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cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 5 cited

Shot noise of spin current and spin transfer torque

Yunjin Yu, Hongxin Zhan, Langhui Wan +4

We report the theoretical investigation of noise spectrum of spin current and spin transfer torque for non-colinear spin polarized transport in a spin-valve device which consists o…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 16 cited

Mechanism of the X-ray and Soft Gamma-ray Emissions from High Magnetic Field Pulsar: PSR B1509-58

Y. Wang, J. Takata, K. S. Cheng

We use the outer gap model to explain the spectrum and the energy dependent light curves of the X-ray and soft gamma-ray radiations of the spin-down powered pulsar PSR B1509-58. In…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 66 cited

An Analytic Theory for the Orbits of Circumbinary Planets

Gene C. K. Leung, Man Hoi Lee

Three transiting circumbinary planets (Kepler-16 b, Kepler-34 b, and Kepler-35 b) have recently been discovered from photometric data taken by the Kepler spacecraft. Their orbits a…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 109 cited

Forced generation of simple and double emulsions in all-aqueous system

Alban Sauret, Ho Cheung Shum

We report an easy-to-implement method that allows the direct generation of water-in-water (w/w) single emulsions. The method relies on direct perturbation of the pressure that driv…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 2 cited

Formation and local symmetry of Holstein polaron in t-J model

Han Ma, T. K. Lee, Yan Chen

The formation and local symmetry of spin-lattice polaron has been investigated semiclassically in the planar Holstein t-J-like models within the exact diagonalization method. Due t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 80 cited

Majorana Fermion Induced Non-local Current Correlations in Spin-orbit Coupled Superconducting Wires

Jie Liu, Fu-Chun Zhang, K. T. Law

Recent observation of zero bias conductance peaks in semiconductor wire/superconductor heterostructures has generated great interest, and there is a hot debate on whether the obser…

cs.CE2012★ 13 cited

Efficiency improvement of the frequency-domain BEM for rapid transient elastodynamic analysis

Jinyou Xiao, Wenjing Ye, Lihua Wen

The frequency-domain fast boundary element method (BEM) combined with the exponential window technique leads to an efficient yet simple method for elastodynamic analysis. In this p…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 14 cited

Efficiency and Its Bounds for a Quantum Einstein Engine at Maximum Power

H. Yan, Hao Guo

We study a quantum thermal engine model for which the heat transfer law is determined by Einstein's theory of radiation. The working substance of the quantum engine is assumed to b…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 25 cited

Efficiency and Its Bounds for Thermal Engines at Maximum Power using a Newton's Law of Cooling

H. Yan, Hao Guo

We study a thermal engine model for which Newton's cooling law is obeyed during heat transfer processes. The thermal efficiency and its bounds at maximum output power are derived a…

physics.optics2012★ 78 cited

Photonic simulation of topological excitations in metamaterials

Wei Tan, Yong Sun, Hong Chen +1

Condensed matter systems with topological order and metamaterials with left-handed chirality have attracted recently extensive interests in the fields of physics and optics. So far…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 20 cited

Multipolar Planetary Nebulae: Not as Geometrically Diversified as Thought

Sze-Ning Chong, Sun Kwok, Hiroshi Imai +2

Planetary nebulae (PNe) have diverse morphological shapes, including point-symmetric and multipolar structures. Many PNe also have complicated internal structures such as torus, lo…

hep-ex2012★ 346 cited

Improved Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay

Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, Q. An +227

We report an improved measurement of the neutrino mixing angle from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. We exclude a zero value for with a significan…

math.ST2012★ 34 cited

Nonparametric estimate of spectral density functions of sample covariance matrices: A first step

Bing-Yi Jing, Guangming Pan, Qi-Man Shao +1

The density function of the limiting spectral distribution of general sample covariance matrices is usually unknown. We propose to use kernel estimators which are proved to be cons…

quant-ph2012★ 193 cited

Statistical fluctuation analysis for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

Xiongfeng Ma, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Mohsen Razavi

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with a finite number of decoy states is analyzed under finite-data-size assumption. By accounting for statistical fluctuatio…

math.NA2012★ 43 cited

Positive Definite Solutions of the Nonlinear Matrix Equation

Bin Zhou, Guang-Bin Cai, James Lam

This paper is concerned with the positive definite solutions to the matrix equation where is the unknown and is a given complex matrix. By…

math.NA2012★ 78 cited

Toward Solution of Matrix Equation X=Af(X)B+C

Bin Zhou, James Lam, Guang-Ren Duan

This paper studies the solvability, existence of unique solution, closed-form solution and numerical solution of matrix equation with $f(X) =\…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 6 cited

Pilot VLBI Survey of SiO v=3 J=1--0 Maser Emission around Evolved Stars

Hiroshi Imai, Miyako Oyadomari, Sze Ning Chong +9

In this Letter, we report detections of SiO v=3 J=1--0 maser emission in very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations towards 4 out of 12 long-period variable stars: WX P…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 192 cited

Topological Classification and Stability of Fermi Surfaces

Y. X. Zhao, Z. D. Wang

In the framework of the Cartan classification of Hamiltonians, a kind of topological classification of Fermi surfaces is established in terms of topological charges. The topologica…

cs.IT2012★ 472 cited

Simultaneous Information and Power Transfer for Broadband Wireless Systems

Kaibin Huang, Erik G. Larsson

Far-field microwave power transfer (MPT) will free wireless sensors and other mobile devices from the constraints imposed by finite battery capacities. Integrating MPT with wireles…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 7 cited

1D to 3D Dimensional Crossover in the Superconducting Transition of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Carbide Superconductor Sc3CoC4

Mingquan He, Chi Ho Wong, Dian Shi +6

The transition metal carbide superconductor Sc3CoC4 may represent a new benchmark system of quasi-1D superconducting behavior. We investigate the superconducting transition of a hi…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 23 cited

Theories of Linear Response in BCS Superfluids and How They Meet Fundamental Constraints

Hao Guo, Chih-Chun Chien, Yan He

We address the importance of symmetry and symmetry breaking on linear response theories of fermionic BCS superfluids. The linear theory of a noninteracting Fermi gas is reviewed an…

cs.CR2012★ 157 cited

Breaking a novel image encryption scheme based on improved hyperchaotic sequences

Chengqing Li, Yuansheng Liu, Tao Xie +1

Recently, a novel image encryption scheme based on improved hyperchaotic sequences was proposed. A pseudo-random number sequence, generated by a hyper-chaos system, is used to dete…

hep-th2012★ 65 cited

Consistency condition for inflation from (broken) conformal symmetry

Koenraad Schalm, Gary Shiu, Ted van der Aalst

We investigate the symmetry constraints on the bispectrum, i.e. the three-point correlation function of primordial density fluctuations, in slow-roll inflation. It follows from the…

quant-ph2012

Disguising quantum channels by mixing and channel distance trade-off

Chi-Hang Fred Fung, H. F. Chau

We consider the reverse problem to the distinguishability of two quantum channels, which we call the disguising problem. Given two quantum channels, the goal here is to make the tw…