Kavli Affiliate: Kentaro Hori | Summary:We systematically construct a class of two-dimensional $(2,2)$ supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models with phases in which a continuous subgroup of the gauge group is totally unbroken. We study some of their properties by employing a recently developed technique. The focus of the present work is on models with one […]
Kavli Affiliate: Aaron Roodman | Summary:The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 3 (GREAT3) challenge is the third in a series of image analysis challenges, with a goal of testing and facilitating the development of methods for analyzing astronomical images that will be used to measure weak gravitational lensing. This measurement requires extremely precise estimation of very […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kentaro Hori | Summary:We compute the elliptic genera of general two-dimensional N=(2,2) and N=(0,2) gauge theories. We find that the elliptic genus is given by the sum of Jeffrey-Kirwan residues of a meromorphic form, representing the one-loop determinant of fields, on the moduli space of flat connections on T^2. We give several examples […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yu V. Nazarov | Summary:The density of Andreev levels in a normal metal ($N$) in contact with two superconductors ($S$) is known to exhibit an induced minigap related to the inverse dwell time. We predict a small secondary gap just below the superconducting gap edge—a feature that has been overlooked so far in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kentaro Hori | Summary:We compute the partition function on the hemisphere of a class of two-dimensional (2,2) supersymmetric field theories including gauged linear sigma models. The result provides a general exact formula for the central charge of the D-brane placed at the boundary. It takes the form of Mellin-Barnes integral and the question […]
Kavli Affiliate: Keith Schwab | Summary:The ability to transport energy is a fundamental property of the two-dimensional Dirac fermions in graphene. Electronic thermal transport in this system is relatively unexplored and is expected to show unique fundamental properties and to play an important role in future applications of graphene, including opto-electronics, plasmonics, and ultra-sensitive bolometry. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Rosner | Summary:Cancer and healthy cells have distinct distributions of molecular properties and thus respond differently to drugs. Cancer drugs ideally kill cancer cells while limiting harm to healthy cells. However, the inherent variance among cells in both cancer and healthy cell populations increases the difficulty of selective drug action. Here we […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline Barton| First 5 Authors: Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, , , | Summary:In this paper we explore for the first time the relative magnitudes of three fundamental sources of uncertainty, namely, foreground contamination, thermal noise and sample variance in detecting the HI power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We derive limits […]