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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 6 cited

Shot noise in a harmonically driven ballistic graphene transistor

Yevgeniy Korniyenko, Oleksii Shevtsov, Tomas Lofwander

We study time-dependent electron transport and quantum noise in a ballistic graphene field effect transistor driven by an ac gate potential. The non-linear response to the ac signa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 18 cited

Enhanced Conductivity Along Lateral Homojunction Interfaces of Atomically Thin Semiconductors

Ying Jia, Teodor K. Stanev, Erik J. Lenferink +1

Energy band realignment at the interfaces between materials in heterostructures can give rise to unique electronic characteristics and non-trivial low-dimensional charge states. In…

hep-ph2016★ 5 cited

Standard model flavor from an symmetry

Jeffrey M. Berryman, Daniel Hernández

We propose that the flavor structure of the standard model is based on a horizontal symmetry. It generically predicts (i) a parametrically small mass for the lightest charg…

hep-ph2016★ 26 cited

On Lepton-Number-Violating Searches for Muon to Positron Conversion

Jeffrey M. Berryman, André de Gouvêa, Kevin J. Kelly +1

There is no guarantee that the violation of lepton number, assuming it exists, will primarily manifest itself in neutrinoless double beta decay (). Lepton-number violation an…

nlin.CD2016★ 13 cited

Thermodynamics of a time dependent and dissipative oval billiard: a heat transfer and billiard approach

Edson D. Leonel, Marcus Vinicius Camillo Galia, Luiz Antonio Barreiro +1

We study some statistical properties for the behavior of the average squared velocity -- hence the temperature -- for an ensemble of classical particles moving in a billiard whose…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 33 cited

Diverse types of percolation transitions

Deokjae Lee, Young Sul Cho, Byungnam Kahng

Percolation has long served as a model for diverse phenomena and systems. The percolation transition, that is, the formation of a giant cluster on a macroscopic scale, is known as…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 39 cited

PTF1 J082340.04+081936.5: A hot subdwarf B star with a low mass white dwarf companion in an 87 minute orbit

Thomas Kupfer, Jan van Roestel, Jared Brooks +19

We present the discovery of the hot subdwarf B star (sdB) binary PTF1 J082340.04+081936.5. The system has an orbital period P min (0.060761584(10) days), ma…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 76 cited

Endurance of SN 2005ip after a decade: X-rays, radio, and H-alpha like SN 1988Z require long-lived pre-supernova mass loss

Nathan Smith, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Jon C. Mauerhan +8

SN2005ip was a TypeIIn event notable for its sustained strong interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), coronal emission lines, and IR excess, interpreted as shock interaction…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 231 cited

Enhanced Structural Stability and Photo Responsiveness of CH3NH3SnI3 Perovskite via Pressure-Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization

Xujie Lü, Yonggang Wang, Constantinos C. Stoumpos +10

An organic-inorganic halide perovskite of CH3NH3SnI3 with significantly improved structural stability is obtained via pressure-induced amorphization and recrystallization. In situ…

cs.SI2016

Inspiration or Preparation? Explaining Creativity in Scientific Enterprise

Xinyang Zhang, Dashun Wang, Ting Wang

Human creativity is the ultimate driving force behind scientific progress. While the building blocks of innovations are often embodied in existing knowledge, it is creativity that…

cs.LG2016★ 11 cited

Symmetry, Saddle Points, and Global Optimization Landscape of Nonconvex Matrix Factorization

Xingguo Li, Junwei Lu, Raman Arora +4

We propose a general theory for studying the \xl{landscape} of nonconvex \xl{optimization} with underlying symmetric structures \tz{for a class of machine learning problems (e.g.,…

hep-ex2016★ 45 cited

Search for heavy gauge W' bosons in events with an energetic lepton and large missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for W' bosons in events with an electron or muon and large missing transverse momentum, using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collected with…

hep-ex2016★ 40 cited

Measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma with two jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma and two jets is performed, where the W boson decays leptonically. The data used in the analysis correspond to an integrat…

hep-ex2016★ 48 cited

Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for new massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in l nu quark anti-quark and quark anti-quark quark anti-quark final states. Results are based on d…

physics.ins-det2016★ 131 cited

Coherent Neutrino Scattering with Low Temperature Bolometers at Chooz Reactor Complex

J. Billard, R. Carr, J. Dawson +11

We present the potential sensitivity of a future recoil detector for a first detection of the process of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CENS). We use the Chooz re…

stat.ME2016★ 260 cited

Visualizing the Effects of Predictor Variables in Black Box Supervised Learning Models

Daniel W. Apley, Jingyu Zhu

When fitting black box supervised learning models (e.g., complex trees, neural networks, boosted trees, random forests, nearest neighbors, local kernel-weighted methods, etc.), vis…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 43 cited

Topologically non-trivial magnon bands in artificial square spin ices subject to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Ezio Iacocca, Olle Heinonen

Systems that exhibit topologically protected edge states are interesting both from a fundamental point of view as well as for potential applications, the latter because of the abse…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 95 cited

Three-dimensional Simulations of AGN Jets: Magnetic Kink Instability versus Conical Shocks

Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Dimitrios Giannios

Relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) convert as much as half of their energy into radiation. To explore the poorly understood processes that are responsible for this c…

math.PR2016★ 21 cited

Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations for the generic p-spin glass model

Antonio Auffinger, Aukosh Jagannath

We study the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) equations for spin glasses on the hypercube. First, using a random, approximately ultrametric decomposition of the hypercube, we decompo…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 181 cited

When Feedback Fails: The Scaling and Saturation of Star Formation Efficiency

Michael Y. Grudić, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +3

We present a suite of 3D multi-physics MHD simulations following star formation in isolated turbulent molecular gas disks ranging from 5 to 500 parsecs in radius. These simulations…

hep-ex2016★ 33 cited

Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states

CMS Collaboration

A search is performed for electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge 2/3 in association with a standard model top or bottom quark, using 2.3 inverse femt…

quant-ph2016★ 130 cited

Speedup for quantum optimal control from automatic differentiation based on graphics processing units

Nelson Leung, Mohamed Abdelhafez, Jens Koch +1

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentia…

hep-ex2016★ 41 cited

Searches for Lepton Number Violation and Resonances in Decays

2 collaboration

The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays to final states with multiple charged particles in 2003--2004. A new upper limit on the rate of the le…

hep-ex2016★ 36 cited

Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in sqrt(s) = 13 TeV pp collisions

CMS Collaboration

Searches are presented for direct production of top or bottom squark pairs in proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC. Two searches, based on complementary techniques, are perform…