November 2013 arXiv papers — page 66

Meng Qi, Chad A. Stephenson, Vladimir Protasenko, William A. O'Brien

We demonstrate nearly-spherical, strain-free, self-assembled Ge quantum dots (QDs) fully encapsulated by AlAs, grown on (100) GaAs by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The QDs were formed without a wetting layer using a high temperature, in-situ anneal. Subsequent AlAs overgrowth was free from threading dislocations and anti-phase domains. The straddling band al

Alexander Y. Grosberg

A Flory theory is constructed for a long polymer ring in a melt of unknotted and non-concatenated rings. The theory assumes that the ring forms an effective annealed branched object and computes its primitive path. It is shown that the primitive path follows self-avoiding statistics and is characterized by the corresponding Flory exponent of a polymer with e

Saravanan Kumarasamy, Hemalatha B, Hashini P

Mobile ad-hoc networks are temporary wireless networks. Network resources are abnormally consumed by intruders. Anomaly and signature based techniques are used for intrusion detection. Classification techniques are used in anomaly based techniques. Intrusion detection techniques are used for the network attack detection process. Two types of intrusion detect

L. M. Abreu, C. A. Linhares, A. P. C. Malbouisson, J. M. C. Malbouisson

We study temperature and finite-size effects on the spontaneous symmetry breaking/restoration for a scalar field model under the influence of an external magnetic field, at finite chemical potential. We use the 2PI formalism and consider the large-$N$ limit. We find that there is a minimal size of the system to sustain the broken phase, which diminishes as t

A. J. Berger, W. Amamou, S. P. White, R. Adur

Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spin pumping is a rapidly growing field which has demonstrated promising results in a variety of material systems. This technique utilizes the resonant precession of magnetization in a ferromagnet to inject spin into an adjacent non-magnetic material. Spin pumping into graphene is attractive on account of its exceptional spin tr

ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement of the cross section for the production of isolated prompt photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb-1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The cross section is measured as a function of photon pseudorapidity and transverse energy in the

Fabrizio Porrati, Roland Sachser, Michael Huth

We investigate the electrical and magneto-transport properties of Pt-C granular metals prepared by focused-electron-beam induced deposition. In particular, we consider samples close to the metal-insulator-transition obtained from as-grown deposits by means of a low- energy electron irradiation treatment. The temperature dependence of the conductivity shows a

Yingying Wei, Hongkai Ji

The standard methods for detecting differential gene expression are mostly designed for analyzing a single gene expression experiment. When data from multiple related gene expression studies are available, separately analyzing each study is not an ideal strategy as it may fail to detect important genes with consistent but relatively weak differential signals

Katharina Schmidt

Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) provide a dynamical picture of the nucleon. The exclusive production of $ρ^0$ mesons on a transversely polarised target is sensitive to the nucleon helicity-flip GPDs $E$ which are related to the total angular momentum of quarks and gluons. In 2007 and 2010 the COMPASS experiment at CERN collected data by scattering a

Suleiman Y. Yerima, Gerard P. Parr, Sally I. McClean, Philip J. Morrow

Fixed and wireless networks are increasingly converging towards common connectivity with IP-based core networks. Providing effective end-to-end resource and QoS management in such complex heterogeneous converged network scenarios requires unified, adaptive and scalable solutions to integrate and co-ordinate diverse QoS mechanisms of different access technolo

Suleiman Y. Yerima

Policy-based network management (PBNM) paradigms provide an effective tool for end-to-end resource management in converged next generation networks by enabling unified, adaptive and scalable solutions that integrate and co-ordinate diverse resource management mechanisms associated with heterogeneous access technologies. In our project, a PBNM framework for e

Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano, Iker Zuriguel, Roberto Arevalo, Diego Maza

We use the first Betti number of a complex to characterize the morphological structure of granular samples in mechanical equilibrium. We analyze two-dimensional granular packings after a tapping process by means of both simulations and experiments. States with equal packing fraction obtained with different tapping intensities are distinguished after the intr

Steven Dale Cutkosky

We give several new applications of our theorem on the existence of multiplicity of graded families of ideals as a limit, including a very general Minkowski type inequality for graded families of ideals, a very general formula for existence of local volumes as a limit and a very general theorem on the existence of epsilon multiplicities as a limit for module

A M Adamska, R Springell, T B Scott

Poly- and single-crystal thin films of U-Mo alloys have been grown both on glass and sapphire substrates by UHV magnetron sputtering. X-ray and Electron Backscatter Diffraction data indicate that for single-crystal U1-xMox alloys, the pure cubic uranium gamma-phase exists for x > 0.22 (10 wt.% Mo). Below 10 wt.% Mo concentration, the resulting thin film allo

J. Schukraft

Towards the end of 2010, some 25 years after the very first collisions of ultra-relativistic heavy ions at fixed target energies, and some 10 years after the start of operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the LHC opened a new era in heavy ion physics with lead on lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV. After a short reminder of the

Dominik Goebl, Dietmar Roth, Peter Bauer

Electronic stopping of H and He ions in metals and insulators is analyzed at velocities below 0.2 atomic units, i.e. below 1 keV for H and below 4 keV for He. In metals, stopping of H ions is affected by d-electrons only when the d-band extends up to the Fermi energy; for He ions, also d-bands well below the Fermi energy contribute significantly to electroni

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand

We report $e^\pm-μ^\mp$ pair yield from charm decay measured between midrapidity electrons ($|η|<0.35$ and $p_T>0.5$ GeV/$c$) and forward rapidity muons ($1.4<η<2.1$ and $p_T>1.0$ GeV/$c$) as a function of $Δϕ$ in both $p$$+$$p$ and in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV. Comparing the $p$$+$$p$ results with several different models, we find the

Charalampos Anastasiou, Claude Duhr, Falko Dulat, Franz Herzog

We compute the contributions to the N3LO inclusive Higgs boson cross-section from the square of one-loop amplitudes with a Higgs boson and three QCD partons as external states. Our result is a Taylor expansion in the dimensional regulator epsilon, where the coefficients of the expansion are analytic functions of the ratio of the Higgs boson mass and the part

Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

We show that no existing continuous-time, binary value-domain model for digital circuits is able to correctly capture glitch propagation. Prominent examples of such models are based on pure delay channels (P), inertial delay channels (I), or the elaborate PID channels proposed by Bellido-Díaz et al. We accomplish our goal by considering the solvability/non-s

K. O. Babalola

We extend our definition (in a recent paper \cite{KB}) of the coefficient determinants of analytic mappings of the unit disk to include many Fekete-Szeg$\ddot{o}$-type parameters, and compute the best possible bounds on certain specific determinants for the choice class of starlike functions.

Shuang Yu, Fei Qiao, Li Luo, Huazhong Yang

With the development of embedded video acquisition nodes and wireless video surveillance systems, traditional video coding methods could not meet the needs of less computing complexity any more, as well as the urgent power consumption. So, a low-complexity compressive sensing video encoder framework with application-aware configurable mechanism is proposed i

Thomas O. Richardson, Nicolas Perony, Claudio J. Tessone, Christophe A. H. Bousquet

The measurement of information flows within moving animal groups has recently been a topic of considerable interest, and it has become clear that the individual(s) that drive collective movement may change over time, and that such individuals may not necessarily always lead from the front. However, methods to quantify the influence of specific individuals on

Hao Yang, Santhakumar Kannappan, Amaresh S. Pandian, Jae-Hyung Jang

Supercapacitors, based on the fast ion transportation, are specialized to provide high power, long stability, and efficient energy storage with highly porous electrode materials. However, their low energy density and specific capacitance prevent them from many applications that require long duration. Using a scalable nanoporous graphene synthesis method invo

Yu. I. Bogdanov, S. P. Kulik

We propose a general methodology for efficient statistical reconstruction of a quantum state through collection and analysis of photon counting statistics. Our approach includes both strict quantitative criteria for adequacy and completeness of the statistical inverse problem, as well as a simple and reliable method for evaluating errors in the reconstructed

Qingsong Tang, Yuejian Peng, Xiangde Zhang, Cheng zhao

Motzkin and Straus established a remarkable connection between the maximum clique and the Lagrangian of a graph in 1965. This connection and its extensions were successfully employed in optimization to provide heuristics for the maximum clique number in graphs. It is useful in practice if similar results hold for hypergraphs. In this paper, we provide upper

A. Mucciarelli

4DAO is a FORTRAN code designed to launch automatically DAOSPEC (Stetson & Pancino 2008) for a large sample of spectra. The main aims of 4DAO are: (1) to allow an analysis cascade of a list of spectra provided in input, by automatically writing the input DAOSPEC files and managing its output files; (2) to optimize automatically some spectral parameters used

Pedro Duarte

Given a positive definite symmetric matrix in one of the groups SL(n, R) or Sp(n, R), we analyse its actions on Flag Manifolds, proving these are diffeomorphisms which admit as strict Lyapunov functions a special class of quadratic functions, all of them Z2 -perfect Morse functions. Stratifications on the Flag Manifolds are provided which are invariant under

Ashkan Ertefaie, Masoud Asgharian, David Stephens

The pervasive use of prevalent cohort studies on disease duration, increasingly calls for appropriate methodologies to account for the biases that invariably accompany samples formed by such data. It is well-known, for example, that subjects with shorter lifetime are less likely to be present in such studies. Moreover, certain covariate values could be prefe

P. Schellart, A. Nelles, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje

The low frequency array (LOFAR), is the first radio telescope designed with the capability to measure radio emission from cosmic-ray induced air showers in parallel with interferometric observations. In the first $\sim 2\,\mathrm{years}$ of observing, 405 cosmic-ray events in the energy range of $10^{16} - 10^{18}\,\mathrm{eV}$ have been detected in the band

Roberto Garrappa, Marina Popolizio

This paper focuses on the numerical solution of initial value problems for fractional differential equations of linear type. The approach we propose grounds on expressing the solution in terms of some integral weighted by a generalized Mittag-Leffler function. Then suitable quadrature rules are devised and order conditions of algebraic type are derived. Theo

Iñaki Garay, Salvador Robles-Pérez

We consider a multiverse scenario made up of classically disconnected regions of the space-time that are, nevertheless, in a quantum entangled state. The addition of a scalar field enriches the model and allows us to treat both the inflationary and the `oscillatory stage&#39; of the universe on the same basis. Imposing suitable boundary conditions on the sta

H. Kotegawa, T. Toyama, S. Kitagawa, H. Tou

We report the temperature-pressure-magnetic field phase diagram made from electrical resistivity measurements for the ferromagnetic (FM) Kondo lattice CeRuPO. The ground state at zero field changes from the FM state to another state, which is suggested to be an antiferromagnetic (AFM) state, above ~0.7 GPa, and the magnetically ordered state is completely su

R. Szabó, Z. Ivezić, L. L. Kiss, Z. Kolláth

We present and discuss an extensive data set for the non-Blazhko ab-type RR Lyrae star SDSSJ015450+001501, including optical SDSS ugriz light curves and spectroscopic data, LINEAR and CSS unfiltered optical light curves, and infrared 2MASS JHKs and WISE W1 and W2 light curves. Most notably, light curves obtained by 2MASS include close to 9000 photometric mea

Pengfei Yuan, Shiqing Zhang

For some planar Newtonian $N+3$-body problems, we use variational minimization methods to prove the existence of new periodic solutions satisfying that $N$ bodies chase each other on a curve, and the other 3 bodies chase each other on another curve. From the definition of the group action in equations $(3.1)-(3.3)$, we can find that they are new solutions wh

S. Lalitha, J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Although chromospheric activity cycles have been studied in a larger number of late-type stars for quite some time, very little is known about coronal activity-cycles in other stars and their similarities or dissimilarities with the solar activity cycle. While it is usually assumed that cyclic activity is present only in stars of low to moderate activity, we

Letizia Sammut, Christopher Messenger, Andrew Melatos, Benjamin J. Owen

We describe the practical implementation of the sideband search, a search for periodic gravitational waves from neutron stars in binary systems. The orbital motion of the source in its binary system causes frequency-modulation in the combination of matched filters known as the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic. The sideband search is based on the incoherent summation

Mrs. Vaishali D. Khairnar, Dr. Ketan Kotecha

A Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is a collection of wireless vehicle nodes forming a temporary network without using any centralized Road Side Unit (RSU). VANET protocols have to face high challenges due to dynamically changing topologies and symmetric links of networks. A suitable and effective routing mechanism helps to extend the successful deployment o

Roberto Arévalo, Massimo Pica Ciamarra

The current microscopic picture of plasticity in amorphous materials assumes local failure events to produce displacement fields complying with linear elasticity. Indeed, the flow properties of nonaffine systems such as foams, emulsions and granular materials close to jamming, that produce a fluctuating displacement fields when failing, are still controversi

S. Giacche`, R. Gilli, L. Titarchuk

We present an XMM-Newton time-resolved spectral analysis of the NLS1 galaxy Mrk 766. We analyse eight available observations of the EPIC-pn camera taken between May 2000 and June 2005 to investigate the X-ray spectral variability as produced by changes in the mass accretion rate. The 0.2-10 keV spectra are extracted in time bins longer than 3 ks to accuratel

D. Dzhigaev, U. Lorenz, R. Kurta, F. Seiboth

We present the ptychography reconstruction of the x-ray beam formed by nanofocusing lenses (NFLs) containing a number of phase singularities (vortices) in the vicinity of the focal plane. As a test object Siemens star pattern was used with the finest features of 50 nm for ptychography measurements. The extended ptychography iterative engine (ePIE) algorithm

A. Morello, A. Millán, L. J. de Jongh

A single-molecule magnet placed in a magnetic field perpendicular to its anisotropy axis can be truncated to an effective two-level system, with easily tunable energy splitting. The quantum coherence of the molecular spin is largely determined by the dynamics of the surrounding nuclear spin bath. Here we report the measurement of the nuclear spin--lattice re

Gianmarco Romano, Domenico Ciuonzo

In this paper the choice of the Bernoulli distribution as biased distribution for importance sampling (IS) Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation of linear block codes over binary symmetric channels (BSCs) is studied. Based on the analytical derivation of the optimal IS Bernoulli distribution, with explicit calculation of the variance of the corresponding IS estimator,

H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai, J. M. Wang, S. K Li

In the paper, we investigate correlation between broad-line and radio variations for broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120. By the z-transformed discrete correlation function method and the model-independent flux randomization/random subset selection (FR/RSS) Monte Carlo method, we find that the broad Hbeta line variations lead the 15 GHz variations. The FR/RSS met

Tamer Boz, Seamus Cotter, Leonard Fister, Jon-Ivar Skullerud

We investigate 2-colour QCD with 2 flavours of Wilson fermion at nonzero temperature T and quark chemical potential mu, with a pion mass of 700 MeV (m_pi/m_rho=0.8). From temperature scans at fixed mu we find that the critical temperature for the superfluid to normal transition depends only very weakly on mu above the onset chemical potential, while the deco

K. Ramesh Babu, Ch. Bheema Lingam, Surya P. Tewari, G. Vaitheeswaran

The structural, electronic, optical and vibrational properties of LiN$_3$ under high pressure have been studied using plane wave pseudopotentials within the generalized gradient approximation for the exchange and correlation functional. The calculated lattice parameters agree quite well with experiments. The calculated bulk modulus value is found to be 23.23

Swetarekha Ram, V. Kanchana, G. Vaitheeswaran, A. Svane

The electronic structure, Fermi surface and elastic properties of the iso-structural and iso-electronic LaSn$_3$ and YSn$_3$ intermetallic compounds are studied under pressure within the framework of density functional theory including spin-orbit coupling. The LaSn$_3$ Fermi surface consists of two sheets, of which the second is very complex. Under pressure

Yanyan Yu, Weihua Deng, Yujiang Wu

The semi-implicit schemes for the nonlinear predator-prey reaction-diffusion model with the space-time fractional derivatives are discussed, where the space fractional derivative is discretized by the fractional centered difference and WSGD scheme. The stability and convergence of the semi-implicit schemes are analyzed in the $L_\infty$ norm. We theoreticall

Amina Kimouche, Olivier Renault, Sayanti Samaddar, Clemens Winkelmann

The intercalation of an oxide barrier between graphene and its metallic substrate for chem- ical vapor deposition is a contamination-free alternative to the transfer of graphene to dielectric supports, usually needed for the realization of electronic devices. Low-cost pro- cesses, especially at atmospheric pressure, are desirable but whether they are achieva

Yanick Heurteaux, Andrzej Stos

We study measures on $[0,1]$ which are driven by a finite Markov chain and which generalize the famous Bernoulli products. We propose a hands-on approach to determine the structure function $τ$ and to prove that the multifractal formalism is satisfied. Formulas for the dimension of the measures and for the Hausdorff dimension of their supports are also provi

Per Nordblad

What does the equilibrium atomic, molecular or spin configuration of a glass phase look like? Is there only one unique equilibrium configuration or are there infinitely many configurations of equal energy? The processes and mechanisms governing the path towards equilibrium, i.e. the dynamics of glassy systems, provide insights to these questions. Here we dis

Eric Cator, Leandro Pimentel

Using the fact that the Airy process describes the limiting fluctuations of the Hammersley last-passage percolation model, we prove that it behaves locally like a Brownian motion. Our method is quite straightforward, and it is based on a certain monotonicity and good control over the equilibrium measures of the Hammersley model (local comparison).

Rafik Hamdi, Nabil Ben Nessib, Sylvie Sahal-Bréchot, Milan S. Dimitrijević

Using semiclassical perturbation approach in impact approximation, we have calculated Stark widths for 32 spectral lines of doubly charged argon (Ar III). Oscillator strengths are calculated using Hartree-Fock method with relativistic correction (HFR) and an atomic model including 17 configurations. Energy levels are taken from NIST database. For perturbing

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig

There is consensus in the current literature that stable states of asynchronous irregular spiking activity require (i) large networks of 10 000 or more neurons and (ii) external background activity or pacemaker neurons. Yet already in 1963, Griffith showed that networks of simple threshold elements can be persistently active at intermediate rates. Here, we e

Jakub Mielczarek

In this paper we study slow-roll inflation with holonomy corrections from loop quantum cosmology. Both tensor and scalar power spectra of primordial perturbations are computed up to the first order in slow-roll parameters and $V/ρ_{c}$, where $V$ is a potential of the scalar field and $ρ_{c}$ is a critical energy density (expected to be of the order of the P

Maxime Cordy, Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Amir Molzam Sharifloo

Many product lines are critical, and therefore reliability is a vital part of their requirements. Reliability is a probabilistic property. We therefore propose a model for feature-aware discrete-time Markov chains as a basis for verifying probabilistic properties of product lines, including reliability. We compare three verification techniques: The enumerati

Olaf Dreyer

Is our world just information? We argue that our current notion of information has one serious shortcoming: It is quite literally meaningless. We suggest a meaningful extension of the notion of information that is dynamic, internal, approximate, contains an element of randomness, and is layered. This new notion of information derives from the interactions of

Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Edward N. Brothers, Melissa J. Lucero, Gustavo E. Scuseria

The properties of many intrinsic defects in the wide band gap semiconductor LaAlO3 are studied using the screened hybrid functional of Heyd, Scuseria, and Ernzerhof (HSE). As in pristine structures, exact exchange included in the screened hybrid functional alleviates the band gap underestimation problem, which is common to semilocal functionals; this allows

Mario Koeppen, Kei Ohnishi

The experimental analysis of meta-heuristic algorithm performance is usually based on comparing average performance metric values over a set of algorithm instances. When algorithms getting tight in performance gains, the additional consideration of significance of a metric improvement comes into play. However, from this moment the comparison changes from an

A. Arbona, C. Bona, B. Miñano, A. Plastino

The definition of complexity through Statistical Complexity Measures (SCM) has recently seen major improvements. Mostly, effort is concentrated in measures on time series. We propose a SCM definition for spatial dynamical systems. Our definition is in line with the trend to combine entropy with measures of structure (such as disequilibrium). We study the beh

Fabian Fagerholm, Patrik Johnson, Alejandro Sánchez Guinea, Jay Borenstein

Nowadays, many software projects are partially or completely open-source based. There is an increasing need for companies to participate in open-source software (OSS) projects, e.g., in order to benefit from open source ecosystems. OSS projects introduce particular challenges that have to be understood in order to gain the benefits. One such challenge is get

Piotr Budzynski, Kamila Piwowarczyk, Marek Ptak

The 2-hyperreflexivity of Toeplitz-harmonic type subspace generated by an isometry or a quasinormal operator is shown. The $k$-hyperreflexivity of the tensor product $\mathcal{S}\otimes \mathcal{V}$ of a $k$-hyperreflexive decomposable subspace $\mathcal{S}$ and an abelian von Neumann algebra $\mathcal{V}$ is established.

N. Sanna, E. Dalessandro, F. R. Ferraro, B. Lanzoni

We have used a combination of high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 and wide-field ground-based observations, in ultraviolet and optical bands, to study the blue straggler star population of the massive outer-halo globular cluster NGC 5824, over its entire radial extent. We have computed the center of gravity of the cluster and constructed the radial

Milan S. Dimitrijević, Magdalena Christova, Zoran Simić, Andjelka Kovačević

Stark broadening parameters for 36 multiplets of B IV have been calculated using the semi-classical perturbation formalism. Obtained results have been used to investigate the regularities within spectral series and temperature dependence.

Hironori Fukui, Hiroyuki Yomo, Petar Popovski

Physical layer network coding (PLNC) has the potential to improve throughput of multi-hop networks. However, most of the works are focused on the simple, three-node model with two-way relaying, not taking into account the fact that there can be other neighboring nodes that can cause/receive interference. The way to deal with this problem in distributed wirel

R. J. Barber, J. K. Strange, C. Hill, O. L. Polyansky

A revised rotation-vibration line list for the combined hydrogen cyanide (HCN) / hydrogen isocyanide (HNC) system is presented. The line list uses {\it ab initio} transition intensities calculated previously (Harris et al., ApJ, 2002, 578, 657) and extensive datasets of recently measured experimental energy levels (Mellau, J. Chem. Phys. and J. Mol. Spectros

Samuel L. Braunstein, Stefano Pirandola

Classically, black holes are compact objects with perfect semi-permeable horizons: Anything may enter, nothing may leave. We consider an axiomatic approach that applies to any black hole type, including arbitrarily near-extremal black holes, that can unitarily evaporate away completely by any mechanism. We show that a quantum black hole must either have a le

A. L. Guerrieri, S. Petrarca, A. Rubeo, M. Testa

We report the results of recent lattice simulations aimed at computing the $q$ and $\bar q$ potential energies in the singlet and the octet (adjoint) representation.

Nilay Oza, Fabian Fagerholm, Jürgen Münch

Highly iterative development processes such as Kanban have gained significant importance in industry. However, the impact of such processes on team collaboration and communication is widely unknown. In this paper, we analyze how the Kanban process aids software team&#39;s behaviours -- in particular, communication and collaboration. The team under study deve

Sebastian Leitmann, Thomas Franosch

We determine the nonlinear time-dependent response of a tracer on a lattice with randomly distributed hard obstacles as a force is switched on. The calculation is exact to first order in the obstacle density and holds for arbitrarily large forces. Whereas, on the impurity-free lattice, the nonlinear drift velocity in the stationary state is analytic in the d

Davids Agboola, Yao-Zhong Zhang

We present (exact) solutions of the Dirac equation with equally mixed interactions for a single fermion bounded by the family of fractional power singular potentials. Closed-form expressions as well as numerical values for the energies were obtained. The wave functions and the allowed values of the potential parameters for the first two members of the family

N. Yedukondalu, Vikas D. Ghule, G. Vaitheeswaran

A systematic computational study on the structural, electronic, bonding, and optical properties of orthorhombic ammonium azide (NH$_4$N$_3$) has been performed using planewave pseudopotential (PW-PP) method based on density functional theory (DFT). Semiempirical dispersion correction schemes have been used to account for non-bonded interactions in molecular

Guan Gui, Linglong Dai, Shinya Kumagai, Fumiyuki Adachi

Accurate channel estimation is essential for broadband wireless communications. As wireless channels often exhibit sparse structure, the adaptive sparse channel estimation algorithms based on normalized least mean square (NLMS) have been proposed, e.g., the zero-attracting NLMS (ZA-NLMS) algorithm and reweighted zero-attracting NLMS (RZA-NLMS). In these NLMS

Guan Gui, Shinya kumagai, Fumiyuki Adachi

To estimate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, invariable step-size normalized least mean square (ISSNLMS) algorithm was applied to adaptive channel estimation (ACE). Since the MIMO channel is often described by sparse channel model due to broadband signal transmission, such sparsity can be exploited by adaptive sparse channel estimation (ASCE)

Guan Gui, Shinya Kumagai, Abolfazl Mehbodniya, Fumiyuki Adachi

Sparse system identification problems often exist in many applications, such as echo interference cancellation, sparse channel estimation, and adaptive beamforming. One of popular adaptive sparse system identification (ASSI) methods is adopting only one sparse least mean square (LMS) filter. However, the adoption of only one sparse LMS filter cannot simultan

Ing-Guey Jiang, Li-Chin Yeh

The dynamics of galactic systems with central binary black holes is studied. The model is a modification from the restricted three body problem, in which a galactic potential is added as an external potential. Considering the case with an equal mass binary black holes, the conditions of existence of equilibrium points, including Lagrange Points and additiona

Corentin Briat

Stability analysis of discrete-time switched systems under minimum dwell-time is studied using a new type of LMI conditions. These conditions are convex in the matrices of the system and shown to be equivalent to the nonconvex conditions proposed by Geromel and Colaneri. The convexification of the conditions is performed by a lifting process which introduces

Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Roger Davies

Numerous empirical studies have analyzed International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data and reached contradictory conclusions regarding the influence of solar-modulated galactic cosmic rays on cloud fraction and cloud properties. The Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) instrument on the Terra satellite has been in continuous operation for 13

A. Merloni, A. Bongiorno, M. Brusa, K. Iwasawa

We study the incidence of nuclear obscuration on a complete sample of 1310 AGN selected on the basis of their rest-frame 2-10 keV X-ray flux from the XMM-COSMOS survey, in the redshift range 0.3<z<3.5. We classify the AGN as obscured or un-obscured on the basis of either the optical spectral properties and the overall SED or the shape of the X-ray spectrum.

Jicai Lu, Huiyuan Man, Cui Ding, Quan Wang

The doping effect of Sr and transition metals Mn, Fe, Co into the direct-gap semiconductor LaZnAsO has been investigated. Our results indicate that the single phase ZrCuSiAs-type tetragonal crystal structure is preserved in (La1-xSrx)(Zn1-xTMx)AsO (TM = Mn, Fe, Co) with the doping level up to x = 0.1. While the system remains semiconducting, doping with Sr a

Naoyuki Katayama, Kazutaka Kudo, Seiichiro Onari, Tasuku Mizukami

We report superconductivity in the novel 112-type iron-based compound Ca1-xLaxFeAs2. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the compound crystallizes in a monoclinic structure (space group P21), in which Fe2As2 layers alternate with Ca2As2 spacer layers such that monovalent arsenic forms zigzag chains. Superconductivity with a transition tem

Hiroyuki Yakita, Hiraku Ogino, Tomoyuki Okada, Akiyasu Yamamoto

A new iron-based superconductor (Ca,Pr)FeAs2 was discovered. Plate-like crystals of the new phase were obtained and crystal structure was investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The structure was identified as the monoclinic system with space group P21/m, and is composed of two Ca(Pr) planes, anti-fluorite Fe2As2 layers, and As2 zigzag cha

I. Grabowski, A. M. Teale, E. Fabiano, S. Smiga

We present a density difference based analysis for a range of orbital--dependent Kohn--Sham functionals. Results for atoms, some members of the neon isoelectronic series and small molecules are reported and compared with ab initio wave-function calculations. Particular attention is paid to the quality of approximations to the exchange--only optimized effecti

Anna Adamaszek, Alexandru Popa

In this paper we investigate the colorful components framework, motivated by applications emerging from comparative genomics. The general goal is to remove a collection of edges from an undirected vertex-colored graph $G$ such that in the resulting graph $G&#39;$ all the connected components are colorful (i.e., any two vertices of the same color belong to di

Gurmeet K. Bakshi, Shalini Gupta, Inder Bir S. Passi

An algorithm for the explicit computation of a complete set of primitive central idempotents, Wedderburn decomposition and the automorphism group of the semisimple group algebra of a finite metabelian group is developed. The algorithm is illustrated with its application to the semisimple group algebra of an arbitrary metacyclic group, and certain indecomposa

Hirokazu Odaka, Dmitry Khangulyan, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Shin Watanabe

We develop a Monte Carlo Comptonization model for the X-ray spectrum of accretion-powered pulsars. Simple, spherical, thermal Comptonization models give harder spectra for higher optical depth, while the observational data from Vela X-1 show that the spectra are harder at higher luminosity. This suggests a physical interpretation where the optical depth of t

Ewan Cameron

In this brief research note I present a generalized version of the Savage-Dickey Density Ratio for representation of the Bayes factor (or marginal likelihood ratio) of nested statistical models; the new version takes the form of a Radon-Nikodym derivative and is thus applicable to a wider family of probability spaces than the original (restricted to those ad

P. Raviteja, T. Lakshmi Narasimhan, A. Chockalingam

In this paper, we propose algorithms for signal detection in large-scale multiuser {\em spatial modulation multiple-input multiple-output (SM-MIMO)} systems. In large-scale SM-MIMO, each user is equipped with multiple transmit antennas (e.g., 2 or 4 antennas) but only one transmit RF chain, and the base station (BS) is equipped with tens to hundreds of (e.g.

Huidong Kim, Hyok Sang Han, D. Cho

We demonstrate that the differential ac-Stark shift of a ground-state hyperfine transition in an optical trap can be eliminated by using properly polarized trapping light. We use the vector polarizability of an alkali-metal atom to produce a polarization-dependent ac-Stark shift that resembles a Zeeman shift. We study a transition from the |2S1/2,F=2,mF=-2>

Zhengdao Wang

We study the performance of uplink transmission in a large-scale (massive) MIMO system, where all the transmitters have single antennas and the receiver (base station) has a large number of antennas. Specifically, we analyze achievable degrees of freedom of the system without assuming channel state information at the receiver. Also, we quantify the amount of

Hiroyasu Tajima

We present the minimal energy costs for the measurement and the information erase, using only the Helmholtz free energy and the entanglement of formation. The entanglement of formation appears in the form of difference which indicates the amount of entanglement transfer on the memory during the processes; the cost of the measurement is given by the entanglem

Heng-Na Xiong, Ping-Yuan Lo, Wei-Min Zhang, Franco Nori

The foundations of statistical mechanics, namely how equilibrium hypothesis emerges microscopically from quantum theory, is explored through investigating the environment-induced quantum decoherence processes. Based on the recent results on non-Markovian dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170402 (2012)], we find that decoherence of quantum states manifests unex

Shahar Hod

A simple black-hole-ring system is proposed as a toy model for the two-body problem in general relativity. This toy-model yields the fractional shift $ΔΩ_{\text{isco}}/Ω_{\text{isco}}={{29}\over{81\sqrt{2}}}η$ in the Schwarzschild ISCO (innermost stable circular orbit) frequency, where $η\equiv m/M_{\text{ir}}\ll 1$ is the dimensionless ratio between the mas

Kazutaka Kudo, Daisuke Mitsuoka, Masaya Takasuga, Yuki Sugiyama

We report the unprecedented square-planar coordination of iridium in the iron iridium arsenide Ca10(Ir4As8)(Fe2As2)5. This material experiences superconductivity at 16 K. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and first- principles band calculation suggest Ir(II) oxidation state, which yields electrically conductive Ir4As8 layers. Such metallic spacer layers are t

Sheng Huang, Dan Yang, Fei Yang, Yongxin Ge

We present an improved Locality Preserving Projections (LPP) method, named Gloablity-Locality Preserving Projections (GLPP), to preserve both the global and local geometric structures of data. In our approach, an additional constraint of the geometry of classes is imposed to the objective function of conventional LPP for respecting some more global manifold

Haigang Li, Yanyan Li, Ellen Shiting Bao, Biao Yin

We establish derivative estimates of solution of elliptic system in narrow regions.

Hong-Yi Fan, Sen-Yue Lou, Xiao-Yin Pan, Li-Yun Hu

We theoretically propose a new optical field state which is named Laguerre-polynomial-weighted chaotic field. We show that such state can be implemented, i.e., when a number state enters into a diffusion channel, the output state is just this kind of states. We solve the master equation describing the diffusion process by using the summation method within or

BESIII Collaboration

Based on the data samples collected at the energies of $J/ψ$, $ψ(3686)$, $ψ(3770)$ and $ψ(4040)$ resonances with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII storage ring, we present charmonium decays in two aspects. One is the search for baryonic decays of $ψ(3770)$ and $ψ(4040)$, including $Λ\barΛπ^+π^-$, $Λ\barΛπ^0$, $Λ\barΛη$, $Σ^+ \barΣ^-$, $Σ^0 \barΣ^0$, $Ξ^-\bar

Hai Tao Wang, Sam Young Cho

In order to investigate the quantum phase transition in the one-dimensional quantum compass model, we numerically calculate non-local string correlations, entanglement entropy, and fidelity per lattice site by using the infinite matrix product state representation with the infinite time evolving block decimation method. In the whole range of the interaction

Lin Zhang, Xiaoping Qiu, Limin Wang, Jinghai Li

The closure problem of turbulence is still a challenging issue in turbulence modeling. In this work, a stability condition is used to close turbulence. Specifically, we regard single-phase flow as a mixture of turbulent and non-turbulent fluids, separating the structure of turbulence. Subsequently, according to the picture of the turbulent eddy cascade, the

Mahmoud M. Asmar, Sergio E. Ulloa

Broken symmetries in graphene affect the massless nature of its charge carriers. We present an analysis of scattering by defects in graphene in the presence of spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). A characteristic constant ratio ($\simeq 2$) of the transport to elastic times for massless electrons signals the anisotropy of the scattering. We show that SOIs lead t