Understanding mechanisms of thermal expansion in PbTiO$_3$ thin-films from first principles: role of high-order phonon-strain anharmonicity

Posted by klaurent Cornell

Kavli Affiliate: Nicole A. Benedek | First 5 Authors: Ethan T. Ritz, Nicole A. Benedek, , , | Summary: The thermal properties of materials are critically important to various technologies and are increasingly the target of materials design efforts. However, it is only relatively recent advances in first-principles computational techniques that have enabled researchers to […]


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Inferring simple but precise quantitative models of human oocyte and early embryo development

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Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Needleman | First 5 Authors: Brian D Leahy, Catherine Racowsky, Daniel Needleman, , | Summary: Macroscopic, phenomenological models have proven useful as concise framings of our understandings in fields from statistical physics to economics to biology. Constructing a phenomenological model for development would provide a framework for understanding the complicated, regulatory nature […]


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Inferring simple but precise quantitative models of human oocyte and early embryo development

Posted by dbos Harvard

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Needleman | First 5 Authors: Brian D Leahy, Catherine Racowsky, Daniel Needleman, , | Summary: Macroscopic, phenomenological models have proven useful as concise framings of our understandings in fields from statistical physics to economics to biology. Constructing a phenomenological model for development would provide a framework for understanding the complicated, regulatory nature […]


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Random-access quantum memory using chirped pulse phase encoding

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Kavli Affiliate: Irfan Siddiqi | First 5 Authors: James O’Sullivan, Oscar W. Kennedy, Kamanasish Debnath, Joseph Alexander, Christoph W. Zollitsch | Summary: As in conventional computing, key attributes of quantum memories are high storage density and, crucially, random access, or the ability to read from or write to an arbitrarily chosen register. However, achieving such […]


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Loss Mechanism Analyses of Perovskite Solar Cells with an Equivalent Circuit Model

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Kavli Affiliate: Ting Xu | First 5 Authors: Ting Xu, Zi-Shuai Wang, Xuan-Hua Li, Wei E. I. Sha, | Summary: Understanding and quantifying the main loss factors affecting the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells are urgently needed. In this work, based on semiconductor physics, the expressions of bulk and surface recombination currents are […]


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Self-regulating soliton domain walls in microresonators

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Kavli Affiliate: Kerry Vahala | First 5 Authors: Heming Wang, Boqiang Shen, Yan Yu, Zhiquan Yuan, Chengying Bao | Summary: Dissipative soliton Kerr frequency combs in microresonators have recently been demonstrated with the self-injection locking process. They have the advantage of turnkey deterministic comb generation and simplifying dark soliton generation in the normal dispersion regime. […]


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A new parameter free partially penalized immersed finite element and the optimal convergence analysis

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Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Haifeng Ji, Feng Wang, Jinru Chen, Zhilin Li, | Summary: This paper presents a new parameter free partially penalized immersed finite element method and convergence analysis for solving second order elliptic interface problems. A lifting operator is introduced on interface edges to ensure the coercivity of the […]


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Should the Endless Frontier of Federal Science be Expanded?

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Kavli Affiliate: Thomas Rosenbaum | First 5 Authors: David Baltimore, Robert Conn, William H Press, Thomas Rosenbaum, David N Spergel | Summary: Scientific research in the United States could receive a large increase in federal funding–up to 100 billion dollars over five years — if proposed legislation entitled the Endless Frontiers Act becomes law. This […]


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Spin-Phonon Interaction in Yttrium Iron Garnet

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Kavli Affiliate: Nicole A. Benedek | First 5 Authors: Kevin S. Olsson, Jeongheon Choe, Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Guru Khalsa, Nicole A. Benedek | Summary: Spin-phonon interaction is an important channel for spin and energy relaxation in magnetic insulators. Understanding this interaction is critical for developing magnetic insulator-based spintronic devices. Quantifying this interaction in yttrium iron garnet […]


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Non-universal current flow near the metal-insulator transition in an oxide interface

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Kavli Affiliate: Andrea D. Caviglia | First 5 Authors: Eylon Persky, Naor Vardi, Ana Mafalda R. V. L. Monteiro, Thierry C. van Thiel, Hyeok Yoon | Summary: In systems near phase transitions, macroscopic properties often follow algebraic scaling laws, determined by the dimensionality and the underlying symmetries of the system. The emergence of such universal […]


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