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astro-ph.SR2009★ 480 cited

Kepler Asteroseismology Program: Introduction and First Results

Ronald L. Gilliland, T. M. Brown, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard +32

Asteroseismology involves probing the interiors of stars and quantifying their global properties, such as radius and age, through observationsof normal modes of oscillation. The te…

hep-ex2009★ 84 cited

Determination of the strong coupling constant from the inclusive jet cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We determine the strong coupling constant alphas and its energy dependence from the pT dependence of the inclusive jet cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV. The st…

math-ph2009★ 8 cited

Asymptotic mean density of sub-unitary ensemble

E. Bogomolny

The large N limit of mean spectral density for the ensemble of NxN sub-unitary matrices derived by Wei and Fyodorov (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 50201) is calculated by a mo…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 16 cited

Hanle signatures of the coronal magnetic field in the linear polarization of the hydrogen LyAlpha line

M. Derouich, F. Auchere, J. C. Vial +1

This paper is dedicated to the assessment of the validity of future coronal spectro-polarimetric observations and to prepare their interpretation in terms of the magnetic field vec…

cond-mat.quant-gas2009★ 10 cited

Thermometry and signatures of strong correlations from Raman spectroscopy of fermionic atoms in optical lattices

Jean-Sebastien Bernier, Tung-Lam Dao, Corinna Kollath +2

We propose a method to directly measure the temperature of a gas of weakly interacting fermionic atoms loaded into an optical lattice. This technique relies on Raman spectroscopy a…

quant-ph2009★ 96 cited

Quantum repeaters with entangled coherent states

Nicolas Sangouard, Christoph Simon, Nicolas Gisin +3

Entangled coherent states can be prepared remotely by subtracting non-locally a single photon from two quantum superpositions of coherent states, the so-called "Schroedinger's cat"…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 999 cited

Tunable Rashba spin-orbit interaction at oxide interfaces

A. D. Caviglia, M. Gabay, S. Gariglio +3

The quasi-two-dimensional electron gas found at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface offers exciting new functionalities, such as tunable superconductivity, and has been proposed as a new n…

math.MG2009★ 1 cited

Bilipschitz maps of boundaries of certain negatively curved homogeneous spaces

Tullia Dymarz, Irine Peng

In this paper we study certain groups of bilipschitz maps of the boundary minus a point of a negatively curved space that is an abelian-by-cyclic solvable Lie group, where the exte…

q-bio.GN2009★ 51 cited

Use of high throughput sequencing to observe genome dynamics at a single cell level

D. Parkhomchuk, V. S. Amstislavskiy, A. Soldatov +1

With the development of high throughput sequencing technology, it becomes possible to directly analyze mutation distribution in a genome-wide fashion, dissociating mutation rate me…

nucl-th2009★ 153 cited

Concepts of alpha-particle condensation

Y. Funaki, H. Horiuchi, W. von Oertzen +4

Certain aspects of the recently proposed antisymmetrised alpha particle product state wave function, or THSR alpha cluster wave function, for the description of the ground state in…

hep-ex2009★ 81 cited

A Search for B+ -> tau+ nu Recoiling Against B- -> D0 l- nu X

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present a search for the decay () in pairs recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B-Facto…

cs.DC2009★ 46 cited

QR Factorization of Tall and Skinny Matrices in a Grid Computing Environment

Emmanuel Agullo, Camille Coti, Jack Dongarra +2

Previous studies have reported that common dense linear algebra operations do not achieve speed up by using multiple geographical sites of a computational grid. Because such operat…

quant-ph2009★ 209 cited

Implementation of a non-deterministic optical noiseless amplifier

Franck Ferreyrol, Marco Barbieri, Remi Blandino +3

Quantum mechanics imposes that any amplifier that works independently on the phase of the input signal has to introduce some excess noise. The impossibility of such a noiseless amp…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 5 cited

Towards a consistent picture for quasi-1D organic superconductors

N. Doiron-Leyraud, P. Auban-Senzier, S. Rene de Cotret +3

The electrical resistivity of the quasi-1D organic superconductor (TMTSF)2PF6 was recently measured at low temperature from the critical pressure needed to suppress the spin-densit…

math.PR2009

Explicit Conditions for the Convergence of Point Processes Associated to Stationary Arrays

Raluca Balan, Sana Louhichi

In this article, we consider a stationary array of random variables with values in $\bR \verb2\2 \{0\}$ (which satisfy some asymptotic depen…

math.AP2009★ 25 cited

Analyticity and Gevrey-class regularity for the second-grade fluid equations

Marius Paicu, Vlad Vicol

We address the global persistence of analyticity and Gevrey-class regularity of solutions to the two and three-dimensional visco-elastic second-grade fluid equations. We obtain an…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 25 cited

L1506: a prestellar core in the making

Laurent Pagani, Isabelle Ristorcelli, Nathalie Boudet +3

Exploring the structure and dynamics of cold starless clouds is necessary to understand the different steps leading to the formation of protostars. Because clouds evolve slowly, ma…

hep-ph2009★ 356 cited

Quest for precision in hadronic cross sections at low energy: Monte Carlo tools vs. experimental data

S. Actis, A. Arbuzov, G. Balossini +53

We present the achievements of the last years of the experimental and theoretical groups working on hadronic cross section measurements at the low energy e+e- colliders in Beijing,…

cond-mat.stat-mech2009★ 124 cited

Random Convex Hulls and Extreme Value Statistics

Satya N. Majumdar, Alain Comtet, Julien Randon-Furling

In this paper we study the statistical properties of convex hulls of random points in a plane chosen according to a given distribution. The points may be chosen independently o…

nucl-th2009★ 25 cited

Neutron star cooling - a challenge to the nuclear mean field

Hoang Sy Than, Dao T. Khoa, Nguyen Van Giai

The two recent density-dependent versions of the finite-range M3Y interaction (CDM3Y and M3Y-P) have been probed against the bulk properties of asymmetric nuclear matter (NM)…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 202 cited

Correlation between linear resistivity and in the Bechgaard salts and the pnictide superconductor Ba(FeCo)As

Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Pascale Auban-Senzier, Samuel René de Cotret +4

The quasi-1D organic Bechgaard salt (TMTSF)PF displays spin-density-wave (SDW) order and superconductivity in close proximity in the temperature-pressure phase diagram. We…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 39 cited

Low temperature transition to a superconducting phase in boron-doped silicon films grown on (001)-oriented silicon wafers

C. Marcenat, J. Kacmarcik, R. Piquerel +11

We report on a detailed analysis of the superconducting properties of boron-doped silicon films grown along the 001 direction by Gas Immersion Laser Doping. The doping concentratio…

hep-ex2009★ 20 cited

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH->vvbb Channel in 5.2 fb-1 of p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

A search is performed for the standard model Higgs boson in 5.2 fb-1 of p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The…

hep-ph2009★ 2 cited

One-loop correction effects on supernova neutrino fluxes: a new possible probe for Beyond Standard Models

J. Gava, C. -C. Jean-Louis

We present the consequences of a large radiative correction term coming from Supersymmetry (SUSY) upon the electron neutrino fluxes streaming off a core- collapse supernova using a…