December 2013 arXiv papers — page 14

C. -E. Bardyn, S. D. Huber, O. Zilberberg

We present a general scheme for measuring the bulk properties of non-interacting tight-binding models realized in arrays of coupled photonic cavities. Specifically, we propose to implement a single unit cell of the targeted model with tunable twisted boundary conditions in order to simulate large systems and, most importantly, to access bulk topological prop

Benjamin R. Lavoie

Metamaterials, which are materials engineered to possess novel optical properties, have been increasingly studied. The ability to fabricate metamaterials has sparked an interest in determining possible applications. We investigate using a metamaterial for boundary engineering in waveguides. A metamaterial-clad cylindrical waveguide is used to provide confine

A. Cagnazzo

The Wilson loop with a wavy line contour is studied using integrable methods. The auxiliary problem is solved and the Lax operator is built to first order in perturbation theory, considering a small perturbation from the straight line. Finally the spectral curve of the solution is considered.

Rahul Dandekar, Deepak Dhar

We study the growing patterns in the rotor-router model formed by adding $N$ walkers at the center of a $L \times L$ two-dimensional square lattice, starting with a periodic background of arrows, and relaxing to a stable configuration. The pattern is made of large number of triangular regions, where in each region all arrows point in the same direction. The

Brody Huval, Adam Coates, Andrew Ng

We investigate the use of deep neural networks for the novel task of class generic object detection. We show that neural networks originally designed for image recognition can be trained to detect objects within images, regardless of their class, including objects for which no bounding box labels have been provided. In addition, we show that bounding box lab

E. I. Lashin, Gehad Sadiek, M. Sebaweh Abdullah, Elham Aldufeery

We study the dynamics of a two-qubit system coupled through time dependent anisotropic $XYZ$ Heisenberg interaction in presence of a time varying non-uniform external magnetic field. Exact results are presented for the time evolution of the system under certain integrability conditions. Furthermore, the corresponding entanglement of the system is studied for

Y. M. Pihlström, L. O. Sjouwerman, D. A. Frail, M. J. Claussen

We have used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to search for 36 GHz and 44 GHz methanol (CH3OH) lines in a sample of 21 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). Mainly the regions of the SNRs with 1720 MHz OH masers were observed. Despite the limited spatial extent covered in our search, methanol masers were detected in both G1.4-0.1 and W28. Additional m

Min Yue, Huanchun Chen

As many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are associated with food animals, the relationship between available healthy food sources and population health and social stability has become evident. A recent example of the importance of this relationship was observed during the current flu pandemic. This recent pandemic brought attention to novel targ

Yucel Altug, Aaron B. Wagner

An improved pre-factor for the random coding bound is proved. Specifically, for channels with critical rate not equal to capacity, if a regularity condition is satisfied (resp. not satisfied), then for any $ε>0$ a pre-factor of $O(N^{-\frac{1}{2}\left( 1 - ε+ \barρ^\ast_R \right)})$ (resp. $O(N^{-\frac{1}{2}})$) is achievable for rates above the critical rat

D0 Collaboration

The calibration of jet energy measured in the \DZero detector is presented, based on ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Jet energies are measured using a sampling calorimeter composed of uranium and liquid argon as the passive and active media, respectively. This paper describes the energy calibration o

Norman Do, David Manescu

The topological recursion of Eynard and Orantin governs a variety of problems in enumerative geometry and mathematical physics. The recursion uses the data of a spectral curve to define an infinite family of multidifferentials. It has been conjectured that, under certain conditions, the spectral curve possesses a non-commutative quantisation whose associated

J. Renteria, R. Samnakay, S. L. Rumyantsev, P. Goli

We report on the results of the low-frequency (1/f, where f is frequency) noise measurements in MoS2 field-effect transistors revealing the relative contributions of the MoS2 channel and Ti/Au contacts to the overall noise level. The investigation of the 1/f noise was performed for both as fabricated and aged transistors. It was established that the McWhorte

Dong E. Liu, Alex Levchenko

One-dimensional wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic field, and strong electron-electron interactions are described by a spiral Luttinger liquid model. We develop a theory to investigate the tunneling density of states into a spiral Luttinger liquid under the proximity effect with superconductors. This approach provides a way to disentangle the de

J. Renteria, R. Samnakay, C. Jiang, T. R. Pope

We report the fabrication and performance of all-metallic three-terminal devices with tantalum diselenide thin-film conducting channels. For this proof-of-concept demonstration, the layers of 2H-TaSe2 were exfoliated mechanically from single crystals grown by the chemical vapor transport method. Devices with nanometer-scale thicknesses exhibit strongly non-l

Hiroo Beppu, Koichi Kanazawa, Yuji Koike, Shinsuke Yoshida

We study the twist-3 three-gluon contribution to the single spin asymmetry in the light-hadron production in pp collision in the framework of the collinear factorization. We derive the corresponding cross section formula in the leading order with respect to the QCD coupling constant. We also present a numerical calculation of the asymmetry at the RHIC energy

Tyler D. Robinson, David C. Catling

A minimum atmospheric temperature, or tropopause, occurs at a pressure of around 0.1 bar in the atmospheres of Earth, Titan, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, despite great differences in atmospheric composition, gravity, internal heat and sunlight. In all these bodies, the tropopause separates a stratosphere with a temperature profile that is controlled

Stanislav Apostolov, Dong E. Liu, Zakhar Maizelis, Alex Levchenko

One-dimensional electrons with a linearized dispersion relation are equivalent to a collection of harmonic plasmon modes, which represent long wavelength density oscillations. An immediate consequence of this Luttinger model of one-dimensional electron systems is the absence of inelastic scattering processes responsible for the relaxation of nonequilibrium s

K. Belotsky, M. Khlopov, A. Kirillov

Existence of new gauge U(1) symmetry possessed by dark matter (DM) particles implies the existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction, which leads to Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov enhancement of dark matter annihilation at low relative velocities. We discuss a possibility to put constraints on the such dark forces of dark matter from the observational data on the

Shahaf Asban, Saar Rahav

Stochastic pumps are models of artificial molecular machines which are driven by periodic time variation of parameters, such as site and barrier energies. The no-pumping theorem states that no directed motion is generated by variation of only site or barrier energies [S. Rahav, J. Horowitz, and C. Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 140602 (2008)]. We study st

Nikolay E. Galushkin, Nataliya N. Yazvinskaya, Dmitriy N. Galushkin

In this work we show, that atomic metallic hydrogen (AMH) is formed inside of sintered oxide-nickel electrodes of nickel-cadmium battery over a long period of electrochemical hydrogenation (more than five years). It was established that density AMH is 12 times higher, than the density of liquid molecular hydrogen, the specific energy of hydrogen recombinatio

Peter Adam, Vladimir A. Andreev, Iulia Ghiu, Aurelian Isar

We establish the relation of the spin tomogram to the Wigner function on a discrete phase space of qubits. We use the quantizers and dequantizers of the spin tomographic star-product scheme for qubits to derive the expression for the kernel connecting Wigner symbols on the discrete phase space with the tomographic symbols.

Vicente Azcoiti, Gennaro Cortese, Eduardo Follana, Matteo Giordano

We study the two and three-dimensional Antiferromagnetic Ising Model with an imaginary magnetic field $iθ$ at $θ= π$. We use a new geometric algorithm which does not present a sign problem. This allows us to perform efficient numerical simulations of this system.

R. Islam, W. C. Campbell, T. Choi, S. M. Clark

We stabilize a chosen radiofrequency beat note between two optical fields derived from the same mode-locked laser pulse train, in order to coherently manipulate quantum information. This scheme does not require access or active stabilization of the laser repetition rate. We implement and characterize this external lock, in the context of two-photon stimulate

Carlo Carminati, Stefano Isola, Giulio Tiozzo

We study the dynamics of a family K_alpha of discontinuous interval maps whose (infinitely many) branches are Moebius transformations in SL(2, Z), and which arise as the critical-line case of the family of (a, b)-continued fractions. We provide an explicit construction of the bifurcation locus E_KU for this family, showing it is parametrized by Farey words a

Z. V. Popović, M. Šćepanović, N. Lazarević, M. M. Radonjić

Raman scattering spectra of new Fe-based S=2 spin ladder compound BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O are measured in a temperature range between 15 K and 623 K. All six A$_{1g}$ and two B$_{1g}$ Raman active modes of BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O, predicted by the factor-group analysis, have been experimentally observed at energies that are in a rather good agreement with the lattice dynami

Zhongliang Tuo

By adopting the polynomial interpolation method, we propose an approach to hedge against the interest-rate risk of the default-free bonds by measuring the nonparallel movement of the yield-curve, such as the translation, the rotation and the twist. The empirical analysis shows that our hedging strategies are comparable to traditional duration-convexity strat

Marco Pizzato

Starting from PN functions, we introduce the concept of $k$-PN functions and classify $k$-PN monomials over finite fields of order $p, p^2$ and $p^4$ for small values of $k$.

Ahmed K. Farahat, Ahmed Elgohary, Ali Ghodsi, Mohamed S. Kamel

In today's information systems, the availability of massive amounts of data necessitates the development of fast and accurate algorithms to summarize these data and represent them in a succinct format. One crucial problem in big data analytics is the selection of representative instances from large and massively-distributed data, which is formally known

Feng Xia, Alexey Vinel, Ruixia Gao, Linqiang Wang

With rapid advancements in sensing, networking, and computing technologies, recent years have witnessed the emergence of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in a broad range of application domains. CPS is a new class of engineered systems that features the integration of computation, communications, and control. In contrast to general-purpose computing systems, man

Sonia, Archana Singhal, Hema Banati

For a qualitative system sound security practices must be a crucial part throughout the entire software lifecycle. Furthermore, agile software development has paved the way for overcoming the problems faced by developers during traditional development process. In the given paper we are using an Agile Security Framework that is compatible with practices of ag

Haifeng Liu, Feng Xia, Zhuo Yang, Yang Cao

In recent years, smartphones have become prevalent. Much attention is being paid to developing and making use of mobile applications that require position information. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a very popular localization technique used by these applications because of its high accuracy. However, GPS incurs an unacceptable energy consumption, wh

Tie Qiu, Yu Zhou, Feng Xia, Naigao Jin

Localization based on received signal strength indication (RSSI) is a low cost and low complexity technology, and it is widely applied in distance-based localization of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Error of existed localization technologies is significant. This paper presents the N-times trilateral centroid weighted localization algorithm (NTCWLA), which

Weifeng Sun, Feng Xia, Jianhua Ma, Tong Fu

Broadcast routing has become an important research field for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) recently. However, the packet delivery rate is generally low in existing VANET broadcast routing protocols. Therefore, the design of an appropriate broadcast protocol based on the features of VANET has become a crucial part of the development of VANET. This paper

Leizer Teran, Philippos Mordohai

The task of detecting the interest points in 3D meshes has typically been handled by geometric methods. These methods, while greatly describing human preference, can be ill-equipped for handling the variety and subjectivity in human responses. Different tasks have different requirements for interest point detection; some tasks may necessitate high precision

Alexander M. Gabovich, Alexander I. Voitenko

Conductance-voltage characteristics (CVCs) for non-symmetric tunnel junctions between $d$-wave superconductors with charge-density waves (CDWs) and normal metals were calculated. It was shown that they have a V-like form at small voltages $V$ and are asymmetric at larger $V$ owing to the presence of CDW peak in one of the $V$-branches. The spatial scatter of

Therese Biedl, Martin Derka, Stephen Kiazyk, Anna Lubiw

Consider an orthogonal polyhedron, i.e., a polyhedron where (at least after a suitable rotation) all faces are perpendicular to a coordinate axis, and hence all edges are parallel to a coordinate axis. Clearly, any facial angle and any dihedral angle is a multiple of $π/2$. In this note we explore the converse: if the facial and/or dihedral angles are all mu

Tie Qiu, Yanhong Ding, Feng Xia, Honglian Ma

This paper deals with the query problem in the Internet of Things (IoT). Flooding is an important query strategy. However, original flooding is prone to cause heavy network loads. To address this problem, we propose a variant of flooding, called Level-Based Flooding (LBF). With LBF, the whole network is divided into several levels according to the distances

Ahmed K. Farahat, Ali Ghodsi, Mohamed S. Kamel

This paper defines a generalized column subset selection problem which is concerned with the selection of a few columns from a source matrix A that best approximate the span of a target matrix B. The paper then proposes a fast greedy algorithm for solving this problem and draws connections to different problems that can be efficiently solved using the propos

W. Galleas

Functional equations methods are a fundamental part of the theory of Exactly Solvable Models in Statistical Mechanics and they are intimately connected with Baxter's concept of commuting transfer matrices. This concept has culminated in the celebrated Yang-Baxter equation which plays a fundamental role for the construction of quantum integrable systems a

Christoph Ortner, Lei Zhang

We present a practical implementation of an energy-based atomistic-to-continuum (a/c) coupling scheme without ghost forces, and numerical tests evaluating its accuracy relative to other types of a/c coupling schemes.

Julian Stirling, Ioannis Lekkas, Adam Sweetman, Predrag Djuranovic

There is now a significant body of literature in which it is claimed that stripes form in the ligand shell of suitably functionalised Au nanoparticles. This stripe morphology has been proposed to strongly affect the physicochemical and biochemical properties of the particles. We critique the published evidence for striped nanoparticles in detail, with a part

Eberhard Freitag, Riccardo Salvati Manni

We study over rings of scalar valued Siegel modular forms. modules of vector valued modular forms of degree two. For the two simplest representations, standard and Sym^2, appears rather natural consider the cases of the group $Γ[4,8] $ and $Γ[2,4].$ In these case we give the complete structure of the modules . The main tools are Theta functions and their der

Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Filippo Basso

Current research environments are witnessing high enormities of presentations occurring in different sessions at academic conferences. This situation makes it difficult for researchers (especially juniors) to attend the right presentation session(s) for effective collaboration. In this paper, we propose an innovative venue recommendation algorithm to enhance

Fengqi Li, Chuang Yu, Nanhai Yang, Feng Xia

Transductive graph-based semi-supervised learning methods usually build an undirected graph utilizing both labeled and unlabeled samples as vertices. Those methods propagate label information of labeled samples to neighbors through their edges in order to get the predicted labels of unlabeled samples. Most popular semi-supervised learning approaches are sens

M. S. Tame, K. R. McEnery, S. K. Ozdemir, J. Lee

Quantum plasmonics is a rapidly growing field of research that involves the study of the quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. Here, surface plasmons - electromagnetic excitations coupled to electron charge density waves on metal-dielectric interfaces or localized on metallic nanostructures - enable the confinement of

Lin Feng, Tie Qiu, Zhenlong Sun, Feng Xia

Coverage is one of the fundamental issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It reflects the ability of WSNs to detect the fields of interest. In a real sensor networks application, the detection area is always non-ideal and the terrain of the detection area is often more complex in applications of three-dimensional sensor networks. Consequently, many of th

B. P. Pande, Pawan Tamta, H. S. Dhami

Stemming or suffix stripping, an important part of the modern Information Retrieval systems, is to find the root word (stem) out of a given cluster of words. Existing algorithms targeting this problem have been developed in a haphazard manner. In this work, we model this problem as an optimization problem. An Integer Program is being developed to overcome th

D. E. Lanskoy, A. Sinyakova

$Σ^-$ hyperon component of the $^{10}_Λ$Li wave function is studied. The $Σ^-$ admixture is vital for production of neutron-rich $Λ$ hypernuclei via mesonic beams. We use a simplified shell model wave function for the $Λ$ channel and calculate the $Σ^-$ admixture directly from coupled equations. Probability of the $Σ^-$ admixture for realistic repulsive $Σ^-

Mohsen Asgharzadeh, Mehdi Dorreh, Massoud Tousi

Let $A$ be a direct limit of a direct system of Cohen-Macaulay rings. In this paper, we describe the Cohen-Macaulay property of $A$. Our results indicate that $A$ is not necessarily Cohen-Macaulay. We show $A$ is Cohen-Macaulay under various assumptions. As an application, we study Cohen-Macaulayness of non-affine normal semigroup rings.

José Gómez-Torrecillas

Quantum bounded extensions of multifiltered algebras are defined, and they are endowed with a new multifiltration. The behavior of the associated multigraded rings is studied. A refiltering process allows to lift homological properties from the associated multigraded ring to the multifiltered ring. This is the full version, with proofs, of the paper entitled

Xiaoming Li, Shijun Liao

Currently, the fifteen new periodic solutions of Newtonian three-body problem with equal mass were reported by Šuvakov and Dmitrašinović (PRL, 2013) [1]. However, using a reliable numerical approach (namely the Clean Numerical Simulation, CNS) that is based on the arbitrary-order Taylor series method and data in arbitrary-digit precision, it is found that at

Arkadius Kalka, Mina Teicher

We provide implementation details for non-associative key establishment protocols. In particular, we describe the implementation of non-associative key establishment protocols for all left self-distributive and all mutually left distributive systems.

Arkadius Kalka, Mina Teicher

We construct new non-associative key establishment protocols for all left self-distributive (LD), multi-LD-, and mutual LD-systems. The hardness of these protocols relies on variations of the (simultaneous) iterated LD-problem and its generalizations. We discuss instantiations of these protocols using generalized shifted conjugacy in braid groups and their q

Anne Marie Nzioki, Rituparno Goswami, Peter K. S. Dunsby

We prove a Jebsen-Birkhoff like theorem for f(R) theories of gravity in order to to find the necessary conditions required for the existence of the Schwarzschild solution in these theories and demonstrate that the rigidity of such solutions of f(R) gravity is valid even in the perturbed scenario.

C. Özen, Y. Alhassid, H. Nakada

The microscopic description of collectivity in heavy nuclei in the framework of the configuration-interaction shell model has been a major challenge. The size of the model space required for the description of heavy nuclei prohibits the use of conventional diagonalization methods. We have overcome this difficulty by using the shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) m

Eugene Bulyak, Junji Urakawa

Compton inverse radiation emitted due to backscattering of laser pulses off the relativistic electrons possesses high spectral density and high energy of photons - in hard x-ray up to gamma-ray energies - because of short wavelength of laser radiation as compared with the classical electromagnetic devices such as undulators. In this report, the possibility o

Avinash N Bhute, B. B. Meshram

As large amount of visual Information is available on web in form of images, graphics, animations and videos, so it is important in internet era to have an effective video search system. As there are number of video search engine (blinkx, Videosurf, Google, YouTube, etc.) which search for relevant videos based on user keyword or term, But very less commercia

Tabasum Masood, Naseer Iqbal

Dynamical parameters like average velocity dispersion and temperature profile of galaxy clusters are determined using a quasi equilibrium thermodynamic theory. The calculated velocity dispersion results from theory and simulations shows a good agreement with the velocity dispersion results of (Abdullah et al. \cite{Abd11}). An Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR),

Anatoly Zasov, Anatoly Cherepashchuk

We consider the relationship between the masses of the compact nuclear objects in the centers of disky galaxies -- supermassive black holes (SMBHs) or nuclear star clusters (NCs) -- and such parameters as the maximal velocity of rotation $V_{\textrm{max}}$, obtained from the rotation curves, indicative dynamical mass $M_{25}$, and the color index ($B{-}V$) o

Miroslav Englis, Joerg Eschmeier

We prove the Arveson-Douglas essential normality conjecture for graded Hilbert submodules that consist of functions vanishing on a given homogeneous subvariety of the ball, smooth away from the origin. Our main tool is the theory of generalized Toeplitz operators of Boutet de Monvel and Guillemin.

Irina I. Kharlamova, Alexander Yu. Savushkin

Due to Poinsot's theorem, the motion of a rigid body about a fixed point is represented as rolling without slipping of the moving hodograph of the angular velocity over the fixed one. If the moving hodograph is a closed curve, visualization of motion is obtained by the method of P.V.Kharlamov. For an arbitrary motion in an integrable problem with an axia

Zhimin Zhang

When using finite element and finite difference methods to approximate eigenvalues of $2m^{th}$-order elliptic problems, the number of reliable numerical eigenvalues can be estimated in terms of the total degrees of freedom $N$ in resulting discrete systems. The truth is worse than what we used to believe in that the percentage of reliable eigenvalues decrea

Hong-Son Nguyen, Minh-Tien Tran

The phase transition driven by electron correlations in a Chern insulator is investigated within the dynamical mean-field theory. The Chern insulator is described by the Haldane model and the electron correlations are incorporated by introducing the short-range interaction between the itinerant electrons and localized fermions. In the preservation of the inv

Satoshi X. Nakamura, Daisuke Jido

We develop a model that describes the gamma p -> K^+ pi Sigma reaction in the Lambda(1405) region. The model consists of gauge invariant photo-production mechanisms, and the chiral unitary model that gives the rescattering amplitudes where Lambda(1405) is contained. The model also contains phenomenological parameters, associated with short-range dynamics, to

Yongzhi Yin, Qi Liu, Dapeng Xu, Ximeng Chen

We are currently investigating the spatial resolution of highly pixelated Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detector for imaging applications. A 20 mm {\times} 20 mm {\times} 5 mm CZT substrate was fabricated with 600 μm pitch pixels (500 μm anode pixels with 100 μm gap) and coplanar cathode. Charge sharing between two pixels was studied using collimated 122 keV

S. -K. Yip, Bor-Luen Huang, Jung-Shen Kao

We generalized the Fermi liquid theory to N component systems with SU(N) symmetry. We emphasize the important role of fluctuations when N is large. These fluctuations dramatically modifies the properties for repulsive Fermi gases, in particular the spin susceptibility.

E. Nivel, K. R. Thórisson, B. R. Steunebrink, H. Dindo

We have designed a machine that becomes increasingly better at behaving in underspecified circumstances, in a goal-directed way, on the job, by modeling itself and its environment as experience accumulates. Based on principles of autocatalysis, endogeny, and reflectivity, the work provides an architectural blueprint for constructing systems with high levels

Peng Huang, Yong-Chang Huang, Fang-Fang Yuan

Commonly used boundary conditions in reconstructing $f(T)$ gravity from holographic Ricci dark energy model (RDE) are found to cause some problem, we therefore propose new boundary conditions in this paper. By reconstructing $f(T)$ gravity from the RDE with these new boundary conditions, we show that the new ones are better than the present commonly used one

A. V. Afanasjev

Recent progress in the microscopic description of rotational properties within covariant density functional theory (CDFT) is presented. It is shown that it provides an accurate description of rotational bands both in the paired regime at low spin and in the unpaired regime at ultra-high spins. The predictive power of CDFT is verified by comparing the CDFT pr

M. Yoshimura, N. Sasao, S. Uetake

Macro-coherent atomic de-excitation involving a neutrino pair emission, radiative emission of neutrino pair (RENP) $|e\rangle \rightarrow |g\rangle + γ+ν_i ν_j$ (with $γ$ a photon and $ν_i$ a neutrino mass eigenstate), is a new experimental tool to determine undetermined neutrino parameters such as the smallest neutrino mass and distinction of Majorana and D

Shiro Ishikawa, Kohshi Kikuchi

Recently we proposed quantum language(or, measurement theory), which is characterized as the linguistic turn of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Also, we consider that this is a kind of system theory such that it is applicable to both classical and quantum systems. As far as classical systems, it should be noted that quantum language is si

William Lucia, Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Elena Ferrari

With the advance of the Internet, ordinary users have created multiple personal accounts on online social networks, and interactions among these social network users have recently been tagged with location information. In this work, we observe user interactions across two popular online social networks, Facebook and Twitter, and analyze which factors lead to

Andrew A. Allocca, Justin H. Wilson, Victor Galitski

We propose the Casimir effect as a general method to observe Lifshitz transitions in electron systems. The concept is demonstrated with a planar spin-orbit coupled semiconductor in a magnetic field. We calculate the Casimir force between two such semiconductors and between the semiconductor and a metal as a function of the Zeeman splitting in the semiconduct

Wei Wang

Spin period variations and hard X-ray spectral properties of Be/X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 are studied with INTEGRAL observations. The pulsation periods at 93.66 s in 2004 and at 93.73 s in 2009 are determined. Pulse profiles of GRO J1008-57 during outbursts are energy dependent: double-peak profile in soft bands of 3-7 keV and single-peak profile in hard X-r

James Mathews

This article is a description of elasticity theory for readers with mathematical background. The first sections are an abridgment of parts of the book by Marsden and Hughes, including a compact identification of the equations of motion as the Euler-Lagrange equations for the lagrangian density. The other sections describe the basic first-order classification

Xianpeng Hu, Fanghua Lin

The global existence of weak solutions of the incompressible viscoelastic flows in two spatial dimensions has been a long standing open problem, and it is studied in this paper. We show the global existence if the initial deformation gradient is close to the identity matrix in $L^2\cap L^\infty$, and the initial velocity is small in $L^2$ and bounded in $L^p

Satoru Matsuishi, Takuya Maruyama, Soshi Iimura, Hideo Hosono

We investigated the effects of phosphorus substitution on the shape of the Tc(x) dome in 1111-type SmFeAs1-yPyO1-xHx (0 < x < 0.5). Hydride ion substitution of oxide sites (O2- -> H-) exerts a chemical pressure effect, i.e., a structural reduction of the Pn-Fe-Pn angle α (Pn = P, As) and also dopes electrons into the FePn layer to induce superconductivity. I

T Shang, Y H Chen, W B Jiang, Y Chen

We report the successful synthesis of the polycrystalline compounds CePd$_2$As$_{2-x}$P$_x$ ($0 \leq x \leq 2$) and their physical properties by measuring the transport, magnetic and thermodynamic behaviors as a function of temperature and/or magnetic field. Powder x-ray diffraction (XRD) indicates that CePd$_2$As$_{2-x}$P$_x$ crystallizes in the ThCr$_2$Si$

Severino Horácio da Silva

In this work we consider the nonlocal evolution equation $$ \frac{\partial u(w,t)}{\partial t}=-u(w,t)+ \int_{S^{1}}J(wz^{-1})f(u(z,t))dz+ h, \,\,\, h > 0 $$ which arises in models of neuronal activity, in $L^{2}(S^{1})$, where $S^{1}$ denotes the unit sphere. We obtain stronger results on existence of global attractors and Lypaunov functional than the alrea

Christopher P. Calderon, Lucien E. Weiss, W. E. Moerner

A variety of experimental techniques have improved the 2D and 3D spatial resolution that can be extracted from \emph{in vivo} single-molecule measurements. This enables researchers to quantitatively infer the magnitude and directionality of forces experienced by biomolecules in their native cellular environments. Situations where such forces are biologically

Feng Xia, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Xiaojing Liu, Fangwei Ding

Smartphones have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. However, as smartphones increasingly rely on wireless network connections to realize more functions, the demand of energy has been significantly increased, which has become the limit for people to explore smartphones&#3

Maxim Goryachev, Warrick G. Farr, Daniel L. Creedon, Michael E. Tobar

A combination of electron spin interactions in a magnetic field allows us to control the resonance frequencies of a high-Q Whispering Gallery (WG) cavity mode doublet, resulting in precise measurements of an avoided crossing between the two modes comprising the doublet. We show that the resonant photons effectively behave as spin--$\frac{1}{2}$ particles and

Martin L. R. Fürst, Christian B. Mendl, Herbert Spohn

We study the Boltzmann transport equation for the Bose-Hubbard chain in the kinetic regime. The time-dependent Wigner function is matrix-valued with odd dimension due to integer spin. For nearest neighbor hopping only, there are infinitely many additional conservation laws and nonthermal stationary states. Adding longer range hopping amplitudes entails exclu

Chia-Lung Hsieh, Susann Spindler, Jens Ehrig, Vahid Sandoghdar

Supported lipid bilayers have been studied intensively over the past two decades. In this work, we study the diffusion of single gold nanoparticles (GNPs) with diameter of 20 nm attached to GM1 ganglioside or DOPE lipids at different concentrations in supported DOPC bilayers. The indefinite photostability of GNPs combined with the high sensitivity of interfe

Brendan Hassett, Andrew Kresch, Yuri Tschinkel

We study irreducibility of families of degree 4 Del Pezzo surface fibrations over curves.

Pedro T. P. Lopes, Severino T. Melo

We compute the $K$-groups of the $C^{*}$-algebra of bounded operators generated by the Boutet de Monvel operators with classical SG-symbols of order (0,0) and type 0 on $\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n}$, as defined by Schrohe, Kapanadze and Schulze. In order to adapt the techniques used in Melo, Nest, Schick and Schrohe&#39;s work on the K-theory of Boutet de Monvel&#39;

J. W. Essam, Zhi-Zhong Tan, F. Y. Wu

An m x n cobweb network consists of n radial lines emanating from a center and connected by $m$ concentric n-sided polygons. A conjecture of Tan, Zhou and Yang for the resistance from center to perimeter of the cobweb is proved by extending the method used by the above authors to derive formulae for m = 1, 2 and 3 and general n. The resistance of an m x (s+t

Jordi Grau-Moya, Daniel A. Braun

A perfectly rational decision-maker chooses the best action with the highest utility gain from a set of possible actions. The optimality principles that describe such decision processes do not take into account the computational costs of finding the optimal action. Bounded rational decision-making addresses this problem by specifically trading off informatio

G. Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Gideon Juve

This paper describes by example how astronomers can use cloud-computing resources offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create new datasets at scale. We have created from existing surveys an atlas of the Galactic Plane at 16 wavelengths from 1 μm to 24 μm with pixels co-registered at spatial sampling of 1 arcsec. We explain how open source tools support ma

Tejas Ruparel, Azim Eskandarian, James Lee

Work presented in this paper describes a general algorithm and its finite element implementation for performing concurrent multiple sub-domain simulations in linear structural dynamics. Using this approach one can solve problems in which the domain under analysis can be selectively discretized spatially and temporally, hence allowing the user to obtain a des

Omer Gold, Reuven Cohen

Communication networks are vulnerable to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods, as well as to physical attacks, such as an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack. Such real-world events happen at specific geographical locations and disrupt specific parts of the network. Therefore, the geographical layout of the network determines the impact of such ev

Jairo Bochi, Michał Rams

We consider one-step cocycles of $2 \times 2$ matrices, and we are interested in their Lyapunov-optimizing measures, i.e., invariant probability measures that maximize or minimize a Lyapunov exponent. If the cocycle is dominated, that is, the two Lyapunov exponents are uniformly separated along all orbits, then Lyapunov-optimizing measures always exist, and

H. A. Biazotti, D. Dalmazi, G. B. de Gracia

The so called &#34;New Massive Gravity&#34; in $D=2+1$ consists of the Einstein-Hilbert action (with minus sign) plus a quadratic term in curvatures ($K$-term). Here we perform the Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction of the linearized $K$-term to $D=1+1$. We end up with a fourth-order massive electrodynamics in $D=1+1$ described by a rank-2 tensor. Remarkably

Evgeny Abakumov, Anton Baranov, Yurii Belov

We study the localization of zeros of Cauchy transforms of discrete measures on the real line. This question is motivated by the theory of canonical systems of differential equations. In particular, we prove that the spaces of Cauchy transforms having the localization property are in one-to-one correspondence with the canonical systems of special type, namel

Ulrich Ebling, Jasper Simon Krauser, Nick Fläschner, Klaus Sengstock

A fundamental question in many-body physics is how closed quantum systems reach equilibrium. We address this question experimentally and theoretically in an ultracold large-spin Fermi gas where we find a complex interplay between internal and motional degrees of freedom. The fermions are initially prepared far from equilibrium with only a few spin states occ

Alexandru Kristály

Let $({M},\textsf{d},\textsf{m})$ be a metric measure space which satisfies the Lott-Sturm-Villani curvature-dimension condition $\textsf{CD}(K,n)$ for some $K\geq 0$ and $n\geq 2$, and a lower $n-$density assumption at some point of $M$. We prove that if $({M},\textsf{d},\textsf{m})$ supports the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality or any of its limit cases ($L^

Alexandru Kristály, Dušan Repovš

In this paper we are dealing with quantitative Rellich inequalities on Finsler-Hadamard manifolds where the remainder terms are expressed by means of the flag curvature. By exploring various arguments from Finsler geometry and PDEs on manifolds we show that more weighty curvature implies more powerful improvements in Rellich inequalities. The sharpness of th

Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock

Astronomers have discovered two populations of black holes: (i) stellar-mass black holes with masses in the range 5 to 30 solar masses, millions of which are present in each galaxy in the universe, and (ii) supermassive black holes with masses in the range 10^6 to 10^{10} solar masses, one each in the nucleus of every galaxy. There is strong circumstantial e

Abdullah Alotaibi, Patrick L. Combettes, N. Shahzad

We propose a new class of primal-dual Fejer monotone algorithms for solving systems of com- posite monotone inclusions. Our construction is inspired by a framework used by Eckstein and Svaiter for the basic problem of finding a zero of the sum of two monotone operators. At each iteration, points in the graph of the monotone operators present in the model are

Lawrence J. Hall, Yasunori Nomura

With minimal field content and for an interesting range of the supersymmetric Higgs mixing parameter, 0.5 < tan^2 β< 2, the superpartner mass scale, \tilde{m}, is found to be at the intermediate scale, ~ 10^{10 \pm 1} GeV, near where the Standard Model Higgs quartic coupling passes through zero. For any 4d supersymmetric grand unified symmetry spontaneously