耗散系统中原子和场的熵交换与纠缠

研究耗散腔中, 二能级原子与单模辐射场在相互作用过程中熵关联的情况. 结果表明：原子与场之间存在熵交换现象, 更重要的是证明了它们之间的熵交换需要满足一定的条件. 同时也计算了原子与场之间的纠缠, 发现两子系统间熵交换与纠缠的关系.     

A Non-Standard Coupling Between Quantum Systems Originated From Their Kinetic Energy

In standard quantum mechanics, the coupling between quantum systems is described by a potential interaction term in the Hamiltonian. This type of coupling is well-rooted in nature and shapes the universe around us, from the interactions between single photons to the attractive force between atoms that forms molecules. Quantum mechanics does not forbid other kinds of interactions to take place. In this paper, a non-standard quantum coupling between quantum systems is proposed, originated from the kinetic energy rather than the potential interaction in the Hamiltonian. Unlike the potential-based coupling, the proposed coupling changes the fundamental structure of quantum mechanics in the form of modified uncertainty relations that are shaped by the coupling between the particles in the system. Two prototypical examples of non-standard systems that perform such kinetic-based coupling are presented. In the first example, it considers a particle confined in a heterostructure, such as a quantum dot, where the coupling is between the particle and dynamic walls that determine the size of the heterostructure. The second example involves a particle in a 3D heterostructure with coupling between its position axes. It then discusses several future implications of the proposed type of non-standard coupling.     

非球形效应对强声场中次Bjerknes力的影响

考虑了非球形气泡在声场中的形状振动,推导了非球形气泡和球形气泡之间的次Bjerknes力方程,数值模拟了声场中非球形气泡和球形气泡之间的次Bjerknes力和两个球形气泡之间的次Bjerknes力,并对非球形气泡和球形气泡之间的次Bjerknes力的影响因素进行了分析讨论.研究结果表明:当驱动声压振幅大于非球形气泡的Black阈值且又能使得非球形气泡稳定振动时,在第一个声驱动周期内,非球形气泡和球形气泡之间的次Bjerknes力和两个球形气泡的次Bjerknes力方向差异较大,在大小上是两个球形气泡次Bjerkens力的数倍,且有着更长的作用距离.非球形气泡和球形气泡之间的次Bjerknes力取决于非球形气泡的形状模态、两个气泡初始半径的比值、驱动声压振幅、气泡间距和两个气泡的相对位置.     

原子与耦合腔相互作用系统中的量子失协

本文研究由两个全同的二能级原子和耦合腔构成的系统,利用Dakic等提出的几何量子失协的度量方法,采用数值计算方法计算了系统中两原子间和两腔场间量子失协的演化.讨论了原子间初始纠缠度和腔场间耦合系数变化对几何量子失协演化的影响.研究发现:随腔场间耦合系数的增大,量子失协周期性演化的频率增大;随原子间初始纠缠度的增大,两原子间的关联增强,两腔场间的关联减弱.     

Near-infrared metamaterial films with reconfigurable transmissive/reflective properties

A near-infrared metamaterial design that is reconfigurable between almost completely transmissive and reflective states is presented. The reconfiguration is enabled by tuning the anisotropic nematic liquid crystals used as a spacer layer between two silver nanoplates in a planar doubly periodic metamaterial. The design is optimized for maximum difference in transmittance between the two states by using a genetic algorithm. For a linearly polarized illumination at normal incidence, full-wave electromagnetic analysis predicts that the optimized metamaterial film can change the transmittance between 98.7% and 0.1% at a wavelength of 1.1 microm.     

Effective interaction of electrons in quantum wells

Effects of electron-phonon interaction on the interaction between electrons in semiconductor quantum wells are considered. It is found that the direct Coulomb potential between electrons in a quantum well is smaller than that in bulk semicondutors. The antisymmetric modes of the confined bulk phonons and interface phonons have no contribution to the effective interaction of electrons. If a well is narrow enough, the effective interaction between electrons caused by interaction with interface phonons may exceed that by interaction with confined bulk phonons. In narrower wells the effective interaction potential of electrons produced by phonons is stronger, but decreases rapidly with increasing distance between electrons.     

耗散系统中原子和场的熵交换与纠缠

研究耗散腔中,二能级原子与单模辐射场在相互作用过程中熵关联的情况。结果表明：原子与场之间存在熵交换现象,更重要的是证明了它们之间的熵交换需要满足一定的条件。同时也计算了原子与场之间的纠缠,发现两子系统间熵交换与纠缠的关系。     

Dynamics of interacting edge defects in copolymer lamellae

It is known that terraces at the air-polymer interface of lamella-forming diblock copolymers do not make discontinuous jumps in height. Despite the underlying discretized structure, the height profiles are smoothly varying. The width of a transition region of a terrace edge in isolation is typically several hundreds of nanometres, resulting from a balance between surface tension, chain stretching penalties, and the enthalpy of mixing. What is less well known in these systems is what happens when two transition regions interact with one another. In this study, we investigate the dynamics of the interactions between copolymer lamellar edges. We find that the data can be well described by a model that assumes a repulsion between adjacent edges. While the model is simplistic, and does not include molecular level details, its agreement with the data suggests that some of the the underlying assumptions provide insight into the complex interplay between defects.     

Coherent quantum logic

The von Neumann quantum logic lacks two basic symmetries of classical logic, that between sets and classes, and that between lower and higher order predicates. Similarly, the structural parallel between the set algebra and linear algebra of Grassmann and Peano was left incomplete by them in two respects. In this work a linear algebra is constructed that completes this correspondence and is interpreted as a new quantum logic that restores these invariances, and as a quantum set theory. It applies to experiments with coherent quantum phase relations between the quantum and the apparatus. The quantum set theory is applied to model a Lorentz-invariant quantum time-space complex.     

The structure and resilience of financial market networks

Financial markets can be viewed as a highly complex evolving system that is very sensitive to economic instabilities. The complex organization of the market can be represented in a suitable fashion in terms of complex networks, which can be constructed from stock prices such that each pair of stocks is connected by a weighted edge that encodes the distance between them. In this work, we propose an approach to analyze the topological and dynamic evolution of financial networks based on the stock correlation matrices. An entropy-related measurement is adopted to quantify the robustness of the evolving financial market organization. It is verified that the network topological organization suffers strong variation during financial instabilities and the networks in such periods become less robust. A statistical robust regression model is proposed to quantity the relationship between the network structure and resilience. The obtained coefficients of such model indicate that the average shortest path length is the measurement most related to network resilience coefficient. This result indicates that a collective behavior is observed between stocks during financial crisis. More specifically, stocks tend to synchronize their price evolution, leading to a high correlation between pair of stock prices, which contributes to the increase in distance between them and, consequently, decrease the network resilience.     

Effects of typhoon "KAI-TAK" on deep ocean ambient noise in the South China Sea

By investigating the effects on deep ocean ambient noise of typhoon "KAI-TAK" which passed the north area of the South China Sea,it is shown that the wind speed,the rainfall intensity and the long wave swell caused by typhoon affect the ocean ambient noise significantly.The correlation between the ocean ambient noise and the wind speed during the typhoon is much better than that in the non-typhoon period in the same Beaufort scale.Analysis of the correlation between the 415 h ocean ambient noise measured data and wind speed shows that,when the frequency is greater than 300 Hz,the correlation coefficient between the ocean ambient noise and the wind speed is greater than 0.5,achieving a moderate correlation;when the frequency is greater than 630 Hz,the correlation coefficient is between 0.8 and 0.9,achieving a high degree of correlation.The correlation between the ocean ambient noise and the wind speed is better than that between the ocean ambient noise and the significant wave height when the frequency is greater than 300 Hz.The correlation between the ocean ambient noise and the wind speed in infrasonic band from 10 Hz to 20 Hz is poor in the South China Sea,because the shipping is busy in this sea area and the ocean ambient noise is contaminated by the ship noise even during the typhoon.     

Feed-forward chains of recurrent attractor neural networks with finite dilution near saturation

A stationary state replica analysis for a dual neural network model that interpolates between a fully recurrent symmetric attractor network and a strictly feed-forward layered network, studied by Coolen and Viana, is extended in this work to account for finite dilution of the recurrent Hebbian interactions between binary Ising units within each layer. Gradual dilution is found to suppress part of the phase transitions that arise from the competition between recurrent and feed-forward operation modes of the network. Despite that, a long chain of layers still exhibits a relatively good performance under finite dilution for a balanced ratio between inter-layer and intra-layer interactions.     

台风“启德”对南海深海海洋环境噪声特性的影响研究

研究台风“启德”经过南海北部对南海深海海洋环境噪声的影响,表明台风导致的风速增减、降雨强弱以及形成的长波涌浪均会影响海洋环境噪声级的大小变化,海洋环境噪声显著受到台风的影响。相同风级下,台风期间海洋环境噪声级与风速的相关性明显好于非台风期间。分析测量的415 h海洋环境噪声数据与风速、波高的相关性,频率大于300 Hz时,海洋环境噪声级与风速的互相关系数大于0.5,达到中度相关;频率大于630 Hz时,互相关系数介于0.8和0.9之间,达到高度相关;频率大于300 Hz时,海洋环境噪声级与风速的相关性好于海洋环境噪声级与波高的相关性。南海海洋环境噪声10~20 Hz的次声频与风速的相关性差,是因为南海航运繁忙,该频段的海洋环境噪声会受到航船噪声的影响,即使台风期间也不例外。      

Influences of Detuning on Geometrical Quantum Discord in Coupled Cavities System

Geometrical quantum discord (GQD) is adopted to quantify the degree of correlation between two subsystems. We consider the situation that two two-level atoms are separately trapped in coupled single-mode cavities, and each atom non-resonantly interacts with cavity via a one-photon hopping. GQD dynamic between atoms and that between cavities are studied. The influences of detuning on GQD dynamics are discussed. The results obtained by the numerical method show that GQD between atoms is strengthened with the increase of the detuning. Contrarily, GQD between cavities is weakened with the increase of the detuning.     

The evaluation of the thermodynamic factor for the diffusion of cations in pure oxides and in solid solutions of the (A,B)O type

An analysis of the expression of the thermodynamic factor for the metal diffusion in a pure oxide is presented, showing that this is in general very different from one and is a function of the oxygen activity. The same analysis is then extended to the case of solid solutions formed between oxides having the same type of defect structure. It is found that in this case the thermodynamic factor becomes a function of both the oxygen activity and the oxide composition and that in addition it depends also strongly on the ratio between the gradients of these two variables. The expressions developed allow a calculation of the thermodynamic factor to be performed for oxides with a known defect structure: this is carried out for solid solutions between NiO and CoO at 10002C.     

Λ型和V型三能级原子与耦合腔相互作用系统中的纠缠特性

研究了由一个Λ型三能级原子、一个V型三能级原子和光纤连接的双模腔构成的系统,给出了系统态矢的演化. 采用部分转置密度矩阵的负本征值来描述两个子系统间的纠缠,利用数值计算方法研究了原子与原子之间和腔场与腔场之间的纠缠特性. 讨论了光纤模与腔场间的耦合强度对纠缠特性的影响. 研究结果表明:随光纤模与腔场间的耦合强度增强,原子间的纠缠和腔场间的纠缠均增强. 关键词： 量子光学 原子-腔-光纤复合系统 三能级原子 量子纠缠     

2PI effective action and evolution equations of \mathcal{N} = 4 super Yang–Mills

We study the possibility of phase transitions between Lifshitz black holes and other configurations by using free energies explicitly. A phase transition between Lifshitz soliton and Lifshitz black hole might not occur in three dimensions. We find that a phase transition between Lifshitz and BTZ black holes is unlikely to occur because they have different asymptotes. Similarly, we point out that any phase transition between Lifshitz and black branes is unlikely to occur in four dimensions since they have different asymptotes. This is consistent with the necessary condition for taking a phase transition in a gravitational system, which requires the same asymptote.     

The dependence of relaxation kinetics of photoluminescence from interband transitions in InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells on their distance from an interface with Au

Kinetics of relaxation of photoluminescence from the interband transition between dimensionalquantization levels of electrons and holes in InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells as a function of their distance to an interface with Au is investigated. It is demonstrated that the photoluminescence relaxation time becomes several times shorter when the distance from the quantum well to the interface decreases to several tens of nanometers. It is established that the photoluminescence relaxation time at a shorter wavelength corresponding to a recombination transition between excited states of electrons and holes in the quantum well is shorter than that at a longer wavelength corresponding to a recombination transition between the ground states. A theoretical model explaining this phenomenon is proposed.     

双光子过程耦合腔系统中的纠缠特性

研究了双光子过程原子与耦合腔相互作用系统,给出了系统总激发数等于2时态矢的演化。采用负本征值来描述两个子系统间的纠缠,利用数值计算方法研究了系统中原子与原子间、腔场与腔场间和原子与腔场间的纠缠特性。讨论了腔场间的耦合强度变化对纠缠特性的影响。研究结果表明:随着腔场间耦合的增强,两原子间的纠缠增强,但原子与腔场间和两腔场间的纠缠却减弱。     

Aperiodic stochastic resonance in a hysteretic population of cardiac neurons

Aperiodic stochastic resonance (ASR) is studied for a densely interconnected population of excitatory and inhibitory neurons that exhibit hysteresis. Switching between states in the presence of noisy external forcing is represented as a "competition between averages" and this is further explained through a semianalytical model. In contrast to energy-based approaches where only the timing of a switch between states is represented, the competition between averages also identifies the input history responsible for a switch. This last point leads to some interesting conclusions regarding cause and effect in the presence of noisy forcing of a hysteretic system. For example, at subthreshold inputs, it is found that the input history causing a switch between states is primarily dependent upon the noise level even though the corresponding time to switch is sensitive to both the distance from the threshold and the noise level. Since the application considered here is to cardiac neuronal control, control performance is considered over the full input range. Noise tuning for adequate control performance is found to be unnecessary if the noise level is high enough. This is consistent with studies of ASR for sensory neurons. Another observation made here that may be of clinical significance is that at higher noise levels, constraints placed upon inputs to ensure adequate control performance are likely to depend upon the switching direction.