November 2013 arXiv papers — page 4

Zdeněk Dvořák

In this note, we combine ideas of several previous proofs in order to obtain a quite short proof of Grötzsch theorem.

Sergii Pud, Jing Li, Volodymyr Sibiliev, Mykhaylo Petrychuk

We employ noise spectroscopy and transconductance measurements to establish the optimal regimes of operation for our fabricated silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (Si NW FETs) sensors. A strong coupling between the liquid gate and back gate (the substrate) has been revealed and used for optimisation of signal-to-noise ratio in sub-threshold as well as

Mantao Huang, Brian K. VanLeeuwen, Daniel B. Litvin, Venkatraman Gopalan

Tables of crystallographic properties of double antisymmetry space groups, including symmetry element diagrams, general position diagrams, and positions, with multiplicities, site symmetries, coordinates, spin and roto vectors are presented.

Max F. Pitz, Rolf Suabedissen

This paper investigates topological reconstruction, related to the reconstruction conjecture in graph theory. We ask whether the homeomorphism types of subspaces of a space $X$ which are obtained by deleting singletons determine $X$ uniquely up to homeomorphism. If the question can be answered affirmatively, such a space is called reconstructible. We prove t

N. V. Khotkevych-Sanina, Yu. A. Kolesnichenko, J. M. van Ruitenbeek

We present a theoretical analysis of the standing wave patterns in STM images, which occur around surface point defects. We consider arbitrary dispersion relations for the surface states and calculate the conductance for a system containing a small-size tunnel contact and a surface impurity. We find rigorous theoretical relations between the interference pat

A. Schad, J. Timmer, M. Roth

We use a novel global helioseismic analysis method to infer the meridional flow in the deep Solar interior. The method is based on the perturbation of eigenfunctions of Solar p modes due to meridional flow. We apply this method to time series obtained from Dopplergrams measured by the Michelson Doppler Imager aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SO

L. Besombes, H. Boukari

We report on the spin properties of individual Mn atoms in II-VI semiconductor strain free quantum dots. Strain free Mn-doped CdTe quantum dots are formed by width fluctuations in thin quantum wells lattice matched on a CdTe substrate. These quantum dots permit to optically probe and address any spin state of a Mn atom in a controlled strain environment. The

Viatcheslav Kharlamov, Rares Rasdeaconu

We provide a real analog of the Yau-Zaslow formula counting rational curves on $K3$ surfaces.

A. A. Bespalov, A. S. Mel'nikov, A. I. Buzdin

In systems combining type-II superconductivity and magnetism the non-stationary magnetic field of moving Abrikosov vortices may excite spin waves, or magnons. This effect leads to the appearance of an additional damping force acting on the vortices. By solving the London and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations we calculate the magnetic moment induced force act

R. Zamanov, J. Martí, K. Stoyanov, A. Borissova

We studied the average orbital modulation of various parameters (gamma-ray flux, H-alpha emission line, optical V band brightness) of the radio- and gamma-ray emitting Be/X-ray binary LSI+61303. Using the Spearman rank correlation test, we found highly significant correlations between the orbital variability of the equivalent width of the blue hump of the H-

Ilenia Battiato

Inspired by the lotus effect, many studies in the last decade have focused on micro- and nano-patterned surfaces. They revealed that patterns at the micro-scale combined with high contact angles can significantly reduce skin drag. However, the mechanisms and parameters that control drag reduction, e.g. Reynolds number and pattern geometry, are still unclear.

Avik Kumar Mahata, Utpal Borah, Aravind Da Vinci, B. Ravishankar

In this paper we will be represent the transformation of a noisy dataset into a regular and smooth curve. We performed torsion test on 15Cr 15Ni Titanium modified austenitic stainless steel up to its rupture. We did it these torsion tests multiple strain rates varying from 0.001 to 25 per Sec and obtained huge number of data points has been obtained from wit

T. Lancaster, P. A. Goddard, S. J. Blundell, F. R. Foronda

We investigate the structural and magnetic properties of two molecule-based magnets synthesized from the same starting components. Their different structural motifs promote contrasting exchange pathways and consequently lead to markedly different magnetic ground states. Through examination of their structural and magnetic properties we show that [Cu(pyz)(H$_

Thomas Morzadec

In [Mor], we have introduced a notion of flat laminations on surfaces endowed with a flat structure, similar to geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces. Here is a sequel to this article that aims at defining transversal measures on flat laminations similar to transversal measures on hyperbolic laminations, taking into account that two different leaves of

Paul Ziegler

We give a new proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture in positive characteristic for finitely generated subgroups. We also make some progress towards the full Mordell-Lang conjecture in positive characteristic.

Francisco Cordobes Aguilar, Andrew F Ho, Janne Ruostekoski

We show how off-resonant light scattering can provide quantitative information on antiferromagnetic ordering of a two-species fermionic atomic gas in a tightly-confined two-dimensional optical lattice. We analyze the emerging magnetic ordering of atoms in the mean-field and in random phase approximations and show how the many-body static and dynamic correlat

Wayne Croft, Charles M Elliott, Graham Ladds, Björn Stinner

We present a novel parameter identification algorithm for the estimation of parameters in models of cell motility using imaging data of migrating cells. Two alternative formulations of the objective functional that measures the difference between the computed and observed data are proposed and the parameter identification problem is formulated as a minimisat

Mark Smith

The measurement of the charm CP violation observable $A_Γ$ using 1 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV recorded by the LHCb detector in 2011 is presented. This new result is the most accurate to date.

Diego Pazó, Juan M. López, Antonio Politi

Finite-time Lyapunov exponents of generic chaotic dynamical systems fluctuate in time. These fluctuations are due to the different degree of stability across the accessible phase-space. A recent numerical study of spatially-extended systems has revealed that the diffusion coefficient D of the Lyapunov exponents (LEs) exhibits a non-trivial scaling behavior,

Andrea Camposeo, Luana Persano, Dario Pisignano

Polymer micro- and nano-fibers, made of organic light-emitting materials with optical gain, show interesting lasing properties. Fibers with diameters from few tens of nm to few microns can be fabricated by electrospinning, a method based on electrostatic fields applied to a polymer solution. The morphology and emission properties of these fibers, composed of

Sören Lange, Martin Galuska, Simon Reiter, Elisabetta Prencipe

Monte Carlo simulations for charmonium(-like) states at the planned PANDA experiment are presented, in particular the search for the $h_c'$, the search for the $^3F_4$ state and the search for the rare decay Y(4260)$\rightarrow$$e^+$$e^-$.

Daniel Hoef

In this article we study the distribution of the number of points of a simple random walk, visited a given number of times (the k-multiple point range). In a previous article we had developed a graph theoretical approach which is now extended from the closed to the the non restricted walk. Based on a study of the analytic properties of the first hit determin

Sören Lange

Charmonium(-like) or bottomonium(-like) states, which are incompatible with predictions from a static quark anti-quark potential model, are often refered to as XYZ states. In this lecture, some peculiar properties of states such as the X(3872), the Y(4260), or the Zc(3900) are explained. Such properties are utmost proximity to a threshold, overpopulation of

Ugo Marzolino

Entanglement of identical massive particles recently gained attention, because of its relevance in highly controllable systems, e.g. ultracold gases. It accounts for correlations among modes instead of particles, providing a different paradigm for quantum information. We prove that the entanglement of almost all states rarely vanishes in the presence of nois

J. M. Dias, F. S. Navarra, M. Nielsen, C. Zanetti

Supposing the $Z_{c}^{+}(3900)$ as a charged partner of the X(3872), we use the QCD sum rules techinques in order to obtain the coupling constants of the $Z_{c}^{+} \, J/ψ\, π^{+}$, $Z_{c}^{+}\, η_{c}\, ρ^{+}$ and $Z_{c}^{+}\,D^{+}\, \bar{D}^{*}$ vertices and the corresponding decay width of these channels. We considered that the $Z_{c}(3900)$ can be describ

Mine Alsan

Polar coding over a class of binary discrete memoryless channels with channel knowledge at the encoder is studied. It is shown that polar codes achieve the capacity of convex and one-sided classes of symmetric channels.

E. J. Buis, E. J. J. Doppenberg, R. A. Nieuwland, P. M. Toet

The detection of ultra high energetic cosmic neutrinos provides a unique means to search for extragalactic sources that accelerate particles to extreme energies. It allows to study the neutrino component of the GZK cut-off in the cosmic ray energy spectrum and the search for neutrinos beyond this limit. Due to low expected flux and small interaction cross-se

Sergey V. Pchelintsev, Ivan P. Shestakov

It is proved that the prime degenerate (-1,1) algebra constructed in [13] (the (-1,1)-monster) generates the same variety of algebras as the Grassman (-1,1)-algebra. Moreover, the same variety is generated by the Grassmann envelope of any simple nonassociative (-1,1)-superalgebra. The variety occurs to be the smallest variety of (-1,1)-algebras that contains

Patrick Spradlin

The LHCb experiment has fully reconstructed close to 10^9 charm hadron decays---by far the world's largest sample. During the 2011-2012 running periods, the effective proton-proton beam crossing rate was 11-15 MHz while the rate at which events were written to permanent storage was 3-5 kHz. Prompt charm candidates (produced at the primary interaction ver

Antonio Canale, Bruno Scarpa

Discrete mixture models are one of the most successful approaches for density estimation. Under a Bayesian nonparametric framework, Dirichlet process location-scale mixture of Gaussian kernels is the golden standard, both having nice theoretical properties and computational tractability. In this paper we explore the use of the skew-normal kernel, which can n

B. Pila-Díez, K. Kuijken, J. T. A. de Jong, H. Hoekstra

We use data from two CFHT-MegaCam photometric pencil-beam surveys in the g' and the r' bands to measure distances to the Sagittarius, the Palomar 5 and the Orphan stream. We show that, using a cross-correlation algorithm to detect the turnoff point of the main sequence, it is possible to overcome the main limitation of a two-bands pencil-beam survey,

Fabien Paillusson

Attraction between two indentical objects uniformly charged in solution seems intuitively surprising on the one hand because we know that such objects do repel in vacuum and on another hand because this simple mental picture is still preserved within the Poisson-Boltzmann theory of ion-mediated interactions. We will see, however, that by relaxing some contra

M. S. Väisälä, J. Harju, M. J. Mantere, O. Miettinen

Cha-MMS1 was mapped in the NH_3(1,1) line and the 1.2 cm continuum using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, ATCA. The angular resolution of the ATCA observations is 7'' (~ 1000 AU), and the velocity resolution is 50 m s^{-1}. The core was also mapped with the 64-m Parkes telesope in the NH_3(1,1) and (2,2) lines. Observations from Herschel Space

Manaf Adnan Salah

Building upon the linear version of mixed summable sequences in arbitrary Banach spaces of A. Pietsch, we introduce a nonlinear version of his concept and study its properties. Extending previous work of J. D. Farmer, W. B. Johnson and J. A. Chávez-Domínguez, we define Lipschitz $\left(\mathfrak{m}^L\left(s;q\right),p\right)$ and Lipschitz $\left(p,\mathfrak

Nuria López Vaquero, J. Luis Egido, Tomás R. Rodríguez

Pairing fluctuations are self-consistently incorporated on the same footing as the quadrupole deformations in present state of the art calculations including particle number and angular momentum conservation as well as configuration mixing. The approach is complemented by the use of the finite range density dependent Gogny force which, with a unique source f

Mariusz Mirek, Bartosz Trojan

The aim of this paper is to prove Cotlar's ergodic theorem modeled on the set of primes.

Benoit Collins, Motohisa Fukuda, Ion Nechita

We study the asymptotic behavior of the output states of sequences of quantum channels. Under a natural assumption, we show that the output set converges to a compact convex set, clarifying and substantially generalizing results in [BCN13]. Random mixed unitary channels satisfy the assumption; we give a formula for the asymptotic maximum output infinity norm

Laurent Chupin

We provide a proof of global regularity of solutions of some models of viscoelastic flow with an integral constitutive law, in the two spatial dimensions and in a periodic domain. Models that are included in these results are classical models for flow memory: for instance some K-BKZ models, the PSM model or the Wagner model. The proof is based on the fact th

Yoel Groman

We show the existence of a thick thin decomposition of the domain of a pseudo holomorphic curve with boundary. The geometry of the thick part is bounded uniformly in the energy. Furthermore, in the thick part, there is a uniform bound on the differential which is exponential in the energy. The thin part consists of annuli of small energy the number of which

Mathias Bürger, Claudio De Persis

This paper studies the problem of output agreement in networks of nonlinear dynamical systems under time-varying disturbances, using dynamic diffusive couplings. Necessary conditions are derived for general networks of nonlinear systems, and these conditions are explicitly interpreted as conditions relating the node dynamics and the network topology. For the

Gunnar S. Bali, Luca Castagnini, Biagio Lucini, Marco Panero

We present an update of our project of computing the meson spectrum and decay constants in large-N QCD. The results are obtained in the quenched approximation with the Wilson fermion action for N = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 17 and extrapolated to infinite N. We non-perturbatively determine the renormalization factors for local quark bilinears that are needed to c

V. K. Dobrev

In the present paper we review the progress of the project of classification and construction of invariant differential operators for non-compact semisimple Lie groups. Our starting points is the class of algebras, which we called earlier 'conformal Lie algebras' (CLA), which have very similar properties to the conformal algebras of Minkowski space-t

Vlad Bally, Lucia Caramellino

We give estimates of the distance between the densities of the laws of two functionals $F$ and $G$ on the Wiener space in terms of the Malliavin-Sobolev norm of $F-G.$ We actually consider a more general framework which allows one to treat with similar (Malliavin type) methods functionals of a Poisson point measure (solutions of jump type stochastic equation

Victor Doroshenko, Andrea Santangelo, Rozaliya Doroshenko, Isabel Caballero

Accretion onto magnetized neutron stars is expected to be centrifugally inhibited at low accretion rates. Several sources, however, are known to pulsate in quiescence at luminosities below the theoretical limit predicted for the onset of the centrifugal barrier. The source 1A 0535+262 is one of them. Here we present the results of an analysis of a ~50 ks lon

J. T. Londergan, J. Nebreda, J. R. Pelaez, A. Szczepaniak

We show how the Regge trajectory of a resonance can be obtained from its pole in a scattering process and analytic constraints in the complex angular momentum plane. The method is suited for resonances that dominate an elastic scattering amplitude. In particular, from the rho(770) resonance pole in pion-pion scattering, we obtain its linear Regge trajectory,

R. O. Umucalilar, M. Wouters, I. Carusotto

We propose methods to create and observe Laughlin-like states of photons in a strongly nonlinear optical cavity. Such states of strongly interacting photons can be prepared by pumping the cavity with a Laguerre-Gauss beam, which has a well-defined orbital angular momentum per photon. The Laughlin-like states appear as sharp resonances in the particle-number-

Diego Pazó, Juan M. López, Miguel A. Rodríguez

In a dynamical system the first Lyapunov vector (LV) is associated with the largest Lyapunov exponent and indicates ---at some point on the attractor--- the direction of maximal growth in tangent space. The LV corresponding to the second largest Lyapunov exponent generally points at a different direction, but tangencies between both vectors can in principle

Hikaru Yamamoto

In this paper we generalize examples of Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian submanifolds constructed by Lee and Wang in $\mathbb{C}^m$ to toric almost Calabi-Yau manifolds. We construct examples of weighted Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian submanifolds in toric almost Calabi-Yau manifolds and solutions of generalized Lagrangian mean curvature flows starting f

Ansgar Jüngel, Josipa-Pina Milišić

New one-leg multistep time discretizations of nonlinear evolution equations are investigated. The main features of the scheme are the preservation of the nonnegativity and the entropy-dissipation structure of the diffusive equations. The key ideas are to combine Dahlquist's G-stability theory with entropy-dissipation methods and to introduce a nonlinear

P. Rafanelli, S. Ciroi, V. Cracco, F. Di Mille

It is becoming clear that we can define two different types of nearby AGN belonging to the Seyfert 1 class (S1), on the basis of the match of the intensities of their Broad Balmer Lines (BBL) with the Boltzmann Plots (BP). These two types of S1 galaxies, that we call BP-S1 and NoBP-S1, are characterized, in first approximation, by Broad Line Regions (BLR) wi

Bindiya Arora, Harjeet Kaur, B. K. Sahoo

We evaluate separation dependent van der Waal dispersion ($C_3$) coefficients for the interactions of the Li, Na, K and Rb alkali atoms with a graphene layer and with a single walled carbon nanotube (CNT) using the hydrodynamic and Dirac models. The results from both the models are evaluated using accurate values of the dynamic polarizabilities of the above

Pieter Van Gorp, Louis M. Rose, Christian Krause

The aim of the Transformation Tool Contest (TTC) series is to compare the expressiveness, the usability and the performance of graph and model transformation tools along a number of selected case studies. Participants want to learn about the pros and cons of each tool considering different applications. A deeper understanding of the relative merits of differ

Valentina Santoro

We present recent results on charmonium and charmonium-like states from the BaBar B-factory located at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

KEDR Collaboration, V. M. Aulchenko, E. M. Baldin, A. K. Barladyan

We report results of experiments performed with the KEDR detector at the VEPP-4M $e^+e^-$ collider. They include final results for the mass and other parameters of the $J/ψ$, $ψ(2S)$ and $ψ(3770)$ and $J/ψ\toγη_c$ branching fraction determination.

S. Kondrat, P. Wu, R. Qiao, A. Kornyshev

Having smaller energy density than batteries, supercapacitors have exceptional power density and cyclability. Their energy density can be increased using ionic liquids and electrodes with sub-nanometer pores, but this tends to reduce their power density and compromise the key advantage of supercapacitors. To help address this issue through material optimizat

Demetris T. Christopoulos

We are presenting a method for computing the Fourier coefficients of a given polynomial regression by using the trapezoidal rule for numerical integration. As function basis we use the orthogonal Legendre polynomials. The results are accurate and stable compared to Forsythe's method.

Rohit Verma

The phenomenology of the most general lepton mass matrices obtained through weak basis transformations has been discussed. Using a hierarchical parametrization of these mass matrices, the exact relations for lepton mixing angles have been obtained assuming normal neutrino mass hierarchy and natural structures of lepton mass matrices. The recent three neutrin

Mark Kambites, Alexandr Kazda

We study the complexity of computation in finitely generated free left, right and two-sided adequate semigroups and monoids. We present polynomial time (quadratic in the RAM model of computation) algorithms to solve the word problem and compute normal forms in each of these, and hence also to test whether any given identity holds in the classes of left, righ

Arnaud Chéritat

We give a proof of a phenomenon conjectured in our former article: "Beltrami forms, affine surfaces and the Schwarz-Christoffel formula: a worked out example of straightening". We also start an abstract discussion of the notion of limits of Riemann surfaces.

Moshe Marcus, Phuoc-Tai Nguyen

We study positive solutions of equation (E) $-Δu + u^p|\nabla u|^q= 0$ ($0<p$, $0\leq q\leq 2$, $p+q>1$) and other related equations in a smooth bounded domain $Ω\subset {\mathbb R}^N$. We show that if $N(p+q-1)<p+1$ then, for every positive, finite Borel measure $μ$ on $\partial Ω$, there exists a solution of (E) such that $u=μ$ on $\partial Ω$. Furthermore

Jianping Wang, Ke Zhang, Xianyu Du, He Zhen

Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a challenge for high-data-rate optical-communication systems. More researches are desirable for impairments that is induced by PMD in high-speed optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system. In this paper, an approximately analytical method for evaluating the power penalty due to first-or

V. P. Druzhinin

The process e+e- --> p anti-p has been studied in the p anti-p mass range from threshold to 6.5 GeV/c^2 using the initial-state-radiation technique with both detected and undetected photon. The analysis is based on 469 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider at e+e- center-of-mass energies near 10.6 GeV.

A. Omizzolo, G. Fasano, D. Reverte Paya, C. De Santis

This paper belongs to a series presenting the WIde Field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). The WINGS project has collected wide-field, optical (B,V) and near-infrared (J,K) imaging, as well as medium resolution spectroscopy of galaxies in a sample of 76 X-ray selected nearby clusters (0.04 < z < 0.07), with the aim of establishing a reference sample for

Bojana Mihailovic, Marija Rasajski

Eigenvalues of a graph are the eigenvalues of the corresponding (0,1)-adjacency matrix. The second largest eigenvalue lambda_2 provides significant information on characteristics and structure of graphs. Therefore, finding bounds for lambda_2 is a topic of interest in many fields. So far we have studied the graphs with the property lambda_2 is less or equal

Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico

The deviation from geodesic motion of the world line of an extended body endowed with multipolar structure up to the mass quadrupole moment is studied in the Kerr background according to the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon model. The properties of the quadrupole tensor are clarified by identifying the relevant components which enter the equations of motion, leadi

A. Tawfik, E. Abbas

The hadron ratios measured in central Au-Au collisions are analysed by means of Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model over a wide range of nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies ranging from 7.7 to 200 GeV as offered by the STAR Beam Energy Scan I (BES-I). We restrict the discussion on STAR BES-I, because of large statistics and over all homogeneity of STAR meas

Mai Hoang Bien

Let $D$ be a division algebra over a field $F$. In this paper, we prove that there exist $a,b,x,y\in D^*$ such that $F(ab-ba)$ and $F(xyx^{-1}y^{-1})$ are maximal subfields of $D$, which answers questions posted in [5].

B. W. Stappers, A. M. Archibald, J. W. T. Hessels, C. G. Bassa

We present radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations which reveal that the binary millisecond pulsar / low-mass X-ray binary transition system PSR J1023+0038 has undergone a transformation in state. Whereas until recently the system harbored a bright millisecond radio pulsar, the radio pulsations at frequencies between 300 to 5000 MHz have now become undetect

W. Bednarek

A significant amount of the millisecond pulsars has been discovered within binary systems. In several such binary systems the masses of the companion stars have been derived allowing to distinguish two classes of objects, called the Black Widow and the Redback binaries. Pulsars in these binary systems are expected to produce winds which, colliding with stell

Chrisphin Karthick. M, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, D. K. Sahu, B. B. Sanwal

We present a study of the properties of star-forming regions within a sample of 7 Wolf-Rayet (WR) galaxies. We analyze their morphologies, colours, star-formation rate (SFR), metallicities, and stellar populations combining broad-band and narrow-band photometry with low-resolution optical spectroscopy. The $UBVRI$ observations were made through the 2m HCT (H

Sergey Rybakov

For a morphism of smooth schemes over a regular affine base we define functors of derived direct image and extraordinary inverse image on coderived categories of DG-modules over de Rham DG-algebras. Positselski proved that for a smooth algebraic variety $X$ over a field $k$ of characteristic zero the coderived category of DG-modules over $Ω^\bullet_{X/k}$ is

Roberto Taverna, Fabio Muleri, Roberto Turolla, Paolo Soffitta

The study of magnetars is of particular relevance since these objects are the only laboratories where the physics in ultra-strong magnetic fields can be directly tested. Until now, spectroscopic and timing measurements at X-ray energies in soft gamma-repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXPs) have been the main source of information about the physica

Y. Kok, M. J. Ireland, P. G. Tuthill, J. G. Robertson

The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) now incorporates a new beam combiner, called the Microarcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry instrument (MUSCA), for the purpose of high precision differential astrometry of bright binary stars. Operating in the visible wavelength regime where photon-counting and post-processing fringe tracking

Maria Barbi, Fabien Paillusson

Gene expression and regulation rely on an apparently finely tuned set of reactions between some proteins and DNA. Such DNA-binding proteins have to find specific sequences on very long DNA molecules and they mostly do so in absence of any active process. It has been rapidly recognized that to achieve this task these proteins should be efficient at both searc

Topi Korhonen, Pekka Koskinen

Investigating topological effects in materials requires often the modeling of material systems as a whole. Such modeling restricts system sizes, and makes it hard to extract systematic trends. Here, we investigate the effect of Möbius topology in the electronic structures of armchair graphene nanoribbons. Using density-functional tight-binding method and min

A. Phirouznia, L. Javadian, J. Poursamad Bonab, K. Jamshidi-Ghaleh

Low field response function calculations have been performed on a two-dimensional electron gas with well-defined electron-surface roughness scattering. The Lindhard model was employed to compute the response function. In particular, detailed investigations were made on the system searching for an interplay between surface roughness with well-defined correlat

Linlin Zhang

The polarizations of Y(nS) (n=1,2,3) and prompt J/ψand ψ(2S), as well as the differential cross section of the Y(nS), are measured in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, using a dimuon data sample collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb-1. The differential cross section is measured as a functio

N. Jayaprasad, P. Sadani, M. Bhalerao, Anand S. Sengupta

We design a low-cost, electromagnetically coupled, simple harmonic oscillator and demonstrate free, damped and forced oscillations in an under-graduate (UG) Physics laboratory. It consists of a spring-magnet system that can oscillate inside a cylinder around which copper coils are wound. Such demonstrations can compliment the traditional way in which a Waves

A. Dobrotka, S. Mineshige, J. -U. Ness

We analysed an X-ray light curve of the dwarf nova RU Peg taken by XMM-Newton with a duration of 46300 s. The power density spectrum has a complicated shape with two red noise and two white noise components, indicating the presence of two turbulent regions. We developed a statistical &#34;toy model&#34; to study light curves with variability produced by an u

Lei Nie, Zhiwei Zhang, Daniel Rubin, Jianxiong Chu

It is generally believed that bias is minimized in well-controlled randomized clinical trials. However, bias can arise in active controlled noninferiority trials because the inference relies on a previously estimated effect size obtained from a historical trial that may have been conducted for a different population. By implementing a likelihood reweighting

Bahman Ahmadi

It was first shown by Cameron and Ku that the group $G=Sym(n)$ has the strict EKR property. Then Godsil and Meagher presented an entirely different proof of this fact using some algebraic properties of the symmetric group. A similar method was employed to prove that the projective general linear group $PGL(2,q)$, with its natural action on the projective lin

Charles J. Geyer, Caroline E. Ridley, Robert G. Latta, Julie R. Etterson

Random effects are implemented for aster models using two approximations taken from Breslow and Clayton [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 88 (1993) 9-25]. Random effects are analytically integrated out of the Laplace approximation to the complete data log likelihood, giving a closed-form expression for an approximate missing data log likelihood. Third and higher der

Lingsong Zhang, Haipeng Shen, Jianhua Z. Huang

We develop a robust regularized singular value decomposition (RobRSVD) method for analyzing two-way functional data. The research is motivated by the application of modeling human mortality as a smooth two-way function of age group and year. The RobRSVD is formulated as a penalized loss minimization problem where a robust loss function is used to measure the

Mohamed-Ali Hamza, Omar Saidi

We consider in this paper a large class of perturbed semilinear wave equation with subconformal power nonlinearity. In particular, we allow log perturbations of the main source. We derive a Lyapunov functional in similarity variables and use it to derive the blow-up rate. Throughout this work, we use some techniques developed for the unperturbed case studied

Lixun Zhang, Yongtao Guan, Brian P. Leaderer, Theodore R. Holford

Data used to assess acute health effects from air pollution typically have good temporal but poor spatial resolution or the opposite. A modified longitudinal model was developed that sought to improve resolution in both domains by bringing together data from three sources to estimate daily levels of nitrogen dioxide ($\mathrm {NO}_2$) at a geographic locatio

Lukas Einkemmer, Matthias Wiesenberger

In this paper we consider a conservative discretization of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. We propose an extension of Arakawa&#39;s classical finite difference scheme for fluid flow in the vorticity-stream function formulation to a high order discontinuous Galerkin approximation. In addition, we show numerical simulations that de

Pakkinee Chitsakul

The aim of this paper is to determine the structure of the cut locus for a class of surfaces of revolution homeomorphic to a cylinder. Let $M$ denote a cylinder of revolution which admits a reflective symmetry fixing a parallel called the equator of $M.$ It will be proved that the cut locus of a point $p$ of $M$ is a subset of the union of the meridian and t

Joseph Guinness, Michael L. Stein

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program is a U.S. Department of Energy project that collects meteorological observations at several locations around the world in order to study how weather processes affect global climate change. As one of its initiatives, it operates a set of fixed but irregularly-spaced monitoring facilities in the Southern Great Plai

Yukihiko Hasegawa, Toru Tsuribe

We examine the effect of the dust size distribution on Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the protoplanetary disk with dust sedimentation. With newly taking into account the dust size distribution, the growth rate of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is calculated using the linear stability analysis with the dust density distribution consistent with sedimentat

R. M. Albuquerque, J. M. Dias, M. Nielsen, C. M. Zanetti

Using the QCD sum rule approach we study the X(4260) state assuming that it can be described by a mixed charmonium-tetraquark current with $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ quantum numbers. For the mixing angle around $θ=(53.0 \pm 0.5)^0$, we obtain a value for the mass which is in good agreement with the experimental mass of the X(4260). For the decay width into the channel

Xuan Guang, Fang-Wei Fu

In the practical network communications, many internal nodes in the network are required to not only transmit messages but decode source messages. For different applications, four important classes of linear network codes in network coding theory, i.e., linear multicast, linear broadcast, linear dispersion, and generic network codes, have been studied extens

Cai Yun Ding, Yan Li

Properties of semi-convection and core convective overshooting of stars with 15 $M_{\odot}$ and 30 $M_{\odot}$ are calculated in the present paper. New methods are used to deal with semi-convection. Different entropy gradient is used when adopting the Schwarzschild method and the Ledoux method which are used to confine the convective boundary and to calculat

Taiki Haga

We investigate a novel type of Langevin model that describes the nonequilibrium dynamics of a classical particle interacting with a spatially extended environment. In this model, a particle, which interacts with the environment through the nonlinear interaction Hamiltonian, is driven by a constant external force, and subsequently, it reaches a nontrivial non

J Datta, H S Biswas, P Rao, G L N Reddy

The Hydrogenated Diamond Like Carbon (HDLC) thin films are deposited on Silicon substrate at room temperature using asymmetric capacitively coupled RF plasma with varying flow rates of methane. These films are undergone annealing at high vacuum and high temperature furnace. The as-prepared and annealed HDLC films have been depth profiled for hydrogen using t

Yi-King Choi, Wenping Wang, Bernard Mourrain, Changhe Tu

A composite quadric model (CQM) is an object modeled by piecewise linear or quadric patches. We study the continuous detection problem of a special type of CQM objects which are commonly used in CAD/CAM, that is, the boundary surfaces of such a CQM intersect only in straight line segments or conic curve segments. We present a framework for continuous collisi

Alex Taekyung Lee, Myung Joon Han

Using first-principles density functional theory calculations, we examined the ground state property of LaTiO$_3$/LaAlO$_3$ superlattice. Total energy calculations, taking account of the structural distortions, $U$ dependence, and exchange correlation functional dependence, show that the spin and orbital ground state can be controlled systematically by the e

Subodh Pudasaini, Seokjoo Shin, Kyung Sup Kwak

Maximizing the tag reading rate of a reader is one of the most important design objectives in RFID systems as the tag reading rate is inversely proportional to the time required to completely read all the tags within the reader&#39;s radio field. To this end, numerous techniques have been independently suggested so far and they can be broadly categorized int

Bradley E. Schaefer

The Star of Bethlehem is only known from a few verses in the Gospel of Matthew, with the Star inspiring and leading the Magi (i.e., Persian astrologers) to Jerusalem and ultimately worshipping the young Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. In the last four centuries, astronomers have put forth over a dozen greatly different naturalistic explanations, all involving ast

David Roe

We generalize the work of DeBacker and Reeder to the case of unitary groups split by a tame extension. The approach is broadly similar and the restrictions on the parameter the same, but many of the details of the arguments differ. Let $G$ be a unitary group defined over a local field $K$ and splitting over a tame extension $E/K$. Given a Langlands parameter

Jian Huang, Shuangge Ma, Cun-Hui Zhang, Yong Zhou

We propose a new method, semi-penalized inference with direct false discovery rate control (SPIDR), for variable selection and confidence interval construction in high-dimensional linear regression. SPIDR first uses a semi-penalized approach to constructing estimators of the regression coefficients. We show that the SPIDR estimator is ideal in the sense that