April 2015 arXiv papers — page 3

Galen T. Craven, Thomas Bartsch, Rigoberto Hernandez

Chemical reaction rates must increasingly be determined in systems that evolve under the control of external stimuli. In these systems, when a reactant population is induced to cross an energy barrier through forcing from a temporally varying external field, the transition state that the reaction must pass through during the transformation from reactant to p

Mark Braverman, Young Kun Ko, Aviad Rubinstein, Omri Weinstein

We show that, assuming the (deterministic) Exponential Time Hypothesis, distinguishing between a graph with an induced $k$-clique and a graph in which all k-subgraphs have density at most $1-ε$, requires $n^{\tilde Ω(log n)}$ time. Our result essentially matches the quasi-polynomial algorithms of Feige and Seltser [FS97] and Barman [Bar15] for this problem,

Forrest W. Crawford, Jiacheng Wu, Robert Heimer

Estimating the size of stigmatized, hidden, or hard-to-reach populations is a major problem in epidemiology, demography, and public health research. Capture-recapture and multiplier methods have become standard tools for inference of hidden population sizes, but they require independent random sampling of target population members, which is rarely possible.

A. Gardestig, C. J. Horowitz, Gerald A. Miller

We argue that the reaction mechanism for the coherent pion production is not known with sufficient accuracy to determine the neutron radius of 208Pb to the claimed precision of 0.03 fm.

Zsolt Poole, Aidong Yan, Paul Ohodnicki, Kevin Chen

A method to engineer the refractive indices of functional materials (TiO2, ZnO, SnO2, SiO2), by nanostructuring in the deep sub-wavelength regime (<20nm), is presented. Block-copolymer templating combined with a wet processing route is used to realize 3D functional nanostructures with continuously adjustable refractive indices from 1.17 to 2.2. Wet processin

Juan Fernández Gracia, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Michael L. Barnett, Víctor M. Eguíluz

Emergent antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are an increasingly significant source of morbidity and mortality. Antibiotic-resistant organisms have a natural reservoir in hospitals, and recent estimates suggest that almost 2 million people develop hospital-acquired infections each year in the US alone. We investigate a network induced by the transfer o

Udayan B. Darji, Hisao Kato

We use recent developments in local entropy theory to prove that chaos in dynamical systems implies the existence of complicated structure in the underlying space. Earlier Mouron proved that if $X$ is an arc-like continuum which admits a homeomorphism $f$ with positive topological entropy, then $X$ contains an indecomposable subcontinuum. Barge and Diamond p

Arash Fathi, Loukas F. Kallivokas, Babak Poursartip

We are concerned with high-fidelity subsurface imaging of the soil, which commonly arises in geotechnical site characterization and geophysical explorations. Specifically, we attempt to image the spatial distribution of the Lame parameters in semi-infinite, three-dimensional, arbitrarily heterogeneous formations, using surficial measurements of the soil&#39;

Victor Braberman, Nicolas D&#39;Ippolito, Jeff Kramer, Daniel Sykes

An architectural approach to self-adaptive systems involves runtime change of system configuration (i.e., the system&#39;s components, their bindings and operational parameters) and behaviour update (i.e., component orchestration). Thus, dynamic reconfiguration and discrete event control theory are at the heart of architectural adaptation. Although controlli

David R. Morrison, M. Ronen Plesser

For complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds in toric varieties, Gross and Haase-Zharkov have given a conjectural combinatorial description of the special Lagrangian torus fibrations whose existence was predicted by Strominger, Yau and Zaslow. We present a geometric version of this construction, generalizing an earlier conjecture of the first author.

V. A. Okorokov

Energy dependence of space-time parameters of pion emission region at freeze-out is studied for collisions of various ions and for all experimentally available energies. The using of femtoscopic radii scaled on the averaged radius of colliding ions is suggested. This approach allows the expansion of the set of interaction types, in particular, on collisions

Xin Ran Liu

SuperNEMO is a next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiment with a design capability to reach a half-life sensitivity of $10^{26}$ years corresponding to an effective Majorana neutrino mass of $\langle m_{ββ} \rangle$ $<$ 50 - 100 meV. To achieve this sensitivity, stringent radio-purity requirements are imposed resulting in an equally stringent

Wade Hindes

Given a polynomial $ϕ$ over a global function field $K$ and a wandering base point $b\in K$, we give a geometric condition on $ϕ$ ensuring the existence of primitive prime divisors for almost all points in the orbit $\mathcal{O}_ϕ(b):=\{ϕ^n(b)\}_{n\geq0}$

Djeylan Aktas, Sébastien Tanzilli, Anthony Martin, Gilles Pütz

Quantum nonlocality stands as a resource for Device Independent Quantum Information Processing (DIQIP), as, for instance, Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution. We investigate experimentally the assumption of limited Measurement Dependence, i.e., that the measurement settings used in Bell inequality tests or DIQIP are partially influenced by the source

Alessandro Strumia

I summarise the theoretical talks at Moriond 2015, with emphasis on naturalness.

Karol Lang

CHIPS is an R&D program focused on designing and constructing a cost-effective large water Cherenkov detector (WCD) to study neutrino oscillations using accelerator beams. Traditional WCD&#39;s with a low energy threshold have been built in special large underground caverns. Civil construction of such facilities is costly and the excavation phase significant

Devendra Kumar, Archana Lakhani

The three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are predicted to exhibit a 3D Dirac semimetal state in critical regime of topological to trivial phase transition. Here we demonstrate the first experimental evidence of 3D Dirac semimetal state in topological insulator Bi2Se3 with bulk carrier concentration of ~ 10^19 cm^{-3}, using magneto-transport measure

J. Martin Laming

We review our state of knowledge of coronal element abundance anomalies in the Sun and stars. We concentrate on the first ionization potential (FIP) effect observed in the solar corona and slow-speed wind, and in the coronae of solar-like dwarf stars, and the &#34;inverse FIP&#34; effect seen in the corona of stars of later spectral type; specifically M dwar

Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor, Jan Troost

We apply exact WKB methods to the study of the partition function of pure N=2 epsilon_i-deformed gauge theory in four dimensions in the context of the 2d/4d correspondence. We study the partition function at leading order in epsilon_2/epsilon_1 (i.e. at large central charge) and in an expansion in epsilon_1. We find corrections of the form ~ exp[- SW periods

Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Janice C. Lee, Jay Anderson, Jennifer E. Andrews

We have discovered a luminous light echo around the normal Type II-Plateau Supernova (SN) 2012aw in Messier 95 (M95; NGC 3351), detected in images obtained approximately two years after explosion with the Wide Field Channel 3 on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) by the Legacy ExtraGalactic Ultraviolet Survey (LEGUS). The multi-band observations span fro

Benjamin T. Lewis, Matthew R. Bate, Daniel J. Price

We have developed a modified form of the equations of smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics which are stable in the presence of very steep density gradients. Using this formalism, we have performed simulations of the collapse of magnetised molecular cloud cores to form protostars and drive outflows. Our stable formalism allows for smaller sink particles (<

A. N. Gorban, V. N. Kolokoltsov

The nonlinear Markov processes are the measure-valued dynamical systems which preserve positivity. They can be represented as the law of large numbers limits of general Markov models of interacting particles. In physics, the kinetic equations allow Lyapunov functionals (entropy, free energy, etc.). This may be considered as a sort of inheritance of the Lyapu

Emmanuel Abbe, Katherine Edwards

This paper shows that the logarithm of the number of solutions of a random planted $k$-SAT formula concentrates around a deterministic $n$-independent threshold. Specifically, if $F^*_{k}(α,n)$ is a random $k$-SAT formula on $n$ variables, with clause density $α$ and with a uniformly drawn planted solution, there exists a function $ϕ_k(\cdot)$ such that, bes

Wei Liu, Alexander Punnoose

Phase transitions involving spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking are studied on the honeycomb lattice at finite hole-doping with next-nearest-neighbor repulsion. We derive an exact expression for the mean-field equation of state in closed form, valid at temperatures much less than the Fermi energy. Contrary to standard expectations, we find that therm

Philip Uttley, Marc Klein-Wolt

We report the identification and study of an unusual soft state of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary GRO J1655-40, observed during its 2005 outburst by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. Chandra X-ray grating observations have revealed a high mass-outflow accretion disc wind in this state, and we show that the broadband X-ray spectrum is remarkably similar

Caitlin J. Mouri, Thomas R. Shultz

Ethnocentrism is a behavioral strategy seen on every scale of social interaction. Game-theory models demonstrate that evolution selects ethnocentrism because it boosts cooperation, which increases reproductive fitness. However, some believe that interethnic unions have the potential to foster universal cooperation and overcome in-group biases in humans. Here

Hadar Steinberg, Lucas A. Orona, Valla Fatemi, Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi

Hybrid graphene-topological insulator (TI) devices were fabricated using a mechanical transfer method and studied via electronic transport. Devices consisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) under the TI Bi$_2$Se$_3$ exhibit differential conductance characteristics which appear to be dominated by tunneling, roughly reproducing the Bi$_2$Se$_3$ density of states. S

Matko Botinčan, Mike Dodds, Stephen Magill

In separation logic program analyses, tractability is generally achieved by restricting invariants to a finite abstract domain. As this domain cannot vary, loss of information can cause failure even when verification is possible in the underlying logic. In this paper, we propose a CEGAR-like method for detecting spurious failures and avoiding them by refinin

Salah Mehdi, Pavle Pandžić, David A. Vogan

Let $G$ be a finite cover of a closed connected transpose-stable subgroup of $GL(n,\bR)$ with complexified Lie algebra $\frg$. Let $K$ be a maximal compact subgroup of $G$, and assume that $G$ and $K$ have equal rank. We prove a translation principle for the Dirac index of virtual $(\frg,K)$-modules. As a byproduct, to each coherent family of such modules, w

Nino Bašić, Tomaž Pisanski

Recently a class of molecular graphs, called altans, became a focus of attention of several theoretical chemists and mathematicians. In this paper we study primary iterated altans and show, among other things, their connections with nanotubes and nanocaps. The question of classification of bipartite altans is also addressed. Using the results of Gutman we ar

Tsedenbaljir Enkhbat

Higgs pair production is studied in the extension of the Standard Model by color octet scalar and vector particles in TeV mass range for the LHC. The relevant parameters are their masses and portal couplings to the Higgs boson.The rate is enhanced considerably in some parts of the parameter space compared to the SM which are allowed by the latest measured bo

M. Cascella

The SuperNEMO detector will search for neutrinoless double beta decay at the Modane Underground Laboratory on the French-Italian border. This decay mode, if observed, would be proof that the neutrino is its own antiparticle, would constitute evidence for total lepton number violation, and could allow a measurement of the absolute neutrino mass. The SuperNEMO

Andreas Lenhard, Matthias Bock, Stephan Kucera, José Brito

We present, characterize, and apply a photonic quantum interface between the near infrared and telecom spectral regions. A singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) operated below threshold, in combination with external filters, generates high-rate ($>2.5\cdot10^6~{\rm s}^{-1}$) narrowband photon pairs ($\sim 7$ MHz bandwidth); the signal photons a

Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh, Vadym Apalkov, Mark I. Stockman

We theoretically show that buckled two-dimensional graphene-like materials (silicene and germanene) subjected to a femtosecond strong optical pulse can be controlled by the optical field component normal to their plane. In such strong fields, these materials are predicted to exhibit non-reciprocal reflection, optical rectification and generation of electric

Mojtaba Bakherad, Ali Morassaei

In this paper, we employ the Mond--Pečarić method to establish some reverses of the operator Bellman inequality under certain conditions. In particular, we show \begin{equation*} δI_{\mathscr K}+\sum_{j=1}^nω_jΦ_j\left((I_{\mathscr H}-A_j)^{p}\right)\ge \left(\sum_{j=1}^nω_jΦ_j(I_{\mathscr H}-A_j)\right)^{p} \,, \end{equation*} where $A_j\,\,(1\leq j\leq n)$

Daniel B. Mills, Lewis M. Ward, CarriAyne Jones, Brittany Sweeten

It is has been assumed for over half a century that the earliest animals were obligate aerobes with relatively high oxygen requirements. However, the conserved biochemistry and widespread phylogenetic distribution of anaerobic energy metabolism in animals suggests a deep ancestral possession of the genes and enzymes necessary for a facultative anaerobic life

Cristina Butucea, Madalin Guta, Theodore Kypraios

The estimation of high dimensional quantum states is an important statistical problem arising in current quantum technology applications. A key example is the tomography of multiple ions states, employed in the validation of state preparation in ion trap experiments \cite{Haffner2005}. Since full tomography becomes unfeasible even for a small number of ions,

Summer Blot

The NEMO-3 experiment searches for neutrino-less double beta (0$νββ$) decay in seven different isotopes simultaneously by reconstructing the full event topology of each decay. One of the investigated isotopes is Nd-150, which has the second highest Q-value (3.37 MeV) of all 0$νββ$ candidate isotopes, as well as a favourable phase space factor and matrix elem

F. Tolea, M. Tolea, M. Sofronie, M. Valeanu

A phenomenological 2D model, simulating the martensitic transformation, is built upon existing experimental observations that the size of the formed plates -in direct transformation- decreases as the temperature is lowered; then they transform back in reversed order. As such, if a reverse transformation is incomplete (&#34;arrested&#34;), the subsequent dire

Pawel Guzowski

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay is important in determining the Majorana nature of the neutrino, and also in establishing if lepton number is violated. In this work, we combine the published data from five independent neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments: CUORICINO, EXO, GERDA, KamLAND-Zen and NEMO-3. As these experiments use different is

Gabriel D. Orebi Gann

The recent development of water-based liquid scintillator and the concurrent development of high-efficiency and high-precision-timing light sensors has opened up the possibility for a new kind of large-scale detector capable of a very broad program of physics. The program would span topics in nuclear, high-energy, and astrophysics, ranging from a next-genera

François Huard, David Smith

Let $Λ$ be an artin algebra and let $\mathcal{P}^{<\infty}_Λ$ the category of finitely generated right $Λ$-modules of finite projective dimension. We show that $\mathcal{P}^{<\infty}_Λ$ is contravariantly finite in $\rm mod\,Λ$ if and only if the direct sum $E$ of the indecomposable Ext-injective modules in $\mathcal{P}^{<\infty}_Λ$ form a tilting module in

Wojciech Krzemien, Pawel Moskal, Magdalena Skurzok

We search for an evidence of eta-mesic He with the WASA detector. Two dedicated experiments were performed at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY-Juelich. The experimental method is based on the measurement of the excitation functions for the two reaction channels: dd->3Heppi- and dd->3Henpi0, where the outgoing N-pi pairs originate from the conversion of the eta me

Gökalp Alpan

Let $(f_n)_{n=1}^\infty$ be a sequence of nonlinear polynomials satisfying some mild conditions. Furthermore, let $F_m(z)=(f_m\circ f_{m-1}\ldots \circ f_1)(z)$ and $ρ_m$ be the leading coefficient for $F_m$. It is shown that on the Julia set $J_{(f_n)}$, the Chebyshev polynomial of the degree deg${F_m}$ is of the form $F_m(z)/ρ_m-τ_m$ for all $m\in\mathbb{N

Leon Boschman, Stéphanie Cazaux, Marco Spaans, Ronnie Hoekstra

Molecular hydrogen is the most abundant molecule in the Universe. It is thought that a large portion of H2 forms by association of hydrogen atoms to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). We model the influence of PAHs on total H2 formation rates in photodissociation regions (PDRs) and assess the effect of these formation rates on the total cloud structure

Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Kevin G. Schädler, Louis Gaudreau, Gabriele Navickaite

Active, in situ control of light at the nanoscale remains a challenge in modern physics and in nanophotonics in particular. A promising approach is to take advantage of the technological maturity of nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) and to combine it with on-chip optics. However, in scaling down the dimensions of such integrated devices, the coupling of

Symeon Chatzinotas, Dimitrios Christopoulos, Bjorn Ottersten

Cellular and Broadcast services have been traditionally treated independently due to the different market requirements, thus resulting in different business models and orthogonal frequency allocations. However, with the advent of cheap memory and smart caching, this traditional paradigm can converge into a single system which can provide both services in an

Sergey Mashchenko

Using a flexible galactic model with variable stellar velocity anisotropy, I apply the classical Jeans mass modeling approach to the five dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the largest homogeneous datasets of stellar line-of-sight velocities (between 330 and 2500 stars per galaxy) -- Carina, Fornax, Leo~I, Sculptor, and Sextans. I carry out an exhaustive model p

Sophie E. King

T2K is an off-axis long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment optimised to measure theta13 and deltaCP using a muon neutrino beam. The most sensitive mode is to look for electron neutrino appearance, and the dominant background for such measurements is the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the beam itself. A selection is made using data from the of

L. G. Gutay, A. S. Hirsch, C. Pajares, R. P. Scharenberg

It is shown that de-confinement can be achieved in high multiplicity non jet $\bar{p}$p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 1.8 TeV Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(FNAL- E735) experiment. Previously the evidence for de-confinement was the demonstrated by the constant freeze out energy density in high multiplicity events. In this paper we use the same data but an

Yu. E. Titarenko, V. F. Batyaev, K. V. Pavlov, A. Yu. Titarenko

Due to potential level of energy intensity 178m2Hf is an extremely interesting isomer. One possible way to produce this isomer is irradiation of nat-Ta or nat-W samples with high energy protons. Irradiation of nat-Ta and nat-W samples performed for other purposes provides an opportunity to study the corresponding reactions. This paper pre-sents the 178m2Hf i

Soo-Bong Kim

New generation of three reactor neutrino experiments have made definitive measurements of the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta13 in 2012, based on the disappearance of electron antineutrinos. More precise measurements of the mixing angle have been made as well as the squared mass difference between electron neutrinos. A rather large value of theta13 has

Suchetana Chatterjee, Jeffrey A. Newman, Tesla Jeltema, Adam D. Myers

Using data from the DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey and the All Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey we obtain stacked X-ray maps of galaxies at 0.7 < z < 1.0 as a function of stellar mass. We compute the total X-ray counts of these galaxies and show that in the soft band (0.5--2,kev) there exists a significant correlation between galaxy X-ray c

Oliver Gerberding, Christian Diekmann, Joachim Kullmann, Michael Tröbs

Precision phase readout of optical beat note signals is one of the core techniques required for intersatellite laser interferometry. Future space based gravitational wave detectors like eLISA require such a readout over a wide range of MHz frequencies, due to orbit induced Doppler shifts, with a precision in the order of $μ\textrm{rad}/\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}$ at

Erez Kantor, Shay Kutten

We present optimal online algorithms for two related known problems involving Steiner Arborescence, improving both the lower and the upper bounds. One of them is the well studied continuous problem of the {\em Rectilinear Steiner Arborescence} ($RSA$). We improve the lower bound and the upper bound on the competitive ratio for $RSA$ from $O(\log N)$ and $Ω(\

Hacène Djellout, Hui Jiang

Recently a considerable interest has been paid on the estimation problem of the realized volatility and covolatility by using high-frequency data of financial price processes in financial econometrics. Threshold estimation is one of the useful techniques in the inference for jump-type stochastic processes from discrete observations. In this paper, we adopt t

A. Valli, H. Das, G. Sangiovanni, T. Saha-Dasgupta

We present a dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) study of the charge and orbital correlations in finite-size La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$ (LCMO) nanoclusters. Upon nanostructuring LCMO to clusters of 3 nm diameter, the size reduction induces an insulator-to-metal transition in the high-temperature paramagnetic phase. This is ascribed to the reduction in charge

Nikolay Yakovets, Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz

The extension of SPARQL in version 1.1 with property paths offers a type of regular path query for RDF graph databases. Such queries are difficult to optimize and evaluate efficiently, however. We have embarked on a project, Waveguide, to build a cost-based optimizer for SPARQL queries with property paths. Waveguide builds a query plan - a waveguide plan (WG

Anuj Kumar Sirohi, Malay Banerjee, Anirban Chakraborti

Many existing studies on pattern formation in the reaction-diffusion systems rely on deterministic models. However, environmental noise is often a major factor which leads to significant changes in the spatiotemporal dynamics. In this paper, we focus on the spatiotemporal patterns produced by the predator-prey model with ratio-dependent functional response a

Sébastien Bertrand, Alfred Michel Grundland, Alexander Hariton

The objective of this paper is to formulate two distinct supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the Gauss-Weingarten and Gauss-Codazzi (GC) equations for conformally parametrized surfaces immersed in a Grassmann superspace, one in terms of a bosonic superfield and the other in terms of a fermionic superfield. We perform this analysis using a superspace-superfie

Ben Ruijl, Takahiro Ueda, Jos Vermaseren

An important aspect of improving perturbative predictions in high energy physics is efficiently reducing dimensionally regularised Feynman integrals through integration by parts (IBP) relations. The well-known triangle rule has been used to achieve simple reduction schemes. In this work we introduce an extensible, multi-loop version of the triangle rule, whi

Vlastimil Křápek, Petr Klenovský, Tomáš Šikola

Excitonic fine structure splitting in quantum dots is closely related to the lateral shape of the wave functions. We have studied theoretically the fine structure splitting in InAs quantum dots with a type-II confinement imposed by a GaAsSb capping layer. We show that very small values of the fine structure splitting comparable with the natural linewidth of

Palash Dey, Neeldhara Misra, Y. Narahari

The Coalitional Manipulation (CM) problem has been studied extensively in the literature for many voting rules. The CM problem, however, has been studied only in the complete information setting, that is, when the manipulators know the votes of the non-manipulators. A more realistic scenario is an incomplete information setting where the manipulators do not

Takahiro Wada, Hiroyuki Konno, Satoru Fujisawa, Shunichi Doi

Objective: We investigated the effect of the passenger head-tilt strategy on the severity of carsickness in lateral acceleration situations in automobiles. Background: It is well known that the driver is generally less susceptible to carsickness than are the passengers. However, it is also known that the driver tilts his or her head toward the curve center w

Jana Polednikova, Alessandro Ederoclite, Jordi Cepa, José Antonio de Diego

Fast brightness variations are a unique tool to probe the innermost regions of active galactic nuclei (AGN). These variations are called microvariability or intra-night variability, and this phenomenon has been monitored in samples of blazars and unobscured AGNs. Detecting optical microvariations in targets hidden by the obscuring torus is a challenging task

Wen-Chao Qiang, Lei Zhang, Hua-Ping Zhang

We studied the geometric quantum discord of a quantum system consisted of a Jaynes- Cummings atom, a cavity and an isolated atom. The analytical expressions of the geometric quantum discord for two atoms, every atom with cavity and the total system were obtained. We showed that the geometric quantum discord is not always zero when entanglement fall in death

Kamiel Cornelissen, Bodo Manthey

The minimum-cost flow (MCF) problem is a fundamental optimization problem with many applications and seems to be well understood. Over the last half century many algorithms have been developed to solve the MCF problem and these algorithms have varying worst-case bounds on their running time. However, these worst-case bounds are not always a good indication o

Ralf Kissmann, Michael Werner, Olaf Reimer, Andrew W. Strong

We study the impact of possible spiral-arm distributions of Galactic cosmic-ray sources on the flux of various cosmic-ray nuclei throughout our Galaxy. We investigate model cosmic-ray spectra at the nominal position of the sun and at different positions within the Galaxy. The modelling is performed using the recently introduced numerical cosmic ray propagati

Pau Martín, Anna Tamarit-Sariol, Rafael Ramírez-Ros

Let $q \ge 3$ be a period. There are at least two $(1,q)$-periodic trajectories inside any smooth strictly convex billiard table, and all of them have the same length when the table is an ellipse or a circle. We quantify the chaotic dynamics of axisymmetric billiard tables close to their borders by studying the asymptotic behavior of the differences of the l

Aria Mansouri Tehrani, Hamidreza Shahrokhshahi, Nader Parvin, Jakoah Brgoch

Equiatomic nickle-titanium (NiTi) is investigated to determine the consequences of point defects on the Martensitic phase transformation. Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, NiTi with 0.1%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, and 3% of Schottky-type defects (vacancies) have been modeled with the temperature of structural transformation elucidated. Increasing the concentrat

Alexander Raß, Manuel Schmitt, Rolf Wanka

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. In the literature, the potential of the particles of swarm has been used to show that slightly modified PSO guarantees convergence to local optima. Here we show that under specific circumstances the unmodified PSO, even with swarm parameters kn

Debra Dewhurst

In the last decades, the results from a number of short-baseline neutrino experiments and the reanalysis of previous reactor experiments with updated antineutrino fluxes suggest some incompatibility with the standard three-neutrino model. A possible solution to these anomalies is the existence of neutrinos that do not interact via the electroweak force, know

Jinzhong Han, Shaofeng Li, Bingfang Yang, Ning Liu

In the framework of the Left-Right twin Higgs (LRTH) model, we consider the constrains from the latest search for high-mass dilepton resonances at the LHC and find that the heavy neutral boson $Z_H$ is excluded with mass below 2.76 TeV. Under these constrains, we study the Higgs-Gauge coupling production processes $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow ZH$, $e^{+}e^{-}\righ

Stefan Fafianie, Stefan Kratsch

We investigate whether kernelization results can be obtained if we restrict kernelization algorithms to run in logarithmic space. This restriction for kernelization is motivated by the question of what results are attainable for preprocessing via simple and/or local reduction rules. We find kernelizations for d-Hitting Set(k), d-Set Packing(k), Edge Dominati

Alain Leger, Denis Defrere, Fabien Malbet, Lucas Labadie

We present an analytic model to estimate the capabilities of space missions dedicated to the search for biosignatures in the atmosphere of rocky planets located in the habitable zone of nearby stars. Relations between performance and mission parameters such as mirror diameter, distance to targets, and radius of planets, are obtained. Two types of instruments

Behrooz Makki, Tommy Svensson, Thomas Eriksson, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper investigates the performance of the point-to-point multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of a large but finite numbers of antennas at the transmitters and/or receivers. Considering the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, we determine the minimum numbers of the transmit/receive antennas wh

I. Lorite, C. Zandalazini, P. Esquinazi, D. Spemann

The magneto-transport properties of single proton-implanted ZnO and of Li(7\%)-doped ZnO microwires have been studied. The as-grown microwires were highly insulating and not magnetic. After proton implantation the Li(7\%) doped ZnO microwires showed a non monotonous behavior of the negative magneto-resistance (MR) at temperature above 150 K. This is in contr

Spiros A. Argyros, Ioannis Gasparis, Pavlos Motakis

Based on a construction method introduced by J. Bourgain and F. Delbaen, we give a general definition of a Bourgain-Delbaen space and prove that every infinite dimensional separable $\mathcal{L}_\infty$-space is isomorphic to such a space. Furthermore, we provide an example of a $\mathcal{L}_\infty$ and asymptotic $c_0$ space not containing $c_0$.

G. A. P. Franco, F. O. Alves

Deep R-band CCD linear polarimetry collected for fields with lines-of-sight toward the Lupus I molecular cloud is used to investigate the properties of the magnetic field within this molecular cloud. The observed sample contains about 7000 stars, almost 2000 of them with polarization signal-to-noise ratio larger than 5. These data cover almost the entire mai

Jean-Marie Frère

In this short presentation, we remind of significant unknowns regarding the distribution of Dark Matter in our immediate neighborhood, and review the recent improvements in the obtained limits on its abundance.

Oisin Mac Aodha, Neill D. F. Campbell, Jan Kautz, Gabriel J. Brostow

To train good supervised and semi-supervised object classifiers, it is critical that we not waste the time of the human experts who are providing the training labels. Existing active learning strategies can have uneven performance, being efficient on some datasets but wasteful on others, or inconsistent just between runs on the same dataset. We propose perpl

Shahryar Minhas, Peter D. Hoff, Michael D. Ward

Previous models of international conflict have suffered two shortfalls. They tended not to embody dynamic changes, focusing rather on static slices of behavior over time. These models have also been empirically evaluated in ways that assumed the independence of each country, when in reality they are searching for the interdependence among all countries. We i

A. Behring, J. Blümlein, A. De Freitas, A. von Manteuffel

We calculate the massive flavor non-singlet Wilson coefficient for the heavy flavor contributions to the polarized structure function $g_1(x,Q^2)$ in the asymptotic region $Q^2 \gg m^2$ to 3-loop order in Quantum Chromodynamics at general values of the Mellin variable $N$ and the momentum fraction $x$, and derive heavy flavor corrections to the Bjorken sum-r

N. T. Cherpak, A. A. Lavrinovich, A. I. Gubin, S. A. Vitusevich

The paper reports on finding the effect of a strong change in the microwave losses in an HTS-based coplanar waveguide (CPW) at certain values of the input power Pin and direct current Idc. CPW on the basis of 150 nm thick YBa2Cu3O7-δ epitaxial film on a single crystal MgO substrate was studied experimentally. A sharp and reversible transition of the CPW into

Antti Rasmus, Harri Valpola, Tapani Raiko

We show how a deep denoising autoencoder with lateral connections can be used as an auxiliary unsupervised learning task to support supervised learning. The proposed model is trained to minimize simultaneously the sum of supervised and unsupervised cost functions by back-propagation, avoiding the need for layer-wise pretraining. It improves the state of the

Jean Louis Ebongue Kedieng Fendji, Jean Michel Nlong

Wireless Mesh Network is presented as an appealing solution for bridging the digital divide between developed and under-developed regions. But the planning and deployment of these networks are not just a technical matter, since the success depends on many other factors tied to the related region. Although we observe some deployments, to ensure usefulness and

Jean Louis Ebongue Kedieng Fendji, Christopher Thron, Jean Michel Nlong

Wireless mesh networks appear as an appealing solution to reduce the digital divide between rural and urban regions. However the placement of router nodes is still a critical issue when planning this type of network, especially in rural regions where we usually observe low density and sparse population. In this paper, we firstly provide a network model tied

Kevin Lyons, Justin Dressel, Andrew N. Jordan, John C. Howell

We improve the precision of the interferometric weak-value-based beam deflection measurement by introducing a power recycling mirror, creating a resonant cavity. This results in \emph{all} the light exiting to the detector with a large deflection, thus eliminating the inefficiency of the rare postselection. The signal-to-noise ratio of the deflection is itse

Amit Gupta, Debanand Sa

We study the thermoelectric transport in two dimensional topological system which has coexistence of superconductivity(SC) and spin-density wave(SDW). The SC is presumed to be of $d_{x^2-y^2}+(p_x + i p_y) $ type whereas the SDW order parameter is of $BCS$ symmetry. The Hamiltonian describing such a coexistence phase is shown to have topological phase in add

Anders Björn, Jana Björn, Visa Latvala

We study different definitions of Sobolev spaces on quasiopen sets in a complete metric space equipped with a doubling measure supporting a p-Poincaré inequality with 1<p<\infty, and connect them to the Sobolev theory in R^n. In particular, we show that for quasiopen subsets of R^n the Newtonian functions, which are naturally defined in any metric space, coi

Ulrich Mosel

This is a very short review of neutrino-nucleus interactions and their influence on the analysis of long-baseline experiments.

S. Haouat, R. Chekireb

The effect of the electric field on the creation of spin 1/2 particles from vacuum in the (1+1) dimensional de-Sitter space-time is studied. The Dirac equation with a constant electric field is solved by introducing an unitary transformation. Then the canonical method based on Bogoliubov transformation is applied to calculate the pair creation probability an

Jana Björn

We obtain a sufficient condition for boundary regularity of quasiminimizers of the p-energy integral in terms of a Wiener type sum of power type. The exponent in the sum is independent of the dimension and is explicitly expressed in terms of p and the quasiminimizing constant. We also show by an example that the exponent is sharp in a certain sense.

Jie Li, Piotr Oprocha, Xiangdong Ye, Ruifeng Zhang

In the paper we study relations of rigidity, equicontinuity and pointwise recurrence between a t.d.s. $(X,T)$ and the t.d.s. $(K(X),T_K)$ induced on the hyperspace $K(X)$ of all compact subsets of $X$, and provide some characterizations. Among other examples, we construct a minimal, non-equicontinuous, distal and uniformly rigid t.d.s. and a t.d.s. which has

Alfred Gautschy

The early history of the Vogt-Russell theorem is retraced following its route starting at the realization of a correlation between mass and luminosity of binary and pulsating stars, through the embossing of this observation into a theorem, and finally to the emerging first signs of its failure to serve as a theorem in the strict mathematical sense of the wor

T. M. Aliev, T. Barakat, M. Savci

The transition magnetic moments between negative parity, spin-1/2 heavy baryons are studied in framework of the light cone QCD sum rules. By constructing the sum rules for different Lorentz structures, the unwanted contributions coming from negative (positive) to positive (negative) parity transitions are removed. It is found that the magnetic moments betwee

Stephen W. Lovesey

A theory of neutron scattering by magnetic materials is reviewed with emphasis on the use of electronic multipoles that have universal appeal, because they are amenable to calculation and appear in theories of many other experimental techniques. The conventional theory of magnetic neutron scattering, which dates back to Schwinger (1937) and Trammell (1953),

Andrey Kutuzov, Igor Andreev

Distributed vector representations for natural language vocabulary get a lot of attention in contemporary computational linguistics. This paper summarizes the experience of applying neural network language models to the task of calculating semantic similarity for Russian. The experiments were performed in the course of Russian Semantic Similarity Evaluation

Michio Hashimoto

Based on Ref.[1], we study a composite Z&#39; model which effectively induces the Stueckelberg model in low energy. It turns out that the mass of the composite Z&#39; boson contains the Stueckelberg mass term in sharp contrast to the conventional Z&#39; model. We also find that the masses of the composite scalar and the right-handed neutrinos are determined

Jeffrey A. Harvey, Brandon C. Rayhaun

We describe a relationship between the representation theory of the Thompson sporadic group and a weakly holomorphic modular form of weight one-half that appears in work of Borcherds and Zagier on Borcherds products and traces of singular moduli. We conjecture the existence of an infinite dimensional graded module for the Thompson group and provide evidence