April 2013 arXiv papers — page 53

V. O. Sokolov, V. G. Plotnichenko, E. M. Dianov

A comparative first-principles study of possible bismuth-related centers in TlCl and CsI crystals is performed and the results of computer modeling are compared with the experimental data. The calculated spectral properties of the bismuth centers suggest that the IR luminescence observed in TlCl:Bi is most likely caused by Bi--Vac(Cl) centers (Bi^+ ion in th

M. Crampin, T. Mestdag

We determine all Finsler metrics of Randers type for which the Riemannian part is a scalar multiple of the Euclidean metric, on an open subset of the Euclidean plane, whose geodesics are circles. We show that the Riemannian part must be of constant Gaussian curvature, and that for every such Riemannian metric there is a class of Randers metrics satisfying th

S. Andreon

Using Spitzer 3.6 micron data we derived the luminosity function and the mass function of galaxies in five z>1.4 clusters selected to have a firm intracluster medium detection. The five clusters differ in richness (ISCSJ1438.1+3414 and XMMXCSJ2215.9-1738 are twice as rich as ISCSJ1432.4+3250, IDCSJ1426.5+3508, and JKCS041) and morphological appareance. At th

Mario Hampejs, László Tóth

We describe the subgroups of the group $\Z_m \times \Z_n \times \Z_r$ and derive a simple formula for the total number $s(m,n,r)$ of the subgroups, where $m,n,r$ are arbitrary positive integers. An asymptotic formula for the function $n\mapsto s(n,n,n)$ is also deduced.

Hamoon Mousavi, Jeffrey Shallit

We consider the following problem: given that a finite automaton $M$ of $N$ states accepts at least one $k$-power-free (resp., overlap-free) word, what is the length of the shortest such word accepted? We give upper and lower bounds which, unfortunately, are widely separated.

Apostolos Mastichiadis, Maria Petropoulou, Stavros Dimitrakoudis

We investigate the origin of high-energy emission in blazars within the context of the leptohadronic one-zone model. We find that $γ$-ray emission can be attributed to synchrotron radiation either from protons or from secondary leptons produced via photohadronic processes. These possibilities imply differences not only in the spectral energy distribution (SE

Rachel R. Bennett, Ramin Golestanian

The green alga {\it Chlamydomonas} swims with synchronized beating of its two flagella, and is experimentally observed to exhibit run-and-tumble behaviour similar to bacteria. Recently we studied a simple hydrodynamic three-sphere model of {\it Chlamydomonas} with a phase dependent driving force which can produce run-and-tumble behaviour when intrinsic noise

Arindam RoyChoudhury

In a population practicing consanguineous marriage, rare recessive lethal alleles (RRLA) have higher chances of affecting phenotypes. As inbreeding causes more homozygosity and subsequently more deaths, the loss of individuals with RRLA decreases the frequency of these alleles. Although this phenomenon is well studied in general, here some hitherto unstudied

Niklas Rohling, Guido Burkard

We present a scheme for full quantum state tomography tailored for two spin qubits in a double quantum dot. A set of 15 quantum states allows to determine the density matrix in this two-qubit space by projective measurement. In this paper we choose a set gained from mutually unbiased bases. We determine how those 15 projections can be represented by charge m

B. Lanzoni, A. Mucciarelli, L. Origlia, M. Bellazzini

By combining high spatial resolution and wide-field spectroscopy performed, respectively, with SINFONI and FLAMES at the ESO/VLT we measured the radial velocities of more than 600 stars in the direction of NGC 6388, a Galactic globular cluster which is suspected to host an intermediate-mass black hole. Approximately 55% of the observed targets turned out to

Yoichi Higashi, Yuki Nagai, Masahiko Machida, Nobuhiko Hayashi

We theoretically study the dependence of the quasiparticle (QP) scattering rate $\varGamma$ on the uniaxial anisotropy of a Fermi surface with changing the magnetic field angle $α_{\rm M}$. We consider the QP scattering due to the non-magnetic impurities inside a single vortex core. The field-angle dependence of the quasiparticle scattering rate $\varGamma(α

Brandon Redding, Seng Fatt Liew, Raktim Sarma

Light scattering in disordered media has been studied extensively due to its prevalence in natural and artificial systems [1]. In the field of photonics most of the research has focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of scattering, which are often detrimental. For certain applications, however, intentionally introducing disorder can actually imp

Jan-David Hardtke

In 2000 Kadets et al. introduced the notions of acs, luacs and uacs spaces, which form common generalisations of well-known rotundity and smoothness properties of Banach spaces. In a recent preprint the author introduced some further related notions and investigated the behaviour of these geometric properties under the formation of absolute sums. This paper

Floris van der Tak, Luis Chavarria, Fabrice Herpin, Friedrich Wyrowski

To understand the origin of water line emission and absorption during high-mass star formation, we decompose high-resolution Herschel-HIFI line spectra toward 19 high-mass star-forming regions into three distinct physical components. Protostellar envelopes are usually seen as narrow absorptions or emissions in the H2O 1113 and 1669 GHz ground-state lines, th

Faten Nabli, François Fages, Thierry Martinez, Sylvain Soliman

Petri-nets are a simple formalism for modeling concurrent computation. Recently, they have emerged as a powerful tool for the modeling and analysis of biochemical reaction networks, bridging the gap between purely qualitative and quantitative models. These networks can be large and complex, which makes their study difficult and computationally challenging. I

Jia Zheng, Baofeng Wu, Yufu Chen, Zhuojun Liu

Constructing $2m$-variable Boolean functions with optimal algebraic immunity based on decomposition of additive group of the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{2^{2m}}$ seems to be a promising approach since Tu and Deng's work. In this paper, we consider the same problem in a new way. Based on polar decomposition of the multiplicative group of $\mathbb{F}_{2^{2m}

J. Berashevich, A. Reznik

Here we propose to induce magnetism in semiconductor utilizing the unique properties of the interstitial defect to act as the magnetic impurity within the alpha-PbO crystal structure. The Pbi interstitial generates the p-localized state with two on-site electrons to obey the Hund's rule for their ordering. It is demonstrated that instead of Pb interstiti

Yoichi Higashi, Yuki Nagai, Masahiko Machida, Nobuhiko Hayashi

We theoretically investigate the magnetic-field-angle dependence of the flux-flow resistivity $ρ_{\rm f}$ in unconventional superconductors. Two contributions to $ρ_{\rm f}$ are considered: one is the quasiparticle (QP) relaxation time $τ(\bm{k}_{\rm F})$ and the other is $ω_0(\bm{k}_{\rm F})$, which is a counterpart to the interlevel spacing of the QP bound

Paolo Gunnellini

The CASTOR Calorimeter at the CMS experiment is an electromagnetic/hadronic calorimeter which covers the very forward region of the detector (-6.6 < eta < -5.2). CASTOR is a Cherenkov sampling calorimeter, consisting of quartz and tungsten plates, with an overall depth of 10 interaction lengths, able to detect penetrating cascade particles. It is segmented i

Amna Noreen

This is the introductory part of my Ph.D thesis, defended at the Faculty of Science and Technology, NTNU on December 10, 2012.

A. Pipino, F. Calura, F. Matteucci

This paper aims at explaining the two phases in the observed specific star formation rate (sSFR), namely the high (>3/Gyr) values at z>2 and the smooth decrease since z=2. In order to do this, we compare to observations the specific star formation rate evolution predicted by well calibrated models of chemical evolution for elliptical and spiral galaxies, usi

Mihai Anastasiei, Ioan Radu Peter

Let (M.F) be a complete Finsler manifold and P be a minimal and compact submanifold of M. Ric_k(x), x in M is a differential invariant that interpolates between the flag curvature and the Ricci curvature. We prove that if on any geodesic c(t) emanating orthogonally from P we have \int_{0}^{\infty}\mathbf{Ric}_{k}(t)>0, then M is compact.

Chinmay Narayan, Shibashis Guha, S. Arun-Kumar

Most proof systems for concurrent programs assume the underlying memory model to be sequentially consistent (SC), an assumption which does not hold for modern multicore processors. These processors, for performance reasons, implement relaxed memory models. As a result of this relaxation a program, proved correct on the SC memory model, might execute incorrec

Yoichi Higashi, Yuki Nagai, Masahiko Machida, Nobuhiko Hayashi

We theoretically investigate the quasiparticle scattering rate $\varGamma$ inside a vortex core in the existence of non-magnetic impurities distributed randomly in a superconductor. We show that the dependence of $\varGamma$ on the magnetic field direction is sensitive to the sign of the pair potential. The behavior of $\varGamma$ is quite different between

Supachai Awiphan, Eamonn Kerins

In this paper, the detectability of habitable exomoons orbiting around giant planets in M-dwarf systems using Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) and Transit Timing Durations (TDVs) with Kepler-class photometry is investigated. Light curves of systems with various configurations were simulated around M-dwarf hosts of mass 0.5 Msun and radius 0.55 Rsun. Jupiter-

M. K. Gupta, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot

We report ab-inito density functional theory calculation of phonons in cubic phase of ZrW2O8 in the entire Brillouin zone and identify specific anharmonic phonons that are responsible for large negative thermal expansion (NTE) in terms of translation, rotation and distortion of WO4 and ZrO6. We have used density functional calculations to interpret the exper

Vasyl Ustimenko, Aneta Wróblewska

We say that the sequence $g_n$, $n\ge 3$, $n \rightarrow \infty$ of polynomial transformation bijective maps of free module $K^n$ over commutative ring $K$ is a sequence of stable degree if the order of $g_n$ is growing with $n$ and the degree of each nonidentical polynomial map of kind ${g_n}^k$ is an independent constant $c$. A transformation $b=τ {g_n}^k

Agaram Raghunathan, N. Udaya Shankar, Ravi Subrahmanyan

Precision measurements of the spectrum of the cosmic radio background require frequency independent antennas of small electrical dimensions. We describe the design of a wide-band fat-dipole antenna with a sinusoidal profile having a frequency independent performance over the octave band 87.5 to 175 MHz. The input return loss exceeds 15 dB and the radiation p

Will Donovan

This note is based on a talk given at String-Math 2012 in Bonn, on a joint paper with Ed Segal. We exhibit derived equivalences corresponding to certain Grassmannian flops. The construction of these equivalences is inspired by work of Herbst-Hori-Page on brane transport for gauged linear sigma models: in particular, we define &#39;windows&#39; corresponding

Jorge I. Zuluaga, Sebastian Bustamante, Pablo A. Cuartas, Jaime H. Hoyos

Magnetic protection of potentially habitable planets plays a central role in determining their actual habitability and/or the chances of detecting atmospheric biosignatures. We develop here a thermal evolution model of potentially habitable Earth-like planets and super-Earths. Using up-to-date dynamo scaling laws we predict the properties of core dynamo magn

Naihwa Chen, Wing-Huen Ip, Davina Innes

We present a detailed description of the interrelation between the Type III radio bursts and energetic phenomena associated with the flare activities in Active region AR 11158 at 07:58 UT on 2011, Feb. 15. The timing of the Type-III radio burst measured by the radio wave experiment on the Wind/WAVE and an array of ground-based radio telescopes, coincided wit

Marco Abrate, Stefano Barbero, Umberto Cerruti, Nadir Murru

In this paper we present some results related to the problem of finding periodic representations for algebraic numbers. In particular, we analyze the problem for cubic irrationalities. We show an interesting relationship between the convergents of bifurcating continued fractions related to a couple of cubic irrationalities, and a particular generalization of

Vladimir V. Chepyzhov, Monica Conti, Vittorino Pata

We discuss the existence of the global attractor for a family of processes $U_σ(t,τ)$ acting on a metric space $X$ and depending on a symbol $σ$ belonging to some other metric space $Σ$. Such an attractor is uniform with respect to $σ\inΣ$, as well as with respect to the choice of the initial time $τ\in\R$. The existence of the attractor is established for t

Ricardo Genova-Santos, Isabel Suarez-Velasquez, Fernando Atrio-Barandela, Jan Muecket

The fraction of ionized gas in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium induces temperature anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel&#39;dovich anisotropies due to these low density, weakly non-linear, baryon filaments can not be distinguished from that of clusters using frequency information, but the

Zhang Si-Lei, Li Hai-Jie, L. F. Wei, Fang Yu-Rong

We design and fabricate two types of superconducting niobium coplanar waveguide microwave resonators with different coupling capacitors on high purity Si substrates. Their microwave transmissions are measured at the temperatures of 20 mK. It is found that these two types of resonators possess significantly-different loaded quality factors; one is $5.6\times{

S. B. Wang, C. T. Chan

The microwave induced elastic deformation of a metallic thin film is computed numerically and we found that the deformation can be significantly enhanced at resonance. We show that an analytical transmission line model can reproduce the numerical results almost quantitatively and at the same time reveal the underlying physics.

Lu Yan-Hua, Li Gang, Ouyang Hua-Fu

After the CSNS ion source test stand has been stably working for years, an online control system for CSNS ion source aiming to be more stable and reliable is now under development. F3RP61-2L, a new PLC CPU module under Linux system, is introduced to the system as an IOC, to function together with the I/O modules of FA-M3 PLC on the PLC-bus. The adoption of t

W. Saftly, P. Camps, M. Baes, K. D. Gordon

A crucial aspect of 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer is the choice of the spatial grid used to partition the dusty medium. We critically investigate the use of octree grids in Monte Carlo dust radiative transfer, with two different octree construction algorithms (regular and barycentric subdivision) and three different octree traversal algorithms (top-down,

Hui-Gen Liu, Hui Zhang, Ji-Lin Zhou

Hitherto, six P-type planets are found around five binary systems, i.e. Kepler-16 b, 34 b, 35 b, 38 b, 47 b, c, which are all Neptune or Jupiter-like planets. The stability of planets and the habitable zones are influenced by the gravitational and radiative perturbations of binary companions. In this Letter, we check the stability of an additional habitable

Riccardo Fabbri, Forschungszentrum Juelich

The central institute of electronics (ZEA-2) in the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) has developed the novel readout electronics JUDIDT to cope with high-rate data acquisition of the KWS-1 and KWS-2 detectors in the experimental Hall at the Forschungsreacktor Muenchen FRM-II in Garching, Muenchen. This electronics has been then modified and used also for the

A. Coutens, C. Vastel, S. Cazaux, S. Bottinelli

Context: Despite the low elemental deuterium abundance in the Galaxy, enhanced molecular D/H ratios have been found in the environments of low-mass star-forming regions and, in particular, the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16293-2422. Aims: The key program Chemical HErschel Surveys of Star forming regions (CHESS) aims at studying the molecular complexity of the int

David H. S. Chung, Philip A. Legg, Matthew L. Parry, Rhodri Bown

Glyph-based visualization is an effective tool for depicting multivariate information. Since sorting is one of the most common analytical tasks performed on individual attributes of a multi-dimensional data set, this motivates the hypothesis that introducing glyph sorting would significantly enhance the usability of glyph-based visualization. In this paper,

Nicolas Bredeche, Jean-Marc Montanier, Berend Weel, Evert Haasdijk

Roborobo! is a multi-platform, highly portable, robot simulator for large-scale collective robotics experiments. Roborobo! is coded in C++, and follows the KISS guideline (&#34;Keep it simple&#34;). Therefore, its external dependency is solely limited to the widely available SDL library for fast 2D Graphics. Roborobo! is based on a Khepera/ePuck model. It is

M. Ayouz, Olivier Dulieu, J. Robert

Using the ground potential energy surface[M. Ayouz \textit{et\, al}. J. Chem Phys \textbf{132} 194309 (2010)] of the H$_3^-$ molecule, we have determined the energies and widths of the complex resonant levels of H$_3^-$ located up to 4000 cm$^{-1}$ above the dissociation limit H$^-$+H$_2(v_d=0,j_d=0)$. Bound and resonant levels of the H$_2$D$^-$ and D$_2$H$^

Johannes Mesa Pascasio, Siegfried Fussy, Herbert Schwabl, Gerhard Groessing

Based on a re-formulation of the classical explanation of quantum mechanical Gaussian dispersion (Groessing et al. 2010) as well as interference of two Gaussians (Groessing et al. 2012), we present a new and more practical way of their simulation. The quantum mechanical &#34;decay of the wave packet&#34; can be described by anomalous sub-quantum diffusion wi

Ömer Demirel, Ivo F. Sbalzarini

We propose a sorting-based greedy algorithm called SortedGreedy[m] for approximately solving the offline version of the d-choice weighted balls-into-bins problem where the number of choices for each ball is equal to the number of bins. We assume the ball weights to be non-negative. We compare the performance of the sorting-based algorithm with a naive algori

M. Van den Nest, W. Dür

We present an algorithm to approximate partition functions of 3-body classical Ising models on two-dimensional lattices of arbitrary genus, in the real-temperature regime. Even though our algorithm is purely classical, it is designed by exploiting a connection to topological quantum systems, namely the color codes. The algorithm performance is exponentially

Takafumi Niida

The azimuthal dependence of 3D HBT radii relative to the event plane gives us information about the source shape at freeze-out. It also provides information on the system&#39;s evolution by comparing it to the initial source shape. In recent studies, higher harmonic event planes and flow have been measured at RHIC and the LHC, which result primarily from spa

Hugo Wioland, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel, John O. Kessler

Confining surfaces play crucial roles in dynamics, transport and order in many physical systems, but their effects on active matter, a broad class of dynamically self-organizing systems, are poorly understood. We investigate here the influence of global confinement and surface curvature on collective motion by studying the flow and orientational order within

Ali Messaoudi, Olivier Sester, Glauco Valle

Consider the basic algorithm to perform the transformation n--> n+1 changing digits of the d-adic expansion of n one by one. We obtain a family of Markov chains on the non-negative integers through sucessive and independent applications of the algorithm modified by a parametrized stochastic rule that randomly prevents one of the steps in the algorithm to fin

Hui Yuan Dong, Jin Wang, Kin Hung Fung, Tie Jun Cui

We propose a vortex-like metamaterial device that is capable of transferring image along a spiral route without losing subwavelength information of the image. The super-resolution image can be guided and magnified at the same time with one single design. Our design may provide insights in manipulating super-resolution image in a more flexible manner. Example

Birgit Speh, Genkai Zhang

We consider the spherical complementary series of rank one Lie groups $H_n=\SO_0(n, 1; \mathbb F)$ for $\mathbb F=\mathbb R, \mathbb C, \mathbb H$. We prove that there exist finitely many discrete components in its restriction under the subgroup $H_{n-1}=\SO_0(n-1, 1; \mathbb F)$. This is proved by imbedding the complementary series into analytic continuatio

Md. Mamun Ali Sarker, Md. Ashraf Hossain Khan, M. M. A. Hashem

In near future, anticipated large number of mobile users may introduce very large centralized databases and increase end-to-end delays in location registration and call delivery on HLR-VLR database and will become infeasible. After observing several problems we propose some guidelines. Multitree distributed database, high throughput index structure, memory o

T. Mertelj, L. Stojchevska, N. D. Zhigadlo, J. Karpinski

We investigate temperature and fluence dependent dynamics of the photoexcited quasi-particle relaxation and low-energy electronic structure in electron-doped 1111-structure Sm(Fe_{0.93}Co_{0.07})AsO single crystal. We find that the behavior is qualitatively identical to the 122-structure Ba(Fe,Co)_{2}As_{2} including the presence of a normal state pseudogap

Niko Brümmer, Edward de Villiers

The change of two orders of magnitude in the &#39;new DCF&#39; of NIST&#39;s SRE&#39;10, relative to the &#39;old DCF&#39; evaluation criterion, posed a difficult challenge for participants and evaluator alike. Initially, participants were at a loss as to how to calibrate their systems, while the evaluator underestimated the required number of evaluation tri

Rene Andrae, Dae-Won Kim, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones

The optical light curves of many quasars show variations of tenths of a magnitude or more on time scales of months to years. This variation often cannot be described well by a simple deterministic model. We perform a Bayesian comparison of over 20 deterministic and stochastic models on 6304 QSO light curves in SDSS Stripe 82. We include the damped random wal

András Gyárfás, Zhentao Li, Raphael Machado, András Sebo

A class of graphs closed under taking induced subgraphs is $χ$-bounded if there exists a function $f$ such that for all graphs $G$ in the class, $χ(G) \leq f(ω(G))$. We consider the following question initially studied in [A. Gy{á}rf{á}s, Problems from the world surrounding perfect graphs, {\em Zastowania Matematyki Applicationes Mathematicae}, 19:413--441,

Mai-Lin Liang, Ya-Bin Zhang, Rui-Lin Yang, Fu-Lin Zhang

For a spin-1/2 particle moving in a background magnetic field in noncommutative phase space, Dirac equation is solved when the particle is allowed to move off the plane that the magnetic field is perpendicular to. It is shown that the motion of the charged particle along the magnetic field has the effect to increase the magnetic field. In the classical limit

Adeline Pierrot, Dominique Rossin

In this article, we give a polynomial algorithm to decide whether a given permutation $σ$ is sortable with two stacks in series. This is indeed a longstanding open problem which was first introduced by Knuth. He introduced the stack sorting problem as well as permutation patterns which arises naturally when characterizing permutations that can be sorted with

Ki-Suk Lee, Dong-Soo Han, Sang-Koog Kim

In Letter [1], we reported our finding on the physical origin of wide band-gap opening in planar nanostrips, as derived by application of periodic width modulations in the magnetic waveguides. K. Di et al. in their Comment[2], however, argued that the band gap can be reduced remarkably by applying a linear combination of symmetric and antisymmetric fields (s

Daniele Sepe

The obstruction to construct a Lagrangian bundle over a fixed integral affine manifold was constructed by Dazord and Delzant in \cite{daz_delz} and shown to be given by `twisted&#39; cup products in \cite{sepe_lag}. This paper uses the topology of universal Lagrangian bundles, which classify Lagrangian bundles topologically (cf. \cite{sepe_topc}), to reinter

Yangyang Wang, Jiaxin Zheng, Zeyuan Ni, Ruixiang Fei

By using first-principles calculations, we predict that an in-plane homogenous electrical field can induce half-metallicity in hydrogen-terminated zigzag silicene and germanene nanoribbons (ZSiNRs and ZGeNRs). A dual-gated finite ZSiNR device reveals a nearly perfect spin-filter efficiency of up to 99% while a quadruple-gated finite ZSiNR device serves as an

Takahito Todoroki

Measurements of two particle azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions provide information of the possible interplay between hard-scattered partons and the hot-dense medium. Toward an understanding of parton-medium coupling, it is indispensable to obtain correlations where contributions from higher harmonic flow($v_n$) are rejected. It is a

K. L. Page, J. P Osborne, R. M. Wagner, A. P. Beardmore

Nova Mon 2012 is the third gamma-ray transient identified with a thermonuclear runaway on a white dwarf, that is, a nova event. Swift monitoring has revealed the distinct evolution of the harder and super-soft X-ray spectral components, while Swift-UV and V and I-band photometry show a gradual decline with subtle changes of slope. During the super-soft emiss

Ken-Ichi Aoki, Shinnosuke Onai, Daisuke Sato

We propose a new iterative method to directly calculate the spontaneous mass generation due to the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. We can conclude the physical mass definitely without recourse to any other consideration like the free energy comparison.

Andrzej S. Kozek, Brian Jersky

If uncorrelated random variables have a common expected value and decreasing variances then the variance of a sample mean is decreasing with the number of observations. Unfortunately, this natural and desirable Variance Reduction Property (VRP) by augmenting data is not automatically inherited by Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimators of parameters. In the

K. Yu. Terentyev, D. M. Gokhfeld, S. I. Popkov, K. A. Shaykhutdinov

The current-voltage characteristics of a porous superconductor Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox (Bi2223) have been measured at temperature range from 10 to 90 K. The experimental dependences have been analyzed within the model allowing for pinning by clusters of a normal phase with fractal boundaries, as well as the model taking into account phase transformations of vortex ma

Ivan Rodero, Manish Parashar

High Performance Computing (HPC) has evolved over the past decades into increasingly complex and powerful systems. Current HPC systems consume several MWs of power, enough to power small towns, and are in fact soon approaching the limits of the power available to them. Estimates are with the given current technology, achieving exascale will require hundreds

Yusuf Turek, Yong Li, C. P. Sun

We study the spectra of collective low excitations of two atomic ensembles coupled indirectly through a single-mode cavity field. When the left ensemble is driven with an external optical field, its corresponding response spectrum to the incident optical light shows an electromagnetically induced transparency- (EIT-) like phenomenon when the layers are arran

Minfeng Gu

The spectral variability of a sample of 44 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 18 steep-spectrum radio quasars (SSRQs) in the SDSS stripe 82 region is investigated. Twenty-five of 44 FSRQs show a bluer-when-brighter trend (BWB), while only one FSRQ shows a redder-when-brighter trend, which is in contrast to our previous results. Eight of 18 SSRQs display

Tad White

We consider the problem of counting commuting r-tuples of elements of the symmetric group S_n, i.e. computing |Hom(Z^r,S_n)|. The cases r=1,2 are well-known; a product formula for the case r=3 was conjectured by Adams-Watters and later proved by Britnell. In this note we solve the problem for arbitrary r.

Emily Colby, Eric Bair

Cross-validation is frequently used for model selection in a variety of applications. However, it is difficult to apply cross-validation to mixed effects models (including nonlinear mixed effects models or NLME models) due to the fact that cross-validation requires &#34;out-of-sample&#34; predictions of the outcome variable, which cannot be easily calculated

R. Nath, A. A. Tsirlin, P. Khuntia, O. Janson

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the spin S=1/2 nanomagnet Cu5(OH)2(NIPA)4*10H2O (Cu5-NIPA). Using thermodynamic, electron spin resonance and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance measurements on one hand, and ab initio density-functional band-structure calculations, exact diagonalizations and a strong coupling theory on the other, we deriv

Marco Battaglia, Jean-Jacques Blaising, John S. Marshall, Mark Thomson

The determination of scalar lepton and gaugino masses is an important part of the programme of spectroscopic studies of Supersymmetry at a high energy e+e- linear collider. In this article we present results of a study of the processes: e+e- -> eR eR -> e+e- chi0 chi, e+e- -> muR muR -> mu mu- chi0 chi0, e+e- -> eL eL -> e e chi0 chi0 and e+e- -> snu_e snu_e

Wang Dou, Li Yong, Duan Zhe, Wang Na

In order to study the single bunch longitudinal instability in BEPCII, experiments on the positron ring (BPR) for the bunch lengthening phenomenon were made. By analyzing the experimental data based on Gao&#39;s theory, the longitudinal loss factor for the bunch are obtained. Also, the total wake potential and the beam current threshold are estimated.

Andre Campbell, Anant Godbole, Bill Kay

A de Bruijn cycle is a cyclic listing of length A, of a collection of A combinatorial objects, so that each object appears exactly once as a set of consecutive elements in the cycle. In this paper, we show the power of de Bruijn&#39;s original theorem, namely that the cycles bearing his name exist for n-letter words on a k-letter alphabet for all values of k

Marco Sorcia, Erika Benítez, David Hiriart, José M. López

A detailed analysis of the optical polarimetric variability of the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650 from 2007 October 18 to 2011 May 5 is presented. The source showed a maximum and minimum brightness states in the R-band of 14.08$\pm$0.03 mag and 15.20$\pm$0.03 mag, respectively, with a maximum variation of 1.12 mag, and also a maximum polarization degree of $P=$(12.

K. Urbanowski, M. Szydlowski

Properties of unstable false vacuum states are analyzed from the point of view of the quantum theory of unstable states. Some of false vacuum states survive up to times when their survival probability has a non-exponential form. At times much latter than the transition time, when contributions to the survival probability of its exponential and non-exponentia

V. B. Vasylyk

Problem for the first order differential equation with an unbounded operator coefficient in Banach space and integral nonlocal condition is considered. An exponentially convergent algorithm is proposed and justified for the numerical solution of this problem in assumption that an operator coefficient $A$ is strongly positive and some existence and uniqueness

Lanhui Wang, Amit Singer, Zaiwen Wen

A major challenge in single particle reconstruction from cryo-electron microscopy is to establish a reliable ab-initio three-dimensional model using two-dimensional projection images with unknown orientations. Common-lines based methods estimate the orientations without additional geometric information. However, such methods fail when the detection rate of c

Ian R. Petersen

This paper considers the structure of uncertain linear systems building on concepts of robust unobservability and possible controllability which were introduced in previous papers. The paper presents a new geometric characterization of the possibly controllable states. When combined with previous geometric results on robust unobservability, the results of th

Paul F. Baum, Kenny De Commer, Piotr M. Hajac

Let F be a field, G a finite group, and Map(G,F) the Hopf algebra of all set-theoretic maps G->F. If E is a finite field extension of F and G is its Galois group, the extension is Galois if and only if the canonical map resulting from viewing E as a Map(G,F)-comodule is an isomorphism. Similarly, a finite covering space is regular if and only if the analogou

C. Antón, T. C . H. Liew, G. Tosi, M. D. Martín

We present a time-resolved study of energy relaxation and trapping dynamics of polariton condensates in a semiconductor microcavity ridge. The combination of two non-resonant, pulsed laser sources in a GaAs ridge-shaped microcavity gives rise to profuse quantum phenomena where the repulsive potentials created by the lasers allow the modulation and control of

Jie Cheng, Tianxi Li, Elizaveta Levina, Ji Zhu

While graphical models for continuous data (Gaussian graphical models) and discrete data (Ising models) have been extensively studied, there is little work on graphical models linking both continuous and discrete variables (mixed data), which are common in many scientific applications. We propose a novel graphical model for mixed data, which is simple enough

Andreas Andersson

We describe rigorous quantum measurement theory in the Heisenberg picture by applying operator deformation techniques previously used in noncommutative quantum field theory. This enables the conventional observables (represented by unbounded operators) to play a role also in the more general setting.

I. V. Bondarev, A. V. Meliksetyan

We demonstrate a possibility for exciton Bose-Einstein condensation in individual small-diameter (~1-2 nm) semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The effect occurs under the exciton-interband-plasmon coupling controlled by an external electrostatic field applied perpendicular to the nanotube axis. It requires fields ~1 V/nm and temperatures below 100 K that are ex

Isabella Masina, Francesco Sannino

By combining the recent data from AMS-02 with those from Fermi-LAT, we show the emergence of a charge asymmetry in the electron and positron cosmic-ray excesses, slightly favoring the electron component. Astrophysical and dark matter inspired models introduced to explain the observed excesses can be classified according to their prediction for the charge asy

J. Rysti, J. Tuoriniemi

Immersed mechanical resonators are well suited for probing the properties of fluids, since the surrounding environment influences the resonant characteristics of such oscillators in several ways. Quartz tuning forks have gained much popularity in recent years as the resonators of choice for studies of liquid helium. They have many superior properties when co

Detlev Buchholz, John E. Roberts

A new approach to the analysis of the physical state space of a theory is presented within the general setting of local quantum physics. It also covers theories with long range forces, such as Quantum Electrodynamics. Making use of the notion of charge class, an extension of the concept of superselection sector, infrared problems are avoided by restricting t

D. A. Badjin, S. I. Blinnikov, K. A. Postnov

We study thermal emission from circumstellar structures heated by gamma-ray burst (GRB) radiation and ejecta and calculate its contribution to GRB optical and X-ray afterglows using the modified radiation hydro-code small STELLA. It is shown that thermal emission originating in heated dense shells around the GRB progenitor star can reproduce X-ray plateaus (

Vladimir V. Kisil

This paper outlines a covariant theory of operators defined on groups and homogeneous spaces. A systematic use of groups and their representations allows to obtain results of algebraic and analytical nature. The consideration is systematically illustrated by a representative collection of examples. Keywords: Lie groups and algebras, convolution operator, rel

Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt, Abraham Loeb

Recent results from the Planck satellite combined with earlier observations from WMAP, ACT, SPT and other experiments eliminate a wide spectrum of more complex inflationary models and favor models with a single scalar field, as reported by the Planck Collaboration. More important, though, is that all the simplest inflaton models are disfavored statistically

Ralph Blumenhagen, Andreas Deser, Erik Plauschinn, Felix Rennecke

Non-geometric frames in string theory are related to the geometric ones by certain local O(D,D) transformations, the so-called $\beta$-transforms. For each such transformation, we show that there exists both a natural field redefinition of the metric and the Kalb-Ramond two-form as well as an associated Lie algebroid. We furthermore prove that the all-order

M. Arana-Catania, S. Heinemeyer, M. J. Herrero

We explore the phenomenological implications on charged lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes from slepton flavor mixing within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We work under the model-independent hypothesis of general flavor mixing in the slepton sector, being parametrized by a complete set of dimensionless delta^AB_ij (A,B = L,R; i,j = 1, 2, 3)

Tobias Meng, Daniel Loss

In a quantum wire with ideal helical modes, the conductance is quantized in units of e^2/h, provided the wire is connected to Fermi liquid leads. We show that this universality does not hold in partially gapped quasi-helical systems such as Rashba nanowires subject to a magnetic field, which are commonly used to mimic helical Luttinger liquids. Instead, thei

Kai He, Lea F. Santos, Tod M. Wright, Marcos Rigol

In general, isolated integrable quantum systems have been found to relax to an apparent equilibrium state in which the expectation values of few-body observables are described by the generalized Gibbs ensemble. However, recent work has shown that relaxation to such a generalized statistical ensemble can be precluded by localization in a quasiperiodic lattice

Simon J. Mutch, Darren J. Croton, Gregory B. Poole

We introduce a simple model to self-consistently connect the growth of galaxies to the formation history of their host dark matter haloes. Our model is defined by two simple functions: the &#34;baryonic growth function&#34; which controls the rate at which new baryonic material is made available for star formation, and the &#34;physics function&#34; which co

Jimmy A. Hutasoit, Ajit C. Balram

Potter and Lee have demonstrated the presence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of quasi one-dimensional (1-D) p+ip superconductors. We use conformal field theory (CFT) methods to show that inter-edge tunneling of the vortex excitations along the length of the channel is crucial for such localization. We show that localization of Majorana modes occurs also

Ignacio Ferreras, Asmus Böhm, Bodo Ziegler, Joseph Silk

We analyse the Tully-Fisher relation at moderate redshift from the point of view of the underlying stellar populations, by comparing optical and NIR photometry with a phenomenological model that combines population synthesis with a simple prescription for chemical enrichment. The sample comprises 108 late-type galaxies extracted from the FORS Deep Field (FDF

Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N. Obukhov, Dirk Puetzfeld

Ever since E.Cartan in the 1920s enriched the geometric framework of general relativity (GR) by introducing a {\it torsion} of spacetime, the question arose whether one could find a measurement technique for detecting the presence of a torsion field. Mao et al.(2007) claimed that the rotating quartz balls in the gyroscopes of the Gravity Probe B experiment,