk-regular graphs, and s

Alejandro J. Castro, Tomasz Z. Szarek

We consider several harmonic analysis operators in the multi-dimensional context of the Dunkl Laplacian with the underlying group of reflections isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$ (also negative values of the multiplicity function are admitted). Our investigations include maximal operators, $g$-functions, Lusin area integrals, Riesz transforms and multipliers of

Zhao-Qing Feng

Subthreshold kaon (K$^{0}$ and K$^{+}$) production in neutron-rich nuclear reactions to probe the kaon-nucleon interaction in nuclear medium and to extract the isospin dependent part of the nuclear equation of state at high-baryon densities, is investigated within an isospin and momentum dependent transport model. A repulsive kaon-nucleon potential is implem

Joanna Kułaga-Przymus

We compare self-joining- and embeddability properties. In particular, we prove that a measure preserving flow $(T_t)_{t\in\mathbb{R}}$ with $T_1$ ergodic is 2-fold quasi-simple (2-fold distally simple) if and only if $T_1$ is 2-fold quasi-simple (2-fold distally simple). We also show that the Furstenberg-Zimmer decomposition for a flow $(T_t)_{t\in\mathbb{R}

Cheng Lien Lang, Mong Lung Lang

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a Fibonacci cycle to be residue complete (nondefective). In particular, the Lucas numbers modulo m is residue complete if and only if m = 2,4,6,7,14 or a power of 3.

Johannes Hofmann, Marcus Barth, Wilhelm Zwerger

We use the operator product expansion to derive exact results for the momentum distribution and the static structure factor at high momentum for a jellium model of electrons in both two and three dimensions. It is shown that independent of the precise state of the Coulomb system and for arbitrary temperatures, the asymptotic behavior is a power law in the mo

Anindya Banerji, Ravindra P. Singh, Abir Bandyopadhyay

The negativity of the Wigner function is discussed as a measure of the non classicality and the quantum interference pattern obtained therein as a possible measure of the entanglement between the two modes of the vortex states. This measure of entanglement is compared with the results obtained from concurrence.

Ryan C. Keenan, Amy J. Barger, Lennox L. Cowie

Galaxy counts and recent measurements of the luminosity density in the near-infrared (NIR) have indicated the possibility that the local universe may be under-dense on scales of several hundred megaparsecs. The presence of a large-scale under-density in the local universe could introduce significant biases into the interpretation of cosmological observables,

V. A. Novikov, V. R. Zoller

A model of diffractive neutrino scattering is formulated in terms of the chiral hadronic current which is conserved in the limit of vanishing pion mass. This current has the correct singularity structure and, naturally, does not lead to contradictions with a partial conservation of the axial current (PCAC). In that respect we differ from earlier work in the

E. Wilbring, H. -W. Hammer, U. -G. Meißner

The observation of the exotic quarkonium state Z_c(3900) by the BESIII and Belle collaborations supports the concept of hadronic molecules. Charmonium states interpreted as such molecules would be bound states of heavy particles with small binding energies. This motivates their description using an effective theory with contact interactions. In particular, w

Jamel El Kamel, Khaled Mehrez

We introduce the notion of Dunkl positive definite and strictly positive definite functions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. This done by the use of the properties of Dunkl translation. We establish the analogue of Bochner's theorem in Dunkl setting. The case of radial functions is considered. We give a sufficient condition for a function to be Dunkl strictly positi

L. Foschini, G. Bonnoli, G. Ghisellini, G. Tagliaferri

We have reanalyzed the giant outburst of the blazar PKS 1510-089 (z=0.36) that occurred on 2011 October-November. The gamma-ray flux in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range exceeded the value of 10^-5 ph/cm2/s for several days. The peak flux was reached on 2011 October 19, with a value of 4.4 x 10^-5 ph/cm2/s, which in turn corresponds to a luminosity of 2 x 10^49 e

A. Taschin, P. Bartolini, R. Eramo, R. Righini

The liquid and supercooled states of water show a series of anomalies whose nature is debated. A key role is attributed to the formation of structural aggregates induced by critical phenomena occurring deep in the supercooled region; the nature of the water anomalies and of the hidden critical processes remains elusive. Here we report a time-resolved optical

Xiangkun Liu, Qiao Wang, Chuzhong Pan, Zuhui Fan

In this paper, we analyze in detail with numerical simulations how the mask effect can influence the weak lensing peak statistics reconstructed from the shear measurement of background galaxies. It is found that high peak fractions are systematically enhanced due to masks, the larger the masked area, the higher the enhancement. In the case with about $13\%$

R. Li, F. E. Hudson, A. S. Dzurak, A. R. Hamilton

We describe a planar silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) based single hole transistor, which is compatible with conventional Si CMOS fabrication. A multi-layer gate design gives independent control of the carrier density in the dot and reservoirs. Clear Coulomb blockade oscillations are observed, and source-drain biasing measurements show that it is poss

P. C. Spruijtenburg, J. Ridderbos, F. Mueller, A. W. Leenstra

In this letter we report single-hole tunneling through a quantum dot in a two-dimensional hole gas, situated in a narrow-channel field-effect transistor in intrinsic silicon. Two layers of aluminum gate electrodes are defined on Si/SiO$_2$ using electron-beam lithography. Fabrication and subsequent electrical characterization of different devices yield repro

Li Xu, Ping Zhang

In this paper, we consider the global wellposedness of 3-D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical system with small and smooth initial data. The main difficulty of the proof lies in establishing the global in time $L^1$ estimate for the velocity field due to the strong degeneracy and anisotropic spectral properties of the linearized system. To achieve this an

Bruno Bellomo, Mauro Antezza

We study two two-level atomic quantum systems (qubits) placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding walls. While at thermal equilibrium the two-qubit dynamics is characterized by not entangled steady thermal states, we show that absence of thermal equilibrium may bring to the generation of entangled steady states. Remar

Matteo Smerlak, Suprit Singh

We develop an adiabatic formalism to study the Hawking phenomenon from the perspective of Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving along non-stationary, non-asymptotic trajectories. When applied to geodesic trajectories, this formalism yields the following results: (i) though they have zero acceleration, the temperature measured by detectors on circular orbits is highe