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Non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and quantum state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms (2017)
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Ostmann, M., Minář, J., Marcuzzi, M., Levi, E., & Lesanovsky, I. (2017). Non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and quantum state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms. New Journal of Physics, 19(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa983e

Motivated by recent progress in the experimental manipulation of cold atoms in optical lattices, we study three different protocols for non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms. The protocols we discuss a... Read More about Non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and quantum state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms.

An automated method to detect and quantify fungiform papillae in the human tongue: Validation and relationship to phenotypical differences in taste perception (2017)
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Eldeghaidy, S., Thomas, D., Skinner, M., Ford, R., Giesbrecht, T., Thomas, A., …Francis, S. (2018). An automated method to detect and quantify fungiform papillae in the human tongue: Validation and relationship to phenotypical differences in taste perception. Physiology and Behavior, 184, 226-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.12.003

Determination of the number of fungiform papillae (FP) on the human tongue is an important measure that has frequently been associated with individual differences in oral perception, including taste sensitivity. At present, there is no standardised m... Read More about An automated method to detect and quantify fungiform papillae in the human tongue: Validation and relationship to phenotypical differences in taste perception.

SDSS-IV MaNGA-resolved star formation and molecular gas properties of green valley galaxies: a first look with ALMA and MaNGA (2017)
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Lin, L., Belfiore, F., Pan, H., Bothwell, M. S., Hsieh, P., Huang, S., …Thomas, D. (2017). SDSS-IV MaNGA-resolved star formation and molecular gas properties of green valley galaxies: a first look with ALMA and MaNGA. Astrophysical Journal, 851(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa96ae

We study the role of cold gas in quenching star formation in the green valley by analyzing ALMA 12CO (1–0) observations of three galaxies with resolved optical spectroscopy from the MaNGA survey. We present resolution-matched maps of the star formati... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA-resolved star formation and molecular gas properties of green valley galaxies: a first look with ALMA and MaNGA.

Determining the halo mass scale where galaxies lose their gas (2017)
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Rudnick, G., Jablonka, P., Moustakas, J., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Zaritsky, D., Jaffe, Y. L., …Poggianti, B. (2017). Determining the halo mass scale where galaxies lose their gas. Astrophysical Journal, 850(2), Article 181. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa866c

A major question in galaxy formation is how the gas supply that fuels activity in galaxies is modulated by their environment. We use spectroscopy of a set of well characterized clusters and groups at $0.45$\AA\ is $f_{[OII]}=0.08^{+0.03}_{-0.02}$ and... Read More about Determining the halo mass scale where galaxies lose their gas.

Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates (2017)
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Howl, R., Sabín, C., Hackermüller, L., & Fuentes, I. (2017). Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa9622

We apply modern techniques from quantum optics and quantum information science to Bose–Einstein condensates(BECs)in order to study, for the first time, the quantum decoherence of phonons of isolated BECs. In the last few years, major advances in the... Read More about Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates.

Black hole horizons at the extremal limit in Lorentz-violating gravity (2017)
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Franchini, N., Saravani, M., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2017). Black hole horizons at the extremal limit in Lorentz-violating gravity. Physical Review D, 96(10), Article 104044. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.104044

Lorentz-violating gravity theories with a preferred foliation can have instantaneous propagation. Nonetheless, it has been shown that black holes can still exist in such theories and the relevant notion of an event horizon has been dubbed “universal... Read More about Black hole horizons at the extremal limit in Lorentz-violating gravity.

Semi-analytic calculation of cosmic microwave background anisotropies from wiggly and superconducting cosmic strings (2017)
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Rybak, I. Y., Avgoustidis, A., & Martins, C. (2017). Semi-analytic calculation of cosmic microwave background anisotropies from wiggly and superconducting cosmic strings. Physical Review D, 96(10), Article 103535. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103535

We study how the presence of world-sheet currents affects the evolution of cosmic string networks, and their impact on predictions for the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies generated by these networks. We provide a general description of... Read More about Semi-analytic calculation of cosmic microwave background anisotropies from wiggly and superconducting cosmic strings.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: the G02 field, Herschel–ATLAS target selection and data release 3 (2017)
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Baldry, I., Liske, J., Brown, M., Robotham, A., Driver, S., Dunne, L., …Wilkins, S. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: the G02 field, Herschel–ATLAS target selection and data release 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3042

We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multiwavelength photometric survey in three equatorial regions each of 60.0 deg2 (G09, G12, and G15), and two southern reg... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: the G02 field, Herschel–ATLAS target selection and data release 3.

Visualizing the interaction of Acanthamoeba castellanii with human retinal epithelial cells by spontaneous Raman and CARS imaging (2017)
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Naemat, A., Sinjab, F., McDonald, A., Downes, A., Elfick, A., Elsheikha, H. M., & Notingher, I. (2018). Visualizing the interaction of Acanthamoeba castellanii with human retinal epithelial cells by spontaneous Raman and CARS imaging. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 49(3), 412-423. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.5296

Improved understanding of the mechanism of nutrient’s uptake can enable targeted manipulation of nutrient sensing pathways in medically important pathogens to a greater degree than is currently possible. In this context, we present the use of spontan... Read More about Visualizing the interaction of Acanthamoeba castellanii with human retinal epithelial cells by spontaneous Raman and CARS imaging.

Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery (2017)
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Boitor, R., Kong, K., Shipp, D., Varma, S., Koloydenko, A., Kusum, K., …Ioan, N. (in press). Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery. Biomedical Optics Express, 8(12), https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.8.005749

Multimodal spectral histopathology (MSH), an optical technique combining tissue auto-fluorescence (AF) imaging and Raman micro-spectroscopy (RMS), was previously proposed for detection of residual basal cell carcinoma (BCC) at the surface of surgical... Read More about Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery.

An On-Surface Reaction Confined within a Porous Molecular Template (2017)
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Judd, C. J., Champness, N. R., & Saywell, A. (2018). An On-Surface Reaction Confined within a Porous Molecular Template. Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(1), 56-61. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201704693

On-surface reactions based on metal-catalysed Ullmann coupling have been successfully employed to synthesise a wide variety of covalently coupled structures. Substrate chemistry and topology are both known to effect the progression of an on-surface r... Read More about An On-Surface Reaction Confined within a Porous Molecular Template.

SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): faint-end counts at 450 ?m (2017)
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Wang, W., Lin, W., Lim, C., Smail, I., Chapman, S. C., Zheng, X. Z., …Wardlow, J. L. (2017). SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): faint-end counts at 450 μm. Astrophysical Journal, 850(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa911b

The SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES) is a three-year JCMT Large Program aiming to reach the 450 μm confusion limit in the COSMOS-CANDELS region to study a representative sample of the high-redshift far-infrared galaxy population that g... Read More about SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): faint-end counts at 450 ?m.

Fluctuating hydrodynamics, current fluctuations and hyperuniformity in boundary-driven open quantum chains (2017)
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Carollo, F., Garrahan, J. P., Lesanovsky, I., & Pérez-Espigares, C. (2017). Fluctuating hydrodynamics, current fluctuations and hyperuniformity in boundary-driven open quantum chains. Physical Review E, 96(5), Article 052118. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.052118

We consider a class of either fermionic or bosonic non-interacting open quantum chains driven by dissipative interactions at the boundaries and study the interplay of coherent transport and dissipative processes, such as bulk dephasing and diffusion.... Read More about Fluctuating hydrodynamics, current fluctuations and hyperuniformity in boundary-driven open quantum chains.

Detailed investigation of defect states in Erbium doped In2O3 thin films (2017)
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Henini, M., Ghosh, A., Dwivedi, S., Chakrabartty, S., & Mondala, A. (2018). Detailed investigation of defect states in Erbium doped In2O3 thin films. Materials Research Bulletin, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2017.11.020

Erbium doped Indium Oxide (In2O3:Er) thin films (TFs) were synthesised by spin-on technique. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry confirmed that Er is incorporated into the In2O3 lattice and formed an In-O-Er layer. The current–voltage loop produced a low... Read More about Detailed investigation of defect states in Erbium doped In2O3 thin films.

Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups: Introducing graph metrics and recommendations (2017)
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Mandke, K., Meier, J., Brookes, M. J., O'Dea, R. D., Van Mieghem, P., Stam, C. J., …Tewarie, P. K. (2018). Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups: Introducing graph metrics and recommendations. NeuroImage, 166, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11.016

There is an increasing awareness of the advantages of multi-modal neuroimaging. Networks obtained from different modalities are usually treated in isolation, which is however contradictory to accumulating evidence that these networks show non-trivial... Read More about Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups: Introducing graph metrics and recommendations.

Fock-space projection operators for semi-inclusive final states (2017)
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Dickinson, R., Forshaw, J., & Millington, P. (2017). Fock-space projection operators for semi-inclusive final states. Physics Letters B, 774, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.10.037

We present explicit expressions for Fock-space projection operators that correspond to realistic final states in scattering experiments. Our operators automatically sum over unobserved quanta and account for non-emission into sub-regions of momentum... Read More about Fock-space projection operators for semi-inclusive final states.

Supramolecular networks stabilise and functionalise black phosphorus (2017)
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Korolkov, V. V., Timokhin, I. G., Haubrichs, R., Smith, E. F., Yang, L., Yang, S., …Beton, P. H. (2017). Supramolecular networks stabilise and functionalise black phosphorus. Nature Communications, 8(1), Article 1385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01797-6

© 2017 The Author(s). The limited stability of the surface of black phosphorus (BP) under atmospheric conditions is a significant constraint on the exploitation of this layered material and its few layer analogue, phosphorene, as an optoelectronic ma... Read More about Supramolecular networks stabilise and functionalise black phosphorus.

Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993 (2017)
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Palmese, A., Hartley, W., Tarsitano, F., Conselice, C. J., Lahav, O., Allam, S., …Zuntz, J. (2017). Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 849(2), Article L34. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9660

We present a study of NGC 4993, the host galaxy of the GW170817 gravitational-wave event, the GRB 170817A short gamma-ray burst (sGRB), and the AT 2017gfo kilonova. We use Dark Energy Camera imaging, AAT spectra, and publicly available data, relating... Read More about Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993.

A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z∼2.55 − 2.95 (2017)
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Rorai, A., Carswell, R., Haehnelt, M. G., Becker, G. D., Bolton, J. S., & Murphy, M. T. (2017). A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z∼2.55 − 2.95. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 2871-2883. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2862

We present two measurements of the temperature-density relationship (TDR) of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the redshift range 2.55 < z < 2.95 using a sample of 13 high-quality quasar spectra and high resolution numerical simulations of the IGM. O... Read More about A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z∼2.55 − 2.95.

Ullmann coupling reactions on Ag(111) and Ag(110); substrate influence on the formation of covalently coupled products and intermediate metal-organic structures Metal-Organic Structures (2017)
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Judd, C. J., Haddow, S. L., Champness, N. R., & Saywell, A. (in press). Ullmann coupling reactions on Ag(111) and Ag(110); substrate influence on the formation of covalently coupled products and intermediate metal-organic structures Metal-Organic Structures. Scientific Reports, 7(14541), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13315-1

On-surface reactions based on Ullmann coupling are known to proceed on coinage-metal substrates (e.g. Au, Ag, Cu), with the chemistry of the surface strongly influencing the reaction progression. In addition, the topography of the surface may be expe... Read More about Ullmann coupling reactions on Ag(111) and Ag(110); substrate influence on the formation of covalently coupled products and intermediate metal-organic structures Metal-Organic Structures.