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Fast, large-volume, GPU-enabled simulations for the Lyα forest: power spectrum forecasts for baryon acoustic oscillation experiments (2011)
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(2011). Fast, large-volume, GPU-enabled simulations for the Lyα forest: power spectrum forecasts for baryon acoustic oscillation experiments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418(3), 1980-1993. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19617.x

High-redshift measurements of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale from large Lyα forest surveys represent the next frontier of dark energy studies. As part of this effort, efficient simulations of the BAO signature from the Lyα forest will... Read More about Fast, large-volume, GPU-enabled simulations for the Lyα forest: power spectrum forecasts for baryon acoustic oscillation experiments.

Amplifying single impurities immersed in a gas of ultracold atoms (2011)
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Olmos, B., Li, W., Hofferberth, S., & Lesanovsky, I. (2011). Amplifying single impurities immersed in a gas of ultracold atoms. Physical Review A, 84(4), Article 041607(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.041607

We present a method for amplifying a single or scattered impurities immersed in a background gas of ultracold atoms so that they can be optically imaged and spatially resolved. Our approach relies on a Raman transfer between two stable atomic hyperfi... Read More about Amplifying single impurities immersed in a gas of ultracold atoms.

Reducing heterotic M-theory to five dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary (2011)
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Moss, I. G., Omotani, J. T., & Saffin, P. M. (2011). Reducing heterotic M-theory to five dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(10), https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10%282011%29088

This paper constructs the reduction of heterotic M-theory in eleven dimensions to a supergravity model on a manifold with boundary in five dimensions using a Calabi-Yau three-fold. New results are presented for the boundary terms in the action and fo... Read More about Reducing heterotic M-theory to five dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary.

Colliding branes and big crunches (2011)
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Omotani, J., Saffin, P. M., & Louko, J. (2011). Colliding branes and big crunches. Physical Review D, 84(6), Article 063526. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.063526

We examine the global structure of colliding domain walls in AdS spacetime and come to the conclusion that singularities forming from such collisions are of the big-crunch type rather than that of a black brane.

How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641? (2011)
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S. Bolton, J., G. Haehnelt, M., J. Warren, S., C. Hewett, P., J. Mortlock, D., P. Venemans, B., …Simpson, C. (2011). How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 416(1), L70–L74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01100.x

The quasar ULAS J1120+0641 at redshift z=7.085 has a highly ionised near zone which is smaller than those around quasars of similar luminosity at z~6. The spectrum also exhibits evidence for a damping wing extending redward of the systemic Lya redshi... Read More about How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641?.

Real-time fermions for baryogenesis simulations (2011)
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Saffin, P. M., & Tranberg, A. (2011). Real-time fermions for baryogenesis simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07%282011%29066

We study how to numerically simulate quantum fermions out of thermal equilibrium, in the context of electroweak baryogenesis. We find that by combining the lattice implementation of Aarts and Smit [1] with the "low cost" fermions of Borsanyi and Hind... Read More about Real-time fermions for baryogenesis simulations.

The impact of spatial fluctuations in the ultra-violet background on intergalactic carbon and silicon (2011)
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S. Bolton, J., & Viel, M. (2011). The impact of spatial fluctuations in the ultra-violet background on intergalactic carbon and silicon. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 414(1), 241–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18384.x

Spatial inhomogeneities in the spectral shape of the ultra-violet background (UVB) at the tail-end of HeII reionisation are thought to be the primary cause of the large fluctuations observed in the HeII to HI Ly-a forest optical depth ratio, tau_HeII... Read More about The impact of spatial fluctuations in the ultra-violet background on intergalactic carbon and silicon.

Measurements of the ultraviolet background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect (2011)
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(2011). Measurements of the ultraviolet background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 412(4), 2543-2562. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18072.x

We present measurements of the ionizing ultraviolet background (UVB) at z∼ 5–6 using the quasar proximity effect. The 15 quasars in our sample cover the range 4.6 < zq < 6.4, enabling the first proximity-effect measurements of the UVB at z > 5. The m... Read More about Measurements of the ultraviolet background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect.

Multi-Galileons, solitons, and Derrick’s theorem (2011)
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Padilla, A., Saffin, P. M., & Zhou, S. (2011). Multi-Galileons, solitons, and Derrick’s theorem. Physical Review D, 83(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.045009

The field theory Galilean symmetry, which was introduced in the context of modified gravity, gives a neat way to construct Lorentz-covariant theories of a scalar field, such that the equations of motion contain at most second-order derivatives. Here... Read More about Multi-Galileons, solitons, and Derrick’s theorem.