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Two-Electron Linear Intersubband Light Absorption in a Biased Quantum Well
We point out a novel manifestation of many-body correlations in the linear
optical response of electrons confined in a quantum well. Namely, we
demonstrate that along with conventional absorption peak at frequency close to
intersubband energy, there exists an additional peak at double frequency. This
new peak is solely due to electron-electron interactions, and can be understood
as excitation of two electrons by a single photon. The actual peak lineshape is
comprised of a sharp feature, due to excitation of pairs of intersubband
plasmons, on top of a broader band due to absorption by two single-particle
excitations. The two-plasmon contribution allows to infer intersubband plasmon
dispersion from linear absorption experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; published versio
Measuring dark energy with the correlation of gamma-ray bursts using model-independent methods
In this paper, we use two model-independent methods to standardize long
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using the correlation, where
is the isotropic-equivalent gamma-ray energy and is
the spectral peak energy. We update 42 long GRBs and try to make constraint on
cosmological parameters. The full sample contains 151 long GRBs with redshifts
from 0.0331 to 8.2. The first method is the simultaneous fitting method. The
extrinsic scatter is taken into account and assigned to the
parameter . The best-fitting values are ,
, and in the flat
CDM model. The constraint on is at the
1 confidence level. If reduced method is used, the best-fit
results are , and . The
second method is using type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to calibrate the correlation. We calibrate 90 high-redshift GRBs in the redshift
range from 1.44 to 8.1. The cosmological constraints from these 90 GRBs are
for flat CDM, and
and for non-flat
CDM. For the combination of GRB and SNe Ia sample, we obtain
and for the flat CDM, and
for the non-flat CDM, the results are ,
and . These results from
calibrated GRBs are consistent with that of SNe Ia. Meanwhile, the combined
data can improve cosmological constraints significantly, comparing to SNe Ia
alone. Our results show that the correlation is
promising to probe the high-redshift universe.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, 4 table, accepted by A&A. Table 4 contains
calibrated distance moduli of GRB
On data skewness, stragglers, and MapReduce progress indicators
We tackle the problem of predicting the performance of MapReduce
applications, designing accurate progress indicators that keep programmers
informed on the percentage of completed computation time during the execution
of a job. Through extensive experiments, we show that state-of-the-art progress
indicators (including the one provided by Hadoop) can be seriously harmed by
data skewness, load unbalancing, and straggling tasks. This is mainly due to
their implicit assumption that the running time depends linearly on the input
size. We thus design a novel profile-guided progress indicator, called
NearestFit, that operates without the linear hypothesis assumption and exploits
a careful combination of nearest neighbor regression and statistical curve
fitting techniques. Our theoretical progress model requires fine-grained
profile data, that can be very difficult to manage in practice. To overcome
this issue, we resort to computing accurate approximations for some of the
quantities used in our model through space- and time-efficient data streaming
algorithms. We implemented NearestFit on top of Hadoop 2.6.0. An extensive
empirical assessment over the Amazon EC2 platform on a variety of real-world
benchmarks shows that NearestFit is practical w.r.t. space and time overheads
and that its accuracy is generally very good, even in scenarios where
competitors incur non-negligible errors and wide prediction fluctuations.
Overall, NearestFit significantly improves the current state-of-art on progress
analysis for MapReduce
An analysis of the Isgur-Wise Function and its derivatives within a Heavy-Light QCD Quark Model
In determining the mesonic wave function from QCD inspired potential model,
if the linear confinement term is taken as parent (with columbic term as
perturbation), Airy's function appears in the resultant wave function - which
is an infinite series. In the study of Isgur-Wise function (IWF) and its
derivatives with such a wave function, the infinite upper limit of integration
gives rise to divergence. In this paper, we have proposed some reasonable
cut-off values for the upper limit of such integrations and studied the
subsequent effect on the results. We also study the sensitivity of the order of
polynomial approximation of the infinite Airy series in calculating the
derivatives of IWF.Comment: 14 pages,6 tables 8 figure
An exactly solvable phase transition model: generalized statistics and generalized Bose-Einstein condensation
In this paper, we present an exactly solvable phase transition model in which
the phase transition is purely statistically derived. The phase transition in
this model is a generalized Bose-Einstein condensation. The exact expression of
the thermodynamic quantity which can simultaneously describe both gas phase and
condensed phase is solved with the help of the homogeneous Riemann-Hilbert
problem, so one can judge whether there exists a phase transition and determine
the phase transition point mathematically rigorously. A generalized statistics
in which the maximum occupation numbers of different quantum states can take on
different values is introduced, as a generalization of Bose-Einstein and
Fermi-Dirac statistics.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure
Observable Optimal State Points of Sub-additive Potentials
For a sequence of sub-additive potentials, Dai [Optimal state points of the
sub-additive ergodic theorem, Nonlinearity, 24 (2011), 1565-1573] gave a method
of choosing state points with negative growth rates for an ergodic dynamical
system. This paper generalizes Dai's result to the non-ergodic case, and proves
that under some mild additional hypothesis, one can choose points with negative
growth rates from a positive Lebesgue measure set, even if the system does not
preserve any measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue
measure.Comment: 16 pages. This work was reported in the summer school in Nanjing
University. In this second version we have included some changes suggested by
the referee. The final version will appear in Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems- Series A - A.I.M. Sciences and will be available at
http://aimsciences.org/journals/homeAllIssue.jsp?journalID=
Spin Susceptibility of the Topological Superconductor UPt3 from Polarized Neutron Diffraction
Experiment and theory indicate that UPt3 is a topological superconductor in
an odd-parity state, based in part from temperature independence of the NMR
Knight shift. However, quasiparticle spin-flip scattering near a surface, where
the Knight shift is measured, might be responsible. We use polarized neutron
scattering to measure the bulk susceptibility with H||c, finding consistency
with the Knight shift but inconsistent with theory for this field orientation.
We infer that neither spin susceptibility nor Knight shift are a reliable
indication of odd-parity
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