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The role of the resonance in the reaction
We investigate the photo-production in the reaction within the effective Lagrangian method near
threshold. In addition to the "background" contributions from the contact,
channel exchange, and channel nucleon pole terms, which were
already considered in previous works, the contribution from the nucleon
resonance (spin-parity ) is also considered. We show
that the inclusion of the nucleon resonance leads to a fairly good
description of the new LEPS differential cross section data, and that these
measurements can be used to determine some of the properties of this latter
resonance. However, serious discrepancies appear when the predictions of the
model are compared to the photon-beam asymmetry also measured by the LEPS
Collaboration.Comment: 9 pages,6 figures, 1 tabl
Approximate Minimum Diameter
We study the minimum diameter problem for a set of inexact points. By
inexact, we mean that the precise location of the points is not known. Instead,
the location of each point is restricted to a contineus region (\impre model)
or a finite set of points (\indec model). Given a set of inexact points in
one of \impre or \indec models, we wish to provide a lower-bound on the
diameter of the real points.
In the first part of the paper, we focus on \indec model. We present an
time
approximation algorithm of factor for finding minimum diameter
of a set of points in dimensions. This improves the previously proposed
algorithms for this problem substantially.
Next, we consider the problem in \impre model. In -dimensional space, we
propose a polynomial time -approximation algorithm. In addition, for
, we define the notion of -separability and use our algorithm for
\indec model to obtain -approximation algorithm for a set of
-separable regions in time
Growth, transport, and magnetic properties of Pr0.67Ca0.33MnO3 thin films
We have grown Pr0.67Ca0.33MnO3 thin films on LaAlO3 using pulsed laser deposition. Below 50 K, a field induced insulator-metal transition results in changes in resistivity of at least 6 orders of magnitude. The field induced conducting state is metastable at low temperature. The temperature dependence of the resistivity exhibits considerable hysteresis in a field of 40 kOe but becomes reversible in a field of 80 kOe
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Ultrasoft Pseudopotential: Real-Time Electron Propagation across Molecular Junction
A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional
theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study
electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping
algorithm is adopted, under planewave basis. The scheme is validated by
calculating the optical absorption spectra for sodium dimer and benzene
molecule. As an application of this USPP-TDDFT formalism, we compute the time
evolution of a test electron packet at the Fermi energy of the left metallic
lead crossing a benzene-(1,4)-dithiolate junction. A transmission probability
of 5-7%, corresponding to a conductance of 4.0-5.6muS, is obtained. These
results are consistent with complex band structure estimates, and Green's
function calculation results at small bias voltages
Active motions of Brownian particles in a generalized energy-depot model
We present a generalized energy-depot model in which the conversion rate of
the internal energy into motion can be dependent on the position and the
velocity of a particle. When the conversion rate is a general function of the
velocity, the active particle exhibits diverse patterns of motion including a
braking mechanism and a stepping motion. The phase trajectories of the motion
are investigated in a systematic way. With a particular form of the conversion
rate dependent on the position and velocity, the particle shows a spontaneous
oscillation characterizing a negative stiffness. These types of active
behaviors are compared with the similar phenomena observed in biology such as
the stepping motion of molecular motors and the amplification in hearing
mechanism. Hence, our model can provide a generic understanding of the active
motion related to the energy conversion and also a new control mechanism for
nano-robots. We also investigate the noise effect, especially on the stepping
motion and observe the random walk-like behavior as expected.Comment: to appear in New J. Phy
ESR Study of (C_5H_{12}N)_2CuBr_4
ESR studies at 9.27, 95.4, and 289.7 GHz have been performed on
(CHN)CuBr down to 3.7 K. The 9.27 GHz data were acquired
with a single crystal and do not indicate the presence of any structural
transitions. The high frequency data were collected with a polycrystalline
sample and resolved two absorbances, consistent with two crystallographic
orientations of the magnetic sites and with earlier ESR studies performed at
300 K. Below T, our data confirm the presence of a spin singlet
ground state.Comment: 2 pages, 4 figs., submitted 23rd International Conference on Low
Temperature Physics (LT-23), Aug. 200
Results of a search for 2-decay of Xe with high-pressure copper proportional counters in Baksan Neutrino Observatory
The experiment for the 2-decay of Xe search with two
high-pressure copper proportional counters has been held in Baksan neutrino
observatory. The search for the process is based on comparison of spectra
measured with natural and enriched xenon. No evidence has been found for
2(2)- and 2(0)-decay. The decay half lifetime limit
based on data measured during 8000 h is Tyr for
2-mode and Tyr for 0-mode (90%C.L.).Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures; talk at the NANP'05 Conference; submitted to
Phys. At. Nuc
Elementary amenable subgroups of R. Thompson's group F
The subgroup structure of Thompson's group F is not yet fully understood. The
group F is a subgroup of the group PL(I) of orientation preserving, piecewise
linear self homeomorphisms of the unit interval and this larger group thus also
has a poorly understood subgroup structure. It is reasonable to guess that F is
the "only" subgroup of PL(I) that is not elementary amenable. In this paper, we
explore the complexity of the elementary amenable subgroups of F in an attempt
to understand the boundary between the elementary amenable subgroups and the
non-elementary amenable. We construct an example of an elementary amenable
subgroup up to class (height) omega squared, where omega is the first infinite
ordinal.Comment: 20 page
Automatic Content Generation for Video Self Modeling
Video self modeling (VSM) is a behavioral intervention technique in which a learner models a target behavior by watching a video of him or herself. Its effectiveness in rehabilitation and education has been repeatedly demonstrated but technical challenges remain in creating video contents that depict previously unseen behaviors. In this paper, we propose a novel system that re-renders new talking-head sequences suitable to be used for VSM treatment of patients with voice disorder. After the raw footage is captured, a new speech track is either synthesized using text-to-speech or selected based on voice similarity from a database of clean speeches. Voice conversion is then applied to match the new speech to the original voice. Time markers extracted from the original and new speech track are used to re-sample the video track for lip synchronization. We use an adaptive re-sampling strategy to minimize motion jitter, and apply bilinear and optical-flow based interpolation to ensure the image quality. Both objective measurements and subjective evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques
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