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Strain-restricted transfer of ferromagnetic electrodes for constructing reproducibly superior-quality spintronic devices (2014)
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Guo, L., Gu, X., Hu, S., Sun, W., Zhang, R., Qin, Y., …Sun, X. (2014). Strain-restricted transfer of ferromagnetic electrodes for constructing reproducibly superior-quality spintronic devices. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 865. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45200-7

Spintronic device is the fundamental platform for spin-related academic and practical studies. However, conventional techniques with energetic deposition or boorish transfer of ferromagnetic metal inevitably introduce uncontrollable damage and undesi... Read More about Strain-restricted transfer of ferromagnetic electrodes for constructing reproducibly superior-quality spintronic devices.

Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey: mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (2014)
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Bundy, K., Bershady, M. A., Law, D. R., Yan, R., Drory, N., MacDonald, N., …Zhang, K. (2014). Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey: mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory. Astrophysical Journal, 798(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/798/1/7

We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) that began on 2014 July 1.... Read More about Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey: mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory.

Lens models of herschel-selected galaxies from high-resolution near-IR observations (2014)
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Calanog, J. A., Fu, H., Cooray, A., Wardlow, J., Ma, B., Amber, S., …Vieira, J. D. (2014). Lens models of herschel-selected galaxies from high-resolution near-IR observations. Astrophysical Journal, 797(2), Article 138. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/797/2/138

© 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present Keck-Adaptive Optics and Hubble Space Telescope high resolution near-infrared (IR) imaging for 500 μm bright candidate lensing systems identified by the Herschel Multi-tiered... Read More about Lens models of herschel-selected galaxies from high-resolution near-IR observations.

Adsorbate-induced curvature and stiffening of graphene (2014)
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Svatek, S. A., Scott, O. R., Rivett, J. P., Wright, K., Baldoni, M., Bichoutskaia, E., …Beton, P. H. (2015). Adsorbate-induced curvature and stiffening of graphene. Nano Letters, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1021/nl503308c

The adsorption of the alkane tetratetracontane (TTC, C44H90) on graphene induces the formation of a curved surface stabilized by a gain in adsorption energy. This effect arises from a curvature-dependent variation of a moiré pattern due to the mismat... Read More about Adsorbate-induced curvature and stiffening of graphene.

Charge-swapping q balls (2014)
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Copeland, E. J., Saffin, P. M., & Zhou, S. Y. (2014). Charge-swapping q balls. Physical Review Letters, 113(23), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.231603

© 2014 American Physical Society. Q balls are nontopological solitonic solutions to a wide class of field theories that possess global symmetries. Here we show that in these same theories there also exists a tower of novel composite Q-ball solutions... Read More about Charge-swapping q balls.

WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments (2014)
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Peter, A. H., Glusevic, V., Green, A. M., Kavanagh, B. J., & Lee, S. L. (2014). WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments. Physics of the Dark Universe, 5-6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2014.10.006

The search for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter is multi-pronged. Ulti- mately, the WIMP-dark-matter picture will only be confirmed if different classes of experiments see consistent signals and infer the same WIMP properties. I... Read More about WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments.

Spin manipulation and spin-lattice interaction in magnetic colloidal quantum dots (2014)
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Moro, F., Turyanska, L., Granwehr, J., & Patanè, A. (2014). Spin manipulation and spin-lattice interaction in magnetic colloidal quantum dots. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(20), Article 205428. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.205428

We report on the spin-lattice interaction and coherent manipulation of electron spins in Mn-doped colloidal PbS quantum dots (QDs) by electron spin resonance. We show that the phase memory time,TM, is limited by Mn–Mn dipolar interactions, hyperfine... Read More about Spin manipulation and spin-lattice interaction in magnetic colloidal quantum dots.

Analysis of interaction between the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and host cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy (2014)
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Naemat, A., Elsheikha, H. M., Al-sandaqchib, A., Kong, K., Ghita, A., & Notingher, I. (2015). Analysis of interaction between the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and host cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy. Analyst, 140(3), 756-764. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4an01810a

Label-free imaging using Raman micro-spectroscopy (RMS) was used to characterize the spatio-temporal molecular changes of T. gondii tachyzoites and their host cell microenvironment. Raman spectral maps were recorded from isolated T. gondii tachyzoite... Read More about Analysis of interaction between the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and host cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy.

Universal nonequilibrium properties of dissipative rydberg gases (2014)
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Marcuzzi, M., Levi, E., Diehl, S., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2014). Universal nonequilibrium properties of dissipative rydberg gases. Physical Review Letters, 113(21), Article 210401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.210401

© 2014 American Physical Society. We investigate the out-of-equilibrium behavior of a dissipative gas of Rydberg atoms that features a dynamical transition between two stationary states characterized by different excitation densities. We determine th... Read More about Universal nonequilibrium properties of dissipative rydberg gases.

Critical assessment of the evidence for striped nanoparticles (2014)
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Shankar, S. S., Stirling, J., Lekkas, I., Sweetman, A., Djuranovic, P., Guo, Q., …Moriarty, P. (2014). Critical assessment of the evidence for striped nanoparticles. PLoS ONE, 9(11), Article e108482. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108482

There is now a significant body of literature which reports that stripes form in the ligand shell of suitably functionalised Au nanoparticles. This stripe morphology has been proposed to strongly affect the physicochemical and biochemical properties... Read More about Critical assessment of the evidence for striped nanoparticles.

Effective dynamics of strongly dissipative Rydberg gases (2014)
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Marcuzzi, M., Schick, J., Olmos, B., & Lesanovsky, I. (2014). Effective dynamics of strongly dissipative Rydberg gases. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 47(48), Article 482001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/48/482001

We investigate the evolution of interacting Rydberg gases in the limit of strong noise and dissipation. Starting from a description in terms of a Markovian quantum master equation we derive effective equations of motion that govern the dynamics on a... Read More about Effective dynamics of strongly dissipative Rydberg gases.

Constraining disformally coupled scalar fields (2014)
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Brax, P., & Burrage, C. (2014). Constraining disformally coupled scalar fields. Physical Review D, D90(10), Article 104009. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.104009

Light scalar fields can naturally couple disformally to matter fields. Static, nonrelativistic sources do not generate a classical field profile for a disformally coupled scalar, and so such scalars are free from the constraints on the existence of f... Read More about Constraining disformally coupled scalar fields.

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.

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.