Kavli Affiliate: Ruobing Dong | First 5 Authors: Ruobing Dong, , , , | Summary: We explore whether protoplanetary disks with self-shadowing from puffed up inner rims exhibit observable features in scattered light images. We use both self-consistent hydrostatic equilibrium calculations and parameterized models to produce the vertically puffed up inner rims. We find that, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Tian Zhong, Jonathan M. Kindem, Evan Miyazono, Andrei Faraon, | Summary: Quantum light-matter interfaces (QLMIs) connecting stationary qubits to photons will enable optical networks for quantum communications, precise global time keeping, photon switching, and studies of fundamental physics. Rare-earth-ion (REI) doped crystals are state-of-the-art materials for optical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Austin Minnich | First 5 Authors: Austin J. Minnich, , , , | Summary: Transient grating spectroscopy has emerged as a useful technique to study thermal phonon transport because of its ability to perform thermal measurements over length scales comparable to phonon mean free paths (MFPs). While several prior works have performed theoretical […]
Kavli Affiliate: John E. Bowers | First 5 Authors: Ashok T. Ramu, John E. Bowers, , , | Summary: An enhanced Fourier law (EFL) that accounts for quasi-ballistic phonon transport effects in a formulation entirely in terms of physical observables, is derived from the Boltzmann transport equation, assuming a gray population of quasi-ballistic phonon modes. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chihway Chang | First 5 Authors: Chihway Chang, Christian Monstein, Alexandre Refregier, Adam Amara, Adrian Glauser | Summary: We present a multi-frequency far-field beam map for the 5m dish telescope at the Bleien Observatory measured using a commercially available drone. We describe the hexacopter drone used in this experiment, the design of the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Emil J. Martinec | First 5 Authors: Emil J. Martinec, , , , | Summary: Combining a variety of results in string theory and general relativity, a picture of the black hole interior is developed wherein spacetime caps off at an inner horizon, and the inter-horizon region is occupied by a Hagedorn gas […]
Kavli Affiliate: Emil J. Martinec | First 5 Authors: Emil J. Martinec, , , , | Summary: Combining a variety of results in string theory and general relativity, a picture of the black hole interior is developed wherein spacetime caps off at an inner horizon, and the inter-horizon region is occupied by a Hagedorn gas […]
Kavli Affiliate: Abigail Vieregg | First 5 Authors: A. G. Vieregg, K. Bechtol, A. Romero-Wolf, , | Summary: The detection of high energy neutrinos ($10^{15}-10^{20}$ eV or $1-10^{5}$ PeV) is an important step toward understanding the most energetic cosmic accelerators and would enable tests of fundamental physics at energy scales that cannot easily be achieved […]
Kavli Affiliate: John E. Bowers | First 5 Authors: Ashok T. Ramu, John E. Bowers, , , | Summary: A recently developed enhanced Fourier law is applied to the problem of extracting thermal properties of materials from frequency-domain thermoreflectance (FDTR) experiments. The heat transfer model comprises contributions from two phonon channels; one a high-heat-capacity diffuse […]
Kavli Affiliate: Larry Coldren | First 5 Authors: Morten P. Bakker, Thomas Ruytenberg, Wolfgang Loffler, Ajit V. Barve, Larry Coldren | Summary: In an oxide apertured quantum dot (QD) micropillar cavity-QED system, we found strong QD hysteresis effects and lineshape modifications even at very low intensities corresponding to less than 0.001 intracavity photons. We attribute […]