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Performing WeChat Recording Tasks in Mixed-Ability Study Abroad Content Courses
This case study explores the use of WeChat’s recording tool as a solution to the challenges of teaching mixed-ability students in content courses offered in study abroad programs. The tool successfully reduced anxiety and boredom, created opportunities for students to engage in personalized learning tasks in real time, enabled instructors to provide individualized feedback, and helped course curriculums stay on track. Data was collected from an online survey, email interview, and students’ recordings of topics and instructor’s feedback. The study determined that using WeChat’s recording function to complete linguistic tasks is a useful instructional tool for a mixed-ability classes in study abroad, despite limited technical difficulties
Currents and current correlations in a topological superconducting nanowire beam splitter
A beam splitter consisting of two normal leads coupled to one end of a
topological superconducting nanowire via double quantum dot is investigated. In
this geometry, the linear current cross-correlations at zero temperature change
signs versus the overlap between the two Majorana bound states hosted by the
nanowire. Under symmetric bias voltages the net current flowing through the
nanowire is noiseless. These two features highlight the fermionic nature of
such exotic Majorana excitations though they are based on the
superconductivity. Moreover, there exists a unique local particle-hole symmetry
inherited from the self-Hermitian property of Majorana bound states, which is
apparently scarce in other systems. We show that such particular symmetry can
be revealed through measuring the currents under complementary bias voltages.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Fano resonance in a normal metal/ferromagnet-quantum dot-superconductor device
We investigate theoretically the Andreev transport through a quantum dot
strongly coupled with a normal metal/ferromagnet and a superconductor
(N/F-QD-S), in which the interplay between the Kondo resonance and the Andreev
bound states (ABSs) has not been clearly clarified yet. Here we show that the
interference between the Kondo resonance and the ABSs modifies seriously the
lineshape of the Kondo resonance, which manifests as a Fano resonance. The
ferromagnetic lead with spin-polarization induces an effective field, which
leads to splitting both of the Kondo resonance and the ABSs. The
spin-polarization together with the magnetic field applied provides an
alternative way to tune the lineshape of the Kondo resonances, which is
dependent of the relative positions of the Kondo resonance and of the ABSs.
These results indicate that the interplay between the Kondo resonance and the
ABSs can significantly affect the Andreev transport, which could be tested by
experiments.Comment: 8pages, 7figure
2-[(2-Carboxyphenyl)sulfanyl]acetic acid
The title compound, C9H8O4S, affords a zigzig chain in the crystal structure by intermolecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The molecular geometry suggests that extensive but not uniform π-electron delocalization is present in the benzene ring and extends over the exocyclic C—S and C—C bonds
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