Effect of quantization and positron concentration on shielding potentials in electron-positron-ion plasma

The kinetic theory of plasma has been employed to compute the test-charge potential distributions accounting for quantization effects in magnetized electron-positron-ion (EPI) plasmas. In this regard, the degenerate positrons and electrons are assumed to follow the Fermi-Dirac distribution, while inertial ions are modelled by Maxwellian velocity distribution. By solving the Fourier-transformed Vlasov–Poisson equations, a modified dielectric function and electrostatic potential is obtained. By imposing various constraints on the test-charge speed, the potential profile has been analysed in terms of Debye–Hückel (DH), far-field (FF), and wake-field (WF) potentials. It has been found that the amplitude of DH and FF potentials increases by the inclusion of quantization effects, and it becomes the opposite for the WF potential profile. Furthermore, the variation of positron concentration significantly affects the DH, FF, and WF potentials. The present findings are important to understand the shielding phenomenon in degenerate multi-species plasmas.     

Calculations of dynamic multipolar polarizabilities of the Cd clock transition levels

The pursuit of a systematic frequency uncertainty beyond 10^-18 clock has triggered a multitude of investigations on the multipolar and higher-order lattice light shifts. The Cd atom has been proposed as a new candidate for the development of a lattice clock because of its smaller blackbody radiation shift at room temperature. Here, we apply an improved combined method of the Dirac-Fock plus core polarization and relativistic configuration interaction methods to calculate the dynamic multipolar polarizabilities of the Cd clock states. The effects of the high-order core-polarization potentials on the energies, reduced matrix elements, and multipolar polarizabilities have been evaluated systematically. The detailed comparison with available literature demonstrates that taking into account of the high-order core-polarization potentials is a simple and effective approach to improve the results of atomic properties for heavy atoms.     

Adaptive‐numerical‐bias metadynamics

A metadynamics scheme is presented in which the free energy surface is filled with progressively adding adaptive biasing potentials, obtained from the accumulated probability distribution of the collective variables. Instead of adding Gaussians with assigned height and width in conventional metadynamics method, here we add a more realistic adaptive biasing potential to the Hamiltonian of the system. The shape of the adaptive biasing potential is adjusted on the fly by sampling over the visited states. As the top of the barrier is approached, the biasing potentials become wider. This decreases the problem of trapping the system in the niches, introduced by the addition of Gaussians of fixed height in metadynamics. Our results for the free energy profiles of three test systems show that this method is more accurate and converges more quickly than the conventional metadynamics, and is quite comparable (in accuracy and convergence rate) with the well‐tempered metadynamics method. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Rolling of a Rigid Cylinder over a Half-Plane with Initial Stresses (Harmonic and Bartenev–Khazanovich Potentials)

An asymmetric quasistationary problem for a prestressed half-plane with harmonic and Bartenev–Khazanovich potentials is solved based of the linearized theory of elasticity. The Mehler–Fock integral transform is used to solve the differential equations that describe the stress–strain state of the half-plane. The dependences of the normal and tangential stresses and stress intensity factors on the elongation are plotted     

用白光相对客观散斑技术实测海冰力学性质的初探

本文提出了一种改进的白光散技术，应用此技术测量了单轴压缩下海冰的弹性模量，实测结果与电测法的结果符合程度良好，本文方法操作简单，避免了海水的表面缺隐和浸反射条件差以及表面升华等因素对测量的影响。     

剪切散斑干涉与有限元优化计算相结合实现缺陷参数的定量求解

本文将剪切散斑干涉与有限元优化分析相结合，对薄壁压力容器缝缺陷进行了定量检测，通过对优化计算结果和已知的缺陷参数所构成的目标函数的求解，获得了较为精确的缺陷参数识别结果。     

Density-sensitive whole-field flow measurement by optical speckle photography

An optical whole-field, line-of-sight method is surveyed that allows the measurement of the refractive deflection angles of light transmitted through a flow with density changes. The method uses the principles of speckle photography. In comparison to classical optical methods such as interferometry, a much higher number of data values can be obtained from one record without the need of interpolating between experimental data. This high signal density is particularly advantageous for analyzing turbulent flows with density fluctuations. Such an analysis is, so far, restricted to the existence of axisymmetric turbulence. A number of applications to this type of turbulent flow are reported, and proposals are made for future developments that will allow this speckle technique to be applied to the study of turbulent shear flow.     

ChemInform Abstract: Evaluation of Tavorite‐Structured Cathode Materials for Lithium‐Ion Batteries Using High‐Throughput Computing.

Tavorite‐structured oxyphosphates, fluorophosphates, oxysulfates, and fluorosulfates are evaluated for use as cathode materials in lithium ion batteries and activation energies for lithium diffusion through LiVO(PO₄), LiV(PO₄)F, and LiFe(SO₄)F are calculated.     

Calculations of D‐wave bound states and resonance states of the screened helium atom using correlated exponential wave functions

We have investigated the effects of screened Coulomb (Yukawa) potentials on the bound ^1,3D states and the doubly excited ^1,3 D^e resonance states of helium atom using highly correlated exponential basis functions. The Density of resonance states are calculated using stabilization method. Highly correlated exponential basis functions are used to consider the correlation effect between the charged particles. A total of 18 resonances (nine each for ¹ D^e and ³ D^e states) below the n = 2 He ⁺ threshold has been calculated. For each spin states, this includes four members in the 2pnp series, three members in the 2snd series, and two members in 2pnf series. The resonance energies and widths for various screening parameters ranging from infinity to a small value for these ^1,3 D^e resonance states are reported along with the bound‐excited 1s3d ^1,3 D state energies. Overall behavior of the spectral profile of 1s3d ¹D state of helium atom due to electron‐electron and electron‐nucleus screening are also presented. Accurate resonance energies and widths are also reported for He in vacuum. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2010     

动态主观散斑的时间相关性研究

根据散射屏移动时动态主观散斑时间相关公式,分析了成像系统主要参数对动态主观散斑时间相关性的影响：一般情况下屏表面参数对散斑的时间相关性影响较小;激光光斑大于成像系统物面分辨斑时,散斑的时间相关性由透镜孔径大小决定;激光光斑小于成像系统物面分辨斑的尺寸时,减小激光光斑尺寸能减弱散斑时间相关性。对于以上结果进行了相关的理论模拟和部分实验验证,通过模拟发现,激光光斑小于成像系统物面分辨斑时,散斑时间相关长度和光斑尺寸大小成正比。结论对于激光投影系统中利用时间平均进行的散斑抑制具有指导意义。