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Journals

Pivotal Methods in the Propagation of Distributions

Author(s)
Chih-Ming Wang, Jan Hannig, Hariharan K. Iyer
We propose a method for assigning a probability distribution to an input quantity. The distribution is used in the Monte Carlo method for uncertainty evaluation...

Single-photon and photon-number-resolving detectors

Author(s)
Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Mark Itzler
Several important advances were reported in single-photon detectors and photon-number-resolving detectors in 2011. New materials with smaller superconducting...

Magic-state distillation with the four-qubit code

Author(s)
Adam M. Meier, Bryan K. Eastin, Emanuel H. Knill
The distillation of magic states is an often-cited technique for enabling universal quantum computing once the error rate for a special subset of gates has been...

Can We Get 3D CD Metrology Right?

Author(s)
Andras Vladar, John S. Villarrubia, Michael T. Postek, Petr Cizmar
Our world is three-dimensional, so are the integrated circuits (ICs), they have always been. In the past, for a long time, we’ve been very fortunate, because it...

Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer

Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe, Tillman H. Sander, Jan Preusser, Rahul R. Mhaskar, John E. Kitching, Lutz Trahms
We report on the measurement of somatosensory-evoked and spontaneous magnetoencephalography signals with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. This uncooled, fiber...

Surface conduction of topological Dirac electrons in bulk insulating Bi2Se3

Author(s)
Dohun Kim, Sungjae Cho, Nicholas P. Butch, Paul Syers, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Shaffique Adam, Johnpierre Paglione, Michael S. Fuhrer
The newly-discovered three-dimensional strong topological insulators (STIs) exhibit topologically-protected Dirac surface states. While the STI surface state...

Nanoscale Fullerene Compression of an Yttrium Carbide Cluster

Author(s)
Jianyuan Zhang, Fuhrer Tim, Wujun Fu, Jiechao Ge, Dan Bearden, Jerry Dallas, Duchamp James, Kenneth Walker, Hunter Champion, Hugo Azurmendi, Kim Harich, Harry C. Dorn
The encapsulation of clusters (or small molecules) in spheroidal fullerene cages provides a unique isolated environment that is important in describing their...

Ultimate bending strength of Si nanowires

Author(s)
Gheorghe Stan, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Igor Levin, Robert F. Cook
Test platforms for the ideal strength of materials are provided by almost defect-free nanostructures (nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles, for example). In this...

Carbon Storage Properties of OMS-2 Manganese Oxide

Author(s)
Lan (. Li, Eric J. Cockayne, Laura Espinal, Winnie K. Wong-Ng
Manganese oxide OMS-2 material, also known as alpha-MnO2, exhibits CO2 sorption hysteresis at pressures > 7 bar. Our experiments show that the hysteretic...
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