Kavli Affiliate: Dimitri Mawet| Summary:The Slicer Combined with an Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a 1-5 micron imager and 2-5 micron integral field spectrograph, currently being commissioned on the Keck II Telescope. SCALES is optimized for exoplanet high-contrast imaging and spectroscopic characterization, and will be sensitive to older, colder exoplanets than […]
Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | Summary:We introduce determinant quantum-quantum Monte Carlo (DQ$^2$MC), a quantum algorithm that lifts the auxiliary-field sampling and averaging at the operational core of determinant quantum Monte Carlo onto a quantum computer. A determinant oracle synthesizes the DQMC amplitudes directly from a block encoding of the single-particle action matrix via quantum singular […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alessandra Lanzara | Summary:Crystalline C$_60$ is a molecular solid whose electronic properties emerge from the interplay of intermolecular hopping, electron correlations, and electron-vibration coupling. Unlike moir$rmacutee$ van der Waals heterostructures, where interaction strength is commonly tuned by twist angle, molecular materials offer a complementary route in which layer number, molecular orientation, and substrate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Abigail Vieregg | Summary:In-ice radio detectors have been developed primarily for the detection of high-energy neutrinos via the Askaryan effect, but have recently been shown to also be sensitive to cosmic ray air showers impacting the ice sheet. Using CORSIKA 8 to simulate impacting air showers, we find that the lateral width of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | Summary:Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring bursts of X-ray radiation originating from supermassive black holes (SMBHs). They are an unprecedented type of structured, high-amplitude SMBH variability, but the physical origins of their regularity, timescales, energetics, and emission are uncertain. We present new XMM-Newton observations of the QPEs in ZTF19acnskyy/“Ansky”, constituting the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anton Akhmerov | Summary:Network models provide an efficient framework for studying non-interacting transport and wave-propagation phenomena in disordered and topological systems. We introduce ScatterWorks, an open-source Python package for building and solving network models. The package uses a compact network representation with composable transformation operations (tile, cut, relink, and union) to enable flexible […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:We present a flip-chip-based sensing scheme to measure effective microwave losses associated with target materials for quantum technologies, without requiring any device fabrication on the material under test. Using this approach, we quantify the microwave losses of a strain-engineered Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructure and investigate losses arising from its Ge […]
Kavli Affiliate: Khee-Gan Lee | Summary:We characterize the foreground environment of FRB20230907D, localized to a galaxy at $z=0.464$, which has an observed dispersion measure of $rm DM_rm obs=1031~rm pc~cm^-3$. At its redshift, FRB20230907D lies above the Macquart relation, the expected relation between cosmological dispersion measure and the source redshift, indicating a substantial excess DM along […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kristin Persson | Summary:Foundation machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) deliver near-ab-initio accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost, yet their promise for Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) remains largely unrealized as large unit cells make first-principles training data expensive to generate, fine-tuned models are scarce, and experimentally grounded benchmarks are scarcer still. We introduce […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ruobing Dong | Summary:Gas accretion onto forming planets controls the final masses of giant planets and provides observable signatures of ongoing formation. How this process depends on the cooling properties of these newly attracted gas remains poorly constrained. We present long-term, three-dimensional global hydrodynamical simulations to quantify gas accretion onto gap-opening planets in […]