September 2015 arXiv papers — page 4

Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni, Mrityunjoy Chakraborty

Distributed multi-task adaptive strategies are useful to estimate multiple parameter vectors simultaneously in a collaborative manner. The existed distributed multi-task strategies use diffusion mode of cooperation in which during adaptation step each node gets the cooperation from it neighborhood nodes but not in the same cluster and during combining step e

Denis Lacroix, Yusuke Tanimura, Guillaume Scamps

The time-dependent energy density functional with pairing allows to describe a large variety of phenomena from small to large amplitude collective motion. Here, we briefly summarize the recent progresses made in the field using the TD-BCS approach. A focus is made on the mapping of the microscopic mean-field dynamic to the macroscopic dynamic in collective s

Gerhard Rein, Lukas Taegert

A self-gravitating homogeneous ball of a fluid with pressure zero where the fluid particles are initially at rest collapses to a point in finite time. We prove that this gravitational collapse can be approximated arbitrarily closely by suitable solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system which are known to exist globally in time.

Frederick Benaben, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, Sébastien Truptil, Hervé Pingaud

The modern business environment tends to involve a large network of heterogeneous people, devices and organizations that engage in collaborative processes among themselves. Given the nature of this type of collaboration and the high degree of interoperability between partner Information Systems, these processes need to be agile in order to respond to changes

Frederick Benaben, Wenxin Mu, Nicolas Boissel-Dallier, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë

The Mediation Information System Engineering project is currently finishing its second iteration (MISE 2.0). The main objective of this scientific project is to provide any emerging collaborative situation with methods and tools to deploy a Mediation Information System (MIS). MISE 2.0 aims at defining and designing a service-based platform, dedicated to init

Frederick Benaben, Vatcharaphun Rajsiri, Jean-Pierre Lorré, Hervé Pingaud

This paper presents an ontology-based approach for the design of a collaborative business process model (CBP). This CBP is considered as a specification of needs in order to build a collaboration information system (CIS) for a network of organisations. The study is a part of a model driven engineering approach of the CIS in a specific enterprise interoperabi

Yun Kuen Cheung, Monika Henzinger, Martin Hoefer, Martin Starnberger

Combinatorial auctions (CA) are a well-studied area in algorithmic mechanism design. However, contrary to the standard model, empirical studies suggest that a bidder's valuation often does not depend solely on the goods assigned to him. For instance, in adwords auctions an advertiser might not want his ads to be displayed next to his competitors' ads

Axel Gruenrock

The Cauchy problem for the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation $$\partial_t u +\partial_xΔu=\partial_x u^{k+1}, \qquad \qquad u(0)=u_0$$ is considered in space dimensions $n=2$ and $n=3$ for integer exponents $k \ge 3$. For data $u_0 \in \dot{B}^{s_c}_{2,q}$, where $1\le q \le \infty$ and $s_c=\frac{n}{2}- \frac{2}{k}$ is the critical Sobolev regularity,

Shubhchintak, R. Chatterjee, R. Shyam

We study the breakup of $^{37}$Mg on Pb at 244MeV/u with the recently developed extended theory of Coulomb breakup within the post-form finite range distorted wave Born approximation that includes deformation of the projectile. Comparing our calculated cross section with the available Coulomb breakup data we determine the possible ground state configuration

Olga Shekhovtsova

The study of the $τ$-lepton decays into hadrons has contributed to a better understanding of non-perturbative QCD and light-quark meson spectroscopy, as well as to the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The two- and three-meson decay modes, considering only those permitted by the Standard Model, are the predominant decays and together with the

Alexander Isaev, Boris Kruglikov

Recently, I. Kossovskiy and R. Shafikov have settled the so-called Dimension Conjecture, which characterizes spherical hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb C}^2$ via the dimension of the algebra of infinitesimal automorphisms. In this note, we propose a short argument for obtaining their result.

Manish Kumar, Shubham Kaul

This work presents a smart trespasser detection and alert system which aims to increase the amount of security as well as the likelihood of positively identifying or stopping trespassers and intruders as compared to other commonly deployed home security system. Using multiple sensors, this system can gauge the extent of danger exhibited by a person or animal

Alexandros Nikou, Jana Tumova, Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper the problem of cooperative task planning of multi-agent systems when timed constraints are imposed to the system is investigated. We consider timed constraints given by Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL). We propose a method for automatic control synthesis in a two-stage systematic procedure. With this method we guarantee that all the agents

Raphael Butez

This article revisits the work by Ofer Zeitouni and Steve Zelditch on large deviations for the empirical measures of random orthogonal polynomials with i.i.d. Gaussian complex coefficients, and extends this result to real Gaussian coefficients. This article does not require any knowledge in geometry. For clarity, we focus on two classical cases: Kac polynomi

P. D. Welch

We show the equivalence between the existence of winning strategies for $G_{δσ}$ (also called $Σ^{0}_{3}$) games in Cantor or Baire space, and the existence of functions generalized-recursive in a higher type-2 functional. (Such recursions are associated with certain transfinite computational models.) We show, inter alia, that the set of indices of convergen

Vörös, Z., M. Leitner, Y. Narita

Unconditional and conditional statistics is used for studying the histograms of magnetic field multi-scale fluctuations in the solar wind near the solar cycle minimum in 2008. The unconditional statistics involves the magnetic data during the whole year 2008. The conditional statistics involves the magnetic field time series splitted into concatenated subset

Claire Vernade, Olivier Cappé

Recommending items to users is a challenging task due to the large amount of missing information. In many cases, the data solely consist of ratings or tags voluntarily contributed by each user on a very limited subset of the available items, so that most of the data of potential interest is actually missing. Current approaches to recommendation usually assum

Béatrice Laurent, Clément Marteau, Cathy Maugis-Rabusseau

Let $(X\_1,\ldots,X\_n)$ be a $d$-dimensional i.i.d sample from a distribution with density $f$. The problem of detection of a two-component mixture is considered. Our aim is to decide whether $f$ is the density of a standard Gaussian random $d$-vector ($f=ϕ\_d$) against $f$ is a two-component mixture: $f=(1-\varepsilon)ϕ\_d +\varepsilon ϕ\_d (.-μ)$ where $(

Changxing Miao, Junyong Zhang, Jiqiang Zheng

In this paper, we study the global well-posedness and scattering for the wave equation with a cubic convolution $\partial_{t}^2u-Δu=\pm(|x|^{-3}\ast|u|^2)u$ in dimensions $d\geq4$. We prove that if the radial solution $u$ with life-span $I$ obeys $(u,u_t)\in L_t^\infty(I;\dot H^{1/2}_x(\mathbb R^d)\times\dot H^{-1/2}_x(\mathbb R^d))$, then $u$ is global and

The CRESST Collaboration, F. Reindl, G. Angloher, A. Bento

In the past years the spotlight of the search for dark matter particles widened to the low mass region, both from theoretical and experimental side. We discuss results from data obtained in 2013 with a single detector TUM40. This detector is equipped with a new upgraded holding scheme to efficiently veto backgrounds induced by surface alpha decays. This veto

Fabian Furrer, Christian Schaffner, Stephanie Wehner

We present the first protocol for oblivious transfer that can be implemented with an optical continuous-variable system, and prove its security in the noisy-storage model. This model allows security to be achieved by sending more quantum signals than an attacker can reliably store at one specific point during the protocol. Concretely, we determine how many s

Ulrich Harst, Martin Reuter

We explore Euclidean quantum gravity using the tetrad field together with a selfdual or anti-selfdual spin-connection as the basic field variables. Setting up a functional renormalization group (RG) equation of a new type which is particularly suitable for the corresponding theory space we determine the non-perturbative RG flow within a two-parameter truncat

Marco Fasan, Claudio Amadio, Salavore Noè, Giuliano Panza

In this paper, a new seismic Performance Based Design (PBD) process based on a deterministic definition of the seismic input is presented. The proposed procedure aims to address the following considerations, arisen from the analysis of seismic phenomena, which cannot be taken in account using standard probabilistic seismic input (PSHA): a) any structure at a

G. Plechinger, A. Castellanos-Gomez, M. Buscema, H. S. J. van der Zant

Single-layer MoS2 is a direct-gap semiconductor whose electronic band structure strongly depends on the strain applied to its crystal lattice. While uniaxial strain can be easily applied in a controlled way, e.g., by bending of a flexible substrate with the atomically thin MoS2 layer on top, experimental realization of biaxial strain is more challenging. Her

J. J. Sanz-Cillero

In this talk we discuss the structure of electroweak low-energy effective theories where the Higgs is non-linearly realized, typically in scenarios where the Higgs is a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of some beyond Standard Model symmetry. The organization of the perturbative counting and the relevance of the various next-to-leading order contributions is stud

Alexander Kuznetsov

We discuss a relation between the structure of derived categories of smooth projective varieties and their birational properties. We suggest a possible definition of a birational invariant, the derived category analogue of the intermediate Jacobian, and discuss its possible applications to the geometry of prime Fano threefolds and cubic fourfolds.

Yang Hua, Karteek Alahari, Cordelia Schmid

Tracking-by-detection approaches are some of the most successful object trackers in recent years. Their success is largely determined by the detector model they learn initially and then update over time. However, under challenging conditions where an object can undergo transformations, e.g., severe rotation, these methods are found to be lacking. In this pap

Evangelos Matsinos

In the present paper, details are given on the implementation of a wavelet-based analysis tailored to the processing of acoustical signals. The family of the suitable wavelets (`Reimann wavelets') are obtained in the time domain from a Fourier transform, extracted in Ref.~\cite{r1} after invoking theoretical principles and time-frequency localisation con

Claudianor O. Alves, Luciana R. de Freitas

In this work, we prove the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for the following class of quasilinear elliptic equations $$ \left \{ \begin{array}{lll} -ε^{N}Δ_{N} u + \left(1+μA(x) \right)\left| u\right|^{N-2}u= f(u)\,\,\,\, \mbox{ in } \, \RR^{N},\\ u > 0 \,\,\,\, \mbox{ in } \, \RR^{N}, \end{array} \right. $$ \\ where $Δ_{N}$ is the N-Laplaci

Kyoungmin Kim, Byeong-Kweon Oh

Let $f$ be a positive definite integral ternary quadratic form and let $r(k,f)$ be the number of representations of an integer $k$ by $f$. In this article we study the number of representations of squares by $f$. We say the genus of $f$, denoted by $\text{gen}(f)$, is indistinguishable by squares if for any integer $n$, $r(n^2,f)=r(n^2,f')$ for any quadr

Nino Hatter, Benjamin W. Heinrich, Michael Ruby, Jose I. Pascual

The exchange coupling between magnetic adsorbates and a superconducting substrate leads to Shiba states inside the superconducting energy gap and a Kondo resonance outside the gap. The exchange coupling strength determines whether the quantum many-body ground state is a Kondo singlet or a singlet of the paired superconducting quasiparticles. Here, we use sca

Fabio Belloni

The influence of the electron environment on the alpha decay is elucidated. Within the frame of a simple model based on the generalized Thomas-Fermi theory of the atom, it is shown that the increase of the electron density around the parent nucleus drives a mechanism which shortens the lifetime. Numerical results are provided for 144Nd, 154Yb and 210Po. Depe

Marek Hyčko

Present article concerns the generalization of the results of I. Chajda and J. Kühr to a non-commutative setting resulting into so called (weak) pre pseudo effect algebras and generalized pre pseudo effect algebras.

Alexander Andreychenko, Luca Bortolussi, Ramon Grima, Philipp Thomas

The stochastic nature of chemical reactions involving randomly fluctuating population sizes has lead to a growing research interest in discrete-state stochastic models and their analysis. A widely-used approach is the description of the temporal evolution of the system in terms of a chemical master equation (CME). In this paper we study two approaches for ap

Shu-Xin Miao, Xiang-Tuan Xiong, Jin Wen

Recently, a class of inexact Picard iteration method for solving the absolute value equation: $Ax-|x~|=b$ have been proposed in [Optim Lett 8:2191-2202,2014]. To further improve the performance of Picard iteration method, a new inexact Picard iteration method is proposed to solve the absolute value equation. The sufficient conditions for the convergence of t

E. V. Tkalya, Christian Schneider, Justin Jeet, Eric R. Hudson

We estimate the range of the radiative lifetime and energy of the anomalous, low-energy $3/2^+(7.8 \pm 0.5$ eV) state in the $^{229}$Th nucleus. Our phenomenological calculations are based on the available experimental data for the intensities of $M1$ and $E2$ transitions between excited levels of the $^{229}$Th nucleus in the $K^π[Nn_ZΛ]=5/2^+[633]$ and $3/

Philippe Laurençot, Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

Finite speed of propagation is established for non-negative weak solutions to a thin film approximation of the two-phase Muskat problem. The temporal expansion rate of the support matches the scale invariance of the system. Moreover, we determine sufficient conditions on the initial data for the occurrence of waiting time phenomena.

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

This research explores the effects of various training settings from Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for spoken language. Various elements of the TED parallel text corpora for the IWSLT 2013 evaluation campaign were used as the basis for training of language models, and for development, tuning and testing of the translation system. T

Wojciech Olszewski, Richard Weber

In a classic model analysed by Weitzman an agent is presented with boxes containing prizes. She may open boxes in any order, discover prizes within, and optimally stop. She wishes to maximize the expected value of the greatest prize found, minus costs of opening boxes. The problem is solved by a so-called Pandora's rule, and has applications to searching

Cedric Troessaert

In this work, we interpret part of the boundary conditions as external sources in order to solve the integrability problem present in the computation of surface charges associated to gauge symmetries in the hamiltonian formalism. We start by describing the hamiltonian structure of external symmetries preserving the action up to a transformation of the extern

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

Text alignment is crucial to the accuracy of Machine Translation (MT) systems, some NLP tools or any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a language independent sentence alignment approach based on Polish (not position-sensitive language) to English experiments. This alignment approach was developed on the TED Talks co

David Monniaux, Laure Gonnord

Automatically verifying safety properties of programs is hard, and it is even harder if the program acts upon arrays or other forms of maps. Many approaches exist for verifying programs operating upon Boolean and integer values (e.g. abstract interpretation, counterexample-guided abstraction refinement using interpolants), but transposing them to array prope

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

This research investigates the Statistical Machine Translation approaches to translate speech in real time automatically. Such systems can be used in a pipeline with speech recognition and synthesis software in order to produce a real-time voice communication system between foreigners. We obtained three main data sets from spoken proceedings that represent t

Yanwei Pang, Li Ye, Xuelong Li, Jing Pan

Moving object detection is a key to intelligent video analysis. On the one hand, what moves is not only interesting objects but also noise and cluttered background. On the other hand, moving objects without rich texture are prone not to be detected. So there are undesirable false alarms and missed alarms in many algorithms of moving object detection. To redu

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

Our research extends the Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) evaluation technique for statistical machine translation to make it more adjustable and robust. We intend to adapt it to resemble human evaluation more. We perform experiments to evaluate the performance of our technique against the primary existing evaluation methods. We describe and show the i

Nadja Hempel

The notion of almost centralizer and almost commutator are introduced and basic properties are established. They are used to study $\widetilde{\mathfrak M}\_c$-groups, i. e.groups for which every descending chain of centralizers each having infinite index in its predecessor stabilizes after finitely many steps. The Fitting subgroup of such groups is shown to

Jerónimo Cortez, Beatriz Elizaga Navascués, Mercedes Martín-Benito, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

We present a privileged Fock quantization of a massive Dirac field in a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology, partially selected by the criteria of invariance of the vacuum under the symmetries of the field equations, and unitary implementation of the dynamics. When quantizing free scalar fields in homogeneous and isotropic spacetimes with compact spa

Guoping Lin, Y. Candela, O. Tillement, Zhiping Cai

A method based on thermal bistability for ultralow-threshold microlaser optimization is demonstrated. When sweeping the pump laser frequency across a pump resonance, the dynamic thermal bistability slows down the power variation. The resulting line shape modification enables a real-time monitoring of the laser characteristic. We demonstrate this method for a

Aleš Návrat

A nonstandard invariant fourth order operator acting on functions on a manifold equipped with an almost Grassmannian structure with an arbitrary trorsion is found by means of the curved translation principle. This operator can be viewed as a Grassmannian analogue of the Paneitz operator well known from conformal geometry. It is obtained by translating a Gras

Pierre Germain, Laurent Thomann

We derive heuristically an integro-differential equation, as well as a shell model, governing the dynamics of the Lowest Landau Level equation in a high frequency regime.

Kais Ammari, Mourad Choulli, Faouzi Triki

We prove a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse problem of determining the potential in a wave equation from boundary measurements obtained by varying the first component of the initial condition. The novelty of the present work is that no geometric condition is imposed to the sub-boundary where the measurements are made. Our results improve those

Anton Baranov, Andreas Hartmann, Karim Kellay

We study two geometric properties of reproducing kernels in model spaces $K\_θ$where $θ$ is an inner function in the disc: overcompleteness and existence of uniformly minimalsystems of reproducing kernels which do not contain Riesz basic sequences. Both of these properties are related to the notion of the Ahern--Clark point. It is shown that "uniformly m

E. Adibi, S. A. Jafari

Phase transitions in the Hubbard model and ionic Hubbard model at half-filling on the honeycomb lattice are investigated in the strong coupling perturbation theory which corresponds to an expansion in powers of the hopping $t$ around the atomic limit. Within this formulation we find analytic expressions for the single-particle spectrum, whereby the calculati

Alain Lasjaunias, Jia-Yan Yao

The aim of this note is to show the existence of a correspondance between certain algebraic continued fractions in fields of power series over a finite field and automatic sequences in the same finite field. this connection is illustrated by three families of examples and a counterexample.

Christopher R. Gubbin, Francesco Martini, Alberto Politi, Stefan A. Maier

Following the recent observation of localised phonon polaritons in user-defined silicon carbide nano-resonators, here we demonstrate coherent coupling between those localised modes and propagating phonon polaritons bound to the surface of the nano-resonator's substrate. In order to obtain phase-matching, the nano-resonators have been fabricated to serve

Taras Banakh, Lesia Karchevska, Alex Ravsky

We prove that any meager quasi-analytic subgroup of a topological group $G$ belongs to every $σ$-ideal $\mathcal I$ on $G$ possessing the closed $\pm n$-Steinhaus property for some $n\in\mathbb N$. An ideal $\mathcal I$ on a topological group $G$ is defined to have the closed $\pm n$-Steinhaus property if for any closed subsets $A_1,\dots,A_n\notin\mathcal I

Philippe Martin, Lionel Rosier, Pierre Rouchon

We are interested in the determination of the reachable states for the boundary control of the one-dimensional heat equation. We consider either one or two boundary controls. We show that reachable states associated with square integrable controls can be extended to analytic functions onsome square of C, and conversely, that analytic functions defined on a c

Tomáš Ježo, Paolo Nason

In this work we present a new subtraction method for next-to-leading order calculations that is particularly convenient even when narrow resonances are present. The method is particularly suitable for the implementation of next-to-leading order calculations matched to parton shower generators. It allows at the same time for the inclusion of all finite width

William Y. C. Chen, Qing-Hu Hou, Doron Zeilberger

Many combinatorial sequences (for example, the Catalan and Motzkin numbers) may be expressed as the constant term of $P(x)^k Q(x)$, for some Laurent polynomials $P(x)$ and $Q(x)$ in the variable $x$ with integer coefficients. Denoting such a sequence by $a_k$, we obtain a general formula that determines the congruence class, modulo $p$, of the indefinite sum

R. A. Broglia, G. Potel, A. Idini, F. Barranco

Nuclear Field Theory of structure and reactions is confronted with observations made on neutron halo dripline nuclei, resulting in the prediction of a novel (symbiotic) mode of nuclear excitation, and on the observation of the virtual effect of the halo phenomenon in the apparently non-halo nucleus $^7$Li. This effect is forced to become real by intervening

Frederick Benaben, Nicolas Boissel-Dallier, Herve Pingaud, Jean-Pierre Lorre

The MISE Project (Mediation Information System Engineering) aims at providing collaborating organizations with a Mediation Information System (MIS) in charge of supporting interoperability of a collaborative network. MISE proposes an overall MIS design method according to a model-driven approach, based on model transformations. This MIS is in charge of manag

Murad Kablan, Hani Jamjoom, Eric Keller

Cloud services today are increasingly built using functionality from other running services. In this paper, we question whether legacy Quality of Services (QoS) metrics and enforcement techniques are sufficient as they are producer centric. We argue that, similar to customer rating systems found in banking systems and many sharing economy apps (e.g., Uber an

A. Pastorello, L. Tartaglia, N. Elias-Rosa, A. Morales-Garoffolo

We present spectroscopic and photometric observations for the Type Ibn supernova (SN) dubbed PSN J07285387+3349106. Using data provided by amateur astronomers, we monitored the photometric rise of the SN to maximum light, occurred on 2015 February 18.8 UT (JD(max,V) = 2457072.0 +- 0.8). PSN J07285387+3349106 exploded in the inner region of an infrared lumino

Roberto Stassi, Salvatore Savasta, Luigi Garziano, Bernardo Spagnolo

We study the squeezing of output quadratures of an electro-magnetic field escaping from a resonator coupled to a general quantum system with arbitrary interaction strengths. The generalized theoretical analysis of output squeezing proposed here is valid for all the interaction regimes of cavity-quantum electrodynamics: from the weak to the strong, ultrastron

A. Pastorello, J. L. Prieto, N. Elias-Rosa, D. Bersier

We present the results of the spectroscopic and photometric monitoring campaign of ASASSN-15ed. The transient was discovered quite young by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). Amateur astronomers allowed us to sample the photometric SN evolution around maximum light, which we estimate to have occurred on JD = 2457087.4 +- 0.6 in the r-band

Murad Kablan, Carlee Joe-Won, Sangtae Ha, Hani Jamjoom

Today's cloud apps are built from many diverse services that are managed by different parties. At the same time, these parties, which consume and/or provide services, continue to rely on arcane static security and entitlements models. In this paper, we introduce Seit, an inter-tenant framework that manages the interactions between cloud services. Seit is

P. Fré, P. A. Grassi, A. S. Sorin

We consider the Beltrami equation for hydrodynamics and we show that its solutions can be viewed as instanton solutions of a more general system of equations. The latter are the equations of motion for an ${\cal N}=2$ sigma model on 4-dimensional worldvolume (which is taken locally HyperKähler) with a 4-dimensional HyperKähler target space. By means of the 4

Julien Perret, Maurizio Gribaudi, Marc Barthelemy

The evolution of infrastructure networks such as roads and streets are of utmost importance to understand the evolution of urban systems. However, datasets describing these spatial objects are rare and sparse. The database presented here represents the road network at the french national level described in the historical map of Cassini in the $18^{th}$ centu

Roland Bacher

Using Chebyshev polynomialsof both kinds, we construct rational fractions which are convergents of the smallest root of $x^2-αx+1$ for $α=3,4,5,\dots$.Some of the underlying identities suggest an identity involving binomialcoefficients which leads to a triangular array sharing many propertieswith Pascal's triangle.

Markus Kuba, Hosam M. Mahmoud

This is the second part of a two-part investigation. We continue the study of a class of balanced urn schemes on balls of two colors (white and black). At each drawing, a sample of size $m\ge 1$ is drawn from the urn and ball addition rules are applied; the special case $m=1$ of sampling only a single ball coincides with ordinary balanced urn models. We cons

Norbert Wermes

Hybrid pixel detectors have been invented for the LHC to make tracking and vertexing possible at all in LHC's radiation intense environment. The LHC pixel detectors have meanwhile very successfully fulfilled their promises and R\&D for the planned HL-LHC upgrade is in full swing, targeting even higher ionising doses and non-ionising fluences. In terms of

Marcin Magdziarz, Tomasz Zorawik

In this paper we analyze fractional Fokker-Planck equation describing subdiffusion in the general infinitely divisible (ID) setting. We show that in the case of space-time-dependent drift and diffusion and time-dependent jump coefficient, the corresponding stochastic process can be obtained by subordinating two-dimensional system of Langevin equations driven

Xin-wei Zha, Irfan Ahmed, Yanpeng Zhang

In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. A 90, 022316 (2014) ), Goyeneche et al. established a link between the combinatorial notion of orthogonal arrays and k-uniform states and present open issue. (B) Find for what N there are 3-uniform states of N-qubits. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of 3-uniform states of N-qubits for N=11,..,15".

Randal Douc, Francois Roueff, Tepmony Sim

This paper deals with a parametrized family of partially observed bivariate Markov chains. We establish that, under very mild assumptions, the limit of the normalized log-likelihood function is maximized when the parameters belong to the equivalence class of the true parameter, which is a key feature for obtaining the consistency of the maximum likelihood es

P. S. Athiray, P. Sreekumar, S. Narendranath, J. P. D. Gow

Swept Charge Devices (SCD) are novel X-ray detectors optimized for improved spectral performance without any demand for active cooling. The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) experiment onboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft used an array of SCDs to map the global surface elemental abundances on the Moon using the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technique. The s

T. Matsumura, Y. Hayashi, S. Takai, T. Otsubo

Hexagonal-to-orthorhombic structural transitions in RAl$_3$C$_3$ have been studied by X-ray diffraction for R=Yb, Tm, Er, Dy, and Lu. We report how orthorhombic domains are controlled by adjusting external magnetic fields. It is shown that orthorhombic domains in RAl$_3$C$_3$ can be aligned by the field when the R ion is magnetic. It is also shown that a sin

Qi-Tong Li, Fengliang Dong, Bo Wang, Fengyuan Gan

Artificial metasurfaces are capable of completely manipulating the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light with high spatial resolutions. The emerging design based on high-index and low-loss dielectrics has led to the realization of novel metasurfaces with high transmissions, but these devices usually operate at the limited bandwidth, and are sensitive t

Saul D. Jacka, Aleksandar Mijatović

We develop a general approach to the Policy Improvement Algorithm (PIA) for stochastic control problems for continuous-time processes. The main results assume only that the controls lie in a compact metric space and give general sufficient conditions for the PIA to be well-defined and converge in continuous time (i.e. without time discretisation). It emerges

Petter Andreas Bergh, Dag Oskar Madsen

We prove that if an algebra is either selfinjective, local or graded, then the Hochschild homology dimension of its trivial extension is infinite.

Hao-Yu Zhang, Jin-Wu Jiang, Tienchong Chang, Xingming Guo

Edge effects play an important role for many properties of graphene. While most works have focused on the effects from isolated free edges, we present a novel knotting phenomenon induced by the interactions between a pair of free edges in graphene, and investigate its effect on the buckling of monolayer graphene. Upon compression, the buckling of graphene st

Niiyama Tomoaki, Shimokawa Tomotsugu

Intermittent plastic deformation in crystals with power-law behaviors has been reported in previous experimental studies. The power-law behavior is reminiscent of self-organized criticality, and mesoscopic models have been proposed that describe this behavior in crystals. In this letter, we show that intermittent plasticity in metals under tensile deformatio

Radhey Shyam

In the domain of Nuclear reactions at intermediate energies, the QCD coupling constant $α_s$ is large enough ($\sim$ 0.3 - 0.5) to render the perturbative calculational techniques inapplicable. In this regime the quarks are confined into colorless hadrons and it is expected that effective field theories of hadron interactions via exchange of hadrons, provide

Radomír Šmída, Ralph Engel

Arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the direction of ten brightest radio sources lying within 50 Mpc from our Galaxy were studied by using recent models of the largescale Galactic magnetic field. A detailed study, where also small-scale turbulent magnetic field component was implemented, is presented for the radiogalaxy Virgo A. This rad

Ayan Das, Sourangshu Bhattacharya

Two popular approaches for distributed training of SVMs on big data are parameter averaging and ADMM. Parameter averaging is efficient but suffers from loss of accuracy with increase in number of partitions, while ADMM in the feature space is accurate but suffers from slow convergence. In this paper, we report a hybrid approach called weighted parameter aver

Marta Volonteri, Tamara Bogdanovic, Massimo Dotti, Monica Colpi

The dynamics of massive black holes (BHs) in galaxy mergers is a rich field of research that has seen much progress in recent years. In this contribution we briefly review the processes describing the journey of BHs during mergers, from the cosmic context all the way to when BHs coalesce. If two galaxies each hosting a central BH merge, the BHs would be drag

A. S. Panfilov, G. E. Grechnev, A. V. Fedorchenko, K. Conder

Magnetic susceptibility $χ$ of Bi$_{2-x}$Mn$_{x}$Se$_3$ ($x = 0.01-0.2$) was measured in the temperature range $4.2-300$ K. For all the samples, a Curie-Weiss behaviour of $χ(T)$ was revealed with effective magnetic moments of Mn ions corresponding to the spin value S=5/2, which couple antiferromagnetically with the paramagnetic Curie temperature $Θ\sim -50$

Jun He

The nucleon resonances near 2 GeV are investigated through the $Σ$(1385) and $Λ(1520)$ photoproductions within a Regge-plus-resonance approach based on the new experimental data released by the CLAS Collaboration. The $Δ(2000)$ and the $N(2120)$ are found essential to reproduce the experimental data and should be assigned as second $[Δ5/2^+]$ and third $[N3/

Takanobu Jujo

We theoretically investigate the two-photon absorption spectrum of conventional s-wave superconductors. The calculation is carried out in the local limit at absolute zero. The direct excitation of quasiparticles is excluded under the condition that the frequency of the external field is lower than twice the magnitude of the superconducting gap. We calculate

Deyang Yu, Junliang Liu, Yingli Xue, Mingwu Zhang

A 128-channel picoammeter system is constructed based on instrumentation amplifiers. Taking the advantages of high electric potential and narrow bandwidth in DC energetic charged beam measurements, current resolution better than 5 fA can be achieved. Two 128-channel Faraday cup arrays are built, and are employed for ion and electron beam current distribution

Hanying Deng, Xianfeng Chen, Boris A. Malomed, Nicolae C. Panoiu

We perform a comparative study of the Anderson localization of light beams in disordered layered photonic nanostructures that, in the limit of periodic layer distribution, possess either a Dirac point or a Bragg gap in the spectrum of the wavevectors. In particular, we demonstrate that the localization length of the Anderson modes increases when the width of

Atsuo Kuniba, Shouya Maruyama, Masato Okado

We introduce a family of layer to layer transfer matrices in a three-dimensional (3D) lattice model which can be viewed as partition functions of the $q$-oscillator valued six-vertex model on $m \times n$ square lattice. By invoking the tetrahedron equation we establish their commutativity and bilinear relations mixing various boundary conditions. At $q=0$ a

Yafei Ren, Zhenhua Qiao, Qian Niu

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this review, we mainly focus on the recent progress in the engineering of topologically nontrivial phases (such as $\mathbb{Z}_2

Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy, Darío G. Santiago-Pérez, Carlos Trallero-Giner, Nuno M. R. Peres

Exciton-polariton modes arising from interaction between bound excitons in monolayer thin semiconductor sheets and photons in a Fabry-Perot microcavity are considered theoretically. We calculate the dispersion curves, mode lifetimes, Rabi splitting, and Hopfield coefficients of these structures for two nearly 2D semiconductor materials, MoS2 and WS2, and sug

Qing Yang, Xu Zhang

In this article, interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods using immersed finite element functions are employed to solve parabolic interface problems. Typical semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes are presented and analyzed. Optimal convergence for both semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes are proved. Some numerical experiments are provided to v

B. -C. Lee, M. -G. Park, S. -M. Lee, G. Jeong

Aims. This program originated as the north pole region extension of the established exoplanet survey using 1.8 m telescope at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO). The aim of our paper is to find exoplanets in northern circumpolar stars with a precise radial velocity (RV) survey. Methods. We have selected about 200 northern circumpolar stars with t

Junpei Komiyama, Junya Honda, Hiroshi Nakagawa

Partial monitoring is a general model for sequential learning with limited feedback formalized as a game between two players. In this game, the learner chooses an action and at the same time the opponent chooses an outcome, then the learner suffers a loss and receives a feedback signal. The goal of the learner is to minimize the total loss. In this paper, we

S. Quaglioni, G. Hupin, A. Calci, P. Navratil

An {\em ab initio} (i.e., from first principles) theoretical framework capable of providing a unified description of the structure and low-energy reaction properties of light nuclei is desirable to further our understanding of the fundamental interactions among nucleons, and provide accurate predictions of crucial reaction rates for nuclear astrophysics, fus

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Since 2012, we have initiated developing systematically the simplistic to rigorous models to prove that highly super-Chandrasekhar, as well as highly sub-Chandrasekhar, limiting mass white dwarfs are possible to exist. We show that the mass of highly magnetized or modified Einstein's gravity induced white dwarfs could be significantly super-Chandrasekhar

Guang Yang, Chen-Hsuan Hsu, Peter Stano, Jelena Klinovaja

The implementation of a functional quantum computer involves entangling and coherent manipulation of a large number of qubits. For qubits based on electron spins confined in quantum dots, which are among the most investigated solid-state qubits at present, architectural challenges are often encountered in the design of quantum circuits attempting to assemble

Michael Frazier, Igor Verbitsky

Let $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, for $n \geq 2$, be a bounded $C^2$ domain. Let $q \in L^1_{loc} (Ω)$ with $q \geq 0$. We give necessary conditions and matching sufficient conditions, which differ only in the constants involved, for the existence of very weak solutions to the boundary value problem $(-\triangle -q) u =0, \, \, u\ge 0 \, \, \text{on} \, \, Ω, \,