Showing papers in "Physics Reports in 2020"

TL;DR: The current status of the Standard Model calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is reviewed in this paper, where the authors present a detailed account of recent efforts to improve the calculation of these two contributions with either a data-driven, dispersive approach, or a first-principle, lattice approach.

TL;DR: A complete overview of the emerging field of networks beyond pairwise interactions, and focuses on novel emergent phenomena characterizing landmark dynamical processes, such as diffusion, spreading, synchronization and games, when extended beyond Pairwise interactions.

TL;DR: In this article, the state-of-the-art progress on MXene theory, materials synthesis techniques, morphology modifications, opto-electro-magnetic properties, and their applications are comprehensively discussed.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art theoretical and machine learning developments in jet substructure is provided in this article, which is meant both as a pedagogical introduction and as a comprehensive reference for experts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent advances in the measurement and modeling of thermophysical properties at the nanoscale (from the solid state to colloids) is presented, including thermal conductivity, dynamic viscosity, specific heat capacity, and density.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an up-to-date compendium of the available results on superconducting hydrides and explain how the synergy of different methodologies led to extraordinary discoveries in the field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the present status of the search for a phase transition and critical point as well as anomalous transport phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with an emphasis on the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

TL;DR: The landscape of QCD axion models is reviewed in this paper, where theoretical constructions that extend the window for the axion mass and couplings beyond conventional regions are highlighted and classified Bounds from cosmology, astrophysics and experimental searches are reexamined and updated

TL;DR: A review of the progress in the field of exotic X Y Y Z hadrons can be found in this paper, where the authors present a summary of the future prospects and challenges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the state-of-the-art studies on the topic of size-dependent phononic thermal transport in low-dimensional nanomaterials, including both theoretical and experimental reports.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an overview of important progress made in understanding the mass spectra, flavor mixing patterns, CP-violating effects and underlying flavor structures of charged leptons, neutrinos and quarks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review scenarios in which the particles that account for the Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe interact only through their couplings with the Higgs sector of the theory, the so-called Higgs-portal models.

TL;DR: The most relevant existing literature about modeling strategies against the virus is compiled to help modelers to navigate this fast-growing literature and keep an eye on future outbreaks, where the modelers can find the most relevant strategies used in an emergence situation as the current one to help in fighting future pandemics.

TL;DR: A broad overview of the main results achieved in the recent literature for many such modified theories of gravity, by combining the results and constraints obtained from the analysis of relativistic and non-relativistic stars in different scenarios is provided in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the field of electroweak corrections is presented, focusing on renormalization, one-loop techniques, modern amplitude methods and tools, separation of infrared singularities in real-emission corrections, electroweak issues connected with hadronic initial or final states in collisions, and the issue of unstable particles in quantum field theory together with corresponding practical solutions.

TL;DR: The effective field theory of dark energy as mentioned in this paper is based on a Lagrangian description of cosmological perturbations which depends on a number of functions of time, some of which are non-minimal couplings representing genuine deviations from General Relativity.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the recent developments of computational network biology, first introducing various types of biological networks and network structural properties, and then reviewing the network-based approaches, ranging from some network metrics to the complicated machine-learning methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent progress achieved in the understanding of heavy quarkonium under extreme conditions from a theory perspective is presented. But the focus of the review is not on the physical properties, but rather on the theoretical aspects of the theoretical model.

TL;DR: A review of geometrical methods employed in the analysis of quantum phase transitions and non-equilibrium dissipative phase transitions can be found in this article, where the Uhlmann geometric phase is applied to a paradigmatic class of lattice Fermion systems with local reservoirs.

TL;DR: While there is a strong focus on neural network applications in unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement learning, other machine learning techniques are discussed as well, including various clustering and anomaly detection algorithms, support vector machines, and decision trees.

TL;DR: Gapped momentum states (GMS) as mentioned in this paper have important implications for dynamical and thermodynamic properties of the system, starting from ordinary liquids to holographic models, and they have been increasingly appreciated that GMS has important implications.

TL;DR: For weakly correlated random variables with a finite correlation length/time, the limiting extreme value distribution can still be inferred from that of the uncorrelated variables using a renormalization group-like argument.

TL;DR: In this article, the basic principles of condensed matter physics, macroscopic electrostatics and elastomechanics apply to nanosized two-dimensional biomolecular shells with spherical topology and icosahedral symmetry, as well as their proper extension to nonspherical structures pertinent to retroviruses.

TL;DR: The recent developments in the phenomenology of quarkonium production in inclusive scatterings of hadrons and leptons have been reviewed in this article, where data and predictions relevant for the LHC, the Tevatron, RHIC, HERA, LEP, B factories and EIC are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of correlation functions in the Landau gauge obtained from their equations of motions are discussed and compared to the results obtained in other covariant and maximally Abelian gauges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the status of searches for sterile neutrinos in the ∼ 1 eV range is reviewed, with an emphasis on the latest results from short baseline oscillation experiments and how they fit within a 3+1 model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce fundamental gauge theories that can be employed to construct informed composite bright and dark extensions of the Standard Model, within and beyond the standard paradigms, and provide predictions and ways to test them, for example, at the Fermi scale and via precision flavor experiments.

TL;DR: The first detection of a binary neutron star merger by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, GW170817, initiated the era of multi-messenger GW-EM astrophysics and demonstrated the great promise it holds as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The concept of dynamical ensembles in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics as specified from an action functional or Lagrangian on spacetime is reviewed in this article, where the breaking of time-reversal invariance is quantified via the entropy flux, and the consequences for fluctuation and response theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the relevant existing approaches, which is based on the characterization of bipartite entanglement in terms of the behaviour of correlation functions, is presented.