Investigation of third-order nonlinear optical properties of two azo-nickel chelate compounds

This paper investigates the third-order nonlinear optical properties of two azo-nickel chelate compounds by the optical Kerr gate method at 830 nm wavelength with pulse duration of 120 fs. Both of the two compounds exhibited large third-order optical nonlinearity. The second-order hyperpolarizability,γ, of Compound 1 is of 1.0 × 10^-31 esu. Due to the charge transfer, the γ of Compound 2 with electron donor and acceptor group is 4.9 × 10^-31 esu, which is a four-time enhancement in comparison with Compound i. The absorption spectra show that the electron push-pull effect, which induces intramolecular charge transfer, leads to the increased optical nonlinearity.     

Broad Omnidirectional Reflection Band Forming using the Combination of Fibonacci Quasi－Periodic and Periodic One－Dimensional Photonic Crystals

By combining two Fibonacci quasi-periodic structures and a periodic structure to form a heterostructure, abroad omnidirectional reflection band is obtained. From the numerical results performed by the transfer matrixmethod, it is found that the reflection bands of the two Fibonacci quasi-periodic sub-structures and the periodicsub-structure can be compensated for each other. This method is expected to be useful in constructing a one-dimensional quasi-periodic photonic crystal structure with a broad omnidirectional reflection band.     

Significance of the Formal Quantum Number in the Highly Excited Vibration of the DCN Molecule

For the eigenstates of the highly excited vibration of the simple molecule DCN with two stretching modes,a classical approach in a multi-dimensional coset phase space is employed to show that the formal quantum numbers are related to regular or least “irregular” trajectories,with zero or least Lyapunov exponents,and are always located in the inner regions of the phase space.This property reflects that they are the approximate constants of motion.It is also demonstrated that formal quantum numbers correspond to the significant phase space dencity.     

Probing the launching position of the electron wave packet in molecule strong-field tunneling ionization

Strong-field tunneling ionization is the first step for a broad class of phenomena in intense laser-atom/molecule interactions. Accurate information about the electron wave packet from strong-field tunneling ionization of atoms and molecules is of essential importance for understanding various tunneling ionization triggered processes. Here, we survey the property of the electron wave packet in tunneling ionization of molecules with a method based on strong-field photoelectron holography. By solving the time-dependent Schr ¨odinger equation, it is shown that the holographic interference in the photoelectron momentum distribution exhibits the asymmetric behavior with respect to the laser polarization direction, when the molecule is aligned with a nonzero angle to the linearly polarized laser field. We demonstrate that this asymmetry is due to the nonzero initial transverse displacement of the electron wave packet at tunneling. By analyzing the holographic interference, this transverse displacement for the launching of electron wave packet tunneling from the molecules is accurately retrieved. This displacement is directly related to the electron density distribution in molecules, and thus our work developed a novel concept for probing electronic structure in molecules.     

First-Principles Study of Li Doping in a Double-Wall Carbon Nanotube

By performing first-principles calculations, we study Li doping in a double-wall carbon nanotube where a （5,0） tube is confined inside a （14,0） tube. There are three possible sites for Li doping and two of them are energetically favorable. The change of energy band structure is closely related to the doping sites and the charge transfer is investigated. Bader charge analysis indicates that Li prefers to donate its electron to the inner （5,0） tube. Moreover, the Li capacity of the system can reach LIC4.75 which makes it a promising candidate for Li-ion battery materials.     

Contributions of the Two Nuclei to the Harmonic Generation in H2＋ Molecules

The separate contributions of the two nuclei in H2＋ to the harmonic generation are investigated by numerically solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. The results show that the diverse electron distributions around the two nuclei under the effect of a laser field lead to different contributions of the two nuclei to the harmonic generation in different times, i.e., the contribution mainly comes from nucleus A around the （n ＋ 0.5） optical cycle while from nucleus B around the n optical cycle. By means of the time-frequency distributions and the coupled electron nuclear wave-packet density distributions, the physical mechanism is discussed in detail.     

Noise radiation of an elastic plate excited by the turbulent boundary layer pressure fluctuations

A unified theory for calculating the noise radiation of an infiniteelastic plate excited by the turbulent boundary layer pressure fluctuationsis presented.Using the wave number frequency transfer function to des-cribe the whole system,consisting of the plate and the liquid loading,ageneral exprossion of the cross spectrum was deriyed.It is an integral inthe complex wave number plane and leads to a sum of the residues at thepoles of two types.One pole introduced by the convective ridge of thepressure fluctuations yields a direct transfer component,which is anevanescent wave in liquid because the pole lies in the high wave numberregion.The other poles introduced by the transfer function of structureproduce the radiation field components with the resonance modes of a liq-uid loaded plate.The pole positions and their residues can be computedapproximately by use of the Resonance Scattering Theory.For the caseof hydrodynamic noise,where the range of the frequency-thickness prod-uct of interest is relatively l     

Simulating electron momentum spectra of iso-C2H2Cl2： A study of the core electronic structure

Electron momentum spectroscopy(EMS) has been used for the first time to study core electronic structure of isoC2H2Cl2. In the present work, the pronounced difference between ionization energies of two C1 score orbitals(2A1 and 3A1) is seen as a chemical shift of 3 eV, which is due to different chemical environments of the related carbon atoms. Both the calculated spherically averaged core electron momentum distributions(MDs) and three-dimensional electron momentum density maps show that these core molecular orbitals(MOs) 2A1and 3A1 exhibit strong atomic orbital characteristics in real and momentum space. However, the core states 2B2 and 4A1, which are almost degenerate and related to two equivalent atoms, exhibit notable differences between the momentum and position depictions. In contrast to the position space, the momentum density maps of these two core MOs highlight the interference effects which are due to the nuclear positions. The 2B2 orbital of iso-C2H2Cl2 is the antisymmetric counterpart of the 4A1 core orbital in real space. However, it relates to the 4A1 orbital by an exchange of maxima and minima in momentum space. Due to interference effects between electrons scattered from different atomic centers, modulations with a periodicity of 1.12 a.u. can be seen in the computed momentum densities, which tend to decay with increasing electron momenta. Accordingly, the EMS can not only effectively image the electronic structure of compounds by studying valence orbitals, but also provides direct information on the nature of the nuclear geometry by investigating the core states.     

Scaling Behaviour of Conserved Sites in Protein Families

Base on the database of families of structurally similar proteins, a statistical study is made on the scaling behaviour of occupying probabilities of conserved sites (Pc) in various protein families. A power-law decrease of Pc with the increasing protein-chain length Lf is found. This is related to the power-law scaling behaviour of the occurring probabilities of local contact interactions (Plocal) between residues. In addition, applying residue grouping, we find the same scaling behaviour when the number of residue types is more than 12, indicating that 12 residue types are enough to present the complexity of proteins.     

Measurements of electron-phonon coupling factor and interfacial thermal resistance of metallic nano-films using a transient thermoreflectance technique

Using a transient thermoreflectance (TTR) technique,several Au films with different thicknesses on glass and SiC substrates are measured for thermal characterization of metallic nano-films,including the electron-phonon coupling factor G,interfacial thermal resistance R,and thermal conductivity K s of the substrate. The rear heating-front detecting (RF) method is used to ensure the femtosecond temporal resolution. An intense laser beam is focused on the rear surface to heat the film,and another weak laser beam is focused on the very spot of the front surface to detect the change in the electron temperature. By varying the optical path delay between the two beams,a complete electron temperature profile can be scanned. Different from the normally used single-layer model,the double-layer model involving interfacial thermal resistance is studied here. The electron temperature cooling profile can be affected by the electron energy transfer into the substrate or the electron-phonon interactions in the metallic films. For multiple-target optimization,the genetic algorithm (GA) is used to obtain both G and R. The experimental result gives a deep understanding of the mechanism of ultra-fast heat transfer in metals.     

Giant Spin Transfer Torque in Atomically Thin Magnetic Bilayers

In cavity quantum electrodynamics,the multiple reflections of a photon between two mirrors defining a cavity is exploited to enhance the light-coupling of an intra-cavity atom.We show that this paradigm for enhancing the interaction of a flying particle with a localized object can be generalized to spintronics based on van der Waals 2D magnets.Upon tunneling through a magnetic bilayer,we find that the spin transfer torques per electron incidence can become orders of magnitude larger than ?/2,made possible by electron's multi-reflection path through the ferromagnetic monolayers as an intermediate of their angular momentum transfer.Over a broad energy range around the tunneling resonances,the damping-like spin transfer torque per electron tunneling features a universal value of(?/2) tan(θ/2),depending only on the angle θ between the magnetizations.These findings expand the scope of magnetization manipulations for high-performance and high-density storage based on van der Waals magnets.     

Characteristics of THz Emission from GaAs Crystal Excited by 400 nm and 800 nm Optical Pulses

THz emission spectroscopy is used to study the generation mechanism dependent behaviour of terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves from the GaAs crystal under excitation by 40Ohm and 800hm femtosecond (fs) pulses, respectively. The wavelength dependence of the emission spectrum under two types of THz generation mechanis msis analysed. Under the optical rectification mechanism, a slight enhancement of the spectral amplitude in the high-frequency regime is observed in a GaAs(l10) crystal by the excitation of a 400-nm optical pulse compared with that of 800nm. Whereas an obvious red shift of the amplitude spectrum occurs in the GaAs(100) sample under the transient photoconduction mechanism. These phenomena are explained in detail by the duration of the optical pump pulse and the band structure of GaAs, respectively.     

Spin Squeezing and Entanglement of Many-Particle Spin-Half States

In many-particle spin-half systems with exchange symmetry, we find that the spin squeezing is related to two types of entanglement, the bipartite and the pairwise entanglement. A quantitative relationship is revealed for the spin squeezing parameter, the tangle, and the concurrence. We find that a class of states is spin squeezed if the pairwise entanglement is stronger than the bipartite entanglement.     

Modification of the Clarkson-Kruskal Direct Method for a Coupled System

A new idea is put forward to modify the Clarkson-Kruskal （CK） direct method. Using the usual CK direct method to a coupled KdV system, two types of usual similarity reductions can be obtained. However, the application of the modified CK direct method leads to three types of new similarity reductions different from the usual ones.     

Numerical analysis of surface plasmon nanocavities formed inthickness-modulated metal－insulator－metal waveguides

The enhancement characteristics of the local field in the surface plasmon nanocavities are investigated numerically. The cavity is constructed by placing a defect structure in the thickness-modulated metal--insulator--metal waveguide Bragg gratings. The characteristic impedance based transfer matrix method is used to calculate the transmission spectra and the resonant wavelength of the cavities with various geometric parameters. The finite-difference time-domain method is used to obtain the field pattern of the resonant mode and validate the results of the transfer matrix method. The calculation and simulation results reveal the existence of resonant wavelength shift and intensity variation with structural parameters, such as the modulation period of the gratings, the length and the width of the defect structure. Both numerical analysis and theoretical interpretation on these phenomena are given in details.     

Transferring entangled states of photonic cat-state qubits in circuit QED

We propose a method for transferring quantum entangled states of two photonic cat-state qubits(cqubits)from two microwave cavities to the other two microwave cavities.This proposal is realized by using four microwave cavities coupled to a superconducting flux qutrit.Because of using four cavities with different frequencies,the inter-cavity crosstalk is significantly reduced.Since only one coupler qutrit is used,the circuit resource is minimized.The entanglement transfer is completed with a singlestep operation only,thus this proposal is quite simple.The third energy level of the coupler qutrit is not populated during the state transfer,therefore decoherence from the higher energy level is greatly suppressed.Our numerical simulations show that high-fidelity transfer of two-cqubit entangled states from two transmission line resonators to the other two transmission line resonators is feasible with current circuit QED technology.This proposal is universal and can be applied to accomplish the same task in a wide range of physical systems,such as four microwave or optical cavities,which are coupled to a natural or artificial three-level atom.     

Influence of Ⅴ/Ⅲ ratio on the structural and photoluminescence properties of In0.52AlAs/In0.53GaAs metamorphic high electron mobility transistor grown by molecular beam epitaxy

A series of metamorphic high electron mobility transistors （MMHEMTs） with different Ⅴ/Ⅲ flux ratios are grown on CaAs （001） substrates by molecular beam epitaxy （MBE）. The samples are analysed by using atomic force microscopy （AFM）, Hall measurement, and low temperature photoluminescence （PL）. The optimum Ⅴ/Ⅲ ratio in a range from 15 to 60 for the growth of MMHEMTs is found to be around 40. At this ratio, the root mean square （RMS） roughness of the material is only 2.02 nm; a room-temperature mobility and a sheet electron density are obtained to be 10610.0cm^2/（V.s） and 3.26×10^12cm^-2 respectively. These results are equivalent to those obtained for the same structure grown on InP substrate. There are two peaks in the PL spectrum of the structure, corresponding to two sub-energy levels of the In0.53Ga0.47As quantum well. It is found that the photoluminescence intensities of the two peaks vary with the Ⅴ/Ⅲ ratio, for which the reasons are discussed.     

Punishment in optional public goods games

In this work,the optional public goods games with punishment are studied.By adopting the approximate best response dynamics,a micro model is given to explain the evolutionary process.Simultaneously,the magnitude of rationality is also considered.Under the condition of bounded rationality which provides a light to interpret phenomena in human society,the model leads to two types of equilibriums.One is the equilibrium without punishers and the other is the equilibrium including only punishers and cooperators.In addition,the effects of rationality on equilibriums are briefly investigated.     

Transfer Ionization of Isocharge Sequence Ion and Ar Collisions

The study of multi-electron process has been a very active area of atomic physics research. The simultaneous electron emission and electron transfer is one of the most interesting two-electron processes in the study Of ionatom collisions, In last decade much experimental and theoretical attention has been devoted to the process, named transfer ionization (TI). This process is normally considered as the successive process of the single electron capture and the ionization of the second or more target electrons. The studies of transfer ionization are motivated by the understanding of the role of the electron correlation in ion-atom collisions which is of great interest in basic atomic physics and may provide important information for the applications both in astrophysics and fusion plasmas researches. Different authors have investigated the transfer ionization process by measuring the angular distribution of the emitted electrons. Up to now, the systematic study of the transfer ionization and the dependences of these processes on the collision parameters for the low energy ion-atom collisions are still rarely reported in the literatures.     

Microstructure and photocatalytic activity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles with an average diameter of about 10 nm are fabricated using a sintering method. The degradation of methyl orange indicates that the photocatalytic efficiency is greatly enhanced, which is measured to be 62.81%. Transmission electron microscopy is used to investigate the microstructure of TiO 2 nanoparticles in order to correlate their photocatalytic properties. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy examinations show that all the nanoparticles belong to the anatase phase, and pure edge dislocations exist in some nanoparticles. The great enhancement of photocatalytic efficiency is attributed to two factors, the quantum size effect and the surface defects in the nanoparticles.