GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting an M2.5 Dwarf Star at 15.2 pc

Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: Evan Tey, Avi Shporer, Zifan Lin, Keivan G. Stassun, Jack J. Lissauer | Summary: We report the discovery of the transiting planet GJ 238 b, with a radius of $0.566pm0.014$ R$_{oplus}$ ($1.064pm0.026$ times the radius of Mars) and an orbital period of 1.74 day. The transit signal […]


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Active Loop Closure for OSM-guided Robotic Mapping in Large-Scale Urban Environments

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Zezhou Sun, Mingle Zhao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Hui Kong | Summary: The autonomous mapping of large-scale urban scenes presents significant challenges for autonomous robots. To mitigate the challenges, global planning, such as utilizing prior GPS trajectories from OpenStreetMap (OSM), is often used to guide the autonomous […]


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All-optical Loss-tolerant Distributed Quantum Sensing

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Rajveer Nehra, Changhun Oh, Liang Jiang, Alireza Marandi, | Summary: Distributed quantum sensing (DQS) leverages quantum resources to estimate an unknown global property of a networked quantum sensor beyond the classical limit. We propose and analyze an all-optical resource-efficient scheme for the next-generation DQS systems. Our method […]


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0.7 MW Yb:YAG pumped degenerate optical parametric oscillator at 2.06 μm

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Anni Li, Mehran Bahri, Robert M. Gray, Seowon Choi, Sajjad Hoseinkhani | Summary: Frequency comb and field-resolved broadband absorption spectroscopy are promising techniques for rapid, precise, and sensitive detection of short-lived atmospheric pollutants on-site. Enhancing detection sensitivity in absorption spectroscopy hinges on bright sources that cover molecular […]


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Ferroelectric AlBN Films by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | First 5 Authors: Chandrashekhar Savant, Ved Gund, Kazuki Nomoto, Takuya Maeda, Shubham Jadhav | Summary: We report the properties of molecular beam epitaxy deposited AlBN thin films on a recently developed epitaxial nitride metal electrode Nb2N. While a control AlN thin film exhibits standard capacitive behavior, distinct ferroelectric switching is […]


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Spin-filter tunneling detection of antiferromagnetic resonance with electrically-tunable damping

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel C. Ralph | First 5 Authors: Thow Min Jerald Cham, Daniel G. Chica, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xavier Roy | Summary: Antiferromagnetic spintronics offers the potential for higher-frequency operations compared to ferromagnetic spintronics and improved insensitivity to magnetic fields. However, previous electrical techniques to detect antiferromagnetic dynamics have required millimeter-scale samples to […]


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Heterogeneous integration of amorphous silicon carbide on thin film lithium niobate

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Zizheng Li, Naresh Sharma, Bruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Roald van der Kolk, Thomas Scholte | Summary: In the past decade, lithium niobate (LiNbO3 or LN) photonics, thanks to its heat-free and fast electro-optical modulation, second-order non-linearities and low loss, has been extensively investigated. Despite numerous demonstrations of high-performance LN […]


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Guidelines for Augmentation Selection in Contrastive Learning for Time Series Classification

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Ziyu Liu, Azadeh Alavi, Minyi Li, Xiang Zhang, | Summary: Self-supervised contrastive learning has become a key technique in deep learning, particularly in time series analysis, due to its ability to learn meaningful representations without explicit supervision. Augmentation is a critical component in contrastive learning, where different […]


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Power Optimization and Deep Learning for Channel Estimation of Active IRS-Aided IoT

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Yan Wang, Wei Gao, Qi Zhang, Jiajia Liu, Feng Shu | Summary: In this paper, channel estimation of an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink Internet of Things (IoT) network is investigated. Firstly, the least square (LS) estimators for the direct channel and the cascaded channel […]


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Power Optimization and Deep Learning for Channel Estimation of Active IRS-Aided IoT

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Yan Wang, Feng Shu, Rongen Dong, Wei Gao, Qi Zhang | Summary: In this paper, channel estimation of an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink Internet of Things (IoT) network is investigated. Firstly, the least square (LS) estimators for the direct channel and the cascaded channel […]


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