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Electron-nuclear entanglement in the cold lithium gas
We study the ground-state entanglement and thermal entanglement in the
hyperfine interaction of the lithium atom. We give the relationship between the
entanglement and both temperature and external magnetic fields.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
The Role of Chaos in One-Dimensional Heat Conductivity
We investigate the heat conduction in a quasi 1-D gas model with various
degree of chaos. Our calculations indicate that the heat conductivity
is independent of system size when the chaos of the channel is strong enough.
The different diffusion behaviors for the cases of chaotic and non-chaotic
channels are also studied. The numerical results of divergent exponent
of heat conduction and diffusion exponent are in consistent with the
formula . We explore the temperature profiles numerically and
analytically, which show that the temperature jump is primarily attributed to
superdiffusion for both non-chaotic and chaotic cases, and for the latter case
of superdiffusion the finite-size affects the value of remarkably.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
How special is special interest tourism – and how special are special interest tourists? A perspective article in a Chinese context
Special interest tourism has emerged as a valuable niche market for tourism destinations in the past decade. However, tourism scholars have generally struggled to answer McKercher and Chan’s [2005. How special is special interest tourism? Journal of Travel Research, 44(1), 21–31] question, ‘How special is special interest tourism?’ Such ambiguity extends to the related enquiry, ‘How special are special interest tourists?’, in attempting to define special interest tourists. This perspective research letter discusses these questions in terms of Chinese outbound tourism. Based upon the reflection of previous research, the authors’ thoughts and ongoing research in this area, knowledge gaps are identified and research directions for scholars who are also interested special interest tourism are offered
Heat conductivity in the presence of a quantized degree of freedom
We propose a model with a quantized degree of freedom to study the heat
transport in quasi-one dimensional system. Our simulations reveal three
distinct temperature regimes. In particular, the intermediate regime is
characterized by heat conductivity with a temperature exponent much
greater than 1/2 that was generally found in systems with point-like particles.
A dynamical investigation indicates the occurrence of non-equipartition
behavior in this regime. Moreover, the corresponding Poincar\'e section also
shows remarkably characteristic patterns, completely different from the cases
of point-like particles.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Species of Xorides (Xorides) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) parasitizing wood-boring insects in the Palaearctic part of China
Thirteen species of Xorides (Xorides) parasitizing wood-boring insects in trunks and branches of trees are reported. Three of them, X. (Xorides) pissodius Sheng & Wen sp. n. reared from Pissodes nitidus Roelofs (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) in Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr (Pinaceae), X. (Xorides) tumidus Sheng & Wen sp. n. reared from Cerambycidae in Quercus sp. (Fagaceae) and X. (Xorides) longicaudus Sheng & Wen sp. n. are new to science. X. (Xorides) ater (Gravenhorst, 1829) is a new record for China. Some new host records are provided. A key to species of Xorides (Xorides) of the Palaearctic part of China is presented
Medium effects on the selection of sequences folding into stable proteins in a simple model
We study the medium effects on the selection of sequences in protein folding
by taking account of the surface potential in HP-model. Our analysis on the
proportion of H and P monomers in the sequences gives a direct interpretation
that the lowly designable structures possess small average gap. The numerical
calculation by means of our model exhibits that the surface potential enhances
the average gap of highly designable structures. It also shows that a most
stable structure may be no longer the most stable one if the medium parameters
changed.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Beyond the mixture of generalized Pauli dephasing channels
In recent times, there has been a growing scholarly focus on investigating
the intricacies of quantum channel mixing. It has been commonly believed, based
on intuition in the literature, that every generalized Pauli channel with
dimensionality could be represented as a convex combination of
generalized Pauli dephasing channels (see [Phys. Rev. A 103, 022605 (2021)] as
a reference). To our surprise, our findings indicate the inaccuracy of this
intuitive perspective. This has stimulated our interest in exploring the
properties of convex combinations of generalized Pauli channels, beyond the
restriction to just generalized Pauli dephasing channels. We
demonstrate that many previously established properties still hold within this
broader context. For instance, any mixture of invertible generalized Pauli
channels retains its invertibility. It's worth noting that this property
doesn't hold when considering the Weyl channels setting. Additionally, we
demonstrate that every Pauli channel (for the case of ) can be represented
as a mixture of Pauli dephasing channels, but this generalization
doesn't apply to higher dimensions. This highlights a fundamental distinction
between qubit and general qudit cases. In contrast to prior understanding, we
show that non-invertibility of mixed channels is not a prerequisite for the
resulting mapping to constitute a Markovian semigroup.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
PD-Flow: A Point Cloud Denoising Framework with Normalizing Flows
Point cloud denoising aims to restore clean point clouds from raw
observations corrupted by noise and outliers while preserving the fine-grained
details. We present a novel deep learning-based denoising model, that
incorporates normalizing flows and noise disentanglement techniques to achieve
high denoising accuracy. Unlike existing works that extract features of point
clouds for point-wise correction, we formulate the denoising process from the
perspective of distribution learning and feature disentanglement. By
considering noisy point clouds as a joint distribution of clean points and
noise, the denoised results can be derived from disentangling the noise
counterpart from latent point representation, and the mapping between Euclidean
and latent spaces is modeled by normalizing flows. We evaluate our method on
synthesized 3D models and real-world datasets with various noise settings.
Qualitative and quantitative results show that our method outperforms previous
state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches
Witnessing quantum coherence with prior knowledge of observables
Quantum coherence is the key resource in quantum technologies including
faster computing, secure communication and advanced sensing. Its quantification
and detection are, therefore, paramount within the context of quantum
information processing. Having certain priori knowledge on the observables may
enhance the efficiency of coherence detection. In this work, we posit that the
trace of the observables is a known quantity. Our investigation confirms that
this assumption indeed extends the scope of coherence detection capabilities.
Utilizing this prior knowledge of the trace of the observables, we establish a
series of coherence detection criteria. We investigate the detection
capabilities of these coherence criteria from diverse perspectives and
ultimately ascertain the existence of four distinct and inequivalent criteria.
These findings contribute to the deepening of our understanding of coherence
detection methodologies, thereby potentially opening new avenues for
advancements in quantum technologies.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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