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astro-ph.SR2008★ 128 cited

On active region loops: Hinode/EIS observations

D. Tripathi, H. E. Mason, B. N. Dwivedi +2

Coronal loops are fundamental building blocks of the solar active regions and the corona. Therefore, a clear understanding of the physics of coronal loops will help us understand t…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Further progress on solar age calibration

Günter Houdek, Douglas Gough

We recalibrate a standard solar model seismologically to estimate the main-sequence age of the Sun. Our procedure differs from what we have done in the past by removing from the ob…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 115 cited

Waterlike thermodynamic anomalies in a repulsive-step potential system

N. V. Gribova, Yu. D. Fomin, Daan Frenkel +1

We report a computer-simulation study of the equilibrium phase diagram of a three-dimensional system of particles with a repulsive step potential. The phase diagram is obtained usi…

astro-ph2008★ 72 cited

High Inclination Planets in Multistellar Systems

P. E. Verrier, N. W. Evans

The Kozai mechanism often destabilises high inclination orbits. It couples changes in the eccentricity and inclination, and drives high inclination, circular orbits to low inclinat…

math.GR2008★ 1 cited

Proving finitely presented groups are large by computer

J. O. Button

We present a theoretical algorithm which, given any finite presentation of a group as input, will terminate with answer yes if and only if the group is large. We then implement a p…

cond-mat.other2008★ 45 cited

The dynamics of quantum vortices in a toroidal trap

Peter Mason, Natalia G. Berloff

The dynamics of quantum vortices in a two-dimensional annular condensate are considered by numerically simulating the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Families of solitary wave sequences…

astro-ph2008★ 110 cited

A Comparison of Six Photometric Redshift Methods Applied to 1.5 Million Luminous Red Galaxies

Filipe B. Abdalla, Manda Banerji, Ofer Lahav +1

We present an updated version of MegaZ-LRG (Collister et al.,(2007)) with photometric redshifts derived with the neural network method, ANNz as well as five other publicly availabl…

astro-ph2008★ 44 cited

An Explicit Scheme for Incorporating Ambipolar Diffusion in a Magnetohydrodynamics Code

Eunwoo Choi, Jongsoo Kim, Paul J. Wiita

We describe a method for incorporating ambipolar diffusion in the strong coupling approximation into a multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics code based on the total variation dimin…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 14 cited

Hydrodynamics of confined colloidal fluids in two dimensions

Jimaan Sané, Ard A. Louis, Johan Padding

We apply a hybrid Molecular Dynamics and mesoscopic simulation technique to study the dynamics of two dimensional colloidal discs in confined geometries. We calculate the velocity…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

A pilot survey of stellar tidal streams in nearby spiral galaxies

David Martinez-Delgado, R. Jay Gabany, Jorge Penarrubia +4

Within the hierarchical framework for galaxy formation, merging and tidal interactions are expected to shape large galaxies to this day. While major mergers are quite rare at prese…

math.PR2008★ 7 cited

Critical Value of the Quantum Ising Model on Star-Like Graphs

Jakob E. Björnberg

We present a rigorous determination of the critical value of the ground-state quantum Ising model in a transverse field, on a class of planar graphs which we call star-like. These…

astro-ph2008★ 105 cited

High Redshift Metals I.: The Decline of C IV at z > 5.3

George D. Becker, Michael Rauch, Wallace L. W. Sargent

We present the results from our search for C IV in the intergalactic medium at redshifts z=5.3-6.0. We have observed four z~6 QSOs with Keck/NIRSPEC in echelle mode. The data are t…

physics.bio-ph2008★ 220 cited

Nanomechanical detection of antibiotic-mucopeptide binding in a model for superbug drug resistance

J. W. Ndieyira, M. Watari, A. Donoso Barrera +10

The alarming growth of the antibiotic-resistant superbugs methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) is driving the development…

hep-lat2008★ 12 cited

Bottom hadron mass splittings in the static limit from 2+1 flavour lattice QCD

William Detmold, C. -J. David Lin, Matthew Wingate

Dynamical 2+1 flavour lattice QCD is used to calculate the splittings between the masses of mesons and baryons containing a single static heavy quark and domain-wall light and stra…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Dynamical Simulations of the Planetary System HD69830

Matthew J. Payne, Eric B. Ford, Mark C. Wyatt +1

HD 69830 exhibits radial velocity variations attributed to three planets as well as infrared emission attributed to a warm debris disk. Previous studies have developed models for t…

quant-ph2008★ 629 cited

Quantum mechanical evolution towards thermal equilibrium

Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu, Anthony J. Short +1

The circumstances under which a system reaches thermal equilibrium, and how to derive this from basic dynamical laws, has been a major question from the very beginning of thermodyn…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 8 cited

Mechanical switching of ferro-electric rubber

J. M. Adams, M. Warner

At the A to C transition, smectic elastomers have recently been observed to undergo 35% spontaneous shear strains. We first explicitly describe how strains of up to twice thi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 2k cited

Uniaxial Strain in Graphene by Raman Spectroscopy: G peak splitting, Gruneisen Parameters and Sample Orientation

T. M. G. Mohiuddin, A. Lombardo, R. R. Nair +10

Graphene is the two-dimensional building block for carbon allotropes of every other dimensionality. Since its experimental discovery, graphene continues to attract enormous interes…

cond-mat.other2008★ 4 cited

Coherence properties and luminescence spectra of condensed polaritons in CdTe microcavities

M. H. Szymanska, F. M. Marchetti, J. Keeling +1

We analyse the spatial and temporal coherence properties of a two-dimensional and finite sized polariton condensate with parameters tailored to the recent experiments which have sh…

nlin.SI2008★ 190 cited

On a novel integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

J. Lenells, A. S. Fokas

We consider an integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation that was recently derived by one of the authors using bi-Hamiltonian methods. This equation is…

hep-th2008★ 210 cited

Kerr-AdS/CFT Correspondence in Diverse Dimensions

H. Lu, Jianwei Mei, C. N. Pope

It was proposed recently that the near-horizon states of an extremal four-dimensional Kerr black hole could be identified with a certain chiral conformal field theory whose Virasor…

hep-th2008★ 82 cited

Dark Energy, Inflation and Extra Dimensions

Paul J. Steinhardt, Daniel Wesley

We consider how accelerated expansion, whether due to inflation or dark energy, imposes strong constraints on fundamental theories obtained by compactification from higher dimensio…

astro-ph2008★ 19 cited

Alternative Data Reduction Procedures for UVES: Wavelength Calibration and Spectrum Addition

Rodger I. Thompson, Jill Bechtold, John H. Black +1

This paper addresses alternative procedures to the ESO supplied pipeline procedures for the reduction of UVES spectra of two quasar spectra to determine the value of the fundamenta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 52 cited

The role of static disorder in negative thermal expansion in ReO3

Efrain E. Rodriguez, Anna Llobet, Thomas Proffen +4

Time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction and specific heat measurements were used to study the nature of thermal expansion in rhenium trioxide, an electrically conducting oxide wi…