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physics.gen-ph2011★ 6 cited

Dynamics of the self-interacting chameleon cosmology

Hossein Farajollahi, Amin Salehi

In this article we study the properties of the flat FRW chameleon cosmology in which the cosmic expansion of the Universe is affected by the chameleon field and dark energy. In par…

gr-qc2011★ 2 cited

Constraints on scalar-tensor theories from observations

Hossein Farajollahi, Amin Salehi, Mohammad Nasiri

We study the dynamical description of scalar-tensor gravity by performing the best-fit analysis for two cases of exponential and power-law form of the potential and scalar field fu…

physics.gen-ph2011★ 8 cited

Stability analysis of agegraphic dark energy in Brans-Dicke cosmology

H. Farajollahi, J. Sadeghi, M. Pourali +1

Stability analysis of agegraphic dark energy in Brans-Dicke theory is presented in this paper. We constrain the model parameters with the observational data and thus the results be…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 475 cited

Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls

Dennis Meier, Jan Seidel, Andres Cano +6

Transition metal oxides hold great potential for the development of new device paradigms because of the field-tunable functionalities driven by their strong electronic correlations…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 19 cited

Extension of the Schiff theorem to ions and molecules

V. V. Flambaum, A. Kozlov

According to the Schiff theorem the nuclear electric dipole moment (EDM) is screened in neutral atoms. In ions this screening is incomplete. We extend a derivation of the Schiff th…

math.NT2011★ 8 cited

On the Distribution of Atkin and Elkies Primes

Igor E. Shparlinski, Andrew V. Sutherland

Given an elliptic curve E over a finite field F_q of q elements, we say that an odd prime ell not dividing q is an Elkies prime for E if t_E^2 - 4q is a square modulo ell, where t_…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 26 cited

High temperature series expansion study of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the hyperkagome lattice: Comparison with NaIrO

R. R. P. Singh, J. Oitmaa

We develop high temperature series expansions for and the uniform structure factor of the spin-half Heisenberg model on the hyperkagome lattice to order . These ex…

physics.gen-ph2011★ 11 cited

Cosmic acceleration and phantom crossing in -gravity

H. Farajollahi, A. Ravanpak, P. Wu

In this paper, we propose two new models in gravity to realize universe acceleration and phantom crossing due to dark torsion in the formalism. The model parameters are cons…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 29 cited

The dynamical evolution of dwarf planet (136108) Haumea's collisional family: General properties and implications for the trans-Neptunian belt

Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Jonathan Horner, Tadashi Mukai +1

Recently, the first collisional family was identified in the trans-Neptunian belt. The family consists of Haumea and at least ten other ~100km-sized trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs)…

nlin.AO2011

Pervasive Flexibility in Living Technologies through Degeneracy Based Design

James Whitacre, Axel Bender

The capacity to adapt can greatly influence the success of systems that need to compensate for damaged parts, learn how to achieve robust performance in new environments, or exploi…

astro-ph.SR2011

Analysis of Hydrogen Cyanide Hyperfine Spectral Components towards Star Forming Cores

Robert M. Loughnane, Matt P. Redman, Eric R. Keto +2

Although hydrogen cyanide has become quite a common molecular tracing species for a variety of astrophysical sources, it, however, exhibits dramatic non-LTE behaviour in its hyperf…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 4 cited

High-order Ho multipoles in HoB2C2 observed with soft resonant x-ray diffraction

A. J. Princep, A. M. Mulders, E. Schierle +7

Soft resonant x-ray Bragg diffraction (SRXD) at the Ho M edges has been used to study Ho multipoles in the combined magnetic and orbitally ordered phase of HoBC$_2…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 19 cited

Ultra-shallow quantum dots in an undoped GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron gas

W. Y. Mak, F. Sfigakis, K. Das Gupta +7

We report quantum dots fabricated on very shallow 2-dimensional electron gases, only 30 nm below the surface, in undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitax…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011★ 36 cited

Corrections to Pauling residual entropy and single tetrahedron based approximations for the pyrochlore lattice Ising antiferromagnet

Rajiv R. P. Singh, J. Oitmaa

We study corrections to single tetrahedron based approximations for the entropy, specific heat and uniform susceptibility of the pyrochlore lattice Ising antiferromagnet, by a Nume…

cs.DC2011★ 5 cited

CloudGenius: Automated Decision Support for Migrating Multi-Component Enterprise Applications to Clouds

Michael Menzel, Rajiv Ranjan

One of the key problems in migrating multi-component enterprise applications to Clouds is selecting the best mix of VM images and Cloud infrastructure services. A migration process…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 35 cited

Ground state properties, excitation spectra and phase transitions in the and bilayer Heisenberg models on the honeycomb Lattice

J. Oitmaa, R. R. P. Singh

Motivated by the observation of a disordered spin ground state in the material BiMnONO, we study the ground state properties and excitation spectra of th…

physics.gen-ph2011★ 1 cited

Curvaton reheating and intermediate inflation in brane cosmology

H. Farajollahi, A. Ravanpak

In this paper, we study the curvaton reheating mechanism for an intermediate inflationary universe in brane world cosmology. In contrast to our previous work, we assume that when t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 80 cited

The electric field as a novel switch for uptake/release of hydrogen storage in nitrogen doped graphene

Z. M. Ao, A. D. Hernández-Nieves, F. M. Peeters +1

Nitrogen-doped graphene was recently synthesized and was reported to be a catalyst for hydrogen dissociative adsorption under a perpendicular applied electric field (F). In this wo…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 10 cited

Maser Source Finding Methods in HOPS

Andrew J. Walsh, Cormac Purcell, Steven Longmore +2

The {\bf H}{\bf O} Southern Galactic {\bf P}lane {\bf S}urvey (HOPS) has observed 100 square degrees of the Galactic plane, using the Mopra radio telescope to search for emissi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 1 cited

New tools for the direct characterisation of FinFETs

G. C. Tettamanzi, A. Paul, S. Lee +2

This paper discusses how classical transport theories such as the thermionic emission, can be used as a powerful tool for the study and the understanding of the most complex mechan…

cs.NI2011

A Frame Rate Optimization Framework For Improving Continuity In Video Streaming

Evan Tan, Chun Tung Chou

This paper aims to reduce the prebuffering requirements, while maintaining continuity, for video streaming. Current approaches do this by making use of adaptive media playout (AMP)…

math.NA2011★ 2 cited

Iterative methods for shifted positive definite linear systems and time discretization of the heat equation

William McLean, Vidar Thomée

In earlier work we have studied a method for discretization in time of a parabolic problem which consists in representing the exact solution as an integral in the complex plane and…

physics.gen-ph2011★ 4 cited

Dynamical stability in scalar-tensor cosmology

H. Farajollahi, A. Shahabi, A. Salehi

We study FRW cosmology for a double scalar - tensor theory of gravity where two scalar fields are nonminimally coupled to the geometry. In a framework to study stability and attrac…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 56 cited

A High Stellar Obliquity in the WASP-7 Exoplanetary System

Simon Albrecht, Joshua N. Winn, R. Paul Butler +5

We measure a tilt of 86+-6 deg between the sky projections of the rotation axis of the WASP-7 star, and the orbital axis of its close-in giant planet. This measurement is based on…