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0704.1501
Adrian Gozar
A. Gozar, G. Logvenov, V. Y. Butko, I. Bozovic
Surface Structure Analysis of Atomically Smooth BaBiO$_3$ Films
5 pages, 4 figures accepted for publication in Physical Review B
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.201402
null
cond-mat.other
null
Using low energy Time-of-Flight Scattering and Recoil Spectroscopy (TOF-SARS) and Mass Spectroscopy of Recoiled Ions (MSRI) we analyze the surface structure of an atomically smooth BaBiO$_3$ film grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We demonstrate high sensitivity of the TOF-SARS and MSRI spectra to slight changes in the orientation of the ion scattering plane with respect to the crystallographic axes. The observed angle dependence allows us to clearly identify the termination layer as BiO$_2$. Our data also indicate that angle-resolved MSRI data can be used for high resolution studies of surface structure of complex oxide thin films.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:37:12 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gozar", "A.", "" ], [ "Logvenov", "G.", "" ], [ "Butko", "V. Y.", "" ], [ "Bozovic", "I.", "" ] ]
0704.1502
Markus Sch\"oller
S. Hubrig, P. North, M. Schoeller
Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Stars Across the Upper Main Sequence: II. Observed distribution of the magnetic field geometry
16 pages, 22 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in AN
null
10.1002/asna.200710773
null
astro-ph
null
We re-discuss the evolutionary state of upper main sequence magnetic stars using a sample of Ap and Bp stars with accurate Hipparcos parallaxes and definitely determined longitudinal magnetic fields. We confirm our previous results obtained from the study of Ap and Bp stars with accurate measurements of the mean magnetic field modulus and mean quadratic magnetic fields that magnetic stars of mass M < 3 M_sun are concentrated towards the centre of the main-sequence band. In contrast, stars with masses M > 3 M_sun seem to be concentrated closer to the ZAMS. The study of a few known members of nearby open clusters with accurate Hipparcos parallaxes confirms these conclusions. Stronger magnetic fields tend to be found in hotter, younger and more massive stars, as well as in stars with shorter rotation periods. No evidence is found for any loss of angular momentum during the main-sequence life. The magnetic flux remains constant over the stellar life time on the main sequence. An excess of stars with large obliquities beta is detected in both higher and lower mass stars. The obliquity angle distribution as inferred from the distribution of r-values appears random at the time magnetic stars become observable on the H-R diagram. After quite a short time spent on the main sequence, the obliquity angle beta tends to reach values close to either 90 deg or 0 deg for M < 3 M_sun. The evolution of the obliquity angle beta seems to be somewhat different for low and high mass stars. While we find a strong hint for an increase of beta with the elapsed time on the main sequence for stars with M > 3 M_sun, no similar trend is found for stars with M < 3 M_sun. However, the predominance of high values of beta at advanced ages in these stars is notable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:54:23 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hubrig", "S.", "" ], [ "North", "P.", "" ], [ "Schoeller", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.1503
Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison
A Diagrammatic Category for the Representation Theory of U_q(sl_n)
91 pages, UC Berkeley Ph.D. thesis
null
null
null
math.QA math.RT
null
This thesis provides a partial answer to a question posed by Greg Kuperberg in q-alg/9712003 and again by Justin Roberts as problem 12.18 in "Problems on invariants of knots and 3-manifolds", math.GT/0406190, essentially: "Can one describe the category of representations of the quantum group U_q(sl_n) (thought of as a spherical category) via generators and relations?" For each n \geq 0, I define a certain tensor category of trivalent graphs, modulo isotopy, and construct a functor from this category onto (a full subcategory of) the category of representations of the quantum group U_q(sl_n). One would like to describe completely the kernel of this functor, by providing generators. The resulting quotient of the diagrammatic category would then be a category equivalent to the representation category of U_q(sl_n). I make significant progress towards this, describing certain generators of the kernel, and some obstructions to further elements. It remains a conjecture that these relations generate the kernel. My results extend those of q-alg/9712003, MR1659228, math.QA/0310143 and math.GT/0506403. The argument is essentially by constructing a diagrammatic version of the forgetful functor coming from the inclusion of U_q(sl_{n-1}) in U_q(sl_n}. We know this functor is faithful, so a diagram is in the kernel for n exactly if its image under the diagrammatic forgetful functor is in the kernel for n-1. This allows us to perform inductive calculations, both establishing families of elements of the kernel, and finding obstructions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:13:21 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Morrison", "Scott", "" ] ]
0704.1504
Victor Tsai
Victor C. Tsai and J. S. Wettlaufer
The Formation of Lake Stars
8 pages; 7 figures
null
null
null
physics.geo-ph physics.flu-dyn
null
Star patterns, reminiscent of a wide range of diffusively controlled growth forms from snowflakes to Saffman-Taylor fingers, are ubiquitous features of ice covered lakes. Despite the commonality and beauty of these ``lake stars'' the underlying physical processes that produce them have not been explained in a coherent theoretical framework. Here we describe a simple mathematical model that captures the principal features of lake-star formation; radial fingers of (relatively warm) water-rich regions grow from a central source and evolve through a competition between thermal and porous media flow effects in a saturated snow layer covering the lake. The number of star arms emerges from a stability analysis of this competition and the qualitative features of this meter-scale natural phenomena are captured in laboratory experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:04:18 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Tsai", "Victor C.", "" ], [ "Wettlaufer", "J. S.", "" ] ]
0704.1505
Michael Trott
Benjamin Grinstein and Michael Trott
A Higgs-Higgs bound state due to New Physics at a TeV
37 pages, 10 figures V3: Journal version, figures added illustrating bound state condition, typos fixed
Phys.Rev.D76:073002,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.073002
null
hep-ph
null
We examine the effects of new physics effecting the Higgs sector of the standard model, focusing on the effects on the Higgs self couplings. We demonstrate that a low mass higgs, m_h < 2 m_t, can have a strong effective self coupling due to the effects of a new interaction at a TeV. We investigate the possibility that the first evidence of such an interaction could be a higgs-higgs bound state. To this end, we construct an effective field theory formalism to examine the physics of such a low mass higgs boson. We explore the possibility of a non relativistic bound state of the higgs field (Higgsium) at LHC and construct a non relativistic effective field theory of the higgs sector that is appropriate for such studies (NRHET).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:23:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:41:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 6 Sep 2007 03:27:12 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Grinstein", "Benjamin", "" ], [ "Trott", "Michael", "" ] ]
0704.1506
Antonio Pic\'on
G. F. Calvo, A. Pic\'on, and A. Bramon
Measuring two-photon orbital angular momentum entanglement
Extended paper of a published version in PRA, with some extra appendices
Phys. Rev. A 75, 012319 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012319
null
quant-ph physics.optics
null
We put forward an approach to estimate the amount of bipartite spatial entanglement of down-converted photon states correlated in orbital angular momentum and the magnitude of the transverse (radial) wave vectors. Both degrees of freedom are properly considered in our framework, which only requires azimuthal local linear optical transformations and mode selection analysis with two fiber detectors. The coincidence distributions predicted by our approach give an excellent fit to the distributions measured in a recent experiment aimed to show the very high-dimensional transverse entanglement of twin photons from a down-conversion source. Our estimate for the Schmidt number is substantially lower but still confirms the presence of high-dimensional entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:49:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:11:29 GMT" } ]
2011-02-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Calvo", "G. F.", "" ], [ "Picón", "A.", "" ], [ "Bramon", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1507
David Ardila
D.R. Ardila, D.A. Golimowski, J.E. Krist, M. Clampin, H.C. Ford, and G.D. Illingworth
HST/ACS Coronagraphic Observations of the Dust Surrounding HD 100546
Accepted to ApJ
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We present ACS/HST coronagraphic observations of HD 100546, a B9.5 star, 103 pc away from the sun, taken in the F435W, F606W, and F814W bands. Scattered light is detected up to 14'' from the star. The observations are consistent with the presence of an extended flattened nebula with the same inclination as the inner disk. The well-known ``spiral arms'' are clearly observed and they trail the rotating disk material. Weaker arms never before reported are also seen. The inter-arm space becomes brighter, but the structures become more neutral in color at longer wavelengths, which is not consistent with models that assume that they are due to the effects of a warped disk. Along the major disk axis, the colors of the scattered-light relative to the star are \Delta (F435W-F606W) ~ 0.0--0.2 mags and \Delta (F435W-F814W)~0.5--1 mags. To explain these colors, we explore the role of asymmetric scattering, reddening, and large minimum sizes on ISM-like grains. We conclude each of these hypotheses by itself cannot explain the colors. The disk colors are similar to those derived for Kuiper Belt objects, suggesting that the same processes responsible for their colors may be at work here. We argue that we are observing only the geometrically thick, optically thin envelope of the disk, while the optically thick disk responsible for the far-IR emission is undetected. The observed spiral arms are then structures on this envelope. The colors indicate that the extended nebulosity is not a remnant of the infalling envelope but reprocessed disk material.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:26:11 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Ardila", "D. R.", "" ], [ "Golimowski", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Krist", "J. E.", "" ], [ "Clampin", "M.", "" ], [ "Ford", "H. C.", "" ], [ "Illingworth", "G. D.", "" ] ]
0704.1508
J. S. Langer
J. S. Langer and S. Mukhopadhyay
Anomalous diffusion and stretched exponentials in heterogeneous glass-forming liquids: Low-temperature behavior
9 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.77.061505
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We propose a model of a heterogeneous glass forming liquid and compute the low-temperature behavior of a tagged molecule moving within it. This model exhibits stretched-exponential decay of the wavenumber-dependent, self intermediate scattering function in the limit of long times. At temperatures close to the glass transition, where the heterogeneities are much larger in extent than the molecular spacing, the time dependence of the scattering function crosses over from stretched-exponential decay with an index $b=1/2$ at large wave numbers to normal, diffusive behavior with $b = 1$ at small wavenumbers. There is a clear separation between early-stage, cage-breaking $\beta$ relaxation and late-stage $\alpha$ relaxation. The spatial representation of the scattering function exhibits an anomalously broad exponential (non-Gaussian) tail for sufficiently large values of the molecular displacement at all finite times.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:31:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:09:59 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Langer", "J. S.", "" ], [ "Mukhopadhyay", "S.", "" ] ]
0704.1509
Mats Carlsson
M. Carlsson
Modeling the Solar Chromosphere
15 pages, In press,"Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas" (Coimbra), ASP 368, 49 (2007)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Spectral diagnostic features formed in the solar chromosphere are few and difficult to interpret -- they are neither formed in the optically thin regime nor in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). To probe the state of the chromosphere, both from observations and theory, it is therefore necessary with modeling. I discuss both traditional semi-empirical modeling, numerical experiments illustrating important ingredients necessary for a self-consistent theoretical modeling of the solar chromosphere and the first results of such models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:45:30 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Carlsson", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.1510
Drago Alessandro
Alessandro Drago (Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy) Giuseppe Pagliara (Inst. Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and INFN Italy) and Irene Parenti (Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy)
A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability
13 pages, 4 figures, I table. Revised version contains a much more extended discussion of the astrophysical scenario
Astrophys.J.678:L117-L120,2008
10.1086/588635
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph nucl-th
null
We show that r-mode instabilities severely constraint the composition of a compact star rotating at a submillisecond period. In particular, the only viable astrophysical scenario for such an object, present inside the Low Mass X-ray Binary associated with the x-ray transient XTE J1739-285, is that it has a strangeness content. Since previous analysis indicate that hyperonic stars or stars containing a kaon condensate are not good candidates, the only remaining possibility is that such an object is either a strange quark star or a hybrid quark-hadron star. We also discuss under which conditions sub-millisecond pulsars are rare.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:08:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:27:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:50:38 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Drago", "Alessandro", "", "Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy" ], [ "Pagliara", "Giuseppe", "", "Inst. Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main,\n Germany and INFN Italy" ], [ "Parenti", "Irene", "", "Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez.\n Ferrara, Italy" ] ]
0704.1511
Viggo Hansteen
Viggo H. Hansteen, Mats Carlsson, Boris Gudiksen
3d Numerical Models of the Chromosphere, Transition Region, and Corona
8 pages, 6 figures, Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting 2007 conference proceedings
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
A major goal in solar physics has during the last five decades been to find how energy flux generated in the solar convection zone is transported and dissipated in the outer solar layers. Progress in this field has been slow and painstaking. However, advances in computer hardware and numerical methods, vastly increased observational capabilities and growing physical insight seem finally to be leading towards understanding. Here we present exploratory numerical MHD models that span the entire solar atmosphere from the upper convection zone to the lower corona. These models include non-grey, non-LTE radiative transport in the photosphere and chromosphere, optically thin radiative losses as well as magnetic field-aligned heat conduction in the transition region and corona.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:08:41 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Hansteen", "Viggo H.", "" ], [ "Carlsson", "Mats", "" ], [ "Gudiksen", "Boris", "" ] ]
0704.1512
Bruno Bertrand
Bruno Bertrand (1) and Jan Govaerts (2,3) ((1) CP3, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (2) Department of Physics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Rep. South Africa, (3) International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA-UNESCO), Cotonou, Rep. Benin)
Gauge Invariant Factorisation and Canonical Quantisation of Topologically Massive Gauge Theories in Any Dimension
1+25 pages, no figures
J.Phys.A40:9609-9634,2007
10.1088/1751-8113/40/31/030
CP3-06-05, ICMPA-MPA/2006/35
hep-th
null
Abelian topologically massive gauge theories (TMGT) provide a topological mechanism to generate mass for a bosonic p-tensor field in any spacetime dimension. These theories include the 2+1 dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons and 3+1 dimensional Cremmer-Scherk actions as particular cases. Within the Hamiltonian formulation, the embedded topological field theory (TFT) sector related to the topological mass term is not manifest in the original phase space. However through an appropriate canonical transformation, a gauge invariant factorisation of phase space into two orthogonal sectors is feasible. The first of these sectors includes canonically conjugate gauge invariant variables with free massive excitations. The second sector, which decouples from the total Hamiltonian, is equivalent to the phase space description of the associated non dynamical pure TFT. Within canonical quantisation, a likewise factorisation of quantum states thus arises for the full spectrum of TMGT in any dimension. This new factorisation scheme also enables a definition of the usual projection from TMGT onto topological quantum field theories in a most natural and transparent way. None of these results rely on any gauge fixing procedure whatsoever.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:56:18 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bertrand", "Bruno", "" ], [ "Govaerts", "Jan", "" ] ]
0704.1513
Guohua Zhu
M. A. Noginov, V. A. Podolskiy, G. Zhu, M. Mayy, M. Bahoura, J. A.Adegoke, B. A.Ritzo, K. Reynolds
Compensation of loss in propagating surface plasmon polariton by gain in adjacent dielectric medium
17 pages, 4 figures
M. A. Noginov, V. A. Podolskiy, G. Zhu, M. Mayy, M. Bahoura, J. A. Adegoke, B. A. Ritzo, and K. Reynolds, Opt. Express 16, 1385-1392 (2008)
10.1364/OE.16.001385
null
physics.optics
null
We report the suppression of loss of surface plasmon polariton propagating at the interface between silver film and optically pumped polymer with dye. Large magnitude of the effect enables a variety of applications of "active" nanoplasmonics. The experimental study is accompanied by the development of the analytical description of the phenomenon and the solution of the controversy regarding the direction of the wavevector of a wave with a strong evanescent component in an active medium.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:57:13 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Noginov", "M. A.", "" ], [ "Podolskiy", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Zhu", "G.", "" ], [ "Mayy", "M.", "" ], [ "Bahoura", "M.", "" ], [ "Adegoke", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Ritzo", "B. A.", "" ], [ "Reynolds", "K.", "" ] ]
0704.1514
Daniel Litim
Daniel F. Litim
Towards Functional Flows for Hierarchical Models
17 pages, 4 figures; wording sharpened, typos removed, reference added; to appear with PRD
Phys.Rev.D76:105001,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.105001
CERN-TH/2007-037
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech hep-ph
null
The recursion relations of hierarchical models are studied and contrasted with functional renormalisation group equations in corresponding approximations. The formalisms are compared quantitatively for the Ising universality class, where the spectrum of universal eigenvalues at criticality is studied. A significant correlation amongst scaling exponents is pointed out and analysed in view of an underlying optimisation. Functional flows are provided which match with high accuracy all known scaling exponents from Dyson's hierarchical model for discrete block-spin transformations. Implications of the results are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:34:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:39:00 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Litim", "Daniel F.", "" ] ]
0704.1515
Keigo Enya
K. Enya, N. Yamada, T. Onaka, T. Nakagawa, H. Kaneda, M. Hirabayashi, Y. Toulemont, D. Castel, Y. Kanai, and N. Fujishiro
High Precision CTE-Measurement of SiC-100 for Cryogenic Space-Telescopes
in press, PASP. 21 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1086/518870
null
astro-ph
null
We present the results of high precision measurements of the thermal expansion of the sintered SiC, SiC-100, intended for use in cryogenic space-telescopes, in which minimization of thermal deformation of the mirror is critical and precise information of the thermal expansion is needed for the telescope design. The temperature range of the measurements extends from room temperature down to $\sim$ 10 K. Three samples, #1, #2, and #3 were manufactured from blocks of SiC produced in different lots. The thermal expansion of the samples was measured with a cryogenic dilatometer, consisting of a laser interferometer, a cryostat, and a mechanical cooler. The typical thermal expansion curve is presented using the 8th order polynomial of the temperature. For the three samples, the coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE), $\bar{\alpha}_{#1}$, $\bar{\alpha}_{#2}$, and $\bar{\alpha}_{#3}$ were derived for temperatures between 293 K and 10 K. The average and the dispersion (1 $\sigma$ rms) of these three CTEs are 0.816 and 0.002 ($\times 10^{-6}$/K), respectively. No significant difference was detected in the CTE of the three samples from the different lots. Neither inhomogeneity nor anisotropy of the CTE was observed. Based on the obtained CTE dispersion, we performed an finite-element-method (FEM) analysis of the thermal deformation of a 3.5 m diameter cryogenic mirror made of six SiC-100 segments. It was shown that the present CTE measurement has a sufficient accuracy well enough for the design of the 3.5 m cryogenic infrared telescope mission, the Space Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:51:14 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Enya", "K.", "" ], [ "Yamada", "N.", "" ], [ "Onaka", "T.", "" ], [ "Nakagawa", "T.", "" ], [ "Kaneda", "H.", "" ], [ "Hirabayashi", "M.", "" ], [ "Toulemont", "Y.", "" ], [ "Castel", "D.", "" ], [ "Kanai", "Y.", "" ], [ "Fujishiro", "N.", "" ] ]
0704.1516
Aimee McNamara
A.L. McNamara, Z. Kuncic, K. Wu, D.K. Galloway and J.G. Cullen
Compton Scattering of Fe K alpha Lines in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 10 pages with 8 figures
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11838.x
null
astro-ph
null
Compton scattering of X-rays in the bulk flow of the accretion column in magnetic cataclysmic variables (mCVs) can significantly shift photon energies. We present Monte Carlo simulations based on a nonlinear algorithm demonstrating the effects of Compton scattering on the H-like, He-like and neutral Fe K alpha lines produced in the post-shock region of the accretion column. The peak line emissivities of the photons in the post-shock flow are taken into consideration and frequency shifts due to Doppler effects are also included. We find that line profiles are most distorted by Compton scattering effects in strongly magnetized mCVs with a low white dwarf mass and high mass accretion rate and which are viewed at an oblique angle with respect to the accretion column. The resulting line profiles are most sensitive to the inclination angle. We have also explored the effects of modifying the accretion column width and using a realistic emissivity profile. We find that these do not have a significant overall effect on the resulting line profiles. A comparison of our simulated line spectra with high resolution Chandra/HETGS observations of the mCV GK Per indicates that a wing feature redward of the 6.4 keV line may result from Compton recoil near the base of the accretion column.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:04:52 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "McNamara", "A. L.", "" ], [ "Kuncic", "Z.", "" ], [ "Wu", "K.", "" ], [ "Galloway", "D. K.", "" ], [ "Cullen", "J. G.", "" ] ]
0704.1517
Burra Sidharth Gautam
B.G. Sidharth
The Limits of Special Relativity
13 pages,TeX
null
10.1007/s10701-008-9229-x
IIAMIS 040701
physics.gen-ph
null
The Special Theory of Relativity and the Theory of the Electron have had an interesting history together. Originally the electron was studied in a non relativistic context and this opened up the interesting possibility that lead to the conclusion that the mass of the electron could be thought of entirely in electromagnetic terms without introducing inertial considerations. However the application of Special Relativity lead to several problems, both for an extended electron and the point electron. These inconsistencies have, contrary to popular belief not been resolved satisfactorily today, even within the context of Quantum Theory. Nevertheless these and subsequent studies bring out the interesting result that Special Relativity breaks down within the Compton scale or when the Compton scale is not neglected. This again runs contrary to an uncritical notion that Special Relativity is valid for point particles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:31:03 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sidharth", "B. G.", "" ] ]
0704.1518
Dan Watson
Dan M. Watson, Jarron M. Leisenring, Elise Furlan, C.J. Bohac, B. Sargent, W.J. Forrest, Nuria Calvet, Lee Hartmann, Jason T. Nordhaus, Joel D. Green, K.H. Kim, G.C. Sloan, C.H. Chen, L.D. Keller, Paola dAlessio, J. Najita, Keven I. Uchida, and J.R. Houck
Crystalline silicates and dust processing in the protoplanetary disks of the Taurus young cluster
116 pages, including 11 figures and 4 tables
Astrophys.J.Suppl.180:84-101,2009
10.1088/0067-0049/180/1/84
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We characterize the crystalline silicate content and spatial distribution of small dust grains in a large sample of protoplanetary disks in the Taurus-Auriga young cluster, using Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared spectra. In turn we use the results to analyze the evolution of structure and composition of these 1-2 Myr-old disks around Solar- and later-type young stars, and test the standard models of dust processing which result in the conversion of originally amorphous dust into minerals. We find strong evidence of evolution of the dust crystalline mass fraction in parallel with that of the structure of the disks, in the sense that increasing crystalline mass fraction is strongly linked to dust settling to the disk midplane. We also confirm that the crystalline silicates are confined to small radii, r < 10 AU. However, we see no significant correlation of crystalline mass fraction with stellar mass or luminosity, stellar accretion rate, disk mass, or disk/star mass ratio, as would be expected in the standard models of dust processing based upon photo-evaporation and condensation close to the central star, accretion-heating-driven annealing at r < 1 AU, or spiral-shock heating at r < 10 AU, with or without effective radial mixing mechanisms. Either another grain-crystallizing mechanism dominates over these, or another process must be at work within the disks to erase the correlations they produce. We propose one of each sort that seem to be worth further investigation, namely X-ray heating and annealing of dust grains, and modulation of disk structure by giant-planetary formation and migration.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:52:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:10:09 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Watson", "Dan M.", "" ], [ "Leisenring", "Jarron M.", "" ], [ "Furlan", "Elise", "" ], [ "Bohac", "C. J.", "" ], [ "Sargent", "B.", "" ], [ "Forrest", "W. J.", "" ], [ "Calvet", "Nuria", "" ], [ "Hartmann", "Lee", "" ], [ "Nordhaus", "Jason T.", "" ], [ "Green", "Joel D.", "" ], [ "Kim", "K. H.", "" ], [ "Sloan", "G. C.", "" ], [ "Chen", "C. H.", "" ], [ "Keller", "L. D.", "" ], [ "dAlessio", "Paola", "" ], [ "Najita", "J.", "" ], [ "Uchida", "Keven I.", "" ], [ "Houck", "J. R.", "" ] ]
0704.1519
Amanda Smith
Amanda J. Smith (1), Carole A. Haswell (1), James R. Murray (2), Michael R. Truss (3), Stephen B. Foulkes (1) ((1) The Open University, (2) Swinburne University of Technology, (3) Durham University)
Comprehensive simulations of superhumps
18 pages (mn2e LaTeX), 14 figures, 5 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:785-800,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11840.x
null
astro-ph
null
(Abridged) We use 3D SPH calculations with higher resolution, as well as with more realistic viscosity and sound-speed prescriptions than previous work to examine the eccentric instability which underlies the superhump phenomenon in semi-detached binaries. We illustrate the importance of the two-armed spiral mode in the generation of superhumps. Differential motions in the fluid disc cause converging flows which lead to strong spiral shocks once each superhump cycle. The dissipation associated with these shocks powers the superhump. We compare 2D and 3D results, and conclude that 3D simulations are necessary to faithfully simulate the disc dynamics. We ran our simulations for unprecedented durations, so that an eccentric equilibrium is established except at high mass ratios where the growth rate of the instability is very low. Our improved simulations give a closer match to the observed relationship between superhump period excess and binary mass ratio than previous numerical work. The observed black hole X-ray transient superhumpers appear to have systematically lower disc precession rates than the cataclysmic variables. This could be due to higher disc temperatures and thicknesses. The modulation in total viscous dissipation on the superhump period is overwhelmingly from the region of the disc within the 3:1 resonance radius. As the eccentric instability develops, the viscous torques are enhanced, and the disc consequently adjusts to a new equilibrium state, as suggested in the thermal-tidal instability model. We quantify this enhancement in the viscosity, which is ~10 per cent for q=0.08. We characterise the eccentricity distributions in our accretion discs, and show that the entire body of the disc partakes in the eccentricity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:57:28 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Smith", "Amanda J.", "" ], [ "Haswell", "Carole A.", "" ], [ "Murray", "James R.", "" ], [ "Truss", "Michael R.", "" ], [ "Foulkes", "Stephen B.", "" ] ]
0704.1520
Eli Ben-Naim
E. Ben-Naim and A. Zippelius
Singular Energy Distributions in Granular Media
15 pages, 11 figures
J. Stat. Phys. 129, 677 (2007)
10.1007/s10955-007-9411-0
null
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We study the kinetic theory of driven granular gases, taking into account both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. We obtain the high-energy tail of the stationary bivariate energy distribution, depending on the total energy E and the ratio x=sqrt{E_w/E} of rotational energy E_w to total energy. Extremely energetic particles have a unique and well-defined distribution f(x) which has several remarkable features: x is not uniformly distributed as in molecular gases; f(x) is not smooth but has multiple singularities. The latter behavior is sensitive to material properties such as the collision parameters, the moment of inertia and the collision rate. Interestingly, there are preferred ratios of rotational-to-total energy. In general, f(x) is strongly correlated with energy and the deviations from a uniform distribution grow with energy. We also solve for the energy distribution of freely cooling Maxwell Molecules and find qualitatively similar behavior.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:40:45 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Ben-Naim", "E.", "" ], [ "Zippelius", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1521
Dongsu Ryu
Hyesung Kang (Pusan National University, Korea), Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea), Renyue Cen (Princeton University, USA), and J. P. Ostriker (Princeton University, USA)
Cosmological Shock Waves in the Large Scale Structure of the Universe: Non-gravitational Effects
Submitted to ApJ. Pdf with full resolution figures can be downloaded from http://canopus.cnu.ac.kr/ryu/krco.pdf
null
10.1086/521717
null
astro-ph
null
Cosmological shock waves result from supersonic flow motions induced by hierarchical clustering of nonlinear structures in the universe. These shocks govern the nature of cosmic plasma through thermalization of gas and acceleration of nonthermal, cosmic-ray (CR) particles. We study the statistics and energetics of shocks formed in cosmological simulations of a concordance $\Lambda$CDM universe, with a special emphasis on the effects of non-gravitational processes such as radiative cooling, photoionization/heating, and galactic superwind feedbacks. Adopting an improved model for gas thermalization and CR acceleration efficiencies based on nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration calculations, we then estimate the gas thermal energy and the CR energy dissipated at shocks through the history of the universe. Since shocks can serve as sites for generation of vorticity, we also examine the vorticity that should have been generated mostly at curved shocks in cosmological simulations. We find that the dynamics and energetics of shocks are governed primarily by the gravity of matter, so other non-gravitational processes do not affect significantly the global energy dissipation and vorticity generation at cosmological shocks. Our results reinforce scenarios in which the intracluster medium and warm-hot intergalactic medium contain energetically significant populations of nonthermal particles and turbulent flow motions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:24 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kang", "Hyesung", "", "Pusan National University, Korea" ], [ "Ryu", "Dongsu", "", "Chungnam\n National University, Korea" ], [ "Cen", "Renyue", "", "Princeton University, USA" ], [ "Ostriker", "J. P.", "", "Princeton University, USA" ] ]
0704.1522
J. Davy Kirkpatrick
J. Davy Kirkpatrick
Outstanding Issues in Our Understanding of L, T, and Y Dwarfs
11 pages including 5 figures. To appear in the conference proceedings for Cool Stars 14
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Since the discovery of the first L dwarf 19 years ago and the discovery of the first T dwarf 7 years after that, we have amassed a large list of these objects, now numbering almost six hundred. Despite making headway in understanding the physical chemistry of their atmospheres, some important issues remain unexplained. Three of these are the subject of this paper: (1) What is the role of "second parameters" such as gravity and metallicity in shaping the emergent spectra of L and T dwarfs? Can we establish a robust classification scheme so that objects with unusual values of log(g) or [M/H], unusual dust content, or unresolved binarity are easily recognized? (2) Which physical processes drive the unusual behavior at the L/T transition? Which observations can be obtained to better confine the problem? (3) What will objects cooler than T8 look like? How will we know a Y dwarf when we first observe one?
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:32:59 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kirkpatrick", "J. Davy", "" ] ]
0704.1523
Will Grundy
W.M. Grundy, J.A. Stansberry, K.S. Noll, D.C. Stephens, D.E. Trilling, S.D. Kern, J.R. Spencer, D.P. Cruikshank, and H.F. Levison
The orbit, mass, size, albedo, and density of (65489) Ceto/Phorcys: A tidally-evolved binary Centaur
null
null
10.1016/j.icarus.2007.04.004
null
astro-ph
null
Hubble Space Telescope observations of Uranus- and Neptune-crossing object (65489) Ceto/Phorcys (provisionally designated 2003 FX128) reveal it to be a close binary system. The mutual orbit has a period of 9.554 +/- 0.011 days and a semimajor axis of 1840 +/- 48 km. These values enable computation of a system mass of (5.41 +/- 0.42) 10^18 kg. Spitzer Space Telescope observations of thermal emission at 24 and 70 microns are combined with visible photometry to constrain the system's effective radius (109 +10/-11 km) and geometric albedo (0.084 +0.021/-0.014). We estimate the average bulk density to be 1.37 +0.66/-0.32 g cm^-3, consistent with ice plus rocky and/or carbonaceous materials. This density contrasts with lower densities recently measured with the same technique for three other comparably-sized outer Solar System binaries (617) Patroclus, (26308) 1998 SM165, and (47171) 1999 TC36, and is closer to the density of the saturnian irregular satellite Phoebe. The mutual orbit of Ceto and Phorcys is nearly circular, with an eccentricity <= 0.015. This observation is consistent with calculations suggesting that the system should tidally evolve on a timescale shorter than the age of the solar system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:34:53 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Grundy", "W. M.", "" ], [ "Stansberry", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Noll", "K. S.", "" ], [ "Stephens", "D. C.", "" ], [ "Trilling", "D. E.", "" ], [ "Kern", "S. D.", "" ], [ "Spencer", "J. R.", "" ], [ "Cruikshank", "D. P.", "" ], [ "Levison", "H. F.", "" ] ]
0704.1524
Daniel Ryan
Daniel J. Ryan, Iain B. Collings and I. Vaughan L. Clarkson
GLRT-Optimal Noncoherent Lattice Decoding
30 pages, 6 figures Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
null
10.1109/TSP.2007.894237
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
This paper presents new low-complexity lattice-decoding algorithms for noncoherent block detection of QAM and PAM signals over complex-valued fading channels. The algorithms are optimal in terms of the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). The computational complexity is polynomial in the block length; making GLRT-optimal noncoherent detection feasible for implementation. We also provide even lower complexity suboptimal algorithms. Simulations show that the suboptimal algorithms have performance indistinguishable from the optimal algorithms. Finally, we consider block based transmission, and propose to use noncoherent detection as an alternative to pilot assisted transmission (PAT). The new technique is shown to outperform PAT.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:30:35 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ryan", "Daniel J.", "" ], [ "Collings", "Iain B.", "" ], [ "Clarkson", "I. Vaughan L.", "" ] ]
0704.1525
Will Grundy
W.M. Grundy, L.A. Young, J.R. Spencer, R.E. Johnson, E.F. Young, and M.W. Buie
Distributions of H2O and CO2 ices on Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon from IRTF/SpeX observations
null
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We present 0.8 to 2.4 micron spectral observations of uranian satellites, obtained at IRTF/SpeX on 17 nights during 2001-2005. The spectra reveal for the first time the presence of CO2 ice on the surfaces of Umbriel and Titania, by means of 3 narrow absorption bands near 2 microns. Several additional, weaker CO2 ice absorptions have also been detected. No CO2 absorption is seen in Oberon spectra, and the strengths of the CO2 ice bands decline with planetocentric distance from Ariel through Titania. We use the CO2 absorptions to map the longitudinal distribution of CO2 ice on Ariel, Umbriel, and Titania, showing that it is most abundant on their trailing hemispheres. We also examine H2O ice absorptions in the spectra, finding deeper H2O bands on the leading hemispheres of Ariel, Umbriel, and Titania, but the opposite pattern on Oberon. Potential mechanisms to produce the observed longitudinal and planetocentric distributions of the two ices are considered.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:41:31 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Grundy", "W. M.", "" ], [ "Young", "L. A.", "" ], [ "Spencer", "J. R.", "" ], [ "Johnson", "R. E.", "" ], [ "Young", "E. F.", "" ], [ "Buie", "M. W.", "" ] ]
0704.1526
Pan Peng
Kefeng Liu, Pan Peng
Proof of the Labastida-Marino-Ooguri-Vafa Conjecture
57pages, typos corrected, add some details
null
null
null
math.QA hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Based on large N Chern-Simons/topological string duality, in a series of papers, J.M.F. Labastida, M. Marino, H. Ooguri and C. Vafa conjectured certain remarkable new algebraic structure of link invariants and the existence of infinite series of new integer invariants. In this paper, we provide a proof of this conjecture. Moreover, we also show these new integer invariants vanish at large genera.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:59:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:33:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:52:20 GMT" } ]
2009-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Liu", "Kefeng", "" ], [ "Peng", "Pan", "" ] ]
0704.1527
Tetsuo Hyodo
Tetsuo Hyodo (1), Daisuke Jido (1), Atsushi Hosaka (2) ((1) YITP, Kyoto Univ., (2) RCNP, Osaka Univ.)
Study of exotic hadrons in s-wave chiral dynamics
4 pages, Talk given at the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2006, "New frontiers in QCD", Kyoto, Japan, 20 Nov. - 8 Dec. 2006
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.168:32-35,2007
10.1143/PTPS.168.32
YITP-07-25
hep-ph nucl-th
null
We study the exotic hadrons in s-wave scattering of the Nambu-Goldstone boson with a target hadron based on chiral dynamics. Utilizing the low energy theorem of chiral symmetry, we show that the s-wave interaction is not strong enough to generate bound states in exotic channels in flavor SU(3) symmetric limit, although the interaction is responsible for generating some nonexotic hadron resonances dynamically. We discuss the renormalization condition adopted in this analysis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:03:57 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Hyodo", "Tetsuo", "" ], [ "Jido", "Daisuke", "" ], [ "Hosaka", "Atsushi", "" ] ]
0704.1528
Zenji Hiroi
Z. Hiroi, S. Yonezawa, Y. Nagao and J. Yamaura
Extremely strong-coupling superconductivity and anomalous lattice properties in the beta-pyrochlore oxide KOs2O6
17 pages (only 4 pages included here. go to http://hiroi.issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Published%20papers/K-SC6.pdf for full pages), to be published in PRB
Phys. Rev. B 76, 014523 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.014523
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
Superconducting and normal-state properties of the beta-pyrochlore oxide KOs2O6 are studied by means of thermodynamic and transport measurements. It is shown that the superconductivity is of conventional s-wave type and lies in the extremely strong-coupling regime. Specific heat and resistivity measurements reveal that there are characteristic low-energy phonons that give rise to unusual scattering of carriers due to strong electron-phonon interactions. The entity of the low-energy phonons is ascribed to the heavy rattling of the K ion confined in an oversized cage made of OsO6 octahedra. It is suggested that this electron-rattler coupling mediates the Cooper pairing, resulting in the extremely strong-coupling superconductivity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:08:17 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hiroi", "Z.", "" ], [ "Yonezawa", "S.", "" ], [ "Nagao", "Y.", "" ], [ "Yamaura", "J.", "" ] ]
0704.1529
Kang Seog Lee
Suk Choi and Kang Seog Lee
Analysis of low energy pion spectra
3 pages, 2 figures
null
10.3938/jkps.52.39
null
nucl-th
null
The transverse mass spectra and the rapidity distributions of $\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$ in Au-Au collisions at 2, 4, 6, and 8 GeV$\cdot$A by E895 collaboration are fitted using an elliptically expanding fireball model with the contribution from the resonance decays and the final state Coulomb interaction. The ratio of the total number of produced $\pi^-$ and $\pi^+$ is used to fit the data. The resulting freeze-out temperature is rather low($T_f < 60$ MeV) with large transverse flow and thus resonance contribution is very small. The difference in the shape of $m_t$ spectra of the oppositely charged pions are found to be due to the Coulomb interaction of the pions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:11:34 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Choi", "Suk", "" ], [ "Lee", "Kang Seog", "" ] ]
0704.1530
N. J. Upadhyay
N. J. Upadhyay, K. P. Khemchandani, B. K. Jain, N. G. Kelkar
A study of the $p d \to p d \eta$ reaction
22 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Phys.Rev.C75:054002,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.75.054002
null
nucl-th nucl-ex
null
A study of the $p d \to p d \eta$ reaction in the energy range where the recent data from Uppsala are available, is done in the two-step model of $\eta$ production including the final state interaction. The $\eta -d$ final state interaction is incorporated through the solution of the Lippmann Schwinger equation using an elastic scattering matrix element, $T_{\eta d \to \eta d}$, which is required to be half off-shell. It is written in a factorized form, with an off-shell form factor multiplying an on-shell part given by an effective range expansion up to the fourth power in momentum. The parameters of this expansion have been taken from an existing recent relativistic Faddeev equation solution for the $\eta NN$ system corresponding to different $\eta-N$ scattering amplitudes. Calculations have also been done using few body equations within a finite rank approximation (FRA) to generate $T_{\eta d \to \eta d}$. The $p-d$ final state interaction is included in the spirit of the Watson-Migdal prescription by multiplying the matrix element by the inverse of the Jost function. The $\eta-d$ interaction is found to be dominant in the region of small invariant $\eta -d$ mass, $M_{\eta d}$. The $p-d$ interaction enhances the cross section in the whole region of $M_{\eta d}$, but is larger for large $M_{\eta d}$. We find nearly isotropic angular distributions of the proton and the deuteron in the final state. All the above observations are in agreement with data. The production mechanism for the entire range of the existing data on the $p d \to p d \eta$ reaction seems to be dominated by the two-step model of $\eta$ production.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:19:43 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Upadhyay", "N. J.", "" ], [ "Khemchandani", "K. P.", "" ], [ "Jain", "B. K.", "" ], [ "Kelkar", "N. G.", "" ] ]
0704.1531
Osamu Yasuda
Osamu Yasuda
On the exact formula for neutrino oscillation probability by Kimura, Takamura and Yokomakura
17 pages, no figure. uses revtex4; Two references were added and abstract, the structure of the chapters, conclusions, etc. were slightly changed due to addition of these references
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The exact formula for the neutrino oscillation probability in matter with constant density, which was discovered by Kimura, Takamura and Yokomakura, has been applied mostly to the standard case with three flavor neutrino so far. In this paper applications of their formula to more general cases are discussed. It is shown that this formalism can be generalized to various cases where the matter potential have off-diagonal components, and the two non-trivial examples are given: the case with magnetic moments and a magnetic field and the case with non-standard interactions. It is pointed out that their formalism can be applied also to the case in the long baseline limit with matter whose density varies adiabatically as in the case of solar neutrino.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:23:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 12 May 2007 07:49:47 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Yasuda", "Osamu", "" ] ]
0704.1532
Philippe Gorodetzky
G. Lefeuvre (APC), P. Gorodetzky (APC), J. Dolbeau (APC), T. Patzak (APC), P. Salin (APC)
Absolute measurement of the nitrogen fluorescence yield in air between 300 and 430 nm
accepted for publication in NIMA
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A578:78-87,2007
10.1016/j.nima.2007.04.106
APC-07-21
astro-ph
null
The nitrogen fluorescence induced in air is used to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays and to measure their energy. The precise knowledge of the absolute fluorescence yield is the key quantity to improve the accuracy on the cosmic ray energy. The total yield has been measured in dry air using a 90Sr source and a [300-430 nm] filter. The fluorescence yield in air is 4.23 $\pm$ 0.20 photons per meter when normalized to 760 mmHg, 15 degrees C and with an electron energy of 0.85 MeV. This result is consistent with previous experiments made at various energies, but with an accuracy improved by a factor of about 3. For the first time, the absolute continuous spectrum of nitrogen excited by 90Sr electrons has also been measured with a spectrometer. Details of this experiment are given in one of the author's PhD thesis [32].
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:32:39 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Lefeuvre", "G.", "", "APC" ], [ "Gorodetzky", "P.", "", "APC" ], [ "Dolbeau", "J.", "", "APC" ], [ "Patzak", "T.", "", "APC" ], [ "Salin", "P.", "", "APC" ] ]
0704.1533
Hiroki Sako
Hiroki Sako
Concrete Classification and Centralizers of Certain $\mathbb{Z}^2 \rtimes {\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$-actions
24pages, the title was changed, Chap 6 was added
J. Math. Soc. Japan 62 (2010), no. 1, 135-166
10.2969/jmsj/06210135
null
math.OA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce a new class of actions of the group $\G$ on finite von Neumann algebras and call them twisted Bernoulli shift actions. We classify these actions up to conjugacy and give an explicit description of their centralizers. We also distinguish many of those actions on the AFD $\mathrm{II}_1$ factor in view of outer conjugacy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:03:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:15:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:24:58 GMT" } ]
2014-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Sako", "Hiroki", "" ] ]
0704.1534
Anisia Tang Pui Shan
J.J. Jia, Anisia P.S. Tang, J. Takata, H.K. Chang, K.S.Cheng
The Phase-resolved High Energy Spectrum of the Crab Pulsar
15 pages, 4 figures To appear in Advances in Space Science Research
Adv.Space Res.40:1425-1431,2007
10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.076
null
astro-ph
null
We present a modified outer gap model to study the phase-resolved spectra of the Crab pulsar. A theoretical double peak profile of the light curve containing the whole phase is shown to be consistent with the observed light curve of the Crab pulsar by shifting the inner boundary of the outer gap inwardly to $\sim 10$ stellar radii above the neutron star surface. In this model, the radial distances of the photons corresponding to different phases can be determined in the numerical calculation. Also the local electrodynamics, such as the accelerating electric field, the curvature radius of the magnetic field line and the soft photon energy, are sensitive to the radial distances to the neutron star. Using a synchrotron self-Compton mechanism, the phase-resolved spectra with the energy range from 100 eV to 3 GeV of the Crab pulsar can also be explained.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:48:31 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Jia", "J. J.", "" ], [ "Tang", "Anisia P. S.", "" ], [ "Takata", "J.", "" ], [ "Chang", "H. K.", "" ], [ "Cheng", "K. S.", "" ] ]
0704.1535
Yu. M. Zinoviev
Yu. M. Zinoviev
Massive N=1 supermultiplets with arbitrary superspins
LaTeX 2e, 18 pages, no figures
Nucl.Phys.B785:98-114,2007
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.06.008
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we give explicit construction of massive N=1 supermultiplets in flat d=4 Minkowski space-time. We work in a component on-shell formalism based on gauge invariant description of massive integer and half-integer spin particles where massive supermultiplets are constructed out of appropriate set of massless ones.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:09:10 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Zinoviev", "Yu. M.", "" ] ]
0704.1536
Jose P. Rodriguez
J. P. Rodriguez
Critical Current of Type-II Superconductors in a Broken Bose Glass State
10 pages, 2 figures, published version, theory confirmed by YBCO films with tunable nanorod length, see http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0953-2048/20/12/010
Phys. Rev. B 76, 224502 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.224502
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
The tilt modulus of a defective Abrikosov vortex lattice pinned by material line defects is computed using the boson analogy. It tends to infinity at long wavelength, which yields a Bose glass state that is robust to the addition of weak point-pinning centers, and which implies a restoring force per vortex line for rigid translations about mechanical equilibrium that is independent of magnetic field. It also indicates that the Bose glass state breaks into pieces along the direction of the correlated pinning centers if the latter have finite length. The critical current is predicted to crossover from two dimensional to three dimensional behavior as a function of sample thickness along the correlated pinning centers in such case. That crossover notably can occur at a film thickness that is much larger than that expected from point pins of comparable strength. The above is compared to the dependence on thickness shown by the critical current in certain films of high-temperature superconductors currently being developed for wire technology.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:24:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:53:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:21:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:13:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:20:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v6", "created": "Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:38:52 GMT" } ]
2007-12-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Rodriguez", "J. P.", "" ] ]
0704.1537
Shuichi Sato
Shuichi Sato
Estimates for singular integrals and extrapolation
null
null
null
null
math.CA
null
We prove a sharp Lp estimate for a singular Radon transform according to a size condition of its kernel, which is useful for extrapolation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:45:06 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sato", "Shuichi", "" ] ]
0704.1538
Ferenc Igloi
M. Karsai, J-Ch. Angl\`es d'Auriac, F. Igl\'oi
Rounding of first-order phase transitions and optimal cooperation in scale-free networks
8 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. E76, 041107 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041107
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.dis-nn physics.soc-ph
null
We consider the ferromagnetic large-$q$ state Potts model in complex evolving networks, which is equivalent to an optimal cooperation problem, in which the agents try to optimize the total sum of pair cooperation benefits and the supports of independent projects. The agents are found to be typically of two kinds: a fraction of $m$ (being the magnetization of the Potts model) belongs to a large cooperating cluster, whereas the others are isolated one man's projects. It is shown rigorously that the homogeneous model has a strongly first-order phase transition, which turns to second-order for random interactions (benefits), the properties of which are studied numerically on the Barab\'asi-Albert network. The distribution of finite-size transition points is characterized by a shift exponent, $1/\tilde{\nu}'=.26(1)$, and by a different width exponent, $1/\nu'=.18(1)$, whereas the magnetization at the transition point scales with the size of the network, $N$, as: $m\sim N^{-x}$, with $x=.66(1)$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:55:50 GMT" } ]
2010-08-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Karsai", "M.", "" ], [ "d'Auriac", "J-Ch. Anglès", "" ], [ "Iglói", "F.", "" ] ]
0704.1539
Chi H. Mak
C. H. Mak and Arun K. Sharma
A New Monte Carlo Method and Its Implications for Generalized Cluster Algorithms
4 pages, 2 figures. Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press)
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.180602
null
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We describe a novel switching algorithm based on a ``reverse'' Monte Carlo method, in which the potential is stochastically modified before the system configuration is moved. This new algorithm facilitates a generalized formulation of cluster-type Monte Carlo methods, and the generalization makes it possible to derive cluster algorithms for systems with both discrete and continuous degrees of freedom. The roughening transition in the sine-Gordon model has been studied with this method, and high-accuracy simulations for system sizes up to $1024^2$ were carried out to examine the logarithmic divergence of the surface roughness above the transition temperature, revealing clear evidence for universal scaling of the Kosterlitz-Thouless type.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:57:21 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Mak", "C. H.", "" ], [ "Sharma", "Arun K.", "" ] ]
0704.1540
Martin B. Halpern
M.B. Halpern
The Orbifolds of Permutation-Type as Physical String Systems at Multiples of $c=26$ III. The Spectra of $\hat{c}=52$ Strings
23 pages
Nucl.Phys.B786:297-312,2007
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.08.001
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
In the second paper of this series, I obtained the twisted BRST systems and extended physical-state conditions of all twisted open and closed $\hat{c} = 52$ strings. In this paper, I supplement the extended physical-state conditions with the explicit form of the extended (twisted) Virasoro generators of all $\hat{c} = 52$ strings, which allows us to discuss the physical spectra of these systems. Surprisingly, all the $\hat{c}=52$ spectra admit an equivalent description in terms of generically-unconventional Virasoro generators at $c=26$. This description strongly supports our prior conjecture that the $\hat{c}=52$ strings are free of negative-norm states, and moreover shows that the spectra of some of the simpler cases are equivalent to those of ordinary untwisted open and closed $c=26$ strings.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:57:37 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Halpern", "M. B.", "" ] ]
0704.1541
Elisabeth Remm
Elisabeth Remm, Michel Goze
Riemannian and Lorentzian structures on the non symmetric space SO(2m)/Sp(m)
10 pages. In French
null
null
null
math.DG math.RA
null
In this work, we are interested in a non symmetric homogeneous space, namely $SO(2m)/Sp(m)$. We show that this space admits a structure of $Z_2^2$-symmetric space. We describe all the non degenerated metrics and classify the Riemannian and Lorentzian ones.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:05:12 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Remm", "Elisabeth", "" ], [ "Goze", "Michel", "" ] ]
0704.1542
Carlo Barbieri
C. Barbieri (GSI), D. Van Neck (Ghent) and W. H. Dickhoff (St.Louis)
Quasiparticles in Neon using the Faddeev Random Phase Approximation
Revised manuscript. The working equations of the Faddeev-RPA method are included in the Appendix
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052503
null
physics.chem-ph nucl-th
null
The spectral function of the closed-shell Neon atom is computed by expanding the electron self-energy through a set of Faddeev equations. This method describes the coupling of single-particle degrees of freedom with correlated two-electron, two-hole, and electron-hole pairs. The excitation spectra are obtained using the Random Phase Approximation, rather than the Tamm-Dancoff framework employed in the third-order algebraic diagrammatic contruction [ADC(3)] method. The difference between these two approaches is studied, as well as the interplay between ladder and ring diagrams in the self-energy. Satisfactory results are obtained for the ionization energies as well as the energy of the ground state with the Faddeev-RPA scheme that is also appropriate for the high-density electron gas.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:32:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:17:41 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Barbieri", "C.", "", "GSI" ], [ "Van Neck", "D.", "", "Ghent" ], [ "Dickhoff", "W. H.", "", "St.Louis" ] ]
0704.1543
David Iglesias Ponte
D. Iglesias, J.C. Marrero, D. Martin de Diego, E. Martinez
Discrete Nonholonomic Lagrangian Systems on Lie Groupoids
45 pages
null
10.1007/s00332-007-9012-8
null
math.DG
null
This paper studies the construction of geometric integrators for nonholonomic systems. We derive the nonholonomic discrete Euler-Lagrange equations in a setting which permits to deduce geometric integrators for continuous nonholonomic systems (reduced or not). The formalism is given in terms of Lie groupoids, specifying a discrete Lagrangian and a constraint submanifold on it. Additionally, it is necessary to fix a vector subbundle of the Lie algebroid associated to the Lie groupoid. We also discuss the existence of nonholonomic evolution operators in terms of the discrete nonholonomic Legendre transformations and in terms of adequate decompositions of the prolongation of the Lie groupoid. The characterization of the reversibility of the evolution operator and the discrete nonholonomic momentum equation are also considered. Finally, we illustrate with several classical examples the wide range of application of the theory (the discrete nonholonomic constrained particle, the Suslov system, the Chaplygin sleigh, the Veselova system, the rolling ball on a rotating table and the two wheeled planar mobile robot).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:22:53 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Iglesias", "D.", "" ], [ "Marrero", "J. C.", "" ], [ "de Diego", "D. Martin", "" ], [ "Martinez", "E.", "" ] ]
0704.1544
S. V. Borisenko
S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, A. N. Yaresko, V. B. Zabolotnyy, D. S. Inosov, R. Schuster, B. Buechner, R. Weber, R. Follath, L. Patthey, H. Berger
Pseudogap and charge density waves in two dimensions
14 pages including figures and supplementary information
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 196402 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.196402
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
null
An interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations (phonons) results in two fundamental quantum phenomena in solids: in three dimensions it can turn a metal into a superconductor whereas in one dimension it can turn a metal into an insulator. In two dimensions (2D) both superconductivity and charge-density waves (CDW) are believed to be anomalous. In superconducting cuprates, critical transition temperatures are unusually high and the energy gap may stay unclosed even above these temperatures (pseudogap). In CDW-bearing dichalcogenides the resistivity below the transition can decrease with temperature even faster than in the normal phase and a basic prerequisite for the CDW, the favourable nesting conditions (when some sections of the Fermi surface appear shifted by the same vector), seems to be absent. Notwithstanding the existence of alternatives to conventional theories, both phenomena in 2D still remain the most fascinating puzzles in condensed matter physics. Using the latest developments in high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) here we show that the normal-state pseudogap also exists in one of the most studied 2D examples, dichalcogenide 2H-TaSe2, and the formation of CDW is driven by a conventional nesting instability, which is masked by the pseudogap. Our findings reconcile and explain a number of unusual, as previously believed, experimental responses as well as disprove many alternative theoretical approaches. The magnitude, character and anisotropy of the 2D-CDW pseudogap are intriguingly similar to those seen in superconducting cuprates.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:22:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Borisenko", "S. V.", "" ], [ "Kordyuk", "A. A.", "" ], [ "Yaresko", "A. N.", "" ], [ "Zabolotnyy", "V. B.", "" ], [ "Inosov", "D. S.", "" ], [ "Schuster", "R.", "" ], [ "Buechner", "B.", "" ], [ "Weber", "R.", "" ], [ "Follath", "R.", "" ], [ "Patthey", "L.", "" ], [ "Berger", "H.", "" ] ]
0704.1545
Yuuichirou Shibusa
Yuuichirou Shibusa (RIKEN)
Supersymmetric Field Theory Based on Generalized Uncertainty Principle
9 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A22:5279-5286,2007
10.1142/S0217751X07037913
RIKEN-TH-96
hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
We construct a quantum theory of free fermion field based on the generalized uncertainty principle using supersymmetry as a guiding principle. A supersymmetric field theory with a real scalar field and a Majorana fermion field is given explicitly and we also find that the supersymmetry algebra is deformed from an usual one.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:42:36 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Shibusa", "Yuuichirou", "", "RIKEN" ] ]
0704.1546
Richard A Neher
Richard A. Neher, Wolfram Mobius, Erwin Frey, Ulrich Gerland
Optimal flexibility for conformational transitions in macromolecules
4 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.178101
LMU-ASC 22/07
q-bio.BM
null
Conformational transitions in macromolecular complexes often involve the reorientation of lever-like structures. Using a simple theoretical model, we show that the rate of such transitions is drastically enhanced if the lever is bendable, e.g. at a localized "hinge''. Surprisingly, the transition is fastest with an intermediate flexibility of the hinge. In this intermediate regime, the transition rate is also least sensitive to the amount of "cargo'' attached to the lever arm, which could be exploited by molecular motors. To explain this effect, we generalize the Kramers-Langer theory for multi-dimensional barrier crossing to configuration dependent mobility matrices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:29:18 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Neher", "Richard A.", "" ], [ "Mobius", "Wolfram", "" ], [ "Frey", "Erwin", "" ], [ "Gerland", "Ulrich", "" ] ]
0704.1547
Martin Castelnovo
Fabien Montel, Emeline Fontaine, Philippe St-Jean, Martin Castelnovo, Cendrine Moskalenko-Faivre
AFM Imaging of SWI/SNF action: mapping the nucleosome remodeling and sliding
25 pages,5 figures, to appear in Biophysical Journal
null
10.1529/biophysj.107.105569
null
physics.bio-ph cond-mat.soft q-bio.BM
null
We propose a combined experimental (Atomic Force Microscopy) and theoretical study of the structural and dynamical properties of nucleosomes. In contrast to biochemical approaches, this method allows to determine simultaneously the DNA complexed length distribution and nucleosome position in various contexts. First, we show that differences in the nucleo-proteic structure observed between conventional H2A and H2A.Bbd variant nucleosomes induce quantitative changes in the in the length distribution of DNA complexed with histones. Then, the sliding action of remodeling complex SWI/SNF is characterized through the evolution of the nucleosome position and wrapped DNA length mapping. Using a linear energetic model for the distribution of DNA complexed length, we extract the net wrapping energy of DNA onto the histone octamer, and compare it to previous studies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:17:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Montel", "Fabien", "" ], [ "Fontaine", "Emeline", "" ], [ "St-Jean", "Philippe", "" ], [ "Castelnovo", "Martin", "" ], [ "Moskalenko-Faivre", "Cendrine", "" ] ]
0704.1548
Maurice Pouzet
Maurice Pouzet
When the orbit algebra of group is an integral domain? Proof of a conjecture of P.J. Cameron
19 pages
null
null
null
math.CO math.AC
null
P.J.Cameron introduced the orbit algebra of a permutation group and conjectured that this algebra is an integral domain if and only if the group has no finite orbit. We prove that this conjecture holds and in fact that the age algebra of a relational structure $R$ is an integral domain if and only if $R$ is age-inexhaustible. We deduce these results from a combinatorial lemma asserting that if a product of two non-zero elements of a set algebra is zero then there is a finite common tranversal of their supports. The proof is built on Ramsey theorem and the integrity of a shuffle algebra.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:08:50 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Pouzet", "Maurice", "" ] ]
0704.1549
Ja A Jeong
J. A. Jeong and G. H. Park
Saturated actions by finite dimensional Hopf *-algebras on C*-algebras
18 pages, to be published in Intern. J. Math
null
null
null
math.OA
null
If a finite group action $\alpha$ on a unital $C^*$-algebra $M$ is saturated, the canonical conditional expectation $E:M\to M^\alpha$ onto the fixed point algebra is known to be of index finite type with $Index(E)=|G|$ in the sense of Watatani. More generally if a finite dimensional Hopf $*$-algebra $A$ acts on $M$ and the action is saturated, the same is true with $Index (E)=\dim(A)$. In this paper we prove that the converse is true. Especially in case $M$ is a commutative $C^*$-algebra $C(X)$ and $\alpha$ is a finite group action, we give an equivalent condition in order that the expectation $E:C(X)\to C(X)^\alpha$ is of index finite type, from which we obtain that $\alpha$ is saturated if and only if $G$ acts freely on $X$. Actions by compact groups are also considered to show that the gauge action $\gamma$ on a graph $C^*$-algebra $C^*(E)$ associated with a locally finite directed graph $E$ is saturated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:27:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Jeong", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Park", "G. H.", "" ] ]
0704.1550
Shahab Zorriasatein
Shahab Zorriasatein, Mal-Soon Lee, and D. G. Kanhere
The electronic structures, the equilibrium geometries and finite temperature properties of Na_n (n=39-55)
This paper contains of 8 pages and 13 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.165414
null
physics.atm-clus physics.comp-ph
null
Density-functional theory has been applied to investigate systematics of sodium clusters Na_n in the size range of n= 39-55. A clear evolutionary trend in the growth of their ground-state geometries emerges. The clusters at the beginning of the series (n=39-43) are symmetric and have partial icosahedral (two-shell) structure. The growth then goes through a series of disordered clusters (n=44-52) where the icosahedral core is lost. However, for n>52 a three shell icosahedral structure emerges. This change in the nature of the geometry is abrupt. In addition, density-functional molecular dynamics has been used to calculate the specific heat curves for the representative sizes n= 43, 45, 48 and 52. These results along with already available thermodynamic calculations for n= 40, 50, and 55 enable us to carry out a detailed comparison of the heat capacity curves with their respective geometries for the entire series. Our results clearly bring out strong correlation between the evolution of the geometries and the nature of the shape of the heat capacities. The results also firmly establish the size-sensitive nature of the heat capacities in sodium clusters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:46:58 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zorriasatein", "Shahab", "" ], [ "Lee", "Mal-Soon", "" ], [ "Kanhere", "D. G.", "" ] ]
0704.1551
Petros Wallden Dr
Petros Wallden
Quantum Zeno Effect in the Decoherent Histories
7 pages, To appear in DICE 2006 (Decoherence Information Complexity and Entropy) conference proceedings
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 67, 012043 (2007).
10.1088/1742-6596/67/1/012043
null
quant-ph
null
The quantum Zeno effect arises due to frequent observation. That implies the existence of some experimenter and its interaction with the system. In this contribution, we examine what happens for a closed system if one considers a quantum Zeno type of question, namely: "what is the probability of a system, remaining always in a particular subspace". This has implications to the arrival time problem that is also discussed. We employ the decoherent histories approach to quantum theory, as this is the better developed formulation of closed system quantum mechanics, and in particular, dealing with questions that involve time in a non-trivial way. We get a very restrictive decoherence condition, that implies that even if we do introduce an environment, there will be very few cases that we can assign probabilities to these histories, but in those cases, the quantum Zeno effect is still present.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:07:13 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wallden", "Petros", "" ] ]
0704.1552
S\"oren Henning
S. Henning (1), F. Koermann (1), J. Kienert (1), S. Schwieger (2), W. Nolting (1) ((1) Festkoerpertheorie, HU Berlin, (2) Theoretische Physik I, TU Ilmenau)
Green function theory versus Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for thin magnetic films
7 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PRB
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.214401
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
In this work we compare numerically exact Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations and Green function theory (GFT) calculations of thin ferromagnetic films including second order anisotropies. Thereby we concentrate on easy plane systems, i.e. systems for which the anisotropy favors a magnetization parallel to the film plane. We discuss these systems in perpendicular external field, i.e. B parallel to the film normal. GFT results are in good agreement with QMC for high enough fields and temperatures. Below a critical field or a critical temperature no collinear stable magnetization exists in GFT. On the other hand QMC gives finite magnetization even below those critical values. This indicates that there occurs a transition from non-collinear to collinear configurations with increasing field or temperature. For slightly tilted external fields a rotation of magnetization from out-of-plane to in-plane orientation is found with decreasing temperature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:37:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Henning", "S.", "" ], [ "Koermann", "F.", "" ], [ "Kienert", "J.", "" ], [ "Schwieger", "S.", "" ], [ "Nolting", "W.", "" ] ]
0704.1553
Ekaterina Juschenko
Ekaterina Juschenko, Stanislav Popovych
Matrix Ordered Operator Algebras
null
Indiana University Math. Journal Volume 59 No. 3, 2009
null
null
math.OA math.FA math.RT
null
We study the question when for a given *-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ a sequence of cones $C_n\in M_n(\mathcal{A})$ can be realized as cones of positive operators in a faithful *-representation of $\mathcal{A}$ on a Hilbert space. A characterization of operator algebras which are completely boundedly isomorphic to $C\sp*$-algebras is presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:12:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:39:15 GMT" } ]
2010-03-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Juschenko", "Ekaterina", "" ], [ "Popovych", "Stanislav", "" ] ]
0704.1554
Mikael Rordam
Etienne Blanchard, Randi Rohde, Mikael Rordam
Properly infinite C(X)-algebras and K_1-injectivity
19 pages
J. Noncommutative Geometry 2 (2008), no. 3, 263-282
null
null
math.OA
null
We investigate if a unital C(X)-algebra is properly infinite when all its fibres are properly infinite. We show that this question can be rephrased in several different ways, including the question if every unital properly infinite C*-algebra is K_1-injective. We provide partial answers to these questions, and we show that the general question on proper infiniteness of C(X)-algebras can be reduced to establishing proper infiniteness of a specific C([0,1])-algebra with properly infinite fibres.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:13:16 GMT" } ]
2010-11-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Blanchard", "Etienne", "" ], [ "Rohde", "Randi", "" ], [ "Rordam", "Mikael", "" ] ]
0704.1555
Akiyasu Tomoeda
A. Tomoeda, K. Nishinari, D. Chowdhury and A. Schadschneider
An information-based traffic control in a public conveyance system: reduced clustering and enhanced efficiency
8 pages, 15 figures
Physica A vol.384 (2007) pp.600-612
10.1016/j.physa.2007.05.047
null
physics.soc-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
null
A new public conveyance model applicable to buses and trains is proposed in this paper by using stochastic cellular automaton. We have found the optimal density of vehicles, at which the average velocity becomes maximum, significantly depends on the number of stops and passengers behavior of getting on a vehicle at stops. The efficiency of the hail-and-ride system is also discussed by comparing the different behavior of passengers. Moreover, we have found that a big cluster of vehicles is divided into small clusters, by incorporating information of the number of vehicles between successive stops.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:28:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:01:42 GMT" } ]
2007-09-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Tomoeda", "A.", "" ], [ "Nishinari", "K.", "" ], [ "Chowdhury", "D.", "" ], [ "Schadschneider", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1556
Yuval Ginosar
Nurit Barnea and Yuval Ginosar
A separable deformation of the quaternion group algebra
7 pages
null
null
null
math.RA
null
The Donald-Flanigan conjecture asserts that for any finite group and for any field, the corresponding group algebra can be deformed to a separable algebra. The minimal unsolved instance, namely the quaternion group over a field of characteristic 2 was considered as a counterexample. We present here a separable deformation of the quaternion group algebra. In a sense, the conjecture for any finite group is open again.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:34:07 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Barnea", "Nurit", "" ], [ "Ginosar", "Yuval", "" ] ]
0704.1557
Ivan Chipchakov Delchev
I.D. Chipchakov
On the residue fields of Henselian valued stable fields, II
10 pages
null
null
null
math.RA
null
Let $E$ be a primarily quasilocal field, $M/E$ a finite Galois extension and $D$ a central division $E$-algebra of index divisible by $[M\colon E]$. In addition to the main result of Part I, this part of the paper shows that if the Galois group $G(M/E)$ is not nilpotent, then $M$ does not necessarily embed in $D$ as an $E$-subalgebra. When $E$ is quasilocal, we find the structure of the character group of its absolute Galois group; this enables us to prove that if $E$ is strictly quasilocal and almost perfect, then the divisible part of the multiplicative group $E ^{\ast}$ equals the intersection of the norm groups of finite Galois extensions of $E$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:10:27 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chipchakov", "I. D.", "" ] ]
0704.1558
Kostas Tziotziou
Kostas Tziotziou
Chromospheric Cloud-Model Inversion Techniques
In press,"Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas" (Coimbra), ASP 368, 217 (2007)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Spectral inversion techniques based on the cloud model are extremely useful for the study of properties and dynamics of various chromospheric cloud-like structures. Several inversion techniques are reviewed based on simple (constant source function) and more elaborated cloud models, as well as on grids of synthetic line profiles produced for a wide range of physical parameters by different NLTE codes. Several examples are shown of how such techniques can be used in different chromospheric lines, for the study of structures of the quiet chromosphere, such as mottles/spicules, as well as for active region structures such as fibrils, arch filament systems (AFS), filaments and flares.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:55:53 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Tziotziou", "Kostas", "" ] ]
0704.1559
Roberto Maiolino
R. Maiolino, O. Shemmer, M. Imanishi, H. Netzer, E. Oliva, D. Lutz, E. Sturm
Dust covering factor, silicate emission and star formation in luminous QSOs
accepted for publication in A&A, 17 pages, 9 figures
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077252
null
astro-ph
null
We present Spitzer IRS low resolution, mid-IR spectra of a sample of 25 high luminosity QSOs at 2<z<3.5. When combined with archival IRS observations of local, low luminosity type-I AGNs, the sample spans five orders of magnitude in luminosity. We find that the continuum dust thermal emission at lambda(rest)=6.7um is correlated with the optical luminosity, following the non-linear relation L(6.7um) propto L(5100A)^0.82. We also find an anti correlation between the ratio L(6.7um)/L(5100A) and the [OIII]5007A line luminosity. These effects are interpreted as a decreasing covering factor of the circumnuclear dust as a function of luminosity. Such a result is in agreement with the decreasing fraction of absorbed AGNs as a function of luminosity recently found in various surveys. We clearly detect the silicate emission feature in the average spectrum, but also in four individual objects. These are the Silicate emission in the most luminous objects obtained so far. When combined with the silicate emission observed in local, low luminosity type-I AGNs, we find that the silicate emission strength is correlated with luminosity. The silicate strength of all type-I AGNs also follows a positive correlation with the black hole mass and with the accretion rate. The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) emission features, expected from starburst activity, are not detected in the average spectrum of luminous, high-z QSOs. The upper limit inferred from the average spectrum points to a ratio between PAH luminosity and QSO optical luminosity significantly lower than observed in lower luminosity AGNs, implying that the correlation between star formation rate and AGN power saturates at high luminosities.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:52:40 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Maiolino", "R.", "" ], [ "Shemmer", "O.", "" ], [ "Imanishi", "M.", "" ], [ "Netzer", "H.", "" ], [ "Oliva", "E.", "" ], [ "Lutz", "D.", "" ], [ "Sturm", "E.", "" ] ]
0704.1560
Zhi-Ming Zhang
Zhi-Ming Zhang, Jian Yang, and Yafei Yu
Generating entanglement of photon-number states with coherent light via cross-Kerr nonlinearity
2 figures
null
10.1088/0953-4075/41/2/025502
null
quant-ph
null
We propose a scheme for generating entangled states of light fields. This scheme only requires the cross-Kerr nonlinear interaction between coherent light-beams, followed by a homodyne detection. Therefore, this scheme is within the reach of current technology. We study in detail the generation of the entangled states between two modes, and that among three modes. In addition to the Bell states between two modes and the W states among three modes, we find plentiful new kinds of entangled states. Finally, the scheme can be extend to generate the entangled states among more than three modes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:07:07 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhang", "Zhi-Ming", "" ], [ "Yang", "Jian", "" ], [ "Yu", "Yafei", "" ] ]
0704.1561
St\'ephane V\'en\'ereau
St\'ephane V\'en\'ereau
A parachute for the degree of a polynomial in algebraically independent ones
4 pages
null
null
null
math.AC math.AG
null
We give a simpler proof as well as a generalization of the main result of an article of Shestakov and Umirbaev. This latter article being the first of two that solve a long-standing conjecture about the non-tameness, or "wildness", of Nagata's automorphism. As corollaries we get interesting informations about the leading terms of polynomials forming an automorphism in any dimension and reprove the tameness of automorphisms in dimension two.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:27:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 09:52:52 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Vénéreau", "Stéphane", "" ] ]
0704.1562
Cedric Lacey
C.G. Lacey (1), C.M. Baugh (1), C.S. Frenk (1), L. Silva (2), G.L. Granato (3), A. Bressan (3) ((1) ICC, Durham, (2) INAF, Trieste, (3) INAF, Padova)
Galaxy evolution in the infra-red: comparison of a hierarchical galaxy formation model with SPITZER data
LaTeX, 26 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Minor changes from original version in response to referee's report
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12949.x
null
astro-ph
null
We present predictions for the evolution of the galaxy luminosity function, number counts and redshift distributions in the IR based on the Lambda-CDM cosmological model. We use the combined GALFORM semi-analytical galaxy formation model and GRASIL spectrophotometric code to compute galaxy SEDs including the reprocessing of radiation by dust. The model, which is the same as that in Baugh et al (2005), assumes two different IMFs: a normal solar neighbourhood IMF for quiescent star formation in disks, and a very top-heavy IMF in starbursts triggered by galaxy mergers. We have shown previously that the top-heavy IMF seems to be necessary to explain the number counts of faint sub-mm galaxies. We compare the model with observational data from the SPITZER Space Telescope, with the model parameters fixed at values chosen before SPITZER data became available. We find that the model matches the observed evolution in the IR remarkably well over the whole range of wavelengths probed by SPITZER. In particular, the SPITZER data show that there is strong evolution in the mid-IR galaxy luminosity function over the redshift range z ~ 0-2, and this is reproduced by our model without requiring any adjustment of parameters. On the other hand, a model with a normal IMF in starbursts predicts far too little evolution in the mid-IR luminosity function, and is therefore excluded.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:21:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:26:59 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Lacey", "C. G.", "" ], [ "Baugh", "C. M.", "" ], [ "Frenk", "C. S.", "" ], [ "Silva", "L.", "" ], [ "Granato", "G. L.", "" ], [ "Bressan", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1563
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Supratik Mukherjee, Nayana Majumdar
Use of Triangular Elements for Nearly Exact BEM Solutions
18 pages, 12 figures
null
null
null
math.NA math-ph math.MP physics.comp-ph
null
A library of C functions yielding exact solutions of potential and flux influences due to uniform surface distribution of singularities on flat triangular and rectangular elements has been developed. This library, ISLES, has been used to develop the neBEM solver that is both precise and fast in solving a wide range of problems of scientific and technological interest. Here we present the exact expressions proposed for computing the influence of uniform singularity distributions on triangular elements and illustrate their accuracy. We also present a study concerning the time taken to evaluate these long and complicated expressions \textit{vis a vis} that spent in carrying out simple quadratures. Finally, we solve a classic benchmark problem in electrostatics, namely, estimation of the capacitance of a unit square plate raised to unit volt. For this problem, we present the estimated values of capacitance and compare them successfully with some of the most accurate results available in the literature. In addition, we present the variation of the charge density close to the corner of the plate for various degrees of discretization. The variations are found to be smooth and converging. This is in clear contrast to the criticism commonly leveled against usual BEM solvers.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:36:49 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mukherjee", "Supratik", "" ], [ "Majumdar", "Nayana", "" ] ]
0704.1564
Stephane Nonnenmacher
Nalini Anantharaman (CMLS-EcolePolytechnique), Herbert Koch (BONN-MATHS), St\'ephane Nonnenmacher (SPhT)
Entropy of eigenfunctions
null
null
null
null
math-ph math.DS math.MP nlin.CD
null
We study the high--energy limit for eigenfunctions of the laplacian, on a compact negatively curved manifold. We review the recent result of Anantharaman-Nonnenmacher giving a lower bound on the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of semiclassical measures, and improve this lower bound in the case of variable negative curvature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:46:40 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Anantharaman", "Nalini", "", "CMLS-EcolePolytechnique" ], [ "Koch", "Herbert", "", "BONN-MATHS" ], [ "Nonnenmacher", "Stéphane", "", "SPhT" ] ]
0704.1565
Markus Diehl
M. Diehl
Vector meson production from a polarized nucleon
31 pages, 2 figures. v2: added section on non-resonant contributions
JHEP0709:064,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/064
DESY-07-049
hep-ph
null
We provide a framework to analyze the electroproduction process ep -> ep rho with a polarized target, writing the angular distribution of the rho decay products in terms of spin density matrix elements that parameterize the hadronic subprocess gamma* p -> rho p. Using the helicity basis for both photon and meson, we find a representation in which the expressions for a polarized and unpolarized target are related by simple substitution rules.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:55:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:07:20 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Diehl", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.1566
Roberto Soler
R. Soler, R. Oliver and J. L. Ballester
The effect of the solar corona on the attenuation of small-amplitude prominence oscillations. I. Longitudinal magnetic field
Accepted in A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077633
null
astro-ph
null
Context. One of the typical features shown by observations of solar prominence oscillations is that they are damped in time and that the values of the damping times are usually between one and three times the corresponding oscillatory period. However, the mechanism responsible for the attenuation is still not well-known. Aims. Thermal conduction, optically thin or thick radiation and heating are taken into account in the energy equation, and their role on the attenuation of prominence oscillations is evaluated. Methods. The dispersion relation for linear non-adiabatic magnetoacoustic waves is derived considering an equilibrium made of a prominence plasma slab embedded in an unbounded corona. The magnetic field is orientated along the direction parallel to the slab axis and has the same strength in all regions. By solving the dispersion relation for a fixed wavenumber, a complex oscillatory frequency is obtained, and the period and the damping time are computed. Results. The effect of conduction and radiation losses is different for each magnetoacoustic mode and depends on the wavenumber. In the observed range of wavelengths the internal slow mode is attenuated by radiation from the prominence plasma, the fast mode by the combination of prominence radiation and coronal conduction and the external slow mode by coronal conduction. The consideration of the external corona is of paramount importance in the case of the fast and external slow modes, whereas it does not affect the internal slow modes at all. Conclusions. Non-adiabatic effects are efficient damping mechanisms for magnetoacoustic modes, and the values of the obtained damping times are compatible with those observed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:53:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:00:03 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Soler", "R.", "" ], [ "Oliver", "R.", "" ], [ "Ballester", "J. L.", "" ] ]
0704.1567
Ragab Gad
Ragab M. Gad and A. Fouad
Energy and Momentum Distributions of Kantowski and Sachs Space-time
12 pages
Astrophys.SpaceSci.310:135-140,2007
10.1007/s10509-007-9488-6
null
gr-qc
null
We use the Einstein, Bergmann-Thomson, Landau-Lifshitz and Papapetrou energy-momentum complexes to calculate the energy and momentum distributions of Kantowski and Sachs space-time. We show that the Einstein and Bergmann-Thomson definitions furnish a consistent result for the energy distribution, but the definition of Landau-Lifshitz do not agree with them. We show that a signature switch should affect about everything including energy distribution in the case of Einstein and Papapetrou prescriptions but not in Bergmann-Thomson and Landau-Lifshitz prescriptions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:53:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:42:58 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Gad", "Ragab M.", "" ], [ "Fouad", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1568
Marco Frasca
Marco Frasca
Green functions and nonlinear systems: Short time expansion
7 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A23:299-308,2008
10.1142/S0217751X08038160
null
hep-th hep-ph math-ph math.MP
null
We show that Green function methods can be straightforwardly applied to nonlinear equations appearing as the leading order of a short time expansion. Higher order corrections can be then computed giving a satisfactory agreement with numerical results. The relevance of these results relies on the possibility of fully exploiting a gradient expansion in both classical and quantum field theory granting the existence of a strong coupling expansion. Having a Green function in this regime in quantum field theory amounts to obtain the corresponding spectrum of the theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:54:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:59:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:18:14 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Frasca", "Marco", "" ] ]
0704.1569
Jean-Camille Birget
Jean-Camille Birget
One-way permutations, computational asymmetry and distortion
33 pages
null
null
null
math.GR
null
Computational asymmetry, i.e., the discrepancy between the complexity of transformations and the complexity of their inverses, is at the core of one-way transformations. We introduce a computational asymmetry function that measures the amount of one-wayness of permutations. We also introduce the word-length asymmetry function for groups, which is an algebraic analogue of computational asymmetry. We relate boolean circuits to words in a Thompson monoid, over a fixed generating set, in such a way that circuit size is equal to word-length. Moreover, boolean circuits have a representation in terms of elements of a Thompson group, in such a way that circuit size is polynomially equivalent to word-length. We show that circuits built with gates that are not constrained to have fixed-length inputs and outputs, are at most quadratically more compact than circuits built from traditional gates (with fixed-length inputs and outputs). Finally, we show that the computational asymmetry function is closely related to certain distortion functions: The computational asymmetry function is polynomially equivalent to the distortion of the path length in Schreier graphs of certain Thompson groups, compared to the path length in Cayley graphs of certain Thompson monoids. We also show that the results of Razborov and others on monotone circuit complexity lead to exponential lower bounds on certain distortions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:55:04 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Birget", "Jean-Camille", "" ] ]
0704.1570
John Southworth
John Southworth (1), Peter J. Wheatley (1), Giles Sams (1), ((1) University of Warwick, UK)
A method for the direct determination of the surface gravities of transiting extrasolar planets
Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters (original submission 2007 March 5). Contains 5 pages with 3 figures
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.379:L11-L15,2007
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00324.x
null
astro-ph
null
We show that the surface gravity of a transiting extrasolar planet can be calculated from only the spectroscopic orbit of its parent star and the analysis of its transit light curve. This does not require additional constraints, such as are often inferred from theoretical stellar models or model atmospheres. The planet's surface gravity can therefore be measured precisely and from only directly observable quantities. We outline the method and apply it to the case of the first known transiting extrasolar planet, HD 209458b. We find a surface gravity of g_p = 9.28 +/- 0.15 m/s, which is an order of magnitude more precise than the best available measurements of its mass, radius and density. This confirms that the planet has a much lower surface gravity that that predicted by published theoretical models of gas giant planets. We apply our method to all fourteen known transiting extrasolar planets and find a significant correlation between surface gravity and orbital period, which is related to the known correlation between mass and period. This correlation may be the underlying effect as surface gravity is a fundamental parameter in the evaporation of planetary atmospheres.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:09:09 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Southworth", "John", "" ], [ "Wheatley", "Peter J.", "" ], [ "Sams", "Giles", "" ] ]
0704.1571
Philippe Gambette
Philippe Gambette (LIAFA), St\'ephane Vialette (LRI)
On restrictions of balanced 2-interval graphs
null
Dans Lecture Notes In Computer Science - 33rd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'07), Dornburg : Allemagne (2007)
10.1007/978-3-540-74839-7_6
null
cs.DM q-bio.QM
null
The class of 2-interval graphs has been introduced for modelling scheduling and allocation problems, and more recently for specific bioinformatic problems. Some of those applications imply restrictions on the 2-interval graphs, and justify the introduction of a hierarchy of subclasses of 2-interval graphs that generalize line graphs: balanced 2-interval graphs, unit 2-interval graphs, and (x,x)-interval graphs. We provide instances that show that all the inclusions are strict. We extend the NP-completeness proof of recognizing 2-interval graphs to the recognition of balanced 2-interval graphs. Finally we give hints on the complexity of unit 2-interval graphs recognition, by studying relationships with other graph classes: proper circular-arc, quasi-line graphs, K_{1,5}-free graphs, ...
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:23:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:41:14 GMT" } ]
2008-02-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Gambette", "Philippe", "", "LIAFA" ], [ "Vialette", "Stéphane", "", "LRI" ] ]
0704.1572
Akinlolu Akande Mr.
A. Akande and S. Sanvito
Exchange parameters from approximate self-interaction correction scheme
10 pages
null
10.1063/1.2751165
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The approximate atomic self-interaction corrections (ASIC) method to density functional theory is put to the test by calculating the exchange interaction for a number of prototypical materials, critical to local exchange and correlation functionals. ASIC total energy calculations are mapped onto an Heisenberg pair-wise interaction and the exchange constants J are compared to those obtained with other methods. In general the ASIC scheme drastically improves the bandstructure, which for almost all the cases investigated resemble closely available photo-emission data. In contrast the results for the exchange parameters are less satisfactory. Although ASIC performs reasonably well for systems where the magnetism originates from half-filled bands, it suffers from similar problems than those of LDA for other situations. In particular the exchange constants are still overestimated. This reflects a subtle interplay between exchange and correlation energy, not captured by the ASIC.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:29:52 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Akande", "A.", "" ], [ "Sanvito", "S.", "" ] ]
0704.1573
Ji\v{r}\'i \v{S}t\v{e}p\'an
Jiri Stepan, Veronique Bommier
Generalized sqrt(epsilon)-law. The role of unphysical source terms in resonance line polarization transfer and its importance as an additional test of NLTE radiative transfer codes
5 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in A&A
Astron.Astrophys.468:797-801,2007
10.1051/0004-6361:20066507
null
astro-ph
null
Context. A derivation of a generalized sqrt(epsilon)-law for nonthermal collisional rates of excitation by charged perturbers is presented. Aims. Aim of this paper is to find a more general analytical expression for a surface value of the source function which can be used as an addtional tool for verification of the non-LTE radiative transfer codes. Methods. Under the impact approximation hypothesis, static, one-dimensional, plane-parallel atmosphere, constant magnetic field of arbitrary strength and direction, two-level atom model with unpolarized lower level and stimulated emission neglected, we introduce the unphysical terms into the equations of statistical equilibrium and solve the appropriate non-LTE integral equations. Results. We derive a new analytical condition for the surface values of the source function components expressed in the basis of irreducible spherical tensors.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:34:28 GMT" } ]
2009-11-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Stepan", "Jiri", "" ], [ "Bommier", "Veronique", "" ] ]
0704.1574
John H. Field
J.H. Field
Retarded electric and magnetic fields of a moving charge: Feynman's derivation of Li\'enard-Wiechert potentials revisited
39 pages, 6 figures. v2 has 2 new figures, improved text, typos corrected and updated references. v3 minor text revisions, some conclusions rectified, references updated
null
null
null
physics.class-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Retarded electromagnetic potentials are derived from Maxwell's equations and the Lorenz condition. The difference found between these potentials and the conventional Li\'{e}nard-Wiechert ones is explained by neglect, for the latter, of the motion-dependence of the effective charge density. The corresponding retarded fields of a point-like charge in arbitary motion are compared with those given by the formulae of Heaviside, Feynman, Jefimenko and other authors. The fields of an accelerated charge given by the Feynman are the same as those derived from the Li\'{e}nard-Wiechert potentials but not those given by the Jefimenko formulae. A mathematical error concerning partial space and time derivatives in the derivation of the Jefimenko equations is pointed out.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:39:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:06:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:22:48 GMT" } ]
2015-06-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Field", "J. H.", "" ] ]
0704.1575
Paolo Baldi
P.Baldi, D.Marinucci, V.S.Varadarajan
On the characterization of isotropic Gaussian fields on homogeneous spaces of compact groups
null
Electronic Communications in Probability, 12, pp.291-302, (2007)
null
null
math.PR math.RT
null
Let T be a random field invariant under the action of a compact group G We give conditions ensuring that independence of the random Fourier coefficients is equivalent to Gaussianity. As a consequence, in general it is not possible to simulate a non-Gaussian invariant random field through its Fourier expansion using independent coefficients.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:43:45 GMT" } ]
2021-12-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Baldi", "P.", "" ], [ "Marinucci", "D.", "" ], [ "Varadarajan", "V. S.", "" ] ]
0704.1576
Ata Sarajedini
Ata Sarajedini and Conor L. Mancone
A Catalog of Star Cluster Candidates in M33
34 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Astron.J.134:447-456,2007
10.1086/518835
null
astro-ph
null
We present a new catalog of star cluster candidates in the nearby spiral galaxy M33. It is based on eight existing catalogs wherein we have cross-referenced identifications and endeavored to resolve inconsistencies between them. Our catalog contains 451 candidates of which 255 are confirmed clusters based on HST and high resolution ground-based imaging. The catalog contains precise cluster positions (RA and Dec), magnitudes and colors in the UBVRIJHKs filters, metallicities, radial velocities, masses and ages, where available, and galactocentric distances for each cluster. The color distribution of the M33 clusters appears to be similar to those in the Large Magellanic Cloud with major peaks at (B-V)o~0.15, and (B-V)o~0.65. The intrinsic colors are correlated with cluster ages, which range from 10^{7.5} to 10^{10.3} years. The age distribution of the star clusters supports the notion of rapid cluster disruption with a slope of alpha=-1.09 +/- 0.07 in the dN_{cluster}/dt ~ t^{alpha} relation. In addition, comparison to theoretical single stellar population models suggests the presence of an age-metallicity relation among these clusters with younger clusters being more metal-rich. Analysis of the radial distribution of the clusters yields some evidence that younger clusters (age <~ 1 Gyr) may be more concentrated toward the center of M33 than older ones. A similar comparison with the radial profile of the M33 field stars shows the clusters to be more centrally concentrated at the greater than 99.9% confidence level. Possible reasons for this are presented and discussed; however, the overwhelming conclusion seems to be that a more complete and thorough cluster search is needed covering at least 4 square degrees centered on M33.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:44:10 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sarajedini", "Ata", "" ], [ "Mancone", "Conor L.", "" ] ]
0704.1577
Vassili Fedotov
V. A. Fedotov, M. Rose, S. L. Prosvirnin, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
Sharp dark-mode resonances in planar metamaterials with broken structural symmetry
4 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147401 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.147401
null
physics.optics
null
We report that resonant response with a very high quality factor can be achieved in a planar metamaterial by introducing symmetry breaking in the shape of its structural elements, which enables excitation of dark modes, i.e. modes that are weakly coupled to free space.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:03:20 GMT" } ]
2010-09-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Fedotov", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Rose", "M.", "" ], [ "Prosvirnin", "S. L.", "" ], [ "Papasimakis", "N.", "" ], [ "Zheludev", "N. I.", "" ] ]
0704.1578
Sarah Casewell Mphys
S.L.Casewell, P.D. Dobbie, S.T. Hodgkin, E. Moraux, R.F. Jameson, N.C. Hambly, J. Irwin, N Lodieu
Proper motion L and T dwarf candidate members of the Pleiades
12 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS Errata: 1 table
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:1131-1140,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11848.x
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the results of a deep optical-near-infrared multi-epoch survey covering 2.5 square degrees of the Pleiades open star cluster to search for new very-low-mass brown dwarf members. A significant (~ 5 year) epoch difference exists between the optical (CFH12k I-, Z-band) and near infrared (UKIRT WFCAM J-band) observations. We construct I,I-Z and Z,Z-J colour magnitude diagrams to select candidate cluster members. Proper motions are computed for all candidate members and compared to the background field objects to further refine the sample. We recover all known cluster members within the area of our survey. In addition, we have discovered 9 new candidate brown dwarf cluster members. The 7 faintest candidates have red Z-J colours and show blue near-infrared colours. These are consistent with being L and T-type Pleiads. Theoretical models predict their masses to be around 11 Jupiter masses. There is 1 errata for this paper
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:03:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:03:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Casewell", "S. L.", "" ], [ "Dobbie", "P. D.", "" ], [ "Hodgkin", "S. T.", "" ], [ "Moraux", "E.", "" ], [ "Jameson", "R. F.", "" ], [ "Hambly", "N. C.", "" ], [ "Irwin", "J.", "" ], [ "Lodieu", "N", "" ] ]
0704.1579
Jose Alfonso Lopez Aguerri
J. A. L. Aguerri, R. Sanchez-Janssen and C. Munoz-Tunon
A Study of Catalogued Nearby Galaxy Clusters in the SDSS-DR4: I. Cluster Global Properties
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066478
null
astro-ph
null
We have selected a sample of 88 nearby (z<0.1) galaxy clusters from the SDSS-DR4 with redshift information for the cluster members. We have derived global properties for each cluster, such as their mean recessional velocity, velocity dispersion, and virial radii. Cluster galaxies have been grouped in two families according to their $u-r$ colours. The total sample consists of 10865 galaxies. As expected, the highest fraction of galaxies (62%) turned to be early-type (red) ones, being located at smaller distances from the cluster centre and showing lower velocity dispersions than late-type (blue) ones. The brightest cluster galaxies are located in the innermost regions and show the smallest velocity dispersions. Early-type galaxies also show constant velocity dispersion profiles inside the virial radius and a mild decline in the outermost regions. In contrast, late-type galaxies show always decreasing velocity dispersions profiles. No correlation has been found between the fraction of blue galaxies and cluster global properties, such as cluster velocity dispersion and galaxy concentration. In contrast, we found correlation between the X-ray luminosity and the fraction of blue galaxies. These results indicate that early- and late-type galaxies may have had different evolution. Thus, blue galaxies are located in more anisotropic and radial orbits than early-type ones. Their star formation seems to be independent of the cluster global properties in low mass clusters, but not for the most massive ones. These observational results suggest that the global environment could be important for driving the evolution of galaxies in the most massive cluster ($\sigma > 800$ km s$^{-1}$). However, the local environment could play a key role in galaxy evolution for low mass clusters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:17:11 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Aguerri", "J. A. L.", "" ], [ "Sanchez-Janssen", "R.", "" ], [ "Munoz-Tunon", "C.", "" ] ]
0704.1580
Gerardo Adesso
Gerardo Adesso and Marie Ericsson
Optical implementation and entanglement distribution in Gaussian valence bond states
15 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Optics and Spectroscopy, special issue for ICQO'2006 (Minsk). This preprint contains extra material with respect to the journal version
Optics & Spectroscopy 103, 178 (2007)
10.1134/S0030400X07080024
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other physics.optics
null
We study Gaussian valence bond states of continuous variable systems, obtained as the outputs of projection operations from an ancillary space of M infinitely entangled bonds connecting neighboring sites, applied at each of $N$ sites of an harmonic chain. The entanglement distribution in Gaussian valence bond states can be controlled by varying the input amount of entanglement engineered in a (2M+1)-mode Gaussian state known as the building block, which is isomorphic to the projector applied at a given site. We show how this mechanism can be interpreted in terms of multiple entanglement swapping from the chain of ancillary bonds, through the building blocks. We provide optical schemes to produce bisymmetric three-mode Gaussian building blocks (which correspond to a single bond, M=1), and study the entanglement structure in the output Gaussian valence bond states. The usefulness of such states for quantum communication protocols with continuous variables, like telecloning and teleportation networks, is finally discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:38:48 GMT" } ]
2007-10-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Adesso", "Gerardo", "" ], [ "Ericsson", "Marie", "" ] ]
0704.1581
Emilia Morosan
E. Morosan, J. Fleitman, T. Klimczuk and R. J. Cava
Rich magnetic phase diagram in the Kagome-staircase compound Mn3V2O8
null
null
null
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Mn3V2O8 is a magnetic system in which S = 5/2 Mn2+ is found in the kagome staircase lattice. Here we report the magnetic phase diagram for temperatures above 2 K and applied magnetic fields below 9 T, characterized by measurements of the magnetization and specific heat with field along the three unique lattice directions. At low applied magnetic fields, the system first orders magnetically below Tm1 ~ 21 K, and then shows a second magnetic phase transition at Tm2 ~ 15 K. In addition, a phase transition that is apparent in specific heat but not seen in magnetization is found for all three applied field orientations, converging towards Tm2 as H -> 0. The magnetic behavior is highly anisotropic, with critical fields for magnetic phase boundaries much higher when the field is applied perpendicular to the Kagome staircase plane than when applied in-plane. The field-temperature (H - T) phase diagrams are quite rich, with 7 distinct phases observed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:46:59 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Morosan", "E.", "" ], [ "Fleitman", "J.", "" ], [ "Klimczuk", "T.", "" ], [ "Cava", "R. J.", "" ] ]
0704.1582
David Kyed
David Kyed
L^2-Betti numbers of coamenable quantum groups
Mistake in the proof of Theorem 6.1 is corrected. To appear in Munster Journal of Mathematics. 42 pages
null
null
null
math.OA math.QA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We prove that a compact quantum group is coamenable if and only if its corepresentation ring is amenable. We further propose a Foelner condition for compact quantum groups and prove it to be equivalent to coamenability. Using this Foelner condition, we prove that for a coamenable compact quantum group with tracial Haar state, the enveloping von Neumann algebra is dimension flat over the Hopf algebra of matrix coefficients. This generalizes a theorem of Lueck from the group case to the quantum group case, and provides examples of compact quantum groups with vanishing L^2-Betti numbers.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:00:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:53:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:14:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:12:57 GMT" } ]
2008-11-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Kyed", "David", "" ] ]
0704.1583
Claudio Mendoza
C. Mendoza, M.J. Seaton, P. Buerger, A. Bellorin, M. Melendez, J. Gonzalez, L.S. Rodriguez, F. Delahaye, E. Palacios, A.K. Pradhan, C.J. Zeippen
OPserver: interactive online-computations of opacities and radiative accelerations
5 pages, 1 figure
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:1031-1035,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11837.x
null
astro-ph
null
Codes to compute mean opacities and radiative accelerations for arbitrary chemical mixtures using the Opacity Project recently revised data have been restructured in a client--server architecture and transcribed as a subroutine library. This implementation increases efficiency in stellar modelling where element stratification due to diffusion processes is depth dependent, and thus requires repeated fast opacity reestimates. Three user modes are provided to fit different computing environments, namely a web browser, a local workstation and a distributed grid.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:48:34 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mendoza", "C.", "" ], [ "Seaton", "M. J.", "" ], [ "Buerger", "P.", "" ], [ "Bellorin", "A.", "" ], [ "Melendez", "M.", "" ], [ "Gonzalez", "J.", "" ], [ "Rodriguez", "L. S.", "" ], [ "Delahaye", "F.", "" ], [ "Palacios", "E.", "" ], [ "Pradhan", "A. K.", "" ], [ "Zeippen", "C. J.", "" ] ]
0704.1584
Hannes Leeb
Hannes Leeb, Benedikt M. Poetscher
Can One Estimate The Unconditional Distribution of Post-Model-Selection Estimators?
null
Econometric Theory 24 (2008)
null
null
math.ST stat.ME stat.TH
null
We consider the problem of estimating the unconditional distribution of a post-model-selection estimator. The notion of a post-model-selection estimator here refers to the combined procedure resulting from first selecting a model (e.g., by a model selection criterion like AIC or by a hypothesis testing procedure) and then estimating the parameters in the selected model (e.g., by least-squares or maximum likelihood), all based on the same data set. We show that it is impossible to estimate the unconditional distribution with reasonable accuracy even asymptotically. In particular, we show that no estimator for this distribution can be uniformly consistent (not even locally). This follows as a corollary to (local) minimax lower bounds on the performance of estimators for the distribution; performance is here measured by the probability that the estimation error exceeds a given threshold. These lower bounds are shown to approach 1/2 or even 1 in large samples, depending on the situation considered. Similar impossibility results are also obtained for the distribution of linear functions (e.g., predictors) of the post-model-selection estimator.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:49:09 GMT" } ]
2007-11-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Leeb", "Hannes", "" ], [ "Poetscher", "Benedikt M.", "" ] ]
0704.1585
Ahmed Younes Dr.
Ahmed Younes
Fixed Phase Quantum Search Algorithm
10 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Building quantum devices using fixed operators is a must to simplify the hardware construction. Quantum search engine is not an exception. In this paper, a fixed phase quantum search algorithm that searches for M matches in an unstructured search space of size N will be presented. Selecting phase shifts of 1.91684\pi in the standard amplitude amplification will make the technique perform better so as to get probability of success at least 99.58% in O(sqrt(N/M)) better than any know fixed operator quantum search algorithms. The algorithm will be able to handle either a single match or multiple matches in the search space. The algorithm will find a match in O(sqrt(N/M)) whether the number of matches is known or not in advance.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:17:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:48:49 GMT" } ]
2007-10-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Younes", "Ahmed", "" ] ]
0704.1586
Neil Summers
N.C. Summers and F.M. Nunes
Core excitation in the elastic scattering and breakup of $^{11}$Be on protons
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Phys.Rev.C76:014611,2007; Erratum-ibid..C77:049901,2008
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.014611 10.1103/PhysRev.C77.049901
null
nucl-th
null
The elastic scattering and breakup of $^{11}$Be from a proton target at intermediate energies is studied. We explore the role of core excitation in the reaction mechanism. Comparison with the data suggests that there is still missing physics in the description.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:18:58 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Summers", "N. C.", "" ], [ "Nunes", "F. M.", "" ] ]
0704.1587
Barbara Mattson
Barbara J. Mattson, Kimberly A. Weaver and Christopher S. Reynolds
Possible X-ray diagnostic for jet/disk dominance in Type 1 AGN
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 14 pages
Astrophys.J.664:101-105,2007
10.1086/518783
null
astro-ph
null
Using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Seyfert 1 and 1.2 data spanning 9 years, we study correlations between X-ray spectral features. The sample consists of 350 time-resolved spectra from 12 Seyfert 1 and 1.2 galaxies. Each spectrum is fitted to a model with an intrinsic powerlaw X-ray spectrum produced close to the central black hole that is reprocessed and absorbed by material around the black hole. To test the robustness of our results, we performed Monte Carlo simulations of the spectral sample. We find a complex relationship between the iron line equivalent width (EW) and the underlying power law index (Gamma). The data reveal a correlation between Gamma and EW which turns over at Gamma <~ 2, but finds a weak anti-correlation for steeper photon indices. We propose that this relationship is driven by dilution of a disk spectrum (which includes the narrow iron line) by a beamed jet component and, hence, could be used as a diagnostic of jet-dominance. In addition, our sample shows a strong correlation between the reflection fraction (R) and Gamma, but we find that it is likely the result of modeling degeneracies. We also see the X-ray Baldwin effect (an anti-correlation between the 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity and EW) for the sample as a whole, but not for the individual galaxies and galaxy types.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:19:48 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mattson", "Barbara J.", "" ], [ "Weaver", "Kimberly A.", "" ], [ "Reynolds", "Christopher S.", "" ] ]
0704.1588
Philippe Bonnet
Philippe Bonnet
On algebraic automorphisms and their rational invariants
13 pages
null
null
null
math.AG
null
Let X be an affine irreducible variety over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero. Given an automorphism F, we denote by k(X)^F its field of invariants, i.e. the set of rational functions f on X such that f(F)=f. Let n(F) be the transcendence degree of k(X)^F over k. In this paper, we study the class of automorphisms F of X for which n(F)= dim X - 1. More precisely, we show that under some conditions on X, every such automorphism is of the form F=A_g, where A is an algebraic action of a linear algebraic group G of dimension 1 on X, and where g belongs to G. As an application, we determine the conjugacy classes of automorphisms of the plane for which n(F)=1.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:21:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bonnet", "Philippe", "" ] ]
0704.1589
Lazaros Gallos
Lazaros K. Gallos, Fredrik Liljeros, Panos Argyrakis, Armin Bunde, and Shlomo Havlin
Improving immunization strategies
null
Phys. Rev. E 75, 045104(R) (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.045104
null
physics.soc-ph
null
We introduce an immunization method where the percentage of required vaccinations for immunity are close to the optimal value of a targeted immunization scheme of highest degree nodes. Our strategy retains the advantage of being purely local, without the need of knowledge on the global network structure or identification of the highest degree nodes. The method consists of selecting a random node and asking for a neighbor that has more links than himself or more than a given threshold and immunizing him. We compare this method to other efficient strategies on three real social networks and on a scale-free network model, and find it to be significantly more effective.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:22:20 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gallos", "Lazaros K.", "" ], [ "Liljeros", "Fredrik", "" ], [ "Argyrakis", "Panos", "" ], [ "Bunde", "Armin", "" ], [ "Havlin", "Shlomo", "" ] ]
0704.1590
Mitsuru Kakizaki
Manuel Drees, Hoernisa Iminniyaz, Mitsuru Kakizaki
Constraints on the Very Early Universe from Thermal WIMP Dark Matter
23 pages, 8 figures, comments added
Phys.Rev.D76:103524,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.103524
null
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We investigate the relic density n_\chi of non-relativistic long-lived or stable particles \chi in non-standard cosmological scenarios. We calculate the relic abundance starting from arbitrary initial temperatures of the radiation-dominated epoch, and derive the lower bound on the initial temperature T_0 \geq m_\chi/23, assuming that thermally produced \chi particles account for the dark matter energy density in the universe; this bound holds for all \chi annihilation cross sections. We also investigate cosmological scenarios with modified expansion rate. Even in this case an approximate formula similar to the standard one is capable of predicting the final relic abundance correctly. Choosing the \chi annihilation cross section such that the observed cold dark matter abundance is reproduced in standard cosmology, we constrain possible modifications of the expansion rate at T \sim m_\chi/20, well before Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:36:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:47:31 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Drees", "Manuel", "" ], [ "Iminniyaz", "Hoernisa", "" ], [ "Kakizaki", "Mitsuru", "" ] ]
0704.1591
Stefan Antusch
Stefan Antusch
Flavour-Dependent Type II Leptogenesis
19 pages, 8 figures; v3: minor additions, typos corrected, results and conclusions unchanged
Phys.Rev.D76:023512,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.023512
FTUAM 07-07, IFT-UAM/CSIC 07-18
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We reanalyse leptogenesis via the out-of-equilibrium decay of the lightest right-handed neutrino in type II seesaw scenarios, taking into account flavour-dependent effects. In the type II seesaw mechanism, in addition to the type I seesaw contribution, an additional direct mass term for the light neutrinos is present. We consider type II seesaw scenarios where this additional contribution arises from the vacuum expectation value of a Higgs triplet, and furthermore an effective model-independent approach. We investigate bounds on the flavour-specific decay asymmetries, on the mass of the lightest right-handed neutrino and on the reheat temperature of the early universe, and compare them to the corresponding bounds in the type I seesaw framework. We show that while flavour-dependent thermal type II leptogenesis becomes more efficient for larger mass scale of the light neutrinos, and the bounds become relaxed, the type I seesaw scenario for leptogenesis becomes more constrained. We also argue that in general, flavour-dependent effects cannot be ignored when dealing with leptogenesis in type II seesaw models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:46:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:11:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:06:26 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Antusch", "Stefan", "" ] ]
0704.1592
Kostas Tziotziou
G. Tsiropoula, K. Tziotziou, J. Giannikakis, P. Young, U. Schuehle, P. Heinzel
Multi-wavelength Analysis of a Quiet Solar Region
In press,"Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas" (Coimbra), ASP 368, 171 (2007)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We present observations of a solar quiet region obtained by the ground-based Dutch Open Telescope (DOT), and by instruments on the spacecraft SOHO and TRACE. The observations were obtained during a coordinated observing campaign on October 2005. The aim of this work is to present the rich diversity of fine-scale structures that are found at the network boundaries and their appearance in different instruments and different spectral lines that span the photosphere to the corona. Detailed studies of these structures are crucial to understanding their dynamics in different solar layers, as well as the role such structures play in the mass balance and heating of the solar atmosphere.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:46:19 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Tsiropoula", "G.", "" ], [ "Tziotziou", "K.", "" ], [ "Giannikakis", "J.", "" ], [ "Young", "P.", "" ], [ "Schuehle", "U.", "" ], [ "Heinzel", "P.", "" ] ]
0704.1593
Stefano Pittalis
S. Pittalis, S. Kurth, S. Sharma, E.K.U. Gross
Orbital currents in the Colle-Salvetti correlation energy functional and the degeneracy problem
null
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Popular density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy typically fail to reproduce the degeneracy of different ground states of open-shell atoms. As a remedy, functionals which explicitly depend on the current density have been suggested. We present an analysis of this problem by investigating functionals that explicitly depend on the Kohn-Sham orbitals. Going beyond the exact-exchange approximation by adding correlation in the form of the Colle-Salvetti functional we show how current-dependent terms enter the Colle-Salvetti expression and their relevance is evaluated. A very good description of the degeneracy of ground-states for atoms of the first and second row of the periodic table is obtained.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:48:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:06:57 GMT" } ]
2007-07-31T00:00:00
[ [ "Pittalis", "S.", "" ], [ "Kurth", "S.", "" ], [ "Sharma", "S.", "" ], [ "Gross", "E. K. U.", "" ] ]
0704.1594
Jorge Dukelsky
G. G. Dussel, S. Pittel, J. Dukelsky, and P. Sarriguren
Cooper pairs in atomic nuclei
5 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Rev.C76:011302,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.011302
null
nucl-th
null
We consider the development of Cooper pairs in a self-consistent Hartree Fock mean field for the even Sm isotopes. Results are presented at the level of a BCS treatment, a number-projected BCS treatment and an exact treatment using the Richardson ansatz. While projected BCS captures much of the pairing correlation energy that is absent from BCS, it still misses a sizable correlation energy, typically of order $1 MeV$. Furthermore, because it does not average over the properties of the fermion pairs, the exact Richardson solution permits a more meaningful definition of the Cooper wave function and of the fraction of pairs that are collective.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:49:30 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Dussel", "G. G.", "" ], [ "Pittel", "S.", "" ], [ "Dukelsky", "J.", "" ], [ "Sarriguren", "P.", "" ] ]
0704.1595
Michael Gutnic
Nicolas Besse (IRMA, CEA/DAM), Francis Filbet (IRMA), Michael Gutnic (IRMA), Ioana Paun (IRMA), Eric Sonnendr\"ucker (IRMA)
An adaptive numerical method for the Vlasov equation based on a multiresolution analysis
null
Numerical mathematics and advanced applications. Proceedings of ENUMATH 2001, the 4th European conference, Ischia, July 2001. (2003) 437--446
null
null
math.NA
null
In this paper, we present very first results for the adaptive solution on a grid of the phase space of the Vlasov equation arising in particles accelarator and plasma physics. The numerical algorithm is based on a semi-Lagrangian method while adaptivity is obtained using multiresolution analysis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:54:36 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Besse", "Nicolas", "", "IRMA, CEA/DAM" ], [ "Filbet", "Francis", "", "IRMA" ], [ "Gutnic", "Michael", "", "IRMA" ], [ "Paun", "Ioana", "", "IRMA" ], [ "Sonnendrücker", "Eric", "", "IRMA" ] ]
0704.1596
R. M. Kiehn
R. M. Kiehn
Turbulence and the Navier-Stokes equations
49 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
The concept of continuous topological evolution, based upon Cartan's methods of exterior differential systems, is used to develop a topological theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, within which there exist processes that exhibit continuous topological change and thermodynamic irreversibility. The technique furnishes a universal, topological foundation for the partial differential equations of hydrodynamics and electrodynamics; the technique does not depend upon a metric, connection or a variational principle. Certain topological classes of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations are shown to be equivalent to thermodynamically irreversible processes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:20:20 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kiehn", "R. M.", "" ] ]
0704.1597
Rafael Molina A
Rafael A. Molina and Peter Schmitteckert
Numerical estimation of critical parameters using the Bond entropy
Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Phys. Rev. B 75, 235104 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.235104
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall
null
Using a model of spinless fermions in a lattice with nearest neighbor and next-nearest neighbor interaction we show that the entropy of the reduced two site density matrix (the bond entropy) can be used as an extremely accurate and easy to calculate numerical indicator for the critical parameters of the quantum phase transition when the basic ordering pattern has a two-site periodicity. The actual behavior of the bond entropy depends on the particular characteristics of the transition under study. For the Kosterlitz-Thouless type phase transition from a Luttinger liquid phase to a charge density wave state the bond entropy has a local maximum while in the transition from the Luttinger liquid to the phase separated state the derivative of the bond entropy has a divergence due to the cancelation of the third eigenvalue of the two-site reduced density matrix.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:21:02 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Molina", "Rafael A.", "" ], [ "Schmitteckert", "Peter", "" ] ]
0704.1598
Zach Medin
Zach Medin, Dong Lai (Cornell), Alexander Y. Potekhin (Ioffe Inst., St. Petersburg)
Radiative transitions of the helium atom in highly magnetized neutron star atmospheres
14 pages, 7 figures. Minor changes. MNRAS in press
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 383 (2008) 161-172
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12518.x
null
astro-ph
null
Recent observations of thermally emitting isolated neutron stars revealed spectral features that could be interpreted as radiative transitions of He in a magnetized neutron star atmosphere. We present Hartree-Fock calculations of the polarization-dependent photoionization cross sections of the He atom in strong magnetic fields ranging from 10^12 G to 10^14 G. Convenient fitting formulae for the cross sections are given as well as related oscillator strengths for various bound-bound transitions. The effects of finite nucleus mass on the radiative absorption cross sections are examined using perturbation theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:36:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:25:47 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Medin", "Zach", "", "Cornell" ], [ "Lai", "Dong", "", "Cornell" ], [ "Potekhin", "Alexander Y.", "", "Ioffe Inst.,\n St. Petersburg" ] ]
0704.1599
Hiroki Takahasi
Hiroki Takahasi
Critical points for surface maps and the Benedicks-Carleson theorem
This paper has been withdrawn by the author. 65 pages, no figure, a new section is added which deals with a model problem
null
null
null
math.DS
null
We give an alternative proof of the Benedicks-Carleson theorem on the existence of strange attractors in H\'enon-like families in the plane. To bypass a huge inductive argument, we introduce an induction-free explicit definition of dynamically critical points. The argument is sufficiently general and in particular applies to the case of non-invertible maps as well. It naturally raises the question of an intrinsic characterization of dynamically critical points for dissipative surface maps.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:37:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 May 2007 23:51:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 23 May 2007 14:49:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:52:45 GMT" } ]
2010-11-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Takahasi", "Hiroki", "" ] ]
0704.1600
Lucia Pozzetti
L. Pozzetti, M. Bolzonella, F. Lamareille, G. Zamorani, P. Franzetti, O. Le F\`evre, A. Iovino, S. Temporin, O. Ilbert, S. Arnouts, S. Charlot, J. Brinchmann, E. Zucca, L. Tresse, M. Scodeggio, L. Guzzo, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, J. P. Picat, R. Scaramella, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Bardelli, A. Cappi, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, I. Gavignaud, H. J. McCracken, B. Marano, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pell\`o, A. Pollo, M. Radovich, M. Bondi, A. Bongiorno, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. Gregorini, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, D. Vergani, C. J. Walcher
The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. The Assembly History of the Stellar Mass in Galaxies: from the Young to the Old Universe
20 pages with 12 encapsulated figures. Version accepted by A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077609
null
astro-ph
null
We present a detailed analysis of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function of galaxies up to z=2.5 as obtained from the VVDS. We estimate the stellar mass from broad-band photometry using 2 different assumptions on the galaxy star formation history and show that the addition of secondary bursts to a continuous star formation history produces systematically higher (up to 40%) stellar masses. At low redshift (z=0.2) we find a substantial population of low-mass galaxies (<10^9 Msun) composed by faint blue galaxies (M_I-M_K=0.3). In general the stellar mass function evolves slowly up to z=0.9 and more significantly above this redshift. Conversely, a massive tail is present up to z=2.5 and have extremely red colours (M_I-M_K=0.7-0.8). We find a decline with redshift of the overall number density of galaxies for all masses (59+-5% for M>10^8 Msun at z=1), and a mild mass-dependent average evolution (`mass-downsizing'). In particular our data are consistent with mild/negligible (<30%) evolution up to z=0.7 for massive galaxies (>6x10^10 Msun). For less massive systems the no-evolution scenario is excluded. A large fraction (>=50%) of massive galaxies have been already assembled and converted most of their gas into stars at z=1, ruling out the `dry mergers' as the major mechanism of their assembly history below z=1. This fraction decreases to 33% at z=2. Low-mass systems have decreased continuously in number and mass density (by a factor up to 4) from the present age to z=2, consistently with a prolonged mass assembly also at z<1.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:42:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:34:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Pozzetti", "L.", "" ], [ "Bolzonella", "M.", "" ], [ "Lamareille", "F.", "" ], [ "Zamorani", "G.", "" ], [ "Franzetti", "P.", "" ], [ "Fèvre", "O. Le", "" ], [ "Iovino", "A.", "" ], [ "Temporin", "S.", "" ], [ "Ilbert", "O.", "" ], [ "Arnouts", "S.", "" ], [ "Charlot", "S.", "" ], [ "Brinchmann", "J.", "" ], [ "Zucca", "E.", "" ], [ "Tresse", "L.", "" ], [ "Scodeggio", "M.", "" ], [ "Guzzo", "L.", "" ], [ "Bottini", "D.", "" ], [ "Garilli", "B.", "" ], [ "Brun", "V. Le", "" ], [ "Maccagni", "D.", "" ], [ "Picat", "J. P.", "" ], [ "Scaramella", "R.", "" ], [ "Vettolani", "G.", "" ], [ "Zanichelli", "A.", "" ], [ "Adami", "C.", "" ], [ "Bardelli", "S.", "" ], [ "Cappi", "A.", "" ], [ "Ciliegi", "P.", "" ], [ "Contini", "T.", "" ], [ "Foucaud", "S.", "" ], [ "Gavignaud", "I.", "" ], [ "McCracken", "H. J.", "" ], [ "Marano", "B.", "" ], [ "Marinoni", "C.", "" ], [ "Mazure", "A.", "" ], [ "Meneux", "B.", "" ], [ "Merighi", "R.", "" ], [ "Paltani", "S.", "" ], [ "Pellò", "R.", "" ], [ "Pollo", "A.", "" ], [ "Radovich", "M.", "" ], [ "Bondi", "M.", "" ], [ "Bongiorno", "A.", "" ], [ "Cucciati", "O.", "" ], [ "de la Torre", "S.", "" ], [ "Gregorini", "L.", "" ], [ "Mellier", "Y.", "" ], [ "Merluzzi", "P.", "" ], [ "Vergani", "D.", "" ], [ "Walcher", "C. J.", "" ] ]