October 2015 arXiv papers — page 12

Slava Rychkov, Pierre Yvernay

We show how to refine conformal block expansion convergence estimates from hep-th/1208.6449. In doing so we find a novel explicit formula for the 3d conformal blocks on the real axis.

David Snyder, Guoguo Chen, Daniel Povey

This report introduces a new corpus of music, speech, and noise. This dataset is suitable for training models for voice activity detection (VAD) and music/speech discrimination. Our corpus is released under a flexible Creative Commons license. The dataset consists of music from several genres, speech from twelve languages, and a wide assortment of technical

Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jacob Eisenstein

Online writing lacks the non-verbal cues present in face-to-face communication, which provide additional contextual information about the utterance, such as the speaker's intention or affective state. To fill this void, a number of orthographic features, such as emoticons, expressive lengthening, and non-standard punctuation, have become popular in socia

Stylianos Stamatakis, Hassan Al-Zoubi

We consider surfaces of revolution in the three-dimensional Euclidean space which are of coordinate finite type with respect to the third fundamental form. We show that a surface of revolution satisfying the preceding relation is a catenoid or part of a sphere.

L. Beirao da Veiga, F. Brezzi, L. D. Marini, A. Russo

We introduce a new variant of Nodal Virtual Element spaces that mimics the "Serendipity Finite Element Methods" (whose most popular example is the 8-node quadrilateral) and allows to reduce (often in a significant way) the number of internal degrees of freedom. When applied to the faces of a three-dimensional decomposition, this allows a reduction in

F. Niederhofer, N. Bastian, V. Kozhurina-Platais, M. Hilker

Most star clusters at an intermediate age (1-2 Gyr) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds show a puzzling feature in their color-magnitude diagrams (CMD) that is not in agreement with a simple stellar population. The main sequence turn-off of these clusters is much broader than would be expected from photometric uncertainties. One interpretation of this f

Chanyeol Yoo, Calin Belta

Autonomous agents often operate in uncertain environments where their decisions are made based on beliefs over states of targets. We are interested in controller synthesis for complex tasks defined over belief spaces. Designing such controllers is challenging due to computational complexity and the lack of expressivity of existing specification languages. In

Kenneth Nordtvedt

A method for constructing metric gravity's N-body Lagrangian is developed which uses iterative, liner algebraic euqations which enforce invariance properties of gravity --- exterior effacement, interior effacement, and the time dilation and Lorentz contraction of matter under boosts. The method is demonstrated by obtaining the full 1/c^4 order Lagrangian

Jason Holloway, M. Salman Asif, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Nathan Matsuda

In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated that one can image beyond the diffraction limit of the objective lens in a microscope. We demonstrate a similar imaging

Nicholas Owad

Tomova, along with results of Bachman and Schleimer, showed that any high distance knot has a stair-step bridge spectrum. In this paper, we compute the bridge spectra and distance of generalized Montesinos knots. In particular, we produce the first example of a class of knots which attain the stair-step bridge spectra but are not high distance, by computing

Niccolo Moretti, Petar Petrov, Stefano Pozzorini, Michael Spannowsky

A precise measurement of the Higgs boson couplings to bottom and top quarks is of paramount importance during the upcoming LHC runs. We present a comprehensive analysis for the Higgs production process in association with a semi-leptonically decaying top-quark pair and subsequent Higgs boson decay into bottom quarks. Due to the highly complex final state and

Hongzhi Guo, Zhi Sun

Wireless communications in complex environments are constrained by lossy media and complicated structures. Magnetic Induction (MI) has been proved to be an efficient solution to extend the communication range. Due to the small coil antenna's physical limitation, however, MI's communication range is still very limited. To this end, Metamaterial-enhanc

Kendra Kellogg, Stanimir Metchev, Kerstin Geissler, Shannon Hicks

We present first results from a targeted search for brown dwarfs with unusual red colors indicative of peculiar atmospheric characteristics. These include objects with low surface gravities or with unusual dust content or cloud properties. From a positional cross-match of SDSS, 2MASS and WISE, we have identified 40 candidate peculiar early L to early T dwarf

Nathan J. Goldbaum, Mark R. Krumholz, John C. Forbes

The role of gravitational instability-driven turbulence in determining the structure and evolution of disk galaxies, and the extent to which gravity rather than feedback can explain galaxy properties, remains an open question. To address it, we present high resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations of Milky Way-like isolated disk galaxies, including re

P. Pietrukowicz, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, I. Soszynski

Based on data from the ongoing OGLE Galaxy Variability Survey (OGLE GVS) we have verified observed properties of stars detected by the near-infrared VVV survey in a direction near the Galactic plane at longitude l~-27 deg and recently tentatively classified as classical Cepheids belonging to a, hence claimed, dwarf galaxy at a distance of about 90 kpc from t

B. King, T. Heinzl

When exposed to intense electromagnetic fields, the quantum vacuum is expected to exhibit properties of a polarisable medium akin to a weakly nonlinear dielectric material. Various schemes have been proposed to measure such vacuum polarisation effects using a combination of high power lasers. Motivated by several planned experiments, we provide an overview o

M. Reggiani, M. R. Meyer, G. Chauvin, A. Vigan

In recent years there have been many attempts to characterize the occurrence of stellar, BD and planetary-mass companions to solar-type stars, with the aim of constraining formation mechanisms. From RV observations a dearth of companions with masses between 10-40 MJup has been noticed at close separations, suggesting the possibility of a distinct formation m

Frederic Brünner, Anton Rebhan

We discuss recent results on the calculation of glueball decay rates in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model, which favor the $f_0(1710)$ meson as a glueball candidate. The flavor asymmetric decay of $f_0(1710)$ is frequently attributed to a putative chiral suppression in glueball decays, which is however questionable in view of the large constituent quark masses

Ryan Cybulski, Min S. Yun, Neal Erickson, Victor De la Luz

An understanding of the mass build-up in galaxies over time necessitates tracing the evolution of cold gas (molecular and atomic) in galaxies. To that end, we have conducted a pilot study called CO Observations with the LMT of the Blind Ultra-Deep H I Environment Survey (COOL BUDHIES). We have observed 23 galaxies in and around the two clusters Abell 2192 (z

Christian R. Ast, Berthold Jäck, Jacob Senkpiel, Matthias Eltschka

The tunnel junction between tip and sample in a scanning tunneling microscope is an ideal platform to access the local density of states in the sample through the differential conductance. We show that the energy resolution that can be obtained is principally limited by the electromagnetic interaction of the tunneling electrons with the surrounding environme

Nathan A. Kaib, John E. Chambers

Many features of the outer solar system are replicated in numerical simulations if the giant planets undergo an orbital instability that ejects one or more ice giants. During this instability, Jupiter and Saturn's orbits diverge, crossing their 2:1 mean motion resonance (MMR), and this resonance-crossing can excite the terrestrial planet orbits. Using a

Vivian U, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Behnam Darvish, Bahram Mobasher

We explore the relationship between the spectral shape of the Lyα emission and the UV morphology of the host galaxy using a sample of 304 Lyα-emitting BV i-dropouts at 3 < z < 7 in the GOODS and COSMOS fields. Using our extensive reservoir of high-quality Keck DEIMOS spectra combined with HST WFC3 data, we measure the Lyα line asymmetries for individual gala

F. Hofmann, J. S. Sanders, K. Nandra, N. Clerc

In high-resolution X-ray observations of the hot plasma in clusters of galaxies significant structures caused by AGN feedback, mergers, and turbulence can be detected. Many clusters have been observed by Chandra in great depth and at high resolution. Using archival data taken with the Chandra ACIS instrument the aim was to study thermodynamic perturbations o

Gabriele Honecker

Intersecting D6-branes provide a geometrically intuitive road to stringy particle physics models, where D6-branes stuck at orbifold singularities can lead to the stabilisation of deformation moduli, and the QCD axion can arise from the open string sector in a very constrained way compared to pure field theory. We demonstrate this interplay of different physi

Dang Van Hieu

The paper proposes a novel hybrid method for solving equilibrium problems and fixed point problems. By constructing specially cutting-halfspaces, in this algorithm, only an optimization program is solved at each iteration without the extra-steps as in some previously known methods. The strongly convergence theorem is established and some numerical examples a

Luca Griguolo, Matias Leoni, Andrea Mauri, Silvia Penati

For three-dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ super Chern-Simons-matter theories associated to necklace quivers $U(N_0) \times U(N_1) \times \cdots U(N_{2r-1}) $, we study at quantum level the two kinds of 1/2 BPS Wilson loop operators recently introduced in arXiv:1506.07614. We perform a two-loop evaluation and find the same result for the two kinds of operators, so m

Omkar Muralidharan, Amir Najmi

Many large-scale machine learning problems involve estimating an unknown parameter $θ_{i}$ for each of many items. For example, a key problem in sponsored search is to estimate the click through rate (CTR) of each of billions of query-ad pairs. Most common methods, though, only give a point estimate of each $θ_{i}$. A posterior distribution for each $θ_{i}$

Dmytro M. Savchuk, Said N. Sidki

We introduce a class of automorphisms of rooted $d$-regular trees arising from affine actions on their boundaries viewed as infinite dimensional vector spaces. This class includes, in particular, many examples of self-similar realizations of lamplighter groups. We show that for a regular binary tree this class coincides with the normalizer of the group of al

Brian Cunningham, Tchavdar N. Todorov, Daniel Dundas

Long metallic nanowires combine crucial factors for non-conservative current-driven atomic mo- tion. These systems have degenerate vibrational frequencies, clustered about a Kohn anomaly in the dispersion relation, that can couple under current to form non-equilibrium modes of motion growing exponentially in time. Such motion is made possible by non-conserva

Jan E. Staff, Orsola De Marco, Daniel Macdonald, Pablo Galaviz

The Rotten Egg Nebula has at its core a binary composed of a Mira star and an A-type companion at a separation >10 au. It has been hypothesized to have formed by strong binary interactions between the Mira and a companion in an eccentric orbit during periastron passage ~800 years ago. We have performed hydrodynamic simulations of an asymptotic giant branch s

D. L. Underwood, W. E. Shanks, Andy C. Y. Li, Lamia Ateshian

Microwave photons inside lattices of coupled resonators and superconducting qubits can exhibit surprising matter-like behavior. Realizing such open-system quantum simulators presents an experimental challenge and requires new tools and measurement techniques. Here, we introduce Scanning Defect Microscopy as one such tool and illustrate its use in mapping the

C. M. Bhat

Over the past decade, Fermilab has focused efforts on the intensity frontier physics and is committed to increase the average beam power delivered to the neutrino and muon programs substantially. Many upgrades to the existing injector accelerators, namely, the current 400 MeV LINAC and the Booster, are in progress under the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). Pro

Y. Shen, P. G. Kevrekidis, G. Srinivasan, A. B. Aceves

Recent work has explored binary waveguide arrays in the long-wavelength, near-continuum limit, here we examine the opposite limit, namely the vicinity of the so-called anti-continuum limit. We provide a systematic discussion of states involving one, two and three excited waveguides, and provide comparisons that illustrate how the stability of these states di

William R. Frensley

The spurious states found in numerical implementations of envelope function models for semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures have been shown to be readily removed by employing a first-order difference scheme. This approach is applied to the band structure of graphene. The massless Dirac equation is identical to a simple two-band model with zero e

Alex C. Han, Valery Milner

We demonstrate numerically a method of focusing two-photon field inside one-dimensional random media. The approach is based on coherent control of backscattering achieved by adaptive spectral pulse shaping. The spectral phases of a femtosecond laser pulse are adjusted for the constructive interference of its backward-traveling components, resulting in an enh

Visu Makam

We study the ring R(n,m) of invariants for the left-right action of SL_n \times SL_n on m-tuples of n by n complex matrices. We show that R(3,m) is generated by invariants of degree less equal 309 for all m. Then, we use a combinatorial description of the invariants to show that R(n,m) cannot be generated by invariants of degree < n^2 for large m. We also co

Katja Filippova, Enrique Alfonseca

A popular approach to sentence compression is to formulate the task as a constrained optimization problem and solve it with integer linear programming (ILP) tools. Unfortunately, dependence on ILP may make the compressor prohibitively slow, and thus approximation techniques have been proposed which are often complex and offer a moderate gain in speed. As an

Alex Buchel

Boson stars are stationary soliton-like gravitational configurations supported by a complex scalar field charged under the global $U(1)$ symmetry. We discuss properties of boson stars in type IIB supergravity approximation to string theory. A notable difference is that in supergravity models the global symmetry of the complex scalar field is gauged. We focus

Andrew S. Rivkin, Franck Marchis, John A. Stansberry, Driss Takir

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides the opportunity for ground-breaking observations of asteroids. It covers wavelength regions that are unavailable from the ground, and does so with unprecedented sensitivity. The main-belt and Trojan asteroids are all observable at some point in the JWST lifetime. We present an overview of the capabilities for JW

D. C. Carvalho, A. S. T. Pires, L. A. S. Mól

We examine the phase diagram of the spin-$1$ $J_1-J_2-J_3$ ferromagnetic Heisenberg model with an easy-plane crystal field on the cubic lattice, in which $J_1$ is the ferromagnetic exchange interaction between nearest neighbors, $J_2$ is the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction between next-nearest neighbors and $J_3$ is the antiferromagnetic exchange inte

S. O. Kepler, Ingrid Pelisoli, Detlev Koester, Gustavo Ourique

We report the discovery of 6576 new spectroscopically confirmed white dwarf and subdwarf stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12. We obtain Teff, log g and mass for hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf stars (DAs) and helium atmosphere white dwarf stars (DBs), estimate the calcium/helium abundances for the white dwarf stars with metallic lines (DZs)

Semra Demirel-Frank, Laura Shou

We derive trace formulas of the Buslaev-Faddeev type for quantum star graphs. One of the new ingredients is high energy asymptotics of the perturbation determinant.

Axel Maas

Complete gauge-fixing beyond perturbation theory in non-Abelian gauge theories is a non-trivial problem. This is particularly evident in covariant gauges, where the Gribov-Singer ambiguity gives an explicit formulation of the problem. In practice, this is a problem if gauge-dependent quantities between different methods, especially lattice and continuum meth

Xu Wang, Gilad Lerman

Kernel methods obtain superb performance in terms of accuracy for various machine learning tasks since they can effectively extract nonlinear relations. However, their time complexity can be rather large especially for clustering tasks. In this paper we define a general class of kernels that can be easily approximated by randomization. These kernels appear i

Matthew Sartwell

We show that for spaces $A$ that satisfy a certain smallness condition, there is a Lawvere theory $T_A$ so that a space $X$ has the structure of a $T_A$-algebra if and only if $X$ is weakly equivalent to a mapping space out of $A$. In particular, spheres localized at a set of primes satisfy this condition.

H. Y. Huang, C. J. Jia, Z. Y. Chen, K. Wohlfeld

Measurements of spin excitations are essential for an understanding of spin-mediated pairing for superconductivity; and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) provides a considerable opportunity to probe high-energy spin excitations. However, whether RIXS correctly measures the collective spin excitations of doped superconducting cuprates remains under d

Daniel Wood

We introduce the notion of a Betti-linear monomial ideal, which generalizes the notion of lattice-linear monomial ideal introduced by Clark. We provide a characterization of Betti-linearity in terms of Tchernev&#39;s poset construction. As an application we obtain an explicit canonical construction for the minimal free resolutions of monomial ideals having p

A. V. Afanasjev

The rotating nuclei represent one of most interesting subjects for theoretical and experimental studies. They open a new dimension of nuclear landscape, namely, spin direction. Contrary to the majority of nuclear systems, their properties sensitively depend on time-odd mean fields and currents in density functional theories. Moreover, they show a considerabl

Burcu Bektaş, Elif Özkara Canfes, Uğur Dursun

In this work, we study the pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds of a pseudo-sphere with 1-type pseudo-spherical Gauss map. First, we classify the Lorentzian surfaces in a 4-dimensional pseudo-sphere $\mathbb{S}^4_s(1)$ with index s, $s=1, 2$, and having harmonic pseudo-spherical Gauss map. Then we give a characterization theorem for pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds

P. A. Golovinski, V. A. Astapenko, E. S. Manuylovich

The problem of electromagnetic pulses propagation in plasma was studied in connection with various problems of radio engineering and radar systems. The description of propagation such signals is based on exactly solvable problems for monochromatic waves. We considered two cases: smooth layer and thin sheet. The conditions for different type of reflection are

Olivier Taïbi

Let G be a special orthogonal group or an inner form of a symplectic group over a number field F such that there exists a non-empty set S of real places of F at which G has discrete series and outside of which G is quasi-split. We prove Arthur&#39;s multiplicity formula for automorphic representations of G having algebraic regular infinitesimal character at

Conor A. Nixon, Richard K. Achterberg, Mate Adamkovics, Bruno Bezard

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled for launch in 2018, is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) but with a significantly larger aperture (6.5 m) and advanced instrumentation focusing on infrared science (0.6-28.0 $μ$m ). In this paper we examine the potential for scientific investigation of Titan using JWST, primarily with three of

M. J. Hardcastle, E. Lenc, M. Birkinshaw, J. H. Croston

We report on deep Chandra observations of the nearby broad-line radio galaxy Pictor A, which we combine with new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations. The new X-ray data have a factor 4 more exposure than observations previously presented and span a 15-year time baseline, allowing a detailed study of the spatial, temporal and spectral proper

M. Nazarzahdemoafi, F. Titze, S. Machulik, C. Janowitz

The electronic structure of the transparent semiconductor In2O3 has been studied by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy upon deposition of metallic indium and also tin on the surface of the semiconductor. By deposition of metallic indium on In2O3 (111) single crystals, we detected the formation of a free-electron like band of effective mass (0.38+-0.05

V. Zhelyazkova, S. D. Hogan

Experimental and theoretical studies of the effects of weak radio-frequency electric fields on Rydberg-Stark states with electric dipole moments as large as 10000 D are reported. High-resolution laser spectroscopic studies of Rydberg states with principal quantum number $n=52$ and $53$ were performed in pulsed supersonic beams of metastable helium with the e

Hoang-Vu Nguyen, Jilles Vreeken

Most data is multi-dimensional. Discovering whether any subset of dimensions, or subspaces, of such data is significantly correlated is a core task in data mining. To do so, we require a measure that quantifies how correlated a subspace is. For practical use, such a measure should be universal in the sense that it captures correlation in subspaces of any dim

V. N. Zirakashvili, V. S. Ptuskin

It is shown that high-energy astrophysical neutrinos observed in the IceCube experiment can be produced by protons accelerated in extragalactic Type IIn supernova remnants by shocks propagating in the dense circumstellar medium. The nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration model is used for description of particle acceleration. We calculate the neutrino spectr

Hoang-Vu Nguyen, Jilles Vreeken

Change detection in multivariate time series has applications in many domains, including health care and network monitoring. A common approach to detect changes is to compare the divergence between the distributions of a reference window and a test window. When the number of dimensions is very large, however, the naive approach has both quality and efficienc

Jeremy Green, Nils Asmussen, Oleksii Gryniuk, Georg von Hippel

We report calculations of hadronic light-by-light scattering amplitudes via lattice QCD evaluation of Euclidean four-point functions of vector currents. These initial results include only the fully quark-connected contribution. Particular attention is given to the case of forward scattering, which can be related via dispersion relations to the $γ^* γ^* \to$

Hoang-Vu Nguyen, Jilles Vreeken

In subgroup discovery, also known as supervised pattern mining, discovering high quality one-dimensional subgroups and refinements of these is a crucial task. For nominal attributes, this is relatively straightforward, as we can consider individual attribute values as binary features. For numerical attributes, the task is more challenging as individual numer

Agostino Sturaro, Simone Silvestri, Mauro Conti, Sajal K. Das

Modern networks are becoming increasingly interdependent. As a prominent example, the smart grid is an electrical grid controlled through a communications network, which in turn is powered by the electrical grid. Such interdependencies create new vulnerabilities and make these networks more susceptible to failures. In particular, failures can easily spread a

Galliano Valent

Starting from the framework defined by Matveev and Shevchishin we derive the local and the global structure for the four types of super-integrable Koenigs metrics. These dynamical systems are always defined on non-compact manifolds, namely $\,{\mb R}^2\,$ and $\,{\mb H}^2$. The study of their geodesic flows is made easier using their linear and quadratic int

J. S. Dowker

The conformal weights of spherical twist operators at non--zero (Euclidean) chemical potential are computed for free Dirac fields in arbitrary dimensions. An image technique, equivalent to replicas, is again used to obtain the $n$--fold cover quantities. The proof of a conjecture made by Bueno, Myers and Witczac--Krempa regarding the relation between the con

J. R. Morris, A. Schulze-Halberg

We consider the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a dilaton-Maxwell domain wall of the type introduced by Gibbons and Wells [G.W. Gibbons and C.G. Wells, Class. Quant. Grav. 11, 2499-2506 (1994)]. It is found that if such a wall exists within our observable universe, it would be absurdly thick, or else have a magnetic field in its core which is mu

Daniele Bartoli, Stefano Marcugini, Fernanda Pambianco

Theoretical results are known about the completeness of a planar algebraic cubic curve as a (n,3)-arc in PG(2,q). They hold for q big enough and sometimes have restriction on the characteristic and on the value of the j-invariant. We determine the completeness of all cubic curves for q <= 81.

F. Wyrowski, R. Güsten, K. M. Menten, H. Wiesemeyer

With the GREAT receiver at the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), nine massive molecular clumps have been observed in the ammonia $3_{2+}- 2_{2-}$ line at 1.8~THz in a search for signatures of infall. The sources were selected from the ATLASGAL submillimeter dust continuum survey of our Galaxy. Clumps with high masses covering a range

Xinmin Hou, Yu Qiu, Boyuan Liu

An extremal graph for a graph $H$ on $n$ vertices is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $T_{n,r}$ be the Turán graph, which is the complete $r$-partite graph on $n$ vertices with part sizes that differ by at most one. The well-known Turán Theorem states that $T_{n,r}$ is the only extremal graph f

Sergey Avgustinovich, Anna Frid, Svetlana Puzynina

An infinite permutation can be defined as a linear ordering of the set of natural numbers. In particular, an infinite permutation can be constructed with an aperiodic infinite word over $\{0,\ldots,q-1\}$ as the lexicographic order of the shifts of the word. In this paper, we discuss the question if an infinite permutation defined this way admits a canonical

Hoang-Vu Nguyen, Jilles Vreeken

We aim to analyze the relation between two random vectors that may potentially have both different number of attributes as well as realizations, and which may even not have a joint distribution. This problem arises in many practical domains, including biology and architecture. Existing techniques assume the vectors to have the same domain or to be jointly di

Mohindar S. Seehra, Kelly L. Pisane

In magnetic nanoparticle systems, the variation of the blocking temperature $T_B$ with the measuring frequency $f_m$ is often used to determine the strength of the interparticle interactions (IPI) through a parameter $Φ$ or the Vogel-Fulcher temperature $T_o$. Presence of IPI is inferred if $T_o$$>$0 and $Φ=$$Δ$$T_B$$/$$[T_BΔ$$log_{10}$$f_m]<$0.13 where $Δ$

Francisco Lázaro, Gianluigi Liva, Gerhard Bauch

We provide two analytical tools to model the inactivation decoding process of LT codes. First, a model is presented which derives the expected number of inactivations occurring in the decoding process of an LT code. This analysis is then extended allowing the derivation of the distribution of the number of inactivations. The accuracy of the method is verifie

Hao Chen, Tianxiang Huang, Jianping Ding, Guoqiang Li

We present an approach that enables complete control over the amplitude, phase and arbitrary polarization state on the Poincaré sphere of an optical beam in a 4-f system with a spatial light modulator (SLM). The beams can be constructed from a coaxial superposition of x- and y-linearly polarized light, each carrying structured amplitude profile and phase dis

Gautam Singh, Dena M. Agra-Kooijman, Michael R. Fisch, M. R. Vengatesan

X-ray scattering and polarized microscopic studies of the structure and order parameters in the nematic (N) and heliconical, or the twist-bend nematic (Ntb), phase have been performed as a function of temperature. The nematic orientational order parameters <P2(cosθ)> and <P4(cosθ)> in the nematic phases of CB7CB and its mixtures with less than 20 wt% CB6CB r

Yang Liu, Rakesh P. Tiwari, Matej Brada, C. Bruder

Snake states are open trajectories for charged particles propagating in two dimensions under the influence of a spatially varying perpendicular magnetic field. In the quantum limit they are protected edge modes that separate topologically inequivalent ground states and can also occur when the particle density rather than the field is made nonuniform. We exam

Henric S. Krawczynski, Daniel Stern, Fiona A. Harrison, Fabian F. Kislat

This paper describes the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR), a mission proposed to NASA&#39;s 2014 Small Explorer (SMEX) announcement of opportunity. PolSTAR measures the linear polarization of 3-50 keV (requirement; goal: 2.5-70 keV) X-rays probing the behavior of matter, radiation and the very fabric of spacetime under the extreme conditi

Matej Sekeráš, Augustin Skopal

The mass-loss rate from Mira variables represents a key parameter in our understanding of their evolutionary tracks. We introduce a method for determining the mass-loss rate from the Mira component in D-type symbiotic binaries via the Raman scattering of atomic hydrogen in the wind from the giant. Using our method, we investigated Raman HeII 1025Å --> 6545Å

Vikram Tripathi, Alexey Galda, Himadri Barman, Valerii M. Vinokur

We describe the critical behavior of electric field-driven (dynamic) Mott insulator-to-metal transitions in dissipative Fermi and Bose systems in terms of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians invariant under simultaneous parity (P) and time-reversal (T) operations. The dynamic Mott transition is identified as a PT symmetry-breaking phase transition, with the Mott insu

M. J. Neves, Everton M. C. Abreu

With the elements of the Doplicher, Fredenhagen and Roberts (DFR) noncommutative formalism, we have constructed the standard electroweak model. To accomplish this task we have begun with the WM-product basis group of symmetry. We have introduced the spontaneous symmetry breaking and the hypercharge in DFR framework. The electroweak symmetry breaking was anal

Shigehisa Takakuwa, Kazuhiro Kiyokane, Kazuya Saigo, Masao Saito

We performed mapping observations of the Class I protostellar binary system L1551 NE in the C$^{18}$O ($J$=3-2), $^{13}$CO ($J$=3-2), CS ($J$=7-6), and SO ($J_N$=7$_8$-6$_7$) lines with Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE). The ASTE C$^{18}$O data are combined with our previous SMA C$^{18}$O data, which show a $r \sim$300-AU scale Keplerian disk

Mark Zhandry

The Quantum Oracle Classification (QOC) problem is to classify a function, given only quantum black box access, into one of several classes without necessarily determining the entire function. Generally, QOC captures a very wide range of problems in quantum query complexity. However, relatively little is known about many of these problems. In this work, we a

B. K. Sahoo

We find very good agreement between our theoretically evaluated lifetimes of the $5d \ ^2D_{3/2}$ and $5d \ ^2D_{5/2}$ states of Cs with the experimental values reported in [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 57}, 4204 (1998)], which were earlier evinced to be disagreeing with an earlier rigorous theoretical study [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 69}, 040501(R) (2004)] and with another pr

Daniel Cabra, Gustavo S. Lozano, Fidel A. Schaposnik

The magnetic order of the triangular lattice with antiferromagnetic interactions is described by an SO(3) field and allows for the presence of Z2 magnetic vortices as defects. In this work we show how these Z2 vortices can be fitted into a local SU(2) gauge theory. We propose simple Ansatzes for vortex configurations and calculate their energies using well-

Pierre Martinetti

Noncommutative geometry, in its many incarnations, appears at the crossroad of various researches in theoretical and mathematical physics: from models of quantum space-time (with or without breaking of Lorentz symmetry) to loop gravity and string theory, from early considerations on UV-divergencies in quantum field theory to recent models of gauge theories o

Paola Marigo, Emanuele Ripamonti, Ambra Nanni, Alessandro Bressan

We investigate the formation of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in the inner circumstellar envelopes of thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) stars. A dynamic model for periodically shocked atmospheres, which includes an extended chemo-kinetic network, is for the first time coupled to detailed evolutionary tracks for the TP-AGB phase computed with the CO

Jeremy Wolcott

The electron-neutrino charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) cross section on nuclei is an important input parameter to appearance-type neutrino oscillation experiments. Current experiments typically work from the muon neutrino cross section and apply corrections from theoretical arguments to obtain a prediction for the electron neutrino cross section, but to d

J. R. Villanueva, Marco Olivares

Properties of the motion of electrically charged particles in the background of the Gibbons-Maeda-Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger (GMGHS) black hole is presented in this paper. Radial and angular motion are studied analytically for different values of the fundamental parameter. Therefore, gravitational Rutherford scattering and Keplerian orbits are analysed in

Tian Zhang, Yan Cheng, Xiang-Rong Chen, Ling-Cang Cai

By the generalized gradient approximation in framewok of density functional theory, we investigate a 2D topological insulator of new silicon allotrope (call dumbbell silicene synthesized recently by Cahangirov et al) through tuning external compression strain, and find a topological quantum phase transition from normal to topological insulator, i.e., the dum

Stella Gastineau, Samuel Tenka

In this paper the invariant subring $R_n$ of an algebraic torus $T=(\mathbb{C}^\times)^r$ acting on the multi-homogenous polynomial ring $$S^{\boxtimes n}=\bigoplus_{d=0}^\infty (S^{(d)})^{\otimes n},$$ where $S^{(d)}$ is the $d$th graded piece of the polynomial ring $S=\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_k]$, is studied from the viewpoint of matrices whose entries sum t

Victor M. Zavala, Kibaek Kim, Mihai Anitescu, John Birge

We argue that deterministic market clearing formulations introduce arbitrary distortions between day-ahead and expected real-time prices that bias economic incentives and block diversification. We extend and analyze the stochastic clearing formulation proposed by Pritchard et al. (2010) in which the social surplus function induces penalties between day-ahead

Andrew Schaug

Borcea-Voisin threefolds provided some of the first examples of mirror pairs in the Hodge-theoretic sense, but their mirror symmetry at the quantum level have not previously been shown. We prove a Givental-style quantum mirror theorem for certain Borcea-Voisin threefolds: by means of certain birational models, we show that their Gromov-Witten J-functions are

Constantin-Nicolae Beli

The Hilbert symbol $(\cdot,\cdot )$ from characteristic $\neq 2$ has two analogues in characteristic $2$, $[\cdot,\cdot )$ and $((\cdot,\cdot ))$. In characteristic $\neq 2$ we have a well known result called the common slot lemma or the chain lemma. It involves the symbol $(\cdot,\cdot )$. This result has three analogues in characteristic $2$. Two of these

Sergii Domanskyi, Katie L. Poetz, Devon A. Shipp, Vladimir Privman

We develop a theoretical model to explain the long induction interval of water intake that precedes the onset of erosion due to degradation caused by hydrolysis in the recently synthesized and studied cross-linked polyanhydrides. Various kinetic mechanisms are incorporated in the model in an attempt to explain the experimental data for the mass loss profile.

Hubert Goenner

A possible influence of Klein&#39;s Erlangen program on physical theories is investigated. While some connections are found, it is concluded that Lie&#39;s theory of transformation groups and Lie algebras have had a much larger impact. In this context, an extension to tangential Lie algebroids is discussed.

Sandeep K. Jain, Gerard T. Barkema, Normand Mousseau, Chang-Ming Fang

We present a new semi-empirical potential for graphene, which includes also an out-of-plane energy term. This novel potential is developed from density functional theory (DFT) calculations for small numbers of atoms, and can be used for configurations with millions of atoms. Our simulations show that buckling caused by typical defects such as the Stone-Wales

Laure Massacrier

We report on the measurement of J/$ψ$ production at very low transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T} < $ 300 MeV/$c$) in Pb--Pb collisions performed with the ALICE detector at the LHC. We find an excess in the yield of J/$ψ$ with respect to expectations from hadronic production. Coherent photo-production of J/$ψ$ is proposed as a plausible origin of this excess. We

Benny Avelin, Kaj Nyström, Tuomo Kuusi

We establish boundary estimates for non-negative solutions to the p-parabolic equation in the degenerate range $p>2$. Our main results include new parabolic intrinsic Harnack chains in cylindrical NTA-domains together with sharp boundary decay estimates. If the underlying domain is $C^{1,1}$-regular, we establish a relatively complete theory of the boundary

M. S. Mehta, Harvinder Kaur, Bharat Kumar, S. K. Patra

We employ Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) model with NL3 parametrization to investigate the ground state properties of superheavy nucleus, Z = 124. The nuclei selected (from among complete isotopic series) for detailed investigation show that the nucleon density at the center is very low and therefore, these nuclei can be treated as semi-bubble nuclei. The con

László Németh

In the hyperbolic plane there are infinite regular lattices. From a fix vertex of a lattice tree graphs can be constructed recursively to the next layers with edges of the lattice. In this article we examine the properties of the growing of trees and the probabilities of length of trees considering the vertices on level i.

Giacomo Fragione, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

High velocity stars are stars moving at velocities so high to require an acceleration mechanism involving binary systems or the presence of a massive central black hole. In the frame of a galaxy hosting a supermassive black hole binary (of total mass $10^8$ M$_\odot$), we investigated a mechanism for the production of high velocity stars due to the close int

Jinpeng Xiao, Jin An

We study the magnetic structures and their connections with topological superconductivity due to proximity effect for coupled magnetic atomic chains deposited on a superconductor. Several magnetic phases are self-consistently determined, including both the coplanar and non-coplanar ones. For a $N$-chain triangular atomic ladder, topologically nontrivial supe