Nonlinear Quantum Photonics with a Tin-Vacancy Center Coupled to a One-Dimensional Diamond Waveguide.

Color centers integrated with nanophotonic devices have emerged as a compelling platform for quantum science and technology. Here, we integrate tin-vacancy centers in a diamond waveguide and investigate the interaction with light at the single-photon level in both reflection and transmission. We observe single-emitter-induced extinction of the transmitted light up to 25% and measure the nonlinear effect on the photon statistics.

Area-weighted unipolar voltage to predict heart failure outcomes in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy and ventricular tachycardia.

Aims: Patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) referred for catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) are at risk for end-stage heart failure (HF) due to adverse remodelling. Local unipolar voltages (UV) decrease with loss of viable myocardium. A UV parameter reflecting global viable myocardium may predict prognosis.

Multisize Electrode Field-of-View: Validation by High Resolution Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.

Background: Voltage mapping to detect ventricular scar is important for guiding catheter ablation, but the field-of-view of unipolar, bipolar, conventional, and microelectrodes as it relates to the extent of viable myocardium (VM) is not well defined.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate electroanatomic voltage-mapping (EAVM) with different-size electrodes for identifying VM, validated against high-resolution ex-vivo cardiac magnetic resonance (HR-LGE-CMR).

Methods: A total of 9 swine with early-reperfusion myocardial infarction were mapped with the QDOT microcatheter.

Volume-Weighted Unipolar Voltage Predicts Heart Failure Mortality in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Ventricular Arrhythmias.

Background: Patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) who are undergoing catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) are at risk of rapidly progressive heart failure (HF). Endocardial voltages decrease with loss of viable myocardium. Global left ventricular (LV) voltage as a surrogate for the amount of remaining viable myocardium may predict prognosis.

Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network.

Future quantum internet applications will derive their power from the ability to share quantum information across the network. Quantum teleportation allows for the reliable transfer of quantum information between distant nodes, even in the presence of highly lossy network connections. Although many experimental demonstrations have been performed on different quantum network platforms, moving beyond directly connected nodes has, so far, been hindered by the demanding requirements on the pre-shared remote entanglement, joint qubit readout and coherence times.

Realization of a multinode quantum network of remote solid-state qubits.

The distribution of entangled states across the nodes of a future quantum internet will unlock fundamentally new technologies. Here, we report on the realization of a three-node entanglement-based quantum network. We combine remote quantum nodes based on diamond communication qubits into a scalable phase-stabilized architecture, supplemented with a robust memory qubit and local quantum logic.

History of cancer research in nosological perspective.

Contrary to conventional wisdom progress in cancer research has not followed a linear course, but rather a torturous capricious path, often guided by the prevailing concepts of disease (nosology). Various theories appear, disappear and reappear all the time. Periods with rapid progression alternate with periods of stagnation.

Who made John Snow a hero?

This paper describes how and why John Snow's investigation of the transmission of cholera grew into an epidemiologic classic. The evolution of the interpretation of the work of John Snow was first studied in depth in the Dutch medical literature, and thereafter traced more superficially in the bacteriologic, hygienic, and epidemiologic literature of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. From the oral tradition of teaching, as well as from the written sources, it is concluded that US epidemiologist W.