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most citedUniaxial Strain in Graphene by Raman Spectroscopy: G peak splitting, Gruneisen Parameters and Sample Orientation

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 67 cited

Anomalous temperature-dependent spin-valley polarization in monolayer WS

Aubrey T. Hanbicki, George Kioseoglou, Marc Currie +4

Single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct gap semiconductors with nondegenerate valley indices. An intriguing possibility for these materials is the use o…

cs.AI2015★ 11 cited

An Event Calculus Production Rule System for Reasoning in Dynamic and Uncertain Domains

Theodore Patkos, Dimitris Plexousakis, Abdelghani Chibani +1

Action languages have emerged as an important field of Knowledge Representation for reasoning about change and causality in dynamic domains. This article presents Cerbere, a produc…

cs.GT2015★ 21 cited

Distributed Methods for Computing Approximate Equilibria

Artur Czumaj, Argyrios Deligkas, Michail Fasoulakis +3

We present a new, distributed method to compute approximate Nash equilibria in bimatrix games. In contrast to previous approaches that analyze the two payoff matrices at the same t…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 25 cited

Phase space barriers and dividing surfaces in the absence of critical points of the potential energy: Application to roaming in ozone

Frédéric A. L. Mauguière, Peter Collins, Zeb C. Kramer +4

We examine the phase space structures that govern reaction dynamics in the absence of critical points on the potential energy surface. We show that in the vicinity of hyperbolic in…

physics.optics2015★ 2 cited

From amorphous speckle pattern to reconfigurable Bessel beam via wavefront shaping

Diego Di Battista, Daniele Ancora, Marco Leonetti +1

Bessel beams are non-diffracting light structures, which can be produced with simple tabletop optical elements such as axicon lenses or ring spatial filters and coherent laser beam…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 5 cited

Estimating the distribution of rest-frame timescales for blazar jets: a statistical approach

I. Liodakis, D. Blinov, I. Papadakis +1

In any flux-density limited sample of blazars, the distribution of the timescale modulation factor , which quantifies the change in observed timescales compared to the rest…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 20 cited

A jet model for Galactic black-hole X-ray sources: the cutoff energy-phase-lag correlation

P. Reig, N. Kylafis

Galactic black-hole X-ray binaries emit a compact, optically thick, mildy relativistic radio jet when they are in the hard and hard-intermediate states. In a series of papers, we h…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 22 cited

Flux and spectral variability of the blazar PKS 2155-304 with XMM-Newton: Evidence of Particle Acceleration and Synchrotron Cooling

Jai Bhagwana, A. C. Gupta, I. E. Papadakis +1

We have analyzed XMM-Newton observations of the high energy peaked blazar, PKS 2155-304, made on 24 May 2002 in the 0.3 - 10 keV X-ray band. These observations display a mini-flare…

cs.SI2015★ 12 cited

Evolving Twitter: an experimental analysis of graph properties of the social graph

Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis, Paraskevi Fragopoulou

Twitter is one of the most prominent Online Social Networks. It covers a significant part of the online worldwide population~20% and has impressive growth rates. The social graph o…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 314 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. III. Optical Continuum Emission and Broad-Band Time Delays in NGC 5548

M. M. Fausnaugh, K. D. Denney, A. J. Barth +94

We present ground-based optical photometric monitoring data for NGC 5548, part of an extended multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign. The light curves have nearly daily ca…

math.AP2015★ 54 cited

Relative energy for the Korteweg theory and related Hamiltonian flows in gas dynamics

Jan Giesselmann, Corrado Lattanzio, Athanasios E. Tzavaras

For an Euler system, with dynamics generated by a potential energy functional, we propose a functional format for the relative energy and derive a relative energy identity. The lat…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 49 cited

Gradient induced liquid motion on laser structured black Si surfaces

I. Paradisanos, C. Fotakis, S. H. Anastasiadis +1

This letter reports on the femtosecond laser fabrication of gradient-wettability micro/nano- patterns on Si surfaces. The dynamics of directional droplet spreading on the surface t…

cs.DS2015

L-Drawings of Directed Graphs

Patrizio Angelini, Giordano Da Lozzo, Marco Di Bartolomeo +4

We introduce L-drawings, a novel paradigm for representing directed graphs aiming at combining the readability features of orthogonal drawings with the expressive power of matrix r…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 22 cited

Qubit lattice coherence induced by electromagnetic pulses in superconducting metamaterials

Z. Ivic, N. Lazarides, G. P. Tsironis

Quantum bits (qubits) are at the heart of quantum information processing schemes. Currently, solid-state qubits, and in particular the superconducting ones, seem to satisfy the req…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 9 cited

Broad-band X-ray spectra of anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft -ray repeaters: pulsars in a weak-accretion regime ?

A. Zezas, J. E. Trümper, N. D. Kylafis

We present the results from the analysis of the broad-band X-ray spectra of 5 Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft -ray Repeaters (SGRs). We fit their Suzaku and INTEGRAL spe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 46 cited

Band bending inversion in BiSe nanostructures

Louis Veyrat, Fabrice Iacovella, Joseph Dufouleur +8

Shubnikov-de-Haas oscillations were studied under high magnetic field in BiSe nanostructures grown by Chemical Vapor Transport, for different bulk carrier densities ranging…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 11 cited

Variability of the soft X-ray excess in IRAS 13224-3809

E. S. Kammoun, I. E. Papadakis, B. M. Sabra

We study the soft excess variability of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 13224-3809. We considered all five archival XMM-Newton observations, and we applied the 'flux-flux plo…

math.NA2015★ 45 cited

Path-space variational inference for non-equilibrium coarse-grained systems

Vagelis Harmandaris, Evangelia Kalligiannaki, Markos A. Katsoulakis +1

In this paper, we discuss information-theoretic tools for obtaining optimized coarse-grained molecular models for both equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics. The latte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 76 cited

Ripple formation on Nickel irradiated with radially polarized femtosecond beams

George D. Tsibidis, Evangelos Skoulas, Emmanuel Stratakis

We report on the morphological effects induced by the inhomogeneous absorption of radially polarized femtosecond laser irradiation of nickel (Ni) in sub-ablation conditions. A theo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 25 cited

Long-lived discrete breathers in free-standing graphene

Alberto Fraile, Emmanuel N. Koukaras, Konstantinos Papagelis +2

Intrinsic localized modes or discrete breathers are investigated by molecular dynamics simulations in free-standing graphene. Discrete breathers are generated either through therma…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 113 cited

Spontaneous spin bifurcations and ferromagnetic phase transitions in a spinor exciton-polariton condensate

H. Ohadi, A. Dreismann, Y. G. Rubo +6

We observe a spontaneous parity breaking bifurcation to a ferromagnetic state in a spatially trapped exciton-polariton condensate. At a critical bifurcation density under nonresona…

math.NA2015★ 1 cited

Notes on Galerkin-finite element methods for the Shallow Water equations with characteristic boundary conditions

D. C. Antonopoulos, V. A. Dougalis

We consider the Shallow Water equations in the supercritical and subcritical cases in one space variable,posed in a finite spatial interval with characteristic boundary conditions…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 66 cited

Spectral and temporal properties of the ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar in M82 from 15 years of Chandra observations and analysis of the pulsed emission using NuSTAR

Murray Brightman, Fiona Harrison, Dominic J. Walton +8

The recent discovery by Bachetti et al. (2014) of a pulsar in M82 that can reach luminosities of up to 10^40 ergs s^-1, a factor of ~100 the Eddington luminosity for a 1.4 Msol com…