November 2013 arXiv papers — page 12

Owe Philipsen, Christian Schäfer

The quark gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions behaves like an almost ideal fluid described by viscous hydrodynamics with a number of transport coefficients. The second order coefficient $κ$ is related to a Euclidean correlator of the energy-momentum tensor at vanishing frequency and low momentum. This allows for a lattice determination without maxi

H. C. Walker, F. Fabrizi, L. Paolasini, F. de Bergevin

We present a study of the magnetic and crystallographic structure of TbMnO$_3$ in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields using circularly polarised X-ray non-resonant scattering. A comprehensive account is presented of the scattering theory and data analysis methods used in our earlier studies, and in addition we present new high magnetic field

Bartosz Rybicki, Jaroslaw Byrka

We consider the Fault-Tolerant Facility Placement problem ($FTFP$), which is a generalization of the classical Uncapacitated Facility Location problem ($UFL$). In the $FTFP$ problem we have a set of clients $C$ and a set of facilities $F$. Each facility $i \in F$ can be opened many times. For each opening of facility $i$ we pay $f_i \geq 0$. Our goal is to c

Sebastian Baader

Based on recent work by Futer, Kalfagianni and Purcell, we prove that the volume of sufficiently complicated positive braid links is proportional to the signature defect $\Delta \sigma=2g-\sigma$.

A. Gomez, J. del Valle, E. M. Gonzalez, C. E. Chiliotte

Hybrid magnetic arrays embedded in superconducting films are ideal systems to study the competition between different physical (such as the coherence length) and structural length scales such as available in artificially produced structures. This interplay leads to oscillation in many magnetically dependent superconducting properties such as the critical cur

Giovanna Ferraro, Antonio Iovanella

This paper introduces the concept of choreography with respect to inter-organizational innovation networks, as they constitute an attractive environment to create innovation in different sectors. We argue that choreography governs behaviours by shaping the level of connectivity and cohesion among network members. It represents a valid organizational system a

N. I. Shepherd-Barron

We give a way of estimating quickly the length of the hyperbolic isometry associated to a plane Cremona transformation that is presented as the product of two involutions. We also show, using the ideas of Cantat and Lamy, that, provided that the ground field is either algebraic of characteristic not 2 or of characteristic zero, the normal closure of a high p

Babak Hasanzadeh

In this paper we study contact structure on 2-step nilpotent, Heisenberg type Lie groups. We decompose this Lie groups to center and orthogonal complement, then investigate properties of both orthogonal Lie subgroups. Finally, we provide a connection between matchings in groups and field extensions and 2-step nilpotent Lie groups.

Wei Zhong, Xiao-Ming Lu, Xiaoxing Jing, Xiaoguang Wang

Propagation of error is a widely used estimation tool in experiments, where the estimation precision of the parameter depends on the fluctuation of the physical observable. Thus which observable is chosen will greatly affect the estimation sensitivity. Here we study the optimal observable for the ultimate sensitivity bounded by the quantum Cramér-Rao theorem

Stefano Spezia, Dominique Persano Adorno, Nicola Pizzolato, Bernardo Spagnolo

The electron spin relaxation process in n-type GaAs crystals driven by a fluctuating electric field is investigated. Two different sources of fluctuations are considered: (i) a symmetric dichotomous noise and (ii) a Gaussian correlated noise. Monte Carlo numerical simulations show, in both cases, an enhancement of the spin relaxation time by increasing the a

Abhishek Chowdhury, A. Harindranath, Jyotirmoy Maiti, Pushan Majumdar

We find that using open boundary condition in the temporal direction can yield the expected value of the topological susceptibility in lattice SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. As a further check, we show that the result agrees with numerical simulations employing the periodic boundary condition. Our results support the preferability of the open boundary condition ov

Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

We show that the range of applicability of the change of representation formula derived in J. Math. Phys. \textbf{54}, 033513 (2013) [arXiv:1302.6928] is very narrow and extend it to include all physical applications, particularly, applications to black hole thermodynamics, cosmology and fluid thermodynamics.

Ángela Fernández, Neta Rabin, Dalia Fishelov, José R. Dorronsoro

Non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques such as manifold learning algorithms have become a common way for processing and analyzing high-dimensional patterns that often have attached a target that corresponds to the value of an unknown function. Their application to new points consists in two steps: first, embedding the new data point into the low dime

Hideaki Ikoma

In this paper, we prove a version of the arithmetic Bertini theorem asserting that there exists a strictly small and generically smooth section of a given arithmetically free graded arithmetic linear series.

S. V. Poltavtsev, I. I. Ryzhov, M. M. Glazov, G. G. Kozlov

We report on the first experimental observation of spin noise in a single semiconductor quantum well embedded into a microcavity. The great cavity-enhanced sensitivity to fluctuations of optical anisotropy has allowed us to measure the Kerr rotation and ellipticity noise spectra in the strong coupling regime. The spin noise spectra clearly show two resonant

Yu-Ran Zhang, Jie-Dong Yue, Heng Fan

In quantum metrology schemes, one generally needs to prepare $m$ copies of $N$ entangled particles, such as entangled photon states, and then they are detected in a destructive process to estimate an unknown parameter. Here, we present a novel experimental scheme for estimating this parameter by using repeated indirect quantum nondemolition measurements in t

Chuang Wang, Shao-Meng Qin, Hai-Jun Zhou

Tensor renormalization group method (TRG) is a real space renormalization group approach. It has been successfully applied to both classical and quantum systems. In this paper, we study a disordered and frustrated system, the two-dimensional Edward-Anderson model, by a new topological invariant TRG scheme. We propose an approach to calculate the local magnet

Jonathan E. Moussa, Andrew D. Baczewski

In a recent Letter, Baer et al. present a stochastic method for Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations. Their convergence criterion is the self-averaging total energy per electron, which requires a number of statistical samples that decreases with system size and enables a sublinear-scaling computational cost. However, the electron density, atomic

Jérémy Sok

We study the Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock (BDF) model, a no-photon, mean-field approxi- mation of quantum electrodynamics that allows to study relativistic electrons interacting with the vacuum. It is a variational model in which states are represented by Hilbert- Schmidt operators. We prove a charge renormalisation formula that holds close to the non-relativistic

G. Domokos, D. J. Jerolmack, A. Á. Sipos, Á. Török

River-bed sediments display two universal downstream trends: fining, in which particle size decreases; and rounding, where pebble shapes evolve toward ellipsoids. Rounding is known to result from transport-induced abrasion; however many researchers argue that the contribution of abrasion to downstream fining is negligible. This presents a paradox: downstream

M. Farjam

The supercell approach enables us to treat the electronic structure of defective crystals, but the calculated energy bands are too complicated to understand or to compare with angle-resolved photoemission spectra because of inevitable zone folding. We discuss how to visualize supercell band structures more effectively by incorporating in them unfolded spectr

Shizuya Hakuta, Sebastian Maneth, Keisuke Nakano, Hideya Iwasaki

Streaming of XML transformations is a challenging task and only very few systems support streaming. Research approaches generally define custom fragments of XQuery and XPath that are amenable to streaming, and then design custom algorithms for each fragment. These languages have several shortcomings. Here we take a more principles approach to the problem of

Matteo Novaga, Shinya Okabe

We study the regularity of solutions to the obstacle problem for the parabolic biharmonic equation. We analyze the problem via an implicit time discretization, and we prove some regularity properties of the solution.

Bin Yu

In this paper, we first develope the concept of Lyapunov graph to weighted Lyapunov graph (abbreviated as WLG) for nonsingular Morse-Smale flows (abbreviated as NMS flows) on $S^3$. WLG is quite sensitive to NMS flows on $S^3$. For instance, WLG detect the indexed links of NMS flows. Then we use WLG and some other tools to describe nonsingular Morse-Smale fl

Frederic Pascal, Yacine Chitour, Yihui Quek

Recently, in the context of covariance matrix estimation, in order to improve as well as to regularize the performance of the Tyler's estimator [1] also called the Fixed-Point Estimator (FPE) [2], a "shrinkage" fixed-point estimator has been introduced in [3]. First, this work extends the results of [3,4] by giving the general solution of the &#3

Yury I. Lobanovsky

Two independent acoustic methods were used to verify the results of earlier explosion energy calculations of Chelyabinsk meteoroid. They are: estimations through a path length of infrasound wave and through maximum concentration of the wave energy. The energy of this explosion turned out the same as in earlier calculations, and it is close to 57 Mt of TNT. T

A. V. Kopylov, I. V. Orekhov, V. V. Petukhov, A. E. Solomatin

We propose to search for coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CNNS)by means of a triple-sectioned low background proportional counter. As a working medium we plan to use argon and xenon at about 1 MPa. We have shown using bench-scale assembly, that pulse-shape discrimination enables to effectively suppress noise pulses from electromagnetic disturbances and

James Barnard, Tony Gherghetta, Tirtha Sankar Ray

We consider four-dimensional UV descriptions of composite Higgs models without elementary scalars, in which four-fermion interactions are introduced to an underlying gauge theory like in the gauged NJL model. When the anomalous dimension of the fermion bilinear is large, these interactions drive the spontaneous global symmetry breaking in the model, with the

Naresh Manwani, Kalpit Desai, Sanand Sasidharan, Ramasubramanian Sundararajan

We consider the problem of learning reject option classifiers. The goodness of a reject option classifier is quantified using $0-d-1$ loss function wherein a loss $d \in (0,.5)$ is assigned for rejection. In this paper, we propose {\em double ramp loss} function which gives a continuous upper bound for $(0-d-1)$ loss. Our approach is based on minimizing regu

Brett Kolesnik, Nick Wormald

The vertex isoperimetric number of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is the minimum of the ratio $|\partial_{V}U|/|U|$ where $U$ ranges over all nonempty subsets of $V$ with $|U|/|V|\le u$ and $\partial_{V}U$ is the set of all vertices adjacent to $U$ but not in $U$. The analogously defined edge isoperimetric number---with $\partial_{V}U$ replaced by $\partial_{E}U$, the se

Chiara Arina, Maria Eugenia Cabrera

We investigate multi-lepton LHC signals arising from an extension at the grand unification scale of the standard minimal supersymmetric model (MSSM) involving right-handed neutrino superfields. In this framework neutrinos have Dirac masses and the mixed sneutrinos are the lightest supersymmetric particles and hence the dark matter candidates. We analyze the

Katya Scheinberg, Xiaocheng Tang

Recently several methods were proposed for sparse optimization which make careful use of second-order information [10, 28, 16, 3] to improve local convergence rates. These methods construct a composite quadratic approximation using Hessian information, optimize this approximation using a first-order method, such as coordinate descent and employ a line search

Luigi Accardi, Farrukh Mukhamedov, Mansoor Saburov

In this paper, we consider the classical Ising model on the Cayley tree of order k and show the existence of the phase transition in the following sense: there exists two quantum Markov states which are not quasi-equivalent. It turns out that the found critical temperature coincides with usual critical temperature.

Haibin Zhang, Yan Wang, Xiuzhen Zhang, Ee-Peng Lim

In e-commerce environments, the trustworthiness of a seller is utterly important to potential buyers, especially when the seller is unknown to them. Most existing trust evaluation models compute a single value to reflect the general trust level of a seller without taking any transaction context information into account. In this paper, we first present a trus

Edward Anderson, Flavio Mercati

Following from a question of Wheeler, why does the Hamiltonian constraint ${\cal H}$ of GR have the particular form it does? A first answer, by Hojman, Kuchař and Teitelboim, is that using embeddability into spacetime as a principle gives the form of ${\cal H}$. The present paper culminates a second Machian answer - initially by Barbour, Foster and ó Murchad

Saurya Das

We compute quantum corrections to the Raychaudhuri equation, by replacing classical geodesics with quantal (Bohmian) trajectories, and show that they prevent focusing of geodesics, and the formation of conjugate points. We discuss implications for the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems, and for curvature singularities.

Zewen Xiao, Fan-Yong Ran, Hidenori Hiramatsu, Satoru Matsuishi

BaZn2As2 is expected for a good p-type semiconductor and has two crystalline phases of an orthorhombic alpha phase and a higher-symmetry tetragonal beta phase. Here, we report high-quality epitaxial films of the tetragonal beta-BaZn2As2 were grown on single-crystal MgO (001) substrates by a reactive solid-phase epitaxy technique. Out-of-plane and in-plane ep

Cristina Tortora, Paul D. McNicholas, Ryan P. Browne

Model-based clustering imposes a finite mixture modelling structure on data for clustering. Finite mixture models assume that the population is a convex combination of a finite number of densities, the distribution within each population is a basic assumption of each particular model. Among all distributions that have been tried, the generalized hyperbolic d

Elizabeth C. Merritt, Auna L. Moser, Scott C. Hsu, Colin S. Adams

We report spatially resolved measurements of the oblique merging of two supersonic laboratory plasma jets. The jets are formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven railguns using injected argon, and have electron density $\sim 10^{14}$ cm$^{-3}$, electron temperature $\approx 1.4$ eV, ionization fraction near unity, and velocity $\approx 40$ km/s just prior t

Manoj Kaplinghat, Ryan E. Keeley, Tim Linden, Hai-Bo Yu

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have been proposed to solve the small-scale issues with the collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We derive equilibrium solutions in these SIDM models for the dark matter halo density profile including the gravitational potential of both baryons and dark matter. Self-interactions drive dark matter to be iso

Ran Li, Huanyuan Shan, HouJun Mo, Jean-Paul Kneib

We select satellite galaxies from the galaxy group catalog constructed with the SDSS spectroscopic galaxies and measure the tangential shear around these galaxies with source catalog extracted from CFHT/MegaCam Stripe-82 Survey to constrain the mass of subhalos associated with them. The lensing signal is measured around satellites in groups with masses in th

Jose L. A. Nandez, Natalia Ivanova, James Lombardi

One of the two outcomes of a common envelope event is a merger of the two stars. To date, the best known case of a binary merger is the V1309 Sco outburst, where the orbital period was known and observed to decay up to the outburst. Using the hydrodynamical code StarSmasher, we study in detail which characteristics of the progenitor binary affect the outburs

Julien Armijo, Raphaël Allio, Cristian Mejía-Cortés

We demonstrate a method to experimentally calibrate the refractive index modulation in photorefractive lattices, a task rarely addressed that is crucial for quantitative comparisons of theories with experiments. We consider the linear propagation of a normally incident plane wave through simple lattices and its modulation amplitude at crystal output face. Fi

Spencer R. Klein

The $\sim$1 km$^3$ IceCube neutrino observatory was completed in December, 2010 and is taking data on cosmic-ray muons and neutrinos, extra-terrestrial neutrinos, and setting limits on a variety of exotic phenomena. This proceeding will cover recent IceCube results, with an emphasis on cosmic-rays and on searches for extra-terrestrial neutrinos, with a stres

J. I. Katz

Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable a state to make an unattributed attack. Detection of a weapon or fissile material smuggled in this manner is difficult

M. Sharif, Rabia Saleem

This paper is devoted to study the warm inflation using vector fields in the background of locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type I universe model. We formulate the field equations, slow-roll and perturbation parameters (scalar and tensor power spectra as well as their spectral indices) under slow-roll approximation. We evaluate all these parameters in

A. Goldstein, R. D. Preece, R. S. Mallozzi, M. S. Briggs

We present systematic spectral analyses of GRBs detected with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) during its entire nine years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra extracted from 2145 GRBs and fitted with five different spectral models resulting in a compendium of over 19000 s

M. Novello, E. Bittencourt

We present the expression $t_{μν}$ of the energy-momentum tensor of the gravitational field in the framework of the recent proposal of the Geometric Scalar theory of gravity (GSG). From the conservation of $t_{μν}$ it follows the dynamics of the gravitational field. As an example of this expression for $t_{μν}$ we calculate the gravitational energy of a comp

Victor Alexandrov

The main concepts of the theory of tensors are presented. The emphasis is on the basic notions of tensor algebra and practical skills in culculations involving the Kronecker delta and Levi-Civita symbol. Sixty routine exercises are included. The article is intended for junior students of physical, mathematical, and geophysical departments of universities.

Diego da Cunha Carvalho, João Antônio Plascak, Luizdarcy de Matos Castro

A variational approach based on Bogoliubov inequality for the free energy is employed in order to treat the quantum spin-$1$ anisotropic ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the presence of a crystal field. Within the Bogoliubov scheme an improved pair approximation has been used. The temperature dependent thermodynamic functions have been obtained and provide

Vern I. Paulsen, Ivan G. Todorov

We define several new types of quantum chromatic numbers of a graph and characterise them in terms of operator system tensor products. We establish inequalities between these chromatic numbers and other parameters of graphs studied in the literature and exhibit a link between them and non-signalling correlation boxes.

Vamsi Sashank Kotagiri

This paper presents random residue sequences derived from the number theoretic Hilbert (NHT) transform and their correlation properties. The autocorrelation of a NHT derived sequence is zero for all non-zero shifts which illustrates that these are self-orthogonal sequences. The cross correlation function between two sequences may be computed with respect to

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Colloidal particles in a liquid crystal (LC) behave very differently from their counterparts in isotropic fluids. Elastic nature of the orientational order and surface anchoring of the director cause long-range anisotropic interactions and lead to the phenomenon of levitation. The LC environment enables new mechanisms of particle transport that are reviewed

Jelena Markovic, Lie Wang

Due to measurement noise, a common problem in in various fields is how to estimate the ratio of two functions. We consider this problem of estimating the ratio of two functions in a nonparametric regression model. Assuming the noise is normally distributed, this is equivalent to estimating the ratio of the means of two normally distributed random variables.

Maïté Dupuis, Florian Girelli

An open issue in loop quantum gravity (LQG) is the introduction of a non-vanishing cosmological constant $Λ$. In 3d, Chern-Simons theory provides some guiding lines: $Λ$ appears in the quantum deformation of the gauge group. The Turaev-Viro model, which is an example of spin foam model is also defined in terms of a quantum group. By extension, it is believed

Marcus Schaefer

Given a graph $G$ and a subset $F \subseteq E(G)$ of its edges, is there a drawing of $G$ in which all edges of $F$ are free of crossings? We show that this question can be solved in polynomial time using a Hanani-Tutte style approach. If we require the drawing of $G$ to be straight-line, and allow at most one crossing along each edge in $F$, the problem tur

Kareem Amin, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Umar Syed

Inspired by real-time ad exchanges for online display advertising, we consider the problem of inferring a buyer's value distribution for a good when the buyer is repeatedly interacting with a seller through a posted-price mechanism. We model the buyer as a strategic agent, whose goal is to maximize her long-term surplus, and we are interested in mechanis

Francesco Malandrino, Claudio Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Zana Limani

Resource allocation in LTE networks is known to be an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we address an even more complex scenario: an LTE-based, 2-tier heterogeneous network where D2D mode is supported under the network control. All communications (macrocell, microcell and D2D-based) share the same frequency bands, hence they may interfere. We then determine (i

Saikat Biswas

For an abelian variety $A$ over a number field $K$, we define the set of Tamagawa torsors of $A$ at a prime $v$ of $K$ to be the set of principal homogeneous spaces of $A$ over the completion $K_v$ of $K$ at $v$ that are split by an unramified extension of $K_v$. In this paper, we study the arithmetic properties of the Tamagawa torsors.

Abram L. Falk, Paul V. Klimov, Bob B. Buckley, Viktor Ivády

The electron spins of semiconductor defects can have complex interactions with their host, particularly in polar materials like SiC where electrical and mechanical variables are intertwined. By combining pulsed spin resonance with ab-initio simulations, we show that spin-spin interactions within SiC neutral divacancies give rise to spin states with an enhanc

Borja Balle

Given a DFA we consider the random walk that starts at the initial state and at each time step moves to a new state by taking a random transition from the current state. This paper shows that for typical DFA this random walk induces an ergodic Markov chain. The notion of typical DFA is formalized by showing that ergodicity holds with high probability when a

Naser Ahmadiniaz, Christian Schubert

We show how to use the Bern-Kosower master formula, originally a generating functional for on-shell gluon matrix elements, to derive well-organized form factor decompositions of the off-shell one-particle-irreducible N - gluon vertices. Two such algorithms are presented which can be used for any N, the first one optimized with respect to the nonabelian gauge

Luan T. Hoang, Tuoc V. Phan, Truyen V. Nguyen

We investigate the global time existence of smooth solutions for the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto system of cross-diffusion equations of two competing species in population dynamics. If there are self-diffusion in one species and no cross-diffusion in the other, we show that the system has a unique smooth solution for all time in bounded domains of any dimens

Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, W. Gannett, S. Dai

Graphene, a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, is of great interest in (opto)electronics and plasmonics and can be obtained by means of diverse fabrication techniques, among which chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is one of the most promising for technological applications. The electronic and mechanical properties of CVD-grown graphene depend i

EPECUR Collaboration, I. G. Alekseev, V. A. Andreev, I. G. Bordyuzhin

EPECUR experimental setup is aimed at the search of narrow resonant states by precision measurement of differential and total reaction cross sections of pion-nucleon interaction with 1 MeV pion energy steps. In five years passed from the idea of the experiment till the start of the data taking in April of 2009, a new apparatus was build from scratch at the u

H. van Hees, C. Wesp, A. Meistrenko, C. Greiner

The intention of this study is the search for signatures of the chiral phase transition in heavy-ion collisions. To investigate the impact of fluctuations, e.g., of the baryon number, at the transition or at a critical point, the linear sigma model is treated in a dynamical (3+1)-dimensional numerical simulation. Chiral fields are approximated as classical m

Xilin Zhang, Kenneth M. Nollett, D. R. Phillips

We report a leading-order calculation of radiative ${}^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ neutron captures to both the ground and first excited state of ${}^{8}\mathrm{Li}$ in the framework of a low-energy effective field theory (Halo-EFT). Each of the possible final states is treated as a shallow bound state composed of both $n+{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ and $n+{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}^{*}$

Subhash Kak

This paper presents a class of random orthogonal sequences associated with the number theoretic Hilbert transform. We present a constructive procedure for finding the random sequences for different modulus values. These random sequences have autocorrelation function that is zero everywhere excepting at the origin. These sequences may be used as keys and in o

C. C. Chang, C. Bernard, C. M. Bouchard, A. X. El-Khadra

We present the status of our calculation of hadronic matrix elements for $D$- and $B$-meson mixing. We use a large set of the MILC collaboration's $N_f=2+1$ asqtad ensembles, which includes lattice spacings in the range $a\approx0.12$-0.045 fm, and up/down to strange quark mass ratios as low as 0.05. The asqtad action is also employed for the light valen

J. Neilsen, M. A. Nowak, C. Gammie, J. Dexter

Over the last decade, X-ray observations of Sgr A* have revealed a black hole in a deep sleep, punctuated roughly once per day by brief flares. The extreme X-ray faintness of this supermassive black hole has been a long-standing puzzle in black hole accretion. To study the accretion processes in the Galactic Center, Chandra (in concert with numerous ground-

Ruth Lazkoz, Jailson Alcaniz, Celia Escamilla-Rivera, Vincenzo Salzano

Cosmography provides a model-independent way to map the expansion history of the Universe. In this paper we simulate a Euclid-like survey and explore cosmographic constraints from future Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) observations. We derive general expressions for the BAO transverse and radial modes and discuss the optimal order of the cosmographic ex

Melvyn B. Davies, Fred C. Adams, Philip Armitage, John Chambers

This chapter concerns the long-term dynamical evolution of planetary systems from both theoretical and observational perspectives. We begin by discussing the planet-planet interactions that take place within our own Solar System. We then describe such interactions in more tightly-packed planetary systems. As planet-planet interactions build up, some systems

Simone Scaringi

Aperiodic broad-band variability (also known as flickering) is observed throughout all types of accreting compact objects. Many statistical properties of this variability can be naturally explained with the fluctuating accretion disk model, where variations in the mass-transfer rate through the disk are modulated on the local viscous timescale and propagate

Andra Stroe, David Sobral, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Reinout J. van Weeren

The most extreme cluster mergers can lead to massive cluster-wide travelling shock waves. The CIZA J2242.8+5301 ('sausage') and 1RXS J0603.3+4213 (`toothbrush') clusters ($z\sim0.2$) host enormous radio-emitting shocks with simple geometry. We investigate the role of mergers and shocks in shaping the H$α$ luminosity function, using custom-made na

Jian Song, Yatao Bian, Junchi Yan, Xu Zhao

In this paper, we present an approach to reconstruct 3-D human motion from multi-cameras and track human skeleton using the reconstructed human 3-D point (voxel) cloud. We use an improved and more robust algorithm, probabilistic shape from silhouette to reconstruct human voxel. In addition, the annealed particle filter is applied for tracking, where the meas

Alexandr Klimchik, Yier Wu, Claire Dumas, Stéphane Caro

The paper focuses on the stiffness modeling of heavy industrial robots with gravity compensators. The main attention is paid to the identification of geometrical and elastostatic parameters and calibration accuracy. To reduce impact of the measurement errors, the set of manipulator configurations for calibration experiments is optimized with respect to the p

Muhammed O. Sayin, N. Denizcan Vanli, Suleyman S. Kozat

We introduce a novel family of adaptive filtering algorithms based on a relative logarithmic cost. The new family intrinsically combines the higher and lower order measures of the error into a single continuous update based on the error amount. We introduce important members of this family of algorithms such as the least mean logarithmic square (LMLS) and le

Victor Argonov

The wave function of a moderately cold atom in a stationary near-resonant standing light wave delocalizes very fast due to wave packet splitting. However, we show that frequency modulation of the field may suppress packet splitting for some atoms having specific velocities in a narrow range. These atoms remain localized in a small space for a long time. We d

Nicola Scafetta, Richard C. Willson

Herein we adopt a multi-scale dynamical spectral analysis technique to compare and study the dynamical evolution of the harmonic components of the overlapping ACRIMSAT/ACRIM3, SOHO/VIRGO and SORCE/TIM total solar irradiance (TSI) records during 2003.15 to 2013.16 in solar cycles 23 and 24. The three TSI time series present highly correlated patterns. Signifi

Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy

Determining whether Earth-like planets are common or rare looms as a touchstone in the question of life in the universe. We searched for Earth-size planets that cross in front of their host stars by examining the brightness measurements of 42,000 stars from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kepler mission. We found 603 planets, including 10

Bin Xu, Matthieu J. Verstraete

Lithium is one of the simplest metals, with negative charge carriers and a close reproduction of free electron dispersion. Experimentally, however, Li is one of a handful of elemental solids (along with Cu, Ag, Au etc.) where the sign of the Seebeck coefficient (S) is opposite to that of the carrier. This counterintuitive behavior still lacks a satisfactory

Norbert Kroo, Peter Racz, Sandor Varro

The basis of low-temperature superconductivity has been set to be the pair formation of electrons, due to their effective attraction. The appearance of an effective attraction potential has also been predicted for electron-electron scattering in the presence of a strong, inhomogeneous radiation field. In the present work the strong electromagnetic fields wer

A. V. Belitsky, S. Hohenegger, G. P. Korchemsky, E. Sokatchev

We present a new approach to computing energy-energy correlations in gauge theories that exploits their relation to correlation functions and bypasses the use of scattering amplitudes. We illustrate its power by calculating energy-energy correlations in the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (N=4 SYM) in the next-to-leading order approximation.

Artyom V. Astashenok, Artyom V. Yurov, Sergey V. Chervon, Evgeniy V. Shabanov

We develop a method for constructing exact cosmological solutions in brane world cosmology. New classes of cosmological solutions on Randall-Sandrum brane are obtained. The superpotential and Hubble parameter are represented in quadratures. These solutions have inflationary phases under general assumptions and also describe an exit from the inflationary phas

Hojoong Jung, King Y. Fong, Chi Xiong, Hong X. Tang

Aluminum nitride has been shown to possess both strong Kerr nonlinearity and electro-optic Pockels effect. By combining these two effects, here we demonstrate on-chip reversible on/off switching of the optical frequency comb generated by an aluminum nitride microring resonator. We optimize the design of gating electrodes and the underneath resonator structur

Qifeng LI

We show that nef cycle classes on smooth complete spherical varieties are effective, and the products of nef cycle classes are also nef. Let X be a smooth projective spherical variety such that its effective cycle classes of codimension k are nef, where 1<= k <= dim(X)-1. We study the properties of X. And we show that if X is a toric variety, then X is isomo

Jeremy Shears

William Sadler Franks (1851-1935) was astronomer-in-charge at F.J. Hanbury&#39;s private observatory at Brockhurst, near East Grinstead, Sussex, from 1909 until his death in 1935. This paper reviews the observational projects Franks undertook at Brockhurst, including his work on double stars, red stars, diffuse nebulae and dark nebulae, as well as his involv

Victoria Gitman, Thomas A. Johnstone

Laver, and Woodin independently, showed that models of ${\rm ZFC}$ are uniformly definable in their set-forcing extensions, using a ground model parameter. We investigate ground model definability for models of fragments of ${\rm ZFC}$, particularly of ${\rm ZF}+{\rm DC}_δ$ and of ${\rm ZFC}^-$, and we obtain both positive and negative results. Generalizing

Ryan Mickler

We study an analogue of the analytic torsion for elliptic complexes that are graded by $\mathbb{Z}_2$, orignally constructed by Mathai and Wu. Motivated by topological T-duality, Bouwknegt an Mathai study the complex of forms on an odd-dimensional manifold equipped with with the twisted differential $d_H = d+H$, where $H$ is a closed odd-dimensional form. We

Ariana Muñoz, Gesa Grüning, Luis Roa

The basic entanglement-swapping scheme can be seen as a process which allows to redistribute the Bell states&#39; properties between different pairs of a four qubits system. Achieving the task requires performing a von Neumann measurement, which projects a pair of factorized qubits randomly onto one of the four Bell states. In this work we propose a similar

Brendan Farrell, Raj Rao Nadakuditi

We address the local spectral behavior of the random matrix $Π_1 U^{\otimes k} Π_2 U^{\otimes k *} Π_1$, where $U$ is a Haar distributed unitary matrix of size $n\times n$, the factor $k$ is at most $c_0\log n$ for a small constant $c_0>0$, and $Π_1,Π_2$ are arbitrary projections on $\ell_2^{n^k}$ of ranks proportional to $n^k$. We prove that in this setting

Peter B. Lerner

The widely considered assertion is that the unitarity of quantum mechanical evolution assures the preservation of information. It is even promoted in popular literature as an established fact. (Susskind, 2008) Yet, a simple chain of reasoning demonstrates that: 1) almost any evolutionary operator can be well approximated by a degenerate (finite-rank) operato

Matija Ćuk, Luke Dones, David Nesvorný

Lainey et al. (2012), by re-analyzing long-baseline astrometry of Saturn&#39;s moons, have found that the moons&#39; tidal evolution is much faster than previously thought, implying an order of magnitude stronger tidal dissipation within Saturn. This result is controversial and implies recent formation of at least some of the mid-sized icy moons of Saturn. H

G. M. Gusev, E. B. Olshanetsky, Z. D. Kvon, O. E. Raichev

We report transport measurements in HgTe-based quantum wells with well width of 8 nm, corresponding to quantum spin Hall state, subject to in-plane magnetic field. In the absence of the magnetic field the local and nonlocal resistances behave very similar, which confirms the edge state transport in our system. In the magnetic field, we observe a monotonic de

Jean-Claude Cuenin

We derive bounds on the location of non-embedded eigenvalues of Dirac operators on the half-line with non-Hermitian $L^1$-potentials. The results are sharp in the non-relativistic or weak-coupling limit. In the massless case, the absence of discrete spectrum is proved under a smallness assumption.

Suho Oh, Hwanchul Yoo

We suggest an axiom system for a collection of matchings that describes the triangulation of product of simplices.

Xian O. Camanho, Jose D. Edelstein, Gaston Giribet, Andres Gomberoff

We investigate a novel mechanism for phase transitions that is a distinctive feature of higher-curvature gravity theories. For definiteness, we bound ourselves to the case of Lovelock gravities. These theories are known to have several branches of asymptotically AdS solutions. Here, extending our previous work, we show that phase transitions among some of th

Steven R. Bell

We demonstrate that solving the classical problems mentioned in the title on quadrature domains when the given boundary data is rational is as simple as the method of partial fractions. A by-product of our considerations will be a simple proof that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on a double quadrature domain sends rational functions on the boundary to rational

D. H. Delphenich

The fundamental role of line geometry in the study of wave motion is first introduced in the general context by way of the tangent planes to the instantaneous wave surfaces, in which it is first observed that the possible frequency-wave number 1-forms are typically constrained by a dispersion law that is derived from a constitutive law by way of the field eq

Andrei Nechayev

A theoretical mechanism of laminar-turbulent transition originated from the deceleration of fluid streams on the walls of the channel or pipe is proposed. For Poiseuille flow an analytical expression relating the critical Reynolds number with the degree of disturbance of the flow is derived.