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Phonological similarity effects in Cantonese word recognition
Two lexical decision experiments in Cantonese are described in which the recognition of spoken target words as a function of phonological similarity to a preceding prime is investigated. Phonological similaritv in first syllables produced inhibition, while similarity in second syllables led to facilitation. Differences between syllables in tonal and segmental structure had generally similar effects
High efficiency single quantum well graded-index separate-confinement heterostructure lasers fabricated with MeV oxygen ion implantation
Single quantum well AlGaAs/GaAs graded-index separate-confinement heterostructure lasers have been fabricated using MeV oxygen ion implantation plus optimized subsequent thermal annealing. A high differential quantum efficiency of 85% has been obtained in a 360-µm-long and 10-µm-wide stripe geometry device. The results have also demonstrated that excellent electrical isolation (breakdown voltage of over 30 V) and low threshold currents (22 mA) can be obtained with MeV oxygen ion isolation. It is suggested that oxygen ion implantation induced selective carrier compensation and compositional disordering in the quantum well region as well as radiation-induced lattice disordering in AlxGa1–xAs/GaAs may be mostly responsible for the buried layer modification in this fabrication process
Continuous-wave operation of extremely low-threshold GaAs/AlGaAs broad-area injection lasers on (100)Si substrates at room temperature
Room-temperature continuous-wave operation of large-area (120 μm X 980 μm) GaAs/AlGaAs graded-refractive-index separate-confinement heterostructure lasers on (100) Si substrates has been obtained. Minimum threshold-current densities of 214 A/cm2 (1900-μm cavity length), maximum slope efficiencies of about 0.8 W/A (600-μm cavity length), and optical power in excess of 270 mW/facet (900-μm cavity length) have been observed under pulsed conditions
Frustrated double ionization in two-electron triatomic molecules
Using a semi-classical model, we investigate frustrated double ionization
(FDI) in , a two-electron triatomic molecule, when driven by an
intense, linearly polarized, near-infrared (800 nm) laser field. We compute the
kinetic energy release of the nuclei and find a good agreement between
experiment and our model. We explore the two pathways of FDI and show that,
with increasing field strength, over-the-barrier ionization overtakes tunnel
ionization as the underlying mechanism of FDI. Moreover, we compute the angular
distribution of the ion fragments for FDI and identify a feature that can
potentially be observed experimentally and is a signature of only one of the
two pathways of FDI.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Mixed Qubit Cannot Be Universally Broadcast
We show that there does not exist any universal quantum cloning machine that
can broadcast an arbitrary mixed qubit with a constant fidelity. Based on this
result, we investigate the dependent quantum cloner in the sense that some
parameter of the input qubit is regarded as
constant in the fidelity. For the case of constant , we establish the
optimal symmetric dependent cloner with a fidelity 1/2. It is also
shown that the optimal quantum cloning machine for pure qubits is also
optimal for mixed qubits, when is the unique parameter in the
fidelity. For general broadcasting of mixed qubits, the situation is
very different.Comment: 5 pages, Revte
Determining the strange and antistrange quark distributions of the nucleon
The difference between the strange and antistrange quark distributions,
\delta s(x)=s(x)-\sbar(x), and the combination of light quark sea and strange
quark sea, \Delta (x)=\dbar(x)+\ubar(x)-s(x)-\sbar(x), are originated from
non-perturbative processes, and can be calculated using non-perturbative models
of the nucleon. We report calculations of and using
the meson cloud model. Combining our calculations of with
relatively well known light antiquark distributions obtained from global
analysis of available experimental data, we estimate the total strange sea
distributions of the nucleon.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; talk given by F.-G. at QNP0
Convergence of Adaptive Finite Element Approximations for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems
In this paper, we study an adaptive finite element method for a class of a
nonlinear eigenvalue problems that may be of nonconvex energy functional and
consider its applications to quantum chemistry. We prove the convergence of
adaptive finite element approximations and present several numerical examples
of micro-structure of matter calculations that support our theory.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figure
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