Glassy-like states of bulk rare gases

Defining a glassy-like state of a system of bound atoms as a frozen, amorphous, thermodynamically unstable state, we consider a glassy-like state of a condensed rare gas as a configurationally excited state of bound atoms that tends to the thermodynamic equilibrium by diffusion of voids. The criterion for a critical cooling rate is the minimum cooling rate of the liquid state that leads to formation of a glassy-like state. Comparing this glassy-like state with that experimentally obtained by deposition of argon atoms on a cold target, we conclude that glassy-like states are characterized by short-range parameters. On the basis of cluster studies, peculiarities of the liquid aggregate states and glassy-like states are formulated. A glassy-like state of a cluster or a bulk system of bound atoms is a configurationally excited state below the freezing point; the liquid aggregate state exhibits configurational excitations but is characterized by thermal motion of atoms, consistent with the Lindemann criterion.     

Generating molecular rovibrational coherence by two-photon femtosecond photoassociation of thermally hot atoms

The formation of diatomic molecules with rotational and vibrational coherence is demonstrated experimentally in free-to-bound two-photon femtosecond photoassociation of hot atoms. In a thermal gas at a temperature of 1000 K, pairs of magnesium atoms, colliding in their electronic ground state, are excited into coherent superpositions of bound rovibrational levels in an electronically excited state. The rovibrational coherence is probed by a time-delayed third photon, resulting in quantum beats in the UV fluorescence. A comprehensive theoretical model based on ab initio calculations rationalizes the generation of coherence by Franck-Condon filtering of collision energies and partial waves, quantifying it in terms of an increase in quantum purity of the thermal ensemble. Our results open the way to coherent control of a binary reaction.     

Teleportation of arbitrary unknown two-atom statewith cluster state via thermal cavity

This paper proposes a scheme for implementing the teleportation of an arbitrary unknown two-atom state by using a cluster state of four identical 2-level atoms as quantum channel in a thermal cavity. The two distinct advantages of the present scheme are： （i） The discrimination of 16 orthonormal cluster states in the standard teleportation protocol is transformed into the discrimination of single-atom states. Consequently, the discrimination difficulty of states is degraded. （ii） The scheme is insensitive to the cavity field state and the cavity decay for the thermal cavity is only virtually excited when atoms interact with it. Thus, the scheme is more feasible.     

热激发效应对界面摩擦的影响

论文主要从微观角度研究摩擦热产生的机理及摩擦热对摩擦性能的影响. 依据固体物理学中原子热振动理论, 以界面摩擦为研究对象, 从分析界面原子的受迫振动出发, 得出界面摩擦过程中原子的振动实际上是自激振动和受迫振动的叠加, 界面原子在非平衡状态下的热振动将导致声子的激发和湮灭, 进而导致摩擦热的产生, 摩擦界面的温度升高. 然后, 从温度对界面原子能级分布和跃迁的影响角度探讨了热激发效应对界面摩擦的影响, 分析得出如下结论: 温度低时, 界面原子处在激发态的概率随着温度的升高而增加, 导致摩擦系数随温度增加而增加; 温度在100 K附近界面原子处在激发态的概率出现峰值, 导致摩擦系数出现峰值; 当温度高于临界值后, 摩擦系数随温度的升高反而会降低. 最后将本文的理论分析的结果与他人的实验结果对比, 显示两者的趋势一致, 表明本文提出的理论和方法可行.     

Nonradiative transition to the ground state and superelastic scattering of exited atoms upon impact on the surface of wide-bandgap dielectrics

The impact of excited cesium atoms on sapphire and glass surfaces have been experimentally studied. It is established that the probability of electron excitation quenching upon impact of an atom on the dielectric surface is close to unity. The velocity distribution of unexcited atoms upon scattering from the surface has been determined using the time-of-flight technique. The kinetic energies of most of these atoms are several tens of times greater than the energy of thermal motion of the excited atoms impinging on the surface. Conversion of the internal energy of atoms into their kinetic energy is explained in terms of nonradiative electron transitions with simultaneous excitation of lattice vibrations in the dielectric crystal. This mechanism of atomic excitation quenching near the dielectric surface explains the significant difference between the energies of atoms upon superelastic scattering and upon photodesorption from an adsorbed state.     

Photoionization cross-sections of the first excited states of sodium and lithium in a magneto-optical trap

A two element magneto-optical trap (MOT) for Na and ⁷Li or ⁶Li is used to cool and trap each of them separately. A fraction of the cold atoms is maintained in the first ²P_3/2 excited state by the cooling laser. These excited state atoms are ionized by laser light in the near-UV region, giving rise to a smaller number of trapped atoms and to different loading parameters. Photoionization cross-sections were derived out of these data. They are in reasonable agreement with data previously obtained using thermal samples and with theoretical predictions. Received 21 March 2001 and Received in final form 3 August 2001     

The excited state model and an elementary act of softening of glassy solids

A new elementary act of the glass-liquid transition is proposed, and the softening criterion is calculated for different classes of glassy systems. The transition of an amorphous substance from a glassy solid state to a liquid state is explained by defreezing of the process of excitation of the kinetic unit responsible for viscous flow when the average energy of thermal lattice vibrations becomes equal to or higher than the work of the ultimate elastic deformation of the interatomic bond, which corresponds to the maximum of the quasi-elastic force. The excitation of the kinetic unit is considered to mean its critical displacement from the equilibrium position, which corresponds to the maximum of the attractive force between particles. The kinetic unit (an atom or a group of atoms) capable of being displaced over a critical distance is referred to as an excited atom, and the approach under consideration is termed the excited state model. The nature of excited atoms in silicate glasses and amorphous polymers is discussed. The nature of fluctuation holes in liquids and glasses is considered in the excited state model. The known Frenkel exponential formula for the hole concentration acquires the meaning of the probability of excitation of the kinetic unit responsible for viscous flow. The elementary act of softening of glasses can serve as a molecular mechanism of their plastic deformation.     

Entanglement between two qubits interacting with a slightly detuned thermal field

In this paper, we investigate entanglement between two two-level atoms when they simultaneously interact with a single-mode thermal field in the strong-coupling regime. We show that a slight detuning between the atomic transition frequency and the field frequency might cause high entanglement between the atoms. More interestingly, if we choose the detuning appropriately, both atoms would somehow get entangled even when both atoms are initially in the excited state.     

利用V-型三能级原子与双模腔场双光子大失谐相互作用制备W纠缠态

本文提出利用V-型三能级原子与双模腔场的双光子大失谐相互作用制备W纠缠态,该方案要求三个三能级原子和一个双模腔场,第一个与腔场作用的原子最初处于激发态,第二个和第三个原子均处于基态,腔场最初处于真空态,合适地选择原子与腔场之间的相互作用时间即可获得三原子W纠缠态.并且此方案可以推广至多原子W纠缠态和多腔场W纠缠态的制备;通过计算共生纠缠度研究系统中态的纠缠演化以及热纠缠现象.     

利用V-型三能级原子与双模腔场 双光子大失谐相互作用制备W纠缠态

本文提出利用 型三能级原子与双模腔场的双光子大失谐相互作用制备W纠缠态,该方案要求三个三能级原子和一个双模腔场,第一个与腔场作用的原子最初处于激发态,第二个和第三个原子均处于基态,腔场最初处于真空态,合适地选择原子与腔场之间的相互作用时间即可获得三原子W纠缠态。并且此方案可以推广至多原子W纠缠态和多腔场W纠缠态的制备;通过计算共生纠缠度研究系统中态的纠缠演化以及热纠缠现象。     

Entangling Two Multi-atomic Clusters Through a Cavity Field

Two atomic clusters, which have NA and Ns two-level atoms, respectively, are placed in a cavity but separated spatially. There is no direct interaction between the atoms. All the atoms interact with a single-mode of the cavity field. Quantum entanglement between the two atomic clusters is investigated for various initial states of the two atomic clusters and the field. When the cavity field is initially in a Fock state, we find that the time evolution of entanglement quasi-periodically oscillates regardless of the initial states of atoms. The oscillation period increases as the initial photon number increases. When all the atoms in both of the atomic clusters are initially in the excited state, we show that there is no entanglement between the atomic clusters with NA = NB = 1 regardless the initial state of the cavity field. However, when either NA or NB is larger than one, we find that the entanglement always exists even for a strong thermal field. In cases with different initial states of the atomic clusters, we notice that the entanglement becomes stronger as number of the atoms increases. When all the atoms in both of the clusters in the ground state, we also find that the entanglement can be enhanced even by a thermal field. We also notice that a single qubit can be entangled with multi-atoms which are initially in the ground state by the cavity field initially being in vacuum, thermal, coherent, and squeezed states.     

On a series of Ir(III) complexes with various numbers of fluorine atoms

In this paper, a series of acetylacetonate derived ligands with various numbers of fluorine atoms, as well as their corresponding Ir(III) complexes, are fabricated and studied. We investigate their single crystal structure, thermal stability, electrochemical property and photophysical performance of these Ir(III) complexes in detail. The effect of fluorine substituent effect on these Ir(III) complexes is also investigated. It is found that the introduction of fluorine atoms into acetylacetonate derived ligand has slim effect on emissive energy and absorption character due to the small contribution of acetylacetonate derived ligand to frontier molecular orbitals. But the introduction of fluorine atoms can improve emissive characters and thermal stability of Ir(III) complexes obviously, including spectral blue shift, excited state lifetime decrease and proper thermal stability. On the other hand excess fluorine atoms compromise above parameters on the contrary.     

Quantum phase properties of the field in a two-photon micromaser

In this paper, we study the quantum phase properties of the field in a two-photon micromaser, including the effects of the finite detuning of the intermediate level. For initial coherent state of the cavity field and atoms initially in their excited state multipeak phase structure appears which eventually leads to the randomization of the cavity field phase. However, the approach towards the randomization depends upon the detuning. If the atoms are injected in a coherent superposition of their upper and lower atomic states then the phase distribution evolves into two-peak structure. For initial thermal state and atoms in polarized state, cavity field acquires some phase. We also consider the effect of finite Q of the cavity, random injection of the atoms and fluctuations in the interaction time.     

Anomalously high surface temperature induced by condensation of atoms

The effect of extremely high temperatures developing on the surface during the condensation of sputtered atoms has been discovered for the first time by direct surface temperature measurements. This temperature is considerably higher than the temperature of the solid film beneath and proportional to the flux of atoms impinging on the surface. The surface temperature steeply grows as the condensation starts, exists during the period of condensation, and rapidly decays after its termination. The effect is related to the anomalously low thermal conductivity of the superficial layer that is formed by highly mobile atoms arriving on the condensation surface. This superficial layer can be viewed as a new state of matter characterized by its anomalously low thermal conductivity. This text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Simultaneous jumps in two two-level atoms

We demonstrate the importance of collective behaviour in two identical two-level atoms. When the atoms become very close together a cascade three-level atom analysis can be adopted to show the increasing possibility of simultaneous jumps. Due to the dipole-dipole interaction the intermediate one-atom excited state is detuned by a large amount when the atoms are close together but leaving the upper two-atom excited state in two-photon resonance. The relative importance of multiple jumps compared with stepwise independent jumps is then changed dramatically.     

高激发态原子的相干效应

本文以高激发态原子为研究对象, 由基态、激发态和高激发态能级形成阶梯型三能级系统, 理论上求解阶梯型三能级系统的密度矩阵方程, 研究了高激发态原子的相干效应, 计算获得探测光的吸收和色散曲线. 并研究了高激发态原子间相互作用以及外加电场对相干效应的影响. 结果表明, 外加场可以使吸收和色散曲线产生频移.     

A method of solving the system of equations of radiation kinetics

A method is proposed for decoupling the system of kinetic equations for the population of an excited state and the line intensity. The method is based on the use of the Planck and Rosseland approximations for different frequency intervals within the absorption line profile. As a result, evolution of the density of excited atoms within a layer of gas or a non-equilibrium plasma can be described by a simple differential equation of diffusion type.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 97–100, July, 1980.     

Steady state quantum discord for circularly accelerated atoms

We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the dynamics of quantum entanglement and quantum discord of two mutually independent circularly accelerated two-level atoms in interaction with a bath of fluctuating massless scalar fields in the Minkowski vacuum. We assume that the two atoms rotate synchronically with their separation perpendicular to the rotating plane. The time evolution of the quantum entanglement and quantum discord of the two-atom system is investigated. For a maximally entangled initial state, the entanglement measured by concurrence diminishes to zero within a finite time, while the quantum discord can either decrease monotonically to an asymptotic value or diminish to zero at first and then followed by a revival depending on whether the initial state is antisymmetric or symmetric. When both of the two atoms are initially excited, the generation of quantum entanglement shows a delayed feature, while quantum discord is created immediately. Remarkably, the quantum discord for such a circularly accelerated two-atom system takes a nonvanishing value in the steady state, and this is distinct from what happens in both the linear acceleration case and the case of static atoms immersed in a thermal bath.     

Output three-mode entanglement via coherently prepared inverted Y-type atoms

In this paper, the output quantum correlations of three fields interacting with inverted Y-type atoms inside a three-mode cavity are investigated. By numerically calculating the stationary noise spectra of the fields, we show that it is possible to generate the genuine tripartite continuous variable entanglement outside the cavity by coherently preparing the atoms in a superposition of the upper excited state and two ground states initially. Our numerical results demonstrate that both zero frequency entanglement and sideband frequency entanglement can be obtained under different initial coherent conditions. In addition, we investigate the thermal fluctuation effects on the quantum entanglement. It is found out that the entanglement occurring in a high frequency regime is more robust against thermal noise than the zero frequency entanglement, which may be useful for quantum communication.     

Population dynamics of excited atoms in non-Markovian environments at zero and finite temperature

The population dynamics of a two-atom system, which is in two independent Lorentzian reservoirs or in two independent Ohmic reservoirs respectively, where the reservoirs are at zero temperature or finite temperature, is studied by using the time-convolutionless master-equation method. The influences of the characteristics and temperature of a non-Markovian environment on the population of the excited atoms are analyzed. We find that the population trapping of the excited atoms is related to the characteristics and the temperature of the non-Markovian environment. The results show that, at zero temperature, the two atoms can be effectively trapped in the excited state both in the Lorentzian reservoirs and in the Ohmic reservoirs. At finite temperature, the population of the excited atoms will quickly decay to a nonzero value.