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Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films (2016)
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Kats, V., Linnik, T., Salasyuk, A., Rushforth, A., Wang, M., Wadley, P., …Scherbakov, A. (2016). Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films. Physical Review B, 93(21), Article 214422. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.214422

Ultrafast optical excitation of a metal ferromagnetic film results in a modification of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy and induces the magnetization precession. We consider two main contributions to these processes: an effect of noncoherent phonon... Read More about Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films.

Absorbing state phase transition with competing quantum and classical fluctuations (2016)
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Marcuzzi, M., Buchhold, M., Diehl, S., & Lesanovsky, I. (2016). Absorbing state phase transition with competing quantum and classical fluctuations. Physical Review Letters, 116(24), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.245701

Stochastic processes with absorbing states feature examples of non-equilibrium universal phenomena. While the classical regime has been thoroughly investigated in the past, relatively little is known about the behavior of these non-equilibrium system... Read More about Absorbing state phase transition with competing quantum and classical fluctuations.

ALMA finds dew drops in the dusty spider’s web (2016)
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Gullberg, B., Lehnert, M. D., De Breuck, C., Branchu, S., Dannerbauer, H., Drouart, G., …Vernet, J. (2016). ALMA finds dew drops in the dusty spider’s web. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 591, Article A73. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527647

We present 0.̋5 resolution ALMA detections of the observed 246 GHz continuum, [CI] 3P2→3P1 fine structure line ([CI]2–1), CO(7–6), and H2O lines in the z = 2.161 radio galaxy MRC1138-262, the so-called Spiderweb galaxy. We detect strong [CI]2–1 emiss... Read More about ALMA finds dew drops in the dusty spider’s web.

Towards a Theory of Metastability in Open Quantum Dynamics (2016)
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Macieszczak, K., Guţă, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Towards a Theory of Metastability in Open Quantum Dynamics. Physical Review Letters, 116(24), Article 240404. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.240404

© 2016 American Physical Society. By generalizing concepts from classical stochastic dynamics, we establish the basis for a theory of metastability in Markovian open quantum systems. Partial relaxation into long-lived metastable states - distinct fro... Read More about Towards a Theory of Metastability in Open Quantum Dynamics.

Testing the effect of galactic feedback on the IGM at z∼ 6 with metal-line absorbers (2016)
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Keating, L. C., Puchwein, E., Haehnelt, M. G., Bird, S., & Bolton, J. S. (2016). Testing the effect of galactic feedback on the IGM at z∼ 6 with metal-line absorbers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), 606-626. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1306

We present models of low- and high-ionization metal-line absorbers (O i, C ii, C iv and Mg ii) during the end of the reionization epoch, at z ∼ 6. Using four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with different feedback schemes (including the Illus... Read More about Testing the effect of galactic feedback on the IGM at z∼ 6 with metal-line absorbers.

EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK (2016)
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Jan-Peter, M., Yu, T., Panagiotis, S., Klaus, G., Konrad, W., Lida, F., …Bamford, S. (2016). EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B4, 453-458. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b4-453-2016

Understanding planetary atmosphere-surface exchange and extra-terrestrial-surface formation processes within our Solar System is one of the fundamental goals of planetary science research. There has been a revolution in planetary surface observations... Read More about EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK.

DMD-based software-configurable spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy for spectral depth-profiling of optically turbid samples (2016)
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Liao, Z., Sinjab, F., Gibson, G., Padgett, M., & Notingher, I. (2016). DMD-based software-configurable spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy for spectral depth-profiling of optically turbid samples. Optics Express, 24(12), 12701-12712. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.012701

Spectral depth-profiling of optically turbid samples is of high interest to a broad range of applications. We present a method for measuring spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) over a range of length scales by incorporating a digital micro-mir... Read More about DMD-based software-configurable spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy for spectral depth-profiling of optically turbid samples.

Lepton asymmetry from mixing and oscillations (2016)
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Kartavtsev, A., Millington, P., & Vogel, H. (2016). Lepton asymmetry from mixing and oscillations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(6), Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06%282016%29066

We show how the two physically-distinct sources of CP-asymmetry relevant to scenarios of leptogenesis: (i) resonant mixing and (ii) oscillations between different flavours can be unambiguously identified within the Kadanoff-Baym formalism. These cont... Read More about Lepton asymmetry from mixing and oscillations.

The UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology (Keynote Paper) (2016)
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Bongs, K., Boyer, V., Cruise, M., Freise, A., Holynski, M., Hughes, J., …John, P. (2016). The UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology (Keynote Paper). Proceedings of SPIE, 9900, Article 990009. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232143

The UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology is one of four flagship initiatives in the UK National of Quantum Technology Program. As part of a 20-year vision it translates laboratory demonstrations to deployable practical devices,... Read More about The UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology (Keynote Paper).

Multiple-stable anisotropic magnetoresistance memory in antiferromagnetic MnTe (2016)
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Kriegner, D., Výborný, K., Olejnik, K., Reichlová, H., Novák, V., Marti, X., …Jungwirth, T. (in press). Multiple-stable anisotropic magnetoresistance memory in antiferromagnetic MnTe. Nature Communications, 7(11623), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11623

Commercial magnetic memories rely on the bistability of ordered spins in ferromagnetic materials. Recently, experimental bistable memories have been realized using fully compensated antiferromagnetic metals. Here we demonstrate a multiple-stable memo... Read More about Multiple-stable anisotropic magnetoresistance memory in antiferromagnetic MnTe.

Robustness of many-body localization in the presence of dissipation (2016)
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Levi, E., Heyl, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Robustness of many-body localization in the presence of dissipation. Physical Review Letters, 116, Article 237203. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.237203

Many-body localization (MBL) has emerged as a novel paradigm for robust ergodicity breaking in closed quantum many-body systems. However, it is not yet clear to which extent MBL survives in the presence of dissipative processes induced by the couplin... Read More about Robustness of many-body localization in the presence of dissipation.

HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster (2016)
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Fabian, A., Walker, S., Russell, H., Pinto, C., Canning, R., Salome, P., …Reynolds, C. (in press). HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1350

Narrow-band HST imaging has resolved the detailed internal structure of the 10 kpc diameter H ?+[N II] emission line nebulosity in NGC4696, the central galaxy in the nearby Centaurus cluster, showing that the dusty, molecular, filaments have a width... Read More about HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster.

Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity of ?-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport (2016)
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Balakrishnan, N., Staddon, C. R., Smith, E. F., Stec, J., Gay, D., Mudd, G. W., …Beton, P. H. (in press). Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity of β-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport. 2D Materials, 3(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/3/2/025030

We demonstrate that β-In2Se3 layers with thickness ranging from 2.8 – 100 nm can be grown on SiO2/Si, mica and graphite using a physical vapour transport method. The β-In2Se3 layers are chemically stable at room temperature and exhibit a blue-shift o... Read More about Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity of ?-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport.

Nanomechanical probing of the layer/substrate interface of an exfoliated InSe sheet on sapphire (2016)
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Beardsley, R., Akimov, A. V., Greener, J. D., Mudd, G. W., Sandeep, S., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., …Kent, A. J. (2016). Nanomechanical probing of the layer/substrate interface of an exfoliated InSe sheet on sapphire. Scientific Reports, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26970

Van der Waals (vdW) layered crystals and heterostructures have attracted substantial interest for potential applications in a wide range of emerging technologies. An important, but often overlooked, consideration in the development of implementable d... Read More about Nanomechanical probing of the layer/substrate interface of an exfoliated InSe sheet on sapphire.

How reliable are MEG resting-state connectivity metrics? (2016)
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Colclough, G., Woolrich, M., Tewarie, P., Brookes, M., Quinn, A., & Smith, S. (2016). How reliable are MEG resting-state connectivity metrics?. NeuroImage, 138, 284-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.070

MEG offers dynamic and spectral resolution for resting-state connectivity which is unavailable in fMRI. However, there are a wide range of available network estimation methods for MEG, and little in the way of existing guidance on which ones to emplo... Read More about How reliable are MEG resting-state connectivity metrics?.

CMB constraints on cosmic strings and superstrings (2016)
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Charnock, T., Avgoustidis, A., Copeland, E. J., & Moss, A. (2016). CMB constraints on cosmic strings and superstrings. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(12), Article 123503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.123503

We present the first complete MCMC analysis of cosmological models with evolving cosmic (super)string networks, using the Unconnected Segment Model in the unequal-time correlator formalism. For ordinary cosmic string networks, we derive joint constra... Read More about CMB constraints on cosmic strings and superstrings.

The evolution of galaxies at constant number density: a less biased view of star formation, quenching, and structural formation (2016)
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Ownsworth, J. R., Conselice, C. J., Mundy, C. J., Mortlock, A., Hartley, W. G., Duncan, K., & Almaini, O. (2016). The evolution of galaxies at constant number density: a less biased view of star formation, quenching, and structural formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1207

Due to significant galaxy contamination and impurity in stellar mass selected samples (up to 95 per cent from z = 0–3), we examine the star formation history, quenching time-scales, and structural evolution of galaxies using a constant number density... Read More about The evolution of galaxies at constant number density: a less biased view of star formation, quenching, and structural formation.

Non-equilibrium dynamics of non-linear Jaynes-Cummings model in cavity arrays (2016)
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Minář, J., Söyler, Ş. G., & Lesanovsky, I. (2016). Non-equilibrium dynamics of non-linear Jaynes-Cummings model in cavity arrays. New Journal of Physics, 18(5), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/053035

We analyze in detail an open cavity array using mean-field description, where each cavity field is coupled to a number of three-level atoms. Such system is highly tunable and can be described by a Jaynes-Cummings like Hamiltonian with additional non-... Read More about Non-equilibrium dynamics of non-linear Jaynes-Cummings model in cavity arrays.

Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition (2016)
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Hickey, J. M., Genway, S., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/05/054047

We study a quantum spin system—adapted from a facilitated spin model for classical glasses—with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. F... Read More about Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): understanding the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure with bulge-disc decompositions (2016)
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Kennedy, R., Bamford, S. P., Häußler, B., Baldry, I., Bremer, M., Brough, S., …Vulcani, B. (2016). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): understanding the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure with bulge-disc decompositions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3458-3471. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1176

With a large sample of bright, low-redshift galaxies with optical–near-IR imaging from the GAMA survey we use bulge-disc decompositions to understand the wavelength-dependent behaviour of single-Sersic structural measurements. We denote the variation... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): understanding the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure with bulge-disc decompositions.