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0708.2649
Pulak Ranjan Giri
Pulak Ranjan Giri
Quantization of neutron in Earth's gravity
2 pages, revtex, references added
null
null
SINP/TNP/2007/24
hep-th quant-ph
null
Gravity is the weakest of all four known forces in the universe. Quantum states of an elementary particle due to such a weak field is certainly very shallow and would therefore be an experimental challenge to detect. Recently an experimental attempt was made by V. V. Nesvizhevsky et al., Nature 415, 297 (2002), to measure the quantum states of a neutron, which shows that ground state and few excited states are \sim 10^{-12}eV. We show that the energy of the ground state of a neutron confined above Earth's surface should be \sim 10^{-37}eV. The experimentally observed energy levels are 10^{25} times deeper than the actual energy levels it should be and thus certainly not due to gravitational effect of Earth. Therefore the correct interpretation for the painstaking experimental results of Ref. \cite{nes1} is due to the confinement potential of a one dimensional box of length L \sim 50\mu m, generated from the experimental setup as commented before \cite{hansoon}. Our results thus creates a new challenge to the experimentalist to resolve the shallow energy levels of the neutron in Earth's gravitational field in future.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:57:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:18:45 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Giri", "Pulak Ranjan", "" ] ]
0708.2650
Marcos Montenegro
Jurandir Ceccon, Marcos Montenegro
Optimal L^p-Riemannian Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities
23 pages. To appear in Mathematische Zeitschrift
null
null
null
math.DG math.AP
null
Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension n \geq 2. In this work we prove the validity of the optimal L^p-Riemannian Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality for 1 < p \leq 2. Our proof relies strongly on a new distance lemma which. In particular, we extend L^p-Euclidean Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities due to Del Pino and Dolbeault and the optimal L^2-Riemannian Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality due to Broutteland in a unified framework.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:16:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:33:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:28:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:25:26 GMT" } ]
2007-08-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Ceccon", "Jurandir", "" ], [ "Montenegro", "Marcos", "" ] ]
0708.2651
Alexander Lytchak
Alexander Lytchak
Notes on the Jacobi equation
10 Pages, typos corrected, references added
null
null
null
math.DG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss some properties of Jacobi fields that do not involve assumptions on the curvature endomorphism. We compare indices of different spaces of Jacobi fields and give some applications to Riemannian geometry.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:07:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:52:54 GMT" } ]
2008-07-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Lytchak", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0708.2652
Takeo Kato
T. Kato, A. A. Golubov, Y. Nakamura
Decoherence in a superconducting flux qubit with a pi-junction
5 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.172502
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.supr-con
null
We consider the use of a pi-junction for flux qubits to realize degenerate quantum levels without external magnetic field. On the basis of the Caldeira-Leggett model, we derive an effective spin-Boson model, and study decoherece of this type of qubits. We estimate the dephasing time by using parameters from recent experiments of SIFS junctions, and show that high critical current and large subgap resistance are required for the pi-junction to realize a long coherent time.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:10:29 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kato", "T.", "" ], [ "Golubov", "A. A.", "" ], [ "Nakamura", "Y.", "" ] ]
0708.2653
Yury Bliokh P
Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Yuri P. Bliokh, Valentin Freilikher, Sergey Savel'ev, and Franco Nori
Unusual Resonators: Plasmonics, Metamaterials, and Random Media
13 pages, 9 figures
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1201 (2008)
10.1103/RevModPhys.80.1201
null
physics.optics cond-mat.other physics.plasm-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Superresolution, extraordinary transmission, total absorption, and localization of electromagnetic waves are currently attracting growing attention. These phenomena are related to different physical objects and are usually studied within the context of different, sometimes rather sophisticated, physical approaches. Remarkably, all these seemingly unrelated phenomena owe their origin to the same underlying physical mechanism - wave interaction with an open resonator. Here we show that it is possible to describe all of these effects in a unified way, mapping each system onto a simple resonator model. Such description provides a thorough understanding of the phenomena, explains all the main features of their complex behaviour, and enables to control the system via the resonator parameters: eigenfrequencies, Q-factors, and coupling coefficients.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:50:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:56:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:36:54 GMT" } ]
2008-10-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bliokh", "Konstantin Y.", "" ], [ "Bliokh", "Yuri P.", "" ], [ "Freilikher", "Valentin", "" ], [ "Savel'ev", "Sergey", "" ], [ "Nori", "Franco", "" ] ]
0708.2654
Claude Berthier
K. Hiraki (LSP, Gakushuin University, Tokyo), H. Mayaffre (LSP), M. Horvatic (LCMI), C. Berthier (LSP, Lcmi), S. Uji (NRIM), T. Yamaguchi (NRIM), H. Tanaka (AIST), A. Kobayashi (NIHON University), H. Kobayashi (Institute for Molecular Sciences), T. Takahashi (Gakushuin University, Tokyo)
$^{77}$Se NMR evidence for the Jaccarino-Peter mechanism in the field induced superconductor, $\lambda$(BETS)$_2$FeCl$_4$}
null
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 76, 12 (2007) 124708-1
10.1143/JPSJ.76.124708
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con
null
We have performed $^{77}$Se NMR on a single crystal sample of the field induced superconductor $\lambda$-(BETS)$_{2}$FeCl$_{4}$. Our results obtained in the paramagnetic state provide a microscopic insight on the exchange interaction $J$ between the spins \textbf{s} of the BETS $\pi$ conduction electrons and the Fe localized $d$ spins \textbf{S}. The absolute value of the Knight shift \textbf{K} decreases when the polarization of the Fe spins increases. This reflects the ``negative'' spin polarization of the $\pi$ electrons through the exchange interaction $J$. The value of $J$ has been estimated from the temperature and the magnetic field dependence of \textbf{K} and found in good agreement with that deduced from transport measurements (L. Balicas \textit{et al}. Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{87}, 067002 (2001)). This provides a direct microscopic evidence that the field induced superconductivity is due to the compensation effect predicted by Jaccarino and Peter (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{9}, 290 (1962)). Furthermore, an anomalous broadening of the NMR line has been observed at low temperature, which suggests the existence of charge disproportionation in the metallic state neighboring the superconducting phase.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:28:03 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hiraki", "K.", "", "LSP, Gakushuin University, Tokyo" ], [ "Mayaffre", "H.", "", "LSP" ], [ "Horvatic", "M.", "", "LCMI" ], [ "Berthier", "C.", "", "LSP, Lcmi" ], [ "Uji", "S.", "", "NRIM" ], [ "Yamaguchi", "T.", "", "NRIM" ], [ "Tanaka", "H.", "", "AIST" ], [ "Kobayashi", "A.", "", "NIHON University" ], [ "Kobayashi", "H.", "", "Institute\n for Molecular Sciences" ], [ "Takahashi", "T.", "", "Gakushuin University, Tokyo" ] ]
0708.2655
Andrew Buckley
Andy Buckley
CEDAR: tools for event generator tuning
13 pages, prepared for XI International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Amsterdam, April 23-27 2007
PoSACAT2007:050,2007
null
null
hep-ph
null
I describe the work of the CEDAR collaboration in developing tools for tuning and validating Monte Carlo event generator programs. The core CEDAR task is to interface the Durham HepData database of experimental measurements to event generator validation tools such as the UCL JetWeb system - this has necessitated the migration of HepData to a new relational database system and a Java-based interaction model. The "number crunching" part of JetWeb is also being upgraded, from the Fortran HZTool library to the new C++ Rivet system and a generator interfacing layer named RivetGun. Finally, I describe how Rivet is already being used as a central part of a new generator tuning system, and summarise two other CEDAR activities, HepML and HepForge.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:29:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:39:16 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Buckley", "Andy", "" ] ]
0708.2656
Elizabeth Winstanley
Elizabeth Winstanley
Hawking radiation from rotating brane black holes
19 pages, 13 figures, talk given at the ``Workshop on Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Black Holes and Naked Singularities II'', Milan, 10-12 May 2007
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
We review recent work on the Hawking radiation of rotating brane black holes, as may be produced at the LHC. We outline the methodology for calculating the fluxes of particles, energy and angular momentum by spin-0, spin-1/2 and spin-1 quantum fields on the brane. We briefly review some of the key features of the emission, in particular the changes in the spectra as the number of extra dimensions or the angular velocity of the black hole increases. These quantities will be useful for accurate simulations of black hole events at the LHC.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:56:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:50:11 GMT" } ]
2007-08-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Winstanley", "Elizabeth", "" ] ]
0708.2657
Daniel Burgarth
Daniel Burgarth, Vittorio Giovannetti
Mediated Homogenization
6 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 062307 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.062307
null
quant-ph
null
Homogenization protocols model the quantum mechanical evolution of a system to a fixed state independently from its initial configuration by repeatedly coupling it with a collection of identical ancillas. Here we analyze these protocols within the formalism of "relaxing" channels providing an easy to check sufficient condition for homogenization. In this context we describe mediated homogenization schemes where a network of connected qudits relaxes to a fixed state by only partially interacting with a bath. We also study configurations which allow us to introduce entanglement among the elements of the network. Finally we analyze the effect of having competitive configurations with two different baths and we prove the convergence to dynamical equilibrium for Heisenberg chains.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:40:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:11:21 GMT" } ]
2007-12-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Burgarth", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Giovannetti", "Vittorio", "" ] ]
0708.2658
Marek Zawadowski
Marek Zawadowski
On positive opetopes, positive opetopic cardinals and positive opetopic set
88 pages
null
null
null
math.GT
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We introduce the notion of a positive opetope and positive opetopic cardinals as certain finite combinatorial structures. The positive opetopic cardinals to positive-to-one polygraphs are like simple graphs to free omega-categories over omega-graphs, c.f. [MZ]. In particular, they allow us to give an explicit combinatorial description of positive-to-one polygraphs. Using this description we show, among other things, that positive-to-one polygraphs form a presheaf category with the exponent category being the category of positive opetopes. We also show that the category of omega-categories is monadic over the category of positive-to-one polygraphs with the `free functor' being an inclusion.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:44:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:18:21 GMT" } ]
2023-04-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Zawadowski", "Marek", "" ] ]
0708.2659
Marek Zawadowski
Marek Zawadowski
On ordered face structures and many-to-one computads
97 pages; some minor errors corrected
null
null
null
math.CT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce the notion of an ordered face structure. The ordered face structures to many-to-one computads are like positive face structures to positive-to-one computads. This allow us to give an explicit combinatorial description of many-to-one computads in terms of ordered face structures.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:48:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:22:10 GMT" } ]
2008-06-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Zawadowski", "Marek", "" ] ]
0708.2660
Grzegorz Wilk
G.Wilk and Z.Wlodarczyk
Tsallis distribution from minimally selected order statistics
Presented by G.Wilk at the Int. Conf. on Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Catania, Catania, 1-5 July 2007, Italy. To appear in the proceedings
AIP Conference Proceedings 965 (2007) 76-79
10.1063/1.2828762
null
cond-mat.stat-mech hep-ph
null
We demonstrate that selection of the minimal value of ordered variables leads in a natural way to its distribution being given by the Tsallis distribution, the same as that resulting from Tsallis nonextensive statistics. The possible application of this result to the multiparticle production processes is indicated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:53:25 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wilk", "G.", "" ], [ "Wlodarczyk", "Z.", "" ] ]
0708.2661
Vernesa Smolcic
V. Smolcic, D. Zucker, E. F. Bell, M. G. Coleman, H. W. Rix, E. Schinnerer, Z. Ivezic, A. Kniazev
Improved photometry of SDSS crowded field images: Structure and dark matter content in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo I
13 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in AJ
Astron.J.134:1901-1915,2007
10.1086/522369
null
astro-ph
null
We explore how well crowded field point-source photometry can be accomplished with SDSS data: We present a photometric pipeline based on DoPhot, and tuned for analyzing crowded-field images from the SDSS. Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that the completeness of source extraction is above 80% to i < 21 (AB) and a stellar surface density of about 200 sq.amin. Hence, a specialized data pipeline can efficiently be used for e.g. nearby resolved galaxies in SDSS images, where the standard SDSS photometric package Photo, when applied in normal survey mode, gives poor results. We apply our pipeline to an area of about 3.55sq.deg. around the dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) Leo I, and construct a high S/N star-count map of Leo I via an optimized filter in color-magnitude space (g,r,i). Although the radial surface-density profile of the dwarf deviates from the best fit empirical King model towards outer radii, we find no evidence for tidal debris out to a stellar surface-density of 4*10^(-3) of the central value. We determine the total luminosity of Leo I, and model its mass using the spherical and isotropic Jeans equation. Assuming that 'mass follows light' we constrain a lower limit of the total mass of the dSph to be (1.7+/-0.2)*10^7 Msol. Contrary, if the mass in Leo I is dominated by a constant density dark-matter (DM) halo, then the mass within the central 12' is (2+/-0.6)*10^8 Msol. This leads to a mass-to-light ratio of >>6 (Ic_sol), and possibly >75 if the DM halo dominates the mass and extends further out than 12'. In summary, our results show that Leo I is a symmetric, relaxed and bound system; this supports the idea that Leo I is a dark-matter dominated system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:21:43 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Smolcic", "V.", "" ], [ "Zucker", "D.", "" ], [ "Bell", "E. F.", "" ], [ "Coleman", "M. G.", "" ], [ "Rix", "H. W.", "" ], [ "Schinnerer", "E.", "" ], [ "Ivezic", "Z.", "" ], [ "Kniazev", "A.", "" ] ]
0708.2662
Martin Kirkengen
Martin Kirkengen, Joakim Bergli, Yuri M. Galperin
Direct generation of charge carriers in c-Si solar cells due to embedded nanoparticles
1 figure
null
10.1063/1.2809368
null
cond-mat.other
null
It is known that silicon is an indirect band gap material, reducing its efficiency in photovoltaic applications. Using surface plasmons in metallic nanoparticles embedded in a solar cell has recently been proposed as a way to increase the efficiency of thin film silicon solar cells. The dipole mode that dominates the plasmons in small particles produces an electric field having Fourier components with all wave numbers. In this work, we show that such a field creates electron-hole-pairs without phonon assistance, and discuss the importance of this effect compared to radiation from the particle and losses due to heating.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:55:39 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kirkengen", "Martin", "" ], [ "Bergli", "Joakim", "" ], [ "Galperin", "Yuri M.", "" ] ]
0708.2663
Joshua E. S. Socolar
Joshua E. S. Socolar
Hexagonal parquet tilings: k-isohedral monotiles with arbitrarily large k
7 pages, 8 figures. Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer. NOTE: The MI mistakenly published an earlier draft
Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 29, Number 2, pages 33-38 (2007)
null
null
cond-mat.other math.GM math.MG
null
This paper addresses the question of whether a single tile with nearest neighbor matching rules can force a tiling in which the tiles fall into a large number of isohedral classes. A single tile is exhibited that can fill the Euclidean plane only with a tiling that contains k distinct isohedral sets of tiles, where k can be made arbitrarily large. It is shown that the construction cannot work for a simply connected 2D tile with matching rules for adjacent tiles enforced by shape alone. It is also shown that any of the following modifications allows the construction to work: (1) coloring the edges of the tiling and imposing rules on which colors can touch; (2) allowing the tile to be multiply connected; (3) requiring maximum density rather than space-filling; (4) allowing the tile to have a thickness in the third dimension.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:08:43 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Socolar", "Joshua E. S.", "" ] ]
0708.2664
Charles Young
N. Crampe, C. A. S. Young
Sutherland Models for Complex Reflection Groups
26 pages, 8 figures, latex; v3, acknowledgement added
Nucl.Phys.B797:499-519,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.028
DCPT-07/41
math-ph hep-th math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
There are known to be integrable Sutherland models associated to every real root system -- or, which is almost equivalent, to every real reflection group. Real reflection groups are special cases of complex reflection groups. In this paper we associate certain integrable Sutherland models to the classical family of complex reflection groups. Internal degrees of freedom are introduced, defining dynamical spin chains, and the freezing limit taken to obtain static chains of Haldane-Shastry type. By considering the relation of these models to the usual BC_N case, we are led to systems with both real and complex reflection groups as symmetries. We demonstrate their integrability by means of new Dunkl operators, associated to wreath products of dihedral groups.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:04:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:32:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 18 May 2010 06:48:17 GMT" } ]
2010-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Crampe", "N.", "" ], [ "Young", "C. A. S.", "" ] ]
0708.2665
Hans Dijkstra
H. Dijkstra
The LHCb Upgrade
Flavor Physics & CP Violation Conference, Bled, 2007
ECONFC070512:027,2007
null
fpcp07-423
hep-ex
null
The LHCb detector has been designed to study CP violation and other rare phenomena in B-meson decays up to a luminosity of $\sim 5.10^{32}\rm cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. This paper will describe what is limiting LHCb to exploit the much higher luminosities available at the LHC, and what are the baseline modifications which will remedy these limitations. The aim of SuperLHCb is to increase the yields in hadronic B-decay channels by about a factor twenty compared to LHCb, while for channels with leptons in the final state a factor ten increase in statistics is envisaged.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:06:58 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Dijkstra", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.2666
Francois Fillastre
Fran\c{c}ois Fillastre, Ivan Izmestiev (IFM)
Hyperbolic cusps with convex polyhedral boundary
null
Geom. Topol. 13 (2009) 457-492
10.2140/gt.2009.13.457
null
math.DG
null
We prove that a 3-dimensional hyperbolic cusp with convex polyhedral boundary is uniquely determined by the metric induced on its boundary. Furthemore, any hyperbolic metric on the torus with cone singularities of positive curvature can be realized as the induced metric on the boundary of a convex polyhedral cusp. The proof uses the total scalar curvature functional on the space of ``cusps with particles'', which are hyperbolic cone-manifolds with the singular locus a union of half-lines. We prove, in addition, that convex polyhedral cusps with particles are rigid with respect to the induced metric on the boundary and the curvatures of the singular locus. Our main theorem is equivalent to a part of a general statement about isometric immersions of compact surfaces.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:07:45 GMT" } ]
2014-11-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Fillastre", "François", "", "IFM" ], [ "Izmestiev", "Ivan", "", "IFM" ] ]
0708.2667
Michael Hartmann Mr
Michael J. Hartmann and Martin B. Plenio
Migration of bosonic particles across a Mott insulator to superfluid phase interface
5 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070602 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.070602
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.stat-mech quant-ph
null
We consider a boundary between a Mott insulator and a superfluid region of a Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling. Initially both regions are decoupled and cooled to their respective ground states. We show that, after switching on a small tunneling rate between both regions, all particles of the Mott region migrate to the superfluid area. This migration takes place whenever the difference between the chemical potentials of both regions is less than the maximal energy of any eigenmode of the superfluid. We verify our results numerically with DMRG simulations and explain them analytically with a master equation approximation, finding good agreement between both approaches. Finally we carry out a feasibility study for the observation of the effect in coupled arrays of micro-cavities and optical lattices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:08:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:07:46 GMT" } ]
2008-02-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Hartmann", "Michael J.", "" ], [ "Plenio", "Martin B.", "" ] ]
0708.2668
Daniel Reem
Daniel Reem, Simeon Reich
Zone and double zone diagrams in abstract spaces
17 pages, 5 figures; slight modifications and additions (including thanks); Theorem 5.5 was slightly improved. This version is essentially from the beginning of 2009 and it does not take into account several developments which have occurred since then
Colloquium Mathematicum 115 (2009), 129-145
10.4064/cm115-1-11
null
math.MG cs.CG math.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A zone diagram is a relatively new concept which was first defined and studied by T. Asano, J. Matousek and T. Tokuyama. It can be interpreted as a state of equilibrium between several mutually hostile kingdoms. Formally, it is a fixed point of a certain mapping. These authors considered the Euclidean plane and proved the existence and uniqueness of zone diagrams there. In the present paper we generalize this concept in various ways. We consider general sites in m-spaces (a simple generalization of metric spaces) and prove several existence and (non)uniqueness results in this setting. In contrast to previous works, our (rather simple) proofs are based on purely order theoretic arguments. Many explicit examples are given, and some of them illustrate new phenomena which occur in the general case. We also re-interpret zone diagrams as a stable configuration in a certain combinatorial game, and provide an algorithm for finding this configuration in a particular case.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:35:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:30:41 GMT" } ]
2017-03-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Reem", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Reich", "Simeon", "" ] ]
0708.2669
Liviu Nicolaescu
Liviu I. Nicolaescu
Schubert calculus on the grassmannian of hermitian lagrangian spaces
52 pages, 1 figure. Fixed typos, added new references
null
null
null
math.GT math.AT math.DG
null
The grassmannian of hermitian lagrangian spaces in $\mathbb{C}^n\oplus \mathbb{C}^n$ is a natural compactification of the space of hermitian $n\times n$ matrices. We describe a Schubert-like, Whitney regular stratification on this space which has a Morse theoretic origin. We prove that these strata define closed subanalytic currents \`{a} la R. Hardt, generating the integral homology of this space, we investigate their intersection theoretic properties, and we prove certain odd (in K-theoretic sense) Thom-Porteous type theorems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:11:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:24:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:32:38 GMT" } ]
2007-09-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Nicolaescu", "Liviu I.", "" ] ]
0708.2670
Christian Hoerhammer
C. Hoerhammer and H. Buettner
Environment-induced two-mode entanglement in quantum Brownian motion
8 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.042305
null
quant-ph
null
The time evolution of quantum correlations of entangled two-mode continuous variable states is examined in single-reservoir as well as two-reservoir models, representing noisy correlated or uncorrelated non-Markovian quantum channels. For this purpose the model of quantum Brownian motion is extended. Various separability criteria for Gaussian continuous variable systems are applied. In both types of reservoir models moderate non-Markovian effects prolong the separability time scales. However, in these models the properties of the stationary state may differ. In the two-reservoir model the initial entanglement is completely lost and both modes are finally uncorrelated. In a common reservoir both modes interact indirectly via the coupling to the same bath variables. Below a critical bath temperature entanglement between the two modes is preserved even in the steady state. A separability criterion is derived, which depends on the bath temperature and the response function of the open quantum system. Thus, the extended quantum Brownian motion model of a two-mode continuous variable system in a common reservoir provides an example of environment-induced entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:46:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:49:15 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hoerhammer", "C.", "" ], [ "Buettner", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.2671
Michael Kapovich
Michael Kapovich
On sequences of finitely generated discrete groups
21 pages, 1 figure
null
null
null
math.GR math.GT
null
We consider sequences of finitely generated discrete subgroups Gamma_i=rho_i(Gamma) of a rank 1 Lie group G, where the representations rho_i are not necessarily faithful. We show that, for algebraically convergent sequences (Gamma_i), unless Gamma_i's are (eventually) elementary or contain normal finite subgroups of arbitrarily high order, their algebraic limit is a discrete nonelementary subgroup of G. In the case of divergent sequences (Gamma_i) we show that the limiting action on a real tree T satisfies certain semistability condition, which generalizes the notion of stability introduced by Rips. We then verify that the group Gamma splits as an amalgam or HNN extension of finitely generated groups, so that the edge group has an amenable image in the isometry group of T.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:34:06 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Kapovich", "Michael", "" ] ]
0708.2672
Nathan de Vries
N. de Vries, I.A.G. Snellen, R.T. Schilizzi, M.D. Lehnert and M.N. Bremer
Massive galaxies with very young AGN
To appear in the proceedings of "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges", IAUS 245; M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula & B. Barbuy, eds
null
10.1017/S1743921308017870
null
astro-ph
null
Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) radio galaxies are generally thought to be the young counterparts of classical extended radio sources and live in massive ellipticals. GPS sources are vital for studying the early evolution of radio-loud AGN, the trigger of their nuclear activity, and the importance of feedback in galaxy evolution. We study the Parkes half-Jansky sample of GPS radio galaxies of which now all host galaxies have been identified and 80% has their redshifts determined (0.122 < z < 1.539). Analysis of the absolute magnitudes of the GPS host galaxies show that at z > 1 they are on average a magnitude fainter than classical 3C radio galaxies. This suggests that the AGN in young radio galaxies have not yet much influenced the overall properties of the host galaxy. However their restframe UV luminosities indicate that there is a low level of excess as compared to passive evolution models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:34:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "de Vries", "N.", "" ], [ "Snellen", "I. A. G.", "" ], [ "Schilizzi", "R. T.", "" ], [ "Lehnert", "M. D.", "" ], [ "Bremer", "M. N.", "" ] ]
0708.2673
Yosef Verbin
Y. Verbin
Solitonic and Non-Solitonic Q-Stars
To appear in the proceedings of 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, July 2006
null
10.1142/9789812834300_0396
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
The properties of several types of Q-stars are studied and compared with their flat space analogues, i.e. Q-balls. The analysis is based on calculating the mass, global U(1) charge and binding energy for families of solutions parametrized by the central value of the scalar field. The two most frequently used Q-star models (differing by their potential term) are studied. Although there are general similarities between both Q-star types, there are important differences as well as new features with respect to the non-gravitating systems. We find non-solitonic solutions which do not have a flat space limit, in the weak (scalar) field region as well as in the opposite region of strong central scalar field for which there does not exist Q-ball solutions at all.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:36:28 GMT" } ]
2016-11-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Verbin", "Y.", "" ] ]
0708.2674
Jussi Lindgren I
Jussi Ilmari Lindgren
Governing Dynamics from cause and effect: -A novel formulation for causality with applications in Quantum Gravity and Economic Theory
null
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This paper defines an equation for causality. This equation is then combined with the postulates of quantum mechanics and mass-energy equivalence to produce a quantum mechanical telegrapher's equation and to reproduce the Schrodinger and Klein-Gordon equations. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and dynamic general equilibrium in economics (with an interpretation of a Nash equilibrium) are obtained when the equation of causality refers to itself, i.e. when the cause is its own effect. As it is shown that the Klein-Gordon equation is obtained by Wick rotating the cause vector with de Broglie angular frequency, this paper postulates an equation for Quantum Gravity, which relates the Navier-Stokes equations to the Einstein Field Equations of General Relativity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:36:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:17:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:11:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:21:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:57:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v6", "created": "Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:23:33 GMT" } ]
2014-02-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Lindgren", "Jussi Ilmari", "" ] ]
0708.2675
Igor Strakovsky
Ya. Azimov (PNPI), K. Goeke (Ruhr-Universitet), I. Strakovsky (GWU)
An explanation why the Theta+ is seen in some experiments and not in others
The shortened and slightly modified version of arXiv:0704.3045, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D76:074013,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.074013
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
null
To understand the whole set of positive and null data on the Theta+(1530) - production, we suggest the hypothesis that multiquark hadrons are mainly generated from many-quark states, which emerge either as short-term hadron fluctuations, or as hadron remnants in hard processes. This approach allows us to describe both non-observation of the Theta+ in current null experiments and peculiar features of its production in positive experiments. Further, we are able to propose new experiments that might be decisive for the problem of the Theta+ existence. Studies of properties and distributions of the Theta+ in such experiments can give important information on the structure of both conventional and multiquark hadrons. It would provide better insight into how QCD works.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:42:16 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Azimov", "Ya.", "", "PNPI" ], [ "Goeke", "K.", "", "Ruhr-Universitet" ], [ "Strakovsky", "I.", "", "GWU" ] ]
0708.2676
Yuri Lyubchik
Yu. Lyubchik (MAO Nasu), H. R. A. Jones (CAR Uh), Ya. V. Pavlenko (MAO Nasu), E. Martin (IAC, Ucf), I. S. McLean (UCLA), L. Prato (Lowell Obs.), R. J. Barber (UCL), J. Tennyson (UCL)
Spectral analysis of high resolution near-infrared spectra of ultra cool dwarfs
11 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables; accepted for publication in the Astron. and Astrophys
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20065386
null
astro-ph
null
We present an analysis of high resolution spectra in the J band of five ultra cool dwarfs from M6 to L0. A new ab initio water vapour line list and existing line lists of FeH and CrH were used for spectra modelling. We find a good fit for the Mn I 12899.76 A line. This feature is one of the few for which we have a reliable oscillator strength. Other atomic features are present but most of the observed features are FeH and water lines. While we are uncertain about the quality of many of the atomic line parameters, the FeH and CrH line lists predict a number of features which are not apparent in our observed spectra. We infer that the main limiting factor in our spectral analysis is the FeH and CrH molecular spectra.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:42:58 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Lyubchik", "Yu.", "", "MAO Nasu" ], [ "Jones", "H. R. A.", "", "CAR Uh" ], [ "Pavlenko", "Ya. V.", "", "MAO\n Nasu" ], [ "Martin", "E.", "", "IAC, Ucf" ], [ "McLean", "I. S.", "", "UCLA" ], [ "Prato", "L.", "", "Lowell Obs." ], [ "Barber", "R. J.", "", "UCL" ], [ "Tennyson", "J.", "", "UCL" ] ]
0708.2677
Andres Santos
Rene D. Rohrmann and Andres Santos
Structure of hard-hypersphere fluids in odd dimensions
18 pages, 7 figures; v2: new references added plus minor changes; to be published in PRE
Phys. Rev. E 76, 051202 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.051202
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.soft physics.chem-ph
null
The structural properties of single component fluids of hard hyperspheres in odd space dimensionalities $d$ are studied with an analytical approximation method that generalizes the Rational Function Approximation earlier introduced in the study of hard-sphere fluids [S. B. Yuste and A. Santos, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 43}, 5418 (1991)]. The theory makes use of the exact form of the radial distribution function to first order in density and extends it to finite density by assuming a rational form for a function defined in Laplace space, the coefficients being determined by simple physical requirements. Fourier transform in terms of reverse Bessel polynomials constitute the mathematical framework of this approximation, from which an analytical expression for the static structure factor is obtained. In its most elementary form, the method recovers the solution of the Percus-Yevick closure to the Ornstein-Zernike equation for hyperspheres at odd dimension. The present formalism allows one to go beyond by yielding solutions with thermodynamic consistency between the virial and compressibility routes to any desired equation of state. Excellent agreement with available computer simulation data at $d=5$ and $d=7$ is obtained. As a byproduct of this study, an exact and explicit polynomial expression for the intersection volume of two identical hyperspheres in arbitrary odd dimensions is given.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:46:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:51:59 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Rohrmann", "Rene D.", "" ], [ "Santos", "Andres", "" ] ]
0708.2678
Michael Sigalov
M. Sigalov, E.O. Kamenetskii, and R. Shavit
Eigen electric moments of magnetic-dipolar modes in quasi-2D ferrite disk particles
null
null
10.1007/s00340-008-3168-2
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall
null
A property associated with a vortex structure becomes evident from an analysis of confinement phenomena of magnetic oscillations in a quasi-2D ferrite disk with a dominating role of magnetic-dipolar (non-exchange-interaction) spectra. The vortices are guaranteed by the chiral edge states of magnetic-dipolar modes which result in appearance of eigen electric moments oriented normally to the disk plane. Due to the eigen-electric-moment properties, a ferrite disk placed in a microwave cavity is strongly affected by the cavity RF electric field with a clear evidence for multi-resonance oscillations. For different cavity parameters, one may observe the "resonance absorption" and "resonance repulsion" behaviors.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:59:17 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sigalov", "M.", "" ], [ "Kamenetskii", "E. O.", "" ], [ "Shavit", "R.", "" ] ]
0708.2679
Yitzhak Shnidman
Ismael Yacoubou-Djima and Yitzhak Shnidman (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
Flow-deformed conformations of entangled polymers as persistent random walks
76 pages, 11 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.stat-mech
null
Evolving structure and rheology across Kuhn scale interfaces in entangled polymer fluids under flow play a prominent role in processing of manufactured plastics, and have numerous other applications. Quantitative tracking of chain conformation statistics on the Kuhn scale is essential for developing computational models of such phenomena. For this purpose, we formulate here a two-scale/two-mode model of entangled polymer chains under flow. Each chain is partitioned by successive entanglements into strands that are in one of two modes: entangled or dangling. On the strand scale, conformation statistics of ideal (non-interacting) strands follows a differential evolution equation for the second moment of its end-to-end distance. The latter regulates persistent random walks sampling conformation statistics of ideal entangled strands on the Kuhn scale, as follows from a generalized Green-Kubo relation and the Maximum Entropy Principle. We test it numerically for a range of deformation rates at the start-up of simple elongational and shear flows. A self-consistent potential, representing segmental interactions, modifies strand conformation statistics on the Kuhn scale, as it renormalizes the parameters controlling the persistent random walk. The generalized Green-Kubo relation is then inverted to determine how the second moment of the strand end-to-end distance is changed by the self-consistent potential. This allows us to devise a two-scale propagation scheme for the statistical weights of subchains of the entangled chain. The latter is used to calculate local volume fractions for each chemical type of Kuhn segments in entangled chains, thus determining the self-consistent potential.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:06:31 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Yacoubou-Djima", "Ismael", "", "College of Staten Island,\n City University of New York" ], [ "Shnidman", "Yitzhak", "", "College of Staten Island,\n City University of New York" ] ]
0708.2680
Gunnar M\"oller
Gunnar Moller, Steven H. Simon
Paired composite fermion wavefunctions
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. B 77, 075319 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075319
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We construct a family of BCS paired composite fermion wavefunctions that generalize, but remain in the same topological phase as, the Moore-Read Pfaffian state for the half-filled Landau level. It is shown that for a wide range of experimentally relevant inter-electron interactions the groundstate can be very accurately represented in this form.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:52:05 GMT" } ]
2008-02-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Moller", "Gunnar", "" ], [ "Simon", "Steven H.", "" ] ]
0708.2681
Mikhail Kononenko
M.M. Kononenko
Super-light electromagnetic wave with longitudinal and transversal modes
12 pages, 1 figure
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
The transformation converting equations invariant under Lorentz into the equations invariant under Galileo is obtained. On this basis: (1) the super-light electromagnetic wave with longitudinal and transversal modes is found out; (2) it is shown the wave velocity coincides with that of de Broglie's wave; (3) the connection between Maxwell's electrodynamics and Shredinger's equation is established; (4) structural elements of space are discovered and "a horizon of visibility" is found. It is shown Bell's inequalities and the principle of the light speed constancy are based on the SRT artifact and "Einstein's local realism" is determined by the wave referred above. Objectivity of results for quantum and classical objects is discussed
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:21:03 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Kononenko", "M. M.", "" ] ]
0708.2682
Mark Westmoquette
M.S. Westmoquette, L.J. Smith, J.S. Gallagher III and K.M. Exter
Gemini GMOS/IFU spectroscopy of NGC 1569 - II: Mapping the roots of the galactic outflow
21 pages, 23 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12252.x
null
astro-ph
null
We present a set of four Gemini-North GMOS/IFU observations of the central disturbed regions of the dwarf irregular starburst galaxy NGC 1569, surrounding the well-known super star clusters A and B. This continues on directly from a companion paper, in which we describe the data reduction and analysis techniques employed and present the analysis of one of the IFU pointings. By decomposing the emission line profiles across the IFU fields, we map out the properties of each individual component identified and identify a number of relationships and correlations that allow us to investigate in detail the state of the ionized ISM. Our observations support and expand on the main findings from the analysis of the first IFU position, where we conclude that a broad (< 400 km/s) component underlying the bright nebular emission lines is produced in a turbulent mixing layer on the surface of cool gas knots, set up by the impact of the fast-flowing cluster winds. We discuss the kinematic, electron density and excitation maps of each region in detail and compare our results to previous studies. Our analysis reveals a very complex environment with many overlapping and superimposed components, including dissolving gas knots, rapidly expanding shocked shells and embedded ionizing sources, but no evidence for organised bulk motions. We conclude that the four IFU positions presented here lie well within the starburst region where energy is injected, and, from the lack of substantial ordered gas flows, within the quasi-hydrostatic zone of the wind interior to the sonic point. The net outflow occurs at radii beyond 100-200 pc, but our data imply that mass-loading of the hot ISM is active even at the roots of the wind.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:21:43 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Westmoquette", "M. S.", "" ], [ "Smith", "L. J.", "" ], [ "Gallagher", "J. S.", "III" ], [ "Exter", "K. M.", "" ] ]
0708.2683
Jesse Johnson
Jesse Johnson
Automorphisms of the three-torus preserving a genus three Heegaard splitting
21 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
math.GT
null
The mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting is the group of connected components in the set of automorphisms of the ambient manifold that map the Heegaard surface onto itself. For the genus three Heegaard splitting of the 3-torus, we find an eight element generating set for this group. Six of these generators induce generating elements of the mapping class group of the 3-torus and the remaining two are isotopy trivial in the 3-torus.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:23:27 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Johnson", "Jesse", "" ] ]
0708.2684
Dima Khavinson
C. D. Fassnacht, C. R. Keeton and D. Khavinson
Gravitational lensing by Elliptical Galaxies, and the Schwarz Function
16 pages, 7 figures based on a pleanry talk at the international conference on analysis and mathematical physics "New Trends in Complex and Harmonic Analysis", May 7 - 12, 2007, Voss, Norway
null
null
null
math-ph astro-ph math.CV math.MP
null
We discuss gravitational lensing by elliptical galaxies with some particular mass distributions. Using simple techniques from the theory of quadrature domains and the Schwarz function (cf. \cite{Sh}) we show that when the mass density is constant on confocal ellipses, the total number of lensed images of a point source cannot exceed 5 (4 bright images and 1 dim image). Also, using the Dive--Nikliborc converse of the celebrated Newton's theorem concerning the potentials of ellipsoids, we show that ``Einstein rings'' must always be either circles (in the absence of a tidal shear), or ellipses.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:12:25 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Fassnacht", "C. D.", "" ], [ "Keeton", "C. R.", "" ], [ "Khavinson", "D.", "" ] ]
0708.2685
Sebastian Burciu M
S. Burciu
A class of quantum doubles which are ribbon algebras
Some details are added. Corollary 2.4 and the remark after it are reformulated. Section 4 with a general tareatment is added. References are updated
null
null
null
math.RA math.QA
null
Andruskiewitsch and Schneider classify a large class of pointed Hopf algebras with abelian coradical. The quantum double of each such Hopf algebra is investigated. The quantum doubles of a family of Hopf algebras from the above classification are ribbon Hopf algebras.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:35:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:31:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:54:38 GMT" } ]
2007-12-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Burciu", "S.", "" ] ]
0708.2686
Darko Roglic
D. Roglic
The universal evolutionary computer based on super-recursive algorithms of evolvability
7 pages, 1 table, 1 figure
null
null
null
cs.NE
null
This work exposes which mechanisms and procesess in the Nature of evolution compute a function not computable by Turing machine. The computer with intelligence that is not higher than one bacteria population could have, but with efficency to solve the problems that are non-computable by Turing machine is represented. This theoretical construction is called Universal Evolutinary Computer and it is based on the superecursive algorithms of evolvability.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:50:22 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Roglic", "D.", "" ] ]
0708.2687
Stephan Gift PhD
Stephan J. G. Gift
Light Speed Invariance is a Remarkable Illusion
12 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
Though many experiments appear to have confirmed the light speed invariance postulate of special relativity theory, this postulate is actually unverified. This paper resolves this issue by first showing the manner in which an illusion of light speed invariance occurs in two-way light speed measurement in the framework of a semi-classical absolute space theory. It then demonstrates a measurable variation of the one-way speed of light, which directly invalidates the invariance postulate and confirms the existence of the preferred reference frame of the absolute space theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:50:23 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Gift", "Stephan J. G.", "" ] ]
0708.2688
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz
M. Baron, J. Blawzdziewicz, E. Wajnryb
Hydrodynamic crystals: collective dynamics of regular arrays of spherical particles in a parallel-wall channel
4 pages 6 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, Art. No .174502 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174502
null
cond-mat.soft
null
Simulations of over $10^3$ hydrodynamically coupled solid spheres are performed to investigate collective motion of linear trains and regular square arrays of particles suspended in a fluid bounded by two parallel walls. Our novel accelerated Stokesian-dynamics algorithm relies on simplifications associated with the Hele--Shaw asymptotic far-field form of the flow scattered by the particles. The simulations reveal propagation of particle-displacement waves, deformation and rearrangements of a particle lattice, propagation of dislocation defects in ordered arrays, and long-lasting coexistence of ordered and disordered regions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:58:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:50 GMT" } ]
2008-04-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Baron", "M.", "" ], [ "Blawzdziewicz", "J.", "" ], [ "Wajnryb", "E.", "" ] ]
0708.2689
Ikuko Hamamoto
Ikuko Hamamoto
Nilsson diagrams for light neutron-rich nuclei with weakly-bound neutrons
12 pages, 5 figures
Phys.Rev.C76:054319,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.054319
null
nucl-th
null
Using Woods-Saxon potentials and the eigenphase formalism for one-particle resonances, one-particle bound and resonant levels for neutrons as a function of quadrupole deformation are presented, which are supposed to be useful for the interpretation of spectroscopic properties of some light neutron-rich nuclei with weakly-bound neutrons. Compared with Nilsson diagrams in text books which are constructed using modified oscillator potentials, we point out a systematic change of the shell structure in connection with both weakly-bound and resonant one-particle levels related to small orbital angular momenta $\ell$. Then, it is seen that weakly-bound neutrons in nuclei such as $^{15-19}$C and $^{33-37}$Mg may prefer to being deformed as a result of Jahn-Teller effect, due to the near degeneracy of the 1d$_{5/2}$-2s$_{1/2}$ levels and the 1f$_{7/2}$-2p$_{3/2}$ levels in the spherical potential, respectively. Furthermore, the absence of some one-particle resonant levels compared with the Nilsson diagrams in text books is illustrated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:43 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Hamamoto", "Ikuko", "" ] ]
0708.2690
Muhammad Sharif
M. Sharif and Umber Sheikh
Effects of Schwarzschild Black Hole Horizon on Isothermal Plasma Wave Dispersion
23 pages, 8 figures accepted for publication in Gen. Relat. Grav
Gen.Rel.Grav.39:2095-2124,2007
10.1007/s10714-007-0505-4
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
The 3+1 GRMHD equations for Schwarzschild spacetime in Rindler coordinates with isothermal state of plasma are formulated. We consider the cases of non-rotating and rotating backgrounds with non-magnetized and magnetized plasmas. For these cases, the perturbed form of these equations are linearized and Fourier analyzed by introducing plane wave type solutions. The determinant of these equations in each case leads to two dispersion relations which give value of the wave number $k$. Using the wave number, we obtain information like phase and group velocities etc. which help to discuss the nature of the waves and their characteristics. These provide interesting information about the black hole magnetosphere near the horizon. There are cases of normal and anomalous dispersion. We find a case of normal dispersion of waves when the plasma admits the properties of Veselago medium. Our results agree with those of Mackay et al. according to which rotation of a black hole is required for negative phase velocity propagation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:42:08 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Sharif", "M.", "" ], [ "Sheikh", "Umber", "" ] ]
0708.2691
Stuart Raby
Oleg Lebedev, Hans Peter Nilles, Stuart Raby, Saul Ramos-Sanchez, Michael Ratz, Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange, Akin Wingerter
The Heterotic Road to the MSSM with R parity
61 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Rev.D77:046013,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.046013
CERN-PH-TH/2007-126, OHSTPY-HEP-T-07-003, TUM-HEP-673/07
hep-th hep-ph
null
In a previous paper, referred to as a "Mini-Landscape" search, we explored a "fertile patch" of the heterotic landscape based on a Z6-II orbifold with SO(10) and E6 local GUT structures. In the present paper we extend this analysis. We find many models with the minimal supersymmetric standard model spectra and an exact R parity. In all of these models, the vector-like exotics decouple along D flat directions. We present two "benchmark" models which satisfy many of the constraints of a realistic supersymmetric model, including non-trivial Yukawa matrices for 3 families of quarks and leptons and Majorana neutrino masses for right-handed neutrinos with non-trivial See-Saw masses for the 3 light neutrinos. In an appendix we comment on the important issue of string selection rules and in particular the so-called "gamma-rule".
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:09:44 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Lebedev", "Oleg", "" ], [ "Nilles", "Hans Peter", "" ], [ "Raby", "Stuart", "" ], [ "Ramos-Sanchez", "Saul", "" ], [ "Ratz", "Michael", "" ], [ "Vaudrevange", "Patrick K. S.", "" ], [ "Wingerter", "Akin", "" ] ]
0708.2692
Sergey Sevbitov
T. V. Shishkina
Search for effects beyond Standard Model in photon scatterings and in nonminimal gauge theories on linear colliders of new generation
20 pages, 18 figures, LaTeX
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The main possibilities of investigation of leptons and bosons production in interaction of polarized photons are considered. The usage of $\gamma\gamma\to f\bar{f}[+\gamma]$ reactions for the luminosity measurement on linear photon collider is analyzed. The achievable precision of the luminosity measuring is considered and calculated. The first-order QED correction to $\gamma\gamma\to l\bar{l}$ scattering is analyzed. All possible polarization states of interacting particles are investigated. For the detection of deviations from SM predictions at linear $\gamma\gamma$ colliders with center of mass energies running to 1 TeV the influence of three possible anomalous couplings on the cross sections of $W^+W^-$ productions has been investigated. The significant discrimination between various anomalous contributions is discovered. The main contribution of high order electroweak effects is considered.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:44:26 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Shishkina", "T. V.", "" ] ]
0708.2693
Nils Andersson
K. Glampedakis, N. Andersson and D. I. Jones
On the stability of precessing superfluid neutron stars
4 pages, Revtex, 1 eps figure
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:081101,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.081101
null
astro-ph
null
We discuss a new superfluid instability occuring in the interior of mature neutron stars with implications for freely precessing neutron stars. This short-wavelength instability is similar to the instability which is responsible for the formation of turbulence in superfluid Helium. Its existence raises serious questions about our understanding of neutron star precession and complicates attempts to constrain neutron star interiors using such observations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:07:19 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Glampedakis", "K.", "" ], [ "Andersson", "N.", "" ], [ "Jones", "D. I.", "" ] ]
0708.2694
Vadim. Ya. Pokrovskii
V. Ya. Pokrovskii and S. G. Zybtsev
Self-sensitive torsional microresonators based on a charge-density wave system
10 pages including 3 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Recently, there have been dramatic advances in the miniaturization of electromechanical devices. Most of the micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS-NEMS) operate in the resonant modes1. The micron-, and, the more, the submicron-sizes devices, are driven usually by electrostatic forces, as piezoelectric and electromagnetic engines are powerless over this size range. Such engines could play the role of external actuators for the NEMS, being, however, macro devices in their own. Apart from actuation, an objective of NEMS is getting the output signal characterizing the oscillations1, so, actuators sensing their own motion are rather topical (see 2 for example). Not long ago, several works appeared demonstrating high sensitivity of the sizes3,4 and form5 of quasi one-dimensional conductors to the deformations of the charge-density wave (CDW). Here we demonstrate electrically driven torsional resonators based on whiskers of the quasi one-dimensional conductor with CDW, TaS3. The driving force for the torsional deformation is peculiar to the CDW systems and reflects the transmission of the CDW deformation to the crystalline lattice. In comparison with the piezoelectrics, the effect of electric field on the crystal deformation is 3-4 orders of magnitude larger. The resonator is found to provide also a torsion-induced electrical feed-back (output signal) from the oscillations. We discuss the CDW systems as promising elements for NEMS-MEMS.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:17:21 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Pokrovskii", "V. Ya.", "" ], [ "Zybtsev", "S. G.", "" ] ]
0708.2695
Yuri Kovalev Jr.
Y. Y. Kovalev (MPIfR & ASC Lebedev), M. L. Lister (Purdue U.), D. C. Homan (Denison U.), K. I. Kellermann (NRAO)
The Inner Jet of the Radio Galaxy M87
4 pages, 2 color figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters; a typo in a reference has been corrected
Astroph.J.Lett. 668 (2007), 27-30
10.1086/522603
null
astro-ph
null
We report new 2 cm VLBA images of the inner radio jet of M87 showing a limb brightened structure and unambiguous evidence for a faint 3 mas long counter-feature which also appears limb brightened. Multi-epoch observations of seven separate jet features show typical speeds of less than a few percent of the speed of light, despite the highly asymmetric jet structure and the implications of the canonical relativistic beaming scenario. The observed morphology is consistent with a two stream spine-sheath velocity gradient across the jet, as might be expected from the recently discovered strong and variable TeV emission as well as from numerical modeling of relativistic jets. Considering the large jet to counter-jet flux density ratio and lack of observed fast motion in the jet, we conclude that either the inner part of the M87 jet is intrinsically asymmetric or that the bulk plasma flow speed is much greater than any propagation of shocks or other pattern motions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:35:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:49:53 GMT" } ]
2007-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Kovalev", "Y. Y.", "", "MPIfR & ASC Lebedev" ], [ "Lister", "M. L.", "", "Purdue U." ], [ "Homan", "D. C.", "", "Denison U." ], [ "Kellermann", "K. I.", "", "NRAO" ] ]
0708.2696
Uro\v{s} Kosti\'c
A. Cadez, M. Calvani, A. Gomboc, U. Kostic
Do flares in Sagittarius A* reflect the last stage of tidal capture?
6 pages, 9 figures, acknowledgments added, to appear in the Proceedings of the Albert Einstein's Century International Conference, Paris 2005
AIPConf.Proc.861:566-571,2006
10.1063/1.2399625
null
astro-ph
null
In recent years the case for the presence of 3-4 10^6 M_sun black hole in our Galactic Center has gained strength from results of stellar dynamics observations and from the detection of several rapid X-ray and IR flares observed in the Sagittarius A* from 2000 to 2004. Here we explore the idea that such flares are produced when the central black hole tidally captures and disrupts a small body - e.g. a comet or an asteroid.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:18:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:14:02 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Cadez", "A.", "" ], [ "Calvani", "M.", "" ], [ "Gomboc", "A.", "" ], [ "Kostic", "U.", "" ] ]
0708.2697
Hugh Osborn
J. O'Dwyer and H. Osborn
Epsilon Expansion for Multicritical Fixed Points and Exact Renormalisation Group Equations
40 pages, 12 figures version2: small corrections, extra references, final appendix rewritten, version3: some corrections to perturbative calculations
Annals Phys.323:1859-1898,2008
10.1016/j.aop.2007.10.005
DAMTP 07/77
hep-th cond-mat.other
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The Polchinski version of the exact renormalisation group equations is applied to multicritical fixed points, which are present for dimensions between two and four, for scalar theories using both the local potential approximation and its extension, the derivative expansion. The results are compared with the epsilon expansion by showing that the non linear differential equations may be linearised at each multicritical point and the epsilon expansion treated as a perturbative expansion. The results for critical exponents are compared with corresponding epsilon expansion results from standard perturbation theory. The results provide a test for the validity of the local potential approximation and also the derivative expansion. An alternative truncation of the exact RG equation leads to equations which are similar to those found in the derivative expansion but which gives correct results for critical exponents to order $\epsilon$ and also for the field anomalous dimension to order $\epsilon^2$. An exact marginal operator for the full RG equations is also constructed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:02:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:07:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 29 May 2020 14:30:46 GMT" } ]
2020-06-01T00:00:00
[ [ "O'Dwyer", "J.", "" ], [ "Osborn", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.2698
Diego Dominici
Diego Dominici
Fisher information of orthogonal polynomials I
12 pages
null
null
null
math.CA
null
Following the lead of J. Dehesa and his collaborators, we compute the Fisher information of the Meixner-Pollaczek, Meixner, Krawtchouk and Charlier polynomials.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:03:27 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Dominici", "Diego", "" ] ]
0708.2699
J. Brian Conrey
J. Brian Conrey
The mean-square of Dirichlet L-functions
null
null
null
AIM preprint number 2007-54
math.NT
null
We verify the conjecture of [CFKRS] for the mean square near the critical point of Dirichlet L-functions for a composite modulus q. We also prove a kind of reciprocity formula when the second moment for a prime modulus is twisted by a character evaluated at a different prime.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:19:41 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Conrey", "J. Brian", "" ] ]
0708.2700
Vadim. Ya. Pokrovskii
V. Ya. Pokrovskii
On the Enormous Effect of Electric Field on the Crystalline Lattice of the Conductors with Charge-Density Waves
4 pages
Pis'ma ZhETF vol. 86, issue 4, page 290-293 (August 2007)
10.1134/S0021364007160096
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We discuss deformation of quasi 1-dimensional conductors with charge-density wave (CDW) under the electric field deforming the CDW. In case of ``strong'' CDW-lattice interaction the effect can be treated in terms of the converse piezoelectric effect with enormous piezomodulus, $\sim L_c/\lambda$ times larger than that in ionic crystals ($\lambda$ is the CDW wavelength, $L_c$ is the CDW coherence length, mm scale in the sliding state). The CDW-lattice interaction is likely to be defined by the interband charge transfer (rearrangement of the covalent bonds) with lattice deformation, possible in a number of CDW compounds. The resulting effects, observed or expected, are paving a way towards new-principle actuators, including nanosized ones.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:27:32 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Pokrovskii", "V. Ya.", "" ] ]
0708.2701
Brent D. Nelson
Junhai Kang, Paul Langacker and Brent D. Nelson
Theory and Phenomenology of Exotic Isosinglet Quarks and Squarks
Two additional references added
Phys.Rev.D77:035003,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.035003
null
hep-ph hep-ex
null
Extensions of the MSSM often predict the existence of new fermions and their scalar superpartners which are vectorlike with respect to the standard model gauge group but may be chiral under additional gauge factors. In this paper we explore the production and decay of an important example, i.e., a heavy isosinglet charge -1/3 quark and its scalar partner, using the charge assignments of a 27-plet of E6 for illustration. We emphasize that, depending on the symmetries of the low energy theory, such exotic particles may decay by the mixing of the fermion with the d, s, or b quarks; may decay by leptoquark or diquark couplings (which may nevertheless preserve a form of R-parity); or may be stable with respect to renormalizable couplings but decay by higher-dimension operators on cosmological times scales. We discuss the latter two possibilities in detail for various assumptions concerning the relative masses of the exotic fermions, scalars, and the lightest neutralino, and emphasize the necessity of considering the collider signatures in conjunction with the normal MSSM processes. Existing and projected constraints from colliders, indirect experiments, proton decay, and big bang nucleosynthesis are considered.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:36:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:53:50 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kang", "Junhai", "" ], [ "Langacker", "Paul", "" ], [ "Nelson", "Brent D.", "" ] ]
0708.2702
Ali Dariush
Ali Dariush, Habib G. Khosroshahi, Trevor J. Ponman, Frazer Pearce, Somak Raychaudhury, Will Hartley
The Mass Assembly of Fossil Groups of Galaxies in the Millennium Simulation
11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS
MNRAS (2007), 382, 433
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12385.x
null
astro-ph
null
The evolution of present-day fossil galaxy groups is studied in the Millennium Simulation. Using the corresponding Millennium gas simulation and semi-analytic galaxy catalogues, we select fossil groups at redshift zero according to the conventional observational criteria, and trace the haloes corresponding to these groups backwards in time, extracting the associated dark matter, gas and galaxy properties. The space density of the fossils from this study is remarkably close to the observed estimates and various possibilities for the remaining discrepancy are discussed. The fraction of X-ray bright systems which are fossils appears to be in reasonable agreement with observation, and the simulations predict that fossil systems will be found in significant numbers (3-4% of the population) even in quite rich clusters. We find that fossils assemble a higher fraction of their mass at high redshift, compared to non-fossil groups, with the ratio of the currently assembled halo mass to final mass, at any epoch, being about 10 to 20% higher for fossils. This supports the paradigm whereby fossils represent undisturbed, early-forming systems in which large galaxies have merged to form a single dominant elliptical.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:41:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 22 May 2008 18:04:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dariush", "Ali", "" ], [ "Khosroshahi", "Habib G.", "" ], [ "Ponman", "Trevor J.", "" ], [ "Pearce", "Frazer", "" ], [ "Raychaudhury", "Somak", "" ], [ "Hartley", "Will", "" ] ]
0708.2703
Catherine Garland
C. A. Garland, D. J. Pisano, J. P. Williams, R. Guzman, F. J. Castander, L. J. Sage
The Nature of Nearby Counterparts to Intermediate-Redshift Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies. III. Interferometric Observations of Neutral Atomic and Molecular Gas
Accepted by ApJ 8/15/07
null
10.1086/522514
null
astro-ph
null
We present the results of a VLA and OVRO-MMA follow-up to our single-dish surveys of the neutral atomic and molecular gas in a sample of nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs). These luminous, blue, high surface brightness, starbursting galaxies were selected using criteria similar to that used to define LCBGs at higher redshifts. The surveys were undertaken to study the nature and evolutionary possibilities of LCBGs, using dynamical masses and gas depletion time scales as constraints. Here we present nearly resolved VLA H I maps of four LCBGs, as well as results from the literature for a fifth LCBG. In addition, we present OVRO-MMA maps of CO(J=1-0) in two of these LCBGs. We have used the resolved H I maps to separate the H I emission from target galaxies and their companions to improve the accuracy of our gas and dynamical mass estimates. For this sub-sample of LCBGs, we find that the dynamical masses measured with the single-dish telescope and interferometer are in agreement. However, we find that we have overestimated the mass of H I in two galaxies by a significant amount, possibly as much as 75%, when compared to the single-dish estimates. These two galaxies have companions within a few arc minutes; we find that our single-dish and interferometric measurements of H I masses are in reasonable agreement for galaxies with more distant companions. The H I velocity fields indicate that all five galaxies are clearly rotating yet distorted, likely due to recent interactions. Our measurements of the gas and dynamical masses of LCBGs point towards evolution into low mass galaxies such as dwarf ellipticals, irregulars, and low mass spirals, consistent with studies of LCBGs at higher redshifts.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:42:45 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Garland", "C. A.", "" ], [ "Pisano", "D. J.", "" ], [ "Williams", "J. P.", "" ], [ "Guzman", "R.", "" ], [ "Castander", "F. J.", "" ], [ "Sage", "L. J.", "" ] ]
0708.2704
Waheb Bishara
Waheb Bishara, Chetan Nayak
Edge States and Interferometers in the Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian States
8 pages, 3 figures. Fixed typos, added refs 32-33
Phys. Rev. B 77, 165302 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.165302
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
We compute the tunneling current in a double point contact geometry of a Quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu=5/2$, as function of voltage and temeprature, in the weak tunneling regime. We quantitatively compare two possible candidates for the state at $\nu=5/2$: the Moore-Read Pfaffian state, and its particle-hole conjugate, the anti-Pfaffian. We find that both possibilities exhibit the same qualitative behavior, and both have an even-odd effect that reflects their non-Abelian nature, but differ quantitatively in their voltage and temperature dependance.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:48:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:16:37 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:36:25 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bishara", "Waheb", "" ], [ "Nayak", "Chetan", "" ] ]
0708.2705
Sharon Hollander
Sharon Hollander
Characterizing algebraic stacks
12 pages, to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc
null
null
null
math.AT math.CT
null
We extend the notion of algebraic stack to an arbitrary subcanonical site C. If the topology on C is local on the target and satisfies descent for morphisms, we show that algebraic stacks are precisely those which are weakly equivalent to representable presheaves of groupoids whose domain map is a cover. This leads naturally to a definition of algebraic n-stacks. We also compare different sites naturally associated to a stack.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:51:00 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Hollander", "Sharon", "" ] ]
0708.2706
Michael Thoennessen
N. Frank, A. Schiller, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, A. Gade, J. Hinnefeld, R. Howes, J.-L. Lecouey, B. Luther, W. A. Peters, H. Scheit and M. Thoennessen
Observation of the First Excited State in 23O
7 pages, 3 figures, Proc. 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, February 11-18, 2007
null
null
null
nucl-ex
null
The first excited state in neutron-rich 23O was observed in a (2p1n) knock-out reaction from 26Ne on a beryllium target at a beam energy of 86 MeV/A. The state is unbound with respect to neutron emission and was reconstructed from the invariant mass from the 22O fragment and the neutron. It is unbound by 45(2) keV corresponding to an excitation energy of 2.8(1) MeV. The non-observation of further resonances implies a predominantly direct reaction mechanism of the employed three-nucleon-removal reaction which suggests the assignment of the observed resonance to be the 5/2+ hole state.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:06:04 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Frank", "N.", "" ], [ "Schiller", "A.", "" ], [ "Baumann", "T.", "" ], [ "Bazin", "D.", "" ], [ "Brown", "J.", "" ], [ "DeYoung", "P. A.", "" ], [ "Finck", "J. E.", "" ], [ "Gade", "A.", "" ], [ "Hinnefeld", "J.", "" ], [ "Howes", "R.", "" ], [ "Lecouey", "J. -L.", "" ], [ "Luther", "B.", "" ], [ "Peters", "W. A.", "" ], [ "Scheit", "H.", "" ], [ "Thoennessen", "M.", "" ] ]
0708.2707
Peter Csermely
Shijun Wang, Mate S. Szalay, Changshui Zhang, Peter Csermely
Learning and innovative elements of strategy adoption rules expand cooperative network topologies
14 pages, 3 Figures + a Supplementary Material with 25 pages, 3 Tables, 12 Figures and 116 references
PLoS ONE 3, e1917 (2008)
10.1371/journal.pone.0001917
null
q-bio.MN cond-mat.dis-nn nlin.AO physics.bio-ph
null
Cooperation plays a key role in the evolution of complex systems. However, the level of cooperation extensively varies with the topology of agent networks in the widely used models of repeated games. Here we show that cooperation remains rather stable by applying the reinforcement learning strategy adoption rule, Q-learning on a variety of random, regular, small-word, scale-free and modular network models in repeated, multi-agent Prisoners Dilemma and Hawk-Dove games. Furthermore, we found that using the above model systems other long-term learning strategy adoption rules also promote cooperation, while introducing a low level of noise (as a model of innovation) to the strategy adoption rules makes the level of cooperation less dependent on the actual network topology. Our results demonstrate that long-term learning and random elements in the strategy adoption rules, when acting together, extend the range of network topologies enabling the development of cooperation at a wider range of costs and temptations. These results suggest that a balanced duo of learning and innovation may help to preserve cooperation during the re-organization of real-world networks, and may play a prominent role in the evolution of self-organizing, complex systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:56:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:32:08 GMT" } ]
2012-03-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "Shijun", "" ], [ "Szalay", "Mate S.", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Changshui", "" ], [ "Csermely", "Peter", "" ] ]
0708.2708
Michael Thoennessen
N. Frank, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, A. Gade, J.-L. Lecouey, W. A. Peters, H. Scheit, A. Schiller, M. Thoennessen, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, J. Hinnefeld, R. Howes, B. Luther
Population of neutron unbound states via two-proton knockout reactions
6 pages, 3 figures, Proc. 9th Int. Spring Seminar on Nucl. Phys. Changing Facets of Nuclear Structure, May 20-34, 2007
null
10.1142/9789812779038_0003
null
nucl-ex
null
The two-proton knockout reaction 9Be(26Ne,O2p) was used to explore excited unbound states of 23O and 24O. In 23O a state at an excitation energy of 2.79(13) MeV was observed. There was no conclusive evidence for the population of excited states in 24O.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:24:14 GMT" } ]
2017-08-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Frank", "N.", "" ], [ "Baumann", "T.", "" ], [ "Bazin", "D.", "" ], [ "Gade", "A.", "" ], [ "Lecouey", "J. -L.", "" ], [ "Peters", "W. A.", "" ], [ "Scheit", "H.", "" ], [ "Schiller", "A.", "" ], [ "Thoennessen", "M.", "" ], [ "Brown", "J.", "" ], [ "DeYoung", "P. A.", "" ], [ "Finck", "J. E.", "" ], [ "Hinnefeld", "J.", "" ], [ "Howes", "R.", "" ], [ "Luther", "B.", "" ] ]
0708.2709
Mark Newman
M. E. J. Newman and Gourab Ghoshal
Bicomponents and the robustness of networks to failure
5 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 138701 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.138701
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.dis-nn
null
A common definition of a robust connection between two nodes in a network such as a communication network is that there should be at least two independent paths connecting them, so that the failure of no single node in the network causes them to become disconnected. This definition leads us naturally to consider bicomponents, subnetworks in which every node has a robust connection of this kind to every other. Here we study bicomponents in both real and model networks using a combination of exact analytic techniques and numerical methods. We show that standard network models predict there to be essentially no small bicomponents in most networks, but there may be a giant bicomponent, whose presence coincides with the presence of the ordinary giant component, and we find that real networks seem by and large to follow this pattern, although there are some interesting exceptions. We study the size of the giant bicomponent as nodes in the network fail, using a specially developed computer algorithm based on data trees, and find in some cases that our networks are quite robust to failure, with large bicomponents persisting until almost all vertices have been removed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:07:00 GMT" } ]
2008-04-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Newman", "M. E. J.", "" ], [ "Ghoshal", "Gourab", "" ] ]
0708.2710
Mark Hamilton
Mark D. Hamilton
The quantization of a toric manifold is given by the integer lattice points in the moment polytope
10 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures; v2 minor changes: some small clarifications added, typos fixed. To appear in proceedings of 2006 International Toric Topology Conference
null
null
null
math.SG
null
We describe a very nice argument, which we learned from Sue Tolman, that the dimension of the quantization space of a toric manifold, using a Kaehler polarization, is given by the number of integer lattice points in the moment polytope.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:31:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:59:26 GMT" } ]
2008-02-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hamilton", "Mark D.", "" ] ]
0708.2711
Agnieszka Janiuk
Agnieszka Janiuk, Daniel Proga (UNLV)
Low angular momentum accretion in the collapsar: how long can a long GRB be?
29 pages, 10 figures, including 1 color fig., revised version accepted by ApJ
null
10.1086/526511
null
astro-ph
null
The collapsar model is the most promising scenario to explain the huge release of energy associated with long duration gamma-ray-bursts (GRBs). Within this scenario GRBs are believed to be powered by accretion through a rotationally support torus or by fast rotation of a compact object. In both cases then, rotation of the progenitor star is one of the key properties because it must be high enough for the torus to form, the compact object to rotate very fast, or both. Here, we check what rotational properties a progenitor star must have in order to sustain torus accretion over relatively long activity periods as observed in most GRBs. We show that simple, often cited, estimates of the total mass available for torus formation and consequently the duration of a GRB are only upper limits. We revise these estimates by taking into account the long term effect that as the compact object accretes the minimum specific angular momentum needed for torus formation increases. This in turn leads to a smaller fraction of the stellar envelope that can form a torus. We demostrate that this effect can lead to a significant, an order of magnidute, reduction of the total energy and overall duration of a GRB event. This of course can be mitigated by assuming that the progenitor star rotates faster then we assumed. However, our assumed rotation is already high compared to observational and theoretical constraints. We also discuss implications of our result.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:15:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:45:30 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Janiuk", "Agnieszka", "", "UNLV" ], [ "Proga", "Daniel", "", "UNLV" ] ]
0708.2712
Ronnie Jansson
Ronnie Jansson, Glennys R. Farrar
Maximum Likelihood method for ultrahigh energy cosmic ray cross correlations with astrophysical sources
4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico 2007
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We extend the Maximum Likelihood method used by HiRes to study cross correlations between a catalog of candidate astrophysical sources and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), to allow for differing source luminosities. Our approach permits individual sources to be ranked according to their likelihood of having emitted the correlated UHECRs. We test both old and new method by simulations for various scenarios. We conclude that there are 9 true correlation between HiRes UHECRs and known BLLacs, with a 6*10^-5 probability of such a correlation arising by chance.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:37:46 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Jansson", "Ronnie", "" ], [ "Farrar", "Glennys R.", "" ] ]
0708.2713
Asterios Pantokratoras
Asterios Pantokratoras
Comment on "Radiative effect on natural convection flows in porous media, A.A. Mohammadein, M. A. Mansour, Sahar M. Abd El Gaied and Rama Subba Reddy Gorla [Transport in Porous Media 32:263-283, 1998]"
4 pages, 1 figure
null
null
null
physics.flu-dyn
null
In the above paper the authors treat the natural convection boundary layer flow in a Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer porous medium. In the energy equation the radiation effect has been taken into account. A two-parameter perturbation method is used for the solution of the equations. The first order results are presented in tables and figures. This is an interesting work but there are some weak points which are presented below:
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:48:38 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Pantokratoras", "Asterios", "" ] ]
0708.2714
Ronnie Jansson
Ronnie Jansson, Glennys R. Farrar, Andre Waelkens, Torsten A. Ensslin
Large scale magnetic field of the Milky Way from WMAP3 data
4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico 2007
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We report on initial results from a project to constrain the large-scale and turbulent magnetic fields of the Milky Way galaxy, which eventually will incorporate all of the relevant observational data. In this paper we fit popular large scale magnetic field models to WMAP3 polarization maps. We find that the polarization data can constrain certain model parameters but does not uniquely determine the best-fit parameters. We also find that the polarization data alone cannot distinguish between model symmetries, e.g., the existence of field reversals. We show how future UHECR data can break this degeneracy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:49:43 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Jansson", "Ronnie", "" ], [ "Farrar", "Glennys R.", "" ], [ "Waelkens", "Andre", "" ], [ "Ensslin", "Torsten A.", "" ] ]
0708.2715
Samantha Santos
Samantha Fonseca dos Santos, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, and Chris H. Greene
Dissociative recombination of H3+ in the ground and excited vibrational states
20 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
physics.atom-ph
null
The article presents calculated dissociative recombination (DR) rate coefficients for H+3 . The previous theoretical work on H+3 was performed using the adiabatic hyperspherical approximation to calculate the target ion vibrational states and it considered just a limited number of ionic rotational states. In this study, we use accurate vibrational wave functions and a larger number of possible rotational states of the H3+ ground vibrational level. The DR rate coefficient obtained is found to agree better with the experimental data from storage-ring experiments than the previous theoretical calculation. We present evidence that excited rotational states could be playing an important role in those experiments for collision energies above 10 meV. The DR rate coefficients calculated separately for ortho- and para-H3+ are predicted to differ significantly at low energy, a result consistent with a recent experiment. We also present DR rate coefficients for vibrationally-excited initial states of H3+, which are found to be somewhat larger than the rate coefficient for the ground vibrational level.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:42:03 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Santos", "Samantha Fonseca dos", "" ], [ "Kokoouline", "Viatcheslav", "" ], [ "Greene", "Chris H.", "" ] ]
0708.2716
Stephen Fegan
S. J. Fegan and V. V. Vassiliev
The performance of an idealized large-area array of moderate-sized IACTs
4 pages, 3 figures, in Proc. 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Mexico, 2007
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We present simulations of a large array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), for which the size of the array footprint is much larger than the size of the Cherenkov lightpool. To evaluate limitations of the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique, the array is simulated under the assumption of ideal optics, having infinite resolution of the photon arrival direction, which makes our conclusions independent of any particular telescope implementation. The primary characteristics of the array performance, gamma-ray trigger efficiency, photon energy at the peak of the detection rate, and angular resolution are calculated as a function of the parameters of the array: telescope spacing, telescope aperture, and camera pixelation. We discuss implication of the results for the design of the next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:53:15 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Fegan", "S. J.", "" ], [ "Vassiliev", "V. V.", "" ] ]
0708.2717
Alejandro Vaisman Prof.
Leticia Gomez, Bart Kuijpers, Alejandro Vaisman
Aggregation Languages for Moving Object and Places of Interest Data
15 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
cs.DB
null
We address aggregate queries over GIS data and moving object data, where non-spatial data are stored in a data warehouse. We propose a formal data model and query language to express complex aggregate queries. Next, we study the compression of trajectory data, produced by moving objects, using the notions of stops and moves. We show that stops and moves are expressible in our query language and we consider a fragment of this language, consisting of regular expressions to talk about temporally ordered sequences of stops and moves. This fragment can be used to efficiently express data mining and pattern matching tasks over trajectory data.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:08:53 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Gomez", "Leticia", "" ], [ "Kuijpers", "Bart", "" ], [ "Vaisman", "Alejandro", "" ] ]
0708.2718
Adela Kawka
Stephane Vennes, Adela Kawka, J. Allyn Smith
CPD-20 1123 (Albus 1) is a bright He-B Subdwarf
Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
null
10.1086/522605
null
astro-ph
null
Based on photometric and astrometric data it has been proposed that Albus 1 (also known as CPD-20 1123) might be a hot white dwarf similar to G191-B2B or, alternatively, a hot subdwarf. We obtained a series of optical spectra showing that CPD-20 1123 is a bright He-B subdwarf. We analyzed the HI Balmer and HeI line spectra and measured T_eff = 19800+/-400 K, log g = 4.55+/-0.10, and log N(He)/N(H) = 0.15+/-0.15. This peculiar object belongs to a family of evolved helium-rich stars that may be the products of double-degenerate mergers, or, alternatively, the products of post horizontal- or giant-branch evolution.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:10:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Vennes", "Stephane", "" ], [ "Kawka", "Adela", "" ], [ "Smith", "J. Allyn", "" ] ]
0708.2719
Adam Kraus
Adam L. Kraus, Lynne A. Hillenbrand
The Stellar Populations of Praesepe and Coma Berenices
Accepted to AJ; 14 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables + 2 online-only tables
Astron.J.134:2340-2352,2007
10.1086/522831
null
astro-ph
null
We present the results of a stellar membership survey of the nearby open clusters Praesepe and Coma Berenices. We have combined archival survey data from the SDSS, 2MASS, USNOB1.0, and UCAC-2.0 surveys to compile proper motions and photometry for ~5 million sources over 300 deg^2. Of these sources, 1010 stars in Praesepe and 98 stars in Coma Ber are identified as candidate members with probability >80%; 442 and 61 are identified as high-probability candidates for the first time. We estimate that this survey is >90% complete across a wide range of spectral types (F0 to M5 in Praesepe, F5 to M6 in Coma Ber). We have also investigated the stellar mass dependence of each cluster's mass and radius in order to quantify the role of mass segregation and tidal stripping in shaping the present-day mass function and spatial distribution of stars. Praesepe shows clear evidence of mass segregation across the full stellar mass range; Coma Ber does not show any clear trend, but low number statistics would mask a trend of the same magnitude as in Praesepe. The mass function for Praesepe (t~600 Myr; M~500 Msun) follows a power law consistent with that of the field present-day mass function, suggesting that any mass-dependent tidal stripping could have removed only the lowest-mass members (<0.15 Msun). Coma Ber, which is younger but much less massive (t~400 Myr; M~100 Msun), follows a significantly shallower power law. This suggests that some tidal stripping has occurred, but the low-mass stellar population has not been strongly depleted down to the survey completeness limit (~0.12 Msun).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:44:47 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kraus", "Adam L.", "" ], [ "Hillenbrand", "Lynne A.", "" ] ]
0708.2720
Matthew Anderson
Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Joel E. Tohline
Simulating binary neutron stars: dynamics and gravitational waves
14 pages, 16 figures. Added one figure from previous version; corrected typos
Phys.Rev.D77:024006,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.024006
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
We model two mergers of orbiting binary neutron stars, the first forming a black hole and the second a differentially rotating neutron star. We extract gravitational waveforms in the wave zone. Comparisons to a post-Newtonian analysis allow us to compute the orbital kinematics, including trajectories and orbital eccentricities. We verify our code by evolving single stars and extracting radial perturbative modes, which compare very well to results from perturbation theory. The Einstein equations are solved in a first order reduction of the generalized harmonic formulation, and the fluid equations are solved using a modified convex essentially non-oscillatory method. All calculations are done in three spatial dimensions without symmetry assumptions. We use the \had computational infrastructure for distributed adaptive mesh refinement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:11:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:49:47 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Anderson", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Hirschmann", "Eric W.", "" ], [ "Lehner", "Luis", "" ], [ "Liebling", "Steven L.", "" ], [ "Motl", "Patrick M.", "" ], [ "Neilsen", "David", "" ], [ "Palenzuela", "Carlos", "" ], [ "Tohline", "Joel E.", "" ] ]
0708.2721
Timo Seppalainen
Timo Seppalainen
Directed random growth models on the plane
30 pages
Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models, edited by P. Morters et al., p. 9-38, Oxford University Press, 2008.
null
null
math.PR
null
This is a brief survey of laws of large numbers, fluctuation results and large deviation principles for asymmetric interacting particle systems that represent moving interfaces on the plane. We discuss the exclusion process, the Hammersley process and the related last-passage growth models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:14:08 GMT" } ]
2009-11-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Seppalainen", "Timo", "" ] ]
0708.2722
P. S. Howe
E. Bergshoeff, P. S. Howe, S. Kerstan and L. Wulff
Kappa-symmetric SL(2,R) covariant D-brane actions
20 pages. Minor clarification in text. References added
JHEP 0710:050,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/050
KCL-TH-07-12, UG-07-05
hep-th
null
A superspace formulation of IIB supergravity which includes the field strengths of the duals of the usual physical one, three and five-form field strengths as well as the eleven-form field strength is given. The superembedding formalism is used to construct kappa-symmetric SL(2,R) covariant D-brane actions in an arbitrary supergravity background.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:18:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:52:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:05:46 GMT" } ]
2009-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Bergshoeff", "E.", "" ], [ "Howe", "P. S.", "" ], [ "Kerstan", "S.", "" ], [ "Wulff", "L.", "" ] ]
0708.2723
Zhe-Yu Jeff Ou
Z. Y. Ou
Characterizing Temporal Distinguishability of an N-Photon State by Generalized Photon Bunching Effect with Multi-Photon Interference
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043829
null
quant-ph
null
The complementary principle of quantum mechanics relates qualitatively the visibility of quantum interference with path indistinguishability. Here we propose a scheme of constructive quantum interference involving superposition between an $N$-photon state and a single-photon state to characterize quantitatively the degree of temporal distinguishability of the $N$-photon state. This scheme is based on a generalized photon bunching effect. Such a scheme can be extended to other more general cases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:30:36 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ou", "Z. Y.", "" ] ]
0708.2724
Michael Zwolak
Michael Zwolak, Massimiliano Di Ventra
Physical approaches to DNA sequencing and detection
26 pages, 22 figures
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 141 (2008)
10.1103/RevModPhys.80.141
LAUR-07-5650
physics.bio-ph cond-mat.soft q-bio.BM
null
With the continued improvement of sequencing technologies, the prospect of genome-based medicine is now at the forefront of scientific research. To realize this potential, however, we need a revolutionary sequencing method for the cost-effective and rapid interrogation of individual genomes. This capability is likely to be provided by a physical approach to probing DNA at the single nucleotide level. This is in sharp contrast to current techniques and instruments which probe, through chemical elongation, electrophoresis, and optical detection, length differences and terminating bases of strands of DNA. In this Colloquium we review several physical approaches to DNA detection that have the potential to deliver fast and low-cost sequencing. Center-fold to these approaches is the concept of nanochannels or nanopores which allow for the spatial confinement of DNA molecules. In addition to their possible impact in medicine and biology, the methods offer ideal test beds to study open scientific issues and challenges in the relatively unexplored area at the interface between solids, liquids, and biomolecules at the nanometer length scale. We emphasize the physics behind these methods and ideas, critically describe their advantages and drawbacks, and discuss future research opportunities in this field.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:32:13 GMT" } ]
2008-01-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Zwolak", "Michael", "" ], [ "Di Ventra", "Massimiliano", "" ] ]
0708.2725
Damien Calaque
Damien Calaque and Michel Van den Bergh
Hochschild cohomology and Atiyah classes
Reference to work of Cattaneo, Felder and Willwacher added
Advances in Mathematics 224 (2010), no. 5, 1839--1889
10.1016/j.aim.2010.01.012
null
math.KT math.QA
null
In this paper we prove that on a smooth algebraic variety the HKR-morphism twisted by the square root of the Todd genus gives an isomorphism between the sheaf of poly-vector fields and the sheaf of poly-differential operators, both considered as derived Gerstenhaber algebras. In particular we obtain an isomorphism between Hochschild cohomology and the cohomology of poly-vector fields which is compatible with the Lie bracket and the cupproduct. The latter compatibility is an unpublished result by Kontsevich. Our proof is set in the framework of Lie algebroids and so applies without modification in much more general settings as well.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:40:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:41:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:32:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:49:46 GMT" } ]
2010-10-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Calaque", "Damien", "" ], [ "Bergh", "Michel Van den", "" ] ]
0708.2726
Richard V. E. Lovelace
G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan and R.V.E. Lovelace
Large Scale B-Field in Stationary Accretion Disks
5 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1086/522206
null
astro-ph
null
We reconsider the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes. In contrast with previous work we take into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of the disk prevents the outward diffusion of the magnetic field. This implies a stationary state with a strong magnetic field in the inner parts of the accretion disk close to the black hole.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:36:15 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bisnovatyi-Kogan", "G. S.", "" ], [ "Lovelace", "R. V. E.", "" ] ]
0708.2727
Lawrence Brown
Lawrence G. Brown and Gert K. Pedersen
Limits and C*-algebras of low rank or dimension
This is the second-to-last of our joint papers and will appear in the Journal of Operator Theory
J. Oper. Theory 61:2 (2009), 381-417
null
null
math.OA
null
We explore various limit constructions for C*-algebras, such as composition series and inverse limits, in relation to the notions of real rank, stable rank, and extremal richness. We also consider extensions and pullbacks. We identify some conditions under which the constructions preserve low rank for the C*-algebras or their multiplier algebras. We also discuss the version of topological dimension theory appropriate for primitive ideal spaces of C*-algebras and provide an analogue for rank of the countable sum theorem of dimension theory. As an illustration of how the main results can be applied, we show that a CCR algebra has stable rank one if and only if it has topological dimension zero or one, and we characterize those sigma-unital CCR algebras whose multiplier algebras have stable rank one or extremal richness. (The real rank zero case was already known.)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:39:54 GMT" } ]
2017-06-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Brown", "Lawrence G.", "" ], [ "Pedersen", "Gert K.", "" ] ]
0708.2728
Sanjit Mitra
Sanjit Mitra, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Tarun Souradeep, Albert Lazzarini, Vuk Mandic, Sukanta Bose and Stefan Ballmer
Gravitational wave radiometry: Mapping a stochastic gravitational wave background
24 pages, 19 figures, pdflatex. Matched version published in Phys. Rev. D - minor changes
Phys.Rev.D77:042002,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.042002
IUCAA 28/07, LIGO-P070033-Z
gr-qc astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The problem of the detection and mapping of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), either of cosmological or astrophysical origin, bears a strong semblance to the analysis of CMB anisotropy and polarization. The basic statistic we use is the cross-correlation between the data from a pair of detectors. In order to `point' the pair of detectors at different locations one must suitably delay the signal by the amount it takes for the gravitational waves (GW) to travel to both detectors corresponding to a source direction. Then the raw (observed) sky map of the SGWB is the signal convolved with a beam response function that varies with location in the sky. We first present a thorough analytic understanding of the structure of the beam response function using an analytic approach employing the stationary phase approximation. The true sky map is obtained by numerically deconvolving the beam function in the integral (convolution) equation. We adopt the maximum likelihood framework to estimate the true sky map that has been successfully used in the broadly similar, well-studied CMB map making problem. We numerically implement and demonstrate the method on simulated (unpolarized) SGWB for the radiometer consisting of the LIGO pair of detectors at Hanford and Livingston. We include `realistic' additive Gaussian noise in each data stream based on the LIGO-I noise power spectral density. The extension of the method to multiple baselines and polarized GWB is outlined. In the near future the network of GW detectors, including the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors that will be sensitive to sources within a thousand times larger spatial volume, could provide promising data sets for GW radiometry.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:43:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 6 Jun 2008 07:04:04 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Mitra", "Sanjit", "" ], [ "Dhurandhar", "Sanjeev", "" ], [ "Souradeep", "Tarun", "" ], [ "Lazzarini", "Albert", "" ], [ "Mandic", "Vuk", "" ], [ "Bose", "Sukanta", "" ], [ "Ballmer", "Stefan", "" ] ]
0708.2729
Donald W. Hoard
D. W. Hoard (1), Steve B. Howell (2), Carolyn S. Brinkworth (1), David R. Ciardi (3), Stefanie Wachter (1) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, (2) WIYN Observatory and National Optical Astronomy Observatory, (3) Michelson Science Center, California Institute of Technology)
The Mid-Infrared Spectrum of the Short Orbital Period Polar EF Eridani from the Spitzer Space Telescope
To be published in The Astrophysical Journal
null
10.1086/522694
null
astro-ph
null
We present the first mid-infrared (5.5-14.5 micron) spectrum of a highly magnetic cataclysmic variable, EF Eridani, obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The spectrum displays a relatively flat, featureless continuum. A spectral energy distribution model consisting of a 9500 K white dwarf, L5 secondary star, cyclotron emission corresponding to a B~13 MG white dwarf magnetic field, and an optically thin circumbinary dust disk is in reasonable agreement with the extant 2MASS, IRAC, and IRS observations of EF Eri. Cyclotron emission is ruled out as a dominant contributor to the infrared flux density at wavelengths >3 microns. The spectral energy distribution longward of ~5 microns is dominated by dust emission. Even longer wavelength observations would test the model's prediction of a continuing gradual decline in the circumbinary disk-dominated region of the spectral energy distribution.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:46:01 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hoard", "D. W.", "" ], [ "Howell", "Steve B.", "" ], [ "Brinkworth", "Carolyn S.", "" ], [ "Ciardi", "David R.", "" ], [ "Wachter", "Stefanie", "" ] ]
0708.2730
Heather Partner
Bradley A. Chase, Heather L. Partner, Brigette D. Black, Benjamin Q. Baragiola, Robert L. Cook and JM Geremia
Magnetic Field Estimation at and beyond 1/N Scaling via an Effective Nonlinearity
Please visit http://qmc.phys.unm.edu/ to download additional resources, including all source code and data files used to produce this manuscript
null
null
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We provide evidence, based on direct simulation of the quantum Fisher information, that 1/N scaling of the sensitivity with the number of atoms N in an atomic magnetometer can be surpassed by double-passing a far-detuned laser through the atomic system during Larmor precession. Furthermore, we predict that for N>>1, the proposed double-pass atomic magnetometer can essentially achieve 1/N scaling without requiring any appreciable amount of entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:46:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:40:12 GMT" } ]
2009-04-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Chase", "Bradley A.", "" ], [ "Partner", "Heather L.", "" ], [ "Black", "Brigette D.", "" ], [ "Baragiola", "Benjamin Q.", "" ], [ "Cook", "Robert L.", "" ], [ "Geremia", "JM", "" ] ]
0708.2731
Heiko Lacker
H. Lacker
CKM matrix fits including constraints on New Physics
11 pages, 15 figures, Talk given at Flavor Physics & CP Violation Conference, Bled, 2007
ECONFC070512:018,2007
null
fpcp07_212
hep-ph
null
I review the status of global fits to the CKM matrix within the framework of the Standard Model and also allowing for New Physics contributions in B-Bbar mixing. The driving force is coming from the large data sets collected by the B-factory experiments BABAR and Belle. Additional important inputs to the B_s sector are provided by the Tevatron experiments CDF and D0. In particular, when constraining New Physics in B-Bbar mixing in a model-independent analysis a nice interplay between the B-factories and the Tevatron experiments is observed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:51:48 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Lacker", "H.", "" ] ]
0708.2732
Yingbin Liang
Yingbin Liang and H. Vincent Poor
Secrecy Capacity Region of Binary and Gaussian Multiple Access Channels
In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, University of Illinois, Monticello, IL, September 27-29, 2006
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
A generalized multiple access channel (GMAC) with one confidential message set is studied, where two users (users 1 and 2) attempt to transmit common information to a destination, and user 1 also has confidential information intended for the destination. Moreover, user 1 wishes to keep its confidential information as secret as possible from user 2. A deterministic GMAC is first studied, and the capacity-equivocation region and the secrecy capacity region are obtained. Two main classes of the GMAC are then studied: the binary GMAC and the Gaussian GMAC. For both channels, the capacity-equivocation region and the secrecy capacity region are established.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:53:10 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Liang", "Yingbin", "" ], [ "Poor", "H. Vincent", "" ] ]
0708.2733
Yingbin Liang
Yingbin Liang and H. Vincent Poor
Secure Communications over Fading Channels
In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, University of Illinois, Monticello, IL, September 27 - 29, 2006
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
The fading wire-tap channel is investigated, where the source-to-destination channel and the source-to-wire-tapper channel are corrupted by multiplicative fading gain coefficients in addition to additive Gaussian noise terms. The channel state information is assumed to be known at both the transmitter and the receiver. The parallel wire-tap channel with independent subchannels is first studied, which serves as an information-theoretic model for the fading wire-tap channel. The secrecy capacity of the parallel wire-tap channel is established. This result is then specialized to give the secrecy capacity of the fading wire-tap channel, which is achieved with the source node dynamically changing the power allocation according to the channel state realization. An optimal source power allocation is obtained to achieve the secrecy capacity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:16:32 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Liang", "Yingbin", "" ], [ "Poor", "H. Vincent", "" ] ]
0708.2734
Doerte Blume
D. Blume, J. von Stecher and Chris H. Greene
Universal properties of a trapped two-component Fermi gas at unitarity
4 pages, 2 Figs., 2 Tables (minor changes)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233201 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.233201
null
cond-mat.other
null
We treat the trapped two-component Fermi system, in which unlike fermions interact through a two-body short-range potential having no bound state but an infinite scattering length. By accurately solving the Schroedinger equation for up to N=6 fermions, we show that no many-body bound states exist other than those bound by the trapping potential, and we demonstrate unique universal properties of the system: Certain excitation frequencies are separated by $2\hbar\omega$, the wavefunctions agree with analytical predictions and a virial theorem is fulfilled. Further calculations up to N=30 determine the excitation gap, an experimentally accessible universal quantity, and it agrees with recent predictions based on a density functional approach.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:42:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:45:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Blume", "D.", "" ], [ "von Stecher", "J.", "" ], [ "Greene", "Chris H.", "" ] ]
0708.2735
Stephen D. H. Hsu
N.G. Deshpande, Stephen D.H. Hsu, Jing Jiang
Long range forces and limits on unparticle interactions
7 pages, revtex; v2 minor changes and added references
Phys.Lett.B659:888-890,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.12.018
null
hep-ph
null
Couplings between standard model particles and unparticles from a nontrivial scale invariant sector can lead to long range forces. If the forces couple to quantities such as baryon or lepton (electron) number, stringent limits result from tests of the gravitational inverse square law. These limits are much stronger than from collider phenomenology and astrophysics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:10:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:54:27 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Deshpande", "N. G.", "" ], [ "Hsu", "Stephen D. H.", "" ], [ "Jiang", "Jing", "" ] ]
0708.2736
Andrew Norris
Andrew N. Norris
Eulerian conjugate stress and strain
17 pages
J. Mech. Materials Struct. 3(2), 243-260, 2008
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
New results are presented for the stress conjugate to arbitrary Eulerian strain measures. The conjugate stress depends on two arbitrary quantities: the strain measure f(V) and the corotational rate defined by the spin \Omega. It is shown that for every choice of f there is a unique spin, called the f-spin, which makes the conjugate stress as close as possible to the Cauchy stress. The f-spin reduces to the logarithmic spin when the strain measure is the Hencky strain log(V). The formulation and the results emphasize the similarities in form of the Eulerian and Lagrangian stresses conjugate to the strains f(V) and f(U), respectively. Many of the results involve the solution to the equation AX-XA=Y, which is presented in a succinct format.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:39:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:08:22 GMT" } ]
2008-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Norris", "Andrew N.", "" ] ]
0708.2737
Miguel Urbaneja
Miguel A. Urbaneja, Rolf Peter Kudritzki and Fabio Bresolin (University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy)
Extragalaxtic Stellar Astronomy
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the conference proceedings "Galaxies in the Local Volume", eds. B.S. Koribalski and H. Jerjen
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Despite their paucity, massive hot stars are real cosmic engines of fundamental importance in shaping our Universe, from its very early stages up to its current appearance. Understanding the physics of massive stars is then a key issue for many relevant astrophysical phenomena. Probing the massive stellar population of nearby galaxies by means of quantitative spectroscopy allows us to unveil a wealth of information that will aid our current understanding of stellar and galaxy evolution. In addition, blue luminous stars can be used as standard candles for extragalactic distances up to 10 Mpc. In this contribution, we present a brief overview of recent steps we have undertaken in this exciting research field.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:45:20 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Urbaneja", "Miguel A.", "", "University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy" ], [ "Kudritzki", "Rolf Peter", "", "University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy" ], [ "Bresolin", "Fabio", "", "University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy" ] ]
0708.2738
Amitabh Virmani
Aaron J. Amsel, Donald Marolf, Amitabh Virmani
The Physical Process First Law for Bifurcate Killing Horizons
19 pages; v2: ref added, minor changes
Phys.Rev.D77:024011,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.024011
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
The physical process version of the first law for black holes states that the passage of energy and angular momentum through the horizon results in a change in area $\frac{\kappa}{8 \pi} \Delta A = \Delta E - \Omega \Delta J$, so long as this passage is quasi-stationary. A similar physical process first law can be derived for any bifurcate Killing horizon in any spacetime dimension $d \ge 3$ using much the same argument. However, to make this law non-trivial, one must show that sufficiently quasi-stationary processes do in fact occur. In particular, one must show that processes exist for which the shear and expansion remain small, and in which no new generators are added to the horizon. Thorne, MacDonald, and Price considered related issues when an object falls across a d=4 black hole horizon. By generalizing their argument to arbitrary $d \ge 3$ and to any bifurcate Killing horizon, we derive a condition under which these effects are controlled and the first law applies. In particular, by providing a non-trivial first law for Rindler horizons, our work completes the parallel between the mechanics of such horizons and those of black holes for $d \ge 3$. We also comment on the situation for d=2.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:50:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:00:39 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Amsel", "Aaron J.", "" ], [ "Marolf", "Donald", "" ], [ "Virmani", "Amitabh", "" ] ]
0708.2739
Lasse Leskel\"a
Lasse Leskel\"a
Stabilization of an overloaded queueing network using measurement-based admission control
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1239/jap/1143936256 in the Journal of Applied Probability (http://projecteuclid.org/jap) by the Applied Probability Trust (http://www.appliedprobability.org/)
Journal of Applied Probability 2006 Vol. 43, No. 1, 231-244
10.1239/jap/1143936256
null
math.PR
null
Admission control can be employed to avoid congestion in queueing networks subject to overload. In distributed networks the admission decisions are often based on imperfect measurements on the network state. This paper studies how the lack of complete state information affects the system performance by considering a simple network model for distributed admission control. The stability region of the network is characterized and it is shown how feedback signaling makes the system very sensitive to its parameters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:51:47 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Leskelä", "Lasse", "" ] ]
0708.2740
Paul Ruffle
P. M. E. Ruffle (1), T. J. Millar (1), H. Roberts (1), D. A. Lubowich (2), C. Henkel (3), J. M. Pasachoff (4) and G. Brammer (4). ((1) The University of Manchester, UK, (2) Hofstra University, NY, USA, (3) MPIfR, Bonn, Germany, (4) Williams College, MA, USA)
Galactic Edge Clouds I: Molecular Line Observations and Chemical Modelling of Edge Cloud 2
Accepted by ApJ 7 August 2007. 29 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables. PMR now at NRAO, Green Bank, WV, USA. TJM now at Queen's University Belfast, UK. GB now at Yale University, CT, USA
null
10.1086/522775
null
astro-ph
null
Edge Cloud 2 (EC2) is a molecular cloud, about 35 pc in size, with one of the largest galactocentric distances known to exist in the Milky Way. We present observations of a peak CO emission region in the cloud and use these to determine its physical characteristics. We calculate a gas temperature of 20 K and a density of n(H2) ~ 10^4 cm^-3. Based on our CO maps, we estimate the mass of EC2 at around 10^4 M_sun and continuum observations suggest a dust-to-gas mass ratio as low as 0.001. Chemical models have been developed to reproduce the abundances in EC2 and they indicate that: heavy element abundances may be reduced by a factor of five relative to the solar neighbourhood (similar to dwarf irregular galaxies and damped Lyman alpha systems); very low extinction (Av < 4 mag) due to a very low dust-to-gas ratio; an enhanced cosmic ray ionisation rate; and a higher UV field compared to local interstellar values. The reduced abundances may be attributed to the low level of star formation in this region and are probably also related to the continuing infall of primordial (or low metallicity) halo gas since the Milky Way formed. Finally, we note that shocks from the old supernova remnant GSH 138-01-94 may have determined the morphology and dynamics of EC2.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:12:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:17:02 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ruffle", "P. M. E.", "" ], [ "Millar", "T. J.", "" ], [ "Roberts", "H.", "" ], [ "Lubowich", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Henkel", "C.", "" ], [ "Pasachoff", "J. M.", "" ], [ "Brammer", "G.", "" ], [ ".", "", "" ] ]
0708.2741
Stephen Fegan
V. V. Vassiliev and S. J. Fegan
Schwarzschild-Couder two-mirror telescope for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy
4 pages, 6 figures, in Proc. 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Mexico, 2007
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Schwarzschild-type aplanatic telescopes with two aspheric mirrors, configured to correct spherical and coma aberrations, are considered for application in gamma-ray astronomy utilizing the ground-based atmospheric Cherenkov technique. We use analytical descriptions for the figures of primary and secondary mirrors and, by means of numerical ray-tracing, we find telescope configurations which minimize astigmatism and maximize effective light collecting area. It is shown that unlike the traditional prime-focus Davies-Cotton design, such telescopes provide a solution for wide field of view gamma-ray observations. The designs are isochronous, can be optimized to have no vignetting across the field, and allow for significant reduction of the plate scale, making them compatible with finely-pixilated cameras, which can be constructed from modern, cost-effective image sensors such as multi-anode PMTs, SiPMs, or image intensifiers.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:05:21 GMT" } ]
2007-08-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Vassiliev", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Fegan", "S. J.", "" ] ]
0708.2742
Igor Moskalenko
Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Troy A. Porter (UCSC)
The Gamma-ray Albedo of the Moon
6 pages, 4 figures, emulateapj.cls; to appear in the Astrophysical Journal
Astrophys.J.670:1467-1472,2007
10.1086/522828
null
astro-ph
null
We use the GEANT4 Monte Carlo framework to calculate the gamma-ray albedo of the Moon due to interactions of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei with moon rock. Our calculation of the albedo spectrum agrees with the EGRET data. We show that the spectrum of gamma rays from the Moon is very steep with an effective cutoff around 3-4 GeV (600 MeV for the inner part of the Moon disk) and exhibits a narrow pion-decay line at 67.5 MeV, perhaps unique in astrophysics. Apart from other astrophysical sources, the albedo spectrum of the Moon is well understood, including its absolute normalisation; this makes it a useful "standard candle" for gamma-ray telescopes. The steep albedo spectrum also provides a unique opportunity for energy calibration of gamma-ray telescopes, such as the forthcoming Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). Since the albedo flux depends on the incident CR spectrum which changes over the solar cycle, it is possible to monitor the CR spectrum using the albedo gamma-ray flux. Simultaneous measurements of CR proton and helium spectra by the Payload for Antimatter-Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA), and observations of the albedo gamma rays by the GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT), can be used to test the model predictions and will enable the LAT to monitor the CR spectrum near the Earth beyond the lifetime of the PAMELA.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:55:58 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Moskalenko", "Igor V.", "", "Stanford" ], [ "Porter", "Troy A.", "", "UCSC" ] ]
0708.2743
Andreas Albrecht
Andreas Albrecht and Alberto Iglesias
The clock ambiguity and the emergence of physical laws
16 Pages including two appendices and 5 figures. V2: Some additional references added for completeness. No other changes. (Final version accepted for publication in PRD.)
Phys.Rev.D77:063506,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.063506
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
The process of identifying a time variable in time reparameterization invariant theories results in great ambiguities about the actual laws of physics described by a given theory. A theory set up to describe one set of physical laws can equally well be interpreted as describing any other laws of physics by making a different choice of time variable or ``clock''. In this article we demonstrate how this ``clock ambiguity'' arises and then discuss how one might still hope to extract specific predictions about the laws of physics even when the clock ambiguity is present. We argue that a requirement of quasi-separability should play a critical role in such an analysis. As a step in this direction, we compare the Hamiltonian of a local quantum field theory with a completely random Hamiltonian. We find that any random Hamiltonian (constructed in a sufficiently large space) can yield a ``good enough'' approximation to a local field theory. Based on this result we argue that theories that suffer from the clock ambiguity may in the end provide a viable fundamental framework for physics in which locality can be seen as a strongly favored (or predicted) emergent behavior. We also speculate on how other key aspects of known physics such as gauge symmetries and Poincare invariance might be predicted to emerge in this framework.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:30:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:47:18 GMT" } ]
2010-04-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Albrecht", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Iglesias", "Alberto", "" ] ]
0708.2744
Bahram Mashhoon
C. Chicone and B. Mashhoon
Nonlocal Lagrangians for Accelerated Systems
11 pages, no figures; v2: 20 pages; expanded version accepted for publication in Ann. Phys. (Leipzig); v3: several typos corrected to match the published version
Annalen Phys.16:811-823,2007
10.1002/andp.200710266
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
Acceleration-induced nonlocality and the corresponding Lorentz-invariant nonlocal field equations of accelerated systems in Minkowski spacetime are discussed. Under physically reasonable conditions, the nonlocal equation of motion of the field can be derived from a variational principle of stationary action involving a nonlocal Lagrangian that is simply obtained by composing the local inertial Lagrangian with the nonlocal transformation of the field to the accelerated system. The implications of this approach for the electromagnetic and Dirac fields are briefly discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:51:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:57:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:42:28 GMT" } ]
2012-05-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Chicone", "C.", "" ], [ "Mashhoon", "B.", "" ] ]
0708.2745
Alex Kim
Alex G. Kim, Ramon Miquel
Measuring Type Ia Supernova Distances and Redshifts From Their Multi-band Light Curves
16 pages, 4 figures, Astroparticle Physics, accepted
Astropart.Phys.28:448-455,2007
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.08.009
null
astro-ph
null
The distance and redshift of a type Ia supernova can be determined simultaneously through its multi-band light curves. This fact may be used for imaging surveys that discover and obtain photometry for large numbers of supernovae; so many that it would be difficult to obtain a spectroscopic redshift for each. Using available supernova-analysis tools we find that there are several conditions in which a viable distance-redshift can be determined. Uncertainties in the effective distance at z~0.3 are dominated by redshift uncertainties coupled with the steepness of the Hubble law. By z~0.5 the Hubble law flattens out and distance-modulus uncertainties dominate. Observations that give S/N=50 at peak brightness and a four-day observer cadence in each of griz-bands are necessary to match the intrinsic supernova magnitude dispersion out to z=1.0. Lower S/N can be tolerated with the addition of redshift priors (e.g. from a host-galaxy photometric redshift), observations in an additional redder band, or by focusing on supernova redshifts that have particular leverage for this measurement. More stringent S/N requirements are anticipated as improved systematics control over intrinsic color, metallicity, and dust is attempted to be drawn from light curves.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:36:37 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kim", "Alex G.", "" ], [ "Miquel", "Ramon", "" ] ]
0708.2746
Sara Haravifard
S. Haravifard, K.C. Rule, H.A. Dabkowska, B.D. Gaulin, Z. Yamani and W.J.L. Buyers
Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies of the Lightly-Doped Spin-Peierls System Cu(1-x)Cd(x)GeO3
15 Pages, 7 Figures, Submitted to J. Phys. :Condensed Matter
null
10.1088/0953-8984/19/43/436222
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Single crystals of the lightly-doped spin-Peierls system Cu(1-x)Cd(x)GeO3 have been studied using bulk susceptibility, x-ray diffraction, and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. We investigate the triplet gap in the magnetic excitation spectrum of this quasi-one dimensional quantum antiferromagnet, and its relation to the spin-Peierls dimerisation order parameter. We employ two different theoretical forms to model the inelastic neutron scattering cross section and chi''(Q,omega), and show the sensitivity of the gap energy to the choice of chi''(Q,omega). We find that a finite gap exists at the spin-Peierls phase transition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:52:52 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Haravifard", "S.", "" ], [ "Rule", "K. C.", "" ], [ "Dabkowska", "H. A.", "" ], [ "Gaulin", "B. D.", "" ], [ "Yamani", "Z.", "" ], [ "Buyers", "W. J. L.", "" ] ]
0708.2747
Abhishek Agarwal
Abhishek Agarwal
Aspects of Integrability in N =4 SYM
Invited brief review for Mod. Phys. Lett. A based on a talk at I.A.S, Princeton
Mod.Phys.Lett.A22:2549-2563,2007
10.1142/S021773230702542X
null
hep-th
null
Various recently developed connections between supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in four dimensions and two dimensional integrable systems serve as crucial ingredients in improving our understanding of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this review, we highlight some connections between superconformal four dimensional Yang-Mills theory and various integrable systems. In particular, we focus on the role of Yangian symmetries in studying the gauge theory dual of closed string excitations. We also briefly review how the gauge theory connects to Calogero models and open quantum spin chains through the study of the gauge theory duals of D3 branes and open strings ending on them. This invited review, written for Modern Physics Letters-A, is based on a seminar given at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:00:56 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Agarwal", "Abhishek", "" ] ]
0708.2748
Jim Freericks
O. P. Matveev (Inst. Condens. Mat. Phys. Lviv, Ukraine), A. M. Shvaika (Inst. Condens. Mat. Phys. Lviv, Ukraine), and J. K. Freericks (Georgetown University)
Optical and dc transport properties of a strongly correlated charge density wave system: exact solution in the ordered phase of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model with dynamical mean-field theory
14 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Phys. Rev. B 77, 035102-1--13 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.035102
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We derive the dynamical mean-field theory equations for transport in an ordered charge-density-wave phase on a bipartite lattice. The formalism is applied to the spinless Falicov-Kimball model on a hypercubic lattice at half filling. We determine the many-body density of states, the dc charge and heat conductivities, and the optical conductivity. Vertex corrections continue to vanish within the ordered phase, but the density of states and the transport coefficients show anomalous behavior due to the rapid development of thermally activated subgap states. We also examine the optical sum rule and sum rules for the first three moments of the Green's functions within the ordered phase and see that the total optical spectral weight in the ordered phase either decreases or increases depending on the strength of the interactions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:37:08 GMT" } ]
2008-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Matveev", "O. P.", "", "Inst. Condens. Mat. Phys. Lviv, Ukraine" ], [ "Shvaika", "A. M.", "", "Inst. Condens. Mat. Phys. Lviv, Ukraine" ], [ "Freericks", "J. K.", "", "Georgetown\n University" ] ]