Release and Recapture of Silica Nanoparticles from an Optical Trap in Weightlessness

Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Govindarajan Prakash, Govindarajan Prakash, , , | Summary: Optically trapped Silica nanoparticles are a promising tool for precise sensing of gravitational or inertial forces and fundamental physics, including tests of quantum mechanics at ‘large’ mass scales. This field, called levitated optomechanics can greatly benefit from an application […]


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Diameter-Controlled High-Order Vortex States and Magnon Hybridization in VSe2 Nanotubes

Kavli Affiliate: Gang Su | First 5 Authors: Jia-Wen Li, Jia-Wen Li, , , | Summary: Curved magnets offer a rich phase diagram and hold great promise for next-generation spintronic technologies. This study establishes the paramount significance of high-order vortex states (e.g., 3$varphi$ with winding number $n$ > 1) in VSe2 nanotubes, which uniquely enable […]


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Cepstral Strain Mapping for Small Pixel-Count Detectors

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Harikrishnan KP, Harikrishnan KP, , , | Summary: With the decreasing sizes of integrated-circuit components, the semiconductor industry is in growing need of high-throughput strain mapping techniques that offer high precision and spatial resolution, with desired industry goals of 0.01-0.1% and 1 nm respectively. As the […]


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Ground-Based Mid-IR Direct Imaging: The Origin of the Thermal Background on the Keck II Telescope and Correcting Instrumental Systematics

Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Jayke S. Nguyen, Jayke S. Nguyen, , , | Summary: Mid-IR wavelengths are of particular interest to exoplanet science due to the fact they can extend the searchable parameter space to planets that are older and/or colder. However, a significant source of uncertainty at mid-IR wavelengths on […]


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EVDI++: Event-based Video Deblurring and Interpolation via Self-Supervised Learning

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Chi Zhang, Chi Zhang, , , | Summary: Frame-based cameras with extended exposure times often produce perceptible visual blurring and information loss between frames, significantly degrading video quality. To address this challenge, we introduce EVDI++, a unified self-supervised framework for Event-based Video Deblurring and Interpolation that leverages […]


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Deep Visual Odometry for Stereo Event Cameras

Kavli Affiliate: Yi Zhou | First 5 Authors: Sheng Zhong, Sheng Zhong, , , | Summary: Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle state estimation tasks involving motion blur and high dynamic range (HDR) illumination conditions. However, the versatility […]


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Discovery of a $z sim 0.8$ Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Halo in the MeerKAT-South Pole Telescope Survey

Kavli Affiliate: Bradford A. Benson | First 5 Authors: Isaac S. Magolego, Isaac S. Magolego, , , | Summary: Radio halos are diffuse synchrotron sources that trace the turbulent intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. However, their origin remains unknown. Two main formation models have been proposed: the hadronic model, in which relativistic electrons are […]


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Advanced Weights for IXPE Polarization Analysis

Kavli Affiliate: Roger W. Romani | First 5 Authors: Jack T. Dinsmore, Jack T. Dinsmore, , , | Summary: As the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measures increasingly faint sources, the need for precise polarimetry extraction becomes paramount. In addition to previously described neural-net (NN) weights, we introduce here point-spread function weights and particle background […]


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Anatomy of parameter-estimation biases in overlapping gravitational-wave signals: detector network

Kavli Affiliate: Lijing Shao | First 5 Authors: Ziming Wang, Ziming Wang, , , | Summary: With the significantly improved sensitivity and a wider frequency band, the next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are anticipated to detect $sim 10^5$ GW signals per year with durations from hours to days, leading to inevitable signal overlaps in the data […]


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