Sparse metapiles for shear wave attenuation in half-spaces

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Paolo Celli, Ilaria Nunzi, Andrea Calabrese, Stefano Lenci, Chiara Daraio | Summary: We show that shear waves traveling towards the surface of a half-space medium can be attenuated via buried one-dimensional arrays of resonators — here called metapiles — arranged according to sparse patterns around a site […]


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Conformal frequency conversion for arbitrary vectorial structured light

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Hai-Jun Wu, Bing-Shi Yu, Zhi-Han Zhu, Wei Gao, Dong-Sheng Ding | Summary: Vectorial structured light with spatially varying amplitude, phase, and polarization is reshaping many areas of modern optics, including nonlinear optics, as diverse parametric processes can be used to explore interactions between such complex vector fields, […]


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Epidemic Management and Control Through Risk-Dependent Individual Contact Interventions

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Tapio Schneider, Oliver R. A. Dunbar, Jinlong Wu, Lucas Böttcher, Dmitry Burov | Summary: Testing, contact tracing, and isolation (TTI) is an epidemic management and control approach that is difficult to implement at scale. Here we demonstrate a scalable improvement to TTI that uses data assimilation (DA) […]


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End-to-End Partially Observable Visual Navigation in a Diverse Environment

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Bo Ai, Wei Gao, Vinay, David Hsu, | Summary: How can a robot navigate successfully in a rich and diverse environment, indoors or outdoors, along an office corridor or a trail in the park, on the flat ground, the staircase, or the elevator, etc.? To this end, […]


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Transient Performance Analysis of the $ell_1$-RLS

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Jie Chen, Cédric Richard, Wentao Shi, Qunfei Zhang | Summary: The recursive least-squares algorithm with $ell_1$-norm regularization ($ell_1$-RLS) exhibits excellent performance in terms of convergence rate and steady-state error in identification of sparse systems. Nevertheless few works have studied its stochastic behavior, in particular its […]


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Snell’s Law for Gliders

Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. K. Rothemund | First 5 Authors: Tyler D. Ross, Dino Osmanović, John F. Brady, Paul W. K. Rothemund, | Summary: Snell’s law, which encompasses both refraction and total internal reflection, provides the foundation for ray optics and all lens-based instruments, from microscopes to telescopes. Refraction results when light crosses the interface […]


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Ray Optics for Gliders

Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. K. Rothemund | First 5 Authors: Tyler D. Ross, Dino Osmanović, John F. Brady, Paul W. K. Rothemund, | Summary: Control of self-propelled particles is central to the development of many microrobotic technologies, from dynamically reconfigurable materials to advanced lab-on-a-chip systems. However, there are few physical principles by which particle trajectories […]


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Discretization of Annular-Ring Diffraction Pattern for Large-Scale Photonics Beamforming

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Hajimiri | First 5 Authors: Aroutin Khachaturian, Reza Fatemi, Artsroun Darbinian, Ali Hajimiri, | Summary: A solid-state active beamformer based on the annular-ring diffraction pattern is proposed for an integrated photonic platform. Such a circularly symmetric annular-ring aperture achieves radiating element limited FOV. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a multi-annular-ring aperture with […]


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Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a solid state qubit

Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Andrei Ruskuc, Chun-Ju Wu, Jake Rochman, Joonhee Choi, Andrei Faraon | Summary: Solid-state nuclear spins surrounding individual, optically addressable qubits provide a crucial resource for quantum networks, computation and simulation. While hosts with sparse nuclear spin baths are typically chosen to mitigate qubit decoherence, developing coherent quantum […]


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