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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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cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 23 cited

Probing metastable space-charge potentials in a wide bandgap semiconductor

Artur Lozovoi, Harishankar Jayakumar, Damon Daw +2

While the study of space charge potentials has a long history, present models are largely based on the notion of steady state equilibrium, ill-suited to describe wide bandgap semic…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 5 cited

Tailoring Superconducting Phases Observed in Hyperdoped Si:Ga for Cryogenic Circuit Applications

K. Sardashti, T. Nguyen, M. Hatefipour +5

Hyperdoping with gallium (Ga) has been established as a route to observe superconductivity in silicon (Si). The relatively large critical temperatures (T) and magnetic fi…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 9 cited

Shadow surface states in topological Kondo insulators

Areg Ghazaryan, Emilian M. Nica, Onur Erten +1

The surface states of 3D topological insulators in general have negligible quantum oscillations when the chemical potential is tuned to the Dirac points. In contrast, we find that…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 26 cited

Bridging particle deformability and collective response in soft solids

John D. Treado, Dong Wang, Arman Boromand +3

Soft, amorphous solids such as tissues, foams, and emulsions are composed of deformable particles. However, the effect of single-particle deformability on the collective behavior o…

math.NT2020★ 1 cited

Super-zeta functions and regularized determinants associated to cofinite Fuchsian groups with finite-dimensional unitary representations

Joshua S. Friedman, Jay Jorgenson, Lejla Smajlovic

Let be a finite volume, non-compact hyperbolic Riemann surface, possibly with elliptic fixed points, and let denote a finite dimensional unitary representation of the funda…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 31 cited

Inferring the concentration of dark matter subhalos perturbing strongly lensed images

Quinn E. Minor, Manoj Kaplinghat, Tony H. Chan +1

We demonstrate that the perturbations of strongly lensed images by low-mass dark matter subhalos are significantly impacted by the concentration of the perturbing subhalo. For subh…

hep-ex2020★ 53 cited

Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the and final states in collisions at = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for a heavy neutral Higgs boson, , decaying into a boson and another heavy Higgs boson, , is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminos…

math.NA2020★ 12 cited

An exploratory study on machine learning to couple numerical solutions of partial differential equations

H. S. Tang, L. Li, M. Grossberg +4

As further progress in the accurate and efficient computation of coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) becomes increasingly difficult, it has become highly desired to devel…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

Dimers, Orientifolds and Anomalies

Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco +4

We study gauge theories engineered via D-branes at orientifolds of toric singularities, where gauge anomalies are cancelled without the introduction of non-com…

hep-ex2020★ 29 cited

Search for charged-lepton-flavour violation in -boson decays with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Leptons with essentially the same properties apart from their mass are grouped into three families (or flavours). The number of leptons of each flavour is conserved in interactions…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 102 cited

End-to-End Differentiable Molecular Mechanics Force Field Construction

Yuanqing Wang, Josh Fass, Benjamin Kaminow +6

Molecular mechanics (MM) potentials have long been a workhorse of computational chemistry. Leveraging accuracy and speed, these functional forms find use in a wide variety of appli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 32 cited

Ultrafast Thermal Modification of Strong Coupling in an Organic Microcavity

Bin Liu, Vinod M. Menon, Matthew Y. Sfeir

There is growing interest in using strongly coupled organic microcavities to tune molecular dynamics, including the electronic and vibrational properties of molecules. However, ver…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 17 cited

Shear response of granular packings compressed above jamming onset

Philip Wang, Shiyun Zhang, Philip Tuckman +3

We investigate the mechanical response of jammed packings of repulsive, frictionless spherical particles undergoing isotropic compression. Prior simulations of the soft-particle mo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 97 cited

Experimental observation of topological exciton-polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Mengyao Li, Ivan Sinev, Fedor Benimetskiy +11

The rise of quantum science and technologies motivates photonics research to seek new platforms with strong light-matter interactions to facilitate quantum behaviors at moderate li…

cs.LG2020★ 45 cited

Radiologist-level Performance by Using Deep Learning for Segmentation of Breast Cancers on MRI Scans

Lukas Hirsch, Yu Huang, Shaojun Luo +19

Purpose: To develop a deep network architecture that would achieve fully automated radiologist-level segmentation of cancers at breast MRI. Materials and Methods: In this retrospec…

math.LO2020★ 13 cited

Infinitesimal analysis without the Axiom of Choice

Karel Hrbacek, Mikhail G. Katz

It is often claimed that analysis with infinitesimals requires more substantial use of the Axiom of Choice than traditional elementary analysis. The claim is based on the observati…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 12 cited

Non-linear shallow water dynamics with odd viscosity

Gustavo M. Monteiro, Sriram Ganeshan

In this letter, we derive the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation corresponding to the surface dynamics of a shallow depth () two-dimensional fluid with odd viscosity () subje…

hep-th2020★ 3 cited

Matter-gravity coupling for fuzzy geometry and the Landau-Hall problem

V. P. Nair

We consider a set of physical degrees of freedom coupled to a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, which may be taken as modeling a fuzzy space or as the lowest Landau level of a Land…

hep-th2020★ 11 cited

Topological Terms and Diffeomorphism Anomalies in Fluid Dynamics and Sigma Models

V. P. Nair

The requirement of diffeomorphism symmetry for the target space can lead to anomalous commutators for the energy-momentum tensor for sigma models and for fluid dynamics, if certain…

eess.SP2020★ 2 cited

GPR-based Subsurface Object Detection and Reconstruction Using Random Motion and DepthNet

Jinglun Feng, Liang Yang, Haiyan Wang +2

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is one of the most important non-destructive evaluation (NDE) devices to detect the subsurface objects (i.e. rebars, utility pipes) and reveal the un…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 9 cited

Homogeneous crystallization in cyclically sheared frictionless grains

Weiwei Jin, Corey S. O'Hern, Charles Radin +2

Many experiments over the past half century have shown that, for a range of protocols, granular materials compact under pressure and repeated small disturbances. A recent experimen…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 13 cited

Contact network changes in ordered and disordered disk packings

P. J. Tuckman, K. VanderWerf, Y. Yuan +4

We investigate the mechanical response of packings of purely repulsive, frictionless disks to quasistatic deformations. The deformations include simple shear strain at constant pac…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 26 cited

Optically induced topological superconductivity via Floquet interaction engineering

Hossein Dehghani, Mohammad Hafezi, Pouyan Ghaemi

We propose a mechanism for light-induced unconventional superconductivity in a two-valley semiconductor with a massive Dirac type band structure. The superconducting phase results…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 196 cited

Observation of tunable mobility edges in generalized Aubry-André lattices

Fangzhao Alex An, Karmela Padavić, Eric J. Meier +5

Using synthetic lattices of laser-coupled atomic momentum modes, we experimentally realize a recently proposed family of nearest-neighbor tight-binding models having quasiperiodic…