Superconducting gap anisotropy in Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4: results from photoemission

We have performed angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy on the electron doped cuprate superconductor Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4. A comparison of the leading edge midpoints between the superconducting and normal states reveals a small, but finite shift of 1.5-2 meV near the ( pi,0) position, but no observable shift along the zone diagonal near ( pi/2, pi/2). This is interpreted as evidence for an anisotropic superconducting gap in the electron doped materials, which is consistent with the presence of d-wave superconducting order in this cuprate superconductor.     

Motional effect in surface sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy

Fast orientational motion of molecules at a surface can affect the sum-frequency vibrational spectra of the surface. Calculation shows that the effect is significant if the molecular orientation varies over a broad range within the vibrational relaxation time. The stretch vibration of the free OH bonds at the vapor/water interface is used to illustrate the importance of the effect.     

Long-Lived Luminescent Re(I) Complexes Containing cis-Carbonyl and Bidentate Phosphine Ligands

Highly emissive Re(I) complexes, hydrophobic cis-Re(CO)₂(c-dppene)(dpphen) and water-soluble cis-Re(CO)₂(c-dppene)(SO₃-dpphen) with a negative charge, were synthesized [where c-dppene is cis-(bis(diphenylphosphino)ethylene, dpphen is 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, and SO₃-dpphen is its disulfonate derivative]. These Re(I) complexes have significantly higher molar absorption in the 350- to 490-nm region compared to their tricarbonyl Re(I) counterparts and their emission spectra are similar to those of Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes. The luminescence lifetimes of these Re(I) complexes approach 10 s in the absence of oxygen in both aqueous and less polar solvents. The complexes have limiting anisotropy values exceeding 0.3. As both ligands, the diimine and the bidentate phosphine, can be modified by adding different substituents, it should be possible to make cis-Re(CO)₂(diimine)(P-P) derivatives which are capable of labeling biomacromolecules for biochemical and biophysical studies.     

Delayed-focus pulses optimized using simulated annealing

Unlike prefocused pulses and shaped pulses based on the linear response theory, delayed-focus pulses (X.-L. Wu et al., 1991, Magn. Reson. Med. 20, 165--170) produce a selective spin echo after a predefined short delay without using a pi refocusing pulse. In this paper, a series of delayed-focus pulses of different flip angles are proposed based on optimization using Fourier series representation and simulated annealing. The resistance of these delayed-focus pulses to T(2) relaxation is also demonstrated using numerical simulation of Bloch equations.     

On the extremality of quasiconformal mappings and quasiconformal deformations

Given a family of quasiconformal deformations such that has a uniform bound , the solution of the Löwner-type differential equation

is an -quasiconformal mapping. An open question is to determine, for each fixed , whether the extremality of is equivalent to that of . The note gives this a negative approach in both directions.

     

Dirac Quantization in Kantowski—Sachs Spacetime

By forming the square root of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and applying itto a minisuperspace composed of a Kantowski-Sachs universe, we derive acosmological wave function with conserved current and positive-definiteprobability density.     

Fermi surface, surface states, and surface reconstruction in Sr2RuO4

The electronic structure of Sr2RuO4 is investigated by high angular resolution ARPES at several incident photon energies. We address the controversial issues of the Fermi surface (FS) topology and the van Hove singularity at the M point, showing that a surface state and the replica of the primary FS due to sqrt[2]xsqrt[2] surface reconstruction are responsible for previous conflicting interpretations. The FS thus determined by ARPES is consistent with the de Haas-van Alphen results, and it provides additional information on the detailed shape of the alpha, beta, and gamma sheets.     

Intensity fluctuations of ultrasonic scattering in a highly turbulent flow

Aspects of ultrasound intensity fluctuations backscattered from additive microstructures in a turbulent flow have been investigated theoretically and experimentally for the conditions of a small insonified volume, a high sound frequency and strong turbulence. These conditions are typically found in high resolution Doppler sonar applications. An easily applicable expression for the auto-correlation of scattering intensity fluctuations is obtained by introducing open-channel turbulence theory, a semi-empirical scalar spectrum (including a Batchelor spectrum) and a Gaussian window function. Experiments carried out in a laboratory-clear water, open-channel flow for different turbulence levels verify the underlying assumptions. A good agreement is found with the predictions made with the above-derived expression. The feasibility of extracting flow information from the backscattered intensity fluctuations is discussed.     

多层介质膜脉冲宽度压缩光栅与超短脉冲作用时的性能分析

基于啁啾脉冲放大技术的超短脉冲激光系统是提供超快、超强激光的重要途径，具有良好输出波形和高损伤阈值的多层介质膜脉冲宽度压缩光栅是获得高峰值功率脉冲激光的关键. 基于傅里叶谱变换方法和严格模式理论，分析了多层介质膜光栅(MDG)在超短脉冲作用下的光学特性. 结果表明，当MDG的反射带宽小于具有高斯分布的入射脉冲的频谱宽度时，-1级反射脉冲呈非对称高斯分布，其前沿出现振荡，并且-1级反射脉冲能量开始剧烈下降. 讨论了MDG结构参数对其反射带宽的影响. 分析了MDG与超短脉冲作用时的近场光分布，对提高其抗激光损 关键词： 脉冲压缩光栅 傅里叶谱变换 模式理论 损伤阈值     

色散渐减光纤中Ginzburg-Landau方程的自相似脉冲演化的解析解

采用对称约简的分析方法，得出了变系数Ginzburg-Landau方程的抛物渐近自相似脉冲解析解的一般表达式.给出了二阶色散系数纵向双曲型变化和纵向指数型变化的色散渐减光纤中自相似脉冲的振幅、啁啾以及脉冲宽度的具体形式，并与数值解进行了对比，其结果符合得很好.从而证实了稀土元素掺杂的色散渐减光纤中，在增益色散因子的影响下，脉冲的演化具有抛物型自相似特性.