Beam bending through compound structure with two subwavelength metallic slits in each period

To provide a more practical, easy-to-implement method to achieve directional modulation with a plasmonic lens, beam manipulation method via compound metallic gratings with two subwavelength slits filled with different dielectrics inside each period is proposed and numerically investigated by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Compared with conventional metal-grating based structures, phase retardation is tuned by the Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonant condition and light bending is achieved by constructing a carefully designed, curved phase front for the plasmonic lenses. Our designs have advantages in ease of fabrication and capability to perform in the far field. With these advantages, the designs are expected to be valuable in applications such as plasmonic circuits and photonic communication.     

A novel fiber optic ring-down interferometer for sensing

A ring-down interferometer (RDI) based on a modified Mach–Zehnder structure by incorporating a pair of mirrors with very high reflectivity into each of its two arms, respectively is proposed in this paper. Launching a coherent light pulse into the interferometer, in each arm, pulse ring-down occurs between its two mirrors and outputs a chain of pulses. The two chains of pulses from the two arms combine and interfere pulse by pulse at the detector and the difference of the light phase between the two arms will be enlarged linearly in proportion to the times of ring-down.     

A mini-review on econophysics:Comparative study of Chinese and western financial markets

We present a review of our recent research in econophysics, and focus on the comparative study of Chinese and western financial markets. By virtue of concepts and methods in statistical physics, we investigate the time correlations and spatial structure of financial markets based on empirical high-frequency data. We discover that the Chinese stock market shares common basic properties with the western stock markets, such as the fat-tail probability distribution of price returns, the long-range auto-correlation of volatilities, and the persistence probability of volatilities, while it exhibits very different higher-order time correlations of price returns and volatilities, spatial correlations of individual stock prices, and large-fluctuation dynamic behaviors. Furthermore, multi-agent-based models are developed to simulate the microscopic interaction and dynamic evolution of the stock markets.     

大学物理演示实验工作的新思路、新进展

北京交通大学在“国家工科物理教学基地”建设的过程中,以建设物理演示与探索实验室为特色工作,取得了突出成绩．不仅在2004年国家工科物理教学基地验收时以其突出的特色,获得了“优秀基地”的称号,而且在2005年获得国家教学成果特等奖．我们认为这并不意味着这项工作的结束,而是以此做为将演示实验工作推向更高水平的开端．从2007年开始,我们一方面不断充实提高,保持演示实验室的动态发展;另一方面着力研发随堂演示实验并投入使用,取得了显著成效．     

Determination of optical isomers for left-handed or right-handed chiral double-wall carbon nanotubes

The handedness relationship between adjacent layers in nested double-wall carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) has been investigated for the first time. Our high-resolution electron microscopy analysis on a series of specimen tilts can successfully tell the handedness of each constituent nanotube in a DWNT, and therefore the chiral indices (n, m) including their optical isomers [(n, m) or (m, n)] of inner and outer nanotubes can be uniquely determined. It is shown that right-handed and left-handed nanotubes are equally distributed for both the inner and outer nanotubes in the examined specimens and a preferable handedness relationship between the adjacent layers in DWNT may exist.     

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and fluctuation relations for small systems

In this review, we give a retrospect of the recent progress in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics in small dynamical systems. For systems with only a few number of particles, fluctuations and nonlinearity become significant and contribute to the nonequilibrium behaviors of the systems, hence the statistical properties and thermodynamics should be carefully studied. We review recent developments of this topic by starting from the Gallavotti–Cohen fluctuation theorem, and then to the Evans–Searles transient fluctuation theorem, Jarzynski free-energy equality, and the Crooks fluctuation relation. We also investigate the nonequilibrium free energy theorem for trajectories involving changes of the heat bath temperature and propose a generalized free-energy relation. It should be noticed that the non-Markovian property of the heat bath may lead to the violation of the free-energy relation.     

维生素A酸在银溶胶液中的表面增强拉曼散射光谱

将水中不溶的药物维生素A酸(VAA)溶于氯仿中,然后与银溶胶液混合,振摇,取静置分层后的上层溶胶液测定表面增强拉曼光谱,氯仿在银溶胶中无表面增强效应,不干扰维生素A酸的测定。与固体粉末拉曼光谱相比较,对光谱峰归属进行了解释。通过分析CO伸缩振动带和ν(COO)振动峰明显增强的现象,讨论了维生素A酸分子在银颗粒表面可能的吸附取向,并推断维生素A酸在银表面的吸附发生在COO-基团。以维生素A酸表面增强拉曼光谱在1583cm-1处的峰强度对浓度进行线性回归,求得线性回归方程Y=10×108+95585,在10×10-6～50×10-5mol·L-1范围呈良好的线性关系,最小检测限为10×10-7mol·L-1。结果表明,维生素A酸表面增强拉曼光谱峰数量少,灵敏度高,是定量分析痕量维生素A酸的很好方法。     

"单摆周期与摆长关系"的研究式教学

现代教育思想倡导研究性学习，注重知识获取的过程，而不单单是结论。教师应着力为学生探究营造一个良好的环境和氛围。使学生在教师的指导下，主动运用知识，积极参与研究，自觉地发现问题，摸索解决问题的方法和途径，培养学生的探索精神和创新能力。     

Passively Q-Switched Tm,Ho：YVO4 Laser with Cr：ZnS Saturable Absorber at 2 μm

A stable diode-pumped passively Q-switched Tm,Ho：YVO4 laser with Cr：ZnS saturable absorber is reported. The shortest pulse duration of -500 ns with the central wavelength of 2041 nm is obtained at the pump power of 7.4 W, corresponding to the pulse energy of 3.5 μd at repetition rate of 65 kHz.     

HL—1装置汤姆逊散射测量空间两点电子温度

本文叙述用激光汤姆逊散射方法测量HL-1装置在不同放电条件下空间两点的电子温度。简要介绍了测量条件,空间两点测量的实验安排及数据获取系统等。对实验结果进行了初步分析。在适当改变等离子体边缘径向电场分布时,电子温度有明显增加。