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hep-lat2006★ 45 cited

First results from 2+1-Flavor Domain Wall QCD: Mass Spectrum, Topology Change and Chiral Symmetry with

D. J. Antonio, T. Blum, K. C. Bowler +23

We present results for the static interquark potential, light meson and baryon masses, and light pseudoscalar meson decay constants obtained from simulations of domain wall QCD wit…

astro-ph2006★ 2 cited

Tracing Ghost Cavities with Low Frequency Radio Observations

Tracy Clarke, Elizabeth Blanton, Craig Sarazin +5

We present X-ray and multi-frequency radio observations of the central radio sources in several X-ray cavity systems. We show that targeted radio observations are key to determinin…

hep-th2006★ 34 cited

Recursion and growth estimates in renormalizable quantum field theory

Dirk Kreimer, Karen Yeats

In this paper we show that there is a Lipatov bound for the radius of convergence for superficially divergent one-particle irreducible Green functions in a renormalizable quantum f…

hep-ex2006★ 16 cited

Measurement of the ppbar to ttbar production cross section at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV in the fully hadronic decay channel

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

A measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in proton anti-proton collisions at an interaction energy of sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV is presented. This analysis uses 405 pb-1…

hep-ex2006★ 13 cited

Search for techniparticles in e +jets events at D0

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We search for the technicolor process ppbar -> rho_T/omega_T ->W+pi_T in events containing one electron and two jets, in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 390 pb-1,…

astro-ph2006★ 19 cited

The Frequency of Mid-Infrared Excess Sources in Galactic Surveys

B. Uzpen, H. A. Kobulnicky, A. J. Monson +27

We have identified 230 Tycho-2 Spectral Catalog stars that exhibit 8 micron mid-infrared extraphotospheric excesses in the MidCourse Space Experiment (MSX) and Spitzer Space Telesc…

cond-mat.str-el2006★ 15 cited

Valence bond solid phases in a cubic antiferromagnet

K. S. D. Beach, Anders W. Sandvik

We report on a valence bond projector Monte Carlo simulation of the cubic lattice quantum Heisenberg model with additional higher-order exchange interactions in each unit cell. The…

hep-ph2006★ 59 cited

The fifth dimension as an analogue computer for strong interactions at the LHC

Johannes Hirn, Veronica Sanz

We present a mechanism to get S ~ 0 or even negative, without bringing into play the SM fermion sector. This mechanism can be applied to a wide range of 5D models, including compos…

hep-lat2006★ 43 cited

Study of the finite temperature transition in 3-flavor QCD using the R and RHMC algorithms

M. Cheng, N. H. Christ, M. A. Clark +12

We study the finite temperature transition in QCD with three flavors of equal masses using the R and RHMC algorithm on lattices with temporal extent N_τ=4 and 6. For the transition…

hep-ex2006★ 9 cited

Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p\bar{p} collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We report on a search for second generation leptoquarks LQ_2 which decay into a muon plus quark in p\bar{p} collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV in the D0 de…

cond-mat.mes-hall2006★ 110 cited

Impurities in a Biased Graphene Bilayer

Johan Nilsson, A. H. Castro Neto

We study the problem of impurities and mid-gap states in a biased graphene bilayer. We show that the properties of the bound states, such as localization lengths and binding energi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2006★ 28 cited

Persistent currents through a quantum impurity: Protection through integrability

Johan Nilsson, H. -P. Eckle, Henrik Johannesson

We consider an integrable model of a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with the conduction electrons coupled by a spin exchange to a magnetic impurity. A symmetry analysis based on a…

cond-mat.other2006★ 25 cited

Phase-locking transition of coupled low-dimensional superfluids

L. Mathey, A. Polkovnikov, A. H. Castro Neto

We study the phase-locking transition of two coupled low-dimensional superfluids, either two-dimensional superfluids at finite temperature, or one-dimensional superfluids at zero t…

cond-mat.stat-mech2006★ 283 cited

Spontaneously ordered motion of self-propelled particles

Andras Czirok, H. Eugene Stanley, Tamas Vicsek

We study a biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium model consisting of self-propelled particles. In the model, particles move on a plane with a velocity of constant magni…

cond-mat.dis-nn2006★ 11 cited

Anomalous electrical and frictionless flow conductance in complex networks

Eduardo López, Shai Carmi, Shlomo Havlin +2

We study transport properties such as electrical and frictionless flow conductance on scale-free and Erdos-Renyi networks. We consider the conductance G between two arbitrarily cho…

quant-ph2006★ 15 cited

Two electron entanglement in quasi-one dimensional system: Role of resonances

Alexander López, Otto Rendón, Víctor M. Villalba +1

We analyze the role of resonances in two-fermion entanglement production for a quasi one-dimensional two channel scattering problem. We solve exactly for the problem of a two-fermi…

physics.soc-ph2006★ 64 cited

Are volatility correlations in financial markets related to Omori processes occurring on all scales?

Philipp Weber, Fengzhong Wang, Irena Vodenska-Chitkushev +2

We analyze the memory in volatility by studying volatility return intervals, defined as the time between two consecutive fluctuations larger than a given threshold, in time periods…

cond-mat.supr-con2006★ 66 cited

Size effects on the quenching to the normal state in YBa2Cu3O7-delta thin film superconductors

Mauricio Ruibal, Gonzalo Ferro, Manuel R. Osorio +3

To probe the quenching mechanisms under high current densities, current-voltage curves have been measured in YBa2Cu3O7-delta thin film microbridges with widths lower than the therm…

hep-ex2006★ 55 cited

Measurement of the ttbar production cross section in pbarp collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV using secondary vertex b tagging

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We report a new measurement of the ttbar production cross section in pbarp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using events with one charged lepton (electron or muon)…

cond-mat.mes-hall2006★ 87 cited

Fermi Liquid Theory of a Fermi Ring

T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, F. Guinea +1

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands ch…

cond-mat.str-el2006★ 37 cited

Impurity induced spin texture in quantum critical 2D antiferromagnets

Kaj H. Hoglund, Anders W. Sandvik, Subir Sachdev

We describe the uniform and staggered magnetization distributions around a vacancy in a quantum critical two-dimensional S=1/2 antiferromagnet. The distributions are delocalized ac…

cond-mat.stat-mech2006★ 21 cited

Smoothing a Rock by Chipping

P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner

We investigate an idealized model for the size reduction and smoothing of a polygonal rock due to repeated chipping at corners. Each chip is sufficiently small so that only a singl…

cond-mat.str-el2006★ 533 cited

Evidence for deconfined quantum criticality in a two-dimensional Heisenberg model with four-spin interactions

Anders W. Sandvik

Using ground-state projector quantum Monte Carlo simulations in the valence bond basis, it is demonstrated that non-frustrating four-spin interactions can destroy the Neel order of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2006★ 2k cited

Biased bilayer graphene: semiconductor with a gap tunable by electric field effect

Eduardo V. Castro, K. S. Novoselov, S. V. Morozov +6

We demonstrate that the electronic gap of a graphene bilayer can be controlled externally by applying a gate bias. From the magneto-transport data (Shubnikov-de Haas measurements o…