We use recent experimental data on charmed mesons to constrain three coupling constants in the effective lagrangian describing the interactions of excited heavy-light mesons with light pseudoscalar mesons at order m Q . Predictions in the beauty sector are also derived. The coupling constants and the mass parameters in effective Lagrangians which reproduce QCD in specific limits represent impor...

In contrast to the usual quantum systems which have at most a finite number of open spectral gaps if they are periodic in more than one direction, periodic quantum graphs may have gaps arbitrarily high in the spectrum. This property of graph Hamiltonians, being generic in a sense, inspires the question about the existence of graphs with a finite and nonzero number of spectral gaps. We show that...

Multiphysics and multiscale simulation systems are emerging as a new grand challenge in computational science, largely because of increased computing power provided by the distributed-memory parallel programming model on commodity clusters. These systems often present a parallel coupling problem in their intercomponent data exchanges. Another potential problem in these coupled systems is langua...

Joint-coupling (JC) is introduced in the design and control of parallel manipulators for managing manipulator singularities. The underlying idea consists of coupling the motions of several manipulator joints by driving the joints with a single actuator. This can be done by mechanical or electronic means, while preserving the mobility of the manipulator. Such JC is intended to alter the direct s...