Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad069a
Alexander G Rasin, Jeremy Schiff
Abstract We explore the application of generating symmetries, i.e. symmetries that depend on a parameter, to integrable hyperbolic third order equations, and in particular to consistent pairs of such equations as introduced by Adler and Shabat in [1]. Our main result is that different infinite hierarchies of symmetries for these equations can arise from a single generating symmetry by expansion about different values of the parameter. We illustrate this, and study in depth the symmetry structure, for two examples. The first is an equation related to the potential KdV equation taken from [1]. The second is a more general hyperbolic equation than the kind considered in [1]. Both equations depend on a parameter, and when this parameter vanishes they become part of a consistent pair. When this happens, the nature of the expansions of the generating symmetries needed to derive the hierarchies also changes.
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","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"16 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135266375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad0200
Malvika Srivastava, Hana Rozhoňová, Joshua L Payne
Abstract One of the most fundamental characteristics of a fitness landscape is its dimensionality, which is defined by genotype length and alphabet cardinality—the number of alleles per locus. Prior work has shown that increasing landscape dimensionality can promote adaptation by forming new ‘uphill’ mutational paths to the global fitness peak, but can also frustrate adaptation by increasing landscape ruggedness. How these two topographical changes interact to influence adaptation is an open question. Here, we address this question in the context of alphabet cardinality, using theoretical fitness landscapes with tuneable fitness correlations, as well as three empirical fitness landscapes for proteins. We find that the primary effect of increasing alphabet cardinality is the introduction of a new global fitness peak. Controlling for this effect, we find that increasing alphabet cardinality promotes adaptation on uncorrelated fitness landscapes, but frustrates adaptation on correlated fitness landscapes. The primary explanation is that the increased ruggedness that accompanies alphabet expansion is characterized by an increase in mean peak height on uncorrelated fitness landscapes, but a decrease in mean peak height in correlated fitness landscapes. Moreover, in two of the empirical fitness landscapes we observe no effect of increasing alphabet cardinality on adaptation, despite an increase in the number of peaks and a decrease in mean peak height, calling into question the utility of these common measures of landscape ruggedness as indicators of evolutionary outcomes.
{"title":"Alphabet cardinality and adaptive evolution","authors":"Malvika Srivastava, Hana Rozhoňová, Joshua L Payne","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad0200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad0200","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One of the most fundamental characteristics of a fitness landscape is its dimensionality, which is defined by genotype length and alphabet cardinality—the number of alleles per locus. Prior work has shown that increasing landscape dimensionality can promote adaptation by forming new ‘uphill’ mutational paths to the global fitness peak, but can also frustrate adaptation by increasing landscape ruggedness. How these two topographical changes interact to influence adaptation is an open question. Here, we address this question in the context of alphabet cardinality, using theoretical fitness landscapes with tuneable fitness correlations, as well as three empirical fitness landscapes for proteins. We find that the primary effect of increasing alphabet cardinality is the introduction of a new global fitness peak. Controlling for this effect, we find that increasing alphabet cardinality promotes adaptation on uncorrelated fitness landscapes, but frustrates adaptation on correlated fitness landscapes. The primary explanation is that the increased ruggedness that accompanies alphabet expansion is characterized by an increase in mean peak height on uncorrelated fitness landscapes, but a decrease in mean peak height in correlated fitness landscapes. Moreover, in two of the empirical fitness landscapes we observe no effect of increasing alphabet cardinality on adaptation, despite an increase in the number of peaks and a decrease in mean peak height, calling into question the utility of these common measures of landscape ruggedness as indicators of evolutionary outcomes.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect has been highly influential in fundamental and applied physics. Its topological nature commonly implies that an electron encircling a magnetic flux source in a field-free region must close the loop in order to generate an observable effect. In this paper, we study a variant of the AB effect that apparently challenges this concept. The significance of weak values and nonlocal equations of motion is discussed as part of the analysis, shedding light on and connecting all these fundamental concepts.
{"title":"Time-symmetry and topology of the Aharonov-Bohm effect","authors":"Yakir Aharonov, Ismael Lucas Paiva, Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik, Avshalom Elitzur, Eliahu Cohen","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad0589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad0589","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect has been highly influential in fundamental and applied physics. Its topological nature commonly implies that an electron encircling a magnetic flux source in a field-free region must close the loop in order to generate an observable effect. In this paper, we study a variant of the AB effect that apparently challenges this concept. The significance of weak values and nonlocal equations of motion is discussed as part of the analysis, shedding light on and connecting all these fundamental concepts.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135618441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad0201
Timothy H Boyer
Abstract The interaction of a solenoid with a passing charged particle can be treated within classical or quantum physics. If charged particles pass around both sides of a solenoid, there is an experimentally-observed Aharonov–Bohm deflection of the double-slit particle interference pattern between charges passing on opposite sides. Such a deflection can be obtained by a classical force calculation. Although the magnitude of the angular deflection agrees between the classical force calculation and the quantum topological theory, the direction of the predicted deflection is opposite. Here we point out the simple basis for the direction of the deflection based upon classical electrodynamics and based upon quantum theory. Also, we mention some deflection analogs, both the electrostatic deflection of the particle interference pattern and the optical analog of the classical calculation. The deflection direction involves an experimental question which is addressed rarely if ever. In the deflection direction, there is a direct experimental confrontation connected with the long-standing controversy involving the interpretation of the Aharonov–Bohm phase shift.
{"title":"Concerning the direction of the Aharonov-Bohm deflection","authors":"Timothy H Boyer","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad0201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad0201","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The interaction of a solenoid with a passing charged particle can be treated within classical or quantum physics. If charged particles pass around both sides of a solenoid, there is an experimentally-observed Aharonov–Bohm deflection of the double-slit particle interference pattern between charges passing on opposite sides. Such a deflection can be obtained by a classical force calculation. Although the magnitude of the angular deflection agrees between the classical force calculation and the quantum topological theory, the direction of the predicted deflection is opposite. Here we point out the simple basis for the direction of the deflection based upon classical electrodynamics and based upon quantum theory. Also, we mention some deflection analogs, both the electrostatic deflection of the particle interference pattern and the optical analog of the classical calculation. The deflection direction involves an experimental question which is addressed rarely if ever. In the deflection direction, there is a direct experimental confrontation connected with the long-standing controversy involving the interpretation of the Aharonov–Bohm phase shift.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"80 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/acfd6a
Moshir Harsh, Peter Sollich
Abstract We present a method that captures the fluctuations beyond mean field in chemical reactions in the regime of small copy numbers and hence large fluctuations, using self-consistently determined memory : by integrating information from the past we can systematically improve our approximation for the dynamics of chemical reactions. This memory emerges from a perturbative treatment of the effective action of the Doi-Peliti field theory for chemical reactions. By dressing only the response functions and by the self-consistent replacement of bare responses by the dressed ones, we show how a very small class of diagrams contributes to this expansion, with clear physical interpretations. From these diagrams, a large sub-class can be further resummed to infinite order, resulting in a method that is stable even for large values of the expansion parameter or equivalently large reaction rates. We demonstrate this method and its accuracy on single and multi-species binary reactions across a range of reaction constant values.
{"title":"Accurate dynamics from self-consistent memory in stochastic chemical reactions with small copy numbers","authors":"Moshir Harsh, Peter Sollich","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/acfd6a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/acfd6a","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We present a method that captures the fluctuations beyond mean field in chemical reactions in the regime of small copy numbers and hence large fluctuations, using self-consistently determined memory : by integrating information from the past we can systematically improve our approximation for the dynamics of chemical reactions. This memory emerges from a perturbative treatment of the effective action of the Doi-Peliti field theory for chemical reactions. By dressing only the response functions and by the self-consistent replacement of bare responses by the dressed ones, we show how a very small class of diagrams contributes to this expansion, with clear physical interpretations. From these diagrams, a large sub-class can be further resummed to infinite order, resulting in a method that is stable even for large values of the expansion parameter or equivalently large reaction rates. We demonstrate this method and its accuracy on single and multi-species binary reactions across a range of reaction constant values.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135514401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad018a
Bingyu Hu, Ming-Jing Zhao
Abstract Quantum coherence is an important quantum resource and it is intimately related to various research fields. The geometric coherence is a coherence measure both operationally and geometrically. We study the trade-off relation of geometric coherence in qubit systems. We first derive an upper bound for the geometric coherence by the purity of quantum states. Based on this, a complementarity relation between the quantum coherence and the mixedness is established. We then derive the quantum uncertainty relations of the geometric coherence on two and three general measurement bases in terms of the incompatibility respectively, which turn out to be state-independent for pure states. These trade-off relations provide the limit to the amount of quantum coherence. As a byproduct, the complementarity relation between the minimum error probability for discriminating a pure-states ensemble and the mixedness of quantum states is established.
{"title":"Trade-off relations of geometric coherence","authors":"Bingyu Hu, Ming-Jing Zhao","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad018a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad018a","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Quantum coherence is an important quantum resource and it is intimately related to various research fields. The geometric coherence is a coherence measure both operationally and geometrically. We study the trade-off relation of geometric coherence in qubit systems. We first derive an upper bound for the geometric coherence by the purity of quantum states. Based on this, a complementarity relation between the quantum coherence and the mixedness is established. We then derive the quantum uncertainty relations of the geometric coherence on two and three general measurement bases in terms of the incompatibility respectively, which turn out to be state-independent for pure states. These trade-off relations provide the limit to the amount of quantum coherence. As a byproduct, the complementarity relation between the minimum error probability for discriminating a pure-states ensemble and the mixedness of quantum states is established.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/acfddb
Constantino Rodriguez Ramos, Colin M. Wilmott
Abstract In this paper, we consider the convex structure of the set of unital quantum channels. To do this, we introduce a novel framework to construct and characterise different families of low-rank unital quantum maps. In this framework, unital quantum maps are represented as a set of complex parameters on which we impose a set of constraints. The different families of unital maps are obtained by mapping those parameters into the operator representation of a quantum map. For these families, we also introduce a scalar measuring their distance to the set of mixed-unitary maps. We consider the particular case of qutrit channels which is the smallest set of maps for which the existence of non-unitary extremal maps is known. In this setting, we show how our framework generalises the description of well-known maps such as the antisymmetric Werner–Holevo map but also novel families of qutrit maps.
{"title":"On the convex characterisation of the set of unital quantum channels","authors":"Constantino Rodriguez Ramos, Colin M. Wilmott","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/acfddb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/acfddb","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we consider the convex structure of the set of unital quantum channels. To do this, we introduce a novel framework to construct and characterise different families of low-rank unital quantum maps. In this framework, unital quantum maps are represented as a set of complex parameters on which we impose a set of constraints. The different families of unital maps are obtained by mapping those parameters into the operator representation of a quantum map. For these families, we also introduce a scalar measuring their distance to the set of mixed-unitary maps. We consider the particular case of qutrit channels which is the smallest set of maps for which the existence of non-unitary extremal maps is known. In this setting, we show how our framework generalises the description of well-known maps such as the antisymmetric Werner–Holevo map but also novel families of qutrit maps.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135666562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/acfe64
Rodrigo Silva, Annibal Figueiredo
Abstract Synge’s problem consists in determining the dynamics of two point electrical charges interacting through their electromagnetic fields, without taking into account the radiation terms due to the self-forces in each charge. We discuss how this problem is related to the question on to establish initial conditions for the electromagnetic fields that are compatible with the two point charges system in isolation, that is, the charges are free from the action of external forces. This problem stems from the existence of inter-temporal constraints for the charges trajectories, which implies that the relativistic Newton equations for the charges is not a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), but rather a system of functional differential equations (FDEs). We developed a new method to obtain global solutions that satisfies this system of FDEs and a given initial condition for the charges positions and velocities. This method allows the construction of a recursive numerical algorithm that only use integration methods for ODEs systems. Finally, we apply this algorithm to obtain numerical approximations for the quasi-circular solutions that are predicted in Synge’s problem.
{"title":"A new method for finding global solutions to Synge’s eletromagnetic problem","authors":"Rodrigo Silva, Annibal Figueiredo","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/acfe64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/acfe64","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Synge’s problem consists in determining the dynamics of two point electrical charges interacting through their electromagnetic fields, without taking into account the radiation terms due to the self-forces in each charge. We discuss how this problem is related to the question on to establish initial conditions for the electromagnetic fields that are compatible with the two point charges system in isolation, that is, the charges are free from the action of external forces. This problem stems from the existence of inter-temporal constraints for the charges trajectories, which implies that the relativistic Newton equations for the charges is not a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), but rather a system of functional differential equations (FDEs). We developed a new method to obtain global solutions that satisfies this system of FDEs and a given initial condition for the charges positions and velocities. This method allows the construction of a recursive numerical algorithm that only use integration methods for ODEs systems. Finally, we apply this algorithm to obtain numerical approximations for the quasi-circular solutions that are predicted in Synge’s problem.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135667007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad0011
Emanuele Maggio, Andriy Smolyanyuk, Jan M Tomczak
We present an algorithm for the determination of the local symmetry group for arbitrary k-points in 3D Brillouin zones. First, we test our implementation against tabulated results available for standard high-symmetry points (given by universal fractional coordinates). Then, to showcase the general applicability of our methodology, we produce the irreducible representations for the ``non-universal high-symmetry" points, first reported by Setyawan and Curtarolo [Comput. Mater. Sci. 49, 299 (2010)]. The present method can be regarded as a first step for the determination of elementary band decompositions and symmetry-enforced constraints in crystalline topological materials.
{"title":"Local symmetry groups for arbitrary wavevectors","authors":"Emanuele Maggio, Andriy Smolyanyuk, Jan M Tomczak","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad0011","url":null,"abstract":"We present an algorithm for the determination of the local symmetry group for arbitrary k-points in 3D Brillouin zones. First, we test our implementation against tabulated results available for standard high-symmetry points (given by universal fractional coordinates). Then, to showcase the general applicability of our methodology, we produce the irreducible representations for the ``non-universal high-symmetry\" points, first reported by Setyawan and Curtarolo [Comput. Mater. Sci. 49, 299 (2010)]. The present method can be regarded as a first step for the determination of elementary band decompositions and symmetry-enforced constraints in crystalline topological materials.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135666688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad0202
Eugenya Makoveeva, Dmitri Alexandrov, Alexandr Ivanov, Irina Alexandrova
Evolution of crystal ensembles in supersaturated solutions is studied at the initial and intermediate stages of bulk crystallization. An integro-differential model includes fluctuations in crystal growth rates, initial crystal-size distribution and arbitrary nucleation and growth kinetics of crystals. Two methods based on variables separation and saddle-point technique for constructing a complete analytical solution to this model are considered. Exact parametric solutions based on these methods are derived. Desupersaturation dynamics is in good agreement with the experimental data for bovine and porcine insulin. The method based on variables separation has a strong physical limitation on exponentially decaying initial distribution and leads to the distribution function increasing with time. The method based on saddle-point technique leads to a dome-shaped crystal-size distribution function decreasing with time and has no strong physical limitations. The latter circumstance makes this method more reasonable for describing the kinetics of bulk crystallization in solutions and melts.
{"title":"Desupersaturation dynamics in solutions with applications to bovine and porcine insulin crystallization","authors":"Eugenya Makoveeva, Dmitri Alexandrov, Alexandr Ivanov, Irina Alexandrova","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad0202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad0202","url":null,"abstract":"Evolution of crystal ensembles in supersaturated solutions is studied at the initial and intermediate stages of bulk crystallization. An integro-differential model includes fluctuations in crystal growth rates, initial crystal-size distribution and arbitrary nucleation and growth kinetics of crystals. Two methods based on variables separation and saddle-point technique for constructing a complete analytical solution to this model are considered. Exact parametric solutions based on these methods are derived. Desupersaturation dynamics is in good agreement with the experimental data for bovine and porcine insulin. The method based on variables separation has a strong physical limitation on exponentially decaying initial distribution and leads to the distribution function increasing with time. The method based on saddle-point technique leads to a dome-shaped crystal-size distribution function decreasing with time and has no strong physical limitations. The latter circumstance makes this method more reasonable for describing the kinetics of bulk crystallization in solutions and melts.","PeriodicalId":16785,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135666996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}