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Perovskite oxides hetero-structures are host to a large number of interesting phenomena such as ferroelectricity and 2D-superconductivity. Ferroelectric perovskite oxides have been of significant interest due to their possible use in MOSFETs and FRAM. SrHfO$_3$ (SHO) is a perovskite oxide with pseudo-cubic lattice parameter of 4.1 $\mathring{A}$ that previous DFT calculations suggest can be stabilized in a ferroelectric P4mm phase, similar to STO, when stabilized with sufficient compressive strain. Additionally, it is insulating, possesses a large band gap, and a high dielectric constant, making it an ideal candidate for oxide electronic devices. In this work, SHO films were grown by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy with a tetrakis(ethylmethylamino)hafnium(IV) source on GdScO$_3$ and TbScO$_3$ substrates. Equilibrium and strained SHO phases were characterized using X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and scanning transmission electron microscopy to determine the perovskite phase of the strained films, with the results compared to density functional theory models of phase stability versus strain. Contrary to past reports, we find that compressively-strained SrHfO$_3$ undergoes octahedral tilt distortions and most likely takes on the I4/mcm phase with the a$^0$a$^0$c$^-$ tilt pattern., Comment: 36 pages, 11 figures

Magnetic monopole quasiparticles in spin ice materials hold the potential for exploring new frontiers of physics that extend beyond Maxwell's equations. We have previously proposed a two-dimensional magnetic monopole gas (2DMG), confined at the interface between spin-ice ($R_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, $R$ = Dy, Ho) and antiferromagnetic iridate ($R_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$, $R$ = Dy, Ho), which hosts monopoles with a net charge. The mechanism behind the 2D confinement of the monopole gas remains unclear. In this work, we demonstrate that entropy is a key factor in the 2D confinement of this monopole gas. We reveal that the competition between the entropy of spin-ice, which favors the 2D confinement, and the entropy of the monopoles' random walks, which favors the deconfinement, dictates the distribution of the monopoles within a few layers close to the interface. Our entropy-based model accurately reproduces the monopole distribution obtained from the spin model, affirming that 2D confinement is entropy-driven. We further employ both models to show that the monopole distribution can be manipulated by an external magnetic field and temperature, holding promise for next-generation devices based on magnetic monopoles. Our findings reveal the entropic mechanisms in 2DMG, enabling the manipulation of emergent quasiparticles at material interfaces., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures

The nascent but rapidly growing field of Quantum Information Science and Technology has led to an increased demand for skilled quantum workers and an opportunity to build a diverse workforce at the outset. In order to meet this demand and encourage women and underrepresented minorities in STEM to consider a career in QIST, we have developed a curriculum for introducing quantum computing to teachers and students at the high school level with no prerequisites. In 2022, this curriculum was delivered over the course of two one-week summer camps, one targeting teachers and another targeting students. Here, we present an overview of the objectives, curriculum, and activities, as well as results from the formal evaluation of both camps and the outlook for expanding QCaMP in future years., Comment: 9 pages, to be published in IEEE Xplore as part of the IEEE Quantum Week 2023 proceedings

Quantum information can not be perfectly cloned, but approximate copies of quantum information can be generated. Quantum telecloning combines approximate quantum cloning, more typically referred as quantum cloning, and quantum teleportation. Quantum telecloning allows approximate copies of quantum information to be constructed by separate parties, using the classical results of a Bell measurement made on a prepared quantum telecloning state. Quantum telecloning can be implemented as a circuit on quantum computers using a classical co-processor to compute classical feed forward instructions using if statements based on the results of a mid-circuit Bell measurement in real time. We present universal, symmetric, optimal $1 \rightarrow M$ telecloning circuits, and experimentally demonstrate these quantum telecloning circuits for $M=2$ up to $M=10$, natively executed with real time classical control systems on IBM Quantum superconducting processors, known as dynamic circuits. We perform the cloning procedure on many different message states across the Bloch sphere, on $7$ IBM Quantum processors, optionally using the error suppression technique X-X sequence digital dynamical decoupling. Two circuit optimizations are utilized, one which removes ancilla qubits for $M=2, 3$, and one which reduces the total number of gates in the circuit but still uses ancilla qubits. Parallel single qubit tomography with MLE density matrix reconstruction is used in order to compute the mixed state density matrices of the clone qubits, and clone quality is measured using quantum fidelity. These results present one of the largest and most comprehensive NISQ computer experimental analyses on (single qubit) quantum telecloning to date. The clone fidelity sharply decreases to $0.5$ for $M > 5$, but for $M=2$ we are able to achieve a mean clone fidelity of up to $0.79$ using dynamical decoupling.

The piezoelectric response is a measure of the sensitivity of a material's polarization to stress or its strain to an applied field. Using in-operando x-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging, we observe that topological vortices are the source of a five-fold enhancement of the piezoelectric response near the vortex core. The vortices form where several low symmetry ferroelectric phases and phase boundaries coalesce. Unlike bulk ferroelectric solid solutions in which a large piezoelectric response is associated with coexisting phases in the proximity of the triple point, the largest responses for pure BaTiO3 at the nanoscale are in spatial regions of extremely small spontaneous polarization at vortex cores. The response decays inversely with polarization away from the vortex, analogous to the behavior in bulk ceramics as the cation compositions are varied away from the triple point. We use first-principles-based molecular dynamics to augment our observations, and our results suggest that nanoscale piezoelectric materials with large piezoelectric response can be designed within a parameter space governed by vortex cores. Our findings have implications for the development of next-generation nanoscale piezoelectric materials., Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures

Oxide two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) promise high charge carrier concentrations and low-loss electronic transport in semiconductors such as BaSnO$_{3}$ (BSO). ACBN0 computations for BSO/SrNbO$_{3}$ (SNO) interfaces show Nb-4$\textit{d}$ electron injection into extended Sn-5$\textit{s}$ electronic states. The conduction band minimum consists of Sn-5$\textit{s}$ states ~1.2 eV below the Fermi level for intermediate thickness 6-unit cell BSO/6-unit cell SNO superlattices, corresponding to an electron density in BSO of ~10$^{21}$ cm$^{-3}$. Experimental studies of analogous SNO/BSO interfaces grown by molecular beam epitaxy confirm significant charge transfer from SNO to BSO. $\textit {In situ}$ angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies show an electron density of ~4 $\times$ 10$^{21}$ cm$^{-3}$. The consistency of theory and experiment shows that BSO/SNO interfaces provide a novel materials platform for low loss electron transport in 2DEGs., Comment: There are 7 Figures, 1 Table and 10 pages

Due to the no-cloning theorem, generating perfect quantum clones of an arbitrary unknown quantum state is not possible, however approximate quantum clones can be constructed. Quantum telecloning is a protocol that originates from a combination of quantum teleportation and quantum cloning. Here we present $1 \rightarrow 2$ and $1 \rightarrow 3$ quantum telecloning circuits, with and without ancilla, that are theoretically optimal (meaning the clones have the highest fidelity allowed by quantum mechanics), universal (meaning the clone fidelity is independent of the state being cloned), and symmetric (meaning the clones all have the same fidelity). We implement these circuits on gate model IBMQ and Quantinuum NISQ hardware and quantify the clone fidelities using parallel single qubit state tomography. Quantum telecloning using mid-circuit measurement with classical feed-forward control (i.e. real time if statements) is demonstrated on the Quantinuum H1-2 device. Two alternative implementations of quantum telecloning, deferred measurement and post selection, are demonstrated on ibmq\_montreal, where mid-circuit measurements with real time if statements are not available. Our results show that NISQ devices can achieve near-optimal quantum telecloning fidelity; for example the Quantinuum H1-2 device running the telecloning circuits without ancilla achieved a mean clone fidelity of $0.824$ with standard deviation of $0.024$ for two clone circuits and $0.765$ with standard deviation of $0.022$ for three clone circuits. The theoretical fidelity limits are $0.8\overline{3}$ for two clones and $0.\overline{7}$ for three clones. This demonstrates the viability of performing experimental analysis of quantum information networks and quantum cryptography protocols on NISQ computers.

Experimental measurements of Raman spectra for hcp iron at high pressure show two modes over a considerable pressure range in contrast to the prediction of one doubly degenerate mode for the hcp lattice. We use density functional theory to investigate the influence of magnetic order on the Raman active modes of hcp iron. We find an antiferromagnetic state that lifts the degeneracy of the transverse optical mode, and yields stable antiferromagnetic moments up to approximately 60 GPa (55 Bohr$^3$). The resulting frequencies of the two transverse optical modes are in good agreement with the experimental Raman shifts, lending support to the existence of local antiferromagnetic order in hcp iron., Comment: 4 pages (revtex4), 3 eps figures submitted to PRL