Kavli Affiliate: Yu V. Nazarov | First 5 Authors: C. Padurariu, T. Jonckheere, J. Rech, R. Mélin, D. Feinberg | Summary: We describe the proximity effect in a short disordered metallic junction between three superconducting leads. Andreev bound states in the multi-terminal junction may cross the Fermi level. We reveal that for a quasi-continuous metallic […]
Fangzhou Jiang, Frank C. van den Bosch, , , | Summary: [[{“value”:”We use a semi-analytical model for the substructure of dark matter haloes to assess the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem. The model accurately reproduces the average subhalo mass and velocity functions, as well as their halo-to-halo variance, in N-body simulations. We construct thousands of realizations of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Austin Minnich | First 5 Authors: Austin J. Minnich, , , , | Summary: Boundary scattering of thermal phonons in thin solid films is typically analyzed using Fuchs-Sondheimer theory, which provides a simple equation to calculate the reduction of thermal conductivity as a function of the film thickness. However, this widely-used equation is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ruobing Dong | First 5 Authors: Ruobing Dong, , , , | Summary: We explore whether protoplanetary disks with self-shadowing from puffed up inner rims exhibit observable features in scattered light images. We use both self-consistent hydrostatic equilibrium calculations and parameterized models to produce the vertically puffed up inner rims. We find that, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Tian Zhong, Jonathan M. Kindem, Evan Miyazono, Andrei Faraon, | Summary: Quantum light-matter interfaces (QLMIs) connecting stationary qubits to photons will enable optical networks for quantum communications, precise global time keeping, photon switching, and studies of fundamental physics. Rare-earth-ion (REI) doped crystals are state-of-the-art materials for optical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Omar M. Yaghi | First 5 Authors: Nanette N. Jarenwattananon, Stefan Gloeggler, Trenton Otto, Arek Melkonian, William Morris | Summary: Over 85% of all chemical industry products are made using catalysts, with the overwhelming majority of these employing heterogeneous catalysts functioning at the gas-solid interface. Consequently, optimizing catalytic reactor design attracts much effort. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Austin Minnich | First 5 Authors: Austin J. Minnich, , , , | Summary: Transient grating spectroscopy has emerged as a useful technique to study thermal phonon transport because of its ability to perform thermal measurements over length scales comparable to phonon mean free paths (MFPs). While several prior works have performed theoretical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi Wesley Masui | First 5 Authors: Kiyoshi Wesley Masui, Kris Sigurdson, , , | Summary: We propose that "standard pings", brief broadband radio impulses, can be used to study the three-dimensional clustering of matter in the Universe even in the absence of redshift information. The dispersion of radio waves as they travel […]
Kavli Affiliate: John E. Bowers | First 5 Authors: Ashok T. Ramu, John E. Bowers, , , | Summary: An enhanced Fourier law (EFL) that accounts for quasi-ballistic phonon transport effects in a formulation entirely in terms of physical observables, is derived from the Boltzmann transport equation, assuming a gray population of quasi-ballistic phonon modes. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna V. Shneidman | First 5 Authors: Ian B. Burgess, Navid Abedzadeh, Theresa M. Kay, Anna V. Shneidman, Derek J. Cranshaw | Summary: Although complex, hierarchical nanoscale geometries with tailored degrees of disorder are commonly found in biological systems, few simple self-assembly routes to fabricating synthetic analogues have been identified. We present two […]