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Electromechanics of Suspended Spiral Capacitors and Inductors
Most electromechanical devices are in two-dimensional metallic drums under
high tensile stress, which causes increased mechanical frequency and quality
factor. However, high mechanical frequencies lead to small zero-point
displacements , which limits the single-photon interaction rate
. For applications which demand large , any design with increased
is desirable. It is shown that a patterned drum by spiral shape
can resolve this difficulty, which is obtained by a reduction of mechanical
frequency while the motion mass is kept almost constant. An order of magnitude
increase in , and agreement between simulations and interferometric
measurements is observed
Third-order Optical Nonlinearity in Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
We present a detailed calculation of the linear and nonlinear optical
response of four types of monolayer Two-Dimensional (2D) Transition-Metal
Dichalcogenides (TMDCs), having the formula with M=Mo,W and
X=S,Se. The calculations are based on 6-band tight-binding model of TMDCs, and
then performing a semiclassical perturbation analysis of response functions. We
numerically calculate the linear and
nonlinear surface susceptibility tensors with
. Both non-degenerate and degenerate
cases are studied for third-harmonic generation and nonlinear refractive index,
respectively. Computational results obtained \textit{with no external fitting
parameters} are discussed regarding two recent reported experiments on , and thus we can confirm the extraordinarily strong optical
nonlinearity of TMDCs. As a possible application, we demonstrate generation of
a rotated squeezed state by means of nonlinear response of
TMDCs, in a silica micro-disk resonator covered with the 2D material. Our
proposed method will enable accurate calculations of nonlinear optical
response, such as four-wave mixing and high-harmonic generation in 2D materials
and their heterostructures, thus enabling study of novel functionalities of 2D
photonic integrated circuits
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Community-level Monitoring of HIV Spread
Health departments are using HIV data to monitor HIV growth in real time. The main purpose of this monitoring is to come up with policies for efficient allocation of medical resources. In order to achieve the efficient medical resources allocation, a method should be established for predicting where future transmissions of HIV will occur using the partial information of the transmission history. Validity of these predictions are of paramount importance as it affects the policy for allocation of medical resources. Indeed, the more accurate the prediction is, the more efficiently preventive care or other resources can be allocated to the network.The focus of this work is on community-level monitoring of HIV spread prevention. We have modeled the sexual network as communities of individuals and proposed community-level methods for prediction. Then, we have compared predictive power of the proposed methods in different settings of the network
CUBIT: Capacitive qUantum BIT
In this letter, it is proposed that cryogenic quantum bits can operate based
on the nonlinearity due to the quantum capacitance of two-dimensional Dirac
materials, and in particular graphene. The anharmonicity of a typical
superconducting quantum bit is calculated, and the sensitivity of quantum bit
frequency and anharmonicity with respect to temperature are found. Reasonable
estimates reveal that a careful fabrication process can reveal expected
properties, putting the context of quantum computing hardware into new
perspectives.Comment: Published: 2 July 201
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