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20072023
most citedOutlook for inverse design in nanophotonics

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physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Can photonic heterostructures provably outperform single-material geometries?

Alessio Amaolo, Pengning Chao, Thomas J. Maldonado +2

Recent advances in photonic optimization have enabled calculation of performance bounds for a wide range of electromagnetic objectives, albeit restricted to single-material systems…

physics.optics2023

Fundamental limits on second harmonic generation

Jewel Mohajan, Pengning Chao, Weiliang Jin +2

Recent advances in fundamental performance limits for power quantities based on Lagrange duality are proving to be a powerful theoretical tool for understanding electromagnetic wav…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Charge-State Stability of Color Centers in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors

Rodrick Kuate Defo, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Steven L. Richardson

The NV color center in diamond has been extensively investigated for quantum sensing, computation, and communication applications. Nonetheless, charge-state decay from the NV$^…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 2 cited

Negative electrohydrostatic pressure between superconducting bodies

Thomas J. Maldonado, Dung N. Pham, Alessio Amaolo +2

By applying a hydrodynamic representation of non-relativistic scalar electrodynamics to the superconducting order parameter, we predict a negative (attractive) pressure between pla…

physics.optics2022

Maximum Electromagnetic Local Density of States via Material Structuring

Pengning Chao, Rodrick Kuate Defo, Sean Molesky +1

The electromagnetic local density of states (LDOS) is crucial to many aspects of photonics engineering, from enhancing emission of photon sources to radiative heat transfer and pho…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 6 cited

Controlling local thermal states in classical many-body systems

Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Alejandro W. Rodriguez

The process of thermalization in many-body systems is driven by complex interactions among sub-systems and with the surrounding environment. Here we lay the theoretical foundations…