February 2015 arXiv papers — page 12

Meitner Cadena

A new stochastic method for describing mortality is proposed and explored. It is based on differences of observed times series of the transform $\log(-\log x)$ of survival probabilities which seem to follow simple patterns over the years. These common structures are gathered by a representation based on age-constants and time-stochastic processes. From the p

Kyu Jung Bae, Howard Baer, Andre Lessa, Hasan Serce

A variety of supersymmetric models give rise to a split mass spectrum characterized by very heavy scalars but sub-TeV gauginos, usually with a wino-like LSP. Such models predict a thermally-produced underabundance of wino-like WIMP dark matter so that non-thermal DM production mechanisms are necessary. We examine the case where theories with a wino-like LSP

Shawn X Cui, Nengkun Yu, Bei Zeng

Graph states are widely used in quantum information theory, including entanglement theory, quantum error correction, and one-way quantum computing. Graph states have a nice structure related to a certain graph, which is given by either a stabilizer group or an encoding circuit, both can be directly given by the graph. To generalize graph states, whose stabil

B. Feigin, M. Jimbo, T. Miwa, E. Mukhin

We establish the method of Bethe ansatz for the XXZ type model obtained from the R-matrix associated to quantum toroidal gl(1). We do that by using shuffle realizations of the modules and by showing that the Hamiltonian of the model is obtained from a simple multiplication operator by taking an appropriate quotient. We expect this approach to be applicable t

Dante Kalise, Axel Kröner, Karl Kunisch

The numerical realization of the dynamic programming principle for continuous-time optimal control leads to nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations which require the minimization of a nonlinear mapping over the set of admissible controls. This minimization is often performed by comparison over a finite number of elements of the control set. In this paper

Friedrich Roth, Martin Knupfer

The electronic excitation spectra of undoped, and potassium as well as calcium doped phenantrene-type hydrocarbons have been investigated using electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in transmission. In the undoped materials, the lowest energy excitations are excitons with a relatively high binding energy. These excitons also are rather localized as reveal

Rafał Kulik, Zhigang Tong

We consider regularly varying random vectors. Our goal is to estimate in a non-parametric way some characteristics related to conditioning on an extreme event, like the tail dependence coefficient. We introduce a quasi-spectral decomposition that allow to improve efficiency of estimators. Asymptotic normality of estimators is based on weak convergence of tai

Connor P Ballance, Brendan M McLaughlin

Results from large-scale theoretical cross section calculations for the total photoionization of the 4f, 5s, 5p and 6s orbitals of the neutral tungsten atom using the Dirac Coulomb R-matrix approximation (DARC: Dirac-Atomic R-matrix codes) are presented. Comparisons are made with previous theoretical methods and prior experimental measurements. In previous e

Mark A. Zentile, Daniel J. Whiting, James Keaveney, Charles S. Adams

We demonstrate an atomic bandpass optical filter with an equivalent noise bandwidth less than 1 GHz using the D$_1$ line in a cesium vapor. We use the ElecSus computer program to find optimal experimental parameters, and find that for important quantities the cesium D$_1$ line clearly outperforms other alkali metals on either D-lines. The filter simultaneous

Lars Smykalla, Pavel Shukrynau, Carola Mende, Heinrich Lang

The temperature dependent stepwise deprotonation of 5,10,15,20-tetra(p-hydroxyphenyl)porphyrin is investigated using photoelectron spectroscopy. An abundance of pyrrolic relative to iminic nitrogen and a decrease in the ratio of the amount of -NH- to -N= with increasing annealing temperature is found. In contrast to the molecules adsorbed on Au(111), on the

Mengxi Wu, Shambhu Ghimire, David A. Reis, Kenneth J. Schafer

We study the generation of high harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model transparent solid driven by a strong mid-infrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) using a velocity-gauge method [New J. Phys. 15, 013006 (2013)] that is numerically stable as the laser intensity and number of energy bands are

Ayse Humeyra Bilge, Yunus Ozdemir

In this work, we obtain the Fourier transform of the first derivative of the generalized logistic growth curve in terms of Gamma functions and we discuss special cases.

L. Golinskii, M. Malamud, L. Oridoroga

The main object under consideration is a class $Φ_n\backslashΦ_{n+1}$ of radial positive definite functions on $\R^n$ which do not admit \emph{radial positive definite continuation} on $\R^{n+1}$. We find certain necessary and sufficient conditions for the Schoenberg representation measure $ν_n$ of $f\in Φ_n$ in order that the inclusion $f\in Φ_{n+k}$, $k\in

F. Mantovani, M. Bondi, K. -H. Mack, W. Alef

We started a follow-up investigation of the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey objects with declination >-10 deg. We undertook a survey with the EVN at 5GHz to make the first images of a complete sample of weak blazars, aiming at a comparison between high- and low-power samples of blazars. All of the 87 sources observed were detected. Point-like sources are foun

Fabio Bagarello

We discuss systematically several possible inequivalent ways to describe the dynamics and the transition probabilities of a quantum system when its hamiltonian is not self-adjoint. In order to simplify the treatment, we mainly restrict our analysis to finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. In particular, we propose some experiments which could discriminate betwe

Christian Leitold, Christoph Dellago

We investigate the crystallization of a single, flexible homopolymer chain using transition path sampling (TPS). The chain consists of N identical spherical monomers evolved according to Langevin dynamics. While neighboring monomers are coupled via harmonic springs, the non-neighboring monomers interact via a hard core and a short-ranged attractive potential

Taisuke Yoneyama, Keiichi Kato

In this paper, we consider the existence and the asymptotic completeness of the wave operators for Schrodinger equations with time-dependent potentials which are short-range in space.

I. V. Oseledets, G. V. Ovchinnikov, A. M. Katrutsa

This paper presents a deterministic linear time complexity IDE-SimRank method to approximately compute SimRank with proved error bound. SimRank is a well-known similarity measure between graph vertices which relies on graph topology only and is built on intuition that "two objects are similar if they are related to similar objects". The fixed point e

JC Ndogmo

An effective method for generating linear equations of maximal symmetry in their much general normal form is obtained. In the said normal form, the coefficients of the equation are differential functions of the coefficient of the term of third highest order. As a result, an explicit expression for the point transformation reducing the equation to its canonic

JC Ndogmo

The equivalence group is determined for systems of linear ordinary differential equations in both the standard form and the normal form. It is then shown that the normal form of linear systems reducible by an invertible point transformation to the canonical equation $\by^{(n)}=0$ consists of copies of the same iterative equation. Other properties of iterativ

Julian Brough

Let $G$ be a finite permutation group on a finite set $Ω$. The notion of $G$ being quasi-transitive on $Ω$ was defined by Alan Camina \cite{Camina}; in that paper conditions were established that ensured a quasi-transitive group on a finite set $Ω$ was transitive on $Ω$. The aim of this paper is to validate the conjecture made in \cite{Camina}: given any gro

Jiguang Bao, Haigang Li, Lei Zhang

Monge-Ampère equation $\det(D^2u)=f$ in two dimensional spaces is different in nature from their counterparts in higher dimensional spaces. In this article we employ new ideas to establish two main results for the Monge-Ampère equation defined either globally in $\mathbb R^2$ or outside a convex set. First we prove the existence of a global solution that sat

Cem Yuce

In this work, we consider a tight binding lattice with two non-Hermitian impurities. The system is described by a non-Hermitian generalization of the Aubry Andre model. We show for the first time that there exists topologically nontrivial edge states with real spectra in the PT symmetric region.

Chun-Yang Wang

The time-dependent barrier passage of a particle driven by the structured noise is studied in the field of a metastable potential. Quantities such as the probability of passing over the saddle point and transmission coefficient of the escaping rate are calculated for a thimbleful of insight into the diffusion dynamical properties. Results show that the barri

Bernardo Araneda, Gustavo Dotti

We show that a spacetime satisfying the linearized vacuum Einstein equations around a type D background is generically of type I, and that the splittings of the Principal Null Directions (PNDs) and of the degenerate eigenvalue of the Weyl tensor are non analytic functions of the perturbation parameter of the metric. This provides a gauge invariant characteri

Cyril Cayron

This work generalizes our previous works on fcc-bcc martensitic transformations to the larger family of transformations in the fcc-bcc-hcp system and to fcc-fcc mechanical twinning. The analytical expressions of the atomic displacements and lattice distortions are calculated directly from the orientation relationships without any adjustment of free parameter

Mariusz Koras, Karol Palka

Let $E\subseteq \mathbb{P}^2$ be a complex rational cuspidal curve contained in the projective plane. The Coolidge-Nagata conjecture asserts that $E$ is Cremona equivalent to a line, i.e. it is mapped onto a line by some birational transformation of $\mathbb{P}^2$. In arXiv:1405.5917 the second author analyzed the log minimal model program run for the pair $

Abdullah Cakir, Leonardo E. Silbert

The mechanical response of static, unconfined, overcompressed face centred cubic, granular arrays is studied using large-scale, discrete element method simulations. Specifically, the stress response due to the application of a localised force perturbation - the Green function technique - is obtained in granular packings generated over several orders of magni

Tamar Goldzak, Liron Gantz, Ido Gilary, Gad Bahir

Interatomic coulombic decay (ICD) is a relaxation process induced by electronic correlation. In this work we study the ICD process in a two coupled Quantum wells (QWs) nano-structure. We study a simple one-dimensional effective potential using experimental parameters of the semiconductor QW layers i.e. using the single band effective-mass approximation . In

Rodrigo Soto, Ramin Golestanian

Catalytically active colloids maintain non-equilibrium conditions in which they produce and deplete chemicals and hence effectively act as sources and sinks of molecules. While individual colloids that are symmetrically coated do not exhibit any form of dynamical activity, the concentration fields resulting from their chemical activity decay as $1/r$ and pro

Mark Herbster, Paul Rubenstein, James Townsend

Given a set $X$ and a function $h:X\longrightarrow\{0,1\}$ which labels each element of $X$ with either $0$ or $1$, we may define a function $h^{(s)}$ to measure the similarity of pairs of points in $X$ according to $h$. Specifically, for $h\in \{0,1\}^X$ we define $h^{(s)}\in \{0,1\}^{X\times X}$ by $h^{(s)}(w,x):= \mathbb{1}[h(w) = h(x)]$. This idea can be

V. Zólyomi, J. Kürti

We use fully self-consistent GW calculations on diamond and silicon carbide to reparametrize the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof exact exchange density functional for use in band structure calculations of semiconductors and insulators. We show that the thus modified functional is able to calculate the band structure of bulk Si, Ge, GaAs, and CdTe with good quantitat

Wafaa Batat, Stuart James Hall, Ali Jizany, Thomas Murphy

We prove that the quasi-Einstein metrics found by Lü, Page and Pope on $\mathbb{C}P^{1}$-bundles over Fano Kähler-Einstein bases are conformally Kähler and that the Kähler class of the conformal metric is a multiple of the first Chern class. A detailed study of the lowest-dimensional example of such metrics on $\mathbb{C}P^{2}\sharp \overline{\mathbb{C}P}^{2

Carolin Kreisbeck, Stefan Krömer

We analyze the asymptotic behavior of a multiscale problem given by a sequence of integral functionals subject to differential constraints conveyed by a constant-rank operator with two characteristic length scales, namely the film thickness and the period of oscillating microstructures, by means of $Γ$-convergence. On a technical level, this requires a subti

Florian Steiner, Sebastian Bange, Jan Vogelsang, John M. Lupton

The efficiency of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) depends on the microscopic orientation of transition dipole moments of the molecular emitters. The most effective materials used for light generation have threefold symmetry, which prohibit a priori determination of dipole orientation due to the degeneracy of the fundamental transition. Single-molecule

L. Hjalmarsdotter, M. Axelsson, C. Done

At high luminosities black hole binaries show spectra with a strong disc component accompanied by an equally strong tail where at least some of the electrons are non-thermal. We reanalyze the simultaneous ASCA-RXTE-OSSE data from the 1998 outburst of XTE J1550-564, which span 0.7-1000 keV and remain the best data available of a black hole binary in this stat

Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez, Miguel-Ángel Aloy, Petar Mimica, Christina C. Thöne

Blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are events characterized by the absence of a typical afterglow, long durations and the presence of a significant thermal component following the prompt gamma-ray emission. GRB 101225A (the `Christmas burst') is a prototype of this class. A plausible progenitor system for it, and for the BBD-GRBs, is the m

Vasos Hadjioannou

Nowadays, routing protocols have become a crucial part of the modern communication networks. A routing protocol's responsibility lies in determining the way routers communicate with each other in order to forward any kind of packets, from a source to a destination, using the optimal path that would provide the most efficiency. There are many routing prot

Igor O. Slieptsov, Igor N. Karnaukhov

A spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ subsystem conjoined along a cut with a subsystem of spinless fermions in the state of topological insulator is studied on a honeycomb lattice. The model describes a junction between a 2D topological insulator and a 2D spin lattice with direction-dependent exchange interactions in topologically trivial and nontrivial phase states. The mod

Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez, Zheng He, Jun Zhao, Xingye Lu

One of the major themes in the physics of condensed matter is unconventional superconductivity in correlated electronic systems. The symmetry structure of Cooper pairs is thought to be the key to the understanding of the pairing mechanism of their superconductivity. In iron pnictide superconductors, the precise symmetry of the order parameter as well its evo

Ludvik Smrcka

We report on a theoretical study of the commensurability oscillations in a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas modulated by a unidirectional periodic potential and subjected to tilted magnetic fields with a strong in-plane component. As a result of coupling of the in-plane field component and the confining potential in the finite-width quantum well, the origi

E. Friedman

Annihilation cross sections of antiprotons and antineutrons on the proton between 50 and 400 MeV/c show Coulomb focusing below 200 MeV/c and almost no charge-dependence above 200 MeV/c. Similar comparisons for heavier targets are not possible for lack of overlap between nuclear targets studied with $\bar p$ and $\bar n$ beams. Interpolating between $\bar p$-

M. Falanga, E. Bozzo, A. Lutovinov, J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud

We take advantage of more than 10 years of monitoring of the eclipsing HMXB systems LMC X-4, Cen X-3, 4U 1700-377, 4U 1538-522, SMC X-1, IGR J18027-2016, Vela X-1, IGR J17252-3616, XTE J1855-026, and OAO 1657-415 with the ASM on-board RXTE and ISGRI on-board INTEGRAL to update their ephemeris. These results are used to refine previous measurements of the orb

Chenxi Hao, Bruno Clerckx

This paper considers a K-user Multiple-Input-Single-Output (MISO) Interference Channel (IC), where the channel state information obtained by the transmitters (CSIT) is perfect, but completely outdated. A Retrospective Interference Alignment (RIA) using such delayed CSIT was proposed by the authors of [1] for the MISO Broadcast Channel (BC), but the extension

V. D'Elia, P. Padovani, P. Giommi, S. Turriziani

We show that a blazar classification in BL Lacs and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars may not be adequate when it relies solely on the equivalent widths (EWs) of optical lines. In fact, depending on redshift, some strong emission lines can fall in the infrared window and be missed. We selected a sample of BL Lacs with firm redshift identification and good visibili

Holger Hermanns, Jan Krčál, Gilles Nies

The kinetic battery model is a popular model of the dynamic behavior of a conventional battery, useful to predict or optimize the time until battery depletion. The model however lacks certain obvious aspects of batteries in-the-wild, especially with respect to (i) the effects of random influences and (ii) the behavior when charging up to capacity bounds. Thi

Pankaj Kumar, Valery M. Nakariakov, Kyung-Suk Cho

We report decaying quasi-periodic intensity oscillations in the X-ray (6-12 keV) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) channels (131, 94, 1600, 304 Å) observed by the Fermi GBM (Gamma-ray Burst Monitor) and SDO/AIA, respectively, during a C-class flare. The estimated period of oscillation and decay time in the X-ray channel (6-12 keV) was about 202 s and 154 s, resp

V. Ardizzone, Y. Chassagneux, F. Vialla, G. Delport

Carbon nanotubes are quantum sources whose emission can be tuned at telecommunication wavelengths by choosing the diameter appropriately. Most applications require the smallest possible linewidth. Therefore, the study of the underlying dephasing mechanisms is of utmost interest. Here, we report on the low-temperature photoluminescence of high crystalline qua

E. Tjhung, A. Tiribocchi, D. Marenduzzo, M. E. Cates

Cell motility in higher organisms (eukaryotes) is crucial to biological functions ranging from wound healing to immune response, and also implicated in diseases such as cancer. For cells crawling on hard surfaces, significant insights into motility have been gained from experiments replicating such motion in vitro. Such experiments show that crawling uses a

Łukasz Kidziński

The continuous advances in data collection and storage techniques allow us to observe and record real-life processes in great detail. Examples include financial transaction data, fMRI images, satellite photos, earths pollution distribution in time etc. Due to the high dimensionality of such data, classical statistical tools become inadequate and inefficient.

V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova

Nuclear matter at finite temperature and barion density exhibits several phase transitions that could happen at the early stages of the Universe evolution and could be realized in heavy-ion or hadron-hadron collisions. Microscopic description of phase transitions is notoriously difficult because of the absence of small parameters. Here we present a general a

Anatoly Kotikov

We shown the general approach for Q2 evolution of parton densities and fragmentation functions at low x based on the diagonalization. The diagonalization leads to the two components in the Q2 evolution, each of which contains a nonperturbative parameter. The values of the parameters can be found by fits of the experimental data for the deep-inelastic scatter

S. Richard, J. Uchiyama, T. Umeda

An explicit construction is provided for embedding n positive eigenvalues in the spectrum of a Schroedinger operator on the half-line with a Dirichlet boundary condition at the origin. The resulting potential is of von Neumann-Wigner type, but can be real valued as well as complex valued.

Hassan Metwalley, Stefano Traverso, Marco Mellia, Stanislav Miskovic

When surfing the Internet, individuals leak personal and corporate information to third parties whose (legitimate or not) businesses revolve around the value of collected data. The implications are serious, from a person unwillingly exposing private information to an unknown third party, to a company unable to manage the flow of its information to the outsid

Tom Diethe

We present a derivation of the Kullback Leibler (KL)-Divergence (also known as Relative Entropy) for the von Mises Fisher (VMF) Distribution in $d$-dimensions.

Gyula Pap, Tamás T. Szabó

We propose a change detection method for the famous Cox--Ingersoll--Ross model. This model is widely used in financial mathematics and therefore detecting a change in its parameters is of crucial importance. We develop one- and two-sided testing procedures for both drift parameters of the process. The test process is based on estimators that are motivated by

S. Geißler, S. Pfaller, M. Utz, D. Bougeard

We report on a systematic study of the Coulomb blockade effects in nanofabricated narrow constrictions in thin (Ga,Mn)As films. Different low-temperature transport regimes have been observed for decreasing constriction sizes: the ohmic, the single electron tunnelling (SET) and a completely insulating regime. In the SET, complex stability diagrams with nested

J. Maldonado, C. Eiroa, E. Villaver, B. Montesinos

(Abridged) Tentative correlations between the presence of dusty debris discs and low-mass planets have been presented. In parallel, detailed chemical abundance studies have reported different trends between samples of planet and non-planet hosts. We determine in a homogeneous way the metallicity, and abundances of a sample of 251 stars including stars with k

Alice P. Bates, Zubair Khalid, Rodney A. Kennedy

We propose a sampling scheme on the sphere and develop a corresponding spherical harmonic transform (SHT) for the accurate reconstruction of the diffusion signal in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). By exploiting the antipodal symmetry, we design a sampling scheme that requires the optimal number of samples on the sphere, equal to the degrees of f

JunYan Luo, Jinshuang Jin, Shi-Kuan Wang, Jing Hu

In the context of a charge qubit under continuous monitoring by a single electron transistor, we propose an unraveling of the generalized quantum Markovian master equation into an ensemble of individual quantum trajectories for stochastic point process. A suboptimal feedback algorism is implemented into individual quantum trajectories to protect a desired pu

Shahar Mendelson

We introduce an alternative to the notion of `fast rate' in Learning Theory, which coincides with the optimal error rate when the given class happens to be convex and regular in some sense. While it is well known that such a rate cannot always be attained by a learning procedure (i.e., a procedure that selects a function in the given class), we introduce

M. Latour, A. Irrgang, U. Heber, V. Schaffenroth

HD188112 is an extremely low mass white dwarf in a close binary system. According to a previous study, the mass of HD188112 is $\sim$0.24 Msun and a lower limit of 0.73 Msun could be put for the mass of its unseen companion, a compact degenarate object. We used HST STIS spectra to measure the rotational broadening of UV metallic lines in HD188112, in order t

Libor Křižka, Petr Somberg

In the present article, we combine some techniques in the harmonic analysis together with the geometric approach given by modules over sheaves of rings of twisted differential operators ($\mathcal{D}$-modules), and reformulate the composition series and branching problems for objects in the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand parabolic category $\mathcal{O}^\mathfrak{

Daniel Bedingham

A framework for wave function collapse models that is symmetric under time reversal is presented. Within this framework there are equivalent pictures of collapsing wave functions evolving in both time directions. The backwards-in-time Born rule can be broken by an initial condition on the Universe resulting in asymmetric behaviour. Similarly the forwards-in-

Vera Dobos, Edwin L. Turner

Tidal heating of exomoons may play a key role in their habitability, since the elevated temperature can melt the ice on the body even without significant solar radiation. The possibility of life is intensely studied on Solar System moons such as Europa or Enceladus, where the surface ice layer covers tidally heated water ocean. Tidal forces may be even stron

Dibyakrupa Sahoo, Rahul Sinha, N. G. Deshpande

The light hadron states are satisfactorily described in the quark model using $SU(3)$ flavor symmetry. If the $SU(3)$ flavor symmetry relating the light hadrons were exact, one would have an exchange symmetry between these hadrons arising out of the exchange of the up, down and strange quarks. This aspect of $SU(3)$ symmetry is used extensively to relate man

Bartosz Rozycki, Lukasz Mioduszewski, Marek Cieplak

Using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, we analyze mechanically induced dissociation and unfolding of the protein complex CD48-2B4. This heterodimer is an indispensable component of the immunological system: 2B4 is a receptor on natural killer cells whereas CD48 is expressed on surfaces of various immune cells. So far, its mechanostability has n

Asghar Asgharian Sardroud, Alireza Bagheri

Although, the Hamiltonicity of solid grid graphs are polynomial-time decidable, the complexity of the longest cycle problem in these graphs is still open. In this paper, by presenting a linear-time constant-factor approximation algorithm, we show that the longest cycle problem in solid grid graphs is in APX. More precisely, our algorithm finds a cycle of len

Miguel Martin

It has been very recently discovered that there are compact linear operators between Banach spaces which cannot be approximated by norm attaining operators. The aim of this expository paper is to give an overview of those examples and also of sufficient conditions ensuring that compact linear operators can be approximated by norm attaining operators. To do s

Xin Chen

The study of genetic map linearization leads to a combinatorial hard problem, called the {\em minimum breakpoint linearization} (MBL) problem. It is aimed at finding a linearization of a partial order which attains the minimum breakpoint distance to a reference total order. The approximation algorithms previously developed for the MBL problem are only applic

V. V. Smirnov, L. I. Manevitch, M. Strozzi, F. Pellicano

We demonstrate the new specific phenomenon of the long-time resonant energy exchange in the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with the radial breathing mode as a carrier. This process turns out to be stable in the wide range of the excitation energy. It is shown that the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation, obtained in the framework of nonlinear elastic thin shell

Y. J. Yan, M. Q. Ren, X. Liu, Z. C. Huang

Recently, the non-centrosymmetric bismuth tellurohalides such as BiTeCl are being studied as possible candidates of topological insulators. While some photoemission studies showed that BiTeCl is an inversion asymmetric topological insulator, others showed that it is a normal semiconductor with Rashba splitting. Meanwhile, first-principle calculationsfailed t

Miguel Martin

We study the relation between the intrinsic and the spatial numerical ranges with the recently introduced "approximated" spatial numerical range. As main result, we show that the intrinsic numerical range always coincides with the convex hull of the approximated spatial numerical range. Besides, we show sufficient conditions and necessary conditions

Bartosz Rozycki, Marek Cieplak

We study four citrate synthase homodimeric proteins within a structure-based coarse-grained model. Two of these proteins come from thermophilic bacteria, one from a cryophilic bacterium and one from a mesophilic organism; three are in the closed and two in the open conformations. Even though the proteins belong to the same fold, the model distinguishes the p

Xiang-Dong Li

The majority of known Galactic black holes reside in low-mass X-ray binaries. They are rare and fascinating objects, providing unique information on strong gravity, accretion disc physics, and stellar and binary evolution. There is no doubt that our understanding of the formation of black hole low-mass X-ray binaries has significantly advanced in the past de

Benjamin Pigeau, Sven Rohr, Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Arnaud Gloppe

Reminiscent of the bound character of a qubit's dynamics confined on the Bloch sphere, the observation of a Mollow triplet in the resonantly driven qubit fluorescence spectrum represents one of the founding signatures of Quantum Electrodynamics. Here we report on its observation in a hybrid spin-nanomechanical system, where a Nitro-gen Vacancy spin qubit

Hyun-Myung Chun, Jae Dong Noh

We investigate nonequilibrium underdamped Langevin dynamics of Brownian particles that interact through a harmonic potential with coupling constant $K$ and are in thermal contact with two heat baths at different temperatures. The system is characterized by a net heat flow and an entropy production in the steady state. We compare the entropy production of the

Naomasa Kitagawa, Takaaki Yokoyama

In order to better understand the nature of active region outflows, the electron density was measured by using a density-sensitive line pair Fe xiv 264.78A/274.20A.Since coronal line profiles of the outflow region are composed of a major component with a Doppler shift of < 10 km s^-1 and a minor component (enhanced blue wing: EBW) blueshifted by up to 100 km

G. Monney, C. Monney, B. Hildebrand, P. Aebi

Several experiments have been performed on 1T-TiSe2 in order to identify whether the electronic structure is semimetallic or semiconducting without reaching a consensus. In this paper, we theoretically study the impact of electron-hole and electron-phonon correlations on the bare semimetallic and semiconducting electronic structure. The resulting electron sp

Inomjon Ganiev, Farrukh Mukhamedov, Dilmurad Bekbae

In the present paper we study majorizable operators acting on Banach-Kantorovich $L_p$-lattices, constructed by a measure $m$ with values in the ring of all measurable functions. Then using methods of measurable bundles of Banach-Kantorovich lattices, we prove the strong &#34;zero-two&#34; law for positive contractions of the Banach-Kantorovich $L_p$-lattice

Lina Mohjazi, Mehrdad Dianati, George K. Karagiannidis, Sami Muhaidat

The increasing demand for spectral and energy efficient communication networks has spurred a great interest in energy harvesting (EH) cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Such a revolutionary technology represents a paradigm shift in the development of wireless networks, as it can simultaneously enable the efficient use of the available spectrum and the exploita

Brynmor Haskell, Andrew Melatos

Radio pulsars provide us with some of the most stable clocks in the universe. Nevertheless several pulsars exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. More than forty years after their first discovery, the exact origin of these phenomena is still open to debate. It is generally thought that they an observational manifestation of a superfluid component

Adam W. Harley, Alex Ufkes, Konstantinos G. Derpanis

This paper presents a new state-of-the-art for document image classification and retrieval, using features learned by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In object and scene analysis, deep neural nets are capable of learning a hierarchical chain of abstraction from pixel inputs to concise and descriptive representations. The current work explores this

Xiao-jie Xu, Jifeng Liu, Jiren Liu

The ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) M82 X-1 is one of the most promising intermediate mass black hole candidates in the local universe based on its high X-ray luminosities ($10^{40}-10^{41} {\rm erg s^{-1}}$) and quasi-periodic oscillations, and is possibly associated with a radio flare source. In this work, applying the sub-pixel technique to the 120 ks C

Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo, Boris A. Malomed

We consider linear and nonlinear modes pinned to a grating-free (gapless) layer placed between two symmetric or asymmetric semi-infinite Bragg gratings (BGs), with a possible phase shift between them, in a medium with the uniform Kerr nonlinearity. The asymmetry is defined by a difference between bandgap widths in the two BGs. In the linear system, exact def

Atin Mukherjee, Amitabha Sinha, Debesh Choudhury

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) of large number of samples requires huge hardware resources of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), which needs more area and power. In this paper, we present an area efficient architecture of FFT processor that reuses the butterfly elements several times. The FFT processor is simulated using VHDL and the results are validated

Mir Mehedi Faruk

Thermodynamic properties of ideal Bose gas trapped in an external generic power law potential are investigated systematically from the grand thermodynamic potential in $d$ dimensional space. The most general conditions for Bose-Einstein condensate and the discontinuous conditions of heat capacity at the critical temperature in presence of generic power law p

Maria Charina, Costanza Conti, Nicola Guglielmi, Vladimir Protasov

In this paper, we present a new matrix approach for the analysis of subdivision schemes whose non-stationarity is due to linear dependency on parameters whose values vary in a compact set. Indeed, we show how to check the convergence in $C^{\ell}(\RR^s)$ and determine the Hölder regularity of such level and parameter dependent schemes efficiently via the joi

A. Yu. Olshanskii

In this note, we consider a &#39;thrifty&#39; version of Kaluzhnin - Krasner&#39;s embedding in wreath products and apply it to extensions by finite groups and to metabelian groups.

Thomas A. Moore, Daniel V. Schroeder

The basic notions of statistical mechanics (microstates, multiplicities) are quite simple, but understanding how the second law arises from these ideas requires working with cumbersomely large numbers. To avoid getting bogged down in mathematics, one can compute multiplicities numerically for a simple model system such as an Einstein solid -- a collection of

Zhen Zhu, Zacharias G. Fthenakis, David Tomanek

We combine {\em ab initio} density functional theory (DFT) structural studies with DFT-based nonequilibrium Green function calculations to investigate how the presence of non-hexagonal rings affects electronic transport in graphitic structures. We find that infinite monolayers, finite-width nanoribbons and nanotubes formed of 5-8 haeckelite with only 5- and

Tomohiko Ishida, Masatoshi Sato

Let $H_{g}$ be a 3-dimensional handlebody of genus $g$. We determine the twisted first homology group of the mapping class group of $H_{g}$ with coefficients in the first integral homology group of the boundary surface $\partial H_{g}$ for $g\geq 2$.

Jean-Baptiste Masson, Patrice Dionne, Charlotte Salvatico, Marianne Renner

Protein mobility is conventionally analyzed in terms of an effective diffusion. Yet, this description often fails to properly distinguish and evaluate the physical parameters (such as the membrane friction) and the biochemical interactions governing the motion. Here, we present a method combining high-density single-molecule imaging and statistical inference

Jamil Ahmad, Muhammad Sajjad, Irfan Mehmood, Seungmin Rho

Visual media has always been the most enjoyed way of communication. From the advent of television to the modern day hand held computers, we have witnessed the exponential growth of images around us. Undoubtedly it&#39;s a fact that they carry a lot of information in them which needs be utilized in an effective manner. Hence intense need has been felt to effi

Cheng Li, Enci Wang, Lin Lin, Matthew A. Bershady

We present an analysis of the data produced by the MaNGA prototype run (P-MaNGA), aiming to test how the radial gradients in recent star formation histories, as indicated by the 4000AA-break (D4000), Hdelta absorption (EW(Hd_A)) and Halpha emission (EW(Ha)) indices, can be useful for understanding disk growth and star formation cessation in local galaxies. W

Dominick Ng, Mohit Bansal, James R. Curran

We develop novel first- and second-order features for dependency parsing based on the Google Syntactic Ngrams corpus, a collection of subtree counts of parsed sentences from scanned books. We also extend previous work on surface $n$-gram features from Web1T to the Google Books corpus and from first-order to second-order, comparing and analysing performance o

Jing Wang, Hong-Man Ma, Ying Liu

A two-dimensional scandium carbide monolayer with a Sc3C10 primitive cell (Sc3C10 sheet) has been identified using first-principles density functional theory. In the Sc3C10 sheet, there is a similar basic structure to the one in the Volleyballene Sc20C60, the Sc8C10 subunit, in which two connected carbon pentagons are surrounded by one scandium octagon. The

Daniel V. Schroeder, Thomas A. Moore

We describe an interactive computer program that simulates Stern-Gerlach measurements on spin-1/2 and spin-1 particles. The user can design and run experiments involving successive spin measurements, illustrating incompatible observables, interference, and time evolution. The program can be used by students at a variety of levels, from non-science majors in

Taras Plakhotnik, Marcus W. Doherty, Jared H. Cole, Robert Chapman

The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is at the frontier of quantum nano-metrology and bio-sensing. Recent attention has focused on the application of high-sensitivity thermometry using the spin resonances of NV centers in nano-diamond to sub-cellular biological and biomedical research. Here, we report a comprehensive investigation o

Mark L. Lewis, Hung Ngoc Nguyen

For a finite non-abelian group $G$ let $\rat(G)$ denote the largest ratio of degrees of two nonlinear irreducible characters of $G$. We prove that the number of non-abelian composition factors of $G$ is bounded above by $1.8\ln(\rat(G))+1.3$.