September 17, 2026 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

Polymer-free Assembly of Unencapsulated van der Waals Heterostructure Devices

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026Berkeley, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | Summary:Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide a versatile platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena, yet their fabrication is often limited by interfacial contamination and incompatibility with surface-sensitive characterization. Here, we demonstrate muscovite mica as a polymer-free platform for assembling and patterning vdW heterostructure devices. Mica-mediated transfer enables clean exposed surfaces […]

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Flux Density Calibration of Radio Bursts Detected in the Sidelobes of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026MIT, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi Masui | Summary:The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment/Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) instrument is a transient astrophysical burst survey that is discovering FRBs, pulsars, and long-period transients. As a transit telescope, the survey is most sensitive within 2 degrees of the meridian; however, CHIME/FRB can detect bright astrophysical bursts out to its horizon, […]

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Cryo-EM Structures of Infectious Low-Twist α-Synuclein Filaments in Lewy Bodies

Posted by dbos September 17, 2026September 21, 2026This Week: Neuroscience, UCSF

Kavli Affiliate: Stanley Prusiner | Authors: Nicholas L. Yan, Mylan Mayer, Arthur A. Melo, Jacob I. Ayers, Daniel A. Mordes, William W. Seeley, Stanley B. Prusiner, Eric Tse, Vinita G. Chittoor-Vinod and Gregory E Merz | Summary: α-Synuclein (aSyn) aggregation within Lewy bodies underlies Parkinson’s disease and associated dementias. These aggregates are often comprised of […]

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Physicochemical balancing facilitates fast cyclic immunolabeling in centimeter-scale FFPE tissues

Posted by dbos September 17, 2026September 21, 2026This Week: Neuroscience, UCSD / Salk

Kavli Affiliate: Ann-Shyn Chiang | Authors: Ya-Hui Lin, Chao-Yin Huang, Yin-Hsu Chen, Yen-Hui Chen, Ping-Liang Ko, Heng-Hua Hsu, Yi-Chung Tung, Yu-Fang Chen, Hui-Chi Chen, Ann-Shyn Chiang, Chih-Ming Ho, Da-Jeng Yao, Kimberly L Fiock, Kuo-Chuan Wang, Chin-Hsien Lin, Shang-Hsiu Hu, Bi-Chang Chen and Li-An Chu | Summary: Archived formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues, including brain-bank specimens, are […]

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Cause of chromospheric opposite polarity intrusions discovered in Sunrise III/SCIP data: MURaM-ChE simulations point to twisted flux ropes

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026Stanford, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | Summary:The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) instrument onboard the balloon-borne Sunrise III observatory provided new high-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere in the Ca II 854.2 nm line. The Stokes-V signal in magnetic network regions was found to show fine-structured details, which suggests the magnetic field above the network elements […]

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From IFS Maps to 3D Structure I: Constraining Geometry in the Circumgalactic Medium

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026Chicago, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Hsiaowen Chen |Summary:The three-dimensional geometric structure of the cool (T~$10^4$ K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) — the line-of-sight depth and the number of discrete clumps — is poorly constrained. Existing inferences come predominantly from quasar absorption-line statistics, but these pencil-beam probes provide limited spatial and kinematic information. Here we show that spatially resolved emission-line […]

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Free-Free Radio Emission from Little Red Dots as a Probe of Ionized Gas

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026Peking, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | Summary:Recent studies have hypothesized that little red dots (LRDs) are rapidly accreting black holes surrounded by dense gaseous environments. Both neutral and ionized gas play a key role in explaining many of the puzzling spectral features of LRDs, including the emission line profiles in the optical-infrared bands, although the physical […]

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Engineering Weak Universality with Quantum Dots

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026Delft, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Natalia Chepiga | Summary:Quantum critical theories with continuously varying critical exponents remain challenging to access experimentally. Here, we propose quantum-dot architectures for realizing the quantum Ashkin-Teller and XYZ/eight-vertex models using resonator-mediated and direct Coulomb interactions, respectively. We focus on the Ashkin-Teller and eight-vertex critical lines, which are connected by a non-local duality relating […]

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Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2026 Proceedings

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026MIT, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | Summary:The fourth "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM’26) meeting was held April 14-17, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany, hosted by the Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). These proceedings detail the contributions that were presented during MDvDM’26, illustrating the unprecedented progress in theoretical, computational […]

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Particle Physics Driven by Quantum Technology – Quantum Simulations and Quantum Sensing

Posted by klaurent September 17, 2026September 21, 2026Chicago, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | Summary:We review recent advances in particle physics enabled and motivated by the rapid progress of quantum technologies. The continued development of quantum computing toward large-scale, fault-tolerant systems has the potential to address dynamical problems that remain extremely challenging for classical computational approaches, opening new avenues for studying nonperturbative dynamical processes. […]

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