Selective Excitation of Band Extrema in Valley Photonic Crystals

Flexible control of building blocks of photonic crystals enables achieving desirable band structures. Exploration of photonic band extrema has brought many fantastic features to design artificial optical materials, such as Brillouin‐zone‐corner extrema for valley photonic materials and zone‐center extremum for zero‐index metamaterials. However, two such kinds of extrema are always found independently in different photonic crystals. In this work, a kind of valley photonic crystals possessing both zone‐center and zone‐corner band extrema almost at the same frequency is proposed. Inspired by antennas theory, a three‐antenna array (TAA) source is devoted to individually manipulate each extremum. The correlation coefficient is given to determine the coupling efficiency between the TAA source and extrema eigenmodes. By using a source with a high correlation coefficient, these extrema bulk states are selectively excited consistent with their eigenfields. Furthermore, three control cases are shown that multiple extrema points are simultaneously excited, in order to confirm the validity of the correlation coefficient. Finally, a potential application of a beam‐steering device is proposed through selective excitation of ternary extrema. This work develops binary valley states into ternary mix states, rendering more degrees of freedom for on‐chip optical information transport, particularly for beam steering and mode division multiplexing.     

New findings for two new type sine hyperbolic potentials

We propose two new type sine hyperbolic potentials $V(x)=a^2{\sinh }^2?(x)?k{\tanh }^2?(x)$ and $V(x)=c^2{\sinh }^4?(x)?k{\tanh }^2?(x)$. They may become single- or double-well potentials depending on the potential parameters $a,c$ and k. We find that its exact solutions can be written as the confluent Heun functions $H_c(\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta ,\eta ;z)$, in which the energy level E is involved inside the parameter η. The properties of the wave functions, which is strongly relevant for the potential parameters $a,c$ and k, are illustrated.     

新疆两处遗址出土绿松石文物的成分分析和产源判别

绿松石是一种产地有限,却在世界范围内被广泛使用的珍稀宝石资源,研究绿松石文物的矿料来源可为了解古代不同地区间珍稀资源的获取与交流模式、文化传播途径、早期贸易网络等学术问题提供帮助。新疆绿松石文物的矿料来源是近年来科技考古关注的热点问题之一,目前存在中原说、波斯说、新疆说和多元说等观点。研究新疆绿松石文物的产源,其难点在于既要保证文物的安全,又要确保分析数据的准确性,同时要避免样品表面污染对数据结果带来的干扰。鉴于此,采用等离子体原子发射光谱LA-ICP-AES对新疆加依、西沟两处墓地出土的绿松石进行化学成分分析,并结合秦岭东部五处产地的绿松石成分数据,经主成分分析绘制散点图——建立产地区分模型。主成分分析结果显示加依墓地样品中有五枚是罕见的锌绿松石,其余同西沟墓地绿松石的成分相近,均含有相对较高比例的Fe和Sr。结合中原地区的绿松石成分数据对比分析,发现新疆两遗址绿松石的微量元素特征相近,以高B2O低BaO为特征区别于中原地区的绿松石样品。在产地区分模型中,代表加依墓地和西沟墓地出土绿松石的散点聚集成团,且明显区分于白河、郧县、洛南、竹山、淅川五地的散点分布区域。综上结果表明新疆东部两处遗址的绿松石制品与中原东秦岭五处绿松石矿区所产矿料的成分差异较大,鉴于近年来新疆哈密发现与两处遗址同时代的绿松石采矿遗址,推测加依墓地、西沟墓地的绿松石制品其矿料来自中原地区的可能性较小。     

Mesoscopic Modeling of Capillarity-Induced Two-Phase Transport in a Microfluidic Porous Structure

Mesoscopic modeling at the pore scale offers great promise in exploring the underlying structure transport performance of flow through porous media. The present work studies the fluid flow subjected to capillarity-induced resonance in porous media characterized by different porous structure and wettability. The effects of porosity and wettability on the displacement behavior of the fluid flow through porous media are discussed. The results are presented in the form of temporal evolution of percentage saturation and displacement of the fluid front through porous media. The present study reveals that the vibration in the form of acoustic excitation could be significant in the mobilization of fluid through the porous media. The dependence of displacement of the fluid on physicochemical parameters like wettability of the surface, frequency along with the porosity is analyzed. It was observed that the mean displacement of the fluid is more in the case of invading fluid with wetting phase where the driving force strength is not so dominant.     

Three-term polynomial progressions in subsets of finite fields

We prove that the group of diffeomorphisms of the interval [0, 1] contains surface groups whose action on (0, 1) has no global fix point and such that only countably many points of the interval (0, 1) have non-trivial stabiliser.     

Bi-2223/Ag异质结的光生电压效应研究

在50 ～ 340 K不同温度下,利用紫色激光(λ=405 nm)对银/铋锶钙铜氧2223异质结界面进行辐照,观测到明显的光生电压效应,发现光生电压的极性分别在超导转变温度TC与320 K附近发生了反转,排除了激光产生的热电势是产生光生电压的原因,分析表明银/铋锶钙铜氧2223异质结界面处存在内建电场:光生电压由异质结界面处的内建电场分离光生电子-空穴对产生的.超导转变温度TC之下以及320 K以上,内建电场方向从超导体指向金属电极;超导转变温度TC与反向温度320 K之间,内建电场从金属指向超导体.     

Discrete-time models for releases of sterile mosquitoes with Beverton–Holt-type of survivability

In this paper, we formulate discrete-time mathematical models for the interactive wild and sterile mosquitoes. Instead of the Ricker-type of nonlinearity for the survival functions, we assume the Beverton–Holt-type in these models. We consider three different strategies for the releases of sterile mosquitoes and investigate the model dynamics. Threshold values for the releases of sterile mosquitoes are derived for all of the models that determine whether the wild mosquitoes are wiped out or coexist with the sterile mosquitoes. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the dynamics of the models.     

Inference for a change-point problem under a generalised Ornstein–Uhlenbeck setting

Determining accurately when regime and structural changes occur in various time-series data is critical in many social and natural sciences. We develop and show further the equivalence of two consistent estimation techniques in locating the change point under the framework of a generalised version of the one-dimensional Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Our methods are based on the least sum of squared error and the maximum log-likelihood approaches. The case where both the existence and the location of the change point are unknown is investigated and an informational methodology is employed to address these issues. Numerical illustrations are presented to assess the methods’ performance.     

Metric Subregularity in Generalized Equations

In this article, we study the metric subregularity of generalized equations using a new tool of nonsmooth analysis. We obtain a sufficient condition for a generalized equation to be metrically subregular, which is not a necessary condition for metric regularity, using a subtle adjustment of the Mordukhovich coderivative. We apply these results to the study of the metric subregularity in a Cournot duopoly game.