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Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence (2015)
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Mougin, O., Abdel-Fahim, R., Dineen, R., Pitiot, A., Evangelou, N., & Gowland, P. (2016). Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 76(5), 1512-1516. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26061

Purpose To present an improved three-dimensional (3D) interleaved phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) sequence including a concomitantly acquired new contrast, null point imaging (NPI), to help detect and classify abnormalities in cortical g... Read More about Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence.

Scaling dimensions of higher-charge monopoles at deconfined critical points (2015)
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Sreejith, G., & Powell, S. (2015). Scaling dimensions of higher-charge monopoles at deconfined critical points. Physical Review B, 92(18), Article 184413. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.184413

The classical cubic dimer model has a columnar ordering transition that is continuous and described by a critical Anderson–Higgs theory containing an SU(2)-symmetric complex field minimally coupled to a noncompact U(1) gauge theory. Defects in the di... Read More about Scaling dimensions of higher-charge monopoles at deconfined critical points.

Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions (2015)
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Lan, Z., Minář, J., Levi, E., Li, W., & Lesanovsky, I. (2015). Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions. Physical Review Letters, 115, Article 203001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.203001

The devil's staircase is a fractal structure that characterizes the ground state of one-dimensional classical lattice gases with long-range repulsive convex interactions. Its plateaus mark regions of stability for specific filling fractions which are... Read More about Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions.

Mechanism of periodic height variations along self-aligned VLS-grown planar nanostructures (2015)
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Steele, J., Horvat, J., Lewis, R., Henini, M., Fan, D., Mazur, Y., …Salamo, G. (in press). Mechanism of periodic height variations along self-aligned VLS-grown planar nanostructures. Nanoscale, 7(48), https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr06676j

In this study we report in-plane nanotracks produced by molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) exhibiting lateral self-assembly and unusual periodic and out-of-phase height variations across their growth axes. The nanotracks are synthesized using bismuth segre... Read More about Mechanism of periodic height variations along self-aligned VLS-grown planar nanostructures.

Toward Mid-Infrared, Subdiffraction, Spectral-Mapping of Human Cells and Tissue: SNIM (Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy) Tip Fabrication (2015)
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Neate, N., Fay, M., Parmenter, C., Athanasiou, G. S., Ernst, J., Furniss, D., …Seddon, A. B. (2016). Toward Mid-Infrared, Subdiffraction, Spectral-Mapping of Human Cells and Tissue: SNIM (Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy) Tip Fabrication. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(4), 1212-1219. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2015.2496786

Scanning near-field infrared microscopy (SNIM) potentially enables subdiffraction, broadband mid-infrared (MIR:3–25-μm wavelength range) spectral-mapping of human cells and tissue for real-time molecular sensing, with prospective use in disease diagn... Read More about Toward Mid-Infrared, Subdiffraction, Spectral-Mapping of Human Cells and Tissue: SNIM (Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy) Tip Fabrication.

Evolution of the brightest cluster galaxies: the influence of morphology, stellar mass and environment (2015)
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Zhao, D., Aragón-Salamanca, A., & Conselice, C. J. (2015). Evolution of the brightest cluster galaxies: the influence of morphology, stellar mass and environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1940

Using a sample of 425 nearby brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) from von der Linden et al., we study the relationship between their internal properties (stellar masses, structural parameters and morphologies) and their environment. More massive BCGs t... Read More about Evolution of the brightest cluster galaxies: the influence of morphology, stellar mass and environment.

Linking the structural properties of galaxies and their star formation histories with STAGES (2015)
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Hoyos, C., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Gray, M. E., Wolf, C., Maltby, D. T., Bell, E. F., …Jogee, S. (2016). Linking the structural properties of galaxies and their star formation histories with STAGES. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(1), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2321

We study the links between star formation history and structure for a large mass-selected galaxy sample at 0.05 ≤ zphot ≤ 0.30. The galaxies inhabit a very broad range of environments, from cluster cores to the field. Using Hubble Space Telescope (HS... Read More about Linking the structural properties of galaxies and their star formation histories with STAGES.

Coherence in a cold atom photon transistor (2015)
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Li, W., & Lesanovsky, I. (2015). Coherence in a cold atom photon transistor. Physical Review A, 92(4), Article 043828. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.043828

Recent experiments have realized an all-optical photon transistor using a cold atomic gas. This approach relies on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in conjunction with the strong interaction among atoms excited to high-lying Rydberg sta... Read More about Coherence in a cold atom photon transistor.

Resonant tunnelling between the chiral Landau states of twisted graphene lattices (2015)
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Greenaway, M., Vdovin, E. E., Mishchenko, A., Makarovsky, O., Patanè, A., Wallbank, J., …Eaves, L. (2015). Resonant tunnelling between the chiral Landau states of twisted graphene lattices. Nature Physics, 11(12), 1057-1062. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3507

A class of multilayered functional materials has recently emerged in which the component atomic layers are held together by weak van der Waals forces that preserve the structural integrity and physical properties of each layer. An exemplar of such a... Read More about Resonant tunnelling between the chiral Landau states of twisted graphene lattices.

Major mergers going Notts: challenges for modern halo finders (2015)
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Behroozi, P., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Elahi, P., Han, J., Lux, H., …Srisawat, C. (2015). Major mergers going Notts: challenges for modern halo finders. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2046

Merging haloes with similar masses (i.e. major mergers) pose significant challenges for halo finders. We compare five halo-finding algorithms’ (ahf, hbt, rockstar, subfind, and velociraptor) recovery of halo properties for both isolated and cosmologi... Read More about Major mergers going Notts: challenges for modern halo finders.

Sagnac Interferometry with a Single Atomic Clock (2015)
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Stevenson, R., Hush, M. R., Bishop, T., Lesanovsky, I., & Fernholz, T. (2015). Sagnac Interferometry with a Single Atomic Clock. Physical Review Letters, 115(16), Article 163001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.163001

© 2015 American Physical Society. © 2015 American Physical Society. The Sagnac effect enables interferometric measurements of rotation with high precision. Using matter waves instead of light promises resolution enhancement by orders of magnitude tha... Read More about Sagnac Interferometry with a Single Atomic Clock.

Monte Carlo study on anomalous carrier diffusion in inhomogeneous semiconductors (2015)
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Mori, N., Hill, R., Patanè, A., & Eaves, L. (2015). Monte Carlo study on anomalous carrier diffusion in inhomogeneous semiconductors. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 647, Article 012059. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/647/1/012059

We perform ensemble Monte Carlo simulations of electron diffusion in high mobility inhomogeneous InAs layers. Electrons move ballistically for short times while moving diffusively for sufficiently long times. We find that electrons show anomalous dif... Read More about Monte Carlo study on anomalous carrier diffusion in inhomogeneous semiconductors.

Measuring electrophysiological connectivity by power envelope correlation: a technical review on MEG methods (2015)
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O'Neill, G. C., Barratt, E. L., Hunt, B. A. E., Tewarie, P. K., & Brookes, M. J. (2015). Measuring electrophysiological connectivity by power envelope correlation: a technical review on MEG methods. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60(21), Article R271-R295. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/60/21/R271

The human brain can be divided into multiple areas, each responsible for different aspects of behaviour. Healthy brain function relies upon efficient connectivity between these areas and, in recent years, neuroimaging has been revolutionised by an ab... Read More about Measuring electrophysiological connectivity by power envelope correlation: a technical review on MEG methods.

Electronic band structure of highly mismatched GaN1?xSbx alloys in a broad composition range (2015)
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Segercrantz, N., Yu, K., Ting, M., Sarney, W., Svensson, S., Novikov, S., …Walukiewicz, W. (in press). Electronic band structure of highly mismatched GaN1−xSbx alloys in a broad composition range. Applied Physics Letters, 107(14), Article 142104. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4932592

In this letter, we study the optical properties of GaN1?xSbx thin films. Films with an Sb fraction up to 42% were synthesized by alternating GaN-GaSb layers at a constant temperature of 325 ?C. The measured optical absorption data of the films are in... Read More about Electronic band structure of highly mismatched GaN1?xSbx alloys in a broad composition range.

Nucleation and Early Stages of Layer-by-Layer Growth of Metal Organic Frameworks on Surfaces (2015)
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Summerfield, A., Cebula, I., Schröder, M., & Beton, P. H. (2015). Nucleation and Early Stages of Layer-by-Layer Growth of Metal Organic Frameworks on Surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(41), 23544-23551. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07133

High resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used to resolve the evolution of crystallites of a metal organic framework (HKUST-1) grown on Au(111) using a liquid-phase layer-by-layer methodology. The nucleation and faceting of individual crystall... Read More about Nucleation and Early Stages of Layer-by-Layer Growth of Metal Organic Frameworks on Surfaces.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure versus redshift and luminosity (2015)
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Kennedy, R., Bamford, S. P., Baldry, I., Häußler, B., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., …Vulcani, B. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure versus redshift and luminosity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2032

We study how the sizes and radial profiles of galaxies vary with wavelength, by fitting Sersic functions simultaneously to imaging in nine optical and near-infrared bands. To quantify the wavelength dependence of effective radius we use the ratio, R,... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure versus redshift and luminosity.

Abnormal visuomotor processing in schizophrenia (2015)
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Robson, S. E., Brookes, M. J., Hall, E. L., Palaniyappan, L., Kumar, J., Skelton, M., …Morris, P. G. (2016). Abnormal visuomotor processing in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 12, 869-878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2015.08.005

Subtle disturbances of visual and motor function are known features of schizophrenia and can greatly impact quality of life; however, few studies investigate these abnormalities using simple visuomotor stimuli. In healthy people, electrophysiological... Read More about Abnormal visuomotor processing in schizophrenia.

Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study (2015)
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Jung, J., Bungert, A., Bowtell, R., & Jackson, S. R. (2016). Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study. Brain Stimulation, 9(1), 58-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2015.09.008

Background A common control condition for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies is to apply stimulation at the vertex. An assumption of vertex stimulation is that it has relatively little influence over on-going brain processes involved in... Read More about Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study.

Measuring the mechanical properties of molecular conformers (2015)
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Jarvis, S. P., Taylor, S., Baran, J., Champness, N. R., Larsson, J., & Moriarty, P. (2015). Measuring the mechanical properties of molecular conformers. Nature Communications, 6(8338), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9338

Scanning probe-actuated single molecule manipulation has proven to be an exceptionally powerful tool for the systematic atomic-scale interrogation of molecular adsorbates. To date, however, the extent to which molecular conformation affects the force... Read More about Measuring the mechanical properties of molecular conformers.