Shanhui Fan and Zetian Mi
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 040001 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021
Guest Editors Shanhui Fan and Zetian Mi introduce a collection of papers in on photovoltaic energy conversion, a subject of ever-increasing importance.
R. Nicholas Lanning, Mark A. Harris, Denis W. Oesch, Michael D. Oliker, and Mark T. Gruneisen
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044027 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021
The wavelength dependence of the daytime performance of free-space quantum channels is crucial to global-scale quantum networking, but has been relatively unexplored, due to a lack of expertise in atmospheric physics among quantum optics researchers. This study makes progress by simulating quantum key distribution at different wavelengths, under daytime spectral radiance and atmospheric turbulence. Even in the face of multiple unfavorable factors, it is found that shorter wavelengths can nonetheless outperform longer ones. The framework and insights of this study are expected to have strong impact, and to serve as stepping stones for analyzing more complex quantum networking protocols.
Michal Kloc, Kurt Meier, Kimon Hadjikyriakos, and Gernot Schaller
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044061 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Cooling fragile quantum systems requires quantum cooling technology. The smallest possible fridge employs a three-level system to autonomously cool the coldest of the three reservoirs. The authors suggest a setup with a quantum working fluid composed of collectively coupled qubits to effectively implement such a refrigerator. The collective couplings lead to a quadratic boost of the cooling current, .
Ho Yiu Mak, Xiaonan Zhang, Zhen Dong, Susumu Miura, Takuro Iwata, and Ping Sheng
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044062 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Does Nature take something away with one hand and give it back with the other? Yes, in the case of acoustic absorption. The causality principle has been regarded as the reason one needs thick, bulky absorbers for low-frequency noise remediation. By judicious manipulation of the boundary condition on the backside of the absorber, the authors obtain broadband near-total absorption below 100 Hz with a 2-cm-thick sample, when the causal minimum is 15 cm. This complements metamaterial absorbers that are within the causal limit and effective at higher frequencies, yielding a holistic picture of the acoustic absorber design landscape, over the entire frequency range.
Huiying Fan, Jensen Li, Yun Lai, and Jie Luo
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044064 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Ultrabroadband reflectionless absorption of light is in great demand for many applications. This study proposes a type of nonresonant, impedance-matched optical metasurface that exhibits ultrabroadband reflectionless absorption, based on the anomalous Brewster effect. Extremely asymmetric behavior—a transition from perfect transparency to perfect absorption—appears when the sign of the angle of incidence changes, due to the coexistence of the traditional and anomalous Brewster effects. Such high-efficiency metasurfaces may find application in optoelectronic and thermal devices such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, and thermal emitters.
Jonathan J. Heath and Marcelo A. Kuroda
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, L041001 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) composed of different two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising for spin-valve applications. However, as the number of material combinations grows, guiding principles for heterostructure composition-property relationships become very desirable. The authors use first-principles calculations to provide design guidelines for spin-dependent transport in MTJs, based on the bulk properties of the constituent 2D materials, and find that low-work-function electrodes enable greater performance with CrI channels. This data-driven scheme offers a fast, systematic method to accelerate the design of spintronic devices based on 2D materials.
Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Yangyu Guo, Juan J. Alvarado-Gil, Sebastian Volz, and Masahiro Nomura
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, L041002 (2021) - Published 28 October, 2021
The operation of thermal diodes is typically limited to narrow temperature ranges and low rectification of steady-state heat currents. Despite their key application in thermal computing, and the analogy to their electronic counterparts, the development of thermal diodes operating with modulated heat currents has not received much attention. Based on the spatiotemporal modulation of a material’s thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity, the authors give proof of principle of a thermal diode that can rectify the modulated heat current of thermal waves. Rectification factors higher than 86% are obtained as the modulation frequencies driving the propagation of thermal waves decrease.
Martin Möddel, Florian Griese, Tobias Kluth, and Tobias Knopp
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, L041003 (2021) - Published 28 October, 2021
Magnetic nanoparticles are of great interest for a variety of applications, ranging from medical diagnosis and treatment to information storage and genetic engineering. Their key property is that their magnetization can be manipulated with external magnetic fields. Here researchers study the influence of the spatial orientation of an ensemble of immobilized nanoparticles, with magnetic easy axes aligned parallel with respect to a dynamic external magnetic excitation field, on the magnetization response of the nanoparticles. The authors present a method and experimental proof of concept for estimating the spatial orientation of the easy axis from the magnetization response.
D. Yavorskiy, M. Szoła, T. Tarkowski, J. Wróbel, P. Nowicki, V. Umansky, W. Knap, and J. Łusakowski
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044001 (2021) - Published 1 October, 2021
Pierric Mora, Mathieu Chekroun, and Vincent Tournat
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044002 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021
Bo Sun, Yu-Feng Ding, Peng-Bin He, Yu-Qing Zhao, and Meng-Qiu Cai
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044003 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021
Pu Shen, Tao Chen, and Zheng-Yuan Xue
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044004 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021
Sai Li and Zheng-Yuan Xue
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044005 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021
Hongchen Chu, Ze-Guo Chen, Yun Lai, and Guancong Ma
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044006 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021
Zhichao Liu, Yaqi Wei, Liang Chen, Ji Li, Shuangqing Dai, Fei Zhou, and Mang Feng
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044007 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021
Zi-Dong Zhang, Si-Yuan Yu, Hao Ge, Ji-Qian Wang, Hong-Fei Wang, Kang-Fu Liu, Tao Wu, Cheng He, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044008 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021
Junjun Jia and Takahiko Yanagitani
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044009 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021
Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam and Romain Fleury
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044010 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021
Anna C. Tasolamprou, Maria Kafesaki, Costas M. Soukoulis, Eleftherios N. Economou, and Thomas Koschny
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044011 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021
Jean-Marie Poumirol, Adrien Bercher, Tetiana Slipchenko, Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Christoph Renner, and Alexey B. Kuzmenko
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044012 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021
Ling-Yu Dou, Li-Qing Ren, De-Zhong Cao, and Xin-Bing Song
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044013 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021
Thomas Brian Winkler, Kai Litzius, Andrea de Lucia, Markus Weißenhofer, Hans Fangohr, and Mathias Kläui
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044014 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021
A. Hertel, L.O. Andersen, D.M.T. van Zanten, M. Eichinger, P. Scarlino, S. Yadav, J. Karthik, S. Gronin, G.C. Gardner, M.J. Manfra, C.M. Marcus, and K.D. Petersson
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044015 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021
Yi-Yi Li, Qi-Tao Cao, Jin-hui Chen, Xiao-Chong Yu, and Yun-Feng Xiao
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044016 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021
Naftali Kirsh, Elisha Svetitsky, Samuel Goldstein, Guy Pardo, Ori Hachmo, and Nadav Katz
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044017 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021
S. Templier, J. Hauden, P. Cheiney, F. Napolitano, H. Porte, P. Bouyer, B. Barrett, and B. Battelier
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044018 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021
A.G. de Oliveira, G. Santos, N. Rubiano da Silva, L.J. Pereira, G.B. Alves, A.Z. Khoury, and P.H. Souto Ribeiro
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044019 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021
Zi-xiang Xu, Bin Zheng, Jing Yang, Bin Liang, and Jian-chun Cheng
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044020 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021
Jian Chen, Zeqing Sun, Jing Rao, Danylo Lisevych, and Zheng Fan
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044021 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021
Junsheng Huang, Ping Li, Xiaoxiong Ren, and Zhi-Xin Guo
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044022 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021
Jesus Alberto Gonzalez Montoya, Alberto Tibaldi, Carlo De Santi, Matteo Meneghini, Michele Goano, and Francesco Bertazzi
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044023 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021
Alberto Tibaldi, Jesus Alberto Gonzalez Montoya, Marco Vallone, Michele Goano, Enrico Bellotti, and Francesco Bertazzi
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044024 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021
Sattwik Deb Mishra, Rahul Trivedi, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, and Jelena Vučković
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044025 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021
Saeed-Uz-Zaman Khan and Barry P. Rand
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044026 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021
Characterizing the energetic disorder of the charge-transfer (CT) state is crucial to understanding organic photovoltaic devices, but is complicated by the discrepancy between temperature-dependent absorption and emission spectra. The authors show that, unlike absorption measurements, electroluminescence measurements do reveal the full extent of the CT-state distribution at low temperatures. In a highly disordered blend, CT-state filling is incomplete, and injected carriers do not reach equilibrium sites before recombining. CT disorder be reliably found from temperature-dependent measurements of external quantum efficiency, which can distinguish dynamic from static disorder.
R. Nicholas Lanning, Mark A. Harris, Denis W. Oesch, Michael D. Oliker, and Mark T. Gruneisen
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044027 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021
The wavelength dependence of the daytime performance of free-space quantum channels is crucial to global-scale quantum networking, but has been relatively unexplored, due to a lack of expertise in atmospheric physics among quantum optics researchers. This study makes progress by simulating quantum key distribution at different wavelengths, under daytime spectral radiance and atmospheric turbulence. Even in the face of multiple unfavorable factors, it is found that shorter wavelengths can nonetheless outperform longer ones. The framework and insights of this study are expected to have strong impact, and to serve as stepping stones for analyzing more complex quantum networking protocols.
S.L. Wu, W. Ma, X.L. Huang, and Xuexi Yi
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044028 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021
Lijuan Fan and Jun Mei
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044029 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021
Brian T. Zutter, Hyunseok Kim, William A. Hubbard, Dingkun Ren, Matthew Mecklenburg, Diana Huffaker, and B.C. Regan
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044030 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021
G.S. Atkinson, E.J. Allen, G. Ferranti, A.R. McMillan, and J.C.F. Matthews
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044031 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021
Wenting Cheng, Emil Prodan, and Camelia Prodan
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044032 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021
Samuel A. Verburg and Efren Fernandez-Grande
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044033 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021
Mark Sadgrove, Takaaki Yoshino, Masakazu Sugawara, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, and Keiichi Edamatsu
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044034 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021
Mouad Fattouhi, Felipe García-Sánchez, Rocío Yanes, Víctor Raposo, Eduardo Martínez, and Luis Lopez-Diaz
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044035 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021
Shlomi Matityahu, Alexander Shnirman, and Moshe Schechter
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044036 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021
Kenji Nawa, Keisuke Masuda, and Yoshio Miura
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044037 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021
Hai-Yao Deng
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044038 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021
Zhide Lu, Pei-Xin Shen, and Dong-Ling Deng
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044039 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021
Adham Naji and Sami Tantawi
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044040 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021
Rui Peixoto, J.P. Santos Pires, Catarina S. Monteiro, Maria Raposo, Paulo A. Ribeiro, Susana O. Silva, Orlando Frazão, and J.M. Viana Parente Lopes
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044041 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021
Thi Ha Kyaw, Tim Menke, Sukin Sim, Abhinav Anand, Nicolas P.D. Sawaya, William D. Oliver, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044042 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021
Satoshi Matsuoka, Jun'ya Tsutsumi, and Tatsuo Hasegawa
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044043 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021
Ariel Vardi-Chouchana and Guy Z. Ramon
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044044 (2021) - Published 25 October, 2021
Rishabh Upadhyay, George Thomas, Yu-Cheng Chang, Dmitry S. Golubev, Andrew Guthrie, Azat Gubaydullin, Joonas T. Peltonen, and Jukka P. Pekola
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044045 (2021) - Published 25 October, 2021
A.N. Kosarev and V.V. Chaldyshev
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044046 (2021) - Published 25 October, 2021
Zhou Li and Chinmay Khandekar
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044047 (2021) - Published 25 October, 2021
Can Huang, Yuke Zhang, Shuaizhi Zheng, Qiong Yang, and Min Liao
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044048 (2021) - Published 26 October, 2021
Liping Xu (徐丽萍), Hao Xiong (熊浩), Zhichao Fu (付志超), Menghan Deng (邓梦晗), Shuiyuan Wang (王水源), Jinzhong Zhang (张金中), Liyan Shang (商丽燕), Kai Jiang (姜凯), Yawei Li (李亚巍), Liangqing Zhu (朱亮清), Liang He, Zhigao Hu (胡志高), and Junhao Chu (褚君浩)
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044049 (2021) - Published 26 October, 2021
Binbin Liu, Ke Chang, Xinna Yu, Yiru Niu, Xinyuan Dong, and Hui Wang
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044050 (2021) - Published 26 October, 2021
Hyma H. Vallabhapurapu, James P. Slack-Smith, Vikas K. Sewani, Chris Adambukulam, Andrea Morello, Jarryd J. Pla, and Arne Laucht
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044051 (2021) - Published 26 October, 2021
Arjan Fraters, Maaike Rump, Roger Jeurissen, Marc van den Berg, Youri de Loore, Hans Reinten, Herman Wijshoff, Devaraj van der Meer, Detlef Lohse, Michel Versluis, and Tim Segers
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044052 (2021) - Published 27 October, 2021
Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Arpan Biswas, Nicholas V. Morozovsky, and Sergei V. Kalinin
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044053 (2021) - Published 27 October, 2021
Kirill Bronnikov, Jesús Arriaga, Arkadii Krokhin, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044054 (2021) - Published 27 October, 2021
Imran Khan, Michel Lequime, Myriam Zerrad, and Claude Amra
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044055 (2021) - Published 28 October, 2021
Teng Xu, Heng-An Zhou, Yiqing Dong, Qihan Zhang, Mengqian Che, Liangyang Liu, Zhijie Wu, Ziqiang Guan, Luyi Yang, and Wanjun Jiang
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044056 (2021) - Published 28 October, 2021
Marcello Benedetti, Brian Coyle, Mattia Fiorentini, Michael Lubasch, and Matthias Rosenkranz
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044057 (2021) - Published 28 October, 2021
Guillaume Vidon, Stefania Cacovich, Marie Legrand, Armelle Yaiche, Daniel Ory, Daniel Suchet, Jean-Baptiste Puel, and Jean-François Guillemoles
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044058 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
M. de Wit, L. Gottardi, E. Taralli, K. Nagayoshi, M.L. Ridder, H. Akamatsu, M.P. Bruijn, R.W.M. Hoogeveen, J. van der Kuur, K. Ravensberg, D. Vaccaro, J.-R. Gao, and J.-W.A. den Herder
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044059 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
I.I. Soloviev, S.V. Bakurskiy, V.I. Ruzhickiy, N.V. Klenov, M.Yu. Kupriyanov, A.A. Golubov, O.V. Skryabina, and V.S. Stolyarov
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044060 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Michal Kloc, Kurt Meier, Kimon Hadjikyriakos, and Gernot Schaller
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044061 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Cooling fragile quantum systems requires quantum cooling technology. The smallest possible fridge employs a three-level system to autonomously cool the coldest of the three reservoirs. The authors suggest a setup with a quantum working fluid composed of collectively coupled qubits to effectively implement such a refrigerator. The collective couplings lead to a quadratic boost of the cooling current, .
Ho Yiu Mak, Xiaonan Zhang, Zhen Dong, Susumu Miura, Takuro Iwata, and Ping Sheng
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044062 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Does Nature take something away with one hand and give it back with the other? Yes, in the case of acoustic absorption. The causality principle has been regarded as the reason one needs thick, bulky absorbers for low-frequency noise remediation. By judicious manipulation of the boundary condition on the backside of the absorber, the authors obtain broadband near-total absorption below 100 Hz with a 2-cm-thick sample, when the causal minimum is 15 cm. This complements metamaterial absorbers that are within the causal limit and effective at higher frequencies, yielding a holistic picture of the acoustic absorber design landscape, over the entire frequency range.
Xiangshuai Meng, Xiaoming Chen, Ruihai Chen, Haiying Li, Tan Qu, and Anxue Zhang
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044063 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Huiying Fan, Jensen Li, Yun Lai, and Jie Luo
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044064 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
Ultrabroadband reflectionless absorption of light is in great demand for many applications. This study proposes a type of nonresonant, impedance-matched optical metasurface that exhibits ultrabroadband reflectionless absorption, based on the anomalous Brewster effect. Extremely asymmetric behavior—a transition from perfect transparency to perfect absorption—appears when the sign of the angle of incidence changes, due to the coexistence of the traditional and anomalous Brewster effects. Such high-efficiency metasurfaces may find application in optoelectronic and thermal devices such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, and thermal emitters.
Ashutosh Patri, Kévin G. Cognée, Louis Haeberlé, Vinod Menon, Christophe Caloz, and Stéphane Kéna-Cohen
Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 044065 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
