Direct evaluation of rare events in active matter from variational path sampling

Kavli Affiliate: David T. Limmer | First 5 Authors: Avishek Das, Benjamin Kuznets-Speck, David T. Limmer, , | Summary: Active matter represents a broad class of systems that evolve far from equilibrium due to the local injection of energy. Like their passive analogues, transformations between distinct metastable states in active matter proceed through rare fluctuations, […]


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Optical phased array neural probes for beam-steering in brain tissue

Kavli Affiliate: Michael L. Roukes | First 5 Authors: Wesley D. Sacher, Fu-Der Chen, Homeira Moradi-Chameh, Xinyu Liu, Ilan Felts Almog | Summary: Implantable silicon neural probes with integrated nanophotonic waveguides can deliver patterned dynamic illumination into brain tissue at depth. Here, we introduce neural probes with integrated optical phased arrays and demonstrate optical beam […]


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Tuning color centers at a twisted interface

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Crommie | First 5 Authors: Cong Su, Fang Zhang, Salman Kahn, Brian Shevitski, Jingwei Jiang | Summary: Color center is a promising platform for quantum technologies, but their application is hindered by the typically random defect distribution and complex mesoscopic environment. Employing cathodoluminescence, we demonstrate that an ultraviolet-emitting single photon emitter can […]


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Tuning color centers at a twisted interface

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Crommie | First 5 Authors: Cong Su, Fang Zhang, Salman Kahn, Brian Shevitski, Jingwei Jiang | Summary: Color center is a promising platform for quantum technologies, but their application is hindered by the typically random defect distribution and complex mesoscopic environment. Employing cathodoluminescence, we demonstrate that an ultraviolet-emitting single photon emitter can […]


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Imaging gate-tunable Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids in 1H-MoSe$_2$ mirror twin boundaries

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Tiancong Zhu, Wei Ruan, Yan-Qi Wang, Hsin-Zon Tsai, Shuopei Wang | Summary: One-dimensional electron systems (1DESs) exhibit properties that are fundamentally different from higher-dimensional systems. For example, electron-electron interactions in 1DESs have been predicted to induce Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid behavior. Naturally-occurring grain boundaries in single-layer semiconducting transition […]


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A quantum hamiltonian simulation benchmark

Kavli Affiliate: Birgitta Whaley | First 5 Authors: Yulong Dong, K. Birgitta Whaley, Lin Lin, , | Summary: Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most important problems in quantum computation, and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT) is an efficient way to simulate a general class of Hamiltonians. However, the QSVT circuit typically involves multiple ancilla […]


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Forecasting racial dynamics at the neighborhood scale using Density-functional Fluctuation Theory

Kavli Affiliate: Itai Cohen | First 5 Authors: Yunus A. Kinkhabwala, Boris Barron, Matthew Hall, Tomas A. Arias, Itai Cohen | Summary: Racial residential segregation is a defining and enduring feature of U.S. society, shaping inter-group relations, racial disparities in income and health, and access to high-quality public goods and services. The design of policies […]


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Fast universal quantum control above the fault-tolerance threshold in silicon

Kavli Affiliate: Giordano Scappucci | First 5 Authors: Akito Noiri, Kenta Takeda, Takashi Nakajima, Takashi Kobayashi, Amir Sammak | Summary: Fault-tolerant quantum computers which can solve hard problems rely on quantum error correction. One of the most promising error correction codes is the surface code, which requires universal gate fidelities exceeding the error correction threshold […]


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