Modified layered bimetallic compound used as a novel adsorbent for the solid-phase extraction of monoaromatic hydrocarbons from water samples prior to gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

This study reports a promising method of solid-phase extraction for determining the toluene, ethylbenzene, p-xylene, m-xylene, o-xylene, 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, and 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene in water samples by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS). Prior to this procedure, the magnesium–aluminum bimetallic hydroxides modified with sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (Mg/Al-SDBS-LDH) were prepared and served as the novel solid-phase extractant. The Mg/Al-SDBS-LDH has advantage of good hydrophobicity and larger spacing which facilitates the monoaromatic hydrocarbons (MAHCs) into the interlayer for adsorption. As a result, the seven MAHCs in 500 mL water samples were enriched greatly, and the theoretical enrichment factor reached to 125 times. Under the optimized conditions of solid-phase extraction (SPE) and GC–MS, the mass concentration of each MAHC (0.005–10, 0.01–10, or 0.05–10 ng/mL) had a fine linear relationship with peak area. The correlation coefficients were more than 0.995. The detection limits were between 0.001 and 0.01 ng/mL, and the RSD were between 3.1% and 6.6%. The method had been applied to determine the seven MAHCs in the Dongfengqu river water and laboratory wastewater of Chengdu University of Technology successfully.     

多集值信息表中的多粒度模糊决策论粗糙集

多粒度粗糙集和决策论粗糙集是Pawlak粗糙集的重要推广,目前已成为人工智能研究的热点.然而,它们大多处理的都是单值信息系统中的问题.而实际生活中绝大多数都是处理多值问题,为了解决这一问题,在多集值信息表中将多粒粗糙集与模糊决策论粗糙集相结合进行研究,提出了其在乐观,悲观情形下的上下近似,研究了一些相关性质并给出了多集值信息表中的多粒度模糊决策论粗糙集精度、粗度的概念,最后通过一个具体例子验证其有效性.     

Improved neural networks based on genetic algorithm for pulse recognition

Pulse diagnosis is an important part of Chinese medicine and has played an important role in the development of Chinese medical science. However, the pulse is traditionally determined by cutting it off, which leads to a lack of objective standard pulse identification methods and affects their accuracy and feasibility. This research has studied and discussed the processing and identification of four kinds of pulse: normal pulse, wiry pulse, smooth pulse, and thready pulse. Four frequency-domain characteristics of the pulse wave and six kinds of wavelet scale energy characteristic information were extracted, and a three-layer BP (backprocessing) neural network was established. The LM (Levenberg–Marquard) algorithm and a genetic algorithm were used to improve the BP neural network, to train on and predict experimental samples, and to obtain classification accuracies of 90% and 95% respectively. Moreover, improved BP neural network based on a genetic algorithm has shown highly superior performance in terms of convergence speed and low error rate.     

FFT动态相位重建算法的滤波窗影响分析

为了优化相位重建算法，针对波面干涉图的傅里叶频谱，分析了不同滤波窗口的分布特征和频谱响应，通过计算机仿真和实验测试，确定了FFT动态相位重建算法的最佳滤波窗口类型。其中处理仿真干涉图重建的波面与原始波面的波面峰谷值残差为0.008 5λ，波面均方根值残差为0.000 1λ；处理实验干涉图获得的波面与移相干涉测量法获得的波面峰谷值残差为0.009 3λ，波面均方根值残差为0.000 5λ。结果表明:选取Hamming窗进行滤波处理并重建的相位经拟合后得到的波面较参考波面的面形残差最小，相位重建精度优于0.01λ，可进一步应用于大口径光学元件的测量中。     

Escape from the quantum pigeon conundrum

It has recently been argued in Aharonov et al. (2016) that quantum mechanics violates the Pigeon Counting Principle (PCP) which states that if one distributes three pigeons among two boxes there must be at least two pigeons in one of the boxes. However, this conclusion cannot be justified by rigorous theoretical arguments. The issue is further complicated by experimental confirmation of the transition amplitudes predicted in this paper that nevertheless do not support the conclusion of PCP violation. Here we prove via a set of operator identities that the PCP is not violated within quantum mechanics, regardless of interpretation.     

Geometry of skew information-based quantum coherence

We study the skew information-based coherence of quantum states and derive explicit formulas for Werner states and isotropic states in a set of autotensors of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). We also give surfaces of skew information-based coherence for Bell-diagonal states and a special class of X states in both computational basis and in MUBs. Moreover, we depict the surfaces of the skew information-based coherence for Bell-diagonal states under various types of local nondissipative quantum channels. The results show similar as well as different features compared with relative entropy of coherence and l₁ norm of coherence.     

Gaussian states as minimum uncertainty states

In bosonic fields, Gaussian states, which consist of a rather wide family of states including coherent states, squeezed states, thermal states, etc., have many classical-like features, and are usually defined from the mathematical perspective in terms of characteristic functions. It is well known that some special Gaussian states, such as coherent states, are minimum uncertainty states for the conventional Heisenberg uncertainty relation involving canonical pair of position and momentum observables. A natural question arises as whether all Gaussian states can be characterized as minimum uncertainty states. In this work, we show that indeed Gaussian states coincide with minimum uncertainty states for an information-theoretic refinement of the conventional uncertainty relation established in Luo (2005) [40]. This characterization puts Gaussian states on a novel basis of physical significance.     

Strong chaos of fast scrambling yields order: Emergence of decoupled quantum information capsules

The information loss problem in black hole evaporation is one of fundamental issues. Its resolution requires more profound understanding of information storage mechanism in quantum systems. In this Letter, we argue that when multiple unknown parameters are stored in large entangled qudits, strong chaos generated by fast scrambling in high temperature limit yields an ordered information storage structure with decoupled quantum information capsules (QICs). A rotational isometry emerges in the quantum Fisher information metric. The isometry is expected to be observed in future experiments on cold atoms in a pure entangled state. We provide a QIC speculation of black hole evaporation.