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cond-mat.quant-gas2009★ 29 cited

Detection of Pair-Superfluidity for bosonic mixtures in optical lattices

Chiara Menotti, Sandro Stringari

We consider a mixture of two bosonic species with tunable interspecies interaction in a periodic potential and discuss the advantages of low filling factors on the detection of the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2009★ 33 cited

Current-Phase Relation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Flowing Through a Weak Link

F. Piazza, L. A. Collins, A. Smerzi

We study the current-phase relation of a Bose-Einstein condensate flowing through a repulsive square barrier by solving analytically the one dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation.…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 14 cited

The first search for variable stars in the open cluster NGC 6253 and its surrounding field

Fabrizio De Marchi, Ennio Poretti, Marco Montalto +2

This work presents the first high-precision variability survey in the field of the intermediate-age, metal--rich open cluster NGC 6253. Clusters of this type are benchmarks for ste…

nucl-th2009

Physics of Electroweak Interactions with Nuclei

Giuseppina Orlandini

In this series of lectures it is illustrated how one can study the strong dynamics of nuclei by means of the electroweak probe. In particular, the most important steps to derive th…

math.AG2009★ 7 cited

On the X-rank with respect to linear projections of projective varieties

Edoardo Ballico, Alessandra Bernardi

In this paper we improve the known bound for the -rank of an element in the case in which is a projective variety obtai…

quant-ph2009★ 136 cited

Not all pure entangled states are useful for sub shot-noise interferometry

Philipp Hyllus, Otfried Gühne, Augusto Smerzi

We investigate the connection between the shot-noise limit in linear interferometers and particle entanglement. In particular, we ask whether or not sub shot-noise sensitivity can…

q-bio.BM2009

Dominant Folding Pathways of a Beta-Hairpin

Pietro Faccioli, Alice Lonardi, Henri Orland

We use the Dominant Reaction Pathway (DRP) approach to study the dynamics of the folding of a beta-hairpin, within a model which accounts for both native and non-native interaction…

cond-mat.quant-gas2009★ 49 cited

Beliaev technique for a weakly interacting Bose gas

B. Capogrosso-Sansone, S. Giorgini, S. Pilati +4

Aiming for simplicity of explicit equations and at the same time controllable accuracy of the theory we present results for all thermodynamic quantities and correlation functions f…

physics.ins-det2009★ 15 cited

Characterization of 3D-DDTC detectors on p-type substrates

G. -F. Dalla Betta, M. Boscardin, L. Bosisio +14

We report on the electrical and functional characterization of 3D Double-side, Double-Type-Column (3D- DDTC) detectors fabricated on p-type substrates. Results relevant to detector…

hep-lat2009★ 2 cited

Quantum Interactions Between Non-Perturbative Vacuum Fields

R. Millo, P. Faccioli, L. Scorzato

We develop an approach to investigate the non-perturbative dynamics of quantum field theories, in which specific vacuum field fluctuations are treated as the low-energy dynamical d…

cs.PL2009★ 9 cited

An Intuitive Automated Modelling Interface for Systems Biology

Ozan Kahramanoğullari, Luca Cardelli, Emmanuelle Caron

We introduce a natural language interface for building stochastic pi calculus models of biological systems. In this language, complex constructs describing biochemical events are b…

quant-ph2009★ 41 cited

Excitation mapping of whispering gallery modes in silica microcavities

Guoping Lin, Bo Qian, Fedja Orucevic +5

We report the direct observation of the electromagnetic-field distribution of whispering?gallery modes in silica microcavities (spheres and toroids). It is revealed by their excita…

hep-th2009★ 441 cited

Finite-time future singularities in modified Gauss-Bonnet and gravity and singularity avoidance

Kazuharu Bamba, Sergei D. Odintsov, Lorenzo Sebastiani +1

We study all four types of finite-time future singularities emerging in late-time accelerating (effective quintessence/phantom) era from -gravity, where and $…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 376 cited

An Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmologica…

quant-ph2009★ 73 cited

Collective decoherence of cold atoms coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate

M. A. Cirone, G. De Chiara, G. M. Palma +1

We examine the time evolution of cold atoms (impurities) interacting with an environment consisting of a degenerate bosonic quantum gas. The impurity atoms differ from the environm…

physics.ins-det2009★ 17 cited

Development of 3D-DDTC pixel detectors for the ATLAS upgrade

G. -F. Dalla Betta, M. Boscardin, G. Darbo +8

We report on the development of n-on-p, 3D Double-Side Double Type Column (3D-DDTC) pixel detectors fabricated at FBK-irst (Trento, Italy) and oriented to the ATLAS upgrade. The co…

nucl-th2009★ 17 cited

Improved transverse (e,e') response function of 3He at intermediate momentum transfers

Victor D. Efros, Winfried Leidemann, Giuseppina Orlandini +1

The transverse electron scattering response function of 3He is studied in the quasi-elastic peak region for momentum transfers between 500 and 700 MeV/c. A conventional description…

cond-mat.soft2009★ 10 cited

Separation and fractionation of order and disorder in highly polydisperse systems

L. A. Fernandez, V. Martin-Mayor, B. Seoane +1

Microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations of a polydisperse soft-spheres model for liquids and colloids have been performed for very large polydispersity, in the region where a phase-…

cond-mat.other2009★ 7 cited

Near-field intensity correlations in parametric photo-luminescence from a planar microcavity

Davide Sarchi, Iacopo Carusotto

We study the spatio-temporal pattern of the near-field intensity correlations generated by parametric scattering processes in a planar optical cavity. A generalized Bogolubov-de Ge…

hep-th2009★ 26 cited

String theory as a diffusing system

Gianluca Calcagni, Giuseppe Nardelli

Recent results on the effective non-local dynamics of the tachyon mode of open string field theory (OSFT) show that approximate solutions can be constructed which obey the diffusio…

math.AG2009★ 1 cited

Koszul cohomology and singular curves

Edoardo Ballico, Claudio Fontanari, Luca Tasin

We investigate Koszul cohomology on irreducible nodal curves. In particular, we prove both Green and Green-Lazarsfeld conjectures for the general k-gonal nodal curve.

nucl-th2009★ 24 cited

Search for three-nucleon force effects on the longitudinal response function of 4He

Sonia Bacca, Nir Barnea, Winfried Leidemann +1

A detailed study of the 4He longitudinal response function R_L(ω,q) is performed at different kinematics, with particular emphasis on the role of three-nucleon forces. The effects…

math.AP2009

Ergodicity for nonlinear stochastic evolution equations with multiplicative Poisson noise

Carlo Marinelli, Giacomo Ziglio

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to stochastic evolution equations with monotone drift and multiplicative Poisson noise in the variational setting, thus covering a lar…

gr-qc2009★ 9 cited

Vacuum energy fluctuations, the induced cosmological constant and cosmological reconstruction in non-minimal modified gravity models

G. Cognola, E. Elizalde, S. Nojiri +1

The one-loop effective action for non-minimal scalar modified gravity on de Sitter background with a constant scalar field is found. The corresponding induced cosmological constant…