Numerical study on InGaAsN/GaAs multiple-quantum-well laser with GaAsP and GaAsN barriers

In this work, the multiple-quantum-well InGaAsN laser structures with indirect-GaAsP and direct-GaAsN barriers are investigated by using LASTIP simulation program. We vary the quantum-well number, from 1 to 5, to find appropriate barrier material for InGaAsN laser structures. The simulation results show that InGaAsN laser structure has higher characteristic temperature regardless of what quantum-well number is if the indirect-GaAsP barrier is utilized. Furthermore, for InGaAsN laser structure, the usage of indirect-GaAsP barrier is beneficial for reducing the threshold current when the quantum-well number is from 1 to 2 and the usage of direct-GaAsN barrier is beneficial for reducing the threshold current when the quantum-well number is from 3 to 5.     

Kinetic Models for Granular Flow

The generalization of the Boltzmann and Enskog kinetic equations to allow inelastic collisions provides a basis for studies of granular media at a fundamental level. For elastic collisions the significant technical challenges presented in solving these equations have been circumvented by the use of corresponding model kinetic equations. The objective here is to discuss the formulation of model kinetic equations for the case of inelastic collisions. To illustrate the qualitative changes resulting from inelastic collisions the dynamics of a heavy particle in a gas of much lighter particles is considered first. The Boltzmann–Lorentz equation is reduced to a Fokker–Planck equation and its exact solution is obtained. Qualitative differences from the elastic case arise primarily from the cooling of the surrounding gas. The excitations, or physical spectrum, are no longer determined simply from the Fokker–Planck operator, but rather from a related operator incorporating the cooling effects. Nevertheless, it is shown that a diffusion mode dominates for long times just as in the elastic case. From the spectral analysis of the Fokker–Planck equation an associated kinetic model is obtained. In appropriate dimensionless variables it has the same form as the BGK kinetic model for elastic collisions, known to be an accurate representation of the Fokker–Planck equation. On the basis of these considerations, a kinetic model for the Boltzmann equation is derived. The exact solution for states near the homogeneous cooling state is obtained and the transport properties are discussed, including the relaxation toward hydrodynamics. As a second application of this model, it is shown that the exact solution for uniform shear flow arbitrarily far from equilibrium can be obtained from the corresponding known solution for elastic collisions. Finally, the kinetic model for the dense fluid Enskog equation is described.     

Symmetric scattering in electron and positron impact ionization of metastable 2s-state hydrogen atoms

Triple differential cross sections for ionization of hydrogen atoms in the metastable 2s-state by the impact of electrons and positrons have been calculated for coplanar symmetric geometry. In this calculation a multiple scattering theory due to Das [10] and Das and Seal [11] has been used. An analysis of the results reveals that unlike scattering from the ground state, scattering from 2s-state is essentially a higher order process except for the binary collision direction. Moreover, here, the cross section results for 2s-state are much larger compared to those for scattering from the ground state. It is also found that the ionization mechanism at large scattering angles for ionization from the 2s-state is different from that for ionization from the ground state.     

A fast and accurate semiclassical calculation of the total elastic cross section in the glory energy range

A method for the semiclassical calculation of the total cross section in atomic and molecular elastic collisions, for the glory energy range, is reported. The parameters needed for the calculation of the glory undulatory component of the cross section are obtained from a few JWKB phase shifts for impact parameters near the glory impact parameter. The smooth component of the cross section is obtained from JB phase shifts for the long range attraction. The procedure, suitable for every potential model, is accurate and much faster than a full JWKB calculation. A discussion of some typical results is reported and an analysis of the information obtainable from experimental absolute cross sections is also given.     

Automatic detection of small objects from their infrared state-of-polarization vectors

A technique for automatic detection of targets from their infrared signature's state-of-polarization vector is described. The bounds on the Bayesian total probability of errors are estimated from the observed Stokes vector imagery and used as metrics for separating targets from background clutter. The performance of the proposed approach for objects under various geometries is studied in terms of receiver operating characteristic curves. The new results, which have been obtained from data from the U.S. Air Force's Infrared Modeling and Analysis polarimetric infrared simulation tool, indicate the usefulness of polarimetric infrared signatures for the automatic detection of small targets.     

Microwave backscatter from mesoscale breaking waves on the sea surface

Radar backscatter from mesoscale breaking waves on the sea surface is considered. Breaking waves are shown to be responsible for sea spikes and high Doppler shift with horizontal polarization observed at low grazing angles. The backscatter cross sections for scattering from a single breaking wave are computed for both orthogonal polarizations. An estimate is obtained of the backscatter cross section averaged over the sea surface. It is shown that the main scattering mechanisms are specular backscatter from the steep front of the breaking wave, and backscatter enhancement due to double-bounce scattering from the wave itself and from the foot of the breaking wave. Horizontally polarized backscatter is shown to be considerably higher than vertically polarized backscatter when the angle of incidence is close to the Brewster angle.     

On the asymptotic equivalence between the Enskog and the Boltzmann equations

An asymptotic equivalence theorem is proven between the solutions of the initial value problem in all space for the Boltzmann and Enskog equations for initial data which assure global existence for the solutions to the initial value problem for one of the two equations. The proof is given starting from the solution of the Boltzmann equation, then the proof line is simply indicated when one starts from the Enskog equation. The proof holds for Knudsen numbers of the order of unity and equivalence is proven when the scale of the dimensions of the gas particles characterizing the Enskog equation tends to zero.On leave from Department of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Poland.     

Calculation of the static healing length in helium II

The healing length for stagnant liquid helium II at an infinite plane boundary is calculated from the Hills-Roberts equations. A new thermodynamic function needed to complete the calculation is derived from neutron scattering and thermodynamic data. Results for the healing length are obtained from absolute zero to about a tenth of a degree from the lambda point, and at all pressures. Comparison with experimental evidence is presented.     

Transient acoustic radiation from impacted beam-like structures

Transient acoustic radiation from transverse vibrations of beams and beam-like structures is obtained by modelling the structure as a series of contiguous dipoles. A time-dependent expression is developed for sound radiation from a dipole source by Fourier synthesis. Acoustic radiation from the beam is obtained by integrating the sound pressure from the differential dipole elements over the beam length. Time-dependent integration limits are used to account for the transient effects. An analogous discrete formulation is described for beams of arbitrary geometry and density. The radiation patterns of a uniform unbaffled beam are given for frequencies below and above the critical frequency. The results are applied to model the sound radiation from an impact-excited beam.     

Deconvolution of loss features from electron spectra

The problem of deconvoluting loss features from energy spectra of electrons emitted from solids is investigated. A new formula is found for the case of an exponentially decreasing intensity from the solid surface of electron emitters. This as well as a formula for the case of a homogeneous distribution of electron emitters is studied in detail. Central in the formulas is the cross section for inelastic scattering. Under the assumption that angular deflection of electrons can be ignored the formulas are exact, i.e. the effect of all multiple scattering events is included. Through numerical calculations on Al spectra the effect of deconvolution is tested, and it is demonstrated that a small deviation from the exact procedure can result in spurious structure in the deconvoluted spectrum.     

非等同两原子与光场相互作用系统的腔场谱

研究了两个二能级原子与单模腔场具有不同耦合常量系统的腔场谱,讨论了量子化光场分别处于不同的光子数态时腔场谱结构随相对耦合常量R变化的新特性。发现随着R由0到1的增加,腔场谱各对应峰峰位相对腔场原共振频率ω0对称偏移;真空场（n=0）的峰高在0〈R〈0．3内变化较快,其拉比峰个数按2→6→4规律变化;弱场（n=1）峰高在0〈R〈0．5内变化较快,其峰数量按2→6→12→9→7规律变化;强场（n=8）峰高在0〈R〈0．1内改变迅速,其峰数量按2→8→11→5规律变化,谱结构显得更加复杂;进一步的计算表明,当n〉〉8时。其峰的数量按3→5→3规律变化。同时发现,R=0和R=1时,峰的数量相对较少。各峰峰高之和由最小单调增至最大,这在物理上反映了原子的协作效应。     

Complex microscopic effective interaction for (p,n) reactions

A simple recipe for generating a complex effective interaction for distorted wave Born approximation calculations from a real, microscopic charge-exchange form factor is investigated. The recipe is tested against angular distribution data for ²⁰⁸Pb(p, n) and ²⁰⁹Bi(p, n) from 25 to 50 MeV incident proton energy. The form factor resulting from the recipe is also compared qualitatively to complex effective coupling potentials, resulting from a charge-independent Lane-model formalism and from coupled-channion-channels calculations for a suggested multistep (p, d)—(d, n) reaction mechanism.     

Microscopic measurement of photon echo formation in groups of individual excitonic transitions

The third-order polarization emitted from groups of individual localized excitonic transitions after pulsed optical excitation is measured. We observe the evolution of the nonlinear response from the case of a free polarization decay for a single transition, to that of a photon echo for many transitions. The echo is shown to arise from the mutual rephasing of the emission from individual transitions.     

超辐射中的亚泊松光子统计

本文利用推广的Jaynes-Cummings模型描述N个二能级原子的超辐射,得到了辐射场的二阶关联函数的一般表达式。并进而用于缓变耦合情况,着重研究了共振情况下由超泊松光场演化成亚泊松光场的初始条件。作为例子,讨论了推广相干态及压缩相干态的演化条件。最后提出了利用相干态光场观察亚泊松光子统计的实验建议。     

Efficient gradient estimation using finite differencing and likelihood ratios for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

While many optimization and control methods for stochastic processes require gradient information from the process of interest, obtaining gradient information from experiments is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. As a result, such information is often obtained from stochastic process simulations. Computing gradients efficiently and accurately from stochastic simulations is challenging, especially for simulations involving computationally expensive models with significant inherent noise. In this work, we analyze and characterize the applicability of two gradient estimation methods for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations: finite differencing and likelihood ratio. We developed a systematic method for choosing an optimal perturbation size for finite differencing and discuss, for both methods, important implementation issues such as scaling with respect to the number of elements in the gradient vector. Through a series of numerical experiments, the methods were compared across different time and size regimes to characterize the precision and accuracy associated with each method. We determined that the likelihood ratio method is appropriate for estimating gradients at short (transient) times or for systems with small population sizes, whereas finite differencing is better-suited for gradient estimation at long times (steady state) or for systems with large population sizes.     

Backscattering of linearly and circularly polarized light in randomly inhomogeneous media

The scattering of linearly or circularly polarized light from a semibounded randomly inhomogeneous medium is considered. A new technique for simulating the electromagnetic radiation transport using the Monte Carlo method is proposed, which makes it possible to avoid cumbersome calculation of Muller matrices. Expressions are obtained for the co- and cross-polarized components of backscattered light for incident light of arbitrary polarization. The coherent and incoherent backscattering components are calculated for arbitrary combinations of incident and scattered light polarizations. It is shown that the main contribution to coherent backscattering is from the co- and cross-polarized components for linearly and circularly polarized light, respectively. The backscattering from an optically active random medium is calculated.     

The use of low density high accuracy (LDHA) data for correction of high density low accuracy (HDLA) point cloud

Coordinate measuring techniques rely on computer processing of coordinate values of points gathered from physical surfaces using contact or non-contact methods. Contact measurements are characterized by low density and high accuracy. On the other hand optical methods gather high density data of the whole object in a short time but with accuracy at least one order of magnitude lower than for contact measurements. Thus the drawback of contact methods is low density of data, while for non-contact methods it is low accuracy. In this paper a method for fusion of data from two measurements of fundamentally different nature: high density low accuracy (HDLA) and low density high accuracy (LDHA) is presented to overcome the limitations of both measuring methods. In the proposed method the concept of virtual markers is used to find a representation of pairs of corresponding characteristic points in both sets of data. In each pair the coordinates of the point from contact measurements is treated as a reference for the corresponding point from non-contact measurement. Transformation enabling displacement of characteristic points from optical measurement to their match from contact measurements is determined and applied to the whole point cloud. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was evaluated by comparison with data from a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). Three surfaces were used for this evaluation: plane, turbine blade and engine cover. For the planar surface the achieved improvement was of around 200 µm. Similar results were obtained for the turbine blade but for the engine cover the improvement was smaller. For both freeform surfaces the improvement was higher for raw data than for data after creation of mesh of triangles.     

Maximum entropy approach to statistical inference for an ocean acoustic waveguide

A conditional probability distribution suitable for estimating the statistical properties of ocean seabed parameter values inferred from acoustic measurements is derived from a maximum entropy principle. The specification of the expectation value for an error function constrains the maximization of an entropy functional. This constraint determines the sensitivity factor (β) to the error function of the resulting probability distribution, which is a canonical form that provides a conservative estimate of the uncertainty of the parameter values. From the conditional distribution, marginal distributions for individual parameters can be determined from integration over the other parameters. The approach is an alternative to obtaining the posterior probability distribution without an intermediary determination of the likelihood function followed by an application of Bayes' rule. In this paper the expectation value that specifies the constraint is determined from the values of the error function for the model solutions obtained from a sparse number of data samples. The method is applied to ocean acoustic measurements taken on the New Jersey continental shelf. The marginal probability distribution for the values of the sound speed ratio at the surface of the seabed and the source levels of a towed source are examined for different geoacoustic model representations.     

Van der Waals forces and the weakening of multiparticle correlations in simple liquids and gases

The general theory of van der Waals forces is used to calculate the asymptotic form of the n-particle correlation function for a simple liquid for any interparticle distance that is much greater than the interatomic separation. It is shown that when n>2 the nonadditive nature of the long-range forces leads to conditions for the weakening of the correlation which are fundamentally different from those obtained from theories in which a pairwise potential is assumed for intermolecular interactions. A relationship is obtained between the asymptotic forms and the n-atom potential for the case of a tenuous gas.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 73–79, December, 1976.We wish to thank I. Z. Fisher and L. P. Pitaevskii for useful discussions of the work, and F. M. Kuni for a number of important comments.     

食品工业清洁生产测评技术与方法研究--废水中氨氮含量的测定

对肉类加工废水中的氨氮(NH3-N)含量的测评技术和方法进行了研究.采用纳氏试剂分光光度法测定了不同废水中的NH3-N含量.结果表明,屠宰和熟食加工产生的废水、熟食加工产生废水和混合废水经处理后的水样中氨氮含量分别为255mg/L、8.24mg/L、和13.4mg/L,平均回收率为93.0%,平均相对标准偏差为2.19%.所得数据可靠、准确,其方法快速、可行.探讨的测评废水中氨氮的方法,将为企业实施内部监测提供依据,为我国制定清洁生产测评标准提供参考.