3 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2025
Twisted light drives chiral excitations of interacting electrons in nanostructures with magnetic field
F. J. Rodríguez, L. Quiroga, N. F. Johnson
Twisted light (TL), a special kind of light carrying orbital angular momentum, provides a powerful tool for driving symmetry resolved transitions in quantum confined nanostructures…
cond-mat.soft2025
Clifford algebras and liquid crystalline fermions
N. Johnson, L. C. Head, O. D. Lavrentovich +6
We show that Clifford algebras provide a natural language to describe the physics of liquid crystal defects in 3D. This framework shows that most of these defects have fermionic na…
quant-ph2021
A scalable helium gas cooling system for trapped-ion applications
Foni R. Lebrun-Gallagher, Nicholas Johnson, Mariam Akhtar +5
Microfabricated ion-trap devices offer a promising pathway towards scalable quantum computing. Research efforts have begun to focus on the engineering challenges associated with de…