Energy-Efficient Ultrashort-Pulse Characterization using Nanophotonic Parametric Amplification

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Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Thomas Zacharias, Robert Gray, Ryoto Sekine, James Williams, Selina Zhou | Summary: The growth of ultrafast nanophotonic circuits necessitates the development of energy-efficient on-chip pulse characterization techniques. Nanophotonic realizations of Frequency Resolved Optical Gating, a common pulse characterization technique in bulk optics, have been challenging due to […]


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Frozonium: Freezing Anharmonicity in Floquet Superconducting Circuits

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Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | First 5 Authors: Keiran Lewellen, Rohit Mukherjee, Haoyu Guo, Saswata Roy, Valla Fatemi | Summary: Floquet engineering is a powerful method that can be used to modify the properties of interacting many-body Hamiltonians via the application of periodic time-dependent drives. Here we consider the physics of an inductively shunted superconducting […]


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IE-Bench: Advancing the Measurement of Text-Driven Image Editing for Human Perception Alignment

Posted by dbos Caltech, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Shangkun Sun, Bowen Qu, Xiaoyu Liang, Songlin Fan, Wei Gao | Summary: Recent advances in text-driven image editing have been significant, yet the task of accurately evaluating these edited images continues to pose a considerable challenge. Different from the assessment of text-driven image generation, text-driven image editing […]


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Low-Loss Superconducting Resonators Fabricated from Tantalum Films Grown at Room Temperature

Posted by dbos Caltech, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Oskar Painter | First 5 Authors: Guillaume Marcaud, David Perello, Cliff Chen, Esha Umbarkar, Conan Weiland | Summary: The use of $alpha$-tantalum in superconducting circuits has enabled a considerable improvement of the coherence time of transmon qubits. The standard approach to grow $alpha$-tantalum thin films on silicon involves heating the substrate, which takes […]


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Identification of 4876 Bent-Tail Radio Galaxies in the FIRST Survey Using Deep Learning Combined with Visual Inspection

Posted by dbos Berkeley, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Baoqiang Lao, Heinz Andernach, Xiaolong Yang, Xiang Zhang, Rushuang Zhao | Summary: Bent-tail radio galaxies (BTRGs) are characterized by bent radio lobes. This unique shape is mainly caused by the movement of the galaxy within a cluster, during which the radio jets are deflected by the intra-cluster […]


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Large-Range Tuning and Stabilization of the Optical Transition of Diamond Tin-Vacancy Centers by In-Situ Strain Control

Posted by dbos Delft, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Ronald Hanson | First 5 Authors: Julia M. Brevoord, Leonardo G. C. Wienhoven, Nina Codreanu, Tetsuro Ishiguro, Elvis van Leeuwen | Summary: The negatively charged tin-vacancy (SnV-) center in diamond has emerged as a promising platform for quantum computing and quantum networks. To connect SnV- qubits in large networks, in-situ tuning and stabilization […]


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Breakdown of superdiffusion in perturbed quantum integrable spin chains and ladders

Posted by dbos Berkeley, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Joel E. Moore | First 5 Authors: Kevin Wang, Joel E. Moore, , , | Summary: Superdiffusive transport with dynamical exponent $z=3/2$ has been firmly established at finite temperature for a class of integrable systems with a non-abelian global symmetry $G$. On the inclusion of integrability-breaking perturbations, diffusive transport with $z=2$ is generically […]


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Ion correlations explain kinetic selectivity in diffusion-limited solid state synthesis reactions

Posted by dbos Berkeley, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin A. Persson | First 5 Authors: Vir Karan, Max C. Gallant, Yuxing Fei, Gerbrand Ceder, Kristin A. Persson | Summary: Establishing viable solid-state synthesis pathways for novel inorganic materials remains a major challenge in materials science. Previous pathway design methods using pair-wise reaction approaches have navigated the thermodynamic landscape with first-principles data […]


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LayerAnimate: Layer-specific Control for Animation

Posted by dbos Berkeley, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Yuxue Yang, Lue Fan, Zuzeng Lin, Feng Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang | Summary: Animated video separates foreground and background elements into layers, with distinct processes for sketching, refining, coloring, and in-betweening. Existing video generation methods typically treat animation as a monolithic data domain, lacking fine-grained control over individual […]


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Resolving Structural Origins for Superconductivity in Strain-Engineered La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ Thin Films

Posted by dbos Cornell, This Week: Nanoscience

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Lopa Bhatt, Abigail Y. Jiang, Eun Kyo Ko, Noah Schnitzer, Grace A. Pan | Summary: The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in bulk La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under high hydrostatic pressure and, more recently, biaxial compression in epitaxial thin films has ignited significant interest in understanding the interplay between atomic […]


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