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Prisons have been hotspots for COVID-19 and likely an important driver of racial disparity in disease burden. From the first COVID-19 case detected through March 25, 2022, 66,684 of 196,652 residents of California's state prison system were infected, most of them in two large winter waves of outbreaks that reached all 35 of the state prisons. We used individual-level data on disease timing and nightly room assignments in these prisons to reconstruct locations and pathways of transmission statistically, and from that estimated reproduction numbers, locations of unobserved infection events, and the subsequent magnitude and distribution of long COVID prevalence.
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December 2024
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 78060-900 Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
Based on first-principles calculations combined with a maximally localized Wannier function tight-binding method and the Bethe-Salpeter equation formalism, we theoretically investigate the effects of hydrostatic pressure on the electronic, excitonic, and optical properties of zinc blende boron arsenide. Our findings show: (i) a pressure-induced semiconductor-to-metallic phase transition without causing any change in the structural crystallographic ordering, (ii) a decrease in excitonic binding energy with increasing pressure as a consequence of band gap engineering, and (iii) a small excitonic response in the indirect absorption regime due to the indirect band gap.
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December 2024
Department of Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kurnool, India.
Motivated by the exceptional optoelectronic properties of 2D Janus layers (JLs), we explore the properties of group Va antimony-based JLs SbXY (X = Se/Te and Y = I/Br). Using Bader charges, the electric dipole moment in the out-of-plane direction of all the JLs is studied and the largest dipole moment is found to be in the SbSeI JL. Our results on the formation energy, phonon spectra, elastic constants, and molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulation provide insights into the energetic, vibrational, mechanical, and thermal stability of JLs.
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November 2024
Aviation and Automobile School, Chongqing Youth Vocational & Technical College Chongqing China
In recent years, there has been a discernible shift in research focus towards investigating the intricate interplay between topological states and intrinsic magnetic orders within the realm of condensed matter physics. Embedded within this evolving landscape, our study unveils an intriguing spin nodal box structure within the ferromagnetic compound KNiCl, manifesting under both spin directions. This distinctive configuration features a simplistic two-band crossing pattern that stands distinctly apart from other bands, making it amenable to both experimental validation and thorough theoretical exploration.
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November 2024
Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Quantum Chips and Quantum Control, School of Physics, and State Key Laboratory for Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Quantum simulation offers an analog approach for exploring exotic quantum phenomena using controllable platforms, typically necessitating ultracold temperatures to maintain the quantum coherence. Superradiance lattices (SLs) have been harnessed to simulate coherent topological physics at room temperature, but the thermal motion of atoms remains a notable challenge in accurately measuring the physical quantities. To overcome this obstacle, we implement a velocity scanning tomography technique to discern the responses of atoms with different velocities, allowing cold-atom spectroscopic resolution within room-temperature SLs.
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