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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 52 cited

Similar ultrafast dynamics of several dissimilar Dirac and Weyl semimetals

Chris P. Weber, Bryan S. Berggren, Madison G. Masten +13

Recent years have seen the rapid discovery of solids whose low-energy electrons have a massless, linear dispersion, such as Weyl, line-node, and Dirac semimetals. The remarkable op…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Temperature Structure in the Perseus Cluster Core Observed with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The present paper investigates the temperature structure of the X-ray emitting plasma in the core of the Perseus cluster using the 1.8--20.0 keV data obtained with the Soft X-ray S…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 126 cited

Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The Hitomi SXS spectrum of the Perseus cluster, with 5 eV resolution in the 2-9 keV band, offers an unprecedented benchmark of the atomic modeling and database for hot collis…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

Hitomi Observations of the LMC SNR N132D: Highly Redshifted X-ray Emission from Iron Ejecta

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

We present Hitomi observations of N132D, a young, X-ray bright, O-rich core-collapse supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Despite a very short observation of only…

q-bio.BM2017★ 34 cited

Energetic funnel facilitates facilitated diffusion

Massimo Cencini, Simone Pigolotti

Transcription factors are able to associate to their binding sites on DNA faster than the physical limit posed by diffusion. Such high association rates can be achieved by alternat…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017

Oscillating superflow in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates

Angela White, Thomas Busch

Conservation of angular momentum depends on the existence of rotational symmetry. However, even in systems where this symmetry is broken, flipping between angular momentum eigensta…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 29 cited

Control of excitonic absorption by thickness variation in few-layer GaSe

Arne Budweg, Dinesh Yadav, Alexander Grupp +4

We control the thickness of GaSe on the level of individual layers and study the corresponding optical absorption via highly sensitive differential transmission measurements. Suppr…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 28 cited

Arcsine Laws in Stochastic Thermodynamics

Andre C. Barato, Édgar Roldán, Ignacio A. Martínez +1

We show that the fraction of time a thermodynamic current spends above its average value follows the arcsine law, a prominent result obtained by Lévy for Brownian motion. Stochasti…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 116 cited

Solar abundance ratios of the iron-peak elements in the Perseus Cluster

Hitomi Collaboration

The metal abundance of the hot plasma that permeates galaxy clusters represents the accumulation of heavy elements produced by billions of supernovae. Therefore, X-ray spectroscopy…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 43 cited

Magnetoelectric memory function with optical readout

Vilmos Kocsis, Karlo Penc, Toomas Rõõm +8

The ultimate goal of multiferroic research is the development of new-generation non-volatile memory devices, the so-called magnetoelectric (ME) memories, where magnetic bits are co…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 13 cited

Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

We report a Hitomi observation of IGR J16318-4848, a high-mass X-ray binary system with an extremely strong absorption of N_H~10^{24} cm^{-2}. Previous X-ray studies revealed that…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 58 cited

Hitomi Observation of Radio Galaxy NGC 1275: The First X-ray Microcalorimeter Spectroscopy of Fe-Kα Line Emission from an Active Galactic Nucleus

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

The origin of the narrow Fe-Kα fluorescence line at 6.4 keV from active galactic nuclei has long been under debate; some of the possible sites are the outer accretion disk, the bro…

physics.ins-det2017★ 18 cited

A compact imaging system with a CdTe double-sided strip detector for non-destructive analysis using negative muonic X-rays

Miho Katsuragawa, Motonobu Tampo, Koji Hamada +8

A CdTe double-sided strip detector (CdTe-DSD) is an ideal device for imaging and spectroscopic measure- ments in the hard X-ray range above 10 keV. Recent development enables us to…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 14 cited

High-speed X-ray imaging spectroscopy system with Zynq SoC for solar observations

Shin-nosuke Ishikawa, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Watanabe +7

We have developed a system combining a back-illuminated Complementary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) imaging sensor and Xilinx Zynq System-on-Chip (SoC) device for a soft X-ray (…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 28 cited

How many spin liquids are there in CaCrO?

Rico Pohle, Han Yan, Nic Shannon

The search for novel phases of matter is a central theme of modern physics, with some of the most intriguing examples provided by the spin liquids found in magnets with competing,…

hep-ph2017★ 25 cited

Non-minimal quartic inflation in classically conformal U(1) extended Standard Model

Satsuki Oda, Nobuchika Okada, Digesh Raut +1

We propose quartic inflation with non-minimal gravitational coupling in the context of the classically conformal U(1)_X extension of the SM. In this model, the U(1)_X gauge symmetr…

cond-mat.dis-nn2017★ 5 cited

Spontaneous and stimulus-induced coherent states of critically balanced neuronal networks

Takashi Hayakawa, Tomoki Fukai

How the information microscopically processed by individual neurons is integrated and used in organizing the behavior of an animal is a central question in neuroscience. The cohere…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 22 cited

Training, Memory and Universal Scaling in Amorphous Frictional Granular Matter

M. M. Bandi, H. George E. Hentschel, Itamar Procaccia +2

We report a joint experimental and theoretical investigation of cyclic training of amorphous frictional granular assemblies, with special attention to memory formation and retentio…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 42 cited

Mapping of uncertainty relations between continuous and discrete time

Davide Chiuchiù, Simone Pigolotti

Lower bounds on fluctuations of thermodynamic currents depend on the nature of time: discrete or continuous. To understand the physical reason, we compare current fluctuations in d…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 152 cited

Atmospheric gas dynamics in the Perseus cluster observed with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +195

Extending the earlier measurements reported in Hitomi collaboration (2016, Nature, 535, 117), we examine the atmospheric gas motions within the central 100~kpc of the Perseus clust…

hep-th2017★ 16 cited

Towards causal patch physics in dS/CFT

Yasha Neiman

This is a status report on a research program aimed at obtaining quantum-gravitational physics inside a cosmological horizon through dS/CFT, i.e. through a holographic description…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 68 cited

Measurements of resonant scattering in the Perseus cluster core with Hitomi SXS

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

Thanks to its high spectral resolution (~5 eV at 6 keV), the Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) on board Hitomi enables us to measure the detailed structure of spatially resolved emissi…

hep-th2017★ 1 cited

M2- and M5-branes in E11 Current Algebra Formulation of M-theory

Shotaro Shiba, Hirotaka Sugawara

Equations of motion for M2- and M5-branes are written down in the current algebra formulation of M-theory. These branes correspond to currents of the second and the fifth…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 22 cited

Circular-Polarization-Dependent Study of Microwave-Induced Conductivity Oscillations in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas on Liquid Helium

A. A. Zadorozhko, Yu. P. Monarkha, D. Konstantinov

The polarization dependence of photoconductivity response at cyclotron-resonance harmonics in a nondegenerate two-dimensional (2D) electron system formed on the surface of liquid h…