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astro-ph.HE2014★ 159 cited

Discovery of PSR J1227-4853: A transition from a low-mass X-ray binary to a redback millisecond pulsar

Jayanta Roy, Paul S. Ray, Bhaswati Bhattacharyya +12

XSS J12270-4859 is an X-ray binary associated with the Fermi LAT gamma-ray source 1FGL J1227.9-4852. In 2012 December, this source underwent a transition where the X-ray and optica…

hep-ph2014★ 235 cited

Four-Quark Hadrons: an Updated Review

Angelo Esposito, Andrea L. Guerrieri, Fulvio Piccinini +2

The past decade witnessed a remarkable proliferation of exotic charmonium-like resonances discovered at accelerators. In particular, the recently observed charged states are clearl…

hep-th2014★ 15 cited

Kink Collisions in Curved Field Space

Pontus Ahlqvist, Kate Eckerle, Brian Greene

We study bubble universe collisions in the ultrarelativistic limit with the new feature of allowing for nontrivial curvature in field space. We establish a simple geometrical inter…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 49 cited

Generation of Ensembles of Individually Resolvable Nitrogen Vacancies Using Nanometer-Scale Apertures in Ultrahigh-Aspect Ratio Planar Implantation Masks

Igal Bayn, Edward H. Chen, Matthew E. Trusheim +9

A central challenge in developing magnetically coupled quantum registers in diamond is the fabrication of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers with localization below ~20 nm to enable fas…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 31 cited

Reconciliation of local and long range tilt correlations in underdoped La2-xBaxCuO4

Emil S. Bozin, Ruidan Zhong, Kevin R. Knox +4

A long standing puzzle regarding the disparity of local and long range CuO6 octahedral tilt correlations in the underdoped regime of La2-xBaxCuO4 is addressed by utilizing compleme…

cs.NI2014★ 2 cited

Serving Content with Unknown Demand:the High-Dimensional Regime

Sharayu Moharir, Javad Ghaderi, Sujay Sanghavi +1

In this paper we look at content placement in the high-dimensional regime: there are n servers, and O(n) distinct types of content. Each server can store and serve O(1) types at an…

physics.optics2014★ 163 cited

High-Speed Electro-Optic Modulator Integrated with Graphene-Boron Nitride Heterostructure and Photonic Crystal Nanocavity

Yuanda Gao, Ren-Jye Shiue, Xuetao Gan +8

Nanoscale and power-efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators are essential components for optical interconnects that are beginning to replace electrical wiring for intra- and inter-…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 59 cited

Coronal Properties of the Seyfert 1.9 Galaxy MCG -05-23-016 Determined from Hard X-ray Spectroscopy with NuSTAR

M. Baloković, G. Matt, F. A. Harrison +15

Measurements of the high-energy cut-off in the coronal continuum of active galactic nuclei have long been elusive for all but a small number of the brightest examples. We present a…

cs.GT2014★ 2 cited

On the Complexity of Nash Equilibria in Anonymous Games

Xi Chen, David Durfee, Anthi Orfanou

We show that the problem of finding an ε-approximate Nash equilibrium in an anonymous game with seven pure strategies is complete in PPAD, when the approximation parameter ε is exp…

cs.CC2014★ 2 cited

Boolean function monotonicity testing requires (almost) non-adaptive queries

Xi Chen, Anindya De, Rocco A. Servedio +1

We prove a lower bound of , for all , on the query complexity of (two-sided error) non-adaptive algorithms for testing whether an -variable Boolean function…

cs.CC2014★ 22 cited

New algorithms and lower bounds for monotonicity testing

Xi Chen, Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan

We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown Boolean function is monotone versus -far from every monotone function. The two main results of this paper are a new low…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 37 cited

Deconstructing Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich - Gravitational Lensing Cross-Correlations: Implications for the Intracluster Medium

N. Battaglia, J. C. Hill, N. Murray

Recent first detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal in Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps with gravitational lens…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 10 cited

Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Singly-Connected Disordered Conductors

I. L. Aleiner, A. V. Andreev, V. Vinokur

We show that transport and thermodynamic properties of \emph{singly-connected} disordered conductors exhibit quantum Aharonov - Bohm oscillations with the total magnetic flux throu…

q-bio.PE2014★ 88 cited

Sample and population exponents of generalized Taylor's law

Andrea Giometto, Marco Formentin, Andrea Rinaldo +2

Taylor's law (TL) states that the variance of a non-negative random variable is a power function of its mean , i.e. . The ubiquitous empirical verification of TL, t…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 133 cited

TiNy Titans: The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Interactions in the Evolution of Low Mass Galaxies

S. Stierwalt, G. Besla, D. Patton +5

We introduce TiNy Titans (TNT), the first systematic study of star formation and the subsequent processing of the interstellar medium in interacting dwarf galaxies. Here we present…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 22 cited

A Search for Pulsations from Geminga Above 100 GeV with VERITAS

E. Aliu, S. Archambault, A. Archer +81

We present the results of 71.6 hours of observations of the Geminga pulsar (PSR J0633+1746) with the VERITAS very-high-energy gamma-ray telescope array. Data taken with VERITAS bet…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 64 cited

The hard X-ray spectrum of NGC 5506 as seen by NuSTAR

G. Matt, M. Balokovic, A. Marinucci +12

NuSTAR observed the bright Compton-thin, narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 5506, for about 56 ks. In agreement with past observations, the spectrum is well fit by a power law with…

physics.optics2014★ 65 cited

Photon transport enhanced by transverse Anderson localization in disordered superlattices

Pin-Chun Hsieh, Chung-Jen Chung, James McMillan +4

One of the daunting challenges in optical physics is to accurately control the flow of light at the subwavelength scale, by patterning the optical medium one can design anisotropic…

cond-mat.dis-nn2014★ 3 cited

Effect of dilute, strongly pinning impurities on charge density waves

Jun-ichi Okamoto, Andrew J. Millis

We study theoretically the effects of strong pinning centers on a charge density wave in the limit that the charge density wave coherence length is shorter than the average inter-i…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 33 cited

A Focused, Hard X-ray Look at Arp 299 with NuSTAR

A. Ptak, A. Hornschemeier, A. Zezas +19

We report on simultaneous observations of the local starburst system Arp 299 with NuSTAR and Chandra, which provides the first resolved images of this galaxy up to energies of ~ 45…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 35 cited

A NuSTAR observation of the fast symbiotic nova V745 Sco in outburst

M. Orio, V. Rana, K. L. Page +2

The fast recurrent nova V745 Sco was observed in the 3-79 keV X-rays band with NuSTAR 10 days after the optical discovery. The measured X-ray emission is consistent with a collisio…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 68 cited

The Chandra Planetary Nebulae Survey (ChanPlaNS): III. X-ray Emission from the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae

R. Montez, J. H. Kastner, B. Balick +25

We present X-ray spectral analysis of 20 point-like X-ray sources detected in Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey (ChanPlaNS) observations of 59 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the solar ne…

eess.SY2014★ 27 cited

Cooperative Change Detection for Online Power Quality Monitoring

Shang Li, Xiaodong Wang

This paper considers the real-time power quality monitoring in power grid systems. The goal is to detect the occurrence of disturbances in the nominal sinusoidal voltage/current si…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 266 cited

Imaging Dirac-Mass Disorder from Magnetic Dopant-Atoms in the Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator Cr(BiSb)Te

Inhee Lee, Chung Koo Kim, Jinho Lee +8

To achieve and utilize the most exotic electronic phenomena predicted for the surface states of 3D topological insulators (TI),it is necessary to open a "Dirac-mass gap" in their s…