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Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole (2019)
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Coutant, A., & Millington, P. (2019). Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3), Article 035005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaf679

We analyze the instability of the non-rotating fermion vacuum in Kerr spacetimes. We describe how the co-rotating Fermi sea is formed as a result of a spontaneous vacuum decay. Most significantly, and drawing upon intuition gained from analogous elec... Read More about Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole.

Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems (2019)
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Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems. Entropy, 21(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21010056

Since its conception over 150 years ago, entropy has enlightened and confused scholars and students alike, from its origins in physics and beyond. More recently, it has been considered within the urban context in a rather eclectic range of applicatio... Read More about Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems.

Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators (2019)
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Ostmann, M., Marcuzzi, M., Minář, J., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators. Quantum Science and Technology, 4(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aaf29d

© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. The most recent manifestation of cold Rydberg atom quantum simulators that employs tailored optical tweezer arrays enables the study of many-body dynamics under so-called facilitation conditions. We show how the facilitatio... Read More about Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators.

OMEGA – OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2 – V. The rich population of jellyfish galaxies in the multi-cluster system Abell 901/2 (2019)
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Roman-Oliveira, F. V., Chies-Santos, A. L., Rodríguez Del Pino, B., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Gray, M. E., & Bamford, S. P. (2019). OMEGA – OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2 – V. The rich population of jellyfish galaxies in the multi-cluster system Abell 901/2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), 892–905. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz007

We present the results of a systematic search and characterisation of galaxies with morphological signatures of ram-pressure stripping, known as jellyfish galaxies, in the multi-cluster system A901/2, at z ∼ 0.165, as part of the OMEGA survey. By vis... Read More about OMEGA – OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2 – V. The rich population of jellyfish galaxies in the multi-cluster system Abell 901/2.

Star-forming, rotating spheroidal galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI surveys (2019)
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Moffett, A. J., Phillipps, S., Robotham, A. S., Driver, S. P., Bremer, M. N., Cortese, L., …van de Sande, J. (2019). Star-forming, rotating spheroidal galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 2830-2843. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2237

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has morphologically identified a class of ‘Little Blue Spheroid’ (LBS) galaxies whose relationship to other classes of galaxies we now examine in detail. Considering a sample of 868 LBSs, we find that such g... Read More about Star-forming, rotating spheroidal galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI surveys.

Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride (2018)
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Patanè, A., Mishchenko, A., Greenaway, M., Vdovin, E., Ghazaryan, D., Misra, A., …Eaves, L. (2018). Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride. Communications Physics, 1(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-018-0097-1

Hexagonal boron nitride is a large band gap layered crystal, frequently incorporated in van der Waals heterostructures as an insulating or tunnel barrier. Localised states with energies within its band gap can emit visible light, relevant to applicat... Read More about Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride.

The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles (2018)
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Mostoghiu, R., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Pearce, F. R., Yepes, G., Power, C., …Arth, A. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(3), 3390-3403. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3306

Recent numerical studies of the dark matter density profiles of massive galaxy clusters (Mhalo > 1015 M) show that their median radial mass density profile remains unchanged up to z > 1, displaying a highly self-similar evolution. We verify this by u... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles.

Short-term changes observed in multi-parametric liver MRI following therapy with direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C virus patients (2018)
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Bradley, C., Scott, R., Cox, E., Palaniyappan, N., Thompson, B., Ryder, D., …Francis, S. (2019). Short-term changes observed in multi-parametric liver MRI following therapy with direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C virus patients. European Radiology, 29(6), 3100–3107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-018-5788-1

Methods: We applied multiparametric MRI to assess changes in liver composition, perfusion and blood flow in 17 patients before DAA therapy and after treatment completion (within 12 weeks of last DAA tablet swallowed). Results: We observed changes in... Read More about Short-term changes observed in multi-parametric liver MRI following therapy with direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C virus patients.

Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures (2018)
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Bhuiyan, M. A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Mazumder, D., Greener, J. D., Makarovsky, O., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2019). Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(3), Article 1805491. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201805491

The transfer of electronic charge across the interface of two van der Waals crystals can underpin the operation of a new class of functional devices. Amongst van der Waals semiconductors, an exciting and rapidly growing development involves the “post... Read More about Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures.

Fast Raman spectral mapping of highly fluorescing samples by time-gated spectral multiplexed detection (2018)
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Corden, C. J., Shipp, D. W., Matousek, P., & Notingher, I. (2018). Fast Raman spectral mapping of highly fluorescing samples by time-gated spectral multiplexed detection. Optics Letters, 43(23), 5733-5736. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.43.005733

We present a time-gated Raman micro-spectroscopy technique suitable for fast Raman mapping of samples eliciting large laser-induced fluorescence backgrounds. To achieve the required time resolution for effective fluorescence rejection, a picosecond p... Read More about Fast Raman spectral mapping of highly fluorescing samples by time-gated spectral multiplexed detection.

Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows (2018)
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Knott, A., Liu, X., Makarovskiy, O., O'Shea, J., Tuck, C., & Wu, Y. (2019). Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows. Building Simulation, 12(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-018-0485-1

Windows integrated with semi-transparent photovoltaics (PVs) such as Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) show good potential in improving building performance, in term of providing daylight, reducing unnecessary solar heat gain and also generating ele... Read More about Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows.

The environments of luminous radio-WISE selected infrared galaxies (2018)
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Penney, J. I., Blain, A. W., Wylezalek, D., Hatch, N. A., Lonsdale, C., Kimball, A., …Wu, J. (2019). The environments of luminous radio-WISE selected infrared galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(1), 514-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3128

We have observed the environments of a population of 33 heavily dust obscured, ultraluminous, high-redshift galaxies, selected using Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NRAO 1.4 GHz VLA Sky Survey atz > 1.3 with the infrared array camera o... Read More about The environments of luminous radio-WISE selected infrared galaxies.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3 (2018)
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Buitrago, F., Ferreras, I., Kelvin, L. S., Baldry, I. K., Davies, L., Angthopo, J., …Graham, A. W. (2018). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 619, Article A137. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833785

Context. Massive ultra-compact galaxies (MUGs) are common at z = 2−3, but very rare in the nearby Universe. Simulations predict that the few surviving MUGs should reside in galaxy clusters, whose large relative velocities prevent them from merging, t... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3.

Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution UHF fMRI for group analysis of higher?order cognitive tasks: An inter?sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains (2018)
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Aquino, K. M., Sokoliuk, R., Pakenham, D., Sanchez-Panchuelo, R. M., Hanslmayr, S., Mayhew, S. D., …Francis, S. T. (2019). Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution UHF fMRI for group analysis of higher‐order cognitive tasks: An inter‐sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains. Human Brain Mapping, 40(4), 1298-1316. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24450

Functional MRI at ultra-high field (UHF, ?7T) provides significant increases in BOLD contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) compared with conventional field strength (3T), and has been exploited for reduced field-of-view, high spatial resolution mapping of pr... Read More about Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution UHF fMRI for group analysis of higher?order cognitive tasks: An inter?sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains.

Optical Properties of GaAs1?xBix/GaAs Quantum Well Structures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on (100) and (311)B GaAs Substrates (2018)
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Gunes, M., Ukelge, M., Donmez, O., Erol, A., Gumus, C., Alghamdi, H., …Guina, M. (2018). Optical Properties of GaAs1−xBix/GaAs Quantum Well Structures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on (100) and (311)B GaAs Substrates. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 33(12), Article 124015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6641/aaea2e

In this work, the electronic bandstructure of GaAs1?xBix/GaAs single quantum well (QW) samples grown by molecular beam epitaxy is investigated by photomodulated reflectance (PR) measurements as a function of Bi content (0.0065 ? x ? 0.0215) and subst... Read More about Optical Properties of GaAs1?xBix/GaAs Quantum Well Structures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on (100) and (311)B GaAs Substrates.

Higher order clockwork gravity (2018)
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Niedermann, F., Padilla, A., & Saffin, P. M. (2018). Higher order clockwork gravity. Physical Review D, 98(10), Article 104014. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.104014

We present a higher order generalisation of the clockwork mechanism starting from an underlying non-linear multigravity theory with a single scale and nearest neighbour ghost-free interactions. Without introducing any hierarchies in the underlying po... Read More about Higher order clockwork gravity.

Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches (2018)
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Rotondo, P., Minář, J., Garrahan, J. P., Lesanovsky, I., & Marcuzzi, M. (2018). Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches. Physical Review B, 98(18), Article 184303. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.184303

We investigate large deviations of the work performed in a quantum quench across two different phases separated by a quantum critical point, using as an example the Dicke model quenched from its superradiant to its normal phase. We extract the distri... Read More about Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches.

Radiative effects on false vacuum decay in Higgs-Yukawa theory (2018)
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Ai, W., Garbrecht, B., & Millington, P. (2018). Radiative effects on false vacuum decay in Higgs-Yukawa theory. Physical Review D, 98(7), Article 076014. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.076014

We derive fermionic Green’s functions in the background of the Euclidean solitons describing false vacuum decay in a prototypal Higgs-Yukawa theory. In combination with appropriate counterterms for the masses, couplings and wave-function normalizatio... Read More about Radiative effects on false vacuum decay in Higgs-Yukawa theory.

Compact star-forming galaxies preferentially quenched to become PSBs in z < 1 clusters (2018)
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Socolovsky, M., Maltby, D. T., Hatch, N. A., Almaini, O., Wild, V., Hartley, W. G., …Rowlands, K. (2019). Compact star-forming galaxies preferentially quenched to become PSBs in z < 1 clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 1640-1650. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2840

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We analyse the structure of galaxies with high specific star formation rate (SSFR) in cluster and field environments in the redshift range 0.5 < z... Read More about Compact star-forming galaxies preferentially quenched to become PSBs in z < 1 clusters.

The extended Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (ePN.S) early-type galaxy survey: The kinematic diversity of stellar halos and the relation between halo transition scale and stellar mass (2018)
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Pulsoni, C., Gerhard, O., Arnaboldi, M., Coccato, L., Longobardi, A., Napolitano, N., …Tortora, C. (2018). The extended Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (ePN.S) early-type galaxy survey: The kinematic diversity of stellar halos and the relation between halo transition scale and stellar mass. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 618, Article A94. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732473

Context. In the hierarchical two-phase formation scenario, the halos of early type galaxies (ETGs) are expected to have different physical properties from the galaxies’ central regions. Aims. The ePN.S survey characterizes the kinematic properties o... Read More about The extended Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (ePN.S) early-type galaxy survey: The kinematic diversity of stellar halos and the relation between halo transition scale and stellar mass.