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cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 26 cited

De-Pinning Transition of Bubble Phases in a High Landau Level

Xuebin Wang, Hailong Fu, Lingjie Du +6

While in the lowest Landau level the electron-electron interaction leads to the formation of the Wigner crystal, in higher Landau levels a solid phase with multiple electrons in a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 105 cited

Quantum quench phase diagrams of an s-wave BCS-BEC condensate

Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Maxim Dzero, Victor Gurarie +1

We study the dynamic response of an s-wave BCS-BEC (atomic-molecular) condensate to detuning quenches within the two channel model beyond the weak coupling BCS limit. At long times…

cs.RO2014★ 130 cited

An Extensible Benchmarking Infrastructure for Motion Planning Algorithms

Mark Moll, Ioan A. Sucan, Lydia E. Kavraki

Sampling-based planning algorithms are the most common probabilistically complete algorithms and are widely used on many robot platforms. Within this class of algorithms, many vari…

stat.AP2014★ 4 cited

Estimating a Common Period for a Set of Irregularly Sampled Functions with Applications to Periodic Variable Star Data

James P. Long, Eric C. Chi, Richard G. Baraniuk

We consider the estimation of a common period for a set of functions sampled at irregular intervals. The problem arises in astronomy, where the functions represent a star's brightn…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 6 cited

Numerical Simulations of Mach Stem Formation via Intersecting Bow Shocks

Edward C. Hansen, Adam Frank, Patrick Hartigan

Hubble Space Telescope observations show bright knots of H emission within outflowing young stellar jets. Velocity variations in the flow create secondary bow shocks that may in…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 12 cited

MHD Effects on Pulsed YSO Jets. I. 2.5-D Simulations

Edward C. Hansen, Adam Frank, Patrick Hartigan

In this paper we explore the dynamics of radiative axisymmetric MHD jets at high resolution using AMR methods. The goal of the study is to determine both the dynamics and emission…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 1 cited

Design and Performance of the X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur

Matthias Beilicke, F. Kislat, A. Zajczyk +13

X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole systems, micro-quasars, active galactic nuclei,…

cond-mat.soft2014★ 4 cited

Active patterning and asymmetric transport in a model actomyosin network

Shenshen Wang, Peter G. Wolynes

Cytoskeletal networks, which are essentially motor-filament assemblies, play a major role in many developmental processes involving structural remodeling and shape changes. These a…

stat.ML2014★ 4 cited

Quantized Matrix Completion for Personalized Learning

Andrew S. Lan, Christoph Studer, Richard G. Baraniuk

The recently proposed SPARse Factor Analysis (SPARFA) framework for personalized learning performs factor analysis on ordinal or binary-valued (e.g., correct/incorrect) graded lear…

stat.ML2014★ 6 cited

Tag-Aware Ordinal Sparse Factor Analysis for Learning and Content Analytics

Andrew S. Lan, Christoph Studer, Andrew E. Waters +1

Machine learning offers novel ways and means to design personalized learning systems wherein each student's educational experience is customized in real time depending on their bac…

math.NA2014★ 1 cited

A Comparison of High Order Interpolation Nodes for the Pyramid

Jesse Chan, T. Warburton

The use of pyramid elements is crucial to the construction of efficient hex-dominant meshes. For conforming nodal finite element methods with mixed element types, it is advantageou…

math.AP2014★ 2 cited

Uniqueness and Lipschitz stability of an inverse boundary value problem for time-harmonic elastic waves

Elena Beretta, Maarten V. de Hoop, Elisa Francini +2

We consider the inverse problem of determining the Lamé parameters and the density of a three-dimensional elastic body from the local time-harmonic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We pro…

hep-ex2014★ 743 cited

Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Properties of the Higgs boson with mass near 125 GeV are measured in proton-proton collisions with the CMS experiment at the LHC. Comprehensive sets of production and decay measure…

nucl-ex2014★ 36 cited

Effect of event selection on jetlike correlation measurement in +Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +327

Dihadron correlations are analyzed in GeV +Au collisions classified by forward charged particle multiplicity and zero-degree neutral energy in the A…

hep-ex2014★ 168 cited

Search for physics beyond the standard model in dilepton mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Dimuon and dielectron mass spectra, obtained from data resulting from proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV and recorded by the CMS experiment, are used to search for both narrow reson…

physics.med-ph2014★ 178 cited

Spin Echo Studies on Cellular Water

D. C. Chang, C. F. Hazlewood, B. L. Nichols +1

Previous studies indicated that the physical state of cellular water could be significantly different from pure liquid water. To experimentally investigate this possibility, we con…

hep-ex2014★ 32 cited

Searches for supersymmetry based on events with b jets and four W bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Five mutually exclusive searches for supersymmetry are presented based on events in which b jets and four W bosons are produced in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. The…

hep-ex2014★ 74 cited

Measurement of the electron charge asymmetry in decays in collisions at TeV

D0 Collaboration

We present a measurement of the electron charge asymmetry in events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using data corresponding to 9…

hep-ex2014★ 98 cited

Measurement of the inclusive 3-jet production differential cross section in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV and determination of the strong coupling constant in the TeV range

CMS Collaboration

This paper presents a measurement of the inclusive 3-jet production differential cross section at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using data corresponding to an inte…

hep-ex2014★ 97 cited

Measurements of differential and double-differential Drell-Yan cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential and double-differential Drell-Yan cross sections in the dielectron and dimuon channels are presented. They are based on proton-proton collision dat…

q-bio.CB2014★ 3 cited

Properties of Cooperatively Induced Phases in Sensing Models

Stuart A. Sevier, Herbert Levine

A large number of eukaryotic cells are able to directly detect external chemical gradients with great accuracy and the ultimate limit to their sensitivity has been a topic of debat…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 27 cited

Magnetic field topology and chemical spot distributions in the extreme Ap star HD 75049

O. Kochukhov, N. Rusomarov, J. A. Valenti +7

Intermediate-mass, magnetic chemically peculiar (Ap) stars provide a unique opportunity to study the topology of stellar magnetic fields in detail and to investigate magnetically d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 19 cited

Graphene optical-to-thermal converter

Alejandro Manjavacas, Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Jean-Jacques Greffet +1

Infrared plasmons in doped graphene nanostructures produce large optical absorption that can be used for narrow-band thermal light emission at tunable frequencies that strongly dep…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 70 cited

Angular spin-orbit coupling in cold atoms

Michael DeMarco, Han Pu

We propose coupling two internal atomic states using a pair of Raman beams operated in Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes with unequal phase windings. This generates a coupling between…