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Galaxy and Mass Assembly: A Comparison between Galaxy–Galaxy Lens Searches in KiDS/GAMA (2020)
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Knabel, S., Steele, R. L., Holwerda, B. W., Bridge, J. S., Jacques, A., Hopkins, A. M., Bamford, S. P., Brown, M. J. I., Brough, S., Kelvin, L., Bilicki, M., & Kielkopf, J. (2020). Galaxy and Mass Assembly: A Comparison between Galaxy–Galaxy Lens Searches in KiDS/GAMA. Astronomical Journal, 160(5), Article 223. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abb612

Strong gravitational lenses are a rare and instructive type of astronomical object. Identification has long relied on serendipity, but different strategies—such as mixed spectroscopy of multiple galaxies along the line of sight, machine-learning algo... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly: A Comparison between Galaxy–Galaxy Lens Searches in KiDS/GAMA.

Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate (2020)
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Green, A. M., & Kavanagh, B. J. (2021). Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 48(4), Article 043001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/abc534

The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of tens of Solar mass black hole binaries has led to a surge in interest in Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate. We aim to provide a (relatively) concise overview of the status of... Read More about Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate.

Magnon polaron formed by selectively coupled coherent magnon and phonon modes of a surface patterned ferromagnet (2020)
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Godejohann, F., Scherbakov, A., Kukhtaruk, S., Poddubny, A., Yaremkevich, D., Wang, M., Nadzeyka, A., Yakovlev, D., Rushforth, A., Akimov, A., & Bayer, M. (2020). Magnon polaron formed by selectively coupled coherent magnon and phonon modes of a surface patterned ferromagnet. Physical Review B, 102(14), Article 144438. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.144438

Strong coupling between two quanta of different excitations leads to the formation of a hybridized state which paves a way for exploiting new degrees of freedom to control phenomena with high efficiency and precision. A magnon polaron is the hybridiz... Read More about Magnon polaron formed by selectively coupled coherent magnon and phonon modes of a surface patterned ferromagnet.

Inter-Flake Quantum Transport of Electrons and Holes in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Devices (2020)
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Wang, F., Gosling, J. H., Rance, G. A., Trindade, G. F., Makarovsky, O., Cottam, N. D., Kudrynskyi, Z., Balanov, A. G., Greenaway, M. T., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R., Tuck, C., Fromhold, T. M., & Turyanska, L. (2021). Inter-Flake Quantum Transport of Electrons and Holes in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Devices. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(5), Article 2007478. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202007478

© 2020 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH 2D materials have unique structural and electronic properties with potential for transformative device applications. However, such devices are usually bespoke structures ma... Read More about Inter-Flake Quantum Transport of Electrons and Holes in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Devices.

Interaction signatures and non-Gaussian photon states from a strongly driven atomic ensemble coupled to a nanophotonic waveguide (2020)
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Olmos, B., Buonaiuto, G., Schneeweiss, P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Interaction signatures and non-Gaussian photon states from a strongly driven atomic ensemble coupled to a nanophotonic waveguide. Physical Review A, 102(4), Article 043711. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.102.043711

We study theoretically a laser-driven one-dimensional chain of atoms interfaced with the guided optical modes of a nanophotonic waveguide. The period of the chain and the orientation of the laser field can be chosen such that emission occurs predomin... Read More about Interaction signatures and non-Gaussian photon states from a strongly driven atomic ensemble coupled to a nanophotonic waveguide.

Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms (2020)
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Guo, C.-Y., Yan, L.-L., Zhang, S., Su, S.-L., & Li, W. (2020). Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms. Physical Review A, 102(4), Article 042607. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.102.042607

We propose a nonadiabatic non-Abelian geometric quantum operation scheme to realize universal quantum computation with mesoscopic Rydberg atoms. A single control atom entangles a mesoscopic ensemble of target atoms through long-range interactions bet... Read More about Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms.

p-Type Transparent Cu2S Thin Film Grown By Thermionic Vacuum Arc for Optoelectronic Applications (2020)
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Kaan Kaplan, H., Kemal Akay, S., & Henini, M. (2021). p-Type Transparent Cu2S Thin Film Grown By Thermionic Vacuum Arc for Optoelectronic Applications. Materials Science and Engineering: B, 263, Article 114872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2020.114872

In this study, we have used a new single-step method for producing Cu2S thin films, which have good transparency in the visible range and high hole conductivity properties suitable for a wide range of optoelectronic device applications. Cu2S thin fil... Read More about p-Type Transparent Cu2S Thin Film Grown By Thermionic Vacuum Arc for Optoelectronic Applications.

Synthesis and characterization of WS2/graphene/SiC van der Waals heterostructures via WO3−x thin film sulfurization (2020)
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Bradford, J., Shafiei, M., MacLeod, J., & Motta, N. (2020). Synthesis and characterization of WS2/graphene/SiC van der Waals heterostructures via WO3−x thin film sulfurization. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 17334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74024-w

Van der Waals heterostructures of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and graphene have attracted keen scientific interest due to the complementary properties of the materials, which have wide reaching technological applications. Direct... Read More about Synthesis and characterization of WS2/graphene/SiC van der Waals heterostructures via WO3−x thin film sulfurization.

Disorder-free localization in a simple U(1) lattice gauge theory (2020)
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Papaefstathiou, I., Smith, A., & Knolle, J. (2020). Disorder-free localization in a simple U(1) lattice gauge theory. Physical Review B, 102(16), Article 165132. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.165132

Localization due to the presence of disorder has proven crucial for our current understanding of relaxation in isolated quantum systems. The many-body localized phase constitutes a robust alternative to the thermalization of complex interacting syste... Read More about Disorder-free localization in a simple U(1) lattice gauge theory.

Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus (2020)
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Tierney, T. M., Levy, A., Barry, D. N., Meyer, S. S., Shigihara, Y., Everatt, M., Mellor, S., Lopez, J. D., Bestmann, S., Holmes, N., Roberts, G., Hill, R. M., Boto, E., Leggett, J., Shah, V., Brookes, M. J., Bowtell, R., Maguire, E. A., & Barnes, G. R. (2021). Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus. NeuroImage, 225, Article 117443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117443

Traditional magnetoencephalographic (MEG) brain imaging scanners consist of a rigid sensor array surrounding the head; this means that they are maximally sensitive to superficial brain structures. New technology based on optical pumping means that we... Read More about Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus.