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nucl-ex2010★ 39 cited

The Majorana Experiment

V. E. Guiseppe

The Majorana Collaboration is assembling an array of HPGe detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. Initially, Majorana aims to construct a prototype module…

nucl-th2010

Elliptic flow and nearly perfect fluidity in dilute Fermi gases

Thomas Schaefer

In this contribution we summarize recent progress in understanding the shear viscosity of strongly correlated dilute Fermi gases. We discuss predictions from kinetic theory, and sh…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 31 cited

Particle acceleration in supernova-remnant shocks

S. P. Reynolds

It has been known for over 50 years that the radio emission from shell supernova remnants (SNRs) indicates the presence of electrons with energies in the GeV range emitting synchro…

math.OC2010★ 8 cited

Nonsmooth Formulation of the Support Vector Machine for a Neural Decoding Problem

Cary Humber, Kazufumi Ito, Chad Bouton

This paper formulates a generalized classification algorithm with an application to classifying (or `decoding') neural activity in the brain. Medical doctors and researchers have l…

nucl-ex2010★ 52 cited

Determining reaction cross sections via characteristic X-ray detection: α-induced reactions on 169Tm for the astrophysical γ -process

G. G. Kiss, T. Rauscher, T. Szücs +7

The cross sections of the 169Tm(α, γ)173Lu and 169Tm(α,n)172Lu reactions have been measured first time using a new method, by detecting the characteristic X-ray radiation following…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 111 cited

The influence of collective neutrino oscillations on a supernova r-process

Huaiyu Duan, Alexander Friedland, Gail C. McLaughlin +1

Recently, it has been demonstrated that neutrinos in a supernova oscillate collectively. This process occurs much deeper than the conventional matter-induced MSW effect and hence m…

math.AC2010

Subresultants in Multiple Roots

Carlos D'Andrea, Teresa Krick, Agnes Szanto

We extend our previous work on Poisson-like formulas for subresultants in roots to the case of polynomials with multiple roots in both the univariate and multivariate case, and als…

cond-mat.str-el2010★ 55 cited

Effect of nonmagnetic substituents Mg and Zn on the phase competition in the multiferroic antiferromagnet MnWO4

Lynda Meddar, Michael Josse, Philippe Deniard +8

The effects of substituting nonmagnetic Mg2+ and Zn2+ ions for the Mn2+ (S = 5/2) ions on the structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of the multiferroic frustrated antiferr…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 17 cited

Viscosity spectral functions of the dilute Fermi gas in kinetic theory

J. Chao, M. Braby, T. Schaefer

We compute the viscosity spectral function of the dilute Fermi gas for different values of the s-wave scattering length , including the unitarity limit . We perform…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 8 cited

Bond-specific reaction kinetics during the oxidation of (111) Si: Effect of n-type doping

Bilal Gokce, David E. Aspnes, Gerald Lucovsky +1

It is known that a higher concentration of free carriers leads to a higher oxide growth rate in the thermal oxidation of silicon. However, the role of electrons and holes in oxidat…

nucl-ex2010★ 150 cited

\textsc{MaGe} - a {\sc Geant4}-based Monte Carlo Application Framework for Low-background Germanium Experiments

Melissa Boswell, Yuen-Dat Chan, Jason A. Detwiler +20

We describe a physics simulation software framework, MAGE, that is based on the GEANT4 simulation toolkit. MAGE is used to simulate the response of ultra-low radioactive background…

math.CO2010★ 52 cited

The Hopf algebra of diagonal rectangulations

Shirley Law, Nathan Reading

We define and study a combinatorial Hopf algebra dRec with basis elements indexed by diagonal rectangulations of a square. This Hopf algebra provides an intrinsic combinatorial rea…

cond-mat.soft2010★ 22 cited

Entropy-driven enhanced self-diffusion in confined reentrant supernematics

Marco G. Mazza, Manuel Greschek, Rustem Valiullin +2

We present a molecular dynamics study of reentrant nematic phases using the Gay-Berne-Kihara model of a liquid crystal in nanoconfinement. At densities above those characteristic o…

physics.atom-ph2010★ 28 cited

Relaxation of spins due to a magnetic field gradient, revisited; Identity of the Redfield and Torrey theories

R. Golub, Ryan M. Rohm, C. M. Swank

There is an extensive literature on magnetic gradient induced spin relaxation. Cates, Schaefer and Happer (CSH) in a seminal paper, have solved the problem in the regime where diff…

physics.comp-ph2010★ 210 cited

Applications of quantum Monte Carlo methods in condensed systems

Jindrich Kolorenc, Lubos Mitas

The quantum Monte Carlo methods represent a powerful and broadly applicable computational tool for finding very accurate solutions of the stationary Schroedinger equation for atoms…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 97 cited

Surface Polar Phonon Dominated Electron Transport in Graphene

X. Li, E. A. Barry, J. M. Zavada +2

The effects of surface polar phonons on electronic transport properties of monolayer graphene are studied by using a Monte Carlo simulation. Specifically, the low-field electron mo…

cond-mat.str-el2010★ 44 cited

Single-ion anisotropy, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and negative magnetoresistance of the spin-1/2 pyrochlores R2V2O7

H. J. Xiang, E. J. Kan, M. -H. Whangbo +3

The electronic and magnetic properties of spin-1/2 pyrochlores R2V2O7 were investigated on the basis of density-functional calculations. Contrary to the common belief, the spin-1/2…

math.CO2010★ 3 cited

Codes and shifted codes of partitions

J. T. Hird, Naihuan Jing, Ernest Stitzinger

In a recent paper, Carrell and Goulden found a combinatorial identity of the Bernstein operators that they then used to prove Bernstein's Theorem. We show that this identity is a s…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 30 cited

The Role of Diffusive Shock Acceleration on Nonequilibrium Ionization in Supernova Remnant Shocks II: Emitted Spectra

Daniel J. Patnaude, Patrick Slane, John C. Raymond +1

We present a grid of nonequilibrium ionization models for the X-ray spectra from supernova remnants undergoing efficient diffusive shock acceleration. The calculation follows the h…

stat.AP2010★ 32 cited

A latent factor model for spatial data with informative missingness

Brian J. Reich, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

A large amount of data is typically collected during a periodontal exam. Analyzing these data poses several challenges. Several types of measurements are taken at many locations th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 23 cited

Band gap control of small bundles of carbon nanotubes using applied electric fields: A density functional theory study

Gunn Kim, J. Bernholc, Young-Kyun Kwon

Electrostatic screening between carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in a small CNT bundle leads to a switching behavior induced by electric field perpendicular to the bundle axis. Using a firs…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 82 cited

Cosmic-ray current driven turbulence in shocks with efficient particle acceleration: the oblique, long-wavelength mode instability

A. M. Bykov, S. M. Osipov, D. C. Ellison

In order for diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) to accelerate particles to high energies, the energetic particles must be able to interact with magnetic turbulence over a broad wav…

gr-qc2010★ 5 cited

An Exploration of OpenCL for a Numerical Relativity Application

Niket K. Choudhary, Rakesh Ginjupalli, Sandeep Navada +1

Currently there is considerable interest in making use of many-core processor architectures, such as Nvidia and AMD graphics processing units (GPUs) for scientific computing. In th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 11 cited

Temperature Dependence of the Dynamics of Portevin-Le Chatelier Effect in Al-2.5%Mg alloy

A. Chatterjee, K. L. Murty, N. Gayathri +2

Tensile tests were carried out by deforming polycrystalline samples of Al-2.5%Mg alloy at four different temperatures in an intermediate strain rate regime of 2x10-4s-1 to 2x10-3s-…