Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need.
That was the case when orthoferrite crystals turned up at a Rice University laboratory slightly misaligned. Those crystals inadvertently became the basis of a discovery that should resonate with researchers studying spintronics-based quantum technology.
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Takuma Makihara, Kenji Hayashida, G. Timothy Noe II, Xinwei Li, Nicolas Marquez Peraca, Xiaoxuan Ma, Zuanming Jin, Wei Ren, Guohong Ma, Ikufumi Katayama, Jun Takeda, Hiroyuki Nojiri, Dmitry Turchinovich, Shixun Cao, Motoaki Bamba & Junichiro Kono
Ultrastrong magnon–magnon coupling dominated by antiresonant interactions
Nature Communications 12, 3115 (2021)
After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. They didn’t expect to find it so soon.
Rice physicist Junichiro Kono, graduate student Xinwei Li and their international colleagues have discovered the first example of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter system, a result reported in Science.
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X. Li, M. Bamba, N. Yuan, Q. Zhang, Y. Zhao, M. Xiang, K. Xu, Z. Jin, W. Ren, G. Ma, S. Cao, D. Turchinovich, and J. Kono
Observation of Dicke Cooperativity in Magnetic Interactions
Science 361(6404), 794-797 (2018)
Rice University scientists are known for exceptional research, but a new paper led by physicist Junichiro Kono makes that point most literally.
The discovery of exceptional points in a unique material created by Kono’s lab is one of several revelations in a paper that appears in Nature Photonics.
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Weilu Gao, Xinwei Li, Motoaki Bamba, and Junichiro Kono
Continuous transition between weak and ultra-strong coupling through exceptional points in carbon nanotube micro-cavity exciton polaritonsNature Photonics, published online (2018)
A team led by Rice University scientists used a unique combination of techniques to observe, for the first time, a condensed matter phenomenon about which others have only speculated. The research could aid in the development of quantum computers.
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Xinwei Li, Motoaki Bamba, Qi Zhang, Saeed Fallahi, Geoff C. Gardner, Weilu Gao, Minhan Lou, Katsumasa Yoshioka, Michael J. Manfra, and Junichiro Kono
Vacuum Bloch-Siegert shift in Landau polaritons with ultra-high cooperativity