Ultrafast dynamics of electron-phonon coupling in a metal

Kavli Affiliate: Alessandra Lanzara | First 5 Authors: Choongyu Hwang, Wentao Zhang, Koshi Kurashima, Robert Kaindl, Tadashi Adachi | Summary: In the past decade, the advent of time-resolved spectroscopic tools has provided a new ground to explore fundamental interactions in solids and to disentangle degrees of freedom whose coupling leads to broad structures in the […]


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Solid-state ionic rectification in perovskite nanowire heterostructures

Kavli Affiliate: Peidong Yang | First 5 Authors: Qiao Kong, Amael Obliger, Minliang Lai, Mengyu Gao, David T. Limmer | Summary: Halide perovskites have attracted increasing research attention regarding their outstanding optoelectronic applications. Owing to its low activation energy, ion migration is implicated in the long-term stability and many unusual transport behaviors of halide perovskite […]


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Solid-state ionic rectification in perovskite nanowire heterostructures

Kavli Affiliate: Peidong Yang | First 5 Authors: Qiao Kong, Amael Obliger, Minliang Lai, Mengyu Gao, David T. Limmer | Summary: Halide perovskites have attracted increasing research attention regarding their outstanding optoelectronic applications. Owing to its low activation energy, ion migration is implicated in the long-term stability and many unusual transport behaviors of halide perovskite […]


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Imaging moiré flat bands in 3D reconstructed WSe2/WS2 superlattices

Kavli Affiliate: Michael F. Crommie | First 5 Authors: Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li, Mit H. Naik, Jingxu Xie, Xinyu Li | Summary: Moir’e superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures can host novel correlated quantum phenomena due to the interplay of narrow moir’e flat bands and strong, long-range Coulomb interactions1-5. However, microscopic knowledge of the […]


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Unknown I.I.D. Prophets: Better Bounds, Streaming Algorithms, and a New Impossibility

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | First 5 Authors: José Correa, Paul Dütting, Felix Fischer, Kevin Schewior, Bruno Ziliotto | Summary: A prophet inequality states, for some $alphain[0,1]$, that the expected value achievable by a gambler who sequentially observes random variables $X_1,dots,X_n$ and selects one of them is at least an $alpha$ fraction of the maximum […]


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Physics Successfully Implements Lagrange Multiplier Optimization

Kavli Affiliate: Eli Yablonovitch | First 5 Authors: Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Tianyao Patrick Xiao, Eli Yablonovitch, , | Summary: Optimization is a major part of human effort. While being mathematical, optimization is also built into physics. For example, physics has the principle of Least Action, the principle of Minimum Entropy Generation, and the Variational Principle. […]


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Physics Successfully Implements Lagrange Multiplier Optimization

Kavli Affiliate: Eli Yablonovitch | First 5 Authors: Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Tianyao Patrick Xiao, Eli Yablonovitch, , | Summary: Optimization is a major part of human effort. While being mathematical, optimization is also built into physics. For example, physics has the principle of Least Action, the principle of Minimum Entropy Generation, and the Variational Principle. […]


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Ultra-high-resolution imaging of moiré lattices and superstructures using scanning microwave impedance microscopy under ambient conditions

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Crommie | First 5 Authors: Kyunghoon Lee, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Salman Kahn, Appalakondaiah Samudrala, Nicolas Leconte | Summary: Two-dimensional heterostructures with layers of slightly different lattice vectors exhibit a new periodic structure known as moire lattices. Moire lattice formation provides a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structure of two-dimensional […]


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Ultra-high-resolution imaging of moiré lattices and superstructures using scanning microwave impedance microscopy under ambient conditions

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Crommie | First 5 Authors: Kyunghoon Lee, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Salman Kahn, Appalakondaiah Samudrala, Nicolas Leconte | Summary: Two-dimensional heterostructures with layers of slightly different lattice vectors exhibit a new periodic structure known as moire lattices. Moire lattice formation provides a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structure of two-dimensional […]


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High-throughput search for magnetic and topological order in transition metal oxides

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin A. Persson | First 5 Authors: Nathan C. Frey, Matthew K. Horton, Jason M. Munro, Sinéad M. Griffin, Kristin A. Persson | Summary: The discovery of intrinsic magnetic topological order in $rm MnBi_2Te_4$ has invigorated the search for materials with coexisting magnetic and topological phases. These multi-order quantum materials are expected to […]


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