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Bistability of optical properties of cesium vapor due to collective interaction of alignment and orientation under strong spin exchange conditions
M. V. Petrenko, A. K. Vershovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10119

Bistability of optical properties of cesium vapor due to collective interaction of alignment and orientation under strong spin exchange conditions
Hydrogen-like alkali atoms with a single valence electron are the most common objects in quantum optics and, at the same time, serve as essential tools of the field. Under conditions of optical pumping, strong spin-exchange and ultra-weak magnetic field (spin-exchange relaxation free mode, SERF), ensembles of such atoms in the gas phase can demonstrate not only the absence of spin-exchange relaxation, but also nonlinear collective effects. We present experimental evidence that the alignment, i.…

🫠 DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
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DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
We introduce DissolvPCB, an electronic prototyping technique for fabricating fully recyclable printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) using affordable FDM 3D printing, with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a water-soluble substrate and eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) as the conductive material. When obsolete, the PCBA can be easily recycled by immersing it in water: the PVA dissolves, the EGaIn re-forms into a liquid metal bead, and the electronic components are recovered. These materials can then b…

Wetting Interactions Between Porous Carbon Hosts and Liquid Sodium-Potassium Alloys Toward Their Use in Negative Electrodes of Alkali-Metal Batteries
Johannes Baller, Andr\'e Hilger, Naiyu Qi, Chiara Morini, Andrea Cornelio, Arndt Remhof, Markus Osenberg, Ingo Manke, Julian Moosmann, Felix Beckmann, Gustav Graeber
https://arxiv.org/abs…

Wetting Interactions Between Porous Carbon Hosts and Liquid Sodium-Potassium Alloys Toward Their Use in Negative Electrodes of Alkali-Metal Batteries
Batteries with liquid alkali-metal negative electrodes offer a route to compact, high-performance energy storage. Innovation in alkali-metal management, i.e., controlled storage, release and transport of liquid alkali metal, can enable simpler and cheaper cell designs. Porous carbons have emerged as potential host materials for liquid alkali metals. Here, we study the wetting interactions between porous carbon hosts and liquid sodium-potassium alloy (NaK) as a function of carbon host morphology…

DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
Zeyu Yan, SuHwan Hong, Josiah Hester, Tingyu Cheng, Huaishu Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22193

DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
We introduce DissolvPCB, an electronic prototyping technique for fabricating fully recyclable printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) using affordable FDM 3D printing, with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a water-soluble substrate and eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) as the conductive material. When obsolete, the PCBA can be easily recycled by immersing it in water: the PVA dissolves, the EGaIn re-forms into a liquid metal bead, and the electronic components are recovered. These materials can then b…

Unveiling two-dimensional electron systems on ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor $\mathrm{\beta}$-Ga$_2$O$_3$
Ryu Yukawa, Hiroshi Mizuseki, Suryo Santoso Putro, Y\'e-Jin L. Lee, Yuuki Masutake, Hinako Telengut, Boxuan Li, Hajime Yamamoto, Tadashi Abukawa, Junya Yoshida, Vladimir V. Kochurikhin, Taketoshi Tomida, Masanori Kitahara, Takahiko Horiai, Akira Yoshikawa, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Noriko Chikumoto, Toshihiko Shimizu, Marilou Cadatal-Raduban, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Ryuhei Kohno, Hiroshi…

Unveiling two-dimensional electron systems on ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor $\mathrmβ$-Ga$_2$O$_3$
Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors promise to revolutionize power electronics, yet a fundamental understanding of their interfacial electronic structure has been hindered by the absence of direct experimental observation. Here, we report the first momentum-resolved observation of two-dimensional electron systems on a UWBG material, enabled by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on high-purity $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ single crystals. Alkaline-metal-induced electron doping forms an i…

Tuning Incommensurate Charge Order in Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Al$_4$ and Ba$_{1-y}$Eu$_y$Al$_4$
Prathum Saraf, Eleanor M. Clements, Danila Sokratov, Shanta Saha, Peter Zavalij, Thomas W. Heitmann, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Camille Bernal-Choban, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Caitlin Kengle, Yue Su, Simon Bettler, Nathan Manning, Peter Abbamonte, Sananda Biswas, Roser Valent\'i, Johnpierre Paglione

Tuning Incommensurate Charge Order in Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Al$_4$ and Ba$_{1-y}$Eu$_y$Al$_4$
The BaAl$_4$-type structure family is home to a vast landscape of interesting and exotic properties, with descendant crystal structures hosting a variety of electronic ground states including magnetic, superconducting and strongly correlated electron phenomena. BaAl$_4$ itself hosts a non-trivial topological band structure, but is otherwise a paramagnetic metal. However, the other members of the $A$Al$_4$ family ($A$= alkali earth), including SrAl$_4$ and EuAl$_4$, exhibit symmetry-breaking gro…

Electron-Transfer and Exchange-Interaction Model of the Ligand Hyperfine Structure of Alkylated Iron-Sulfur Clusters
William C. Robinson, Victoria Pascutti, David A. Hall, Martin A. Mosquera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15838

Electron-Transfer and Exchange-Interaction Model of the Ligand Hyperfine Structure of Alkylated Iron-Sulfur Clusters
Iron-sulfur clusters (ISCs) play a wide variety of roles in biochemical processes that are common to all domains of life on earth. The hyperfine structure of reactive ligands of these clusters can be studied experimentally and theoretically by means of hyperfine spectroscopy, which can reveal catalytic intermediates in these biochemical processes. Their theoretical prediction, however, requires either advanced methods that describe strongly correlated systems, or Hamiltonian modeling based on s…

Multi-gap and high-Tc superconductivity in metal-atom-free borocarbides: Effects of dimensional confinement and strain engineering
Hao-Dong Liu, Wei-Yi Zhang, Zhen-Guo Fu, Bao-Tian Wang, Hong-Yan Lu, Hua-Jie Song, Ning Hao, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03284

Multi-gap and high-Tc superconductivity in metal-atom-free borocarbides: Effects of dimensional confinement and strain engineering
Pure borocarbides suffer from limited superconducting potential due to intrinsic structural instability, requiring transition/alkali metals as dual-functional stabilizers and dopants. Here, by combining high-throughput screening with anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg (aME) theory, we identify dynamically stable borocarbides where high-Tc superconductivity predominately originates from E symmetry-selective electron-phonon coupling (EPC). The six distinct superconducting gaps emerge from a staircase …

Experimental and theoretical characterisation of Stokes polarimetry of the potassium D1 line with neon buffer gas broadening
Sharaa A. Alqarni, Danielle Pizzey, Steven A. Wrathmall, Ifan G. Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18353 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18353 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.18353
arXiv:2507.18353v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study presents a comprehensive experimental and theoretical characterisation of Stokes polarimetry in potassium (K) vapour on the D1 line. Measurements were performed in the weak-probe regime, investigating the influence of neon buffer gas in the presence of an applied magnetic field in the Faraday geometry. While previous Stokes polarimetry studies in alkali-metal vapours have been conducted, the specific effects of buffer gas-induced broadening and shifts on the observed Stokes parameters remained largely underexplored. Here, experimental measurements of absolute absorption and dispersion were compared with a theoretical model for the electric susceptibility of the vapour, calculated using the established software package $ElecSus$. This work marks the first application of $ElecSus$ to model buffer gas polarimetry of the potassium D1 line, with validation performed against experimental spectra for magnetic fields up to 1.2 kG. Our findings provide new insight into how the presence of buffer gas influences the observed Stokes parameters, thereby enhancing the predictive capabilities of theoretical frameworks for atom-light interactions in buffer-gas environments.
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