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nucl-th2017★ 68 cited

Pion-less effective field theory for atomic nuclei and lattice nuclei

A. Bansal, S. Binder, A. Ekström +3

We compute the medium-mass nuclei O and Ca using pionless effective field theory (EFT) at next-to-leading order (NLO). The low-energy coefficients of the EFT Hamilton…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 2 cited

Charge ordering and ferrimagnetism in the strongly correlated -VPO single crystal

Jie Xing, Huibo Cao, Arpita Paul +8

A combined study of transport, thermodynamic, neutron diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance measurements and first principles calculation were performed for -VPO singl…

quant-ph2017★ 59 cited

Passive state preparation in the Gaussian-modulated coherent states quantum key distribution

Bing Qi, Philip G. Evans, Warren Grice

In the Gaussian-modulated coherent states (GMCS) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol, Alice prepares quantum states \emph{actively}: for each transmission, Alice generates a pa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 51 cited

Stretching Epitaxial La0.6Sr0.4CoO3-δ for Fast Oxygen Reduction

Dongkyu Lee, Ryan Jacobs, Youngseok Jee +7

The slow kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the key challenges in developing high performance energy devices, such as solid oxide fuel cells. Straining a fil…

nucl-th2017★ 29 cited

Massive neutron stars and -hypernuclei in relativistic mean field models

Ting-Ting Sun, Cheng-Jun Xia, Shi-Sheng Zhang +1

Based on relativistic mean field (RMF) models, we study finite -hypernuclei and massive neutron stars. The effective - interactions PK1 and TM1 are adopted, while the -…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 24 cited

Muon spin relaxation and inelastic neutron scattering investigations of all-in/all-out antiferromagnet Nd2Hf2O7

V. K. Anand, D. L. Abernathy, D. T. Adroja +3

Nd2Hf2O7, belonging to the family of geometrically frustrated cubic rare earth pyrochlore oxides, was recently identified to order antiferromagnetically below T_N = 0.55 K with an…

physics.ins-det2017★ 4 cited

Low Background Materials and Fabrication Techniques for Cables and Connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

M. Busch, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with the…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 8 cited

A Local Quantum Phase Transition in YFeAl

W. J. Gannon, L. S Wu, I. A. Zaliznyak +5

A phase transition occurs when correlated regions of a new phase grow to span the system and the fluctuations within the correlated regions become long-lived. Here we present neutr…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two

M. Smith, M. Sullivan, R. C. Nichol +87

We present observations of DES16C2nm, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z~2. DES16C2nm was discovered by the Dark Ene…

quant-ph2017★ 183 cited

Electro-Optic Frequency Beamsplitters and Tritters for High-Fidelity Photonic Quantum Information Processing

Hsuan-Hao Lu, Joseph M. Lukens, Nicholas A. Peters +4

We report experimental realization of high-fidelity photonic quantum gates for frequency-encoded qubits and qutrits based on electro-optic modulation and Fourier-transform pulse sh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 15 cited

Zero-bias anomaly in nano-scale hole-doped Mott insulators on a triangular silicon surface

Fangfei Ming, Tyler S. Smith, Steven Johnston +2

Adsorption of 1/3 monolayer of Sn on a heavily-doped p-type Si(111) substrate results in the formation of a hole-doped Mott insulator, with electronic properties that are remarkabl…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 9 cited

Anomalous magneto-elastic coupling in Au-doped BaFe2As2

S. -F. Wu, W. -L. Zhang, L. Li +6

We used polarization-resolved Raman scattering to study magneto-elastic coupling in Ba(FeAu)As crystals as a function of light Au-doping, materials for which…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 6 cited

Magneto-elastic coupling in Fe-based superconductors

S. -F. Wu, W. -L. Zhang, V. K. Thorsmølle +12

We used polarization-resolved Raman scattering to study the magneto-elastic coupling in the parent compounds of several families of Fe-based superconductors (BaFe2As2, EuFe2As2, Na…

cond-mat.dis-nn2017★ 68 cited

Evolution of amorphous carbon across densities: an inferential study

Bishal Bhattarai, Anup Pandey, D. A. Drabold

In this paper, we offer large and realistic models of amorphous carbon spanning densities from 0.95 g/cm3 to 3.5 g/cm3 . The models are designed to agree as closely as possible wit…

quant-ph2017★ 32 cited

Quantum Accelerators for High-Performance Computing Systems

Keith A. Britt, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Travis S. Humble

We define some of the programming and system-level challenges facing the application of quantum processing to high-performance computing. Alongside barriers to physical integration…

nucl-ex2017★ 88 cited

production in pp collisions at TeV and in p-Pb collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

The -differential production cross section of prompt charmed baryons was measured with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in pp collisio…

nucl-ex2017★ 21 cited

Relative particle yield fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

First results on K/, p/ and K/p fluctuations are obtained with the ALICE detector at the CERN LHC as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at …

astro-ph.CO2017★ 46 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of redMaGiC Redshift Distributions in DES and SDSS from Cross-Correlations

R. Cawthon, C. Davis, M. Gatti +88

We present calibrations of the redshift distributions of redMaGiC galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 data. These results det…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 38 cited

Effect of Zn doping on the antiferromagnetism in kagome CuZn(OH)FBr

Zili Feng, Yuan Wei, Ran Liu +10

Barlowite Cu(OH)FBr shows three-dimensional (3D) long-range antiferromagnetism, which is fully suppressed in CuZn(OH)FBr with a kagome quantum spin liquid ground st…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 43 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: galaxy mock catalogues for BAO

S. Avila, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +51

Mock catalogues are a crucial tool in the analysis of galaxy surveys data, both for the accurate computation of covariance matrices, and for the optimisation of analysis methodolog…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 36 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement

M. Crocce, A. J. Ross, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +84

We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the prese…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 190 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +109

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We con…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 56 cited

Short range order in the quantum XXZ honeycomb lattice material BaCo(PO)

H. S. Nair, J. M. Brown, E. Coldren +5

We present observations of highly frustrated quasi two-dimensional (2D) magnetic correlations in the honeycomb lattice layers of the S = 1/2 compound -BaCo(PO)$_…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 28 cited

Interfacial Phonon Scattering and Transmission Loss in >1 um Thick Silicon-on-insulator Thin Films

Puqing Jiang, Lucas Lindsay, Xi Huang +1

Scattering of phonons at boundaries of a crystal (grains, surfaces, or solid/solid interfaces) is characterized by the phonon wavelength, the angle of incidence, and the interface…