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A Sensitive and Reliable Carbon Monoxide Monitor for Safety-Focused Applications in Coal Mine Using a 2.33- m Laser Diode
In this paper, a stable and reliable carbon monoxide (CO) monitoring system with high sensitivity (at sub-ppm level) was designed and demonstrated with particular reference to use in the mining industry, tailoring the design specifically for forecasting spontaneous combustion, a major hazard to miners. An appropriate strong CO absorption line was used to minimize the interferences expected from gases present in ambient air, with several preferred CO absorption lines selected and investigated, therefore choosing a distributed feedback (DFB) laser operating at a wavelength of 2330.18 nm as the excitation source. Through a detailed investigation, a minimum detection limit of ~0.2 ppm and a measurement precision of <50 ppb were achieved with a 1 s averaging time. Further in tests, a long-term continuous monitoring evaluation was carried out, demonstrated the excellent stability and reliability of the developed CO monitor. The results obtained have validated the potential of this design of a CO monitoring system for practical monitoring applications underground to enhance safety in the mining industry
Teleportation of the one-qubit state in decoherence environments
We study standard quantum teleportation of one-qubit state for the situation
in which the channel is subject to decoherence, and where the evolution of the
channel state is ruled by a master equation in the Lindblad form. A detailed
calculation reveals that the quality of teleportation is determined by both the
entanglement and the purity of the channel state, and only the optimal matching
of them ensures the highest fidelity of standard quantum teleportation. Also
our results demonstrated that the decoherence induces distortion of the Bloch
sphere for the output state with different rates in different directions, which
implies that different input states will be teleported with different
fidelities.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figure
Exotic Topological States with Raman-Induced Spin-Orbit Coupling
We propose a simple experimental scheme to realize simultaneously the
one-dimensional spin-orbit coupling and the staggered spin-flip in ultracold
pseudospin- atomic Fermi gases trapped in square optical lattices. In the
absence of interspecies interactions, the system supports gapped Chern
insulators and gapless topological semimetal states. By turning on the -wave
interactions, a rich variety of gapped and gapless inhomogeneous topological
superfluids can emerge. In particular, a gapped topological Fulde-Ferrell
superfluid, in which the chiral edge states at opposite boundaries possess the
same chirality, is predicted.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Green's function method for single-particle resonant states in relativistic mean field theory
Relativistic mean field theory is formulated with the Green's function method
in coordinate space to investigate the single-particle bound states and
resonant states on the same footing. Taking the density of states for free
particle as a reference, the energies and widths of single-particle resonant
states are extracted from the density of states without any ambiguity. As an
example, the energies and widths for single-neutron resonant states in
Sn are compared with those obtained by the scattering phase-shift
method, the analytic continuation in the coupling constant approach, the real
stabilization method and the complex scaling method. Excellent agreements are
found for the energies and widths of single-neutron resonant states.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Spectroscopic signatures of the Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in the conductance characteristics of a normal-metal/superconductor junction
Using a discrete-lattice approach, we calculate the conductance spectra
between a normal metal and an s-wave Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO) superconductor,
with the junction interface oriented {\em along} the direction of the
order-parameter (OP) modulation. The OP sign reversal across one single nodal
line can induce a sizable number of zero-energy Andreev bound states around the
nodal line, and a hybridized midgap-states band is formed amid a
momentum-dependent gap as a result of the periodic array of nodal lines in the
LO state. This band-in-gap structure and its anisotropic properties give rise
to distinctive features in both the point-contact and tunneling spectra as
compared with the BCS and Fulde-Ferrell cases. These spectroscopic features can
serve as distinguishing signatures of the LO state.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures; version as publishe
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