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A two-site Kitaev chain in a two-dimensional electron gas
Artificial Kitaev chains can be used to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs) in superconductor–semiconductor hybrids1–4. In this work, we realize a two-site Kitaev chain in a two-dimensional electron gas by coup...
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Open AccessMultimodal decoding of error processing in a virtual reality flight simulation
Technological advances in head-mounted displays (HMDs) facilitate the acquisition of physiological data of the user, such as gaze, pupil size, or heart rate. Still, interactions with such systems can be prone ...
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Grenzerosionen – Auf der Suche nach einer neuen Sprache
Ausgehend von zunehmenden Spaltungen (in) der Gesellschaft setzt sich der Beitrag mit der Frage nach Möglichkeiten einer Überwindung von Ausschlüssen durch Grenzziehungen auseinander, die aus Unterscheidungspr...
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Realization of a minimal Kitaev chain in coupled quantum dots
Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states can arise at the ends of a s...
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Der unbedingte Mensch. Die Zukunft der Perfektionierung und die Perfektionierung der Zukunft
Ausgehend von der Differenzierung zwischen Selbstoptimierung und historisch wie systematisch anderen Praktiken der Menschenverbesserung sowie ihrer jeweils zugrund liegenden Selbstverständnisse der technischen...
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Integrating AEC Domain-Specific Multidisciplinary Knowledge for Informed and Interactive Feedback in Early Design Stages
In the context of digitalization in the industry, a variety of technologies has been developed for system integration and enhanced team collaboration in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) ind...
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Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well as high-transition-temperature, d-wa...
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Open AccessFast occlusion-based point cloud exploration
Large-scale unstructured point cloud scenes can be quickly visualized without prior reconstruction by utilizing levels-of-detail structures to load an appropriate subset from out-of-core storage for rendering ...
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Points2Surf Learning Implicit Surfaces from Point Clouds
A key step in any scanning-based asset creation workflow is to convert unordered point clouds to a surface. Classical methods (e.g., Poisson reconstruction) start to degrade in the presence of noisy and partia...
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Open AccessNext steps of quantum transport in Majorana nanowire devices
Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could, in principle,...
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Installation Space and Temperature Reduction for the USB Customer Interface in Vehicles
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Reduzierung von Bauraum und Temperatur bei USB-Schnittstellen in Fahrzeugen
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Virtual Archaeoastronomy: Stellarium for Research and Outreach
In the last few years, the open-source desktop planetarium program Stellarium has become ever more popular for research and dissemination of results in Cultural Astronomy.
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Some Remarks on the Context and the Current State of Arts Education Research in Austria
This paper is divided into two parts. The first part presents an overview of the societal, political and cultural context of arts education. Taking a historical perspective, there is a particular focus on inte...
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Ray Traced Shadows: Maintaining Real-Time Frame Rates
Efficient and accurate shadow computation is a long-standing problem in computer graphics. In real-time applications, shadows have traditionally been computed using the rasterization-based pipeline. With recen...
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Open AccessA VR-based user study on the effects of vision impairments on recognition distances of escape-route signs in buildings
In workplaces or publicly accessible buildings, escape routes are signposted according to official norms or international standards that specify distances, angles and areas of interest for the positioning of e...
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Optimization and Evaluation of a High-Performance Open-Source Map-Matching Implementation
Map matching, i.e. matching a moving entity’s position trajectory to an underlying transport network, is a crucial functionality of many location-based services. During the last decade, numerous map-matching a...
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Open AccessBallistic superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires
Semiconductor nanowires have opened new research avenues in quantum transport owing to their confined geometry and electrostatic tunability. They have offered an exceptional testbed for superconductivity, lead...
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Forced Random Sampling: fast generation of importance-guided blue-noise samples
In computer graphics, stochastic sampling is frequently used to efficiently approximate complex functions and integrals. The error of approximation can be reduced by distributing samples according to an import...
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Real-time rendering of glossy materials with regular sampling
Rendering view-dependent, glossy surfaces to increase the realism in real-time applications is a computationally complex task, that can only be performed by applying some approximations—especially when immedia...
