Excitation dependent quenching of luminescence in LED phosphors

Droop, the decrease of efficiency with increased power density, became a major topic with InGaN LEDs, after its introduction in 2007. This paper provides insight into droop in localized center luminescence phosphors, exemplified here by Eu²⁺ doped materials. This topic is of increasing importance, as high brightness blue LEDs have reached outputs >1 W/mm². The nonlinearities in phosphor quantum efficiency result in drive‐dependent color point shift and reduction of overall efficiency of phosphor converted white LEDs which utilize Eu²⁺ activated phosphors. The efficiency quenching can be traced back to two processes, well‐known in laser physics, excited state absorption or/and cross relaxation by Foerster/Dexter transfer. Both processes lead to reduction in phosphor efficiency, but they can be differentiated. Understanding the root cause of efficiency quenching opens ways to minimize the practical consequences. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Behavior of lysozyme adsorbed onto biological liquid crystal lipid monolayer at the air/water interface

The interaction between proteins and lipids is one of the basic problems of modern biochemistry and biophysics.The purpose of this study is to compare the penetration degree of lysozyme into 1,2-diapalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine(DPPC) and 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethano-lamine(DPPE) by analyzing the data of surface pressure–area(π–A) isotherms and surface pressure–time(π–T) curves.Lysozyme can penetrate into both DPPC and DPPE monolayers because of the increase of surface pressure at an initial pressure of 15 m N/m.However,the changes of DPPE are larger than DPPC,indicating stronger interaction of lysozyme with DPPE than DPPC.The reason may be due to the different head groups and phase state of DPPC and DPPE monolayers at the surface pressure of 15 m N/m.Atomic force microscopy reveals that lysozyme was absorbed by DPPC and DPPE monolayers,which leads to self-aggregation and self-assembly,forming irregular multimers and conical multimeric.Through analysis,we think that the process of polymer formation is similar to the aggregation mechanism of amyloid fibers.     

A novel scheme of hybrid entanglement swapping and teleportation using cavity QED in the small and large detuning regimes and quasi-Bell state measurement method

We outline a scheme for entanglement swapping based on cavity QED as well as quasi-Bell state measurement(quasiBSM) methods. The atom–field interaction in the cavity QED method is performed in small and large detuning regimes.We assume two atoms are initially entangled together and, distinctly two cavities are prepared in an entangled coherent–coherent state. In this scheme, we want to transform entanglement to the atom-field system. It is observed that, the fidelities of the swapped entangled state in the quasi-BSM method can be compatible with those obtained in the small and large detuning regimes in the cavity QED method(the condition of this compatibility will be discussed). In addition, in the large detuning regime, the swapped entangled state is obtained by detecting and quasi-BSM approaches. In the continuation,by making use of the atom–field entangled state obtained in both approaches in a large detuning regime, we show that the atomic as well as field states teleportation with complete fidelity can be achieved.     

NO(3+1)共振增强的多光子离化谱

用皮秒脉冲高功率Nd∶YAG激光器抽运的光学参量发生/放大器作激发源,获得了NO分子在420～500 nm波长范围内的多光子离化谱,光谱图呈现分离谱的特征,表明在该波长区间NO分子以多光子共振方式离化。离化信号随激光强度的近四次方变化关系表明,在420～500 nm波长范围内NO分子吸收4个光子而离化。通过对谱线的标识,首次分离出NO分子以E 2Σ激发电子态为中间共振态的(3+1)多光子离化光谱序列,由谱线序列峰值波长得到NO分子E 2Σ电子态的振动常数,从而实现了采用多光子离化技术对该态能级结构的实验研究。     

Schemes for Probabilistic Teleportation of a Three-Atom GHZ Class State via Cavity QED

Using a quantum channel composed of a two-atom and a three-atom nonmaximally entangled states,we present two schemes to teleport a three-atom GHZ class state via entanglement swapping in cavity QED with different success probabilities. The schemes can be respectively realized with the large-detuned vacuum cavities and with the large-detuned thermal cavities by separate atomic measurements after we choose appropriate atom-cavity-field interaction time.     

Van der Waals状态方程可压缩多流体流动的PPM方法

基于流体体积分数的混合型多流体数值模型,将Piecewise Parabolic Method（PPM）方法应用于可压缩多流体流动的数值模拟,采用双波近似求解多流体van der Waals状态方程的Riemann问题．模拟高密度比且含有激波的可压缩多流体流动,典型的纯界面平移问题模拟结果表明,在接触间断的界面附近,压力和速度没有任何的振荡且界面数值耗散都被控制在2—3个网格之内;一维和二维算例表明,该数值方法可以有效地处理接触间断、激波和多维滑移线等物理问题,并能够比其它多流体数值方法更精细地模拟多流体交界面．     

Prediction of Γ-L and L-X crossovers in Ga<Subscript>x</Subscript>Al<Subscript>1-x</Subscript>Sb alloys by empirical pseudopotential method

Using empirical pseudopotential method Γ-L crossover is found for the Ga_0.74Al_0.26Sb. The conduction band minimum is observed to switch at the (0.87, 0, 0) point for Ga_0.51Al_0.49Sb which shifts to the X point for Ga_0.21Al_0.79Sb and remains at X leading finally to indirect band gap in AlSb. Band structure calculations for a large number of alloys are performed and bowing parameters b_X and b_L are proposed for the E_X and E_L respectively. Our findings may serve as directive to select the materials in a range of composition to examine the bowing parameters and thereby effective mass experimentally for the Ga_xAl_1-xSb alloys.     

Electron-impact dissociation and transient properties of a stored LiH2 - beam

The fragmentation of LiH₂ ^- anions after electron impact was investigated at the heavy-ion storage ring TSR. The main reaction channel was found to be electron detachment followed by a breakup into LiH + H. In the first ms after production of the molecular ions in a cesium sputtering ion source, additional contributions were observed in the Li + H₂ and Li^- + H₂ channels, hinting at an initial population of a short-lived state of the anion. To gain a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the observed behavior of the system, ab initio calculations of relevant potential energy surfaces were performed at selected geometries. The experimental findings are discussed in the light of these calculations.     

Hartree-Fock variational bounds for ground state energy of chargeless fermions with finite magnetic moment in the presence of a hard core potential: A stable ferromagnetic state

We use different determinantal Hartree-Fock (HF) wave functions to calculate true variational upper bounds for the ground state energy of N spin-half fermions in volume V ₀, with mass m, electric charge zero, and magnetic moment μ, interacting through magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. We find that at high densities when the average interparticle distance r ₀ becomes small compared to the magnetic length r _m ≡ 2mμ²/ħ², a ferromagnetic state with spheroidal occupation function n _↑(), involving quadrupolar deformation, gives a lower upper bound compared to the variational energy for the uniform paramagnetic state or for the state with dipolar deformation. This system is unstable towards infinite density collapse, but we show explicitly that a suitable short-range repulsive (hard core) interaction of strength U ₀ and range a can stop this collapse. The existence of a stable equilibrium high density ferromagnetic state with spheroidal occupation function is possible as long as the ratio of coupling constants Γ_cm ≡ (U ₀ a ³/μ²) is not very small compared to 1.      

奇相干光源的测量设备无关量子密钥分配研究

刻画了奇相干光源的光子数分布特征,研究了奇相干光源下诱骗态测量设备无关量子密钥分配系统的密钥生成率与安全传输距离的关系,推导了奇相干光源下的计数率下界和误码率上界.仿真结果表明,奇相干光源光子数分布中多光子脉冲的比例低于弱相干光,可以有效提高诱骗态测量设备无关密钥分配系统的最大安全通信距离,为实用的量子密钥分配实验提供了重要的理论参数.