Kavli Affiliate: Brad Ramshaw | Summary:The confirmation of a bulk, topological superconductor is a central goal of modern quantum materials research. Despite decades of searching, no confirmed examples yet exist. A primary difficulty is that most experimental signatures of topological superconductivity are ambiguous and indirect. I review efforts to narrow the search for a chiral […]
Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Using molecular beam epitaxy, we have realized thin films of titanium nitride (TiN) on c-plane sapphire that exhibit the lowest observed full-width at half maximum X-ray rocking curve width of 18 arcsec. Though the (111) oriented TiN exhibits an abrupt and crystalline interface with sapphire, for the first time we […]
Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Using molecular beam epitaxy, we have realized thin films of titanium nitride (TiN) on c-plane sapphire that exhibit the lowest observed full-width at half maximum X-ray rocking curve width of 18 arcsec. Though the (111) oriented TiN exhibits an abrupt and crystalline interface with sapphire, for the first time we […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are emerging as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks due to their ability to dynamically control the propagation environment. To ensure favorable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in real-world applications, the RIS is mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). While the potential of UAV-mounted RIS […]
Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Alloys of AlN have rapidly emerged as a material platform for nonlinear optics. In this paper, we measure the second-order optical nonlinearity of AlScN films grown directly on nitrided c-plane sapphire by molecular beam epitaxy. This direct growth approach, which bypasses a thick AlN buffer layer, allows us to isolate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ankit Disa | Summary:Nonrelativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in collinear antiferromagnets offers a route to high-frequency spintronics immune to stray fields, but its dynamic control has remained elusive. We demonstrate, using density functional theory (DFT) and nonlinear phononics, that THz laser pulses can achieve ultrafast, reversible control of NRSS on picosecond timescales in antiferromagnets. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:The superconductivity in RuO2 emerges under strain. RuO2 is also an altermagnet candidate. The nature of superconductivity and its relation with neighboring orders, however, are not understood. To address this problem, we grew epitaxial RuO2 films on TiO2(100) and TiO2(110) single crystal substrates and studied the electronic transport and emergent […]
Kavli Affiliate: Brett Fors | Summary:Polymerization-induced phase separation (PIPS) provides a powerful route to generate structured polymeric materials by coupling chemical conversion with thermodynamic demixing. PIPS in liquid-state systems underlies dispersion polymerization, serving as a cornerstone technique for microparticle production, yet is constrained by solvent compatibility and limited range of morphologies. Here, we establish an […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:UAV-mounted reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are a promising enabler for 6G networks, offering dynamic control of wireless propagation for coverage enhancement, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and localization. By exploiting UAV mobility, RIS can maintain favorable line-of-sight links, improving channel quality in dynamic environments. However, UAV positioning uncertainties introduce channel […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) offer a promising path toward universal physics-based character control by organizing a rich repertoire of physically plausible behaviors into a latent space, guided by a large-scale motion dataset. While these models excel at time-invariant tasks, such as goal-reaching and state-based reward optimization, their latent space does […]