July 2013 arXiv papers — page 6

José Tito Mendonça, Fernando Haas

A new model for the joint neutrino flavor and plasma oscillations is introduced, in terms of the dynamics of the neutrino flavor polarization vector in a plasma background. Fundamental solutions are found for both time-invariant and time-dependent media, considering slow and fast variations of the electron plasma density. The model is shown to be described b

Laura Sampson, Nicolas Yunes, Neil Cornish

Several model-independent parameterizations of deviations from General Relativity have been developed to test Einstein's theory. Although these different parameterizations were developed for different gravitational observables, they ultimately all test the same underlying physics. In this paper, we develop connections between the parameterized post-Newto

Sivan Leviyang

Intrahost simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) evolution is marked by repeated viral escape from cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTLs) response. Typically, the first such CTL escape occurs in a matter of days, starting around the time of peak viral load. Many authors have developed methods to quantify the strength of CTL response by measuring the rate at which CTL es

J. S. Deneva, K. Stovall, M. A. McLaughlin, S. D. Bates

We report initial results from AO327, a drift survey for pulsars with the Arecibo telescope at 327 MHz. The first phase of AO327 will cover the sky at declinations of -1 to 28 degrees, excluding the region within 5 degrees of the Galactic plane, where high scattering and dispersion make low-frequency surveys sub-optimal. We record data from a 57 MHz bandwidt

Fernando Haas, José Tito Mendonça

It is shown that the two-flavor neutrino oscillation equations admit an exact analytic solution for arbitrarily chosen normalized electron neutrino population, provided the electron plasma density is adjusted in a certain way. The associated formula for the electron plasma density is applied to the cases of exponentially decaying or oscillating electron neut

Esther Ezra

Let $(X,§)$ be a set system on an $n$-point set $X$. The \emph{discrepancy} of $§$ is defined as the minimum of the largest deviation from an even split, over all subsets of $S \in §$ and two-colorings $χ$ on $X$. We consider the scenario where, for any subset $X' \subseteq X$ of size $m \le n$ and for any parameter $1 \le k \le m$, the number of restric

Dániel Marx, Paul Seymour, Paul Wollan

Intuitively, a tangle of large order in a graph is a highly-connected part of the graph, and it is known that if a graph has a tangle of large order then it has a large grid minor. Here we show that for any k, if G has a tangle of large order and Z is a set of vertices of cardinality k that cannot be separated from the tangle by any separation of order less

Brian P. Kent, Alessandro Rinaldo, Timothy Verstynen

The level set tree approach of Hartigan (1975) provides a probabilistically based and highly interpretable encoding of the clustering behavior of a dataset. By representing the hierarchy of data modes as a dendrogram of the level sets of a density estimator, this approach offers many advantages for exploratory analysis and clustering, especially for complex

Melvyn B. Nathanson, Kevin O'Bryant

Let s and k be integers with s \geq 2 and k \geq 2. Let g_k^{(s)}(n) denote the cardinality of the largest subset of the set {1,2,..., n} that contains no geometric progression of length k whose common ratio is a power of s. Let r_k(\ell) denote the cardinality of the largest subset of the set {0,1,2,\ldots, \ell -1\} that contains no arithmetric progression

Zafir Zaman, Umberto D'Ortona, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Julio M. Ottino

Models of monodisperse particle flow in partially filled three-dimensional tumblers often assume that flow along the axis of rotation is negligible. We test this assumption, for spherical and double cone tumblers, using experiments and discrete element method simulations. Cross sections through the particle bed of a spherical tumbler show that, after a few r

Thomas P. K. Martinsson, Marc A. W. Verheijen, Kyle B. Westfall, Matthew A. Bershady

We present ionized-gas (OIII) and stellar kinematics (velocities and velocity dispersions) for 30 nearly face-on spiral galaxies out to as much as three disk scale lengths (h_R). These data have been derived from PPak IFU spectroscopy (4980-5370A), observed at a mean resolution of R=7700 (sigma_inst=17km/s). These data are a fundamental product of our survey

Mikhail Lemeshko

Recently it has been shown that pairs of atoms can form metastable bonds due to non-conservative forces induced by dissipation [Lemeshko&Weimer, Nature Comm. 4, 2230 (2013)]. Here we study the dynamics of interaction-induced coherent population trapping - the process responsible for the formation of dissipatively bound molecules. We derive the effective diss

S. Kaviraj, K. Rowlands, M. Alpaslan, L. Dunne

We use multi-wavelength (0.12 - 500 micron) photometry from Herschel-ATLAS, WISE, UKIDSS, SDSS and GALEX, to study 23 nearby spheroidal galaxies with prominent dust lanes (DLSGs). DLSGs are considered to be remnants of recent minor mergers, making them ideal laboratories for studying both the interstellar medium (ISM) of spheroids and minor-merger-driven sta

K. Saha, S. Sinha, K. Sengupta

We chart out the possible phases of laser driven Rydberg atoms in the presence of a hypercubic optical lattice. We define a pseudospin degree of freedom whose up(down) components correspond to the excited(ground) states of the Rydberg atoms and use them to demonstrate the realization of a canted Ising antiferromagnetic (CIAF) Mott phase of the atoms in these

Hrayr H. Matevosyan, Anthony W. Thomas, Wolfgang Bentz

Dihadron Fragmentation Functions (DFF) provide a vast amount of information on the intricate details of the parton hadronization process. Moreover, they provide a unique access to the "clean" extraction of nucleon transversity parton distribution functions in semi inclusive deep inelastic two hadron production process with a transversely polarised ta

B. Goldman, S. Röser, E. Schilbach, E. A. Magnier

The Hyades cluster is an ideal target to study the dynamical evolution of a star cluster over the entire mass range due to its intermediate age and proximity to the Sun. We wanted to extend the Hyades mass function towards lower masses down to 0.1 Msol and to use the full three-dimensional spatial information to characterize the dynamical evolution of the cl

A. Chiotellis, D. Kosenko, K. M. Schure, J. Vink

The well-established Type Ia remnant of Tycho's supernova (SN 1572) reveals discrepant ambient medium density estimates based on either the measured dynamics or on the X-ray emission properties. This discrepancy can potentially be solved by assuming that the supernova remnant (SNR) shock initially moved through a stellar wind bubble, but is currently evo

R. Deshpande, C. H. Blake, C. F. Bender, S. Mahadevan

We are carrying out a large ancillary program with the SDSS-III, using the fiber-fed multi-object NIR APOGEE spectrograph, to obtain high-resolution H-band spectra of more than 1200 M dwarfs. These observations are used to measure spectroscopic rotational velocities, radial velocities, physical stellar parameters, and variability of the target stars. Here, w

Spencer Chang, Ralph Edezhath, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Markus Luty

The 'WIMP miracle' for the relic abundance of thermal dark matter motivates weak scale dark matter with renormalizable couplings to standard model particles. We study minimal models with such couplings that explain dark matter as a thermal relic. The models contain a singlet dark matter particle with cubic renormalizable couplings between standard mo

Katherine M. Deck, Matthew Payne, Matthew J. Holman

Motivated by the population of multi-planet systems with orbital period ratios 1<P2/P1<2, we study the long-term stability of packed two planet systems. The Hamiltonian for two massive planets on nearly circular and nearly coplanar orbits near a first order mean motion resonance can be reduced to a one degree of freedom problem (Sessin & Ferraz Mello (1984),

C. F. Manara, G. Beccari, N. Da Rio, G. De Marchi

Current planet formation models are largely based on the observational constraint that protoplanetary disks have lifetime 3Myr. Recent studies, however, report the existence of PMS stars with signatures of accretion (strictly connected with the presence of circumstellar disks)and photometrically determined ages of 30 Myr, or more. Here we present a spectrosc

Eugene Vasiliev

We review the methods used to study the orbital structure and chaotic properties of various galactic models and to construct self-consistent equilibrium solutions by Schwarzschild&#39;s orbit superposition technique. These methods are implemented in a new publicly available software tool, SMILE, which is intended to be a convenient and interactive instrument

Brian D. Metzger, Indrek Vurm, Romain Hascoet, Andrei M. Beloborodov

Magnetic spin-down of a millisecond neutron star has been proposed as the power source of hydrogen-poor &#34;superluminous&#34; supernovae (SLSNe-I). However, producing an unambiguous test that can distinguish this model from alternatives, such as circumstellar interaction, has proven challenging. After the supernova explosion, the pulsar wind inflates a hot

Solomon Endlich, Bart Horn, Alberto Nicolis, Junpu Wang

The recently proposed model of &#39;solid inflation&#39; features a peculiar three-point function for scalar perturbations with an anisotropic, purely quadrupolar, squeezed limit. We confirm this result as well as the overall amplitude of the three point-function via an extremely simple computation, where we focus on the squeezed limit from the start and fol

F. Massaro, A. Paggi, M. Errando, R. D&#39;Abrusco

BL Lac objects are the most numerous class of extragalactic TeV-detected sources. One of the biggest difficulties in investigating their TeV emission resides in their limited number, since only 47 BL Lacs are known as TeV emitters. In this paper, we propose new criteria to select TeV BL Lac candidates based on the infrared (IR) and X-ray observations. We app

Quist-Aphetsi Kester

There are challenges faced in today&#39;s world in terms of crime analysis when it comes to graphical visualization of crime patterns. Geographical representation of crime scenes and crime types become very important in gathering intelligence about crimes. This provides a very dynamic and easy way of monitoring criminal activities and analyzing them as well

Dennis J. Garity, Dušan Repovš

For each Cantor set C in $R^{3}$, all points of which have bounded local genus, we show that there are infinitely many inequivalent Cantor sets in $R^{3}$ with complement having the same fundamental group as the complement of C. This answers a question from Open Problems in Topology and has as an application a simple construction of nonhomeomorphic open 3-ma

Dennis J. Garity, Dušan Repovš

For every finitely generated abelian group G, we construct an irreducible open 3-manifold $M_{G}$ whose end set is homeomorphic to a Cantor set and with end homogeneity group of $M_{G}$ isomorphic to G. The end homogeneity group is the group of self-homeomorphisms of the end set that extend to homeomorphisms of the 3-manifold. The techniques involve computin

Itzhak Bars, Paul J. Steinhardt, Neil Turok

Recent measurements at the LHC suggest that the current Higgs vacuum could be metastable with a modest barrier (height 10^{10-12}{GeV})^{4}) separating it from a ground state with negative vacuum density of order the Planck scale. We note that metastability is problematic for big bang to end one cycle, bounce, and begin the next. In this paper, motivated by

Matt Stowe, Subhash Kak

This paper examines the memory capacity of generalized neural networks. Hopfield networks trained with a variety of learning techniques are investigated for their capacity both for binary and non-binary alphabets. It is shown that the capacity can be much increased when multilevel inputs are used. New learning strategies are proposed to increase Hopfield net

Nicole A. Benedek, Craig J. Fennie

We use a combination of symmetry arguments and first-principles calculations to explore the connection between structural distortions and ferroelectricity in the perovskite family of materials. We explain the role of octahedral rotations in suppressing ferroelectricity in these materials and show that, as the tolerance factor decreases, rotations alone canno

M. S. Amjad, M. Boronat, T. Frisson, I. Garcìa Garcìa

Top quark production in the process $e^+e^- \rightarrow t\bar{t}$ at a future linear electron positron collider with polarised beams is a powerful tool to determine indirectly the scale of new physics. The presented study, based on a detailed simulation of the ILD detector concept, assumes a centre-of-mass energy of $\roots=500$\,GeV and a luminosity of $\ma

Kiminad A. Mamo, Ho-Ung Yee

Axial charge in a QCD plasma is P- and CP-odd. We propose and study P- and CP-odd observables in photon and di-lepton emissions from an axially charged QCD plasma, which may provide possible experimental evidences of axial charge fluctuation and triangle anomaly in the plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Our observables measure spin alignments of the emi

Philipp Werner, Martin Eckstein

We study quenches of the interaction and electron-phonon coupling parameter in the Hubbard-Holstein model, using nonequilibrium dynamical mean field theory. The calculations are based on a generalized Lang-Firsov scheme for time-dependent interactions or externally driven phonons, and an approximate strong-coupling impurity solver. The interaction quench cal

A. V. Litvinov

We consider a system of Integrals of Motion in conformal field theory related to the gl(2) Intermediate Long Wave equation. It interpolates between the system studied by Bazhanov, Lukyanov and Zamolodchikov and the one studied by the author and collaborators. We find Bethe anzatz equations for the spectrum of this system and its gl(n) generalizations.

Matteo Cerruti

The BL Lac object 1ES 0229+200 is a firmly established very-high-energy (VHE; E >100 GeV) source. Located at a redshift of 0.1396, its published VHE spectrum is particularly hard (Gamma ~2.5) and is widely used to perform studies on the extragalactic background light (EBL) and the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). We present here the results of a long-ter

B. D. G. Chandran, D. Verscharen, E. Quataert, J. C. Kasper

We extend previous theories of stochastic ion heating to account for the motion of ions along the magnetic field. We derive an analytic expression for the ion-to-proton perpendicular temperature ratio in the solar wind for any ion species, assuming that stochastic heating is the dominant ion heating mechanism. This expression describes how this temperature r

Anamaría Font, Fernando Marchesano, Diego Regalado, Gianluca Zoccarato

F-theory SU(5) unification has been proposed as a scenario where the mass of the top quark is naturally large, as opposed to type II SU(5) models. We analyze this claim from the viewpoint of local SU(5) F-theory models, by explicitly computing the 10 x 10 x 5 Yukawa couplings that are developed in the vicinity of an E6 singularity. Realizing this singularity

Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

We develop aspects of functional analysis in an abstract axiomatic setting, through monoidal and enriched category theory. We work in a given closed category, whose objects we call spaces, and we study R-module objects therein (or algebras of a commutative monad), which we call linear spaces. Building on ideas of Lawvere and Kock, we study functionals on the

Markus Schmuck, Serafim Kalliadasis

We introduce a new and general continuum thermodynamic framework for the mathematical analysis and computation of adsorption on dynamic interfaces. To the best of our knowledge, there is no formulation available that accounts for the coupled dynamics of interfaces and densities of adsorbants. Our framework leads to analytic adsorption isotherms which also ta

Huan Yang, Aaron Zimmerman, Anıl Zenginoğlu, Fan Zhang

We provide an in-depth investigation of quasinormal-mode oscillations of Kerr black holes with nearly extremal angular momenta. We first discuss in greater detail the two distinct types of quasinormal mode frequencies presented in a recent paper (arXiv:1212.3271). One set of modes, that we call &#34;zero-damping modes&#34;, has vanishing imaginary part in th

Guanfeng Liang, Ulas C. Kozat

Our paper presents solutions using erasure coding, parallel connections to storage cloud and limited chunking (i.e., dividing the object into a few smaller segments) together to significantly improve the delay performance of uploading and downloading data in and out of cloud storage. TOFEC is a strategy that helps front-end proxy adapt to level of workload b

Joe Neeman

We give a multivariate generalization of Borell&#39;s noise stability theorem for Gaussian vectors. As a consequence we recover two inequalities, also due to Borell, for exit times of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.

Shaohua Zhang, Wujie Shi

In this paper, by solving Diophantine equations involving simple $K_4$-groups, we will try to point out that it is not easy to prove the infinitude of simple $K_4$-groups. This problem goes far beyond what is known about Dickson&#39;s conjecture at present.

Jiri Horak, Dong Lai

We study the dynamics of spiral waves and oscillation modes in relativistic rotating discs around black holes. Generalizing the Newtonian theory, we show that wave absorption can take place at the corotation resonance, where the pattern frequency of the wave matches the background disc rotation rate. We derive the general relativistic expression for the disc

E. R. García Barroso, A. Płoski

We recall Labatie&#39;s effective method of solving polynomial equations with two unknowns by using the Euclidean algorithm.

Sonia Berrios, Geraldo Botelho

We propose a unifying approach to many approximation properties studied in the literature from the 1930s up to our days. To do so, we say that a Banach space E has the (I,J,τ)-approximation property if E-valued operators belonging to the operator ideal I can be approximated, with respect to the topology τ, by operators belonging to the operator ideal J. Rest

Paul E. J. Nulsen, Zhiyuan Li, William R. Forman, Ralph P. Kraft

We present new Chandra observations of Abell 2199 that show evidence of gas sloshing due to a minor merger, as well as impacts of the radio source, 3C 338, hosted by the central galaxy, NGC 6166, on the intracluster gas. The new data are consistent with previous evidence of a Mach 1.46 shock 100&#34; from the cluster center, although there is still no convin

E. Krop, S. Minion, P. Patel, C. Raridan

In 2009, Kong, Wang, and Lee began work on the problem of finding the edge-balanced index sets (EBI) of complete bipartite graphs K_{m,n} by solving the cases where n = 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and also the case where m = n. In 2011, Krop and Sikes expanded upon that work by finding EBI(K_{m,m-2a}) for odd m > 5 and 1 <= a <= (m-3)/4. In this paper, we provide a g

Matteo Cerruti

The VERITAS array of Cherenkov telescopes was used to observe ~130 blazars from 2007 to 2012. Of these, 25 were detected as very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) sources. We present here the results of the analysis of 65 VERITAS non-detected blazars, including upper limits on their VHE flux. Results from a stacked analysis of the entire data set and of smaller

Omri Gat, Max Lein, Stefan Teufel

We show how to relate the full quantum dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle on R^d to a classical Hamiltonian dynamics on the enlarged phase space R^d x S^2 up to errors of second order in the semiclassical parameter. This is done via an Egorov-type theorem for normal Wigner-Weyl calculus for R^d [Lei10,Fol89] combined with the Stratonovich-Weyl calculus for SU(2

Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

As web technologies evolve, web archivists work to keep up so that our digital history is preserved. Recent advances in web technologies have introduced client-side executed scripts that load data without a referential identifier or that require user interaction (e.g., content loading when the page has scrolled). These advances have made automating methods f

Donnacha Kirk, Ofer Lahav, Sarah Bridle, Stephanie Jouvel

The combination of multiple cosmological probes can produce measurements of cosmological parameters much more stringent than those possible with any individual probe. We examine the combination of two highly correlated probes of late-time structure growth: (i) weak gravitational lensing from a survey with photometric redshifts and (ii) galaxy clustering and

Rushdi Shams

The aim of this paper is to report on a novel text reduction technique, called Text Denoising, that highlights information-rich content when processing a large volume of text data, especially from the biomedical domain. The core feature of the technique, the text readability index, embodies the hypothesis that complex text is more information-rich than the r

Rushdi Shams, Robert E. Mercer

In this paper, we establish Fog Index (FI) as a text filter to locate the sentences in texts that contain connected biomedical concepts of interest. To do so, we have used 24 random papers each containing four pairs of connected concepts. For each pair, we categorize sentences based on whether they contain both, any or none of the concepts. We then use FI to

Juan Sebastián Ardenghi, Pablo Bechthold, Paula Jasen, Estela Gonzalez

The aim of this work is to describe the Landau levels transitions of Bloch electrons in doped graphene with an arbitrary time dependent magnetic field in the long wavelength approximation. In particular, transitions from the m Landau level to the m + 1 and m + 2 Landau levels are studied using time-dependent perturbation theory. Time intervals are computed i

Adam Kanigowski

We consider special flows over the rotation on the circle by an irrational $α$ under roof functions of bounded variation. The roof functions, in the Lebesgue decomposition, are assumed to have a continuous singular part coming from a quasi-similar Cantor set (including the Devil&#39;s staircase case). Moreover, a finite number of discontinuities is allowed.

Peizhe Tang, Binghai Yan, Wendong Cao, Shu-Chun Wu

Based on first-principles calculations, we predict Bi2TeI, a stoichiometric compound synthesized, to be a weak topological insulator (TI) in layered subvalent bismuth telluroiodides. Within a bulk energy gap of 80 meV, two Dirac-cone-like topological surface states exist on the side surface perpendicular to BiTeI layer plane. These Dirac cones are relatively

C. E. ViolBarbosa, Chandra Shekhar, Binghai Yan, S. Ouardi

The surface band bending tunes considerably the surface band structures and transport properties in topological insulators. We present a direct measurement of the band bending on the Bi2Se3 by using the bulk sensitive angular-resolved hard x-ray photospectroscopy (HAXPES). We tracked the depth dependence of the energy shift of Bi and Se core states. We estim

Jun Yan, Lin Li, Christopher O&#39;Grady

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for correlation energy in the grid-based projector augmented wave (gpaw) code is accelerated by porting to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture. The acceleration is achieved by grouping independent vectors/matrices and transforming the implementation from being memory bound to being computation/latency bound. W

A. J. Grutter, H. Yang, B. J. Kirby, M. R. Fitzsimmons

We observe interfacial ferromagnetism in superlattices of the paramagnetic metal LaNiO3 and the antiferromagnetic insulator CaMnO3. LaNiO3 exhibits a thickness dependent metal-insulator transition and we find the emergence of ferromagnetism to be coincident with the conducting state of LaNiO3. That is, only superlattices in which the LaNiO3 layers are metall

Xinghao Pan, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Stefanie Jegelka, Tamara Broderick

Research on distributed machine learning algorithms has focused primarily on one of two extremes - algorithms that obey strict concurrency constraints or algorithms that obey few or no such constraints. We consider an intermediate alternative in which algorithms optimistically assume that conflicts are unlikely and if conflicts do arise a conflict-resolution

Yu Nakayama

We discuss Weyl anomaly and consistency conditions of local renormalization group in d=1+2 dimensional quantum field theories. We give a classification of the consistency conditions and ambiguities in most generality within the power-counting renormalization scheme. They provide many non-trivial constraints on possible forms of beta functions, anomalous dime

Andrea Rau, Florence Jaffrézic, Grégory Nuel

Background: Inference of gene regulatory networks from transcriptomic data has been a wide research area in recent years. Proposed methods are mainly based on the use of graphical Gaussian models for observational wild-type data and provide undirected graphs that are not able to accurately highlight the causal relationships among genes. In the present work,

P. Boerner, P. Testa, H. Warren, M. A. Weber

We present an assessment of the accuracy of the calibration measurements and atomic physics models that go into calculating the SDO/AIA response as a function of wavelength and temperature. The wavelength response is tested by convolving SDO/EVE and {\it Hinode}/EIS spectral data with the AIA effective area functions and comparing the predictions with AIA ob

Andrew D. Sutton, Timothy P. Roberts, Matthew J. Middleton

Although we are nearing a consensus that most ULXs are stellar-mass black holes in a super-Eddington state, little is yet established of the physics of this accretion mode. Here, we use a combined X-ray spectral and timing analysis of a sample of ULXs to investigate this new accretion regime. We suggest a spectral classification scheme that separates ULXs in

Susmita Mandal

In the present day, the requirement of securing electronic cash flow system are increasing significantly. Todays life is so busy that spending a valuable second cost so much. In, such situation if money flow is possible swiftly by just one swipe it would be a great relief. Biometric based authentication can be a new approach to satisfy user needs by replacin

E. Goldobin, R. Kleiner, D. Koelle, R. G. Mints

We consider a $φ$ Josephson junction, which has a bistable zero-voltage state with the stationary phases $ψ=\pmφ$. In the non-zero voltage state the phase &#34;moves&#34; viscously along a tilted periodic double-well potential. When the tilting is reduced quasistatically, the phase is retrapped in one of the potential wells. We study the viscous phase dynami

Ryan Babbush, Bryan O&#39;Gorman, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We develop a resource efficient method by which the ground-state of an arbitrary k-local, optimization Hamiltonian can be encoded as the ground-state of a (k-1)-local optimization Hamiltonian. This result is important because adiabatic quantum algorithms are often most easily formulated using many-body interactions but experimentally available interactions a

Konstantin Batygin, Sabine Stanley, David J. Stevenson

Through the process of thermal ionization, intense stellar irradiation renders Hot Jupiter atmospheres electrically conductive. Simultaneously, lateral variability in the irradiation drives the global circulation with peak wind speeds of order ~ km/s. In turn, the interactions between the atmospheric flows and the background magnetic field give rise to Loren

C. M. Ignarra

Light detection systems in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) require the detection of the 128 nm light produced during argon scintillation. Most detectors use Tetraphenyl Butadiene (TPB) to shift the wavelength of the light into a range visible to Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs). These proceedings summarize characterizations of light-guides coated

G. Alvarez

The minimally entangled typical thermal states algorithm is applied to fermionic systems using the Krylov-space approach to evolve the system in imaginary time. The convergence of local observables is studied in a tight-binding system with a site-dependent potential. The temperature dependence of the superconducting correlations of the attractive Hubbard mod

Byung-Geun Oh

This paper is about hyperbolic properties on planar graphs. First, we study the relations among various kinds of strong isoperimetric inequalities on planar graphs and their duals. In particular, we show that a planar graph satisfies a strong isoperimetric inequality if and only if its dual has the same property, if the graph satisfies some minor regularity

Byung-Geun Oh

In this paper we describe how to define the circle packing (cp) type(either cp parabolic or cp hyperbolic) of a Riemann surface of class $\mathcal{S}$, and study the relation between this type and the conformal type of the surface.

Umut A. Yıldız, Kinsuk Acharyya, Paul F. Goldsmith, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

According to traditional gas-phase chemical models, O2 should be abundant in molecular clouds, but until recently, attempts to detect interstellar O2 line emission with ground- and space-based observatories have failed. Following the multi-line detections of O2 with low abundances in the Orion and rho Oph A molecular clouds with Herschel, it is important to

Byung-Geun Oh

We give a short proof of the following theorem of Hara and Nakai: for a finitely bordered Riemann surface $R$, one can find an upper bound of the corona constant of $R$ that depends only on the genus and the number of boundary components of $R$.

Adel Bouhoula, Tetsuo Ida, Fairouz Kamareddine

Symbolic computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, algebraic objects, geometrical objects, etc). Powerful symbolic algorithms have been developed during the past decades and have played an influential role in theorem proving, automated reasoning, software verification, model checking, rewriting, formalisation o

Byung-Geun Oh

By modifying Cole&#39;s example, we construct explicit Riemann surfaces with large bounds on corona solutions in an elementary way.

Grigory Rubtsov, Petr Satunin, Sergey Sibiryakov

We show that violation of the Lorentz symmetry in quantum electrodynamics can suppress the rates of the interactions crucial for the formation of photon-induced air showers, such as pair production on nuclei and in the geomagnetic field. As a consequence, the allowed region in the space of Lorentz-violating parameters will be seriously restricted if several

Jared T. Simpson

The de novo assembly of large, complex genomes is a significant challenge with currently available DNA sequencing technology. While many de novo assembly software packages are available, comparatively little attention has been paid to assisting the user with the assembly. This paper addresses the practical aspects of de novo assembly by introducing new ways

A. I. Nazarov, N. G. Kuznetsov, S. V. Poborchi

The 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian mathematician Vladimir Andreevich Steklov falls on January 9, 2014. In this paper (it is a part of survey to be published in January 2014), we describe advances in one of several areas influenced by Steklov&#39;s work.

Rajeev Singh, Subinay Dasgupta, Sitabhra Sinha

In many complex systems, the dynamical evolution of the different components can result in adaptation of the connections between them. We consider the problem of how a fully connected network of discrete-state dynamical elements which can interact via positive or negative links, approaches structural balance by evolving its links to be consistent with the st

Huda al Kateb, Ben de Lacy Costello

Solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) coupled with Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) was used to extract and analyse the volatiles in the headspace above the plasmodial and sporulating stages of the slime mould Physarum Polycephalum. In total 115 compounds were identified from across a broad range of chemical classes. Although more (87) volatile org

D. A. Garanin, E. M. Chudnovsky, T. Proctor

We study vortex states in a 3d random-field XY model of up to one billion lattice spins. Starting with random spin orientations, the sample freezes into the vortex-glass state with a stretched-exponential decay of spin correlations, having short correlation length and a low susceptibility, compared to vortex-free states. In a field opposite to the initial ma

Alessio Pomponio, David Ruiz

This paper is motivated by a gauged Schrodinger equation in dimension 2 including the so-called Chern-Simons term. The radially symmetric case leads to an elliptic problem with a nonlocal defocusing term, in competition with a local focusing nonlinearity. In this work we pose the equations in a ball under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. By using s

Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Lixin Zhang

As the amount of data explodes rapidly, more and more corporations are using data centers to make effective decisions and gain a competitive edge. Data analysis applications play a significant role in data centers, and hence it has became increasingly important to understand their behaviors in order to further improve the performance of data center computer

R. J. Lyon, J. M. Brooke, J. D. Knowles, B. W. Stappers

The domain of radio astronomy is currently facing significant computational challenges, foremost amongst which are those posed by the development of the world&#39;s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Preliminary specifications for this instrument suggest that the final design will incorporate between 2000 and 3000 individual 15 metre

Ali Goker, Elif gedik

We investigate the effect of contact geometry on the instantaneous thermoelectric response of a quantum dot pushed suddenly into the Kondo regime via a gate voltage using time dependent non-crossing approximation and linear response Onsager relations. We utilize graphene and metal contacts for this purpose. Instantaneous thermopower displays sinusoidal oscil

R. Seoane Souto, A. Levy Yeyati, A. Martín-Rodero, R. C. Monreal

In this work, a new theoretical approach to study the non-equilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes with strong electron-phonon interactions is presented. The proposed approach consists in a resummation of the dominant Feynman diagrams from the exact preturbative expansion. This scheme is compared with methods that

K. Georgieva, B. Kirov, Yu. A. Nagovitsyn

Sunspots are dark spots on the solar surface associated with strong magnetic fields. The number, area, and brightness of sunspots are supposed to reflect the intensity of the solar magnetic fields and are often used as proxies for their long-term variations. However, the correlations between the sunspot parameters and solar magnetic fields are not constant,

Vincent Guingona

In this paper, we show that VC-minimal ordered fields are real closed. We introduce a notion, strictly between convexly orderable and dp-minimal, that we call dp-small, and show that this is enough to characterize many algebraic theories. For example, dp-small ordered groups are abelian divisible and dp-small ordered fields are real closed.

Chang Cao, Nathaniel Gallup, Kyle Hayden, Joshua M. Sabloff

We construct infinitely many Legendrian links in the standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$ with arbitrarily many topologically distinct Lagrangian fillings. The construction is used to find links in $S^3$ that bound topologically distinct pieces of algebraic curves in $B^4 \subset \mathbb{C}^2$, is applied to find contact 3-manifolds with topologically distinct sy

O. Pfuhl, T. Alexander, S. Gillessen, F. Martins

A long-term spectroscopic and photometric survey of the most luminous and massive stars in the vicinity of the super-massive black hole Sgr A* revealed two new binaries; a long-period Ofpe/WN9 binary, GCIRS 16NE, with a modest eccentricity of 0.3 and a period of 224 days and an eclipsing Wolf-Rayet binary with a period of 2.3 days. Together with the already

Thomas Kahl

Higher dimensional automata, i.e. labelled precubical sets, model concurrent systems. We introduce the homology graph of an HDA, which is a directed graph whose nodes are the homology classes of the HDA. We show that the homology graph is invariant under homeomorphic abstraction, i.e. under weak morphisms that are homeomorphisms.

Weiguang Wang, Yingbin Liang, Eric P. Xing

In this paper, we investigate a multivariate multi-response (MVMR) linear regression problem, which contains multiple linear regression models with differently distributed design matrices, and different regression and output vectors. The goal is to recover the support union of all regression vectors using $l_1/l_2$-regularized Lasso. We characterize sufficie

Elly M. Berkhuijsen, Rainer Beck, Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei

We investigate the effect of propagation of cosmic-ray electrons (CRE) on the nonthermal (synchrotron) - far-infrared correlations in M31 and M33. The thermal (TH) and nonthermal (NTH) emission components of the radio continuum emission at 1.4 GHz and one higher frequency are compared with dust emission from M31 and M33 using Spitzer data. In both galaxies t

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Giulia Gubitosi, Giovanni Palmisano

Several arguments suggest that the Planck scale could be the characteristic scale of curvature of momentum space. As other recent studies we assume that the metric of momentum space determines the condition of on-shellness while the momentum-space affine connection governs the form of the law of composition of momenta. We show that the possible choices of la

Fan Yang, Xiaodong Xu, Ren-Bao Liu

High-order terahertz (THz) sideband generation (HSG) in semiconductors is a phenomenon with physics similar to high-order harmonic generation but in a much lower frequency regime. It was found that the electron-hole pairs excited by a weak optical laser can accumulate Berry phases along a cyclic path under the driving of a strong THz field. The Berry phases

E. Moulin, M. Cirelli, P. Panci, P. Serpico

New bounds on decaying Dark Matter are derived from the gamma-ray measurements of (i) the isotropic residual (extragalactic) background by Fermi and (ii) the Fornax galaxy cluster by H.E.S.S. We find that those from (i) are among the most stringent constraints currently available, for a large range of dark matter masses and a variety of decay modes, excludin

Kush R. Varshney, Lav R. Varshney, Jun Wang, Daniel Myers

An important part of cooking with computers is using statistical methods to create new, flavorful ingredient combinations. The flavor pairing hypothesis states that culinary ingredients with common chemical flavor components combine well to produce pleasant dishes. It has been recently shown that this design principle is a basis for modern Western cuisine an