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Theory of photoemission from cathodes with disordered surfaces

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
P. Saha
O. Chubenko
Kevin Nangoi
Tomas Arias
E. Montgomery
S. Poddar
H.A. Padmore
S. Karkare
Abstract

Linear-accelerator-based applications like x-ray free electron lasers, ultrafast electron diffraction, electron beam cooling, and energy recovery linacs use photoemission-based cathodes in photoinjectors for electron sources. Most of these photocathodes are typically grown as polycrystalline materials with disordered surfaces. In order to understand the mechanism of photoemission from such cathodes and completely exploit their photoemissive properties, it is important to develop a photoemission formalism that properly describes the subtleties of these cathodes.

Journal
Journal of Applied Physics
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Tomas Arias Group

Steering self-organisation through confinement

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
N.A.M. Araújo
L.M.C. Janssen
T. Barois
G. Boffetta
Itai Cohen
A. Corbetta
O. Dauchot
M. Dijkstra
W.M. Durham
A. Dussutour
S. Garnier
H. Gelderblom
R. Golestanian
L. Isa
G.H. Koenderink
H. Löwen
R. Metzler
M. Polin
C.P. Royall
A. Šarić
A. Sengupta
C. Sykes
V. Trianni
I. Tuval
N. Vogel
J.M. Yeomans
I. Zuriguel
A. Marin
G. Volpe
Abstract

Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in very different systems and scientific disciplines, from physics, materials science and robotics to biology, geophysics and astronomy. Recent research has highlighted how self-organisation can be both mediated and controlled by confinement.

Journal
Soft Matter
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Itai Cohen Group

A Drift-Diffusion Based Modeling and Optimization Framework for Nanoscale Spin-Orbit Torque Devices

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
Piyush Kumar
Yu-Ching Liao
Daniel Ralph
Azad Naeemi
Abstract

We present a comprehensive set of experimentally validated/calibrated models that capture the physics of the nanoscale spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices. We consider various effects that are prominent at nanoscale including incomplete current redistribution, interface spin mixing, and nonuniform resistivity that were ignored in the prior modeling efforts. We develop a formalism based on drift-diffusion equations and the transfer matrix method to accurately estimate spin current distribution.

Journal
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Dan C. Ralph Group

Exciton density waves in Coulomb-coupled dual moiré lattices

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
Y. Zeng
Z. Xia
R. Dery
K. Watanabe
T. Taniguchi
J. Shan
K.F. Mak
Abstract

Strongly correlated bosons in a lattice are a platform that can realize rich bosonic states of matter and quantum phase transitions1. While strongly correlated bosons in a lattice have been studied in cold-atom experiments2–4, their realization in a solid-state system has remained challenging5. Here we trap interlayer excitons–bosons composed of bound electron–hole pairs, in a lattice provided by an angle-aligned WS2/bilayer WSe2/WS2 multilayer. The heterostructure supports Coulomb-coupled triangular moiré lattices of nearly identical period at the top and bottom interfaces.

Journal
Nature Materials
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Jie Shan Group
Kin Fai Mak Group

Machine learning discovery of new phases in programmable quantum simulator snapshots

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
C. Miles
R. Samajdar
S. Ebadi
T.T. Wang
H. Pichler
S. Sachdev
M.D. Lukin
M. Greiner
K.Q. Weinberger
Eun-Ah Kim
Abstract

Machine learning has recently emerged as a promising approach for studying complex phenomena characterized by rich datasets. In particular, data-centric approaches lead to the possibility of automatically discovering structures in experimental datasets that manual inspection may miss. Here, we introduce an interpretable unsupervised-supervised hybrid machine learning approach, the hybrid-correlation convolutional neural network (hybrid-CCNN), and apply it to experimental data generated using a programmable quantum simulator based on Rydberg atom arrays.

Journal
Physical Review Research
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Eun-Ah Kim Group

Fractionalization and Topology in Amorphous Electronic Solids

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
S. Kim
A. Agarwala
Debanjan Chowdhury
Abstract

Band topology is traditionally analyzed in terms of gauge-invariant observables associated with crystalline Bloch wave functions. Recent work has demonstrated that many of the free fermion topological characteristics survive even in an amorphous setting. In this Letter, we extend these studies to incorporate the effect of strong repulsive interactions on the fate of topology and other correlation induced phenomena.

Journal
Physical Review Letters
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Debanjan Chowdhury Group

Supercooling of the A phase of 3He

Author
Y. Tian
D. Lotnyk
A. Eyal
K. Zhang
N. Zhelev
T.S. Abhilash
A. Chavez
E.N. Smith
M. Hindmarsh
J. Saunders
E. Mueller
J.M. Parpia
Abstract

Because of the extreme purity, lack of disorder, and complex order parameter, the first-order superfluid 3He A–B transition is the leading model system for first order transitions in the early universe. Here we report on the path dependence of the supercooling of the A phase over a wide range of pressures below 29.3 bar at nearly zero magnetic field. The A phase can be cooled significantly below the thermodynamic A–B transition temperature.

Journal
Nature Communications
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Erich Mueller Group
Jeevak Parpia Group

Intermediate-scale theory for electrons coupled to frustrated local moments

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
A.J. McRoberts
J.F. Méndez-Valderrama
R. Moessner
Debanjan Chowdhury
Abstract

A classic route for destroying long-lived electronic quasiparticles in a weakly interacting Fermi liquid is to couple them to other low-energy degrees of freedom that effectively act as a bath. We consider here the problem of electrons scattering off the spin fluctuations of a geometrically frustrated antiferromagnet, whose nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz dynamics, which remains nontrivial at all temperatures, we model in detail.

Journal
Physical Review B
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Debanjan Chowdhury Group

Determining biomolecular structures near room temperature using X-ray crystallography: Concepts, methods and future optimization

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
R.E. Thorne
Abstract

For roughly two decades, cryocrystallography has been the overwhelmingly dominant method for determining high-resolution biomolecular structures.

Journal
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Robert Thorne Group

Material normal energy distribution for field emission analyses from monocrystalline surfaces

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)
Author
J.I. Mann
Y. Li
J.K. Nangoi
Tomas Arias
J.B. Rosenzweig
Abstract

Electron field emission is a complicated phenomenon which is sensitive not only to the particular material under illumination but also to the specific crystalline orientation of the surface. Summarizing the ability for a crystal to emit in a particular direction would be of great use when searching for good field emitters. In this paper we propose a material normal energy distribution which describes the ability of the bound electrons to tunnel under an intense electric field.

Conference Name
Journal of Physics Conference Series
Date Published
Group (Lab)
Tomas Arias Group