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gr-qc2008★ 36 cited

LQG propagator: III. The new vertex

Emanuele Alesci, Eugenio Bianchi, Carlo Rovelli

In the first article of this series, we pointed out a difficulty in the attempt to derive the low-energy behavior of the graviton two-point function, from the loop-quantum-gravity…

astro-ph2008★ 70 cited

Large grains in disks around young stars: ATCA observations of WW Cha, RU Lup, and CS Cha

Dave Lommen, Sarah Maddison, Chris Wright +3

Grains in disks around young stars grow from interstellar submicron sizes to planetesimals over the course of several Myr. Thermal emission of large grains or pebbles can be best o…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Dark Energy vs. Dark Matter: Towards a Unifying Scalar Field?

A. Arbey

The standard model of cosmology suggests the existence of two components, "dark matter" and "dark energy", which determine the fate of the Universe. Their nature is still under inv…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 29 cited

Superfluidity and Anderson localisation for a weakly interacting Bose gas in a quasiperiodic potential

Xiaolong Deng, Roberta Citro, Anna Minguzzi +1

Using exact diagonalisation and Density Matrix Renormalisation group (DMRG) approach, we analyse the transition to a localised state of a weakly interacting quasi-1D Bose gas subje…

cond-mat.stat-mech2008★ 10 cited

Far-from-equilibrium state in a weakly dissipative model

Eric Bertin, Olivier Dauchot

We address, on the example of a simple solvable model, the issue of whether the stationary state of dissipative systems converges to an equilibrium state in the low dissipation lim…

astro-ph2008★ 14 cited

Cosmological constraints on unifying Dark Fluid models

A. Arbey

In the standard model of cosmology, dark matter and dark energy are presently the two main contributors to the total energy in the Universe. However, these two dark components are…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 26 cited

Experimental study of out of equilibrium fluctuations in a colloidal suspension of Laponite using optical traps

Pierre Jop, J. Ruben Gomez-Solano, Artyom Petrosyan +1

This work is devoted to the study of displacement fluctuations of micron-sized particles in an aging colloidal glass. We address the issue of the validity of the fluctuation dissip…

gr-qc2008★ 36 cited

A Lagrangian approach to the Barrett-Crane spin foam model

Valentin Bonzom, Etera R. Livine

We provide the Barrett-Crane spin foam model for quantum gravity with a discrete action principle, consisting in the usual BF term with discretized simplicity constraints which in…

math.OA2008★ 16 cited

Structural results for free Araki-Woods factors and their continuous cores

Cyril Houdayer

We show that for any type free Araki-Woods factor associated with an orthogonal representation of on a separable real Hilbe…

hep-th2008★ 17 cited

Intersecting Attractors

S. Ferrara, A. Marrani, J. F. Morales +1

We apply the entropy formalism to the study of the near-horizon geometry of extremal black p-brane intersections in D>5 dimensional supergravities. The scalar flow towards the hori…

physics.flu-dyn2008★ 122 cited

Acceleration statistics of finite-sized particles in turbulent flow: the role of Faxen forces

Enrico Calzavarini, Romain Volk, Mickael Bourgoin +3

The dynamics of particles in turbulence when the particle-size is larger than the dissipative scale of the carrier flow is studied. Recent experiments have highlighted signatures o…

cs.CY2008★ 833 cited

High resolution dynamical mapping of social interactions with active RFID

Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza +3

In this paper we present an experimental framework to gather data on face-to-face social interactions between individuals, with a high spatial and temporal resolution. We use activ…

astro-ph2008★ 573 cited

A probable giant planet imaged in the Beta Pictoris disk

A. -M. Lagrange, D. Gratadour, G. Chauvin +12

Since the discovery of its dusty disk in 1984, Beta Pictoris has become the prototype of young early-type planetary systems, and there are now various indications that a massive Jo…

physics.class-ph2008★ 19 cited

Thermal noise of microcantilevers in viscous fluids

Ludovic Bellon

We present a simple theoretical framework to describe the thermal noise of a microscopic mechanical beam in a viscous fluid: we use the Sader approach to describe the effect of the…

astro-ph2008★ 123 cited

Dynamical Evolution of AGN Host Galaxies - Gas In/Out-Flow Rates in 7 NUGA Galaxies

Sebastian Haan, Eva Schinnerer, Eric Emsellem +4

To examine the role of the host galaxy structure in fueling nuclear activity, we estimated gas flow rates from several kpc down to the inner few 10 pc for seven nearby spiral galax…

physics.soc-ph2008★ 93 cited

Testing bibliometric indicators by their prediction of scientists promotions

Pablo Jensen, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Yves Croissant

We have developed a method to obtain robust quantitative bibliometric indicators for several thousand scientists. This allows us to study the dependence of bibliometric indicators…

math.PR2008★ 56 cited

Spectral measure of heavy tailed band and covariance random matrices

Serban Belinschi, Amir Dembo, Alice Guionnet

We study the asymptotic behavior of the appropriately scaled and possibly perturbed spectral measure of large random real symmetric matrices with heavy tailed entries. Specific…

gr-qc2008★ 22 cited

Matrix Models as Non-commutative Field Theories on R^3

Etera R. Livine

In the context of spin foam models for quantum gravity, group field theories are a useful tool allowing on the one hand a non-perturbative formulation of the partition function and…

math-ph2008★ 90 cited

Marginal relevance of disorder for pinning models

Giambattista Giacomin, Hubert Lacoin, Fabio Lucio Toninelli

The effect of disorder on pinning and wetting models has attracted much attention in theoretical physics. In particular, it has been predicted on the basis of the Harris criterion…

stat.AP2008★ 160 cited

Scientists who engage with society perform better academically

Pablo Jensen, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Pablo Kreimer +1

Most scientific institutions acknowledge the importance of opening the so-called 'ivory tower' of academic research through popularization, industrial collaboration or teaching. Ho…

astro-ph2008★ 94 cited

The mass-radius relationship from solar-type stars to terrestrial planets: a review

G. Chabrier, I. Baraffe, J. Leconte +2

In this review, we summarize our present knowledge of the behaviour of the mass-radius relationship from solar-type stars down to terrestrial planets, across the regime of substell…

cond-mat.stat-mech2008★ 48 cited

Enhanced stochastic oscillations in autocatalytic reactions

Thierry Dauxois, Francesca Di Patti, Duccio Fanelli +1

We study a simplified scheme of coupled autocatalytic reactions, previously introduced by Togashi and Kaneko. The role of stochastic fluctuations is elucidated through the use…

cs.DS2008

A new distance for high level RNA secondary structure comparison

Julien Allali, Marie-France Sagot

We describe an algorithm for comparing two RNA secondary structures coded in the form of trees that introduces two new operations, called node fusion and edge fusion, besides the t…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Evolution of very low mass pre-main sequence stars and young brown dwarfs under accretion: A phenomenological approach

Jose Gallardo, Isabelle Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier

In the poster presented in Cool Star 15, we analyzed the effect of disk accretion on the evolution of very low mass pre-main sequence stars and young brown dwarfs and the resulting…