Coherent spinor dynamics in a spin-1 Bose condensate

Collisions in a thermal gas are perceived as random or incoherent as a consequence of the large numbers of initial and final quantum states accessible to the system. In a quantum gas, e.g. a Bose-Einstein condensate or a degenerate Fermi gas, the phase space accessible to low energy collisions is so restricted that collisions be-come coherent and reversible. Here, we report the observation of coherent spin-changing collisions in a gas of spin-1 bosons. Starting with condensates occupying two spin states, a condensate in the third spin state is coherently and reversibly created by atomic collisions. The observed dynamics are analogous to Josephson oscillations in weakly connected superconductors and represent a type of matter-wave four-wave mixing. The spin-dependent scattering length is determined from these oscillations to be -1.45(18) Bohr. Finally, we demonstrate coherent control of the evolution of the system by applying differential phase shifts to the spin states using magnetic fields.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure

Lineage Divergence and Historical Gene Flow in the Chinese Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus sinicus)

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Preparation and electrochemical lithium intercalation performance of segmented carbon nanofibers

Segmented carbon nanofibers were prepared by pyrolysis of acetylene on foam Ni at 600 and 700degreesC in a fixed bed flowed-reactor. The morphology, microstructure and lithium insertion properties of these carbon nanofibers were investigated by TEM, XRD, Raman and electrochemical methods. Through TEM observations, it was found that this kind of carbon nanofibers was composed of lens-like segments with nearly equal separation stacking along the nanofiber axis. When the reaction temperature was 600degreesC, segmented carbon nanofibers were the major production. However, when the reaction temperature increased to 700degreesC, the content of segmented carbon filaments decreased and their diameter became smaller. The crystallite size d(002) and L-c were determined by the 002 carbon Bragg peak of XRD patterns using the Bragg and Scherrer formulas. The intensity ratios of the 1350 cm(-1) line and the 1580 cm(-1) line (R =I-D/I-G) was used to evaluate the L-a value, which was inversely proportional to the effective crystallite size in the direction of the graphite plane (L-a). With the reaction temperature increased, the d(002) value decreased, L-a and L-c values increased, which indicated the degree of crystallinity increased. Segmented carbon nanofibers were used as positive electrodes of C/Li cells. The first charge capacities of C/Li cells were 480 and 300 mAh/g for samples produced at 600 and 700degreesC, respectively. The samples at 600degreesC showed capacities higher than the theoretical value of graphite, which was attributed to accommodation of more. lithium at the edge of graphene layers and on the surface of graphene layers according to the mechanisms of lithium insertion in carbons prepared by low-temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons. As confirmed by the XRD and Raman spectra, the samples at 700degreesC had larger L-a and L-c, which led to the capacity decreasing

Bcl-2-regulated cell death signalling in the prevention of autoimmunity

Cell death mediated through the intrinsic, Bcl-2-regulated mitochondrial apoptosis signalling pathway is critical for lymphocyte development and the establishment of central and maintenance of peripheral tolerance. Defects in Bcl-2-regulated cell death signalling have been reported to cause or correlate with autoimmunity in mice and men. This review focuses on the role of Bcl-2 family proteins implicated in the development of autoimmune disorders and their potential as targets for therapeutic intervention

A general distributed parameter model for ground heat exchangers with arbitrary shape and type of heat sources

The heat and mass transfer simulation model of a ground heat exchanger (GHE) directly affects the design and operation performance of a ground-coupled heat pump system. The GHE models based on the response function (like the Green function and g-function) can achieve a fast calculation speed. However, the heat sources in these models are limited to points or whole boreholes, leading to low calculation accuracy in heat transfer during a short time period and limitation to a certain GHE. A general distributed parameter model for a ground heat exchanger (RF model) is proposed based on the principle of response factors in this paper. A sandbox experimental platform is then built to test the temperatures of typical points in the double-layered soil and to validate the RF model. After that, the calculation of the RF model is simplified by determining suitable positions for the soil boundaries and the numbers of sub pipes and sub soil boundaries. Finally, the RF model is applied in different scenarios to demonstrate its characteristics. The results show that: (1) the RF model is suitable for different kinds of GHEs with arbitrary shape and type of heat sources releasing heat in arbitrary time steps; (2) the RF model has only 0.01 degrees C and 0.23 degrees C temperature response errors compared to those from numerical solutions and experiments, respectively; (3) the general RF model has similar accuracy to the numerical solution in calculating the distributed temperatures of the borehole and pipes, heat transfer in the short term, and heat transfer of borehole groups and the energy pile.Department of Building Services Engineering2017-2018 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal201812 bcr