Co-Ag与Co-Au合金团簇核层结构模拟

钴基二元合金团簇具有特殊催化和电磁性能已成为研究的热点.探究Co-Ag与Co-Au团簇稳定结构是研究其性质的重要步骤.运用基于内核构建的自适应免疫优化算法对大尺寸Co_(55)Ag_n、Co_(55)Au_n(n=1-55, 60, 70, 80, 92)团簇结构进行优化.基于紧束缚势二阶矩近似的多体Gupta势函数被用于描述合金团簇原子间相互作用.计算结果显示Co_(55)Ag_n、Co_(55)Au_n(n=1-55, 60)最稳定结构的主要构型为Mackay二十面体.原子分布分析显示Co原子位于内层,而Ag、Au原子均趋于分布在外层,呈现出核层状态.对于大尺寸Co_(55)Ag_n、Co_(55)Au_n(n=80, 92)团簇,Co-Ag团簇采取无定形结构,而Co-Au团簇为规则的二十面体结构.     

Activation of Al2O3 by a long-ranged chemical bond mechanism

On the basis of density functional theory calculations, a novel bond mechanism with chemical strength but of long-ranged character is proposed. As compared to adsorption on a sole oxide or metal, the mechanism is found to enhance the bond strength between an adsorbate and an oxide in contact with a metal. As a model system, NO2 adsorption on alpha-Al2O3(0001) either in contact with Ag(111) or small Agn clusters is used. The observed phenomenon rests on charge transfer and modification of the oxide-metal interface. The mechanism is general in nature and the implication for heterogeneous catalysis is discussed.     

Reheating a multi-throat universe by brane motion

We propose a mechanism of reheating after inflation in multi-throat scenarios of warped extra dimensions. Validity of an effective field theory on the standard model (SM) brane requires that the position of the SM brane during inflation be different from the position after inflation. The latter is supposed to be near the tip of the SM throat but the former is not. After inflation, when the Hubble expansion rate becomes sufficiently low, the SM brane starts moving towards the tip and eventually oscillates. The SM fields are excited by the brane motion and the universe is reheated. Since interaction between the brane position modulus and the SM fields is suppressed only by the local string scale, the modulus effectively decays into the SM fields.     

广义混沌同步中的多稳定同步流形

从构造驱动系统和响应系统之间的函数关系出发,一般性地研究了广义混沌同步中同步流形的多值性问题,并对同步流形的稳定性进行了分析,提出了多稳定同步流形存在的条件.利用该稳定性条件对两个实例进行了分析,一个为Genesio-Rssler耦合系统,另一个为具有二次、三次非线性的耦合Duffing系统,结果表明前者仅有唯一的稳定同步流形,而后者随着耦合强度的增加,从具有两个稳定的同步流形变为只存在一个稳定同步流形. 关键词： 混沌同步 多稳定性 同步流形     

Dependence of valley polarization on Schottky metal stripe in magnetic-strain graphene

We investigate the valley-dependent transport properties of electrons in a magnetic-strain graphene under the modulation of the Schottky metal (SM) stripe. The valley polarization can be achieved in such a graphene due to the effect of the strained barrier rather than the SM stripe. However, the SM stripe can play an important effect on the degree of the valley polarization, which can be easily controlled through changing the position and/or width of the SM stripe. Furthermore, the applied voltage on the SM stripe also can easily modulate the valley polarization. This study is very useful for understanding and designing the valleytronic devices.     

Heating self-interaction mechanism of surface magnetoplasma waves in plasma-like medium bounded by metal

The influence of electron heating in the high-frequency surface magnetoplasma wave(SM) field on dispersion properties of the considered SM is investigated. High frequency SM propagate at the interface between a plasma like medium with a finite electrons pressure and a metal. The nonlinear dispersion relation for the SM is derived and investigated.     

Uncertainty of the two-loop RG upper bound on the Higgs mass

A modified criterion of the SM perturbative consistency is proposed. It is based on the analytic properties of the two-loop SM running couplings. Under the criterion adopted, the Higgs mass up to 380 GeV might not give rise to strong coupling prior to the Planck scale. This means that the light Higgs boson is possibly preferred for reasons other than the SM perturbative consistency, i.e., for reasons beyond the SM.     

Prism-based Spectral Imaging of Four Species of Single-molecule Fluorophores by Using One Excitation Laser

A prism-based imaging system for simultaneously detecting four species of single-molecule (SM) fluorophores was developed. As for the detection method, four spectrally distinct species of BigDye fluorophores were bound to 50-nm-diameter gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to form AuNP/BigDye complexes. Four species of complexes were randomly immobilized on different fused-silica slides. BigDyes were excited by an argon-ion-laser (excitation wavelengths: 488 and 514.5 nm) beam through total internal reflection on the slide surface. SM fluorescence emitted from a complex was spectrally dispersed through a prism to form an SM spot elongated in the spectral direction on a charge-coupled device. A scattered light spot generated by the AuNP of the same complex under 594-nm laser illumination was used as a wavelength reference, and the SM fluorescence spectrum was obtained from the pixel-intensity pattern of the elongated SM spot. Peak locations of fluorescence spectra of all the observed SM spots were obtained, and their histograms were distinctly separated according to species. SM spots can thus be classified as one of four species according to their peak locations. By statistically analyzing the histograms, the classification accuracy was estimated to be above 93.8 %. The number of pixels in the spectral direction required for classifying four species of SM fluorophores was estimated to be 10. As for the conventional system (which uses two excitation lasers), 15 pixels are required. Using BigDyes as the four fluorophores (which consist of donors linked to acceptors and can be excited by just an argon-ion laser) is the reason that such a small number of pixels was achieved. The developed system can thus detect 1.5 times more SM fluorophores per field of view; that is, its throughput is 1.5 times higher. The approach taken in this study, namely, using BigDye with a prism-type system, is effective for increasing the throughput of DNA microarray-chip analysis and SM real-time DNA sequencing.     

Partner selection method in cooperative spatial modulation (CSM) system

In this work, to achieve higher capacity, spatial modulation (SM) is utilized in a cooperative scheme in two different models of Cooperative SM, where SM is applied either at the source or the selected partner through an antenna array. A theoretical model of SM capacity is defined based on closed form lower and upper bound of the SM capacity. Based on the theoretical analysis of the channel capacity in both CSM systems the simplest and easier to implement selection criteria have been suggested to select a single partner to maximize CSM capacity. The CSM system in which SM is applied through the partner’s antenna array is providing significant enhancement over the other CSM model and cooperative multiple-input-multiple-output (CO-MIMO) networks based on multiple partners. Moreover, the system with a single randomly selected partner equipped with four antennas, behaves similarly as the best configuration of CO-MIMO based on the cooperation of four partners with the computational complexity linearly increases with the number of available partners to help. All of the theoretical findings are verified through simulation studies.     

集成光学条波导阵列与单模光纤阵列的联接

本文报告了一种新的集成光学条波导阵列与镶嵌在硅V槽中的单模光纤阵列耦合联接方法的设计考虑,导出了确定光纤正确位置及V型槽的几何尺寸的若干计算公式.并讨论了光纤与波导几何尺寸与耦合效率的关系.指出了这是实现单模光纤阵列与条波导阵列的固定联接的有效方法,它简化了波导与光纤的对准程序,即由五维调整简化为平面的一维调整.可实现多个波导和多个光纤的同时对准与固定.最大限度地利用了有效重叠面积,从而提高了光纤与条波导的耦合效率.一组典型的数据是单模光纤(芯径10μm)对单模波导(10μm×5μm)的耦合效率可达55%,而同样尺寸的波导对光纤的最大耦会效率可达86%.     

Status of the lepton g − 2 and effects of hadronic corrections

The electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments (AMM) are measured in experiments and studied in the Standard Model (SM) with the highest precision accessible in particle physics. The comparison of the measured quantity with the SM prediction for the electron AMM provides the best determination of the fine structure constant. The muon AMM is more sensitive to the appearance of New Physics effects and, at present, there appears to be a three- to four-standard deviation between the SM and experiment. The lepton AMMs are pure relativistic quantum correction effects and therefore test the foundations of relativistic quantum field theory in general, and of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and SM in particular, with highest sensitivity. Special attention is paid to the studies of the hadronic contributions to the muon AMM which constitute the main source of theoretical uncertainties of the SM.     

Anomaly driven signatures of new invisible physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM) predict new neutral vector bosons at energies accessible by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We study an extension of the SM with new chiral fermions subject to non-trivial anomaly cancellations. If the new fermions have SM charges, but are too heavy to be created at LHC, and the SM fermions are not charged under the extra gauge field, one would expect that this new sector remains completely invisible at LHC. We show, however, that a non-trivial anomaly cancellation between the new heavy fermions may give rise to observable effects in the gauge boson sector that can be seen at the LHC and distinguished from backgrounds.     

Distinguishing a SM-like MSSM Higgs boson from SM Higgs boson at muon collider

We explore the possibility of distinguishing the SM-like MSSM Higgs boson from the SM Higgs boson via Higgs boson pair production at future muon collider. We study the behavior of the production cross-section in SM and MSSM with Higgs boson mass for various MSSM parameters tan β and m _A . We observe that at fixed CM energy, in the SM, the total cross-section increases with the increase in Higgs boson mass whereas this trend is reversed for the MSSM. The changes that occur for the MSSM in comparison to the SM predictions are quantified in terms of the relative percentage deviation in cross-section. The observed deviations in cross-section for different choices of Higgs boson masses suggest that the measurements of the cross-section could possibly distinguish the SM-like MSSM Higgs boson from the SM Higgs boson.      

Agn(n=2～10)团簇的几何结构和电子特性

应用密度泛函理论中B3LYP/LANL2DZ 方法优化计算并分析了Agn(n=2～10)团簇的基态几何结构及电子性质.同时计算和讨论了银团簇的原子化能、能级分布、能级间隙、电子亲和能和电离势,所得理论计算值与实验值符合较好.研究结果表明:银小团簇的结构不同于块体,且随团簇尺寸大小而相应变化,原子化能和电子亲和势随原子尺寸的增加而增加,团簇的费米能级、电子亲和势和电离势随团簇大小变化具有明显的奇偶振荡特性,并对此作了分析.团簇的电子性质和几何结构之间的密切关系及其随团簇尺寸大小变化的规律,可以从理论上确定团簇的最稳定结构,并可对实验观测结果做出解释.     

Higgs physics at CMS

This article reviews recent measurements of the properties of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC: its mass, width and couplings to other SM particles. We also summarise highlights from searches for new physical phenomena in the Higgs sector as they are proposed in many extensions of the SM: flavour violating and invisible decay modes, resonances decaying into Higgs bosons and searches for additional Higgs bosons.     

Discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC

The Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson was predicted by theorists in the 1960s during the development of the electroweak theory. Prior to the startup of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), experimental searches found no evidence of the Higgs boson. In July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reported the discovery of a new boson in their searches for the SM Higgs boson. Subsequent experimental studies have revealed the spin-0 nature of this new boson and found its couplings to SM particles consistent to those of a Higgs boson. These measurements confirmed the newly discovered boson is indeed a Higgs boson. More measurements will be performed to compare the properties of the Higgs boson with the SM predictions.     

Speckle-metric-optimization-based adaptive optics for laser beam projection and coherent beam combining

Maximization of a projected laser beam's power density at a remotely located extended object (speckle target) can be achieved by using an adaptive optics (AO) technique based on sensing and optimization of the target-return speckle field's statistical characteristics, referred to here as speckle metrics (SM). SM AO was demonstrated in a target-in-the-loop coherent beam combining experiment using a bistatic laser beam projection system composed of a coherent fiber-array transmitter and a power-in-the-bucket receiver. SM sensing utilized a 50 MHz rate dithering of the projected beam that provided a stair-mode approximation of the outgoing combined beam's wavefront tip and tilt with subaperture piston phases. Fiber-integrated phase shifters were used for both the dithering and SM optimization with stochastic parallel gradient descent control.     

Type II seesaw and the PAMELA/ATIC signals

We discuss how the cosmic ray signals reported by the PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS experiments may be understood in a Standard Model (SM) framework supplemented by type II seesaw and a stable SM singlet scalar boson as dark matter. A particle physics explanation of the ‘boost’ factor can be provided by including an additional SM singlet scalar field.     

3D ultrasound guided breast biopsy system

Stereotactic X-ray mammography (SM) and ultrasound (US) guidance are commonly used techniques for breast biopsy. While SM provides 3D targeting information and US provides real-time guidance, both techniques have limitations. SM is a long and uncomfortable procedure and the US guided procedure is inherently 2D, requiring a skilled physician for both safety and accuracy. We have developed a 3D US-guided biopsy system to integrate with SM. The dual modality breast biopsy system combines the advantages of both approaches with 3D US and SM targeting, near real-time 3D and real-time 2D US guidance, breast stabilisation and a confined needle trajectory. Our goal is to be able to biopsy a larger percentage of suspicious masses using ultrasound, by clarifying ambiguous structures with mammographic imaging. Using breast phantoms, we have shown that our ultrasound guided biopsy system was capable of targeting artificial lesions that were 3.2 mm in diameter, with a 96% success rate. Through this study, we also demonstrated that our system was equivalent to current clinical practice, for an in vitro biopsy task. Metal beads in known relative positions allowed us to determine the geometry of the SM system, so that stereotactic mammography could be registered to 3D US images. The target registration error was found to be 1.6 mm. This error was dominated by positioning error in the vertical direction (perpendicular to the film surface). As an adjunct to SM, we propose that 3D US could provide more complete imaging information for target identification and real-time monitoring of needle insertion, as well as providing a means for rapid confirmation of biopsy success.     

Three-dimensional, spin-resolved structure of magnetic vortex and antivortex states in patterned Co films using scanning ion microscopy with polarization analysis

Scanning ion microscopy with polarization analysis is utilized for three-dimensional spin mapping of the surface magnetization (SM) of circular Co dots created in situ by focused ion beam etching of 30 nm thin Co/Si(100) films. From 3D scanning ion microscopy with polarization analysis spin maps, direct evidence is found for the existence of vortex-antivortex states with in-plane circular or hyperbolic SM components and a wide core with perpendicular SM components which oscillate in the outer region and become zero.