A long-lived solid-state optical quantum memory for high-rate quantum repeaters

Kavli Affiliate: Wolfgang Tittel | First 5 Authors: Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani, Antariksha Das, Jacob H. Davidson, Gustavo C. Amaral, Neil Sinclair | Summary: We argue that long optical storage times are required to establish entanglement at high rates over large distances using memory-based quantum repeaters. Triggered by this conclusion, we investigate the $^3$H$_6$ $leftrightarrow$ $^3$H$_4$ […]


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Imaging spin-wave damping underneath metals using electron spins in diamond

Kavli Affiliate: Toeno Van Der Sar | First 5 Authors: Iacopo Bertelli, Brecht G. Simon, Tao Yu, Jan Aarts, Gerrit E. W. Bauer | Summary: Spin waves in magnetic insulators are low-damping signal carriers that could enable a new generation of spintronic devices. The excitation, control, and detection of spin waves by metal electrodes is […]


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Efficient Fizeau Drag from Dirac electrons in monolayer graphene

Kavli Affiliate: Alex Zettl | First 5 Authors: Wenyu Zhao, Sihan Zhao, Hongyuan Li, Sheng Wang, Shaoxin Wang | Summary: Fizeau demonstrated in 1850 that the speed of light can be modified when it is propagating in moving media. Can we achieve such control of the light speed efficiently with a fast-moving electron media by […]


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Highly tunable magnetic phases in transition metal dichalcogenide Fe$_{1/3+δ}$NbS$_2$

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Shan Wu, Zhijun Xu, Shannon C. Haley, Sophie F. Weber, Arany Acharya | Summary: Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) host a plethora of interesting physical phenomena ranging from charge order to superconductivity. By introducing magnetic ions into 2H-NbS$_2$, the material forms a family of magnetic intercalated […]


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A room temperature polar ferromagnetic metal

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Hongrui Zhang, Yu-Tsun Shao, Rui Chen, Xiang Chen, Sandhya Susarla | Summary: The advent of long-range magnetic order in non-centrosymmetric compounds has stimulated interest in the possibility of exotic spin transport phenomena and topologically protected spin textures for applications in next-generation spintronics. This work reports a […]


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Structural Origins of Cartilage Shear Mechanics

Kavli Affiliate: Itai Cohen | First 5 Authors: Thomas Wyse Jackson, Jonathan Michel, Pancy Lwin, Lisa A. Fortier, Moumita Das | Summary: Healthy cartilage is a remarkable tissue, able to withstand tens of millions of loading cycles with minimal damage. While much is known about the structural origins of its compressive mechanics, how composition determines […]


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Nickelate superconductivity without rare-earth magnetism: (La,Sr)NiO$_{2}$

Kavli Affiliate: Lena F. Kourkoutis | First 5 Authors: Motoki Osada, Bai Yang Wang, Berit H. Goodge, Shannon P. Harvey, Kyuho Lee | Summary: The observation of superconductivity in infinite layer nickelate (Nd,Sr)NiO$_{2}$ thin films has led to rapid theoretical and experimental investigations of these copper-oxide-analogue systems [1-15]. Superconductivity has also been found in (Pr,Sr)NiO$_{2}$ […]


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Improving holographic particle characterization by modeling spherical aberration

Kavli Affiliate: Vinothan Manoharan | First 5 Authors: Caroline Martin, Brian Leahy, Vinothan Manoharan, , | Summary: Holographic microscopy combined with forward modeling and inference allows colloidal particles to be characterized and tracked in three dimensions with high precision. However, current models ignore the effects of optical aberrations on hologram formation. We investigate the effects […]


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All-optical Quantum State Engineering for Rotation-symmetric Bosonic States

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Rajveer Nehra, Miller Eaton, Olivier Pfister, Alireza Marandi, | Summary: Continuous-variable quantum information processing through quantum optics offers a promising platform for building the next generation of scalable fault-tolerant information processors. To achieve quantum computational advantages and fault tolerance, non-Gaussian resources are essential. In this work, we […]


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InSbAs two-dimensional electron gases as a platform for topological superconductivity

Kavli Affiliate: Giordano Scappucci | First 5 Authors: Christian M. Moehle, Chung Ting Ke, Qingzhen Wang, Candice Thomas, Di Xiao | Summary: Topological superconductivity can be engineered in semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction coupled to a superconductor. Experimental advances in this field have often been triggered by the development of new hybrid material systems. Among […]


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