Journals

AC Voltage Measurements to 120 V with a Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer and an Inductive Voltage Divider

December 17, 2018

Author(s)

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Ilya F. Budovsky, Samuel Benz

We have developed a system to extend, by a factor of up to 1000, the voltage range over which Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizers (JAWS) can be used in ac...

Initial study on thatched roofing assembly ignition vulnerabilities to firebrand showers

December 15, 2018

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Structures fitted with thatched roofing assemblies are prone to ignition during the course of large outdoor fires. Experiments with thatched roofing assemblies...

Some generating functions for q-polynomials

December 15, 2018

Author(s)

Howard Cohl, Roberto Costas-Santos, Tanay Wakhare

We obtain $q$-analogues of the Sylvester, Cesaro, Pasternack, and Bateman polynomials. We also derive generating functions for these polynomials.

IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONTOLOGY-BASED APPROACH TO ENABLE AGILITY IN KIT BUILDING APPLICATIONS

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Zeid Kootbally, Thomas Kramer, Craig I. Schlenoff, Satyandra K. Gupta

The effort described in this paper attempts to integrate agility aspects in the "Agility Performance of Robotic Systems" (APRS) project, developed at the...

"What is The SI?" A Proposal for an Educational Adjunct to the Redefinition of the International System of Units

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Neil M. Zimmerman, David B. Newell

We discuss how the likely 2018 redefinition of the SI system of units might affect the ability of students to understand the link between the units and the new...

Scalable method to find the shortest path in a graph with circuits of memristors

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Alice Mizrahi, thomas Marsh, Brian D. Hoskins, Mark D. Stiles

Finding the shortest path in a graph has applications to a wide range of optimization problems. However, algorithmic methods scale with the size of the graph in...

Measurement of the radial mode spectrum of photons through a phase-retrieval method

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Omar S. Magana Loaiza

We propose and demonstrate a simple and easy-to-implement projective-measurement protocol to determine the radial index 𝑝 of a LaguerreGaussian (LG𝑙𝑝) mode...

Quantum optimal control of the dissipative production of a maximally entangled state

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Karl P. Horn, Florentin Reiter, Yiheng Lin, Dietrich Leibfried, Christiane P. Koch

Entanglement generation can be robust against noise in approaches that deliberately incorporate dissipation into the system dynamics. The presence of additional...

Spin-mechanical coupling of an InAs quantum dot embedded in a mechanical resonator

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

S G. Carter, A S. Bracker, Garnett W. Bryant, M Kim, C S. Kim, M Zalalutdinov, M. K. Yakes, C Czarnocki, J Casara, M Scheibner, D Gammon

We demonstrate strain-induced coupling between a hole spin in a quantum dot and mechanical motion of a cantilever. The optical transitions of quantum dots...

Comprehensive Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of the Multiferroic Mn_1-xCo_xWO₄

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Jinchen Wang, R. S. Fishman, Yiming Qiu, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, Georg Ehlers, K.-C. Liang, Yaqi Wang, Bernd Lorenz, C. W. Chu, Feng Ye

Using high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering, we examine the spin dynamics of Mn 1-xCo xWO 4 in the collinear AF1, the ac-b spiral AF2, and the ac spiral...

Erratum to "A critical compilation of experimental data on spectral lines and energy levels of hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium" [At.Data Nucl. Data Tables 96 (2010) 586–644]

December 13, 2018

Author(s)

Alexander Kramida

In the critical compilation of experimental and theoretical data on the H, D, and T spectra [A. E. Kramida, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 96 (2010) 586], there...

Diagonal Slice Four-Wave Mixing: Natural Separation of Coherent Broadening Mechanisms

December 13, 2018

Author(s)

Travis M. Autry, Geoffrey M. Diederich, Mark E. Siemens

We present an ultrafast coherent spectroscopy data acquisition scheme that samples slices of the time domain used in multidimensional coherent spectroscopy to...

Crystal Chemistry and Phase Equilibria of the CaO-½Dy2O3-CoOz System at 885 °C in Air

December 13, 2018

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, William J. Laws, James A. Kaduk

The CaO-½Dy2O3-CoOz system prepared at 885 °C in air consists of two calcium cobaltate compounds, namely, the 2D thermoelectric oxide solid solution, (Ca3-xDyx...

Anomalous Metamagnetism in the Low Carrier Density Kondo Lattice YbRh₃Si₇

December 13, 2018

Author(s)

Binod K. Rai, S. Chikara, Xiaxin Ding, Iain W. H. Oswald, R. Schonemann, V. Loganathan, A. M. Hallas, H. B. Cao, Macy Stavinoha, T. Chen, Haoran Man, Scott Carr, John Singleton, Vivien Zapf, Katherine A. Benavides, Julia Y. Chan, Q. R. Zhang, D. Rhodes, Y. C. Chiu, Luis Balicas, A. A. Aczel, Qingzhen Huang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, J. Gaudet, D. A. Sokolov, H. C. Walker, D. T. Adroja, Pengcheng Dai, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, C.-L. Huang, E. Morosan

We report complex metamagnetic transitions in single crystals of the new low carrier Kondo antiferromagnet YbRh 3Si 7. Electrical transport, magnetization, and...

Magnetic Interaction of Multifunctional Core-Shell Nanoparticles for Highly Effective Theranostics

December 13, 2018

Author(s)

Chien-Hsin Ho, Sergiu Ruta, Roy Chantrell, Kathryn L. Krycka, Ondrej Hovorka, Fu-Rong Chen, Ping-Shan Lai, Chih-Huang Lai

Quantitative theory of the grain boundary impact on the open-circuit voltage of polycrystalline solar cells

December 12, 2018

Author(s)

Benoit H. Gaury, Paul M. Haney

The techniques used to grow polycrystalline thin films are known to produce a wide variety of structural defects. However, recent developments in thin-film...

Super Charge Separation and High Voltage Phase in Na_xMnO₂

December 12, 2018

Author(s)

Xi Chen, Yichao Wang, Kamila Wiaderek, Xiahan Sang, Olaf Borkiewicz, Karena Chapman, James LeBeau, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Xin Li

Na xMnO 2 shows Mnu3+^ and Mn^ 4+ charge separation with charge stripe ordering upon Na de-intercalation at x=5/8, similar to many colossal magnetoresistance...

Realization of Continuous Electron Doping in Bulk Iron Selenides and Identification of a New Superconducting Zone

December 12, 2018

Author(s)

R. J. Sun, Y. Quan, S. F. Jin, Qingzhen Huang, Hui Wu, L. Zhao, Lin Gu, Z. P. Yin, X. L. Chen

The Effects of Long Range Sidechain Ordering on Backbone Ordering and Optoelectronic Properties in Semiconducting Polymers

December 12, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua H. Carpenter, Masoud Ghasemi, Eliot Gann, Indunil Angunawela, Samuel Stuard, Liang Yan, Earl RItchie, Brendan O'Connor, Dean DeLongchamp, Harald Ade

Molecular ordering and packing greatly impacts the electronic and optoelectronic properties of semiconducting polymers. Despite much prior effort, the competing...

Multi-pulse fitting of transition edge sensor signals from a near-infrared continuous-wave source

December 11, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Jianwei Lee, Lijiong Shen, Alessandro Cere, Christian Kurtsiefer

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are photon-number resolving calorimetric spectrometers with near unit efficiency. Their recovery time, which is on the order of...

Axisymmetric scalable magneto-gravitational trap for diamagnetic particle levitation

December 11, 2018

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness, John P. Houlton, Max L. Chen, Matthew D. Brubaker, Charles T. Rogers

We report an axisymmetric magnetic trap design for levitating diamagnetic particles. The magnetic traps each consist of two iron pole pieces passively driven by...

Aflatoxin-guanine DNA Adducts and Oxidatively-induced DNA Damage in Aflatoxin-treated Mice in vivo as Measured by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry with Isotope-dilution

December 11, 2018

Author(s)

Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Vladimir Vartanian, Onur Erdem, Patricia Egner, John D. Groopman, R. S. Lloyd, Miral M. Dizdar

Dietary exposure to aflatoxin (AFB1) is a significant reason for the incidence of hepatocellular carcinomas globally. AFB1-exposure leads to the formation of...

Optimization of Folch, Bligh-Dyer, and Matyash Sample-to-Extraction Solvent Ratios for Mammalian Cell- and Plasma-Based Lipidomics Studies

December 11, 2018

Author(s)

John Bowden, Candice Z. Ulmer, Christina Jones, Richard A. Yost, Timothy J. Garrett

In order to investigate changes in the lipidome, analysis by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography - high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS)...

A post-processing-free single-photon random number generator with ultra-low latency.

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A. Wayne, Joshua C. Bienfang, Zachary H. Levine, Alan L. Migdall

The low-latency requirements of a practical loophole-free Bell test preclude time-consuming post- processing steps that are often used to improve the...

Graphene Devices for Table-Top and High Current Quantized Hall Resistance Standards

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Albert F. Rigosi, Alireza R. Panna, Shamith U. Payagala, Mattias Kruskopf, Marlin E. Kraft, George R. Jones Jr., Bi Y. Wu, Hsin Y. Lee, Yanfei Yang, Jiuning Hu, Dean G. Jarrett, David B. Newell, Randolph E. Elmquist

Kinetic Inductance Traveling Wave Amplifiers For Multiplexed Qubit Readout

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Leonardo Ranzani, K. C. Fong, G. Ribell, Tomas A. Ohki, David P. Pappas, Mustafa Bal, Xian Wu, Robert P. Erickson, Junling Long, Hsiang S. Ku

We describe a kinetic inductance traveling-wave (KIT) amplifier suitable for superconducting quantum information measurements and characterize its wideband...

Panchromatic all-polymer photodetector with tunable polarization sensitivity

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Pratik Sen, Ruonan Yang, Jeremy Rech, Yuanxiang Feng, Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Jinsong Huang, Franky So, Regis J. Kline, Wei You, Michael W. Kudenov, Brendan O'Connor

Electric field induced phase transition in vertical MoTe2 and Mo1-xWxTe2 based RRAM devices

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Feng Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Huairuo Zhang, Cory A. Milligan, Dmitry Y. Zemlyanov, Leonid A. Bendersky, Albert Davydov, Joerg Appenzeller, Benjamin P. Burton, Yugi Zhu

Transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted attention as potential building blocks for various electronic applications due to their atomically thin nature...

Controlling the polarization and vortex charge of attosecond high-harmonic beams via simultaneous spin-orbit momentum conservation

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Kevin Dorney, Laura Rego, Nathan J. Brooks, Julio San Roman, Chen-Ting Liao, Jennifer Ellis, Dmitriy Zusin, Christian Gentry, Quynh Nguyen, Justin Shaw, Antonio Picon, Luis Plaja, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Carlos Hernandez-Garcia

Optical interactions are governed by both spin and angular momentum conservation laws, which serve as a tool for controlling light-matter interactions or...

An invisible-stylus-based coordinate measurement system via scaled orthographic projection

December 8, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, Steven S. Borenstein

We present on a simple yet effective method for creating an invisible stylus from which a non-contact 3-D coordinated measuring system (the PiCMS) is realized...