We describe size-varying cylindrical particles made from silicone elastomers that can serve as building blocks for robotic granular materials. The particle size variation, which is achieved by inflation, gives rise to...
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We observe long-range dipole-dipole interactions in a plasmonic lattice. Fluorescence lifetime measurements show density-dependent non-exponential decay dynamics over 800nm mean nearest-neighbour separation distances ...
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Complex network theory has focused on properties of networks with real-valued edge weights. However, in signal transfer networks, such as those representing the transfer of light across an interferometer, complex-valu...
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The speed of elementary quantum gates ultimately sets the limit on the speed at which quantum circuits can operate. For a fixed physical interaction strength between two qubits, the speed of any two-qubit gate is limi...
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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 propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with reciproca...
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We propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with reciprocal imaginary next-nearest-neighbor hopping, is found to host two pairs of in-gap edge modes in the gapped topological phase, and is characterized by the non-Hermitian (NH) Chern number CNH=2. The quantization of the NH Chern number is shown to be protected by the generalized rotational symmetry Ĥ+(gk⃗)=ÛgĤ(k⃗)Ûg+ of the system. Our finding paves the way towards non-Hermitian topological systems characterized by large values of topological invariants and hosting multiple in-gap edge states, which can be used for topologically resilient multiplexing.
Recent advances in epitaxial oxide deposition have enabled the fabrication of thick films of ferroelectric perovskite BaTiO3 capable of providing a robust electro-optic response via the Pockels effect in silicon photo...
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Recent advances in epitaxial oxide deposition have enabled the fabrication of thick films of ferroelectric perovskite BaTiO3 capable of providing a robust electro-optic response via the Pockels effect in silicon photonic devices. We report a microstructure analysis of such films integrated on Si(001) by molecular beam epitaxy, showing how the crystallographic and polarization orientation change as a function of thickness. The measured electro-optic properties of the film correlate well with the microstructural analysis and demonstrate the potential of Si-integrated BaTiO3 for silicon photonics. An effective Pockels coefficient of up to 268 pm/V has been demonstrated in 110-nm-thick films in transmission measurements and 352 pm/V in waveguide measurements.
Unidirectional and backscattering-free propagation of sound waves is of fundamental interest in physics, and highly sought-after in engineering. Current strategies utilize topologically protected chiral edge modes in ...
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Spintronics, an evolving interdisciplinary field at the intersection of magnetism and electronics, explores innovative applications of electron charge and spin properties for advanced electronic devices. The topologic...
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Previous studies have shown that the interiors of proteins are densely packed, reaching packing fractions that are as large as those found for static packings of individual amino-acid-shaped particles. How can the int...
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