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Observation of backscattering-immune chiral electromagnetic modes without time reversal breaking
A strategy is proposed to realize robust transport in time reversal invariant
photonic system. Using numerical simulation and microwave experiment, we
demonstrate that a chiral guided mode in the channel of a three-dimensional
dielectric woodpile photonic crystal is immune to the scattering of a square
patch of metal or dielectric inserted to block the channel. The chirality based
robust transport can be realized in nonmagnetic dielectric materials without
any external field.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
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Neuronal activity (c-Fos) delineating interactions of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia
The cerebral cortex and basal ganglia (BG) form a neural circuit that is disrupted in disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. We found that neuronal activity (c-Fos) in the BG followed cortical activity, i.e., high in arousal state and low in sleep state. To determine if cortical activity is necessary for BG activity, we administered atropine to rats to induce a dissociative state resulting in slow-wave electroencephalography but hyperactive motor behaviors. Atropine blocked c-Fos expression in the cortex and BG, despite high c-Fos expression in the sub-cortical arousal neuronal groups and thalamus, indicating that cortical activity is required for BG activation. To identify which glutamate receptors in the BG that mediate cortical inputs, we injected ketamine [N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist] and 6-cyano-nitroquinoxaline-2, 3-dione (CNQX, a non-NMDA receptor antagonist). Systemic ketamine and CNQX administration revealed that NMDA receptors mediated subthalamic nucleus (STN) input to internal globus pallidus (GPi) and substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr), while non-NMDA receptor mediated cortical input to the STN. Both types of glutamate receptors were involved in mediating cortical input to the striatum. Dorsal striatal (caudoputamen, CPu) dopamine depletion by 6-hydroxydopamine resulted in reduced activity of the CPu, globus pallidus externa (GPe), and STN but increased activity of the GPi, SNr, and putative layer V neurons in the motor cortex. Our results reveal that the cortical activity is necessary for BG activity and clarifies the pathways and properties of the BG-cortical network and their putative role in the pathophysiology of BG disorders
PT Symmetry as a Generalization of Hermiticity
The Hilbert space in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is formulated as a linear
vector space with a dynamic inner product. The most general PT-symmetric matrix
Hamiltonians are constructed for 2*2 and 3*3 cases. In the former case, the
PT-symmetric Hamiltonian represents the most general matrix Hamiltonian with a
real spectrum. In both cases, Hermitian matrices are shown to be special cases
of PT-symmetric matrices. This finding confirms and strengthens the early
belief that the PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is a generalization of the
conventional Hermitian quantum mechanics.Comment: 13 page
A Three-Flavor AdS/QCD Model with a Back-Reacted Geometry
A fully back-reaction geometry model of AdS/QCD including the strange quark
is described. We find that with the inclusion of the strange quark the impact
on the metric is very small and the final predictions are changed only
negligibly.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures; references revised, minor change for caption of
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Analysis of Y(4660) and related bound states with QCD sum rules
In this article, we take the vector charmonium-like state Y(4660) as a
bound state (irrespective of the hadro-charmonium and the
molecular state) tentatively, study its mass using the QCD sum rules, the
numerical value is consistent with the experimental
data. Considering the SU(3) symmetry of the light flavor quarks and the heavy
quark symmetry, we also study the bound states ,
and with the QCD sum rules,
and make reasonable predictions for their masses.Comment: 18 pages, 32 figures, revised versio
Gapped Topological Kink States and Topological Corner States in Graphene
Based on the tight-binding model calculations and photonic experimental
visualization on graphene, we report the domain-wall-induced gapped topological
kink states and topological corner states. In graphene, domain walls with
gapless topological kink states could be induced either by sublattice symmetry
breaking or by lattice deformation. We find that the coexistence of these two
mechanisms will induce domain walls with gapped topological kink states.
Significantly, the intersection of these two types of domain wall gives rise to
topological corner state localized at the crossing point. Through the
manipulation of domain walls, we show graphene not only a versatile platform
supporting multiple topological corner modes in a controlled manner, but also
possessing promising applications such as fabricating topological quantum dots
composed of gapped topological kink states and topological corner states.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, supplementary includ
The effect of different baryons impurities
We demonstrate the different effect of different baryons impurities on the
static properties of nuclei within the framework of the relativistic mean-field
model. Systematic calculations show that and has the
same attracting role as hyperon does in lighter hypernuclei.
and hyperon has the attracting role only for the protons
distribution, and has a repulsive role for the neutrons distribution. On the
contrary, and hyperon attracts surrounding neutrons and
reveals a repulsive force to the protons. We find that the different effect of
different baryons impurities on the nuclear core is due to the different third
component of their isospin.Comment: 9 page
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