Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130369
Ranjani Seshadri
{"title":"Response of the quantum ground state to a parametric drive","authors":"Ranjani Seshadri","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The phenomenon of Parametric Resonance (PR) is very well studied in classical systems with one of the textbook examples being the stabilization of a Kapitza's pendulum in the inverted configuration when the suspension point is oscillated vertically. One important aspect that distinguishes between classical PR and ordinary resonance is that in the former, if the initial energy of the system is at its minimum (<span><math><mover><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>˙</mo></mrow></mover><mo>=</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></math></span>), the system does not evolve. In a quantum system, however, even when the system is in the minimum energy (ground) state, the system has non-trivial evolution under PR due to the delocalized nature of the ground-state wavefunction. Here we study the evolution of such a system which exhibits a purely quantum effect with no classical analog. In particular, we focus on the quantum mechanical analog of PR by varying with time the parabolic potential i.e. the frequency of the quantum harmonic oscillator.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130370
Shuaiqi Huang, Canxin Zhan, Yunyi Shan, Yingxian Li, Wenchuang Chen, Huiqing Dai, Keyin Cai, Jun Chen, Weilin Cai, Yuqing Su, Gengyan Chen, Feng Wu
{"title":"Ultra-sensitive hemoglobin sensing empowered by momentum-mismatch-driven quasi-bound states in the continuum","authors":"Shuaiqi Huang, Canxin Zhan, Yunyi Shan, Yingxian Li, Wenchuang Chen, Huiqing Dai, Keyin Cai, Jun Chen, Weilin Cai, Yuqing Su, Gengyan Chen, Feng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130370","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130370","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As one of the most vital proteins in blood, hemoglobin plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of diverse diseases, such as anemia and leukemia. In this paper, we leverage a momentum-mismatch-driven quasi-bound state in the continuum (quasi-BIC) in a resonant grating waveguide structure to achieve ultra-sensitive hemoglobin sensing. Empowered by the extraordinary resonant feature of the momentum-mismatch-driven quasi-BIC, the optimized resolution for hemoglobin sensing reaches the order of 10<sup>−3</sup> g/L. Besides, the maximum <em>Q</em> factor and figure of merit reach the order of 10<sup>3</sup> and 10<sup>−1</sup> L/g, respectively. Our work provides a practicable route, well within current experimental conditions, to achieving ultra-sensitive hemoglobin sensing. These results would possess applications in the diagnosis and treatment of hemoglobin-related diseases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130370"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143464294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Reinforcement learning enhancing entanglement for two-photon-driven Rabi model","authors":"Tingting Li , Yiming Zhao , Yong Wang, Yanping Liu, Yazhuang Miao, Xiaolong Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130368","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130368","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A control scheme is proposed that leverages reinforcement learning to enhance entanglement by modulating the two-photon-driven amplitude in a Rabi model. The quantum phase diagram versus the two-photon-driven amplitude and the coupling between the cavity field and the atom in the Rabi model is indicated by the energy spectrum of the hybrid system, the witness of entanglement, second order correlation, and negativity of Wigner function. From a dynamical perspective, the behavior of entanglement can reflect the phase transition and the reinforcement learning agent is employed to produce temporal sequences of control pulses to enhance the entanglement in the presence of dissipation. The entanglement can be enhanced in different parameter regimes and the control scheme exhibits robustness against dissipation. The replaceability of the controlled system and the reinforcement learning module demonstrates the generalization of this scheme. This research paves the way of positively enhancing quantum resources in non-equilibrium systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130368"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Features of alkali D2 line magnetically-induced transitions excited under π-polarized laser radiation","authors":"Armen Sargsyan , Emmanuel Klinger , Arevik Amiryan , David Sarkisyan","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130372","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130372","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The impact of the optical field polarization on the spectrum of magnetically-induced transitions, a class of transitions forbidden at zero magnetic field, is studied with a weak-probe sub-Doppler technique. The high spectral resolution of the technique combined with the simplicity in interpreting the observed spectra allows to follow the behavior of individual transitions as a function of the magnetic field amplitude. We observe only one intense transition (out of <span><math><mn>2</mn><msub><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow></msub><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span>, where <em>F</em> is the quantum number associated with the total angular momentum of the atom) in the case of <em>π</em>-polarized laser radiation (a configuration where the applied magnetic field is parallel to the electric field from the laser radiation) in the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow></msub><mo>→</mo><msub><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow></msub><mo>+</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span> manifolds of <sup>85</sup>Rb, <sup>87</sup>Rb and <sup>133</sup>Cs for fields above a few hundreds of gauss. We show that this behavior is in agreement with a model based on the diagonalization of the Zeeman Hamiltonian matrix. With the rapid development of micro-machined vapor-cell-based sensors, these results will be of use to magnetometers operating above Earth field, wide-range laser frequency stabilization systems and atomic Faraday filters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130372"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130366
Qichi Le , Zhaoyang Yin , JunChao Wu , Shutang Gao , Wenlai Li , Qiyu Liao
{"title":"Numerical study on cavitation bubble dynamics with dual-frequency excitation in magnesium alloy melt","authors":"Qichi Le , Zhaoyang Yin , JunChao Wu , Shutang Gao , Wenlai Li , Qiyu Liao","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The enhancement and control of acoustic cavitation in liquids by dual-frequency excitation have been verified. However, the effect of the acoustic parameters of the dual sources on the cavitation bubble dynamics is not clear and further studies are needed. In this work, a dual-frequency driven bubble dynamics model is developed based on the Keller-Miksis equation. The effects of equilibrium radius, driving frequency, and acoustic pressure on the dynamic evolution of a single bubble are investigated. The results indicate that the cavitation bubble collapse strength is high and sensitive to frequency variation in the low-low or low-high frequency domain. At low-low frequency coupling, dual-frequency ultrasound enhances cavitation. At low-high frequency coupling, dual-frequency ultrasound weakens the acoustic cavitation. With both driving frequencies larger than 100 kHz, the collapse strength reduces to a stable low level and no longer responds significantly to frequency variation. Increasing the acoustic pressure enhances the synergistic effect between the two distinct frequencies. The collapse strength for two equal frequencies is independent of the pressure ratio. For two distinct frequencies, increasing the pressure ratio of a lower frequency increases the collapse strength significantly. Higher collapse strength is often obtained at the cost of longer collapse time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Contributions of resonant excitation double auto-ionization to the electron-impact single-ionization cross-sections of Sn12+","authors":"F.J. Zhang , X.B. Ding , D.H. Zhang , C. Gao , J.L. Zeng , C.Z. Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Electron-impact ionization cross-sections are key parameters for determining the ionization balance in hot dense plasmas. The total cross-sections of electron-impact single ionization (EISI) for the ground configuration <span><math><mn>4</mn><msup><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mn>4</mn><msup><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup><mn>4</mn><msup><mrow><mi>d</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> and the metastable state <span><math><mn>4</mn><msup><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mn>4</mn><msup><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup><mn>4</mn><mi>d</mi><mn>4</mn><mi>f</mi></math></span> of Sn<sup>12+</sup> are theoretically investigated, which is important for optimizing extreme ultraviolet light sources. To calculate EISI cross-sections of complex atoms, a hybrid method is utilized, in which the ground and lowly excited configurations are considered by the fine-structure level approximation, and the highly excited configurations are treated by the relativistic configuration approach. The predominant contributions of the electron-impact single ionization cross-sections are attributed to direct ionization (DI) and excitation-auto-ionization (EA). The detailed resonant structures originating from resonant excitation double auto-ionization (REDA) are studied particularly. The present calculations are compared with the experimental results, which indicates that much better agreement can be achieved only when the contributions of REDA processes are taken into account.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130355
Anubhab Biswas , Chandan Maity , Sourav Pramanik
{"title":"Phase-mixing of dust ion acoustic waves in plasmas","authors":"Anubhab Biswas , Chandan Maity , Sourav Pramanik","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130355","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130355","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the spatio-temporal evolution of low frequency dust ion acoustic waves (DIAWs) in collisionless plasmas containing hot Boltzmann-distributed electrons, cold inertial ions and cold negatively charged dust grains, taking the mobility of the dust grains into account. Our study reveals that DIAWs undergo phase-mixing for arbitrarily small initial amplitudes, causing them to suffer a gradual loss in wave coherency. A perturbative analysis of the governing equations leads us to conclude that the phase-mixing of DIAWs occur solely because of the dynamics of the dust grains. An estimate of the phase-mixing time is also obtained. It is observed to be greatly influenced by the values of certain plasma parameters, such as the dust density, the temperature of the electrons and the mass of the dust grains. We expect that the results of this investigation will be of relevance in laboratory as well as astrophysical plasma environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"538 ","pages":"Article 130355"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130357
Jinpeng Wang , Qingtai Xie , Jie Hong , Heng Dai , Jing-Feng Liu , Guanghui Liu , Feng Wu , Yan Li , Yongzhu Chen , Gengyan Chen
{"title":"Strong radiative coupling between two quantum emitters with arbitrary transition wavelength, position and dipole orientation","authors":"Jinpeng Wang , Qingtai Xie , Jie Hong , Heng Dai , Jing-Feng Liu , Guanghui Liu , Feng Wu , Yan Li , Yongzhu Chen , Gengyan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130357","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Strong radiative coupling between two quantum emitters enables the reversible and coherent excitation exchange, while most photonic and plasmonic nanostructures to mediate quantum emitters are inflexible in implementation. We propose a silver line-arc nanowire to realize the strong radiative coupling between two quantum emitters with arbitrary transition wavelength, position and dipole orientation. The resonant wavelength can be remarkably tuned on demand by adjusting its length and diameter. The resonant wavelength, cavity mode, local coupling strength, transfer rate and evolution spectrum are rather robust against its bending. These findings provide significant guidance for the implementation of strong radiative coupling and facilitate quantum information processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"539 ","pages":"Article 130357"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143510204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130358
Ren-Sheng Li , Xiao-Wei Sun , Xing-Lin Gao , Gang-Gang Xu , Ting Song , Jun-Hong Tian
{"title":"Sound transmission loss overlay mechanism of plate-type acoustic metamaterials with Helmholtz resonators","authors":"Ren-Sheng Li , Xiao-Wei Sun , Xing-Lin Gao , Gang-Gang Xu , Ting Song , Jun-Hong Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130358","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Introducing the acoustic resonator can generate an attenuation peak without degradation of the sound insulation. To reveal the mechanism of the sound transmission loss overlay, a plate-type acoustic metamaterial with Helmholtz resonators as attached masses is presented. The underlying physics is analyzed from the perspective of effective mass derived by a semi-analytical method. It is attributed to the multiplicative relationship of the effective mass. By tuning the Helmholtz resonance frequency to the vicinity of the resonance, numerical and experimental results show that an additional peak can appear at the transmission loss dip generated by the attached mass.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"538 ","pages":"Article 130358"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}
Physics Letters APub Date : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130349
Yunzhong Lei, Jiu Hui Wu, Tengyue Zheng, Shaokun Yang
{"title":"Enhancement and concealment of broadband acoustic transmission through the coupling of monopole resonances in meta-structures","authors":"Yunzhong Lei, Jiu Hui Wu, Tengyue Zheng, Shaokun Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Broadband acoustic transmission enhancement is crucial in practical applications. Here, we propose a meta-structure composed of a central cavity, a middle cavity, eight zigzag channels and eight straight channels, which can improve the acoustic emission and reception efficiency in the broadband range by coupling the first and second monopole resonances, respectively. An acoustic transmission system is constructed by placing the meta-structures at the emitting and receiving end. After parameter optimization, simulation and experiments show that the system achieves an efficiently enhanced broadband acoustic transmission through the cascade process of broadband emission and reception enhancement with a maximum sound pressure level (SPL) gain of 36.5 dB and a -3 dB bandwidth of 797Hz-1187Hz. Furthermore, while maintaining the same SPL at the receiving end, the system can reduce the SPL in other areas by 20 dB to achieve acoustic concealed transmission. The proposed system shows significant potential in acoustic communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20172,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters A","volume":"538 ","pages":"Article 130349"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}