The possibility of noncommutative topological gravity arising in the same manner as Yang-Mills theory is explored. We use the Seiberg-Witten map to construct such a theory based on a SL(2,C) complex connection, from which the Euler characteristic and the signature invariant are obtained. This gives us a way towards the description of noncommutative gravitational instantons as well as noncommutative local gravitational anomalies.

H. Garcia-Compean O. Obregon C. Ramirez M. Sabido

In this paper we study noncommutative black holes. We use a diffeomorphism between the Schwarzschild black hole and the Kantowski-Sachs cosmological model, which is generalized to noncommutative minisuperspace. Through the use of the Feynman-Hibbs procedure we are able to study the thermodynamics of the black hole, in particular, we calculate the Hawking's temperature and entropy for the noncommutative Schwarzschild black hole.

J. C. Lopez-Dominguez O. Obregon C. Ramirez M. Sabido

This paper was heavily modified and resubmitted as astro-ph/0111572.

Solange V. Ramirez Judith G. Cohen

Traditional definitions of the habitable zone assume that habitable planets contain a carbonate-silicate cycle that regulates CO2 between the atmosphere, surface, and the interior. Such theories have been used to cast doubt on the habitability of ocean worlds. However, Levi et al (2017) have recently proposed a mechanism by which CO2 is mobilized between the atmosphere and the interior of an ocean world. At high enough CO2 pressures, sea ice can become enriched in CO2 clathrates and sink after a threshold density is achieved. The presence of subpolar sea ice is of great importance for habitability in ocean worlds. It may moderate the climate and is fundamental in current theories of life formation in diluted environments. Here, we model the Levi et al. mechanism and use latitudinally-dependent non-grey energy balance and single-column radiative-convective climate models and find that this mechanism may be sustained on ocean worlds that rotate at least 3 times faster than the Earth. We calculate the circumstellar region in which this cycle may operate for G-M-stars (Teff = 2,600 to 5,800 K), extending from about 1.23 to 1.65, 0.69 to 0.954, 0.38 to 0.528 AU, 0.219 to 0.308 AU, 0.146 to 0.206 AU, and 0.0428 to 0.0617 AU for G2, K2, M0, M3, M5, and M8 stars, respectively. However, unless planets are very young and not tidally locked, our mechanism would be unlikely to apply to stars cooler than a ~M3. We predict C/O ratios for our atmospheres (about 0.5) that can be verified by the JWST mission.

Ramses M. Ramirez Amit Levi

We show that for Ni$_3$V$_2$O$_8$ long-range ferroelectric and incommensurate magnetic order appear simultaneously in a single phase transition. The temperature and magnetic field dependence of the spontaneous polarization show a strong coupling between magnetic and ferroelectric orders. We determine the magnetic symmetry of this system by constraining the data to be consistent with Landau theory for continuous phase transitions. This phenomenological theory explains our observation the spontaneous polarization is restricted to lie along the crystal b axis and predicts that the magnitude should be proportional to a magnetic order parameter.

G. Lawes A. B. Harris T. Kimura N. Rogado R. J. Cava A. Aharony O. Entin-Wohlman T. Yildrim M. Kenzelmann C. Broholm A. P. Ramirez

We report on a temperature-driven reversible change of the in-plane magnetic anisotropy of V$_2$O$_3$/Ni bilayers. This is caused by the rhombohedral to monoclinic structural phase transition of V$_2$O$_3$ at $T_C$ = 160 K. The in-plane magnetic anisotropy is uniaxial above $T_C$, but as the bilayer is cooled through the structural phase transition, a secondary magnetic easy axis emerges. Ferromagnetic resonance measurements show that this change in magnetic anisotropy is reversible with temperature. We identify two structural properties of the V$_2$O$_3$/Ni bilayers affecting the in-plane magnetic anisotropy: (1) a growth-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy associated with step-like terraces in the bilayer microstructure and (2) a low-temperature strain-induced biaxial anisotropy associated with the V$_2$O$_3$ structural phase transition. Magnetoresistance measurements corroborate the change in magnetic anisotropy across the structural transition and suggest that the negative magnetostriction of Ni leads to the emergence of a strain-induced easy-axis. This shows that a temperature-dependent structural transition in V$_2$O$_3$ may be used to tune the magnetic anisotropy in an adjacent ferromagnetic thin film.

Christian T. Wolowiec Juan Gabriel Ramírez Min-Han Lee Nicolas M. Vargas Ali C. Basaran Pavel Salev Ivan K. Schuller

One striking anomaly of water ice has been largely neglected and never explained. Replacing hydrogen ($^1$H) by deuterium ($^2$H) causes ice to expand, whereas the "normal" isotope effect is volume contraction with increased mass. Furthermore, the anomaly increases with temperature $T$, even though a normal isotope shift should decrease with $T$ and vanish when $T$ is high enough to use classical nuclear motions. In this study, we show that these effects are very well described by {\it ab initio} density functional theory. Our theoretical modeling explains these anomalies, and allows us to predict and to experimentally confirm a counter effect, namely that replacement of $^{16}$O by $^{18}$O causes a normal lattice contraction.

B. Pamuk J. M. Soler R. Ramirez C. P. Herrero P. W. Stephens P. B. Allen M. V. Fernandez-Serra

Using a conjecture that allows to approach separable-variables conductivity functions, the elements of the Modern Pseudoanalytic Function Theory are used, for the first time, to numerically solve the Dirichlet boundary value problem of the two-dimensional Electrical Impedance Equation, when the conductivity function arises from geometrical figures, located within bounded domains.

M. P. Ramirez T

This paper has been withdrawn by the author in favor of a private review.

Ramses M. Ramirez Ravi kumar Kopparapu Valerie Lindner James F. Kasting

This paper illustrates a generic method for multi-dimensional reweighting of $O(1)$ GeV neutrino interaction Monte Carlo samples. The reweighting is based on a Boosted Decision Tree algorithm trained on high-dimensional space in detector final state observables. This enables one generator's events to be reweighted so that its reconstructed particle content and kinematics distributions, as well as detector efficiency, match those of a target model. The approach establishes an efficient way to reuse legacy Monte Carlo data, avoiding re-generation. As an example, we test its use in a measurement of transverse kinematic imbalance of the $\mu^-$ and proton in charged-current quasielastic like $\nu_\mu$ events from the MINERvA experiment.

Z. Lin S. Akhter Z. Ahmad Dar N. S. Alex M. Betancourt S. Boyd H. Budd G. Caceres G. A. Díaz J. Felix L. Fields A. M. Gago P. K. Gaur S. M. Gilligan R. Gran D. A. Harris A. L. Hart J. Kleykamp A. Klustová D. Last A. Lozano X. -G. Lu S. Manly W. A. Mann K. S. McFarland O. Moreno J. K. Nelson V. Paolone G. N. Perdue C. Pernas M. A. Ramírez N. Roy D. Ruterbories H. Schellman C. J. Solano Salinas D. S. Correia M. Sultana N. H. Vaughan A. V. Waldron B. Yaeggy L. Zazueta