{"title":"Pulsar scintillation reveals the Gum Nebula as a scattering screen","authors":"Dan Stinebring","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2566-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2566-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Modulation of the octahedral structure and potential superconductivity of La3Ni2O7 through strain engineering","authors":"Zihao Huo, Zhihui Luo, Peng Zhang, Aiqin Yang, Zhengtao Liu, Xiangru Tao, Zihan Zhang, Shumin Guo, Qiwen Jiang, Wenxuan Chen, Dao-Xin Yao, Defang Duan, Tian Cui","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2583-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2583-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent transport measurements of La<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> uncovered a “right-triangle” shape of the superconducting dome in the pressure-temperature (P-T) phase diagram. Motivated by this, we perform theoretical first-principles studies of La<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> with the pressure ranging from 0 to 100 GPa. Notably, we reveal a pressure dependence of the <span>(text{Ni-}d_{,z^{2}})</span> electron density at the Fermi energy (<span>(n_{z}^{E_{rm{F}}})</span>) that highly coincides with such shape. On this basis, we further explore the electronic structure under uniaxial stress. By tracking the stress response of <span>(n_{z}^{E_{rm{F}}})</span>, we propose that superconductivity can be achieved by applying only ⋃2 GPa of compression along the <i>c</i> axis. The idea is further exemplified from the perspectives of lattice distortion, band structure, Fermi surface and superconducting phase coherence. We also discuss the possible charge modulation under the stress and provide an insight into the relation between <span>(n_{z}^{E_{rm{F}}})</span> and the superconducting <i>T</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> in La<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> system. Our study provides new routes to the search of high-<i>T</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> superconductors in future experiments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Investigations of liquid-liquid transitions in metallic melts by fast differential scanning calorimetry","authors":"Qi Cheng, Yonghao Sun, Weihua Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2542-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2542-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Liquid-liquid transition in metallic melts is an intriguing phenomenon often confused with liquid-liquid separation, oxidation or precipitation. Here, we employ a state-of-the-art ultrafast chip-based differential scanning calorimeter to investigate the thermal behavior of six metallic melts, ranging from unary to quinary systems, at temperatures above their liquidus. Calorimetric signals of liquid-liquid transition vary across systems: Sn melts showed no direct endothermic or exothermic events, though liquid-liquid transition influenced solidification and melting temperatures, while Yb-Zn melts exhibited an exothermic peak during cooling, indicating liquid-liquid transition. Thermal signals in other systems including Li, Pd-Ni-P, Yb-Mg-Zn-Cu and Au-Ag-Pd-Cu-Si, are primarily driven by compositional changes. Our <i>in-situ</i> analysis provides new insights into the structural and compositional evolution of metallic melts, offering significant implications for the design and processing of novel materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142963008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Kai Wu, Yang Tan, Jingjing Liu, Bin Liang, Jianchun Cheng
{"title":"Phase saddle point transformation-enabled mode-adaptive detection of acoustic orbital angular momentum with high efficiency and low crosstalk","authors":"Kai Wu, Yang Tan, Jingjing Liu, Bin Liang, Jianchun Cheng","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2551-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2551-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Acoustic orbital angular momentum (OAM) provides an infinite set of orthogonal bases in Hilbert space and significantly boosts the link capacity and data transmission rate. High-capacity and low-crosstalk OAM detection within compact physical space is highly desired to effectively harness this spatial dimension of sound wave, but the existing mechanisms generally either operate only for finite OAMs with predetermined mode orders or rely on complicated active devices. Here, we propose a phase saddle point (PSP) transformation mechanism for distinguishing and demultiplexing acoustic OAM modes in a passive, mode-adaptive, high-efficiency, and high-accuracy paradigm. The phase mask characterized by a PSP in the specific area is created through the single-pass log-polar transformation without prior information of incident modes, whose interaction with incident vortex beams of different OAM modes will yield the translation of the stationary phase point and thereby generate the corresponding focused line spots at distinct lateral positions. We theoretically elucidate the mode-adaptive response of PSP transformation by deriving the quantitative relationship between the OAM order and line spot offset. This mode adaptability enables our mechanism to detect OAM of arbitrary mode orders and mode numbers with the inter-mode crosstalk being effectively suppressed, beyond attainable with the existing methods. The effectiveness of our proposed mechanism is validated by demonstrating several distinct examples of single-mode OAM sorting and multi-mode synthesized vortex beam demultiplexing. We anticipate this mode-adaptive methodology, designed for compact dimensions and featuring with low crosstalk and uniform efficiency, will find important applications in OAM information processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142940991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Largely tunable infrared luminescence from GaAsSb nanowires grown on Si substrate","authors":"Guoqiang Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2569-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2569-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142940985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Establishing the vector-meson-exchange dominance for the short range interactions of light quarks","authors":"Bing-Song Zou","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2561-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2561-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Model-based frequency optimization for frequency-tunable superconducting processors","authors":"Qiujiang Guo","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2548-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2548-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Min Liu, Zheng Wang, Yijun Ding, Senkuan Meng, Lina Hu
{"title":"Viscosity in metallic supercooled liquids obtained by fast scanning calorimetry and its application to thermoplastic forming","authors":"Min Liu, Zheng Wang, Yijun Ding, Senkuan Meng, Lina Hu","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2522-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2522-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Viscosity is a crucial dynamic property for alloy liquids. For alloy liquids with glass-forming ability, their viscosity undergoes a change of more than ten orders of magnitude upon cooling, and eventually, a transition from liquid to glassy state occurs when viscosity reaches 10<sup>12</sup> Pa s. Nevertheless, the viscosity measurement in the supercooled liquid region (SLR) has been an experimental challenge. Here, in this work, by combining conventional and fast scanning calorimeters, the accurate viscosity of supercooled liquids for Au<sub>49</sub>Ag<sub>5.5</sub>Pd<sub>2.3</sub>Cu<sub>26.9</sub>Si<sub>16.3</sub> and Zr<sub>44</sub>Ti<sub>11</sub>Cu<sub>10</sub>Ni<sub>10</sub>Be<sub>25</sub> metallic glasses (MGs) was measured over a wide viscosity range of 10<sup>6</sup>–10<sup>12</sup> Pa s. Moreover, the viscosity range of 10<sup>6</sup>–10<sup>8</sup> Pa s is generally selected for thermoplastic forming (TPF), which takes advantage of the dramatic softening that MGs exhibit after being heated into the SLR. We further gave the TPF process window covering the range of processing temperature and time by utilizing the obtained viscosity data and time-temperature-transformation curves. The optimal time window avoiding property degradation was also determined, based on that there was no marked effect on the mechanical properties of MGs when crystallinity was below ∼5%. Our findings not only provide the accurate viscosity data in the SLR, but also determine the optimal process parameters for the TPF process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142912889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Spatial-transformation-based wave manipulations in electromagnetics and acoustics: From theory to applications","authors":"Zheng Zhang, Qian Zhu, Chao Song, Weixiang Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s11433-024-2537-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-024-2537-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transformation optics (TO) or transformation acoustics (TA) theory provides an elegant framework for designing intricate wave-material interaction devices. Combining TO or TA with emerging metamaterial technology, the propagating waves inside metamaterials can be guided at will by mapping a preset spatial pattern onto a specific constituent parameter distribution, thus achieving desired functionalities. In this review, we mainly focus on recent progress in TO and TA, in terms of basic theory and representative applications. Firstly, we introduce the fundamental principles of TO and TA. Subsequently, we present some related spatial-transformation-based applications in electromagnetics, such as cloaks, beam manipulation devices and applications in nonlinear responses, and some typical applications in acoustics, namely underwater ultrasound invisibility, sound imaging lenses and parity-time symmetry. Furthermore, we discuss transformation-based devices for acoustic-electromagnetic-joint control. Finally, we summarize current spatial-transformation-based wave modulations and outline some future opportunities in this research field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"68 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142913027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}