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0705.3498
Geoff Willmott
G.R. Willmott and J.L. Tallon
Measurement of Newtonian fluid slip using a torsional ultrasonic oscillator
Revised with minor edits for review
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.066306
null
physics.flu-dyn
null
The composite torsional ultrasonic oscillator, a versatile experimental system, can be used to investigate slip of Newtonian fluid at a smooth surface. A rigorous analysis of slip-dependent damping for the oscillator is presented. Initially, the phenomenon of finite surface slip and the slip length are considered for a half-space of Newtonian fluid in contact with a smooth, oscillating solid surface. Definitions are revisited and clarified in light of inconsistencies in the literature. We point out that, in general oscillating flows, Navier's slip length b is a complex number. An intuitive velocity discontinuity parameter of unrestricted phase is used to describe the effect of slip on measurement of viscous shear damping. The analysis is applied to the composite oscillator and preliminary experimental work for a 40 kHz oscillator is presented. The Non-Slip Boundary Condition (NSBC) has been verified for a hydrophobic surface in water to within ~60 nm of |b|=0 nm. Experiments were carried out at shear rate amplitudes between 230 and 6800 /s, corresponding to linear displacement amplitudes between 3.2 and 96 nm.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 02:35:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:55:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:48:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Willmott", "G. R.", "" ], [ "Tallon", "J. L.", "" ] ]
0705.3499
Guang-Ming Zhang
Dung-Hai Lee, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Tao Xiang
Edge solitons of topological insulators and fractionalized quasiparticles in two dimensions
4 pages, 4 figures. The figures have been revised. accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters, 99, 196805 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.196805
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall
null
An important characteristic of topological band insulators is the necessary presence of in-gap edge states on the sample boundary. We utilize this fact to show that when the boundary is reconnected with a twist, there are always zero-energy defect states. This provides a natural connection between novel defects in the two-dimensional $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ superconductor, the Kitaev model, the fractional quantum Hall effect, and the one-dimensional domain wall of polyacetylene.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 03:01:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:58:12 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Lee", "Dung-Hai", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Guang-Ming", "" ], [ "Xiang", "Tao", "" ] ]
0705.3500
Tsutomu Kobayashi
Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masato Minamitsuji
Brane cosmological solutions in six-dimensional warped flux compactifications
12 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added; v3: version published in JCAP
JCAP 0707:016,2007
10.1088/1475-7516/2007/07/016
WU-AP/266/07, LMU-ASC 33/07
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
We study cosmology on a conical brane in the six-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system, where the extra dimensions are compactified by a magnetic flux. We systematically construct exact cosmological solutions using the fact that the system is equivalently described by (6+n)-dimensional pure Einstein-Maxwell theory via dimensional reduction. In particular, we find a power-law inflationary solution for a general dilatonic coupling. When the dilatonic coupling is given by that of Nishino-Sezgin chiral supergravity, this reduces to the known solution which is not inflating. The power-law solution is shown to be the late-time attractor. We also investigate cosmological tensor perturbations in this model using the (6+n)-dimensional description. We obtain the separable equation of motion and find that there always exist a zero mode, while tachyonic modes are absent in the spectrum. The mass spectrum of Kaluza-Klein modes is obtained numerically.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 03:05:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 31 May 2007 10:37:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:07:39 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kobayashi", "Tsutomu", "" ], [ "Minamitsuji", "Masato", "" ] ]
0705.3501
Chris Stucchio
A. Soffer and C. Stucchio
Multiscale Resolution of Shortwave-Longwave Interaction
42 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
math.NA math.AP
null
In the study of time-dependent waves, it is computationally expensive to solve a problem in which high frequencies (shortwaves, with wavenumber k = kmax) and low frequencies (longwaves, near k=kmin) mix. Consider a problem in which low frequencies scatter off a sharp impurity. The impurity generates high frequencies which propagate and spread throughout the computational domain, while the domain must be large enough to contain several longwaves. Conventional spectral methods have computational cost proportional to O(kmax/kmin \log (kmax/kmin)). We present here a multiscale algorithm (implemented for the Schrodinger equation, but generally applicable) which solves the problem with cost (in space and time) O(kmax L log(kmax / kmin) \log(kmax L)). Here, L is the width of the region in which the algorithm resolves all frequencies, and is independent of kmin.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 03:33:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:40:51 GMT" } ]
2008-03-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Soffer", "A.", "" ], [ "Stucchio", "C.", "" ] ]
0705.3502
Seng Ghee Tan
S. G. Tan, M. B. A. Jalil, Xiong-Jun Liu
Local spin dynamic arising from the non-perturbative SU(2) gauge field of the spin orbit effect
11 pages 2 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We use the non-perturbative gauge field approach to study the effects of spin orbit coupling on the dynamic of magnetic moment. We present a general equation of motion (EOM) which unifies i) the spin orbit coupling effect derived from the SU(2) spin gauge field, and ii) the moment chirality effect previously derived from the topological U(1)xU(1) rotation gauge under the adiabatic condition. We present a modified Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert equation and discuss the implication of the modified EOM in various technological applications, such as current-induced switching and trajectory of magnetic moments in spin-valve multilayers, magnetic memory and diluted magnetic semiconductor.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 03:37:27 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Tan", "S. G.", "" ], [ "Jalil", "M. B. A.", "" ], [ "Liu", "Xiong-Jun", "" ] ]
0705.3503
Catuscia Palamidessi
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis and Catuscia Palamidessi
Making Random Choices Invisible to the Scheduler
null
null
null
null
cs.CR cs.LO
null
When dealing with process calculi and automata which express both nondeterministic and probabilistic behavior, it is customary to introduce the notion of scheduler to solve the nondeterminism. It has been observed that for certain applications, notably those in security, the scheduler needs to be restricted so not to reveal the outcome of the protocol's random choices, or otherwise the model of adversary would be too strong even for ``obviously correct'' protocols. We propose a process-algebraic framework in which the control on the scheduler can be specified in syntactic terms, and we show how to apply it to solve the problem mentioned above. We also consider the definition of (probabilistic) may and must preorders, and we show that they are precongruences with respect to the restricted schedulers. Furthermore, we show that all the operators of the language, except replication, distribute over probabilistic summation, which is a useful property for verification.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:47 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chatzikokolakis", "Konstantinos", "" ], [ "Palamidessi", "Catuscia", "" ] ]
0705.3504
Jaita Paul
Jaita Paul, Takeshi Nishimatsu, Y. Kawazoe and Umesh V. Waghmare
Ferroelectric Phase Transitions in Ultra-thin Films of BaTiO3
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.077601
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We present molecular dynamics simulations of a realistic model of an ultrathin film of BaTiO$_3$ sandwiched between short-circuited electrodes to determine and understand effects of film thickness, epitaxial strain and the nature of electrodes on its ferroelectric phase transitions as a function of temperature. We determine a full epitaxial strain-temperature phase diagram in the presence of perfect electrodes. Even with the vanishing depolarization field, we find that ferroelectric phase transitions to states with in-plane and out-of-plane components of polarization exhibit dependence on thickness; it arises from the interactions of local dipoles with their electrostatic images in the presence of electrodes. Secondly, in the presence of relatively bad metal electrodes which only partly compensate the surface charges and depolarization field, a qualitatively different phase with stripe-like domains is stabilized at low temperature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 04:01:14 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Paul", "Jaita", "" ], [ "Nishimatsu", "Takeshi", "" ], [ "Kawazoe", "Y.", "" ], [ "Waghmare", "Umesh V.", "" ] ]
0705.3505
Jan-e Alam Dr.
Jajati K. Nayak, Jan-e Alam, Sourav Sarkar and Bikash Sinha
Thermal photons to dileptons ratio at LHC
2 pages with 2 eps figures
null
null
null
nucl-th
null
It is shown that the ratio of transverse momentum (p_T) distribution of thermal photons to dileptons produced in heavy ion collisions reaches a plateau above p_T=1 GeV. We argue that the value of the ratio in the plateau region can be used to estimate the initial temperature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 04:24:35 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Nayak", "Jajati K.", "" ], [ "Alam", "Jan-e", "" ], [ "Sarkar", "Sourav", "" ], [ "Sinha", "Bikash", "" ] ]
0705.3506
Andy Chia
A. Chia and A. S. Parkins
Entangled-State Cycles of Atomic Collective-Spin States
10 pages, 9 figures
Phys. Rev. A 77, 033810 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033810
null
quant-ph
null
We study quantum trajectories of collective atomic spin states of $N$ effective two-level atoms driven with laser and cavity fields. We show that interesting ``entangled-state cycles'' arise probabilistically when the (Raman) transition rates between the two atomic levels are set equal. For odd (even) $N$, there are $(N+1)/2$ ($N/2$) possible cycles. During each cycle the $N$-qubit state switches, with each cavity photon emission, between the states $(|N/2,m>\pm |N/2,-m>)/\sqrt{2}$, where $|N/2,m>$ is a Dicke state in a rotated collective basis. The quantum number $m$ ($>0$), which distinguishes the particular cycle, is determined by the photon counting record and varies randomly from one trajectory to the next. For even $N$ it is also possible, under the same conditions, to prepare probabilistically (but in steady state) the Dicke state $|N/2,0>$, i.e., an $N$-qubit state with $N/2$ excitations, which is of particular interest in the context of multipartite entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 04:48:45 GMT" } ]
2011-10-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Chia", "A.", "" ], [ "Parkins", "A. S.", "" ] ]
0705.3507
Axel Brandenburg
A Brandenburg (Nordita) and P J K\"apyl\"a (Nordita and Helsinki Observatory)
Magnetic helicity effects in astrophysical and laboratory dynamos
25 pages, 16 figures, accepted by New Journal of Physics, special edition
New J.Phys.9:305,2007
10.1088/1367-2630/9/8/305
NORDITA-2007-16
astro-ph
null
Magnetic helicity effects are discussed in laboratory and astrophysical settings. First, dynamo action in Taylor-Green flows is discussed for different boundary conditions. However, because of the lack of scale separation with respect to the container, no large scale field is being produced and there is no resistively slow saturation phase as otherwise expected. Second, the build-up of a large scale field is demonstrated in a simulation where a localized magnetic eddy produces field on a larger scale if the eddy possesses a swirl. Such a set-up might be realizable experimentally through coils. Finally, new emerging issues regarding the connection between magnetic helicity and the solar dynamo are discussed. It is demonstrated that dynamos with a non-local (Babcock-Leighton type) alpha effect can also be catastrophically quenched, unless there are magnetic helicity fluxes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 05:42:44 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Brandenburg", "A", "", "Nordita" ], [ "Käpylä", "P J", "", "Nordita and Helsinki\n Observatory" ] ]
0705.3508
Axel Brandenburg
A. Brandenburg (Nordita) and K. Subramanian (IUCAA)
Simulations of the anisotropic kinetic and magnetic alpha effects
6 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Astron. Nachr
Astron.Nachr.328:507-512,2007
10.1002/asna.200710772
NORDITA-2007-17
astro-ph
null
The validity of a closure called the minimal tau approximation (MTA), is tested in the context of dynamo theory, wherein triple correlations are assumed to provide relaxation of the turbulent electromotive force. Under MTA, the alpha effect in mean field dynamo theory becomes proportional to a relaxation time scale multiplied by the difference between kinetic and current helicities. It is shown that the value of the relaxation time is positive and, in units of the turnover time at the forcing wavenumber, it is of the order of unity. It is quenched by the magnetic field -- roughly independently of the magnetic Reynolds number. However, this independence becomes uncertain at large magnetic Reynolds number. Kinetic and current helicities are shown to be dominated by large scale properties of the flow.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 05:47:02 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Brandenburg", "A.", "", "Nordita" ], [ "Subramanian", "K.", "", "IUCAA" ] ]
0705.3509
Alister W. Graham
Alister W. Graham
Comment on: A SuperMassive Black Hole Fundamental Plane for Ellipticals
2 page research note
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
A simple regression analysis designed for predicting the supermassive black hole mass from the effective radius and mean effective surface brightness of the host bulge has been performed using the data from Barway & Kembhavi (arXiv:0705.1508). The scatter in the log M_bh direction is 0.32 dex, greater than reported and comparable with values obtained using a single predictor quantity such as luminosity, velocity dispersion or Sersic index.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 05:40:58 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Graham", "Alister W.", "" ] ]
0705.3510
Fritz Gesztesy
Fritz Gesztesy, Marius Mitrea, and Maxim Zinchenko
Variations on a Theme of Jost and Pais
40 pages. To appear in J. Funct. Anal
null
null
null
math.SP math-ph math.MP
null
We explore the extent to which a variant of a celebrated formula due to Jost and Pais, which reduces the Fredholm perturbation determinant associated with the Schr\"odinger operator on a half-line to a simple Wronski determinant of appropriate distributional solutions of the underlying Schr\"odinger equation, generalizes to higher dimensions. In this multi-dimensional extension the half-line is replaced by an open set $\Omega\subset\bbR^n$, $n\in\bbN$, $n\geq 2$, where $\Omega$ has a compact, nonempty boundary $\partial\Omega$ satisfying certain regularity conditions. Our variant involves ratios of perturbation determinants corresponding to Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on $\partial\Omega$ and invokes the corresponding Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. As a result, we succeed in reducing a certain ratio of modified Fredholm perturbation determinants associated with operators in $L^2(\Omega; d^n x)$, $n\in\bbN$, to modified Fredholm determinants associated with operators in $L^2(\partial\Omega; d^{n-1}\sigma)$, $n\geq 2$. Applications involving the Birman-Schwinger principle and eigenvalue counting functions are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 05:35:09 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Gesztesy", "Fritz", "" ], [ "Mitrea", "Marius", "" ], [ "Zinchenko", "Maxim", "" ] ]
0705.3511
Joseph C. V\'arilly
Victor Gayral, Jose M. Gracia-Bondia and Joseph C. Varilly
Fourier analysis on the affine group, quantization and noncompact Connes geometries
37 pages, Latex, uses TikZ package to draw 3 figures. Two new subsections, main results unchanged
J.Noncommut.Geom.2:215-261, 2008
10.4171/JNCG/20
null
hep-th math.RT
null
We find the Stratonovich-Weyl quantizer for the nonunimodular affine group of the line. A noncommutative product of functions on the half-plane, underlying a noncompact spectral triple in the sense of Connes, is obtained from it. The corresponding Wigner functions reproduce the time-frequency distributions of signal processing. The same construction leads to scalar Fourier transformations on the affine group, simplifying and extending the Fourier transformation proposed by Kirillov.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 06:08:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 01:33:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:38:40 GMT" } ]
2010-11-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Gayral", "Victor", "" ], [ "Gracia-Bondia", "Jose M.", "" ], [ "Varilly", "Joseph C.", "" ] ]
0705.3512
Boris A. Popov
Boris A. Popov (for the HARP Collaboration)
Results from HARP and their implications for neutrino physics
Presented at the XLIInd Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories
null
null
null
hep-ex
null
Recent results from the HARP experiment on the measurements of the double-differential production cross-section of pions in proton interactions with beryllium, carbon and tantalum targets are presented. These results are relevant for a detailed understanding of neutrino flux in accelerator neutrino experiments MiniBooNE/SciBooNE, for a better prediction of atmospheric neutrino fluxes as well as for an optimization of a future neutrino factory design.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 06:12:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Popov", "Boris A.", "", "for the HARP Collaboration" ] ]
0705.3513
Benjamin Kilminster
Ben Kilminster (on behalf of the CDF and D0 collaborations)
Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron
4 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
hep-ex
null
The CDF and D{\O} experiments at the Tevatron are currently the only capable of searching for the Standard Model Higgs boson. This article describes their most sensitive searches in the expected Higgs mass range, focusing on advanced methods used to extract the maximal sensitivity from the data. CDF presents newly updated results for $H \to W^+W^-$ and $ZH \to l^+l^- b\bar{b}$. D{\O}\ presents two new searches for $WH \to l\nu b\bar{b}$. These new analyses use the same 1 fb$^{-1}$ dataset as previous searches, but with improved techniques resulting in markedly improved sensitivity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 06:43:42 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Kilminster", "Ben", "", "on behalf of the CDF and D0 collaborations" ] ]
0705.3514
Qingjuan Yu
Qingjuan Yu, Piero Madau
Kinematics of hypervelocity stars in the triaxial halo of the Milky Way
10 pages,including 9 figures
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1293-1301,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12034.x
null
astro-ph
null
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) ejected by the massive black hole at the Galactic center have unique kinematic properties compared to other halo stars. Their trajectories will deviate from being exactly radial because of the asymmetry of the Milky Way potential produced by the flattened disk and the triaxial dark matter halo, causing a change of angular momentum that can be much larger than the initial small value at injection. We study the kinematics of HVSs and propose an estimator of dark halo triaxiality that is determined only by instantaneous position and velocity vectors of HVSs at large Galactocentric distances (r>~50kpc). We show that, in the case of a substantially triaxial halo, the distribution of deflection angles (the angle between the stellar position and velocity vector) for HVSs on bound orbits is spread uniformly over the range 10--180deg. Future astrometric and deep wide-field surveys should measure the positions and velocities of a significant number of HVSs, and provide useful constraints on the shape of the Galactic dark matter halo.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 19:34:02 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Yu", "Qingjuan", "" ], [ "Madau", "Piero", "" ] ]
0705.3515
Balan Adriana
Adriana Balan
A Morita context and Galois extensions for Quasi-Hopf algebras
20 pages, minor changes, accepted to Communications in Algebra
null
null
null
math.QA
null
If H is a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra and A is a left H-module algebra, we prove that there is a Morita context connecting the smash product A#H and the subalgebra of invariants A^{H}. We define also Galois extensions and prove the connection with this Morita context, as in the Hopf case.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 19:12:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:25:51 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Balan", "Adriana", "" ] ]
0705.3516
Alessandro Portaluri
Alessandro Portaluri
On a generalized Sturm theorem
9 pages. No figures. Fully revised version. To appear in Advanced Nonlinear Studies
null
null
null
math.CA math.FA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Sturm oscillation theorem for second order differential equations was generalized to systems and higher order equations with positive leading coefficient by several authors. What we propose here is a Sturm oscillation theorem for systems of even order having strongly indefinite leading coefficient.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 07:09:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 13:57:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 23 May 2009 16:20:11 GMT" } ]
2009-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Portaluri", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
0705.3517
Mohammad Reza Setare
M R Setare
Holographic tachyon model of dark energy
13 pages, no figures
Phys.Lett.B653:116-121,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.08.011
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we consider a correspondence between the holographic dark energy density and tachyon energy density in FRW universe. Then we reconstruct the potential and the dynamics of the tachyon field which describe tachyon cosmology.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 07:27:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:18:08 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Setare", "M R", "" ] ]
0705.3518
Nicolas Greiner
N.Greiner
Constraints On Unparticle Physics In Electroweak Gauge Boson Scattering
12 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected, references added
Phys.Lett.B653:75-80,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.07.027
null
hep-ph
null
The existence of scale invariant physics would lead to new phenomena in particle physics that could be detected at the LHC. In this paper we exploit the effects of these unparticles in $WW \to WW$ scattering. From the requirement of unitarity we derive constraints on unparticle physics. We show that the existence of unparticles would lead to deviations in differential cross sections which can be measured. These deviations are sensitive on the scale dimension and on the spin characteristics of the unparticles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 07:30:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:07:27 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Greiner", "N.", "" ] ]
0705.3519
Marcella Contini
M.Contini (Tel Aviv University) and T. Contini (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse et Tarbe)
Comparison of dust-to-gas ratios in luminous, ultraluminous, and hyperluminous infrared galaxies
19 pages+ 7 figures. in press in AN
null
10.1002/asna.200710782
null
astro-ph
null
The dust-to-gas ratios in three different samples of luminous, ultraluminous, and hyperluminous infrared galaxies are calculated by modelling their radio to soft X-ray spectral energy distributions using composite models which account for the photoionizing radiation from HII regions, starbursts, or AGNs, and for shocks. The models are limited to a set which broadly reproduces the mid-IR fine structure line ratios of local, IR bright, starburst galaxies. The results show that two types of clouds contribute to the IR emission. Those characterized by low shock velocities and low preshock densities explain the far-IR dust emission, while those with higher velocities and densities contribute to mid-IR dust emission. An AGN is found in nearly all of the ultraluminous IR galaxies and in half of the luminous IR galaxies of the sample. High IR luminosities depend on dust-to-gas ratios of about 0.1 by mass, however, most hyperluminous IR galaxies show dust-to-gas ratios much lower than those calculated for the luminous and ultraluminous IR galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:41:42 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Contini", "M.", "", "Tel Aviv University" ], [ "Contini", "T.", "", "Laboratoire\n d'Astrophysique de Toulouse et Tarbe" ] ]
0705.3520
Marco Grilli
S. Caprara, M. Grilli, B. Leridon, and J. Vanhacken
Evidences for pairing of nearly-free quasiparticles from paraconductivity in layered superconducting cuprates
4 pages, 4 figures, text extended, one fig. removed
null
null
null
cond-mat.supr-con
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We revisit the Aslamazov-Larkin theory of paraconductivity in two dimensions, to distinguish its universal features from the specific features of nearly-free paired fermions. We show that both the numerical prefactor and the temperature dependence of the experimental paraconductivity in underdoped La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 are only compatible with pairing of nearly-free fermionic quasiparticles. This conclusion is strengthened by the analysis of paraconductivity data in the presence of a finite magnetic field, from which we extract a rather low value of the critical field H_{c2}(T=0).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:01:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:30:38 GMT" } ]
2008-09-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Caprara", "S.", "" ], [ "Grilli", "M.", "" ], [ "Leridon", "B.", "" ], [ "Vanhacken", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.3521
Nicolas Fressengeas
Nicolas Fressengeas (LMOPS), Naima Khelfaoui (LMOPS), Cristian Dan (LMOPS), Delphine Wolfersberger (LMOPS), Germano Montemezzani (LMOPS), Herv\'e Leblond (LPOMA), Mathieu Chauvet (FEMTO-ST)
Roles of resonance and dark irradiance for infrared photorefractive self-focusing and solitons in bi-polar InP:Fe
null
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 75 (29/06/2007) 063834
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.063834
null
physics.optics
null
This paper shows experimental evidence of photorefractive steady state self-focusing in InP:Fe for a wide range of intensities, at both 1.06 and 1.55$\mu$m. To explain those results, it is shown that despite the bi-polar nature of InP:Fe where one photocarrier and one thermal carrier are to be considered, the long standing one photocarrier model for photorefractive solitons can be usefully applied. The relationship between the dark irradiance stemming out of this model and the known resonance intensity is then discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:07:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 29 May 2007 06:54:01 GMT" } ]
2007-07-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Fressengeas", "Nicolas", "", "LMOPS" ], [ "Khelfaoui", "Naima", "", "LMOPS" ], [ "Dan", "Cristian", "", "LMOPS" ], [ "Wolfersberger", "Delphine", "", "LMOPS" ], [ "Montemezzani", "Germano", "", "LMOPS" ], [ "Leblond", "Hervé", "", "LPOMA" ], [ "Chauvet", "Mathieu", "", "FEMTO-ST" ] ]
0705.3522
Alessandro Ardizzoni
A. Ardizzoni, C. Menini
Small Bialgebras with a Projection: Applications
null
null
10.1080/00927870802623419
null
math.QA math.RA
null
In this paper we continue the investigation started in [A.M.St.-Small], dealing with bialgebras $A$ with an $H$-bilinear coalgebra projection over an arbitrary subbialgebra $H$ with antipode. These bialgebras can be described as deformed bosonizations $R#_{\xi} H$ of a pre-bialgebra $R$ by $H$ with a cocycle $\xi$. Here we describe the behavior of $\xi$ in the case when $R$ is f.d. and thin i.e. it is connected with one dimensional space of primitive elements. This is used to analyze the arithmetic properties of $A$. Meaningful results are obtained when $H$ is cosemisimple. By means of Ore extension construction, we provide some examples of atypical situations (e.g. the multiplication of $R$ is not $H$-colinear or $\xi$ is non-trivial).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:17:16 GMT" } ]
2011-02-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Ardizzoni", "A.", "" ], [ "Menini", "C.", "" ] ]
0705.3523
Feliciano de Soto
F. de Soto, C. Roiesnel
On the reduction of hypercubic lattice artifacts
15 pages. 4 figures. Minor changes (Appendix and refs added)
JHEP0709:007,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/007
null
hep-lat
null
This note presents a comparative study of various options to reduce the errors coming from the discretization of a Quantum Field Theory in a lattice with hypercubic symmetry. We show that it is possible to perform an extrapolation towards the continuum which is able to eliminate systematically the artifacts which break the O(4) symmetry.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:09:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:36:30 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "de Soto", "F.", "" ], [ "Roiesnel", "C.", "" ] ]
0705.3524
Isamu Iwanari
Isamu Iwanari
Integral Chow rings of toric stacks
v2:title was changed
null
null
null
math.AG
null
The purpose of this paper is to prove that integral Chow rings of toric stacks are naturally isomorphic to Stanley-Reisner rings.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:10:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:59 GMT" } ]
2007-07-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Iwanari", "Isamu", "" ] ]
0705.3525
Bruno Andreotti
B. Andreotti and P. Claudin
Comment on "Minimal size of a barchan dune"
A six page comment on ``Minimal size of a barchan dune'' by Parteli, Duran and Herrmann [Phys. Rev. E 75, 011301 (2007) arXiv:0705.1778]
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.063301
null
cond-mat.soft
null
It is now an accepted fact that the size at which dunes form from a flat sand bed as well as their `minimal size' scales on the flux saturation length. This length is by definition the relaxation length of the slowest mode toward equilibrium transport. The model presented by Parteli, Duran and Herrmann [Phys. Rev. E 75, 011301 (2007)] predicts that the saturation length decreases to zero as the inverse of the wind shear stress far from the threshold. We first show that their model is not self-consistent: even under large wind, the relaxation rate is limited by grain inertia and thus can not decrease to zero. A key argument presented by these authors comes from the discussion of the typical dune wavelength on Mars (650 m) on the basis of which they refute the scaling of the dune size with the drag length evidenced by Claudin and Andreotti [Earth Pla. Sci. Lett. 252, 30 (2006)]. They instead propose that Martian dunes, composed of large grains (500 micrometers), were formed in the past under very strong winds. We show that this saltating grain size, estimated from thermal diffusion measurements, is not reliable. Moreover, the microscopic photographs taken by the rovers on Martian aeolian bedforms show a grain size of 87 plus or minus 25 micrometers together with hematite spherules at millimetre scale. As those so-called ``blueberries'' can not be entrained by reasonable winds, we conclude that the saltating grains on Mars are the small ones, which gives a second strong argument against the model of Parteli et al.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:17:45 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Andreotti", "B.", "" ], [ "Claudin", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.3526
Hans-Joachim Grafe
H.-J. Grafe, F. Hammerath, A. Vyalikh, G. Urbanik, V. Kataev, Th. Wolf, G. Khaliullin, and B. B\"uchner
Cu NQR Wipeout Effect versus Charge Pseudogap in Zn/Ni Doped NdBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{6+y}$
4 pages, 2 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
null
null
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
We report $^{63,65}$Cu NQR measurements on slightly underdoped NdBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{6+y}$ single crystals heavily doped by Ni and Zn impurities. Owing to the impurity doping superconductivity is fully suppressed in both cases. The Ni strongly enhances magnetic correlations and induces a wipeout of the NQR signal comparable to that found in stripe ordered lanthanum cuprates. In contrast, the magnetism is suppressed in the Zn doped sample where no wipeout effect is observed and the nuclear spin relaxation rate is reduced. Our findings are in a striking correspondence with the different impact of Ni and Zn impurities on the charge pseudogap evidenced by recent optical data, uncovering thereby a close relationship between the magnetic correlations and pseudogap phenomena.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:35:39 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Grafe", "H. -J.", "" ], [ "Hammerath", "F.", "" ], [ "Vyalikh", "A.", "" ], [ "Urbanik", "G.", "" ], [ "Kataev", "V.", "" ], [ "Wolf", "Th.", "" ], [ "Khaliullin", "G.", "" ], [ "Büchner", "B.", "" ] ]
0705.3527
Hiroto Nakajima
Hiroto Nakajima
Testing the seesaw mechanism at collider energies in the Randall-Sundrum model
13 pages, 6 figures
null
null
UT-07-17
hep-ph
null
The Randall-Sundrum model with gauge fields and fermions in the bulk has several attractive features including the gauge coupling unification, a candidate for the dark matter, and an explanation for the hierarchical Yukawa couplings. In this paper, we point out that the 1st Kaluza-Klein modes of right-handed neutrinos may be produced at colliders, for both Dirac and Majorana neutrino cases. Furthermore, we can see whether the neutrino masses are Dirac type or Majorana type from the mass spectrum of KK particles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:38:32 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Nakajima", "Hiroto", "" ] ]
0705.3528
Manvelyan Ruben
Ruben Manvelyan and Werner Ruehl
The Generalized Curvature and Christoffel Symbols for a Higher Spin Potential in AdS_{d+1} Space
19 pages, Latex, v2 references added, v3 one section and references added
Nucl.Phys.B797:371-394,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.10.012
null
hep-th
null
The generalized curvature tensor and Christoffel symbols are determined in AdS_{d+1} background by a modified ansatz of the de Wit - Freedman type by imposing gauge invariance. The resulting set of recurrence relations and difference equations is solved. The Riemann curvature tensor is derived by antisymmetrization. All results are presented as finite power series in the inverse AdS radius and are unique. The fourth order, which is complete for fields up to spin five, is calculated explicitly. Higher orders can be obtained with the same method.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:44:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 4 Jun 2007 06:07:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:53:48 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Manvelyan", "Ruben", "" ], [ "Ruehl", "Werner", "" ] ]
0705.3529
Piotr Korcyl
Piotr Korcyl
Detailed study of a transition point in the Veneziano-Wosiek model of Planar Quantum Mechanics
10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Acta Physica Polonica
Acta Phys.Polon.B38:3169-3180,2007
null
null
hep-th
null
Following a model recently investigated by Veneziano and Wosiek we briefly introduce Planar Quantum Mechanics (PQM). Then, we present high precision numerical results in the sectors with two and three fermions. We confirm, that the transition point in the 't Hooft's coupling constant lambda in these sectors occurs at lambda = 1, as was expected.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 08:58:32 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Korcyl", "Piotr", "" ] ]
0705.3530
Takeshi Fukuyama
Takeshi Fukuyama, Kiyoshi Kamimura, Sasa Kresi\'c-Juri\'c, Stjepan Meljanac
Gauge transformations and symmetries of integrable systems
18pages, no figure Journal version
J.Phys.A40:12227-12242,2007
10.1088/1751-8113/40/40/014
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze several integrable systems in zero-curvature form within the framework of $SL(2,\R)$ invariant gauge theory. In the Drienfeld-Sokolov gauge we derive a two-parameter family of nonlinear evolution equations which as special cases include the Kortweg-de Vries (KdV) and Harry Dym equations. We find residual gauge transformations which lead to infinintesimal symmetries of this family of equations. For KdV and Harry Dym equations we find an infinite hierarchy of such symmetry transformations, and we investigate their relation with local conservation laws, constants of the motion and the bi-Hamiltonian structure of the equations. Applying successive gauge transformatinos of Miura type we obtain a sequence of gauge equivalent integrable systems, among them the modified KdV and Calogero KdV equations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:03:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:14:05 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Fukuyama", "Takeshi", "" ], [ "Kamimura", "Kiyoshi", "" ], [ "Kresić-Jurić", "Sasa", "" ], [ "Meljanac", "Stjepan", "" ] ]
0705.3531
Pooja Singla
Takayuki Hibi and Pooja Singla
Linear balls and the multiplicity conjecture
19 Pages
null
null
null
math.AC
null
A linear ball is a simplicial complex whose geometric realization is homeomorphic to a ball and whose Stanley--Reisner ring has a linear resolution. It turns out that the Stanley--Reisner ring of the sphere which is the boundary complex of a linear ball satisfies the multiplicity conjecture. A class of shellable spheres arising naturally from commutative algebra whose Stanley--Reisner rings satisfy the multiplicity conjecture will be presented.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:05:51 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Hibi", "Takayuki", "" ], [ "Singla", "Pooja", "" ] ]
0705.3532
Hiroaki Nakajima
Katsushi Ito, Hiroaki Nakajima, Shin Sasaki
Deformation of Super Yang-Mills Theories in R-R 3-form Background
v2: reference added, v3: published version in JHEP
JHEP 0707:068,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/068
TIT/HEP-572, HIP-2007-29/TH
hep-th
null
We study deformation of N=2 and N=4 super Yang-Mills theories, which are obtained as the low-energy effective theories on the (fractional) D3-branes in the presence of constant Ramond-Ramond 3-form background. We calculate the Lagrangian at the second order in the deformation parameter from open string disk amplitudes. In N=4 case we find that all supersymmetries are broken for generic deformation parameter but part of supersymmetries are unbroken for special case. We also find that classical vacua admit fuzzy sphere configuration. In N=2 case we determine the deformed supersymmetries. We rewrite the deformed Lagrangians in terms of N=1 superspace, where the deformation is interpreted as that of coupling constants.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:10:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 31 May 2007 05:33:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:44:21 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Ito", "Katsushi", "" ], [ "Nakajima", "Hiroaki", "" ], [ "Sasaki", "Shin", "" ] ]
0705.3533
Takayuki Hirayama
Takayuki Hirayama, Koichi Yoshioka
Holographic Construction of Technicolor Theory
23 pages; references added, minor changes
JHEP 0710:002,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/002
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
We construct a dual description of technicolor theory based on the D4/D8 brane configuration. A strongly-coupled technicolor theory is identified as the effective theory on D-branes, and from the gauge/gravity correspondence, we explore the weakly-coupled holographic description of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. It is found from the D-brane probe action that the masses of W and Z bosons are given by the decay constant of technipion, and the technimesons become hierarchically heavy. Moreover, the couplings of heavier modes to standard model fermions are rather suppressed. The oblique correction parameters are also evaluated and found to be small except for the S parameter, which can be reduced by modifying the model. The fermion fields are introduced at the intersections of D-branes and their masses are generated via massive gauge bosons from open strings stretching between D-branes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:07:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:55:35 GMT" } ]
2009-04-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Hirayama", "Takayuki", "" ], [ "Yoshioka", "Koichi", "" ] ]
0705.3534
Dariusz Chru\'sci\'nski
Dariusz Chruscinski, Andrzej Kossakowski
On circulant states with positive partial transpose
15 pages; minor corrections
Phys. Rev. A 76, 032308 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.032308
null
quant-ph
null
We construct a large class of quantum "d x d" states which are positive under partial transposition (so called PPT states). The construction is based on certain direct sum decomposition of the total Hilbert space displaying characteristic circular structure - that is way we call them circulant states. It turns out that partial transposition maps any such decomposition into another one and hence both original density matrix and its partially transposed partner share similar cyclic properties. This class contains many well known examples of PPT states from the literature and gives rise to a huge family of completely new states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:16:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 31 May 2007 15:06:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:02:31 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chruscinski", "Dariusz", "" ], [ "Kossakowski", "Andrzej", "" ] ]
0705.3535
Hiroshi Kontani
H. Kontani, M. Naito, D.S. Hirashima, K. Yamada, and J. Inoue
Study of intrinsic spin and orbital Hall effects in Pt based on a (6s, 6p, 5d) tight-binding model
5 pages
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 76 (2007) 103702
10.1143/JPSJ.76.103702
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
We study the origin of the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the d-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in Pt based on a multiorbital tight-binding model with spin-orbit interaction. We find that the SHC reaches 1000 \hbar/e\Omega cm when the resistivity \rho is smaller than ~10 \mu\Omega cm, whereas it decreases to 300 \hbar/e\Omega cm when \rho ~ 100 \mu\Omega cm. In addition, the OHC is still larger than the SHC. The origin of huge SHE and OHE in Pt is the large ``effective magnetic flux'' that is induced by the interorbital transition between d_{xy}- and d_{x2-y2}-orbitals with the aid of the strong spin-orbit interaction.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:21:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 04:27:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:03:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kontani", "H.", "" ], [ "Naito", "M.", "" ], [ "Hirashima", "D. S.", "" ], [ "Yamada", "K.", "" ], [ "Inoue", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.3536
Wolfgang Bietenholz
Wolfgang Bietenholz, Antonio Bigarini and Alessandro Torrielli
Area-preserving diffeomorphisms in gauge theory on a non-commutative plane: a lattice study
28 pages, 15 figures, published version
JHEP 0708:041,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/041
HU-EP-07/09, DESY-07-043, MIT-CTP 3827
hep-lat hep-th
null
We consider Yang-Mills theory with the U(1) gauge group on a non-commutative plane. Perturbatively it was observed that the invariance of this theory under area-preserving diffeomorphisms (APDs) breaks down to a rigid subgroup SL(2,R). Here we present explicit results for the APD symmetry breaking at finite gauge coupling and finite non-commutativity. They are based on lattice simulations and measurements of Wilson loops with the same area but with a variety of different shapes. Our results are consistent with the expected loss of invariance under APDs. Moreover, they strongly suggest that non-perturbatively the SL(2,R) symmetry does not persist either.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:24:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:35:50 GMT" } ]
2010-02-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Bietenholz", "Wolfgang", "" ], [ "Bigarini", "Antonio", "" ], [ "Torrielli", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
0705.3537
Christian Robenhagen Ravnsh{\o}j
Christian Robenhagen Ravnshoj
p-torsion of Genus Two Curves Over Prime Fields of Characteristic p
5 pages
null
null
null
math.AG math.NT
null
Consider the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic genus two curve defined over a prime field of characteristic p and with complex multiplication. In this paper we show that the p-Sylow subgroup of the Jacobian is either trivial or of order p.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:28:47 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Ravnshoj", "Christian Robenhagen", "" ] ]
0705.3538
Ferenc Sikler
Ferenc Sikler (for the CMS Collaboration)
High Density QCD Physics with Heavy Ions in CMS
4 pages, Presented at Moriond QCD and Hadronic interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 23 March 2007
null
null
null
nucl-ex
null
The heavy ion program of the CMS experiment will examine the QCD matter under extreme conditions, through the study of global observables and specific probes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:30:06 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Sikler", "Ferenc", "", "for the CMS Collaboration" ] ]
0705.3539
Konstantin S. Turitsyn
K.S. Turitsyn and S.S. Vergeles
Dynamics of wrinkles on a vesicle in external flow
4 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.028103
null
cond-mat.soft
null
Recent experiments by Kantsler et. al. (2007) have shown that the relaxational dynamics of a vesicle in external elongation flow is accompanied by the formation of wrinkles on a membrane. Motivated by these experiments we present a theory describing the dynamics of a wrinkled membrane. Formation of wrinkles is related to the dynamical instability induced by negative surface tension of the membrane. For quasi-spherical vesicles we perform analytical study of the wrinkle structure dynamics. We derive the expression for the instability threshold and identify three stages of the dynamics. The scaling laws for the temporal evolution of wrinkling wavelength and surface tension are established and confirmed numerically.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:52:48 GMT" } ]
2013-05-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Turitsyn", "K. S.", "" ], [ "Vergeles", "S. S.", "" ] ]
0705.3540
Sangmin Lee
Seok Kim, Sangmin Lee, Sungjay Lee, Jaemo Park
M2-brane Probe Dynamics and Toric Duality
50 pages, 24 figures; v2. title changed, abstract and introduction clarified. to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
Nucl.Phys.B797:340-370,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.01.012
SNUST-070501
hep-th
null
We study the dynamics of a single M2-brane probing toric Calabi-Yau four-fold singularity in the context of the recently proposed M-theory crystal model of AdS4/CFT3 dual pairs. We obtain an effective abelian gauge theory in which the charges of the matter fields are given by the intersection numbers between loops and faces in the crystal. We argue that the probe theory captures certain aspects of the CFT3 even though the true M2-brane CFT is unlikely to be a usual gauge theory. In particular, the moduli space of vacua of the gauge theory coincides precisely with the Calabi-Yau singularity. Toric duality, partial resolution, and a possibility of new RG flows are also discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:32:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:50:54 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kim", "Seok", "" ], [ "Lee", "Sangmin", "" ], [ "Lee", "Sungjay", "" ], [ "Park", "Jaemo", "" ] ]
0705.3541
Flavio S. Nogueira
Flavio S. Nogueira and Hagen Kleinert
Compact quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions and spinon deconfinement: a renormalization group analysis
10 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added
Phys.Rev.B77:045107,2008
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.045107
null
cond-mat.str-el hep-ph
null
We discuss compact (2+1)-dimensional Maxwell electrodynamics coupled to fermionic matter with N replica. For large enough N, the latter corresponds to an effective theory for the nearest neighbor SU(N) Heisenberg antiferromagnet, in which the fermions represent solitonic excitations known as spinons. Here we show that the spinons are deconfined for $N>N_c=36$, thus leading to an insulating state known as spin liquid. A previous analysis considerably underestimated the value of $N_c$. We show further that for $20<N\leq 36$ there can be either a confined or a deconfined phase, depending on the instanton density. For $N\leq 20$ only the confined phase exist. For the physically relevant value N=2 we argue that no paramagnetic phase can emerge, since chiral symmetry breaking would disrupt it. In such a case a spin liquid or any other nontrivial paramagnetic state (for instance, a valence-bond solid) is only possible if doping or frustrating interactions are included.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:35:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 28 May 2007 14:46:30 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Nogueira", "Flavio S.", "" ], [ "Kleinert", "Hagen", "" ] ]
0705.3542
Hrvoje Nikolic
H. Nikolic
Is quantum field theory a genuine quantum theory? Foundational insights on particles and strings
10 pages, revised, new references, to appear in Europhys. Lett
Europhys. Lett.85:20003, 2009; Europhys.Lett.85:20003,2009
10.1209/0295-5075/85/20003
null
hep-th hep-ph quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Practically measurable quantities resulting from quantum field theory are not described by hermitian operators, contradicting one of the cornerstone axioms of orthodox quantum theory. This could be a sign that some of the axioms of orthodox quantum theory should be reformulated. A non-orthodox reformulation of quantum theory based on integral curves of particle currents is advocated and possible measurable manifestations are discussed. The consistency with particle creation and destruction requires particles to be extended objects, which can be viewed as a new derivation of string theory. Within this reformulation, an indirect low-energy test of string theory is also possible.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:38:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:45:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:57:58 GMT" } ]
2014-11-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Nikolic", "H.", "" ] ]
0705.3543
Konstantin S. Turitsyn
V. V. Lebedev, K. S. Turitsyn, and S. S. Vergeles
Nearly spherical vesicles in an external flow
20 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.soft
null
Tank-treading, tumbling and trembling are different types of the vesicle behavior in an external flow. We derive a dynamical equation for nearly spherical vesicles enabling to establish a phase diagram of the system predicting the regimes. The diagram is drawn in terms of two dimensionless parameters depending on the vesicle excess area, fluid viscosities, membrane viscosity and bending modulus, strength of the flow, and ratio of the elongational and rotational components of the flow. The tank-treading to tumbling transition occurs via a saddle-node bifurcation whereas the tank-treading to trembling transition occurs via a Hopf bifurcation. We establish a critical slowing near the merging point of the transition lines.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 16:37:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Lebedev", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Turitsyn", "K. S.", "" ], [ "Vergeles", "S. S.", "" ] ]
0705.3544
Alexander E. Hramov
Alexander E. Hramov and Alexey A. Koronovskii and Vladimir I. Ponomarenko and Mikhail D. Prokhorov
Detection of synchronization from univariate data using wavelet transform
10 pages, 9 figures
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 75 (2007) 056207
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056207
null
nlin.CD
null
A method is proposed for detecting from univariate data the presence of synchronization of a self-sustained oscillator by external driving with varying frequency. The method is based on the analysis of difference between the oscillator instantaneous phases calculated using continuous wavelet transform at time moments shifted by a certain constant value relative to each other. We apply our method to a driven asymmetric van der Pol oscillator, experimental data from a driven electronic oscillator with delayed feedback and human heartbeat time series. In the latest case, the analysis of the heart rate variability data reveals synchronous regimes between the respiration and slow oscillations in blood pressure.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:50:07 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Hramov", "Alexander E.", "" ], [ "Koronovskii", "Alexey A.", "" ], [ "Ponomarenko", "Vladimir I.", "" ], [ "Prokhorov", "Mikhail D.", "" ] ]
0705.3545
Antonio Maria Scarfone
P. Quarati and A.M. Scarfone
Modified Debye-Huckel Electron Shielding and Penetration Factor
9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
Astrophys.J.666:1303-1310,2007
10.1086/520058
null
astro-ph cond-mat.stat-mech nucl-th physics.plasm-ph
null
Screened potential, modified by non standard electron cloud distributions responsible for the shielding effect on fusion of reacting nuclei in astrophysical plasmas, is derived. The case of clouds with depleted tails in space coordinates is discussed. The modified screened potential is obtained both from statistical mechanics arguments based on fluctuations of the inverse of the Debye-Huckel radius and from the solution of a Bernoulli equation used in generalized statistical mechanics. Plots and tables useful in evaluating penetration probability at any energy are provided.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:58:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 30 May 2007 16:43:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:11:55 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Quarati", "P.", "" ], [ "Scarfone", "A. M.", "" ] ]
0705.3546
Xiong Chuanhua
Chuan-Hua Xiong
The Hodge Dual Symmetry of the Green-Schwarz Superstring in $AdS_5 \otimes S^5$
null
Commun.Theor.Phys.49:1573-1576,2008
10.1088/0253-6102/49/6/46
null
hep-th
null
The hidden symmetry and an infinite set non-local conserved currents of the Green-Schwarz superstring on $AdS_5\otimes S^5$ have been pointed out by Bena et al. In this paper, we shown that the Hodge dual between the Maurer-Cartan equation and the equation of motion gives the hidden symmetry in the moduli space of Green-Schwarz superstring. Thus by twisty transforming the vielbeins, we can express the currents of the paper$^{\cite{bpr}}$ as the Lax connections by a unique spectral parameter.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 09:58:32 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Xiong", "Chuan-Hua", "" ] ]
0705.3547
Kohei Hamaya
H. Takahashi, M. Kawamura, S. Masubuchi, K. Hamaya, T. Machida, Y. Hashimoto and S. Katsumoto
Electrical coherent control of nuclear spins in a breakdown regime of quantum Hall effect
3 pages, 4 figures
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 092129 (2007)
10.1063/1.2778465
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Using a conventional Hall-bar geometry with a micro-metal strip on top of the surface, we demonstrate an electrical coherent control of nuclear spins in an AlGaAs/GaAs semiconductor heterostructure. A breakdown of integer quantum Hall (QH) effect is utilized to dynamically polarize nuclear spins. By applying a pulse rf magnetic field with the metal strip, the quantum state of the nuclear spins shows Rabi oscillations, which is detected by measuring longitudinal voltage of the QH conductor.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:44:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 01:50:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:06:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Takahashi", "H.", "" ], [ "Kawamura", "M.", "" ], [ "Masubuchi", "S.", "" ], [ "Hamaya", "K.", "" ], [ "Machida", "T.", "" ], [ "Hashimoto", "Y.", "" ], [ "Katsumoto", "S.", "" ] ]
0705.3548
Olli Luukkonen
Olli Luukkonen, Constantin Simovski, G\'erard Granet, George Goussetis, Dmitri Lioubtchenko, Antti V. R\"ais\"anen, and Sergei Tretyakov
Simple and accurate analytical model of planar grids and high-impedance surfaces comprising metal strips or patches
12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 1624--1632, June 2008.
10.1109/TAP.2008.923327
null
physics.class-ph
null
This paper introduces simple analytical formulas for the grid impedance of electrically dense arrays of square patches and for the surface impedance of high-impedance surfaces based on the dense arrays of metal strips or square patches over ground planes. Emphasis is on the oblique-incidence excitation. The approach is based on the known analytical models for strip grids combined with the approximate Babinet principle for planar grids located at a dielectric interface. Analytical expressions for the surface impedance and reflection coefficient resulting from our analysis are thoroughly verified by full-wave simulations and compared with available data in open literature for particular cases. The results can be used in the design of various antennas and microwave or millimeter wave devices which use artificial impedance surfaces and artificial magnetic conductors (reflect-array antennas, tunable phase shifters, etc.), as well as for the derivation of accurate higher-order impedance boundary conditions for artificial (high-) impedance surfaces. As an example, the propagation properties of surface waves along the high-impedance surfaces are studied.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:04:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:32:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 2 May 2008 10:06:14 GMT" } ]
2016-09-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Luukkonen", "Olli", "" ], [ "Simovski", "Constantin", "" ], [ "Granet", "Gérard", "" ], [ "Goussetis", "George", "" ], [ "Lioubtchenko", "Dmitri", "" ], [ "Räisänen", "Antti V.", "" ], [ "Tretyakov", "Sergei", "" ] ]
0705.3549
Luis L. Sanchez. Soto
R. Alvargonzalez and L. S. Soto
Suggestions on photons and fermions
Typos corrected. Comments welcome
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we suggest a configuration of photons consistent with a spin $\hbar$, and a configuration of the fermions coherent with a spin $\hbar/2$. These suggested configurations open the way to further analyses which lead to the following conclusions: - There cannot exist elementary particles of spin $\hbar/2$ with a mass inferior to $1m_e$ or with a radius greater than $1l_e$. - The electrostatic force derives from the centrifugal forces inherent to the spin and are propagated by photons. - The derivation of the electrostatic force explains the existence of positive and negative charges and Coulomb's law. - The enormous differences between the centrifugal forces and the centripetal forces at the surface of the protons give rise to quantic fluctuations of space which generate the energy flows necessary for equilibrium. These energy flows can explain gravitation and the strong force. - The mass of the proton, $m_p$, and the mass of the neutron, $m_n$, must each have a concrete value required for the cohesion of the atomic nuclei. The suggested hypoteses show that the relation $m_n/m_p$ must be very slightly greater than 1.00, and that, by a first approximation, both $m_n$ and $m_p$ must be slightly less than 1851 $m_e$. - There are no "gravitons" and no "gluons"; the "messenger particles" are always the very real photons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:08:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:23:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:25:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:09:55 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Alvargonzalez", "R.", "" ], [ "Soto", "L. S.", "" ] ]
0705.3550
Harald Merkel
H. Merkel, P. Achenbach, C. A. Ayerbe Gayoso, J. C. Bernauer, R. B\"ohm, D. Bosnar, B. Cheymol, M. O. Distler, L. Doria, H. Fonvieille, J. Friedrich, P. Janssens, M. Makek, U. M\"uller, L. Nungesser, J. Pochodzalla, M. Potokar, S. S\'anchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, S. \v{S}irca, L. Tiator, Th. Walcher, M. Weinriefer
Recoil polarization and beam-recoil double polarization measurement of \eta electroproduction on the proton in the region of the S_{11}(1535) resonance
4 pages, 1 figure
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:132301,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.132301
null
nucl-ex
null
The beam-recoil double polarization P_{x'}^h and P_{z'}^h and the recoil polarization P_{y'} were measured for the first time for the p(\vec{e},e'\vec{p})\eta reaction at a four-momentum transfer of Q^2=0.1 GeV^2/c^2 and a center of mass production angle of \theta = 120^\circ at MAMI C. With a center of mass energy range of 1500 MeV < W < 1550 MeV the region of the S_{11}(1535) and D_{13}(1520) resonance was covered. The results are discussed in the framework of a phenomenological isobar model (Eta-MAID). While P_{x'}^h and P_{z'}^h are in good agreement with the model, P_{y'} shows a significant deviation, consistent with existing photoproduction data on the polarized-target asymmetry.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:15:17 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Merkel", "H.", "" ], [ "Achenbach", "P.", "" ], [ "Gayoso", "C. A. Ayerbe", "" ], [ "Bernauer", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Böhm", "R.", "" ], [ "Bosnar", "D.", "" ], [ "Cheymol", "B.", "" ], [ "Distler", "M. O.", "" ], [ "Doria", "L.", "" ], [ "Fonvieille", "H.", "" ], [ "Friedrich", "J.", "" ], [ "Janssens", "P.", "" ], [ "Makek", "M.", "" ], [ "Müller", "U.", "" ], [ "Nungesser", "L.", "" ], [ "Pochodzalla", "J.", "" ], [ "Potokar", "M.", "" ], [ "Majos", "S. Sánchez", "" ], [ "Schlimme", "B. S.", "" ], [ "Širca", "S.", "" ], [ "Tiator", "L.", "" ], [ "Walcher", "Th.", "" ], [ "Weinriefer", "M.", "" ] ]
0705.3551
Alexander Burinskii
Alexander Burinskii, Emilio Elizalde, Sergi R. Hildebrandt, Giulio Magli
Aligned electromagnetic excitations of a black hole and their impact on its quantum horizon
7 pages, 2 figures, final version published in PhysLetB
Phys.Lett.B671:486-492,2009
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.12.031
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that elementary aligned electromagnetic excitations of black holes, as coming from exact Kerr-Schild solutions, represent light-like beam pulses which have a very strong back reaction on the metric and change the topology of the horizon. Based on York's proposal, that elementary deformations of the BH horizon are related with elementary vacuum fluctuations, we analyze deformation of the horizon caused by the beam-like vacuum fluctuations and obtain a very specific feature of the topological deformations of the horizon. In particular, we show how the beams pierce the horizon, forming a multitude of micro holes in it. A conjecture is taken into consideration, that these specific excitations are connected with the conformal-analytic properties of the Kerr geometry and are at the base of the emission mechanism.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:24:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:00:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:03:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Thu, 22 May 2008 10:38:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:12:06 GMT" } ]
2009-02-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Burinskii", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Elizalde", "Emilio", "" ], [ "Hildebrandt", "Sergi R.", "" ], [ "Magli", "Giulio", "" ] ]
0705.3552
Bruno Andreotti
Ivan Sanchez, Franck Raynaud, Jose Lanuza, Bruno Andreotti, Eric Clement, Igor S. Aranson
Spreading of a granular droplet
4 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.060301
null
cond-mat.soft
null
The influence of controlled vibrations on the granular rheology is investigated in a specifically designed experiment. We study experimentally a thin granular film spreading under the action of horizontal vibrations. A nonlinear diffusion equation is derived theoretically that describes the evolution of the deposit shape. A self-similar parabolic shape (the``granular droplet'') and a spreading dynamics are predicted that both agree quantitatively with the experimental results. The theoretical analysis is used to extract effective dynamic friction coefficients between the base and the granular layer under sustained and controlled vibrations. We derive an empirical friction law involving external driving parameters and the layer height to represent our data.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:32:14 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Sanchez", "Ivan", "" ], [ "Raynaud", "Franck", "" ], [ "Lanuza", "Jose", "" ], [ "Andreotti", "Bruno", "" ], [ "Clement", "Eric", "" ], [ "Aranson", "Igor S.", "" ] ]
0705.3553
Jonathan M. Flynn
Jonathan M Flynn, Juan Nieves
|Vub| from exclusive semileptonic B to pi decays revisited
5 pages, 1 figure. Version accepted for publication
Phys.Rev.D76:031302,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.031302
null
hep-ph
null
We update the extraction of |Vub| from exclusive semileptonic B to pi decays, combining experimental partial branching fraction information with theoretical form factor calculations, using the recently revised HPQCD results for the form factors f_+ and f_0. We use Omnes representations to provide the required parametrisations of the form factors. The extracted value is 10^3 |Vub| = 3.47+/-0.29+/-0.03, in striking agreement with |Vub| extracted using all other inputs in CKM fits and showing some disagreement with |Vub| extracted from inclusive semileptonic B to pi decays.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:39:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:49:31 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Flynn", "Jonathan M", "" ], [ "Nieves", "Juan", "" ] ]
0705.3554
Andrzej Wereszczynski
C. Adam, J. Sanchez-Guillen, A. Wereszczynski
k-defects as compactons
the stability proof of Section 4.4 corrected, some references added
J.Phys.A40:13625-13643,2007; Erratum-ibid.A42:089801,2009
10.1088/1751-8113/40/45/009 10.1088/1751-8121/42/8/089801
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that topological compactons (solitons with compact support) may be quite common objects if $k$-fields, i.e., fields with nonstandard kinetic term, are considered, by showing that even for models with well-behaved potentials the unusual kinetic part may lead to a power-like approach to the vacuum, which is a typical signal for the existence of compactons. The related approximate scaling symmetry as well as the existence of self-similar solutions are also discussed. As an example, we discuss domain walls in a potential Skyrme model with an additional quartic term, which is just the standard quadratic term to the power two. We show that in the critical case, when the quadratic term is neglected, we get the so-called quartic $\phi^4$ model, and the corresponding topological defect becomes a compacton. Similarly, the quartic sine-Gordon compacton is also derived. Finally, we establish the existence of topological half-compactons and study their properties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 10:44:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:38:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:19:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:58:43 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Adam", "C.", "" ], [ "Sanchez-Guillen", "J.", "" ], [ "Wereszczynski", "A.", "" ] ]
0705.3555
Albert Guill\'en i F\`abregas
Albert Guillen i Fabregas and Giuseppe Caire
Multidimensional Coded Modulation in Block-Fading Channnels
to appear IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
We study the problem of constructing coded modulation schemes over multidimensional signal sets in Nakagami-$m$ block-fading channels. In particular, we consider the optimal diversity reliability exponent of the error probability when the multidimensional constellation is obtained as the rotation of classical complex-plane signal constellations. We show that multidimensional rotations of full dimension achieve the optimal diversity reliability exponent, also achieved by Gaussian constellations. Multidimensional rotations of full dimension induce a large decoding complexity, and in some cases it might be beneficial to use multiple rotations of smaller dimension. We also study the diversity reliability exponent in this case, which yields the optimal rate-diversity-complexity tradeoff in block-fading channels with discrete inputs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:06:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:07:52 GMT" } ]
2007-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Fabregas", "Albert Guillen i", "" ], [ "Caire", "Giuseppe", "" ] ]
0705.3556
Wenjun Liu
Wen-jun Liu, Qiao-ling Xue, Jian-wei Dong
New Generalization of Perturbed Ostrowski Type Inequalities and Applications
11 pages,
null
null
null
math.FA math.NA
null
Generalizations of Ostrowski type inequality for functions of Lipschitzian type are established. Applications in numerical integration and cumulative distribution functions are also given.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:16:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Liu", "Wen-jun", "" ], [ "Xue", "Qiao-ling", "" ], [ "Dong", "Jian-wei", "" ] ]
0705.3557
Mete Atature
Jan Dreiser, Mete Atature, Christophe Galland, Tina Muller, Antonio Badolato, and Atac Imamoglu
Optical investigations of quantum-dot spin dynamics
submitted to Physical Review B, 19 Pages in RevTeX4 format
null
null
null
cond-mat.mes-hall quant-ph
null
We have performed all-optical measurements of spin relaxation in single self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QD) as a function of static external electric and magnetic fields. To study QD spin dynamics we measure the degree of resonant absorption which results from a competition between optical spin pumping induced by the resonant laser field and spin relaxation induced by reservoirs. Fundamental interactions that determine spin dynamics in QDs are hyperfine coupling to QD nuclear spin ensembles, spin-phonon coupling and exchange-type interactions with a nearby Fermi sea of electrons. We show that the strength of spin relaxation generated by the three fundamental interactions can be changed by up to five orders of magnitude upon varying the applied electric and magnetic fields. We find that the strength of optical spin pumping that we use to study the spin relaxation is determined predominantly by hyperfine-induced mixing of single-electron spin states at low magnetic fields and heavy-light hole mixing at high magnetic fields. Our measurements allow us to determine the rms value of the hyperfine (Overhauser) field to be ~15 mTesla with an electron g-factor of g_e=0.6 and a hole mixing strength of |epsilon|^2 = 0.0005.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:41:05 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Dreiser", "Jan", "" ], [ "Atature", "Mete", "" ], [ "Galland", "Christophe", "" ], [ "Muller", "Tina", "" ], [ "Badolato", "Antonio", "" ], [ "Imamoglu", "Atac", "" ] ]
0705.3558
James Bolton
James S. Bolton (MPA), Martin G. Haehnelt (IoA)
A closer look at using quasar near-zones as a probe of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium
6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letters
null
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00361.x
null
astro-ph
null
We examine a large set of synthetic quasar spectra to realistically assess the potential of using the relative sizes of highly ionized near-zones in the Lya and Lyb forest as a probe of the neutral hydrogen content of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z>6. The scatter in the relative near-zone size distribution, induced by underlying fluctuations in the baryonic density field and the filtering of ionizing radiation, is considerable even for fixed assumptions about the IGM neutral fraction. As a consequence, the current observational data cannot distinguish between an IGM which is significantly neutral or highly ionized just above z=6. Under standard assumptions for quasar ages and ionizing luminosities, a future sample of several tens of high resolution Lya and Lyb near-zone spectra should be capable of distinguishing between a volume weighted neutral hydrogen fraction in the IGM which is greater or less than 10 per cent.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:21:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:24:55 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bolton", "James S.", "", "MPA" ], [ "Haehnelt", "Martin G.", "", "IoA" ] ]
0705.3559
Sylvain Gol\'enia
Sylvain Gol\'enia and Sergiu Moroianu
The spectrum of Schr\"odinger operators and Hodge Laplacians on conformally cusp manifolds
Updated, 30 pages
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012), 1-29
null
null
math.SP math-ph math.AP math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe the spectrum of the $k$-form Laplacian on conformally cusp Riemannian manifolds. The essential spectrum is shown to vanish precisely when the $k$ and $k-1$ de Rham cohomology groups of the boundary vanish. We give Weyl-type asymptotics for the eigenvalue-counting function in the purely discrete case. In the other case we analyze the essential spectrum via positive commutator methods and establish a limiting absorption principle. This implies the absence of the singular spectrum for a wide class of metrics. We also exhibit a class of potentials $V$ such that the Schr\"odinger operator has compact resolvent, although $V$ tends to $-\infty$ in most of the infinity. We correct a statement from the literature regarding the essential spectrum of the Laplacian on forms on hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume, and we propose a conjecture about the existence of such manifolds in dimension four whose cusps are rational homology spheres.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:26:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:32:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:55:07 GMT" } ]
2014-02-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Golénia", "Sylvain", "" ], [ "Moroianu", "Sergiu", "" ] ]
0705.3560
James Colliander
J. Colliander
Cubic Derivative Nonlinear Schrodinger has Blowup Solutions
2 pages
null
null
null
math.AP math-ph math.MP
null
This paper is painfully withdrawn.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 17:44:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 21:56:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:22:42 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Colliander", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.3561
Lucas Bordeaux
Lucas Bordeaux, Marco Cadoli, Toni Mancini
Generalizing Consistency and other Constraint Properties to Quantified Constraints
null
null
null
null
cs.LO cs.AI
null
Quantified constraints and Quantified Boolean Formulae are typically much more difficult to reason with than classical constraints, because quantifier alternation makes the usual notion of solution inappropriate. As a consequence, basic properties of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP), such as consistency or substitutability, are not completely understood in the quantified case. These properties are important because they are the basis of most of the reasoning methods used to solve classical (existentially quantified) constraints, and one would like to benefit from similar reasoning methods in the resolution of quantified constraints. In this paper, we show that most of the properties that are used by solvers for CSP can be generalized to quantified CSP. This requires a re-thinking of a number of basic concepts; in particular, we propose a notion of outcome that generalizes the classical notion of solution and on which all definitions are based. We propose a systematic study of the relations which hold between these properties, as well as complexity results regarding the decision of these properties. Finally, and since these problems are typically intractable, we generalize the approach used in CSP and propose weaker, easier to check notions based on locality, which allow to detect these properties incompletely but in polynomial time.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:27:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Bordeaux", "Lucas", "" ], [ "Cadoli", "Marco", "" ], [ "Mancini", "Toni", "" ] ]
0705.3562
P\'eter Sz\'ekely
P. Sz\'ekely, L. L. Kiss, K. Szatm\'ary, B. Cs\'ak, G. \'A. Bakos, T. R. Bedding
Radial velocities of five globular clusters obtained with AAOmega
4 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomische Nachrichten
null
10.1002/asna.200710819
null
astro-ph
null
Using the recently commissioned multi-object spectrograph AAOmega on the 3.9m AAT we have obtained medium-resolution near-infrared spectra for 10,500 stars in and around five southern globular clusters. The targets were 47 Tuc, M12, M30, M55 and NGC 288. We have measured radial velocities to +/- 1 km/s with the cross correlation method and estimated metallicity, effective temperature, surface gra vity and rotational velocity for each star by fitting synthetic model spectra. An analysis of the velocity maps and velocity dispersion of member stars revealed systemic rotation in four of the target clusters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:37:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Székely", "P.", "" ], [ "Kiss", "L. L.", "" ], [ "Szatmáry", "K.", "" ], [ "Csák", "B.", "" ], [ "Bakos", "G. Á.", "" ], [ "Bedding", "T. R.", "" ] ]
0705.3563
Benjamin Winkel
B. Winkel (1 and 2) and J. Kerp (2) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany, (2) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie (AIfA), University of Bonn, Germany)
The Robustness of Least-Squares Frequency Switching (LSFS)
17 pages, 21 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJS (November 2007, v173n1)
Astrophys.J.Suppl.173:166-176,2007
10.1086/520050
null
astro-ph
null
Least-squares frequency switching (LSFS) is a new method to reconstruct signal and gain function (known as bandpass or baseline) from spectral line observations using the frequency switching method. LSFS utilizes not only two but a set of three or more local oscillator (LO) frequencies. The reconstruction is based on a least squares fitting scheme. Here we present a detailed investigation on the stability of the LSFS method in a statistical sense and test the robustness against radio frequency interference (RFI), receiver gain instabilities and continuum sources. It turns out, that the LSFS method is indeed a very powerful method and is robust against most of these problems. Nevertheless, LSFS fails in presence of RFI signals or strong line emission. We present solutions to overcome these limitations using a flagging mechanism or remapping of measured signals, respectively.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:41:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 08:30:31 GMT" } ]
2009-11-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Winkel", "B.", "", "1 and 2" ], [ "Kerp", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.3564
Hao Xu
Kefeng Liu and Hao Xu
New results of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves
9 pages, a brief survey
Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci.104:13896-13900,2007
10.1073/pnas.0705910104
null
math.AG hep-th
null
We present a series of new results we obtained recently about the intersection numbers of tautological classes on moduli spaces of curves, including a simple formula of the n-point functions for Witten's $\tau$ classes, an effective recursion formula to compute higher Weil-Petersson volumes, several new recursion formulae of intersection numbers and our proof of a conjecture of Itzykson and Zuber concerning denominators of intersection numbers. We also present Virasoro and KdV properties of generating functions of general mixed $\kappa$ and $\psi$ intersections.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:44:27 GMT" } ]
2011-03-31T00:00:00
[ [ "Liu", "Kefeng", "" ], [ "Xu", "Hao", "" ] ]
0705.3565
Caroline Champenois
Caroline Champenois (PIIM), Gaetan Hagel (PIIM), Marie Houssin (PIIM), Martina Knoop (PIIM), Cedric Zumsteg (PIIM), Fernande Vedel (PIIM)
Terahertz frequency standard based on three-photon coherent population trapping
article soumis a PRL le 21 mars 2007, accepte le 10 mai, version 2 (24/05/2007)
Physical Review Letters 99 (2007) 013001
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.013001
null
quant-ph
null
A scheme for a THz frequency standard based on three-photon coherent population trapping in stored ions is proposed. Assuming the propagation directions of the three lasers obey the phase matching condition, we show that stability of few 10$^{-14}$ at one second can be reached with a precision limited by power broadening to $10^{-11}$ in the less favorable case. The referenced THz signal can be propagated over long distances, the useful information being carried by the relative frequency of the three optical photons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 11:56:48 GMT" } ]
2014-04-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Champenois", "Caroline", "", "PIIM" ], [ "Hagel", "Gaetan", "", "PIIM" ], [ "Houssin", "Marie", "", "PIIM" ], [ "Knoop", "Martina", "", "PIIM" ], [ "Zumsteg", "Cedric", "", "PIIM" ], [ "Vedel", "Fernande", "", "PIIM" ] ]
0705.3566
Jiangfeng Du
Jiangfeng Du, Jing Zhu, Mingjun Shi, Xinhua Peng, and Dieter Suter
Experimental Observation of a Topological Phase in the Maximally Entangled State of a Pair of Qubits
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.042121
null
quant-ph
null
Quantum mechanical phase factors can be related to dynamical effects or to the geometrical properties of a trajectory in a given space - either parameter space or Hilbert space. Here, we experimentally investigate a quantum mechanical phase factor that reflects the topology of the SO(3) group: since rotations by $\pi$ around antiparallel axes are identical, this space is doubly connected. Using pairs of nuclear spins in a maximally entangled state, we subject one of the spins to a cyclic evolution. If the corresponding trajectory in SO(3) can be smoothly deformed to a point, the quantum state at the end of the trajectory is identical to the initial state. For all other trajectories the quantum state changes sign.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:03:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Du", "Jiangfeng", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Jing", "" ], [ "Shi", "Mingjun", "" ], [ "Peng", "Xinhua", "" ], [ "Suter", "Dieter", "" ] ]
0705.3567
J\"org Sichelschmidt
J. Wykhoff, J. Sichelschmidt, G. Lapertot, G. Knebel, J. Flouquet, I.I. Fazlishanov, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, F. Steglich
ESR of YbRh2Si2 and 174YbRh2Si2 : local and itinerant properties
3 Figures
Science Techn. Adv. Mat. 8, 389 (2007)
10.1016/j.stam.2007.07.005
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Below the Kondo temperature the heavy Fermion compound YbRh$_{2}$Si$_{2}$ shows a well defined Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) with local Yb$^{3+}$ properties. We report a detailed analysis of the ESR intensity which gives information on the number of ESR active centers relative to the ESR of well localized Yb$^{3+}$ in YPd$_3$:Yb. The ESR lineshape is investigated regarding contributions from itinerant centers. From the ESR of monoisotopic $^{174}$YbRh$_{2}$Si$_{2}$ we could exclude unresolved hyperfine contributions to the lineshape.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:23:50 GMT" } ]
2010-03-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Wykhoff", "J.", "" ], [ "Sichelschmidt", "J.", "" ], [ "Lapertot", "G.", "" ], [ "Knebel", "G.", "" ], [ "Flouquet", "J.", "" ], [ "Fazlishanov", "I. I.", "" ], [ "von Nidda", "H. -A. Krug", "" ], [ "Krellner", "C.", "" ], [ "Geibel", "C.", "" ], [ "Steglich", "F.", "" ] ]
0705.3568
Iman Sargolzahi
Iman Sargolzahi, Sayyed Yahya Mirafzali, Mohsen Sarbishaei
Thermal entanglement in a two-qutrit system with nonlinear coupling under nonuniform external magnetic field
18 pages, 6 figures; The revised version, Some more sections and references are added
Int. J. Quant. Inform. 6 (2008) 867
null
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the thermal entanglement of a 2-qutrit spin chain with nonlinear coupling in the presence of nonuniform magnetic field. Thermal entanglement of an arbitrary (finite dimensional) m-partite system vanishes at some finite threshold temperature T_s. We investigate the dependence of T_s on the system's parameters, i.e. the nonlinear coupling and the magnetic field, for this 2-qutrit system. In addition, we compare two lower bounds of I-concurrence for this system and also study its dense coding capacity as a function of system's parameters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:25:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:40:30 GMT" } ]
2008-11-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Sargolzahi", "Iman", "" ], [ "Mirafzali", "Sayyed Yahya", "" ], [ "Sarbishaei", "Mohsen", "" ] ]
0705.3569
Alexander Seel
Alexander Seel, Tanaya Bhattacharyya, Frank G\"ohmann, Andreas Kl\"umper
A note on the spin-1/2 XXZ chain concerning its relation to the Bose gas
continued in 0710.1814 math-ph
J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P08030
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08030
null
cond-mat.stat-mech hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
By considering the one-particle and two-particle scattering data of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain at T=0 we derive a continuum limit relating the spin chain to the 1D Bose gas. Applying this limit to the quantum transfer matrix approach of the Heisenberg chain we obtain expressions for the correlation functions of the Bose gas at arbitrary temperatures.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 16:31:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:27:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:29:07 GMT" } ]
2007-10-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Seel", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Bhattacharyya", "Tanaya", "" ], [ "Göhmann", "Frank", "" ], [ "Klümper", "Andreas", "" ] ]
0705.3570
Pierre Nolin
Lincoln Chayes, Pierre Nolin
Large Scale Properties of the IIIC for 2D Percolation
19 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
math.PR
null
We reinvestigate the 2D problem of the inhomogeneous incipient infinite cluster where, in an independent percolation model, the density decays to p_c with an inverse power, \lambda, of the distance to the origin. Assuming the existence of critical exponents (as is known in the case of the triangular site lattice) if the power is less than 1/\nu, with \nu the correlation length exponent, we demonstrate an infinite cluster with scale dimension given by D_H=2-\beta\lambda. Further, we investigate the critical case \lambda_c=1/\nu and show that iterated logarithmic corrections will tip the balance between the possibility and impossibility of an infinite cluster.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:40:40 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Chayes", "Lincoln", "" ], [ "Nolin", "Pierre", "" ] ]
0705.3571
Jean Cviklinski
J. Cviklinski, A. Dantan, J. Ortalo, M. Pinard
Conditionnal squeezing of an atomic alignement
7 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 033830 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033830
null
quant-ph
null
We investigate the possibility to perform a Quantum Non Demolition measurement of the collective alignment of an atomic ensemble in the case of a $F\geq 1$ spin. We compare the case of purely vectorial and purely tensorial Hamiltonians and show how to achieve conditional squeezing or entanglement of atomic alignment components.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:42:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:40:40 GMT" } ]
2012-02-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Cviklinski", "J.", "" ], [ "Dantan", "A.", "" ], [ "Ortalo", "J.", "" ], [ "Pinard", "M.", "" ] ]
0705.3572
Anatoliy Klimyk U.
A. Klimyk and J. Patera
(Anti)symmetric multivariate exponential functions and corresponding Fourier transforms
18 pages, no figeres
null
10.1088/1751-8113/40/34/006
null
math.CA math-ph math.MP
null
We define and study symmetrized and antisymmetrized multivariate exponential functions. They are defined as determinants and antideterminants of matrices whose entries are exponential functions of one variable. These functions are eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on corresponding fundamental domains satisfying certain boundary conditions. To symmetric and antisymmetric multivariate exponential functions there correspond Fourier transforms. There are three types of such Fourier transforms: expansions into corresponding Fourier series, integral Fourier transforms, and multivariate finite Fourier transforms. Eigenfunctions of the integral Fourier transforms are found.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:44:12 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Klimyk", "A.", "" ], [ "Patera", "J.", "" ] ]
0705.3573
Dubi Kelmer
Lior Bary-Soroker and Dubi Kelmer
On PAC Extensions and Scaled Trace Forms
10 pages; added results on prime-to-p extensions, removed the condition on the countability of the fields
null
null
null
math.NT
null
Any non-degenerate quadratic form over a Hilbertian field (e.g., a number field) is isomorphic to a scaled trace form. In this work we extend this result to more general fields. In particular, prosolvable and prime-to-p extensions of a Hilbertian field. The proofs are based on the theory of PAC extensions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:53:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:18:16 GMT" } ]
2007-08-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Bary-Soroker", "Lior", "" ], [ "Kelmer", "Dubi", "" ] ]
0705.3574
Vladimir Manko i
V.I. Man'ko, G. Marmo, E.C.G. Sudarshan and F. Zaccaria
The geometry of density states, positive maps and tomograms
52 pages, in: Symmetries in Science XI, Bruno J. Gruber, Giuseppe Marmo Naotaka Yoshinag (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2004, ''The Geometry of Density States, Positive Maps, and Tomograms'' pp. 395-443
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
The positive and not completely positive maps of density matrices, which are contractive maps, are discussed as elements of a semigroup. A new kind of positive map (the purification map), which is nonlinear map, is introduced. The density matrices are considered as vectors, linear maps among matrices are represented by superoperators given in the form of higher dimensional matrices. Probability representation of spin states (spin tomography) is reviewed and U(N)-tomogram of spin states is presented. Properties of the tomograms as probability distribution functions are studied. Notion of tomographic purity of spin states is introduced. Entanglement and separability of density matrices are expressed in terms of properties of the tomographic joint probability distributions of random spin projections which depend also on unitary group parameters. A new positivity criterion for hermitian matrices is formulated. An entanglement criterion is given in terms of a function depending on unitary group parameters and semigroup of positive map parameters. The function is constructed as sum of moduli of U(N)-tomographic symbols of the hermitian matrix obtained after action on the density matrix of composite system by a positive but not completely positive map of the subsystem density matrix. Some two-qubit and two-qutritt states are considered as examples of entangled states. The connection with the star-product quantisation is discussed. The structure of the set of density matrices and their relation to unitary group and Lie algebra of the unitary group are studied. Nonlinear quantum evolution of state vector obtained by means of applying purification rule of density matrices evolving via dynamical maps is considered. Some connection of positive maps and entanglement with random matrices is discussed and used.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:56:15 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Man'ko", "V. I.", "" ], [ "Marmo", "G.", "" ], [ "Sudarshan", "E. C. G.", "" ], [ "Zaccaria", "F.", "" ] ]
0705.3575
Tapobrata Sarkar
Tapobrata Sarkar
On Dimer Models and Closed String Theories
1 + 25 pages, LaTeX, 11 epsf figures
JHEP 0710:010,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/010
null
hep-th
null
We study some aspects of the recently discovered connection between dimer models and D-brane gauge theories. We argue that dimer models are also naturally related to closed string theories on non compact orbifolds of $\BC^2$ and $\BC^3$, via their twisted sector R charges, and show that perfect matchings in dimer models correspond to twisted sector states in the closed string theory. We also use this formalism to study the combinatorics of some unstable orbifolds of $\BC^2$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:07:25 GMT" } ]
2009-04-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Sarkar", "Tapobrata", "" ] ]
0705.3576
Bruno Andreotti
J.H. Snoeijer, B. Andreotti, G. Delon and M. Fermigier
Relaxation of a dewetting contact line Part 1: A full-scale hydrodynamic calculation
21 pages, 9 figures
J. Fluid Mech. (2007), vol. 579, pp. 63-83
10.1017/S0022112007005216
null
physics.flu-dyn
null
The relaxation of a dewetting contact line is investigated theoretically in the so-called "Landau-Levich" geometry in which a vertical solid plate is withdrawn from a bath of partially wetting liquid. The study is performed in the framework of lubrication theory, in which the hydrodynamics is resolved at all length scales (from molecular to macroscopic). We investigate the bifurcation diagram for unperturbed contact lines, which turns out to be more complex than expected from simplified 'quasi-static' theories based upon an apparent contact angle. Linear stability analysis reveals that below the critical capillary number of entrainment, Ca_c, the contact line is linearly stable at all wavenumbers. Away from the critical point the dispersion relation has an asymptotic behaviour sigma~|q| and compares well to a quasi-static approach. Approaching Ca_c, however, a different mechanism takes over and the dispersion evolves from |q| to the more common q^2. These findings imply that contact lines can not be treated as universal objects governed by some effective law for the macroscopic contact angle, but viscous effects have to be treated explicitly.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:15:26 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Snoeijer", "J. H.", "" ], [ "Andreotti", "B.", "" ], [ "Delon", "G.", "" ], [ "Fermigier", "M.", "" ] ]
0705.3577
Kirill Samokhin
K. V. Samokhin
On the spin susceptibility of noncentrosymmetric superconductors
12 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. B 76, 094516 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.094516
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
We calculate the spin susceptibility of a superconductor without inversion symmetry, both in the clean and disordered cases. The susceptibility has a large residual value at zero temperature, which is further enhanced in the presence of scalar impurities.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:20:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Samokhin", "K. V.", "" ] ]
0705.3578
Nikolai Chuprikov
N. L. Chuprikov
Quantum mechanics as a macrorealistic theory
16 pages, no figures; this version differs essentially from 0705.3578v3
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
As contrasted with physicists to idolize Bell's theorem and quantum nonlocality, we argue that quantum mechanics (QM), in reality, respects the principles of a macroscopic realism (PMRs). The current QM to tell us that "... the state of a system can be instantaneously changed by a distant measurement >..." cannot be treated as a physical theory. Its key statements - that the EPR-Bell experiments to violate Bell's inequality verify nonlocality, and nonlocal correlations respect special relativity - are false. Both the EPR-Bell experiments and theorems to support the "non-signalling principle" are based on the implicit assumption that all quantum postulates and, in particular, Born's averaging rule are fully applicable to Cat states. However, this is not the case. Introducing observables (e.g., correlations) for Cat states violates the correspondence principle. Pure (macro- and micro-)Cat states must be governed both by the PMRs and superposition principle. Our (macrorealistic) model of a one-dimensional completed scattering shows how these principles coexist with each other, in the case of a one-electron micro-Cat state.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:21:37 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:21:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:25:37 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:32:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:59:42 GMT" } ]
2007-09-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Chuprikov", "N. L.", "" ] ]
0705.3579
Muhammad Sharif
M. Sharif and Umber Sheikh
Cold Plasma Dispersion Relations in the Vicinity of a Schwarzschild Black Hole Horizon
27 pages, 11 figures accepted for publication in Gen. Relat. & Gravit
Gen.Rel.Grav.39:1437-1465,2007
10.1007/s10714-007-0465-8
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
We apply the ADM 3+1 formalism to derive the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations for cold plasma in spatially flat Schwarzschild metric. Respective perturbed equations are linearized for non-magnetized and magnetized plasmas both in non-rotating and rotating backgrounds. These are then Fourier analyzed and the corresponding dispersion relations are obtained. These relations are discussed for the existence of waves with positive angular frequency in the region near the horizon. Our results support the fact that no information can be extracted from the Schwarzschild black hole. It is concluded that negative phase velocity propagates in the rotating background whether the black hole is rotating or non-rotating.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sat, 19 May 2007 07:53:34 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Sharif", "M.", "" ], [ "Sheikh", "Umber", "" ] ]
0705.3580
Asmita Mukherjee
H. Dahiya, A. Mukherjee, S. Ray
Parton Distributions in Impact Parameter Space
13 pages, 6 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:034010,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.034010
null
hep-ph
null
Fourier transform of the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness with respect to the transverse momentum transfer gives the distribution of partons in the impact parameter space. We investigate the GPDs as well as the impact parameter dependent parton distributions (ipdpdfs) by expressing them in terms of overlaps of light front wave functions (LFWFs) and present a comparative study using three different model LFWFs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:25:26 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Dahiya", "H.", "" ], [ "Mukherjee", "A.", "" ], [ "Ray", "S.", "" ] ]
0705.3581
Martin Horvat
Martin Horvat and Tomaz Prosen
The bends on a quantum waveguide and cross-products of Bessel functions
34 pages, 21 figures
null
10.1088/1751-8113/40/24/006
null
quant-ph math-ph math.MP
null
A detailed analysis of the wave-mode structure in a bend and its incorporation into a stable algorithm for calculation of the scattering matrix of the bend is presented. The calculations are based on the modal approach. The stability and precision of the algorithm is numerically and analytically analysed. The algorithm enables precise numerical calculations of scattering across the bend. The reflection is a purely quantum phenomenon and is discussed in more detail over a larger energy interval. The behaviour of the reflection is explained partially by a one-dimensional scattering model and heuristic calculations of the scattering matrix for narrow bends. In the same spirit we explain the numerical results for the Wigner-Smith delay time in the bend.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 12:07:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Horvat", "Martin", "" ], [ "Prosen", "Tomaz", "" ] ]
0705.3582
Ronald Zinke
Ronald Zinke, Joerg Schulenburg, Johannes Richter
Ground-state long-range order in quasi-one-dimensional Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnets: High-order coupled-cluster calculations
6 pages, 7 figures
Eur. Phys. J. B. 64, 147-152 (2008)
10.1140/epjb/e2008-00055-7
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
We investigate the ground-state magnetic long-range order of quasi-one-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets for spin quantum numbers s=1/2 and s=1. We use the coupled cluster method to calculate the sublattice magnetization in dependence on the inter-chain coupling. We find that for the unfrustrated spin-1/2 system an infinitesimal inter-chain coupling is sufficient to stabilize magnetic long-range order, which is in agreement with results obtained by some other methods. For s=1 we find that a finite inter-chain coupling of about 10% of the in-chain coupling is necessary to stabilize magnetic long-range order. Furthermore, we consider a quasi one-dimensional spin-1/2 system, where a frustrating next-nearest neighbor in-chain coupling is included. We find that for stronger frustration also a finite inter-chain coupling is necessary to have magnetic long-range order in the ground state, where the strength of the inter-chain coupling necessary to establish magnetic long-range order is related to the size of the spin gap of the isolated chain.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:27:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:16:42 GMT" } ]
2008-03-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Zinke", "Ronald", "" ], [ "Schulenburg", "Joerg", "" ], [ "Richter", "Johannes", "" ] ]
0705.3583
Bruno Andreotti
G. Delon, M. Fermigier, J.H. Snoeijer and B. Andreotti
Relaxation of a dewetting contact line Part 2: Experiments
20 pages, 11 figures Part 1 is stored as Arxiv 0705.3576
null
10.1017/S0022112008000979
null
physics.flu-dyn
null
The dynamics of receding contact lines is investigated experimentally through controlled perturbations of a meniscus in a dip coating experiment. We first characterize stationary menisci and their breakdown at the coating transition. It is then shown that the dynamics of both liquid deposition and long-wavelength perturbations adiabatically follow these stationary states. This provides a first experimental access to the entire bifurcation diagram of dynamical wetting, confirming the hydrodynamic theory developed in Part 1. In contrast to quasi-static theories based on a dynamic contact angle, we demonstrate that the transition strongly depends on the large scale flow geometry. We then establish the dispersion relation for large wavenumbers, for which we find that sigma is linear in q. The speed dependence of sigma is well described by hydrodynamic theory, in particular the absence of diverging time-scales at the critical point. Finally, we highlight some open problems related to contact angle hysteresis that lead beyond the current description.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:32:20 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Delon", "G.", "" ], [ "Fermigier", "M.", "" ], [ "Snoeijer", "J. H.", "" ], [ "Andreotti", "B.", "" ] ]
0705.3584
Stephen Clark
S.R. Clark, A. Klein, M. Bruderer and D. Jaksch
Graph state generation with noisy mirror-inverting spin chains
27 pages, 13 figures. To appear in New Journal of Physics
New J. Phys. 9, 202 (2007)
10.1088/1367-2630/9/6/202
null
quant-ph
null
We investigate the influence of noise on a graph state generation scheme which exploits a mirror inverting spin chain. Within this scheme the spin chain is used repeatedly as an entanglement bus (EB) to create multi-partite entanglement. The noise model we consider comprises of each spin of this EB being exposed to independent local noise which degrades the capabilities of the EB. Here we concentrate on quantifying its performance as a single-qubit channel and as a mediator of a two-qubit entangling gate, since these are basic operations necessary for graph state generation using the EB. In particular, for the single-qubit case we numerically calculate the average channel fidelity and whether the channel becomes entanglement breaking, i.e., expunges any entanglement the transferred qubit may have with other external qubits. We find that neither local decay nor dephasing noise cause entanglement breaking. This is in contrast to local thermal and depolarizing noise where we determine a critical length and critical noise coupling, respectively, at which entanglement breaking occurs. The critical noise coupling for local depolarizing noise is found to exhibit a power-law dependence on the chain length. For two qubits we similarly compute the average gate fidelity and whether the ability for this gate to create entanglement is maintained. The concatenation of these noisy gates for the construction of a five qubit linear cluster state and a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state indicates that the level of noise that can be tolerated for graph state generation is tightly constrained.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 13:41:51 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Clark", "S. R.", "" ], [ "Klein", "A.", "" ], [ "Bruderer", "M.", "" ], [ "Jaksch", "D.", "" ] ]
0705.3585
Alexander Nikitenko
M. V. Acosta (CERN), A. Nikitenko (Imperiall College, London. On leave from ITET, Moscow)
Monte Carlo study of gg->H+jets contribution to Vector Boson Fusion Higgs production at the LHC
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The contribution of gg->H+jets production process to the vector boson fusion production of the Higgs boson, VV->H, at LHC was evaluated with the ALPGEN generator and the PYTHIA shower Monte Carlo including a jet-parton matching procedure. After the experimental like event selections applied at PYTHIA particle level, the contribution was found to be 4-5 % for a Higgs boson mass of 120 GeV.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:09:53 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Acosta", "M. V.", "", "CERN" ], [ "Nikitenko", "A.", "", "Imperiall College, London. On leave\n from ITET, Moscow" ] ]
0705.3586
Perivolaropoulos Leandros
S. Capozziello, S. Nesseris and L. Perivolaropoulos
Reconstruction of the Scalar-Tensor Lagrangian from a LCDM Background and Noether Symmetry
Added comments, discussion, references. 15 revtex pages, 5 fugures
JCAP 0712:009,2007
10.1088/1475-7516/2007/12/009
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
We consider scalar-tensor theories and reconstruct their potential U(\Phi) and coupling F(\Phi) by demanding a background LCDM cosmology. In particular we impose a background cosmic history H(z) provided by the usual flat LCDM parameterization through the radiation (w_{eff}=1/3), matter (w_{eff}=0) and deSitter (w_{eff}=-1) eras. The cosmological dynamical system which is constrained to obey the LCDM cosmic history presents five critical points in each era, one of which corresponding to the standard General Relativity (GR). In the cases that differ from GR, the reconstructed coupling and potential are of the form F(\Phi)\sim \Phi^2 and U(\Phi)\sim F(\Phi)^m where m is a constant. This class of scalar tensor theories is also theoretically motivated by a completely independent approach: imposing maximal Noether symmetry on the scalar-tensor Lagrangian. This approach provides independently: i) the form of the coupling and the potential as F(\Phi)\sim \Phi^2 and U(\Phi)\sim F(\Phi)^m, ii) a conserved charge related to the potential and the coupling and iii) allows the derivation of exact solutions by first integrals of motion.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 20:00:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 20:03:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 25 May 2007 20:19:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:08:07 GMT" } ]
2011-05-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Capozziello", "S.", "" ], [ "Nesseris", "S.", "" ], [ "Perivolaropoulos", "L.", "" ] ]
0705.3587
Shahram Jalalzadeh
P. Pedram, S. Jalalzadeh, and S. S. Gousheh
Schr\"odinger-Wheeler-DeWitt equation in chaplygin gas FRW cosmological model
11 pages, 1 figure, to appear in IJTP
Int.J.Theor.Phys.46:3201-3208,2007
10.1007/s10773-007-9436-9
null
gr-qc
null
We present a chaplygin gas Friedmann-Robertson-Walker quantum cosmological model. In this work the Schutz's variational formalism is applied with positive, negative, and zero constant spatial curvature. In this approach the notion of time can be recovered. These give rise to Schr\"odinger-Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the scale factor. We use the eigenfunctions in order to construct wave packets for each case. We study the time dependent behavior of the expectation value of the scale factor, using the many-worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:01:26 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Pedram", "P.", "" ], [ "Jalalzadeh", "S.", "" ], [ "Gousheh", "S. S.", "" ] ]
0705.3588
Kouji Yano
Kouji Yano
Convergence of excursion point processes and its applications to functional limit theorems of Markov processes on a half-line
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/08-BEJ132 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Bernoulli 2008, Vol. 14, No. 4, 963-987
10.3150/08-BEJ132
IMS-BEJ-BEJ132
math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Invariance principles are obtained for a Markov process on a half-line with continuous paths on the interior. The domains of attraction of the two different types of self-similar processes are investigated. Our approach is to establish convergence of excursion point processes, which is based on It\^{o}'s excursion theory and a recent result on convergence of excursion measures by Fitzsimmons and the present author.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:04:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:58:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:04:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:17:11 GMT" } ]
2008-11-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Yano", "Kouji", "" ] ]
0705.3589
Pavel Fileviez Perez
Pavel Fileviez Perez
Supersymmetric Adjoint SU(5)
5 pages, section III expanded, reference added, conclusions unchanged
Phys.Rev.D76:071701,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.071701
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
Recently we have proposed a renormalizable grand unified theory, based on the SU(5) gauge symmetry, where the neutrino masses are generated through the type I and type III seesaw mechanisms. In this letter we study the supersymmetric version of this theory. As in the non-susy version it is possible to generate all fermion masses with the minimal number of Higgses, the theory predicts one massless neutrino and the leptogenesis mechanism can be realized. All contributions to the decay of the proton and the properties of neutralinos are discussed. This theory can be considered as the simplest renormalizable supersymmetric grand unified theory based on the SU(5) gauge symmetry since it has the minimal number of superfields and free parameters.
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2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Perez", "Pavel Fileviez", "" ] ]
0705.3590
Luca Giuzzi
A. Aguglia, L. Giuzzi
Orthogonal arrays from Hermitian varieties
Corrected a typo on page 5. 14 Pages
Innovations in Incidence Geometry 5: 129-144 (2007)
null
null
math.CO math.ST stat.TH
null
An orthogonal array OA(q^{2n-1},q^{2n-2}, q,2) is constructed from the action of a subset of PGL(n+1,q^2) on some non--degenerate Hermitian varieties in PG(n,q^2). It is also shown that the rows of this orthogonal array correspond to some blocks of an affine design, which for q> 2 is a non--classical model of the affine space AG(2n-1,q).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:20:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:08:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:05:06 GMT" } ]
2009-07-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Aguglia", "A.", "" ], [ "Giuzzi", "L.", "" ] ]
0705.3591
David Dudal
M.A.L. Capri, D. Dudal, V.E.R. Lemes, R.F. Sobreiro, S.P. Sorella, R. Thibes, H. Verschelde
The Gribov-Zwanziger action in the presence of the gauge invariant, nonlocal mass operator $Tr \int d^4x F_{\mu\nu} (D^2)^{-1} F_{\mu\nu}$ in the Landau gauge
30 pages
Eur.Phys.J.C52:459-476,2007
10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0379-3
null
hep-th
null
We prove that the nonlocal gauge invariant mass dimension two operator $F_{\mu\nu} (D^2)^{-1} F_{\mu\nu}$ can be consistently added to the Gribov-Zwanziger action, which implements the restriction of the path integral's domain of integration to the first Gribov region when the Landau gauge is considered. We identify a local polynomial action and prove the renormalizability to all orders of perturbation theory by employing the algebraic renormalization formalism. Furthermore, we also pay attention to the breaking of the BRST invariance, and to the consequences that this has for the Slavnov-Taylor identity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:19:22 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Capri", "M. A. L.", "" ], [ "Dudal", "D.", "" ], [ "Lemes", "V. E. R.", "" ], [ "Sobreiro", "R. F.", "" ], [ "Sorella", "S. P.", "" ], [ "Thibes", "R.", "" ], [ "Verschelde", "H.", "" ] ]
0705.3592
Vladimir Matveev
Robert L. Bryant, Gianni Manno, Vladimir S. Matveev
A solution of a problem of Sophus Lie: Normal forms of 2-dim metrics admitting two projective vector fields
This is an extended version of the paper that will appear in Math. Annalen. Some typos were corrected, references were updated, title was changed (as in the journal version). 31 pages
Math. Ann. 340(2008), no. 2, 437-463
10.1007/s00208-007-0158-3
null
math.DG math.AP
null
We give a complete list of normal forms for the 2-dimensional metrics that admit a transitive Lie pseudogroup of geodesic-preserving transformations and we show that these normal forms are mutually non-isometric. This solves a problem posed by Sophus Lie.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 16:24:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:18:13 GMT" } ]
2011-08-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Bryant", "Robert L.", "" ], [ "Manno", "Gianni", "" ], [ "Matveev", "Vladimir S.", "" ] ]
0705.3593
Wolfgang Jacquet
W. Jacquet, P. de Groen
MI image registration using prior knowledge
16 pages
null
null
null
cs.CV
null
Subtraction of aligned images is a means to assess changes in a wide variety of clinical applications. In this paper we explore the information theoretical origin of Mutual Information (MI), which is based on Shannon's entropy.However, the interpretation of standard MI registration as a communication channel suggests that MI is too restrictive a criterion. In this paper the concept of Mutual Information (MI) is extended to (Normalized) Focussed Mutual Information (FMI) to incorporate prior knowledge to overcome some shortcomings of MI. We use this to develop new methodologies to successfully address specific registration problems, the follow-up of dental restorations, cephalometry, and the monitoring of implants.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:41:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:14:51 GMT" } ]
2007-06-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Jacquet", "W.", "" ], [ "de Groen", "P.", "" ] ]
0705.3594
David Russell
D. M. Russell (1), T. J. Maccarone (1), E. G. Koerding (1), J. Homan (2) ((1) University of Southampton, (2) MIT)
Parallel tracks in infrared versus X-ray emission in black hole X-ray transient outbursts: a hysteresis effect?
MNRAS accepted. 9 pages, 4 figures
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1401-1408,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11996.x
null
astro-ph
null
We report the discovery of a new hysteresis effect in black hole X-ray binary state transitions, that of the near-infrared (NIR) flux (which most likely originates in the jets) versus X-ray flux. We find, looking at existing data sets, that the infrared emission of black hole X-ray transients appears to be weaker in the low/hard state rise of an outburst than the low/hard state decline of an outburst at a given X-ray luminosity. We discuss how this effect may be caused by a shift in the radiative efficiency of the inflowing or outflowing matter, or variations in the disc viscosity or the spectrum/power of the jet. In addition we show that there is a correlation (in slope but not in normalisation) between infrared and X-ray luminosities on the rise and decline, for all three low-mass black hole X-ray binaries with well-sampled infrared and X-ray coverage: L_NIR propto L_x^(0.5-0.7). In the high/soft state this slope is much shallower; L_NIR propto Lx^(0.1-0.2), and we find that the NIR emission in this state is most likely dominated by the viscously heated (as opposed to X-ray heated) accretion disc in all three sources.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:44:23 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Russell", "D. M.", "", "University of Southampton" ], [ "Maccarone", "T. J.", "", "University of Southampton" ], [ "Koerding", "E. G.", "", "University of Southampton" ], [ "Homan", "J.", "", "MIT" ] ]
0705.3595
Momme Winkelnkemper
M. Winkelnkemper, R. Seguin, S. Rodt, A. Schliwa, L. Reissmann, A. Strittmatter, A. Hoffmann, D. Bimberg
Polarized emission lines from A- and B-type excitonic complexes in single InGaN/GaN quantum dots
accepted at Journal of Applied Physics
J. Appl. Phys. 101, 113708 (2007)
10.1063/1.2743893
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
Cathodoluminescence measurements on single InGaN/GaN quantum dots (QDs) are reported. Complex spectra with up to five emission lines per QD are observed. The lines are polarized along the orthogonal crystal directions [1 1 -2 0] and [-1 1 0 0]. Realistic eight-band k.p electronic structure calculations show that the polarization of the lines can be explained by excitonic recombinations involving hole states which are either formed by the A or the B valence band.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:47:02 GMT" } ]
2007-06-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Winkelnkemper", "M.", "" ], [ "Seguin", "R.", "" ], [ "Rodt", "S.", "" ], [ "Schliwa", "A.", "" ], [ "Reissmann", "L.", "" ], [ "Strittmatter", "A.", "" ], [ "Hoffmann", "A.", "" ], [ "Bimberg", "D.", "" ] ]
0705.3596
Angel Ruiz
A. Ruiz, F.J. Carrera, F. Panessa (IFCA (CSIC - Uc))
An XMM-Newton study of Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxies
14 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astron.Astrophys. 471 (2007) 775-786
10.1051/0004-6361:20066708
null
astro-ph
null
Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxies (HLIRGs) are the most luminous persistent objects in the Universe. They exhibit extremely high star formation rates, and most of them seem to harbour an AGN. They are unique laboratories to investigate utmost star formation, and its connection to super-massive black hole growth. X-ray studies of HLIRGs have the potential to unravel the AGN contribution to the bolometric output from these bright objects. We have selected a sample of 14 HLIRGs observed by XMM-Newton (type 1, type 2 AGN and starburst), 5 of which are candidates to be Compton-thick objects. This is the first time that a systematic study of this type of objects is carried out in the X-ray spectral band. Their X-ray spectral properties have been correlated with their IR luminosities, estimated by IRAS, ISO and sub-mm data. The X-ray spectra of HLIRGs present heterogeneous properties. All our X-ray detected HLIRGs (10) have AGN-dominated X-ray spectra. The hard X-ray luminosity of 8 of them is consistent with a pure AGN contribution, while in the remaining 2 sources both an AGN and a starburst seem to contribute to the overall emission. We found soft excess emission in 5 sources. In one of them it is consistent with a pure starburst origin, while in the other 4 sources it is consistent with an AGN origin. The observed X-ray emission is systematically below the one expected for a standard local QSO of the same IR luminosity, suggesting the possible presence of absorption in type 2 objects and/or a departure from a standard spectral energy distribution of QSO. The X-ray-to-IR-luminosity ratio is constant with redshift, indicating similar evolutions for the AGN and starburst component, and that their respective power sources could be physically related.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:47:25 GMT" } ]
2007-08-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Ruiz", "A.", "", "IFCA" ], [ "Carrera", "F. J.", "", "IFCA" ], [ "Panessa", "F.", "", "IFCA" ] ]
0705.3597
Dennis Shasha
Dennis Shasha (Courant Institute, New York University) and Martyn Amos (Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University)
DNA Hash Pooling and its Applications
14 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation. Improved background, analysis and references
null
null
null
q-bio.BM q-bio.PE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we describe a new technique for the comparison of populations of DNA strands. Comparison is vital to the study of ecological systems, at both the micro and macro scales. Existing methods make use of DNA sequencing and cloning, which can prove costly and time consuming, even with current sequencing techniques. Our overall objective is to address questions such as: (i) (Genome detection) Is a known genome sequence present, at least in part, in an environmental sample? (ii) (Sequence query) Is a specific fragment sequence present in a sample? (iii) (Similarity discovery) How similar in terms of sequence content are two unsequenced samples? We propose a method involving multiple filtering criteria that result in "pools" of DNA of high or very high purity. Because our method is similar in spirit to hashing in computer science, we call it DNA hash pooling. To illustrate this method, we describe protocols using pairs of restriction enzymes. The in silico empirical results we present reflect a sensitivity to experimental error. Our method will normally be performed as a filtering step prior to sequencing in order to reduce the amount of sequencing required (generally by a factor of 10 or more). Even as sequencing becomes cheaper, an order of magnitude remains important.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 24 May 2007 14:53:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:08:58 GMT" } ]
2008-07-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Shasha", "Dennis", "", "Courant Institute, New York University" ], [ "Amos", "Martyn", "", "Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University" ] ]