Predicting the growth of new links by new preferential attachment similarity indices

By revisiting the preferential attachment (PA) mechanism for generating a classical scale-free network, we propose a class of novel preferential attachment similarity indices for predicting future links in evolving networks. Extensive experiments on 14 real-life networks show that these new indices can provide more accurate prediction than the traditional one. Due to the improved prediction accuracy and low computational complexity, these proposed preferential attachment indices can be helpful for providing both instructions for mining unknown links and new insights to understand the underlying mechanisms that drive the network evolution.     

Nonlinear growth in weighted networks with neighborhood preferential attachment

We propose a nonlinear growing model for weighted networks with two significant characteristics: (i) the new weights triggered by new edges at each time step grow nonlinearly with time; and (ii) a neighborhood local-world exists for local preferential attachment, which is defined as one selected node and its neighbors. Global strength-driven and local weight-driven preferential attachment mechanisms are involved in our model. We study the evolution process through both mathematical analysis and numerical simulation, and find that the model exhibits a wide-range power-law distribution for node degree, strength, and weight. In particular, a nonlinear degree–strength relationship is obtained. This nonlinearity implies that accelerating growth of new weights plays a nontrivial role compared with accelerating growth of edges. Because of the specific local-world model, a small-world property emerges, and a significant hierarchical organization, independent of the parameters, is observed.     

Separable states are more disordered globally than locally

A remarkable feature of quantum entanglement is that an entangled state of two parties, Alice ( A) and Bob ( B), may be more disordered locally than globally. That is, S(A)>S(A,B), where S(*) is the von Neumann entropy. It is known that satisfaction of this inequality implies that a state is nonseparable. In this paper we prove the stronger result that for separable states the vector of eigenvalues of the density matrix of system AB is majorized by the vector of eigenvalues of the density matrix of system A alone. This gives a strong sense in which a separable state is more disordered globally than locally and a new necessary condition for separability of bipartite states in arbitrary dimensions.     

Fe掺杂单壁ZnS纳米管磁性质

采用第一性原理密度泛函理论系统研究Fe原子掺杂单壁ZnS纳米管的结构和磁性质.首先比较掺杂纳米管的稳定性.结果表明,掺杂纳米管的形成能比纯纳米管的形成能低,说明掺杂过程是一个放热反应.单掺杂纳米管的总磁矩等于掺杂的磁性原子的磁矩,主要来自Fe原子3d态的贡献.Fe原子掺杂单壁ZnS纳米管趋向于反铁磁态.为了得到稳定的铁磁态,用一个C原子替代掺杂体系中的一个S原子.计算发现铁磁态的能量比亚铁磁态低0.164 eV的.在铁磁态和反铁磁态之间存在的巨大的能量差,表明此掺杂体系可能获得室温铁磁性.     

The effect of preferential diffusion on soot formation in a laminar ethylene/air diffusion flame

The influence of preferential diffusion on soot formation in a laminar ethylene/air diffusion flame was investigated by numerical simulation using three different transport property calculation methods. One simulation included preferential diffusion and the other two neglected preferential diffusion. The results show that the neglect of preferential diffusion or the use of unity Lewis number for all species results in a significant underprediction of soot volume fraction. The peak soot volume fraction is reduced from 8.0 to 2.0 ppm for the studied flame when preferential diffusion is neglected in the simulation. Detailed examination of numerical results reveals that the underprediction of soot volume fraction in the simulation neglecting preferential diffusion is due to the slower diffusion of some species from main reaction zone to PAH and soot formation layer. The slower diffusion of these species causes lower PAH formation rate and thus results in lower soot inception rate and smaller particle surface area. The smaller surface area further leads to smaller surface growth rate. In addition, the neglect of preferential diffusion also leads to higher OH concentration in the flame, which causes the higher specific soot oxidation rate. The lower inception rate, smaller surface growth rate and higher specific oxidation rate results in the lower soot volume fraction when preferential diffusion is neglected. The finding of the paper implies the importance of preferential diffusion for the modeling of not only laminar but maybe also some turbulent flames.     

Possibility of existence of pseudoferroelectric state in cells: Some experimental evidence

The possibility of existence of a pseudoferroelectric state in reproducing cells has been experimentally observed. The experiment based on dielectrophoresis of cellular origin shows that reproducing cells attract the highly polarizable particles more than the poorly polarizable particles. The preferential attraction of particles can be explained when one considers cells as a dipole oscillator.     

Effect of the age of papers on the preferential attachment in citation networks

In this paper, we investigated the influences of the age of papers on the preferential attachment on the basis of three actual citation networks. We found that the time dependence of the attachment rate follows a uniform exponentially decreasing function, T(t)∼exp(−λt), in different citation networks. Younger papers are more likely to be cited by new ones than older papers. On the basis of the aging influences, we modified the expression for the preferential attachment, to . Our results show that the modified preferential attachment works well for citation networks.     

Snyder space revisited

We examine basis functions on momentum space for the three-dimensional Euclidean Snyder algebra. We argue that the momentum space is isomorphic to the SO(3) group manifold, and that the basis functions span either one of two Hilbert spaces. This implies the existence of two distinct lattice structures of space. Continuous rotations and translations are unitarily implementable on these lattices.     

Deterministic Remote Preparation of Electrons States in Coupled Quantum Dots by Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage

We present a proposal for deterministic remote preparation of electrons states in a semiconductor nanostructure consisting of a single and a double quantum dot. We show that deterministic remote preparation requires a minimum of only one controlled-Not gate plus one Hadamard gate for the basis transformation, and one Hadamard gate and one single-spin rotation for the reconstruction procedure. Picosecond-scale pulses allow for ultra-short total duration of the protocol, which implies a high remote preparation fidelity.     

Non-Existence of Multiple-Black-Hole Solutions Close to Kerr–Newman

We show that a stationary asymptotically flat electro-vacuum solution of Einstein’s equations that is everywhere locally “almost isometric” to a Kerr–Newman solution cannot admit more than one event horizon. Axial symmetry is not assumed. In particular this implies that the assumption of a single event horizon in Alexakis–Ionescu–Klainerman’s proof of perturbative uniqueness of Kerr black holes is in fact unnecessary.     

A self-consistent approach to measure preferential attachment in networks and its application to an inherent structure network

Preferential attachment is one possible way to obtain a scale-free network. We develop a self-consistent method to determine whether preferential attachment occurs during the growth of a network, and to extract the preferential attachment rule using time-dependent data. Model networks are grown with known preferential attachment rules to test the method, which is seen to be robust. The method is then applied to a scale-free inherent structure (IS) network, which represents the connections between minima via transition states on a potential energy landscape. Even though this network is static, we can examine the growth of the network as a function of a threshold energy (rather than time), where only those transition states with energies lower than the threshold energy contribute to the network. For these networks we are able to detect the presence of preferential attachment, and this helps to explain the ubiquity of funnels on potential energy landscapes. However, the scale-free degree distribution shows some differences from that of a model network grown using the obtained preferential attachment rules, implying that other factors are also important in the growth process.     

Relations between matrix elements of the nonlinear Boltzmann collision integral in the axisymmetric case

The properties of the nonlinear Boltzmann collision integral for the axisymmetric velocity distribution are studied. Expansions in spherical Hermitian polynomials orthogonal to the Maxwellian weighting function are employed. It is shown that the nonlinear matrix elements of the collision operator are related to each other by simple relations, which are valid for arbitrary cross sections of particle interaction even if a preferential direction exists. The relations are derived from the invariance of the collision operator under the choice of basis functions or, more precisely, under both temperature and the mean velocity of the Maxwellian weighting function. The recurrent relations found allow one to calculate the matrix elements at large values of indices. This makes it possible to construct exact solutions to complicated kinetic problems.     

采用单个压电传感器的单模式兰姆波激发频率的选择

考虑了压电传感器(PZT)与板之间的耦合作用,从理论上研究了单个压电传感器激发时产生单模式兰姆波的频率调节方法,实验给出了模式选择在兰姆波结构健康监测中的应用. 在板材、板厚以及PZT尺寸一定的情况下,从理论上能够预测到作为频率函数的各兰姆波模式的幅值变化. 根据某特定兰姆波模式的幅值最大而其他模式幅值相对最小时所对应的频率,即可识别出该兰姆波模式优化的激发频率. 数值仿真验证了理论的有效性以及单模式兰姆波选择的可能性. 在不同的激发频率下,分别激发了优化的A0 模式,优化的S0模式以及共存的A0和S0模 关键词： 兰姆波 压电传感器 激发频率 结构健康监测     

First-principle study on magnetic properties of Mn/Fe codoped ZnS

We studied the magnetic properties of Mn/Fe codoped ZnS comparatively with and without defects using first-principle calculation. The calculated results indicate that the Mn/Fe codoped ZnS system tends to stabilize in a ferrimagnetic (FiM) configuration. To obtain a ferromagnetic (FM) configuration, we consider the doped system with defects, such as S or Zn vacancy. The calculated results indicate that the doped system with Zn vacancy favors FiM states. Although the FM states of the doped system with S vacancy are more stable than the FiM states in negative charge states, the FM states are not stable enough to exist. Finally, we replaced an S atom by a C atom in the doped system. The C atom prefers to substitute the S atom connecting Mn and Fe atoms. The formation energy of this defect is −0.40 eV, showing that Mn/Fe/C codoped ZnS can be fabricated easily by experiments. Furthermore, the FM state was lower in energy than the FiM state by 114 meV. Such a large energy difference between the FM and FiM states implies that room temperature ferromagnetism could be expected in such a system.     

Heterogeneous relaxation patterns in supercooled liquids studied by solvation dynamics

We have measured the solvation dynamics of a dipolar supercooled liquid near its glass transition in a temperature range in which the average structural relaxation time varies more than four orders of magnitude. The analysis of the time dependent average emission energy and the inhomogeneous linewidth of the S0<--T1(0-0) transition reveals that the orientation correlation decay pattern intrinsic in each relaxing unit is associated with a stretching exponent beta(intr)=1.00+/-0.08 in the entire range T(g)(KWW) the individual time constants remain correlated to their initial values at t=0.     

Study of Preferential Solvation in Binary Mixtures by Means of Frequency-Domain Fluorescence Spectroscopy

The preferential solvation of 8-N,N-(dimethylamino)-11H-indeno[2,1-a]pyrene, Py(S)DMA, in its transient charge transfer (CT) state in binary solvents such as toluene/DMSO liquid mixtures was studied by means of frequency-domain fluorometry. The data obtained were considered within the following kinetic scheme: the preferential solvation was described by the system of consecutive reversible reactions of which each step is associated with the absorption of one DMSO molecule in the first solvation shell of the fluoresent Py(S)DMA dipolar CT molecule. The rate constants of the first two reversible elementary processes (i.e., the decay of solvation complexes of Py(S)DMA with one and two polar molecules, k _–1 = 1.1 10⁹ s^–1 and k _–2 = 1.4 10⁹ s^–1) were determined.     

Surface-field-induced effects on morphologies of lamella-forming diblock copolymers in nanorod arrays

The surface-induced effect on the morphologies of lamella-forming diblock copolymers in nanorod arrays is studied by using the self-consistent field theory.In the simulation study,a rich variety of novel morphologies are observed by variations in the strength of the surface field for the diblock copolymers.Different surface-field-induced effects are examined for the diblock copolymers in the arrays with distinct preferential surfaces.It is observed that the majority-block preferential surfaces have more obvious induced effects than those of minority-block preferential surfaces.The strong surface fields exhibit different behaviours from those observed in the weak surface fields,by which the morphologies possess cylindrical symmetries.Results from this research deepen the knowledge of surface-induced effects in a confinement system,which may aid the fabrication of polymer-based nanomaterials.     

同位旋非对称核物质性质与扩展的BHF方法(Ⅵ)质子和中子平均自由程及其同位旋依赖性

在扩展的Brueckner-Hartree-Fock理论框架内,研究了同位旋非对称核物质中质子和中子的平均自由程,着重讨论了其同位旋依赖性.结果表明:随核物质同位旋非对称度的增大,质子平均自由程减小而中子的平均自由程增大.这表明中子滴线附近的原子核表面对中子比对质子更具透明度.还简单讨论了基态关联效应对平均自由程的影响.     

Phonon confinement and substitutional disorder in Cd1−xZnxS nanocrystals

1‐longitudinal optical (LO) phonons in free‐standing mixed Cd_1−xZn_xS nanocrystals, synthesized using chemical precipitation, are investigated using Raman spectroscopy. As expected for the nanocrystals, the 1‐LO modes are found to appear at slightly lower wavenumbers than those in the bulk mixed crystals and exhibit one‐mode behavior. On the other hand, the line broadening is found to be much more than that can be accounted on the basis of phonon confinement. From the detailed line‐shape analysis it turns out that the substitutional disorder in the mixed crystals contributes much more to the line broadening than the phonon confinement. The linewidth arising from these mechanisms are also extracted from the analysis. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

人工神经网络作为打印机色空间转换工具的问题

通过分析大量实测的打印机输入(R,G,B)与输出(L ,a ,b )数据之间的对应关系,发现在一些颜色区域存在着RGB与L a b 之间的二对一甚至多对一的关系。另一方面,一个已知的事实是,当一个神经网络已经建立后,任一个(或一组)输入只能产生一个(或一组)输出。结合以上两个事实得出的结论是,在要求打印机的输出颜色能准确地复现指定颜色的情况下,神经网络不适合作为由指定颜色的L a b 值来寻求打印机的相应输入RGB的工具。