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most citedThe virtual crystal approximation revisited: Application to dielectric and piezoelectric properties of perovskites

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 15 cited

Strain-induced effects in the electronic and spin properties of a monolayer of ferromagnetic GdAg2

Alexander Correa, Bin Xu, Matthieu J. Verstraete +1

We report on the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of a monolayer of GdAg2, forming a moiré pattern on Ag(111). Combining scanning tunneling microscopy and ab-initio s…

quant-ph2017★ 15 cited

Analytical results for a conditional phase shift between single-photon pulses in a nonlocal nonlinear medium

Balakrishnan Viswanathan, Julio Gea-Banacloche

It has been suggested that second-order nonlinearities could be used for quantum logic at the single-photon level. Specifically, successive two-photon processes in principle could…

math.GR2017★ 12 cited

Relative automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups

Matthew B. Day, Richard D. Wade

We study the outer automorphism group of a right-angled Artin group with finite defining graph . We construct a subnormal series for such that each consecutive…

physics.optics2017★ 60 cited

Parity-time-symmetric optical lattice with alternating gain and loss atomic configurations

Zhaoyang Zhang, Liu Yang, Jingliang Feng +4

Since the spatially extended periodic parity-time (PT) symmetric potential can possess certain unique properties compared to a single PT cell (with only a pair of coupled gain-loss…

physics.optics2017★ 43 cited

Tunable subnanometer gap plasmonic metasurfaces

Dennis Doyle, Nicholas Charipar, Christos Argyropoulos +6

The index of refraction governs the flow of light through materials. At visible and near infrared wavelengths the real part of the refractive index is limited to less than 3 for na…

quant-ph2017★ 16 cited

Review and suggested resolution of the problem of Schrodinger's cat

Art Hobson

This paper reviews and suggests a resolution of the problem of definite outcomes of measurement. This problem, also known as "Schrodinger's cat," has long posed an apparent paradox…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

On the Spatially Resolved Star-Formation History in M51 II: X-ray Binary Population Evolution

B. D. Lehmer, R. T Eufrasio, L. Markwardt +7

We present a new technique for empirically calibrating how the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of X-ray binary (XRB) populations evolves following a star-formation event. We first…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

On the Spatially Resolved Star Formation History in M51 I: Hybrid UV+IR Star Formation Laws and IR Emission from Dust Heated by Old Stars

R. T. Eufrasio, B. D. Lehmer, A. Zezas +10

We present Lightning, a new spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting procedure, capable of quickly and reliably recovering star formation history (SFH) and extinction parameters.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 63 cited

Cooperative Couplings between Octahedral Rotations and Ferroelectricity in Perovskites

Teng Gu, Timothy Scarbrough, Yurong Yang +3

The structure of ABO3 perovskites is dominated by two types of unstable modes, namely, the oxygen octahedral rotation (AFD) and ferroelectric (FE) mode. It is generally believed th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 30 cited

Quantum oscillation evidence of topological semimetal phase in ZrSnTe

Jin Hu, Yanglin Zhu, David Graf +2

The layered WHM - type (W=Zr/Hf/La, H=Si/Ge/Sn/Sb, M=S/Se/Te) materials represent a large family of topological semimetals, which provides an excellent platform to study the evolut…

quant-ph2017★ 29 cited

Mass sensing by detecting the quadrature of a coupled light field

Qing Lin, Bing He, Min Xiao

Ultrasensitive detections have been proposed as an application of optomechanical systems. Here we develop an approach to mass sensing by comparing the detected quadratures of light…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 50 cited

Slater Insulator in Iridate Perovskites with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling

Q. Cui, J. -G. Cheng, W. Fan +17

The perovskite SrIrO3 is an exotic narrow-band metal owing to a confluence of the strengths of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and the electron-electron correlations. It has been pro…

math.GR2017

Loxodromic elements in the cyclic splitting complex and their centralizers

Radhika Gupta, Derrick Wigglesworth

We show that an outer automorphism acts loxodromically on the cyclic splitting complex if and only if it has a filling lamination and no generic leaf of the lamination is carried b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 315 cited

Photoferroelectric oxides

I. Fina, C. Paillard, B. Dkhil

Giant photovoltaic effect due to bulk photovoltaic effect observed in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films has triggered a renewed interest on photoferroelectric materials for photovolta…

cs.ET2017

Thermodynamic Binding Networks

David Doty, Trent A. Rogers, David Soloveichik +2

Strand displacement and tile assembly systems are designed to follow prescribed kinetic rules (i.e., exhibit a specific time-evolution). However, the expected behavior in the limit…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 172 cited

High-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Fields: the obscured fraction and space density of the sub- population

F. Vito, W. N. Brandt, G. Yang +14

We investigate the population of high-redshift () AGN selected in the two deepest X-ray surveys, the 7 Ms \textit{Chandra} Deep Field-South and 2 Ms \textit{Chandra} D…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 97 cited

Tuning the ferro- to para-electric transition temperature and dipole orientation of group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers

Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Thaneshwor P. Kaloni, Shiva P. Poudel +1

Coordination-related, two-dimensional (2D) structural phase transitions are a fascinating and novel facet of two-dimensional materials with structural degeneracies. Nevertheless, a…

cs.NE2017

A parameterized activation function for learning fuzzy logic operations in deep neural networks

Luke B. Godfrey, Michael S. Gashler

We present a deep learning architecture for learning fuzzy logic expressions. Our model uses an innovative, parameterized, differentiable activation function that can learn a numbe…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 18 cited

A classifier for gravitational-wave inspiral signals in non-ideal single-detector data

Shasvath J. Kapadia, Thomas Dent, Tito Dal Canton

We describe a multivariate classifier for candidate events in a templated search for gravitational-wave (GW) inspiral signals from neutron-star--black-hole (NS-BH) binaries, in dat…

cs.CR2017★ 18 cited

Adaptive Laplace Mechanism: Differential Privacy Preservation in Deep Learning

NhatHai Phan, Xintao Wu, Han Hu +1

In this paper, we focus on developing a novel mechanism to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, such that: (1) The privacy budget consumption is totally independe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 48 cited

Exfoliation energy, quasi-particle bandstructure, and excitonic properties of selenium and tellurium atomic chains

Eesha Andharia, Thaneshwor P. Kaloni, Gregory J. Salamo +3

Effects that are not captured by the generalized-gradient density-functional theory play a prominent effect on the structural binding, and on the electronic and optical properties…

quant-ph2017★ 23 cited

One- and Two-Photon Scattering by Two Atoms in a Waveguide

William Konyk, Julio Gea-Banacloche

We consider the interaction of one- and two-photon pulses in a waveguide with two two-level systems (TLS) that are also able to interact directly either through an exchange- or a d…

physics.app-ph2017★ 11 cited

Novel magnetoelectric effects via penta-linear interactions

Hong Jian Zhao, M. N. Grisolia, Yurong Yang +4

Magnetoelectric multiferroic materials, particularly with the perovskite structure, are receiving a lot of attention because of their inherent coupling between electrical polarizat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 122 cited

Large elasto-optic effect and reversible electrochromism in multiferroic BiFeO3

D. Sando, Yurong Yang, E. Bousquet +8

The control of optical fields is usually achieved through the electro-optic or acousto-optic effect in single-crystal ferroelectric or polar compounds such as LiNbO3 or quartz. In…