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0705.1498
Elisabetta Cavazzuti
S. Turriziani, E. Cavazzuti, P. Giommi
ROXA: a new multi-frequency selected large sample of blazars with SDSS and 2dF optical spectroscopy
19 pages, 3 figure, 2 tables
Astron.Astrophys.472:699-704,2007
10.1051/0004-6361:20077114
null
astro-ph
null
Context. Although Blazars are a small fraction of the overall AGN population they are expected to be the dominant population of extragalactic sources in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands and have been shown to be the largest contaminant of CMB fluctuation maps. So far the number of known blazars is of the order of several hundreds, but the forthcoming AGILE, GLAST and Planck space observatories will detect several thousand of objects of this type. Aims. In preparation for these missions it is necessary to identify new samples of blazars to study their multi-frequency characteristics and statistical properties. Methods. We compiled a sample of objects with blazar-like properties via a cross-correlation between large radio (NVSS, ATCAPMN) and X- ray surveys (RASS) using the SDSS-DR4 and 2dF survey data to spectroscopically identify our candidates and test the validity of the selection method. Results. We present the Radio - Optical - X-ray catalog built at ASDC (ROXA), a list of 816 objects among which 510 are confirmed blazars. Only 19% of the candidates turned out to be certainly non-blazars demonstrating the high efficiency of our selection method. Conclusions. Our catalog includes 173 new blazar identifications, or about 10% of all presently known blazars. The relatively high flux threshold in the X-ray energy band (given by the RASS survey) preferentially selects objects with high fx / fr ratio leading to the discovery of new High Energy Peaked BL Lac (HBLs). Our catalog therefore includes many new potential targets for GeV-TeV observations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 15:32:20 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Turriziani", "S.", "" ], [ "Cavazzuti", "E.", "" ], [ "Giommi", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.1499
Rohini Godbole Professor
Debajyoti Choudhury, Rohini M. Godbole, Ritesh K. Singh and Kshitij Wagh
Top production at the Tevatron/LHC and nonstandard, strongly interacting spin one particles
15 pages, uses LaTex, six figures. To appear in Physics Letters B. Reference to and discussion on the forward-backward asymmetry expected even in the SM, added
Phys.Lett.B657:69-76,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.057
IISc-CHEP/06/07, LAPTH-1183/2007
hep-ph
null
In this note, we consider possible constraints from $t \bar t$ production on the gauge bosons of theories with an extended strong interaction sector such as axigluons or flavour universal colorons. Such constraints are found to be competitive with those obtained from the dijet data. The current $t \bar t$ data from the Tevatron rule out axigluon masses ($m_A$) up to 900 GeV and 850 GeV at 2 $\sigma$ and 4 $\sigma$ levels respectively. For the case of flavour universal colorons the data rule out a mass ($m_C$) below 800 GeV (780 GeV) at the $2 (4) \sigma $ level and also the mass range between 900 GeV to 2.1 TeV at 2 $\sigma$ level, for $\cot \xi = 1$, where $\xi$ is the mixing angle. For $\cot \xi =2$ on the other hand, the excluded range is $m_C \lsim 950 (920)$ GeV and $m_C \gsim 1.02 (1.15 \lsim m_C \lsim 1.8)$ TeV at $2 \sigma$ ($4 \sigma $) level. We point out that for higher axigluon/coloron masses, even for the dijet channel, the limits on the coloron mass, for $\cot \xi = 1$, may be different than those for the axigluon. We also compute the expected forward-backward asymmetry for the case of the axigluons which would allow it to be discriminated against the SM as also the colorons. We further find that at the LHC, the signal should be visible in the $t \bar t$ invariant mass spectrum for a wide range of axigluon and coloron masses that are still allowed. We point out how top polarisation may be used to further discriminate the axigluon and coloron case from the SM as well as from each other.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 15:34:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:45:47 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Choudhury", "Debajyoti", "" ], [ "Godbole", "Rohini M.", "" ], [ "Singh", "Ritesh K.", "" ], [ "Wagh", "Kshitij", "" ] ]
0705.1500
Christopher Thomas
C. E. Thomas
Composition of the Pseudoscalar Eta and Eta' Mesons
34 pages, 11 figures. v2: version published in JHEP, added substantial section on B and D meson electroweak decays, added comment on psi' to eta(')/eta_c gamma, Figs 5 and 6 split and made clearer, added references, other minor revisions which don't change conclusions
JHEP 0710:026,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/026
OUTP-07-06P
hep-ph hep-ex
null
The composition of the eta and eta' mesons has long been a source of discussion and is of current interest with new experimental results appearing. We investigate what can be learnt from a number of different processes: V to P gamma and P to V gamma (V and P are light vector and pseudoscalar mesons respectively), P to gamma gamma, J/psi,psi' to P gamma, J/psi,psi' to P V, and chi_{c0,2} to PP. These constrain the eta-eta' mixing angle to a consistent value, phi approx 42 degrees; we find that the c cbar components are lesssim 5% in amplitude. We also find that, while the data hint at a small gluonic component in the eta', the conclusions depend sensitively on unknown form factors associated with exclusive dynamics. In addition, we predict BR(psi' to eta' gamma) approx 1 10^{-5} and BR(chi_{c0} to eta eta') approx 2 10^{-5} - 1 10^{-4}. We provide a method to test the mixing using chi_{c2} to eta eta, eta' eta', and eta eta' modes and make some general observations on chi_{c0,2} decays. We also survey the semileptonic and hadronic decays of bottom and charmed mesons and find some modes where the mixing angle can be extracted cleanly with the current experimental data, some where more data will allow this, and some where a more detailed knowledge of the different amplitudes is required.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 17:03:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:36 GMT" } ]
2009-04-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Thomas", "C. E.", "" ] ]
0705.1501
Elena Balandina
E. V. Balandina, E. M. Leikin, N. P. Yudin
Model independent Breit-Wigner parameters of nucleon resonances S11(1535), S11(1650) and P11(1710)
3 pages, 2 tables
null
null
null
nucl-th
null
Estimates of Breit-Wigner parameters of nucleon resonances were obtained by phenomenological analysis of eta meson photoproduction on protons performed completely by statistical procedures without appealing to theoretical models
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 15:48:13 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Balandina", "E. V.", "" ], [ "Leikin", "E. M.", "" ], [ "Yudin", "N. P.", "" ] ]
0705.1502
Yvan Castin
Ludovic Pricoupenko (LPTMC), Yvan Castin (LKB - Lhomond)
Three fermions in a box at the unitary limit: universality in a lattice model
6 pages
Journal of Physics A General Physics (2007) 12863
10.1088/1751-8113/40/43/003
null
cond-mat.other
null
We consider three fermions with two spin components interacting on a lattice model with an infinite scattering length. Low lying eigenenergies in a cubic box with periodic boundary conditions, and for a zero total momentum, are calculated numerically for decreasing values of the lattice period. The results are compared to the predictions of the zero range Bethe-Peierls model in continuous space, where the interaction is replaced by contact conditions. The numerical computation, combined with analytical arguments, shows the absence of negative energy solution, and a rapid convergence of the lattice model towards the Bethe-Peierls model for a vanishing lattice period. This establishes for this system the universality of the zero interaction range limit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 15:48:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:06:09 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Pricoupenko", "Ludovic", "", "LPTMC" ], [ "Castin", "Yvan", "", "LKB - Lhomond" ] ]
0705.1503
Sacha Davidson
Sacha Davidson, Julia Garayoa, Federica Palorini, Nuria Rius
Insensitivity of flavoured leptogenesis to low energy CP violation
4 pages, 1 figure; version accepted for publication, added explanations, notation clarified
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:161801,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.161801
null
hep-ph
null
If the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is produced by leptogenesis, CP violation is required in the lepton sector. In the seesaw extension of the Standard Model with three hierarchical right-handed neutrinos, we show that the baryon asymmetry is insensitive to the PMNS phases: thermal leptogenesis can work for any value of the observable phases. This result was well-known when there are no flavour effects in leptogenesis; we show that it remains true when flavour effects are included.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:05:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 21 May 2007 12:55:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:18:27 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Davidson", "Sacha", "" ], [ "Garayoa", "Julia", "" ], [ "Palorini", "Federica", "" ], [ "Rius", "Nuria", "" ] ]
0705.1504
Jeff Forshaw
Jeff Forshaw and Malin Sjodahl
Soft gluons in Higgs plus two jet production
15 pages and 5 figures
JHEP 0709:119,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/119
null
hep-ph
null
We investigate the effects of an all order QCD resummation of soft gluon emissions for Higgs boson production in association with two hard jets. We consider both the gluon-gluon fusion and weak boson fusion processes and show how to resum a large part of the leading logarithms in the jet veto scale. Our resummation improves on previous analyses which also aim to include the effects of multiple soft gluon radiation. In addition we calculate the interference between weak boson fusion and gluon-gluon fusion and find that it is small.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:09:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:23:05 GMT" } ]
2009-04-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Forshaw", "Jeff", "" ], [ "Sjodahl", "Malin", "" ] ]
0705.1505
C\'edric Lorc\'e
Lorce Cedric
Theta+ width estimation with nonzero momentum transfer
5 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We have used the light-cone formulation of Chiral-Quark Soliton Model to estimate the width of the lightest pentaquark Theta+. We have found that the effect of nonzero momentum transfer is important and reduces drastically the width to about 0.43 MeV. This means that this effect is a piece of the small width puzzle of exotic baryons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:22:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Cedric", "Lorce", "" ] ]
0705.1506
Llorens Serra
Llorens Serra, David Sanchez, and Rosa Lopez
Evanescent states in quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
8 pages, 8 figures
Physical Review B 76, 045339 (2007).
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.045339
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
We discuss the calculation of evanescent states in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We suggest a computational algorithm devised for cases in which longitudinal and transverse motions are coupled. The dispersion relations are given for some selected cases, illustrating the feasibility of the proposed computational method. As a practical application, we discuss the solutions for a wire containing a potential step.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:25:19 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Serra", "Llorens", "" ], [ "Sanchez", "David", "" ], [ "Lopez", "Rosa", "" ] ]
0705.1507
Jae-Suk Park
Jae-Suk Park
Semi-Classical Quantum Fields Theories and Frobenius Manifolds
null
Lett.Math.Phys.81:41-59,2007
10.1007/s11005-007-0165-z
null
hep-th math.QA
null
We show that a semi-classical quantum field theory comes with a versal family with the property that the corresponding partition function generates all path integrals and satisfies a system of 2nd order differential equations determined by algebras of classical observables. This versal family gives rise to a notion of special coordinates that is analogous to that in string theories. We also show that for a large class of semi-classical theories, their moduli space has the structure of a Frobenius super-manifold.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:26:40 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Park", "Jae-Suk", "" ] ]
0705.1508
Sudhanshu Barway
Sudhanshu Barway and Ajit Kembhavi (Inter University center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune-India)
A SuperMassive Black Hole Fundamental Plane for Ellipticals
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
null
10.1086/519560
null
astro-ph
null
We obtain the coefficients of a new fundamental plane for supermassive black holes at the centers of elliptical galaxies, involving measured central black hole mass and photometric parameters which define the light distribution. The galaxies are tightly distributed around this mass fundamental plane, with improvement in the rms residual over those obtained from the $\mbh-\sigma$ and $\mbh-L$ relations. This implies a strong multidimensional link between the central massive black hole formation and global photometric properties of elliptical galaxies and provides an improved estimate of black hole mass from galaxy data.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:26:47 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Barway", "Sudhanshu", "", "Inter University center for\n Astronomy and Astrophysics" ], [ "Kembhavi", "Ajit", "", "Inter University center for\n Astronomy and Astrophysics" ] ]
0705.1509
Dmitri Boiko
Dmitri L. Boiko
Coriolis-Zeeman effect in rotating photonic crystal
9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Rotation-induced splitting of the otherwise degenerate photonic bands is predicted for a two-dimensional photonic crystal made of evanescently coupled microcavities. The symmetry-broken energy splitting is similar to the Zeeman splitting of atomic levels or electron's (hole's) magnetic moment sublevels in an external magnetic field. The orbital motion of photons in periodic photonic lattice of microcavities is shown to enhance significantly such Coriolis-Zeeman splitting as compared to a solitary microcavity [D.L. Boiko, Optics Express 2, 397 (1998)]. The equation of motion suggests that nonstationary rotation induces quantum transitions between photonic states and, furthermore, that such transitions will serve as a source of nonstationary gravitational field.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 17:15:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:11:46 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Boiko", "Dmitri L.", "" ] ]
0705.1510
Adam Gamsa
Adam Gamsa and John Cardy
SLE in the three-state Potts model - a numerical study
32 pages, 41 figures
Adam Gamsa et al J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P08020
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08020
null
cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP
null
The scaling limit of the spin cluster boundaries of the Ising model with domain wall boundary conditions is SLE with kappa=3. We hypothesise that the three-state Potts model with appropriate boundary conditions has spin cluster boundaries which are also SLE in the scaling limit, but with kappa=10/3. To test this, we generate samples using the Wolff algorithm and test them against predictions of SLE: we examine the statistics of the Loewner driving function, estimate the fractal dimension and test against Schramm's formula. The results are in support of our hypothesis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:32:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:47:49 GMT" } ]
2007-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Gamsa", "Adam", "" ], [ "Cardy", "John", "" ] ]
0705.1511
Burkhard Kleihaus
Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-L\'erida, Ulrike Neemann
Stationary Dyonic Regular and Black Hole Solutions
23 pages, 4 figures
Gen.Rel.Grav.40:1279-1310,2008
10.1007/s10714-007-0604-2
null
gr-qc
null
We consider globally regular and black hole solutions in SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, coupled to a dilaton field. The basic solutions represent magnetic monopoles, monopole-antimonopole systems or black holes with monopole or dipole hair. When the globally regular solutions carry additionally electric charge, an angular momentum density results, except in the simplest spherically symmetric case. We evaluate the global charges of the solutions and their effective action, and analyze their dependence on the gravitational coupling strength. We show, that in the presence of a dilaton field, the black hole solutions satisfy a generalized Smarr type mass formula.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 17:16:05 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kleihaus", "Burkhard", "" ], [ "Kunz", "Jutta", "" ], [ "Navarro-Lérida", "Francisco", "" ], [ "Neemann", "Ulrike", "" ] ]
0705.1512
ILki Kim
Ilki Kim
Comment on "note on the derivative of the hyperbolic cotangent"
null
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
In a couple of articles (Ford G W and O'Connell R F 1996 Nature 380 113 and 2002 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35 4183) it was argued that the standard result for the derivative of the hyperbolic cotangent in the literature, d \coth y/dy = -{csch}^2 y is incomplete and the correct expression should have an additional term proportional to the Dirac delta function. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that this claim is incorrect.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:36:26 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kim", "Ilki", "" ] ]
0705.1513
Jacopo Fritz
J. Fritz, B. M. Poggianti, D. Bettoni, A. Cava, W. J. Couch, M. D'Onofrio, A. Dressler, G. Fasano, P. Kjaergaard, M. Moles, J. Varela
A spectrophotometric model applied to cluster galaxies: the WINGS dataset
18 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077097
null
astro-ph
null
[Abridged] The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS) is a project aiming at the study of the galaxy populations in clusters in the local universe (0.04<z<0.07) and the influence of environment on the physical properties of galaxies. This survey provides a high quality set of spectroscopic data for ~6000 galaxies in 48 clusters. A salient feature of this model is the possibility of treating dust extinction as a function of age, allowing younger stars to be more obscured than older ones. Our technique, for the first time, takes into account this feature in a spectral fitting code. A set of template spectra spanning a wide range of star formation histories is built, with features closely resembling those of typical spectra in our sample in terms of spectral resolution, noise and wavelength coverage. Our method of analyzing these spectra allows us to test the reliability and the uncertainties related to each physical parameter we are inferring. The well-known degeneracy problem, i.e. the non-uniqueness of the best fit solution (mass and extinction in different age bins), can be addressed by assigning adequate error bars to the recovered parameters. The values found in this way, together with their error bars, identify the region of parameter space which contains all the possible solutions for a given spectrum. A comparison test was also performed on a WINGS subsample, containing objects in common with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, yielding excellent agreement. We find that the stellar content as a function of age is reliably recovered in four main age bins and that the uncertainties only mildly depend on the S/N ratio. The metallicity of the dominant stellar population is not always recoverable unambiguosly, depending on the Star Formation History pattern.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:47:32 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Fritz", "J.", "" ], [ "Poggianti", "B. M.", "" ], [ "Bettoni", "D.", "" ], [ "Cava", "A.", "" ], [ "Couch", "W. J.", "" ], [ "D'Onofrio", "M.", "" ], [ "Dressler", "A.", "" ], [ "Fasano", "G.", "" ], [ "Kjaergaard", "P.", "" ], [ "Moles", "M.", "" ], [ "Varela", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.1514
Duncan Brown
Duncan A. Brown
Searching for Gravitational Radiation from Binary Black Hole MACHOs in the Galactic Halo
206 pages, 64 figures. Typos corrected in Eqs. (2.104), (2.108), (2.124) and (4.3)
PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004
null
LIGO-P050015-00-R
gr-qc
null
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is one of a new generation of detectors of gravitational radiation. The existence of gravitational radiation was first predicted by Einstein in 1916, however gravitational waves have not yet been directly observed. One source of gravitation radiation is binary inspiral. Two compact bodies orbiting each other, such as a pair of black holes, lose energy to gravitational radiation. As the system loses energy the bodies spiral towards each other. This causes their orbital speed and the amount of gravitational radiation to increase, producing a characteristic ``chirp'' waveform in the LIGO sensitive band. In this thesis, matched filtering of LIGO science data is used to search for low mass binary systems in the halo of dark matter surrounding the Milky Way. Observations of gravitational microlensing events of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud suggest that some fraction of the dark matter in the halo may be in the form of Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs). It has been proposed that low mass black holes formed in the early universe may be a component of the MACHO population; some fraction of these black hole MACHOs will be in binary systems and detectable by LIGO. The inspiral from a MACHO binary composed of two 0.5 solar mass black holes enters the LIGO sensitive band around 40 Hz. The chirp signal increases in amplitude and frequency, sweeping through the sensitive band to 4400 Hz in 140 seconds. By using evidence from microlensing events and theoretical predictions of the population an upper limit is placed on the rate of black hole MACHO inspirals in the galactic halo.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:48:09 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Brown", "Duncan A.", "" ] ]
0705.1515
Dmitri Berkov
Dmitri V. Berkov, Natalia L. Gorn
Magnetization oscillations induced by a spin-polarized current in a point-contact geometry: mode hopping and non-linear damping effects
18 pages, 9 figures, subm. to Phys. Rev. B; please send your questions/comments to the 1st author (mailto: [email protected])
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.144414
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
In this paper we study magnetization excitations induced in a thin extended film by a spin-polarized dc-current injected through a point contact in the current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) geometry. Using full-scale micromagnetic simulations, we demonstrate that in addition to the oscillations of the propagating wave type, there exist also two localized oscillation modes. The first localized mode has a relatively homogeneous magnetization structure of its kernel and corresponds to the so called 'bullet' predicted analytically by Slavin and Tiberkevich (Phys. Rev. Lett., 95 (2005) 237201). Magnetization pattern of the second localized mode kernel is highly inhomogeneous, leading to a much smaller power of magnetoresistance oscillations caused by this mode. We have also studied the influence of a non-linear damping for this system and have found the following main qualitative effects: (i) the appearance of frequency jumps within the existence region of the propagating wave mode and (ii) the narrowing of the current region where the 'bullet' mode exists, until this mode completely disappears for a sufficiently strong non-linear damping.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:55:32 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Berkov", "Dmitri V.", "" ], [ "Gorn", "Natalia L.", "" ] ]
0705.1516
Taylor Hughes
Xi Dai, Taylor L. Hughes, Xiao-Liang Qi, Zhong Fang and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Helical edge and surface states in HgTe quantum wells and bulk insulators
5 pages
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.125319
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is the property of a new state of matter which preserves time-reversal, has an energy gap in the bulk, but has topologically robust gapless states at the edge. Recently, it has been shown that HgTe quantum wells realize this novel effect. In this work, we start from realistic tight-binding models and demonstrate the existence of the helical edge states in HgTe quantum wells and calculate their physical properties. We also show that 3d HgTe is a topological insulator under uniaxial strain, and show that the surface states are described by single-component massless relativistic Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions. Experimental predictions are made based on the quantitative results obtained from realistic calculations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 17:04:47 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dai", "Xi", "" ], [ "Hughes", "Taylor L.", "" ], [ "Qi", "Xiao-Liang", "" ], [ "Fang", "Zhong", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Shou-Cheng", "" ] ]
0705.1517
Andrea Maiorano
A. Maiorano, V. Mart\'in-Mayor, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, A. Taranc\'on
Weak first order transition in the three-dimensional site-diluted Ising antiferromagnet in a magnetic field
Final version, accepted for publication
Phys. Rev. B 76 064435 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.064435
null
cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We perform intensive numerical simulations of the three-dimensional site-diluted Ising antiferromagnet in a magnetic field at high values of the external applied field. Even if data for small lattice sizes are compatible with second-order criticality, the critical behavior of the system shows a crossover from second-order to first-order behavior for large system sizes, where signals of latent heat appear. We propose "apparent" critical exponents for the dependence of some observables with the lattice size for a generic (disordered) first-order phase transition.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:57:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 16 May 2007 17:14:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:00:40 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Maiorano", "A.", "" ], [ "Martín-Mayor", "V.", "" ], [ "Ruiz-Lorenzo", "J. J.", "" ], [ "Tarancón", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.1518
Tomas Liko
Tomas Liko
Topological deformation of isolated horizons
8 pages; 1 figure; v2: 9 pages; some comments added at the end; 3 references added; v3: minor corrections; v4: some corrections; discussion added on black-hole mergers and violations of the second law; 2 references added; v5: minor corrections; v6: final corrections to match PRD version
Phys.Rev.D77:064004,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.064004
null
gr-qc
null
We show that the Gauss-Bonnet term can have physical effects in four dimensions. Specifically, the entropy of a black hole acquires a correction that is proportional to the Euler characteristic of the cross sections of the horizon. While this term is constant for a single black hole, it will be a non-trivial function for a system with dynamical topologies such as black-hole mergers: it is shown that for certain values of the GB parameter, the second law of black-hole mechanics can be violated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:10:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 21 May 2007 17:03:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:13:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:36:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:21:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v6", "created": "Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:44:38 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Liko", "Tomas", "" ] ]
0705.1519
Maurice Pouzet
Maurice Pouzet and Ivo G.Rosenberg
Small clones and the projection property
10 pages
null
null
null
math.LO math.CO
null
In 1986, the second author classified the minimal clones on a finite universe into five types. We extend this classification to infinite universes and to multiclones. We show that every non-trivial clone contains a "small" clone of one of the five types. From it we deduce, in part, an earlier result, namely that if $\mathcal C$ is a clone on a universe $A$ with at least two elements, that contains all constant operations, then all binary idempotent operations are projections and some $m$-ary idempotent operation is not a projection some $m\geq 3$ if and only if there is a Boolean group $G$ on $A$ for which $\mathcal C$ is the set of all operations $f(x_1,..., x_n)$ of the form $a+\sum_{i\in I}x_i$ for $a\in A$ and $I\subseteq \{1,..., n\}$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 17:13:20 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Pouzet", "Maurice", "" ], [ "Rosenberg", "Ivo G.", "" ] ]
0705.1520
Alan McConnachie
Alan McConnachie, Nobuo Arimoto, Mike Irwin
Deconstructing dwarf galaxies: a Suprime-Cam survey of Andromeda II
17 pages, 12 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:379-392,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11969.x
null
astro-ph
null
(Abridged) We present deep, sub-horizontal branch, multi-colour photometry of the Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal (And II dSph) taken with Subaru Suprime-Cam. We identify a red clump population in this galaxy, the first time this feature has been detected in a M31 dSph, which are normally characterized as having no significant intermediate age populations. We construct radial profiles for the various stellar populations and show that the horizontal branch has a nearly constant density spatial distribution out to large radius, whereas the reddest red giant branch stars are centrally concentrated in an exponential profile. We argue that these populations trace two distinct structural components in And II and show that this assumption provides a good match to the overall radial profile of this galaxy. The extended component dominates the stellar populations at large radius, whereas the exponential component dominates the inner few arcminutes. We show that the two components have very different stellar populations; the exponential component has an average age of $\sim 7 - 10$ Gyrs old, is relatively metal-rich ([Fe/H] $\sim -1$) but with a significant tail to low metallicities, and possesses a red clump. The extended component, on the other hand, is ancient ($\sim 13$ Gyrs), metal-poor ([Fe/H] $\sim -1.5$) with a narrower dispersion $\sigma_{\rm [Fe/H]} \simeq 0.28$, and has a well developed blue horizontal branch. The extended component contains approximately three-quarters of the light of And II and its unusual density profile is unique in Local Group dwarf galaxies. This suggests that its formation and/or evolution may have been quite different to other dwarf galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 17:26:12 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "McConnachie", "Alan", "" ], [ "Arimoto", "Nobuo", "" ], [ "Irwin", "Mike", "" ] ]
0705.1521
Frank Gurski
Frank Gurski
A note on module-composed graphs
10 pages
null
null
null
cs.DS
null
In this paper we consider module-composed graphs, i.e. graphs which can be defined by a sequence of one-vertex insertions v_1,...,v_n, such that the neighbourhood of vertex v_i, 2<= i<= n, forms a module (a homogeneous set) of the graph defined by vertices v_1,..., v_{i-1}. We show that module-composed graphs are HHDS-free and thus homogeneously orderable, weakly chordal, and perfect. Every bipartite distance hereditary graph, every (co-2C_4,P_4)-free graph and thus every trivially perfect graph is module-composed. We give an O(|V_G|(|V_G|+|E_G|)) time algorithm to decide whether a given graph G is module-composed and construct a corresponding module-sequence. For the case of bipartite graphs, module-composed graphs are exactly distance hereditary graphs, which implies simple linear time algorithms for their recognition and construction of a corresponding module-sequence.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:08:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:30:53 GMT" } ]
2007-07-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Gurski", "Frank", "" ] ]
0705.1522
Fabrizio M. E. Catanese
Fabrizio Catanese (Universitaet Bayreuth)
Differentiable and deformation type of algebraic surfaces, real and symplectic structures
109 pages, 10 Figures, preliminary version of a Lecture Notes, to appear in LNM "Algebraic surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds"
null
null
null
math.AG math.SG
null
Lecture 1: Projective and K\"ahler Manifolds, the Enriques classification, construction techniques. Lecture 2: Surfaces of general type and their Canonical models. Deformation equivalence and singularities. Lecture 3: Deformation and diffeomorphism, canonical symplectic structure for surfaces of general type. Lecture 4: Irrational pencils, orbifold fundamental groups, and surfaces isogenous to a product. Lecture 5: Lefschetz pencils, braid and mapping class groups, and diffeomorphism of ABC-surfaces. Epilogue: Deformation, diffeomorphism and symplectomorphism type of surfaces of general type.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:09:41 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Catanese", "Fabrizio", "", "Universitaet Bayreuth" ] ]
0705.1523
Tobias Galla
Yoshimi Yoshino, Tobias Galla, Kei Tokita
Statistical mechanics and stability of a model eco-system
23 pages, 13 figures; text of paper modified, discussion extended, references added
J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P09003
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/09/P09003
null
q-bio.PE cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We study a model ecosystem by means of dynamical techniques from disordered systems theory. The model describes a set of species subject to competitive interactions through a background of resources, which they feed upon. Additionally direct competitive or co-operative interaction between species may occur through a random coupling matrix. We compute the order parameters of the system in a fixed point regime, and identify the onset of instability and compute the phase diagram. We focus on the effects of variability of resources, direct interaction between species, co-operation pressure and dilution on the stability and the diversity of the ecosystem. It is shown that resources can be exploited optimally only in absence of co-operation pressure or direct interaction between species.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:38:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:55:01 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Yoshino", "Yoshimi", "" ], [ "Galla", "Tobias", "" ], [ "Tokita", "Kei", "" ] ]
0705.1524
Hiroyasu Tajima
Hiroyasu Tajima (1), Tuneyoshi Kamae (1), Stefano Finazzi (2), Johann Cohen-Tanugi (1), James Chiang (1 and 3) ((1) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (2) Scuola Normale Superiore, (3) CRESST, University of Maryland)
Studies of Cosmic Rays with GeV Gamma Rays
9 pages, 6 figures, Invited Talk at International Workshop on "Cosmic-Rays and High Energy Universe," Aoyama-Gakuin University, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, March 5-6, 2007
null
null
SLAC-PUB-12509
astro-ph
null
We describe the role of GeV gamma-ray observations with GLAST-LAT (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope - Large Area Telescope) in identifying interaction sites of cosmic-ray proton (or hadrons) with interstellar medium (ISM). We expect to detect gamma rays from neutral pion decays in high-density ISM regions in the Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, and other satellite galaxies. These gamma-ray sources have been detected already with EGRET (Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope) as extended sources (eg. LMC and Orion clouds) and GLAST-LAT will detect many more with a higher spatial resolution and in a wider spectral range. We have developed a novel image restoration technique based on the Richardson-Lucy algorithm optimized for GLAST-LAT observation of extended sources. Our algorithm calculates PSF (point spread function) for each event. This step is very important for GLAST-LAT and EGRET image analysis since PSF varies more than one order of magnitude from one gamma ray to another depending on its energy as well as its impact point and angle in the instrument. The GLAST-LAT and EGRET image analysis has to cope with Poisson fluctuation due to low number of detected photons for most sources. Our technique incorporates wavelet filtering to minimize effects due to the fluctuation. Preliminary studies on some EGRET sources are presented, which shows potential of this novel image restoration technique for the identification and characterisation of extended gamma-ray sources.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:56:08 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Tajima", "Hiroyasu", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Kamae", "Tuneyoshi", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Finazzi", "Stefano", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Cohen-Tanugi", "Johann", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Chiang", "James", "", "1 and 3" ] ]
0705.1525
David S. Armstrong
G0 Collaboration: D.S. Armstrong, et al
Transverse Beam Spin Asymmetries in Forward-Angle Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters; shortened to meet PRL length limit, clarified some text after referee's comments
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:092301,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.092301
WM-07-04
nucl-ex hep-ph
null
We have measured the beam-normal single-spin asymmetry in elastic scattering of transversely-polarized 3 GeV electrons from unpolarized protons at Q^2 = 0.15, 0.25 (GeV/c)^2. The results are inconsistent with calculations solely using the elastic nucleon intermediate state, and generally agree with calculations with significant inelastic hadronic intermediate state contributions. A_n provides a direct probe of the imaginary component of the 2-gamma exchange amplitude, the complete description of which is important in the interpretation of data from precision electron-scattering experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:12:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:56:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:19:32 GMT" } ]
2010-04-06T00:00:00
[ [ "G0 Collaboration", "", "" ], [ "Armstrong", "D. S.", "" ] ]
0705.1526
Evaggelia Lyratzi
E. Danezis (1), D. Nikolaidis (1), E. Lyratzi (1), L. \v{C}. Popovi\'c, M. S. Dimitrijevi\'c, A. Antoniou, E. Theodosiou ((1) University of Athens, Faculty of Physics, Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, (2) Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade)
A new model for the structure of the DACs and SACs regions in the Oe and Be stellar atmospheres
9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
null
10.1093/pasj/59.4.827
null
astro-ph
null
In this paper we present a new mathematical model for the density regions where a specific spectral line and its SACs/DACs are created in the Oe and Be stellar atmospheres. In the calculations of final spectral line function we consider that the main reasons of the line broadening are the rotation of the density regions creating the spectral line and its DACs/SACs, as well as the random motions of the ions. This line function is able to reproduce the spectral feature and it enables us to calculate some important physical parameters, such as the rotational, the radial and the random velocities, the Full Width at Half Maximum, the Gaussian deviation, the optical depth, the column density and the absorbed or emitted energy. Additionally, we can calculate the percentage of the contribution of the rotational velocity and the ions' random motions of the DACs/SACs regions to the line broadening. Finally, we present two tests and three short applications of the proposed model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:37:57 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Danezis", "E.", "" ], [ "Nikolaidis", "D.", "" ], [ "Lyratzi", "E.", "" ], [ "Popović", "L. Č.", "" ], [ "Dimitrijević", "M. S.", "" ], [ "Antoniou", "A.", "" ], [ "Theodosiou", "E.", "" ] ]
0705.1527
Abdul Rumaiz
Bakhtyar Ali, Abdul K Rumaiz, S. Ismat Shah, Arif Ozbay, Edmund R Nowak
Influence of oxygen partial pressure on structural, transport and magnetic properties of Co doped TiO2 films
20 pages, 6 figures submitted to Journal of Applied Physics
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Thin films of Co-TiO2 are deposited on silicon and quartz substrates using Pulse Laser Deposition (PLD) process at various oxygen partial pressures ranging from 6.6 x 10-3 Pascals (Pa) to 53 Pa. Crystal structure, transport and magnetic properties of reduced CoxTi(1-x)O2 (0 <x< 0.03) thin films are investigated and are found to have a strong dependence on the oxygen partial pressure. X-ray diffraction (XRD) data reveals the presence of mixed phase material containing both anatase and rutile. However, these phases intertransform with the change in the oxygen partial pressure in the chamber during the growth of the films. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) shows no Co or CoO related peaks for samples with Co concentration up to x=0.03. However, the oxygen 1s peaks are asymmetric suggesting the presence of oxygen vacancies. The transport and magnetic measurements show a clear dependence on the concentration of oxygen vacancies. There is an enhancement in the electrical conductivity and the magnetization as more vacancies are created in the material. The resistivity as a function of temperature rho(T) follows the polaronic behavior and the activation energies obtained, ~100 to 150meV, are within the range that is typical for semiconducting materials.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:38:39 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ali", "Bakhtyar", "" ], [ "Rumaiz", "Abdul K", "" ], [ "Shah", "S. Ismat", "" ], [ "Ozbay", "Arif", "" ], [ "Nowak", "Edmund R", "" ] ]
0705.1528
Maxim Chernodub
M. Bock, M.N. Chernodub, E.-M. Ilgenfritz and A. Schiller
An Abelian two-Higgs model of strongly correlated electrons: phase structure, strengthening of phase transition and QCD at finite density
21 pages, 40 figures, RevTeX 4.0
Phys.Rev.B76:184502,2007
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.184502
ITEP-LAT/2007-09, HU-EP-07/14, LU-ITP 2007/001
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con hep-lat hep-ph
null
We investigate non-perturbative features of a three-dimensional Abelian Higgs model with singly- and doubly-charged scalar fields coupled to a single compact Abelian gauge field. The model is pretending to describe various planar systems of strongly correlated electrons such as high-Tc superconductivity in the overdoped regime and exotic materials possessing excitations with fractionalized quantum numbers. The complicated phase structure of the model is studied thoroughly using numerical tools and analytical arguments. In the three-dimensional space of coupling parameters we identify the Fermi liquid, the spin gap, the superconductor and the strange metallic phases. The behavior of three kinds of topological defects -- holon and spinon vortices and monopoles - is explored in various phases. We also observe a new effect, the strong enhancement of the phase transition strength reflected in a lower order of the transition: at sufficiently strong gauge coupling the two second order phase transitions -- corresponding to spinon-pair and holon condensation lines - join partially in the phase diagram and become a first order phase transition in that region. The last observation may have an analogue in Quantum Chromodynamics at non-zero temperature and finite baryon density. We argue that at sufficiently large baryon density the finite-temperature transition between the (3-flavor paired) color superconducting phase and the quark-gluon plasma phases should be much stronger compared with the transition between 2-flavor paired and 3-flavor paired superconducting phases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:39:11 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bock", "M.", "" ], [ "Chernodub", "M. N.", "" ], [ "Ilgenfritz", "E. -M.", "" ], [ "Schiller", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.1529
Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
C. A. Ballon Bayona, Henrique Boschi-Filho, Nelson R. F. Braga and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
On a Holographic Model for Confinement/Deconfinement
14 pages. V2: We included a new section discussing the soft wall model and new references. V3: We clarified some points and updated the references. Results unchanged. Version published in PRD
Phys.Rev.D77:046002,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.046002
MCTP-07-17
hep-th
null
We study the thermodynamics of the hard wall model, which consists in the introduction of an infrared cut-off in asymptotically AdS spaces. This is a toy model for confining backgrounds in the context of the gauge/gravity correspondence. We use holographic renormalization and reproduce the existence of a Hawking Page phase transition recently discussed by Herzog. We also show that the entropy jumps from $N^0$ to $N^2$, which reinforces the interpretation of this transition as the gravity dual of confinement/deconfinement. We also show that similar results hold for the phenomenologically motivated soft wall model, underlining the potential universality of our analysis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:01:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 16 May 2007 18:00:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:47:22 GMT" } ]
2008-03-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Bayona", "C. A. Ballon", "" ], [ "Boschi-Filho", "Henrique", "" ], [ "Braga", "Nelson R. F.", "" ], [ "Zayas", "Leopoldo A. Pando", "" ] ]
0705.1530
Denis Basko
D. M. Basko
Effect of inelastic collisions on multiphonon Raman scattering in graphene
null
Phys. Rev. B 76, 081405 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.081405
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We calculate the probabilities of two- and four-phonon Raman scattering in graphene and show how the relative intensities of the overtone peaks encode information about relative rates of different inelastic processes electrons are subject to. If the most important processes are electron-phonon and electron-electron scattering, the rate of the latter can be deduced from the Raman spectra.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:01:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:51:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Basko", "D. M.", "" ] ]
0705.1531
Fran\c{c}ois Gelis
A. Bessa, C.A.A. de Carvalho, E.S. Fraga, F. Gelis
Semiclassical thermodynamics of scalar fields
24 pages, 5 postscript figures
JHEP 0708:007,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/007
CERN-PH-TH/2007-076
hep-ph
null
We present a systematic semiclassical procedure to compute the partition function for scalar field theories at finite temperature. The central objects in our scheme are the solutions of the classical equations of motion in imaginary time, with spatially independent boundary conditions. Field fluctuations -- both field deviations around these classical solutions, and fluctuations of the boundary value of the fields -- are resummed in a Gaussian approximation. In our final expression for the partition function, this resummation is reduced to solving certain ordinary differential equations. Moreover, we show that it is renormalizable with the usual 1-loop counterterms.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:57:02 GMT" } ]
2010-02-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Bessa", "A.", "" ], [ "de Carvalho", "C. A. A.", "" ], [ "Fraga", "E. S.", "" ], [ "Gelis", "F.", "" ] ]
0705.1532
Hocine Sellama
Hocine Sellama (IRMA)
On the distance between separatrices for the discretized logistic differential equation
44 pages
null
null
null
math.DS
null
We consider the discretization y(t+\epsilon)=y(t-\epsilon)+2\epsilon\big(1-y(t)^{2}\big), $\epsilon>0$ a small parameter, of the logistic differential equation $y'=2\big(1-y^{2}\big)$, which can also be seen as a discretization of the system {y'=2\big(1-v^{2}\big), v'= 2\big(1-y^{2}\big). This system has two saddle points at $A=(1,1)$, $B=(-1, -1)$ and there exist stable and unstable manifolds. We will show that the stable manifold $W_{s}^{+}$ of the point $A=(1,1)$ and the unstable manifold $W_{i}^{-}$ of the point $B=(-1, -1)$ for the discretization do not coincide. The vertical distance between these two manifolds is exponentially small but not zero, in particular we give an asymptotic estimate of this distance. For this purpose we will use a method adapted from the paper of Sch\"afke-Volkmer \cite{SV} using formal series and accurate estimates of the coefficients.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 18:59:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:39:59 GMT" } ]
2008-06-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Sellama", "Hocine", "", "IRMA" ] ]
0705.1533
Stefano Panebianco
S. Panebianco, P. Beauvais, O. Bringer, S. Chabod, F. Chartier, E. Dupont, A. Letourneau, P. Lotrus, L. Oriol, F. Molinie, J. Ch. Toussaint
Neutronic performances of the MEGAPIE target
4 pages, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology 2007 (ND2007), 23-27 April 2007, Nice, France
null
null
null
nucl-ex
null
The MEGAPIE project is a key experiment on the road to Accelerator Driven Systems and it provides the scientific community with unique data on the behavior of a liquid lead-bismuth spallation target under realistic and long term irradiation conditions. The neutronic of such target is of course of prime importance when considering its final destination as an intense neutron source. This is the motivation to characterize the inside neutron flux of the target in operation. A complex detector, made of 8 micro fission-chambers, has been built and installed in the core of the target, few tens of centimeters from the proton/Pb-Bi interaction zone. This detector is designed to measure the absolute neutron flux inside the target, to give its spatial distribution and to correlate its temporal variations with the beam intensity. Moreover, integral information on the neutron energy distribution as a function of the position along the beam axis could be extracted, giving integral constraints on the neutron production models implemented in transport codes such as MCNPX.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:00:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:41:54 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Panebianco", "S.", "" ], [ "Beauvais", "P.", "" ], [ "Bringer", "O.", "" ], [ "Chabod", "S.", "" ], [ "Chartier", "F.", "" ], [ "Dupont", "E.", "" ], [ "Letourneau", "A.", "" ], [ "Lotrus", "P.", "" ], [ "Oriol", "L.", "" ], [ "Molinie", "F.", "" ], [ "Toussaint", "J. Ch.", "" ] ]
0705.1534
Anita Reimer
A. Reimer
The redshift-dependence of gamma-ray absorption in the environments of strong-line AGN
19 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Astrophys.J.665:1023-1029,2007
10.1086/519766
null
astro-ph
null
The case of gamma-ray absorption due to photon-photon pair production of jet photons in the external photon environment like accretion disk and broad-line region radiation field of gamma-ray loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) that exhibit strong emission lines is considered. I demonstrate that this ''local opacity'', if detected, will almost unavoidably be redshift-dependent in the sub-TeV range. This introduces non-negligible biases, and complicates approaches for studying the evolution of the extragalactic background light with contemporary GeV instruments like e.g. the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), etc., where the gamma-ray horizon is probed by means of statistical analysis of absorption features (e.g. Fazio-Stecker relation, etc.) in AGN spectra at various redshifts. It particularly applies to strong-line quasars where external photon fields are potentially involved in gamma-ray production.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:07:32 GMT" } ]
2009-02-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Reimer", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.1535
Nicolas Ferey
Nicolas F\'erey (LIMSI), Pierre-Emmanuel Gros (LIMSI), Joan H\'erisson (LIMSI), Rachid Gherbi (LIMSI)
Visual Data Mining of Genomic Databases by Immersive Graph-Based Exploration
null
Visual Data Mining of Genomic Databases by Immersive Graph-Based Exploration (2005) 4
null
null
q-bio.QM
null
Biologists are leading current research on genome characterization (sequencing, alignment, transcription), providing a huge quantity of raw data about many genome organisms. Extracting knowledge from this raw data is an important process for biologists, using usually data mining approaches. However, it is difficult to deals with these genomic information using actual bioinformatics data mining tools, because data are heterogeneous, huge in quantity and geographically distributed. In this paper, we present a new approach between data mining and virtual reality visualization, called visual data mining. Indeed Virtual Reality becomes ripe, with efficient display devices and intuitive interaction in an immersive context. Moreover, biologists use to work with 3D representation of their molecules, but in a desktop context. We present a software solution, Genome3DExplorer, which addresses the problem of genomic data visualization, of scene management and interaction. This solution is based on a well-adapted graphical and interaction paradigm, where local and global topological characteristics of data are easily visible, on the contrary to traditional genomic database browsers, always focused on the zoom and details level.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:09:08 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Férey", "Nicolas", "", "LIMSI" ], [ "Gros", "Pierre-Emmanuel", "", "LIMSI" ], [ "Hérisson", "Joan", "", "LIMSI" ], [ "Gherbi", "Rachid", "", "LIMSI" ] ]
0705.1536
Naceur-Eddine Khelifa
N.-E. Kh\'elifa (LNE- Inm), H. Fang, J. Xu, P. Juncar (LNE- Inm), M. Himbert (LNE- Inm)
Refractometer for Tracking Changes in the Refractive Index of Air Near 780 nm
null
Applied Optics 37, 1 (01/01/1998) 15
null
null
physics.optics
null
A new system, consisting of a double channel Fabry Perot etalon and laser diodes emitting around 780 nm is described and proposed to be used for air refractive index measurements. The principle of this refractometer is based on frequency measurements between optical laser sources. It permits quasi-instantaneous measurement with a resolution better than and uncertainty in the range. Some preliminary results on the stability of this system and the measurements of the refractive index of air with this apparatus are presented. The first measurements of the index of air at 780 nm are, within an experimental uncertainty of the order of, in agreement with the predicted values by the so-called revised Edl\'en equations. This result is to the best of our knowledge the first to extend to the near infra-red the validity of the revised Edl\'en equation derived for the wavelength range 350- 650 nm.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:12:22 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Khélifa", "N. -E.", "", "LNE- Inm" ], [ "Fang", "H.", "", "LNE- Inm" ], [ "Xu", "J.", "", "LNE- Inm" ], [ "Juncar", "P.", "", "LNE- Inm" ], [ "Himbert", "M.", "", "LNE- Inm" ] ]
0705.1537
Fulvio Melia
Fulvio Melia
Supermassive Black Holes
26 pages, 15 figures, to appear in "Kerr Spacetime: Rotating Black Holes in General Relativity" eds. D.L. Wiltshire, M. Visser and S.M. Scott, (Cambridge Univ. Press)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Supermassive black holes have generally been recognized as the most destructive force in nature. But in recent years, they have undergone a dramatic shift in paradigm. These objects may have been critical to the formation of structure in the early universe, spawning bursts of star formation and nucleating proto-galactic condensations. Possibly half of all the radiation produced after the Big Bang may be attributed to them, whose number is now known to exceed 300 million. The most accessible among them is situated at the Center of Our Galaxy. In the following pages, we will examine the evidence that has brought us to this point, and we will understand why many expect to actually image the event horizon of the Galaxy's central black hole within this decade.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:13:40 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Melia", "Fulvio", "" ] ]
0705.1538
Anita Reimer
A. Reimer (HEPL/KIPAC, Stanford University)
GeV photon absorption in cosmologically evolving quasar environments
2 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Proc. of the First Int. GLAST Symp. (Stanford, Feb. 5-8, 2007), eds. S.Ritz, P.F.Michelson, and C.Meegan, AIP Conf. Proc
AIP Conf.Proc.921:357-358,2007
10.1063/1.2757350
null
astro-ph
null
The question of a possible redshift-dependence of gamma-ray absorption due to gamma-gamma pair production of jet photons in the accretion disk and BLR radiation field in strong-line quasars is investigated. For this relevant aspects of cosmological black hole and quasar evolution are applied to the expected pair production opacity of GeV-photons in those sources. I demonstrate that for positively evolving and non-evolving accretion rates over cosmological time, detectable gamma-ray optical depths originating within the AGN system will show a redshift-dependence in the LAT energy range with larger opacity from sources at higher redshifts. This introduces ambiguities in the interpretation of spectral absorption features, and complicates approaches for estimating the evolution of the extragalactic background light by probing the gamma-ray horizon when using blazars whose external photon fields are involved in gamma-ray production.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:15:47 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Reimer", "A.", "", "HEPL/KIPAC, Stanford University" ] ]
0705.1539
Anita Reimer
Anita Reimer and Olaf Reimer (HEPL/KIPAC, Stanford University)
Massive stars in colliding wind systems: the GLAST perspective
3 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the Proc. of the First Int. GLAST Symp. (Stanford, Feb. 5-8, 2007), eds. S.Ritz, P.F.Michelson, and C.Meegan, AIP Conf. Proc
AIP Conf.Proc.921:217-219,2007
10.1063/1.2757304
null
astro-ph
null
Colliding winds of massive stars in binary systems are considered as candidate sites of high-energy non-thermal photon emission. They are already among the suggested counterparts for a few individual unidentified EGRET sources, but may constitute a detectable source population for the GLAST observatory. The present work investigates such population study of massive colliding wind systems at high-energy gamma-rays. Based on the recent detailed model (Reimer et al. 2006) for non-thermal photon production in prime candidate systems, we unveil the expected characteristics of this source class in the observables accessible at LAT energies. Combining the broadband emission model with the presently cataloged distribution of such systems and their individual parameters allows us to conclude on the expected maximum number of LAT-detections among massive stars in colliding wind binary systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:21:24 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Reimer", "Anita", "", "HEPL/KIPAC, Stanford University" ], [ "Reimer", "Olaf", "", "HEPL/KIPAC, Stanford University" ] ]
0705.1540
Shaffique Adam
Shaffique Adam, E. H. Hwang, Victor Galitski, S. Das Sarma
A self-consistent theory for graphene transport
To be published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 18392 (2007)
10.1073/pnas.0704772104
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We demonstrate theoretically that most of the observed transport properties of graphene sheets at zero magnetic field can be explained by scattering from charged impurities. We find that, contrary to common perception, these properties are not universal but depend on the concentration of charged impurities $n_{\rm imp}$. For dirty samples ($250 \times 10^{10} {\rm cm}^{-2} < n_{\rm imp} < 400 \times 10^{10} {\rm cm}^{-2}$), the value of the minimum conductivity at low carrier density is indeed $4 e^2/h$ in agreement with early experiments, with weak dependence on impurity concentration. For cleaner samples, we predict that the minimum conductivity depends strongly on $n_{\rm imp}$, increasing to $8 e^2/h$ for $n_{\rm imp} \sim 20 \times 10^{10}{\rm cm}^{-2}$. A clear strategy to improve graphene mobility is to eliminate charged impurities or use a substrate with a larger dielectric constant.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:37:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:54:50 GMT" } ]
2008-01-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Adam", "Shaffique", "" ], [ "Hwang", "E. H.", "" ], [ "Galitski", "Victor", "" ], [ "Sarma", "S. Das", "" ] ]
0705.1541
Joseph O'Rourke
Mirela Damian, Robin Flatland, Joseph O'Rourke
Unfolding Manhattan Towers
Full version of abstract that appeared in: Proc. 17th Canad. Conf. Comput. Geom., 2005, pp. 204--207
null
null
null
cs.CG cs.DM
null
We provide an algorithm for unfolding the surface of any orthogonal polyhedron that falls into a particular shape class we call Manhattan Towers, to a nonoverlapping planar orthogonal polygon. The algorithm cuts along edges of a 4x5x1 refinement of the vertex grid.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:50:48 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Damian", "Mirela", "" ], [ "Flatland", "Robin", "" ], [ "O'Rourke", "Joseph", "" ] ]
0705.1542
Mary Manning
M. Lisa Manning, B. Bamieh, J. M. Carlson
Descriptor approach for eliminating spurious eigenvalues in hydrodynamic equations
13 pages, 1 figure, revised for submission to SIAM Sci. Comp., moved background information to appendices
null
null
null
physics.comp-ph physics.flu-dyn
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a general framework for avoiding spurious eigenvalues -- unphysical unstable eigenvalues that often occur in hydrodynamic stability problems. In two example problems, we show that when system stability is analyzed numerically using {\em descriptor} notation, spurious eigenvalues are eliminated. Descriptor notation is a generalized eigenvalue formulation for differential-algebraic equations that explicitly retains algebraic constraints. We propose that spurious eigenvalues are likely to occur when algebraic constraints are used to analytically reduce the number of independent variables in a differential-algebraic system of equations before the system is approximated numerically. In contrast, the simple and easily generalizable descriptor framework simultaneously solves the differential equations and algebraic constraints and is well-suited to stability analysis in these systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 19:57:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:58:06 GMT" } ]
2008-12-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Manning", "M. Lisa", "" ], [ "Bamieh", "B.", "" ], [ "Carlson", "J. M.", "" ] ]
0705.1543
Gregory A. Fiete
Gregory A. Fiete, Gil Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher
Universal Periods in Quantum Hall Droplets
4 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 166805 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.166805
NSF-KITP-07189
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
Using the hierarchy picture of the fractional quantum Hall effect, we study the the ground state periodicity of a finite size quantum Hall droplet in a quantum Hall fluid of a different filling factor. The droplet edge charge is periodically modulated with flux through the droplet and will lead to a periodic variation in the conductance of a nearby point contact, such as occurs in some quantum Hall interferometers. Our model is consistent with experiment and predicts that superperiods can be observed in geometries where no interfering trajectories occur. The model may also provide an experimentally feasible method of detecting elusive neutral modes and otherwise obtaining information about the microscopic edge structure in fractional quantum Hall states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 23:55:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:56:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:01:23 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Fiete", "Gregory A.", "" ], [ "Refael", "Gil", "" ], [ "Fisher", "Matthew P. A.", "" ] ]
0705.1544
Dr Paul A. Crowther
Paul A Crowther (Sheffield), S. Carpano (ESAC Madrid), L.J. Hadfield (Sheffield), A.M.T. Pollock (ESAC Madrid)
On the optical counterpart of NGC300 X-1 and the global Wolf-Rayet content of NGC300
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for A&A Letters
A&A 469, L31 (2007)
10.1051/0004-6361:20077677
null
astro-ph
null
(Conext:) Surveys of Wolf-Rayet (WR) populations in nearby galaxies provide tests of evolutionary models plus Type Ib/c supernova progenitors. This spectroscopic study complements the recent imaging survey of the spiral galaxy NGC 300 by Schild et al. (Aims): Revisions to the known WR content of NGC 300 are presented. We investigate the WR nature of candidate #41 from Schild et al. which is spatially coincident with the bright X-ray point source NGC 300 X-1; (Methods:) VLT/FORS2 multi-object spectroscopy of WR candidates in NGC 300 is obtained; (Results:) We establish an early-type WN nature of #41, i.e. similar to the optical counterpart of IC 10 X-1, which closely resembles NGC 300 X-1. We confirm 9 new WR stars, bringing the current WR census of the inner disk to 31, with N(WC)/N(WN)~0.9. (Conclusions:) If #41 is the optical counterpart for NGC 300 X-1, we estimate a WR mass of 38 Msun based upon ground-based photometry, from which a black hole mass of > 10 Msun results from the 32.8 hr period of the system and WR wind velocity of 1250 km/s. We estimate an 95% completeness among WC stars and 70% among WN stars, such that the total WR content is ~40, with N(WC)/N(WN)~0.7. From the Halpha-derived star formation rate of the inner galaxy, we infer N(WR)/N(O)~0.04
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:20:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Crowther", "Paul A", "", "Sheffield" ], [ "Carpano", "S.", "", "ESAC Madrid" ], [ "Hadfield", "L. J.", "", "Sheffield" ], [ "Pollock", "A. M. T.", "", "ESAC Madrid" ] ]
0705.1545
Lijun Gou
L. J. Gou and P. Meszaros
GLAST Prospects for Swift-Era Afterglows
19 pages, 5 figures, ApJ, in press
Astrophys.J.668:392-399,2008
10.1086/521045
null
astro-ph
null
We calculate the GeV spectra of GRB afterglows produced by inverse Compton scattering of the sub-MeV emission of these objects. We improve on earlier treatments by using refined afterglow parameters and new model developments motivated by recent Swift observations. We present time-dependent GeV spectra for standard, constant parameter models, as well as for models with energy injection and with time-varying parameters, for a range of burst parameters. We evaluate the limiting redshift to which such afterglows can be detected by the GLAST LAT, as well as AGILE.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 14:26:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:24:20 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Gou", "L. J.", "" ], [ "Meszaros", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.1546
Rajib Ganguly
Rajib Ganguly (University of Wyoming), Michael S. Brotherton (University of Wyoming), Sabrina Cales (University of Wyoming), Brian Scoggins (University of Wyoming), Zhaohui Shang (University of Wyoming, Tianjin Normal University), Marianne Vestergaard (University of Arizona/Steward Observatory)
Outflows and the Physical Properties of Quasars
Uses emulateapj.cls, 14 pages including 7 tables and 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, Unabridged version of Table 4 can be downloaded from http://physics.uwyo.edu/agn/
Astrophys.J.665:990-1003,2007
10.1086/519759
null
astro-ph
null
We have investigated a sample of 5088 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Second Data Release in order to determine how the frequency and properties of broad absorptions lines (BALs) depend on black hole mass, bolometric luminosity, Eddington fraction (L/L_Edd), and spectral slope. We focus only on high-ionization BALs and find a number of significant results. While quasars accreting near the Eddington limit are more likely to show BALs than lower $L/L_{Edd}$ systems, BALs are present in quasars accreting at only a few percent Eddington. We find a stronger effect with bolometric luminosity, such that the most luminous quasars are more likely to show BALs. There is an additional effect, previously known, that BAL quasars are redder on average than unabsorbed quasars. The strongest effects involving the quasar physical properties and BAL properties are related to terminal outflow velocity. Maximum observed outflow velocities increase with both the bolometric luminosity and the blueness of the spectral slope, suggesting that the ultraviolet luminosity to a great extent determines the acceleration. These results support the idea of outflow acceleration via ultraviolet line scattering.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:25:53 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ganguly", "Rajib", "", "University of Wyoming" ], [ "Brotherton", "Michael S.", "", "University of Wyoming" ], [ "Cales", "Sabrina", "", "University of Wyoming" ], [ "Scoggins", "Brian", "", "University of Wyoming" ], [ "Shang", "Zhaohui", "", "University of Wyoming,\n Tianjin Normal University" ], [ "Vestergaard", "Marianne", "", "University of\n Arizona/Steward Observatory" ] ]
0705.1547
Zhenhua Wu
Zhenhua Wu, Cecilia Lagorio, Lidia A. Braunstein, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, H. Eugene Stanley
Numerical evaluation of the upper critical dimension of percolation in scale-free networks
10 pages, 5 figures
Phys. Rev. E 75, 066110 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066110
null
cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We propose a numerical method to evaluate the upper critical dimension $d_c$ of random percolation clusters in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi networks and in scale-free networks with degree distribution ${\cal P}(k) \sim k^{-\lambda}$, where $k$ is the degree of a node and $\lambda$ is the broadness of the degree distribution. Our results report the theoretical prediction, $d_c = 2(\lambda - 1)/(\lambda - 3)$ for scale-free networks with $3 < \lambda < 4$ and $d_c = 6$ for Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi networks and scale-free networks with $\lambda > 4$. When the removal of nodes is not random but targeted on removing the highest degree nodes we obtain $d_c = 6$ for all $\lambda > 2$. Our method also yields a better numerical evaluation of the critical percolation threshold, $p_c$, for scale-free networks. Our results suggest that the finite size effects increases when $\lambda$ approaches 3 from above.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:29:45 GMT" } ]
2007-10-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Wu", "Zhenhua", "" ], [ "Lagorio", "Cecilia", "" ], [ "Braunstein", "Lidia A.", "" ], [ "Cohen", "Reuven", "" ], [ "Havlin", "Shlomo", "" ], [ "Stanley", "H. Eugene", "" ] ]
0705.1548
Greg Stephens
Greg J Stephens, Bethany Johnson-Kerner, William Bialek and William S Ryu
Dimensionality and dynamics in the behavior of C. elegans
9 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections
PLoS Comput Biol 4(4): e1000028 (2008)
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000028
null
q-bio.OT
null
A major challenge in analyzing animal behavior is to discover some underlying simplicity in complex motor actions. Here we show that the space of shapes adopted by the nematode C. elegans is surprisingly low dimensional, with just four dimensions accounting for 95% of the shape variance, and we partially reconstruct "equations of motion" for the dynamics in this space. These dynamics have multiple attractors, and we find that the worm visits these in a rapid and almost completely deterministic response to weak thermal stimuli. Stimulus-dependent correlations among the different modes suggest that one can generate more reliable behaviors by synchronizing stimuli to the state of the worm in shape space. We confirm this prediction, effectively "steering" the worm in real time.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 18:40:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 03:55:56 GMT" } ]
2016-01-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Stephens", "Greg J", "" ], [ "Johnson-Kerner", "Bethany", "" ], [ "Bialek", "William", "" ], [ "Ryu", "William S", "" ] ]
0705.1549
Pablo Parmezani Munhoz
P. P. Munhoz, F. L. Semi\~ao, A. Vidiella-Barranco, J. A. Roversi
Cluster-type entangled coherent states
Published in Phys. Lett. A
Phys. Lett. A 372 (2008) 3580-3585
10.1016/j.physleta.2008.02.009
null
quant-ph
null
We present the cluster-type entangled coherent states (CTECS) and discuss their properties. A cavity QED generation scheme using suitable choices of atom-cavity interactions, obtained via detunings adjustments and the application of classical external fields, is also presented. After the realization of simple atomic measurements, CTECS representing nonlocal electromagnetic fields in separate cavities can be generated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:45:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:32:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:44:03 GMT" } ]
2008-04-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Munhoz", "P. P.", "" ], [ "Semião", "F. L.", "" ], [ "Vidiella-Barranco", "A.", "" ], [ "Roversi", "J. A.", "" ] ]
0705.1550
Alexey Ferapontov V
D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov, et al
Zgamma production and limits on anomalous ZZgamma and Zgammagamma couplings in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
8 pages, 6 figures. Published in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett.B653:378-386,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.08.035
FERMILAB-PUB-07-117-E
hep-ex
null
We present a study of eegamma and mumugamma events using 1109 (1009) pb-1 of data in the electron (muon) channel, respectively. These data were collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar Collider at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. Having observed 453 (515) candidates in the eegamma (mumugamma) final state, we measure the Zgamma production cross section for a photon with transverse energy ET > 7 GeV, separation between the photon and leptons Delta R(lgamma) > 0.7, and invariant mass of the di-lepton pair M(ll) > 30 GeV/c^2, to be 4.96 +/- 0.30(stat. + syst.) +/- 0.30(lumi.) pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction of 4.74 +/- 0.22 pb. This is the most precise Zgamma cross section measurement at a hadron collider. We set limits on anomalous trilinear Zgammagamma and ZZgamma gauge boson couplings of -0.085 < h(30)^(gamma) < 0.084, -0.0053 < h(40)^(gamma) < 0.0054 and -0.083 < h(30)^(Z) < 0.082, -0.0053 < h(40)^(Z) < 0.0054 at the 95% C.L. for the form-factor scale Lambda = 1.2 TeV.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 21:04:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:20:28 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "D0 Collaboration", "", "" ], [ "Abazov", "V.", "" ] ]
0705.1551
Ann Merchant Boesgaard
Ann Merchant Boesgaard
Beryllium in Ultra-Lithium-Deficient Halo Stars - The Blue Straggler Connection
17 pages of text, 12 figures, 3 tables Submitted to ApJ
null
10.1086/521075
null
astro-ph
null
There are nine metal-deficient stars that have Li abundances well below the Li plateau that is defined by over 100 unevolved stars with temperatures above 5800 K and values of [Fe/H] $<$ $-$1.0. Abundances of Be have been determined for most of these ultra-Li-deficient stars in order to investigate the cause of the Li deficiencies. High-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra have been obtained in the Be II spectral region near 3130 \AA for six ultra-Li-deficient stars with the Keck I telescope and its new uv-sensitive CCD on the upgraded HIRES. The spectrum synthesis technique has been used to determine Be abundances. All six stars are found to have Be deficiencies also. Two have measurable - but reduced - Be and four have only upper limits on Be. These results are consistent with the idea that these Li- and Be-deficient stars are analogous to blue stragglers. The stars have undergone mass transfer events (or mergers) which destroy or dilute both Li and Be. The findings cannot be matched by the models that predict that the deficiencies are due to extra-mixing in a subset of halo stars that were initially rapid rotators, with the possible exception of one star, G 139-8. Because the ultra-Li-deficient stars are also Be-deficient, they appear to be genuine outliers in population of halo stars used to determine the value of primordial Li; they no longer have the Li in their atmospheres that was produced in the Big Bang.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 21:08:13 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Boesgaard", "Ann Merchant", "" ] ]
0705.1552
George W. Patrick
G. W. Patrick, R. M. Roberts and C. Wulff
Stability transitions for axisymmetric relative equilibria of Euclidean symmetric Hamiltonian systems
Minor revisions. Typographical errors corrected
Nonlinearity 21 325--352 2008
10.1088/0951-7715/21/2/008
null
math-ph math.DS math.MP
null
In the presence of noncompact symmetry, the stability of relative equilibria under momentum-preserving perturbations does not generally imply robust stability under momentum-changing perturbations. For axisymmetric relative equilibria of Hamiltonian systems with Euclidean symmetry, we investigate different mechanisms of stability: stability by energy-momentum confinement, KAM, and Nekhoroshev stability, and we explain the transitions between these. We apply our results to the Kirchhoff model for the motion of an axisymmetric underwater vehicle, and we numerically study dissipation induced instability of KAM stable relative equilibria for this system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 21:17:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:58:29 GMT" } ]
2008-01-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Patrick", "G. W.", "" ], [ "Roberts", "R. M.", "" ], [ "Wulff", "C.", "" ] ]
0705.1553
Feng Yuan
Harut Avakian, Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur, Feng Yuan
Effect of Orbital Angular Momentum on Valence-Quark Helicity Distributions
10 pages, 3 eps figures
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:082001,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.082001
RBRC-671, SLAC-PUB-12503
hep-ph
null
We study the quark helicity distributions at large x in perturbative QCD, taking into account contributions from the valence Fock states of the nucleon which have nonzero orbital angular momentum. These states are necessary to have a nonzero anomalous magnetic moment. We find that the quark orbital angular momentum contributes a large logarithm to the negative helicity quark distributions in addition to its power behavior, scaling as (1-x)^5\log^2(1-x) in the limit of x\to 1. Our analysis shows that the ratio of the polarized over unpolarized down quark distributions, \Delta d/d, will still approach 1 in this limit. By comparing with the experimental data, we find that this ratio should cross zero at x\approx 0.75.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 21:56:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 13 May 2007 03:56:18 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Avakian", "Harut", "" ], [ "Brodsky", "Stanley J.", "" ], [ "Deur", "Alexandre", "" ], [ "Yuan", "Feng", "" ] ]
0705.1554
Pablo M. Saz Parkinson
A.A. Abdo, B.T. Allen, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, S. Casanova, B.L. Dingus, R.W. Ellsworth, M.M. Gonzalez, J.A. Goodman, E. Hays, C.M. Hoffman, B.E. Kolterman, C.P. Lansdell, J.T. Linnemann, J.E. McEnery, A.I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, D.Noyes, J.M. Ryan, F.W. Samuelson, P.M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A.J. Smith, G.W. Sullivan, V. Vasileiou, G.P. Walker, D.A. Williams, X.W. Xu and G.B. Yodh (Milagro Collaboration)
Milagro Constraints on Very High Energy Emission from Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Astrophys.J.666:361-367,2007
10.1086/519763
null
astro-ph
null
Recent rapid localizations of short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Swift and HETE satellites have led to the observation of the first afterglows and the measurement of the first redshifts from this type of burst. Detection of >100 GeV counterparts would place powerful constraints on GRB mechanisms. Seventeen short duration (< 5 s) GRBs detected by satellites occurred within the field of view of the Milagro gamma-ray observatory between 2000 January and 2006 December. We have searched the Milagro data for >100 GeV counterparts to these GRBs and find no significant emission correlated with these bursts. Due to the absorption of high-energy gamma rays by the extragalactic background light (EBL), detections are only expected for redshifts less than ~0.5. While most long duration GRBs occur at redshifts higher than 0.5, the opposite is thought to be true of short GRBs. Lack of a detected VHE signal thus allows setting meaningful fluence limits. One GRB in the sample (050509b) has a likely association with a galaxy at a redshift of 0.225, while another (051103) has been tentatively linked to the nearby galaxy M81. Fluence limits are corrected for EBL absorption, either using the known measured redshift, or computing the corresponding absorption for a redshift of 0.1 and 0.5, as well as for the case of z=0.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 21:53:35 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Abdo", "A. A.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Allen", "B. T.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Berley", "D.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Blaufuss", "E.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Casanova", "S.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Dingus", "B. L.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Ellsworth", "R. W.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Gonzalez", "M. M.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Goodman", "J. A.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Hays", "E.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Hoffman", "C. M.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Kolterman", "B. E.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Lansdell", "C. P.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Linnemann", "J. T.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "McEnery", "J. E.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Mincer", "A. I.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Nemethy", "P.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Noyes", "D.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Ryan", "J. M.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Samuelson", "F. W.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Parkinson", "P. M. Saz", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Shoup", "A.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Sinnis", "G.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Smith", "A. J.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Sullivan", "G. W.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Vasileiou", "V.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Walker", "G. P.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Williams", "D. A.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Xu", "X. W.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ], [ "Yodh", "G. B.", "", "Milagro Collaboration" ] ]
0705.1555
Denis Sheka
Jean-Guy Caputo, Yuri Gaididei, Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, Franz G. Mertens and Denis D. Sheka
Effective anisotropy of thin nanomagnets: beyond the surface anisotropy approach
ReVTeX, 14 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. B 76, 174428 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.174428
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We study the effective anisotropy induced in thin nanomagnets by the nonlocal demagnetization field (dipole-dipole interaction). Assuming a magnetization independent of the thickness coordinate, we reduce the energy to an inhomogeneneous onsite anisotropy. Vortex solutions exist and are ground states for this model. We illustrate our approach for a disk and a square geometry. In particular, we obtain good agreement between spin-lattice simulations with this effective anisotropy and micromagnetic simulations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 21:58:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 28 May 2007 22:56:16 GMT" } ]
2008-01-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Caputo", "Jean-Guy", "" ], [ "Gaididei", "Yuri", "" ], [ "Kravchuk", "Volodymyr P.", "" ], [ "Mertens", "Franz G.", "" ], [ "Sheka", "Denis D.", "" ] ]
0705.1556
Michael Norman
Michael L. Norman, Greg L. Bryan, Robert Harkness, James Bordner, Daniel Reynolds, Brian O'Shea, and Rick Wagner
Simulating Cosmological Evolution with Enzo
22 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Ed. D. Bader, CRC Press LLC (2007)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
In this paper we describe our massively parallel version of Enzo, a multiphysics, parallel, AMR application for simulating cosmological structure formation developed at UCSD and Columbia. We describe its physics, numerical algorithms, implementation, and performance on current terascale platforms. We also discuss our future plans and some of the challenges we face as we move to the petascale.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:17:39 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Norman", "Michael L.", "" ], [ "Bryan", "Greg L.", "" ], [ "Harkness", "Robert", "" ], [ "Bordner", "James", "" ], [ "Reynolds", "Daniel", "" ], [ "O'Shea", "Brian", "" ], [ "Wagner", "Rick", "" ] ]
0705.1557
Alexander Westphal
Alexander Westphal
Lifetime of Stringy de Sitter Vacua
1+16 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, uses JHEP3 class, v2: references added, inclusion of an additional subclass of de Sitter vacua
JHEP 0801:012,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/012
SISSA-30/2007/EP
hep-th astro-ph hep-ph
null
In this note we perform a synopsis of the life-times from vacuum decay of several de Sitter vacuum constructions in string/M-theory which have a single dS minimum arising from lifting a pre-existing AdS extremum and no other local minima existent after lifting. For these vacua the decay proceeds via a Coleman--De Luccia instanton towards the universal Minkowski minimum at infinite volume. This can be calculated using the thin--wall approximation, provided the cosmological constant of the local dS minimum is tuned sufficiently small. We compare the estimates for the different model classes and find them all stable in the sense of exponentially long life times as long as they have a very small cosmological constant and a scale of supersymmetry breaking > TeV.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:03:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:10:23 GMT" } ]
2009-04-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Westphal", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0705.1558
Kristopher Yirak
Kristopher Yirak, Adam Frank, Andrew Cunningham, and Sorin Mitran
The Interaction Between a Pulsed Astrophysical Jet and Small-Scale Heterogeneous Media
23 pages, 11 figures; submitted to ApJ
null
10.1086/523955
null
astro-ph
null
We have performed 2D hydrodynamic simulations of a pulsed astrophysical jet propagating through a medium that is populated with spherical inhomogeneities, or "clumps," which are smaller than the jet radius. The clumps are seen to affect the jet in several ways, such as impeding jet propagation and deflecting the jet off-axis. While there has been some debate as to the prevalence of these types of condensations in the ISM or in molecular clouds, the exploration of this region of parameter space nonetheless both shows the potential for these clumps to disrupt astrophysical jets and yields results which recover aspects of recent observations of Herbig-Haro objects. We find that the propagation of the jet and the vorticity induced in the clump/ambient medium correlate well with a "dynamic filling function" $f_d$ across all the simulations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:09:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Yirak", "Kristopher", "" ], [ "Frank", "Adam", "" ], [ "Cunningham", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Mitran", "Sorin", "" ] ]
0705.1559
Falko Ziebert
Falko Ziebert, Igor S. Aranson, and Lev S. Tsimring
Effects of crosslinks on motor-mediated filament organization
15 pages, 5 figures, submitted to New. J. Phys
New J. Phys. 9, 421 (2007)
10.1088/1367-2630/9/11/421
null
cond-mat.soft
null
Crosslinks and molecular motors play an important role in the organization of cytoskeletal filament networks. Here we incorporate the effect of crosslinks into our model of polar motor-filament organization [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 71}, 050901 (2005)], through suppressing the relative sliding of filaments in the course of motor-mediated alignment. We show that this modification leads to a nontrivial macroscopic behavior, namely the oriented state exhibits a transverse instability in contrast to the isotropic instability that occurs without crosslinks. This transverse instability leads to the formation of dense extended bundles of oriented filaments, similar to recently observed structures in actomyosin. This model also can be applied to situations with two oppositely directed motor species or motors with different processing speeds.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:21:43 GMT" } ]
2011-03-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Ziebert", "Falko", "" ], [ "Aranson", "Igor S.", "" ], [ "Tsimring", "Lev S.", "" ] ]
0705.1560
Man-Hong Yung
Man-Hong Yung
Spin Star as Switch for Quantum Networks
10 pages, 2 figure
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 44 (2011) 135504
10.1088/0953-4075/44/13/135504
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quantum state transfer is an important task in quantum information processing. It is known that one can engineer the couplings of a one-dimensional spin chain to achieve the goal of perfect state transfer. To leverage the value of these spin chains, a spin star is potentially useful for connecting different parts of a quantum network. In this work, we extend the spin-chain engineering problem to the problems with a topology of a star network. We show that a permanently coupled spin star can function as a network switch for transferring quantum states selectively from one node to another by varying the local potentials only. Together with one-dimensional chains, this result allows applications of quantum state transfer be applied to more general quantum networks.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:23:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:20:18 GMT" } ]
2016-10-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Yung", "Man-Hong", "" ] ]
0705.1561
Leonard Parker
Xing Huang and Leonard Parker
Graviton Propagator in a Covariant Massive Gravity Theory
7 pages. Submitted to Physical Review D
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We study the massive gravity theory proposed by Arkani-Hamed, Georgi and Schwartz. In this theory, the graviton becomes massive when general covariance is spontaneously broken through the introduction of a field that links two metrics, one of the which will eventually decouple. The excitation of this "link" field acts like a Goldstone boson in giving mass to the graviton. We work out the graviton and Goldstone boson propagators explicitly by means of gauge fixing terms similar to the renormalizability gauges used in gauge theories. With these propagators, we calculate the lowest order tree-level interaction between two external energy momentum tensors. The result is independent of the gauge parameter, but different from the prediction of massless gravity theory, i.e., general relativity. This difference remains even if the mass of the graviton goes to zero, in which case it gives the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov (vDVZ) discontinuity between the propagators of a massive and massless linearized graviton. Moreover, we show that the Fierz-Pauli graviton mass term can be considered as the ``unitary gauge'' of a more general theory with an extra scalar field. We explicitly construct such a theory in which the vDVZ discontinuity arises with a graviton mass term that is different from the Fierz-Pauli mass term. This theory has a local Weyl symmetry under conformal transformations of the metric. In the case when the mass goes to zero, the Weyl summetry becomes a global symmetry. It is possible that the local Weyl symmetry will give a hint as to the form of the corresponding fully nonlinear theory having a nonzero graviton mass.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:23:38 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Huang", "Xing", "" ], [ "Parker", "Leonard", "" ] ]
0705.1562
Lionel Levine
Itamar Landau and Lionel Levine
The Rotor-Router Model on Regular Trees
v2 incorporates referee comments, clarifies that the results of section 2 apply also to multigraphs
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 116(2), 421--433, 2009
10.1016/j.jcta.2008.05.012
null
math.CO math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The rotor-router model is a deterministic analogue of random walk. It can be used to define a deterministic growth model analogous to internal DLA. We show that the set of occupied sites for this model on an infinite regular tree is a perfect ball whenever it can be, provided the initial rotor configuration is acyclic (that is, no two neighboring vertices have rotors pointing to one another). This is proved by defining the rotor-router group of a graph, which we show is isomorphic to the sandpile group. We also address the question of recurrence and transience: We give two rotor configurations on the infinite ternary tree, one for which chips exactly alternate escaping to infinity with returning to the origin, and one for which every chip returns to the origin. Further, we characterize the possible "escape sequences" for the ternary tree, that is, binary words a_1 ... a_n for which there exists a rotor configuration so that the k-th chip escapes to infinity if and only if a_k=1.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:34:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:19:27 GMT" } ]
2010-10-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Landau", "Itamar", "" ], [ "Levine", "Lionel", "" ] ]
0705.1563
Pascale Garaud
P. Garaud
Growth and migration of solids in evolving protostellar disks I: Methods and Analytical tests
Submitted to ApJ. 23 pages and 13 figures
null
10.1086/523090
null
astro-ph
null
This series of papers investigates the early stages of planet formation by modeling the evolution of the gas and solid content of protostellar disks from the early T Tauri phase until complete dispersal of the gas. In this first paper, I present a new set of simplified equations modeling the growth and migration of various species of grains in a gaseous protostellar disk evolving as a result of the combined effects of viscous accretion and photo-evaporation from the central star. Using the assumption that the grain size distribution function always maintains a power-law structure approximating the average outcome of the exact coagulation/shattering equation, the model focuses on the calculation of the growth rate of the largest grains only. The coupled evolution equations for the maximum grain size, the surface density of the gas and the surface density of solids are then presented and solved self-consistently using a standard 1+1 dimensional formalism. I show that the global evolution of solids is controlled by a leaky reservoir of small grains at large radii, and propose an empirically derived evolution equation for the total mass of solids, which can be used to estimate the total heavy element retention efficiency in the planet formation paradigm. Consistency with observation of the total mass of solids in the Minimum Solar Nebula augmented with the mass of the Oort cloud sets strong upper limit on the initial grain size distribution, as well as on the turbulent parameter $\alphat$. Detailed comparisons with SED observations are presented in a following paper.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 22:53:43 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Garaud", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.1564
Daowen Qiu
Hongfeng Gan and Daowen Qiu
Unambiguous discrimination between mixed quantum states based on programmable quantum state discriminators
5 pages; comments are welcome
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We discuss the problem of designing an unambiguous programmable discriminator for mixed quantum states. We prove that there does not exist such a universal unambiguous programmable discriminator for mixed quantum states that has two program registers and one data register. However, we find that we can use the idea of programmable discriminator to unambiguously discriminate mixed quantum states. The research shows that by using such an idea, when the success probability for discrimination reaches the upper bound, the success probability is better than what we do not use the idea to do, except for some special cases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 23:02:01 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Gan", "Hongfeng", "" ], [ "Qiu", "Daowen", "" ] ]
0705.1565
Christopher Eling
Christopher Eling, Ted Jacobson, M. Coleman Miller
Neutron stars in Einstein-aether theory
25 pages, 4 figures; v2: simplified the discussion of aether-matter couplings, removed one extraneous mass vs. pressure plot, added brief discussion of ae-theory effects in Ozel's mass determination method; v3: corrected the equation for aether stress tensor, results unchanged since correct form was used in calculations
Phys.Rev.D76:042003,2007; Erratum-ibid.D80:129906,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.042003 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.129906
null
gr-qc astro-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
As current and future experiments probe strong gravitational regimes around neutron stars and black holes, it is desirable to have theoretically sound alternatives to general relativity against which to test observations. Here we study the consequences of one such generalization, Einstein-aether theory, for the properties of non-rotating neutron stars. This theory has a parameter range that satisfies all current weak-field tests. We find that within this range it leads to lower maximum neutron star masses, as well as larger surface redshifts at a particular mass, for a given nuclear equation of state. For non-rotating black holes and neutron stars, the innermost stable circular orbit is only slightly modified in this theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 23:16:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:01:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:19:48 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Eling", "Christopher", "" ], [ "Jacobson", "Ted", "" ], [ "Miller", "M. Coleman", "" ] ]
0705.1566
Erez Berg
Erez Berg and Ehud Altman
Evolution of the Fermi surface in phase fluctuating d-wave superconductors
Journal ref. added
PRL 99, 247001 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.247001
null
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
null
One of the most puzzling aspects of the high $T_c$ superconductors is the appearance of Fermi arcs in the normal state of the underdoped cuprate materials. These are loci of low energy excitations covering part of the fermi surface, that suddenly appear above $T_c$ instead of the nodal quasiparticles. Based on a semiclassical theory, we argue that partial Fermi surfaces arise naturally in a d-wave superconductor that is destroyed by thermal phase fluctuations. Specifically, we show that the electron spectral function develops a square root singularity at low frequencies for wave-vectors positioned on the bare Fermi surface. We predict a temperature dependence of the arc length that can partially account for results of recent angle resolved photo emission (ARPES) experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 23:33:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:55:53 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Berg", "Erez", "" ], [ "Altman", "Ehud", "" ] ]
0705.1567
Andrew Francis
Andrew Francis and Lenny Jones
On the square root of the centre of the Hecke algebra of type A
null
J. Aust. Math. Soc., 82 (2007), 209-220
null
null
math.RT math.RA
null
In this paper we investigate non-central elements of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of the symmetric group whose squares are central. In particular, we describe a commutative subalgebra generated by certain non-central square roots of central elements, and the generic existence of a rank-three submodule of the Hecke algebra contained in the square root of the centre but not in the centre. The generators for this commutative subalgebra include the longest word and elements related to trivial and sign characters of the Hecke algebra. We find elegant expressions for the squares of such generators in terms of both the minimal basis of the centre and the elementary symmetric functions of Murphy elements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 23:40:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Francis", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Jones", "Lenny", "" ] ]
0705.1568
Peter Bokes
P. Bokes, J. Jung, and R. W. Godby
Ab-initio formulation of the 4-point conductance of interacting electronic systems
null
Phys. Rev. B 76, 125433 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.125433
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We derive an expression for the 4-point conductance of a general quantum junction in terms of the density response function. Our formulation allows us to show that the 4-point conductance of an interacting electronic system possessing either a geometrical constriction and/or an opaque barrier becomes identical to the macroscopically measurable 2-point conductance. Within time-dependent density-functional theory the formulation leads to a direct identification of the functional form of the exchange-correlation kernel that is important for the conductance. We demonstrate the practical implementationof our formula for a metal-vacuum-metal interface.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 23:41:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:10:21 GMT" } ]
2007-10-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Bokes", "P.", "" ], [ "Jung", "J.", "" ], [ "Godby", "R. W.", "" ] ]
0705.1569
Reg Cahill
Reginald T Cahill (Flinders University)
Dynamical 3-Space: Supernovae and the Hubble Expansion - Older Universe and End of Dark Energy
19 pages 9 Figures. Gamma-ray burst data included. Universe age correction
Progress in Physics, vol. 4, 9-12, 2007.
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
We apply the new dynamics of 3-space to cosmology by deriving a Hubble expansion solution. This dynamics involves two constants; G and alpha - the fine structure constant. This solution gives an excellent parameter-free fit to the recent supernova and gamma-ray burst data without the need for `dark energy' or `dark matter'. The data and theory together imply an older age for the universe of some 14.7Gyrs. Various problems such as fine tuning, the event horizon problem etc are now resolved. A brief review discusses the origin of the 3-space dynamics and how that dynamics explained the bore hole anomaly, spiral galaxy flat rotation speeds, the masses of black holes in spherical galaxies, gravitational light bending and lensing, all without invoking `dark matter' or `dark energy'. These developments imply that a new understanding of the universe is now available.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 00:14:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 30 May 2007 03:09:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:42:40 GMT" } ]
2007-06-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Cahill", "Reginald T", "", "Flinders University" ] ]
0705.1570
Andrey Shoom A
Valeri P. Frolov and Andrey A. Shoom
Interior of Distorted Black Holes
12 pages, 16 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:064037,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.064037
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
We study the interior of distorted static axisymmetric black holes. We obtain a general interior solution and study its asymptotics both near the horizon and singularity. As a special example, we apply the obtained results to the case of the so-called `caged' black holes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 00:05:36 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Frolov", "Valeri P.", "" ], [ "Shoom", "Andrey A.", "" ] ]
0705.1571
Zhen-Hua Zhao
Zhen-Hua Zhao, Yu-Xiao Liu, Xi-Guo Li
The Energy-Level Shifts of a Stationary Hydrogen Atom in Static External Gravitational Field with Schwarzschild Geometry
11 pages
Phys.Rev.D76:064016,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.064016
null
gr-qc
null
The first order perturbations of the energy levels of a stationary hydrogen atom in static external gravitational field, with Schwarzschild metric, are investigated. The energy shifts are calculated for the relativistic 1S, 2S, 2P, 3S, 3P, 3D, 4S, 4P, 4D and 4F levels. The results show that the energy-level shifts of the states with total angular momentum quantum number 1/2 are all zero, and the ratio of absolute energy shifts with total angular momentum quantum number 5/2 is 1:4:5. This feature can be used to help us to distinguish the gravitational effect from other effect.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:29:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:46:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:57:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:10:57 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhao", "Zhen-Hua", "" ], [ "Liu", "Yu-Xiao", "" ], [ "Li", "Xi-Guo", "" ] ]
0705.1572
Duncan Brown
Duncan A. Brown, Stanislav Babak, Patrick R. Brady, Nelson Christensen, Thomas Cokelaer, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Stephen Fairhurst, Gabriela Gonzalez, Eirini Messaritaki, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Peter Shawhan, Natalia Zotov
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals with LIGO
9 pages, 2 figures. Published in proceedings of the 8th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 17-20 December 2003
Class.Quant.Grav.21:S1625-S1633,2004
10.1088/0264-9381/21/20/005
null
gr-qc
null
We describe the current status of the search for gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binary systems in LIGO data. We review the result from the first scientific run of LIGO (S1). We present the goals of the search of data taken in the second scientific run (S2) and describe the differences between the methods used in S1 and S2.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 01:25:00 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Brown", "Duncan A.", "" ], [ "Babak", "Stanislav", "" ], [ "Brady", "Patrick R.", "" ], [ "Christensen", "Nelson", "" ], [ "Cokelaer", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Creighton", "Jolien D. E.", "" ], [ "Fairhurst", "Stephen", "" ], [ "Gonzalez", "Gabriela", "" ], [ "Messaritaki", "Eirini", "" ], [ "Sathyaprakash", "B. S.", "" ], [ "Shawhan", "Peter", "" ], [ "Zotov", "Natalia", "" ] ]
0705.1573
Matthias Burkardt
Matthias Burkardt and Brian Hannafious
Are all Boer-Mulders functions alike?
8 pages, 1 figure
Phys.Lett.B658:130-137,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.064
null
hep-ph
null
Chirally odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs) and the Boer-Mulders function provide valuable information about spin-orbit correlations for quarks in nucleons and other hadrons. We compare results for the relevant GPD $\bar{E}^q_T$ from a variety of phenomenological models as well as recent lattice results. We find that $\bar{E}^q_T>0$ for nucleons as well as the pion and for both $u$ and $d$ quark. As a result, the corresponding Boer Mulders functions are all expected to be negative. The sign of $\bar{E}^q_T$ arises from the relative sign between the upper and lower Dirac components for the quark wave functions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 01:27:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 13 May 2007 01:28:14 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Burkardt", "Matthias", "" ], [ "Hannafious", "Brian", "" ] ]
0705.1574
David Kribs
Cedric Beny, Achim Kempf, and David W. Kribs
Quantum Error Correction of Observables
22 pages, 1 figure, preprint version
Phys. Rev. A 76, 042303 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.042303
null
quant-ph
null
A formalism for quantum error correction based on operator algebras was introduced in [1] via consideration of the Heisenberg picture for quantum dynamics. The resulting theory allows for the correction of hybrid quantum-classical information and does not require an encoded state to be entirely in one of the corresponding subspaces or subsystems. Here, we provide detailed proofs for the results of [1], derive a number of new results, and we elucidate key points with expanded discussions. We also present several examples and indicate how the theory can be extended to operator spaces and general positive operator-valued measures.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 02:37:50 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Beny", "Cedric", "" ], [ "Kempf", "Achim", "" ], [ "Kribs", "David W.", "" ] ]
0705.1575
Yue-Liang Wu
Fang Su, Yue-Liang Wu, Ya-Dong Yang, and Ci Zhuang
QCD Approach to B->D \pi Decays and CP Violation
21pages,5 figures,3 tables, typos corrected and numerical result for one of decay channels is improved
Commun.Theor.Phys.49:707-716,2008
10.1088/0253-6102/49/3/39
null
hep-ph
null
The branching ratios and CP violations of the $B\to D\pi$ decays, including both the color-allowed and the color-suppressed modes, are investigated in detail within QCD framework by considering all diagrams which lead to three effective currents of two quarks. An intrinsic mass scale as a dynamical gluon mass is introduced to treat the infrared divergence caused by the soft collinear approximation in the endpoint regions, and the Cutkosky rule is adopted to deal with a physical-region singularity of the on mass-shell quark propagators. When the dynamical gluon mass $\mu_g$ is regarded as a universal scale, it is extracted to be around $\mu_g = 440$ MeV from one of the well-measured $B\to D\pi$ decay modes. The resulting predictions for all branching ratios are in agreement with the current experimental measurements. As these decays have no penguin contributions, there are no direct $CP$ asymmetries. Due to interference between the Cabibbo-suppressed and the Cabibbo-favored amplitudes, mixing-induced CP violations are predicted in the $B\to D^{\pm}\pi^{\mp}$ decays to be consistent with the experimental data at 1-$\sigma$ level. More precise measurements will be helpful to extract weak angle $2\beta+\gamma$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 02:38:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:32:52 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Su", "Fang", "" ], [ "Wu", "Yue-Liang", "" ], [ "Yang", "Ya-Dong", "" ], [ "Zhuang", "Ci", "" ] ]
0705.1576
Shuichiro Takeda
Wee Teck Gan and Shuichiro Takeda
On Shalika Periods and a Theorem of Jacquet-Martin
null
null
null
null
math.NT math.RT
null
Let \pi be a cuspidal automorphic representation of GL_4 with central character \mu^2. It is known that \pi has Shalika period with respect to \mu if and only if the L-function L^S(s, \pi, \bigwedge^2\otimes\mu^{-1}) has a pole at s=1. Recentlt, Jacquet and Martin considered the analogous question for cuspidal representations \pi_D of the inner form GL_2(D)(\A), and obtained a partial result via the relative trace formula. In this paper, we provide a complete solution to this problem via the method of theta correspondence, and give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Shalika period for \pi_D. We also resolve the analogous question in the local setting.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 03:05:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:04:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 18 May 2008 14:14:40 GMT" } ]
2008-05-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Gan", "Wee Teck", "" ], [ "Takeda", "Shuichiro", "" ] ]
0705.1577
Shuang-Yong Zhou
Shuang-Yong Zhou
A New Approach to Quintessence and a Solution of Multiple Attractors
6 pages, 2 figures, Revtex4; To appear in PLB
Phys.Lett.B660:7-12,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.12.020
null
astro-ph gr-qc
null
We take a new approach to construct Quintessential models. With this approach, we first easily obtain a tracker solution that is different from those discovered before and straightforwardly find a solution of multiple attractors, i.e., a solution with more than one attractor for a given set of parameters. Then we propose a scenario of Quintessence where the field jumps out of the scaling attractor to the de-Sitter-like attractor, by introducing a field whose value changes a certain amount in a short time, leading to the current acceleration. We also calculate the change the field needs for a successful jump and suggest a possible mechanism that involves spontaneous symmetry breaking to realize the sudden change of the field value.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 04:58:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:42:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:05:30 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhou", "Shuang-Yong", "" ] ]
0705.1578
Yuri Lyubich
Yuri I. Lyubich
Axiomatic theory of divergent series and cohomological equations
null
null
null
null
math.FA math.CA
null
A general theory of summation of divergent series based on the Hardy-Kolmogorov axioms is developed. A class of functional series is investigated by means of ergodic theory. The results are formulated in terms of solvability of some cohomological equations, all solutions to which are nonmeasurable. In particular, this realizes a construction of a nonmeasurable function as first conjectured by Kolmogorov.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 03:51:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:44:02 GMT" } ]
2007-11-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Lyubich", "Yuri I.", "" ] ]
0705.1579
Isao Maruyama
Hui Song, Isao Maruyama, Yasuhiro Hatsugai
Levitation and percolation in quantum Hall systems with correlated disorder
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.132202
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We investigate the integer quantum Hall system in a two dimensional lattice model with spatially correlated disorder by using the efficient method to calculate the Chern number proposed by Fukui \textit{et al}. Distribution of charge density indicates that the extended states at the center of each Landau band have percolating current paths, which are topologically equivalent to the edge states that exist in a system with boundaries. As increasing the strength of disorder, floating feature is observed in an averaged Hall conductance as a function of filling factor. Its relation to the observed experiments is also discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 03:51:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:52:40 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Song", "Hui", "" ], [ "Maruyama", "Isao", "" ], [ "Hatsugai", "Yasuhiro", "" ] ]
0705.1580
Ranjan Gupta
D.B. Vaidya, Ranjan Gupta and T.P. Snow
Composite Interstellar Grains
11 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables To appear in 2007 MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:791-800,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11975.x
null
astro-ph
null
The composite grain is made up of a host silicate spheroid and graphite inclusions. The extinction efficiencies of the composite spheroidal grains for three axial ratios are computed using the discrete dipole approximation (DDA). The interstellar extinction curve is evaluated in the spectral region 3.40--0.10$\mu m$ using the extinction efficiencies of the composite spheroidal grains. The model extinction curves are then compared with the average observed interstellar extinction curve. We also calculate the linear polarization for the spheroidal composite grains at three orientation angles and find the wavelength of maximum polarization. Further, we estimate the volume extinction factor, an important parameter from the point of view of cosmic abundance, for the composite grain models that reproduce the average observed interstellar extinction. The estimated abundances derived from the composite grain models for both carbon and silicon are found to be lower than that are predicted by the bare silicate/graphite grain models but these values are still higher than that are implied from the recent ISM values.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 03:54:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 May 2007 06:29:50 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Vaidya", "D. B.", "" ], [ "Gupta", "Ranjan", "" ], [ "Snow", "T. P.", "" ] ]
0705.1581
Andrew Francis
Andrew Francis and Lenny Jones
A new integral basis for the centre of the Hecke algebra of type A
13 pages
null
null
null
math.RT math.CO math.GR
null
We describe a recursive algorithm that produces an integral basis for the centre of the Hecke algebra of type A consisting of linear combinations of monomial symmetric polynomials of Jucys--Murphy elements. We also discuss the existence of integral bases for the centre of the Hecke algebra that consist solely of monomial symmetric polynomials of Jucys--Murphy elements. Finally, for n=3, we show that only one such basis exists for the centre of the Hecke algebra, by proving that there are exactly four bases for the centre of the corresponding symmetric group algebra which consist solely of monomial symmetric polynomials of Jucys--Murphy elements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 03:57:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Francis", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Jones", "Lenny", "" ] ]
0705.1582
Cong Ren
Cong Ren, J. Trbovic, R. L. Kallaher, J. G. Braden, J.S. Parker, S. von Moln\'ar, and P. Xiong
Measurement of the spin polarization of the magnetic semiconductor EuS with zero-field and Zeeman-split Andreev reflection spectroscopy
6 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.205208
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.supr-con
null
We report measurements of the spin polarization (\textbf{\textit{P}}) of the concentrated magnetic semiconductor EuS using both zero-field and Zeeman-split Andreev reflection spectroscopy (ARS) with EuS/Al planar junctions. The zero-field ARS spectra are well described by the modified (spin-polarized) BTK model with expected superconducting energy gap and actual measurement temperature (no additional spectral broadening). The fittings consistently yield \textbf{\textit{P}} close to 80% regardless of the barrier strength. Moreover, we performed ARS in the presence of a Zeeman-splitting of the quasiparticle density of states in Al. To describe the Zeeman-split ARS spectra, we develop a theoretical model which incorporates the solution to the Maki-Fulde equations into the modified BTK analysis. The method enables the determination of the magnitude as well as the sign of \textbf{\textit{P}} with ARS, and the results are consistent with those from the zero-field ARS. The experiments extend the utility of field-split superconducting spectroscopy from tunnel junctions to Andreev junctions of arbitrary barrier strengths.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 04:30:42 GMT" } ]
2016-08-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Ren", "Cong", "" ], [ "Trbovic", "J.", "" ], [ "Kallaher", "R. L.", "" ], [ "Braden", "J. G.", "" ], [ "Parker", "J. S.", "" ], [ "von Molnár", "S.", "" ], [ "Xiong", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.1583
Sourav Dhar
Sourav Dhar and Rabindranath Bera
Wireless Networking to Support Data and Voice Communication Using Spread Spectrum Technology in The Physical Layer
international conference on information technology, March 2007. 7 pages,4 figures, 2 tables
null
null
null
cs.NI
null
Wireless networking is rapidly growing and becomes an inexpensive technology which allows multiple users to simultaneously access the network and the internet while roaming about the campus. In the present work, the software development of a wireless LAN(WLAN) is highlighted. This WLAN utilizes direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology at 902MHz RF carrier frequency in its physical layer. Cost effective installation and antijaming property of spread spectrum technology are the major advantages of this work.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 04:41:35 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Dhar", "Sourav", "" ], [ "Bera", "Rabindranath", "" ] ]
0705.1584
Raymond R. Volkas
Rhys Davies, Damien P. George, Raymond R. Volkas
The standard model on a domain-wall brane?
7 pages, 2 figures. This version to appear in PRD. Significant added discussion on the Dvali-Shifman mechanism, mode-analyses and the effect of warped gravity. Added references
Phys.Rev.D77:124038,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124038
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
We propose a 4+1-dimensional action that is a candidate for realising a standard-model-like effective theory for fields dynamically localised to a domain-wall brane. Our construction is based in part on the conjecture that the Dvali-Shifman mechanism for dynamically localising gauge bosons works correctly in 4+1-d. Assuming this to be so, we require the gauge symmetry to be SU(5)in the bulk, spontaneously breaking to SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) inside the domain wall, thus dynamically localising the standard model gauge bosons provided that the SU(5) theory in the bulk exhibits confinement. The wall is created jointly by a real singlet-Higgs field eta configured as a kink, and an SU(5) adjoint-Higgs field chi that takes nonzero values inside the wall. Chiral 3+1-dimensional quarks and leptons are confined and split along the bulk direction via their Yukawa couplings to eta and chi. The Higgs doublet and its colour triplet SU(5) partner are similarly localised and split. The splittings suppress coloured-Higgs-induced proton decay and, because of the different localisation profiles, the usual SU(5) mass relation m_e = m_d does not arise. Localised gravity is generated via the Randall-Sundrum alternative to compactification.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 04:53:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:00:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 29 May 2008 03:20:06 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Davies", "Rhys", "" ], [ "George", "Damien P.", "" ], [ "Volkas", "Raymond R.", "" ] ]
0705.1585
Tshilidzi Marwala
Unathi Mahola, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo, Tshilidzi Marwala
HMM Speaker Identification Using Linear and Non-linear Merging Techniques
6 pages
null
null
null
cs.LG
null
Speaker identification is a powerful, non-invasive and in-expensive biometric technique. The recognition accuracy, however, deteriorates when noise levels affect a specific band of frequency. In this paper, we present a sub-band based speaker identification that intends to improve the live testing performance. Each frequency sub-band is processed and classified independently. We also compare the linear and non-linear merging techniques for the sub-bands recognizer. Support vector machines and Gaussian Mixture models are the non-linear merging techniques that are investigated. Results showed that the sub-band based method used with linear merging techniques enormously improved the performance of the speaker identification over the performance of wide-band recognizers when tested live. A live testing improvement of 9.78% was achieved
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 04:54:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mahola", "Unathi", "" ], [ "Nelwamondo", "Fulufhelo V.", "" ], [ "Marwala", "Tshilidzi", "" ] ]
0705.1586
Jeong-Hyuck Park
Johanna Erdmenger, Rene Meyer, Jeong-Hyuck Park
Spacetime Emergence in the Robertson-Walker Universe from a Matrix model
4 pages - accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Phys.Rev.Lett.98:261301,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.261301
MPP-2007-5
hep-th gr-qc
null
Using a novel, string theory-inspired formalism based on a Hamiltonian constraint, we obtain a conformal mechanical system for the spatially flat four-dimensional Robertson-Walker Universe. Depending on parameter choices, this system describes either a relativistic particle in the Robertson-Walker background, or metric fluctuations of the Robertson-Walker geometry. Moreover we derive a tree-level M-theory matrix model in this time-dependent background. Imposing the Hamiltonian constraint forces the spacetime geometry to be fuzzy near the big bang, while the classical Robertson-Walker geometry emerges as the Universe expands. From our approach we also derive the temperature of the Universe interpolating between the radiation and matter dominated eras.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 05:25:51 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Erdmenger", "Johanna", "" ], [ "Meyer", "Rene", "" ], [ "Park", "Jeong-Hyuck", "" ] ]
0705.1587
Elliott H. Lieb
Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, Heinz Siedentop
Mueller's Exchange-Correlation Energy in Density-Matrix-Functional Theory
Latex, 42 pages, 1 figure. Minor error in the proof of Prop. 2 corrected
Phys. Rev. A 76, 052517 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052517
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mtrl-sci math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The increasing interest in the Mueller density-matrix-functional theory has led us to a systematic mathematical investigation of its properties. This functional is similar to the Hartree-Fock functional, but with a modified exchange term in which the square of the density matrix \gamma(X, X') is replaced by the square of \gamma^{1/2}(X, X'). After an extensive introductory discussion of density-matrix-functional theory we show, among other things, that this functional is convex (unlike the HF functional) and that energy minimizing \gamma's have unique densities \rho(x), which is a physically desirable property often absent in HF theory. We show that minimizers exist if N \leq Z, and derive various properties of the minimal energy and the corresponding minimizers. We also give a precise statement about the equation for the orbitals of \gamma, which is more complex than for HF theory. We state some open mathematical questions about the theory together with conjectured solutions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 16:47:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:57:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:20:23 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Frank", "Rupert L.", "" ], [ "Lieb", "Elliott H.", "" ], [ "Seiringer", "Robert", "" ], [ "Siedentop", "Heinz", "" ] ]
0705.1588
L. S. Schulman
L. S. Schulman
Mean Field Spin Glass in the Observable Representation
To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 257202 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.257202
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.dis-nn
null
The state space for the $N$-spin mean field (SK) spin glass--nominally an $N$-cube--is embedded in a low dimensional continuous space in such a way that metastable and stable phases can easily be discerned, a concept of nearness of configurations defined, and peaks in the Parisi $q$-parameter overlap distribution identified. The dynamical and partly hierarchical interrelation of these phases can be directly imaged.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:13:38 GMT" } ]
2007-11-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Schulman", "L. S.", "" ] ]
0705.1589
Takahiro Nishimichi
Takahiro Nishimichi, Hiroshi Ohmuro, Masashi Nakamichi, Atsushi Taruya, Kazuhiro Yahata, Akihito Shirata, Shun Saito, Hidenori Nomura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto and Yasushi Suto
Characteristic Scales of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Perturbation Theory: Non-linearity and Redshift-Space Distortion Effects
21 pages, 9 figures, references and supplementary sections added, accepted for publication in PASJ
PASJ 59(2007) 1049
10.1093/pasj/59.6.1049
null
astro-ph
null
An acoustic oscillation of the primeval photon-baryon fluid around the decoupling time imprints a characteristic scale in the galaxy distribution today, known as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. Several on-going and/or future galaxy surveys aim at detecting and precisely determining the BAO scale so as to trace the expansion history of the universe. We consider nonlinear and redshift-space distortion effects on the shifts of the BAO scale in $k$-space using perturbation theory. The resulting shifts are indeed sensitive to different choices of the definition of the BAO scale, which needs to be kept in mind in the data analysis. We present a toy model to explain the physical behavior of the shifts. We find that the BAO scale defined as in Percival et al. (2007) indeed shows very small shifts ($\lesssim$ 1%) relative to the prediction in {\it linear theory} in real space. The shifts can be predicted accurately for scales where the perturbation theory is reliable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 06:26:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:18:03 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Nishimichi", "Takahiro", "" ], [ "Ohmuro", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Nakamichi", "Masashi", "" ], [ "Taruya", "Atsushi", "" ], [ "Yahata", "Kazuhiro", "" ], [ "Shirata", "Akihito", "" ], [ "Saito", "Shun", "" ], [ "Nomura", "Hidenori", "" ], [ "Yamamoto", "Kazuhiro", "" ], [ "Suto", "Yasushi", "" ] ]
0705.1590
Sacha Davidson
Sacha Davidson
Flavoured Leptogenesis
15 pages, 2 figures, proceedings for the Venice Neutrino Telescopes Conference. Some typos corrected and references added
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Thermal leptogenesis, in the seesaw model, is a popular mechanism for generating the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe. It was noticed recently, that including lepton flavour can modify significantly the results. These proceedings aim to discuss why and when flavour matters, in the thermal leptogenesis scenario for hierarchical right-handed neutrinos. No Boltzmann Equations are introduced.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 06:41:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 08:13:52 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Davidson", "Sacha", "" ] ]
0705.1591
Jan-e Alam Dr.
Jajati K. Nayak, Jane Alam, Sourav Sarkar and Bikash Sinha
Thermal photon to dilepton ratio in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
9 pages with 11 eps figures
Phys.Rev.C78:034903,2008
10.1103/PhysRevC.78.034903
null
nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The ratio of transverse momentum distribution of thermal photons to dilepton has been evaluated. It is observed that this ratio reaches a plateau beyond a certain value of transverse momentum. We argue that this ratio can be used to estimate the initial temperature of the system by selecting the transverse momentum and invariance mass windows judiciously. It is demonstrated that if the radial flow is large then the plateau disappear and hence a deviation from the plateau can be used as an indicator of large radial flow. The sensitivity of the results on various input parameters has been studied.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:13:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:44:20 GMT" } ]
2009-02-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Nayak", "Jajati K.", "" ], [ "Alam", "Jane", "" ], [ "Sarkar", "Sourav", "" ], [ "Sinha", "Bikash", "" ] ]
0705.1592
Michael Feast
Floor van Leeuwen, Michael W. Feast, Patricia A. Whitelock and Clifton D. Laney
Cepheid Parallaxes and the Hubble Constant
9 pages, 1 figure, on-line material from [email protected]. Accepted for MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:723-737,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11972.x
null
astro-ph
null
Revised Hipparcos parallaxes for classical Cepheids are analysed together with 10 HST-based parallaxes (Benedict et al.). In a reddening-free V,I relation we find that the coefficient of logP is the same within the uncertainties in our Galaxy as in the LMC, contrary to some previous suggestions. Cepheids in the inner region of NGC4258 with near solar metallicities (Macri et al.) confirm this result. We obtain a zero-point for the reddening-free relation and apply it to Cepheids in galaxies used by Sandage et al. to calibrate the absolute magnitudes of SNIa and to derive the Hubble constant. We revise their result from 62 to 70+/-5 km/s/Mpc. The Freedman et al. 2001 value is revised from 72 to 76+/-8 km/s/Mpc. These results are insensitive to Cepheid metallicity corrections. The Cepheids in the inner region of NGC4258 yield a modulus of 29.22+/-0.03(int) compared with a maser-based modulus of 29.29+/-0.15. Distance moduli for the LMC, uncorrected for any metallicity effects, are; 18.52+/-0.03 from a reddening-free relation in V,I; 18.47+/-0.03 from a period-luminosity relation at K; 18.45+/-0.04 from a period-luminosity-colour relation in J,K. Adopting a metallicity correction in V,I from Marci et al. leads to a true LMC modulus of 18.39+/-0.05.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:22:55 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "van Leeuwen", "Floor", "" ], [ "Feast", "Michael W.", "" ], [ "Whitelock", "Patricia A.", "" ], [ "Laney", "Clifton D.", "" ] ]
0705.1593
M. Naeem Khan Mr
M. Naeem, S. K. Hasanain, A. Mumtaz
Electrical transport and optical studies of ferromagnetic Cobalt doped ZnO nanoparticles exhibiting a metal-insulator transition
7 pages, 6 figures
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 (2008) 025210
10.1088/0953-8984/20/02/025210
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.soft
null
The observed correlation of oxygen vacancies and room temperature ferromagnetic ordering in Co doped ZnO1-o nanoparticles reported earlier (Naeem et al Nanotechnology 17, 2675-2680) has been further explored by transport and optical measurements. In these particles room temperature ferromagnetic ordering had been observed to occur only after annealing in forming gas. In the current work the optical properties have been studied by diffuse reflection spectroscopy in the UV-Vis region and the band gap of the Co doped compositions has been found to decrease with Co addition. Reflections minima are observed at the energies characteristic of Co+2 d-d (tethrahedral symmetry) crystal field transitions, further establishing the presence of Co in substitutional sites. Electrical transport measurements on palletized samples of the nanoparticles show that the effect of a forming gas is to strongly decrease the resistivity with increasing Co concentration. For the air annealed and non-ferromagnetic samples the variation in the resistivity as a function of Co content are opposite to those observed in the particles prepared in forming gas. The ferromagnetic samples exhibit an apparent change from insulator to metal with increasing temperatures for T>380K and this change becomes more pronounced with increasing Co content. The magnetic and resistive behaviors are correlated by considering the model by Calderon et al [M. J. Calderon and S. D. Sarma, Annals of Physics 2007 (Accepted doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2007.01.010] where the ferromagnetism changes from being mediated by polarons in the low temperature insulating region to being mediated by the carriers released from the weakly bound states in the higher temperature metallic region.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:46:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:39:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:52:38 GMT" } ]
2007-12-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Naeem", "M.", "" ], [ "Hasanain", "S. K.", "" ], [ "Mumtaz", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.1594
Giorgio Cortiana
CDF-Collaboration
Measurement of the top-quark mass using missing $E_T$+jets events with secondary vertex $b$-tagging at CDF II
8 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.D75:111103,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.111103
null
hep-ex
null
We present a measurement of the top-quark mass in $p\bar p$ collisions at \hbox{$\sqrt{s}=1.96$} TeV which uses events with an inclusive signature of missing transverse energy and jets. % The event selection is sensitive to $t\bar t\to W^+bW^-\bar b\to l\nu b q q^\prime \bar b$ independent of the lepton flavor, and results in a large acceptance for $W\to\tau\nu$ decays. % All-hadronic $t\bar t$ decays and events with identified electrons or muons are vetoed to provide a statistically independent sample with respect to all previous measurements. % The top-quark mass is inferred from the distribution of the scalar sum of all jet transverse energies and the missing transverse energy. Using 311 pb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, we measure a top-quark mass $m_t = 172.3 ^{+10.8}_{-9.6}$(stat.)$\pm 10.8$(syst.) GeV/$c^2$. While the uncertainty on $m_t$ is larger than that of other measurements, the result is statistically uncorrelated with those of other methods, and thus can help to reduce the overall $m_t$ uncertainty when combined with other existing measurements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:53:48 GMT" } ]
2010-05-12T00:00:00
[ [ "CDF-Collaboration", "", "" ] ]
0705.1595
Nobuhiro Nakamura
Nobuhiro Nakamura
Bauer-Furuta invariants under Z_2-actions
21 pages, typos corrected, several descriptions changed
Math. Z. 262, (2009), 219-233
null
null
math.GT
null
S.Bauer and M.Furuta defined a stable cohomotopy refinement of the Seiberg-Witten invariants. In this paper, we prove a vanishing theorem of Bauer-Furuta invariants for 4-manifolds with smooth Z/2-actions. As an application, we give a constraint on smooth Z/2-actions on homotopy K3#K3, and construct a nonsmoothable locally linear Z/2-action on K3#K3. We also construct a nonsmoothable locally linear Z/2-action on $K3$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 07:55:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:29:29 GMT" } ]
2013-11-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Nakamura", "Nobuhiro", "" ] ]
0705.1596
Konrad Tywoniuk
I. Arsene (University of Oslo), L. Bravina (University of Oslo and SINP, Moscow), A. Kaidalov (ITEP, Moscow), K. Tywoniuk (University of Oslo) and E. Zabrodin (University of Oslo and SINP, Moscow)
Gluon shadowing in the Glauber-Gribov model at HERA
18 pages, 6 figures; references added, discussion of model enlarged, calculation of low-x contribution corrected; to appear in Phys. Lett
Phys.Lett.B657:170-175,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.065
null
hep-ph
null
We calculate shadowing using new data on the gluon density of the Pomeron recently measured with high precision at HERA. The calculations are made in a Glauber-Gribov framework and Pomeron tree-diagrams are summed up within a unitarity-conserving procedure. The total cross section of $\vphot A$ interaction is then found in a parameter-free description, employing gluon diffractive and inclusive distribution functions as input. A strong shadowing effect is obtained, in good agreement with several other models. Impact parameter dependence of gluon shadowing is also presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 08:16:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:26:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Arsene", "I.", "", "University of Oslo" ], [ "Bravina", "L.", "", "University of Oslo and\n SINP, Moscow" ], [ "Kaidalov", "A.", "", "ITEP, Moscow" ], [ "Tywoniuk", "K.", "", "University of Oslo" ], [ "Zabrodin", "E.", "", "University of Oslo and SINP, Moscow" ] ]
0705.1597
Kai Meng Tan
Sibylle Schroll and Kai Meng Tan
Weight 2 blocks of general linear groups and modular Alvis-Curtis duality
27 pages; to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not
null
null
null
math.RT math.QA
null
We obtain the structure of weight 2 blocks and [2:1]-pairs of q-Schur algebras, and compute explicitly the modular Alvis-Curtis duality for weight 2 blocks of finite general linear groups in non-defining characteristic.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 08:09:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:55:11 GMT" } ]
2007-10-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Schroll", "Sibylle", "" ], [ "Tan", "Kai Meng", "" ] ]