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Open AccessFinding defects in glasses through machine learning
Structural defects control the kinetic, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of glasses. For instance, rare quantum tunneling two-level systems (TLS) govern the physics of glasses at very low temperature. D...
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Open AccessQuantum simulation of exact electron dynamics can be more efficient than classical mean-field methods
Quantum algorithms for simulating electronic ground states are slower than popular classical mean-field algorithms such as Hartree–Fock and density functional theory but offer higher accuracy. Accordingly, qua...
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Open AccessUltrafast imaging of polariton propagation and interactions
Semiconductor excitations can hybridize with cavity photons to form exciton-polaritons (EPs) with remarkable properties, including light-like energy flow combined with matter-like interactions. To fully harnes...
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Open AccessQuantum dynamical effects of vibrational strong coupling in chemical reactivity
Recent experiments suggest that ground state chemical reactivity can be modified when placing molecular systems inside infrared cavities where molecular vibrations are strongly coupled to electromagnetic radia...
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Open AccessEvaluating the evidence for exponential quantum advantage in ground-state quantum chemistry
Due to intense interest in the potential applications of quantum computing, it is critical to understand the basis for potential exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry. Here we gather the evidence ...
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Modern computational studies of the glass transition
The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have been studied numericall...
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Targeted activation in localized protein environments via deep red photoredox catalysis
State-of-the-art photoactivation strategies in chemical biology provide spatiotemporal control and visualization of biological processes. However, using high-energy light (λ < 500 nm) for substrate or photocataly...
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Open AccessUnbiasing fermionic quantum Monte Carlo with a quantum computer
Interacting many-electron problems pose some of the greatest computational challenges in science, with essential applications across many fields. The solutions to these problems will offer accurate predictions...
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Open AccessPhonon-induced disorder in dynamics of optically pumped metals from nonlinear electron-phonon coupling
The non-equilibrium dynamics of matter excited by light may produce electronic phases, such as laser-induced high-transition-temperature superconductivity, that do not exist in equilibrium. Here we simulate th...
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Open AccessVacancy control in acene blends links exothermic singlet fission to coherence
The fission of singlet excitons into triplet pairs in organic materials holds great technological promise, but the rational application of this phenomenon is hampered by a lack of understanding of its complex ...
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Open AccessRevisiting the concept of activation in supercooled liquids
In this work, we revisit the description of dynamics based on the concepts of metabasins and activation in mildly supercooled liquids via the analysis of the dynamics of a paradigmatic glass former between its...
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Superatomic solid solutions
In atomic solids, substitutional do** of atoms into the lattice of a material to form solid solutions is one of the most powerful approaches to modulating its properties and has led to the discovery of vario...
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Open AccessDynamic emission Stokes shift and liquid-like dielectric solvation of band edge carriers in lead-halide perovskites
Lead-halide perovskites have emerged as promising materials for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications. Their significantly anharmonic lattice motion, in contrast to conventional harmonic semiconductors,...
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Momentum-space indirect interlayer excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide van der Waals heterostructures
Monolayers of transition-metal dichalcogenides feature exceptional optical properties that are dominated by tightly bound electron–hole pairs, called excitons. Creating van der Waals heterostructures by determ...
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Single-crystal-to-single-crystal intercalation of a low-bandgap superatomic crystal
The controlled introduction of impurities into the crystal lattice of solid-state compounds is a cornerstone of materials science. Intercalation, the insertion of guest atoms, ions or molecules between the ato...
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Open AccessCoulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials
The ability to control the size of the electronic bandgap is an integral part of solid-state technology. Atomically thin two-dimensional crystals offer a new approach for tuning the energies of the electronic ...
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Transient superconductivity from electronic squeezing of optically pumped phonons
Advances in light sources and time-resolved spectroscopy have made it possible to excite specific atomic vibrations in solids and to observe the resulting changes in electronic properties, but the mechanism by...
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Observation of biexcitons in monolayer WSe2
Strong many-body Coulomb interactions allow for bound two- and three-body excitonic states to form in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, but it is now shown that such interactions are strong enough to...
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Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide
Recent progress in large-area synthesis of monolayer molybdenum disulphide, a new two-dimensional direct-bandgap semiconductor, is paving the way for applications in atomically thin electronics. Little is know...
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The promoter-search mechanism of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase is dominated by three-dimensional diffusion
The transcription machinery must locate specific promoter sequences among a vast excess of nonspecific DNA. Real-time single-molecule experiments with E. coli RNA polymerase, combined with theoretical calculation...
