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    Formation and observation of a quasi-two-dimensional dxyd_{xy} electron liquid in epitaxially stabilized Sr2−x_{2-x}Lax_{x}TiO4_{4} thin films

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    We report the formation and observation of an electron liquid in Sr2−x_{2-x}Lax_{x}TiO4_4, the quasi-two-dimensional counterpart of SrTiO3_3, through reactive molecular-beam epitaxy and {\it in situ} angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The lowest lying states are found to be comprised of Ti 3dxyd_{xy} orbitals, analogous to the LaAlO3_3/SrTiO3_3 interface and exhibit unusually broad features characterized by quantized energy levels and a reduced Luttinger volume. Using model calculations, we explain these characteristics through an interplay of disorder and electron-phonon coupling acting co-operatively at similar energy scales, which provides a possible mechanism for explaining the low free carrier concentrations observed at various oxide heterostructures such as the LaAlO3_3/SrTiO3_3 interface

    Origin of the Mosaicity in Graphene Grown on Cu(111)

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    We use low-energy electron microscopy to investigate how graphene grows on Cu(111). Graphene islands first nucleate at substrate defects such as step bunches and impurities. A considerable fraction of these islands can be rotationally misaligned with the substrate, generating grain boundaries upon interisland impingement. New rotational boundaries are also generated as graphene grows across substrate step bunches. Thus, rougher substrates lead to higher degrees of mosaicity than do flatter substrates. Increasing the growth temperature improves crystallographic alignment. We demonstrate that graphene growth on Cu(111) is surface diffusion limited by comparing simulations of the time evolution of island shapes with experiments. Islands are dendritic with distinct lobes, but unlike the polycrystalline, four-lobed islands observed on (100)-textured Cu foils, each island can be a single crystal. Thus, epitaxial graphene on smooth, clean Cu(111) has fewer structural defects than it does on Cu(100).Comment: Article revised following reviewer comment

    Gaspar data-centric framework

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    This paper presents the Gaspar data-centric framework to develop high performance parallel applications in Java. Our approach is based on data iterators and on the map pattern of computation. The framework provides an efficient data Application Programming Inter-face(API) that supports flexible data layout and data tiling. Data layout and tiling enable the improvement of data locality, which is essential to foster application scalability in modern multi-core systems. The paper presents the framework data-centric concepts and shows that the performance is comparable to pure Java code.(undefined)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon and Higgs-Mediated Flavor Changing Neutral Currents

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    In the two-Higgs doublet extension of the standard model, flavor-changing neutral couplings arise naturally. In the lepton sector, the largest such coupling is expected to be $\mu-\tau-\phi#. We consider the effects of this coupling on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The resulting bound on the coupling, unlike previous bounds, is independent of the value of other unknown couplings. It will be significantly improved by the upcoming E821 experiment at Brookhaven National Lab.Comment: 7 pages Latex, 2 figure

    Molecular cavity topological representation for pattern analysis: A NLP analogy-based word2vec method

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    © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Cavity analysis in molecular dynamics is important for understanding molecular function. However, analyzing the dynamic pattern of molecular cavities remains a difficult task. In this paper, we propose a novel method to topologically represent molecular cavities by vectorization. First, a characterization of cavities is established through Word2Vec model, based on an analogy between the cavities and natural language processing (NLP) terms. Then, we use some techniques such as dimension reduction and clustering to conduct an exploratory analysis of the vectorized molecular cavity. On a real data set, we demonstrate that our approach is applicable to maintain the topological characteristics of the cavity and can find the change patterns from a large number of cavities

    Edge Shear Flows and Particle Transport near the Density Limit in the HL-2A Tokamak

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    Edge shear flow and its effect on regulating turbulent transport have long been suspected to play an important role in plasmas operating near the Greenwald density limit nG n_G . In this study, equilibrium profiles as well as the turbulent particle flux and Reynolds stress across the separatrix in the HL-2A tokamak are examined as nG n_G is approached in ohmic L-mode discharges. As the normalized line-averaged density nˉe/nG \bar{n}_e/n_G is raised, the shearing rate of the mean poloidal flow ωsh \omega_{\rm sh} drops, and the turbulent drive for the low-frequency zonal flow (the Reynolds power PRe \mathcal{P}_{Re} ) collapses. Correspondingly, the turbulent particle transport increases drastically with increasing collision rates. The geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) gain more energy from the ambient turbulence at higher densities, but have smaller shearing rate than low-frequency zonal flows. The increased density also introduces decreased adiabaticity which not only enhances the particle transport but is also related to a reduction in the eddy-tilting and the Reynolds power. Both effects may lead to the cooling of edge plasmas and therefore the onset of MHD instabilities that limit the plasma density

    Interplay of Spin-Orbit Interactions, Dimensionality, and Octahedral Rotations in Semimetallic SrIrO3_3

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    We employ reactive molecular-beam epitaxy to synthesize the metastable perovskite SrIrO3_{3} and utilize {\it in situ} angle-resolved photoemission to reveal its electronic structure as an exotic narrow-band semimetal. We discover remarkably narrow bands which originate from a confluence of strong spin-orbit interactions, dimensionality, and both in- and out-of-plane IrO6_6 octahedral rotations. The partial occupation of numerous bands with strongly mixed orbital characters signals the breakdown of the single-band Mott picture that characterizes its insulating two-dimensional counterpart, Sr2_{2}IrO4_{4}, illustrating the power of structure-property relations for manipulating the subtle balance between spin-orbit interactions and electron-electron interactions

    Bounds on charged higgs boson in the 2HDM type III from Tevatron

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    We consider the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) of type III which leads to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) at tree level. In the framework of this model we can use an appropriate form of the Yukawa Lagrangian that makes the type II model limit of the general type III couplings apparent. This way is useful in order to compare with the experimental data which is model dependent. The analytical expressions of the partial width Γ(t→H+b)\Gamma (t \to H^+ b) are derived and we compare with the data available at this energy range. We examine the limits on the new parameters λij\lambda_{ij} from the validness of perturbation theory.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. typos correcte
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