Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Ralph | First 5 Authors: Ralph Henstock, Ralph Henstock, , , | Summary: Ralph Henstock (1923 – 2007) worked in non-absolute integration, including the Riemann-complete or gauge integral which, independently, Jaroslav Kurzweil also discovered in the 1950’s. As a Cambridge undergraduate Henstock took a course of lectures, by J.C. Burkill, on the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Zefang Wang, Zefang Wang, , , | Summary: Electrons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess both the valley and spin degree of freedom. These internal quantum degrees of freedom have provided an ideal laboratory for exploring both new physical phenomena and electronics and photonics applications. Valley- […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Zefang Wang, Zefang Wang, , , | Summary: Electrons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess both the valley and spin degree of freedom. These internal quantum degrees of freedom have provided an ideal laboratory for exploring both new physical phenomena and electronics and photonics applications. Valley- […]
Kavli Affiliate: Amal El-Ghazaly | Summary:The demand on mobile electronics to continue to shrink in size while increase in efficiency drives the demand on the internal passive components to do the same. Power amplifiers require inductors with small form factors, high quality factors, and high operating frequency in the single-digit GHz range. This work explores […]
Kavli Affiliate: Sonia Conesa-Boj | Summary:Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show such a topological state rely on proximity-induced superconductivity. However, accessing the topological properties requires an induced hard superconducting gap, which is challenging to achieve […]
Kavli Affiliate: David A. Tirrell| First 5 Authors: Kim K. McLeod, Kim K. McLeod, , , | Summary:We report the discovery of KELT-18b, a transiting hot Jupiter in a 2.87d orbit around the bright (V=10.1), hot, F4V star BD+60 1538 (TYC 3865-1173-1). We present follow-up photometry, spectroscopy, and adaptive optics imaging that allow a detailed […]
Kavli Affiliate: P. G. Steeneken | Summary:We explore the dynamics of a graphene nanomechanical oscillator coupled to a reference oscillator. Circular graphene drums are forced into self-oscillation, at a frequency fosc, by means of photothermal feedback induced by illuminating the drum with a continuous-wave red laser beam. Synchronization to a reference signal, at a frequency […]
Kavli Affiliate: Julia R. Greer | Summary:In small-scale metallic systems, collective dislocation activity has been correlated with size effects in strength and with a step-like plastic response under uniaxial compression and tension. Yielding and plastic flow in these samples is often accompanied by the emergence of multiple dislocation avalanches. Dislocations might be active pre-yield, but […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yu V. Nazarov | Summary:We present an exhaustive theoretical analysis of a double-loop Josephson proximity interferometer, as the one recently realized by Strambini et al. for the control of the Andreev spectrum via an external magnetic field. This system, called $ω$-SQUIPT, consists of a T-shaped diffusive normal metal (N) attached to three superconductors […]
Kavli Affiliate: Timon Idema | Summary:Many biological systems form colonies at high density. Passive granular systems will be jammed at such densities, yet for the survival of biological systems it is crucial that they are dynamic. We construct a phase diagram for a system of active particles interacting via Vicsek alignment, and vary the density, […]