Universal work extraction in quantum thermodynamics
Preliminaries We consider a quantum system in contact with a thermal bath of inverse temperature β associated with…
George Mason Charitable Trust donates $5m to University of Waikato for research
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Entanglement-assisted non-local optical interferometry in a quantum network
Experimental setup The experiment encompasses two labs, each containing one station with an SiV inside a dilution refrigerator…
A ketogenic diet enhances aerobic exercise adaptation and promotes muscle mitochondrial remodeling in hyperglycemic male mice
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Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming
Integrated assessment framework This study develops an integrated assessment framework to quantify the total warming impact and inequalities…
Field-free full switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order
Nakatsuji, S., Kiyohara, N. & Higo, T. Large anomalous Hall effect in a non-collinear antiferromagnet at room temperature.…
Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces
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Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites
Sacramento, J., Bengio, Y., Costa, R. P. & Senn, W. Dendritic cortical microcircuits approximate the backpropagation algorithm. In…
Cavity-altered superconductivity | Nature
Sentef, M. A., Ruggenthaler, M. & Rubio, A. Cavity quantum-electrodynamical polaritonically enhanced electron-phonon coupling and its influence on…
Limitations of probing field-induced response with STM
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Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts in Wellington runs from February 24 – March 15
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