Kavli Affiliate: Richard Kessler | First 5 Authors: Richard Kessler, Alex Conley, Saurabh Jha, Stephen Kuhlmann, | Summary: We have publicly released a blinded mix of simulated SNe, with types (Ia, Ib, Ic, II) selected in proportion to their expected rate. The simulation is realized in the griz filters of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Alessandro Spadoni, Chiara Daraio, , , | Summary: Acoustic lenses are employed in a variety of applications, from biomedical imaging and surgery, to defense systems, but their performance is limited by their linear operational envelope and complexity. Here we show a dramatic focusing effect and the generation […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Jelena Vuckovic, , | Summary: The generation of non-classical states of light via photon blockade with time-modulated input is analyzed. We show that improved single photon statistics can be obtained by adequately choosing the parameters of the driving laser pulses. An alternative method, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert M. Wald | First 5 Authors: Robert M. Wald, , , , | Summary: The motion of sufficiently small body in general relativity should be accurately described by a geodesic. However, there should be “gravitational self-force” corrections to geodesic motion, analogous to the “radiation reaction forces” that occur in electrodynamics. It is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Carlos Wagner | First 5 Authors: Patrick Draper, Tao Liu, Carlos E. M. Wagner, , | Summary: We analyze the Tevatron reach for neutral Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), using current exclusion limits on the Standard Model Higgs. We study four common benchmark scenarios for the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, , , | Summary: We demonstrate a method to locally control the temperature of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters. The method is used to control the resonant frequency of InAs quantum dots strongly coupled to GaAs photonic crystal resonators. This technique […]
Kavli Affiliate: Thomas M. Crawford | First 5 Authors: Samir Garzon, Richard A. Webb, Mark Covington, Shehzaad Kaka, Thomas M. Crawford | Summary: In large magnetoresistance devices spin torque-induced changes in resistance can produce GHz current and voltage oscillations which can affect magnetization reversal. In addition, capacitive shunting in large resistance devices can further reduce […]
Kavli Affiliate: Karen L. Byrum | First 5 Authors: Robert G. Wagner, Karen L. Byrum, Mayly Sanchez, Alexandre V. Vaniachine, Oswald Siegmund | Summary: We advocate support of research aimed at developing alternatives to the photomultiplier tube for photon detection in large astroparticle experiments such as gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy, and direct dark matter detectors. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Joshua A. Frieman | First 5 Authors: Joshua A. Frieman, , , , | Summary: The discovery ten years ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating put in place the present cosmological model, in which the Universe is composed of 4% baryons, 20% dark matter, and 76% dark energy. Yet the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | First 5 Authors: Yang Bai, Marcela Carena, Eduardo Ponton, , | Summary: We propose a scenario in which the Planck scale is dynamically linked to the electroweak scale induced by top condensation. The standard model field content, without the Higgs, is promoted to a 5D warped background. There is also […]