Electronic Structure of Epitaxial Films of the Bilayer Strontium Ruthenate: Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:We report the first combined study of the low-energy electronic band structure of epitaxial Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ films using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory. The complete Fermi-surface topography of the near-Fermi-level bands is determined from in-situ ARPES measurements. To investigate the effects of substrate-induced strain on the band structure, Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ […]


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Electronic Structure of Epitaxial Films of the Bilayer Strontium Ruthenate: Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:We report a combined study of the low-energy electronic band structure of epitaxial Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ films using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and density functional theory (DFT). To investigate the effects of substrate dependence on the band structure, Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ thin films are epitaxially grown on SrTiO$_3$ (STO) and (LaAlO$_3$)$_0.3$(Sr$_2$TaAlO$_6$)$_0.7$ (LSAT) substrates using […]


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Low-temperature spin dynamics in LAFO thin films: from cubic anisotropy to TLS-limited coherence

Kavli Affiliate: Gregory D. Fuchs | Summary:We investigate the low-temperature spin dynamics of epitaxial lithium aluminum ferrite (LAFO) thin films using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy from 0.44 K to 68 K. The results reveal a crossover from conventional cubic anisotropy-dominated behavior at higher temperatures to pronounced linewidth broadening and higher-order anisotropy contributions at cryogenic […]


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Information, Dissipation, and Planckian Optimality

Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | Summary:We derive a universal bound on the efficiency with which "dissipated" work can generate distinguishable changes in a quantum many-body state at a finite temperature, as quantified by the quantum Fisher information. The bound follows solely from the analytic structure of equilibrium many-body correlators and is independent of all microscopic […]


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Visualizing the Odd-parity Superconducting Order Parameter and its Quasiparticle Surface Band in UTe2

Kavli Affiliate: J. C. Seamus Davis | Summary:A distinctive identifier of nodal intrinsic topological superconductivity (ITS) would the appearance of an Andreev bound state on crystal surfaces parallel to the nodal axis, in the form of a topological quasiparticle surface band (QSB) appearing only for $T < T_C$. Moreover, theory shows that specific QSB characteristics […]


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Krypton-sputtered tantalum films for scalable high-performance quantum devices

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:Superconducting qubits based on tantalum (Ta) thin films have demonstrated the highest-performing microwave resonators and qubits. This makes Ta an attractive material for superconducting quantum computing applications, but, so far, direct deposition has largely relied on high substrate temperatures exceeding SI400celsius to achieve the body-centered cubic phase, BCC (textalpha-Ta). This […]


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Generalizable Equivariant Diffusion Models for Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:We demonstrate that gauge equivariant diffusion models can accurately model the physics of non-Abelian lattice gauge theory using the Metropolis-adjusted annealed Langevin algorithm (MAALA), as exemplified by computations in two-dimensional U(2) and SU(2) gauge theories. Our network architecture is based on lattice gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks (L-CNNs), which respect […]


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Above Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Epitaxially Strained KTaO3

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:Epitaxial strain is a powerful means to engineer emergent phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate that KTaO3, a cubic perovskite in bulk form, can be epitaxially strained into a highly tunable ferroelectric. KTaO3 films grown commensurate to SrTiO3 (001) substrates experience an in-plane strain of -2.1 % […]


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Topological textures and emergent altermagnetic signatures in ultrathin BiFeO3

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:Magnetoelectric multiferroics, materials with intrinsically coupled electric polarization and magnetic order, promise ultralow-power switching, nonvolatile memory, and energy-efficient signal transduction. Yet practical deployment demands ultrathin films down to the atomic limit, where both orders typically degrade. Maintaining both order parameters at the thinnest scales in complex oxides remains a tremendous […]


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Raman-enhanced spectral compression of high-energy femtosecond laser pulses in molecular gases

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Nonlinear pulse propagation in gas-filled waveguides has attracted substantial attention over the past decade, and a variety of capabilities have been reported. However, there is no prior report of spectral compression in gas-filled waveguides or cavities, which would offer a natural route for scaling to much higher pulse energies than […]


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