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Realization of Universal Quantum Gates with Spin-Qudits in Colloidal Quantum Dots (2019)
Journal Article
Moro, F., Fielding, A. J., Turyanska, L., & Patanè, A. (2019). Realization of Universal Quantum Gates with Spin-Qudits in Colloidal Quantum Dots. Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2(10), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.201900017

Hyperfine interactions in a single Mn‐ion confined in a quantum dot (QD) are exploited to create a qudit, that is, a multilevel quantum‐bit system, with well‐defined, addressable, and robust set of spin states for the realization of universal quantum... Read More about Realization of Universal Quantum Gates with Spin-Qudits in Colloidal Quantum Dots.

Quantitative assessment of renal structural and functional changes in chronic kidney disease using multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (2019)
Journal Article
Buchanan, C. E., Mahmoud, H., Cox, E. F., McCulloch, T., Prestwich, B. L., Taal, M. W., Selby, N. M., & Francis, S. T. (2020). Quantitative assessment of renal structural and functional changes in chronic kidney disease using multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 35(6), 955-964. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfz129

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Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides the potential for a more comprehensive non-invasive assessment of organ structure and function than individual MRI measures, but has not previously been comprehensively evaluated... Read More about Quantitative assessment of renal structural and functional changes in chronic kidney disease using multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging.

On-Surface Synthesis within a Porphyrin Nanoring Template (2019)
Journal Article
Judd, C. J., Kondratuk, D. V., Anderson, H. L., & Saywell, A. (2019). On-Surface Synthesis within a Porphyrin Nanoring Template. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 9352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45359-w

On-surface synthesis provides a route for the production of 1D and 2D covalently bonded polymeric structures. Such reactions are confined to the surface of a substrate and the catalytic properties of the substrate are often utilised to initiate the r... Read More about On-Surface Synthesis within a Porphyrin Nanoring Template.

The use of convolutional neural networks for modelling large optically-selected strong galaxy-lens samples (2019)
Journal Article
Pearson, J., Li, N., & Dye, S. (2019). The use of convolutional neural networks for modelling large optically-selected strong galaxy-lens samples. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(1), 991-1004. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1750

We explore the effectiveness of deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for estimating strong gravitational lens mass model parameters. We have investigated a number of practicalities faced when modelling real image data, such as how netwo... Read More about The use of convolutional neural networks for modelling large optically-selected strong galaxy-lens samples.

Probing higher-spin fields from inflation with higher-order statistics of the CMB (2019)
Journal Article
Bordin, L., & Cabass, G. (2019). Probing higher-spin fields from inflation with higher-order statistics of the CMB. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(June), Article 050. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/050

We investigate the degree to which the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity coming from the presence of spinning particles coupled to the inflaton. We compute the TTT and TTTT correlation funct... Read More about Probing higher-spin fields from inflation with higher-order statistics of the CMB.

The importance of secondary halos for strong lensing in massive galaxy clusters across redshift (2019)
Journal Article
Li, N., Gladders, M. D., Heitmann, K., Rangel, E. M., Child, H. L., Florian, M. K., Bleem, L. E., Habib, S., & Finkel, H. J. (2019). The importance of secondary halos for strong lensing in massive galaxy clusters across redshift. Astrophysical Journal, 878(2), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f74

Cosmological cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing probes the mass distribution of the dense cores of massive dark matter halos and the structures along the line of sight from background sources to the observer. It is frequently assumed that the... Read More about The importance of secondary halos for strong lensing in massive galaxy clusters across redshift.

Dual optical force plate for time resolved measurement of forces and pressure distributions beneath shoes and feet (2019)
Journal Article
Tompkins, C. G., & Sharp, J. S. (2019). Dual optical force plate for time resolved measurement of forces and pressure distributions beneath shoes and feet. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 8886. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45287-9

Frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) imaging was used to perform remote optical measurements of the forces/pressures exerted beneath shoes and feet during a number of different training activities including countermovement jumps, jogging and d... Read More about Dual optical force plate for time resolved measurement of forces and pressure distributions beneath shoes and feet.

Real-time quantum dynamics, path integrals and the method of thimbles (2019)
Journal Article
Mou, Z.-G., Saffin, P. M., Tranberg, A., & Woodward, S. (2019). Real-time quantum dynamics, path integrals and the method of thimbles. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(6), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282019%29094

Direct numerical evaluation of the real-time path integral has a well-known sign problem that makes convergence exponentially slow. One promising remedy is to use Picard-Lefschetz theory to flow the domain of the field variables into the complex plan... Read More about Real-time quantum dynamics, path integrals and the method of thimbles.

Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride (2019)
Journal Article
Elias, C., Valvin, P., Pelini, T., Summerfield, A., Mellor, C., Cheng, T., Eaves, L., Foxon, C., Beton, P., Novikov, S., Gil, B., & Cassabois, G. (2019). Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride. Nature Communications, 10, Article 2639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10610-5

Hexagonal boron nitride is a large band-gap insulating material which complements the electronic and optical properties of graphene and the transition metal dichalcogenides. However, the intrinsic optical properties of monolayer boron nitride remain... Read More about Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride.

Two-Qubits in a Large-S Environment (2019)
Journal Article
Fiorelli, E., Cuccoli, A., & Verrucchi, P. (2019). Two-Qubits in a Large-S Environment. Proceedings, 12(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019012010

We analytically express the loss of entanglement between the components of a quantum device due to the generation of quantum correlations with its environment, and show that such loss diminishes when the latter is macroscopic and displays a semi-clas... Read More about Two-Qubits in a Large-S Environment.

Magnetic-field-induced Vertigo in the MR Environment (2019)
Book Chapter
Glover, P. (2019). Magnetic-field-induced Vertigo in the MR Environment. In eMagRes (191-197). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1607

This article discusses the theory behind, and the experimental evidence for, the perception of vertigo in a high magnetic field found in an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment. In this case, the term ‘vertigo’ is not used in its clinical sen... Read More about Magnetic-field-induced Vertigo in the MR Environment.

Cosmological consequences of Omnia Sequestra (2019)
Journal Article
Coltman, B., Li, Y., & Padilla, A. (2019). Cosmological consequences of Omnia Sequestra. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(06), Article 017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/017

Vacuum energy sequestering is a mechanism for cancelling off the radiative corrections to vacuum energy. The most comprehensive low energy model, proposed in [1], has the ability to cancel off radiative corrections to vacuum energy for loops of both... Read More about Cosmological consequences of Omnia Sequestra.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar Population Gradients Within Barred Galaxies (2019)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Merrifield, M., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Peterken, T., Masters, K., Krawczyk, C., Andrews, B., Knapen, J. H., Kruk, S., Schaefer, A., Smethurst, R., Riffel, R., Brownstein, J., & Drory, N. (2019). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar Population Gradients Within Barred Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 488(1), L6–L11. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz085

Bars in galaxies are thought to stimulate both inflow of material and radial mixing along them. Observational evidence for this mixing has been inconclusive so far however, limiting the evaluation of the impact of bars on galaxy evolution. We now use... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar Population Gradients Within Barred Galaxies.

Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions (2019)
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Ostmann, M., Marcuzzi, M., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions. Physical Review A, 99(6), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.060101

Quantum many-body systems with kinetic constraints exhibit intriguing relaxation dynamics. Recent experimental progress in the field of cold atomic gases offers a handle for probing collective behavior of such systems, in particular for understanding... Read More about Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties (2019)
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Stach, S. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U. .., Small, I., Swinbank, A., Geach, J., Simpson, J., Xia An, F., Almaini, O., Arumugam, V., Blain, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Sonselice, C., Cooke, E., Coppin, K., da Cunha, E., Dunlop, J., Farrah, D., Gullberg, B., Hodge, J., …van der Werf, P. (2019). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4), 4648–4668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1536

© 2019 The Author(s). We present the catalogue and basic properties of sources in AS2UDS, an 870-\mum continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) of 716 single-dish sub-millimetre sources detected in the UKIDSS/UDS... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties.

Hypersonic Bose–Einstein condensates in accelerator rings (2019)
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Pandey, S., Mas, H., Drougakis, G., Thekkeppatt, P., Bolpasi, V., Vasilakis, G., Poulios, K., & von Klitzing, W. (2019). Hypersonic Bose–Einstein condensates in accelerator rings. Nature, 570(7760), 205-209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1273-5

© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Some of the most sensitive and precise measurements—for example, of inertia1, gravity2 and rotation3—are based on matter-wave interferometry with free-falling atomic clouds. T... Read More about Hypersonic Bose–Einstein condensates in accelerator rings.

Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization (2019)
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Macieszczak, K., Levi, E., Macrì, T., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2019). Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization. Physical Review A, 99(5), Article 052354. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.99.052354

While the scaling of entanglement in a quantum system can be used to distinguish many-body quantum phases, it is usually hard to quantify the amount of entanglement in mixed states of open quantum systems, while measuring entanglement experimentally,... Read More about Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization.

Enhancing our understanding of small bowel function using modern imaging techniques (2019)
Journal Article
Hoad, C., & Spiller, R. (2020). Enhancing our understanding of small bowel function using modern imaging techniques. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 32(1), Article e13616. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13616

Small intestinal function is critical to digestive health and patients believe an abnormal reaction to food is responsible for many of their symptoms. Despite this, our ability to assess disturbed function in clinical practice has been limited, parti... Read More about Enhancing our understanding of small bowel function using modern imaging techniques.

Temperature-dependent resistivity and anomalous Hall effect in NiMnSb from first principles (2019)
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Wagenknecht, D., Šmejkal, L., Kašpar, Z., Sinova, J., Jungwirth, T., Kudrnovský, J., Carva, K., & Turek, I. (2019). Temperature-dependent resistivity and anomalous Hall effect in NiMnSb from first principles. Physical Review B, 99(17), Article 174433. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.174433

© 2019 American Physical Society. We present implementation of the alloy analogy model within fully relativistic density-functional theory with the coherent potential approximation for a treatment of nonzero temperatures. We calculate contributions o... Read More about Temperature-dependent resistivity and anomalous Hall effect in NiMnSb from first principles.

Prospects for strongly coupled atom-photon quantum nodes (2019)
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Cooper, N., Briddon, C., Da Ros, E., Naniyil, V., Greenaway, M., & Hackermueller, L. (2019). Prospects for strongly coupled atom-photon quantum nodes. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 7798. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44292-2

We discuss the trapping of cold atoms within microscopic voids drilled perpendicularly through the axis of an optical waveguide. The dimensions of the voids considered are between 1 and 40 optical wavelengths. By simulating light transmission across... Read More about Prospects for strongly coupled atom-photon quantum nodes.