Phonon screening of excitons in atomically thin semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Woncheol Lee, Antonios M. Alvertis, Zhenglu Li, Steven G. Louie, Marina R. Filip | Summary: Atomically thin semiconductors, encompassing both 2D materials and quantum wells, exhibit a pronounced enhancement of excitonic effects due to geometric confinement. Consequently, these materials have become foundational platforms for the exploration […]


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Intermittent Semi-working Mask: A New Masking Paradigm for LLMs

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Mingcong Lu, Jiangcai Zhu, Wang Hao, Zheng Li, Shusheng Zhang | Summary: Multi-turn dialogues are a key interaction method between humans and Large Language Models (LLMs), as conversations extend over multiple rounds, keeping LLMs’ high generation quality and low latency is a challenge. Mainstream LLMs can be […]


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Wireless-Powered Mobile Crowdsensing Enhanced by UAV-Mounted RIS: Joint Transmission, Compression, and Trajectory Design

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Yongqing Xu, Haoqing Qi, Zhiqin Wang, Xiang Zhang, Yong Li | Summary: Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) enables data collection from massive devices to achieve a wide sensing range. Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising paradigm for prolonging the operation time of MCS systems by sustainably transferring power […]


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Marangoni-driven freezing dynamics of supercooled binary droplets

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Feng Wang, Hao Zeng, Yihong Du, Xinyu Tang, Chao Sun | Summary: Solidification of droplets is of great importance to various technological applications, drawing considerable attention from scientists aiming to unravel the fundamental physical mechanisms. In the case of multicomponent droplets undergoing solidification, the emergence of concentration […]


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Controlling structure and interfacial interaction of monolayer TaSe2 on bilayer graphene

Kavli Affiliate: Michael F. Crommie | First 5 Authors: Hyobeom Lee, Hayoon Im, Byoung Ki Choi, Kyoungree Park, Yi Chen | Summary: Tunability of interfacial effects between two-dimensional (2D) crystals is crucial not only for understanding the intrinsic properties of each system, but also for designing electronic devices based on ultra-thin heterostructures. A prerequisite of […]


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ReactCA: A Cellular Automaton for Predicting Phase Evolution in Solid-State Reactions

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin A. Persson | First 5 Authors: Max C. Gallant, Matthew J. McDermott, Bryant Li, Kristin A. Persson, | Summary: New computational tools for solid-state synthesis recipe design are needed in order to accelerate the experimental realization of novel functional materials proposed by high-throughput materials discovery workflows. This work contributes a cellular automaton […]


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Octave-spanning supercontinuum coherent soft X-ray for producing a single-cycle soft X-ray pulse

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Kaito Nishimiya, Feng Wang, Pengfei Lan, Eiji J. Takahashi, | Summary: This study demonstrates the potential to generate a soft X-ray single-cycle attosecond pulse using a single-cycle mid-infrared pulse from the advanced dual-chirped optical parametric amplification. Supercontinuum high harmonic (HH) spectrum was generated in argon (80 eV […]


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Explicit block encodings of boundary value problems for many-body elliptic operators

Kavli Affiliate: Birgitta Whaley | First 5 Authors: Tyler Kharazi, Ahmad M. Alkadri, Jin-Peng Liu, Kranthi K. Mandadapu, K. Birgitta Whaley | Summary: Simulation of physical systems is one of the most promising use cases of future digital quantum computers. In this work we systematically analyze the quantum circuit complexities of block encoding the discretized […]


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BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Bingxin Ke, Hayko Riemenschneider, Nando Metzger, Anton Obukhov | Summary: By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficiently precise details. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit appealing detail extraction ability, they […]


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BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Bingxin Ke, Hayko Riemenschneider, Nando Metzger, Anton Obukhov | Summary: By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior ability to extract details, […]


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