Aromatic superclusters from all-metal aromatic and antiaromatic monomers, [Al4]2- and [Al4]4-

Calculations on the structures of dimers of all-metal aromatic and anti-aromatic molecules such as (Al4(2-)) and (Al4(4-)) reveal that, unlike their organic counterparts such as benzene and cyclobutadiene which form pi-stacked complexes, these molecules form new clusters with no reminiscence of the original units. These clusters have a very large binding energy and can be further stabilized through charge-balance by counterions and solvents.     

Demonstration of displacement–measurement–sensitivity proportional to inverse group index of intra-cavity medium in a ring resonator

We show that an intra-cavity medium with dispersion modifies the sensitivity of the cavity resonance frequency to a change in its length by a factor inversely proportional to the group index, n_g, in the medium. For a positive group index characteristic of the slow-light media, with a very large value of n_g, this effect can help in constructing highly frequency-stable cavities for various potential applications without taking additional measures for mechanical stability. For a negative group index characteristic of the fast-light media, with n_g close to a null value, this implies enhancement in sensitivity to change in cavity length. This enhancement in turn can be employed to increase the sensitivity of a ring laser gyroscope.     

Reactions of Nonequilibrium Oxygen Plasmas with Liquid Olefins

The oxidation of 13 liquid olefins with either high-voltage or radio frequency (RF) glow discharges has been studied. The reactions were carried out by making the oxygen plasma reach the low vapor pressure substrate. Product formation has proved to be selective—epoxides, aldehydes, ketones, and low quantities of carboxylic acids being the most important species. Fragmentation products were only observed in the traps of the RF system for the most volatile olefin of this study. This indicates that, except for this case, the most relevant interaction of this study has been the heterogeneous reaction of the plasma with the liquid. Total conversion, i.e., mass transformed against initial mass of substrate, has been studied as a function of temperature of the liquid and oxygen flow rate in the reactor, this ranging from 15 to 53.6 mmol/hr in the high-voltage system and 13 to 270 mmol/hr in the RF device. The optimum conversions were 27 to 99%. A correlation between these results and the behavior of the O( ³ P) population in the discharge allows us to conclude that this is the most relevant species to the oxidation process. A discussion relating the structures of the olefins with the composition of the mixtures produced by the oxidation is also presented.     

Preconditioned iterative methods for coupled discretizations of fluid flow problems

Computational fluid dynamics, where simulations require largecomputation times, is one of the areas of application of highperformance computing. Schemes such as the SIMPLE (semi-implicitmethod for pressure-linked equations) algorithm are often usedto solve the discrete Navier-Stokes equations. Generally theseschemes take a short time per iteration but require a largenumber of iterations. For simple geometries (or coarser grids)the overall CPU time is small. However, for finer grids or morecomplex geometries the increase in the number of iterationsmay be a drawback and the decoupling of the differential equationsinvolved implies a slow convergence of rotationally dominatedproblems that can be very time consuming for realistic applications.So we analyze here another approach, DIRECTO, that solves theequations in a coupled way. With recent advances in hardwaretechnology and software design, it became possible to solvecoupled Navier-Stokes systems, which are more robust but implyincreasing computational requirements (both in terms of memoryand CPU time). Two approaches are described here (band blockLU factorization and preconditioned GMRES) for the linear solverrequired by the DIRECTO algorithm that solves the fluid flowequations as a coupled system. Comparisons of the effectivenessof incomplete factorization preconditioners applied to the GMRES(generalized minimum residual) method are shown. Some numericalresults are presented showing that it is possible to minimizeconsiderably the CPU time of the coupled approach so that itcan be faster than the decoupled one.     

Quantum cobwebs: Universal entangling of quantum states

Entangling an unknown qubit with one type of reference state is generally impossible. However, entangling an unknown qubit with two types of reference states is possible. To achieve this, we introduce a new class of states called zero sum amplitude (ZSA) multipartite, pure entangled states for qubits and study their salient features. Using shared-ZSA states, local operations and classical communication, we give a protocol for creating multipartite entangled states of an unknown quantum state with two types of reference states at remote places. This provides a way of encoding an unknown pure qubit state into a multiqubit entangled state.     

Stable transition metal complexes of an all-metal antiaromatic molecule (Al4Li4): role of complexations

We propose for the first time a few examples of stable transition metal complexes of an all-metal antiaromatic molecule Al4Li4. We demonstrate that these all-metal species can be stabilized by complexation with 3d transition metals very similar to their organic counterpart, C4H4. Complexation to transition metal ions reduces the frontier orbital energies and introduces aromatic charactersitics. We consider a series of such complexes: [eta4-(Al4Li4)-Fe(CO)3, eta2,sigma2-(Al4Li4)-Ni, and (Al4Li4)2Ni] and compare and contrast their energetics with their organometallic counterparts. Fragmentation energy, orbital correlation energy analysis, and the nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) values support the complexation-induced stabilities in these systems.     

Natural left-right symmetry,atomic parity experiments and asymmetries in high energy e+e− collisions in petra and pep regions

The previously proposed left-right-symmetric SU(2)_L × SU(2)_R × U(1) theory permits one of the two neutral gauge particles N₁ and N₂ to be particularly light (<mW⁺_L) compatible with all neutrin-data and the present atomic parity experiments. Distinguishing features of this theory (with the light mass solution) for e^?e⁺ → μ⁺μ^? and π⁺π^? at PETRA and PEP energies as compared to the SU(2) × U(1) predictions are given.