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Continuous variable entanglement measurement without phase locking
A new simple entanglement measurement method is proposed for the bright EPR
beams generated from a non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier operating at
deamplification. Due to the output signal and idler modes are frequency
degenerate and in phase, the needed phase shift of interference for the
measurement of the correlated phase quadratures and anti-correlated amplitude
quadratures can be accomplished by a quarter-wave plate and a half wave plate
without separating the signal and idler beam. Therefore, phase locking and
local oscillators are avoided.Comment: 8 pages,3 figure
Dark Energy and Fate of the Universe
We explore the ultimate fate of the Universe by using a divergence-free
parametrization for dark energy .
Unlike the CPL parametrization, this parametrization has well behaved, bounded
behavior for both high redshifts and negative redshifts, and thus can genuinely
cover many theoretical dark energy models. After constraining the parameter
space of this parametrization by using the current cosmological observations,
we find that, at the 95.4% confidence level, our Universe can still exist at
least 16.7 Gyr before it ends in a big rip. Moreover, for the phantom energy
dominated Universe, we find that a gravitationally bound system will be
destroyed at a time , where
is the period of a circular orbit around this system, before the big rip.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, publication version, Sci
China-Phys Mech Astron, doi: 10.1007/s11433-012-4748-
The leptonic decay using the principle of maximum conformality
In the paper, we study the leptonic decay width
by using the principle of maximum
conformality (PMC) scale-setting approach. The PMC adopts the renormalization
group equation to set the correct momentum flow of the process, whose value is
independent to the choice of the renormalization scale and its prediction thus
avoids the conventional renormalization scale ambiguities. Using the known
next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order perturbative series together with the PMC
single scale-setting approach, we do obtain a renormalization scale independent
decay width, keV,
where the error is squared average of those from
, GeV and the choices of
factorization scales within of their central values. To compare with
the result under conventional scale-setting approach, this decay width agrees
with the experimental value within errors, indicating the importance of a
proper scale-setting approach.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
An update of the catalog of radial velocity standard stars from the APOGEE DR17
We present an updated catalog of 46,753 radial velocity (RV) standard stars
selected from the APOGEE DR17. These stars cover the Northern and Southern
Hemispheres almost evenly, with 62% being red giants and 38% being
main-sequence stars. These RV standard stars are stable on a baseline longer
than 200 days (54% longer than one year and 10% longer than five years) with a
median stability better than 215 m s. The average observation number of
those stars are 5 and each observation is required to have
spectral-to-noise-ratio (SNR) greater than 50 and RV measurement error smaller
than 500 m s. Based on the new APOGEE RV standard star catalog, we have
checked the RV zero points (RVZPs) for current large-scale stellar
spectroscopic surveys including RAVE, LAMOST, GALAH and Gaia. By carefully
analysis, we estimate their mean RVZP to be km s, km
s (for LRS), km s and km s,
respectively, for the four surveys. In the RAVE, LAMOST (for MRS), GALAH and
Gaia surveys, RVZP exhibits systematic trend with stellar parameters (mainly
[Fe/H], , log , and ).
The corrections of those small but clear RVZPs are of vital importances for
these massive spectroscopic surveys in various studies that require extremely
high radial velocity accuracies.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, accepted by RAA; full table can be
accessed from https://nadc.china-vo.org/res/r101244
Aqua[N-(2,5-dihydroxybenzyl)iminodiacetato]copper(II)
The title complex, [Cu(C11H11NO6)(H2O)], contains a CuII atom in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The metal centre is coordinated in the basal sites by one water molecule and two carboxylate O atoms and one N atom of the tetradentate ligand [Cu—O range, 1.9376 (11)–1.9541 (12), Cu—N, 1.9929 (12) Å] while the apical site is occupied by a hydroquinone O donor atom [Cu—O, 2.3746 (12) Å]. Intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions involving both hydroquinone hydroxy groups and the coordinated water as donors give a three-dimensional framework structure
A Sensitive and Rapid Assay for Investigating Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus via Male Germ Line Using EGFP Vector as Reporter
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) constitutes a serious menace to man. DNA recombination and sequencing, interspecific in vitro fertilization, single-embryo PCR and RT-PCR were employed to establish a sensitive and rapid assay for exploring the vertical transmission of viruses via male germ line. Plasmid pIRES2-EGFP-HBs which expressed enhanced green fluorescent protein as reporter for the expression of hepatitis B virus S gene was successfully constructed and confirmed by PCR, EcoR I and Sal I digestion, and DNA sequencing. After exposure to the plasmid, human spermatozoa were used to fertilize with zona-free hamster ova. Two-cell embryos were collected and classified into group A with green fluorescence and group B without green fluorescence under fluorescence microscope. The results showed that HBs DNA positive bands were detected in the embryos with green fluorescence (PCR and RT-PCR) and positive control (PCR) indicating expression of pIRES2-EGFP-HBs, and not observed in the embryos without green fluorescence and negative controls (PCR and RT-PCR) indicating no pIRES2-EGFP-HBs in the cells. The advantages and application foreground of this assay for study on vertical transmission of viruses such as HCV, HIV, HPV, and SARS via germ line were discussed
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