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hep-th2016★ 56 cited

How Gaussian can our Universe be?

Giovanni Cabass, Enrico Pajer, Fabian Schmidt

Gravity is a non-linear theory, and hence, barring cancellations, the initial super-horizon perturbations produced by inflation must contain some minimum amount of mode coupling, o…

hep-th2016★ 41 cited

Holographic Thermalization and Generalized Vaidya-AdS Solutions in Massive Gravity

Ya-Peng Hu, Xiao-Xiong Zeng, Hai-Qing Zhang

We investigate the effect of massive graviton on the holographic thermalization process. Before doing this, we first find out the generalized Vaidya-AdS solutions in the de Rham-Ga…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 42 cited

Absorption and scattering by interstellar dust in the silicon K-edge of GX 5-1

S. T. Zeegers, E. Costantini, C. P. de Vries +6

We study the absorption and scattering of X-ray radiation by interstellar dust particles, which allows us to access the physical and chemical properties of dust. The interstellar d…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 20 cited

Compression and reswelling of microgel particles after an osmotic shock

Jelle F. Sleeboom, Panayiotis Voudouris, Melle T. J. J. M. Punter +4

We use dedicated microfluidic devices to expose soft hydrogel particles to a rapid change in the externally applied osmotic pressure and observe a non-monotonic response: After an…

cs.DL2016★ 1 cited

Patent Portfolio Analysis of Cities: Statistics and Maps of Technological Inventiveness

Dieter Franz Kogler, Gaston Heimeriks, Loet Leydesdorff

Cities are engines of the knowledge-based economy, because they are the primary sites of knowledge production activities that subsequently shape the rate and direction of technolog…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 4 cited

Observation of spin-charge separation and boundary bound states via the local density of states

Benedikt Schoenauer, Peter Schmitteckert, Dirk Schuricht

We numerically calculate the local density of states (LDOS) of a one-dimensional Mott insulator with open boundaries, which is modelled microscopically by a (extended) Hubbard chai…

nucl-th2016

Holographic Photon Production and Anisotropic Flow

Ioannis Iatrakis, Elias Kiritsis, Chun Shen +1

The thermal-photon emission from strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature via the bottom-up models in holographic QCD in the deconfined phase is studied. The models ar…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 3 cited

Ultrafast all-optical gated amplifier based on ZnO nanowire lasing

Marijn A. M. Versteegh, Peter J. S. van Capel, Jaap I. Dijkhuis

We present an ultrafast all-optical gated amplifier, or transistor, consisting of a forest of ZnO nanowire lasers. A gate light pulse creates a dense electron-hole plasma and excit…

math.AT2016★ 7 cited

Homotopy theory of unital algebras

Brice Le Grignou

This paper provides an extensive study of the homotopy theory of types of algebras with units, like unital associative algebras or unital commutative algebras for instance. To this…

nucl-ex2016★ 49 cited

Insight into particle production mechanisms via angular correlations of identified particles in pp collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Two-particle angular correlations were measured in pp collisions at TeV for pions, kaons, protons, and lambdas, for all particle/anti-particle combinations in the pa…

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…

nucl-th2016★ 105 cited

Heavy-flavor production and medium properties in high-energy nuclear collisions - What next?

G. Aarts, J. Aichelin, C. Allton +46

Open and hidden heavy-flavor physics in high-energy nuclear collisions are entering a new and exciting stage towards reaching a clearer understanding of the new experimental result…

physics.ins-det2016★ 32 cited

Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector

S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +250

Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursue…

physics.optics2016★ 13 cited

Measurement of the linear thermo-optical coefficient of GaInP using photonic crystal nanocavities

Sergei Sokolov, Jin Lian, Sylvain Combrié +2

GaInP is a promising candidate for thermally tunable nanophotonic devices due to its low thermal conductivity. In this work we study its thermo-optical response.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 55 cited

Kondo blockade due to quantum interference in single-molecule junctions

Andrew K. Mitchell, Kim G. L. Pedersen, Per Hedegaard +1

Molecular electronics offers unique scientific and technological possibilities, resulting from both the nanometre scale of the devices and their reproducible chemical complexity. T…

hep-th2016★ 10 cited

Matrix Quantum Mechanics on

Panagiotis Betzios, Umut Gürsoy, Olga Papadoulaki

We study Matrix Quantum Mechanics on the Euclidean time orbifold . Upon Wick rotation to Lorentzian time and taking the double-scaling limit this theory provides…

math.AT2016★ 13 cited

The abstract cotangent complex and Quillen cohomology of enriched categories

Yonatan Harpaz, Joost Nuiten, Matan Prasma

In his fundamental work, Quillen developed the theory of the cotangent complex as a universal abelian derived invariant, and used it to define and study a canonical form of cohomol…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 11 cited

Two is better than one: joint statistics of density and velocity in concentric spheres as a cosmological probe

Cora Uhlemann, Sandrine Codis, Oliver Hahn +2

The analytical formalism to obtain the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of spherically-averaged cosmic densities and velocity divergences in the mildly non-linear regime i…

cs.PL2016★ 2 cited

Proceedings of the 4th and 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education

Johan Jeuring, Jay McCarthy

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Workshops on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2015 and TFPIE 2016, which were held on…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 9 cited

A moving mesh finite difference method for non-monotone solutions of non-equilibrium equations in porous media

Hong Zhang, Paul Andries Zegeling

An adaptive moving mesh finite difference method is presented to solve two types of equations with dynamic capillary pressure term in porous media. One is the non-equilibrium Richa…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548

D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…

gr-qc2016★ 2 cited

Planck scale operators, inflation and fine tuning

Anja Marunovic, Tomislav Prokopec

Ultraviolet completion of the standard model plus gravity at and beyond the Planck scale is a daunting problem to which no generally accepted solution exists. Principal obstacles i…

hep-th2016★ 59 cited

Inverse Magnetic Catalysis from improved Holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit

Umut Gürsoy, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Järvinen +1

We study the dependence of the chiral condensate on external magnetic field in the context of holographic QCD at large number of flavors. We consider a holographic QCD model where…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 13 cited

High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy: the coming-of-age

J. S. Kaastra

Since the launch of Chandra and XMM-Newton, high-resolution X-ray spectra of cosmic sources of all kinds have become available. These spectra have resulted in major scientific brea…