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This article reviews silicene, a relatively new allotrope of silicon, which can also be viewed as the silicon version of graphene. Graphene is a two-dimensional material with unique electronic properties qualitatively different from those…
We consider the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence associated with the $q$-difference sixth Painlev\'e equation in the crystal limit, i.e. $q\rightarrow 0$, and show two main results. First, the limit of this generically highly transcendental…
In their correspondence [arXiv:1610.07633] Drummond and Brand criticize our work [Nature Physics 12, 451-454 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3631]. We show that their criticism is misleading and unfounded.
The hypothesis that neutrinos are massive has a strong experimental support; however, the information we have is quite limited, and many possibilities are open. Theoretical considerations might help fill the gaps (or foresee regularities),…
An overview of nuclei and anti-nuclei production with results from different experiments are discussed. The comparison of data with the thermal and coalescence models is also discussed to understand their production mechanisms in high…
This introductory review discusses the main problems facing the attempt to build quantum information processing systems (like quantum computers) from spin-based qubits. We emphasize 'bottom-up' attempts using methods from chemistry. The…
Even though the Madelung equations are central to many 'classical' approaches to the foundations of quantum mechanics such as Bohmian and stochastic mechanics, no coherent mathematical theory has been developed so far for this system of…
The goal of this Comment is to draw attention of the readers that the results in the published letter [A Tumino {et al,}, Nature {\bf 557}, 687 (2018)] regarding ${}^{12}{\rm C}-{}^{12}{\rm C}$ fusion are not correct
Possible existence of antimatter in our Galaxy, in particular of antistars is discussed and the mechanism of their creation is described.
While leptogenesis is a very solid but hard to check contender for the generation of the observed excess of baryons over anti-baryons in the Universe, we show that the observation of gauge bosons associated with right-handed currents at…
We establish strict upper limits for the Casimir interaction between multilayered structures of arbitrary dielectric or diamagnetic materials. We discuss the appearance of different power laws due to frequency-dependent material constants.…
A simple argument against the existence of magnetic monopoles is given. The argument is an important part of the quantum theory of the electric charge developed by the author.
We comment on S. Carlip's recent Letter "Hiding the Cosmological Constant" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 131302].
In recent literature there are an increasing number of papers where the forbidden sets of difference equations are computed. We review and complete different attempts to describe the forbidden set and propose new perspectives for further…
Recently, various new proposals of superluminal transmission of information have appeared in the literature. Since they make systematic resort to recent formal and practical improvements in quantum mechanics, the old theorems proving the…
In a report published in Science, Scully et al propose to generate "phaseonium", and "extract work from a single heat bath via vanishing coherence" [1]. On the basis of the laws of physics, such a proposal is futile for at least two…
We show that the proofs of Gill as well as of Gill, Weihs, Zeilinger and Zukowski contain serious mathematical and physical deficiencies which render them invalid.
Silicene, as the silicon analog of graphene, has been successfully fabricated by epitaxial growing on various substrates. Similar to free-standing graphene, free-standing silicene possesses a honeycomb structure and Dirac-cone-shaped energy…
Experimental evidence and theoretical argument in favor the claim of neutrino being likely a superluminal particle, a tachyon, are discussed from six aspects with details.
This paper has been withdrawn by the author, due to an error in the proof of lemma 7.4. However, numerical evidence strongly suggest that this lemma is true.