Limits and prospects for long-baseline optical fiber interferometry

Kavli Affiliate: Nergis Mavalvala | First 5 Authors: Christopher Hilweg, Danial Shadmany, Philip Walther, Nergis Mavalvala, Vivishek Sudhir | Summary: Today’s most precise optical instruments — gravitational-wave interferometers and optical atomic clocks — rely on long storage times for photons to realize their exquisite sensitivity. Optical fiber technology is the most widely deployed platform for […]


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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: limits on dark matter-baryon interactions from DR4 power spectra

Kavli Affiliate: Blake Sherwin | First 5 Authors: Zack Li, Rui An, Vera Gluscevic, Kimberly K. Boddy, J. Richard Bond | Summary: Diverse astrophysical observations suggest the existence of cold dark matter that interacts only gravitationally with radiation and ordinary baryonic matter. Any nonzero coupling between dark matter and baryons would provide a significant step […]


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SPHERExLabTools (SLT): A Python Data Acquisition System for SPHEREx Characterization and Calibration

Kavli Affiliate: James Bock | First 5 Authors: Sam Condon, Marco Viero, James Bock, Howard Hui, Phil Korngut | Summary: Selected as the next NASA Medium Class Explorer mission, SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer is planned for launch in early 2025. SPHEREx calibration data products […]


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Modelling of planar germanium hole qubits in electric and magnetic fields

Kavli Affiliate: Menno Veldhorst | First 5 Authors: Chien-An Wang, Ercan Ekmel, Mark Gyure, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst | Summary: Hole-based spin qubits in strained planar germanium quantum wells have received considerable attention due to their favourable properties and remarkable experimental progress. The sizeable spin-orbit interaction in this structure allows for efficient qubit operations with […]


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Ultra-bright Coherent Undulator Radiation Driven by Dielectric Laser Accelerator

Kavli Affiliate: Robert L. Byer | First 5 Authors: Yen-Chieh Huang, Robert L. Byer, , , | Summary: A dielectric laser accelerator, operating at optical frequencies and GHz pulse rate, is expected to produce attosec electron bunches with a moderate beam current at high energy. For relativistic electrons, the attosec bunch has a spatial length […]


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Ultra-bright Coherent Undulator Radiation Driven by Dielectric Laser Accelerator

Kavli Affiliate: Robert L. Byer | First 5 Authors: Yen-Chieh Huang, Robert L. Byer, , , | Summary: A dielectric laser accelerator, operating at optical frequencies and GHz pulse rate, is expected to produce attosec electron bunches with a moderate beam current at high energy. For relativistic electrons, the attosec bunch has a spatial length […]


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Testbed preparation of a small prototype polarization modulator for LiteBIRD low-frequency telescope

Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Thuong D. Hoang, Tomotake Matsumura, Ryota Takaku, Takashi Hasebe, Tommaso Ghigna | Summary: LiteBIRD is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation polarization satellite mission led by ISAS/JAXA. The main scientific goal is to search for primordial gravitational wave signals generated from the inflation epoch of the Universe. […]


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Family of binary transition metal pnictide superconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Bo Gu | First 5 Authors: Zheng-Wei Liao, Xin-Wei Yi, Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu, Gang Su | Summary: Superconductivity in transition metal nitrides (TMNs) has been investigated for a long time, such as zirconium nitride (ZrN) with a superconducting transition temperature Tc of 10 K. Recently, a phase diagram has been revealed in […]


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A Stress Induced Source of Phonon Bursts and Quasiparticle Poisoning

Kavli Affiliate: Noah Kurinsky | First 5 Authors: Robin Anthony-Petersen, Andreas Biekert, Raymond Bunker, Clarence L. Chang, Yen-Yung Chang | Summary: The performance of superconducting qubits is degraded by a poorly characterized set of energy sources breaking the Cooper pairs responsible for superconductivity, creating a condition often called “quasiparticle poisoning". Both superconducting qubits and low […]


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