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Anomaly Inflow and Membrane Dynamics in the QCD Vacuum
Large and holographic arguments, as well as Monte Carlo results,
suggest that the topological structure of the QCD vacuum is dominated by
codimension-one membranes which appear as thin dipole layers of topological
charge. Such membranes arise naturally as branes in the holographic
formulation of QCD based on IIA string theory. The polarizability of these
membranes leads to a vacuum energy , providing the origin of
nonzero topological susceptibility. Here we show that the axial U(1) anomaly
can be formulated as anomaly inflow on the brane surfaces. A 4D gauge
transformation at the brane surface separates into a 3D gauge transformation of
components within the brane and the transformation of the transverse component.
The in-brane gauge transformation induces currents of an effective Chern-Simons
theory on the brane surface, while the transformation of the transverse
component describes the transverse motion of the brane and is related to the
Ramond-Ramond closed string field in the holographic formulation of QCD. The
relation between the surface currents and the transverse motion of the brane is
dictated by the descent equations of Yang-Mills theory.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figure
Sub-Nanosecond Time of Flight on Commercial Wi-Fi Cards
Time-of-flight, i.e., the time incurred by a signal to travel from
transmitter to receiver, is perhaps the most intuitive way to measure distances
using wireless signals. It is used in major positioning systems such as GPS,
RADAR, and SONAR. However, attempts at using time-of-flight for indoor
localization have failed to deliver acceptable accuracy due to fundamental
limitations in measuring time on Wi-Fi and other RF consumer technologies.
While the research community has developed alternatives for RF-based indoor
localization that do not require time-of-flight, those approaches have their
own limitations that hamper their use in practice. In particular, many existing
approaches need receivers with large antenna arrays while commercial Wi-Fi
nodes have two or three antennas. Other systems require fingerprinting the
environment to create signal maps. More fundamentally, none of these methods
support indoor positioning between a pair of Wi-Fi devices
without~third~party~support.
In this paper, we present a set of algorithms that measure the time-of-flight
to sub-nanosecond accuracy on commercial Wi-Fi cards. We implement these
algorithms and demonstrate a system that achieves accurate device-to-device
localization, i.e. enables a pair of Wi-Fi devices to locate each other without
any support from the infrastructure, not even the location of the access
points.Comment: 14 page
Effect of low-Raman window position on correlated photon-pair generation in a chalcogenide Ge11.5As24Se64.5 nanowire
We investigated correlated photon-pair generation via spontaneous four-wave mixing in an integrated chalcogenideGe11.5As24Se64.5photonicnanowire. The coincidence to accidental ratio, a key measurement for the quality of correlated photon-pair sources, was measured to be only 0.4 when the photon pairs were generated at 1.9 THz detuning from the pump frequency due to high spontaneous Raman noise in this regime. However, the existence of a characteristic low-Raman window at around 5.1 THz in this material's Raman spectrum and dispersion engineering of the nanowire allowed us to generate photon pairs with a coincidence to accidental ratio of 4.5, more than 10 times higher than the 1.9 THz case. Through comparing the results with those achieved in chalcogenide As2S3waveguides which also exhibit a low Raman-window but at a larger detuning of 7.4 THz, we find that the position of the characteristic low-Raman window plays an important role on reducing spontaneous Raman noise because the phonon population is higher at smaller detuning. Therefore the ultimate solution for Raman noise reduction in Ge11.5As24Se64.5 is to generate photon pairs outside the Raman gain band at more than 10 THz detuning
Glycoform Modification of Secreted Recombinant Glycoproteins through Kifunensine Addition during Transient Vacuum Agroinfiltration.
Kifunensine, a potent and selective inhibitor of class I α-mannosidases, prevents α-mannosidases I from trimming mannose residues on glycoproteins, thus resulting in oligomannose-type glycans. We report for the first time that through one-time vacuum infiltration of kifunensine in plant tissue, N-linked glycosylation of a recombinant protein transiently produced in whole-plants shifted completely from complex-type to oligomannose-type. Fc-fused capillary morphogenesis protein 2 (CMG2-Fc) containing one N-glycosylation site on the Fc domain, produced in Nicotiana benthamiana whole plants, served as a model protein. The CMG2-Fc fusion protein was produced transiently through vacuum agroinfiltration, with and without kifunensine at a concentration of 5.4 µM in the agroinfiltration suspension. The CMG2-Fc N-glycan profile was determined using LC-MS/MS with a targeted dynamic multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) method. The CMG2-Fc expression level in the infiltrated plant tissue and the percentage of oligomannose-type N-glycans for kifunensine treated plants was 874 mg/kg leaf fresh weight (FW) and 98.2%, respectively, compared to 717 mg/kg leaf FW and 2.3% for untreated plants. Oligomannose glycans are amenable to in vitro enzymatic modification to produce more human-like N-glycan structures that are preferred for the production of HIV-1 viral vaccine and certain monoclonal antibodies. This method allows glycan modifications using a bioprocessing approach without compromising protein yield or modification of the primary sequence, and could be expanded to other small molecule inhibitors of glycan-processing enzymes. For recombinant protein targeted for secretion, kifunensine treatment allows collection of glycoform-modified target protein from apoplast wash fluid (AWF) with minimal plant-specific complex N-glycan at higher starting purity and concentration than in whole-leaf extract, thus simplifying the downstream processing
Nonclassical 2-photon interference with separate intrinsically narrowband fibre sources
In this paper, we demonstrate a source of photon pairs based on
four-wave-mixing in photonic crystal fibres. Careful engineering of the phase
matching conditions in the fibres enables us to create photon pairs at 597 nm
and 860 nm in an intrinsically factorable state showing no spectral
correlations. This allows for heralding one photon in a pure state and hence
renders narrow band filtering obsolete. The source is narrow band, bright and
achieves an overall detection efficiency of up to 21% per photon. For the first
time, a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with unfiltered photons from separate fibre
sources is presented.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Entropy, Dynamics and Instantaneous Normal Modes in a Random Energy Model
It is shown that the fraction f of imaginary frequency instantaneous normal
modes (INM) may be defined and calculated in a random energy model(REM) of
liquids. The configurational entropy S and the averaged hopping rate among the
states R are also obtained and related to f, with the results R~f and
S=a+b*ln(f). The proportionality between R and f is the basis of existing INM
theories of diffusion, so the REM further confirms their validity. A link to S
opens new avenues for introducing INM into dynamical theories. Liquid 'states'
are usually defined by assigning a configuration to the minimum to which it
will drain, but the REM naturally treats saddle-barriers on the same footing as
minima, which may be a better mapping of the continuum of configurations to
discrete states. Requirements of a detailed REM description of liquids are
discussed
Unified nonequilibrium dynamical theory for exchange bias and training effects
We investigate the exchange bias and training effects in the FM/AF
heterostructures using a unified Monte Carlo dynamical approach. This real
dynamical method has been proved reliable and effective in simulating dynamical
magnetization of nanoscale magnetic systems. The magnetization of the
uncompensated AF layer is still open after the first field cycling is finished.
Our simulated results show obvious shift of hysteresis loops (exchange bias)
and cycling dependence of exchange bias (training effect) when the temperature
is below 45 K. The exchange bias fields decrease with decreasing the cooling
rate or increasing the temperature and the number of the field cycling. With
the simulations, we show the exchange bias can be manipulated by controlling
the cooling rate, the distributive width of the anisotropy energy, or the
magnetic coupling constants. Essentially, these two effects can be explained on
the basis of the microscopical coexistence of both reversible and irreversible
moment reversals of the AF domains. Our simulated results are useful to really
understand the magnetization dynamics of such magnetic heterostructures. This
unified nonequilibrium dynamical method should be applicable to other exchange
bias systems.Comment: Chin. Phys. B, in pres
Structural and Physical Properties of CaFe4As3 Single Crystals
We report the synthesis, and structural and physical properties of CaFe4As3
single crystals. Needle-like single crystals of CaFe4As3 were grown out of Sn
flux and the compound adopts an orthorhombic structure as determined by X-ray
diffraction measurements. Electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties indicate
that the system undergoes two successive phase transitions occurring at TN1 ~
90 K and TN2 ~ 26 K. At TN1, electrical resistivities (\rho(b) and \rho(ac))
are enhanced while magnetic susceptibilities (\chi(b) and \chi(ac)) are reduced
in both directions parallel and perpendicular to the b-axis, consistent with
the scenario of antiferromagnetic spin-density-wave formation. At TN2, specific
heat reveals a slope change, and \chi(ac) decreases sharply but \chi(b) has a
clear jump before it decreases again with decreasing temperature. Remarkably,
both \rho(b) and \rho(ac) decrease sharply with thermal hysteresis, indicating
the first-order nature of the phase transition at TN2. At low temperatures,
\rho(b) and \rho(ac) can be described by {\rho} = {\rho}0 + AT^\alpha ({\rho}0,
A, and {\alpha} are constants). Interestingly, these constants vary with
applied magnetic field. The ground state of CaFe4As3 is discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to Physical Review
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