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2D gravitational Mabuchi action on Riemann surfaces with boundaries

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017
We study the gravitational action induced by coupling two-dimensional non-conformal, massive matter to gravity on a Riemann surface with boundaries. A small-mass expansion gives back the Liouville action in the massless limit, while the first-order mass ...
Adel Bilal, Corinne de Lacroix
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Plasmon‐Enhanced Second‐Harmonic Generation in Atomically Thin Crystalline Silver Nanostructures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Atomically thin crystalline silver films combine vertical quantum confinement with lateral plasmonic field enhancement to boost second‐harmonic generation. Nanoribbon and nanotriangle arrays enable geometry‐tunable infrared plasmon resonances, producing strong SHG from deeply subwavelength metallic volumes compatible with silicon‐based nanophotonics ...
Saad Abdullah, Philipp K. Jenke, Andrew P. Weber, Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Fadil Iyikanat, Frederik Schiller, Philip Walther, J. Enrique Ortega, Lee A. Rozema, F. Javier García de Abajo   +10 more
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Cosmic censorship in quantum Einstein gravity [PDF]

, 2017
We study the quantum gravity modification of the Kuroda-Papapetrou model induced by the running of the Newton’s constant at high energy in quantum Einstein gravity.
Koch, B., B Koch, Koch, Benjamin, BONANNO, Alfio Maurizio, A Bonanno, Platania, A., A Platania, Bonanno, A.   +7 more
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Spikes and spines in 4D Lorentzian simplicial quantum gravity

Journal of High Energy Physics
Simplicial approaches to quantum gravity such as quantum Regge calculus and spin foams include configurations where bulk edges can become arbitrarily large while the boundary edges are kept small.
Johanna Borissova, Bianca Dittrich, Dongxue Qu, Marc Schiffer   +3 more
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Biomass DNA: An Emerging Building Block for Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biomass DNA is rapidly emerging from its traditional role as a genetic blueprint to serve as a versatile abundant, highly programmable polymeric building block. This review highlights the transformation of macroscopic bulk biomass DNA into next generation of functional materials, spanning from dynamic hydrogels, sustainable bioplastics, and high ...
Yuwei Hu, Itamar Willner, Li Niu
wiley   +1 more source

No presentism in quantum gravity [PDF]

, 2010
This essay offers a reaction to the recent resurgence of presentism in the philosophy of time. What is of particular interest in this renaissance is that a number of recent arguments supporting presentism are crafted in an untypically naturalistic vein ...
Christian Wüthrich, Wuthrich, Christian
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Photocatalytic Water Splitting on the Lunar Surface: Prospects for In Situ Resource Utilization

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Water has been found in craters on the moon nearby locations which are illuminated >80% of the time. Photocatalysis uses energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions such as water splitting to produce oxygen and hydrogen. It is a scalable technology that requires lighter equipment and utilizes resources available on the moon. ABSTRACT The discovery
Ranjani Kalyan, Thomas D. Small, Gregory F. Metha, Mahmoud Adel Hamza, Thomas J. O'Dea, Yideng Shen, Cameron J. Shearer   +6 more
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Quantum Gravity: Has Spacetime Quantum Properties? [PDF]

, 2009
The conceptual incompatibility between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics is generally seen as a sufficient motivation for the development of a theory of Quantum Gravity. If - so a typical argumentation - Quantum Mechanics gives a universally valid
Hedrich, Reiner
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Towards an UV fixed point in CDT gravity

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019
CDT is an attempt to formulate a non-perturbative lattice theory of quantum gravity. We describe the phase diagram and analyse the phase transition between phase B and phase C (which is the analogue of the de Sitter phase observed for the spherical ...
J. Ambjørn, J. Gizbert-Studnicki, A. Görlich, J. Jurkiewicz, D. Németh   +4 more
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Life‐Like Ferrous Oxide Microspheres from Kombucha

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Kombucha bacterial cellulose, sodium alginate, and ferrous nitrate self‐assemble into membrane‐enclosed iron oxide microspheres. These microspheres bud daughter vesicles, sustain 24‐h electrochemical oscillations, and filter theta‐band signals.
Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Anna Nikolaidou, Andrew Adamatzky   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source