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--- abstract: 'Preheating and other particle production phenomena in the early Universe can give rise to high-energy out-of-equilibrium fermions with an anisotropic stress. We develop a formalism to calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves due to fermions, and apply it to a variety of scenarios after inflation. We...
--- abstract: | We calculate the $B_{u,d,s}\to T$ form factors within the framework of the perturbative QCD approach, where $T$ denotes a light tensor meson with $J^P=2^+$. Due to the similarities between the wave functions of a vector and a tensor meson, the factorization formulas of $B\to T$ form factors can be o...
--- abstract: | Let $S$ be a smooth cubic surface over a field $K$. It is well-known that new $K$-rational points may be obtained from old ones by secant and tangent constructions. A Mordell-Weil generating set is a subset $B \subset S(K)$ of minimal cardinality which generates $S(K)$ via successive secant and tang...
--- abstract: 'While the local $L^p$-boundedness of nondegeneral Fourier integral operators is known from the work of Seeger, Sogge and Stein [@SSS], not so many results are available for the global boundedness on $L^p(\R^n)$. In this paper we give a sufficient condition for the global $L^p$-boundedness for a class of ...
--- author: - | M. J. Gillan$^{1,2,3}$, F. R. Manby$^{5}$, M. D. Towler$^{4,6,7}$ and D. Alfè$^{1,2,3,4}$\ $^1$London Centre for Nanotechnology, Gordon St, London WC1H 0AH, UK\ $^2$Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, UK\ $^3$Thomas Young Centre, UCL, Gordon St, London WC1H 0AH...
--- abstract: 'We report density functional theory (DFT) investigation of $B$-site doped CaFeO$_3$, a prototypical charge-ordered perovskite. At 290 K, CaFeO$_3$ undergoes a metal-insulator transition and a charge disproportionation reaction 2Fe$^{4+}$$\rightarrow$Fe$^{5+}$+Fe$^{3+}$. We observe that when Zr dopants oc...
--- abstract: 'We introduce the class of MAT-free hyperplane arrangements which is based on the Multiple Addition Theorem by Abe, Barakat, Cuntz, Hoge, and Terao. We also investigate the closely related class of MAT2-free arrangements based on a recent generalization of the Multiple Addition Theorem by Abe and Terao. W...
--- abstract: 'We extend Walsh’s theory of martingale measures in order to deal with hyperbolic stochastic partial differential equations that are second order in time, such as the wave equation and the beam equation, and driven by spatially homogeneous Gaussian noise. For such equations, the fundamental solution can b...
--- abstract: 'We show effects of the event-by-event fluctuation of the initial conditions (IC) in hydrodynamic description of high-energy nuclear collisions on some observables. Such IC produce not only fluctuations in observables but, due to their bumpy structure, several non-trivial effects appear. They enhance prod...
--- abstract: 'The paper studies some properties of the ring of integer-valued quasi-polynomials. On this ring, theory of generalized Euclidean division and generalized greatest common divisor are presented. Applications to finite simple continued fraction expansion of rational numbers and Smith normal form of integral...
--- author: - 'Jing Lei[^1]' - 'Anne-Sophie Charest' - Aleksandra Slavkovic - Adam Smith - Stephen Fienberg bibliography: - 'paper.bib' title: | Differentially Private Model Selection\ With Penalized and Constrained Likelihood --- Introduction ============ Differential privacy ==================== Differenti...
--- abstract: 'We consider a phase retrieval problem, where we want to reconstruct a $n$-dimensional vector from its phaseless scalar products with $m$ sensing vectors. We assume the sensing vectors to be independently sampled from complex normal distributions. We propose to solve this problem with the classical non-co...
ITEP/TH-07/15 ABSTRACT [Reshetikhin-Turaev (a.k.a. Chern-Simons) TQFT is a functor that associates vector spaces to two-dimensional genus $g$ surfaces and linear operators to automorphisms of surfaces. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that there exists a Macdonald $q,t$-deformation – refinement – of these ...
--- abstract: 'Vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) route and its variants are routinely used for scalable synthesis of semiconducting nanowires yet the fundamental processes remain unknown. Here, we employ atomic-scale computations based on model potentials to study the stability and growth of gold-catalyzed silicon nanowires (Si...
--- address: | $^{\ast}$Computational Linguistics & $^{\dagger}$IWR\ Heidelberg University, Germany\ {beilharz,karimova,riezler}@cl.uni-heidelberg.de,\ xin.sun@stud.uni-heidelberg.de bibliography: - 'references.bib' title: | LibriVoxDeEn: A Corpus for German-to-English Speech Translation\ and S...
--- author: - | Jie Liao$^{1}$, Yeping Li$^{2}$[^1],\ $^1$[*Department of Mathematics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China.*]{}\ $^2$[*Department of Mathematics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China.*]{} title: 'Global existe...
--- address: | Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute,\ National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”,\ Gatchina, 188300, Russia\ E-mail: azimov@thd.pnpi.spb.ru author: - 'Y. I. AZIMOV' title: | Vladimir Naumovich Gribov:\ Pieces of biography[^1] --- This talk I would like to begin with some per...
--- abstract: 'The aperture mass has been shown in a series of recent publications to be a useful quantitative tool for weak lensing studies, ranging from cosmic shear to the detection of a mass-selected sample of dark matter haloes. Quantitative analytical predictions for the aperture mass have been based on a number ...
--- abstract: | We study the growth of fractal clusters in the Dielectric Breakdown Model (DBM) by means of iterated conformal mappings. In particular we investigate the fractal dimension and the maximal growth site (measured by the Hoelder exponent $\alpha_{min}$) as a function of the growth exponent $\eta$ of the...
--- abstract: 'In many clinical trials studying neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple longitudinal outcomes are collected to fully explore the multidimensional impairment caused by this disease. If the outcomes deteriorate rapidly, patients may reach a level of functional disability suff...
--- abstract: | It is of some interest to understand how statistically based mechanisms for signal processing might be integrated with biologically motivated mechanisms such as neural networks. This paper explores a novel hybrid approach for classifying segments of sequential data, such as individual spoken works. ...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we introduce and study a new extragradient iterative process for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of an infinite family of nonexpansive mappings and the set of solutions of a variational inequality for an inverse strongly monotone mapping in a real Hilbert space. Also, w...
--- abstract: 'In programmatic advertising, ad slots are usually sold using second-price (SP) auctions in real-time. The highest bidding advertiser wins but pays only the second highest bid (known as the [*winning price*]{}). In SP, for a single item, the dominant strategy of each bidder is to bid the true value from t...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we are interested in continuous time models in which the index level induces some feedback on the dynamics of its composing stocks. More precisely, we propose a model in which the log-returns of each stock may be decomposed into a systemic part proportional to the log-returns of the index ...
--- author: - | <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Britton J. Olson</span>\ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA\ olson45@llnl.gov\ <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Robin Williams</span>\ Atomic Weapons Establishment, United Kingdom title: 'Richtmyer-Meshkov mixing la...
--- abstract: 'We consider multihadron production processes in different types of collisions in the framework of the picture based on dissipating energy of participants and their types. In particular, the similarities of such bulk observables like the charged particle mean multiplicity and the pseudorapidity density at...
--- abstract: '> We consider the problem of modeling temporal textual data taking endogenous and exogenous processes into account. Such text documents arise in real world applications, including job advertisements and economic news articles, which are influenced by the fluctuations of the general economy. We propose a ...
--- abstract: 'This paper contributes to modeling and supervision of multi-stage centrifugal compressors coping with real-gas processes and steady to highly transient operating conditions. A novel dynamic model is derived, and the incorporation of the generic <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lee-Kesler-Plöcker</s...
--- abstract: 'We present a joint theoretical and experimental study to investigate polymorphism in $\alpha$-sexithiophene (6T) crystals. By means of density-functional theory calculations, we clarify that the low-temperature phase is favorable over the high-temperature one, with higher relative stability by about 50 m...
--- abstract: 'A remarkable feature of fluid dynamics is its relationship with classical dynamics and statistical mechanics. This has motivated in the past mathematical investigations concerning, in a special way, the “derivation” based on kinetic theory, and in particular the Boltzmann equation, of the incompressible ...
--- abstract: 'Rather than an [*a priori*]{} arena in which events take place, space-time is a construction of our mind making possible a particular kind of ordering of events. As quantum entanglement is a property of states independent of classical distances, the notion of space and time has to be revised to represent...
--- abstract: 'The circumcircle of a planar convex polygon $P$ is a circle $C$ that passes through all vertices of $P$. If such a $C$ exists, then $P$ is said to be cyclic. Fix $C$ to have unit radius. While any two angles of a uniform cyclic triangle are negatively correlated, any two sides are independent. In contras...
--- abstract: 'In this paper we present a new verification theorem for optimal stopping problems for Hunt processes. The approach is based on the Fukushima-Dynkin formula [@F] and its advantage is that it allows us to verify that a given function is the value function without using the viscosity solution argument. Our ...
**On Subvarieties of Abelian Varieties with** **degenerate Gauß Mapping** **Rainer Weissauer** Let $X$ be an abelian variety over an algebraically closed field $k$ of dimension $g$. For a closed irreducible subvariety $Y$ of dimension $d$ in $X$, we let $S$ denote a Zariski dense open subset of its regular locus $Y_...
--- abstract: 'We demonstrate an algorithm for learning a flexible color-magnitude diagram from noisy parallax and photometry measurements using a normalizing flow, a deep neural network capable of learning an arbitrary multi-dimensional probability distribution. We present a catalog of 640M photometric distance poster...
--- author: - | E.G. Drukarev and M.G. Ryskin\ Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute\ Gatchina, St.Petersburg 188350, Russia title: QCD sum rules as a tool for investigation of the baryon properties at finite densities --- -1cm .2cm 0.25cm Speaking about the properties of nucleons in nuclear matter, we ha...
--- abstract: 'This article contains a detailed and rigorous proof of the construction of a geometric invariant for initial data sets for the Einstein vacuum field equations. This geometric invariant vanishes if and only if the initial data set corresponds to data for the Kerr spacetime, and thus, it characterises this...
--- abstract: 'We report a novel insulator-insulator transition arising from the internal charge degrees of freedom in the two-dimensional quarter-filled organic salt $\beta$-([*meso*]{}-DMBEDT-TTF)$_2$PF$_6$. The optical conductivity spectra above $T_c = 70$ K display a prominent feature of the dimer-Mott insulator, c...
--- abstract: 'I describe how superstring theory may violate spin-statistics in an experimentally observable manner. Reviewing the basics of superstring interactions and how to utilize these to produce a statistical phase, I then apply these ideas to two specific examples. The first is the case of heterotic worldsheet ...
--- abstract: 'Let $f$ be a $C^1$-diffeomorphism and $\mu$ be a hyperbolic ergodic $f$-invariant Borel probability measure with positive measure-theoretic entropy. Assume that the Oseledec splitting $$T_xM=E_1(x) \oplus\cdots\oplus E_s(x) \oplus E_{s+1}(x) \oplus\cdots\oplus E_l(x)$$ is dominated on the Oseledec basin ...
--- abstract: 'A general method of the Foldy-Wouthyusen (FW) transformation for relativistic particles of arbitrary spin in strong external fields has been developed. The use of the found transformation operator is not restricted by any definite commutation relations between even and odd operators. The final FW Hamilto...
= 16.5cm = 24.5cm = -16.5mm = -2.5mm = -0.3cm = -0.8cm plus 1pt minus 1pt [**LMU 08/97**]{}\ [**CERN-TH/97-200**]{} **The Gluonic Decay of the $b$–Quark and the $\eta '$–Meson** [**Harald Fritzsch**]{}\ \ \ \ [*Theresienstrasse 37, D–80333 München*]{} The observed inclusive decay of $B$–mesons into $\eta ' + X$ is...
--- abstract: 'We have identified 335 galaxy cluster and group candidates, 106 of which are at $z > 1$, using a $4.5\mu$m selected sample of objects from a 7.25 deg$^2$ region in the [*Spitzer*]{} Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Shallow Survey. Clusters were identified as 3-dimensional overdensities using a wavelet algori...
--- abstract: 'The plane wave decomposition method (PWDM) is one of the most popular strategies for numerical solution of the quantum billiard problem. The method is based on the assumption that each eigenstate in a billiard can be approximated by a superposition of plane waves at a given energy. By the classical resul...
--- abstract: 'Recent scattering-type scanning near-field optical spectroscopy (s-SNOM) experiments on single-layer graphene have reported Dirac plasmon lifetimes that are substantially shorter than the dc transport scattering time $\tau_{\rm tr}$. We highlight that the plasmon lifetime is fundamentally different from ...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, some new results on the distribution of the generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD) are presented.' author: - 'Zhuo Chen, Zhiguo Ding, [^1]' bibliography: - 'IEEEfull.bib' - 'cz.bib' title: ' [ On the Distribution of GSVD]{}' --- Some new results on GSVD ======================== ...
--- abstract: 'The three–dimensional incompressible viscous Boussinesq equations, under the assumption of hydrostatic balance, govern the large scale dynamics of atmospheric and oceanic motion, and are commonly called the primitive equations. To overcome the turbulence mixing a partial vertical diffusion is usually add...
--- abstract: 'A new class of self-consistent 6-D phase space stationary distributions is constructed both analytically and numerically. The beam is then mismatched longitudinally and/or transversely, and we explore the beam stability and halo formation for the case of 3-D axisymmetric beam bunches using particle-in-ce...
--- author: - | Gaurav Paruthi\ \ \ Enrique Frias-Martinez\ \ \ - | Vanessa Frias-Martinez\ \ \ bibliography: - 'dev.bib' title: The Role of Rating and Loan Characteristics in Online Microfunding Behaviors --- Introduction ============ [*Microfinance institutions (MFIs)*]{} like th...
--- abstract: 'Let $\Mbar_{n,r}$ denote the space of isometry classes of $n$-gons in the plane with one side of length $r$ and all others of length 1, and assume that $n-r$ is not an odd integer. Using known results about the mod-2 cohomology ring, we prove that its topological complexity satisfies $\TC(\Mbar_{n,r})\ge...
--- abstract: | Previous attempts to determine the worldsheet origin of the pure spinor formalism were not completely successful, but introduced important concepts that seem to be connected to its fundamental structure, *e.g.*, emergent supersymmetry and the role of reparametrization symmetry. In this work, a ...
--- abstract: 'The paper deals with Hilbert space valued fields over any locally compact Abelian group $G$, in particular over $G={\mathbb{Z}}^n\times {\mathbb{R}}^m$, which are periodically correlated (PC) with respect to a closed subgroup of $G$. PC fields can be regarded as multi-parameter extensions of PC processes...
--- abstract: 'While slowly turning the ends of a single molecule of DNA at constant applied force, a discontinuity was recently observed at the supercoiling transition, when a small plectoneme is suddenly formed. This can be understood as an abrupt transition into a state in which stretched and plectonemic DNA coexist...
--- abstract: 'Researchers in the humanities are among the many who are now exploring the world of big data. They have begun to use programming languages like Python or R and their corresponding libraries to manipulate large data sets and discover brand new insights. One of the major hurdles that still exists is incorp...
--- abstract: | We present [[KADABRA]{}]{}, a new algorithm to approximate betweenness centrality in directed and undirected graphs, which significantly outperforms all previous approaches on real-world complex networks. The efficiency of the new algorithm relies on two new theoretical contributions, of independent...
--- abstract: 'The first-order, in terms of electron-interaction in the perturbation theory, of the proper linear response function $\Pi ({\bf k}, \omega )$ gives rise to the exchange-contribution to the dielectric function $\epsilon ({\bf k} , \omega)$ in the electron liquid. Its imaginary part, $Im \Pi_1 ({\bf k}, \o...
--- abstract: 'We study the generalization of QED synchrotron radiation to the QCD case with a chromomagnetic field using the Schwinger [*et al*]{} source method. It is shown that the QED case can be obtained as a special limit. The comparison with the path integral approach of Zakharov has shown consistent results.' a...
--- abstract: | The accelerated growth of mobile trajectories in location-based services brings valuable data resources to understand users’ moving behaviors. Apart from recording the trajectory data, another major characteristic of these location-based services is that they also allow the users to connect whomever...
--- author: - | \ Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA\ E-mail: - | Elaine Goode\ University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom\ E-mail: - RBC and UKQCD collaborations title: '$\Delta I=3/2$, $K\to\pi\p...
--- abstract: 'The generation of entangled photon pairs by parametric down–conversion from solid state CW lasers with small coherence time is theoretically and experimentally analyzed. We consider a compact and low-cost setup based on a two-crystal scheme with Type-I phase matching. We study the effect of the pump cohe...
--- author: - | M. Auger, A. Ereditato, D. Goeldi , I. Kreslo[^1], D. Lorca, M. Luethi, C. Rudolf von Rohr, J. Sinclair, and M. S. Weber\ Laboratory for High Energy Physics\ Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics\ Universität Bern, Switzerland\ E-mail: title: 'Multi-channel front-end board f...
--- abstract: 'In many contexts the modal properties of a structure change, either due to the impact of a changing environment, fatigue, or due to the presence of structural damage. For example during flight, an aircraft’s modal properties are known to change with both altitude and velocity. It is thus important to qua...
--- abstract: 'In supervised learning one wishes to identify a pattern present in a joint distribution $P$, of instances, label pairs, by providing a function $f$ from instances to labels that has low risk ${\protect\mathbb{E}}_{P}\ell(y,f(x))$. To do so, the learner is given access to $n$ iid samples drawn from $P$. I...
--- author: - 'J.–M. Grie[ß]{}meier' - 'P. Zarka' - 'H. Spreeuw' date: Version of title: 'Predicting low-frequency radio fluxes of known extrasolar planets[^1] ' --- Introduction ============ In the solar system, all strongly magnetised planets are known to be intense nonthermal radio emitters. For a certain class o...
--- abstract: 'We study the inverse proximity effect in a bilayer consisting of a thin [$s$- or $d$-wave]{} superconductor (S) and a topological insulator (TI). Integrating out the topological fermions of the TI, we find that spin-orbit coupling is induced in the S, which leads to spin-triplet $p$-wave ($f$-wave) corre...
--- author: - 'M.Hitschfeld' - 'M.Aravena' - 'C.Kramer' - 'F.Bertoldi' - 'J.Stutzki' - 'F.Bensch' - 'L.Bronfman' - 'M.Cubick' - 'M.Fujishita' - 'Y.Fukui' - 'U.U.Graf' - 'N.Honingh' - 'S.Ito' - 'H.Jakob' - 'K.Jacobs' - 'U.Klein' - 'B.-C.Koo' - 'J.May' - 'M.Miller' - 'Y.Miyamoto' - 'N.Mizuno' - 'T.Onishi' - 'Y.-S.Park' -...
--- author: - Sarabjeet Singh - 'David J. Schneider' - 'Christopher R. Myers' title: 'The structure of infectious disease outbreaks across the animal–human interface' --- The authors would like to thank Jason Hindes, Oleg Kogan, Marshall Hayes, Drew Dolgert and Jamie Lloyd-Smith for helpful discussions and comments on...
--- abstract: | We use the considered axial deformed relativistic mean field theory to perform systematical calculations for $Z=112$ and 104 isotopic chains with force parameters NL3, NL-SH and NL-Z2 sets. Three deformed chains (oblate, moderate prolate and super-deformed chain) are found for $Z=112$ and 104 isotop...
--- abstract: 'Natural language offers an intuitive and flexible means for humans to communicate with the robots that we will increasingly work alongside in our homes and workplaces. Recent advancements have given rise to robots that are able to interpret natural language manipulation and navigation commands, but these...
--- abstract: 'We prove the standard conjectures for complex projective varieties that are deformations of the Hilbert scheme of points on a K3 surface. The proof involves Verbitsky’s theory of hyperholomorphic sheaves and a study of the cohomology algebra of Hilbert schemes of K3 surfaces.' address: - 'Département de ...
--- abstract: 'We show that the preliminary data of $p_{T}$ spectra of $\Omega^{-}$ and those of $\phi$ at midrapidity in inelastic events in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV exhibit a property of constituent quark number scaling, which is a clear signal of quark combination mechanism at hadronization. We use a qu...
--- abstract: 'We report a magnetocaloric study of the peak effect and Bragg glass transition in a Nb single crystal. The thermomagnetic effects due to vortex flow into and out of the sample are measured. The magnetocaloric signature of the peak effect anomaly is identified. It is found that the peak effect disappears ...
--- abstract: | A CeF$_3$ crystal produced during early R&D studies for calorimetry at the CERN Large Hadron Collider was exposed to a 24GeV/c proton fluence $\Phi_p=(2.78 \pm 0.20) \times 10^{13}\;\mathrm{cm^{-2}}$ and, after one year of measurements tracking its recovery, to a fluence $\Phi_p=(2.12 \pm 0.15...
--- abstract: 'The quadrupole interaction between the Rydberg electronic states of a Rydberg ion and the radio frequency electric field of the ion trap is analyzed. Such a coupling is negligible for the lowest energy levels of a trapped ion but it is important for a trapped Rydberg ion due to its large electric dipole ...
--- abstract: 'Using the new equipment of the Shanghai Tian Ma Radio Telescope, we have searched for carbon-chain molecules (CCMs) [**towards**]{} five outflow sources and six Lupus I starless dust cores, including one region known to be characterized by warm carbon-chain chemistry (WCCC), Lupus I-1 (IRAS 15398-3359), ...
--- abstract: 'Let $0<r<1/4$, and $f$ be a non-vanishing continuous function in $|z|\leq r$, that is analytic in the interior. Voronin’s universality theorem asserts that translates of the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(3/4 + z + it)$ can approximate $f$ uniformly in $|z| < r$ to any given precision $\varepsilon$, and mo...
--- abstract: 'We present a comprehensive study of the magnetic properties of the long-range ordered quasi-one dimensional $J_{1}$-$J_{2}$ systems with a newly developed torque equilibrium spin-wave expansion approach, which can describe the spin Casimir and magnon decay effects in a unified framework. While the framew...
--- abstract: 'We show that a one-dimensional chain of trapped ions can be engineered to produce a quantum mechanical system with discrete scale invariance and fractal-like time dependence. By discrete scale invariance we mean a system that replicates itself under a rescaling of distance for some scale factor, and a ti...
--- abstract: 'We present the star formation histories, luminosities, colors, mass to light ratios, and halo masses of “galaxies” formed in a simulation of cosmological reionization. We compare these galaxies with Lyman Break Galaxies observed at high redshift. While the simulation is severely limited by the small box ...
--- abstract: | We propose a model of discrete time dynamic congestion games with atomic players and a single source-destination pair. The latencies of edges are composed by free-flow transit times and possible queuing time due to capacity constraints. We give a precise description of the dynamics induced by the in...
--- abstract: 'A recent experiment reported the first violation of a Bell correlation witness in a many-body system \[Science 352, 441 (2016)\]. Following discussions in this paper, we address here the question of the statistics required to witness Bell correlated states, i.e. states violating a Bell inequality, in suc...
--- abstract: 'Submillimeter observations are a key for answering many of the big questions in modern-day astrophysics, such as how stars and planets form, how galaxies evolve, and how material cycles through stars and the interstellar medium. With the upcoming large submillimeter facilities ALMA and Herschel a new win...
--- abstract: 'Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to extract entities from unstructured data. The previous methods for NER were based on machine learning or deep learning. Recently, pre-training models have significantly improved performance on multiple NLP tasks. In ...
--- abstract: 'It is shown that the penetration of an oscillating electric field in a semi-infinite classical plasma obeys the standard exponential attenuation law $e^{-x/\lambda_{e}}$ (besides oscillations), where $x$ is the distance from the wall and $\lambda_{e}$ is the extinction length (penetration depth, attenuat...
--- author: - Julius Ranninger title: '**Introduction to polaron physics: Basic Concepts and Models**' --- Introduction ============ Putting an electron into a crystalline lattice, it will interact with the dynamical deformations of that latter. Depending on the type of material we are dealing with—such as ionic pola...
--- abstract: 'The intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductors has developed to a remarkably lively and rapidly growing branch of research in the field of semiconductor spintronics. In this article we give a pedagogical overview on both theoretical and experimental accomplishments and challenges. Emphasis is put on th...
--- abstract: 'Since 1999, a radial velocity survey of 179 red giant stars is ongoing at Lick Observatory with a one month cadence. At present $\sim$20$-$100 measurements have been collected per star with an accuracy of 5 to 8 ms$^{-1}$. Of the stars monitored, 145 (80%) show radial velocity (RV) variations at a level ...
--- abstract: 'Nowadays, evidence is mounting that the race of living organisms for adaptation to the chemicals synthesized by their neighbours may drive community structures. Particularly, some bacterial infections and plant invasions disruptive of the native community rely on the release of allelochemicals that inhib...
--- abstract: 'In this short paper we follow the entropic gravity approach and demonstrate how $f(R)$ theories of gravity can be emergent. This is done by introducing an effective gravitational constant which is naturally arising from the $f(R)$’s equations of motion.' author: - Ali Teimouri title: 'Entropic $f(R)$ Gra...
--- author: - | Pengyu Wang$^1$      Phil Blunsom$^{1,2}$\ $^1$Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford\ $^2$Google DeepMind\ `{pengyu.wang,phil.blunsom}@cs.ox.ac.uk` title: Stochastic Collapsed Variational Inference for Hidden Markov Models --- Introduction ============ Hidden Markov mode...
--- abstract: | A mathematical formulation of an estimation problem of a cavity inside a three-dimensional thermoelastic body using time domain data is considered. The governing equation of the problem is given by a system of equations in the linear theory of thermoelasticity which is a coupled system of the elasti...
--- author: - | Dmitri Antonov [^1]\ [*INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Universitá degli studi di Pisa,*]{}\ [*Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti, 2 - Ed. B - I-56127 Pisa, Italy*]{}\ [*and*]{}\ [*Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics,*]{}\ [*B. Cheremushkinskaya 25, RU-117 218 Moscow, Russ...
--- abstract: 'When holes move in the background of strong antiferromagnetic correlation, two spatial scales emerge which lead to a much reduced hopping integral with an additional phase factor. By taking these two effects into consideration, we propose an effective Hamiltonian to investigate pseudogap in cuprates. We ...
--- abstract: 'We study the effects of dust grain size on the spectral energy distribution (SED) of spherical circumstellar envelopes. Based on the self-similarity relations of dusty SEDs derived by @ive97, we expect an approximate invariance of the IR SED for models with different grain sizes. Approximate invariance f...
--- abstract: 'The effects of downfolding a Brillouin zone can open gaps and quench the kinetic energy by flattening bands. Quasiperiodic systems are extreme examples of this process, which leads to new phases and critical eigenstates. We analytically and numerically investigate these effects in a two-dimensional topol...
--- abstract: | In this paper we study inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation with rational numbers of reduced form. The central object to study is the set $W(f,\theta)$ as follows, $$\begin{aligned} \left\{x\in [0,1]:\left |x-\frac{m+\theta(n)}{n}\right|<\frac{f(n)}{n}\text{ for infinitely many coprime pairs ...
--- abstract: 'We provide a companion to the recent B[é]{}nyi-[Ć]{}urgus generalization of the well-known theorems of Ceva and Menelaus, so as to characterize both the collinearity of points and the concurrence of lines determined by six points on the edges of a triangle. A companion for the generalized area formula of...
--- abstract: 'We discuss the form of the wave-function of a state subjected to a scalar linear potential, paying special attention to quantum tunneling. We analyze the phases acquired by the evolved state and show that some of them have a pure quantum mechanical origin. In order to measure one of these phases, we prop...
--- abstract: 'Exploiting the matrix-product-state based density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) technique we study the one-dimensional extended ($U$-$V$) Hubbard model with explicit bond dimerization in the half-filled band sector. In particular we investigate the nature of the quantum phase transition, taking pla...
--- abstract: 'Confidence intervals provide a way to determine plausible values for a population parameter. They are omnipresent in research articles involving statistical analyses. Appropriately, a key statistical literacy learning objective is the ability to interpret and understand confidence intervals in a wide ran...