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physics.acc-ph2012★ 57 cited

Transform-Limited X-Ray Pulse Generation from a High Brightness Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser

B. W. J. McNeil, N. R. Thompson, D. J. Dunning

A method to achieve High-Brightness Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (HB-SASE) in the Free Electron Laser (FEL) is described. The method uses repeated non-equal electron beam de…

physics.acc-ph2012★ 61 cited

Few-Cycle Pulse Generation in an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

D. J. Dunning, B. W. J. McNeil, N. R. Thompson

A method is proposed to generate trains of few-cycle x-ray pulses from a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) amplifier via a compact 'afterburner' extension consisting of several few-period…

quant-ph2012★ 114 cited

Characterization of high-dimensional entangled systems via mutually unbiased measurements

D. Giovannini, J. Romero, J. Leach +3

Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) play a key role in many protocols in quantum science, such as quantum key distribution. However, defining MUBs for arbitrary high-dimensional systems…

math.SP2012★ 79 cited

Schrödinger operators with delta and delta'-potentials supported on hypersurfaces

Jussi Behrndt, Matthias Langer, Vladimir Lotoreichik

Self-adjoint Schrödinger operators with and -potentials supported on a smooth compact hypersurface are defined explicitly via boundary conditions. The spectral properties o…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 60 cited

Validation of gyrokinetic modelling of light impurity transport including rotation in ASDEX Upgrade

F. J. Casson, R. M. McDermott, C. Angioni +9

Upgraded spectroscopic hardware and an improved impurity concentration calculation allow accurate determination of boron density in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. A database of boron m…

physics.soc-ph2012★ 131 cited

Urban street networks: a comparative analysis of ten European cities

Emanuele Strano, Matheus Viana, Alessio Cardillo +3

We compare the structural properties of the street networks of ten different European cities using their primal representation. We investigate the properties of the geometry of the…

math-ph2012★ 13 cited

A kinetic model of radiating electrons

A. Noble, J. Gratus, D. A. Burton +1

A kinetic theory is developed to describe radiating electrons whose motion is governed by the Lorentz-Dirac equation. This gives rise to a generalized Vlasov equation coupled to an…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 79 cited

Lattice ellipsoidal statistical BGK model for thermal non-equilibrium flows

Jianping Meng, Yonghao Zhang, Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou +2

A thermal lattice Boltzmann model is constructed on the basis of the ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ES-BGK) collision operator via the Hermite moment representation…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 518 cited

Quantum dynamics of a single, mobile spin impurity

Takeshi Fukuhara, Adrian Kantian, Manuel Endres +9

Quantum magnetism describes the properties of many materials such as transition metal oxides and cuprate superconductors. One of its elementary processes is the propagation of spin…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 33 cited

Theory for large amplitude electrostatic ion shocks in quantum plasmas

M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi, P. K. Shukla

We present a generalized nonlinear theory for large amplitude electrostatic (ES) ion shocks in collisional quantum plasmas composed of mildly coupled degenerate electron fluids of…

physics.atom-ph2012★ 539 cited

Observation of mesoscopic crystalline structures in a two-dimensional Rydberg gas

Peter Schauß, Marc Cheneau, Manuel Endres +7

The ability to control and tune interactions in ultracold atomic gases has paved the way towards the realization of new phases of matter. Whereas experiments have so far achieved a…

gr-qc2012★ 120 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +800

We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the…

gr-qc2012★ 110 cited

Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data

J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott +794

This paper presents results of an all-sky searches for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range [50, 1190] Hz and with frequency derivative ranges of [-2 x 10^-9, 1.1 x…

math.CO2012★ 7 cited

Parallelogram polyominoes, the sandpile model on a complete bipartite graph, and a q,t-Narayana polynomial

Mark Dukes, Yvan Le Borgne

We classify recurrent configurations of the sandpile model on the complete bipartite graph K_{m,n} in which one designated vertex is a sink. We present a bijection from these recur…

q-bio.NC2012★ 73 cited

Dynamic Network Centrality Summarizes Learning in the Human Brain

Alexander V. Mantzaris, Danielle S. Bassett, Nicholas F. Wymbs +5

We study functional activity in the human brain using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and recently developed tools from network science. The data arise from the performance o…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 286 cited

Ion acceleration in multispecies targets driven by intense laser radiation pressure

S. Kar, K. F. Kakolee, B. Qiao +15

The acceleration of ions from ultra-thin foils has been investigated using 250 TW, sub-ps laser pulses, focused on target at intensities up to $3\times10^{20} \Wcm2$. The ion spect…

physics.atom-ph2012★ 29 cited

Demonstration of an inductively coupled ring trap for cold atoms

J. D. Pritchard, A. N. Dinkelaker, A. S. Arnold +2

We report the first demonstration of an inductively coupled magnetic ring trap for cold atoms. A uniform, ac magnetic field is used to induce current in a copper ring, which create…

math.OC2012★ 12 cited

Navigating to the Moon Along Low-Energy Transfers

Massimo Vetrisano, Willem van der Weg, Massimiliano Vasile

This paper presents a navigation strategy to fly to the Moon along a Weak Stability Boundary transfer trajectory. A particular strategy is devised to ensure capture into an uncontr…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 57 cited

Mini-magnetospheres above the lunar surface and the formation of lunar swirls

R. A. Bamford, B. Kellett, W. J. Bradford +7

In this paper we present in-situ satellite data, theory and laboratory validation that show how small scale collisionless shocks and mini-magnetospheres can form on the electron in…

math.OC2012★ 40 cited

Preliminary Design of Debris Removal Missions by Means of Simplified Models for Low-Thrust, Many-Revolution Transfers

Federico Zuiani, Massimiliano Vasile

This paper presents a novel approach for the preliminary design of Low-Thrust, many-revolution transfers. The main feature of the novel approach is a considerable reduction in the…

math.OC2012★ 89 cited

Design of a Formation of Solar Pumped Lasers for Asteroid Deflection

Massimiliano Vasile, Chrisite Maddock

This paper presents the design of a multi-spacecraft system for the deflection of asteroids. Each spacecraft is equipped with a fibre laser and a solar concentrator. The laser indu…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 55 cited

Exotic dense matter states pumped by relativistic laser plasma in the radiation dominant regime

J. Colgan, J. Abdallah, A. Ya. Faenov +18

The properties of high energy density plasma are under increasing scrutiny in recent years due to their importance to our understanding of stellar interiors, the cores of giant pla…

cs.PL2012★ 10 cited

Generic Fibrational Induction

Neil Ghani, Patricia Johann, Clement Fumex

This paper provides an induction rule that can be used to prove properties of data structures whose types are inductive, i.e., are carriers of initial algebras of functors. Our res…

cs.CE2012★ 32 cited

Evidence-Based Robust Design of Deflection Actions for Near Earth Objects

Federico Zuiani, Massimiliano Vasile, Alison Gibbings

This paper presents a novel approach to the robust design of deflection actions for Near Earth Objects (NEO). In particular, the case of deflection by means of Solar-pumped Laser a…