April 2013 arXiv papers — page 58

Jan Foniok, Claude Tardif

For our purposes, two functors Λ and Γ are said to be respectively left and right adjoints of each other if for any digraphs G and H, there exists a homomorphism of Λ(G) to H if and only if there exists a homomorphism of G to Γ(H). We investigate the right adjoints characterised by Pultr in [A. Pultr, The right adjoints into the categories of relational syst

Cecilia Cormick, Alejandro Bermudez, Susana F. Huelga, Martin B. Plenio

We propose a dissipative method to prepare the ground state of the isotropic XY spin Hamiltonian in a transverse field. Our model consists of a spin chain with nearest-neighbour interactions and an additional collective coupling of the spins to a damped harmonic oscillator. The latter provides an effective environment with a Lorentzian spectral density and c

Sabine Jansen, Stephen J. Tate, Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis, Daniel Ueltschi

We study the virial expansion of mixtures of countably many different types of particles. The main tool is the Lagrange-Good inversion formula, which has other applications such as counting coloured trees or studying probability generating functions in multi-type branching processes. We prove that the virial expansion converges absolutely in a domain of smal

William N. Plick, Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, Sven Ramelow

In the study of systems that cannot be described classically, the Wigner inequality, has received only a small amount of attention. In this paper we extend the Wigner inequality - originally derived in 1969 - and show how it may be used to contradict local realism with only coincidence detections in the absence of two-outcome measurements - that is, for any

Sophie C. F. Morris, Anne M. Green, Antonio Padilla, Ewan R. M. Tarrant

Many models have been studied that contain more than one species of dark matter and some of these couple the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) to a light scalar field. In doing this we introduce additional long range forces, which in turn can significantly affect our estimates of cosmological parameters if not properly accounted for. It is, therefore, important to stud

Andreas Albrecht, Alex Retzker, Fedor Jelezko, Martin B. Plenio

Realising controlled quantum dynamics via the magnetic interactions between colour centers in diamond remains a challenge despite recent demonstrations for nanometer separated pairs. Here we propose to use the intrinsic acoustical phonons in diamond as a data bus for accomplishing this task. We show that for nanodiamonds the electron-phonon coupling can take

Steve Wright

Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote a finite set of arithmetic progressions of positive integers and let $s \geq 2$ be an integer. If the cardinality of $\mathcal{A}$ is at least 2 and $U$ is the union formed by taking certain arithmetic progressions of length $s$ from each element of $\mathcal{A}$, we calculate the asymptotic density of the set of all prime numbers $p

Danny Calegari, Alden Walker

A random group contains many quasiconvex surface subgroups.

C. P. Ridgers, C. S. Brady, R. Duclous, J. G. Kirk

In simulations of a 12.5PW laser (focused intensity I = 4x10^23W/cm^2) striking a solid aluminium target 10% of the laser energy is converted to gamma-rays. A dense electron-positron plasma is generated with a maximum density of 10^26/m^3; seven orders of magnitude denser than pure e-e+ plasmas generated with 1PW lasers. When the laser power is increased to

Xuming He, Lan Wang, Hyokyoung Grace Hong

We introduce a quantile-adaptive framework for nonlinear variable screening with high-dimensional heterogeneous data. This framework has two distinctive features: (1) it allows the set of active variables to vary across quantiles, thus making it more flexible to accommodate heterogeneity; (2) it is model-free and avoids the difficult task of specifying the f

O. Buchmueller, J. Marrouche

In this paper, we present results based on a combination of four inclusive topology searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) from the CMS experiment, and use this to determine universal mass limits on gluino and third-generation squarks in the context of Natural-like SUSY spectra. The class of Natural-like SUSY spectra considered follows the typical Natural SUSY mo

Emmanuel Kowalski, Joseph Najnudel, Ashkan Nikeghbali

In this note, we characterize the limiting functions in mod-Gausssian convergence; our approach sheds a new light on the nature of mod-Gaussian convergence as well. Our results in fact more generally apply to mod-* convergence, where * stands for any family of probability distributions whose Fourier transforms do not vanish. We moreover provide new examples,

Amandine Aftalion, Peter Mason

We provide complete phase diagrams describing the ground state of a trapped spinor BEC under the combined effects of rotation and a Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interplay between the different parameters (magnitude of rotation, strength of the spin-orbit coupling and interaction) leads to a rich ground state physics that we classify. We explain some featu

Elio Antonello

In Hesiod's calendar, circa 8th century BCE, the harvest times of cereals were indicated by the heliacal rising of Pleiades (harvest) and by that of Orion (thresh). We tried to verify which risings and settings of the brightest stars could have been used as indicators in the previous millennia, taking into account the precession and the dependence of the

A. O. Sboychakov, A. V. Rozhkov, K. I. Kugel, A. L. Rakhmanov

A mechanism for electronic phase separation in iron pnictides is proposed. It is based on the competition between commensurate and incommensurate spin-density-wave phases in a system with an imperfect doping-dependent nesting of a multi-sheeted Fermi surface. We model the Fermi surface by two elliptical electron pockets and three circular hole pockets. The i

Alessandro Fontana

Epigenetic Tracking is a mathematical model of biological cells, originally conceived to study embryonic development. Computer simulations proved the capacity of the model to generate complex 3-dimensional cellular structures, and the potential to reproduce the complexity typical of living beings. The most distinctive feature of this model is the presence in

Marko Znidaric

We study magnetization transport at high temperatures in several spin ladder systems as well as in next-nearest-neighbor coupled spin chains. In the integrable ladder considered we analytically show that the transport is ballistic in sectors with nonzero average magnetization, while numerical simulations of a nonequilibrium stationary setting indicate an ano

Georg Bergner, Istvan Montvay, Gernot Münster, Umut D. Özugurel

We present the current results of our simulations of N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a lattice. The masses of the gluino-glue particle, the a-eta-prime, the a-f0 meson, and the scalar glueball are obtained at finer lattice spacing than before, and extrapolations towards vanishing gluino mass are made. The calculations employ different levels of stout

Joachim Kupsch

Canonical transformations (Bogoliubov transformations) for fermions with an infinite number of degrees of freedom are studied within a calculus of superanalysis. A continuous representation of the orthogonal group is constructed on a Grassmann module extension of the Fock space. The pull-back of these operators to the Fock space yields a unitary ray represen

Masato Shirasaki, Naoki Yoshida, Takashi Hamana

Sky masking is unavoidable in wide-field weak lensing observations. We study how masks affect the measurement of statistics of matter distribution probed by weak gravitational lensing. We first use 1000 cosmological ray-tracing simulations to examine in detail the impact of masked regions on the weak lensing Minkowski Functionals (MFs). We consider actual sk

Karol Szałowski

The indirect, charge-carrier mediated coupling between localized magnetic moments is studied for graphene nanoflakes of triangular shape and zig-zag edge. The characteristic feature of such nanoflakes is the presence of a shell of zero-energy states in the electronic spectrum. The tight-binding Hamiltonian supplemented with a Hubbard term is used for electro

Valentin Goranko, Paolo Turrini

We consider an extension of strategic normal form games with a phase before the actual play of the game, where players can make binding offers for transfer of utilities to other players after the play of the game, contingent on the recipient playing the strategy indicated in the offer. Such offers transform the payoff matrix of the original game but preserve

N. I. Grigorchuk

The effect of the electron temperature on both the light absorption and the scattering by metal nanoparticles (MNs) with excitation of the surface plasmon electron vibrations is studied in the framework of the kinetic theory. The formulae for electroconductivity and polarizability tensors are derived for finite temperatures of an electron gas. The electrical

Loriano Bonora, Stefano Giaccari

The search for analytic solutions in open string fields theory à la Witten often meets with singular expressions, which need an adequate mathematical formalism to be interpreted. In this paper we discuss this problem and propose a way to resolve the related ambiguities. Our claim is that a correct interpretation requires a formalism similar to distribution t

N. d'Ambrumenil, R. H. Morf

We consider the effect of disorder on the themopower in quantum Hall systems. For a sample in the Corbino geometry, where dissipative currents are not carried by edge states, we find that thermopower behaves at high temperatures like a system with a gap and has a maximum which increases as the temperature is reduced. At lower temperatures this maximum reduce

Moritz Helias, Tom Tetzlaff, Markus Diesmann

The co-occurrence of action potentials of pairs of neurons within short time intervals is known since long. Such synchronous events can appear time-locked to the behavior of an animal and also theoretical considerations argue for a functional role of synchrony. Early theoretical work tried to explain correlated activity by neurons transmitting common fluctua

M. Mohler-Fischer, L. Mancini, J. D. Hartman, G. B. Bakos

We report the discovery of HATS-2b, the second transiting extrasolar planet detected by the HATSouth survey. HATS-2b is moving on a circular orbit around a V=13.6 mag, K-type dwarf star (GSC 6665-00236), at a separation of 0.0230 \pm 0.0003 AU and with a period of 1.3541 days. The planetary parameters have been robustly determined using a simultaneous fit of

Plamen Bozhilov

We compute the leading finite-size effects on the normalized structure constants in semiclassical three-point correlation functions of two finite-size giant magnon string states and three different types of "light" states - primary scalar operators, dilaton operator with nonzero momentum and singlet scalar operators on higher string levels. This is d

Eloisa Cuestas, Pablo Serra

Using a probabilistic interpretation of resonant states, we propose a formula useful to calculate the lifetime of a resonance using square-integrable real basis-set expansion techniques. Our approach does not require an estimation of the density of states. The method is illustrated with calculations of $s$ and $p$ resonant-state energies and lifetimes.

Amit Tripathi

Let $X$ be a smooth projective hypersurface. In this note we show that any rank 3 arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay vector bundle over $X$ splits when dim $X \geq 7$. We also find a splitting criterion for rank 4 arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay vector bundles on $X$ when dim $X \geq 9$.

Florian Hess, Maike Massierer

We give a function field specific, algebraic proof of the main results of class field theory for abelian extensions of degree coprime to the characteristic. By adapting some methods known for number fields and combining them in a new way, we obtain a different and much simplified proof, which builds directly on a standard basic knowledge of the theory of fun

Mikkel Meyer Andersen, Poul Svante Eriksen, Niels Morling

Y-STR data simulated under a Fisher-Wright model of evolution with a single-step mutation model turns out to be well predicted by a method using discrete Laplace distributions.

Yi Ling, Chao Niu, Jianpin Wu, Zhuoyu Xian

We investigate the holographic fermions over a gravitational lattice background with a rather low temperature. Since the rotation symmetry is broken on the plane, the lattice effects change the shape of the Fermi surface within the first Brillouin zone from a circle to an ellipse. When the Fermi surface intersects with the Brillouin zone boundary, the band s

S. Kuday

Resonant production of scalar bottom, which is allowed in R-parity violating interactions of supersymmetry, has been investigated at the LHeC collider. Although searching for the physics beyond the standard model is a primary task of the LHC, recently, an $\mathit{e^{-}p}$ collider (LHeC) is proposed to complement and resolve the observation of new phenomena

Estitxu Villamor, Miren Isasa, Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova

A high reproducibility in the performance of cobalt/copper and permalloy/copper lateral spin valves with transparent contacts is obtained by optimizing the interface quality and the purity of copper. This allows us to study comprehensively the spin injection properties of both ferromagnetic materials, as well as the spin transport properties of copper, which

Erfan Salavati, Bijan Z. Zangeneh

Semilinear stochastic evolution equations with multiplicative Lévy noise and monotone nonlinear drift are considered. Unlike other similar work we do not impose coercivity conditions on coefficients. Existence and uniqueness of the mild solution is proved using an iterative method. The continuity of the solution with respect to initial conditions and coeffic

Chunming Yin, Milos Rancic, Gabriele G. de Boo, Nikolas Stavrias

The detection of electron spins associated with single defects in solids is a critical operation for a range of quantum information and measurement applications currently under development. To date, it has only been accomplished for two centres in crystalline solids: phosphorus in silicon using electrical readout based on a single electron transistor (SET) a

Raghunath Sahoo, Aditya Nath Mishra

We study the charged particle and transverse energy production mechanism from AGS, SPS, RHIC to LHC energies in the framework of nucleon and quark participants. At RHIC and LHC energies, the number of nucleons-normalized charged particle and transverse energy density in pseudorapidity, which shows a monotonic rise with centrality, turns out to be an almost c

Helen Au-Yang, Michael E. Fisher

The specific heats of exactly solvable alternating layered planar Ising models with strips of width $m_1$ lattice spacings and ``strong'' couplings $J_1$ sandwiched between strips of width $m_2$ and ``weak'' coupling $J_2$, have been studied numerically to investigate the effects of connectivity and proximity. We find that the enhancements of

Bikashkali Midya, Rajkumar Roychoudhury

We report the existence and properties of localized modes described by nonlinear Schroedinger equation with complex PT-symmetric Rosen-Morse potential well. Exact analytical expressions of the localized modes are found in both one dimensional and two-dimensional geometry with self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr nonlinearity. Linear stability analysis reve

Khalid Sultan, M. Ikram, K. Asokan

Polycrystalline bulk samples of PrFe1-xMnxO3 (x=0.0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5) were synthesized by solid state reaction method to understand their structural, optical and dielectric properties

Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Andrew Michael Shulman

Let $ψ$ be a generic Drinfeld module of rank $r \geq 2$. We study the first elementary divisor $d_{1, \wp}(ψ)$ of the reduction of $ψ$ modulo a prime $\wp$, as $\wp$ varies. In particular, we prove the existence of the density of the primes $\wp$ for which $d_{1, \wp} (ψ)$ is fixed. For $r = 2$, we also study the second elementary divisor (the exponent) of t

Yin Zhong, Yu-Feng Wang, Hong-Gang Luo

In this paper we propose an exactly soluble model in two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, from which two phases are found. One is the usual Chern/topological insulating state and the other is an interesting $Z_2$ fractionalized Chern/topological insulator. While their bulk properties are similar, the edge-states of physical electrons are quite different. The s

Yoshiyasu Ozeki

Let K be a complete discrete valuation field of mixed characteristic (0,p) with perfect residue field. Let (π_n)_{n\ge 0} be a system of p-power roots of a uniformizer π=π_0 of K with π^p_{n+1}=π_n, and define G_s (resp.\ G_{\infty}) the absolute Galois group of K(π_s) (resp.\ K_{\infty}:=\bigcup_{n\ge 0} K(π_n)). In this paper, we study G_s-equivatiantness

R. V. Maluf, Victor Santos, W. T. Cruz, C. A. S. Almeida

Considering quantum gravity within the framework of effective field theory, we investigated the consequences of spontaneous Lorentz violation for the gravitational potential. In particular, we focus our attention on the bumblebee models, in which the graviton couples to a vector $B_μ$ that assumes a nonzero vacuum expectation value. The leading order correct

Robert J. Berman, Henri Guenancia

Let $X$ be a canonically polarized variety, i.e. a complex projective variety such that its canonical class $K_{X}$ defines an ample $\Q-$line bundle, and satisfying the conditions $G_1$ and $S_2$. Our main result says that $X$ admits a Kähler-Einstein metric iff $X$ has semi-log canonical singularities i.e. iff $X$ is a stable variety in the sense of Kollár

Atsushi Horikoshi, Yoshiharu Kawamura

We propose a variant formulation of Hamiltonian systems by the use of variables including redundant degrees of freedom. We show that Hamiltonian systems can be described by extended dynamics whose master equation is the Nambu equation or its generalization. Partition functions associated with the extended dynamics in many degrees of freedom systems are given

David Donoho, Matan Gavish

An unknown $m$ by $n$ matrix $X_0$ is to be estimated from noisy measurements $Y=X_0+Z$, where the noise matrix $Z$ has i.i.d. Gaussian entries. A popular matrix denoising scheme solves the nuclear norm penalization problem $\operatorname {min}_X\|Y-X\|_F^2/2+λ\|X\|_*$, where $\|X\|_*$ denotes the nuclear norm (sum of singular values). This is the analog, fo

Noburo Ishii

We define a modular function which is a generalization of the elliptic modular lambda function. We show this function and the modular invariant function generate the modular function field with respect to the principal congruence subgroup. Further we study its values at imaginary quadratic points.

Roman Pasechnik, Vitaly Beylin, Vladimir Kuksa, Grigory Vereshkov

Most of the traditional Technicolor-based models are known to be in a strong tension with the electroweak precision tests. We show that this serious issue is naturally cured in strongly coupled sectors with chiral-symmetric vector-like gauge interactions in the framework of gauged linear σ-model. We discuss possible phenomenological implications of such non-

Vitaly Feldman, Pravesh Kothari

We study the problem of approximating and learning coverage functions. A function $c: 2^{[n]} \rightarrow \mathbf{R}^{+}$ is a coverage function, if there exists a universe $U$ with non-negative weights $w(u)$ for each $u \in U$ and subsets $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n$ of $U$ such that $c(S) = \sum_{u \in \cup_{i \in S} A_i} w(u)$. Alternatively, coverage functio

Jinsong Zeng, Weixu Su

We study a new class of square Sierpiński carpets $F_{n,p}$ ($5\leq n, 1\leq p<\frac{n}{2}-1$) on $\mathbb{S}^2$, which are not quasisymmetrically equivalent to the standard Sierpiński carpets. We prove that the group of quasisymmetric self-maps of each $F_{n,p}$ is the Euclidean isometry group. We also establish that $F_{n,p}$ and $F_{n&#39;,p&#39;}$ are qu

Burra G. Sidharth

Neutrinos are the weirdest of elementary particles, nearly massless and chiral. They oscillate between flavours, furthermore. We try to find a rationale for this maverick behaviour.

Stefan C. Mancas, Harihar Khanal

Numerical simulations of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation (CCQGLE), a canonical equation governing the weakly nonlinear behavior of dissipative systems in a wide variety of disciplines, reveal five entirely novel classes of pulse or solitary waves solutions, viz. pulsating, creeping, snaking, erupting, and chaotical solitons. Here, we devel

I. Soszynski, A. Udalski, P. Pietrukowicz, M. K. Szymanski

We report the discovery of additional 22 RV Tau stars located in the OGLE-II and OGLE-III fields toward the Galactic bulge, increasing to 357 objects the OGLE-III catalog of type II Cepheids in the Galactic center. Four of the newly detected RV Tau stars belong to the RVb class, i.e. they show large-amplitude, long-period modulation of the mean luminosity. I

Predrag M. Rajkovic, Sladjana D. Marinkovic, Miomir S. Stankovic

We consider the linear combinations of elements of two sequences: the first one a priory given nonnegative sequence and the second random sequence from the unit interval. We investigate the expected value of the smallest natural number such that the value of these linear combinations exceed a positive number. After very clear geometrical conclusions, we find

J Michael Roney

This review will present the future prospects for physics at electron-positron colliders running near the Upsilon(4S) as well as at the charm and tau thresholds. It includes a review of the Belle II and SuperB projects. Also reviewed are the plans for BES III, which operates near the charm threshold at the IHEP BEPC machine in Bejing and the status of the Su

Sebastian Jager

I summarize results and performance of the dynamical theory of charmless hadronic B decays, based on QCD factorization in the heavy quark limit. On the theoretical side, a number of NNLO (alpha_s^2) amplitudes are now available, all showing a well-behaved perturbative expansion. The large observed branching fraction in B0 -> pi0 pi0 remains a challenge, impl

A. B. Hill

In March 2010 the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered for the first time >100 MeV gamma-ray emission from a nova within our galaxy, V407 Cyg. The high-energy spectrum and light curve was explained as a consequence of shock acceleration in the nova shell as it interacts with the local ambient medium. It was suspe

Israel Lazo, Oleg D. Lavrentovich

We describe electrophoresis of spherical dielectric particles in a uniformly aligned nematic medium with a negative dielectric anisotropy. A spherical particle that orients the liquid crystal (LC) perpendicularly to its surface moves under the application of the uniform direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) electric field. The electric field causes

Yuliya Gorb, Florian Maris, Bogdan Vernescu

We study suspensions of solid particles in a viscous incompressible fluid in the presence of highly oscillatory velocity-dependent surface forces. The flow at a small Reynolds number is modeled by the Stokes equations coupled with the motion of rigid particles arranged in a periodic array. The objective is to perform homogenization for the given suspension a

Dan Hooper, Chris Kelso, Pearl Sandick, Wei Xue

In order for neutralino dark matter to avoid being overproduced in the early universe, these particles must annihilate (or coannihilate) rather efficiently. Neutralinos with sufficiently large couplings to annihilate at such high a rate (such as those resulting from gaugino-higgsino mixing, as in &#34;well-tempered&#34; or &#34;focus point&#34; scenarios), h

Jiguang Bao, Haigang Li, Lei Zhang

We consider the Monge-Ampère equation $\det(D^2u)=f$ where $f$ is a positive function in $\mathbb R^n$ and $f=1+O(|x|^{-β})$ for some $β>2$ at infinity. If the equation is globally defined on $\mathbb R^n$ we classify the asymptotic behavior of solutions at infinity. If the equation is defined outside a convex bounded set we solve the corresponding exterior

Olga Smirnova, Misha Ivanov

From the famous classical &#34;simple man&#34; model to the recent multichannel model for polyatomic molecules, this tutorial will guide you through the several landmarks in our understanding of high harmonic generation and high harmonic spectroscopy. Our goal was to provide recipes and insights for modelling the harmonic response in various regimes, from th

Domenico Cantone, Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo

We show that a collection of three-sorted set-theoretic formulae, denoted TLQSR and which admits a restricted form of quantification over individual and set variables, has a solvable satisfiability problem by proving that it enjoys a small model property, i.e., any satisfiable TLQSR-formula psi has a finite model whose size depends solely on the size of psi

Cristina Parigini, Juan Luis Cano, Rodrigo Haya-Ramos

There are several differences between the planetary entry of space vehicles and that of asteroids. In this work we do investigate the applicability of classical methods and approaches developed for debris analysis to asteroid entry. In particular, the in-house DEBRIS tool, which has been designed and developed to address the debris problem for uncontrolled r

Olga Lalakulich, Ulrich Mosel

Background. Neutrino-induced pion production can give important informationon the axial coupling to nucleon resonances. Furthermore, pion production represents a major background to quasielastic-like events. Single pion production data from the MiniBooNE in charged current neutrino scattering in mineral oil appeared higher than expected within conventional t

Prateek Sharma

Coronae exist in most astrophysical objects: stars, accretion disks, and individual galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Coronae in these varied systems have some common properties: 1) hydrostatic equilibrium in background gravity is a good assumption; 2) they are optically thin, i.e., photons escape as soon as they are born; 3) they have cooling times shorter

Andreas Bauer, Markus Garst, Christian Pfleiderer

We report high-precision measurements of the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the specific heat, C(T,H), across the magnetic phase diagram of MnSi. Clear anomalies establish the skyrmion lattice unambiguously as a thermodynamic phase. The evolution of the specific heat anomalies, the field dependence of the entropy released at the phase transitio

J. McCormac, D. Pollacco, I. Skillen, F. Faedi

We present the DONUTS autoguiding algorithm, designed to fix stellar positions at the sub-pixel level for high-cadence time-series photometry, which is also capable of autoguiding on defocused stars. DONUTS was designed to calculate guide corrections from a series of science images and re-centre telescope pointing between each exposure. The algorithm has the

Anushya Chandran, Arun Nanduri, S. S. Gubser, S. L. Sondhi

The quantum O(N) model in the infinite $N$ limit is a paradigm for symmetry-breaking. Qualitatively, its phase diagram is an excellent guide to the equilibrium physics for more realistic values of $N$ in varying spatial dimensions ($d>1$). Here we investigate the physics of this model out of equilibrium, specifically its response to global quenches starting

Elizabeth L. Murnane, Bernhard Haslhofer, Carl Lagoze

We address the Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) problem for short, user-generated texts on the social Web. In such settings, the lack of linguistic features and sparse lexical context result in a high degree of ambiguity and sharp performance drops of nearly 50% in the accuracy of conventional NED systems. We handle these challenges by developing a model of

Fang Yuan, Chiaki Kobayashi, Brian P. Schmidt, Philipp Podsiadlowski

We put constraints on the properties of the progenitors of peculiar calcium-rich transients using the distribution of locations within their host galaxies. We confirm that this class of transients do not follow the galaxy stellar mass profile and are more likely to be found in remote locations of their apparent hosts. We test the hypothesis that these transi

Peter Plavchan, Tina Gueth, Nadanai Laohakunakorn, J. Robert Parks

Periodic variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) offers indirect evidence for an active dynamical mechanism. Starspots, accretion, stellar companions, and disk veiling can contribute to the photometric variability of YSOs. As part of an ongoing study of the Rho Oph star forming region, we report the discovery of 92.6 day periodic variations for the Class

S. N. Longmore, J. M. D. Kruijssen, J. Bally, J. Ott

Super star clusters are the end product of star formation under the most extreme conditions. As such, studying how their final stellar populations are assembled from their natal progenitor gas clouds can provide strong constraints on star formation theories. An obvious place to look for the initial conditions of such extreme stellar clusters are gas clouds o

Anna Frebel, Andrew R. Casey, Heather R. Jacobson, Qinsi Yu

It is well established that stellar effective temperatures determined from photometry and spectroscopy yield systematically different results. We describe a new, simple method to correct spectroscopically derived temperatures (&#34;excitation temperatures&#34;) of metal-poor stars based on a literature sample with -3.3<[Fe/H]<-2.5. Excitation temperatures we

Dilani Kahawala, David Krohn, Matthew D. Schwartz

The classification of events involving jets as signal-like or background-like can depend strongly on the jet algorithm used and its parameters. This is partly due to the fact that standard jet algorithms yield a single partition of the particles in an event into jets, even if no particular choice stands out from the others. As an alternative, we propose that

Irene Sendra, Jose M. Diego, Tom Broadhurst, Ruth Lazkoz

In the strong lensing regime non-parametric lens models struggle to achieve sufficient angular resolution for a meaningful derivation of the central cluster mass distribution. The problem lies mainly with cluster members which perturb lensed images and generate additional images, requiring high resolution modeling, even though we mainly wish to understand th

R. H. D. Townsend, Th. Rivinius, J. F. Rowe, A. F. J. Moffat

We present results from three weeks&#39; photometric monitoring of the magnetic helium-strong star sigma Ori E using the MOST microsatellite. The star&#39;s light curve is dominated by twice-per-rotation eclipse-like dimmings arising when magnetospheric clouds transit across and occult the stellar disk. However, no evidence is found for any abrupt centrifuga

Dan Xie

A detailed study of half-BPS line operators of higher rank 4d N=2 theory engineered from six dimensional A_{N-1} (2,0) theory on a bordered Riemann surface with full marked points is performed. Geometrically, each 4d UV line operator is represented by an irreducible bipartite web formed by three junctions on Riemann surface, and such web structure is called

Andrzej Ptok, Dawid Crivelli

Fe-based superconductors (FeSC) exhibit all the properties of systems that allow the formation of a superconducting phase with oscillating order parameter, called the Fulde--Ferrell--Larkin--Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase. By the analysis of the Cooper pair susceptibility in two-band FeSC, such systems are shown to support the existence of a FFLO phase, regardless

R. C. de Lamare, S. Li

This work presents joint iterative power allocation and interference suppression algorithms for DS-CDMA networks which employ multiple relays and the amplify and forward cooperation strategy. We propose a joint constrained optimization framework that considers the allocation of power levels across the relays subject to individual and global power constraints

Rodrigo C. de Lamare

This work presents blind joint interference suppression and power allocation algorithms for DS-CDMA networks with multiple relays and decode and forward protocols. A scheme for joint allocation of power levels across the relays subject to group-based power constraints and the design of linear receivers for interference suppression is proposed. A code-constra

Jens Hjorth, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Christa Gall, Darach Watson

Unusual extinction curves of high-redshift QSOs have been taken as evidence that dust is primarily produced by supernovae at high redshift. In particular, the 3000 A Todini-Ferrara-Maiolino kink in the extinction curve of the z = 6.20 SDSS J1048+4637 has been attributed to supernova dust. Here we discuss the challenges in inferring robust extinction curves o

A. S. Trushechkin, I. V. Volovich

We study a special kind of semiclassical limit of quantum dynamics on a circle and in a box (infinite potential well with hard walls) as the Planck constant tends to zero and time tends to infinity. The results give detailed information about all stages of evolution of quantum wave packets: semiclassical motion, collapses, revivals, as well as intermediate s

Niko Brummer, Johan du Preez

There has been much recent interest in application of the pool-adjacent-violators (PAV) algorithm for the purpose of calibrating the probabilistic outputs of automatic pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms. Special cost functions, known as proper scoring rules form natural objective functions to judge the goodness of such calibration. We show t

Ka-Ho Lo, M. Coleman Miller, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Frederick K. Lamb

Simultaneous, precise measurements of the mass $M$ and radius $R$ of neutron stars can yield uniquely valuable information about the still uncertain properties of cold matter at several times the density of nuclear matter. One method that could be used to measure $M$ and $R$ is to analyze the energy-dependent waveforms of the X-ray flux oscillations seen dur

Elena Yudovina, George Michailidis

Electric vehicles represent a promising technology for reducing emissions and dependence on fossil fuels and have started entering different automotive markets. In order to bolster their adoption by consumers and hence enhance their penetration rate, a charging station infrastructure needs to be deployed. This paper studies decentralized policies that assign

Nathaniel Johnston, David W. Kribs

We consider four norms on tensor product spaces that have appeared in quantum information theory and demonstrate duality relationships between them. We show that the product numerical radius is dual to the robustness of entanglement, and we similarly show that the S(k)-norm is dual to the projective tensor norm. We show that, analogous to how the product num

Pigi Kouki

Motivated from the Context Aware Computing, and more particularly from the Data-Driven Process Adaptation approach, we propose the Semantic Context Space (SCS) Engine which aims to facilitate the provision of adaptable business processes. The SCS Engine provides a space which stores semantically annotated data and it is open to other processes, systems, and

Marc Scheffler, Thomas Weig, Martin Dressel, Hiroaki Shishido

The optical properties of thin films of the heavy-fermion compound CeCoIn5, which were deposited by molecular beam epitaxy onto MgF2 substrates, have been studied at frequencies 7 to 45 cm^{-1} (corresponding to 0.2 to 1.3 THz) and temperatures 2 to 300 K. We observe an electrodynamic behavior which is typical for heavy fermions, namely Drude-like conductivi

Jesus Martinez-Linares

A phase space theory for population dynamics in Ecology is presented. This theory applies for a certain class of dynamical systems, that will be called M-systems, for which a conserved quantity, the M-function, can be defined in phase space. This M-function is the generator of time displacements and contains all the dynamical information of the system. In th

R. Barends, J. Kelly, A. Megrant, D. Sank

We demonstrate a planar, tunable superconducting qubit with energy relaxation times up to 44 microseconds. This is achieved by using a geometry designed to both minimize radiative loss and reduce coupling to materials-related defects. At these levels of coherence, we find a fine structure in the qubit energy lifetime as a function of frequency, indicating th

Taha Sochi

This technical report documents the theoretical, computational, and practical aspects of the one-dimensional Navier-Stokes finite element flow model. The document is particularly useful to those who are interested in implementing, validating and utilizing this relatively-simple and widely-used model.

N. B. Kopnin, I. M. Khaymovich, A. S. Mel&#39;nikov

We study theoretically the vortex matter structure in low dimensional (LD) systems with superconducting order induced by proximity to a bulk superconductor. We analyze the effects of microscopic coupling mechanisms between the two systems and the effects of possible mismatch in the band structures of these materials on the energy spectrum of vortex-core elec

Andrés Suárez-Madrigal, Mark Krumholz, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Late in their evolution, massive stars may undergo periods of violent instability and mass loss, but the mechanism responsible for these episodes has not been identified. We study one potential contributor: the development of local radiation-driven instabilities in the outer layers of main sequence (MS) and post-MS massive stars. We construct a sequence of m

V. D. Simutkin, S. Pomp, J. Blomgren, M. Österlund

Development of nuclear energy applications requires data for neutron-induced reactions for actinides in a wide neutron energy range. Here we describe measurements of pre-neutron emission fission fragment mass yields of 232Th and 238U at incident neutron energies from 10 to 33 MeV. The measurements were done at the quasi-monoenergetic neutron beam of the Louv

Chen Yue, Vadim Zipunnikov, Pierre-Louis Bazin, Dzung Pham

In this manuscript, we are concerned with data generated from a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) experiment. The goal is to parameterize manifold-like white matter tracts, such as the corpus callosum, using principal surfaces. We approach the problem by finding a geometrically motivated surface-based representation of the corpus callosum and visualize the frac

A. B. Hill, A. Caliandro

In the last decade Cherenkov telescopes on the ground and space-based gamma-ray instruments have identified a new sub-class of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXB), whose emission is dominated by gamma rays. To date only five of these systems have been definitively identified. However at GeV energies there is still one, HESS J0632+057, that has no reported detect

Yu. B. Ivanov

Analysis of elliptic flow of protons and antiprotons in Au+Au collisions is performed in a wide range of incident energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7--62.4 GeV. Simulations has been done within the three-fluid model employing a purely hadronic equation of state (EoS) and two versions of the EoS involving deconfinement transition: an EoS with the first-order phase