双模SU(1,1)相干态光场与V型三能级原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体相互作用系统的量子性质

研究了双模SU(1,1)相干态光场与V型三能级原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC)相互作用系统中光场的量子相关性质、振幅平方压缩效应和原子激光压缩效应。结果表明,双模SU(1,1)相干态光场各模的二阶相干度不随时间变化,光场各模光子是反聚束的,呈现非经典效应,光场两模相关性是非经典相关。光场具有周期性的振幅平方压缩效应,讨论了光场相关参数和原子相关参数对压缩深度、压缩频率的影响。双模原子激光不易压缩,压缩深度取决于光场初态。     

Nanosatellites for quantum science and technology

Bringing quantum science and technology to the space frontier offers exciting prospects for both fundamental physics and applications such as long-range secure communication and space-borne quantum probes for inertial sensing with enhanced accuracy and sensitivity. But despite important terrestrial pathfinding precursors on common microgravity platforms and promising proposals to exploit the significant advantages of space quantum missions, large-scale quantum test beds in space are yet to be realised due to the high costs and lead times of traditional ‘Big Space’ satellite development. But the ‘small space’ revolution, spearheaded by the rise of nanosatellites such as CubeSats, is an opportunity to greatly accelerate the progress of quantum space missions by providing easy and affordable access to space and encouraging agile development. We review space quantum science and technology, CubeSats and their rapidly developing capabilities and how they can be used to advance quantum satellite systems.     

Robust Preparation of Atomic Concatenated Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger States via Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

Here, a protocol for robust preparation of an atomic concatenated Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (C‐GHZ) state via shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) is proposed. The devices for implementing the protocol consist of atoms, cavities, and the optical fibers, which are feasible with current technology. The atoms are trapped in the separated cavities allowing individual control over each atom with classical fields. STA helps to design Rabi frequencies of classical fields so that the atoms can be driven from the initial states to the target states. The numerical simulations show that the protocol holds robustness against atomic spontaneous emissions and photonic leakages. Thus, the protocol may be realized by experiments in the near future.     

电子束泵浦氧化锌基量子阱的斯塔克效应

在不同功率密度的电子束泵浦条件下,对ZnO/Zn0.85Mg0.15O非对称双量子阱的荧光光谱进行了研究,并采用蒙特卡罗仿真模拟对测试结果进行了分析。模拟的结果和实验结果高度吻合。观测到了不随穿透深度变化的阱区发光峰红移,证明表面电荷积累引起了量子限域斯塔克效应。     

Novel Inhibitors of 2′-O-Methyltransferase of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting many people worldwide and causing a heavy burden to global health. To eliminate the disease, SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic, can be targeted in several ways. One of them is to inhibit the 2′-O-methyltransferase (nsp16) enzyme that is crucial for effective translation of viral RNA and virus replication. For methylation of substrates, nsp16 utilizes S-adenosyl methionine (SAM). Binding of a small molecule in the protein site where SAM binds can disrupt the synthesis of viral proteins and, as a result, the replication of the virus. Here, we performed high-throughput docking into the SAM-binding site of nsp16 for almost 40 thousand structures, prepared for compounds from three libraries: Enamine Coronavirus Library, Enamine Nucleoside Mimetics Library, and Chemdiv Nucleoside Analogue Library. For the top scoring ligands, semi-empirical quantum-chemical calculations were performed, to better estimate protein–ligand binding enthalpy. Relying upon the calculated binding energies and predicted docking poses, we selected 21 compounds for experimental testing.     

神经网络量子态及其应用

神经网络量子态是由人工神经网络所表示的量子态。得益于机器学习,尤其是深度学习近年来取得的突破性进展,神经网络量子态的研究得到了广泛的关注,成为当前的热点前沿方向。文章将介绍不同的神经网络量子态,其物理性质与典型应用场景,最新进展,以及面临的挑战。     

稀土元素三角格子体系中的阻挫磁性与量子涨落

稀土元素三角格子阻挫体系在近几年受到了广泛的关注,稀土元素中存在较强的自旋轨道耦合作用,容易形成各向异性的磁相互作用,结合复杂的晶体场结构,可以产生很多新奇的物理性质,实现包括量子自旋液体、内禀量子伊辛磁体和隐藏序在内的一系列新奇量子态。文章以最近的中子散射研究为例,介绍稀土元素三角格子体系中的新奇磁关联与量子涨落现象。     

量子体系的相空间规范变换

外尔于1918年引入的规范变换实际上是相位变换而非真正的尺度变换,但规范不变性、规范理论等概念都沿袭了下来。我们发现,针对由量子化条件[x, p]=iℏ而来的量子体系之本征值问题存在规范变换,或者说尺度变换,x → x/α,p → αp,该变换保体系的能量谱不变。量子谐振子、氢原子问题及一类多体问题的精确解析解证实了这一点。量子化条件 [x, p]=iℏ看来是个对量子力学很强的约束,不止于能量的量子化。这个规范变换提醒我们相空间的体积及其量子化才是物理的关键,这也是量子力学和统计物理在潜意识里一直沿用却未予关注的思路。有趣的是,从量子谐振子体系的相空间表述似乎不能导向这个结论。如同规范理论所断言的电磁学量在给定坐标系下的数值表征与标度无关,我们认为量子体系的物理量,如能量谱等,在给定坐标系下的数值表征亦应与标度无关。此尺度变换与德布罗意关系相恰。     

纵磁作用下真空电弧单阴极斑点等离子体射流三维混合模拟

真空电弧的特性直接受到从阴极斑点喷射出的等离子体射流的影响,对等离子体射流进行数值仿真有助于我们深入了解真空电弧的内部物理机制.然而,磁流体动力学和粒子云网格仿真方法受限于计算精度和计算效率的原因,无法有效地应用于真空电弧等离子体射流仿真模拟.本文开发了一套三维等离子体混合模拟算法,并在此基础上建立了真空电弧单阴极斑点...     

Dynamics of a multi-mode maximum entangled coherent state over an amplitude damping channel

The dynamics of the maximum entangled coherent state traveling through an amplitude damping channel is investigated. For small values of the transmissivity rate, the traveling state is very fragile to this noise channel, which suffers from the phase flip error with high probability. The entanglement decays smoothly for larger values of the transmissivity rate and speedily for smaller values of this rate. As the number of modes increases, the traveling state over this noise channel quickly loses its entanglement. The odd and even states vanish at the same value of field intensity.