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physics.optics2005★ 2 cited

Double Diffraction White Light Imaging: First Results with Bidimensional Diffraction

Jose J Lunazzi, Noemi I Rodriguez Rivera

The double diffraction of white light can produce a thin-prism-like image in certain conditions by using ordinary diffraction gratings. The diffractive deviation of rays happens ma…

physics.plasm-ph2005★ 63 cited

Modelling dynamics of samples exposed to free-electron-laser radiation with Boltzmann equations

Beata Ziaja, Antonio R. B. de Castro, Edgar Weckert +1

We apply Boltzmann equations for modelling the radiation damage in samples irradiated by photons from free electron laser (FEL). We test this method in a study case of a sphericall…

quant-ph2005★ 27 cited

Effective cross-Kerr nonlinearity and robust phase gates with trapped ions

F. L. Semiao, A. Vidiella-Barranco

We derive an effective Hamiltonian that describes a cross-Kerr type interaction in a system involving a two-level trapped ion coupled to the quantized field inside a cavity. We ass…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 44 cited

Orientational Defects in Ice Ih: An Interpretation of Electrical Conductivity Measurements

Maurice de Koning, Alex Antonelli, Antonio J. R. da Silva +1

We present a first-principles study of the structure and energetics of Bjerrum defects in ice Ih and compare the results to experimental electrical conductivity data. While the DFT…

hep-ex2005★ 69 cited

First Observations of Separated Atmospheric Muon Neutrino and Muon Anti-Neutrino Events in the MINOS Detector

MINOS Collaboration

The complete 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking data since the beginning of August 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters water-equivalent in the Soudan mine, Minnesota. This pape…

hep-ph2005★ 498 cited

Theory of Neutrinos: A White Paper

R. N. Mohapatra, S. Antusch, K. S. Babu +29

During 2004, four divisions of the American Physical Society commissioned a study of neutrino physics to take stock of where the field is at the moment and where it is going in the…

hep-th2005★ 7 cited

The Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian Density in a 2-dimensional Spacetime is an Exact Differential

Roldao da Rocha, W. A. Rodrigues

Recently Kiriushcheva and Kuzmin claimed to have shown that the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian cannot be written in any coordinate gauge as an exact differential in a 2-dimensional sp…

hep-ph2005★ 15 cited

Derivative dispersion relations above the physical threshold

R. F. Avila, M. J. Menon

We discuss some formal and practical aspects related to the replacement of Integral Dispersion Relations (IDR) by derivative forms, without high-energy approximations. We first dem…

hep-ex2005★ 29 cited

Angra Neutrino Project: status and plans

J. C. Anjos, A. F. Barbosa, R. Z. Funchal +6

We present the status and plans of the Angra Project, a new nuclear reactor neutrino oscillation experiment, proposed to be built in Brazil at the Angra dos Reis nuclear reactor co…

nlin.SI2005★ 12 cited

Noether Symmetries and Critical Exponents

Yuri Bozhkov

We show that all Lie point symmetries of various classes of nonlinear differential equations involving critical nonlinearities are variational/divergence symmetries.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 31 cited

Thermodynamic modeling of phase separation in manganites

J. Sacanell, F. Parisi, J. C. P. Campoy +1

We present a phenomenological model based on the thermodynamics of the phase separated state of manganites, accounting for its static and dynamic properties. Through calorimetric m…

astro-ph2005★ 13 cited

Variation in the luminosity of Kerr quasars due to extra dimension in brane Randall-Sundrum model

Roldao da Rocha, Carlos H. Coimbra-Araujo

We propose an alternative theoretical approach showing how the existence of an extra dimension in Randall-Sundrum model can estimate the correction in the horizon of Schwarzschild…

cond-mat.mes-hall2005★ 28 cited

Efficient evaluation of decoherence rates in complex Josephson circuits

David P. DiVincenzo, Frederico Brito, Roger H. Koch

A complete analysis of the decoherence properties of a Josephson junction qubit is presented. The qubit is of the flux type and consists of two large loops forming a gradiometer an…

physics.ed-ph2005

Introduction to Quantum Cryptography

Gustavo Rigolin, Andres A. Rieznik

We show in details the four quantum key distribution protocols which initiated the important field of quantum cryptography, using an accessible language for undergraduate students.…

quant-ph2005★ 134 cited

Generalized Teleportation Protocol

Goren Gordon, Gustavo Rigolin

A generalized teleportation protocol (GTP) for N qubits is presented, where the teleportation channels are non-maximally entangled and all the free parameters of the protocol are c…

quant-ph2005★ 12 cited

Variational approach to dequantization

Ricardo A. Mosna, Ian P. Hamilton, Luigi Delle Site

We present a dequantization procedure based on a variational approach whereby quantum fluctuations latent in the quantum momentum are suppressed. This is done by adding generic loc…

math-ph2005★ 2 cited

Singular solutions to the Seiberg-Witten and Freund equations on flat space from an iterative method

Ricardo A. Mosna

Although it is well known that the Seiberg-Witten equations do not admit nontrivial solutions in flat space, singular solutions to them have been previously exhibited -- eith…

math.GT2005★ 34 cited

Complex Hyperbolic Structures on Disc Bundles over Surfaces

Sasha Anan'in, Carlos H. Grossi, Nikolay Gusevskii

We study complex hyperbolic disc bundles over closed orientable surfaces that arise from discrete and faithful representations H_n->PU(2,1), where H_n is the fundamental group of t…

math.PR2005★ 4 cited

Percolation for the stable marriage of Poisson and Lebesgue

Marcelo Ventura Freire, Serguei Popov, Marina Vachkovskaia

Let be the set of points (we call the elements of centers) of Poisson process in , , with unit intensity. Consider the allocation of to which is s…

hep-ph2005★ 12 cited

Dynamics of chiral oscillations - A comparative analysis with spin-flipping

Alex E. Bernardini

Chiral oscillation as well as spin flipping effects correspond to quantum phenomena of fundamental importance in the context of particle physics and, in particular, of neutrino phy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2005★ 20 cited

A bosonization approach for bilayer quantum Hall systems at ν_T = 1

R. L. Doretto, A. O. Caldeira, C. Morais Smith

We develop a non-perturbative bosonization approach for bilayer quantum Hall systems at ν_T = 1, which allows us to systematically study the existence of an exciton condensate in t…

gr-qc2005

Phase space solutions in scalar-tensor cosmological models

J. C. C. Souza, A. Saa

An analysis of the solutions for the field equations of generalized scalar-tensor theories of gravitation is performed through the study of the geometry of the phase space and the…

gr-qc2005★ 119 cited

Relativistic Structure, Stability and Gravitational Collapse of Charged Neutron Stars

Cristian R. Ghezzi

Charged stars have the potential of becoming charged black holes or even naked singularities. It is presented a set of numerical solutions of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation…

cs.DM2005★ 6 cited

Acyclic orientations with path constraints

Rosa M. V. Figueiredo, Valmir C. Barbosa, Nelson Maculan +1

Many well-known combinatorial optimization problems can be stated over the set of acyclic orientations of an undirected graph. For example, acyclic orientations with certain diamet…