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cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 36 cited

Elastocaloric signature of nematic fluctuations

Matthias S. Ikeda, Thanapat Worasaran, Elliott W. Rosenberg +3

The elastocaloric effect (ECE) is a thermodynamic quantity relating changes in entropy to changes in strain experienced by a material. As such, ECE measurements can provide valuabl…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 9 cited

Anomalous thermal transport and violation of Wiedemann-Franz law in the critical regime of a charge density wave transition

Erik D. Kountz, Jiecheng Zhang, Joshua A. W. Straquadine +5

ErTe is studied as a model system to explore thermal transport in a layered charge density wave (CDW) material. We present data from thermal diffusivity, resistivity, and speci…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 32 cited

Stability of Cool Cores During Galaxy Cluster Growth: A Joint /SPT Analysis of 67 Galaxy Clusters Along a Common Evolutionary Track Spanning 9 Gyr

F. Ruppin, M. McDonald, L. E. Bleem +5

We present the results of a joint analysis of X-ray and South Pole Telescope (SPT) SZ observations targeting the first sample of galaxy clusters at , selec…

hep-ph2020★ 71 cited

The Future of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor Measurements

Ningqiang Song, Shirley Weishi Li, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

We critically examine the ability of future neutrino telescopes, including Baikal-GVD, KM3NeT, P-ONE, TAMBO, and IceCube-Gen2, to determine the flavor composition of high-energy as…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 9 cited

Reflectivity and Spectrum of Relativistic Flying Plasma Mirrors

Yung-Kun Liu, Pisin Chen, Yuan Fang

Flying plasma mirrors induced by intense lasers has been proposed as a promising way to generate few-cycle EUV or X-ray lasers. In addition, if such a relativistic plasma mirror ca…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 39 cited

Tunable ferromagnetism at non-integer filling of a moiré superlattice

Guorui Chen, Aaron L. Sharpe, Eli J. Fox +12

The flat bands resulting from moiré superlattices in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) and ABC-trilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (ABC-TLG/hBN) have…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 1 cited

Observing low elevation sky and the CMB Cold Spot with BICEP3 at the South Pole

J. Kang, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

BICEP3 is a 520 mm aperture on-axis refracting telescope at the South Pole, which observes the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95 GHz to search for the B-m…

physics.optics2020★ 203 cited

Attosecond Pulse-shaping using a seeded free-electron laser

Praveen Kumar Maroju, Cesare Grazioli, Michele Di Fraia +41

Attosecond pulses are fundamental for the investigation of valence and core-electron dynamics on their natural timescale. At present the reproducible generation and characterisatio…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 35 cited

Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

F. Batsch, P. Muggli, R. Agnello +94

We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally t…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 16 cited

Resolving Multiphoton Processes with High-Order Anisotropy Ultrafast X-ray Scattering

Adi Natan, Aviad Schori, Grace Owolabi +3

We present first results on ultrafast X-ray scattering of strongly driven molecular Iodine and analysis of high-order anisotropic components of the scattering signal, up to four-ph…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 82 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Clustering Redshifts -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions with redMaGiC and BOSS/eBOSS

M. Gatti, G. Giannini, G. M. Bernstein +94

We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. In particular, we cross-…

hep-ph2020★ 1 cited

The proton inelastic cross section at ultrahigh energies

Atri Bhattacharya, Jean-René Cudell, Rami Oueslati +1

We study the consequences of high-energy collider data on the best fits to total, elastic, and inelastic cross sections for and scattering using two very distinct u…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 25 cited

Site-Specific Structure at Multiple Length Scales in Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates

Rebecca W. Smaha, Idris Boukahil, Charles J. Titus +11

Realizing a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state in a real material is a leading issue in condensed matter physics research. In this pursuit, it is crucial to fully characterize…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 42 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core collapse supernova contamination

M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, O. Graur +79

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 2 cited

Tiny-box: A tool for the versatile development and characterization of low noise fast X-ray imaging detectors

Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Sven Herrmann, Steven Allen +8

X-ray Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been the workhorse for soft X-ray astronomical instruments for the past quarter century. They provide broad energy response, extremely low…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 32 cited

Site-specific Interrogation of an Ionic Chiral Fragment During Photolysis Using an X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Markus Ilchen, Philipp Schmidt, Nikolay M. Novikovskiy +24

Short-wavelength free-electron lasers with their ultrashort pulses at high intensities have originated new approaches for tracking molecular dynamics from the vista of specific sit…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 8 cited

Simple model for sequential multiphoton ionization by ultra-intense x-rays

Xiang Li, Rebecca Boll, Daniel Rolles +1

A simple model for sequential multiphoton ionization by ultra-intense x-rays is presented. The derived scaling of the ion yield with pulse energy quantitatively reproduces the expe…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 97 cited

Isotropic Pauli-Limited Superconductivity in the Infinite Layer Nickelate NdSrNiO

Bai Yang Wang, Danfeng Li, Berit H. Goodge +6

The recent observation of superconductivity in thin film infinite-layer nickelates offers a different angle to investigate superconductivity in layered oxides. A wide…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +30

The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 7 cited

Nonthermal electron and ion acceleration by magnetic reconnection in large laser-driven plasmas

Samuel Totorica, Masahiro Hoshino, Tom Abel +1

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process that is thought to play a key role in the production of nonthermal particles associated with explosive phenomena in space phys…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 55 cited

Optimal CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

M. Millea, C. M. Daley, T-L. Chou +66

We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg o…

physics.ins-det2020★ 9 cited

Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +187

MicroBooNE is a near-surface liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) located at Fermilab. We measure the characterisation of muons originating from cosmic interactions in…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 55 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Calibration of Lens Sample Redshift Distributions using Clustering Redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS

R. Cawthon, J. Elvin-Poole, A. Porredon +83

We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform thi…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 70 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

S. Everett, B. Yanny, N. Kuropatkin +97

We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) data…