Amplitude modulation control of escape from a potential well

We demonstrate the effectiveness of periodic amplitude modulations in controlling (suppressing and enhancing) escape from a potential well through the universal model of a damped Helmholtz oscillator subjected to an external periodic excitation (the escape-inducing excitation) whose amplitude is periodically modulated (the escape-controlling excitation). Analytical and numerical results show that this multiplicative control works reliably for different subharmonic resonances between the two periodic excitations involved, and that its effectiveness is comparable to those of different methods of additive control. Additionally, we demonstrate the robustness of the multiplicative control against the presence of low-intensity Gaussian noise.     

Allelomimesis as escape strategy of pedestrians in two-exit confinements

We study the efficacy of allelomimesis as an escape strategy of mobile agents (pedestrians) that aim to leave a two-exit room within the shortest possible time. Allelomimesis is the act of copying one’s kindred neighbors. To escape, an agent employs one of the following strategies: (1) It chooses its own route independently (non-copying, α=0), (2) It imitates the actions of its neighbors at all times (blind copying, α=1), or (3) It either copies or acts independently according to a certain probability that is set by the copying parameter . Not more than one agent could occupy a given room location. An agent’s knowledge of the two exit locations is set by its information content . When left alone, an agent with complete knowledge of the exit whereabouts (β=1) always takes the shortest possible path to an exit. We obtain plots of the (group) evacuation time T and exit throughput Q as functions of α and β for cases where the two exits are near (on same room side) and far (on opposite sides of room) from each other. For an isolated agent, T is inversely proportional to β. The chances of escape for an isolated agent with β≤0.2 are higher with adjacent exits. However, for an agent with β>0.4 the chance is better with opposite exits. In a highly occupied room (occupancy rate R=80%) with adjacent exits, agents with β>0.8 escape more quickly if they employ a mixed strategy of copying and non-copying (0.4<α<0.6). On the other hand, blind copying (α≈1) gives agents with β<0.1 a better chance of escaping from the same room. For the same α and R values, opposite exits allow faster evacuation for agents with β<0.1 due to the likelihood of streaming and the lower probability of exit clogging. Streaming indicates an efficient utilization of an exit and it happens when the arcs that are formed are smaller and arch interference is less likely. Allelomimesis provides a simple yet versatile mechanism for studying the egress behavior of confined crowds in a multi-exit room.     

The case of escape probability as linear in short time

We derive rigorously the short-time escape probability of a quantum particle from its compactly supported initial state, which has a discontinuous derivative at the boundary of the support. We show that this probability is linear in time, which seems to be a new result. The novelty of our calculation is the inclusion of the boundary layer of the propagated wave function formed outside the initial support. This result has applications to the decay law of the particle, to the Zeno behaviour, quantum absorption, time of arrival, quantum measurements, and more.     

Calibrating cellular automaton models for pedestrians walking through corners

Cellular Automata (CA) based pedestrian simulation models have gained remarkable popularity as they are simpler and easier to implement compared to other microscopic modeling approaches. However, incorporating traditional floor field representations in CA models to simulate pedestrian corner navigation behavior could result in unrealistic behaviors. Even though several previous studies have attempted to enhance CA models to realistically simulate pedestrian maneuvers around bends, such modifications have not been calibrated or validated against empirical data. In this study, two static floor field (SFF) representations, namely ‘discrete representation’ and ‘continuous representation’, are calibrated for CA-models to represent pedestrians' walking behavior around 90° bends. Trajectory data collected through a controlled experiment are used to calibrate these model representations. Calibration results indicate that although both floor field representations can represent pedestrians' corner navigation behavior, the ‘continuous’ representation fits the data better. Output of this study could be beneficial for enhancing the reliability of existing CA-based models by representing pedestrians' corner navigation behaviors more realistically.     

The RMS charge radius of the proton and Zemach moments

On the basis of recent precise measurements of the electric form factor of the proton, the Zemach moments, needed as input parameters for the determination of the proton rms radius from the measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen, are calculated. It turns out that the new moments give an uncertainty as large as the presently stated error of the recent Lamb shift measurement of Pohl et al. De Rújula's idea of a large Zemach moment in order to reconcile the five standard deviation discrepancy between the muonic Lamb shift determination and the result of electronic experiments is shown to be in clear contradiction with experiment. Alternative explanations are touched upon.     

Agitated behavior and elastic characteristics of pedestrians in an alternative floor field model for pedestrian dynamics

An alternative floor field (FF) model is proposed by incorporating the agitated behavior and elastic characteristics of pedestrians. The agitated behavior which is regarded as an important factor to pedestrian dynamics is depicted by introducing a parameter to revise the transition probability of pedestrians to move to the neighboring cells. To characterize elasticity of pedestrians, it is assumed that a cell can hold more than one pedestrians in crowd condition, while it can hold only one pedestrian in normal condition. In addition, a method to deal with conflicts is employed by considering the effects of agitated behavior and desired velocity. Numerical simulations are carried out to investigate pedestrian evacuation from a room. The results show, that as the value of agitated parameter increases, the evacuation time decreases to the minimum value and then increases gradually. Also, the faster-is-slower effect which is obtained by some other simulation models can be reproduced by the proposed model. Finally, the influence of exit width and the corresponding mechanism on evacuation process is investigated which is expected to be helpful to the exit design of public rooms.     

The realization of Abel's inversion in the case of discharge with undetermined radius

A new method for the determination of the local plasma emissivity on the basis of measuring of the radiation intensity is presented. The method is related to the axial symmetric discharges with undefined radius (free burning arcs, etc.). In this method, the experimental profile of the radiative intensity is approximated by the linear combination of Gaussian functions, while the requested plasma emissivity is obtained in a similar oblique. The essence of the presented method lies in the procedure of determination of the coefficients in this linear combinations, as well as the parameters by which the exponents of Gaussian functions are expressed. The method was tested on a large number of examples which are related to almost all practically important cases of the profiles of local plasma emissivity. It was shown that the method works with high precision, which makes it a certain tool for an operative laboratorial application.     

Stay-eat or run-away: Two alternative escape behaviors

Pursuit-and-evasion behavior in groups of animals is a phenomenon that can be easily observed in nature. Immediate flight upon detection is a common but not exclusive response for prey with both stay-eat behavior and run-away behavior occur during the predation process. It remains unclear why these two contrasting survival tactics appear, what the triggering conditions are and what internal mechanisms are at play. Here we investigate the effect of energy level on the behavior of prey during predation. We find that (1) the optimal escape speed of prey is context-dependent rather than the fastest always producing the best chance of survival. (2) The stay-eat or run-away decision depends mainly on the maximum speed and the energy dissipation ratio of prey to predator. (3) Stay-eat behavior is more effective when the prey have a higher escape speed and a higher energy dissipation rate, where aggregation can induce this stay-eat behavior. The reported findings are not only of relevance when considering survival tactics in nature, but such an understanding is useful in the design of swarm robotic systems where energy conservation and task optimization could be incorporated into any escape and hunting strategies.     

QED confronts the radius of the proton

Recent results on muonic hydrogen (Pohl et al., 2010) [1] and the ones compiled by CODATA on ordinary hydrogen and ep-scattering (Mohr et al., 2008) [2] are 5σ away from each other. Two reasons justify a further look at this subject: (1) One of the approximations used in Pohl et al. (2010) [1] is not valid for muonic hydrogen. This amounts to a shift of the proton's radius by ∼3 of the standard deviations of Pohl et al. (2010) [1], in the “right” direction of data-reconciliation. In field-theory terms, the error is a mismatch of renormalization scales. Once corrected, the proton radius “runs”, much as the QCD coupling “constant” does. (2) The result of Pohl et al. (2010) [1] requires a choice of the “third Zemach moment”. Its published independent determination is based on an analysis with a p  -value – the probability of obtaining data with equal or lesser agreement with the adopted (fit form-factor) hypothesis – of 3.92×¹⁰⁻¹²$3.92\times {10}^{-12}$. In this sense, this quantity is not empirically known. Its value would regulate the level of “tension” between muonic- and ordinary-hydrogen results, currently at most  ∼4σ$\sim 4\sigma$. There is no tension between the results of Pohl et al. (2010) [1] and the proton radius determined with help of the analyticity of its form-factors.     

Crossover of large to small radius polaron in ionic crystals

The crossover of large to small radius polaron is studied in terms of the inverse-relaxation time and temperature.It is found that the small radius polaron exists at higher temperature than the large radius polaron.A formula which relates the inverse-relaxation time to the ratio of arbitrary temperature and Debye temperature of the crystal is derived.The polaron crossover temperatures in NaCl and KBr are found from plotted graphs.The straight line emerging at the Debye temperature T_d of a graph reflects the increase of the inverse relaxation time for increasing temperature up to the collapse of the small radius polaron.The relationship between the small and large radius polarons is found and known ratios of the effective and the bare masses of the electrons for the two substances are used to validate our results.The small radius polaron's mass is later compared with the mass obtained from the hopping formula and is found to be approximately equal.Finally,we point out that the crossover temperature is material-specific since it depends on the Debye and the effective dielectric function.     

半径随机的圆孔波纹锯齿光阑的衍射特性

研究了半径随角度的变化而随机变化的圆孔波纹锯齿光阑的衍射特性,提出并证明半径随机的圆孔纹波锯齿光阑能改善光束的近场分布和抑制光束中央部分的衍射调制。给出了衍射光轴上和横截面内光强分布的模拟计算结果,通过计算结果可以看出:通过半径随机圆孔波纹锯齿光阑后,衍射光横截面内填充因子比经过调幅型波纹锯齿光阑后的填充因子高,调制强度比经过调幅型波纹锯齿光阑低,并且半径随机锯齿光阑能在较大的空间范围内抑制轴上光强的衍射调制, 其可抑制的最远空间距离可达0.15 m。     

大口径球面反射镜曲率半径的精确测量

介绍了大口径球面反射镜曲率半径的传统测量方法,提出了利用组合测杆结合激光干涉仪测量球面反射镜曲率半径的新方法。首先利用激光干涉仪检测球面反射镜的面型,调整干涉仪与被测镜的位置,使被测镜达到零条纹干涉状态,然后架设合理长度组合测杆,调整组合测杆靠近干涉仪端测量球头的位置,使之达到零条纹干涉状态,再使组合测杆另一端测头与镜面接触完成测量,通过计算分析即可得到被测球面镜的曲率半径。对该方法的基本测量原理进行了研究分析,并对口径为600 mm的望远镜球面主镜的曲率半径进行了多次测量,测得其曲率半径均值为2 836.774 mm,标准偏差为0.071 mm。最后对该方法的测量不确定度进行了分析,找出了影响测量精度的主要因素,合成标准不确定度为0.061 mm。     

配光镜柱面半径光电检测方法的研究

本文介绍一种测量柱面镜曲率半径的基本原理和检测系统结构。该测量技术利用激光束折射原理，采用线阵ＣＣＤ光电探测器件和单片机数据处理系统，通过测量激光束散开的宽度，计算出柱面镜的曲率半径。将这种方法应用到配光镜柱面单位曲率半径测量，整个测试过程在微机控制下自动完成，并具有高的测试精度。     

Finite Larmor radius magnetohydrodynamic analysis of the ballooning modes in tokamaks

In this paper,the effect of finite Larmor radius (FLR) on high n ballooning modes is studied on the basis of FLR magnetohydrodynamic (FLR-MHD) theory.A linear FLR ballooning mode equation is derived in an ’s α’ type equilibrium of circular-flux-surfaces,which is reduced to the ideal ballooning mode equation when the FLR effect is neglected.The present model reproduces some basic features of FLR effects on ballooning mode obtained previously by kinetic ballooning mode theories.That is,the FLR introduces a real frequency into ballooning mode and has a stabilising effect on ballooning modes (e.g.,in the case of high magnetic shear s ≥ 0.8).In particular,some new properties of FLR effects on ballooning mode are discovered in the present research.Here it is found that in a high magnetic shear region (s ≥ 0.8) the critical pressure gradient (α c,FLR) of ballooning mode is larger than the ideal one (α c,IMHD) and becomes larger and larger with the increase of FLR parameter b 0.However,in a low magnetic shear region,the FLR ballooning mode is more unstable than the ideal one,and the α c,FLR is much lower than the α c,IMHD.Moreover,the present results indicate that there exist some new weaker instabilities near the second stability boundary (obtained from ideal MHD theory),which means that the second stable region becomes narrow.     

Nuclear charge radius of 11Li

We have determined the nuclear charge radius of ¹¹Li by high-precision laser spectroscopy. The experiment was performed at the TRIUMF-ISAC facility where the ⁷Li-¹¹Li isotope shift (IS) was measured in the 2s→3s electronic transition using Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy with a relative accuracy better than 10⁻⁵. The accuracy for the IS of the other lithium isotopes was also improved. IS’s are mainly caused by differences in nuclear mass, but changes in proton distribution also give small contributions. Comparing experimentally measured IS with advanced atomic calculation of purely mass-based shifts, including QED and relativistic effects, allows derivation of the nuclear charge radii. The radii are found to decrease monotonically from ⁶Li to ⁹Li, and then increase with ¹¹Li about 11% larger than ⁹Li. These results are a benchmark for the open question as to whether nuclear core excitation by halo neutrons is necessary to explain the large nuclear matter radius of ¹¹Li; thus, the results are compared with a number of nuclear structure models.     

拟合法测量高斯光束的束腰半径

从高斯光束的横向光强分布特性出发,建立了小孔光阑透过功率与孔径的关系式.采用2种不同拟合方法对高斯光束的束腰半径进行了测量.为减小激光器功率不稳定带来的不利影响,实验中采用双光路进行测量.结果表明,用拟合法测量高斯光束的束腰半径不仅合理,而且可行.     

Dynamics of emotional contagion in dense pedestrian crowds

In places with high-density pedestrian movements, irrational emotions can quickly spread out under emergency, which may eventually lead to asphyxiation and crushing. It was noticed that a pedestrian's emotion in crowd would change as a result of the influence from other pedestrians. Thus, to explore the dynamics of emotion contagion process in dense pedestrians, two types of pedestrian emotions, i.e., negative and positive have been identified. Taking into account the emotional transit of a pedestrian, a crowd movement model is established in the present paper. We simulate pedestrian movement in a region with periodic boundary condition to study the dynamics of emotional contagion in dense crowds. Influences of the initial negative pedestrian proportion, pedestrian crowd density, emotion influence radius, and dose factor on the transition of overall crowd emotion state have been investigated. We expect this study could provide theoretical suggestions for crowd management.     

水中浮升气泡的半径和速度变化

根据牛顿运动定律推导了小气泡在水中浮升过程中的速度和位置坐标的表达式;基于理想气体物态方程和球形液面的压强差公式推导了小气泡在水中浮升过程中的半径变化率;考虑小气泡在水中浮升过程的气泡半径和速度的变化,用计算机模拟了不同初始条件下的气泡群在浮升过程中半径和位置随时间的变化规律.     

A novel compensation method for the measurement of radius of curvature

A test method for spherical mirrors with super-long radius of curvature that only one compensator is employed to measure the radii of curvature of both concave and convex mirrors is presented. With this testing system, the surface figure and radius of curvature of spherical mirrors can be measured simultaneously. Using the ABCD matrix method, a precise formula for radius of curvature calculation is deduced. Experimental results show that the relative measurement error of this method is less than 4.2×10⁻⁴.