2D Monte Carlo Simulation of Patchy Particles Association and Protein Crystal Polymorph Selection by Bogdan Ranguelov, Christo Nanev

“…The step-by-step scenario of this polymorphic transition and the specific role of PPs’ geometric and interaction anisotropies are discussed in detail.…”
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Induced sensitivity of Bacillus subtilis colony morphology to mechanical media compression by Jessica K. Polka, Pamela A. Silver

“…Bacteria from several taxa, including Kurthia zopfii, Myxococcus xanthus, and Bacillus mycoides, have been reported to align growth of their colonies to small features on the surface of solid media, including anisotropies created by compression. While the function of this phenomenon is unclear, it may help organisms navigate on solid phases, such as soil. …”
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Reconstructing the EFT of inflation from cosmological data by Amel Durakovic, Paul Hunt, Subodh P. Patil, Subir Sarkar

“…Reconstructions of the primordial power spectrum (PPS) of curvature perturbations from cosmic microwave background anisotropies and large-scale structure data suggest that the usually assumed power-law PPS has localised features (up to $\sim 10\%$ in amplitude), although of only marginal significance in the framework of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. …”
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Persisting quantum effects in the anisotropic Rabi model at thermal equilibrium by He-Guang Xu, V. Montenegro, Gao Xianlong, Jiasen Jin, G. D. de Moraes Neto

“…Recently, a continuous transition between the Jaynes-Cummings model and the Rabi model has been proposed by exploiting anisotropies in their light-matter interactions, known as the anisotropic quantum Rabi model. …”
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Caractérisation d’échantillons représentatifs de soudures austénitiques en 316L par Spectroscopie de Résonance Ultrasonore (RUS) by Florian Le Bourdais, Nicolas Leymarie, Pierre-Emile Lhuillier

“…De nombreuses techniques reposant sur l’utilisation d’ondes élastiques ultrasonores ont déjà été mises en oeuvre afin d’obtenir avec précision les constantes élastiques et ainsi d’évaluer l’anisotropie apparente de ces milieux complexes. Dans le cadre de cette étude, la Spectroscopie de Résonance Ultrasonore (RUS) a été mise en oeuvre pour caractériser des échantillons prélevés dans un « mur » fabriqué par soudage dans l’hypothèse d’un comportement élastique orthotrope, homogène à l’échelle de l’échantillon. …”
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The H0 tension in light of vacuum dynamics in the universe by Joan Solà, Adrià Gómez-Valent, Javier de Cruz Pérez

“…Recently the dispute came to the spotlight with renewed strength owing to the significant tension (at >3σ c.l.) between the latest Planck determination obtained from the CMB anisotropies and the local (distance ladder) measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), based on Cepheids. …”
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Exploring the relationships between shear zones and granites: field and microstructural data for contrasting case studies of the Borborema Province (NE Brazil) by Lauro Cézar Montefalco de Lira Santos

“…Such characteristics are compatible with granites that were injected in the continental crust along planar anisotropies (i.e., shear zones) in the late-stage partial melting events that originated the migmatites of the area. …”
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Horizon, homogeneity and flatness problems: do their resolutions really depend upon inflation? by Ashok K. Singal

“…Without casting any aspersions on the inflationary theory, which after all is the most promising paradigm to explain the pattern of anisotropies observed in the cosmic microwave background, we argue that one cannot use homogeneity and flatness in support of inflation.…”
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Killing the straw man: Does BICEP prove inflation at the GUT scale? by James B. Dent, Lawrence M. Krauss, Harsh Mathur

“…We find that even without detailed considerations of the predicted BICEP signature of such a transition, simple existing limits on the isocurvature contribution to CMB anisotropies would definitively rule out a contribution of more than 5% to r≈0.2. …”
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Constraints on large scale inhomogeneities from WMAP-5 and SDSS: confrontation with recent observations by Hunt, P, Sarkar, S

“…With the smaller global Hubble parameter, the WMAP-5 data on cosmic microwave background anisotropies can be fitted without requiring dark energy if there is some excess power in the spectrum of primordial perturbations on 100 Mpc scales. …”

Is the evidence for dark energy secure? by Sarkar, S

“…The dimming of distant Type Ia supernovae suggests that the expansion rate is accelerating, as if driven by vacuum energy, and this has been indirectly substantiated through studies of angular anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and of spatial correlations in the large-scale structure (LSS) of galaxies. …”

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from shocks in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies by Matthews, J, Bell, B, Blundell, K, Araudo, A

“…We discuss some of the more general considerations for acceleration of particles to ultra-high energy with reference to giant-lobed radio galaxies such as Centaurus A and Fornax A, a class of sources which may be responsible for the observed anisotropies from UHECR observatories. …”

A COMBINED ESR/X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDY OF THE Y2O3-BAO-CUO PHASE-DIAGRAM by Jones, R, Janes, R, Armstrong, R, Pyper, N, Edwards, P, Keeble, D, Harrison, M

“…Signals close to the free-spin region are attributed to localised Cu2+ species with g-value anisotropies noticeably dependent upon the local crystal structure. …”

Evidence for polarons and itinerant carriers in superconductivity from time-resolved optical measurements on YBa2Cu3O7-Delta by Mihailovic, D, Stevens, C, Demsar, J, Podobnik, B, Smith, D, Ryan, J

“…Spectrally, the superconducting condensate is also found to be coupled to two distinct components in frequency (for both carriers): one below 0.1 eV and one in the range 1.5-2 eV, but with different anisotropies. A natural explanation of these datas is that the two types of carriers correspond to the two phases suggested by the structural data and as such present the first direct evidence of two-component superconductivity. …”

Reconstructing the EFT of inflation from cosmological data by Durakovic, A, Hunt, P, Patil, S, Sarkar, S

“…Reconstructions of the primordial power spectrum (PPS) of curvature perturbations from cosmic microwave background anisotropies and large-scale structure data suggest that the usually assumed power-law PPS has localised features (up to $\sim 10\%$ in amplitude), although of only marginal significance in the framework of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. …”

A review of micro/nanostructure effects on the machining of metallic materials by Zejia Zhao, Suet To, Jingwei Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Zhimin Weng

“…The micro/nanostructures mainly include crystalline anisotropies of single crystals, grain sizes of polycrystals, phase compositions of single/multiphase materials, layer-by-layer structures of additive manufactured materials, amorphous structures of bulk metal glasses, micro reinforcements of metal matrix composites, and porosities of porous metal foams. …”
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Giant Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, strong XXZ-type biquadratic coupling, and bimeronic excitations in the two-dimensional CrMnI6 magnet by Shunhong Zhang, Xiaoyin Li, Huisheng Zhang, Ping Cui, Xiaohong Xu, Zhenyu Zhang

“…Abstract Two-dimensional magnets have been discovered recently as a new class of quantum matter exhibiting a broad wealth of exotic phenomena, including notably various topological excitations rooted in emergent exchange couplings between the localized magnetic moments. By analyzing the anisotropies in the single-ion magnetization and two-body exchange couplings obtained from first-principles calculations, we reveal coexistence of both giant Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction and strong anisotropic XXZ-type biquadratic coupling in a recently predicted monolayer CrMnI6 magnet. …”
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Direct generation of linearly polarized single photons with a deterministic axis in quantum dots by Wang Tong, Puchtler Tim J., Patra Saroj K., Zhu Tongtong, Ali Muhammad, Badcock Tom J., Ding Tao, Oliver Rachel A., Schulz Stefan, Taylor Robert A.

“…When coupled with theoretical insights, we show that these QDs are highly insensitive to size differences, shape anisotropies, and material content variations. Furthermore, 91% of the studied QDs exhibit a polarization axis along the crystal [1–100] axis, with the other 9% polarized orthogonal to this direction. …”
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Damage Localization in Composite Plates Using Wavelet Transform and 2-D Convolutional Neural Networks by Guillermo Azuara, Mariano Ruiz, Eduardo Barrera

“…However, extracting meaningful physical features from the response signals is challenging due to several factors, such as the multimodal nature of UGW, boundary conditions and the geometric shape of the structure, possible material anisotropies, and their environmental dependency. Neural networks (NN) are becoming a practical and accurate approach to analyzing the acquired data using data-driven methods. …”
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Frustration-driven magnetic fluctuations as the origin of the low-temperature skyrmion phase in Co7Zn7Mn6 by V. Ukleev, K. Karube, P. M. Derlet, C. N. Wang, H. Luetkens, D. Morikawa, A. Kikkawa, L. Mangin-Thro, A. R. Wildes, Y. Yamasaki, Y. Yokoyama, L. Yu, C. Piamonteze, N. Jaouen, Y. Tokunaga, H. M. Rønnow, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, Y. Taguchi, J. S. White

“…The influences of other leading skyrmion stability mechanisms, such as those derived from thermal fluctuations and low T cubic anisotropies, are shown to be weak in this system. We therefore advance the existence of a fundamental mechanism for stabilizing topological skyrmions in Co7Zn7Mn6 chiral magnet that draws upon magnetic frustration as the key ingredient.…”
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