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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 10 cited

Simultaneous conduction and valence band quantisation in ultra-shallow, high density doping profiles in semiconductors

F. Mazzola, J. W. Wells, A. C. Pakpour-Tabrizi +4

We demonstrate simultaneous quantisation of conduction band (CB) and valence band (VB) states in silicon using ultra-shallow, high density, phosphorus doping profiles (so-called Si…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 52 cited

Mass and Age of Red Giant Branch Stars Observed with LAMOST and \emph{Kepler}

Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Shaolan Bi +13

Obtaining accurate and precise masses and ages for large numbers of giant stars is of great importance for unraveling the assemblage history of the Galaxy. In this paper, we estima…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 50 cited

The benchmark halo giant HD 122563: CNO abundances revisited with three-dimensional hydrodynamic model stellar atmospheres

Remo Collet, Åke Nordlund, Martin Asplund +2

We present an abundance analysis of the low-metallicity benchmark red giant star HD 122563 based on realistic, state-of-the-art, high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) model stell…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 7 cited

Fragility of the Dirac Cone Splitting in Topological Crystalline Insulator Heterostructures

Craig M. Polley, Ryszard Buczko, Alexander Forsman +11

The 'double Dirac cone' 2D topological interface states found on the (001) faces of topological crystalline insulators such as PbSnSe feature degeneracies located awa…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

The K2-HERMES Survey. I. Planet Candidate Properties from K2 Campaigns 1-3

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Sanjib Sharma, Dennis Stello +31

Accurate and precise radius estimates of transiting exoplanets are critical for understanding their compositions and formation mechanisms. To know the planet, we must know the host…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 3 cited

Physical approach to quantum networks with massive particles

Molte Emil Strange Andersen, Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

This paper treats a quantum network from a physical approach, explicitly finds the physical eigenstates and compares them to the quantum-graph description. The basic building block…

quant-ph2017★ 40 cited

Chip-to-chip entanglement of transmon qubits using engineered measurement fields

C. Dickel, J. J. Wesdorp, N. K. Langford +6

While the on-chip processing power in circuit QED devices is growing rapidly, an open challenge is to establish high-fidelity quantum links between qubits on different chips. Here,…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 24 cited

Gravity mode offset and properties of the evanescent zone in red-giant stars

S. Hekker, Y. Elsworth, G. C. Angelou

The wealth of asteroseismic data for red-giant stars and the precision with which these data have been observed over the last decade calls for investigations to further understand…

stat.AP2017★ 50 cited

Why So Many Published Sensitivity Analyses Are False. A Systematic Review of Sensitivity Analysis Practices

Andrea Saltelli, Ksenia Aleksankina, William Becker +5

Sensitivity analysis (SA) has much to offer for a very large class of applications, such as model selection, calibration, optimization, quality assurance and many others. Sensitivi…

hep-ex2017★ 6 cited

Physics perspectives with AFTER@LHC (A Fixed Target ExpeRiment at LHC)

L. Massacrier, M. Anselmino, R. Arnaldi +38

AFTER@LHC is an ambitious fixed-target project in order to address open questions in the domain of proton and neutron spins, Quark Gluon Plasma and high- physics, at the highest…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 3 cited

Using the phase shift to asymptotically characterize the dipolar mixed modes in post-main-sequence stars

C. Jiang, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, M. Cunha

Mixed modes have been extensively observed in post-main-sequence stars by the Kepler and CoRoT space missions. The mixture of the p and g modes can be measured by the dimensionless…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 8 cited

Theoretical study of asymmetric superrotors: alignment and orientation

Juan J. Omiste

We report a theoretical study of the optical centrifuge acceleration of an asymmetric top molecule interacting with an electric static field by solving the time-dependent Schröding…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 34 cited

Low-frequency photospheric and wind variability in the early-B supergiant HD 2905

S. Simón-Díaz, C. Aerts, M. A. Urbaneja +5

Despite the important advances in space asteroseismology during the last decade, the early phases of evolution of stars with masses above 15 M have been only vaguel…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 69 cited

Modelling Kepler Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries:Calibrating the Mixing Length Parameter with Asteroseismology

Tanda Li, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +4

Stellar models rely on a number of free parameters. High-quality observations of eclipsing binary stars observed by Kepler offer a great opportunity to calibrate model parameters f…

cs.CE2017★ 249 cited

Temporal Attention augmented Bilinear Network for Financial Time-Series Data Analysis

Dat Thanh Tran, Alexandros Iosifidis, Juho Kanniainen +1

Financial time-series forecasting has long been a challenging problem because of the inherently noisy and stochastic nature of the market. In the High-Frequency Trading (HFT), fore…

quant-ph2017

Local Hamiltonians for one-dimensional critical models

Dillip K. Nandy, N. S. Srivatsa, Anne E. B. Nielsen

Conformal field theory has turned out to be a powerful tool to derive interesting lattice models with analytical ground states. Here, we investigate a class of critical, one-dimens…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 34 cited

Time-of-flight expansion of binary Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperature

Kean Loon Lee, Nils B. Jørgensen, Lars J. Wacker +4

Ultracold quantum gases provide a unique setting for studying and understanding the properties of interacting quantum systems. Here, we investigate a multi-component system of $^{8…

quant-ph2017★ 36 cited

Direct frequency-comb-driven Raman transitions in the terahertz range

Cyrille Solaro, Steffen Meyer, Karin Fisher +2

We demonstrate the use of a femtosecond frequency comb to coherently drive stimulated Raman transitions between terahertz-spaced atomic energy levels. More specifically, we address…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 83 cited

Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

A. Camacho-Guardian, Georg M. Bruun

Landau's description of the excitations in a macroscopic system in terms of quasiparticles stands out as one of the highlights in quantum physics. It provides an accurate descripti…

nucl-th2017★ 21 cited

Three-body effects in the Hoyle-state decay

Jonas Refsgaard, Hans O. U. Fynbo, Oliver S. Kirsebom +1

We use a sequential -matrix model to describe the breakup of the Hoyle state into three particles via the ground state of . It is shown that even in a sequent…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 52 cited

: Cosmological neutrino simulations from the non-linear Boltzmann hierarchy

Jeppe Dakin, Jacob Brandbyge, Steen Hannestad +2

In this paper the non-linear effect of massive neutrinos on cosmological structures is studied in a conceptually new way. We have solved the non-linear continuity and Euler equatio…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 115 cited

Coherent dynamics in cavity femtochemistry: application of the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree method

Oriol Vendrell

The photochemistry of a molecular ensemble coupled to a resonance cavity and triggered by a femtosecond laser pulse is investigated from a real-time, quantum dynamics perspective w…

quant-ph2017★ 82 cited

Probing the temperature of cold many-body quantum systems

Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Luis A. Correa

It is "conventional wisdom" that the uncertainty of local temperature measurements on equilibrium systems diverges exponentially fast as their temperature drops to zero. In con…

physics.bio-ph2017★ 82 cited

Effects of nongaussian diffusion on "isotropic diffusion measurements'': an ex-vivo microimaging and simulation study

Sune Nørhøj Jespersen, Jonas Lynge Olesen, Andrada Ianuş +1

Designing novel diffusion-weighted pulse sequences to probe tissue microstructure beyond the conventional Stejskal-Tanner family is currently of broad interest. One such technique,…