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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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cs.CV2018★ 5 cited

Coarse-to-fine Semantic Segmentation from Image-level Labels

Longlong Jing, Yucheng Chen, Yingli Tian

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentatio…

cond-mat.soft2018

Soil granular dynamics on-a-chip: fluidization inception under scrutiny

Morgane Houssais, Charles Maldarelli, Jeffrey F. Morris

Predicting rapid and slower soil evolution remains a scientific challenge. This process involves poorly understood aspects of disordered granular matter and dense suspension dynami…

physics.optics2018

Generalized Parity-Time Symmetry Condition for Enhanced Sensor Telemetry

Pai-Yen Chen, Maryam Sakhdari, Mehdi Hajizadegan +4

Wireless sensors based on micro-machined tunable resonators are important in a variety of applications, ranging from medical diagnosis to industrial and environmental monitoring.Th…

physics.hist-ph2018★ 4 cited

Feynman's proof of the commutativity of the Calogero integrals of motion

Alexios P. Polychronakos

During his last year of life Feynman became interested in integrable models. In the course of his study of one dimensional particles with inverse square-type potentials (the Caloge…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 59 cited

Four-Body Scale in Universal Few-Boson Systems

Betzalel Bazak, Johannes Kirscher, Sebastian König +3

The role of an intrinsic four-body scale in universal few-boson systems is the subject of active debate. We study these systems within the framework of effective field theory. For…

cs.CV2018

Discovering Spatio-Temporal Action Tubes

Yuancheng Ye, Xiaodong Yang, Yingli Tian

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of spatial and temporal action detection in videos. We first develop an effective approach to localize frame-level action regions…

quant-ph2018★ 4 cited

Room temperature "Optical Nanodiamond Hyperpolarizer": physics, design and operation

Ashok Ajoy, Raffi Nazaryan, Emanuel Druga +12

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is a powerful suite of techniques that deliver multifold signal enhancements in NMR and MRI. The generated athermal spin states can also be explo…

cs.CV2018

Incremental Scene Synthesis

Benjamin Planche, Xuejian Rong, Ziyan Wu +5

We present a method to incrementally generate complete 2D or 3D scenes with the following properties: (a) it is globally consistent at each step according to a learned scene prior,…

cs.LG2018★ 67 cited

Generalizing semi-supervised generative adversarial networks to regression using feature contrasting

Greg Olmschenk, Zhigang Zhu, Hao Tang

In this work, we generalize semi-supervised generative adversarial networks (GANs) from classification problems to regression problems. In the last few years, the importance of imp…

physics.optics2018★ 13 cited

Angular-Momentum Selectivity and Asymmetry in Highly Confined Wave Propagation Along Sheath-Helical Metasurface Tubes

Yarden Mazor, Andrea Alù

Highly confined surface waves present unique opportunities to enhance light interactions with localized emitters or molecules. Hyperbolic dispersion in metasurfaces allows us to ta…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 37 cited

Photonic Jackiw-Rebbi states in all-dielectric structures controlled by bianisotropy

Alexey A. Gorlach, Dmitry V. Zhirihin, Alexey P. Slobozhanyuk +2

Electric and magnetic resonances of dielectric particles have recently uncovered a range of exciting applications in steering of light at the nanoscale. Breaking of particle invers…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 12 cited

Evidence for mixed phases and percolation at the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions

Shiqi Li, Qing Zhang, Pouyan Ghaemi +1

The in-plane magnetoconductance of the strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system in a silicon MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect transistor) exhibits an unmi…

nlin.AO2018★ 156 cited

The k-core as a predictor of structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems

Flaviano Morone, Gino Del Ferraro, Hernán A. Makse

Collapses of dynamical systems into irrecoverable states are observed in ecosystems, human societies, financial systems and network infrastructures. Despite their widespread occurr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 33 cited

Self-assembled Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3) quantum dots grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Marcel S. Claro, Abhinandan Gangopadhyay, David J. Smith +1

We report the growth of self-assembled Bi2Se3 quantum dots (QDs) by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs substrates using the droplet epitaxy technique. The QD formation occurs after ann…

physics.app-ph2018★ 501 cited

Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance: spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

Yichao Tang, Yinding Chi, Jiefeng Sun +6

Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle…

math.PR2018★ 1 cited

Lower bounds for fluctuations in first-passage percolation for general distributions

Michael Damron, Jack Hanson, Christian Houdré +1

In first-passage percolation (FPP), one assigns i.i.d.~weights to the edges of the cubic lattice and analyzes the induced weighted graph metric. If is the d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 76 cited

Superconducting proximity effect in epitaxial Al-InAs heterostructures

William Mayer, Joseph Yuan, Kaushini Wickramasinghe +3

Semiconductor-based Josephson junctions provide a platform for studying proximity effect due to the possibility of tuning junction properties by gate voltage and large-scale fabric…

physics.ao-ph2018★ 1 cited

Performance of a simple proxy for U.S. cloud-to-ground lightning

Michael K. Tippett, Chiara Lepore, William J. Koshak +2

The product of convective available potential energy (CAPE) and precipitation rate has previously been used as a proxy for cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flash counts in climate ch…

physics.app-ph2018★ 61 cited

Non-Reciprocal Willis Coupling in Zero-Index Moving Media

Li Quan, Dimitrios L. Sounas, Andrea Alu

Mechanical motion can break the symmetry in which sound travels in a medium, but significant non-reciprocity is typically achieved only for very large motion speeds. Here we combin…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 9 cited

Thermodynamics of the Harmonic Oscillator: Derivation of the Planck Blackbody Spectrum from Pure Thermodynamics

Timothy H. Boyer

In 1893, Wien applied the first two laws of thermodynamics to blackbody radiation and derived his displacement theorem. Believing that the information from thermodynamics had been…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 25 cited

Spin readout via spin-to-charge conversion in bulk diamond nitrogen-vacancy ensembles

Harishankar Jayakumar, Siddharth Dhomkar, Jacob Henshaw +1

We demonstrate optical readout of ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy(NV) center spins in a bulk diamond sample via spin-to-charge conversion. A high power 594 nm laser is utilized to se…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 97 cited

From yielding to shear jamming in a cohesive frictional suspension

Abhinendra Singh, Sidhant Pednekar, Jaehun Chun +2

Simulations are used to study the steady shear rheology of dense suspensions of frictional particles exhibiting discontinuous shear thickening and shear jamming, in which finite-ra…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 4 cited

The frictional force on sliding drops

Joel Koplik

The dynamic frictional force between solid surfaces in relative motion differs from the static force needed to initiate motion, but this distinction is not usually thought to occur…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 14 cited

Global topology of contact force networks: new insight into shear thickening suspensions

Lance E. Edens, Sidhant Pednekar, Jeffrey F. Morris +3

Highly concentrated or 'dense" particle suspensions can undergo a sharp increase in viscosity, or shear thickening, under applies stress. Understanding the fundamental features lea…