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0704.1101
Mike Zabrocki
Emmanuel Briand, Mercedes Rosas, Mike Zabrocki
On the S_n-module structure of the noncommutative harmonics
13 pages. Expanded version of a paper to appear in "Journal of Combinatorial Theory, series A" (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcta)
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 115, Issue 6, August 2008, pages 1077-1085.
10.1016/j.jcta.2007.10.005
null
math.CO math.RT
null
Using a noncommutative analog of Chevalley's decomposition of polynomials into symmetric polynomials times coinvariants due to Bergeron, Reutenauer, Rosas, and Zabrocki we compute the graded Frobenius series for their two sets of noncommutative harmonics with respect to the left action of the symmetric group (acting on variables). We use these results to derive the Frobenius series for the enveloping algebra of the derived free Lie algebra in n variables.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:47:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:27:47 GMT" } ]
2008-10-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Briand", "Emmanuel", "" ], [ "Rosas", "Mercedes", "" ], [ "Zabrocki", "Mike", "" ] ]
0704.1102
Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa
Marius Mantoiu and Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa
Spectral analysis for convolution operators on locally compact groups
14 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
We consider operators $H_\mu$ of convolution with measures $\mu$ on locally compact groups. We characterize the spectrum of $H_\mu$ by constructing auxiliary operators whose kernel contain the pure point and singular subspaces of $H_\mu$, respectively. The proofs rely on commutator methods.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:57:11 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mantoiu", "Marius", "" ], [ "de Aldecoa", "Rafael Tiedra", "" ] ]
0704.1103
Dr A. N. Mitra
A.N. Mitra
Spin Dynamics Of $qqq$ Wave Function On Light Front In High Momentum Limit Of QCD : Role Of $qqq$ Force
28 pages dvi with 1 figure
Annals Phys.323:845-865,2008
10.1016/j.aop.2007.05.008
null
hep-ph
null
The contribution of a spin-rich $qqq$ force (in conjunction with pairwise $qq$ forces) to the analytical structure of the $qqq$ wave function is worked out in the high momentum regime of QCD where the confining interaction may be ignored, so that the dominant effect is $Coulombic$. A distinctive feature of this study is that the spin-rich $qqq$ force is generated by a $ggg$ vertex (a genuine part of the QCD Lagrangian) wherein the 3 radiating gluon lines end on as many quark lines, giving rise to a (Mercedes-Benz type) $Y$-shaped diagram. The dynamics is that of a Salpeter-like equation (3D support for the kernel) formulated covariantly on the light front, a la Markov-Yukawa Transversality Principle (MYTP) which warrants a 2-way interconnection between the 3D and 4D Bethe-Salpeter (BSE) forms for 2 as well as 3 fermion quarks. With these ingredients, the differential equation for the 3D wave function $\phi$ receives well-defined contributions from the $qq$ and $qqq$ forces. In particular a $negative$ eigenvalue of the spin operator $i \sigma_1.\sigma_2\times \sigma_3$ which is an integral part of the $qqq$ force, causes a characteristic singularity in the differential equation, signalling the dynamical effect of a spin-rich $qqq$ force not yet considered in the literature. The potentially crucial role of this interesting effect vis-a-vis the so-called `spin anomaly' of the proton, is a subject of considerable physical interest.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:08:21 GMT" } ]
2009-04-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Mitra", "A. N.", "" ] ]
0704.1104
Marcelo Gomes
M. Gomes, J. R. Nascimento, E. Passos, A. Yu. Petrov, A. J. da Silva
On the induction of the four-dimensional Lorentz-breaking non-Abelian Chern-Simons action
accepted version in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D76:047701,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.047701
null
hep-th
null
A four-dimensional Lorentz-breaking non-Abelian Chern-Simons like action is generated as a one-loop perturbative correction via an appropriate Lorentz-breaking coupling of the non-Abelian gauge field to the spinor field. This term is shown to be regularization dependent but nevertheless it can be found unambiguously in different regularization schemes at zero and finite temperature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:08:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:26:12 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Gomes", "M.", "" ], [ "Nascimento", "J. R.", "" ], [ "Passos", "E.", "" ], [ "Petrov", "A. Yu.", "" ], [ "da Silva", "A. J.", "" ] ]
0704.1105
Valentin Rantsev-Kartinov A.
Valentin. A. Rantsev-Kartinov
Neutrino Astronomy with High Spatial Resolution is Already Existing
6 pages and 3 figures, Proc. ICOPS-07
1-4244-0914-4/07, pp. 1589-1594, (2007), IEEE
null
null
astro-ph
null
By basing on observations of skeletal structures of the Sun and assuming that some of them are located inside of star, and also that a filamentary (linear) matter (whose a model earlier was put forward by B.U. Rodionov) is in basis of these internal structures the author consider possible processes of images formation of these structures inside the Sun and theirs coming out into space and also gives an elementary estimations of its parameters, which allow: i) to form their images in a flux of electronic neutrinos; ii) to carry out these images from within of the Sun into space; iii) to develop these images in form of a concomitant flux of soft x-ray, which next is recorded by telescope of soft x-ray. It is supposed the processes considered here, actually, can be accepted as future base of neutrino astronomy with high spatial resolution.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:16:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:51:36 GMT" } ]
2008-04-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Rantsev-Kartinov", "Valentin. A.", "" ] ]
0704.1106
Zhi-Gang Wang
Zhi-Gang Wang
Analysis of $\Omega_c^*(css)$ and $\Omega_b^*(bss)$ with QCD sum rules
13 pages, 8 figures, slight version
Eur.Phys.J.C54:231-237,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0521-x
null
hep-ph
null
In this article, we calculate the masses and residues of the heavy baryons $\Omega_c^*(css)$ and $\Omega_b^*(bss)$ with spin-parity ${3/2}^+$ with the QCD sum rules. The numerical values are compatible with experimental data and other theoretical estimations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:56:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:42:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:57:27 GMT" } ]
2008-03-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "Zhi-Gang", "" ] ]
0704.1107
Ranjeev Misra
A. Senorita Devi (Manipur Univ), R. Misra (IUCAA), V. K. Agrawal (TIFR), K. Y. Singh (Manipur Univ)
The dependence of the estimated luminosities of ULX on spectral models
Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. 9 pages. Complete long Tables 4 and 5 are given as tab4.tex and tab5.tex separately
Astrophys.J.664:458-466,2007
10.1086/518533
null
astro-ph
null
Data from {\it Chandra} observations of thirty nearby galaxies were analyzed and 365 X-ray point sources were chosen whose spectra were not contaminated by excessive diffuse emission and not affected by photon pile up. The spectra of these sources were fitted using two spectral models (an absorbed power-law and a disk blackbody) to ascertain the dependence of estimated parameters on the spectral model used. It was found that the cumulative luminosity function depends on the choice of the spectral model, especially for luminosities $> 10^{40}$ ergs/s. In accordance with previous results, a large number ($\sim 80$) of the sources have luminosities $> 10^{39}$ ergs/s (Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources) with indistinguishable average spectral parameters (inner disk temperature $\sim 1$ keV and/or photon index $\Gamma \sim 2$) with those of the lower luminosities ones. After considering foreground stars and known background AGN,we identify four sources whose minimum luminosity exceed $10^{40}$ ergs/s, and call them Extremely Luminous X-ray sources (ELX). The spectra of these sources are in general better represented by the disk black body model than the power-law one. These ELX can be grouped into two distinct spectral classes. Two of them have an inner disk temperature of $< 0.5$ keV and hence are called ``supersoft'' ELX, while the other two have temperatures $\gtrsim 1.3$ keV and are called ``hard'' ELX. The estimated inner disk temperatures of the supersoft ELX are compatible with the hypothesis that they harbor intermediate size black holes, which are accreting at $\sim 0.5$ times their Eddington Luminosity. The radiative mechanism for hard ELX, seems to be Inverse Comptonization, which in contrast to standard black holes systems, is probably saturated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:03:09 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Devi", "A. Senorita", "", "Manipur Univ" ], [ "Misra", "R.", "", "IUCAA" ], [ "Agrawal", "V. K.", "", "TIFR" ], [ "Singh", "K. Y.", "", "Manipur Univ" ] ]
0704.1108
Tomas Dytrych
Tomas Dytrych, Kristina D. Sviratcheva, Chairul Bahri, Jerry P. Draayer, James P. Vary
Evidence for Symplectic Symmetry in Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model Results for Light Nuclei
4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Physics Review Letters
Phys.Rev.Lett.98:162503,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.162503
null
nucl-th
null
Clear evidence for symplectic symmetry in low-lying states of $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O is reported. Eigenstates of $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O, determined within the framework of the no-core shell model using the JISP16 $NN$ realistic interaction, typically project at the 85-90% level onto a few of the most deformed symplectic basis states that span only a small fraction of the full model space. The results are nearly independent of whether the bare or renormalized effective interactions are used in the analysis. The outcome confirms Elliott's \SU{3} model which underpins the symplectic scheme, and above all, points to the relevance of a symplectic no-core shell model that can reproduce experimental B(E2) values without effective charges as well as deformed spatial modes associated with clustering phenomena in nuclei.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:36:40 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Dytrych", "Tomas", "" ], [ "Sviratcheva", "Kristina D.", "" ], [ "Bahri", "Chairul", "" ], [ "Draayer", "Jerry P.", "" ], [ "Vary", "James P.", "" ] ]
0704.1109
Patricio S. Letelier
Valeria M. Rosa and Patricio S. letelier
Spinning Strings, Black Holes and Stable Closed Timelike Geodesics
5 pages, RevTex4, some corrections and new material added
Int.J.Theor.Phys.49:316-323,2010
10.1007/s10773-009-0204-x
null
gr-qc
null
The existence and stability under linear perturbation of closed timelike curves in the spacetime associated to Schwarzschild black hole pierced by a spinning string are studied. Due to the superposition of the black hole, we find that the spinning string spacetime is deformed in such a way to allow the existence of closed timelike geodesics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:45:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:15:01 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Rosa", "Valeria M.", "" ], [ "letelier", "Patricio S.", "" ] ]
0704.1110
Nirupam Roy
Nirupam Roy
On spherically symmetrical accretion in fractal media
5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. The definitive version is available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com
2007, MNRAS, 378, L34
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00314.x
null
astro-ph
null
We use fractional integrals to generalize the description of hydrodynamic accretion in fractal media. The fractional continuous medium model allows the generalization of the equations of balance of mass density and momentum density. These make it possible to consider the general case of spherical hydrodynamic accretion onto a gravitating mass embedded in a fractal medium. The general nature of the solution is similar to the "Bondi solution", but the accretion rate may vary substantially and the dependence on central mass may change significantly depending on dimensionality of the fractal medium. The theory shows consistency with the observational data and numerical simulation results for the particular case of accretion onto pre-main-sequence stars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:04:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:41:57 GMT" } ]
2009-08-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Roy", "Nirupam", "" ] ]
0704.1111
Jacobus Verbaarschot
L. Ravagli and J.J.M. Verbaarschot
QCD in One Dimension at Nonzero Chemical Potential
Latex, 23 pages and 5 figures; Added two references and corrected several typos
Phys.Rev.D76:054506,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.054506
null
hep-th hep-lat
null
Using an integration formula recently derived by Conrey, Farmer and Zirnbauer, we calculate the expectation value of the phase factor of the fermion determinant for the staggered lattice QCD action in one dimension. We show that the chemical potential can be absorbed into the quark masses; the theory is in the same chiral symmetry class as QCD in three dimensions at zero chemical potential. In the limit of a large number of colors and fixed number of lattice points, chiral symmetry is broken spontaneously, and our results are in agreement with expressions based on a chiral Lagrangian. In this limit, the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator are correlated according to random matrix theory for QCD in three dimensions. The discontinuity of the chiral condensate is due to an alternative to the Banks-Casher formula recently discovered for QCD in four dimensions at nonzero chemical potential. The effect of temperature on the average phase factor is discussed in a schematic random matrix model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:11:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:21:50 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Ravagli", "L.", "" ], [ "Verbaarschot", "J. J. M.", "" ] ]
0704.1112
Rita Sambruna
R.M.Sambruna, M.Georganopoulos, D.Davis, A.Cillis
Can GLAST detect gamma-rays from the extended radio features of radio galaxies?
Proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium, February 2007, Stanford, CA
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
A few FRI radio galaxies were detected at GeV gamma-rays with CGRO EGRET, with peroperties suggesting that the gamma-ray flux originates from the core. Here we discuss the possibility that the extended radio features of radio galaxies could be detected with the LAT, focusing on the particularly promising case of the nearby giant radio galaxy Fornax A.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:32:51 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sambruna", "R. M.", "" ], [ "Georganopoulos", "M.", "" ], [ "Davis", "D.", "" ], [ "Cillis", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1113
Christopher Evans
M. R. Mokiem, A. de Koter, C. J. Evans, J. Puls, S. J. Smartt, P. A. Crowther, A. Herrero, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, F. Najarro, M. R. Villamariz, J. S. Vink
The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: Wind properties and evolution of hot massive stars in the LMC
null
2007, A&A, 465, 1003
10.1051/0004-6361:20066489
null
astro-ph
null
[Abridged] We have studied the optical spectra of 28 O- and early B-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 22 of which are associated with the young star-forming region N11. Stellar parameters are determined using an automated fitting method, combining the stellar atmosphere code FASTWIND with the genetic-algorithm optimisation routine PIKAIA. Results for stars in the LH9 and LH10 associations of N11 are consistent with a sequential star formation scenario, in which activity in LH9 triggered the formation of LH10. Our sample contains four stars of spectral type O2, of which the hottest is found to be ~49-54 kK (cf. ~45-46 kK for O3 stars). The masses of helium-enriched dwarfs and giants are systematically lower than those implied by non-rotating evolutionary tracks. We interpret this as evidence for efficient rotationally-enhanced mixing, leading to the surfacing of primary helium and to an increase of the stellar luminosity. This result is consistent with findings for SMC stars by Mokiem et al. For bright giants and supergiants no such mass-discrepancy is found, implying that these stars follow tracks of modestly (or non-)rotating objects. Stellar mass-loss properties were found to be intermediate to those found in massive stars in the Galaxy and the SMC, and comparisons with theoretical predictions at LMC metallicity yielded good agreement over the luminosity range of our targets, i.e. 5.0 < log L/L(sun) < 6.1.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:48:21 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mokiem", "M. R.", "" ], [ "de Koter", "A.", "" ], [ "Evans", "C. J.", "" ], [ "Puls", "J.", "" ], [ "Smartt", "S. J.", "" ], [ "Crowther", "P. A.", "" ], [ "Herrero", "A.", "" ], [ "Langer", "N.", "" ], [ "Lennon", "D. J.", "" ], [ "Najarro", "F.", "" ], [ "Villamariz", "M. R.", "" ], [ "Vink", "J. S.", "" ] ]
0704.1114
Travis S. Barman
T. S. Barman
Identification of Absorption Features in an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere
Accepted for publication in ApJL., in emulate ApJ format
Astrophys.J.661:L191-L194,2007
10.1086/518736
null
astro-ph
null
Water absorption is identified in the atmosphere of HD209458b by comparing models for the planet's transmitted spectrum to recent, multi-wavelength, eclipse-depth measurements (from 0.3 to 1 microns) published by Knutson et al. (2007). A cloud-free model which includes solar abundances, rainout of condensates, and photoionization of sodium and potassium is in good agreement with the entire set of eclipse-depth measurements from the ultraviolet to near-infrared. Constraints are placed on condensate removal by gravitational settling, the bulk metallicity, and the redistribution of absorbed stellar flux. Comparisons are also made to the Charbonneau et al. (2002) sodium measurements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:13:36 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Barman", "T. S.", "" ] ]
0704.1115
Stephen Pate
Stephen Pate
Strange Nucleon Form Factors from $ep$ and $\nu p$ Elastic Scattering
9 pages, 1 figure; Proceedings of the XXX Symposium on Nuclear Physics (Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico; 3-6 January 2007); to be published in a special issue of Revista Mexicana de Fisica
Revista Mexicana de Fisica, S 53, No. 6 (2007) 79-82
null
null
hep-ex nucl-ex
null
The recent parity-violating $ep$ forward-scattering elastic asymmetry data from Jefferson Lab (HAPPEx and G0), when combined with the $\nu p$ elastic cross section data from Brookhaven (E734), permit an extraction of the strangeness contribution to the vector and axial nucleon form factors for momentum transfers in the range $0.45 < Q^2 < 1.0$ GeV$^2$. These results, combined with the recent determination of the strange vector form factors at $Q^2 = 0.1$ GeV$^2$ (SAMPLE, HAPPEx, PVA4, G0) have been interpreted in terms of $uuds\bar{s}$ configurations very different from the kaon-loop configurations usually associated with strangeness in the nucleon. New experiments are being proposed to improve the state of our knowledge of the $\nu p$ elastic cross section -- these new experiments will push the range of $Q^2$ to much lower values, and greatly increase the precision of the $\nu p$ elastic data. One outcome of this can be a measurement of the strangeness contribution to the nucleon spin, $\Delta s$. Nuclear targets (e.g. C or Ar) are to be used in these neutrino experiments, and so a deep understanding of the nuclear physics, particularly in regard to final state effects, is needed before the potential of these precision experiments can be fully realized.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:55:36 GMT" } ]
2008-04-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Pate", "Stephen", "" ] ]
0704.1116
Montse Villar-Martin
M. Villar-Martin, S.F. Sanchez, A. Humphrey, M. Dijkstra, S. di Serego Alighieri, C. De Breuck, R. Gonzalez Delgado
VIMOS-VLT spectroscopy of the giant Ly-alpha nebulae associated with three z~2.5 radio galaxies
14 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:416-428,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11811.x
null
astro-ph
null
The morphological and spectroscopic properties of the giant (>60 kpc) Ly-alpha nebulae associated with three radio galaxies at z~2.5 (MRC 1558-003, MRC 2025-218 and MRC 0140-257) have been investigated using integral field spectroscopic data obtained with VIMOS on VLT. The morphologies are varied. The nebula of one source has a centrally peaked, rounded appearance. In the other two objects, it consists of two spatial components. The three nebulae are aligned with the radio axis within <30 deg. The total Ly-alpha luminosities are in the range (0.3-3.4) x 1e44 erg s-1. The Ly-alpha spectral profile shows strong variation through the nebulae, with FWHM values in the range ~400-1500 km s-1 and velocity shifts V~120-600 km s-1. We present an infall model which can explain successfully most Ly-alpha morphological and spectroscopic properties of the nebula associated with MRC 1558-003. This adds further support to our previous conclusion that the _quiescent_ giant nebulae associated with this and other high redshift powerful radio galaxies are in infall. A problem for this model is the difficulty to reproduce the large Ly-alpha FWHM values. We have discovered a giant (~85 kpc) Ly-alpha nebula associated with the radio galaxy MRC 0140-257 at z=2.64. It shows strikingly relaxed kinematics (FWHM< 300 km s-1 and V<120 km s-1), unique among high z (>2) radio galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:04:05 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Villar-Martin", "M.", "" ], [ "Sanchez", "S. F.", "" ], [ "Humphrey", "A.", "" ], [ "Dijkstra", "M.", "" ], [ "Alighieri", "S. di Serego", "" ], [ "De Breuck", "C.", "" ], [ "Delgado", "R. Gonzalez", "" ] ]
0704.1117
Rudnei O. Ramos
Rudnei O. Ramos, J. F. Medeiros Neto, Daniel G. Barci and Cesar A. Linhares
Condensation of Vortex-Strings: Effective Potential Contribution Through Dual Actions
7 pages. Based on a talk given by R. O. Ramos at the Infrared QCD in Rio conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 5-9, 2006
Braz.J.Phys.37:251-257,2007
10.1590/S0103-97332007000200015
null
hep-th cond-mat.supr-con hep-ph
null
Topological excitations are believed to play an important role in different areas of physics. For example, one case of topical interest is the use of dual models of quantum cromodynamics to understand properties of its vacuum and confinement through the condensation of magnetic monopoles and vortices. Other applications are related to the role of these topological excitations, nonhomogeneous solutions of the field equations, in phase transitions associated to spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories, whose study is of importance in phase transitions in the early universe, for instance. Here we show a derivation of a model dual to the scalar Abelian Higgs model where its topological excitations, namely vortex-strings, become manifest and can be treated in a quantum field theory way. The derivation of the nontrivial contribution of these vacuum excitations to phase transitions and its analogy with superconductivity is then made possible and they are studied here.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:55:52 GMT" } ]
2011-08-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Ramos", "Rudnei O.", "" ], [ "Neto", "J. F. Medeiros", "" ], [ "Barci", "Daniel G.", "" ], [ "Linhares", "Cesar A.", "" ] ]
0704.1118
Kaixuan Ni
E. Aprile, K.L. Giboni, P. Majewski, K. Ni, M. Yamashita
Observation of Anti-correlation between Scintillation and Ionization for MeV Gamma-Rays in Liquid Xenon
null
Phys. Rev. B 76, 014115 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.014115
null
astro-ph
null
A strong anti-correlation between ionization and scintillation signals produced by MeV gamma-rays in liquid xenon has been measured and used to improve the energy resolution by combining the two signals. The improvement is explained by reduced electron-ion recombination fluctuations of the combined signal compared to fluctuations of the individual signals. Simultaneous measurements of ionization and scintillation signals were carried out with Cs-137, Na-22 and Co-60 gamma rays, as a function of electric field in the liquid. A resolution of 1.7%(sigma) at 662 keV was measured at 1 kV/cm, significantly better than the resolution from either scintillation or ionization alone. A detailed analysis indicates that further improvement to less than 1%(sigma) is possible with higher light collection efficiency and lower electronic noise.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:56:54 GMT" } ]
2007-07-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Aprile", "E.", "" ], [ "Giboni", "K. L.", "" ], [ "Majewski", "P.", "" ], [ "Ni", "K.", "" ], [ "Yamashita", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.1119
Christopher Evans
C. J. Evans
Massive Stars: From the VLT to the ELT
To appear in the proceedings of "Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions"
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
New facilities and technologies have advanced our understanding of massive stars significantly over the past 30 years. Here I introduce a new large survey of massive stars using VLT-FLAMES, noting the target fields and observed binary fractions. These data have been used for the first empirical test of the metallicity dependence of the intensity of stellar winds, finding good agreement with theory -- an important result for the evolutionary models that are used to interpret distant clusters, starbursts, and star-forming galaxies. Looking ahead, plans for future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) are now undergoing significant development, and offer the exciting prospect of observing spatially-resolved massive stars well beyond the Local Group.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:56:56 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Evans", "C. J.", "" ] ]
0704.1120
Didier Sornette
J.B. Satinover and D. Sornette
"Illusion of control" in Minority and Parrondo Games
17 pages, four figures, 1 table
null
10.1140/epjb/e2008-00112-3
null
physics.soc-ph
null
Human beings like to believe they are in control of their destiny. This ubiquitous trait seems to increase motivation and persistence, and is probably evolutionarily adaptive. But how good really is our ability to control? How successful is our track record in these areas? There is little understanding of when and under what circumstances we may over-estimate or even lose our ability to control and optimize outcomes, especially when they are the result of aggregations of individual optimization processes. Here, we demonstrate analytically using the theory of Markov Chains and by numerical simulations in two classes of games, the Minority game and the Parrondo Games, that agents who optimize their strategy based on past information actually perform worse than non-optimizing agents. In other words, low-entropy (more informative) strategies under-perform high-entropy (or random) strategies. This provides a precise definition of the "illusion of control" in set-ups a priori defined to emphasize the importance of optimization.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:58:55 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Satinover", "J. B.", "" ], [ "Sornette", "D.", "" ] ]
0704.1121
Pinhas Grossman
Pinhas Grossman and Masaki Izumi
Classification of Noncommuting Quadrilaterals of Factors
80 pages, 147 figures, to appear in International Journal of Mathematics
null
null
null
math.OA
null
A quadrilateral of factors is an irreducible inclusion of factors $N \subset M$ with intermediate subfactors $P$ and $Q$ such that $P$ and $Q$ generate $M$ and the intersection of $P$ and $Q$ is $N$. We investigate the structure of a non-commuting quadrilateral of factors with all the elementary inclusions $P\subset M$, $Q\subset M$, $N\subset P$, and $N\subset Q$ 2-supertransitive. In particular we classify such quadrilaterals with the indices of the elementary subfactors less than or equal to 4. We also compute the angles between $P$ and $Q$ for quadrilaterals coming from $\alpha$-induction and asymptotic inclusions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:04:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:46:59 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Grossman", "Pinhas", "" ], [ "Izumi", "Masaki", "" ] ]
0704.1122
Farzaneh Sheidaei
M. Khakian Ghomi, M. Bahmanabadi, F. Sheidaei, J. Samimi, A. Anvari
Investigation of Energy Spectrum of EGRET Gamma-ray Sources by an Extensive Air Shower Experiment
null
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) ($E>100 $TeV) Extensive Air Showers (EASs) have been monitored for a period of five years (1997-2003), using a small array of scintillation detectors in Tehran, Iran. The data have been analyzed to take in to account of the dependence of source counts on zenith angle. Because of varying thickness of the overlaying atmosphere, the shower count rate is extremely dependent on zenith angle. During a calendar year different sources come in the field of view of the array at varying zenith angles and have different effective observation time equivalent to zenith in a day. High energy gamma-ray sources from the EGRET third catalogue where observed and the data were analyzed using an excess method. Upper limits were obtained for 10 EGRET sources. Then we investigated the EAS event rates for these 10 sources and obtained a flux for each of them using parameters of our experiment results and simulations. Finally we investigated the gamma-ray spectrum in the UHE range using these fluxes with reported fluxes of the EGRET sources.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:07:10 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ghomi", "M. Khakian", "" ], [ "Bahmanabadi", "M.", "" ], [ "Sheidaei", "F.", "" ], [ "Samimi", "J.", "" ], [ "Anvari", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.1123
Daniel Robb
D. T. Robb, P. A. Rikvold, A. Berger, and M. A. Novotny
Conjugate field and fluctuation-dissipation relation for the dynamic phase transition in the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model
revised version; 31 pages, 12 figures; accepted by Phys. Rev. E
Phys. Rev. E 76, 021124 (2007) (10 pages)
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021124
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
The two-dimensional kinetic Ising model, when exposed to an oscillating applied magnetic field, has been shown to exhibit a nonequilibrium, second-order dynamic phase transition (DPT), whose order parameter Q is the period-averaged magnetization. It has been established that this DPT falls in the same universality class as the equilibrium phase transition in the two-dimensional Ising model in zero applied field. Here we study for the first time the scaling of the dynamic order parameter with respect to a nonzero, period-averaged, magnetic `bias' field, H_b, for a DPT produced by a square-wave applied field. We find evidence that the scaling exponent, \delta_d, of H_b at the critical period of the DPT is equal to the exponent for the critical isotherm, \delta_e, in the equilibrium Ising model. This implies that H_b is a significant component of the field conjugate to Q. A finite-size scaling analysis of the dynamic order parameter above the critical period provides further support for this result. We also demonstrate numerically that, for a range of periods and values of H_b in the critical region, a fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR), with an effective temperature T_{eff}(T, P, H_0) depending on the period, and possibly the temperature and field amplitude, holds for the variables Q and H_b. This FDR justifies the use of the scaled variance of Q as a proxy for the nonequilibrium susceptibility, \partial<Q> / \partial H_b, in the critical region.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:07:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:47:16 GMT" } ]
2007-09-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Robb", "D. T.", "" ], [ "Rikvold", "P. A.", "" ], [ "Berger", "A.", "" ], [ "Novotny", "M. A.", "" ] ]
0704.1124
Akikazu Hashimoto
Danny Dhokarh, Akikazu Hashimoto, and Sheikh Shajidul Haque
Non-commutativity and Open Strings Dynamics in Melvin Universes
12 pages, 1 figure, references added
JHEP0708:027,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/027
null
hep-th
null
We compute the Moyal phase factor for open strings ending on D3-branes wrapping a NSNS Melvin universe in a decoupling limit explicitly using world sheet formalism in cylindrical coordinates.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:23:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:02:40 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Dhokarh", "Danny", "" ], [ "Hashimoto", "Akikazu", "" ], [ "Haque", "Sheikh Shajidul", "" ] ]
0704.1125
Richard Lieu
Gerrit L. Verschuur
High Galactic Latitude Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen Structure and Associated (WMAP) High Frequency Continuum Emission
Revised version of ApJ submission
null
10.1086/522685
null
astro-ph
null
Spatial associations have been found between interstellar neutral hydrogen (HI) emission morphology and small-scale structure observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in an area bounded by l = 60 & 180 deg, b = 30 & 70 deg, which was the primary target for this study. This area is marked by the presence of highly disturbed local HI and a preponderance of intermediate- and high-velocity gas. The HI distribution toward the brightest peaks in the WMAP Internal Linear Combination (ILC) map for this area is examined and by comparing with a second area on the sky it is demonstrated that the associations do not appear to be the result of chance coincidence. Close examination of several of the associations reveals important new properties of diffuse interstellar neutral hydrogen structure. In the case of high-velocity cloud MI, the HI and WMAP ILC morphologies are similar and an excess of soft X-ray emission and H-alpha emission have been reported for this feature. It is suggested that the small angular-scale, high frequency continuum emission observed by WMAP may be produced at the surfaces of HI features interacting one another, or at the interface between moving HI structures and regions of enhanced plasma density in the surrounding interstellar medium. It is possible that dust grains play a role in producing the emission. However, the primary purpose of this report is to draw attention to these apparent associations without offering an unambiguous explanation as to the relevant emission mechanism(s).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:14:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:07:44 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Verschuur", "Gerrit L.", "" ] ]
0704.1126
Tom Mackay
Tom G.Mackay (University of Edinburgh), Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Pennsylvania State University)
Negative- and positive-phase-velocity propagation in an isotropic chiral medium moving at constant velocity
null
Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49, 2640--2643 (2007)
null
null
physics.optics
null
Analysis of electromagnetic planewave propagation in a medium which is a spatiotemporally homogeneous, temporally nonlocal, isotropic, chiral medium in a co-moving frame of reference shows that the medium is both spatially and temporally nonlocal with respect to all non-co-moving inertial frames of reference. Using the Lorentz transformations of electric and magnetic fields, we show that plane waves which have positive phase velocity in the co-moving frame of reference can have negative phase velocity in certain non-co-moving frames of reference. Similarly, plane waves which have negative phase velocity in the co-moving frame can have positive phase velocity in certain non-co-moving frames.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:29:50 GMT" } ]
2007-09-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Mackay", "Tom G.", "", "University of Edinburgh" ], [ "Lakhtakia", "Akhlesh", "", "Pennsylvania State University" ] ]
0704.1127
Nour-Eddine Raouafi
N.-E. Raouafi and S. K. Solanki
Sensitivity of solar off-limb line profiles to electron density stratification and the velocity distribution anisotropy
11 pages; 11 figures
A&A, 445, 735, 2006
10.1051/0004-6361:20042568
null
astro-ph
null
The effect of the electron density stratification on the intensity profiles of the H I Ly-$\alpha$ line and the O VI and Mg X doublets formed in solar coronal holes is investigated. We employ an analytical 2-D model of the large scale coronal magnetic field that provides a good representation of the corona at the minimum of solar activity. We use the mass-flux conservation equation to determine the outflow speed of the solar wind at any location in the solar corona and take into account the integration along the line of sight (LOS). The main assumption we make is that no anisotropy in the kinetic temperature of the coronal species is considered. We find that at distances greater than 1 Rsun from the solar surface the widths of the emitted lines of O VI and Mg X are sensitive to the details of the adopted electron density stratification. However, Ly-$\alpha$, which is a pure radiative line, is hardly affected. The calculated total intensities of Ly-$\alpha$ and the O VI doublet depend to a lesser degree on the density stratification and are comparable to the observed ones for most of the considered density models. The widths of the observed profiles of Ly-$\alpha$ and Mg X are well reproduced by most of the considered electron density stratifications, while for the O VI doublet only few stratifications give satisfying results. The densities deduced from SOHO data result in O VI profiles whose widths and intensity ratio are relatively close to the values observed by UVCS although only isotropic velocity distributions are employed. These density profiles also reproduce the other considered observables with good accuracy. Thus the need for a strong anisotropy of the velocity distribution (i.e. a temperature anisotropy) is not so clear cut as previous investigations of UVCS data suggested. ...
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:32:14 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Raouafi", "N. -E.", "" ], [ "Solanki", "S. K.", "" ] ]
0704.1128
Remus Nicoara
Wes Camp and Remus Nicoara
Subfactors and Hadamard Matrices
null
null
null
null
math.OA
null
To any complex Hadamard matrix H one associates a spin model commuting square, and therefore a hyperfinite subfactor. The standard invariant of this subfactor captures certain "group-like" symmetries of H. To gain some insight, we compute the first few relative commutants of such subfactors for Hadamard matrices of small dimensions. Also, we show that subfactors arising from Dita type matrices have intermediate subfactors, and thus their standard invariants have some extra structure besides the Jones projections.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:05:03 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Camp", "Wes", "" ], [ "Nicoara", "Remus", "" ] ]
0704.1129
Pablo Rodriguez-Gil
P. Rodriguez-Gil, B. T. Gaensicke, H.-J. Hagen, S. Araujo-Betancor, A. Aungwerojwit, C. Allende Prieto, D. Boyd, J. Casares, D. Engels, O. Giannakis, E. T. Harlaftis, J. Kube, H. Lehto, I. G. Martinez-Pais, R. Schwarz, W. Skidmore, A. Staude, M. A. P. Torres
SW Sextantis stars: the dominant population of CVs with orbital periods between 3-4 hours
MNRAS, in press, 17 pages and 13 figures. Corrected object id typo in abstract: HS 0855+3822 should be HS 0805+3822
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.377:1747-1762,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11743.x
null
astro-ph
null
[Abridged] We present time-series optical photometry of five new CVs identified by the Hamburg Quasar Survey. The eclipses observed in HS 0129+2933, HS 0220+0603, and HS 0455+8315 provided very accurate orbital periods of 3.35129827(65), 3.58098501(34), and 3.56937674(26) h, respectively. HS 0805+3822 shows grazing eclipses and has a likely orbital period of 3.2169(2) h. Time-resolved optical spectroscopy of the new CVs (with the exception of HS 0805+3822) is also presented. Radial velocity studies provided an orbital period of 3.55 h for HS 1813+6122, which allowed us to identify the observed photometric signal at 3.39 h as a negative superhump wave. The spectroscopic behaviour clearly identifies these new CVs as new SW Sextantis stars. These new additions increase the number of known SW Sex stars to 35. Almost 40 per cent of the total SW Sex population do not show eclipses, invalidating the requirement of eclipses as a defining characteristic of the class and the models based on a high orbital inclination geometry alone. On the other hand, the predominance of orbital periods in the narrow 3-4.5 h range is becoming more pronounced. In fact, almost half the CVs which populate the 3-4.5 h period interval are definite members of the class. These statistics are confirmed by our results from the Hamburg Quasar Survey CVs. Remarkably, 54 per cent of the Hamburg nova-like variables have been identified as SW Sex stars with orbital periods in the 3-4.5 h range. The observation of this pile-up of systems close to the upper boundary of the period gap is difficult to reconcile with the standard theory of CV evolution, as the SW Sex stars are believed to have the highest mass transfer rates among CVs. Finally, we review the full range of common properties that the SW Sex stars exhibit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:02:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:07:12 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Rodriguez-Gil", "P.", "" ], [ "Gaensicke", "B. T.", "" ], [ "Hagen", "H. -J.", "" ], [ "Araujo-Betancor", "S.", "" ], [ "Aungwerojwit", "A.", "" ], [ "Prieto", "C. Allende", "" ], [ "Boyd", "D.", "" ], [ "Casares", "J.", "" ], [ "Engels", "D.", "" ], [ "Giannakis", "O.", "" ], [ "Harlaftis", "E. T.", "" ], [ "Kube", "J.", "" ], [ "Lehto", "H.", "" ], [ "Martinez-Pais", "I. G.", "" ], [ "Schwarz", "R.", "" ], [ "Skidmore", "W.", "" ], [ "Staude", "A.", "" ], [ "Torres", "M. A. P.", "" ] ]
0704.1130
Antonio F. F. Teixeira
F. M. Paiva (1), A. F. F. Teixeira (2) ((1) Colegio Pedro II, (2) CBPF)
Relativeca Dopplera efekto \^ce unuforme akcelata movo -- II
6 pages, 10 figures, in Esperanto. English text on request. Portuguese/Esperanto text at ftp://ftp2.biblioteca.cbpf.br/pub/apub/2007/nf/nf_zip/nf01107.pdf
null
null
CBPF-NF-011/07
physics.gen-ph physics.class-ph
null
Extending physics/0701092, a light source of monochromatic radiation, in rectilinear motion under constant proper acceleration, passes near an observer at rest. In the context of special relativity, we describe the observed Doppler effect. We describe also the interesting discontinuous effect when riding through occurs. An English version of this article is available. ----- Da^urigante physics/0701092, luma fonto de unukolora radiado ^ce rekta movo ^ce konstanta propra akcelo pasas preter restanta observanto. ^Ce la special-relativeco, ni priskribas la observatan Doppleran efikon. Ni anka^u priskribas la interesan nekontinuan efikon se trapaso okazas.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:04:19 GMT" } ]
2008-10-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Paiva", "F. M.", "" ], [ "Teixeira", "A. F. F.", "" ] ]
0704.1131
Scott M. Ransom
Scott M. Ransom (NRAO)
Finding (or not) New Gamma-ray Pulsars with GLAST
3 pages, 2 figures, for the Proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium (5-8 Feb 2007)
AIP Conf.Proc.921:54-56,2007
10.1063/1.2757266
null
astro-ph
null
Young energetic pulsars will likely be the largest class of Galactic sources observed by GLAST, with many hundreds detected. Many will be unknown as radio pulsars, making pulsation detection dependent on radio and/or x-ray observations or on blind periodicity searches of the gamma-rays. Estimates for the number of pulsars GLAST will detect in blind searches have ranged from tens to many hundreds. I argue that the number will be near the low end of this range, partly due to observations being made in a scanning as opposed to a pointing mode. This paper briefly reviews how blind pulsar searches will be conducted using GLAST, what limits these searches, and how the computations and statistics scale with various parameters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:05:50 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ransom", "Scott M.", "", "NRAO" ] ]
0704.1132
Paul Frampton
Paul H. Frampton
Did time begin? Will time end?
63 pages latex. Pagination corrected for line tightening. Typos
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Did time begin at a Big Bang? Will the present expansion of the universe last for a finite or infinite time? These questions sound philosophical but are becoming, now in the twenty-first century, central to the scientific study of cosmology. The answers, which should become clarified in the next decade or two, could have profound implications for how we see our own role in the universe. Since the original publication of Stephen Hawking's {\it A Brief History of Time} in 1988, the answers to these questions have progressed as a result of research by the community of active theoretical physicists including myself. To present the underlying ideas requires discussion of a wide range of topics in cosmology, especially the make up of the energy content of the universe. A brief summary of my conclusions, that of three different possibilities concerning the history and future of time, the least likely is the conventional wisdom (time began and will never end) and most likely is a cyclic model (time never begins or ends), is in the short final Chapter which could be read first. To understand the reasoning leading to my conclusions could encourage reading of my entire book. My hope in writing this, my first popular book, is that it will engender reflection about time. Many a non-scientist may already hold a philosophical opinion about whether time begins and ends. This book's aim is to present some recently discovered scientific facts which can focus the reader's consideration of the two short questions in my title.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:09:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 May 2007 18:53:48 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Frampton", "Paul H.", "" ] ]
0704.1133
Patrick Godon
Edward M. Sion, Patrick Godon, Fuhua Cheng, Paula Szkody
FUSE Observations of the Dwarf Novae UU Aql, BV Cen, and CH UMa in Quiescence
accepted in AJ, 26 pages, 6 tables, 8 figures (5 color, 3 b/w)
Astron.J.134:886-895,2007
10.1086/518829
null
astro-ph
null
We report on FUSE spectra of three U Gem-type, long period, dwarf novae, UU Aql, BV Cen and CH UMa taken during their quiescence intervals. We discuss the line identifications in their spectra and attempt to characterize the source(s) of their FUV flux distribution. Archival IUE spectrum of CH UMa and BV Cen in quiescence were identified as having a matching flux level with the FUSE spectra and these were combined with each FUSE spectrum to broaden the wavelength coverage and further constrain model fits. Multi-component synthetic spectral fits from our model grids, consisting of single temperature white dwarfs, two-temperature white dwarfs, accretion disks and white dwarfs plus accretion disks, were applied to the FUSE spectra alone and to the combined FUSE + IUE spectra. We present the results of our model analyses and their implications.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:09:35 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sion", "Edward M.", "" ], [ "Godon", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Cheng", "Fuhua", "" ], [ "Szkody", "Paula", "" ] ]
0704.1134
Maxim A. Yurkin
Maxim A. Yurkin, Konstantin A. Semyanov, Peter A. Tarasov, Andrei V. Chernyshev, Alfons G. Hoekstra, and Valeri P. Maltsev
Experimental and theoretical study of light scattering by individual mature red blood cells by use of scanning flow cytometry and discrete dipole approximation
13 pages, 9 figures
Appl. Opt. 44(25):5249-5256 (2005)
10.1364/AO.44.005249
null
physics.optics physics.med-ph
null
Elastic light scattering by mature red blood cells (RBCs) was theoretically and experimentally analyzed with the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) and the scanning flow cytometry (SFC), respectively. SFC permits measurement of angular dependence of light-scattering intensity (indicatrix) of single particles. A mature RBC is modeled as a biconcave disk in DDA simulations of light scattering. We have studied the effect of RBC orientation related to the direction of the incident light upon the indicatrix. Numerical calculations of indicatrices for several aspect ratios and volumes of RBC have been carried out. Comparison of the simulated indicatrices and indicatrices measured by SFC showed good agreement, validating the biconcave disk model for a mature RBC. We simulated the light-scattering output signals from the SFC with the DDA for RBCs modeled as a disk-sphere and as an oblate spheroid. The biconcave disk, the disk-sphere, and the oblate spheroid models have been compared for two orientations, i.e. face-on and rim-on incidence. Only the oblate spheroid model for rim-on incidence gives results similar to the rigorous biconcave disk model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:15:49 GMT" } ]
2008-07-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Yurkin", "Maxim A.", "" ], [ "Semyanov", "Konstantin A.", "" ], [ "Tarasov", "Peter A.", "" ], [ "Chernyshev", "Andrei V.", "" ], [ "Hoekstra", "Alfons G.", "" ], [ "Maltsev", "Valeri P.", "" ] ]
0704.1135
Franz Schunck
Eckehard W. Mielke, Fjodor V. Kusmartsev, Franz E. Schunck
Inflation, bifurcations of nonlinear curvature Lagrangians and dark energy
20 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG11) in Berlin, Germany, July 23-29, 2006
null
10.1142/9789812834300_0039
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
A possible equivalence of scalar dark matter, the inflaton, and modified gravity is analyzed. After a conformal mapping, the dependence of the effective Lagrangian on the curvature is not only singular but also bifurcates into several almost Einsteinian spaces, distinguished only by a different effective gravitational strength and cosmological constant. A swallow tail catastrophe in the bifurcation set indicates the possibility for the coexistence of different Einsteinian domains in our Universe. This `triple unification' may shed new light on the nature and large scale distribution not only of dark matter but also on `dark energy', regarded as an effective cosmological constant, and inflation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:22:57 GMT" } ]
2016-11-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Mielke", "Eckehard W.", "" ], [ "Kusmartsev", "Fjodor V.", "" ], [ "Schunck", "Franz E.", "" ] ]
0704.1136
Ernesto F. Eiroa
Ernesto F. Eiroa, Claudio Simeone
Stability of Chaplygin gas thin-shell wormholes
14 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor changes and new references added. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D76:024021,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.024021
null
gr-qc
null
In this paper we construct spherical thin-shell wormholes supported by a Chaplygin gas. For a rather general class of geometries we introduce a new approach for the stability analysis of static solutions under perturbations preserving the symmetry. We apply this to wormholes constructed from Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-de Sitter, Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter and Reissner-Nordstrom metrics. In the last two cases, we find that there are values of the parameters for which stable static solutions exist.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:26:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:04:13 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Eiroa", "Ernesto F.", "" ], [ "Simeone", "Claudio", "" ] ]
0704.1137
Martin Bojowald
Martin Bojowald, Daniel Cartin and Gaurav Khanna
Lattice refining loop quantum cosmology, anisotropic models and stability
24 pages
Phys.Rev.D76:064018,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.064018
IGPG-07/4-2
gr-qc
null
A general class of loop quantizations for anisotropic models is introduced and discussed, which enhances loop quantum cosmology by relevant features seen in inhomogeneous situations. The main new effect is an underlying lattice which is being refined during dynamical changes of the volume. In general, this leads to a new feature of dynamical difference equations which may not have constant step-size, posing new mathematical problems. It is discussed how such models can be evaluated and what lattice refinements imply for semiclassical behavior. Two detailed examples illustrate that stability conditions can put strong constraints on suitable refinement models, even in the absence of a fundamental Hamiltonian which defines changes of the underlying lattice. Thus, a large class of consistency tests of loop quantum gravity becomes available. In this context, it will also be seen that quantum corrections due to inverse powers of metric components in a constraint are much larger than they appeared recently in more special treatments of isotropic, free scalar models where they were artificially suppressed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:51:24 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bojowald", "Martin", "" ], [ "Cartin", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Khanna", "Gaurav", "" ] ]
0704.1138
Alan Boss
Alan P. Boss
Testing Disk Instability Models for Giant Planet Formation
13 pages, 1 table, 3 figures. Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press
null
10.1086/518691
null
astro-ph
null
Disk instability is an attractive yet controversial means for the rapid formation of giant planets in our solar system and elsewhere. Recent concerns regarding the first adiabatic exponent of molecular hydrogen gas are addressed and shown not to lead to spurious clump formation in the author's disk instability models. A number of disk instability models have been calculated in order to further test the robustness of the mechanism, exploring the effects of changing the pressure equation of state, the vertical temperature profile, and other parameters affecting the temperature distribution. Possible reasons for differences in results obtained by other workers are discussed. Disk instability remains as a plausible formation mechanism for giant planets.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:52:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Boss", "Alan P.", "" ] ]
0704.1139
Larry Wasserman
Larry Wasserman, Kathryn Roeder
High-dimensional variable selection
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOS646 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2009, Vol. 37, No. 5A, 2178-2201
10.1214/08-AOS646
IMS-AOS-AOS646
math.ST stat.ML stat.TH
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This paper explores the following question: what kind of statistical guarantees can be given when doing variable selection in high-dimensional models? In particular, we look at the error rates and power of some multi-stage regression methods. In the first stage we fit a set of candidate models. In the second stage we select one model by cross-validation. In the third stage we use hypothesis testing to eliminate some variables. We refer to the first two stages as "screening" and the last stage as "cleaning." We consider three screening methods: the lasso, marginal regression, and forward stepwise regression. Our method gives consistent variable selection under certain conditions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:52:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:04 GMT" } ]
2009-08-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Wasserman", "Larry", "" ], [ "Roeder", "Kathryn", "" ] ]
0704.1140
Yuri Martinez-Raton
Yuri Martinez-Raton, Giorgio Cinacchi, Enrique Velasco, Luis Mederos
Depletion effects in smectic phases of hard rod--hard sphere mixtures
15 pages, 11 figures
Eur. Phys. J. E 21, 175 (2006)
10.1140/epje/i2006-10058-4
null
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.stat-mech
null
It is known that when hard spheres are added to a pure system of hard rods the stability of the smectic phase may be greatly enhanced, and that this effect can be rationalised in terms of depletion forces. In the present paper we first study the effect of orientational order on depletion forces in this particular binary system, comparing our results with those obtained adopting the usual approximation of considering the rods parallel and their orientations frozen. We consider mixtures with rods of different aspect ratios and spheres of different diameters, and we treat them within Onsager theory. Our results indicate that depletion effects, and consequently smectic stability, decrease significantly as a result of orientational disorder in the smectic phase when compared with corresponding data based on the frozen--orientation approximation. These results are discussed in terms of the $\tau$ parameter, which has been proposed as a convenient measure of depletion strength. We present closed expressions for $\tau$, and show that it is intimately connected with the depletion potential. We then analyse the effect of particle geometry by comparing results pertaining to systems of parallel rods of different shapes (spherocylinders, cylinders and parallelepipeds). We finally provide results based on the Zwanzig approximation of a Fundamental--Measure density--functional theory applied to mixtures of parallelepipeds and cubes of different sizes. In this case, we show that the $\tau$ parameter exhibits a linear asymptotic behaviour in the limit of large values of the hard--rod aspect ratio, in conformity with Onsager theory, as well as in the limit of large values of the ratio of rod breadth to cube side length, $d$, in contrast to Onsager approximation, which predicts $\tau\sim d^3$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:55:51 GMT" } ]
2022-06-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Martinez-Raton", "Yuri", "" ], [ "Cinacchi", "Giorgio", "" ], [ "Velasco", "Enrique", "" ], [ "Mederos", "Luis", "" ] ]
0704.1141
Jose Geraldo Pereira
J. G. Pereira
In Search of the Spacetime Torsion
Latex, 4 pages. Talk presented at the Rencontres de Moriond on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, La Thuile, Italy (March 11-18, 2007)
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
Whether torsion plays or not a role in the description of the gravitational interaction is a problem that can only be solved by experiment. This is, however, a difficult task: since there are different possible interpretations for torsion, there is no a model-independent way to look for it. In these notes, two different possibilities will be reviewed, their consistency analyzed, and the corresponding experimental outputs briefly discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:59:13 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Pereira", "J. G.", "" ] ]
0704.1142
Steve Rodgers
J. V. Buckle (1), S. D. Rodgers (2), E. S. Wirstr\"om (3), S. B. Charnley (2), A. J. Markwick-Kemper (2 and 4), H. M. Butner (5), S. Takakuwa (6 and 7) ((1) Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, (2) NASA Ames Research Center, (3) Onsala Space Observatory, (4) University of Virginia, (5) Joint Astronomy Centre, (6) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (7) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Observations of chemical differentiation in clumpy molecular clouds
20 pages, 7 figures. Higher quality figures appear in the published journal article
Discuss.Faraday Soc.133:63-82,2007
10.1039/B516772H
null
astro-ph
null
We have extensively mapped a sample of dense molecular clouds (L1512, TMC-1C, L1262, Per 7, L1389, L1251E) in lines of HC3N, CH3OH, SO and C^{18}O. We demonstrate that a high degree of chemical differentiation is present in all of the observed clouds. We analyse the molecular maps for each cloud, demonstrating a systematic chemical differentiation across the sample, which we relate to the evolutionary state of the cloud. We relate our observations to the cloud physical, kinematical and evolutionary properties, and also compare them to the predictions of simple chemical models. The implications of this work for understanding the origin of the clumpy structures and chemical differentiation observed in dense clouds are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:40:06 GMT" } ]
2016-04-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Buckle", "J. V.", "", "2 and 4" ], [ "Rodgers", "S. D.", "", "2 and 4" ], [ "Wirström", "E. S.", "", "2 and 4" ], [ "Charnley", "S. B.", "", "2 and 4" ], [ "Markwick-Kemper", "A. J.", "", "2 and 4" ], [ "Butner", "H. M.", "", "6 and 7" ], [ "Takakuwa", "S.", "", "6 and 7" ] ]
0704.1143
Arjun Menon
M. Carena, A. Menon and C.E.M. Wagner
Challenges for MSSM Higgs searches at Hadron Colliders
22 pages, 5 figures. Added references and acknowledgements. Submitted to PRD
Phys.Rev.D76:035004,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.035004
ANL-HEP-PR-07-19, EFI-07-07, FERMILAB-PUB-07-074-T
hep-ph hep-ex
null
In this article we analyze the impact of B-physics and Higgs physics at LEP on standard and non-standard Higgs bosons searches at the Tevatron and the LHC, within the framework of minimal flavor violating supersymmetric models. The B-physics constraints we consider come from the experimental measurements of the rare B-decays b -> s gamma and B_u -> tau nu and the experimental limit on the B_s -> mu+ mu- branching ratio. We show that these constraints are severe for large values of the trilinear soft breaking parameter A_t, rendering the non-standard Higgs searches at hadron colliders less promising. On the contrary these bounds are relaxed for small values of A_t and large values of the Higgsino mass parameter mu, enhancing the prospects for the direct detection of non-standard Higgs bosons at both colliders. We also consider the available ATLAS and CMS projected sensitivities in the standard model Higgs search channels, and we discuss the LHC's ability in probing the whole MSSM parameter space. In addition we also consider the expected Tevatron collider sensitivities in the standard model Higgs h -> b bbar channel to show that it may be able to find 3 sigma evidence in the B-physics allowed regions for small or moderate values of the stop mixing parameter.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:51:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:57:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Carena", "M.", "" ], [ "Menon", "A.", "" ], [ "Wagner", "C. E. M.", "" ] ]
0704.1144
Natali Gulbahce
Natali Gulbahce
Optimization in Gradient Networks
5 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1063/1.2737825
LA-UR 07-0191
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
Gradient networks can be used to model the dominant structure of complex networks. Previous works have focused on random gradient networks. Here we study gradient networks that minimize jamming on substrate networks with scale-free and Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi structure. We introduce structural correlations and strongly reduce congestion occurring on the network by using a Monte Carlo optimization scheme. This optimization alters the degree distribution and other structural properties of the resulting gradient networks. These results are expected to be relevant for transport and other dynamical processes in real network systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:55:59 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gulbahce", "Natali", "" ] ]
0704.1145
Alexander Orlov Yur'evich
John Harnad and Alexander Yu. Orlov
Fermionic construction of partition function for multi-matrix models and multi-component TL hierarchy
16 pages, submitted to a special issue of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Theor.Math.Phys.152:1099-1110,2007
10.1007/s11232-007-0094-0
null
math-ph hep-th math.MP nlin.SI
null
We use $p$-component fermions $(p=2,3,...)$ to present $(2p-2)N$-fold integrals as a fermionic expectation value. This yields fermionic representation for various $(2p-2)$-matrix models. Links with the $p$-component KP hierarchy and also with the $p$-component TL hierarchy are discussed. We show that the set of all (but two) flows of $p$-component TL changes standard matrix models to new ones.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:22:30 GMT" } ]
2009-03-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Harnad", "John", "" ], [ "Orlov", "Alexander Yu.", "" ] ]
0704.1146
Jared Kaplan
Clifford Cheung, Jared Kaplan
The Plasma Puddle as a Perturbative Black Hole
23 pages, 3 figures, V2: minor changes, ref added, appendix A.5 moved to body of paper
JHEP 0706:024,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/024
null
hep-th
null
We argue that the weak coupling regime of a large N gauge theory in the Higgs phase contains black hole-like objects. These so-called ``plasma puddles'' are meta-stable lumps of hot plasma lying in locally un-Higgsed regions of space. They decay via O(1/N) thermal radiation and, perhaps surprisingly, absorb all incident matter. We show that an incident particle of energy E striking the plasma puddle will shower into an enormous number of decay products whose multiplicity grows linearly with E, and whose average energy is independent of E. Once these ultra-soft particles reach the interior they are thermalized by the plasma within, and so the object appears ``black.'' We determine some gross properties like the size and temperature of the the plasma puddle in terms of fundamental parameters in the gauge theory. Interestingly, demanding that the plasma puddle emit thermal Hawking radiation implies that the object is black (i.e. absorbs all incident particles), which implies classical stability, which implies satisfaction of the Bekenstein entropy bound. Because of the AdS/CFT duality and the many similarities between plasma puddles and black holes, we conjecture that black objects are a robust feature of quantum gravity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:07:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:55:28 GMT" } ]
2010-10-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Cheung", "Clifford", "" ], [ "Kaplan", "Jared", "" ] ]
0704.1147
Giulio Ruffini
Giulio Ruffini
Information, complexity, brains and reality (Kolmogorov Manifesto)
This is a live essay, kind of a mental log book on a series of topics under the theme of information and compression
null
null
Starlab TN00054
physics.gen-ph physics.bio-ph
null
I discuss several aspects of information theory and its relationship to physics and neuroscience. The unifying thread of this somewhat chaotic essay is the concept of Kolmogorov or algorithmic complexity (Kolmogorov Complexity, for short). I argue that it is natural to interpret cognition as the art of finding algorithms that apprach the Solomonoff-Kolmogorov-Chaitin (algorithmic) Complexity limit with appropriate tradeoffs. In addition, I claim that what we call the universe is an interpreted abstraction--a mental construct--based on the observed coherence between multiple sensory input streams and our own interactions. Hence, the notion of Universe is itself a model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:17:39 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ruffini", "Giulio", "" ] ]
0704.1148
Roberto R. Deza
Horacio S. Wio (1) and Roberto R. Deza (2) ((1) Instituto de F\'isica de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC, Santander, Spain, (2) Departamento de F\'isica, FCEyN, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Aspects of stochastic resonance in reaction-diffusion systems: The nonequilibrium-potential approach
16 pages, 15 figures, uses svjour.cls and svepj-spec.clo. Minireview to appear in The European Physical Journal Special Topics (issue in memory of Carlos P\'erez-Garc\'{\i}a, edited by H. Mancini)
null
10.1140/epjst/e2007-00173-0
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We analyze several aspects of the phenomenon of stochastic resonance in reaction-diffusion systems, exploiting the nonequilibrium potential's framework. The generalization of this formalism (sketched in the appendix) to extended systems is first carried out in the context of a simplified scalar model, for which stationary patterns can be found analytically. We first show how system-size stochastic resonance arises naturally in this framework, and then how the phenomenon of array-enhanced stochastic resonance can be further enhanced by letting the diffusion coefficient depend on the field. A yet less trivial generalization is exemplified by a stylized version of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system, a paradigm of the activator-inhibitor class. After discussing for this system the second aspect enumerated above, we derive from it -through an adiabatic-like elimination of the inhibitor field- an effective scalar model that includes a nonlocal contribution. Studying the role played by the range of the nonlocal kernel and its effect on stochastic resonance, we find an optimal range that maximizes the system's response.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:09:38 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Wio", "Horacio S.", "" ], [ "Deza", "Roberto R.", "" ] ]
0704.1149
Bence Kocsis
Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb (Harvard)
Distortion of Gravitational-Wave Packets Due to their Self-Gravity
accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D76:084022, 2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084022
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph hep-th
null
When a source emits a gravity-wave (GW) pulse over a short period of time, the leading edge of the GW signal is redshifted more than the inner boundary of the pulse. The GW pulse is distorted by the gravitational effect of the self-energy residing in between these shells. We illustrate this distortion for GW pulses from the final plunge of black hole (BH) binaries, leading to the evolution of the GW profile as a function of the radial distance from the source. The distortion depends on the total GW energy released and the duration of the emission, scaled by the total binary mass, M. The effect should be relevant in finite box simulations where the waveforms are extracted within a radius of <~ 100M. For characteristic emission parameters at the final plunge between binary BHs of arbitrary spins, this effect could distort the simulated GW templates for LIGO and LISA by a fraction of 0.001. Accounting for the wave distortion would significantly decrease the waveform extraction errors in numerical simulations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:27:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:07:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:53:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:30:29 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kocsis", "Bence", "", "Harvard" ], [ "Loeb", "Abraham", "", "Harvard" ] ]
0704.1150
Alexander Orlov Yur'evich
John Harnad and Alexander Yu. Orlov
Fermionic approach to the evaluation of integrals of rational symmetric functions
34 pages
Theor.Math.Phys.158:17-39,2009
10.1007/s11232-009-0002-x
null
math-ph hep-th math.MP
null
We use the fermionic construction of two-matrix model partition functions to evaluate integrals over rational symmetric functions. This approach is complementary to the one used in the paper ``Integrals of Rational Symmetric Functions, Two-Matrix Models and Biorthogonal Polynomials'' \cite{paper2}, where these integrals were evaluated by a direct method.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:04:30 GMT" } ]
2009-02-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Harnad", "John", "" ], [ "Orlov", "Alexander Yu.", "" ] ]
0704.1151
Noelia Estella Donata No\"el
Noelia E. D. Noel, Carme Gallart, Edgardo Costa and Rene A. Mendez
Old Main-Sequence Turnoff Photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud. I. Constraints on the Star Formation History in Different Fields
To appear in AJ
Astron.J.133:2037-2052,2007
10.1086/512668
null
astro-ph
null
We present ground-based B and R-band color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), reaching the oldest main-sequence turnoffs with good photometric accuracy for twelve fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Our fields, located between ~1 and ~4 degrees from the center of the galaxy, are situated in different parts of the SMC such as the "Wing'' area, and towards the West and South. In this paper we perform a first analysis of the stellar content in our SMC fields through comparison with theoretical isochrones and color functions (CFs). We find that the underlying spheroidally distributed population is composed of both intermediate-age and old stars and that its age composition does not show strong galacto-centric gradients. The three fields situated toward the east, in the Wing region, show very active current star formation. However, only in the eastern field closest to the center do we find an enhancement of recent star formation with respect to a constant SFR(t). The fields corresponding to the western side of the SMC present a much less populated young MS, and the CF analysis indicates that the SFR(t) greatly diminished around 2 Gyr ago in these parts. Field smc0057, the closest to the center of the galaxy and located in the southern part, shows recent star formation, while the rest of the southern fields present few bright MS stars. The structure of the red clump in all the CMDs is consistent with the large amount of intermediate-age stars inferred from the CMDs and color functions. None of the SMC fields presented here are dominated by old stellar populations, a fact that is in agreement with the lack of a conspicuous horizontal branch in all these SMC CMDs. This could indicate that a disk population is ruling over a possible old halo in all the observed fields.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:29:20 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Noel", "Noelia E. D.", "" ], [ "Gallart", "Carme", "" ], [ "Costa", "Edgardo", "" ], [ "Mendez", "Rene A.", "" ] ]
0704.1152
Kazuya Koyama
Kazuya Koyama, Shuntaro Mizuno and David Wands
Curvature perturbations from ekpyrotic collapse with multiple fields
15 pages, 3 figures, a reference added, to be published in CQG, a remark on the comoving density perturbation corrected
Class.Quant.Grav.24:3919-3932,2007
10.1088/0264-9381/24/15/010
null
hep-th astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A scale-invariant spectrum of isocurvature perturbations is generated during collapse in the ekpyrotic scaling solution in models where multiple fields have steep negative exponential potentials. The scale invariance of the spectrum is realized by a tachyonic instability in the isocurvature field. This instability drives the scaling solution to the late time attractor that is the old ekpyrotic collapse dominated by a single field. We show that the transition from the scaling solution to the single field dominated ekpyrotic collapse automatically converts the initial isocurvature perturbations about the scaling solution to comoving curvature perturbations about the late-time attractor. The final amplitude of the comoving curvature perturbation is determined by the Hubble scale at the transition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:06:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:53:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:39:38 GMT" } ]
2009-02-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Koyama", "Kazuya", "" ], [ "Mizuno", "Shuntaro", "" ], [ "Wands", "David", "" ] ]
0704.1153
Feng Yuan
Jian-Wei Qiu, Werner Vogelsang, Feng Yuan
Asymmetric Di-jet Production in Polarized Hadronic Collisions
11 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Lett.B650:373-378,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.05.023
BNL-NT-07/15, RBRC-665
hep-ph
null
Using the collinear QCD factorization approach, we study the single-transverse-spin dependent cross section Delta sigma(S_perp) for the hadronic production of two jets of momenta P_1=P+q/2 and P_2=-P+q/2. We consider the kinematic region where the transverse components of the momentum vectors satisfy P_perp >> q_perp >> Lambda_QCD. For the case of initial-state gluon radiation, we show that at the leading power in q_perp/P_perp and at the lowest non-trivial perturbative order, the dependence of Delta sigma(S_perp) on q_perp decouples from that on P_perp, so that the cross section can be factorized into a hard part that is a function only of the single scale P_perp, and into perturbatively generated transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions with transverse momenta k_perp = O(q_perp).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:12:23 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Qiu", "Jian-Wei", "" ], [ "Vogelsang", "Werner", "" ], [ "Yuan", "Feng", "" ] ]
0704.1154
Stephen D. H. Hsu
Stephen D.H. Hsu
Information, information processing and gravity
7 pages, 5 figures, revtex
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A22:2895-2908,2007
10.1142/S0217751X07036853
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph quant-ph
null
I discuss fundamental limits placed on information and information processing by gravity. Such limits arise because both information and its processing require energy, while gravitational collapse (formation of a horizon or black hole) restricts the amount of energy allowed in a finite region. Specifically, I use a criterion for gravitational collapse called the hoop conjecture. Once the hoop conjecture is assumed a number of results can be obtained directly: the existence of a fundamental uncertainty in spatial distance of order the Planck length, bounds on information (entropy) in a finite region, and a bound on the rate of information processing in a finite region. In the final section I discuss some cosmological issues related to the total amount of information in the universe, and note that almost all detailed aspects of the late universe are determined by the randomness of quantum outcomes. This paper is based on a talk presented at a 2007 Bellairs Research Institute (McGill University) workshop on black holes and quantum information.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:41:17 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Hsu", "Stephen D. H.", "" ] ]
0704.1155
Roberto R. Deza
Roberto R. Deza (1), Horacio S. Wio (2), and Miguel A. Fuentes (3) ((1) Departamento de F\'isica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, (2) Instituto de F\'isica de Cantabria (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC), Santander, Spain, (3) Centro At\'omico Bariloche (CNEA), Argentina, and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA)
Noise-induced phase transitions: Effects of the noises' statistics and spectrum
6 pages, 10 figures, uses aipproc.cls, aip-8s.clo and aipxfm.sty. To appear in AIP Conference Proceedings. Invited talk at MEDYFINOL'06 (XV Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics)
AIP Conference Proceedings -- May 23, 2007 -- Volume 913, pp. 62-67
10.1063/1.2746725
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
The local, uncorrelated multiplicative noises driving a second-order, purely noise-induced, ordering phase transition (NIPT) were assumed to be Gaussian and white in the model of [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{73}, 3395 (1994)]. The potential scientific and technological interest of this phenomenon calls for a study of the effects of the noises' statistics and spectrum. This task is facilitated if these noises are dynamically generated by means of stochastic differential equations (SDE) driven by white noises. One such case is that of Ornstein--Uhlenbeck noises which are stationary, with Gaussian pdf and a variance reduced by the self-correlation time (\tau), and whose effect on the NIPT phase diagram has been studied some time ago. Another such case is when the stationary pdf is a (colored) Tsallis' (q)--\emph{Gaussian} which, being a \emph{fat-tail} distribution for (q>1) and a \emph{compact-support} one for (q<1), allows for a controlled exploration of the effects of the departure from Gaussian statistics. As done before with stochastic resonance and other phenomena, we now exploit this tool to study--within a simple mean-field approximation and with an emphasis on the \emph{order parameter} and the ``\emph{susceptibility}''--the combined effect on NIPT of the noises' statistics and spectrum. Even for relatively small (\tau), it is shown that whereas fat-tail noise distributions ((q>1)) counteract the effect of self-correlation, compact-support ones ((q<1)) enhance it. Also, an interesting effect on the susceptibility is seen in the last case.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:08:30 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Deza", "Roberto R.", "" ], [ "Wio", "Horacio S.", "" ], [ "Fuentes", "Miguel A.", "" ] ]
0704.1156
Eric S. Perlman
E. S. Perlman (FIT, UMBC/JCA), R. E. Mason (Gemini), Christopher Packham (Florida), N. A. Levenson, M. Elitzur (Kentucky), Justin J. Schaefer (Florida), Masatoshi Imanishi (NAO), William B. Sparks (STScI), James Radomski (Gemini)
The Mid-Infrared Emission of M87
9 pages, 7 figures, ApJ, in press
Astrophys.J.663:808-815,2007
10.1086/518781
null
astro-ph
null
We discuss Subaru and Spitzer Space Telescope imaging and spectroscopy of M87 in the mid-infrared from 5-35 um. These observations allow us to investigate mid-IR emission mechanisms in the core of M87 and to establish that the flaring, variable jet component HST-1 is not a major contributor to the mid-IR flux. The Spitzer data include a high signal-to-noise 15-35 $\mu$m spectrum of the knot A/B complex in the jet, which is consistent with synchrotron emission. However, a synchrotron model cannot account for the observed {\it nuclear} spectrum, even when contributions from the jet, necessary due to the degrading of resolution with wavelength, are included. The Spitzer data show a clear excess in the spectrum of the nucleus at wavelengths longer than 25 um, which we model as thermal emission from cool dust at a characteristic temperature of 55 \pm 10 K, with an IR luminosity \sim 10^{39} {\rm ~erg ~s^{-1}}. Given Spitzer's few-arcsecond angular resolution, the dust seen in the nuclear spectrum could be located anywhere within ~5'' (390 pc) of the nucleus. In any case, the ratio of AGN thermal to bolometric luminosity indicates that M87 does not contain the IR-bright torus that classical unified AGN schemes invoke. However, this result is consistent with theoretical predictions for low-luminosity AGNs
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:13:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:01:24 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Perlman", "E. S.", "", "FIT, UMBC/JCA" ], [ "Mason", "R. E.", "", "Gemini" ], [ "Packham", "Christopher", "", "Florida" ], [ "Levenson", "N. A.", "", "Kentucky" ], [ "Elitzur", "M.", "", "Kentucky" ], [ "Schaefer", "Justin J.", "", "Florida" ], [ "Imanishi", "Masatoshi", "", "NAO" ], [ "Sparks", "William B.", "", "STScI" ], [ "Radomski", "James", "", "Gemini" ] ]
0704.1157
Alexander Orlov Yur'evich
John Harnad and Alexander Yu. Orlov
Fermionic construction of tau functions and random processes
53 pages, 13 figures, a contribution to Proc. "Mathematics and Physics of Growing Interfaces"
Physica D: 235, 168-206 (2007)
10.1016/j.physd.2007.05.011
null
math-ph cond-mat.stat-mech hep-th math.MP math.PR
null
Tau functions expressed as fermionic expectation values are shown to provide a natural and straightforward description of a number of random processes and statistical models involving hard core configurations of identical particles on the integer lattice, like a discrete version simple exclusion processes (ASEP), nonintersecting random walkers, lattice Coulomb gas models and others, as well as providing a powerful tool for combinatorial calculations involving paths between pairs of partitions. We study the decay of the initial step function within the discrete ASEP (d-ASEP) model as an example.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:19:14 GMT" } ]
2018-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Harnad", "John", "" ], [ "Orlov", "Alexander Yu.", "" ] ]
0704.1158
Bernardo Huberman
Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman
Novelty and Collective Attention
null
null
10.1073/pnas.0704916104
null
cs.CY cs.IR physics.soc-ph
null
The subject of collective attention is central to an information age where millions of people are inundated with daily messages. It is thus of interest to understand how attention to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. We have analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among one million users of an interactive website -- \texttt{digg.com} -- devoted to thousands of novel news stories. The observations can be described by a dynamical model characterized by a single novelty factor. Our measurements indicate that novelty within groups decays with a stretched-exponential law, suggesting the existence of a natural time scale over which attention fades.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:02:29 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wu", "Fang", "" ], [ "Huberman", "Bernardo A.", "" ] ]
0704.1159
Daniela Borges Pavani
D.B Pavani, E.Bica
Characterization of open cluster remnants
16 pages, 15 figures, A&A accepted
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066240
null
astro-ph
null
Despite progress in the theoretical knowledge of open cluster remnants and the growing search for observational identifications in recent years, open questions still remain. The methods used to analyze open cluster remnants and criteria to define them as physical systems are not homogeneous. In this work we present a systematic method for studying these objects that provides a view of their properties and allows their characterization. Eighteen remnant candidates are analyzed by means of photometric and proper motion data. These data provide information on objects and their fields. We establish criteria for characterizing open cluster remnants, taking observational uncertainties into account. 2MASS J and H photometry is employed (i) to study structural properties of the objects by means of radial stellar density profiles, (ii) to test for any similarity between objects and fields with a statistical comparison method applied to the distributions of stars in the CMDs, and (iii) to obtain ages, reddening values, and distances from the CMD, taking an index of isochrone fit into account. The UCAC2 proper motions allowed an objective comparison between objects and large solid angle offset fields. The objective analysis based on the present methods indicates 13 open-cluster remnants in the sample. Evidence of the presence of binary stars is found, as expected for dynamically evolved systems. Finally, we infer possible evolutionary stages among remnants from the structure, proper motion, and CMD distributions. The low stellar statistics for individual objects is overcome by means of the construction of composite proper motion and CMD diagrams. The distributions of remnants in the composite diagrams resemble the single-star and unresolved binary star distributions of open clusters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:22:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:02:33 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Pavani", "D. B", "" ], [ "Bica", "E.", "" ] ]
0704.1160
Sean A. Hartnoll
Sean A. Hartnoll and Pavel Kovtun
Hall conductivity from dyonic black holes
1+13 pages. TT correlator corrected. Typos corrected and added refs
Phys.Rev.D76:066001,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.066001
null
hep-th
null
A class of strongly interacting 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories in a transverse magnetic field can be studied using the AdS/CFT duality. We compute zero momentum hydrodynamic response functions of maximally supersymmetric 2+1 dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory at the conformal fixed point, in the large N limit. With background magnetic field B and electric charge density rho, the Hall conductivity is found to be rho/B. The result, anticipated on kinematic grounds in field theory, is obtained from perturbations of a four dimensional AdS black hole with both electric and magnetic charges.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:27:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:53:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:32:13 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Hartnoll", "Sean A.", "" ], [ "Kovtun", "Pavel", "" ] ]
0704.1161
Wei Bao
Wei Bao, Ying Chen, K. Yamada, A. T. Savici, P. L. Russo, J. E. Lorenzo, J.-H. Chung
The Fincher-Burke spin excitations and omega/T scaling in the insulating 5% Sr-doped La2CuO4
5 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. B vol. 76, 180406(R) (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.180406
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
null
Insulating La1.95Sr0.05CuO4 shares with superconducting cuprates the same Fincher-Burke-like spin excitations, which usually are observed in itinerant antiferromagnets. The local spectral function satisfies omega/T scaling above ~16 K for this incommensurate insulating cuprate. Together with previous results in commensurate insulating and incommensurate superconducting cuprates, these results further support the general scaling prediction for square-lattice quantum spin S=1/2 systems. The width of incommensurate peaks in La1.95Sr0.05CuO4 scales to a similar finite value as at optimal doping, strongly suggesting that they are similarly distant from a quantum critical point. They might both be limited to a finite correlation length by the partial spin-glass freezing.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:37:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:32:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:28:57 GMT" } ]
2007-12-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bao", "Wei", "" ], [ "Chen", "Ying", "" ], [ "Yamada", "K.", "" ], [ "Savici", "A. T.", "" ], [ "Russo", "P. L.", "" ], [ "Lorenzo", "J. E.", "" ], [ "Chung", "J. -H.", "" ] ]
0704.1162
Nickolas Moeckel
Nickolas Moeckel, John Bally
Binary Capture Rates for Massive Protostars
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted to ApJL
null
10.1086/518738
null
astro-ph
null
The high multiplicity of massive stars in dense, young clusters is established early in their evolution. The mechanism behind this remains unresolved. Recent results suggest that massive protostars may capture companions through disk interactions with much higher efficiency than their solar mass counterparts. However, this conclusion is based on analytic determinations of capture rates and estimates of the robustness of the resulting binaries. We present the results of coupled n-body and SPH simulations of star-disk encounters to further test the idea that disk-captured binaries contribute to the observed multiplicity of massive stars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:35:08 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Moeckel", "Nickolas", "" ], [ "Bally", "John", "" ] ]
0704.1163
Andrej Zlatos
Andrej Zlatos
Sharp Asymptotics for KPP Pulsating Front Speed-up and Diffusion Enhancement by Flows
11pp
null
null
null
math.AP
null
We study KPP pulsating front speed-up and effective diffusivity enhancement by general periodic incompressible flows. We prove the existence of and determine the limits $c^*(A)/A$ and $D(A)/A^2$ as $A\to\infty$, where $c^*(A)$ is the minimal front speed and $D(A)$ the effective diffusivity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:47:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:05:40 GMT" } ]
2007-07-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Zlatos", "Andrej", "" ] ]
0704.1164
Andrej Zlatos
Andrej Zlatos
Pulsating Front Speed-up and Quenching of Reaction by Fast Advection
16pp
null
10.1088/0951-7715/20/12/009
null
math.AP
null
We consider reaction-diffusion equations with combustion-type non-linearities in two dimensions and study speed-up of their pulsating fronts by general periodic incompressible flows with a cellular structure. We show that the occurence of front speed-up in the sense $\lim_{A\to\infty} c_*(A)=\infty$, with $A$ the amplitude of the flow and $c_*(A)$ the (minimal) front speed, only depends on the geometry of the flow and not on the reaction function. In particular, front speed-up happens for KPP reactions if and only if it does for ignition reactions. We also show that the flows which achieve this speed-up are precisely those which, when scaled properly, are able to quench any ignition reaction.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:43:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 5 Nov 2007 05:35:41 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zlatos", "Andrej", "" ] ]
0704.1165
Archil Kobakhidze
Robert Foot, Archil Kobakhidze and Raymond R. Volkas
Electroweak Higgs as a pseudo-Goldstone boson of broken scale invariance
11 pages, discussion added, the version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett.B655:156-161,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.084
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
We point out that it is possible to associate the electroweak Higgs boson with the pseudo-Goldstone boson of broken scale invariance, thus resolving the hierarchy problem in a technically natural way. We illustrate this idea with two specific gauge models. Besides being consistent with all currently available experimental data, both models maintain the predictive power of the standard model, since the first model has only one additional parameter beyond the standard model, and the second has the same number of free parameters as the standard model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:41:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:19:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:29:05 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Foot", "Robert", "" ], [ "Kobakhidze", "Archil", "" ], [ "Volkas", "Raymond R.", "" ] ]
0704.1166
David Roberts
David C. Roberts
A linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model of self-synchronizing oscillators
Accepted to Phys. Rev. E. v5: Further clarified terminology; expanded discussion; added references
Phys. Rev. E 77, 031114 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevE.77.031114
null
nlin.PS cond-mat.stat-mech
null
The present paper introduces a linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model describing a self-synchronizing phase transition in a system of globally coupled oscillators that in general have different characteristic frequencies. The reformulated model provides an alternative coherent framework through which one can analytically tackle synchronization problems that are not amenable to the original Kuramoto analysis. It allows one to solve explicitly for the synchronization order parameter and the critical point of 1) the full phase-locking transition for a system with a finite number of oscillators (unlike the original Kuramoto model, which is solvable implicitly only in the mean-field limit) and 2) a new class of continuum systems. It also makes it possible to probe the system's dynamics as it moves towards a steady state. While discussion in this paper is restricted to systems with global coupling, the new formalism introduced by the linear reformulation also lends itself to solving systems that exhibit local or asymmetric coupling.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:53:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:14:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:26:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:32:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:39:59 GMT" } ]
2008-03-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Roberts", "David C.", "" ] ]
0704.1167
Andreas Glatz
I.S. Beloborodov, A. Glatz, V.M. Vinokur
Electron Transport in Nanogranular Ferromagnets
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 066602 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.066602
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We study electronic transport properties of ferromagnetic nanoparticle arrays and nanodomain materials near the Curie temperature in the limit of weak coupling between the grains. We calculate the conductivity in the Ohmic and non-Ohmic regimes and estimate the magnetoresistance jump in the resistivity at the transition temperature. The results are applicable for many emerging materials, including artificially self-assembled nanoparticle arrays and a certain class of manganites, where localization effects within the clusters can be neglected.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:58:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:22:12 GMT" } ]
2007-08-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Beloborodov", "I. S.", "" ], [ "Glatz", "A.", "" ], [ "Vinokur", "V. M.", "" ] ]
0704.1168
Rajeev Pandey
Deep Shah, Nicolas A. Bruque, Khairul Alam, Roger K. Lake, and Rajeev R. Pandey
Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Calculated from Density Functional Theory and the Empirical pi-Bond Model
J. Computational Electronics (accepted, 20 February 2007)
null
null
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The validity of the DFT models implemented by FIREBALL for CNT electronic device modeling is assessed. The effective masses, band gaps, and transmission coefficients of semi-conducting, zigzag, (n,0) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) resulting from the ab initio tight-binding density functional theory (DFT) code FIREBALL and the empirical, nearest-neighbor pi-bond model are compared for all semiconducting n values 5 <(=) n <(=) 35. The DFT values for the effective masses differ from the pi-bond values by +(-) 9% over the range of n values, 17 <(=) n <(=) 29, most important for electronic device applications. Over the range 13 <(=) n <(=) 35, the DFT bandgaps are less than the empirical bandgaps by 20-180 meV depending on the functional and the n value. The pi-bond model gives results that differ signifcantly from the DFT results when the CNT diameter goes below 1 nm due to the large curvature of the CNT. The pi-bond model quickly becomes inaccurate away from the bandedges for a (10, 0) CNT, and it is completely inaccurate for n <(=) 8.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:58:51 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Shah", "Deep", "" ], [ "Bruque", "Nicolas A.", "" ], [ "Alam", "Khairul", "" ], [ "Lake", "Roger K.", "" ], [ "Pandey", "Rajeev R.", "" ] ]
0704.1169
Dirson Jian Li
Dirson Jian Li, Shengli Zhang
Holographic bound and protein linguistics
4 pages, 4 figures. A trial application of holographic bound in life science
null
null
null
q-bio.GN hep-th q-bio.QM
null
The holographic bound in physics constrains the complexity of life. The finite storage capability of information in the observable universe requires the protein linguistics in the evolution of life. We find that the evolution of genetic code determines the variance of amino acid frequencies and genomic GC content among species. The elegant linguistic mechanism is confirmed by the experimental observations based on all known entire proteomes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:04:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Li", "Dirson Jian", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Shengli", "" ] ]
0704.1170
Michael Jura
M. Jura (UCLA), J. Farihi (Gemini), B. Zuckerman (UCLA)
Externally-polluted white dwarfs with dust disks
ApJ, in press
Astrophys.J.663:1285-1290,2007
10.1086/518767
null
astro-ph
null
We report Spitzer Space Telescope photometry of eleven externally-polluted white dwarfs. Of the nine stars for which we have IRAC photometry, we find that GD 40, GD 133 and PG 1015+161 each has an infrared excess that can be understood as arising from a flat, opaque, dusty disk. GD 56 also has an infrared excess characteristic of circumstellar dust, but a flat-disk model cannot reproduce the data unless there are grains as warm as 1700 K and perhaps not even then. Our data support the previous suggestion that the metals in the atmosphere of GD 40 are the result of accretion of a tidally-disrupted asteroid with a chondritic composition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:19:21 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Jura", "M.", "", "UCLA" ], [ "Farihi", "J.", "", "Gemini" ], [ "Zuckerman", "B.", "", "UCLA" ] ]
0704.1171
Roberto R. Deza
Gonzalo G. Iz\'us, Roberto R. Deza, and Alejandro D. S\'anchez (Departamento de F\'isica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Highly synchronized noise-driven oscillatory behavior of a FitzHugh-Nagumo ring with phase-repulsive coupling
7 pages, 15 figures, uses aipproc.cls, aip-6s.clo and aipxfm.sty. "Cooperative Behavior in Neural Systems: Ninth Granada Lectures'', edited by J. Marro, P. L. Garrido, and J. J. Torres
AIP Conference Proceedings -- February 8, 2007 -- Volume 887, pp. 89-95
10.1063/1.2709590
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We investigate a ring of $N$ FitzHugh--Nagumo elements coupled in \emph{phase-repulsive} fashion and submitted to a (subthreshold) common oscillatory signal and independent Gaussian white noises. This system can be regarded as a reduced version of the one studied in [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{64}, 041912 (2001)], although externally forced and submitted to noise. The noise-sustained synchronization of the system with the external signal is characterized.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:26:34 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Izús", "Gonzalo G.", "", "Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,\n Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina" ], [ "Deza", "Roberto R.", "", "Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,\n Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina" ], [ "Sánchez", "Alejandro D.", "", "Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,\n Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina" ] ]
0704.1172
Zhe Sun
Zhe Sun, Xiaoguang Wang and C. P. Sun
Disentanglement in a quantum critical environment
8 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. A 75, 062312 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062312
null
quant-ph
null
We study the dynamical process of disentanglement of two qubits and two qutrits coupled to an Ising spin chain in a transverse field, which exhibits a quantum phase transition. We use the concurrence and negativity to quantify entanglement of two qubits and two qutrits, respectively. Explicit connections between the concurrence (negativity) and the decoherence factors are given for two initial states, the pure maximally entangled state and the mixed Werner state. We find that the concurrence and negativity decay exponentially with fourth power of time in the vicinity of critical point of the environmental system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:47:45 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sun", "Zhe", "" ], [ "Wang", "Xiaoguang", "" ], [ "Sun", "C. P.", "" ] ]
0704.1173
Xing-Hao Ye
Xing-Hao Ye, Qiang Lin
The Deviation of the Vacuum Refractive Index Induced by a Static Gravitational Field
5 pages, 6 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
We analyzed the influence of static gravitational field on the vacuum and proposed the concept of inhomogeneous vacuum. According to the observational result of the light deflection in solar gravitational field as well as the corresponding Fermat's principle in the general relativity, we derived an analytical expression of the refractive index of vacuum in a static gravitational field. We found that the deviation of the vacuum refractive index is composed of two parts: one is caused by the time dilation effect, the other is caused by the length contraction effect. As an application, we simulated the effect of the gravitational lensing through computer programming and found that the missing central imaging could be interpreted in a reasonable way.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:47:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ye", "Xing-Hao", "" ], [ "Lin", "Qiang", "" ] ]
0704.1174
Gabriel Katz
Gabriel Katz
Deaconstructing Functions on Quadratic Surfaces into Multipoles
43 pages, 3 figures. The new version of my paper contains references to the paper of V. Arnold Topological Content of the Maxwell Theorem on Multipole Representation of Spherical Functions which was overlooked in the previous version
null
null
null
math.CV math.AG
null
Any homogeneous polynomial $P(x, y, z)$ of degree $d$, being restricted to a unit sphere $S^2$, admits essentially a unique representation of the form $\lambda + \sum_{k = 1}^d [\prod_{j = 1}^k L_{kj}]$, where $L_{kj}$'s are linear forms in $x, y$ and $z$ and $\lambda$ is a real number. The coefficients of these linear forms, viewed as 3D vectors, are called \emph{multipole} vectors of $P$. In this paper we consider similar multipole representations of polynomial and analytic functions on other quadratic surfaces $Q(x, y, z) = c$, real and complex. Over the complex numbers, the above representation is not unique, although the ambiguity is essentially finite. We investigate the combinatorics that depicts this ambiguity. We link these results with some classical theorems of harmonic analysis, theorems that describe decompositions of functions into sums of spherical harmonics. We extend these classical theorems (which rely on our understanding of the Laplace operator $\Delta_{S^2}$) to more general differential operators $\Delta_Q$ that are constructed with the help of the quadratic form $Q(x, y, z)$. Then we introduce modular spaces of multipoles. We study their intricate geometry and topology using methods of algebraic geometry and singularity theory. The multipole spaces are ramified over vector or projective spaces, and the compliments to the ramification sets give rise to a rich family of $K(\pi, 1)$-spaces, where $\pi$ runs over a variety of modified braid groups.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:41:32 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Katz", "Gabriel", "" ] ]
0704.1175
Roberto R. Deza
Gonzalo G. Iz\'us (1), Roberto R. Deza (1), Luis Bernal (1), and Vicente P\'erez-Villar (2) (1) (Departamento de F\'isica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina) (2) (Grupo de F\'isica Non Lineal, Facultade de F\'isica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Complete synchronization of convective patterns between Gray-Scott systems
8 pages, 8 figures, uses edp-jp4.cls. Invited talk at the Workshop on "\emph{Complex Systems: New Trends and Expectations}'', Santander (Spain) 5-9 June 2006. To appear in The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 143 "Trends and Expectations in Complex Systems Science'', Eds. H. S. Wio, L. Pesquera and M. A. Rodr\'{\i}guez
Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 143, 135-141 (2007)
10.1140/epjst/e2007-00081-3
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
Two identical 1D autocatalytic systems with Gray--Scott kinetics--driven towards convectively unstable regimes and submitted to independent spatiotemporal Gaussian white noises--are coupled unidirectionally, but otherwise linearly. Numerical simulation then reveals that (even when perturbed by noise) the slave system replicates the convective patterns arising in the master one to a very high degree of precision, as indicated by several measures of synchronization.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:43:17 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Izús", "Gonzalo G.", "" ], [ "Deza", "Roberto R.", "" ], [ "Bernal", "Luis", "" ], [ "Pérez-Villar", "Vicente", "" ] ]
0704.1176
Hans-G. Ludwig
Hans-G. Ludwig, Matthias Steffen
Hydrodynamical model atmospheres and 3D spectral synthesis
6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Workshop "Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics", eds. L. Pasquini, M. Romaniello, N.C. Santos, and A. Correia
null
10.1007/978-3-540-75485-5_29
null
astro-ph
null
We discuss three issues in the context of three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical model atmospheres for late-type stars, related to spectral line shifts, radiative transfer in metal-poor 3D models, and the solar oxygen abundance. We include a brief overview about the model construction, taking the radiation-hydrodynamics code CO5BOLD (COnservative COde for the COmputation of COmpressible COnvection in a BOx of L Dimensions with L=2,3) and the related spectral synthesis package Linfor3D as examples.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:34:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ludwig", "Hans-G.", "" ], [ "Steffen", "Matthias", "" ] ]
0704.1177
Sima Baghbanzadeh
S. Baghbanzadeh and A. T. Rezakhani
Temperature effects on quantum cloning of states and entanglement
null
Phys. Lett. A 373, 821 (2009)
10.1016/j.physleta.2008.12.050
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Performances of the symmetric universal and phase-covariant cloning transformations and entanglement cloners -- qubit case -- are investigated when the initial state of the hardware or the original state to be cloned is weakly coupled to a thermal environment. Different behaviors of each of these transformations are analyzed and contrasted with the ideal cases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:31:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 06:43:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:19:20 GMT" } ]
2009-02-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Baghbanzadeh", "S.", "" ], [ "Rezakhani", "A. T.", "" ] ]
0704.1178
Kazunori Takenaga
Kazunori Takenaga
Large Gauge Hierarchy in Gauge-Higgs Unification
7 pages. Proceeding for SCGT 2006 (Nagoya, JAPAN, Nov. 2006)
null
10.1142/9789812790750_0040
TU-788
hep-ph
null
We study a five dimensional nonsupersymmetric SU(3) gauge theory compactified on $M^4\times S^1/Z_2$. The gauge hierarchy is discussed in the scenario of the gauge-Higgs unification. We present two models in which the large gauge hierarchy is realized, that is, the weak scale is naturally is obtained from an unique large scale such as a GUT and the Planck scale. We also study the Higgs mass in each model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:08:41 GMT" } ]
2017-08-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Takenaga", "Kazunori", "" ] ]
0704.1179
Ramki Kalyanaraman
C. Favazza, J. Trice, R. Kalyanaraman, R. Sureshkumar
Self-organized metal nanostructures through laser driven thermocapillary convection
10 pages, 3 figures
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 91, 043105 (2007)
10.1063/1.2762294
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
When ultrathin metal films are subjected to multiple cycles of rapid melting and resolidification by a ns pulsed laser, spatially correlated interfacial nanostructures can result from a competition among several possible thin film self-organizing processes. Here we investigate self-organization and the ensuing length scales when Co films (1-8 nm thick) on SiO_{\text{2}} surfaces are repeatedly and rapidly melted by non-uniform (interference) laser irradiation. Pattern evolution produces nanowires, which eventually break-up into nanoparticles exhibiting spatial order in the nearest neighbor spacing, \lambda_{NN2}.The scaling behavior is consistent with pattern formation by thermocapillary flow and a Rayleigh-like instability. For h_{0}\leq2 nm, a hydrodynamic instability of a spinodally unstable film leads to the formation of nanoparticles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:11:23 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Favazza", "C.", "" ], [ "Trice", "J.", "" ], [ "Kalyanaraman", "R.", "" ], [ "Sureshkumar", "R.", "" ] ]
0704.1180
Gerardo Paz Silva
Gerardo A. Paz-Silva, John H. Reina
Full Additivity of the Entanglement of Formation
Paper withdrawn. The result regarding the additivity of EoF was not as general as initially considered. Apologies to our colleagues
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We present a general strategy that allows a more flexible method for the construction of fully additive multipartite entanglement monotones than the ones so far reported in the literature of axiomatic entanglement measures. Within this framework we give a proof of a conjecture of outstanding implications in information theory: the full additivity of the Entanglement of Formation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:28:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:06:18 GMT" } ]
2010-09-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Paz-Silva", "Gerardo A.", "" ], [ "Reina", "John H.", "" ] ]
0704.1181
Gui Lu Long
Wen-Zhang Liu, Jin-Fu Zhang, Gui Lu Long
Simulation of four-body interaction in a nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processor
4 pages 5 figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Four-body interaction plays an important role in many-body systems, and it can exhibit interesting phase transition behaviors. Historically it was the need to efficiently simulate quantum systems that lead the idea of a quantum computer. In this Letter, we report the experimental demonstration of a four-body interaction in a four- qubit nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processor. The strongly modulating pulse is used to implement spin selective excitation. The results show a good agreement between theory and experiment.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:04:06 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Liu", "Wen-Zhang", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Jin-Fu", "" ], [ "Long", "Gui Lu", "" ] ]
0704.1182
Narae Hwang
Narae Hwang (1), Myung Gyoon Lee (1), Hyung Mok Lee (1), Myungshin Im (1), Taehyun Kim (1), Hideo Matsuhara (2), Takehiko Wada (2), Shinki Oyabu (2), Soojong Pak (3), Moo-Young Chun (4), Hidenori Watarai (5), Takao Nakagawa (4), Chris Pearson (2,6), Toshinobu Takagi (2), Hitoshi Hanami (7), Glenn J. White (8,9) ((1) SNU Korea, (2) ISAS JAXA Japan, (3)KHU Korea, (4)KASI Korea, (5) OSA JAXA Japan, (6) ESA Spain, (7) Iwate Univ. Japan, (8) Open Univ. UK, (9) CCLRC RAL UK)
An Optical Source Catalog of the North Ecliptic Pole Region
34 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS. The pdf file with high resolution figures can be downloaded from http://astro.snu.ac.kr/~nhwang/index.files/nep.html
null
10.1086/519216
null
astro-ph
null
We present a five (u*,g',r',i',z') band optical photometry catalog of the sources in the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) region based on deep observations made with MegaCam at CFHT. The source catalog covers about 2 square degree area centered at the NEP and reaches depths of about 26 mag for u*, g', r' bands, about 25 mag for i' band, and about 24 mag for z' band (4 sigma detection over an 1 arcsec aperture). The total number of cataloged sources brighter than r'= 23 mag is about 56,000 including both point sources and extended sources. From the investigation of photometric properties using the color-magnitude diagrams and color-color diagrams, we have found that the colors of extended sources are mostly (u*-r') < 3.0 and (g'-z') > 0.5. This can be used to separate the extended sources from the point sources reliably, even for the faint source domain where typical morphological classification schemes hardly work efficiently. We have derived an empirical color-redshift relation of the red sequence galaxies using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. By applying this relation to our photometry catalog and searching for any spatial overdensities, we have found two galaxy clusters and one nearby galaxy group.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:35:56 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hwang", "Narae", "" ], [ "Lee", "Myung Gyoon", "" ], [ "Lee", "Hyung Mok", "" ], [ "Im", "Myungshin", "" ], [ "Kim", "Taehyun", "" ], [ "Matsuhara", "Hideo", "" ], [ "Wada", "Takehiko", "" ], [ "Oyabu", "Shinki", "" ], [ "Pak", "Soojong", "" ], [ "Chun", "Moo-Young", "" ], [ "Watarai", "Hidenori", "" ], [ "Nakagawa", "Takao", "" ], [ "Pearson", "Chris", "" ], [ "Takagi", "Toshinobu", "" ], [ "Hanami", "Hitoshi", "" ], [ "White", "Glenn J.", "" ] ]
0704.1183
Zhichao Ruan
Zhichao Ruan, Min Yan, Curtis W. Neff, and Min Qiu
Confirmation of Cylindrical Perfect Invisibility Cloak Using Fourier-Bessel Analysis
10 pages, 3 figures
Physical Review Letters, 99, 113903 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.113903
null
physics.optics
null
A cylindrical wave expansion method is developed to obtain the scattering field for an ideal two-dimensional cylindrical invisibility cloak. A near-ideal model of the invisibility cloak is set up to solve the boundary problem at the inner boundary of the cloak shell. We confirm that a cloak with the ideal material parameters is a perfect invisibility cloak by systematically studying the change of the scattering coefficients from the near-ideal case to the ideal one. However, due to the slow convergence of the zero$^{th}$ order scattering coefficients, a tiny perturbation on the cloak would induce a noticeable field scattering and penetration.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:56:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:13:40 GMT" } ]
2007-09-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Ruan", "Zhichao", "" ], [ "Yan", "Min", "" ], [ "Neff", "Curtis W.", "" ], [ "Qiu", "Min", "" ] ]
0704.1184
D M Tong
D M Tong, K Singh, L C Kwek, C H OH
Sufficiency Criterion for the Validity of the Adiabatic Approximation
9 pages, no figure,appearing in PRL98(2007)150402
Physical Review Letters 98, 150402, 2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.150402
null
quant-ph
null
We examine the quantitative condition which has been widely used as a criterion for the adiabatic approximation but was recently found insufficient. Our results indicate that the usual quantitative condition is sufficient for a special class of quantum mechanical systems. For general systems, it may not be sufficient, but it along with additional conditions is sufficient. The usual quantitative condition and the additional conditions constitute a general criterion for the validity of the adiabatic approximation, which is applicable to all $N-$dimensional quantum systems. Moreover, we illustrate the use of the general quantitative criterion in some physical models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:57:09 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Tong", "D M", "" ], [ "Singh", "K", "" ], [ "Kwek", "L C", "" ], [ "OH", "C H", "" ] ]
0704.1185
Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli
Sergei M. Kuzenko, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli
Five-dimensional N = 1 AdS superspace: Geometry, off-shell multiplets and dynamics
50 pages, LaTeX; v2: minor changes, references added; v3: typos corrected, the presentation in subsections 6.3 and 6.5 improved
Nucl.Phys.B785:34-73,2007
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.06.014
null
hep-th
null
As a step towards formulating projective superspace techniques for supergravity theories with eight supercharges, this work is devoted to field theory in five-dimensional N = 1 anti-de Sitter superspace AdS^{5|8} = SU(2,2|1)/SO(4,1) x U(1) which is a maximally symmetric curved background. We develop the differential geometry of AdS^{5|8} and describe its isometries in terms of Killing supervectors. Various off-shell supermultiplets in AdS^{5|8} x S^2 are defined, and supersymmetric actions are constructed both in harmonic and projective superspace approaches. Several families of supersymmetric theories are presented including nonlinear sigma-models, Chern-Simons theories and vector-tensor dynamical systems. Using a suitable coset representative, we make use of the coset construction to develop an explicit realization for one half of the superspace AdS^{5|8} as a trivial fiber bundle with fibers isomorophic to four-dimensional Minkowski superspace.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:50:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:48:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 10:48:31 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kuzenko", "Sergei M.", "" ], [ "Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli", "Gabriele", "" ] ]
0704.1186
Julian Poulter
A. Aromsawa and J. Poulter
Domain wall entropy of the bimodal two-dimensional Ising spin glass
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRB
Phys. Rev. B 76, 064427 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.064427
null
cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We report calculations of the domain wall entropy for the bimodal two-dimensional Ising spin glass in the critical ground state. The L * L system sizes are large with L up to 256. We find that it is possible to fit the variance of the domain wall entropy to a power function of L. However, the quality of the data distributions are unsatisfactory with large L > 96. Consequently, it is not possible to reliably determine the fractal dimension of the domain walls.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:17:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:28:26 GMT" } ]
2008-04-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Aromsawa", "A.", "" ], [ "Poulter", "J.", "" ] ]
0704.1187
Stephane Raymond
S. Raymond, E. Ressouche, G. Knebel, D. Aoki and J. Flouquet
Magnetic structure of CeRhIn$_{5}$ under magnetic field
4 Figures
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19 (2007) 242204
10.1088/0953-8984/19/24/242204
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
The magnetically ordered ground state of CeRhIn$_{5}$ at ambient pressure and zero magnetic field is an incomensurate helicoidal phase with the propagation vector $\bf{k}$=(1/2, 1/2, 0.298) and the magnetic moment in the basal plane of the tetragonal structure. We determined by neutron diffraction the two different magnetically ordered phases of CeRhIn$_{5}$ evidenced by bulk measurements under applied magnetic field in its basal plane. The low temperature high magnetic phase corresponds to a sine-wave structure of the magnetization being commensurate with $\bf{k}$=(1/2, 1/2, 1/4). At high temperature, the phase is incommensurate with $\bf{k}$=(1/2, 1/2, 0.298) and a possible small ellipticity. The propagation vector of this phase is the same as the one of the zero-field structure.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:05:31 GMT" } ]
2012-02-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Raymond", "S.", "" ], [ "Ressouche", "E.", "" ], [ "Knebel", "G.", "" ], [ "Aoki", "D.", "" ], [ "Flouquet", "J.", "" ] ]
0704.1188
Yukio Nemoto
Yukio Nemoto, Masakiyo Kitazawa, Tomoi Koide, Teiji Kunihiro
Fermionic Collective Modes in QGP near Critical Temperatures
4 pages, 3 figures, talk at the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2006, "New frontiers in QCD", Kyoto, Japan
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.168:385-388,2007
10.1143/PTPS.168.385
null
hep-ph
null
We investigate the quark spectrum in the quark-gluon plasma phase near color superconducting (CS) and chiral phase transitions. Owing to the precursory soft modes of the phase transitions, there appear novel excitaion spectra: In the CS transition, the quark matter shows non-Fermi liquid behavior and leads to the pseudogap in the density of states of quarks. In the chiral transition, three collective excitations appear in the quark spectrum.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:59:10 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Nemoto", "Yukio", "" ], [ "Kitazawa", "Masakiyo", "" ], [ "Koide", "Tomoi", "" ], [ "Kunihiro", "Teiji", "" ] ]
0704.1189
Kristin Woodley
Kristin A. Woodley (1), William E. Harris (1), Michael A. Beasley (2), Eric W. Peng (3), Terry J. Bridges (4), Duncan A. Forbes (5), and Gretchen L.H. Harris (6) ((1) McMaster University, (2) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (3) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, (4) Queen's University, (5) Swinburne University, (6) University of Waterloo)
The Kinematics and Dynamics of the Globular Clusters and the Planetary Nebulae of NGC 5128
Accepted in the Astronomical Journal,52 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables - Changes made to Table 1 from originally submitted 0704.1189
Astron.J.134:494-510,2007
10.1086/518788
null
astro-ph
null
A new kinematic and dynamic study of the halo of the giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 5128, is presented. From a spectroscopically confirmed sample of 340 globular clusters and 780 planetary nebulae, the rotation amplitude, rotation axis, velocity dispersion, and the total dynamical mass are determined for the halo of NGC 5128. The globular cluster kinematics were searched for both radial dependence and metallicity dependence by subdividing the globular cluster sample into 158 metal-rich ([Fe/H] > -1.0) and 178 metal-poor ([Fe/H] < -1.0) globular clusters. Our results show the kinematics of the metal-rich and metal-poor subpopulations are quite similar. The kinematics are compared to the planetary nebula population where differences are apparent in the outer regions of the halo. The total mass of NGC 5128 is found using the Tracer Mass estimator (Evans et al. 2003), to determine the mass supported by internal random motions, and the spherical component of the Jeans equation to determine the mass supported by rotation. We find a total mass of (1.0+/-0.2) x 10^(12) Msun from the planetary nebulae data out to a projected radius of 90 kpc and (1.3+/-0.5) x 10^(12) Msun from the globular clusters out to a projected radius of 50 kpc. Lastly, we present a new and homogeneous catalog of known globular clusters in NGC 5128. This catalog combines all previous definitive cluster identifications from radial velocity studies and HST imaging studies, as well as 80 new globular clusters from a study of M.A. Beasley et al. (2007, in preparation).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:28:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 19 May 2007 23:07:57 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Woodley", "Kristin A.", "" ], [ "Harris", "William E.", "" ], [ "Beasley", "Michael A.", "" ], [ "Peng", "Eric W.", "" ], [ "Bridges", "Terry J.", "" ], [ "Forbes", "Duncan A.", "" ], [ "Harris", "Gretchen L. H.", "" ] ]
0704.1190
Tao Zhu
Yi-Shi Duan, Ji-Rong Ren, Tao Zhu
Topological Properties of Phase Singularities in Wave Fields
6 pages
null
null
null
physics.geo-ph physics.gen-ph
null
Phase singularities as topological objects of wave fields appear in a variety of physical, chemical, and biological scenarios. In this paper, by making use of the $\phi$-mapping topological current theory, we study the topological properties of the phase singularities in two and three dimensional space in details. The topological inner structure of the phase singularities are obtained, and the topological charge of the phase singularities are expressed by the topological numbers: Hopf indices and Brouwer degrees. Furthermore, the topological invariant of the closed and knotted phase singularities in three dimensional space are also discussed in details.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:29:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Duan", "Yi-Shi", "" ], [ "Ren", "Ji-Rong", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Tao", "" ] ]
0704.1191
Debra A. Fischer
Debra A. Fischer, Steven S. Vogt, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Bun'ei Sato, Gregory W. Henry, Sarah Robinson, Gregory Laughlin, Shigeru Ida, Eri Toyota, Masashi Omiya, Peter Driscoll, Genya Takeda, Jason T. Wright, John A. Johnson
Five Intermediate-Period Planets from the N2K Sample
13 pages, 9 figures, accepted ApJ Resubmitted here with some additional data, modified Keplerian orbits
null
10.1086/521869
null
astro-ph
null
We report the detection of five Jovian mass planets orbiting high metallicity stars. Four of these stars were first observed as part of the N2K program and exhibited low RMS velocity scatter after three consecutive observations. However, follow-up observations over the last three years now reveal the presence of longer period planets with orbital periods ranging from 21 days to a few years. HD 11506 is a G0V star with a planet of \msini = 4.74 \mjup in a 3.85 year orbit. HD 17156 is a G0V star with a 3.12 \mjup planet in a 21.2 day orbit. The eccentricity of this orbit is 0.67, one of the highest known for a planet with a relatively short period. The orbital period for this planet places it in a region of parameter space where relatively few planets have been detected. HD 125612 is a G3V star with a planet of \msini = 3.5 \mjup in a 1.4 year orbit. HD 170469 is a G5IV star with a planet of \msini = 0.67 \mjup in a 3.13 year orbit. HD 231701 is an F8V star with planet of 1.08 \mjup in a 142 day orbit. All of these stars have supersolar metallicity. Three of the five stars were observed photometrically but showed no evidence of brightness variability. A transit search conducted for HD 17156 was negative but covered only 25% of the search space and so is not conclusive.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:28:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:56:23 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Fischer", "Debra A.", "" ], [ "Vogt", "Steven S.", "" ], [ "Marcy", "Geoffrey W.", "" ], [ "Butler", "R. Paul", "" ], [ "Sato", "Bun'ei", "" ], [ "Henry", "Gregory W.", "" ], [ "Robinson", "Sarah", "" ], [ "Laughlin", "Gregory", "" ], [ "Ida", "Shigeru", "" ], [ "Toyota", "Eri", "" ], [ "Omiya", "Masashi", "" ], [ "Driscoll", "Peter", "" ], [ "Takeda", "Genya", "" ], [ "Wright", "Jason T.", "" ], [ "Johnson", "John A.", "" ] ]
0704.1192
Thomas Geisser
Thomas Geisser
Arithmetic homology and an integral version of Katos conjecture
improved version, to appear in Journal fuer die reine und angewandte Mathematik
null
null
null
math.KT math.AG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We define an integral Borel-Moore homology theory over finite fields, called arithmetic homology, and an integral version of Kato homology. Both types of groups are expected to be finitely generated, and sit in a long exact sequence with higher Chow groups of zero-cycles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:24:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 13 May 2009 02:04:44 GMT" } ]
2009-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Geisser", "Thomas", "" ] ]
0704.1193
Gopika Sood --
G. Sood
Production of Anticentauro Events in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Proceedings of Poster Session, 19th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2006), November 14-20, 2006, Shanghai, China
null
10.1142/S0218301307007970
null
nucl-th
null
We propose a novel method for studying the production of anticentauro events in high energy heavy ion collisions utilizing Chebyshev expansion coefficients. These coefficients have proved to be very efficient in investigating the pattern of fluctuations in neutral pion fraction. For the anticentauro like events, the magnitude of first few coefficients is strongly enhanced (~3 times) as compared to those of normal HIJING events. Various characteristics of Chebyshev coefficients are studied in detail and the probability of formation of exotic events is calculated from the simulated events.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:19:03 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sood", "G.", "" ] ]
0704.1194
Ferenc Igloi
Ferenc Igl\'oi, Yu-Cheng Lin, Heiko Rieger, C\'ecile Monthus
Finite-size scaling of pseudo-critical point distributions in the random transverse-field Ising chain
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. B 76, 064421 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.064421
null
cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We study the distribution of finite size pseudo-critical points in a one-dimensional random quantum magnet with a quantum phase transition described by an infinite randomness fixed point. Pseudo-critical points are defined in three different ways: the position of the maximum of the average entanglement entropy, the scaling behavior of the surface magnetization, and the energy of a soft mode. All three lead to a log-normal distribution of the pseudo-critical transverse fields, where the width scales as $L^{-1/\nu}$ with $\nu=2$ and the shift of the average value scales as $L^{-1/\nu_{typ}}$ with $\nu_{typ}=1$, which we related to the scaling of average and typical quantities in the critical region.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:51:54 GMT" } ]
2008-03-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Iglói", "Ferenc", "" ], [ "Lin", "Yu-Cheng", "" ], [ "Rieger", "Heiko", "" ], [ "Monthus", "Cécile", "" ] ]
0704.1195
Matei Toma
Matei Toma
On the Kaehler rank of compact complex surfaces
null
Bull. Soc. Math. de France 136 (2008), 243-260
null
null
math.CV
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Harvey and Lawson introduced the Kaehler rank and computed it in connection to the cone of positive exact currents of bidimension (1,1) for many classes of compact complex surfaces. In this paper we extend these computations to the only further known class of surfaces not considered by them, that of Kato surfaces. Our main tool is the reduction to the dynamics of associated holomorphic contractions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:06:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:16:35 GMT" } ]
2008-12-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Toma", "Matei", "" ] ]
0704.1196
Shengchao Ding
Qing Yang and Shengchao Ding
Novel algorithm to calculate hypervolume indicator of Pareto approximation set
9 pages, 2 figures. Comments are welcome
null
null
null
cs.CG cs.NE
null
Hypervolume indicator is a commonly accepted quality measure for comparing Pareto approximation set generated by multi-objective optimizers. The best known algorithm to calculate it for $n$ points in $d$-dimensional space has a run time of $O(n^{d/2})$ with special data structures. This paper presents a recursive, vertex-splitting algorithm for calculating the hypervolume indicator of a set of $n$ non-comparable points in $d>2$ dimensions. It splits out multiple child hyper-cuboids which can not be dominated by a splitting reference point. In special, the splitting reference point is carefully chosen to minimize the number of points in the child hyper-cuboids. The complexity analysis shows that the proposed algorithm achieves $O((\frac{d}{2})^n)$ time and $O(dn^2)$ space complexity in the worst case.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:21:02 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Yang", "Qing", "" ], [ "Ding", "Shengchao", "" ] ]
0704.1197
Mikhail Popov
M.V. Popov and B. Stappers
Statistical properties of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar
5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066589
null
astro-ph
null
We have studied the statistics of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar for the first time with particular reference to their widths. We have analyzed data collected during 3.5 hours of observations conducted with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope operated in a tied-array mode at a frequency of 1200 MHz. The PuMa pulsar backend provided voltage recording of X and Y linear polarization states in two conjugate 10 MHz bands. We restricted the time resolution to 4 microseconds to match the scattering on the interstellar inhomogeneities. In total about 18000 giant pulses (GP) were detected in full intensity with a threshold level of 6 sigma. Cumulative probability distributions (CPD) of giant pulse energies were analyzed for groups of GPs with different effective widths in the range 4 to 65 microseconds. The CPDs were found to manifest notable differences for the different GP width groups. The slope of a power-law fit to the high-energy portion of the CPDs evolves from -1.7 to -3.2 when going from the shortest to the longest GPs. There are breaks in the CPD power-law fits indicating flattening at low energies with indices varying from -1.0 to -1.9 for the short and long GPs respectively. The GPs with a stronger peak flux density were found to be of shorter duration. We compare our results with previously published data and discuss the importance of these peculiarities in the statistical properties of GPs for the heoretical understanding of the emission mechanism responsible for GP generation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:46:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:07:47 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Popov", "M. V.", "" ], [ "Stappers", "B.", "" ] ]
0704.1198
Minkyu Kim
Minkyu Kim, Varun Aggarwal, Una-May O'Reilly, Muriel Medard
A Doubly Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Network Coding
8 pages, 7 figures, accepted to the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007)
null
null
null
cs.NE cs.NI
null
We present a genetic algorithm which is distributed in two novel ways: along genotype and temporal axes. Our algorithm first distributes, for every member of the population, a subset of the genotype to each network node, rather than a subset of the population to each. This genotype distribution is shown to offer a significant gain in running time. Then, for efficient use of the computational resources in the network, our algorithm divides the candidate solutions into pipelined sets and thus the distribution is in the temporal domain, rather that in the spatial domain. This temporal distribution may lead to temporal inconsistency in selection and replacement, however our experiments yield better efficiency in terms of the time to convergence without incurring significant penalties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:36:44 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kim", "Minkyu", "" ], [ "Aggarwal", "Varun", "" ], [ "O'Reilly", "Una-May", "" ], [ "Medard", "Muriel", "" ] ]
0704.1199
Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson
E. A. Kuraev, C. Adamuscin, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, F. Maas
Study of resonant processes for multi-pion production in $\bar p +p\to\ell ^++\ell^- +n_\pi \pi$ annihilation
9 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Lett.B649:400-404,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.04.042
null
hep-ph
null
In frame of a phenomenological approach based on Compton-like Feynman amplitudes, we study multi-pion production in antiproton nucleon collisions. The main interest of this reaction is related to the possibility to study the properties of the presumable $\bar N N$ atom and of its resonances. For the case of formation of a scalar or pseudoscalar resonant state, with $I^G(J^{P})=1^-(0^{\pm}),~0^+(0^-)$ numerical results are obtained. The differential cross section in an experimental set-up where the pions invariant mass is measured, is given with explicit dependence on the lepton pair and pions invariant mass.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:05:38 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kuraev", "E. A.", "" ], [ "Adamuscin", "C.", "" ], [ "Tomasi-Gustafsson", "E.", "" ], [ "Maas", "F.", "" ] ]
0704.1200
Georgi Vodev
Simon Moulin and Georgi Vodev
Low frequency dispersive estimates for the Schrodinger group in higher dimensions
19 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.AP math.MP
null
We prove dispersive estimates for the low frequency part of the Schrodinger group for a large class of potentials in dimensions greater or equal to four. As a consequence, we extend the result of Journe, Sofer and Sogge to a larger class of potentials. In this revised version a mistake in the proof of the estimate (B.4) is removed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:12:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:17:16 GMT" } ]
2007-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Moulin", "Simon", "" ], [ "Vodev", "Georgi", "" ] ]