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Editorial: Collection on Two-dimensional Materials and Devices

David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 030001 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Guest Editor David Tománek introduces a collection of papers in Physical Review Applied and Physical Review Materials on two-dimensional materials and devices, in a snapshot of the leading edge of this hot field.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Energy-Efficient Stochastic Computing with Superparamagnetic Tunnel Junctions

Matthew W. Daniels, Advait Madhavan, Philippe Talatchian, Alice Mizrahi, and Mark D. Stiles

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034016 (2020) - Published 5 March, 2020

Most computing schemes that employ superparamagnetic tunnel junctions control them with analog currents, leading to substantial Ohmic losses and requiring digital-to-analog converters. Here the authors forego current control and embed these junctions in digital circuits to produce programmable randomness, which leads to a neural network that can recognize handwritten digits at only 150 nJ per inference. This energy efficiency is made possible by the general insight that, while nanodevices provide useful dynamics for innovative computing, understanding their integration with digital logic systems is crucial to developing viable applications.

Mechanical Transmission of Rotational Motion between Molecular-Scale Gears

H.-H. Lin, A. Croy, R. Gutierrez, C. Joachim, and G. Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034024 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Even in 2020, there’s still some room at the bottom: The miniaturization of machines remains an important goal that attracts interest in many fields. In particular, making ultrasmall gears to transmit mechanical motion is a challenge, with molecular gears being the ultimate target. Motivated by recent experimental studies on molecule gears, the authors employ atomistic molecular dynamics simulations and a nearly-rigid-body model to obtain insights into the dynamics of both single gears and trains of them. A train of such gears exhibits three qualitatively different regimes of motion, depending on the magnitude of the applied torque.

Demonstration of a Nonstoquastic Hamiltonian in Coupled Superconducting Flux Qubits

I. Ozfidan et al.

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034037 (2020) - Published 16 March, 2020

Demonstration of a nonstoquastic Hamiltonian—one for which there exists no local basis in which all off-diagonal elements are nonpositive—is an important step toward the development of quantum annealers that are more computationally powerful, or even universal. (This condition is tied to the “sign problem” in quantum Monte Carlo techniques.) This work presents the implementation of such a Hamiltonian by coupling two flux qubits both inductively and capacitively. The signature of nonstoquastic behavior is observed through destructive interference in quantum coherent oscillations. This result would seem to bear strong implications for scalable quantum computing.

Superhydrophobic Drag Reduction for Turbulent Flows in Open Water

Muchen Xu, Andrew Grabowski, Ning Yu, Gintare Kerezyte, Jeong-Won Lee, Byron R. Pfeifer, and Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034056 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Trapping air under water, superhydrophobic surfaces on boats have long been coveted for hydrodynamic drag reduction without bubble injection. Despite many reports of drag reduction in lab tests, such surfaces have not been successful in real-world tests on open water, at high Reynolds numbers. The authors develop hydrophobic microtrenches that provide a large slip, with a subtle detail that maximizes air retention. Replacing a portion of a motorboat’s hull with the developed surface, they obtain large drag reduction under high-speed flows on the open sea. This has significant implications for energy efficiency in oceanic shipping.

Self-Shielded Topological Receiver Protectors

Mattis Reisner, Do Hyeok Jeon, Carsten Schindler, Henning Schomerus, Fabrice Mortessagne, Ulrich Kuhl, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034067 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Merging concepts from topological photonics with that of self-induced violation of time-reversal symmetry emerging from nonlinear losses, the authors aim to design receiver protectors (RPs) that shield sensitive electronics from high-power radiation. The proposed RPs are transparent to low-power incident signals, yet self-protected against electrical breakdown and overheating due to high-power input, which triggers an underdamping-to-overdamping transition and complete reflection of the incident radiation. Such an RP can be utilized to safeguard a broad range of sensitive communication systems, including radar and lidar installations and reflection altimeters.

Autotuning of Double-Dot Devices In Situ with Machine Learning

Justyna P. Zwolak, Thomas McJunkin, Sandesh S. Kalantre, J.P. Dodson, E.R. MacQuarrie, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, S.N. Coppersmith, Mark A. Eriksson, and Jacob M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034075 (2020) - Published 31 March, 2020

A primary obstacle in scaling up quantum computing platforms based on semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is the full automation of initialization and control. Using ideas from machine learning (ML), pattern recognition, and optimization, the authors implement an autotuning protocol that needs no human intervention to navigate between QD states in real time. A convolutional neural network identifies QD states from in situ measurements; importantly, the network is trained exclusively on simulated data, and the scans used are significantly smaller that in manual tuning, and hence much faster. This development is critical to moving up to larger numbers of quantum dots.

LETTERS

Experimental Observation of Nonreciprocal Band Gaps in a Space-Time-Modulated Beam Using a Shunted Piezoelectric Array

J. Marconi, E. Riva, M. Di Ronco, G. Cazzulani, F. Braghin, and M. Ruzzene

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 031001 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

The breaking of reciprocity in elastic wave propagation can be achieved through modulation of stiffness in space and time, which is reflected in asymmetrical Bloch diagrams. Here this principle is experimentally demonstrated using controlled piezoelectric devices, which when connected to negative-capacitance circuits alter the effective material parameters locally, in the form of a traveling modulation. Thus the authors can tune nonreciprocal band gaps that are1 kHz wide and span a frequency range of 8–11 kHz, for one-way transmission of vibrations in e.g. phononic communication systems.

ARTICLES

Electron Acceleration in Direct Laser-Solid Interactions Far Beyond the Ponderomotive Limit

Meng Wen, Yousef I. Salamin, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034001 (2020) - Published 2 March, 2020

Rescaling Interactions for Quantum Control

Gaurav Bhole, Takahiro Tsunoda, Peter J. Leek, and Jonathan A. Jones

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034002 (2020) - Published 2 March, 2020

Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Drag Forces in Micromechanical-Beam Arrays

Ashok Akarapu, Rohit Prakash Nighot, Lalsingh Devsoth, Mukul Yadav, Prem Pal, and Ashok Kumar Pandey

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034003 (2020) - Published 2 March, 2020

Arbitrary Shaped Acoustic Concentrators Enabled by Null Media

Mohammad Hosein Fakheri, Ali Abdolali, and Hooman Barati Sedeh

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034004 (2020) - Published 2 March, 2020

General Impedance Matching via Doped Epsilon-Near-Zero Media

Ziheng Zhou, Yue Li, Ehsan Nahvi, Hao Li, Yijing He, Iñigo Liberal, and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034005 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Dynamically Controlling Spatial Energy Distribution with a Holographic Metamirror for Adaptive Focusing

Badreddine Ratni, Zhuochao Wang, Kuang Zhang, Xumin Ding, André de Lustrac, Gérard-Pascal Piau, and Shah Nawaz Burokur

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034006 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Tunable Microwave Single-Photon Source Based on Transmon Qubit with High Efficiency

Yu Zhou, Zhihui Peng, Yuta Horiuchi, O.V. Astafiev, and J.S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034007 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Hacking Quantum Key Distribution via Injection Locking

Xiao-Ling Pang, Ai-Lin Yang, Chao-Ni Zhang, Jian-Peng Dou, Hang Li, Jun Gao, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034008 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Manipulation of Nanodroplets via a Nonuniform Focused Acoustic Vortex

Shifang Guo, Xuyan Guo, Xin Wang, Xuan Du, Pengying Wu, Ayache Bouakaz, and Mingxi Wan

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034009 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Fast Relaxation on Qutrit Transitions of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Nanodiamonds

A. Gardill, M.C. Cambria, and S. Kolkowitz

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034010 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Analytical Models of Phonon–Point-Defect Scattering

Ramya Gurunathan, Riley Hanus, Maxwell Dylla, Ankita Katre, and G. Jeffrey Snyder

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034011 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Cryogenic Memory Element Based on an Anomalous Josephson Junction

C. Guarcello and F.S. Bergeret

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034012 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Quantum Process Tomography of a Controlled-Phase Gate for Time-Bin Qubits

Hsin-Pin Lo, Takuya Ikuta, Nobuyuki Matsuda, Toshimori Honjo, William J. Munro, and Hiroki Takesue

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034013 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Pressure Dependence of Magnetic Properties in La(Fe,Si)13: Multistimulus Responsiveness of Caloric Effects by Modeling and Experiment

D. Yu. Karpenkov, A. Yu. Karpenkov, K. P. Skokov, I. A. Radulov, M. Zheleznyi, T. Faske, and O. Gutfleisch

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034014 (2020) - Published 5 March, 2020

Energy-Efficient Stochastic Computing with Superparamagnetic Tunnel Junctions

Matthew W. Daniels, Advait Madhavan, Philippe Talatchian, Alice Mizrahi, and Mark D. Stiles

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034016 (2020) - Published 5 March, 2020

Most computing schemes that employ superparamagnetic tunnel junctions control them with analog currents, leading to substantial Ohmic losses and requiring digital-to-analog converters. Here the authors forego current control and embed these junctions in digital circuits to produce programmable randomness, which leads to a neural network that can recognize handwritten digits at only 150 nJ per inference. This energy efficiency is made possible by the general insight that, while nanodevices provide useful dynamics for innovative computing, understanding their integration with digital logic systems is crucial to developing viable applications.

Laser-Damage Attack Against Optical Attenuators in Quantum Key Distribution

Anqi Huang, Ruoping Li, Vladimir Egorov, Serguei Tchouragoulov, Krtin Kumar, and Vadim Makarov

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034017 (2020) - Published 5 March, 2020

Ionic-Defect Distribution Revealed by Improved Evaluation of Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy on Perovskite Solar Cells

Sebastian Reichert, Jens Flemming, Qingzhi An, Yana Vaynzof, Jan-Frederik Pietschmann, and Carsten Deibel

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034018 (2020) - Published 6 March, 2020

Phonon Renormalization Induced by Electric Field in Ferroelectric Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride–Trifluoroethylene) Nanofibers

Lan Dong, Qing Xi, Jun Zhou, Xiangfan Xu, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034019 (2020) - Published 6 March, 2020

Tip- and Plasmon-Enhanced Infrared Nanoscopy for Ultrasensitive Molecular Characterizations

Y. Luan, L. McDermott, F. Hu, and Z. Fei

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034020 (2020) - Published 6 March, 2020

Radiative Thermal Diode Mediated by Nonreciprocal Graphene Plasmon Waveguides

Yong Zhang, Cheng-Long Zhou, Hong-Liang Yi, and He-Ping Tan

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034021 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Probing a Two-Level System Bath via the Frequency Shift of an Off-Resonantly Driven Cavity

Thibault Capelle, Emmanuel Flurin, Edouard Ivanov, Jose Palomo, Michael Rosticher, Sheon Chua, Tristan Briant, Pierre-François Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann, Thibaut Jacqmin, and Samuel Deléglise

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034022 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

High-Precision Multiparameter Weak Measurement with Hermite-Gaussian Pointer

Binke Xia, Jingzheng Huang, Chen Fang, Hongjing Li, and Guihua Zeng

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034023 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Mechanical Transmission of Rotational Motion between Molecular-Scale Gears

H.-H. Lin, A. Croy, R. Gutierrez, C. Joachim, and G. Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034024 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Even in 2020, there’s still some room at the bottom: The miniaturization of machines remains an important goal that attracts interest in many fields. In particular, making ultrasmall gears to transmit mechanical motion is a challenge, with molecular gears being the ultimate target. Motivated by recent experimental studies on molecule gears, the authors employ atomistic molecular dynamics simulations and a nearly-rigid-body model to obtain insights into the dynamics of both single gears and trains of them. A train of such gears exhibits three qualitatively different regimes of motion, depending on the magnitude of the applied torque.

Bayesian Optimization of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

Martin Franckié and Jérôme Faist

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034025 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering from Stripe-Ordered La2xBaxCuO4 Detected by a Transition-Edge Sensor Array Detector

Young Il Joe, Yizhi Fang, Sangjun Lee, Stella X.L. Sun, Gilberto A. de la Peña, William B. Doriese, Kelsey M. Morgan, Joseph W. Fowler, Leila R. Vale, Fanny Rodolakis, Jessica L. McChesney, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz, and Peter Abbamonte

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034026 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Assessment of Thermal Transport Properties of Group-III Nitrides: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Study with Transferable Tersoff-Type Interatomic Potentials

Yenal Karaaslan, Haluk Yapicioglu, and Cem Sevik

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034027 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Observation of Reactor Antineutrinos with a Rapidly Deployable Surface-Level Detector

Alireza Haghighat, Patrick Huber, Shengchao Li, Jonathan M. Link, Camillo Mariani, Jaewon Park, and Tulasi Subedi

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034028 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

Practical Route to Entanglement-Assisted Communication Over Noisy Bosonic Channels

Haowei Shi, Zheshen Zhang, and Quntao Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034029 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

Entangling Two Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators at High Temperature

Qing Lin, Bing He, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034030 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

Multiple Giant-Magnetoresistance Sensors Controlled by Additive Dipolar Coupling

J. Torrejon, A. Solignac, C. Chopin, J. Moulin, A. Doll, E. Paul, C. Fermon, and M. Pannetier-Lecoeur

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034031 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Three-Dimensional Superconducting Resonators at T<20 mK with Photon Lifetimes up to τ=2 s

A. Romanenko, R. Pilipenko, S. Zorzetti, D. Frolov, M. Awida, S. Belomestnykh, S. Posen, and A. Grassellino

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034032 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Switching Magnetic Anisotropy of SrRuO3 by Capping-Layer-Induced Octahedral Distortion

Shan Lin, Qinghua Zhang, Manuel A. Roldan, Sujit Das, Timothy Charlton, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Qiao Jin, Sisi Li, Zhenping Wu, Shuang Chen, Haizhong Guo, Xin Tong, Meng He, Chen Ge, Can Wang, Lin Gu, Kui-juan Jin, and Er-Jia Guo

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034033 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Periodically Gated Bilayer Graphene as an Electronic Metamaterial

Xianqing Lin and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034034 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Just as the propagation of coherent photons can be manipulated by a diffraction grid, so can propagation of coherent electrons be manipulated by periodic gating in bilayer graphene. Similar behavior should be expected of coherent electrons and photons, the main difference being that for electrons, the electrostatic potential can be modulated externally. The authors’ computations of the resistance map as a function of the voltage applied to the extended bottom gate, and to the periodic top gate, reveal an intriguing pattern reminiscent of Fabry-Perot interferometry. It seems, then, that periodically gated bilayer graphene could function as a distributed Bragg reflector for electrons.

Zero-field Optic Mode Beyond 20 GHz in a Synthetic Antiferromagnet

H. J. Waring, N. A. B. Johansson, I. J. Vera-Marun, and T. Thomson

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034035 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Enhanced Heat Transfer with Metal-Dielectric Core-Shell Nanoparticles

Ali Alkurdi, Julien Lombard, François Detcheverry, and Samy Merabia

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034036 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Demonstration of a Nonstoquastic Hamiltonian in Coupled Superconducting Flux Qubits

I. Ozfidan et al.

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034037 (2020) - Published 16 March, 2020

Demonstration of a nonstoquastic Hamiltonian—one for which there exists no local basis in which all off-diagonal elements are nonpositive—is an important step toward the development of quantum annealers that are more computationally powerful, or even universal. (This condition is tied to the “sign problem” in quantum Monte Carlo techniques.) This work presents the implementation of such a Hamiltonian by coupling two flux qubits both inductively and capacitively. The signature of nonstoquastic behavior is observed through destructive interference in quantum coherent oscillations. This result would seem to bear strong implications for scalable quantum computing.

Origin of Strong Two-Magnon Scattering in Heavy-Metal/Ferromagnet/Oxide Heterostructures

Lijun Zhu, Lujun Zhu, D.C. Ralph, and R.A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034038 (2020) - Published 16 March, 2020

Potential High-Performance Magnet: Fe- and Zr-Alloyed Ce2Co17

Tribhuwan Pandey and David S. Parker

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034039 (2020) - Published 16 March, 2020

Electrical Generation and Detection of Terahertz Signal Based on Spin-Wave Emission From Ferrimagnets

Zhifeng Zhu, Kaiming Cai, Jiefang Deng, Venkata Pavan Kumar Miriyala, Hyunsoo Yang, Xuanyao Fong, and Gengchiau Liang

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034040 (2020) - Published 16 March, 2020

Characterization of Spin-Orbit Torque Efficiency in Magnetic Heterostructures with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy via Spin-Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance

Jinwu Wei, Congli He, Xiao Wang, Hongjun Xu, Yizhou Liu, Yao Guang, Caihua Wan, Jiafeng Feng, Guoqiang Yu, and Xiufeng Han

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034041 (2020) - Published 17 March, 2020

Dual-Functional Terahertz Waveplate Based on All-Dielectric Metamaterial

Jianchen Zi, Yanfeng Li, Xi Feng, Quan Xu, Hongchao Liu, Xi-Xiang Zhang, Jiaguang Han, and Weili Zhang

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034042 (2020) - Published 17 March, 2020

Metrology of Time-Domain Soft X-Ray Attosecond Pulses and Reevaluation of Pulse Durations of Three Recent Experiments

Xi Zhao, Su-Ju Wang, Wei-Wei Yu, Hui Wei, Changli Wei, Bincheng Wang, Jigen Chen, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034043 (2020) - Published 17 March, 2020

Ultrafast Plasma Electron Dynamics: A Route to Terahertz Pulse Shaping

Sudipta Mondal, Qiliang Wei, Muhammad Ashiq Fareed, Hassan A. Hafez, Xavier Ropagnol, Shuhui Sun, Subhendu Kahaly, and Tsuneyuki Ozaki

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034044 (2020) - Published 18 March, 2020

Non-Markovian Noise Characterization with the Transfer Tensor Method

Yu-Qin Chen, Kai-Li Ma, Yi-Cong Zheng, Jonathan Allcock, Shengyu Zhang, and Chang-Yu Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034045 (2020) - Published 18 March, 2020

Stabilization of Skyrmions in a Nanodisk Without an External Magnetic Field

Hang Li, Collins Ashu Akosa, Peng Yan, Yuanxu Wang, and Zhenxiang Cheng

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034046 (2020) - Published 18 March, 2020

Acoustic Multifunctional Logic Gates and Amplifier Based on Passive Parity-Time Symmetry

Jun Lan, Liwei Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Minghui Lu, and Xiaozhou Liu

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034047 (2020) - Published 18 March, 2020

Fighting Broken Symmetry with Doping: Toward Polar Resonant Tunneling Diodes with Symmetric Characteristics

Jimy Encomendero, Vladimir Protasenko, Farhan Rana, Debdeep Jena, and Huili Grace Xing

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034048 (2020) - Published 19 March, 2020

Evolutionary Algorithm Optimization of Staggered Biological or Biomimetic Composites Using the Random Fuse Model

Gianluca Costagliola, Roberto Guarino, Federico Bosia, Konstantinos Gkagkas, and Nicola M. Pugno

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034049 (2020) - Published 19 March, 2020

Duplex Mikaelian and Duplex Maxwell’s Fish-Eye Lenses

Huiyan Peng, Senlin Liu, Yuze Wu, Yi Yan, Zichun Zhou, Xiaochao Li, Qiaoliang Bao, Lin Xu, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034050 (2020) - Published 19 March, 2020

Magnetic Skyrmion Tubes as Nonplanar Magnonic Waveguides

Xiangjun Xing, Yan Zhou, and H.B. Braun

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034051 (2020) - Published 19 March, 2020

Giant Anomalous Hall Conductivity at the Pt/Cr2O3 Interface

Takahiro Moriyama, Yu Shiratsuchi, Tatsuya Iino, Hikaru Aono, Motohiro Suzuki, Tetsuya Nakamura, Yoshinori Kotani, Ryoichi Nakatani, Kohji Nakamura, and Teruo Ono

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034052 (2020) - Published 20 March, 2020

Unusual Field Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect in Ta/TbFeCo

M.D. Davydova, P.N. Skirdkov, K.A. Zvezdin, Jong-Ching Wu, Sheng-Zhe Ciou, Yi-Ru Chiou, Lin-Xiu Ye, Te-Ho Wu, Ramesh Chandra Bhatt, A.V. Kimel, and A.K. Zvezdin

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034053 (2020) - Published 20 March, 2020

High-Order Parity-Time Symmetric Model for Stable Three-Coil Wireless Power Transfer

Chao Zeng, Yong Sun, Guo Li, Yunhui Li, Haitao Jiang, Yaping Yang, and Hong Chen

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034054 (2020) - Published 20 March, 2020

Locally Resonant Metasurfaces for Shear Waves in Granular Media

Rachele Zaccherini, Andrea Colombi, Antonio Palermo, Vasilis K. Dertimanis, Alessandro Marzani, Henrik R. Thomsen, Bozidar Stojadinovic, and Eleni N. Chatzi

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034055 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Superhydrophobic Drag Reduction for Turbulent Flows in Open Water

Muchen Xu, Andrew Grabowski, Ning Yu, Gintare Kerezyte, Jeong-Won Lee, Byron R. Pfeifer, and Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034056 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Trapping air under water, superhydrophobic surfaces on boats have long been coveted for hydrodynamic drag reduction without bubble injection. Despite many reports of drag reduction in lab tests, such surfaces have not been successful in real-world tests on open water, at high Reynolds numbers. The authors develop hydrophobic microtrenches that provide a large slip, with a subtle detail that maximizes air retention. Replacing a portion of a motorboat’s hull with the developed surface, they obtain large drag reduction under high-speed flows on the open sea. This has significant implications for energy efficiency in oceanic shipping.

Reservoir Computing Using a Spin-Wave Delay-Line Active-Ring Resonator Based on Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Film

Stuart Watt and Mikhail Kostylev

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034057 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Mechanical Characterization of Cells and Microspheres Sorted by Acoustophoresis with In-Line Resistive Pulse Sensing

Antoine Riaud, Wei Wang, Anh L.P. Thai, and Valerie Taly

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034058 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

In-Plane and Interfacial Thermal Conduction of Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Yifei Yu, Tamzid Minhaj, Lujun Huang, Yiling Yu, and Linyou Cao

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034059 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Dynamic Continuous-Wave Spectroscopy of Coherent Population Trapping at Phase-Jump Modulation

M. Yu. Basalaev, V.I. Yudin, A.V. Taichenachev, M.I. Vaskovskaya, D.S. Chuchelov, S.A. Zibrov, V.V. Vassiliev, and V.L. Velichansky

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034060 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Spin Fano Resonances and Control in Two-Dimensional Mesoscopic Transport

Chen-Rong Liu, Liang Huang, Honggang Luo, and Ying-Cheng Lai

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034061 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

Ghost Polarization Communication

Markus Rosskopf, Till Mohr, and Wolfgang Elsäßer

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034062 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

Broad Bandwidth and Highly Efficient Recognition of Optical Vortex Modes Achieved by the Neural-Network Approach

Zhixiang Mao, Haiyu Yu, Meng Xia, Shengzhe Pan, Di Wu, Yaling Yin, Yong Xia, and Jianping Yin

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034063 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Single Dopant in a Crystal

Ryo Ishikawa, Naoya Shibata, Takashi Taniguchi, and Yuichi Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034064 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Auxetic Tetrahex Carbon with Ultrahigh Strength and a Direct Band Gap

Qun Wei, Guang Yang, and Xihong Peng

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034065 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Band-Gap Engineering of Mo- and W-Containing Perovskite Oxides Derived from Barium Titanate

Or Shafir, Alexey Shopin, and Ilya Grinberg

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034066 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Self-Shielded Topological Receiver Protectors

Mattis Reisner, Do Hyeok Jeon, Carsten Schindler, Henning Schomerus, Fabrice Mortessagne, Ulrich Kuhl, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034067 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Merging concepts from topological photonics with that of self-induced violation of time-reversal symmetry emerging from nonlinear losses, the authors aim to design receiver protectors (RPs) that shield sensitive electronics from high-power radiation. The proposed RPs are transparent to low-power incident signals, yet self-protected against electrical breakdown and overheating due to high-power input, which triggers an underdamping-to-overdamping transition and complete reflection of the incident radiation. Such an RP can be utilized to safeguard a broad range of sensitive communication systems, including radar and lidar installations and reflection altimeters.

Large, Tunable Valley Splitting and Single-Spin Relaxation Mechanisms in a Si/SixGe1x Quantum Dot

Arne Hollmann, Tom Struck, Veit Langrock, Andreas Schmidbauer, Floyd Schauer, Tim Leonhardt, Kentarou Sawano, Helge Riemann, Nikolay V. Abrosimov, Dominique Bougeard, and Lars R. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034068 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Improved Determination of the Mobility and Built-In Voltage in Asymmetric Single-Carrier Devices

G.A.H. Wetzelaer

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034069 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Monolithic Silicon-Based Nanobeam Cavities for Integrated Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics

J.P. Vasco, D. Gerace, K. Seibold, and V. Savona

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034070 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Physics of Electrostatic Projection Revealed by High-Speed Video Imaging

Arash Sayyah, Mohammad Mirzadeh, Yi Jiang, Warren V. Gleason, William C. Rice, and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034071 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Multistate Magnetization Switching Driven by Spin Current From a Ferromagnetic Layer

Yumeng Yang, Hang Xie, Yanjun Xu, Ziyan Luo, and Yihong Wu

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034072 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Wide-Band Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Resonance in Long Cobalt Nanoprisms

M.M. Aziz and C. McKeever

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034073 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Highly Nonreciprocal Spin Waves Excited by Magnetoelastic Coupling in a Ni/Si Bilayer

Shoma Tateno and Yukio Nozaki

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034074 (2020) - Published 31 March, 2020

Autotuning of Double-Dot Devices In Situ with Machine Learning

Justyna P. Zwolak, Thomas McJunkin, Sandesh S. Kalantre, J.P. Dodson, E.R. MacQuarrie, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, S.N. Coppersmith, Mark A. Eriksson, and Jacob M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034075 (2020) - Published 31 March, 2020

A primary obstacle in scaling up quantum computing platforms based on semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is the full automation of initialization and control. Using ideas from machine learning (ML), pattern recognition, and optimization, the authors implement an autotuning protocol that needs no human intervention to navigate between QD states in real time. A convolutional neural network identifies QD states from in situ measurements; importantly, the network is trained exclusively on simulated data, and the scans used are significantly smaller that in manual tuning, and hence much faster. This development is critical to moving up to larger numbers of quantum dots.

Efficient Acousto-Optical Light Modulation at the Mid-Infrared Spectral Range by Planar Semiconductor Structures Supporting Guided Modes

Ivan M. Sopko, Daria O. Ignatyeva, Grigory A. Knyazev, and Vladimir I. Belotelov

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