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0705.2598
Rachel Street
R.A. Street, D.J. Christian, W.I. Clarkson, A. Collier Cameron, B. Enoch, S.R. Kane, T.A. Lister, R.G. West, D.M. Wilson, A. Evans, A. Fitzsimmons, C.A. Haswell, C. Hellier, S.T. Hodgkin, K. Horne, J. Irwin, F.P. Keenan, A.J. Norton, J. Osborne, D.L. Pollacco, R. Ryans, I. Skillen, P.J. Wheatley, J. Barnes
SuperWASP-N Extra-solar Planet Candidates Between 18hr < RA < 21hr
20 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:816-832,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11987.x
null
astro-ph
null
The SuperWASP-I instrument observed 6.7 million stars between 8-15 mag from La Palma during the 2004 May-September season. Our transit-hunting algorithm selected 11,626 objects from the 184,442 stars within the range RA 18hr-21hr. We describe our thorough selection procedure whereby catalogue information is exploited along with careful study of the SuperWASP data to filter out, as far as possible, transit mimics. We have identified 35 candidates which we recommend for follow-up observations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 20:19:12 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Street", "R. A.", "" ], [ "Christian", "D. J.", "" ], [ "Clarkson", "W. I.", "" ], [ "Cameron", "A. Collier", "" ], [ "Enoch", "B.", "" ], [ "Kane", "S. R.", "" ], [ "Lister", "T. A.", "" ], [ "West", "R. G.", "" ], [ "Wilson", "D. M.", "" ], [ "Evans", "A.", "" ], [ "Fitzsimmons", "A.", "" ], [ "Haswell", "C. A.", "" ], [ "Hellier", "C.", "" ], [ "Hodgkin", "S. T.", "" ], [ "Horne", "K.", "" ], [ "Irwin", "J.", "" ], [ "Keenan", "F. P.", "" ], [ "Norton", "A. J.", "" ], [ "Osborne", "J.", "" ], [ "Pollacco", "D. L.", "" ], [ "Ryans", "R.", "" ], [ "Skillen", "I.", "" ], [ "Wheatley", "P. J.", "" ], [ "Barnes", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.2599
Alvaro de Souza Dutra
A. de Souza Dutra (UNESP-Campus de Guaratingueta-DFQ)
Quantum propagator for some classes of three-dimensional three-body systems
16 pages, no figures
Annals of Physics, vol. 321, Issue 5, May 2006, Pages 1092-1102
10.1016/j.aop.2005.09.007
null
quant-ph
null
In this work we solve exactly a class of three-body propagators for the most general quadratic interactions in the coordinates, for arbitrary masses and couplings. This is done both for the constant as the time-dependent couplings and masses, by using the Feynman path integral formalism. Finally the energy spectrum and the eigenfunctions are recovered from the propagators.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 16:15:47 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dutra", "A. de Souza", "", "UNESP-Campus de Guaratingueta-DFQ" ] ]
0705.2600
David Clarke
David Clarke
Thickness Dependence of the Reorientation Phase Transition
null
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
This report examines the thickness dependence of the reorientation phase transition in ferromagnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy. That is, we find the exact boundary of metastability of uniformly magnetized in-plane states as the solution to a set of transcendental algebraic equations, and find the profile of the initial instability in the magnetization in the direction normal to the plane of the film. In general, this instability occurs at a finite wave number k. We determine the dependence of k on the film thickness.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 20:36:43 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Clarke", "David", "" ] ]
0705.2601
Lawrence Friedman
Lawrence H. Friedman
Predicting and Understanding Order of Heteroepitaxial Quantum Dots
under review
Journal of Electronic Materials 36, 1546 (2007)
10.1007/s11664-007-0246-x
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Heteroepitaxial self-assembled quantum dots (SAQDs) will allow breakthroughs in electronics and optoelectronics. SAQDs are a result of Stranski-Krastanow growth whereby a growing planar film becomes unstable after an initial wetting layer is formed. Common systems are Ge$_{x}$Si$_{1-x}$/Si and In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As/GaAs. For applications, SAQD arrays need to be ordered. The role of crystal anisotropy, random initial conditions and thermal fluctuations in influencing SAQD order during early stages of SAQD formation is studied through a simple stochastic model of surface diffusion. Surface diffusion is analyzed through a linear and perturbatively nonlinear analysis. The role of crystal anisotropy in enhancing SAQD order is elucidated. It is also found that SAQD order is enhanced when the deposited film is allowed to evolve at heights near the critical wetting surface height that marks the onset of non-planar film growth.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 20:46:39 GMT" } ]
2008-09-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Friedman", "Lawrence H.", "" ] ]
0705.2602
Sandy Leggett
S. K. Leggett (Gemini Observatory), M. S. Marley (NASA Ames), R. Freedman (SETI), D. Saumon (LANL), Michael C. Liu (University of Hawaii), T. R. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), D. A. Golimowski (Johns Hopkins University), D. C. Stephens (BYU)
Physical and Spectral Characteristics of the T8 and Later-Type Dwarfs
34 pages including 10 figures and two tables; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Astrophys.J.667:537-548,2007
10.1086/519948
null
astro-ph
null
We use new and published near-IR spectra, with synthetic spectra, to derive physical properties of three of the latest-type T dwarfs. A new R~1700 spectrum of the T7.5 dwarf HD 3651B, with existing data, allows a detailed comparison to the well-studied and very similar dwarf, Gl 570D. We find that HD 3651B has both higher gravity and metallicity than Gl 570D, with Teff=820-830K, log g= 5.4-5.5, [m/H]= +0.2 and Kzz=10^4cm^2/s. Its age is 8-12 Gyr and its implied mass is 60-70 M_Jup. We perform a similar analyis of the T8 and T7.5 dwarfs 2MASS J09393548-2448279 and 2MASS J11145133-2618235 using published data, comparing them to the well-studied T8, 2MASS J04151954-0935066. We find that the two dwarfs have the same Teff as the reference dwarf, and similar gravities, but lower metallicities. The parameters are Teff=725-775K and [m/H]= -0.3; log g=5.3-5.45 for 2MASS J09393548-2448279 and log g=5.0-5.3 for 2MASS J11145133- 261823. The age and mass are ~10Gyr and 60M_Jup for 2MASS J09393548-2448279, and ~5 Gyr and 40M_Jup for 2MASS J11145133-261823. A serious limitation is the incompleteness of the line lists of CH4 and NH3 at lambda <1.7um. Spectra of Saturn and Jupiter, and of laboratory CH4 and NH3 gas, suggest that NH3 features in the Y- and J-bands may be useful as indicators of the next cooler spectral type, and not features in the H- and K-bands as previously thought. However large uncertainties remain, as the abundance of NH3 is likely to be significantly below the chemical equilibrium value, and inclusion of laboratory NH3 opacities predicts band shapes that are discrepant with existing data. It is possible that the T spectral class will have to be extended to low temperatures around 400K, when water clouds condense in the atmosphere [abridged].
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 20:47:22 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Leggett", "S. K.", "", "Gemini Observatory" ], [ "Marley", "M. S.", "", "NASA Ames" ], [ "Freedman", "R.", "", "SETI" ], [ "Saumon", "D.", "", "LANL" ], [ "Liu", "Michael C.", "", "University of Hawaii" ], [ "Geballe", "T. R.", "", "Gemini Observatory" ], [ "Golimowski", "D. A.", "", "Johns Hopkins University" ], [ "Stephens", "D. C.", "", "BYU" ] ]
0705.2603
Tim Lister
T. A. Lister, R. G. West, D. M. Wilson, A. Collier Cameron, W. I. Clarkson, R. A. Street, B. Enoch, N. R. Parley, D. J. Christian, S. R. Kane, A. Evans, A. Fitzsimmons, C. A. Haswell, C. Hellier, S. T. Hodgkin, Keith Horne, J. Irwin, F. P. Keenan, A. J. Norton, J. Osborne, D. L. Pollacco, R. Ryans, I. Skillen, P. J. Wheatley, J. R. Barnes
SuperWASP-North Extrasolar Planet Candidates. Candidates from Fields 17hr < RA < 18hr
17 pages, 24 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:647-662,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11948.x
null
astro-ph
null
We have performed photometric observations of nearly 7 million stars with 8 < V < 15 with the SuperWASP-North instrument from La Palma between 2004 May-September. Fields in the RA range 17-18hr, yielding over 185,000 stars with sufficient quality data, have been searched for transits using a modified box least-squares (BLS) algorithm. We find a total of 58 initial transiting candidates which have high S/N in the BLS, show multiple transit-like dips and have passed visual inspection. Analysis of the blending and inferred planetary radii for these candidates leaves a total of 7 transiting planet candidates which pass all the tests plus 4 which pass the majority. We discuss the derived parameters for these candidates and their properties and comment on the implications for future transit searches.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 21:14:38 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Lister", "T. A.", "" ], [ "West", "R. G.", "" ], [ "Wilson", "D. M.", "" ], [ "Cameron", "A. Collier", "" ], [ "Clarkson", "W. I.", "" ], [ "Street", "R. A.", "" ], [ "Enoch", "B.", "" ], [ "Parley", "N. R.", "" ], [ "Christian", "D. J.", "" ], [ "Kane", "S. R.", "" ], [ "Evans", "A.", "" ], [ "Fitzsimmons", "A.", "" ], [ "Haswell", "C. A.", "" ], [ "Hellier", "C.", "" ], [ "Hodgkin", "S. T.", "" ], [ "Horne", "Keith", "" ], [ "Irwin", "J.", "" ], [ "Keenan", "F. P.", "" ], [ "Norton", "A. J.", "" ], [ "Osborne", "J.", "" ], [ "Pollacco", "D. L.", "" ], [ "Ryans", "R.", "" ], [ "Skillen", "I.", "" ], [ "Wheatley", "P. J.", "" ], [ "Barnes", "J. R.", "" ] ]
0705.2604
Tshilidzi Marwala
Tshilidzi Marwala and Christina Busisiwe Vilakazi
Computational Intelligence for Condition Monitoring
23 pages
null
null
null
cs.CE
null
Condition monitoring techniques are described in this chapter. Two aspects of condition monitoring process are considered: (1) feature extraction; and (2) condition classification. Feature extraction methods described and implemented are fractals, Kurtosis and Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients. Classification methods described and implemented are support vector machines (SVM), hidden Markov models (HMM), Gaussian mixture models (GMM) and extension neural networks (ENN). The effectiveness of these features were tested using SVM, HMM, GMM and ENN on condition monitoring of bearings and are found to give good results.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 21:20:58 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Marwala", "Tshilidzi", "" ], [ "Vilakazi", "Christina Busisiwe", "" ] ]
0705.2605
N. Raj Rao
N. Raj Rao and Alan Edelman
Sample eigenvalue based detection of high dimensional signals in white noise using relatively few samples
Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (In Review)
null
null
null
math.ST stat.TH
null
We present a mathematically justifiable, computationally simple, sample eigenvalue based procedure for estimating the number of high-dimensional signals in white noise using relatively few samples. The main motivation for considering a sample eigenvalue based scheme is the computational simplicity and the robustness to eigenvector modelling errors which are can adversely impact the performance of estimators that exploit information in the sample eigenvectors. There is, however, a price we pay by discarding the information in the sample eigenvectors; we highlight a fundamental asymptotic limit of sample eigenvalue based detection of weak/closely spaced high-dimensional signals from a limited sample size. This motivates our heuristic definition of the effective number of identifiable signals which is equal to the number of "signal" eigenvalues of the population covariance matrix which exceed the noise variance by a factor strictly greater than 1+sqrt(Dimensionality of the system/Sample size). The fundamental asymptotic limit brings into sharp focus why, when there are too few samples available so that the effective number of signals is less than the actual number of signals, underestimation of the model order is unavoidable (in an asymptotic sense) when using any sample eigenvalue based detection scheme, including the one proposed herein. The analysis reveals why adding more sensors can only exacerbate the situation. Numerical simulations are used to demonstrate that the proposed estimator consistently estimates the true number of signals in the dimension fixed, large sample size limit and the effective number of identifiable signals in the large dimension, large sample size limit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 21:43:41 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Rao", "N. Raj", "" ], [ "Edelman", "Alan", "" ] ]
0705.2606
Henning Samtleben
Henning Samtleben, Martin Weidner
Gauging hidden symmetries in two dimensions
38 pages, 2 figures, v2: minor corrections, version published in JHEP
JHEP0708:076,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/076
ENSL-00147449
hep-th
null
We initiate the systematic construction of gauged matter-coupled supergravity theories in two dimensions. Subgroups of the affine global symmetry group of toroidally compactified supergravity can be gauged by coupling vector fields with minimal couplings and a particular topological term. The gauge groups typically include hidden symmetries that are not among the target-space isometries of the ungauged theory. The possible gaugings are described group-theoretically in terms of a constant embedding tensor subject to a number of constraints which parametrizes the different theories and entirely encodes the gauged Lagrangian. The prime example is the bosonic sector of the maximally supersymmetric theory whose ungauged version admits an affine E_9 global symmetry algebra. The various parameters (related to higher-dimensional p-form fluxes, geometric and non-geometric fluxes, etc.) which characterize the possible gaugings, combine into an embedding tensor transforming in the basic representation of E_9. This yields an infinite-dimensional class of maximally supersymmetric theories in two dimensions. We work out and discuss several examples of higher-dimensional origin which can be systematically analyzed using the different gradings of E_9.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 13:54:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 5 Nov 2007 22:31:50 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Samtleben", "Henning", "" ], [ "Weidner", "Martin", "" ] ]
0705.2607
Max Shpak
Max Shpak
Selection Against Demographic Stochasticity in Age-Structured Populations
null
null
null
null
q-bio.PE
null
It has been shown that differences in fecundity variance can influence the probability of invasion of a genotype in a population, i.e. a genotype with lower variance in offspring number can be favored in finite populations even if it has a somewhat lower mean fitness than a competitor. In this paper, Gillespie's results are extended to population genetic systems with explicit age structure, where the demographic variance (variance in growth rate) calculated in the work of Engen and colleagues is used as a generalization of "variance in offspring number" to predict the interaction between deterministic and random forces driving change in allele frequency. By calculating the variance from the life history parameters, it is shown that selection against variance in the growth rate will favor a genotypes with lower stochasticity in age specific survival and fertility rates. A diffusion approximation for selection and drift in a population with two genotypes with different life history matrices (and therefore, different growth rates and demographic variances) is derived and shown to be consistent with individual based simulations. It is also argued that for finite populations, perturbation analyses of both the growth rate and demographic variances may be necessary to determine the sensitivity of "fitness" (broadly defined) to changes in the life history parameters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 21:44:00 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Shpak", "Max", "" ] ]
0705.2608
Tadashi Ochiai
Tadashi Ochiai, Fabien Trihan
On the Selmer groups of abelian varieties over function fields of characteristic p>0
21 pages
null
10.1017/S0305004108001801
null
math.NT math.AG
null
In this paper, we study a (p-adic) geometric analogue for abelian varieties over a function field of characteristic p of the cyclotomic Iwasawa theory and the non-commutative Iwasawa theory for abelian varieties over a number field initiated by Mazur and Coates respectively. We will prove some analogue of the principal results obtained in the case over a number field and we study new phenomena which did not happen in the case of number field case. We propose also a conjecture which might be considered as a counterpart of the principal conjecture in the case over a number field. \par This is a preprint which is distributed since 2005 which is still in the process of submision. Following a recent modification of some technical mistakes in the previous version of the paper as well as an amelioration of the presentation of the paper, we decide wider distribution via the archive.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 21:46:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ochiai", "Tadashi", "" ], [ "Trihan", "Fabien", "" ] ]
0705.2609
Andrey Grozin
A. G. Grozin, T. Huber, D. Maitre
On one master integral for three-loop on-shell HQET propagator diagrams with mass
6 pages, 1 figure; v3: completely re-written, 2 new authors, many new results, additional references
JHEP0707:033,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/033
null
hep-ph
null
An exact expression for the master integral I_2 arising in three-loop on-shell HQET propagator diagrams with mass is derived and its analytical expansion in the dimensional regularization parameter epsilon is given.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 22:10:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 22 May 2007 17:03:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:09:05 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Grozin", "A. G.", "" ], [ "Huber", "T.", "" ], [ "Maitre", "D.", "" ] ]
0705.2610
Rudy Gilmore
Rudy C. Gilmore
Mass Limits on Neutralino Dark Matter
11 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:043520,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043520
null
hep-ph
null
We set an upper limit on the mass of a supersymmetric neutralino dark matter particle using the MicrOMEGAS and DarkSUSY software packages and the most recent constraints on relic density from combined WMAP and SDSS data. We explore several different possible scenarios within the MSSM, including coannihilation with charginos and sfermions and annihilation through a massive Higgs resonance, using low energy mass inputs. We find that no coannihilation scenario is consistent with dark matter in observed abundance with a mass greater than 2.5 TeV for a wino--type particle or 1.8 TeV for a Higgsino--type. Contrived scenarios involving Higgs resonances with finely--tuned mass parameters can allow masses as high as 34 TeV. The resulting gamma--ray energy distribution is not in agreement with the recent multi--TeV gamma ray spectrum observed by H.E.S.S. originating from the center of the Milky Way. Our results are relevent only for dark matter densities resulting from a thermal origin.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 22:14:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:55:01 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Gilmore", "Rudy C.", "" ] ]
0705.2611
Kimball A. Milton
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, K. V. Shajesh, Jef Wagner
How does Casimir energy fall? II. Gravitational acceleration of quantum vacuum energy
8 pages, no figures, REVTeX4, appendix and references added
J.Phys.A40:10935-10943,2007
10.1088/1751-8113/40/35/014
null
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
null
It has been demonstrated that quantum vacuum energy gravitates according to the equivalence principle, at least for the finite Casimir energies associated with perfectly conducting parallel plates. We here add further support to this conclusion by considering parallel semitransparent plates, that is, delta-function potentials, acting on a massless scalar field, in a spacetime defined by Rindler coordinates (tau,x,y,xi). Fixed xi in such a spacetime represents uniform acceleration. We calculate the force on systems consisting of one or two such plates at fixed values of xi. In the limit of large Rindler coordinate xi (small acceleration), we recover (via the equivalence principle) the situation of weak gravity, and find that the gravitational force on the system is just Mg, where g is the gravitational acceleration and M is the total mass of the system, consisting of the mass of the plates renormalized by the Casimir energy of each plate separately, plus the energy of the Casimir interaction between the plates. This reproduces the previous result in the limit as the coupling to the delta-function potential approaches infinity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 22:42:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:21:04 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Milton", "Kimball A.", "" ], [ "Parashar", "Prachi", "" ], [ "Shajesh", "K. V.", "" ], [ "Wagner", "Jef", "" ] ]
0705.2612
Mario Silveirinha G.
Mario Silveirinha, Nader Engheta
Theory of Supercoupling, Squeezing Wave Energy, and Field Confinement in Narrow Channels and Tight Bends Using Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials
under review
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.245109
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
In this work, we investigate the detailed theory of the supercoupling, anomalous tunneling effect, and field confinement originally identified in [M. Silveirinha, N. Engheta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 157403, (2006)], where we demonstrated the possibility of using materials with permittivity near zero to drastically improve the transmission of electromagnetic energy through a narrow irregular channel with very subwavelength transverse cross-section. Here, we present additional physical insights, describe new applications of the tunneling effect in relevant waveguide scenarios (e.g., the "perfect" or "super" waveguide coupling), study the effect of metal losses in the metallic walls, and the possibility of using epsilon-near zero materials to confine energy in a subwavelength cavity with gigantic field enhancement. In addition, we systematically study the propagation of electromagnetic waves through narrow channels filled with anisotropic epsilon-near zero materials. It is demonstrated that these materials may have interesting potentials, and that for some particular geometries the reflectivity of the channel is independent of the specific dimensions or parameters of epsilon-near zero transition. We also describe several realistic metamaterial implementations of the studied problems, based on standard metallic waveguides, microstrip line configurations, and wire media.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 22:44:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:08:47 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Silveirinha", "Mario", "" ], [ "Engheta", "Nader", "" ] ]
0705.2613
Adan Cabello
Adan Cabello, Pilar Moreno
Bipartite all-versus-nothing proofs of Bell's theorem with single-qubit measurements
REVTeX4, 4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 220402
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.220402
null
quant-ph
null
If we distribute n qubits between two parties, which quantum pure states and distributions of qubits would allow all-versus-nothing (or Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like) proofs of Bell's theorem using only single-qubit measurements? We show a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of these proofs for any number of qubits, and provide all distinct proofs up to n=7 qubits. Remarkably, there is only one distribution of a state of n=4 qubits, and six distributions, each for a different state of n=6 qubits, which allow these proofs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 23:16:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:52:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:33:42 GMT" } ]
2009-07-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Cabello", "Adan", "" ], [ "Moreno", "Pilar", "" ] ]
0705.2614
Vadim Astakhov
Vadim Astakhov, Tamara Astakhova
Brain Prostheses as a Dynamic System (Immortalizing the Human Brain?)
9 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
Interest in development of brain prostheses, which might be proposed to recover mental functions lost due to neuron-degenerative disease or trauma, requires new methods in molecular engineering and nanotechnology to build artificial brain tissues. We develop a Dynamic Core model to analyze complexity of damaged biological neural network as well as transition and recovery of the system functionality due to changes in the system environment. We provide a method to model complexity of physical systems which might be proposed as an artificial tissue or prosthesis. Delocalization of Dynamic Core model is developed to analyze migration of mental functions in dynamic bio-systems which undergo architecture transition induced by trauma. Term Dynamic Core is used to define a set of causally related functions and Delocalization is used to describe the process of migration. Information geometry and topological formalisms are proposed to analyze information processes. A holographic model is proposed to construct dynamic environment with self-poetic Dynamic Core which preserve functional properties under transition from one host to another. We found statistical constraints for complex systems which conserve a Dynamic Core under environment transition. Also we suggest those constraints might provide recommendations for nanotechnologies and tissue engineering used in development of an artificial brain tissue.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 23:18:29 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Astakhov", "Vadim", "" ], [ "Astakhova", "Tamara", "" ] ]
0705.2615
Takasada Shibauchi
Y. Shimono, T. Shibauchi, Y. Kasahara, T. Kato, K. Hashimoto, Y. Matsuda, J. Yamaura, Y. Nagao, and Z. Hiroi
Effects of Rattling Phonons on the Quasiparticle Excitation and Dynamics in the Superconducting $\beta$-Pyrochlore KOs$_2$O$_6$
5 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 257004 (2007).
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.257004
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
null
Microwave penetration depth $\lambda$ and surface resistance at 27 GHz are measured in high quality crystals of KOs$_2$O$_6$. Firm evidence for fully-gapped superconductivity is provided from $\lambda(T)$. Below the second transition at $T_{\rm p}\sim 8$ K, the superfluid density shows a step-like change with a suppression of effective critical temperature $T_{\rm c}$. Concurrently, the extracted quasiparticle scattering time shows a steep enhancement, indicating a strong coupling between the anomalous rattling motion of K ions and quasiparticles. The results imply that the rattling phonons help to enhance superconductivity, and that K sites freeze to an ordered state with long quasiparticle mean free path below $T_{\rm p}$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 23:23:33 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Shimono", "Y.", "" ], [ "Shibauchi", "T.", "" ], [ "Kasahara", "Y.", "" ], [ "Kato", "T.", "" ], [ "Hashimoto", "K.", "" ], [ "Matsuda", "Y.", "" ], [ "Yamaura", "J.", "" ], [ "Nagao", "Y.", "" ], [ "Hiroi", "Z.", "" ] ]
0705.2616
Roberto Bonciani
U. Aglietti, R. Bonciani, L. Grassi and E. Remiddi
The Two Loop Crossed Ladder Vertex Diagram with Two Massive Exchanges
42 pages, 1 figure
Nucl.Phys.B789:45-83,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.07.019
ROME1/1446-06, IFIC/07-22
hep-ph
null
We compute the (three) master integrals for the crossed ladder diagram with two exchanged quanta of equal mass. The differential equations obeyed by the master integrals are used to generate power series expansions centered around all the singular (plus some regular) points, which are then matched numerically with high accuracy. The expansions allow a fast and precise numerical calculation of the three master integrals (better than 15 digits with less than 30 terms in the whole real axis). A conspicuous relation with the equal-mass sunrise in two dimensions is found. Comparison with a previous large momentum expansion is made finding complete agreement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 23:25:52 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Aglietti", "U.", "" ], [ "Bonciani", "R.", "" ], [ "Grassi", "L.", "" ], [ "Remiddi", "E.", "" ] ]
0705.2617
Zhang Xiao-Bing
Xiao-Bing Zhang
Note on color neutral solutions of the $K^0$ condensed color-flavor locked phase
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
In the presence of nonzero strange quark mass $m_s$, we investigate color neutrality in the $K^0$ condensed phase of color-flavor locked quark matter. By treating the $m_s$ effects on both kaon condensate and Fermi-surface phenomenon self-consistently, we develop a new treatment to evaluate color neutral solutions within the model-independent framework. It is pointed out that, in the general sense, the expectation values of gluon fields obtained from dynamics of Goldstone bosons solely are not identified with the factual color chemical potentials.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 00:19:41 GMT" } ]
2017-03-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhang", "Xiao-Bing", "" ] ]
0705.2618
Thorwald Stein
P. Horvai, S. V. Nazarenko, T. H. M. Stein (University of Warwick)
Coalescence of particles by differential sedimentation
26 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by J.Stat.Phys., 12 November 2007. Sections 2.4 and 3.1 expanded for more elaborate derivation of equations
null
10.1007/s10955-007-9466-y
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We consider a three dimensional system consisting of a large number of small spherical particles, distributed in a range of sizes and heights (with uniform distribution in the horizontal direction). Particles move vertically at a size-dependent terminal velocity. They are either allowed to merge whenever they cross or there is a size ratio criterion enforced to account for collision efficiency. Such a system may be described, in mean field approximation, by the Smoluchowski kinetic equation with a differential sedimentation kernel, used to study e.g. rain initiation and particle distributions in the atmosphere. We solve the kinetic equation analytically to obtain steady state and self-similar solutions in time and in height, using methods borrowed from weak turbulence theory. Analytical results are compared with direct numerical simulations (DNS) of moving and merging particles, and a good agreement is found.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 00:31:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:16:51 GMT" } ]
2007-12-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Horvai", "P.", "", "University of Warwick" ], [ "Nazarenko", "S. V.", "", "University of Warwick" ], [ "Stein", "T. H. M.", "", "University of Warwick" ] ]
0705.2619
Kevin Heng
Kevin Heng, Matthew van Adelsberg, Richard McCray and John C. Raymond
The Transition Zone in Balmer-Dominated Shocks
25 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by Astrophysical Journal
null
10.1086/521298
null
astro-ph
null
We examine the structure of the post-shock region in supernova remnants (SNRs). The ``shock transition zone'' is set up by charge transfer and ionization events between atoms and ions, and has a width $\sim 10^{15}$ cm$^{-2}$ $n^{-1}_0$, where $n_0$ is the total pre-shock density (including both atoms and ions). For Balmer-dominated SNRs with shock velocity $v_s \gtrsim 1000$ km s$^{-1}$, the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions for ion velocity and temperature are obeyed instantly, leaving the full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the broad H$\alpha$ line versus $v_s$ relation intact. However, the spatial variation in the post-shock densities is relevant to the problem of Ly$\alpha$ resonant scattering in young, core-collapse SNRs. Both two- (pre-shock atoms and ions) and three-component (pre-shock atoms, broad neutrals and ions) models are considered. We compute the spatial emissivities of the broad ($\xi_b$) and narrow ($\xi_n$) H$\alpha$ lines; a calculation of these emissivities in SN 1006 is in general agreement with the computed ones of Raymond et al. (2007). The (dimensionless) spatial shift, $\Theta_{\rm{shift}}$, between the centroids of $\xi_b$ and $\xi_n$ is unique for a given shock velocity and $f_{\rm{ion}}$, the pre-shock ion fraction. Measurements of $\Theta_{\rm{shift}}$ can be used to constrain $n_0$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 00:42:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:58:30 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Heng", "Kevin", "" ], [ "van Adelsberg", "Matthew", "" ], [ "McCray", "Richard", "" ], [ "Raymond", "John C.", "" ] ]
0705.2620
Anton Dochtermann
Anton Dochtermann
Homotopy groups of Hom complexes of graphs
20 pages, 6 figures, final version, to be published in J. Combin. Theory Ser. A
null
null
null
math.CO math.AT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The notion of $\times$-homotopy from \cite{DocHom} is investigated in the context of the category of pointed graphs. The main result is a long exact sequence that relates the higher homotopy groups of the space $\Hom_*(G,H)$ with the homotopy groups of $\Hom_*(G,H^I)$. Here $\Hom_*(G,H)$ is a space which parametrizes pointed graph maps from $G$ to $H$ (a pointed version of the usual $\Hom$ complex), and $H^I$ is the graph of based paths in $H$. As a corollary it is shown that $\pi_i \big(\Hom_*(G,H) \big) \cong [G,\Omega^i H]_{\times}$, where $\Omega H$ is the graph of based closed paths in $H$ and $[G,K]_{\times}$ is the set of $\times$-homotopy classes of pointed graph maps from $G$ to $K$. This is similar in spirit to the results of \cite{BBLL}, where the authors seek a space whose homotopy groups encode a similarly defined homotopy theory for graphs. The categorical connections to those constructions are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 00:50:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 15 May 2008 10:35:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:18:21 GMT" } ]
2008-07-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Dochtermann", "Anton", "" ] ]
0705.2621
Guo-Li Wang
Guo-Li Wang
Decay constants of $P$-wave mesons
11 pages,5 tables,version to be published in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett.B650:15-21,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.05.001
null
hep-ph
null
Decay constants of $P$-wave mesons are computed in the framework of instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter method (Salpeter method). By analyzing the parity and possible charge conjugation parity, we give the relativistic configurations of wave functions with definite parity and possible charge conjugation parity. With these wave functions as input, the full Salpeter equations for different $P$-wave states are solved, and the mass spectra as well as the numerical values of wave functions are obtained. Finally we compute the leptonic decay constants of heavy-heavy and heavy-light $^3P_0$, $^3P_1$ and $^1P_1$ states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 01:13:39 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "Guo-Li", "" ] ]
0705.2622
Murugeswaran Duraisamy
Murugeswaran Duraisamy
Unparticle physics in e^+ e^- annihilation
this paper has been withdrawn
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
In the recent past,unparticle physics effects have been explored in detail in both the fermionic and bosonic sectors. We have used fermionic unparticles to study the cross-section of electron-positron annihilation to light pseudo-scalar meson pairs e^+e^- ->PP. We show that this cross-section is sensitive to the scaling dimension d_U<1.4.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 14:01:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 22 May 2007 01:55:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 27 May 2007 02:23:39 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Duraisamy", "Murugeswaran", "" ] ]
0705.2623
Dale Rolfsen
Adam Clay and Dale Rolfsen
Densely ordered braid subgroups
null
null
null
null
math.GR math.AT
null
Dehornoy showed that the Artin braid groups $B_n$ are left-orderable. This ordering is discrete, but we show that, for $n >2$ the Dehornoy ordering, when restricted to certain natural subgroups, becomes a dense ordering. Among subgroups which arise are the commutator subgroup and the kernel of the Burau representation (for those $n$ for which the kernel is nontrivial). These results follow from a characterization of least positive elements of any normal subgroup of $B_n$ which is discretely ordered by the Dehornoy ordering.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 19:42:18 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Clay", "Adam", "" ], [ "Rolfsen", "Dale", "" ] ]
0705.2624
Bing Dong
Bing Dong, X.L. Lei, N. J. M. Horing
Elimination of negative differential conductance in an asymmetric molecular transistor by an ac-voltage
Accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett
Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 242101 (2007).
10.1063/1.2748090
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
We analyze resonant tunneling subject to a non-adiabatic time-dependent bias-voltage through an asymmetric single molecular quantum dot with coupling between the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom using a {\em Tien-Gordon-type} rate equation. Our results clearly exhibit the appearance of photon-assisted satellites in the current-voltage characteristics and the elimination of hot-phonon-induced negative differential conductance with increasing ac driving amplitude for an asymmetric system. This can be ascribed to an {\em ac-induced suppression} of unequilibrated (hot) phonons in an asymmetric system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 02:08:38 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dong", "Bing", "" ], [ "Lei", "X. L.", "" ], [ "Horing", "N. J. M.", "" ] ]
0705.2625
Dylan Helliwell
Dylan Helliwell
Boundary Regularity for Conformally Compact Einstein Metrics in Even Dimensions
30 pages, minor typos corrected, content in section 7 clarified, references updated
null
null
null
math.DG
null
We study boundary regularity for conformally compact Einstein metrics in even dimensions by generalizing the ideas of Michael Anderson. Our method of approach is to view the vanishing of the Ambient Obstruction tensor as an nth order system of equations for the components of a compactification of the given metric. This, together with boundary conditions that the compactification is shown to satisfy provide enough information to apply classical boundary regularity results. These results then provide local and global versions of finite boundary regularity for the components of the compactification.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 02:09:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:09:56 GMT" } ]
2008-04-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Helliwell", "Dylan", "" ] ]
0705.2626
Andrew Knyazev
A. V. Knyazev, M. E. Argentati, I. Lashuk, and E. E. Ovtchinnikov
Block Locally Optimal Preconditioned Eigenvalue Xolvers (BLOPEX) in hypre and PETSc
Submitted to SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC). 25(5): 2224-2239, 2007
10.1137/060661624
UCDHSC-CCM-251
cs.MS cs.NA
null
We describe our software package Block Locally Optimal Preconditioned Eigenvalue Xolvers (BLOPEX) publicly released recently. BLOPEX is available as a stand-alone serial library, as an external package to PETSc (``Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation'', a general purpose suite of tools for the scalable solution of partial differential equations and related problems developed by Argonne National Laboratory), and is also built into {\it hypre} (``High Performance Preconditioners'', scalable linear solvers package developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). The present BLOPEX release includes only one solver--the Locally Optimal Block Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (LOBPCG) method for symmetric eigenvalue problems. {\it hypre} provides users with advanced high-quality parallel preconditioners for linear systems, in particular, with domain decomposition and multigrid preconditioners. With BLOPEX, the same preconditioners can now be efficiently used for symmetric eigenvalue problems. PETSc facilitates the integration of independently developed application modules with strict attention to component interoperability, and makes BLOPEX extremely easy to compile and use with preconditioners that are available via PETSc. We present the LOBPCG algorithm in BLOPEX for {\it hypre} and PETSc. We demonstrate numerically the scalability of BLOPEX by testing it on a number of distributed and shared memory parallel systems, including a Beowulf system, SUN Fire 880, an AMD dual-core Opteron workstation, and IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer, using PETSc domain decomposition and {\it hypre} multigrid preconditioning. We test BLOPEX on a model problem, the standard 7-point finite-difference approximation of the 3-D Laplacian, with the problem size in the range $10^5-10^8$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 02:25:16 GMT" } ]
2010-06-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Knyazev", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Argentati", "M. E.", "" ], [ "Lashuk", "I.", "" ], [ "Ovtchinnikov", "E. E.", "" ] ]
0705.2627
T. Symul
Thomas Symul, Daniel J. Alton, Syed M. Assad, Andrew M. Lance, Christian Weedbrook, Timothy C. Ralph, Ping Koy Lam
Experimental Demonstration of Post-Selection based Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution in the Presence of Gaussian Noise
4 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.030303
null
quant-ph
null
In realistic continuous variable quantum key distribution protocols, an eavesdropper may exploit the additional Gaussian noise generated during transmission to mask her presence. We present a theoretical framework for a post-selection based protocol which explicitly takes into account excess Gaussian noise. We derive a quantitative expression of the secret key rates based on the Levitin and Holevo bounds. We experimentally demonstrate that the post-selection based scheme is still secure against both individual and collective Gaussian attacks in the presence of this excess noise.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 03:07:39 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Symul", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Alton", "Daniel J.", "" ], [ "Assad", "Syed M.", "" ], [ "Lance", "Andrew M.", "" ], [ "Weedbrook", "Christian", "" ], [ "Ralph", "Timothy C.", "" ], [ "Lam", "Ping Koy", "" ] ]
0705.2628
Pablo Shmerkin
Yuval Peres and Pablo Shmerkin
Resonance between Cantor sets
To appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 24 pages, 2 figures
Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 29 (2009), no. 1, 201--221
null
null
math.CA math.DS
null
Let $C_a$ be the central Cantor set obtained by removing a central interval of length $1-2a$ from the unit interval, and continuing this process inductively on each of the remaining two intervals. We prove that if $\log b/\log a$ is irrational, then \[ \dim(C_a+C_b) = \min(\dim(C_a) + \dim(C_b),1), \] where $\dim$ is Hausdorff dimension. More generally, given two self-similar sets $K,K'$ in $\RR$ and a scaling parameter $s>0$, if the dimension of the arithmetic sum $K+sK'$ is strictly smaller than $\dim(K)+\dim(K') \le 1$ (``geometric resonance''), then there exists $r<1$ such that all contraction ratios of the similitudes defining $K$ and $K'$ are powers of $r$ (``algebraic resonance''). Our method also yields a new result on the projections of planar self-similar sets generated by an iterated function system that includes a scaled irrational rotation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 04:08:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:12 GMT" } ]
2013-03-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Peres", "Yuval", "" ], [ "Shmerkin", "Pablo", "" ] ]
0705.2629
J. Wade Cherrington
J. Wade Cherrington, J. Daniel Christensen, Igor Khavkine
Dual Computations of Non-abelian Yang-Mills on the Lattice
v1: 18 pages, 7 figures, v2: Many changes to appendix, minor changes throughout, references and figures added, v3: minor corrections, 22 pages
Phys.Rev.D76:094503,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.094503
null
hep-lat hep-th
null
In the past several decades there have been a number of proposals for computing with dual forms of non-abelian Yang-Mills theories on the lattice. Motivated by the gauge-invariant, geometric picture offered by dual models and successful applications of duality in the U(1) case, we revisit the question of whether it is practical to perform numerical computation using non-abelian dual models. Specifically, we consider three-dimensional SU(2) pure Yang-Mills as an accessible yet non-trivial case in which the gauge group is non-abelian. Using methods developed recently in the context of spin foam quantum gravity, we derive an algorithm for efficiently computing the dual amplitude and describe Metropolis moves for sampling the dual ensemble. We relate our algorithms to prior work in non-abelian dual computations of Hari Dass and his collaborators, addressing several problems that have been left open. We report results of spin expectation value computations over a range of lattice sizes and couplings that are in agreement with our conventional lattice computations. We conclude with an outlook on further development of dual methods and their application to problems of current interest.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 04:23:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:34:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:12:11 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Cherrington", "J. Wade", "" ], [ "Christensen", "J. Daniel", "" ], [ "Khavkine", "Igor", "" ] ]
0705.2630
Hao Zheng
Hao Zheng
A geometric categorification of tensor products of $U_q(sl_2)$-modules
44pages, made up some mistakes in the proof of Theorem 4.2.4
null
null
null
math.RT math.QA
null
We give a purely geometric categorification of tensor products of finite-dimensional simple $U_q(sl_2)$-modules and $R$-matrices on them. The work is developed in the framework of category of perverse sheaves and the categorification theorems are understood as consequences of Deligne's theory of weights.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:59:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 19 May 2007 05:04:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:38:51 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zheng", "Hao", "" ] ]
0705.2631
Hiroaki Yamada
H. Yamada, E. B. Starikov and D. Hennig
Quantum Diffusion in Polaron Model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers
17pages, 8figures
null
10.1140/epjb/e2007-00274-4
null
cond-mat.soft
null
We numerically investigate quantum diffusion of an electron in a model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers with fluctuation of the parameters due to the impact of colored noise. The randomness is introduced by fluctuations of distance between two consecutive bases along the stacked base pairs. We demonstrate that in the model the decay time of the correlation can control the spread of the electronic wavepacket. Furthermore it is shown that in a motional narrowing regime the averaging over fluctuation causes ballistic propagation of the wavepacket, and in the adiabatic regime the electronic states are affected by localization.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 04:57:44 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Yamada", "H.", "" ], [ "Starikov", "E. B.", "" ], [ "Hennig", "D.", "" ] ]
0705.2632
Piljin Yi
Deog Ki Hong, Mannque Rho, Ho-Ung Yee, and Piljin Yi
Dynamics of Baryons from String Theory and Vector Dominance
65pages, 3 figures, vector mesons and axial-vector mesons are now canonically normalized (comparisons with data and conclusions unaffected)
JHEP0709:063,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/063
KIAS-P07017, PNUTP-07/A03
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a holographic model of QCD from string theory, a la Sakai and Sugimoto, and study baryons. In this model, mesons are collectively realized as a five-dimensional \$U(N_F)=U(1)\times SU(N_F)$ Yang-Mills field and baryons are classically identified as $SU(N_F)$ solitons with a unit Pontryagin number and $N_c$ electric charges. The soliton is shown to be very small in the large 't Hooft coupling limit, allowing us to introduce an effective field ${\cal B}$. Its coupling to the mesons are dictated by the soliton structure, and consists of a direct magnetic coupling to the $SU(N_F)$ field strength as well as a minimal coupling to the $U(N_F)$ gauge field. Upon the dimensional reduction, this effective action reproduces all interaction terms between nucleons and an infinite tower of mesons in a manner consistent with the large $N_c$ expansion. We further find that all electromagnetic interactions, as inferred from the same effective action via a holographic prescription, are mediated by an infinite tower of vector mesons, rendering the baryon electromagnetic form factors completely vector-dominated as well. We estimate nucleon-meson couplings and also the anomalous magnetic moments, which compare well with nature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 06:03:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:47:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:03:54 GMT" } ]
2009-03-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Hong", "Deog Ki", "" ], [ "Rho", "Mannque", "" ], [ "Yee", "Ho-Ung", "" ], [ "Yi", "Piljin", "" ] ]
0705.2633
Sohrab Behnia
Sohrab Behnia, Afshin Akhshani, Amir Akhavan, Hadi Mahmodi
Applications of tripled chaotic maps in cryptography
21 pages, 10 figures
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 40 (2009) 505-519
10.1016/j.chaos.2007.08.013
null
nlin.CD
null
Security of information has become a major issue during the last decades. New algorithms based on chaotic maps were suggested for protection of different types of multimedia data, especially digital images and videos in this period. However, many of them fundamentally were flawed by a lack of robustness and security. For getting higher security and higher complexity, in the current paper, we introduce a new kind of symmetric key block cipher algorithm that is based on \emph{tripled chaotic maps}. In this algorithm, the utilization of two coupling parameters, as well as the increased complexity of the cryptosystem, make a contribution to the development of cryptosystem with higher security. In order to increase the security of the proposed algorithm, the size of key space and the computational complexity of the coupling parameters should be increased as well. Both the theoretical and experimental results state that the proposed algorithm has many capabilities such as acceptable speed and complexity in the algorithm due to the existence of two coupling parameter and high security. Note that the ciphertext has a flat distribution and has the same size as the plaintext. Therefore, it is suitable for practical use in secure communications.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 06:09:28 GMT" } ]
2010-10-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Behnia", "Sohrab", "" ], [ "Akhshani", "Afshin", "" ], [ "Akhavan", "Amir", "" ], [ "Mahmodi", "Hadi", "" ] ]
0705.2634
Wen-Yu Wen
Wen-Yu Wen
2D Heisenberg model from rotating membrane
15 pages, revtex file, no figure
Nucl.Phys.B791:164-174,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.09.027
null
hep-th
null
We study a rotating probe membrane in S^3 inside AdS_4 x S^7 background of M-theory. With (partial) gauge fixing, we show that in the fast limit the worldvolume of tensionless membrane reduces to either the XXX_1/2 spin chain or the two-dimensional SU(2) Heisenberg spin model. Later we introduce the anisotropy and couple it to the external magnetic field. We also establish the correspondence for higher dimensional (D)p-branes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 06:19:56 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Wen", "Wen-Yu", "" ] ]
0705.2635
Chandrasekhar Chatterjee
Chandrasekhar Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri
Confinement of monopole using flux string
3 pages, Presented by C.Chatterjee at 17th DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium (HEP06), Kharagpur, India, 11-16 Dec 2006
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We study the confinement of fermionic magnetic monopoles by a thin flux tube of the Abelian Higgs model. Parity demands that the monopole currents be axial. This implies that the model is consistent only if there are at least two species of fermions being confined.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 06:45:05 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chatterjee", "Chandrasekhar", "" ], [ "Lahiri", "Amitabha", "" ] ]
0705.2636
Dominique Manchon
Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard, Dominique Manchon, Fr\'ed\'eric Patras
New identities in dendriform algebras
16 pages, LaTeX. Concrete examples and applications added
Journal of Algebra 320, 708-727 (2008)
10.1016/j.jalgebra.2007.12.013
null
math.CO math.RA
null
Dendriform structures arise naturally in algebraic combinatorics (where they allow, for example, the splitting of the shuffle product into two pieces) and through Rota-Baxter algebra structures (the latter appear, among others, in differential systems and in the renormalization process of pQFT). We prove new combinatorial identities in dendriform dialgebras that appear to be strongly related to classical phenomena, such as the combinatorics of Lyndon words, rewriting rules in Lie algebras, or the fine structure of the Malvenuto-Reutenauer algebra. One of these identities is an abstract noncommutative, dendriform, generalization of the Bohnenblust-Spitzer identity and of an identity involving iterated Chen integrals due to C.S. Lam.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 06:46:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:16:27 GMT" } ]
2021-02-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Ebrahimi-Fard", "Kurusch", "" ], [ "Manchon", "Dominique", "" ], [ "Patras", "Frédéric", "" ] ]
0705.2637
Alper Kiraz
A. Kiraz, A. Kurt, and M. A. D\"undar, M. Y. Y\"uce, and A. L. Demirel
A method for volume stabilization of single, dye-doped water microdroplets with femtoliter resolution
to appear in the J. Op. Soc. Am. B
null
10.1364/JOSAB.24.001824
null
physics.optics physics.ao-ph
null
A self-control mechanism that stabilizes the size of Rhodamine B-doped water microdroplets standing on a superhydrophobic surface is demonstrated. The mechanism relies on the interplay between the condensation rate that was kept constant and evaporation rate induced by laser excitation which critically depends on the size of the microdroplets. The radii of individual water microdroplets (>5 um) stayed within a few nanometers during long time periods (up to 455 seconds). By blocking the laser excitation for 500 msec, the stable volume of individual microdroplets was shown to change stepwise.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 06:47:10 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Kiraz", "A.", "" ], [ "Kurt", "A.", "" ], [ "Dündar", "M. A.", "" ], [ "Yüce", "M. Y.", "" ], [ "Demirel", "A. L.", "" ] ]
0705.2638
Yuri Shchekinov A.
A. Kopp, Yu. A. Shchekinov
Radiation-condensation instability in a four-fluid dusty plasma
7 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Physics of Plasmas
null
10.1063/1.2746872
null
physics.plasm-ph astro-ph
null
In this work linear stability analysis of a four-fluid optically thin plasma consisting of electrons, ions, neutral atoms, and charged dust particles is performed with respect to the radiation-condensation (RC) instability. The energy budget of the plasma involves the input from heating through photo-electron emission by dust particles under external ultraviolet radiation as well as radiative losses in inelastic electron-neutral, electron-ion, neutral-neutral collisions. It is shown that negatively charged particles stimulate the RC instability in the sense that the conditions for the instability to hold are wider than similar conditions in a single-fluid description.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 07:05:57 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kopp", "A.", "" ], [ "Shchekinov", "Yu. A.", "" ] ]
0705.2639
Matteo Beccaria
M.Beccaria, Yu.L.Dokshitzer, G.Marchesini
Twist 3 of the sl(2) sector of N=4 SYM and reciprocity respecting evolution
18 pages, 1 eps figure
Phys.Lett.B652:194-202,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.07.016
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
We consider the bosonic sl(2) sector of the maximally supersymmetric N=4 SYM model and show that anomalous dimension of the twist-3 single-trace composite operators built of scalar fields, recently calculated up to the four-loop order, can be generated by a compact reciprocity respecting evolution kernel.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 07:23:29 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Beccaria", "M.", "" ], [ "Dokshitzer", "Yu. L.", "" ], [ "Marchesini", "G.", "" ] ]
0705.2640
Satya N. Majumdar
Alain Comtet, Satya N. Majumdar and Stephane Ouvry
Integer Partitions and Exclusion Statistics
16 pages, 4 .eps figures included
J. Phys. A: Math.Theor. 40, 11255 (2007)
10.1088/1751-8113/40/37/004
null
cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.CO math.MP
null
We provide a combinatorial description of exclusion statistics in terms of minimal difference $p$ partitions. We compute the probability distribution of the number of parts in a random minimal $p$ partition. It is shown that the bosonic point $ p=0$ is a repulsive fixed point for which the limiting distribution has a Gumbel form. For all positive $p$ the distribution is shown to be Gaussian.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 07:28:02 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Comtet", "Alain", "" ], [ "Majumdar", "Satya N.", "" ], [ "Ouvry", "Stephane", "" ] ]
0705.2641
Mikhail Shirokov I.
M. I. Shirokov
Wave packets in quantum theory of collisions
14 pages
null
10.1134/S1063779608050067
null
quant-ph
null
Two methodological troubles of the quantum theory of collisions are considered. The first is the undesirable interference of the incident and scattered waves in the stationary approach to scattering. The second concerns the nonstationary approach to the theory of collisions of the type $a+b\to c+d$. In order to calculate the cross section one uses the matrix element $<cd|S|ab>$ of the $S$-matrix. The element is proportional to $\delta$-function expressing the energy conservation. The corresponding probability $|< cd|S|ab>|^2$ contains $\delta^2$ which is mathematically senseless. The known regular way to overcome the difficulty seems to be unsatisfactory. In this paper, both the troubles are resolved using wave packets of incident particles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 07:31:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Shirokov", "M. I.", "" ] ]
0705.2642
David A. Green Dr
D. A. Green
Comments on the radio spectrum of HB 3
Accepted for publication by the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
2007, BASI, vol35, pp77-85
null
null
astro-ph
null
It has recently been suggested that the radio spectrum of the Galactic supernova remnant HB 3 shows flattening at higher frequencies (above about 1 GHz). Here I review the radio spectrum of HB 3, noting the difficulties in deriving accurate flux densities for this remnant, particularly at high frequencies, due to the proximity of bright, thermal emission from W3 and its surroundings. A flux density for HB 3 at 2695 MHz is derived from Effelsberg survey data. The spectrum of HB 3 is well represented by a simple power-law spectrum from 22 to 2695 MHz, with a spectral index of 0.56 +/- 0.03. It is concluded that contamination with thermal emission from adjacent regions is the cause for the reported spectral flattening of HB 3.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 07:35:30 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Green", "D. A.", "" ] ]
0705.2643
Hermann Nicolai
Thibault Damour and Hermann Nicolai
Symmetries,Singularities and the De-Emergence of Space
10 pages
null
10.1142/S0218271808012206
AEI - 2007 - 013
hep-th
null
Recent work has revealed intriguing connections between a Belinsky-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz-type analysis of spacelike singularities in General Relativity and certain infinite dimensional Lie algebras, and in particular the `maximally extended' hyperbolic Kac--Moody algebra E10. In this essay we argue that these results may lead to an entirely new understanding of the (quantum) nature of space(-time) at the Planck scale, and hence -- via an effective `de-emergence' of space near a singularity -- to a novel mechanism for achieving background independence in quantum gravity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 07:48:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Damour", "Thibault", "" ], [ "Nicolai", "Hermann", "" ] ]
0705.2644
Saikat Chatterjee
Saikat Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri
Generalized vector field
Talk delivered by 3 pages, S.Chatterjee at at 17th DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium (HEP06), Kharagpur IIT, India, 11-16 Dec 2006
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
We define generalized vector fields, and contraction and Lie derivatives with respect to them. Generalized commutators are also defined.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:07:27 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chatterjee", "Saikat", "" ], [ "Lahiri", "Amitabha", "" ] ]
0705.2645
Stefano Piscanec
C. Casiraghi, A. Hartschuh, E. Lidorikis, H. Qian, H. Harutyunyan, T. Gokus, K. S. Novoselov, A. C. Ferrari
Rayleigh Imaging of Graphene and Graphene Layers
8 pages, 9 figures
Nano Lett. 7, 2711 (2007)
10.1021/nl071168m
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We investigate graphene and graphene layers on different substrates by monochromatic and white-light confocal Rayleigh scattering microscopy. The image contrast depends sensitively on the dielectric properties of the sample as well as the substrate geometry and can be described quantitatively using the complex refractive index of bulk graphite. For few layers (<6) the monochromatic contrast increases linearly with thickness: the samples behave as a superposition of single sheets which act as independent two dimensional electron gases. Thus, Rayleigh imaging is a general, simple and quick tool to identify graphene layers, that is readily combined with Raman scattering, which provides structural identification.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:37:47 GMT" } ]
2008-01-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Casiraghi", "C.", "" ], [ "Hartschuh", "A.", "" ], [ "Lidorikis", "E.", "" ], [ "Qian", "H.", "" ], [ "Harutyunyan", "H.", "" ], [ "Gokus", "T.", "" ], [ "Novoselov", "K. S.", "" ], [ "Ferrari", "A. C.", "" ] ]
0705.2646
Martin Weigt
Michele Leone, Sumedha, Martin Weigt
Clustering by soft-constraint affinity propagation: Applications to gene-expression data
11 pages, supplementary material: http://isiosf.isi.it/~weigt/scap_supplement.pdf
Bioinformatics 23, 2708 (2007)
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm414
null
q-bio.QM cond-mat.stat-mech physics.data-an
null
Motivation: Similarity-measure based clustering is a crucial problem appearing throughout scientific data analysis. Recently, a powerful new algorithm called Affinity Propagation (AP) based on message-passing techniques was proposed by Frey and Dueck \cite{Frey07}. In AP, each cluster is identified by a common exemplar all other data points of the same cluster refer to, and exemplars have to refer to themselves. Albeit its proved power, AP in its present form suffers from a number of drawbacks. The hard constraint of having exactly one exemplar per cluster restricts AP to classes of regularly shaped clusters, and leads to suboptimal performance, {\it e.g.}, in analyzing gene expression data. Results: This limitation can be overcome by relaxing the AP hard constraints. A new parameter controls the importance of the constraints compared to the aim of maximizing the overall similarity, and allows to interpolate between the simple case where each data point selects its closest neighbor as an exemplar and the original AP. The resulting soft-constraint affinity propagation (SCAP) becomes more informative, accurate and leads to more stable clustering. Even though a new {\it a priori} free-parameter is introduced, the overall dependence of the algorithm on external tuning is reduced, as robustness is increased and an optimal strategy for parameter selection emerges more naturally. SCAP is tested on biological benchmark data, including in particular microarray data related to various cancer types. We show that the algorithm efficiently unveils the hierarchical cluster structure present in the data sets. Further on, it allows to extract sparse gene expression signatures for each cluster.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:22:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:40:18 GMT" } ]
2007-11-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Leone", "Michele", "" ], [ "Sumedha", "", "" ], [ "Weigt", "Martin", "" ] ]
0705.2647
Ali N. Khorramian
S. Atashbar Tehrani and Ali N. Khorramian
The Jacobi Polynomials QCD analysis for the polarized structure function
23 pages, 8 figures and 4 tables
JHEP 0707:048,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/048
IPM/P-2007/035
hep-ph
null
We present the results of our QCD analysis for polarized quark distribution and structure function $xg_1 (x,Q^2)$. We use very recently experimental data to parameterize our model. New parameterizations are derived for the quark and gluon distributions for the kinematic range $x \epsilon [10^{-8},1]$, $Q^2 \epsilon [1,10^6]$ GeV^2. The analysis is based on the Jacobi polynomials expansion of the polarized structure functions. Our calculations for polarized parton distribution functions based on the Jacobi polynomials method are in good agreement with the other theoretical models. The values of $\Lambda_{QCD}$ and $\alpha_s(M_z)$ are determined.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:22:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:10:33 GMT" } ]
2009-04-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Tehrani", "S. Atashbar", "" ], [ "Khorramian", "Ali N.", "" ] ]
0705.2648
Schehr Gregory
Gregory Schehr, Satya N. Majumdar
Statistics of the Number of Zero Crossings : from Random Polynomials to Diffusion Equation
4 pages, 3 figures. Minor changes. Accepted version in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 060603 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.060603
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.dis-nn math.PR
null
We consider a class of real random polynomials, indexed by an integer d, of large degree n and focus on the number of real roots of such random polynomials. The probability that such polynomials have no real root in the interval [0,1] decays as a power law n^{-\theta(d)} where \theta(d)>0 is the exponent associated to the decay of the persistence probability for the diffusion equation with random initial conditions in space dimension d. For n even, the probability that such polynomials have no root on the full real axis decays as n^{-2(\theta(d) + \theta(2))}. For d=1, this connection allows for a physical realization of real random polynomials. We further show that the probability that such polynomials have exactly k real roots in [0,1] has an unusual scaling form given by n^{-\tilde \phi(k/\log n)} where \tilde \phi(x) is a universal large deviation function.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:03:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:51:07 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Schehr", "Gregory", "" ], [ "Majumdar", "Satya N.", "" ] ]
0705.2649
Christophe Dupont
F. Berteloot, C. Dupont, L. Molino
Normalization of bundle holomorphic contractions and applications to dynamics
29 pages, references added, to appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier
null
null
null
math.DS math.CV
null
We establish a Poincar\'e-Dulac theorem for sequences (G_n)_n of holomorphic contractions whose differentials d_0 G_n split regularly. The resonant relations determining the normal forms hold on the moduli of the exponential rates of contraction. Our results are actually stated in the framework of bundle maps. Such sequences of holomorphic contractions appear naturally as iterated inverse branches of endomorphisms of CP(k). In this context, our normalization result allows to precisely estimate the distortions of ellipsoids along typical orbits. As an application, we show how the Lyapunov exponents of the equilibrium measure are approximated in terms of the multipliers of the repulsive cycles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:26:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:20:46 GMT" } ]
2008-02-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Berteloot", "F.", "" ], [ "Dupont", "C.", "" ], [ "Molino", "L.", "" ] ]
0705.2650
Han Ju Lee
Han Ju Lee
Strong peak points and denseness of strong peak functions
null
null
null
null
math.FA
null
Let $C_b(K)$ be the set of all bounded continuous (real or complex) functions on a complete metric space $K$ and $A$ a closed subspace of $C_b(K)$. Using the variational method, it is shown that the set of all strong peak functions in $A$ is dense if and only if the set of all strong peak points is a norming subset of $A$. As a corollary we show that if $X$ is a locally uniformly convex, complex Banach space, then the set of all strong peak functions in $\mathcal{A}(B_X)$ is a dense $G_\delta$ subset. Moreover if $X$ is separable, smooth and locally uniformly convex, then the set of all norm and numerical strong peak functions in $\mathcal{A}_u(B_X:X)$ is a dense $G_\delta$ subset. In case that a set of uniformly strongly exposed points of a (real or complex) Banach space $X$ is a norming subset of $\mathcal{P}({}^n X)$ for some $n\ge 1$, then the set of all strongly norm attaining elements in $\mathcal{P}({}^n X)$ is dense, in particular, the set of all points at which the norm of $\mathcal{P}({}^n X)$ is Fr\'echet differentiable is a dense $G_\delta$ subset.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:26:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Lee", "Han Ju", "" ] ]
0705.2651
Fredrik Schoeier
F. L. Schoeier, H. Olofsson, T. Wong, D. Fong, M. Lindqvist, L. O. Sjouwerman
Non-equilibrium chemistry and dust formation in AGB stars as probed by SiO line emission
2 pages, 1 figure. To be published in the proceedings of the conference "Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars", held in Vienna, August 7-11, 2006; F. Kerschbaum, C. Charbonnel, B. Wing eds, ASP Conf.Ser. in press
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We have performed high spatial resolution observations of SiO line emission for a sample of 11 AGB stars using the ATCA, VLA and SMA interferometers. Detailed radiative transfer modelling suggests that there are steep chemical gradients of SiO in their circumstellar envelopes. The emerging picture is one where the radial SiO abundance distribution starts at an initial high abundance, in the case of M-stars consistent with LTE chemistry, that drastically decreases at a radius of ~1E15 cm. This is consistent with a scenario where SiO freezes out onto dust grains. The region of the wind with low abundance is much more extended, typically ~1E16 cm, and limited by photodissociation. The surpisingly high SiO abundances found in carbon stars requires non-equilibrium chemical processes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:28:32 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Schoeier", "F. L.", "" ], [ "Olofsson", "H.", "" ], [ "Wong", "T.", "" ], [ "Fong", "D.", "" ], [ "Lindqvist", "M.", "" ], [ "Sjouwerman", "L. O.", "" ] ]
0705.2652
Chao Hang
Chao Hang and Guoxiang Huang
Weak-Light Ultraslow Vector Optical Solitons via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
4 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033830
null
physics.optics
null
We propose a scheme to generate temporal vector optical solitons in a lifetime broadened five-state atomic medium via electromagnetically induced transparency. We show that this scheme, which is fundamentally different from the passive one by using optical fibers, is capable of achieving distortion-free vector optical solitons with ultraslow propagating velocity under very weak drive conditions. We demonstrate both analytically and numerically that it is easy to realize Manakov temporal vector solitons by actively manipulating the dispersion and self- and cross-phase modulation effects of the system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:30:13 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hang", "Chao", "" ], [ "Huang", "Guoxiang", "" ] ]
0705.2653
Evgeny Kurbatov
E. P. Kurbatov (INASAN, Russian Acad. Sci.)
On star formation rate and turbulent dissipation in galactic models
Published in Proceedings of the 14th Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 23-28, 2007
YSC'14 Proceedings of Contributed Papers (eds. G. Ivashchenko, A. Golovin), Kyiv, Kyivskyi Universytet, pp. 54-58, 2007
null
null
astro-ph
null
The models of star formation function and of dissipation of turbulent energy of interstellar medium are proposed. In star formation model the feedback of supernovae is taken into account. It is shown that hierarchical scenario of galaxy formation with proposed models is able to explain the observable star formation pause in the Galaxy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 21 May 2007 07:20:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:46:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:48:00 GMT" } ]
2007-12-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Kurbatov", "E. P.", "", "INASAN, Russian Acad. Sci." ] ]
0705.2654
Fredrik Schoeier
F. L. Schoeier
Methods for determining AGB mass loss rates based on radio data
10 pages, 5 figures. o be published in the proceedings of the conference "Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars", held in Vienna, August 7-11, 2006; F. Kerschbaum, C. Charbonnel, B. Wing eds, ASP Conf.Ser. in press
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
In the radio regime the mass-loss rate of AGB stars is best probed using molecular (and atomic) line emission arising in the CSE formed by the stellar wind. The numerical modelling of the circumstellar emission where intricate interplays between physical and chemical processes take place, is a challenge. The derived mass-loss rates depend crucially on the assumptions in the circumstellar model, of which some can be constrained if enough observational data exist. Therefore, a reliable mass-loss-rate determination for an individual star requires, in addition to a detailed radiative transfer analysis, good observational constraints in the form of multi-line observations and radial brightness distributions. Of the methods used to estimate mass-loss rates from galactic AGB stars those based on radiative transfer modelling of CO line emission are most commonly used and possibly also the most accurate. Typically, CO multi-transitional observations can constrain the mass-loss rate to better than 50%, within the adopted circumstellar model. Comparison with complementary methods, such as estimates based on dust radiative transfer modelling coupled with a dynamical model, are consistent within a factor of three.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:42:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Schoeier", "F. L.", "" ] ]
0705.2655
Stefan Popescu
Stefan Popescu and Bernhard Rothenstein
Counting energy packets in the electromagnetic wave
10 pages, 4 figures, detailed foundation
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
We discuss the concept of energy packets in respect to the energy transported by electromagnetic waves and we demonstrate that this physical quantity can be used in physical problems involving relativistic effects. This refined concept provides results compatible to those obtained by simpler definition of energy density when relativistic effects apply to the free electromagnetic waves. We found this concept further compatible to quantum theory perceptions and we show how it could be used to conciliate between different physical approaches including the classical electromagnetic wave theory, the special relativity and the quantum theories.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:46:53 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Popescu", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Rothenstein", "Bernhard", "" ] ]
0705.2656
Xin Zhang
Xin Zhang, Yi Ling
Inflationary universe in loop quantum cosmology
21 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in JCAP
JCAP0708:012,2007
10.1088/1475-7516/2007/08/012
null
gr-qc astro-ph hep-ph hep-th
null
Loop quantum cosmology provides a nice solution of avoiding the big bang singularity through a big bounce mechanism in the high energy region. In loop quantum cosmology an inflationary universe is emergent after the big bounce, no matter what matter component is filled in the universe. A super-inflation phase without phantom matter will appear in a certain way in the initial stage after the bounce; then the universe will undergo a normal inflation stage. We discuss the condition of inflation in detail in this framework. Also, for slow-roll inflation, we expect the imprint from the effects of the loop quantum cosmology should be left in the primordial perturbation power spectrum. However, we show that this imprint is too weak to be observed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:48:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:49:17 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhang", "Xin", "" ], [ "Ling", "Yi", "" ] ]
0705.2657
Young-Ho Song
Young-Ho Song, Rimantas Lazauskas, Tae-Sun Park, Dong-Pil Min
Effective field theory approach for the M1 properties of A=2 and 3 nuclei
14 pages, 2figures
Phys.Lett.B656:174-181,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.038
null
nucl-th
null
The magnetic moments of ${}^2{H}$, ${}^3{He}$ and ${}^3{H}$ as well as the thermal neutron capture rate on the proton are calculated using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory {\it \`{a} la} Weinberg. The M1 operators have been derived up to {N$^3$LO}. The nuclear matrix elements are evaluated with the use of wave functions obtained by carrying out variational Monte Carlo calculations for a realistic nuclear Hamiltonian involving high-precision phenomenological potentials like Argonne Av18 and Urbana IX tri-nucleon interactions. We discuss the potential- and cutoff-dependence of the results.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:49:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:52:10 GMT" } ]
2008-04-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Song", "Young-Ho", "" ], [ "Lazauskas", "Rimantas", "" ], [ "Park", "Tae-Sun", "" ], [ "Min", "Dong-Pil", "" ] ]
0705.2658
Pierbiagio Pieri
A. Spuntarelli, P. Pieri, G.C. Strinati
The Josephson effect throughout the BCS-BEC crossover
4 pages, 3 figures; improved version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040401 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.040401
null
cond-mat.other cond-mat.supr-con
null
We study the stationary Josephson effect for neutral fermions across the BCS-BEC crossover, by solving numerically the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations at zero temperature. The Josephson current is found to be considerably enhanced for all barriers at about unitarity. For vanishing barrier, the Josephson critical current approaches the Landau limiting value which, depending on the coupling, is determined by either pair-breaking or sound-mode excitations. In the coupling range from the BCS limit to unitarity, a procedure is proposed to extract the pairing gap from the Landau limiting current.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:51:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:42:34 GMT" } ]
2007-07-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Spuntarelli", "A.", "" ], [ "Pieri", "P.", "" ], [ "Strinati", "G. C.", "" ] ]
0705.2659
Theophanes Grammenos
I. Radinschi, Th. Grammenos
Moeller's Energy-Momentum Complex for a Spacetime Geometry on a Noncommutative Curved D3-Brane
12 pages
Int.J.Theor.Phys.47:1363-1372,2008
10.1007/s10773-007-9578-9
null
gr-qc
null
Moeller's energy-momentum complex is employed in order to determine the energy and momentum distributions for a spacetime described by a "generalized Schwarzschild" geometry in (3+1)-dimensions on a noncommutative curved D3-brane in an effective, open bosonic string theory. The geometry considered is obtained by an effective theory of gravity coupled with a nonlinear electromagnetic field and depends only on the generalized (effective) mass and charge which incorporate corrections of first order in the noncommutativity parameter.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:57:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:50:51 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Radinschi", "I.", "" ], [ "Grammenos", "Th.", "" ] ]
0705.2660
Fu-Guo Deng
Ping Zhou, Xi-Han Li, Fu-Guo Deng, and Hong-Yu Zhou
Multiparty-controlled teleportation of an arbitrary m-qudit state with pure entangled quantum channel
8 pages, 0 figures
J. Phys. A 40 (2007) 13121-13130
null
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a general scheme for multiparty-controlled teleportation of an arbitrary m-qudit ($d$-dimensional quantum system) state by using non-maximally entangled states as the quantum channel. The sender performs m generalized Bell-state measurements on her 2$m$ particles, the controllers take some single-particle measurements with the measuring basis $X_{d}$ and the receiver only need to introduce one auxiliary two-level particle to extract quantum information probabilistically with the fidelity unit if he cooperates with all the controllers. All the parties can use some decoy photons to set up their quantum channel securely, which will forbid some a dishonest party to eavesdrop freely. This scheme is optimal as the probability that the receiver obtains the originally unknown m-qudit state equals to the entanglement of the quantum channel.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:00:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:08:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 7 May 2009 13:13:44 GMT" } ]
2009-05-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhou", "Ping", "" ], [ "Li", "Xi-Han", "" ], [ "Deng", "Fu-Guo", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Hong-Yu", "" ] ]
0705.2661
Andras I. Stipsicz
Peter Ozsvath, Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo
Floer homology and singular knots
Minor revisions
null
10.1112/jtopol/jtp015
null
math.GT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We define Floer homology theories for oriented, singular knots in S^3 and show that one of these theories can be defined combinatorially for planar singular knots.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:24:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:08:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 6 May 2009 05:23:09 GMT" } ]
2014-02-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Ozsvath", "Peter", "" ], [ "Stipsicz", "Andras I.", "" ], [ "Szabo", "Zoltan", "" ] ]
0705.2662
Marc Chardin
Marc Chardin and Kamran Divaani-Aazar
A duality theorem for generalized local cohomology
6 pages
null
null
null
math.AC math.AG
null
We prove a duality theorem for graded algebras over a field that implies several known duality results : graded local duality, versions of Serre duality for local cohomology and of Suzuki duality for generalized local cohomology, and Herzog-Rahimi bigraded duality.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:20:16 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chardin", "Marc", "" ], [ "Divaani-Aazar", "Kamran", "" ] ]
0705.2663
Tom\'as Alonso
R. Neri, A. Fuente, C. Ceccarelli, P. Caselli, D. Johnstone, E.F. van Dishoeck, F. Wyrowski, M. Tafalla, B. Lefloch, R. Plume
The IC1396N proto-cluster at a scale of 250 AU
null
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077320
null
astro-ph
null
We investigate the mm-morphology of IC1396N with unprecedented spatial resolution to analyze its dust and molecular gas properties, and draw comparisons with objects of similar mass. We have carried out sensitive observations in the most extended configurations of the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer, to map the thermal dust emission at 3.3 and 1.3mm, and the emission from the $J$=13$_k\to12_k$ hyperfine transitions of methyl cyanide (CH$_3$CN). We unveil the existence of a sub-cluster of hot cores in IC1396N, distributed in a direction perpendicular to the emanating outflow. The cores are embedded in a common envelope of extended and diffuse dust emission. We find striking differences in the dust properties of the cores ($\beta\simeq$ 0) and the surrounding envelope ($\beta\simeq$ 1), very likely testifying to differences in the formation and processing of dust material. The CH$_3$CN emission peaks towards the most massive hot core and is marginally extended in the outflow direction.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:21:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Neri", "R.", "" ], [ "Fuente", "A.", "" ], [ "Ceccarelli", "C.", "" ], [ "Caselli", "P.", "" ], [ "Johnstone", "D.", "" ], [ "van Dishoeck", "E. F.", "" ], [ "Wyrowski", "F.", "" ], [ "Tafalla", "M.", "" ], [ "Lefloch", "B.", "" ], [ "Plume", "R.", "" ] ]
0705.2664
Toshifumi Yamashita
Francesca Borzumati, Satoshi Mishima, Toshifumi Yamashita
Non-CKM induced flavor violation in "minimal" SUSY SU(5) models
4 pages, 2 figures, presented at the Workshop ``Flavour in the era of the LHC'', CERN, October 9-11 2006, and the ``4th International Workshop on the CKM unitarity triangle'', Nagoya, Japan, December 12-16 2006
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Patterns of flavor violation induced by neutrino Yukawa couplings are discussed in realistic ``minimal'' SUSY SU(5) models, obtained by adding nonrenormalizable operators to the minimal one, in order to fix the fermion spectrum and suppress proton decay. Results are presented for the three possible implementations of the seesaw mechanisms, i.e. of Type I, II and III.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:33:59 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Borzumati", "Francesca", "" ], [ "Mishima", "Satoshi", "" ], [ "Yamashita", "Toshifumi", "" ] ]
0705.2665
Yi-Xin Chen
Lin Chen, Yi-Xin Chen
Multiqubit entanglement witness
Revtex, 11 pages
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.022330
null
quant-ph
null
We introduce a feasible method of constructing the entanglement witness that detects the genuine entanglement of a given pure multiqubit state. We illustrate our method in the scenario of constructing the witnesses for the multiqubit states that are broadly theoretically and experimentally investigated. It is shown that our method can construct the effective witnesses for experiments. We also investigate the entanglement detection of symmetric states and mixed states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:29:22 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "Lin", "" ], [ "Chen", "Yi-Xin", "" ] ]
0705.2666
Konstantin Klimenko
D. Ebert, K.G. Klimenko and V.L. Yudichev
Mass spectrum of diquarks and mesons in the color--flavor locked phase of dense quark matter
14 pages; references added; multiplet structure of diquark excitations of the CFL phase is revised
Eur.Phys.J.C53:65-76,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0446-9
HU-EP-07/18
hep-ph
null
The spectrum of meson and diquark excitations of dense quark matter is considered in the framework of the Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio model with three types of massless quarks in the presense of a quark number chemical potential $\mu$. We investigate the effective action of meson- and diquark fields both at sufficiently large values of $\mu>\mu_c\approx 330$ MeV, where the color--flavor locked (CFL) phase is realized, and in the chirally broken phase of quark matter ($\mu<\mu_c$). In the last case all nine pseudoscalar mesons are Nambu -- Goldstone (NG) bosons, whereas the mass of the scalar meson nonet is twice the dynamical quark mass. In the chirally broken phase the pseudoscalar diquarks are not allowed to exist as stable particles, but the scalar diquarks might be stable only at a rather strong interaction in the diquark channel. In the case of the CFL phase, all NG bosons of the model are realized as scalar and pseudoscalar diquarks. Moreover, it turns out that massive diquark excitations are unstable for this phase. In particular, for the scalar and pseudoscalar octets of diquark resonances a mass value around 230 MeV was found numerically. In contrast, mesons are stable particles in the CFL phase. Their masses lie in the interval 400$\div$500 MeV for not too large values of $\mu>\mu_c$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 09:54:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:21:39 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Ebert", "D.", "" ], [ "Klimenko", "K. G.", "" ], [ "Yudichev", "V. L.", "" ] ]
0705.2667
Edouard Bernard
Edouard J. Bernard (for the LCID Team)
The ACS LCID Project: Variable Stars in Tucana and LGS3
2 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 241: "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies", 10-16 December, 2006 at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
null
10.1017/S1743921307008241
null
astro-ph
null
We present preliminary results concerning the search for short-period variable stars in Tucana and LGS3 based on very deep HST/ACS imaging. In the one chip per galaxy we studied so far, a total of 230 and 80 candidates variables were found, respectively. For Tucana, we identified 134 of them as RR Lyrae stars (RRL) pulsating in the fundamental mode (RRab), 51 in the first-overtone mode (RRc), and 37 in both modes simultaneoulsy (RRd), as well as four candidate anomalous Cepheids (AC). In the case of LGS3, we found 45 RRab and 5 RRc, plus three candidates RRd and five candidate AC. The metallicities obtained from the mean period of the RRab are [Fe/H]_{Tuc}=-1.7 and [Fe/H]_{LGS3}=-1.8.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:12:07 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bernard", "Edouard J.", "", "for the LCID Team" ] ]
0705.2668
Daria Fleurov
Daria Fleurov and Eli Eisenberg
Super-Poissonian Shot Noise as a Measure of Dephasing in Closed Quantum Dots
5 pages 4 figures, submitted to prb
Phys. Rev. B 76, 195330 (2007)
null
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
Electron-electron interactions play a major role in determining the low-temperature rate of phase loss of electrons in mesoscopic systems. The study of the dephasing rate is expected to contribute to the understanding of the many-body nature of such systems. Closed quantum dots are of special interest in this respect, due to theoretical predictions suggesting a possible transition temperature below which the dephasing rate vanishes. This prediction has attracted much attention, since closed quantum dots are prime candidates for storage units in quantum computers, and thus their phase coherence properties are of great importance. However, an effective method for measuring the dephasing rate within a closed quantum dot is still lacking. Here we study two-level systems and show that the Fano factor has a sharp peak as a function of the chemical potential, the location of which can be simply related to the dephasing rate. We thus suggest to use the properties of the Fano factor peak in the super-Poissonian regime as a probe for the dephasing rate.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:49:38 GMT" } ]
2010-08-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Fleurov", "Daria", "" ], [ "Eisenberg", "Eli", "" ] ]
0705.2669
Alfredo Alexander-Katz
A. Alexander-Katz
Motion-reversal in a simple microscopic swimmer
5 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.soft
null
We study the motion of a microscopic swimmer composed of a semiflexible polymer anchored at the surface of a magnetic sphere using hydrodynamic simulations and scaling arguments. The swimmer is driven by a rotating magnetic field, and displays forward and backward motion depending on the value of the rotational frequency. In particular, the system exhibits forward thrust for frequencies below a critical frequency $\omega^*$, while above $\omega^*$ the motion is reversed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:43:03 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Alexander-Katz", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.2670
Cristiano De Michele
C. De Michele, R. Schilling, F. Sciortino
Dynamics of uniaxial hard ellipsoids
accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 265702 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.265702
null
cond-mat.soft
null
We study the dynamics of monodisperse hard ellipsoids via a new event-driven molecular dynamics algorithm as a function of volume fraction $\phi$ and aspect ratio $X_0$. We evaluate the translational $D_{trans}$ and the rotational $D_{rot}$ diffusion coefficient and the associated isodiffusivity lines in the $\phi-X_0$ plane. We observe a decoupling of the translational and rotational dynamics which generates an almost perpendicular crossing of the $D_{trans}$ and $D_{rot}$ isodiffusivity lines. While the self intermediate scattering function exhibits stretched relaxation, i.e. glassy dynamics, only for large $\phi$ and $X_0 \approx 1$, the second order orientational correlator $C_2(t)$ shows stretching only for large and small $X_0$ values. We discuss these findings in the context of a possible pre-nematic order driven glass transition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:55:22 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "De Michele", "C.", "" ], [ "Schilling", "R.", "" ], [ "Sciortino", "F.", "" ] ]
0705.2671
Boyka Aneva
Boyka Aneva
Hidden Symmetries of Stochastic Models
This is a contribution to the Proc. of the O'Raifeartaigh Symposium on Non-Perturbative and Symmetry Methods in Field Theory (June 2006, Budapest, Hungary), published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/
SIGMA 3 (2007), 068, 12 pages
10.3842/SIGMA.2007.068
null
cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP math.QA
null
In the matrix product states approach to $n$ species diffusion processes the stationary probability distribution is expressed as a matrix product state with respect to a quadratic algebra determined by the dynamics of the process. The quadratic algebra defines a noncommutative space with a $SU_q(n)$ quantum group action as its symmetry. Boundary processes amount to the appearance of parameter dependent linear terms in the algebraic relations and lead to a reduction of the $SU_q(n)$ symmetry. We argue that the boundary operators of the asymmetric simple exclusion process generate a tridiagonal algebra whose irriducible representations are expressed in terms of the Askey-Wilson polynomials. The Askey-Wilson algebra arises as a symmetry of the boundary problem and allows to solve the model exactly.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:54:35 GMT" } ]
2008-04-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Aneva", "Boyka", "" ] ]
0705.2672
Roland Speith
C. Sch\"afer, R. Speith, W. Kley (University of T\"ubingen)
Collisions between equal sized ice grain agglomerates
7 pages, 11 figures, accepted by A&A
A&A 470, 733-739 (2007)
10.1051/0004-6361:20077354
null
astro-ph
null
Following the recent insight in the material structure of comets, protoplanetesimals are assumed to have low densities and to be highly porous agglomerates. It is still unclear if planetesimals can be formed from these objects by collisional growth. Therefore, it is important to study numerically the collisional outcome from low velocity impacts of equal sized porous agglomerates which are too large to be examined in a laboratory experiment. We use the Lagrangian particle method Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics to solve the equations that describe the dynamics of elastic and plastic bodies. Additionally, to account for the influence of porosity, we follow a previous developed equation of state and certain relations between the material strength and the relative density. Collisional growth seems possible for rather low collision velocities and particular material strengths. The remnants of collisions with impact parameters that are larger than 50% of the radius of the colliding objects tend to rotate. For small impact parameters, the colliding objects are effectively slowed down without a prominent compaction of the porous structure, which probably increases the possibility for growth. The protoplanetesimals, however, do not stick together for the most part of the employed material strengths. An important issue in subsequent studies has to be the influence of rotation to collisional growth. Moreover, for realistic simulations of protoplanetesimals it is crucial to know the correct material parameters in more detail.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 10:56:01 GMT" } ]
2007-07-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Schäfer", "C.", "", "University of Tübingen" ], [ "Speith", "R.", "", "University of Tübingen" ], [ "Kley", "W.", "", "University of Tübingen" ] ]
0705.2673
Dragos Falie
Dragos Falie, Vasile Buzuloiu
Noise characteristics of 3D time-of-flight cameras
null
ISSCS, 2007, Iasi
null
null
physics.data-an
null
Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are based on a new technology that delivers distance maps by the use of a modulated light source. In this paper we first describe a set of experiments that we performed with TOF cameras. We then propose a noise model which is able to explain some of the phenomena observed in the experiments. The model is based on assuming a noise source that is correlated with the light source (shot noise) and an additional additive noise source (dark current noise). The model predicts well the dependency of the distance errors on the image intensity and the true distance at an individual pixel.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:08:23 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Falie", "Dragos", "" ], [ "Buzuloiu", "Vasile", "" ] ]
0705.2674
Claire Noel CN
C. Noel, Y. Busegnies, M. V. Papalexandris, V. Deledicque, A. El Messoudi
Hydrodynamical simulation of detonations in superbursts. I. The hydrodynamical algorithm and some preliminary one-dimensional results
7 pages, 7 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics in press, a version of the paper with higher figures resolution can be found on http://www.astro.ulb.ac.be/Html/ps.html#Hydro
Comput.Phys.Commun.179:190-193,2008
10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.034
null
astro-ph
null
Aims. This work presents a new hydrodynamical algorithm to study astrophysical detonations. A prime motivation of this development is the description of a carbon detonation in conditions relevant to superbursts, which are thought to result from the propagation of a detonation front around the surface of a neutron star in the carbon layer underlying the atmosphere. Methods. The algorithm we have developed is a finite-volume method inspired by the original MUSCL scheme of van Leer (1979). The algorithm is of second-order in the smooth part of the flow and avoids dimensional splitting. It is applied to some test cases, and the time-dependent results are compared to the corresponding steady state solution. Results. Our algorithm proves to be robust to test cases, and is considered to be reliably applicable to astrophysical detonations. The preliminary one-dimensional calculations we have performed demonstrate that the carbon detonation at the surface of a neutron star is a multiscale phenomenon. The length scale of liberation of energy is $10^6$ times smaller than the total reaction length. We show that a multi-resolution approach can be used to solve all the reaction lengths. This result will be very useful in future multi-dimensional simulations. We present also thermodynamical and composition profiles after the passage of a detonation in a pure carbon or mixed carbon-iron layer, in thermodynamical conditions relevant to superbursts in pure helium accretor systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 13:37:57 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Noel", "C.", "" ], [ "Busegnies", "Y.", "" ], [ "Papalexandris", "M. V.", "" ], [ "Deledicque", "V.", "" ], [ "Messoudi", "A. El", "" ] ]
0705.2675
Harald Dimmelmeier
Harald Dimmelmeier, Christian D. Ott, Hans-Thomas Janka, Andreas Marek, Ewald Mueller
Generic Gravitational Wave Signals from the Collapse of Rotating Stellar Cores: A Detailed Analysis
10 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the XLII Rencontres de Moriond, "Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity", La Thuile, Italy, 2007
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We present detailed results from performing general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse to a proto-neutron star, using a microphysical equation of state (EoS) as well as an approximate description of deleptonization during the collapse phase. We show that for a wide variety of rotation rates and profiles the gravitational wave (GW) burst signals from the core bounce are of a generic type, already known as Type I in the literature. In addition, for most models the characteristic frequency of the GW burst signal lies in a narrow range around approximately 718 Hz. In our systematic study, using both GR and Newtonian gravity, we identify, individually quantify, and discuss in detail the micro- and macrophysical mechanisms leading to this result, i.e. the effects of rotation, the EoS, and deleptonization. We also discuss the detectability prospects of such GW burst signals by GW detectors, and infer that such a generic type of signal templates will likely facilitate a more efficient search in current and future detectors of both interferometric and resonant type.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:25:43 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Dimmelmeier", "Harald", "" ], [ "Ott", "Christian D.", "" ], [ "Janka", "Hans-Thomas", "" ], [ "Marek", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Mueller", "Ewald", "" ] ]
0705.2676
Hongguang Zhang
Hong-Guang Zhang, Jie Ren, Xin-He Meng
Observe the open universe in the sky?
This paper has been withdrawn
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We first review the related works on the observable consequence of landscape and the regulation of e-foldings during inflation. We focus on a branch of observable consequence of landscape which predicts an open universe with negative curvature if e-foldings $N>62$. After discussing the observable regulation from the aspect by Kaloper, Kleban and Sorbo, we make an argument that in the non-flat background the observable $N$ is suppressed by a factor $k/\rho_{0}$. We point out that this seems to detect the information where e-foldings $N>62$ possibly. Finally, we discuss our outcomes with the recent work by Arkani-Hamed et al.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:20:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:20:23 GMT" } ]
2010-06-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhang", "Hong-Guang", "" ], [ "Ren", "Jie", "" ], [ "Meng", "Xin-He", "" ] ]
0705.2677
Youri Davydov
Davydov Youri and Rotar Vladimir
On Asymptotic Proximity of Distributions
21 pages, added reference, adapted content, corrected typos
null
null
null
math.PR
null
We consider some general facts concerning convergence P_{n}-Q_{n}\to 0 as n\to \infty, where P_{n} and Q_{n} are probability measures in a complete separable metric space. The main point is that the sequences {P_{n}} and {Q_{n}} are not assumed to be tight. We compare different possible definitions of the above convergence, and establish some general properties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:22:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:25:40 GMT" } ]
2007-06-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Youri", "Davydov", "" ], [ "Vladimir", "Rotar", "" ] ]
0705.2678
Nario Kuno
N. Kuno, N. Sato, H. Nakanishi, A. Hirota, T. Tosaki, Y. Shioya, K. Sorai, N. Nakai, K. Nishiyama, B. Vila-Vilaro
Nobeyama CO Atlas of Nearby Spiral Galaxies: Distribution of Molecular Gas in Barred and Non-barred Spiral Galaxies
15 pages, 50 figures, 3 tables
Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap.59:117-166,2007
10.1093/pasj/59.1.117
null
astro-ph
null
The data from a CO(1 - 0) mapping survey of 40 nearby spiral galaxies performed with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope are presented. The criteria of the sample selection were (1) RC3 morphological type in the range Sa to Scd, (2) distance less than 25 Mpc, (3) inclination angle less than 79deg (RC3), (4) flux at 100 um higher than ~ 10 Jy, (5) spiral structure is not destroyed by interaction. The maps of CO cover most of the optical disk of the galaxies. We investigated the influence of bar on the distribution of molecular gas in spiral galaxies using these data. We confirmed that the degree of central concentration is higher in barred spirals than in non-barred spirals as shown by the previous works. Furthermore, we present an observational evidence that bars are efficient in driving molecular gas that lies within the bar length toward the center, while the role in bringing gas in from the outer parts of the disks is small. The transported gas accounts for about half of molecular gas within the central region in barred spiral galaxies. We found a correlation between the degree of central concentration and bar strength. Galaxies with stronger bars tend to have higher central concentration. The correlation implies that stronger bars accumulate molecular gas toward the center more efficiently. These results are consistent with long-lived bars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:22:33 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kuno", "N.", "" ], [ "Sato", "N.", "" ], [ "Nakanishi", "H.", "" ], [ "Hirota", "A.", "" ], [ "Tosaki", "T.", "" ], [ "Shioya", "Y.", "" ], [ "Sorai", "K.", "" ], [ "Nakai", "N.", "" ], [ "Nishiyama", "K.", "" ], [ "Vila-Vilaro", "B.", "" ] ]
0705.2679
Marcella Di Criscienzo
M. Di Criscienzo, F. Caputo, M. Marconi, S. Cassisi
Synthetic properties of bright metal-poor variables. II. BL Her stars
12 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in A&A on date 16/05/2007
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066541
null
astro-ph
null
We investigate the properties of the so-called BL Her stars, i.e., Population II Cepheids with periods shorter than 8 days, using updated pulsation models and evolutionary tracks computed adopting a metal abundance in the range of Z=0.0001 to Z=0.004. We derive the predicted Period-Magnitude (PM) and Period-Wesenheit (PW) relations at the various photometric bands and we show that the slopes of these relations are in good agreement with the slopes determined by observed variables in Galactic globular clusters, independently of the adopted M_V(RR)-[Fe/H] relation to get the cluster RR Lyrae-based distance. Moreover, we show that also the distances provided by the predicted PM and PW relations for BL Her stars agree within the errors with the RR Lyrae based values. The use of the predicted relations with W Vir stars, which are Population II Cepheids with periods longer than 8 days, provides no clear evidence for or against a change in the PM and PW slopes around P~10 days.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:37:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Di Criscienzo", "M.", "" ], [ "Caputo", "F.", "" ], [ "Marconi", "M.", "" ], [ "Cassisi", "S.", "" ] ]
0705.2680
Parthasarathi Mitra
P. Mitra
Complex fermion mass term, regularization and CP violation
REVTeX, 4 pages
J.Phys.A40:F525-F530,2007
10.1088/1751-8113/40/26/F03
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
It is well known that the CP violating theta term of QCD can be converted to a phase in the quark mass term. However, a theory with a complex mass term for quarks can be regularized so as not to violate CP, for example through a zeta function. The contradiction is resolved through the recognition of a dependence on the regularization or measure. The appropriate choice of regularization is discussed and implications for the strong CP problem are pointed out.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:48:29 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Mitra", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.2681
Alexander Razumov
Kh. S. Nirov, A. V. Razumov
On Z-graded loop Lie algebras, loop groups, and Toda equations
24 pages, talk given at the Workshop "Classical and Quantum Integrable Systems" (Dubna, January, 2007)
Theor.Math.Phys.154:385-404,2008
10.1007/s11232-008-0034-7
null
math-ph hep-th math.MP nlin.SI
null
Toda equations associated with twisted loop groups are considered. Such equations are specified by Z-gradations of the corresponding twisted loop Lie algebras. The classification of Toda equations related to twisted loop Lie algebras with integrable Z-gradations is discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:50:03 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Nirov", "Kh. S.", "" ], [ "Razumov", "A. V.", "" ] ]
0705.2682
Suvankar Dutta
Nabamita Banerjee and Suvankar Dutta
Phase Transition of Electrically Charged Ricci-flat Black Holes
33 pages, 9 figures, Version 2, References added
JHEP0707:047,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/047
null
hep-th
null
We study phase transition between electrically charged Ricci-flat black holes and AdS soliton spacetime of Horowitz and Myers in five dimensions. Boundary topology for both of them is $S^1 \times S^1 \times R^2$. We consider Reissner-Nordstrom black hole and R-charged black holes and find that phase transition of these black holes to AdS soliton spacetime depends on the relative size of two boundary circles. We also perform the stability analysis for these black holes. In order to use the AdS/CFT correspondence, we work in the grand canonical ensemble.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:56:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 31 May 2007 20:24:45 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Banerjee", "Nabamita", "" ], [ "Dutta", "Suvankar", "" ] ]
0705.2683
Tuomas Multam\"aki
K. Henttunen, T. Multamaki, I. Vilja
Stellar configurations in f(R) theories of gravity
8 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected, reference added
Phys.Rev.D77:024040,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.024040
null
astro-ph gr-qc
null
We study stellar configurations and the space-time around them in metric $f(R)$ theories of gravity. In particular, we focus on the polytropic model of the Sun in the $f(R)=R-\mu^4/R$ model. We show how the stellar configuration in the $f(R)$ theory can, by appropriate initial conditions, be selected to be equal to that described by the Lane-Emden -equation and how a simple scaling relation exists between the solutions. We also derive the correct solution analytically near the center of the star in $f(R)$ theory. Previous analytical and numerical results are confirmed, indicating that the space-time around the Sun is incompatible with Solar System constraints on the properties of gravity. Numerical work shows that stellar configurations, with a regular metric at the center, lead to $\gamma_{PPN}\simeq1/2$ outside the star ie. the Schwarzschild-de Sitter -space-time is not the correct vacuum solution for such configurations. Conversely, by selecting the Schwarzschild-de Sitter -metric as the outside solution, we find that the stellar configuration is unchanged but the metric is irregular at the center. The possibility of constructing a $f(R)$ theory compatible with the Solar System experiments and possible new constraints arising from the radius-mass -relation of stellar objects is discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 11:56:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 28 May 2007 12:46:18 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Henttunen", "K.", "" ], [ "Multamaki", "T.", "" ], [ "Vilja", "I.", "" ] ]
0705.2684
Manuela Capello
Manuela Capello, Federico Becca, Michele Fabrizio, Sandro Sorella
Superfluid to Mott-insulator transition in Bose-Hubbard models
4 pages, 4 figures, based on cond-mat/0611306
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.056402
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We study the superfluid-insulator transition in Bose-Hubbard models in one-, two-, and three-dimensional cubic lattices by means of a recently proposed variational wave function. In one dimension, the variational results agree with the expected Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario of the interaction-driven Mott transition. In two and three dimensions, we find evidences that, across the transition,most of the spectral weight is concentrated at high energies, suggestive of pre-formed Mott-Hubbard side-bands. This result is compatible with the experimental data by Stoferle et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 130403 (2004)].
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:09:20 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Capello", "Manuela", "" ], [ "Becca", "Federico", "" ], [ "Fabrizio", "Michele", "" ], [ "Sorella", "Sandro", "" ] ]
0705.2685
Anne Moreau
Jean-Yves Charbonnel (IMJ), Anne Moreau (LMA-Poitiers)
Nilpotent bicone and characteristic submodule of a reductive Lie algebra
48 pages. Remark 8 has been modified; one sentence was not correct. We thank Kari Vilonen for pointing out this error
null
null
null
math.RT math.AG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The nilpotent bicone of a finite dimensional complex reductive Lie algebra g is the subset of elements in g x g whose subspace generated by the components is contained in the nilpotent cone of g. The main result of this note is that the nilpotent bicone is a complete intersection. This affirmatively answers a conjecture of Kraft-Wallach concerning the nullcone. In addition, we introduce and study the characteristic submodule of g. The properties of the nilpotent bicone and the characteristic submodule are known to be very important for the understanding of the commuting variety and its ideal of definition. In order to study the nilpotent bicone, we introduce another subvariety, the principal bicone. The nilpotent bicone, as well as the principal bicone, are linked to jet schemes. We study their dimensions using arguments from motivic integration. Namely, we follow methods developed in http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008002v5 .
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2014-12-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Charbonnel", "Jean-Yves", "", "IMJ" ], [ "Moreau", "Anne", "", "LMA-Poitiers" ] ]
0705.2686
John Greenlees
J.P.C.Greenlees
Rational torus-equivariant homotopy I: calculating groups of stable maps
null
null
null
null
math.AT
null
We construct an abelian category A(G) of sheaves over a category of closed subgroups of the r-torus G and show it is of finite injective dimension. It can be used as a model for rational $G$-spectra in the sense that there is a homology theory \piA_*: G-spectra/Q --> A(G) on rational G-spectra with values in A(G), and the associated Adams spectral sequence converges for all rational $G$-spectra and collapses at a finite stage.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:14:23 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Greenlees", "J. P. C.", "" ] ]
0705.2687
John Greenlees
Matthew Ando and J.P.C. Greenlees
Circle-equivariant classifying spaces and the rational equivariant sigma genus
The new version includes further notational improvements. The main results and methods of proof are unchanged. No further changes are expected
null
null
null
math.AT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The circle-equivariant spectrum MString_C is the equivariant analogue of the cobordism spectrum MU<6> of stably almost complex manifolds with c_1=c_2=0. Given a rational elliptic curve C, the second author has defined a ring T-spectrum EC representing the associated T-equivariant elliptic cohomology. The core of the present paper is the construction, when C is a complex elliptic curve, of a map of ring T-spectra MString_C --> EC which is the rational equivariant analogue of the sigma orientation of Ando-Hopkins-Strickland. We support this by a theory of characteristic classes for calculation, and a conceptual description in terms of algebraic geometry. In particular, we prove a conjecture of the first author.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:29:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:51:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:34:02 GMT" } ]
2010-07-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ando", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Greenlees", "J. P. C.", "" ] ]
0705.2688
Andrea Puglisi
A. Puglisi, A. Baldassarri and A. Vulpiani
Violation of the Einstein relation in Granular Fluids: the role of correlations
18 pages, 6 figures, submitted for publication
J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P08016
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08016
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.soft
null
We study the linear response in different models of driven granular gases. In some situations, even if the the velocity statistics can be strongly non-Gaussian, we do not observe appreciable violations of the Einstein formula for diffusion versus mobility. The situation changes when strong correlations between velocities and density are present: in this case, although a form of fluctuation-dissipation relation holds, the differential velocity response of a particle and its velocity self-correlation are no more proportional. This happens at high densities and strong inelasticities, but still in the fluid-like (and ergodic) regime.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:39:46 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Puglisi", "A.", "" ], [ "Baldassarri", "A.", "" ], [ "Vulpiani", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.2689
Janvier Nzeutchap
Janvier Nzeutchap
Binary Search Tree insertion, the Hypoplactic insertion, and Dual Graded Graphs
11 pages, submitted to the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics on February 2007
null
null
null
math.CO
null
Fomin (1994) introduced a notion of duality between two graded graphs on the same set of vertices. He also introduced a generalization to dual graded graphs of the classical Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm. We show how Fomin's approach applies to the binary search tree insertion algorithm also known as sylvester insertion, and to the hypoplactic insertion algorithm.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:41:32 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Nzeutchap", "Janvier", "" ] ]
0705.2690
V. Ravishankar
Vinod Chandra, Ravindra Kumar and V. Ravishankar
Hot QCD equations of state and relativistic heavy ion collisions
11 pages, fifteen figures, two column, accepted for publication in PRC
Phys.Rev.C76:054909,2007; Erratum-ibid.C76:069904,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.054909 10.1103/PhysRevC.76.069904
null
nucl-th hep-ph hep-th
null
We study two recently proposed equations of state (EOS) which are obtained from high temperature QCD, and show how they can be adapted to use them for making predictions for relativistic heavy ion collisions. The method involves extracting equilibrium distribution functions for quarks and gluons from the EOS, which in turn will allow a determination of the transport and other bulk properties of the quark gluon plasma. Simultaneously, the method also yields a quasi particle description of interacting quarks and gluons. The first EOS is perturbative in the QCD coupling constant and has contributions of $O(g^5)$. The second EOS is an improvement over the first, with contributions upto $ O(g^6 ln(\frac{1}{g}))$; it incorporates the nonperturbative hard thermal contributions. The interaction effects are shown to be captured entirely by the effective chemical potentials for the gluons and the quarks, in both the cases. The chemical potential is seen to be highly sensitive to the EOS. As an application, we determine the screening lengths which are, indeed the most important diagnostics for QGP. The screening lengths are seen to behave drastically differently depending on the EOS considered., and yield, therefore, a way to distinguish the two equations of state in heavy ion collisions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 20 May 2007 10:12:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:21:42 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Chandra", "Vinod", "" ], [ "Kumar", "Ravindra", "" ], [ "Ravishankar", "V.", "" ] ]
0705.2691
Eric Vasserot
M. Varagnolo, E. Vasserot
Finite dimensional representations of DAHA and affine Springers fibers : the spherical case
79 pages. Corrected typos
null
null
null
math.RT
null
We classify finite dimensional simple spherical representations of rational double affine Hecke algebras, and we study a remarkable family of finite dimensional simple spherical representations of double affine Hecke algebras.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:51:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 11:01:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:07:14 GMT" } ]
2007-07-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Varagnolo", "M.", "" ], [ "Vasserot", "E.", "" ] ]
0705.2692
Mario Novello
M. Novello
Constructing Dirac linear fermions in terms of non-linear Heisenberg spinors
null
Europhys.Lett.80:41001,2007
10.1209/0295-5075/80/41001
null
astro-ph hep-th
null
We show that the massive (or massless) neutrinos can be described as special states of Heisenberg nonlinear spinors. As a by-product of this decomposition a particularly attractive consequence appears: the possibility of relating the existence of only three species of mass-less neutrinos to such internal non-linear structure. At the same time it allows the possibility that neutrino oscillation can occurs even for massless neutrinos.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:53:49 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Novello", "M.", "" ] ]
0705.2693
Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez
J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez, R. Rebolo, G. Israelian
The Black Hole Binary Nova Scorpii 1994 (GRO J1655-40): An improved chemical analysis
New Accepted version for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Table 2: Corrected
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077141
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The chemical analysis of secondary stars of low mass X-ray binaries provides an opportunity to study the formation processes of compact objects, either black holes or neutron stars. Following the discovery of overabundances of $\alpha$-elements in the HIRES/Keck spectrum of the secondary star of Nova Scorpii 1994 (Israelian et al. 1999), we obtained UVES/VLT high-resolution spectroscopy with the aim of performing a detailed abundance analysis of this secondary star. Using a $\chi2$-minimization procedure and a grid of synthetic spectra, we derive the stellar parameters and atmospheric abundances of O, Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, Fe and Ni, using a new UVES spectrum and the HIRES spectrum.The abundances of Al, Ca, Ti, Fe and Ni seem to be consistent with solar values, whereas Na, and especially O, Mg, Si and S are significantly enhanced in comparison with Galactic trends of these elements. A comparison with spherically and non-spherically symmetric supernova explosion models may provide stringent constraints to the model parameters as mass-cut and the explosion energy, in particular from the relative abundances of Si, S, Ca, Ti, Fe and Ni. Most probably the black hole in this system formed in a hypernova explosion of a 30--35 \Msun progenitor star with a mass-cut in the range 2--3.5 \Msun. However, these models produce abundances of Al and Na almost ten times higher than the observed values.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:53:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:50:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:14:25 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hernandez", "J. I. Gonzalez", "" ], [ "Rebolo", "R.", "" ], [ "Israelian", "G.", "" ] ]
0705.2694
Zhang Jiang
Zhang Jiang, Qing Chen, Shaolong Wan
Optimal 1->M universal quantum cloning via spin networks
4 pages, 2 figures
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 76, 034302 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.034302
null
quant-ph
null
We present a scheme that transform 1 qubit to M identical copies with optimal fidedelity via free dynamical evolution of spin star networks. We show that the Heisenberg XXZ coupling can fulfill the challenge. The initial state of the copying machine and the parameters of the spin Hamiltonian are discussed in detail. Furthermore we have proposed a feasible method to prepare the initial state of the copying machine.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:58:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Jiang", "Zhang", "" ], [ "Chen", "Qing", "" ], [ "Wan", "Shaolong", "" ] ]
0705.2695
Alessandro Melchiorri dr.
Alessandro Melchiorri, Olga Mena, Anze Slosar
An improved cosmological bound on the thermal axion mass
5 Pages, 3 Figures
Phys.Rev.D76:041303,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.041303
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
Relic thermal axions could play the role of an extra hot dark matter component in cosmological structure formation theories. By combining the most recent observational data we improve previous cosmological bounds on the axion mass m_a in the so-called hadronic axion window. We obtain a limit on the axion mass m_a < 0.42eV at the 95% c.l. (m_a < 0.72eV at the 99% c.l.). A novel aspect of the analysis presented here is the inclusion of massive neutrinos and how they may affect the bound on the axion mass. If neutrino masses belong to an inverted hierarchy scheme, for example, the above constraint is improved to m_a < 0.38eV at the 95% c.l. (m_a < 0.67eV at the 99% c.l.). Future data from experiments as CAST will provide a direct test of the cosmological bound.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 13:23:26 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Melchiorri", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Mena", "Olga", "" ], [ "Slosar", "Anze", "" ] ]
0705.2696
Gavin Salam
Gavin P. Salam
A Practical Seedless Infrared Safe Cone Algorithm
4 pages, 4 figures. Talk presented at the XLII Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and Hadronic Interactions, La Thuile, March 2007
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
This writeup highlights the infrared unsafety of the "midpoint" cone jet-algorithm and provides a brief overview of why this is a serious issue. It then shows how one can build a safe (seedless) cone algorithm and discusses the potential impact on measurements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 13:14:44 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Salam", "Gavin P.", "" ] ]
0705.2697
A. S. Alexandrov
A. S. Alexandrov
Unconventional superconducting pairing by conventional phonons
4 pages, 4 figures, more references added
Phys. Rev. B 77, 094502 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.094502
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
null
The common wisdom that the phonon mechanism of electron pairing in the weak-coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors leads to conventional s-wave Cooper pairs is revised. An inevitable anisotropy of sound velocity in crystals makes the phonon-mediated attraction of electrons non-local in space providing unconventional Cooper pairs with a nonzero orbital momentum in a wide range of electron densities. As a result of this anisotropy quasi-two dimensional charge carriers undergo a quantum phase transition from an unconventional d-wave superconducting state to a conventional s-wave superconductor with more carriers per unit cell. In the opposite strong-coupling regime rotational symmetry breaking appears as a result of a reduced Coulomb repulsion between unconventional bipolarons dismissing thereby some constraints on unconventional pairing in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) limit. The conventional phonons, and not superexchange, are shown to be responsible for the d-wave symmetry of cuprate superconductors, where the on-site Coulomb repulsion is large.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 13:10:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 29 May 2007 16:03:21 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Alexandrov", "A. S.", "" ] ]