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Nonlinear thermal transport and negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons
We employ classical molecular dynamics to study the nonlinear thermal
transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). For GNRs under large temperature
biases beyond linear response regime, we have observed the onset of negative
differential thermal conductance (NDTC). NDTC is tunable by varying the manner
of applying the temperature biases. NDTC is reduced and eventually disappears
when the length of the GNR increases. We have also observed NDTC in triangular
GNRs, where NDTC exists only when the heat current is from the narrower to the
wider end. These effects may be useful in nanoscale thermal managements and
thermal signal processing utilizing GNRs.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Elastomeric microfluidic diode and rectifier work with Newtonian fluids
We report on two microfluidic elastomeric autoregulatory devices—a diode and a rectifier. They exhibit physically interesting and complex nonlinear behaviors (saturation, bias-dependent resistance, and rectification) with a Newtonian fluid. Due to their autoregulatory properties, they operate without active external control. As a result, they enable increased microfluidic device density and overall system miniaturization. The demonstrated diode and rectifier would also be useful components in future microfluidic logic circuitry
Fine structures of solar radio type III bursts and their possible relationship with coronal density turbulence
Solar radio type III bursts are believed to be the most sensitive signatures of near-relativistic electron beam propagation in the corona. A solar radio type IIIb-III pair burst with fine frequency structures, observed by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) with high temporal (~10 ms) and spectral (12.5 kHz) resolutions at 30–80 MHz, is presented. The observations show that the type III burst consists of many striae, which have a frequency scale of about 0.1 MHz in both the fundamental (plasma) and the harmonic (double plasma) emission. We investigate the effects of background density fluctuations based on the observation of striae structure to estimate the density perturbation in the solar corona. It is found that the spectral index of the density fluctuation spectrum is about −1.7, and the characteristic spatial scale of the density perturbation is around 700 km. This spectral index is very close to a Kolmogorov turbulence spectral index of −5/3, consistent with a turbulent cascade. This fact indicates that the coronal turbulence may play the important role of modulating the time structures of solar radio type III bursts, and the fine structure of radio type III bursts could provide a useful and unique tool to diagnose the turbulence in the solar corona
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Development of Container Free Sample Exposure for Synchrotron X-ray Footprinting.
The method of X-ray footprinting and mass spectrometry (XFMS) on large protein assemblies and membrane protein samples requires high flux density to overcome the hydroxyl radical scavenging reactions produced by the buffer constituents and the total protein content. Previously, we successfully developed microsecond XFMS using microfluidic capillary flow and a microfocused broadband X-ray source at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron beamlines, but the excessive radiation damage incurred when using capillaries prevented the full usage of a high-flux density beam. Here we present another significant advance for the XFMS method: the instrumentation of a liquid injection jet to deliver container free samples to the X-ray beam. Our preliminary experiments with a liquid jet at a bending magnet X-ray beamline demonstrate the feasibility of the approach and show a significant improvement in the effective dose for both the Alexa fluorescence assay and protein samples compared to conventional capillary flow methods. The combination of precisely controlled high dose delivery, shorter exposure times, and elimination of radiation damage due to capillary effects significantly increases the signal quality of the hydroxyl radical modification products and the dose-response data. This new approach is the first application of container free sample handling for XFMS and opens up the method for even further advances, such as high-quality microsecond time-resolved XFMS studies
Efficient -separability criteria for mixed multipartite quantum states
We investigate classification and detection of entanglement of multipartite
quantum states in a very general setting, and obtain efficient -separability
criteria for mixed multipartite states in arbitrary dimensional quantum
systems. These criteria can be used to distinguish different classes of
multipartite inseparable states and can detect many important multipartite
entangled states such as GHZ states, W states, anti W states, and mixtures
thereof. They detect -nonseparable -partite quantum states which have
previously not been identified. Here . No optimization or
eigenvalue evaluation is needed, and our criteria can be evaluated by simple
computations involving components of the density matrix. Most importantly, they
can be implemented in today's experiments by using at most
local measurements.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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