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Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos (2014)
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Rossi, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Borde, A., Viel, M., Yeche, C., Bolton, J. S., …Le Goff, J.-M. (2014). Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 567, Article A79. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423507

The signature left in quasar spectra by neutral hydrogen in the Universe allows constraining the sum of the neutrino masses with a better sensitivity than laboratory experiments and may shed new light on the neutrino mass hierarchy and the absolute m... Read More about Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos.

Lasing from active optomechanical resonators (2014)
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Czerniuk, T., Brüggemann, C., Tepper, J., Brodbeck, S., Schneider, C., Kamp, M., …Bayer, M. (2014). Lasing from active optomechanical resonators. Nature Communications, 5(1), Article 4038. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5038

Planar microcavities with distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) host, besides confined optical modes, also mechanical resonances due to stop bands in the phonon dispersion relation of the DBRs. These resonances have frequencies in the 10- to 100-GHz ra... Read More about Lasing from active optomechanical resonators.

Measurement of proton tunneling in short hydrogen bonds in single crystals of 3,5 pyridinedicarboxylic acid using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2014)
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Frantsuzov, I., Ford, S. J., Radosavljevic-Evans, I., Horsewill, A. J., Trommsdorff, H. P., & Johnson, M. R. (2014). Measurement of proton tunneling in short hydrogen bonds in single crystals of 3,5 pyridinedicarboxylic acid using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters, 113, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.018301

In this letter, we present NMR spin-lattice and relaxometry data for proton transfer in one of the shortest known N-H∙∙∙O hydrogen bonds in a single crystal of 3,5 pyridinedicarboxylic acid (35PDCA). It is widely believed that proton transfer by quan... Read More about Measurement of proton tunneling in short hydrogen bonds in single crystals of 3,5 pyridinedicarboxylic acid using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers (2014)
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Whelan, R., Watts, R., Orr, C. A., Althoff, R. R., Artiges, E., Banaschewski, T., …Ziesch, V. (2014). Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers. Nature, 512(7513), 185-189. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13402

A comprehensive account of the causes of alcohol misuse must accommodate individual differences in biology, psychology and environment, and must disentangle cause and effect. Animal models can demonstrate the effects of neurotoxic substances; however... Read More about Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers.

Kinematics and simulations of the stellar stream in the halo of the Umbrella Galaxy (2014)
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Foster, C., Lux, H., Romanowsky, A. J., Martínez-Delgado, D., Zibetti, S., Arnold, J. A., …Strader, J. (2014). Kinematics and simulations of the stellar stream in the halo of the Umbrella Galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(4), 3544-3564. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1074

We study the dynamics of faint stellar substructures around the Umbrella Galaxy, NGC 4651, which hosts a dramatic system of streams and shells formed through the tidal disruption of a nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy. We elucidate the basic characte... Read More about Kinematics and simulations of the stellar stream in the halo of the Umbrella Galaxy.

New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations (2014)
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Borde, A., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Rossi, G., Viel, M., Bolton, J. S., Yeche, C., …Le Goff, J.-M. (2014). New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(July), Article 005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/005

Current experiments are providing measurements of the flux power spectrum from the Lyman-α forests observed in quasar spectra with unprecedented accuracy. Their interpretation in terms of cosmological constraints requires specific simulations of at l... Read More about New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations.

Screening of scalar fields in Dirac-Born-Infeld theory (2014)
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Burrage, C., & Khoury, J. (2014). Screening of scalar fields in Dirac-Born-Infeld theory. Physical Review D, D90(2), Article 024001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024001

We study a new screening mechanism which is present in Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI)-like theories. A scalar field with a DBI-like Lagrangian is minimally coupled to matter. In the vicinity of sufficiently dense sources, nonlinearities in the scalar domina... Read More about Screening of scalar fields in Dirac-Born-Infeld theory.

Cosmological effects of scalar-photon couplings: dark energy and varying-α models (2014)
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Avgoustidis, A., Martins, C., Monteiro, A., Vielzeuf, P., & Luzzi, G. (2014). Cosmological effects of scalar-photon couplings: dark energy and varying-α models. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(6), https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/06/062

We study cosmological models involving scalar fields coupled to radiation and discuss their effect on the redshift evolution of the cosmic microwave background temperature, focusing on links with varying fundamental constants and dynamical dark energ... Read More about Cosmological effects of scalar-photon couplings: dark energy and varying-α models.

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: SDSS cross-correlation induced by weak lensing (2014)
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Gonzalez-Nuevo, J., Lapi, A., Negrello, M., Danese, L., De Zotti, G., Amber, S., …Xia, J.-Q. (2014). Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: SDSS cross-correlation induced by weak lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1041

We report a highly significant (>10σ) spatial correlation between galaxies with S350 μm ≥ 30 mJy detected in the equatorial fields of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) with estimated redshifts ≳ 1.5, and Sloan Digital S... Read More about Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: SDSS cross-correlation induced by weak lensing.

Bimolecular porous supramolecular networks deposited from solution on layered materials: graphite, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide (2014)
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Korolkov, V. V., Svatek, S. A., Allen, S., Roberts, C. J., Tendler, S. J., Taniguchi, T., …Beton, P. H. (2014). Bimolecular porous supramolecular networks deposited from solution on layered materials: graphite, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide. Chemical Communications, 50(64), https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC03720K

A two-dimensional porous network formed from perylene tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI) and melamine may be deposited from solution on the surfaces of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and molybdenum disulphide (... Read More about Bimolecular porous supramolecular networks deposited from solution on layered materials: graphite, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide.

Charge transfer from an adsorbed ruthenium-based photosensitizer through an ultra-thin aluminium oxide layer and into a metallic substrate (2014)
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Gibson, A. J., Temperton, R. H., Handrup, K., Weston, M., Mayor, L. C., & O'Shea, J. N. (2014). Charge transfer from an adsorbed ruthenium-based photosensitizer through an ultra-thin aluminium oxide layer and into a metallic substrate. Journal of Chemical Physics, 140(234708), Article 234708. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4882867

The interaction of the dye molecule N3 (cis-bis(isothiocyanato)bis(2,2-bipyridyl-4,4′-dicarbo-xylato)-ruthenium(II)) with the ultra-thin oxide layer on a AlNi(110) substrate, has been studied using synchrotron radiation based photoelectron spectrosco... Read More about Charge transfer from an adsorbed ruthenium-based photosensitizer through an ultra-thin aluminium oxide layer and into a metallic substrate.

Electromagnetically induced transparency in an entangled medium (2014)
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Li, W., Viscor, D., Hofferberth, S., & Lesanovsky, I. (2014). Electromagnetically induced transparency in an entangled medium. Physical Review Letters, 112(24), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.243601

We theoretically investigate light propagation and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a quasi one-dimensional gas in which atoms interact strongly via exchange interactions. We focus on the case in which the gas is initially prepared i... Read More about Electromagnetically induced transparency in an entangled medium.

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: how does the far-IR luminosity function depend on galaxy group properties? (2014)
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Guo, Q., Lacey, C., Norberg, P., Cole, S., Baugh, C., Frenk, C., …Robotham, A. (2014). Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: how does the far-IR luminosity function depend on galaxy group properties?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(3), 2253-2270. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu962

We use the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) Phase I data to study the conditional luminosity function of far-IR (250 μm) selected galaxies in optically selected galaxy groups from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) spectr... Read More about Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: how does the far-IR luminosity function depend on galaxy group properties?.

Functional quantitative susceptibility mapping (fQSM) (2014)
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Balla, D. Z., Sánchez-Panchuelo, R.-M., Wharton, S. J., Hagberg, G. E., Scheffler, K., Francis, S. T., & Bowtell, R. (2014). Functional quantitative susceptibility mapping (fQSM). NeuroImage, 100, 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.011

Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful technique, typically based on the statistical analysis of the magnitude component of the complex time-series. Here, we additionally interrogated the p... Read More about Functional quantitative susceptibility mapping (fQSM).

Tuneable paramagnetic susceptibility and exciton g-factor in Mn-doped PbS colloidal nanocrystals (2014)
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Turyanska, L., Hill, R. J. A., Makarovsky, O., Moro, F., Knott, A. N., Larkin, O. J., …Curry, R. J. (2014). Tuneable paramagnetic susceptibility and exciton g-factor in Mn-doped PbS colloidal nanocrystals. Nanoscale, 6(15), 8919-8925. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr02336f

We report on PbS colloidal nanocrystals that combine within one structure solubility in physiological solvents with near-infrared photoluminescence, and magnetic and optical properties tuneable by the controlled incorporation of magnetic impurities (... Read More about Tuneable paramagnetic susceptibility and exciton g-factor in Mn-doped PbS colloidal nanocrystals.

High-frequency acousto-optic effects in Bragg reflectors (2014)
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Farmer, D., Akimov, A. V., Gippius, N., Bailey, J., Sharp, J. S., & Kent, A. (2014). High-frequency acousto-optic effects in Bragg reflectors. Optics Express, 22(12), 15218-15231. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.015218

Picosecond acoustic interferometry was used to study the acousto-optic properties of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) manufactured from two immiscible polymers (cellulose acetate and polyvinylcarbyzole). Picosecond strain pulses were injected into... Read More about High-frequency acousto-optic effects in Bragg reflectors.

Subhaloes gone Notts: subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape (2014)
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Hoffmann, K., Planelles, S., Gaztanaga, E., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Lux, H., …Sgro, M. A. (2014). Subhaloes gone Notts: subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu933

We study the shapes of subhalo distributions from four dark-matter-only simulations of Milky Way-type haloes. Comparing the shapes derived from the subhalo distributions at high resolution to those of the underlying dark matter fields, we find the fo... Read More about Subhaloes gone Notts: subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape.

Rapidly growing black holes and host galaxies in the distant universe from the Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution Project (2014)
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Drouart, G., De Breuck, C., Vernet, J., Seymour, N., Lehnert, M., Barthel, P., …Wylezalek, D. (2014). Rapidly growing black holes and host galaxies in the distant universe from the Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution Project. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 566, Article A53. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323310

We present results from a comprehensive survey of 70 radio galaxies at redshifts 1 2.5 are higher than the sSFR of typical star forming galaxies over the same redshift range, but are similar or perhaps lower than the galaxy population for radio gala... Read More about Rapidly growing black holes and host galaxies in the distant universe from the Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution Project.