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cond-mat.soft2012★ 13 cited

Molecular diffusion between walls with adsorption and desorption

Maximilien Levesque, Olivier Bénichou, Benjamin Rotenberg

The time dependency of the diffusion coefficient of particles in porous media is an efficient probe of their geometry. The analysis of this quantity, measured e.g. by nuclear magne…

gr-qc2012★ 8 cited

Conformally flat sources for the Linet-Tian spacetime

Irene Brito, M. F. A. da Silva, Filipe C. Mena +1

We investigate the matching, across cylindrical surfaces, of static cylindrically symmetric conformally flat spacetimes with a cosmological constant , satisfying regularity cond…

hep-ex2012★ 11 cited

First observation of the decays and

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +621

The first observation of the decays and are reported using an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb recorded by the…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 10 cited

GRAVITY: beam stabilization and light injection subsystems

O. Pfuhl, M. Haug, F. Eisenhauer +9

We present design results of the 2nd generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY beam stabilization and light injection subsystems. Designed to deliver micro-arcsecond astrometry, GRAVITY r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 11 cited

Magnetic properties changes of MnAs thin films irradiated with highly charged ions

Martino Trassinelli, V. Gafton, M. Eddrief +12

We present the first investigation on the effect of highly charged ion bombardment on a manganese arsenide thin film. The MnAs films, 150 nm thick, are irradiated with 90 keV Ne$^{…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 102 cited

Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays above eV from large scale anisotropy searches in data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For…

physics.bio-ph2012★ 29 cited

Single-molecule stochastic resonance

K. Hayashi, S. de Lorenzo, M. Manosas +2

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a well known phenomenon in dynamical systems. It consists of the amplification and optimization of the response of a system assisted by stochastic nois…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 20 cited

Analysis of periodic Mo/Si multilayers: influence of the Mo thickness

H. Maury, Jean-Michel André, Karine Le Guen +6

A set of Mo/Si periodic multilayers is studied by non destructive analysis methods. The thickness of the Si layers is 5 nm while the thickness of the Mo layers changes from one mul…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 34 cited

Tuning the porosity of bimetallic nanostructures by a soft templating approach

Anaïs Lehoux, Laurence Ramos, Patricia Beaunier +6

We use hexagonal mesophases made of oil-swollen surfactant-stabilized tubes arranged on a triangular lattice in water and doped with metallic salts as templates for the radiolytic…

gr-qc2012★ 14 cited

Equivalence Principle Violation in Weakly Vainshtein-Screened Systems

Alexander V. Belikov, Wayne Hu

Massive gravity, galileon and braneworld models that modify gravity to explain cosmic acceleration utilize the nonlinear field interactions of the Vainshtein mechanism to screen fi…

cond-mat.soft2012

Self-consistent field theory for the interactions between keratin intermediate filaments

Anna Akinshina, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, Patrick B. Warren +1

We have developed a model for the interactions between keratin intermediate filaments based on self-consistent field theory. The intermediate filaments are represented by charged s…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 168 cited

Solar wind turbulent spectrum at plasma kinetic scales

Olga Alexandrova, Catherine Lacombe, Andre Mangeney +2

The description of the turbulent spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind in the kinetic range of scales is not yet completely established. Here, we perform a statistica…

math.OC2012★ 1 cited

Systems of Structured Monotone Inclusions: Duality, Algorithms, and Applications

Patrick L. Combettes

A general primal-dual splitting algorithm for solving systems of structured coupled monotone inclusions in Hilbert spaces is introduced and its asymptotic behavior is analyzed. Eac…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 185 cited

Direct imaging of topological edge states in cold-atom systems

N. Goldman, J. Dalibard, A. Dauphin +4

Detecting topological order in cold-atom experiments is an ongoing challenge, the resolution of which offers novel perspectives on topological matter. In material systems, unambigu…

cond-mat.soft2012

On phase behavior and dynamical signatures of charged colloidal platelets

S. Jabbari-Farouji, J. -J. Weis, P. Davidson +2

We investigate the competition between anisotropic excluded-volume and repulsive electrostatic interactions in suspensions of thin charged colloidal discs, by means of Monte-Carlo…

math.CO2012

The graph formulation of the union-closed sets conjecture

Henning Bruhn, Pierre Charbit, Oliver Schaudt +1

In 1979 Frankl conjectured that in a finite non-trivial union-closed collection of sets there has to be an element that belongs to at least half the sets. We show that this is equi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 97 cited

Topological Phase Transitions in the Golden String-Net Model

M. D. Schulz, S. Dusuel, K. P. Schmidt +1

We examine the zero-temperature phase diagram of the two-dimensional Levin-Wen string-net model with Fibonacci anyons in the presence of competing interactions. Combining high-orde…

math.SG2012★ 40 cited

-equivariant symplectic homology and linearized contact homology

Frédéric Bourgeois, Alexandru Oancea

We present three equivalent definitions of -equivariant symplectic homology. We show that, using rational coefficients, the positive part of -equivariant symplectic homol…

quant-ph2012★ 62 cited

A reversible optical memory for twisted photons

L. Veissier, A. Nicolas, L. Giner +4

We report on an experiment in which orbital angular momentum of light is mapped at the single-photon level into and out of a cold atomic ensemble. Based on the dynamic electromagne…

hep-ex2012★ 17 cited

Search for direct CP-violation in singly-Cabibbo suppressed D+- --> K+ K- pi+- decays

BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +359

We report on a search for direct CP asymmetry in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decay D+- --> K+ K- pi+- using a data sample of 476 fb-1 accumulated with the BaBar detector running…

gr-qc2012★ 82 cited

Time-dependent spherically symmetric covariant Galileons

Eugeny Babichev, Gilles Esposito-Farese

We study spherically symmetric solutions of the cubic covariant Galileon model in curved spacetime in presence of a matter source, in the test scalar field approximation. We show t…

hep-ex2012★ 53 cited

Measurement of J/psi production in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +624

The production of J/psi mesons is studied with the LHCb detector using data from pp collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 71 nb^-1. The differ…

cond-mat.dis-nn2012★ 19 cited

Analytical and numerical study of uncorrelated disorder on a honeycomb lattice

Kean Loon Lee, Benoît Grémaud, Christian Miniatura +1

We consider a tight-binding model on the regular honeycomb lattice with uncorrelated on-site disorder. We use two independent methods (recursive Green's function and self-consisten…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 10 cited

Friction and the oscillatory motion of granular flows

Lydie Staron

This contribution reports on numerical simulations of 2D granular flows on erodible beds. The broad aim is to investigate whether simple flows of model granular matter exhibits spo…