African University of Science and Technology: Recent submissions
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Enhanced active swimming in viscoelastic fluids
(IOP PublishingEurophysics Letters, 2014-11-05)Swimming microorganisms often self-propel in fluids with complex rheology. While past theoretical work indicates that fluid viscoelasticity should hinder their locomotion, recent experiments on waving swimmers suggest a ...
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Quantum communication complexity advantage implies violation of a Bell inequality
(National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016-03-08)We obtain a general connection between a large quantum advantage in communication complexity and Bell non-locality. We show that given any protocol offering a sufficiently large quantum advantage in communication complexity, ...
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Propulsion of Bubble-Based Acoustic Microswimmers
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Applied, 2015-12-29)Acoustic microswimmers present a great potential for microfluidic applications and targeted drug delivery. Here, we introduce armored microbubbles (size range, 10–20 μm) made by three-dimensional microfabrication, which ...
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Evaporation effects in elastocapillary aggregation
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016)We consider the effect of evaporation on the aggregation of a number of elastic objects due to a liquid’s surface tension. In particular, we consider an array of spring–block elements in which the gaps between blocks are ...
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End point of Black Ring Instabilities and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Letters, 2016-02-18)We produce the first concrete evidence that violation of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture can occur in asymptotically flat spaces of five dimensions by numerically evolving perturbed black rings. For certain thin ...
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Diffusion tensor imaging with deterministic error bounds
(SpringerJournal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2016)Errors in the data and the forward operator of an inverse problem can be handily modelled using partial order in Banach lattices. We present some existing results of the theory of regularisation in this novel framework, ...
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Distinguishing black-hole spin-orbit resonances by their gravitational wave signatures. II: Full parameter estimation
(American Physical Society, 2016)Gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes encode the evolution of their spins prior to merger. In the post-Newtonian regime and on the precession timescale, this evolution has one of three morphologies, with ...
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Classical and quantum solutions in Brans-Dicke cosmology with a perfect fluid
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2016)We consider the application of group invariant transformations in order to constrain a flat isotropic and homogeneous cosmological model, containing of a Brans-Dicke scalar field and a perfect fluid with a constant equation ...
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Slender-ribbon theory
(American Institute of PhysicsPhysics of Fluids, 2016-01-11)Ribbons are long narrow strips possessing three distinct material length scales (thickness, width, and length) which allow them to produce unique shapes unobtainable by wires or filaments. For example, when a ribbon has ...
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Separable projection integrals for higher-order correlators of the cosmic microwave sky: Acceleration by factors exceeding 100
(ElsevierJournal of Computational Physics, 2016-01-19)We present a case study describing efforts to optimise and modernise “Modal”, the simulation and analysis pipeline used by the Planck satellite experiment for constraining general non-Gaussian models of the early universe ...
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ATLAS diboson excess could be an R-parity violating dismuon excess
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2016-02-09)We propose a new possible explanation of the ATLAS diboson excess: that it is due to heavy resonant slepton production, followed by decay into dismuons. The smuon has a mass not too far from the W and Z masses, and so it ...
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Stability of saddle points via explicit coderivatives of pointwise subdifferentials
(Springer, 2016)We derive stability criteria for saddle points of a class of nonsmooth optimization problems in Hilbert spaces arising in PDE-constrained optimization, using metric regularity of infinite-dimensional set-valued mappings. ...
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Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in booming sand dunes
(AIPPhysics of Fluids, 2015-10-27)The current field study examines linear and non-linear acoustic waves found in large desert sand dunes using field measurements of wave speed, frequency content, dispersion, and polarization. At the dune fields visited, ...
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On superconformal anyons
(SpringerJournal of High Energy Physics, 2016-01-22)In d = 2+1 dimensions, there exist field theories which are non-relativistic and superconformal. These theories describe two species of anyons, whose spins differ by 1/2, interacting in a harmonic trap. We compute the ...
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Acoustic Scattering by a Finite Rigid Plate with a Poroelastic Extension
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016-02-24)The scattering of sound by a finite rigid plate with a finite poroelastic extension interacting with an unsteady acoustic source is investigated to determine the effects of porosity, elasticity, and the length of the ...
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Three-dimensional flow in Kupffer's Vesicle
(SpringerJournal of Mathematical Biology, 2016-01-29)Whilst many vertebrates appear externally left-right symmetric, the arrangement of internal organs is asymmetric. In zebrafish, the breaking of left-right symmetry is organised by Kupffer’s Vesicle (KV): an approximately ...
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Using stratification to mitigate end-effects in quasi-Keplerian Taylor-Couette flow
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016-02-24)Efforts to model accretion disks in the laboratory using Taylor–Couette flow apparatus are plagued with problems due to the substantial impact the end-plates have on the flow. We explore the possibility of mitigating the ...
