September 2015 arXiv papers — page 28

Giuseppe Montella, Sanjay Govindjee, Patrizio Neff

This work presents a hyper-viscoelastic model based on the Hencky-logarithmic strain tensor to model the response of a Tire Derived Material (TDM) undergoing moderately large deformations. TDM is a composite made by cold forging a mix of rubber fibers and grains, obtained by grinding scrap tires, and polyurethane binder. The mechanical properties are highly

Christian Berg, Ryszard Szwarc

In 1998 G. Valent made conjectures about the order and type of certain indeterminate Stieltjes moment problems associated with birth and death processes having polynomial birth and death rates of degree p\ge 3. Romanov recently proved that the order is 1/p as conjectured, see \cite{Ro}. We prove that the type with respect to the order is related to certain m

F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. V. Lebedev, A. Ciardi, L. A. Pickworth

The role of radiative cooling during the evolution of a bow shock was studied in laboratory-astrophysics experiments that are scalable to bow shocks present in jets from young stellar objects. The laboratory bow shock is formed during the collision of two counter-streaming, supersonic plasma jets produced by an opposing pair of radial foil Z-pinches driven b

Malte Probst, Franz Rothlauf

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) require flexible probability models that can be efficiently learned and sampled. Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBMs) are generative neural networks with these desired properties. We integrate a DBM into an EDA and evaluate the performance of this system in solving combinatorial optimization problems with a single objec

Hoang-Long Ngo, Dai Taguchi

We study the strong rates of the Euler-Maruyama approximation for one dimensional stochastic differential equations whose drift coefficient may be neither continuous nor one-sided Lipschitz and diffusion coefficient is Hölder continuous. Especially, we show that the strong rate of the Euler-Maruyama approximation is 1/2 for a large class of equations whose d

S. Khalafinejad, K. M. Maaskant, N. Marinas, A. G. G. M Tielens

The formation of dust gaps in protoplanetary disks is one of the most important signposts of disk evolution and possibly the formation of planets. We aim to characterize the 'flaring' disk structure around the Herbig Ae/Be stars HD 100453 and HD 34282. Their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) show an emission excess between 15-40μm, but very weak (

Beth Reid, Shirley Ho, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Will J. Percival

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to date, in terms of both the number of galaxy redshifts measured by a single survey, and the effective cosmological volume covered. Key to analysing the clustering of these data to provide

Masud Chaichian, Josef Kluson, Markku Oksanen

We consider a way of eliminating the unwanted scalar graviton from Horava-Lifshitz gravity. That is achieved via introduction of certain additional constraints. We perform canonical analysis of both projectable and non-projectable versions of the theory. We obtain the structure of constraints in each case, and analyze its dependence on the values of the coup

Jie-Xiang Yu, J. G. Che

Based on first principles calculations, we predicate that Bi on a graphene derivate, $g$-C$_{14}$N$_3$, which involves a $3\times 3$ unit cell of graphene with four C atoms substituted by three N atoms, is a topological insulator with a gap of 50~meV. With the help of maximally localized Wannier functions, we find that the band inversion gap can be determine

A. Mercenne, N. Michel, M. Ploszajczak

We derive the approximate solution for the pairing Hamiltonian in the Berggren ensemble of single particle states including bound, resonance and non-resonant scattering states. We show that this solution is reliable in the limit of a weak pairing interaction.

Xishen Jin, Xi Zhang

In this paper, we prove that the transverse Mabuchi K-energy functional is convex along the weak geodesic in the space of Sasakian metrics. As an application, we obtain the uniqueness of constant scalar curvature Sasakian metrics modulo automorphisms for the transverse holomorphic structure.

Belle Collaboration, P. Hamer, A. Frey, A. Abdesselam

We search for the process $B^0 \to π^- τ^+ ν_τ$ using the full Belle data set of $711\,{\rm fb}^{-1}$, corresponding to $772 \times 10^6 B\bar{B}$ pairs, collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. We reconstruct one $B$ meson in a hadronic decay and search for the $B^0 \to π^- τ^+ ν_τ$ process

R. Leite Rubim, B. B. Gerbelli, K. Bougis, C. L. Pinto de Oliveira

Water activity and its relationship with interactions stabilising lamellar stacks of mixed lipid bilayers in their fluid state are investigated by means of osmotic pressure measurements coupled with small-angle x-ray scattering. The (electrically-neutral) bilayers are composed of a mixture in various proportions of lecithin, a zwitterionic phospholipid, and

Drazen Adamovic, Victor G. Kac, Pierluigi Moseneder Frajria, Paolo Papi

Building on work of the first and last author, we prove that an embedding of simple affine vertex algebras $V_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathfrak g^0)\subset V_{k}(\mathfrak g)$, corresponding to an embedding of a maximal equal rank reductive subalgebra $\mathfrak g^0$ into a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, is conformal if and only if the corresponding central charges

Liyu Liu, Wendy Lowen

We compute Hochschild cohomology of projective hypersurfaces starting from the Gerstenhaber-Schack complex of the (restricted) structure sheaf. We are particularly interested in the second cohomology group and its relation with deformations. We show that a projective hypersurface is smooth if and only if the classical HKR decomposition holds for this group.

Benjamin Tsou

We study the distribution of entries of a random permutation matrix under a "randomized basis," i.e., we conjugate the random permutation matrix by an independent random orthogonal matrix drawn from Haar measure. It is shown that under certain conditions, the linear combination of entries of a random permutation matrix under a "randomized basis&#

Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Nathan Collins, André DeHon, Delphine Demange

SAFE is a clean-slate design for a highly secure computer system, with pervasive mechanisms for tracking and limiting information flows. At the lowest level, the SAFE hardware supports fine-grained programmable tags, with efficient and flexible propagation and combination of tags as instructions are executed. The operating system virtualizes these generic fa

Boris Pasquier

Let $X$ be a horospherical $G$-variety and let $D$ be an effective $\mathbb{Q}$-divisor of $X$ that is stable under the action of a Borel subgroup $B$ of $G$ and such that $D+K\_X$ is $\mathbb{Q}$-Cartier. We prove, using Bott-Samelson resolutions, that the pair $(X,D)$ is klt if and only if $\lfloor D\rfloor=0$

Nicolas Champagnat, Benoît Henry

We consider a branching population where individuals live and reproduce independently. Their lifetimes are i.i.d. and they give birth at a constant rate b. The genealogical tree spanned by this process is called a splitting tree, and the population counting process is a homogeneous, binary Crump-Mode-Jagers process. We suppose that mutations affect individua

Pascal Törek, Axel Maas

The description of electroweak physics using perturbation theory is highly successful. Though not obvious, this is due to a subtle field-theoretical effect, the Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism, which links the physical spectrum to that of the elementary particles. This works because of the special structure of the standard model, and it is not a priori c

Isaac Skog, John-Olof Nilsson, Peter Händel, Arye Nehorai

A maximum likelihood estimator for fusing the measurements in an inertial sensor array is presented. The maximum likelihood estimator is concentrated and an iterative solution method is presented for the resulting low-dimensional optimization problem. The Cramér-Rao bound for the corresponding measurement fusion problem is derived and used to assess the perf

Zhi-Lei She, Gang Chen, Hong-ge Xu, Ting-ting Zeng

We investigate the properties of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypertriton production in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV, based on the parton and hadron cascade and dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence (PACIAE + DCPC) model. We found that the yields of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypertriton strongly depend on the centrality, i.e

Sanchari De, Somenath Chakrabarty

In this article we have developed the formalisms for the modified form of Wien displacement laws for both the gas of electromagnetic waves and a gas of de Broglie waves in Rindler space. In the case of de Broglie waves we assume both fermion type and boson type materials. Following the classic work of Wien, we assume that the wall of the enclosure containing

Pankaj Bhalla, Navinder Singh Bathinda

An explicit perturbative computation of the Mori's memory function was performed by Götze and Wölfle (GW) to calculate Generalized Drude scattering (GDS) rate for the case of electron-impurity and electron-phonon scattering in metals by assuming constant electronic density of states at the Fermi energy. In the present investigation, we go beyond this ass

S. Demura, Y. Fujisawa, S. Otsuki, R. Ishio

We succeed in enhancement of a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) for NdO0.7F0.3BiS2 single crystal by partial substitution of Pb for Bi. The Tc increases with increasing Pb concentration until 6%. The maximum Tczero is 5.6 K, which is the highest value among BiS2 based superconductors synthesized under an ambient pressure. Pb substitution for Bi in

Tatsuro Kawamoto, Yoshiyuki Kabashima

We show that modularity maximization with the resolution parameter offers a unifying framework of graph partitioning. In this framework, we demonstrate that the spectral method exhibits universal detectability, irrespective of the value of the resolution parameter, as long as the graph is partitioned. Furthermore, we show that when the resolution parameter i

Shradha Mishra, Sanchari Bhattacharya, Benjamin Webb, E. G. D. Cohen

We investigate the motion of a single particle moving on a two-dimensional square lattice whose sites are occupied by right and left rotators. These left and right rotators deterministically rotate the particle's velocity to the right or left, respectively and \emph{flip} orientation from right to left or from left to right after scattering the particle.

J. -B. Gros, U. Kuhl, O. Legrand, F. Mortessagne

The effective Hamiltonian formalism is extended to vectorial electromagnetic waves in order to describe statistical properties of the field in reverberation chambers. The latter are commonly used in electromagnetic compatibility tests. As a first step, the distribution of wave intensities in chaotic systems with varying opening in the weak coupling limit for

Yi Chen, Enyi Yao, Arindam Basu

Currently, state-of-the-art motor intention decoding algorithms in brain-machine interfaces are mostly implemented on a PC and consume significant amount of power. A machine learning co-processor in 0.35um CMOS for motor intention decoding in brain-machine interfaces is presented in this paper. Using Extreme Learning Machine algorithm and low-power analog pr

Junguk Lee

For a given number field $K$, we show that the ranks of nonsingular elliptic curves over $K$ are uniformly finitely bounded if and only if weak Mordell-Weil property holds in all(some) ultrpowers $^*K$ of $K$. Also we introduce Nonstandard Mordell-Weil property for $^*K$ considering each Mordell-Weil group as $^*Z$-module, where $^*Z$ is an ultrapower of $Z$

Jie Cui, Roman V. Krems

We explore the performance of a statistical learning technique based on Gaussian Process (GP) regression as an efficient non-parametric method for constructing multi-dimensional potential energy surfaces (PES) for polyatomic molecules. Using an example of the molecule N$_4$, we show that a realistic GP model of the six-dimensional PES can be constructed with

Nikolai Dokuchaev

We consider a market with fractional Brownian motion with stochastic integrals generated by the Riemann sums. We found that this market is arbitrage free if admissible strategies that are using observations with an arbitrarily small delay. Moreover, we found that this approach eliminates the discontinuity of the stochastic integrals with respect to the Hurst

Bryan W. Lynn, Glenn D. Starkman

This work is dedicated to the memory of R. Stora. The spontaneously broken (SSB) $U(1)_Y$ Abelian Higgs model (AHM) (the gauge theory of a scalar $ϕ\propto (H+iπ)= {\tilde H}e^{i{\tilde π}/<H>}$ and a transverse vector A) has a massless pseudo-scalar $π$ in Lorenz gauge. Physical states have a conserved global current and Goldstone theorem (GT). $\tilde π$ b

Michael S. Brotherton, Vikram Singh, Jessie Runnoe

We have constructed a sample of 386 radio-loud quasars with z < 0.75 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in order to investigate orientation effects on black hole mass estimates. Orientation is estimated using radio core dominance measurements based on FIRST survey maps. Black hole masses are estimated from virial-based scaling relationships using H-beta, and

Koichi Nakagawa

We study the Zeeman effect on entanglement of non-equilibrium finite-spin systems with external fields using a method based on thermofield dynamics (TFD). For this purpose, the extended density matrices and extended entanglement entropies of two systems with either non-competing or competing external fields are calculated according to the dissipative von Neu

Hado van Hasselt, Arthur Guez, David Silver

The popular Q-learning algorithm is known to overestimate action values under certain conditions. It was not previously known whether, in practice, such overestimations are common, whether they harm performance, and whether they can generally be prevented. In this paper, we answer all these questions affirmatively. In particular, we first show that the recen

Suneel Sarswat, Kandathil Mathew Abraham, Subir Kumar Ghosh

In an illiquid stock, traders can collude and place orders on a predetermined price and quantity at a fixed schedule. This is usually done to manipulate the price of the stock or to create artificial liquidity in the stock, which may mislead genuine investors. Here, the problem is to identify such group of colluding traders. We modeled the problem instance a

Tárcio A. Vieira, Marcos R. R. Gesualdi, Michel Zamboni-Rached, Erasmo Recami

In recent times, we experimentally realized a quite efficient modeling of the shape of diffraction-resistant optical beams; thus generating for the first time the so-called Frozen Waves (FW), whose longitudinal intensity pattern can be arbitrarily chosen, within a prefixed space interval of the propagation axis. Such waves possess a host of potential applica

Tommy Ohlsson

We introduce and develop a novel approach to extend the ordinary two-flavor neutrino oscillation formalism in matter using a non-Hermitian PT symmetric effective Hamiltonian. The condition of PT symmetry is weaker and less mathematical than that of hermicity, but more physical, and such an extension of the formalism can give rise to sub-leading effects in ne

Lei Bao, Xi Zhang, Lei Jin, Zhi-Jie Tan

The structural flexibility of nucleic acids plays a key role in many fundamental life processes, such as gene replication and expression, DNA-protein recognition, and gene regulation. To obtain a thorough understanding of nucleic acid flexibility, extensive studies have been performed using various experimental methods and theoretical models. In this review,

I. A. Sadovskyy, Y. Jia, M. Leroux, J. Kwon

We present the new paradigm of critical current by design. Analogous to materials by design, it aims at predicting the optimal defect landscape in a superconductor for targeted applications by elucidating the vortex dynamics responsible for the bulk critical current. To highlight this approach, we demonstrate the synergistic combination of critical current m

Zhe-Ming Zheng, Hui-Sheng Ding

Let $X$ be a Banach space, and $M,N$ be two closed subspaces of $X$. We present several necessary and sufficient conditions for the closedness of $M+N$ ($M+N$ is not necessarily direct sum).

Arnaud Marsiglietti

We present a simple proof of Christer Borell&#39;s general inequality in the Brunn-Minkowski theory. We then discuss applications of Borell&#39;s inequality to the log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality of Böröczky, Lutwak, Yang and Zhang.

Ashish Arora, Karol Nogajewski, Maciej R. Molas, Maciej Koperski

We present the micro-photoluminescence ($μ$PL) and micro-reflectance contrast spectroscopy studies on thin films of MoSe2 with layer thicknesses ranging from a monolayer (1L) up to 5L. The thickness dependent evolution of the ground and excited state excitonic transitions taking place at various points of the Brillouin zone is determined. Temperature activat

Florian Staub

I give in this lecture an overview of the features of the Mathematica package SARAH, and explain how it can be used together with other codes to study all aspects of a BSM model. The focus will be on the description of the analytical calculations which SARAH can perform and how this information is used to generate automatically a spectrum generator based on

Zhi-Gang Wang

In this article, we construct both the axialvector-diquark-axialvector-diquark-antiquark type and axialvector-diquark-scalar-diquark-antiquark type interpolating currents, then calculate the contributions of the vacuum condensates up to dimension-10 in the operator product expansion, and study the masses and pole residues of the $J^P={\frac{1}{2}}^\pm$ hidde

Alexey Kuznetsov, Mateusz Kwasnicki

We study the spectral expansion of the semigroup of a general stable process killed on the first exit from the positive half-line. Starting with the Wiener-Hopf factorization we obtain the q-resolvent density for the killed process, from which we derive the spectral expansion of the semigroup via the inverse Laplace transform. The eigenfunctions and co-eigen

Nevin N. Weinberg

We recently described an instability due to the nonlinear coupling of p-modes to g-modes and, as an application, we studied the stability of the tide in coalescing binary neutron stars. Although we found that the tide is p-g unstable early in the inspiral and rapidly drives modes to large energies, our analysis only accounted for three-mode interactions. Ven

Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

In a real-world data set there is always the possibility, rather high in our opinion, that different features may have different degrees of relevance. Most machine learning algorithms deal with this fact by either selecting or deselecting features in the data preprocessing phase. However, we maintain that even among relevant features there may be different d

Zhan-Dong Mei, Ji-Gen Peng

In this paper, we consider a class of linear boundary systems with delays in state, input and boundary output. We prove the well-posedness and derive some spectral properties of linear system with delayed boundary feedback under some regularity conditions. Moreover, we show the regularity of linear boundary systems with delays in state and boundary output. W

Ivan D. Remizov

In this short communication I generalize the method of obtaining quasi-Feynman formulas described in my previous paper on that topic. The theorem presented allows to obtain the solution to the Cauchy problem for the Schrödinger equation with the Hamiltonian decomposed to a finite sum of operators. The concept of Chernoff tangency is used, and the solution is

Julianne J. Dalcanton, Morgan Fouesneau, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang

We map the distribution of dust in M31 at 25pc resolution, using stellar photometry from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. We develop a new mapping technique that models the NIR color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of red giant branch (RGB) stars. The model CMDs combine an unreddened foreground of RGB stars with a reddened background population viewed thr

Bakhtiyar Farayev, Yalcin Sadi, Sinem Coleri Ergen

The main challenge of ultra-reliable machine-to-machine (M2M) control applications is to meet the stringent timing and reliability requirements of control systems, despite the adverse properties of wireless communication for delay and packet errors, and limited battery resources of the sensor nodes. Since the transmission delay and energy consumption of a se

Jimmy Ba, Roger Grosse, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Brendan Frey

Despite their success, convolutional neural networks are computationally expensive because they must examine all image locations. Stochastic attention-based models have been shown to improve computational efficiency at test time, but they remain difficult to train because of intractable posterior inference and high variance in the stochastic gradient estimat

Bruce Bartlett, Christopher L. Douglas, Christopher J. Schommer-Pries, Jamie Vicary

We show that once-extended anomalous 3-dimensional topological quantum field theories valued in the 2-category of k-linear categories are in canonical bijection with modular tensor categories equipped with a square root of the global dimension in each factor.

Thorsten Prüstel, Martin Meier-Schellersheim

We present a simulation algorithm that accurately propagates a molecule pair using large time steps without the need to invoke the full exact analytical solutions of the Smoluchowski diffusion equation. Because the proposed method only uses uniform and Gaussian random numbers, it allows for position updates that are two to three orders of magnitude faster th

Ke Li, Jitendra Malik

The scarcity of data annotated at the desired level of granularity is a recurring issue in many applications. Significant amounts of effort have been devoted to developing weakly supervised methods tailored to each individual setting, which are often carefully designed to take advantage of the particular properties of weak supervision regimes, form of availa

Jin-Hu Liu, Jun Wang, Junming Shao, Tao Zhou

To characterize economic development and diagnose the economic health condition, several popular indices such as gross domestic product (GDP), industrial structure and income growth are widely applied. However, computing these indices based on traditional economic census is usually costly and resources consuming, and more importantly, following a long time d

Xi Kang, Peng Wang

The distribution of galaxies displays anisotropy on different scales and it is often referred as galaxy alignment. To understand the origin of galaxy alignments on small scales, one must investigate how galaxies were accreted in the early universe and quantify their primordial anisotropic at the time of accretion. In this paper we use N-body simulations to i

Joseph W. Iverson

Let $K$ be a compact group, and let $ρ$ be a representation of $K$ on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_ρ$. We classify invariant subspaces of $\mathcal{H}_ρ$ in terms of range functions, and investigate frames of the form $\{ρ(ξ) f_i\}_{ξ\in K, i \in I}$. This is done first in the setting of translation invariance, where $K$ is contained in a larger group $G$ an

Arkady Bolotin

Unlike mathematics, in which the notion of truth might be abstract, in physics, the emphasis must be placed on algorithmic procedures for obtaining numerical results subject to the experimental verifiability. For, a physical science is exactly that: algorithmic procedures (built on a certain mathematical formalism) for obtaining verifiable conclusions from a

A. Humphrey, M. Villar-Martín, P. Lagos

We investigate the nature of seven unusual radio galaxies from the 5C catalogue that were previously known to have extremely red R-K colours, and for which emission lines were previously found to be weak or absent in their optical spectra. We present and discuss u, g, or r images of these radio galaxies, obtained using the Optical System for Imaging and low-

Daniel A. Cuch, Diana Rubio, Claudio D. El Hasi

In this work we are concerned with the inverse problem of the estimation of modeling parameters for a reactive bimolecular transport based on experimental data that is non-uniformly distributed along the interval where the process takes place. We proposed a methodology that can help to determine the intervals where most of the data should be taken in order t

Robie A. Hennigar, Robert B. Mann

We study the extended phase space thermodynamics for hairy AdS black hole solutions to Einstein-Maxwell-$Λ$ theory conformally coupled to a scalar field in five dimensions. We find these solutions to exhibit van der Waals behaviour in both the charged/uncharged cases, and reentrant phase transitions in the charged case. This is the first example of reentrant

W. K. Brooks

The production rates of heavy quarkonia in ion-ion collisions provide sensitive probes in the studies of the hot and dense matter formed in these collisions at high energies. However, a reference for understanding the behavior in the hot medium is necessary; p-A collisions open the possibility to study heavy quarkonia states in a smaller system of much lower

Md. Abdul Khan

Bound state properties of few single and double-$Λ$ hypernuclei is critically examined in the framework of core-$Λ$ and core+$Λ+Λ$ few-body model applying hyperspherical harmonics expansion method (HHEM). The $ΛΛ$ potential is chosen phenomenologically while the core-$Λ$ potential is obtained by folding a phenomenological $ΛN$ interaction into the density di

Abbas Soltanian, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Halima Elbiaze, Roch Glitho

Multimedia conferencing is the conversational exchange of multimedia content between multiple parties. It has a wide range of applications (e.g. Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) and distance learning). Many multimedia conferencing applications use video extensively, thus video mixing in conferencing settings is of critical importance. Cloud computi

N. C. Brown, Z. Papp, R. Woodhouse

The Feshbach-Villars equations, like the Klein-Gordon equation, are relativistic quantum mechanical equations for spin-$0$ particles. We write the Feshbach-Villars equations into an integral equation form and solve them by applying the Coulomb-Sturmian potential separable expansion method. We consider bound-state problems in a Coulomb plus short range potent

Vladimir Burd

We consider the problem of closeness of solutions of an exact and an averaged difference equations on an infinite interval. Appropriate assertions are derived from one special theorem on the stability under constantly acting perturbations.

Elliott Baygan, S. P. Lim, D. N. Sheng

We examine the interplay of interaction and disorder for a Heisenberg spin ladder system with random fields. We identify many-body localized states based on the entanglement entropy scaling, where delocalized and localized states have volume and area laws, respectively. We first establish the quantum phase transition at a critical random field strength $h_c

Zhihan Lv, Vicente Penades, Sonia Blasco, Javier Chirivella

This is the preprint version of our paper on REHAB2015. A balance measurement software based on Kinect2 sensor is evaluated by comparing to Wii balance board in numerical analysis level, and further improved according to the consideration of BFP (Body fat percentage) values of the user. Several person with different body types are involved into the test. The

K. Hallberg, D. J. García, Pablo S. Cornaglia, Jorge I. Facio

The dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) has become a standard technique for the study of strongly correlated models and materials overcoming some of the limitations of density functional approaches based on local approximations. An important step in this method involves the calculation of response functions of a multiorbital impurity problem which is related

Joshua Erlich, Jackson Olsen, Zhen Wang

Multi-field inflation models include a variety of scenarios for how inflation proceeds and ends. Models with the same potential but different kinetic terms are common in the literature. We compare spiral inflation and Dante&#39;s inferno-type models, which differ only in their field-space metric. We justify a single-field effective description in these model

Aram Manaselyan, Areg Ghazaryan, Tapash Chakraborty

We have investigated the possible presence of Majorana fermions in a semiconductor quantum ring containing a few interacting electrons, and a strong spin-orbit interaction, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor. We have found that for rings with sizes of a few hundred angstroms and for certain values of the chemical potential and the entire range of

W. Lee Powell, Stephanie Jameson, Nathan De Lee, Ronald J. Wilhelm

We present the results of our Johnson B and V observations of three RR Lyrae candidate stars that we identified as likely variable stars using SDSS data. The stars were selected based upon a single epoch of photometry and spectroscopy. The stars were observed at McDonald Observatory to obtain full light curves. We present full light curves, measured periods,

Sergio Arregui, Joaquín Sanz, Dessislava Marinova, Carlos Martín

Over the past 60 years, the Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has been used worldwide to prevent tuberculosis (TB). However, BCG has shown a very variable efficacy in different trials, showing a wide range of protection in adults against pulmonary TB. Previous studies indicate that this failure is related to pre-existing immune response to an

Sadia Hoq, Dan Clemens

Stars in open clusters are powerful probes of the intervening Galactic magnetic field, via background starlight polarimetry, because they provide constraints on the magnetic field distances. We use 2MASS photometric data for a sample of 31 clusters in the outer Galaxy, for which near-IR polarimetric data were obtained, to determine the cluster distances, age

Zhihan Lv, Vicente Penades, Sonia Blasco, Javier Chirivella

This is the preprint version of our paper on REHAB2015. A balance measurement software based on Kinect2 sensor is evaluated by comparing to golden standard balance measure platform intuitively. The software analysis the tracked body data from the user by Kinect2 sensor and get user&#39;s center of mass(CoM) as well as its motion route on a plane. The softwar

C. Ian Short

The goal of the openStar project is to turn any WWW browser, running on any platform, into a virtual star equipped with parameter knobs and instrumented with output displays that any user can experiment with using any device for which a browser is available. grayStar3 (gS3) is a major improvement upon GrayStar 2.0 (GS2), both in the physical realism of the m

Zhihan Lv

This is the preprint version of our paper on REHAB2015. This paper proposed a novel immersive entertainment system for the users of hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber. The system is a hybrid of hardware and software, the scheme is described in this paper. The hardware is combined by a HMD (i.e. virtual reality glasses shell), a smartphone and a waterproof bag

Romina P. Di Sisto, Macarena Zanardi

The observations of the surfaces of the mid sized Saturnian satellites made by Cassini Huygens mission have shown a variety of features that allows study of the processes that took place and are taking place on those worlds. Research of the Saturnian satellite surfaces has clear implications for Saturn history and surroundings. In a recent paper, the product

Alexandra Veledina, Mikhail G. Revnivtsev, Martin Durant, Poshak Gandhi

We report the discovery of the correlated optical/X-ray low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole binary SWIFT J1753.5-0127. The phase lag between two light-curves at the QPO frequency is close to zero. This result puts strong constraints on the nature of the optical emission in this object and on the origin of the QPOs in general. We de

Yuesheng Li, Gang Chen, Wei Tong, Li Pi

YbMgGaO$_{4}$, a structurally perfect two-dimensional triangular lattice with odd number of electrons per unit cell and spin-orbit entangled effective spin-1/2 local moments of Yb$^{3+}$ ions, is likely to experimentally realize the quantum spin liquid ground state. We report the first experimental characterization of single crystal YbMgGaO$_{4}$ samples. Du

Callum Brodie, M. C. David Marsh

We compute the spectra of the Hessian matrix, ${\cal H}$, and the matrix ${\cal M}$ that governs the critical point equation of the low-energy effective supergravity, as a function of the complex structure and axio-dilaton moduli space in type IIB flux compactifications at large complex structure. We find both spectra analytically in an $h^{1,2}_-+3$ real-di

Matthew J. Middleton, Dominic J. Walton, Andrew Fabian, Timothy P. Roberts

The lack of unambiguous detections of atomic features in the X-ray spectra of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has proven a hindrance in diagnosing the nature of the accretion flow. The possible association of spectral residuals at soft energies with atomic features seen in absorption and/or emission and potentially broadened by velocity dispersion could t

D. E. McNally, S. Zellman, Z. P. Yin, K. W. Post

We present optical transmission measurements that reveal a charge gap of 0.86 eV in the local moment antiferromagnetic insulator BaMn$_2$As$_2$, an order of magnitude larger than previously reported. Density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory (DFT+DMFT) calculations correctly reproduce this charge gap only when a strong Hund&#39;s coupling is

Ying Zu, Rachel Mandelbaum

We develop a simple yet comprehensive method to distinguish the underlying drivers of galaxy quenching, using the clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing of red and blue galaxies in SDSS. Building on the iHOD framework developed by Zu & Mandelbaum (2015a), we consider two quenching scenarios: 1) a &#34;halo&#34; quenching model in which halo mass is the sole dr

Jeremy Harwood, Martin Hardcastle, Judith Croston

Recent investigations have shown that many parameters and assumptions made in the application of spectral ageing models to FR-II radio galaxies (e.g. injection index, uniform magnetic field, non-negligible cross-lobe age variations) may not be as reliable as previously thought. In this paper we use new VLA observations, which allow spectral curvature at GHz

A. Pilloni, A. Pisano, Y. Orlov, E. Usai

In this paper the problem of driving the state of a network of identical agents, modeled by boundary-controlled heat equations, towards a common steady-state profile is addressed. Decentralized consensus protocols are proposed to address two distinct problems. The first problem is that of steering the states of all agents towards the same constant steady-sta

Yue Yang, Jui-Yung Chang, Liping Wang

A near-field thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system with a multilayer emitter of alternate tungsten and alumina layer is proposed in this paper. The fluctuational electrodynamics along with the dyadic Green function for a multilayered structure is applied to calculate the spectral heat flux, and the charge transport equations are solved to get the photocurrent gene

Joseph P. Conlon, M. C. David Marsh, Andrew J. Powell

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons inter-convert in the presence of a magnetic field. At keV energies in the environment of galaxy clusters, the conversion probability can become unsuppressed for light ALPs. Conversion of thermal X-ray photons into ALPs can introduce a step-like feature into the cluster thermal bremsstrahlung spectrum, and we argue that

H. Canovas, F. Ménard, J. de Boer, C. Pinte

Several studies discussing imaging polarimetry observations of protoplanetary disks use the so-called radial Stokes parameters Q_phi and U_phi to discuss the results. This approach has the advantage of providing a direct measure of the noise in the polarized images under the assumption that the polarization is azimuthal only, i.e., perpendicular to the direc

Elcio Lebensztayn, Fabio Machado, Mauricio Zuluaga

We consider a non-homogeneous random walks system on $\bbZ$ in which each active particle performs a nearest neighbor random walk and activates all inactive particles it encounters up to a total amount of $L$ jumps. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the process to survive, which means that an infinite number of random walks become activated.

S. Molkov, A. Lutovinov, M. Falanga

We have investigated the temporal variability of the X-ray flux measured from the high-mass Xray binary LMCX-4 on time scales from several tens of days to tens of years, i.e., exceeding considerably the orbital period (1.408 days). In particular, we have investigated the 30-day cycle of modulation of the X-ray emission from the source (superorbital or preces

Pedro Bicudo, Daniele Binosi, Nuno Cardoso, Orlando Oliveira

Covariant $R_ξ$ gauge fixing is notoriously difficult for large lattice volumes, large $ξ$ and small $N_c$. We thoroughly test different convergence techniques, which allows the gauge fixing of lattice configurations with a total volume of (3.25 fm)$^4$, up to $ξ=0.5$. We are able to study the gluon propagator in the infrared region and its dependence on the

Fabrizio Caola, Kirill Melnikov, Raoul Röntsch, Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of two Z-bosons in the annihilation of two gluons at the LHC. Being enhanced by a large gluon flux, these corrections provide distinct and, potentially, the dominant part of the N$^3$LO QCD contributions to Z-pair production in proton collisions. The $gg \to ZZ$ annihilation is a loop-ind

Nikolai Yakovenko, Liangliang Cao, Colin Raffel, James Fan

Poker is a family of card games that includes many variations. We hypothesize that most poker games can be solved as a pattern matching problem, and propose creating a strong poker playing system based on a unified poker representation. Our poker player learns through iterative self-play, and improves its understanding of the game by training on the results

Jose Luis Perez-Diaz, Marco Antonio Alvarez-Valenzuela, Juan Sanchez-Garcia-Casarrubios, Sergio Jimenez-Lopez

In this work we measured Surface Energy and Freezing Temperature of supercooled water droplets in air. We find that freezing of water droplets is triggered at the water-air interface and that freezing progresses faster on the surface than in the bulk. The Freezing Point of water droplets is strongly depressed by dryness in air and how humidity triggers freez

Xiaolin Wang, Silas Alben, Chenyang Li, Yin Lu Young

We investigate the effect of piezoelectric (PZT) material on the flutter speed, vibration mode and frequency, and energy harvesting power and efficiency of a flexible flag in various fluids. We develop a fully coupled fluid-solid-electric model by combining the inviscid vortex sheet model with a linear electro-mechanical coupling model. A resistance only cir

T. Carroll, J. Marzo, X. Massaneda, J. Ortega-Cerdà

We find the precise rate at which the empirical measure associated to a $β$-ensemble converges to its limiting measure. In our setting the $β$-ensemble is a random point process on a compact complex manifolds distributed according to the $β$ power of a determinant of sections in a positive line bundle. A particular case is the spherical ensemble of generaliz