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A major remaining challenge in the superconducting cuprates is the unambiguous differentiation of the composition and electronic structure of the CuO$_2$ layers and those of the intermediate layers. The large c axis for these materials…
The peeling of an immobile adsorbed membrane is a well known problem in engineering and macroscopic tribology. In the classic setup, picking up at one extreme and pulling off results in a peeling force that is a decreasing function of the…
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Large arrays of individually controlled atoms trapped in optical tweezers are a very promising platform for quantum engineering applications. However, to date, only disordered arrays have been demonstrated, due to the non-deterministic…