Robust Model Predictive Control of Irrigation Systems with Active Uncertainty Learning and Data Analytics

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Kavli Affiliate: Abraham Stroock | Summary:We develop a novel data-driven robust model predictive control (DDRMPC) approach for automatic control of irrigation systems. The fundamental idea is to integrate both mechanistic models, which describe dynamics in soil moisture variations, and data-driven models, which characterize uncertainty in forecast errors of evapotranspiration and precipitation, into a holistic systems […]


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Disentangling lattice and electronic contributions to the metal-insulator transition from bulk vs. layer confined RNiO$_3$

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Kavli Affiliate: Ankit Disa | First 5 Authors: Alexandru B. Georgescu, Oleg E. Peil, Ankit Disa, Antoine Georges, Andrew J. Millis | Summary: In complex oxide materials, changes in electronic properties are often associated with changes in crystal structure, raising the question of the relative roles of the electronic and lattice effects in driving the […]


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Disentangling lattice and electronic contributions to the metal-insulator transition from bulk vs. layer confined RNiO$_3$

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Kavli Affiliate: Ankit Disa | Summary:In complex oxide materials, changes in electronic properties are often associated with changes in crystal structure, raising the question of the relative roles of the electronic and lattice effects in driving the metal-insulator transition. This paper presents a combined theoretical and experimental analysis of the dependence of the metal-insulator transition […]


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On the Origin of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at the CdO (100) Surface

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Kavli Affiliate: Nathan Lewis | Summary:Synchrotron-radiation angle-resolved and core-level photoemission spectroscopy are used together to investigate the origin of the two-dimensional electron gas on the surface of single crystal CdO (100) films. A reduction in the two-dimensional electron density of the surface state is observed under the synchrotron beam during ARPES, which is shown to […]


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Enhanced oxygen solubility in metastable water under tension

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Kavli Affiliate: Warren R. Zipfel | Summary:Despite its relevance in numerous natural and industrial processes, the solubility of molecular oxygen has never been directly measured in capillary condensed liquid water. In this article, we measure oxygen solubility in liquid water trapped within nanoporous samples, in metastable equilibrium with a subsaturated vapor. We show that solubility […]


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Searching for Materials with High Refractive Index and Wide Band Gap: A First-Principles High-Throughput Study

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Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | Summary:Materials combining both a high refractive index and a wide band gap are of great interest for optoelectronic and sensor applications. However, these two properties are typically described by an inverse correlation with high refractive index appearing in small gap materials and vice-versa. Here, we conduct a first-principles high-throughput study […]


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Harnessing Avidity: Quantifying Entropic and Energetic Effects of Linker Length and Rigidity Required for Multivalent Binding of Antibodies to HIV-1 Spikes

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Kavli Affiliate: Pamela J. Bjorkman | Summary:Due to the low density of envelope (Env) spikes on the surface of HIV-1, neutralizing IgG antibodies rarely bind bivalently using both antigen-binding arms (Fabs) to crosslink between spikes (inter-spike crosslinking), instead resorting to weaker monovalent binding that is more sensitive to Env mutations. Synthetic antibodies designed to bivalently […]


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Absolute and arbitrary orientation of single molecule shapes

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Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. K. Rothemund | Summary:DNA origami is a modular platform for the combination of molecular and colloidal components to create optical, electronic, and biological devices. Integration of such nanoscale devices with microfabricated connectors and circuits is challenging: large numbers of freely diffusing devices must be fixed at desired locations with desired alignment. […]


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Quantum signatures in quadratic optomechanics

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Kavli Affiliate: Ya Blanter | Summary:We analyze quantum effects occurring in optomechanical systems where the coupling between an optical mode and a mechanical mode is quadratic in displacement (membrane-in-the-middle geometry). We show that it is possible to observe quantum effects in these systems without achieving the single-photon strong coupling regime. We find that zero-point energy […]


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Cheeger-Colding-Tian theory for conic Kahler-Einstein metrics

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Kavli Affiliate: Zhiting Tian | First 5 Authors: Gang Tian, Gang Tian, , , | Summary: In this paper is to extend the Cheeger-Colding Theory to the class of conic Kahler-Einstein metrics. This extension provides a technical tool for [LTW] in which we prove a version of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for Fano varieties with certain […]


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