Ξ_(bb) and Ω_(bbb) molecular states

Using the vector exchange interaction in the local hidden gauge approach,which in the light quark sector generates the chiral Lagrangians and has produced realistic results for ?_c,Ξ_c,Ξ_b and the hidden charm pentaquark states,we study the meson-baryon interactions in the coupled channels that lead to the Ξ_(bb) and ?_(bbb) excited states of the molecular type.We obtain seven states of the Ξ_(bb) type with energies between 10408 and 10869 MeV,and one ?_(bbb) state at 15212 MeV.     

NLO effects for Ω_(QQQ) baryons in QCD Sum Rules

We study the triply heavy baryons Ω_(QQQ)(Q=c,b) in the QCD sum rules by performing the first calculation of the next-to-leading order(NLO) contribution to the perturbative QCD part of the correlation functions.Compared with the leading order(LO) result,the NLO contribution is found to be very important to the Ω_(QQQ).This is because the NLO not only results in a large correction but also reduces the parameter dependence,making the Borel platform more distinct,especially for the Qbbb in the ■ scheme,where the platform appears only at NLO but not at LO.Particularly,owing to the inclusion of the NLO contribution,the renormalization schemes(■ and On-Shell) dependence and the scale dependence are significantly reduced.Consequently,after including the NLO contribution to the perturbative part in the QCD sum rules,the masses are estimated to be 4.53_(-0.11) ~(+0.26) GeV for Ω_(ccc) and14.27_(-0.32) ~(+0.33) GeV for Ω_(bbb),where the results are obtained at μ=M_B with errors including those from the variation of the renormalization scale μ in the range(0.8-1.2)M_B.A careful study of the μ dependence in a wider range is further performed,which shows that the LO results are very sensitive to the choice of μ whereas the NLO results are considerably better.In addition to the μ=M_B result,a more stable value,(4.75-4.80) GeV,for the Ω_(ccc) mass is found in the range of μ=(1.2-2.0)M_B,which should be viewed as a more relevant prediction in our NLO approach because of μ dependence.     

Low-energy D~(*+)_1~0 scattering and the nature of resonance-like structure Z~+(4430)

Low-energy scattering of D *+ and  0 1 meson is studied using quenched lattice QCD with improved lattice actions on anisotropic lattices.The threshold scattering parameters,namely the scattering length a 0 and the effective range r 0,for the s-wave scattering in J P = 0 - channel are extracted: a 0 = 2.52(47) fm and r 0 = 0.7(1) fm.It is argued that,albeit the interaction between the two charmed mesons being attractive,it is unlikely that they can form a shallow bound state in this channel.Our calculation provides some useful information on the nature of the newly discovered resonance-like structure Z + (4430) by the Belle Collaboration.     

Low-energy D^＊＋D1^0 scattering and the nature of resonance-like structure Z^＋（4430）

Low-energy scattering of D ^＊＋ and D1^0 meson is studied using quenched lattice QCD with improved lattice actions on anisotropic lattices.The threshold scattering parameters,namely the scattering length a 0 and the effective range r 0,for the s-wave scattering in J P = 0 - channel are extracted： a 0 = 2.52（47） fm and r 0 = 0.7（1） fm.It is argued that,albeit the interaction between the two charmed mesons being attractive,it is unlikely that they can form a shallow bound state in this channel.Our calculation provides some useful information on the nature of the newly discovered resonance-like structure Z ＋ （4430） by the Belle Collaboration.     

Revisiting the determining fraction of glueball component in f_0 mesons via radiative decays of J/ψ

QCD theory predicts the existence of glueballs,but so far all experimental endeavors have failed to identify any such states.To remedy this discrepancy between QCD,which has proven to be a successful theory for strong interactions,and the failure of experimental searches for glueballs,one is tempted to accept the promising interpretation that the glueballs mix with regular qq states of the same quantum numbers.The lattice estimate of the masses of pure 0~(++) glueballs ranges from 1 to 2 GeV,which is the region of the f_0 family.Thus many authors suggest that the f_0 mesonic series is an ideal place to study possible mixtures of glueballs and qq.In this paper,following the strategy proposed by Close,Farrar and Li,we try to determine the fraction of glueball components in f_0 mesons using the measured mass spectra and the branching ratios of J/ψ radiative decays into f_0 mesons.Since the pioneering papers by Close et al.,more than 20 years have elapsed and more accurate measurements have been done by several experimental collaborations,so it is time to revisit this interesting topic using new data.We suppose f_0(500) and f_0(980) to be pure quark states,while for f_0(1370),f_0(1500) and f_0(1710),to fit both the experimental data of J/ψ radiative decay and their mass spectra,glueball components are needed.Moreover,the mass of the pure 0~(++) glueball is phenomenologically determined.     

Finite temperature effect in infrared-improved AdS/QCD model with back reaction of bulk vacuum

Based on an IR-improved soft-wall AdS/QCD model for mesons,which provides a consistent prediction for the mass spectra of resonance scalar,pseudoscalar,vector and axial-vector mesons,we investigate its finite temperature effect.By analyzing the spectral function of mesons and fitting it with a Breit-Wigner form,we perform an analysis for the critical temperature of mesons.The back-reaction effects of bulk vacuum are considered and the thermal mass spectral function of resonance mesons is calculated based on the back-reaction improved action.A reasonable melting temperature is found to be T_c≈150 ± 7 MeV.which is consistent with the recent results from lattice QCD simulations.     

Properties of strangelets in a new quark mass confinement model with one-gluon-exchange interaction

The properties of strangelets at zero temperature with a new quark model that includes both the confinement and one-gluonexchange interactions is studied in a fully self-consistent method.The charge and parameter dependence of the stability of strangelets are discussed.It is found that the one-gluon-exchange interaction lowers the energy of a strangelet,and consequently allows the strangelet to be absolutely stable.The stable strangelet radius in the present model is smaller in comparison with the absence of one-gluon-exchange interaction,and can thus be much less than that of a normal nucleus with the same baryon number,according to the strength of the confinement and one-gluon-exchange interactions.     

First-principles investigation of the electronic structure and magnetism of eskolaite

The electronic structure and magnetism of eskolaite are studied by using first-principles calculations where the on-site Coulomb interaction and the exchange interaction are taken into account and the LSDA+U method is used. The calculated energies of magnetic configurations are very well fitted by the Heisenberg Hamiltonian with interactions in five neighbour shells; interaction with two nearest neighbours is found to be dominant. The Néel temperature is calculated in the spin-3/2 pair-cluster approximation. It is found that the measurements are in good agreement with the calculations of lattice parameters, density of states, band gap, local magnetic moment, and the Néel temperature for the values of U and J that are close to those obtained within the constrained occupation method. The band gap is of the Mott--Hubbard type.     

The interaction of in-band and in-gap lattice soliton trains in optically induced two-dimensional photonic lattices

We demonstrate the coherent interactions of lattice soliton trains,including in-band solitons (IBSs) and gap soliton trains (GSTs),in optically induced two-dimensional photonic lattices with self-defocusing nonlinearity.It is revealed that the π-staggered phase structures of the lattice soliton trains will lead to anomalous interactions.Solely by changing their initial separations,the transition between attractive and repulsive interaction forces or reversion of the energy transfer can be obtained.The 'negative refraction' effect of the soliton trains on the interaction is also discussed.Moreover,two interacting IBSs can merge into one GST when attraction or energy transfer happens.     

Radiative Decays of Charmonium into Light Mesons

We apply perturbative QCD to the radiative decays of charmonia J/ψ and χcJ into light mesons. We perform a complete numerical calculation for the quark-gluon loop diagrams involved in these processes. The calculated J/ψ decay branching ratios into p-wave mesons f2（1270） and f1（1285） fit the data well, while that of fo（980） （if treated as an ss meson） is predicted to be 1.6×10^-4, which implies that f0（1710） can not be the ss or （uu＋dd）/√2 meson. Decays of p-wave charmonia χcJ→ρ（ω;φ）γ （J = 0, 1, 2） are also studied, and the branching ratio of χc1→ργ is predicted to be 1.4×10^-5, which may be tested by CLEO-c collaboration and BESlg collaboration with future experiments.     

Phase diagrams in mixed spin-3/2 and spin-2 Ising system with two alternative layers within the effective-field theory

The phase diagrams in the mixed spin-3/2 and spin-2 Ising system with two alternative layers on a honeycomb lattice are investigated and discussed by the use of the effective-field theory with correlations. The interaction of the nearest-neighbour spins of each layer is taken to be positive (ferromagnetic interaction) and the interaction of the adjacent spins of the nearest-neighbour layers is considered to be either positive or negative (ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic interaction). The temperature dependence of the layer magnetizations of the system is examined to characterize the nature (continuous or discontinuous) of the phase transitions and obtain the phase transition temperatures. The system exhibits both second-and first-order phase transitions besides triple point (T P ), critical end point (E), multicritical point (A), isolated critical point (C) and reentrant behaviour depending on the interaction parameters. We have also studied the temperature dependence of the total magnetization to find the compensation points, as well as to determine the type of behaviour, and N-type behaviour in N′eel classification nomenclature existing in the system. The phase diagrams are constructed in eight different planes and it is found that the system also presents the compensation phenomena depending on the sign of the bilinear exchange interactions.     

Superlattice Patterns in Coupled Turing Systems

In this paper, superlattice patterns have been investigated by using a two linearly coupled Brusselator model. It is found that superlattice patterns can only be induced in the sub-system with the short wavelength. Three different coupling methods have been used in order to investigate the mode interaction between the two Turing modes. It is proved in the simulations that interaction between activators in the two sub-systems leads to spontaneous formation of black eye pattern and/or white eye patterns while interaction between inhibitors leads to spontaneous formation of super-hexagonal pattern. It is also demonstrated that the same symmetries of the two modes and suitable wavelength ratio of the two modes should also be satisfied to form superlattice patterns.     

Effects of three-body interaction on dynamic and static structure factors of an optically-trapped Bose gas

We investigate how three-body interactions affect the elementary excitations and dynamic structure factor of a Bose- Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. To this end, we numerically solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and then the corresponding Bogoliubov equations. Our results show that three-body interactions can change both the Bogoliubov band structure and the dynamical structure factor dramatically, especially in the case of the two-body interaction being relatively small. Furthermore, when the optical lattice is strong enough, the analytical results, combined with the sum-rule approach, help us to understand that： the effects of three-body interactions on the static structure Ihctor can be significantly amplified by an optical lattice. Our predictions should be observable within the current Bragg spectroscopy experiment.     

An improvement of the lattice theory of dislocation for a two-dimensional triangular crystal

The structure of dislocation in a two-dimensional triangular crystal has been studied theoretically on the basis of atomic interaction and lattice statics. The theory presented in this paper is an improvement to that published previously.Within a reasonable interaction approximation, a new dislocation equation is obtained, which remedies a fault existing in the lattice theory of dislocation. A better simplification of non-diagonal terms of the kernel is given. The solution of the new dislocation equation asymptotically becomes the same as that obtained in the elastic theory, and agrees with experimental data. It is found that the solution is formally identical with that proposed phenomenologically by Foreman et al, where the parameter can be chosen freely, but cannot uniquely determined from theory. Indeed, if the parameter in the expression of the solution is selected suitably, the expression can be well applied to describe the fine structure of the dislocation.     

Extended Quark Potential Model From Random Phase Approximation

The quark potential model is extended to include the sea quark excitation using the random phase approximation.The effective quark interaction preserves the important QCD properties-chiral symmetry and confinement simultaneously.A primary qualitative analysis shows that the π meson as a well-known typical Goldstone boson and the other mesons made up of valence qq quark pair such as the ρ meson can also be described in this extended quark potential model.     

Optical vibration modes and electron－phonon interaction in ternary mixed crystals of polar semiconductors

Optical vibrations of the lattice and the electron－phonon interaction in polar ternary mixed crystals are studied in the framework of the continuum model of Born and Huang and the random-element-isodisplacement model. A normal-coordinate system to describe the optical vibration in ternary mixed crystals is correctly adopted to derive a new Fr?hlich-like Hamiltonian for the electron－phonon interaction including the unit-cell volume variation influence. The numerical results for the phonon modes, the electron－phonon coupling constants and the polaronic energies for several typical materials are obtained. It is verified that the nonlinearity of the electron－phonon coupling effects with the composition is essential and the unit-cell volume effects cannot be neglected for most ternary mixed crystals.     

Dynamical interactions of dark energy and dark matter:Yang-Mills condensate and QCD axions

We analyze a model of cold axion dark matter weakly coupled with a dark gluon condensate,reproducing dark energy.We first review how to recover the dark energy behavior using the functional renormalization group approach,and ground our study in the properties of the effective Lagrangian,to be determined non-perturbatively.Then,within the context of G_(SM)×SU(2)_D×U(1)_(P Q),we consider Yang-Mills condensate(YMC)interactions with QCD axions.We predict a transfer of dark energy density into dark matter density,that can be tested in the next generation of experiments dedicated to dark energy measurements.We obtain new bounds on the interactions between the Yang-Mills condensate and axion dark matter from Planck data:the new physics interaction scale related to the axion/gluon condensate mixing is constrained to be higher than the 10~6GeV energy scale.     

Fabrication and magnetic properties of 4SC(NH_2)_2–Ni_(0.97)Cu_(0.03)Cl_2 single crystals

Single crystals of 4SC(NH2)2–Ni1-xCux Cl2(x = 0.03)(Cu-DTN) containing spin S = 1/2 Cu2+and S = 1 Ni2+cations are synthesized by slow evaporation methods. Structural characterization demonstrates that the Cu-DTN is of a tetrahedral structure with lattice parameter c being 9.0995 ?A, which is 1.32% expansion compared with that of parent material DTN due to the larger radius of the Cu ion. Direct current(DC) susceptibility measurements show that both the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction at low temperature and the large anisotropy of susceptibilities are suppressed after doping the Cu ion, which could be related to the structural distortion and the increase of the super-exchange paths in Cu-DTN.     

Spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking of lattice QCD with massless dynamical quarks

One of the most challenging issues in QCD is the investigation of spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking, which is characterized by the non-vanishing chiral condensate when the bare fermion mass is zero. In standard methods of the lattice gauge theory, one has to perform expensive simulations at multiple bare quark masses, and employ some modeled functions to extrapolate the data to the chiral limit. This paper applies the probability distribution function method to computing the chiral condensate in lattice QCD with massless dynamical quarks, without any ambiguous mass extrapolation. The results for staggered quarks indicate that this might be a promising and efficient method for investigating the spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in lattice QCD, which deserves further investigation.