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0705.0898
John Peacock
J.A. Peacock
Testing anthropic predictions for Lambda and the CMB temperature
9 pages. To appear in MNRAS. Minor changes to match accepted version
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1067-1074,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11978.x
null
astro-ph
null
It has been claimed that the observed magnitude of the vacuum energy density is consistent with the distribution predicted in anthropic models, in which an ensemble of universes is assumed. This calculation is revisited, without making the assumption that the CMB temperature is known, and considering in detail the possibility of a recollapsing universe. New accurate approximations for the growth of perturbations and the mass function of dark haloes are presented. Structure forms readily in the recollapsing phase of a model with negative Lambda, so collapse fraction alone cannot forbid Lambda from being large and negative. A negative Lambda is disfavoured only if we assume that formation of observers can be neglected once the recollapsing universe has heated to T > 8 K. For the case of positive Lambda, however, the current universe does occupy a extremely typical position compared to the predicted distribution on the Lambda-T plane. Contrasting conclusions can be reached if anthropic arguments are applied to the curvature of the universe, and we discuss the falsifiability of this mode of anthropic reasoning.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 12:43:37 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:42:10 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Peacock", "J. A.", "" ] ]
0705.0899
Zahid Zakir
Zahid Zakir (CTPA)
C-symmetric quantization of fields leading to a natural normal ordering
9 pages. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (R); Typos are improved
null
null
CTPA-07-02
physics.gen-ph
null
At the quantization of fields, due to the non-linear character of the time reversal, the creation-annihilation operators for the negative frequency modes should be replaced to the operators of antiparticles not directly in the field operators, but in the operator products. For the standard minimal Lagrangians (asymmetrical under the complex conjugated fields) it is shown that the charge conjugation (C-) symmetry conditions for the Hamiltonian and the charge operator lead to the identities for the operator products allowing one to replace the negative frequency operator products to the positive frequency ones. At the same time the operators in observables become normal ordered and the zero-point energy does not appear. Only the symmetrized under the field operators Lagrangians lead to the zero-point energy. The confrontation by the experiments of the such C-symmetric quantization of fields and the solution some of the vacuum energy problems are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:37:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:19:16 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zakir", "Zahid", "", "CTPA" ] ]
0705.0900
S. Weinzierl
Stefan Weinzierl
Feynman integrals and multiple polylogarithms
23 pages, talk given at the workshop "Renormalization and Galois theories", Marseille, March 2006; v2: references added
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
In this talk I review the connections between Feynman integrals and multiple polylogarithms. After an introductory section on loop integrals I discuss the Mellin-Barnes transformation and shuffle algebras. In a subsequent section multiple polylogarithms are introduced. Finally, I discuss how certain Feynman integrals evaluate to multiple polylogarithms.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 12:55:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 06:40:56 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Weinzierl", "Stefan", "" ] ]
0705.0901
Paola Cattabriga
Paola Cattabriga
How to release Frege's system from Russell's antinomy
11 pages, for more information see http://it.geocities.com/paola_cattabriga/
null
null
null
math.GM math.LO
null
The conditions for proper definitions in mathematics are given, in terms of the theory of definition, on the basis of the criterions of eliminability and non-creativity. As a definition, Russell's antinomy is a violation of the criterion of eliminability (Behmann, 1931; Bochvar, 1943). Following the path of the criterion of non-creativity, this paper develops a new analysis of Comprehension schema and, as a consequence, proof that Russell's antinomy argumentation, despite the words of Frege himself, does not hold in Grundgesetze der Arithmetik. According to Basic Law (III), the class of classes not belonging to themselves is a class defined by a function which can not take as argument its own course of value. In other words, the class of classes not belonging to themselves is a class whose classes are not identical to the class itself.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 12:56:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 08:49:00 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Cattabriga", "Paola", "" ] ]
0705.0902
Maria Fabiana Laguna
M. F. Laguna, S. Bohn, E. A. Jagla
The role of elastic stresses on leaf venation morphogenesis
10 figures, published in PLoS Computational Biology
null
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000055
null
physics.bio-ph physics.comp-ph
null
We explore the possible role of elastic mismatch between epidermis and mesophyll as a driving force for the development of leaf venation. The current prevalent 'canalization' hypothesis for the formation of veins claims that the transport of the hormone auxin out of the leaves triggers cell differentiation to form veins. Although there is evidence that auxin plays a fundamental role in vein formation, the simple canalization mechanism may not be enough to explain some features observed in the vascular system of leaves, in particular, the abundance of vein loops. We present a model based on the existence of mechanical instabilities that leads very naturally to hierarchical patterns with a large number of closed loops. When applied to the structure of high order veins, the numerical results show the same qualitative features as actual venation patterns and, furthermore, have the same statistical properties. We argue that the agreement between actual and simulated patterns provides strong evidence for the role of mechanical effects on venation development.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:27:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 2 May 2008 14:51:34 GMT" } ]
2008-05-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Laguna", "M. F.", "" ], [ "Bohn", "S.", "" ], [ "Jagla", "E. A.", "" ] ]
0705.0903
Narendra Sahu
Abhijit Gadde, Narendra Sahu and Urjit A. Yajnik
Soliton-fermion systems and stabilised vortex loops
4 pages, presented at the 17th DAE-BRNS HEP symposium held at IIT Kharagpur, India
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
In several self-coupled quantum field theories when treated in semi-classical limit one obtains solitonic solutions determined by topology of the boundary conditions. Such solutions, e.g. magnetic monopole in unified theories \cite{Hooft1974} \cite{Polyakov1974} or the skyrme model of hadrons have been proposed as possible non-perturbative bound states which remain stable due to topological quantum numbers. Furthermore when fermions are introduced, under certain conditions one obtains zero-energy solutions \cite{Vega1978}\cite{Jackiw1981} for the Dirac equations localised on the soliton. An implication of such zero-modes is induced fermion number \cite{Jackiw1977} carried by the soliton.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:36:19 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Gadde", "Abhijit", "" ], [ "Sahu", "Narendra", "" ], [ "Yajnik", "Urjit A.", "" ] ]
0705.0904
Dr. Anirudh Pradhan
Anirudh Pradhan, Anju Rai and Raj Bali
String Cosmological Model in Cylindrically Symmetric Inhomogeneous Universe with Electromagnetic Field
9 pages with minute mathematical correction
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Cylindrically symmetric inhomogeneous string cosmological models in presence of electromagnetic field is investigated. We have assumed that $F_{12}$ is the only non-vanishing component of $F_{ij}$. The Maxwell's equations require that $F_{12}$ is the function of $x$ and $t$ both and the magnetic permeability is the function of $x$ and $t$ both. To get the deterministic solution, it has been assumed that the expansion ($\theta$) in the model is proportional to the eigen value $\sigma^{1}_{1}$ of the shear tensor $\sigma^{i}_{j}$. The derived model represents the inflationary scenario as the proper volume increases exponentially with cosmic time. It is observed that the model has a point type singularity. The physical and geometric aspects of the model are also discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:41:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:03:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:37:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Sun, 4 May 2014 07:51:00 GMT" } ]
2014-05-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Pradhan", "Anirudh", "" ], [ "Rai", "Anju", "" ], [ "Bali", "Raj", "" ] ]
0705.0905
Jeronimo Bernard-Salas
G.C. Sloan, M. Jura, W.W. Duley, K.E. Kraemer, J. Bernard-Salas, W.J. Forrest, B. Sargent, A. Li, D.J. Barry, C.J. Bohac, D.M. Watson, J.R. Houck
The unusual hydrocarbon emission from the early carbon star HD 100764: The connection between aromatics and aliphatics
11 pages (in emulateapj), 5 tables, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Astrophys.J.664:1144-1153,2007
10.1086/519236
null
astro-ph
null
We have used the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope to obtain spectra of HD 100764, an apparently single carbon star with a circumstellar disk. The spectrum shows emission features from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are shifted to longer wavelengths than normally seen, as characteristic of ``class C'' systems in the classification scheme of Peeters et al. All seven of the known class C PAH sources are illuminated by radiation fields that are cooler than those which typically excite PAH emission features. The observed wavelength shifts are consistent with hydrocarbon mixtures containing both aromatic and aliphatic bonds. We propose that the class C PAH spectra are distinctive because the carbonaceous material has not been subjected to a strong ultraviolet radiation field, allowing relatively fragile aliphatic materials to survive.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:58:58 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sloan", "G. C.", "" ], [ "Jura", "M.", "" ], [ "Duley", "W. W.", "" ], [ "Kraemer", "K. E.", "" ], [ "Bernard-Salas", "J.", "" ], [ "Forrest", "W. J.", "" ], [ "Sargent", "B.", "" ], [ "Li", "A.", "" ], [ "Barry", "D. J.", "" ], [ "Bohac", "C. J.", "" ], [ "Watson", "D. M.", "" ], [ "Houck", "J. R.", "" ] ]
0705.0906
Andreas Leopold Knutsen
Andreas Leopold Knutsen
Remarks on families of singular curves with hyperelliptic normalizations
18 pages
null
null
null
math.AG
null
We give restrictions on the existence of families of curves on smooth projective surfaces $S$ of nonnegative Kodaira dimension all having constant geometric genus $g \geq 2$ and hyperelliptic normalizations. In particular, we prove a Reider-like result whose proof is ``vector bundle-free'' and relies on deformation theory and bending-and-breaking of rational curves in $\Sym^2(S)$. We also give examples of families of such curves.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:53:19 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Knutsen", "Andreas Leopold", "" ] ]
0705.0907
Jean-Marc Luck
J.M. Luck and C. Godreche
Structure of the stationary state of the asymmetric target process
30 pages, 16 figures
J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P08005
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08005
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We introduce a novel migration process, the target process. This process is dual to the zero-range process (ZRP) in the sense that, while for the ZRP the rate of transfer of a particle only depends on the occupation of the departure site, it only depends on the occupation of the arrival site for the target process. More precisely, duality associates to a given ZRP a unique target process, and vice-versa. If the dynamics is symmetric, i.e., in the absence of a bias, both processes have the same stationary-state product measure. In this work we focus our interest on the situation where the latter measure exhibits a continuous condensation transition at some finite critical density $\rho_c$, irrespective of the dimensionality. The novelty comes from the case of asymmetric dynamics, where the target process has a nontrivial fluctuating stationary state, whose characteristics depend on the dimensionality. In one dimension, the system remains homogeneous at any finite density. An alternating scenario however prevails in the high-density regime: typical configurations consist of long alternating sequences of highly occupied and less occupied sites. The local density of the latter is equal to $\rho_c$ and their occupation distribution is critical. In dimension two and above, the asymmetric target process exhibits a phase transition at a threshold density $\rho_0$ much larger than $\rho_c$. The system is homogeneous at any density below $\rho_0$, whereas for higher densities it exhibits an extended condensate elongated along the direction of the mean current, on top of a critical background with density $\rho_c$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:57:26 GMT" } ]
2007-08-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Luck", "J. M.", "" ], [ "Godreche", "C.", "" ] ]
0705.0908
Orr Shalit
Orr Shalit
A note on equicontinuity of families of operators and automorphisms
8 pages, typos corrected
null
null
null
math.FA math.OA
null
This note concerns uniform equicontinuity of families of operators on a separable Hilbert space H, and of families of maps on B(H). It is shown that a one parameter group of automorphisms is uniformly equicontinuous if and only if the group of unitaries which implements it is so. A "geometrical" necessary and sufficient condition is given for a family of operators to be uniformly equicontinuous.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:57:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 12 May 2007 13:22:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Shalit", "Orr", "" ] ]
0705.0909
Giacomo Bacci
Giacomo Bacci, Marco Luise, H. Vincent Poor
Game-Theoretic Power Control in Impulse Radio UWB Wireless Networks
Appeared in the Proceedings of the 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, April 1-4, 2007
null
null
null
cs.GT cs.IT math.IT
null
In this paper, a game-theoretic model for studying power control for wireless data networks in frequency-selective multipath environments is analyzed. The uplink of an impulse-radio ultrawideband system is considered. The effects of self-interference and multiple-access interference on the performance of Rake receivers are investigated for synchronous systems. Focusing on energy efficiency, a noncooperative game is proposed in which users in the network are allowed to choose their transmit powers to maximize their own utilities, and the Nash equilibrium for the proposed game is derived. It is shown that, due to the frequency selective multipath, the noncooperative solution is achieved at different signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios, respectively of the channel realization. A large-system analysis is performed to derive explicit expressions for the achieved utilities. The Pareto-optimal (cooperative) solution is also discussed and compared with the noncooperative approach.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:58:01 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bacci", "Giacomo", "" ], [ "Luise", "Marco", "" ], [ "Poor", "H. Vincent", "" ] ]
0705.0910
Simone Marchi
Simone Marchi
Extrasolar planet taxonomy: a new statistical approach
accepted for publication on ApJ
Astrophys.J.666:475-485,2007
10.1086/519760
null
astro-ph
null
In this paper we present the guidelines for an extrasolar planet taxonomy. The discovery of an increasing number of extrasolar planets showing a vast variety of planetary parameters, like Keplerian orbital elements and environmental parameters, like stellar masses, spectral types, metallicity etc., prompts the development of a planetary taxonomy. In this work via principal component analysis followed by hierarchical clustering analysis, we report the definition of five robust groups of planets. We also discuss the physical relevance of such analysis, which may provide a valid basis for disentangling the role of the several physical parameters involved in the processes of planet formation and subsequent evolution. For instance, we were able to divide the hot Jupiters into two main groups on the basis of their stellar masses and metallicities. Moreover, for some groups, we find strong correlations between metallicity, semi-major axis and eccentricity. The implications of these findings are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:19:13 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Marchi", "Simone", "" ] ]
0705.0911
Umberto Zannier
Umberto Zannier
Composite lacunary polynomials and the proof of a conjecture of Schinzel
9 pages
null
10.1007/s00222-008-0136-8
null
math.NT
null
Let $g(x)$ be a fixed non-constant complex polynomial. It was conjectured by Schinzel that if $g(h(x))$ has boundedly many terms, then $h(x)\in \C[x]$ must also have boundedly many terms. Solving an older conjecture raised by R\'enyi and by Erd\"os, Schinzel had proved this in the special cases $g(x)=x^d$; however that method does not extend to the general case. Here we prove the full Schinzel's conjecture (actually in sharper form) by a completely different method. Simultaneously we establish an "algorithmic" parametric description of the general decomposition $f(x)=g(h(x))$, where $f$ is a polynomial with a given number of terms and $g,h$ are arbitrary polynomials. As a corollary, this implies for instance that a polynomial with $l$ terms and given coefficients is non-trivially decomposable if and only if the degree-vector lies in the union of certain finitely many subgroups of $\Z^l$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:11:31 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zannier", "Umberto", "" ] ]
0705.0912
Erzs\'ebet Ravasz Regan
Erzsebet Ravasz, S. Gnanakaran and Zoltan Toroczkai
Network Structure of Protein Folding Pathways
15 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
q-bio.BM q-bio.MN
null
The classical approach to protein folding inspired by statistical mechanics avoids the high dimensional structure of the conformation space by using effective coordinates. Here we introduce a network approach to capture the statistical properties of the structure of conformation spaces. Conformations are represented as nodes of the network, while links are transitions via elementary rotations around a chemical bond. Self-avoidance of a polypeptide chain introduces degree correlations in the conformation network, which in turn lead to energy landscape correlations. Folding can be interpreted as a biased random walk on the conformation network. We show that the folding pathways along energy gradients organize themselves into scale free networks, thus explaining previous observations made via molecular dynamics simulations. We also show that these energy landscape correlations are essential for recovering the observed connectivity exponent, which belongs to a different universality class than that of random energy models. In addition, we predict that the exponent and therefore the structure of the folding network fundamentally changes at high temperatures, as verified by our simulations on the AK peptide.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:12:07 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ravasz", "Erzsebet", "" ], [ "Gnanakaran", "S.", "" ], [ "Toroczkai", "Zoltan", "" ] ]
0705.0913
Jorge Pineda
Jorge L. Pineda and Frank Bensch (Argelander Institut f\"ur Astronomie, Universit\"at Bonn, Germany)
Photon Dominated Region Modeling of Barnard 68
Accepted for publication to A&A. 11 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables
Astron.Astrophys.470:615, 2007
10.1051/0004-6361:20077096
null
astro-ph
null
We use the Barnard 68 dark globule as a test case for a spherically symmetric PDR model exposed to low-UV radiation fields. With a roughly spherical morphology and an accurately determined density profile, Barnard 68 is ideal for this purpose. The processes governing the energy balance in the cloud surface are studied in detail. We compare the spherically symmetric PDR model by Stoerzer, Stutzki & Sternberg (1996) to observations of the three lowest rotational transitions of 12CO, 13CO J = 2-1 and J = 3-2 as well as the [CI] 3P_1-3P_0 fine structure transition. We study the role of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the chemical network of the PDR model and consider the impact of depletion as well as of a variation of the external FUV field. We find it difficult to simultaneously model the observed 12CO and 13CO emission. The 12CO and [CI] emission can be explained by a PDR model with a external FUV field of 1-0.75 chi_0, but this model fails to reproduce the observed 13CO by a factor of ~2. Adding PAHs to the chemical network increases the [CI] emission by 50% in our model but makes [CII] very faint. CO depletion only slightly reduces the 12CO and 13CO line intensity (by <10% and <20%, respectively). Predictions for the [CII] 2P_3/2-2P_1/2, [CI] 3P_2-3P_1 and 12CO J= 5-4 and 4-3 transitions are presented. This allows a test of our model with future observations (APEX, NANTEN2, HERSCHEL, SOFIA).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:03:45 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Pineda", "Jorge L.", "", "Argelander Institut für\n Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany" ], [ "Bensch", "Frank", "", "Argelander Institut für\n Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany" ] ]
0705.0914
Jos\'e A. Caballero
Jos\'e A. Caballero
A near-infrared/optical/X-ray survey in the centre of sigma Orionis
Accepted for publication in Astron. Nachr. It has not been edited for language yet
null
10.1002/asna.200710778
null
astro-ph
null
Because of the intense brightness of the OB-type multiple star system sigma Ori, the low-mass stellar and substellar populations close to the centre of the very young sigma Orionis cluster is poorly know. I present an IJHKs survey in the cluster centre, able to detect from the massive early-type stars down to cluster members below the deuterium burning mass limit. The near-infrared and optical data have been complemented with X-ray imaging. Ten objects have been found for the first time to display high-energy emission. Previously known stars with clear spectroscopic youth indicators and/or X-ray emission define a clear sequence in the I vs. I-Ks diagram. I have found six new candidate cluster members that follow this sequence. One of them, in the magnitude interval of the brown dwarfs in the cluster, displays X-ray emission and a very red J-Ks colour, indicative of a disc. Other three low-mass stars have excesses in the Ks band as well. The frequency of X-ray emitters in the area is 80+/-20 %. The spatial density of stars is very high, of up to 1.6+/-0.1 arcmin-2. There is no indication of lower abundance of substellar objects in the cluster centre. Finally, I also report two cluster stars with X-ray emission located at only 8000-11000 AU to sigma Ori AB, two sources with peculiar colours and an object with X-ray emission and near-infrared magnitudes similar to those of previously-known substellar objects in the cluster.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:28:02 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Caballero", "José A.", "" ] ]
0705.0915
Joerg Rothe
Dorothea Baumeister and Joerg Rothe
Satisfiability Parsimoniously Reduces to the Tantrix(TM) Rotation Puzzle Problem
19 pages, 16 figures, appears in the Proceedings of "Machines, Computations and Universality" (MCU 2007)
null
null
null
cs.CC
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Holzer and Holzer (Discrete Applied Mathematics 144(3):345--358, 2004) proved that the Tantrix(TM) rotation puzzle problem is NP-complete. They also showed that for infinite rotation puzzles, this problem becomes undecidable. We study the counting version and the unique version of this problem. We prove that the satisfiability problem parsimoniously reduces to the Tantrix(TM) rotation puzzle problem. In particular, this reduction preserves the uniqueness of the solution, which implies that the unique Tantrix(TM) rotation puzzle problem is as hard as the unique satisfiability problem, and so is DP-complete under polynomial-time randomized reductions, where DP is the second level of the boolean hierarchy over NP.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:23:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 9 Jun 2008 11:28:24 GMT" } ]
2008-06-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Baumeister", "Dorothea", "" ], [ "Rothe", "Joerg", "" ] ]
0705.0916
Buisseret Fabien Mr
F. Buisseret
Meson and glueball spectra with the relativistic flux tube model
34 pages, 3 tables, 7 figures; references added and corrected in version 2; version 3 accepted in PRC, new results added concerning light mesons
Phys.Rev.C76:025206,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.025206
null
hep-ph
null
The mass spectra of heavy and light mesons is computed within the framework of the relativistic flux tube model. A good agreement with the experimental data is obtained provided that the flux tube contributions, including retardation and spin-orbit effects, are supplemented by a one-gluon-exchange potential, a quark self-energy term and instanton-induced interactions. No arbitrary constant is needed to fit the absolute scale of the mass spectra, and the different parameters are fitted on lattice QCD in order to strongly restrict the arbitrariness of our model. The relevance of the present approach is discussed in the case of glueballs, and the glueball spectrum we compute is compared to the lattice QCD one. Finally, we make connections between the results of our model and the nature of some newly discovered experimental states such as the f_0(1810), X(3940), Y(3940), etc.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:24:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 May 2007 13:34:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:42:17 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Buisseret", "F.", "" ] ]
0705.0917
Carsten M\"uller
Carsten M\"uller, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel
Particle physics with a laser-driven positronium atom
4 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Lett.B659:209-213,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.002
null
hep-ph
null
A detailed quantum-electrodynamic calculation of muon pair creation in laser-driven electron-positron collisions is presented. The colliding particles stem from a positronium atom exposed to a superintense laser wave of linear polarization, which allows for high luminosity. The threshold laser intensity of this high-energy reaction amounts to a few 10^22 W/cm^2 in the near-infrared frequency range. The muons produced form an ultrarelativistic, strongly collimated beam, which is explicable in terms of a classical simple-man's model. Our results indicate that the process can be observed at high positronium densities with the help of present-day laser technology.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:03:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:12:30 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Müller", "Carsten", "" ], [ "Hatsagortsyan", "Karen Z.", "" ], [ "Keitel", "Christoph H.", "" ] ]
0705.0918
Miguel-Angel Perez-Torres
Miguel A. Perez-Torres and Antonio Alberdi
The continuum radio emission from the Sy 1.5 galaxy NGC 5033
Accepted for publication in the Main Journal of MNRAS, 8 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11944.x
null
astro-ph
null
We present new continuum VLA observations of the nearby Sy 1.5 galaxy NGC 5033, made at 4.9 and 8.4 GHz on 8 April 2003. Combined with VLA archival observations at 1.4 and 4.9 GHz made on 7 August 1993, 29 August 1999, and 31 October 1999, we sample the galaxy radio emission at scales ranging from the nuclear regions (<~ 100 pc) to the outer regions of the disk (~ 40 kpc). The high-resolution VLA images show a core-jet structure for the Sy 1.5 nucleus. While the core has a moderately steep non-thermal radio spectrum (S_\nu ~ \nu^\alpha; \alpha_{1.5}^{4.9} \approx -0.4), the inner kpc region shows a steeper spectrum (\alpha_{1.5}^{8.4} \approx -0.9). This latter spectrum is typical of galaxies where energy losses are high, indicating that the escape rate of cosmic ray electrons in NGC 5033 is low. The nucleus contributes little to the total 1.4 GHz radio power of NGC 5033 and, based on the radio to far-infrared (FIR) relation, it appears that the radio and far-infrared emission from NGC 5033 are dominated by a starburst that during the last 10 Myr produced stars at a rate of ~2.8 M_sun/yr, yielding a supernova (type Ib/c and II) rate of 0.045 #/yr. This supernova rate corresponds to about 1 SN event every 22 yr. Finally, from our deep 8.4 GHz VLA-D image, we suggest the existence of a radio spur in NGC 5033, which could have been due to a hot superbubble formed as a consequence of sequential supernova explosions occurring during the lifetime of a giant molecular cloud.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:37:33 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Perez-Torres", "Miguel A.", "" ], [ "Alberdi", "Antonio", "" ] ]
0705.0919
Heidi Korhonen
H. Korhonen (AIP), K. Brogaard (Aarhus Univ.), K. Holhjem (NOT, Bonn), S. Ramstedt (Stockholm Univ.), J. Rantala (Helsinki Univ.), C.C. Thoene (DARK) K. Vida (Eotvos Lorand Univ., Konkoly)
Photospheric and chromospheric activity on EY Dra
7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes)
null
10.1002/asna.200710777
null
astro-ph
null
Magnetic activity in the photosphere and chromosphere of the M dwarf EY Dra is studied and possible correlations between the two are investigated using photometric observations in the V and R bands and optical and near infrared spectroscopy. The longitudinal spot configuration in the photosphere is obtained from the V band photometry, and the chromospheric structures are investigated using variations in the H alpha line profile and observations of the Paschen beta line. The shape of the V band light-curve indicates two active regions on the stellar surface, about 0.4 in phase apart. The spectroscopic observations show enhanced H alpha emission observed close to the phases of the photometrically detected starspots. This could indicate chromospheric plages associated with the photospheric starspots. Some indications of prominence structures are also seen. The chromospheric pressure is limited to logTR < -4 based on the non-detection of emission in the Paschen beta wavelength region.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:41:02 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Korhonen", "H.", "", "AIP" ], [ "Brogaard", "K.", "", "Aarhus Univ." ], [ "Holhjem", "K.", "", "NOT, Bonn" ], [ "Ramstedt", "S.", "", "Stockholm Univ." ], [ "Rantala", "J.", "", "Helsinki Univ." ], [ "Thoene", "C. C.", "", "DARK" ], [ "Vida", "K.", "", "Eotvos Lorand Univ., Konkoly" ] ]
0705.0920
Elena Cordero
Elena Cordero and Fabio Nicola
Metaplectic representation on Wiener amalgam spaces and applications to the Schr\"odinger equation
null
J. Funct. Anal., 254:506--534, 2008
null
null
math.FA math-ph math.MP
null
We study the action of metaplectic operators on Wiener amalgam spaces, giving upper bounds for their norms. As an application, we obtain new fixed-time estimates in these spaces for Schr\"odinger equations with general quadratic Hamiltonians and Strichartz estimates for the Schr\"odinger equation with potentials $V(x)=\pm|x|^2$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:43:40 GMT" } ]
2016-06-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Cordero", "Elena", "" ], [ "Nicola", "Fabio", "" ] ]
0705.0921
Debottam Das
Utpal Chattopadhyay, Debottam Das, Amitava Datta and Sujoy Poddar
Non-zero trilinear parameter in the mSUGRA model - dark matter and collider signals at Tevatron and LHC
Some minor changes made in the text. To appear in Phys Rev D
Phys.Rev.D76:055008,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.055008
null
hep-ph
null
Phenomenologically viable and interesting regions of parameter space in the minimal super-gravity (mSUGRA) model with small $m_0$ and small $m_{1/2}$ consistent with the WMAP data on dark matter relic density and the bound on the mass of the lightest Higgs scalar $ m_h>$ 114 GeV from LEP2 open up if the rather adhoc assumption $A_0$=0, where $A_0$ is the common trilinear soft breaking parameter, employed in most of the existing analyses is relaxed. Since this region corresponds to relatively light squarks and gluinos which are likely to be probed extensively in the very early stages of the LHC experiments, the consequences of moderate or large negative values of $A_0$ are examined in detail. We find that in this region several processes including lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) pair annihilation, LSP - lighter tau slepton (${\tilde \tau}_1$) coannihilation and LSP - lighter top squark (${\tilde t}_1$) coannihilation contribute to the observed dark matter relic density. %\sout{The possibility that a relic density producing ${\tilde t}_1$ can be %observed at the current experiments at the Tevatron is wide open.} The possibility that a ${\tilde t}_1$ that can participate in coannihilation with the lightest neutralino to satisfy the WMAP bound on relic density and at the same time be observed at the current experiments at the Tevatron is wide open. At the LHC a large number of squark - gluino events lead to a very distinctive semi-inclusive signature $\tau^\pm$+X$_\tau$ (anything without a tau lepton) with a characteristic size much larger than $e^\pm$+X$_e$ or $\mu^\pm$+X$_\mu$ events.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:46:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:03:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Chattopadhyay", "Utpal", "" ], [ "Das", "Debottam", "" ], [ "Datta", "Amitava", "" ], [ "Poddar", "Sujoy", "" ] ]
0705.0922
Jos\'e A. Caballero
J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. B\'ejar, R. Rebolo, J. Eisl\"offel, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, R. Mundt, D. Barrado y Navascu\'es, G. Bihain, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, T. Forveille, E. L. Mart\'in
The substellar mass function in sigma Orionis. II. Optical, near-infrared and IRAC/Spitzer photometry of young cluster brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects
Accepted for publication in A&A (12/04/2007). It has not been edited for language yet
Astron.Astrophys.470:903-918,2007
10.1051/0004-6361:20066993
null
astro-ph
null
We investigate the mass function in the substellar domain down to a few Jupiter masses in the young sigma Orionis open cluster (3+/-2 Ma, d = 360^+70_-60 pc). We have performed a deep IJ-band search, covering an area of 790 arcmin^2 close to the cluster centre. This survey was complemented with an infrared follow-up in the HKs- and Spitzer 3.6-8.0 mum-bands. Using colour-magnitude diagrams, we have selected 49 candidate cluster members in the magnitude interval 16.1 mag < I < 23.0 mag. Accounting for flux excesses at 8.0 mum and previously known spectral features of youth, 30 objects are bona fide cluster members. Four are first identified from our optical-near infrared data. Eleven have most probable masses below the deuterium burning limit and are classified as planetary-mass object candidates. The slope of the substellar mass spectrum (Delta N / Delta M = a M^-alpha) in the mass interval 0.11 Msol M < 0.006 Msol is alpha = +0.6+/-0.2. Any opacity mass-limit, if these objects form via fragmentation, may lie below 0.006 Msol. The frequency of sigma Orionis brown dwarfs with circumsubstellar discs is 47+/-15 %. The continuity in the mass function and in the frequency of discs suggests that very low-mass stars and substellar objects, even below the deuterium-burning mass limit, may share the same formation mechanism.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:12:06 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Caballero", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Béjar", "V. J. S.", "" ], [ "Rebolo", "R.", "" ], [ "Eislöffel", "J.", "" ], [ "Osorio", "M. R. Zapatero", "" ], [ "Mundt", "R.", "" ], [ "Navascués", "D. Barrado y", "" ], [ "Bihain", "G.", "" ], [ "Bailer-Jones", "C. A. L.", "" ], [ "Forveille", "T.", "" ], [ "Martín", "E. L.", "" ] ]
0705.0923
Charles Sackett
K. J. Hughes, B. Deissler, J. H. T. Burke and C.A. Sackett
Precise manipulation of a Bose-Einstein condensate using Bragg interactions
5 pages, 3 figures. Revised text, fixed error in figure
null
null
null
cond-mat.other
null
The use of off-resonant standing light waves to manipulate ultracold atoms is investigated. Previous work has illustrated that optical pulses can provide efficient beam-splitting and reflection operations for atomic wave packets. The performance of these operations is characterized experimentally using Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a weak magnetic trap. Under optimum conditions, fidelities of up to 0.99 for beam splitting and 0.98 for reflection are observed, and splitting operations of up to third order are achieved. The dependence of the operations on light intensity and atomic velocity is measured and found to agree well with theoretical estimates.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:54:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:52:31 GMT" } ]
2007-06-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Hughes", "K. J.", "" ], [ "Deissler", "B.", "" ], [ "Burke", "J. H. T.", "" ], [ "Sackett", "C. A.", "" ] ]
0705.0924
Michael Maziashvili
Michael Maziashvili
Cosmological implications of Karolyhazy uncertainty relation
4 pages, Version to appear in PLB, a few comments and a reference added
Phys.Lett.B652:165-168,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.07.008
null
gr-qc hep-ph hep-th
null
Karolyhazy uncertainty relation, which can be viewed also as a relation between UV and IR scales in the framework of an effective quantum field theory satisfying a black hole entropy bound, strongly favors the existence of dark energy with its observed value. Here we estimate the dynamics of dark energy predicted by the Karolyhazy relation during the cosmological evolution of the universe.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 14:58:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:27:42 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Maziashvili", "Michael", "" ] ]
0705.0925
Naceur-Eddine Khelifa
N.-E. Kh\'elifa (LNE- Inm)
Water Vapour Effects in Mass Measurement
null
Proceedings (20/05/2007) 4
10.2478/v10048-008-0006-y
null
physics.ins-det
null
Water vapour inside the mass comparator enclosure is a critical parameter. In fact, fluctuations of this parameter during mass weighing can lead to errors in the determination of an unknown mass. To control that, a proposal method is given and tested. Preliminary results of our observation of water vapour sorption and desorption processes from walls and mass standard are reported.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:03:44 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Khélifa", "N. -E.", "", "LNE- Inm" ] ]
0705.0926
J\'anos Koll\'ar
J\'anos Koll\'ar (Princeton Univ)
Two examples of surfaces with normal crossing singularities
Version 2: Several details corrected
null
null
null
math.AG
null
This note gives two examples of surfaces with normal crossing singularities. In the first example the canonical ring is not finitely generated. In the second, the canonical line bundle is not ample but its pull back to the normalization is ample. The latter answers in the negative a problem left unresolved in [EGA,III.2.6.2] and raised again by Viehweg.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:05:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:00:23 GMT" } ]
2007-08-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kollár", "János", "", "Princeton Univ" ] ]
0705.0927
Eyo Ita III
Eyo Eyo Ita III
Instanton representation of Plebanski gravity. Application to gravitons about DeSitter spacetime
16 pages. Accepted by the International Journal of Modern Physics D
null
10.1142/S0218271812500599
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the instanton representation method, we re-construct graviton solutions about DeSitter spacetime. We have used this example as a testing arena to expose the internal structure of the method and to establish that it works for known solutions. This paper is a precursor for its application to the construction of new General Relativity solutions in future work.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:06:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:39:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:25:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:18:26 GMT" } ]
2012-08-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Ita", "Eyo Eyo", "III" ] ]
0705.0928
N. P. Ong
Y. Onose, Lu Li, C. Petrovic and N. P. Ong
Anomalous thermopower and Nernst effect in $\rm CeCoIn_5$: entropy-current loss in precursor state
5 figures, 4 pages
Europhys. Lett. 79, 17006 (2007)
10.1209/0295-5075/79/17006
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con
null
The heavy-electron superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ exhibits a puzzling precursor state above its superconducting critical temperature at $T_c$ = 2.3 K. The thermopower and Nernst signal are anomalous. Below 15 K, the entropy current of the electrons undergoes a steep decrease reaching $\sim$0 at $T_c$. Concurrently, the off-diagonal thermoelectric current $\alpha_{xy}$ is enhanced. The delicate sensitivity of the zero-entropy state to field implies phase coherence over large distances. The prominent anomalies in the thermoelectric current contrast with the relatively weak effects in the resistivity and magnetization.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:07:00 GMT" } ]
2007-06-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Onose", "Y.", "" ], [ "Li", "Lu", "" ], [ "Petrovic", "C.", "" ], [ "Ong", "N. P.", "" ] ]
0705.0929
Volker Meden
P. Waechter, V. Meden, K. Schoenhammer
Charging of a quantum dot coupled to Luttinger liquid leads
4 pages, 4 figures included, version accepted for publication in PRB
Phys. Rev. B 76, 125316 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.125316
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall
null
Luttinger liquid behavior of one-dimensional correlated electron systems is characterized by power-law scaling of a variety of physical observables with exponents determined by a single interaction dependent parameter K. We suggest a setup to study Luttinger liquid behavior in quantum wires which allows to determine K from two independent measurements: resonant transport through a quantum dot embedded in the wire and the charge on the dot. Consistency of the two measured values of K for a single probe would provide strong experimental evidence for the Luttinger liquid paradigm.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:26:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:56:58 GMT" } ]
2007-10-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Waechter", "P.", "" ], [ "Meden", "V.", "" ], [ "Schoenhammer", "K.", "" ] ]
0705.0930
John R. Klein
John R. Klein and Edward Bruce Williams
The "fundamental theorem" for the algebraic K-theory of spaces. III. the nil-term
10 pages
null
null
null
math.KT math.AT
null
In this paper we identify the ``nil-terms'' for Waldhausen's algebraic K-theory of spaces functor as the reduced K-theory of a category of equivariant spaces equipped with a homotopically nilpotent endomorphism.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:30:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 00:35:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Klein", "John R.", "" ], [ "Williams", "Edward Bruce", "" ] ]
0705.0931
Caleb O'Loan
Caleb J. O'Loan
Analysis of a convenient information bound for general quantum channels
16 pages. Published version. Some of the lemmas have been corrected. New resuts have been added. Proofs are more rigorous
J.Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 14499-513
10.1088/1751-8113/40/48/013
null
quant-ph
null
Open questions from Sarovar and Milburn (2006 J.Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 8487) are answered. Sarovar and Milburn derived a convenient upper bound for the Fisher information of a one-parameter quantum channel. They showed that for quasi-classical models their bound is achievable and they gave a necessary and sufficient condition for positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) attaining this bound. They asked (i) whether their bound is attainable more generally, (ii) whether explicit expressions for optimal POVMs can be derived from the attainability condition. We show that the symmetric logarithmic derivative (SLD) quantum information is less than or equal to the SM bound, i.e.\ $H(\theta) \leq C_{\Upsilon}(\theta)$ and we find conditions for equality. As the Fisher information is less than or equal to the SLD quantum information, i.e. $F_M(\theta) \leq H(\theta)$, we can deduce when equality holds in $F_M(\theta) \leq C_{\Upsilon}(\theta)$. Equality does not hold for all channels. As a consequence, the attainability condition cannot be used to test for optimal POVMs for all channels. These results are extended to multi-parameter channels.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:40:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:35:49 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "O'Loan", "Caleb J.", "" ] ]
0705.0932
Oliver Kosut
Oliver Kosut and Lang Tong
Variable-Rate Distributed Source Coding in the Presence of Byzantine Sensors
5 pages, submitted to ISIT 2007
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
The distributed source coding problem is considered when the sensors, or encoders, are under Byzantine attack; that is, an unknown number of sensors have been reprogrammed by a malicious intruder to undermine the reconstruction at the fusion center. Three different forms of the problem are considered. The first is a variable-rate setup, in which the decoder adaptively chooses the rates at which the sensors transmit. An explicit characterization of the variable-rate minimum achievable sum rate is stated, given by the maximum entropy over the set of distributions indistinguishable from the true source distribution by the decoder. In addition, two forms of the fixed-rate problem are considered, one with deterministic coding and one with randomized coding. The achievable rate regions are given for both these problems, with a larger region achievable using randomized coding, though both are suboptimal compared to variable-rate coding.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:55:06 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kosut", "Oliver", "" ], [ "Tong", "Lang", "" ] ]
0705.0933
Max Neunh\"offer
Max Neunhoeffer, Cheryl E. Praeger
Computing Minimal Polynomials of Matrices
null
null
null
null
math.RA cs.DS
null
We present and analyse a Monte-Carlo algorithm to compute the minimal polynomial of an $n\times n$ matrix over a finite field that requires $O(n^3)$ field operations and O(n) random vectors, and is well suited for successful practical implementation. The algorithm, and its complexity analysis, use standard algorithms for polynomial and matrix operations. We compare features of the algorithm with several other algorithms in the literature. In addition we present a deterministic verification procedure which is similarly efficient in most cases but has a worst-case complexity of $O(n^4)$. Finally, we report the results of practical experiments with an implementation of our algorithms in comparison with the current algorithms in the {\sf GAP} library.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:48:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:18:34 GMT" } ]
2008-04-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Neunhoeffer", "Max", "" ], [ "Praeger", "Cheryl E.", "" ] ]
0705.0934
Masato Yamanaka
Shigeki Matsumoto, Joe Sato, Masato Senami, Masato Yamanaka
Relic abundance of dark matter in universal extra dimension models with right-handed neutrinos
added references, changed figure 3 and figure 4
Phys.Rev.D76:043528,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043528
null
hep-ph
null
Relic abundance of dark matter is investigated in the framework of universal extra dimension models with right-handed neutrinos. These models are free from the serious Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton problem that the original universal extra dimension model has. The first KK particle of the right-handed neutrino is a candidate for dark matter in this framework, and its relic abundance is determined by three processes, (1) the decay of the KK photon into the first KK right-handed neutrino in the late universe, (2) production of the first KK right-handed neutrino from the thermal bath in the early universe, and (3) the decay of higher KK right-handed neutrinos into the first KK right-handed neutrino in the late universe. When ordinary neutrino masses are large enough such as the degenerate mass spectrum case, the last process contribute to the abundance significantly, even if the reheating temperature is low. The scale of the extra dimension consistent with cosmological observations can be 500 GeV in the minimal setup of universal extra dimension models with right-handed neutrinos.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:52:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:32:58 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Matsumoto", "Shigeki", "" ], [ "Sato", "Joe", "" ], [ "Senami", "Masato", "" ], [ "Yamanaka", "Masato", "" ] ]
0705.0935
Andrzej Niedzielski
A. Niedzielski (1 and 2), M. Konacki (3), A. Wolszczan (2 and 1), G. Nowak (1), G. Maciejewski (1), R.C. Gelino (4), M. Shao (5), M. Shetrone (6), L.W. Ramsey (2) ((1) Torun Centre for Astronomy, Poland, (2) The Pennsylvania State University, (3) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland, (4) Spitzer Science Center, (5) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, (6) McDonald Observatory, University of Texas)
A Planetary Mass Companion to the K0 Giant HD 17092
13 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to ApJ
null
10.1086/521784
null
astro-ph
null
We report the discovery of a substellar-mass companion to the K0-giant HD 17092 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of any correlation of the observed 360-day periodicity with the standard indicators of stellar activity, the observed radial velocity variations are most plausibly explained in terms of a Keplerian motion of a planetary-mass body around the star. With the estimated stellar mass of 2.3Msun, the minimum mass of the planet is 4.6MJ. The planet's orbit is characterized by a mild eccentricity of e=0.17 and a semi-major axis of 1.3 AU. This is the tenth published detection of a planetary companion around a red giant star. Such discoveries add to our understanding of planet formation around intermediate-mass stars and they provide dynamical information on the evolution of planetary systems around post-main sequence stars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:55:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Niedzielski", "A.", "", "1 and 2" ], [ "Konacki", "M.", "", "2 and 1" ], [ "Wolszczan", "A.", "", "2 and 1" ], [ "Nowak", "G.", "" ], [ "Maciejewski", "G.", "" ], [ "Gelino", "R. C.", "" ], [ "Shao", "M.", "" ], [ "Shetrone", "M.", "" ], [ "Ramsey", "L. W.", "" ] ]
0705.0936
Giacomo Bacci
Giacomo Bacci, Marco Luise, H. Vincent Poor
Performance Comparison of Energy-Efficient Power Control for CDMA and Multiuser UWB Networks
To appear in the Proceedings of the 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 1-5, 2007
null
null
null
cs.GT cs.IT math.IT
null
This paper studies the performance of a wireless data network using energy-efficient power control techniques when different multiple access schemes, namely direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) and impulse-radio ultrawideband (IR-UWB), are considered. Due to the large bandwidth of the system, the multipath channel is assumed to be frequency-selective. By making use of noncooperative game-theoretic models and large-system analysis tools, explicit expressions for the achieved utilities at the Nash equilibrium are derived in terms of the network parameters. A measure of the loss of DS-CDMA with respect to IR-UWB is proposed, which proves substantial equivalence between the two schemes. Simulation results are provided to validate the analysis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 15:58:58 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bacci", "Giacomo", "" ], [ "Luise", "Marco", "" ], [ "Poor", "H. Vincent", "" ] ]
0705.0937
Adolfo del Campo
A. del Campo, J. G. Muga, M. D. Girardeau
Stability of spinor Fermi gases in tight waveguides
5 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 013615 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.013615
null
cond-mat.other quant-ph
null
The two and three-body correlation functions of the ground state of an optically trapped ultracold spin-1/2 Fermi gas (SFG) in a tight waveguide (1D regime) are calculated in the plane of even and odd-wave coupling constants, assuming a 1D attractive zero-range odd-wave interaction induced by a 3D p-wave Feshbach resonance, as well as the usual repulsive zero-range even-wave interaction stemming from 3D s-wave scattering. The calculations are based on the exact mapping from the SFG to a ``Lieb-Liniger-Heisenberg'' model with delta-function repulsions depending on isotropic Heisenberg spin-spin interactions, and indicate that the SFG should be stable against three-body recombination in a large region of the coupling constant plane encompassing parts of both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases. However, the limiting case of the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas (FTG), a spin-aligned 1D Fermi gas with infinitely attractive p-wave interactions, is unstable in this sense. Effects due to the dipolar interaction and a Zeeman term due to a resonance-generating magnetic field do not lead to shrinkage of the region of stability of the SFG.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 16:07:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "del Campo", "A.", "" ], [ "Muga", "J. G.", "" ], [ "Girardeau", "M. D.", "" ] ]
0705.0938
David Wood
Carmen Hernando, Merce Mora, Ignacio M. Pelayo, Carlos Seara, David R. Wood
Extremal Graph Theory for Metric Dimension and Diameter
null
Electronic J. Combinatorics 17.1:R30, 2010
null
null
math.CO
null
A set of vertices $S$ \emph{resolves} a connected graph $G$ if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in $S$. The \emph{metric dimension} of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set of $G$. Let $\mathcal{G}_{\beta,D}$ be the set of graphs with metric dimension $\beta$ and diameter $D$. It is well-known that the minimum order of a graph in $\mathcal{G}_{\beta,D}$ is exactly $\beta+D$. The first contribution of this paper is to characterise the graphs in $\mathcal{G}_{\beta,D}$ with order $\beta+D$ for all values of $\beta$ and $D$. Such a characterisation was previously only known for $D\leq2$ or $\beta\leq1$. The second contribution is to determine the maximum order of a graph in $\mathcal{G}_{\beta,D}$ for all values of $D$ and $\beta$. Only a weak upper bound was previously known.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 16:16:12 GMT" } ]
2012-05-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Hernando", "Carmen", "" ], [ "Mora", "Merce", "" ], [ "Pelayo", "Ignacio M.", "" ], [ "Seara", "Carlos", "" ], [ "Wood", "David R.", "" ] ]
0705.0939
Maxim M. Korshunov
M.M. Korshunov, V.A. Gavrichkov, S.G. Ovchinnikov, I.A. Nekrasov, E.E. Kokorina, Z.V. Pchelkina
Dominance of many-body effects over one-electron mechanism for band structure doping dependence in Nd$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$: LDA+GTB approach
15 pages, 4 figures, new references and their discussion added, figures updated
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 486203 (2007)
10.1088/0953-8984/19/48/486203
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con
null
In the present work we report the band structure calculations for the high temperature superconductor Nd$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ in the regime of strong electronic correlations within an LDA+GTB method, which combines the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized tight-binding method (GTB). The two mechanisms of band structure doping dependence were taken into account. Namely, the one-electron mechanism provided by the doping dependence of the crystal structure, and the many-body mechanism provided by the strong renormalization of the fermionic quasiparticles due to the large on-site Coulomb repulsion. We have shown that in the antiferromagnetic and in the strongly correlated paramagnetic phases of the underdoped cuprates the main contribution to the doping evolution of band structure and Fermi surface comes from the many-body mechanism.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 16:15:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:38:27 GMT" } ]
2007-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Korshunov", "M. M.", "" ], [ "Gavrichkov", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Ovchinnikov", "S. G.", "" ], [ "Nekrasov", "I. A.", "" ], [ "Kokorina", "E. E.", "" ], [ "Pchelkina", "Z. V.", "" ] ]
0705.0940
Karen M. Leighly
Karen M. Leighly (1), Jules P. Halpern (2), Edward B. Jenkins (3) and Darrin Casebeer (1) ((1) The University of Oklahoma, (2) Columbia University, (3) Princeton University Observatory)
The Intrinsically X-ray Weak Quasar PHL 1811. II. Optical and UV Spectra and Analysis
Accepted for publication in ApJS. Full resolution figures available here: http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~leighly/phl1811_paper1.pdf
null
10.1086/519768
null
astro-ph
null
This is the second of two papers reporting observations and analysis of the unusually bright (m_b=14.4), luminous (M_B=-25.5), nearby (z=0.192) narrow-line quasar PHL 1811. The first paper reported that PHL 1811 is intrinsically X-ray weak, and presented a spectral energy distribution (SED). Here we present HST STIS optical and UV spectra, and ground-based optical spectra. The optical and UV line emission is very unusual. There is no evidence for forbidden or semiforbidden lines. The near-UV spectrum is dominated by very strong FeII and FeIII, and unusual low-ionization lines such as NaID and CaII H&K are observed. High-ionization lines are very weak; CIV has an equivalent width of 6.6A, a factor of ~5 smaller than measured from quasar composite spectra. An unusual feature near 1200A can be deblended in terms of Ly\alpha, NV, SiII, and CIII* using the blueshifted CIV profile as a template. Photoionization modeling shows that the unusual line emission can be explained qualitatively by the unusually soft SED. Principally, a low gas temperature results in inefficient emission of collisionally excited lines, including the semiforbidden lines generally used as density diagnostics. The emission resembles that of high-density gas; in both cases this is a consequence of inefficient cooling. PHL 1811 is very unusual, but we note that quasar surveys are generally biased against finding similar objects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 16:17:56 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Leighly", "Karen M.", "" ], [ "Halpern", "Jules P.", "" ], [ "Jenkins", "Edward B.", "" ], [ "Casebeer", "Darrin", "" ] ]
0705.0941
Nilton Penha Dr.
Nilton Penha and Bernhard Rothenstein
On spacetime coordinates in special relativity
11 pages, 4 figures, May/07/2007
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
Starting with two light clocks to derive time dilation expression, as many textbooks do, and then adding a third one, we work on relativistic spacetime coordinates relations for some simple events as emission, reflection and return of light pulses. Besides time dilation, we get, in the following order, Doppler k-factor, addition of velocities, length contraction, Lorentz Transformations and spacetime interval invariance. We also use Minkowski spacetime diagram to show how to interpret some few events in terms of spacetime coordinates in three different inertial frames.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:03:17 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Penha", "Nilton", "" ], [ "Rothenstein", "Bernhard", "" ] ]
0705.0942
Hideto Asashiba
Hideto Asashiba
Domestic canonical algebras and simple Lie algebras
43 pages, 5 figures, revised version
null
null
null
math.RT
null
For each simply-laced Dynkin graph $\Delta$ we realize the simple complex Lie algebra of type $\Delta$ as a quotient algebra of the complex degenerate composition Lie algebra $L(A)_{1}^{\mathbb{C}}$ of a domestic canonical algebra $A$ of type $\Delta$ by some ideal $I$ of $L(A)_{1}^{\mathbb{C}}$ that is defined via the Hall algebra of $A$, and give an explicit form of $I$. Moreover, we show that each root space of $L(A)_{1}^{\mathbb{C}}/I$ has a basis given by the coset of an indecomposable $A$-module $M$ with root easily computed by the dimension vector of $M$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:15:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 14 May 2007 15:52:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:59:34 GMT" } ]
2007-06-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Asashiba", "Hideto", "" ] ]
0705.0943
Joachim Brand
Joachim Brand, Sergej Flach, Victor Fleurov, L. S. Schulmann, Denis Tolkunov
Localization by entanglement
6 pages, 4 figures; final published version with small changes in response to reviewer comments
Europhys. Lett., 83 (2008) 40002
10.1209/0295-5075/83/40002
null
cond-mat.other nlin.PS quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the localization of bosonic atoms in an optical lattice, which interact in a spatially confined region. The classical theory predicts that there is no localization below a threshold value for the strength of interaction that is inversely proportional to the number of participating atoms. In a full quantum treatment, however, we find that localized states exist for arbitrarily weak attractive or repulsive interactions for any number ($>1$) of atoms. We further show, using an explicit solution of the two-particle bound state and an appropriate measure of entanglement, that the entanglement tends to a finite value in the limit of weak interactions. Coupled with the non-existence of localization in an optimized quantum product state, we conclude that the localization exists by virtue of entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:07:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:22:15 GMT" } ]
2008-08-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Brand", "Joachim", "" ], [ "Flach", "Sergej", "" ], [ "Fleurov", "Victor", "" ], [ "Schulmann", "L. S.", "" ], [ "Tolkunov", "Denis", "" ] ]
0705.0944
Sigurd Kohler
H.S. Kohler
Spin 1/2 Fermions in the Unitary Limit.I
8 pages
null
null
null
nucl-th
null
This report concerns the energy of a zero-temperature many-body system of spin 1/2 fermions interacting via a two-body potential with a free space infinite scattering length and zero effective range; the Unitary limit. Given the corresponding phase-shift $\delta(k)=\pi/2$ a one-term separable potential is obtained by inverse scattering assuming a momentum cut-off $\Lambda$ such that $\delta(k)=0$ for $k>\Lambda$. The \it effective \rm interaction in the many-body system is calculated in a pp-ladder approximation with Pauli-blocking but neglecting mean-field (dispersion) corrections; effective mass $m^{*}=1$. Using only the zero relative momentum component of this interaction the total energy is $\xi=4/9$ (in units of the fermigas), a result reported by several previous authors. Integrating the momentum dependent interaction over the Fermi sea this energy is revised to $\xi=0.24.$ This result is independent of density and of the cut-off $\Lambda$ if $\Lambda > \sim 3k_{f}$. With $m^{*}\neq 1$ there is however a strong dependence on this cut-off. Including hh-ladders estimates give $\xi=0.4\leftrightarrow 0.6$, but a reliable result would in this case require a Green's function calculation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:09:17 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kohler", "H. S.", "" ] ]
0705.0945
Veniamin Berezinsky
Veniamin Berezinsky and Mohan Narayan
Phenomenological constraints on low-scale gravity
8 pages, in the form published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D75:105001,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.105001
null
hep-ph
null
We study the constraints on gravity scale $M_P$ in extra-dimension gravitational theory, obtained from gravity-induced processes. The obtained constraints are subdivided into strong (though not robust) and reliable (though less strong). The strong constraints can be in principle relaxed due to some broken gauge symmetries, e.g. family symmetry. The strongest constraint is given by neutrino oscillations. For different assumptions the lower bound on $M_P$ is $10^{15} - 10^{18}$ GeV. However, it can be, in principle, reduced by broken family symmetry. More reliable bounds are due to flavor-conserved operators or those which change the flavors within one family. These bounds, obtained using the electron mass and width of $\pi \to e\nu$ decay, are $1\times 10^5$ GeV and $5\times 10^5$ GeV, for these two cases, respectively.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:20:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Berezinsky", "Veniamin", "" ], [ "Narayan", "Mohan", "" ] ]
0705.0946
Sefi Ladkani
Sefi Ladkani
Universal derived equivalences of posets
18 pages, added author's details
null
null
null
math.RT math.CO
null
By using only combinatorial data on two posets X and Y, we construct a set of so-called formulas. A formula produces simultaneously, for any abelian category A, a functor between the categories of complexes of diagrams over X and Y with values in A. This functor induces a triangulated functor between the corresponding derived categories. This allows us to prove, for pairs X, Y of posets sharing certain common underlying combinatorial structure, that for any abelian category A, regardless of its nature, the categories of diagrams over X and Y with values in A are derived equivalent.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:30:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:01:01 GMT" } ]
2007-06-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Ladkani", "Sefi", "" ] ]
0705.0947
Carlos Merino
Yu. M. Shabelski
String Junction and Diffusion of Baryon Charge in Multiparticle Production Processes
Lecture given at XXXX PNPI Winter School of Physics, Repino, St.Petersburg, February 2006 (26 pages and 16 figures)
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We consider the phenomenological consequences of the assumption that the baryons are the systems of three quarks and string junction. The process of baryon number transfer due to string junction propagation in rapidity space is considered in detail. At high energies it leads to a significant effect in the net baryon production in $hN$ and $hA$ collisions at mid-rapidities and in the incident meson fragmentation region. The results of numerical calculations in the framework of the Quark--Gluon String Model are in reasonable agreement with the data.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:34:53 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Shabelski", "Yu. M.", "" ] ]
0705.0948
Sylvie Oliffson Kamphorst
M. J. Dias Carneiro, S. Oliffson Kamphorst, and S. Pinto-de-Carvalho (Departamento de Matematica, UFMG, Brasil)
Generic Oval Billiards
14 pages with 1 figure
null
null
null
math.DS nlin.CD
null
In this paper we show that, under certain generic conditions, billiards on ovals have only a finite number of periodic orbits, for each period, all non-degenerate and at least one of them is hyperbolic. Moreover, the invariant curves of two hyperbolic points are transversal. We explore these properties to give some dynamical consequences specially about the dynamics in the instability regions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:42:59 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Carneiro", "M. J. Dias", "", "Departamento de Matematica, UFMG, Brasil" ], [ "Kamphorst", "S. Oliffson", "", "Departamento de Matematica, UFMG, Brasil" ], [ "Pinto-de-Carvalho", "S.", "", "Departamento de Matematica, UFMG, Brasil" ] ]
0705.0949
Radu Laza
Radu Laza
The moduli space of cubic fourfolds via the period map
part II (the period map)
Ann. of Math. 172 (2010), no. 1, 673-711
null
null
math.AG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We characterize the image of the period map for cubic fourfolds with at worst simple singularities as the complement of an arrangement of hyperplanes in the period space. It follows then that the GIT compactification of the moduli space of cubic fourfolds is isomorphic to the Looijenga's compactification associated to this arrangement. This work builds on and is a natural continuation of our previous paper on the GIT compactification of the moduli space of cubic fourfolds.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:51:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:11 GMT" } ]
2012-03-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Laza", "Radu", "" ] ]
0705.0950
Karel Pravda-Starov
Karel Pravda-Starov
Contraction semigroups of elliptic quadratic differential operators
26 pages
null
null
null
math.AP
null
We study the contraction semigroups of elliptic quadratic differential operators. Elliptic quadratic differential operators are the non-selfadjoint operators defined in the Weyl quantization by complex-valued elliptic quadratic symbols. We establish in this paper that under the assumption of ellipticity, as soon as the real part of their Weyl symbols is a non-zero non-positive quadratic form, the norm of contraction semigroups generated by these operators decays exponentially in time.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:56:18 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Pravda-Starov", "Karel", "" ] ]
0705.0951
Eduard Looijenga
Eduard Looijenga
The period map for cubic fourfolds
23 pages
null
null
null
math.AG
null
The period map for cubic fourfolds takes values in a locally symmetric variety of orthogonal type of dimension 20. We determine the image of this period map (thus confirming a conjecture of Hassett) and give at the same time a new proof of the theorem of Voisin that asserts that this period map is an open embedding. An algebraic version of our main result is an identification of the algebra of SL(6)-invariant polynomials on the space of cubic forms in 6 complex variables with a certain algebra of meromorphic automorphic forms on a symmetric domain of orthogonal type of dimension 20. We also describe the stratification of the moduli space of semistable cubic fourfolds in terms of a Dynkin-Vinberg diagram.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 17:59:16 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Looijenga", "Eduard", "" ] ]
0705.0952
Tshilidzi Marwala
Dhiresh R. Surajpal and Tshilidzi Marwala
An Independent Evaluation of Subspace Face Recognition Algorithms
7 pages
null
null
null
cs.CV
null
This paper explores a comparative study of both the linear and kernel implementations of three of the most popular Appearance-based Face Recognition projection classes, these being the methodologies of Principal Component Analysis, Linear Discriminant Analysis and Independent Component Analysis. The experimental procedure provides a platform of equal working conditions and examines the ten algorithms in the categories of expression, illumination, occlusion and temporal delay. The results are then evaluated based on a sequential combination of assessment tools that facilitate both intuitive and statistical decisiveness among the intra and interclass comparisons. The best categorical algorithms are then incorporated into a hybrid methodology, where the advantageous effects of fusion strategies are considered.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:19:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Surajpal", "Dhiresh R.", "" ], [ "Marwala", "Tshilidzi", "" ] ]
0705.0953
Bedangadas Mohanty
Bedangadas Mohanty (for the STAR Collaboration)
Search for color charge dependence of energy loss at RHIC
Prepared for the 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, USA, 11-18 Feb 2007
null
null
null
nucl-ex
null
The non-Abelian feature of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) results in the gluons losing more energy than quarks in the medium formed in high energy heavy-ion collisions. Experimental results in p+p collisions when compared to NLO pQCD calculations show that at high transverse momentum (pT) the produced protons+anti-protons are dominantly from gluon jets and charged pions have substantial contribution from quark jets. If such a scenario is applied to heavy-ion collisions at RHIC, one would expect the difference in quark and gluon energy loss to have an effect on measured observables, such as high pT pbar(p)/pi ratios and the nuclear modification factor for various particles species. We discuss the experimental results and some possible future measurements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:13:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 22:49:38 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mohanty", "Bedangadas", "", "for the STAR Collaboration" ] ]
0705.0954
Robin Ni{\ss}ler
B. Borasoy, R. Ni{\ss}ler
eta, eta-prime --> pi+ pi- l+ l- in a chiral unitary approach
22 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables; additional material added and figures 6,7 revised
Eur.Phys.J.A33:95-106,2007
10.1140/epja/i2007-10396-3
HISKP-TH-07/17
hep-ph nucl-th
null
The decays eta, eta-prime --> pi+ pi- l+ l- (with l = e, mu) are investigated within a chiral unitary approach which combines the chiral effective Lagrangian with a coupled-channels Bethe-Salpeter equation. Predictions for the decay widths and spectra are given.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:15:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:55:48 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Borasoy", "B.", "" ], [ "Nißler", "R.", "" ] ]
0705.0955
Jiangping Hu
Jiangping Hu
Microscopic origin of Magnetic Ferroelectrics in Nonlinear Multiferroics
4 pages, 1 figure
Phys. Rev. Lett 100, 077202 (2008).
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.077202
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
A simple but general microscopic mechanism to understand the interplay between the electric and magnetic degrees of freedom is developed. Within this mechanism, the magnetic structure generates an electric current which induce an counterbalance electric current from the spin orbital coupling. When the magnetic structure is described by a single order parameter, the electric polarization is determined by the single spin orbital coupling parameter, and the material is predicted to be a half insulator. This mechanism provides a simple estimation of the value of ferroelectricity and sets a physical limitation as well.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:16:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 20:01:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 8 Sep 2007 02:10:44 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hu", "Jiangping", "" ] ]
0705.0956
Damien Chablat
Jorge Angeles (CIM), Damien Chablat (IRCCyN)
On Isotropic Sets of Points in the Plane. Application to the Design of Robot Archirectures
null
7th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (2000) 1-10
null
null
cs.RO
null
Various performance indices are used for the design of serial manipulators. One method of optimization relies on the condition number of the Jacobian matrix. The minimization of the condition number leads, under certain conditions, to isotropic configurations, for which the roundoff-error amplification is lowest. In this paper, the isotropy conditions, introduced elsewhere, are the motivation behind the introduction of isotropic sets of points. By connecting together these points, we define families of isotropic manipulators. This paper is devoted to planar manipulators, the concepts being currently extended to their spatial counterparts. Furthermore, only manipulators with revolute joints are considered here.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:19:06 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Angeles", "Jorge", "", "CIM" ], [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ] ]
0705.0957
Le Hur Karyn
Karyn Le Hur, Philippe Doucet-Beaupre, Walter Hofstetter
Entanglement and Criticality in Quantum Impurity Systems
4 pages and 5 figures; related to cond-mat/0612095; final version to appear in PRL
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126801 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.126801
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We investigate the entanglement between a spin and its environment in impurity systems which exhibit a second-order quantum phase transition. As an application, we employ the spin-boson model, describing a two-level system (spin) coupled to a subohmic bosonic bath with power-law spectral density, ${\cal J}(\omega)\propto \omega^s$ and $0<s<1$. Combining Wilson's Numerical Renormalization Group method and hyperscaling relations, we demonstrate that the entanglement between the spin and its environment is always enhanced at the quantum phase transition resulting in a visible cusp (maximum) in the entropy of entanglement. We formulate a correspondence between criticality and impurity entanglement entropy, and the relevance of these ideas to Nano-systems is outlined.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:32:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:45:56 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hur", "Karyn Le", "" ], [ "Doucet-Beaupre", "Philippe", "" ], [ "Hofstetter", "Walter", "" ] ]
0705.0958
Bertrand Eynard
Bertrand Eynard (SPhT), Nicolas Orantin (SPhT)
Topological expansion of mixed correlations in the hermitian 2 Matrix Model and x-y symmetry of the F_g invariants
37 pages, latex
null
null
SPHT-T07/055
math-ph hep-th math.MP
null
We compute expectation values of mixed traces containing both matrices in a two matrix model, i.e. generating function for counting bicolored discrete surfaces with non uniform boundary conditions. As an application, we prove the $x-y$ symmetry of the algebraic curve invariants introduced in math-ph/0702045.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:27:10 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Eynard", "Bertrand", "", "SPhT" ], [ "Orantin", "Nicolas", "", "SPhT" ] ]
0705.0959
Damien Chablat
Damien Chablat (IRCCyN), Philippe Wenger (IRCCyN)
The Kinematic Analysis of a Symmetrical Three-Degree-of-Freedom Planar Parallel Manipulator
null
Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics and Control (2004) 1-7
null
null
cs.RO
null
Presented in this paper is the kinematic analysis of a symmetrical three-degree-of-freedom planar parallel manipulator. In opposite to serial manipulators, parallel manipulators can admit not only multiple inverse kinematic solutions, but also multiple direct kinematic solutions. This property produces more complicated kinematic models but allows more flexibility in trajectory planning. To take into account this property, the notion of aspects, i.e. the maximal singularity-free domains, was introduced, based on the notion of working modes, which makes it possible to separate the inverse kinematic solutions. The aim of this paper is to show that a non-singular assembly-mode changing trajectory exist for a symmetrical planar parallel manipulator, with equilateral base and platform triangle.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:28:17 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Wenger", "Philippe", "", "IRCCyN" ] ]
0705.0960
Damien Chablat
Philippe Wenger (IRCCyN), Damien Chablat (IRCCyN)
Uniqueness Domains in the Workspace of Parallel Manipulators
null
Syroco' 97 (1997) 1-6
null
null
cs.RO
null
This work investigates new kinematic features of parallel manipulators. It is well known that parallel manipulators admit generally several direct kinematic solutions for a given set of input joint values. The aim of this paper is to characterize the uniqueness domains in the workspace of parallel manipulators, as well as their image in the joint space. The study focuses on the most usual case of parallel manipulators with only one inverse kinematic solution. The notion of aspect introduced for serial manipulators in [Borrel 86] is redefined for such parallel manipulators. Then, it is shown that it is possible to link several solutions to the forward kinematic problem without meeting a singularity, thus meaning that the aspects are not uniqueness domains. An additional set of surfaces, namely the characteristic surfaces, are characterized which divide the workspace into basic regions and yield new uniqueness domains. This study is illustrated all along the paper with a 3-RPR planar parallel manipulator. An octree model of spaces is used to compute the joint space, the workspace and all other newly defined sets.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:33:34 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Wenger", "Philippe", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ] ]
0705.0961
Damien Chablat
Damien Chablat (IRCCyN), Philippe Wenger (IRCCyN), Jorge Angeles (CIM)
The Kinematic design of a 3-dof Hybrid Manipulator
null
2nd International Conference On Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering (1998) 1-8
null
null
cs.RO
null
This paper focuses on the kinematic properties of a new three-degree-of-freedom hybrid manipulator. This manipulator is obtained by adding in series to a five-bar planar mechanism (similar to the one studied by Bajpai and Roth) a third revolute passing through the line of centers of the two actuated revolute joints of the above linkage. The resulting architecture is hybrid in that it has both serial and parallel links. Fully-parallel manipulators are known for the existence of particularly undesirable singularities (referred to as parallel singularities) where control is lost [4] and [6]. On the other hand, due to their cantilever type of kinematic arrangement, fully serial manipulators suffer from a lack of stiffness and from relatively large positioning errors. The hybrid manipulator studied is intrinsically stiffer and more accurate. Furthermore, since all actuators are located on the first axis, the inertial effects are considerably reduced. In addition, it is shown that the special kinematic structure of our manipulator has the potential of avoiding parallel singularities by a suitable choice of the "working mode", thus leading to larger workspaces. The influence of the different structural dimensions (e.g. the link lengths) on the kinematic and mechanical properties are analysed in view of the optimal design of such hybrid manipulators.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:36:02 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Wenger", "Philippe", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Angeles", "Jorge", "", "CIM" ] ]
0705.0962
Damien Chablat
Philippe Wenger (IRCCyN), Damien Chablat (IRCCyN)
Definition sets for the Direct Kinematics of Parallel Manipulators
null
8th International Conference in Advanced Robotics (1997) 1-6
null
null
cs.RO
null
The aim of this paper is to characterize the uniqueness domains in the workspace of parallel manipulators, as well as their image in the joint space. The notion of aspect introduced for serial manipulators in [Borrel 86] is redefined for such parallel manipulators. Then, it is shown that it is possible to link several solutions to the direct kinematic problem without meeting a singularity, thus meaning that the aspects are not uniqueness domains. Additional surfaces are characterized in the workspace which yield new uniqueness domains. An octree model of spaces is used to compute the joint space, the workspace and all other newly defined sets. This study is illustrated all along the paper with a 3-RPR planar parallel manipulator.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:39:19 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Wenger", "Philippe", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ] ]
0705.0963
Alison Klesman
Alison Klesman and Vicki Sarajedini
Optical Variability of Infrared Power Law-Selected Galaxies & X-ray Sources in the GOODS-South Field
11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ
Astrophys.J.665:225-231,2007
10.1086/519442
null
astro-ph
null
We investigate the use of optical variability to identify and study Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the GOODS-South field. A sample of 22 mid-infrared power law sources and 102 X-ray sources with optical counterparts in the HST ACS images were selected. Each object is classified with a variability significance value related to the standard deviation of its magnitude in five epochs separated by 45-day intervals. The variability significance is compared to the optical, mid-IR, and X-ray properties of the sources. We find that 26% of all AGN candidates (either X-ray- or mid-IR-selected) are optical variables. The fraction of optical variables increases to 51% when considering sources with soft X-ray band ratios. For the mid-IR AGN candidates which have multiwavelength SEDs, we find optical variability for 64% of those classified with SEDs like Broad Line AGNs. While mostly unobscured AGN appear to have the most significant optical variability, some of the more obscured AGNs are also observed as variables. In particular, we find two mid-IR power law-selected AGN candidates without X-ray emission that display optical variability, confirming their AGN nature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:40:18 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Klesman", "Alison", "" ], [ "Sarajedini", "Vicki", "" ] ]
0705.0964
Orlando Oliveira
O. Oliveira, P. J. Silva
Infrared Gluon and Ghost Propagator Exponents From Lattice QCD
Substantial rewriting with new material included. The new version includes a new and more deep discussion of the finite volume and asymmetry effects
Eur.Phys.J.C62:525-534,2009
10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1064-5
null
hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The compatibility of the pure power law infrared solution of QCD and lattice data for the gluon and ghost propagators in Landau gauge is discussed. For the gluon propagator, the lattice data is well described by a pure power law with an infrared exponent $\kappa \sim 0.53$, in the Dyson-Schwinger notation. $\kappa$ is measured using a technique that suppresses finite volume effects. This value implies a vanishing zero momentum gluon propagator, in agreement with the Gribov-Zwanziger confinement scenario. For the ghost propagator, the lattice data seem not to follow a pure power law, at least for the range of momenta accessed in our simulation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:43:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:43:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:00:15 GMT" } ]
2009-08-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Oliveira", "O.", "" ], [ "Silva", "P. J.", "" ] ]
0705.0965
Guillaume Hanrot
Guillaume Hanrot (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA), Damien Stehl\'e (INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes)
Improved Analysis of Kannan's Shortest Lattice Vector Algorithm
null
Dans Advances in Cryptology - Crypto'07 4622 (2007) 170-186
10.1007/978-3-540-74143-5_10
null
cs.CR cs.CC
null
The security of lattice-based cryptosystems such as NTRU, GGH and Ajtai-Dwork essentially relies upon the intractability of computing a shortest non-zero lattice vector and a closest lattice vector to a given target vector in high dimensions. The best algorithms for these tasks are due to Kannan, and, though remarkably simple, their complexity estimates have not been improved since more than twenty years. Kannan's algorithm for solving the shortest vector problem is in particular crucial in Schnorr's celebrated block reduction algorithm, on which are based the best known attacks against the lattice-based encryption schemes mentioned above. Understanding precisely Kannan's algorithm is of prime importance for providing meaningful key-sizes. In this paper we improve the complexity analyses of Kannan's algorithms and discuss the possibility of improving the underlying enumeration strategy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:44:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 9 May 2007 15:32:57 GMT" } ]
2009-04-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Hanrot", "Guillaume", "", "INRIA Lorraine - LORIA" ], [ "Stehlé", "Damien", "", "INRIA\n Rhône-Alpes" ] ]
0705.0966
Claudia Greco
V. Ripepi (1), G. Clementini (2), M. Di Criscienzo (1), C. Greco (2), M. Dall'Ora (1), L. Federici (2), L. Di Fabrizio (3), I. Musella (1), M. Marconi (1), L. Baldacci (2) and M. Maio (2) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (3) INAF - Telescopio Nazionale Galileo)
On the remote Galactic globular cluster NGC 2419
ApJ Letters, in press
null
10.1086/522000
null
astro-ph
null
We present a new, deep (V ~ 26) study of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2419 based on B,V,I time-series CCD photometry over about 10 years and extending beyond the cluster published tidal radius. We have identified 101 variable stars of which 60 are new discoveries, doubling the known RR Lyrae stars and including 12 SX Phoenicis stars. The average period of the RR Lyrae stars (<Pab>=0.662 d, and <Pc>=0.366 d, for fundamental-mode -RRab- and first-overtone pulsators, respectively), and the position in the period-amplitude diagram both confirm that NGC 2419 is an Oosterhoff II cluster. The average apparent magnitude of the RR Lyrae stars is <V>=20.31 +/- 0.01 (sigma=0.06, 67 stars) and leads to the distance modulus (m-M)o=19.60 +/- 0.05. The Color-Magnitude Diagram, reaching about 2.6 mag below the cluster turn-off, does not show clear evidence of multiple stellar populations. Cluster stars are found until r~ 10.5', and possibly as far as r~15', suggesting that the literature tidal radius might be underestimated. No extra-tidal structures are clearly detected in the data. NGC 2419 has many blue stragglers and a well populated horizontal branch extending from the RR Lyrae stars down to an extremely blue tail ending with the "blue-hook", for the first time recognized in this cluster. The red giant branch is narrow ruling out significant metallicity spreads. Our results seem to disfavor the interpretation of NGC 2419 as either having an extragalactic origin or being the relict of a dwarf galaxy tidally disrupted by the Milky Way.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:45:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:05:18 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ripepi", "V.", "" ], [ "Clementini", "G.", "" ], [ "Di Criscienzo", "M.", "" ], [ "Greco", "C.", "" ], [ "Dall'Ora", "M.", "" ], [ "Federici", "L.", "" ], [ "Di Fabrizio", "L.", "" ], [ "Musella", "I.", "" ], [ "Marconi", "M.", "" ], [ "Baldacci", "L.", "" ], [ "Maio", "M.", "" ] ]
0705.0967
Jaime San Martin
Claude Dellacherie, Servet Martinez, Jaime San Martin
Ultrametric and tree potential
4 figures
null
null
null
math.PR
null
We study infinite tree and ultrametric matrices, and their action on the boundary of the tree. For each tree matrix we show the existence of a symmetric random walk associated to it and we study its Green potential. We provide a representation theorem for harmonic functions that includes simple expressions for any increasing harmonic function and the Martin kernel. In the boundary, we construct the Markov kernel whose Green function is the extension of the matrix and we simulate it by using a cascade of killing independent exponential random variables and conditionally independent uniform variables. For ultrametric matrices we supply probabilistic conditions to study its potential properties when immersed in its minimal tree matrix extension.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:03:16 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Dellacherie", "Claude", "" ], [ "Martinez", "Servet", "" ], [ "Martin", "Jaime San", "" ] ]
0705.0968
Fulvio Baldovin
Fulvio Baldovin and Enzo Orlandini
Reply to the comment on ``Incomplete equilibrium in long-range interacting systems'' by Tsallis et al
Reply to arXiv:cond-mat/0609399v1
null
null
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
After the rejection of their comment [arXiv:cond-mat/0609399v1] to our Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 97}, 100601 (2006), the Authors informed us that an extended version of their comment is going to be published in a different journal under the direct editorial responsibility of one of them. We then decided to make publicly available our formal reply, originally prepared for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 18:51:13 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Baldovin", "Fulvio", "" ], [ "Orlandini", "Enzo", "" ] ]
0705.0969
Tshilidzi Marwala
Ishmael S. Msiza, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo and Tshilidzi Marwala
Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines for Water Demand Time Series Forecasting
6 pages
null
null
null
cs.AI
null
Water plays a pivotal role in many physical processes, and most importantly in sustaining human life, animal life and plant life. Water supply entities therefore have the responsibility to supply clean and safe water at the rate required by the consumer. It is therefore necessary to implement mechanisms and systems that can be employed to predict both short-term and long-term water demands. The increasingly growing field of computational intelligence techniques has been proposed as an efficient tool in the modelling of dynamic phenomena. The primary objective of this paper is to compare the efficiency of two computational intelligence techniques in water demand forecasting. The techniques under comparison are the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and the Support Vector Machines (SVMs). In this study it was observed that the ANNs perform better than the SVMs. This performance is measured against the generalisation ability of the two.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:00:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Msiza", "Ishmael S.", "" ], [ "Nelwamondo", "Fulufhelo V.", "" ], [ "Marwala", "Tshilidzi", "" ] ]
0705.0970
Trieu Le
Trieu Le
On a Class of Ideals of the Toeplitz Algebra on the Bergman Space of the Unit Ball
8 pages
null
null
null
math.FA
null
Let $\mathfrak{T}$ denote the full Toeplitz algebra on the Bergman space of the unit ball $\mathbb{B}_n.$ For each subset $G$ of $L^{\infty},$ let $\mathfrak{CI}(G)$ denote the closed two-sided ideal of $\mathfrak{T}$ generated by all $T_fT_g-T_gT_f$ with $f,g\in G.$ It is known that $\mathfrak{CI}(C(\bar{\mathbb{B}}_n))=\mathcal{K}$ - the ideal of compact operators and $\mathfrak{CI}(C(\mathbb{B}_n))=\mathfrak{T}.$ Despite these ``extremal cases'', $\mathfrak{T}$ does contain other non-trivial ideals. This paper gives a construction of a class of subsets $G$ of $L^{\infty}$ so that $\mathcal{K}\subsetneq\mathfrak{CI}(G)\subsetneq\mathfrak{T}.$
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:38:13 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Le", "Trieu", "" ] ]
0705.0971
Sean Dougherty
Sean M. Dougherty (NRC HIA, Canada) and J. Simon Clark (Open University, UK)
Radio observations of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
To appear in the proceedings of "Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions". 2 pages, 1 figure
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
High-dynamic range radio observations of Westerlund 1 are presented that detect a total of 21 stars in the young massive stellar cluster, the richest population of radio emitting stars known for any young massive galactic cluster in the Galaxy. We will discuss some of the more remarkable objects, including the highly radio luminous supergiant B[e] star W9, with an estimated mass-loss rate ~10^{-3} solarmass/yr, comparable to that of eta Carina, along with the somewhat unusual detection of thermal emission from almost all the cool red supergiants and yellow hypergiants. There is strong supporting evidence from X-ray observations that each of the WR stars with radio emission are likely to be colliding-wind binaries
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:10:26 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Dougherty", "Sean M.", "", "NRC HIA, Canada" ], [ "Clark", "J. Simon", "", "Open\n University, UK" ] ]
0705.0972
Omjyoti Dutta
O.Dutta R. Kanamoto and P.Meystre
Fermionic stabilization and density-wave ground state of a polar condensate
null
null
null
null
cond-mat.other
null
We examine the stability of a trapped dipolar condensate mixed with a single-component fermion gas at T=0. Whereas pure dipolar condensates with small s-wave interaction are unstable even for small dipole-dipole interaction strength, we find that the admixture of fermions can significantly stabilize them, depending on the strength of the boson-fermion interaction. Within the stable regime we find a region where a ground state is characterized by a density wave along the soft trap direction.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 23:19:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:27:14 GMT" } ]
2007-08-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Kanamoto", "O. Dutta R.", "" ], [ "Meystre", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.0973
Niv Drory
Niv Drory (1 and 2) and David B. Fisher (1) ((1) The University of Texas at Austin, (2) Max-Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik - MPE, Garching)
A Connection Between Bulge Properties and the Bimodality of Galaxies
10 pages, 4 figures, ApJ in press (August 20, 2007, v665n 2)
Astrophys.J.664:640-649,2007
10.1086/519441
null
astro-ph
null
The global colors of galaxies have recently been shown to follow bimodal distributions. Galaxies separate into a ``red sequence'', populated prototypically by early-type galaxies, and a ``blue cloud'', whose typical objects are late-type disk galaxies. Intermediate-type (Sa-Sbc) galaxies populate both regions. It has been suggested that this bimodality reflects the two-component nature of disk-bulge galaxies. However, it has now been established that there are two types of bulges: ``classical bulges'' that are dynamically hot systems resembling (little) ellipticals, and ``pseudobulges'', dynamically cold, flattened, disk-like structures that could not have formed via violent relaxation. Therefore thee question is whether at types Sa-Sbc, where both bulge types are found, the red-blue dichotomy separates galaxies at some value of disk-to-bulge ratio, $B/T$, or, whether it separates galaxies of different bulge type, irrespective of their $B/T$. We identify classical bulges and pseudobulges morphologically with HST images in a sample of nearby galaxies. Detailed surface photometry reveals that: (1) The red -- blue dichotomy is a function of bulge type: at the same $B/T$, pseudobulges are in globally blue galaxies and classical bulges are in globally red galaxies. (2) Bulge type also predicts where the galaxy lies in other (bimodal) global structural parameters. (3) Hence, the red -- blue dichotomy is not due to decreasing bulge prominence alone, and the bulge type of a galaxy carries significance for the galaxy's evolutionary history ... (Abridged)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 21:07:20 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Drory", "Niv", "", "1 and 2" ], [ "Fisher", "David B.", "" ] ]
0705.0974
Slawomir Dinew
Slawomir Dinew
An Inequality for Mixed Monge-Amp\`ere measures
12 pages
null
null
null
math.CV
null
We generalize an inequality for mixed Monge-Amp\`ere measures. We also give an example that shows that our assumptions are sharp. The corresponding result in the setting of compact K\"ahler manifold is also discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 21:04:37 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Dinew", "Slawomir", "" ] ]
0705.0975
Diederik Aerts
Diederik Aerts
Quantum Interference and Superposition in Cognition: Development of a Theory for the Disjunction of Concepts
43 pages, 3 figures
In D. Aerts, J. Broekaert, B. D'Hooghe and N. Note (Eds.), Worldviews, Science and Us: Bridging Knowledge and Its Implications for Our Perspectives of the World. Singapore: World Scientific (2011)
null
null
physics.gen-ph quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We elaborate a theory for the modeling of concepts using the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. Concepts are represented by vectors in the complex Hilbert space of quantum mechanics and membership weights of items are modeled by quantum weights calculated following the quantum rules. We apply this theory to model the disjunction of concepts and show that experimental data of membership weights of items with respect to the disjunction of concepts can be modeled accurately. It is the quantum effects of interference and superposition, combined with an effect of context, that are at the origin of the effects of overextension and underextension observed as deviations from a classical use of the disjunction. We put forward a graphical explanation of the effects of overextension and underextension by interpreting the quantum model applied to the modeling of the disjunction of concepts.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:58:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 1 May 2010 22:08:01 GMT" } ]
2012-03-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Aerts", "Diederik", "" ] ]
0705.0976
David M. Bradley
David M. Bradley
Some remarks on sinc integrals and their connection with combinatorics, geometry and probability
6 pages, AMSLaTeX
Analysis (Munich), Vol. 22, (2002), no. 2, pp. 219--224. [MR 1916426] (2003i:42012)
null
null
math.CA math.CO
null
We give an alternative, combinatorial/geometrical evaluation of a class of improper sinc integrals studied by the Borweins. A probabilistic interpretation is also noted and used to shed light on a related combinatorial identity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:45:46 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bradley", "David M.", "" ] ]
0705.0977
Jasonjot Singh Kalirai
Jasonjot S. Kalirai, P. Bergeron, Brad M. S. Hansen, Daniel D. Kelson, David B. Reitzel, R. Michael Rich, and Harvey B. Richer
Stellar Evolution in NGC 6791: Mass Loss on the Red Giant Branch and the Formation of Low Mass White Dwarfs
15 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Astrophys. J. Very minor changes from first version
Astrophys.J.671:748-760,2007
10.1086/521922
null
astro-ph
null
We present the first detailed study of the properties (temperatures, gravities, and masses) of the NGC 6791 white dwarf population. This unique stellar system is both one of the oldest (8 Gyr) and most metal-rich ([Fe/H] ~ 0.4) open clusters in our Galaxy, and has a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) that exhibits both a red giant clump and a much hotter extreme horizontal branch. Fitting the Balmer lines of the white dwarfs in the cluster, using Keck/LRIS spectra, suggests that most of these stars are undermassive, <M> = 0.43 +/- 0.06 Msun, and therefore could not have formed from canonical stellar evolution involving the helium flash at the tip of the red giant branch. We show that at least 40% of NGC 6791's evolved stars must have lost enough mass on the red giant branch to avoid the flash, and therefore did not convert helium into carbon-oxygen in their core. Such increased mass loss in the evolution of the progenitors of these stars is consistent with the presence of the extreme horizontal branch in the CMD. This unique stellar evolutionary channel also naturally explains the recent finding of a very young age (2.4 Gyr) for NGC 6791 from white dwarf cooling theory; helium core white dwarfs in this cluster will cool ~3 times slower than carbon-oxygen core stars and therefore the corrected white dwarf cooling age is in fact ~7 Gyr, consistent with the well measured main-sequence turnoff age. These results provide direct empirical evidence that mass loss is much more efficient in high metallicity environments and therefore may be critical in interpreting the ultraviolet upturn in elliptical galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 22:17:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:33:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:27:52 GMT" } ]
2010-02-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Kalirai", "Jasonjot S.", "" ], [ "Bergeron", "P.", "" ], [ "Hansen", "Brad M. S.", "" ], [ "Kelson", "Daniel D.", "" ], [ "Reitzel", "David B.", "" ], [ "Rich", "R. Michael", "" ], [ "Richer", "Harvey B.", "" ] ]
0705.0978
Jules P. Halpern
J. P. Halpern, E. V. Gotthelf, F. Camilo, F. D. Seward
X-ray Timing of PSR J1852+0040 in Kesteven 79: Evidence of Neutron Stars Weakly Magnetized at Birth
8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal
Astrophys.J.665:1304-1310,2007
10.1086/519557
null
astro-ph
null
The 105-ms X-ray pulsar J1852+0040 is the central compact object (CCO) in SNR Kes 79. We report a sensitive upper limit on its radio flux density of 12 uJy at 2 GHz using the NRAO GBT. Timing using XMM and Chandra over a 2.4 yr span reveals no significant change in its spin period. The 2 sigma upper limit on the period derivative leads, in the dipole spin-down formalism, to an energy loss rate E-dot < 7e33 ergs/s, surface magnetic field strength B_p < 1.5e11 G, and characteristic age tau_c = P/2P-dot > 8 Myr. This tau_c exceeds the age of the SNR by 3 orders of magnitude, implying that the pulsar was born spinning at its current period. However, the X-ray luminosity of PSR J1852+0040, L(bol) ~ 3e33(d/7.1 kpc)^2 ergs/s is a large fraction of E-dot, which challenges the rotation-powered assumption. Instead, its high blackbody temperature, 0.46+/-0.04 keV, small blackbody radius ~ 0.8 km, and large pulsed fraction, ~ 80%, may be evidence of accretion onto a polar cap, possibly from a fallback disk made of supernova debris. If B_p < 1e10 G, an accretion disk can penetrate the light cylinder and interact with the magnetosphere while resulting torques on the neutron star remain within the observed limits. A weak B-field is also inferred in another CCO, the 424-ms pulsar 1E 1207.4-5209, from its steady spin and soft X-ray absorption lines. We propose this origin of radio-quiet CCOs: the B-field, derived from a turbulent dynamo, is weaker if the NS is formed spinning slowly, which enables it to accrete SN debris. Accretion excludes neutron stars born with both B_p < 1e11 G and P > 0.1 s from radio pulsar surveys, where B_p < 1e11 G is not encountered except among very old (tau_c > 40 Myr) or recycled pulsars. Finally, such a CCO, if born in SN 1987A, could explain the non-detection of a pulsar there.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:00:12 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Halpern", "J. P.", "" ], [ "Gotthelf", "E. V.", "" ], [ "Camilo", "F.", "" ], [ "Seward", "F. D.", "" ] ]
0705.0979
Troels Haugb{\o}lle
Steen Hannestad, Troels Haugboelle, Bjarne Thomsen
Precision measurements of large scale structure with future type Ia supernova surveys
18 pages, 9 figures, submitted to JCAP
JCAP 0802:022,2008
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/02/022
null
astro-ph
null
Type Ia supernovae are currently the best known standard candles at cosmological distances. In addition to providing a powerful probe of dark energy they are an ideal source of information about the peculiar velocity field of the local universe. Even with the very small number of supernovae presently available it has been possible to measure the dipole and quadrupole of the local velocity field out to z~0.025. With future continuous all-sky surveys like the LSST project the luminosity distances of tens of thousands of nearby supernovae will be measured accurately. This will allow for a determination of the local velocity structure of the universe as a function of redshift with unprecedented accuracy, provided the redshifts of the host galaxies are known. Using catalogues of mock surveys we estimate that future low redshift supernova surveys will be able to probe sigma-8 to a precision of roughly 5% at 95% C.L. This is comparable to the precision in future galaxy and weak lensing surveys and with a relatively modest observational effort it will provide a crucial cross-check on future measurements of the matter power spectrum.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 15:47:52 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Hannestad", "Steen", "" ], [ "Haugboelle", "Troels", "" ], [ "Thomsen", "Bjarne", "" ] ]
0705.0980
Simeon Hellerman
Simeon Hellerman, Ian Swanson
Charting the landscape of supercritical string theory
27 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:171601,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.171601
null
hep-th
null
Special solutions of string theory in supercritical dimensions can interpolate in time between theories with different numbers of spacetime dimensions (via dimension quenching) and different amounts of worldsheet supersymmetry (via c-duality). These solutions connect supercritical string theories to the more familiar string duality web in ten dimensions, and provide a precise link between supersymmetric and purely bosonic string theories. Dimension quenching and c-duality appear to be natural concepts in string theory, giving rise to large networks of interconnected theories. We describe some of these networks in detail and discuss general consistency constraints on the types of transitions that arise in this framework.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 19:53:39 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Hellerman", "Simeon", "" ], [ "Swanson", "Ian", "" ] ]
0705.0981
Zoltan Haiman
Shiv Sethi (Raman Research Institute), Zolt\'an Haiman (Columbia University)
Can We Detect the Anisotropic Shapes of Quasar HII Regions During Reionization Through The Small-Scale Redshifted 21cm Power Spectrum?
Version accepted by ApJ, with new fiducial model and improved discussion
null
10.1086/523787
null
astro-ph
null
Light travel time delays distort the apparent shapes of HII regions surrounding bright quasars during early stages of cosmic reionization. Individual HII regions may remain undetectable in forthcoming redshifted 21 cm experiments. However, the systematic deformation along the line of sight may be detectable statistically, either by stacking tomographic 21cm images of quasars identified, for example, by JWST, or as small-scale anisotropy in the three-dimensional 21cm power spectrum. Here we consider the detectability of this effect. The anisotropy is largest when HII regions are large and expand rapidly, and we find that if bright quasars contributed to the early stages of reionization, then they can produce significant anisotropy, on scales comparable to the typical sizes of HII regions of the bright quasars (approx. 30 Mpc and below). The effect therefore cannot be ignored when analyzing future 21cm power spectra on small scales. If 10 percent of the volume of the IGM at redshift z=10 is ionized by quasars with typical ionizing luminosity of S= 5 x 10^{56} photons/second, the distortions can enhance by more than 10 percent the 21cm power spectrum in the radial (redshift) direction, relative to the transverse directions. The level of this anisotropy exceeds that due to redshift-space distortion, and has the opposite sign. We show that on-going experiments such as MWA should be able to detect this effect. A detection would reveal the presence of bright quasars, and shed light on the ionizing yield and age of the ionizing sources, and the distribution and small-scale clumping of neutral intergalactic gas in their vicinity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:07:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:40:45 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sethi", "Shiv", "", "Raman Research Institute" ], [ "Haiman", "Zoltán", "", "Columbia\n University" ] ]
0705.0982
Damien Chablat
Damien Chablat (IRCCyN), Philippe Wenger (IRCCyN)
A New Three-DOF Parallel Mechanism: Milling Machine Applications
null
The 2nd Chemnitz Parallel Kinematics Seminar (2000) 1-9
null
null
cs.RO
null
This paper describes a new parallel kinematic architecture for machining applications, namely, the orthoglide. This machine features three fixed parallel linear joints which are mounted orthogonally and a mobile platform which moves in the Cartesian x-y-z space with fixed orientation. The main interest of the orthoglide is that it takes benefit from the advantages of the popular PPP serial machines (regular Cartesian workspace shape and uniform performances) as well as from the parallel kinematic arrangement of the links (less inertia and better dynamic performances), which makes the orthoglide well suited to high-speed machining applications. Possible extension of the orthoglide to 5-axis machining is also investigated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:01:20 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chablat", "Damien", "", "IRCCyN" ], [ "Wenger", "Philippe", "", "IRCCyN" ] ]
0705.0983
Masaki Shigemori
Joseph Marsano, Kyriakos Papadodimas and Masaki Shigemori
Nonsupersymmetric Brane/Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory
84 pages (57 pages + 4 appendices), 18 figures
Nucl.Phys.B789:294-361,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.08.010
CALT-68-2644, ITFA-2007-15
hep-th
null
We study metastable nonsupersymmetric configurations in type IIA string theory, obtained by suspending D4-branes and anti-D4-branes between holomorphically curved NS5's, which are related to those of hep-th/0610249 by T-duality. When the numbers of branes and antibranes are the same, we are able to obtain an exact M theory lift which can be used to reliably describe the vacuum configuration as a curved NS5 with dissolved RR flux for g_s<<1 and as a curved M5 for g_s>>1. When our weakly coupled description is reliable, it is related by T-duality to the deformed IIB geometry with flux of hep-th/0610249 with moduli exactly minimizing the potential derived therein using special geometry. Moreover, we can use a direct analysis of the action to argue that this agreement must also hold for the more general brane/antibrane configurations of hep-th/0610249. On the other hand, when our strongly coupled description is reliable, the M5 wraps a nonholomorphic minimal area curve that can exhibit quite different properties, suggesting that the residual structure remaining after spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry at tree level can be further broken by the effects of string interactions. Finally, we discuss the boundary condition issues raised in hep-th/0608157 for nonsupersymmetric IIA configurations, their implications for our setup, and their realization on the type IIB side.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 21:13:26 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Marsano", "Joseph", "" ], [ "Papadodimas", "Kyriakos", "" ], [ "Shigemori", "Masaki", "" ] ]
0705.0984
Jonathan Novak
Jonathan Novak
Vicious walkers and random contraction matrices
13 pages, 1 figures
null
null
null
math.CO math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The ensemble $\CUE^{(q)}$ of truncated random unitary matrices is a deformation of the usual Circular Unitary Ensemble depending on a discrete non-negative parameter $q.$ $\CUE^{(q)}$ is an exactly solved model of random contraction matrices originally introduced in the context of scattering theory. In this article, we exhibit a connection between $\CUE^{(q)}$ and Fisher's random-turns vicious walker model from statistical mechanics. In particular, we show that the moment generating function of the trace of a random matrix from $\CUE^{(q)}$ is a generating series for the partition function of Fisher's model, when the walkers are assumed to represent mutually attracting particles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:02:26 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:14:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:00:48 GMT" } ]
2008-12-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Novak", "Jonathan", "" ] ]
0705.0985
Lorenz Schwachhoefer
Lorenz J. Schwachhoefer
A remark on left invariant metrics on compact Lie groups
4 pages
null
null
null
math.DG
null
We show that a left invariant metric on a compact Lie group $G$ which is obtained by stretching a biinvariant metric in the direction of a subalgebra $\h$ of $\g$ always has some negative sectional curvature, unless the semi-simple part of $\h$ is an ideal of $\g$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:05:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Schwachhoefer", "Lorenz J.", "" ] ]
0705.0986
Daniel Babich
Daniel Babich (Caltech/CfA), Cullen H. Blake (CfA) and Charles Steinhardt (CfA)
What Can the Cosmic Microwave Background Tell Us About the Outer Solar System?
21 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by ApJ
null
10.1086/521913
null
astro-ph
null
We discuss two new observational techniques that use observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to place constraints upon the mass, distance, and size distribution of small objects in the Kuiper Belt and inner Oort Cloud, collectively known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). The first new technique considers the spectral distortion of the isotropic, or monopole, CMB by TNOs that have been heated by solar radiation to temperatures above that of the CMB. We apply this technique to the spectral measurements of the CMB by the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). The second technique utilizes the change in amplitude of the TNO signal due to the orbital motion of the observer to separate the TNO signal from the invariant extra-galactic CMB and construct a map of the mass distribution in the outer Solar System. We estimate the ability of future CMB experiments to create such a map.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:06:18 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Babich", "Daniel", "", "Caltech/CfA" ], [ "Blake", "Cullen H.", "", "CfA" ], [ "Steinhardt", "Charles", "", "CfA" ] ]
0705.0987
Daniel Babich
Daniel Babich (Caltech/CfA) and Abraham Loeb (CfA)
Imprint of Distortions in the Oort Cloud on the CMB Anisotropies
15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by New Astronomy. Replaced with accepted version
New Astron.14:166-179,2008
10.1016/j.newast.2008.07.005
null
astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the effect of a close encounter of a passing star on the shape of the inner Oort Cloud, using the impulse approximation. The deviation of the perturbed Oort Cloud from sphericity adds angular fluctuations to the brightness of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) due to thermal emission by the comets. An encounter with a solar-mass star at an impact parameter of $1750 \au$, as expected based on the abundance and velocity dispersion of stars in the solar neighborhood, leads to a quadrupole moment in the square of the fractional CMB intensity fluctuation of $C_2 = 4.5 \times 10^{-15}, 6.7 \times 10^{-12}, 1.1 \times 10^{-9}$ at $\nu = 30, 353, 545 \GHz$ (these being the frequency bands of the upcoming Planck satellite). We also quantify the quadrupole spectral distortions produced by the Scattered Disc, which will exist regardless of any perturbation and the subsequent shape of the Oort Cloud. For comparison, the square fractional temperature fluctuation quadrupole moment predicted by the current cosmological model is $C_2 = 1.76 \times 10^{-10}$, which corresponds to fluctuations in the CMB intensity of $C_2 = 2.9 \times 10^{-10}, 6.8 \times 10^{-9}, 1.6 \times 10^{-8}$ at $\nu = 30, 353, 545 \GHz$. Finally, we discuss how a measurement of the anisotropic spectral distortions could be used to constrain the trajectory of the closest stellar fly-by.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 21:47:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:49:50 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Babich", "Daniel", "", "Caltech/CfA" ], [ "Loeb", "Abraham", "", "CfA" ] ]
0705.0988
Pavel Kroupa
Thomas Maschberger, Pavel Kroupa (AIfA, Bonn)
A new method to derive star formation histories of galaxies from their star cluster distributions
MNRAS: in press, 10 pages, 9 figures
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:34-42,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11891.x
null
astro-ph
null
Star formation happens in a clustered way which is why the star cluster population of a particular galaxy is closely related to the star formation history of this galaxy. From the probabilistic nature of a mass function follows that the mass of the most-massive cluster of a complete population, M_max, has a distribution with the total mass of the population as a parameter. The total mass of the population is connected to the star formation rate (SFR) by the length of a formation epoch. Since due to evolutionary effects only massive star clusters are observable up to high ages it is convenient to use this M_max(SFR) relation for the reconstruction of a star formation history. The age-distribution of the most-massive clusters can therefore be used to constrain the star formation history of a galaxy. The method, including an assessment of the inherent uncertainties, is introduced with this contribution, while following papers will apply this method to a number of galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:06:53 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Maschberger", "Thomas", "", "AIfA, Bonn" ], [ "Kroupa", "Pavel", "", "AIfA, Bonn" ] ]
0705.0989
Bouchaud Jean-Philippe
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (CFM & CEA)
Anomalous relaxation in complex systems: from stretched to compressed exponentials
To appear in: Anomalous Transport: Foundations and Applications, Wiley, VCH (Berlin), Fall 2007
null
null
null
cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.soft
null
We attempt to give a bird's eye view of the physical mechanisms leading to anomalous relaxation, and the relation of this phenomenon with anomalous diffusion and transport. Whereas in some cases these two notions are indeed deeply related, this needs not to be the case. We review several models for stretched exponential relaxation (diffusion in traps, broad distribution of relaxation times, two-step relaxation) and insist on the physical interpretation to be given to the stretching exponent $\beta$. We then discuss compressed exponentials which have been recently observed in a variety of systems, from soft glassy materials to granular packs. We describe a model where slow rearrangement events occur randomly in space and create long ranged elastics strains, leading to $\beta=3/2$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:07:34 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bouchaud", "Jean-Philippe", "", "CFM & CEA" ] ]
0705.0990
Michael Lawler
Michael J. Lawler and Hae-Young Kee and Yong Baek Kim and Ashvin Vishwanath
Topological spin liquid on the hyper-kagome lattice of Na_4Ir_3O_8
4 pages, 3 figures, substantially rewritten, some new predictions added
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 227201 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.227201
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Recent experiments on the "hyper-kagome" lattice system Na$_4$Ir$_3$O$_8$ have demonstrated that it is a rare example of a three dimensional spin-1/2 frustrated antiferromagnet. We investigate the role of quantum fluctuations as the primary mechanism lifting the macroscopic degeneracy inherited by classical spins on this lattice. In the semi-classical limit we predict, based on large-N calculations, that an unusual $\vec q=0$ coplaner magnetically ordered ground state is stabilized with no local "weather vane" modes. This phase melts in the quantum limit and a gapped topological Z$_2$ spin liquid phase emerges. In the vicinity of this quantum phase transition, we study the dynamic spin structure factor and comment on the relevance of our results for future neutron scattering experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 18:45:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 29 May 2007 21:37:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:37:41 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Lawler", "Michael J.", "" ], [ "Kee", "Hae-Young", "" ], [ "Kim", "Yong Baek", "" ], [ "Vishwanath", "Ashvin", "" ] ]
0705.0991
Grigory Volovik
G.E. Volovik
From semiconductors to quantum gravity: to centenary of Matvei Bronstein
14 pages, 2 figure, submitted to proceedings of the conference devoted to centenary of Matvei Bronstein, St. Petersburg, November 2006, typos corrected, references added
null
null
null
gr-qc cond-mat.str-el hep-ph physics.hist-ph
null
Investigation of the many-body condensed-matter systems allows us to connect the microscopic physics at the atomic energy scale and the macroscopic physics emerging in the low-energy corner. It gives some hints on the mechanisms of the formation of the physical laws which our Universe obeys. The paper is devoted to the centenary of Matvei Petrovich Bronstein.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 15:01:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 15 May 2007 14:56:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 15:38:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 12:17:50 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Volovik", "G. E.", "" ] ]
0705.0992
Charles A. Akemann
Charles Akemann and Nik Weaver
Classically normal pure states
null
null
null
null
math.OA math.FA
null
A pure state f of a von Neumann algebra M is called classically normal if f is normal on any von Neumann subalgebra of M on which f is multiplicative. Assuming the continuum hypothesis, a separably represented von Neumann algebra M has classically normal, singular pure states iff there is a central projection p in M such that Mp is a factor of type I_\infty, II, or III.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:15:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Akemann", "Charles", "" ], [ "Weaver", "Nik", "" ] ]
0705.0993
Heather Knutson
Heather A. Knutson, David Charbonneau, Lori E. Allen, Jonathan J. Fortney, Eric Agol, Nicolas B. Cowan, Adam P. Showman, Curtis S. Cooper, and S. Thomas Megeath
A map of the day-night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b
To appear in the May 10 2007 issue of Nature, 10 pages, 2 black and white figures, 1 color
Nature 447:183-186,2007
10.1038/nature05782
null
astro-ph
null
"Hot Jupiter" extrasolar planets are expected to be tidally locked because they are close (<0.05 astronomical units, where 1 AU is the average Sun-Earth distance) to their parent stars, resulting in permanent daysides and nightsides. By observing systems where the planet and star periodically eclipse each other, several groups have been able to estimate the temperatures of the daysides of these planets. A key question is whether the atmosphere is able to transport the energy incident upon the dayside to the nightside, which will determine the temperature at different points on the planet's surface. Here we report observations of HD 189733, the closest of these eclipsing planetary systems, over half an orbital period, from which we can construct a 'map' of the distribution of temperatures. We detected the increase in brightness as the dayside of the planet rotated into view. We estimate a minimum brightness temperature of 973 +/- 33 K and a maximum brightness temperature of 1212 +/- 11 K at a wavelength of 8 microns, indicating that energy from the irradiated dayside is efficiently redistributed throughout the atmosphere, in contrast to a recent claim for another hot Jupiter. Our data indicate that the peak hemisphere-integrated brightness occurs 16$\pm$6 degrees before opposition, corresponding to a hot spot shifted east of the substellar point. The secondary eclipse (when the planet moves behind the star) occurs 120 +/- 24 s later than predicted, which may indicate a slightly eccentric orbit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 23:30:49 GMT" } ]
2010-04-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Knutson", "Heather A.", "" ], [ "Charbonneau", "David", "" ], [ "Allen", "Lori E.", "" ], [ "Fortney", "Jonathan J.", "" ], [ "Agol", "Eric", "" ], [ "Cowan", "Nicolas B.", "" ], [ "Showman", "Adam P.", "" ], [ "Cooper", "Curtis S.", "" ], [ "Megeath", "S. Thomas", "" ] ]
0705.0994
Andreas Karch
Dongsu Bak, Andreas Karch, and Laurence G. Yaffe
Debye screening in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
21 pages, 5 figures, significantly expanded discussion of Polyakov loop correlator and static quark-antiquark potential
JHEP 0708:049,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/049
null
hep-th
null
Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we examine the behavior of correlators of Polyakov loops and other operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at non-zero temperature. The implications for Debye screening in this strongly coupled non-Abelian plasma, and comparisons with available results for thermal QCD, are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:26:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:31:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:37:45 GMT" } ]
2009-04-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Bak", "Dongsu", "" ], [ "Karch", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Yaffe", "Laurence G.", "" ] ]
0705.0995
Zhongyuan Zhou
Zhongyuan Zhou, Shih-I Chu, Siyuan Han
Decoherence of a driven multilevel quantum system interacting with a multi-bath reservoir
null
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
A general theory is presented for the treatment of decoherence of a multilevel quantum system (with many degrees of freedom) interacting with multi-bath reservoir and driven by ac fields. In this approach, the system is described by a reduced density operator and the multi-bath reservoir is characterized by a number of spectral densities. The reduced density operator is governed by the master equation in which the effect of ac driving fields and the leakage to non-computational states are included. The theory is applied to the study of decoherence of a two-dimensional (2D) SQUID flux qubit coupled to control and readout circuits. The predicted results are in very good agreement with available experimental results in the absence of driving fields and with the analytic results of a dissipative two-level system in the presence of weak driving fields. The relaxation and decoherence times versus the parameters and temperature of the control and readout circuits are also explored in details to facilitate the optimization of the 2D SQUID qubit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 02:45:57 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhou", "Zhongyuan", "" ], [ "Chu", "Shih-I", "" ], [ "Han", "Siyuan", "" ] ]
0705.0996
Anzhong Wang
Yungui Gong and Anzhong Wang
Energy conditions and current acceleration of the universe
revtex4, five figures. Corrected some typos and added new references. Physics Letters B652, 63-68 (2007)
Phys.Lett.B652:63-68,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.065
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph hep-th
null
The energy conditions provide a very promising model-independent study of the current acceleration of the universe. However, in order to connect these conditions with observations, one often needs first to integrate them, and then find the corresponding constraints on some observational variables, such as the distance modulus. Those integral forms can be misleading, and great caution is needed when one interprets them physically. A typical example is that the transition point of the deceleration parameter $q(z)$ is at about $z \simeq 0.76$ in the $\Lambda$CDM model. However, with the same model when we consider the dimensionless Hubble parameter $E(z)$, which involves the integration of $q(z)$, we find that $E(z)$ does not cross the line of $q(z) = 0$ before $z = 2$. Therefore, to get the correct result, we cannot use the latter to determine the transition point. With these in mind, we carefully study the constraints from the energy conditions, and find that, among other things, the current observational data indeed strongly indicate that our universe has ocne experienced an accelerating expansion phase between the epoch of galaxy formation and the present.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:29:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:28:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:03:33 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Gong", "Yungui", "" ], [ "Wang", "Anzhong", "" ] ]
0705.0997
Daniel V. Shantsev
Age Andreas Falnes Olsen, Tom Henning Johansen, Daniel Shantsev, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyun-Sook Lee, Hyun Jung Kim, Sung-Ik Lee
Avalanches Injecting Flux into the Central Hole of a Superconducting MgB2 Ring
8 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
Magneto-optical imaging was used to observe dendritic flux avalanches connecting the outer and inner edges of a ring-shaped superconducting MgB2 film. Such avalanches create heated channels across the entire width of the ring, and inject large amounts of flux into the central hole. By measuring the injected flux and the corresponding reduction of current, which is typically 15%, we estimate the maximum temperature in the channel to be 100 K, and the duration of the process to be on the order of a microsecond. Flux creep simulations reproduce all the observed features in the current density before and after injection events.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 7 May 2007 20:38:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Olsen", "Age Andreas Falnes", "" ], [ "Johansen", "Tom Henning", "" ], [ "Shantsev", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Choi", "Eun-Mi", "" ], [ "Lee", "Hyun-Sook", "" ], [ "Kim", "Hyun Jung", "" ], [ "Lee", "Sung-Ik", "" ] ]