Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Eric Sihite, Benjamin Mottis, Paul Ghanem, Alireza Ramezani, Morteza Gharib | Summary: There have been several successful implementations of bio-inspired legged robots that can trot, walk, and hop robustly even in the presence of significant unplanned disturbances. Despite all of these accomplishments, practical control and high-level decision-making […]

Kavli Affiliate: Anqi Zhang| Summary:In the paper, a gradient-free optimization algorithm for single-qubit quantum classifier is proposed to overcome the effects of barren plateau caused by quantum devices. A rotation gate RX(φ) is applied on a single-qubit binary quantum classifier, and the training data and parameters are loaded into φ with the form of vector-multiplication. […]

Kavli Affiliate: Lihong Wang | First 5 Authors: Xuan Zhang, Tingdi Ren, Lihong Wang, Haiyong Xu, | Summary: Studying the history of music may provide a glimpse into the development of human creativity as we examine the evolutionary and revolutionary trends in music and genres. First, a musical influence metric was created to construct a […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sunil Golwala | First 5 Authors: Peter S. Barry, Clarence. C. Chang, Sunil Golwala, Erik Shirokoff, | Summary: The kinetic inductance detector (KID) is a versatile and scalable detector technology with a wide range of applications. These superconducting detectors offer significant advantages: simple and robust fabrication, intrinsic multiplexing that will allow thousands of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Jiyang Gao, Jiyang Gao, , , | Summary: We introduce balanced shifted tableaux, as an analogue of balanced tableaux of Edelman and Greene, from the perspective of root systems of type B and C. We show that they are equinumerous to standard Young tableaux of the corresponding […]

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Luis Ledezma, Arkadev Roy, Luis Costa, Ryoto Sekine, Robert Gray | Summary: Widely-tunable coherent sources are desirable in nanophotonics for a multitude of applications ranging from communications to sensing. The mid-infrared spectral region (wavelengths beyond 2 $mu$m) is particularly important for applications relying on molecular spectroscopy. Among […]

Kavli Affiliate: Harry Atwater | First 5 Authors: Komron Shayegan, Bo Zhao, Yonghwi Kim, Shanhui Fan, Harry Atwater | Summary: Nonreciprocal elements are a vital building block of electrical and optical systems. In the infrared regime, there is a particular interest in structures that break reciprocity because their thermal absorptive (and emissive) properties should not […]

Kavli Affiliate: Stevan Nadj-Perge | Summary:Moiré materials such as magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) exhibit remarkable phenomenology, but present significant challenges for certain experimental methods, particularly scanning probes such as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Typical STM studies that can image tens of thousands of atomic unit cells can image roughly ten moiré cells, making […]

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Jeff Delaune, Jacob Izraelevitz, Samuel Sirlin, David Sternberg, Louis Giersch | Summary: Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery (MAHD) is a new Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) architecture to enable in situ mobility for Mars science at lower cost than previous missions. It uses a jetpack to slow down a […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mohammad Mirhosseini | Summary:Optomechanical crystals provide coupling between phonons and photons by confining them to commensurate wavelength-scale dimensions. We present a new concept for designing optomechanical crystals capable of achieving unprecedented coupling rates by confining optical and mechanical waves to deep sub-wavelength dimensions. Our design is based on a dielectric bowtie unit cell […]