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physics.ins-det2014★ 17 cited

A Comprehensive Simulation Study of a Liquid-Xe Detector for Contraband Detection

I. Israelashvili, M. Cortesi, D. Vartsky +4

Recently, a new detector concept, for combined imaging and spectroscopy of fast-neutrons and gamma was presented. It encompasses a liquid-xenon (LXe) converter-scintillator coupled…

physics.optics2014

Rational design of metallic nanocavities for resonantly enhanced four-wave mixing

Euclides Almeida, Yehiam Prior

Optimizing the shape of nanostructures and nano antennas for specific optical properties has evolved to be a very fruitful activity. With modern fabrication tools a large variety o…

quant-ph2014★ 107 cited

Local and bulk 13C hyperpolarization in NV-centered diamonds at variable fields and orientations

Gonzalo A. Alvarez, Christian O. Bretschneider, Ran Fischer +6

Polarizing nuclear spins is of fundamental importance in biology, chemistry and physics. Methods for hyperpolarizing 13C nuclei from free electrons in bulk, usually demand operatio…

math.CA2014★ 2 cited

On local Weyl equivalence of higher order Fucshian equations

Shira Tanny, Sergei Yakovenko

We study the local classification of higher order Fuchsian linear differential equations under various refinements of the classical notion of the "type of differential equation" in…

math.AP2014★ 23 cited

Approximation of 2D Euler Equations by the Second-Grade Fluid Equations with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions

Milton C. Lopes Filho, Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Edriss S. Titi +1

The second-grade fluid equations are a model for viscoelastic fluids, with two parameters: , corresponding to the elastic response, and , corresponding to viscosity. Fo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 6 cited

Characterization of S-T Transition Dynamics via Correlation Measurements

Christian Dickel, Sandra Foletti, Vladimir Umansky +1

Nuclear spins are an important source of dephasing for electron spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots. Most studies of their dynamics have focused on the relatively slow longitudinal po…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 30 cited

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material

Sagi Ben-Ami, Stephan Hachinger, Avishay Gal-Yam +9

We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) multi-epoch ultraviolet (UV) spectra of the bright Type IIb SN 2013df, and undertake a comprehensive anal- ysis of the set of four Type…

math.OC2014★ 2 cited

On the control by electromagnetic fields of quantum systems with infinite dimensional Hilbert space

Elie Assémat, Thomas Chambrion, Dominique Sugny

We analyze the control by electromagnetic fields of quantum systems with infinite dimensional Hilbert space and a discrete spectrum. Based on recent mathematical results, we rigoro…

cond-mat.soft2014★ 17 cited

Electric-field-induced turbulent energy cascade in an oil-in-oil emulsion

Atul Varshney, Mayur Sathe, Shankar Ghosh +3

We observe electro-hydrodynamically driven turbulent flows at low Reynolds numbers in a two-fluid emulsion consisting of micron-scale droplets. In the presence of electric fields,…

physics.bio-ph2014★ 5 cited

Possible Role of Interference and Sink Effects in Nonphotochemical Quenching in Photosynthetic Complexes

Gennady P. Berman, Alexander I. Nesterov, Shmuel Gurvitz +1

We describe a simple and consistent quantum mathematical model that simulates the possible role of quantum interference and sink effects in the nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) in…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 73 cited

Topological States in a One-Dimensional Fermi Gas with Attractive Interactions

Jonathan Ruhman, Erez Berg, Ehud Altman

We describe a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in a one-dimensional Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interacti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 21 cited

Random matrix theory of quantum transport in chaotic cavities with non-ideal leads

Andrzej Jarosz, Pedro Vidal, Eugene Kanzieper

We determine the joint probability density function (JPDF) of reflection eigenvalues in three Dyson's ensembles of normal-conducting chaotic cavities coupled to the outside world t…

hep-ex2014★ 134 cited

Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in collisions at =8 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes the trigger and offline reconstruction, identification and energy calibration algorithms for hadronic decays of tau leptons employed for the data collected fro…

hep-ex2014★ 129 cited

Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via in fully hadronic final states using collision data at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for charged Higgs bosons decaying to a lepton and a neutrino, , are presented. The analysis is based on 19.5 fb of…

hep-ex2014★ 81 cited

Observation and measurements of the production of prompt and non-prompt mesons in association with a boson in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The production of a boson in association with a meson in proton-proton collisions probes the production mechanisms of quarkonium and heavy flavour in association with vec…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 23 cited

Symmetry and Gap Classification of the non-symmorphic SrPtAs

Mark H. Fischer, Jun Goryo

The hexagonal superconductor SrPtAs exhibits time-reversal-symmetry breaking below , hinting at an unconventional pairing state. Therefore, the symmetry of the underlying crys…

cond-mat.stat-mech2014★ 56 cited

Scaling properties of one-dimensional driven-dissipative condensates

Liang He, Lukas M. Sieberer, Ehud Altman +1

We numerically investigate the scaling properties of a one-dimensional driven-dissipative condensate described by a stochastic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (SCGLE). We directly…

hep-ex2014★ 95 cited

Measurement of Spin Correlation in Top-Antitop Quark Events and Search for Top Squark Pair Production in pp Collisions at TeV Using the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement of spin correlation in production is presented using data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collisions at a c…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 32 cited

Cosmological variation of the MOND constant: secular effects on galactic systems

Mordehai Milgrom

The proximity of the MOND acceleration constant with cosmological accelerations -- for example, a0 cH0/2pi -- points to its possibly decreasing with cosmic time. I begin to conside…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 40 cited

The detection rate of early UV emission from supernovae: A dedicated GALEX/PTF survey and calibrated theoretical estimates

Noam Ganot, Avishay Gal-Yam, Eran O. Ofek +22

The radius and surface composition of an exploding massive star,as well as the explosion energy per unit mass, can be measured using early UV observations of core collapse supernov…

cond-mat.dis-nn2014★ 379 cited

Theory of the many-body localization transition in one dimensional systems

Ronen Vosk, David A. Huse, Ehud Altman

We formulate a theory of the many-body localization transition based on a novel real space renormalization group (RG) approach. The results of this theory are corroborated and intu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 29 cited

Extended topological group structure due to average reflection symmetry

M. Diez, D. I. Pikulin, I. C. Fulga +1

We extend the single-particle topological classification of insulators and superconductors to include systems in which disorder preserves average reflection symmetry. We show that…

hep-ex2014★ 217 cited

Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to based on an excess over background of standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model…

cs.GT2014

Multi-Player Diffusion Games on Graph Classes

Laurent Bulteau, Vincent Froese, Nimrod Talmon

We study competitive diffusion games on graphs introduced by Alon et al. [1] to model the spread of influence in social networks. Extending results of Roshanbin [8] for two players…