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Increase in soil organic carbon by agricultural intensification in northern China
Acknowledgements. This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31370527 and 31261140367) and the National Science and Technology Support Program of China (no. 2012BAD14B01-2). The authors gratefully thank the Huantai Agricultural Station for providing of the Soil Fertility Survey data. We also thank Zheng Liang from China Agricultural University for the soil sampling and analysis in 2011. Thanks are extended to Jessica Bellarby for helpful discussion and suggestions.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Preparation and performance study of magnetorheological (MR) foam
Porous material performs good deformation compression and has been widely used in soft actuators and sensors. In this study, a new kind of magnetorheological (MR) sponge was prepared by combining carbonyl iron particles with polyurethane porous structure. The static compressive property of MR foam was studied using a commercial rheometer. The relationship between magnetic particle composition, magnetic field and rheological properties was summarized and analyzed. The research contributes to a deeper understanding of magnetorheological sponge materials, and provides inspiration and theoretical basis for the design of soft actuators ,which may provide inspiration for novel application field
Quantum phase transitions in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model
We study the two-dimensional Kane-Mele-Hubbard model at half filling by means
of quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We present a refined phase boundary for the
quantum spin liquid. The topological insulator at finite Hubbard interaction
strength is adiabatically connected to the groundstate of the Kane-Mele model.
In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, magnetic order at large Hubbard U is
restricted to the transverse direction. The transition from the topological
band insulator to the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator is in the universality
class of the three-dimensional XY model. The numerical data suggest that the
spin liquid to topological insulator and spin liquid to Mott insulator
transitions are both continuous.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures; final version; new Figs. 4(b) and 8(b
Self-consistent relativistic quasiparticle random-phase approximation and its applications to charge-exchange excitations and -decay half-lives
The self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) approach
is formulated in the canonical single-nucleon basis of the relativistic
Hatree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory. This approach is applied to study the
isobaric analog states (IAS) and Gamov-Teller resonances (GTR) by taking Sn
isotopes as examples. It is found that self-consistent treatment of the
particle-particle residual interaction is essential to concentrate the IAS in a
single peak for open-shell nuclei and the Coulomb exchange term is very
important to predict the IAS energies. For the GTR, the isovector pairing can
increase the calculated GTR energy, while the isoscalar pairing has an
important influence on the low-lying tail of the GT transition. Furthermore,
the QRPA approach is employed to predict nuclear -decay half-lives. With
an isospin-dependent pairing interaction in the isoscalar channel, the
RHFB+QRPA approach almost completely reproduces the experimental -decay
half-lives for nuclei up to the Sn isotopes with half-lives smaller than one
second. Large discrepancies are found for the Ni, Zn, and Ge isotopes with
neutron number smaller than , as well as the Sn isotopes with neutron
number smaller than . The potential reasons for these discrepancies are
discussed in detail.Comment: 34 pages, 14 figure
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