冬季冲绳海域地形及黑潮对声传播的影响

冲绳海域地形复杂且冬季存在较强的黑潮海洋锋,利用数值实验研究斜坡地形和海洋锋同时存在时由浅海至深海的声传播特性。海洋模式数值预报环境数据表明,分布于冲绳海槽斜坡上方的海洋锋导致该海域上层水体声速存在水平变化,纬度越高,水平变化越大。利用抛物方程声场模型计算声传播损失,通过简正模态分析存在表面声道的环境中声能量分布,利用声线轨迹图解释海底斜坡和海洋锋对声传播的影响。结果表明:声源频率低于表面声道截止频率时,声传播主要受海底地形影响;声源频率高于表面声道截止频率时,位于表面声道内的声源激发的声能量主要在表面声道传播,部分声能量从表面声道泄漏沿斜坡向深海传播,位于表面声道深度以下的声源激发的声能量主要沿斜坡向深海传播,斜坡地形导致表面声道下方至共轭深度这一深度范围呈现为声影区,海洋锋的存在可导致表面声道传播损失变化明显,影响程度与声源深度有关。     

典型北极冰下声信道多途结构分析及实验研究

针对北极海域典型声场环境,提出了基于OASES-Bellhop耦合模型的冰下声信道多途结构快速分析方法。模型将海冰等效为具有粗糙界面的弹性分层介质,利用微扰法与Kirchhoff近似,估计海冰界面不均匀造成的散射损失,结合射线传播理论对典型北极冰下声信道多途结构进行分析与预报。数值仿真与实验结果表明,在6 km距离处,典型北极冰下声信道由于海冰与海底反射分别形成多途结构,海冰多次反射路径叠加形成的多途结构较为稳定,时延扩展在14 ms范围内,海底反射路径强度相对较弱。OASES-Bellhop模型对冰下声信道多途结构幅度和时延预测误差较小,能够较好的解释及预报实验观测到的多途结构环境特性。      

北极典型冰下声信道建模及特性

将Burke-Twersky (BT)散射模型与射线理论相结合研究北极典型冰下的水声信道特性。BT模型将极地冰水界面的冰脊视为随机分布在自由表面的半椭圆柱。首先根据BT模型分别对高频和低频情况下的冰面反射系数取近似,计算不同频率的冰面反射系数。然后结合射线理论计算冰下声场并分析冰下信道特性,并与相同条件下绝对软界面的水声信道进行对比研究。结果显示,由于冰界面的存在,冰水界面与绝对软界面相比,冰面反射系数较小,使得部分声线不会传播很远,且随频率的增加衰减越发严重,因此不利于声信号远距离传播;此外在信道结构上,由于冰层反射系数较小,冰下信道多径相较于无冰的水-空气界面其多途现象不明显。研究结果对认知极地冰下水声信道特性以及开展极地水声系统性能预报具有一定意义。      

会聚区的水平偏移特性及其临界频率分析

利用数值模型研究了完整深海声道中会聚区的水平偏移特性,根据折射定律和Lloyd镜效应推导了会聚区发生水平偏移时临界频率的表达式。研究结果表明:当声波频率低于临界频率时,会聚区的主导模态与频率相关,随着声波频率减小会聚区会向靠近声源的方向水平移动,同时传播损失明显增大,当声波频率大于临界频率时,会聚区的主导模态近似与频率无关,会聚区的位置和传播损失大小不会随频率改变而发生明显变化,声源深度不同时,临界频率也不同。通过临界频率可以确定在特定声源深度下,会聚区发生水平偏移时需要满足的频率条件,利用临界频率与声源深度之间的关系,可以被动估计深海浅层目标的深度。      

双基地冰-水界面混响强度的理论预报

针对北极冰层冰水界面具有小尺度粗糙界面的情况,给出由冰层造成的混响平均强度的理论预报公式。首先将北极冰层等效为具有粗糙界面的弹性介质,并且采用小粗糙度微扰理论在精细拟合粗糙度谱的基础上,建立粗糙冰层的三维散射强度模型,然后建立三维双基地声呐几何模型确定有效散射区域,最后给出双基地冰下混响平均强度的估算公式,并在所拟合的粗糙度谱的情况下,利用该预报公式计算双基地声呐配置参数和海冰物理及声学特性对冰下混响强度的影响算例。数值仿真表明该公式能够估算出北极冰下双基地声呐产生的混响平均强度,并且分析出了时延、基线长度等声呐配置参数和冰层声速比、密度比等海冰物理参数会对混响强度造成的影响。声呐的配置参数主要影响散射的有效面积,海冰的物理参数则影响着冰层的散射强度。其中,冰层声速比不仅影响混响强度的大小,还会影响混响强度随时间的衰减速度。      

表面声道对深海风成噪声垂直空间特性的影响规律

水下风成噪声的垂直空间特性包括噪声垂直方向性和垂直相关性,研究海洋环境对其影响规律对提升声呐性能、增加海洋环境参数反演的准确性具有重要意义.本文利用Pekeris割线下的简正波理论描述噪声的传播过程,研究了深海环境下存在表面声道时,表面声道以下噪声垂直空间特性的变化规律及其原因.研究表明,在临界深度以上,表面声道的存在导致噪声垂直方向性在水平凹槽边缘靠近海底方向上的峰值升高,噪声垂直相关性随垂直距离增加先后周期地向正相干和负相干方向偏移;在临界深度以下,表面声道的存在导致水平方向上的噪声能量增强,噪声垂直相关性整体向正相干方向偏移.当表面声道的参数变化时,表面声道的厚度变化对噪声垂直空间特性影响较大,而表面声道内的声速梯度变化对噪声垂直空间特性几乎没有影响.结合各类简正波的变化分析表明,存在表面声道时,噪声源激发的折射简正波阶数增加,强度增强,是表面声道引起噪声垂直空间特性变化的主要原因.     

可靠声路径传播特性及目标定位方法研究现状

作为深海中重要的声传播途径之一,可靠声路径声道下的环境噪声级较低,声速剖面变化和海底界面作用对其影响较小。此外,当接收水听器位于该声道下近海底水域时,可实现对近海面中近距离目标的无盲区监测。因此,可靠声路径必将成为一种重要的深海探测与定位途径。该文从可靠声路径的声传播特性着手,综合概述了可靠声路径声传播特性和相应目标定位技术方面的国内外研究现状,旨在回顾当前各项技术成果并展望基于可靠声路径的目标定位技术今后的发展趋势。     

涌浪条件下的浅海表面声道脉冲声传播*

在冬季,海水表面受到海面强风的影响,普遍存在表面声道。当声源位于表面声道中并且声源频率高于表面声道的截止频率时,声能量几乎被完全限制其中,不与海底作用,十分有利于声传播。但当表面声道上边界为较大涌浪所形成的粗糙界面时,这种优良性能会被破坏。在南海北部陆坡海区的一次冬季实验中,发现表面声道以下水听器接收到的首个脉冲的幅度明显增加,通过研究表明,其原因是：存在较大涌浪时,部分表面声道内传播的声能量,经粗糙海面反射作用后进入下层水体中,使得位于表面声道以下的水听器的第一个到达的脉冲幅度增强。     

基于小斜率近似的深海海面混响

收发设备在海面附近的深海混响实验中,多途时延使得最先到达水听器的为海面混响信号,且不受海底散射声场的干扰.本文利用射线理论描述深海声传播的格林函数,采用粗糙界面一阶小斜率近似方法描述全角度海面散射,给出海面混响声场的表达式.同时考虑了海面表层气泡散射的贡献,获得了海面混响理论.通过数值仿真数据和深海实验数据的比较对海面混响模型进行验证,分析了不同接收深度、频率下的海面混响强度衰减趋势.结果表明:低海况条件下,低频海面混响由粗糙界面散射主导,气泡散射可以忽略,随频率升高,气泡散射对海面混响的贡献逐渐增大,海面附近收发深度的小幅变化对混响衰减曲线的影响不明显.基于该模型提出一种反演海面粗糙界面谱参数的方法,数值计算结果验证了该模型能够在风速已知的前提下,通过海面混响数据提取海面粗糙界面谱参数.     

浅海涌浪对表面声道声传播的影响

受海面强风和海-气相互作用影响,表面声道普遍存在于冬季海洋环境中,是一种天然有利于声传播的波导.但是海面波浪使得海表形成粗糙界面,会严重破坏这种优良性能.本文利用南海北部海区的一次冬季声传播实验数据,研究表面声道声传播特性.研究表明,海底底质对表面声道内声传播的影响较弱,当海面风较小时,涌浪造成的影响为主要原因.实验数据显示,考虑涌浪后的粗糙海面给70km远处带来了10dB的传播损失增长.因此在考察南海北部海区冬季声场特性时,不仅要考虑海面风浪的影响,更需要考虑周围海域传来的涌浪的影响.研究涌浪存在时的声传播特性对提升声纳设备在海况较差时的使用性能具有重要意义.     

Chalcogenide Fibers: An Overview of Selected Applications

Chalcogenide glass fibers have many unique properties that make them attractive for applications that are not possible with silica fibers. Selected applications of chalcogenide fibers in research, commerce, and the military are reviewed.     

Some mathematical aspects of Anderson localization: boundary effect,multimodality, and bifurcation

Anderson localization is a famous wave phenomenon that describes the absence of diffusion of waves in a disordered medium. Here we generalize the landscape theory of Anderson localization to general elliptic operators and complex boundary conditions using a probabilistic approach, and further investigate some mathematical aspects of Anderson localization that are rarely discussed before. First, we observe that under the Neumann boundary condition, the low energy quantum states are localized on the boundary of the domain with high probability. We provide a detailed explanation of this phenomenon using the concept of extended subregions and obtain an analytical expression of this probability in the one-dimensional case. Second, we find that the quantum states may be localized in multiple different subregions with high probability in the one-dimensional case and we derive an explicit expression of this probability for various boundary conditions. Finally, we examine a bifurcation phenomenon of the localization subregion as the strength of disorder varies. The critical threshold of bifurcation is analytically computed based on a toy model and the dependence of the critical threshold on model parameters is analyzed.     

辣椒碱与β-环糊精包合物的核磁共振研究

利用核磁共振方法研究了辣椒碱β-环糊精包合物的化学计量比、空间结构信息及其在水溶液中的自扩散系数. 通过测定不同浓度比的辣椒碱和β-环糊精混合溶液的 ¹H NMR数据,绘制Job's曲线,辣椒碱和β-环糊精的Job's曲线均在r=0.5处出现拐点. 同时测定了该包合物的2D ROESY和DOSY谱图,ROESY谱图中NOE交叉信号出现在辣椒碱的H-1~H-8和β-环糊精的H-3′、H-5′、H-6′之间,DOSY测得β-环糊精和辣椒碱形成包合物前后的表观自扩散系数. 结果表明,辣椒碱β-环糊精包合物的主客体分子的化学计量比为1∶1,辣椒碱分子的异丙基端从β-环糊精的宽口端进入疏水腔,其中H-1~H-8部分在空腔内部,包合物的自扩散系数为2.95×10^-10m²/s.     

Darboux Transformation and N-soliton Solution for Extended Form of Modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation with Variable-Coefficient

The extended form of modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with variable-coefficient is investigated in the framework of Painlevé analysis. The Lax pairs are obtained by analysing two Painlevé branches of this equation. Starting with the Lax pair, the N-times Darboux transformation is constructed and the N-soliton solution formula is given, which contains 2n free parameters and two arbitrary functions. Furthermore, with different combinations of the parameters, several types of soliton solutions are calculated from the first order to the third order. The regularity conditions are discussed in order to avoid the singularity of the solutions. Moreover, we construct the generalized Darboux transformation matrix by considering a special limiting process and find a rational-type solution for this equation.     

Thermodynamics of 4D dS/AdS Gauss–Bonnet black holes according to consistent gravity theory in the presence of a cloud of strings

By looking at the Lovelock theorem one can infer that the gravity model given by [1] cannot be applicable for all types of 4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet (EGB) curved space-time. The reason for this is that in 4D space-time, the Gauss–Bonnet invariant is a total derivative and hence it does not contribute to gravitational dynamics. Hence, the authors of [2] presented an alternative consistent EGB gravity model instead of [1] by applying a break-of-diffeomorphism property. In this work, we use the alternative model to produce a de Sitter (dS)/Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole metric and then investigate its thermodynamic behavior in the presence of a cloud of Nambu–Goto strings. Mathematical derivations show that the resulting diagrams of pressure vs specific volume at a constant temperature are similar to that for a van der Waals gas/fluid in an ordinary thermodynamic system in the dS sector but not in the AdS background. From this, we infer that the black hole participates in the small-to-large black hole phase transition in the dS background, while it exhibits a Hawking–Page phase transition in the AdS background. In the latter case, an evaporating black hole eventually reaches an AdS vacuum space because of its instability.     

Bidirectional Quantum Secure Direct Communication Network Protocol with Hyperentanglement

We propose a bidirectional quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) network protocol with the hyperentanglment in both the spatial-mode ad the polarization degrees of freedom of photon pairs which can in principle be produced with a beta barium borate crystal. The secret message can be encoded on the photon pairs with unitary operations in these two degrees of freedom independently. Compared with other QSDC network protocols, our QSDC network protocol has a higher capacity as each photon pair can carry 4 bits of information. Also, we discuss the security of our QSDC network protocol and its feasibility with current techniques.     

Chess AI: Competing Paradigms for Machine Intelligence

Endgame studies have long served as a tool for testing human creativity and intelligence. We find that they can serve as a tool for testing machine ability as well. Two of the leading chess engines, Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero (LCZero), employ significantly different methods during play. We use Plaskett’s Puzzle, a famous endgame study from the late 1970s, to compare the two engines. Our experiments show that Stockfish outperforms LCZero on the puzzle. We examine the algorithmic differences between the engines and use our observations as a basis for carefully interpreting the test results. Drawing inspiration from how humans solve chess problems, we ask whether machines can possess a form of imagination. On the theoretical side, we describe how Bellman’s equation may be applied to optimize the probability of winning. To conclude, we discuss the implications of our work on artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI), suggesting possible avenues for future research.     

The ρ-π Puzzle of J/φ and φ′ Decays

The recent BES Collaboration data on φ →PV, particularly the isospin violating mode φ′ → π^oω^o and finding of a finite number for B(φ′ → K^*OK^O), enable us now to deal more precisely about the challenges to theory concerning this extraordinary and remarkableso-called ρ-π puzzle of J/φ and φ′ decays. In terms of the existing data and deploying the simplest phenomenology, measurement of φ′ → π⁺π^- and whether a finite number for the K^*+K^- mode might require a significantly large accumulation of data remain interesting questions.     

Double Diffractive Dissociation Process p + p(p) → Xp + Xp(p) + Π+ + Π- at High Energy and the Pomeron Model of Donnachie-Landshoff

Large p_γ charged pion pair produced in Double Diffractive Dissocjation (DDD) process at high energy is studied with double pomeron (IP) exchange mechanism. Using DonnachieLandshoff pomeron model we have calculated the cross-section of the process at the energy interval from ISR to LHC when the rapidity of the charged pions is approximately equal to zero. It is shown that this process is the favorite in experiments which could effectively be used to examine Donnachie-Landshoff pomeron model and provide a possibility to check the value of the suppression coefficient N².     

Interaction of Wave Trains with Defects

The evolution and transition of planar wave trains propagating through defects(obstacles) in an excitable medium are studied. When the frequency of the planar wave trains is increased, three different dynamical regimes,namely fusion, "V" waves, and spiral waves, are observed in turn and the underlying mechanism is discussed. The dynamics is concerned with the shapes of the defects. Circle, triangle, and rectangle defects with different sizes are considered. The increase of pacing frequency broadens the fan-shaped broken region in the behind of a rectangle defect.The increase of width of a triangle defect leads to breakup of wave trains easier while the change of height shows opposite effect, which is presented in a phase diagram. Dynamical comparison on defects with different shapes indicates that the decrease of the defect width along the propagation of wave trains makes the fan-shaped region and the minimal frequency for breakup of spiral both increased.