Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Semih Taniker, Vincenzo Costanza, Paolo Celli, Chiara Daraio, | Summary: We propose the realization of capacitive temperature sensors based on the concept of displacement amplification. Our design features two high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) metallic layers separated by a low-CTE dielectric layer; conductive and dielectric layers […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiaotian Li, Xiang Zhang, Huiyuan Yang, Wenna Duan, Weiying Dai | Summary: Emotion is an experience associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity along with different physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes. One behavioral change is facial expression, which has been studied extensively over the past few […]
Kavli Affiliate: Joel E. Moore | First 5 Authors: Michał Papaj, Joel E. Moore, , , | Summary: In most superconductors, optical excitations require impurity scattering or the presence of multiple bands. This is because in clean single-band superconductors, the combination of particle-hole and inversion symmetries prevents momentum-conserving transitions. In this work we show how […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Vanessa Böhm, Jia Liu, , , | Summary: We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on astronomy using public records of astronomical publications. We show that COVID-19 has had both positive and negative impacts on research in astronomy. We find that the overall output of the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Cheng Peng | First 5 Authors: Tianyi Hao, Xuxin Huang, Chunjing Jia, Cheng Peng, | Summary: Combinatorial optimization is of general interest for both theoretical study and real-world applications. Fast-developing quantum algorithms provide a different perspective on solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a quantum-inspired tensor-network-based algorithm for general locally […]
Kavli Affiliate: Cheng Peng | First 5 Authors: Tianyi Hao, Xuxin Huang, Chunjing Jia, Cheng Peng, | Summary: Combinatorial optimization is of general interest for both theoretical study and real-world applications. Fast-developing quantum algorithms provide a different perspective on solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a quantum inspired algorithm for general locally […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Salem al-Mosleh, L. Mahadevan, , , | Summary: Growing a flat lamina such as a leaf is almost impossible without some feedback to stabilize long wavelength modes that are easy to trigger since they are energetically cheap. Here we combine the physics of thin elastic plates with […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Changhao Wang, Yuyou Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Zheng Wu, Xinghao Zhu | Summary: Manipulating deformable linear objects by robots has a wide range of applications, e.g., manufacturing and medical surgery. To complete such tasks, an accurate dynamics model for predicting the deformation is critical for robust control. In […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Haojie Hu, Kohei Inayoshi, Zoltán Haiman, Eliot Quataert, Rolf Kuiper | Summary: We study the long-term evolution of the global structure of axisymmetric accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) at rates substantially higher than the Eddington value ($dot{M}_{rm Edd}$), performing two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with and without […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Aneesh Sivasankaran, Laura Blecha, Paul Torrey, Luke Zoltan Kelley, Aklant Bhowmick | Summary: We study gas inflows onto supermassive black holes using hydrodynamics simulations of isolated galaxies and idealized galaxy mergers with an explicit, multiphase interstellar medium (ISM). Our simulations use the recently developed ISM and stellar […]