November 2013 arXiv papers — page 42

Frank Elberzhager, Jürgen Münch, Dieter Rombach, Bernd Freimut

Inspections and testing are two of the most commonly performed software quality assurance processes today. Typically, these processes are applied in isolation, which, however, fails to exploit the benefits of systematically combining and integrating them. In consequence, tests are not focused based on early defect detection data. Expected benefits of such pr

V. B. Naik, H. Meng, J. X. Xiao, R. S. Liu

Magnetoelectric coupling between magnetic and electric dipoles is one of the cornerstones of modern physics towards developing the most energy-efficient magnetic data storage. Conventionally, magnetoelectric coupling is achieved in single-phase multiferroics or in magnetoelectric composite nanostructures consisting of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric/piezoele

O Crofts, P Allan, J Raimbach, A Tesini

The maintenance requirements for the equipment in the ITER Neutral Beam Cell requires components to be lifted and transported within the cell by remote means. To meet this requirement, the provision of an overhead crane with remote handling capabilities has been initiated. The layout of the cell has driven the design to consist of a monorail crane that trave

Lloyd P. Sanders, Michael A. Lomholt, Ludvig Lizana, Karl Fogelmark

Low-dimensional, complex systems are often characterized by logarithmically slow dynamics. We study the generic motion of a labeled particle in an ensemble of identical diffusing particles with hardcore interactions in a strongly disordered, one-dimensional environment. Each particle in this single file is trapped for a random waiting time $τ$ with power law

Shashwat Anand, Rishikesh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Singh

We report here the structure and dielectric studies on a new lead free (1-x)BaTiO3-xBi(Mg1/2Zr1/2)O3 solid solution to explore the morphotropic phase boundary. The powder x-ray diffraction studies on (1-x)BaTiO3-xBi(Mg1/2Zr1/2)O3 solid solution suggests that structure is tetragonal (P4mm) for the composition with x=0.05 and cubic for the composition with x=0

Christopher D Hardie, Ceri A Williams, Shuo Xua, Steve G Roberts

Pure Fe and model Fe-Cr alloys containing 5, 10 and 14%Cr were irradiated with Fe+ ions at a maximum energy of 2MeV to the same dose of 0.6dpa at temperatures of 300 C, 400 C and 500 C, and at dose rates corresponding to 6 x 10-4 dpa/s and 3 x 10-5 dpa/s. All materials exhibited an increase in hardness after irradiation at 300 C. After irradiation at 400 C,

Vijay Menon

Prime numbers play a very vital role in modern cryptography and especially the difficulties involved in factoring numbers composed of product of two large prime numbers have been put to use in many modern cryptographic designs. Thus, the problem of distinguishing prime numbers from the rest is vital and therefore there is a need to have efficient primality t

Tomonori Sato, Keisuke Yamada, Yoshinobu Nakatani

We report on the switching of the magnetic vortex core in a Pac-man disk using a magnetic field pulse, investigated via micromagnetic simulations. The minimum core switching field is reduced by 72 % compared to that of a circular disk with the same diameter and thickness. However, the core switches irregularly with respect to both the field pulse amplitude a

Qi'an Guan, Xiangyu Zhou

In this article, we give a proof of the strong openness conjecture for plurisubharmonic functions posed by Demailly.

M. Bomben, A. Bagolini, M. Boscardin, L. Bosisio

In view of the LHC upgrade phases towards the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the ATLAS experiment plans to upgrade the Inner Detector with an all-silicon system. Because of its radiation hardness and cost effectiveness, the n-on-p silicon technology is a promising candidate for a large area pixel detector. The paper reports on the joint development, by LPNHE

Naim Bajcinca

The classical eigenvalue assignment problem is revisited in this note. We derive an analytic expression for pole placement which represents a slight generalization of the celebrated Bass-Gura and Ackermann formulae, and also is closely related to the modal procedure of Simon and Mitter.

Antonio González-Arroyo, Masanori Okawa

The twisted space-time reduced model of large $N$ QCD with various flavours of adjoint Wilson fermions is constructed applying the symmetric twist boundary conditions with flux $k$. The models with one and two flavours show distinctive behaviours. For the two flavor case, the string tension, calculated at $N=289$, approaches zero as we decrease the quark mas

Jonathan Jordan, Andrew R. Wade

We study an evolving spatial network in which sequentially arriving vertices are joined to existing vertices at random according to a rule that combines preference according to degree with preference according to spatial proximity. We investigate phase transitions in graph structure as the relative weighting of these two components of the attachment rule is

T. Ichikawa, K. Matsuyanagi, J. A. Maruhn, N. Itagaki

We investigate the precession motion of the exotic torus configuration in high-spin excited states of $^{40}$Ca. For this aim, we use the three-dimensional time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method. Although the high-spin torus isomer is a unique quantum object characterized by the alignment of angular momenta of independent single-particle motions, we find

Navid Ghadermarzy, Hassan Mansour, Ozgur Yilmaz

In this paper we address the recovery conditions of weighted $\ell_p$ minimization for signal reconstruction from compressed sensing measurements when partial support information is available. We show that weighted $\ell_p$ minimization with $0<p<1$ is stable and robust under weaker sufficient conditions compared to weighted $\ell_1$ minimization. Moreover,

K. G. Nagananda

The goal of this paper is to study the impact of the dynamic nature of bus voltage magnitudes and phase angles, which constitute the state of the power system, on the phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement problem. To facilitate this study, the placement problem is addressed from the perspective of the electrical structure which, unlike existing work on PMU

G. Scamps, D. Lacroix, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko

The density profiles of around 750 nuclei are analyzed using the Skyrme energy density functional theory. Among them, more than 350 nuclei are found to be deformed. In addition to rather standard properties of the density, we report a non-trivial behavior of the nuclear diffuseness as the system becomes more and more deformed. Besides the geometric effects e

Manuel Mayr, Thierry Rabilloud

While prefractionation has previously been shown to improve results in MS analysis, a novel combination provides an additional dimension of separation: protein fractionation by SDS-PAGE followed by IEF of tryptic peptides before separation by RP-LC [Atanassov and Urlaub, Proteomics 2013, 13, 2947-2955]. This three-step separation procedure prior to MS/MS sub

Thierry Rabilloud

The use of an extra SDS separation in a different buffer system provide a technique for deconvoluting 2D gel spots made of several proteins (Colignon et al. Proteomics, 2013, 13, 2077-2082). This technique keeps the quantitative analysis of the protein amounts and combines it with a strongly improved identification process by mass spectrometry, removing iden

Simon Postec, Jacques Froment, Béatrice Vedel

The Non-Local Means (NLM) image denoising algorithm pushed the limits of denoising. But it introduced a new paradigm, according to which one could capture the similarity of images with the NLM weights. We show that, contrary to the prevailing opinion, the NLM weights do not allow to get a reliable measure of the similarity in a noisy image, unless one add a

W. Reich, X. H. Sun, P. Reich, X. Y. Gao

Information of small-diameter sources is extracted from the Sino-German 6cm polarisation survey of the Galactic plane carried out with the Urumqi 25-m telescope. We performed two-dimensional elliptical Gaussian fits to the 6cm maps to obtain a list of sources with total-intensity and polarised flux densities. The source list contains 3832 sources with a fitt

A. E. Kolesov, P. N. Vabishchevich, M. V. Vasilyeva

In this work, we consider the coupled systems of linear unsteady partial differential equations, which arise in the modeling of poroelasticity processes. Stability estimates of weighted difference schemes for the coupled system of equations are presented. Approximation in space is based on the finite element method. We construct splitting schemes and give so

Abhijnan Rej

We survey systemic risks to financial markets and present a high-level description of an algorithm that measures systemic risk in terms of coupled networks.

Wei Chen, Wei-Zhen Deng, Jun He, Ning Li

In the past decade, many new charmonium (or charmonium-like) and bottomonium (or bottomonium-like) states were observed experimentally. I will review these XYZ states which do not fit into the quark model spectrum easily.

M. Bourgeat, M. Compin, S. Rivoire, G. Vasileiadis

The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia, Africa, is designed to study the origin of high energy cosmic rays from 100 Gev to few tens of TeV, using the Cherenkov technique. To minimize the systematic errors on the derived fluxes of the measured sources, one has to calculate the impact of the atmospheric properties, namely the extinction parameter a. A LIDAR can pr

A. Francis, O. Kaczmarek, M. Laine, M. Müller

The analytic continuation needed for the extraction of transport coefficients necessitates in principle a continuous function of the Euclidean time variable. We report on progress towards achieving the continuum limit for 2-point correlator measurements in thermal SU(3) gauge theory, with specific attention paid to scale setting. In particular, we improve up

Saša Simić, Luka Č. Popović

We investigate the variability of the continuum and broad lines in QSO spectra (particularly in the H$β$ line and continuum at $λ$ 5100 Å) caused by microlensing of a diffuse massive structure (like an open star cluster). We modeled the continuum and line emitting region and simulate a lensing event by a star cluster located in an intervening galaxy. Such a

Yoshio Komori, Hideo Hirose

A new parameterization and algorithm are proposed for seeking the primary relative maximum of the likelihood function in the three-parameter lognormal distribution. The parameterization yields the dimension reduction of the three-parameter estimation problem to a two-parameter estimation problem on the basis of an extended lognormal distribution. The algorit

Swee-Ping Chia

We analyse the process Z-zero to M1 M2, where M1 and M2 are pseudoscalar mesons with quark contents of q1 q-bar and q-bar q2 respectively. At the quark level, the process-zero to q1 q2-bar, where q1 and q2 are quarks of different flavours, receives contribution only from the Z-penguin. In order to fold the quark-level process to the hadronic process, we make

T. Yanagisawa, S. Mombetsu, H. Hidaka, H. Amitsuka

We have measured the elastic constant (C11-C12)/2 in URu2Si2 by means of high-frequency ultrasonic measurements in pulsed magnetic fields H || [001] up to 61.8 T in a wide temperature range from 1.5 to 116 K. We found a reduction of (C11-C12)/2 that appears only in the temperature and magnetic field region in which URu2Si2 exhibits a heavy-electron state and

Robert Schütky, Christian Ertler, Andreas Trügler, Ulrich Hohenester

We investigate surface plasmons at a planar interface between a normal dielectric and a topological insulator, where the Fermi-energy lies inside the bulk gap of the topological insulator and gives rise to a two-dimensional charge distribution of free Dirac electrons. We develop the methodology for the calculation of plasmon dispersions, using the framework

N. Javaid, A. BiBi, A. Javaid, Z. A. Khan

In this paper, we propose a new Quality Link Metric (QLM), ``Inverse Expected Transmission Count (InvETX)&#39;&#39; in Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. Then we compare performance of three existing QLMs which are based on loss probability measurements; Expected Transmission Count (ETX), Minimum Delay (MD), Minimum Loss (ML) in Static Wireless Mu

Ryan Schwartz, Jozsef Solymosi

The Subspace Theorem is a powerful tool in number theory. It has appeared in various forms and been adapted and improved over time. It&#39;s applications include diophantine approximation, results about integral points on algebraic curves and the construction of transcendental numbers. But its usefulness extends beyond the realms of number theory. Other appl

Neha Aggarwal, Sonam Mahajan, Aranya B Bhatttacherjee, Man Mohan

We present a detailed study to analyse the Dicke quantum phase transition within the thermodynamic limit for an optomechanically driven Bose-Einstein condensates in a cavity. The photodetection-based quantum optical measurements have been performed to study the dynamics and excitations of this optomechanical Dicke system. For this, we discuss the eigenvalue

De-Xing Kong, Chang-Hua Wei

In this paper, we introduce the concept of completely linear degeneracy for quasilinear hyperbolic systems in several space variables, and then get an interesting property for multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws. Some examples and applications are given at last.

Giang Dinh Nguyen

We develop a novel constitutive modeling approach for the analysis of fracture propagation in quasi-brittle materials using the Material Point Method. The kinematics of constitutive models is enriched with an additional mode of localized deformation to take into account the strain discontinuity once cracking has occurred. The crack details therefore can be s

De-Xing Kong, Changhua Wei

In this paper, we investigate the formation and propagation of singularities for the system for one-dimensional Chaplygin gas, which is described by a quasilinear hyperbolic system with linearly degenerate characteristic fields. The phenomena of concentration and the formation of ``$δ$-shock&#39;&#39; waves are identified and analyzed systematically for this

Nicola Di Mauro, Floriana Esposito

Dealing with structured data needs the use of expressive representation formalisms that, however, puts the problem to deal with the computational complexity of the machine learning process. Furthermore, real world domains require tools able to manage their typical uncertainty. Many statistical relational learning approaches try to deal with these problems by

Chee Leong Ching, Wei Khim Ng

We examine the nonperturbative effect of maximum momentum on the relativistic wave equations. In momentum representation, we obtain the exact eigen-energies and wavefunctions of one-dimensional Klein-Gordon and Dirac equation with linear confining potentials, and the Dirac oscillator. Bound state solutions are only possible when the strength of scalar potent

Walton A. Perkins

With the advent of the ability to create and study antihydrogen, we think it is appropriate to consider the possibility that antiphotons might not be identical to photons. First of all, we will look at the experimental evidence concerning multiple neutral pions and multiple photons. Because of its internal structure, the neutral kaon is not identical to its

Kien Duy Nguyen, Tuan Pham Minh, Quang Nhat Nguyen, Thanh Trung Nguyen

Friend suggestion is a fundamental problem in social networks with the goal of assisting users in creating more relationships, and thereby enhances interest of users to the social networks. This problem is often considered to be the link prediction problem in the network. ZingMe is one of the largest social networks in Vietnam. In this paper, we analyze the

Ioannis Z. Emiris, Victor Y. Pan, Elias P. Tsigaridas

Our Chapter in the upcoming Volume I: Computer Science and Software Engineering of Computing Handbook (Third edition), Allen Tucker, Teo Gonzales and Jorge L. Diaz-Herrera, editors, covers Algebraic Algorithms, both symbolic and numerical, for matrix computations and root-finding for polynomials and systems of polynomials equations. We cover part of these la

Victor Y. Pan, Guolian Qian

We estimate the norms of standard Gaussian random Toeplitz and circulant matrices and their inverses, mostly by means of combining some basic techniques of linear algebra. In the case of circulant matrices we obtain sharp probabilistic estimates, which show that these matrices are expected to be very well conditioned. Our probabilistic estimates for the norm

Victor Y. Pan

Matrices with the structures of Toeplitz, Hankel, Vandermonde and Cauchy types are omnipresent in modern computation. The four classes have distinct features, but in 1990 we showed that Vandermonde and Hankel multipliers transform all these structures into each other and proposed to employ this property to extend any successful algorithm that inverts matrice

Tingjun Yang

Direct (prompt) photon production is a field of very high interest in hadron colliders. It provides probes to search for new phenomena and to test QCD predictions. In this article, two recent cross-section results for direct photon production using the full CDF Run II data set are presented: diphoton production and photon production in association with a hea

Igor I. Baskin, Alexandre Varnek

This article reviews the application of fragment descriptors at different stages of virtual screening: filtering, similarity search, and direct activity assessment using QSAR/QSPR models. Several case studies are considered. It is demonstrated that the power of fragment descriptors stems from their universality, very high computational efficiency, simplicity

Bedangadas Mohanty

We present a review of the studies related to establishing the QCD phase diagram through high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. We particularly focus on the experimental results related to the formation of a quark-gluon phase, crossover transition and search for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram.

Ling Xiao

In this paper we consider a star-shaped hypersurface flow by mean curvature. Without any assumption on the convexity, we give a new proof of gradient estimate for a short time. As an application, we also give a lower bound for the blowing up time.

Jarno Rantaharju

We present a measurement of the running coupling in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions in the Yang-Mills gradient flow scheme. The simulations are performed with Schrödinger Functional boundary conditions using an improved HEX-smeared Wilson fermion action. We obtain a step scaling function by defining the coupling at a scale relative to the finite size of the

Jonathan G. Ligo, Minji Kim, Amin Emad, Olgica Milenkovic

Metagenomics is an emerging field of molecular biology concerned with analyzing the genomes of environmental samples comprising many different diverse organisms. Given the nature of metagenomic data, one usually has to sequence the genomic material of all organisms in a batch, leading to a mix of reads coming from different DNA sequences. In deep high-throug

James Obert, Huiping Cao

Multipath routing is the use of multiple potential paths through a network in order to enhance fault tolerance, optimize bandwidth use, and improve security. Selecting data flow paths based on cost addresses performance issues but ignores security threats. Attackers can disrupt the data flows by attacking the links along the paths. Denial-of-service, remote

Dong Xu, Guan-Nan Li, Xiao-Gang He

We carry out a $U$-spin symmetry analysis for CP violation in $B^- $ decays into three light $π^-π^-π^+$, $π^- K^-K^+$, $K^-K^-K^+$ and $K^- π^-π^+$ mesons. We clarify some subtle points in constructing decay amplitudes with $U=0$ formed by the two negatively charged light mesons in the final states. $U$-spin conserving momentum independent and momentum depe

Subhadipa Das, Manik Banik, Md. Rajjak Gazi, Ashutosh Rai

The amount of nonlocality in quantum theory is limited compared to that allowed in generalized no-signaling theory [Found. Phys. 24, 379 (1994)]. This feature, for example, gets manifested in the amount of Bell inequality violation as well as in the degree of success probability of Hardy&#39;s (Cabello&#39;s) nonlocality argument. Physical principles like in

Noah Simon, Richard Simon

With recent advances in high throughput technology, researchers often find themselves running a large number of hypothesis tests (thousands+) and esti- mating a large number of effect-sizes. Generally there is particular interest in those effects estimated to be most extreme. Unfortunately naive estimates of these effect-sizes (even after potentially account

Ümit Keleş, Bartosz Liedke, Karl-Heinz Heinig, Ceyhun Bulutay

Networks of silicon nanowires possess intriguing electronic properties surpassing the predictions based on quantum confinement of individual nanowires. Employing large-scale atomistic pseudopotential computations, as yet unexplored branched nanostructures are investigated in the subsystem level, as well as in full assembly. The end product is a simple but ve

Alejandro Aguilar-Zavoznik, Mario Pineda-Ruelas

Let us consider the pure quartic fields of the form $\K=\Q(\sqrt[4]{p})$ where $0<p\equiv 7\pmod{16}$ is a prime integer. We prove that the $2$-class group of $\K$ has order $2$. As a consequence of this, if the class number of $\K$ is $2$, then the Hilbert class field of $\K$ is $\H_\K=\K(\sqrt{2})$. Finally, we find a criterion to decide if an ideal of the

Luque Rubén, Hurtado Nuri y Ovalles Asdrúbal

In this job we have introduced a filtered adaptive technique that allows highlighting selective seismic events according to its polarization. This technique consists in the implementation of a polarizing filter based on the Single Value Decomposition (SVD). The SVD have a great variety of application in the processing of signals and images, in this case a se

Lucas A. Tarr, Dana W. Longcope, David E. McKenzie, Keiji Yoshimura

When magnetic flux emerges from beneath the photosphere it displaces the preexisting field in the corona, and a current sheet generally forms at the boundary between the old and new magnetic domains. Reconnection in the current sheet relaxes this highly stressed configuration to a lower energy state. This scenario is most familiar, and most often studied, in

Julio Torres, Nuri Hurtado y Milagrosa Aldana

We have used three different techniques for permeability prediction from porosity data in well PX12 at El Lago de Maracaibo. One of these techniques is statistical and is based in Fuzzy Logic. Another has been developed by H. Pape et al, based in Fractal Theory and the Kozeny-Carman equations, and the other one is an empirical model obtained in 1949 by Tixie

Caner Guclu, Salvatore Campione, Filippo Capolino

We investigate the capabilities of hyperbolic metamaterials (HMs) to couple near-fields (i.e., evanescent waves) emitted by a two-dimensional periodic array of electric dipoles to propagating waves. In particular, large order Floquet harmonics with transverse magnetic (TM) polarization, that would be evanescent in free space and therefore confined near the a

Ahmed A. Maarouf, Razvan A. Nistor, Ali Afzali-Ardakani, Marcelo A. Kuroda

Graphene nanomeshes (GNM&#39;s) formed by the creation of pore superlattices in graphene, are a possible route to graphene-based electronics due to their semiconducting properties, including the emergence of fractional eV band gaps. The utility of GNM&#39;s would be markedly increased if a scheme to stably and controllably dope them was developed. In this wo

M. T. Warnez, B. K. Muite

Recently-derived high-order splitting schemes with complex coefficients are shown to exhibit reduced convergence rates for certain parabolic evolution equations. When applied to semilinear reaction-diffusion equations with periodic boundary conditions, these splitting schemes are most efficient when the diffusion terms are much less stiff than the reaction t

Robert McLachlan, Klas Modin, Olivier Verdier

We develop Lie-Poisson integrators for general Hamiltonian systems on $\mathbf{R}^{3}$ equipped with the rigid body bracket. The method uses symplectic realisation of $\mathbf{R}^{3}$ on $T^{*}\mathbf{R}^{2}$ and application of symplectic Runge-Kutta schemes. As a side product, we obtain simple symplectic integrators for general Hamiltonian systems on the sp

Uri Bader, Alex Furman

We revisit Margulis-Zimmer Super-Rigidity and provide some generalizations. In particular we obtain super-rigidity results for lattices in higher-rank groups or product of groups, targeting at algebraic groups over arbitrary fields with absolute values. We also obtain cocycle super-rigidity results for a wide class of groups with respect to mixing actions. O

Anthony P. Hope, Thach G. Nguyen, Arnan Mitchell, Andrew D. Greentree

Adiabatic techniques have much potential to realise practical and robust optical waveguide devices. Traditionally photonic elements are limited to coupling schemes that rely on proximity to nearest neighbour elements. We combine adiabatic passage with a continuum based long-range optical bus to break free from such topological restraints and thereby outline

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Marcel A. Agüeros, Amanda P. Fournier, Rachel Street

Many photometric time-domain surveys are driven by specific goals, such as searches for supernovae or transiting exoplanets, which set the cadence with which fields are re-imaged. In the case of the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), several sub-surveys are conducted in parallel, leading to non-uniform sampling over its $\sim$$20,000 \mathrm{deg}^2$ footprint.

Ulrich Bauer, Michael Lesnick

We define a simple, explicit map sending a morphism $f:M \rightarrow N$ of pointwise finite dimensional persistence modules to a matching between the barcodes of $M$ and $N$. Our main result is that, in a precise sense, the quality of this matching is tightly controlled by the lengths of the longest intervals in the barcodes of $\ker f$ and $\mathop{\mathrm{

Frank Garvan, Chris Jennings-Shaffer

Bringmann, Lovejoy, and Osburn showed that the generating functions of the spt-overpartition functions spt(n), spt1(n), spt2(n), and M2spt(n) are quasimock theta functions, and satisfy a number of simple Ramanujan-like congruences. Andrews, Garvan, and Liang defined an spt-crank in terms of weighted vector partitions which combinatorially explain simple cong

John Christian Ottem, Kristian Ranestad, Bernd Sturmfels, Cynthia Vinzant

Quartic spectrahedra in 3-space form a semialgebraic set of dimension 24. This set is stratified by the location of its ten nodes. There are twenty maximal strata, identified recently by Degtyarev and Itenberg, via the global Torelli Theorem for real K3 surfaces. We here give a new proof that is self-contained and algorithmic. This involves extending Cayley&

Shelley D. Dionne, Hiroki Sayama, Francis J. Yammarino

Collective, especially group-based, managerial decision making is crucial in organizations. Using an evolutionary theoretic approach to collective decision making, agent-based simulations were conducted to investigate how human collective decision making would be affected by the agents&#39; diversity in problem understanding and/or behavior in discussion, as

Oscar J. C. Dias, Gary T. Horowitz, Nabil Iqbal, Jorge E. Santos

We present a detailed study of a single vortex in a holographic symmetry breaking phase. At low energies the system flows to an nontrivial conformal fixed point. Novel vortex physics arises from the interaction of these gapless degrees of freedom with the vortex: at low energies the vortex may be understood as a conformal defect in this low energy theory. De

John Joseph M. Carrasco, Wissam Chemissany, Renata Kallosh

A possibility of journeys through antigravity has recently been proposed, with the suggestion that Weyl-invariant extension of scalars coupled to Einstein gravity allows for an unambiguous classical evolution through cosmological singularities in anisotropic spacetimes. We compute the Weyl invariant curvature squared and find that it blows up for the propose

Jan Werner, Fakher F. Assaad

Kondo insulators combine strong electronic correlations with spin orbit coupling and thereby provide a potential realization of correlated topological insulators. We present model calculations which allow us to study the onset of bulk coherence and concomitant topological edge states from the mixed valence to local moment regimes. Our real-space dynamical me

B. P. Venemans, J. R. Findlay, W. J. Sutherland, G. De Rosa

Studying quasars at the highest redshifts can constrain models of galaxy and black hole formation, and it also probes the intergalactic medium in the early universe. Optical surveys have to date discovered more than 60 quasars up to z~6.4, a limit set by the use of the z-band and CCD detectors. Only one z>6.4 quasar has been discovered, namely the z=7.08 qua

Peter Cox, Anibal D. Medina, Tirtha Sankar Ray, Andrew Spray

Motivated by the bulk mixing $ξR_5 H^{\dagger}H$ between a massive radion and a bulk scalar Higgs in warped extra dimensions, we construct an effective four dimensional action that---via the AdS/CFT correspondence---describes the most general mixing between the only light states in the theory, the dilaton and the Higgs. Due to conformal invariance, once the

Liang Dai

When a cosmic microwave background (CMB) photon travels from the surface of last scatter through spacetime metric perturbations, the polarization vector may rotate about its direction of propagation. This gravitational rotation is distinct from, and occurs in addition to, the lensing deflection of the photon trajectory. This rotation can be sourced by linear

Alexander Wiegand, Thomas Buchert, Matthias Ostermann

As deeper galaxy catalogues are soon to come, it becomes even more importantto measure large-scale fluctuations in the catalogues with robust statistics that cover all moments of the galaxy distribution.In this paper we reinforce a direct analysis of galaxy data by employing the Germ-Grain method to calculate thefamily of Minkowski Functionals. We introduce

Guido De Marchi, Nino Panagia, Leo Girardi

We have studied the interstellar extinction in a field of 3&#39; x 3&#39; located about 6&#39; SW of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Hubble Space Telescope observations in the U, B, V, I and Halpha bands reveal patchy extinction in this field. The colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) shows an elongated stellar sequence, almost parallel to the main

Kevin Earl, Katy Hartling, Heather E. Logan, Terry Pilkington

We study models in which the Higgs sector is extended by a single scalar electroweak multiplet Z with isospin T=5/2 (sextet) or 7/2 (octet) and the same hypercharge as the Standard Model Higgs doublet, in which Z is odd under a global Z2 symmetry. This Z2 symmetry keeps the lightest (neutral) member of Z stable and has interesting implications for phenomenol

J. de Blas, A. Delgado, B. Ostdiek, M. Quiros

We study an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model with a zero hypercharge triplet, and the effect that such a particle has on stop decays. This model has the capability of predicting a 125.5 GeV Higgs even in the presence of light stops and it can modify the diphoton rate by means of the extra charged fermion triplet coupled to the Higgs. Wo

Igor A. Batalin, Klaus Bering

We introduce external sources J_A directly into the quantum master action W of the field-antifield formalism instead of the effective action. The external sources J_A lead to a set of BRST-invariant functions W^A that are in antisymplectic involution. As a byproduct, we encounter quasi--groups with open gauge algebras.

Vasiliki A. Mitsou

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been successfully taking data since the end of 2009 in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, and in heavy ion collisions. In these lectures, some of the most recent ATLAS results will be given on Standard Model measurements, the discovery of the Higgs boson, searches

Aditya Bhaskara, Moses Charikar, Ankur Moitra, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Low rank tensor decompositions are a powerful tool for learning generative models, and uniqueness results give them a significant advantage over matrix decomposition methods. However, tensors pose significant algorithmic challenges and tensors analogs of much of the matrix algebra toolkit are unlikely to exist because of hardness results. Efficient decomposi

Timm Krueger, Badr Kaoui, Jens Harting

The interplay of inertia and deformability has a substantial impact on the transport of soft particles suspended in a fluid. However, to date a thorough understanding of these systems is still missing and only a limited number of experimental and theoretical studies is available. We combine the finite-element, immersed-boundary and lattice-Boltzmann methods

Sandro Mattarei

Let $A$ and $B$ two $F_q$-subspaces of a finite field, of the same size, and let $A^{-1}$ denote the set of inverses of the nonzero elements of $A$. Mattarei proved that $A^{-1}$ can only be contained in $A$ if either $A$ is a subfield, or $A$ is the set of trace zero elements in a quadratic extension of a field. Csajbók refined this to the following quantit

Jeremy Karp, R. Ravi

We prove new results for approximating Graphic TSP. Specifically, we provide a polynomial-time \frac{9}{7}-approximation algorithm for cubic bipartite graphs and a (\frac{9}{7}+\frac{1}{21(k-2)})-approximation algorithm for k-regular bipartite graphs, both of which are improved approximation factors compared to previous results. Our approach involves finding

Alexander L. Rudolph

The increasing use of interactive learning strategies in Astro 101 classrooms has led some instructors to consider the usefulness of a textbook in such classes. These strategies provide students a learning modality very different from the traditional lecture supplemented by reading a textbook and homework, and raises the question of whether the learning that

Nikhil Bansal, Viswanath Nagarajan

The input to the stochastic orienteering problem consists of a budget $B$ and metric $(V,d)$ where each vertex $v$ has a job with deterministic reward and random processing time (drawn from a known distribution). The processing times are independent across vertices. The goal is to obtain a non-anticipatory policy to run jobs at different vertices, that maxim

Vesa Julin

This paper is concerned with nonlinear elliptic equations in nondivergence form where the operator has a first order drift term which is not Lipschitz continuous. Under this condition the equations are nonhomogeneous and nonnegative solutions do not satisfy the classical Harnack&#39;s inequality. This paper presents a new type of generalization of the classi

Mircea Cimpoi, Subhransu Maji, Iasonas Kokkinos, Sammy Mohamed

Patterns and textures are defining characteristics of many natural objects: a shirt can be striped, the wings of a butterfly can be veined, and the skin of an animal can be scaly. Aiming at supporting this analytical dimension in image understanding, we address the challenging problem of describing textures with semantic attributes. We identify a rich vocabu

Wei Su

We consider branching random walks and contact processes on infinite, connected, locally finite graphs whose reproduction and infectivity rates across edges are inversely proportional to vertex degree. We show that when the ambient graph is a Galton-Watson tree then, in certain circumstances, the branching random walks and contact processes will have weak su

Y. Benny, R. Presman, Y. Kodriano, E. Poem

We use temporally resolved intensity cross-correlation measurements to identify the biexciton-exciton radiative cascades in a negatively charged QD. The polarization sensitive correlation measurements show unambiguously that the excited two electron triplet states relax non-radiatively to their singlet ground state via a spin non conserving flip-flop with th

Elena Canovi, Elisa Ercolessi, Piero Naldesi, Luca Taddia

We study the time evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum in a finite-size system which crosses a quantum phase transition at different speeds. We focus on the Ising model with a time-dependent magnetic field, which is linearly tuned on a time scale $τ$ . The time evolution of the entanglement entropy displays different regimes depending

Patrizio Angelini, Giordano Da Lozzo, Daniel Neuwirth

In this work we investigate the complexity of some problems related to the {\em Simultaneous Embedding with Fixed Edges} (SEFE) of $k$ planar graphs and the PARTITIONED $k$-PAGE BOOK EMBEDDING (PBE-$k$) problems, which are known to be equivalent under certain conditions. While the computational complexity of SEFE for $k=2$ is still a central open question in

Moritz Schauer, Frank van der Meulen, Harry van Zanten

A Monte Carlo method for simulating a multi-dimensional diffusion process conditioned on hitting a fixed point at a fixed future time is developed. Proposals for such diffusion bridges are obtained by superimposing an additional guiding term to the drift of the process under consideration. The guiding term is derived via approximation of the target process b

Peter Bierhorst

The Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality is a constraint that local theories must obey. Quantum Mechanics predicts a violation of this inequality in certain experimental settings. Treatments of this subject frequently make simplifying assumptions about the probability spaces available to a local hidden variable theory, such as assuming the state of t

Sunita Singh, K. Priyabrat Pandey, Abhishek K. Singh, Supriya Kar

We investigate some of the quantum gravity effects on a vacuum created pair of $(D{\bar D})_3$-brane by a non-linear $U(1)$ gauge theory on a $D_4$-brane. In particular we obtain a four dimensional quantum Kerr(Newman) black hole in an effective torsion curvature formalism sourced by a two form dynamics in the world-volume of a $D_4$-brane on $S^1$. Interest

Erik Alerstam

This work concerns the modeling of radiative transfer in anisotropic turbid media using diffusion theory. A theory for the relationship between microscopic scattering properties (i.e., an arbitrary differential scattering cross-section) and the macroscopic diffusion tensor, in the limit of independent scatterers, is presented. The theory is accompanied by a

M. Formentin, A. Lovison, A. Maritan, G. Zanzotto

The temporal statistics exhibited by written correspondence appear to be media dependent, with features which have so far proven difficult to characterize. We explain the origin of these difficulties by disentangling the role of spontaneous activity from decision-based prioritizing processes in human dynamics, clocking all waiting times through each agent&#3

Marco Chiodaroli, Qingjun Jin, Radu Roiban

To explore color/kinematics duality for general representations of the gauge group we formulate the duality for general abelian orbifolds of the SU(N), N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, which have fields in the bi-fundamental representation, and use it to construct explicitly complete four-vector and four-scalar amplitudes at one loop. For fixe