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cond-mat.soft2016

Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: Triplet shape and restructuring

Prerna Dahiya, Andrew DeBenedictis, Timothy J. Atherton +4

The stability of shapes formed by three viscoelastic droplets during their arrested coalescence has been investigated using micromanipulation experiments. Addition of a third dropl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 62 cited

Lattice effects on the formation of oxygen vacancies in perovskite thin films

Claudio Cazorla

We use first-principles methods to investigate the effects of collective lattice excitations on the formation of oxygen vacancies in perovskite thin films. We find that phonons pla…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 629 cited

Interfacing spin qubits in quantum dots and donors - hot, dense and coherent

L. M. K. Vandersypen, H. Bluhm, J. S. Clarke +6

Semiconductor spins are one of the few qubit realizations that remain a serious candidate for the implementation of large-scale quantum circuits. Excellent scalability is often arg…

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…

cs.CR2016★ 4 cited

Ripple: Reflection Analysis for Android Apps in Incomplete Information Environments

Yifei Zhang, Tian Tan, Yue Li +1

Despite its widespread use in Android apps, reflection poses graving problems for static security analysis. Currently, string inference is applied to handle reflection, resulting i…

math.OA2016

Krein's trace theorem revisited

Denis Potapov, Fedor Sukochev, Dmitriy Zanin

We supply the first proof of Krein's Trace Theorem which does not use complex analysis. Our proof holds for~-finite von Neumann algebras of type II and unbounded p…

math.FA2016

Singular traces and perturbation formulae of higher order

Denis Potapov, Fedor Sukochev, Aleksandr Usachev +1

Let be self-adjoint operators such that belongs to the weak trace class ideal. We prove higher order perturbation formula $$τ\big(f(H+V)-\sum_{j=0}^{n-1}\frac{1}{j!}\fra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Multiple structural transitions driven by spin-phonon couplings in a perovskite oxide

Claudio Cazorla, Oswaldo Dieguez, Jorge Iniguez

Spin-phonon interactions are central to many interesting phenomena, ranging from superconductivity to magnetoelectric effects. Yet, they are believed to have a negligible influence…

math.OA2016

Fubini theorem in noncommutative geometry

Fedor Sukochev, Dmitriy Zanin

We discuss the Fubini formula in Alain Connes' noncommutative geometry. We present a sufficient condition on spectral triples for which a Fubini formula holds true. The condition i…

quant-ph2016★ 18 cited

Power Spectrum Identification for Quantum Linear Systems

Matthew Levitt, Madalin Guta, Hendra I. Nurdin

In this paper we investigate system identification for general quantum linear systems. We consider the situation where the input field is prepared as stationary (squeezed) quantum…

q-bio.PE2016★ 26 cited

A biological model of scabies infection dynamics and treatment explains why mass drug administration does not lead to elimination

M. Lydeamore, P. T. Campbell, D. G. Regan +7

Despite a low global prevalence, infections with Sarcoptes scabiei, or scabies, are still common in remote communities such as in northern Australia and the Solomon Islands. Mass d…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 6 cited

Faint source star planetary microlensing: the discovery of the cold gas giant planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb

N. J. Rattenbury, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi +85

We report the discovery of a planet --- OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb --- via gravitational microlensing. Observations for the lensing event were made by the MOA, OGLE, Wise, RoboNET/LCOGT,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Modulation Doping of Silicon using Aluminium-induced Acceptor States in Silicon Dioxide

Dirk König, Daniel Hiller, Sebastian Gutsch +2

All electronic, optoelectronic or photovoltaic applications of silicon depend on controlling majority charge carriers via doping with impurity atoms. Nanoscale silicon is omniprese…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 77 cited

The Galah Survey: Classification and diagnostics with t-SNE reduction of spectral information

G. Traven, G. Matijevič, T. Zwitter +24

Galah is an ongoing high-resolution spectroscopic survey with the goal of disentangling the formation history of the Milky Way, using the fossil remnants of disrupted star formatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 73 cited

Intrinsic Ferromagnetism in the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Co:TiO

H. Saadaoui, X. Luo, Z. Salman +15

Here we present a study of magnetism in \CTO\ anatase films grown by pulsed laser deposition under a variety of oxygen partial pressures and deposition rates. Energy-dispersive spe…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 30 cited

The Anglo-Australian Planet Search XXV: A Candidate Massive Saturn Analog Orbiting HD 30177

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jonathan Horner, M. W. Mengel +8

We report the discovery of a second long-period giant planet orbiting HD 30177, a star previously known to host a massive Jupiter analog (HD 30177b: a=3.80.1 au, m sin $i=9.7\…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

Anisotropic Pauli Spin Blockade of Holes in a GaAs Double Quantum Dot

Daisy Q. Wang, Oleh Klochan, Jo-Tzu Hung +4

Electrically defined semiconductor quantum dots are attractive systems for spin manipulation and quantum information processing. Heavy-holes in both Si and GaAs are promising candi…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 55 cited

Optical spectroscopy of complex open 4-shell ions Sn-Sn

F. Torretti, A. Windberger, A. Ryabtsev +8

We analyze the complex level structure of ions with many-valence-electron open [Kr] 4 sub-shells (=7-4) with ab initio calculations based on configuration…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 6 cited

Analogue Stochastic Gravity in Strongly-Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates

Aydin Cem Keser, Victor Galitski

Collective modes propagating in a moving superfluid are known to satisfy wave equations in a curved space time, with a metric determined by the underlying superflow. We use the Kel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 94 cited

Inter-band Coherence Response to Electric Fields in Crystals

Dimitrie Culcer, Akihiko Sekine, Allan H. MacDonald

In solid state conductors, linear response to a steady electric field is normally dominated by Bloch state occupation number changes that are correlated with group velocity and lea…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 35 cited

An eccentric companion at the edge of the brown dwarf desert orbiting the 2.4 Msun giant star HIP67537

M. I. Jones, R. Brahm, R. A. Wittenmyer +5

We report the discovery of a substellar companion around the giant star HIP67537. Based on precision radial velocity measurements from CHIRON and FEROS high-resolution spectroscopi…

math.AP2016★ 13 cited

Quaternionic spherical harmonics and a sharp multiplier theorem on quaternionic spheres

Julian Ahrens, Michael G. Cowling, Alessio Martini +1

A sharp spectral multiplier theorem of Mihlin--Hörmander type is proved for a distinguished sub-Laplacian on quaternionic spheres. This is the first such result on compact su…

cs.CR2016★ 12 cited

Your Processor Leaks Information - and There's Nothing You Can Do About It

Qian Ge, Yuval Yarom, Frank Li +1

Timing channels are information flows, encoded in the relative timing of events, that bypass the system's protection mechanisms. Any microarchitectural state that depends on execut…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 22 cited

Mechanisms for strong anisotropy of in-plane g-factors in hole based quantum point contacts

D. S. Miserev, A. Srinivasan, O. A. Tkachenko +5

In-plane hole g-factors measured in quantum point contacts based on p-type heterostructures strongly depend on the orientation of the magnetic field with respect to the electric cu…