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    Generalized Rindler Wedge and Holographic Observer Concordance

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    We study the most general horizons of accelerating observers and find that in a general spacetime, only spacelike surfaces satisfying a global condition could become horizons of well-defined accelerating observers, which we name the Rindler-convexity condition. The entanglement entropy associated with a Rindler-convex region is proportional to the area of the enclosing surface. This observer physics provides a novel perspective to define a well-defined subregion in spacetime, named the generalized Rindler wedge, whose degrees of freedom should be fully encoded within the subregion. We propose the holographic interpretation of generalized Rindler wedges and provide evidence from the observer correspondence, the subregion subalgebra duality, and the equality of the entanglement entropy, respectively. We introduce time/space cutoffs in the bulk to substantiate this proposition, generalize it, and establish a holographic observer concordance framework, which asserts that the partitioning of degrees of freedom through observation is holographically concordant.Comment: v2: 41 pages, 9 figures; major expansion for the GRW spacetime subregion duality and observer concordanc

    Bayesian method for fitting the low-energy constants in chiral perturbation theory

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    The values of the low-energy constants (LECs) are very important in the chiral perturbation theory. This paper adopts a Bayesian method with the truncation errors to globally fit some next-leading order (NLO) LECs LirL_i^r and some next-to-next-leading order (NNLO) LECs CirC_i^r. With the estimates of the truncation errors, the fitting results of LirL_i^r in the NLO and NNLO are very close. The posterior distributions of CirC_i^r indicate the boundary-dependent relations of these CirC_i^r. Ten CirC_i^r are weakly dependent on the boundaries and their values are reliable. The other CirC_i^r are required more experimental data to constrain their boundaries. Some linear combinations of CirC_i^r are also fitted with more reliable posterior distributions. If one knows some more precise value of CirC_i^r, some other CirC_i^r can be obtained by these values. With these fitting LECs, most observables provide a good convergence, except for the πK\pi K scattering lengths a03/2a_0^{3/2} and a01/2a_0^{1/2}. Two examples are also introduced to test the improvement of the method. All the computations indicate that considering the truncation errors can improve the global fit greatly, and more prior information can obtain better fitting results. This fitting method can extend to the other effective field theories and the perturbation theory.Comment: 35 pages, 8 figure

    (E)-4-Chloro-N-(2,4,6-trimethyl­benzyl­idene)aniline

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    In the title compound, C16H16ClN, the dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 24.61 (13)°. In the crystal, only van der Waals inter­actions occur between neighbouring mol­ecules

    Y Chromosomes of 40% Chinese Are Descendants of Three Neolithic Super-grandfathers

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    Demographic change of human populations is one of the central questions for delving into the past of human beings. To identify major population expansions related to male lineages, we sequenced 78 East Asian Y chromosomes at 3.9 Mbp of the non-recombining region (NRY), discovered >4,000 new SNPs, and identified many new clades. The relative divergence dates can be estimated much more precisely using molecular clock. We found that all the Paleolithic divergences were binary; however, three strong star-like Neolithic expansions at ~6 kya (thousand years ago) (assuming a constant substitution rate of 1e-9/bp/year) indicates that ~40% of modern Chinese are patrilineal descendants of only three super-grandfathers at that time. This observation suggests that the main patrilineal expansion in China occurred in the Neolithic Era and might be related to the development of agriculture.Comment: 29 pages of article text including 1 article figure, 9 pages of SI text, and 2 SI figures. 5 SI tables are in a separate ancillary fil

    Strong Electronic Interaction of Amorphous Fe2O3 Nanosheets with Single‐Atom Pt toward Enhanced Carbon Monoxide Oxidation

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    Platinum‐based catalysts are critical to several chemical processes, but their efficiency is not satisfying enough in some cases, because only the surface active‐site atoms participate in the reaction. Henceforth, catalysts with single‐atom dispersions are highly desirable to maximize their mass efficiency, but fabricating these structures using a controllable method is still challenging. Most previous studies have focused on crystalline materials. However, amorphous materials may have enhanced performance due to their distorted and isotropic nature with numerous defects. Here reported is the facile synthesis of an atomically dispersed catalyst that consists of single Pt atoms and amorphous Fe2O3 nanosheets. Rational control can regulate the morphology from single atom clusters to sub‐nanoparticles. Density functional theory calculations show the synergistic effect resulted from the strong binding and stabilization of single Pt atoms with the strong metal‐support interaction between the in situ locally anchored Pt atoms and Fe2O3 lead to a weak CO adsorption. Moreover, the distorted amorphous Fe2O3 with O vacancies is beneficial for the activation of O2, which further facilitates CO oxidation on nearby Pt sites or interface sites between Pt and Fe2O3, resulting in the extremely high performance for CO oxidation of the atomic catalyst.An atomically Pt dispersed catalyst on amorphous Fe2O3 nanosheets is developed. The size effect of Pt and phase effect of support are explored. The synergistic effect results from the strong metal‐support interactions between the single Pt atoms and the amorphous Fe2O3 structure supports lead to an enhanced CO oxidation performance.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151833/1/adfm201904278-sup-0001-S1.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151833/2/adfm201904278.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151833/3/adfm201904278_am.pd
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