Kavli Affiliate: Keith C. Schwab | First 5 Authors: Rainer Kaltenbaek, Markus Arndt, Markus Aspelmeyer, Peter F. Barker, Angelo Bassi | Summary: Do the laws of quantum physics still hold for macroscopic objects – this is at the heart of Schr"odinger’s cat paradox – or do gravitation or yet unknown effects set a limit for […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Miguel Molerón, Chiara Daraio, , , | Summary: Lenses that can collect the perfect image of an object must restore propagative and evanescent waves. However, for efficient information transfer, e.g., in compressed sensing, it is often desirable to detect only the fast spatial variations of the wave […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Alireza Marandi, Zhe Wang, Kenta Takata, Robert L. Byer, Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Summary: Finding the ground states of the Ising Hamiltonian [1] maps to various combinatorial optimization problems in biology, medicine, wireless communications, artificial intelligence, and social network. So far no efficient classical and quantum algorithm is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. Sternberg | First 5 Authors: Franciszek Rakowski, Jagan Srinivasan, Paul W. Sternberg, Jan Karbowski, | Summary: C. elegans is the only animal for which a detailed neural connectivity diagram has been constructed. However, synaptic polarities in this diagram, and thus, circuit functions are largely unknown. Here, we deciphered the likely polarities […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mikhail G. Shapiro | First 5 Authors: Adam H. Marblestone, Bradley M. Zamft, Yael G. Maguire, Mikhail G. Shapiro, Thaddeus R. Cybulski | Summary: Simultaneously measuring the activities of all neurons in a mammalian brain at millisecond resolution is a challenge beyond the limits of existing techniques in neuroscience. Entirely new approaches may […]
Kavli Affiliate: Axel Scherer | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: The use of an optically thick slab may provide versatile solutions for the realization of a current injection type laser using photonic crystals. Here, we show that a transversely higher-order defect mode can be designed to be confined by a photonic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. Sternberg | First 5 Authors: Shuo Pang, Chao Han, Mihoko Kato, Paul W. Sternberg, Changhuei Yang | Summary: The fluorescence microscope is one of the most important tools in modern clinical diagnosis and biological science. However, its expense, size and limited field-of-view (FOV) are becoming bottlenecks in key applications such as […]
Kavli Affiliate: Axel Scherer | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: We show that, taking a two-dimensional photonic-crystal slab system as an example, surprisingly high quality factors (Q) over 10^5 are achievable, even in the absence of a rigorous photonic-band-gap. We find that the density of in-plane Bloch modes can be controlled […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Alireza Marandi, Nick C. Leindecker, Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, Robert L. Byer, | Summary: True random number generators (RNGs) are desirable for applications ranging from cryptogra- phy to computer simulations. Quantum phenomena prove to be attractive for physical RNGs due to their fundamental randomness and immunity to attack […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nathan S. Lewis | First 5 Authors: Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Peter Plavchan, Sean Mills, Peter Gao, Edgardo García-Berríos | Summary: We present a method to optimize absorption cells for precise wavelength calibration in the near-infrared. We apply it to design and optimize methane isotopologue cells for precision radial velocity measurements in the K band. […]