Condition number as a measure of noise performance of diffusion tensor data acquisition schemes with MRI

Diffusion tensor mapping with MRI can noninvasively track neural connectivity and has great potential for neural scientific research and clinical applications. For each diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data acquisition scheme, the diffusion tensor is related to the measured apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) by a transformation matrix. With theoretical analysis we demonstrate that the noise performance of a DTI scheme is dependent on the condition number of the transformation matrix. To test the theoretical framework, we compared the noise performances of different DTI schemes using Monte-Carlo computer simulations and experimental DTI measurements. Both the simulation and the experimental results confirmed that the noise performances of different DTI schemes are significantly correlated with the condition number of the associated transformation matrices. We therefore applied numerical algorithms to optimize a DTI scheme by minimizing the condition number, hence improving the robustness to experimental noise. In the determination of anisotropic diffusion tensors with different orientations, MRI data acquisitions using a single optimum b value based on the mean diffusivity can produce ADC maps with regional differences in noise level. This will give rise to rotational variances of eigenvalues and anisotropy when diffusion tensor mapping is performed using a DTI scheme with a limited number of diffusion-weighting gradient directions. To reduce this type of artifact, a DTI scheme with not only a small condition number but also a large number of evenly distributed diffusion-weighting gradients in 3D is preferable.     

偏置调幅波调制噪声的单模激光随机共振

采用偏置信号的调幅波调制抽运噪声的单模激光增益模型，用线性化近似方法计算了以e指数形式关联的两色噪声驱动下光强的功率谱及信噪比.结果表明，信噪比随着噪声强度的变化、抽运噪声自关联时间的变化、激光系统参数的变化、载波频率及信号频率的变化均存在随机共振现象. 关键词： 抽运噪声 单模激光 随机共振 调幅波     

介观物理系统中的噪声

描述了介观物理系统中噪声的研究现况. 对热噪声和散粒噪声的物理起源做了详细介绍，热噪声是系统的能态占据数发生涨落引起的，而散粒噪声源于载流子传输的微粒特性. 还介绍了研究噪声的主要理论——散射理论，并给出了其在马鞍形半导体量子线和铁磁/绝缘体/半导体双异质结两种介观系统中的应用，指出了噪声研究的实际物理意义. 关键词： 介观物理 热噪声 散粒噪声 散射理论     

基于搜索平均法的气象观测数据的非线性去噪

介绍了一种新型基于相空间重构和返回图法的非线性降噪方法——搜索平均法，首先将该方法应用于被高斯白噪声所污染的Henon映射时间序列，说明根据降噪理论所编写的计算程序的正确性；然后应用于中国气象局公布全国435站1960—2000年的逐日气温观测时间序列，并利用非线性预报方法衡量降噪的效果，验证了该方法的有效性.     

噪声对双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体系自俘获现象的影响

研究了对称双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体系(BEC)存在均匀噪声或高斯噪声时的自俘获现象.结果发现噪声的存在破坏了自俘获现象的临界行为特征，使得原来约瑟夫森振荡和自俘获之间的临界点变成了一个过渡区域，而且噪声强度越大，这个过渡区域展得越宽.同时发现，对于确定的相互作用强度，当噪声强度增大到一定程度时，相平面会出现混乱，如果这时固定噪声强度增大相互作用强度，相平面中的轨道会重新出现.对纯量子系统加噪声后，自俘获同样不存在临界值，而是存在一个临界区域，且随噪声的增强临界区域会展宽.与平均场近似情况下不同的是，纯量子情况下噪声促进自俘获的产生，且噪声越强自俘获越明显. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 自俘获 双势阱 噪声     

飞秒时间分辨光抽运探测技术及进展

文章简要介绍了飞秒时间分辨光抽运探测技术以及作者所在实验室的最新研究进展．灵敏度和信噪比是实验中的重要参数，文章着重介绍了作者在这两方面的改进，从而可检测到更微弱信号，并降低了使用的激光功率．配合具有光学窗口的液氦低温系统，还可对更多领域的材料进行研究，其中包括高温超导、生物化学样品和纳米材料等，并可给出物质内部结构等方面的重要信息．     

Statistical equilibrium in simple exchange games I

This erratum corrects a mistake in reference [E. Scalas, U. Garibaldi, S. Donadio, Eur. Phys. J. B 53, 267 (2006)]. In that paper, we needed an aperiodic version of the BDY game, but, in formula (1), we incorrectly presented a periodic transition matrix of period 2 in the special case of g = 2 agents. Here, we present the right aperiodic version.     

Emergence of bimodality in noisy systems with single-well potential

We study the stationary probability density of a Brownian particle in a potential with a single-well subject to the purely additive thermal and dichotomous noise sources. We find situations where bimodality of stationary densities emerges due to presence of dichotomous noise. The solutions are constructed using stochastic dynamics (Langevin equation) or by discretization of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equations. We find that in models with both noises being additive the potential has to grow faster than |x| in order to obtain bimodality. For potentials ∝|x| stationary solutions are always of the double exponential form.     

Spontaneously generated coherence in a Doppler broadened atomic system

We investigate the spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) in a Doppler broadened four-level atomic system driven by two coherent fields. We plot the spontaneous emission spectra with different parameters and discuss how the initial atomic conditions and parameters of both fields change the number of peaks and dark lines of spontaneous emission spectra. Furthermore, we also show how the spontaneous emission spectrum is modified by Doppler effects in the viewed direction. Our results have important references to the experimental observation of SGC in hot atomic vapors.