Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have continuous deficiency in spatial reasoning tasks that require emphmental spatial transformation, such as reasoning under hypothetical changes in viewpoint or position, known as perspective-taking tasks. Existing approaches either scale linguistic reasoning or augment VLMs with static geometric representations, but neither directly enables active transformation of the represented […]

Kavli Affiliate: Dimitri Mawet| Summary:The deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio (D/H) has provided key insights into the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, we detected deuterated methane at $48σ$ in a mature giant exoplanet, $ε$ Ind Ab. We measure the planet’s D/H ratio to be $(4.4 pm 0.7) times 10^-5$, which […]

Kavli Affiliate: Kerry Vahala | Summary:Aerosols – solid or liquid particles suspended in air – are an effective means of dispersing chemical warfare agents and toxic pharmaceuticals, posing acute risks to public safety and security. Exposure to aerosol particulate matter in the environment and in industrial settings has also been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular […]

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Generalization remains a central challenge in robotics, calling for policies that address domain variations from multiple dimensions such as diverse embodiments, camera poses, and/or scene layouts. In order to approach this problem, we introduce PointPilot, a task-focused and 3D aligned manipulation framework built on a 3D space point-flow prediction. Rather than […]

Kavli Affiliate: Oskar Painter | Summary:We show that encoding superconducting qubits as dual-rail or spin-locked transmons lets a metamaterial waveguide couple them all-to-all while suppressing the spurious entanglement that burdens shared-mode architectures, a step toward the non-local connectivity that quantum low-density parity-check codes require. In a bare-transmon architecture, the dispersive coupling between each populated mode […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sunil Golwala | Summary:The SuperCDMS experiment uses semiconductor crystal detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures to search for low-mass dark matter. Vibrations observed during the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment generated broadband low-frequency noise (LFN), which due to its similarity in the pulse shape to the low-energy signal events is difficult to remove. In the final […]

Kavli Affiliate: Austin Minnich | Summary:Thermal laser evaporation (TLE) is an emerging physical vapor deposition (PVD) technique that uses continuous-wave lasers to evaporate even the most refractory elements. The deposition and characterization of superconducting refractory elements are of interest to assess the quality of films deposited by TLE. Here, we report the deposition of niobium […]

Kavli Affiliate: Linda Ye| Summary:When electrons move through non-trivial spin textures in magnetic metals, conduction electrons couple to magnetic order through both their charge and their spin, acquiring non-trivial equations of motion and a dynamic spin polarization providing the foundation of spintronics. These mechanisms are, however, almost invariably reciprocal and the resistance a current encounters […]