Global optimization of multilayer dielectric coatings for precision measurements

Kavli Affiliate: Rana X. Adhikari | First 5 Authors: Gautam Venugopalan, Francisco Salces-Cárcoba, Koji Arai, Rana X Adhikari, | Summary: We describe the design of optimized multilayer dielectric coatings for precision laser interferometry. By setting up an appropriate cost function and then using a global optimizer to find a minimum in the parameter space, we […]


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Intersonic Detachment Surface Waves in Elastomer Frictional Sliding

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Weitz | First 5 Authors: Huifeng Du, Emmanuel Virot, Liying Wang, Sam Kharchenko, Md Arifur Rahman | Summary: Elastomeric materials when sliding on clean and rough surfaces generate wrinkles at the interface due to tangential stress gradients. These interfacial folds travel along the bottom of elastomer as surface detachment waves to […]


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A Quantum trajectory picture of single photon absorption and energy transport in photosystem II

Kavli Affiliate: K. Birgitta Whaley | First 5 Authors: Robert L. Cook, Liwen Ko, K. Birgitta Whaley, , | Summary: In this work we study the first step in photosynthesis for the limiting extreme case of a single photon interacting with photosystem II (PSII). We model our system using quantum trajectory theory, which allows us […]


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Efficient soliton self-frequency shift in hydrogen-filled hollow-core fiber

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | First 5 Authors: Yi-Hao Chen, Pavel Sidorenko, Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Frank Wise | Summary: We report a study of soliton self-frequency shifting in hydrogen-filled hollow-core fiber. The combination of hydrogen and short 40-fs input pulses underlies clean and efficient generation of Raman solitons between 1080 and 1600 nm. With […]


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Density of States Prediction for Materials Discovery via Contrastive Learning from Probabilistic Embeddings

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Shufeng Kong, Francesco Ricci, Dan Guevarra, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Carla P. Gomes | Summary: Machine learning for materials discovery has largely focused on predicting an individual scalar rather than multiple related properties, where spectral properties are an important example. Fundamental spectral properties include the phonon density […]


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A Logarithmic Bayesian Approach to Quantum Error Detection

Kavli Affiliate: K. Birgitta Whaley | First 5 Authors: Ian Convy, K. Birgitta Whaley, , , | Summary: We consider the problem of continuous quantum error correction from a Bayesian perspective, proposing a pair of digital filters using logarithmic probabilities that are able to achieve near-optimal performance on a three-qubit bit-flip code while still being […]


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Machine Learning for Continuous Quantum Error Correction on Superconducting Qubits

Kavli Affiliate: K. Birgitta Whaley | First 5 Authors: Ian Convy, Haoran Liao, Song Zhang, Sahil Patel, William P. Livingston | Summary: We propose a machine learning algorithm for continuous quantum error correction that is based on the use of a recurrent neural network to identity bit-flip errors from continuous noisy syndrome measurements. The algorithm […]


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Air Stable and Layer Dependent Ferromagnetism in Atomically Thin van der Waals CrPS$_{4}$

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Joolee Son, Suhan Son, Pyeongjae Park, Maengsuk Kim, Zui Tao | Summary: Ferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials presents a promising platform for the development of ultrathin spintronic devices with advanced functionalities. Recently discovered ferromagnetic van der Waals crystals such as CrI$_{3}$, readily isolated two-dimensional crystals, are highly tunable […]


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Interplay of vibration- and environment-assisted energy transfer

Kavli Affiliate: K. Birgitta Whaley | First 5 Authors: Zeng-Zhao Li, Liwen Ko, Zhibo Yang, Mohan Sarovar, K. Birgitta Whaley | Summary: We study the interplay between two environmental influences on excited state energy transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes, namely, vibrationally assisted energy transfer(VAET) and environment-assisted quantum transport (ENAQT), considering a dimeric chromophore donor-acceptor […]


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Self-Supervised Learning by Estimating Twin Class Distributions

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Feng Wang, Tao Kong, Rufeng Zhang, Huaping Liu, Hang Li | Summary: We present TWIST, a simple and theoretically explainable self-supervised representation learning method by classifying large-scale unlabeled datasets in an end-to-end way. We employ a siamese network terminated by a softmax operation to produce twin class […]


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