September 2013 arXiv papers — page 16

Zhi-Xin Guo, Atsushi Oshiyama

We report on total-energy electronic-structure calculations in the density-functional theory performed for both monolayer and bilayer silicene on Ag(111) surfaces. The rt3 x rt3 structure observed experimentally and argued to be the monolayer silicene in the past [Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 085504 (2013)] is identified as the bilayer silicene on the

Vassilis Koukouloyannis, George Voyatzis, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In this work we use standard Hamiltonian-system techniques in order to study the dynamics of three vortices with alternating charges in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate. In addition to being motivated by recent experiments, this system offers a natural vehicle for the exploration of the transition of the vortex dynamics from ordered to progressively chaot

Leonid Polterovich

We detect, by using symplectic topology, invariant measures with large rotation vectors for a class of Hamiltonian flows.

Alexander N. Korotkov

We discuss characterization of experimental quantum gates by the error matrix, which is similar to the standard process matrix $χ$ in the Pauli basis, except the desired unitary operation is factored out, by formally placing it either before or after the error process. The error matrix has only one large element, which is equal to the process fidelity, while

Reza Akhtar, Roy Joshua

Let X be the quotient of a smooth projective variety over a field by a finite group action (in which case we say X is pseudo-smooth), such that the singularities of X are isolated k-rational points. Let Y be obtained by blowing up these points on X. Assume further that Y is pseudo-smooth, and that the components of the exceptional divisor are projective spac

John R. Doyle, Xander Faber, David Krumm

To each quadratic number field $K$ and each quadratic polynomial $f$ with $K$-coefficients, one can associate a finite directed graph $G(f,K)$ whose vertices are the $K$-rational preperiodic points for $f$, and whose edges reflect the action of $f$ on these points. This paper has two main goals. (1) For an abstract directed graph $G$, classify the pairs $(K,

Taku Hanna Yoshinori Muraba Satoru Matsuishi, Hideo Hosono

The difference in thermal stability of F- and H- in 1111-type iron based superconductors, allows selective hydrogen elimination from non-superconductive CaFeAsF0.8H0.2 by thermal annealing. The analyzed chemical composition of the resulting samples indicates that incorporated hydrogen was selectively eliminated by thermal annealing at 553 K for 72 hours. The

Endre Somogyi, Andrew Abi Mansour, Peter J. Ortoleva

ProtoMD is a toolkit that facilitates the development of algorithms for multiscale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is designed for multiscale methods which capture the dynamic transfer of information across multiple spatial scales, such as the atomic to the mesoscopic scale, via coevolving microscopic and coarse-grained (CG) variables. ProtoMD can be

Andres F. Gutierrez-Ruiz, Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo, Leonardo A. Pachon

A full-relativistic approach is used to compute the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), the Keplerian, frame-dragging, precession and oscillation frequencies of the radial and vertical motions of neutral test particles orbiting the equatorial plane of a magnetized neutron star. The space-time around the star is modelled by the six parametri

Fan Jia-Wei, Tao Jun-Quan, Shen Yu-Qiao, Chen Guo-Ming

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC have announced the discovery of a Higgs boson with mass at approximately 125 $GeV/c^{2}$ in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson via notably the $γγ$ and $ZZ$ to four leptons final states. Considering the recent results on the Higgs boson searches from the LHC, we study the lightest scalar Higgs boson $h_{1}$

Alex Goldstein, Adam Kapelner, Justin Bleich, Emil Pitkin

This article presents Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE) plots, a tool for visualizing the model estimated by any supervised learning algorithm. Classical partial dependence plots (PDPs) help visualize the average partial relationship between the predicted response and one or more features. In the presence of substantial interaction effects, the partia

M. H. Zhao, S. Kun, O. Merlo, M. R. Huang

The present discussion rises a number of the questions. For example, is rotational coherence of large molecules necessarily destroyed in the conventionally statistical limit of structureless non-selective continuum (for fixed total spin and parity values) under the conditions of complete intramolecular energy redistribution and vibrational dephasing in the r

Daniel Crow, Robert Joynt

Dephasing decoherence induced by interaction of one qubit with a quantum bath can be simulated classically by random unitary evolution without the need for a bath and this random unitary evolution is equivalent to the quantum case. For a general dephasing model and a single qubit system, we explicitly construct the noise functional and completely specify the

Wang Xiao-Long, Dong lan, Wu lei, Li Chun-Hua

Vibrating wire alignment technique is a kind of method which through measuring the spatial distribution of magnetic field to do the alignment and it can achieve very high alignment accuracy. Vibrating wire alignment technique can be applied for magnet fiducialization and accelerator straight section components alignment, it is a necessary supplement for conv

Yu-Peng Chen, Shu Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Long Ji

We report the discovery of an anti-correlation between the soft and the hard X-ray lightcurves of the X-ray binary Aql X-1 when bursting. This behavior may indicate that the corona is cooled by the soft X-ray shower fed by the type-I X-ray bursts, and that this process happens within a few seconds. Stacking the Aql X-1 lightcurves of type-I bursts, we find a

H. Christodoulidi, K. van der Weele, Ch. G. Antonopoulos, T. Bountis

The aim of the present paper is to elucidate the transition from collective to random behavior exhibited by various mathematical models of bird flocking. In particular, we compare Vicsek's model [Viscek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226 -- 1229 (1995)] with one based on topological considerations. The latter model is found to exhibit a first order phase

Naumaan Nayyar, Dileep Kalathil, Rahul Jain

We consider optimal control of decentralized LQG problems for plants controlled by two players having asymmetric information sharing patterns between them. In one scenario, players are assumed to have a bidirectional error-free, unlimited rate communication channel with no delay in one direction and a unit delay in the other. In another scenario, the communi

Peter Csermely, Andras London, Ling-Yun Wu, Brian Uzzi

Recent studies uncovered important core/periphery network structures characterizing complex sets of cooperative and competitive interactions between network nodes, be they proteins, cells, species or humans. Better characterization of the structure, dynamics and function of core/periphery networks is a key step of our understanding cellular functions, specie

Lin Zhang, Junde Wu

Fidelity is a fundamental and ubiquitous concept in quantum information theory. Fuchs-van de Graaf's inequalities deal with bounding fidelity from above and below. In this paper, we give a lower bound on the quantum fidelity between two states in terms of their Bures distance.

Hans-Jürgen Busack

The so-called flyby anomaly is a yet unexplainable velocity jump measured at several Earth flybys of spacecraft. Known physical effects could be excluded as source of this anomaly. In order to model a possible new physical effect, empirical equations were proposed by Busack (2007) and Anderson et al. (2007), which gave quite good description of all measured

S. K. Jain, P. Srivastava

An ab initio calculations have been carried out for examining the curvature effect of small diameter hexagonal boron nanotubes. The considered conformations of boron nanotubes are namely armchair (3,3), zigzag (5,0) and chiral (4,2), and consist of 12, 20, and 56 atoms, respectively. The strain energy is evaluated in order to examine the curvature effect. It

V. V. Ignatyuk, V. G. Morozov

We study the bath dynamics in the dephasing model of a two-state quantum system (qubit) coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators. This model was shown [Morozov et al., Phys. Rev. A, 2012, 85, 022101] to admit the analytic solution for the qubit and environment dynamics. Using this solution, we derive the exact expression for the bath reduced density

A. D. Pogrebnjak, V. N. Borisyuk, A. A. Bagdasaryan

A modification of the surface structure of the hybrid coating TiN/Al_{2}O_{3} with a low-energy high-current electron beam (NCEB) is performed. The surface roughness is considered as a function of beam current. Surfaces of the obtained samples are investigated within the two-dimensional multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA). The multifractal s

G. V. Ponedilok, M. I. Klapchuk

The charged and magnetic states of isolated impurities dissolved in amorphous metallic alloy are investigated. The Hamiltonian of the system under study is the generalization of Anderson impurity model. Namely, the processes of elastic and non-elastic scattering of conductive electrons on the ions of a metal and on a charged impurity are included. The config

M. Jafari, M. Nobakhti, H. Jamnezhad, K. Bayati

The martensitic α --> ω transition was investigated in Ti under hydrostatic pressure. The calculations were carried out using the density functional theory (DFT) framework in combination with the Birch-Murnaghan equation of state. The calculated ground-state properties of α and ω phases of Ti, their bulk moduli and pressure derivatives are in agreement with

V. I. Boichuk, I. V. Bilynskyi, O. A. Sokolnyk, I. O. Shakleina

The effect of quantum dot shape on the hole energy spectrum and optical properties caused by the interlevel charge transition based on the 4x4 Hamiltonian has been studied for the GaAs quantum dot in the AlAs semiconductor matrix. Calculations have been carried out in perturbation theory taking into account the hybridization of states for cubic, ellipsoidal,

M. V. Tkach, Ju. O. Seti, I. V. Boyko, O. M. Voitsekhivska

Using the effective mass and rectangular potential approximations, the theory of electron dynamic conductivity is developed for the plane multilayer resonance tunnel structure placed into a constant electric field within the model of open nanosystem, and oscillator forces of quantum transitions within the model of closed nanosystem. For the experimentally pr

M. L. Glasser

The two-parameter series over the critical zeros of the Riemann Zeta function $Re\sum_ρ\frac{x^{(ρ-a)/4a}}{\sqrt{ρ-a}\sinh[\fracπ{2}\sqrt{\frac{ρ-a}{a}}]ζ'(ρ)}$ is evaluated in terms of $ζ(s)$ on the real axis.

T. W. Murphy

As lighting efficiency improves, it is useful to understand the theoretical limits to luminous efficacy for light that we perceive as white. Independent of the efficiency with which photons are generated, there exists a spectrally-imposed limit to the luminous efficacy of any source of photons. We find that, depending on the acceptable bandpass and---to a le

Hans Schoutens

We generalize the notion of length to an ordinal-valued invariant defined on the class of finitely generated modules over a Noetherian ring. A key property of this invariant is its semi-additivity on short exact sequences. We show how to calculate this combinatorial invariant by means of the fundamental cycle of the module, thus linking the lattice of submod

Tansel Yucelen, Gerardo De La Torre, Eric N. Johnson

We develop an adaptive control architecture to achieve stabilization and command following of uncertain dynamical systems with improved transient performance. Our framework consists of a new reference system and an adaptive controller. The proposed reference system captures a desired closed-loop dynamical system behavior modified by a mismatch term represent

Varunyu Khamviwath, Hans G. Othmer

Control of the cytoskeleton and mechanical contacts with the extracellular environment are essential component of motility in eukaryotic cells. In the absence of signals, cells continuously rebuild the cytoskeleton and periodically extend pseudopods or other protrusions at random membrane locations. Extracellular signals bias the direction of movement by bia

Yao Li, Wenjing Jia, Chunhua Shen, Anton van den Hengel

Text in an image provides vital information for interpreting its contents, and text in a scene can aide with a variety of tasks from navigation, to obstacle avoidance, and odometry. Despite its value, however, identifying general text in images remains a challenging research problem. Motivated by the need to consider the widely varying forms of natural text,

Qi Duan, Jinhui Xu

In this paper, we study a generalization of the classical minimum cut prob- lem, called Connectivity Preserving Minimum Cut (CPMC) problem, which seeks a minimum cut to separate a pair (or pairs) of source and destination nodes and meanwhile ensure the connectivity between the source and its partner node(s). The CPMC problem is a rather powerful formulation

Ignatios Antoniadis, Ioannis Florakis, Stefan Hohenegger, K. S. Narain

We calculate gauge instanton corrections to a class of higher derivative string effective couplings introduced in [1]. We work in Type I string theory compactified on K3xT2 and realise gauge instantons in terms of D5-branes wrapping the internal space. In the field theory limit we reproduce the deformed ADHM action on a general Ω-background from which one ca

Andrew P. Dove, Jerrold R. Griggs

We are interested in maximizing the number of pairwise unrelated copies of a poset $P$ in the family of all subsets of $[n]$. We prove that for any $P$ the maximum number of unrelated copies of $P$ is asymptotic to a constant times the largest binomial coefficient. Moreover, the constant has the form $\frac{1}{c(P)}$, where $c(P)$ is the size of the smallest

A. Martínez Torres, K. P. Khemchandani, D. Jido, Y. Kanada-En'yo

Recently, many efforts are being put in studying three-hadron systems made of mesons and baryons and interesting results are being found. In this talk, I summarize the main features of the formalism used to study such three hadron systems with strangeness $S=-1,0$ within a framework built on the basis of unitary chiral theories and solution of the Faddeev eq

A. Martínez Torres, M. Bayar, D. Jido, E. Oset

We investigate the $\bar KN$ and coupled channels system in a finite volume and study the properties of the $Λ(1405)$ resonance. We calculate the energy levels in a finite volume and solve the inverse problem of determining the resonance position in the infinite volume. We devise the best strategy of analysis to obtain the two poles of the $Λ(1405)$ in the i

Agnieszka Kujawa-Cichy

The aim of this Ph.D. thesis was to investigate superconducting properties in the presence of Zeeman magnetic field in systems with local fermion pairing on the lattice. The study also concerned the evolution from the weak coupling (BCS-like) limit to the strong coupling limit of tightly bound local pairs (BEC) with increasing attraction, both in the ground

Michael R Line, Yuk Yung

Chemical disequilibrium has recently become a relevant topic in the study of the atmospheres of of transiting extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs, and directly imaged exoplanets. We present a new way of assessing whether or not a Jovian-like atmosphere is in chemical disequilibrium from observations of detectable or inferred gases such as H$_2$O, CH$_4$, CO, an

Liran Wang, George M. Schmiedeshoff, David Earl Graf, Ju-Hyun Park

We report on the development of a sensitive dilatometer based upon a AFM piezocantilever. This dilatometer has been tested at temperatures down to 25 mK and in magnetic fields up to 16 T. The layered heavy fermion superconductor $CeCoIn_5$ and its non-magnetic analog $LaRhIn_5$ have been measured to demonstrate its use in detecting phase transitions and quan

Tobias Beuchert, Jörn Wilms, Matthias Kadler, Anna Lia Longinotti

We study 12 Seyfert 1 galaxies with a high level of optical polarization. Optical light emerging from the innermost regions is predominantly scattered in a polar region above the central engine directly in our line of sight. These sources show characteristics of Seyfert 2 galaxies such as, e.g., polarized broad lines. The polarization signatures suggest a vi

Agnieszka Kujawa-Cichy

We investigate the superfluid properties of d-wave pairing symmetry within the Extended Hubbard Model (EHM) in a magnetic field. We analyze the temperature and magnetic field dependencies of the order parameter. We find that in the two-dimensional case, the spatially homogeneous spin polarized superfluidity ($SC(P\neq0)$) is stable in the weak coupling limit

Robert E. Ecke, Joseph J. Niemela

We report experimental measurements of heat transport in rotating Rayleigh-B{é}nard convection in a cylindrical convection cell with aspect ratio $Γ= 1/2$. The fluid was helium gas with Prandtl number Pr = 0.7. The range of control parameters was Rayleigh number $4 \times 10^9 < {\rm Ra} < 4 \times 10^{11}$ and Ekman number $2 \times 10^{-7} < {\rm Ek} < 3 \

Agnieszka Kujawa-Cichy

We analyze the evolution from the weak coupling (BCS-like limit) to the strong coupling limit of tightly bound local pairs (LP&#39;s) in the 2D asymmetric attractive Hubbard model, in the presence of the Zeeman magnetic field ($h$). The broken symmetry Hartree approximation is used. We also apply the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) scenario to determine the phase c

Yingjie Li, Lanfa Wang

A novel coupling of the transverse betatron motion to the longitudinal microwave instability is studied. Besides the radial coherent dipole mode space charge field, simulation and theoretical studies in this paper show that the longitudinal coherent dipole mode space charge field due to centroid wiggles also plays an important role in the isochronous regime,

George E. Andrews, Vít Jelínek

We prove several power series identities involving the refined generating function of interval orders, as well as the refined generating function of the self-dual interval orders. These identities may be expressed as $\sum_{n\ge 0}(1/p;1/q)_n= \sum_{n\ge 0} pq^n(p;q)_n(q;q)_n$ and $\sum_{n\ge 0} (-1)^n(1/p;1/q)_n= \sum_{n\ge 0} pq^n(p;q)_n(-q;q)_n =\sum_{n\g

Agnieszka Kujawa-Cichy, Roman Micnas

We study the evolution from the weak coupling (BCS-like limit) to the strong coupling limit of tightly bound local pairs (LP&#39;s) with increasing attraction, in the presence of the Zeeman magnetic field ($h$) for $d=2$, within the spin-polarized attractive Hubbard model. The broken symmetry Hartree approximation {as well as the} strong coupling expansion a

Agnieszka Kujawa-Cichy

The influence of the Zeeman magnetic field ($h$) on the ground state evolution of superfluid properties from the weak coupling (BCS like) to the strong coupling limit of tightly bound local pairs (LP) with increasing attraction has been studied. The analysis was carried out within the spin-polarized attractive Hubbard model, for a fixed number of particles a

Branden Allen, Jonathan Grindlay, Jaesub Hong, Richard P. Binzel

The OSIRIS-REx Mission was selected under the NASA New Frontiers program and is scheduled for launch in September of 2016 for a rendezvous with, and collection of a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2019. 101955 Bennu (previously 1999 RQ36) is an Apollo (near-Earth) asteroid originally discovered by the LINEAR project in 1999 which has since been

Mariusz Semczuk, Xuan Li, Will Gunton, Magnus Haw

We present experimental observations of seven vibrational levels $v&#39;=20-26$ of the $1^{3}Σ_{g}^{+}$ excited state of Li$_2$ molecules by the photoassociation (PA) of a degenerate Fermi gas of $^6$Li atoms. For each vibrational level, we resolve the rotational structure using a Feshbach resonance to enhance the PA rates from p-wave collisions. We also, fo

Benjamin Jaye, Fedor Nazarov

We study the properties of reflectionless measures for a Calderón-Zygmund operator T. Roughly speaking, these are measures $μ$ for which T(μ) vanishes (in a weak sense) on the support of the measure. We describe the relationship between certain well-known problems in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory and the classification of reflectionless meas

Michelle E. Jamer, Badih A. Assaf, Trithep Devakul, Don Heiman

The structure, magnetic and transport properties of thin films of the Heusler ferrimagnet Mn_{2}CoAl have been investigated for properties related to spin gapless semiconductors. Oriented films were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs substrates and the structure was found to transform from tetragonal to cubic for increasing annealing temperature. The an

A. S. de Wijn, A. Fasolino, A. Filippov, M. Urbakh

We propose a theoretical model of friction under electrochemical conditions focusing on the interaction of a force microscope tip with adsorbed polar molecules of which the orientation depends on the applied electric field. We demonstrate that the dependence of friction force on the electric field is determined by the interplay of two channels of energy diss

Ersoy Sasioglu, Iosif Galanakis, Christoph Friedrich, Stefan Blügel

Correlation effects play an important role in the electronic structure of half-metallic (HM) magnets. In particular, they give rise to non-quasiparticle states above (or below) the Fermi energy at finite temperatures that reduce the spin polarization and, as a consequence, the efficiency of spintronics devices. Employing the constrained random-phase approxim

Paweł Caban, Jakub Rembieliński, Patrycja Rybka, Piotr Witas

We calculate correlation functions for a relativistic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-type experiment with massive Dirac particles. We take the influence of the Newton-Wigner localization into account and perform the calculations for a couple of physically interesting states.

Haytham Al-Feel, Ralph Schafermeier, Adrian Paschke

Ontologies are considered as the backbone of the Semantic Web. With the rising success of the Semantic Web, the number of participating communities from different countries is constantly increasing. The growing number of ontologies available in different natural languages leads to an interoperability problem. In this paper, we discuss several approaches for

T. W. Murphy, S. D. Goodrow

Many corner cube prisms, or retroreflectors, employ total internal reflection (TIR) via uncoated rear surfaces. The different elliptical polarization states emerging from the six unique paths through the corner cube complicate the far-field diffraction pattern by introducing various phase delays between the six paths. In this paper, we present a computationa

S. D. Goodrow, T. W. Murphy

Uncoated corner cube retroreflectors (CCRs) operating via total internal reflection (TIR) are less susceptible to internal heating than their metal-coated analogs, lacking an absorber on the rear surface. Even so, environments that induce differential heating within the CCR will result in thermal lensing of the incident wavefront, introducing aberrations tha

Rachel Bezanson, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Jesse van de Sande, Marijn Franx

The Fundamental Plane (FP) is an empirical relation between the size, surface brightness, and velocity dispersion of early-type galaxies. This relation has been studied extensively for early-type galaxies in the local universe to constrain galaxy formation mechanisms. The evolution of the zeropoint of this plane has been extended to high redshifts to study t

Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Benjamin Shlaer

Using recent simulation results, we provide the mass and speed spectrum of cosmic string loops. This is the quantity of primary interest for many phenomenological signatures of cosmic strings, and it can be accurately predicted using recently acquired detailed knowledge of the loop production function. We emphasize that gravitational smoothing of long string

Bulent Kiziltan, Athanasios Kottas, Maria De Yoreo, Stephen E. Thorsett

In recent years, the number of pulsars with secure mass measurements has increased to a level that allows us to probe the underlying neutron star (NS) mass distribution in detail. We critically review the radio pulsar mass measurements. For the first time, we are able to analyze a sizable population of NSs with a flexible modeling approach that can effective

Yang Bai, Andrey Katz, Brock Tweedie

If the lighter stop eigenstate decays directly to two jets via baryonic R-parity violation, it could have escaped existing LHC and Tevatron searches in four-jet events, even for masses as small as 100 GeV. In order to recover sensitivity in the face of increasingly harsh trigger requirements at the LHC, we propose a search for stop pairs in the highly-booste

Chuan Wen, Loe, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Let $G^1(V,E_1)$ and $G^2(V,E_2)$ be two networks on the same vertex set $V$ and consider the union of edges $G(V, E_1 \cup E_2)$. This paper studies the stability of the Degree, Betweenness and Eigenvector Centrality of the resultant network, $G(V, E_1 \cup E_2)$. Specifically assume $v^1_{max}$ and $v^c_{max}$ are the highest centrality vertices of $G^1(V,

Andrew J. Blumberg, Michael A. Mandell

This paper lays the foundations of an approach to applying Gromov&#39;s ideas on quantitative topology to topological data analysis. We introduce the &#34;contiguity complex&#34;, a simplicial complex of maps between simplicial complexes defined in terms of the combinatorial notion of contiguity. We generalize the Simplicial Approximation Theorem to show tha

Eilat Glikman, Tanya Urrutia, Mark Lacy, S. G. Djorgovski

We present the results of a pilot survey to find dust-reddened quasars by matching the FIRST radio catalog to the UKIDSS near-infrared survey, and using optical data from SDSS to select objects with very red colors. The deep K-band limit provided by UKIDSS allows for finding more heavily-reddened quasars at higher redshifts as compared with previous work usi

Alan Denbleyker, Yuzhi Liu, Y. Meurice, M. P. Qin

We consider the sign problem for classical spin models at complex $β=1/g_0^2$ on $L\times L$ lattices. We show that the tensor renormalization group method allows reliable calculations for larger Im$β$ than the reweighting Monte Carlo method. For the Ising model with complex $β$ we compare our results with the exact Onsager-Kaufman solution at finite volume.

Gorkem Ozkaya

Wavelets have been shown to be effective bases for many classes of natural signals and images. Standard wavelet bases have the entire vector space $\mathbb R^n$ as their natural domain. It is fairly straightforward to adapt these to rectangular subdomains, and there also exist constructions for domains with more complex boundaries. However those methods are

Tevong You

The Higgs boson H produced in association with a vector boson V=W, Z is the main production mechanism for searches at the Tevatron and forms an important part of Higgs analyses at the LHC. We show here that the V+H invariant mass distribution and the energy dependence of associated production provide powerful ways of constraining Higgs properties, such as it

Chiara Poletto, Michele Tizzoni, Vittoria Colizza

Host mobility plays a fundamental role in the spatial spread of infectious diseases. Previous theoretical works based on the integration of network theory into the metapopulation framework have shown that the heterogeneities that characterize real mobility networks favor the propagation of epidemics. Nevertheless, the studies conducted so far assumed the mob

Chihhui Wu, Nihal Arju, Glen Kelp, Jonathan A. Fan

Metamaterials and meta-surfaces represent a remarkably versatile platform for light manipulation, biological and chemical sensing, nonlinear optics, and even spaser lasing. Many of these applications rely on the resonant nature of metamaterials, which is the basis for extreme spectrally selective concentration of optical energy in the near field. The simplic

Margo F. Aller, Philip A. Hughes, Hugh D. Aller, Talvikki Hovatta

As part of a program to investigate jet flow conditions during GeV gamma-ray flares detected by Fermi, we are using UMRAO multi-frequency, centimeter-band total flux density and linear polarization monitoring observations to constrain radiative transfer models incorporating propagating shocks orientated at an arbitrary angle to the flow direction. We describ

Hunter Glanz, Luis Carvalho

Dramatic increases in the size and dimensionality of many recent data sets make crucial the need for sophisticated methods that can exploit inherent structure and handle missing values. In this article we derive an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for the matrix normal distribution, a distribution well-suited for naturally structured data such as spat

Sukhjit Singh Sehra, Jaiteg Singh, Hardeep Singh Rai

The meaning and purposes of web has been changing and evolving day by day. Web 2. 0 encouraged more contribution by the end users. This movement provided revolutionary methods of sharing and computing data by crowdsourcing such as OpenStreetmap, also called &#34;the wikification of maps&#34; by some researchers. When crowdsourcing collects huge data with hel

Louis M. Pecora, Francesco Sorrentino, Aaron M. Hagerstrom, Thomas E. Murphy

Synchronization is of central importance in power distribution, telecommunication, neuronal, and biological networks. Many networks are observed to produce patterns of synchronized clusters, but it has been difficult to predict these clusters or understand the conditions under which they form, except for in the simplest of networks. In this article, we shed

Khalil Chouk, Samy Tindel

This article gives an account on various aspects of stochastic calculus in the plane. Specifically, our aim is 3-fold: (i) Derive a pathwise change of variable formula for a path indexed by a square, satisfying some Hölder regularity conditions with a Hölder exponent greater than 1/3. (ii) Get some Skorohod change of variable formulas for a large class of Ga

Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

We estimate the support of a uniform density, when it is assumed to be a convex polytope or, more generally, a convex body in $\R^d$. In the polytopal case, we construct an estimator achieving a rate which does not depend on the dimension $d$, unlike the other estimators that have been proposed so far. For $d\geq 3$, our estimator has a better risk than the

María Silvina Riveros, Raúl Emilio Vidal

In this paper we obtain for $T^+$, a one-sided singular integral given by a Calderón-Zygmund kernel with support in $(-\infty,0)$, a $L^p(w)$ bound when $w\in A_1^+$. A. K. Lerner, S. Ombrosi, and C. Pérez proved in [ &#34;$A_{1}$ Bounds for Calderón-Zygmund operators related to a problem of Muckenhoupt and Wheeden&#34;, Math. Res. Lett. \textbf{16} (2009),

Sebastian Kuhlen, Ralph Ledesch, Robin de Winter, Matthias Althammer

Time-resolved magneto-optics is a well-established optical pump probe technique to generate and to probe spin coherence in semiconductors. By this method, spin dephasing times T_2^* can easily be determined if their values are comparable to the available pump-probe-delays. If T_2^* exceeds the laser repetition time, however, resonant spin amplification (RSA)

Haipeng An, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler

&#34;Dark Photons&#34;, light new vector particles V kinetically mixed with the photon, are a frequently considered extension of the Standard Model. For masses below 10 keV they are emitted from the solar interior. In the limit of small mass m_V the dark photon flux is strongly peaked at low energies and we demonstrate that the constraint on the atomic ioniz

Joao Alberto de Faria, Benjamin Hutz

We study the dynamics of maps arising from the composition of two non-commuting involution on a K3 surface. These maps are a particular example of reversible maps, i.e., maps with a time reversing symmetry. The combinatorics of the cycle distribution of two non-commuting involutions on a finite phase space was studied by Roberts and Vivaldi. We show that the

Mikulas Gintner, Josef Juran

The effective Lagrangian with scalar and vector resonances that might result from new strong physics beyond the SM is formulated and studied. In particular, the scalar resonance representing the recently discovered 125-GeV boson is complemented with the SU(2)_{L+R} triplet of hypothetical vector resonances. Motivated by experimental and theoretical considera

Yuliya Mishura, Kostiantyn Ral&#39;chenko, Oleg Seleznev, Georgiy Shevchenko

We consider a problem of statistical estimation of an unknown drift parameter for a stochastic differential equation driven by fractional Brownian motion. Two estimators based on discrete observations of solution to the stochastic differential equations are constructed. It is proved that the estimators converge almost surely to the parameter value as the obs

Alireza Akbari, Peter Thalmeier

We develop the full t-matrix theory of quasiparticle interference (QPI) for non-centrosymmetric (NCS) superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We give a closed solution for the QPI spectrum for arbitrary combination and strength of nonmagnetic (Vc) and magnetic (Vm) impurity scattering potentials in terms of integrated normal and anomalous Green&#39;

R. Mochkovitch, F. Daigne, R. Hascoet

We study the observed correlations between the duration and luminosity of the early afterglow plateau and the isotropic gamma-ray energy release during the prompt phase. We discuss these correlations in the context of two scenarios for the origin of the plateaus. In the first one the afterglow is made by the forward shock and the plateau results from variati

Simon Badger, Benedikt Biedermann, Peter Uwer, Valery Yundin

We present theoretical predictions for five jet production in proton-proton collisions at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD. Inclusive as well as differential observables are studied for collision energies of 7 and 8 TeV. In general the next-to-leading order corrections stabilize the theoretical predictions with respect to scale variations. In case of th

Samir D. Mathur

It has been argued that small corrections to evolution arising from non-geometric effects can resolve the information paradox. We can get such effects, for example, from subleading saddle points in the Euclidean path integral. But an inequality derived in 2009 using strong sub-additivity showed that such corrections {\it cannot} solve the problem. As a resul

B. Zhang, M. Sun, L. Ji, C. Sarazin

We present the analysis of a deep Chandra observation of a ~2L_* late-type galaxy, ESO 137-002, in the closest rich cluster A3627. The Chandra data reveal a long (>40 kpc) and narrow tail with a nearly constant width (~3 kpc) to the southeast of the galaxy, and a leading edge ~1.5 kpc from the galaxy center on the upstream side of the tail. The tail is most

D0 Collaboration

We investigate the decay B^+ -> J/psi phi K^+ in a search for the X(4140) state, a narrow threshold resonance in the J/psi phi system. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 10.4 fb^{-1} of ppbar collisions at sqrt s =1.96 TeV collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We observe a mass peak with a statistical signi

Anargyros Papageorgiou, Iasonas Petras

In 2011, the fundamental gap conjecture for Schrödinger operators was proven. This can be used to estimate the ground state energy of the time-independent Schrödinger equation with a convex potential and relative error ε. Classical deterministic algorithms solving this problem have cost exponential in the number of its degrees of freedom d. We show a quantum

Kato Mivule

While a number of data privacy techniques have been proposed in the recent years, a few frameworks have been suggested for the implementation of the data privacy process. Most of the proposed approaches are tailored towards implementing a specific data privacy algorithm but not the overall data privacy engineering and design process. Therefore, as a contribu

M. Onirban Islam, Md. Galib Hassan, M. Arshad Momen

Following the pioneering work of H. Reiss [1], we provide a covariant calculation of the charged scalar particle pair production. The calculation is facilitated by the use of two-dimensional Bessel functions and light-font coordinates.

Tingzhi Yan, Shan Li

The scaling behaviors of anisotropic flows of light charged particles are studied for 25 \,MeV/nucleon $^{40}$Ca+$^{40}$Ca collisions at different impact parameters by the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model. The number of nucleons scaling of elliptic flow is existed and the scaling of the ratios of $v_{4}/v_{2}^{2}$ and $v_{3}/(v_{1}v_{2})$ a

Renu Bala

Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are an effective tool to investigate the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in heavy-ion collisions as they are produced in initial hard scattering processes and as they experience all the stages of the medium evolution. The measurement of heavy-flavour production cross sections in pp collisions at the LHC, besides p

Jeremy Allington-Smith, Colin Dunlop, Graham Murray, Ulrike Lemke

The performance of highly-multiplexed spectrographs is limited by focal degradation (FRD) in the optical fibres. It has already been shown that this is caused mainly by processes concentrated around the mounting points at the ends of the fibres. We use the thickness of rings produced in the farfield when a fibre is illuminated by a collimated beam, to estima

O. Yaremko, E. Zhuravleva

The explicit construction of direct and inverse Fourier&#39;s vector transform with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The technique of applying Fourier&#39;s vector transform with discontinuous coefficients for solving problems of mathematical physics.Multidimensional integral transformations with non-separated variables for problems with discontinuou

E. T. Chambers, F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. Ott

We present a study of star formation in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy through the association of three star formation indicators: 6.7 GHz CH3OH masers, 22 GHz H2O masers, and enhanced 4.5 micron emission (`green&#39;) sources. We explore how star formation in the Galactic center (l < 1.3 deg, |b| < 10&#39;, where l and b are Galactic longitu

Bo Li, Jian Li, Kevin E Bassler, C S Ting

Inspired by experimental observations of the enhancement of superconductivity at the twin-boundary (TB) in slightly electron doped Ba(Ca)(FeAs)$_2$ where a strong $2\times1$ antiferromagnetic (AF) collinear order is in presence, we investigate theoretically the effects of TBs on the complex interplay between magnetism and superconductivity using a minimum ph

Khim Raj Shrestha

In this paper we study the boundary values of harmonic and holo- morphic functions in the weighted Hardy spaces on the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$. These spaces were introduced by Poletsky and Stessin in [6] for plurisubharmonic functions on hyperconvex domains $D \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ as generalizations of classical Hardy spaces. We show that in the case when $D

Gabriel T. Landi, Mario J. de Oliveira

We study the transport of heat along a chain of particles interacting through a harmonic potential and subject to heat reservoirs at its ends. Each particle has two degrees of freedom and is subject to a stochastic noise that produces infinitesimal changes in the velocity while keeping the kinetic energy unchanged. This is modelled by means of a Langevin equ