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Dissociation energy and long-range potential of diatomic molecules from vibrational spacings - The halogens
Dissociation energy and long-range potential of diatomic molecules from vibrational spacings, halogen
Shape resonances and rotationally predissociating levels - The atomic collision time delay functions and quasibound level properties of H2 /Chi /1 Sigma g plus//
Atomic collision time delay functions and quasibound level properties of ground state of molecular hydroge
Unbounded-error quantum computation with small space bounds
We prove the following facts about the language recognition power of quantum
Turing machines (QTMs) in the unbounded error setting: QTMs are strictly more
powerful than probabilistic Turing machines for any common space bound
satisfying . For "one-way" Turing machines, where the
input tape head is not allowed to move left, the above result holds for
. We also give a characterization for the class of languages
recognized with unbounded error by real-time quantum finite automata (QFAs)
with restricted measurements. It turns out that these automata are equal in
power to their probabilistic counterparts, and this fact does not change when
the QFA model is augmented to allow general measurements and mixed states.
Unlike the case with classical finite automata, when the QFA tape head is
allowed to remain stationary in some steps, more languages become recognizable.
We define and use a QTM model that generalizes the other variants introduced
earlier in the study of quantum space complexity.Comment: A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of
the Fourth International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, pages
356--367, 200
The Canada-France deep fields survey-I: 100,000 galaxies, 1 deg^2: a precise measurement of \omega(\theta) to IAB~25
(abridged) Using the UH8K mosaic camera, we have measured the angular
correlation function \omega(\theta) for 100,000 galaxies over four widely
separated fields totalling ~1\deg^2 and reaching IAB~25.5. With this sample we
investigate the dependence of \omega(\theta) at 1', A_\omega(1'), on sample
median IAB magnitude in the range 19.5<I(AB-med)<24. Our results show that
A_\omega(1') decreases monotonically to IAB~25. At bright magnitudes,
\omega(\theta) is consistent with a power-law of slope \delta = -0.8 for
0.2'<\theta<3.0' but at fainter magnitudes we find \delta ~ -0.6. At the
3\sigma level, our observations are still consistent with \delta=-0.8.
Furthermore, in the magnitude ranges 18.5<IAB<24.0 and 18.5<IAB<23.0 we find
galaxies with 2.6<(V-I)AB<2.9 have A_\omega(1')'s which are ~10x higher than
field values. We demonstrate that our model redshift distributions for the
faint galaxy population are in good agreement with current spectroscopic
observations. Using these predictions, we find that for low-omega cosmologies
and assuming r_0=4.3/h Mpc, in the range 19.5<I(AB-med)<22, the growth of
galaxy clustering is \epsilon~0. However, at 22<I(AB-med)<24.0, our
observations are consistent with \epsilon>1. Models with \epsilon~0 cannot
simultaneously match both bright and faint measurements of A_\omega(1`). We
show how this result is a natural consequence of the ``bias-free'' nature of
the \epsilon formalism and is consistent with the field galaxy population in
the range 22.0<IAB<24.0 being dominated by galaxies of low intrinsic
luminosity.Comment: 20 pages, 21 figures, requires natbib.sty, accepted for publication
in Astronomy and Astrophysic
Equivariant characteristic classes of singular complex algebraic varieties
Homology Hirzebruch characteristic classes for singular varieties have been
recently defined by Brasselet-Schuermann-Yokura as an attempt to unify
previously known characteristic class theories for singular spaces (e.g.,
MacPherson-Chern classes, Baum-Fulton-MacPherson Todd classes, and
Goresky-MacPherson L-classes, respectively). In this note we define equivariant
analogues of these classes for singular quasi-projective varieties acted upon
by a finite group of algebraic automorphisms, and show how these can be used to
calculate the homology Hirzebruch classes of global quotient varieties. We also
compute the new classes in the context of monodromy problems, e.g., for
varieties that fiber equivariantly (in the complex topology) over a connected
algebraic manifold. As another application, we discuss Atiyah-Meyer type
formulae for twisted Hirzebruch classes of global orbifolds.Comment: v2: updates include a motivic approach, as well as an Atiyah-Meyer
formula for global orbifolds, including a defect formul
On the hadronic contribution to sterile neutrino production
Sterile neutrinos with masses in the keV range are considered to be a viable
candidate for warm dark matter. The rate of their production through
active-sterile neutrino transitions peaks, however, at temperatures of the
order of the QCD scale, which makes it difficult to estimate their relic
abundance quantitatively, even if the mass of the sterile neutrino and its
mixing angle were known. We derive here a relation, valid to all orders in the
strong coupling constant, which expresses the production rate in terms of the
spectral function associated with active neutrinos. The latter can in turn be
expressed as a certain convolution of the spectral functions related to various
mesonic current-current correlation functions, which are being actively studied
in other physics contexts. In the naive weak coupling limit, the appropriate
Boltzmann equations can be derived from our general formulae.Comment: 28 pages. v2: small clarifications added, published versio
Real-Time Control of Microgrids with Explicit Power Setpoints: an API for Resource Agents
Renewable energy resources, such as photovoltaic panels, typically have very volatile power-injection characteristics, which poses a number of challenges to the real-time control of electrical grids that contain a significant fraction of these resources. Recently, a new paradigm for controlling such grids, termed COMMELEC, was proposed; it uses explicit power setpoints instead of droop-control. Central to this new paradigm is an abstract message format that enables resources to delegate the decisions related to their control actions to a grid controller. This is essential to the feasibility of the approach, as it makes the grid controller device-independent. However, it leaves to the resource agents the burden of translating device-specific information into this abstract format. In this paper, we present a solution to this problem; more specifically, we present a very simple Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used to design a COMMELEC-compliant resource agent. We present an easy-to-use High-Level API, which supports a pre- defined set of resources, such as a battery or a photovoltaic panel. We also describe a Low-Level API that provides full access to the underlying message format, and allows to design a resource agent that is not supported by the High-Level API. For message serialization, we use the Cap’n Proto framework, which allows for efficient manipulations of the mathematical objects used in COMMELEC
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