Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces ...
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Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces with strong chiral responses to the incident light have been reported, these responses are typically limited to a narrow range of incident angles. In this study, we demonstrate a nonlocal metasurface that showcases strong chirality, characterized by circular dichroism (∼0.6), over a wide range of incident angles ±5°. Its quality factor, circular dichroism and resonant frequency can be optimized by design. These findings pave the way to further advance the development of valley-selective optical cavities and augmented reality applications.
To understand typical features that could be imaged using ultrasonography (USG) in the training phases of medical students or practitioners, a lung phantom is required. The research team suggests using a gelatine-base...
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We investigate competition and cooperation of magnetic frustration and the Kondo effect in the J1-J2 Kondo lattice model on the square lattice at zero temperature. In this model, the frustrated interactions J1,J2 betw...
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The novel burnup methodology, bRAPID, of the RAPID code system has been applied to the TRIGA Mark II research reactor at the "Jozef Stefan" Institute. This paper presents the first step in our goal for on-li...
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One of the long-standing problems in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is that the dynamical models based on viscous hydrodynamics fail to describe the experimental elliptic flow v2 and the triangular flow...
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A novel method has been developed to evaluate the water diffusion dynamics in gelatin-based gels, based on transient terahertz time-domain spectroscopy measurements. Such gels are widely used models for human skin. ...
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The ability for the brain to discriminate among visual stimuli is constrained by their retinal representations. Previous studies of visual discriminability have been limited to either low-dimensional artificial stimul...
The ability for the brain to discriminate among visual stimuli is constrained by their retinal representations. Previous studies of visual discriminability have been limited to either low-dimensional artificial stimuli or pure theoretical considerations without a realistic encoding model. Here we propose a novel framework for understanding stimulus discriminability achieved by retinal representations of naturalistic stimuli with the method of information geometry. To model the joint probability distribution of neural responses conditioned on the stimulus, we created a stochastic encoding model of a population of salamander retinal ganglion cells based on a three-layer convolutional neural network model. This model not only accurately captured the mean response to natural scenes but also a variety of second-order statistics. With the model and the proposed theory, we computed the Fisher information metric over stimuli to study the most discriminable stimulus directions. We found that the most discriminable stimulus varied substantially across stimuli, allowing an examination of the relationship between the most discriminable stimulus and the current stimulus. By examining responses generated by the most discriminable stimuli we further found that the most discriminative response mode is often aligned with the most stochastic mode. This finding carries the important implication that under natural scenes, retinal noise correlations are information-limiting rather than increasing information transmission as has been previously speculated. We additionally observed that sensitivity saturates less in the population than for single cells and that as a function of firing rate, Fisher information varies less than sensitivity. We conclude that under natural scenes, population coding benefits from complementary coding and helps to equalize the information carried by different firing rates, which may facilitate decoding of the stimulus under principles of information maximizatio
Cotangent sums play a significant role in the Nyman–Beurling criterion for the Riemann hypothesis. Here we investigate the maximum of the values of these cotangent sums over various sets of rational numbers in short ...
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Rapid charging capabilities are required for the broader adoption of lithium-ion batteries in emerging technologies such as electric vehicles. Although commercial graphite anodes provide a high energy density, their l...
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Recent discoveries of high-Tc superconducting hydrides at high pressure have opened up new possibilities for improving the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) using hydrogenation. Here, a unique thermodynamic ...
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Recent discoveries of high-Tc superconducting hydrides at high pressure have opened up new possibilities for improving the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) using hydrogenation. Here, a unique thermodynamic approach is developed based on the concept of rapid thermal annealing and is adopted to study the hydrogenation effect on the superconducting properties of Nb/Pd bilayer films. Below 300∘C annealing temperatures, the Tc is enhanced from 8.77 to 9.06 K and is correlated with the compression of the Nb unit cell. A weak lattice expansion occurs at higher annealing temperatures, and the Tc is gradually suppressed. Furthermore, the rapid thermal hydrogenation affects the Tc differently depending on the substrate on which the Nb/Pd bilayers are grown. For the c-cut Al2O3 substrate, the Tc reduction starts at 250∘C, while for the r-cut Al2O3, this occurs at 350∘C. We associate these features with the elastic behavior of Nb film upon hydrogenation. A proposed model shows that the increase of Tc could be caused by the compressive stress related to the rapid nucleation of hydrides or the removal of impurities. Our discoveries provide insights into how superconductivity can be manipulated by rapid thermal hydrogenation.
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