Claudio Mendoza, Timothy R. Kallman, Ralf Ballhausen, Anna Ogorzałek, Randall Dannen, Javier A. García
{"title":"Xstar atomic database: the PyXstar package","authors":"Claudio Mendoza, Timothy R. Kallman, Ralf Ballhausen, Anna Ogorzałek, Randall Dannen, Javier A. García","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00879-7","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00879-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present a progress report on the development of <span>PyXstar</span>, a Python package to manage the data (input, output, intermediate, atomic database, and model-grids) associated with the <span>xstar</span> code for treating photoionized and collisionally ionized plasmas. The <span>PyXstar</span> modular structure and database retrieval scheme are described, and its functionality is illustrated with Python functions and classes for performing database searches. We briefly compare <span>PyXstar</span> with two other Python spectrum modeling tools: <span>PyNeb</span> and <span>PyAtomDB</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00879-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Controlled-joint remote implementation of operators and its possible generalization","authors":"Satish Kumar, Nguyen Ba An, Anirban Pathak","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00883-x","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00883-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The existing notion of the shared entangled state-assisted remote preparation of unitary operator (equivalently the existing notion of quantum remote control) using local operation and classical communication is generalized to a scenario where under the control of a supervisor two users can jointly implement arbitrary unitaries (one unknown unitary operation by each or equivalently a single unitary decomposed into two unitaries of the same dimension and given to two users) on an unknown quantum state available with a geographically separated user. It is explicitly shown that the task can be performed using a four-qubit hyperentangled state, which is entangled simultaneously in both spatial and polarization degrees of freedom of photons. The proposed protocol which can be viewed as primitive for distributed photonic quantum computing is further generalized to the case that drops the restrictions on the number of controllers and the number of parties performing unitaries and allows both the numbers to be arbitrary. It is also shown that all the existing variants of quantum remote control schemes can be obtained as special cases of the present scheme.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Li-Tuo Shen, Xuan-Tong Pei, Zhi-Cheng Shi, Zhen-Biao Yang
{"title":"Quantum phase transition and entanglement entropy in the Dicke model with a squeezed light","authors":"Li-Tuo Shen, Xuan-Tong Pei, Zhi-Cheng Shi, Zhen-Biao Yang","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00881-z","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00881-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Superradiant phase transition and entanglement entropy in the Dicke model with a squeezed light are investigated. We find a special rotation coordinate system mapping the original Hamiltonian into an effective dual-oscillator Hamiltonian in the thermodynamic limit. We analytically derive the eigenenergy and eigenstate of the ground state. The ground state is demonstrated to undergo superradiant phase transition at a nonlinear critical boundary collectively induced by the squeezed driving and qubit-field coupling. This phase boundary requires neither large qubit-field detuning nor strong squeezed driving. An exact expression of the ground-state entropy is obtained. We demonstrate that the squeezed light enhances the qubit-field entanglement entropy linearly.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Study of multi-solitons, breather structures in dusty plasma with generalized polarization force","authors":"Snehalata Nasipuri, Prasanta Chatterjee, Uday Narayan Ghosh","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00874-y","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00874-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A theoretical inquiry delves into the presence of multiple solitons and breather configurations within a nonuniform, inhomogeneous, unmagnetized dusty plasma characterized by universally polarized force. This system encompasses ions, electrons, positively and negatively charged dust particles, distributed in accordance with a superthermal distribution. Employing the reductive perturbation technique (RPT), the Gardner equation (GE) is derived from the fundamental hydrodynamical model equations. The multi-solitons of the GE are synthesized utilizing the Hirota bilinear method (HBM), which further facilitates the exploration of breather solutions via the appropriate selection of complex wave numbers. The system exhibits both compressive and rarefactive multi-solitons. Moreover, the behavior of breather structures varies depending on associated plasma parameters; occasionally, they overlap, while at other times, they remain entirely disjoint. This research holds relevance for investigating the propagation of finite-amplitude waves in natural phenomena such as the atmosphere, oceans, optic fibers, and signal processing.\u0000</p><p>Figures display the interaction between two-solitons (a), and breather structures (b), of the Gardner equation in dusty plasma with polarized force for the parameter values <span>(k_i = 5, k_e = 2.5, mu _i = 0.7, mu _e = 0.3, mu = 10, rho = 1.01, sigma _i = 0.1, R = 0.5, Z = 0.01)</span>, respectively. The manuscript presents some graphs to illustrate the propagation and interaction between two-soliton solutions, as well as the propagation of various breather structures in dusty plasma under polarized force. We explore the presented wave solutions using the symbolic computation software Mathematica. The diversity in two-solitons and breather structures depends on the plasma parameter and the choice of wave number, real or complex. This work analyzes, through graphical representation, how the plasma system affects the above nonlinear structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Full-quantum calculations of the pressure broadening (D_{1}) and ( D_{2}) lines of Mg(^{+}) magnesium ion in a gas of ground-state He helium atoms","authors":"Lamisse Kechradi, Louardi Yandjah, Kamel Alioua, Mohamed Tahar Bouazza","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00886-8","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00886-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this theoretical investigation, we have performed comprehensive quantum calculations to explore the pressure broadening effects on the <span>(D_{1}left( 3,stext { }^{2}S_{1/2}-3ptext { }^{2}P_{1/2}right) )</span> and <span>(D_{2}left( 3,s text { }^{2}S_{1/2}-3ptext { }^{2}P_{3/2}right) )</span> lines of the Mg<span>( ^{+})</span> magnesium ion when surrounded by ground-state He helium atoms. Our objective is to delineate the profiles of these pressure-broadened resonance lines and scrutinize their behavior in response to binary collisions between Mg<span>(^{+})</span> ions and He atoms. To accomplish this goal, we developed precise potential energy curves for the ground <span>(X ^{2}Sigma _{1/2}^{+})</span> and the excited <span>(A^{2}Pi _{1/2},A^{2}Pi _{3/2})</span> and <i>B</i> <span>(^{2}Sigma _{1/2}^{+})</span>, along with the associated transition dipole moments, using data derived from advanced ab initio methodologies such as SA-CASSCF, MRCI, and SO coupling, with Davidson and BSSE corrections. Our investigation encompasses a temperature range from 4000 to <span>(12000 ,textrm{K})</span> and wavelengths spanning from 200 to <span>(450,textrm{nm})</span>. The theoretical profiles primarily exhibit dominant <i>free-free </i> transitions. Notably, around the <span>(235,textrm{nm})</span> wavelength region, a satellite peak appears in the blue wing, attributed to the <i>B</i> <span>(^{2}Sigma _{1/2}^{+}longleftarrow X ^{2}Sigma _{1/2}^{+})</span> transitions. We have confirmed agreement between our theoretical findings and prior research.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Driving voltage frequency and electrode material effects on electromagnetic radiation of the surface dielectric barrier discharge in the air","authors":"Stanislav Pekárek","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00887-7","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00887-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The electrical discharges are, among others, accompanied by the emission of electromagnetic waves of various frequencies. We studied this emission for the surface dielectric barrier discharge in the air. We used the discharge with one strip-driven electrode and a sinusoidal driving voltage of frequencies 5 and 10 kHz. From the spectra of emitted waves in the frequency band up to 3 GHz, we found that this type of discharge emits the radiation of frequencies below 500 MHz. In this frequency band, we focused on the effect of the driving voltage frequency and driven electrode material on the spectra of these waves. It was found that emitted radiation is distributed in several packages of frequencies, and an increase in the driving voltage frequency or voltage increases the power level of emitted radiation. Compared with the radiation spectrum of the discharge with an aluminium-driven electrode in the spectrum of the discharge with the copper-driven electrode, new peaks of various power levels and the shift of certain radiation frequencies to lower values appear. To understand the underlying mechanism of the discharge electromagnetic waves emission, we focused on the correlation between the electric component of emitted EMWs and the discharge electrical parameters as a function of time and discharge voltage.</p><h3>Graphical abstract</h3><div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></figure></div></div>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00887-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Zeeman spectroscopy of cadmium lines","authors":"S. Rathi, Ł. M. Sobolewski, L. Sharma, J. Kwela","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00878-8","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00878-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A Fabry–Perot interferometry was used to measure with a precision of about <span>(10^{-4})</span> the Landé factor values of the levels issued from the 5<i>s</i>5<i>p</i>, 5<i>s</i>6<i>d</i>, 5<i>s</i>6<i>s</i> and 5<i>s</i>7<i>p</i> configurations of cadmium. Fully relativistic MCDHF calculations taking into account Breit and QED effects were performed to interpret the results of the experiment performed on the cadmium isotope 114. In addition to the four experimental Landé <span>(g_J)</span> values, new theoretical results for 12 levels are reported for the first time.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00878-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141532734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Influence of bias voltage rise time, pressure and magnetic field on the boundary layer time evolution of a thermal collisional magnetized plasma in plasma immersion ion implantation","authors":"Narges Shahandeh Germi, Kiomars Yasserian, Mansour Khoram","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00884-w","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00884-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The formation and temporal evolution of the plasma boundary layer in plasma immersion ion implantation is investigated in the presence of a magnetic field. It is assumed that the ions are thermalized. When a high-voltage pulse with a ramp function is applied to a target immersed in plasma, a positive space charge is formed and expanded around it. The rise time of the ramp function of the pulse voltage influences the formation and expansion of the plasma boundary layer near the target. The time evolution of the ion current density, ion kinetic energy and ion incident angle as well as the time evolution of the positive space charge and the boundary layer thickness are studied as a functions of the magnetic field, neutral gas pressure and rise time of the ramp function. Our findings show that the time dependency of the variables of the plasma boundary layer is more pronounced for a longer rise time.</p><h3>Graphical Abstract</h3><div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div><div><p>The governing equations, the simulation zone and temporal behavior of the incident angle of the ion for different magnetization parameters, neutral gas pressure and rise time</p></div></div></figure></div></div>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141523770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"In-situ deposition of silver nanoparticles onto glass by non-thermal plasma jet","authors":"Marzieh Abdollahi Far, Mahdi Shariat, Eshrat Sadeghzadeh Lari, Mohammad Mahdi Hassani Matin","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00877-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00877-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we employed an atmospheric-pressure non-thermal plasma jet that used silver nitrate solution as the precursor which is injected, in an aerosol state, into the plasma jet to create silver nanoparticles with the desired distribution on the glass substrate. The crystal structure and morphology of the Ag nanoparticles printed on the glass substrate were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), the field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), and the atomic force microscope (AFM). The XRD patterns confirm Ag nanostructure deposition on the glass. FESEM results show that Ag nanoparticles’ are almost spherical in shape and by increasing the applied voltages, the Ag nanoparticles' size and density increases, and AFM images confirm the results of FESEM images. Rhodamine B with various concentrations was employed to determine the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) performance of Ag nanoparticles printed on the glass. It shows high sensitivity for Ag layers created by plasma to a threshold that even for the lower concentrations of 10<sup>−10</sup>M, Rhodamine B is still detectable. There was the optimum SERS effect at a 7 kV voltage. Also, the plasma-printed Ag layers are able to detect methylene blue, usually used as a fungicide in fish ponds and aquariums, even in low concentrations of 10<sup>−9</sup>M. The residual sulfur dioxide (SO<sub>2</sub>) of raisins was detected using a plasma-printed silver layer. This shows the application of this plasma-printed silver layer for residual SO<sub>2</sub> detection in the food industry.</p><h3>Graphical abstract</h3><div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></figure></div></div>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141523771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Supercontinuum generation of Airy pulses in a silicon-on-insulator optical waveguide including third-harmonic generation and negative-frequency Kerr terms","authors":"Souang Kemedane Boukar, Lucien Mandeng Mandeng, Crépin Heuteu, Clément Tchawoua","doi":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00885-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00885-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report in this work the numerical study of the supercontinuum phenomenon raised from Airy pulses within a silicon-on-insulator waveguide including loss effects, third-harmonic generation (THG) and negative-frequency Kerr (NFK) terms. This study is conducted through a modeling based on the full unidirectional pulse propagation equation model which allows to assume the existence of the NFK term in the Kerr nonlinearity with a spectral filtering. The various effects of the linear loss, the free-carrier absorption/ free-carrier dispersion, the two-photon absorption, the THG, the NFK, the peak power, the pulse duration and the pulse shape are explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":789,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal D","volume":"78 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141523774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}