May 2013 arXiv papers — page 4

Timothy D. Brandt, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Michael W. McElwain, Joshua E. Schlieder

We present results from the first three years of observations of moving group targets in the SEEDS high-contrast imaging survey of exoplanets and disks using the Subaru telescope. We achieve typical contrasts of ~10^5 at 1" and ~10^6 beyond 2" around 63 proposed members of nearby kinematic moving groups. We review each of the kinematic associations t

Vicky V. T. Doan-Nguyen, Simon A. J. Kimber, Diego Pontoni, Benjamin T. Diroll

We demonstrate a remarkable equivalence in structure measured by total X-ray scattering methods between very small metallic nanoparticles and bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), thus connecting two disparate fields, shedding new light on both. Our results show that for nanoparticle diameters <5 nm the structure of Ni nanoparticles changes from fcc to the character

Diana Dragomir, Jaymie M. Matthews, Jason D. Eastman, Chris Cameron

Through photometric monitoring of the extended transit window of HD 97658b with the MOST space telescope, we have found that this exoplanet transits with an ephemeris consistent with that predicted from radial velocity measurements. The mid-transit times are $5.6σ$ earlier than those of the unverified transit-like signals reported in 2011, and we find no con

Jens Oberrath, Ralf Peter Brinkmann

The term &#34;Active Plasma Resonance Spectroscopy&#34; (APRS) denotes a class of related techniques which utilize, for diagnostic purposes, the natural ability of plasmas to resonate on or near the electron plasma frequency $ω_{\rm pe}$: A radio frequent signal (in the GHz range) is coupled into the plasma via an antenna or probe, the spectral response is r

Justin Stevens, Mike Williams

The use of multivariate classifiers, especially neural networks and decision trees, has become commonplace in particle physics. Typically, a series of classifiers is trained rather than just one to enhance the performance; this is known as boosting. This paper presents a novel method of boosting that produces a uniform selection efficiency in a user-defined

W. Caetano, C. A. de S. Pires, P. S. Rodrigues da Silva, D. Cogollo

Recently the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of a higgs particle with a mass of $\sim 125$ GeV. The results are mildly consistent with the Standard Model Higgs boson. However, the combined data from these collaborations seem to point to an excess in the $h \rightarrow γγ$ channel. In this work we analyze under which conditions this exces

E. T. Worcester

ORKA is a proposed experiment to measure the K+ -> pi+nunubar branching ratio with 5% precision using the Fermilab Main Injector high-intensity proton source. The detector design is based on the BNL E787/E949 experiments, which detected seven K+ -> pi+nunubar candidate events. ORKA is expected to acheive two orders of magnitude improvement in sensitivity rel

Hong Liu, S. Josephine Suh

We consider the time evolution of entanglement entropy after a global quench in a strongly coupled holographic system, whose subsequent equilibration is described in the gravity dual by the gravitational collapse of a thin shell of matter resulting in a black hole. In the limit of large regions of entanglement, the evolution of entanglement entropy is contro

Ross G. Pinsky

Let $N$ and $M$ be positive integers satisfying $1\le M\le N$, and let $0<p_0<p_1<1$. Define a process $\{X_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$ on $\mathbb{Z}$ as follows. At each step, the process jumps either one step to the right or one step to the left, according to the following mechanism. For the first $N$ steps, the process behaves like a random walk that jumps to the

Matteo Biagetti, Matteo Fasiello, Antonio Riotto

We show that a large contribution to tensor modes during inflation can be generated by a spectator scalar field with speed of sound lower than unity.

Zhihui Xie

In this paper we study the derivation of a certain type of NLS from many-body interactions of bosonic particles. We consider a model with a finite linear combination of $n$-body interactions, where $n \geq 2$ is an integer. We show that the $k$-particle marginal density of the BBGKY hierarchy converges when particle number goes to infinity, and the limit sol

A. Ballone, M. Schartmann, A. Burkert, S. Gillessen

The origin of the dense gas cloud G2 discovered in the Galactic Center (Gillessen et al. 2012) is still a debated puzzle. G2 might be a diffuse cloud or the result of an outflow from an invisible star embedded in it. We present hydrodynamical simulations of the evolution of different spherically symmetric winds of a stellar object embedded in G2. We find tha

Ryan Killick, Kunal Kumar, Heather E. Logan

The Standard Model Higgs boson may be mixed with another scalar that does not couple to fermions. The electroweak quantum numbers of such an additional scalar can be determined by measuring the quartic Higgs-Higgs-vector-vector couplings, which contribute---along with the coveted triple Higgs coupling---to double Higgs production in $e^+e^-$ collisions. We s

Sachin Jain, Shiraz Minwalla, Shuichi Yokoyama

We compute the thermal free energy for all renormalizable Chern Simon theories coupled to a single fundamental bosonic and fermionic field in the &#39;t Hooft large N limit. We use our results to conjecture a strong weak coupling duality invariance for this class of theories. Our conjectured duality reduces to Giveon Kutasov duality when restricted to {\cal

Wojciech Florkowski, Radoslaw Ryblewski, Michael Strickland

We exactly solve the one-dimensional boost-invariant Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation for arbitrary shear viscosity. The results are compared with the predictions of viscous and anisotropic hydrodynamics. Studying different non-equilibrium cases and comparing the exact kinetic-theory results to the second-order viscous hydrodynamics re

Kurt Hinterbichler

If the kinetic interactions of a Lorentz-invariant massive graviton are Einstein-Hilbert, then the only possible potential terms free from the Boulware-Deser ghost are those of de Rham, Gabadadze and Tolley (dRGT). We point out there are other possibilities if the kinetic terms are not required to be Einstein-Hilbert. We construct pseudo-linear ghost-free po

Soma De, Levon Pogosian, Tanmay Vachaspati

Faraday Rotation (FR) of CMB polarization, as measured through mode-coupling correlations of E and B modes, can be a promising probe of a stochastic primordial magnetic field (PMF). While the existence of a PMF is still hypothetical, there will certainly be a contribution to CMB FR from the magnetic field of the Milky Way. We use existing estimates of the Mi

Koichi Hattori, Kazunori Itakura, Sho Ozaki

We investigate decay and production of neutral pions in strong magnetic fields. In the presence of strong magnetic fields, transition between a neutral pion and a virtual photon becomes possible through the triangle diagram relevant for the chiral anomaly. We find that the decay mode of a neutral pion into two photons cannot persist in the dominant mode in s

Vyacheslav Krushkal

A link in the 3-sphere is called (smoothly) slice if its components bound disjoint smoothly embedded disks in the 4-ball. More generally, given a 4-manifold M with a distinguished circle in its boundary, a link in the 3-sphere is called M-slice if its components bound in the 4-ball disjoint embedded copies of M. A 4-manifold M is constructed such that the Bo

P. H. Nguyen, J. F. Pedraza

Spherical systems with polytropic equations of state are of great interest in astrophysics. They are widely used to describe neutron stars, red giants, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, main sequence stars, galactic halos, and globular clusters of diverse sizes. In this paper we construct analytically a family of self-gravitating spherical models in the post-Newto

G. E. Volovik, M. A. Zubkov

Higgs bosons - the amplitude modes - have been experimentally investigated in condensed matter for many years. An example is superfluid $^3$He-B, where the broken symmetry leads to 4 Goldstone modes and at least 14 Higgs modes, which are characterized by angular momentum quantum number $J$ and parity. Based on the relation $E_{J+}^2+E_{J-}^2=4Δ^2$ for the en

Paolo Lipari, Maurizio Lusignoli

Recently at LHC one has obtained measurements of the total, elastic and diffractive cross sections in pp collisions at very high energy. The total cross section is in good agreement with predictions based on a leading behavior σ_{tot} (s) \propto (\ln s/s_0)^2, on the other hand the elastic cross section is lower than most expectations and the diffractive cr

K. Bennaceur, J. Dobaczewski, F. Raimondi

We present a new two-body finite-range and momentum-dependent but density-independent effective interaction, which can be interpreted as a regularized zero-range force. We show that no three-body or density-dependent terms are needed for a correct description of saturation properties in infinite matter, that is, on the level of low-energy density functional,

Oleg Szehr

We investigate the relation between the spectrum of a non-normal matrix and the norm of its resolvent. We provide spectral estimates for the resolvent of matrices whose largest singular value is bounded by $1$ (so-called Hilbert space contractions) and for power-bounded matrices. In the first case our estimate is optimal and we present explicit matrices that

Wei Pin Wong

Given an elliptic curve E over a function field K=Q(T_1,...,T_n), we study the behavior of the canonical height ^h_(E_w) of the specialized elliptic curve E_w with respect to the height of w in Q^n. In this paper, we prove that there exists a uniform non-zero lower bound for the average of the quotient ^h_(E_w)(P_w)/h(w) for all non-torsion P in E(K).

D. Panigrahi, B. C. Paul, S. Chatterjee

We investigate the evolution of a FRW model fuelled by a modified Chaplygin gas with an equation of state $p = Aρ-\frac{B}{ρ^α}$. An attempt is made here to constrain the free parameters of MCG model through the wellknown contour plot technique using observational data. The permissible range of values of the pair of free parameters are determined to study th

Maissam Barkeshli, Chao-Ming Jian, Xiao-Liang Qi

The structure of extrinsic defects in topologically ordered states of matter is host to a rich set of universal physics. Extrinsic defects in 2+1 dimensional topological states include line-like defects, such as boundaries between topologically distinct states, and point-like defects, such as junctions between different line defects. Gapped boundaries in par

Turan Birol, Craig J. Fennie

We elucidate the microscopic mechanism that causes a suppression of ferroelectricity and an enhancement of octahedral rotations in EuTiO3 from first principles. We find that the hybridization of the rare-earth Eu 4f states with the B-site Ti cation drives the system away from ferroelectricity. We also show that the magnetic order dependence of this hybridiza

Debajyoti Choudhury, Anirban Kundu, Pratishruti Saha

There are two Z-peak observables related to the pair production of bottom quarks that show a deviation of about 2.5σ each from Standard Model expectations. While the discrepancy in the forward-backward asymmetry is a long-standing one, the tension for the second observable, namely the ratio of the partial width for a Z decaying to a pair of bottom quarks to

Yong Luo

A submanifold $M^m$ of a Euclidean space $R^{m+p}$ is said to have harmonic mean curvature vector field if $Δ\vec{H}=0$, where $\vec{H}$ is the mean curvature vector field of $M\hookrightarrow R^{m+p}$ and $Δ$ is the rough Laplacian on $M$. There is a conjecture named after Bangyen Chen which states that submanifolds of Euclidean spaces with harmonic mean cu

Alexandre Popoff

Transformational musical theory has so far mainly focused on the study of groups acting on musical chords, one of the most famous example being the action of the dihedral group D24 on the set of major and minor chords. Comparatively less work has been devoted to the study of transformations of time-spans and rhythms. D. Lewin was the first to study group act

B. Ransingh, K. C. Pati

This paper classifies the splints of the root system of classical Lie superalgebras as a superalgebraic conversion of the splints of classical root systems. It can be used to derive branching rules, which have potential physical application in theoretical physics.

S. Cordero, O. Castaños, R. López-Peña, E. Nahmad-Achar

We consider $N_a$ three-level atoms (or systems) interacting with a one-mode electromagnetic field in the dipolar and rotating wave approximations. The order of the quantum phase transitions is determined explicitly for each of the configurations $Ξ$, $Λ$ and $V$, with and without detuning. The semi-classical and exact quantum calculations for both the expec

B. Ransingh

The motivation comes from boson fermion correspondence. This article shows for each fermionic root there is correspondence a bosonic root, as a result we get for each Dynkin diagram of Lie Superalgebra a corresponding flip Dynkin Superdiagram. This article construct all the filp Dynkin Superdiagrams of Lie superalgebras(LS). This can create non conjugate cla

Timur Delahaye, Michael Grefe

We derive 95% CL lower limits on the lifetime of decaying dark matter in the channels $Zν$, $W\ell$ and $hν$ using measurements of the cosmic-ray antiproton flux by the PAMELA experiment. Performing a scan over the allowed range of cosmic-ray propagation parameters we find lifetime limits in the range of $8 \times 10^{28}$s to $5 \times 10^{25}$s for dark ma

Rudy Marty, Elena Bratkovskaya, Wolfgang Cassing, Jörg Aichelin

We calculate the shear $η(T)$ and bulk viscosities $ζ(T)$ as well as the electric conductivity $σ_e(T)$ and heat conductivity $κ(T)$ within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model for 3 flavors as a function of temperature as well as the entropy density $s(T)$, pressure $P(T)$ and speed of sound $c_s^2(T)$. We compare the results with other models such as the Polyakov-

David Ben-Zvi, David Nadler

We study an invariant, the secondary trace, attached to two commuting endomorphisms of a 2-dualizable object in a symmetric monoidal higher category. We establish a secondary trace formula which encodes the natural symmetries of this invariant, identifying different realizations as an iterated trace. The proof consists of elementary Morse-theoretic arguments

David Ben-Zvi, David Nadler

We combine the theory of traces in homotopical algebra with sheaf theory in derived algebraic geometry to deduce general fixed point and character formulas. The formalism of dimension (or Hochschild homology) of a dualizable object in the context of higher algebra provides a unifying framework for classical notions such as Euler characteristics, Chern charac

Enrico Priola

We prove uniqueness in law for possibly degenerate SDEs having a linear part in the drift term. Diffusion coefficients corresponding to non-degenerate directions of the noise are assumed to be continuous. When the diffusion part is constant we recover the classical degenerate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process which only has to satisfy the Hörmander hypoellipticity

A. Morselli, E. Nuss, G. Zaharijas

Can we learn about New Physics with astronomical and astro-particle data? Since its launch in 2008, the Large Area Telescope, onboard of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has detected the largest amount of gamma rays in the 20 MeV - 300 GeV energy range and electrons + positrons in the 7 GeV- 1 TeV range. These impressive statistics allow one to perform a

Melvyn B. Nathanson

Consider the interval of integers $I_{m,n} = \{m, m+1, m+2,\ldots, m+n-1 \}$. For fixed integers $h,k,m$, and $c$, let $\Phi_{h,k,m}^{(c)}(n)$ denote the number of solutions of the equation $(a_1+\cdots + a_h)- (a_{h+1} + \cdots + a_{h+k})=c$ with $a_i \in I_{m,n}$ for all $i=1,\ldots, h+k$. This is a polynomial in $n$ for all sufficiently large $n$, and the

G. Lusztig

Let G be a connected reductive group over an algebraically closed field. We define a decomposition of G into finitely many strata such that each stratum is a union of conjugacy classes of fixed dimension; the strata are indexed by a set defined in terms of the Weyl group which is independent of the characteristic. In the case where $G$ is replaced by the cor

Pavel Zaichenkov, Bert Gijsbers, Clemens Grelck, Olga Tveretina

We present a programming methodology and runtime performance case study comparing the declarative data flow coordination language S-Net with Intel&#39;s Concurrent Collections (CnC). As a coordination language S-Net achieves a near-complete separation of concerns between sequential software components implemented in a separate algorithmic language and their

Ahmad Amjadi, Sadegh Feiz, Reza Montazeri Namin

We have observed that a rotating liquid soap film generates electricity when placed between two non-contact electrodes with a sufficiently large potential difference. In our experiments suspended liquid film (water + soap film) is formed on the surface of a circular frame, which is forced to rotate in the $x-y$ horizontal plane by a motor. This system is loc

Jiwon Chang, Stefano Larentis, Emanuel Tutuc, Leonard F. Register

Using an ab initio density functional theory (DFT) based electronic structure method, we study the effects of adatoms on the electronic properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) Molybdenum-disulfide (MoS2). We consider the 1st (Li, Na, K) and 7th (F, Cl, Br) column atoms and metals (Sc, Ti, Ta, Mo, Pd, Pt, Ag, Au). Three high symmetry sit

Eva-Maria Graefe, Chiara Liverani

In the limit of large particle numbers and low densities systems of cold atoms can be effectively described as macroscopic single particle systems in a mean-field approximation. In the case of a Bose-Hubbard system, modelling bosons on a discrete lattice with on-site interactions, this yields a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation of Gross-Pitaevskii type

Justin Dressel, Mehul Malik, Filippo M. Miatto, Andrew N. Jordan

Since its introduction 25 years ago, the quantum weak value has gradually transitioned from a theoretical curiosity to a practical laboratory tool. While its utility is apparent in the recent explosion of weak value experiments, its interpretation has historically been a subject of confusion. Here a pragmatic introduction to the weak value in terms of measur

Yuanyou Cheng, Gongbao Li, Juping Wang

The pseudo-Gamma function is a key tool introduced recently by Cheng and Albeverio in the proof of \break the density hypothesis. This function is doubly symmetric, which means that it is reflectively symmetric about the real axis by the Schwarz principle, whereas it is also reflectively symmmetric about the half line where the real part of the variable is e

Ricardo J. Z. Ferreira, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Martin S. Sloth

The simplest gauge invariant models of inflationary magnetogenesis are known to suffer from the problems of either large backreaction or strong coupling, which make it difficult to self-consistently achieve cosmic magnetic fields from inflation with a field strength larger than $10^{-32} G$ today on the $\Mpc$ scale. Such a strength is insufficient to act as

Shalin B. Mehta, Rudolf Oldenbourg

Image simulation remains under-exploited for the most widely used biological phase microscopy methods, because of difficulties in simulating partially coherent illumination. We describe an open-source toolbox, microlith (https://code.google.com/p/microlith), which accurately predicts three-dimensional images of a thin specimen observed with any partially coh

Yucheng Hu, Tianqi Zhu

Cell growth in size is a complex process coordinated by intrinsic and environmental signals. In a recent work [Tzur et al., Science, 2009, 325:167-171], size distributions in an exponentially growing population of mammalian cells were used to infer the growth rate in size. The results suggest that cell growth is neither linear nor exponential, but subject to

David d&#39;Enterria, Gustavo G. da Silveira

Elastic light-by-light scattering, $γγ\toγγ$, is open to study at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large quasi-real photon fluxes available in electromagnetic interactions of protons (p) and lead (Pb) ions. The $γγ\toγγ$ cross sections for diphoton masses $m_{γγ} > 5$ GeV amount to 105 fb, 260 pb, and 370 nb in p-p, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at nucle

Georg Raffelt, Srdjan Sarikas, David de Sousa Seixas

Neutrino-neutrino refraction causes self-induced flavor conversion in dense neutrino fluxes. For the first time, we include the azimuth angle of neutrino propagation as an explicit variable and find a new generic multi-azimuth-angle (MAA) instability which, for simple spectra, occurs in the normal neutrino mass hierarchy. Matter suppression of this instabili

Celine Boehm, Syksy Rasanen

We propose a backreaction toy model with realistic features and confront it with the Union2.1 supernova data. The model provides a good fit even though the expansion history is quite different from the LCDM model and the effective equation of state is far from -1. We discuss compatibility (or lack thereof) with other observations. We show that the FRW consis

Jian Gao, Aigen Li, B. W. Jiang

We model the ~1--19$\mum$ infrared (IR) extinction curve toward the Galactic Center (GC) in terms of the standard silicate-graphite interstellar dust model. The grains are taken to have a power law size distribution with an exponential decay above some size. The best-fit model for the GC IR extinction constrains the visual extinction to be Av~38--42 mag. The

Oscar Akerlund, Philippe de Forcrand, Antoine Georges, Philipp Werner

We apply the Dynamical Mean Field (DMFT) approximation to the real, scalar phi^4 quantum field theory. By comparing to lattice Monte Carlo calculations, perturbation theory and standard mean field theory, we test the quality of the approximation in two, three, four and five dimensions. The quantities considered in these tests are the critical coupling for th

Kevin Lalumière, Barry C. Sanders, Arjan F. van Loo, Arkady Fedorov

We study the collective effects that emerge in waveguide quantum electrodynamics where several (artificial) atoms are coupled to a one-dimensional superconducting transmission line. Since single microwave photons can travel without loss for a long distance along the line, real and virtual photons emitted by one atom can be reabsorbed or scattered by a second

Pratik Tarafdar, Tapas K Das

In black hole evaporation process, the mass of the hole anti-correlates with the Hawking temperature. This indicates that the smaller holes have higher surface gravity. For analogue Hawking effects, however, the acoustic surface gravity is determined by the local values of the dynamical velocity of the stationary background fluid flow and the speed of propag

Andreas Neef, Ahmed El Hady, Jatin Nagpal, Kai Bröking

Central neurons operate in a regime of constantly fluctuating conductances, induced by thousands of presynaptic cells. Channelrhodopsins have been almost exclusively used to imprint a fixed spike pattern by sequences of brief depolarizations. Here we introduce continuous dynamic photostimulation (CoDyPs), a novel approach to mimic in-vivo like input fluctuat

Soumyajyoti Biswas, Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We study the dynamics of a local load sharing fiber bundle model in two dimensions, under an external load (which increases with time at a fixed slow rate) applied at a single point. Due to the local load sharing nature, the redistributed load remains localized along the boundary of the broken patch. The system then goes to a self-organized state with a stat

Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Francesco Mauri

Palladium hydrides display the largest isotope effect anomaly known in literature. Replacement of hydrogen with the heavier isotopes leads to higher superconducting temperatures, a behavior inconsistent with harmonic theory. Solving the self-consistent harmonic approximation by a stochastic approach, we obtain the anharmonic free energy, the thermal expansio

Bruno Courcelle, Irène Durand

We present logically based methods for constructing XP and FPT graph algorithms, parametrized by tree-width or clique-width. We will use fly-automata introduced in a previous article. They make possible to check properties that are not monadic second-order expressible because their states may include counters, so that their sets of states may be infinite. We

Simon A. J. Kimber, Ashkan Salamat, Shaun R. Evans, Harald O. Jeschke

Dramatic volume collapses under pressure are fundamental to geochemistry and of increasing importance to fields as diverse as hydrogen storage and high-temperature superconductivity. In transition metal materials, collapses are usually driven by so-called spin-state transitions, the interplay between the single-ion crystal field and the size of the magnetic

L. Bonora, S. Giaccari

We identify the supersymmetric extension of Weyl transformations in various types of supergravities, the minimal, nonminimal and new minimal N=1 SUGRA in 4D, formulated in terms of superfields. Based also on previous results we conclude that there are only two types of trace anomalies in nonminimal and new minimal supergravities, which correspond to the two

Mohamed Ahmed, Stefano Traverso, Michele Garetto, Paolo Giaccone

The dimensioning of caching systems represents a difficult task in the design of infrastructures for content distribution in the current Internet. This paper addresses the problem of defining a realistic arrival process for the content requests generated by users, due its critical importance for both analytical and simulative evaluations of the performance o

Jean-Florent Raymond, Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The celebrated grid exclusion theorem states that for every $h$-vertex planar graph $H$, there is a constant $c_{h}$ such that if a graph $G$ does not contain $H$ as a minor then $G$ has treewidth at most $c_{h}$. We are looking for patterns of $H$ where this bound can become a low degree polynomial. We provide such bounds for the following parameterized gra

Murat Adivar, H. Can Koyuncuoğlu

Using the new periodicity concept based on shifts, we construct a unified Floquet theory for homogeneous and nonhomogeneous hybrid periodic systems on domains having continuous, discrete or hybrid structure. New periodicity concept based on shifts enables the construction of Floquet theory on hybrid domains that are not necessarily additive periodic. This ma

Asim Ghosh, Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We study, using Monte Carlo dynamics, the time ($t$) dependent average magnetization per spin $m(t)$ behavior of 2-D kinetic Ising model under a binary ($\pm h_0$) stochastic field $h(t)$. The time dependence of the stochastic field is such that its average over each successive time interval $τ$ is assured to be zero (without any fluctuation). The average ma

Clement Foucart

The purpose of this article is to study some asymptotic properties of the Λ-Wright-Fisher process with selection. This process represents the frequency of a disadvantaged allele. The resampling mechanism is governed by a finite measure Λon [0,1] and the selection by a parameter α. When the measure Λverifies \int_0^1-\log(1-x)x^{-2} Λ(dx)<\infty, some particu

A. Pothérat, R. Klein

MHD turbulence at low Magnetic Reynolds number is experimentally investigated by studying a liquid metal flow in a cubic domain. We focus on the mechanisms that determine whether the flow is quasi-2D, 3D or in any intermediate state. To this end, forcing is applied by injecting a DC current $I$ through one wall of the cube only, to drive vortices spinning al

Deyou Chen, Houwen Wu, Haitang Yang

In this paper, using Hamilton-Jacobi method, we address the tunnelling of fermions in a 4-dimensional Schwarzschild spacetime. Base on the generalized uncertainty principle, we introduce the influence of quantum gravity. After solving the equation of motion of the spin 1/2 field, we derive the corrected Hawking temperature. It turns out that the correction d

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula

We prove that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents yield very strong correlations between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B$, namely, $δf_B/f_B\approx -8\,δm_b/m_b$. This fact opens the possibility of an accurate sum-rule extraction of $m_b$ by using $f_B$ as input. Combining precise lattice QCD determinations of $f_B$ wi

M. A. Corti, R. C. Gamen, Y. J. Aidelman, G. A. Ferrero

Be objects are stars of B spectral type showing lines of the Balmer series in emission. The presence of these lines is attributed to the existence of an extended envelope, disk type, around them. Some stars are observed in both the Be and normal B-type spectroscopic states and they are known as transient Be stars. In this paper we show the analysis carried o

Yosuke Saito

In the paper [J. Math. Phys. 50 (2009), 095215, 42 pages, arXiv:0904.2291], Feigin, Hashizume, Hoshino, Shiraishi, and Yanagida constructed two families of commuting operators which contain the Macdonald operator (commutative families of the Macdonald operator). They used the Ding-Iohara-Miki algebra and the trigonometric Feigin-Odesskii algebra. In the prev

M. Köksal, S. C. İnan

We have examined the constraints on the anomalous $tqγ$ ($q=u,c$) couplings through the process $pp\to pγp\to pWbX$ at the LHC by considering three forward detector acceptances: $0.0015< ξ< 0.5$, $0.0015< ξ<0.15$ and $0.1< ξ< 0.5$. The sensitivity bounds on the anomalous couplings have been obtained at the $95%$ confidence level in a model independent effect

A. L. Kataev, K. V. Stepanyantz

The exact NSVZ relation between a $β$-function of ${\cal N}=1$ SQED and an anomalous dimension of the matter superfields is studied within the Slavnov higher derivative regularization approach. It is shown that if the renormalization group functions are defined in terms of the bare coupling constant, this relation is always valid. In the renormalized theory

Fudong Wang, Xiaoke Li, Dezhi Xiong, Dajun Wang

We have realized a dual-species Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of $^{23}$Na and $^{87}$Rb atoms and observed their immiscibility. Because of the favorable background intra- and inter-species scattering lengths, stable condensates can be obtained via efficient evaporative cooling and sympathetic cooling without the need for fine tuning of the interactions. Ou

Imran H. Biswas, Ananta K. Majee

This article is an attempt to complement some recent developments on conservation laws with stochastic forcing. In a pioneering development, Feng $&$ Nualarthave developed the entropy solution theory for such problems and the presence of stochastic forcing necessitates introduction of {\it strong entropy condition}. However, the authors&#39; formulation of e

Ana Bela Cruzeiro, Iván Torrecilla

We prove weak existence of Euler equation (or Navier-Stokes equation) perturbed by a multiplicative noise on bounded domains of $\mathbb R^2$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions and with periodic boundary conditions. Solutions are $H^1$ regular. The equations are of transport type.

Michel Fliess, Cédric Join

&#34;Model-free control&#34; and the corresponding &#34;intelligent&#34; PID controllers (iPIDs), which already had many successful concrete applications, are presented here for the first time in an unified manner, where the new advances are taken into account. The basics of model-free control is now employing some old functional analysis and some elementary

P. Mandal, S. Das, D. De Munshi, T. Dutta

The presence of charged particles in an ion trap modifies the harmonic trapping potential in which they are trapped, leading to observed shifts in secular frequency as well as appearance of collective oscillation. In a linear trap geometry, both of these effects have been observed under different trapping conditions using narrow non-linear resonance and exte

Ronaldo S. S. Vieira, Javier Ramos-Caro

We present an analytical simple formula for an approximated third integral of motion associated with nearly equatorial orbits in the Galaxy: $I_{3}=ZΣ_{I}^{1/3}$, where $Z(R)$ is the vertical amplitude of the orbit at galactocentric distance $R$ and $Σ_{I}(R)$ is the integrated dynamical surface mass density of the disk, a quantity which has recently become

Tomas Gavenciak, Jan Kratochvil, Pawel Pralat

In this paper, we consider the \emph{firefighter problem} on a graph $G=(V,E)$ that is either finite or infinite. Suppose that a fire breaks out at a given vertex $v \in V$. In each subsequent time unit, a firefighter protects one vertex which is not yet on fire, and then the fire spreads to all unprotected neighbors of the vertices on fire. The objective of

Fernando Pablos Romo

The aim of this work is to offer a general theory of reciprocity laws for symbols on arbitrary vector spaces, and to show that classical explicit reciprocity laws are particular cases of this theory (sum of valuations on a complete curve, Residue Theorem, Weil Reciprocity Law and the Reciprocity Law for the Hilbert Norm Residue Symbol). Moreover, several rec

Shun Maeta

We consider biharmonic maps $ϕ:(M,g)\rightarrow (N,h)$ from a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. Assume that $α$ satisfies $1<α<\infty$. If for such an $α$, $\int_M|τ(ϕ)|^αdv_g<\infty$ and $\int_M|dϕ|^2dv_g<\infty,$ where $τ(ϕ)$ is the tension field of $ϕ$, then we show that $ϕ$ is harmonic. For a b

Leonardo Campanelli

In &#34;L. Campanelli, arXiv:1304.6534 [astro-ph.CO]&#34;, we have shown that cosmic magnetic fields are a natural consequence of inflation. Our results have been criticized in the recent comment &#34;R. Durrer, G. Marozzi and M. Rinaldi, arXiv:1305.3192 [astro-ph.CO].&#34; We show that the arguments raised against the validity of our results are physically

Fabio Ciolli, Giuseppe Ruzzi, Ezio Vasselli

The present work tackles the existence of local gauge symmetries in the setting of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory (AQFT). The net of causal loops, previously introduced by the authors, is a model independent construction of a covariant net of local C*-algebras on any 4-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime, aimed to capture some structural properties of

Si-Cong Ji, Jin-Yi Zhang, Long Zhang, Zhi-Dong Du

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling has led to numerously exciting phenomena in electron systems, for instance, the recently discovered topological insulator. The synthesized SO coupling with ultracold neutral atoms opens a new avenue of quantum simulation, and gives us an opportunity to study SO coupling in bosonic systems. Indeed, SO coupling leads to many new phenom

L. Del Zanna, V. Chandra, G. Inghirami, V. Rolando

We present ECHO-QGP, a numerical code for $(3+1)$-dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamics designed for the modeling of the space-time evolution of the matter created in high energy nuclear collisions. The code has been built on top of the \emph{Eulerian Conservative High-Order} astrophysical code for general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics [\emph{D

E. K. Panagoulia, A. C. Fabian, J. S. Sanders

We re-analyse a combined 198 ks Chandra observation of NGC4696, the brightest galaxy of the Centaurus cluster. We extract temperature and metallicity profiles from the data, and we confirm the presence of a sharp drop in iron abundance, from ~1.8 Zsolar to ~0.4 Zsolar, within the central 5 kpc of the cluster. We estimate that this abundance drop corresponds

David Greynat, Eduardo de Rafael

The Froissart--Martin bound for total $ππ$ scattering cross sections is reconsidered in the light of QCD properties such as spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the counting rules for a large number of colours $\Nc$.

K. Oyama

Cross sections of reference trigger processes were obtained based on beam property measurements in dedicated luminosity calibration experiments (van der Meer scans). These cross-sections are essential for absolute cross section determinations of physics processes. The reference cross sections are presented for pp collisions at two center of mass energies; 2.

Ismagil Habibullin, Marina Yangubaeva

An alternative method of constructing the formal diagonalization for the discrete Lax operators is proposed which can be used to calculate conservation laws and in some cases generalized symmetries for discrete dynamical systems. Discrete potential KdV equation, lattice derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, dressing chain, Toda lattice are considered as

Dmitry Shogin, Sigbjorn Hervik

We investigate a simple inhomogeneous anisotropic cosmology (plane symmetric $G_2$ model) filled with a tilted perfect fluid undergoing velocity diffusion on a scalar field. Considered are two types of fluid: dust and radiation. We solve the system of Einstein field equations and diffusion equations numerically and demonstrate how the universe evolves toward

Jun Wei Fan

Valence subband and transport properties of p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) inversion layer in uniaxially strained (110) and (111) Si channel have been studied theoretically in this work. Equal energy lines, carrier concentration effective mass, conductivity effective mass, and mobility are calculated based on Luttinger-Kohn Hamiltonian [16]. Three c

Luca Di Luzio, Marco Nardecchia, Andrea Romanino

We investigate the possibility of obtaining sizeable R-parity breaking interactions violating baryon number but not lepton number within supersymmetric grand unified theories. Such a possibility allows to ameliorate the naturalness status of supersymmetry while maintaining successful gauge coupling unification, one of its main phenomenological motivations. W

Cao Ping, Sun Wei-Jia, Ji Xiao-Lu, Fan Huan-Huan

The prototype of time digitizing system for the upgrade of BESIII endcap TOF (ETOF) is introduced in this paper. The ETOF readout electronics has a formation of distributed architecture that hit signal from multi-gap resistive plate chamber (MRPC) is signaled as LVDS by front-end electronics (FEE) and sent to the back-end time digitizing system via long shie

A. Avgoustidis, C. J. A. P. Martins, A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, P. E. Vielzeuf

We study cosmological models involving scalar fields coupled to radiation and discuss their effect on the redshift evolution of the cosmic microwave background temperature, focusing on links with varying fundamental constants and dynamical dark energy. We quantify how allowing for the coupling of scalar fields to photons, and its important effect on luminosi

CALICE Collaboration, C. Adloff, J. -J. Blaising, M. Chefdeville

We investigate the three dimensional substructure of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter. The high granularity of the detector is used to find track segments of minimum ionising particles within hadronic showers, providing sensitivity to the spatial structure and the details of secondary particle production in hadronic casc

Claudia Benedetti, Matteo G. A. Paris, Fabrizio Buscemi, Paolo Bordone

We study the dynamics of quantum correlations for two non interacting qubits initially prepared in a maximally entangled state and then coupled with an external environment characterized by a noise spectrum of the form 1/f^α. The noise spectrum is due to the interaction of each qubit with a collection of N_f classical fluctuators with fixed switching rates.