The second- and the fourth-order interferences observed in a two-photon interferometer

We design a two-photon interferometer in which the second-order interference of ‘two-photon’ can be observed. This is realized by introducing a relative phase shift between different path combinations which the photon pairs choose to take. In this interferometer, both the second- and the fourth-order interferences occur when we adjust the time delay continuously. This phenomenon can help us get a better understanding of the second- and the fourth-order interferences.     

Effects of cavity damping on the entanglement for a three-level atomic system

Based on the master equation for the density matrix, the dynamics of the entanglement of the three-level atom interacting with single-mode field in a finite-Q cavity are studied. It was found that the cavity damping leads to growing entropy and a strong degradation of the entanglement, therefore the coherence loss and entanglement is very sensitive to any change in the cavity damping parameter.     

Measure of Entanglement States of Two Interacting Electrons in Vertically Coupled Quantum Dots Induced by a Time-Dependent Electric Field

We study the dynamics of two electrons located in two vertically tunnel-coupled quantum dots in the presence of an oscillatory electric field. By solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation, we predict the dynamical generation of entangled electron states, such as the EPR (Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen) pairs or Bell states. The Schmidt rank and the von Neumann entropy are evaluated to characterize the degree of entanglement of the two electron states.     

Time evolution of entanglement and bistability of two coupled quantum dots in a driven cavity

Abstract

The time evolution of entanglement between two quantum dots (QDs) trapped inside a cavity driven by a coherent quantized field is studied. In the presence of dissipation, entanglement shows many interesting features such as sudden death and revival, and finite steady state value after sudden death. We also investigate dependence of entanglement on dot variables and its relation to bistability. It is found that entanglement vanishes when the cavity field intensity approaches the upper branch of the bistability curve. When the cavity is driven by a modulated field in the presence of dissipation, it can periodically generate entanglement, which is much larger than the maximum value attained in the steady-state for this system but the dots are never fully entangled.     

Enhancement of discord and entanglement with detuning for two coupled quantum dots in a driven cavity

We study the quantum discord for a system of two identical coupled quantum dots interacting with quantized cavity field in the presence of cavity as well as dot decay and detuning. The cavity is externally driven by a coherent light. These results are compared with the entanglement of the quantum dots in various parameter regimes in which system may or may not show bistability. We show that the discord in the steady state is nonzero for any nonzero cavity field amplitude. The system has higher discord in the upper branch of the bistability curve where the entanglement is zero. We also find many other interesting results including high discord and entanglement in the presence of detuning, a phenomenon which we further examine by approximating the density matrix in the appropriate limit.     

Using a microcalorimeter to measure the Lamb shift in hydrogenic gold and uranium on cooled, decelerated ion beams

A precise determination of the Lamb shift from photons emitted by highly charged, one electron ions represents one of the most sensitive tests of QED in strong electromagnetic fields. Recent progress in the production and cooling of intense beams of fully stripped Au and U in the SIS/ESR synchrotron storage ring at GSI, Darmstadt has made it possible to obtain precision spectroscopy of these ions. A fully stripped beam of either Au⁷⁹⁺ or U⁹²⁺ ions is injected, stored and cooled in the ESR and interacts with an internal gas target. The capture of an electron and the subsequent population of a 2p or 3p state will lead to a decay by either Lyman or Balmer X-ray emission. Although measurements of the 1 s Lamb shift in U with Ge ionization detectors accurate to 3% have provided a test of QED for the high Z domain, the experimental errors (±13 eV) are about one order of magnitude larger than the accuracy theoreticians presently claim (±1 eV). We present the results from initial broad band experiments using NTD Ge microcalorimeters to measure the 2 s Lamb Shift in Au and U at the ESR. The broad band coverage of the microcalorimeter makes it possible to reduce the systematic uncertainties in the Doppler corrections while the high-energy resolution reduces the statistical error in the absolute energy calibration.     

活性炭表面改性对双电层电容器电化学性能的影响

通过氢气还原改性和浓硝酸氧化处理对石油焦基活性炭(ACs)进行改性.采用氮气吸附和脱附等温线计算改性ACs的BET比表面积、 DFT孔径分布及孔容,以XPS方法表征改性ACs的表面含氧官能团种类及含量,改性ACs的电化学性能通过直流循环充放电、循环伏安等表征.结果表明:浓硝酸处理后,ACs比表面积和孔容均稍有减少,表面含氧官能团和比电容明显增加,内阻和自放电显著增大;氢气改性后,ACs比表面积和孔容亦稍有减少,孔径分布的变化使比电容明显增加,氧化官能团的减少降低了内阻并减少了自放电.即,氢气改性ACs的电化学性能明显提高,增加了比电容,降低了内阻和自放电.     

On the probability of a model

The posterior probabilities ofK given models when improper priors are used depend on the proportionality constants assigned to the prior densities corresponding to each of the models. It is shown that this assignment can be done using natural geometric priors in multiple regression problems if the normal distribution of the residual errors is truncated. This truncation is a realistic modification of the regression models, and since it will be made far away from the mean, it has no other effect beyond the determination of the proportionality constants, provided that the sample size is not too large. In the caseK=2, the posterior odds ratio is related to the usualF statistic in “classical” statistics. Assuming zero-one losses the optimal selection of a regression model is achieved by maximizing the posterior probability of a submodel. It is shown that the geometric criterion obtained in this way is asymptotically equivalent to Schwarz’s asymptotic Bayesian criterion, sometimes called the BIC criterion. An example of polynomial regression is used to provide numerical comparisons between the new geometric criterion, the BIC criterion and the Akaike information criterion. Villegas and Swartz were partially supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.     

Roles of safety climate and shift work on perceived injury risk: a multi-level analysis

This study evaluated the relationship between employees’ work shift (i.e., day shift versus night shift) and perceptions of injury risk, and how the relationship is affected by company level safety climate and injury frequency. The results showed that night shift workers perceived a higher level of injury risk compared to day shift workers. Both company level safety climate and injury frequency played critical roles in predicting individual perceived work injury risk. Perception of injury risk of night shift workers was significantly lower when they perceived high-level rather than low-level safety climate. However, this pattern was not noticeable for day shift workers. These findings highlighted the importance of considering company level factors when attempting to understand the differences between day shift and night shift work on an individual's perception of injury risk.     

Predicting remnant lifetime of high-temperature materials by a resistance degradation model

Abstract

Lifetime and remnant life of engineering materials at high temperature has been analyzed based on a resistance degradation model. It can be demonstrated that the lifetime includes two time processes: resistance degradation process before crack initiation and crack growth process after the crack initiation. Traditional lifetime prediction, via the crack growth model, was found to involve the paradox that the lifetime is in proportion to the initial crack size. Whereas, experiments of static fatigue using glass sheet specimens did not confirm this proportional relationship. For a smooth sample, fracture resistance depends on the strength of the material, so a strength degradation model was used to estimate the lifetime zone between an upper and lower bound. It is defined that the material fails when the residual strength decline to the working stress or deformation reaches a designed limit. It is concluded that the quantity of lifetime mainly depends on the rate of resistance degradation for a brittle component under applied load. Thus, lifetime prediction is simulated as a simple relationship between distance, rate and time, in which the distance is known, the rate can be obtained from experiments and then the lifetime can be calculated.     

激光功率变化引起的非线性误差对纳米测量精度的影响

拍频干涉法可用于纳米，亚纳米级精度的位移测量，其测量不确定度主要敢决于单位频差－位移当非线性，本文对影响非线性的因素进行了试验分析和理论计算，结果表明，非线性范围为0.07-1.5nm.     

Colour shift and mechanism investigation on the PMMA diffuser used in LED-based luminaires

PMMA material is widely used in LED-based luminaires due to several advantages such as excellent optical transparency, durability against radiation, surface hardness (scratch free), rigidity and strength and can be completely recycled. However, few studies have been reported on the colour shift and failure mechanisms caused by this type of material. This paper experimentally investigated PMMA materials with different aging conditions. The following conclusions could be drawn. (1) Discolouration was not observed for any sample subjected to aging of 85 °C for 5000 h, or with additional blue light irradiation for 5000 h, or with additional humidity of 85%RH for 5000 h, or even with aging of 100 °C for 3000 h. (2) The specimen subjected to aging of 150 °C for 360 h has a surface discoloration and has a significant wavelength dependent degradation in the transmission spectrum caused by oxidation. The specimen with aging of 100 °C for 3000 h has a less oxidation, although no significant transmission spectrum reduction was observed. (3) Using such aged specimen as a diffuser mounted on a LED-based luminaire, the radiant flux peak intensity in the blue light area has a more severe reduction than that in the yellow light area, which results in a reduction of the radiant flux intensity ratio of blue light to yellow light and hence induces the colour shift to yellow. The colour shift investigated is 0.005, very close to the general failure criterion of 0.007, while the lumen decay is 10.2%, far less than the failure criterion of 30%.     

Influence of oxygen transfer in Hf-based high-k dielectrics on flatband voltage shift

We investigated flatband voltage (Vfb) behavior for several Hf-based high-k dielectrics, including HfO₂, Mg-, and La-incorporated HfO₂, HfSiO_x, and Mg-, La-, and N-incorporated HfSiO_x, during the reduction (forming gas annealing: FGA) and oxidation annealing (ODA) processes. A negative Vfb shift appeared in all high-k dielectrics as the FGA temperature increased. In contrast, a positive Vfb shift was observed after the introduction of additional oxygen into the high-k layer during ODA. The oxygen diffusion coefficient (D) values of all samples were estimated using Fick's law. The results showed that the D value of the HfO₂ dielectric was five times as large as that of the HfSiO_x dielectric in ODA at 400 °C. Furthermore, the Mg-, La-, and N- incorporated high-k dielectrics exhibited a larger D value compared with the pure high-k dielectrics. These results strongly suggest that the ionicity of high-k dielectrics, which we attribute to a large positive Vfb shift, enhances oxygen diffusion in the high-k layer.     

双工况主机改造的有关问题的探讨

空调运行电价的高昂支出,系统负荷增加而增加主机困难,空调负荷具有特点的建筑物等一系列问题,导致许多的空调用户都希望把常规空调系统改造成蓄冰空调系统。本文针对一个实际的常规空调系统改造成蓄冰空调系统的工程,阐述了单工况制冷主机改造成双工况制冷主机的有关问题及实施方法与手段。     

非共振双Hopf分叉系统最简规范形类的研究

主要在传统规范形的基础上,研究了非共振双Hop f分叉系统的最简规范形。通过对矩阵理论和近恒同变换的应用,详细分析了当n=3和5时,双Hop f分叉系统的最简规范形,得出当n≥5时,传统规范形可以进一步简化,得到系统的最简规范形。最后根据分析和计算的结果,在计算机语言M athem atica的帮助下,发现在非共振双Hop f分叉系统的n(n>5)阶最简规范形方程中,只存在一项k(5相似文献   

Electron correlations in nonsequential double ionization of helium at intensity below the recollision threshold

With a classical three-dimensional ensemble model, we investigate the correlation behavior of the electrons from nonsequential double ionization of helium at intensities below the recollision threshold. At these laser intensities well below the recollision threshold, the two-electron momentum spectra pairs along the laser polarization show anticorrelated behaviors. This anticorrelated behavior becomes stronger when the laser intensity decreases, and then becomes weaker as the laser intensity further decreases. The responsible microscopic dynamics for the anticorrelated behavior and its intensity dependence is explored by back analyzing the double ionization trajectories.     

A model of corrosion fatigue crack growth in ship and offshore steels

A model describing corrosion fatigue crack growth rate da/dN has been proposed. The crack growth rate is assumed to be proportional to current flowing through the electrolyte within the crack during a loading cycle. The Shoji formula for the crack tip strain rate has been assumed in the model. The obtained formula for the corrosion fatigue crack growth rate is formally similar to the author's empirical formulae established previously. The different effects of ΔK and the fatigue loading frequency f on da/dN, in region I as compared to region II of the corrosion fatigue crack growth rate characteristics can be described by a change of one parameter only: the crack tip repassivation rate exponent.     

ZnAlTi型层状双氢氧化物光催化降解亚甲基蓝的性能研究

利用动态尿素水解法制备了3种不同比例的ZnAlTi型层状双氢氧化物,取部分样品分别在温度为500、600、700和900℃条件下煅烧4h,制得具有光催化性能的材料。研究催化剂不同摩尔比、催化剂用量、煅烧温度等不同因素对光催化降解亚甲基蓝过程的影响。结果表明,紫外光照射下,在反应温度为30℃、催化剂中Ti和Al的摩尔比为2、催化剂投加浓度为1．0g／L、亚甲基蓝初始浓度为10mg／L、煅烧温度为600。C的反应条件下,催化剂对亚甲基蓝的降解效果最好,光照反应12h后亚甲基蓝的降解率为94．4％。     

Cu掺杂对Fe/Mo双钙钛矿居里温度的影响

研究了双钙钛矿结构化合物Sr2FeMoO6中Fe位的Cu2+离子替代效应,样品中Cu2+离子替代Fe3+离子没有引起结构变化,但导致样品B位离子有序度降低.并且随Cu2+离子的掺入,室温下样品的磁化强度迅速下降.而居里温度TC随Cu2+的掺入有所上升,因此认为Cu2+离子的掺入破坏了Fe3+-Mo5+反铁磁耦合,抑制了样品的原有铁磁性,促使Mo5+向Mo6+的转变和Fe3+向Fe2+的转变引起Fe/Mo反位无序的增加,形成了Fe3+-Fe2+反铁磁耦合团簇.