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Formation of S0s in extreme environments I: clues from kinematics and stellar populations (2019)
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Coccato, L., Jaffé, Y. L., Cortesi, A., Merrifield, M., Johnston, E., del Pino, B. R., …Menéndez-Delmestre, K. (2020). Formation of S0s in extreme environments I: clues from kinematics and stellar populations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 2955–2972. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3592

Despite numerous efforts, it is still unclear whether lenticular galaxies (S0s) evolve from spirals whose star formation was suppressed, or formed trough mergers or disk instabilities. In this paper we present a pilot study of 21 S0 galaxies in extre... Read More about Formation of S0s in extreme environments I: clues from kinematics and stellar populations.

Classical stochastic discrete time crystals (2019)
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Gambetta, F. M., Carollo, F., Lazarides, A., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2019). Classical stochastic discrete time crystals. Physical Review E, 100(6), Article 060105(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.060105

© 2019 American Physical Society. We describe a general and simple paradigm for discrete time crystals (DTCs), systems with a stable subharmonic response to an external driving field, in a classical thermal setting. We consider, specifically, an Isin... Read More about Classical stochastic discrete time crystals.

NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies (2019)
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Neri, R., Cox, P., Omont, A., Beelen, A., Berta, S., Bakx, T., …Young, A. (2020). NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 635, Article A7. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936988

Using the IRAM NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), we conducted a program to measure redshifts for 13 bright galaxies detected in the Herschel Astrophysical Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) with S500 _m _ 80 mJy. We report reliable spectroscopic r... Read More about NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies.

Nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational waves from a first-order electroweak phase transition (2019)
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Gould, O., Kozaczuk, J., Niemi, L., Ramsey-Musolf, M. J., Tenkanen, T. V. I., & Weir, D. J. (2019). Nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational waves from a first-order electroweak phase transition. Physical Review D, 100, Article 115024. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.115024

We present the first end-to-end nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational wave power spectrum from a thermal first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT), using the framework of dimensionally reduced effective field theory and preexisting nonp... Read More about Nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational waves from a first-order electroweak phase transition.

Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal ASL MRI (2019)
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Nery, F., Buchanan, C. E., Harteveld, A. A., Odudu, A., Bane, O., Cox, E. F., …Fernández-Seara, M. A. (2020). Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal ASL MRI. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 33(1), 141-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-019-00800-z

Objectives: To develop technical recommendations for the acquisition, processing and analysis of renal ASL data in the human kidney at 1.5T and 3T field strengths that can promote standardization of renal perfusion measurements and facilitate the com... Read More about Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal ASL MRI.

Triplet Excitation and Electroluminescence from a Supramolecular Monolayer Embedded in a Boron Nitride Tunnel Barrier (2019)
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Svatek, S. A., Kerfoot, J., Summerfield, A., Nizovtsev, A. S., Korolkov, V. V., Taniguchi, T., …Beton, P. H. (2020). Triplet Excitation and Electroluminescence from a Supramolecular Monolayer Embedded in a Boron Nitride Tunnel Barrier. Nano Letters, 20(1), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03787

© 2019 American Chemical Society. We show that ordered monolayers of organic molecules stabilized by hydrogen bonding on the surface of exfoliated few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) flakes may be incorporated into van der Waals heterostructures... Read More about Triplet Excitation and Electroluminescence from a Supramolecular Monolayer Embedded in a Boron Nitride Tunnel Barrier.

Scattering amplitudes, black holes and leading singularities in cubic theories of gravity (2019)
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Emond, W. T., & Moynihan, N. (2019). Scattering amplitudes, black holes and leading singularities in cubic theories of gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(12), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282019%29019

We compute the semi-classical potential arising from a generic theory of cubic gravity, a higher derivative theory of spin-2 particles, in the framework of modern amplitude techniques. We show that there are several interesting aspects of the potenti... Read More about Scattering amplitudes, black holes and leading singularities in cubic theories of gravity.

Alpha/beta power decreases track the fidelity of stimulus-specific information (2019)
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Griffiths, B. J., Mayhew, S. D., Mullinger, K. J., Jorge, J., Charest, I., Wimber, M., & Hanslmayr, S. (2019). Alpha/beta power decreases track the fidelity of stimulus-specific information. eLife, 8, https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.49562

© 2019, Griffiths et al. Massed synchronised neuronal firing is detrimental to information processing. When networks of task-irrelevant neurons fire in unison, they mask the signal generated by task-critical neurons. On a macroscopic level, such sync... Read More about Alpha/beta power decreases track the fidelity of stimulus-specific information.

Polar surface structure of oxide nanocrystals revealed with solid-state NMR spectroscopy (2019)
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Chen, J., Wu, X. P., Hope, M. A., Qian, K., Halat, D. M., Liu, T., …Peng, L. (2019). Polar surface structure of oxide nanocrystals revealed with solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 5420. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13424-7

© 2019, The Author(s). Compared to nanomaterials exposing nonpolar facets, polar-faceted nanocrystals often exhibit unexpected and interesting properties. The electrostatic instability arising from the intrinsic dipole moments of polar facets, howeve... Read More about Polar surface structure of oxide nanocrystals revealed with solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Simulating quantum many-body dynamics on a current digital quantum computer (2019)
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Smith, A., Kim, M. S., Pollmann, F., & Knolle, J. (2019). Simulating quantum many-body dynamics on a current digital quantum computer. npj Quantum Information, 5(1), Article 106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-019-0217-0

Universal quantum computers are potentially an ideal setting for simulating many-body quantum dynamics that is out of reach for classical digital computers. We use state-of-the-art IBM quantum computers to study paradigmatic examples of condensed mat... Read More about Simulating quantum many-body dynamics on a current digital quantum computer.

Alternative flow equation for the functional renormalization group (2019)
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Alexander, E., Millington, P., Nursey, J., & Saffin, P. M. (2019). Alternative flow equation for the functional renormalization group. Physical Review D, 100(10), Article 101702(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.101702

We derive an alternative to the Wetterich-Morris-Ellwanger equation by means of the two-particle irreducible (2PI) effective action, exploiting the method of external sources due to Garbrecht and Millington. The latter allows the two-point source of... Read More about Alternative flow equation for the functional renormalization group.

Quantum tunnelling, real-time dynamics and Picard-Lefschetz thimbles (2019)
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Mou, Z., Saffin, P. M., & Tranberg, A. (2019). Quantum tunnelling, real-time dynamics and Picard-Lefschetz thimbles. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(11), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282019%29135

We follow up the work, where in light of the Picard-Lefschetz thimble approach, we split up the real-time path integral into two parts: the initial density matrix part which can be represented via an ensemble of initial conditions, and the dynamic pa... Read More about Quantum tunnelling, real-time dynamics and Picard-Lefschetz thimbles.

Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal BOLD MRI (2019)
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Bane, O., Mendichovszky, I. A., Dekkers, I. A., Milani, B., Deux, J., Eckerbom, P., …Prasad, P. V. (2019). Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal BOLD MRI. Magma, 1-17

Objectives: Harmonization of acquisition and analysis protocols is an important step in the validation of BOLD MRI as a renal biomarker. This harmonization initiative provides technical recommendations based on a consensus report with the aim to move... Read More about Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal BOLD MRI.

Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal T1 and T2 mapping MRI (2019)
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Semple, S. I. K., Dekkers, I. A., de Boer, A., Sharma, K., Cox, E. F., Lamb, H. J., …Francis, S. (2020). Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal T1 and T2 mapping MRI. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 33(1), 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-019-00797-5

© 2019, The Author(s). To develop technical recommendations on the acquisition and post-processing of renal longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) relaxation time mapping. A multidisciplinary panel consisting of 18 experts in the field of renal T1 and... Read More about Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal T1 and T2 mapping MRI.

Microwave spectroscopy of radio-frequency dressed 87Rb (2019)
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A. Sinuco-Leon, G., M. Garraway, B., Mas, H., Pandey, S., Vasilakis, G., Bolpasi, V., …Fernholz, T. (2019). Microwave spectroscopy of radio-frequency dressed 87Rb. Physical Review A, 100(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.053416

We study the hyperfine spectrum of atoms of $^{87}$Rb dressed by a radio-frequency field, and present experimental results in three different situations: freely falling atoms, atoms trapped in an optical dipole trap and atoms in an adiabatic radio-fr... Read More about Microwave spectroscopy of radio-frequency dressed 87Rb.

Alginate and HM-pectin in sports-drink give rise to intra-gastric gelation in-vivo (2019)
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Marciani, L., Lopez-Sanchez, P., Pettersson, S., Hoad, C., Abrehart, N., Ahnoff, M., & Strömf, A. (2019). Alginate and HM-pectin in sports-drink give rise to intra-gastric gelation in-vivo. Food and Function, 10(12), 7892-7899. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9FO01617A

The addition of gelling polysaccharides to sport-drinks may provide improved tolerability of drinks with high concentration of digestible carbohydrates (CHO), otherwise known to increase the risk of gastro-intestinal complaints among athletes under p... Read More about Alginate and HM-pectin in sports-drink give rise to intra-gastric gelation in-vivo.

nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations VI: the dynamical imprint of substructure on gaseous cluster outskirts (2019)
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Power, C., Elahi, P. J., Welker, C., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Yepes, G., …Schaye, J. (2020). nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations VI: the dynamical imprint of substructure on gaseous cluster outskirts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(1), 3923-3936. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3176

Galaxy cluster outskirts mark the transition region from the mildly non-linear cosmic web to the highly non-linear, virialized, cluster interior. It is in this transition region that the intracluster medium (ICM) begins to influence the properties of... Read More about nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations VI: the dynamical imprint of substructure on gaseous cluster outskirts.

Using matrix product states to study the dynamical large deviations of kinetically constrained models (2019)
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Bañuls, M. C., & Garrahan, J. P. (2019). Using matrix product states to study the dynamical large deviations of kinetically constrained models. Physical Review Letters, 123(20), Article 200601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.200601

Here we demonstrate that tensor network techniques | originally devised for the analysis of quantum many-body problems | are well suited for the detailed study of rare event statistics in kinetically constrained models (KCMs). As concrete examples we... Read More about Using matrix product states to study the dynamical large deviations of kinetically constrained models.

Induction and measurement of the early stage of a host-parasite interaction using a combined optical trapping and Raman microspectroscopy system (2019)
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Sinjab, F., Elsheikha, H. M., Dooley, M., & Notingher, I. (2020). Induction and measurement of the early stage of a host-parasite interaction using a combined optical trapping and Raman microspectroscopy system. Journal of Biophotonics, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201960065

© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Biophotonics published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Understanding and quantifying the temporal acquisition of host cell molecules by intracellular pathogens is fundamentally important in biology. In t... Read More about Induction and measurement of the early stage of a host-parasite interaction using a combined optical trapping and Raman microspectroscopy system.