166 research outputs found
Further Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of two Planck ERCSC clusters with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
We present follow-up observations of two galaxy clusters detected blindly via
the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and released in the Planck Early Release
Compact Source Catalogue. We use the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager, a dual-array
14-18 GHz radio interferometer. After radio source subtraction, we find a SZ
decrement of integrated flux density -1.08+/-0.10 mJy toward PLCKESZ
G121.11+57.01, and improve the position measurement of the cluster, finding the
centre to be RA 12 59 36.4, Dec +60 04 46.8, to an accuracy of 20 arcseconds.
The region of PLCKESZ G115.71+17.52 contains strong extended emission, so we
are unable to confirm the presence of this cluster via the SZ effect.Comment: 4 tables, 3 figures, revised after referee's comments and resubmitted
to MNRA
About Locality and the Relativity Principle Beyond Special Relativity
Locality of interactions is an essential ingredient of Special Relativity.
Recently, a new framework under the name of relative locality
\cite{AmelinoCamelia:2011bm} has been proposed as a way to consider Planckian
modifications of the relativistic dynamics of particles. We note in this paper
that the loss of absolute locality is a general feature of theories beyond
Special Relativity with an implementation of a relativity principle. We give an
explicit construction of such an implementation and compare it both with the
previously mentioned framework of relative locality and the so-called Doubly
Special Relativity theories.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
Nonlinear Dirac equations on Riemann surfaces
We develop analytical methods for nonlinear Dirac equations. Examples of such
equations include Dirac-harmonic maps with curvature term and the equations
describing the generalized Weierstrass representation of surfaces in
three-manifolds. We provide the key analytical steps, i.e., small energy
regularity and removable singularity theorems and energy identities for
solutions.Comment: to appear in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometr
Thermal drag revisited: Boltzmann versus Kubo
The effect of mutual drag between phonons and spin excitations on the thermal
conductivity of a quantum spin system is discussed. We derive general
expression for the drag component of the thermal current using both Boltzmann
equation approach and Kubo linear-response formalism to leading order in the
spin-phonon coupling. We demonstrate that aside from higher-order corrections
which appear in the Kubo formalism both approaches yield identical results for
the drag thermal conductivity. We discuss the range of applicability of our
result and provide a generalization of our consideration to the cases of
fermionic excitations and to anomalous forms of boson-phonon coupling. Several
asymptotic regimes of our findings relevant to realistic situations are
highlighted.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, published version, extended discussio
Leptonic and semileptonic decays of heavy mesons
A heavy-quark limit of the Dyson-Schwinger equations is introduced and used
in an exploratory study of leptonic and semileptonic decays of heavy mesons.
The application of this framework to heavy-to-light semileptonic decays, which
require a good knowledge of light-quark propagation characteristics and
light-meson bound state amplitudes, is illustrated.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the IVth International Workshop
on Progress in Heavy Quark Physics, 20-22 Sept. 1997, Rostoc
Cluster excitation and ionization in high velocity collisions:the atomic approach
The independent atom and electron model [1] is introduced in a quantum
context and associated approximations tentatively estimated. Confrontation of
the model to measured ionization and excitation cross sections of small ionic
carbon clusters Cn+ in collisions with helium at an impact velocity of 2.6 a.u
is presented
Polaron in t-J model
We present numeric results for ground state and angle resolved photoemission
spectra (ARPES) for single hole in t-J model coupled to optical phonons. The
systematic-error free diagrammatic Monte Carlo is employed where the Feynman
graphs for the Matsubara Green function in imaginary time are summed up
completely with respect to phonons variables, while magnetic variables are
subjected to non-crossing approximation. We obtain that at electron-phonon
coupling constants relevant for high Tc cuprates the polaron undergoes
self-trapping crossover to strong coupling limit and theoretical ARPES
demonstrate features observed in experiment: a broad peak in the bottom of the
spectra has momentum dependence which coincides with that of hole in pure t-J
model.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Worst case attacks against binary probabilistic traitor tracing codes
An insightful view into the design of traitor tracing codes should
necessarily consider the worst case attacks that the colluders can lead. This
paper takes an information-theoretic point of view where the worst case attack
is defined as the collusion strategy minimizing the achievable rate of the
traitor tracing code. Two different decoders are envisaged, the joint decoder
and the simple decoder, as recently defined by P. Moulin
\cite{Moulin08universal}. Several classes of colluders are defined with
increasing power. The worst case attack is derived for each class and each
decoder when applied to Tardos' codes and a probabilistic version of the
Boneh-Shaw construction. This contextual study gives the real rates achievable
by the binary probabilistic traitor tracing codes. Attacks usually considered
in literature, such as majority or minority votes, are indeed largely
suboptimal. This article also shows the utmost importance of the time-sharing
concept in a probabilistic codes.Comment: submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Securit
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