Design and demonstration of an operating system for executing applications on quantum network nodes

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Kavli Affiliate: Stephanie Wehner | First 5 Authors: Carlo Delle Donne, Mariagrazia Iuliano, Bart van der Vecht, Guilherme Maciel Ferreira, Hana Jirovská | Summary: The goal of future quantum networks is to enable new internet applications that are impossible to achieve using solely classical communication. Up to now, demonstrations of quantum network applications and functionalities […]


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Imaging interstitial atoms with multislice electron ptychography

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Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Zhen Chen, Yu-Tsun Shao, Steven E. Zeltmann, Harikrishnan K. P., Ethan R. Rosenberg | Summary: Doping impurity atoms is a strategy commonly used to tune the functionality of materials including catalysts, semiconductors, and quantum emitters. The location of dopants and their interaction with surrounding atoms could […]


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BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation

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Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Bingxin Ke, Hayko Riemenschneider, Nando Metzger, Anton Obukhov | Summary: By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficiently precise details. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit appealing detail extraction ability, they […]


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BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation

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Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Bingxin Ke, Hayko Riemenschneider, Nando Metzger, Anton Obukhov | Summary: By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior ability to extract details, […]


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Adsorption-controlled Growth of Homoepitaxial c-plane Sapphire Films

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Kavli Affiliate: Darrell G. Schlom | First 5 Authors: Lena N. Majer, Tolga Acartürk, Peter A. van Aken, Wolfgang Braun, Luca Camuti | Summary: Sapphire is a technologically highly relevant material, but it poses many challenges to performing epitaxial thin-film deposition. We have identified and applied the conditions for adsorption-controlled homoepitaxial growth of c-plane sapphire. […]


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Active Loop Closure for OSM-guided Robotic Mapping in Large-Scale Urban Environments

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Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Zezhou Sun, Mingle Zhao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Hui Kong | Summary: The autonomous mapping of large-scale urban scenes presents significant challenges for autonomous robots. To mitigate the challenges, global planning, such as utilizing prior GPS trajectories from OpenStreetMap (OSM), is often used to guide the autonomous […]


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Convexification of the Quantum Network Utility Maximisation Problem

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Kavli Affiliate: Stephanie Wehner | First 5 Authors: Sounak Kar, Stephanie Wehner, , , | Summary: Network Utility Maximisation (NUM) addresses the problem of allocating resources fairly within a network and explores the ways to achieve optimal allocation in real-world networks. Although extensively studied in classical networks, NUM is an emerging area of research in […]


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Correlating Stroke Risk with Non-Invasive Tracing of Brain Blood Dynamic via a Portable Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy Laser Device

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Kavli Affiliate: Changhuei Yang | First 5 Authors: Yu Xi Huang, Simon Mahler, Aidin Abedi, Julian Michael Tyszka, Yu Tung Lo | Summary: Stroke poses a significant global health threat, with millions affected annually, leading to substantial morbidity and mortality. Current stroke risk assessment for the general population relies on markers such as demographics, blood […]


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Computational quantum transport

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Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Xavier Waintal, Michael Wimmer, Anton Akhmerov, Christoph Groth, Branislav K. Nikolic | Summary: This review is devoted to the different techniques that have been developed to compute the coherent transport properties of quantum nanoelectronic systems connected to electrodes. Beside a review of the different algorithms proposed in […]


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A robust, fiber-coupled scanning probe magnetometer using electron spins at the tip of a diamond nanobeam

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Kavli Affiliate: Toeno Van Der Sar | First 5 Authors: Yufan Li, Gesa Welker, Richard Norte, Toeno van der Sar, | Summary: Fiber-coupled sensors are well suited for sensing and microscopy in hard-to-reach environments such as biological or cryogenic systems. We demonstrate fiber-based magnetic imaging based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) sensor spins at the tip of […]


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