The world is full of fluids that flow. The fluid nature of flowing skyrmionic quasiparticles is of fundamental physical interest and plays an essential role in the transport of many skyrmions. Here, we report the lami...
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The world is full of fluids that flow. The fluid nature of flowing skyrmionic quasiparticles is of fundamental physical interest and plays an essential role in the transport of many skyrmions. Here, we report the laminar and transiently disordered dynamic behaviors of many magnetic skyrmions flowing in a pipe channel. The skyrmion flow driven by a uniform current may show a lattice structural transition. The skyrmion flow driven by a nonuniform current shows a dynamically varying lattice structure. A large uniform current could result in the compression of skyrmions toward the channel edge, leading to the transition of the skyrmion pipe flow into an open-channel flow with a free surface. Namely, the width of the skyrmion flow could be adjusted by the driving current. Skyrmions on the free surface may form a single shear layer adjacent to the main skyrmion flow. In addition, although we focus on the skyrmion flow dynamics in a clean pipe channel without any pinning or defect effect, we also show that variation of the magnetic anisotropy in the pipe channel could lead to more complicated skyrmion flow dynamics and path lines. Our results reveal the fluid nature of skyrmionic quasiparticles, which may motivate future research on the complex flow physics of magnetic textures.
Trapped ions are promising candidates for nodes of a scalable quantum network due to their long-lived qubit coherence times and high-fidelity single- and two-qubit gates. Future quantum networks based on trapped ions ...
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Trapped ions are promising candidates for nodes of a scalable quantum network due to their long-lived qubit coherence times and high-fidelity single- and two-qubit gates. Future quantum networks based on trapped ions will require a scalable way to route photons between different nodes. Photonic integrated circuits from fabrication foundries provide a compact solution to this problem. However, these circuits typically operate at telecommunication wavelengths that are incompatible with the strong dipole emissions of trapped ions. In this work, we demonstrate the routing of single photons from a trapped ion using a photonic integrated circuit. We employ quantum frequency conversion to match the emission of the ion to the operating wavelength of a foundry-fabricated silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit, achieving a total transmission of 31.0% ± 0.9% through the device. Using programmable phase shifters, we switch the single photons between the output channels of the circuit and demonstrate a 50:50 beam splitting condition. These results constitute an important step towards programmable routing and entanglement distribution in large-scale quantum networks and distributed quantum computers.
The c-axis permittivity of 1T-TaS 2 – a quasi-2D charge-density-wave material – changes upon illumination due to light-induced reorganization of CDW stacking. Here we probe the mechanism of this reorganization and ...
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(数字)9781957171050
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(纸本)9781665466660
The c-axis permittivity of 1T-TaS 2 – a quasi-2D charge-density-wave material – changes upon illumination due to light-induced reorganization of CDW stacking. Here we probe the mechanism of this reorganization and find a nucleation mechanism at work.
We have investigated the resonant coupling of photons with TO phonons in lead telluride in small-mode-volume terahertz cavities, observing a giant vacuum Rabi splitting on the order of the bare cavity-phonon frequency...
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We report a flexible temperature sensor based on TiO 2 photonics that shows double the sensitivity compared to silicon photonics. This high sensitivity and biocompatibility pave the way towards point-of-care temperat...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781957171050
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665466660
We report a flexible temperature sensor based on TiO 2 photonics that shows double the sensitivity compared to silicon photonics. This high sensitivity and biocompatibility pave the way towards point-of-care temperature detection for many biomedical applications.
It was recently claimed1 that reported focusing efficiency values of high numerical aperture metalenses are inconsistent with a theoretical bound, and their measurement results are incorrectly interpreted. We review t...
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We present a vacuum-gap, compact Fabry-Pérot ultrastable optical reference cavity that operates without a vacuum enclosure. A laser stabilized to the cavity exhibits low, thermal noise-limited phase noise and $5...
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(纸本)9798350369311
We present a vacuum-gap, compact Fabry-Pérot ultrastable optical reference cavity that operates without a vacuum enclosure. A laser stabilized to the cavity exhibits low, thermal noise-limited phase noise and
$5\times 10^{-14}$
Allan deviation at 1 second.
Optically active color centers in crystals provide important building blocks for quantum applications. However, conventional confocal fluorescence microscopy of high-refractive-index crystals suffers from limited phot...
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A general technique for experimentally characterizing the effect of qubit-preserving impairments on the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt parameter is introduced. This technique is independent of the underlying qubit encodin...
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A general technique for experimentally characterizing the effect of qubit-preserving impairments on the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt parameter is introduced. This technique is independent of the underlying qubit encoding and is theoretically demonstrated for specific example impairments in polarization-encoded quantum-optical qubits. Included in this analysis is how spectrotemporal impairments can be incorporated into this technique.
Relying only on behaviors that emerge from simple responsive controllers; swarms of robots have been shown capable of autonomously aggregate themselves or objects into clusters without any form of communication. We pu...
Relying only on behaviors that emerge from simple responsive controllers; swarms of robots have been shown capable of autonomously aggregate themselves or objects into clusters without any form of communication. We push these controllers to the limit, requiring robots to sort themselves or objects into different clusters. Based on a responsive controller that maps the current reading of a line-of-sight sensor to a pair of speeds for the robots' differential wheels, we demonstrate how multiple tasks instances can be accomplished by a robotic swarm. Using the dividing rectangles approach and physics simulation, a training step optimizes the parameters of the controller guided by a fitness function. We conducted a series of systematic trials in physics-based simulation and evaluate the performance in terms of dispersion and the ratio of clustered robots/objects. Across 20 trials where 30 robots cluster themselves into 3 groups, an average of 99.83% of them were correctly clustered into their group after 300 s. Across 50 trials where 15 robots cluster 30 objects into 3 groups, an average of 61.20%, 82.87%, and 97.73% of objects were correctly clustered into their group after 600 s, 900 s, and 1800 s, respectively. The object cluster behavior scales well while the aggregation does not, the latter due to the requirement of control tuning based on the number of robots.
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