Ball lightning with a lifetime t⩽1 s

Among luminous formations acknowledged as examples of artificial ball lightning with lifetimes t⩽1 s, examples are presented whose nature is well described by a weakly ionized plasma with a gas temperature T≈0.5 eV. It is shown that such lifetimes do not contradict the estimates of P. L. Kapitsa if it is taken into account the fact that the plasma under consideration is not an ideal blackbody. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 131–134 (October 1999)     

New method for lightning location using optical ground wire

A new technology of lightning location is described, which is based on detecting the state of polarization (SOP) fluctuation of the laser light in the optic ground wire (OPGW). Compared with the conventional lightning location method, the new method is more accurate, more stable, and cheaper. Theories of Stokes parameters and Poincare sphere are introduced to analyze the SOP at the lightning strike point. It can be concluded that although the initial points of SOP on the Poincare sphere are random, the SOP fluctuation generated by lightning strike can still be accurately identified by detecting the velocity of polarization motion. A new algorithm to quantify the velocity is also introduced.     

‘The mesh method’ in lightning protection standards – Revisited

At present the design of the Lightning protection systems (LPS) for structures as stipulated in standards is based on the electro – geometrical method, which was initially used to protect power lines from lightning. A derivative of the electro-geometrical method is the rolling sphere method. This method together, with the protection angle method and mesh method are used almost in all lightning standards as the measure in installing the lightning protection systems of grounded structures. In the mesh method, the dimension of the cell size in different levels of protection is determined using the rolling sphere method. Since the rolling sphere method does not take into account the physics of the lightning attachment process there is a need to evaluate the validity of the stipulated value in standards of the minimum lightning current that can penetrate through the mesh in different levels of protection. In this paper, meshes of different sizes as stipulated in the lightning protection standards were tested for their ability to intercept lightning flashes using a lightning attachment model that takes into account the physics of connecting leaders on. The results are in reasonable agreement with the specifications given in the lightning protection standards.     

Chiral Thirring–Wess model

The vector type of interaction of the Thirring–Wess model was replaced by the chiral type and a new model was presented which was termed as chiral Thirring–Wess model in Rahaman (2015). The model was studied there with a Faddeevian class of regularization. Few ambiguity parameters were allowed there with the apprehension that unitarity might be threatened like the chiral generation of the Schwinger model. In the present work it has been shown that no counter term containing the regularization ambiguity is needed for this model to be physically sensible. So the chiral Thirring–Wess model is studied here without the presence of any ambiguity parameter and it has been found that the model not only remains exactly solvable but also does not lose the unitarity like the chiral generation of the Schwinger model. The phase space structure and the theoretical spectrum of this new model have been determined in the present scenario. The theoretical spectrum is found to contain a massive boson with ambiguity free mass and a massless boson.     

Simulation model of speed–density characteristics for mixed bicycle flow—Comparison between cellular automata model and gas dynamics model

The mixed bicycle flow refers to the bicycle flow containing electric bicycles. The traffic characteristics data of the mixed bicycle flow was collected by the virtual coil method in Nanjing and Ningbo, China. And the speed–density characteristics of the mixed bicycle flow with different proportions of electric bicycles were obtained. The results show that the overall speed of the mixed bicycle flow containing electric bicycles is higher than that of pure bicycle flow when the density is relatively low. The speed decreases when the density is higher than 0.08 bic/m²; the speed–density characteristics of the bicycles and the electric bicycles tend to be the same when the density is higher than 0.25 bic/m². And when the density reaches 0.58 bic/m², the mixed bicycle flow becomes blocked and the speed is zero. The cellular automata model and gas dynamics model were also adopted to simulate the speed–density characteristics of the mixed bicycle flow. The simulation results of the cellular automata model are effectively consistent with the actual survey data when the density is lower than 0.225 bic/m²; the simulation results of the gas dynamics model are effectively consistent with the actual survey data when the density is higher than 0.300 bic/m²; but both of the two types of simulation models are inapplicable when the density is between 0.225 and 0.300 bic/m². These results will be used in the management of mixed bicycles and the research of vehicle–bicycle conflict and so on.     

The Weiss model and the Landau–Khalatnikov model for the switching of ferroelectrics

It is shown that the molecular field theory by P. Weiss formally leads to the switching kinetics of ferroelectrics, which is described by the well-known Landau–Khalatnikov equation. The switching has a critical character, taking place only at E_a>E_c (E_a: external field, E_c: coercive field). The results are checked by computer simulations.     

Chinese speaker-recognition based on ARMA model

lIntroductiollSpeakerrecognitioncanbewidelyusedinpublicsecurity,insurance,secrecy,bankingetc.Manyscholarshavespendseveraldecadesstudyingthissubject,andhavegottenmanyachievements,buttherearesomedisadvantagesintheirmethods.Forexample,thegeneralinformation,includingthechargeofvocaltractwhendifferentcontentspeechisspoken,heavilyblursanddestroysindividualinformation,sotheperformanceofrecognitionisnotgood.Insomemethods,thelong-timespeechmaterialisusedtogatherindividualcharacteristicsandthecomplextra…     

Non-Hermitian Ising model at finite temperature

As a very simple model, the Ising model plays an important role in statistical physics. In the paper,with the help of quantum Liouvillian statistical theory, we study the one-dimensional nonHermitian Ising model at finite temperature and give its analytical solutions. We find that the nonHermitian Ising model shows quite different properties from those of its Hermitian counterpart. For example, the ‘pseudo-phase transition’ is explored between the ‘topological’ phase and the ‘nontopological’ pha...     

Auditory model inversion and its application

Auditory model has been applied to several aspects of speech signal processing field, and appears to be effective in performance. This paper presents the inverse transform of each stage of one widely used auditory model. First of all it is necessary to invert correlogram and reconstruct phase information by repetitious iterations in order to get auditory-nerve firing rate. The next step is to obtain the negative parts of the signal via the reverse process of the HWR (Half Wave Rectification). Finally the functions of inner hair cell/synapse model and Gammatone filters have to be inverted. Thus the whole auditory model inversion has been achieved. An application of noisy speech enhancement based on auditory model inversion algorithm is proposed. Many experiments show that this method is effective in reducing noise. Especially when SNR of noisy speech is low it is more effective than other methods. Thus this auditory model inversion method given in this paper is applicable to speech enhancement field.     

Inequivalent quantizations for non-linear σ model

We compute the homotopy groups ₀ and ₁ of the classical configuration space of anO(3) invariant field theory on ×, where is a compact two dimensional manifold for arbitrary genusg and- denotes the time coordinate. We also present the finite dimensional, unitary, irreducible, inequivalent representations of the appropriate fundamental groups and comment on some of their implications.     

The Büttiker-Landauer model generalized

Büttiker and Landauer studied scattering off an oscillating rectangular barrier in order to shed light on the time aspects of tunneling. The expression for the traversal time resulting from this study is controversial. In addition, doubts have recently been expressed on technical aspects of their work. In an attempt to clarify these issues, we investigate a generalization of their model to arbitrary oscillating barriers,V(x, t)=V ₀(x)+V ₁(x)cos t. In the process, we confirm that Büttiker and Landauer's work is technically sound. However, we show, by several examples, that no direct general relation exists between the characteristic frequency of an oscillating barrier and the duration of the tunneling process. For a wide range of realistic parameters this characteristic frequency does not even exist.This paper is dedicated to E. G. D. Cohen.     

Minor hysteresis loops model based on exponential parameters scaling of the modified Jiles–Atherton model

In this present work, the minor hysteresis loops model based on parameters scaling of the modified Jiles–Atherton model is evaluated by using judicious expressions. These expressions give the minor hysteresis loops parameters as a function of the major hysteresis loop ones. They have exponential form and are obtained by parameters identification using the stochastic optimization method “simulated annealing”. The main parameters influencing the data fitting are three parameters, the pinning parameter k, the mean filed parameter α and the parameter which characterizes the shape of anhysteretic magnetization curve a. To validate this model, calculated minor hysteresis loops are compared with measured ones and good agreements are obtained.     

Half-monopole in the Weinberg–Salam model

We present new axially symmetric half-monopole configuration of the SU(2)×U(1) Weinberg–Salam model of electromagnetic and weak interactions. The half-monopole configuration possesses net magnetic charge 2π/e$2\pi /e$ which is half the magnetic charge of a Cho–Maison monopole. The electromagnetic gauge potential is singular along the negative z$z$-axis. However the total energy is finite and increases only logarithmically with increasing Higgs field self-coupling constant λ^1/2${\lambda }^{1/2}$ at sin²θ_W=0.2312${sin}^2{\theta }_W=0.2312$. In the U(1) magnetic field, the half-monopole is just a one dimensional finite length line magnetic charge extending from the origin r=0$r=0$ and lying along the negative z$z$-axis. In the SU(2) ’t Hooft magnetic field, it is a point magnetic charge located at r=0$r=0$. The half-monopole possesses magnetic dipole moment that decreases exponentially fast with increasing Higgs field self-coupling constant λ^1/2${\lambda }^{1/2}$ at sin²θ_W=0.2312${sin}^2{\theta }_W=0.2312$.     

Tachyonization of the ΛCDM cosmological model

In this work a tachyonization of the ΛCDM model for a spatially flat Friedmann–Robertson–Walker space–time is proposed. A tachyon field and a cosmological constant are considered as the sources of the gravitational field. Starting from a stability analysis and from the exact solutions for a standard tachyon field driven by a given potential, the search for a large set of cosmological models which contain the ΛCDM model is investigated. By the use of internal transformations two new kinds of tachyon fields are derived from the standard tachyon field, namely, a complementary and a phantom tachyon fields. Numerical solutions for the three kinds of tachyon fields are determined and it is shown that the standard and complementary tachyon fields reproduces the ΛCDM model as a limiting case. The standard tachyon field can also describe a transition from an accelerated to a decelerated regime, behaving as an inflationary field at early times and as a matter field at late times. The complementary tachyon field always behaves as a matter field. The phantom tachyon field is characterized by a rapid expansion where its energy density increases with time.     

HMO model of scalar field in vacuum

In this paper, the HMO model of scalar field in vacuum is developed using the covariant field theory, in which the so-called current density and mass density of optical fluid are obtained and analyzed.