Model Predictive Loitering and Trajectory Tracking of Suspended Payloads in Cable-Driven Balloons Using UGVs

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Julius Wanner, Eric Sihite, Alireza Ramezani, Morteza Gharib, | Summary: The feasibility of performing airborne and ground manipulation, perception, and reconnaissance using wheeled rovers, unmanned aerial vehicles, CubeSats, SmallSats and more have been evaluated before. Among all of these solutions, balloon-based systems possess merits that make them […]


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Enhanced superconductivity by near-neighbor attraction in the doped Hubbard model

Kavli Affiliate: Cheng Peng | First 5 Authors: Cheng Peng, Yao Wang, Jiajia Wen, Young Lee, Thomas Devereaux | Summary: Recent experiment has unveiled an anomalously strong electron-electron attraction in one-dimensional copper-oxide chain Ba$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_{3+delta}$. While the near-neighbor electron attraction $V$ in the one-dimensional extended Hubbard chain has been examined recently, its effect in the Hubbard […]


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Towards Understanding and Mitigating Audio Adversarial Examples for Speaker Recognition

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Guangke Chen, Zhe Zhao, Fu Song, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan | Summary: Speaker recognition systems (SRSs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising significant security concerns. In this work, we systematically investigate transformation and adversarial training based defenses for securing SRSs. According to […]


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Electrically tunable second harmonic generation in atomically thin ReS2

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Jing Wang, Nannan Han, Zheng-Dong Luo, Mingwen Zhang, Xiaoqing Chen | Summary: Electrical tuning of second-order nonlinearity in optical materials is attractive to strengthen and expand the functionalities of nonlinear optical technologies, though its implementation remains elusive. Here, we report the electrically tunable second-order nonlinearity in atomically […]


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Strong Second Harmonic Generation from Bilayer Graphene with Symmetry Breaking by Redox-Governed Charge Doping

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Mingwen Zhang, Nannan Han, Jing Wang, Zhihong Zhang, Kaihui Liu | Summary: Missing second-order nonlinearity in centrosymmetric graphene overshadows its intriguing optical attribute. Here, we report redox-governed charge doping could effectively break the centrosymmetry of bilayer graphene (BLG), enabling a strong second harmonic generation (SHG) with a […]


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