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Optimal in situ electromechanical sensing of molecular species

January 21, 2020
Author(s)
Maicol A. Ochoa, Michael P. Zwolak
We investigate protocols for optimal molecular detection with electromechanical nanoscale sensors in ambient conditions. Our models are representative of suspended graphene nanoribbons, which due to their piezoelectric and electronic properties, provide

Transverse Lipid Organization Dictates Bending Fluctuations in Model Plasma Membranes

January 21, 2020
Author(s)
Brett W. Rickeard, Michael H. Nguyen, Mitchell DiPasquale, Caesar G. Yip, Hamilton Baker, Frederick A. Heberle, Xiaobing Zuo, Elizabeth Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Drew Marquardt
Bending fluctuation is one of the most important dynamic modes of lipid membranes. These fluctuations play a vital role in many biological processes, most notoriously, contributing to the regulation of membrane protein activity. We investigated the bending

Isotope shifts in neutral and singly-ionized calcium

January 20, 2020
Author(s)
Alexander Kramida
All available experimental data on isotope shifts and absolute frequency measurements in the optical spectra of Ca I and Ca II are analyzed, and from them complete tables of isotope shifts and energy levels of all Ca isotopes from 36 to 52 are derived. A

Chemical emission rates from cigarette butts into air

January 18, 2020
Author(s)
Mengyan Gong, Nicholas Daniels, Dustin G. Poppendieck
Globally, over five trillion cigarette butts are generated every year, resulting in potential environmental and human risks. However, little attention has been paid to airborne emission from cigarette butts. This study measured airborne emissions from

All-optical spin transfer between elemental sublattices in half-metallic Co2MnGe Heusler compound within the femtosecond laser excitation pulse

January 17, 2020
Author(s)
Phoebe Tengdin, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Dmitriy Zusin, Michael Gerrity, Lukas Hellbruck, Moritz Hofherr, Justin Shaw, Yaroslav Kvashnin, Erna K. Delczeg-Czirjak, Monika Arora, Hans Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Stefan Mathias, Martin Aeschliman, Henry C. Kapteyn, Danny Thonig, Konstantinos Koumpouras, Olle Eriksson, Margaret M. Murnane
Heusler compounds are exciting materials for future spintronics applications because they display a wide range of tunable electronic and magnetic interactions. Here, we use a femtosecond laser to directly transfer spin polarization from one element to

Field Compressed Sensing

January 17, 2020
Author(s)
Anthony B. Kos, Fabio C. Da Silva, Jason B. Coder, Craig W. Nelson, Grace E. Antonucci, Archita Hati
Imaging solutions based on wave scattering seek real-time performance, high dynamic range, and spatial accuracy at scales spanning from nanometers to thousands of kilometers. Compressed sensing algorithms use sparsity to reduce sample size during image

Microwave-based arbitrary cphase gates for transmon qubits

January 17, 2020
Author(s)
George S. Barron, Fernando A. Calderon-Vargas, Junling Long, David P. Pappas, Sophia E. Economou
Superconducting transmon qubits are of great interest for quantum computing and quantum simulation. A key component of quantum chemistry simulation algorithms is breaking up the evolution into small steps, which naturally leads to the need for nonmaximally

Ultrafast optically induced spin transfer in ferromagnetic alloys

January 17, 2020
Author(s)
Moritz Hofherr, Soren Hauser, J. K. Dewhurst, Phoebe Tengdin, S Sakshath, Hans Nembach, Tobias Weber, Justin Shaw, Thomas J. Silva, H C. Kapteyn, M Cinchetti, B Rethfeld, M M. Murnane, D Steil, B Stadtmuller, S Sharma, Martin Aeschlimann, S Mathias
The vision of using light to manipulate electronic and spin excitations in materials on their fundamental time and length scales requires new approaches in experiment and theory to observe and understand these excitations. The ultimate speed limit for all

Circular photogalvanic spectroscopy of Rashba splitting in 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells

January 16, 2020
Author(s)
Xiaojie Liu, Ashish Chanana, Uyen Huynh, Fei Xue, Paul M. Haney, Steve Blair, Xiaomei Jiang, Valy Vardeny
The two-dimensional (2D)-phenylethyl ammonium lead iodide (2D-PEPI) is an exemplary hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite, possessing large spin-orbit coupling and forming multiple quantum wells (MQW). We have used helicity-dependent steady state

Optical quantum memory and its applications in quantum communication systems

January 16, 2020
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Oliver T. Slattery
Optical quantum memory is a device that can store the quantum state of photons and retrieve it with high fidelity on demand. The device can be used to enhance performance for many quantum communication systems such as measurement device independent (MDI)

Surface-reaction induced structural oscillations in the subsurface

January 16, 2020
Author(s)
Xianhu Sun, Wenhui Zhu, Dongxiang WU, Chaoran Li, Jianyu Wang, Yaguang Zhu, Xiaobo Chen, Jorge A. Boscoboinik, Renu Sharma, Guangwen Zhou
Surface and subsurface are commonly considered as separate entities because of the difference in the bonding environment and are often investigated separately due to the experimental challenges in differentiating the surface and subsurface effects. Using

Effect of Vacancy Creation and Annihilation on Grain Boundary Motion

January 15, 2020
Author(s)
Geoffrey B. McFadden, William J. Boettinger, Yuri Mishin
The interaction of vacancies with grain boundaries (GBs) is involved in many processes occurring in materials, including radiation damage healing and diffusional creep. We analyze a model describing a set of processes occurring at a GB in the presence of a

Graphene oxide/waterborne polyurethane nanocoatings: Effects of graphene oxide content on performance properties

January 15, 2020
Author(s)
David G. Goodwin, Coralie Bernard, Xiaohong Gu, Mat Celina, Marc R. Nyden, Deborah S. Jacobs, Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen
Graphene oxide (GO) is a good nanofiller candidate for waterborne coatings because of its outstanding physical and mechanical properties, good dispersibility in water, and low cost. Here, we report on the performance of a one-part, water-borne polyurethane

Input Space Coverage Matters

January 15, 2020
Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei, Dimitris Simos
Testing is the most commonly used approach for software assurance, yet it remains as much judgement and art as science. Structural coverage adds some rigor to the process by establishing formally defined criteria for some notion of test completeness, but

Role of non-linear data processing on speech recognition task in the framework of reservoir computing

January 15, 2020
Author(s)
Flavio Abreu Araujo, Mathieu Riou, Jacob Torrejon, Sumito Tsunegi, Damien Querlioz, K. Yakushiji, Akio Fukushima, Hitoshi Kubota, Shinji Yuasa, Mark D. Stiles, Julie Grollier
The reservoir computing neural network architecture is widely used to test hardware systems for neuromorphic computing. One of the preferred tasks for bench-marking such devices is automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, this task requires acoustic

Scattering mechanism for quadratic evolution of depolarization

January 15, 2020
Author(s)
Thomas A. Germer
It was recently demonstrated theoretically, when the polarimetric properties of a material depend only upon the direction transverse to that of propagation (long coherence length regime), depolarization in transmission evolves quadratically with material
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