Programmable patchy particles for materials design

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Ella M. King, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Qian-Ze Zhu, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Michael P. Brenner | Summary: Direct design of complex functional materials would revolutionize technologies ranging from printable organs to novel clean energy devices. However, even incremental steps towards designing functional materials have proven challenging. If […]


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Scientific Preparation for CSST: Classification of Galaxy and Nebula/Star Cluster Based on Deep Learning

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Yuquan Zhang, Zhong Cao, Feng Wang, Lam, Man I | Summary: The Chinese Space Station Telescope (abbreviated as CSST) is a future advanced space telescope. Real-time identification of galaxy and nebula/star cluster (abbreviated as NSC) images is of great value during CSST survey. While recent research on […]


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Low Resistance Ohmic Contact to P-type Monolayer WSe2

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Crommie | First 5 Authors: Jingxu Xie, Zuocheng Zhang, Haodong Zhang, Vikram Nagarajan, Wenyu Zhao | Summary: Advanced microelectronics in the future may require semiconducting channel materials beyond silicon. Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, characterized by their atomically thin thickness, hold immense promise for high-performance electronic devices at the nanometer scale with lower heat […]


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The Universe SPHEREx Will See: Empirically Based Galaxy Simulations and Redshift Predictions

Kavli Affiliate: James J. Bock | First 5 Authors: Richard M. Feder, Daniel C. Masters, Bomee Lee, James J. Bock, Yi-Kuan Chiang | Summary: We simulate galaxy properties and redshift estimation for SPHEREx, the next NASA Medium Class Explorer. To make robust models of the galaxy population and test spectro-photometric redshift performance for SPHEREx, we […]


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Broadband, High-Reflectivity Dielectric Mirrors at Wafer Scale: Combining Photonic Crystal and Metasurface Architectures for Advanced Lightsails

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Jin Chang, Wenye Ji, Xiong Yao, Arnold J. van Run, Simon Gröblacher | Summary: Highly ambitious initiatives aspire to propel a miniature spacecraft to a neighboring star within a human generation, leveraging the radiation pressure of lasers for propulsion. One of the main challenges to achieving this […]


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A single-phonon directional coupler

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Amirparsa Zivari, Niccolò Fiaschi, Lorenzo Scarpelli, Menno Jansen, Roel Burgwal | Summary: Integrated photonics has enabled countless technologies in telecommunications, spectroscopy, metrology, quantum optics, and quantum information processing. Using highly confined guided optical modes is the key that has made integrated circuits possible and has lead to […]


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TOI-4641b: An Aligned Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Bright (V=7.5) Rapidly Rotating F-star

Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, George Zhou, Juliana García-Mejía, Tyler R. Farnington, David W. Latham | Summary: We report the discovery of TOI-4641b, a warm Jupiter transiting a rapidly rotating F-type star with a stellar effective temperature of 6560 K. The planet has a radius of 0.73 $R_{Jup}$, a mass […]


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Phonon screening and dissociation of excitons at finite temperatures from first principles

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Antonios M. Alvertis, Jonah B. Haber, Zhenglu Li, Christopher J. N. Coveney, Steven G. Louie | Summary: The properties of excitons, or correlated electron-hole pairs, are of paramount importance to optoelectronic applications of materials. A central component of exciton physics is the electron-hole interaction, which is […]


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Low-energy optical sum-rule in moiré graphene

Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | First 5 Authors: J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Dan Mao, Debanjan Chowdhury, , | Summary: Few layers of graphene at small twist-angles have emerged as a fascinating platform for studying the problem of strong interactions in regimes with a nearly quenched single-particle kinetic energy and non-trivial band topology. Starting from the strong-coupling […]


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Electrically controlled interlayer trion fluid in electron-hole bilayers

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Ruishi Qi, Qize Li, Zuocheng Zhang, Sudi Chen, Jingxu Xie | Summary: The combination of repulsive and attractive Coulomb interactions in a quantum electron(e)-hole(h) fluid can give rise to novel correlated phases of multiparticle charge complexes such as excitons, trions and biexcitons. Here we report the first […]


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