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Relating multihadron production in hadronic and nuclear collisions
The energy-dependence of charged particle mean multiplicity and
pseudorapidity density at midrapidity measured in nucleus-nucleus and
(anti)proton-proton collisions are studied in the entire available energy
range. The study is performed using a model, which considers the multiparticle
production process according to the dissipating energy of the participants and
their types, namely a combination of the constituent quark picture together
with Landau relativistic hydrodynamics. The model reveals interrelations
between the variables under study measured in nucleus-nucleus and
nucleon-nucleon collisions. Measurements in nuclear reactions are shown to be
well reproduced by the measurements in (anti)proton-proton interactions common
and the corresponding fits are presented. Different observations in other types
of collisions are discussed in the framework of the proposed model. Predictions
are made for measurements at the forthcoming LHC energies.Comment: Europ. Phys. J. C (to appear). Recently CMS reported
(arXiv:1005.3299) on the midrapidity density value of 5.78 +/- 0.01(stat) +/-
0.23(syst) in pp collisons at 7 TeV, which agrees well with the value of 5.8
of our prediction
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Comparative Dating Of Attine Ant And Lepiotaceous Cultivar Phylogenies Reveals Coevolutionary Synchrony And Discord
The mutualistic symbiosis between fungus-gardening ants and their cultivars has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the coevolution of complex species interactions. Reciprocal specialization and vertical symbiont cotransmission are thought to promote a pattern of largely synchronous coevolutionary diversification in attines. Here we test this hypothesis by inferring the first time-calibrated multigene phylogeny of the lepiotaceous attine cultivars and comparing it with the recently published fossil-anchored phylogeny of the attine ants. While this comparison reveals some possible cases of synchronous origins of ant and fungal clades, there were a number of surprising asynchronies. For example, leaf-cutter cultivars appear to be significantly younger than the corresponding ant genera. Similarly, a clade of fungi interacting with primitive fungus-gardening ants-thought to be ancestral to the more derived leaf-cutter symbionts-appears instead to be a more recent acquisition from free-living stock. These macroevolutionary patterns are consistent with recent population-level studies suggesting occasional acquisition of novel cultivar types from environmental sources and horizontal transmission of cultivars between different ant species. Horizontal transmission events, even if rare, appear to form loose ecological connections between diffusely coevolving ant and fungus lineages that permit punctuated changes in the topology of the mutualistic ant-fungus interaction network.Integrative Biolog
Smooth bumps, a Borel theorem and partitions of smooth functions on p.c.f. fractals
We provide two methods for constructing smooth bump functions and for
smoothly cutting off smooth functions on fractals, one using a probabilistic
approach and sub-Gaussian estimates for the heat operator, and the other using
the analytic theory for p.c.f. fractals and a fixed point argument. The heat
semigroup (probabilistic) method is applicable to a more general class of
metric measure spaces with Laplacian, including certain infinitely ramified
fractals, however the cut off technique involves some loss in smoothness. From
the analytic approach we establish a Borel theorem for p.c.f. fractals, showing
that to any prescribed jet at a junction point there is a smooth function with
that jet. As a consequence we prove that on p.c.f. fractals smooth functions
may be cut off with no loss of smoothness, and thus can be smoothly decomposed
subordinate to an open cover. The latter result provides a replacement for
classical partition of unity arguments in the p.c.f. fractal setting.Comment: 26 pages. May differ slightly from published (refereed) versio
Locally accurate MPS approximations for ground states of one-dimensional gapped local Hamiltonians
A key feature of ground states of gapped local 1D Hamiltonians is their
relatively low entanglement --- they are well approximated by matrix product
states (MPS) with bond dimension scaling polynomially in the length of the
chain, while general states require a bond dimension scaling exponentially. We
show that the bond dimension of these MPS approximations can be improved to a
constant, independent of the chain length, if we relax our notion of
approximation to be more local: for all length- segments of the chain, the
reduced density matrices of our approximations are -close to those of
the exact state. If the state is a ground state of a gapped local Hamiltonian,
the bond dimension of the approximation scales like ,
and at the expense of worse but still scaling of
the bond dimension, we give an alternate construction with the additional
features that it can be generated by a constant-depth quantum circuit with
nearest-neighbor gates, and that it applies generally for any state with
exponentially decaying correlations. For a completely general state, we give an
approximation with bond dimension , which is exponentially
worse, but still independent of . Then, we consider the prospect of
designing an algorithm to find a local approximation for ground states of
gapped local 1D Hamiltonians. When the Hamiltonian is translationally
invariant, we show that the ability to find -accurate local
approximations to the ground state in time implies the ability to
estimate the ground state energy to precision in time.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figures. v2: Theorem 1 extended to include construction
for general states; Lemma 7 & Theorem 2 slightly improved; figures added;
lemmas rearranged for clarity; typos fixed. v3: Reformatted & additional
references inserte
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