量子简并性对气体斯特林制冷循环性能的影响

基于理想量子气体的状态方程，分析了量子气体斯特林制冷循环中的回热特征，推导出循环的制冷系数一般表达式.获得了在强简并和弱简并条件下循环的制冷系数，对全面理解气体斯特林制冷机的性能有所帮助. 关键词： 量子简并性 斯特林制冷循环     

理想玻色气体狄塞尔循环效率的研究

利用理想玻色气体的态方程及其热力学性质,获得以理想玻色气体为工质的狄塞尔热机效率的普遍表达式,分析了考虑量子效应对狄塞尔热机性能的影响.通过比较得出提高实际热机效率的主要途径.所得结论可对量子简并条件下工作的狄塞尔热机的设计提供理论依据.     

超冷~6Li费米气体的密度涨落和亚泊松分布

本文实验测量了无相互作用下6Li超冷费米原子气体密度分布的空间噪声涨落.在量子简并条件下,研究了理想费米气体的空间原子噪声涨落和量子简并度之间的关系,在实验上研究了泡利排斥对量子简并费米气体密度涨落的有效抑制,实现了低温费米量子气体的亚泊松分布测量.本文发展的原子密度噪声测量方法和测量结果在强相关多体系统的温度测量和观测不可压缩量子相的相变方面具有较大的应用前景.     

普遍色散关系下的热波长

指出目前教科书和文献所用的热波长概念仅适用于非相对论性系统，而本文引进了普遍热波长的概念。由此可使理想量子气体的热力学函数表示成统一的简洁形式，并进一步揭示了热波长的物理内涵。另外还导出玻色－爱因斯坦凝聚温度和费米温度间的普遍关系。     

带电粒子系统在双外场中的高温弱简并效应

用Thomas-Fermi半经典统计理论和方法,研究处于匀强电场加谐振场约束的带电粒子系统的热力学性质.首先导出外场约束下带电粒子系统的量子状态数密度,进而给出高温弱简并情况下带电粒子系统的化学势、内能和热容量的解析式,并分析电场和谐振场对系统化学势、内能和热容量的具体影响. 研究结果表明,带电粒子系统在双外场约束下具有高温弱简并效应. 关键词： 带电粒子 匀强电场 谐振场 高温弱简并效应     

理想量子气体的尺度效应

根据欧拉-麦克劳林(Euler-MacLaurin)公式,导出有限理想量子气体的热力学量表达式,揭示系统尺度和边界形状对其性质的影响.结果表明,有限尺度效应导致了一系列与热力学极限条件下不同的性质特征,如系统的非广延性和压强的各向异性等.     

硬球势中相对论费米气体的热力学性质

用量子统计与数值模拟相结合的方法,在广义外势中相对论费米系统的热力学量的基础上,研究硬球势中相对论费米气体的热力学性质.得到了考虑相对论效应时系统的内能和热容量的解析表达式,分析了相对论效应对内能和热容量的影响.研究表明:与非相对论比较,相对论费米气体的内能和热容量更高;相对论特征量越大,热容量的转折温度越低;随着温度的升高,特征量越大,内能就越大.     

对应于铯原子D1线连续可调谐正交压缩态光场的制备

铯原子D₁线的非经典光由于其波长接近于量子点的独特优势,在固态量子信息网络的发展中有着重要的应用前景.在之前的工作中,利用两镜连续简并光学参量振荡器中的参量下转换过程,制备出2.8 d B正交压缩真空态光场.然而,所产生光场的压缩度较低,对于对压缩光具有实用意义的可调谐性能也未做进一步探究.理论分析表明,光学参量振荡器后腔镜对信号光透射率的增加及内腔损耗的减小可以提高压缩度.因此,本文在该研究基础上,通过使用高光洁度腔镜及优化腔镜镀膜参数等方式对光学参量振荡器进行改良,降低了光学参量腔阈值,获得压缩度为3.3 d B的单模正交压缩真空光.当光学参量腔运转为参量反放大状态时,在系统稳定运行的情况下,制备的明亮压缩态光场能够连续调谐80 MHz,为其在量子信息网络中的应用奠定了良好的基础.     

广义不确定性原理下费米气体低温热力学性质

在考虑到广义不确定性原理时, 统计物理中的态密度必须做出修正, 这导致对传统统计物理的所有结果都有不同程度的修正. 在高能、高温条件下, 此修正是颠覆传统观念的, 在低温条件下, 也有一定的修正. 研究了低温条件下考虑到广义不确定性原理时, 理想费米气体和具有弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质, 分别给出理想费米气体和弱相互作用费米气体的化学势、内能和定容热容的解析表达式, 并以铜电子气体为例进行了具体数值计算, 将计算结果与不考虑广义不确定性原理时的费米气体的热力学性质进行了比较, 探讨了广义不确定性原理对系统热力学性质的影响. 考虑到广义不确定性原理后费米气体的化学势、费米能和基态能增大, 热容减少, 内能随温度的增加先增大, 到某一温度(对于铜电子气体, T/T_F0～0.3)时, 增值为零, 温度再增加内能减少. 这些修正的具体数值主要由粒子数密度决定, 粒子数密度越大, 修正越大.     

连续变量1.34 μm量子纠缠态光场的实验制备

设计研制了连续单频671 nm/1342 nm双波长激光器,并通过模式清洁器降低了激光器额外噪声.利用该低噪声连续单频激光器抽运由Ⅱ类准相位匹配晶体构成的双共振非简并光学参量放大器,实验制备出纠缠度达3 dB的光通信波段1.34μm连续变量量子纠缠态光场.该波段量子纠缠态光场在光纤中传输损耗低且相散效应小,与现有的光纤通信系统相兼容,可用于实现基于光纤的实用化连续变量量子通信.     

Fractal behavior in quantum statistical physics

The properties of an ideal gas of spinless particles are investigated by using the path integral formalism. It is shown that the quantum paths exhibit a fractal character which remains unchanged in the relativistic domain provided the creation of new particles is avoided, and the Brownian motion remains the stochastic process associated with the quantum paths. These results are obtained by using a special representation of the Klein-Gordon wave equation. On the quantum paths the relation between velocity and momentum is not the usual one. The mean square value of the velocity depends on the time needed to define the velocity and its value shows the interplay between pure quantum effects and thermodynamics. The fractal character is also investigated starting from wave equations by analyzing the evolution of a Gaussian wave packet via the Hausdorff dimension. Both approaches give the same fractal character in the same limit. It is shown that the time that appears in the path integral behaves like an ordinary time, and the key quantity is the time interval needed for the thermostat to give to the particles a thermal action equal to the quantum of action. Thus, the partition function calculated via the path integral formalism also describes the dynamics of the system for short time intervals. For low temperatures, it is shown that a time-energy uncertainty relation is verified at the end of the calculations. The energy involved in this relation has not a thermodynamic meaning but results from the fact that the particles do not follow the equations of motion along the paths. The results suggest that the density matrix obtained by quantification of the classical canonical distribution function via the path integral formalism should not be totally identical to that obtained via the usual route.     

Jeans stability of dusty space plasmas

The Jeans stability of dusty plasmas is re-considered. In contrast to a gas, a dusty plasma can support a plethora of wave modes each potentially able to impart to the dust particles the randomising energy necessary to avoid Jeans collapse on some length scale. Consequently, the analysis of the stability to Jeans collapse is many-fold more complex in a dusty plasma than it is for a charge-neutral gas. After recalling some of the fundamental ideas related to the ordinary Jeans instability in neutral gases, we extend the discussion to plasmas containing charged dust grains. Besides the usual Jeans criterion based upon thermal agitation, we consider two other ways of countering the gravitational collapse: (i) via the excitation of dust-acoustic modes and (ii) via a novel Alfvén-Jeans instability, where perturbations of the dust mass-loaded magnetic field counter the effects of self-gravitation. These two mechanisms yield different minimum threshold length scales for the onset of instability/condensation. It is pointed out that for the study of the Jeans instability produced by density enhancements induced in the plasma by the presence of normal wave modes, even more prohibitive plasma size constraints must necessarily be satisfied.     

Thermodynamical Description of Modified Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model of Dark Energy

We consider a universe filled by a modified generalized Chaplygin gas together with a pressureless dark matter component. We get a thermodynamical interpretation for the modified generalized Chaplygin gas confined to the apparent horizon of FRW universe, whiles dark sectors do not interact with each other. Thereinafter, by taking into account a mutual interaction between the dark sectors of the cosmos, we find a thermodynamical interpretation for interacting modified generalized Chaplygin gas. Additionally, probable relation between the thermal fluctuations of the system and the assumed mutual interaction is investigated. Finally, we show that if one wants to solve the coincidence problem by using this mutual interaction, then the coupling constants of the interaction will be constrained. The corresponding constraint is also addressed. Moreover, the thermodynamic interpretation of using either a generalized Chaplygin gas or a Chaplygin gas to describe dark energy is also addressed throughout the paper.     

Glassy-like states of bulk rare gases

Defining a glassy-like state of a system of bound atoms as a frozen, amorphous, thermodynamically unstable state, we consider a glassy-like state of a condensed rare gas as a configurationally excited state of bound atoms that tends to the thermodynamic equilibrium by diffusion of voids. The criterion for a critical cooling rate is the minimum cooling rate of the liquid state that leads to formation of a glassy-like state. Comparing this glassy-like state with that experimentally obtained by deposition of argon atoms on a cold target, we conclude that glassy-like states are characterized by short-range parameters. On the basis of cluster studies, peculiarities of the liquid aggregate states and glassy-like states are formulated. A glassy-like state of a cluster or a bulk system of bound atoms is a configurationally excited state below the freezing point; the liquid aggregate state exhibits configurational excitations but is characterized by thermal motion of atoms, consistent with the Lindemann criterion.     

Generalized hydrodynamics from relativistic kinetic theory

The problem is considered of extending the Chapman-Enskog solution of the linearized transport equation for a relativistic quantum gas to the transition regime. The particular system studied is composed of various kinds of particles between which reactive processes are allowed. Following the classical approach of Ernst and Bixon, Dorfman and Mo, we construct a normal solution, as in the Chapman-Enskog procedure, but without any restriction on the wave lengths of the macroscopic disturbances. The method makes use of Zwanzig's projection-operator technique and yields a closed set of hydrodynamic equations with dissipative terms expressed as memory kernels. For small frequencies and wave vectors we recover the linearized Navier-Stokes equations with static transport coefficients given by the usual Chapman-Enskog expressions. Special attention is paid to the thermodynamic fluctuations as described by the static susceptibility matrix.     

Statistical Ionization Equilibrium in Partially Degenerate Plasmas

The thermal ionization equilibrium in plasmas is considered at pressures for which the electron gas is partially to considerably degenerate. An ionization equation is derived which takes into account that i) the electron energies are distributed according to Fermi statistics and ii) the (heavy) ions and atoms obey Boltzmann statistics which is valid up to pressures at which the wave functions of the atoms begin to overlap. A comparison of the quantum statistical and Saha ionization equations indicates that the degeneracy effects in the electron gas suppress somewhat the ionization. It is remarkable that the Saha equation describes, approximately, the thermal ionization equilibrium up to the critical pressure at which the wave functions of the atoms begin to overlap (e.g., up to P ~ 103 Bar and P ~ 106 Bar in the cases of Cs and H plasmas, respectively), although the electrons are noticeably degenerate.     

Discrete nature of thermodynamics in confined ideal Fermi gases

Intrinsic discrete nature in thermodynamic properties of Fermi gases appears under strongly confined and degenerate conditions. For a rectangular confinement domain, thermodynamic properties of an ideal Fermi gas are expressed in their exact summation forms. For 1D, 2D and 3D nano domains, variations of both number of particles and internal energy per particle with chemical potential are examined. It is shown that their relation with chemical potential exhibits a discrete nature which allows them to take only some definite values. Furthermore, quasi-irregular oscillatory-like sharp peaks are observed in heat capacity. New nano devices can be developed based on these behaviors.     

Exciting collective oscillations in a trapped 1D gas

We report on the realization of a trapped one-dimensional Bose gas and its characterization by means of measuring its lowest lying collective excitations. The quantum degenerate Bose gas is prepared in a 2D optical lattice, and we find the ratio of the frequencies of the lowest compressional (breathing) mode and the dipole mode to be (omega(B)/omega(D))(2) approximately 3.1, in accordance with the Lieb-Liniger and mean-field theory. For a thermal gas we measure (omega(B)/omega(D))(2) approximately 4. By heating the quantum degenerate gas, we have studied the transition between the two regimes. For the lowest number of particles attainable in the experiment the kinetic energy of the system is similar to the interaction energy, and we enter the strongly interacting regime.     

Application of the thermodynamic similarity theory for analyzing and generalizing the experimental data on thermal conductivity of high-temperature gases, including low-temperature plasma

The thermodynamic theory of energy (mass) transfer processes in gas systems when affected by external (thermodynamic) forces is considered. Experimental data on shock tube and channel arc measurement of the gas thermal conductivity are analyzed and compared with the available generalized results. The thermodynamic similarity theory for thermophysical properties of high-temperature gases is elaborated and serves as a basis for generalizing the experimental data on argon and nitrogen thermal conductivity at temperatures up to 15000 K.