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Online Forum Thread Retrieval using Pseudo Cluster Selection and Voting Techniques
Online forums facilitate knowledge seeking and sharing on the Web. However,
the shared knowledge is not fully utilized due to information overload. Thread
retrieval is one method to overcome information overload. In this paper, we
propose a model that combines two existing approaches: the Pseudo Cluster
Selection and the Voting Techniques. In both, a retrieval system first scores a
list of messages and then ranks threads by aggregating their scored messages.
They differ on what and how to aggregate. The pseudo cluster selection focuses
on input, while voting techniques focus on the aggregation method. Our combined
models focus on the input and the aggregation methods. The result shows that
some combined models are statistically superior to baseline methods.Comment: The original publication is available at
http://www.springerlink.com/. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1212.533
A New Phase at Finite Quark Density from AdS/CFT
We explore phases of N=2 super Yang-Mills theory at finite quark density by
introducing quark chemical potential in a D3-D7 setup. We formulate the
thermodynamics of brane embeddings and find that we need to renormalize the
finite chemical potential due to the divergence of the thermodynamic potentials
and we find that the density versus chemical potential equation of state has
rich structure. This yields two distinct first order phase transitions in a
small window of quark density. In order words, there is a new first order phase
transition in the region of deconfined quarks. In this new phase, the chemical
potential is a decreasing function of the density. We suggest that this might
be relevant to the difference in sQGP--wQGP phases of QCD.Comment: 4 pages, revte
Non-Gaussian errors of baryonic acoustic oscillations
We revisit the uncertainty in baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) forecasts and
data analyses. In particular, we study how much the uncertainties on both the
measured mean dilation scale and the associated error bar are affected by the
non-Gaussianity of the non-linear density field. We examine two possible
impacts of non-Gaussian analysis: (1) we derive the distance estimators from
Gaussian theory, but use 1000 N-Body simulations to measure the actual errors,
and compare this to the Gaussian prediction, and (2) we compute new optimal
estimators, which requires the inverse of the non-Gaussian covariance matrix of
the matter power spectrum. Obtaining an accurate and precise inversion is
challenging, and we opted for a noise reduction technique applied on the
covariance matrices. By measuring the bootstrap error on the inverted matrix,
this work quantifies for the first time the significance of the non-Gaussian
error corrections on the BAO dilation scale. We find that the variance (error
squared) on distance measurements can deviate by up to 12% between both
estimators, an effect that requires a large number of simulations to be
resolved. We next apply a reconstruction algorithm to recover some of the BAO
signal that had been smeared by non-linear evolution, and we rerun the
analysis. We find that after reconstruction, the rms error on the distance
measurement improves by a factor of ~1.7 at low redshift (consistent with
previous results), and the variance ({\sigma}^2) shows a change of up to 18%
between optimal and sub-optimal cases (note, however, that these discrepancies
may depend in detail on the procedure used to isolate the BAO signal). We
finally discuss the impact of this work on current data analyses.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepte
A New Statistic for Analyzing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
We introduce a new statistic omega_l for measuring and analyzing large-scale
structure and particularly the baryon acoustic oscillations. omega_l is a
band-filtered, configuration space statistic that is easily implemented and has
advantages over the traditional power spectrum and correlation function
estimators. Unlike these estimators, omega_l can localize most of the acoustic
information into a single dip at the acoustic scale while also avoiding
sensitivity to the poorly constrained large scale power (i.e., the integral
constraint) through the use of a localized and compensated filter. It is also
sensitive to anisotropic clustering through pair counting and does not require
any binning. We measure the shift in the acoustic peak due to nonlinear effects
using the monopole omega_0 derived from subsampled dark matter catalogues as
well as from mock galaxy catalogues created via halo occupation distribution
(HOD) modeling. All of these are drawn from 44 realizations of 1024^3 particle
dark matter simulations in a 1h^{-1}Gpc box at z=1. We compare these shifts
with those obtained from the power spectrum and conclude that the results
agree. This indicates that any distance measurements obtained from omega_0 and
P(k) will be consistent with each other. We also show that it is possible to
extract the same amount of acoustic information using either omega_0 or P(k)
from equal volume surveys.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. ApJ accepted. Edit: Now updated with final
accepted versio
Steering effects on growth instability during step-flow growth of Cu on Cu(1,1,17)
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation in conjunction with molecular dynamics
simulation is utilized to study the effect of the steered deposition on the
growth of Cu on Cu(1,1,17). It is found that the deposition flux becomes
inhomogeneous in step train direction and the inhomogeneity depends on the
deposition angle, when the deposition is made along that direction. Steering
effect is found to always increase the growth instability, with respect to the
case of homogeneous deposition. Further, the growth instability depends on the
deposition angle and direction, showing minimum at a certain deposition angle
off-normal to (001) terrace, and shows a strong correlation with the
inhomogeneous deposition flux. The increase of the growth instability is
ascribed to the strengthened step Erlich Schwoebel barrier effects that is
caused by the enhanced deposition flux near descending step edge due to the
steering effect.Comment: 5 page
Charge Fluctuations in Geometrically Frustrated Charge Ordering System
Effects of geometrical frustration in low-dimensional charge ordering systems
are theoretically studied, mainly focusing on dynamical properties. We treat
extended Hubbard models at quarter-filling, where the frustration arises from
competing charge ordered patterns favored by different intersite Coulomb
interactions, which are effective models for various charge transfer-type
molecular conductors and transition metal oxides. Two different lattice
structures are considered: (a) one-dimensional chain with intersite Coulomb
interaction of nearest neighbor V_1 and that of next-nearest neighbor V_2, and
(b) two-dimensional square lattice with V_1 along the squares and V_2 along one
of the diagonals. From previous studies, charge ordered insulating states are
known to be unstable in the frustrated region, i.e., V_1 \simeq 2V_2 for case
(a) and V_1 \simeq V_2 for case (b), resulting in a robust metallic phase even
when the interaction strenghs are strong. By applying the Lanczos exact
diagonalization to finite-size clusters, we have found that fluctuations of
different charge order patterns exist in the frustration-induced metallic
phase, showing up as characteristic low energy modes in dynamical correlation
functions. Comparison of such features between the two models are discussed,
whose difference will be ascribed to the dimensionality effect. We also point
out incommensurate correlation in the charge sector due to the frustration,
found in one-dimensional clusters.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
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