Proton strange form factors and SAMPLE experiments

We study the chiral models such as the Skyrmion and chiral bag to investigate the baryon strange form factors associated with the SAMPLE experiments.Comment: 3 page

Alternating direction method of multipliers for penalized zero-variance discriminant analysis

We consider the task of classification in the high dimensional setting where the number of features of the given data is significantly greater than the number of observations. To accomplish this task, we propose a heuristic, called sparse zero-variance discriminant analysis (SZVD), for simultaneously performing linear discriminant analysis and feature selection on high dimensional data. This method combines classical zero-variance discriminant analysis, where discriminant vectors are identified in the null space of the sample within-class covariance matrix, with penalization applied to induce sparse structures in the resulting vectors. To approximately solve the resulting nonconvex problem, we develop a simple algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers. Further, we show that this algorithm is applicable to a larger class of penalized generalized eigenvalue problems, including a particular relaxation of the sparse principal component analysis problem. Finally, we establish theoretical guarantees for convergence of our algorithm to stationary points of the original nonconvex problem, and empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of our heuristic for classifying simulated data and data drawn from applications in time-series classification

Emission of Axions in strongly magnetized star

We show that the axion decay constant does not get any correction at any order by external magnetic fields. On the other hand, in the context of the Wilsonian effective action under external magnetic fields, the axial currents get a finite correction. We then calculate the effect of strong magnetic fields $B>10^{18}G$ on the axion-nucleon coupling and find that if $B\gtrsim 10^{20}~G$ in strongly magnetized neutron and white dwarf stars, the emission rate of axions is enhanced by several orders of magnitude.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX, 4 Postscript figures, uses epsf.st

Monte-Carlo Simulations of Spin-Crossover Phenomena Based on a Vibronic Ising-like Model with Realistic Parameters

Materials with spin-crossover (SCO) properties hold great potentials in information storage and therefore have received a lot of concerns in the recent decades. The hysteresis phenomena accompanying SCO is attributed to the intermolecular cooperativity whose underlying mechanism may have a vibronic origin. In this work, a new vibronic Ising-like model in which the elastic coupling between SCO centers is included by considering harmonic stretching and bending (SAB) interactions is proposed and solved by Monte Carlo simulations. The key parameters in the new model, $k_1$ and $k_2$, corresponding to the elastic constant of the stretching and bending mode, respectively, can be directly related to the macroscopic bulk and shear modulus of the material in study, which can be readily estimated either based on experimental measurements or first-principles calculations. The convergence issue in the MC simulations of the thermal hysteresis has been carefully checked, and it was found that the stable hysteresis loop can be more readily obtained when using the SAB model compared to that using the Wajnflasz-Pick model. Using realistic parameters estimated based on first-principles calculations of a specific polymeric coordination SCO compound, [Fe(pz)Pt(CN)$_4$]$\cdot$2H$_2$O, temperature-induced hysteresis and pressure effects on SCO phenomena are simulated successfully.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure

Neutrino Dark Energy and Baryon Asymmetry from Higgs Sector

We propose a new model to explain the neutrino masses, the dark energy and the baryon asymmetry altogether. In this model, neutrinos naturally acquire small Majorana masses via type-II seesaw mechanism, while the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with the neutrino mass-generation mechanism provide attractive candidates for dark energy. The baryon asymmetry of the universe is produced from the Higgs triplets decay with CP-violation.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted by PL

Quantized Consensus ADMM for Multi-Agent Distributed Optimization

Multi-agent distributed optimization over a network minimizes a global objective formed by a sum of local convex functions using only local computation and communication. We develop and analyze a quantized distributed algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) when inter-agent communications are subject to finite capacity and other practical constraints. While existing quantized ADMM approaches only work for quadratic local objectives, the proposed algorithm can deal with more general objective functions (possibly non-smooth) including the LASSO. Under certain convexity assumptions, our algorithm converges to a consensus within $\log_{1+\eta}\Omega$ iterations, where $\eta>0$ depends on the local objectives and the network topology, and $\Omega$ is a polynomial determined by the quantization resolution, the distance between initial and optimal variable values, the local objective functions and the network topology. A tight upper bound on the consensus error is also obtained which does not depend on the size of the network.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figures; to be submitted to IEEE Trans. Signal Processing. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.5561 by other author