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quant-ph2016★ 25 cited

Anomalous Amplification of a Homodyne signal via Almost-Balanced Weak Values

Wei-Tao Liu, Julián Martínez-Rincón, Gerardo I. Viza +1

The technique of almost-balanced weak values amplification (ABWV) was recently proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116: 100803 (2016)]. We demonstrate this technique using a modified Sagnac…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 34 cited

Predicting the kinetics of RNA oligonucleotides using Markov state models

Giovanni Pinamonti, Jianbo Zhao, David E. Condon +4

Nowadays different experimental techniques, such as single molecule or relaxation experiments, can provide dynamic properties of biomolecular systems, but the amount of detail obta…

quant-ph2016★ 74 cited

Cryogenic photoluminescence imaging system for nanoscale positioning of single quantum emitters

Jin Liu, Macelo Davanco, Luca Sapienza +5

We report a photoluminescence imaging system for locating single quantum emitters with respect to alignment features. Samples are interrogated in a 4~K closed-cycle cryostat by a h…

quant-ph2016★ 4 cited

Experimental investigation of Popper's proposed ghost-diffraction experiment

Eliot Bolduc, Ebrahim Karimi, Kevin Piché +2

In an effort to challenge the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, Karl Popper proposed an experiment involving spatially separated entangled particles. In this experime…

physics.optics2016★ 74 cited

A ray-optical Poincaré sphere for structured Gaussian beams

Miguel A Alonso, Mark R Dennis

A general family of structured Gaussian beams naturally emerges from a consideration of families of rays. These ray families, with the property that their transverse profile is inv…

physics.optics2016★ 1.4k cited

Electromagnetic Angular Momentum

Masud Mansuripur

This article was published as Sec.5 of the "Roadmap on Structured Light" in Journal of Optics 19 (2017) 013001. Section 5 describes the essential elements of the classical theory o…

physics.optics2016★ 1.4k cited

Electromagnetic Force and Momentum

Masud Mansuripur

This article was published as Sec.4 of the "Roadmap on Structured Light" in Journal of Optics 19 (2017) 013001. Section 4 describes the essential elements of the classical theory o…

quant-ph2016★ 536 cited

High-Dimensional Intra-City Quantum Cryptography with Structured Photons

Alicia Sit, Frédéric Bouchard, Robert Fickler +11

Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises information-theoretically secure communication, and is already on the verge of commercialization. Thus far, different QKD protocols have bee…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 35 cited

Valence Band Dispersion Measurements of Perovskite Single Crystal with Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Congcong Wang, Benjamin R. Ecker, Yongli Gao +3

The electronic structure of the cleaved perovskite (CH3NH3PbBr3) single crystal was studied in an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES…

quant-ph2016★ 132 cited

Weak Value Amplification Can Outperform Conventional Measurement in the Presence of Detector Saturation

Jérémie Harris, Robert W. Boyd, Jeff S. Lundeen

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a technique in which one can magnify the apparent strength of a measurement signal. Some have claimed that WVA can outperform more conventional me…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 4 cited

Post-common envelope PN, fundamental or irrelevant?

Orsola De Marco, T. Reichardt, R. Iaconi +6

One in 5 planetary nebulae are ejected from common envelope binary interactions but Kepler Space Telescope results are already showing this proportion to be larger. Their propertie…

quant-ph2016★ 38 cited

Quantum parameter estimation with the Landau-Zener transition

Jing Yang, Shengshi Pang, Andrew N. Jordan

We investigate the fundamental limits in precision allowed by quantum mechanics from Landau-Zener transitions, concerning Hamiltonian parameters. While the Landau-Zener transition…

hep-ex2016★ 7 cited

Measurements of the branching fractions for , and ,

M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, S. Ahmed +428

By analyzing of data taken at the resonance peak with the BESIII detector, we measure the branching fractions for the hadronic decays $D^+\to K^0_SK^0…

hep-ex2016★ 45 cited

Search for heavy gauge W' bosons in events with an energetic lepton and large missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for W' bosons in events with an electron or muon and large missing transverse momentum, using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collected with…

hep-ex2016★ 40 cited

Measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma with two jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma and two jets is performed, where the W boson decays leptonically. The data used in the analysis correspond to an integrat…

hep-ex2016★ 48 cited

Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for new massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in l nu quark anti-quark and quark anti-quark quark anti-quark final states. Results are based on d…

cs.MM2016★ 139 cited

Creating A Multi-track Classical Musical Performance Dataset for Multimodal Music Analysis: Challenges, Insights, and Applications

Bochen Li, Xinzhao Liu, Karthik Dinesh +2

We introduce a dataset for facilitating audio-visual analysis of music performances. The dataset comprises 44 simple multi-instrument classical music pieces assembled from coordina…

hep-ex2016★ 53 cited

Study of and and

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +426

We study the decays of and to the final states and based on a single baryon tag method using data samples of $(1310.6 \p…

quant-ph2016★ 24 cited

Prediction and Characterization of Multiple Extremal Paths in Continuously Monitored Qubits

Philippe Lewalle, Areeya Chantasri, Andrew N. Jordan

We examine most-likely paths between initial and final states for diffusive quantum trajectories in continuously monitored pure-state qubits, obtained as extrema of a stochastic pa…

hep-ex2016★ 4 cited

Observation of the helicity-selection-rule suppressed decay of the charmonium state

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +424

The decays of , and are studied with the data samples collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII)…

hep-ex2016★ 86 cited

NUISANCE: a neutrino cross-section generator tuning and comparison framework

P. Stowell, C. Wret, C. Wilkinson +10

NUISANCE is an open source C++ framework which facilitates detailed studies of neutrino interaction cross-section models implemented in Monte Carlo neutrino event generators. It pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 114 cited

Nonempirical Semi-local Free-Energy Density Functional for Matter Under Extreme Conditions

Valentin V. Karasiev, James W. Dufty, S. B. Trickey

Realizing the potential for predictive density functional calculations of matter under extreme conditions depends crucially upon having an exchange-correlation (XC) free energy fun…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 198 cited

The IceCube Realtime Alert System

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

Following the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013, their origin is still unknown. Aiming for the identification of an electromagnetic counterpart of a rapidly…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 195 cited

Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

We present results from an analysis looking for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube neutrino telescope. Gravitationally trapped dark matter in the Sun's core can a…