Optomechanical method for characterizing thermal transport across van der Waals interfaces

Kavli Affiliate: Herre S. J. Van Der Zant | First 5 Authors: Hanqing Liu, Hanqing Liu, , , | Summary: For the development of nanoscale electronics and photonics using atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, it is important to realize van der Waals (vdW) interfaces with low thermal resistance, to minimize performance reduction caused by heat […]


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Role of Fe intercalation on the electronic correlation in resistively switchable antiferromagnet Fe$_x$NbS$_2$

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Wenxin Li, Wenxin Li, , , | Summary: Among the family of intercalated transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), Fe$_x$NbS$_2$ is found to possess unique current-induced resistive switching behaviors, tunable antiferromagnetic states, and a commensurate charge order, all of which are tied to a critical Fe doping of $x_c$ […]


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Efficient Geometry Compression and Communication for 3D Gaussian Splatting Point Clouds

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: Storage and transmission challenges in dynamic 3D scene representation based on the i3DV platform, With increasing scene complexity, the explosive growth of 3D Gaussian data volume causes excessive storage space occupancy. To address this issue, we propose adopting the AVS PCRM […]


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Quantum Frequency Conversion of Single Photons from a Tin-Vacancy Center in Diamond

Kavli Affiliate: Ronald Hanson | First 5 Authors: Julia M. Brevoord, Julia M. Brevoord, , , | Summary: Diamond tin-vacancy (SnV) centers are promising candidates for building quantum network nodes. However, their native photon emission at 619 nm is incompatible with metropolitan-scale networks operating at low-loss telecom wavelengths. To address this, we demonstrate highly efficient, […]


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Interplay of energy and charge transfer in WSe2/CrSBr heterostructures

Kavli Affiliate: Herre S. J. Van Der Zant | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) composed of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and layered magnetic semiconductors offer great opportunities to manipulate exciton and valley properties of TMDs. Here, we present magneto-photoluminescence (PL) studies in a WSe2 monolayer (ML) on […]


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RadGS-Reg: Registering Spine CT with Biplanar X-rays via Joint 3D Radiative Gaussians Reconstruction and 3D/3D Registration

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Ao Shen, Ao Shen, , , | Summary: Computed Tomography (CT)/X-ray registration in image-guided navigation remains challenging because of its stringent requirements for high accuracy and real-time performance. Traditional "render and compare" methods, relying on iterative projection and comparison, suffer from spatial information loss and domain gap. […]


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AdaDPCC: Adaptive Rate Control and Rate-Distortion-Complexity Optimization for Dynamic Point Cloud Compression

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Chenhao Zhang, Chenhao Zhang, , , | Summary: Dynamic point cloud compression (DPCC) is crucial in applications like autonomous driving and AR/VR. Current compression methods face challenges with complexity management and rate control. This paper introduces a novel dynamic coding framework that supports variable bitrate and computational […]


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Learned Rate Control for Frame-Level Adaptive Neural Video Compression via Dynamic Neural Network

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Chenhao Zhang, Chenhao Zhang, , , | Summary: Neural Video Compression (NVC) has achieved remarkable performance in recent years. However, precise rate control remains a challenge due to the inherent limitations of learning-based codecs. To solve this issue, we propose a dynamic video compression framework designed for […]


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Traversing the Narrow Path: A Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Beam Walking

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: TianChen Huang, TianChen Huang, , , | Summary: Traversing narrow beams is challenging for humanoids due to sparse, safety-critical contacts and the fragility of purely learned policies. We propose a physically grounded, two-stage framework that couples an XCoM/LIPM footstep template with a lightweight residual planner and a […]


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Traversing the Narrow Path: A Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Beam Walking

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: TianChen Huang, TianChen Huang, , , | Summary: Traversing narrow beams is challenging for humanoids due to sparse, safety-critical contacts and the fragility of purely learned policies. We propose a physically grounded, two-stage framework that couples an XCoM/LIPM footstep template with a lightweight residual planner and a […]


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