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astro-ph.HE2018★ 30 cited

NuSTAR Detection of X-rays Concurrent with Gamma Rays in the Nova V5855 Sgr

Thomas Nelson, Koji Mukai, Kwan-Lok Li +7

We report the first detection of hard (>10 keV) X-ray emission simultaneous with gamma rays in a nova eruption. Observations of the nova V5855 Sgr carried out with the NuSTAR satel…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 6 cited

WENO-Wombat: Scalable Fifth-Order Constrained-Transport Magnetohydrodynamics for Astrophysical Applications

J. M. F. Donnert, H. Jang, P. Mendygral +3

Due to increase in computing power, high-order Eulerian schemes will likely become instrumental for the simulations of turbulence and magnetic field amplification in astrophysical…

physics.app-ph2018★ 23 cited

Ferroelectric polarization rotation in order-disorder-type LiNbO3 thin films

Tae Sup Yoo, Sang A Lee, Changjae Roh +16

The direction of ferroelectric polarization is prescribed by the symmetry of the crystal structure. Therefore, rotation of the polarization direction is largely limited, despite th…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 80 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Fifteen Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1129

We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from sixteen well localized candidate neutron stars assuming none of the stars has a binary companion. The searches…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 5 cited

Big Bang nucleosynthesis in a weakly non-ideal plasma

Dukjae Jang, Youngshin Kwon, Kyujin Kwak +1

We propose a correction of the standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) scenario to resolve the primordial lithium problem by considering a possibility that the primordial plasma ca…

gr-qc2018★ 6 cited

Measurement of Tidal Deformability in the Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation for Nonspinning Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Yong-Beom Choi, Hee-Suk Cho, Chang-Hwan Lee +1

One of the main targets for ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) and Virgo is coalescences of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

The interfacial spin modulation of graphene on Fe(111)

J. Hong, H. -N. Hwang, A. T. NDiaye +13

When Fe, which is a typical ferromagnet using d- or f-orbital states, is combined with 2D materials such as graphene, it offers many opportunities for spintronics. The origin of 2D…

gr-qc2018★ 535 cited

KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +188

The recent detections of gravitational waves (GWs) reported by LIGO/Virgo collaborations have made significant impact on physics and astronomy. A global network of GW detectors wil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 28 cited

Grain Boundaries in Chemical Vapor Deposited Atomically Thin Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Xibiao Ren, Jichen Dong, Peng Yang +8

Large-area two-dimensional (2D) materials for technical applications can now be produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Unfortunately, grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitously…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Towards the growth of single-crystal boron nitride monolayer on Cu

Li Wang, Xiaozhi Xu, Leining Zhang +21

Atom-layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), with excellent stability, flat surface and large bandgap, has been reported to be the best 2D insulator to open up the great possibiliti…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 2 cited

Discovery of an X-ray nebula in the field of millisecond pulsar PSR J1911-1114

Jongsu Lee, C. Y. Hui, J. Takata +1

We have discovered an extended X-ray feature which is apparently associated with millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J1911-1114 from a XMM-Newton observation, which extends for ~1' and th…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 901 cited

Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1138

We present results on the mass, spin, and redshift distributions with phenomenological population models using the ten binary black hole mergers detected in the first and second ob…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3.5k cited

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1148

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 during the first and second observing…

math.NT2018★ 2 cited

Non-vanishing of special -values of cusp forms on GL(2) with totally split prime power twists

Jaesung Kwon, Hae-Sang Sun

We prove the non-vanishing of special -values of cuspidal automorphic forms on GL(2) twisted by Hecke characters of prime power orders and totally split prime power conductors.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 68 cited

Constraints on the diffuse photon flux with energies above eV using the surface detector of the Telescope Array experiment

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +139

We present the results of the search for ultra-high-energy photons with nine years of data from the Telescope Array surface detector. A multivariate classifier is built upon 16 rec…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 46 cited

Shock Waves and Energy Dissipation in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Junseong Park, Dongsu Ryu

Shock waves play an important role in turbulent astrophysical media by compressing the gas and dissipating the turbulent energy into the thermal energy. We here study shocks in mag…

gr-qc2018★ 632 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1145

The recent discovery by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo of a gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star inspiral has enabled tests of general relativity (GR) with this n…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 17 cited

Next-Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules for the Ground and Excited State of the Ring-Opening of Cyclohexadiene (CHD)

Tian Tian, Tianlv Xu, Steven R. Kirk +2

The factors underlying the experimentally observed branching ratio (70:30) of the (1,3-cyclohexadiene) CHDHT (1,3,5-hexatriene) photochemical ring-opening reaction are…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 53 cited

Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array data

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +138

The Pierre Auger Collaboration (Auger) recently reported a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 39 EeV and the flux pattern of 23 nearby st…

astro-ph.IM2018

Generating Event Triggers Based on Hilbert-Huang Transform and Its Application to Gravitational-Wave Data

Edwin J. Son, Whansun Kim, Young-Min Kim +3

We present a new event trigger generator based on the Hilbert-Huang transform, named EtaGen (Gen). It decomposes a time-series data into several adaptive modes without imposing…

cs.NE2018★ 10 cited

Critical Neuromorphic Computing based on Explosive Synchronization

Jaesung Choi, Pilwon Kim

Synchronous oscillations in neuronal ensembles have been proposed to provide a neural basis for the information processes in the brain. In this work, we present a neuromorphic comp…

quant-ph2018★ 95 cited

Integration of Quantum Emitters with Lithium Niobate Photonics

Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi, Boris Desiatov, Je-Hyung Kim +7

The integration of quantum emitters with integrated photonics enables complex quantum photonic circuits that are necessary for photonic implementation of quantum simulators, comput…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 38 cited

Unraveling materials Berry curvature and Chern-Simons numbers from real-time evolution of Bloch states

Dongbin Shin, Shunsuke A. Sato, Hannes Hübener +4

Materials can be classified by the topological character of their electronic structure and, in this perspective, global attributes immune to local deformations have been discussed…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 9 cited

First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…