--- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22734' abstract: - lang: eng text: Silver selenide (Ag2Se) is a promising near-room-temperature thermoelectric material, but its narrow stoichiometric window and β–α phase transition complicate reproducible microstructure control. Here, we present a mismatch-assisted microstructure engineering strategy in which Ag2Se particles are treated with polyanionic ZnSe complexes and consolidated through the β–α transition to introduce ZnSe nanoprecipitates, Ag2Se/ZnSe interfaces, and local strain fields. The crystallographic mismatch between ZnSe and Ag2Se, together with the Zn2+/Ag+ size difference, amplifies phase-transition-induced deformation and promotes high-density dislocations with periodic strain modulations. This defect architecture suppresses grain coarsening, removes excess Ag, limits Ag-interstitial formation, and reduces lattice thermal conductivity through lattice softening and multiscale phonon scattering. Ag2Se–4%ZnSe nanocomposites achieve a peak zTmax of 1.13 at 369 K and a zTavg of 1.08 from 300 to 380 K, demonstrating mismatch-driven defect engineering through the β–α phase transition as a route for optimizing Ag2Se-based thermoelectrics. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: EM-Fac - _id: LifeSc - _id: NanoFab - _id: MassSpec acknowledgement: 'Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology Austria. M.I. acknowledges financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this work through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), the Lab Support Facility (LSF), the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF), and the Mass Spectrometry Facility. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (grant no. 22209034) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2024HGTB0239). M.H. acknowledges funding from Australian Research Council (FT230100316), and the high-performance computing resources provided by National Computational Infrastructure (it39) and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (pawsey1075). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR00457. The authors thank support from the project AMaDE (PID2023-149158OB-C43), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by the “ERDF Away of making Europe”, by the “European Union”. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (grant no.: CEX2021-001214-S) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. Authors acknowledge the use of instrumentation as well as the technical advice provided by the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA (JEMCA). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Grant IU16-014206 (METCAM-FIB) funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with the support of the Ministry of Research and Universities, Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is founding member of e-DREAM. (91)' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: letter_note author: - first_name: Yu full_name: Liu, Yu id: 2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Liu orcid: 0000-0001-7313-6740 - first_name: Tobias full_name: Kleinhanns, Tobias id: 8BD9DE16-AB3C-11E9-9C8C-2A03E6697425 last_name: Kleinhanns orcid: 0000-0003-1537-7436 - first_name: Maria Chiara full_name: Spadaro, Maria Chiara last_name: Spadaro - first_name: Aziz full_name: Genç, Aziz last_name: Genç - first_name: Sharona full_name: Horta, Sharona id: 03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc last_name: Horta - first_name: Navita full_name: Navita, Navita id: 6ebe278d-ba0b-11ee-8184-f34cdc671de4 last_name: Navita orcid: 0000-0001-7408-8197 - first_name: Tommaso full_name: Costanzo, Tommaso id: D93824F4-D9BA-11E9-BB12-F207E6697425 last_name: Costanzo orcid: 0000-0001-9732-3815 - first_name: Ewelina full_name: Dutkiewicz, Ewelina id: 0601cc46-c082-11ec-9b07-bb29641d1de9 last_name: Dutkiewicz - first_name: Jordi full_name: Arbiol, Jordi last_name: Arbiol - first_name: Min full_name: Hong, Min last_name: Hong - first_name: Maria full_name: Ibáñez, Maria id: 43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibáñez orcid: 0000-0001-5013-2843 citation: ama: Liu Y, Kleinhanns T, Spadaro MC, et al. Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se. ACS Energy Letters. 2026;11(8):5752-5762. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499 apa: Liu, Y., Kleinhanns, T., Spadaro, M. C., Genç, A., Horta, S., Jakhar, N., … Ibáñez, M. (2026). Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se. ACS Energy Letters. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499 chicago: Liu, Yu, Tobias Kleinhanns, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Aziz Genç, Sharona Horta, Navita Jakhar, Tommaso Costanzo, et al. “Exploiting Mismatch Strain and the β–α Phase Transition for Microstructural Engineering in Thermoelectric Ag2Se.” ACS Energy Letters. American Chemical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499. ieee: Y. Liu et al., “Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se,” ACS Energy Letters, vol. 11, no. 8. American Chemical Society, pp. 5752–5762, 2026. ista: Liu Y, Kleinhanns T, Spadaro MC, Genç A, Horta S, Jakhar N, Costanzo T, Dutkiewicz E, Arbiol J, Hong M, Ibáñez M. 2026. Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se. ACS Energy Letters. 11(8), 5752–5762. mla: Liu, Yu, et al. “Exploiting Mismatch Strain and the β–α Phase Transition for Microstructural Engineering in Thermoelectric Ag2Se.” ACS Energy Letters, vol. 11, no. 8, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 5752–62, doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499. short: Y. Liu, T. Kleinhanns, M.C. Spadaro, A. Genç, S. Horta, N. Jakhar, T. Costanzo, E. Dutkiewicz, J. Arbiol, M. Hong, M. Ibáñez, ACS Energy Letters 11 (2026) 5752–5762. corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-08-18T11:34:03Z date_published: 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-19T05:53:33Z day: '14' ddc: - '540' department: - _id: MassSpec - _id: MaIb - _id: GradSch - _id: EM-Fac doi: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4d75c5a79d112c845c9eecba8838db38 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-08-19T05:52:41Z date_updated: 2026-08-19T05:52:41Z file_id: '22736' file_name: 2026_ACSEnergyLetters_Liu.pdf file_size: 6806815 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-08-19T05:52:41Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 11' issue: '8' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 5752-5762 project: - _id: 9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A name: 'HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery' publication: ACS Energy Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 2380-8195 publication_status: published publisher: American Chemical Society quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 11 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '22694' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We develop and employ techniques from equivariant algebraic K-theory and related invariants\r\nin the context of geometric representation theory, in both arithmetic and topological situations.\r\nWe showcase the use of such techniques on the affine Grassmannian Gr, a space of fundamental\r\ninterest in the geometric Langlands program.\r\n\r\nIt is a deep development of mathematics of the last century that many concrete, yet combina-\r\ntorially complex algebraic problems may be effectively studied through the lens of algebraic\r\ngeometry. The objects of interest can be often realized as cohomological invariants of algebraic\r\nvarieties, and good understanding of their geometry sheds light into the original questions.\r\nSuch techniques have seen immense applications in the Langlands program, where they go\r\nunder the label of geometric representation theory.\r\n\r\nOne source of powerful invariants in algebraic geometry comes from algebraic K-theory,\r\nHochschild homology, and their relatives. These localizing invariants contain large amount\r\nof information, but are quite hard to compute. For this reason, their usage in geometric\r\nrepresentation theory has been limited.\r\n\r\nThe aim of this thesis is to showcase how to control such invariants in the situations of\r\ninterest and use them to obtain new insights. We start by reinterpreting equivariant Hochschild\r\nhomology in terms of functions on certain fixed-point schemes, which are of independent\r\ninterest. We compare it to equivariant K-theory via the trace map. We give new computations\r\nand comparisons of such invariants of affine Schubert varieties in Gr, including arithmetic\r\nsituations. We show that they behave much better than expected.\r\n\r\nWe finally utilize this circle of ideas in a purely topological setting. We describe the varying\r\nfixed points of the extended torus action on the affine Grassmannian, and use it to compute\r\nits equivariant topological K-theory ring. The answer is nontrivial and verifies an outstanding\r\nconjecture in the subject.\r\n\r\nWe compare, partly conjecturally, the resulting K-theory ring to the completed center of an\r\nintegral even hybrid quantum group and its deformed quantum category O. This gives a\r\ngenuine application of our computations in pure representation theory." acknowledgement: "It was funded by a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences entitled Arithmetic,\r\ngeometry, topology and representation theory arising from the affine Grassmannian. It was\r\nfurther funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF 10.55776/P35847, and an Erasmus+ staff\r\nmobility training. \r\n" alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Jakub full_name: Löwit, Jakub id: e3b80ae2-eb8e-11eb-b029-9aef4a9108a0 last_name: Löwit citation: ama: Löwit J. Equivariant K-theory of affine Grassmannians in representation theory and arithmetic. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22694 apa: Löwit, J. (2026). Equivariant K-theory of affine Grassmannians in representation theory and arithmetic. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22694 chicago: Löwit, Jakub. “Equivariant K-Theory of Affine Grassmannians in Representation Theory and Arithmetic.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22694. ieee: J. Löwit, “Equivariant K-theory of affine Grassmannians in representation theory and arithmetic,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Löwit J. 2026. Equivariant K-theory of affine Grassmannians in representation theory and arithmetic. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Löwit, Jakub. Equivariant K-Theory of Affine Grassmannians in Representation Theory and Arithmetic. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22694. short: J. Löwit, Equivariant K-Theory of Affine Grassmannians in Representation Theory and Arithmetic, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-08-12T14:05:36Z date_published: 2026-08-05T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-26T06:53:55Z day: '05' ddc: - '510' - '516' - '512' - '514' - '513' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: TaHa doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22694 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2d0be77791dc296621c6c0f76be9d0d7 content_type: application/pdf creator: jloewit date_created: 2026-08-14T11:42:31Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T11:42:31Z file_id: '22709' file_name: 2026_Löwit_Jakub_Thesis.pdf file_size: 1574709 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 61bde4b58c1e6c7baeb561e41f82659b content_type: application/zip creator: jloewit date_created: 2026-08-14T11:42:42Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T11:42:42Z file_id: '22710' file_name: 2026_Löwit_Jakub_Source_files.zip file_size: 1085118 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2026-08-14T11:42:42Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22694 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '185' project: - _id: 901e2a43-16d5-11f0-9cad-9cead34748d6 grant_number: '27004' name: Arithmetic, geometry, topology and representation theory arising from the affine Grassmannian - _id: 34b2c9cb-11ca-11ed-8bc3-a50ba74ca4a3 grant_number: P35847 name: Geometry of the tip of the global nilpotent cone publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria publisher_comment: "For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright\r\nlicense to any author-accepted manuscript version arising from this submission." related_material: record: - id: '21751' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '22693' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Tamás full_name: Hausel, Tamás id: 4A0666D8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hausel orcid: 0000-0002-9582-2634 title: Equivariant K-theory of affine Grassmannians in representation theory and arithmetic tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22693' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study torus-equivariant algebraic K-theory of affine Schubert varieties in the perfect affine Grassmannians over Fp. We further compare it to the torus-equivariant Hochschild homology of perfect complexes, which has a geometric description in terms of global functions on certain fixed-point schemes. We prove that Fp-linearly, this comparison is an isomorphism. Our approach is quite constructive, resulting in new computations of these K-theory rings. We establish various structural results for equivariant perfect algebraic K-theory on the way; we believe these are of independent interest. acknowledgement: "I would like to thank the following people for fruitful discussions,\r\nhelpful sanity checks or comments on previous drafts: Roman Bezrukavnikov, Jens Niklas Eberhardt, Mischa Elkner, Tamás Hausel, Andres Fernandez Herrero, Adeel Khan,\r\nBernhard Köck, Andrei Konovalov, Quoc Ho, Mirko Mauri, Matthew Morrow, Charanya\r\nRavi, Kamil Rychlewicz, Shyiu Shen, Vladimir Sosnilo, Georg Tamme, Xinwen Zhu. I\r\nwould further like to thank Marc Hoyois and the anonymous referee for spotting an error\r\nin a previous version.\r\nThis work was done during author’s PhD at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). It was funded by a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy\r\nof Sciences and by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/P35847. For open access\r\npurposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author-accepted\r\nmanuscript version arising from this submission." article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Jakub full_name: Löwit, Jakub id: e3b80ae2-eb8e-11eb-b029-9aef4a9108a0 last_name: Löwit citation: ama: Löwit J. Equivariant K-theory, affine Grassmannian and perfection. Documenta Mathematica. 2026. doi:10.4171/dm/1064 apa: Löwit, J. (2026). Equivariant K-theory, affine Grassmannian and perfection. Documenta Mathematica. EMS Press. https://doi.org/10.4171/dm/1064 chicago: Löwit, Jakub. “Equivariant K-Theory, Affine Grassmannian and Perfection.” Documenta Mathematica. EMS Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.4171/dm/1064. ieee: J. Löwit, “Equivariant K-theory, affine Grassmannian and perfection,” Documenta Mathematica. EMS Press, 2026. ista: Löwit J. 2026. Equivariant K-theory, affine Grassmannian and perfection. Documenta Mathematica. mla: Löwit, Jakub. “Equivariant K-Theory, Affine Grassmannian and Perfection.” Documenta Mathematica, EMS Press, 2026, doi:10.4171/dm/1064. short: J. Löwit, Documenta Mathematica (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-08-12T13:29:17Z date_published: 2026-03-26T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-26T06:53:54Z day: '26' ddc: - '500' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: TaHa doi: 10.4171/dm/1064 external_id: arxiv: - '2409.18925' fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.4171/dm/1064 has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - equivariant algebraic K-theory - perfection in positive characteristic - affine Grassmannian - affine Schubert varieties - Dennis trace map - equivariant Hochschild homology - fixed-point schemes - toric varieties language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.4171/DM/1064 mathsc: - '19E08' - 19L47 - 20G44 - 14G17 - 19D55 - 14F43 - 14L30 - 14D24 - 14M25 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 34b2c9cb-11ca-11ed-8bc3-a50ba74ca4a3 grant_number: P35847 name: Geometry of the tip of the global nilpotent cone publication: Documenta Mathematica publication_identifier: eissn: - 1431-0643 issn: - 1431-0635 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: EMS Press quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '22694' relation: dissertation_contains status: public researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: Equivariant K-theory, affine Grassmannian and perfection tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '22684' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Contact electrification (CE) is a simple yet elusive phenomenon that occurs when two materials come into contact and separate, leaving behind net electrical charge. Despite its ubiquity, the microscopic origin of CE remains unclear. In this thesis, we investigate CE from three complementary perspectives: developing a quantitative method to measure charge at the nanoscale, exploring the dynamic behavior of charge on insulating surfaces, and uncovering the role of mechanical history in forming a triboelectric series.\r\n\r\nIn the first part, we establish a rigorous framework for converting qualitative Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) voltage maps into quantitative charge density distributions. Using finite element method (FEM) simulations, we determine the point-spread function of the KPFM tip–sample geometry and demonstrate that the true surface charge can be reconstructed by numerical deconvolution. This procedure enables the recovery of both the magnitude and sign of charge density with high fidelity, resolving nanoscale features that are otherwise obscured. Applying the method to contact-charged SiO$_2$ surfaces, we show that existing analytical approximations, such as parallel plate or spherical models, can miscalculate charge magnitude by orders of magnitude. Our hybrid FEM/KPFM approach therefore provides a fast and general method to convert qualitative KPFM signals into quantitative charge data, enabling nanoscale charge mapping under realistic experimental conditions.\r\n\r\nIn the second part, we study the temporal stability of CE-induced charges and identify the key material factors that determine whether KPFM can capture meaningful charge patterns. Through time-resolved experiments combining a custom-built transfer system with both microscopic and macroscopic measurements, we demonstrate that only the best insulators, such as SiO$_2$, preserve CE charge long enough for stationary imaging. For less conductive polymers, such as PDMS, charge decays within the duration of a single KPFM scan due to bulk conduction. Using a simple capacitor-based model, we reproduce the observed decay dynamics and confirm that the transferred charge decays characteristic to the sample's bulk conductivity. Further, we always observe homogeneous charge transfer.\r\n\r\nIn the third part, we address the question: can we form a triboelectric series with identical materials? Using controlled repetitive contact experiments, we show that nominally identical materials can progressively order themselves into a triboelectric series, where surfaces with more contact history charge negatively relative to fresher ones. By constructing a minimal model based on this ``contact bias'', we replicate the evolution from random to ordered charging observed in experiments. Supporting surface analyses, including atomic force microscopy, reveal that repeated contact induces nanoscale morphological changes, suggesting a mechanism tightly coupled to mechanical strain. These results highlight the crucial role of surface history and nanoscale mechanics in dictating charge transfer, motivating further exploration of mechanisms such as mechanochemical bond cleavage and flexoelectric polarization." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: NanoFab - _id: ScienComp - _id: LifeSc - _id: M-Shop - _id: EM-Fac acknowledgement: "This project has received financing from the European Research Council grant agreement\r\nno. 949120 under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.\r\nThis research was supported by the Scientific Service Units of The Institute of Science\r\nand Technology Austria (ISTA) through resources provided by the Miba Machine Shop, the\r\nNanofabrication Facility, the Lab Support Facility, the Scientific Computing Facility and the\r\nElectron Microscopy Facility. We thank Florian Stumpf from Park Systems for useful discussions\r\nand support with scanning probe microscopy. We thank Joaquin Garcia-Suarez and Guillaume\r\nAnciaux for the suggestion to look into the roughness power spectral density. We thank\r\nIrina-Malina Strugaru for help with testing the device for Young’s modulus measurements.\r\n" alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Felix full_name: Pertl, Felix id: 6313aec0-15b2-11ec-abd3-ed67d16139af last_name: Pertl orcid: 0000-0003-0463-5794 citation: ama: Pertl F. Experimental probing of nanoscale charge features and surface morphology changes during tribocharging. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22684 apa: Pertl, F. (2026). Experimental probing of nanoscale charge features and surface morphology changes during tribocharging. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22684 chicago: Pertl, Felix. “Experimental Probing of Nanoscale Charge Features and Surface Morphology Changes during Tribocharging.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22684. ieee: F. Pertl, “Experimental probing of nanoscale charge features and surface morphology changes during tribocharging,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Pertl F. 2026. Experimental probing of nanoscale charge features and surface morphology changes during tribocharging. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Pertl, Felix. Experimental Probing of Nanoscale Charge Features and Surface Morphology Changes during Tribocharging. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22684. short: F. Pertl, Experimental Probing of Nanoscale Charge Features and Surface Morphology Changes during Tribocharging, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-08-12T09:44:40Z date_published: 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-27T11:42:44Z day: '12' ddc: - '530' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: ScWa doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22684 doi_confirm: '1' ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 0a4f5a941c40b921447e72291d72bc6f content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: fpertl date_created: 2026-08-12T13:04:21Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T13:04:21Z file_id: '22690' file_name: 2026_Pertl_Felix_Thesis.zip file_size: 31192621 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: ae60dcdb363222138886b2857643d4e3 content_type: application/pdf creator: fpertl date_created: 2026-08-12T13:04:21Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T13:04:21Z file_id: '22691' file_name: 2026_Pertl_Felix_Thesis.pdf file_size: 27882509 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2026-08-12T13:04:21Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22684 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '107' project: - _id: 0aa60e99-070f-11eb-9043-a6de6bdc3afa call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '949120' name: 'Tribocharge: a multi-scale approach to an enduring problem in physics' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-083-1 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '20481' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '12109' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '19278' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '17373' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Scott R full_name: Waitukaitis, Scott R id: 3A1FFC16-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Waitukaitis orcid: 0000-0002-2299-3176 title: Experimental probing of nanoscale charge features and surface morphology changes during tribocharging tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- OA_type: closed access _id: '21762' abstract: - lang: eng text: Bacteria, like eukaryotes, use conserved cytoskeletal systems for intracellular organization. The plasmid-encoded ParMRC system forms actin-like filaments that segregate low–copy number plasmids. In multicellular cyanobacteria such as Anabaena sp., we found that a chromosomally encoded ParMR system has evolved into a cytoskeletal system named CorMR with a function in cell shape control rather than DNA segregation. Live-cell imaging, in vitro reconstitution, and cryo–electron microscopy revealed that CorM formed dynamically unstable, antiparallel double-stranded filaments that were recruited to the membrane by CorR through an amphipathic helix conserved in multicellular cyanobacteria. CorMR filaments were regulated by MinC, which excluded them from the poles and division plane. Comparative genomics indicated that the repurposing of ParMR and Min systems coevolved with cyanobacterial multicellularity, highlighting the evolutionary plasticity of cytoskeletal systems in bacteria. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: ScienComp - _id: EM-Fac - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: "We thank all members of the Loose lab at ISTA for helpful discussions; M. Kojic for critical reading of the manuscript; A. Herrero (Sevilla University) for sharing her extensive BACTH plasmid library and other plasmids, as well as cyanobacterial strains; T. Dagan and F. Nies (both Kiel University) for sharing cyanobacterial strains and plasmids and for valuable discussions; N. Sapay and A. Michon for providing the Amphipaseek code, which enabled us to perform our large-scale amphipathic helix screen of cyanobacterial CorR proteins; V.-V. Hodirnau for support in cryo-ET data collection; and J. Hansen for advice about cryo-EM data processing.\r\nThis work was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA through resources provided by the Imaging & Optics Facility (IOF), the Scientific Computing (SciComp), the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), and the Lab Support Facility (LSF). This work was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 101034413 to B.L.S.); the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union (grant ActinID 101076260 to F.K.M.S.); the Swiss National Science Foundation (starting grant TMSGI3_226208 to G.L.W.); and the Jean-Jacques et Letitia Lopez-Loreta Foundation (G.L.W.)." article_number: eaea6343 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Benjamin L full_name: Springstein, Benjamin L id: b4eb62ef-ac72-11ed-9503-ed3b4d66c083 last_name: Springstein orcid: 0000-0002-3461-5391 - first_name: Manjunath full_name: Javoor, Manjunath id: 305ab18b-dc7d-11ea-9b2f-b58195228ea2 last_name: Javoor orcid: 0000-0003-2311-2112 - first_name: Daniela full_name: Megrian, Daniela last_name: Megrian - first_name: Roman full_name: Hajdu, Roman id: ffab949d-133f-11ed-8f02-94de21ace503 last_name: Hajdu - first_name: Dustin M. full_name: Hanke, Dustin M. last_name: Hanke - first_name: Bettina full_name: Zens, Bettina id: 45FD126C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zens orcid: 0000-0002-9561-1239 - first_name: Gregor L. full_name: Weiss, Gregor L. last_name: Weiss - first_name: Florian Km full_name: Schur, Florian Km id: 48AD8942-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schur orcid: 0000-0003-4790-8078 - first_name: Martin full_name: Loose, Martin id: 462D4284-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Loose orcid: 0000-0001-7309-9724 citation: ama: Springstein BL, Javoor M, Megrian D, et al. Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape. Science. 2026;392(6795). doi:10.1126/science.aea6343 apa: Springstein, B. L., Javoor, M., Megrian, D., Hajdu, R., Hanke, D. M., Zens, B., … Loose, M. (2026). Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape. Science. AAAS. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea6343 chicago: Springstein, Benjamin L, Manjunath Javoor, Daniela Megrian, Roman Hajdu, Dustin M. Hanke, Bettina Zens, Gregor L. Weiss, Florian KM Schur, and Martin Loose. “Repurposing of a DNA Segregation Machinery into a Cytoskeletal System Controlling Cell Shape.” Science. AAAS, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea6343. ieee: B. L. Springstein et al., “Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape,” Science, vol. 392, no. 6795. AAAS, 2026. ista: Springstein BL, Javoor M, Megrian D, Hajdu R, Hanke DM, Zens B, Weiss GL, Schur FK, Loose M. 2026. Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape. Science. 392(6795), eaea6343. mla: Springstein, Benjamin L., et al. “Repurposing of a DNA Segregation Machinery into a Cytoskeletal System Controlling Cell Shape.” Science, vol. 392, no. 6795, eaea6343, AAAS, 2026, doi:10.1126/science.aea6343. short: B.L. Springstein, M. Javoor, D. Megrian, R. Hajdu, D.M. Hanke, B. Zens, G.L. Weiss, F.K. Schur, M. Loose, Science 392 (2026). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-04-26T22:01:46Z date_published: 2026-04-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-03T09:36:24Z day: '16' department: - _id: MaLo - _id: FlSc - _id: GradSch - _id: EM-Fac doi: 10.1126/science.aea6343 ec_funded: 1 external_id: pmid: - '41990175' fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea6343 intvolume: ' 392' issue: '6795' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa_version: None pmid: 1 project: - _id: fc2ed2f7-9c52-11eb-aca3-c01059dda49c call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101034413' name: 'IST-BRIDGE: International postdoctoral program' - _id: bd980d18-d553-11ed-ba76-ceaa645c97eb grant_number: '101076260' name: A molecular atlas of Actin filament IDentities in the cell motility machinery publication: Science publication_identifier: eissn: - 1095-9203 issn: - 0036-8075 publication_status: published publisher: AAAS quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '22744' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 392 year: '2026' ... --- OA_embargo: '12' OA_place: publisher _id: '22744' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: EM-Fac - _id: ScienComp - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the ERC StG grant ActinID (PRA01221F1049A) awarded to Florian\r\nSchur, the ERC-SyG grant Pushing from within (P01071793) awarded to Michael Sixt, and by ISTA.\r\nI would like to thank the Scientific Service Units at ISTA for their essential support throughout\r\nthis work. In particular, I am grateful to the Electron Microscopy Facility, Imaging and Optics\r\nFacility, Zebrafish Facility, Scientific Computing Facility, and Lab Support Facility for their services,\r\nand technical support, all of which were important for the successful completion of this project." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Manjunath full_name: Javoor, Manjunath id: 305ab18b-dc7d-11ea-9b2f-b58195228ea2 last_name: Javoor orcid: 0000-0003-2311-2112 citation: ama: Javoor M. Large-scale imaging of cellular actin networks at single filament resolution using montage cryo-electron tomography. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22744 apa: Javoor, M. (2026). Large-scale imaging of cellular actin networks at single filament resolution using montage cryo-electron tomography. Institute of Science and Technology Austria . https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22744 chicago: Javoor, Manjunath. “Large-Scale Imaging of Cellular Actin Networks at Single Filament Resolution Using Montage Cryo-Electron Tomography.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria , 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22744. ieee: M. Javoor, “Large-scale imaging of cellular actin networks at single filament resolution using montage cryo-electron tomography,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria , 2026. ista: Javoor M. 2026. Large-scale imaging of cellular actin networks at single filament resolution using montage cryo-electron tomography. Institute of Science and Technology Austria . mla: Javoor, Manjunath. Large-Scale Imaging of Cellular Actin Networks at Single Filament Resolution Using Montage Cryo-Electron Tomography. Institute of Science and Technology Austria , 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22744. short: M. Javoor, Large-Scale Imaging of Cellular Actin Networks at Single Filament Resolution Using Montage Cryo-Electron Tomography, Institute of Science and Technology Austria , 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-08-21T09:11:04Z date_published: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-03T09:36:24Z day: '21' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: FlSc - _id: MiSi doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22744 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: closed checksum: f9c2847df9f1ac5a3d60c06b3b81a450 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: mjavoor date_created: 2026-08-26T12:02:47Z date_updated: 2026-08-27T12:48:42Z file_id: '22767' file_name: 2026_Javoor_Manjunath_Thesis.docx file_size: 27430796 relation: source_file - access_level: closed checksum: 8e9b4c0fcafbccf5c3796eacc9134a08 content_type: application/pdf creator: mjavoor date_created: 2026-08-26T12:02:46Z date_updated: 2026-08-26T12:02:46Z embargo: 2027-08-21 embargo_to: open_access file_id: '22768' file_name: 2026_Javoor_Manjunath_Thesis.pdf file_size: 19489230 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2026-08-27T12:48:42Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22744 has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - Actin cytoskeleton - Cell migration - cryo-electron tomography language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa_version: None page: '121' project: - _id: bd980d18-d553-11ed-ba76-ceaa645c97eb grant_number: '101076260' name: A molecular atlas of Actin filament IDentities in the cell motility machinery - _id: bd91e723-d553-11ed-ba76-fe7eeb2185fd grant_number: '101071793' name: 'Pushing from within: Control of cell shape, integrity and motility by cytoskeletal pushing forces' publication_identifier: isbn: - '978-3-99078-090-9 ' issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: 'Institute of Science and Technology Austria ' related_material: record: - id: '12334' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '21762' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '19795' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '12421' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Florian KM full_name: Schur, Florian KM id: 48AD8942-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schur orcid: 0000-0003-4790-8078 - first_name: Michael K full_name: Sixt, Michael K id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sixt orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179 title: Large-scale imaging of cellular actin networks at single filament resolution using montage cryo-electron tomography tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '22664' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The widespread adoption of apps like Whatsapp and Signal has translated into billions of people all around the world communicating on a regular basis by making use of services that offer end-to-end encryption and even provide security guarantees when a user's device is compromised.\r\n\r\nThis was made possible by the introduction of the Double Ratchet Algorithm~\\cite{double_ratchet}, which was designed for a setting where communication takes place between two parties.\r\nHowever, in practice, many apps offer the possibility of creating groups.\r\nThe protocols they use to secure communication are inefficient for large group which has the undesireable consequence that the aforementioned apps have established limits on the group size of roughly 1000 users.\r\nThis has motivated the introduction of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) standard~\\cite{rfc9420} by the IETF which is based on a primitive called Continuous Group Key Agreement (CGKA)~\\cite{C:ACDT20}.\r\n\r\nThis primitive allows a group of users to maintain a shared secret key that is frequently rotated by the group members in order to change group membership, achieve forward secrecy (FS) and post compromise security (PCS).\r\nMost protocols are based on binary trees where the nodes are associated to a pair formed by public key and a secret key.\r\nEach leaf corresponds to one of the group members and a user knows the secret keys associated to nodes along the path from their leaf to the root.\r\nWhen a user wants to update their key material they have to change $ \\log(N) $ many keys.\r\nThis requires uploading $ \\log(N) $ many ciphertexts to communicate the new keys to the rest of the group members in a way that respects the tree structure.\r\n\r\nIn this thesis we study how much communication between group members is required in order to add and remove users from a group as well as in order to provide PCS when we consider CGKAs built using standard cryptographic primitives like pseudo-random functions and public-key encryption. Furthermore, we also consider the case of MLS and provide the first lower bound showing that its communication complexity is much worse than previously believed, i.e., it is very far from $ \\log(N) $.\r\nFinally, we also propose a variant of MLS which provably achieves the same security properties with a much lower communication cost." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Miguel full_name: Cueto Noval, Miguel id: ffc563a3-f6e0-11ea-865d-e3cce03d17cc last_name: Cueto Noval orcid: 0000-0002-2505-4246 citation: ama: Cueto Noval M. Towards efficient secure group messaging. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22664 apa: Cueto Noval, M. (2026). Towards efficient secure group messaging. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22664 chicago: Cueto Noval, Miguel. “Towards Efficient Secure Group Messaging.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22664. ieee: M. Cueto Noval, “Towards efficient secure group messaging,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Cueto Noval M. 2026. Towards efficient secure group messaging. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Cueto Noval, Miguel. Towards Efficient Secure Group Messaging. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22664. short: M. Cueto Noval, Towards Efficient Secure Group Messaging, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-08-10T10:18:35Z date_published: 2026-08-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-07T14:12:39Z day: '10' ddc: - '000' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: KrPi doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22664 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d61beeb9a250a04396c2c61bbd0783aa content_type: application/pdf creator: mcuetono date_created: 2026-08-13T09:39:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-19T11:36:46Z file_id: '22702' file_name: 2026_CuetoNoval_Miguel_Thesis.pdf file_size: 1390255 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 4d6def422cc93a108faf5e5defc0f807 content_type: application/zip creator: mcuetono date_created: 2026-08-13T09:39:01Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T10:26:06Z file_id: '22703' file_name: 2026_CuetoNoval_Miguel_Thesis.zip file_size: 9923509 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2026-08-19T11:36:46Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22664 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '187' publication_identifier: isbn: - ' 978-3-99078-087-9' issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '21262' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '14691' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '18702' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 title: Towards efficient secure group messaging tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22771' abstract: - lang: eng text: Elucidating reaction mechanisms requires efficient generation of transition states (TSs) and products. Existing diffusion and sequence-based models accelerate parts of this process over traditional string-based methods, but typically still require manual enumeration of either TSs or products, and stochastic diffusion dynamics can be inefficient and hard to control. We introduce MolGEN, a conditional flow-matching framework that uses deterministic optimal transport to map Gaussian priors to chemical distributions. For TS generation, MolGEN improves TS geometry and barrier-height prediction over diffusion models while enabling sub-second sampling. For reaction product generation, it achieves competitive top-k accuracy while preserving mass and electron balance. Using the same backbone for TS and product sampling, MolGEN enables template-free generative exploration of reaction networks without the repeated quantum-chemistry searches required by prior methods. For the γ-ketohydroperoxide decomposition network, it produces more valid TSs than string-based methods using only 12 quantum-chemistry evaluations instead of 1156, and identifies a lower-barrier pathway. acknowledgement: P.T. thanks valued discussions with Dr. Peichen Zhong, Dr. Hao Tang, and Dr. Chengbin Zhao. P.T. thanks Dr. Dingshun Lv, Dr. Zechang Sun, and Dr. Chenxi Hu for identifying an important bug in an early version of the code package. The authors acknowledge the resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility using NERSC award DOEERCAP0031751 ‘GenAI@NERSC’. P.T. acknowledges funding from the BIDMaP Postdoctoral Fellowship. article_number: '8769' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Ping full_name: Tuo, Ping id: 6e5644c0-c180-11ed-a2da-facc4c9f4f09 last_name: Tuo - first_name: Jiale full_name: Chen, Jiale id: 4d0a9064-1ff6-11ee-9fa6-ec046c604785 last_name: Chen orcid: 0000-0001-5337-5875 - first_name: Ju full_name: Li, Ju last_name: Li citation: ama: Tuo P, Chen J, Li J. Flow matching for reaction pathway generation. Nature Communications. 2026;17. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75654-w apa: Tuo, P., Chen, J., & Li, J. (2026). Flow matching for reaction pathway generation. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75654-w chicago: Tuo, Ping, Jiale Chen, and Ju Li. “Flow Matching for Reaction Pathway Generation.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75654-w. ieee: P. Tuo, J. Chen, and J. Li, “Flow matching for reaction pathway generation,” Nature Communications, vol. 17. Springer Nature, 2026. ista: Tuo P, Chen J, Li J. 2026. Flow matching for reaction pathway generation. Nature Communications. 17, 8769. mla: Tuo, Ping, et al. “Flow Matching for Reaction Pathway Generation.” Nature Communications, vol. 17, 8769, Springer Nature, 2026, doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75654-w. short: P. Tuo, J. Chen, J. Li, Nature Communications 17 (2026). das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: Structures generated in this study are provided in the Source Data file, and deposited in the GitHub repository https://github.com/tuoping/MolGEN and the figshare database under accession code https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30576365. Source data are provided in this paper. The MolGEN codebase is available as an open-source repository for continuous development at https://github.com/tuoping/MolGEN. A release of the code used in this work has been archived on Zenodo47. date_created: 2026-08-30T22:01:43Z date_published: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-09T07:28:15Z day: '21' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: DaAl - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-75654-w external_id: arxiv: - '2507.10530' pmid: - '42469237' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 3cfb714304eec29b97dcaf7fb86dd6e3 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-09-09T07:25:19Z date_updated: 2026-09-09T07:25:19Z file_id: '22864' file_name: 2026_NatureComm_Tuo.pdf file_size: 1526298 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-09-09T07:25:19Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75654-w has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 17' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Nature Communications publication_identifier: eissn: - 2041-1723 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: yes scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Flow matching for reaction pathway generation tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 17 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '22852' abstract: - lang: eng text: "This Research Data contains supplemental videos for Chapter 4 \"Designing bistable nanostructures for target behavior\" of my PhD Thesis \"Biological functionality without biochemistry: designing nanomachines for target behavior\".\r\nSupplemental video 1: Video showing the transition pathway of a bistable nanostructure with sphere-based arms, corresponding to the Machine in Scenario 4.\r\nSupplemental video 2: Video showing the transition pathway of the Source in Scenario 1. The arm tips change sides during the transition, demonstrating that the arms pass through each other.\r\nSupplemental video 3: Video showing the transition pathway of a fully polyhedral hinge structure with unconstrained arms. Note that we only show the ends of the arms.\r\nSupplemental video 4: Video showing the transition pathway of the coupled energy-delivery reaction of a Machine (gray) and a Source (blue) nanostructure for the optimized parameters in Scenario 3. Note that we only show the ends of the arms." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Andreas full_name: Ehrmann, Andreas id: eaa689ed-f6e0-11ea-865d-bd98cbcf83c2 last_name: Ehrmann orcid: 0000-0002-0997-5678 citation: ama: Ehrmann A. Supplemental videos for Designing bistable nanostructures for target behavior. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852 apa: Ehrmann, A. (2026). Supplemental videos for Designing bistable nanostructures for target behavior. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852 chicago: Ehrmann, Andreas. “Supplemental Videos for Designing Bistable Nanostructures for Target Behavior.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852. ieee: A. Ehrmann, “Supplemental videos for Designing bistable nanostructures for target behavior.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Ehrmann A. 2026. Supplemental videos for Designing bistable nanostructures for target behavior, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852. mla: Ehrmann, Andreas. Supplemental Videos for Designing Bistable Nanostructures for Target Behavior. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852. short: A. Ehrmann, (2026). contributor: - contributor_type: data_collector first_name: Andreas id: eaa689ed-f6e0-11ea-865d-bd98cbcf83c2 last_name: Ehrmann orcid: 0000-0002-0997-5678 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-09-08T11:32:53Z date_published: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-09T07:24:10Z day: '09' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: CaGo - _id: EdHa doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 966417b3eab49523068bb0dfba4ecc07 content_type: video/mp4 creator: aehrmann date_created: 2026-09-08T11:31:32Z date_updated: 2026-09-08T11:31:32Z file_id: '22853' file_name: Supplemental video 1.mp4 file_size: 1513964 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: deddcae30875bff8e59d5dc9ee3c196f content_type: video/mp4 creator: aehrmann date_created: 2026-09-08T11:31:37Z date_updated: 2026-09-08T11:31:37Z file_id: '22854' file_name: Supplemental video 2.mp4 file_size: 2634179 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: 721446b7595edc670d877185637cf15c content_type: video/mp4 creator: aehrmann date_created: 2026-09-08T11:31:42Z date_updated: 2026-09-08T11:31:42Z file_id: '22855' file_name: Supplemental video 3.mp4 file_size: 2080684 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: da44153821aa4f8f3cbc2860ef6d1bad content_type: video/mp4 creator: aehrmann date_created: 2026-09-08T11:31:48Z date_updated: 2026-09-08T11:31:48Z file_id: '22856' file_name: Supplemental video 4.mp4 file_size: 4047831 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: 1e94cd067809e1a93e21676181b4c102 content_type: text/plain creator: aehrmann date_created: 2026-09-08T18:36:14Z date_updated: 2026-09-08T18:36:14Z file_id: '22860' file_name: README.txt file_size: 1122 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-09-08T18:36:14Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22852 has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - functional nanostructures - bistability - target behavior - transition pathway month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: None project: - _id: 90a98bb5-16d5-11f0-9cad-9675f3f8015d grant_number: PAT 8537123 name: Functional bio-inspired nanomachines from sticky colloids publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public title: Supplemental videos for Designing bistable nanostructures for target behavior tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: research_data user_id: 68b8ca59-c5b3-11ee-8790-cd641c68093d year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22772' abstract: - lang: eng text: The cytoplasmic antiviral sensor MDA5 is activated by double-stranded RNAs. Endogenous double-stranded RNAs are modified by the A-to-I RNA-editing ADAR family to prevent activation of MDA5. In vivo, cytoplasmic ADAR1p150 is critically required to suppress MDA5 activation, yet the editing signature of all ADAR isoforms is strongly overlapping in mice. Further, it is not clear how A-to-I modifications in dsRNA prevent MDA5 activation. Here we show that 3′ UTRs harboring inverted repeats activate MDA5 in vitro and in cells. In vitro editing by either ADAR isoform leads to editing at overlapping hotspot regions and prevents MDA5 activation in vitro and in cells. Remarkably, only inosines introduced by RNA editing are capable of suppressing MDA5 activation, while replacing guanosines with inosines during in vitro transcription has no impact on MDA5 activation. A comparison of inosines introduced by ADAR1p150 in vitro, in cells, and in vivo suggests that a small number of A-to-I conversions may be critically required to suppress MDA5 activation. As those critical editing events are predominantly altering A:U basepairs into I:U wobble basepairs, we suggest that the helical distortion introduced by those wobble pairs may prevent MDA5 polymerization and thus downstream activation of the type I interferon response. acknowledgement: This work was supported by Austrian Science Fund project F80-07 to M.F.J., F80-03 to C.B., and ZK57-B28 to C.V.; National Health and Medical Research Council Australia (NHMRC; GNT2018098 to C.R.W.). The work was supported in part by the Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support Scheme to St Vincent’s Institute and Hudson Institute of Medical Research. R.V. and A.L. were supported by Doc Fund/DOC32 of the Austrian Science Fund. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by Austrian Science Fund. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission. article_number: gkag845 article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Rajagopal full_name: Varada, Rajagopal last_name: Varada - first_name: Alina F. full_name: Leuchtenberger, Alina F. last_name: Leuchtenberger - first_name: Cornelia full_name: Vesely, Cornelia last_name: Vesely - first_name: Beata M full_name: Kaczmarek, Beata M id: 36FA4AFA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kaczmarek - first_name: Hamid full_name: Mansouri Khosravi, Hamid last_name: Mansouri Khosravi - first_name: Therese C. full_name: Mandl, Therese C. last_name: Mandl - first_name: Katarina full_name: Milanovic, Katarina last_name: Milanovic - first_name: Kasra full_name: Honarmand Tamizkar, Kasra last_name: Honarmand Tamizkar - first_name: Vinod full_name: Rajendra, Vinod last_name: Rajendra - first_name: Hannes full_name: Senoner, Hannes last_name: Senoner - first_name: Linda full_name: Steinbichl, Linda last_name: Steinbichl - first_name: Marija full_name: Borojevic, Marija last_name: Borojevic - first_name: Andy full_name: Sombke, Andy last_name: Sombke - first_name: Katy full_name: Schmidt, Katy last_name: Schmidt - first_name: Margret full_name: Eckhard, Margret last_name: Eckhard - first_name: Ivo L. full_name: Hofacker, Ivo L. last_name: Hofacker - first_name: Carl full_name: Walkley, Carl last_name: Walkley - first_name: Jacki E. full_name: Heraud-Farlow, Jacki E. last_name: Heraud-Farlow - first_name: Ernesto full_name: Picardi, Ernesto last_name: Picardi - first_name: Carrie A full_name: Bernecky, Carrie A id: 2CB9DFE2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bernecky orcid: 0000-0003-0893-7036 - first_name: Michael F. full_name: Jantsch, Michael F. last_name: Jantsch citation: ama: Varada R, Leuchtenberger AF, Vesely C, et al. Distinguishing self from non-self RNA by editing-specific inosine patterns. Nucleic Acids Research. 2026;54(16). doi:10.1093/nar/gkag845 apa: Varada, R., Leuchtenberger, A. F., Vesely, C., Kaczmarek, B. M., Mansouri Khosravi, H., Mandl, T. C., … Jantsch, M. F. (2026). Distinguishing self from non-self RNA by editing-specific inosine patterns. Nucleic Acids Research. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag845 chicago: Varada, Rajagopal, Alina F. Leuchtenberger, Cornelia Vesely, Beata M Kaczmarek, Hamid Mansouri Khosravi, Therese C. Mandl, Katarina Milanovic, et al. “Distinguishing Self from Non-Self RNA by Editing-Specific Inosine Patterns.” Nucleic Acids Research. Oxford University Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag845. ieee: R. Varada et al., “Distinguishing self from non-self RNA by editing-specific inosine patterns,” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 54, no. 16. Oxford University Press, 2026. ista: Varada R, Leuchtenberger AF, Vesely C, Kaczmarek BM, Mansouri Khosravi H, Mandl TC, Milanovic K, Honarmand Tamizkar K, Rajendra V, Senoner H, Steinbichl L, Borojevic M, Sombke A, Schmidt K, Eckhard M, Hofacker IL, Walkley C, Heraud-Farlow JE, Picardi E, Bernecky C, Jantsch MF. 2026. Distinguishing self from non-self RNA by editing-specific inosine patterns. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(16), gkag845. mla: Varada, Rajagopal, et al. “Distinguishing Self from Non-Self RNA by Editing-Specific Inosine Patterns.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 54, no. 16, gkag845, Oxford University Press, 2026, doi:10.1093/nar/gkag845. short: R. Varada, A.F. Leuchtenberger, C. Vesely, B.M. Kaczmarek, H. Mansouri Khosravi, T.C. Mandl, K. Milanovic, K. Honarmand Tamizkar, V. Rajendra, H. Senoner, L. Steinbichl, M. Borojevic, A. Sombke, K. Schmidt, M. Eckhard, I.L. Hofacker, C. Walkley, J.E. Heraud-Farlow, E. Picardi, C. Bernecky, M.F. Jantsch, Nucleic Acids Research 54 (2026). das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: "Sequencing data has been deposited at GEO and is available under accession number GSE293616.\r\nEditing analysis of protected dsRNA is available in GitHub, https://github.com/BioinfoUNIBA/Mouse-dsRNA-mda5, and Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17876716." date_created: 2026-08-30T22:01:44Z date_published: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-09T11:31:04Z day: '09' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: CaBe - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1093/nar/gkag845 external_id: pmid: - '42635125' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 319904a237f73dcc55daa4a56baa98fa content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-09-09T11:29:49Z date_updated: 2026-09-09T11:29:49Z file_id: '22872' file_name: 2026_NucleicAcidsResearch_Varada.pdf file_size: 6016116 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-09-09T11:29:49Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag845 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 54' issue: '16' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 8dc144d4-16d5-11f0-9cad-9d9e86aea1f7 grant_number: F8003 name: 'RNAdeco: decorating RNA for a purpose/ P03- Roles of A-to-I editing in dsRNA recognition' publication: Nucleic Acids Research publication_identifier: eissn: - 1362-4962 publication_status: published publisher: Oxford University Press quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: yes scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Distinguishing self from non-self RNA by editing-specific inosine patterns tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 54 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid _id: '22818' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Physical processes at play in the genesis and evolution of tropical cyclones are conducive to the formation of warm cores at their centres. When the warm anomaly is particularly large in the upper troposphere, it is referred to as a high-level warm core. Previous works documented the generation of high-level warm cores as a consequence of stratospheric air intrusion into the troposphere induced by the upper-level dynamics of a tropical cyclone. However, little attention has been given to their effects on the storm''s subsequent evolution. It has been suggested that the presence of a high-level warm core can have opposite effects on tropical cyclone intensity: both strengthening and weakening have been described as possible consequences of its formation. In this study, we examine the role of high-level warm cores in the intensification and dissipation processes of tropical cyclones, as reproduced in numerical models of different complexities, namely the model “System for Atmospheric Modeling” (SAM) run under idealized conditions and the model Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model run under realistic conditions following the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains summer protocol. Our results confirm the hypothesis of a stratospheric origin behind the formation of high-level warm cores. Their initial role is shown to be an enhancement of storm intensity, by a lowering of the hydrostatic sea-level pressure (HSLP) associated with the presence of warm air aloft. However, as the warm anomaly intensifies and extends to lower levels, it also increases static stability in the air column, with the consequence of inhibiting convection and ultimately contributing to cyclone dissipation. These findings suggest that high-level warm cores play a dual role in the tropical cyclone life cycle, providing a stabilizing mechanism that can limit cyclone strength and longevity.' acknowledgement: "The authors thank Tom Beucler, Hamish Ramsay, and two anonymous reviewers for insightful comments and constructive feedback on earlier versions of this work.\r\n\r\nThis work is partially funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan project TeRABIT (Terabit network for Research and Academic Big data in Italy—IR0000022—PNRRMissione4—Componente2—Investim ento3.1—CUPI53C21000370006) in the frame of the European Union—NextGenerationEU funding. C. Muller gratefully acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Project CLUSTER, Grant 805041). This work is an outcome of the project MIUR—Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2023–2027.\r\n\r\nThis work used resources of the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) granted by its Scientific Steering Committee (WLA) under project bb1153. Open access publishing facilitated by Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, as part of the Wiley - CRUI-CARE agreement." article_number: e70280 article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Andrea full_name: Davin, Andrea last_name: Davin - first_name: Giousef Alexandros full_name: Charinti, Giousef Alexandros id: 7f7cc04c-074c-11ed-af92-eb16afd85c75 last_name: Charinti - first_name: Caroline J full_name: Muller, Caroline J id: f978ccb0-3f7f-11eb-b193-b0e2bd13182b last_name: Muller orcid: 0000-0001-5836-5350 - first_name: Andrea full_name: Polesello, Andrea id: 74c777f4-32da-11ee-b498-874db0835561 last_name: Polesello - first_name: Claudia full_name: Pasquero, Claudia last_name: Pasquero citation: ama: Davin A, Charinti GA, Muller CJ, Polesello A, Pasquero C. Stratospheric influence on tropical cyclone evolution. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2026. doi:10.1002/qj.70280 apa: Davin, A., Charinti, G. A., Muller, C. J., Polesello, A., & Pasquero, C. (2026). Stratospheric influence on tropical cyclone evolution. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70280 chicago: Davin, Andrea, Giousef Alexandros Charinti, Caroline J Muller, Andrea Polesello, and Claudia Pasquero. “Stratospheric Influence on Tropical Cyclone Evolution.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Wiley, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70280. ieee: A. Davin, G. A. Charinti, C. J. Muller, A. Polesello, and C. Pasquero, “Stratospheric influence on tropical cyclone evolution,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Wiley, 2026. ista: Davin A, Charinti GA, Muller CJ, Polesello A, Pasquero C. 2026. Stratospheric influence on tropical cyclone evolution. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society., e70280. mla: Davin, Andrea, et al. “Stratospheric Influence on Tropical Cyclone Evolution.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, e70280, Wiley, 2026, doi:10.1002/qj.70280. short: A. Davin, G.A. Charinti, C.J. Muller, A. Polesello, C. Pasquero, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2026). das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. date_created: 2026-09-06T22:01:57Z date_published: 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-09T12:43:30Z day: '26' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: CaMu - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1002/qj.70280 ec_funded: 1 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70280 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70280 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 629205d8-2b32-11ec-9570-e1356ff73576 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '805041' name: Organization of CLoUdS, and implications of Tropical cyclones and for the Energetics of the tropics, in current and waRming climate publication: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society publication_identifier: eissn: - 1477-870X issn: - 0035-9009 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: upon request scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Stratospheric influence on tropical cyclone evolution tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '21863' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Atoms and photons, two things so different but yet so alike. The former, the building block of matter, something we learn about in school and imagine it as some tiny marbles encircled by other tinier marbles. The latter, an electromagnetic wave, a light particle or an excitation of the electromagnetic field. Quantum mechanics tells us about the properties of these two entities. And even if it sounds, looks and writes counter-intuitive, it has proven right for over a century now.\r\n\r\nIn this work, I elaborate on how we tested the laws of quantum mechanics and how we used them learn more about the tiny building blocks of nature and the fields they use to talk to each other. The atoms we use, are artificial. Superconducting qubits, small electrical circuits with quantized energy levels behave like electrons that transition between different orbitals in an atom. One of the qubits' advantages, is also a big disadvantage. We design the circuits' energy levels and fabricate them in a cleanroom. This allows for arbitrary spaced energy levels but in contrast to real atoms, prevents two superconducting qubits from being alike. Still, this qubit platform is one of the frontrunners for future quantum computing technology and testing fundamental physics due to their scalability.\r\n\r\nWe interface superconducting qubits, which operate in the GHz regime, with microwave photons. We use 3D aluminum cavities as mediators between qubits and photons. The cavities allow for non-destructive readout of the qubit state, they shield the qubits from noise at the qubit frequency and they give us an easy way to frequency-tune these joint systems.\r\n\r\nWe need to operate superconducting qubits and their cavities at millikelvin temperatures in dilution refrigerators. At higher temperatures, superconductivity suffers and even worse, the environment is filled with thermal noise photons. This poses a fundamental limitation on the scalability of superconducting qubit devices. Also connecting multiple devices in different fridges does not work over room temperature links because the microwave photons used for this purpose will be covered in noise and the quantum information they carry, will be unusable.\r\n\r\nInfrared photons do not suffer from this noise problem since there are close to zero thermal noise photons at their frequencies at room temperature. We cannot simply interface superconducting devices with optical photons due their frequency mismatch and the destructive effect of optical photons on superconductors. Therefore, we use microwave-to-optics transducers that allow to convert microwave photons into optical ones and vice-versa. The transducers that we use are macroscopic electro-optic transducers using the Pockels effect in a disk-shaped Lithium Niobate whispering gallery mode resonator. By using a strong optical pump, photons from the two frequency domains experience a beam-splitter interaction and get converted from one to the other.\r\n\r\nWe measure the generated optical photons using elaborate optical setups, optical heterodyning and single photon detectors to gain knowledge about the qubit state or the converted microwave photons. Bridging the microwave and the optical world allows us to take advantage of both of their strengths but it also requires deep knowledge about both of their working principles.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we describe two experiments that our group conducted to showcase the opportunities that arise from interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons but also the pitfalls, one may encounter on the way.\r\n\r\nIn the first experiment, we managed to all-optically read out a superconducting qubit. We show that the assignment fidelity, the probability that a measurement of the qubit state matches the prepared state, is close to equal for all-optical, microwave-to-optics and conventional microwave readout. We show T1 and T2 measurements for all three readout types and give an analysis of the noise caused by the optics. Finally, we show that the infrared light does not affect the qubit performance in a negative way but that the heating it causes does. This is an important insight that we used in the next experiment.\r\n\r\nThe second experiment is the upconversion of itinerant single microwave photons to the optical domain. We show that we can generate single microwave photons from a qubit-cavity system. We upconvert these single photons, measure them with a single photon detector and reconstruct their shape. By conducting a single photon Rabi measurement, we show correlations between the microwave and the optical domain. And by thorough signal-to-noise measurements and noise analysis, we find that we can generate single infrared photons with high signal-to-noise ratio 5.1 and low transducer added noise (<0.012 quanta). We show that this measurement creates a path towards entanglement of a superconducting qubit and an optical photon and what parameters need to be improved to achieve it. Additionally, this experiment is a proof of principle for an on-demand infrared single photon source. More generally, it allows to link microwave quantum technology in general to the optical domain." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: M-Shop - _id: NanoFab - _id: LifeSc - _id: SSU acknowledgement: "The author of this work was supported by the European Research Council under grant no.\r\n101089099 (ERC CoG cQEO) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation\r\nprogram under grant no. 899354 (FETopen SuperQuLAN).\r\nThis work was also supported by the European Research Council under grant nos. 758053\r\n(ERC StG QUNNECT), 101248662 (ERC POC CoupledEOT), and the European Innovation\r\nCouncil no. 101187231 (PathfinderOpen CIELO). This research was funded in whole or in part\r\nby the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [10.55776/F71]. For open access purposes, the author\r\nhas applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising\r\nfrom this submission.\r\niii\r\nMy co-authors in the works mentioned later acknowledge generous support from the ISTFELLOW program, the NOMIS-ISTA fellowship, the Horizon Europe Program HORIZONCL4-2022-QUANTUM-01-SGA via Project No. 101113946 OpenSuperQPlus100 and a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at IST Austria.\r\n" alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Thomas full_name: Werner, Thomas id: 1fcd8497-dba3-11ea-a45e-c6fbd715f7c7 last_name: Werner orcid: 0009-0001-2346-5236 citation: ama: Werner T. Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-21863 apa: Werner, T. (2026). Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21863 chicago: Werner, Thomas. “Interfacing Superconducting Qubits with Optical Photons.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21863. ieee: T. Werner, “Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Werner T. 2026. Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Werner, Thomas. Interfacing Superconducting Qubits with Optical Photons. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-21863. short: T. Werner, Interfacing Superconducting Qubits with Optical Photons, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-05-12T09:04:02Z date_published: 2026-05-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-14T07:08:54Z day: '12' ddc: - '530' - '537' - '539' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: JoFi doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-21863 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: a5b4d8dba83f96e955a3625c0eebee98 content_type: application/pdf creator: twerner date_created: 2026-05-15T15:53:57Z date_updated: 2026-05-15T15:53:57Z file_id: '21879' file_name: 2026_Werner_Thomas_Thesis.pdf file_size: 9330516 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: b41282beaacfb32472769b9e3b1758d8 content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: twerner date_created: 2026-05-15T15:54:06Z date_updated: 2026-05-15T15:54:06Z file_id: '21880' file_name: 2026_Werner_Thomas_Thesis.zip file_size: 9370704 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2026-05-15T15:54:06Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21863 has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - Superconducting qubits - Quantum optics - Single photons and quantum effects - Nonlinear optics language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '97' project: - _id: bdadfa0d-d553-11ed-ba76-fb85edbd456a grant_number: '101089099' name: 'Cavity Quantum Electro Optics: Microwave photonics with nonclassical states' - _id: 9B868D20-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '899354' name: Quantum Local Area Networks with Superconducting Qubits - _id: 26336814-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '758053' name: A Fiber Optic Transceiver for Superconducting Qubits - _id: 5b807754-ab3d-11f0-914f-ff8c34502cc9 grant_number: '101248662' name: Integrated optical coupling for low loss electro-optic interconnects - _id: 91aaf765-16d5-11f0-9cad-a8e7e44cccb7 grant_number: '101187231' name: 'Cavity-Integrated Electro-Optics: Measuring, Converting and Manipulating Microwaves with Light' - _id: bdb108fd-d553-11ed-ba76-83dc74a9864f grant_number: F07105 name: QUANTUM INFORMATION SYSTEMS BEYOND CLASSICAL CAPABILITIES / P5- Integration of Superconducting Quantum Circuits - _id: bdb7cfc1-d553-11ed-ba76-d2eaab167738 grant_number: '101080139' name: Open Superconducting Quantum Computers (OpenSuperQPlus) - _id: 9B861AAC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A name: NOMIS Fellowship Program publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '19073' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '21870' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Johannes M full_name: Fink, Johannes M id: 4B591CBA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fink orcid: 0000-0001-8112-028X title: Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: repository OA_type: green _id: '21870' abstract: - lang: eng text: Superconducting qubits are a leading candidate for utility-scale quantum computing due to their fast gate speeds and steadily decreasing error rates. The requirement for millikelvin operating temperatures, however, creates a significant scaling bottleneck. Modular architectures using optical fiber links could bridge separate cryogenic nodes, but superconducting circuits do not have coherent optical transitions and microwave-to-optical conversion has not been shown for any non-classical photon state. In this work, we demonstrate the on-demand generation and tomographic reconstruction of itinerant single microwave photons at 8.9 GHz from a superconducting qubit. We upconvert this non-Gaussian state with a transducer added noise below 0.012 quanta and count the converted telecom photons at 193.4 THz with a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 5.1$\pm$1.1. We characterize the trade-offs between throughput and noise, and establish a viable path toward heralded entanglement distribution and gate teleportation. Looking ahead, these results empower existing superconducting devices to take a key role in distributed quantum technologies and heterogeneous quantum systems. acknowledgement: "We thank Fritz Diorico and Onur Hosten who suggested the filter cavity design, and gave important insights about the assembly and the testing of the FabryPerot filter cavities. Ekatrina Fedotova and Diego A.\r\nLancheros Naranjo worked on the filter cavity setup in\r\nthe early stages of this work. Gustavo Wiederhecker and\r\nYiewen Chu provided insights as to the origins of the\r\nobserved optical noise and Nicola Carlon Zambon suggested using telecom filters to mitigate it further. This\r\nwork was supported by the European Research Council under grant agreement no. 101089099 (ERC CoG\r\ncQEO), and 101248662 (ERC POC CoupledEOT), the\r\nEuropean Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation\r\nprogram under grant agreement no. 899354 (FETopen\r\nSuperQuLAN), the European Innovation Council no.\r\n101187231 (PathfinderOpen CIELO), and the Austrian\r\nScience Fund (FWF) no. F7105 (SFB BeyondC). J.F.\r\nand L.K. acknowledge support from the Horizon Europe\r\nProgram HORIZON-CL4-2022-QUANTUM-01-SGA via\r\nProject No. 101113946 OpenSuperQPlus100. A.M. acknowledges support from the NOMIS-ISTA fellowship." article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Thomas full_name: Werner, Thomas id: 1fcd8497-dba3-11ea-a45e-c6fbd715f7c7 last_name: Werner orcid: 0009-0001-2346-5236 - first_name: Erfan full_name: Riyazi, Erfan id: 53322f94-5355-11ee-ae5a-ff6f81c87d51 last_name: Riyazi - first_name: Samarth full_name: Hawaldar, Samarth id: 221708e1-1ff6-11ee-9fa6-85146607433e last_name: Hawaldar orcid: 0000-0002-1965-4309 - first_name: Rishabh full_name: Sahu, Rishabh id: 47D26E34-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sahu orcid: 0000-0001-6264-2162 - first_name: Georg M full_name: Arnold, Georg M id: 3770C838-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Arnold orcid: 0000-0003-1397-7876 - first_name: Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker full_name: Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker last_name: Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker - first_name: Jennifer A. Sánchez full_name: Naranjo, Jennifer A. Sánchez last_name: Naranjo - first_name: Dante full_name: Loi, Dante last_name: Loi - first_name: Lucky N. full_name: Kapoor, Lucky N. last_name: Kapoor - first_name: Martin full_name: Zemlicka, Martin id: 2DCF8DE6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zemlicka orcid: 0009-0005-0878-3032 - first_name: Liu full_name: Qiu, Liu id: 45e99c0d-1eb1-11eb-9b96-ed8ab2983cac last_name: Qiu orcid: 0000-0003-4345-4267 - first_name: Andrei full_name: Militaru, Andrei id: d67706f8-8eb1-11ee-ad1b-9c30dfa19e0b last_name: Militaru - first_name: Johannes M full_name: Fink, Johannes M id: 4B591CBA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fink orcid: 0000-0001-8112-028X citation: ama: Werner T, Riyazi E, Hawaldar S, et al. Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928 apa: Werner, T., Riyazi, E., Hawaldar, S., Sahu, R., Arnold, G. M., Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, P. F.-S., … Fink, J. M. (n.d.). Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928 chicago: Werner, Thomas, Erfan Riyazi, Samarth Hawaldar, Rishabh Sahu, Georg M Arnold, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, Jennifer A. Sánchez Naranjo, et al. “Electro-Optic Conversion of Itinerant Fock States.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928. ieee: T. Werner et al., “Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states,” arXiv. . ista: Werner T, Riyazi E, Hawaldar S, Sahu R, Arnold GM, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker PF-S, Naranjo JAS, Loi D, Kapoor LN, Zemlicka M, Qiu L, Militaru A, Fink JM. Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states. arXiv, 10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928. mla: Werner, Thomas, et al. “Electro-Optic Conversion of Itinerant Fock States.” ArXiv, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928. short: T. Werner, E. Riyazi, S. Hawaldar, R. Sahu, G.M. Arnold, P.F.-S. Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, J.A.S. Naranjo, D. Loi, L.N. Kapoor, M. Zemlicka, L. Qiu, A. Militaru, J.M. Fink, ArXiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-05-12T13:58:18Z date_published: 2026-01-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-14T07:08:55Z day: '31' department: - _id: JoFi - _id: GradSch doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2602.00928' fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.00928 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: bdadfa0d-d553-11ed-ba76-fb85edbd456a grant_number: '101089099' name: 'Cavity Quantum Electro Optics: Microwave photonics with nonclassical states' - _id: 5b807754-ab3d-11f0-914f-ff8c34502cc9 grant_number: '101248662' name: Integrated optical coupling for low loss electro-optic interconnects - _id: 9B868D20-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '899354' name: Quantum Local Area Networks with Superconducting Qubits - _id: 91aaf765-16d5-11f0-9cad-a8e7e44cccb7 grant_number: '101187231' name: 'Cavity-Integrated Electro-Optics: Measuring, Converting and Manipulating Microwaves with Light' - _id: 9B861AAC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A name: NOMIS Fellowship Program - _id: bdb108fd-d553-11ed-ba76-83dc74a9864f grant_number: F07105 name: QUANTUM INFORMATION SYSTEMS BEYOND CLASSICAL CAPABILITIES / P5- Integration of Superconducting Quantum Circuits publication: arXiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '21863' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: preprint user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '22745' acknowledgement: "This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units of Institute of Science and\r\nTechnology Austria through resources provided by the Lab Support Facility and Electron\r\nMicroscopy Facility at ISTA. Monoclonal Antibody Facility at Max Perutz laboratories are\r\nacknowledged for raising anti-pSer1022 MDA5 antibody. Proteomics core facility CEITEC MUNI\r\nBrno, namely David Pospíšil, are acknowledged for their help with measuring MS data as well\r\nas help with interpreting them and the introduction into MS data analysis. CIISB, Instruct-CZ\r\nCentre of Instruct-ERIC EU consortium, funded by MEYS CR infrastructure project LM2023042,\r\nis gratefully acknowledged for the financial support of the measurements at the CEITEC\r\nProteomics Core Facility. Computational resources were provided by the e-INFRA CZ project\r\n(ID:90254), supported by MEYS CR.\r\nThis work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant F8003-B RNA-DECO:\r\nDecorating RNA for a purpose (10.55776/F80)." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: David full_name: Michalik, David id: B9577E20-AA38-11E9-AC9A-0930E6697425 last_name: Michalik citation: ama: Michalik D. Mechanistic insights into MDA5 selectivity and regulation. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22745 apa: Michalik, D. (2026). Mechanistic insights into MDA5 selectivity and regulation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22745 chicago: Michalik, David. “Mechanistic Insights into MDA5 Selectivity and Regulation.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22745. ieee: D. Michalik, “Mechanistic insights into MDA5 selectivity and regulation,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Michalik D. 2026. Mechanistic insights into MDA5 selectivity and regulation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Michalik, David. Mechanistic Insights into MDA5 Selectivity and Regulation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22745. short: D. Michalik, Mechanistic Insights into MDA5 Selectivity and Regulation, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-08-21T09:29:34Z date_published: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-14T06:54:50Z day: '21' ddc: - '572' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: CaBe - _id: GradSch doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22745 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: closed checksum: cd80d2076a5155ab6a12ec0b05adbee5 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2026-08-26T08:46:02Z date_updated: 2026-08-26T08:46:02Z embargo: 2027-08-26 embargo_to: open_access file_id: '22763' file_name: 2026_Michalik_David_Thesis.pdf file_size: 13624837 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 16ae6cd206ba0eb04ce8a7198042f24f content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: cchlebak date_created: 2026-08-26T08:46:35Z date_updated: 2026-08-26T08:46:35Z file_id: '22764' file_name: 2026_Michalik_David_Thesis.docx file_size: 20499216 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2026-08-26T08:46:35Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22745 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa_version: Published Version page: '182' project: - _id: 8dc144d4-16d5-11f0-9cad-9d9e86aea1f7 grant_number: F8003 name: 'RNAdeco: decorating RNA for a purpose/ P03- Roles of A-to-I editing in dsRNA recognition' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Carrie A full_name: Bernecky, Carrie A id: 2CB9DFE2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bernecky orcid: 0000-0003-0893-7036 title: Mechanistic insights into MDA5 selectivity and regulation tmp: image: /images/cc_by_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22912' abstract: - lang: eng text: Deep convection from tropical cyclones (TCs) can reach the height of the tropopause and as such an interaction between the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere is likely to occur. Such interactions have been reported in both numerical and observational studies, mainly showing that subsidence from the stratosphere into the eye of an intensifying storm leads to a high-level warm core. However, the effect of this upper-level warming on the intensity of the TCs is not yet well understood. In this study, we show that subsiding air from the stratosphere beyond subsidence in the eye is the reason for the upper-level warming in idealized simulations. We further show that it is possible to quantify the effects of the upper-level warming on the potential intensity of the TC. Finally, we conclude that overshooting convection into the stratosphere causes the observed subsidence, as both become more pronounced with increasing sea-surface temperatures (SST). acknowledgement: GAC and CM acknowledge funding from the European Research Council (ERC)under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Project CLUSTER, Grant Agreement No.805041). AD and CP acknowledge support by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan project TeRABIT (Terabit network for Research and Academic Big data in Italy—IR0000022—PNRR Missione 4,Componente 2, Investimento 3.1 CUPI53C21000370006) in the frame of the European Union ‐ NextGenerationEUfunding. Open Access funding provided by Institute of Science and TechnologyAustria/KEMÖ article_number: e2025GL121307 article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Giousef Alexandros full_name: Charinti, Giousef Alexandros id: 7f7cc04c-074c-11ed-af92-eb16afd85c75 last_name: Charinti - first_name: Andrea full_name: Davin, Andrea last_name: Davin - first_name: Andrea full_name: Polesello, Andrea id: 74c777f4-32da-11ee-b498-874db0835561 last_name: Polesello - first_name: Caroline J full_name: Muller, Caroline J id: f978ccb0-3f7f-11eb-b193-b0e2bd13182b last_name: Muller orcid: 0000-0001-5836-5350 - first_name: Claudia full_name: Pasquero, Claudia last_name: Pasquero citation: ama: Charinti GA, Davin A, Polesello A, Muller CJ, Pasquero C. Impact of upper-level warming on tropical cyclone intensity. Geophysical Research Letters. 2026;53(17). doi:10.1029/2025GL121307 apa: Charinti, G. A., Davin, A., Polesello, A., Muller, C. J., & Pasquero, C. (2026). Impact of upper-level warming on tropical cyclone intensity. Geophysical Research Letters. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL121307 chicago: Charinti, Giousef Alexandros, Andrea Davin, Andrea Polesello, Caroline J Muller, and Claudia Pasquero. “Impact of Upper-Level Warming on Tropical Cyclone Intensity.” Geophysical Research Letters. Wiley, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL121307. ieee: G. A. Charinti, A. Davin, A. Polesello, C. J. Muller, and C. Pasquero, “Impact of upper-level warming on tropical cyclone intensity,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 53, no. 17. Wiley, 2026. ista: Charinti GA, Davin A, Polesello A, Muller CJ, Pasquero C. 2026. Impact of upper-level warming on tropical cyclone intensity. Geophysical Research Letters. 53(17), e2025GL121307. mla: Charinti, Giousef Alexandros, et al. “Impact of Upper-Level Warming on Tropical Cyclone Intensity.” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 53, no. 17, e2025GL121307, Wiley, 2026, doi:10.1029/2025GL121307. short: G.A. Charinti, A. Davin, A. Polesello, C.J. Muller, C. Pasquero, Geophysical Research Letters 53 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: The post‐processed simulation data and the analysis scripts are available on Figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30933764 (Charinti et al., 2025). date_created: 2026-09-13T22:01:51Z date_published: 2026-09-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-15T12:38:32Z day: '16' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: CaMu - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1029/2025GL121307 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 8d1c470e4c2cb43bf3220f34a0d3e10c content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-09-15T12:34:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-15T12:34:00Z file_id: '22931' file_name: 2026_GeophysicalResearchLetters_Charinti.pdf file_size: 1277378 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-09-15T12:34:00Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL121307 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 53' issue: '17' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 629205d8-2b32-11ec-9570-e1356ff73576 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '805041' name: Organization of CLoUdS, and implications of Tropical cyclones and for the Energetics of the tropics, in current and waRming climate publication: Geophysical Research Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1944-8007 issn: - 0094-8276 publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: yes scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Impact of upper-level warming on tropical cyclone intensity tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 53 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: repository OA_type: green _id: '21717' abstract: - lang: eng text: Robust Markov Decision Processes (RMDPs) generalize classical MDPs that consider uncertainties in transition probabilities by defining a set of possible transition functions. An objective is a set of runs (or infinite trajectories) of the RMDP, and the value for an objective is the maximal probability that the agent can guarantee against the adversarial environment. We consider (a) reachability objectives, where given a target set of states, the goal is to eventually arrive at one of them; and (b) parity objectives, which are a canonical representation for ω-regular objectives. The qualitative analysis problem asks whether the objective can be ensured with probability 1. In this work, we study the qualitative problem for reachability and parity objectives on RMDPs without making any assumption over the structures of the RMDPs, e.g., unichain or aperiodic. Our contributions are twofold. We first present efficient algorithms with oracle access to uncertainty sets that solve qualitative problems of reachability and parity objectives. We then report experimental results demonstrating the effectiveness of our oracle-based approach on classical RMDP examples from the literature scaling up to thousands of states. acknowledgement: This work was supported by ERC CoG 863818 (ForMSMArt) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/COE12. We also thank Hossein Zakerinia for his helpful feedback. article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Ali full_name: Asadi, Ali id: 02d96aae-000e-11ec-b801-cadd0a5eefbb last_name: Asadi - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Ehsan full_name: Kafshdar Goharshadi, Ehsan id: 103b4fa0-896a-11ed-bdf8-87b697bef40d last_name: Kafshdar Goharshadi orcid: 0000-0002-8595-0587 - first_name: Mehrdad full_name: Karrabi, Mehrdad id: 67638922-f394-11eb-9cf6-f20423e08757 last_name: Karrabi orcid: 0009-0007-5253-9170 - first_name: Ali full_name: Shafiee, Ali id: 2783031a-7378-11f0-b2d0-f17f1db2ebad last_name: Shafiee citation: ama: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Goharshady E, Karrabi M, Shafiee A. Qualitative analysis of ω-regular objectives on robust MDPs. In: Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol 40. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; 2026:36137-36145. doi:10.1609/aaai.v40i43.40931' apa: 'Asadi, A., Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, E., Karrabi, M., & Shafiee, A. (2026). Qualitative analysis of ω-regular objectives on robust MDPs. In Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 40, pp. 36137–36145). Singapore, Singapore: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i43.40931' chicago: Asadi, Ali, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Ehsan Goharshady, Mehrdad Karrabi, and Ali Shafiee. “Qualitative Analysis of ω-Regular Objectives on Robust MDPs.” In Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40:36137–45. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i43.40931. ieee: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, E. Goharshady, M. Karrabi, and A. Shafiee, “Qualitative analysis of ω-regular objectives on robust MDPs,” in Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, Singapore, 2026, vol. 40, no. 43, pp. 36137–36145. ista: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Goharshady E, Karrabi M, Shafiee A. 2026. Qualitative analysis of ω-regular objectives on robust MDPs. Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 40, 36137–36145.' mla: Asadi, Ali, et al. “Qualitative Analysis of ω-Regular Objectives on Robust MDPs.” Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 40, no. 43, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2026, pp. 36137–45, doi:10.1609/aaai.v40i43.40931. short: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, E. Goharshady, M. Karrabi, A. Shafiee, in:, Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2026, pp. 36137–36145. conference: end_date: 2026-01-27 location: Singapore, Singapore name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2026-01-20 date_created: 2026-04-12T22:01:50Z date_published: 2026-03-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-16T07:27:43Z day: '14' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1609/aaai.v40i43.40931 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2505.04539' fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i43.40931 intvolume: ' 40' issue: '43' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.04539 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 36137-36145 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 4029cfc7-b034-11f1-9e55-88ab2ff3b6ee grant_number: COE12 name: Bilateral Artificial Intelligence (Chatterjee) publication: Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_identifier: eissn: - 2374-3468 issn: - 2159-5399 publication_status: published publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Qualitative analysis of ω-regular objectives on robust MDPs type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 40 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '21746' abstract: - lang: eng text: As vertebrates transitioned from water to land, locomotion shifted from undulatory swimming to limb-based movement. How spinal circuits and their cell types evolved to support this transition remains unclear. We leverage frog metamorphosis, which recapitulates this transition within a single organism, to define how spinal circuits generate aquatic versus terrestrial motor patterns. At swim stages, spinal architecture is uniform, with a transcriptionally and anatomically homogeneous motor and interneurons. As limbs develop and their movement complexifies, spinal circuits expand in neuron number and subtype diversity. This expansion is most pronounced for V1 inhibitory neurons, which increase ∼70-fold and diversify into transcriptionally distinct subtypes. Disrupting transcription factors defining emerging motor and V1 populations reveals molecular segregation between swim and limb circuits, highlighting the role of subtype diversity in motor coordination. A multifold increase in inhibitory neuron diversity thus underlies the tail-to-limb locomotor transition, providing a framework for spinal circuit adaptation during vertebrate evolution. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: 'We would like to thank the members of the Sweeney Lab, Mario de Bono, Michael Forsthofer, Katharina Lust, and Meital Oren, for comments on the manuscript. We are also grateful to Tom Jessell and Chris Kintner for their scientific insight and mentorship during the conception of this project. It would also have not been possible without the technical support of the Aquatics and Imaging and Optics Facility support teams (ISTA). We thank Martin Estermann for preparing the initial draft of the graphical abstract and Niki Barolini for the final version. In addition, we thank our funding sources for providing the resources to do these experiments: GFF NÖ FTI Strategy Lower Austria dissertation grant FT121-D-046 (to D.V.), Horizon Europe ERC starting grant 101041551 (to Y.I., L.B.S., F.A.T., and D.V.), Special Research Program (SFB) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project F7814-B (to L.B.S.), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/COE16 (to Y.I. and L.B.S.), NINDS 5R35NS116858 (to J.S.D.), CZI grant DAF2020-225401 (DOI) 10.37921/120055ratwvi (to R.H.), NIH grant R01NS123116 (to J.B.B.), American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC) (to J.B.B.), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) IFI grant 57515251-91853472 (to Z.H.), and Project A.L.S. (to S.B.-M.).' article_number: '117227' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: David full_name: Vijatovic, David id: cf391e77-ec3c-11ea-a124-d69323410b58 last_name: Vijatovic orcid: 0000-0002-5494-0941 - first_name: 'Florina Alexandra ' full_name: 'Toma, Florina Alexandra ' id: 2f73f876-f128-11eb-9611-b96b5a30cb0e last_name: Toma - first_name: Y full_name: Ignatyev, Y last_name: Ignatyev - first_name: Zoe P full_name: Harrington, Zoe P id: a8144562-32c9-11ee-b5ce-d9800628bda2 last_name: Harrington orcid: 0009-0008-0158-4032 - first_name: Christoph M full_name: Sommer, Christoph M id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sommer orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105 - first_name: Robert full_name: Hauschild, Robert id: 4E01D6B4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hauschild orcid: 0000-0001-9843-3522 - first_name: Matthijs Geert full_name: Smits, Matthijs Geert id: 7a231d52-e216-11ee-a0bb-8acd55f8f1f0 last_name: Smits - first_name: Marco full_name: Dalla Vecchia, Marco id: 02a7a869-ff06-11ed-a87f-86649d6077e5 last_name: Dalla Vecchia - first_name: Alexandra J. full_name: Trevisan, Alexandra J. last_name: Trevisan - first_name: Phillip full_name: Chapman, Phillip last_name: Chapman - first_name: Mara full_name: Julseth, Mara id: 1cf464b2-dc7d-11ea-9b2f-f9b1aa9417d1 last_name: Julseth - first_name: Susan full_name: Brenner-Morton, Susan last_name: Brenner-Morton - first_name: Mariano I. full_name: Gabitto, Mariano I. last_name: Gabitto - first_name: Jeremy S. full_name: Dasen, Jeremy S. last_name: Dasen - first_name: Jay B. full_name: Bikoff, Jay B. last_name: Bikoff - first_name: Lora Beatrice Jaeger full_name: Sweeney, Lora Beatrice Jaeger id: 56BE8254-C4F0-11E9-8E45-0B23E6697425 last_name: Sweeney orcid: 0000-0001-9242-5601 citation: ama: Vijatovic D, Toma FA, Ignatyev Y, et al. Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement. Cell Reports. 2026;45(4). doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117227 apa: Vijatovic, D., Toma, F. A., Ignatyev, Y., Harrington, Z. P., Sommer, C. M., Hauschild, R., … Sweeney, L. B. (2026). Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement. Cell Reports. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117227 chicago: Vijatovic, David, Florina Alexandra Toma, Y Ignatyev, Zoe P Harrington, Christoph M Sommer, Robert Hauschild, Matthijs Geert Smits, et al. “Multifold Increase in Spinal Inhibitory Cell Types with Emergence of Limb Movement.” Cell Reports. Elsevier, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117227. ieee: D. Vijatovic et al., “Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement,” Cell Reports, vol. 45, no. 4. Elsevier, 2026. ista: Vijatovic D, Toma FA, Ignatyev Y, Harrington ZP, Sommer CM, Hauschild R, Smits MG, Dalla Vecchia M, Trevisan AJ, Chapman P, Julseth M, Brenner-Morton S, Gabitto MI, Dasen JS, Bikoff JB, Sweeney LB. 2026. Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement. Cell Reports. 45(4), 117227. mla: Vijatovic, David, et al. “Multifold Increase in Spinal Inhibitory Cell Types with Emergence of Limb Movement.” Cell Reports, vol. 45, no. 4, 117227, Elsevier, 2026, doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117227. short: D. Vijatovic, F.A. Toma, Y. Ignatyev, Z.P. Harrington, C.M. Sommer, R. Hauschild, M.G. Smits, M. Dalla Vecchia, A.J. Trevisan, P. Chapman, M. Julseth, S. Brenner-Morton, M.I. Gabitto, J.S. Dasen, J.B. Bikoff, L.B. Sweeney, Cell Reports 45 (2026). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-04-19T22:07:43Z date_published: 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-16T07:33:54Z day: '28' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: LoSw - _id: GradSch - _id: TiVo - _id: Bio - _id: NiBa doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117227 external_id: pmid: - '41964955 ' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 0d26cdb5b8d8dec3a911d8261a65cdef content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-05-04T12:20:10Z date_updated: 2026-05-04T12:20:10Z file_id: '21795' file_name: 2026_CellReports_Vijatovic.pdf file_size: 14925958 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-05-04T12:20:10Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117227 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 45' issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: ebb66355-77a9-11ec-83b8-b8ac210a4dae grant_number: '101041551' name: Development and Evolution of Tetrapod Motor Circuits - _id: 8da85f50-16d5-11f0-9cad-eab8b0ff6c9e grant_number: F7814 name: 'Stem Cell Modulation in Neural Development and Regeneration/ P14-Swim-to-limb transition: cell type to connection diversity' - _id: c08e9ad1-5a5b-11eb-8a69-9d1cf3b07473 grant_number: CZI01 name: Tools for automation and feedback microscopy - _id: bd73af52-d553-11ed-ba76-912049f0ac7a grant_number: FTI21-D-046 name: Development of V1 interneuron diversity during swim-to-walk transition of Xenopus metamorphosis - _id: cf428362-b037-11f1-b015-8277a8a2f63d grant_number: COE16 name: Neuronal circuits in health and disease (Sweeney) publication: Cell Reports publication_identifier: eissn: - 2211-1247 issn: - 2639-1856 publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '22667' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 45 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold _id: '22146' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study differentially private model training with stochastic gradient descent under learning rate scheduling and correlated noise. Although correlated noise, in particular via matrix factorizations, has been shown to improve accuracy, prior theoretical work focused primarily on the prefix-sum workload. That workload assumes a constant learning rate, whereas in practice learning rate schedules are widely used to accelerate training and improve convergence. We close this gap by deriving general upper and lower bounds for a broad class of learning rate schedules in both single- and multi-epoch settings. Building on these results, we propose a learning-rate-aware factorization that achieves improvements over prefix-sum factorizations under both MaxSE and MeanSE error metrics. Our theoretical analysis yields memory-efficient constructions suitable for practical deployment, and experiments on CIFAR-10 and IMDB datasets confirm that schedule-aware factorizations improve accuracy in private training. acknowledgement: "We thank Rasmus Pagh, Christoph Lampert and Jalaj Upadhyay for valuable\r\ncomments on an early draft. We thank Ryan Mckenna for a fruitful discussion on the experiment\r\ndesign. We thank Antti Honkela for sharing insights on learning rate scheduling and DP.\r\nNikita P. Kalinin: Funded in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [10.55776/COE12].\r\nJoel Daniel Andersson: Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however\r\nthose of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European\r\nResearch Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be\r\nheld responsible for them. This project has received funding from the European Research Council\r\n(ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (MoDynStruct,\r\nNo. 101019564). Additional funding by Providentia, a Data Science Distinguished Investigator grant\r\nfrom Novo Nordisk Fonden, with additional support from VILLUM Investigator grant 54451.\r\n" alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: 2:1-2:21 article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Nikita full_name: Kalinin, Nikita id: 4b14526e-14d2-11ed-ba64-c14c9553d137 last_name: Kalinin - first_name: Joel D full_name: Andersson, Joel D id: 4a893819-d954-11f0-89b1-e360bad9ccc5 last_name: Andersson citation: ama: 'Kalinin N, Andersson JD. Learning rate scheduling with matrix factorization for private training. In: 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing. Vol 368. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2026. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.2' apa: 'Kalinin, N., & Andersson, J. D. (2026). Learning rate scheduling with matrix factorization for private training. In 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (Vol. 368). Cambridge, MA; United States: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.2' chicago: Kalinin, Nikita, and Joel D Andersson. “Learning Rate Scheduling with Matrix Factorization for Private Training.” In 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing, Vol. 368. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2026. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.2. ieee: N. Kalinin and J. D. Andersson, “Learning rate scheduling with matrix factorization for private training,” in 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing, Cambridge, MA; United States, 2026, vol. 368. ista: 'Kalinin N, Andersson JD. 2026. Learning rate scheduling with matrix factorization for private training. 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing. FORC: Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing, LIPIcs, vol. 368, 2:1-2:21.' mla: Kalinin, Nikita, and Joel D. Andersson. “Learning Rate Scheduling with Matrix Factorization for Private Training.” 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing, vol. 368, 2:1-2:21, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2026, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.2. short: N. Kalinin, J.D. Andersson, in:, 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2026. conference: end_date: 2026-06-05 location: Cambridge, MA; United States name: 'FORC: Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing' start_date: 2026-06-03 corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-06-28T22:01:34Z date_published: 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-16T07:37:21Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ChLa - _id: GradSch - _id: MoHe doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.2 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2511.17994' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c661f016d3861a1c1b590b87a744d087 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-06-29T06:55:23Z date_updated: 2026-06-29T06:55:23Z file_id: '22149' file_name: 2026_LIPIcsFORC_Kalinin.pdf file_size: 1231914 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-06-29T06:55:23Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.2 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 368' keyword: - differential privacy - machine learning - matrix factorization language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: bd9ca328-d553-11ed-ba76-dc4f890cfe62 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101019564' name: The design and evaluation of modern fully dynamic data structures - _id: d8f03aaa-b035-11f1-8588-d5147fa879e0 grant_number: COE12 name: Bilateral Artificial Intelligence (Lampert) publication: 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing publication_identifier: eissn: - 1868-8969 isbn: - '9783959774192' publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: Learning rate scheduling with matrix factorization for private training tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 368 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '22667' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: "I am also grateful for the financial support that made this work possible, including the\r\nEuropean Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 101041551), the Austrian Science\r\nFund (FWF, Cluster of Excellence 10.55776/COE16), the GFF Lower Austria FTI\r\nStrategy Dissertation Fellowship (FTI21-D-046), and the FENS/IBRO-PERC\r\nExchange Fellowship. " alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: David full_name: Vijatovic, David id: cf391e77-ec3c-11ea-a124-d69323410b58 last_name: Vijatovic orcid: 0000-0002-5494-0941 citation: ama: Vijatovic D. Dissecting the molecular and functional basis of motor control in the frog Xenopus laevis. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22667 apa: Vijatovic, D. (2026). Dissecting the molecular and functional basis of motor control in the frog Xenopus laevis. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22667 chicago: Vijatovic, David. “Dissecting the Molecular and Functional Basis of Motor Control in the Frog Xenopus Laevis.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22667. ieee: D. Vijatovic, “Dissecting the molecular and functional basis of motor control in the frog Xenopus laevis,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Vijatovic D. 2026. Dissecting the molecular and functional basis of motor control in the frog Xenopus laevis. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Vijatovic, David. Dissecting the Molecular and Functional Basis of Motor Control in the Frog Xenopus Laevis. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22667. short: D. Vijatovic, Dissecting the Molecular and Functional Basis of Motor Control in the Frog Xenopus Laevis, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-08-10T13:44:30Z date_published: 2026-08-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-09-16T07:33:53Z day: '10' ddc: - '573' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: LoSw doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22667 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: closed checksum: e3acfea4b1a3abf99e74224656740a15 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: dvijatov date_created: 2026-08-10T13:35:39Z date_updated: 2026-08-10T13:35:39Z file_id: '22669' file_name: 2026_Vijatovic_David_Thesis.docx file_size: 14322760 relation: source_file - access_level: closed checksum: dc8c78ae14f69e54faa41e65db5c6402 content_type: application/pdf creator: dvijatov date_created: 2026-08-12T13:44:36Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T13:44:36Z embargo: 2027-08-10 embargo_to: open_access file_id: '22695' file_name: 2026_Vijatovic_David_Thesis.pdf file_size: 116926375 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2026-08-12T13:44:36Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22667 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa_version: Published Version page: '172' project: - _id: ebb66355-77a9-11ec-83b8-b8ac210a4dae grant_number: '101041551' name: Development and Evolution of Tetrapod Motor Circuits - _id: bd73af52-d553-11ed-ba76-912049f0ac7a grant_number: FTI21-D-046 name: Development of V1 interneuron diversity during swim-to-walk transition of Xenopus metamorphosis - _id: 34a02c70-11ca-11ed-8bc3-fbfd2c86c88f grant_number: 3(GG016346-01) name: Development of Viral Vectors for Amphibian Gene Delivery and Manipulation publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-082-4 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '15016' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '21746' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Lora Beatrice Jaeger full_name: Sweeney, Lora Beatrice Jaeger id: 56BE8254-C4F0-11E9-8E45-0B23E6697425 last_name: Sweeney orcid: 0000-0001-9242-5601 title: Dissecting the molecular and functional basis of motor control in the frog Xenopus laevis type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22637' abstract: - lang: eng text: The distribution of entanglement across distant qubits is a central challenge for the operation of scalable quantum computers and large-scale quantum networks. Existing approaches rely on deterministic state transfer, or probabilistic protocols that require active control or measurements and postselection. Here, we demonstrate a fundamentally different, fully autonomous process, where two remote qubits are entangled through their coupling to a quantum-correlated photonic reservoir. In our experiment, a Josephson parametric converter produces a Gaussian, continuous-variable entangled state of propagating microwave fields that drives two spatially separated superconducting transmon qubits into a stationary, discrete-variable entangled state. We also show how qubit tomography unlocks a direct and sensitive verification of two-mode squeezing in the microwave domain. These results establish networks of qubits interfaced with distributed continuous-variable entangled states as a powerful platform for foundational studies and quantum-technology applications. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: M-Shop - _id: NanoFab acknowledgement: We thank A. Trioni and C. N. Borja for assistance in device fabrication, C. Siegele for fruitful discussions, IBM for donating the JPC used in this work, and the MIBA machine shop and the ISTA nanofabrication facility for technical support. This work was funded in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the excellence cluster quantA 10.55776/COE1 and the SFB BeyondC 10.55776/F71, as well as the European Union—NextGenerationEU, and ISTA. J. F. and L. K. acknowledge support from the Horizon Europe Program HORIZON-CL4-2022-QUANTUM-01-SGA via Project No. 101113946 OpenSuperQPlus100, and J. F. from the European Research Council No. 101089099 (ERC CoG cQEO). J. A. acknowledges support from the QUANTERA project MOLAR with reference No. PCI2024-153449, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union. This research is part of the Munich Quantum Valley, which is supported by the Bavarian state government with funds from the Hightech Agenda Bayern Plus. article_number: '031005' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Alejandro full_name: Andres Juanes, Alejandro id: 7601fd3a-5355-11ee-ae5a-a20ca6f3cfb9 last_name: Andres Juanes - first_name: J. full_name: Agustí, J. last_name: Agustí - first_name: Riya full_name: Sett, Riya id: 2E6D040E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sett orcid: 0000-0001-7641-8348 - first_name: Elena full_name: Redchenko, Elena id: 2C21D6E8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Redchenko - first_name: Lucky full_name: Kapoor, Lucky id: 84b9700b-15b2-11ec-abd3-831089e67615 last_name: Kapoor orcid: 0000-0001-8319-2148 - first_name: Samarth full_name: Hawaldar, Samarth id: 221708e1-1ff6-11ee-9fa6-85146607433e last_name: Hawaldar orcid: 0000-0002-1965-4309 - first_name: P. full_name: Rabl, P. last_name: Rabl - first_name: Johannes M full_name: Fink, Johannes M id: 4B591CBA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fink orcid: 0000-0001-8112-028X citation: ama: Andres Juanes A, Agustí J, Sett R, et al. Distributing stationary qubit entanglement through a nonlocal squeezed reservoir. Physical Review X. 2026;16(3). doi:10.1103/r4jt-j39w apa: Andres Juanes, A., Agustí, J., Sett, R., Redchenko, E., Kapoor, L., Hawaldar, S., … Fink, J. M. (2026). Distributing stationary qubit entanglement through a nonlocal squeezed reservoir. Physical Review X. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/r4jt-j39w chicago: Andres Juanes, Alejandro, J. Agustí, Riya Sett, Elena Redchenko, Lucky Kapoor, Samarth Hawaldar, P. Rabl, and Johannes M Fink. “Distributing Stationary Qubit Entanglement through a Nonlocal Squeezed Reservoir.” Physical Review X. American Physical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1103/r4jt-j39w. ieee: A. Andres Juanes et al., “Distributing stationary qubit entanglement through a nonlocal squeezed reservoir,” Physical Review X, vol. 16, no. 3. American Physical Society, 2026. ista: Andres Juanes A, Agustí J, Sett R, Redchenko E, Kapoor L, Hawaldar S, Rabl P, Fink JM. 2026. Distributing stationary qubit entanglement through a nonlocal squeezed reservoir. Physical Review X. 16(3), 031005. mla: Andres Juanes, Alejandro, et al. “Distributing Stationary Qubit Entanglement through a Nonlocal Squeezed Reservoir.” Physical Review X, vol. 16, no. 3, 031005, American Physical Society, 2026, doi:10.1103/r4jt-j39w. short: A. Andres Juanes, J. Agustí, R. Sett, E. Redchenko, L. Kapoor, S. Hawaldar, P. Rabl, J.M. 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