Theory of Nb-Zr Alloy Superconductivity and First Experimental Demonstration for Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavity Applications

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Nathan S. Sitaraman, Zeming Sun, Ben Francis, Ajinkya C. Hire, Thomas Oseroff | Summary: Niobium-zirconium (Nb-Zr) alloy is an old superconductor that is a promising new candidate for superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity applications. Using density-functional and Eliashberg theories, we show that addition of Zr to a […]


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A Study on Non-coplanar Baseline Effects for Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Qiu-ping Yang, Feng Wang, Hui Deng, Ying Mei, Wei Wang | Summary: As a dedicated solar radioheliograph, the MingantU SpEctral RadioHeliograph (MUSER) has a maximum baseline of more than 3000 meters and a frequency range of 400 MHz — 15 GHz. According to the classical radio interferometry […]


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Unidirectional domain growth of h-BN thin films by pulsed laser deposition

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Abhijit Biswas, Qiyuan Ruan, Frank Lee, Chenxi Li, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar | Summary: Two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdW) layered hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has gained tremendous research interest over recent years due to its unconventional domain growth morphology, fascinating properties and application potentials as an excellent dielectric […]


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Room temperature growth of h-BN nanosheets by pulsed laser deposition

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Abhijit Biswas, Rishi Maiti, Frank Lee, Cecilia Y. Chen, Tao Li | Summary: Room temperature growth of two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdW) materials is indispensable for state-of-the-art nanotechnology as it supersedes the requirement of elevated growth temperature accompanied with additional high thermal budgets, and the possibility of […]


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Personalizing Intervened Network for Long-tailed Sequential User Behavior Modeling

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Zheqi Lv, Feng Wang, Shengyu Zhang, Kun Kuang, Hongxia Yang | Summary: In an era of information explosion, recommendation systems play an important role in people’s daily life by facilitating content exploration. It is known that user activeness, i.e., number of behaviors, tends to follow a long-tail […]


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High-speed tunable microwave-rate soliton microcomb

Kavli Affiliate: Kerry Vahala | First 5 Authors: Yang He, Raymond Lopez-Rios, Usman A. Javid, Jingwei Ling, Mingxiao Li | Summary: Microwave signal generation with fast frequency tuning underlies many applications including sensing, imaging, ranging, time keeping, wireless communication, and high-speed electronics. Soliton microcombs are a promising new approach for photonic-based microwave signal synthesis. To […]


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Valley-coherent quantum anomalous Hall state in AB-stacked MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Zui Tao, Bowen Shen, Shengwei Jiang, Tingxin Li, Lizhong Li | Summary: Moir’e materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is quantized even under zero magnetic field, is a direct […]


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A General Lattice and Basis Formalism Enabling Efficient and Discretized Exploration of Crystallographic Phase Space

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin Persson | First 5 Authors: David Mrdjenovich, Kristin Persson, , , | Summary: Three-dimensional lattices are fundamental to solid-state physics. The description of a lattice with an atomic basis constitutes the necessary information to predict solid phase properties and evolution. Here, we present a new algorithm for systematically exploring crystallographic phase space. […]


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A General Lattice and Basis Formalism Enabling Efficient and Discretized Exploration of Crystallographic Phase Space

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin Persson | First 5 Authors: David Mrdjenovich, Kristin Persson, , , | Summary: Three-dimensional lattices are fundamental to solid-state physics. The description of a lattice with an atomic basis constitutes the necessary information to predict solid phase properties and evolution. Here, we present a new algorithm for systematically exploring crystallographic phase space. […]


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