Effect of incommensurate potential on the resonant tunneling through Majorana bound states on the topological superconductor chains

We study the transport through the Kitaev chain with incommensurate potentials coupled to two normal leads by the numerical operator method. We find a quantized linear conductance of e ² / h, which is independent to the disorder strength and the gate voltage in a wide range, signaling the Majorana bound states. While the incommensurate potential suppresses the current at finite voltage bias, and then narrows the linear response regime of the I-V curve which exhibits two plateaus corresponding to the superconducting gap and the band edge, respectively. The linear conductance abruptly drops to zero as the disorder strength reaches the critical value 2g _s + 2Δ with Δ the p-wave pairing amplitude and g _s the hopping between neighbor sites, corresponding to the transition from the topological superconducting phase to the Anderson localized phase. Changing the gate voltage also causes an abrupt drop of the linear conductance by driving the chain into the topologically trivial superconducting phase, whose I-V curve exhibits an exponential shape.     

Screening possible solid electrolytes by calculating the conduction pathways using Bond Valence method

Inorganic solid electrolytes have distinguished advantages in terms of safety and stability, and are promising to substitute for conventional organic liquid electrolytes. However, low ionic conductivity of typical candidates is the key problem. As connective diffusion path is the prerequisite for high performance, we screen for possible solid electrolytes from the 2004 International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) database by calculating conduction pathways using Bond Valence (BV) method. There are 109846 inorganic crystals in the 2004 ICDD database, and 5295 of them contain lithium. Except for those with toxic, radioactive, rare, or variable valence elements, 1380 materials are candidates for solid electrolytes. The rationality of the BV method is approved by comparing the existing solid electrolytes’ conduction pathways we had calculated with those from experiments or first principle calculations. The implication for doping and substitution, two important ways to improve the conductivity, is also discussed. Among them Li₂CO₃ is selected for a detailed comparison, and the pathway is reproduced well with that based on the density functional studies. To reveal the correlation between connectivity of pathways and conductivity, α/γ-LiAlO₂ and Li₂CO₃ are investigated by the impedance spectrum as an example, and many experimental and theoretical studies are in process to indicate the relationship between property and structure. The BV method can calculate one material within a few minutes, providing an efficient way to lock onto targets from abundant data, and to investigate the structure-property relationship systematically.     

Functional organic single crystals for solid‐state laser applications

Because of long‐range order and high chemical purity, organic crystals have exhibit unique properties and attracted a lot of interest for application in solid‐state lasers. As optical gain materials, they exhibit high stimulated emission cross section and broad tunable wavelength emission as similar to their amorphous counterpart; moreover, high purity and high order give them superior properties such as low scattering trap densities, high thermal stability, as well as highly polarized emission. As electronic materials, they are potentially able to support high current densities, thus making it possible to realize current driven lasers. This paper mainly describes recent research progress in organic semiconductor laser crystals. The building molecules, crystal growth methods, as well as their stimulated emission characteristics related with crystal structures are introduced; in addition, the current state‐of‐the‐art in the field of crystal laser devices is reviewed. Furthermore, recent advances of crystal lasers at the nanoscale and single crystal light‐emitting transistors (LETs) are presented. Finally, an outlook and personal view is provided on the further developments of laser crystals and their applications.     

Coherence and Entanglement in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

We propose a scheme to generate and detect quantum coherence and quantum entanglement in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate with the help of spin squeezing parameter and quantum Fisher information. It is shown that quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are independent of the Rabi frequency and the better entanglement can be achieved by increasing the number of atoms.     

70-W average-power doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator at 2 μm with single KTP

We have demonstrated a high-power intra-cavity-pumped doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) at 2 μm with single-type II phase-matched KTP. A linearly polarized Q-switched solid-state Nd:YAG laser was used as the intra-cavity pump source, of which the output power and beam quality were improved by cascading two laser rods for compensating the thermal birefringence as well as by placing double acoustic-optical Q-switches orthogonally, and the output power of the doubly resonant OPO was studied versus the temperature of KTP and the repetition rate of the Q-switch. The output power was insensitive to the temperature of KTP in a wide range, and 70-W average power was obtained at 2 μm with the repetition rate of 5 kHz. The stability of the OPO laser was measured to be <3.5 % root mean square at the output power of 70 W for 400 s.     

微波器件微放电阈值计算的蒙特卡罗方法研究

为了精准快速地计算微波器件中微放电效应的阈值,在传统蒙特卡罗方法的基础上,提出了三种不同的蒙特卡罗方法,分别对二次电子的初始能量、出射角度和初始相位等参数进行随机,结合四阶龙格-库塔法和Furman模型计算电子的运动轨迹和单次碰撞产生的二次电子发射系数,然后应用不同的方法计算有效二次电子发射系数作为微放电效应的判据.以平板传输线TEM模式为研究对象,采用四种不同的蒙特卡罗方法计算微放电阈值,并与统计模型结果进行对比.结果表明单电子-多碰撞蒙特卡罗方法误差最小,而且稳定性最好.     

谷值电流型脉冲序列控制开关变换器及其能量建模研究

脉冲序列控制是针对工作于电感电流断续导电模式的开关变换器提出的一种非线性、离散控制技术.当开关变换器工作在电感电流连续导电模式时,脉冲序列控制开关变换器存在低频振荡现象,严重影响了脉冲序列控制开关变换器的稳态及瞬态性能.针对这一问题,本文提出一种谷值电流型脉冲序列控制方法,将脉冲序列控制的应用范围从电感电流断续导电模式扩展到电感电流连续导电模式.建立了谷值电流型脉冲序列控制开关变换器的能量迭代模型,并与传统脉冲序列控制开关变换器的能量模型进行对比.结果表明谷值电流型脉冲序列控制电感电流连续导电模式开关变换器具有与传统脉冲序列控制电感电流断续导电模式开关变换器相同的能量传递模式,从而在根本上消除了传统脉冲序列控制电感电流连续导电模式变换器存在的低频振荡现象.     

基于BP神经网络的复杂彩色图像文本定位*

针对复杂彩色图像中文本的特征,提出了基于小波变换和BP神经网络甄别文本区域的算法.该算法首先利用文本块的边缘特征遴选出备选图像块,而后采用小波变换提取备选图像块的纹理特征,把这些纹理特征参量连同图像块的颜色特征和笔画特征参量输入训练好的BP神经网络,判断备选图像块是否包含文本.该方法运算简单,定位时间短.采用专用的文本定位比赛用图进行实验的结果表明,定位准确率可达到92％,召回率为87.4%.     

激光能量对激光诱导Cu等离子体特征辐射强度、电子温度的影响

利用Nd:YAG激光(波长1 064 nm,脉宽10 ns)烧蚀金属Cu靶获得等离子体 .改变激光脉冲能量,观测到Cu的原子谱线和离子谱线随激光脉冲能量有不同的变化关系, 但都在330 mJ/pulse时,谱线强度达到最大,随后在330 mJ～370 mJ/pulse间出现一小平台 ,能量继续增加,各谱线强度减小.同时,使用烧蚀Cu靶产生的五条原子谱线(465.11 nm,5 10.55 nm,515.32 nm,521.82 nm,529.25 nm)的相对强度,在局部热力学平衡近似下,利用B oltzmann图的最小二乘法拟合,测定了不同激光能量下Cu等离子体的电子温度.随激光能量的增加,电子温度近似单调地从1.02×104 K上升到1.46×104 K后,反而有所下降.     

火灾烟雾颗粒凝并分形特性研究

火灾烟雾颗粒因布朗运动由初期的主粒子凝并形成大颗粒的凝团结构，其外形呈现出分形特征，根据分形理论对火灾烟雾颗粒凝团结构进行分析研究，采用场发射扫描电镜对多种材料的烟雾颗粒图像进行测试，通过对烟雾凝团图像进行处理，获得了火灾探测中常见的多种材料的分形维数和分形系数，给出了烟雾颗粒的主粒子粒径，并对其影响因素进行了对比分析，为火灾烟雾探测中颗粒凝并分形特性研究提供有益的探索. 关键词： 火灾 烟雾 颗粒 凝并 分形