QED is not endangered by the proton's size

Pohl et al. have reported a very precise measurement of the Lamb-shift in muonic hydrogen (Pohl et al., 2010) [1], from which they infer the radius characterizing the proton's charge distribution. The result is 5 standard deviations away from the one of the CODATA compilation of physical constants. This has been interpreted (Pohl et al., 2010) [1] as possibly requiring a 4.9 standard-deviation modification of the Rydberg constant, to a new value that would be precise to 3.3 parts in 10¹³, as well as putative evidence for physics beyond the standard model (Flowers, 2010) [2]. I demonstrate that these options are unsubstantiated.     

A note on loop-soliton solutions of the short-pulse equation

It is shown that the N-loop soliton solution to the short-pulse equation may be decomposed exactly into N separate soliton elements by using a Moloney-Hodnett type decomposition. For the case N=2, the decomposition is used to calculate the phase shift of each soliton caused by its interaction with the other one. Corrections are made to some previous results in the literature.     

Creating W-type entangled states in quantum dot systems

We show that three initially nonresonant quantum dots (QDs) could be used to generate W-type entangled states with the application of a single detuned light via the ac Stark effect. This gives a way to prepare the highly entangled excitonic states in the picosecond time scale by controlling the interactions between QDs.     

Anomalous Doppler effects in bulk phononic crystal

Doppler effects in simple cubic phononic crystal are studied theoretically and numerically. In addition to observing Doppler shifts from a moving source's frequencies inside the gap, we find that Doppler shifts can be multi-order, anisotropic, and the dominant order of shift depends on the band index that the source's frequency is in.     

On the correlation between the X‐ray absorption chemical shift and the formal valence state in mixed‐valence manganites

Here the correlation between the chemical shift in X‐ray absorption spectroscopy, the geometrical structure and the formal valence state of the Mn atom in mixed‐valence manganites are discussed. It is shown that this empirical correlation can be reliably used to determine the formal valence of Mn, using either X‐ray absorption spectroscopy or resonant X‐ray scattering techniques. The difficulties in obtaining a reliable comparison between experimental XANES spectra and theoretical simulations on an absolute energy scale are revealed. It is concluded that the contributions from the electronic occupation and the local structure to the XANES spectra cannot be separated either experimentally or theoretically. In this way the geometrical and electronic structure of the Mn atom in mixed‐valence manganites cannot be described as a bimodal distribution of the formal integer Mn³⁺ and Mn⁴⁺ valence states corresponding to the undoped references.     

Asymmetric angular dependence of Jc in coated conductors prior to and after fast neutron irradiation

Angular dependent measurements of J_c were performed on a commercial coated conductor (SuperPower) consisting of a 1 μm thick YBCO layer grown on a MgO IBAD buffer layer. An asymmetric behavior of the angular dependence of J_c (J_c(Ф)) was found with a changing distance between the two peaks at different temperatures and applied magnetic fields. One peak always occurs when the field is oriented parallel to the tape surface, the other smaller peak is located in the perpendicular orientation at high fields, but slightly shifted (by up to 10°) at 77 K and low magnetic fields. This peak shift, the overall J_c(Ф) asymmetry and the influence of fast neutron irradiation on J_c(Ф) are discussed. The spherical defects, introduced by collisions of fast neutrons with the lattice atoms, are randomly distributed, add to the as-grown defect structure and change the critical current anisotropy by altering both peaks.     

Size dependent 2p3/2 binding-energy shift of Ni nanoclusters on SiO2 support: Skin-depth local strain and quantum trapping

An in situ X-ray photoelectron emission investigation revealed that the size trend of the 2p_3/2 binding-energy shift (BES) of Ni nanoclusters grown on SiO₂ substrate follows the prediction of the bond order-length-strength (BOLS) correlation theory [30]. Theoretical reproduction of the measurements turns out that the 2p_3/2 binding energy of an isolated Ni atom is 850.51 eV and its intrinsic bulk shift is 2.70 eV. Findings confirmed that the skin-depth local strain and potential well quantum trapping induced by the shorter and stronger bonds between under-coordinated surface atoms provide perturbation to the Hamiltonian and hence dominate the size dependent BES.     

Measurements of N2-broadening and -shifting parameters of the water vapor spectral lines in the second hexad region

The water vapor line broadening and shifting in the ν₁+ν₂+ν₃ band induced by nitrogen pressure are measured with Bruker IFS 125 HR FTIR spectrometer at the spectral resolution of 0.01 cm⁻¹ for the line with upper states angular momentum up to 11. Line contour parameters are calculated using a semi-empirical approach extended by the use of empirical data to determine some fitting model parameters. We use the complete set of high accuracy vibration-rotation dipole transition moments calculated for all possible transitions using wavefunctions determined from variational nuclear motion calculations and an ab initio dipole moment surface. Calculated values of line contour parameters are in a good agreement with observed parameters.     

BeAl2O4:Cr3+的能谱和R1线压力移位的理论计算

采用强场方案和三角基,通过对角化三角畸变立方场的d3电子组态完全能量矩阵,拟合得到BeAl2O4:Cr3+的能谱和波函数.利用获得的波函数,计算出了基态g因子和R1 、R2线能谱压致移位值,计算值和实验结果相符合.各参数对能级压力移位率的影响也被定量计算,揭示了R1和R2线压力移位的物理起源.     

Beurling type theorem on the Bergman space via the Hardy space of the bidisk

In this paper,by lifting the Bergman shift as the compression of an isometry on a subspace of the Hardy space of the bidisk,we give a proof of the Beurling type theorem on the Bergman space of Aleman,Richter and Sundberg(1996) via the Hardy space of the bidisk.