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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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cond-mat.soft2016★ 21 cited

Theory of Liquid Crystal Elastomers: From Polymer Physics to Differential Geometry

Thanh-Son Nguyen, Jonathan V. Selinger

In liquid crystal elastomers, the orientational order of liquid crystals is coupled with elastic distortions of crosslinked polymer networks. Previous theoretical research has desc…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 1 cited

Phase diagram for the trapped p-wave fermionic superfluid with population imbalance

A. A. Kirmani, K. Quader, M. Dzero

We consider the problem of spin-triplet p-wave superfluid pairing with total spin projection in atomic Fermi gas across the Feshbach resonance. We allow for imbalanced popu…

math.AP2016★ 18 cited

On weak weighted estimates of martingale transform

Fedor Nazarov, Alexander Reznikov, Vasily Vasyunin +1

We consider several weak type estimates for singular operators using the Bellman function approach. We disprove the conjecture of Muckenhoupt, which stayed open after Muckenh…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 2 cited

Universality and unconventional enhancement of flux-flow resistivity in Ba(FeCo)As

Xinyi Huang, D. J. Haney, Y. P. Singh +5

Measurements of the current-voltage characteristics were performed on Ba(FeCo)As single crystals with doping level . An unconventional in…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 51 cited

Quantum Griffiths phase inside the ferromagnetic phase of NiV

Ruizhe Wang, Adane Gebretsadik, Sara Ubaid-Kassis +9

We study by means of bulk and local probes the d-metal alloy NiV close to the quantum critical concentration, , where the ferromagnetic transition t…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 49 cited

What is the magnetic field distribution for the equation of state of magnetized neutron stars?

V. Dexheimer, B. Franzon, R. O. Gomes +3

In this Letter, we report a realistic calculation of the magnetic field profile for the equation of state inside strongly magnetized neutron stars. Unlike previous estimates, which…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 25 cited

Q-tensor model for electrokinetics in nematic liquid crystals

Oleh M. Tovkach, Christopher Conklin, M. Carme Calderer +4

We use a variational principle to derive a mathematical model for a nematic electrolyte in which the liquid crystalline component is described in terms of a second-rank order tenso…

math.MG2016

On a functional equation related to a pair of hedgehogs with congruent projections

Sergii Myroshnychenko

Hedgehogs are geometrical objects that describe the Minkowski differences of arbitrary convex bodies in the Euclidean space . We prove that two hedgehogs in $\mathbb{…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 254 cited

Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns

Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo +2

Self-propelled bacteria are marvels of nature with a potential to power dynamic materials and microsystems of the future. The challenge is in commanding their chaotic behavior. By…

nucl-th2016★ 4 cited

Recent progress in anisotropic hydrodynamics

Michael Strickland

The quark-gluon plasma created in a relativistic heavy-ion collisions possesses a sizable pressure anisotropy in the local rest frame at very early times after the initial nuclear…

nucl-ex2016★ 9 cited

First measurement of unpolarized SIDIS cross section and cross section ratios from a He target

X. Yan, K. Allada, K. Aniol +114

The unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) differential cross sections in He() have been measured for the first time in Jefferson…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 21 cited

Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director

Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Rui Zhang +5

Placing colloidal particles in predesigned sites represents a major challenge of the current state-of-the-art colloidal science. Nematic liquid crystals with spatially varying dire…

math.NA2016

Approximated structured pseudospectra

Silvia Noschese, Lothar Reichel

Pseudospectra and structured pseudospectra are important tools for the analysis of matrices. Their computation, however, can be very demanding for all but small matrices. A new app…

hep-ph2016★ 28 cited

Bulk viscous corrections to screening and damping in QCD at high temperatures

Qianqian Du, Adrian Dumitru, Yun Guo +1

Non-equilibrium corrections to the distribution functions of quarks and gluons in a hot and dense QCD medium modify the "hard thermal loops" (HTL). The HTLs determine the retarded,…

hep-ex2016★ 32 cited

Measurement of the pi^0 -> e^+e^-gamma Dalitz decay at the Mainz Microtron

P. Adlarson, F. Afzal, P. Aguar-Bartolomé +94

The Dalitz decay pi^0 -> e^+e^-gamma has been measured in the gamma p -> pi^0 p reaction with the A2 tagged-photon facility at the Mainz Microtron, MAMI. The value obtained for the…

nucl-ex2016★ 22 cited

Determination of the scalar polarizabilities of the proton using beam asymmetry in Compton scattering

V. Sokhoyan, E. J. Downie, E. Mornacchi +73

The scalar dipole polarizabilities, and , are fundamental properties related to the internal dynamics of the nucleon. The currently accepted values of the proton p…

nucl-th2016★ 5 cited

Phenomenological predictions of 3+1d anisotropic hydrodynamics

Mohammad Nopoush, Michael Strickland, Radoslaw Ryblewski

We make phenomenological predictions for particle spectra and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions using 3+1d anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) including the effects of both shea…

nucl-th2016★ 17 cited

Quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics

Mubarak Alqahtani, Michael Strickland

We study an azimuthally-symmetric boost-invariant quark-gluon plasma using quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics including the effects of both shear and bulk viscosities. We comp…

nucl-ex2016★ 8 cited

JLab Measurements of the 3He Form Factors at Large Momentum Transfers

A. Camsonne, A. T. Katramatou, M. Olson +66

The charge and magnetic form factors, FC and FM, of 3He have been extracted in the kinematic range 25 fm-2 < Q2 < 61 fm-2 from elastic electron scattering by detecting 3He recoil n…

nucl-ex2016★ 1 cited

Directed flow of , , , and mesons from Beam Energy Scan Au+Au collisions using the STAR experiment

Subhash Singha

We report the results of and near mid-rapidity for , , , and in Au+Au collisions at = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27 a…

math.RA2016★ 5 cited

On Polynomial Rings Over Nil Rings in Several Variables and the Central Closure of Prime Nil Rings

Mikhail Chebotar, Wen-Fong Ke, Pjek-Hwee Lee +1

We prove that the ring of polynomials in several commuting indeterminates over a nil ring cannot be homomorphically mapped onto a ring with identity, i.e. it is Brown-McCoy radical…

nucl-ex2016★ 34 cited

The first moment of azimuthal anisotropy in nuclear collisions from AGS to LHC energies

Subhash Singha, Prashanth Shanmuganathan, Declan Keane

We review topics related to the first moment of azimuthal anisotropy (), commonly known as directed flow, focusing on both charged particles and identified particles from heav…

hep-ex2016★ 36 cited

Measurement of the cross section and longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for di-jet production in polarized collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +341

We report the first measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for mid-rapidity di-jet production in polarized collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 295 cited

Large bulk photovoltaic effect and spontaneous polarization of single-layer monochalcogenides

Tonatiuh Rangel, Benjamin M. Fregoso, Bernardo S. Mendoza +3

We use a first-principles density functional theory approach to calculate the shift current and linear absorption of uniformly illuminated single-layer Ge and Sn monochalcogenides.…