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Orbital quantum magnetism in spin dynamics of strongly interacting magnetic lanthanide atoms

May 31, 2018

Author(s)

Ming Li, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova

Laser cooled lanthanide atoms are ideal candidates with which to study strong and unconventional quantum magnetism with exotic phases. Here, we use state-of-the...

Phase space study of surface electrode Paul traps: Integrable, chaotic, and mixed Motion

May 31, 2018

Author(s)

V. Roberdel, Dietrich Leibfried, D. Ullmo, H. Landa

We present a comprehensive phase space treatment of the motion of trapped particles in electrodynamic traps. Focusing on 5-wire surface electrode Paul traps, we...

Surface Properties of Laser-treated Molybdenum Disulfide Nanosheets for Optoelectronic Applications

May 30, 2018

Author(s)

Frank W. DelRio, Justin M. Gorham, Koo-hyun Chung, Bien Cuong Tran Khac

Transition metal dichalcogenide two-dimensional materials have attracted significant attention due to their unique optical, mechanical, and electronic...

Reply to Comment on "No correction for the light propagatiobn within the cube" Comment on "Relativistic theory of the falling retroreflector gravimeter"

May 30, 2018

Author(s)

Neil Ashby

The comment \cite{nagornyi18} claims that, notwithstanding the conclusions stated in the paper \emph{Relativistic theory of the falling cube gravimeter} \cite...

Resonator Stabilization Architecture to Suppress Switching Transient Crosstalk in I-CDM

May 30, 2018

Author(s)

Malcolm S. Durkin, Joel C. Weber, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom

The ever-increasing sizes of transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter arrays motivates improved multiplexed readout with large multiplexing factors, low...

Calibration of a Single-Diode Performance Model without a Short-Circuit Temperature Coefficient

May 30, 2018

Author(s)

Mark Campanelli, Behrang Hamadani

We calibrate (i.e., fit the parameters of) a seven-parameter single-diode model (SDM) for photovoltaic device performance using current-voltage (I-V) curves...

Transient Analysis of a Circular Foil Gage in a Convective and Radiative Environment

May 29, 2018

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang

An analysis of a circular thin-foil gage is presented by including transient effect, convective heat transfer, and arbitrary time-varying boundary condition at...

Reduction of Short Wavelength Reflectance of Multi-wall Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Through UV Laser Irradiation

May 29, 2018

Author(s)

Michelle S. Stephens, Brian J. Simonds, Christopher S. Yung, Davis R. Conklin, David J. Livigni, Alberto R. Oliva, John H. Lehman

Multi-wall carbon nanotube coatings are used as broadband, low-reflectance absorbers for bolometric applications, blackbody radiators, and for stray light...

Oxidation Reactions in Kink Bands Regions of UHMMPE Fiber-Based Laminates Used in Body Armor: A Mechanistic Study

May 29, 2018

Author(s)

Zois Tsinas, Amanda L. Forster, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly

This work demonstrates the synergy between the thermo-mechanical induced degradation and the oxidation reactions in the kink-banded areas of ultra-high molar...

Educational commitment and social networking: The power of informal networks

May 29, 2018

Author(s)

Justyna Zwolak, Michael P. Zwolak, Eric Brewe

Prior studies found that the lack of an engaging pedagogy and the highly competitive atmosphere in introductory science courses tend to discourage students from...

Bang-bang shortcut to adiabaticity in the Dicke model as realized in a Penning trap experiment

May 29, 2018

Author(s)

J. Cohn, Arghavan Safari-Naini, R. J. Lewis-Swan, Justin G. Bohnet, M. Garttner, Kevin Gilmore, Elena Jordan, Ana Maria Rey, John Bollinger, James K. Freericks

We introduce a bang-bang shortcut to adiabaticity for the Dicke model, which we implement via a two-dimensional array of trapped ions in a Penning trap with a...

Equilibrium Free Energies from Non-Equilibrium Trajectories with Relaxation Fluctuation Spectroscopy

May 28, 2018

Author(s)

David J. Ross, Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Christopher Jarzynski, Samuel M. Stavis

Recent advances in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and single-molecule measurements have enabled the determination of equilibrium free energies from non...

High efficiency generation of THz from 1550-nm: exceeding the Manley-Rowe limit with photoconductive emitters

May 28, 2018

Author(s)

A Feldman, Todd E. Harvey, Richard Mirin, A. Mingardi, W-D. Zhang, E. R. Brown

Two photoconductive emitters - one with a self-complementary square spiral antenna, and the other with a resonant slot antenna - were fabricated on a GaAs...

An Experimental and Computational Study of CO₂ Adsorption in the Sodalite-Type M-BTT (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu) Metal-Organic Frameworks Featuring Open Metal Sites

May 28, 2018

Author(s)

Mehrdad Asgari, Sudi Jawahery, Eric D. Bloch, Matthew R. Hudson, Roxana Flacau, Bess Vlaisavljevich, Jeffrey R. Long, Craig Brown, Wendy L. Queen

We present a comprehensive investigation of the CO 2 adsorption properties of the isostructural series of metal-organic frameworks M-BTT (M =Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, BTT...

What Causes the Anomalous Aggregation in Pluronic Aqueous Solutions?

May 28, 2018

Author(s)

Kuo-Chih Shih, Zhiqiang Shen, Ying Li, Martin Kroger, Shing-Yun Chang, Yun Liu, Mu-Ping Nieh, Hsi-Mei Lai

Pluronic (PL) block copolymers has been widely used as delivery carriers, molecular templates for porous media, process additive of affecting rheological...

Metrology for stable isotope reference materials: 13C/12C and 18O/16O isotope ratio value assignment of pure carbon dioxide gas samples on the Vienna PeeDee Belmnite-CO2 scale using dual-inlet mass spectrometry

May 25, 2018

Author(s)

Abneesh Srivastava, R M. Verkouteren

Isotope ratio measurements have been conducted on a series of isotopically distinct pure CO2 gas samples using the technique of dual-inlet isotope ratio mass...

Standardization of 64Cu activity

May 25, 2018

Author(s)

Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Leticia S. Pibida, Brian E. Zimmerman

The complex decay scheme that makes 64Cu promising as both an imaging and therapeutic agent in medicine also makes the absolute measurement of its activity...

A trapped human PPM1A-phosphopeptide complex reveals structural features critical for regulation of PPM protein phosphatase activity

May 24, 2018

Author(s)

Subrata Debnath, Dalibor Kosek, Harichandra Tagad, Stewart R. Durell, Daniel Appella, Roderico Acevedo, Alexander Grishaev, Fred Dyda, Ettore Appella, Sharlyn Mazur

Metal-dependent protein phosphatases (PPM) are evolutionarily unrelated to other serine/threonine protein phosphatases and are characterized by their...

Poroelastic Fracture Transition of a Biopolymer Gel

May 24, 2018

Author(s)

Edwin P. Chan, Bradley R. Frieberg, Ronald L. Jones, Ray-Shimry Garatsa, John Bachert, Benjamin Crawshaw

Controlling the fracture behavior of thermoreversible biopolymer gels is important in many con- sumer based applications. For example, gelatin gels are used in...

Determination of Hexavalent Chromium Fractions in Plastics Using Laboratory-Based, High- Resolution X Ray Emission Spectroscopy

May 24, 2018

Author(s)

Evan P. Jahrman, Gerald Seidler, John R. Sieber

Cr(VI) is a well-known human carcinogen with many water-soluble moieties. Its presence in both natural and man-made substances poses a risk to public health...

Generalized auto-balanced Ramsey spectroscopy of clock transitions

May 23, 2018

Author(s)

V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, M. Y. Basalaev, T. Zanon-Willette, Juniper Wren Y. Pollock, Moshe Shuker, Elizabeth Donley, John Kitching

We develop the theory for generalised auto-balanced Ramsey spectroscopy (GABRS), which allows probe-field-induced shifts in atomic clocks to be eliminated. This...

Absence of diffuse double layer effect on the vibrational properties and oxidation of chemisorbed carbon monoxide on a Pt(111) electrode

May 23, 2018

Author(s)

Marta C. Figueiredo, Dennis Hiltrop, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Kathleen Schwarz, Marc Koper

In this work we investigate the effects of the diffuse double layer thickness on the electrochemical Stark tuning and oxidation of carbon monoxide at Pt(111)...

Revision of the ionization energy of neutral carbon

May 22, 2018

Author(s)

W L. Glab, Haris Kunari, Alexander Kramida

This publication describes a re-analysis of previously published data on neutral carbon (C I) utilizing critically examined and improved values for the line...

Current State of the Art in Small Mass and Force Metrology Within the International System of Units

May 22, 2018

Author(s)

Gordon Shaw

This review article summarizes new scientific trends in research for metrology of small mass (1 milligram and lower) and small force (10 micronewtons and lower)...

Structure and Dynamics of a Graphene Melt

May 22, 2018

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Sinan Keten, Fernando Vargas-Lara, Wenjie Xia

We show by molecular dynamics simulation that bulk materials composed of graphene nanosheets exhibit fluid-like properties similar to linear polymer melts at...

Emerging investigators in materials science 2017-2018

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Frank W. DelRio, Robert Riggleman

Materials Research Express is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to publishing cutting-edge experimental and theoretical research on the processing, structure...

Exceptionally reliable density solving algorithms for multiparameter mixture models from Chebyshev expansion rootfinding

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell, Bradley K. Alpert

Calculation of the density of a mixture for a given tem- perature, pressure, and mixture composition from multi- parameter mixture models (like the so-called...

Development of Ferrite-Based Temperature-Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Study of Cu1-xZnxFe2O4

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Noweir Alghamdi, Janusz H. Hankiewicz, Nick Anderson, Karl Stupic, Marek Przybylski, Jan Zukrowski, Zbigniew Celinski, Robert E. Camley

We have investigated the use of Cu1-xZnxFe2O4 ferrites (0.60

Superconducting optoelectronic networks V: networks and scaling

May 17, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey M. Shainline, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Adam N. McCaughan, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

Networks of superconducting optoelectronic neurons are investigated for their near-term technological potential and long-term physical limitations. Networks...

Predicting structural properties of fluids by thermodynamic extrapolation

May 16, 2018

Author(s)

Nathan Mahynski, Sally Jiao, Harold W. Hatch, Marco A. Blanco Medina, Vincent K. Shen

We describe a methodology for extrapolating the structural properties of multicomponent fluids from one thermodynamic state to another. These properties...

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