The flavor problem, neutrino physics and the fermion mass hierarchy are important motivations to extend the Standard Model into the TeV scale. A new family non-universal extension is presented with three Higgs doublets, one Higgs singlet and one scalar dark matter candidate. Exotic fermions are included in order to cancel chiral anomalies and to allow family non-universal U(1)X charges. By impl...

Standard cell layouts may need only slight modifications to meet timing constraints. In these situations, general purpose algorithms, which consider numerous parameters of the layout, may be too time consuming or too coarse to make the changes where needed. This paper presents an incremental timing driven placement algorithm designed to “cleanup” a handful of critical paths in a previously plac...

We will present elementary scaling arguments focused on the thermodynamics in the proximity of the quantum critical point in the cuprate superconductors. Extending the analysis centered on the Grüneisen parameter by Rosch, Si, and co-workers to the cuprates, we demonstrate that a combination of specific-heat and chemical potential measurements can reveal the nature of the zero temperature singu...

We consider a scenario in which the dominant quartic coupling for the Higgs doublets arises from the F -term potential, rather than the conventional SU(2)L × U(1)Y D-term potential, in supersymmetric theories. The quartic coupling arises from a superpotential interaction between the two Higgs doublets and a singlet field, but unlike the case in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model ...

We give a global version of Lê-Ramanujam μ-constant theorem for polynomials. Let (ft), t ∈ [0, 1], be a family of polynomials of n complex variables with isolated singularities, whose coefficients are polynomials in t. We consider the case where some numerical invariants are constant (the affine Milnor number μ(t), the Milnor number at infinity λ(t), the number of critical values, the number of...