CATKit2-HCI: a collaborative framework for advancing high-contrast coronagraph testbeds

Kavli Affiliate: Dimitri Mawet| Summary:High-contrast exoplanet imaging requires dedicated laboratory testbeds for the development and validation of coronagraph architectures, wavefront sensing and control methods, calibration strategies, and system-level observing concepts. These testbeds often share similar software needs, yet many tools are developed independently at each institution. The CATKit2-High-Contrast-Imaging collaboration, or CATKit2-HCI, addresses this gap by […]


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Wave2Body: Rethinking mmWave Human Pose Estimation as Radar-to-Body Token Translation

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar enables privacy-friendly human sensing, but its sparse point clouds are physical measurements of view-dependent electromagnetic reflections and only indirectly characterize body articulation. Recovering a complete 3D pose from such partial, geometry-dependent observations is therefore under-constrained. Existing methods directly regress joint coordinates from paired radar-pose data, relying on the […]


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Coherent Magnons Driven by Photomodulated Anisotropy in Altermagnetic MnTe

Kavli Affiliate: James Analytis| Summary:Manganese telluride ($textMnTe$) has recently emerged as a prototypical $g$-wave altermagnet, providing an ideal platform to investigate the non-equilibrium excitations of altermagnetic order. Here, we report simultaneous spatial mapping of the local equilibrium orientation of the Néel vector, $varphi_L(mathbfr)$, alongside the amplitude, $Δvarphi(mathbfr,t)$, and frequency, $Ω(mathbfr)$, of photoexcited spin waves. Based […]


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VGOcc: Learning Visual-Geometric Gaussians for Vision-Centric 3D Driving Occupancy Prediction

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Vision-only occupancy prediction requires recovering a semantic 3D occupancy field from calibrated surround-view images, where each view provides observations with ambiguous depth along camera rays. Existing methods have progressed from dense structured representations to sparse Gaussian primitives, improving the efficiency of 3D scene representation. However, Gaussian learning still relies primarily on […]


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High-Q superconducting microwave resonators using MBE titanium nitride

Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Using molecular beam epitaxy, we have realized thin films of titanium nitride (TiN) on c-plane sapphire that exhibit the lowest observed full-width at half maximum X-ray rocking curve width of 18 arcsec. Though the (111) oriented TiN exhibits an abrupt and crystalline interface with sapphire, for the first time we […]


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High-Q superconducting microwave resonators using MBE titanium nitride

Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Using molecular beam epitaxy, we have realized thin films of titanium nitride (TiN) on c-plane sapphire that exhibit the lowest observed full-width at half maximum X-ray rocking curve width of 18 arcsec. Though the (111) oriented TiN exhibits an abrupt and crystalline interface with sapphire, for the first time we […]


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LIVE-RIS: Real-Time In-Flight Actuation of UAV-Mounted RIS

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are emerging as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks due to their ability to dynamically control the propagation environment. To ensure favorable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in real-world applications, the RIS is mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). While the potential of UAV-mounted RIS […]


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Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity of AlScN Films Grown By Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Alloys of AlN have rapidly emerged as a material platform for nonlinear optics. In this paper, we measure the second-order optical nonlinearity of AlScN films grown directly on nitrided c-plane sapphire by molecular beam epitaxy. This direct growth approach, which bypasses a thick AlN buffer layer, allows us to isolate […]


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Quantum correlations of tripartite mixed states in the black hole quantum atmosphere

Kavli Affiliate: Anqi Zhang| Summary:We investigate quantum state texture, genuine multipartite entanglement, and tripartite nonlocality of a tripartite mixed state in the black hole quantum atmosphere. By introducing the Hartle-Hawking local temperature into the Bogoliubov coefficients, we characterize the influence of the local Hawking effect on both physically accessible and inaccessible reduced states. We find […]


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Collapse and Inversion of the Josephson Potential in a Strongly Driven Superconducting Circuit

Kavli Affiliate: Gary Steele | Summary:Superconducting circuits embedding Josephson junctions leverage microwave drives for control and measurement of quantum states. Although increasing the drive power is desirable for improving the efficiency of these operations, it eventually triggers unwanted transitions to uncontrolled states. While careful choice of circuit symmetries and parameters can mitigate these effects, the […]


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