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Measurement-induced decoherence and information in double-slit interference

July 20, 2016
Author(s)
Joshua Kincaid, Kyle McLelland, Michael P. Zwolak
The double slit experiment provides the classic example of both interference and the effect of observation in quantum physics. When particles are sent individually through a pair of slits, a wave-like interference pattern develops; no such interference is

Using Category Theory to facilitate multiple manufacturing service database integration

July 20, 2016
Author(s)
Spencer J. Breiner, Albert T. Jones, David I. Spivak, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ryan Wisnesky
The goal of this paper is to illustrate the use of category theory as a basis for the integration of manufacturing service databases. In this paper we use as our reference prior work by Kolvatunyu, et. al (2013) on the use of Ontology Web Language(OWL)

Anti-corrosive influence of Acetobacter biofilms on carbon steel

July 19, 2016
Author(s)
Danielle C. France
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of carbon steel infrastructure is an emerging cost issue for the ethanol fuel industry. One bacterial species found in ethanol fuel environments, Acetobacter aceti, can convert ethanol to the corrosive species

FREE-STANDING SELF-ASSEMBLIES OF GALLIUM NITRIDE NANOPARTICLES: A REVIEW

July 19, 2016
Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Yucheng Lan, Jianye Li, Rola M. Derbeshi, Abdellah Lisfi
Gallium nitride (GaN) is an III-V semiconductor with a direct band-gap of 3.4 eV. GaN has important potentials in white light-emitting diodes, blue lasers, and field effect transistors because of its super thermal stability and excellent optical properties

Spatially patterned matrix elasticity directs stem cell fate

July 19, 2016
Author(s)
Chun Yang, Frank W. DelRio, Lena Basta, Hao Ma, Kyle Kyburz, Anouk Killaars, Kristi Anseth
There is a growing appreciation for the functional role of matrix mechanics in regulating stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. However, it is largely unknown how sub-cellular, spatial mechanical variations in the local extracellular environment

Coherent and incoherent coupling dynamics between neutral and charged excitons in Monolayer MoSe2

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Kai Hao, Lixiang Xu, Philip Nagler, Akshay Singh, Kha Tran, Chandriker K. Dass, Rupert Huber, Tobias Korn, Xiaoqin Li, Galan Moody
The optical properties of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by both neutral excitons (electron-hole pairs) and charged excitons (trions) that are stable even at room temperature. While trions directly influence charge transport

Experimental investigation of the detection mechanism in WSi nanowire superconducting single photon detectors

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Rosalinda Gaudio, Jelmer J. Renema, Zili Zhou, Varun Verma, Jeff Shainline, Martin Stevens, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Martin P. van Exter, Michiel J. de Dood, Andrea Fiore
We use quantum detector tomography to investigate the detection mechanism in WSi nanowire superconducting single photon detectors (SSPDs). To this purpose, we fabricated a 250 nm wide and 250 nm long WSi nanowire and measured its response to impinging

Hydrogen Storage and Selective, Reversible O 2 Adsorption in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Chromium(II) Sites

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Eric D. Bloch, Wendy L. Queen, Matthew Ross Hudson, Jarad A. Mason, Dianne J. Xiao, Leslie J. Murray, Roxana Flacau, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long
A chromium(II)-based metal-organic framework, Cr 3[Cr 4Cl) 3(BTT) 8] 2 (Cr-BTT;BTT 3- = 1,3,5-benzenetrisetrazolate), featuring coordinatively-unsaturated, redox-active Cr 2+ cation sites was synthesized and investigated for potential applications in H 2

Interfacial magnetic anisotropy from a 3-dimensional Rashba substrate

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Junwen Li, Paul M. Haney
We study the magnetic anisotropy which arises at the interface between a thin film ferromagnet and a 3-d Rashba material. The 3-d Rashba material is characterized by the spin-orbit strength $\alpha$ and the direction of broken bulk inversion symmetry $\hat

Multiscale Metrologies for Process Optimization of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Bharath N. Natarajan, Nate Orloff, Rana N. Ashkar, Sagar Doshi, Kevin A. Twedt, Ajay Krishnamurthy, Chelsea S. Davis, Aaron M. Forster, Erik Thostenson, Jan Obrzut, Renu Sharma, James Alexander Liddle
Carbon nanotube (CNT) polymer composites are materials with attractive multifunctional properties that are becoming used in a growing range of commercial applications. With the increasing demand for these materials, it is imperative to develop methods for

Phonon Anharmonicity in Bulk Td-MoTe2

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Irina Kalish, Ryan Beams, Patrick Vora
We examine anharmonic contributions to the optical phonon frequency in bulk Td-MoTe2 phase through temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy. At temperatures greater than 100 K we find that the optical phonon modes redshift linearly with temperature in

Soliton crystals in Kerr microresonators

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel C. Cole, Erin S. Lamb, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp
Solitons are pulses which propagate without spreading due to a balance between nonlinearity and dispersion or diffraction, and are universal features of systems exhibiting these effects. They are important in plasma physics, fluid dynamics, atomic physics

A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO ESTIMATING A 95 % CONFIDENCE LOWER LIMIT FOR THE DESIGN CREEP RUPTURE TIME VS. STRESS CURVE WHEN THE STRESS ESTIMATE HAS AN ERROR UP TO 2 % (*)

July 17, 2016
Author(s)
Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Pedro V. Marcal, Marvin J. Cohn
Recent experimental results on creep-fracture damage with minimum time to failure (minTTF) varying as the 9th power of stress, and a theoretical consequence that the coefficient of variation (CV) of minTTF is necessarily 9 times that of the CV of the

Semantification of Identifiers in Mathematics for Better Math Information Retrieval

July 17, 2016
Author(s)
Moritz Schubotz, Alexey Grigoriev, Howard Cohl, Norman Meushke, Bela Gipp, Volker Markl
Mathematical formulae are essential in science, but face challenges of ambiguity, due to the use of a small number of identifiers to represent an immense number of concepts. Corresponding to word sense disambiguation in Natural Language Processing, we

An azeotropic cross-linked styrene-methacrylate network formed through rapid visible-light photo- polymerization

July 15, 2016
Author(s)
Yin Yang, Aaron A. Urbas, Andres Gonzalez-Bonet, Richard J. Sheridan, Jonathan E. Seppala, Kathryn L. Beers, Jirun Sun
A system containing well-defined functional material, a clinically practical procedure to make the material in situ, and proper analytical tools for chemical structure and kinetic studies is appealing, but currently unavailable. Herein, we introduce an all

First principles search for n-type oxide thermoelectrics

July 15, 2016
Author(s)
Kevin F. Garrity
Oxides have many potentially desirable characteristics for thermoelectric materials, including low cost and stability at high temperatures, but thus far there are few known high zT n-type oxide thermoelectrics. In this work, we use high-throughput first

Thermophysical Properties of the Marine Microalgae Nannochloropsis salina

July 15, 2016
Author(s)
Nico Schneider, Tara Fortin, Roland Span, Mandy Gerber
Algae have a variety of uses, including pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, and as a potential energy source in the form of biodiesel, bioethanol and biogas. To optimize the commercial production and use of algal biomass, production facilities have to be

Time Propagation of Partial Differential Equations Using the Short Iterative Lanczos Method and Finite-Element Discrete Variable Representation: An Experiment Using the Intel Phi Coprocessors

July 15, 2016
Author(s)
Barry I. Schneider, klaus Bartschat, Xiaoxu Guan
The Short Iterative Lanczos (SIL) method has been combined with the Finite-Element Discrete Variable Representation (SIL-FEDVR) to yield a powerful approach to solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. It has been applied to the interaction of

Direct Three-Dimensional Observation of the Microstructure and Chemistry of C3S Hydration

July 14, 2016
Author(s)
Qinang Hu, Mohammed Aboustait, Taehwan Kim, Tyler Ley, Jay C. Hanan, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Robert Winarski, Volker Rose
While portland cement has been widely studied for over 100 years, there are still widespread disagreements on the mechanisms of hydration. One reason for this is that direct observation of the change in microstructure and chemistry are challenging for many
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