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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 90 cited

First-Principles Study of Exchange Interactions of Yttrium Iron Garnet

Li-Shan Xie, Guang-Xi Jin, Lixin He +3

Yttrium Iron Garnet is the ubiquitous magnetic insulator used for studying pure spin currents. The exchange constants reported in the literature vary considerably between different…

hep-th2016★ 8 cited

Time Machines and AdS Solitons with Negative Mass

Xing-Hui Feng, Wei-Jian Geng, H. Lu

We show that in D=2n+1 dimensions, when mass is negative and all angular momenta are non-vanishing, Kerr and Kerr-AdS metrics describe smooth time machines, with no curvature singu…

math.AP2016★ 27 cited

Comparison principles and Lipschitz regularity for some nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations

YanYan Li, Luc Nguyen, Bo Wang

We establish interior Lipschitz regularity for continuous viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, conformally invariant, degenerate elliptic equations. As a by-product of our metho…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 19 cited

On the Silicate Crystallinities of Oxygen-Rich Evolved Stars and Their Mass Loss Rates

Jiaming Liu, Biwei Jiang, Aigen Li +1

For decades ever since the early detection in the 1990s of the emission spectral features of crystalline silicates in oxygen-rich evolved stars, there is a long-standing debate on…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 11 cited

Implications from the upper limit of radio afterglow emission of FRB 131104/Swift J0644.5-5111

He Gao, Bing Zhang

A -ray transient, Swift J0644.5-5111, has been claimed to be associated with FRB 131104. The -ray energy output is estimated as \,erg at the nomin…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 27 cited

Photon emission by bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering in the interaction of ultraintense laser and plasmas

Feng Wan, Chong Lv, Moran Jia +2

By implementing the bremsstrahlung with Monte Carlo algorithm into the particle-in-cell code, the bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering can be studied simultaneously in c…

hep-ph2016★ 14 cited

Electromagnetic form factors of in the Bethe-Salpeter equation approach

Liang-Liang Liu, Chao Wang, Ying Liu +1

The heavy baryon is regarded as composed of a heavy quark and a scalar diquark which has good spin and isospin quantum numbers. In this picture, we calculate the electromagn…

physics.ins-det2016★ 16 cited

A Gating Grid Driver for Time Projection Chambers

S. Tangwancharoen, W. G. Lynch, J. Barney +9

A simple but novel driver system has been developed to operate the wire gating grid of a Time Projection Chamber (TPC). This system connects the wires of the gating grid to its dri…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 47 cited

Cross-correlating the gamma-ray sky with catalogs of galaxy clusters

Enzo Branchini, Stefano Camera, Alessandro Cuoco +4

We report the detection of a cross-correlation signal between {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope diffuse gamma-ray maps and catalogs of clusters. In our analysis, we considered three…

hep-th2016★ 11 cited

Godel Universe from String Theory

Shou-Long Li, Xing-Hui Feng, Hao Wei +1

Gödel universe is a direct product of a line and a three-dimensional spacetime we call G. In this paper, we show that the Gödel metrics can arise as exact solutions in Einstein…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 19 cited

Spin anisotropy due to spin-orbit coupling in optimally hole-doped BaKFeAs

Yu Song, Haoran Man, Rui Zhang +9

We use polarized inelastic neutron scattering to study the temperature and energy dependence of spin space anisotropies in the optimally hole-doped iron pnictide BaK$_{0.3…

quant-ph2016★ 30 cited

Robust state preparation in quantum simulations of Dirac dynamics

Xue-Ke Song, Fu-Guo Deng, Lucas Lamata +1

A non-relativistic system such as an ultracold trapped ion may perform a quantum simulation of a Dirac equation dynamics under specific conditions. The resulting Hamiltonian and dy…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 7 cited

Evolving Powergrids in Self-Organized Criticality: An analogy with Sandpile and Earthquakes

Ho Fai Po, Chi Ho Yeung, An Zeng +1

The stability of powergrid is crucial since its disruption affects systems ranging from street lightings to hospital life-support systems. Nevertheless, large blackouts are inevita…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 28 cited

Stacking transition in bilayer graphene caused by thermally activated rotation

Mengjian Zhu, Davit Ghazaryan, Seok-Kyun Son +8

Crystallographic alignment between two-dimensional crystals in van der Waals heterostructures brought a number of profound physical phenomena, including observation of Hofstadter b…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

Ages of 70 dwarfs of three populations in the solar neighborhood: considering O and C abundances in stellar models

Z. S. Ge, S. L. Bi, Y. Q. Chen +5

Oxygen and carbon are important elements in stellar populations. Their behavior refers to the formation history of the stellar populations. C and O abundances would also obviously…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 15 cited

Asteroseismic analysis of two alpha-enhanced stars KIC 7976303 and KIC 8694723

Z. S. Ge, S. L. Bi, T. D. Li +5

We intent to use stellar models with and without alpha-enhancement, as well as asteroseismic analysis, to study two alpha-enhanced stars, KIC 7976303 and KIC 8694723. For the alpha…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 19 cited

Majorana dc Josephson current mediated by a quantum dot

Luting Xu, Xin-Qi Li, Qing-Feng Sun

The Josephson supercurrent through the hybrid Majorana--quantum dot--Majorana junction is investigated. We particularly analyze the effect of spin-selective coupling between the Ma…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 146 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Inflation

CORE Collaboration, Fabio Finelli, Martin Bucher +129

We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a m…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 10 cited

Revisiting dark energy models using differential ages of galaxies

Nisha Rani, Deepak Jain, Shobhit Mahajan +2

In this work, we use a test based on the differential ages of galaxies for distinguishing the dark energy models. As proposed by Jimenez and Loeb, relative ages of galaxies can be…

quant-ph2016★ 3 cited

Counting statistics of photon emissions detected in non-Markovian environment

Luting Xu, Xin-Qi Li

In this work we present a large-deviation analysis for the counting statistics of atomic spontaneous emissions continuously detected in finite-bandwidth non-Markovian environment.…

gr-qc2016★ 136 cited

Speed of Gravitational Waves from Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Signals

Xi-Long Fan, Kai Liao, Marek Biesiada +2

We propose a new model-independent measurement strategy for the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GWs) based on strongly lensed GWs and their electromagnetic (EM) counterpa…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 14 cited

Transition from Fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated Outflow in Three-Episode GRB 160625B

B. -B. Zhang, B. Zhang, A. J. Castro-Tirado +51

The ejecta composition is an open question in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) physics. Some GRBs possess a quasi-thermal spectral component in the time-resolved spectral analysis, suggestin…

hep-ph2016★ 113 cited

Power Corrections in the N-jettiness Subtraction Scheme

Radja Boughezal, Xiaohui Liu, Frank Petriello

We discuss the leading-logarithmic power corrections in the -jettiness subtraction scheme for higher-order perturbative QCD calculations. We compute the next-to-leading order po…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 41 cited

Hiding neutrino mass in modified gravity cosmologies

Nicola Bellomo, Emilio Bellini, Bin Hu +3

Cosmological observables show a dependence with the neutrino mass, which is partially degenerate with parameters of extended models of gravity. We study and explore this degeneracy…