Conductive single-phase SrMoO epitaxial films synthesized in pure Ar ambience via plasma-assisted radio frequency sputtering.

The cubic perovskite SrMoO with a paramagnetic ground state and remarkably low room-temperature resistivity has been considered as a suitable candidate for the new-era oxide-based technology. However, the difficulty of preparing single-phase SrMoO thin films by hydrogen-free sputtering has hindered their practical use, especially due to the formation of thermodynamically favorable SrMoO impurity. In this work, we developed a radio frequency sputtering technology enabling the reduction reaction and achieved conductive epitaxial SrMoO films with pure phase from a SrMoO target in a hydrogen-free, pure argon environment.

Magnetic exchange interactions and non-Debye relaxation in spin-3/2 frustrated Kagomé magnet CoVO.

We report the experimental determination of the magnetic exchange parameter (J/kB= 2.88 ± 0.02 K) for the Spin-3/2 ferromagnetic (FM) Kagomé lattice system: CoVOusing the temperature dependence of dc-magnetic susceptibility() data by employing the fundamental Heisenberg linear chain model.

Natural products of plant origin: an emerging therapeutic for dermatomycosis.

Dermatomycosis or superficial mycosis is considered one of the chronic fungal infections and a global challenge for the public health system. The severity of dermatomycosis is proportionately increasing with the emerging population of immunocompromised individuals, and it is becoming more prevalent, even life-threatening, in several tropical countries. In this context, improper long-term treatment with synthetic antifungal drugs and their related side effects imposes additional challenges in treating dermatomycosis.

Experimental Quantum Channel Discrimination Using Metastable States of a Trapped Ion.

We present experimental demonstrations of accurate and unambiguous single-shot discrimination between three quantum channels using a single trapped ^{40}Ca^{+} ion. The three channels cannot be distinguished unambiguously using repeated single channel queries, the natural classical analogue. We develop techniques for using the six-dimensional D_{5/2} state space for quantum information processing, and we implement protocols to discriminate quantum channel analogues of phase shift keying and amplitude shift keying data encodings used in classical radio communication.