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0706.0714
Marcelo Miguel Miller Bertolami
M. M. Miller Bertolami, L. G. Althaus
The born again (VLTP) scenario revisited: The mass of the remnants and implications for V4334 Sgr
Submitted to MNRAS. In includes an appendix regarding the treatment of reduced convective motions within the Mixing Length Theory
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 380, Issue 2, pp. 763-770, 2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12115.x
null
astro-ph
null
We present 1-D numerical simulations of the very late thermal pulse (VLTP) scenario for a wide range of remnant masses. We show that by taking into account the different possible remnant masses, the observed evolution of V4334 Sgr (a.k.a. Sakurai's Object) can be reproduced within the standard 1D-MLT stellar evolutionary models without the inclusion of any $ad-hoc$ reduced mixing efficiency. Our simulations hint at a consistent picture with present observations of V4334 Sgr. From energetics, and within the standard MLT approach, we show that low mass remnants \hbox{($M\lesssim0.6$\msun)} are expected to behave markedly different than higher mass remnants \hbox{($M\gtrsim0.6$\msun)} in the sense that the latter are not expected to expand significantly as a result of the violent H-burning that takes place during the VLTP. We also assess the discrepancy in the born again times obtained by different authors by comparing the energy that can be liberated by H-burning during the VLTP event.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:32:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:53:57 GMT" } ]
2008-08-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Bertolami", "M. M. Miller", "" ], [ "Althaus", "L. G.", "" ] ]
0706.0715
Aleksey Zinger
Aleksey Zinger
Standard vs. Reduced Genus-One Gromov-Witten Invariants
a number of minor corrections; 31 pages, 4 figures
Geom. Topol. 12 (2008) 1203-1241
10.2140/gt.2008.12.1203
null
math.AG math.SG
null
We give an explicit formula for the difference between the standard and reduced genus-one Gromov-Witten invariants. Combined with previous work on geometric properties of the latter, this paper makes it possible to compute the standard genus-one GW-invariants of complete intersections. In particular, we obtain a closed formula for the genus-one GW-invariants of a Calabi-Yau projective hypersurface and verify a recent mirror symmetry prediction for a sextic fourfold as a special case.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:33:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:31:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:59:29 GMT" } ]
2016-01-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Zinger", "Aleksey", "" ] ]
0706.0716
Adam Wasserman
Morrel H. Cohen, Adam Wasserman, and Kieron Burke
Partition theory: A very simple illustration
8 pages, 8 figures
null
10.1021/jp0743370
null
cond-mat.other cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We illustrate the main features of a recently proposed method based on ensemble density functional theory to divide rigorously a complex molecular system into its parts [M.H. Cohen and A. Wasserman, J. Phys. Chem. A 111, 2229 (2007)]. The illustrative system is an analog of the hydrogen molecule for which analytic expressions for the densities of the parts (hydrogen "atoms") are found along with the "reactivity potential" that enters the theory. While previous formulations of Chemical Reactivity Theory lead to zero, or undefined, values for the chemical hardness of the isolated parts, we demonstrate they can acquire a finite and positive hardness within the present formulation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:34:03 GMT" } ]
2016-09-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Cohen", "Morrel H.", "" ], [ "Wasserman", "Adam", "" ], [ "Burke", "Kieron", "" ] ]
0706.0717
Michael Kroyter
Ehud Fuchs and Michael Kroyter
Marginal deformation for the photon in superstring field theory
v1. 17 pages; v2. 21 pages. Presentation expanded, fig. added, refs. added, typos corrected
JHEP 0711:005,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/005
AEI-2007-042
hep-th
null
We find solutions of supersymmetric string field theory that correspond to the photon marginal deformation in the boundary conformal field theory. We revisit the bosonic string marginal deformation and generate a real solution for it. We find a map between the solutions of bosonic and supersymmetric string field theories and suggest a universal solution to superstring field theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:35:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:15:51 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Fuchs", "Ehud", "" ], [ "Kroyter", "Michael", "" ] ]
0706.0718
Istv\'an Dank\'o
Istvan Danko (for the CLEO collaboration)
Recent charm results from CLEO-c
Contribution to the Proceedings of the XXI Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Italy, March 4-10, 2007. 15 pages, 10 figures; minor changes in text and a reference added
null
null
null
hep-ex
null
The CLEO-c experiment has been collecting data at the charm-threshold region. A selection of recent results on charmed meson and charmonia decays are presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:43:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:50:12 GMT" } ]
2019-08-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Danko", "Istvan", "", "for the CLEO collaboration" ] ]
0706.0719
Alex Hayat
Alex Hayat and Meir Orenstein
Self-Phasematched Nonlinear Optics in Integrated Semiconductor Microcavities
references updated
null
10.1364/OL.32.002864
null
physics.optics
null
A novel concept of self-phasematched optical frequency conversion in dispersive dielectric microcavities is studied theoretically and experimentally. We develop a time-dependent model, incorporating the dispersion into the structure of the spatial cavity modes and translating the phasematching requirement into the optimization of a nonlinear cavity mode overlap. We design and fabricate integrated double-resonance semiconductor microcavities for self-phasematched second harmonic generation. The measured efficiency exhibits a significant maximum near the cavity resonance due to the intra-cavity enhancement of the input power and the dispersion-induced wavelength detuning effect on the mode overlap, in good agreement with our theoretical predictions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:49:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:47:58 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hayat", "Alex", "" ], [ "Orenstein", "Meir", "" ] ]
0706.0720
Martin Wainwright
Ram Rajagopal, Martin J. Wainwright
Universal Quantile Estimation with Feedback in the Communication-Constrained Setting
Work presented in part at the International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA, in July 2006
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
We consider the following problem of decentralized statistical inference: given i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution, estimate an arbitrary quantile subject to limits on the number of bits exchanged. We analyze a standard fusion-based architecture, in which each of $m$ sensors transmits a single bit to the fusion center, which in turn is permitted to send some number $k$ bits of feedback. Supposing that each of $\nodenum$ sensors receives $n$ observations, the optimal centralized protocol yields mean-squared error decaying as $\order(1/[n m])$. We develop and analyze the performance of various decentralized protocols in comparison to this centralized gold-standard. First, we describe a decentralized protocol based on $k = \log(\nodenum)$ bits of feedback that is strongly consistent, and achieves the same asymptotic MSE as the centralized optimum. Second, we describe and analyze a decentralized protocol based on only a single bit ($k=1$) of feedback. For step sizes independent of $m$, it achieves an asymptotic MSE of order $\order[1/(n \sqrt{m})]$, whereas for step sizes decaying as $1/\sqrt{m}$, it achieves the same $\order(1/[n m])$ decay in MSE as the centralized optimum. Our theoretical results are complemented by simulations, illustrating the tradeoffs between these different protocols.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:00:17 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Rajagopal", "Ram", "" ], [ "Wainwright", "Martin J.", "" ] ]
0706.0721
Vladimir Bavula
V. V. Bavula
The Jacobian algebras
37 pages
null
null
null
math.RA math.AG
null
The Jacobian algebras are introduced and their various properties are studied.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:02:21 GMT" } ]
2007-06-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Bavula", "V. V.", "" ] ]
0706.0722
Stavros Garoufalidis
Stavros Garoufalidis
An ansatz for the asymptotics of hypergeometric multisums
22 pages and 2 figures
null
null
null
math.CO math.AG
null
Sequences that are defined by multisums of hypergeometric terms with compact support occur frequently in enumeration problems of combinatorics, algebraic geometry and perturbative quantum field theory. The standard recipe to study the asymptotic expansion of such sequences is to find a recurrence satisfied by them, convert it into a differential equation satisfied by their generating series, and analyze the singulatiries in the complex plane. We propose a shortcut by constructing directly from the structure of the hypergeometric term a finite set, for which we conjecture (and in some cases prove) that it contains all the singularities of the generating series. Our construction of this finite set is given by the solution set of a balanced system of polynomial equations of a rather special form, reminiscent of the Bethe ansatz. The finite set can also be identified with the set of critical values of a potential function, as well as with the evaluation of elements of an additive $K$-theory group by a regulator function. We give a proof of our conjecture in some special cases, and we illustrate our results with numerous examples.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:02:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:25:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:52:59 GMT" } ]
2008-02-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Garoufalidis", "Stavros", "" ] ]
0706.0723
J\'er\'emy Blanc
Nicolas Bartholdi, J\'er\'emy Blanc, S\'ebastien Loisel
On simple arrangements of lines and pseudo-lines in P^2 and R^2 with the maximum number of triangles
12 pages, 9 figures
Contemp. Math. 453 (2008), Discrete and Computational Geometry, 105-116.
null
null
math.CO
null
We give some new advances in the research of the maximum number of triangles that we may obtain in a simple arrangements of n lines or pseudo-lines.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:51:39 GMT" } ]
2008-05-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Bartholdi", "Nicolas", "" ], [ "Blanc", "Jérémy", "" ], [ "Loisel", "Sébastien", "" ] ]
0706.0724
Christina Markert
Christina Markert (for the STAR Collaboration)
Resonance Production in Jet
8 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings of the 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, February 11--18, 2007
null
null
null
nucl-ex
null
Hadronic resonances with short life times and strong coupling to the dense medium may exhibit mass shifts and width broadening as signatures of chiral symmetry restoration at the phase transition between hadronic and partonic matter. Resonances with different lifetimes are also used to extract information about the time evolution and temperature of the expanding hadronic medium. In order to collect information about the early stage (at the phase transition) of a heavy-ion collision, resonances and decay particles which are unaffected by the hadronic medium have to be used. We explore a possible new technique to extract signals from the early stage through the selection of resonances from jets. A first attempt of this analysis, using the reconstructed $\phi$(1020) from 200 GeV Au+Au collisions in STAR, is presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:34:30 GMT" } ]
2019-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Markert", "Christina", "", "for the STAR Collaboration" ] ]
0706.0725
Juan B. Gil
Daniel Birmajer, Juan Gil, Michael Weiner
Factorization of quadratic polynomials in the ring of formal power series over Z
15 pages
J. Algebra Appl. 6 (2007), no. 6, 1027-1037
null
null
math.AC math.GM math.NT math.RA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a quadratic polynomial to be irreducible in the ring $Z[[x]]$ of formal power series with integer coefficients. For $n,m\ge 1$ and $p$ prime, we show that $p^n+p^m\beta x+\alpha x^2$ is reducible in $Z[[x]]$ if and only if it is reducible in $Z_p[x]$, the ring of polynomials over the $p$-adic integers.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:42:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:42:29 GMT" } ]
2023-10-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Birmajer", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Gil", "Juan", "" ], [ "Weiner", "Michael", "" ] ]
0706.0726
Lawrence E. Kidder
Lawrence E. Kidder, Luc Blanchet, Bala R. Iyer
Radiation reaction in the 2.5PN waveform from inspiralling binaries in circular orbits
7 pages, no figures, submitted to CQG
Class.Quant.Grav.24:5307-5312,2007
10.1088/0264-9381/24/20/N01
null
gr-qc
null
In this Comment we compute the contributions of the radiation reaction force in the 2.5 post-Newtonian (PN) gravitational wave polarizations for compact binaries in circular orbits. (i) We point out and correct an inconsistency in the derivation of Arun, Blanchet, Iyer, and Qusailah. (ii) We prove that all contributions from radiation reaction in the 2.5PN waveform are actually negligible since they can be absorbed into a modification of the orbital phase at the 5PN order.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:48:53 GMT" } ]
2010-10-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Kidder", "Lawrence E.", "" ], [ "Blanchet", "Luc", "" ], [ "Iyer", "Bala R.", "" ] ]
0706.0727
Shirley Ho
Shirley Ho (Princeton University), Yen-Ting Lin (Princeton University), David Spergel (Princeton University), Christopher M. Hirata (Institute for Advanced Study)
Luminous Red Galaxy Population in Clusters at $0.2\le z\le 0.6$
13 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables
Astrophys.J.697:1358-1368,2009
10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/1358
null
astro-ph
null
We investigate statistical properties of LRGs in a sample of X-ray selected galaxy clusters at intermediate redshift ($0.2\le z\le0.6$). The LRGs are selected based on carefully designed color criteria, and the cluster membership is assessed via photometric redshifts. As clusters and LRGs are both viewed as promising tracer of the underlying dark matter distribution, understanding the distribution of LRGs within clusters is an important issue. Our main findings include: 1. The halo occupation distribution of LRGs inside our cluster sample is $N(M) = k\times (M/10^{14})^{a}$ where $a=0.620\pm 0.105 $ and $k=1.425\pm0.285 $ assuming a Poisson distribution for $N(M)$. 2. The halo occupation distribution of LRGs ($N(M)$) and the satellite distribution of LRGs ($N-1(M)$) are both consistent with being Poisson. To be more quantitative, we find $Var(N)/<N>= 1.428\pm 0.351$ and $Var(N-1)/<N-1> = 1.823 \pm 0.496$ 3. The radial profile of LRGs within clusters when fitted with a NFW profile gives a concentration of $17.5^{+7.1}_{-4.3}$ ($6.0^{+3.2}_{-1.9}$) including (excluding) BLRGs (Brightest LRGs). We also discuss the implications of these observations on the evolution of massive galaxies in clusters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:58:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:55:10 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ho", "Shirley", "", "Princeton University" ], [ "Lin", "Yen-Ting", "", "Princeton\n University" ], [ "Spergel", "David", "", "Princeton University" ], [ "Hirata", "Christopher M.", "", "Institute for Advanced Study" ] ]
0706.0728
Partouche Herv\'e
Costas Kounnas (Ecole Normale Superieure) and Herve Partouche (Ecole Polytechnique)
Inflationary de Sitter solutions from superstrings
37 pages, 4 eps figures
Nucl.Phys.B795:334-360,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.020
LPTENS-07/22, CPHT-RR025.0407
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
In the framework of superstring compactifications with N=1 supersymmetry spontaneously broken, (by either geometrical fluxes, branes or else), we show the existence of new inflationary solutions. The time-trajectory of the scale factor of the metric a, the supersymmetry breaking scale m=m(Phi) and the temperature T are such that am and aT remain constant. These solutions request the presence of special moduli-fields: i) The universal "no-scale-modulus" Phi, which appears in all N=1 effective supergravity theories and defines the supersymmetry breaking scale m(Phi). ii) The modulus Phi_s, which appears in a very large class of string compactifications and has a Phi-dependent kinetic term. During the time evolution, a^4 rho_s remains constant as well, (rho_s being the energy density induced by the motion of Phi_s). The cosmological term Lambda(am), the curvature term k(am, aT) and the radiation term c_R=a^4 rho are dynamically generated in a controllable way by radiative and temperature corrections; they are effectively constant during the time evolution. Depending on Lambda, k and c_R, either a first or second order phase transition can occur in the cosmological scenario. In the first case, an instantonic Euclidean solution exists and connects via tunneling the inflationary evolution to another cosmological branch. The latter starts with a big bang and, in the case the transition does not occur, ends with a big crunch. In the second case, the big bang and the inflationary phase are smoothly connected.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:53:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:48:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:45:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:09:04 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kounnas", "Costas", "", "Ecole Normale Superieure" ], [ "Partouche", "Herve", "", "Ecole\n Polytechnique" ] ]
0706.0729
Christina Markert
Christina Markert (for the STAR collaboration)
Resonance Production in RHIC Collisions
6 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 22st Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, San Diago, California, 12-18 March, 2006
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0093-6
null
nucl-ex
null
Results of resonance particle production measured at RHIC in $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = $ 200 GeV Au+Au collisions are compared to measurements in p+p and d+Au collisions in order to verify the existence of an extended hardronically interacting medium. Yield and momentum distributions of resonances maybe modified during the fireball lifetime due to resonance decay and the subsequent rescattering of their decay daughters as well as the regeneration of resonances from their decay products. Modified momentum spectra in heavy ion collisions may change the nuclear modification factor R$_{\rm AA}$. The influence on the elliptic flow v$_{2}$ due to late regeneration of resonances is discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:03:01 GMT" } ]
2019-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Markert", "Christina", "", "for the STAR collaboration" ] ]
0706.0730
D. A. Parshin
D.A.Parshin, V.L.Gurevich, H.R.Schober
Vibrational instability, two-level systems and Boson peak in glasses
28 pages, 3 figures
Physical Review B 76, 064206 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.064206
null
cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We show that the same physical mechanism is fundamental for two seemingly different phenomena such as the formation of two-level systems in glasses and the Boson peak in the reduced density of low-frequency vibrational states g(w)/w^2. This mechanism is the vibrational instability of weakly interacting harmonic modes. Below some frequency w_c << w_0 (where w_0 is of the order of Debye frequency) the instability, controlled by the anharmonicity, creates a new stable universal spectrum of harmonic vibrations with a Boson peak feature as well as double-well potentials with a wide distribution of barrier heights. Both are determined by the strength of the interaction I ~ w_c between the oscillators. Our theory predicts in a natural way a small value for the important dimensionless parameter C ~ 10^{-4} for two-level systems in glasses. We show that C ~ I^{-3} and decreases with increasing of the interaction strength I. We show that the number of active two-level systems is very small, less than one per ten million of oscillators, in a good agreement with experiment. Within the unified approach developed in the present paper the density of the tunneling states and the density of vibrational states at the Boson peak frequency are interrelated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:01:51 GMT" } ]
2010-08-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Parshin", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Gurevich", "V. L.", "" ], [ "Schober", "H. R.", "" ] ]
0706.0731
Alberto Iglesias
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Alberto Iglesias and Warren Siegel
On Semiclassical Limits of String States
12 pages
Phys.Lett.B655:284-289,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.005
YITP-SB-07-01
hep-th
null
We explore the relation between classical and quantum states in both open and closed (super)strings discussing the relevance of coherent states as a semiclassical approximation. For the closed string sector a gauge-fixing of the residual world-sheet rigid translation symmetry of the light-cone gauge is needed for the construction to be possible. The circular target-space loop example is worked out explicitly.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:19:28 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Blanco-Pillado", "Jose J.", "" ], [ "Iglesias", "Alberto", "" ], [ "Siegel", "Warren", "" ] ]
0706.0732
Yanqin Wu
Yanqin Wu, Norman W. Murray, J. Michael Ramsahai
Hot Jupiters in binary star systems
accepted to ApJ main journal, added one figure and expanded discussions
null
10.1086/521996
null
astro-ph
null
Radial velocity surveys find Jupiter mass planets with semi-major axes a less than 0.1 AU around ~1% of solar-type stars; counting planets with $a$ as large as 5 AU, the fraction of stars having planets reaches ~ 10% {Marcy,Butler}. An examination of the distribution of semi-major axes shows that there is a clear excess of planets with orbital periods around 3 or 4 days, corresponding to a~0.03$ AU, with a sharp cutoff at shorter periods (see Figure 1). It is believed that Jupiter mass planets form at large distances from their parent stars; some fraction then migrate in to produce the short period objects. We argue that a significant fraction of the `hot Jupiters' (a<0.1 AU) may arise in binary star systems in which the orbit of the binary is highly inclined to the orbit of the planet. Mutual torques between the two orbits drive down the minimum separation or periapse r_p between the planet and its host star (the Kozai mechanism). This periapse collapse is halted when tidal friction on the planet circularizes the orbit faster than Kozai torque can excite it. The same friction then circularizes the planet orbit, producing hot Jupiters with the peak of the semimajor axis distribution lying around 3 days. For the observed distributions of binary separation, eccentricity and mass ratio, roughly 2.5% of planets with initial semimajor axis a_p ~ 5au will migrate to within 0.1au of their parent star. Kozai migration could account for 10% or more of the observed hot Jupiters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:21:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 21:36:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wu", "Yanqin", "" ], [ "Murray", "Norman W.", "" ], [ "Ramsahai", "J. Michael", "" ] ]
0706.0733
Andrew Angel
A. G. Angel, B. Schmittmann, R. K. P. Zia
Zero-range process with long-range interactions at a T-junction
21 pages, 6 figures
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 No 43 (26 October 2007) 12811-12828
10.1088/1751-8113/40/43/001
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
A generalized zero-range process with a limited number of long-range interactions is studied as an example of a transport process in which particles at a T-junction make a choice of which branch to take based on traffic levels on each branch. The system is analysed with a self-consistent mean-field approximation which allows phase diagrams to be constructed. Agreement between the analysis and simulations is found to be very good.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:43:42 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Angel", "A. G.", "" ], [ "Schmittmann", "B.", "" ], [ "Zia", "R. K. P.", "" ] ]
0706.0734
Jennifer Donovan
Jennifer L. Donovan, J.E. Hibbard, J.H. van Gorkom
How Dry Are Red Mergers?
8 pages plus 1 table and 5 figures; accepted for publication in AJ
Astron.J.134:1118-1123,2007
10.1086/520676
null
astro-ph
null
The focus of current research in galaxy evolution has increasingly turned to understanding the effect that mergers have on the evolution of systems on the red sequence. For those interactions purported to occur dissipationlessly (so called "dry mergers"), it would appear that the role of gas is minimal. However, if these mergers are not completely dry, then even low levels of gas may be detectable. The purpose of our study is to test whether early type galaxies with HI in or around them, or "wet" ellipticals, would have been selected as dry mergers by the criteria in van Dokkum (2005, AJ, 130, 2647). To that end, we examine a sample of 20 early types from the HI Rogues Gallery with neutral hydrogen in their immediate environs. Of these, the 15 brightest and reddest galaxies match the optical dry merger criteria, but in each case, the presence of HI means that they are not truly dry.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:28:42 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Donovan", "Jennifer L.", "" ], [ "Hibbard", "J. E.", "" ], [ "van Gorkom", "J. H.", "" ] ]
0706.0735
Anton Andreev
A. V. Andreev
Magnetoconductance of carbon nanotube p-n junctions
5 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.247204
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
The magnetoconductance of p-n junctions formed in clean single wall carbon nanotubes is studied in the noninteracting electron approximation and perturbatively in electron-electron interaction, in the geometry where a magnetic field is along the tube axis. For long junctions the low temperature magnetoconductance is anomalously large: the relative change in the conductance becomes of order unity even when the flux through the tube is much smaller than the flux quantum. The magnetoconductance is negative for metallic tubes. For semiconducting and small gap tubes the magnetoconductance is nonmonotonic; positive at small and negative at large fields.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:46:20 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Andreev", "A. V.", "" ] ]
0706.0736
Babur Habib
B. Habib, J. Shabani, E. P. De Poortere, M. Shayegan, R. Winkler
Anisotropic low-temperature piezoresistance in (311)A GaAs two-dimensional holes
4 pages. Submitted to Applied Physics Letters
null
10.1063/1.2753735
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We report low-temperature resistance measurements in a modulation-doped, (311)A GaAs two-dimensional hole system as a function of applied in-plane strain. The data reveal a strong but anisotropic piezoresistance whose magnitude depends on the density as well as the direction along which the resistance is measured. At a density of $1.6\times10^{11}$ cm$^{-2}$ and for a strain of about $2\times10^{-4}$ applied along [01$\bar{1}$], e.g., the resistance measured along this direction changes by nearly a factor of two while the resistance change in the [$\bar{2}$33] direction is less than 10% and has the opposite sign. Our accurate energy band calculations indicate a pronounced and anisotropic deformation of the heavy-hole dispersion with strain, qualitatively consistent with the experimental data. The extremely anisotropic magnitude of the piezoresistance, however, lacks a quantitative explanation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:55:41 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Habib", "B.", "" ], [ "Shabani", "J.", "" ], [ "De Poortere", "E. P.", "" ], [ "Shayegan", "M.", "" ], [ "Winkler", "R.", "" ] ]
0706.0737
Stephen Shapiro
S. M. Shapiro, G. Xu, B. L. Winn, D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, R. Erwin
Anomalous phonon behavior in the high temperature shape memory alloy: TiPd:Cr
26 pages, 11 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.054305
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Ti50 Pd50-xCrx is a high temperature shape memory alloy with a martensitic transformation temperature strongly dependent on the Cr composition. Prior to the transformation a premartensitic phase is present with an incommensurate modulated cubic lattice with wave vector of q0=(0.22, 0.22, 0). The temperature dependence of the diffuse scattering in the cubic phase is measured as a function temperature for x=6.5, 8.5, and 10 at. %. The lattice dynamics has been studied and reveals anomalous temperature and q-dependence of the [110]-TA2 transverse phonon branch. The phonon linewidth is broad over the entire Brillouin zone and increases with decreasing temperature, contrary to the behavior expected for anharmonicity. No anomaly is observed at q0. The results are compared with first principles calculation of the phonon structure.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:47:44 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Shapiro", "S. M.", "" ], [ "Xu", "G.", "" ], [ "Winn", "B. L.", "" ], [ "Schlagel", "D. L.", "" ], [ "Lograsso", "T. A.", "" ], [ "Erwin", "R.", "" ] ]
0706.0738
Simon Casassus
S. Casassus (1), L.-A. Nyman (2,3), C. Dickinson (4,5), T.J. Pearson (4), A.C. Readhead (4,5) ((1) U. de Chile, (2) ESO (3) Onsala Space Observatory (4) Caltech (5) JPL)
A centimetre-wave excess over free-free emission in planetary nebulae
This paper has been withdrawn by the author(s), as it is superseded by 0708.2385
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
This paper has been withdrawn by the author(s), as it is superseded by 0708.2385.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:31:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:50:29 GMT" } ]
2007-11-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Casassus", "S.", "" ], [ "Nyman", "L. -A.", "" ], [ "Dickinson", "C.", "" ], [ "Pearson", "T. J.", "" ], [ "Readhead", "A. C.", "" ] ]
0706.0739
Alexei Kritsuk
Alexei G. Kritsuk, Paolo Padoan, Rick Wagner, and Michael L. Norman
Scaling Laws and Intermittency in Highly Compressible Turbulence
7 pages, 3 figures; in press, AIP Conference Proceedings: "Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas", Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, March 21, 2007
AIP Conf.Proc.932:393-399,2007
10.1063/1.2778991
null
astro-ph
null
We use large-scale three-dimensional simulations of supersonic Euler turbulence to study the physics of a highly compressible cascade. Our numerical experiments describe non-magnetized driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state and an rms Mach number of 6. We find that the inertial range velocity scaling deviates strongly from the incompressible Kolmogorov laws. We propose an extension of Kolmogorov's K41 phenomenology that takes into account compressibility by mixing the velocity and density statistics and preserves the K41 scaling of the density-weighted velocity v=rho^{1/3}u. We show that low-order statistics of 'v' are invariant with respect to changes in the Mach number. For instance, at Mach 6 the slope of the power spectrum of 'v' is -1.69 and the third-order structure function of 'v' scales linearly with separation. We directly measure the mass dimension of the "fractal" density distribution in the inertial subrange, D_m=2.4, which is similar to the observed fractal dimension of molecular clouds and agrees well with the cascade phenomenology.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:34:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:45:31 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kritsuk", "Alexei G.", "" ], [ "Padoan", "Paolo", "" ], [ "Wagner", "Rick", "" ], [ "Norman", "Michael L.", "" ] ]
0706.0740
Sascha Husa
Sascha Husa, Jose A. Gonzalez, Mark Hannam, Bernd Bruegmann, Ulrich Sperhake
Reducing phase error in long numerical binary black hole evolutions with sixth order finite differencing
13 pages, 6 figures
Class.Quant.Grav.25:105006,2008
10.1088/0264-9381/25/10/105006
null
gr-qc
null
We describe a modification of a fourth-order accurate ``moving puncture'' evolution code, where by replacing spatial fourth-order accurate differencing operators in the bulk of the grid by a specific choice of sixth-order accurate stencils we gain significant improvements in accuracy. We illustrate the performance of the modified algorithm with an equal-mass simulation covering nine orbits.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:36:20 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Husa", "Sascha", "" ], [ "Gonzalez", "Jose A.", "" ], [ "Hannam", "Mark", "" ], [ "Bruegmann", "Bernd", "" ], [ "Sperhake", "Ulrich", "" ] ]
0706.0741
Lawrence Roberts
Lawrence P. Roberts
On knot Floer homology in double branched covers
Due to an error in section 8, the results on the contact element have been weakened
Geom. Topol. 17 (2013) 413-467
10.2140/gt.2013.17.413
null
math.GT
null
Let L be a link in an thickened annulus. We specify the embedding of this annulus in the three sphere, and consider its complement thought of as the axis to L. In the right circumstances this axis lifts to a null-homologous knot in the double branched cover of the three sphere, branched over the embedded copy of L. This paper shows that the knot Floer homology of this lift, with mod 2 coefficients, can be computed from a spectral sequence starting at a type of Khovanov homology already described by Asaeda, Przytycki, and Sikora. We extend the known results about this type of Khovanov homology, and use it to provide a very simple explanation of the case when L is alternating for the obvious projection.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:41:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:19:45 GMT" } ]
2014-11-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Roberts", "Lawrence P.", "" ] ]
0706.0742
Vasily Shaginyan
V.R. Shaginyan, K.G. Popov, V. A. Stephanovich
Universal low-temperature behavior of the CePd_{1-x}Rh_x ferromagnet
6 pages, 7 figures
Europhys. Lett. 79 (2007) 47001
10.1209/0295-5075/79/47001
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
The heavy-fermion metal CePd_{1-x}Rh_x evolves from ferromagnetism at x=0 to a non-magnetic state at some critical concentration x_c. Utilizing the quasiparticle picture and the concept of fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT), we address the question about non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior of ferromagnet CePd_{1-x}Rh_x and show that it coincides with that of both antiferromagnet YbRh_2(Si_{0.95}Ge_{0.05})_2 and paramagnet CeRu_2Si_2 and CeNi_2Ge_2. We conclude that the NFL behavior being independent of the peculiarities of specific alloy, is universal, while numerous quantum critical points assumed to be responsible for the NFL behavior of different HF metals can be well reduced to the only quantum critical point related to FCQPT.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:50:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:47:07 GMT" } ]
2007-07-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Shaginyan", "V. R.", "" ], [ "Popov", "K. G.", "" ], [ "Stephanovich", "V. A.", "" ] ]
0706.0743
Lawrence Roberts
Lawrence P. Roberts
On knot Floer homology for some fibered knots
null
null
null
null
math.GT
null
A companion paper to "On knot Floer homology in branched double covers" applied to braided branched loci. We reprove the main result of that paper concerning alternating branched loci when projected to an annulus, without using Khovanov homology. This provides two advantages: 1) the results hold for integer coefficients and 2) the spin^c structures are more readily discernable. We apply this result to a branch locus which is a braid, and use the braid structure to find information about a fibered knot in the branched double cover. In some cases this provides all the information about the knot Floer homology and can be used to derive information about the Heegaard-Floer homology of associated fibered three manifolds. Results for certain positive braids are also included, establishing results similar to E. Eftekhary's in the Heegaard-Floer setting.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:59:36 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Roberts", "Lawrence P.", "" ] ]
0706.0744
Thomas Quella
Thomas Quella, Volker Schomerus
Free fermion resolution of supergroup WZNW models
47 pages
JHEP 0709:085,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/085
DESY 07-074, KCL-MTH-07-06, NSF-KITP-07-128
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP math.QA math.RT
null
Extending our earlier work on PSL(2|2), we explain how to reduce the solution of WZNW models on general type I supergroups to those defined on the bosonic subgroup. The new analysis covers in particular the supergroups GL(M|N) along with several close relatives such as PSL(N|N), certain Poincare supergroups and the series OSP(2|2N). This remarkable progress relies on the use of a special Feigin-Fuchs type representation. In preparation for the field theory analysis, we shall exploit a minisuperspace analogue of a free fermion construction to deduce the spectrum of the Laplacian on type I supergroups. The latter is shown to be non-diagonalizable. After lifting these results to the full WZNW model, we address various issues of the field theory, including its modular invariance and the computation of correlation functions. In agreement with previous findings, supergroup WZNW models allow to study chiral and non-chiral aspects of logarithmic conformal field theory within a geometric framework. We shall briefly indicate how insights from WZNW models carry over to non-geometric examples, such as e.g. the W(p) triplet models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:28:04 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Quella", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Schomerus", "Volker", "" ] ]
0706.0745
Martin P. W. Zerner
Martin P.W. Zerner
The zero-one law for planar random walks in i.i.d. random environments revisited
9 pages
null
null
null
math.PR
null
In this note we present a simplified proof of the zero-one law by Merkl and Zerner (2001) for directional transience of random walks in i.i.d. random environments (RWRE) on the square lattice. Also, we indicate how to construct a two-dimensional counterexample in a non-uniformly elliptic and stationary environment which has better ergodic properties than the example given by Merkl and Zerner.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:59:29 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Zerner", "Martin P. W.", "" ] ]
0706.0746
Alexey Stoykov
A.Stoykov, Y.Musienko, A.Kuznetsov, S.Reucroft, J.Swain
On the limited amplitude resolution of multipixel Geiger-mode APDs
5 pages, 3 figures
JINST2:P06005,2007
10.1088/1748-0221/2/06/P06005
null
physics.ins-det
null
The limited number of active pixels in a Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiode (G-APD) results not only in a non-linearity but also in an additional fluctuation of its response. Both these effects are taken into account to calculate the amplitude resolution of an ideal G-APD, which is shown to be finite. As one of the consequences, the energy resolution of a scintillation detector based on a G-APD is shown to be limited to some minimum value defined by the number of pixels in the G-APD.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:23:14 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Stoykov", "A.", "" ], [ "Musienko", "Y.", "" ], [ "Kuznetsov", "A.", "" ], [ "Reucroft", "S.", "" ], [ "Swain", "J.", "" ] ]
0706.0747
Fernando P\'erez
Gregory Beylkin, Vani Cheruvu and Fernando P\'erez
Fast Adaptive Algorithms in the Non-Standard Form for Multidimensional Problems
37 pages, 7 figures. Revised version (reorganized for clarity) accepted for publication, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal
null
null
APPM Preprint #550, 2006
math.NA
null
We present a fast, adaptive multiresolution algorithm for applying integral operators with a wide class of radially symmetric kernels in dimensions one, two and three. This algorithm is made efficient by the use of separated representations of the kernel. We discuss operators of the class $(-\Delta+\mu^{2}I)^{-\alpha}$, where $\mu\geq0$ and $0<\alpha<3/2$, and illustrate the algorithm for the Poisson and Schr\"{o}dinger equations in dimension three. The same algorithm may be used for all operators with radially symmetric kernels approximated as a weighted sum of Gaussians, making it applicable across multiple fields by reusing a single implementation. This fast algorithm provides controllable accuracy at a reasonable cost, comparable to that of the Fast Multipole Method (FMM). It differs from the FMM by the type of approximation used to represent kernels and has an advantage of being easily extendable to higher dimensions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:13:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:22:30 GMT" } ]
2007-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Beylkin", "Gregory", "" ], [ "Cheruvu", "Vani", "" ], [ "Pérez", "Fernando", "" ] ]
0706.0748
Alexander Soshnikov
Sandrine Peche and Alexander Soshnikov
On the lower bound of the spectral norm of symmetric random matrices with independent entries
null
null
null
null
math.PR math.CO
null
We show that the spectral radius of an $N\times N$ random symmetric matrix with i.i.d. bounded centered but non-symmetrically distributed entries is bounded from below by $ 2 \*\sigma - o(N^{-6/11+\epsilon}), $ where $\sigma^2 $ is the variance of the matrix entries and $\epsilon $ is an arbitrary small positive number. Combining with our previous result from [7], this proves that for any $\epsilon >0, $ one has $$ \|A_N\| =2 \*\sigma + o(N^{-6/11+\epsilon}) $$ with probability going to 1 as $N \to \infty. $
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:07:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 13 May 2008 22:02:03 GMT" } ]
2008-05-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Peche", "Sandrine", "" ], [ "Soshnikov", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0706.0749
A. A. Taskin
A. A. Taskin, Yoichi Ando
Peculiar Ferrimagnetism Associated with Charge Order in Layered Perovskite GdBaMn2O5
4 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207201 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.207201
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.str-el
null
The magnetic properties of GdBaMn_{2}O_{5.0}, which exhibits charge ordering, are studied from 2 to 400 K using single crystals. In a small magnetic field applied along the easy axis, the magnetization M shows a temperature-induced reversal which is sometimes found in ferrimagnets. In a large magnetic field, on the other hand, a sharp change in the slope of M(T) coming from an unusual turnabout of the magnetization of the Mn sublattices is observed. Those observations are essentially explained by a molecular field theory which highlights the role of delicate magnetic interactions between Gd^{3+} ions and the antiferromagnetically coupled Mn^{2+}/Mn^{3+} sublattices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:08:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Taskin", "A. A.", "" ], [ "Ando", "Yoichi", "" ] ]
0706.0750
Junhao Shen
Junhao Shen
An analogue of Szego's limit theorem in free probability theory
null
null
null
null
math.OA
null
In the paper, we discuss orthogonal polynomials in free probability theory. Especially, we prove an analogue of of Szego's limit theorem in free probability theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:13:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:04:42 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Shen", "Junhao", "" ] ]
0706.0751
Jihun Park
Ivan Cheltsov and Jihun Park and Joonyeong Won
Log canonical thresholds of certain Fano hypersurfaces
25 pages
Math. Z. 276 (2014), no.1-2, 51-79
10.1007/s00209-013-1186-1
null
math.AG math.DG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study log canonical thresholds on quartic threefolds, quintic fourfolds, and double spaces. As an application, we show that they have a Kaehler-Einstein metric if they are general.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:34:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 1 Jan 2015 03:04:15 GMT" } ]
2015-01-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Cheltsov", "Ivan", "" ], [ "Park", "Jihun", "" ], [ "Won", "Joonyeong", "" ] ]
0706.0752
Redouane Mecheri
R. Mecheri, E. Marsch (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)
Coronal ion-cyclotron beam instabilities within the multi-fluid description
8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077648
null
astro-ph
null
Spectroscopic observations and theoretical models suggest resonant wave-particle interactions, involving high-frequency ion-cyclotron waves, as the principal mechanism for heating and accelerating ions in the open coronal holes. However, the mechanism responsible for the generation of the ion-cyclotron waves remains unclear. One possible scenario is that ion beams originating from small-scale reconnection events can drive micro-instabilities that constitute a possible source for the excitation of ion-cyclotron waves. In order to study ion beam-driven electromagnetic instabilities, the multi-fluid model in the low-beta coronal plasma is used. While neglecting the electron inertia this model allows one to take into account ion-cyclotron wave effects that are absent from the one-fluid MHD model. Realistic models of density and temperature as well as a 2-D analytical magnetic field model are used to define the background plasma in the open-field funnel region of a polar coronal hole. Considering the WKB approximation, a Fourier plane-wave linear mode analysis is employed in order to derive the dispersion relation. Ray-tracing theory is used to compute the ray path of the unstable wave as well as the evolution of the growth rate of the wave while propagating in the coronal funnel. We demonstrate that, in typical coronal holes conditions and assuming realistic values of the beam velocity, the free energy provided by the ion beam propagating parallel the ambient field can drive micro-instabilities through resonant ion-cyclotron excitation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:29:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:32:59 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Mecheri", "R.", "", "Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research" ], [ "Marsch", "E.", "", "Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research" ] ]
0706.0753
Stephen Williams
Stephen R. Williams and Denis J. Evans
Statistical Mechanics of Time Independent Non-Dissipative Nonequilibrium States
17 pages, 4 figures, minor amendments
J. Chem. Phys. v127, 184101 (2007)
10.1063/1.2780161
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We examine the question of whether the formal expressions of equilibrium statistical mechanics can be applied to time independent non-dissipative systems that are not in true thermodynamic equilibrium and are nonergodic. By assuming the phase space may be divided into time independent, locally ergodic domains, we argue that within such domains the relative probabilities of microstates are given by the standard Boltzmann weights. In contrast to previous energy landscape treatments, that have been developed specifically for the glass transition, we do not impose an a priori knowledge of the inter-domain population distribution. Assuming that these domains are robust with respect to small changes in thermodynamic state variables we derive a variety of fluctuation formulae for these systems. We verify our theoretical results using molecular dynamics simulations on a model glass forming system. Non-equilibrium Transient Fluctuation Relations are derived for the fluctuations resulting from a sudden finite change to the system's temperature or pressure and these are shown to be consistent with the simulation results. The necessary and sufficient conditions for these relations to be valid are that the domains are internally populated by Boltzmann statistics and that the domains are robust. The Transient Fluctuation Relations thus provide an independent quantitative justification for the assumptions used in our statistical mechanical treatment of these systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:48:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:30:45 GMT" } ]
2007-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Williams", "Stephen R.", "" ], [ "Evans", "Denis J.", "" ] ]
0706.0754
Britton Smith
Britton D. Smith, Steinn Sigurdsson, Tom Abel
Metal Cooling in Simulations of Cosmic Structure Formation
19 pages, 12 figures, significant revision, including new figures
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12922.x
null
astro-ph
null
The addition of metals to any gas can significantly alter its evolution by increasing the rate of radiative cooling. In star-forming environments, enhanced cooling can potentially lead to fragmentation and the formation of low-mass stars, where metal-free gas-clouds have been shown not to fragment. Adding metal cooling to numerical simulations has traditionally required a choice between speed and accuracy. We introduce a method that uses the sophisticated chemical network of the photoionization software, Cloudy, to include radiative cooling from a complete set of metals up to atomic number 30 (Zn) that can be used with large-scale three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. Our method is valid over an extremely large temperature range (10 K < T < 10^8 K), up to hydrogen number densities of 10^12 cm^-3. At this density, a sphere of 1 Msun has a radius of roughly 40 AU. We implement our method in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamic/N-body code, Enzo. Using cooling rates generated with this method, we study the physical conditions that led to the transition from Population III to Population II star formation. While C, O, Fe, and Si have been previously shown to make the strongest contribution to the cooling in low-metallicity gas, we find that up to 40% of the metal cooling comes from fine-structure emission by S, when solar abundance patterns are present. At metallicities, Z > 10^-4 Zsun, regions of density and temperature exist where gas is both thermally unstable and has a cooling time less than its dynamical time. We identify these doubly unstable regions as the most inducive to fragmentation. At high redshifts, the CMB inhibits efficient cooling at low temperatures and, thus, reduces the size of the doubly unstable regions, making fragmentation more difficult.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:09:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 3 Jan 2008 07:14:24 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Smith", "Britton D.", "" ], [ "Sigurdsson", "Steinn", "" ], [ "Abel", "Tom", "" ] ]
0706.0755
Patrick Morrissey
Patrick Morrissey, Tim Conrow, Tom A. Barlow, Todd Small, Mark Seibert, Ted K. Wyder, Tamas Budavari, Stephane Arnouts, Peter G. Friedman, Karl Forster, D. Christopher Martin, Susan G. Neff, David Schiminovich, Luciana Bianchi, Jose Donas, Timothy M. Heckman, Young-Wook Lee, Barry F. Madore, Bruno Milliard, R. Michael Rich, Alex S. Szalay, Barry Y. Welsh, Sukyoung K. Yi
The Calibration and Data Products of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Accepted to the ApJS (a special GALEX issue)
null
10.1086/520512
null
astro-ph
null
We describe the calibration status and data products pertaining to the GR2 and GR3 data releases of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). These releases have identical pipeline calibrations that are significantly improved over the GR1 data release. GALEX continues to survey the sky in the Far Ultraviolet (FUV, ~154 nm) and Near Ultraviolet (NUV, ~232 nm) bands, providing simultaneous imaging with a pair of photon counting, microchannel plate, delay line readout detectors. These 1.25 degree field-of-view detectors are well-suited to ultraviolet observations because of their excellent red rejection and negligible background. A dithered mode of observing and photon list output pose complex requirements on the data processing pipeline, entangling detector calibrations and aspect reconstruction algorithms. Recent improvements have achieved photometric repeatability of 0.05 and 0.03 mAB in the FUV and NUV, respectively. We have detected a long term drift of order 1% FUV and 6% NUV over the mission. Astrometric precision is of order 0.5" RMS in both bands. In this paper we provide the GALEX user with a broad overview of the calibration issues likely to be confronted in the current release. Improvements are likely as the GALEX mission continues into an extended phase with a healthy instrument, no consumables, and increased opportunities for guest investigations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:24:25 GMT" } ]
2022-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Morrissey", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Conrow", "Tim", "" ], [ "Barlow", "Tom A.", "" ], [ "Small", "Todd", "" ], [ "Seibert", "Mark", "" ], [ "Wyder", "Ted K.", "" ], [ "Budavari", "Tamas", "" ], [ "Arnouts", "Stephane", "" ], [ "Friedman", "Peter G.", "" ], [ "Forster", "Karl", "" ], [ "Martin", "D. Christopher", "" ], [ "Neff", "Susan G.", "" ], [ "Schiminovich", "David", "" ], [ "Bianchi", "Luciana", "" ], [ "Donas", "Jose", "" ], [ "Heckman", "Timothy M.", "" ], [ "Lee", "Young-Wook", "" ], [ "Madore", "Barry F.", "" ], [ "Milliard", "Bruno", "" ], [ "Rich", "R. Michael", "" ], [ "Szalay", "Alex S.", "" ], [ "Welsh", "Barry Y.", "" ], [ "Yi", "Sukyoung K.", "" ] ]
0706.0756
Feng Dai
Feng Dai and Yuan Xu
Boundedness of projection operators and Ces\`aro means in weighted $L^p$ space on the unit sphere
null
null
null
null
math.CA math.FA
null
For the weight function $\prod_{i=1}^{d+1}|x_i|^{2\k_i}$ on the unit sphere, sharp local estimates of the orthogonal projection operators are obtained and used to prove the convergence of the Ces\`aro $(C,\delta)$ means in the weighted $L^p$ space for $\delta$ below the critical index. Similar results are also proved for corresponding weight functions on the unit ball and on the simplex.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:14:58 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Dai", "Feng", "" ], [ "Xu", "Yuan", "" ] ]
0706.0757
Mohammad Hafezi
Mohammad Hafezi, Anders S. Sorensen, Eugene Demler, Mikhail D. Lukin
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Optical Lattices
18 pages, 12 figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 023613 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.023613
null
cond-mat.mes-hall quant-ph
null
We analyze a recently proposed method to create fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states of atoms confined in optical lattices [A. S{\o}rensen {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 94} 086803 (2005)]. Extending the previous work, we investigate conditions under which the FQH effect can be achieved for bosons on a lattice with an effective magnetic field and finite onsite interaction. Furthermore, we characterize the ground state in such systems by calculating Chern numbers which can provide direct signatures of topological order and explore regimes where the characterization in terms of wavefunction overlap fails. We also discuss various issues which are relevant for the practical realization of such FQH states with ultracold atoms in an optical lattice, including the presence of the long-range dipole interaction which can improve the energy gap and stabilize the ground state. We also investigate a new detection technique based on Bragg spectroscopy to probe these system in an experimental realization.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:15:10 GMT" } ]
2007-12-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Hafezi", "Mohammad", "" ], [ "Sorensen", "Anders S.", "" ], [ "Demler", "Eugene", "" ], [ "Lukin", "Mikhail D.", "" ] ]
0706.0758
Eitan Tadmor
Bin Cheng and Eitan Tadmor
Long time existence of smooth solutions for the rapidly rotating shallow-water and Euler equations
null
null
null
null
math.AP math-ph math.MP
null
We study the stabilizing effect of rotational forcing in the nonlinear setting of two-dimensional shallow-water and more general models of compressible Euler equations. In [H. Liu and E. Tadmor, Phys. D 188 (2004), no. 3-4, 262-276] we have shown that the pressureless version of these equations admit global smooth solution for a large set of sub-critical initial configurations. In the present work we prove that when rotational force dominates the pressure, it \emph{prolongs} the life-span of smooth solutions for t < ln(1/d); here d << 1 is the ratio of the pressure gradient measured by the inverse squared Froude number, relative to the dominant rotational forces measured by the inverse Rossby number. Our study reveals a ``nearby'' periodic-in-time approximate solution in the small d-regime, upon which hinges the long time existence of the exact smooth solution. These results are in agreement with the close-to periodic dynamics observed in the ``near inertial oscillation'' (NIO) regime which follows oceanic storms. Indeed, our results indicate the existence of smooth, ``approximate periodic'' solution for a time period of \emph{days}, which is the relevant time period found in NIO obesrvations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:56:50 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Cheng", "Bin", "" ], [ "Tadmor", "Eitan", "" ] ]
0706.0759
Toshihiro Sato
T. Sato, T. Ishiyama, and T. Nikuni
Vortex Lattice Structures of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Rotating Triangular Lattice Potential
5 pages, 5 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053628
null
cond-mat.other
null
We study the vortex pinning effect in a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the presence of a rotating lattice potential by numerically solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We consider a triangular lattice potential created by blue-detuned laser beams. By rotating the lattice potential, we observe a transition from the Abrikosov vortex lattice to the pinned vortex lattice. We investigate the transition of the vortex lattice structure by changing conditions such as angular velocity, strength, and lattice constant of a rotating lattice potential. Our simulation results clearly show that the lattice potential has a strong vortex pinning effect when the vortex density coincides with the density of the pinning points.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:51:08 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sato", "T.", "" ], [ "Ishiyama", "T.", "" ], [ "Nikuni", "T.", "" ] ]
0706.0760
Jing Qin
Emma Y. Jin, Jing Qin and Christian M. Reidys
Neutral Networks of Sequence to Shape Maps
24 pages,4 figures
null
null
null
q-bio.QM math-ph math.CO math.MP q-bio.BM
null
In this paper we present a novel framework for sequence to shape maps. These combinatorial maps realize exponentially many shapes, and have preimages which contain extended connected subgraphs of diameter n (neutral networks). We prove that all basic properties of RNA folding maps also hold for combinatorial maps. Our construction is as follows: suppose we are given a graph $H$ over the $\{1 >...,n\}$ and an alphabet of nucleotides together with a symmetric relation $\mathcal{R}$, implied by base pairing rules. Then the shape of a sequence of length n is the maximal H subgraph in which all pairs of nucleotides incident to H-edges satisfy $\mathcal{R}$. Our main result is to prove the existence of at least $\sqrt{2}^{n-1}$ shapes with extended neutral networks, i.e. shapes that have a preimage with diameter $n$ and a connected component of size at least $(\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2})^n+(\frac{1-\sqrt{5}}{2})^n$. Furthermore, we show that there exists a certain subset of shapes which carries a natural graph structure. In this graph any two shapes are connected by a path of shapes with respective neutral networks of distance one. We finally discuss our results and provide a comparison with RNA folding maps.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:21:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 4 Aug 2007 07:53:26 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Jin", "Emma Y.", "" ], [ "Qin", "Jing", "" ], [ "Reidys", "Christian M.", "" ] ]
0706.0761
Hong Yao
Hong Yao, Wei-Feng Tsai, Steven A. Kivelson
Myriad phases of the Checkerboard Hubbard Model
4 pages, 2 figures, minor revisions, published in Phys. Rev. B as a Rapid Communication
Phys. Rev. B 76, 161104(R) (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.161104
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
The zero temperature phase diagram of the checkerboard Hubbard model is obtained in the solvable limit in which it consists of weakly coupled square plaquettes. As a function of the on-site Coulomb repulsion U and the density of holes per site, x, we demonstrate the existence of at least 16 distinct phases. For instance, at zero doping, the ground state is a novel d-wave Mott insulator (d-Mott), which is not adiabatically continuable to a band insulator; by doping the d-Mott state with holes, depending on the magnitude of U, it gives way to a d-wave superconducting state, a two-flavor spin-1/2 Fermi liquid (FL), or a spin-3/2 FL.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:42:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:02:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Yao", "Hong", "" ], [ "Tsai", "Wei-Feng", "" ], [ "Kivelson", "Steven A.", "" ] ]
0706.0762
George Savvidy K
Spyros Konitopoulos and George Savvidy
Propagating modes of non-Abelian tensor gauge field of second rank
22 pages, Latex file
J.Phys.A41:355402,2008
10.1088/1751-8113/41/35/355402
NRCPS-HE-57-07
hep-th
null
In the recently proposed extension of the YM theory, non-Abelian tensor gauge field of the second rank is represented by a general tensor whose symmetric part describes the propagation of charged gauge boson of helicity two and its antisymmetric part - the helicity zero charged gauge boson. On the non-interacting level these polarizations are similar to the polarizations of the graviton and of the Abelian antisymmetric B field, but the interaction of these gauge bosons carrying non-commutative internal charges cannot be directly identified with the interaction of gravitons or B field. Our intention here is to illustrate this result from different perspectives which would include Bianchi identity for the corresponding field strength tensor and the analysis of the second-order partial differential equation which describes in this theory the propagation of non-Abelian tensor gauge field of the second rank.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:24:35 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Konitopoulos", "Spyros", "" ], [ "Savvidy", "George", "" ] ]
0706.0763
Erin Jollley Mrs
Erin J.D. Jolley, Zdenka Kuncic
Jet-Driven Disk Accretion in Low Luminosity AGN?
ApSS Stromlo 5 Conference Canberra Australia, Dec 2006
Astrophys.Space Sci.310:327-332,2007
10.1007/s10509-007-9543-3
null
astro-ph
null
We explore an accretion model for low luminosity AGN (LLAGN) that attributes the low radiative output to a low mass accretion rate rather than a low radiative efficiency. In this model, electrons are assumed to drain energy from the ions as a result of collisionless plasma microinstabilities. Consequently, the accreting gas collapses to form a geometrically thin disk at small radii and is able to cool before reaching the black hole. The accretion disk is not a standard disk, however, because the radial disk structure is modified by a magnetic torque which drives a jet and which is primarily responsible for angular momentum transport. We also include relativistic effects. We apply this model to the well known LLAGN M87 and calculate the combined disk-jet steady-state broadband spectrum. A comparison between predicted and observed spectra indicates that M87 may be a maximally spinning black hole accreting at a rate of 10^{-3} solar masses per year. This is about 6 orders of magnitude below the Eddington rate for the same radiative efficiency. Furthermore, the total jet power inferred by our model is in remarkably good agreement with the value independently deduced from observations of the M87 jet on kiloparsec scales.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:01:57 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Jolley", "Erin J. D.", "" ], [ "Kuncic", "Zdenka", "" ] ]
0706.0764
Jessica Conway
Jessica M. Conway, Hermann Riecke
Pattern Selection in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation with Multi-Resonant Forcing
null
null
null
null
nlin.PS
null
We study the excitation of spatial patterns by resonant, multi-frequency forcing in systems undergoing a Hopf bifurcation to spatially homogeneous oscillations. Using weakly nonlinear analysis we show that for small amplitudes only stripe or hexagon patterns are linearly stable, whereas square patterns and patterns involving more than three modes are unstable. In the case of hexagon patterns up- and down-hexagons can be simultaneously stable. The third-order, weakly nonlinear analysis predicts stable square patterns and super-hexagons for larger amplitudes. Direct simulations show, however, that in this regime the third-order weakly nonlinear analysis is insufficient, and these patterns are, in fact unstable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:59:56 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Conway", "Jessica M.", "" ], [ "Riecke", "Hermann", "" ] ]
0706.0765
Michael Metcalfe
M. Metcalfe, E. Boaknin, V. Manucharyan, R. Vijay, I. Siddiqi, C. Rigetti, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf and M. H. Devoret
Measuring the Decoherence of a Quantronium Qubit with the Cavity Bifurcation Amplifier
6 pages, 5 figures To be published in Physical Review B
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.174516
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall
null
Dispersive readouts for superconducting qubits have the advantage of speed and minimal invasiveness. We have developed such an amplifier, the Cavity Bifurcation Amplifier (CBA) [10], and applied it to the readout of the quantronium qubit [2]. It consists of a Josephson junction embedded in a microwave on-chip resonator. In contrast with the Josephson bifurcation amplifier [17], which has an on-chip capacitor shunting a junction, the resonator is based on a simple coplanar waveguide imposing a pre-determined frequency and whose other RF characteristics like the quality factor are easily controlled and optimized. Under proper microwave irradiation conditions, the CBA has two metastable states. Which state is adopted by the CBA depends on the state of a quantronium qubit coupled to the CBA's junction. Due to the MHz repetition rate and large signal to noise ratio we can show directly that the coherence is limited by 1/f gate charge noise when biased at the sweet spot - a point insensitive to first order gate charge fluctuations. This architecture lends itself to scalable quantum computing using a multi-resonator chip with multiplexed readouts.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:31:26 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Metcalfe", "M.", "" ], [ "Boaknin", "E.", "" ], [ "Manucharyan", "V.", "" ], [ "Vijay", "R.", "" ], [ "Siddiqi", "I.", "" ], [ "Rigetti", "C.", "" ], [ "Frunzio", "L.", "" ], [ "Schoelkopf", "R. J.", "" ], [ "Devoret", "M. H.", "" ] ]
0706.0766
Akira Oosawa
T. Adachi, K. Kanada, T. Saito, A. Oosawa, T. Goto
$^1$H-NMR Study of the Random Bond Effect in the Quantum Spin System (CH$_3$)$_2$CHNH$_3$Cu(Cl$_x$Br$_{1-x}$)$_3$
4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. vol.76 (2007) No.8
null
10.1143/JPSJ.76.083701
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Spin-lattice relaxation rate $T_1^{-1}$ of $^1$H-NMR has been measured in (CH$_3$)$_2$CHNH$_3$Cu(Cl$_x$Br$_{1-x}$)$_3$ with $x=0.88$, which has been reported to be gapped system with singlet ground state from the previous macroscopic magnetization and specific heat measurements, in order to investigate the bond randomness effect microscopically in the gapped composite Haldane system (CH$_3$)$_2$CHNH$_3$CuCl$_3$. It was found that the spin-lattice relaxation rate $T_1^{-1}$ in the present system includes both fast and slow relaxation parts indicative of the gapless magnetic ground state and the gapped singlet ground state, respectively. We discuss the obtained results with the previous macroscopic magnetization and specific heat measurements together with the microscopic $\mu$SR experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:06:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:20:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Adachi", "T.", "" ], [ "Kanada", "K.", "" ], [ "Saito", "T.", "" ], [ "Oosawa", "A.", "" ], [ "Goto", "T.", "" ] ]
0706.0767
Saugata Ghosh
Saugata Ghosh
Skew-orthogonal polynomials: the quartic case
6 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
We present an iterative technique to obtain skew-orthogonal polynomials with quartic weight, arising in the study of symplectic ensembles of random matrices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:40:31 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Ghosh", "Saugata", "" ] ]
0706.0768
Satoru Odake
Satoru Odake and Ryu Sasaki
Exact Heisenberg operator solutions for multi-particle quantum mechanics
17 pages, no figures
J.Math.Phys.48:082106,2007
10.1063/1.2771544
DPSU-07-1, YITP-07-26
quant-ph cond-mat.other hep-th math-ph math.CA math.MP nlin.SI
null
Exact Heisenberg operator solutions for independent `sinusoidal coordinates' as many as the degree of freedom are derived for typical exactly solvable multi-particle quantum mechanical systems, the Calogero systems based on any root system. These Heisenberg operator solutions also present the explicit forms of the annihilation-creation operators for various quanta in the interacting multi-particle systems. At the same time they can be interpreted as multi-variable generalisation of the three term recursion relations for multi-variable orthogonal polynomials constituting the eigenfunctions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:50:58 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Odake", "Satoru", "" ], [ "Sasaki", "Ryu", "" ] ]
0706.0769
Mohammad Hafezi
Mohammad Hafezi, Anders S. Sorensen, Mikhail D. Lukin, Eugene Demler
Characterization of topological states on a lattice with Chern number
5 pages, 3 figures, V2: changes in the presentation
EPL 81 No 1 (January 2008) 10005
10.1209/0295-5075/81/10005
null
cond-mat.mes-hall quant-ph
null
We study Chern numbers to characterize the ground state of strongly interacting systems on a lattice. This method allows us to perform a numerical characterization of bosonic fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on a lattice where conventional overlap calculation with known continuum case such as Laughlin state, breaks down due to the lattice structure or dipole-dipole interaction. The non-vanishing Chern number indicates the existence of a topological order in the degenerate ground state manifold.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:59:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:43:24 GMT" } ]
2007-12-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Hafezi", "Mohammad", "" ], [ "Sorensen", "Anders S.", "" ], [ "Lukin", "Mikhail D.", "" ], [ "Demler", "Eugene", "" ] ]
0706.0770
Suet Ying Mak
Daisy S.Y. Mak, Chun.S.J. Pun, and Albert K.H. Kong
High Resolution X-Ray Imaging of the Center of IC342
29 page, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ
Astrophys.J.686:995,2008
10.1086/591023
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We presented the result of a high resolution (FWHM~0.5'') 12 ks Chandra HRC-I observation of the starburst galaxy IC342 taken on 2 April 2006. We identified 23 X-ray sources within the central 30' x 30' region of IC342. Our HRC-I observation resolved the historical Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX), X3, near the nucleus into 2 sources, namely C12 and C13, for the first time. The brighter source C12, with L(0.08-10keV)=(6.66\pm0.45)\times10^{38}ergs^-1, was spatially extended (~82 pc x 127 pc). From the astrometric registration of the X-ray image, C12 was at R.A.=03h:46m:48.43s, decl.=+68d05m47.45s, and was closer to the nucleus than C13. Thus we concluded that source was not an ULX and must instead be associated with the nucleus. The fainter source C13, with L(0.08-10keV)=(5.1\pm1.4) x 10^{37}ergs^-1 was consistent with a point source and located $6.51'' at P.A. 240 degree of C12. We also analyzed astrometrically corrected optical Hubble Space Telescope and radio Very Large Array images, a comparison with the X-ray image showed similarities in their morphologies. Regions of star formation within the central region of IC342 were clearly visible in HST H alpha image and this was the region where 3 optical star clusters and correspondingly our detected X-ray source C12 were observed. We found that a predicted X-ray emission from starburst was very close to the observed X-ray luminosity of C12, suggesting that nuclear X-ray emission in IC342 was dominated by starburst. Furthermore, we discussed the possibility of AGN in the nucleus of IC342. Although our data was not enough to give a firm existence of an AGN, it could not be discarded.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:53:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:15:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:27:52 GMT" } ]
2010-12-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Mak", "Daisy S. Y.", "" ], [ "Pun", "Chun. S. J.", "" ], [ "Kong", "Albert K. H.", "" ] ]
0706.0771
Vishnu Bannur M
Vishnu M. Bannur
Fully nonlinear excitations of non-Abelian plasma
8 pages, 2 figures, article
Phys.Rev.C76:024913,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.024913
null
hep-ph
null
We investigate fully nonlinear, non-Abelian excitations of quark-antiquark plasma, using relativistic fluid theory in cold plasma approximation. There are mainly three important nonlinearities, coming from various sources such as non-Abelian interactions of Yang-Mills (YM) fields, Wong's color dynamics and plasma nonlinearity, in our model. By neglecting nonlinearities due to plasma and color dynamics we get back the earlier results of Blaizot {\it et. al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3317 (1994). Similarly, by neglecting YM fields nonlinearity and plasma nonlinearity, it reduces to the model of Gupta {\it et. al.}, Phys. Lett. B498, 223 (2005). Thus we have the most general non-Abelian mode of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Further, our model resembles the problem of propagation of laser beam through relativistic plasma, Physica 9D, 96 (1983). in the absence of all non-Abelian interactions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:09:23 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bannur", "Vishnu M.", "" ] ]
0706.0772
Wen-Li Yang
Wen-Li Yang and Yao-Zhong Zhang
Multiple reference states and complete spectrum of the $Z_n$ Belavin model with open boundaries
Latex file, 24 pages
Nucl.Phys.B789:591-609,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.07.024
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP nlin.SI
null
The multiple reference state structure of the $\Z_n$ Belavin model with non-diagonal boundary terms is discovered. It is found that there exist $n$ reference states, each of them yields a set of eigenvalues and Bethe Ansatz equations of the transfer matrix. These $n$ sets of eigenvalues together constitute the complete spectrum of the model. In the quasi-classic limit, they give the complete spectrum of the corresponding Gaudin model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:31:28 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Yang", "Wen-Li", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Yao-Zhong", "" ] ]
0706.0773
Ceyhun Bulutay
C. Bulutay
Interband, intraband and excited-state direct photon absorption of silicon and germanium nanocrystals embedded in a wide band-gap lattice
Published version, 13 pages, 15 figures, local field effects included
Phys. Rev. B 76, 205321 (2007) (14 pages)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.205321
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Embedded Si and Ge nanocrystals (NCs) in wide band-gap matrices are studied theoretically using an atomistic pseudopotential approach. From small clusters to large NCs containing on the order of several thousand atoms are considered. Effective band-gap values as a function of NC diameter reproduce very well the available experimental and theoretical data. It is observed that the highest occupied molecular orbital for both Si and Ge NCs and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital for Si NCs display oscillations with respect to size among the different irreducible representations of the $C_{3v}$ point group to which these spherical NCs belong. Based on this electronic structure, first the interband absorption is thoroughly studied which shows the importance of surface polarization effects that significantly reduce the absorption when included. This reduction is found to increase with decreasing NC size or with increasing permittivity mismatch between the NC core and the host matrix. Reasonable agreement is observed with the experimental absorption spectra where available. The deformation of spherical NCs into prolate or oblate ellipsoids are seen to introduce no pronounced effects for the absorption spectra. Next, intraconduction and intravalence band absorption coefficients are obtained in the wavelength range from far-infrared to visible region. These results can be valuable for the infrared photodetection prospects of these NC arrays. Finally, excited-state absorption at three different optical pump wavelengths, 532 nm, 355 nm and 266 nm are studied for 3- and 4 nm-diameter NCs. This reveals strong absorption windows in the case of holes and a broad spectrum in the case of electrons which can especially be relevant for the discussions on achieving gain in these structures.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:35:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:24:36 GMT" } ]
2007-11-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Bulutay", "C.", "" ] ]
0706.0774
Rena Zieve
A.G. Swartz, J.B. Kalmbach, J. Olson, R.J. Zieve
Segregation and Stability of Binary Granular Mixtures
7 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.soft
null
We measure stability of two-dimensional granular mixtures in a rotating drum and relate grain configurations to stability. For our system, the smaller but smoother grains cluster near the center of the drum, while the larger, rougher grains remain near the outer edge. One consequence of the size segregation is that the smaller grains heavily influence the stability of the heap. We find that the maximum angle of stability is a non-linear function of composition, changing particularly rapidly when small grains are first added to a homogeneous pile of large grains. We conclude that the grain configuration within the central portion of the heap plays a prominent role in stability.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:36:29 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Swartz", "A. G.", "" ], [ "Kalmbach", "J. B.", "" ], [ "Olson", "J.", "" ], [ "Zieve", "R. J.", "" ] ]
0706.0775
Philippe Colomban
Philippe Colomban (LADIR), Gw\'enael Gouadec (LADIR)
Raman Spectroscopy of Nanostructures and Nanosized Materials
null
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 38, 6 (2007) 598-603
10.1002/jrs.1749
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The interest of micro and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to analyze nanosized and nanostructured materials, chiefly semiconductors, oxides and pristine or functionalized carbon nanotubes, is reviewed at the light of the contributions to this special issue. Particular attention is paid to the fact that chemical reactions, size or shape distribution, defects, strain and couplings may add to nano-dimensionality in defining the Raman signature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:57:46 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Colomban", "Philippe", "", "LADIR" ], [ "Gouadec", "Gwénael", "", "LADIR" ] ]
0706.0776
Philippe Colomban
Philippe Colomban (LADIR), Rapha\"el Paquin (LADIR)
Nanomechanics of single keratin fibres: A Raman study of the alpha helix -> beta sheet transition and water effect
null
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 38, 5 (2007) 504-514
10.1002/jrs.1672
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The use of micro-Raman spectroscopy, through chemical bond nano-scale probes, allows the changes in conformations (alpha helix -> beta sheet), chain orientation, disconnection of disulfide bonds (-20%) and the increase of intra and inter-chain distances during the strain to be distinguished. The combination of micro-Raman spectroscopy and a allows a quantitative measure of the extension of chemical bonds in the peptidic chain during loading. The nano-structural transformations of keratin during the strain of human hair in a dry environment (40-60 % relative humidity) and saturated with water have been studied. The water permits the sliding of the chains and decreases the bond energy hair. Spectral analyses and 2D correlation are two coherent and independent methods to follow change the Raman probes which are sensitive to structural . The between nano-mechanical (Raman) and micro-mechanical (strain/stress) analyses confirms the validity of the experimental results, tools and principles used, as well as the agreement with the structural model of keratin fibres described by Chapman & Hearle.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:00:41 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Colomban", "Philippe", "", "LADIR" ], [ "Paquin", "Raphaël", "", "LADIR" ] ]
0706.0777
Kourosh Nozari
Kourosh Nozari and Mehrnoush Mirzaei
Bound States and Many-Body Effects in H-Shaped Quantum Wires
25 Pages, 11 Figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.soft
null
In this paper, bound states energies and corresponding wave functions of H-shaped quantum wires are calculated numerically in the presence of external magnetic and electric fields and within the Landau gauge. With a suitable definition of external confinement potential, we present a numerical algorithm to calculate the profile of probability distribution of charge carriers. Our analysis shows that in the presence of external electric and magnetic fields, bound state properties of carriers are sensitive functions of an asymmetric parameter $a=\frac{W_{x}}{W_{y}}$ which measures the relative width of the well in two directions. We also study many body effect of bandgap renormalization in this quasi one dimensional system within dynamical random phase approximation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:31:12 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Nozari", "Kourosh", "" ], [ "Mirzaei", "Mehrnoush", "" ] ]
0706.0778
Gang Mu
Gang Mu, Yue Wang, Lei Shan and Hai-Hu Wen
Nodeless Superconductivity in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor $Mg_{10}Ir_{19}B_{16}$
5 pages, 5 figures; added references, corrected typos
published in Phys. Rev. B 76, 064527 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.064527
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
We measured the resistivity, diamagnetization and low temperature specific heat of the newly discovered noncentrosymmetric superconductor $Mg_{10}Ir_{19}B_{16}$. It is found that the superconducting gap has an s-wave symmetry with a value of about $\Delta_0 \approx$ 0.6 meV, and the ratio $\Delta_0/k_BT_c\approx1.86$ indicates a weak coupling for the superconductivity. The correlations among the normal state Sommerfeld constant $\gamma_n$, the slope $-d\mu_0H_{c2}(T)/dT$ near Tc and the condensation energy Ec are all consistent with the weak coupling picture. The separated phonon contribution from the specific heat shows that the conduction electrons of the $Ir$ atoms interact most strongly with the vibrations of themselves, instead of with that of the light element boron.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:32:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:53:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:57:10 GMT" } ]
2007-11-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Mu", "Gang", "" ], [ "Wang", "Yue", "" ], [ "Shan", "Lei", "" ], [ "Wen", "Hai-Hu", "" ] ]
0706.0779
Giuseppe Bimonte
Giuseppe Bimonte and Enrico Santamato
General theory of electromagnetic fluctuations near a homogeneous surface, in terms of its reflection amplitudes
5 pages
Phys.Rev.A76:013810,2007
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.013810
DSF-19/2007
quant-ph cond-mat.other hep-th
null
We derive new general expressions for the fluctuating electromagnetic field outside a homogeneous material surface. The analysis is based on general results from the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, and requires no consideration of the material interior, as it only uses knowledge of the reflection amplitudes for its surface. Therefore, our results are valid for all homogeneous surfaces, including layered systems and metamaterials, at all temperatures. In particular, we obtain new formulae for the near-field region, which are important for interpreting the numerous current experiments probing proximity effects for macroscopic and/or microscopic bodies separated by small empty gaps. By use of Onsager's reciprocity relations, we obtain also the general symmetry properties that must be satisfied by the reflection matrix of any material.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:10:51 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bimonte", "Giuseppe", "" ], [ "Santamato", "Enrico", "" ] ]
0706.0780
Dimitar Stoyanov
Dimitar G. Stoyanov
Planar Vacuum Diode With Monoenergetic Electrons
14 pages, 4 figures
Journal of Applied Electromagnetism, Vol. 8, No 1, June 2006, pp 35-48, Athens-GREECE
null
null
physics.gen-ph physics.class-ph
null
The paper analyses volt-ampere characteristics of a planar vacuum diode with mono-energetic electrons, emitted by the cathode (an electron beam). The movement of the electron beam in the volume of the diode is described. An analytic dependence of the volt-ampere characteristics in an unlimited and limited by the field mode of the electron beam is derived.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:16:36 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Stoyanov", "Dimitar G.", "" ] ]
0706.0781
Robert Sch\"ofbeck
R. Schofbeck, H. Eberl
Two-loop SUSY QCD corrections to the chargino masses in the MSSM
12 pages, 11 figures, references modified, clarifications added
Eur.Phys.J.C53:621-626,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0477-2
null
hep-ph
null
We have calculated the two-loop strong interaction corrections to the chargino pole masses in the DRbar'-scheme in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with complex parameters. We have performed a detailed numerical analysis for a particular point in the parameter space and found corrections of a few tenths of a percent. We provide a computer program which calculates chargino and neutralino masses with complex parameters including the one-loop corrections and all two-loop SQCD effects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:58:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:00:19 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Schofbeck", "R.", "" ], [ "Eberl", "H.", "" ] ]
0706.0782
Yu Nakayama
Yu Nakayama
D-dualized D-brane
17 pages, v2: references and comments added, v3: references added
JHEP 0708:085,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/085
UT-KOMABA/07-7
hep-th
null
We further investigate the dimensional duality (D-duality) proposed in arXiv:0705.0550 by mainly focusing on the properties of D-branes in this background. We derive the world-sheet correspondence of static D-branes, and discuss the fate of non-static D-branes from the world-sheet viewpoint. The quantum string production with or without D-branes is also studied from the time-like Liouville theory. We find that the closed string production from the background is much larger than that from D-branes decaying into nothing.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:34:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:00:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:39:42 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Nakayama", "Yu", "" ] ]
0706.0783
Masayuki Tanaka
Masayuki Tanaka, Takako Hoshi, Tadayuki Kodama, Nobunari Kashikawa
A Huge Filamentary Structure at z=0.55 and Star Formation Histories of Galaxies at z<1
13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1546-1556,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12062.x
null
astro-ph
null
We report a definitive confirmation of a large-scale structure around the super rich cluster CL0016+1609 at z=0.55. We made spectroscopic follow-up observations with FOCAS on Subaru along the large filamentary structure identified in our previous photometric studies. We have confirmed the physical connection of the huge filament extending over 20 Mpc in the N-S direction, and another filament extending from the main cluster to the East. Based on a simple energy argument, we show that it is likely that most of the clumps are bound to the main CL0016 cluster. This structure is surely one of the most prominent confirmed structures ever identified in the distant Universe, which then serves as an ideal laboratory to examine the environmental variation of galaxy properties. We draw star formation histories of galaxies from the composite spectra of red galaxies in field, group, and cluster environments. Combining the results from our previous studies, we find that red galaxies in groups at z~0.8 and red field galaxies at z~0.5 show strong Hd absorption lines for their D4000 indices. These are the environments in which we observed the on-going build-up of the colour-magnitude relation in our previous photometric analyses. The strong Hd absorption lines imply that their star formation is truncated on a relatively short time scale. We suggest that a galaxy-galaxy interaction is the most likely physical driver of the truncation of star formation and thus responsible for the build-up of the colour-magnitude relation since z~1. (Abridged)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:38:31 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Tanaka", "Masayuki", "" ], [ "Hoshi", "Takako", "" ], [ "Kodama", "Tadayuki", "" ], [ "Kashikawa", "Nobunari", "" ] ]
0706.0784
Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio
M. R. Zapatero Osorio (IAC), E. L. Martin (IAC, Univ. of Central Florida), V. J. S. Bejar (IAC), H. Bouy (Univ. Berkeley, IAC), R. Deshpande (Univ. of Central Florida), R. J. Wainscoat (IfA)
Space Velocities of L- and T-type Dwarfs
Accepted for publication in ApJ
Astrophys.J.666:1205-1218,2007
10.1086/520673
null
astro-ph
null
(Abridged) We have obtained radial velocities of a sample of 18 ultracool dwarfs (M6.5-T8) using high-resolution, near-infrared spectra obtained with NIRSPEC and the Keck II telescope. We have confirmed that the radial velocity of Gl 570 D is coincident with that of the K-type primary star Gl 570 A, thus providing additional support for their true companionship. The presence of planetary-mass companions around 2MASS J05591914-1404488 (T4.5V) has been analyzed using five NIRSPEC radial velocity measurements obtained over a period of 4.37 yr. We have computed UVW space motions for a total of 21 L and T dwarfs within 20 pc of the Sun. This population shows UVW velocities that nicely overlap the typical kinematics of solar to M-type stars within the same spatial volume. However, the mean Galactic (44.2 km/s) and tangential (36.5 km/s) velocities of the L and T dwarfs appear to be smaller than those of G to M stars. A significant fraction (~40%) of the L and T dwarfs lies near the Hyades moving group (0.4-2 Gyr), which contrasts with the 10-12% found for earlier-type stellar neighbors. Additionally, the distributions of all three UVW components (sigma_{UVW} = 30.2, 16.5, 15.8 km/s) and the distributions of the total Galactic (sigma_{v_tot} = 19.1 km/s) and tangential (sigma_{v_t} = 17.6 km/s) velocities derived for the L and T dwarf sample are narrower than those measured for nearby G, K, and M-type stars, but similar to the dispersions obtained for F stars. This suggests that, in the solar neighborhood, the L- and T-type ultracool dwarfs in our sample (including brown dwarfs) is kinematically younger than solar-type to early M stars with likely ages in the interval 0.5-4 Gyr.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:47:40 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Osorio", "M. R. Zapatero", "", "IAC" ], [ "Martin", "E. L.", "", "IAC, Univ. of Central\n Florida" ], [ "Bejar", "V. J. S.", "", "IAC" ], [ "Bouy", "H.", "", "Univ. Berkeley, IAC" ], [ "Deshpande", "R.", "", "Univ. of Central Florida" ], [ "Wainscoat", "R. J.", "", "IfA" ] ]
0706.0785
Eugen Paal
Eugen Paal and Jyri Virkepu
How to compose Lagrangian?
LaTex2e, 9 pages, no figures
Generalized Lie Theory in Mathematics, Physics and Beyond. S. Silvestrov, E. Paal, V. Abramov, and A.Stolin, Eds. Berlin-Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2009, 131-140
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
A method for constructing Lagrangians for the Lie transformation groups is explained. As examples, the Lagrangians for real plane rotations and affine transformations of the real line are constructed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:49:26 GMT" } ]
2009-12-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Paal", "Eugen", "" ], [ "Virkepu", "Jyri", "" ] ]
0706.0786
Vladimir Shevelev
Vladimir Shevelev
A Conjecture on Primes and a Step towards Justification
14pages
null
null
null
math.NT math.CO
null
We put a new conjecture on primes from the point of view of its binary expansions and make a step towards justification.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:58:44 GMT" } ]
2007-06-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Shevelev", "Vladimir", "" ] ]
0706.0787
Stephanie Allassonniere
St\'ephanie Allassonni\`ere (CMAP), Estelle Kuhn (LAGA), Alain Trouv\'e (CMLA)
Construction of Bayesian Deformable Models via Stochastic Approximation Algorithm: A Convergence Study
null
null
null
null
stat.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The problem of the definition and the estimation of generative models based on deformable templates from raw data is of particular importance for modelling non aligned data affected by various types of geometrical variability. This is especially true in shape modelling in the computer vision community or in probabilistic atlas building for Computational Anatomy (CA). A first coherent statistical framework modelling the geometrical variability as hidden variables has been given by Allassonni\`ere, Amit and Trouv\'e (JRSS 2006). Setting the problem in a Bayesian context they proved the consistency of the MAP estimator and provided a simple iterative deterministic algorithm with an EM flavour leading to some reasonable approximations of the MAP estimator under low noise conditions. In this paper we present a stochastic algorithm for approximating the MAP estimator in the spirit of the SAEM algorithm. We prove its convergence to a critical point of the observed likelihood with an illustration on images of handwritten digits.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:08:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:47:31 GMT" } ]
2009-01-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Allassonnière", "Stéphanie", "", "CMAP" ], [ "Kuhn", "Estelle", "", "LAGA" ], [ "Trouvé", "Alain", "", "CMLA" ] ]
0706.0788
Han Peters
Stefan Maubach, Han Peters
Polynomial maps that are roots of power series
15 pages
null
null
null
math.CV math.AG
null
We introduce a class of polynomial maps that we call polynomial roots of powerseries, and show that automorphisms with this property generate the automorphism group in any dimension. In particular we determine generically which polynomial maps that preserve the origin are roots of powerseries. We study the one-dimensional case in greater depth.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:19:01 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Maubach", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Peters", "Han", "" ] ]
0706.0789
Yogeshwaran Dhandapani Mr
Srikanth K. Iyer, D. Manjunath and D. Yogeshwaran
Limit laws for k-coverage of paths by a Markov-Poisson-Boolean model
1 figure. 24 Pages. Accepted at Stochastic Models. Theorems 6 and 7 corrected. Theorem 9 and Appendix added
null
null
null
math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Let P := {X_i,i >= 1} be a stationary Poisson point process in R^d, {C_i,i >= 1} be a sequence of i.i.d. random sets in R^d, and {Y_i^t; t \geq 0, i >= 1} be i.i.d. {0,1}-valued continuous time stationary Markov chains. We define the Markov-Poisson-Boolean model C_t := {Y_i^t(X_i + C_i), i >= 1}. C_t represents the coverage process at time t. We first obtain limit laws for k-coverage of an area at an arbitrary instant. We then obtain the limit laws for the k-coverage seen by a particle as it moves along a one-dimensional path.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:59:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:00:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:18:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:50:08 GMT" } ]
2008-07-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Iyer", "Srikanth K.", "" ], [ "Manjunath", "D.", "" ], [ "Yogeshwaran", "D.", "" ] ]
0706.0790
Ian Hambleton
Ian Hambleton and Ozgun Unlu
Free Actions of Finite Groups on $S^n \times S^n$
Our preprint "Free actions of extraspecial p-groups on S^n x S^n" (arXiv:math/0701558) is now divided into two separate papers. This is the final version of the second part - to appear in Transactions AMS
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), no. 6, 3289--3317
null
null
math.AT math.GT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Let $p$ be an odd prime. We construct a non-abelian extension $\Gamma$ of $S^1$ by $Z/p \times Z/p$, and prove that any finite subgroup of $\Gamma$ acts freely and smoothly on $S^{2p-1} \times S^{2p-1}$. In particular, for each odd prime $p$ we obtain free smooth actions of infinitely many non-metacyclic rank two $p$-groups on $S^{2p-1} \times S^{2p-1}$. These results arise from a general approach to the existence problem for finite group actions on products of equidimensional spheres.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:25:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:39:18 GMT" } ]
2013-02-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Hambleton", "Ian", "" ], [ "Unlu", "Ozgun", "" ] ]
0706.0791
Tommaso Isola
P. Gibilisco, D. Imparato, T. Isola
A volume inequality for quantum Fisher information and the uncertainty principle
null
null
10.1007/s10955-007-9454-2
null
math-ph math.MP math.ST stat.TH
null
Let $A_1,...,A_N$ be complex self-adjoint matrices and let $\rho$ be a density matrix. The Robertson uncertainty principle $$ det(Cov_\rho(A_h,A_j)) \geq det(- \frac{i}{2} Tr(\rho [A_h,A_j])) $$ gives a bound for the quantum generalized covariance in terms of the commutators $[A_h,A_j]$. The right side matrix is antisymmetric and therefore the bound is trivial (equal to zero) in the odd case $N=2m+1$. Let $f$ be an arbitrary normalized symmetric operator monotone function and let $<\cdot, \cdot >_{\rho,f}$ be the associated quantum Fisher information. In this paper we conjecture the inequality $$ det (Cov_\rho(A_h,A_j)) \geq det (\frac{f(0)}{2} < i[\rho, A_h],i[\rho,A_j] >_{\rho,f}) $$ that gives a non-trivial bound for any natural number $N$ using the commutators $i[\rho, A_h]$. The inequality has been proved in the cases $N=1,2$ by the joint efforts of many authors. In this paper we prove the case N=3 for real matrices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:35:08 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gibilisco", "P.", "" ], [ "Imparato", "D.", "" ], [ "Isola", "T.", "" ] ]
0706.0792
Erik Koop
E.J. Koop, A.I. Lerescu, J. Liu, B.J. van Wees, D. Reuter, A.D. Wieck, C.H. van der Wal
Persistence of the 0.7 anomaly of quantum point contacts in high magnetic fields
5 pages, 4 figures
J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. 20, 433 (2007)
null
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
The spin degeneracy of the lowest subband that carries one-dimensional electron transport in quantum point contacts appears to be spontaneously lifted in zero magnetic field due to a phenomenon that is known as the 0.7 anomaly. We measured this energy splitting, and studied how it evolves into a splitting that is the sum of the Zeeman effect and a field-independent exchange contribution when applying a magnetic field. While this exchange contribution shows sample-to-sample fluctuations, it is for all QPCs correlated with the zero-field splitting of the 0.7 anomaly. This provides evidence that the splitting of the 0.7 anomaly is dominated by this field-independent exchange splitting.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:37:49 GMT" } ]
2012-08-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Koop", "E. J.", "" ], [ "Lerescu", "A. I.", "" ], [ "Liu", "J.", "" ], [ "van Wees", "B. J.", "" ], [ "Reuter", "D.", "" ], [ "Wieck", "A. D.", "" ], [ "van der Wal", "C. H.", "" ] ]
0706.0793
Matthias Krueger
Matthias Kr\"uger, Markus Rauscher
Colloid-colloid and colloid-wall interactions in driven suspensions
8 Pages, 8 figures
J. Chem. Phys. 127, 034905 (2007)
10.1063/1.2753481
null
cond-mat.soft
null
We investigate the non-equilibrium fluid structure mediated forces between two colloids driven through a suspension of mutually non-interacting Brownian particles as well as between a colloid and a wall in stationary situations. We solve the Smoluchowski equation in bispherical coordinates as well as with a method of reflections, both in linear approximation for small velocities and numerically for intermediate velocities, and we compare the results to a superposition approximation considered previously. In particular we find an enhancement of the friction (compared to the friction on an isolated particle) for two colloids driven side by side as well as for a colloid traveling along a wall. The friction on tailgating colloids is reduced. Colloids traveling side by side experience a solute induced repulsion while tailgating colloids are attracted to each other.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:55:58 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Krüger", "Matthias", "" ], [ "Rauscher", "Markus", "" ] ]
0706.0794
Lewin Mathieu
Eric Cances, Amelie Deleurence, Mathieu Lewin
Non-perturbative embedding of local defects in crystalline materials
13 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1088/0953-8984/20/29/294213
null
cond-mat.other math-ph math.MP
null
We present a new variational model for computing the electronic first-order density matrix of a crystalline material in presence of a local defect. A natural way to obtain variational discretizations of this model is to expand the difference Q between the density matrix of the defective crystal and the density matrix of the perfect crystal, in a basis of precomputed maximally localized Wannier functions of the reference perfect crystal. This approach can be used within any semi-empirical or Density Functional Theory framework.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:48:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:18:16 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Cances", "Eric", "" ], [ "Deleurence", "Amelie", "" ], [ "Lewin", "Mathieu", "" ] ]
0706.0795
Fabien Carrier
F. Carrier, H. Kjeldsen, T.R. Bedding, B.J. Brewer, R.P. Butler, P. Eggenberger, F. Grundahl, C. McCarthy, A. Retter, C.G. Tinney
Solar-like oscillations in the metal-poor subgiant nu Indi: II. Acoustic spectrum and mode lifetime
5 pages, 7 figures, A&A accepted
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066901
null
astro-ph
null
Convection in stars excites resonant acoustic waves which depend on the sound speed inside the star, which in turn depends on properties of the stellar interior. Therefore, asteroseismology is an unrivaled method to probe the internal structure of a star. We made a seismic study of the metal-poor subgiant star nu Indi with the goal of constraining its interior structure. Our study is based on a time series of 1201 radial velocity measurements spread over 14 nights obtained from two sites, Siding Spring Observatory in Australia and ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile. The power spectrum of the high precision velocity time series clearly presents several identifiable peaks between 200 and 500 uHz showing regularity with a large and small spacing of 25.14 +- 0.09 uHz and 2.96 +- 0.22 uHz at 330 uHz. Thirteen individual modes have been identified with amplitudes in the range 53 to 173 cm/s. The mode damping time is estimated to be about 16 days (1-sigma range between 9 and 50 days), substantially longer than in other stars like the Sun, the alpha Cen system or the giant xi Hya.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:07:08 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Carrier", "F.", "" ], [ "Kjeldsen", "H.", "" ], [ "Bedding", "T. R.", "" ], [ "Brewer", "B. J.", "" ], [ "Butler", "R. P.", "" ], [ "Eggenberger", "P.", "" ], [ "Grundahl", "F.", "" ], [ "McCarthy", "C.", "" ], [ "Retter", "A.", "" ], [ "Tinney", "C. G.", "" ] ]
0706.0796
Andreas Hemmerich
C. Y. Yang, P. Halder, O. Appel, D. Hansen, A. Hemmerich
Continuous loading of $^{1}$S$_{0}$ calcium atoms into an optical dipole trap
4 pages, 4 figures
Physical Review A 76, 033418 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033418
null
physics.atom-ph
null
We demonstrate an efficient scheme for continuous trap loading based upon spatially selective optical pumping. We discuss the case of $^{1}$S$_{0}$ calcium atoms in an optical dipole trap (ODT), however, similar strategies should be applicable to a wide range of atomic species. Our starting point is a reservoir of moderately cold ($\approx 300 \mu$K) metastable $^{3}$P$_{2}$-atoms prepared by means of a magneto-optic trap (triplet-MOT). A focused 532 nm laser beam produces a strongly elongated optical potential for $^{1}$S$_{0}$-atoms with up to 350 $\mu$K well depth. A weak focused laser beam at 430 nm, carefully superimposed upon the ODT beam, selectively pumps the $^{3}$P$_{2}$-atoms inside the capture volume to the singlet state, where they are confined by the ODT. The triplet-MOT perpetually refills the capture volume with $^{3}$P$_{2}$-atoms thus providing a continuous stream of cold atoms into the ODT at a rate of $10^7 $s$^{-1}$. Limited by evaporation loss, in 200 ms we typically load $5 \times 10^5$ atoms with an initial radial temperature of 85 $\mu$K. After terminating the loading we observe evaporation during 50 ms leaving us with $10^5$ atoms at radial temperatures close to 40 $\mu$K and a peak phase space density of $6.8 \times 10^{-5}$. We point out that a comparable scheme could be employed to load a dipole trap with $^{3}$P$_{0}$-atoms.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:32:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:04:49 GMT" } ]
2011-01-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Yang", "C. Y.", "" ], [ "Halder", "P.", "" ], [ "Appel", "O.", "" ], [ "Hansen", "D.", "" ], [ "Hemmerich", "A.", "" ] ]
0706.0797
Wystan Benbow
F. Aharonian, et al. (HESS Collaboration)
An Exceptional VHE Gamma-Ray Flare of PKS 2155-304
Accepted (June 5, 2007) for publication in ApJ Letters; 6 pages, 3 figures; [Revisions: added 1 reference to a newly accepted article, 1 extra digit added to 1st column in table 1, \clearpages removed to save trees.]
Astrophys.J.664:L71-L78,2007
10.1086/520635
null
astro-ph
null
The high-frequency peaked BL Lac PKS 2155-304 at redshift z=0.116 is a well-known VHE (>100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter. Since 2002 its VHE flux has been monitored using the H.E.S.S. stereoscopic array of imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia. During the July 2006 dark period, the average VHE flux was measured to be more than ten times typical values observed from the object. This article focuses solely on an extreme gamma-ray outburst detected in the early hours of July 28, 2006 (MJD 53944). The average flux observed during this outburst is I(>200 GeV) = (1.72$\pm$$0.05_{\rm stat}$$\pm$$0.34_{\rm syst}$) $\times$ 10$^{-9}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, corresponding to ~7 times the flux, I(>200 GeV), observed from the Crab Nebula. Peak fluxes are measured with one-minute time scale resolution at more than twice this average value. Variability is seen up to ~600 s in the Fourier power spectrum, and well-resolved bursts varying on time scales of ~200 seconds are observed. There are no strong indications for spectral variability within the data. Assuming the emission region has a size comparable to the Schwarzschild radius of a ~10$^9 M_\odot$ black hole, Doppler factors greater than 100 are required to accommodate the observed variability time scales.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:14:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:39:21 GMT" } ]
2009-12-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Aharonian", "F.", "" ] ]
0706.0798
Jan Schepers
J. Schepers, W. Veys
Stringy E-functions of hypersurfaces and of Brieskorn singularities
21 pages
null
null
null
math.AG
null
We show that for a hypersurface Batyrev's stringy E-function can be seen as a residue of the Hodge zeta function, a specialization of the motivic zeta function of Denef and Loeser. This is a nice application of inversion of adjunction. If an affine hypersurface is given by a polynomial that is non-degenerate with respect to its Newton polyhedron, then the motivic zeta function and thus the stringy E-function can be computed from this Newton polyhedron (by work of Artal, Cassou-Nogues, Luengo and Melle based on an algorithm of Denef and Hoornaert). We use this procedure to obtain an easy way to compute the contribution of a Brieskorn singularity to the stringy E-function. As a corollary, we prove that stringy Hodge numbers of varieties with a certain class of strictly canonical Brieskorn singularities are nonnegative. We conclude by computing an interesting 6-dimensional example. It shows that a result, implying nonnegativity of stringy Hodge numbers in lower dimensional cases, obtained in our previous paper, is not true in higher dimension.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:26:41 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Schepers", "J.", "" ], [ "Veys", "W.", "" ] ]
0706.0799
Yusuke Sasano
Yusuke Sasano
Symmetric Hamiltonian of the Garnier system and its degenerate systems in two variables
40 pages, 1 figure
null
null
null
math.AG math-ph math.AP math.CA math.DS math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present {\it symmetric Hamiltonians} for the degenerate Garnier systems in two variables. For these symmetric Hamiltonians, we make the symmetry and holomorphy conditions, and we also make a generalization of these systems involving symmetry and holomorphy conditions inductively. We also show the confluence process among each system by taking the coupling confluence process of the Painlev\'e systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:28:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:53:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:39:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:38:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:07:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v6", "created": "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:21:07 GMT" } ]
2011-02-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Sasano", "Yusuke", "" ] ]
0706.0800
Raoul Zimmermann
Raoul Zimmermann
A general track reconstruction scheme and its application to the OPERA drift tubes
19 pages
null
null
null
physics.ins-det
null
A general reconstruction and calibration procedure for tracking and wire position determination of the OPERA drift tubes is presented. The mathematics of the pattern recognition and the track fit are explained.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:30:28 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Zimmermann", "Raoul", "" ] ]
0706.0801
Ronald Ortner
Ronald Ortner
Upper Bounds on the Number of Vertices of Weight <=k in Particular Arrangements of Pseudocircles
null
null
null
null
math.CO math.GT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In arrangements of pseudocircles (Jordan curves) the weight of a vertex (intersection point) is the number of pseudocircles that contain the vertex in its interior. We give improved upper bounds on the number of vertices of weight <=k in certain arrangements of pseudocircles in the plane. In particular, forbidding certain subarrangements we improve the known bound of 6n-12 (cf. Kedem et al., 1986) for vertices of weight 0 in arrangements of n pseudocircles to 4n-6. In complete arrangements (i.e. arrangements with each two pseudocircles intersecting) we identify two subarrangements of three and four pseudocircles, respectively, whose absence gives improved bounds for vertices of weight 0 and more generally for vertices of weight <=k.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:36:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:55:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:18:03 GMT" } ]
2008-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ortner", "Ronald", "" ] ]
0706.0802
Fabien Daniel
F. Daniel, J. Cernicharo, E. Roueff, M. Gerin, M.-L. Dubernet
N2H+ and N2D+ in interstellar molecular clouds. II- Observations
12 pages, 18 figures
null
null
MS#70155
astro-ph
null
We present observations of the $J$=1--0, 2--1, and 3--2 rotational transitions of N$_2$H$^+$ and N$_2$D$^+$ towards a sample of prototypical dark clouds. The data have been interpreted using non--local radiative transfer models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:58:04 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Daniel", "F.", "" ], [ "Cernicharo", "J.", "" ], [ "Roueff", "E.", "" ], [ "Gerin", "M.", "" ], [ "Dubernet", "M. -L.", "" ] ]
0706.0803
Fabien Carrier
F. Carrier, P. Eggenberger, J.C. Leyder, Y. Debernardi, F. Royer
A search for solar-like oscillations in the Am star HD 209625
5 pages, 4 figures, A&A accepted
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20067022
null
astro-ph
null
The goal is to test the structure of hot metallic stars, and in particular the structure of a near-surface convection zone using asteroseismic measurements. Indeed, stellar models including a detailed treatement of the radiative diffusion predict the existence of a near-surface convection zone in order to correctly reproduce the anomalies in surface abundances that are observed in Am stars. The Am star HD 209625 was observed with the Harps spectrograph mounted on the 3.6-m telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory (Chile) during 9 nights in August 2005. This observing run allowed us to collect 1243 radial velocity (RV) measurements, with a standard deviation of 1.35 m/s. The power spectrum associated with these RV measurements does not present any excess. Therefore, either the structure of the external layers of this star does not allow excitation of solar-like oscillations, or the amplitudes of the oscillations remain below 20-30 cm/s (depending on their frequency range).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:05:25 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Carrier", "F.", "" ], [ "Eggenberger", "P.", "" ], [ "Leyder", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Debernardi", "Y.", "" ], [ "Royer", "F.", "" ] ]
0706.0804
Abiy Tekola A
Abiy G. Tekola (Physics department, University of Cape Town)
Spherically symmeteric dark energy structure in the context of Chaplygin gas model
null
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
Spherically symmetric dark energy structures are investigated in the framework of a generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG), which has an equation of state of the form $P = - A/\rho^{\alpha}} $. We also study these in a modified GCG equation of state, which includes a matter term, i.e. $P = \sigma^{2} \rho - A/\rho^{\alpha}$. The results of the latter are then compared with some observational data on low-surface-brightness galaxies which are supposed to be dominated by dark matter.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:10:13 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Tekola", "Abiy G.", "", "Physics department, University of Cape Town" ] ]
0706.0805
Pietro Faccioli
R. Millo (Trento Univ.) and P. Faccioli (Trento Univ. and I.N.F.N.)
Strong CP Violation in External Magnetic Fields
4 pages, 1 figure. Major revision. Phenomenological analysis extended
Phys.Rev.D77:065013,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.065013
null
hep-ph
null
We study the response of the QCD vacuum to an external magnetic field, in the presence of strong CP violation. Using chiral perturbation theory and large N_c expansion, we show that the external field would polarize quantum fluctuations and induce an electric dipole moment of the vacuum, along the direction of the magnetic field. We estimate the magnitude of this effect in different physical scenarios. In particular, we find that the polarization induced by the magnetic field of a magnetar could accelerate electric charges up to energies of the order \theta 10^3 TeV. We also suggest a connection with the possible existence of "hot-spots" on the surface of neutron stars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:25:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:58:47 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Millo", "R.", "", "Trento Univ." ], [ "Faccioli", "P.", "", "Trento Univ. and I.N.F.N." ] ]
0706.0806
Herbert Spohn
Herbert Spohn
Notes on coherent backscattering from a random potential
17 pages. 8 figures
null
10.1063/1.2779139
null
math-ph math.MP
null
We consider the quantum scattering from a random potential of strength $\lambda^{1/2}$ and with a support on the scale of the mean free path, which is of order $\lambda^{-1}$. On the basis of maximally crossed diagrams we provide a concise formula for the backscattering rate in terms of the Green's function for the kinetic Boltzmann equation. We briefly discuss the extension to wave scattering.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:34:08 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Spohn", "Herbert", "" ] ]
0706.0807
Herbert Spohn
Herbert Spohn
Kinetic Equations for Quantum Many-Particle Systems
for: Modern Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, Springer Selecta, 12 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
The current status of the derivation of kinetic equations from quantum many-particle dynamics is reviewed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:55:06 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Spohn", "Herbert", "" ] ]
0706.0808
Aaron Dotter
A. Dotter, B. Chaboyer, J. W. Ferguson, H.-c. Lee, G. Worthey, E. Baron, D. Jevremovic
Stellar Population Models and Individual Element Abundances I: Sensitivity of Stellar Evolution Models
33 pages, 13 figures, accepted to ApJ
Astrophys.J.666:403-412,2007
10.1086/519946
null
astro-ph
null
Integrated light from distant galaxies is often compared to stellar population models via the equivalent widths of spectral features--spectral indices--whose strengths rely on the abundances of one or more elements. Such comparisons hinge not only on the overall metal abundance but also on relative abundances. Studies have examined the influence of individual elements on synthetic spectra but little has been done to address similar issues in the stellar evolution models that underlie most stellar population models. Stellar evolution models will primarily be influenced by changes in opacities. In order to explore this issue in detail, twelve sets of stellar evolution tracks and isochrones have been created at constant heavy element mass fraction Z that self-consistently account for varying heavy element mixtures. These sets include scaled-solar, alpha-enhanced, and individual cases where the elements C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si, S, Ca, Ti, and Fe have been enhanced above their scaled-solar values. The variations that arise between scaled-solar and the other cases are examined with respect to the H-R diagram and main sequence lifetimes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:31:09 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Dotter", "A.", "" ], [ "Chaboyer", "B.", "" ], [ "Ferguson", "J. W.", "" ], [ "Lee", "H. -c.", "" ], [ "Worthey", "G.", "" ], [ "Baron", "E.", "" ], [ "Jevremovic", "D.", "" ] ]
0706.0809
John Southworth
John Southworth (1), A. Schwope (2), B. T. Gaensicke (1), M Schreiber (3) ((1) University of Warwick, UK, (2) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany, (3) Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)
The ultra-compact binary candidate KUV 23182+1007 is a bright quasar
4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in IBVS. Data are available from http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~jkt/
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
KUV 23182+1007 was identified as a blue object in the Kiso UV Survey in the 1980s. Classification-dispersion spectroscopy showed a featureless continuum except for a strong emission line in the region of He II 4686 A. This is a hallmark of the rare AM CVn class of cataclysmic variable star, so we have obtained a high-S/N blue spectrum of this object to check its classification. Instead, the spectrum shows a strong quasar-like emission line centred on 4662 A. Comparison with the SDSS quasar template spectra confirms that KUV 23182+1007 is a quasar with a redshift of z = 0.665.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:31:18 GMT" } ]
2007-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Southworth", "John", "" ], [ "Schwope", "A.", "" ], [ "Gaensicke", "B. T.", "" ], [ "Schreiber", "M", "" ] ]
0706.0810
Denis Burgarella
D. Burgarella, E. Le Floc'h, T.T. Takeuchi, J.S. Huang, V. Buat, G.H. Rieke, K.D. Tyler
Lyman Break Galaxies at z~1 and the evolution of the dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies with the redshift
Table 1 and Table 3 are not included in the paper (too large) and could be obtained by sending an email to: denis.burgarella(at)oamp.fr
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12063.x
null
astro-ph
null
Ultraviolet (UV) galaxies have been selected from GALEX. The presence of a FUV-dropout in their spectral energy distributions proved to be a very complete (83.3%) but not very efficient (21.4%) tool for identifying Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) at z~1. We divide the LBG sample into two sub-classes: red LBGs (RLBGs) detected at 24 micron which are mainly Luminous IR Galaxies (LIRGs) and blue LBGs (BLBGs) undetected at 24 microns down to 83 microJy. Two of the RLBGs are also detected at 70 micron. The median SED of the RLBGs is similar (above lambda~1 micron) to the dusty starburst HR10. However, unlike local (U)LIRGs, RLBGs are UV bright objects. We suggest that these objects contain a large amount of dust but that some bare stellar populations are also directly visible. The median SED of the BLBGs is consistent with their containing the same stellar population as the RLBGs but with a lower dust content. The luminosity function of our LBG sample at z~1 is similar to the luminosity function of NUV-selected galaxies at the same redshift. The integrated luminosity densities of z~1 LBGs and NUV-selected galaxies are very consistent. We show that star formation rates (SFRs) estimated from UV measurements and corrected using the IRX-beta method provide average total SFR_TOT in agreement with SFR_UV + SFR_dust. However, IRX-beta-based SFR_TOT shows a large dispersion. Summing up the detected UV (1150A rest-frame) and IR-based star formation rates of the detected objects, we find that only one third of the total (i.e. UV + dust) LBG SFR resides in BLBGs and two thirds in RLBGs, even though most LBGs at z~1 are BLBGs. On the other hand, the total SFR of LBGs accounts for only 11% of the total SFR at z~1. Finally, we observe a regular decrease of L_TIR / L_FUV from z=0 to z~2 for UV-selected samples.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:35:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:59:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Burgarella", "D.", "" ], [ "Floc'h", "E. Le", "" ], [ "Takeuchi", "T. T.", "" ], [ "Huang", "J. S.", "" ], [ "Buat", "V.", "" ], [ "Rieke", "G. H.", "" ], [ "Tyler", "K. D.", "" ] ]
0706.0811
Paul P. van der Werf
Padeli P. Papadopoulos, Kate G. Isaak, and Paul P. van der Werf
First CO J=6-5, 4-3 detections in local ULIRGs: the dense gas in Mrk231, and its colling budget
accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 37 pages, preprint format; 5 figures (2 in color)
null
10.1086/520671
null
astro-ph
null
We report on detections of the high-excitation CO J=6-5, J=4-3 lines in Mrk231, a prototypical Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG) and Seyfert 1 QSO. These observations are combined with CO J=3-2, HCN J=4-3 (this work), and CO J=2-1, J=1-0, 13CO J=2-1, HCN J=1-0 measurements taken from the literature to provide better constraints on the properties of the molecular gas in an extreme starburst/QSO in the local Universe. We find that the CO J=4-3 and J=6-5 transitions trace a different gas phase from that dominating the lower three CO transitions, with n(H_2) ~ (1-3)x10^4 cm-3 and Tk ~ (40-70) K. This phase is responsible for the luminous HCN emission, and contains most of the H2 gas mass of this galaxy. The total CO line cooling emanating from this dense phase is found similar to that of the [CII] line at 158 micron, suggesting a very different thermal balance to that seen in lower IR-luminosity galaxies, and one likely dominated by dense photon-dominated regions. Our dense "sampling" of the CO rotational ladder and the HCN lines enables us to produce well-constrained Spectral Line Energy Distributions (SLEDs) for the dense molecular gas in Mrk231 and compare them to those of high redshift starbursts, many of which have SLEDs that may be affected by strong lensing. Finally, we use our local molecular line excitation template to assess the capabilities of future cm and mm/sub-mm arrays in detecting CO and HCN transitions in similar systems throughout the local and distant universe.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:38:37 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Papadopoulos", "Padeli P.", "" ], [ "Isaak", "Kate G.", "" ], [ "van der Werf", "Paul P.", "" ] ]
0706.0812
David Gfeller
David Gfeller, Paolo De los Rios
Spectral coarse-graining of complex networks
4 pages, 2 figures
Physical Review Letters (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.038701
null
cond-mat.dis-nn
null
Reducing the complexity of large systems described as complex networks is key to understand them and a crucial issue is to know which properties of the initial system are preserved in the reduced one. Here we use random walks to design a coarse-graining scheme for complex networks. By construction the coarse-graining preserves the slow modes of the walk, while reducing significantly the size and the complexity of the network. In this sense our coarse-graining allows to approximate large networks by smaller ones, keeping most of their relevant spectral properties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:39:21 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gfeller", "David", "" ], [ "Rios", "Paolo De los", "" ] ]
0706.0813
Ulf R. Pedersen
Ulf R. Pedersen, Nicholas P. Bailey, Jeppe C. Dyre and Thomas B. Schr{\o}der
Crystallization of the Wahnstr\"om Binary Lennard-Jones Liquid
4 pages, 4 figures; corrected typos
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We report observation of crystallization of the glass-forming binary Lennard-Jones liquid first used by Wahnstr\"om [G. Wahnstr\"om, Phys. Rev. A 44, 3752 (1991)]. Molecular dynamics simulations of the metastable liquid on a timescale of microseconds were performed. The liquid crystallized spontaneously. The crystal structure was identified as MgZn_2. Formation of transient crystallites is observed in the liquid. The crystallization is investigate at different temperatures and compositions. At high temperature the rate of crystallite formation is the limiting factor, while at low temperature the limiting factor is growth rate. The melting temperature of the crystal is estimated to be T_m=0.93 at rho=0.82. The maximum crystallization rate of the A_2B composition is T=0.60+/-0.02.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:44:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:12:55 GMT" } ]
2007-06-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Pedersen", "Ulf R.", "" ], [ "Bailey", "Nicholas P.", "" ], [ "Dyre", "Jeppe C.", "" ], [ "Schrøder", "Thomas B.", "" ] ]