2 papers
physics.class-ph2026
A tabletop demonstration of distributed friction: the spinning wine glass
Ruben Canora
When a wine glass is dragged on a table along a circular path, a spontaneous rotation about its vertical axis can develop even if the applied hand force does not directly introduce…
physics.optics2025
Engineering nonlinear activation functions for all-optical neural networks via quantum interference
Ruben Canora, Xinzhe Xu, Ziqi Niu +2
All-optical neural networks (AONNs) promise transformative gains in speed and energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) by leveraging the intrinsic parallelism and wave na…