Pub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad7052
Imran Khan, Vikrant Saxena
We employ two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations to examine, in detail, the effect of a kilo-Tesla magnetic field applied along the normal of a flat TNSA target on the cutoff energy of protons/ions. The two cases of (i) normally incident single laser pulse, and (ii) two obliquely incident laser pulses are thoroughly examined. It is shown that the two-oblique-pulse configuration combined with an external magnetic field results in a stronger enhancement (56 MeV–75 MeV) in the protons’ cutoff energies than the normally incident single laser pulse with an external magnetic field (19 MeV–24 MeV). This combination of two-oblique laser pulses along with a kilo-Tesla level external magnetic field is therefore found to be highly effective in accelerating protons/ions in the TNSA regime.
我们采用二维粒子池模拟,详细研究了沿平面 TNSA 靶的法线施加千特斯拉磁场对质子/离子截止能量的影响。对 (i) 正常入射单个激光脉冲和 (ii) 两个斜入射激光脉冲这两种情况进行了深入研究。结果表明,与正常入射的单激光脉冲和外部磁场(19MeV-24MeV)相比,结合外部磁场的双斜脉冲配置能使质子的截止能得到更强的增强(56MeV-75MeV)。因此,我们发现这种双斜激光脉冲与千特斯拉级外部磁场的组合在 TNSA 系统中加速质子/离子方面非常有效。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad6fc5
Yafeng Chen, Zhihao Lan, Hai-Xiao Wang, Liang An, Zhongqing Su
Photonic topological crystalline insulators (PTCIs) with helical edge states provide an alternative way to achieve robust electromagnetic wave transport and processing. However, most existing PTCIs only involve a single topological bandgap, and generally support a pair of gapped helical edge states, restricting the scope of applications in various fields such as multiband waveguides, filters, and communication systems. Here, we design dual-band PTCIs, in which multiple helical edge modes appear within two distinct bulk gaps, for transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes, respectively, by introducing the topology optimization method into the photonic crystals with glide symmetry. For PTCIs with TE modes, the mismatched frequency ranges of edge modes hosted by two orthometric boundaries offer an opportunity to realize a photonic demultiplexer. For PTCIs with TM modes, we show the enhanced second harmonic (SH) generation through the coupling of multiband edge modes by matching the frequency ranges of edge modes within the first and second bandgaps to fundamental and SH waves, respectively. This work provides a new way for designing multiband PTCIs with helical edge states, having promising potentials in developing multiband topological photonic devices for both linear and nonlinear applications.
具有螺旋边缘态的光子拓扑晶体绝缘体(PTCIs)为实现稳健的电磁波传输和处理提供了另一种途径。然而,现有的大多数 PTCIs 只涉及一个拓扑带隙,而且一般只支持一对间隙螺旋边缘态,这限制了其在多波段波导、滤波器和通信系统等各个领域的应用范围。在这里,我们通过将拓扑优化方法引入具有滑行对称性的光子晶体,设计出了双波段 PTCI,在两个不同的体隙内出现多个螺旋边缘模式,分别用于横向电(TE)和横向磁(TM)模式。对于具有 TE 模式的 PTCIs,两个正交边界所承载的边缘模式的不匹配频率范围为实现光子解复用器提供了机会。对于具有 TM 模式的 PTCI,我们通过将第一带隙和第二带隙内边缘模式的频率范围分别与基波和 SH 波相匹配,展示了通过多频带边缘模式的耦合增强二次谐波(SH)的产生。这项工作为设计具有螺旋边缘态的多频带 PTCIs 提供了一种新方法,在开发线性和非线性应用的多频带拓扑光子器件方面具有广阔的前景。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad6a32
Anweshika Pattanayak, Amir Shee, Debasish Chaudhuri, Abhishek Chaudhuri
In this work, we investigate the effects of torque, accounting for translational diffusion, on active Brownian particles (ABPs) in two (2d) and three (3d) dimensions. The torque is equivalent to chirality in 2d, well known as chiral active Brownian particles (cABPs), whereas in 3d, this is introduced as an external torque on the ABPs. Despite the inherent complexity in solving the Fokker–Planck equation, we demonstrate a Laplace transform method to precisely calculate the temporal evolution of various dynamic moments. Our analysis yields explicit expressions for multiple moments, such as the second and fourth moments of displacement, revealing the impact of persistence and chirality/torque. These moments exhibit oscillatory behavior, and excess kurtosis indicates deviations from the Gaussian distribution during intermediate time intervals.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad6d84
Somayeh Mehrabankar, Miguel Ángel García-March, Carmen G Almudéver, Armando Pérez
We investigate the Ising and Heisenberg models using the block renormalization group method (BRGM), focusing on its behavior across different system sizes. The BRGM reduces the number of spins by a factor of 1/2 (1/3) for the Ising (Heisenberg) model, effectively preserving essential physical features of the model while using only a fraction of the spins. Through a comparative analysis, we demonstrate that as the system size increases, there is an exponential convergence between results obtained from the original and renormalized Ising Hamiltonians, provided the coupling constants are redefined accordingly. Remarkably, for a spin chain with 24 spins, all physical features, including magnetization, correlation function, and entanglement entropy, exhibit an exact correspondence with the results from the original Hamiltonian. The study of the Heisenberg model also shows this tendency, although complete convergence may appear for a size much larger than 24 spins, and is therefore beyond our computational capabilities. The success of BRGM in accurately characterizing the Ising model, even with a relatively small number of spins, underscores its robustness and utility in studying complex physical systems, and facilitates its simulation on current NISQ computers, where the available number of qubits is largely constrained.
{"title":"Reducing the number of qubits in quantum simulations of one dimensional many-body Hamiltonians","authors":"Somayeh Mehrabankar, Miguel Ángel García-March, Carmen G Almudéver, Armando Pérez","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad6d84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad6d84","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the Ising and Heisenberg models using the block renormalization group method (BRGM), focusing on its behavior across different system sizes. The BRGM reduces the number of spins by a factor of 1/2 (1/3) for the Ising (Heisenberg) model, effectively preserving essential physical features of the model while using only a fraction of the spins. Through a comparative analysis, we demonstrate that as the system size increases, there is an exponential convergence between results obtained from the original and renormalized Ising Hamiltonians, provided the coupling constants are redefined accordingly. Remarkably, for a spin chain with 24 spins, all physical features, including magnetization, correlation function, and entanglement entropy, exhibit an exact correspondence with the results from the original Hamiltonian. The study of the Heisenberg model also shows this tendency, although complete convergence may appear for a size much larger than 24 spins, and is therefore beyond our computational capabilities. The success of BRGM in accurately characterizing the Ising model, even with a relatively small number of spins, underscores its robustness and utility in studying complex physical systems, and facilitates its simulation on current NISQ computers, where the available number of qubits is largely constrained.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad6d85
N Buzinsky, R J Taylor, W Byron, W DeGraw, B Dodson, M Fertl, A García, A P Goodson, B Graner, H Harrington, L Hayen, L Malavasi, D McClain, D Melconian, P Müller, E Novitski, N S Oblath, R G H Robertson, G Rybka, G Savard, E Smith, D D Stancil, D W Storm, H E Swanson, J R Tedeschi, B A VanDevender, F E Wietfeldt, A R Young
Cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) is a modern technique for high-precision energy spectroscopy, in which the energy of a charged particle in a magnetic field is measured via the frequency of the emitted cyclotron radiation. The He6-CRES collaboration aims to use CRES to probe beyond the standard model physics at the TeV scale by performing high-resolution and low-background beta-decay spectroscopy of