Lingenfelter, Andrew Roberts, David Clerk, A A
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We present a mechanism that harnesses extremely weak Kerr-type nonlinearities in a single driven cavity to deterministically generate single-photon Fock states and more general photon-blockaded states. Our method is effective even for nonlinearities that are orders-of-magnitude smaller than photonic loss. It is also completely distinct from so-call...
Kaissner, R. Li, J. X. Lu, W. Z. Li, X. Neubrech, F. Wang, J. F. Liu, N.
Recently in nanophotonics, a rigorous evolution from passive to active metasurfaces has been witnessed. This advancement not only brings forward interesting physical phenomena but also elicits opportunities for practical applications. However, active metasurfaces operating at visible frequencies often exhibit low performance due to design and fabri...
Loriani, Sina Friedrich, Alexander Ufrecht, Christian Di Pumpo, Fabio Kleinert, Stephan Abend, Sven Gaaloul, Naceur Meiners, Christian Schubert, Christian Tell, Dorothee
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The phase of matter waves depends on proper time and is therefore susceptible to special-relativistic (kinematic) and gravitational (redshift) time dilation. Hence, it is conceivable that atom interferometers measure general-relativistic time-dilation effects. In contrast to this intuition, we show that (i) closed light-pulse interferometers withou...
Davydova, Margarita Prembabu, Saranesh Fu, Liang
We propose a universal mechanism for the Josephson diode effect in short Josephson junctions. The proposed mechanism is due to finite Cooper pair momentum and is a manifestation of simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetries. The diode efficiency is up to 40%, which corresponds to an asymmetry between the critical currents in op...
Kaushal, Anjali Dorier, Julien Wang, Bihan Mohana, Giriram Taschner, Michael Cousin, Pascal Waridel, Patrice Iseli, Christian Semenova, Anastasiia Restrepo, Simon
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Boundaries in animal genomes delimit contact domains with enhanced internal contact frequencies and have debated functions in limiting regulatory cross-talk between domains and guiding enhancers to target promoters. Most mammalian boundaries form by stalling of chromosomal loop-extruding cohesin by CTCF, but most Drosophila boundaries form CTCF ind...
Chopin, Julien Kudrolli, Arshad
Twisting sheets as a strategy to form functional yarns relies on millennia of human practice in making catguts and fabric wearables, but still lacks overarching principles to guide their intricate architectures. We show that twisted hyperelastic sheets form multilayered self-scrolled yarns, through recursive folding and twist localization, that can...
Hegde, Vinay I. Aykol, Muratahan Kirklin, Scott Wolverton, Chris
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Science Advances
One of the holy grails of materials science, unlocking structure-property relationships, has largely been pursued via bottom-up investigations of how the arrangement of atoms and interatomic bonding in a material determine its macroscopic behavior. Here, we consider a complementary approach, a top-down study of the organizational structure of netwo...
Fatichi, Simone Peleg, Nadav Mastrotheodoros, Theodoros Pappas, Christoforos Manoli, Gabriele
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Thees, Maximilian Lee, Min-Han Bouwmeester, Rosa Luca Rezende-Gonçalves, Pedro H David, Emma Zimmers, Alexandre Fortuna, Franck Frantzeskakis, Emmanouil Vargas, Nicolas M Kalcheim, Yoav
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In solids, strong repulsion between electrons can inhibit their movement and result in a “Mott” metal-to-insulator transition (MIT), a fundamental phenomenon whose understanding has remained a challenge for over 50 years. A key issue is how the wave-like itinerant electrons change into a localized-like state due to increased interactions. However, ...
Leyva, Sergi G. Stoop, Ralph L. Pagonabarraga, Ignacio Tierno, Pietro
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Fluid-mediated hydrodynamic interactions help synchronize and assemble microscopic particles driven with a ratchet effect.