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astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

The generation and transformation of polarisation signals in molecular lines through collective anisotropic resonant scattering

Martin Houde, Boy Lankhaar, Fereshteh Rajabi +1

We discuss the existence of elliptical polarisation in rotational spectral lines of CO and other molecules within the context of the Anisotropic Resonant Scattering (ARS) model. We…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Probing the electron-to-proton mass ratio gradient in the Milky Way with class I methanol masers

S. A. Levshakov, I. I. Agafonova, C. Henkel +4

We estimate limits on non-universal coupling of hypothetical hidden fields to standard matter by evaluating the fractional changes in the electron-to-proton mass ratio, mu = m_e/m_…

cs.IT2021

Capacity Bounds under Imperfect Polarization Tracking

Mohammad Farsi, Magnus Karlsson, Erik Agrell

In optical fiber communication, due to the random variation of the environment, the state of polarization (SOP) fluctuates randomly with time leading to distortion and performance…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Structural and spectral properties of Galactic plane variable radio sources

Jun Yang, Yongjun Chen, Leonid I. Gurvits +4

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 26 cited

Observational identification of a sample of likely recent Common-Envelope Events

Theo Khouri, Wouter Vlemmings, Daniel Tafoya +5

One of the most poorly understood stellar evolutionary paths is that of binary systems undergoing common-envelope evolution, when the envelope of a giant star engulfs the orbit of…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 32 cited

Combined unitary and symmetric group approach applied to low-dimensional spin systems

Werner Dobrautz, Vamshi M. Katukuri, Nikolay A. Bogdanov +3

A novel combined unitary and symmetric group approach is used to study the spin- Heisenberg model and related Fermionic systems in a spin-adapted representation, using…

hep-th2021★ 9 cited

Teleparallelism in the algebraic approach to extended geometry

Martin Cederwall, Jakob Palmkvist

Extended geometry is based on an underlying tensor hierarchy algebra. We extend the previously considered structure of the local symmetries (the diffeomorphisms and thei…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 38 cited

ATOMIUM: ALMA tracing the origins of molecules in dust forming oxygen rich M-type stars: Motivation, sample, calibration, and initial results

C. A. Gottlieb, L. Decin, A. M. S. Richards +33

This overview paper presents ATOMIUM, a Large Programme in Cycle 6 with the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA). The goal of ATOMIUM is to understand the dynamics a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Microwave susceptibility observation of interacting many-body Andreev states

V. Fatemi, P. D. Kurilovich, M. Hays +10

Electrostatic charging affects the many-body spectrum of Andreev states, yet its influence on their microwave properties has not been elucidated. We developed a circuit quantum ele…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 161 cited

Formation of moiré interlayer excitons in space and time

David Schmitt, Jan Philipp Bange, Wiebke Bennecke +11

Moiré superlattices in atomically thin van-der-Waals heterostructures hold great promise for an extended control of electronic and valleytronic lifetimes, the confinement of excito…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

Apercal -- The Apertif Calibration Pipeline

B. Adebahr, R. Schulz, T. J. Dijkema +33

Apertif (APERture Tile In Focus) is one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder facilities. The Apertif project is an upgrade to the 50-year-old Westerbork Synthesis Radio T…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 118 cited

Charge and spin order dichotomy in NdNiO driven by SrTiO capping layer

G. Krieger, L. Martinelli, S. Zeng +10

Superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates holds exciting analogies with that of cuprates, with similar structures and -electron count. Using resonant inelastic x-ray scatt…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 1 cited

Nanomechanics driven by the superconducting proximity effect

O. M. Bahrova, S. I. Kulinich, L. Y. Gorelik +2

We consider a nanoelectromechanical weak link composed of a carbon nanotube suspended above a trench in a normal metal electrode and positioned in a gap between two superconducting…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 74 cited

GJ 367b: A dense ultra-short period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star

Kristine W. F. Lam, Szilárd Csizmadia, Nicola Astudillo-Defru +75

Ultra-short-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than one day. Precise masses and radii of USPs could provide constraints on their unknown formation and evolution p…

quant-ph2021★ 20 cited

Multipartite entanglement in a microwave frequency comb

Shan W. Jolin, Gustav Andersson, J. C. Rivera Hernández +6

Significant progress has been made with multipartite entanglement of discrete qubits, but continuous variable systems may provide a more scalable path toward entanglement of large…

physics.app-ph2021★ 23 cited

Terahertz Frequency Domain Sensing for Fast Porosity Measurement of Pharmaceutical Tablets

Anis Moradikouchi, Anders Sparén, Staffan Folestad +2

Porosity is an important property of pharmaceutical tablets since it may affect tablet disintegration, dissolution, and bio-availability. It is, therefore, essential to establish n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 12 cited

Honeycomb Layered Oxides With Silver Atom Bilayers and Emergence of Non-Abelian SU(2) Interactions

Titus Masese, Godwill Mbiti Kanyolo, Yoshinobu Miyazaki +15

Honeycomb layered oxides with monovalent or divalent, monolayered cationic lattices generally exhibit myriad crystalline features encompassing rich electrochemistry, geometries and…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 30 cited

Evidence of nodal superconductivity in monolayer 1H-TaS with hidden order fluctuations

Viliam Vaňo, Somesh Chandra Ganguli, Mohammad Amini +6

Unconventional superconductors represent one of the fundamental directions in modern quantum materials research. In particular, nodal superconductors are known to appear naturally…

quant-ph2021★ 21 cited

The XYZ hexagonal stabilizer code

Basudha Srivastava, Anton Frisk Kockum, Mats Granath

We consider a topological stabilizer code on a honeycomb grid, the "XYZ" code. The code is inspired by the Kitaev honeycomb model and is a simple realization of a "matching cod…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 5 cited

NIR jets from a clustered region of massive star formation: Morphology and composition in the IRAS 18264-1152 region

A. R. Costa Silva, R. Fedriani, J. C. Tan +6

Massive stars form deeply embedded in their parental clouds, making it challenging to directly observe these stars and their immediate environments. It is known that accretion and…

math.AG2021

Partial Okounkov bodies and Duistermaat--Heckman measures of non-Archimedean metrics

Mingchen Xia

Let be a smooth projective variety. We construct partial Okounkov bodies associated to Hermitian pseudo-effective line bundles on . We show that partial Okounkov bod…

quant-ph2021★ 96 cited

Building Blocks of a Flip-Chip Integrated Superconducting Quantum Processor

Sandoko Kosen, Hang-Xi Li, Marcus Rommel +24

We have integrated single and coupled superconducting transmon qubits into flip-chip modules. Each module consists of two chips -- one quantum chip and one control chip -- that are…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Error-rate-agnostic decoding of topological stabilizer codes

Karl Hammar, Alexei Orekhov, Patrik Wallin Hybelius +4

Efficient high-performance decoding of topological stabilizer codes has the potential to crucially improve the balance between logical failure rates and the number and individual e…

cs.RO2021★ 161 cited

A Survey of Robot Manipulation in Contact

Markku Suomalainen, Yiannis Karayiannidis, Ville Kyrki

In this survey, we present the current status on robots performing manipulation tasks that require varying contact with the environment, such that the robot must either implicitly…