Filament Power Control for Gyrotrons in EAST ECRH System

Kavli Affiliate: Fukun Liu| Summary: The electron cyclotron heating system including four gyrotrons is under developed in the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The filament is an important part of the gyrotron, which is used to heat the cathode. Each gyrotron has a filament power supply to adjust the filament power. The […]


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The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

Kavli Affiliate: Ethan Karpel | Summary:The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scientific goals of the experiment, motivate the design, and forecast its performance. SO will measure the temperature and polarization anisotropy of […]


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SentencePiece: A simple and language independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer for Neural Text Processing

Kavli Affiliate: John Richardson | Summary:This paper describes SentencePiece, a language-independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer designed for Neural-based text processing, including Neural Machine Translation. It provides open-source C++ and Python implementations for subword units. While existing subword segmentation tools assume that the input is pre-tokenized into word sequences, SentencePiece can train subword models directly from […]


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Absolute and arbitrary orientation of single molecule shapes

Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. K. Rothemund | Summary:DNA origami is a modular platform for the combination of molecular and colloidal components to create optical, electronic, and biological devices. Integration of such nanoscale devices with microfabricated connectors and circuits is challenging: large numbers of freely diffusing devices must be fixed at desired locations with desired alignment. […]


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Quantum signatures in quadratic optomechanics

Kavli Affiliate: Ya Blanter | Summary:We analyze quantum effects occurring in optomechanical systems where the coupling between an optical mode and a mechanical mode is quadratic in displacement (membrane-in-the-middle geometry). We show that it is possible to observe quantum effects in these systems without achieving the single-photon strong coupling regime. We find that zero-point energy […]


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Optical Design of PICO, a Concept for a Space Mission to Probe Inflation and Cosmic Origins

Kavli Affiliate: Richard Hills | Summary:The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a probe-class mission concept currently under study by NASA. PICO will probe the physics of the Big Bang and the energy scale of inflation, constrain the sum of neutrino masses, measure the growth of structures in the universe, and constrain its […]


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