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Versatile cold atom source for multi-species experiments (2014)
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Paris-Mandoki, A., Jones, M. D., Nute, J., Wu, J., Warriar, S., & Hackermüller, L. (2014). Versatile cold atom source for multi-species experiments. Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(11), Article 113103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900577

We present a dual-species oven and Zeeman slower setup capable of producing slow, high-flux atomic beams for loading magneto-optical traps. Our compact and versatile system is based on electronic switching between different magnetic field profiles an... Read More about Versatile cold atom source for multi-species experiments.

Sussing merger trees: the impact of halo merger trees on galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model (2014)
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Lee, J., Yi, S. K., Elahi, P. J., Thomas, P. A., Pearce, F. R., Behroozi, P., …Tweed, D. (2014). Sussing merger trees: the impact of halo merger trees on galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2039

A halo merger tree forms the essential backbone of a semi-analytic model for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent studies have pointed out that extracting merger trees from numerical simulations of structure formation is non-trivial; different tree... Read More about Sussing merger trees: the impact of halo merger trees on galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model.

Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of the ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As (2014)
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Tesařová, N., Butkovičová, D., Campion, R. P., Rushforth, A. W., Edmonds, K. W., Wadley, P., …Němec, P. (2014). Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of the ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(15), Article 155203. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.90.155203

We report on the determination of micromagnetic parameters of epilayers of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As, which has an easy axis in the sample plane, and (Ga,Mn)(As,P), which has an easy axis perpendicular to the sample plane.We use an op... Read More about Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of the ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As.

Gas around galaxy haloes: Methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium (2014)
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Meiksin, A., Bolton, J. S., & Tittley, E. R. (2014). Gas around galaxy haloes: Methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(3), 2462-2475. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1938

© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We perform cosmological simulations of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift z ~ 3 using the numerical gravity-hydrodynamics codes GADGET-3 and... Read More about Gas around galaxy haloes: Methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium.

Intramolecular bonds resolved on a semiconductor surface (2014)
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Sweetman, A., Jarvis, S. P., Rahe, P., Champness, N. R., Kantorovich, L., & Moriarty, P. (2014). Intramolecular bonds resolved on a semiconductor surface. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(16), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.165425

Noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) is now routinely capable of obtaining submolecular resolution, readily resolving the carbon backbone structure of planar organic molecules adsorbed on metal substrates. Here we show that the same resolution... Read More about Intramolecular bonds resolved on a semiconductor surface.

An excess of dusty starbursts related to the Spiderweb galaxy (2014)
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Dannerbauer, H., Kurk, J., De Breuck, C., Wylezalek, D., Santos, J., Koyama, Y., …Ziegler, B. (2014). An excess of dusty starbursts related to the Spiderweb galaxy. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 570, Article A55. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423771

We present APEX LABOCA 870 μm observations of the field around the high-redshift radio galaxy MRC1138−262 at z = 2.16. We detect 16 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in this ~140 arcmin2 bolometer map with flux densities in the range 3–11 mJy. The raw nu... Read More about An excess of dusty starbursts related to the Spiderweb galaxy.

Many-body out-of-equilibrium dynamics of hard-core lattice bosons with non-local loss (2014)
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Everest, B., Hush, M., & Lesanovsky, I. (2014). Many-body out-of-equilibrium dynamics of hard-core lattice bosons with non-local loss. Physical Review B, 90(13), Article 134306. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.134306

We explore the dynamics of hard-core lattice bosons in the presence of strong non-local particle loss. The evolution occurs on two distinct time-scales, first a rapid strongly correlated decay into a highly degenerate Zeno state subspace, followed by... Read More about Many-body out-of-equilibrium dynamics of hard-core lattice bosons with non-local loss.

Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high mass x-ray binaries (2014)
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Knevitt, G., Wynn, G., Power, C., & Bolton, J. S. (2014). Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high mass x-ray binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1803

We investigate the influence of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) on their high-redshift environments. Using a one-dimensional radiative transfer code, we predict the ionization and temperature profiles surrounding a coeval stellar population, compose... Read More about Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high mass x-ray binaries.

Vacuum energy sequestering: The framework and its cosmological consequences (2014)
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Kaloper, N., & Padilla, A. (2014). Vacuum energy sequestering: The framework and its cosmological consequences. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 90(8), Article 084023. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.90.084023

Recently we suggested a reformulation of general relativity which completely sequesters from gravity all of the vacuum energy from a protected matter sector, assumed to contain the standard model. Here we elaborate further on the mechanism, presentin... Read More about Vacuum energy sequestering: The framework and its cosmological consequences.

Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome (2014)
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Stephenson, M., Morgan, P., Draper, A., Stephenson, M. C., Jackson, G., Pépés, S., …Jackson, S. (2014). Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome. Current Biology, 24(19), 2343-2347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.038

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a developmental neurological disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics [1] and associated with cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuit dysfunction [2, 3], hyperexcitability within cortical motor areas [4], and alter... Read More about Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome.

Dynamics of electronic transitions and frequency dependence of negative capacitance in semiconductor diodes under high forward bias (2014)
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Bansal, K., Henini, M., Alshammari, M. S., & Datta, S. (2014). Dynamics of electronic transitions and frequency dependence of negative capacitance in semiconductor diodes under high forward bias. Applied Physics Letters, 105(12), Article 123503. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4896541

We observed qualitatively dissimilar frequency dependence of negative capacitance under high charge injection in two sets of functionally different junction diodes: III-V based light emitting and Si-based non-light emitting diodes. Using an advanced... Read More about Dynamics of electronic transitions and frequency dependence of negative capacitance in semiconductor diodes under high forward bias.

Why z > 1 radio-loud galaxies are commonly located in protoclusters (2014)
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Hatch, N. A., Wylezalek, D., Kurk, J., Stern, D., De Breuck, C., Jarvis, M., Galametz, A., Gonzalez, A., Hartley, W., Mortlock, A., Seymour, N., & Stevens, J. (2014). Why z > 1 radio-loud galaxies are commonly located in protoclusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1725

Distant powerful radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGN) tend to reside in dense environments and are commonly found in protoclusters at z > 1.3. We examine whether this occurs because RLAGN are hosted by massive galaxies, which preferentially resi... Read More about Why z > 1 radio-loud galaxies are commonly located in protoclusters.

Critical relaxation and the combined effects of spatial and temporal boundaries (2014)
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Marcuzzi, M., & Gambassi, A. (2014). Critical relaxation and the combined effects of spatial and temporal boundaries. Condensed Matter Physics, 17(3), Article 33603. https://doi.org/10.5488/CMP.17.33603

We revisit here the problem of the collective non-equilibrium dynamics of a classical statistical system at a critical point and in the presence of surfaces. The effects of breaking separately space- and time-translational invariance are well underst... Read More about Critical relaxation and the combined effects of spatial and temporal boundaries.

Bidimensional nano-optomechanics and topological backaction in a non-conservative radiation force field (2014)
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Gloppe, A., Verlot, P., Dupont-Ferrier, E., Siria, A., Poncharal, P., Bachelier, G., …Arcizet, O. (2014). Bidimensional nano-optomechanics and topological backaction in a non-conservative radiation force field. Nature Nanotechnology, 9(11), 920-926. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.189

Optomechanics, which explores the fundamental coupling between light and mechanical motion, has made important advances in manipulating macroscopic mechanical oscillators down to the quantum level. However, dynamical effects related to the vectorial... Read More about Bidimensional nano-optomechanics and topological backaction in a non-conservative radiation force field.

MegaMorph - multiwavelength measurement of galaxy structure: physically meaningful bulge-disc decomposition of galaxies near and far (2014)
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Vika, M., Bamford, S. P., Haussler, B., & Rojas, A. L. (2014). MegaMorph - multiwavelength measurement of galaxy structure: physically meaningful bulge-disc decomposition of galaxies near and far. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1696

Bulge–disc decomposition is a valuable tool for understanding galaxies. However, achieving robust measurements of component properties is difficult, even with high-quality imaging, and it becomes even more so with the imaging typical of large surveys... Read More about MegaMorph - multiwavelength measurement of galaxy structure: physically meaningful bulge-disc decomposition of galaxies near and far.