Journals

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 Wayne, Joshua Bienfang, Zachary Levine, Alan 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...

Weakly anisotropic residual contact stress in silicon demonstrated by electron backscatter diffraction and expanding cavity models

December 7, 2018

Author(s)

Robert F. Cook, Lawrence Henry Friedman

The residual stress field surrounding an elastic-plastic spherical indentation contact in Si is determined by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)-based...

Millimeter-Wave Propagation Channels vs. Synthetic Beamwidth

December 7, 2018

Author(s)

Roy Sun, Camillo A. Gentile, Jelena Senic, Peter G. Vouras, Peter B. Papazian, Nada T. Golmie, Catherine A. Remley

High-gain narrow-beam antennas or beamformed antenna arrays will likely be used in millimeter- wave (mmWave) bands and 5G to mitigate the high path loss. Since...

Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurement and Modeling: A NIST Perspective

December 7, 2018

Author(s)

Camillo A. Gentile, Peter B. Papazian, Nada T. Golmie, Catherine A. Remley, Peter G. Vouras, Jelena Senic, Jian Wang, Jack Chuang, Ruoyu Sun

The exponential increase in wireless data transmission from smartphones has led to the saturation of the sub-6-GHz bands, forcing cellular providers to migrate...

Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Double Perovskites Sr2RNbO6 (R=Sm, Gd, Dy, Ho, Y, Tm, and Lu)

December 7, 2018

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Shailee P. Diwanji

A series of double-perovskite oxides, Sr2RNbO6 (R= Sm, Gd, Dy, Ho, Y, Tm, and Lu) were synthesized and their crystal structure and powder diffraction reference...

Influence of Nanofluid Instability on Thermodynamic Properties near the Critical Point

December 6, 2018

Author(s)

Joe W. Magee, Nikolai Polikhronidi, Rabiyat Batyrova, Ilmutdin Abdulagatov

Thermodynamic properties (isochoric heat capacity, critical and phase transition temperatures, pressure and thermal-pressure coefficient) of nanofluid (2...

Atomic clock performance beyond Earths gravitational limit

December 6, 2018

Author(s)

William F. McGrew, Xiaogang Zhang, Robert J. Fasano, Stefan A. Schaeffer, Kyle P. Beloy, Daniele Nicolodi, Roger C. Brown, N. Hinkley, G. Milani, Marco Schioppo, T. H. Yoon, Andrew D. Ludlow

The passage of time is tracked by counting oscillations of a suitable frequency reference (e.g., the number of revolutions of Earth around the sun or the number...