April 2015 arXiv papers — page 34

Noé Cuneo, Jean-Pierre Eckmann

We study a chain of four interacting rotors (rotators) connected at both ends to stochastic heat baths at different temperatures. We show that for non-degenerate interaction potentials the system relaxes, at a stretched exponential rate, to a non-equilibrium steady state (NESS). Rotors with high energy tend to decouple from their neighbors due to fast oscill

H. Arodź, J. Karkowski, Z. Świerczyński

Exact formula for the force between two identical static point charges coupled to the nonlinear scalar field of two-dimensional signum-Gordon model is obtained. Pertinent solution of the field equation is found in the form of one-dimensional integral. The force exactly vanishes when the distance between the charges exceeds certain critical value.

Anton A. Lunyov, Mark M. Malamud

The paper is concerned with the Riesz basis property of a boundary value problem associated in $L^2[0,1] \otimes \mathbb{C}^2$ with the following $2 \times 2$ Dirac type equation $$ L y = -i B^{-1} y' + Q(x) y = λy, \quad B = \begin{pmatrix} b_1 & 0 \\ 0 & b_2 \end{pmatrix}, \quad y = \begin{pmatrix} y_1 \\ y_2 \end{pmatrix}, \quad (1) $$ with a summable

Sudipta Dubey, Mandar M. Deshmukh

We probe quantum Hall effect in a tunable 1-D lateral superlattice (SL) in graphene created using electrostatic gates. Lack of equilibration is observed along edge states formed by electrostatic gates inside the superlattice. We create strong local electric field at the interface of regions of different charge densities. Crossed electric and magnetic fields

Nikolay Vereshchagin, Alexander Shen

The mission of statistics is to provide adequate statistical hypotheses (models) for observed data. But what is an "adequate" model? To answer this question, one needs to use the notions of algorithmic information theory. It turns out that for every data string $x$ one can naturally define "stochasticity profile", a curve that represents a tr

Xiaohua Tian, Wei Liu, Yu Cheng

This paper analyze security issues of Bloom filter based multicast forwarding mechanisms. Tree oriented approaches and destination oriented approaches are studied. We analyze the possible distributed denail of service (DDoS) against the Bloom filter based multicast with the destination oriented approach, which has never been analyzed before. We reveal some a

N. Hermosa

I present calculations of reflection beamshifts, Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts, due to the presence of a monolayer graphene on a dielectric media when using a beam with wavelength in the visible range. Measuring the Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts is an alternative method to determine graphene's conductivity. I look at beamshifts for diff

Hans De Raedt, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Hylke C. Donker, Kristel Michielsen

It is shown that the Pauli equation and the concept of spin naturally emerge from logical inference applied to experiments on a charged particle under the conditions that (i) space is homogeneous (ii) the observed events are logically independent, and (iii) the observed frequency distributions are robust with respect to small changes in the conditions under

Patrick O. Perry

Hierarchical models allow for heterogeneous behaviours in a population while simultaneously borrowing estimation strength across all subpopulations. Unfortunately, existing likelihood-based methods for fitting hierarchical models have high computational demands, and these demands have limited their adoption in large-scale prediction and inference problems. T

Ross H. McKenzie, Bijyalaxmi Athokpam, Sai Ramesh

If a deuterated molecule containing strong intramolecular hydrogen bonds is placed in a hydrogenated solvent it may preferentially exchange deuterium for hydrogen. This preference is due to the difference between the vibrational zero-point energy for hydrogen and deuterium. It is found that the associated fractionation factor $Φ$ is correlated with the stren

M. Farjam

While the methodology of band structure unfolding has appeared in several publications, the original derivations of the unfolding formulas can be considerably simplified by using the $k$-projection method. In this work, more transparent derivations of unfolded spectral weights are given by using the projection operator approach. A range of illustrative examp

S. H. Rhim, Yong Soo Kim, A. J. Freeman

Dynamic second-order nonlinear susceptibilities, $χ^{(2)}(2ω,ω,ω)\equiv χ^{(2)}(ω)$, are calculated here within a fully first-principles scheme for monolayered molybdenum dichalcogenides, $2H$-MoX$_2$ (X=S,Se,Te). The absolute values of $χ^{(2)}(ω)$ across the three chalcogens critically depend on the band gap energies upon uniform strain, yielding the highe

M. J. A. Smith, B. T. Kuhlmey, C. Martijn de Sterke, C. Wolff

We demonstrate a controllable enhancement in the electrostrictive properties of a medium using dilute composite artificial materials. Analytical expressions for the composite electrostriction are derived and used to show that enhancement, tunability and suppression can be achieved through a careful choice of constituent materials. Numerical examples with Ag,

Jeongho Bang, Seung-Woo Lee, Hyunseok Jeong

The application of machine learning to quantum information processing has recently attracted keen interest, particularly for the optimization of control parameters in quantum tasks without any pre-programmed knowledge. By adapting the machine learning technique, we present a novel protocol in which an arbitrarily initialized device at a learner's locatio

Palle Jorgensen, Feng Tian

Making use of a unified approach to certain classes of induced representations, we establish here a number of detailed spectral theoretic decomposition results. They apply to specific problems from non-commutative harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, and dynamical systems. Our analysis is in the setting of semidirect products, discrete subgroups, and solenoids

Meng Fai Lim

In this paper, we consider the question of the complete faithfulness of the $p$-free quotient module of the dual Selmer groups of elliptic curves defined over a noncommutative $p$-adic Lie extension. Our question will refine previous questions on the complete faithfulness of dual Selmer groups. We also consider the question of the triviality of the central t

Ke Tang, Peng Yang, Xin Yao

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been shown to be powerful tools for complex optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in both communication and big data analytics. This paper presents a new EA, namely Negatively Correlated Search (NCS), which maintains multiple individual search processes in parallel and models the search behaviors of individual search

Neil Lyall, Alex Rice

We provide upper bounds on the largest subsets of $\{1,2,\dots,N\}$ with no differences of the form $h_1(n_1)+\cdots+h_{\ell}(n_{\ell})$ with $n_i\in \mathbb{N}$ or $h_1(p_1)+\cdots+h_{\ell}(p_{\ell})$ with $p_i$ prime, where $h_i\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ lie in in the classes of so-called intersective and $\mathcal{P}$-intersective polynomials, respectively. For e

K. Tucci, J. C. González-Avella, M. G. Cosenza

We investigate the role of opinion leaders or influentials in the collective behavior of a social system. Opinion leaders are characterized by their unidirectional influence on other agents. We employ a model based on Axelrod's dynamics for cultural interaction among social agents that allows for non-interacting states. We find three collective phases in

A. R. Gomes-Júnior, B. L. Giacchini, F. Braga-Ribas, M. Assafin

We report the results of two multi-chord stellar occultations by the dwarf planet (1) Ceres that were observed from Brazil on 2010 August 17, and from the USA on 2013 October 25. Four positive detections were obtained for the 2010 occultation, and nine for the 2013 occultation. Elliptical models were adjusted to the observed chords to obtain Ceres' size

U. Munari, F. M. Walter, A. Henden, S. Dallaporta

Optical (BVRI) and infrared (JHK) photometry of the gamma-ray nova Nova Sco 2012 (V1324 Sco) is presented and the lightcurve reconstructed and discussed. An interstellar reddening E(B-V)=1.23 is derived. Dust begun to form at an early date in the nova, only one magnitude down and 20 days past maximum optical brightness and caused an extinction of at least 6

Karl Gustafson

My recent book Antieigenvalue Analysis, World-Scientific, 2012, presented the theory of antieigenvalues from its inception in 1966 up to 2010, and its applications within those forty-five years to Numerical Analysis, Wavelets, Statistics, Quantum Mechanics, Finance, and Optimization. Here I am able to offer three further areas of application: Continuum Mecha

Robert Englman, Asher Yahalom

The concept of time-coarsened density matrix for open systems has frequently featured in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, without being probed as to the detailed consequences of the time averaging procedure. In this work we introduce and prove the need for a selective and non-uniform time-sampling, whose form depends on the properties (

Kuntal Roy

Electric-field induced magnetization switching in multiferroic magnetoelectric devices is promising for beyond Moore's law computing. We show here that interface-coupled multiferroic heterostructures, i.e., a ferroelectric layer coupled with a ferromagnetic layer, are particularly suitable for highly-dense, non-volatile, and ultra-low-energy computing. B

Alessandra Celletti, Catalin Gales

We study the dynamics of the space debris in regions corresponding to minor resonances; precisely, we consider the resonances 3:1, 3:2, 4:1, 4:3, 5:1, 5:2, 5:3, 5:4, where a j:l resonance (with j, l integers) means that the periods of revolution of the debris and of rotation of the Earth are in the ratio j/l. We consider a Hamiltonian function describing the

Kaoru Yamamoto

In the present thesis, we study the heat flow in mesoscopic one-dimensional transport systems. Using the analysis of full counting statistics, we calculate the cumulant generating function of the particle and heat flows and prove its symmetry. The symmetry produces the relations among transport coefficients of the particle and heat flows when we expand these

Victor J. W. Guo, Ji-Cai Liu

We prove that, if $m,n\geqslant 1$ and $a_1,\ldots,a_m$ are nonnegative integers, then \begin{align*} \frac{[a_1+\cdots+a_m+1]!}{[a_1]!\ldots[a_m]!}\sum^{n-1}_{h=0}q^h\prod_{i=1}^m{h\brack a_i} \equiv 0\pmod{[n]}, \end{align*} where $[n]=\frac{1-q^n}{1-q}$, $[n]!=[n][n-1]\cdots[1]$, and ${a\brack b}=\prod_{k=1}^b\frac{1-q^{a-k+1}}{1-q^k}$. The $a_1=\cdots=a_

Jérôme Gleyzes, David Langlois, Michele Mancarella, Filippo Vernizzi

We present a unifying treatment of dark energy and modified gravity that allows distinct conformal-disformal couplings of matter species to the gravitational sector. In this very general approach, we derive the conditions to avoid ghost and gradient instabilities. We compute the equations of motion for background quantities and linear perturbations. We illus

Chao-Qiang Geng, Da Huang, Lu-Hsing Tsai

We revisit the calculation of the three-loop diagrams for the radiative neutrino mass generation and consider some relevant constraints on the model recently proposed by L. Jin {\it et al} [Phys. Lett. B 741 (2015) 163]. We find that the previous approximation is inappropriate due to the neglect of some important contributions, and the benchmark point propos

Takahiro Wada, Norimasa Kamij, Shunichi Doi

A mathematical model of motion sickness incidence (MSI) is derived by integrating neurophysiological knowledge of the vestibular system to predict the severity of motion sickness of humans. Bos et al. proposed the successful mathematical model of motion sickness based on the neurophysiological mechanism based on the subject vertical conflict (SVC) theory. We

Wenjing Zhang, Pei Yu, Lindi M. Wahl

In this paper, dynamical systems theory and bifurcation theory are applied to investi- gate the rich dynamical behaviours observed in three simple disease models. The 2- and 3-dimensional models we investigate have arisen in previous investigations of epidemiol- ogy, in-host disease, and autoimmunity. These closely related models display interesting dynamica

Diomedes Saldana-Greco, Chan-Woo Lee, Doyle Yuan, Andrew M. Rappe

The relative thermodynamic stability of surface reconstructions including vacancies, adatoms and additional layers on both CaO and MnO$_{2}$ terminations is calculated to predict the surface phase diagram of ($\sqrt{2}\times\sqrt{2}$)$\it{R}$45$^{\circ}$ CaMnO$_{3}$ (001) using $\it{ab}$ $\it{initio}$ thermodynamics. Stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric reco

Philipp M. Preiss, Ruichao Ma, M. Eric Tai, Jonathan Simon

Atom- and site-resolved experiments with ultracold atoms in optical lattices provide a powerful platform for the simulation of strongly correlated materials. In this letter, we present a toolbox for the preparation, control and site-resolved detection of a tunnel-coupled bilayer degenerate quantum gas. Using a collisional blockade, we engineer occupation-dep

Vladimir S. Chelyshkov

System of alternatively orthogonalized rational functions of Jacobi type on the half line $[1, \infty)$ is defined and its properties are established. Three subsystems of proper and mixed systems of rational functions with nice properties are presented.

Kyle L. Seyler, John R. Schaibley, Pu Gong, Pasqual Rivera

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion, in which optical fields interact with a nonlinear medium to produce new field frequencies, is ubiquitous in modern photonic systems. However, the nonlinear electric susceptibilities that give rise to such phenomena are often challenging to tune in a given material, and so far, dynamical control of optical nonlinearitie

Neus Domingo, Laura López-Mir, Marcos Paradinas, Vaclav Holy

Layered iridates have been the subject of intense scrutiny on account of their unusually strong spin-orbit coupling, which opens up a narrow gap in a material that would otherwise be a metal. This insulating state is very sensitive to external perturbations. Here, we show that vertical compression at the nanoscale, delivered using the tip of a standard scann

V. V. Ignatyuk, V. G. Morozov

The influence of the initial preparation on dephasing in open quantum dynamics is studied using an exactly solvable model of a two-level system (qubit) interacting with a bosonic bath. It is found that for some classes of non-selective preparation measurements, qubit-bath correlations lead to a significant enhancement of coherence in the qubit at the initial

Xiangrong Fu, Zehua Guo, Chuanfei Dong, S. Peter Gary

An interesting characteristic of magnetospheric chorus is the presence of a frequency gap at $ω\simeq 0.5Ω_e$, where $Ω_e$ is the electron cyclotron angular frequency. Recent chorus observations sometimes show additional gaps near $0.3Ω_e$ and $0.6Ω_e$. Here we present a novel nonlinear mechanism for the formation of these gaps using Hamiltonian theory and t

Boris S. Mityagin

If $A$ is a compact operator in a Banach space and some power $A^q$ is nuclear we give a criterion of $\mathbb{Z}_{d}$ -- symmetry of its spectrum $σ{A}$ in terms of vanishing of the traces $\mathop{\mathit{Trace}} A^n$ for all $n$, $n \geq 0$, $n \neq 0 \mod d$, sufficiently large.

Yi Hou, Hong Zhang, Shilin Zhou

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently been shown in many computer vision and pattern recog- nition applications to outperform by a significant margin state- of-the-art solutions that use traditional hand-crafted features. However, this impressive performance is yet to be fully exploited in robotics. In this paper, we focus one specific probl

Martin Farach-Colton, Meng-Tsung Tsai

Many large arithmetic computations rely on tables of all primes less than $n$. For example, the fastest algorithms for computing $n!$ takes time $O(M(n\log n) + P(n))$, where $M(n)$ is the time to multiply two $n$-bit numbers, and $P(n)$ is the time to compute a prime table up to $n$. The fastest algorithm to compute $\binom{n}{n/2}$ also uses a prime table.

Peter J. Brown, E. Baron, Peter Milne, Peter W. A. Roming

The effect of metallicity on the observed light of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) could lead to systematic errors as the absolute magnitudes of local and distant SNe Ia are compared to measure luminosity distances and determine cosmological parameters. The UV light may be especially sensitive to metallicity, though different modeling methods disagree as to the

J. Laverock, J. Kuyyalil, B. Chen, R. P. Singh

We report hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy measurements of the electronic structure of the prototypical correlated oxide SrxCa1-xVO3. By comparing spectra recorded at different excitation energies, we show that 2.2 keV photoelectrons contain a substantial surface component, whereas 4.2 keV photoelectrons originate essentially from the bulk of the sample

Sumana Karmakar, Ajoy Sen, Amit Bhar, Debasis Sarkar

General quantum correlations measures like quantum discord, one norm geometric quantum discord, exhibit freezing, sudden change, double sudden change behavior in their decay rates under different noisy channels. Therefore, one may attempt to investigate how the freezing behavior and other dynamical features are affected under application of local quantum ope

M. Rösner, E. Şaşıoğlu, C. Friedrich, S. Blügel

We introduce an approach to derive realistic Coulomb interaction terms in free standing layered materials and vertical heterostructures from ab-initio modelling of the corresponding bulk materials. To this end, we establish a combination of calculations within the framework of the constrained random phase approximation, Wannier function representation of Cou

Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Shun Watanabe

We study source compression with a helper in the fully quantum regime, extending our earlier result on classical source compression with a quantum helper [arXiv:1501.04366, 2015]. We characterise the quantum resources involved in this problem, and derive a single-letter expression of the achievable rate region when entanglement assistance is available. The d

Daniel Caragata

This paper analyzes a revised fragile watermarking scheme proposed by Botta et al. which was developed as a revision of the watermarking scheme previously proposed by Rawat et al. A new attack is presented that allows an attacker to apply a valid watermark on tampered images, therefore circumventing the protection that the watermarking scheme under study was

Erik Aronson, Pierre Waldén, Nikolai Piskunov

We propose a method for observing transiting exoplanets with near-infrared high-resolution spectrometers. We aim to create a robust data analysis method for recovering atmospheric transmission spectra from transiting exoplanets over a wide wavelength range in the near infrared. By using an inverse method approach, combined with stellar models and telluric tr

Joanna Matysiak

We characterize bivariate natural exponential families having the diagonal of the variance function of the form \[ \textrm{diag} V(m_1,m_2)=\left(Am_1^2+am_1+bm_2+e,Am_2^2+cm_1+dm_2+f\right), \] with $A<0$ and $a,\ldots,f\in\mathbb{R}$. The solution of the problem relies on finding the conditions under which a specific parametric family of functions consists

Kiril Solovey, Jingjin Yu, Or Zamir, Dan Halperin

We study the problem of path planning for unlabeled (indistinguishable) unit-disc robots in a planar environment cluttered with polygonal obstacles. We introduce an algorithm which minimizes the total path length, i.e., the sum of lengths of the individual paths. Our algorithm is guaranteed to find a solution if one exists, or report that none exists otherwi

Keiji Hayashi, J. Todd Hoeksema, Yang Liu, Monica G. Bobra

Time-dependent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation modules are implemented at the Joint Science Operation Center (JSOC) of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The modules regularly produce three-dimensional data of the time-relaxed minimum-energy state of the solar corona using global solar-surface magnetic-field maps created from Helioseis

E. Bañados, R. Decarli, F. Walter, B. P. Venemans

The [CII] 158$μ$m fine-structure line is known to trace regions of active star formation and is the main coolant of the cold, neutral atomic medium. In this \textit{Letter}, we report a strong detection of the [CII] line in the host galaxy of the brightest quasar known at $z>6.5$, the Pan-STARRS1 selected quasar PSO J036.5078+03.0498 (hereafter P036+03), usi

Niclas Blomberg, Cristian R. Rojas, Bo Wahlberg

The widely used nuclear norm heuristic for rank minimization problems introduces a regularization parameter which is difficult to tune. We have recently proposed a method to approximate the regularization path, i.e., the optimal solution as a function of the parameter, which requires solving the problem only for a sparse set of points. In this paper, we exte

Sarah I. Sadavoy, Yancy Shirley, James Di Francesco, Thomas Henning

We present 13CO and C18O (1-0), (2-1), and (3-2) maps towards the core-forming Perseus B1-E clump using observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) of the Arizona Radio Observatory, and IRAM 30 m telescope. We find that the 13CO and C18O line emission both have very complex velocity structures, indicative of mult

Ross J. Turner, Stanislav S. Shabala

We present a model describing the evolution of Fanaroff-Riley type I and II radio AGN, and the transition between these classes. We quantify galaxy environments using a semi-analytic galaxy formation model, and apply our model to a volume-limited low redshift ($0.03 \leqslant z \leqslant 0.1$) sample of observed AGN to determine the distribution of jet power

Luke J. Sandilands, Yao Tian, Kemp W. Plumb, Young-June Kim

The combination of electronic correlation and spin-orbit coupling is thought to precipitate a variety of highly unusual electronic phases in solids, including topological and quantum spin liquid states. We report a Raman scattering study that provides evidence for unconventional excitations in $α$-RuCl$_3$, a spin-orbit coupled Mott insulator on the honeycom

Javier Pardo Vega, Giovanni Villadoro

We present the state-of-the-art of the effective field theory computation of the MSSM Higgs mass, improving the existing ones by including extra threshold corrections. We show that, with this approach, the theoretical uncertainty is within 1 GeV in most of the relevant parameter space. We confirm the smaller value of the Higgs mass found in the EFT computati

Mikkel N. Lund, Rasmus Handberg, Guy R. Davies, William J. Chaplin

With the loss of a second reaction wheel, resulting in the inability to point continuously and stably at the same field of view, the NASA Kepler satellite recently entered a new mode of observation known as the K2 mission. The data from this redesigned mission present a specific challenge; the targets systematically drift in position on a ~6 hour time scale,

Joan R. Najita, Sean M. Andrews, James Muzerolle

Transition disc systems are young stars that appear to be on the verge of dispersing their protoplanetary discs. We explore the nature of these systems by comparing the stellar accretion rates and disc masses of transition discs and normal T Tauri stars in Taurus and Ophiuchus. After controlling for the known dependencies of stellar accretion rate and disc m

H. Canovas, S. Perez, C. Dougados, J. de Boer

Context. Z\,CMa is a binary composed of an embedded Herbig Be and an FU Ori class star separated by $\sim100$ au. Observational evidence indicate a complex environment in which each star has a circumstellar disk and drives a jet, and the whole system is embedded in a large dusty envelope. Aims. We aim to probe the circumbinary environment of Z\,CMa in the in

Juan José Downes, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Cecilia Mateu

We present a study of 15 new brown dwarfs belonging to the $\sim7$ Myr old 25 Orionis group and Orion OB1a sub-association with spectral types between M6 and M9 and estimated masses between $\sim0.07$M$_\odot$ and $\sim0.01$ M$_\odot$. By comparing them through a Bayesian method with low mass stars ($0.8\lesssim$ M/M$_\odot\lesssim0.1$) from previous works i

Seth A. Cohen, Ryan C. Hickox, Gary A. Wegner

We investigate the relationship between star formation (SF) and level of relaxation in a sample of 379 galaxy clusters at z < 0.2. We use data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to measure cluster membership and level of relaxation, and to select star-forming galaxies based on mid-infrared emission detected with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. For ga

A. M. Stutz, J. Kainulainen

We compare the structure of star-forming molecular clouds in different regions of Orion A to determine how the column density probability distribution function (N-PDF) varies with environmental conditions such as the fraction of young protostars. A correlation between the N-PDF slope and Class 0 protostar fraction has been previously observed in a low-mass s

C. Adam, T. Klähn, C. Naya, J. Sanchez-Guillen

We continue the investigation of thermodynamical properties of the BPS Skyrme model. In particular, we analytically compute the baryon chemical potential both in the full field theory and in a mean-field approximation. In the full field theory case, we find that the baryon chemical potential is always exactly proportional to the baryon density, for arbitrary

Chris Nixon

Observations of warped discs can give insight into the nature of angular momentum transport in accretion discs. Only a few objects are known to show strong periodicity on long timescales, but when such periodicity is present it is often attributed to precession of the accretion disc. The X-ray binary Hercules X-1/HZ Herculis (Her X-1) is one of the best exam

Varun Jog, Venkat Anantharam

In this paper, we consider the AWGN channel with a power constraint called the $(σ, ρ)$-power constraint, which is motivated by energy harvesting communication systems. Given a codeword, the constraint imposes a limit of $σ+ k ρ$ on the total power of any $k\geq 1$ consecutive transmitted symbols. Such a channel has infinite memory and evaluating its exact c

Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

It is shown that holographic cosmology implies an evolving Hubble radius $c^{-1}\dot{R}_H = -1 + 3Ω_m$ in the presence of a dimensionless matter density $Ω_m$ scaled to the closure density $3H^2/8πG$, where $c$ denotes the velocity of light and $H$ and $G$ denote the Hubble parameter and Newton&#39;s constant. It reveals a dynamical dark energy and a sixfold

Martin Spousta, Brian Cole

Results are presented from a phenomenological analysis of recent measurements of jet suppression and modifications of jet fragmentation functions in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of the differences between quark and gluon jet quenching on the transverse momentum ($p_{T}^{jet}$) dependence of the jet $R_{AA}$ and on

Leonard Fister, Jan Martin Pawlowski

We study a $ϕ^4$-theory at finite temperature in a finite volume. Quantum, thermal and volume fluctuations are treated with the functional renormalisation group. Specifically, we focus on the interplay of temperature and length scales driving the system. We find that thermodynamical observables at finite volume such as the pressure approach the infinite volu

Y. Y. Peng, M. Hashimoto, M. Moretti Sala, A. Amorese

Magnetic excitations in the optimally doped high-$T_\mathrm{c}$ superconductor Bi$_{1.5}$Pb$_{0.55}$Sr$_{1.6}$La$_{0.4}$CuO$_{6+δ}$ (OP-Bi2201, $T_\mathrm{c}\simeq 34$ K) are investigated by Cu $L_3$ edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS), below and above the pseudogap opening temperature. At both temperatures the broad spectral distribution dispers

Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala

Social media enabled a direct path from producer to consumer of contents changing the way users get informed, debate, and shape their worldviews. Such a {\em disintermediation} weakened consensus on social relevant issues in favor of rumors, mistrust, and fomented conspiracy thinking -- e.g., chem-trails inducing global warming, the link between vaccines and

Curtis Struck

The apsidal precession frequency in a fixed gravitational potential increases with the radial range of the orbit (eccentricity). Although the frequency increase is modest it can have important implications for wave dynamics in galaxy discs, which have not been previously explored in detail. One of the most interesting consequences is that for a given pattern

Kevin C. Cox, Joshua M. Weiner, Graham P. Greve, James K. Thompson

Atomic projection noise limits the ultimate precision of all atomic sensors, including clocks, inertial sensors, magnetometers, etc. The independent quantum collapse of $N$ atoms into a definite state (for example spin up or down) leads to an uncertainty $Δθ_{SQL}=1/\sqrt{N}$ in the estimate of the quantum phase accumulated during a Ramsey sequence or its ma

Piotr Szwed, Wojciech Chmiel

This paper presents a multi-swarm PSO algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) implemented on OpenCL platform. Our work was motivated by results of time efficiency tests performed for single-swarm algorithm implementation that showed clearly that the benefits of a parallel execution platform can be fully exploited, if the processed population is

Florian Lyonnet, Aleksander Kusina, Tomáš Ježo, Karol Kovařík

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting and do not involve any non-perturbative degrees of freedom. It is clearly necessary to test this hypothesis with suitab

Scott Aaronson, Daniel Grier, Luke Schaeffer

We present a complete classification of all possible sets of classical reversible gates acting on bits, in terms of which reversible transformations they generate, assuming swaps and ancilla bits are available for free. Our classification can be seen as the reversible-computing analogue of Post&#39;s lattice, a central result in mathematical logic from the 1

Amar Debbouche, Juan J. Nieto, Delfim F. M. Torres

We introduce the optimality question to the relaxation in multiple control problems described by Sobolev type nonlinear fractional differential equations with nonlocal control conditions in Banach spaces. Moreover, we consider the minimization problem of multi-integral functionals, with integrands that are not convex in the controls, of control systems with

Cédric Lorcé

Understanding the spin structure of the proton is one of the main challenges in hadronic physics. While the concepts of spin and orbital angular momentum are pretty clear in the context of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the generalization of these concepts to quantum field theory encounters serious difficulties. It is however possible to define meaningf

Rahul Suresh, Andrew Meulenberg

The development of a Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) based solar-shade system, as part of a technically- and financially-viable multipurpose system to provide long-term solutions to global warming and the energy crisis is discussed. The proposed solar-shade and power system would be enabled by the development of a previously-proposed less-expensive, environment-friend

Lucia Morotti

A conjugacy class $C$ of a finite group $G$ is a sign conjugacy class if every irreducible character of $G$ takes value 0, 1 or -1 on $C$. In this paper we classify the sign conjugacy classes of alternating groups.

David Kappel, Stefan Habenschuss, Robert Legenstein, Wolfgang Maass

General results from statistical learning theory suggest to understand not only brain computations, but also brain plasticity as probabilistic inference. But a model for that has been missing. We propose that inherently stochastic features of synaptic plasticity and spine motility enable cortical networks of neurons to carry out probabilistic inference by sa

Hannah Bast, Daniel Delling, Andrew Goldberg, Matthias Müller-Hannemann

We survey recent advances in algorithms for route planning in transportation networks. For road networks, we show that one can compute driving directions in milliseconds or less even at continental scale. A variety of techniques provide different trade-offs between preprocessing effort, space requirements, and query time. Some algorithms can answer queries i

Ralph H. Stern, Dean E. Smith, Hitinder S. Gurm

The key concepts (calibration, discrimination, and discordance) important in understanding and comparing risk models are best conveyed graphically. To illustrate this, models predicting death and acute kidney injury in a large cohort of PCI patients differing in the number of predictors included are presented. Calibration plots, often presented in the curren

Juntai Shen, Zhao-Yu Li

Near infrared images from the COBE satellite presented the first clear evidence that our Milky Way galaxy contains a boxy shaped bulge. Recent years have witnessed a gradual paradigm shift in the formation and evolution of the Galactic bulge. Bulges were commonly believed to form in the dynamical violence of galaxy mergers. However, it has become increasingl

N. Kaiser

The nucleon-nucleon interaction arising from the exchange of three pions and the excitation of $Δ(1232)$-isobars in intermediate states is studied. Approximating the $Δ$-propagator by the inverse $Δ$N mass-splitting, analytical expressions are derived for the spectral-functions of the isoscalar and isovector central, spin-spin and tensor NN-potentials in mom

Ya Cheng, Hongqiang Xie, Zhaohui Wang, Guihua Li

We report on an experimental comparison on critical intensities of nonlinear self-focusing in air with conventional focusing and spatiotemporal focusing schemes. Our results show that the conventional focusing with the focal lens completely filled with the incident beam allows for the strongest axial intensity confinement against the self-focusing effect. Th

Annie Weathers, Li Shi

Recent advances in the synthesis of inorganic and organic nanowires and nanotubes have provided both components for various functional devices and platforms for the study of low- dimensional transport phenomena. However, tremendous challenges have remained not only for the integration of these building blocks into functional devices, but also in the characte

Idel R. Waisberg, Roger W. Romani

We observed the Fermi-discovered gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 at 20 epochs over 50 days using the CHIRON spectrograph, obtaining spectra at R~25,000 covering 4090-8908A. The average spectrum confirms an O6 V((f)) spectral type and extinction E(B-V) = 1.35+/-0.04. Variable absorption line equivalent widths suggest substantial contamination by wind line

P. C. Myint, Y. Hao, A. Firoozabadi

Thermodynamic property calculations of mixtures containing carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) and water, including brines, are essential in theoretical models of many natural and industrial processes. The properties of greatest practical interest are density, solubility, and enthalpy. Many models for density and solubility calculations have been presented in the litera

Reinaldo Uribe Muriel, Fernando Lozando, Charles Anderson

This paper describes a novel method to solve average-reward semi-Markov decision processes, by reducing them to a minimal sequence of cumulative reward problems. The usual solution methods for this type of problems update the gain (optimal average reward) immediately after observing the result of taking an action. The alternative introduced, optimal nudging,

Joseph Vandehey

A seminal result due to Wall states that if $x$ is normal to a given base $b$ then so is $rx+s$ for any rational numbers $r,s$ with $r\neq 0$. We show that a stronger result is true for normality with respect to the continued fraction expansion. In particular, suppose $a,b,c,d\in \mathbb{Z}$ with $ad-bc\neq 0$. Then if $x$ is continued fraction normal, so is

Rafail V. Abramov

Here we introduce new coarse-grained variables for a turbulent flow in the form of moments of its Reynolds-averaged Boltzmann equation. With the exception of the collision moments, the transport equations for the new variables are identical to the usual moment equations, and thus naturally lend themselves to the variety of already existing closure methods. U

Martin Burger, Teresa Esposito, Caterina Zeppieri

We propose and study two variants of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli functional where the first-order penalization of the edge variable $v$ is replaced by a second-order term depending on the Hessian or on the Laplacian of $v$, respectively. We show that both the variants as above provide an elliptic approximation of the Mumford-Shah functional in the sense of $Γ$-c

U. A. Rozikov, R. Varro

In this paper we consider discrete-time dynamical systems generated by gonosomal evolution operators of sex linked inheritance. Mainly we study dynamical systems of a hemophilia, which biologically is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body&#39;s ability to control blood clotting or coagulation, which is used to stop bleeding when a bloo

M. Chupeau, O. Bénichou, S. Redner

We study the splitting probabilities for a one-dimensional Brownian motion in a cage whose two boundaries move at constant speeds $c_1$ and $c_2$. This configuration corresponds to the capture of a diffusing, but skittish lamb, with an approaching shepherd on the left and a precipice on the right. We derive compact expressions for these splitting probabiliti

Songky Moon, Younghoon Shin, Hojeong Kwak, Juhee Yang

Niels Bohr in the early stage of his career developed a nonlinear theory of fluidic surface oscillation in order to study surface tension of liquids. His theory includes the nonlinear interaction between multipolar surface oscillation modes, surpassing the linear theory of Rayleigh and Lamb. It predicts a specific normalized magnitude of $0.41\dot{6}η^2$ for

Abraham Enrique Muñoz Flores, Stefano Nardulli

For a complete noncompact connected Riemannian manifold with bounded geometry, we prove a compactness result for sequences of finite perimeter sets with uniformly bounded volume and perimeter in a larger space obtained by adding limit manifolds at infinity. We extends previous results contained in [Nar14a], in such a way that the generalized existence theore

Longbo Huang, Eytan Modiano

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed between status updates, thus accounting for both the queueing delay and the delay between packet generation. This gives rise

Adel Alahmadi, Hamed Alsulami

We introduce a class of topologies on the Leavitt path algebra $L(Γ)$ of a finite directed graph and decompose a graded completion $\widehat{L}(Γ)$ as a direct sum of minimal ideals.

Faruk Göloğlu, Jüri Lember, Ago-Erik Riet, Vitaly Skachek

New bounds on the cardinality of permutation codes equipped with the Ulam distance are presented. First, an integer-programming upper bound is derived, which improves on the Singleton-type upper bound in the literature for some lengths. Second, several probabilistic lower bounds are developed, which improve on the known lower bounds for large minimum distanc