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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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math.FA2013

More elementary operators that are spectrally bounded

Nadia Boudi, Martin Mathieu

We discuss some necessary and some sufficient conditions for an elementary operator on a Banach algebra to be spectrally bounded. In the case of…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 51 cited

A Search for Photometric Variability Towards M71 with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope

J. McCormac, I. Skillen, D. Pollacco +5

We present the results of a high-cadence photometric survey of an field centred on the globular cluster M71, with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope.…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 28 cited

Electron recombination, photoionization and scattering via many-electron compound resonances

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, G. F. Gribakin +2

Highly excited eigenstates of atoms and ions with open f shell are chaotic superpositions of thousands, or even millions of Hartree-Fock determinant states. The interaction between…

quant-ph2013★ 10 cited

Experimental linear-optics simulation of the ground state of an interacting quantum spin-ring

Adeline Orieux, Joelle Boutari, Marco Barbieri +2

Critical phenomena involve a structural change in the correlations of its constituents. These features can be employed in quantum simulators to assess when a criticality occurred i…

quant-ph2013★ 84 cited

Reconfigurable long-range phonon dynamics in optomechanical arrays

André Xuereb, Claudiu Genes, Guido Pupillo +2

We investigate periodic optomechanical arrays as reconfigurable platforms for engineering the coupling between multiple mechanical and electromagnetic modes and for exploring many-…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013★ 70 cited

The Generalized Langevin Equation: An efficient approach to non-equilibrium molecular dynamics of open systems

L. Stella, C. D. Lorenz, L. Kantorovich

The Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE) has been recently suggested to simulate the time evolution of classical solid and molecular systems when considering general non-equilibrium…

cs.AI2013★ 13 cited

Characterizing and Extending Answer Set Semantics using Possibility Theory

Kim Bauters, Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock +1

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular framework for modeling combinatorial problems. However, ASP cannot easily be used for reasoning about uncertain information. Possibilistic…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 56 cited

Ultracold hydrogen and deuterium production via Doppler-cooled Feshbach molecules

Ian Lane

A counterintuitive scheme to produce ultracold hydrogen via fragmentation of laser cooled diatomic hydrides is presented where the final atomic H temperature is inversely proportio…

math.OA2013★ 5 cited

Quantum chromatic numbers via operator systems

Vern I. Paulsen, Ivan G. Todorov

We define several new types of quantum chromatic numbers of a graph and characterise them in terms of operator system tensor products. We establish inequalities between these chrom…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 10 cited

Energy levels, radiative rates and electron impact excitation rates for transitions in Al X

K. M. Aggarwal, F. P. Keenan

Energy levels, radiative rates and lifetimes are calculated among the lowest 98 levels of the n <= 4 configurations of Be-like Al X. The GRASP (General-purpose Relativistic Atomic…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 52 cited

Estimating Stellar Radial Velocity Variability from Kepler and GALEX: Implications for the Radial Velocity Confirmation of Exoplanets

H. M. Cegla, K. G. Stassun, C. A. Watson +2

We cross-match the GALEX and Kepler surveys to create a unique dataset with both ultraviolet (UV) measurements and highly precise photometric variability measurements in the visibl…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 84 cited

SN 2009N: Linking normal and subluminous type II-P SNe

K. Takáts, M. L. Pumo, N. Elias-Rosa +31

We present ultraviolet, optical, near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2009N in NGC 4487. This object is a type II-P supernova with spectra resembling those of subluminou…

quant-ph2013★ 27 cited

Competition between memory-keeping and memory-erasing decoherence channels

Tony J. G. Apollaro, Salvatore Lorenzo, Carlo Di Franco +2

We study the competing effects of simultaneous Markovian and non-Markovian decoherence mechanisms acting on a single spin. We show the existence of a threshold in the relative stre…

cs.NI2013★ 4 cited

Adaptive Measurement-Based Policy-Driven QoS Management with Fuzzy-Rule-based Resource Allocation

Suleiman Y. Yerima, Gerard P. Parr, Sally I. McClean +1

Fixed and wireless networks are increasingly converging towards common connectivity with IP-based core networks. Providing effective end-to-end resource and QoS management in such…

cs.NI2013★ 1 cited

Implementation and Evaluation of Measurement-Based Admission Control Schemes Within a Converged Networks QoS Management Framework

Suleiman Y. Yerima

Policy-based network management (PBNM) paradigms provide an effective tool for end-to-end resource management in converged next generation networks by enabling unified, adaptive an…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 39 cited

Variability of the High Velocity Outflow in the Quasar PDS 456

J. N. Reeves, V. Braito, J. Gofford +9

We present a comparison of two Suzaku X-ray observations of the nearby (z=0.184), luminous ( erg s) type I quasar, PDS456. A new 125ks Suzaku observati…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 2 cited

Energy levels and radiative rates for transitions in Ti VII

KM Aggarwal, FP Keenan

We report calculations of energy levels, radiative rates, oscillator strengths and line strengths for transitions among the lowest 231 levels of Ti VII. The general-purpose relativ…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 32 cited

The nature of supernovae 2010O and 2010P in Arp 299 - I. Near-infrared and optical evolution

E. Kankare, S. Mattila, S. Ryder +10

We present near-infrared and optical photometry, plus optical spectroscopy of two stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe) 2010O and 2010P that exploded in two different components of an…

quant-ph2013★ 13 cited

Localization-like effect in two-dimensional alternate quantum walks with periodic coin operations

Carlo Di Franco, Mauro Paternostro

Exploiting multi-dimensional quantum walks as feasible platforms for quantum computation and quantum simulation is attracting constantly growing attention from a broad experimental…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 181 cited

The nebular spectra of SN 2012aw and constraints on stellar nucleosynthesis from oxygen emission lines

A. Jerkstrand, S. J. Smartt, M. Fraser +4

We present nebular phase optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the Type IIP supernova SN 2012aw combined with NLTE radiative transfer calculations applied to ejecta from stella…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 78 cited

SN 2010lp---a Type Ia supernova from a violent merger of two carbon--oxygen White Dwarfs

M. Kromer, R. Pakmor, S. Taubenberger +6

SN 2010lp is a subluminous Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) with slowly-evolving lightcurves. Moreover, it is the only subluminous SN Ia observed so far that shows narrow emission lines o…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 251 cited

Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernovae and Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts Have Similar Host Galaxies

R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +27

We present optical spectroscopy and optical/near-IR photometry of 31 host galaxies of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), including 15 events from the Pan-STARRS1 Mediu…

quant-ph2013★ 30 cited

Master equation for dissipative interacting qubits in a common environment

J. P. Santos, F. L. Semião

In this paper, we derive a microscopic master equation for a pair of XY-coupled two-level systems interacting with the same memoryless reservoir. In particular, we apply this maste…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 136 cited

Impact of nitrogen seeding on confinement and power load control of a high-triangularity JET ELMy H-mode plasma with a metal wall

C Giroud, G P Maddison, S Jachmich +39

This paper reports the impact on confinement and power load of the high-shape 2.5MA ELMy H-mode scenario at JET of a change from an all carbon plasma facing components to an all me…