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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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q-bio.MN2018★ 57 cited

Structural insights into characterizing binding sites in EGFR kinase mutants

Zheng Zhao, Lei Xie, Philip E. Bourne

Over the last two decades epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase has become an important target to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Currently, three generations of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 5 cited

Thickness dependence of electron-electron interactions in topological p-n junctions

Dirk Backes, Danhong Huang, Rhodri Mansell +7

Electron-electron interactions in topological p-n junctions consisting of vertically stacked topological insulators are investigated. n-type Bi2Te3 and p-type Sb2Te3 of varying rel…

physics.ins-det2018★ 58 cited

Isotope Harvesting at FRIB: Additional opportunities for scientific discovery

E. Paige Abel, Mikael Avilov, Virginia Ayres +37

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University provides a unique opportunity to access some of the nation's most specialized scientific resources: radioiso…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 1 cited

Effects of site asymmetry and valley mixing on Hofstadter-type spectra of bilayer graphene in a square-scatter array potential

Danhong Huang, Andrii Iurov, Godfrey Gumbs +1

Under a magnetic field perpendicular to an monolayer graphene, the existence of a two-dimensional periodic scatter array can not only mix Landau levels of the same valley for displ…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 5 cited

Constraints on blue straggler formation mechanisms in Galactic globular clusters from proper motion velocity distributions

N. W. C. Leigh, T. Panurach, M. Simunovic +10

For a sample of 38 Galactic globular clusters (GCs), we confront the observed distributions of blue straggler (BS) proper motions and masses (derived from isochrone fitting) from t…

physics.comp-ph2018

Polarizability and impurity screening for phosphorene

Po Hsin Shih, Thi Nga Do, Godfrey Gumbs +1

Using a tight-binding Hamiltonian for phosphorene, we have calculated the real part of the polarizability and the corresponding dielectric function, Re, at zero…

quant-ph2018★ 6 cited

A quantum controlled quantum eraser

Janos A. Bergou, Mark Hillery

We show that the protocol known as quantum state separation can be used to transfer information between the phase and path of a particle in an interferometer. When applied to a qua…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 13 cited

Geometry-diversified Coulomb excitations in trilayer AAB stacking graphene

Chiun-Yan Lin, Bor-Luen Huang, Godfrey Gumbs +1

The lower-symmetry trilayer AAB-stacked graphene exhibits rich electronic properties and thus diverse Coulomb excitations. Three pairs of unusual valence and conduction bands creat…

quant-ph2018★ 3 cited

M-indeterminate distributions in quantum mechanics and the non-overlapping wave function paradox

Rafael Sala Mayato, Patrick Loughlin, Leon Cohen

We consider the non-overlapping wave function paradox of Aharanov \textit{et al.}, wherein the relative phase between two wave functions cannot be measured by the moments of positi…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 17 cited

Understanding Fundamental Properties and Atmospheric Features of Subdwarfs via a Case Study of SDSS J125637.13-022452.4

Eileen C. Gonzales, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Jonathan Gagné +2

We present the distance-calibrated spectral energy distribution (SED) of the sdL3.5 subdwarf SDSS J125637.13-022452.4 (J1256-0224) using its Gaia parallax and its resultant bolomet…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 28 cited

Exploring non-adiabatic approximations to the exchange-correlation functional of TDDFT

Johanna I. Fuks, Lionel Lacombe, Soeren E. B. Nielsen +1

A decomposition of the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory into an interaction component and a kinetic component offers a new starting…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 97 cited

Peculiar electronic states, symmetries and Berry phases in irradiated - materials

Andrii Iurov, Godfrey Gumbs, Danhong Huang

We have laid out the results of a rigorous theoretical investigation into the response of electron dressed states, i.e., interacting Floquet states arising from the off-resonant co…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 147 cited

Multimessenger Signatures of Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Jillian Bellovary, Colleen Cleary, Ferah Munshi +4

Recent discoveries of massive black holes (MBHs) in dwarf galaxies suggest that they may have a more common presence than once thought. Systematic searches are revealing more candi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 16 cited

Role played by strain on Plasmons, screening and energy loss in Graphene/substrate contacts

Dipendra Dahal, Godfrey Gumbs, Danhong Huang

The combined effect due to mechanical strain, coupling to the plasmons in a doped conducting substrate, the plasmon-phonon scattering in conjunction with the role played by encapsu…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 14 cited

A Late-type L Dwarf at 11 pc Hiding in the Galactic Plane Characterized Using Gaia DR2

Jacqueline K. Faherty, Jonathan Gagne, Adam J. Burgasser +4

We report on the characterization of a nearby (d = 11.2 pc) ultracool L dwarf (WISE J192512.78+070038.8; hereafter W1925) identified as a faint (G = 20.0) high proper motion (0.22"…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 3 cited

When do star clusters become multiple star systems? II. Toward a half-life formalism with four bodies

Timur Ibragimov, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Taeho Ryu +2

We present a half-life formalism for describing the disruption of gravitationally-bound few-body systems, with a focus on binary-binary scattering. For negative total encounter ene…

quant-ph2018★ 6 cited

A generalized wave-particle duality relation for finite groups

Emilio Bagan, John Calsamiglia, Janos A. Bergou +1

Wave-particle duality relations express the fact that knowledge about the path a particle took suppresses information about its wave-like properties, in particular, its ability to…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 19 cited

Electron Scattering in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Lionel Lacombe, Yasumitsu Suzuki, Kazuyuki Watanabe +1

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation…

quant-ph2018★ 75 cited

Light-Matter Interactions via the Exact Factorization Approach

Norah M. Hoffmann, Heiko Appel, Angel Rubio +1

The exact factorization approach, originally developed for electron-nuclear dynamics, is extended to light-matter interactions within the dipole approximation. This allows for a Sc…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 39 cited

Linear response time-dependent density functional theory of the Hubbard dimer

D. J. Carrascal, J. Ferrer, N. Maitra +1

The asymmetric Hubbard dimer is used to study the density-dependence of the exact frequency-dependent kernel of linear-response time-dependent density functional theory. The exact…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 1 cited

Geometry- and field-diversified electronic and optical properties in bilayer silicene

T. N. Do, P. H. Shih, G. Gumbs +1

The generalized tight-binding model has been developed to thoroughly explore the essential electronic and optical properties of AB-bt bilayer silicene. They are greatly diversified…

cs.RO2018★ 4 cited

MengeROS: a Crowd Simulation Tool for Autonomous Robot Navigation

Anoop Aroor, Susan L. Epstein, Raj Korpan

While effective navigation in large, crowded environments is essential for an autonomous robot, preliminary testing of algorithms to support it requires simulation across a broad r…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 7.7k cited

The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134

The Astropy project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly-needed functionality to the astronomical communit…

math.GR2018★ 2 cited

Counting conjugacy classes of fully irreducibles: double exponential growth

Ilya Kapovich, Catherine Pfaff

Inspired by results of Eskin and Mirzakhani counting closed geodesics of length in the moduli space of a fixed closed surface, we consider a similar question in the $Out(F_…