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Early-stage star forming cloud cores in GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects (EGOs) as traced by organic species
In order to investigate the physical and chemical properties of massive star
forming cores in early stages, we analyse the excitation and abundance of four
organic species, CH3OH, CH3OCH3, HCOOCH3 and CH3CH2CN, toward 29 Extended Green
Object (EGO) cloud cores that were observed by our previous single dish
spectral line survey. The EGO cloud cores are found to have similar methanol
J_3-J_2 rotation temperatures of ~44 K, a typical linear size of ~0.036 pc, and
a typical beam averaged methanol abundance of several 10^(-9) (the beam
corrected value could reach several 10^(-7)). The abundances of the latter
three species, normalized by that of methanol, are found to be correlated also
across a large variety of clouds such as EGO cloud cores, hot corinos, massive
hot cores and Galactic Center clouds. The chemical properties of the EGO cloud
cores lie between that of hot cores and hot corinos. However, the abundances
and abundance ratios of the four species can not be satisfactorily explained by
recent chemical models either among the EGO cloud cores or among the various
types of cloud cores from literature
Engineering fast and stable splitting of matter waves
When attempting to split coherent cold atom clouds or a Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) by bifurcation of the trap into a double well, slow adiabatic
following is unstable with respect to any slight asymmetry, and the wave
"collapses" to the lower well, whereas a generic fast chopping splits the wave
but it also excites it. Shortcuts to adiabaticity engineered to speed up the
adiabatic process through non-adiabatic transients, provide instead quiet and
robust fast splitting. The non-linearity of the BEC makes the proposed shortcut
even more stable
Fast and robust population transfer in two-level quantum systems with dephasing noise and/or systematic frequency errors
We design, by invariant-based inverse engineering, driving fields that invert
the population of a two-level atom in a given time, robustly with respect to
dephasing noise and/or systematic frequency shifts. Without imposing
constraints, optimal protocols are insensitive to the perturbations but need an
infinite energy. For a constrained value of the Rabi frequency, a flat
pulse is the least sensitive protocol to phase noise but not to systematic
frequency shifts, for which we describe and optimize a family of protocols.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
A Two-Dimensional CA Traffic Model with Dynamic Route Choices Between Residence and Workplace
The Biham, Middleton and Levine (BML) model is extended to describe dynamic
route choices between the residence and workplace in cities. The traffic
dynamic in the city with a single workplace is studied from the velocity
diagram, arrival time probability distribution, destination arrival rate and
convergence time. The city with double workplaces is also investigated to
compared with a single workplace within the framework of four modes of urban
growth. The transitional region is found in the velocity diagrams where the
system undergoes a continuous transition from a moving phase to a completely
jamming phase. We perform a finite-size scaling analysis of the critical
density from a statistical point of view and the order parameter of this
jamming transition is estimated. It is also found that statistical properties
of urban traffic are greatly influenced by the urban area, workplace area and
urban layout.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figure
Multiple Schr\"odinger pictures and dynamics in shortcuts to adiabaticity
A Schr\"odinger equation may be transformed by unitary operators into
dynamical equations in different interaction pictures which share with it a
common physical frame, i.e., the same underlying interactions, processes and
dynamics. In contrast to this standard scenario, other relations are also
possible, such as a common interaction-picture dynamical equation corresponding
to several Schr\"odinger equations that represent different physics. This may
enable us to design alternative and feasible experimental routes for operations
that are a priori difficult or impossible to perform. The power of this concept
is exemplified by engineering Hamiltonians that improve the performance or make
realizable several shortcuts to adiabaticity
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