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cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 31 cited

Nonequilibrium Critical Behavior for Electron Tunneling through Quantum Dots in an Aharonov-Bohm Circuit

Eran Sela, Ian Affleck

Double quantum dots can provide an experimental realization of the 2 impurity Kondo model which exhibits a non-Fermi liquid quantum critical point (QCP) at a special value of its p…

physics.chem-ph2008★ 29 cited

The very slow expansion of an ultracold plasma formed in a seeded supersonic molecular beam of NO

J. P. Morrison, C. J. Rennick, E. R. Grant

The double-resonant laser excitation of nitric oxide, cooled to 1 K in a seeded supersonic molecular beam, yields a gas of molecules cm in a single selected…

astro-ph2008★ 20 cited

MOST photometry of the enigmatic PMS pulsator HD 142666

K. Zwintz, T. Kallinger, D. B. Guenther +11

We present precise photometry of the pulsating Herbig Ae star HD 142666 obtained in two consecutive years with the MOST (Microvariability & Oscilations of STars) satellite. Previou…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Sources of contamination to weak lensing tomography: redshift-dependent shear measurement bias

Elisabetta Semboloni, Ismael Tereno, Ludovic van Waerbeke +1

The current methods available to estimate gravitational shear from astronomical images of galaxies introduce systematic errors which can affect the accuracy of weak lensing cosmolo…

gr-qc2008★ 48 cited

Signature change events: A challenge for quantum gravity?

Angela White, Silke Weinfurtner, Matt Visser

Within the framework of either Euclidian (functional-integral) quantum gravity or canonical general relativity the signature of the manifold is a priori unconstrained. Furthermore,…

cond-mat.other2008★ 20 cited

Finite-size and confinement effects in spin-polarized trapped Fermi gases

Mark Ku, Jens Braun, Achim Schwenk

We calculate the energy of a single fermion interacting resonantly with a Fermi sea of different-species fermions in asymmetric traps, and show that finite particle numbers and the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 19 cited

Creation and manipulation of anyons in a layered superconductor-2DEG system

G. Rosenberg, B. Seradjeh, C. Weeks +1

We describe and analyze in detail our recent theoretical proposal for the realization and manipulation of anyons in a weakly interacting system consisting of a two-dimensional elec…

quant-ph2008★ 22 cited

Degenerate quantum codes and the quantum Hamming bound

Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli, Andreas Klappenecker

The parameters of a nondegenerate quantum code must obey the Hamming bound. An important open problem in quantum coding theory is whether or not the parameters of a degenerate quan…

math.PR2008★ 69 cited

Brownian motion on the Sierpinski carpet

Martin T. Barlow, Richard F. Bass, Takashi Kumagai +1

We prove that, up to scalar multiples, there exists only one local regular Dirichlet form on a generalized Sierpinski carpet that is invariant with respect to the local symmetries…

cond-mat.supr-con2008★ 93 cited

Multiple Quantum Oscillations in the de Haas van Alphen Spectra of the Underdoped High Temperature Superconductor YBa_2Cu_3O_6.5

Alain Audouard, Cyril Jaudet, David Vignolles +5

By improving the experimental conditions and extensive data accumulation, we have achieved very high-precision in the measurements of the de Haas-van Alphen effect in the underdope…

physics.atom-ph2008★ 28 cited

Dynamics of OH(2Pi)-He collisions in combined electric and magnetic fields

Timur V. Tscherbul, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Roman V. Krems +1

We use accurate quantum mechanical calculations to analyze the effects of parallel electric and magnetic fields on collision dynamics of OH(2Pi) molecules. It is demonstrated that…

astro-ph2008★ 73 cited

STAGES: the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey

M. E. Gray, Christian Wolf, Marco Barden +26

We present an overview of the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). STAGES is a multiwavelength project designed to probe physical drivers of galaxy evolution ac…

astro-ph2008★ 215 cited

The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall

Christian Wolf, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Michael Balogh +22

We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 16 cited

Inelastic neutron scattering due to acoustic vibrations confined in nanoparticles: theory and experiment

Lucien Saviot, Caleb H. Netting, Daniel B. Murray +6

The inelastic scattering of neutrons by nanoparticles due to acoustic vibrational modes (energy below 10 meV) confined in nanoparticles is calculated using the Zemach-Glauber forma…

cond-mat.stat-mech2008★ 30 cited

Extended scaling relations for planar lattice models

G. Benfatto, P. Falco, V. Mastropietro

It is widely believed that the critical properties of several planar lattice models, like the Eight Vertex or the Ashkin-Teller models, are well described by an effective Quantum F…

astro-ph2008★ 180 cited

CARS: the CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey; I. Five-band multi-colour data from 37 sq. deg. CFHTLS-Wide observations

T. Erben, H. Hildebrandt, M. Lerchster +10

We present the CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey (CARS). It is a virtual multi-colour survey based on public archive images from the CFHT-Legacy-Survey. Our main scientific interests…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

PSR J1753-2240: A mildly recycled pulsar in an eccentric binary system

M. J. Keith, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne +5

We report the discovery of PSR J1753-2240 in the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey database. This 95-ms pulsar is in an eccentric binary system with a 13.6-day orbital period. Period…

cond-mat.stat-mech2008★ 14 cited

A self-interacting partially directed walk subject to a force

R. Brak, P. Dyke, J. Lee +4

We consider a directed walk model of a homopolymer (in two dimensions) which is self-interacting and can undergo a collapse transition, subject to an applied tensile force. We revi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 84 cited

Ballistic Spin Resonance

S. M. Frolov, S. Luscher, W. Yu +3

The phenomenon of spin resonance has had far reaching influence since its discovery nearly 70 years ago. Electron spin resonance (ESR) driven by high frequency magnetic fields has…

quant-ph2008★ 35 cited

Complete transfer of populations from a single state to a pre-selected superposition of states using Piecewise Adiabatic Passage

Evgeny A. Shapiro, Valery Milner, Moshe Shapiro

We develop a method for executing robust and selective transfer of populations between a single level and pre-selected superpositions of energy eigenstates. Viewed in the frequency…

cond-mat.supr-con2008★ 47 cited

Magnetic-force-microscope study of interlayer "kinks" in individual vortices in underdoped cuprate YBaCuO superconductor

Lan Luan, Ophir M. Auslaender, Douglas A. Bonn +3

We use magnetic force microscopy to both image and manipulate individual vortex lines threading single crystalline YBaCuO, a layered superconductor. We find that wh…

hep-ex2008★ 171 cited

Search for the Z(4430)^- at BABAR

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We report the results of a search for decay to or in $B^{-,0}\to \jpsiπ^- K^{0,+}$ and $B^{-,0}\to \psitwos π^- K^{0,+}$ decays. The data were colle…

cond-mat.supr-con2008★ 40 cited

Electronic polarons and bipolarons in Fe-based superconductors: a pairing mechanism

Mona Berciu, Ilya Elfimov, George A. Sawatzky

Superconductivity is a fascinating example of how "more is different". It is due to electrons binding into bosonic Cooper pairs, which exhibit coherent behavior across a macroscopi…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

The nature of p-modes and granulation in HD 49933 observed by CoRoT

T. Kallinger, M. Gruberbauer, D. B. Guenther +2

Context: Recent observations of HD49933 by the space-photometric mission CoRoT provide photometric evidence of solar type oscillations in a star other than our Sun. The first publi…