August 2014 arXiv papers — page 42

Yu. G. Ignatyev, D. Yu. Ignatyev

Based on the proposed earlier by the Author approach to macroscopic description of scalar interaction, this paper develops the macroscopic model of relativistic plasma with a fantom scalar interaction of elementary particles. In the given model as opposed to previous models a restriction on nonnegativeness of the particles' effective mass is removed.

A. Majumder, J. Putschke

We propose an extension to classify jet modification in heavy-ion collisions by including the jet mass along with its energy. The mass of a jet, as measured by jet reconstruction algorithms, is constrained by the jet's virtuality, which in turn has a considerable effect on such observables as the fragmentation function and jet shape observables. The lead

Stephen C. Hope, James E. Gunn, Craig P. Loomis, Roger E. Fitzgerald

We present details of the design for the CCD readout electronics for the Subaru Telescope Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS). The spectrograph is comprised of four identical spectrograph modules, each collecting roughly 600 spectra. The spectrograph modules provide simultaneous wavelength coverage over the entire band from 380 nm to 1260 nm through the use of th

Xingyu Zhang, Harish Subbaraman, Amir Hosseini, Ray T. Chen

We design, fabricate and experimentally demonstrate a highly efficient adiabatic mode converter for coupling light into a silicon slot waveguide with a slot width as large as 320nm. This strip-to-slot mode converter is optimized to provide a measured insertion loss as low as 0.08dB. Our mode converter provides 0.1dB lower loss compared to a conventional V-sh

A. E. Botha, W. Dednam

The numerical optimized shooting method for finding periodic orbits in nonlinear dynamical systems was employed to determine the existence of periodic orbits in the well-known Rössler system. By optimizing the period $T$ and the three system parameters, $a$, $b$ and $c$, simultaneously, it was found that, for any initial condition $(x_0,y_0,z_0) \in \Re^3$,

M. Castro, F. D'Amico, J. Braga, T. Maiolino

Hard X-ray spectra of black hole binaries in the low/hard state are well modeled by thermal Comptonization of soft seed photons by a corona-type region with $kT$\thinspace$\sim 50${\thinspace}keV and optical depth around 1. Previous spectral studies of 1E{\thinspace}1740.7$-$2942, including both the soft and the hard X-ray bands, were always limited by gaps

K. Poppenhaeger, S. J. Wolk, J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Planets in close orbits around their host stars are subject to strong irradiation. High-energy irradiation, originating from the stellar corona and chromosphere, is mainly responsible for the evaporation of exoplanetary atmospheres. We have conducted multiple X-ray observations of transiting exoplanets in short orbits to determine the extent and heating of t

Ranojoy Bose, Tao Cai, Kaushik Roy Choudhury, Glenn S. Solomon

When an atom strongly couples to a cavity, it can undergo coherent vacuum Rabi oscillations. Controlling these oscillatory dynamics quickly relative to the vacuum Rabi frequency enables remarkable capabilities such as Fock state generation and deterministic synthesis of quantum states of light, as demonstrated using microwave frequency devices. At optical fr

Colin Taylor, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Una-May O'Reilly

Understanding why students stopout will help in understanding how students learn in MOOCs. In this report, part of a 3 unit compendium, we describe how we build accurate predictive models of MOOC student stopout. We document a scalable, stopout prediction methodology, end to end, from raw source data to model analysis. We attempted to predict stopout for the

M. G. Malygin, R. Kuiper, H. Klahr, C. P. Dullemond

In a molecular cloud dust opacity typically dominates over gas opacity, yet in the vicinities of forming stars dust is depleted, and gas is the sole provider of opacity. In the optically thin circumstellar environments the radiation temperature cannot be assumed to be equal to the gas temperature, hence the two-temperature Planck means are necessary to calcu

Paul Balmer

We prove that etale morphisms of schemes yield separable extensions of derived categories. We then generalize the Neeman-Thomason Localization Theorem to separable extensions of triangulated categories.

Nira Dyn, Nir Sharon

A refinement of manifold data is a computational process, which produces a denser set of discrete data from a given one. Such refinements are closely related to multiresolution representations of manifold data by pyramid transforms, and approximation of manifold-valued functions by repeated refinements schemes. Most refinement methods compute each refined el

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

For a local field $F$ we consider tamely ramified principal series representations $V$ of $G={\rm GL}_{d+1}(F)$ with coefficients in a finite extension $K$ of ${\mathbb Q}_p$. Let $I_0$ be a pro-$p$-Iwahori subgroup in $G$, let ${\mathcal H}(G,I_0)$ denote the corresponding pro-$p$-Iwahori Hecke algebra. If $V$ is locally unitary, i.e. if the ${\mathcal H}(G

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Let $F$ be a non-Archimedean locally compact field, let $G$ be a split connected reductive group over $F$. For a parabolic subgroup $Q\subset G$ and a ring $L$ we consider the $G$-representation on the $L$-module$$(*)\quad\quad\quad\quad C^{\infty}(G/Q,L)/\sum_{Q'\supsetneq Q}C^{\infty}(G/Q',L).$$Let $I\subset G$ denote an Iwahori subgroup. We define

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Let $\widetilde{G}$ be a split connected reductive group with connected center $Z$ over a local non-Archimedean field $F$ of residue characteristic $p$, let $\widetilde{K}$ be a hyperspecial maximal compact open subgroup in $\widetilde{G}$. Let $R$ be a commutative ring, let $V$ be a finitely generated $R$-free $R[\widetilde{K}]$-module. For an $R$-algebra $

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

We show that the categories of smooth ${\rm SL}_2({\mathbb Q}_p)$-representations (resp. ${\rm GL}_2({\mathbb Q}_p)$-representations) of level $1$ on $p$-torsion modules are equivalent with certain explicitly described equivariant coefficient systems on the Bruhat-Tits tree; the coefficient system assigned to a representation $V$ assigns to an edge $τ$ the i

Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss

We study intragap bound states in the topological phase of a Rashba nanowire in the presence of a magnetic field and with non-uniform spin orbit interaction (SOI) and proximity-induced superconductivity gap. We show that fermionic bound states (FBS) can emerge inside the proximity gap. They are localized at the junction between two wire sections characterize

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Let $K$ be a finite extension of ${\mathbb Q}_p$ and let $X$ be Drinfel'd's symmetric space of dimension $d$ over $K$. Let $Γ\subset {\rm SL}_{d+1}(K)$ be a cocompact discrete (torsionfree) subgroup and let ${X}_Γ=Γ\backslash {X}$, a smooth projective ${K}$-variety. In this paper we investigate the de Rham and log crystalline (log convergent) cohomol

Patricio Gaete, José Helayël-Neto

We consider both generalized Born-Infeld and Exponential Electrodynamics. The field-energy of a point-like charge is finite only for Born-Infeld-like Electrodynamics. However, both Born-Infeld-type and Exponential Electrodynamics display the vacuum birefringence phenomenon. Subsequently, we calculate the lowest-order modifications to the interaction energy f

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Let $K$ be a local field, $X$ the Drinfel'd symmetric space $X$ of dimension $d$ over $K$ and ${\mathfrak X}$ the natural formal ${\mathcal O}_K$-scheme underlying $X$; thus $G={\rm GL}\sb {d+1}(K)$ acts on $X$ and ${\mathfrak X}$. Given a $K$-rational $G$-representation $M$ we construct a $G$-equivariant subsheaf ${\mathcal M}^0_{{\mathcal O}_{\dot{K}}}

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Let $X\to Y^0$ be an abelian prime-to-$p$ Galois covering of smooth schemes over a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$. Let $Y$ be a smooth compactification of $Y^0$ such that $Y-Y^0$ is a normal crossings divisor on $Y$. We describe a logarithmic $F$-crystal on $Y$ whose rational crystalline cohomology is the rigid cohomology of $X$, in particular pro

Chenrong Xiong, Zhiyuan Yan

Non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have some advantages over their binary counterparts, but unfortunately their decoding complexity is a significant challenge. The iterative hard- and soft-reliability based majority-logic decoding algorithms are attractive for non-binary LDPC codes, since they involve only finite field additions and multiplicat

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

For a strictly semistable log scheme $Y$ over a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p$ we investigate the canonical Čech spectral sequence $(C)_T$ abutting to the Hyodo-Kato (log crystalline) cohomology $H_{crys}^*(Y/T)_{\mathbb{Q}}$ of $Y$ and beginning with the log convergent cohomology of its various component intersections $Y^i$. We compare the filtrati

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Given a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$, a smooth proper $k$-scheme $Y$, a crystal $E$ on $Y$ relative to $W(k)$ and a finite group $G$ acting on $Y$ and $E$, we show that, viewed as virtual $k[G]$-module, the reduction modulo $p$ of the crystalline cohomology of $E$ is the de Rham cohomology of $E$ modulo $p$. On the way we prove a base change the

Julian Adamek, Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz

We present a framework for general relativistic N-body simulations in the regime of weak gravitational fields. In this approach, Einstein's equations are expanded in terms of metric perturbations about a Friedmann-Lemaître background, which are assumed to remain small. The metric perturbations themselves are only kept to linear order, but we keep their f

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

For a local non-Archimedean field $K$ we construct ${\rm GL}_{d+1}(K)$-equivariant coherent sheaves ${\mathcal V}_{{\mathcal O}_K}$ on the formal ${\mathcal O}_K$-scheme ${\mathfrak X}$ underlying the symmetric space $X$ over $K$ of dimension $d$. These ${\mathcal V}_{{\mathcal O}_K}$ are ${\mathcal O}_K$-lattices in (the sheaf version of) the holomorphic di

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

For cohomological (resp. homological) coefficient systems ${\mathcal F}$ (resp. ${\mathcal V}$) on affine buildings $X$ with Coxeter data of type $\widetilde{A}_d$ we give for any $k\ge1$ a sufficient local criterion which implies $H^k(X,{\mathcal F})=0$ (resp. $H_k(X,{\mathcal V})=0)$. Using this criterion we prove a conjecture of de Shalit on the acyclicit

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

We define Frobenius and monodromy operators on the de Rham cohomology of $K$-dagger spaces (rigid spaces with overconvergent structure sheaves) with strictly semistable reduction $Y$, over a complete discrete valuation ring $K$ of mixed characteristic. For this we introduce log rigid cohomology and generalize the so called Hyodo-Kato isomorphism to versions

Abraham Solar, Sergei Trofimchuk

We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the delayed monostable equation $(*)$: $u_{t}(t,x) = u_{xx}(t,x) - u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)),$ $x \in R,\ t >0,$ with monotone reaction term $g: R_+ \to R_+$. Our basic assumption is that this equation possesses pushed traveling fronts. First we prove that the pushed wavefronts are nonlinearly stable with asymptot

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Given an automorphic line bundle ${\mathcal O}_X(k)$ of weight $k$ on the Drinfel'd upper half plane $X$ over a local field $K$, we construct a ${\rm GL}_2(K)$-equivariant integral lattice ${\mathcal O}_{\widehat{\mathfrak X}}(k)$ in ${\mathcal O}_X(k)\otimes_K\widehat{K}$, as a coherent sheaf on the formal model $\widehat{\mathfrak{X}}$ underlying $X\ot

Yi-Xiang Yu, Jinwu Ye, Wu-Ming Liu

Extensive research has been lavished on effects of spin-orbit couplings (SOC) in attractively interacting Fermi systems in both neutral cold atom systems and condensed matter systems. Recently, it was suggested that a SOC drives a new class of BCS to BEC crossover which is different than the conventional one without a SOC. Here, we explore what are the most

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

We introduce the notion of a relative log scheme with boundary: a morphism of log schemes together with a (log schematically) dense open immersion of its source into a third log scheme. The sheaf of relative log differentials naturally extends to this compactification and there is a notion of smoothness for such data. We indicate how this weak sort of compac

Ari Seff, Le Lu, Kevin M. Cherry, Holger Roth

Enlarged lymph nodes (LNs) can provide important information for cancer diagnosis, staging, and measuring treatment reactions, making automated detection a highly sought goal. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm representation of decomposing the LN detection problem into a set of 2D object detection subtasks on sampled CT slices, largely alleviating th

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

Let $R$ be the ring of integers in a finite extension $K$ of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, let $k$ be its residue field and let $χ:π_1(X)\to R^{\times}=GL_{1}(R)$ be a "geometric" rank one representation of the arithmetic fundamental group of a smooth affine $k$-scheme $X$. We show that the locally $K$-analytic characters $κ:R^{\times}\to\mathbb{C}_p^{\times}$ are

Victor Nedelko

We discuss the problem of risk estimation in the classification problem, with specific focus on finding distributions that maximize the confidence intervals of risk estimation. We derived simple analytic approximations for the maximum bias of empirical risk for histogram classifier. We carry out a detailed study on using these analytic estimates for empirica

Yizhuang Liu, Ismail Zahed

We discuss the quark and gluon condensates in the presence of a rectangular Wilson loop using the QCD instanton vacuum with three light dynamical quarks. The scalar quark condensate is found to decrease while the gluon condensate to increase. We also derive the static potential between two QCD dipoles and show that it is attractive but short ranged at large

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

We define de Rham cohomology groups for rigid spaces over non-archimedean fields of characteristic zero, based on the notion of dagger space. We establish some functorial properties and a finiteness result, and discuss the relation to the rigid cohomology as defined by P. Berthelot.

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

We introduce a category of 'rigid spaces with overconvergent structure sheaf' which we call dagger spaces --- this is the correct category in which de Rham cohomology in rigid analysis should be studied. We compare it with the (usual) category of rigid spaces, give Serre and Poincaré duality theorems and explain the relation with Berthelot's rigi

Elmar Grosse-Klönne

For a big class of smooth dagger spaces --- dagger spaces are 'rigid spaces with overconvergent structure sheaf' --- we prove finite dimensionality of de Rham cohomology. This is enough to obtain finiteness of Berthelot's rigid cohomology also in the non-smooth case. We need a careful study of de Rham cohomology in situations of semi-stable reduc

Yeara Kozlov, Janick Martinez Esturo, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tino Weinkauf

Harmonic surface deformation is a well-known geometric modeling method that creates plausible deformations in an interactive manner. However, this method is susceptible to artifacts, in particular close to the deformation handles. These artifacts often correlate with strong gradients of the deformation energy.In this work, we propose a novel formulation of h

Nina D. Leonhard, Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin, Andreas Buchleitner

We consider the propagation of two photonic qubits, initially maximally entangled in their orbital angular momenta (OAM), across a turbulent atmosphere. By introducing the {\it phase correlation length} of an OAM beam, we show that the entanglement of OAM photons exhibits a universal exponential decay under turbulence.

Donald R. Forsdyke

Immunological self/not-self discrimination is conventionally seen as an extracellular event, involving interactions been receptors on T cells pre-educated to discriminate, and peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex proteins (pMHCs). Mechanisms by which not-self peptides might first be sorted intracellularly to distinguish them from the vast exces

J. Hutchinson, C. Kristjansen, G. W. Semenoff

The Hall and longitudinal conductivities of a recently studied holographic model of a quantum Hall ferromagnet are computed using the Karch-O'Bannon technique. In addition, the low temperature entropy of the model is determined. The holographic model has a phase transition as the Landau level filling fraction is increased from zero to one. We argue that

H. Kim, S. Ran, E. D. Mun, H. Hodovanets

We investigated the occurrence and nature of superconductivity in single crystals of YFe$_2$Ge$_2$ grown out of Sn flux by employing x-ray diffraction, electrical resistivity, and specific heat measurements. We found that the residual resistivity ratio (RRR) of single crystals can be greatly improved, reaching as high as $\sim$60, by decanting the crystals f

Allan van Hulst, Michel Reniers, Wan Fokkink

We propose a new method for controlled system synthesis on non-deterministic automata, which includes the synthesis for deadlock-freeness, as well as invariant and reachability expressions. Our technique restricts the behavior of a Kripke-structure with labeled transitions, representing the uncontrolled system, such that it adheres to a given requirement spe

Jie Sun, Ami Yaacobi, Michele Moresco, Douglas Coolbaugh

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has potential to impact a wide variety of applications ranging from optical communications to quantum information and optical forces for the excitation and manipulation of atoms, molecules, and micro-particles. The unique advantage of utilizing OAM in these applications relies, to a large extent, on the use of mu

R. M. J. Janssen, J. J. A. Baselmans, A. Endo, L. Ferrari

In the next decades millimeter and sub-mm astronomy requires large format imaging arrays and broad-band spectrometers to complement the high spatial and spectral resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array. The desired sensors for these instruments should have a background limited sensitivity and a high optical efficiency and enable array

Almut Eisenträger, Dominic Vella, Ian M. Griffiths

High gradient magnetic separation (HGMS) is an efficient way to remove magnetic and paramagnetic particles, such as heavy metals, from waste water. As the suspension flows through a magnetized filter mesh, high magnetic gradients around the wires attract and capture the particles, removing them from the fluid. We model such a system by considering the motion

Thomas Schlumprecht

We present a new proof of Zippin's Embedding Theorem, that every separable reflexive Banach space embeds into one with shrinking and boundedly complete basis, and every Banach space with a separable dual embeds into one with a shrinking basis. This new proof leads to improved versions of other embedding results.

Nguyen H. Nam

Model of active and collaborative learning applied in training specific subject makes clear advantage due to the goals of knowledge, skills that students got to develop successful future job. The author exploits the learning management system of Hanoi National University of Education to establish a learning environment in the Introductory Physics course Part

J. P. Alexander, A. Chatterjee, C. Conolly, E. Edwards

We describe the design and performance of optical elements for an x-ray beam size monitor (xBSM), a device measuring $e^+$ and $e^-$ beam sizes in the CESR-TA storage ring. The device can measure vertical beam sizes of $10-100~μ$m on a turn-by-turn, bunch-by-bunch basis at $e^\pm$ beam energies of $\sim2-5~$GeV. X-rays produced by a hard-bend magnet pass thr

Erik Høg, Jens Knude

The expected accurate astrometric data from Gaia offer the opportunity and the obligation to exploitation by a second all-sky mission. Therefore a proposal was submitted to ESA in May 2013 for a Gaia-like mission in about twenty years. Two new designs are here considered with NIR sensors in addition to the visual CCDs as in Gaia. This has been suggested by s

Erik Høg

In May 2013, I responded with the present paper to ESA's call for White Papers for the definition of Large missions. This was half a year before the launch of ESA's large astrometry mission Gaia. The present proposal for a Gaia successor mission is similar to Gaia, because two Gaia-like missions at an interval of about twenty years would provide a fo

Kwara Nantomah

In this paper, we present the (p; q)-analogues of some inequalities concerning the digamma function. Our results generalize some earlier results.

A. I. Yakimenko, K. O. Isaieva, S. I. Vilchinskii, E. A. Ostrovskaya

Motivated by the recent experiment [Wright et al., Phys. Rev. A 88, 063633 (2013)], we investigate formation of vortices in an annular BEC stirred by a narrow blue-detuned optical beam. In the framework of a two-dimensional mean field model, we study the dissipative dynamics of the condensate with parameters matched to the experimental conditions. Vortex-ant

Anatoly Vershik

We suggest a new method of describing invariant measures on Markov compacta and path spaces of graphs, and thus of describing characters of some groups and traces of AF-algebras. The method relies on properties of filtrations associated with the graph and, in particular, on the notion of a standard filtration. The main tool is the so-called internal metric t

Shari Moskow

In \cite{Os} a general spectral approximation theory was developed for compact operators on a Banach space which does not require that the operators be self-adjoint and also provides a first order correction term. Here we extend some of the results of that paper to nonlinear eigenvalue problems. We present examples of its application that arise in electromag

J. M. Lee, T. Kottos, B. Shapiro

We introduce the notion of PT-symmetry in magnetic nanostructures and show that they can support a new type of non-Hermitian dynamics. Using the simplest possible set-up consisting of two coupled ferromagnetic films, one with loss and another one with a balanced amount of gain, we demonstrate the existence of a spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking point where bo

Wei-Tao Peng, Jeng-Da Chai

We examine the performance of the asymptotically corrected model potential scheme on the two lowest singlet excitation energies of acenes with different number of linearly fused benzene rings (up to 5), employing both the real-time time-dependent density functional theory and the frequency-domain formulation of linear-response time-dependent density function

Laleh Safari, Jose Paulo Santos, Pedro Amaro, Filippo Fratini

We study the polarization characteristics of x-ray photons scattered by hydrogenic atoms, based on the Dirac equation and second-order perturbation theory. The relativistic states used in calculations are obtained using the finite basis set method and expressed in terms of B-splines and B-polynomials. We derive general analytical expressions for the polariza

C. S. Akondi, J. R. M. Annand, H. J. Arends, R. Beck

We present new data for the transverse target asymmetry T and the very first data for the beam-target asymmetry F in the $\vec γ\vec p\toηp$ reaction up to a center-of-mass energy of W=1.9 GeV. The data were obtained with the Crystal-Ball/TAPS detector setup at the Glasgow tagged photon facility of the Mainz Microtron MAMI. All existing model predictions fai

Thomas Huber, Alexander Lambrecht, Julian Schmidt, Leon Karpa

Optical trapping and ions combine unique advantages of independently striving fields of research. Light fields can form versatile potential landscapes, such as optical lattices, for neutral and charged atoms, avoiding detrimental implications of established radiofrequency (rf) traps while mediating interaction via long range Coulomb forces, controlling and d

Zhi-Xi Wu, Zhihai Rong, Han-Xin Yang

Recent empirical studies suggest that heavy-tailed distributions of human activities are universal in real social dynamics [Muchnik, \emph{et al.}, Sci. Rep. \textbf{3}, 1783 (2013)]. On the other hand, community structure is ubiquitous in biological and social networks [M.~E.~J. Newman, Nat. Phys. \textbf{8}, 25 (2012)]. Motivated by these facts, we here co

Peter Adam, Matyas Mechler, Imre Santa, Mátyás Koniorczyk

We introduce a theoretical framework which is suitable for the description of all spatial and time-multiplexed periodic single-photon sources realized or proposed thus far. Our model takes into account all possibly relevant loss mechanisms. This statistical analysis of the known schemes shows that multiplexing systems can be optimized in order to produce max

Juan Jerónimo Blostein, Juan Estrada, Aureliano Tartaglione, Miguel Sofo Haro

This article describes the design features and the first test measurements obtained during the installation of a novel high resolution 2D neutron detection technique. The technique proposed in this work consists of a boron layer (enriched in ${^{10}}$B) placed on a scientific Charge Coupled Device (CCD). After the nuclear reaction ${^{10}}$B(n,$α$)${^{7}}$Li

Vladimir Parezanović, Thomas Duriez, Laurent Cordier, Bernd R. Noack

A novel framework for closed-loop control of turbulent flows is tested in an experimental mixing layer flow. This framework, called Machine Learning Control (MLC), provides a model-free method of searching for the best function, to be used as a control law in closed-loop flow control. MLC is based on genetic programming, a function optimization method of mac

Huayu Hu, Jie Huang

The appearance of unconventional vacuum properties in intense fields has long been an active field of research. In this paper the vacuum polarization effect is investigated via a pump probe scheme of a probe light propagating in the vacuum excited by two counter-propagating laser beams. The modified light cone condition of the probe light is derived analytic

Piotr Budzynski

Unbounded composition operators in $L^2$-space over discrete measure spaces are investigated. Normal, formally normal and quasinormal composition operators acting in $L^2$-spaces of this kind are characterized.

A. A. Kuznetsova, A. S. Holevo

The present work continues investigation of the capacities of measurement (quantum-classical) channels in the most general setting, initiated in~\cite{HCT}. The proof of coding theorems is given for the classical capacity and entanglement-assisted classical capacity of the measurement channel with arbitrary output alphabet, without assuming that the channel

Sylwester Porowski, Bogdan Sadovyi, Stanislaw Gierlotka, Sylwester J. Rzoska

Results solving the long standing puzzle regarding the phase diagram and the pressure evolution of the melting temperature Tm(P) of gallium nitride (GaN), the most promising semiconducting material for innovative modern electronic applications, are presented. The analysis is based on (i) studies of the decomposition curve in P-T plane up to challenging P equ

Ian Charlesworth, Brent Nelson, Paul Skoufranis

In this paper, we develop the theory of bi-freeness in an amalgamated setting. We construct the operator-valued bi-free cumulant functions, and show that the vanishing of mixed cumulants is necessary and sufficient for bi-free independence. Further, we develop a multiplicative convolution for operator-valued random variables and explore ways to construct bi-

Omotayo Oshiga, Stefano Severi, Giuseppe Abreu

We consider the problem of performing ranging measurements between a source and multiple receivers efficiently and accurately, as required by distance-based wireless localization systems. To this end, a new multipoint ranging algorithm is proposed, which is obtained by adapting superresolution techniques to the ranging problem, using for the sake of illustra

Lloyd W. West

We construct the moduli space, $M_d$, of degree $d$ rational maps on $\mathbb{P}^1$ in terms of invariants of binary forms. We apply this construction to give explicit invariants and equations for $M_3$. Using classical invariant theory, we give solutions to the following problems: (1) explicitly construct, from a moduli point $P\in M_d(k)$, a rational map $

Haranath Ghosh, Smritijit Sen

Fe-based superconductors were discovered in 2008. This discovery with T$_c$ values up to 56 K, generated a new belief in the field of superconductivity. Till its discovery, high temperature superconductivity in cuprates, created a prejudice that Cu-oxides are essential building blocks for a high temperature superconducting material. These Fe based supercondu

Koji Ando

A mixed quantal-semiquantal theory is presented in which the semiquantal squeezed-state wave packet describes the heavy degrees of freedom. We first derive mean-field equations of motion from the time-dependent variational principle. Then, in order to take into account the interparticle correlation, in particular the 'quantum backreaction' beyond the

Mathieu Hemery, Olivier Rivoire

The sequence of a protein is not only constrained by its physical and biochemical properties under current selection, but also by features of its past evolutionary history. Understanding the extent and the form that these evolutionary constraints may take is important to interpret the information in protein sequences. To study this problem, we introduce a si

Smritijit Sen, Haranath Ghosh, A. K. Sinha, A. Bharathi

Using the experimentally measured temperature and doping dependent structural parameters on Ru doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$, orbital-dependent reconstruction of the electronic structure across the magnetostructural transition is found, through first principle simulations. Below structural transition there exists two distinct Fe - Fe bond distances which modifies the

Sachin Gupta, K. G. Suresh

RTX (R=rare earths, T= 3d/4d/5d, transition metals such as Sc, Ti, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, and X=p-block elements such as Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, As, Sb, Bi) series is a huge family of intermetallics compounds. These compounds crystallize in different crystal structures depending on the constituents. Though these compounds have be

Rose Baker, Dan Jackson

A new distribution is introduced, which we call the twin-t distribution. This distribution is heavy-tailed like the t distribution, but closer to normality in the central part of the curve. Its properties are described, e.g. the pdf, the distribution function, moments, and random number generation. This distribution could have many applications, but here we

Han Chen, Fangqin Lin, Xionglei He

Theoretical reasoning suggests that human cancer may result from knocking down the genetic constraints evolved for maintenance of the metazoan multicellularity, which, however, requires a critical test. Using xenograft-based experimental evolution we characterized for the first time the full life history from initiation to metastasis of a tumor at the genomi

Stefan Klingler, Philipp Pirro, Thomas Brächer, Britta Leven

The design of a microstructured, fully functional spin-wave majority gate is presented and studied using micromagnetic simulations. This all-magnon logic gate consists of three-input waveguides, a spin-wave combiner and an output waveguide. In order to ensure the functionality of the device, the output waveguide is designed to perform spin-wave mode selectio

S. Marconi, E. Conti, P. Placidi, J. Christiansen

The foreseen Phase 2 pixel upgrades at the LHC have very challenging requirements for the design of hybrid pixel readout chips. A versatile pixel simulation platform is as an essential development tool for the design, verification and optimization of both the system architecture and the pixel chip building blocks (Intellectual Properties, IPs). This work is

Delf Block, Sönke Heeren, Stefan Kühnel, André Leschke

This article discusses new challenges for series development regarding the vehicle safety that arise from the recently published AEB test protocol by the consumer-test-organisation EuroNCAP for driver assistance systems [6]. The tests from the test protocol are of great significance for an OEM that sells millions of cars each year, due to the fact that a pos

Haris E. Psillakis

This note examines the robustness properties of the nonlinear PI control method to ignored actuator dynamics. It is proven that global boundedness and regulation can be achieved for sector bounded nonlinear systems with unknown control directions if the actuator dynamics are sufficiently fast and the nonlinear PI control gain is chosen from a subclass of the

J. -B. Le Bouquin

I report the detection of a companion around HD142384 from Optical Long Baseline Interferometry in the near-infrared (flux difference DeltaH~4 and separation ~20mas). HD142384 has been used as PSF reference for published observations of the well-known young star HD142527. This is now strongly discouraged.

Quan Kuang

The successful deployment of LTE heterogeneous networks (HetNets) depends crucially on the inter-cell interference (ICI) management. Among ICI coordination schemes, fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is considered as an efficient technique well-suited to OFDMA-based HetNets. Two coupled questions in this context are: 1) how to associate users to appropriate ba

Efang Kong, Yingcun Xia

Sufficient dimension reduction [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 86 (1991) 316-342] has long been a prominent issue in multivariate nonparametric regression analysis. To uncover the central dimension reduction space, we propose in this paper an adaptive composite quantile approach. Compared to existing methods, (1) it requires minimal assumptions and is capable of r

J. Barranco, D. Delepine, V. Gonzalez Macias, C. Lujan-Peschard

It is well known that Majorana neutrinos have a pure axial neutral current interaction while Dirac neutrinos have the standard vector-axial interaction. In spite of this crucial difference, usually Dirac neutrino processes differ from Majorana processes by a term proportional to the neutrino mass, resulting in almost unmeasurable observations of this differe

Babak Saleh, Kanako Abe, Ravneet Singh Arora, Ahmed Elgammal

Considering the huge amount of art pieces that exist, there is valuable information to be discovered. Examining a painting, an expert can determine its style, genre, and the time period that the painting belongs. One important task for art historians is to find influences and connections between artists. Is influence a task that a computer can measure? The c

H. Becker, G. Bison, B. Blau, Z. Chowdhuri

We report on gold foil activation measurements performed along a vertical channel along the tank of the ultracold neutron source at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The activities obtained at various distances from the spallation target are in very good agreement with MCNPX simulations which take into account the detailed description of the source as built.

Alexander Arbieto, Adilson Lopes

We consider a variation of an Anosov geodesic flow by Gaussian Thermostats and we obtain estimates of the derivative of the entropy map at the geodesic flow. In particular, we prove that the entropy of the geodesic flow is a local maximum for the entropy map.

M. Alexander Nugent, Timothy W. Molter

AHaH computing forms a theoretical framework from which a biologically-inspired type of computing architecture can be built where, unlike von Neumann systems, memory and processor are physically combined. In this paper we report on an incremental step beyond the theoretical framework of AHaH computing toward the development of a memristor-based physical neur

C. H. Jeffrey Pang

A known first order method to find a feasible solution to a conic problem is an adapted von Neumann algorithm. We improve the distance reduction step there by projecting onto the convex hull of previously generated points using a primal active set quadratic programming (QP) algorithm. The convergence theory is improved when the QPs are as large as possible.

G. Kordas, S. I. Mistakidis, A. I. Karanikas

We discuss the time-continuous path integration in the coherent states basis in a way that is free from inconsistencies. Employing this notion we reproduce known and exact results working directly in the continuum. Such a formalism can set the basis to develop perturbative and non-perturbative approximations already known in the quantum field theory communit

Julien Sohier

We consider a hierarchical pinning model introduced by B.Derrida, V.Hakim and J.Vannimenus which undergoes a localization/delocalization phase transition. This model depends on two parameters $b$ and $s$. We show that in the particular case where $b=s$, the disorder is weakly relevant, in the sense that at any given temperature, the quenched and the annealed

Shuinai Zhang, Q. Daniel Wang, Li Ji, Randall K. Smith

It has been proposed that the charge exchange (CX) process at the interface between hot and cool interstellar gases could contribute significantly to the observed soft X-ray emission in star forming galaxies. We analyze the XMM-Newton/RGS spectrum of M82, using a newly developed CX model combined with a single-temperature thermal plasma to characterize the v

He Chen, Yonghui Li, Yunxiang Jiang, Yuanye Ma

In this paper, we consider simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in relay interference channels, where multiple source-destination pairs communicate through their dedicated energy harvesting relays. Each relay needs to split its received signal from sources into two streams: one for information forwarding and the other for energy harve

Ce Shi, Yu Tang, Jianxing Yin

As a type of search design, a detecting array can be used to generate test suites to identify and detect faults caused by interactions of factors in a component-based system. Recently, the construction and optimality of detecting arrays have been investigated in depth in the case where all the factors are assumed to have the same number of levels. However, f

Yair Caro, Josef Lauri, Christina Zarb

A path $P$ in a graph $G$ is said to be a degree monotone path if the sequence of degrees of the vertices of $P$ in the order in which they appear on $P$ is monotonic. The length of the longest degree monotone path in $G$ is denoted by $mp(G)$. This parameter was first studied in an earlier paper by the authors where bounds in terms of other parameters of $G

Surender Kumar, Manish Prateek, Bharat Bhushan

Energy Conservation and prolonging the life of Wireless Sensor Network is one of the major issues in the wireless sensor network as sensor nodes are highly energy constrained devices. Many routing protocols have been proposed for sensor network, especially cluster based routing protocols. Cluster based routing protocols are best known for its energy efficien