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Millisecond-time-scale Controlled Freeze-quench for Solute-intermediate Analysis by Solid-state Nmr

Crystallization is a fundamental process in biomineralization, yet its complexity increases significantly in non-classical pathways of nucleation and growth, where numerous intermediates exist between free ions in solution and the final crystalline phase. ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

A setup for hard x-ray time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at SwissFEL

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Michele Puppin, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy, Hui-Yuan Chen, Rolf Baldwin Versteeg

We present a new setup for resonant inelastic hard x-ray scattering at the Bernina beamline of SwissFEL with energy, momentum, and temporal resolution. The compact R = 0.5 m Johann-type spectrometer can be equipped with up to three crystal analyzers and al ...

Aip Publishing2024

Observation of muonic Dalitz decays of chib mesons and precise spectroscopy of hidden-beauty states

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Sebastian Schulte, Donal Patrick Hill, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Serhii Cholak, Ettore Zaffaroni, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Federico Ronchetti, Radoslav Marchevski, Anni Matilda Kauniskangas, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Raphaël van Laak, Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt, Brianna Leililani Thielen, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Gianluca Zunica, Abdul-Kerim Guseinov, Esteban Curras Rivera, Roberto Ribatti, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez, Rita De Sousa Ataíde Da Silva

The decays of the χb1(1P), χb2(1P), χb1(2P) and χb2(2P) mesons into the Υ(1S)μ+μ− final state are observed with a high significance using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1. ...

Springer Nature2024

Combined search for electroweak production of winos, binos, higgsinos, and sleptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk

A combination of the results of several searches for the electroweak production of the supersymmetric partners of standard model bosons, and of charged leptons, is presented. All searches use proton-proton collision data at root s = 13 TeV recorded with th ...

American Physical Society2024

ABC transporters are billion-year-old Maxwell Demons

Paolo De Los Rios, Daniel Maria Busiello, Stefano Zamuner, Solange Marie Flatt

ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters are a broad family of biological machines, found in most prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, performing the crucial import or export of substrates through both plasma and organellar membranes, and maintaining a steady ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Development of a multi-channel gamma-blind fast neutron detector based on wavelength shifting fibers embedded in a ZnS:Ag epoxy mixture

Vincent Pierre Lamirand

This paper presents a fast neutron detector based on elastic scattering with hydrogen, a silver-activated zinc sulfide scintillator to convert the recoil proton energy to light, and wavelength-shifting fibers (WLSFs) to collect the scintillation light. The ...

Elsevier2023

Probing proton diffusion as a guide to environmental stability in powder-engineered FAPbI3 and CsFAPbI3 perovskites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia

Formamidinium lead iodide-based solar cells show promising device reliability. The grain imperfection can be further suppressed by developing powder methodology. The water uptake capability is critical for the stability of a-formamidinium lead triiodide (F ...

ELSEVIER2023

Jahn-Teller effects in initial and final states: high-resolution X-ray absorption, photoelectron and Auger spectroscopy of allene

Majed Chergui, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Luca Longetti, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy, Thomas Roland Barillot, Daniel Hollas

Carbon K-edge resonant Auger spectra of gas-phase allene following excitation of the pre-edge 1s -> pi* transitions are presented and analysed with the support of EOM-CCSD/cc-pVTZ calculations. X-Ray absorption (XAS), X-ray photoelectron (XPS), valence ban ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Continuum mechanics from molecular dynamics via adiabatic time and length scale separation

Sara Bonella

We show how to construct, by exploiting adiabatic time and length scale separation between atomistic and continuum mechanics, a multiscale scheme for continuum dynamics free from macroscopic constitutive modeling. To do so, we introduce a new set of degree ...

2023

The magnetoelectric effect in LiFePO4 - Revisited (vol 648, 414380, 2022)

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ellen Fogh

ELSEVIER2023

Selectively Exciting and Probing Radiative Plasmon Modes on Short Gold Nanorods by Scanning Tunneling Microscope-Induced Light Emission

Olivier Martin

We study the plasmon modes of gold nanorods (as short as similar to 100 nm) on a nonmetallic conductive substrate using scanning tunneling microscope-induced light emission (STM-LE) with a nonplasmonic tungsten tip at room temperature in high vacuum (10-7 ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of molecular motion in real-time

Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Ultrafast optical-domain spectroscopies allow to monitor in real time the motion of nuclei in molecules. Achieving element-selectivity had to await the advent of time resolved X-ray spectroscopy, which is now commonly carried at X-ray free electron lasers. ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Method for manufacturing an active structure for a radiation detector and polymeric mold for the method

Arnaud Bertsch, Fabrizio Carbone, Alessandro Mapelli, Veronica Leccese, Michele Caldara

A method for manufacturing a scintillation detector structure including the steps of forming a plurality of first structures into a surface of a substrate to form a patterned substrate, filling the plurality of first structures and covering the surface of ...

2023

Dilute neutron star matter from neural-network quantum states

Giuseppe Carleo

Low-density neutron matter is characterized by fascinating emergent quantum phenomena, such as the formation of Cooper pairs and the onset of superfluidity. We model this density regime by capitalizing on the expressivity of the hidden-nucleon neural-netwo ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

GEAR-RT: Towards Exa-Scale Moment Based Radiative Transfer For Cosmological Simulations Using Task-Based Parallelism And Dynamic Sub-Cycling with SWIFT

Mladen Ivkovic

Numerical simulations have become an indispensable tool in astrophysics and cosmology. The constant need for higher accuracy, higher resolutions, and models of ever-increasing sophistication and complexity drives the development of modern tools which targe ...

EPFL2023

Spin wave spectra of single crystal CoPS3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Luc Testa

The spin waves in single crystals of the layered van der Waals antiferromagnet CoPS3 have been measured using inelastic neutron scattering. The data show four distinct spin wave branches with large (>14 meV) energy gaps at the Brillouin zone center indicat ...

2023

The Three-Phase Contact Potential Difference Modulates the Water Surface Charge

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andrei Kiselev, Vasily Artemov

The surface charge of an open water surface is crucialfor solvationphenomena and interfacial processes in aqueous systems. However, themagnitude of the charge is controversial, and the physical mechanismof charging remains incompletely understood. Here we ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Arthur César Pinon, Manuel Cordova, Pinelopi Moutzouri

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Folding the Energy Storage: Beyond the Limit of Areal Energy Density of Micro-Supercapacitors

Minkyung Kim

Despite the ever-growing interest in micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) as a promising power source for microelectronics, their low areal energy density has plagued practical applications. Herein, accordion foldable MSCs (af-MSCs) are presented as a cell archite ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Quantum mixed state compiling

Zoë Holmes

The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm represents a generaliz ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023