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Printed and flexible organic and inorganic memristor devices for non-volatile memory applications (2023)
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Jaafar, A. H., Gee, A., & Kemp, N. T. (2023). Printed and flexible organic and inorganic memristor devices for non-volatile memory applications. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 56(50), Article 503002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/acfaaa

The electronics market is highly competitive and driven by consumers desire for the latest and most sophisticated devices at the lowest cost. In the last decade there has been increasing interest in printing electronic materials on lightweight and fl... Read More about Printed and flexible organic and inorganic memristor devices for non-volatile memory applications.

Spinning black holes with axion hair (2023)
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Burrage, C., Fernandes, P. G. S., Brito, R., & Cardoso, V. (2023). Spinning black holes with axion hair. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 40(20), Article 205021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/acf9d6

In this work we construct and analyze non-perturbative stationary and axially-symmetric black hole solutions in general relativity coupled to an electromagnetic and an axion field. The axion field is coupled to the electromagnetic field, which leads... Read More about Spinning black holes with axion hair.

Thermodynamics of Quantum Trajectories on a Quantum Computer (2023)
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Cech, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Carollo, F. (2023). Thermodynamics of Quantum Trajectories on a Quantum Computer. Physical Review Letters, 131(12), Article 120401. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.131.120401

Quantum computers have recently become available as noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Already these machines yield a useful environment for research on quantum systems and dynamics. Building on this opportunity, we investigate open-system dyn... Read More about Thermodynamics of Quantum Trajectories on a Quantum Computer.

A novel approach to monitor head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients (2023)
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Bhuiyan, E. H., Chowdhury, M. E., & Glover, P. M. (2023). A novel approach to monitor head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients. IEEE Access, 11, 107004-107018. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3318171

To determine head pose within an MR scanner using measurements of gradient-induced voltage from a multiple coil. A practical implementation of this approach would involve measuring the position-sensitive voltages induced by the imaging gradients rath... Read More about A novel approach to monitor head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients.

Investigation on ammonia-free scalable cobalt-doped hexagonal boron nitride for environmental remediation (2023)
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Annie Vinsla, J. V., Vinosha, P. A., Vijayalakshmi, S., Xavier, B., Muthukrishnaraj, A., Ayyar, M., & Henini, M. (2023). Investigation on ammonia-free scalable cobalt-doped hexagonal boron nitride for environmental remediation. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 34(27), Article 1844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-11255-3

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanocrystals are of greater importance for wastewater remediation, and synthesizing these h-BN nanocrystals with high surface area adds significance. Hence a facile and economically viable hydrothermal technique was ado... Read More about Investigation on ammonia-free scalable cobalt-doped hexagonal boron nitride for environmental remediation.

Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study (2023)
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C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, Raman, B., McCracken, C., Cassar, M. P., Moss, A. J., Finnigan, L., …Francis, S. (2023). Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 11(11), 1003-1019. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2823%2900262-X

Introduction The multiorgan impact of moderate to severe coronavirus infections in the post-acute phase is still poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate the excess burden of multiorgan abnormalities after hospitalisation with COVID-19, evaluate thei... Read More about Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study.

Heating efficiency of Gd- and Co-doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles measured by AC magnetometer for magnetic-mediated hyperthermia (2023)
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Lemine, O., El-Boubbou, K., Orue, I., Ángel García, J., Elansary, M., Ali, R., …Henini, M. (2023). Heating efficiency of Gd- and Co-doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles measured by AC magnetometer for magnetic-mediated hyperthermia. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 587, Article 171279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171279

Most research groups, including us, utilize calorimetric methods to determine the heat dissipation by magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) under an alternating magnetic field (AMF). Herein, we report the heating efficiencies of γ-Fe2O3 and doped γ-Fe2O3 NPs... Read More about Heating efficiency of Gd- and Co-doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles measured by AC magnetometer for magnetic-mediated hyperthermia.

Slow dynamics and nonergodicity of the bosonic quantum East model in the semiclassical limit (2023)
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Geißler, A., & Garrahan, J. P. (2023). Slow dynamics and nonergodicity of the bosonic quantum East model in the semiclassical limit. Physical Review E, 108(3), Article 034207. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.034207

We study the unitary dynamics of the bosonic quantum East model, a kinetically constrained lattice model which generalizes the quantum East model to arbitrary occupation per site. We consider the semiclassical limit of large (but finite) site occupan... Read More about Slow dynamics and nonergodicity of the bosonic quantum East model in the semiclassical limit.

Time evolution of uniform sequential circuits (2023)
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Astrakhantsev, N., Lin, S., Pollmann, F., & Smith, A. (2023). Time evolution of uniform sequential circuits. Physical Review Research, 5(3), Article 033187. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.5.033187

Simulating time evolution of generic quantum many-body systems using classical numerical approaches has an exponentially growing cost either with evolution time or with the system size. In this work we present a polynomially scaling hybrid quantum-cl... Read More about Time evolution of uniform sequential circuits.

Structural, optical and photovoltaic properties of V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (2023)
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Lakshmi, C. B., Venus, S. A., Velanganni, S., Muthukrishnaraj, A., Ayyar, M., & Henini, M. (2023). Structural, optical and photovoltaic properties of V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Carbon Letters, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-023-00608-x

Photoanode optimization is a fascinating technique for enlightening the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this present study, V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposites (NCs) were prepa... Read More about Structural, optical and photovoltaic properties of V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells.

Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell apoptosis (2023)
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Jain, A., Gosling, J., Liu, S., Wang, H., Stone, E. M., Chakraborty, S., …Rawson, F. J. (2024). Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell apoptosis. Nature Nanotechnology, 19, 106-114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01496-y

Quantum biological tunnelling for electron transfer is involved in controlling essential functions for life such as cellular respiration and homoeostasis. Understanding and controlling the quantum effects in biology has the potential to modulate biol... Read More about Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell apoptosis.

Dissipative quantum many-body dynamics in (1+1)D quantum cellular automata and quantum neural networks (2023)
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Boneberg, M., Carollo, F., & Lesanovsky, I. (2023). Dissipative quantum many-body dynamics in (1+1)D quantum cellular automata and quantum neural networks. New Journal of Physics, 25, Article 093020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aceff4

Classical artificial neural networks, built from elementary units, possess enormous expressive power. Here we investigate a quantum neural network architecture, which follows a similar paradigm. It is structurally equivalent to so-called (1+1)D quant... Read More about Dissipative quantum many-body dynamics in (1+1)D quantum cellular automata and quantum neural networks.

Polarized thermal emission from dust in a galaxy at redshift 2.6 (2023)
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Geach, J. E., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Doherty, M. J., Chen, J., Ivison, R. J., Bendo, G. J., …Coppin, K. E. (2023). Polarized thermal emission from dust in a galaxy at redshift 2.6. Nature, 621(7979), 483-486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06346-4

Magnetic fields are fundamental to the evolution of galaxies, playing a key role in the astrophysics of the interstellar medium and star formation. Large-scale ordered magnetic fields have been mapped in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies1,2, but it i... Read More about Polarized thermal emission from dust in a galaxy at redshift 2.6.

Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements (2023)
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Mishra, S. S., Copeland, E. J., & Green, A. M. (2023). Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(September 2023), Article 005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/09/005

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may form in the early Universe, from the grav-itational collapse of large density perturbations, generated by large quantum fluctuations during inflation. Since PBHs form from rare over-densities, their abundance is sens... Read More about Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements.

Measuring the photo-ionization rate, neutral fraction and mean free path of HI ionizing photons at 4.9≤z≤6.0 from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra (2023)
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Gaikwad, P., Haehnelt, M. G., Davies, F. B., Bosman, S. E. I., Molaro, M., Kulkarni, G., …Eilers, A. (2023). Measuring the photo-ionization rate, neutral fraction and mean free path of HI ionizing photons at 4.9≤z≤6.0 from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(3), 4093-4120. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2566

We measure the mean free path (⁠λmfp,HI⁠), photo-ionization rate (⁠⟨ΓHI⟩⁠) and neutral fraction (⁠⟨fHI⟩⁠) of hydrogen in 12 redshift bins at 4.85 < z < 6.05 from a large sample of moderate resolution XShooter and ESI QSO absorption spectra. The fluct... Read More about Measuring the photo-ionization rate, neutral fraction and mean free path of HI ionizing photons at 4.9≤z≤6.0 from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra.

Electrical control of 180° domain walls in an antiferromagnet (2023)
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Amin, O. J., Reimers, S., Maccherozzi, F., Dhesi, S. S., Novák, V., Campion, R. P., …Wadley, P. (2023). Electrical control of 180° domain walls in an antiferromagnet. APL Materials, 11(9), Article 091112. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156508

We demonstrate the reversible current-induced motion of 180° antiferromagnetic domain walls in a CuMnAs device. By controlling the magnitude and direction of the current pulse, the position of a domain wall can be switched between three distinct pinn... Read More about Electrical control of 180° domain walls in an antiferromagnet.

Slow heterogeneous relaxation due to constraints in dual XXZ models (2023)
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Zadnik, L., & Garrahan, J. P. (2023). Slow heterogeneous relaxation due to constraints in dual XXZ models. Physical Review B, 108(10), Article L100304. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L100304

With the aim to understand the role of the constraints in the thermalization of quantum systems, we study the dynamics of a family of kinetically constrained models arising through duality from the XXZ spin chain. We find that integrable and noninteg... Read More about Slow heterogeneous relaxation due to constraints in dual XXZ models.

Molecular Dynamics in Rydberg Tweezer Arrays: Spin-Phonon Entanglement and Jahn-Teller Effect (2023)
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Magoni, M., Joshi, R., & Lesanovsky, I. (2023). Molecular Dynamics in Rydberg Tweezer Arrays: Spin-Phonon Entanglement and Jahn-Teller Effect. Physical Review Letters, 131(9), Article 093002. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.131.093002

Atoms confined in optical tweezer arrays constitute a platform for the implementation of quantum computers and simulators. State-dependent operations are realized by exploiting electrostatic dipolar interactions that emerge, when two atoms are simult... Read More about Molecular Dynamics in Rydberg Tweezer Arrays: Spin-Phonon Entanglement and Jahn-Teller Effect.

Selective Excitation of Pd-decorated Titania Enables Consecutive C−C Couplings and Hydrogenations under Ambient Conditions (2023)
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Whitehead, R. Z., Norman, L. T., Cull, W. J., Fernandes, J. A., & Lanterna, A. E. (2023). Selective Excitation of Pd-decorated Titania Enables Consecutive C−C Couplings and Hydrogenations under Ambient Conditions. ChemCatChem, 15(21), Article e202300528. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202300528

Here, we discovered that Pd decorated TiO2 (Pd@TiO2) enables consecutive photocatalytic Sonogashira C−C coupling and hydrogenation steps by simply adjusting the excitation conditions of the reaction. We demonstrated that by-products containing iodine... Read More about Selective Excitation of Pd-decorated Titania Enables Consecutive C−C Couplings and Hydrogenations under Ambient Conditions.