November 2013 arXiv papers — page 9

H. Sonoda

We introduce a model of free harmonic oscillators that requires renormalization. The model is similar to but simpler than the soluble Lee model. We introduce two concrete examples: the first, resembling the three dimensional $ϕ^4$ theory, needs only mass renormalization, and the second, resembling the four dimensional $ϕ^4$ theory and the Lee model, needs ad

J. Stockhofe, P. Schmelcher

We investigate the quantum mechanics of a single particle constrained to move along an arbitrary smooth reference curve by a confinement that is allowed to vary along the waveguide. The Schrödinger equation is evaluated in the adapted coordinate frame and a transverse mode decomposition is performed, taking into account both curvature and torsion effects and

Oktay Yilmaz

The scattering amplitude of a charged particle from a long hard cylinderical solenoid is derived by solving the time independent Schrödinger equation on a double connected plane. It is a summation over the angular momentum quantum number (partial wave summation). It is shown that only negative mechanical angular momenta contribute to the amplitude when the r

Alexander Iksanov, Alexander Marynych, Matthias Meiners

Let $X_1, X_2,\ldots$ be random elements of the Skorokhod space $D(\mathbb{R})$ and $ξ_1, ξ_2, \ldots$ positive random variables such that the pairs $(X_1,ξ_1), (X_2,ξ_2),\ldots$ are independent and identically distributed. We call the random process $(Y(t))_{t \in \mathbb{R}}$ defined by $Y(t):=\sum_{k \geq 0}X_{k+1}(t-ξ_1-\ldots-ξ_k)1_{\{ξ_1+\ldots+ξ_k\leq

L. Guennou, C. Adami, F. Durret, G. B. Lima Neto

We analyse the structures of all the clusters in the DAFT/FADA survey for which XMM-Newton and/or a sufficient number of galaxy redshifts in the cluster range is available, with the aim of detecting substructures and evidence for merging events. These properties are discussed in the framework of standard cold dark matter cosmology.XMM-Newton data were availa

Nicola Neri

In the Standard Model \CP violation in charm decays is expected to be very small, at the level of 0.1% or less. A significant excess of \CP violation with respect to the Standard Model predictions would be a signature of new physics. We report on recent searches for \CP violation in charm meson decays at \babar, using a data sample corresponding to an integr

Uri Brezner

In this paper we construct the category of birational spaces as the category in which Temkin's relative Riemann-Zariski spaces are naturally included. Furthermore we develop an analogue of Raynaud's theory. We prove that the category of quasi-compact and quasi-separated birational spaces is naturally equivalent to the localization of the category of

Zhenqi Lu, Rendong Ying, Sumxin Jiang, Zenghui Zhang

The performance of existing approaches to the recovery of frequency-sparse signals from compressed measurements is limited by the coherence of required sparsity dictionaries and the discretization of frequency parameter space. In this paper, we adopt a parametric joint recovery-estimation method based on model selection in spectral compressive sensing. Numer

Gregor Heyne, Michael Kupper, Christoph Mainberger, Ludovic Tangpi

We study supersolutions of a backward stochastic differential equation, the control processes of which are constrained to be continuous semimartingales of the form $dZ = Δdt + ΓdW$. The generator may depend on the decomposition $(Δ,Γ)$ and is assumed to be positive, jointly convex and lower semicontinuous, and to satisfy a superquadratic growth condition in

Tamio Koyama

The probability content of a convex polyhedron with a multivariate normal distribution can be regarded as a real analytic function. We give a system of linear partial differential equations with polynomial coefficients for the function and show that the system induces a holonomic module. The rank of the holonomic module is equal to the number of nonempty fac

Patricia S. Bessiere, Clive N. Tadhunter, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Montserrat Villar Martin

We present deep, intermediate resolution, long slit Gemini GMOS-S optical spectra of the SDSS type II quasar J002531-104022, which is a highly disturbed system currently undergoing a major merger event. We use these data to model the ages and reddenings of the stellar populations in three distinct spatial regions and find a remarkable uniformity in the prope

Alexandr Buturlakin, Andrey V. Vasil'ev

The c-dimension of a group G is the maximal length of a chain of nested centralizers in G. We prove that a locally finite group of finite c-dimension k has less than 5k nonabelian composition factors.

Xiongjun Fang, Sijie Gao

We show that for any perfect fluid in a static spacetime, if the Einstein constraint equation is satisfied and the temperature of the fluid obeys Tolman's law, then the other components of Einstein's equation are implied by the assumption that the total entropy of the fluid achieves an extremum for fixed total particle number and for all variations o

M. Khurshudyan

In this article we will consider several phenomenological models for the Universe with varying $G$ and $Λ(t)$, where $G$ is the gravitational "constant" and $Λ(t)$ is a varying cosmological "constant". Two-component fluid model taken into account. An interaction of the phenomenological form between a barotropic fluid and a quintessence DE is

Xiaoliang Li, Wei Niu

In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of counting the multiplicities of a zero-dimensional regular set's zeros. We generalize the squarefree decomposition of univariate polynomials to the so-called pseudo squarefree decomposition of multivariate polynomials, and then propose an algorithm for decomposing a regular set into a finite number of simple

Raquel Queiroz, Andreas P. Schnyder

Nodal superconductors without inversion symmetry exhibit nontrivial topological properties, manifested by topologically protected flat-band edge states. Here we study the effects of breaking translational symmetry, crucial to the definition of the topological invariant. We show using large-scale numerical simulations that bulk-edge correspondence remains val

Sergey Kryzhevich

It is one of the main properties of uniformly hyperbolic dynamics that points of two distinct trajectories cannot be uniformly close one to another. This characteristics of hyperbolic dynamics is called expansivity. Hirsch, Pugh and Shub, 1977, formulated the so-called Plaque Expansivity Conjecture, assuming that two invariant sequences of leaves of central

Ayan Chakrabarti, Ying Xiong, Baochen Sun, Trevor Darrell

To produce images that are suitable for display, tone-mapping is widely used in digital cameras to map linear color measurements into narrow gamuts with limited dynamic range. This introduces non-linear distortion that must be undone, through a radiometric calibration process, before computer vision systems can analyze such photographs radiometrically. This

Markus Bier, Ingrid Ibagon

The phenomenon of electrowetting, i.e., the dependence of the macroscopic contact angle of a fluid on the electrostatic potential of the substrate, is analyzed in terms of the density functional theory of wetting. It is shown that electrowetting is not an electrocapillarity effect, i.e., it cannot be consistently understood in terms of the variation of the s

Yasumichi Aoki, Tatsumi Aoyama, Masafumi Kurachi, Toshihide Maskawa

We report the calculation of the flavor-singlet scalar in the SU(3) gauge theory with the degenerate twelve fermions in the fundamental representation using a HISQ-type action at a fixed $\beta$. In order to reduce the large statistical error coming from the vacuum-subtracted disconnected correlator, we employ a noise reduction method and a large number of c

S. Takada, C. Bäuerle, M. Yamamoto, K. Watanabe

We report on the direct observation of the transmission phase shift through a Kondo correlated quantum dot by employing a new type of two-path interferometer. We observed a clear $π/2$-phase shift, which persists up to the Kondo temperature $T_{\rm K}$. Above this temperature, the phase shifts by more than $π/2$ at each Coulomb peak, approaching the behavior

Hadi Minooei, Chaitanya Swamy

We consider the problem of designing incentive-compatible, ex-post individually rational (IR) mechanisms for covering problems in the Bayesian setting, where players' types are drawn from an underlying distribution and may be correlated, and the goal is to minimize the expected total payment made by the mechanism. We formulate a notion of incentive compa

A. Lipovka

In the present work we suggest a non-local generalization of quantum theory which include quantum theory as a particular case. On the basis of the idea, that Planck constant is an adiabatic invariant of the free/coupled electromagnetic field, we calculate the value of Plank constant from first principles, namely from the geometry of our Universe. The basic n

Maxim Dvornikov

We construct the model of a quantum spherically symmetric plasma structure based on radial oscillations of ions. We suppose that ions are involved in ion-acoustic plasma oscillations. We find the exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for an ion moving in the self-consistent oscillatory potential of an ion-acoustic wave. The system of ions is secondly qu

Xue-Qian Li, Zong-Guo Si, Kai Wang, Liucheng Wang

The uncertainty of $t\bar{t}$ production cross section measurement at LHC is at a-few-percent level which still allows the stop pair production $\tilde{t}\tilde{t}^{*}$ with identical final states $2b+\ell+nj+{E}_{T}$. In this paper, we attempt to use the existing measurement of $W$-polarization in top quark decay to improve the distinction between stop and

Dong-il Hwang, Dong-han Yeom

In this paper, we investigate various inflation models in the context of the no-boundary proposal. We propose that a good inflation model should satisfy three conditions: observational constraints, plausible initial conditions, and naturalness of the model. For various inflation models, we assign the probability to each initial condition using the no-boundar

H. C. Rosu, S. C. Mancas, P. Chen

Extending our previous work (Rosu, Mancas, Chen, Ann.Phys. 343 (2014) 87-102), we define supersymmetric partner potentials through a particular Riccati solution of the form F(x)=(x-c)^2-1, where c is a real shift parameter, and work out the quartic double-well family of one-parameter isospectral potentials obtained by using the corresponding general Riccati

H. Natal da Luz, J. A. Mir, X. Carvalho, J. M. F. dos Santos

A simple X-ray imaging system using off-the-shelf electronics and simple reconstruction algorithms aiming a spatial resolution of 1.7 mm ($\sim 3\,\%$ of the detector length) is described in this work. For this, two 100 cm$^2$ Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) foils with a thickness of 100 μm (2-fold thicker than the standard ones) were immersed in a mixture of

Fred M. Hoppe

Suppose that in a multiple choice examination the leading digit of the correct options follows Benford's Law, while the the leading digit of the distractors are uniform. Consider a strategy for guessing at answers that selects the option with the lowest leading digit with ties broken at random. We provide an expression for the probability that this strat

Matthew Sanderson, Yee Sin Ang, Chao Zhang

We investigate the quantum tunneling of electrons in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) $n$-$p$ junction and $n$-$p$-$n$ junction. We show that Klein tunneling of an electron can occur in this system. The quasiparticles are not only chiral but are additionally described by a `cone index'. Due to the orthogonality of states with different cone indexes,

Ravi Kumar, Vandna Gokhroo, Aili Maimaiti, Kieran Deasy

Optical nanofibres are used to confine light to subwavelength regions and are very promising tools for the development of optical fibre-based quantum networks using cold, neutral atoms. To date, experimental studies on atoms near nanofibres have focussed on fundamental fibre mode interactions. In this work, we demonstrate the integration of a few-mode optica

Peter Hintz

We establish the small data solvability of suitable quasilinear wave and Klein-Gordon equations in high regularity spaces on a geometric class of spacetimes including asymptotically de Sitter spaces. We obtain our results by proving the global invertibility of linear operators with coefficients in high regularity $L^2$-based function spaces and using iterati

Yunhua Liao, Yaoping Hou

Tittmann, Averbouch and Makowsky [P. Tittmann, I. Averbouch, J.A. Makowsky, The enumeration of vertex induced subgraphs with respect to the number of components, European Journal of Combinatorics, 32 (2011) 954-974], introduced the subgraph component polynomial $Q(G;x,y)$ which counts the number of connected components in vertex induced subgraphs. It contain

Lee Mosher, Catherine Pfaff

Handel and Mosher define the axis bundle for a fully irreducible outer automorphism in "Axes in Outer Space." In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the axis bundle to consist of a unique periodic fold line. As a consequence, we give a setting, and means for identifying in this setting, when two elements of an outer automorphi

A. V. Turbiner, J. C. López Vieyra

Algebraic-rational nature of the four-dimensional, $F_4$-invariant integrable quantum Hamiltonians, both rational and trigonometric, is revealed and reviewed. It was shown that being written in $F_4$ Weyl invariants, polynomial and exponential, respectively, both similarity-transformed Hamiltonians are in algebraic form, they are quite similar the second ord

Omar H. Salim, Ali A. Nasir, Hani Mehrpouyan, Wei Xiang

Oscillator phase noise (PHN) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) can adversely impact the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, since they can result in inter carrier interference and rotation of the signal constellation. In this paper, we propose an expectation conditional maximization (ECM) based algorithm for joint estim

Eric G. Cavalcanti, Raymond Lal

Bell's 1964 theorem causes a severe problem for the notion that correlations require explanation, encapsulated in Reichenbach's Principle of Common Cause. Despite being a hallmark of scientific thought, dropping the principle has been widely regarded as a much less bitter medicine than the perceived alternative---dropping relativistic causality. Recently, ho

Dimitris Vartziotis, Doris Bohnet

We are interested in easy geometric transformations which regularize n-polygons in the non-euclidean plane. A transformation is called easy if it can be easily implemented into an algorithm. This article is motivated by preceding work on geometric transformations on euclidean polygons and possible applications for non-euclidean meshes.

Lorenzo Iorio

We comment on some statements in a recent paper by Paolozzi and Ciufolini concerning certain remarks raised by us on the realistic accuracy obtainable in testing the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth with the newly launched LARES satellite together with the LAGEOS and LAGEOS II spacecraft in orbit for a long t

Leigh N. Fletcher, Imke de Pater, Glenn S. Orton, Heidi B. Hammel

Imaging and spectroscopy of Neptune's thermal infrared emission is used to assess seasonal changes in Neptune's zonal mean temperatures between Voyager-2 observations (1989, heliocentric longitude Ls=236) and southern summer solstice (2005, Ls=270). Our aim was to analyse imaging and spectroscopy from multiple different sources using a single self-co

Alberto Collino, Alberto Conte, Alessandro Verra

A collection of selected papers of Gino Fano, containing most of his research papers in Italian, is now available on line at the site of Biblioteca Digitale Italiana di Matematica. The address is: http://www.bdim.eu/ The realization of this collection on line is part of a joint project of Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) and Societa' Italiana per la Mate

Dibyendu Mandal

Development of steady state thermodynamics and statistical mechanics depends crucially on our ability to develop notions of equilibrium thermodynamics for nonequilibrium steady states (NESS). The present paper considers the development of heat capacity. A modified definition is proposed which continues to maintain the same relation to steady state Shannon en

Lyndsay Fletcher, Paulo J. A. Simoes

This short paper reviews several recent key observations of the processes occurring in the lower atmosphere (chromosphere and photosphere) during flares. These are: evidence for compact and fragmentary structure in the flare chromosphere, the conditions in optical flare footpoints, step-like variations in the magnetic field during the flare impulsive phase,

Lingwen Gan, Na Li, Ufuk Topcu, Steven H. Low

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem determines power generation/demand that minimize a certain objective such as generation cost or power loss. It is nonconvex. We prove that, for radial networks, after shrinking its feasible set slightly, the global optimum of OPF can be recovered via a second-order cone programming (SOCP) relaxation under a condition that

Timothy Tran

In "Random complex fewnomials, I," B. Shiffman and S. Zelditch determine the limiting formula as N goes to infinity of the (normalized) expected distribution of complex zeros of a system of k random n-nomials in m variables where the coefficients are taken from the SU(m+1) ensemble and the spectra are chosen uniformly at random. We recall their resul

B. Dubrovin, T. Grava, C. Klein, A. Moro

We study the critical behaviour of solutions to weakly dispersive Hamiltonian systems considered as perturbations of elliptic and hyperbolic systems of hydrodynamic type with two components. We argue that near the critical point of gradient catastrophe of the dispersionless system, the solutions to a suitable initial value problem for the perturbed equations

E. Epelbaum, A. M. Gasparyan, J. Gegelia, M. R. Schindler

We calculate the deuteron electromagnetic form factors in a modified version of Weinberg's chiral effective field theory approach to the two-nucleon system. We derive renormalizable integral equations for the deuteron without partial wave decomposition. Deuteron form factors are extracted by applying the Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann reduction formalism to

Aftab Pande

We extend previous work of the author using an idea of Buzzard and give an elementary construction of non-ordinary $p$-adic families of Hilbert Modular Eigenforms.

Paul Barry

We study two matrices $N$ and $M$ defined by the parameters of equivalent $S$- and $J$-continued fraction expansions, and compare them by examining the product $N^{-1}M$. Using examples based on the Catalan numbers, the little Schröder numbers and powers of $q$, we indicate that this matrix product is an object worthy of study. In the case of the little Schr

Edward Bierstone, Franklin Vera Pacheco

The subject is partial resolution of singularities. Given an algebraic variety X (not necessarily equidimensional) in characteristic zero (or, more generally, a pair (X,D), where D is a divisor on X), we construct a functorial desingularization of all but stable simple normal crossings (stable-snc) singularities, by smooth blowings-up that preserve such sing

A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, F. Barkov, A. Suter

We investigate "hot" regions with anomalous high field dissipation in bulk niobium superconducting radio frequency cavities for particle accelerators by using low energy muon spin rotation (LE-$μ$SR) on corresponding cavity cutouts. We demonstrate that superconducting properties at the hot region are well described by the non-local Pippard/BCS model

Jose Juan Fernandez-Melgarejo

We discuss various topics in supergravity: gaugings, double field theory and $N=2$ $D=4$ BPS multicenter black holes. We introduce the main features of supergravity, focusing on the aspects of gauged supergravities. We study the embedding-tensor formalism as a tool that facilitates the construction of gauged supergravities due to its covariant formulation as

Sho Yaida

For a generic many-body system, we define a soft point-to-set correlation function. We then show that this function accepts a representation in terms of an effective overlap field theory. In particular, instantons in this effective field theory encode point-to-set correlations for supercooled liquids.

R. J. De Rosa, J. Patience, P. A. Wilson, A. Schneider

With a combination of adaptive optics imaging and a multi-epoch common proper motion search, we have conducted a large volume-limited (D $\le$ 75 pc) multiplicity survey of A-type stars, sensitive to companions beyond 30 au. The sample for the Volume-limited A-STar (VAST) survey consists of 435 A-type stars: 363 stars were observed with adaptive optics, 228

Carlo G. Artieri, Hunter B. Fraser

Despite the greater functional importance of protein levels, our knowledge of gene expression evolution is based almost entirely on studies of mRNA levels. In contrast, our understanding of how translational regulation evolves has lagged far behind. Here we have applied ribosome profiling - which measures both global mRNA levels and their translation rates -

Florentin Smarandache

In this paper, we introduce for the first time the notions of neutrosophic measure and neutrosophic integral, and we develop the 1995 notion of neutrosophic probability. We present many practical examples. It is possible to define the neutrosophic measure and consequently the neutrosophic integral and neutrosophic probability in many ways, because there are

Maria Barbi, Fabien Paillusson

The mechanism allowing a protein to search of a target sequence on DNA is currently described as an intermittent process composed of 3D diffusion in bulk and 1D diffusion along the DNA molecule. Due to the relevant charge of protein and DNA, electrostatic interaction should play a crucial role during this search. In this paper, we explicitly derive the mean

H. Z. Shen, X. X. Yi, C. H. Oh

Topological feature has become an intensively studied subject in many fields of physics. As a witness of topological phase, the edge states are topologically protected and may be helpful in quantum information processing. In this paper, we define a measure to quantify the dynamical localization of system and simulate the localization in the 1D Aubry-André mo

Jolyon K. Bloomfield, David F. Chernoff

Cosmic superstring loops within the galaxy microlens background point sources lying close to the observer-string line of sight. For suitable alignments, multiple paths coexist and the (achromatic) flux enhancement is a factor of two. We explore this unique type of lensing by numerically solving for geodesics that extend from source to observer as they pass n

Charles Ci Wen Lim, Marcos Curty, Nino Walenta, Feihu Xu

Due to its ability to tolerate high channel loss, decoy-state quantum key distribution (QKD) has been one of the main focuses within the QKD community. Notably, several experimental groups have demonstrated that it is secure and feasible under real-world conditions. Crucially, however, the security and feasibility claims made by most of these experiments wer

George Dimitrov, Ludmil Katzarkov

For a given stability condition $σ$ on a triangulated category we define a $σ$-exceptional collection as an Ext-exceptional collection, whose elements are $σ$-semistable with phases contained in an open interval of length one. If there exists a full $σ$-exceptional collection, then $σ$ is generated by this collection in a procedure described by E. Macrì. Con

Mihai D. Staic

In this paper we define a new cohomology theory for a $B$-algebra $A$. We use this cohomology to study deformations of algebras $A[[t]]$, that have a $B$-algebra structure.

Yingying Wei, Hongkai Ji

Analyses of high-throughput genomic data often lead to ranked lists of genomic loci. How to characterize concordant signals between two rank lists is a common problem with many applications. One example is measuring the reproducibility between two replicate experiments. Another is to characterize the interaction and co-binding between two transcription facto

Carlo Marinelli

We prove maximal inequalities for $L_q$-valued martingales obtained by stochastic integration with respect to compensated random measures. A version of these estimates for integrals with respect to compensated Poisson random measures were first obtained by Dirksen (arXiv:1208:3885) using arguments based on inequalities for sums of independent Banach-space-va

Ervin Tánczos, Rui M. Castro

In many practical settings one can sequentially and adaptively guide the collection of future data, based on information extracted from data collected previously. These sequential data collection procedures are known by different names, such as sequential experimental design, active learning or adaptive sensing/sampling. The intricate relation between data a

Vladimir Salnikov, Thomas Strobl

The G/G WZW model results from the WZW-model by a standard procedure of gauging. G/G WZW models are members of Dirac sigma models, which also contain twisted Poisson sigma models as other examples. We show how the general class of Dirac sigma models can be obtained from a gauging procedure adapted to Lie algebroids in the form of an equivariantly closed exte

Anindya De, Ilias Diakonikolas, Rocco A. Servedio

Let $g: \{-1,1\}^k \to \{-1,1\}$ be any Boolean function and $q_1,\dots,q_k$ be any degree-2 polynomials over $\{-1,1\}^n.$ We give a \emph{deterministic} algorithm which, given as input explicit descriptions of $g,q_1,\dots,q_k$ and an accuracy parameter $\eps>0$, approximates \[\Pr_{x \sim \{-1,1\}^n}[g(\sign(q_1(x)),\dots,\sign(q_k(x)))=1]\] to within an

Go Mishima

We evaluate a non-perturbative QED contribution to the electron g-2 which comes from virtual positronium. We find it to be 9.0*10^{-14}. This value is comparable to the five-loop contribution of usual perturbative calculation, and several times larger than the electroweak correction.

Anindya De, Ilias Diakonikolas, Rocco A. Servedio

We give a {\em deterministic} algorithm for approximately computing the fraction of Boolean assignments that satisfy a degree-$2$ polynomial threshold function. Given a degree-2 input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ and a parameter $\eps > 0$, the algorithm approximates \[ \Pr_{x \sim \{-1,1\}^n}[p(x) \geq 0] \] to within an additive $\pm \eps$ in time $\poly(

H. B. Thacker

There is considerable evidence, based on large $N_c$ chiral dynamics, holographic QCD, and Monte Carlo studies, that the QCD vacuum is permeated by discrete quasivacua separated by domain walls across which the local value of the topological $θ$ parameter jumps by $\pm2π$. In the 2-dimensional $CP^{N-1}$ sigma model, a pointlike charge is a domain wall, and

Ludmil Katzarkov, Alexander Noll, Pranav Pandit, Carlos Simpson

The notion of a universal building associated with a point in the Hitchin base is introduced. This is a building equipped with a harmonic map from a Riemann surface that is initial among harmonic maps which induce the given cameral cover of the Riemann surface. In the rank one case, the universal building is the leaf space of the quadratic differential defin

Raul E. Angulo, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, Bruno Henriques

We investigate the effects of galaxy formation on the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak by applying semi-analytic modelling techniques to the Millennium-XXL, a $3 \times 10^{11}$ particle N-body simulation of similar volume to the future EUCLID survey. Our approach explicitly incorporates the effects of tidal fields and stochasticity on halo formatio

Stefan Streif, Didier Henrion, Rolf Findeisen

Probabilistic and set-based methods are two approaches for model invalidation, parameter and state estimation. Both classes of methods use different types of data, i.e. deterministic or probabilistic data, which allow different statements and applications. Ideally, however, all available data should be used in estimation and model invalidation methods. This

A. Hamadeh, Nicolas Locatelli, V. V. Naletov, Romain Lebrun

We study the synchronization of the auto-oscillation signal generated by the spin transfer driven dynamics of two coupled vortices in a spin-valve nanopillar to an external source. Phase-locking to the microwave field hrf occurs in a range larger than 10% of the oscillator frequency for drive amplitudes of only a few Oersteds. Using synchronization at the do

Konstantin Avrachenkov, Oussama Habachi, Alexei Piunovskiy, Zhang Yi

We develop Bellman equation based approach for infinite time horizon optimal impulsive control problems. Both discounted and time average criteria are considered. We establish very general and at the same time natural conditions under which a canonical control triplet produces an optimal feedback policy. Then, we apply our general results for Internet conges

Sadek Al Harbat

We classify fully commutative elements in the affine Coxeter group of type $\tilde{A_{n}}$. We give a normal form for such elements, then we propose an application of this normal form: we lift these fully commutative elements to the affine braid group of type $\tilde{A_{n}}$ and we get a form for "fully commutative braids".

Henning Avenhaus, Sascha P. Quanz, Hans Martin Schmid, Michael R. Meyer

We present H- and Ks-band polarized differential images (PDI) of the Herbig Ae/Be star HD142527, revealing its optically thick outer disk and the nearly empty gap. The very small inner working angle (~0.1") and high resolution achievable with an 8m-class telescope, together with a careful polarimetric calibration strategy, allow us to achieve images that

Aaron M. Jones, Hongyi Yu, Jason S. Ross, Philip Klement

Coupling degrees of freedom of distinct nature plays a critical role in numerous physical phenomena. The recent emergence of layered materials provides a laboratory for studying the interplay between internal quantum degrees of freedom of electrons. Here, we report experimental signatures of new coupling phenomena connecting real spin with layer pseudospins

Josef Janyška, Raffaele Vitolo

The phase space of relativistic particle mechanics is defined as the 1st jet space of motions regarded as timelike 1-dimensional submanifolds of spacetime. A Lorentzian metric and an electromagnetic 2-form define naturally on the odd-dimensional phase space a generalized contact structure. In the paper infinitesimal symmetries of the phase structures are cha

Ian Lane

A counterintuitive scheme to produce ultracold hydrogen via fragmentation of laser cooled diatomic hydrides is presented where the final atomic H temperature is inversely proportional to the mass of the molecular parent. In addition, the critical density for formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) at a fixed temperature is reduced by a factor ratio hyd

Jim Jing-Yan Wang

Sparse coding has shown its power as an effective data representation method. However, up to now, all the sparse coding approaches are limited within the single domain learning problem. In this paper, we extend the sparse coding to cross domain learning problem, which tries to learn from a source domain to a target domain with significant different distribut

Hao-Tien Chiang, Guanglei Xu, Rolando D. Somma

We present a bound on the length of the path defined by the ground states of a continuous family of Hamiltonians in terms of the spectral gap G. We use this bound to obtain a significant improvement over the cost of recently proposed methods for quantum adiabatic state transformations and eigenpath traversal. In particular, we prove that a method based on ev

Hernán Larralde

We consider the distribution of the duration time, the time elapsed since it began, of a diffusion process given its present position, under the assumption that the process began at the origin. For unbiased diffusion, the distribution does not exist (it is identically zero) for one and two dimensional systems. We find the explicit expression for the distribu

The ATLAS Collaboration

A dedicated reconstruction algorithm to find decay vertices in the ATLAS muon spectrometer is presented. The algorithm searches the region just upstream of or inside the muon spectrometer volume for multi-particle vertices that originate from the decay of particles with long decay paths. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using both a sample of si

D. Galakhov, A. Mironov, A. Morozov

A recent claim that the S-duality between 4d SUSY gauge theories, which is AGT related to the modular transformations of 2d conformal blocks, is no more than an ordinary Fourier transform at the perturbative level, is further traced down to the commutation relation [P,Q]=-i\hbar between the check-operator monodromies of the exponential resolvent operator in

Wei Jiang, Kevin Bailey, Zheng-Tian Lu, Peter Mueller

We have demonstrated that the ion current resulting from collisions between metastable krypton atoms in a magneto-optical trap can be used to precisely measure the trap loading rate. We measured both the ion current of the abundant isotope Kr-83 (isotopic abundance = 11%) and the single-atom counting rate of the rare isotope Kr-85 (isotopic abundance ~ 1x10^

Sayan Chandra, N. A. Frey Huls, M. H. Phan, S. Srinath

We report exchange bias (EB) effect in the Au-Fe3O4 composite nanoparticle system, where one or more Fe3O4 nanoparticles are attached to an Au seed particle forming dimer and cluster morphologies, with the clusters showing much stronger EB in comparison with the dimers. The EB effect develops due to the presence of stress in the Au-Fe3O4 interface which lead

J. M. F. Donnert

Simulations of isolated binary mergers of galaxy clusters are a useful tool to study the evolution of these objects. For exceptionally massive systems they even represent the only viable way of simulation, because these are rare in typical cosmological simulations. We present a new practical model for these simulations based on the Hernquist dark matter prof

Fatemeh Alinaghipour Taklimi, Shaun Fallat, Karen Meagher

The zero forcing number and the positive zero forcing number of a graph are two graph parameters that arise from two types of graph colourings. The zero forcing number is an upper bound on the minimum number of induced paths in the graph, while the positive zero forcing number is an upper bound on the minimum number of induced trees in the graph. We show tha

Adam Dyck, Karen Meagher

A $k\ell$-subset partition, or $(k,\ell)$-subpartition, is a $k\ell$-subset of an $n$-set that is partitioned into $\ell$ distinct classes, each of size $k$. Two $(k,\ell)$-subpartitions are said to $t$-intersect if they have at least $t$ classes in common. In this paper, we prove an Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for intersecting families of $(k,\ell)$-subpartitions

Alexandra Zvonareva

In this paper all two-term tilting complexes over a Brauer tree algebra with multiplicity one are described using a classification of indecomposable two-term partial tilting complexes obtained earlier in a joint paper with M. Antipov. The endomorphism rings of such complexes are computed.

Bahman Ahmadi, Karen Meagher

A subset in a group $G \leq Sym(n)$ is intersecting if for any pair of permutations $π,σ$ in the subset there is an $i \in \{1,2,\dots,n\}$ such that $π(i) = σ(i)$. If the stabilizer of a point is the largest intersecting set in a group, we say that the group has the Erdős-Ko-Rado (EKR) property. Moreover, the group has the strict EKR property if every inter

M. Sambataro, N. Sandulescu

We describe the ground state of the isovector pairing Hamiltonian in self-conjugate nuclei by a product of collective quartets of different structure built from two neutrons and two protons coupled to total isospin T=0. The structure of the collective quartets is determined by an iterative variational procedure based on a sequence of diagonalizations of the

Suyoung Choi, Hanchul Park

In this paper, we do the two things. 1. We present a formula to compute the rational cohomology ring of a real topological toric manifold, and thus that of a small cover or a real toric manifold, which implies the formula of Suciu and Trevisan. Furthermore, the formula also works for other coefficient $\mathbb{Z}_q = \mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$, where $q$ is a p

Juliana Uribe, Jean Geringer, Laurent Gremillard, Bruno Reynard

This paper considers the degradation of alumina and zirconia toughened alumina vs. alumina for hip implants. The materials are as assumed to be load bearing surfaces subjected to shocks in wet conditions. The load is a peak of force; 9 kN was applied over 15 ms at 2 Hz for 800,000 cycles. The volumetric wear and roughness are lower for ZTA than for alumina.

S. F. Sanchez, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, J. Iglesias-Paramo, M. Molla

We present the largest and most homogeneous catalog of HII regions and associations compiled so far. The catalog comprises more than 7000 ionized regions, extracted from 306 galaxies observed by the CALIFA survey. We describe the procedures used to detect, select, and analyse the spectroscopic properties of these ionized regions. In the current study we focu

Juraj Földes, Peter Poláčik

We consider the Dirichlet problem u_t &= Δu + f(x, u, \nabla u)+ h(x, t),& \qquad &(x, t) \in Ω\times (0, \infty), u &= 0, & \qquad &(x, t) \in \partialΩ\times (0, \infty), on a bounded domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. The domain and the nonlinearity $f$ are assumed to be invariant under the reflection about the $x_1$-axis, and the function $h$ accounts for a

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann

A search for high-energy neutrinos was performed using data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory from May 2009 to May 2010, when the array was running in its 59-string configuration. The data sample was optimized to contain muon neutrino induced events with a background contamination of atmospheric muons of less than 1%. These data, which are domina

Lihua Pan, Jian Li, Yuan-Yen Tai, Matthias J. Graf

Based on the minimum two-orbital model and the phase diagram recently proposed by Tai et al.\ (Europhys. Lett. \textbf{103}, 67001(2013)) for both electron- and hole-doped 122 iron-based superconducting compounds, we use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations to perform a comprehensive investigation of the evolution of the Fermi surface (FS) topology in the pres

J. Piekarewicz

We explore the unique and fascinating structure of neutron stars. Although neutron stars are of interest in many areas of Physics, our aim is to provide an intellectual bridge between Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics. We argue against the naive perception of a neutron star as a uniform assembly of neutrons packed to enormous densities. Rather, by focusing on