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Hot-spot relaxation time current dependence in niobium nitride waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Optics Express. 2017. Vol. 25. No. 8. P. 8739–8750.
Ferrari S., Kovalyuk V., Hartmann W., Vetter A., Kahl O., Lee C., Korneev A., Rockstuhl C., G.Gol’tsman, Pernice W.
We investigate how the bias current affects the hot-spot relaxation dynamics in niobium nitride. We use for this purpose a near-infrared pump-probe technique on a waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detector driven in the two-photon regime. We observe a strong increase in the picosecond relaxation time for higher bias currents. A minimum relaxation time of (22 ± 1) ps is obtained when applying a bias current of 50% of the switching current at 1.7 K bath temperature. We also propose a practical approach to accurately estimate the photon detection regimes based on the reconstruction of the measured detector tomography at different bias currents and for different illumination conditions.
Budkov Y., Kiselev M. G., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 12 Article 124508
We develop a three-mode statistical-mechanical theory for a two-conformer
solute in a near-critical solvent. A compressible lattice model with
vacancies yields the Gaussian free-energy functional for a critical conserved
density, an orthogonal noncritical conserved mode, and the local conformer
fraction. Their couplings follow from packing and cohesive interactions,
rather than being introduced phenomenologically. Kawasaki transport of the
two conserved fields and ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Kryzhanovskaya N., Makhov I., Dragunova A., St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics 2026 Vol. 19 No. 1.1 P. 98–104
The planar microcavity structure was grown using molecular-beam epitaxy.
Single-mode lasing was observed at a wavelength of 960 nm for pillars with a diameter of
15 μm. At 300 K, the lasing threshold was approximately 30 mW. Increasing the pump
power to 2.7 times the threshold power resulted in a mode energy shift of approximately
1 meV. This shift ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Andreeva S., Gavrilov A. A., Dzhikirba K. R. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 Article 134515
We examine plasma excitations with linear dispersion in a system of superconducting electrons in thin
NbN disks. Using frequency-domain terahertz spectroscopy, we study the evolution of plasmons up to critical
temperature Tc. The observed excitations tend to shift to the lower frequencies while temperature is increasing
and the spectral features vanish at T > Tc. We study the ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Образцова А. А., Ivanov K., Moiseev E. et al., Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2026 Vol. 59 No. 30 P. 305103
We demonstrate a thermo-optically tunable microlaser based on an InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot (QD) active region employing a deformed limaçon-shaped cavity. The asymmetric geometry effectively lifts the degeneracy of high-Q whispering-gallery modes, enabling single-mode lasing. A side-mode suppression ratio exceeds 25 dB over a wide current range. Under continuous-wave electrical pumping, the device achieves a peak output power ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Budkov Y., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 12 Article 124105
Exact theories of electrolyte structure must satisfy the nonlocal constraints imposed by electrostatic screening, yet these constraints are most commonly formulated only for homogeneous bulk systems and at the level of two-point correlations. Here, we develop a unified field-theoretic framework that extends them to general inhomogeneous ionic fluids and nonlinear charge correlations. Using a standard ...
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Боровицкая И. В., Пименов В. Н., Коршунов С. Н. et al., Перспективные материалы 2026 № 10 С. 37–54
Проведено сравнение, обобщение и систематизация механизмов эрозии и разрушения
поверхности малоактивируемых материалов, перспективных для использования в
качестве материалов вакуумной камеры термоядерных реакторов: ванадия, его сплава
V – 10 Ti – 6 Cr – 0,05 Zr – 0,1 Si и вольфрама при последовательном воздействии на
них ионных и тепловых потоков. Тепловые потоки имитировали с помощью мощного
импульсного лазерного излучения (ЛИ), создаваемого ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Iontsev M.A., Mukhin S. I., Fistul M. V., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2016 Vol. 94 No. 17 P. 174–510
We report a theoretical study of the ac response of superconducting quantum metamaterials (SQMs), i.e., an array of qubits (two-level systems) embedded in a low-dissipative resonator. By making use of a particular example of a SQM, namely the array of charge qubits capacitively coupled to the resonator, we obtain a second-order phase transition between an ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Shilov A. L., Elesin L., Kravtsov M. et al., Nature Communications 2026 Vol. 17 No. 1 Article 9734
Identifying the microscopic processes limiting conductivity is essential for understanding correlated quantum materials. In twisted bilayer graphene, metallic resistivity follows ρ ~ Tα with widely varying α, fueling competing interpretations from phonon-limited transport and umklapp scattering to strange metallicity and heavy-fermion renormalization. Here, we use terahertz excitation to selectively heat electrons while keeping the lattice cold, separating ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Ibrahim A., Derkach D., Kaledin M. et al., Computer Physics Communications 2026 Vol. 329 Article 110407
We present RLABC (Reinforcement Learning for Accelerator Beamline Control), an open-source Python framework that automatically transforms standard Elegant beamline configurations into reinforcement learning environments. RLABC integrates with the widely-used Elegant beam dynamics simulation code via SDDS-based interfaces, enabling researchers to apply modern RL algorithms to beamline optimization with minimal RL-specific development. Validation on a test ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Копьев А., JETP Letters 2026 Vol. 123 No. 5 P. 310–316
The incompressible three-dimensional Euler equations develop very thin pancake-like regions of exponen tially increasing vorticity. The characteristic thickness of such regions decreases exponentially with time, while the other two dimensions do not change considerably, making the flow near each pancake strongly anisotropic. The pancakes emerge in increasing number with time, which may enhance the anisotropy ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Захаров А. В., Düven H., Capar M. I., Physics Letters A 2026 No. 576 Article 131388
Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out to study the structural properties of nematic pentyl
cyanobiphenyl (5CB) and pentyloxy cyanobiphenyl (5OCB) liquid crystals (LCs) doped with gold nanoparti
cles (GNPs) of different numbers, shapes and sizes. The spherical GNPs of two different radii and rod-like have
been doped in 5CB and 5OCB cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals. In order to describe ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Andreev D. V., Kornev S. A., Bondarenko G.G. et al., Inorganic Materials: Applied Research 2026 Vol. 17 No. 5 P. 1226–1230
Comparative studies are carried out to investigate high-field charge degradation effects in the gate
dielectric of metal—insulator—semiconductor (MIS) structures with aluminum and polysilicon gates.
Charging phenomena in MIS structures are explored using high-field electron injection into the dielectric
under conditions of gradually increasing voltage current density, with periodic short-term switching to a measurement
mode at a constant low injection ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Water confined in heterogeneous clay–quartz pores: Structure and dynamics from atomistic simulations
Glushak A., Tararushkin E., Smirnov G., Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2027 Vol. 752 Article 141756
The molecular-scale behavior of water in heterogeneous clay–quartz systems is critical for understanding cementation processes in natural soils and compacted bentonite, which is crucial for oil recovery and nuclear waste disposal barriers construction. Here we investigate how heterogeneity of mixed Na-montmorillonite and α-quartz surfaces affect water structure and dynamics in nanopores of 2.5 to 60 Å ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Bochkin G., Doronin S., Fel’dman E. et al., Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics 2024 Vol. 45 No. 3 P. 1188–1207
We consider the remote state restoring and perfect transfer of the zero-order coherence matrix (PTZ) in a spin system governed by the XXZ-Hamiltonian conserving the excitation number. The restoring tool is represented by several nonzero Larmor frequencies in the Hamiltonian. To simplify the analysis we use two approximating models including either step-wise or pulse-type time-dependence ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Fel’dman E. B., I. D. Lazarev, Pechen A. N. et al., Quantum Information Processing 2026 Vol. 25 Article 121
We consider the state-restoring protocol based on the controlled interaction of a linear chain with environment through incoherent control by the specially adjusted step-wise time-dependent Lindblad operators. We show that the best restoring result (maximal scale factors in the restored state) corresponds to the symmetrical Lindblad equation. (0, 1)-excitation dynamics is considered numerically, and restoring ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Касимов Р. Х., Аржанов А. И., Седых К. О. et al., Оптический журнал 2026 Т. 93 № 1 С. 80–86
Предмет исследования. Использование метода капельного нанесения для изготовления источника одиночных фотонов. Цель работы. Разработка технологического процесса изготовления источника одиночных фотонов на коллоидных квантовых точках для использования их в фотон- ных интегральных схемах. Метод. На первом этапе в программе ANSYS Lumerical рассчитыва- ются период и фактор заполнения фокусирующих элементов связи на длинах волн 545 и 600 ...
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Гущина В. А., / Series chemrxiv-2023-vpzhz-v2 "ChemRxiv". 2023.
All-inorganic perovskite CsPbBr3 and Cs4PbBr6 nanoparticles are being intensively studied due to their unique properties and wide range of applications; however, however, the nature of their optical properties is not yet fully understood due to the difficulty of synthesis of singlephase nanoparticles. In this article we describe the features of the synthesis of single-phase particles ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Pilé I., Deng Y., Shchur L., / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2604.10254.
We investigate the spatial overlap of successive spin configurations in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations using the local Metropolis algorithm and the Svendsen-Wang and Wolff cluster algorithms. We examine the dynamics of these algorithms for two models in different universality classes: the Ising model and the Potts model with three components. The overlap of two ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Кобцев Д. М., Венедиктов И. О., Svaytodukh S. S. et al., Наноиндустрия 2025 Т. 18 № S12-1 С. 82–89
The paper presents a fabricated integrated electro-optical modulator based on a ring resonator made of thin-film lithium niobate with a loaded Q factor of 2×104, a modulation depth of 0.96 dB/V and a response time of 3.9 GHz, promising for applications in the field of radio photonics and quantum optics. ...
Added: December 1, 2025
Kudryavtsev D., Mozhaeva V., Ivanov I. et al., Nanoscale 2024 Vol. 16 No. 26 P. 12424–12430
Existing methods for the mass detection of viruses are limited to the registration of small amounts of a viral genome or specific protein markers. In spite of high sensitivity, the applied methods cannot distinguish between virulent virus particles and non-infectious virus particle debris. We report an approach to solve this long-standing challenge using the SARS-CoV-2 ...
Added: January 10, 2025
Kagan M., Silkin V. M., Efremov D. V., / Series arXiv "math". 2024. No. 2411.12836.
In this study, we analyze the dielectric function of high-Tc cuprates as a function of doping level, taking into account the full energy band dispersion within the CuO2 monolayer. In addition to the conventional two-dimensional (2D) gapless plasmon mode, our findings reveal the existence of three anomalous branches within the plasmon spectrum. Two of these branches ...
Added: November 27, 2024
Influence of anisotropy on the study of critical behavior of spin models by machine learning methods
Sukhoverkhova D., Shchur L., / Series arXiv "math". 2024. No. 2410.14523.
In this paper, we applied a deep neural network to study the issue of knowledge transferability between statistical mechanics models. The following computer experiment was conducted. A convolutional neural network was trained to solve the problem of binary classification of snapshots of the Ising model's spin configuration on a two-dimensional lattice. During testing, snapshots of ...
Added: October 21, 2024
Венедиктов И. О., Kovalyuk V., Ан П. П. et al., Журнал технической физики 2024 Т. 94 № 7 С. 1158–1165
This work presents a superconducting single-photon detector with photon number resolution based on integrated optics on a silicon nitride platform for a wavelength of 914 nm. The detector is based on a space-time multiplexing scheme and consists of a plurality of pixel detectors connected in series by a microstrip line, which acts as a delay ...
Added: September 6, 2024