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math.PR2007★ 1 cited

Facilitated spin models: recent and new results

Nicoletta Cancrini, Fabio Martinelli, Cyril Roberto +1

Facilitated or kinetically constrained spin models (KCSM) are a class of interacting particle systems reversible w.r.t. to a simple product measure. Each dynamical variable (spin)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007★ 32 cited

Magneto-optical properties of (Ga,Mn)As: an ab--initio determination

A. Stroppa, S. Picozzi, A. Continenza +2

The magneto-optical properties of (Ga,Mn)As have been determined within density functional theory using the highly precise full-potential linear augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method…

math.DG2007

Conformal deformation of spacelike surfaces in Minkowski space

Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

We address the problem of second order conformal deformation of spacelike surfaces in compactified Minkowski 4-space. We explain the construction of the exterior differential syste…

astro-ph2007★ 14 cited

Discovery of underground argon with low level of radioactive 39Ar and possible applications to WIMP dark matter detectors

C. Galbiati, R. Purtschert

We report on the first measurement of 39Ar in argon from underground natural gas reservoirs. The gas stored in the US National Helium Reserve was found to contain a low level of 39…

physics.comp-ph2007★ 31 cited

Trial wave functions for High-Pressure Metallic Hydrogen

Carlo Pierleoni, Kris T. Delaney, Miguel A. Morales +2

Many body trial wave functions are the key ingredient for accurate Quantum Monte Carlo estimates of total electronic energies in many electron systems. In the Coupled Electron-Ion…

astro-ph2007★ 374 cited

Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory provide evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of the cosmic rays with the highest energies, which are correlated with the…

astro-ph2007★ 172 cited

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to Earth-skimming tau-neutrinos that interact in the Earth's crust. Tau leptons from charged-cur…

astro-ph2007★ 43 cited

Temperature and Humidity Dependence of Air Fluorescence Yield measured by AIRFLY

M. Ave

The fluorescence detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays requires a detailed knowledge of the fluorescence light emission from nitrogen molecules over a wide range of atmospheri…

physics.gen-ph2007

The shadow of light: evidences of photon behaviour contradicting known electrodynamics

F. Cardone, R. Mignani, W. Perconti +2

We report the results of a double-slit-like experiment in the infrared range, which evidence an anomalous behaviour of photon systems under particular (energy and space) constraint…

cond-mat.str-el2007★ 3 cited

A density matrix approach to the dynamical properties of a two-site Holstein model

Simone Paganelli, Sergio Ciuchi

The two-site Holstein model represents a first non-trivial paradigm for the interaction between an itinerant charge with a quantum oscillator, a very common topic in different ambi…

gr-qc2007★ 16 cited

First joint Gravitational Waves search by the Auriga-Explorer-Nautilus-Virgo collaboration

Virgo collaboration

We present results of the search for coincident burst excitations over a 24 hours long data set collected by AURIGA, EXPLORER, NAUTILUS and Virgo detectors during September 2005. T…

cond-mat.str-el2007★ 52 cited

Current saturation and Coulomb interactions in organic single-crystal transistors

S. Fratini, H. Xie, I. N. Hulea +2

Electronic transport through rubrene single-crystal field effect transistors (FETs) is investigated experimentally in the high carrier density regime (n ~ 0.1 carrier/molecule). In…

math.DG2007★ 19 cited

Closed trajectories of a particle model on null curves in anti-de Sitter 3-space

Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

We study the existence of closed trajectories of a particle model on null curves in anti-de Sitter 3-space defined by a functional which is linear in the curvature of the particle…

gr-qc2007★ 7 cited

All-sky incoherent search for periodic signals with Explorer 2005 data

P. Astone, D. Babusci, M. Bassan +31

The data collected during 2005 by the resonant bar Explorer are divided into segments and incoherently summed in order to perform an all-sky search for periodic gravitational wave…

math-ph2007

Stability of the Front under a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Dynamics

Raffaele Esposito, Yan Guo, Rossana Marra

We consider a kinetic model for a system of two species of particles interacting through a longrange repulsive potential and a reservoir at given temperature. The model is describe…

physics.soc-ph2007★ 129 cited

Indo-European languages tree by Levenshtein distance

Maurizio Serva, Filippo Petroni

The evolution of languages closely resembles the evolution of haploid organisms. This similarity has been recently exploited \cite{GA,GJ} to construct language trees. The key point…

cond-mat.supr-con2007★ 55 cited

Evidence for gap anisotropy in CaC6 from directional point-contact spectroscopy

R. S. Gonnelli, D. Daghero, D. Delaude +8

We present the first results of directional point-contact spectroscopy in high quality CaC6 samples both along the ab plane and in the c-axis direction. The superconducting order p…

cond-mat.soft2007★ 61 cited

A multi-blob representation of semi-dilute polymer solutions

Carlo Pierleoni, Barbara Capone, Jean-Pierre Hansen

A coarse-grained multi-blob description of polymer solutions is presented, based on soft, transferable effective interactions between bonded and non-bonded blobs. The number of blo…

hep-th2007★ 66 cited

Graviweak Unification

F. Nesti, R. Percacci

The coupling of chiral fermions to gravity makes use only of the selfdual SU(2) subalgebra of the (complexified) SO(3,1) algebra. It is possible to identify the antiselfdual subalg…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007★ 23 cited

Optical and magneto-optical properties of ferromagnetic full-Heusler films: experiments and first-principles calculations

F. Ricci, S. Picozzi, A. Continenza +5

We report a joint theoretical and experimental study focused on understanding the optical and magneto-optical properties of Co-based full-Heusler compounds. We show that magneto-op…

cond-mat.str-el2007★ 19 cited

Electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions in organic field effect transistors

S. Fratini, A. F. Morpurgo, S. Ciuchi

Recent experiments have demonstrated that the performances of organic FETs strongly depend on the dielectric properties of the gate insulator. In particular, it has been shown that…

cond-mat.supr-con2007★ 21 cited

Positions of Point-Nodes in Borocarbide Superconductor YNi2B2C

Yuki Nagai, Yusuke Kato, Nobuhiko Hayashi +2

To determine the superconducting gap function of YNi2B2C, we calculate the local density of states (LDOS) around a single vortex core with the use of Eilenberger theory and the ban…

hep-th2007★ 5 cited

Standard Model and Gravity from Spinors

F. Nesti

We propose to unify the Gravity and Standard Model gauge groups by using algebraic spinors of the standard four-dimensional Clifford algebra, in left-right symmetric fashion. This…

astro-ph2007★ 26 cited

Super Heavy Dark Matter and UHECR Anisotropy at Low Energy

R. Aloisio, F. Tortorici

Super Heavy quasi-stable particles are naturally produced in the early universe and could represent a substantial fraction of the Dark Matter: the so-called Super Heavy Dark Matter…