Slow and fast light: basic concepts and recent advancements based on nonlinear wave‐mixing processes

After a review of the basic concepts of slow and fast light, recent advancements based on nonlinear wave‐mixing processes are described. As a nonlinear medium, the authors focus on a liquid crystal light valve showing that it allows obtaining a large control of the group delay, with a maximum fractional delay of 1, and a deceleration of light pulses down to group velocities as small as 0.2 mm/s. A theoretical model accompanies the observations and accounts for them in the general framework of two‐wave mixing in the light valve. At the end, a high‐sensitivity interferometer is presented as an example of slow light applications.     

Thermal Quantum Discord in Anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ Model withDzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

The thermal quantum discord (QD) is studied in a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ system with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We compare the thermal QD with thermal entanglement in this system and find remarkable differences between them. For instance, we show situations where QD decreases asymptotically to zero with temperature T while entanglement decreases to zero at the point of critical temperature, situations where QD decreases with certain tunable parameters such as D_z and D_x when entanglement increases. We find that the characteristic of QD is exotic in this system and this possibly offers a potential solution to enhance entanglement of a system. We also show that tunable parameter D_x is more efficient than parameter D_z in most regions for controlling the QD.     

迈克尔逊干涉仪中附加光程差对干涉图样影响的讨论

用迈克尔逊干涉仪做物理光学实验 ,教学中出现了在常规实验中不能出现的奇异现象 ,本文通过分析仪器中的附加光程差 ,对干涉图样形成的原因作了定性解释 ,并得出结论。     

The interaction of in-band and in-gap lattice soliton trains in optically induced two-dimensional photonic lattices

We demonstrate the coherent interactions of lattice soliton trains,including in-band solitons (IBSs) and gap soliton trains (GSTs),in optically induced two-dimensional photonic lattices with self-defocusing nonlinearity.It is revealed that the π-staggered phase structures of the lattice soliton trains will lead to anomalous interactions.Solely by changing their initial separations,the transition between attractive and repulsive interaction forces or reversion of the energy transfer can be obtained.The 'negative refraction' effect of the soliton trains on the interaction is also discussed.Moreover,two interacting IBSs can merge into one GST when attraction or energy transfer happens.     

Shear Thickening Fluids Based on Additives with Different Concentrations and Molecular Chain Lengths

将二氧化硅颗粒和不同分子链长添加剂颗粒分散到聚乙二醇分散介质中制得剪切增稠液样品,研究了添加剂的不同含量和不同分子链长对剪切增稠液流变性能的影响. 对其流变特性的研究表明,随着添加剂含量的增加和分子链长的增长,样品的剪切增稠效应增强明显,并用大粒子簇的形成对增强机理给出了合理的解释.     

不同温度下二氧化硅纳米管的结构和振动性质的分子动力学模拟

采用三种势能模型, 利用分子动力学模拟研究了在300～1600 K内4、6和8元环的二氧化硅纳米管. 结果表明,三种纳米管的末端环的稳定性随温度的升高而降低. 通过振动态密度考察了二氧化硅纳米管的有效振动特性. 以及不同温度下二氧化硅纳米管的红外光谱.     

Cooperation and charity in spatial public goods game under different strategy update rules

Human cooperation can be influenced by other human behaviors and recent years have witnessed the flourishing of studying the coevolution of cooperation and punishment, yet the common behavior of charity is seldom considered in game-theoretical models. In this article, we investigate the coevolution of altruistic cooperation and egalitarian charity in spatial public goods game, by considering charity as the behavior of reducing inter-individual payoff differences. Our model is that, in each generation of the evolution, individuals play games first and accumulate payoff benefits, and then each egalitarian makes a charity donation by payoff transfer in its neighborhood. To study the individual-level evolutionary dynamics, we adopt different strategy update rules and investigate their effects on charity and cooperation. These rules can be classified into two global rules: random selection rule in which individuals randomly update strategies, and threshold selection rule where only those with payoffs below a threshold update strategies. Simulation results show that random selection enhances the cooperation level, while threshold selection lowers the threshold of the multiplication factor to maintain cooperation. When charity is considered, it is incapable in promoting cooperation under random selection, whereas it promotes cooperation under threshold selection. Interestingly, the evolution of charity strongly depends on the dispersion of payoff acquisitions of the population, which agrees with previous results. Our work may shed light on understanding human egalitarianism.     

Angular momentum effect in prescission particle multiplicities for a light system by diffusion model

The effect of angular momentum on the competition between fission and particle emission during light system fission process was studied via fission diffusion model. The prescission particle multiplicities were found to increase with decreasing angular momentum. The experimental prescission proton and α particle multiplicities can be fitted for 10.6 MeV/nucleon ⁸⁴Kr(²⁷Al,binary fission) reaction with this model. Entrance channel effect found in [1] is proved to be angular momentum effect.     

在BES实验中用神经元网络法鉴别e,μ,π

研究了两种不同的神经元网络法,BP网络和LVQ网络,对北京谱仪(BES)实验中e,μ,π粒子的鉴别,取得了较常规方法要好的结果.用于训练和检验的μ子样本来自宇宙线事例,e和π粒子则是由真实实验数据精选的,虽然样本本身具有非均匀的动量谱,但BP网络的检验结果给出的粒子选择效率在整个动量区间却仍然具有相当均匀的分布,LVQ网络稍逊之.至少是在我们研究的这一课题中证明了BP网络的模式识别功能要优于LVQ网络.     

In vivo study on the protection of indole‐3‐carbinol (I3C) against the mouse acute alcoholic liver injury by micro‐Raman spectroscopy

Micro‐Raman spectroscopy (MRS) was utilized for the first time to evaluate the effect of indole‐3‐carbinol (I3C) on acute alcoholic liver injury in vivo. In situ Raman analysis of tissue sections provided distinct spectra that can be used to distinguish alcoholic liver injury as well as ethanol‐induced liver fibrosis from the normal state. Sixteen mice with liver diseases including acute liver injury and chronic liver fibrosis, and eight mice with normal liver tissues, and eight remedial mice were studied employing the Raman spectroscopic technique in conjunction with biomedical assays. The biochemical changes in mouse liver tissue when liver injury/fibrosis occurs such as the loss of reduced glutathione (GSH), and the increase of collagen (α‐helix protein) were observed by MRS. The intensity ratio of two Raman peaks (I₁₄₅₀/I₆₆₆) and in combination with statistical analysis of the entire Raman spectrum was found capable of classifying liver tissues with different pathological features. Raman spectroscopy therefore is an important candidate for a nondestructive in vivo screening of the effect of drug treatment on liver disease, which potentially decreases the time‐consuming clinical trials. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.