Hui-ran Yang, Meng-ting Qi, Xu-peng Li, Ze Xue, Chen-hao Lu, Jia-wei Cheng, Dong-dong Han, Lu Li
{"title":"Optical Nonlinearity of Violet Phosphorus and Applications in Fiber Laser","authors":"Hui-ran Yang, Meng-ting Qi, Xu-peng Li, Ze Xue, Chen-hao Lu, Jia-wei Cheng, Dong-dong Han, Lu Li","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/41/1/014202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/41/1/014202","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Violet phosphorus (VP) has attracted much attention due to its unique photoelectronic properties as a new two-dimensional nanomaterial, but its potential application in ultrafast photonics remains largely unexplored. In this paper, a D-shaped fiber is coated with VP to create a saturable absorber (SA), and its modulation depth is 3.68%. Subsequently, the SA is inserted into fiber laser, enabling successful generation of a dark soliton and bright-dark soliton pair through adjustment of the polarization state within the cavity. Through further study, mode-locked pulses are achieved and they are proved the existence of polarization-locked vector solitons. The results indicate that violet phosphorus can be used as polarization-independent saturable absorber.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139003651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-time observation of the instantaneous ac Stark shift of vacuum using a zeptosecond laser pulse","authors":"Dandan Su, Miao Jiang","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/41/1/014201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/41/1/014201","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Based on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation, we propose a method to real-timely observe the ac Stark shift of vacuum driven by an ultraintense laser field. By overlapping the ultraintense pump pulse with another zeptosecond probe pulse whose photon energy is smaller than 2mc\u0000 2, the electron-positron pair creation can be controlled by tuning the time delay between the pump and probe pulses. Since the pair creation rate depends sensitively on the instantaneous vacuum potential, one can reconstruct the ac Stark shift of the vacuum potential according to the time delay-dependent pair creation rate.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"48 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139005586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheng Zhang, Haohao Sheng, Zhi-Da Song, Chenhao Liang, Yi Jiang, Song Sun, Quansheng Wu, Hongming Weng, Zhongyuan Fang, Xi Dai, Zhijun Wang
{"title":"VASP2KP: $ kcdot p $ models and Landé $g$-factors from $ab-initio$ calculations","authors":"Sheng Zhang, Haohao Sheng, Zhi-Da Song, Chenhao Liang, Yi Jiang, Song Sun, Quansheng Wu, Hongming Weng, Zhongyuan Fang, Xi Dai, Zhijun Wang","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/127101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/127101","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The $kcdot p$ method is significant in condensed matter physics for the compact and analytical Hamiltonian.In the presence of magnetic field, it is described by effective Zeeman's coupling Hamiltonian with Landé $g$-factors. Here, we develop an $pen-source$ package VASP2KP (including two parts: vasp2mat and mat2kp) to compute $kcdot p$ parameters and Landé $g$-factors directly from the wavefunctions provided by the density functional theory (DFT) as implemented in Vienna $ab initio$ Simulation Package (VASP). First, we develop a VASP patch vasp2mat to compute matrix representations of the generalized momentum operator $boldsymbol{hat{pi}}=boldsymbol{hat{p}}+frac{1}{2mc^2}left(boldsymbol{hat{s}}timesnabla V(boldsymbol{r})right) $, spin operator $boldsymbol{hat{s}}$, time reversal operator $hat{T}$ and crystalline symmetry operators $hat{R}$ on the DFT wavefunctions. Second, we develop a python code mat2kp to obtain the unitary transformation $U$ that rotates the degenerate DFT basis towards the standard basis, and then automatically compute the $kcdot p$ parameters and $g$-factors. The theory and the methodology behind VASP2KP are described in detail. The matrix elements of the operators are derived comprehensively and computed correctly within the Projector Augmented Wave method. We apply this package to some materials, $e.g$.Bi$_2$Se$_3$, Na$_3$Bi, Te, InAs and 1H-TMD monolayers. The obtained effective model's dispersions are in good agreement with the DFT data around the specific wave vector, and the $g$-factors are consistent with experimental data. The VASP2KP package is available at https://github.com/zjwang11/VASP2KP.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"58 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Age on Speech Perception in Noise Abilities Across Different Stimulus.","authors":"Banumathi, Supriya Mathew, Sandeep Kumar, Chandni Jain","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04084-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04084-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Various factors influence speech perception in noise (SPIN): age, hearing loss, cognition, background noise, stimulus redundancy, type of stimulus used, and signal-to-noise ratio. The effect of age on SPIN with different stimuli is yet to be validated in the literature. This study aims to study the effect of age on SPIN results across different stimuli. The study is a cross-sectional study with ninety participants with normal hearing ability. All participants in the study were equally divided into three groups: the children's group aged 8 to 12 years, the adult group aged 18 to 30, and the older adult group aged 55 to 72 years. Speech perception in the background of Kannada speech babble was assessed across three stimuli: monosyllables (CV), phonemically balanced Kannada words, and Kannada sentences. The stimulus was presented at 60 dBSPL binaurally through a calibrated headphone at 0 dB SNR. The result indicated a significant main effect of age on SPIN across syllables, words, and sentences. Further, Mann-Whitney test results revealed a statistically significant difference between the SPIN scores of children and adults for syllables, words, and sentences. Also, a statistical difference was noted in SPIN scores between adults and older adults for syllables, words, and sentences. However, statistical differences between children and older adults were seen only for syllables. The trend showed that the SPIN scores for syllables, words, and sentences improve from childhood to adulthood, while scores deteriorate from the adult to older adult group. A similar trend was seen for all three stimulus types. However, the reduction in the SPIN score using syllables in the older adult group was more noticeable than words and sentences. It can be concluded that there is an effect of age on SPIN abilities across different stimuli. It highlights the importance of age-appropriate SPIN normative for various stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"32 1","pages":"3718-3724"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10646145/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82534060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Improvement of a Direct Carbon Fuel Cell through an Irreversible Vacuum Thermionic Generator","authors":"Yuan Wang, Shanhe Su","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/128201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/128201","url":null,"abstract":"A novel hybrid system consisting of a direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC), a thermionic generator (TIG), and a regenerator is developed to recover the exhaust heat from the fuel cell. Expressions for the power output and efficiency of subsystems and the hybrid system are derived. Based on the energy balance equation, the area matching problem between the DCFC and the TIG is discussed and solved. By considering the main irreversibilities, the influences of the DCFC’s current density and the TIG’s voltage on the performance of the hybrid system are revealed. The maximum power output density and the corresponding efficiency of the hybrid system are, respectively, equal to 379 W/m<sup>2</sup> and 36%. To enhance the maximum power density of the single DCFC, the optimal regions of the main parameters are determined.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiao-Chuan Meng, Lu Li, Nai-Zhang Sun, Ze Xue, Qi Liu, Han Ye, Wen-Jun Liu
{"title":"Ultrafast Fiber Laser Based on Tungsten Sulphoselenide Materials","authors":"Xiao-Chuan Meng, Lu Li, Nai-Zhang Sun, Ze Xue, Qi Liu, Han Ye, Wen-Jun Liu","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/124202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/124202","url":null,"abstract":"Tungsten sulphoselenide (WSSe) alloys, belonging to the transition metal dichalcogenide family, have attracted significant interest in the area of optoelectronics because of their unique optical and electronic properties. However, there has been a dearth of sufficient research on the saturable absorption features and ultrafast lasers applications. Herein, we fabricated a WSSe-microfiber saturable absorber (SA) based on WSSe nanosheets prepared by liquid exfoliation technique. The SA provided a saturation intensity of a modulation depth of 27.95% and a nonsaturable loss of 21.34%. To investigate the potential applications of WSSe in ultrafast photonics, the prepared WSSe-microfiber was incorporated into an Er-doped fiber laser ring cavity. The results demonstrated that the WSSe-based SA successfully generated mode-locking laser pulses with a remarkably short pulse width of 231 fs. Furthermore, the output power of this ultrafast fiber laser reached an impressive value of 15.68 mW. These findings provide valuable views into the unique features of WSSe alloys in the areas of ultrafast optics and develop recipes for SA in ultrafast fiber lasers.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Menglin Li, M. A. Shakoori, Ruipeng Wang, Haipeng Li
{"title":"Phonon thermal transport at the interfaces of graphene/vertically aligned carbon nanotubes /hexagonal boron nitride sandwich heterostructure","authors":"Menglin Li, M. A. Shakoori, Ruipeng Wang, Haipeng Li","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/41/1/016302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/41/1/016302","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, molecular dynamics simulation is used to calculate the interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) of the graphene/carbon nanotubes/hexagonal boron nitride (Gr/CNTs/hBN) sandwich heterostructure, of which vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) arrays is covalently bonded to graphene and hexagonal boron nitride layers. We found that the ITR of the Gr/VACNT/hBN sandwich heterostructure is 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than the ITR of the Gr/hBN Van der Waals heterostructure with the same plane size. It is observed that the covalent bonding effectively enhances the phonon coupling between Gr and hBN layers, resulting in an increase in the overlap factor of phonon density of state between Gr and hBN, thus reducing the ITR of Gr and hBN. In addition, the chirality, size (diameter and length) and packing density of sandwich-layer VACNT have an important influence on the ITR of the heterostructure. Under the same diameter and length of CNT, the ITR of the sandwich heterostructure with armchair-shaped VACNT is higher than that of the sandwich heterostructure with zigzag-shaped VACNT, due to the different chemical bonding of chiral CNT with Gr and hBN. When the armchairshaped CNT diameter increases or the length decreases, the ITR of the sandwich heterostructure tends to decrease. Moreover, the increase in the packing density of VACNT has also led to a continuous decrease in the ITR of the sandwich heterostructure, attributed to the extremely high intrinsic thermal conductivity of CNT and the increase of out-ofplane heat transfer channels. This work will help to understand the mechanism for ITR for multi-layer vertical heterostructures, and provide theoretical guidance for a new strategy to regulate the inter-layer thermal resistance of heterostructures by optimizing the design of sandwich layer thermal interface materials.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"33 S123","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138623219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ao Zhang, Ke Deng, Jieming Sheng, Pengfei Liu, Shiv Kumar, Kenya Shimada, Zhicheng Jiang, Zhengtai Liu, Dawei Shen, Jiayu Li, Jun Ren, Le Wang, Liang Zhou, Yoshihisa Ishikawa, Takashi Ohhara, Qiang Zhang, Garry McIntyre, Dehong Yu, Enke Liu, Liusuo Wu, Chaoyu Chen, Qihang Liu
{"title":"Chiral Dirac Fermion in a Collinear Antiferromagnet","authors":"Ao Zhang, Ke Deng, Jieming Sheng, Pengfei Liu, Shiv Kumar, Kenya Shimada, Zhicheng Jiang, Zhengtai Liu, Dawei Shen, Jiayu Li, Jun Ren, Le Wang, Liang Zhou, Yoshihisa Ishikawa, Takashi Ohhara, Qiang Zhang, Garry McIntyre, Dehong Yu, Enke Liu, Liusuo Wu, Chaoyu Chen, Qihang Liu","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/126101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/126101","url":null,"abstract":"In a Dirac semimetal, the massless Dirac fermion has zero chirality, leading to surface states connected adiabatically to a topologically trivial surface state as well as vanishing anomalous Hall effect. Recently, it is predicted that in the nonrelativistic limit of certain collinear antiferromagnets, there exists a type of chiral “Dirac-like” fermion, whose dispersion manifests four-fold degenerate crossing points formed by spin-degenerate linear bands, with topologically protected Fermi arcs. Such an unconventional chiral fermion, protected by a hidden <italic toggle=\"yes\">SU</italic>(2) symmetry in the hierarchy of an enhanced crystallographic group, namely spin space group, is not experimentally verified yet. Here, by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements, we reveal the surface origin of the electron pocket at the Fermi surface in collinear antiferromagnet CoNb<sub>3</sub>S<sub>6</sub>. Combining with neutron diffraction and first-principles calculations, we suggest a multidomain collinear antiferromagnetic configuration, rendering the the existence of the Fermi-arc surface states induced by chiral Dirac-like fermions. Our work provides spectral evidence of the chiral Dirac-like fermion caused by particular spin symmetry in CoNb<sub>3</sub>S<sub>6</sub>, paving an avenue for exploring new emergent phenomena in antiferromagnets with unconventional quasiparticle excitations.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation Prediction of Heat Transport with Machine Learning in Tokamak Plasmas","authors":"Hui Li, Yan-Lin Fu, Ji-Quan Li, Zheng-Xiong Wang","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/125201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/125201","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning opens up new possibilities for research of plasma confinement. Specifically, models constructed using machine learning algorithms may effectively simplify the simulation process. Previous first-principles simulations could provide physics-based transport information, but not fast enough for real-time applications or plasma control. To address this issue, this study proposes SExFC, a surrogate model of the Gyro-Landau Extended Fluid Code (ExFC). As an extended version of our previous model ExFC-NN, SExFC can capture more features of transport driven by the ion temperature gradient mode and trapped electron mode, using an extended database initially generated with ExFC simulations. In addition to predicting the dominant instability, radially averaged fluxes and radial profiles of fluxes, the well-trained SExFC may also be suitable for physics-based rapid predictions that can be considered in real-time plasma control systems in the future.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Pseudo Peakons in the b-Family Fifth-Order Camassa–Holm Model","authors":"Dinghao Zhu, Xiaodong Zhu","doi":"10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/120202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/40/12/120202","url":null,"abstract":"The <italic toggle=\"yes\">b</italic>-family fifth-order Camassa–Holm model is a nontrivial extension of the celebrated Camassa–Holm model. This work investigates single-pseudo and multi-pseudo peakon solutions of this model via analytical calculations and numerical simulations. Some intriguing phenomena of multi-pseudo peakon which do not appear in the classical Camassa–Holm model interactions are observed, such as two-pseudo peakon collapses, three-pseudo peakon resonance, and multi-pseudo peakon inelastic collisions. The present work will inspire further studies on the higher-dimensional integrable Camassa–Holm systems which may have high value in investigating the related higher-dimensional physical problems.","PeriodicalId":10344,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Physics Letters","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139093812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}