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Recent development in integrated Lithium niobate photonics Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Zhenda Xie, Fang Bo, Jintian Lin, Hui Hu, Xinlun Cai, Xiao-Hui Tian, Zhiwei Fang, Jinming Chen, Min Wang, Feng Chen, Ya Cheng, JingJun Xu, Shining Zhu
The lithium niobate on insulator devices confine the light field to submicron size in monocrystalline lithium niobate, to achieve ultra-strong electro-optical interaction and nonlinear optical inte...
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Liquid metal phase change materials for thermal management of electronics Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yuchen Yao, Wei Li, Jing Liu, Zhongshan Deng
With the rapid development of various chips towards high performance and integration, the ‘thermal barrier’ difficulty facing electronic devices has become ever increasingly challenging, while at t...
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Quantum simulation in Fock-state lattices Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jiale Yuan, Han Cai, Da-Wei Wang
Fock-state lattices (FSLs) consist of the Fock states of photons and atoms, establishing a quantum photonic platform for simulating condensed matter physics. Remarkably, various topological phenome...
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Ramsey interferometry with cold atoms in coherent population trapping Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Chengyin Han, Bo Lu, Chaohong Lee
The utilization of Ramsey interferometry via coherent population trapping (CPT), which enables the optical interrogation of microwave transitions without the reliance on microwave cavities, plays a...
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High-resolution correlative imaging in ultrafast electron microscopy Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Ye-Jin Kim, Won-Woo Park, Hak-Won Nho, Oh-Hoon Kwon
Ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) has a broad scope of application across material systems and scientific disciplines. In UEM, we investigate multiscale dynamics in the spatial domain ranging fro...
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Multidimensional soliton systems Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Boris A. Malomed
This concise review aims to provide a summary of the most relevant recent experimental and theoretical results for solitons, i.e. self-trapped bound states of nonlinear waves, in two- and three-dim...
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Strategies and challenges for improving the performance of two-dimensional materials-based gas sensors Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Yuan Xie, Zhe Zhang, Fanying Meng, Shida Huo, Xiaodong Hu, Pingjuan Niu, Enxiu Wu
Two-dimensional (2D) materials emerged in the last decade have been considered as an attractive class of gas sensing materials due to their large surface-to-volume ratio, high surface reaction acti...
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A time for change Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-06
Published in Advances in Physics: X (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2024)
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Lattice-Boltzmann modelling for inertial particle microfluidics applications - a tutorial review Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Benjamin Owen, Konstantinos Kechagidis, Sajad Razavi Bazaz, Romain Enjalbert, Erich Essmann, Calum Mallorie, Fatemehsadat Mirghaderi, Christian Schaaf, Krishnaveni Thota, Rohan Vernekar, Qi Zhou, Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani, Holger Stark, Timm Krüger
Inertial particle microfluidics (IPMF) is an emerging technology for the manipulation and separation of microparticles and biological cells. Since the flow physics of IPMF is complex and experiment...
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Magneto-optical effects in lead halide perovskites Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Yan Lv, Yuxiao Wang, Xueying Ma, Yao Xu, Lin Wang, Xiaoyong Wang, Min Xiao, Chunfeng Zhang
Lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising semiconductors for high-performance photovoltaics, light-emitting devices as well as quantum information technologies. In this review, we highlight...
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Ultra-stable and versatile high-energy resolution setup for attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sizuo Luo, Robin Weissenbilder, Hugo Laurell, Mattias Ammitzböll, Vénus Poulain, David Busto, Lana Neoričić, Chen Guo, Shiyang Zhong, David Kroon, Richard J Squibb, Raimund Feifel, Mathieu Gisselbrecht, Anne L’Huillier, Cord L Arnold
ABSTRACT Attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy has opened up for studying light–matter interaction on ultrafast time scales. It is often performed with interferometric experimental setups that require outstanding stability. We demonstrate and characterize in detail an actively stabilized, versatile, high spectral resolution attosecond beamline based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The active stabilization
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External-field regulated superatoms Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Si-Qi Liu, De-Kang Li, Jun Li, Hao Wang, Yun-Ting Bu, Jie Su, Jing Chen, Shi-Bo Cheng
ABSTRACT As a special class of stable atomic clusters, the superatom has become an exciting research topic in recent decades. They can mimic the chemistry and physics of individual atoms in the periodic table and find potential applications in a variety of fields. Traditional strategies for superatom design, however, have their own limitations. Herein, we review recent progress in the discovery of
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Melting of atomic materials under high pressures using computer simulations Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Diana Yu, Elke Pahl
ABSTRACT Enormous progress has been made in high-pressure research over the last decades in both, experiments and computer simulations, many challenges still remain. This is evidenced by controversial experimental and numerical data even for the simplest atomic systems exhibiting different types of bonding. Here we discuss the determination of the solid–liquid co-existence (melting) lines reviewing
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Disordered optical metasurfaces: from light manipulation to energy harvesting Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Zixian Hu, Changxu Liu, Guixin Li
ABSTRACT Metasurfaces, the planar version of artificial structured media at sub-wavelength scale, provide the ability to manipulate light wave in a naturally unavailable way. They offer an unprecedented platform for a plethora of applications ranging from holography, imaging, optical communication to nonlinear light source and quantum computing. Conventionally and straightforwardly, metasurfaces are
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On spatial beam self-cleaning from the perspective of optical wave thermalization in multimode graded-index fibers Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Mario Ferraro, Fabio Mangini, Mario Zitelli, Stefan Wabnitz
ABSTRACT The input power-induced transformation of the transverse intensity profile at the output of graded-index multimode optical fibers from speckles into a bell-shaped beam sitting on a low intensity background is known as spatial beam self-cleaning. Its remarkable properties are the output beam brightness improvement and robustness to fiber bending and squeezing. These properties permit to overcome
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Extreme ultraviolet transient gratings Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 F. Bencivenga, F. Capotondi, L. Foglia, R. Mincigrucci, C. Masciovecchio
ABSTRACT The recent construction of free electron lasers allows extending laboratory-based laser experiments to shorter wavelengths, accessing wavevectors typical of nanoscale dynamics and adding element and chemical state specificity by exploiting electronic transitions from core levels. The high pulse energies available ensure that this new wavelength range can be advantageously used for nonlinear
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Atomic force microscopy and other scanning probe microscopy methods to study nanoscale domains in model lipid membranes Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Morgan Robinson, Carina T. Filice, Danielle M. McRae, Zoya Leonenko
ABSTRACT The cell membrane is a fundamental biological structure, which is only 6–10 nm thick. It is composed of hundreds of lipid types, which form small and dynamic lipid domains or rafts. These rafts are thought to be a major aspect of cell organization, to provide support for various transmembrane proteins and are central to the communication of cells with their environs. Understanding the functions
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Topological data analysis and machine learning Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Daniel Leykam, Dimitris G. Angelakis
ABSTRACT Topological data analysis refers to approaches for systematically and reliably computing abstract ‘shapes’ of complex data sets. There are various applications of topological data analysis in life and data sciences, with growing interest among physicists. We present a concise review of applications of topological data analysis to physics and machine learning problems in physics including the
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Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Sumukh Vaidya, Xingyu Gao, Saakshi Dikshit, Igor Aharonovich, Tongcang Li
ABSTRACT Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising candidates for a new wave of quantum applications. Thanks to hBN’s high stability and two-dimensional (2D) layered structure, color centers in hBN can be readily integrated into nanophotonic and plasmonic structures on a chip. More importantly, the recently discovered optically addressable spin defects in hBN
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Opportunities in the design of metal@oxide core-shell nanoparticles Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Paulo C. D. Mendes, Yizhen Song, Wenrui Ma, Terry Z. H. Gani, Kang Hui Lim, Sibudjing Kawi, Sergey M. Kozlov
ABSTRACT Nanoparticles composed of metallic cores encapsulated in oxide shells emerged in the last decade as an attractive class of nanocomposite materials due to their high stability and unique properties provided by the high contact area between the metal and oxide components. Diverse metal-oxide interactions in metal@oxide core@shell nanoparticles enable tuning their electronic structure, spectroscopic
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Quantum machine learning: from physics to software engineering Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Alexey Melnikov, Mohammad Kordzanganeh, Alexander Alodjants, Ray-Kuang Lee
ABSTRACT Quantum machine learning is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of quantum technology and artificial intelligence. This review provides a two-fold overview of several key approaches that can offer advancements in both the development of quantum technologies and the power of artificial intelligence. Among these approaches are quantum-enhanced algorithms, which apply quantum software
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Background signals in stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and current solutions to avoid them Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Luca Genchi, Sergey P. Laptenok, Carlo Liberale
ABSTRACT Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy has gained popularity in recent years due to its linearity to molecule concentration and laser intensity, and to the lack of the nonresonant background that affects its analogous technique, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. However, SRS is not a background-free technique. In fact, there are other optical processes – nonlinear transient scattering
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Atom electronics in single-molecule transistors: single-atom access and manipulation Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Yiping Ouyang, Feng Wang, Minhao Zhang, Yuyuan Qin, Yuan-Zhi Tan, Wei Ji, Fengqi Song
ABSTRACT The aim of atom electronics, i.e. the final scale of electronics, is to make use of specific individual atoms as active electronic components. Here, we review recent researches on atom electronics in single-molecule transistors (SMTs) through single-atom access and manipulation. We begin by describing the basic concepts and characteristics of atom electronics in SMTs, before discussing some
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Spin injection, relaxation, and manipulation in GaN-based semiconductors Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Zhenhao Sun, Ning Tang, Shixiong Zhang, Shuaiyu Chen, Xingchen Liu, Bo Shen
ABSTRACT GaN-based semiconductors are deemed to be a potential candidate for developing spintronic devices owing to the artificially controllable spin-orbit coupling and the high Curie temperature of GaN-based diluted magnetic semiconductors. Spin injection, spin relaxation dynamics, and spin manipulation are the key issues in the development of GaN-based spintronic devices, which have been reviewed
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Coupled spin cross-over and ferroelasticity: revisiting the prototype [Fe(ptz)6](BF4)2 material Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Eric Collet, Giovanni Azzolina, Jelena Jeftić, Marie-Hélène Lemée-Cailleau
ABSTRACT Spin-crossover (SCO) materials exhibit thermal conversion from low to high-spin states. We review different models developed to describe this entropy-driven process and the occurrence of cooperative conversions resulting from elastic interactions. There is a growing number of SCO materials exhibiting unusual thermal conversions when symmetry breaking occurs. To illustrate the importance of
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Brighter, faster, stronger: ultrafast scattering of free molecules Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Asami Odate, Adam Kirrander, Peter M. Weber, Michael P. Minitti
ABSTRACT Advances in FEL technologies have contributed remarkably to various scientific fields over the past decade, and ultrafast molecular dynamics is no exception. The ability to probe motions of the molecule via scattering provides uniquely direct structural information, which, when combined with traditional spectroscopic techniques of comparable temporal resolution, paints a holistic movie of
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QM/MM methods in studies of coinage metals: copper, silver, and gold interacting with biological and organic molecules Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 O. Lopez-Acevedo, D. Sucerquia
ABSTRACT A QM/MM method is an atomistic simulation algorithm that allows researchers to describe different regions of a system with different physical laws. Here, we review this hybrid method’s applications to the study of copper, silver, and gold atoms and clusters interacting with biological and organic molecules. In particular, we highlight efforts to characterize the relaxation process in a copper(I)
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Matrix mechanophysical factor: pore size governs the cell behavior in cancer Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Muhammad Saif Ur Rahman, Jiaen Wu, Hao Chen, Chengmei Sun, Ying Liu, Shanshan Xu
ABSTRACT Cancer tissues are a heterogeneously multifaceted assembly. Understanding the relationship of tumors with their microenvironment is also required to understand the tumor progression and metastasis better. Like tumors, the tumor microenvironment (TME) is heterogeneous, offering numerous mechanobiological, mechanochemical, and mechanophysical cues. Biomaterials impersonating extracellular matrix
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Optical simulation of various phenomena in curved space on photonic chips Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Chong Sheng, Shining Zhu, Hui Liu
ABSTRACT Transformation optics have been an essential paradigm to manipulate electromagnetic waves on the subwavelength scale and have brought various functional photonic architectures into integrated photonic chips. On the other hand, in the spirit of analogical thinking, classical and quantum simulations of general relativity have been extensively studied in diverse physical systems. In this review
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Water adsorption and dynamics on graphene and other 2D materials: computational and experimental advances Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 M. Sacchi, A. Tamtögl
ABSTRACT The interaction of water and surfaces, at molecular level, is of critical importance for understanding processes such as corrosion, friction, catalysis and mass transport. The significant literature on interactions with single crystal metal surfaces should not obscure unknowns in the unique behaviour of ice and the complex relationships between adsorption, diffusion and long-range inter-molecular
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Interatomic potentials: achievements and challenges Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Martin H. Müser, Sergey V. Sukhomlinov, Lars Pastewka
ABSTRACT Interatomic potentials approximate the potential energy of atoms as a function of their coordinates. Their main application is the effective simulation of many-atom systems. Here, we review empirical interatomic potentials designed to reproduce elastic properties, defect energies, bond breaking, bond formation, and even redox reactions. We discuss popular two-body potentials, embedded-atom
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Bulk strong matter: the trinity Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Xiaoyu Lai, Chengjun Xia, Renxin Xu
ABSTRACT Our world is wonderful because of the normal but negligibly small baryonic part (i.e. atoms) although unknown dark matter and dark energy dominate the Universe. A stable atomic nucleus could be simply termed as ‘strong matter’ since its nature is dominated by the fundamental strong interaction. Is there any other form of strong matter? Although nuclei are composed of 2-flavoured (i.e. up and
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Time-resolved experiments on gas-phase atoms and molecules with XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Daniel Rolles
ABSTRACT Over the last 20 years, XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled a wide variety of time-resolved experiments that have dramatically advanced our understanding of ultrafast molecular dynamics on atomic length scales and femtosecond time scales. This review focuses on experimental studies of ultrafast dynamics of atoms and molecules in the gas phase, tracing the development of the field
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Assessing membrane material properties from the response of giant unilamellar vesicles to electric fields Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Mina Aleksanyan, Hammad A. Faizi, Maria-Anna Kirmpaki, Petia M. Vlahovska, Karin A. Riske, Rumiana Dimova
ABSTRACT Knowledge of the material properties of membranes is crucial to understanding cell viability and physiology. A number of methods have been developed to probe membranes in vitro, utilizing the response of minimal biomimetic membrane models to an external perturbation. In this review, we focus on techniques employing giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), model membrane systems, often referred to
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Charge carrier dynamics in 2D materials probed by ultrafast THzspectroscopy Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Eugenio Cinquanta, Eva Arianna Aurelia Pogna, Lorenzo Gatto, Salvatore Stagira, Caterina Vozzi
ABSTRACT In this review, we discuss the rich ultrafast response at terahertz (THz) frequencies of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Thanks to their unique optoelectronic properties and exceptional tunability, van der Waals organic and inorganic 2D materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and 2D perovskites, are emerging as promising platforms for the development of nano-electronic
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Strain engineering in alloy nanoparticles Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Diana Nelli, Cesare Roncaglia, Chloé Minnai
ABSTRACT The deformation of interatomic distances with respect to those of the perfect crystal generates atomic-level strain. In nanoalloys, strain can arise because of finite size, morphology, domain structure and lattice mismatch between their atomic compounds. Strain can strongly affect the functional properties of nanoalloys, as it alters their electronic energy levels. Moreover, atomic-level strain
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Ultrafast dynamics in molecular ions following UV and XUV excitation: a perspective Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Marius Hervé, Alexie Boyer, Richard Brédy, Isabelle Compagnon, Franck Lépine
ABSTRACT Gas phase experiments combined with ultrafast technologies can provide information on the intrinsic properties of molecular systems at picosecond, femtosecond, or even attosecond timescales. However, these experiments are often limited to relatively simple model systems. In this context, electrospray ionization sources (ESI) have offered new perspectives as they allow to produce large or fragile
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A review on non-Hermitian skin effect Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Xiujuan Zhang, Tian Zhang, Ming-Hui Lu, Yan-Feng Chen
ABSTRACT The past decades have witnessed the flourishing of non-Hermitian physics in non-conservative systems, leading to unprecedented phenomena of unidirectional invisibility, enhanced sensitivity and more recently the novel topological features such as bulk Fermi arcs. Among them, growing efforts have been invested to an intriguing phenomenon, known as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Here
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Group III-V semiconductors as promising nonlinear integrated photonic platforms Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Kaustubh Vyas, Daniel H. G. Espinosa, Daniel Hutama, Shubhendra Kumar Jain, Rania Mahjoub, Ehsan Mobini, Kashif M. Awan, Jeff Lundeen, Ksenia Dolgaleva
ABSTRACT Group III–V semiconductors are based on the elements of groups III and V of the periodic table. The possibility to grow thin-films made of binary, ternary, and quaternary III–V alloys with different fractions of their constituent elements allows for the precise engineering of their optical properties. In addition, since many III–V compounds are direct-bandgap semiconductors, they are suitable
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William Shakespeare’s advice on our journal Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Richard E Palmer
Published in Advances in Physics: X (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2022)
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Ultrafast dynamics of electrons and phonons: from the two-temperature model to the time-dependent Boltzmann equation Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Fabio Caruso, Dino Novko
ABSTRACT The advent of pump-probe spectroscopy techniques paved the way to the exploration of ultrafast dynamics of electrons and phonons in crystalline solids. Following photo-absorption of a pump pulse and the initial electronic thermalization, the dynamics of electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom is dominated by electron-phonon and phonon-phonon scattering processes. The two-temperature
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Inelastic thermoelectric transport and fluctuations in mesoscopic systems Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Rongqian Wang, Chen Wang, Jincheng Lu, Jian-Hua Jiang
ABSTRACT In the past decade, a new research frontier emerges at the interface between physics and renewable energy, termed as inelastic thermoelectric effects, where inelastic transport processes play a key role. The study of inelastic thermoelectric effects broadens our understanding of thermoelectric phenomena and provides new routes towards high-performance thermoelectric energy conversion. Here
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Advances in nonlinear spectroscopy using phase modulated light fields: prospective applications in perturbative and non-perturbative regimes Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Khadga J. Karki, Marcelo F. Ciappina
ABSTRACT Since its first implementation in 2006, in fluorescence detected Fourier transform excitation spectroscopy of rubidium atoms, phase modulation is being increasingly used in nonlinear spectroscopy. Some of the important features of the technique are the excitation spectroscopy using signals that are relevant to photoactive devices (fluorescence and photocurrent), prospect of nonlinear spectroscopy
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Computational methods and theory for ion channel research Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 C. Guardiani, F. Cecconi, L. Chiodo, G. Cottone, P. Malgaretti, L. Maragliano, M. L. Barabash, G. Camisasca, M. Ceccarelli, B. Corry, R. Roth, A. Giacomello, B. Roux
ABSTRACT Ion channels are fundamental biological devices that act as gates in order to ensure selective ion transport across cellular membranes; their operation constitutes the molecular mechanism through which basic biological functions, such as nerve signal transmission and muscle contraction, are carried out. Here, we review recent results in the field of computational research on ion channels,
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Optical tweezers for a bottom-up assembly of few-atom systems Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Mikkel F. Andersen
ABSTRACT Tightly focused laser beams form optical tweezers that can hold and manipulate individual atoms. They give superb control over microscopic quantum systems and have paved the way for bottom up assembly of few-atom systems. Such assembled systems provide an ideal starting point for many fundamental studies of atomic interactions and few-atom phenomena. Here we review the present stage of these
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Electroosmosis in nanopores: computational methods and technological applications Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Alberto Gubbiotti, Matteo Baldelli, Giovanni Di Muccio, Paolo Malgaretti, Sophie Marbach, Mauro Chinappi
ABSTRACT Electroosmosis is a fascinating effect where liquid motion is induced by an applied electric field. Counter ions accumulate in the vicinity of charged surfaces, triggering a coupling between liquid mass transport and external electric field. In nanofluidic technologies, where surfaces play an exacerbated role, electroosmosis is thus of primary importance. Its consequences on transport properties
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Recent advances on time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform and its applications Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Thomas Godin, Lynn Sader, Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Pierre-Henry Hanzard, Ammar Hideur, David J. Moss, Roberto Morandotti, Goery Genty, John M. Dudley, Alessia Pasquazi, Michael Kues, Benjamin Wetzel
ABSTRACT The need to measure high repetition rate ultrafast processes cuts across multiple areas of science. The last decade has seen tremendous advances in the development and application of new techniques in this field, as well as many breakthrough achievements analyzing non-repetitive optical phenomena. Several approaches now provide convenient access to single-shot optical waveform characterization
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Quantum transport in topological nodal-line semimetals Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Min-Xue Yang, Wei Luo, Wei Chen
ABSTRACT Topological nodal-line semimetals offer an attractive research platform for exploring a variety of novel phenomena, which have attracted great research interest in the past decade. There are three unique features of the nodal-line semimetals: (i) band crossing along the closed loop that carries π Berry phase, (ii) torus-shaped Fermi surface as the Fermi energy deviates from the nodal loop
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Intrusion and extrusion of liquids in highly confining media: bridging fundamental research to applications Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Andrea Le Donne, Antonio Tinti, Eder Amayuelas, Hemant K. Kashyap, Gaia Camisasca, Richard C. Remsing, Roland Roth, Yaroslav Grosu, Simone Meloni
ABSTRACT Wetting and drying of pores or cavities, made by walls that attract or repel the liquid, is a ubiquitous process in nature and has many technological applications including, for example, liquid separation, chromatography, energy damping, conversion, and storage. Understanding under which conditions intrusion/extrusion takes place and how to control/tune them by chemical or physical means are
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Frequency domain interferometry for measuring ultrafast refractive index modulation and surface deformation Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Ronnie R. Tamming, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Kai Chen
ABSTRACT Ultrafast optical spectroscopy delivers unparalleled insights into the dynamic response of photoactive materials, including semiconducting, photonic and phase-change materials. The most applied experimental tool – transient absorption spectroscopy – derives signals from induced changes in the intensity of transmitted light, assumed to relate to the imaginary part of the refractive index. However
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Strong-field physics with nanospheres Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Lennart Seiffert, Sergey Zherebtsov, Matthias F. Kling, Thomas Fennel
ABSTRACT When intense laser fields interact with nanoscale targets, strong-field physics meets plasmonic near-field enhancement and subwavelength localization of light. Photoemission spectra reflect the associated attosecond optical and electronic response and encode the collisional and collective dynamics of the solid. Nanospheres represent an ideal platform to explore the underlying attosecond nanophysics
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Berry phase in quantum oscillations of topological materials Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Weiyao Zhao, Xiaolin Wang
ABSTRACT Quantum oscillation is an important phenomenon in low temperature transport studies of topological materials. In three-dimensional topological insulators, Dirac semimetals, Weyl semimetals, and other topological nontrivial materials, the topologically nontrivial band structure will add a phase correction to the quantum oscillation patterns, which is known as the nontrivial Berry phase. Berry
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Properties and applications of quantum dots derived from two-dimensional materials Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Hazem Abdelsalam, Qin Fang Zhang
ABSTRACT Quantum dots based on two-dimensional materials (2D-QDs) have received significant attention due to their exceptional physical, chemical, and biological properties. They have shown unprecedented performance and efficiency in many fields including electronics, spintronics, energy, water treatment, sensors, and biological applications. This article provides a critical review on the recent progress
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Electromagnetically induced transparency quantum memory for non-classical states of light Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Xing Lei, Lixia Ma, Jieli Yan, Xiaoyu Zhou, Zhihui Yan, Xiaojun Jia
ABSTRACT Quantum memory (QM) enables quantum state mapping between flying and stationary quantum states and is the building block of quantum information science, which enables to achieve a plethora of quantum information protocols, such as quantum state transfer across remote quantum nodes, distributed quantum logic gate, and quantum precession measurement network. Great progresses of quantum memories
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Atomic scale switches based on solid state ionics Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Kazuya Terabe, Takashi Tsuchiya, Tohru Tsuruoka
ABSTRACT The atomic scale switch, which operates on the principle of solid-state ionics, is an ultrafine device that takes advantage of the fact that the properties of materials can be changed significantly by the transport and chemical reaction of a small number of ions in a solid. The switch (e.g. ‘atomic switch’) actually works by using an ion-conducting solid electrolyte or an ion-/electron-conducting
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Physical mechanisms underpinning conductometric gas sensing properties of metal oxide nanostructures Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Renaud Leturcq, Rutuja Bhusari, Emanuele Barborini
ABSTRACT In the domain of gas sensing, metal oxide nanostructures have been demonstrated to have very attractive properties due to their large surface-over-volume ratio, combined with the possibility to use multiple materials and multi-functional properties. Here, we review the basic physical principles underlying the transducer function of metal oxide nanostructures, from single nanostructures to
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Quasi-one-dimensional topological material Bi4X4(X=Br,I) Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Junfeng Han, Wende Xiao, Yugui Yao
ABSTRACT Bismuth halogenides, a family of quasi-one-dimensional (1D) materials, including α and α phases of Bi4Br4 and Bi4I4, have been predicted to exhibit rich and interesting topological properties. The single layer of Bi4Br4 was demonstrated to be a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) with a 0.18 eV gap. Such a band gap is large enough for the observation of QSHI at room temperature. Bulk α-Bi4Br4
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Characterization of metal-organic frameworks by transmission electron microscopy Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Jialin Zhang, Ningyan Cheng, Binghui Ge
ABSTRACT To address the increasing energy consumption and serious environmental problems, it is critical to develop efficient and clean energy conversion and storage devices. Among various categories of materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are one of the promising candidates that can realize the practical application of these devices. Therefore, it has been recognized that revealing the comp
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Deep learning for topological photonics Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Jooyeong Yun, Seokwoo Kim, Sunae So, Minkyung Kim, Junsuk Rho
ABSTRACT In this paper, we review the specific field that combines topological photonics and deep learning (DL). Recent progress of topological photonics has attracted enormous interest for its novel and exotic properties such as unidirectional propagation of electromagnetic waves and robust manipulation of photons. These phenomena are expected to meet the growing demands of next-generation nanophotonic
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Magnetoelectricity in two-dimensional materials Adv. Phys. X (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Yile Yīng, Ulrich Zülicke
ABSTRACT Since the initial isolation of few-layer graphene, a plethora of two-dimensional atomic crystals has become available, covering almost all known materials types including metals, semiconductors, superconductors, ferro- and antiferromagnets. These advances have augmented the already existing variety of two-dimensional materials that are routinely realized by quantum confinement in bulk-semiconductor