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Non-Gaussianity analysis on local morphological measures of WMAP data
The decomposition of a signal on the sphere with the steerable wavelet
constructed from the second Gaussian derivative gives access to the
orientation, signed-intensity, and elongation of the signal's local features.
In the present work, the non-Gaussianity of the WMAP temperature data of the
cosmic microwave background (CMB) is analyzed in terms of the first four
moments of the statistically isotropic random fields associated with these
local morphological measures, at wavelet scales corresponding to angular sizes
between 27.5 arcminutes and 30 degrees on the celestial sphere. While no
detection is made neither in the orientation analysis nor in the elongation
analysis, a strong detection is made in the excess kurtosis of the
signed-intensity of the WMAP data. The non-Gaussianity is observed with a
significance level below 0.5% at a wavelet scale corresponding to an angular
size around 10 degrees, and confirmed at neighbour scales. This supports a
previous detection of an excess of kurtosis in the wavelet coefficient of the
WMAP data with the axisymmetric Mexican hat wavelet (Vielva et al. 2004).
Instrumental noise and foreground emissions are not likely to be at the origin
of the excess of kurtosis. Large-scale modulations of the CMB related to some
unknown systematics are rejected as possible origins of the detection. The
observed non-Gaussianity may therefore probably be imputed to the CMB itself,
thereby questioning the basic inflationary scenario upon which the present
concordance cosmological model relies. Taking the CMB temperature angular power
spectrum of the concordance cosmological model at face value, further analysis
also suggests that this non-Gaussianity is not confined to the directions on
the celestial sphere with an anomalous signed-intensity.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures. Version 2 includes minor changes to match
version accepted for publication in MNRA
An explanation of the as a bound state
We use the interaction in the hidden gauge formalism to
dynamically generate and resonances. We show,
through a comparison of the results from this analysis and from a quark model
study with data, that the
and resonances can be assigned to bound
states. More precisely the can be interpreted as a
bound state whereas the and
may contain an important component. This
interpretation allows for a solution of a long-standing puzzle concerning the
description of these resonances in constituent quark models. In addition we
also obtain degenerate states but their
assignment to experimental resonances is more uncertain.Comment: 19 pags, 8 fig
Electronic instabilities of a Hubbard model approached as a large array of coupled chains: competition between d-wave superconductivity and pseudogap phase
We study the electronic instabilities in a 2D Hubbard model where one of the
dimensions has a finite width, so that it can be considered as a large array of
coupled chains. The finite transverse size of the system gives rise to a
discrete string of Fermi points, with respective electron fields that, due to
their mutual interaction, acquire anomalous scaling dimensions depending on the
point of the string. Using bosonization methods, we show that the anomalous
scaling dimensions vanish when the number of coupled chains goes to infinity,
implying the Fermi liquid behavior of a 2D system in that limit. However, when
the Fermi level is at the Van Hove singularity arising from the saddle points
of the 2D dispersion, backscattering and Cooper-pair scattering lead to the
breakdown of the metallic behavior at low energies. These interactions are
taken into account through their renormalization group scaling, studying in
turn their influence on the nonperturbative bosonization of the model. We show
that, at a certain low-energy scale, the anomalous electron dimension diverges
at the Fermi points closer to the saddle points of the 2D dispersion. The
d-wave superconducting correlations become also large at low energies, but
their growth is cut off as the suppression of fermion excitations takes place
first, extending progressively along the Fermi points towards the diagonals of
the 2D Brillouin zone. We stress that this effect arises from the vanishing of
the charge stiffness at the Fermi points, characterizing a critical behavior
that is well captured within our nonperturbative approach.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Plausible explanation of the puzzle
From a Faddeev calculation for the
system we show the plausible existence of three dynamically generated
baryon states below 2.3 GeV whereas only two
resonances, and
are cataloged in the Particle Data Book
Review. Our results give theoretical support to data analyses extracting two
distinctive resonances, and
from which the mass of
is estimated. We propose that these two
resonances should be cataloged instead of This
proposal gets further support from the possible assignment of the other baryon
states found in the approach in the with
sectors to known baryonic resonances. In
particular, is naturally interpreted as a bound state.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
On the void explanation of the Cold Spot
The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) contribution induced on the cosmic microwave
background by the presence of a supervoid as the one detected by Szapudi et al.
(2015) is reviewed in this letter in order to check whether it could explain
the Cold Spot (CS) anomaly. Two different models, previously used for the same
purpose, are considered to describe the matter density profile of the void: a
top hat function and a compensated profile produced by a Gaussian potential.
The analysis shows that, even enabling ellipticity changes or different values
for the dark-energy equation of state parameter , the ISW contribution
due to the presence of the void does not reproduce the properties of the CS.
Finally, the probability of alignment between the void and the CS is also
questioned as an argument in favor of a physical connection between these two
phenomena
Tunable entanglement distillation of spatially correlated down-converted photons
We report on a new technique for entanglement distillation of the bipartite
continuous variable state of spatially correlated photons generated in the
spontaneous parametric down-conversion process (SPDC), where tunable
non-Gaussian operations are implemented and the post-processed entanglement is
certified in real-time using a single-photon sensitive electron multiplying CCD
(EMCCD) camera. The local operations are performed using non-Gaussian filters
modulated into a programmable spatial light modulator and, by using the EMCCD
camera for actively recording the probability distributions of the
twin-photons, one has fine control of the Schmidt number of the distilled
state. We show that even simple non-Gaussian filters can be finely tuned to a
~67% net gain of the initial entanglement generated in the SPDC process.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
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