373 research outputs found
Realizing quantum optics in structured environments with giant atoms
To go beyond quantum optics in free-space setups, atom-light interfaces with
structured photonic environments are often employed to realize unconventional
quantum electrodynamics (QED) phenomena. However, when employed as quantum
buses, those long-distance nanostructures are limited by fabrication disorders.
In this work, we alternatively propose to realize structured lightmatter
interactions by engineering multiple coupling points of hybrid giant
atom-conventionalenvironments without any periodic structure. We present a
generic optimization method to obtain the real-space coupling sequence for
multiple coupling points. We report a broadband chiral emission in a very wide
frequency regime, with no analog in other quantum setups. Moreover, we show
that the QED phenomena in the band gap environment, such as fractional atomic
decay and dipole-dipole interactions mediated by a bound state, can be observed
in our setup. Numerical results indicate that our proposal is robust against
fabrication disorders of the coupling sequence. Our work opens up a new route
for realizing unconventional light-matter interactions.Comment: 19 papges, 12 figure
An experimental study on the effect of salt spray testing on the optical properties of solar selective absorber coatings produced with different manufacturing technologies
Solar selective absorber coating (SSAC) is one of the key components of a solar collector, with its optical properties having a significant impact on the collector’s thermal performance. The key parameters characterizing the optical properties of an SSAC are the solar absorptance (absorptance of solar radiation) and the thermal emittance (emittance for long-wave radiation). However, some of high-performing SSACs suffer from some drawbacks, such as lower durability, lower resistance to corrosion and abrasion, which is particularly harmful for SSACs, as, for example, chlorides in the atmosphere have become a main contributor to corrosion in coastal areas with the increasing trend of global warming. In this paper, salt spray tests have been conducted on the SSACs manufactured by three common manufacturing technologies, i.e., the anode oxidation
(AO) technology, the vacuum magnetron sputtering (VMS) technology, and the black chromium plating (BCP) technology, over the testing durations of 12 h, 24 h, 36 h, and 48 h, respectively, to examine the effect of the salt spray testing on the optical properties of SSACs manufactured by different manufacturing technologies. The salt spray testing is an accelerated aging testing method for evaluating the SSAC’s resistance to corrosion when it is under an extended exposure to a saline, or salted, spray (fog). The experimental results show that, in general, the SSACs manufactured by the BCP technology have excellent resistance to salt spray (i.e., to corrosion) and those manufactured by the AO technology have only reasonable
resistance to corrosion, whereas the SSACs manufactured by the VMS technology have very poor resistance to corrosion.
The results also demonstrate that there are noticeable differences in the optical properties of the SSAC samples even manufactured by the same technology but by different manufacturers, with some having significant differences. The causes for the differences have been further examined through the inspection of the physical appearance of the selected SSAC samples and the experimentally measured distributions of the monochromatic reflectance of solar radiation of the samples over the solar spectrum before and after the salt spray testing over different durations
One-step synthesis of Lycopodium alkaloid (-)-huperzine W via Suzuki-Miyaura coupling
The first total synthesis of (−)-huperzine W (1) has been achieved. Key element of the synthesis is a highly convergent assemblage for the two rings system of target molecule utilizing an efficient Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction between chiral iodide 2 and 2-allylpyrrolidinone 4. Evaluation of the AchE inhibition of synthetic huperzine W was also carried out. [Image: see text] ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.1007/s13659-012-0084-2 and is accessible for authorized users
A Geometrically Constrained Point Matching based on View-invariant Cross-ratios, and Homography
In computer vision, finding point correspondence among images plays an
important role in many applications, such as image stitching, image retrieval,
visual localization, etc. Most of the research worksfocus on the matching of
local feature before a sampling method is employed, such as RANSAC, to verify
initial matching results via repeated fitting of certain global transformation
among the images. However, incorrect matches may still exist, while careful
examination of such problems is often skipped. Accordingly, a geometrically
constrained algorithm is proposed in this work to verify the correctness of
initially matched SIFT keypoints based on view-invariant cross-ratios (CRs). By
randomly forming pentagons from these keypoints and matching their shape and
location among images with CRs, robust planar region estimation can be achieved
efficiently for the above verification, while correct and incorrect matches of
keypoints can be examined easily with respect to those shape and location
matched pentagons. Experimental results show that satisfactory results can be
obtained for various scenes with single as well as multiple planar regions
Lepton-flavored electroweak baryogenesis
We explore lepton-flavored electroweak baryogenesis, driven by CP-violation in leptonic Yukawa sector, using the τ−μ system in the two Higgs doublet model as an example. This setup generically yields, together with the flavor-changing decay h→τμ, a tree-level Jarlskog invariant that can drive dynamical generation of baryon asymmetry during a first-order electroweak phase transition and results in CP-violating effects in the decay h→ττ. We find that the observed baryon asymmetry can be generated in parameter space compatible with current experimental results for the decays h→τμ, h→ττ, and τ→μγ, as well as the present bound on the electric dipole moment of the electron. The baryon asymmetry generated is intrinsically correlated with the CP-violating decay h→ττ and the flavor-changing decay h→τμ, which thus may serve as “smoking guns” to test lepton-flavored electroweak baryogenesis
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