February 2015 arXiv papers — page 10

Lin Fei, Simone Giombi, Igor R. Klebanov, Grigory Tarnopolsky

Theories of anti-commuting scalar fields are non-unitary, but they are of interest both in statistical mechanics and in studies of the higher spin de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory correspondence. We consider an $Sp(N)$ invariant theory of $N$ anti-commuting scalars and one commuting scalar, which has cubic interactions and is renormalizable in 6 dimensions.

Giovanni Morello, Andrea Camposeo, Maria Moffa, Dario Pisignano

A lot of research is focused on all-optical signal processing, aiming to obtain effective alternatives to existing data transmission platforms. Amplification of light in fiber optics, such as in Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, is especially important for an efficient signal transmission. However, the complex fabrication methods, involving high-temperature pro

Adi Pick, Alex Cerjan, David Liu, Alejandro W. Rodriguez

We present a multimode laser-linewidth theory for arbitrary cavity structures and geometries that contains nearly all previously known effects and also finds new nonlinear and multimode corrections, e.g. a bad-cavity correction to the Henry $α$ factor and a multimode Schawlow--Townes relation (each linewidth is proportional to a sum of inverse powers of all

Pierre Monmarché

Combining classical arguments for the analysis of the simulated annealing algorithm with the more recent hypocoercive method of distorted entropy, we prove the convergence for large time of the kinetic Langevin annealing with logarithmic cooling schedule.

Pierre Scaramuzza, Francesco Ticozzi

Control strategies for dissipative preparation of target quantum states, both pure and mixed, and subspaces are obtained by switching between a set of available semigroup generators. We show that the class of problems of interest can be recast, from a control--theoretic perspective, into a switched-stabilization problem for linear dynamics. This is attained

Taras Radul

This paper is devoted to Nash equilibrium for games in capacities. Such games with payoff expressed by Choquet integral were considered by Kozhan and Zarichnyi (Nash equilibria for games in capacities, Econ. Theory {\bf 35} (2008) 321--331) and existence of Nash equilibrium was proved. We also consider games in capacities but with expected payoff expressed b

Shuichi Hirahara

We provide a general framework to remove short advice by formulating the following computational task for a function $f$: given two oracles at least one of which is honest (i.e. correctly computes $f$ on all inputs) as well as an input, the task is to compute $f$ on the input with the help of the oracles by a probabilistic polynomial-time machine, which we s

Sergey Bartunov, Dmitry Kondrashkin, Anton Osokin, Dmitry Vetrov

Recently proposed Skip-gram model is a powerful method for learning high-dimensional word representations that capture rich semantic relationships between words. However, Skip-gram as well as most prior work on learning word representations does not take into account word ambiguity and maintain only single representation per word. Although a number of Skip-g

Shu-Chiuan Chang, Robert Shrock

We present generalized methods for calculating lower bounds on the ground-state entropy per site, $S_0$, or equivalently, the ground-state degeneracy per site, $W=e^{S_0/k_B}$, of the antiferromagnetic Potts model. We use these methods to derive improved lower bounds on $W$ for several lattices.

Guillaume Damblin, Pierre Barbillon, Merlin Keller, Alberto Pasanisi

Making good predictions of a physical system using a computer code requires the inputs to be carefully specified. Some of these inputs called control variables have to reproduce physical conditions whereas other inputs, called parameters, are specific to the computer code and most often uncertain. The goal of statistical calibration consists in estimating th

Federico Bassetti, Roberto Casarin, Francesco Ravazzolo

We introduce a Bayesian approach to predictive density calibration and combination that accounts for parameter uncertainty and model set incompleteness through the use of random calibration functionals and random combination weights. Building on the work of Ranjan, R. and Gneiting, T. (2010) and Gneiting, T. and Ranjan, R. (2013), we use infinite beta mixtur

Thibault Damour, Piotr Jaranowski, Gerhard Schäfer

The conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting two-point-mass systems has been recently determined at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation [T.Damour, P.Jaranowski, and G.Schäfer, Phys. Rev. D 89, 064058 (2014)], and found to be nonlocal in time. We show how to transcribe this dynamics within the effective one-body (EOB) formalism. To achie

Andrei Gruzinov

It is proposed that there exists a class of pulsars, called weak pulsars, for which the large-scale magnetosphere, and hence the gamma-ray emission, are independent of the detailed pattern of plasma production. The weak pulsar magnetosphere and its gamma-ray emission are uniquely determined by just three parameters: spin, dipole, and the spin-dipole angle. W

Frank Hannig, Dietmar Fey, Anton Lokhmotov

This volume contains the papers accepted at the DATE Friday Workshop on Heterogeneous Architectures and Design Methods for Embedded Image Systems (HIS 2015), held in Grenoble, France, March 13, 2015. HIS 2015 was co-located with the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE).

Giuseppe De Nittis, Max Lein

In this work we present a novel approach to the ray optics limit: we rewrite the dynamical Maxwell equations in Schrödinger form and prove Egorov-type theorems, a robust semiclassical technique. We implement this scheme for periodic light conductors, photonic crystals, thereby making the quantum-light analogy between semiclassics for the Bloch electron and r

Fabio La Franca, Francesca Onori, Federica Ricci, Eleonora Sani

In the last decade, using single epoch (SE) virial based spectroscopic optical observations, it has been possible to measure the black hole (BH) mass on large type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) samples. However this kind of measurements can not be applied on those obscured type 2 and/or low luminosity AGN where the nuclear component does not dominate in the

Luca Mugnai, Christian Seis, Emanuele Spadaro

In this paper, we construct global distributional solutions to the volume-preserving mean-curvature flow using a variant of the time-discrete gradient flow approach proposed independently by Almgren, Taylor and Wang (SIAM J. Control Optim. 31(2): 387- 438, 1993) and Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker (Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 3(2): 253-271, 1995).

Shanmuka Shivashankara, Wanwei Wu, Alakabha Datta

Recently hints of lepton flavor non-universality emerged when the BaBar Collaboration observed deviations from the standard model predictions in $R(D^{(*)}) \equiv {\cal B}({\bar B} \to D^{(*)+} τ^- {\barν}_τ) / {\cal B}({\bar B} \to D^{(*)+} \ell^- {\barν}_\ell)$ ($\ell =e,μ$). Another test of this non-universality can be in the semi leptonic $Λ_{b}\toΛ_{c}

Haifeng Wang, R. Todd Constable, Gigi Galiana

Nonlinear spatial encoding magnetic (SEM) fields have been studied to complement multichannel RF encoding and accelerate MRI scans. Published schemes include PatLoc, O-Space, Null Space, 4D-RIO, and others, but the large variety of possible approaches to exploiting nonlinear SEMs remains mostly unexplored. Before, we have presented a new approach, Fast ROtar

D. S. Golubev, J. P. Pekola

We study energy flow between two resistors coupled by an arbitrary linear and lossless electric circuit. We show that the fluctuations of energy transferred between the resistors are determined by random scattering of photons on an effective barrier with frequency dependent transmission probability $τ(ω)$. We express the latter in terms of the circuit parame

Mark van Hoeij

We give an example where the number of elements of a Groebner basis in a Boolean ring is not polynomially bounded in terms of the bitsize and degrees of the input.

Santosh Kandel

We construct examples of Functorial Quantum Field Theories in the Riemannian setting by quantizing free massive bosons.

F. Gliozzi, P. Liendo, M. Meineri, A. Rago

We explore some consequences of the crossing symmetry for defect conformal field theories, focusing on codimension one defects like flat boundaries or interfaces. We study surface transitions of the 3d Ising and other O(N) models through numerical solutions to the crossing equations with the method of determinants. In the extraordinary transition, where the

Yu-Gang Jiang, Zuxuan Wu, Jun Wang, Xiangyang Xue

In this paper, we study the challenging problem of categorizing videos according to high-level semantics such as the existence of a particular human action or a complex event. Although extensive efforts have been devoted in recent years, most existing works combined multiple video features using simple fusion strategies and neglected the utilization of inter

Giorgio Ausiello, Paolo G. Franciosa, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Andrea Ribichini

We present a new algorithm for maintaining a DFS tree of an arbitrary directed graph under any sequence of edge insertions. Our algorithm requires a total of $O(m\cdot n)$ time in the worst case to process a sequence of edge insertions, where $n$ is the number of vertices in the graph and $m$ is the total number of edges in the final graph. We also prove low

Andreas Deuchert, Christian Hainzl, Robert Seiringer

Given a convex function $φ$ and two hermitian matrices $A$ and $B$, Lewin and Sabin study in [M. Lewin, J. Sabin, {\it A Family of Monotone Quantum Relative Entropies}, Lett. Math. Phys. \textbf{104} (2014), 691-705.] the relative entropy defined by $\mathcal{H}(A,B)=\text{Tr} [ φ(A) - φ(B) - φ'(B)(A-B) ]$. Amongst other things, they prove that the so-de

Paul Kuin, Alice Breeveld, Mat Page

The calibration of the two UVOT grisms which provide slitless spectroscopy in the 170-500 nm (UV grism) and 295-660 nm (visible grism) ranges has been completed. The UV grism has a spectral resolution ($λ/Δλ$) of 75 at $λ$2600 Å for source magnitudes of u=10-16 mag, while the visible grism has a spectral resolution of 100 at $λ$4000 Å for source magnitudes o

Hao Pan

Let $(X,μ,T_1,...,T_l)$ be a measure-preserving system with those $T_i$ are commuting. Suppose that the polynomials $p_1(t),...,p_{l}(t)\in\Z[t]$ with $p_j(0)=0$ have distinct degrees. Then for any $ε>0$ and $A\subseteq X$ with $μ(A)>0$, the set $$ \{n:\,μ(A\cap T_1^{-p_1(n)}A\cap...\cap T_l^{-p_l(n)}A)\geqμ(A)^{l+1}-ε\} $$ has bounded gaps.

Simion Filip, Giovanni Forni, Carlos Matheus

We give an example of a Teichmüller curve which contains, in a factor of its monodromy, a group which was not observed before. Namely, it has Zariski closure equal to the group $SO^*(6)$ in its standard representation; up to finite index, this is the same as $SU(3,1)$ in its second exterior power representation. The example is constructed using origamis (i.e

Leandro Cagliero, Viviana del Barco

In this paper we describe all the nilradicals of parabolic subalgebras of split real simple Lie algebras admitting symplectic structures. The main tools used to obtain this list are Kostant's description of the highest weight vectors (hwv) of the cohomology of these nilradicals and some necessary conditions obtained for the $\mathfrak g$-hwv's of $H^

M. Kramar, H. Lin, S. Tomczyk

This article presents the first direct "observation" of the global-scale, 3D coronal magnetic fields of Carrington Rotation (CR) Cycle 2112 using vector tomographic inversion techniques. The Vector tomographic inversion uses observational measurements of the Fe {\sc{xiii}} 10747 Å Hanle effect polarization signals by the Coronal Multichannel Polarime

I. F. Ginzburg

Higgs mechanism of EWSB can be realized in both well known minimal model and with more complex non-minimal Higgs models. These non-minimal models contain new Higgs bosons -- neutral $h_a$ and charged $H_b^\pm$. Necessary step in the discovery of such model is observation of these additional Higgses. We discuss the potential of such researches at modern and f

Alfredo Deaño, Daan Huybrechs, Peter Opsomer

We are interested in the asymptotic behavior of orthogonal polynomials of the generalized Jacobi type as their degree $n$ goes to $\infty$. These are defined on the interval $[-1,1]$ with weight function $w(x)=(1-x)^α(1+x)^βh(x)$, $α,β>-1$ and $h(x)$ a real, analytic and strictly positive function on $[-1,1]$. This information is available in the work of Kui

Linda S. L. Tan, Aik Hui Chan, Tian Zheng

Measuring the impact of scientific articles is important for evaluating the research output of individual scientists, academic institutions and journals. While citations are raw data for constructing impact measures, there exist biases and potential issues if factors affecting citation patterns are not properly accounted for. In this work, we address the pro

S. Campana, D. Mainetti, M. Colpi, G. Lodato

Tidal disruption events occur when a star passes too close to a massive black hole and it is totally ripped apart by tidal forces. It may also happen that the star is not close enough to the black hole to be totally disrupted and a less dramatic event might happen. If the stellar orbit is bound and highly eccentric, just like some stars in the centre of our

Ben Berckmoes, Geert Molenberghs

An observation of a cumulative distribution function $F$ with finite variance is said to be contaminated according to the inflated variance model if it has a large probability of coming from the original target distribution $F$, but a small probability of coming from a contaminating distribution that has the same mean and shape as $F$, though a larger varian

Konstantinos Panagiotou, Benedikt Stufler

Pólya trees are rooted trees considered up to symmetry. We establish the convergence of large uniform random Pólya trees with arbitrary degree restrictions to Aldous' Continuum Random Tree with respect to the Gromov-Hausdorff metric. Our proof is short and elementary, and it shows that the global shape of a random Pólya tree is essentially dictated by a

Alejandro Ferrero

We analyze the $β$-functions of Yukawa and electromagnetic theories with Lorentz violation (LV) and propose an alternative method to find the scale dependence of the different fields that parametrize such violations. The method of solution consists of decomposing a family of parameters into their irreducible representations and thus generating a group of sub

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for high-mass resonances decaying into $τ^{+}τ^{-}$ final states using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 8$ TeV produced by the Large Hadron Collider is presented. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.5-20.3 fb$^{-1}$. No statistically significant excess above the Standard Model expecta

P. Catuogno, J. F. Colombeau, C. Olivera

We introduce a new concepts of weak solution for the conservative stochastic Burgers equation in any dimension. The definition is based on weak solution concepts introduced by various authors in order to make sense of equations which do not solutions in the sense of distributions. In one dimension the solution reduces to the classical distributional solution

Tony Gherghetta, Benedict von Harling, Anibal D. Medina, Michael A. Schmidt

An excess in gamma-rays emanating from the galactic centre has recently been observed in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal can be interpreted as resulting from WIMP annihilation, with the spectrum well-fit by dark matter annihilating dominantly into either bottom-quark or Higgs pairs. Supersymmetric models provide a well-motivated framework to study the implic

Todor M. Mishonov

The purpose of the comment is to point out that the leading term of the Ginzburg-Landau nonanalytical correction to the interface tension of Bose-Einstein condensates with strong segregation and the surface tension of extreme type-I superconductors are described by a common coefficient derived from the universal equation for the phase boundary. The agreement

Wolf Roediger, Tobias Muehlbauer, Alfons Kemper, Thomas Neumann

Modern database clusters entail two levels of networks: connecting CPUs and NUMA regions inside a single server in the small and multiple servers in the large. The huge performance gap between these two types of networks used to slow down distributed query processing to such an extent that a cluster of machines actually performed worse than a single many-cor

Matteo Focardi, Emanuele Spadaro

We prove an epiperimetric inequality for the thin obstacle problem, extending the pioneering results by Weiss on the classical obstacle problem (Invent. Math. 138 (1999), no. 1, 23-50). This inequality provides the means to study the rate of converge of the rescaled solutions to their limits, as well as the regularity properties of the free boundary.

Alfredo Gonzalez-Perez, Lars D. Mosgaard, Rima Budvytyte, Edgar Villagran-Vargas

Investigations of nerve activity have focused predominantly on electrical phenomena. Nerves, however, are thermodynamic systems, and changes in temperature and in the dimensions of the nerve can also be observed during the action potential. Measurements of heat changes during the action potential suggest that the nerve pulse shares many characteristics with

Dimitar Nikolov, Diego F. M. Oliveira, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

Social media have quickly become a prevalent channel to access information, spread ideas, and influence opinions. However, it has been suggested that social and algorithmic filtering may cause exposure to less diverse points of view, and even foster polarization and misinformation. Here we explore and validate this hypothesis quantitatively for the first tim

Jessica Guerand, Marwa Koumaiha

This paper is concerned with monotone (time-explicit) finite difference schemes associated with first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations posed on a junction. They extend the schemes recently introduced by Costeseque, Lebacque and Monneau (2013) to general junction conditions. On the one hand, we prove the convergence of the numerical solution towards the viscos

Pierre-François Marteau, Guiyao Ke

We address in this paper the co-clustering and co-classification of bilingual data laying in two linguistic similarity spaces when a comparability measure defining a mapping between these two spaces is available. A new approach that we can characterized as a three-mode analysis scheme, is proposed to mix the comparability measure with the two similarity meas

M. Bashkanov, H. Clement, T. Skorodko

Based on measurements the branching ratios for the decay of the recently discovered dibaryon resonance $d^*(2380)$ into two-pion production channels and into the $np$ channel are evaluated. Possibilities for a decay into the isoscalar single-pion channel are discussed. Finally also the electromagnetic decay of $d^*(2380)$ is considered.

Jeremy Bourhill, Eugene Ivanov, Michael Tobar

We present first results from a number of experiments conducted on a 0.53 kg cylindrical dumbbell-shaped sapphire crystal. This is the first reported optomechanical experiment of this nature utilising a novel modification to the typical cylindrical architecture. Mechanical motion of the crystal structure alters the dimensions of the crystal, and the induced

Joseph A. Minahan, Maxim Zabzine

We give a unified approach to localization of maximally symmetric gauge theories on spheres, including $S^6$ and $S^7$. The approach follows Pestun's method of dimensionally reducing from 10 dimensional super Yang-Mills. The resulting theories have a reduced $R$-symmetry which includes an $SU(1,1)$ subgroup, except in four dimensions where, because of co

Edilberto O. Silva, Sérgio C. Ulhoa, Fabiano M. Andrade, Cleverson Filgueiras

The nonrelativistic quantum dynamics of a spinless charged particle in the presence of the Aharonov--Bohm potential in curved space is considered. We chose the surface as being a cone defined by a line element in polar coordinates. The geometry of this line element establishes that the motion of the particle can occur on the surface of a cone or an anti--con

James East, Attila Egri-Nagy, Andrew R. Francis, James D. Mitchell

Diagram semigroups are interesting algebraic and combinatorial objects, several types of them originating from questions in computer science and in physics. Here we describe diagram semigroups in a general framework and extend our computational knowledge of them. The generated data set is replete with surprising observations raising many open questions for f

Alexis Bouthier

This article is the third one of the series \cite{Bt1}-\cite{Bt2} on Hitchin-Frenkel-Ngo fibration and Vinberg semigroup. Ngo \cite{N} proved the fundamental lemma for Lie algebras in equal characteristics as a consequence of geometric stabilization. This article show the geometric stabilization in the group case which was conjectured by Frenkel and Ngo \cit

Peter J. Forrester, Dong Wang

Muttalib--Borodin ensembles are characterised by the pair interaction term in the eigenvalue probability density function being of the form $\prod_{1 \le j < k \le N}(λ_k - λ_j) (λ_k^θ- λ_j^θ)$. We study the Laguerre and Jacobi versions of this model --- so named by the form of the one-body interaction terms --- and show that for $θ\in \mathbb Z^+$ they can

Jaesun Shin

Let $C$ be a projective plane curve of degree $d$ whose singularities are all isolated. Suppose $C$ is not concurrent lines. Płoski proved that the Milnor number of an isolated singlar point of $C$ is less than or equal to $(d-1)^{2}-\lfloor \frac{d}{2} \rfloor$. In this paper, we prove that the Milnor sum of $C$ is also less than or equal to $(d-1)^{2}-\lfl

Wayne Arter, J. Guy Morgan, Samuel D. Relton, Nicholas J. Higham

Pathways-reduced analysis is one of the techniques used by the Fispact-II nuclear activation and transmutation software to study the sensitivity of the computed inventories to uncertainties in reaction cross-sections. Although deciding which pathways are most important is very helpful in for example determining which nuclear data would benefit from further r

Sara van de Geer, Benjamin Stucky

We study a high-dimensional regression model. Aim is to construct a confidence set for a given group of regression coefficients, treating all other regression coefficients as nuisance parameters. We apply a one-step procedure with the square-root Lasso as initial estimator and a multivariate square-root Lasso for constructing a surrogate Fisher information m

Ayan Chatterjee, Avirup Ghosh

The formulation of quasi-local conformal Killling horizons(CKH) is extended to include rotation. This necessitates that the horizon be foliated by 2-spheres which may be distorted. Matter degrees of freedom which fall through the horizon is taken to be a real scalar field. We show that these rotating CKHs also admit a first law in differential form.

Danang Teguh Qoyyimi, Ricardas Zitikis

Measuring association, or the lack of it, between variables plays an important role in a variety of research areas, including education, which is of our primary interest in this paper. Given, for example, student marks on several study subjects, we may for a number of reasons be interested in measuring the lack of co-monotonicity (LOC) between the marks, whi

Satya N. Majumdar, Sanjib Sabhapandit, Gregory Schehr

A stochastic process, when subject to resetting to its initial condition at a constant rate, generically reaches a non-equilibrium steady state. We study analytically how the steady state is approached in time and find an unusual relaxation mechanism in these systems. We show that as time progresses, an inner core region around the resetting point reaches th

P. Solinas, R. Bosisio, F. Giazotto

We propose the implementation of a Josephson radiation comb generator (JRCG) based on an extended Josephson junction subject to a time dependent magnetic field. The junction critical current shows known diffraction patterns and determines the position of the critical nodes when it vanishes. When the magnetic flux passes through one of such critical nodes, th

Betzalel Bazak, Nir Barnea

In view of recent experiments in ultracold atomic systems, the photoassociation of Efimov trimers, composed of three identical bosons, is studied utilizing the multipole expansion. We study both the normal hierarchy case, where one-body current is dominant, and the strong hierarchy case, relevant for photoassociation in ultracold atoms, where two-body curren

Andreas Haas, Thomas A. Henzinger, Andreas Holzer, Christoph M. Kirsch

The semantics of concurrent data structures is usually given by a sequential specification and a consistency condition. Linearizability is the most popular consistency condition due to its simplicity and general applicability. Nevertheless, for applications that do not require all guarantees offered by linearizability, recent research has focused on improvin

F. Fraternale, L. Gallana, M. Iovieno, M. Opher

Fluctuations in the flow velocity and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Solar System. These fluctuations are turbulent, in the sense that they are disordered and span a broad range of scales in both space and time. The study of solar wind turbulence is motivated by a number of factors all keys to the understanding of the Solar Wind origin and thermodynam

J. L. Lado, N. Garcia-Martinez, J. Fernandez-Rossier

The edges of graphene and graphene like systems can host localized states with evanescent wave function with properties radically different from those of the Dirac electrons in bulk. This happens in a variety of situations, that are reviewed here. First, zigzag edges host a set of localized non dispersive state at the Dirac energy. At half filling, it is exp

Á. Baran, Cs. Noszály, P. Salamon, T. Vertse

In a cut-off Woods-Saxon (CWS) potential with realistic depth $S$-matrix poles being far from the imaginary wave number axis form a sequence where the distances of the consecutive resonances are inversely proportional with the cut-off radius value, which is an unphysical parameter. Other poles lying closer to the imaginary wave number axis might have traject

Antonio A. Alonso, Gabor Szederkenyi

This paper studies the relations among system parameters, uniqueness, and stability of equilibria, for kinetic systems given in the form of polynomial ODEs. Such models are commonly used to describe the dynamics of nonnegative systems, with a wide range of application fields such as chemistry, systems biology, process modeling or even transportation systems.

M. Blagojević, B. Cvetković

Starting from the Oliva--Tempo--Troncoso black hole, a solution of the Bergshoeff--Hohm--Townsend massive gravity, a class of the Vaidya-like exact vacuum solutions with torsion is constructed in the three-dimensional Poincaré gauge theory. A particular subclass of these solutions is shown to possess the asymptotic conformal symmetry. The related canonical e

Song-Chuan Zhao, Rianne de Jong, Devaraj van der Meer

As a droplet impacts on a granular substrate, both the intruder and the target deform, during which the liquid may penetrate into the substrate. {These three aspects together distinguish} it from other impact phenomena in the literature. We perform high-speed, double-laser profilometry measurements and disentangle the dynamics into three aspects: the deforma

Uwe Bäsel, Hans Dirnböck

The oloid is the convex hull of two circles with equal radius in perpendicular planes so that the center of each circle lies on the other circle. It is part of a developable surface which we call extended oloid. We determine the tangential system of all inscribed quadrics $\mathcal{Q}_λ$ of the extended oloid $\mathcal{O}$ where $λ$ is the system parameter.

J. Wilkes, E. A. Muljarov

We present a calculation of exciton states in semiconductor coupled quantum wells (CQWs) in the presence of electric and magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the QW plane. The exciton Schrödinger equation is solved in real space in three dimensions to obtain the Landau levels of both direct and indirect excitons. Calculation of the exciton energy levels

Johan Kok, Susanth C, Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal

The concept of the \emph{Gutman index}, denoted $Gut(G)$ was introduced for a connected undirected graph $G$. In this note we apply the concept to the underlying graphs of the family of Jaco graphs, (\emph{directed graphs by definition}), and describe a recursive formula for the \emph{Gutman index} $Gut(J^*_{n+1}(x)).$ We also determine the \emph{Gutman inde

Xinyu Luo, Lingna Wu, Jiyao Chen, Qing Guan

We report the observation of tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold $^{87}$Rb atoms in hyperfine spin-1 states. Different from most earlier experiments where atomic SOC of pseudo-spin-1/2 are synthesized with Raman coupling lasers, the scheme we demonstrate employs a gradient magnetic field (GMF) with ground state atoms and is immune to atomic spont

Tengfei Yan, Xiaofen Qiao, Pingheng Tan, Xinhui Zhang

We have systematically examined the circular polarization of monolayer WSe2 at different temperature, excitation energy and exciton density. The valley depolarization in WSe2 is experimentally confirmed to be governed by the intervalley electron-hole exchange interaction. More importantly, a non-monotonic dependence of valley circular polarization on the exc

Alessandro Sergi, Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

We study the quantum entropy of systems that are described by general non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, including those which can model the effects of sinks or sources. We generalize the von Neumann entropy to the non- Hermitian case and find that one needs both the normalized and non-normalized density operators in order to properly describe irreversible processe

P. The Nguyen, V. Thanh Ngo, H. T. Diep

We propose a new model in order to study behaviors of self-organized system such as a group of animals. We assume that the individuals have two degrees of freedom corresponding one to their internal state and the other to their external state. The external state is characterized by its moving orientation. The rule of the interaction between the individuals i

Vardan Oganesyan

In this paper we find coomon eigenfunctions of commuting differential operators of rank 2 with polynomial coefficients in some partial cases.

Joyce de Figueiró Santos, Flávio Codeço Coelho, Pierre Alexandre Bliman

Colony Collapse Disorder has become a global problem for beekeepers and for the crops which depend on bee polination. Multiple factors are known to increase the risk of colony colapse, and the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor that parasitizes honey bees is among the main threats to colony health. Although this mite is unlikely to, by itself, cause the co

Marta Volonteri, Pedro R. Capelo, Hagai Netzer, Jillian Bellovary

We use a suite of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy mergers to compare star formation rate (SFR) and black hole accretion rate (BHAR) for galaxies before the interaction (&#39;stochastic&#39; phase), during the `merger&#39; proper, lasting ~0.2-0.3 Gyr, and in the `remnant&#39; phase. We calculate the bi-variate distribution of SFR and BHAR and define the

Amit Daniely, Alon Gonen, Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Strongly adaptive algorithms are algorithms whose performance on every time interval is close to optimal. We present a reduction that can transform standard low-regret algorithms to strongly adaptive. As a consequence, we derive simple, yet efficient, strongly adaptive algorithms for a handful of problems.

Judit Sári, Mark O. Goerbig, Csaba Toke

Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in such systems is reduced either by an in-plane electric field or an intrinsic tilt of the Dirac cones, the allowed dipol

Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël, Marc Dambrine, Christophe Lacave

This paper concerns the asymptotic expansion of the solution of the Dirichlet-Laplace problem in a domain with small inclusions. This problem is well understood for the Neumann condition in dimension greater than two or Dirichlet condition in dimension greater than three. The case of two circular inclusions in a bidimensional domain was considered in [1]. In

Hong Xing, Kai-Kit Wong, Zheng Chu, Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper studies the use of multi-antenna harvest-and-jam (HJ) helpers in a multi-antenna amplify-and-forward (AF) relay wiretap channel assuming that the direct link between the source and destination is broken. Our objective is to maximize the secrecy rate at the destination subject to the transmit power constraints of the AF relay and the HJ helpers. In

Clinton Boys

We define alternating cyclotomic Hecke algebras in higher levels as subalgebras of cyclotomic Hecke algebras under an analogue of Goldman&#39;s hash involution. We compute the rank of these algebras and construct a full set of irreducible representations in the semisimple case, generalising Mitsuhashi&#39;s results.

Jinyuan Chang, Cheng Yong Tang, Yichao Wu

We consider an independence feature screening technique for identifying explanatory variables that locally contribute to the response variable in high-dimensional regression analysis. Without requiring a specific parametric form of the underlying data model, our approach accommodates a wide spectrum of nonparametric and semiparametric model families. To dete

Tien-Cuong Dinh, Fei Hu, De-Qi Zhang

Let G be a group of automorphisms of a compact Kähler manifold X of dimension n and N(G) the subset of null-entropy elements. Suppose G admits no non-abelian free subgroup. Improving the known Tits alternative, we obtain that, up to replace G by a finite-index subgroup, either G/N(G) is a free abelian group of rank < n-1, or G/N(G) is a free abelian group of

J. E. Hirsch

It is generally believed that superconductivity can occur in materials irrespective of whether the charge carriers in the material are electrons or holes. Here we point out that Josephson tunneling would not occur between superconductors with charge carriers of opposite sign. Consequently, observation of Josephson tunneling between two superconductors implie

Yu Nakayama

The bulk locality in the constructive holographic renormalization group requires miraculous cancellations among various local renormalization group functions. The cancellation is not only from the properties of the spectrum but from more detailed aspects of operator product expansions in relation to conformal anomaly. It is remarkable that one-loop computati

Dustin Lazarovici

The paper treats the validity problem of the nonrelativistic Vlasov-Poisson equation in $d\geq 2$ dimensions. It is shown that the Vlasov-Poisson dynamics can be derived as a combined mean field and point-particle limit of an N-particle Coulomb system of extended charges. This requires a sufficiently fast convergence of the initial empirical distributions. I

Ralph R. Gomez, Janet Talvacchia

In this paper we define the notion of a generalized coKähler structure and prove that the product $M_{1}\times M_{2}$ of generalized contact metric manifolds $(M_i, Φ_i,E_{\pm,i}, G_i)$, $ i=1, 2$, where $M_{1}\times M_{2}$ is endowed with the product generalized complex structure induced from $Φ_1$ and $Φ_2$, is generalized Kähler if and only if $(M_i, Φ_i,

Andrew R. Francis, Mike Steel

A binary phylogenetic network may or may not be obtainable from a tree by the addition of directed edges (arcs) between tree arcs. Here, we establish a precise and easily tested criterion (based on `2-SAT&#39;) that efficiently determines whether or not any given network can be realized in this way. Moreover, the proof provides a polynomial-time algorithm fo

Daniel Chung, Leon Chan, Michael MacDonald, Nicholas Hutchins

We describe a fast direct numerical simulation (DNS) method that promises to directly characterise the hydraulic roughness of any given rough surface, from the hydraulically smooth to the fully rough regime. The method circumvents the unfavourable computational cost associated with simulating high-Reynolds-number flows by employing minimal-span channels (Jim

Subhabrata Majumdar

Analyzing principal components for multivariate data from its spatial sign covariance matrix (SCM) has been proposed as a computationally simple and robust alternative to normal PCA, but it suffers from poor efficiency properties and is actually inadmissible with respect to the maximum likelihood estimator. Here we use data depth-based spatial ranks in place

Eduardo F. Mendes, Marcel Scharth, Robert Kohn

We introduce a new Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler called the Markov Interacting Importance Sampler (MIIS). The MIIS sampler uses conditional importance sampling (IS) approximations to jointly sample the current state of the Markov Chain and estimate conditional expectations, possibly by incorporating a full range of variance reduction techniques. We

Haret C. Rosu, Stefan C. Mancas, Pisin Chen

For non-zero cosmological constant Lambda, we show that the barotropic FRW cosmologies as worked out in the comoving time lead in the radiation-dominated case to scale factors of identical form as for the Chiellini dissipative scale factors in conformal time obtained recently by us in Phys. Lett. A 379 (2015) 882-887. This is due to the Ermakov equation whic

Yasuhiro Daikoku, Hiroshi Okada

Recent observation of high energy neutrino in IceCube experiment suggests existence of superheavy dark matter beyond PeV. We identify the parent particles of neutrino as two degenerated right handed neutrinos, assuming the dark matter is the heaviest right handed neutrino. The $O(V_{cb})\sim O(10^{-2})$ flavor symmetry breaking accounts for the $O(10^{-4})$

Filippo M. Miatto, Kevin Piché, Thomas Brougham, Robert W. Boyd

When quantum systems interact with the environment they lose their quantum properties, such as coherence. Quantum erasure makes it possible to restore coherence in a system by measuring its environment, but accessing the whole of it may be prohibitive: realistically one might have to concentrate only on an accessible subspace and neglect the rest. If that is

Antonio Enea Romano, Sergio Andres Vallejo

In order to estimate the effects of local structure on the Hubble parameter we calculate the low-redshift expansion for $H(z)$ and $\frac{δH}{H}$ for an observer at the center of a spherically symmetric matter distribution in presence of a cosmological constant. We then test the accuracy of the formulae comparing them with fully relativistic non perturbative

Alister W. Graham, Bililign T. Dullo, Giulia A. D. Savorgnan

It has been widely remarked that compact, massive, elliptical-like galaxies are abundant at high redshifts but exceedingly rare in the Universe today, implying significant evolution such that their sizes at z ~ 2+/-0.6 have increased by factors of 3 to 6 to become today&#39;s massive elliptical galaxies. These claims have been based on studies which measured