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astro-ph.EP2014★ 46 cited

Simulations of Titan's paleoclimate

Juan M. Lora, Jonathan I. Lunine, Joellen L. Russell +1

We investigate the effects of varying Saturn's orbit on the atmospheric circulation and surface methane distribution of Titan. Using a new general circulation model of Titan's atmo…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 137 cited

GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations

Juan M. Lora, Jonathan I. Lunine, Joellen L. Russell

Simulation results are presented from a new general circulation model (GCM) of Titan, the Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM), which couples the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) spectral d…

cs.CC2014

On the Lattice Smoothing Parameter Problem

Kai-Min Chung, Daniel Dadush, Feng-Hao Liu +1

The smoothing parameter of a Euclidean lattice , introduced by Micciancio and Regev (FOCS'04; SICOMP'07), is (informally) the smallest amount of Gau…

nlin.PS2014★ 8 cited

Dynamics of impurity attraction and repulsion of an intrinsic localized mode in a driven 1-D cantilever array

M. Sato, Y. Sada, W. Shi +6

Both low frequency and high frequency impurity modes have been produced in a SiN micromechanical cantilever array by illumination with either an infrared or visible laser. When suc…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 32 cited

Inflation, String Theory and Cosmology

David F. Chernoff, S. -H. Henry Tye

At its very beginning, the universe is believed to have grown exponentially in size via the mechanism of inflation. The almost scale-invariant density perturbation spectrum predict…

physics.comp-ph2014★ 17 cited

Accelerating ab initio path integral molecular dynamics with multilevel sampling of potential surface

Hua Y. Geng

A multilevel approach to sample the potential energy surface in a path integral formalism is proposed. The purpose is to reduce the required number of ab initio evaluations of ener…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 29 cited

The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Evidence for radiative heating in Serpens MWC 297 and its influence on local star formation

D. Rumble, J. Hatchell, R. A. Gutermuth +61

We present SCUBA-2 450micron and 850micron observations of the Serpens MWC 297 region, part of the JCMT Gould Belt Survey of nearby star-forming regions. Simulations suggest that r…

stat.ML2014★ 4 cited

Quantized Matrix Completion for Personalized Learning

Andrew S. Lan, Christoph Studer, Richard G. Baraniuk

The recently proposed SPARse Factor Analysis (SPARFA) framework for personalized learning performs factor analysis on ordinal or binary-valued (e.g., correct/incorrect) graded lear…

astro-ph.GA2014

Enabling the next generation of cm-wavelength studies of high-redshift molecular gas with the SKA

J. Wagg, E. Da Cunha, C. L. Carilli +8

The Square Kilometre Array will be a revolutionary instrument for the study of gas in the distant Universe. SKA1 will have sufficient sensitivity to detect and image atomic 21 cm H…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 1 cited

Instability of counter-rotating stellar disks

Robert G. Hohlfeld, Richard V. E. Lovelace

We use an N-body simulation, constructed using GADGET-2, to investigate an accretion flow onto an astrophysical disk that is in the opposite sense to the disk's rotation. In order…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 14 cited

Cross-Correlation of Near and Far-Infrared Background Anisotropies as Traced by Spitzer and Herschel

Cameron Thacker, Yan Gong, Asantha Cooray +3

We present the cross-correlation between the far-infrared background fluctuations as measured with the Herschel Space Observatory at 250, 350, and 500 μm and the near-infrared back…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 144 cited

High-Mobility Bismuth-based Transparent P-Type Oxide from High-throughput Material Screening

Amit Bathia, Geoffroy Hautier, Tan Nilgianskul +4

Transparent oxides are essential building blocks to many technologies, ranging from components in transparent electronics, transparent conductors, to absorbers and protection layer…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

Observatory/data centre partnerships and the VO-centric archive: The JCMT Science Archive experience

Frossie Economou, Severin Gaudet, Tim Jenness +10

We present, as a case study, a description of the partnership between an observatory (JCMT) and a data centre (CADC) that led to the development of the JCMT Science Archive (JSA).…

cs.NI2014★ 2 cited

Priority based Bandwidth Adaptation for Multi-class Traffic in Wireless Networks

Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang, Zygmunt J. Haas

The bandwidth adaptation is the technique that allows the flexibility in bandwidth allocation for a call. Using the bandwidth adaptation technique, the number of call admission in…

astro-ph.HE2014

Extragalactic circuits, transmission lines, and CR particle acceleration

Philipp P. Kronberg, Richard V. E. Lovelace

A non-negligible fraction of a Supermassive Black Hole's (SMBH) rest mass energy gets transported into extragalactic space by a remarkable process in jets which are incompletely un…

cs.NI2014★ 67 cited

Cost-Effective Frequency Planning for Capacity Enhancement of Femtocellular Networks

Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang, Zygmunt J. Haas

Femtocellular networks will co-exist with macrocellular networks, mitigation of the interference between these two network types is a key challenge for successful integration of th…

cs.MM2014★ 76 cited

Call Admission Control based on Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation for Wireless Networks

Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang, Zygmunt J. Haas

Provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS) is a key issue in any multi-media system. However, in wireless systems, supporting QoS requirements of different traffic types is more chal…

physics.acc-ph2014★ 15 cited

In-Situ Measurements of the Secondary Electron Yield in an Accelerator Environment: Instrumentation and Methods

W. H. Hartung, D. M. Asner, J. V. Conway +8

The performance of a particle accelerator can be limited by the build-up of an electron cloud (EC) in the vacuum chamber. Secondary electron emission from the chamber walls can con…

quant-ph2014★ 18 cited

Strong micro-macro entanglement from a weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity

Tian Wang, Hon Wai Lau, Hamidreza Kaviani +2

We study the entanglement generated by a weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity between two initial coherent states, one of which has an amplitude close to the single-photon level, while the…

math-ph2014★ 28 cited

The principle of stationary nonconservative action for classical mechanics and field theories

Chad R. Galley, David Tsang, Leo C. Stein

We further develop a recently introduced variational principle of stationary action for problems in nonconservative classical mechanics and extend it to classical field theories. T…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 89 cited

The ALFALFA "Almost Darks" Campaign: Pilot VLA HI Observations of Five High Mass-to-Light Ratio Systems

John M. Cannon, Charlotte P. Martinkus, Lukas Leisman +13

We present VLA HI spectral line imaging of 5 sources discovered by ALFALFA. These targets are drawn from a larger sample of systems that were not uniquely identified with optical c…

cs.GT2014★ 5 cited

Algorithmic Rationality: Game Theory with Costly Computation

Joseph Y. Halpern, Rafael Pass

We develop a general game-theoretic framework for reasoning about strategic agents performing possibly costly computation. In this framework, many traditional game-theoretic result…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 266 cited

Imaging Dirac-Mass Disorder from Magnetic Dopant-Atoms in the Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator Cr(BiSb)Te

Inhee Lee, Chung Koo Kim, Jinho Lee +8

To achieve and utilize the most exotic electronic phenomena predicted for the surface states of 3D topological insulators (TI),it is necessary to open a "Dirac-mass gap" in their s…

cs.DL2014★ 69 cited

Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus

Daniel T. Citron, Paul Ginsparg

We consider the incidence of text "reuse" by researchers, via a systematic pairwise comparison of the text content of all articles deposited to arXiv.org from 1991--2012. We measur…