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Journals

Bipartite time-energy uncertainty relation for quantum metrology with noise

December 5, 2023

Author(s)

Philippe Faist, Mischa Woods, Victor Albert, Joseph Renes, Jens Eisert, John Preskill

Noise in quantum metrology reduces the sensitivity to which one can determine an unknown parameter in the evolution of a quantum state, such as time. Here, we

Understanding sensitivity and cross-reactivity of xylazine lateral flow immunoassay test strips for drug checking applications

December 3, 2023

Author(s)

Edward Sisco, Madeline Bloom, Danielle Nestadt

The continued prevalence of xylazine in the illicit drug market has necessitated development of quick and simple methods for identification, including lateral

Effects of nitride precipitation on delta phase formation in additively manufactured nickel superalloys

December 1, 2023

Author(s)

James Zuback, Todd Palmer

Additively manufactured Inconel 625 is particularly susceptible to the formation of niobium-rich δ-phase precipitates in the interdendritic regions during high

Admission Control and Scheduling of Isochronous Traffic With Guard Time in IEEE 802.11ad MAC

December 1, 2023

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo, Weichao Gao, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

An upsurge of low latency and bandwidth hungry applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality and availability of unlicensed spectrum in the mmWave

The four-body nonadditive potential energy surface and the fourth virial coefficient of helium

November 29, 2023

Author(s)

Richard J. Wheatley, Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey

The four-body nonadditive contribution to the energy of four helium atoms is calculated and fitted for all geometries for which the internuclear distances

Microplastics absent from reef fish in the Marshall Islands: Multistage screening methods reduced false positives

November 29, 2023

Author(s)

Katherine Shaw, Jonathan Whitney, Eileen Nalley, Madeline Schmidbauer, Megan Donahue, Jesse Black, Raquel Corniuk, Kellie Teague, Catherine Pirkle, Rachel Dacks, Max Sudnovsky, Jennifer Lynch

Island communities, like the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), depend on marine resources for food and economics, so plastic ingestion by those resources

An Improved Sample Preparation Method for Protein and Peptide Identification from Human Hair

November 27, 2023

Author(s)

Zheng Zhang, William E. Wallace, Guanghui Wang, Meghan Burke Harris, Yi Liu, Sergey Sheetlin, Stephen E. Stein

A fast and sensitive Direct Extraction (DE) method developed in our group can efficiently extract proteins in 30 min from a 5 cm-long hair strand. Previously we

Integration of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes with superconducting nanowire single photon detectors

November 27, 2023

Author(s)

Dana Rampini, Chris Yung, Bakhrom Oripov, Solomon I. Woods, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam, Adam McCaughan

We report on initial fabrication efforts in the integration of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) with vertically aligned carbon

An automated approach for segmenting numerical control data with controller data for machine tools

November 24, 2023

Author(s)

Laetitia Monnier, William Z. Bernstein, Sebti Foufou

Developing a more automated industrial digital thread is vital to realize the smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 vision. The digital thread allows for

Optical n(p, T_90) measurement suite 1: He, Ar, and N_2

November 23, 2023

Author(s)

Patrick Egan, Yuanchao Yang

An n(p, T90) measurement suite is reported for the gases helium, argon, and nitrogen. The methodology is optical refractive-index gas metrology, operating at

Layered Security Guidance for Data Asset Management in Additive Manufacturing

November 23, 2023

Author(s)

Fahad Milaat, Joshua Lubell

Manufacturing industries are increasingly adopting additive manufacturing (AM) technologies to produce functional parts in critical systems. However, the

The Influence of δ-Phase on the Environmentally Assisted Cracking Resistance of an Additively Manufactured Nickel-Based Superalloy

November 22, 2023

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, Richard E. Ricker

The combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and excellent weldability makes IN625 an attractive alloy for additive manufacturing (AM) applications, but

Untargeted metabolomics analyses and contaminant chemistry of Dreissenid mussels at the Maumee River Area of Concern in the Great Lakes

November 22, 2023

Author(s)

Tracey Schock, Daniel Bearden, Fabio Casu, Michael Edwards, Annie Jacob, Edward Johnson, Amanda Bayless, Elena Legrand

Bivalves stand out as an ideal ecological indicator and have been the basis of NOAA's Mussel Watch Program to monitor environmental health. In this study, we

Scalable and robust beam shaping using apodized fish-bone grating couplers

November 20, 2023

Author(s)

Chad Ropp, Dhriti Maurya, Alexander Yulaev, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Vladimir Aksyuk

Efficient power coupling between guided and free-space optical modes requires precision spatial mode matching with apodized Bragg gratings. Yet, grating

Monitoring Spectrometer Drift with Unsupervised Machine Learning

November 20, 2023

Author(s)

Benjamin Harding, Ziling Hu, Ashley Hiett, Frank Delaglio, Katherine Henzler- Wildman, Chad Rienstra

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy (SSNMR) is a powerful technique to probe structural and dynamic properties of molecules at an atomic level. Modern SSNMR methods

Spatial attribution of aircraft mass balance experiment CO2 estimations for policy relevant boundaries: New York City

November 17, 2023

Author(s)

Jay M. Tomlin, Israel Lopez Coto, Kristian D. Hajny, Joseph R. Pitt, Robert Kaeser, Brian H. Stirm, Thilina Jayarathne, Cody R. Floerchinger, Róisín Commane, Paul B. Shepson

To effectively address the unprecedented acceleration of climate change, cities across the U.S. are leading efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Coherent

Small Corrections to 1989 NIST Constant-Volume Gas Thermometry Data

November 17, 2023

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey

Constant-volume gas thermometry data published in 1989 for the difference between the thermodynamic temperature and the International Practical Temperature

Direct-Laser-Written Polymer Nanowire Waveguides for Broadband Single Photon Collection from Epitaxial Quantum Dots into a Gaussian-like Mode

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Edgar Perez, Cori Haws, Marcelo Davanco, Jindong Song, Luca Sapienza, Kartik Srinivasan

Single epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are a leading technology for quantum light generation, particularly when they are embedded in photonic geometries that

Group contribution method for the residual entropy scaling model for viscosities for branched alkanes

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Erik Mickoleit, Andreas Jaeger, Constantino Grau Turelo, Monika Thol, Ian Bell, Cornelia Breitkopf

In this work it is shown how the entropy scaling paradigm introduced by Rosenfeld can be extended to calculate the viscosities of branched alkanes by group

EOS-CG-2021: A Mixture Model for the Calculation of Thermodynamic Properties of CCS Mixtures

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Tobias Neumann, Stefan Herrig, Ian Bell, Robin Beckmüller, Eric W. Lemmon, Monika Thol, Roland Span

Thermodynamic properties for CCS-relevant mixtures can be calculated with the fundamental equation of state presented in this work over wide ranges of pressure

Wavelength-accurate nonlinear conversion through wavenumber selectivity in photonic crystal resonators

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Jordan Stone, Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Daron Westly, Tahmid Rahman, Kartik Srinivasan

Photon-pair production and frequency translation using backward-wave spontaneous parametric downconversion

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Paulina Kuo, Dileep Reddy, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Andrius Zukauskas, Carlota Canalias

Backward-wave three-wave mixing is a difficult χ(2) interaction to observe, because it requires ultrashort poling periods to achieve phasematching. Having

Semiclassical calculation of the power saturation of the Kerr effect in Rb vapor

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine, Ziran Du

The Kerr effect in atomic vapor may be regarded as the power saturation of the susceptibility. Hence the saturable Kerr effect is intimately tied to the

Analysis of Neural Network Detectors for Network Attacks

November 15, 2023

Author(s)

Qingtian Zou, Lan Zhang, Anoop Singhal, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu

While network attacks play a critical role in many advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns, an arms race exists between the network defenders and the

Continuous Symmetry Breaking in a Trapped-Ion Spin Chain

November 15, 2023

Author(s)

Lei Feng, Or Katz, Casey Haack, Mohammad Maghrebi, Alexey Gorshkov, Zhexuan Gong, Marko Cetina, Christopher Monroe

Single-Phase L10-Ordered High Entropy Thin Films with High Magnetic Anisotropy

November 11, 2023

Author(s)

Willie Beeson, Dinesh Bista, Huairuo Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Gen Yin, Kai Liu

The vast high entropy alloy (HEA) composition space is promising for discovery of new material phases with unique properties. We explore the potential to

Quantification of STEM-in-SEM Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectra using Bulk Standards

November 9, 2023

Author(s)

Nicholas Ritchie, Andrew Herzing, Vladimir Oleshko

A quantification model which uses standard X-ray spectra collected from bulk materials to determine the composition and mass-thickness of single-layer and multi

Methane emissions show recent decline but strong seasonality in two US Northeastern cities

November 9, 2023

Author(s)

Anna Karion, Subhomoy Ghosh, Israel Lopez Coto, Kimberly Mueller, Sharon Gourdji, Joseph Pitt, James Whetstone

Urban methane emissions have been found to exceed estimates derived using traditional inventory methods in several US cities. In large northeastern US cities

Lattice vibrations and the energy landscape of the isoelectronic semiconductor series CuBr, ZnSe, GaAs, and Ge: The special case of CuBr and its d-level chemistry

November 9, 2023

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, Eric J. Cockayne, Eric L. Shirley, Igor Levin, Conan Weiland, Bruce D. Ravel, A. M. Milinda Abeykoon

We have examined the lattice vibrations and the energy landscape of the isoelectronic diamond and zincblende semiconductor series CuBr, ZnSe, GaAs, and Ge

Liquid scintillation efficiencies, gamma-ray emission intensities, and half-life for Gd-153

November 9, 2023

Author(s)

Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Gulakhshan Hamad, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Leticia Pibida, Brian E. Zimmerman

Gadolinium-153 was standardized for activity by live-timed anticoincidence counting and an ampoule was submitted to the international reference system (SIR)