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View article: Hypersonic acoustic wave control via stealthy hyperuniform phononic nanostructures
Hypersonic acoustic wave control via stealthy hyperuniform phononic nanostructures Open
Controlling hypersonic surface acoustic waves is crucial for advanced phononic devices such as high-frequency filters, sensors, and quantum computing components. While periodic phononic crystals enable precise bandgap engineering, their ab…
View article: On the IoT architecture for real-time monitoring and control of offshore wind turbines using multithreaded low-cost microcontrollers
On the IoT architecture for real-time monitoring and control of offshore wind turbines using multithreaded low-cost microcontrollers Open
This paper presents an IoT architecture for real-time monitoring and control offshore wind turbines using multithreaded low-cost boards. The system aims to address the challenges of offshore wind energy, particularly for deepwater and floa…
View article: Hypersonic acoustic wave control via hyperuniform phononic nanostructures
Hypersonic acoustic wave control via hyperuniform phononic nanostructures Open
Controlling hypersonic surface acoustic waves is crucial for advanced phononic devices such as high-frequency filters, sensors, and quantum computing components. While periodic phononic crystals enable precise bandgap engineering, their ab…
View article: Phonon dispersion of nanoscale honeycomb phononic crystal: gigahertz and terahertz spectroscopy comparison
Phonon dispersion of nanoscale honeycomb phononic crystal: gigahertz and terahertz spectroscopy comparison Open
View article: Phonon dispersion of nanoscale honeycomb phononic crystal: gigahertz and terahertz spectroscopy comparison
Phonon dispersion of nanoscale honeycomb phononic crystal: gigahertz and terahertz spectroscopy comparison Open
Phonons-quantized vibrational modes in crystalline structures-govern phenomena ranging from thermal and mechanical transport to quantum mechanics. In recent years, a new class of artificial materials called phononic crystals has emerged, a…
View article: Tailoring Phonon Dispersion of a Genetically Designed Nanophononic Metasurface
Tailoring Phonon Dispersion of a Genetically Designed Nanophononic Metasurface Open
Phonon engineering at the nanoscale holds immense promise for a myriad of applications. However, the design of phononic devices continues to rely on regular shapes chosen according to long-established simple rules. Here, we demonstrate an …
View article: Piezoelectrically driven diamond phononic nanocavity by phonon-matching scheme for quantum applications
Piezoelectrically driven diamond phononic nanocavity by phonon-matching scheme for quantum applications Open
Efficiently exciting and controlling phonons in diamond nanoresonators\nrepresents a fundamental challenge for quantum applications. Here, we\ntheoretically demonstrate the possibility to excite mechanical modes within a\ndouble-hybrid-cav…
View article: Non-equilibrium quantum domain reconfiguration dynamics in a two-dimensional electronic crystal and a quantum annealer
Non-equilibrium quantum domain reconfiguration dynamics in a two-dimensional electronic crystal and a quantum annealer Open
View article: Manipulation of fractionalized charge in the metastable topologically entangled state of a doped Wigner crystal
Manipulation of fractionalized charge in the metastable topologically entangled state of a doped Wigner crystal Open
Metastability of many-body quantum states is rare and still poorly understood. An exceptional example is the low-temperature metallic state of the layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS 2 in which electronic order is frozen after external excitatio…
View article: Chiral domain dynamics and transient interferences of mirrored superlattices in nonequilibrium electronic crystals
Chiral domain dynamics and transient interferences of mirrored superlattices in nonequilibrium electronic crystals Open
View article: Chiral domain dynamics and transient interferences of mirrored superlattices in nonequilibrium electronic crystals
Chiral domain dynamics and transient interferences of mirrored superlattices in nonequilibrium electronic crystals Open
Mirror symmetry plays a major role in determining the properties of matter and is of particular interest in condensed many-body systems undergoing symmetry breaking transitions under non-equilibrium conditions. Typically, in the aftermath …
View article: Emergent false vacuum decay processes in a two-dimensional electronic crystal: experiment vs. simulations on a noisy superconducting quantum processor
Emergent false vacuum decay processes in a two-dimensional electronic crystal: experiment vs. simulations on a noisy superconducting quantum processor Open
Emergent metastability in non-equilibrium systems is a subject that touches everything from the origins of life1 to the quantum nature of the universe2. In condensed quantum matter, a good topical example is the metas…
View article: Tuning Photoacoustic Generation in Water with Nanotransducers via Laser Pulse Duration
Tuning Photoacoustic Generation in Water with Nanotransducers via Laser Pulse Duration Open
— The photoacoustic effect in liquids, generated by nanotransducers excited withshort laser pulses, offers high contrast imaging and promising medical treatment techniques.Understanding the role of the thermal boundary resistance (TBR) and…
View article: Ultrafast Nano Generation of Acoustic Waves in Water: Thermophone versus Mechanophone
Ultrafast Nano Generation of Acoustic Waves in Water: Thermophone versus Mechanophone Open
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View article: Acoustic Wave Generation in Nanofluids: Effect of the Kapitza Resistance on the Thermophone to Mechanophone Generation Mechanism Transition
Acoustic Wave Generation in Nanofluids: Effect of the Kapitza Resistance on the Thermophone to Mechanophone Generation Mechanism Transition Open
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View article: Water filling in carbon nanotubes with different wettability and implications on nanotube/water heat transfer via atomistic simulations
Water filling in carbon nanotubes with different wettability and implications on nanotube/water heat transfer via atomistic simulations Open
View article: Tuning photoacoustics with nanotransducers via thermal boundary resistance and laser pulse duration
Tuning photoacoustics with nanotransducers via thermal boundary resistance and laser pulse duration Open
The photoacoustic effect in liquids, generated by metal nanoparticles excited with short laser pulses, offers high contrast imaging and promising medical treatment techniques. Understanding the role of the thermal boundary resistance (TBR)…
View article: Ultrafast energy transients at the nanoscale
Ultrafast energy transients at the nanoscale Open
The opto-thermal-mechanical dynamics of different nano-systems is studied through both an experimental and theoretical approach. In particular, thermal and mechanical energy exchanges between nano-objects and their environments are analyze…
View article: Ultrafast nano generation of acoustic waves in water via a single carbon nanotube
Ultrafast nano generation of acoustic waves in water via a single carbon nanotube Open
Generation of ultra high frequency acoustic waves in water is key to nano resolution sensing, acoustic imaging and theranostics. In this context water immersed carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may act as an ideal optoacoustic source, due to their n…
View article: Ultrafast Photoacoustic Nanometrology of InAs Nanowires Mechanical Properties
Ultrafast Photoacoustic Nanometrology of InAs Nanowires Mechanical Properties Open
InAs nanowires are emerging as go-to materials in avariety of applications ranging from optoelectronics to nano-electronics, yet a consensus on their mechanical properties is stilllacking. The mechanical properties of wurtzite InAs nanowir…
View article: Electron and Lattice Heating Contributions to the Transient Optical Response of a Single Plasmonic Nano-Object
Electron and Lattice Heating Contributions to the Transient Optical Response of a Single Plasmonic Nano-Object Open
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View article: Observation of quantum domain melting and its simulation with a quantum computer
Observation of quantum domain melting and its simulation with a quantum computer Open
Domains are homogeneous areas of discrete symmetry, created in nonequilibrium phase transitions. They are separated by domain walls, topological objects which prevent them from fusing together. Domains may reconfigure by thermally-driven m…
View article: Non-equilibrium quantum domain reconfiguration dynamics in a two-dimensional electronic crystal: experiments and quantum simulations
Non-equilibrium quantum domain reconfiguration dynamics in a two-dimensional electronic crystal: experiments and quantum simulations Open
Relaxation dynamics of complex many-body quantum systems brought out of equilibrium and subsequently trapped into metastable states is a very active field of research from both the theoretical and experimental point of view with implicatio…
View article: Energy efficient manipulation of topologically protected states in non-volatile ultrafast charge configuration memory devices
Energy efficient manipulation of topologically protected states in non-volatile ultrafast charge configuration memory devices Open
Non-volatile magnetic storage, from 1940s magnetic core to present day racetrack memory and magnetic anisotropy switching devices rely on the metastability of magnetic domains to store information. However, the inherent inefficiency of con…
View article: A time-domain phase diagram of metastable states in a charge ordered quantum material
A time-domain phase diagram of metastable states in a charge ordered quantum material Open
Metastable self-organized electronic states in quantum materials are of fundamental importance, displaying emergent dynamical properties that may be used in new generations of sensors and memory devices. Such states are typically formed th…
View article: Ultrafast Thermo-Optical Dynamics of a Single Metal Nano-Object
Ultrafast Thermo-Optical Dynamics of a Single Metal Nano-Object Open
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View article: Strain-Induced Metastable Topological Networks in Laser-Fabricated TaS<sub>2</sub> Polytype Heterostructures for Nanoscale Devices
Strain-Induced Metastable Topological Networks in Laser-Fabricated TaS<sub>2</sub> Polytype Heterostructures for Nanoscale Devices Open
The stacking of layered materials into heterostructures offers diverse possibilities for generating deformed moiré states arising from their mutual interaction. Here we report self-assembled two-dimensional nanoscale strain networks formed…
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Ultrafast Optical Control of the Electronic Properties of Open
We report on the temperature dependence of the ZrTe(5) electronic properties, studied at equilibrium and out of equilibrium, by means of time and angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Our results unveil the dependence of the electroni…