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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jacob DeLange, Kinjol Barua, Anindya Sundar Paul, Hamid Ohadi, Val Zwiller, Stephan Steinhauer, Hadiseh Alaeian
Summary: Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is a promising material in solid-state quantum technology due to its excitonic Rydberg states. This study demonstrates the successful synthesis of a Cu2O thin film on a transparent substrate, showcasing Rydberg excitons suitable for photonic device fabrications. These findings mark a significant advancement towards scalable and on-chip integrable Rydberg quantum technologies.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Physics, Nuclear
Peter Mohr
Summary: In a recent study, Perez Velasquez, Caballero, and Kelkar found a significant enhancement in the decay rate of the nucleus Po-212 at a temperature of 2 Giga-Kelvin, reaching almost five orders of magnitude. However, in the present comment based on a careful study of the properties of excited states in Po-212, only a moderate enhancement by a factor of three is observed.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
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Optics
Shan Xiao, Qiang Ke, Yinghua Ji
Summary: This paper proposes a control scheme for state transfer of a two-level open quantum system based on reverse engineering. By designing control pulses in advance and verifying them through numerical simulations, the system can be effectively driven from any initial state to the desired target state while protecting the coherence of the system. The robustness of the control pulse to environmental decoherence further highlights the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Xin Qiao, Luojia Wang, Guangzhen Li, Xianfeng Chen, Luqi Yuan
Summary: Synthetic frequency dimensions offer important opportunities for investigating novel topological phenomena. In this study, a Floquet SSH model with time-dependent hoppings is explored by ultrastrongly modulating ring resonators, leading to the separation of originally degenerate topological states and the emergence of a series of edge states with complex multi-frequency oscillations. This system with stronger modulations widens the bandgap, providing an effective way to localize pulses in synthetic frequency dimensions.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Partha Pratim Roy, Sohang Kundu, Jesus Valdiviezo, George Bullard, James T. Fletcher, Rui Liu, Shiun- Yang, Peng Zhang, David N. Beratan, Michael J. Therien, Nancy Makri, Graham R. Fleming
Summary: This study combines experimental and theoretical approaches to modify exciton delocalization, tune electronic and vibrational coherences, and alter the mechanism of exciton transfer. The results show that differences in structure affect the dynamics and coherence of excitons. Theoretical studies explain how interchromophore interactions and couplings influence exciton delocalization and rapid exciton transfer dynamics.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2022)
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Mathematics, Applied
Carlo R. R. Laing
Summary: Chimeras, characterized by coexisting synchronous and asynchronous oscillators, are observed in networks of coupled oscillators. In this study, we examine a network composed of N equal-sized populations positioned at equally spaced points on a ring. By employing the Ott/Antonsen ansatz, we derive coupled ordinary differential equations to describe the level of synchrony within each population and explain the phenomenon of chimeras using a self-consistency argument. We compare our results with existing knowledge for N = 2 and 3, and obtain new insights for populations ranging from 4 to 12, as well as make conjectures based on numerical evidence for larger numbers of populations. We observe macroscopic chaos for more than five populations, but suggest that this behavior diminishes with an increased number of populations.
Review
Plant Sciences
Tawni Bull, Arjun Khakhar
Summary: Synthetic control systems have advanced the study and engineering of unicellular organisms, but applying these tools to multicellular organisms like plants has been challenging. Predictable engineering of plants can help alleviate global problems.
PLANT CELL REPORTS
(2023)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Maximilian Buser, Sebastian Greschner, Ulrich Schollwoeck, Thierry Giamarchi
Summary: In the context of experimental advances in realizing artificial magnetic fields in quantum gases, feasible schemes were discussed to extend measurements of Hall voltage, with a focus on interacting flux ladders. Characteristic zero crossings and remarkable robustness of Hall voltage were observed, unaffected by interaction strengths, particle fillings, and ladder geometries, in contrast to Hall polarization. Additionally, site-resolved Hall responses were investigated in spatially inhomogeneous quantum phases.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Ren Zhang, Yangqian Yan, Qi Zhou
Summary: Hall ribbons and Hall cylinders, fundamental theoretical tools in condensed matter physics, have been successfully synthesized in laboratories through engineering laser-atom interactions. Converting a synthetic Hall ribbon into a synthetic Hall cylinder can naturally lead to localization, with physical observables strongly dependent on the axial magnetic flux near localization-delocalization transitions. In the irrational limit, physical observables are no longer affected by the axial flux, providing a scheme to suppress decoherence induced by fluctuations of the axial flux.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
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Optics
Milo W. Hyde, Steven A. Owens
Summary: The complex degree of temporal coherence used by the authors in Chen and Chen (2013) is nonphysical, rendering all results derived from it invalid.
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Chemistry, Physical
Aleksandr G. Avramenko, Aaron S. Rury
Summary: This study investigates the formation of Herzberg-Teller vibronic polaritons through cavity polariton formation and a non-Condon vibronic coupling mechanism. Experimental evidence of HT polaritons is found in the light emission spectra of copper(II)tetraphenylporphyrin (CuTPP) molecules coupled to Fabry-Perot resonator structures. The enhancement of light emission from CuTPP and the temperature-dependent dispersion of the light emission peak energy are attributed to radiative relaxation into cavity photon states dressed by collective vibrations of the participating molecules. The complex interplay of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom in light absorbing molecules can lead to a greater variety of coherent light-matter states, potentially transforming optoelectronic and photocatalytic technologies.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2022)
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Quantum Science & Technology
Amro Dodin, Paul Brumer
Summary: The generalized adiabatic theorems presented in this paper are applicable to slow modulations of rapidly varying fields in closed and open quantum systems, conserving dynamical modes of time-dependent reference Hamiltonians. When applied to periodic fields, they show that systems remain in Floquet states rather than in energy eigenstates.
Review
Microbiology
Bouchra Ezzamouri, Saeed Shoaie, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Summary: The microbial communities of the human body play a crucial role in human health, with potential for novel therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. The integration of systems biology approaches and synthetic biology can enhance the quality and impact of future studies on the human microbiome, highlighting important avenues for future research.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
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Mathematics, Applied
Carlo R. Laing
Summary: This paper investigates chimeras in networks of coupled oscillators. The Ott/Antonsen ansatz is used to obtain a continuum level description of the oscillators' dynamics. It is found that the stability of the solutions depends on the width of the domain, and different types of chimeras similar to those observed in one-dimensional and two-dimensional domains are identified.
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Engineering, Biomedical
Seil Jang, Jaeho Song, NaYoung Kim, Jeonghyeon Bak, Keehoon Jung, Young Woo Park, Bum-Chan Park, Ho Min Kim
Summary: The development of bispecific antibodies, such as ACE-05, using the ALiCE platform shows promising potential for anti-cancer immunotherapy. These antibodies have dual roles in immune checkpoint inhibition and T-cell redirection while reducing off-target toxicity. In preclinical studies, ACE-05 demonstrated marked antitumor efficacy and complete tumor regression in humanized mouse models, suggesting its potential as a therapeutic agent for cancer treatment.
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Charlotte Cochard, Mael Guennou, Thiemo Spielmann, Niels van Hoof, Alexei Halpin, Torsten Granzow
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Chemistry, Physical
Claudio Zanobini, Olga Bozovic, Brankica Jankovic, Klemens L. Koziol, Philip J. M. Johnson, Peter Hamm, Adnan Gulzar, Steffen Wolf, Gerhard Stock
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
(2018)
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Optics
N. J. J. Van Hoof, S. E. T. Ter Huurne, J. Gomez Rivas, A. Halpin
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Mohammad Ramezani, Quynh Le-Van, Alexei Halpin, Jaime Gomez Rivas
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2018)
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Chemistry, Physical
Samer Gozem, Philip J. M. Johnson, Alexei Halpin, Hoi Ling Luk, Takefumi Morizumi, Valentyn Prokhorenko, Oliver P. Ernst, Massimo Olivucci, R. J. Dwayne Miller
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Petr Skopintsev, David Ehrenberg, Tobias Weinert, Daniel James, Rajiv K. Kar, Philip J. M. Johnson, Dmitry Ozerov, Antonia Furrer, Isabelle Martiel, Florian Dworkowski, Karol Nass, Gregor Knopp, Claudio Cirelli, Christopher Arrell, Dardan Gashi, Sandra Mous, Maximilian Wranik, Thomas Gruhl, Demet Kekilli, Steffen Bruenle, Xavier Deupi, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Roger M. Benoit, Valerie Panneels, Przemyslaw Nogly, Igor Schapiro, Christopher Milne, Joachim Heberle, Joerg Standfuss
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Optics
Yunpei Deng, Serhane Zerdane, Xinhua Xie, Edwin Divall, Philip J. M. Johnson, Christopher Arrell, Henrik Till Lemke, Roman Mankowsky, Alex Oggenfuss, Cristian Svetina, Christian Erny, Claudio Cirelli, Christopher Milne, Gregor Knopp, Paul Beaud, Steven L. Johnson
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Chemistry, Physical
Olga Bozovic, Jeannette Ruf, Claudio Zanobini, Brankica Jankovic, David Buhrke, Philip J. M. Johnson, Peter Hamm
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2021)
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Karol Nass, Camila Bacellar, Claudio Cirelli, Florian Dworkowski, Yaroslav Gevorkov, Daniel James, Philip J. M. Johnson, Demet Kekilli, Gregor Knopp, Isabelle Martiel, Dmitry Ozerov, Alexandra Tolstikova, Laura Vera, Tobias Weinert, Oleksandr Yefanov, Joerg Standfuss, Sven Reiche, Christopher J. Milne
Summary: This study demonstrates the use of large-bandwidth X-ray pulses at Swiss X-ray free-electron laser in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) to improve the partiality of Bragg spots and reduce sample consumption while maintaining data quality. By utilizing sensitive data-quality indicators, such as anomalous signals and de novo phasing results from microcrystals, the benefits of using pink X-ray pulses to obtain accurate structure-factor amplitudes were quantified.
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Chemistry, Physical
Marc Escriba-Gelonch, Alexei Halpin, Timothy Noel, Volker Hessel
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Arkabrata Bhattacharya, Alexei Halpin, Niels van Hoof, Jaime Gomez Rivas
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(2017)
