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quant-ph2016★ 2 cited

Long-time efficacy of the surface code in the presence of a superohmic environment

D. A. López-Delgado, E. Novais, E. R. Mucciolo +1

We study the long-time evolution of a quantum memory coupled to a bosonic environment on which quantum error correction (QEC) is performed using the surface code. The memory's evol…

cs.CV2016

Fractal Descriptors of Texture Images Based on the Triangular Prism Dimension

João B. Florindo, Odemir M. Bruno

This work presents a novel descriptor for texture images based on fractal geometry and its application to image analysis. The descriptors are provided by estimating the triangular…

cs.CV2016★ 1 cited

Discrete Schroedinger Transform For Texture Recognition

João B. Florindo, Odemir M. Bruno

This work presents a new procedure to extract features of grey-level texture images based on the discrete Schroedinger transform. This is a non-linear transform where the image is…

physics.optics2016★ 6 cited

Experimental confirmation of the transversal symmetry breaking in laser profiles

Silvânia A. Carvalho, Stefano De Leo, José A. Oliveira-Huguenin +1

The Snell phase effects on the propagation of optical beams through dielectric blocks have been matter of recent theoretical studies. The effects of this phase on the laser profile…

math.LO2016★ 1 cited

Expanding FLew with a Boolean connective

Rodolfo C. Ertola-Biraben, Francesc Esteva, Lluís Godo

We expand FLew with a unary connective whose algebraic counterpart is the operation that gives the greatest complemented element below a given argument. We prove that the expanded…

nucl-ex2016★ 49 cited

Insight into particle production mechanisms via angular correlations of identified particles in pp collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Two-particle angular correlations were measured in pp collisions at TeV for pions, kaons, protons, and lambdas, for all particle/anti-particle combinations in the pa…

nucl-ex2016★ 107 cited

Centrality dependence of the pseudorapidity density distribution for charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

We present the charged-particle pseudorapidity density in Pb-Pb collisions at in centrality classes measured by ALICE. The me…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 32 cited

Experimental setup for measuring the barocaloric effect in polymers: Application to natural rubber

N. M. Bom, E. O. Usuda, G. M. Guimarães +2

Barocaloric materials have shown to be promising alternatives to the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration technologies. Nevertheless, barocaloric effect (σb-CE) has not bee…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 344 cited

Combined fit of spectrum and composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +397

We present a combined fit of a simple astrophysical model of UHECR sources to both the energy spectrum and mass composition data measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The fit h…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 32 cited

A targeted search for point sources of EeV photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +397

Simultaneous measurements of air showers with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for EeV photon point sources. Several…

math.RT2016★ 2 cited

Limits of Multiplicities in Excellent Filtrations and Tensor Product Decompositions for Affine Kac-Moody Algebras

Dijana Jakelić, Adriano Moura

We express the multiplicities of the irreducible summands of certain tensor products of irreducible integrable modules for an affine Kac-Moody algebra over a simply laced Lie algeb…

gr-qc2016★ 12 cited

Analogue model for anti-de Sitter as a description of point sources in fluids

Ricardo A. Mosna, J. P. M. Pitelli, Maurício Richartz

We introduce an analogue model for a nonglobally hyperbolic spacetime in terms of a two-dimensional fluid. This is done by considering the propagation of sound waves in a radial fl…

cs.DS2016★ 9 cited

Burrows-Wheeler transform and LCP array construction in constant space

Felipe A. Louza, Travis Gagie, Guilherme P. Telles

In this article we extend the elegant in-place Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) algorithm proposed by Crochemore et al. (Crochemore et al., 2015). Our extension is twofold: we first…

nucl-th2016★ 1 cited

Phase transition in the SRG flow of nuclear interactions

Varese S. Timoteo, Enrique R. Arriola, S. Szpigel

We use a chiral interaction at N3LO in the 1S0 channel of the nucleon- nucleon interaction in order to investigate the on-shell transition along the similarity renormalization grou…

math.GR2016

Homological finiteness properties of fibre products

Dessislava H. Kochloukova, Francismar Ferreira Lima

We study the homological finiteness property FPn of fibre products

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

Effect of Low Electric Fields on Alpha Scintillation Light Yield in Liquid Argon

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +158

Measurements were made of scintillation light yield of alpha particles from the Rn decay chain within the DarkSide-50 liquid argon time projection chamber. The light yield…

gr-qc2016★ 9 cited

Vertical stability of circular orbits in relativistic razor-thin disks

Ronaldo S. S. Vieira, Javier Ramos-Caro, Alberto Saa

During the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in exact solutions of Einstein equations describing razor-thin disks. Despite the progress in the area, the analytica…

cs.IT2016

On Equivalence of Binary Asymmetric Channels regarding the Maximum Likelihood Decoding

Claudio Qureshi, Sueli I. R. Costa, Christiane B. Rodrigues +1

We study the problem of characterizing when two memoryless binary asymmetric channels, described by their transition probabilities and , are equivalent from the po…

physics.hist-ph2016★ 6 cited

Nietzsche for physicists

Juliano C. S. Neves

One of the most important philosophers in history, the German Friedrich Nietzsche, is almost ignored by physicists. This author who declared the death of God in the 19th century wa…

cs.IT2016★ 23 cited

On Integer-Forcing Precoding for the Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channel

Danilo Silva, Gabriel Pivaro, Gustavo Fraidenraich +1

Integer-forcing (IF) precoding, also known as downlink IF, is a promising new approach for communication over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channels. Inspired by…

hep-ex2016★ 28 cited

Cosmic-muon characterization and annual modulation measurement with Double Chooz detectors

T. Abrahão, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos +107

A study on cosmic muons has been performed for the two identical near and far neutrino detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, placed at 120 and 300 m.w.e. undergroun…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

X-ray dynamical diffraction in amino acid crystals: a step towards improving structural resolution of biological molecules via physical phase measurements

Sérgio L. Morelhão, Cláudio M. R. Remédios, Guilherme Calligaris +1

In this work, experimental and data analysis procedures were developed and applied for studying amino acid crystals by means of X-ray phase measurements. It clearly demonstrated th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 24 cited

Multi-resolution anisotropy studies of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +400

We report a multi-resolution search for anisotropies in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with local zenith angles up to and…

math.RA2016★ 55 cited

Degenerations of Zinbiel and nilpotent Leibniz algebras

Ivan Kaygorodov, Yury Popov, Alexandre Pozhidaev +1

We describe degenerations of four-dimensional Zinbiel and four-dimensional nilpotent Leibniz algebras over C. In particular, we describe all irreducible components in the correspon…