Density functional theory study of surface catalysis and adsorption on several elements in Group I-B and VIII

This review deals with the high-throughput field in surface catalysis and adsorption. Special focus is placed on advanced methods for knowledge discovery such as density functional theory (DFT) simulations. An inventory of successful cases on several elements in Group I-B and VIII is reported, including the relevant data and knowledge management, which are very important in chemical industry, fuel cell, and environment protection, for both scientific and economical reasons.      

The generation of Entangled Qudits and their Application in Probabilistic Superdense Coding

A scheme of the generation of entangled qutrits is presented, and then is generalized to entangled ququads and entangled qudits. With the entangled qutrits, an experimental scheme of probability superdense coding with only linear optical elements is proposed. It is shown that this scheme will be suitable for the entangled ququads, even for the entangled qudits if some nonlinearity is used. This scheme is feasible in the laboratory with the current experimental technology.     

天然气在不同初始温度和压力下的燃烧特性研究

利用定容燃烧弹研究了不同初始温度和初始压力下的天然气燃烧特性,分析了初始温度、初始压力和当量比对其燃烧过程的影响.研究结果表明:随着初始温度的升高(300～450 K),天然气质量燃烧速率明显增加,燃烧持续期和火焰发展期显著缩短.随着初始压力的升高(0.1～0.75 MPa),天然气质量燃烧速率明显减慢,燃烧持续期和火焰发展期显著增长.且稀混合气和浓混合气条件下初始温度和初始压力的变化对燃烧持续期和火焰发展期的影响更明显.     

Electro-acupuncture promotes survival, differentiation of the bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells as well as functional recovery in the spinal cord-transected rats

Background  

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are one of the potential tools for treatment of the spinal cord injury; however, the survival and differentiation of MSCs in an injured spinal cord still need to be improved. In the present study, we investigated whether Governor Vessel electro-acupuncture (EA) could efficiently promote bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) survival and differentiation, axonal regeneration and finally, functional recovery in the transected spinal cord.     

Chirality-asymmetry force between ɑ-quartz and copper block

The chirality-asymmetry macroscopic force mediated by light pseudoscalar particles between α -quartz and some achiral matter is studied. If this force between achiral source mass and α -quartz with some chirality is attractive, it will become repulsive when the chirality of the α -quartz crystal is changed. According to the tested limits of the coupling constant g_s g_p /\hbar c< 1.5× 10^-24 at the Compton wavelength λ = 10^-3 m, the force (F) between a 0.08× 0.08× 0.002 m³ block of α -quartz and a 0.08× 0.08× 0.01 m³ copper block with a separation being 0.5× 10^-3 \mbox{m} in between, is estimated from the published data at less than 4.64× 10^-24 N, i.e. F < 4.64× 10^-24 N.     

Linear optical realization of unambiguous quantum state comparison

In this paper, we propose an experimental scheme for unambiguous quantum state comparison assisted by linear optical manipulations, twin-photons produced from parametric down-conversion, and postselection from the coincidence measurement. In this scheme the preparation of the general two mixed qubit states with arbitrary prior probabilities and the realization of the optimal POVMs for unambiguous quantum state comparison are presented. This proposal is feasible by current experimental technology, and may be used in single-qubit quantum fingerprinting.     

The constructive technique and its application in solving a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation

A mathematical technique based on the consideration of a nonlinear partial differential equation together with an additional condition in the form of an ordinary differential equation is employed to study a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation which describes a real process in physics and in chemistry. Several exact solutions for the equation are acquired under certain circumstances.     

Novel image fusion method based on discrete fractional random transform

We introduce a new spectrum transform into the image fusion field and propose a novel fusion method based on discrete fractional random transform （DFRNT）. In DFRNT domain, high amplitude spectrum （HAS） and low amplitude spectrum （LAS） components carry different information of original images. For different fusion goals, different fusion rules can be adopted in HAS and LAS components, respectively. The proposed method is applied to fuse real multi-spectral （MS） and panchromatic （Pan） images. The fused image is observed to preserve both spectral information of MS and spatial information of Pan. Spectrum distribution of DFRNT is random and uniform, which guarantees that good information is reserved.     

First-principle study on optical properties of N-La-codoped anatase TiO

The electronic structures, deformation charge density, dipole moment, and optical properties of N-La-codoped anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) are studied using the plane-wave ultrasoft pseudopotential method based on the density functional theory (DFT). The optical properties of two-ion-doped TiO2 are analyzed via electronic structures, deformation charge density, and dipole moment. For the model of N-La-doped TiO2 , a smaller atom fraction of N and La atoms induces better optical properties. The absorption edges of two doped TiO2 models redshift to the visible-light region.     

Internal resonance of axially moving laminated circular cylindrical shells

The nonlinear vibrations of a thin, elastic, laminated composite circular cylindrical shell, moving in axial direction and having an internal resonance, are investigated in this study. Nonlinearities due to large-amplitude shell motion are considered by using Donnell’s nonlinear shallow-shell theory, with consideration of the effect of viscous structure damping. Differently from conventional Donnell’s nonlinear shallow-shell equations, an improved nonlinear model without employing Airy stress function is developed to study the nonlinear dynamics of thin shells. The system is discretized by Galerkin’s method while a model involving four degrees of freedom, allowing for the traveling wave response of the shell, is adopted. The method of harmonic balance is applied to study the nonlinear dynamic responses of the multi-degrees-of-freedom system. When the structure is excited close to a resonant frequency, very intricate frequency–response curves are obtained, which show strong modal interactions and one-to-one-to-one-to-one internal resonance phenomenon. The effects of different parameters on the complex dynamic response are investigated in this study. The stability of steady-state solutions is also analyzed in detail.