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Publication date: 13 September 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 826Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - November 6, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Extreme value statistics of correlated random variables: A pedagogical review
Publication date: Available online 1 November 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Satya N. Majumdar, Arnab Pal, Grégory SchehrAbstractExtreme value statistics (EVS) concerns the study of the statistics of the maximum or the minimum of a set of random variables. This is an important problem for any time-series and has applications in climate, finance, sports, all the way to physics of disordered systems where one is interested in the statistics of the ground state energy. While the EVS of ‘uncorrelated’ variables are well understood, little is known for strongly correlated random variables. Only recently this subject...
Source: Physics Reports - November 3, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Saddle point approaches in strong field physics and generation of attosecond pulses
Publication date: Available online 31 October 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Arjun Nayak, Mathieu Dumergue, Sergei Kühn, Sudipta Mondal, Tamás Csizmadia, N.G. Harshitha, Miklós Füle, Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly, Balázs Farkas, Balázs Major, Viktor Szaszkó-Bogár, Péter Földi, Szilárd Majorosi, Nikolaos Tsatrafyllis, Emmanuel Skantzakis, Lana Neoričić, Mojtaba Shirozhan, Giulio Vampa, Katalin Varjú, Paraskevas TzallasAbstractAttoscience is the emerging field that accesses the fastest electronic processes occurring at the atomic and molecular length scales with attosecond (1 as = 10−18 s) time resolution ha...
Source: Physics Reports - November 1, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
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Publication date: 10 September 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 825Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - October 26, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
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Publication date: 3 September 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 824Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - October 25, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Implications of superrotations
Publication date: Available online 21 October 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Sabrina PasterskiAbstractA framework of connections between asymptotic symmetries, soft theorems, and memory effects has recently shed light on a universal structure associated with infrared physics. Here, we show how this pattern has been used to fill in missing elements. After the necessary groundwork, we begin by proving a Ward identity for superrotations using the subleading soft graviton theorem, thereby demonstrating a semiclassical Virasoro symmetry for scattering in quantum gravity. Next, we show there exists a new spin memory effec...
Source: Physics Reports - October 22, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Local temperatures out of equilibrium
Publication date: Available online 21 October 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Daochi Zhang, Xiao Zheng, Massimiliano Di VentraAbstractThe temperature of a physical system is operationally defined in physics as “that quantity which is measured by a thermometer” weakly coupled to, and at equilibrium with the system. This definition is unique only at global equilibrium in view of the zeroth law of thermodynamics: when the system and the thermometer have reached equilibrium, the “thermometer degrees of freedom” can be traced out and the temperature read by the thermometer can be uniquely assigned to the system. U...
Source: Physics Reports - October 22, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Quantum decoherence
Publication date: Available online 18 October 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Maximilian SchlosshauerAbstractQuantum decoherence plays a pivotal role in the dynamical description of the quantum-to-classical transition and is the main impediment to the realization of devices for quantum information processing. This paper gives an overview of the theory and experimental observation of the decoherence mechanism. We introduce the essential concepts and the mathematical formalism of decoherence, focusing on the picture of the decoherence process as a continuous monitoring of a quantum system by its environment. We review ...
Source: Physics Reports - October 19, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
First-principles design of strong solids: Approaches and applications
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): R.F. Zhang, S.H. Zhang, Y.Q. Guo, Z.H. Fu, D. Legut, T.C. Germann, S. VeprekAbstractIn the design of strong solids, especially hard and superhard materials, this review article attempts to critically cover an extended field of first-principles derived mechanical properties by considering both intrinsic (i.e., crystal structures, bonding nature and strength) and extrinsic (i.e., nanostructures and interface characteristics) parameters. For the intrinsic parameters, firstly, the bonding topology and nature, elastic property and ductility-br...
Source: Physics Reports - September 29, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Silicon strip and pixel detectors for particle physics experiments
Publication date: Available online 25 September 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Sally SeidelAbstractFollowing a brief introduction to the roles that a tracking detector fulfills in a particle physics experiment, the concept of a silicon tracking detector is introduced. The contributors to position resolution of the detector are described along with some technological developments that have occurred in response to them. An overview of the historical evolution of the silicon detector concept follows, with emphasis on what was learned at significant junctures. A light reminder of foundational concepts related to semicon...
Source: Physics Reports - September 27, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Matter manipulation with extreme terahertz light: Progress in the enabling THz technology
Publication date: Available online 20 September 2019Source: Physics ReportsAuthor(s): Peter Salén, Martina Basini, Stefano Bonetti, János Hebling, Mikhail Krasilnikov, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Georgii Shamuilov, Zoltán Tibai, Vitali Zhaunerchyk, Vitaliy GoryashkoAbstractTerahertz (THz) light has proven to be a fine tool to probe and control quasi-particles and collective excitations in solids, to drive phase transitions and associated changes in material properties, and to study rotations and vibrations in molecular systems. In contrast to visible light, which usually carries excessive photon energy for collective excitations...
Source: Physics Reports - September 21, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
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Publication date: 25 August 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 823Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - September 21, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
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Publication date: 10 August 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 821Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - September 19, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
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Publication date: 20 August 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 822Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - September 19, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
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Publication date: 25 July 2019Source: Physics Reports, Volume 819Author(s): (Source: Physics Reports)
Source: Physics Reports - September 15, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
