AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00042-7
Jhilam Sadhukhan
{"title":"Microscopic theory for nuclear fission dynamics","authors":"Jhilam Sadhukhan","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00042-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00042-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nuclear theory research is undergoing a renaissance owing to the recent advancements in the high-performance computing. As nucleus is a quantum many-body system with complicated interparticle interactions, initial theoretical developments were predominantly based on different phenomenological models derived with the help of numerous simplifying assumptions. Although appropriate nuclear many-body theories were formulated, these were hardly adopted in practical applications because of computational limitations. However, since the last decade, this scenario has changed as a result of rapid improvements in the computational power and the associated numerical techniques. Realistic microscopic theories with superior predictive power are now routinely used even for systems which are far beyond the laboratory reach. This review discusses recent achievements in the microscopic theories of large amplitude nuclear dynamics. Particularly, after a succinct historical introduction, emphasis is given to the discussions on the microscopic modelling of nuclear fission dynamics. Also, related future directions are mentioned in brief.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00042-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74941032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00043-6
G. F. Xu, D. M. Tong
{"title":"Realizing multi-qubit controlled nonadiabatic holonomic gates with connecting systems","authors":"G. F. Xu, D. M. Tong","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00043-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00043-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Multi-qubit controlled gates are frequently used in quantum information processing. Although they can be built with gates from the universal set of one- and two-qubit gates, this procedure typically becomes very demanding as the number of such gates rapidly grows with the size of the computational problem. Thus, finding a way to realize them with fewer steps and therefore with reduced decoherence errors is important. Particularly, quantum information is entering noisy intermediate-scale quantum era and in this era, quantum computers do not have enough resources for full fault tolerance and therefor can only support the computation with a short duration. This makes the reduction of the steps even more important. Here, we propose the realization of multi-qubit controlled nonadiabatic holonomic gates with connecting systems. Our proposal can efficiently reduce the operation steps of the realization, thereby reducing the affection from decoherence and increasing the precision of the computation. So, it is useful to realize efficient and robust quantum information processors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00043-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87202564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00041-8
Peter Hannaford, Krzysztof Sacha
{"title":"Condensed matter physics in big discrete time crystals","authors":"Peter Hannaford, Krzysztof Sacha","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00041-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00041-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We review the application of discrete time crystals created in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultracold atoms bouncing resonantly on an oscillating atom mirror to the investigation of condensed matter phenomena in the time dimension. Such a bouncing BEC system can exhibit dramatic breaking of time-translation symmetry, allowing the creation of discrete time crystals having up to about 100 temporal lattice sites and suitable for hosting a broad range of temporal condensed matter phenomena. We first consider single-particle condensed matter phenomena in the time dimension which include Anderson localization due to temporal disorder, topological time crystals, and quasi-crystal structures in time. We then discuss many-body temporal condensed matter phenomena including Mott insulator phases in time, many-body localization in time, many-body topological time crystals and time crystals having long-range exotic interactions. We also discuss the construction of two (or three) dimensional time lattices, involving the bouncing of a BEC between two (or three) orthogonal oscillating mirrors and between two oscillating mirrors oriented at 45<sup>∘</sup>. The latter configuration supports a versatile Möbius strip geometry which can host a variety of two-dimensional time lattices including a honeycomb time lattice and a Lieb square time lattice. Finally, we discuss the construction of a six-dimensional time-space lattice based on periodically driven BECs trapped in a three-dimensional optical lattice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00041-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74379764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00040-9
Suk-Ho Hong
{"title":"A review of DEMO reactor concepts: open questions and issues","authors":"Suk-Ho Hong","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00040-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00040-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To solve climate change and to achieve the “2050 carbon neutrality,” fusion energy has to contribute to the power grid as soon as possible. Nonetheless, DEMO reactor concepts proposed so far were focused on producing 1 GW electricity with the best plasma performances and a very effective power conversion rate deduced by simple 0D/1D system codes. There are open questions and issues about how fusion energy would contribute to the electricity market timely. This paper asks questions and issues on the construction and operation of a DEMO reactor such as (1) identity, (2) net electricity output, (3) construction cost, and (4) public acceptance of fusion energy. Those questions are not simple to answer, but they must be clarified very soon. To achieve the 2050 carbon neutrality in time, a two-pathway approach towards the realization of fusion energy is suggested, and a conclusion is given.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00040-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75740851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00039-2
Ming-Xia Shi, Zuo Li, Da-Xiao Yang, Min-Long Tao, Kai Sun, Ji-Yong Yang, Jun-Zhong Wang
{"title":"Structural and electronic properties of Sn sheets grown on Cd(0001)","authors":"Ming-Xia Shi, Zuo Li, Da-Xiao Yang, Min-Long Tao, Kai Sun, Ji-Yong Yang, Jun-Zhong Wang","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00039-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00039-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the growth and electronic properties of the Sn sheets on Cd(0001) with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. It is found that both the first and second layer of Sn reveal the epitaxial growth with a 1 × 1 commensurate lattice. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STS) measurements indicate the Sn monolayer exhibits a metallic behavior. DFT calculations indicate that all the Sn atoms in the first Sn layer occupy the energetically preferable hcp-hollow sites. Very small amount of charge is transferred from Cd(0001) to the Sn monolayer, indicating the interface of Sn/Cd(0001) is governed by the weak van der Waals interaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00039-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78368170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00037-4
Keh-Fei Liu
{"title":"Status on lattice calculations of the proton spin decomposition","authors":"Keh-Fei Liu","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00037-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00037-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lattice calculations of the proton spin components is reviewed. The lattice results of the quark spin from the axial-vector current matrix element at ∼ 0.3−0.4 is smaller than those from the constituent quark models. This is largely due to the fact that the vacuum polarization contribution from the disconnected insertion is negative. Its connection with the anomalous Ward identity is clarified and verified numerically. This resolves the contentious issue in the “proton spin crisis.” The glue spin and angular momentum are found to be large and there is notable contribution from the quark orbital angular momentum. Renormalization, mixing, and normalization of the quark and glue angular momenta are discussed. With sufficient precision, they can be compared with more precise experimental measurements when the electron-ion collider facility is available.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00037-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81216098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00038-3
Fengli Yan, Ting Gao
{"title":"Perfect NOT and conjugate transformations","authors":"Fengli Yan, Ting Gao","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00038-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00038-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We obtain the perfect NOT transformation criteria, two necessary and sufficient conditions for realizing a perfect NOT transformation on a quantum state set <i>S</i> of a qubit. Furthermore, we discuss a probabilistic perfect NOT transformation when there is no perfect NOT transformation on a state set <i>S</i>. We also generalize the perfect NOT transformation to the conjugate transformation in the multi-level quantum system and a lower bound of the best possible efficiencies attained by a probabilistic perfect conjugate transformation are obtained.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00038-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83960268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00035-6
Masashi Otani
{"title":"Muon cooling and acceleration","authors":"Masashi Otani","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00035-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00035-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Muons, which were discovered in the 1930s and first generated using an accelerator half a century after their discovery, are now widely used in several scientific fields such as particle physics and material science. Recent advancements in cooling techniques have reduced the phase-space volume of muon beams and driven the effort to realize muon acceleration, which has now been demonstrated for the first time. This paper reviews the current state of muon cooling and acceleration technologies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00035-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73751627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AAPPS BulletinPub Date : 2022-02-14DOI: 10.1007/s43673-022-00036-5
S. Sangaroon, K. Ogawa, M. Isobe, M. I. Kobayashi, Y. Fujiwara, S. Kamio, H. Yamaguchi, R. Seki, H. Nuga, E. Takada, S. Murakami, G. Q. Zhong, M. Osakabe
{"title":"Observation of significant Doppler shift in deuterium-deuterium neutron energy caused by neutral beam injection in the large helical device","authors":"S. Sangaroon, K. Ogawa, M. Isobe, M. I. Kobayashi, Y. Fujiwara, S. Kamio, H. Yamaguchi, R. Seki, H. Nuga, E. Takada, S. Murakami, G. Q. Zhong, M. Osakabe","doi":"10.1007/s43673-022-00036-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43673-022-00036-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The compact neutron emission spectrometer (CNES) having a tangential sightline was installed to observe a significant Doppler shift of the neutron energy due to the high-energy tangential neutral beam (NB) injections in the Large Helical Device (LHD) for understanding of the energy distribution of fast-ion. The CNES is based on a 1-inch diameter and 1-inch height EJ301 liquid scintillator coupled with a conventional 1-inch photomultiplier tube. The histogram of the integrated pulse signal (<i>Q</i><sub>total</sub>) during different NBs heating phases measured by the CNES shows that the edge of <i>Q</i><sub>total</sub> changes depending on NB directions. Using the simple derivative unfolding technique, the neutron energy spectra were unfolded from the measured <i>Q</i><sub>total</sub> histogram. Peaks of the neutron energy shift to 2.0 MeV, 2.42 MeV, and 3.0 MeV according to the injection direction of NBs. The obtained neutron energy is almost consistent with the virgin deuterium-deuterium neutron energy evaluated by the simple two-body kinematics considering the sightline of CNES, NB injection angle, and NB injection energy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-022-00036-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75897516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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