Superconducting cosmic strings and one dimensional extended supersymmetric algebras

In this article we study in detail the supersymmetric structures that underlie the system of fermionic zero modes around a superconducting cosmic string. Particularly, we extend the analysis existing in the literature on the one dimensional N=2$N=2$ supersymmetry and we find multiple N=2$N=2$, d=1$d=1$ supersymmetries. In addition, compact perturbations of the Witten index of the system are performed and we find to which physical situations these perturbations correspond. More importantly, we demonstrate that there exists a much more rich supersymmetric structure underlying the system of fermions with N_f$N_f$ flavors and these are N$N$-extended supersymmetric structures with non-trivial topological charges, with “N$N$” depending on the fermion flavors.     

Weak mirror symmetry of complex symplectic Lie algebras

A complex symplectic structure on a Lie algebra h$\mathfrak{h}$ is an integrable complex structure J$J$ with a closed non-degenerate (2,0)$(2,0)$-form. It is determined by J$J$ and the real part Ω$\Omega$ of the (2,0)$(2,0)$-form. Suppose that h$\mathfrak{h}$ is a semi-direct product g?V$\mathfrak{g}?V$, and both g$\mathfrak{g}$ and V$V$ are Lagrangian with respect to Ω$\Omega$ and totally real with respect to J$J$. This note shows that g?V$\mathfrak{g}?V$ is its own weak mirror image in the sense that the associated differential Gerstenhaber algebras controlling the extended deformations of Ω$\Omega$ and J$J$ are isomorphic.     

An efficient community detection method based on rank centrality

Community detection is a very important problem in social network analysis. Classical clustering approach, K$K$-means, has been shown to be very efficient to detect communities in networks. However, K$K$-means is quite sensitive to the initial centroids or seeds, especially when it is used to detect communities. To solve this problem, in this study, we propose an efficient algorithm K$K$-rank, which selects the top-K$K$ nodes with the highest rank centrality as the initial seeds, and updates these seeds by using an iterative technique like K$K$-means. Then we extend K$K$-rank to partition directed, weighted networks, and to detect overlapping communities. The empirical study on synthetic and real networks show that K$K$-rank is robust and better than the state-of-the-art algorithms including K$K$-means, BGLL, LPA, infomap and OSLOM.     

An improved method for Darboux transformation for the coupled inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger system from plasma physics and nonlinear optics

The coupled inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger-type system which can be used to control soliton propagation and interaction in certain plasmas and optical fibers is investigated. An improved method for Darboux transformation (DT) is presented in more general forms by constructing an improved Γ$\Gamma$-Riccati-type Bäcklund transformation (Γ$\Gamma$-R BT). With the N$N$th-iterated Γ$\Gamma$-R BT or the N$N$th-iterated DT, which is a compact representation for the N$N$-soliton-like solutions and can generate a series of analytic solutions from a pair of the seed solutions through algebraic manipulations, the analytic one-/two-soliton-like solutions are provided. With the choice of parameters for the soliton solutions, the dynamical characteristics of the influences of the inhomogeneous parameters on the propagation of the soliton pulses are discussed graphically.     

Skeleton of weighted social network

In the literature of social networks, understanding topological structure is an important scientific issue. In this paper, we construct a network from mobile phone call records and use the cumulative number of calls as a measure of the weight of a social tie. We extract skeletons from the weighted social network on the basis of the weights of ties, and we study their properties. We find that strong ties can support the skeleton in the network by studying the percolation characters. We explore the centrality of w$w$-skeletons based on the correlation between some centrality measures and the skeleton index w$w$ of a vertex, and we find that the average centrality of a w$w$-skeleton increases as w$w$ increases. We also study the cumulative degree distribution of the successive w$w$-skeletons and find that as w$w$ increases, the w$w$-skeleton tends to become more self-similar. Furthermore, fractal characteristics appear in higher w$w$-skeletons. We also explore the global information diffusion efficiency of w$w$-skeletons using simulations, from which we can see that the ties in the high w$w$-skeletons play important roles in information diffusion. Identifying such a simple structure of a w$w$-skeleton is a step forward toward understanding and representing the topological structure of weighted social networks.     

The Bethe lattice treatment of sound attenuation for a spin- 3/2 Ising model

The sound attenuation phenomena is investigated for a spin- 3/2 Ising model on the Bethe lattice in terms of the recursion relations by using the Onsager theory of irreversible thermodynamics. The dependencies of sound attenuation on the temperature (T$T$), frequency (w$w$), Onsager coefficient (γ$\gamma$) and external magnetic field (H$H$) near the second-order (_Tc)$\left(T_c\right)$ and first-order (_Tt)$\left(T_t\right)$ phase transition temperatures are examined for given coordination numbers q$q$ on the Bethe lattice. It is assumed that the sound wave couples to the order-parameter fluctuations which decay mainly via the order-parameter relaxation process, thus two relaxation times are obtained and which are used to obtain an expression for the sound attenuation coefficient (α)$\left(\alpha \right)$. Our investigations revealed that only one peak is obtained near _Tt$T_t$ and three peaks are found near _Tc$T_c$ when the Onsager coefficient is varied at a given constant frequency for q=3$q=3$. Fixing the Onsager coefficient and varying the frequency always leads to two peaks for q=3,4$q=3,4$ and 6 near _Tc$T_c$. The sound attenuation peaks are observed near _Tt$T_t$ at lower values of external magnetic field, but as it increases the sound attenuation peaks decrease and eventually disappear.     

Zero finite-temperature charge stiffness within the half-filled 1D Hubbard model

Even though the one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model is solvable by the Bethe ansatz, at half-filling its finite-temperature T>0$T>0$ transport properties remain poorly understood. In this paper we combine that solution with symmetry to show that within that prominent T=0$T=0$ 1D insulator the charge stiffness D(T)$D\left(T\right)$ vanishes for T>0$T>0$ and finite values of the on-site repulsion U$U$ in the thermodynamic limit. This result is exact and clarifies a long-standing open problem. It rules out that at half-filling the model is an ideal conductor in the thermodynamic limit. Whether at finite T$T$ and U>0$U>0$ it is an ideal insulator or a normal resistor remains an open question. That at half-filling the charge stiffness is finite at U=0$U=0$ and vanishes for U>0$U>0$ is found to result from a general transition from a conductor to an insulator or resistor occurring at U=U_c=0$U=U_c=0$ for all finite temperatures T>0$T>0$. (At T=0$T=0$ such a transition is the quantum metal to Mott-Hubbard-insulator transition.) The interplay of the η$\eta$-spin SU(2)$SU\left(2\right)$ symmetry with the hidden U(1)$U\left(1\right)$ symmetry beyond SO(4)$SO\left(4\right)$ is found to play a central role in the unusual finite-temperature charge transport properties of the 1D half-filled Hubbard model.     

Dworkin’s argument revisited: Point processes,dynamics, diffraction,and correlations

The setting is an ergodic dynamical system (X,μ)$(X,\mu )$ whose points are themselves uniformly discrete point sets Λ$\Lambda$ in some space R^d${\mathbb{R}}^d$ and whose group action is that of translation of these point sets by the vectors of R^d${\mathbb{R}}^d$. Steven Dworkin’s argument relates the diffraction of the typical point sets comprising X$X$ to the dynamical spectrum of X$X$. In this paper we look more deeply at this relationship, particularly in the context of point processes.     

Exact solution of the alternating XXZ spin chain with generic non-diagonal boundaries

The integrable XXZ alternating spin chain with generic non-diagonal boundary terms specified by the most general non-diagonal K$K$-matrices is studied via the off-diagonal Bethe Ansatz method. Based on the intrinsic properties of the fused R$R$-matrices and K$K$-matrices, we obtain certain closed operator identities and conditions, which allow us to construct an inhomogeneous T−Q$T-Q$ relation and the associated Bethe Ansatz equations accounting for the eigenvalues of the transfer matrix.     

Spin-1 Blume–Capel model with random crystal field effects

The random-crystal field spin-1 Blume–Capel model is investigated by the lowest approximation of the cluster-variation method which is identical to the mean-field approximation. The crystal field is either turned on randomly with probability p$p$ or turned off with q=1−p$q=1-p$ in a bimodal distribution. Then the phase diagrams are constructed on the crystal field (Δ$\Delta$)–temperature (kT/J)$(kT/J)$ planes for given values of p$p$ and on the (kT/J,p$kT/J,p$) planes for given Δ$\Delta$ by studying the thermal variations of the order parameters. In the latter, we only present the second-order phase transition lines, because of the existence of irregular wiggly phase transitions which are not good enough to construct lines. In addition to these phase transitions, the model also yields tricritical points for all values of p$p$ and the reentrant behavior at lower p$p$ values.     

Phase diagrams of the transverse Ising antiferromagnet in the presence of the longitudinal magnetic field

In this paper we study the critical behavior of the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising model in both uniform longitudinal (H$H$) and transverse (Ω$\Omega$) magnetic fields. Using the effective-field theory (EFT) with correlation in single site clusters we calculate the phase diagrams in the H−T$H-T$ and Ω−T$\Omega -T$ planes for the square lattice. We have only found second order phase transitions for all values of fields and reentrant behavior was not observed.