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Understanding exotic solids is a difficult task as interactions are often hidden by the symmetry of the system. Here, we study the electronic properties of a noncentrosymmetric solid, BiPd, which is a rare material exhibiting both superconductivity and the topological phase of matter. [...]

We present an efficient method to obtain initial state-selective cross sections for bimolecular reactions that can account for certain nuclear quantum effects by employing the ring polymer molecular dynamics approach. The method combines the well known quasiclassical trajectory (QCT) approach with the description of the system in an extended ring polymer phase space. [...]

The interaction of strong laser fields with matter intrinsically provides a powerful tool for imaging transient dynamics with an extremely high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we study strong-field ionisation of laser-aligned molecules, and show a full real-time picture of the photoelectron dynamics in the combined action of the laser field and the molecular interaction. [...]

In this paper, we show a comparison of different definitions of the topological charge on the lattice. We concentrate on one small-volume ensemble with 2 flavours of dynamical, maximally twisted mass fermions and use three more ensembles to analyze the approach to the continuum limit. [...]

The degradation of cadmium sulfide (CdS)–based oil paints is a phenomenon potentially threatening the iconic paint-ing The Scream (ca. 1910) by Edvard Munch (Munch Museum, Oslo) that is still poorly understood. [...]

Transparent n-type niobium-doped titanium dioxide thin films (TiO2:1.5 at.%Nb) with pronouncedthermoelectric properties were produced from a composite Ti:Nb target by reactive magnetron sputtering.The thin films were comprehensively characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectronspectroscopy, optical spectroscopy, electrical conductivity, and thermoelectric measurement techniques.The local structure of the thin films was investigated in detail by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the Tiand Nb K-edges. A set of radial distribution functions were extracted from the simultaneous analysis ofEXAFS data at two absorption edges using the reverse Monte Carlo method. [...]

A search for gluino pair production with events using 35.9 fb−1of data from ppcollisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016 is presented. Two differentcascade decay modes of gluinos are considered, and separate analyses for each of themodels are performed [...]

An electron beam passing through a tube which is lined on the inside with a dielectric layer will radiate energy in the THz range due to the interaction with the boundary. The resonant enhancement of certain frequencies is conditioned by structure parameters as tube radius and permittivity of the dielectric layer. [...]

In state of the art photoinjector electron sources, thermal emittance from photoemission dominates the final injector emittance. Therefore, low thermal emittance cathode developments and diagnostics are very important. [...]