Are Words the Quanta of Human Language? Extending the Domain of Quantum Cognition

In previous research, we showed that ‘texts that tell a story’ exhibit a statistical structure that is not Maxwell–Boltzmann but Bose–Einstein. Our explanation is that this is due to the presence of ‘indistinguishability’ in human language as a result of the same words in different parts of the story being indistinguishable from one another, in much the same way that ’indistinguishability’ occurs in quantum mechanics, also there leading to the presence of Bose–Einstein rather than Maxwell–Boltzmann as a statistical structure. In the current article, we set out to provide an explanation for this Bose–Einstein statistics in human language. We show that it is the presence of ‘meaning’ in ‘texts that tell a story’ that gives rise to the lack of independence characteristic of Bose–Einstein, and provides conclusive evidence that ‘words can be considered the quanta of human language’, structurally similar to how ‘photons are the quanta of electromagnetic radiation’. Using several studies on entanglement from our Brussels research group, we also show, by introducing the von Neumann entropy for human language, that it is also the presence of ‘meaning’ in texts that makes the entropy of a total text smaller relative to the entropy of the words composing it. We explain how the new insights in this article fit in with the research domain called ‘quantum cognition’, where quantum probability models and quantum vector spaces are used in human cognition, and are also relevant to the use of quantum structures in information retrieval and natural language processing, and how they introduce ‘quantization’ and ‘Bose–Einstein statistics’ as relevant quantum effects there. Inspired by the conceptuality interpretation of quantum mechanics, and relying on the new insights, we put forward hypotheses about the nature of physical reality. In doing so, we note how this new type of decrease in entropy, and its explanation, may be important for the development of quantum thermodynamics. We likewise note how it can also give rise to an original explanatory picture of the nature of physical reality on the surface of planet Earth, in which human culture emerges as a reinforcing continuation of life.     

数理统计在地球化学样品分析质量控制中的应用

使用Excel2013和Minitab两种常用软件对地球化学样品中CaO含量分布情况进行了研究,运用描述性统计、正态分布、背景值与异常方法对实验室分析的广西某地地球化学样品的分析数据进行了质量评价,结果表明:综合运用计算机软件和数理统计方法,能快速找到分析数据的详细信息和数据特征,判别地球化学样品实验室分析数据的准确性,找出元素的背景值和异常值并剔除异常值,比较发现,样品中CaO含量分析数据对数转换后比原始数据的分布更趋于正态分布,相比于X射线荧光光谱方法,用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法测定的结果更符合正态分布。方法对地球化学调查样品的分析数据质量评价作了有益的尝试,揭示了数理统计方法是地球化学样品分析质量控制的有效手段。     

A Theoretical Perspective to Study the Optical Properties of Tetrafluoroborates

In this study, a series of tetrafluoroborates with non-π-conjugated [BF₄] tetrahedra are investigated systematically by first-principles calculations. Theoretical studies demonstrate that tetrafluoroborates with alkali and/or alkaline-earth metals are more favorable for deep-ultraviolet transmission and are comparable to the classical deep-ultraviolet (deep-UV) material, MgF₂. Furthermore, bandgap decrease with the increasing of ionic radii in alkali and/or alkaline-earth metals. Introducing highly polarizable cations with d₁₀-configuration or cations with lone pair electrons into the structure will decrease the bandgaps. The birefringence and second harmonic generation effects are not large enough in tetrafluoroborates because polarizability anisotropy and hyperpolarizability in non-π-conjugated [BF₄] tetrahedra are much smaller than those in π-conjugated groups. However, the second harmonic generation effect for [BF₄] tetrahedra has a higher contribution in comparison with that due to birefringence. To effectively synthesize the borate fluorides or fluorooxoborates in the deep-UV region, raw materials with B−F bonds are preferred.     

玻璃态高聚物细观损伤断裂统计力学

对玻璃态高聚物内部细观损伤断裂判据、机理、动力学及统计模型的最新进展，进行了较为全面、系统的介绍和总结，并简要概述了细观损伤统计描述在金属材料及玻璃态高聚物领域里的应用。     

脆性断裂的微观机理和非平衡统计特性

Ⅰ.引言如何才能将断裂的微观机理与宏观特性结合起来,把断裂理论建立于微裂纹演化的微观动力学基础上,从而统一导出所有重要的宏观力学量并以某些更基本的物理量表示之?这是人们为实现材料的强度和韧性设计必需解决的一个重要理论课题。就脆性断裂来说,尽管现有几个主要代表性的理论如断裂力学理论、位错理论和统计理论都各取得一定成就,但就其理论框架来说,由于明显的局限性,却难以发展成可供指导设计的理论。因此,人们在探索微观与宏观相结合的断裂理论。最近的工作表明:从微裂纹演      

中国经济随机前沿模型效率的贝叶斯统计推断

基于扩展的随机生产前沿模型,研究了区域生产效率的差异和其影响因素的作用效果,应用贝叶斯统计方法对中国各省份2010-2017的年度数据(不包含港澳台地区,下同)进行了实证研究.研究发现:生产效率总体呈逐渐下降的趋势,地区间生产效率有一定的差异,高等教育规模对生产效率具有显著的直接影响.人力资本能有效促进东部和中部地区的经济增长,西部地区主要依靠资本促进经济增长.环境污染对中部地区的经济增长具有一定的负向作用.     

样本区间的概率分布

设(X1，X2，…Xn)为服从I=[0,1]上均匀分布的容量为n的简单随机样本，它们将I=[0，1]分隔成(n 1)个样本区间(sample spacing)．记Y0,Y1，…Yn分别为这些样本区间的长度，又设Zx(x,ω)为包含点X∈I的唯一的左闭右开区间的长度．由于随机选取的点集被广泛运用于许多概率模型中．例如流行病学、遗传学、时间序列分析以及交通流理论等．因此，对Zn(x)及其相关统计量分布的研究也就引起了人们的广泛关注．本文利用顺序统计量的性质讨论了Yi(O≤i≤n)以及Zn(x，ω)的概率分布，有利于今后对上述理论的研究。     

基于篇章结构相似度的复制检测算法

学术论文的复制检测研究对于知识产权保护和抑制抄袭侵权等行为有重要意义.国内外主要用数字指纹及关键词匹配等技术进行论文的复制检测.为解决目前中文复制检测难题,给出了一种基于篇章结构相似度的中文学术论文复制检测算法及其问题的数学模型.在分析论文篇章结构的基础上,利用数字指纹和词频统计等技术,经编程实现,用于论文的全抄、部分抄袭和拼抄等抄袭现象的初步检测.与基于全文数字指纹和基于全文词频统计的检测方法相比较,更适用于要求较准确的论文复制检测.     

局域波法和高阶统计量在压缩机气阀状态监测中应用

为解决传统信号处理方法分析非平稳时变信号的不足,提出了一种适用于往复式压缩机气阀状态特征提取的新方法.首先使用局域波法将实测信号分解为多个基本模式分量,经过希尔伯特变换得到各分量的时频谱;然后计算归一化后幅值信号的高阶统计量,这些统计量很好地反映了气阀的劣化过程.通过对现场工作的聚乙烯二次压缩机组合阀振动信号的分析,验证了该方法在往复压缩机状态监测中的有效性和实用性.     

基于Gm-APD的成像激光雷达目标探测特性

针对采用盖革模式雪崩光电二极管（Gm-APD）作为探测器的成像激光雷达,介绍了其测距原理及3D成像原理,并对如何提高其探测性能的方法进行了分析。以分析Gm-APD触发信号的统计特性为基础,对出现在距离门内不同位置目标的探测概率和虚警概率进行了研究与仿真,结果表明,目标处在距离门最前面时,探测概率受噪声水平影响最小,虚警概率受信号强度影响最大;目标靠近距离门中间位置时,探测概率随噪声水平增大下降缓慢,虚警概率随信号强度增大下降缓慢;目标处在距离门末尾时探测概率受噪声水平影响最大,而虚警概率几乎与回波信号强度无关。