邮票上的物理学史⑨--牛顿

"牛顿由于发现了万有引力定律而创立了科学的天文学,由于进行了光的分解而创立了科学的光学,由于建立了二项式定律和无穷理论而创立了科学的数学,由于认识了力的本性而创立了科学的力学."恩格斯的这段话很好地总结了牛顿的科学业绩.为了纪念牛顿在科学上的伟大建树,许多国家发行了多枚一套的邮票.     

物理实验开放式教学初探

网上预约实验实现了各校区资源共享、教学内容有弹性满足了不同层次学生的需求，开放式教学增强了教师的责任心，激发了学生学习的主动性和积极性，提高了实验教学质量，充分利用了实验室的资源，取得了较好的效果。     

自由落体实验的改进

针对教材中自由落体实验操作的不稳定性,改进了实验,增强了实验操作的稳定性,提高了实验的精确度,减少了实验次数,节省了时间,提高了课堂效率.     

大统一理论:回顾与展望

本文系统地讨论了大统一理论的来龙去脉。回顾了大统一理论的发展历史,讨论了其发展现状及存在问题,指出了进一步发展的方向。本文重点介绍了SU(5)和SO(10)两个模型,讨论了Higgs场、规范等级、渐近自由、重正化等问题。文章进而讨论了一些有趣问题,比如提供了对宇宙重子起源的解释、计算了质子衰变寿命、论述了B-L是否守恒以及讨论了中子和中微子可能有的振荡现象等。     

双波段扫描辐射计的研制

介绍了一种新型小视场、高精度的双波段扫描辐射计。描述了系统的特点,分析了系统的总体方案。介绍了系统的工作原理,对系统的NETD进行了估算,对其探测器的选择、光学系统设计、调制系统设计、扫描机构设计、信号处理等方案进行了详细论述,对系统的标定和测量原理进行了分析,并给出了相应的计算公式。给出了系统的检测结果。     

La/酸化膨润土吸附剂的表征与除磷性能

以酸化改性膨润土为载体,采用浸泡法制备了稀土La掺杂的La/酸化膨润土吸附剂.通过XRD和FTIR对其结构进行了表征,探讨了膨润土的改性机理,研究了该吸附剂对废水的除磷性能.结果表明：酸化过程洗掉了膨润土中的杂质和氧化铝,稀土镧的掺杂在膨润土层间及表面引入了一定数量的羟基化合物,改善了膨润土的层间结构并生成了新的La-O-Si键,实现了La与膨润土的复合,提高了膨润土的吸附性能.     

地磁场测量实验教学设备的改造、替代及软件选取

介绍了周期幅值法测量地磁场的实验方法,指出了原实验设备存在的问题,同时提出了实验设备的改造方案,并详细介绍了如何软选取件模块.该工作降低了实验教学的维护成本,节约了因等待维护耗费的大量时间,保证了实验教学的顺利进行.     

体内(in Vivo)NMR研究

本文综述了体内(in Vivo)核磁共振波谱技术的目前概况,简要介绍了这一技术的基本原理。对空间定位技术进行了重点评述,并给出了分类表。同时讨论了化学位移对空间定位精确的影响,介绍了提高定位精确度的实验方法。列举了空间定位波谱技术在生命科学研究中的应用,给出了大量的参考文献。     

控制环量设计涡轮的实验研究

采用控制环量方法设计了一单级涡轮。该方法打破了传统的设计规律,为验证该方法的可靠性进行了模型试验。在宽广的范围内测定了总特性;在设计点附近作了沿叶高效率分布及动叶进、出口速度三角形的测定。本文给出了主要试验结果并作了简要分析。结果表明基本上达到了设计要求,控制环量设计的主要特征得到了验证,该方法基本可行。     

纳米流体脉动热管的流动与传热性能研究

建立了纳米流体脉动热管的分析模型,将相变传热项合理引入了汽塞能量微分方程;液塞动量方程中考虑了剪切力的影响;纳米流体的物性采用了当量处理方法.采用数值迭代方法进行了求解,得到了汽塞压力、温度、质量的变化波形,分析了波形的频率,进而解释了初始条件、重力等对脉动热管的流动与传热影响的机理.     

Will the real Kasner metric please stand up

The Kasner metric is one of the more widely studied metrics. Its usefulness for the construction of cosmological models and its utility for certain studies of elementary particles has made it particularly attractive for exploitation. Because of its simplicity it has been rediscovered many times and is itself very closely related to metrics given several years earlier by Weyl, Levi-Civita, and Wilson. The form in which Kasner presented it has been virtually forgotten in favor of the dynamic form of the synchronous Bianchi I metric. Kasner metrics may be either static or dynamic. To each static metric there is acognate dynamic metric andvice versa, and the two are related by a complex coordinate transformation. The characterization of a Kasner metric is by means of a set of parameters. It is possible for these to take on complex values with interesting consequences, In the discussion a curious error in the original paper is rectified and some new Kasner metrics are presented. The discussion throughout is confined to the vacuum metric.     

On testing objective local theories by using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states

The convenience of using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) stales for disproving a recently proposed hardest-to-beat type of hidden variables theory is analyzed. The experimental conditions for observing a discrepancy from quantum mechanical predictions are obtained, for a GHZ state with an arbitrary number q of particles. It is shown that an Orsay-like experiment is preferable, even for highly idealized conditions and even if the difficulty of preparation of a GHZ state with a large number of particles is not taken into account. The situation may be different for the case q=4 if a proposed theorem is demonstrated true.     

The turning of magnetotactic bacteria

A magnetotactic bacterium aligns itself along the magnetic field. When the field is reversed the bacterium makes a U-turn in the surrounding water. The turning is described by a Fokker-Planck equation for the angle , which is singular at the endpoints =0 and =. The time needed for turning can be found exactly as a first-passage time. The probability distribution itself can be found in terms of an approximation for low temperature. To cover the regions near the endpoints singular perturbation theory is needed.     

B-spline solver for one-electron Schrödinger equation

A numerical algorithm for solving the one-electron Schrödinger equation is presented. The algorithm is based on the Finite Element method, and the basis functions are tensor products of univariate B-splines. The application of cubic or higher order B-splines guarantees that the searched solution belongs to a continuous and one time differentiable function space, which is a desirable property in the Kohn–Sham equation context from the Density Functional Theory with pseudopotential approximation. The theoretical background of the numerical algorithm is presented, and additionally, the implementation on parallel computers with distributed memory is described. The current implementation of the algorithm uses the MPI, HYPRE and ParMETIS libraries to distribute matrices on processing units. Additionally, the LOBPCG algorithm from HYPRE library is used to solve the algebraic generalized eigenvalue problem. The proposed algorithm works for any smooth interaction potential, where the domain of the problem is a finite subspace of the ?³ space. The accuracy of the algorithm is demonstrated for a selected interaction potential. In the current stage, the algorithm can be applied to solve the linearized Kohn–Sham equation for molecular systems.     

On the dynamics and ergodic properties of theXY model

The return to equilibrium is investigated for one-dimensional (one-sided) chain of theXY model. The initial state is taken to be the Gibbs state for the sum of the Hamiltonian for theXY model of lengthN and a perturbation by a uniform magnetic field acting on the firstn sites. The time evolution under the unperturbedXY model Hamiltonian is studied for the expectation value of the average magnetization of the same firstn sites in the infinitely extended system (i.e., after taking the limitN). It is found that the return to equilibrium occurs for a finite-size perturbation (i.e., for a fixedn), while it does not occur for an infinite-size perturbation (i.e., the limit n is taken simultaneously as N). A certain twisted asymptotic Abelian property of theXY model is shown and used as a technical tool.     

Stochastic differential equations anda posteriori states in quantum mechanics

In recent years a consistent theory describing measurements continuous in time in quantum mechanics has been developed. The result of such a measurement is atrajectoryfor one or more quantities observed with continuity in time. Applications are connected especially with detection theory in quantum optics. In such a theory of continuous measurements one can ask what is the state of the system given that a certain trajectory up to timet has been observed. The response to this question is the notion ofa posteriori states and afilteringequation governing the evolution of such states: this turns out to be a nonlinear stochastic differential equation for density matrices or for pure vectors. The driving noise appearing in such an equation is not an external one, but its probability law is determined by the system itself (it is the probability measure on the trajectory space given by the theory of continuous measurements).     

Self-consistent perturbation theory for the vibrational spectra of certain disordered systems

The effect of coupling parameter fluctuations (quantitative disorder) on the vibrational spectrum of a solid is investigated. Since small deviations from crystalline order already turn out to lead to considerable broadening of the crystalline spectrum, a self-consistent perturbation scheme is developed similar to the coherent potential approximation for electronic systems. An approximate equation is obtained in which disorder is described in terms of a single dimensionless parameter which is a measure of the mean square fractional deviations of the coupling parameters from their average values. The equation is solved self-consistently by iteration. The final result is a convolution expression for the amorphous spectrum in which all van Hove singularities are smeared out except the ones at zero frequency and at the upper cutoff of the spectrum. Numerical results are obtained for silicon using a Keating crystalline density of states and assuming that the average values of the coupling parameters are identical to the crystalline ones. The maxima of the crystalline spectrum are broadened but qualitatively retained to a larger extent than in a simple convolution of the spectrum with a Gaussian.     

β relaxation theory for simple systems: some addenda

The evolution of the tagged particle probability density for a hard sphere system is evaluated within the -relaxation window. Relaxation curves obtained by molecular dynamics studies by Barrat, Hansen and Roux for a binary mixture are analyzed quantitatively with -relaxation scaling formulae. The dynamical light scattering data obtained by Pusey and van Megen for colloidal suspensions are described by the combined - and -relaxation scaling results. The range of validity of asymptotic expressions near a glass transition singularity is discussed for the Debye-Waller factor as a function of packing fraction. The applied theoretical formulae are those of the mode coupling theory for the liquid to glass transition.     

Thermal fluctuations and ac response of weakly pinned charge density waves

The Fukuyama-Lee theory for the ac response () of weakly pinned charge density waves is extended to include thermal fluctuations. The equation of motion for the local phase includes an extrinsic damping and a distinction is made between static and dynamic parameters in it. It is split into static, thermally fluctuating and response contributions to the phase, respectively. The static problem is treated using a result from Feigel'man's theory which provides a revised value for the weak pinning constant. The impurity averaging of the response equation is performed using the simplifying statistical properties of the stochastic pinning force following Bleher's recent work. The main emphasis is on the treatment of the thermal fluctuations via a thermal field _th. The non-linear Langevin equation for _th is linearized and further simplified by an RPA type approximation which eliminates the impurity fluctuations from _th. The resulting equation is solved exactly. It is shown that the correlation function of the thermal field decays initially with a short time constant. This allows to treat the thermal fluctuations on an equal footing with the impurity fluctuations in the self-consistent Born approximation. The main contribution of the thermal fluctuations results in powers of a thermal factor exp(- _th ² /2) to the first and second order self energies of the phason Green's function. Numerical results due to these modifications are given for (,T). It is found that the absorption peak in Re () broadens and shifts to lower frequencies when the temperature is raised. The corresponding treatment for three spatial dimensional is indicated. The thermal factor is evaluated for this case and differences to Maki's result are noted. The questions of analyticity and conductivity sum rule are also dealt with.Dedicated to Professor Helmut Reik on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

Radiation Characteristics of Ion Acoustic Solitons Launched from an Antenna

The radiation of ion acoustic solitons launched from a 10-cm × 10-cm metal plate into a large plasma (volume ~0.9 m3) is examined experimentally. It is found that the concept of "near-field" and "far-field" effects for linear waves is also relevant for these nonlinear waves.