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cond-mat.str-el2016★ 33 cited

Robust spin correlations at high magnetic fields in the honeycomb iridates

K. A. Modic, B. J. Ramshaw, Nicholas P. Breznay +3

The complexity of the antiferromagnetic orders observed in the honeycomb iridates is a double-edged sword in the search for a quantum spin-liquid ground state: both attesting that…

cs.SI2016★ 46 cited

User characterization for online social networks

Tayfun Tuna, Esra Akbas, Ahmet Aksoy +4

Online social network analysis has attracted great attention with a vast number of users sharing information and availability of APIs that help to crawl online social network data.…

hep-lat2016★ 16 cited

Deconfinement, gradient and cooling scales for pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory

Bernd A. Berg, David A. Clarke

We investigate the approach of pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory with the Wilson action to its continuum limit using the deconfining phase transition, the gradient flow and the cooli…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 59 cited

Ba8CoNb6O24: a spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet in the 2D limit

R. Rawl, L. Ge, H. Agrawal +11

The perovskite Ba8CoNb6O24 comprises equilateral effective spin-1/2 Co2+ triangular layers separated by six non-magnetic layers. Susceptibility, specific heat and neutron scatterin…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 36 cited

A Type II Supernova Hubble diagram from the CSP-I, SDSS-II, and SNLS surveys

T. de Jaeger, S. González-Gaitán, M. Hamuy +15

The coming era of large photometric wide-field surveys will increase the detection rate of supernovae by orders of magnitude. Such numbers will restrict spectroscopic follow-up in…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 48 cited

Imprints of the ejecta-companion interaction in Type Ia supernovae: main sequence, subgiant, and red giant companions

P. Boehner, T. Plewa, N. Langer

We study supernova ejecta-companion interactions in a sample of realistic semidetached binary systems representative of Type Ia supernova progenitor binaries in a single-degenerate…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 7 cited

A brief history of the introduction of generalized ensembles to Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations

Bernd A Berg

The most efficient weights for Markov chain Monte Carlo calculations of physical observables are not necessarily those of the canonical ensemble. Generalized ensembles, which do no…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 453 cited

Magnetic brightening and control of dark excitons in monolayer WSe2

Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Ting Cao, Zhengguang Lu +9

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) crystals, as direct-gap materials with unusually strong light-matter interaction, have attracted much recent attention. In contrast…

physics.optics2016★ 80 cited

Wave propagation through disordered media without backscattering and intensity variations

Konstantinos G. Makris, Andre Brandstötter, Philipp Ambichl +2

A fundamental manifestation of wave scattering in a disordered medium is the highly complex intensity pattern the waves acquire due to multi-path interference. Here we show that th…

math.NA2016★ 211 cited

Analysis of -Galerkin FEMs for time-fractional nonlinear parabolic problems

Dongfang Li, Hong-lin Liao, Weiwei Sun +2

This paper is concerned with numerical solutions of time-fractional nonlinear parabolic problems by a class of -Galerkin finite element methods. The analysis of methods fo…

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…

nucl-th2016★ 105 cited

Heavy-flavor production and medium properties in high-energy nuclear collisions - What next?

G. Aarts, J. Aichelin, C. Allton +46

Open and hidden heavy-flavor physics in high-energy nuclear collisions are entering a new and exciting stage towards reaching a clearer understanding of the new experimental result…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 9 cited

Thermodynamic constraints on the amplitude of quantum oscillations

Arkady Shekhter, K. A. Modic, R. D. McDonald +1

Magneto-quantum oscillation experiments in high temperature superconductors show a strong thermally-induced suppression of the oscillation amplitude approaching critical dopings---…

hep-ex2016★ 3 cited

Angular decay coefficients of mesons at forward rapidity from collisions at GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +387

We report the first measurement of the full angular distribution for inclusive decays in collisions at GeV. The measurements are…

hep-ex2016★ 33 cited

Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states

CMS Collaboration

A search is performed for electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge 2/3 in association with a standard model top or bottom quark, using 2.3 inverse femt…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 4 cited

Identifying the Lens Galaxy B1152+199 as a Ghostly Damped Lyman Alpha System by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

Xinyu Dai, Saloni Bhatiani, Bin Chen

Strong quasar-galaxy lensing provides a powerful tool to probe the inter-stellar medium (ISM) of the lens galaxy using radiation from the background quasar. Using the Cosmic Origin…

hep-ex2016★ 36 cited

Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in sqrt(s) = 13 TeV pp collisions

CMS Collaboration

Searches are presented for direct production of top or bottom squark pairs in proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC. Two searches, based on complementary techniques, are perform…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 9 cited

Effects of uniaxial pressure on the quantum tunneling of magnetization in a high-symmetry Mn12 single-molecule magnet

James H. Atkinson, Adeline D. Fournet, Lakshmi Bhaskaran +6

The symmetry of single-molecule magnets dictates their spin quantum dynamics, influencing how such systems relax via quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM). By reducing a system'…

hep-ex2016★ 58 cited

Search for heavy neutrinos or third-generation leptoquarks in final states with two hadronically decaying tau leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for new particles has been conducted using events with two high transverse momentum (pt) tau leptons that decay hadronically, at least two high-pt jets, and missing transv…

hep-ex2016★ 28 cited

Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark with a lepton and jets in the final state

CMS Collaboration

A search for single production of vector-like top quark partners (T) decaying into a Higgs boson and a top quark is performed using data from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass ener…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 135 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Lensing Power Spectrum

Blake D. Sherwin, Alexander van Engelen, Neelima Sehgal +43

We report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB le…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 2 cited

Carrier emission of n-type Gallium Nitride illuminated by femtosecond laser pulses

Runze Li, Pengfei Zhu, Jie Chen +3

The carrier emission efficiency of light emitting diodes is of fundamental importance for many technological applications, including the performance of GaN and other semiconductor…