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Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using ?-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (2018)
Journal Article
Al-sandaqchi, A. T., Brignell, C., Collingwood, J. F., Geraki, K., Mirkes, E. M., Kong, K., …Elsheikha, H. M. (2018). Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using μ-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Metallomics, 1401-1414. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8MT00136G

In this study, we measured the levels of elements in human brain microvascular endothelial cells (ECs) infected with T. gondii. ECs were infected with tachyzoites of the RH strain, and at 6, 24, and 48 hours post infection (hpi), the intracellular co... Read More about Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using ?-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

A complete set of independent and physically meaningful invariants in the mechanics of solids reinforced by two families of fibres (2018)
Journal Article
Soldatos, K. P. (2018). A complete set of independent and physically meaningful invariants in the mechanics of solids reinforced by two families of fibres. Mechanics Research Communications, 94, (49-52). doi:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2018.09.001. ISSN 0093-6413

It has recently been shown [2, 3] that only seven of the classical deformation invariants employed in hyperelasticity of solids reinforced by two families of unidirectional fibres are independent. This short communication demonstrates a manner in whi... Read More about A complete set of independent and physically meaningful invariants in the mechanics of solids reinforced by two families of fibres.

Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement (2018)
Journal Article
Braun, D., Adesso, G., Benatti, F., Floreanini, R., Marzolino, U., Mitchell, M. W., & Pirandola, S. (2018). Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement. Reviews of Modern Physics, 90(3), Article 035006. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.90.035006

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects for increasing the sensitivity of measurements of certain physical parameters and have great potential for both fundamental science and concrete applications. Most of the research has s... Read More about Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement.

Causal structure of black holes in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories (2018)
Journal Article
Benkel, R., Franchini, N., Saravani, M., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2018). Causal structure of black holes in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories. Physical Review D, 98(6), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.064006

In theories with derivative (self-)interactions, the propagation of perturbations on nontrivial field configurations is determined by effective metrics. Generalized scalar-tensor theories belong in this class and this implies that the matter fields a... Read More about Causal structure of black holes in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories.

Gaussian quantum resource theories (2018)
Journal Article
Lami, L., Regula, B., Wang, X., Nichols, R., Winter, A., & Adesso, G. (2018). Gaussian quantum resource theories. Physical Review A, 98(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.022335

We develop a general framework to assess capabilities and limitations of the Gaussian toolbox in continuous-variable quantum information theory. Our framework allows us to characterize the structure and properties of quantum resource theories special... Read More about Gaussian quantum resource theories.

Total photoionization cross section of planar helium: scaling laws and collision orbits (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, M., Byun, C. W., Choi, N. N., & Tanner, G. (2018). Total photoionization cross section of planar helium: scaling laws and collision orbits. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 51(18), Article 185001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aad8e2

The total photoionization cross section of planar helium has been calculated up to the single ionization threshold I22 of triple P states. The cross section shows chaotic fluctuations as the energy E approaches the double ionization threshold E=0. By... Read More about Total photoionization cross section of planar helium: scaling laws and collision orbits.

Individual preventive social distancing during an epidemic may have negative population-level outcomes (2018)
Journal Article
Leung, K. Y., Ball, F., Sirl, D., & Britton, T. (2018). Individual preventive social distancing during an epidemic may have negative population-level outcomes. Interface, 15, doi:10.1098/rsif.2018.0296. ISSN 1742-5662

The outbreak of an infectious disease in a human population can lead to individuals responding with preventive measures in an attempt to avoid getting infected. This leads to changes in contact patterns. However, as we show in this paper, rational be... Read More about Individual preventive social distancing during an epidemic may have negative population-level outcomes.

On the characterisation of polar fibrous composites when fibres resist bending – Part II: Connection with anisotropic polar linear elasticity (2018)
Journal Article
Soldatos, K. P. (2018). On the characterisation of polar fibrous composites when fibres resist bending – Part II: Connection with anisotropic polar linear elasticity. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 152-153, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.08.022

This continuation of Part I (Soldatos, 2018) aims to make a connection between the polar linear elasticity for fibre-reinforce materials due to (Spencer and Soldatos, 2007; Soldatos, 2014, 2015) with the anisotropic version and the principal postulat... Read More about On the characterisation of polar fibrous composites when fibres resist bending – Part II: Connection with anisotropic polar linear elasticity.

Effect of uncertainty in external forcing on a fluid lubricated bearing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bailey, N., Power, H., Tretyakov, M., & Hibberd, S. (2018). Effect of uncertainty in external forcing on a fluid lubricated bearing. In K. Lucchesi Cavalca, & H. I. Weber (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Rotor Dynamics – IFToMM (443-459). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99272-3_31

Developments in industrial applications motivate improvements in fluid lubricated bearing technology, enabling smaller face clearances and increased rotation rates. Associated film lubrication technology aims to improve efficiency and reliability. A... Read More about Effect of uncertainty in external forcing on a fluid lubricated bearing.

Probabilistic distillation of quantum coherence (2018)
Journal Article
Fang, K., Wang, X., Lami, L., Regula, B., & Adesso, G. (2018). Probabilistic distillation of quantum coherence. Physical Review Letters, 121(7), doi:10.1103/physrevlett.121.070404. ISSN 0031-9007

The ability to distill quantum coherence is pivotal for optimizing the performance of quantum technologies; however, such a task cannot always be accomplished with certainty. Here we develop a general framework of probabilistic distillation of quantu... Read More about Probabilistic distillation of quantum coherence.

Scattering approach to Anderson localization (2018)
Journal Article
Ossipov, A. (2018). Scattering approach to Anderson localization. Physical Review Letters, 121(7), doi:10.1103/physrevlett.121.076601. ISSN 0031-9007

We develop a novel approach to the Anderson localization problem in a d-dimensional disordered sample of dimension L×Md−1. Attaching a perfect lead with the cross section Md−1 to one side of the sample, we derive evolution equations for the scatterin... Read More about Scattering approach to Anderson localization.

Noisy frequency estimation with noisy probes (2018)
Journal Article
Górecka, A., Pollock, F. A., Liuzzo-Scorpo, P., Nichols, R., Adesso, G., & Modi, K. (2018). Noisy frequency estimation with noisy probes. New Journal of Physics, 20(8), Article 083008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aad4e5

We consider frequency estimation in a noisy environment with noisy probes. This builds on previous studies, most of which assume that the initial probe state is pure, while the encoding process is noisy, or that the initial probe state is mixed, whil... Read More about Noisy frequency estimation with noisy probes.

Neural Fields: Localised States with Piece-Wise Constant Interactions (2018)
Book Chapter
Gökçe, A., Coombes, S., & Avitabile, D. (2018). Neural Fields: Localised States with Piece-Wise Constant Interactions. In Mathematical and Theoretical Neuroscience: Cell, Network and Data Analysis (111-121). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68297-6_7

Neural field models are typically cast as continuum integro-differential equations for describing the idealised coarse-grained activity of populations of interacting neurons. For smooth Mexican hat kernels, with short-range excitation and long-range... Read More about Neural Fields: Localised States with Piece-Wise Constant Interactions.

Unruh-DeWitt Fermion Detector on a (1+1)-Dimensional Cylindrical Spacetime: Arbitrary Worldlines and Inequivalent Spin Structures (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Louko, J., & Toussaint, V. (2017). Unruh-DeWitt Fermion Detector on a (1+1)-Dimensional Cylindrical Spacetime: Arbitrary Worldlines and Inequivalent Spin Structures. In Proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (2809-2815). https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813226609_0349

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector which couples linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field on the static cylindrical quotient of the (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, allowing the detector’s motion to remain arbitrary and... Read More about Unruh-DeWitt Fermion Detector on a (1+1)-Dimensional Cylindrical Spacetime: Arbitrary Worldlines and Inequivalent Spin Structures.

Quantum propagation across cosmological singularities (2017)
Journal Article
Gielen, S., & Turok, N. (2017). Quantum propagation across cosmological singularities. Physical Review D, 95(10), Article 103510. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.103510

The initial singularity is the most troubling feature of the standard cosmology, which quantum effects are hoped to resolve. In this paper, we study quantum cosmology with conformal (Weyl) invariant matter. We show that it is natural to extend the sc... Read More about Quantum propagation across cosmological singularities.

Emergence of a low spin phase in group field theory condensates (2016)
Journal Article
Gielen, S. (2016). Emergence of a low spin phase in group field theory condensates. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(22), Article 224002. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/22/224002

Recent results have shown how quantum cosmology models can be derived from the effective dynamics of condensate states in group field theory (GFT), where ‘cosmology is the hydrodynamics of quantum gravity’: the classical Friedmann dynamics for homoge... Read More about Emergence of a low spin phase in group field theory condensates.