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0708.1749
Nils Bluemer
N. Bl\"umer
Efficiency of quantum Monte Carlo impurity solvers for dynamical mean-field theory
6 pages, 9 figures; minor changes; version accepted for PRB
Phys. Rev. B 76, 205120 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.205120
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Since the inception of the dynamical mean-field theory, numerous numerical studies have relied on the Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo (HF-QMC) method for solving the associated impurity problem. Recently developed continuous-time algorithms (CT-QMC) avoid the Trotter discretization error and allow for faster configuration updates, which makes them candidates for replacing HF-QMC. We demonstrate, however, that a state-of-the-art implementation of HF-QMC (with extrapolation of discretization delta_tau -> 0) is competitive with CT-QMC. A quantitative analysis of Trotter errors in HF-QMC estimates and of appropriate delta_tau values is included.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:23:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:44:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:38:43 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Blümer", "N.", "" ] ]
0708.1750
Yidong Chong
Y. D. Chong and Marin Soljacic
Dark-State Polaritons in Single- and Double-$\Lambda$ Media
7 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. A 77, 013823 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.013823
null
physics.atom-ph
null
We derive the properties of polaritons in single-$\Lambda$ and double-$\Lambda$ media using a microscopic equation-of-motion technique. In each case, the polaritonic dispersion relation and composition arise from a matrix eigenvalue problem for arbitrary control field strengths. We show that the double-$\Lambda$ medium can be used to up- or down-convert single photons while preserving quantum coherence. The existence of a dark-state polariton protects this single-photon four-wave mixing effect against incoherent decay of the excited atomic states. The efficiency of this conversion is limited mainly by the sample size and the lifetime of the metastable state.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:25:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:14:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:55:35 GMT" } ]
2008-03-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Chong", "Y. D.", "" ], [ "Soljacic", "Marin", "" ] ]
0708.1751
Yonatan Dubi
Y. Dubi, Y. Meir, Y. Avishai
Superconducting islands, phase fluctuations and the superconductor-insulator transition
Contribution to the proceedings of "Fluctuations and phase transitions in superconductors", Nazareth Ilit, Israel, June 10-14, 2007
null
10.1016/j.physc.2007.08.031
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.dis-nn
null
Properties of disordered thin films are discussed based on the viewpoint that superconducting islands are formed in the system. These lead to superconducting correlations confined in space, which are known to form spontaneously in thin films. Application of a perpendicular magnetic field can drive the system from the superconducting state (characterized by phase-rigidity between the sample edges) to an insulating state in which there are no phase-correlations between the edges of the system. On the insulating side the existence of superconducting islands leads to a non-monotonic magnetoresistance. Several other features seen in experiment are explained.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:36:46 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dubi", "Y.", "" ], [ "Meir", "Y.", "" ], [ "Avishai", "Y.", "" ] ]
0708.1752
Floor van Leeuwen
F. van Leeuwen
Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction
12 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astron.Astrophys.474:653-664,2007
10.1051/0004-6361:20078357
null
astro-ph
null
Context.A new reduction of the astrometric data as produced by the Hipparcos mission has been published, claiming accuracies for nearly all stars brighter than magnitude Hp = 8 to be better, by up to a factor 4, than in the original catalogue. Aims.The new Hipparcos astrometric catalogue is checked for the quality of the data and the consistency of the formal errors as well as the possible presence of error correlations. The differences with the earlier publication are explained. Methods. The internal errors are followed through the reduction process, and the external errors are investigated on the basis of a comparison with radio observations of a small selection of stars, and the distribution of negative parallaxes. Error correlation levels are investigated and the reduction by more than a factor 10 as obtained in the new catalogue is explained. Results.The formal errors on the parallaxes for the new catalogue are confirmed. The presence of a small amount of additional noise, though unlikely, cannot be ruled out. Conclusions. The new reduction of the Hipparcos astrometric data provides an improvement by a factor 2.2 in the total weight compared to the catalogue published in 1997, and provides much improved data for a wide range of studies on stellar luminosities and local galactic kinematics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:42:42 GMT" } ]
2010-04-06T00:00:00
[ [ "van Leeuwen", "F.", "" ] ]
0708.1753
Marcello Rotondo
The BABAR Collaboration: B. Aubert, et al
Measurement of the $B^0\to X_{u}^- \ell^+ {\nu_\ell} $ decays near the kinematic endpoint of the lepton spectrum and search for violation of isospin symmetry
17 pages, 8 postscript figures, submitted to Lepton Photon 2007
null
null
BABAR-CONF-07/008, SLAC-PUB-12740
hep-ex
null
We present the first measurement of the $B^0\to X_{u}^- \ell^+ {\nu_\ell} $ partial branching fraction in the end-point region of the lepton momentum spectrum, above the threshold for $B\to X_c\ell {\nu_\ell}$ decays. The analysis is based on a sample of 383 million $\Upsilon(4S)$ decays into $B{\bar B}$ pairs collected with the {\sc BaBar} detector at the PEP-II $e^+e^-$ storage rings. We select $B^0{\bar B}^0$ events by partially reconstructing one $\B$ meson via the ${\bar B}^0\to D^{*+} \ell^- \bar{\nu}_\ell$ decays then select $B^0\to X_{u}^- \ell^+ {\nu_\ell} $ decays identifying a second high momentum lepton. In the momentum interval ranging from 2.3 to 2.6 GeV/c we measure the partial branching fraction $\Delta{\cal B}(B^0\to X_u\ell\nu)=(1.30\pm0.21_{stat}\pm0.07_{syst})\times 10^{-4}$ where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. By comparing this measurement with the one obtained from untagged B decays we obtain $R^{+/0}=\Delta{\cal B}(B^0\to X_u\ell\nu)/\Delta{\cal B}(B^+\to X_u\ell\nu)= 1.18 \pm 0.35_{stat} \pm 0.17_{syst}$. Using this measurement we extract a limit on the contributions from processes breaking isospin symmetry in charmless semileptonic B decays.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:44:03 GMT" } ]
2007-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "The BABAR Collaboration", "", "" ], [ "Aubert", "B.", "" ] ]
0708.1754
Hong-fei Wang
De-sheng Zheng, Yuan Wang, An-an Liu, and Hong-fei Wang
Treatment of Linear and Nonlinear Dielectric Property of Molecular Monolayer and Submonolayer with Microscopic Dipole Lattice Model: I. Second Harmonic Generation and Sum-Frequency Generation
23 pages, 3 figures
International Reviews in Physical Chemistry,27, 629-664, 2008
10.1080/01442350802343981
null
physics.chem-ph physics.optics
null
In the currently accepted models of the nonlinear optics, the nonlinear radiation was treated as the result of an infinitesimally thin polarization sheet layer, and a three layer model was generally employed. The direct consequence of this approach is that an apriori dielectric constant, which still does not have a clear definition, has to be assigned to this polarization layer. Because the Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) and the Sum-Frequency Generation vibrational Spectroscopy (SFG-VS) have been proven as the sensitive probes for interfaces with the submonolayer coverage, the treatment based on the more realistic discrete induced dipole model needs to be developed. Here we show that following the molecular optics theory approach the SHG, as well as the SFG-VS, radiation from the monolayer or submonolayer at an interface can be rigorously treated as the radiation from an induced dipole lattice at the interface. In this approach, the introduction of the polarization sheet is no longer necessary. Therefore, the ambiguity of the unaccounted dielectric constant of the polarization layer is no longer an issue. Moreover, the anisotropic two dimensional microscopic local field factors can be explicitly expressed with the linear polarizability tensors of the interfacial molecules. Based on the planewise dipole sum rule in the molecular monolayer, crucial experimental tests of this microscopic treatment with SHG and SFG-VS are discussed. Many puzzles in the literature of surface SHG and SFG spectroscopy studies can also be understood or resolved in this framework. This new treatment may provide a solid basis for the quantitative analysis in the surface SHG and SFG studies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:45:42 GMT" } ]
2016-08-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Zheng", "De-sheng", "" ], [ "Wang", "Yuan", "" ], [ "Liu", "An-an", "" ], [ "Wang", "Hong-fei", "" ] ]
0708.1755
Donald Sprung
D. W. L. Sprung, L. W. A. Vanderspek, W. Van Dijk, J. Martorell and C. Pacher
Biperiodic superlattices and the transparent state
12 pages, 10 figures Version 2: improved figures using colour, and some small improvements in the text, in response to referee comments Version 3: incorporates changes which arose in proofs stage
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.035333
null
quant-ph
null
Coquelin et al. studied biperiodic semiconductor superlattices, which consist of alternating cell types, one with wide wells and the other narrow wells, separated by equal strength barriers. If the wells were identical, it would be a simply periodic system of $N = 2n$ half-cells. When asymmetry is introduced, an allowed band splits at the Bragg point into two disjoint allowed bands. The Bragg resonance turns into a transparent state located close to the band edge of the lower(upper) band when the first(second) well is the wider. Analysis of this system gives insight into how band splitting occurs. Further we consider semi-periodic systems having $N= 2n+1$ half-cells. Surprisingly these have very different transmission properties, with an envelope of maximum transmission probability that crosses the envelope of minima at the transparent point.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:47:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:09:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:44:59 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sprung", "D. W. L.", "" ], [ "Vanderspek", "L. W. A.", "" ], [ "Van Dijk", "W.", "" ], [ "Martorell", "J.", "" ], [ "Pacher", "C.", "" ] ]
0708.1756
Alfonsi Aurelien
Aur\'elien Alfonsi (CERMICS), Antje Fruth, Alexander Schied
Optimal execution strategies in limit order books with general shape functions
null
null
null
null
q-fin.TR math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider optimal execution strategies for block market orders placed in a limit order book (LOB). We build on the resilience model proposed by Obizhaeva and Wang (2005) but allow for a general shape of the LOB defined via a given density function. Thus, we can allow for empirically observed LOB shapes and obtain a nonlinear price impact of market orders. We distinguish two possibilities for modeling the resilience of the LOB after a large market order: the exponential recovery of the number of limit orders, i.e., of the volume of the LOB, or the exponential recovery of the bid-ask spread. We consider both of these resilience modes and, in each case, derive explicit optimal execution strategies in discrete time. Applying our results to a block-shaped LOB, we obtain a new closed-form representation for the optimal strategy, which explicitly solves the recursive scheme given in Obizhaeva and Wang (2005). We also provide some evidence for the robustness of optimal strategies with respect to the choice of the shape function and the resilience-type.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:11:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:43:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:18:25 GMT" } ]
2010-02-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Alfonsi", "Aurélien", "", "CERMICS" ], [ "Fruth", "Antje", "" ], [ "Schied", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0708.1757
Rachelle DeCoste
Rachelle C. DeCoste
The multiplicity of weights in nonprimitive pairs of weights
25 pages
null
null
null
math.RT
null
For each type of classical Lie algebra, we list the dominant highest weights $\zeta$ for which $(\zeta;\mu_i)$ is not a primitive pair and the weight space $V_{\mu_i}$ has dimension one where $\mu_i$ are the highest long and short roots in each case. These dimension one weight spaces lead to examples of nilmanifolds for which we cannot prove or disprove the density of closed geodesics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:14:46 GMT" } ]
2007-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "DeCoste", "Rachelle C.", "" ] ]
0708.1758
Xiaobing Feng Dr.
Xiaobing Feng and Michael Neilan
Vanishing moment method and moment solutions for second order fully nonlinear partial differential equations
24 pages and 30 figures
null
null
null
math.NA math.AP
null
This paper concerns with numerical approximations of solutions of second order fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). A new notion of weak solutions, called moment solutions, is introduced for second order fully nonlinear PDEs. Unlike viscosity solutions, moment solutions are defined by a constructive method, called vanishing moment method, hence, they can be readily computed by existing numerical methods such as finite difference, finite element, spectral Galerkin, and discontinuous Galerkin methods with "guaranteed" convergence. The main idea of the proposed vanishing moment method is to approximate a second order fully nonlinear PDE by a higher order, in particular, a fourth order quasilinear PDE. We show by various numerical experiments the viability of the proposed vanishing moment method. All our numerical experiments show the convergence of the vanishing moment method, and they also show that moment solutions coincide with viscosity solutions whenever the latter exist.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:06:03 GMT" } ]
2007-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Feng", "Xiaobing", "" ], [ "Neilan", "Michael", "" ] ]
0708.1759
Gintaras Duda
Gintaras Duda and Katherine Garrett
Blogging in the physics classroom: A research-based approach to shaping students' attitudes towards physics
20 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1119/1.2967707
null
physics.ed-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Even though there has been a tremendous amount of research done in how to help students learn physics, students are still coming away missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: why bother with physics? Students learn fundamental laws and how to calculate, but come out of a general physics course without a deep understanding of how physics has transformed the world around them. In other words, they get the "how" but not the "why". Studies have shown that students leave introductory physics courses almost universally with decreased expectations and with a more negative attitude. This paper will detail an experiment to address this problem: a course weblog or "blog" which discusses real-world applications of physics and engages students in discussion and thinking outside of class. Specifically, students' attitudes towards the value of physics and its applicability to the real-world were probed using a 26-question Likert scale survey over the course of four semesters in an introductory physics course at a comprehensive Jesuit university. We found that students who did not participate in the blog study generally exhibited a deterioration in attitude towards physics as seen previously. However, students who read, commented, and were involved with the blog maintained their initially positive attitudes towards physics. Student response to the blog was overwhelmingly positive, with students claiming that the blog made the things we studied in the classroom come alive for them and seem much more relevant.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:25:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:50:07 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Duda", "Gintaras", "" ], [ "Garrett", "Katherine", "" ] ]
0708.1760
Michael K. -H. Kiessling
Michael K.-H. Kiessling and A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh
On the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system
Preprint of published version. Several typos in the previous version have been corrected
Indiana Univ. Math. J. vol. 57, pp. 3177-3207 (2009)
null
null
math-ph math.AP math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Cauchy problem is revisited for the so-called relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system in the attractive case. Global existence and uniqueness of spherical classical solutions is proved under weaker assumptions than previously used. A new class of blowing up solutions is found when these conditions are violated. A new, non-gravitational physical vindication of the model which (unlike the gravitational one) is not restricted to weak fields, is also given.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:33:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:07:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:04:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:37:39 GMT" } ]
2009-02-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Kiessling", "Michael K. -H.", "" ], [ "Tahvildar-Zadeh", "A. Shadi", "" ] ]
0708.1761
Smita Mathur
Smita Mathur, Fabrizio Nicastro and Rik J. Williams
Lost Baryons at Low Redshift
To appear in the proceedings of IAU 244 "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J. Davis and M. Disney, Eds
null
10.1017/S1743921307013816
null
astro-ph
null
We review our attempts to discover lost baryons at low redshift with ``X-ray forest'' of absorption lines from the warm-hot intergalactic medium. We discuss the best evidence to date along the Mrk 421 sightline. We then discuss the missing baryons in the Local Group and the significance of the z=0 absorption systems in X-ray spectra. We argue that the debate over the Galactic vs. extragalactic origin of the z=0 systems is premature as these systems likely contain both components. Observations with next generation X-ray missions such as Constellation-X and XEUS will be crucial to map out the warm-hot intergalactic medium.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:45:58 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Mathur", "Smita", "" ], [ "Nicastro", "Fabrizio", "" ], [ "Williams", "Rik J.", "" ] ]
0708.1762
Niklas Beisert
N. Beisert, F. Spill
The Classical r-matrix of AdS/CFT and its Lie Bialgebra Structure
31 pages, v2: added comment on classical double structure in 4.5. new section 5 on relation to other algebras (from old appendix and new results). fixed typos and mathematical inaccuracies, added references, v3: improved mathematical presentation, to appear in CMP
Commun.Math.Phys.285:537-565,2009
10.1007/s00220-008-0578-2
AEI-2007-116, HU-EP-07/31
hep-th math.QA nlin.SI
null
In this paper we investigate the algebraic structure of AdS/CFT in the strong-coupling limit. We propose an expression for the classical r-matrix with (deformed) u(2|2) symmetry, which leads to a quasi-triangular Lie bialgebra as the underlying symmetry algebra. On the fundamental representation our r-matrix coincides with the classical limit of the quantum R-matrix.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:54:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:50:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:06 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Beisert", "N.", "" ], [ "Spill", "F.", "" ] ]
0708.1763
Saibal Mitra
Saibal Mitra
Exact asymptotics of the characteristic polynomial of the symmetric Pascal matrix
Version accepted by JCTA. Introduction rewritten
JCTA 116 (2009) 30-43
10.1016/j.jcta.2008.04.004
null
math-ph cond-mat.stat-mech math.MP
null
We have obtained the exact asymptotics of the determinant $\det_{1\leq r,s\leq L}[\binom{r+s-2}{r-1}+\exp(i\theta)\delta_{r,s}]$. Inverse symbolic computing methods were used to obtain exact analytical expressions for all terms up to relative order $L^{-14}$ to the leading term. This determinant is known to give weighted enumerations of cyclically symmetric plane partitions, weighted enumerations of certain families of vicious walkers and it has been conjectured to be proportional to the one point function of the O$(1)$ loop model on a cylinder of circumference $L$. We apply our result to the loop model and give exact expressions for the asymptotics of the average of the number of loops surrounding a point and the fluctuation in this number. For the related bond percolation model, we give exact expressions for the asymptotics of the probability that a point is on a cluster that wraps around a cylinder of even circumference and the probability that a point is on a cluster spanning a cylinder of odd circumference.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:17:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 8 Jan 2008 01:58:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 1 May 2008 00:41:48 GMT" } ]
2008-11-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Mitra", "Saibal", "" ] ]
0708.1764
Ingo Thies
Ingo Thies, Pavel Kroupa (Argelander-Institut f\"ur Astronomie, Bonn)
A discontinuity in the low-mass initial mass function
14 pages, 11 figures, uses emulateapj.cls. Minor corrections and 1 reference added after being accepted by the ApJ
ApJ 671, 767-780 (2007)
10.1086/522512
null
astro-ph
null
The origin of brown dwarfs (BDs) is still an unsolved mystery. While the standard model describes the formation of BDs and stars in a similar way recent data on the multiplicity properties of stars and BDs show them to have different binary distribution functions. Here we show that proper treatment of these uncovers a discontinuity of the multiplicity-corrected mass distribution in the very-low-mass star (VLMS) and BD mass regime. A continuous IMF can be discarded with extremely high confidence. This suggests that VLMSs and BDs on the one hand, and stars on the other, are two correlated but disjoint populations with different dynamical histories. The analysis presented here suggests that about one BD forms per five stars and that the BD-star binary fraction is about 2%-3% among stellar systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:00:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:59:15 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Thies", "Ingo", "", "Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn" ], [ "Kroupa", "Pavel", "", "Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn" ] ]
0708.1765
Akihisa Koga
Akihisa Koga, Norio Kawakami, Robert Peters and Thomas Pruschke
Quantum phase transitions in the extended periodic Anderson model
8 pages, 8 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.045120
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We investigate quantum phase transitions in the extended periodic Anderson model, which includes electron correlations within and between itinerant and localized bands. We calculate zero and finite temperature properties of the system using the combination of dynamical mean-field theory and the numerical renormalization group. At half filling, a phase transition between a Mott insulating state and a Kondo insulating state occurs in the strong coupling regime. We furthermore find that a metallic state is stabilized in the weak coupling regime. This state should be adiabatically connected to the orbital selective Mott state with one orbital localized and the other itinerant. The effect of hole doping is also addressed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:00:21 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Koga", "Akihisa", "" ], [ "Kawakami", "Norio", "" ], [ "Peters", "Robert", "" ], [ "Pruschke", "Thomas", "" ] ]
0708.1766
David S. N. Rupke
David S. N. Rupke, Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland), and Andrew J. Baker (Rutgers)
The Oxygen Abundances of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
To appear in 1 Dec 2007 issue of ApJ; 23 pages, 13 figures
null
10.1086/522363
null
astro-ph
null
Luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs) dominate the star formation rate budget of the universe at z > 1, yet no local measurements of their heavy element abundances exist. We measure nuclear or near-nuclear oxygen abundances in a sample of 100 star-forming LIRGs and ULIRGs using new, previously published, and archival spectroscopy of strong emission lines (including [O II] 3727, 3729 A) in galaxies with redshifts <z> ~ 0.1. When compared to local emission-line galaxies of similar luminosity and mass (using the near-infrared luminosity-metallicity and mass-metallicity relations), we find that LIRGs and ULIRGs are under-abundant by a factor of two on average. As a corollary, LIRGs and ULIRGs also have smaller effective yields. We conclude that the observed under-abundance results from the combination of a decrease of abundance with increasing radius in the progenitor galaxies and strong, interaction- or merger-induced gas inflow into the galaxy nucleus. This conclusion demonstrates that local abundance scaling relations are not universal, a fact that must be accounted for when interpreting abundances earlier in the universe's history when merger-induced star formation was the dominant mode. We use our local sample to compare to high-redshift samples and assess abundance evolution in LIRGs and ULIRGs. We find that abundances in these systems increased by ~0.2 dex from z ~ 0.6 to z ~ 0.1. Evolution from z ~ 2 submillimeter galaxies to z ~ 0.1 ULIRGs also appears to be present, though uncertainty due to spectroscopic limitations is large.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:00:26 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Rupke", "David S. N.", "", "Maryland" ], [ "Veilleux", "Sylvain", "", "Maryland" ], [ "Baker", "Andrew J.", "", "Rutgers" ] ]
0708.1767
Yong-Zhong Qian
Y.-Z. Qian, G. J. Wasserburg
Where, oh where has the r-process gone?
52 pages including figures
Phys.Rept.442:237-268,2007
10.1016/j.physrep.2007.02.006
null
astro-ph
null
We present a review of the possible sources for r-process nuclei. It is known that there is as yet no self-consistent mechanism to provide abundant neutrons for a robust r-process in the neutrino-driven winds from nascent neutron stars. We consider that the heavy r-nuclei with mass numbers A>130 (Ba and above) cannot be produced in the neutrino-driven winds. Nonetheless, the r-process and the neutrino-driven winds may be directly or indirectly related by some unknown additional mechanism, which, for example, could provide ejecta with very short dynamic timescales of <0.004 s. This undetermined mechanism must supply a neutron source within the same general stellar sites that undergo core collapse to produce the neutron star. Observational data on low-metallicity stars in the Galactic halo show that sites producing the heavy r-nuclei do not produce Fe or any other elements between N and Ge. Insofar as a forming neutron star is key to producing the heavy r-nuclei, then the only possible sources are supernovae resulting from collapse of O-Ne-Mg cores or accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs, neither of which produce the elements of the Fe group or those of intermediate mass (above C and N). Using a template star with high enrichments of heavy r-nuclei and another with low enrichments we develop a two-component model based on the abundances of Eu (from sources for heavy r-nuclei) and Fe (from Fe core-collapse supernovae). This model gives very good quantitative predictions for the abundances of all the other elements in those metal-poor stars with [Fe/H]<-1.5 for which the Eu and Fe abundances are known. (Abridged)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:16:30 GMT" } ]
2010-11-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Qian", "Y. -Z.", "" ], [ "Wasserburg", "G. J.", "" ] ]
0708.1768
Alexander Ushakov
Jonathan Longrigg and Alexander Ushakov
Cryptanalysis of shifted conjugacy authentication protocol
8 pages
null
null
null
math.GR cs.CR
null
In this paper we present the first practical attack on the shifted conjugacy-based authentication protocol proposed by P. Dehornoy. We discuss the weaknesses of that primitive and propose ways to improve the protocol.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:11:59 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Longrigg", "Jonathan", "" ], [ "Ushakov", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0708.1769
Piotr Bizon
Piotr Bizo\'n, Tadeusz Chmaj, Andrzej Rostworowski
Anomalously small wave tails in higher dimensions
13 pages
Phys.Rev.D76:124035,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.124035
null
gr-qc
null
We consider the late-time tails of spherical waves propagating on even-dimensional Minkowski spacetime under the influence of a long range radial potential. We show that in six and higher even dimensions there exist exceptional potentials for which the tail has an anomalously small amplitude and fast decay. Along the way we clarify and amend some confounding arguments and statements in the literature of the subject.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:18:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bizoń", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Chmaj", "Tadeusz", "" ], [ "Rostworowski", "Andrzej", "" ] ]
0708.1770
Subhaneil Lahiri
Sayantani Bhattacharyya, Subhaneil Lahiri, R. Loganayagam and Shiraz Minwalla
Large rotating AdS black holes from fluid mechanics
62 pages, 1 figure. v2: references, typos
JHEP 0809:054,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/054
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to argue that large rotating black holes in global AdS(D) spaces are dual to stationary solutions of the relativistic Navier-Stokes equations on S**(D-2). Reading off the equation of state of this fluid from the thermodynamics of non-rotating black holes, we proceed to construct the nonlinear spinning solutions of fluid mechanics that are dual to rotating black holes. In all known examples, the thermodynamics and the local stress tensor of our solutions are in precise agreement with the thermodynamics and boundary stress tensor of the spinning black holes. Our fluid dynamical description applies to large non-extremal black holes as well as a class of large non-supersymmetric extremal black holes, but is never valid for supersymmetric black holes. Our results yield predictions for the thermodynamics of all large black holes in all theories of gravity on AdS spaces, for example, string theory on AdS(5) x S**5 and M theory on AdS(4) x S**7 and AdS(7) x S**4.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:20:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:02:44 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Bhattacharyya", "Sayantani", "" ], [ "Lahiri", "Subhaneil", "" ], [ "Loganayagam", "R.", "" ], [ "Minwalla", "Shiraz", "" ] ]
0708.1771
John Armstrong
John C. Armstrong, Shane L. Larson and Rhett R. Zollinger
Specific Angular Momentum of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
17 Pages, 4 Figures
null
null
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
As the number of known planetary systems increases, the ability to follow-up and characterize the extent of any system becomes limited. This paper considers the use of specific angular momentum as a metric to prioritize future observations. We analyze 431 planets in 367 known extrasolar planetary systems from Butler et al. (2006) (including updates to their online catalog, current to April, 2011) and estimate each system's orbital angular momentum. The range of partition- ing of specific angular momentum in these systems is found to be large, spanning several orders of magnitude. The analysis shows that multi-planet systems tend to have the highest values of specific angular momentum normalized against the planetary masses. This suggests that in high angular momentum systems, the dominant contributors have already been discovered, and that single-planet sys- tems with low observed angular momentum may be the most likely candidates for additional undiscovered companions compared to their high angular momentum, single-planet counterparts. The multi-planet system, GJ 581, is considered as a historical case study to demonstrate the concept, examining how the specific angular momentum of the know planetary system evolved with each discovery.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:42:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:58:32 GMT" } ]
2011-09-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Armstrong", "John C.", "" ], [ "Larson", "Shane L.", "" ], [ "Zollinger", "Rhett R.", "" ] ]
0708.1772
Mithat Unsal
Mithat Unsal
Abelian duality, confinement, and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD(adj)
4 pages
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:032005,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.032005
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
null
We analyze the vacuum structure of SU(2) QCD with multiple massless adjoint representation fermions formulated on a small spatial $S^1 \times \R^3$. The absence of thermal fluctuations, and the fact that quantum fluctuations favoring the vacuum with unbroken center symmetry in a weakly coupled regime renders the interesting dynamics of these theories analytically calculable. Confinement, the area law behavior for large Wilson loops, and the generation of the mass gap in the gluonic sector are shown analytically. By abelian duality transformation, the long distance effective theory of QCD is mapped into an amalgamation of $d=3$ dimensional Sine-Gordon and NJL models. The duality necessitates going to IR first. In this regime, theory exhibits confinement without continuous chiral symmetry breaking. However, a flavor singlet chiral condensate (which breaks a discrete chiral symmetry) persists at arbitrarily small $S^1$. Under the reasonable assumption that the theory on $\R^4$ exhibits chiral symmetry breaking, there must exist a zero temperature chiral phase transition in the absence of any change in spatial center symmetry realizations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:00:19 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Unsal", "Mithat", "" ] ]
0708.1773
Anton Zeitlin
Anton M. Zeitlin
Homotopy Lie Superalgebra in Yang-Mills Theory
LaTeX2e, 10 pages
JHEP 0709:068,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/068
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP math.QA
null
The Yang-Mills equations are formulated in the form of generalized Maurer-Cartan equations, such that the corresponding algebraic operations are shown to satisfy the defining relations of homotopy Lie superalgebra.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:45:09 GMT" } ]
2009-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Zeitlin", "Anton M.", "" ] ]
0708.1774
Peter Hislop
F. Ghribi, P. D. Hislop, F. Klopp
Localization for Schrodinger operators with random vector potentials
null
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP math.SP
null
We prove Anderson localization at the internal band-edges for periodic magnetic Schr{\"o}dinger operators perturbed by random vector potentials of Anderson-type. This is achieved by combining new results on the Lifshitz tails behavior of the integrated density of states for random magnetic Schr{\"o}dinger operators, thereby providing the initial length-scale estimate, and a Wegner estimate, for such models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:50:14 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Ghribi", "F.", "" ], [ "Hislop", "P. D.", "" ], [ "Klopp", "F.", "" ] ]
0708.1775
Brenda Matthews
Brenda C. Matthews (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada), James R. Graham, Marshall D. Perrin, Paul Kalas (UC Berkeley, U.S.A.)
The Molecular Gas Environment around Two Herbig Ae/Be Stars: Resolving the Outflows of LkHa 198 and LkHa 225S
14 pages, 10 figures (5 color), accepted for publication in ApJ
null
10.1086/522336
null
astro-ph
null
Observations of outflows associated with pre-main-sequence stars reveal details about morphology, binarity and evolutionary states of young stellar objects. We present molecular line data from the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array and Five Colleges Radio Astronomical Observatory toward the regions containing the Herbig Ae/Be stars LkHa 198 and LkHa 225S. Single dish observations of 12CO 1-0, 13CO 1-0, N2H+ 1-0 and CS 2-1 were made over a field of 4.3' x 4.3' for each species. 12CO data from FCRAO were combined with high resolution BIMA array data to achieve a naturally-weighted synthesized beam of 6.75'' x 5.5'' toward LkHa 198 and 5.7'' x 3.95'' toward LkHa 225S, representing resolution improvements of factors of approximately 10 and 5 over existing data. By using uniform weighting, we achieved another factor of two improvement. The outflow around LkHa 198 resolves into at least four outflows, none of which are centered on LkHa 198-IR, but even at our resolution, we cannot exclude the possibility of an outflow associated with this source. In the LkHa 225S region, we find evidence for two outflows associated with LkHa 225S itself and a third outflow is likely driven by this source. Identification of the driving sources is still resolution-limited and is also complicated by the presence of three clouds along the line of sight toward the Cygnus molecular cloud. 13CO is present in the environments of both stars along with cold, dense gas as traced by CS and (in LkHa 225S) N2H+. No 2.6 mm continuum is detected in either region in relatively shallow maps compared to existing continuum observations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:51:38 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Matthews", "Brenda C.", "", "Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada" ], [ "Graham", "James R.", "", "UC Berkeley, U.S.A." ], [ "Perrin", "Marshall D.", "", "UC Berkeley, U.S.A." ], [ "Kalas", "Paul", "", "UC Berkeley, U.S.A." ] ]
0708.1776
Steven N. Evans
Steven N. Evans
Spectra of random linear combinations of matrices defined via representations and Coxeter generators of the symmetric group
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP418 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Probability 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2, 726-741
10.1214/08-AOP418
IMS-AOP-AOP418
math.PR math.RT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the asymptotic behavior as $n\to\infty$ of the spectra of random matrices of the form \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{n-1}}\sum_{k=1}^{n-1}Z_{nk}\rho_n ((k,k+1)),\] where for each $n$ the random variables $Z_{nk}$ are i.i.d. standard Gaussian and the matrices $\rho_n((k,k+1))$ are obtained by applying an irreducible unitary representation $\rho_n$ of the symmetric group on $\{1,2,...,n\}$ to the transposition $(k,k+1)$ that interchanges $k$ and $k+1$ [thus, $\rho_n((k,k+1))$ is both unitary and self-adjoint, with all eigenvalues either +1 or -1]. Irreducible representations of the symmetric group on $\{1,2,...,n\}$ are indexed by partitions $\lambda_n$ of $n$. A consequence of the results we establish is that if $\lambda_{n,1}\ge\lambda_{n,2}\ge...\ge0$ is the partition of $n$ corresponding to $\rho_n$, $\mu_{n,1}\ge\mu_{n,2}\ge >...\ge0$ is the corresponding conjugate partition of $n$ (i.e., the Young diagram of $\mu_n$ is the transpose of the Young diagram of $\lambda_n$), $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\lambda_{n,i}}{n}=p_i$ for each $i\ge1$, and $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\mu_{n,j}}{n}=q_j$ for each $j\ge1$, then the spectral measure of the resulting random matrix converges in distribution to a random probability measure that is Gaussian with random mean $\theta Z$ and variance $1-\theta^2$, where $\theta$ is the constant $\sum_ip_i^2-\sum_jq_j^2$ and $Z$ is a standard Gaussian random variable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:51:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:34:24 GMT" } ]
2009-06-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Evans", "Steven N.", "" ] ]
0708.1777
De-en Jiang
De-en Jiang, Sheng Dai
Electronic Ground State of Higher Acenes
revised: corrected some errors, rephrased some discussions, and added a reference (Ref. 29); 19 pages, 6 figures
J. Phys. Chem. A, 112, 332 (2008)
10.1021/jp0765087
null
physics.chem-ph physics.comp-ph
null
We examine the electronic ground state of acenes with different number of fused benzene rings (up to 40) by using first principles density functional theory. Their properties are compared with those of infinite polyacene. We find that the ground state of acenes that consist of more than seven fused benzene rings is an antiferromagnetic (in other words, open-shell singlet) state, and we show that this singlet is not necessarily a diradical, because the spatially separated magnetizations for the spin-up and spin-down electrons increase with the size of the acene. For example, our results indicate that there are about four spin-up electrons localized at one zigzag edge of 20-acene. The reason that both acenes and polyacene have the antiferromagnetic ground state is due to the zigzag-shaped boundaries, which cause pi-electrons to localize and form spin orders at the edges. Both wider graphene ribbons and large rectangular-shaped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have been shown to share this antiferromagnetic ground state. Therefore, we demonstrate that the pi-electronic structure of higher acenes and ployacene are still dictated by the zigzag edges, and our results provide a consistent description of their electronic ground state.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:00:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:01:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 18 May 2008 15:19:40 GMT" } ]
2008-05-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Jiang", "De-en", "" ], [ "Dai", "Sheng", "" ] ]
0708.1778
Yejun Feng
Yejun Feng, R. Jaramillo, G. Srajer, J. C. Lang, Z. Islam, M. S. Somayazulu, O. G. Shpyrko, J. J. Pluth, H.-k. Mao, E. D. Isaacs, G. Aeppli and T. F. Rosenbaum
Pressure-Tuned Spin and Charge Ordering in an Itinerant Antiferromagnet
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.137201
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Elemental chromium orders antiferromagnetically near room temperature, but the ordering temperature can be driven to zero by applying large pressures. We combine diamond anvil cell and synchrotron x-ray diffraction techniques to measure directly the spin and charge order in the pure metal at the approach to its quantum critical point. Both spin and charge order are suppressed exponentially with pressure, well beyond the region where disorder cuts off such a simple evolution, and they maintain a harmonic scaling relationship over decades in scattering intensity. By comparing the development of the order parameter with that of the magnetic wavevector, it is possible to ascribe the destruction of antiferromagnetism to the growth in electron kinetic energy relative to the underlying magnetic exchange interaction.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:27:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Feng", "Yejun", "" ], [ "Jaramillo", "R.", "" ], [ "Srajer", "G.", "" ], [ "Lang", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Islam", "Z.", "" ], [ "Somayazulu", "M. S.", "" ], [ "Shpyrko", "O. G.", "" ], [ "Pluth", "J. J.", "" ], [ "Mao", "H. -k.", "" ], [ "Isaacs", "E. D.", "" ], [ "Aeppli", "G.", "" ], [ "Rosenbaum", "T. F.", "" ] ]
0708.1779
Aleksandr N. Pinzul
A. P. Balachandran, A. Pinzul and B. A. Qureshi
Twisted Poincar\'e Invariant Quantum Field Theories
17 pages, JHEP style
Phys.Rev.D77:025021,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.025021
SU-4252-860
hep-th math-ph math.MP math.QA
null
It is by now well known that the Poincar\'e group acts on the Moyal plane with a twisted coproduct. Poincar\'e invariant classical field theories can be formulated for this twisted coproduct. In this paper we systematically study such a twisted Poincar\'e action in quantum theories on the Moyal plane. We develop quantum field theories invariant under the twisted action from the representations of the Poincar\'e group, ensuring also the invariance of the S-matrix under the twisted action of the group . A significant new contribution here is the construction of the Poincar\'e generators using quantum fields.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:57 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Balachandran", "A. P.", "" ], [ "Pinzul", "A.", "" ], [ "Qureshi", "B. A.", "" ] ]
0708.1780
Dean Lee J
Bugra Borasoy, Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Mei{\ss}ner
Two-particle scattering on the lattice: Phase shifts, spin-orbit coupling, and mixing angles
28 pages, 11 figures, journal version
Eur.Phys.J.A34:185-196,2007
10.1140/epja/i2007-10500-9
null
nucl-th hep-lat physics.atom-ph
null
We determine two-particle scattering phase shifts and mixing angles for quantum theories defined with lattice regularization. The method is suitable for any nonrelativistic effective theory of point particles on the lattice. In the center-of-mass frame of the two-particle system we impose a hard spherical wall at some fixed large radius. For channels without partial-wave mixing the partial-wave phase shifts are determined from the energies of the nearly-spherical standing waves. For channels with partial-wave mixing further information is extracted by decomposing the standing wave at the wall boundary into spherical harmonics, and we solve coupled-channels equations to extract the phase shifts and mixing angles. The method is illustrated and tested by computing phase shifts and mixing angles on the lattice for spin-1/2 particles with an attractive Gaussian potential containing both central and tensor force parts.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:00:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:06:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Borasoy", "Bugra", "" ], [ "Epelbaum", "Evgeny", "" ], [ "Krebs", "Hermann", "" ], [ "Lee", "Dean", "" ], [ "Meißner", "Ulf-G.", "" ] ]
0708.1781
Eduardo Candelario-Jalil
A. Gonzalez-Falcon, E. Candelario-Jalil, M. Garcia-Cabrera, O. S. Leon
Effects of pyruvate administration on infarct volume and neurological deficits following permanent focal cerebral ischemia in rats
null
Brain Research 990(1-2): 1-7 (2003)
null
null
q-bio.TO
null
Recent experimental evidences indicate that pyruvate, the final metabolite of glycolysis, has a remarkable protective effect against different types of brain injury. The purpose of this study was to assess the neuroprotective effect and the neurological outcome after pyruvate administration in a model of ischemic stroke induced by permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (pMCAO) in rats. Three doses of pyruvate (250, 500 and 1000 mg/kg, i.p.) or vehicle were administered intraperitoneally 30 min after pMCAO. In other set of experiments, pyruvate was given either before, immediately after ischemia or in a long-term administration paradigm. Functional outcome, mortality and infarct volume were determined 24 h after stroke. Even when the lowest doses of pyruvate reduced mortality and neurological deficits, no concomitant reduction in infarct volume was observed. The highest dose of pyruvate increased cortical infarction by 27% when administered 30 min after pMCAO. In addition, when pyruvate was given before pMCAO, a significant increase in neurological deficits was noticed. Surprisingly, on the contrary of what was found in the case of transient global ischemia, present findings do not support a great neuroprotective role for pyruvate in permanent focal cerebral ischemia, suggesting two distinct mechanisms involved in the effects of this glycolytic metabolite in the ischemic brain.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:10:46 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Gonzalez-Falcon", "A.", "" ], [ "Candelario-Jalil", "E.", "" ], [ "Garcia-Cabrera", "M.", "" ], [ "Leon", "O. S.", "" ] ]
0708.1782
Dinah Allen
D. M. Allen and G. F. Porto de Mello
Ruthenium and hafnium abundances in giant and dwarf barium stars
11 pages, 7 figures and 7 tables. accepted to A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066735
null
astro-ph
null
We present abundances for Ru and Hf, compare them to abundances of other heavy elements, and discuss the problems found in determining Ru and Hf abundances with laboratory gf-values in the spectra of barium stars. We determined Ru and Hf abundances in a sample of giant and dwarf barium stars, by the spectral synthesis of two RuI (4080.574A and 4757.856A) and two HfII (4080.437A and 4093.155A) transitions. The stellar spectra were observed with FEROS/ESO, and the stellar atmospheric parameters lie in the range 4300 < Teff/K < 6500, -1.2 < [Fe/H] <= 0 and 1.4 <= log g < 4.6. The HfII 4080A and the RuI 4758A observed transitions result in a unreasonably high solar abundance, given certain known uncertainties, when fitted with laboratory gf-values. For these two transitions we determined empirical gf-values by fitting the observed line profiles of the spectra of the Sun and Arcturus. For the sample stars, this procedure resulted in a good agreement of Ru and Hf abundances given by the two available lines. The resulting Ru and Hf abundances were compared to those of Y, Nd, Sm and Eu. In the solar system Ru, Sm and Eu are dominated by the r-process and Hf, Nd and Y by the s-process, and all of these elements are enhanced in barium stars since they lie inside the s-process path. Ru abundances show large scatter when compared to other heavy elements, whereas Hf abundances show less scatter and closely follow the abundances of Sm and Nd, in good agreement with theoretical expectations. We also suggest a possible, unexpected, correlation of Ru and Sm abundances. The observed behaviour in abundances is probably due to variations in the 13C pocket efficiency in AGB stars, and, though masked by high uncertainties, hint at a more complex scenario than proposed by theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:15:18 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Allen", "D. M.", "" ], [ "de Mello", "G. F. Porto", "" ] ]
0708.1783
Paul Davies
P. C. W. Davies
Constraints on the value of the fine structure constant from gravitational thermodynamics
6 pages, no figures, journal publication
Int.J.Theor.Phys.47:1949-1953,2008
10.1007/s10773-007-9638-1
null
gr-qc
null
In this paper I show how the second law of thermodynamics, generalized to include event horizon area, places interesting constraints on the value of the fine structure constant. A simple analysis leads to the conclusion that classical Dirac and point-like magnetic monopoles could be used to violate the second law, and that GUT monopoles are inconsistent with minicharged particles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:26:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:59:51 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Davies", "P. C. W.", "" ] ]
0708.1784
Rogerio Rosenfeld
O. Bertolami and R. Rosenfeld
The Higgs portal and an unified model for dark energy and dark matter
5 pages, no figures. New references and acknowledgment added
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A23:4817-4827,2008
10.1142/S0217751X08042675
null
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We examine a scenario where the Higgs boson is coupled to an additional singlet scalar field which we identify with a quintessence field. We show that this results in an unified picture of dark matter and dark energy, where dark energy is the zero-mode classical field rolling the usual quintessence potential and the dark matter candidate is the quantum excitation (particle) of the field, which is produced in the universe due to its coupling to the Higgs boson.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:28:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:43:07 GMT" } ]
2008-12-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Bertolami", "O.", "" ], [ "Rosenfeld", "R.", "" ] ]
0708.1785
Seung Woo Ham
S. W. Ham and S. K. OH
Electroweak phase transition in MSSM with $U(1)'$ in explicit CP violation scenario
null
Phys.Rev.D76:095018,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.095018
null
hep-ph
null
The possibility of a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition is established in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with an extra $U(1)'$, where a nontrivial CP violating phase is introduced in its Higgs sector. We find that there is a wide region in the parameter space of the model that allows the strongly first-order electroweak phase transition. The mass of stop quark need not be smaller than the top quark mass to ensure the first-order electroweak phase transition be strong. The effect of the CP violating phase upon the strength of the phase transition is discovered. The strength of the phase transition is reduced when the size of the CP violation is increased. For a given CP violating phase, we find that the model has a larger mass for the lightest Higgs boson when it has a stronger phase transition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:34:59 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Ham", "S. W.", "" ], [ "OH", "S. K.", "" ] ]
0708.1786
Gilberto Tavares-Velasco
A. Avilez-Lopez, H. Novales-Sanchez, G. Tavares-Velasco, J. J. Toscano
Bound on the anomalous tbW coupling from two-loop contribution to neutron electric dipole moment
13 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Lett.B653:241-248,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.08.012
null
hep-ph
null
The two-loop contribution to the electric dipole moment (EDM) and the chromo electric dipole moment (CEDM) of an arbitrary fermion f induced by the most general renormalizable tbW coupling with complex left- and right-handed components (a_L and a_R) is calculated. The analytical expressions are numerically evaluated and the current experimental constraints on the electron, neutron and mercury atom EDMs are used to obtain a bound on the complex phase Im(a^*_La_R). It is found that the most stringent constraint, Im(a^*_La_R)<2.33 X 10^{-2}, arises from the neutron EDM.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:40:57 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Avilez-Lopez", "A.", "" ], [ "Novales-Sanchez", "H.", "" ], [ "Tavares-Velasco", "G.", "" ], [ "Toscano", "J. J.", "" ] ]
0708.1787
Rachid Ouyed
Denis Leahy and Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Supernova SN2006gy as a first ever Quark Nova?
Version accepted for publication in MNRAS (added R-band calculations and provided further discussion on the late plateau in SN2006gy; also extended discussion on the Quark-Nova and SNe connection)
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13312.x
null
astro-ph
null
The most luminous Supernova SN2006gy (more than a 100 times brighter than a typical supernova) has been a challenge to explain by standard models. For example, pair instability supernovae which are luminous enough seem to have too slow a rise, and core collapse supernovae do not seem to be luminous enough. We present an alternative scenario involving the quark-nova phenomenon (an explosive transition of the newly born neutron star to a quark star) in which a second explosion (delayed) occurs inside the ejecta of a normal supernova. The reheated supernova ejecta can radiate at higher levels for longer periods of time primarily due to reduced adiabatic expansion losses, unlike the standard supernova case. We find an encouraging match between the resulting lightcurve and that observed in the case of SN2006gy suggesting that we might have at hand the first ever signature of a quark-nova. Successful application of our model to SN2005gj and SN2005ap is also presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:27:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:47:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:36:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:15 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Leahy", "Denis", "", "University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,\n Canada" ], [ "Ouyed", "Rachid", "", "University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,\n Canada" ] ]
0708.1788
Stuart Wyithe
Stuart Wyithe, James Bolton, Martin Haehnelt
Reionization Bias in High Redshift Quasar Near-Zones
16 Pages, 9 figures. Submitted for publication to MNRAS
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12578.x
null
astro-ph
null
Absorption spectra of high redshift quasars exhibit an increasingly thick Ly-alpha forest towards z~6. However, the interpretation of these spectra is complicated by the fact that the Ly-alpha optical depth is already large for neutral hydrogen fractions in excess of 10^-4, and also because quasars are expected to reside in dense regions of the IGM. We present a model for the evolution of the ionization state of the IGM which is applicable to the dense, biased regions around high-redshift quasars as well as more typical regions in the IGM, and combine this with numerical radiative transfer simulations. Our model is able to simultaneously reproduce the observed Ly-alpha forest opacity at 4<z<6, the ionizing photon mean-free-path at z~4 and the rapid evolution of highly ionized near-zone sizes around high-redshift quasars at 5.8<z<6.4. We find that within 5 physical Mpc of a high redshift quasar, the evolution of the ionization state of the IGM precedes that in more typical regions by around 0.3 redshift units. More importantly, when combined with the rapid increase in the ionizing photon mean-free-path expected shortly after overlap, this offset results in an ionizing background near the quasar which exceeds the value in the rest of the IGM by a factor of ~2-3. We further find that in the post-overlap phase of reionization the size of the observed quasar near-zones is not directly sensitive to the neutral hydrogen fraction of the IGM. Instead, these sizes probe the level of the background ionization rate and the temperature of the surrounding IGM. The observed rapid evolution of the quasar near-zone sizes at 5.8<z<6.4 can thus be explained by the rapid evolution of the ionizing background, which in our model is caused by the completion of overlap at the end of reionization by 6<z<7.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:18:07 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wyithe", "Stuart", "" ], [ "Bolton", "James", "" ], [ "Haehnelt", "Martin", "" ] ]
0708.1789
Liang Shen
Zhiling Ying, Jianlong Chen and Zhen Lei
Extensions of McCoy Rings
10 pages
null
null
null
math.RA
null
A ring $R$ is said to be right McCoy if the equation $f(x)g(x)=0,$ where $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ are nonzero polynomials of $R[x],$ implies that there exists nonzero $s \in R$ such that $f(x)s = 0$. It is proven that no proper (triangular) matrix ring is one-sided McCoy. If there exists the classical right quotient ring $Q$ of a ring $R$, then $R$ is right McCoy if and only if $Q$ is right McCoy. It is shown that for many polynomial extensions, a ring $R$ is right McCoy if and only if the polynomial extension over $R$ is right McCoy. Other basic extensions of right McCoy rings are also studied.\leftskip0truemm \rightskip0truemm \{\it Keywords}: matrix ring, McCoy ring, polynomial ring, upper triangular matrix ring.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:25:44 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Ying", "Zhiling", "" ], [ "Chen", "Jianlong", "" ], [ "Lei", "Zhen", "" ] ]
0708.1790
Stephen L. Olsen
Belle Collaboration: S.-K. Choi, S.L. Olsen, et al
Observation of a resonance-like structure in the pi^+- psi' mass distribution in exclusive B-->K pi^+- psi' decays
10 pages, 3 figures, a 2007 Lepton-Photon Symposium submission is modified and submitted to PRL
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:142001,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.142001
BELLE-CONF-0773
hep-ex
null
A distinct peak is observed in the pi^+/- psi' invariant mass distribution near 4.43 GeV in B->K pi^+/- psi' decays. A fit using a Breit Wigner resonance shape yields a peak mass and width of 4433+-4(stat)+-2(syst) MeV and Gamma = 45^+18_-13(stat) ^+30_-13 MeV. The product branching fraction is determined to be Bf(B-->KZ(4430))xBf(Z(4430)-->pi^+psi') = (4.1+-1.0(stat)+-1.4(syst))x10^{-5), where Z(4430) is used to denote the observed structure. The statistical significance of the observed peak is 6.5sigma. These results are obtained from a 605 fb-1 data sample that contains 657 million BBbar pairs collected near the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e+e- collider.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:53:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:42:28 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Belle Collaboration", "", "" ], [ "Choi", "S. -K.", "" ], [ "Olsen", "S. L.", "" ] ]
0708.1791
Joshua Shaevitz
Joshua W. Shaevitz, Daniel A. Fletcher
Load fluctuations drive actin network growth
To be published in PNAS
null
10.1073/pnas.0702601104
null
physics.bio-ph
null
The growth of actin filament networks is a fundamental biological process that drives a variety of cellular and intracellular motions. During motility, eukaryotic cells and intracellular pathogens are propelled by actin networks organized by nucleation-promoting factors, which trigger the formation of nascent filaments off the side of existing filaments in the network. A Brownian ratchet (BR) mechanism has been proposed to couple actin polymerization to cellular movements, whereby thermal motions are rectified by the addition of actin monomers at the end of growing filaments. Here, by following actin--propelled microspheres using three--dimensional laser tracking, we find that beads adhered to the growing network move via an object--fluctuating BR. Velocity varies with the amplitude of thermal fluctuation and inversely with viscosity as predicted for a BR. In addition, motion is saltatory with a broad distribution of step sizes that is correlated in time. These data point to a model in which thermal fluctuations of the microsphere or entire actin network, and not individual filaments, govern motility. This conclusion is supported by Monte Carlo simulations of an adhesion--based BR and suggests an important role for membrane tension in the control of actin--based cellular protrusions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:16:57 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Shaevitz", "Joshua W.", "" ], [ "Fletcher", "Daniel A.", "" ] ]
0708.1792
S. Karino
S. Karino
Radiative Column and Light Curve of X-Ray Binary Pulsars
13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
null
10.1093/pasj/59.5.961
null
astro-ph
null
We examine the published light curves (LCs) of 117 X-ray binary pulsars, focusing on the dependence of their light curves on the observed energy bands. It is found that the energy dependence of the LCs appears only when the X-ray luminosity is larger than ~ 5 x 10^36 erg/s. Assuming that the behavior of light curve is related to the radiative accretion column on the neutron star surface, this energy threshold can be considered as the observational proof of the accretion column formation proposed by Basko and Sunyaev. Once we can grasp the existence of radiative column, we can also obtain several useful informations on the neutron star properties. As an instance, we perform the statistical analysis of the orientation angle of the magnetic axis, and we find that the inclination angle of magnetic axis should be small in order to explain the observed statistics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:53:19 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Karino", "S.", "" ] ]
0708.1793
Mustafa Amin
Mustafa A. Amin, Robert V. Wagoner and Roger D. Blandford
A sub-horizon framework for probing the relationship between the cosmological matter distribution and metric perturbations
Updated references and minor changes to match the published version in MNRAS
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 390, 131-142 (2008)
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13474.x
null
astro-ph gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The relationship between the metric and nonrelativistic matter distribution depends on the theory of gravity and additional fields, providing a possible way of distinguishing competing theories. With the assumption that the geometry and kinematics of the homogeneous universe have been measured to sufficient accuracy, we present a procedure for understanding and testing the relationship between the cosmological matter distribution and metric perturbations (along with their respective evolution) using the ratio of the physical size of the perturbation to the size of the horizon as our small expansion parameter. We expand around Newtonian gravity on linear, subhorizon scales with coefficient functions in front of the expansion parameter. Our framework relies on an ansatz which ensures that (i) the Poisson equation is recovered on small scales (ii) the metric variables (and any additional fields) are generated and supported by the nonrelativistic matter overdensity. The scales for which our framework is intended are small enough so that cosmic variance does not significantly limit the accuracy of the measurements and large enough to avoid complications from nonlinear effects and baryon cooling. The coefficient functions provide a general framework for contrasting the consequences of Lambda CDM and its alternatives. We calculate the coefficient functions for general relativity with a cosmological constant and dark matter, GR with dark matter and quintessence, scalar-tensor theories, f(R) gravity and braneworld models. We identify a possibly unique signature of braneworld models. Constraining the coefficient functions provides a streamlined approach for testing gravity in a scale dependent manner. We briefly discuss the observations best suited for an application of our framework.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:20:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:34:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:35:40 GMT" } ]
2008-10-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Amin", "Mustafa A.", "" ], [ "Wagoner", "Robert V.", "" ], [ "Blandford", "Roger D.", "" ] ]
0708.1794
Jan Karbowski
Jan Karbowski, Gary Schindelman, Chris J. Cronin, Adeline Seah, Paul W. Sternberg
Systems level circuit model of C. elegans undulatory locomotion: mathematical modeling and molecular genetics
Neural control of C. elegans motion with genetic perturbations
Journal of Computational Neuroscience 24, 253-276 (2008)
null
null
q-bio.NC q-bio.GN
null
To establish the relationship between locomotory behavior and dynamics of neural circuits in the nematode C. elegans we combined molecular and theoretical approaches. In particular, we quantitatively analyzed the motion of C. elegans with defective synaptic GABA and acetylcholine transmission, defective muscle calcium signaling, and defective muscles and cuticle structures, and compared the data with our systems level circuit model. The major experimental findings are: (i) anterior-to-posterior gradients of body bending flex for almost all strains both for forward and backward motion, and for neuronal mutants, also analogous weak gradients of undulatory frequency, (ii) existence of some form of neuromuscular (stretch receptor) feedback, (iii) invariance of neuromuscular wavelength, (iv) biphasic dependence of frequency on synaptic signaling, and (v) decrease of frequency with increase of the muscle time constant. Based on (i) we hypothesize that the Central Pattern Generator (CPG) is located in the head both for forward and backward motion. Points (i) and (ii) are the starting assumptions for our theoretical model, whose dynamical patterns are qualitatively insensitive to the details of the CPG design if stretch receptor feedback is sufficiently strong and slow. The model reveals that stretch receptor coupling in the body wall is critical for generation of the neuromuscular wave. Our model agrees with our behavioral data(iii), (iv), and (v), and with other pertinent published data, e.g., that frequency is an increasing function of muscle gap-junction coupling.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:36:18 GMT" } ]
2008-06-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Karbowski", "Jan", "" ], [ "Schindelman", "Gary", "" ], [ "Cronin", "Chris J.", "" ], [ "Seah", "Adeline", "" ], [ "Sternberg", "Paul W.", "" ] ]
0708.1795
Bing Huang
Bing Huang, Feng Liu, Jian Wu, Bing-Lin Gu and Wenhui Duan
Suppression of spin-polarization in graphene nanoribbon by edge defect and impurity
10 pages, 5 figures
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 77, 153411, 2008
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.153411
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We investigate the effect of edge defects (vacancies) and impurities (substitutional dopants) on the robustness of spin-polarization in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with zigzag edges, using density-functional-theory calculations. We found that the stability of the spin state and its magnetic moments decrease continuously with increasing concentration of defects or impurities. The system generally becomes non-magnetic at the concentration of one edge defect (impurity) per 10 angstrom. The spin suppression is shown to be caused by reduction and removal of edge states at the Fermi energy. Our analysis implies an important criterion on the GNR samples for spintronics applications.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:38:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:59:10 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Huang", "Bing", "" ], [ "Liu", "Feng", "" ], [ "Wu", "Jian", "" ], [ "Gu", "Bing-Lin", "" ], [ "Duan", "Wenhui", "" ] ]
0708.1796
Takao Nakagawa
H. Murakami, H. Baba, P. Barthel, D.L. Clements, M. Cohen, Y. Doi, K. Enya, E. Figueredo, N. Fujishiro, H. Fujiwara, M. Fujiwara, P. Garcia-Lario, T. Goto, S. Hasegawa, Y. Hibi, T. Hirao, N. Hiromoto, S. S. Hong, K. Imai, M. Ishigaki, M. Ishiguro, D. Ishihara, Y. Ita, W.-S. Jeong, K. S. Jeong, H. Kaneda, H. Kataza, M. Kawada, T. Kawai, A. Kawamura, M. F. Kessler, Do Kester, T. Kii, D.C. Kim, W. Kim, H. Kobayashi, B.C. Koo, S. M. Kwon, H. M. Lee, R. Lorente, S. Makiuti, H. Matsuhara, T. Matsumoto, H. Matsuo, S. Matsuura, T.G. Mueller, N. Murakami, H. Nagata, T. Nakagawa, T. Naoi, M. Narita, M. Noda, S.H. Oh, A. Ohnishi, Y. Ohyama, Y. Okada, H. Okuda, S. Oliver, T. Onaka, T. Ootsubo, S. Oyabu, S. Pak, Y.S. Park, C. P. Pearson, M. Rowan-Robinson, T. Saito, I. Sakon, A. Salama, S. Sato, R.S. Savage, S. Serjeant, H. Shibai, M. Shirahata, J. J. Sohn, T. Suzuki, T. Takagi, H. Takahashi, T. Tanabe, T. T. Takeuchi, S. Takita, M. Thomson, K. Uemizu, M. Ueno, F. Usui, E. Verdugo, T. Wada, L. Wang, T. Watabe, H. Watarai, G. J. White, I. Yamamura, C. Yamauchi, A. Yasuda
The Infrared Astronomical Mission AKARI
13 pages, 4 figures, and 3 tables. Accepted for publication in the AKARI special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap.59:369-376,2007
10.1093/pasj/59.sp2.S369
null
astro-ph
null
AKARI, the first Japanese satellite dedicated to infrared astronomy, was launched on 2006 February 21, and started observations in May of the same year. AKARI has a 68.5 cm cooled telescope, together with two focal-plane instruments, which survey the sky in six wavelength bands from the mid- to far-infrared. The instruments also have the capability for imaging and spectroscopy in the wavelength range 2 - 180 micron in the pointed observation mode, occasionally inserted into the continuous survey operation. The in-orbit cryogen lifetime is expected to be one and a half years. The All-Sky Survey will cover more than 90 percent of the whole sky with higher spatial resolution and wider wavelength coverage than that of the previous IRAS all-sky survey. Point source catalogues of the All-Sky Survey will be released to the astronomical community. The pointed observations will be used for deep surveys of selected sky areas and systematic observations of important astronomical targets. These will become an additional future heritage of this mission.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:46:58 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Murakami", "H.", "" ], [ "Baba", "H.", "" ], [ "Barthel", "P.", "" ], [ "Clements", "D. L.", "" ], [ "Cohen", "M.", "" ], [ "Doi", "Y.", "" ], [ "Enya", "K.", "" ], [ "Figueredo", "E.", "" ], [ "Fujishiro", "N.", "" ], [ "Fujiwara", "H.", "" ], [ "Fujiwara", "M.", "" ], [ "Garcia-Lario", "P.", "" ], [ "Goto", "T.", "" ], [ "Hasegawa", "S.", "" ], [ "Hibi", "Y.", "" ], [ "Hirao", "T.", "" ], [ "Hiromoto", "N.", "" ], [ "Hong", "S. S.", "" ], [ "Imai", "K.", "" ], [ "Ishigaki", "M.", "" ], [ "Ishiguro", "M.", "" ], [ "Ishihara", "D.", "" ], [ "Ita", "Y.", "" ], [ "Jeong", "W. -S.", "" ], [ "Jeong", "K. S.", "" ], [ "Kaneda", "H.", "" ], [ "Kataza", "H.", "" ], [ "Kawada", "M.", "" ], [ "Kawai", "T.", "" ], [ "Kawamura", "A.", "" ], [ "Kessler", "M. F.", "" ], [ "Kester", "Do", "" ], [ "Kii", "T.", "" ], [ "Kim", "D. C.", "" ], [ "Kim", "W.", "" ], [ "Kobayashi", "H.", "" ], [ "Koo", "B. C.", "" ], [ "Kwon", "S. M.", "" ], [ "Lee", "H. M.", "" ], [ "Lorente", "R.", "" ], [ "Makiuti", "S.", "" ], [ "Matsuhara", "H.", "" ], [ "Matsumoto", "T.", "" ], [ "Matsuo", "H.", "" ], [ "Matsuura", "S.", "" ], [ "Mueller", "T. G.", "" ], [ "Murakami", "N.", "" ], [ "Nagata", "H.", "" ], [ "Nakagawa", "T.", "" ], [ "Naoi", "T.", "" ], [ "Narita", "M.", "" ], [ "Noda", "M.", "" ], [ "Oh", "S. H.", "" ], [ "Ohnishi", "A.", "" ], [ "Ohyama", "Y.", "" ], [ "Okada", "Y.", "" ], [ "Okuda", "H.", "" ], [ "Oliver", "S.", "" ], [ "Onaka", "T.", "" ], [ "Ootsubo", "T.", "" ], [ "Oyabu", "S.", "" ], [ "Pak", "S.", "" ], [ "Park", "Y. S.", "" ], [ "Pearson", "C. P.", "" ], [ "Rowan-Robinson", "M.", "" ], [ "Saito", "T.", "" ], [ "Sakon", "I.", "" ], [ "Salama", "A.", "" ], [ "Sato", "S.", "" ], [ "Savage", "R. S.", "" ], [ "Serjeant", "S.", "" ], [ "Shibai", "H.", "" ], [ "Shirahata", "M.", "" ], [ "Sohn", "J. J.", "" ], [ "Suzuki", "T.", "" ], [ "Takagi", "T.", "" ], [ "Takahashi", "H.", "" ], [ "Tanabe", "T.", "" ], [ "Takeuchi", "T. T.", "" ], [ "Takita", "S.", "" ], [ "Thomson", "M.", "" ], [ "Uemizu", "K.", "" ], [ "Ueno", "M.", "" ], [ "Usui", "F.", "" ], [ "Verdugo", "E.", "" ], [ "Wada", "T.", "" ], [ "Wang", "L.", "" ], [ "Watabe", "T.", "" ], [ "Watarai", "H.", "" ], [ "White", "G. J.", "" ], [ "Yamamura", "I.", "" ], [ "Yamauchi", "C.", "" ], [ "Yasuda", "A.", "" ] ]
0708.1797
Takao Nakagawa
Takao Nakagawa, Keigo Enya, Masayuki Hirabayashi, Hidehiro Kaneda, Tsuneo Kii, Yoshiyuki Kimura, Toshio Matsumoto, Hiroshi Murakami, Masahide Murakami, Katsuhiro Narasaki, Masanao Narita, Akira Ohnishi, Shoji Tsunematsu, Seiji Yoshida
Flight Performance of the AKARI Cryogenic System
19 pages, 10 figures, and 6 tables. Accepted for publication in the AKARI special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
null
10.1093/pasj/59.sp2.S377
null
astro-ph
null
We describe the flight performance of the cryogenic system of the infrared astronomical satellite AKARI, which was successfully launched on 2006 February 21 (UT). AKARI carries a 68.5 cm telescope together with two focal plane instruments, Infrared Cameras (IRC) and Far Infrared Surveyor (FIS), all of which are cooled down to cryogenic temperature to achieve superior sensitivity. The AKARI cryogenic system is a unique hybrid system, which consists of cryogen (liquid helium) and mechanical coolers (2-stage Stirling coolers). With the help of the mechanical coolers, 179 L (26.0 kg) of super-fluid liquid helium can keep the instruments cryogenically cooled for more than 500 days. The on-orbit performance of the AKARI cryogenics is consistent with the design and pre-flight test, and the boil-off gas flow rate is as small as 0.32 mg/s. We observed the increase of the major axis of the AKARI orbit, which can be explained by the thrust due to thermal pressure of vented helium gas.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:19:37 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Nakagawa", "Takao", "" ], [ "Enya", "Keigo", "" ], [ "Hirabayashi", "Masayuki", "" ], [ "Kaneda", "Hidehiro", "" ], [ "Kii", "Tsuneo", "" ], [ "Kimura", "Yoshiyuki", "" ], [ "Matsumoto", "Toshio", "" ], [ "Murakami", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Murakami", "Masahide", "" ], [ "Narasaki", "Katsuhiro", "" ], [ "Narita", "Masanao", "" ], [ "Ohnishi", "Akira", "" ], [ "Tsunematsu", "Shoji", "" ], [ "Yoshida", "Seiji", "" ] ]
0708.1798
Sinder Misha
Misha Sinder, Zeev Burshtein and Joshua Pelleg
Theory of oxidation/reduction-induced chromium ion valence transformations in Cr,Ca:YAG crystals
34 pages, 10 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
In their paper [Opt. Mater. 24, 333, 2003], Feldman et al conducted an experimental study of the dynamics of chromium ion valence transformations in Cr,Ca:YAG crystals among the trivalent Cr3+ state, and two tetravalent Cr4+ ones, of octahedral and tetrahedral coordination. The temperatures used ranged between ~800 and 1,000 C. The basic effects are the transition of Cr3+ into Cr4+ under high-temperature annealing in an oxidizing atmosphere, and the reverse transition under a reducing atmosphere, or in vacuum. In the present theory, we interpret the processes by oxygen-vacancy diffusion in the bulk of the YAG. The quasi-chemical reaction VO2- + Cr4+ = Cr3+/VO- between the chromium ions and the vacancies VO2- is responsible for the valence transformations. Dynamical analysis provides profiles of the Cr3+ and Cr4+ concentrations in the crystal during oxidation and during reduction. Reaction rate profiles are also calculated, establishing the reaction front position and width. A comparison with existing experimental results on the integrated Cr4+ concentration as a function of time during oxidation [Opt. Mater. 24, 333, 2003] shows reasonable agreement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:43:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:48:49 GMT" } ]
2007-08-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Sinder", "Misha", "" ], [ "Burshtein", "Zeev", "" ], [ "Pelleg", "Joshua", "" ] ]
0708.1799
Hua Qin
Florian W. Beil, Achim Wixforth, Werner Wegscheider, Dieter Schuh, Max Bichler and Robert H. Blick
Shock Waves in Nanomechanical Resonators
14 Pages including 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.026801
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
The dream of every surfer is an extremely steep wave propagating at the highest speed possible. The best waves for this would be shock waves, but are very hard to surf. In the nanoscopic world the same is true: the surfers in this case are electrons riding through nanomechanical devices on acoustic waves [1]. Naturally, this has a broad range of applications in sensor technology and for communication electronics for which the combination of an electronic and a mechanical degree of freedom is essential. But this is also of interest for fundamental aspects of nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), when it comes to quantum limited displacement detection [2] and the control of phonon number states [3]. Here, we study the formation of shock waves in a NEMS resonator with an embedded two-dimensional electron gas using surface acoustic waves. The mechanical displacement of the nano-resonator is read out via the induced acoustoelectric current. Applying acoustical standing waves we are able to determine the anomalous acoustocurrent. This current is only found in the regime of shock wave formation. We ontain very good agreement with model calculations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:53:12 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Beil", "Florian W.", "" ], [ "Wixforth", "Achim", "" ], [ "Wegscheider", "Werner", "" ], [ "Schuh", "Dieter", "" ], [ "Bichler", "Max", "" ], [ "Blick", "Robert H.", "" ] ]
0708.1800
Taotao Fang
Taotao Fang (1), Claude R. Canizares (2), Yangsen Yao (2) ((1) UC Irvine, (2) MIT)
Confirming the Detection of an Intergalactic X-ray Absorber Toward PKS 2155-304
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
null
10.1086/522560
null
astro-ph
null
We present new observations on PKS 2155-304 with the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETG), using the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). We confirm the detection of an absorption line plausibly identified as OVIII Ly-alpha from the warm-hot intergalactic medium associated with a small group of galaxies along the line of sight, as originally reported by Fang et al. 2002 (here after FANG02). Combining the previous observations in FANG02 and five new, long observations on the same target, we increase the total exposure time by a factor of three, and the total counts per resolution element by a factor of five. The measured line equivalent width is smaller than that observed in FANG02, but still consistent at 90% confidence. We also analyze the XMM-Newton observations on the same target, as well as observations using the Chandra LETG and the High Resolution Camera (HRC) combination. These observations have been used to challenge our reported detection. While no line is seen in either the XMM-Newton and the Chandra LETG+HRC data, we find that our result is consistent with the upper limits from both data sets. We attribute the non-detection to (1) higher quality of the Chandra LETG+ACIS spectrum, and (2) the rather extended wings of the line spread functions of both the XMM RGS and the Chandra LETG+HRC. We discuss the implication of our observation on the temperature and density of the absorber. We also confirm the detection of z ~ 0 OVII absorption and, comparing with previous Chandra analysis, we obtain much tighter constraints on the line properties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:50:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Fang", "Taotao", "" ], [ "Canizares", "Claude R.", "" ], [ "Yao", "Yangsen", "" ] ]
0708.1801
Firooz Arash
Firooz Arash and Fatemeh Taghavi-Shahri
Polarized Structure of Nucleon in the Valon Representation
24 pages, 9 Figures
JHEP 0707:071,2007; Erratum-ibid.1008:106,2010
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/071 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)106
null
hep-ph
null
We have utilized the concept of valon model to calculate the spin structure functions of proton, neutron and deuteron. The valon structure itself is universal and arises from the perturbative dressing of the valence quark in QCD. Our results agree rather well with all the relevant experimental data on $g_{1}^{p, n, d}$ and $g_{A}/g_{v}$, and suggests that the sea quark contribution to the spin of proton is consistent with zero. It also reveals that while the total quark contribution to the spin of valon is almost constant at $Q^{2}>=1$ the gluon contribution grows with the increase of $Q^2$ and hence requiring a sizable negative orbital angular momentum component $L_z$. This component along with the singlet and non-singlet parts are calculated in the Next-to-Leading order in QCD. We speculate that gluon contribution to the spin content of the proton is about 60% for all $Q^2$ values. Finally, we show that the size of gluon polarization and hence, $L_{z}$, is sensitive to the initial scale$Q_{0}^{2}$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:11:46 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Arash", "Firooz", "" ], [ "Taghavi-Shahri", "Fatemeh", "" ] ]
0708.1802
Vijay Kumar Krishna Murthy
K. Vijay Kumar, Sriram Ramaswamy, Madan Rao
Active elastic dimers: self-propulsion and current reversal on a featureless track
4 pages
null
null
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.soft q-bio.BM
null
We present a Brownian inchworm model of a self-propelled elastic dimer in the absence of an external potential. Nonequilibrium noise together with a stretch-dependent damping form the propulsion mechanism. Our model connects three key nonequilibrium features -- position-velocity correlations, a nonzero mean internal force, and a drift velocity. Our analytical results, including striking current reversals, compare very well with numerical simulations. The model unifies the propulsion mechanisms of DNA helicases, polar rods on a vibrated surface, crawling keratocytes and Myosin VI. We suggest experimental realizations and tests of the model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:17:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:02:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:39:53 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Kumar", "K. Vijay", "" ], [ "Ramaswamy", "Sriram", "" ], [ "Rao", "Madan", "" ] ]
0708.1803
Chunbin Yang
C. B. Yang and H. Zheng
Influence of finite baryon density on hadronization in nucleus-nucleus collisions via recombination
10 pages and 6 figures, to appear in J.Phys.G
J.Phys.G34:2063-2072,2007
10.1088/0954-3899/34/9/015
null
nucl-th
null
In this paper is investigated the influence of net baryon density on baryon and meson yields in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, based on the recombination model for hadronization. Unitarity condition is used as a constraint on the model. Three cases with different assumptions on the expansion of partonic system are considered and the baryon to meson ratio is calculated for those situations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:28:11 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Yang", "C. B.", "" ], [ "Zheng", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.1804
Naoki Isobe
Naoki Isobe (1), Aya Kubota (1,2), Kazuo Makishima (1,3), Poshak Gandhi (1), Richard E. Griffiths (4), Gulab C. Dewangan (4), Takeshi Itoh (3) Tsunuefumi Mizuno (5) ((1) Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, RIKEN, (2) Shibaura Institute of Technology, (3) Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, (4) Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, (5) Department of Physics, Hiroshima University)
Discovery of a bright transient ultraluminous X-ray source Suzaku J1305-4931 in NGC 4945
21 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for PASJ 2nd Suzaku special issue
null
10.1093/pasj/60.sp1.S241
null
astro-ph
null
This paper reports the discovery of a bright X-ray transient source, Suzaku J1305-4913, in the south-west arm of the nearby Seyfert II galaxy NGC 4945. It was detected at a 0.5 -- 10 keV flux of $2.2 \times 10^{-12}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ during the Suzaku observation conducted on 2006 January 15 -- 17, but was undetectable in a shorter observation on 2005 August 22 --23, with an upper limit of $1.7 \times 10^{-14}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (90% confidence level). At a distance of 3.7 Mpc, the bolometric luminosity of the source becomes $L_{\rm bol} = 4.4 \times 10^{39} \alpha$ erg s$^{-1}$, where $\alpha = (\cos 60^\circ / \cos i)$ and $i$ is the disk inclination. Therefore, the source is classified into so-called ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). The time-averaged X-ray spectrum of the source is described by a multi-color disk model, with the innermost accretion disk temperature of $T_{\rm in} = 1.69_{-0.05}^{+0.06}$ keV. During the 2006 January observation, it varied by a factor of 2 in intensity, following a clear correlation of $L_{\rm bol} \propto T_{\rm in}^4$. It is inferred that the innermost disk radius $R_{\rm in}$ stayed constant at $R_{\rm in} = 79_{-3.9}^{+4.0} \alpha^{1/2}$ km, suggesting the presence of a standard accretion disk. Relating $R_{\rm in}$ with the last stable orbit around a non-rotating black hole yields a rather low black hole mass, $\sim 9 \alpha^{1/2}$ solar masses, which would imply that the source is shining at a luminosity of $\sim3 \alpha^{1/2} $ times the Eddington limit. These results can be better interpreted by invoking sub-Eddington emission from a rapidly spinning black hole with a mass of 20 -- 130 solar masses.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:29:21 GMT" } ]
2017-01-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Isobe", "Naoki", "" ], [ "Kubota", "Aya", "" ], [ "Makishima", "Kazuo", "" ], [ "Gandhi", "Poshak", "" ], [ "Griffiths", "Richard E.", "" ], [ "Dewangan", "Gulab C.", "" ], [ "Itoh", "Takeshi", "" ], [ "Mizuno", "Tsunuefumi", "" ] ]
0708.1805
Steffen Rohde
Zhen-Qing Chen and Steffen Rohde
Schramm-Loewner Equations Driven by Symmetric Stable Processes
22 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1007/s00220-008-0674-3
null
math.PR math-ph math.MP
null
We consider shape, size and regularity of the hulls of the chordal Schramm-Loewner evolution driven by a symmetric alpha-stable process. We obtain derivative estimates, show that the complements of the hulls are Hoelder domains, prove that the hulls have Hausdorff dimension 1, and show that the trace is right-continuous with left limits almost surely.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:45:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:17:09 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "Zhen-Qing", "" ], [ "Rohde", "Steffen", "" ] ]
0708.1806
Jun Ye
T. Zelevinsky, S. Kotochigova and J. Ye
Precision Test of Mass Ratio Variations with Lattice-Confined Ultracold Molecules
4 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:043201,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.043201
null
physics.atom-ph
null
We propose a precision measurement of time variations of the proton-electron mass ratio using ultracold molecules in an optical lattice. Vibrational energy intervals are sensitive to changes of the mass ratio. In contrast to measurements that use hyperfine-interval-based atomic clocks, the scheme discussed here is model-independent and does not require separation of time variations of different physical constants. The possibility of applying the zero-differential-Stark-shift optical lattice technique is explored to measure vibrational transitions at high accuracy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:49:15 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Zelevinsky", "T.", "" ], [ "Kotochigova", "S.", "" ], [ "Ye", "J.", "" ] ]
0708.1807
Ying-Jer Kao
Yu-Chun Chen, Roger G. Melko, Stefan Wessel, Ying-Jer Kao
Supersolidity from defect-condensation in the extended boson Hubbard model
Revtex 4, 6 pages, 9 figures
Phys. Rev. B 77, 014524 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.014524
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We study the ground state phase diagram of the hard-core extended boson Hubbard model on the square lattice with both nearest- (nn) and next-nearest-neighbor (nnn) hopping and repulsion, using Gutzwiller mean field theory and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We observe the formation of supersolid states with checkerboard, striped, and quarter-filled crystal structures, when the system is doped away from commensurate fillings. In the striped supersolid phase, a strong anisotropy in the superfluid density is obtained from the simulations; however, the transverse component remains finite, indicating a true two-dimensional superflow. We find that upon doping, the striped supersolid transitions directly into the supersolid with quarter-filled crystal structure, via a first-order stripe melting transition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:51:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:05:07 GMT" } ]
2008-02-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "Yu-Chun", "" ], [ "Melko", "Roger G.", "" ], [ "Wessel", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Kao", "Ying-Jer", "" ] ]
0708.1808
Marco Casolino
M. Casolino, P. Picozza, F. Altamura, A. Basili, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, M. P. De Pascale, L. Marcelli, M. Minori, M. Nagni, R. Sparvoli, A. M. Galper, V. V. Mikhailov, M. F. Runtso, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, V. G. Zverev, G. Castellini, O. Adriani, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, E. Taddei, E. Vannuccini, D. Fedele, P. Papini, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Spillantini, M. Ambriola, F. Cafagna, C. De Marzo, G. C. Barbarino, D. Campana, G. De Rosa, G. Osteria, S. Russo, G. A. Bazilevskaja, A. N. Kvashnin, O. Maksumov, S. Misin, Yu. I. Stozhkov, E. A. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Krutkov, N. N. Nikonov, V. Bonvicini, M. Boezio, J. Lundquist, E. Mocchiutti, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, L. Bongiorno, M. Ricci, P. Carlson, P. Hofverberg, J. Lund, S. Orsi, M. Pearce, W. Menn, M. Simon
Launch of the Space experiment PAMELA
Accepted for publication on Advances in Space Research
Adv.Space Res.42:455-466,2008
10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.023
null
astro-ph
null
PAMELA is a satellite borne experiment designed to study with great accuracy cosmic rays of galactic, solar, and trapped nature in a wide energy range protons: 80 MeV-700 GeV, electrons 50 MeV-400 GeV). Main objective is the study of the antimatter component: antiprotons (80 MeV-190 GeV), positrons (50 MeV-270 GeV) and search for antimatter with a precision of the order of 10^-8). The experiment, housed on board the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite, was launched on June, 15, 2006 in a 350*600 km orbit with an inclination of 70 degrees. The detector is composed of a series of scintillator counters arranged at the extremities of a permanent magnet spectrometer to provide charge, Time-of-Flight and rigidity information. Lepton/hadron identification is performed by a Silicon-Tungsten calorimeter and a Neutron detector placed at the bottom of the device. An Anticounter system is used offline to reject false triggers coming from the satellite. In self-trigger mode the Calorimeter, the neutron detector and a shower tail catcher are capable of an independent measure of the lepton component up to 2 TeV. In this work we describe the experiment, its scientific objectives and the performance in the first months after launch.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:51:41 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Casolino", "M.", "" ], [ "Picozza", "P.", "" ], [ "Altamura", "F.", "" ], [ "Basili", "A.", "" ], [ "De Simone", "N.", "" ], [ "Di Felice", "V.", "" ], [ "De Pascale", "M. P.", "" ], [ "Marcelli", "L.", "" ], [ "Minori", "M.", "" ], [ "Nagni", "M.", "" ], [ "Sparvoli", "R.", "" ], [ "Galper", "A. M.", "" ], [ "Mikhailov", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Runtso", "M. F.", "" ], [ "Voronov", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Yurkin", "Y. T.", "" ], [ "Zverev", "V. G.", "" ], [ "Castellini", "G.", "" ], [ "Adriani", "O.", "" ], [ "Bonechi", "L.", "" ], [ "Bongi", "M.", "" ], [ "Taddei", "E.", "" ], [ "Vannuccini", "E.", "" ], [ "Fedele", "D.", "" ], [ "Papini", "P.", "" ], [ "Ricciarini", "S. B.", "" ], [ "Spillantini", "P.", "" ], [ "Ambriola", "M.", "" ], [ "Cafagna", "F.", "" ], [ "De Marzo", "C.", "" ], [ "Barbarino", "G. C.", "" ], [ "Campana", "D.", "" ], [ "De Rosa", "G.", "" ], [ "Osteria", "G.", "" ], [ "Russo", "S.", "" ], [ "Bazilevskaja", "G. A.", "" ], [ "Kvashnin", "A. N.", "" ], [ "Maksumov", "O.", "" ], [ "Misin", "S.", "" ], [ "Stozhkov", "Yu. I.", "" ], [ "Bogomolov", "E. A.", "" ], [ "Krutkov", "S. Yu.", "" ], [ "Nikonov", "N. N.", "" ], [ "Bonvicini", "V.", "" ], [ "Boezio", "M.", "" ], [ "Lundquist", "J.", "" ], [ "Mocchiutti", "E.", "" ], [ "Vacchi", "A.", "" ], [ "Zampa", "G.", "" ], [ "Zampa", "N.", "" ], [ "Bongiorno", "L.", "" ], [ "Ricci", "M.", "" ], [ "Carlson", "P.", "" ], [ "Hofverberg", "P.", "" ], [ "Lund", "J.", "" ], [ "Orsi", "S.", "" ], [ "Pearce", "M.", "" ], [ "Menn", "W.", "" ], [ "Simon", "M.", "" ] ]
0708.1809
Qiang Li
Qiang Li
Formation of bulk ferromagnetic nanostructured Fe40Ni40P14B6 alloys by metastable liquid spinodal decomposition
16 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Nanostructured Fe40Ni40P14B6 alloys ingots of diameter 3~5 mm could be synthesised by a metastable liquid state spinodal decomposition method. The molten Fe40Ni40P14B6 alloy was purified by means of the fluxing technique and thus a large undercooling could be achieved. For undercooling Delta T > 260 K, the microstructure of the undercooled specimen had exhibited liquid state spinodal decomposition in the undercooled liquid state. The microstructure could be described as two intertwining networks with small grains dispersed in them. For undercooling Delta T > 290 K, the overall microstructure of the specimen changed into a granular morphology. The average grain sizes of the small and large grains are ~ 30 nm and ~ 80 nm, respectively. These prepared samples are soft magnets with saturation magnetization Bs ~0.744 T.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:43:28 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Li", "Qiang", "" ] ]
0708.1810
Raymond Burston
R B Burston
1+1+2 Electromagnetic perturbations on non-vacuum LRS class II space-times: Decoupling scalar and 2-vector harmonic amplitudes
9 pages
Class.Quant.Grav.25:075002,2008
10.1088/0264-9381/25/7/075002
null
gr-qc
null
We use the covariant and gauge-invariant 1+1+2 formalism of Clarkson and Barrett \cite{Clarkson2003} to analyze electromagnetic (EM) perturbations on non-vacuum {\it locally rotationally symmetric} (LRS) class II space-times. Ultimately, we show how to derive six real decoupled equations governing the total of six EM scalar and 2-vector harmonic amplitudes. Four of these are new, and result from expanding the complex EM 2-vector which we defined in \cite{Burston2007} in terms of EM 2-vector harmonic amplitudes. We are then able to show that there are four precise combinations of the amplitudes that decouple, two of these are polar perturbations whereas the remaining two are axial. The remaining two decoupled equations are the generalized Regge-Wheeler equations which were developed previously in \cite{Betschart2004}, and these govern the two EM scalar harmonic amplitudes. However, our analysis generalizes this by including a full description and classification of energy-momentum sources, such as charges and currents.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:56:33 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Burston", "R B", "" ] ]
0708.1811
Raymond Burston
R. B. Burston and A. W. C. Lun
1+1+2 Electromagnetic perturbations on general LRS space-times: Regge-Wheeler and Bardeen-Press equations
null
Class.Quant.Grav.25:075003,2008
10.1088/0264-9381/25/7/075003
null
gr-qc
null
We use the, covariant and gauge-invariant, 1+1+2 formalism developed by Clarkson and Barrett, and develop new techniques, to decouple electromagnetic (EM) perturbations on arbitrary locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) space-times. Ultimately, we derive 3 decoupled complex equations governing 3 complex scalars. One of these is a new Regge-Wheeler (RW) equation generalized for LRS space-times, whereas the remaining two are new generalizations of the Bardeen-Press (BP) equations. This is achieved by first using linear algebra techniques to rewrite the first-order Maxwell equations in a new complex 1+1+2 form which is conducive to decoupling. This new complex system immediately yields the generalized RW equation, and furthermore, we also derive a decoupled equation governing a newly defined complex EM 2-vector. Subsequently, a further decomposition of the 1+1+2 formalism into a 1+1+1+1 formalism is developed, allowing us to decompose the complex EM 2-vector, and its governing equations, into spin-weighted scalars, giving rise to the generalized BP equations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:44:42 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Burston", "R. B.", "" ], [ "Lun", "A. W. C.", "" ] ]
0708.1812
Raymond Burston
R. B. Burston
1+1+2 gravitational perturbations on LRS class II space-times: Decoupling GEM tensor harmonic amplitudes
null
Class.Quant.Grav.25:075004,2008
10.1088/0264-9381/25/7/075004
null
gr-qc
null
This paper considers gauge-invariant and covariant gravitational perturbations on arbitrary vacuum locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) class II space-times. Ultimately, we derive four decoupled equations governing four specific combinations of the gravito-electromagnetic (GEM) 2-tensor harmonic amplitudes. We use the gauge-invariant and covariant 1+1+2 formalism which Clarkson and Barrett developed for analysis of vacuum Schwarzschild perturbations. In particular we focus on the first-order 1+1+2 GEM system and use linear algebra techniques suitable for exploiting its structure. Consequently, we express the GEM system new 1+1+2 complex form by choosing new complex GEM tensors, which is conducive to decoupling. We then show how to derive a gauge-invariant and covariant decoupled equation governing a newly defined complex GEM 2-tensor. Finally, the GEM 2-tensor is expanded in terms of arbitrary tensor harmonics and linear algebra is used once again to decouple the system further into 4 real decoupled equations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:04:29 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Burston", "R. B.", "" ] ]
0708.1813
Farruh Shahidi
Farruh Shahidi
On Dissipative Quadratic Stochastic Operators
10 pages
null
null
null
math.FA math.DS
null
In present paper we introduce the notion of dissipative quadratic stochastic operator and cubic stochastic operator. We prove necessary conditions for dissipativity of quadratic stochastic operators. Besides, it is studied certain limit behavior of such operators. Finally we prove ergodic theorem for dissipative operators.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:05:50 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Shahidi", "Farruh", "" ] ]
0708.1814
Qi Guo
Qi Guo and Simon D. M. White
Galaxy growth in the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology
11 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12619.x
null
astro-ph
null
We use galaxy and dark halo data from the public database for the Millennium Simulation to study the growth of galaxies in the De Lucia et al. (2006) model for galaxy formation. Previous work has shown this model to reproduce many aspects of the systematic properties and the clustering of real galaxies, both in the nearby universe and at high redshift. It assumes the stellar masses of galaxies to increase through three processes, major mergers, the accretion of smaller satellite systems, and star formation. We show the relative importance of these three modes to be a strong function of stellar mass and of redshift. Galaxy growth through major mergers depends strongly on stellar mass, but only weakly on redshift. Except for massive systems, minor mergers contribute more to galaxy growth than major mergers at all redshifts and at all stellar masses. For galaxies significantly less massive than the Milky Way, star formation dominates the growth at all epochs. For galaxies significantly more massive than the Milky Way, growth through mergers is the dominant process at all epochs. At a stellar mass of $6\times 10^{10}M_\odot$, star formation dominates at $z>1$ and mergers at later times. At every stellar mass, the growth rates through star formation increase rapidly with increasing redshift. Specific star formation rates are a decreasing function of stellar mass not only at $z=0$ but also at all higher redshifts. For comparison, we carry out a similar analysis of the growth of dark matter halos. In contrast to the galaxies, growth rates depend strongly on redshift, but only weakly on mass. They agree qualitatively with analytic predictions for halo growth.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:08:19 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Guo", "Qi", "" ], [ "White", "Simon D. M.", "" ] ]
0708.1815
Ming-Yen Cheng
Ming-Yen Cheng, Liang Peng, Jyh-Shyang Wu
Reducing variance in univariate smoothing
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001398 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. 2, 522-542
10.1214/009053606000001398
IMS-AOS-AOS0168
math.ST stat.TH
null
A variance reduction technique in nonparametric smoothing is proposed: at each point of estimation, form a linear combination of a preliminary estimator evaluated at nearby points with the coefficients specified so that the asymptotic bias remains unchanged. The nearby points are chosen to maximize the variance reduction. We study in detail the case of univariate local linear regression. While the new estimator retains many advantages of the local linear estimator, it has appealing asymptotic relative efficiencies. Bandwidth selection rules are available by a simple constant factor adjustment of those for local linear estimation. A simulation study indicates that the finite sample relative efficiency often matches the asymptotic relative efficiency for moderate sample sizes. This technique is very general and has a wide range of applications.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:09:13 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Cheng", "Ming-Yen", "" ], [ "Peng", "Liang", "" ], [ "Wu", "Jyh-Shyang", "" ] ]
0708.1816
Masanori Hirai
M. Hirai, S. Kumano, M. Oka and K. Sudoh
Proposal for exotic-hadron search by fragmentation functions
4 pages, 4 figures, revtex, To be published in PRD
Phys.Rev.D77:017504,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.017504
KEK-TH-1167
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
null
It is proposed that fragmentation functions should be used to identify exotic hadrons. As an example, fragmentation functions of the scalar meson f_0(980) are investigated. It is pointed out that the second moments and functional forms of the u- and s-quark fragmentation functions can distinguish the tetraquark structure from $q\bar q$. By the global analysis of f_0 (980) production data in electron-positron annihilation, its fragmentation functions and their uncertainties are determined. It is found that the current available data are not sufficient to determine its internal structure, while precise data in future should be able to identify exotic quark configurations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:12:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:20:02 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Hirai", "M.", "" ], [ "Kumano", "S.", "" ], [ "Oka", "M.", "" ], [ "Sudoh", "K.", "" ] ]
0708.1817
Yungui Gong
Yungui Gong, Qiang Wu and Anzhong Wang
Dark energy and cosmic curvature: Monte-Carlo Markov Chain approach
10 figures, revised version: clarify the marginalization on H_0 and the use of the covariance matrix, accepted for publication in ApJ
Astrophys.J.681:27-39,2008
10.1086/588598
null
astro-ph
null
We use the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain method to explore the dark energy property and the cosmic curvature by fitting two popular dark energy parameterizations to the observational data. The new 182 gold supernova Ia data and the ESSENCE data both give good constraint on the DE parameters and the cosmic curvature for the dark energy model $w_0+w_a z/(1+z)$. The cosmic curvature is found to be $|\Omega_k|\la 0.03$. For the dark energy model $w_0+w_a z/(1+z)^2$, the ESSENCE data gives better constraint on the cosmic curvature and we get $|\Omega_k|\leq 0.02$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:29:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 8 Apr 2008 02:39:36 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Gong", "Yungui", "" ], [ "Wu", "Qiang", "" ], [ "Wang", "Anzhong", "" ] ]
0708.1818
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
L.-V. Bochkareva, M.-V. Kireitseu, G. R. Tomlinson, H. Altenbach, V. Kompis, D. Hui
Computational Simulation and 3D Virtual Reality Engineering Tools for Dynamical Modeling and Imaging of Composite Nanomaterials
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cs.CE cond-mat.other
null
An adventure at engineering design and modeling is possible with a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) that uses multiple computer-generated media to let a user experience situations that are temporally and spatially prohibiting. In this paper, an approach to developing some advanced architecture and modeling tools is presented to allow multiple frameworks work together while being shielded from the application program. This architecture is being developed in a framework of workbench interactive tools for next generation nanoparticle-reinforced damping/dynamic systems. Through the use of system, an engineer/programmer can respectively concentrate on tailoring an engineering design concept of novel system and the application software design while using existing databases/software outputs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:17:45 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Bochkareva", "L. -V.", "" ], [ "Kireitseu", "M. -V.", "" ], [ "Tomlinson", "G. R.", "" ], [ "Altenbach", "H.", "" ], [ "Kompis", "V.", "" ], [ "Hui", "D.", "" ] ]
0708.1819
Mirel Sorin Stoian
Sorin Mirel Stoian
Quasi-Nilpotent Operators on Locally Convex Spaces
null
null
null
null
math.FA
null
In this article we extend the notion of quasi-nilpotent equivalent operators, introduced by Colojoara and Foias \cite{co1} for Banach spaces, to the class of bounded operators on sequentially complete locally convex spaces.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:26:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:54:02 GMT" } ]
2007-08-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Stoian", "Sorin Mirel", "" ] ]
0708.1820
Moulinath Banerjee
Moulinath Banerjee, Ian W. McKeague
Confidence sets for split points in decision trees
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001415 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. 2, 543-574
10.1214/009053606000001415
IMS-AOS-AOS0178
math.ST stat.TH
null
We investigate the problem of finding confidence sets for split points in decision trees (CART). Our main results establish the asymptotic distribution of the least squares estimators and some associated residual sum of squares statistics in a binary decision tree approximation to a smooth regression curve. Cube-root asymptotics with nonnormal limit distributions are involved. We study various confidence sets for the split point, one calibrated using the subsampling bootstrap, and others calibrated using plug-in estimates of some nuisance parameters. The performance of the confidence sets is assessed in a simulation study. A motivation for developing such confidence sets comes from the problem of phosphorus pollution in the Everglades. Ecologists have suggested that split points provide a phosphorus threshold at which biological imbalance occurs, and the lower endpoint of the confidence set may be interpreted as a level that is protective of the ecosystem. This is illustrated using data from a Duke University Wetlands Center phosphorus dosing study in the Everglades.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:36:00 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Banerjee", "Moulinath", "" ], [ "McKeague", "Ian W.", "" ] ]
0708.1821
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
M.-V. Kireitseu, G. Tomlinson, J. Lu (LSMIS), H. Altenbach, G. Rongong, L.-V. Bochkareva, D. Hui
Preliminary Results on Vibration Damping Properties of Nanoscale-Reinforced Composite Materials
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The focus in this paper is an analysis of existing state of the arts directed toward the development of the next generation of vibration damping systems. The research work concentrates on an investigation related to nanoparticles/fibres/tubes-reinforced materials and coatings dynamic characterization and modeling of the fundamental phenomena that control relationships between structure and damping/mechanical properties of the materials. We simulated composite materials using finite element and mesh free methods, using a hollow shell representation of the individual nanotube/fiber. Results of the research work will provide a platform for the development of nanoparticle-reinforced damping materials that are light-weight, vibration and shock resistant. The outcome of the research work is expected to have wide-ranging technical benefits with direct relevance to industry in areas of transportation (aerospace, automotive, rail), electronics and civil infrastructure development.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:44:23 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Kireitseu", "M. -V.", "", "LSMIS" ], [ "Tomlinson", "G.", "", "LSMIS" ], [ "Lu", "J.", "", "LSMIS" ], [ "Altenbach", "H.", "" ], [ "Rongong", "G.", "" ], [ "Bochkareva", "L. -V.", "" ], [ "Hui", "D.", "" ] ]
0708.1822
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
H. Chiamori, J. Brown, E. Adhiprakasha, E. Hantsoo, J. Straalsund, N. Melosh, B. Pruitt
Suspension of Nanoparticles in SU-8 and Characterization of Nanocomposite Properties
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Gold nanospheres, single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), and diamonoids were phyically incorporated into the negative photoresist SU-8. the mixtures were spin cast onto silicon or aluminium coated silicon wafers. ASTM standard D638 tensile specimens were lithographically patterned in the materials and then released from the substrate using Microchem'Omnicoat or an anodic metal dissolution process. the residual stresses, elastic moduli, and viscosity of the SU-8. Resistivity measurements of SU-8/SWNT nanocomposites were also investigates. We found the effective modulus and viscosity of the SU-8 test specimens decreases with the addition of diamantane and SWNTs. Additionally, the SU-8/SWNT nanocomposites showed changes in resistivity with increased strain, suggesting a gauge factor for the 1 wt% SU-8/SWNT nanocomposite of approximately 2-4.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:46:49 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Chiamori", "H.", "" ], [ "Brown", "J.", "" ], [ "Adhiprakasha", "E.", "" ], [ "Hantsoo", "E.", "" ], [ "Straalsund", "J.", "" ], [ "Melosh", "N.", "" ], [ "Pruitt", "B.", "" ] ]
0708.1823
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
V. Petrenko, J. Brigati, J. Sykora, Eric V. Olsen, I. Sorokulova, G. Kouzmitcheva, I-Hsuan Chen, J. Barbaree, B. Chin, V. Vodyanoy
Landscape phage, phage display, stripped phage, biosensors, detection, affinity reagent, nanotechnology, Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus anthracis
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci q-bio.CB
null
Filamentous phage, such as fd used in this study, are thread-shaped bacterial viruses. Their outer coat is a tube formed by thousands equal copies of the major coat protein pVIII. We constructed libraries of random peptides fused to all pVIII domains and selected phages that act as probes specific for a panel of test antigens and biological threat agents. Because the viral carrier is infective, phage borne bio-selective probes can be cloned individually and propagated indefinitely without needs of their chemical synthesis or reconstructing. We demonstrated the feasibility of using landscape phages and their stripped fusion proteins as new bioselective materials that combine unique characteristics of affinity reagents and self assembling membrane proteins. Biorecognition layers fabricated from phage-derived probes bind biological agents and generate detectable signals. The performance of phage-derived materials as biorecognition films was illustrated by detection of streptavidin-coated beads, Bacillus anthracis spores and Salmonella typhimurium cells. With further refinement, the phage-derived analytical platforms for detecting and monitoring of numerous threat agents may be developed, since the biodetector films may be obtained from landscape phages selected against any bacteria, virus or toxin. As elements of field-use detectors, they are superior to antibodies, since they are inexpensive, highly specific and strong binders, resistant to high temperatures and environmental stresses.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:47:24 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Petrenko", "V.", "" ], [ "Brigati", "J.", "" ], [ "Sykora", "J.", "" ], [ "Olsen", "Eric V.", "" ], [ "Sorokulova", "I.", "" ], [ "Kouzmitcheva", "G.", "" ], [ "Chen", "I-Hsuan", "" ], [ "Barbaree", "J.", "" ], [ "Chin", "B.", "" ], [ "Vodyanoy", "V.", "" ] ]
0708.1824
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
H. S. Ashour, A. I. Assad, M. Shabat
The deffect effect on electronic conductance in binomially tailored quantum wire
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
10.3923/rjp.2008.1.12
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The paper considers the effect of the defects on the electronic transmission properties in binomially tailored waveguide quantum wires, in which each Dirac delta function potential strength have been weight on the binomial distribution law. We have assumed that a single free-electron channel is incident on the structure and the scattering of electrons is solely from the geometric nature of the problem. We have used the transfer matrix method to study the electron transmission. We found this novel structure has a good defect tolerance. We found the structure tolerate up to in strength defect and in position defect for the central Dirac delta function in the binomial distribution. Also, we found this structure can tolerate both defect up to in strength and in position dislocation
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:47:57 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ashour", "H. S.", "" ], [ "Assad", "A. I.", "" ], [ "Shabat", "M.", "" ] ]
0708.1825
Sebastiano Sonego
Hans Westman, Sebastiano Sonego
Events and observables in generally invariant spacetime theories
5 pages
Found. Phys. 38 (2008) 908-915
10.1007/s10701-008-9235-z
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We address the problem of observables in generally invariant spacetime theories such as Einstein's general relativity. Using the refined notion of an event as a ``point-coincidence'' between scalar fields that completely characterise a spacetime model, we propose a generalisation of the relational local observables that does not require the existence of four everywhere invertible scalar fields. The collection of all point-coincidences forms in generic situations a four-dimensional manifold, that is naturally identified with the physical spacetime.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:48:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:29:21 GMT" } ]
2009-06-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Westman", "Hans", "" ], [ "Sonego", "Sebastiano", "" ] ]
0708.1826
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
V. An, C. De Izarra (LASEP - EA3269), A. Korshunov, A. Godimchuk, Y. Amelkovich, G. Yablunovskii
Methods for The Testing of Nanopowder
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Methods for the testing of nanopowders produced by wires electric explosion were considered. The following characteristics were proposed for the testing of nanopowders : main substance content, characteristic sizes of particles, specific surface area etc..
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:51:57 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "An", "V.", "", "LASEP - EA3269" ], [ "De Izarra", "C.", "", "LASEP - EA3269" ], [ "Korshunov", "A.", "" ], [ "Godimchuk", "A.", "" ], [ "Amelkovich", "Y.", "" ], [ "Yablunovskii", "G.", "" ] ]
0708.1827
Arie Bodek
A. Bodek, S. Avvakumov, R. Bradford and H. Budd
Modeling Atmospheric Neutrino Interactions: Duality Constrained Parameterization of Vector and Axial Nucleon Form Factors
Presented by Arie Bodek at the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference ICRC07 July 3 - 11, 2007, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. 4 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-ex nucl-ex
null
We present new parameterizations of vector and axial nucleon form factors. We maintain an excellent descriptions of the form factors at low momentum transfers, where the spatial structure of the nucleon is important, and use the Nachtman scaling variable \xi to relate elastic and inelastic form factors and impose quark-hadron duality constraints at high momentum transfers where the quark structure dominates. We use the new vector form factors to re-extract updated values of the axial form factor from neutrino experiments on deuterium. We obtain an updated world average value from neutrino and pion electroproduction experiments of M_A = 1.0144 +- 0.0136 GeV/c2. Our parameterizations are useful in modeling atmospheric neutrino interactions (e.g. for neutrino oscillations experiments)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:29:25 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Bodek", "A.", "" ], [ "Avvakumov", "S.", "" ], [ "Bradford", "R.", "" ], [ "Budd", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.1828
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
Y.-S. Kwon, A. Ilyin, D. Tikhonov, V. An, A. Godimchuk, L. O. Tolbanova
Structure And Properties of Nanoparticles Formed under Conditions of Wire Electrical Explosion
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Structure and properties of nanoparticles formed under conditions of wire electrical explosion were studied. It was shown that the state of WEE power particles can be characterized as a metastable state. It leads to an increased stability of nanopowders at normal temperatures and an increased reactivity during heating, which is revealed in the form of threshold phenomena.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:56:45 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Kwon", "Y. -S.", "" ], [ "Ilyin", "A.", "" ], [ "Tikhonov", "D.", "" ], [ "An", "V.", "" ], [ "Godimchuk", "A.", "" ], [ "Tolbanova", "L. O.", "" ] ]
0708.1829
Toyoaki Suzuki
T. Suzuki, H. Kaneda, T. Nakagawa, S. Makiuti, Y. Okada, H. Shibai, M. Kawada, Y. Doi
Spatial Distributions of Cold and Warm Interstellar Dust in M101 Resolved with AKARI/Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS)
18 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ AKARI special issue
null
10.1093/pasj/59.sp2.S473
null
astro-ph
null
The nearby face-on spiral galaxy M101 has been observed with the Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard AKARI. The far-infrared four-band images reveal fine spatial structures of M101, which include global spiral patterns, giant HII regions embedded in outer spiral arms, and a bar-like feature crossing the center. The spectral energy distribution of the whole galaxy shows the presence of the cold dust component (18 K) in addition to the warm dust component (55 K). The distribution of the cold dust is mostly concentrated near the center, and exhibits smoothly distributed over the entire extent of the galaxy, whereas the distribution of the warm dust indicates some correlation with the spiral arms, and has spotty structures such as four distinctive bright spots in the outer disk in addition to a bar-like feature near the center tracing the CO intensity map. The star-formation activity of the giant HII regions that spatially correspond to the former bright spots is found to be significantly higher than that of the rest of the galaxy. The latter warm dust distribution implies that there are significant star-formation activities in the entire bar filled with molecular clouds. Unlike our Galaxy, M101 is a peculiar normal galaxy with extraordinary active star-forming regions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:57:33 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Suzuki", "T.", "" ], [ "Kaneda", "H.", "" ], [ "Nakagawa", "T.", "" ], [ "Makiuti", "S.", "" ], [ "Okada", "Y.", "" ], [ "Shibai", "H.", "" ], [ "Kawada", "M.", "" ], [ "Doi", "Y.", "" ] ]
0708.1830
Massimo Giovannini
Massimo Giovannini
Time-dependent gravitating solitons in five dimensional warped space-times
19 pages, 10 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:124017,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.124017
CERN-PH-TH/2007-143
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
Time-dependent soliton solutions are explicitly derived in a five-dimensional theory endowed with one (warped) extra-dimension. Some of the obtained geometries, everywhere well defined and technically regular, smoothly interpolate between two five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-times for fixed value of the conformal time coordinate. Time dependent solutions containing both topological and non-topological sectors are also obtained. Supplementary degrees of freedom can be also included and, in this case, the resulting multi-soliton solutions may describe time-dependent kink-antikink systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:58:14 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Giovannini", "Massimo", "" ] ]
0708.1831
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
Thomas Hielscher
Ultrasonic Production of Nano-Size Dispersions and Emulsions
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Ultrasound is a well-established method for particle size reduction in dispersions and emulsions. Ultrasonic processors are used in the generation of nano-size material slurries, dispersions and emulsions because of the potential in the deagglomeration and the reduction of primaries. These are the mechanical effects of ultrasonic cavitation. Ultrasound can also be used to influence chemical reactions by the cavitation energy. This is sonochemistry. As the market for nano-size materials grows, the demand for ultrasonic processes at production level increases. At this stage, energy efficiency becomes important. Since the energy required per weight or volume of processed material links directly to the equipment size required, optimization of the process efficiency is essential to reduce investment and operational costs. Furthermore it is required to scale the lab and bench top configurations to this final level without any variations in the process achievements. Scale up by power alone will not do this.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:58:52 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Hielscher", "Thomas", "" ] ]
0708.1832
Christoffer Karoff
C. Karoff
High-frequency modes in solar-like stars
11 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12340.x
null
astro-ph
null
p-mode oscillations in solar-like stars are excited by the outer convection zone in these stars and reflected close to the surface. The p-modes are trapped inside an acoustic cavity, but the modes only stay trapped up to a given frequency (known as the acoustic cut-off frequency) as modes with larger frequencies are generally not reflected at the surface. This means that modes with frequency larger than the acoustic cut-off frequency must be traveling waves. The high-frequency modes may provide information about the physics in the outer layers of the stars and the excitation source and are therefore highly interesting as it is the estimation of these two phenomena that causes some of the largest uncertainties when calculating stellar oscillations. High-frequency modes have been detected in the Sun, beta Hydri and in alpha Cen A & B by smoothing the so-called echelle diagram and the large frequency separation as a function of frequency have been estimated. The large frequency separation has been compared with a simple model of the acoustic cavity which suggests that the reflectivity of the photosphere is larger at high frequency than predicted by standard models of the solar atmosphere and that the depth of the excitation source is larger than what has been estimated by other models and might depend on the order n and degree l of the modes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:00:34 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Karoff", "C.", "" ] ]
0708.1833
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
C.-Y. Chou, C. Yuan, Chung-Jung Wu, K.-N. Chiang
Numerical Simulation of The Mechanical Properties of Nanoscale Metal Clusters Using The Atomistic-Continuum Mechanics Method
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
A novel atomistic-continuum method (ACM) based on finite element method (FEM) is proposed to numerically simulate the nano-scaled Poisson's ratio and Young's modulus effect of Lithium (Li) body-centered cubic (BCC) structure. The potential energy between Li atoms is described by the Morse potential function [1]. The pre-force effect will be discussed due to the different Li lattice length between experimental lattice constant and diatom distance from Morse function. Moreover, the size effect of the nano-scaled Li cluster will be introduced.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:01:09 GMT" } ]
2016-09-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Chou", "C. -Y.", "" ], [ "Yuan", "C.", "" ], [ "Wu", "Chung-Jung", "" ], [ "Chiang", "K. -N.", "" ] ]
0708.1834
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
K.-K. Likharev
CMOL: Second Life for Silicon?
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.other
null
This report is a brief review of the recent work on architectures for the prospective hybrid CMOS/nanowire/ nanodevice ("CMOL") circuits including digital memories, reconfigurable Boolean-logic circuits, and mixed-signal neuromorphic networks. The basic idea of CMOL circuits is to combine the advantages of CMOS technology (including its flexibility and high fabrication yield) with the extremely high potential density of molecular-scale two-terminal nanodevices. Relatively large critical dimensions of CMOS components and the "bottom-up" approach to nanodevice fabrication may keep CMOL fabrication costs at affordable level. At the same time, the density of active devices in CMOL circuits may be as high as 1012 cm2 and that they may provide an unparalleled information processing performance, up to 1020 operations per cm2 per second, at manageable power consumption.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:02:40 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Likharev", "K. -K.", "" ] ]
0708.1835
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
Hiroshi Mizumita, S. Oda
Bottom-Up Approach to Silicon Nanoelectronics
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
This paper presents a brief review of our recent work investigating a novel bottom-up approach to realize silicon based nanoelectronics. We discuss fabrication technique, electronic properties and device applications of silicon nanodots as a building block for nanoscale silicon devices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:03:02 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Mizumita", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Oda", "S.", "" ] ]
0708.1836
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
G. Zardalidis, I. Karafyllidis
Fundamental Building Blocks for The Design of A Single-electron Nanoelectronic Processor
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.other
null
A single-electron random access memory array (RAM) and a single-electron universal Fredkin gate are designed and simulated. The universality of the Fredkin gate in combination with the RAM gives the potential of the realization of an elementary single-electron nanoelectronic processor.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:03:30 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Zardalidis", "G.", "" ], [ "Karafyllidis", "I.", "" ] ]
0708.1837
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
H. Pettenghi, M.-J. Avedillo, J.-M. Quintana
Using Multi-Threshold Threshold Gates in RTD-based Logic Design. A Case Study
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.other
null
The basic building blocks for Resonant Tunnelling Diode (RTD) logic circuits are Threshold Gates (TGs) instead of the conventional Boolean gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR) due to the fact that, when designing with RTDs, threshold gates can be implemented as efficiently as conventional ones, but realize more complex functions. Recently, RTD structures implementing Multi-Threshold Threshold Gates (MTTGs) have been proposed which further increase the functionality of the original TGs while maintaining their operating principle and allowing also the implementation of nanopipelining at the gate level. This paper describes the design of n-bit adders using these MTTGs. A comparison with a design based on TGs is carried out showing advantages in terms of latency, device counts and power consumption.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:04:00 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Pettenghi", "H.", "" ], [ "Avedillo", "M. -J.", "" ], [ "Quintana", "J. -M.", "" ] ]
0708.1838
Ingo Steinwart
Ingo Steinwart, Clint Scovel
Fast rates for support vector machines using Gaussian kernels
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001226 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. 2, 575-607
10.1214/009053606000001226
IMS-AOS-AOS0237
math.ST stat.ML stat.TH
null
For binary classification we establish learning rates up to the order of $n^{-1}$ for support vector machines (SVMs) with hinge loss and Gaussian RBF kernels. These rates are in terms of two assumptions on the considered distributions: Tsybakov's noise assumption to establish a small estimation error, and a new geometric noise condition which is used to bound the approximation error. Unlike previously proposed concepts for bounding the approximation error, the geometric noise assumption does not employ any smoothness assumption.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:04:15 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Steinwart", "Ingo", "" ], [ "Scovel", "Clint", "" ] ]
0708.1839
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
Satoshi Hiyama, Y. Isogawa, T. Suda, Y. Moritani, Kazuo Sutoh
A Design of an Autonomous Molecule Loading/Transporting/Unloading System Using DNA Hybridization and Biomolecular Linear Motors
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
physics.bio-ph q-bio.MN
null
This paper describes a design of a molecular propagation system in molecular communication. Molecular communication is a new communication paradigm where biological and artificially-created nanomachines communicate over a short distance using molecules. A molecular propagation system in molecular communication directionally transports molecules from a sender to a receiver. In the design described in this paper, protein filaments glide over immobilized motor proteins along preconfigured microlithographic tracks, and the gliding protein filaments carry and transport molecules from a sender to a receiver. In the design, DNA hybridization is used to load and unload the molecules onto and from the carriers at a sender and a receiver. In the design, loading/transporting/unloading processes are autonomous and require no external control.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:04:42 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Hiyama", "Satoshi", "" ], [ "Isogawa", "Y.", "" ], [ "Suda", "T.", "" ], [ "Moritani", "Y.", "" ], [ "Sutoh", "Kazuo", "" ] ]
0708.1840
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
Mustapha Hamdi (LVR), Gaurav Sharma, A. Ferreira (LVR), Constantinos Mavroidis
Prototyping Bio-Nanorobots using Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
physics.bio-ph
null
This paper presents a molecular mechanics study using a molecular dynamics software (NAMD) coupled to virtual reality (VR) techniques for intuitive Bio-NanoRobotic prototyping. Using simulated Bio-Nano environments in VR, the operator can design and characterize through physical simulation and 3-D visualization the behavior of Bio-NanoRobotic components and structures. The main novelty of the proposed simulations is based on the characterization of stiffness performances of passive joints-based deca-alanine protein molecule and active joints-based viral protein motor (VPL) in their native environment. Their use as elementary Bio-NanoRobotic components (1 dof platform) are also simulated and the results discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:05:40 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Hamdi", "Mustapha", "", "LVR" ], [ "Sharma", "Gaurav", "", "LVR" ], [ "Ferreira", "A.", "", "LVR" ], [ "Mavroidis", "Constantinos", "" ] ]
0708.1841
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
C. Roman (TIMA), C. Ciuntu (TIMA), B. Courtois (TIMA)
A Framework for Computing Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotube-based Conductance Biochemical Sensors
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
In this paper we present a framework for fast quantum conductance calculations of carbon nanotube-based sensing devices targeting aromatic amino acids within a tight binding approximation. The method begins by a novel parameterization procedure based on isospectral matrix flows. With the properly parameterized Hamiltonian we employ a linearly scaling algorithm to compute the quantum conductance in the coherent transport regime. A few conclusions are presented regarding the suitability of carbon nanotubes in aromatic amino acid detection.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:06:06 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Roman", "C.", "", "TIMA" ], [ "Ciuntu", "C.", "", "TIMA" ], [ "Courtois", "B.", "", "TIMA" ] ]
0708.1842
Mircea Crisan
M. Crisan, I. Grosu, I. Tifrea
Zero temperature conductance of parallel T-shape double quantum dots
5 pages, revtex
Physica E 39, 214 (2007)
10.1016/j.physe.2007.04.008
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We analyze the zero temperature conductance of a parallel T-shaped double quantum dot system. We present an analytical expression for the conductance of the system in terms of the total number of electrons in both quantum dots. Our results confirm that the system's conductance is strongly influenced by the dot which is not directly connected to the leads. We discuss our results in connection with similar results reported in the literature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:06:23 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Crisan", "M.", "" ], [ "Grosu", "I.", "" ], [ "Tifrea", "I.", "" ] ]
0708.1843
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
C. Trapes, L. Rouai, L. Patrone (L2MP)
Electrical Characterisation of Ultra-thin SAM Structures
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
The way of reduction of metal oxyde semiconductor (MOS) structures is going to reach limitations and new devices have to be explored as an alternative to MOS technology. Molecular electronic and more particularly self-assembly-molecular technique on silicon substrate gives interesting results as seen in the literature. We are going to study n-alkyltrichlorosilane grafting on oxidised silicon, characterise it macroscopically with ellipsometer and goniometry measurements, and down to microscopic scale with atomic force microscopy. Once the uniformity of the monolayer is verified (roughness of few Angstr\"oms) we have tested a sputtering method deposition to form aluminium dots onto the surface. Also metal-insulator-semiconductor diodes are tested measuring both leakage current between gate and substrate and capacitance-voltage. The sputtering method deposition can be improved in order to decrease the gate leakage current and we would like to test another evaporation method. Further application we want to study is gas sensors using conjugated organic films or synthetic polymers and concerns the drift current with gas absorption.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:07:25 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Trapes", "C.", "", "L2MP" ], [ "Rouai", "L.", "", "L2MP" ], [ "Patrone", "L.", "", "L2MP" ] ]
0708.1844
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
S. Ecoffey, S. Mahapatra, V. Pott, D. Bouvet, G. Reimbold (LETI), A.-M. Ionescu
Low Temperature Investigation of Electrical Conduction in Polysilicon: Simulation and Experiment
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Investigation of electrical conduction in polysilicon nanowires (polySiNW) with nanograins (5 to 20nm), based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and electrical measurements from 4K to 300K are presented. Some irregular Coulomb Oscillations (CO) are observed at temperatures lower than 200K showing several period widths due to the random distribution in grain size (5-20nm). A remarkable result consists in more effective oscillations observed at intermediate range of temperatures (between 25K and 150K) and high drain voltages. The temperature dependence of COs is explained by the fact that in a multiple asymmetric dot system at low temperature, COs are observed not at the lowest but at an intermediate temperature range, whereas the drain voltage dependence is due to an enhanced non-resonant tunneling. MC simulations have confirmed experimental observations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:08:30 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Ecoffey", "S.", "", "LETI" ], [ "Mahapatra", "S.", "", "LETI" ], [ "Pott", "V.", "", "LETI" ], [ "Bouvet", "D.", "", "LETI" ], [ "Reimbold", "G.", "", "LETI" ], [ "Ionescu", "A. -M.", "" ] ]
0708.1845
Koji Hara
The Belle Collaboration: K. Abe, et al
Measurements of CP Violation Parameters in B0 -> Kspi0pi0 and B0 -> KsKs Decays
11 page, 2 figures, contributed to EPS 2007 and Lepton Photon 2007
null
null
BELLE-CONF-0723
hep-ex
null
We present a measurement of the CP violation parameters in B0 ->Kspi0pi0 and B0 -> KsKs decays using a data sample containing 657x10^6 BBbar pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider operating at the Y(4S) resonance. We measure SKspi0pi0 = +0.43+/-0.49+/-0.09, AKspi0pi0 = -0.17+/-0.24+/-0.06, SKsKs = -0.38+/-0.77+/-0.08 and AKsKs = -0.38+/-0.38+/-0.05, where the first and second errors are statistical and systematic, respectively.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:11:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:58:34 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "The Belle Collaboration", "", "" ], [ "Abe", "K.", "" ] ]
0708.1846
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
M. Vasiliev, V.-I. Belotelov, K. Alameh, R. Jeffery, V.-A. Kotov, A.-K. Zvezdin
Tunable Integrated-Optics Nanoscaled Devices Based on Magnetic Photonic Crystals
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Magnetooptical properties of magnetic photonic crystals have been investigated in the view of their possible applications for the modern integrated-optics devices. A "transfer matrices" formalism was expanded for the case of oblique light incidence on the periodic nanoscaled magnetic multilayered systems. Several new effects such as the Faraday effect dependence on the incidence angle and the tunability of the bandgap defect modes spectral location by external magnetic fields were found. Several possibilities of one-dimensional magnetic photonic crystals applications for the optical devices are discussed. Initial steps towards the practical implementation of the proposed devices are reported.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:12:32 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Vasiliev", "M.", "" ], [ "Belotelov", "V. -I.", "" ], [ "Alameh", "K.", "" ], [ "Jeffery", "R.", "" ], [ "Kotov", "V. -A.", "" ], [ "Zvezdin", "A. -K.", "" ] ]
0708.1847
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
Dongguang Li
Measurements of Luminescence from Cleaved Silicon
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
This paper outlines the results from experiments performed to gain further information about the structure and properties of cleaved silicon surfaces, using vacuum cleavage luminescence detection methods. The experiments involved detecting the luminescence produced by cleaving thin silicon plates within a high vacuum, by a process of converting the luminescence to an amplified electrical signal.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:13:28 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Li", "Dongguang", "" ] ]
0708.1848
Francoise Heres-Renzetti
A. Medvid, A. Mychko, P. Onufrievs
Self-Organization of a 2D Lattice on a Surface of Ge Single Crystal after Irradiation with Yag: ND Laser
Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)
Dans European Nano Systems Worshop - ENS 2005, Paris : France (2005)
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Experimentally observed self-organization of a 2D lattice on the surface of Ge single crystal after irradiation by pulsed YAG: Nd laser is repoted. The calculation of time depended distribution of temperature in bulk of the Ge sample show that overheating of the crystal lattice occurs at laser radiation intensities exceeding 30MW/cm2.The two temperature gradients are exists.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:14:49 GMT" } ]
2007-08-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Medvid", "A.", "" ], [ "Mychko", "A.", "" ], [ "Onufrievs", "P.", "" ] ]