June 2013 arXiv papers — page 8

Manuel Sorge

We consider the Densest-Subgraph problem, where a graph and an integer k is given and we search for a subgraph on exactly k vertices that induces the maximum number of edges. We prove that this problem is NP-hard even when the input graph has maximum degree three.

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Evaristo Jimenez-Contreras

In this paper we review the socalled altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept raises from the development of new indicators based on Web 2.0, for the evaluation of the research and academic activity. The basic assumption is that variables such as mentions in blogs, number of twits or of researchers bookmarking a research paper for instance, may be leg

Ju-Jun Xie, M. Albaladejo, E. Oset

The BES data on the $J/ψ\to ηK^{*0}\bar{K}^{*0}$ reaction show a clear enhancement in the $K^{*0}\bar{K}^{*0}$ mass distribution close to the threshold of this channel. Such an enhancement is usually a signature of a L=0 resonance around threshold, which in this case would correspond to an $h_1$ state with quantum numbers $I^G(J^{PC})=0^-(1^{+-})$. A state a

Alberto De Sole

This paper is meant to be a short review and summary of recent results on the structure of finite and affine classical W-algebras, and the application of the latter to the theory of generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies.

M. G. Vergniory, D. Thonig, M. Hoffmann, I. V. Maznichenko

Using a first-principles Green's function approach we study magnetic properties of the magnetic binary chalcogenides Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, and Sb2Te3. The magnetic coupling between transition-metal impurities is long-range, extends beyond a quintuple layer, and decreases with increasing number of d electrons per 3d atom. We find two main mechanisms for the mag

Pierre Nyquist

Importance sampling has become an important tool for the computation of tail-based risk measures. Since such quantities are often determined mainly by rare events standard Monte Carlo can be inefficient and importance sampling provides a way to speed up computations. This paper considers moderate deviations for the weighted empirical process, the process ana

Thomas I. Maindl, Christoph Schäfer, Roland Speith, Áron Süli

We give a brief introduction to smoothed particle hydrodynamics methods for continuum mechanics. Specifically, we present our 3D SPH code to simulate and analyze collisions of asteroids consisting of two types of material: basaltic rock and ice. We consider effects like brittle failure, fragmentation, and merging in different impact scenarios. After validati

Francesc Ferrer, Daniel R. Hunter

We study the indirect detection of dark matter when the local dark matter velocity distribution depends upon position, as expected for the Milky Way and its dwarf spheroidal satellites, and the annihilation cross-section is not purely s-wave. Using a phase-space distribution consistent with the dark matter density profile, we present estimates of cosmic and

S. O. Diallo, E. Mamontov, A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers

We report the diffusion of water molecules confined in the pores of folded silica materials (FSM-12 with average pore diameter of $\sim$ 16 Å), measured by means of quasielastic neutron scattering using the cold neutron chopper spectrometer (CNCS). The goal is to investigate the effect of electric field on the previously observed fast component of nano-confi

Glenn Ierley

This paper presents a general solution for a recent model by Keen for endogenous money creation. The solution provides an analytic framework that explains all significant dynamical features of Keen's model and their parametric dependence, including an exact result for both the period and subsidence rate of the Great Moderation. It emerges that Keen's

Ignacio N. Zurrián

In this work we start by determining all irreducible spherical functions $Φ$ of any $K $-type associated to the pair $(G,K)=(\SO(4),\SO(3))$. The functions $P=P(u)$ corresponding to the irreducible spherical functions of a fixed $K$-type $π_\ell$ are appropriately packaged into a sequence of matrix valued polynomials $(P_w)_{w\ge0}$ of size $(\ell+1)\times(\

Davide Cagnoni, Francesco Agostini, Thomas Christen, Carlo de Falco

Ionic wind devices or electrostatic fluid accelerators are becoming of increasing interest as tools for thermal management, in particular for semiconductor devices. In this work, we present a numerical model for predicting the performance of such devices, whose main benefit is the ability to accurately predict the amount of charge injected at the corona elec

Freddy Cachazo, Song He, Ellis Ye Yuan

Several recent developments point to the fact that rational maps from n-punctured spheres to the null cone of D dimensional momentum space provide a natural language for describing the scattering of massless particles in D dimensions. In this note we identify and study equations relating the kinematic invariants and the puncture locations, which we call the

A. M. Gavrilik, A. P. Rebesh

Using the q,p-deformed oscillators as basic generating system, we obtain diverse classes (which form distinct sectors of functional continua) of novel versions of q-deformed oscillators, all of which share the property of "accidental" degeneracy within a fixed pair of energy levels E_{m} = E_{m+1}, m\ge 1, occurring at the real deformation parameter

Vladimir Y. Chernyak, Michael Chertkov, Joris Bierkens, Hilbert J. Kappen

In Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) one minimizes the average cost-to-go, that consists of the cost-of-control (amount of efforts), cost-of-space (where one wants the system to be) and the target cost (where one wants the system to arrive), for a system participating in forced and controlled Langevin dynamics. We extend the SOC problem by introducing an addi

G. F. Bertsch, A. Lee

We derive a time-dependent density functional theory appropriate for calculating the near-edge X-ray absorption spectrum in molecules and condensed matter. The basic assumption is to increase the space of many-body wave functions from one Slater determinant to two. The equations of motion derived from Dirac's variational principle provide an exact soluti

D. L. Shepelyansky

In contrast to the claim of Motter and Campbell on Chaos at Fifty, done at arXiv:1306.5777, it is pointed out that in 2013 we are at Chaos Fifty Four, if to count correctly and to remember about pioneering results of Boris Chirikov obtained in 1959.

Miguel C. N. Fiolhais, Hagen Kleinert

The tricritical point, which separates first and second order phase transitions in three-dimensional superconductors, is studied in the four-dimensional Coleman-Weinberg model, and the similarities as well as the differences with respect to the three-dimensional result are exhibited. The position of the tricritical point in the Coleman-Weinberg model is deri

Joanna K. Barstow, Suzanne Aigrain, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Leigh N. Fletcher

We explore cloudy, extended H2-He atmosphere scenarios for the warm super-Earth GJ 1214b using an optimal estimation retrieval technique. This planet, orbiting an M4.5 star only 13 pc from the Earth, is of particular interest because it lies between the Earth and Neptune in size and may be a member of a new class of planet that is neither terrestrial nor gas

Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa

Recently, D. Wang has devised a new contour integral based method to simplify certain matrix integrals. Capitalizing on that approach, we derive a new expression for the probability density function (p.d.f.) of the joint eigenvalues of a complex non-central Wishart matrix with a rank-1 mean. The resulting functional form in turn enables us to use powerful cl

Marta Gavilán, Yago Ascasíbar, Mercedes Mollá, Ángeles I. Díaz

We argue that isolated gas-rich dwarf galaxies -- in particular, dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies -- do not necessarily undergo significant gas loss. Our aim is to investigate whether the observed properties of isolated, gas-rich dwarf galaxies, not affected by external environmental processes, can be reproduced by self-consistent chemo-photometric infall mod

András Pál, László Mészáros, Gergely Csépány, Attila Jaskó

In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye Camera System, a proposed high resolution all-sky monitoring device which intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical passbands while still accomplish a high étendue. Fundings have already been accepted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in order to de

Julian Rincon, Daniel J. Garcia, K. Hallberg, Matthias Vojta

For a mobile spin-1/2 impurity, coupled antiferromagnetically to a one-dimensional gas of fermions, perturbative ideas have been used to argue in favor of two-channel Kondo behavior of the impurity spin. Here we combine general considerations and extensive numerical simulations to show that the problem displays a novel quantum phase transition between two-ch

Gabriela Aznar-Siguán, Enrique García-Berro, Pablo Lorén-Aguilar, Jordi José

In old, dense stellar systems collisions of white dwarfs are a rather frequent phenomenon. Here we present the results of a comprehensive set of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of close encounters of white dwarfs aimed to explore the outcome of the interaction and the nature of the final remnants for different initial conditions. Depending on the

Mladen Kolar, Han Liu

We consider the high-dimensional discriminant analysis problem. For this problem, different methods have been proposed and justified by establishing exact convergence rates for the classification risk, as well as the l2 convergence results to the discriminative rule. However, sharp theoretical analysis for the variable selection performance of these procedur

A. Stahl, W. Kluźniak, M. Wielgus, M. Abramowicz

Context: An impulsive increase in luminosity by one half or more of the Eddington value will lead to ejection of all optically thin plasma from Keplerian orbits around the radiating star, if gravity is Newtonian and the Poynting-Robertson drag is neglected. Radiation drag may bring some particles down to the stellar surface. On the other hand, general relati

Jiri Podolsky, Robert Svarc

We investigate the fully general class of non-expanding, non-twisting and shear-free D-dimensional geometries using the invariant form of geodesic deviation equation which describes the relative motion of free test particles. We show that the local effect of such gravitational fields on the particles basically consists of isotropic motion caused by the cosmo

L. Sodré, A. Ribeiro da Silva, W. A. Santos

We investigate the nature of extremely red galaxies (ERGs), objects whose colours are redder than those found in the red sequence present in colour-magnitude diagrams of galaxies. We selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 a volume-limited sample of such galaxies in the redshift interval 0.010 < z < 0.030, brighter than M_r = -17.8 (magnitu

Alain Plattner, Frederik J. Simons

In the last few decades a series of increasingly sophisticated satellite missions has brought us gravity and magnetometry data of ever improving quality. To make optimal use of this rich source of information on the structure of Earth and other celestial bodies, our computational algorithms should be well matched to the specific properties of the data. In pa

Stepan G. Mashnik, Leslie M. Kerby, Konstantin K. Gudima, Arnold J. Sierk

Different reaction mechanisms contribute to the production of light fragments (LF) from nuclear reactions. Available models cannot accurately predict emission of LF from arbitrary reactions. However, the emission of LF is important for many applications, such as cosmic-ray-induced single event upsets, radiation protection, and cancer therapy with proton and

Jean-Christophe Pain, Franck Gilleron, Quentin Porcherot, Thomas Blenski

Absorption and emission spectra of multicharged-ion plasmas contain a huge number of electron configurations and electric-dipolar lines, which can be handled by global methods. However, some transition arrays consist only of a small bunch of lines. For that reason, we developed the hybrid opacity code SCO-RCG combining the (statistical) super-transition-arra

Daniel El-Baz, Jens Marklof, Ilya Vinogradov

Elkies and McMullen [Duke Math.J.~123 (2004) 95--139] have shown that the gaps between the fractional parts of \sqrt n for n=1,\ldots,N, have a limit distribution as N tends to infinity. The limit distribution is non-standard and differs distinctly from the exponential distribution expected for independent, uniformly distributed random variables on the unit

Shuai Yuan, Jun Wang, Xiaoxue Zhao

The real-time bidding (RTB), aka programmatic buying, has recently become the fastest growing area in online advertising. Instead of bulking buying and inventory-centric buying, RTB mimics stock exchanges and utilises computer algorithms to automatically buy and sell ads in real-time; It uses per impression context and targets the ads to specific people base

Ali Kaya

Unlike flat space quantum field theories that focus on scattering amplitudes, the main observables in quantum cosmology are correlation functions. The systematic way of calculating correlators is called in-in formalism, which requires only a single asymptotic region, i.e. past infinity. The rules in perturbation theory and the path integral measure are very

Philippe Brax, Guillaume Pignol, Damien Roulier

We consider different methods to probe chameleons with slow neutrons. Chameleon modify the potential of bouncing neutrons over a flat mirror in the terrestrial gravitational field. This induces a shift in the energy levels of the neutrons which could be detected in current experiments like GRANIT. Chameleons between parallel plates have a field profile which

Andrea Baronchelli, Filippo Radicchi

Lévy flights represent the best strategy to randomly search for a target in an unknown environment, and have been widely observed in many animal species. Here, we inspect and discuss recent results concerning human behavior and cognition. Different studies have shown that human mobility can be described in terms of Lévy flights, while fresh evidence indicate

M. Doert, M. Errando

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest survey of the gamma-ray sky ever compiled, containing 1873 sources that constitute a very complete sample down to an energy flux of about 10^(-11) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1). While counterparts at lower frequencies have been found for a large fraction of 2FGL sources, active galactic nuclei (AGN) being the mo

Claes Uggla

Recent developments concerning oscillatory spacelike singularities in general relativity are taking place on two fronts. The first treats generic singularities in spatially homogeneous cosmology, most notably Bianchi types VIII and IX. The second deals with generic oscillatory singularities in inhomogeneous cosmologies, especially those with two commuting sp

Nelson Martins-Ferreira, Diana Rodelo, Tim Van der Linden

We prove that in a regular category all reflexive and transitive relations are symmetric if and only if every internal category is an internal groupoid. In particular, these conditions hold when the category is n-permutable for some n.

G. Rauw, Y. Naze, M. Spano, T. Morel

Oe stars possibly form an extension to higher temperatures of the Be phenomenon, but it is still unclear whether these stars have disks. X-ray spectra could provide hints for interactions of the star with a putative surrounding disk. We obtained XMM-Newton observations of two Oe stars, HD45314 and HD60848. Spectra and light curves were extracted and analysed

William N. Plick, Radek Lapkiewicz, Sven Ramelow, Anton Zeilinger

The orbital angular momentum quantum number of Laguerre-Gauss beams has received an explosively increasing amount of attention over the past twenty years. However, often overlooked is the so-called radial number of these beams. We present a derivation of the differential operator formalism of this &#34;forgotten&#34; quantum number. We then draw some connect

A. Pukhov, I. Kostyukov, T. Tückmantel, Ph. Luu-Thanh

We consider a possibilty to use an echelon of mutually coherent laser pulses generated by the emerging CAN (Coherent Amplification Network) technology for direct particle acceleration in periodic plasma structures. The plasma structure survives a single shot only. However, due to it&#39;s simplicity and projected very low production costs, the structure can

Oleg Antipin, Francesco Sannino, Kimmo Tuominen

The discovery of a light Higgs boson at LHC may be suggesting that we need to revise our model building paradigms to understand the origin of the weak scale. We explore the possibility that the Fermi scale is not fundamental but rather a derived one, i.e. a low energy mirage. We show that this scenario emerges in a very natural way in models previously used

M. G. A. Buffing, A. Mukherjee, P. J. Mulders

We introduce transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for gluons with definite rank. The rank refers to the azimuthal dependence corresponding to the tensorial structure in transverse momenta multiplying universal functions only depending on $x$ and $p_T^2$. In this way only a finite number of functions of definite rank remains for

Yipeng Liu, Maarten De Vos, Ivan Gligorijevic, Vladimir Matic

Compressive sensing has shown significant promise in biomedical fields. It reconstructs a signal from sub-Nyquist random linear measurements. Classical methods only exploit the sparsity in one domain. A lot of biomedical signals have additional structures, such as multi-sparsity in different domains, piecewise smoothness, low rank, etc. We propose a framewor

Hongquan Su, Qing-Kang Li, Hui Zhu, Wen-Wu Tian

We discuss the criteria to associate PSRs with SNRs, and summary 78 pairs of possible PSR-SNR associations which is the most complete sample so far. We refine them into three categories according to degree of reliability. Statistic study on PSR-SNR associations helps us understand massive star evolution and constrain pulsar&#39;s theory models.

Holger Gies, Stefan Rechenberger, Michael M. Scherer, Luca Zambelli

We investigate chiral Higgs-Yukawa models with a non-abelian gauged left-handed sector reminiscent to a sub-sector of the standard model. We discover a new weak-coupling fixed-point behavior that allows for ultraviolet complete RG trajectories which can be connected with a conventional long-range infrared behavior in the Higgs phase. This non-trivial ultravi

Wen-Wu Tian, Hongquan Su, F. Y. Xiang

We refine a classic relation between the hydrogen column density (NH) and optical extinction (Av) by employing 39 Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs) with X-rays, optical and/or infra-red data available. We find NH = (1.69+/-0.07)*10^21 Av cm^(-2) mag^(-1) . Applying this relation to three Galactic SNRs with good historical records allows us to further constr

S. Y. Allan, S. Elmore, A. Kirk, M. Kočan

Ion energy measurements have been made in the scrape off layer of the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) using a midplane retarding field energy analyser (RFEA) in H-mode plasmas during the inter-edge localised mode (ELM) period and during type I and type III ELMs. During the inter-ELM period at distances of 3 to 8 cm from the last closed flux surface (LCFS),

Piotr Hajlasz, Zhuomin Liu

In this note we study boundedness of a large class of maximal operators in Sobolev spaces that includes the spherical maximal operator. We also study the size of the set of Lebesgue points with respect to convergence associated with such maximal operators.

Piotr Hajlasz, Armin Schikorra

We construct a smooth compact n-dimensional manifold Y with one point singularity such that all its Lipschitz homotopy groups are trivial, but Lipschitz mappings Lip(S^n,Y) are not dense in the Sobolev space W^{1,n}(S^n,Y). On the other hand we show that if a metric space Y is Lipschitz (n-1)-connected, then Lipschitz mappings Lip(X,Y) are dense in N^{1,p}(X

A. J. Thornton, A. Kirk, I. T. Chapman, J. R. Harrison

Edge localised modes (ELMs) are a concern for future devices as they can limit the operational lifetime of the divertor. The mitigation of ELMs can be performed by the application of resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) which act to degrade the pressure gradient in the edge of the plasma. Investigations of the effect of RMPs on MAST have been performed in

Stefano Catani, Michel Fontannaz, Jean-Philippe Guillet, Eric Pilon

We discuss the isolation of prompt photons in hadronic collisions by means of narrow isolation cones and the QCD computation of the corresponding cross sections. We reconsider the occurence of large perturbative terms with logarithmic dependence on the cone size and their impact on the fragmentation scale dependence. We cure the apparent perturbative violati

L. Old, M. E. Gray, F. R. Pearce

We study the systematic bias introduced when selecting the spectroscopic redshifts of brighter cluster galaxies to estimate the velocity dispersion of galaxy clusters from both simulated and observational galaxy catalogues. We select clusters with Ngal > 50 at five low redshift snapshots from a semi-analytic model galaxy catalogue, and from a catalogue of SD

Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim, Filippus S. Roux, Melanie McLaren, Thomas Konrad

The turbulence induced decay of orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement between two photons is investigated numerically and experimentally. To compare our results with previous work, we simulate the turbulent atmosphere with a single phase screen based on the Kolmogorov theory of turbulence. We consider two different scenarios: in the first only one of t

Janet M. Conrad, William C. Louis, Michael H. Shaevitz

This paper reviews the results of the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments. The primary goal of each experiment was to effect sensitive searches for neutrino oscillations in the mass region with $Δm^2 \sim 1$ eV$^2$. The two experiments are complementary, and so the comparison of results can bring additional information with respect to models with sterile neutrino

Shofwatul &#39;Uyun, Imam Riadi

As the education fees are becoming more expensive, more students apply for scholarships. Consequently, hundreds and even thousands of applications need to be handled by the sponsor. To solve the problems, some alternatives based on several attributes (criteria) need to be selected. In order to make a decision on such fuzzy problems, Fuzzy Multiple Attribute

Davide Staedler, Thibaud Magouroux, Solène Passemard, Sebastian Schwung

A novel bio-photonics approach based on the nonlinear optical process of second harmonic generation by non-centrosymmetric nanoparticles is presented and demonstrated on malignant human cell lines. The proposed method allows to directly interact with DNA in absence of photosensitizing molecules, to enable independent imaging and therapeutic modalities switch

Ingemar Bengtsson, Emma Jakobsson, José M. M. Senovilla

The Oppenheimer-Snyder solution models a homogeneous round dust cloud collapsing to a black hole. Inside its event horizon there is a region through which trapped surfaces pass. We try to determine exactly where the boundary of this region meets the centre of the cloud. We present explicit examples of the relevant trapped (topological) spheres; they extend i

Stefan C. Soare

The macroscopic elastic-plastic response of a metal polycrystal is analyzed here by homogenizing the response of a representative volume element. With this purpose, the theory developed in Hill(1967)(The essential structure of constitutive laws for metal composites and polycrystals. J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 15, 79-95) is extended so that the structural changes

J. Zhu, J. L. Zhang, P. P. Kong, S. J. Zhang

Topological superconductivity is one of most fascinating properties of topological quantum matters that was theoretically proposed and can support Majorana Fermions at the edge state. Superconductivity was previously realized in a Cu-intercalated Bi2Se3 topological compound or a Bi2Te3 topological compound at high pressure. Here we report the discovery of su

A. Courtoy, Alessandro Bacchetta, Marco Radici

In these proceedings, we propose an extraction of the valence transversity parton distributions. Based on an analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targets, this extraction of transversity is performed in the framework of collinear factorization. The recently released data for proton and deuteron targets at H

Shun Kataoka, Muneki Yasuda, Cyril Furtlehner, Kazuyuki Tanaka

We consider the traffic data reconstruction problem. Suppose we have the traffic data of an entire city that are incomplete because some road data are unobserved. The problem is to reconstruct the unobserved parts of the data. In this paper, we propose a new method to reconstruct incomplete traffic data collected from various traffic sensors. Our approach is

V. A. Sidorov, Xin Lu, T. Park, Hanoh Lee

We report the temperature-pressure (T-P) phase diagram of CePt2In7 single crystals, especially the pressure evolution of the antiferromagnetic order and the emergence of superconductivity, which have been studied by electrical resistivity and ac calorimetry under nearly hydrostatic environments. Compared with its polycrystalline counterpart, bulk superconduc

Markus Diehl

Correlations between the incoming partons in multiple hard scattering can affect both the event rate and kinematic distributions in the final state. In this talk, I discuss different types of correlations relevant for double parton scattering in proton-proton collisions.

Dimitris Rizopoulos, Magdalena Murawska, Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou, Geert Molenberghs

A key question in clinical practice is accurate prediction of patient prognosis. To this end, nowadays, physicians have at their disposal a variety of tests and biomarkers to aid them in optimizing medical care. These tests are often performed on a regular basis in order to closely follow the progression of the disease. In this setting it is of medical inter

B. A. Stickler, W. Pötz

With the help of a tight-binding (TB) electronic-structure toy model we investigate the matching of parameters across hetero-interfaces . We demonstrate that the virtual crystal approximation, commonly employed for this purpose, may not respect underlying symmetries of the electronic structure. As an alternative approach we propose a method which is motivate

N. R. Ray, J. Datta, H. S. Biswas, P. Sen

This paper shows single electron transistor at room temperature,created on macroscopic system-the two-dimensional large area surface of our hydrogenated diamond like carbon thin film. Our results, free from the limitation of lowering the size of coulomb blockade in sub-nanometer range with the existing unprofitable process,are consistent with the theoretical

Peter F Wyper, Rekha Jain

Asymmetric current sheets are likely to be prevalent in both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas with complex three dimensional (3D) magnetic topologies. This work presents kinematic analytical models for spine and fan reconnection at a symmetric 3D null with asymmetric current sheets. Asymmetric fan reconnection is characterized by an asymmetric reconnecti

Katherine A. Rosenfeld, Sean M. Andrews, A. Meredith Hughes, David J. Wilner

We analyze sensitive, sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA Science Verification observations of CO emission lines in the protoplanetary disk hosted by the young, isolated Ae star HD 163296. The observed spatial morphology of the 12CO J=3-2 emission line is asymmetric across the major axis of the disk; the 12CO J=2-1 line features a much less pronounced, but similar

Max Kahmann, Eberhard Tiemann, Oliver Appel, Uwe Sterr

We report on the first measurement of narrow photoassociation lines of $^{40}$Ca near the ${^3P_1}+{^1S_0}$ asymptote related to the molecular states $^3Π_u$ and $^3Σ^+_u$. The highly accurate binding energies and Zeeman splittings are well described by a coupled channel theoretical model, confirming theoretical predictions of long-range coefficients. Our an

A. E. Tsitali, A. Belloche, B. Commerçon, K. M. Menten

Observations of First Hydrostatic Core candidates, a theoretically predicted evolutionary link between the prestellar and protostellar phases, are vital for probing the earliest phases of star formation. We aim to determine the dynamical state of the First Hydrostatic Core candidate Cha-MMS1. We observed Cha-MMS1 in various transitions with the APEX and Mopr

ATLAS Collaboration

Measurements of the variation of inclusive jet suppression as a function of relative azimuthal angle, Delta phi, with respect to the elliptic event plane provide insight into the path-length dependence of jet quenching. ATLAS has measured the Delta phi dependence of jet yields in 0.14 nb^-1 of sqrt(s(NN))= 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC for jet transve

Peter-Christian Zinn, Enno Middelberg, Ray P. Norris, Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

Simulations of galaxy growth need to invoke strong negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to suppress the formation of stars and thus prevent the over-production of very massive systems. While some observations provide evidence for such negative feedback, other studies find either no feedback, or even positive feedback, with increased star forma

Philipp M. Merkel, Bjoern Malte Schaefer

In this paper we show how intrinsic alignments can be incorporated consistently in the formalism of 3d weak lensing. We use two different descriptions of the intrinsic galaxy ellipticities, the so-called linear and quadratic model, respectively. For both models we derive the covariance matrix of the intrinsic alignment signal (II-alignments) and GI-alignment

Pietro Colangelo, Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero, Fen Zuo

Employing the asymptotic instanton solution in an arbitrary background of a set of holographic QCD models, we show that baryon form factors have a precise large-distance behaviour regardless of the background. The dependence coincides with that obtained from general chiral soliton models and large-$N_C$ chiral perturbation theory. The nonlinear terms in the

P. T. Murray, T. C. Back, M. M. Cahay, S. B. Fairchild

We used residual gas analysis (RGA) to identify the species desorbed during field emission (FE) from a carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber. The RGA data show a sharp threshold for H2 desorption at an external field strength that coincides with a breakpoint in the FE data. A comprehensive model for the gradual transition of FE from adsorbate-enhanced CNTs at low bias

S. A. Stepin

Spectral components of one-dimensional Schrödinger operator with complex potential are investigated. An effective upper bound for the total number of eigenvalues and spectral singularities is established. For dissipative Schrödinger operator sufficient condition is found which guarantees the absence of singular component in the continuous spectrum and spectr

S. Servidio, K. T. Osman, F. Valentini, D. Perrone

Kinetic plasma processes have been investigated in the framework of solar wind turbulence, employing Hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell (HVM) simulations. The dependency of proton temperature anisotropy T_{\perp}/T_{\parallel} on the parallel plasma beta β_{\parallel}, commonly observed in spacecraft data, has been recovered using an ensemble of HVM simulations. By varyi

V. Kontis, M. Ottobre, B. Zegarlinski

In this paper we show several applications of the general theory developed in \cite{MV_I}, where we studied smoothing and ergodicity for infinite dimensional Markovian systems with hypocoercive type generator.

Manli Ding, S. Joseph Poon

We report the compositional and temperature dependence of magnetic compensation in amorphous GdFeCo films. Magnetic compensation is attributed to the competition between antiferromagnetic coupling of rare-earth with transition-metal (TM) ions and ferromagnetic interaction between the TM ions. The low-Gd region from 20 to 34 at. % was found to exhibit compens

H. C. Peñate-Rodríguez, P. Bargueño, G. Rojas-Lorenzo, S. Miret-Artés

The trajectories of a qubit dynamics over the two-sphere are shown to be geodesics of certain Riemannian or physically-sound Lorentzian manifolds, both in the non-dissipative and dissipative formalisms, when using action-angle variables. Several aspects of the geometry and topology of these manifolds (qubit manifolds) have been studied for some special physi

H. Kleinert

We show that a triangular lattice consisting of dipolar molecules pointing orthogonal to the plane undergoes a first-order defect melting transition.

Christian Franz, Michael Czerner, Christian Heiliger

The dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in FeCo/MgO/FeCo tunnel junctions on the Co concentration and the bias voltage are investigated ab initio. We find that the tunneling magnetoresistance decreases with the Co concentration in contradiction with previous calculations but in agreement with recent experiments. This dependence

I. Area, M. Masjed-Jamei

Classical Sturm-Liouville problems of $q$-difference variables are extended for symmetric discrete functions such that the corresponding solutions preserve the orthogonality property. Some illustrative examples are given in this sense.

L. Ducci, P. Romano, P. Esposito, E. Bozzo

We report on the Swift/X-ray Telescope (XRT) monitoring of the field of view around the candidate supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) IGR J17354-3255, which is positionally associated with the AGILE/GRID gamma-ray transient AGL J1734-3310. Our observations, which cover 11 days for a total on-source exposure of about 24 ks, span 1.2 orbital periods (P_orb=

N. C. Tsamis, R. P. Woodard

After discussing the various issues regarding and requirements on pure quantum gravitational observables in homogeneous-isotropic conditions, we construct a composite operator observable satisfying most of them. We also expand it to first order in the loop counting parameter and suggest it as a physical quantifier of gravitational back-reaction in an initial

Tobias Brandes

We derive analytical results for various quantities related to the excited-state quantum phase transitions in a class of Dicke superradiance models in the semiclassical limit. Based on a calculation of a partition sum restricted to Dicke states, we discuss the singular behavior of the derivative of the density of states and find observables like the mean (at

Hari Bercovici, Benoit Collins, Ken Dykema, Wing Suet Li

We characterize in terms of inequalities the possible generalized singular numbers of a product AB of operators A and B having given generalized singular numbers, in an arbitrary finite von Neumann algebra. We also solve the analogous problem in matrix algebras M_n(C), which seems to be new insofar as we do not require A and B to be invertible.

Thomas Dahm, D. J. Scalapino

Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies of the overdoped cuprate superconductor La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ find only small changes in the near nodal electron self energy over a spectral range of several hundred meV as the doping increases from x=0.2 to x=0.3 and the superconducting transition temperature T_c decreases from 32K to 0K. These mea

Federico R Urban

We calculate the anisotropic signal associated with the coupling of a three-form with an Abelian vector gauge field. In the simplest examples of three-form inflation the amplification of the vector fluctuations is exponential; this makes it almost certain that a large anisotropy will develop, severely constraining the viability of the coupling.

S. P. Meenakshi, S. V. Raghavan

In the raise of many global organizations deploying their data centers and content services in India, the prefix reachability performance study from global destinations garners our attention. The events such as failures and attacks occurring in the Internet topology have impact on Autonomous System (AS) paths announced in the control plane and reachability o

L. Mashonkina

One of the major tasks in interpretation of data from large-scale stellar surveys is to determine the fundamental atmospheric parameters such as effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity. In most on-going and upcoming projects, they are derived spectroscopically, with relying on classical one-dimensional (1D) model atmospheres and the assumptio

E. I. Baibekov

An ensemble of N identical noninteracting spins being in thermal equilibrium and coupled to the resonant mode of a lossless microwave cavity is studied at arbitrary temperature T. Near T = 0 the system is known to be in a coupled spin-photon state that manifests itself by the splitting of the cavity mode (vacuum Rabi splitting). The cavity emission spectrum

Andrey R. Kolovsky

We discuss the master equation approach to diffusive current of bosonic or fermionic carriers in one- and two-dimensional lattices. This approach is shown to reproduce all known results of the linear response theory, including the integer quantum Hall effect for fermionic carriers. The main advantage of the approach is that it allows to calculate the current

D. I. Kazakov

The review of the SUSY phenomenology today is given with the emphasis on generic properties of SUSY models, SUSY searches at the LHC and in astrophysics. Due to the absence of any definite SUSY signal at accelerators and other experiments, we describe the allowed regions in the MSSM and NMSSM parameter space and discuss the possibilities of SUSY manifestatio

V. Jeyakumar, T. S. Pham, G. Li

The Lasserre hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations is an effective scheme for finding computationally feasible SDP approximations of polynomial optimization over compact semi-algebraic sets. In this paper, we show that, for convex polynomial optimization, the Lasserre hierarchy with a slightly extended quadratic module always converges asym

Dragos-Victor Anghel

Fractional exclusion statistics (FES) is a generalization of the Bose and Fermi statistics. Typically, systems of interacting particles are described as ideal FES systems and the properties of the FES systems are calculated from the properties of the interacting systems. In this paper I reverse the process and I show that a FES system may be described in gen

J. Maíz Apellániz, A. Sota, N. I. Morrell, R. H. Barbá

The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS) is obtaining high quality R~2500 blue-violet spectroscopy of all Galactic stars ever classified as of O type with B < 12 and a significant fraction of those with B = 12-14. As of June 2013, we have obtained, processed, and classified 2653 spectra of 1593 stars, including all of the sample with B < 8 and most o

C. Pallanca, E. Dalessandro, F. R. Ferraro, B. Lanzoni

We report on the identification of the optical counterpart to the recently detected INTEGRAL transient IGR J18245-2452 in the Galactic globular cluster M28. From the analysis of a multi epoch HST dataset we have identified a strongly variable star positionally coincident with the radio and Chandra X-ray sources associated to the INTEGRAL transient. The star