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hep-th2015★ 18 cited

Higher-Derivative Gravity with Non-minimally Coupled Maxwell Field

Xing-Hui Feng, H. Lu

We construct higher-derivative gravities with a non-minimally coupled Maxwell field. The Lagrangian consists of polynomial invariants built from the Riemann tensor and the Maxwell…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 64 cited

The Chiral Anomaly and Ultrahigh Mobility in Crystalline HfTe5

Huichao Wang, Chao-Kai Li, Haiwen Liu +11

HfTe5 is predicted to be a promising platform for studying topological phases. Here through an electrical transport study, we present the first observation of chiral anomaly and ul…

math.MG2015★ 11 cited

Hamilton's Gradient Estimates and A Monotonicity Formula for Heat Flows on Metric Measure Spaces

Renjin Jiang, Huichun Zhang

In this paper, we extend the Hamilton's gradient estimates \cite{har93} and a monotonicity formula of entropy \cite{ni04} for heat flows from smooth Riemannian manifolds to (non-sm…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 125 cited

Testing Einstein's Equivalence Principle with Fast Radio Bursts

Jun-Jie Wei, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu +1

The accuracy of Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) can be tested with the observed time delays between correlated particles or photons that are emitted from astronomical source…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 9 cited

Creating and probing wide-bandgap nanoribbon-like structures in a continuous metallic graphene sheet

Si-Yu Li, Mei Zhou, Jia-Bin Qiao +2

The light-like dispersion of graphene monolayer results in many novel electronic properties in it1, however, this gapless feature also limits the applications of graphene monolayer…

hep-th2015★ 64 cited

Thermodynamics of Charged Black Holes in Einstein-Horndeski-Maxwell Theory

Xing-Hui Feng, Hai-Shan Liu, H. Lü +1

We extend an earlier investigation of the thermodynamics of static black holes in an Einstein-Horndeski theory of gravity coupled to a scalar field, by including now an elec- troma…

physics.soc-ph2015

The spreading ability of nodes towards localized targets in complex networks

Ye Sun, Long Ma, An Zeng +1

As an important type of dynamics on complex networks, spreading is widely used to model many real processes such as the epidemic contagion and information propagation. One of the m…

math.CA2015★ 65 cited

Anisotropic Hardy-Lorentz Spaces and Their Applications

Jun Liu, Dachun Yang, Wen Yuan

Let , and be a general expansive matrix on . The authors introduce the anisotropic Hardy-Lorentz space assoc…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 30 cited

Universal underpinning of human mobility in the real world and cyberspace

Yi-Ming Zhao, An Zeng, Xiao-Yong Yan +2

Human movements in the real world and in cyberspace affect not only dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading and information diffusion but also social and economical activiti…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 21 cited

Simultaneous optical monitoring of BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 with high temporal resolution

Zhongyi Man, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Jianghua Wu +1

We have monitored the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 simultaneously in the B, R and I bands on three nights in November 2014. The average time resolution is quite high (73s, 34s, 5…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 12 cited

Tunable Electronic Band Structures and Zero-Energy Modes of Heterosubstrate-induced Graphene Superlattices

Xiong Fan, Wenjun Huang, Tianxing Ma +1

We propose a tunable electronic band gap and zero-energy modes in periodic heterosubstrate-induced graphene superlattices. Interestingly, there is an approximate linear relation be…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 237 cited

Giant room temperature interface spin Hall and inverse spin Hall effects

Lei Wang, R. J. H. Wesselink, Yi Liu +3

The spin Hall angle (SHA) is a measure of the efficiency with which a transverse spin current is generated from a charge current by the spin-orbit coupling and disorder in the spin…

math.PR2015

Second and third orders asymptotic expansions for the distribution of particles in a branching random walk with a random environment in time

Zhi-Qiang Gao, Quansheng Liu

Consider a branching random walk in which the offspring distribution and the moving law both depend on an independent and identically distributed random environment indexed by the…

gr-qc2015★ 5 cited

General proof of the entropy principle for self-gravitating fluid in f(R) Gravity

Xiongjun Fang, Minyong Guo, Jiliang Jing

The discussions on the connection between gravity and thermodynamics attract much attention recently. We consider a static self-gravitating perfect fluid system in gravity,…

math.NT2015★ 27 cited

Multiplex congruence network of natural numbers

Xiao-Yong Yan, Wen-Xu Wang, Guan-Rong Chen +1

Congruence theory has many applications in physical, social, biological and technological systems. Congruence arithmetic has been a fundamental tool for data security and computer…

cond-mat.str-el2015★ 9 cited

Bosonic edge states in gapped honeycomb lattices

Huaiming Guo, Yuekun Niu, Shu Chen +1

By quantum Monte Carlo simulations of bosons in gapped honeycomb lattices, we show the existence of bosonic edge states. For single layer honeycomb lattice, bosonic edge states can…

math.GT2015★ 2 cited

A transcendental function invariant of virtual knots

Zhiyun Cheng

In this work we describe a new invariant of virtual knots. We show that this transcendental function invariant generalizes several polynomial invariants of virtual knots, such as t…

math.NA2015★ 41 cited

An unconditionally energy stable finite difference scheme for a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation

Xiao Li, Zhonghua Qiao, Hui Zhang

In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting techniqu…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 12 cited

X-ray softening during the 2008 outburst of XTE J1810-189

Shan-Shan Weng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Shu-Xu Yi +2

XTE J1810-189 underwent an outburst in 2008, and was observed over d by RXTE. Performing a time-resolved spectral analysis on the photospheric radius expansion burst det…

math.CA2015★ 1 cited

Littlewood-Paley Characterizations of Fractional Sobolev Spaces via Averages on Balls

Feng Dai, Jun Liu, Dachun Yang +1

In this paper, the authors characterize Sobolev spaces with the smoothness order and , via the Lusin a…

gr-qc2015★ 14 cited

Primordial non-Gaussianity in warm inflation using formalism

Xiao-Min Zhang, Hong-Yang Ma, Peng-Cheng Chu +2

A formalism is used to study the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation on an uniform density hypersurfaces generated by the warm inflation for the first tim…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 1 cited

Charge dynamics in doped Mott insulators on a honeycomb lattice

Xixiao Ma, Yu Lan, Ling Qin +1

Within the framework of the fermion-spin theory, the charge transport in the doped Mott insulators on a honeycomb lattice is studied by taking into account the pseudogap effect. It…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 225 cited

Direct imaging of topological edge states at a bilayer graphene domain wall

Long-Jing Yin, Hua Jiang, Jia-Bin Qiao +1

The AB-BA domain wall in gapped graphene bilayers is a rare naked structure hosting topological electronic states. Here we show, for the first time, direct imaging of its topologic…

cs.IR2015★ 103 cited

Network-based recommendation algorithms: A review

Fei Yu, An Zeng, Sebastien Gillard +1

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broa…