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  • Low- and high-frequency oscillatory winds synergistically enhance nutrient entrainment and phytoplankton at fronts 

    Whitt, DB; Lévy, M; Taylor, John Ryan (AGU PublicationsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2017-02-10)
    When phytoplankton growth is limited by low nutrient concentrations, full-depth-integrated phytoplankton biomass increases in response to intermittent mixing events that bring nutrient-rich waters into the sunlit surface ...

  • Viscoplastic boundary layers 

    Balmforth, NJ; Craster, RV; Hewitt, Duncan; Hormozi, S; Maleki, A (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-02-25)
    In the limit of a large yield stress, or equivalently at the initiation of motion, viscoplastic flows can develop narrow boundary layers that provide either surfaces of failure between rigid plugs, the lubrication between ...

  • Utilising optimised operators and distillation to extract scattering phase shifts 

    Woss, Antoni; Thomas, Christopher Edward (Proceedings of Science, 2016-01-01)
    In this investigation, we examine how the precision of energy spectra and scattering phase shifts, extracted in lattice QCD, depend upon the degree of distillation type smearing. We use the variational method to extract ...

  • On the GL$_{n}$-eigenvariety and a conjecture of Venkatesh 

    Hansen, D; Thorne, Jack Arfon
    Let π be a cuspidal, cohomological automorphic representation of GL$_{n}$(A). Venkatesh has suggested that there should exist a natural action of the exterior algebra of a certain motivic cohomology group on the π-part of ...

  • Infinitely many monotone Lagrangian tori in del Pezzo surfaces 

    Ferreira de Velloso Vianna, Renato
    We construct almost toric fibrations (ATFs) on all del Pezzo surfaces, endowed with a monotone symplectic form. Except for CP$^{2}$#CP$^{2}$, CP$^{2}$#2CP$^{2}$, we are able to get almost toric base diagrams (ATBDs) of ...

  • Isoscalar ππ Scattering and the σ Meson Resonance from QCD 

    Briceño, RA; Dudek, JJ; Edwards, RG; Wilson, David John (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Letters, 2017-01-13)
    We present for the first time a determination of the energy dependence of the isoscalar ππ elastic scattering phase shift within a first-principles numerical lattice approach to QCD. Hadronic correlation functions are ...

  • Kinetic effects regularize the mass-flux singularity at the contact line of a thin evaporating drop 

    Saxton, Matthew; Vella, D; Whiteley, JP; Oliver, JM
    We consider the transport of vapour caused by the evaporation of a thin, axisymmetric, partially wetting drop into an inert gas. We take kinetic effects into account through a linear constitutive law that states that the ...

  • Parameterization of Frontal Symmetric Instabilities. I: Theory for Resolved Fronts 

    Bachman, Scott Daniel; Fox-Kemper, B; Taylor, John Ryan; Thomas, LN (ElsevierOcean Modelling, 2017-01-01)
    A parameterization is proposed for the effects of symmetric instability (SI) on a resolved front. The parameterization is dependent on external forcing by surface buoyancy loss and/or down-front winds, which reduce potential ...

  • Zonal flow evolution and overstability in accretion discs 

    Vanon, Riccardo; Ogilvie, Gordon Ian (Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017-04-01)
    This work presents a linear analytical calculation on the stability and evolution of a compressible, viscous self-gravitating (SG) Keplerian disc with both horizontal thermal diffusion and a constant cooling time-scale ...

  • Extraction of gravitational-wave energy in higher dimensional numerical relativity using the Weyl tensor 

    Cook, WG; Sperhake, Ulrich
    © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd. Gravitational waves are one of the most important diagnostic tools in the analysis of strong-gravity dynamics and have been turned into an observational channel with LIGO's detection of GW150914. ...

  • Meson spectroscopy, resonances and scattering on the lattice 

    Thomas, Christopher Edward
    I discuss some recent progress in studying the spectra of mesons using first-principles lattice QCD calculations. In particular, I highlight some new results on resonances, near-threshold states and related scattering ...

  • The Planar Ising Model and Total Positivity 

    Lis, Marcin (SpringerJournal of Statistical Physics, 2017-01-01)
    A matrix is called totally positive (resp. totally nonnegative) if all its minors are positive (resp. nonnegative). Consider the Ising model with free boundary conditions and no external field on a planar graph G. Let ...

  • Excited and exotic charmonium, $\textit{D}$$_{s}$ and $\textit{D}$ meson spectra for two light quark masses from lattice QCD 

    Cheung, Gavin; O'Hara, C; Moir, Graham; Peardon, M; Ryan, SM; Thomas, Christopher Edward; Tims, D (SpringerJournal of High Energy Physics, 2016-12-19)
    We present highly-excited charmonium, $\textit{D}$$_{s}$ and $\textit{D}$ meson spectra from dynamical lattice QCD calculations with light quarks corresponding to $\textit{M}$$_{π}$ ∼ 240 MeV and compare these to previous ...

  • Non-abelian 3$D$ bosonization and quantum Hall states 

    Radičević, Ð; Tong, David; Turner, Carl (SpringerJournal of High Energy Physics, 2016-12-01)
    Bosonization dualities relate two different Chern-Simons-matter theories, with bosonic matter on one side replaced by fermionic matter on the other. We first describe a more general class of non-Abelian bosonization ...

  • Can phoretic particles swim in two dimensions? 

    Sondak, D; Hawley, C; Heng, S; Vinsonhaler, R; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie; Thiffeault, J-L (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review E, 2016-12-16)
    Artificial phoretic particles swim using self-generated gradients in chemical species (self-diffusiophoresis) or charges and currents (self-electrophoresis). These particles can be used to study the physics of collective ...

  • Derivative of the standard $p$-adic $L$-function associated with a Siegel form 

    Rosso, Giovanni
    In this paper we construct a two variables p-adic L-function for the standard representation associated with a Hida family of parallel weight genus g Siegel forms, using a method previously developed by B\"ocherer--Schmidt ...

  • Shadows of Teichmüller Discs in the Curve Graph 

    Tang, R; Webb, Richard Charles
    We consider several natural sets of curves associated to a given Teichmüller disc, such as the systole set or cylinder set, and study their coarse geometry inside the curve graph. We prove that these sets are quasiconvex ...

  • Helical propulsion in shear-thinning fluids 

    Gómez, S; Godínez, FA; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie; Zenit, R (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-02-01)
    Swimming micro-organisms often have to propel themselves in complex non-Newtonian fluids. We carry out experiments with self-propelling helical swimmers driven by an externally rotating magnetic field in shear-thinning ...

  • An upper bound for the pseudoisotopy stable range 

    Randal-Williams, Oscar (SpringerMathematische Annalen, 2017-08-01)
    We prove that the pseudoisotopy stable range for manifolds of dimension 2n can be no better than (2n - 2). In order to do so, we define new characteristic classes for block bundles, extending our earlier work with Ebert, ...

  • Long-range interactions, wobbles, and phase defects in chains of model cilia 

    Brumley, DR; Bruot, N; Kotar, Jurij; Goldstein, Raymond Ethan; Cicuta, Pietro; Polin, M (American Physical SoceityPhysical Review Fluids, 2016-12-13)
    Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are chemo-mechanical oscillators capable of generating long-range coordinated motions known as metachronal waves. Pair synchronization is a fundamental requirement for these collective dynamics, ...