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0708.0449
Timothy C. Ralph
T. C. Ralph
Unitary Solution to a Quantum Gravity Information Paradox
5 pages
Phys.Rev.A76:012336,2007
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.012336
null
quant-ph gr-qc
null
We consider a toy model of the interaction of a qubit with an exotic space-time containing a time-like curve. Consistency seems to require that the global evolution of the qubit be non-unitary. Given that quantum mechanics is globally unitary, this then is an example of a quantum gravity information paradox. However, we show that a careful analysis of the problem in the Heisenberg picture reveals an underlying unitarity, thus resolving the paradox.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:58:54 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Ralph", "T. C.", "" ] ]
0708.0450
Hiroyuki Nakano
Hiroyuki Nakano, Kunihito Ioka
Second Order Quasi-Normal Mode of the Schwarzschild Black Hole
23 pages, no figure
Phys.Rev.D76:084007,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084007
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
We formulate and calculate the second order quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH). Gravitational wave (GW) from a distorted BH, so called ringdown, is well understood as QNMs in general relativity. Since QNMs from binary BH mergers will be detected with high signal-to-noise ratio by GW detectors, it is also possible to detect the second perturbative order of QNMs, generated by nonlinear gravitational interaction near the BH. In the BH perturbation approach, we derive the master Zerilli equation for the metric perturbation to second order and explicitly regularize it at the horizon and spatial infinity. We numerically solve the second order Zerilli equation by implementing the modified Leaver's continued fraction method. The second order QNM frequencies are found to be twice the first order ones, and the GW amplitude is up to $\sim 10%$ that of the first order for the binary BH mergers. Since the second order QNMs always exist, we can use their detections (i) to test the nonlinearity of general relativity, in particular the no-hair theorem, (ii) to remove fake events in the data analysis of QNM GWs and (iii) to measure the distance to the BH.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:13:51 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Nakano", "Hiroyuki", "" ], [ "Ioka", "Kunihito", "" ] ]
0708.0451
Karan Aryanpour
K. Aryanpour, T. Paiva, W. E. Pickett, R. T. Scalettar
s-wave Superconductivity Phase Diagram in the Inhomogeneous Two-Dimensional Attractive Hubbard Model
16 pages, 11 figures
Phys. Rev. B 76, 184521 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.184521
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We study s-wave superconductivity in the two-dimensional square lattice attractive Hubbard Hamiltonian for various inhomogeneous patterns of interacting sites. Using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) mean field approximation, we obtain the phase diagram for inhomogeneous patterns in which the on-site attractive interaction U_i between the electrons takes on two values, U_i=0 and -U/(1-f) (with f the concentration of non-interacting sites) as a function of average electron occupation per site n, and study the evolution of the phase diagram as f varies. In certain regions of the phase diagram, inhomogeneity results in a larger zero temperature average pairing amplitude (order parameter) and also a higher superconducting (SC) critical temperature T_c, relative to a uniform system with the same mean interaction strength (U_i=-U on all sites). These effects are observed for stripes, checkerboard, and even random patterns of the attractive centers, suggesting that the pattern of inhomogeneity is unimportant. The phase diagrams also include regions where superconductivity is obliterated due to the formation of various charge ordered phases. The enhancement of T_{c} due to inhomogeneity is robust as long as the electron doping per site n is less than twice the fraction of interacting sites [2(1-f)] regardless of the pattern. We also show that for certain inhomogeneous patterns, when n = 2(1-f), increasing temperature can work against the stability of existing charge ordered phases for large f and as a result, enhance T_{c}.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:14:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 1 Dec 2007 00:04:09 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Aryanpour", "K.", "" ], [ "Paiva", "T.", "" ], [ "Pickett", "W. E.", "" ], [ "Scalettar", "R. T.", "" ] ]
0708.0452
Sergey Belyi
Sergey Belyi, Eduard Tsekanovskii
Stieltjes like functions and inverse problems for systems with Schr\"odinger operator
29 pages, 9 figures
null
null
null
math.SP math.FA
null
A class of scalar Stieltjes like functions is realized as linear-fractional transformations of transfer functions of conservative systems based on a Schr\"odinger operator T_h in $L_2[a,+\infty)$ with a non-selfadjoint boundary condition. In particular it is shown that any Stieltjes function of this class can be realized in the unique way so that the main operator $\bA$ of a system is an accretive (*)-extension of a Schr\"odinger operator T_h. We derive formulas that restore the system uniquely and allow to find the exact value of a non-real parameter h in the definition of T_h as well as a real parameter $\mu$ that appears in the construction of the elements of the realizing system. An elaborate investigation of these formulas shows the dynamics of the restored parameters h and $\mu$ in terms of the changing free term $\gamma$ from the integral representation of the realizable function. It turns our that the parametric equations for the restored parameter h represent different circles whose centers and radii are determined by the realizable function. Similarly, the behavior of the restored parameter $\mu$ are described by hyperbolas.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:30:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:01:15 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Belyi", "Sergey", "" ], [ "Tsekanovskii", "Eduard", "" ] ]
0708.0453
Volodymyr Babin
Volodymyr Babin, Christopher Roland, Celeste Sagui
Adaptively Biased Molecular Dynamics for Free Energy Calculations
Revised version to appear in Journal of Chemical Physics
J. Chem. Phys. 128, 134101 (2008)
10.1063/1.2844595
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.other
null
We present an Adaptively Biased Molecular Dynamics (ABMD) method for the computation of the free energy surface of a reaction coordinate using non-equilibrium dynamics. The ABMD method belongs to the general category of umbrella sampling methods with an evolving biasing potential, and is inspired by the metadynamics method. The ABMD method has several useful features, including a small number of control parameters, and an $O(t)$ numerical cost with molecular dynamics time $t$. The ABMD method naturally allows for extensions based on multiple walkers and replica exchange, where different replicas can have different temperatures and/or collective variables. This is beneficial not only in terms of the speed and accuracy of a calculation, but also in terms of the amount of useful information that may be obtained from a given simulation. The workings of the ABMD method are illustrated via a study of the folding of the Ace-GGPGGG-Nme peptide in a gaseous and solvated environment.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:57:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:46:44 GMT" } ]
2008-04-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Babin", "Volodymyr", "" ], [ "Roland", "Christopher", "" ], [ "Sagui", "Celeste", "" ] ]
0708.0454
Rahul Sinha
Nita Sinha, Rahul Sinha, T. E. Browder, N. G. Deshpande, Sandip Pakvasa
Accurate measurement of the D0-D0bar mixing parameters
4 pages, minor changes, few references added
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:262002,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.262002
IMSc/2007/08/11
hep-ph hep-ex
null
We propose a new method to determine the mass and width differences of the two D meson mass-eigenstates as well as the CP violating parameters associated with D^0-\bar{D}^0 mixing. We show that an accurate measurement of all the mixing parameters is possible for an arbitrary CP violating phase, by combining observables from a time dependent study of D decays to a doubly Cabibbo suppressed mode with information from a CP eigenstate. As an example we consider D^0-> K^{*0} \pi^0 decays where the K^{*0} is reconstructed in both K^+\pi^- and K_S\pi^0. We also show that decays to the CP eigenstate D-> K^+K^- together with D-> K^+\pi^- can be used to extract all the mixing parameters. A combined analysis using D^0-> K^{*0} \pi^0 and D-> K^+K^- can also be used to reduce the ambiguity in the determination of parameters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:39:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:53:44 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Sinha", "Nita", "" ], [ "Sinha", "Rahul", "" ], [ "Browder", "T. E.", "" ], [ "Deshpande", "N. G.", "" ], [ "Pakvasa", "Sandip", "" ] ]
0708.0455
Dmitry Abanin A
D. A. Abanin, A. V. Shytov, L. S. Levitov, B. I. Halperin
Nonlocal Charge Transport Mediated by Spin Diffusion in the Spin-Hall Effect Regime
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. B 79, 035304 (2009)
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.035304
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
A nonlocal electric response in the spin-Hall regime, resulting from spin diffusion mediating charge conduction, is predicted. The spin-mediated transport stands out due to its long-range character, and can give dominant contribution to nonlocal resistance. The characteristic range of nonlocality, set by the spin diffusion length, can be large enough to allow detection of this effect in materials such as GaAs despite its small magnitude. The detection is facilitated by a characteristic nonmonotonic dependence of transresistance on the external magnetic field, exhibiting sign changes and decay.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 04:30:59 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Abanin", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Shytov", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Levitov", "L. S.", "" ], [ "Halperin", "B. I.", "" ] ]
0708.0456
Yogesh Joshi
Yogesh M Joshi, G. Ranjith K. Reddy, Ajit L. Kulkarni, Nishant Kumar, Raj P. Chhabra
Rheological Behavior of Aqueous Suspensions of Laponite: New Insights into the Ageing Phenomena
27 Pages, 12 figures
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 464, 469-489 (2008)
10.1098/rspa.2007.0250
null
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.dis-nn
null
In this paper, ageing behavior of suspensions of laponite with varying salt concentration is investigated using rheological tools. It is observed that the ageing is accompanied by an increase in the complex viscosity. The succeeding creep experiments performed at various ages showed damped oscillations in the strain. The characteristic time-scale of the damped oscillations, retardation time, showed a prominent decrease with the age of the system. However, this dependence weakens with an increase in the salt concentration, which is known to change microstructure of the system from glass-like to gel-like. We postulate that a decrease in the retardation time can be represented as a decrease in the viscosity (friction) of the dissipative environment surrounding the arrested entities that opposes elastic deformation of the system. We believe that ageing in colloidal glass leads to a greater ordering that enhances relative spacing between the constituents thereby reducing the frictional resistance. However, since a gel state is inherently different in structure (fractal network) than that of a glass (disordered), ageing in the same does not induce ordering. Consequently, we observe inverse dependence of retardation time on age becoming weaker with an increase in the salt concentration. We analyze these results from a perspective of ageing dynamics of both glass state and gel state of laponite suspensions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:20:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:39:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:13:52 GMT" } ]
2008-01-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Joshi", "Yogesh M", "" ], [ "Reddy", "G. Ranjith K.", "" ], [ "Kulkarni", "Ajit L.", "" ], [ "Kumar", "Nishant", "" ], [ "Chhabra", "Raj P.", "" ] ]
0708.0457
Oyvind Gron
Oyvind G. Gron
The Principle of Relativity and Inertial Dragging
17 pages
Am.J.Phys.77:373-380,2009
10.1119/1.2996480
null
gr-qc
null
Machs principle and the principle of relativity have been discussed by H. I. Hartman and C. Nissim-Sabat in this journal. Several phenomena were said to violate the principle of relativity as applied to rotating motion. These claims have recently been contested. However, in neither of these articles have the general relativistic phenomenon of inertial dragging been invoked, and no calculation have been offered by either side to substantiate their claims. Here I discuss the possible validity of the principle of relativity for rotating motion within the context of the general theory of relativity, and point out the significance of inertial dragging in this connection. Although my main points are of a qualitative nature, I also provide the necessary calculations to demonstrate how these points come out as consequences of the general theory of relativity
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 06:19:18 GMT" } ]
2009-04-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Gron", "Oyvind G.", "" ] ]
0708.0458
Rohini Godbole Professor
Rohini M. Godbole, David J. Miller and M. Margarete M\"uhlleitner
Aspects of CP violation in the HZZ coupling at the LHC
36 pages, 17 figures, LaTeX, version accepted for publication
JHEP 0712:031,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/031
CERN-PH-TH/2007-116, IISc-CHEP/08/07,LAPTH-1195/07
hep-ph
null
We examine the CP-conserving (CPC) and CP-violating (CPV) effects of a general HZZ coupling through a study of the process H -> ZZ* -> 4 leptons at the LHC. We construct asymmetries that directly probe these couplings. Further, we present complete analytical formulae for the angular distributions of the decay leptons and for some of the asymmetries. Using these we have been able to identify new observables which can provide enhanced sensitivity to the CPV $H ZZ$ coupling. We also explore probing CP violation through shapes of distributions in different kinematic variables, which can be used for Higgs bosons with mH < 2 mZ.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:32:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:46:21 GMT" } ]
2009-04-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Godbole", "Rohini M.", "" ], [ "Miller", "David J.", "" ], [ "Mühlleitner", "M. Margarete", "" ] ]
0708.0459
Junko Yamagata
J. Yamagata (1), H. Nagahiro (2), R. Kimura (1) and S. Hirenzaki (1) ((1) Nara Women's University, (2) RCNP, Osaka University)
Formation of Deeply Bound Kaonic Atoms in (K^-,N) Reactions
11 pages, 9 figures
Phys.Rev.C76:045204,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.045204
null
nucl-th hep-ph
null
We study theoretically the (K^-,N) reactions for the formation of the deeply bound kaonic atoms, which were predicted to be quasi--stable with narrow widths, using the Green function method. We consider various cases with different target nuclei and energies systematically and find the clear signals in the theoretical spectra for all cases considered in this article. The signals show very interesting structures, such as the $RESONANCE DIP$ instead of the resonance peak. We discuss the origins of the interesting structures and possibilities to get new information on the existence of the kaonic nuclei from the spectra of the atomic state formations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:17:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Yamagata", "J.", "", "Nara Women's University" ], [ "Nagahiro", "H.", "", "RCNP, Osaka University" ], [ "Kimura", "R.", "", "Nara Women's University" ], [ "Hirenzaki", "S.", "", "Nara Women's University" ] ]
0708.0460
Hiroaki Nakamura
Hiroaki Nakamura, Naomichi Hatano, Sterling Garmon, Tomio Petrosky
Quasi-bound states in continuum
4 pages, 4figures, 1 table
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210404 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.210404
null
quant-ph
null
We report the prediction of quasi-bound states (resonant states with very long lifetimes) that occur in the eigenvalue continuum of propagating states for a wide region of parameter space. These quasi-bound states are generated in a quantum wire with two channels and an adatom, when the energy bands of the two channels overlap. A would-be bound state that lays just below the upper energy band is slightly destabilized by the lower energy band and thereby becomes a resonant state with a very long lifetime (a second QBIC lays above the lower energy band).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:26:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:57:14 GMT" } ]
2008-12-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Nakamura", "Hiroaki", "" ], [ "Hatano", "Naomichi", "" ], [ "Garmon", "Sterling", "" ], [ "Petrosky", "Tomio", "" ] ]
0708.0461
Ivo Vink
I. T. Vink, T. Nooitgedagt, R. N. Schouten, W. Wegscheider and L. M. K. Vandersypen
A cryogenic amplifier for fast real-time detection of single-electron tunneling
4 pages, 3 figures
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 123512 (2007)
10.1063/1.2783265
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We employ a cryogenic High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) amplifier to increase the bandwidth of a charge detection setup with a quantum point contact (QPC) charge sensor. The HEMT is operating at 1K and the circuit has a bandwidth of 1 MHz. The noise contribution of the HEMT at high frequencies is only a few times higher than that of the QPC shot noise. We use this setup to monitor single-electron tunneling to and from an adjacent quantum dot and we measure fluctuations in the dot occupation as short as 400 nanoseconds, 20 times faster than in previous work.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:47:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:23:43 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Vink", "I. T.", "" ], [ "Nooitgedagt", "T.", "" ], [ "Schouten", "R. N.", "" ], [ "Wegscheider", "W.", "" ], [ "Vandersypen", "L. M. K.", "" ] ]
0708.0462
Li-Xing Zhu
Yingxing Li, Li-Xing Zhu
Asymptotics for sliced average variance estimation
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001091 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 41-69
10.1214/009053606000001091
IMS-AOS-AOS0152
math.ST stat.TH
null
In this paper, we systematically study the consistency of sliced average variance estimation (SAVE). The findings reveal that when the response is continuous, the asymptotic behavior of SAVE is rather different from that of sliced inverse regression (SIR). SIR can achieve $\sqrt{n}$ consistency even when each slice contains only two data points. However, SAVE cannot be $\sqrt{n}$ consistent and it even turns out to be not consistent when each slice contains a fixed number of data points that do not depend on n, where n is the sample size. These results theoretically confirm the notion that SAVE is more sensitive to the number of slices than SIR. Taking this into account, a bias correction is recommended in order to allow SAVE to be $\sqrt{n}$ consistent. In contrast, when the response is discrete and takes finite values, $\sqrt{n}$ consistency can be achieved. Therefore, an approximation through discretization, which is commonly used in practice, is studied. A simulation study is carried out for the purposes of illustration.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:55:38 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Li", "Yingxing", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Li-Xing", "" ] ]
0708.0463
Detlef Goerlitz
J\"urgen K\"otzler, Detlef G\"orlitz, Frank Wiekhorst
Strong spin-orbit induced Gilbert damping and g-shift in iron-platinum nanoparticles
8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B (http://prb.aps.org/)
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.104404
null
cond-mat.other
null
The shape of ferromagnetic resonance spectra of highly dispersed, chemically disordered Fe_{0.2}Pt_{0.8} nanospheres is perfectly described by the solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation excluding effects by crystalline anisotropy and superparamagnetic fluctuations. Upon decreasing temperature, the LLG damping $\alpha(T)$ and a negative g-shift, g(T)-g_0, increase proportional to the particle magnetic moments determined from the Langevin analysis of the magnetization isotherms. These novel features are explained by the scattering of the $q \to 0$ magnon from an electron-hole (e/h) pair mediated by the spin-orbit coupling, while the sd-exchange can be ruled out. The large saturation values, $\alpha(0)=0.76$ and $g(0)/g_0-1=-0.37$, indicate the dominance of an overdamped 1 meV e/h-pair which seems to originate from the discrete levels of the itinerant electrons in the d_p=3 nm nanoparticles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:56:52 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kötzler", "Jürgen", "" ], [ "Görlitz", "Detlef", "" ], [ "Wiekhorst", "Frank", "" ] ]
0708.0464
Sergei Shevchenko N.
S.N. Shevchenko
Impedance measurement technique for quantum systems
5 pages
Eur. Phys. J. B 61, 187 (2008)
10.1140/epjb/e2008-00061-9
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall
null
The impedance measurement technique consists in that the phase-dependent (parametric) inductance of the system is probed by the classical tank circuit via measuring the voltage. The notion of the parametric inductance for the impedance measurement technique is revisited for the case when a quantum system is probed. Measurement of the quantum state of the system of superconducting circuits (qubits) is studied theoretically. It is shown that the result of the measurement is defined by the partial energy levels populations in the qubits.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:01:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Shevchenko", "S. N.", "" ] ]
0708.0465
Vincent Grandjean
V. Grandjean
On the total curvatures of a tame function
null
Bull. Braz. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 39 (2008), no. 4, 515-535
10.1007/s00574-008-0002-8
null
math.DG math.LO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Given a definable function f, enough differentiable, we study the continuity of the total curvature function t --> K(t), total curvature of the level {f=t}, and the total absolute curvature function t-->|K| (t), total absolute curvature of the level {f=t}. We show they admits at most finitely many discontinuities.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:06:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:07:08 GMT" } ]
2011-03-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Grandjean", "V.", "" ] ]
0708.0466
Peter Hall
Peter Hall, Joel L. Horowitz
Methodology and convergence rates for functional linear regression
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000000957 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 70-91
10.1214/009053606000000957
IMS-AOS-AOS0154
math.ST stat.TH
null
In functional linear regression, the slope ``parameter'' is a function. Therefore, in a nonparametric context, it is determined by an infinite number of unknowns. Its estimation involves solving an ill-posed problem and has points of contact with a range of methodologies, including statistical smoothing and deconvolution. The standard approach to estimating the slope function is based explicitly on functional principal components analysis and, consequently, on spectral decomposition in terms of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. We discuss this approach in detail and show that in certain circumstances, optimal convergence rates are achieved by the PCA technique. An alternative approach based on quadratic regularisation is suggested and shown to have advantages from some points of view.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:15:28 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Hall", "Peter", "" ], [ "Horowitz", "Joel L.", "" ] ]
0708.0467
Isabell-Alissandra Melzer-Pellmann
Isabell-Alissandra Melzer-Pellmann (for the ZEUS collaboration)
Charm production in diffractive DIS and PHP at ZEUS
Proceedings of the DIS2007 workshop, Munich 2007
null
null
null
hep-ex
null
The ZEUS experiment has measured charm production in diffractive DIS and in photoproduction. The data are in agreement with perturbative QCD calculations based on various parameterisations of diffractive parton distribution functions. The results are consistent with QCD factorisation in diffractive DIS and direct photoproduction.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:21:25 GMT" } ]
2019-08-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Melzer-Pellmann", "Isabell-Alissandra", "", "for the ZEUS collaboration" ] ]
0708.0468
Ming Gong
Ming Gong, Chuan-Feng Li, Geng Chen, Lixin He, F. W. Sun, Guang-Can Guo, Zhi-Chuan Niu, She-Song Huang, Yong-Hua Xiong, Hai-Qiao Ni
Direct observation of excitonic polaron in InAs/GaAs quantum dots
7 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Excitonic polaron is directly demonstrated for the first time in InAs/GaAs quantum dots with photoluminescence method. A new peak ($s'$) below the ground state of exciton ($s$) comes out as the temperature varies from 4.2 K to 285 K, and a huge anticrossing energy of 31 meV between $s'$ and $s$ is observed at 225 K, which can only be explained by the formation of excitonic polaron. The results also provide a strong evidence for the invalidity of Huang-Rhys formulism in dealing with carrier-longitudinal optical phonon interaction in quantum dot. Instead, we propose a simple two-band model, and it fits the experimental data quite well. The reason for the finding of the anticrossing is also discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:23:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:13:32 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Gong", "Ming", "" ], [ "Li", "Chuan-Feng", "" ], [ "Chen", "Geng", "" ], [ "He", "Lixin", "" ], [ "Sun", "F. W.", "" ], [ "Guo", "Guang-Can", "" ], [ "Niu", "Zhi-Chuan", "" ], [ "Huang", "She-Song", "" ], [ "Xiong", "Yong-Hua", "" ], [ "Ni", "Hai-Qiao", "" ] ]
0708.0469
Pantelis Apostolopoulos
Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos Brouzakis, Nikolaos Tetradis and Eleftheria Tzavara
Modified brane cosmologies with induced gravity, arbitrary matter content and a Gauss-Bonnet term in the bulk
12 pages, no figures, RevTex 4.0; (v2) new references are added; (v3,v4) minor changes, acknowledgment is included; to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D76:084029,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084029
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
We extend the covariant analysis of the brane cosmological evolution in order to take into account, apart from a general matter content and an induced-gravity term on the brane, a Gauss-Bonnet term in the bulk. The gravitational effect of the bulk matter on the brane evolution can be described in terms of the total bulk mass as measured by a bulk observer at the location of the brane. This mass appears in the effective Friedmann equation through a term characterized as generalized dark radiation that induces mirage effects in the evolution. We discuss the normal and self-accelerating branches of the combined system. We also derive the Raychaudhuri equation that can be used in order to determine if the cosmological evolution is accelerating.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:26:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:04:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:39:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:37:32 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Apostolopoulos", "Pantelis S.", "" ], [ "Brouzakis", "Nikolaos", "" ], [ "Tetradis", "Nikolaos", "" ], [ "Tzavara", "Eleftheria", "" ] ]
0708.0470
Jitesh Bhatt
Jitesh R. Bhatt, Prasanta K. Panigrahi
Entanglement of superposition and pair coherent states
6 pages with 6 (eps) figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Entanglement characteristics of a pair coherent state is studied using entanglement of superposition. It is demonstrated only few states in the expansion of a pair coherent state, in a harmonic oscillator basis, contribute significantly to the entanglement. We also study a case of two superposed pair coherent states
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:32:07 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Bhatt", "Jitesh R.", "" ], [ "Panigrahi", "Prasanta K.", "" ] ]
0708.0471
Mi-Ok Kim
Mi-Ok Kim
Quantile regression with varying coefficients
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000000966 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 92-108
10.1214/009053606000000966
IMS-AOS-AOS0158
math.ST stat.TH
null
Quantile regression provides a framework for modeling statistical quantities of interest other than the conditional mean. The regression methodology is well developed for linear models, but less so for nonparametric models. We consider conditional quantiles with varying coefficients and propose a methodology for their estimation and assessment using polynomial splines. The proposed estimators are easy to compute via standard quantile regression algorithms and a stepwise knot selection algorithm. The proposed Rao-score-type test that assesses the model against a linear model is also easy to implement. We provide asymptotic results on the convergence of the estimators and the null distribution of the test statistic. Empirical results are also provided, including an application of the methodology to forced expiratory volume (FEV) data.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:32:52 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Kim", "Mi-Ok", "" ] ]
0708.0472
Filippo Mannucci
F. Mannucci (INAF- Ira, Firenze)
Supernova rates and stellar populations
to appear in "Multifrequency behaviour of high energy cosmic sources", Vulcano, 2007, May 28 - Jun 2, F. Giovannelli & L. Sabau-Graziati eds., ChJAA
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We discuss the results about the nature of type Ia Supernovae that can be derived by studying their rates in different stellar populations. While the evolution of SN photometry and spectra can constrain the explosion mechanism, the SN rate depends on the progenitor system. We review the current available data on rates as a function of parent galaxy color, morphology, star formation rate, radio luminosity and environment. By studying the variation of the rates with the color of the parent galaxy, a strong evidence was established that type Ia SNe come from both young and old stars. The dependence of the rates with the radio power of the parent galaxy is best reproduced by a bimodal distribution of delay time between the formation of the progenitor and its explosion as a SN. Cluster early-type galaxies show higher type Ia SN rate with respect to field galaxies, and this effect can be due either to traces of young stars or to differences in the delay time distribution.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:48:16 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Mannucci", "F.", "", "INAF- Ira, Firenze" ] ]
0708.0473
Volker Beckmann
V. Beckmann, S. Soldi, G. Belanger, S. Brandt, M. D. Caballero-Garcia, G. De Cesare, N. Gehrels, S. Grebenev, O. Vilhu, A. von Kienlin, T.J.-L. Courvoisier
Cygnus X-3 transition from the ultrasoft to the hard state
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication as A&A Research Note
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20078160
null
astro-ph
null
Aims: The nature of Cygnus X-3 is still not understood well. This binary system might host a black hole or a neutron star. Recent observations by INTEGRAL have shown that Cygnus X-3 was again in an extremely ultrasoft state. Here we present our analysis of the transition from the ultrasoft state, dominated by blackbody radiation at soft X-rays plus non-thermal emission in the hard X-rays, to the low hard state. Methods: INTEGRAL observed Cyg X-3 six times during three weeks in late May and early June 2007. Data from IBIS/ISGRI and JEM-X1 were analysed to show the spectral transition. Results: During the ultrasoft state, the soft X-ray spectrum is well-described by an absorbed (NH = 1.5E22 1/cm**2) black body model, whereas the X-ray spectrum above 20 keV appears to be extremely low and hard (Gamma = 1.7). During the transition, the radio flux rises to a level of >1 Jy, and the soft X-ray emission drops by a factor of 3, while the hard X-ray emission rises by a factor of 14 and becomes steeper (up to Gamma = 4). Conclusions: The ultrasoft state apparently precedes the emission of a jet, which is apparent in the radio and hard X-ray domain.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:00:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:02:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Beckmann", "V.", "" ], [ "Soldi", "S.", "" ], [ "Belanger", "G.", "" ], [ "Brandt", "S.", "" ], [ "Caballero-Garcia", "M. D.", "" ], [ "De Cesare", "G.", "" ], [ "Gehrels", "N.", "" ], [ "Grebenev", "S.", "" ], [ "Vilhu", "O.", "" ], [ "von Kienlin", "A.", "" ], [ "Courvoisier", "T. J. -L.", "" ] ]
0708.0474
Harrie Hendriks
Harrie Hendriks, Zinoviy Landsman
Asymptotic data analysis on manifolds
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000000993 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 109-131
10.1214/009053606000000993
IMS-AOS-AOS0221
math.ST stat.TH
null
Given an m-dimensional compact submanifold $\mathbf{M}$ of Euclidean space $\mathbf{R}^s$, the concept of mean location of a distribution, related to mean or expected vector, is generalized to more general $\mathbf{R}^s$-valued functionals including median location, which is derived from the spatial median. The asymptotic statistical inference for general functionals of distributions on such submanifolds is elaborated. Convergence properties are studied in relation to the behavior of the underlying distributions with respect to the cutlocus. An application is given in the context of independent, but not identically distributed, samples, in particular, to a multisample setup.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:58:22 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Hendriks", "Harrie", "" ], [ "Landsman", "Zinoviy", "" ] ]
0708.0475
Antonino Di Piazza
A. Di Piazza, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, and C. H. Keitel
Non-perturbative vacuum-polarization effects in proton-laser collisions
5 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:010403,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.010403
null
hep-ph physics.atom-ph
null
In the collision of a high-energy proton beam and a strong laser field, merging of the laser photons can occur due to the polarization of vacuum. The probability of photon merging is calculated by accounting exactly for the laser field and presents a highly non-perturbative dependence on the laser intensity and frequency. It is shown that the non-perturbative vacuum-polarization effects can be experimentally measured by combining the next-generation of table-top petawatt lasers with presently available proton accelerators.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:08:40 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Di Piazza", "A.", "" ], [ "Hatsagortsyan", "K. Z.", "" ], [ "Keitel", "C. H.", "" ] ]
0708.0476
Markus Schulze
Johann H. Kuhn (Karlsruhe U., TTP), A. Kulesza (Hamburg, DESY), S. Pozzorini (Munich, Max Planck Inst.), M. Schulze (Karlsruhe U., TTP)
Electroweak corrections to hadronic production of W bosons at large transverse momenta
61 pages. Various modifications: detailed discussion of final-state singularities and comments on NNLO, W/Z emission, QED effects in PDFs. Results unchanged. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Nucl.Phys.B797:27-77,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.12.029
TTP07-19, SFB/CPP-07-43, MPP-2007-102, DESY 07-112
hep-ph
null
To match the precision of present and future measurements of W-boson production at hadron colliders electroweak radiative corrections must be included in the theory predictions. In this paper we consider their effect on the transverse momentum (p_T) distribution of W bosons, with emphasis on large p_T. We evaluate the full electroweak O(alpha) corrections to the processes pp -> W+jet and p\bar p -> W+jet including virtual and real photonic contributions. We present the explicit expressions in analytical form for the virtual corrections and provide results for the real corrections, discussing in detail the treatment of soft and collinear singularities. We also provide compact approximate expressions which are valid in the high-energy region, where the electroweak corrections are strongly enhanced by logarithms of \hat{s}/M_W^2. These expressions describe the complete asymptotic behaviour at one loop as well as the leading and next-to-leading logarithms at two loops. Numerical results are presented for proton-proton collisions at 14 TeV and proton-antiproton collisions at 2 TeV. The corrections are negative and their size increases with p_T. At the LHC, where transverse momenta of 2 TeV or more can be reached, the one- and two-loop corrections amount up to -40% and +10%, respectively, and will be important for a precise analysis of W production. At the Tevatron, transverse momenta up to 300 GeV are within reach. In this case the electroweak corrections amount up to -10% and are thus larger than the expected statistical error.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:04:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:19:14 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kuhn", "Johann H.", "", "Karlsruhe U., TTP" ], [ "Kulesza", "A.", "", "Hamburg, DESY" ], [ "Pozzorini", "S.", "", "Munich, Max Planck Inst." ], [ "Schulze", "M.", "", "Karlsruhe U., TTP" ] ]
0708.0477
Michael Bate
Michael Bate
Optimal Subgroups and Applications to Nilpotent Elements
11 pages, some minor changes
null
null
null
math.GR math.AG
null
Let G be a reductive group acting on an affine variety X, let x in X be a point whose G-orbit is not closed, and let S be a G-stable closed subvariety of X which meets the closure of the G-orbit of x but does not contain x. In this paper, we study G.R. Kempf's optimal class Omega_G(x,S) of cocharacters of G attached to the point x; in particular, we consider how this optimality transfers to subgroups of G. Suppose K is a G-completely reducible subgroup of G which fixes x, and let H = C_G(K)^0. Our main result says that the H-orbit of x is also not closed, and the optimal class Omega_H(x,S) for H simply consists of the cocharacters in Omega_G(x,S) which evaluate in H. We apply this result in the case that G acts on its Lie algebra via the adjoint representation to obtain some new information about cocharacters associated with nilpotent elements in good characteristic.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:23:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 12 May 2008 10:48:50 GMT" } ]
2008-05-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Bate", "Michael", "" ] ]
0708.0478
Shai Machnes Mr.
Shai Machnes
QLib - A Matlab Package for Quantum Information Theory Calculations with Applications
5 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Developing intuition about quantum information theory problems is difficult, as is verifying or ruling-out of hypothesis. We present a Matlab package intended to provide the QIT community with a new and powerful tool-set for quantum information theory calculations. The package covers most of the "QI textbook" and includes novel parametrization of quantum objects and a robust optimization mechanism. New ways of re-examining well-known results is demonstrated. QLib is designed to be further developed and enhanced by the community and is available for download at www.qlib.info
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:40:27 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Machnes", "Shai", "" ] ]
0708.0479
Donatella Ciampini
Ennio Arimondo and Donatella Ciampini and Oliver Morsch
Bose-Einstein condensates in 1D optical lattices: nonlinearity and Wannier-Stark spectra
Chapter of "Nonlinearities of Periodic Structures and Metamaterials" (edited by C. Denz, S. Flach, and Yu. Kivshar) to be published by Springer
null
null
null
cond-mat.other
null
We present our experimental investigations on the subject of nonlinearity-modified Bloch-oscillations and of nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling between two energy bands in a rubidium Bose Einstein condensate in an accelerated periodic potential. Nonlinearity introduces an asymmetry in Landau-Zener tunneling. We also present measurements of resonantly enhanced tunneling between the Wannier-Stark energy levels for Bose-Einstein condensates loaded into an optical lattice.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:31:17 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Arimondo", "Ennio", "" ], [ "Ciampini", "Donatella", "" ], [ "Morsch", "Oliver", "" ] ]
0708.0480
Manoj Keshari Kumar
Manoj Kumar Keshari
Projective modules over discrete Hodge algebras
6 pages
null
null
null
math.AC math.KT
null
Let A be a Noetherian commutative ring. Assume that projective modules of rank r over polynomial extensions of A are extended from A. Then projective modules of rank r over discrete Hodge A-algebras are also extended from A. This result extends a result of T. Vorst.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:44:42 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Keshari", "Manoj Kumar", "" ] ]
0708.0481
Martin Hillebrand
Martin Hillebrand, Christine H. M\"uller
Outlier robust corner-preserving methods for reconstructing noisy images
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001109 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 132-165
10.1214/009053606000001109
IMS-AOS-AOS0156
math.ST stat.TH
null
The ability to remove a large amount of noise and the ability to preserve most structure are desirable properties of an image smoother. Unfortunately, they usually seem to be at odds with each other; one can only improve one property at the cost of the other. By combining M-smoothing and least-squares-trimming, the TM-smoother is introduced as a means to unify corner-preserving properties and outlier robustness. To identify edge- and corner-preserving properties, a new theory based on differential geometry is developed. Further, robustness concepts are transferred to image processing. In two examples, the TM-smoother outperforms other corner-preserving smoothers. A software package containing both the TM- and the M-smoother can be downloaded from the Internet.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:45:45 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Hillebrand", "Martin", "" ], [ "Müller", "Christine H.", "" ] ]
0708.0482
Stefan Hohenegger
I. Antoniadis, S. Hohenegger, K.S. Narain, E. Sokatchev
Harmonicity in N=4 supersymmetry and its quantum anomaly
36 pages
Nucl.Phys.B794:348-380,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.005
CERN-PH-TH/2007-132, LAPTH-1201/07
hep-th
null
The holomorphicity property of N=1 superpotentials or of N=2 F-terms involving vector multiplets is generalized to the case of N=4 1/2-BPS effective operators defined in harmonic superspace. The resulting harmonicity equations are shown to control the moduli dependence of the couplings of higher dimensional operators involving powers of the N=4 Weyl superfield, computed by N=4 topological amplitudes. These equations can also be derived on the string side, exhibiting an anomaly from world-sheet boundary contributions that leads to recursion relations for the non-analytic part of the couplings.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:56:19 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Antoniadis", "I.", "" ], [ "Hohenegger", "S.", "" ], [ "Narain", "K. S.", "" ], [ "Sokatchev", "E.", "" ] ]
0708.0483
Roberto Casadio
G. L. Alberghi, C. Appignani, R. Casadio, F. Sbis\'a and A. Tronconi
Inflation and the semiclassical dynamics of a conformal scalar field
10 pages, REVTeX, no figures. Final version accepted for publication in PRD
Phys.Rev.D77:044002,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044002
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
We derive the semiclassical evolution of massless conformally coupled scalar matter in the de Sitter space-time from the Born-Oppenheimer reduction of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We find a remarkable difference with respect to the minimally coupled case: the effect of the quantum gravitational corrections do not depend on the momentum of the scalar mode up to second order in the Planck length and, therefore, there are no relevant corrections to the dispersion relation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:58:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:56:25 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Alberghi", "G. L.", "" ], [ "Appignani", "C.", "" ], [ "Casadio", "R.", "" ], [ "Sbisá", "F.", "" ], [ "Tronconi", "A.", "" ] ]
0708.0484
Tom Blum
Thomas Blum, Takumi Doi, Masashi Hayakawa, Taku Izubuchi, and Norikazu Yamada
Determination of light quark masses from the electromagnetic splitting of pseudoscalar meson masses computed with two flavors of domain wall fermions
38 pages, 7 figures. Fixed typo in eq. 47, added footnote to Table I. Version submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D76:114508,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.114508
null
hep-lat hep-ph
null
We determine the light quark masses from lattice QCD simulations incorporating the electromagnetic interaction of valence quarks. The meson masses are calculated on lattice QCD configurations generated by the RBC Collaboration for two flavors of dynamical domain wall fermions, which are combined with QED configurations generated via quenched non-compact lattice QED. The electromagnetic part of the pion mass splitting is found to be $m_{\pi^+}-m_{\pi^0}=4.12(21)$ MeV, where only the statistical error is quoted, and similarly for the kaon, 1.443(55) MeV. Our results for the light quark masses are $m_u^{\rm\bar{MS}}$(2 GeV)=$3.02(27)(19)$ MeV, $m_d^{\rm\bar{MS}}$(2 GeV)=$5.49(20)(34)$ MeV, and $m_s^{\rm\bar{MS}}$(2 GeV)=$119.5(56)(74)$ MeV, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. By averaging over $\pm e$ to cancel ${\cal O}(e)$ noise exactly on each combined gauge field configuration, we are able to work at physical $\alpha=1/137$ and obtain very small statistical errors. In our calculation, several sources of systematic error remain, including finite volume, non-zero lattice spacing, chiral extrapolation, quenched QED, and quenched strange quark, which may be more significant than the errors quoted above.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:03:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:25:53 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Blum", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Doi", "Takumi", "" ], [ "Hayakawa", "Masashi", "" ], [ "Izubuchi", "Taku", "" ], [ "Yamada", "Norikazu", "" ] ]
0708.0485
Christian Genest
Christian Genest, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Quessy, Bruno R\'emillard
Asymptotic local efficiency of Cram\'{e}r--von Mises tests for multivariate independence
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000000984 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 166-191
10.1214/009053606000000984
IMS-AOS-AOS0219
math.ST stat.TH
null
Deheuvels [J. Multivariate Anal. 11 (1981) 102--113] and Genest and R\'{e}millard [Test 13 (2004) 335--369] have shown that powerful rank tests of multivariate independence can be based on combinations of asymptotically independent Cram\'{e}r--von Mises statistics derived from a M\"{o}bius decomposition of the empirical copula process. A result on the large-sample behavior of this process under contiguous sequences of alternatives is used here to give a representation of the limiting distribution of such test statistics and to compute their relative local asymptotic efficiency. Local power curves and asymptotic relative efficiencies are compared under familiar classes of copula alternatives.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:15:10 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Genest", "Christian", "" ], [ "Quessy", "Jean-François", "" ], [ "Rémillard", "Bruno", "" ] ]
0708.0486
Francisco R Villatoro
Francisco Rus and Francisco R. Villatoro
Self-similar Radiation from Numerical Rosenau-Hyman Compactons
To be published in Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics 227 (2007) 440-454
10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.024
null
math-ph math.MP
null
The numerical simulation of compactons, solitary waves with compact support, is characterized by the presence of spurious phenomena, as numerically-induced radiation, which is illustrated here using four numerical methods applied to the Rosenau-Hyman K(p,p) equation. Both forward and backward radiations are emitted from the compacton presenting a self-similar shape which has been illustrated graphically by the proper scaling. A grid refinement study shows that the amplitude of the radiations decreases as the grid size does, confirming its numerical origin. The front velocity and the amplitude of both radiations have been studied as a function of both the compacton and the numerical parameters. The amplitude of the radiations decreases exponentially in time, being characterized by a nearly constant scaling exponent. An ansatz for both the backward and forward radiations corresponding to a self-similar function characterized by the scaling exponent is suggested by the present numerical results.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:25:30 GMT" } ]
2012-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Rus", "Francisco", "" ], [ "Villatoro", "Francisco R.", "" ] ]
0708.0487
Ivan Veseli\'c
Ivan Veselic'
Lifshitz asymptotics for Hamiltonians monotone in the randomness
This is a note for the report on the Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop: Multiscale and Variational Methods in Material Science and Quantum Theory of Solids
Oberwolfach Reports, Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 371-416, 2007
null
null
math.SP math-ph math.FA math.MP
null
In various aspects of the spectral analysis of random Schroedinger operators monotonicity with respect to the randomness plays a key role. In particular, both the continuity properties and the low energy behaviour of the integrated density of states (IDS) are much better understood if such a monotonicity is present in the model than if not. In this note we present Lifshitz-type bounds on the IDS for two classes of random potentials. One of them is a slight generalisation of a model for which a Lifshitz bound was derived in a recent joint paper with Werner Kirsch [KV]. The second one is a breather type potential which is a sum of characteristic functions of intervals. Although the second model is very simple, it seems that it cannot be treated by the methods of [KV]. The models and the proofs are motivated by well-established methods developed for so called alloy type potentials.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:34:33 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Veselic'", "Ivan", "" ] ]
0708.0488
Madhukar Mishra Mr.
M. Mishra and C. P. Singh
Effect of geometrical size of the particles in a hot and dense hadron gas
19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Phys.Rev.C76:024908,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.024908
null
hep-ph
null
Incorporation of the finite size of baryons into the equation of state (EOS) of a hot and dense hadron gas (HG) in a thermodynamically consistent manner has been a much studied problem. We first review its current status. Various models have been proposed in order to account for the repulsive force generated by the hard-core geometrical size of the baryons resulting in an excluded volume effect in the EOS. We examine the criterion of the thermodynamical consistency of these models and summarize their shortcomings. In order to remove the shortcomings, we propose a new model which incorporates the excluded volume effect in a thermodynamically consistent manner. We find that the new model works even for the cases of extremely large temperatures and densities where most of other approaches fail. Furthermore, the new expressions for thermodynamical variables resemble in form with those obtained from thermodynamically inconsistent models and thus a useful correction factor has been suggested here which converts inconsistent expressions into thermodynamically consistent ones. Finally we compare the predictions of new model with those obtained from various old models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:33:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:45:46 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Mishra", "M.", "" ], [ "Singh", "C. P.", "" ] ]
0708.0489
Bram Wynants
Christian Maes, Karel Netocny, Bram Wynants
Steady state statistics of driven diffusions
rewritten version
Physica A: 387, 2675-2689 (2008)
10.1016/j.physa.2008.01.097
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We consider overdamped diffusion processes driven out of thermal equilibrium and we analyze their dynamical steady fluctuations. We discuss the thermodynamic interpretation of the joint fluctuations of occupation times and currents; they incorporate respectively the time-symmetric and the time-antisymmetric sector of the fluctuations. We highlight the canonical structure of the joint fluctuations. The novel concept of traffic complements the entropy production for the study of the occupation statistics. We explain how the occupation and current fluctuations get mutually coupled out of equilibrium. Their decoupling close-to-equilibrium explains the validity of entropy production principles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:39:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:26:30 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Maes", "Christian", "" ], [ "Netocny", "Karel", "" ], [ "Wynants", "Bram", "" ] ]
0708.0490
Luca Lusanna
Luca Lusanna (INFN, Firenze)
The Chrono-Geometrical Structure of General Relativity and Clock Synchronization
13 pages, Talk at the First Colloquium Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of the Galileo Programme, Toulouse 1-4 October 2007
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
After a review of the chrono-geometrical structure of special relativity, where the definition of the instantaneous 3-space is based on the observer-dependent convention for the synchronization of distant clocks, it is shown that in a class of models of general relativity the instantaneous 3-space and the associated clock synchronization convention are dynamically determined by Einstein's equations. This theoretical framework is necessary to understand the relativistic effects around the Earth, to be tested with the ACES mission of ESA, and the implications for metrology induced by the accuracy of the new generation of atomic clocks.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:50:48 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Lusanna", "Luca", "", "INFN, Firenze" ] ]
0708.0491
Subhashis Ghosal
Subhashis Ghosal, Aad van der Vaart
Convergence rates of posterior distributions for noniid observations
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001172 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 192-223
10.1214/009053606000001172
IMS-AOS-AOS0217
math.ST stat.TH
null
We consider the asymptotic behavior of posterior distributions and Bayes estimators based on observations which are required to be neither independent nor identically distributed. We give general results on the rate of convergence of the posterior measure relative to distances derived from a testing criterion. We then specialize our results to independent, nonidentically distributed observations, Markov processes, stationary Gaussian time series and the white noise model. We apply our general results to several examples of infinite-dimensional statistical models including nonparametric regression with normal errors, binary regression, Poisson regression, an interval censoring model, Whittle estimation of the spectral density of a time series and a nonlinear autoregressive model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:53:34 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Ghosal", "Subhashis", "" ], [ "van der Vaart", "Aad", "" ] ]
0708.0492
Dmitri Petrov
Giorgio Volpe, Giovanni Volpe, Dmitri Petrov
Brownian motion in a non-homogeneous force field and photonic force microscope
null
Phys. Rev. E 76, 061118 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.061118
null
physics.data-an physics.gen-ph
null
The Photonic Force Microscope (PFM) is an opto-mechanical technique based on an optical trap that can be assumed to probe forces in microscopic systems. This technique has been used to measure forces in the range of pico- and femto-Newton, assessing the mechanical properties of biomolecules as well as of other microscopic systems. For a correct use of the PFM, the force field to measure has to be invariable (homogeneous) on the scale of the Brownian motion of the trapped probe. This condition implicates that the force field must be conservative, excluding the possibility of a rotational component. However, there are cases where these assumptions are not fulfilled Here, we show how to improve the PFM technique in order to be able to deal with these cases. We introduce the theory of this enhanced PFM and we propose a concrete analysis workflow to reconstruct the force field from the experimental time-series of the probe position. Furthermore, we experimentally verify some particularly important cases, namely the case of a conservative or rotational force-field.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:04:18 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Volpe", "Giorgio", "" ], [ "Volpe", "Giovanni", "" ], [ "Petrov", "Dmitri", "" ] ]
0708.0493
Ofer Aharony
Ofer Aharony, Shamit Kachru and Eva Silverstein
Simple Stringy Dynamical SUSY Breaking
12 pages, 6 figures, harvmac. v2: minor corrections
Phys.Rev.D76:126009,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.126009
SLAC-PUB-12698, SU-ITP-07/11, WIS/12/07-AUG-DPP
hep-th
null
We present simple string models which dynamically break supersymmetry without non-Abelian gauge dynamics. The Fayet model, the Polonyi model, and the O'Raifeartaigh model each arise from D-branes at a specific type of singularity. D-brane instanton effects generate the requisite exponentially small scale of supersymmetry breaking.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:00:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:11:43 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Aharony", "Ofer", "" ], [ "Kachru", "Shamit", "" ], [ "Silverstein", "Eva", "" ] ]
0708.0494
Madhukar Mishra Mr.
M. Mishra, V. J. Menon and B. K. Patra
Comment on the paper "Energy Loss of Charm Quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma : Collisional vs Radiative"
5 pages, No figure
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
In the article by M. G. Mustafa published in Phys. Rev. C {\bf 72}, 014905 (2005) the author has estimated the total energy loss of a charm quark and quenching of hadron spectra due to the collisional energy loss of energetic partons in an expanding quark-gluon plasma employing Fokker-Planck equation. We wish to point out through this Comment that some of conceptual and numerical results of the said paper are unreliable. For the sake of clarity our discussion will focus on the massless case (although a few remarks on the $m\neq 0$ case are also made).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:12:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:49:53 GMT" } ]
2007-11-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Mishra", "M.", "" ], [ "Menon", "V. J.", "" ], [ "Patra", "B. K.", "" ] ]
0708.0495
Damien Chablat
Philippe D\'epinc\'e (IRCCyN), Damien Chablat (IRCCyN), Peer-Oliver Woelk (IFW)
Virtual Manufacturing : Tools for improving Design and Production
null
Dans International Design Seminar - CIRP International Design Seminar, Caire : \'Egypte (2004)
null
null
cs.RO physics.class-ph
null
The research area "Virtual Manufacturing" can be defined as an integrated manufacturing environment which can enhance one or several levels of decision and control in manufacturing process. Several domains can be addressed: Product and Process Design, Process and Production Planning, Machine Tool, Robot and Manufacturing System. As automation technologies such as CAD/CAM have substantially shortened the time required to design products, Virtual Manufacturing will have a similar effect on the manufacturing phase thanks to the modelling, simulation and optimisation of the product and the processes involved in its fabrication.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:15:21 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Dépincé", "Philippe", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Woelk", "Peer-Oliver", "", "IFW" ] ]
0708.0496
A. M. Jayannavar
Mamata Sahoo, Shantu Saikia, Mangal C. Mahato and A. M. Jayannavar
Stochastic resonance and heat fluctuations in a driven double-well system
modified version, 10 figures
null
10.1016/j.physa.2008.08.001
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We study a periodically driven (symmetric as well as asymmetric)double-well potential system at finite temperature. We show that mean heat loss by the system to the environment(bath) per period of the applied field is a good quantifier of stochastic resonance. It is found that the heat fluctuations over a single period are always larger than the work fluctuations. The observed distributions of work and heat exhibit pronounced asymmetry near resonance. The heat losses over a large number of periods satisfies the conventional steady-state fluctuation theorem, though different relation exists for this quantity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:19:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:19:13 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sahoo", "Mamata", "" ], [ "Saikia", "Shantu", "" ], [ "Mahato", "Mangal C.", "" ], [ "Jayannavar", "A. M.", "" ] ]
0708.0497
Andrew Jackson
A.N. Jackson and G.J. Ackland
Lattice-switch Monte Carlo for binary hard-sphere crystals
14 pages, 9 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.066703
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We show how to generalize the Lattice Switch Monte Carlo method to calculate the phase diagram of a binary system. A global coordinate transformation is combined with a modification of particle diameters, enabling the multi-component system in question to be explored and directly compared to a suitable reference state in a single Monte Carlo simulation. We use the method to evaluate the free energies of binary hard sphere crystals. Calculations at moderate size ratios, \alpha=0.58 and \alpha=0.73, are in agreement with previous results, and confirm AB2 and AB13 as stable structures. We also find that the AB(CsCl) structure is not entropically stable at the size ratio and volume at which it has been reported experimentally, and therefore that those observations cannot be explained by packing effects alone.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:28:10 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Jackson", "A. N.", "" ], [ "Ackland", "G. J.", "" ] ]
0708.0498
Tiziana Di Salvo Dr.
T. Di Salvo, L. Burderi, A. Riggio, A. Papitto, M.T. Menna
Orbital Evolution of an Accreting Millisecond Pulsar: Witnessing the Banquet of a Hidden Black Widow?
Replaced with the revised version accepted by MNRAS. Improved with a more extended discussion, conclusions unchanged
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13709.x
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We have performed a timing analysis of all the four X-ray outbursts from the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 observed so far by the PCA on board RXTE. For each of the outbursts we derived the best-fit value of the time of ascending node passage. We find that these times follow a parabolic trend, which gives an orbital period derivative $\dot P_{\rm orb} = (3.40 \pm 0.18) \times 10^{-12}$ s/s, and a refined estimate of the orbital period, $P_{\rm orb} = 7249.156499 \pm 1.8 \times 10^{-5}$ s (reference epoch $T_0 = 50914.8099$ MJD). This derivative is positive, suggesting a degenerate or fully convective companion star, but is more than one order of magnitude higher than what is expected from secular evolution driven by angular momentum losses caused by gravitational radiation under the hypothesis of conservative mass transfer. Using simple considerations on the angular momentum of the system, we propose an explanation of this puzzling result assuming that during X-ray quiescence the source is ejecting matter (and angular momentum) from the inner Lagrangian point. We have also verified that this behavior is in agreement with a possible secular evolution of the system under the hypothesis of highly non-conservative mass transfer. In this case, we find stringent constraints on the masses of the two components of the binary system and its inclination. The proposed orbital evolution indicates that in this kind of sources the neutron star is capable to efficiently ablate the companion star, suggesting that this kind of objects are part of the population of the so-called black widow pulsars, still visible in X-rays during transient mass accretion episodes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:26:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:37:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Di Salvo", "T.", "" ], [ "Burderi", "L.", "" ], [ "Riggio", "A.", "" ], [ "Papitto", "A.", "" ], [ "Menna", "M. T.", "" ] ]
0708.0499
David R. Hunter
David R. Hunter, Shaoli Wang, Thomas P. Hettmansperger
Inference for mixtures of symmetric distributions
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001118 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 224-251
10.1214/009053606000001118
IMS-AOS-AOS0160
math.ST stat.TH
null
This article discusses the problem of estimation of parameters in finite mixtures when the mixture components are assumed to be symmetric and to come from the same location family. We refer to these mixtures as semi-parametric because no additional assumptions other than symmetry are made regarding the parametric form of the component distributions. Because the class of symmetric distributions is so broad, identifiability of parameters is a major issue in these mixtures. We develop a notion of identifiability of finite mixture models, which we call k-identifiability, where k denotes the number of components in the mixture. We give sufficient conditions for k-identifiability of location mixtures of symmetric components when k=2 or 3. We propose a novel distance-based method for estimating the (location and mixing) parameters from a k-identifiable model and establish the strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimator. In the specific case of L_2-distance, we show that our estimator generalizes the Hodges--Lehmann estimator. We discuss the numerical implementation of these procedures, along with an empirical estimate of the component distribution, in the two-component case. In comparisons with maximum likelihood estimation assuming normal components, our method produces somewhat higher standard error estimates in the case where the components are truly normal, but dramatically outperforms the normal method when the components are heavy-tailed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:35:14 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Hunter", "David R.", "" ], [ "Wang", "Shaoli", "" ], [ "Hettmansperger", "Thomas P.", "" ] ]
0708.0500
Gunther Cornelissen
Gunther Cornelissen and Matilde Marcolli
Zeta functions that hear the shape of a Riemann surface
19 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1016/j.geomphys.2007.12.011
null
math.OA math.DG math.DS
null
To a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface, we associate a finitely summable spectral triple whose underlying topological space is the limit set of a corresponding Schottky group, and whose ``Riemannian'' aspect (Hilbert space and Dirac operator) encode the boundary action through its Patterson-Sullivan measure. We prove that the ergodic rigidity theorem for this boundary action implies that the zeta functions of the spectral triple suffice to characterize the (anti-)conformal isomorphism class of the corresponding Riemann surface. Thus, you can hear the shape of a Riemann surface, by listening to a suitable spectral triple.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:52:56 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Cornelissen", "Gunther", "" ], [ "Marcolli", "Matilde", "" ] ]
0708.0501
Charles Bonatto
Charles Bonatto, Eduardo Bica, Sergio Ortolani and Beatriz Barbuy
FSR1767 - a new globular cluster in the Galaxy
6 pages, 7 figures. MNRAS Letters, accepted
null
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00363.x
null
astro-ph
null
The globular cluster (GC) nature of the recently catalogued candidate FSR 1767 is established in the present work. It results as the closest GC so far detected in the Galaxy. The nature of this object is investigated by means of 2MASS colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), the stellar radial density profile (RDP) and proper-motions (PM). The properties are consistent with an intermediate metallicity ($\feh\approx-1.2$) GC with a well-defined turnoff (TO), red-giant branch (RGB) and blue horizontal-branch (HB). The distance of FSR 1767 from the Sun is $\ds\approx1.5$ kpc, and it is located at the Galactocentric distance $\rgc\approx5.7$ kpc. With the space velocity components $(V,W)=(184\pm14,-43\pm14)\rm km s^{-1}$, FSR 1767 appears to be a Palomar-like GC with $\mv\approx-4.7$, that currently lies $\approx57$ pc below the Galactic plane. The RDP is well represented by a King profile with the core and tidal radii $\rc=0.24\pm0.08$ pc and $\rt=3.1\pm1.0$ pc, respectively, with a small half-light radius $\rh=0.60\pm0.15$ pc. The optical absorption is moderate for an infrared GC, $A_V=6.2\pm0.3$, which together with its central direction and enhanced contamination explains why it has so far been overlooked.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:02:20 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bonatto", "Charles", "" ], [ "Bica", "Eduardo", "" ], [ "Ortolani", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Barbuy", "Beatriz", "" ] ]
0708.0502
Veronica Dexheimer
V. Dexheimer, S. Schramm, H. Stoecker
Neutron Stars in a Chiral Model with Finite Temperature
Proceeding to the conference Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics III Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
J.Phys.G35:014060,2008
10.1088/0954-3899/35/1/014060
null
astro-ph
null
Neutron star matter is investigated in a hadronic chiral model approach using the lowest flavor-SU(3) multiplets for baryons and mesons. The parameters are determined to yield consistent results for saturated nuclear matter as well as for finite nuclei. The influence of baryonic resonances is discussed. The global properties of a neutron star such as its mass and radius are determined. Proto-neutron star properties are studied by taking into account trapped neutrinos, temperature and entropy effects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:57:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 23 May 2008 14:16:34 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Dexheimer", "V.", "" ], [ "Schramm", "S.", "" ], [ "Stoecker", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.0503
Dag Tj{\o}stheim
Hans Arnfinn Karlsen, Terje Myklebust, Dag Tj{\o}stheim
Nonparametric estimation in a nonlinear cointegration type model
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001181 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 252-299
10.1214/009053606000001181
IMS-AOS-AOS0225
math.ST stat.TH
null
We derive an asymptotic theory of nonparametric estimation for a time series regression model $Z_t=f(X_t)+W_t$, where \ensuremath\{X_t\} and \ensuremath\{Z_t\} are observed nonstationary processes and $\{W_t\}$ is an unobserved stationary process. In econometrics, this can be interpreted as a nonlinear cointegration type relationship, but we believe that our results are of wider interest. The class of nonstationary processes allowed for $\{X_t\}$ is a subclass of the class of null recurrent Markov chains. This subclass contains random walk, unit root processes and nonlinear processes. We derive the asymptotics of a nonparametric estimate of f(x) under the assumption that $\{W_t\}$ is a Markov chain satisfying some mixing conditions. The finite-sample properties of $\hat{f}(x)$ are studied by means of simulation experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:11:49 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Karlsen", "Hans Arnfinn", "" ], [ "Myklebust", "Terje", "" ], [ "Tjøstheim", "Dag", "" ] ]
0708.0504
Kambiz Fathi
Silvia Toonen, Kambiz Fathi, Jes\'us Falc\'on-Barroso, John Beckman, Tim de Zeeuw
The pattern speeds of NGC 6946
To appear in the conference proceedings for "Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe", Editors: Johan H. Knapen, Terry J. Mahoney, and Alejandro Vazdekis
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We study the kinematics of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6946 by investigating the velocity field from H-alpha Fabry-Perot observations, determined the pattern speed of the bar by using the Tremaine-Weinberg method, and find a main pattern speed of 21.7 (+4.0,-0.8) km/s/kpc. Our data clearly suggest the presence of an additional pattern with a pattern speed more than twice that of the large pattern in this galaxy. We use the epicycle approximation to deduce the location of the resonance radii and subsequently determine the pattern speed between the radii, and find that inside the inner Inner Lindblad Resonance radius, a bar-like system has evolved.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:23:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:44:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:11:37 GMT" } ]
2008-01-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Toonen", "Silvia", "" ], [ "Fathi", "Kambiz", "" ], [ "Falcón-Barroso", "Jesús", "" ], [ "Beckman", "John", "" ], [ "de Zeeuw", "Tim", "" ] ]
0708.0505
Luca Di Gaspero PhD
Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Roli
A preliminary analysis on metaheuristics methods applied to the Haplotype Inference Problem
22 pages, 4 figures Technical Report: DEIS - Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna no. DEIS-LIA-006-07
null
null
DEIS-LIA-006-07
cs.AI cs.CE cs.DM q-bio.QM
null
Haplotype Inference is a challenging problem in bioinformatics that consists in inferring the basic genetic constitution of diploid organisms on the basis of their genotype. This information allows researchers to perform association studies for the genetic variants involved in diseases and the individual responses to therapeutic agents. A notable approach to the problem is to encode it as a combinatorial problem (under certain hypotheses, such as the pure parsimony criterion) and to solve it using off-the-shelf combinatorial optimization techniques. The main methods applied to Haplotype Inference are either simple greedy heuristic or exact methods (Integer Linear Programming, Semidefinite Programming, SAT encoding) that, at present, are adequate only for moderate size instances. We believe that metaheuristic and hybrid approaches could provide a better scalability. Moreover, metaheuristics can be very easily combined with problem specific heuristics and they can also be integrated with tree-based search techniques, thus providing a promising framework for hybrid systems in which a good trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency can be reached. In this paper we illustrate a feasibility study of the approach and discuss some relevant design issues, such as modeling and design of approximate solvers that combine constructive heuristics, local search-based improvement strategies and learning mechanisms. Besides the relevance of the Haplotype Inference problem itself, this preliminary analysis is also an interesting case study because the formulation of the problem poses some challenges in modeling and hybrid metaheuristic solver design that can be generalized to other problems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:49:21 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Di Gaspero", "Luca", "" ], [ "Roli", "Andrea", "" ] ]
0708.0506
Adonis Yatchew
Peter Hall, Adonis Yatchew
Nonparametric estimation when data on derivatives are available
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001127 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 300-323
10.1214/009053606000001127
IMS-AOS-AOS0164
math.ST stat.TH
null
We consider settings where data are available on a nonparametric function and various partial derivatives. Such circumstances arise in practice, for example in the joint estimation of cost and input functions in economics. We show that when derivative data are available, local averages can be replaced in certain dimensions by nonlocal averages, thus reducing the nonparametric dimension of the problem. We derive optimal rates of convergence and conditions under which dimension reduction is achieved. Kernel estimators and their properties are analyzed, although other estimators, such as local polynomial, spline and nonparametric least squares, may also be used. Simulations and an application to the estimation of electricity distribution costs are included.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:36:33 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Hall", "Peter", "" ], [ "Yatchew", "Adonis", "" ] ]
0708.0507
Christophe Magneville Dr
C. Magneville, J. P. Pansart
Notes on bias and covariance matrix of the angular power spectrum on small sky maps
55 pages, 20 figures
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We compute the effects induced by the use of small CMB maps on the measurement of the $\cl{l}$ coefficients of the angular power spectrum and show that small systematic effects have to be taken into account. We also compute numerically the cosmic variance and covariance of the $\cl{l}$ spectrum for various spherical cap like maps. Comparisons with simulations are presented. The calculations are done using the standard method based on the spherical harmonic transform or using the temperature angular correlation spectrum.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:06:30 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Magneville", "C.", "" ], [ "Pansart", "J. P.", "" ] ]
0708.0508
Samuel Bieri
Hugo Ribeiro, Samuel Bieri, Dmitri Ivanov
Single hole and vortex excitations in the doped Rokhsar-Kivelson quantum dimer model on the triangular lattice
4 pages, 4 figures; minor changes, replaced by published version
Phys. Rev. B 76, 172301 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.172301
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.other
null
We consider the doped Rokhsar-Kivelson quantum dimer model on the triangular lattice with one mobile hole (monomer) at the Rokhsar-Kivelson point. The motion of the hole is described by two branches of excitations: the hole may either move with or without a trapped Z2 vortex (vison). We perform a study of the hole dispersion in the limit where the hole hopping amplitude is much smaller than the interdimer interaction. In this limit, the hole without vison moves freely and has a tight-binding spectrum. On the other hand, the hole with a trapped vison is strongly constrained due to interference effects and can only move via higher-order virtual processes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:13:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:55:03 GMT" } ]
2007-12-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Ribeiro", "Hugo", "" ], [ "Bieri", "Samuel", "" ], [ "Ivanov", "Dmitri", "" ] ]
0708.0509
K. P.N. Murthy
M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar, S. L. Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy
Flat Energy histogram version for Interacting Growth Walk
4 pages; 6 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.soft
null
Interacting Growth Walks is a recently proposed stochastic model for studying the coil-globule transition of linear polymers. We propose a flat energy histogram version for Interacting Growth Walk. We demonstrate the algorithm on two dimensional square and triangular lattices by calculating the density of energy states of Interacting Self Avoiding Walks.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:02:21 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Ponmurugan", "M.", "" ], [ "Sridhar", "V.", "" ], [ "Narasimhan", "S. L.", "" ], [ "Murthy", "K. P. N.", "" ] ]
0708.0510
Stefania Scarsoglio
S. Scarsoglio, D. Tordella, W. O. Criminale
Transient and asymptotic behaviour of small three-dimensional perturbations applied to a growing wake
This paper has been withdrawn by the authors, as it has been rejected in November 2007.
null
null
null
physics.flu-dyn
null
This paper has been withdrawn by the authors, as it has been rejected in November 2007.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:06:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:59:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:14:37 GMT" } ]
2010-03-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Scarsoglio", "S.", "" ], [ "Tordella", "D.", "" ], [ "Criminale", "W. O.", "" ] ]
0708.0511
Holger Waalkens
Holger Waalkens, Roman Schubert, Stephen Wiggins
Wigner's Dynamical Transition State Theory in Phase Space: Classical and Quantum
132 pages, 31 figures, corrected version, Nonlinearity, 21 (2008) R1-R118
Nonlinearity, 21 (2008) R1-R118
10.1088/0951-7715/21/1/R01
null
nlin.CD
null
A quantum version of transition state theory based on a quantum normal form (QNF) expansion about a saddle-centre-...-centre equilibrium point is presented. A general algorithm is provided which allows one to explictly compute QNF to any desired order. This leads to an efficient procedure to compute quantum reaction rates and the associated Gamov-Siegert resonances. In the classical limit the QNF reduces to the classical normal form which leads to the recently developed phase space realisation of Wigner's transition state theory. It is shown that the phase space structures that govern the classical reaction d ynamicsform a skeleton for the quantum scattering and resonance wavefunctions which can also be computed from the QNF. Several examples are worked out explicitly to illustrate the efficiency of the procedure presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:13:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:35:26 GMT" } ]
2007-12-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Waalkens", "Holger", "" ], [ "Schubert", "Roman", "" ], [ "Wiggins", "Stephen", "" ] ]
0708.0512
Saul Jacka
Saul Jacka and Abdelkarem Berkaoui
On representing claims for coherent risk measures
47 pages
null
null
null
math.PR
null
We consider the problem of representing claims for coherent risk measures. For this purpose we introduce the concept of (weak and strong) time-consistency with respect to a portfolio of assets, generalizing the one defined by Delbaen. In a similar way we extend the notion of m-stability, by introducing weak and strong versions. We then prove that the two concepts of m-stability and time-consistency are still equivalent, thus giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a coherent risk measure to be represented by a market with proportional transaction costs. We go on to deduce that, under a separability assumption, any coherent risk measure is strongly time-consistent with respect to a suitably chosen countable portfolio, and show the converse: that any market with proportional transaction costs is equivalent to a market priced by a coherent risk measure, essentially establishing the equivalence of the two concepts.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:25:12 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Jacka", "Saul", "" ], [ "Berkaoui", "Abdelkarem", "" ] ]
0708.0513
Matthew Choptuik
Ignacio Olabarrieta, Jason F. Ventrella, Matthew W. Choptuik and W. G. Unruh
Critical Behavior in the Gravitational Collapse of a Scalar Field with Angular Momentum in Spherical Symmetry
10 pages, 8 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:124014,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.124014
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
We study the critical collapse of a massless scalar field with angular momentum in spherical symmetry. In order to mimic the effects of angular momentum we perform a sum of the stress-energy tensors for all the scalar fields with the same eigenvalue, l, of the angular momentum operator and calculate the equations of motion for the radial part of these scalar fields. We have found that the critical solutions for different values of l are discretely self-similar (as in the original l=0 case). The value of the discrete, self-similar period, Delta_l, decreases as l increases in such a way that the critical solution appears to become periodic in the limit. The mass scaling exponent, gamma_l, also decreases with l.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:32:12 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Olabarrieta", "Ignacio", "" ], [ "Ventrella", "Jason F.", "" ], [ "Choptuik", "Matthew W.", "" ], [ "Unruh", "W. G.", "" ] ]
0708.0514
Hugh R. Morton
H. R. Morton and N. Ryder
Invariants of genus 2 mutants
16 pages, 20 figures
J.Knot Theor.Ramifications 18:1423-1438,2009
10.1142/S0218216509007506
null
math.GT
null
Pairs of genus 2 mutant knots can have different Homfly polynomials, for example some 3-string satellites of Conway mutant pairs. We give examples which have different Kauffman 3-variable polynomials, answering a question raised by Dunfield et al in their study of genus 2 mutants. While pairs of genus 2 mutant knots have the same Jones polynomial, given from the Homfly polynomial by setting v=s^2, we give examples whose Homfly polynomials differ when v=s^3. We also give examples which differ in a Vassiliev invariant of degree 7, in contrast to satellites of Conway mutant knots.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:30:56 GMT" } ]
2009-12-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Morton", "H. R.", "" ], [ "Ryder", "N.", "" ] ]
0708.0515
Hugues Pothier
M.L. Della Rocca (QUANTRONICS), M. Chauvin (QUANTRONICS), B. Huard (QUANTRONICS), H. Pothier (QUANTRONICS), D. Esteve (QUANTRONICS), C. Urbina (QUANTRONICS)
Measurement of the current-phase relation of superconducting atomic contacts
to be published in Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 99, 12 (2007) 127005
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.127005
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We have probed the current-phase relation of an atomic contact placed with a tunnel junction in a small superconducting loop. The measurements are in quantitative agreement with the predictions of a resistively shunted SQUID model in which the Josephson coupling of the contact is calculated using the independently determined transmissions of its conduction channels.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:25:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:57:51 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Della Rocca", "M. L.", "", "QUANTRONICS" ], [ "Chauvin", "M.", "", "QUANTRONICS" ], [ "Huard", "B.", "", "QUANTRONICS" ], [ "Pothier", "H.", "", "QUANTRONICS" ], [ "Esteve", "D.", "", "QUANTRONICS" ], [ "Urbina", "C.", "", "QUANTRONICS" ] ]
0708.0516
Stefan Waldmann
Nikolai Neumaier and Stefan Waldmann
Deformation Quantization of Poisson Structures Associated to Lie Algebroids
null
SIGMA 5 (2009), 074, 29 pages
10.3842/SIGMA.2009.074
FR-THEP 2007/05
math.QA math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
In the present paper we explicitly construct deformation quantizations of certain Poisson structures on E^*, where E -> M is a Lie algebroid. Although the considered Poisson structures in general are far from being regular or even symplectic, our construction gets along without Kontsevich's formality theorem but is based on a generalized Fedosov construction. As the whole construction merely uses geometric structures of E we also succeed in determining the dependence of the resulting star products on these data in finding appropriate equivalence transformations between them. Finally, the concreteness of the construction allows to obtain explicit formulas even for a wide class of derivations and self-equivalences of the products. Moreover, we can show that some of our products are in direct relation to the universal enveloping algebra associated to the Lie algebroid. Finally, we show that for a certain class of star products on E^* the integration with respect to a density with vanishing modular vector field defines a trace functional.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:27:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:10:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:11:09 GMT" } ]
2009-07-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Neumaier", "Nikolai", "" ], [ "Waldmann", "Stefan", "" ] ]
0708.0517
Andreas Zeiser
Thorsten Rohwedder, Reinhold Schneider, Andreas Zeiser
Perturbed preconditioned inverse iteration for operator eigenvalue problems with applications to adaptive wavelet discretization
submitted to Adv. Comp. Math
null
null
null
math.NA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we discuss an abstract iteration scheme for the calculation of the smallest eigenvalue of an elliptic operator eigenvalue problem. A short and geometric proof based on the preconditioned inverse iteration (PINVIT) for matrices [Knyazev and Neymeyr, (2009)] is extended to the case of operators. We show that convergence is retained up to any tolerance if one only uses approximate applications of operators which leads to the perturbed preconditioned inverse iteration (PPINVIT). We then analyze the Besov regularity of the eigenfunctions of the Poisson eigenvalue problem on a polygonal domain, showing the advantage of an adaptive solver to uniform refinement when using a stable wavelet base. A numerical example for PPINVIT, applied to the model problem on the L-shaped domain, is shown to reproduce the predicted behaviour.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:57:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:54:35 GMT" } ]
2010-03-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Rohwedder", "Thorsten", "" ], [ "Schneider", "Reinhold", "" ], [ "Zeiser", "Andreas", "" ] ]
0708.0518
Stefan Adams
Stefan Adams, Tony Dorlas
C^*-algebraic approach to the Bose-Hubbard model
null
null
10.1063/1.2799349
null
math-ph math.MP
null
We give a new derivation of the variational formula for the pressure of the long-range-hopping Bose-Hubbard model, which was first proved in \cite{BD}. The proof is analogous to that of a theorem on noncommutative large deviations introduced by Petz, Raggio and Verbeure \cite{PRV} and could similarly be extended to more general Bose system of mean-field type. We apply this formalism to prove Bose-Einstein condensation for the case of small coupling.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:29:21 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Adams", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Dorlas", "Tony", "" ] ]
0708.0519
Jianwen Cai
Jianwen Cai, Jianqing Fan, Haibo Zhou, Yong Zhou
Hazard models with varying coefficients for multivariate failure time data
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001145 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 324-354
10.1214/009053606000001145
IMS-AOS-AOS0207
math.ST stat.TH
null
Statistical estimation and inference for marginal hazard models with varying coefficients for multivariate failure time data are important subjects in survival analysis. A local pseudo-partial likelihood procedure is proposed for estimating the unknown coefficient functions. A weighted average estimator is also proposed in an attempt to improve the efficiency of the estimator. The consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators are established and standard error formulas for the estimated coefficients are derived and empirically tested. To reduce the computational burden of the maximum local pseudo-partial likelihood estimator, a simple and useful one-step estimator is proposed. Statistical properties of the one-step estimator are established and simulation studies are conducted to compare the performance of the one-step estimator to that of the maximum local pseudo-partial likelihood estimator. The results show that the one-step estimator can save computational cost without compromising performance both asymptotically and empirically and that an optimal weighted average estimator is more efficient than the maximum local pseudo-partial likelihood estimator. A data set from the Busselton Population Health Surveys is analyzed to illustrate our proposed methodology.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:38:46 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Cai", "Jianwen", "" ], [ "Fan", "Jianqing", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Haibo", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Yong", "" ] ]
0708.0520
Armen Shirikyan
Armen Shirikyan
Euler equations are not exactly controllable by a finite-dimensional external force
12 pages
null
10.1016/j.physd.2008.03.021
null
math.AP math.OC
null
We show that the Euler system is not exactly controllable by a finite-dimensional external force. The proof is based on the comparison of the Kolmogorov epsilon-entropy for Holder spaces and for the class of functions that can be obtained by solving the 2D Euler equations with various right-hand sides.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:52:48 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Shirikyan", "Armen", "" ] ]
0708.0521
Frank Reifler
Frank Reifler and Randall Morris
Measuring a Kaluza-Klein radius smaller than the Planck length
null
Phys.Rev.D67:064006,2003
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.064006
null
gr-qc astro-ph quant-ph
null
Hestenes has shown that a bispinor field on a Minkowski space-time is equivalent to an orthonormal tetrad of one-forms together with a complex scalar field. More recently, the Dirac and Einstein equations were unified in a tetrad formulation of a Kaluza-Klein model which gives precisely the usual Dirac-Einstein Lagrangian. In this model, Dirac's bispinor equation is obtained in the limit for which the radius of higher compact dimensions of the Kaluza-Klein manifold becomes vanishingly small compared with the Planck length. For a small but finite radius, the Kaluza-Klein model predicts velocity splitting of single fermion wave packets. That is, the model predicts a single fermion wave packet will split into two wave packets with slightly different group velocities. Observation of such wave packet splits would determine the size of the Kaluza-Klein radius. If wave packet splits were not observed in experiments with currently achievable accuracies, the Kaluza-Klein radius would be at least twenty five orders of magnitude smaller than the Planck length.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:15:13 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Reifler", "Frank", "" ], [ "Morris", "Randall", "" ] ]
0708.0522
Konstantin Avrachenkov
Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis), Vivek Borkar, Danil Nemirovsky (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
Quasi-stationary distributions as centrality measures of reducible graphs
null
null
null
null
cs.NI
null
Random walk can be used as a centrality measure of a directed graph. However, if the graph is reducible the random walk will be absorbed in some subset of nodes and will never visit the rest of the graph. In Google PageRank the problem was solved by introduction of uniform random jumps with some probability. Up to the present, there is no clear criterion for the choice this parameter. We propose to use parameter-free centrality measure which is based on the notion of quasi-stationary distribution. Specifically we suggest four quasi-stationary based centrality measures, analyze them and conclude that they produce approximately the same ranking. The new centrality measures can be applied in spam detection to detect ``link farms'' and in image search to find photo albums.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:19:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:32:44 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Avrachenkov", "Konstantin", "", "INRIA Sophia Antipolis" ], [ "Borkar", "Vivek", "", "INRIA Sophia Antipolis" ], [ "Nemirovsky", "Danil", "", "INRIA Sophia Antipolis" ] ]
0708.0523
Nikolai M. Chtchelkatchev
N.M. Chtchelkatchev and I.S. Burmistrov
Energy relaxation in the spin-polarized disordered electron liquid
null
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206804 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.206804
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
The energy relaxation in the spin-polarized disordered electron systems is studied in the diffusive regime. We derived the quantum kinetic equation in which the kernel of electron-electron collision integral explicitly depends on the electron magnetization. As the consequence, the inelastic scattering rate is found to have non-monotonic dependence on the spin polarization of the electron system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:34:40 GMT" } ]
2009-04-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Chtchelkatchev", "N. M.", "" ], [ "Burmistrov", "I. S.", "" ] ]
0708.0524
Albert Furrer
A. Furrer
Admixture of an s-wave component to the d-wave gap symmetry in high-temperature superconductors
14 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in J. Supercond. Nov. Magn
J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. (2008) 21: 1-5
10.1007/s10948-007-0236-5
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
null
Neutron crystal-field spectroscopy experiments in the Y- and La-type high-temperature superconductors HoBa2Cu3O6.56, HoBa2Cu4O8, and La1.81Sr0.15Ho0.04CuO4 are reviewed. By this bulk-sensitive technique, information on the gap function is obtained from the relaxation behavior of crystal-field transitions associated with the Ho3+ ions which sit as local probes close to the superconducting copper-oxide planes. The relaxation data exhibit a peculiar change from a convex to a concave shape between the superconducting transition temperature Tc and the pseudogap temperature T* which can only be modelled satisfactorily if the gap function of predominantly d-wave symmetry includes an s-wave component of the order of 20-25%, independent of the doping level. Moreover, our results are compatible with an unusual temperature dependence of the gap function in the pseudogap region (Tc<T<T*), i.e., a breakup of the Fermi surface into disconnected arcs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:35:36 GMT" } ]
2008-01-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Furrer", "A.", "" ] ]
0708.0525
Giampiero Esposito Dr.
Alfio Bonanno, Giampiero Esposito, Claudio Rubano, Paolo Scudellaro
Noether symmetry approach to scalar-field-dominated cosmology with dynamically evolving G and Lambda
10 pages, Revtex4
Int.J.Geom.Meth.Mod.Phys.5:329-337,2008
10.1142/S0219887808002801
null
gr-qc
null
This paper studies the cosmological equations for a scalar field Phi in the framework of a quantum gravity modified Einstein--Hilbert Lagrangian where G and Lambda are dynamical variables. It is possible to show that there exists a Noether symmetry for the point Lagrangian describing this scheme in a FRW universe. Our main result is that the Noether Symmetry Approach fixes both Lambda = Lambda(G) and the potential V = V(Phi) of the scalar field. The method does not lead, however, to easily solvable equations, by virtue of the higher dimensionality of the reduced configuration space involved, the additional variable being the running Newton coupling.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:35:37 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bonanno", "Alfio", "" ], [ "Esposito", "Giampiero", "" ], [ "Rubano", "Claudio", "" ], [ "Scudellaro", "Paolo", "" ] ]
0708.0526
Walter V. Pogosov
M. Combescot, W. V. Pogosov
Microscopic derivation of Frenkel excitons in second quantization
16 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. B 77, 085206 (2008).
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.085206
null
cond-mat.other
null
Starting from the microscopic hamiltonian describing free electrons in a periodic lattice, we derive the hamiltonian appropriate to Frenkel excitons. This is done through a grouping of terms different from the one leading to Wannier excitons. This grouping makes appearing the atomic states as a relevant basis to describe Frenkel excitons in the second quantization. Using them, we derive the Frenkel exciton creation operators as well as the commutators which rule these operators and which make the Frenkel excitons differing from elementary bosons. The main goal of the present paper is to provide the necessary grounds for future works on Frenkel exciton many-body effects, with the composite nature of these particles treated exactly through a procedure similar to the one we have recently developed for Wannier excitons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:41:41 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Combescot", "M.", "" ], [ "Pogosov", "W. V.", "" ] ]
0708.0527
Ralf Bundschuh
Ralf Bundschuh and Robijn Bruinsma
Melting of Branched RNA Molecules
4 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.148101
null
q-bio.BM cond-mat.stat-mech
null
Stability of the branching structure of an RNA molecule is an important condition for its function. In this letter we show that the melting thermodynamics of RNA molecules is very sensitive to their branching geometry for the case of a molecule whose groundstate has the branching geometry of a Cayley Tree and whose pairing interactions are described by the Go model. Whereas RNA molecules with a linear geometry melt via a conventional continuous phase transition with classical exponents, molecules with a Cayley Tree geometry are found to have a free energy that seems smooth, at least within our precision. Yet, we show analytically that this free energy in fact has a mathematical singularity at the stability limit of the ordered structure. The correlation length appears to diverge on the high-temperature side of this singularity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:44:50 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bundschuh", "Ralf", "" ], [ "Bruinsma", "Robijn", "" ] ]
0708.0528
Andrew D. Rutenberg
Jun F. Allard and Andrew D. Rutenberg
Steady-state MreB helices inside bacteria: dynamics without motors
7 figures, 1 table
Phys. Rev. E vol.76, 031916 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031916
null
q-bio.SC
null
Within individual bacteria, we combine force-dependent polymerization dynamics of individual MreB protofilaments with an elastic model of protofilament bundles buckled into helical configurations. We use variational techniques and stochastic simulations to relate the pitch of the MreB helix, the total abundance of MreB, and the number of protofilaments. By comparing our simulations with mean-field calculations, we find that stochastic fluctuations are significant. We examine the quasi-static evolution of the helical pitch with cell growth, as well as timescales of helix turnover and denovo establishment. We find that while the body of a polarized MreB helix treadmills towards its slow-growing end, the fast-growing tips of laterally associated protofilaments move towards the opposite fast-growing end of the MreB helix. This offers a possible mechanism for targeted polar localization without cytoplasmic motor proteins.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:14:54 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Allard", "Jun F.", "" ], [ "Rutenberg", "Andrew D.", "" ] ]
0708.0529
Bernd Ammann
Bernd Ammann (IECN), Pierre Jammes (LANLG)
The supremum of conformally covariant eigenvalues in a conformal class
null
Variational Problems in Differential Geometry, Proceedings of a Conference in Leeds on the occasion of J. Woods 60th birthday, Leeds 2009, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series 394, 1-23 (2011)
10.1017/CBO9780511863219.002
null
math.DG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension >2. We show that there is a metric h conformal to g and of volume 1 such that the first positive eigenvalue the conformal Laplacian with repect to h is arbitrarily large. A similar statement is proven for the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a spin manifold of dimension >1.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:08:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:37:35 GMT" } ]
2015-10-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Ammann", "Bernd", "", "IECN" ], [ "Jammes", "Pierre", "", "LANLG" ] ]
0708.0530
Bogus{\l}aw Broda
Bogus{\l}aw Broda, Piotr Bronowski, Marcin Ostrowski and Micha{\l} Szanecki
Vacuum driven accelerated expansion
11 pages, 2 figures, minor improvements, final preprint version, published version: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120847180/abstract, devoted to the memory of professor Ryszard Raczka on the occasion of the 11th anniversary of his death
Annalen Phys.17:855-863,2008
10.1002/andp.200810314
null
gr-qc astro-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has been shown that an improved estimation of quantum vacuum energy can yield not only acceptable but also experimentally sensible results. The very idea consists in a straightforward extraction of gravitationally interacting part of the full quantum vacuum energy by means of gauge transformations. The implementation of the idea has been performed in the formalism of effective action, in the language of Schwinger's proper time and the Seeley-DeWitt heat kernel expansion, in the background of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometry.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:12:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:59:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:10:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:35:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:40:36 GMT" } ]
2008-12-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Broda", "Bogusław", "" ], [ "Bronowski", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Ostrowski", "Marcin", "" ], [ "Szanecki", "Michał", "" ] ]
0708.0531
Sylvie Paycha
Sylvie Paycha
Discrete sums of classical symbols on Z^d and zeta functions associated with Laplacians on tori
null
null
null
null
math.SP math.CO
null
We prove the uniqueness of a translation invariant extension to non integer order classical symbols of the ordinary discrete sum on $L^1$-symbols, which we then describe using an Hadamard finite part procedure for sums over integer points of infinite unions of nested convex polytopes in $\R^d$. This canonical regularised sum is the building block to construct meromorphic extensions of the ordinary sum on holomorphic symbols. Explicit formulae for the complex residues at their poles are given in terms of noncommutative residues of classical symbols, thus extending results of Guillemin, Sternberg and Weitsman. These formulae are then applied to zeta functions associated with quadratic forms and with Laplacians on tori.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:13:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:20:11 GMT" } ]
2008-03-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Paycha", "Sylvie", "" ] ]
0708.0532
Margarita Otero
Margarita Otero (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid) and Ya'acov Peterzil (University of Haifa)
G-linear sets and torsion points in definably compact groups
17 pages
null
null
null
math.LO
null
Let G be a definably compact group in an o-minimal expansion of a real closed field. We prove that if dim(G X) < dim G for some definable X subset of G then X contains a torsion point of G. Along the way we develop a general theory for so-called G-linear sets, and investigate definable sets which contain abstract subgroups of G.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:23:33 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Otero", "Margarita", "", "Universidad Autónoma de Madrid" ], [ "Peterzil", "Ya'acov", "", "University of Haifa" ] ]
0708.0533
Anna Gallazzi
Anna Gallazzi (1,2), Jarle Brinchmann (3), Stephane Charlot (4,2), Simon D.M. White (2) ((1)MPIA, Heidelberg, (2)MPA, Garching, (3)CAUP, Porto, (4) IAP, Paris)
A census of metals and baryons in stars in the local Universe
replaced with accepted version, minor changes, references added
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12632.x
null
astro-ph
null
We combine stellar metallicity and stellar mass estimates for a large sample of galaxies drawn from the SDSS DR2 spanning wide ranges in physical properties, in order to derive an inventory of the total mass of metals and baryons locked up in stars today. Physical parameter estimates are derived from galaxy spectra with high S/N (>20). Coadded spectra of galaxies with similar velocity dispersions, absolute r-band magnitudes and 4000\AA-break values are used for those regions of parameter space where individual spectra have lower S/N. We estimate the total density of metals and of baryons in stars and, from these two quantities, we obtain a mass- and volume-averaged stellar metallicity of <Z_star>=1.04+-0.14 Z_sun, i.e. consistent with solar. We also study how metals are distributed in galaxies according to their mass, morphology and age, and we then compare these distributions with the corresponding distributions of stellar mass. We find that the bulk of metals locked up in stars in the local Universe reside in massive, bulge-dominated galaxies, with red colours and high 4000\AA-break values corresponding to old stellar populations. Bulge-dominated and disc-dominated galaxies contribute similar amounts to the total stellar mass density, but have different fractional contributions to the mass density of metals in stars, in agreement with the mass-metallicity relation. Bulge-dominated galaxies contain roughly 40% of the total amount of metals in stars, while disc-dominated galaxies less than 25%. Finally, at a given galaxy stellar mass, we define two characteristic ages as the median of the distributions of mass and metals as a function of age. These characteristic ages decrease progressively from high-mass to low-mass galaxies, consistent with the high formation epochs of stars in massive galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:24:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:50:40 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Gallazzi", "Anna", "" ], [ "Brinchmann", "Jarle", "" ], [ "Charlot", "Stephane", "" ], [ "White", "Simon D. M.", "" ] ]
0708.0534
Tiziana Di Salvo Dr.
A. Riggio, T. Di Salvo, L. Burderi, R. Iaria, A. Papitto, T. Menna, G. Lavagetto
Precise determination of orbital parameters in system with slowly drifting phases: application to the case of XTE J1807-294
14 pages, including 6 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. Accepted 2007 September 12. Received 2007 September 12; in original form 2007 February 22
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12470.x
null
astro-ph
null
We describe a timing technique that allows to obtain precise orbital parameters of an accreting millisecond pulsar in those cases in which intrinsic variations of the phase delays (caused e.g. by proper variation of the spin frequency) with characteristic timescale longer than the orbital period do not allow to fit the orbital parameters over a long observation (tens of days). We show under which conditions this method can be applied and show the results obtained applying this method to the 2003 outburst observed by RXTE of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 which shows in its phase delays a non-negligible erratic behavior. We refined the orbital parameters of XTE J1807-294 using all the 90 days in which the pulsation is strongly detected and the method applicable. In this way we obtain the orbital parameters of the source with a precision more than one order of magnitude better than the previous available orbital solution, a precision obtained to date, on accreting millisecond pulsars, only for XTE J1807-294 analyzing several outbursts spanning over seven years and with a much better statistics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:29:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Riggio", "A.", "" ], [ "Di Salvo", "T.", "" ], [ "Burderi", "L.", "" ], [ "Iaria", "R.", "" ], [ "Papitto", "A.", "" ], [ "Menna", "T.", "" ], [ "Lavagetto", "G.", "" ] ]
0708.0535
Paolo Tozzi
Paolo Tozzi
X-ray emission from Clusters of Galaxies
8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the "Memorie della SAIt", proceedings of the "LI congresso della Societa' Astronomica Italiana", Firenze, April 17-20 2007
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
In the last eight years, the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites changed significantly our view of X-ray clusters of galaxies. In particular, several complex phenomena have been directly observed: interactions between cluster galaxies and the Intra Cluster Medium (ICM), cold fronts in the ICM, hot bubbles due to relativistic jets from radio loud AGN, the lack of cold gas in ``cool-cores'', and non-thermal X-ray emission. Still, this increasing complexity does not prevent us from using X-ray clusters as a tool to constrain cosmological parameters. In addition, observations of clusters up to redshift ~1.3 allowed us to trace the thermodynamical and chemical evolution of the ICM on a time interval as large as 8 Gyr. In this presentation, I will give a personal introduction to the most debated topics in this field, to end with some prospects for the next-generation X-ray satellites.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:29:18 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Tozzi", "Paolo", "" ] ]
0708.0536
Dimitris N. Politis
Tucker McElroy, Dimitris N. Politis
Stable marked point processes
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001163 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 393-419
10.1214/009053606000001163
IMS-AOS-AOS0213
math.ST stat.TH
null
In many contexts such as queuing theory, spatial statistics, geostatistics and meteorology, data are observed at irregular spatial positions. One model of this situation involves considering the observation points as generated by a Poisson process. Under this assumption, we study the limit behavior of the partial sums of the marked point process $\{(t_i,X(t_i))\}$, where X(t) is a stationary random field and the points t_i are generated from an independent Poisson random measure $\mathbb{N}$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We define the sample mean and sample variance statistics and determine their joint asymptotic behavior in a heavy-tailed setting, thus extending some finite variance results of Karr [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 18 (1986) 406--422]. New results on subsampling in the context of a marked point process are also presented, with the application of forming a confidence interval for the unknown mean under an unknown degree of heavy tails.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:39:29 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "McElroy", "Tucker", "" ], [ "Politis", "Dimitris N.", "" ] ]
0708.0537
Florian Enescu
Ian M. Aberbach, Florian Enescu
Lower bounds for Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities in local rings of fixed dimension
14 pages, to appear in Michigan Math Journal; a number of corrections were performed according to the referee's comments, including a weakening of Corollary 3.10 which led to a small change in the lower bound in Theorem 4.12
null
null
null
math.AC
null
Let $(R,\m)$ be a formally unmixed local ring of positive prime characteristic and dimension $d$. We examine the implications of having small Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity (i.e., close to 1). In particular, we show that if $R$ is not regular, there exists a lower bound, strictly greater than one, depending only on $d$, for its Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:40:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:36:41 GMT" } ]
2008-04-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Aberbach", "Ian M.", "" ], [ "Enescu", "Florian", "" ] ]
0708.0538
Neil Nicholson
Neil R. Nicholson
An invariant for flat virtual knots
null
null
null
null
math.GT
null
The paper has been withdrawn by the author, due to a critical error stemming from the defined template.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:48:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:31:46 GMT" } ]
2007-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Nicholson", "Neil R.", "" ] ]
0708.0539
Luis Gregorio Dias da Silva
Luis G. Dias da Silva, Nancy Sandler, Kevin Ingersent, Sergio E. Ulloa
Transmission in double quantum dots in the Kondo regime: Quantum-critical transitions and interference effects
4 pages, 3 figures; Submitted to Physica E (EP2DS-17 proceedings, oral presentation), updated Refs
Physica E 40 1002-1005 (2008).
10.1016/j.physe.2007.08.098
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
We study the transmission through a double quantum-dot system in the Kondo regime. An exact expression for the transmission coefficient in terms of fully interacting many-body Green's functions is obtained. By mapping the system into an effective Anderson impurity model, one can determine the transmission using numerical renormalization-group methods. The transmission exhibits signatures of the different Kondo regimes of the effective model, including an unusual Kondo phase with split peaks in the spectral function, as well as a pseudogapped regime exhibiting a quantum critical transition between Kondo and unscreened phases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:48:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:47:10 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "da Silva", "Luis G. Dias", "" ], [ "Sandler", "Nancy", "" ], [ "Ingersent", "Kevin", "" ], [ "Ulloa", "Sergio E.", "" ] ]
0708.0540
M\'elin R\'egis
S. Sahling, J.C. Lasjaunias, R. M\'elin, P. Monceau, G. Rem\'enyi
Equilibrium Low Temperature Heat Capacity of the Spin Density Wave compound (TMTTF)2 Br: effect of a Magnetic Field
10 pages, 11 figures
Eur. Phys. J. B 59 (2007) 9-17
10.1140/epjb/e2007-00262-8
null
cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We have investigated the effect of the magnetic field (B) on the very low-temperature equilibrium heat capacity ceq of the quasi-1 D organic compound (TMTTF)2Br, characterized by a commensurate Spin Density Wave (SDW) ground state. Below 1K, ceq is dominated by a Schottky-like contribution, very sensitive to the experimental time scale, a property that we have previously measured in numerous DW compounds. Under applied field (in the range 0.2- 7 T), the equilibrium dynamics, and hence ceq extracted from the time constant, increases enormously. For B = 2-3 T, ceq varies like B2, in agreement with a magnetic Zeeman coupling. Another specific property, common to other Charge/Spin density wave (DW) compounds, is the occurrence of metastable branches in ceq, induced at very low temperature by the field exceeding a critical value. These effects are discussed within a generalization to SDWs in a magnetic field of the available Larkin-Ovchinnikov local model of strong pinning. A limitation of the model when compared to experiments is pointed out.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:51:17 GMT" } ]
2007-10-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Sahling", "S.", "" ], [ "Lasjaunias", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Mélin", "R.", "" ], [ "Monceau", "P.", "" ], [ "Reményi", "G.", "" ] ]
0708.0541
Vera Mikyoung Hur
Vera Mikyoung Hur, Zhiwu Lin
Unstable surface waves in running water
61 pages. Revised
null
null
null
math.AP
null
We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for a general class of shear flows with inflection points and the maximal unstable wave number is found. Comparison to the rigid-wall setting testifies that free surface has a destabilizing effect. For a class of unstable shear flows, the bifurcation of nontrivial periodic traveling waves of small-amplitude is demonstrated at any wave number. We show the linear instability of small nontrivial waves bifurcated at an unstable wave number of the background shear flow. The proof uses a new formulation of the linearized water-wave problem and a perturbation argument. An example of the background shear flow of unstable small-amplitude periodic traveling waves is constructed for an arbitrary vorticity strength and for an arbitrary depth, illustrating that vorticity has a subtle influence on the stability of water waves.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:53:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:04:17 GMT" } ]
2007-11-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Hur", "Vera Mikyoung", "" ], [ "Lin", "Zhiwu", "" ] ]
0708.0542
Ren\'e Gaudoin
R. Gaudoin, J.M. Pitarke
Hellman-Feynman operator sampling in Diffusion Monte Carlo calculations
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.126406
null
cond-mat.other
null
Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations typically yield highly accurate results in solid-state and quantum-chemical calculations. However, operators that do not commute with the Hamiltonian are at best sampled correctly up to second order in the error of the underlying trial wavefunction, once simple corrections have been applied. This error is of the same order as that for the energy in variational calculations. Operators that suffer from these problems include potential energies and the density. This paper presents a new method, based on the Hellman-Feynman theorem, for the correct DMC sampling of all operators diagonal in real space. Our method is easy to implement in any standard DMC code.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:22:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gaudoin", "R.", "" ], [ "Pitarke", "J. M.", "" ] ]
0708.0543
G. Khaliullin
J. Chaloupka, G. Khaliullin
Spin polaron theory for the photoemission spectra of layered cobaltates
4 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256406 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.256406
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Recently, strong reduction of the quasiparticle peaks and pronounced incoherent structures have been observed in the photoemission spectra of layered cobaltates. Surprisingly, these many-body effects are found to increase near the band insulator regime. We explain these unexpected observations in terms of a novel spin-polaron model for CoO_2 planes which is based on a fact of the spin-state quasidegeneracy of Co^{3+} ions in oxides. Scattering of the photoholes on spin-state fluctuations suppresses their coherent motion. The observed ``peak-dip-hump'' type lineshapes are well reproduced by the theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:59:58 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chaloupka", "J.", "" ], [ "Khaliullin", "G.", "" ] ]
0708.0544
Miquel Montero
Miquel Montero
Perpetual American options within CTRW's
elsart, 12 pages, 2 figures, presented at APFA 6 conference; Revised and condensed version: 8 pages
Physica A 387 (2008) 3936-3941
10.1016/j.physa.2008.01.054
null
q-fin.PR physics.soc-ph
null
Continuous-time random walks are a well suited tool for the description of market behaviour at the smallest scale: the tick-to-tick evolution. We will apply this kind of market model to the valuation of perpetual American options: derivatives with no maturity that can be exercised at any time. Our approach leads to option prices that fulfil financial formulas when canonical assumptions on the dynamics governing the process are made, but it is still suitable for more exotic market conditions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:10:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:39:26 GMT" } ]
2008-12-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Montero", "Miquel", "" ] ]
0708.0545
Dmitry Novikov
M. Garst, D. S. Novikov, Ady Stern, L. I. Glazman
Critical conductance of a one-dimensional doped Mott insulator
13 pages, 3 figures. Published version
Phys. Rev. B 77, 035128 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.035128
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
We consider the two-terminal conductance of a one-dimensional Mott insulator undergoing the commensurate-incommensurate quantum phase transition to a conducting state. We treat the leads as Luttinger liquids. At a specific value of compressibility of the leads, corresponding to the Luther-Emery point, the conductance can be described in terms of the free propagation of non-interacting fermions with charge e/\sqrt{2}. At that point, the temperature dependence of the conductance across the quantum phase transition is described by a Fermi function. The deviation from the Luther-Emery point in the leads changes the temperature dependence qualitatively. In the metallic state, the low-temperature conductance is determined by the properties of the leads, and is described by the conventional Luttinger liquid theory. In the insulating state, conductance occurs via activation of e/\sqrt{2} charges, and is independent of the Luttinger liquid compressibility.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:13:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:11:00 GMT" } ]
2008-01-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Garst", "M.", "" ], [ "Novikov", "D. S.", "" ], [ "Stern", "Ady", "" ], [ "Glazman", "L. I.", "" ] ]
0708.0546
Hartmut Weiss
Frank Pfaeffle, Hartmut Weiss
The Laplacian on hyperbolic 3-manifolds with Dehn surgery type singularities
Minor corrections, Proof of Theorem 5.1 shortened
Comm. Anal. Geom. 17 (2009), no. 3, 505--528
null
null
math.DG math.SP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the spectrum of the Laplacian on hyperbolic 3-manifolds with Dehn surgery type singularities and its dependence on the generalized Dehn surgery coefficients.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:32:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:44:15 GMT" } ]
2009-10-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Pfaeffle", "Frank", "" ], [ "Weiss", "Hartmut", "" ] ]
0708.0547
Abdelouahab Kenoufi
Abdelouahab Kenoufi, Michel Gondran
Complex Faraday's Tensor for the Born-Infeld Theory
4 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
In this letter, we reconsider the Born-Infeld approach by replacing the Faraday field-strength tensor by a complex one in the lagrangian density. We show that an extension of the least action principle to complex-valued lagrangian densities permits us to understand why experiments have never exhibited nonlinear Born-Infeld effects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:43:39 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Kenoufi", "Abdelouahab", "" ], [ "Gondran", "Michel", "" ] ]
0708.0548
Eduardo Candelario-Jalil
E. Candelario-Jalil, R. S. Akundi, H. S. Bhatia, K. Lieb, K. Appel, E. Munoz, M. Hull, B. L. Fiebich
Ascorbic acid enhances the inhibitory effect of aspirin on neuronal cyclooxygenase-2-mediated prostaglandin E2 production
null
Journal of Neuroimmunology 174(1-2): 39-51 (2006)
null
null
q-bio.SC q-bio.MN
null
In the present study, we show that ascorbic acid dose-dependently inhibited interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta)-mediated PGE2 synthesis in the human neuronal cell line, SK-N-SH. Furthermore, in combination with aspirin, ascorbic acid augmented the inhibitory effect of aspirin on PGE2 synthesis. However, ascorbic acid had no synergistic effect along with other COX inhibitors (SC-58125 and indomethacin). The inhibition of IL-1beta-mediated PGE2 synthesis by ascorbic acid was not due to the inhibition of the expression of COX-2 or microsomal prostaglandin E synthase (mPGES-1). Rather, ascorbic acid dose-dependently (0.1-100 microM) produced a significant reduction in IL-1beta-mediated production of 8-iso-prostaglandin F2alpha (8-iso-PGF2alpha), a reliable indicator of free radical formation, suggesting that the effects of ascorbic acid on COX-2-mediated PGE2 biosynthesis may be the result of the maintenance of the neuronal redox status since COX activity is known to be enhanced by oxidative stress. Our results provide in vitro evidence that the neuroprotective effects of ascorbic acid may depend, at least in part, on its ability to reduce neuronal COX-2 activity and PGE2 synthesis, owing to its antioxidant properties. Further, these experiments suggest that a combination of aspirin with ascorbic acid constitutes a novel approach to render COX-2 more sensitive to inhibition by aspirin, allowing an anti-inflammatory therapy with lower doses of aspirin, thereby avoiding the side effects of the usually high dose aspirin treatment.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:46:53 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Candelario-Jalil", "E.", "" ], [ "Akundi", "R. S.", "" ], [ "Bhatia", "H. S.", "" ], [ "Lieb", "K.", "" ], [ "Appel", "K.", "" ], [ "Munoz", "E.", "" ], [ "Hull", "M.", "" ], [ "Fiebich", "B. L.", "" ] ]