Day 1 :
Keynote Forum
Å tefan Zajac
Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic
Keynote: PHYSICS AND PRAGUE
Biography:
Štefan Zajac has completed his Ing. study at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1961 and CSc. study at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague in 1976. He was appointed Associate Professor of theoretical physics in 1988. He has published more then 50 papers in scientific journals and about 50 reports and reviews. He has been President of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists in 1993-1996 and 2002-2010. From 1993 untill now he is the Member of the Steering Committee of the Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of the Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Physics has been cultivated in Prague since at least 1348, when a University was founded here by Emperor Charles IV. At the beginning the main emphasis was on astronomy. First astronomers KÅ™išÅ¥an from Prachatice ( 1360 – 1439) and Jan OndÅ™ejov Šindel (1375 – 1456) in co-operation with clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň around 1410 had designed and installed the astronomical clock placed on the Old Town Hall tower in Prague. Astronomer and chief physician Tadeuš Hájek of Hájek (1525-1600) had inluenced Emperor Rudolph II to invite Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601) and Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630) to come to Prague where the first two of his laws of planetary motion have been formulated. Jan Marcus Marci of Kronland (1595 – 1667), a physicist, physician and rector of Prague University made original research in mechanics (impact of bodies) and optics ( diffraction of light, explanation of rainbow). In the middle of the 18th century at the Clementinum, the Jesuit College, physicist Josef Stepling (1716 -1778) and his successors at the Prague Faculty of Philosophy promoted Newtonian Physics . Christian Doppler (1803 – 1853) as professor at Prague Polytechnic in 1842 published important phenomenon of the frequency shift due to the velocity of the source of waves relative to the observer. One of the most outstanding physicists and philosophers of the 19th century Ernst Mach (1838 – 1916) during his stay at Prague university in the period 1868 – 1883 practically educated all physics students of that time. One of his most successful successors was ÄŒenÄ›k Strouhal (1850 – 1922), professor of experimental physics and first rector of Czech University of Prague separated from its German counterpart in 1882. His younger colleague Bohumil KuÄera (1874 – 1921) had started pioneering research in radioactivity and had inspired professor Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890 – 1967) to develop polarography for which he in 1959 earned Nobel Prize for chemistry. The most prominent personality Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) was appointed professor of theoretical physics at the German University of Prague in the period 1911 – 1912 when he already prepared the formulation of general theory of relativity. In the period of First Czechoslovak Republic (1918 – 1938) have worked outstanding physicists - František Záviška (1879 – 1945) in the theory of relativity and propagation of electromagnetic waves, Václav Dolejšek (1895 – 1945) discover of the N-series in the X-far spektra of U, Th, Bi) and Augustin ŽáÄek (1886-1961) discover of the principle of magnetron. During World War II, when Czech universities have been closed down, Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, one of the oldest learned societies in Europe, found in 1862, have fulfilled at least partial role in education of physicists. After World War II leading professors of physics have been Viktor Trkal (1888 – 1956) , Václav Petržílka ( 1905 – 1976), Václav Votruba ( 1909 – 1990) and ZdenÄ›k Matyáš (1914-1957). Later have been recognized many specialists in nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, plasma physics and solid state physics working at Universities and at the Institutes of newly founded Academy of Sciences. After Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia in 1968 many well known physicists have emigrated and have made successful scientific research abroad. In the final etape – Velvet Revolution in 1989, the division of Czechoslovakia into Czech and Slovak Republics in 1993 and the entrance of Czech Republic to European Union in 2004, our physicists have generated new trends in up-to-date scientific research, education and application in physics together with extension of international cooperation.
Keynote Forum
Michael Baer
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Keynote: Topological Study of the H3++ Molecular System: H3++ as a Cornerstone for Building Molecules during the Big Bang
Biography:
Dr. Michael Baer is currently working as Adjunct Professor Fritz-Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He got his Postdoc at the Department of Chemistry in University of Houston, USA. Later he became Research fellow at the A.A. Noyes Lab. of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. After Mandatory retirement in 2001, Mr. Baer has been travelling all over the world and served as Guest professors in IISER India, Free University of Berlin in Germany, University of Debrecen in Hungary, University of Houston in USA and Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in USA etc. He has published 4 books and about 335 publications in reviewed journals.
Abstract:
The present study is devoted to the possibility that tri-atomic molecules were formed during or shortly after the Big Bang. For this purpose we consider the ordinary H3+ and H3 molecular systems and the primitive tri-atomic molecular system, H3++, which, as is shown, behaves differently (see, Baer et. al, Molec. Phys.doi.org/10.1080.00268976.2018.1442940). The study is carried out by comparing the topological features of these systems as they are reflected through their non-adiabatic coupling terms. Although H3++ is not known to exist as a molecule, we found that it behaves as such at intermediate internal distances. However this illusion breaks down as its asymptotic region is reached. Our study indicates that whereas H3+ and H3 dissociate smoothly, the H3++ does not seem to do so. Nevertheless, the fact that H3++ is capable of living as a molecule on borrowed time enables it to catch an electron and form a molecule via the reaction H3++ + e ® H3+ that may dissociate properly.
Thus, the two unique features acquired by H3++, namely, that it is the most primitive system formed by three protons and one electron and topologically, still remain for an instant a molecule, may make it the sole candidate for becoming the cornerstone for creating the molecules
Keynote Forum
Leonid Ponomorev
A.A.Bochvar High Technology Institute of Inorganic Materials, Moscow, RF
Keynote: Fast reactor with liquid U-Pu fuel, its application and fuel cycle
Biography:
Leonid Ponomarev graduated from Physics Division of Moscow State University in 1963, he has completed his PhD (1966) and Doctor Degree (1971) at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. At present he is the principal expert of A.A.Bochvar Institute, Moscow, professor, member of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert in atomic and nuclear physics, muon catalyzed fusion, the scientific leader of the research program of the fast molten salt reactor development, the author of 200 papers and 4 monographs.
Abstract:
Fast reactor is the nesessary element of of the future nuclear power. But the contemporary fast reactors are not inherently safe (in Weinberg’s definition) and have the serious problems with the fuel nuclear cycle closing: the low fuel element burning and their repited fabrication from the hot spent fuel. Molten salt reactors (MSR) are free from these shortages: their void and temperature coefficients are negative, they do not need in the fuel elements fabrication and give the opportunity to organize on line hot spent fuel reprocessing. First MSR was in operation during almost 5 years with Th-U fuel and thermal neutron spectrum, which is adequete for this fuel (MSRE, Oak Ridge, 1964-1969). However its neutron balance is poor in comparison with U-Pu fuel and fast neutron spectrum. Till recently there was impossible to combine all three ideas (fast spectrum, molten salt and U-Pu fuel) because the PuF3 solubility in the fluoride salts was too small. 5 years ago it was established experimentally that PuF3, UF4 and AmF3 solubility in the eutectic 46.5 LiF-11.5 NaF-42.0 KF (FLiNaK) is equal 33, 45 and 43 mole % respectively at 700°C. This observation opens the way for the development of the Fast Molten Salt Reactor with U-Pu fuel cycle (U-Pu FMSR) as well as the effective FMSR reactor-burner of Am. U-Pu FMSR based on FLiNaK can work in the equilibrium mode at the concentration UF4 and PuF3 22 and 7 mole % respectively using as a fuel 238U only. FMSR reactor-burner can transmute ~ 300 kg Am/year·MWth without Pu feeding, i.e. one 1GWth FMSR-burner can disintegrate Am from the spent fuel of ~ 40 standart 1GWel thermal reactors after 5 years of cooling.
Keynote Forum
Andreas Pfennig
University of Liège, Belgium
Keynote: Faraway Particles have a Strong and Fast Effect on Molecular Behavior
Biography:
Andreas Pfennig is full professor at the University of Liège, Belgium, in the area of chemical engineering since 4 years. He received his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1987. After his postdoctoral studies at TU Darmstadt, Germany, he became full professor at RWTH Aachen in 1995. He has published 2 books, 12 book chapters, more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented his research in almost 300 presentations.
Abstract:
Molecular systems show Lyapunov instability, i.e. deterministic chaos. For the example of liquid water the magnitude of an introduced perturbation increases by a factor of 10 every 0.23 ps as evaluated from molecular-dynamics simulations. In chaos theory, the consequence is typically stated such that a prediction is impossible on intermediate timescale. The reason is that for the regarded system for every 0.23 ps farther into the future the starting conditions would need to be known by one more decimal digit, which quickly becomes practically infeasible.
The interaction of a faraway particle influences any observed molecule minimally, which due to the Lyapunov instability leads to a realizable shift in molecular behavior within at most 33 ps even for particles interacting from the end of the observable universe. Particles farther away do not have a lesser influence but rather the time until the effect of the interaction reaches a given magnitude is slightly longer. Of course the speed at which the interaction travels has to be accounted for, which does not alter the outcome in principle.
This effect does not only describe the result of chaos theory expressed as our practical inability to perform predictions but rather relates to interactions between particles and their effect in reality. If any interacting particle would be in a slightly different place, the observed system would behave differently after only some ps. This establishes a highly interconnected network of influences between all particels in the universe.
The consequences for our free will are discussed.
Keynote Forum
Maxim Yu. Khlopov
Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
Keynote: Fundamental relationship of cosmology and particle physics
Biography:
M.Khlopov has completed his PhD at the age of 26 years from Moscow Physical Technical Institute and postdoctoral studies from Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics. He is Full Professor of National Research Nuclear Unviersity MEPHI, President of Center for Caomoparticle physics COSMION, the director of Virtual Institute of Astroparticle physics, a premier e-science and e-education complex. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.
Abstract:
Modern cosmology is based on the inflationary models with baryosynthesis and dark matter/energy. These cornerstones of the structure and evolution of the Universe are well supported by the observational data of the precision cosmology but find no physical basis in the known physics. Such basis appears in physics beyond the Standard model of elementary particles. The hope that supersymmetric extension of the Standard model can not only provide physical grounds for the modern cosmology but also can find experimental verification at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is not supported by the negative results of searches for supersymmetric particles at the LHC. The simplest solution for dark matter candidates in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive particles (WIMPs) in spite of its miraculous possibility to explain cosmological dark matter also doesn’t find support in experimental searches for dark matter. It makes us to extend the field of research of new physics, on which modern cosmology can be based. In many cases such extensions are related to super high energy physics, which cannot be studied directly in the experiments at modern and even planned particle accelerators. Cosmoparticle physics studying fundamental relationship of cosmology and particle physics in the proper combination of its indirect physical, astrophysical and cosmological signatures can offer the solution to approach the true physics, on which true cosmological structure and evolution is based. The methods of cosmoparticle physics and examples of probes for various predictions of new physics are discussed.
Keynote Forum
Ivan V. Kazachkov
Nizhyn Gogol state university (NGSU), UKRAINE
Keynote: Prametrically controlled film flow disintegration in metallurgy and material science
Biography:
Ivan V. Kazachkov is PhD (1981) from Kyiv National T. Shevchenko University. Full Doctor in Engineering Sciences (1991) from the Institute of Physics of the Latvian Acad. Sci., Riga. Full Professor at the Inst Electrodynamics, Kyiv (1989), after 1995 - Head of Dept at State Scienfifc and Tech. Center on Nucl&Rad. Safety of Ukraine. During 1998-2004 Guest Professor at KTH, Energy Technology Dept, then 2008-2014 - Affiliated Prof. Since 2009 Head of Dept of Appl. Math. and Informatics at NGSU. Over 200 papers, 5 patents, 10 books. Participates in European research programs and committees. Five PhDs have defended their dissertations under his supervision and a number of PhD students are doing research under his supervision.
Abstract:
Parametrically excited oscillations and new parametric effects were revealed for the important engineering and technological applications. Scientific novelty of this work is in a development of the theory and applications of parametric excitation and suppression of oscillations on the boundaries of continua of three tasks’ classes: flat and radial spreading film flows of viscous incompressible liquids; surfaces of phase transition from a liquid state into a solid one, etc. The external actions considered were: alternating electromagnetic, vibration, acoustic and thermal fields. The three new phenomena of the controlled parametric film flow decay were discovered and studied: electromagnetic controlled resonance film flow decay, soliton-like vibration film flow decay and vibration shock-wave film flow decay. The shock wave regime was got by nearly ten times higher the vibration Euler number than for the soliton-like regime. The phenomena were first theoretically predicted and then experimentally investigated. Based on these new phenomena, the prospective dispersing and granulation machines were invented, developed and tested for some metals. The new phenomena allowed building the devices by the controlled film flow decay for obtaining the particles of the given size and form. Specific cooling and solidification methods and devices have been developed. Theoretical results allowed patenting and constructing the new granulation machines for production of the metal granules with cooling rate up to 104 K/s. The unique granules were used to produce the new specific materials with strong properties, e.g. so-called amorphous materials and materials with complex structure.
Location:
Session Introduction
Leonid Ponomorev
A.A.Bochvar High Technology Institute of Inorganic Materials, Moscow, RF
Title: Fast reactor with liquid U-Pu fuel, its application and fuel cycle
Biography:
Leonid Ponomarev graduated from Physics Division of Moscow State University in 1963, he has completed his PhD (1966) and Doctor Degree (1971) at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. At present he is the principal expert of A.A.Bochvar Institute, Moscow, professor, member of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert in atomic and nuclear physics, muon catalyzed fusion, the scientific leader of the research program of the fast molten salt reactor development, the author of 200 papers and 4 monographs.
Abstract:
Fast reactor is the nesessary element of of the future nuclear power. But the contemporary fast reactors are not inherently safe (in Weinberg’s definition) and have the serious problems with the fuel nuclear cycle closing: the low fuel element burning and their repited fabrication from the hot spent fuel. Molten salt reactors (MSR) are free from these shortages: their void and temperature coefficients are negative, they do not need in the fuel elements fabrication and give the opportunity to organize on line hot spent fuel reprocessing. First MSR was in operation during almost 5 years with Th-U fuel and thermal neutron spectrum, which is adequete for this fuel (MSRE, Oak Ridge, 1964-1969). However its neutron balance is poor in comparison with U-Pu fuel and fast neutron spectrum. Till recently there was impossible to combine all three ideas (fast spectrum, molten salt and U-Pu fuel) because the PuF3 solubility in the fluoride salts was too small. 5 years ago it was established experimentally that PuF3, UF4 and AmF3 solubility in the eutectic 46.5 LiF-11.5 NaF-42.0 KF (FLiNaK) is equal 33, 45 and 43 mole % respectively at 700°C. This observation opens the way for the development of the Fast Molten Salt Reactor with U-Pu fuel cycle (U-Pu FMSR) as well as the effective FMSR reactor-burner of Am. U-Pu FMSR based on FLiNaK can work in the equilibrium mode at the concentration UF4 and PuF3 22 and 7 mole % respectively using as a fuel 238U only. FMSR reactor-burner can transmute ~ 300 kg Am/year·MWth without Pu feeding, i.e. one 1GWth FMSR-burner can disintegrate Am from the spent fuel of ~ 40 standart 1GWel thermal reactors after 5 years of cooling.
- Condensed Matter Physics
Session Introduction
Loris Ferrari
University of Bologna, ITALY
Title: Vacuons and Quasi-Phonons: the hidden side of Bogoliubov collective Excitations
Biography:
Loris Ferrari graduated in Physics at the University of Bologna in 1973, summa cum laude. He got the “Enrico Fermi” award for the best thesis in Physics in 1974. He became associate professor in Condensed Matter Physics in 1981. He worked on the theory of disordered systems and glasses, cooperating, in particular, with sir N.F. Mott (Nobel Prize for Phyisics in 1977), W.A. Phillips (Cambridge University, UK) S.A. Dembovsky (Russian Academy of Science), M.I. Klinger (Bar-Ilan University, Israel). He worked on non autonomous quantum sysyems, in cooperation with R. Lewis (Dartmouth College, USA). He is author of 85 publications on international reviews of physics and physical chemistry.
Abstract:
In a gas of N interacting bosons, the Hamiltonian Hc, obtained by dropping all the interaction terms between free bosons with moment hK≠0, is diagonalized exactly. The resulting eigenstates |S, k, n) depends on two discrete indices S, n= 0,1,… where È numerates the quasiphonons carrying a moment hK, responsible for transport or dissipation processes. S, in turn, numerates a ladder of’vacua’| S,k, 0), with increasing equispaced energies, formed by boson pairs with opposite moment.Passing from one vacuum to another (S -> S + 1), results from creation / annihilation of new momentless collective excitations, that we call vacuons. Exact quasiphonons originate from one of the vacua by “creating”an asymmetry in the number of opposite moment bosons. The well known Bogoliubov collective excitations (CEs) are shown to coincide with the exact eigenstates |0,k, È } ,i.e. with the quasiphonons (QPs) created from the lowest-level vacuum (S=0). All this is discussed, in view of existing or future experimental observations of the vacuons, a sort of bosonic Cooper pairs, which are the main factor of novelty beyond Bogoliubov theory
Vladimir V. Rumyantsev
A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering, Ukraine.
Title: Dispersion of electromagnetic excitations in a nonideal lattice of coupled microcavities containing quantum dots
Biography:
Professor Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 240 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society (USA) as well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy).
Abstract:
Photonic structures and metamaterials are in the focus of theoretical and experimental interdisciplinary studies, which span laser physics, condensed matter physics, nanotechnology, and information science. The important features of photonic band-gap structures under discussion are connected with ‘slow’ light, which is one of the promising fundamental physical phenomena that can be, explored in the design of various quantum optical storage devices. In particular, the effective reduction of the group velocity demonstrated in the associated optical waveguide resonators. Based on the representations of the ideal photonic structures, the non-ideal systems of this class - polaritonic crystal, which is a set of spatially ordered microcavities containing ultracold atomic clusters, is studied. We considered 1D and 2D polaritonic crystals as a topologically ordered systems of coupled microcavities containing quantum dots. The peculiarities of polariton spectrum in the 1D or 2D lattice of microcavities caused by the structural defects and uniform elastic deformation are considered. It is shown that in this case it is possible to achieve the necessary changes of the energy structures and optical properties caused by the restructuring of the polariton spectrum. Numerical modeling of dependence of the dispersion of polaritons in the studied lattices of coupled microresonators on an elastic deformation and the concentration of defects is completed. Using the virtual crystal approximation the analytical expressions for polaritonic frequencies, effective mass and group velocities, as a function of components of the strain tensor is obtained. These results enable to extend the possibility of creating a new class of functional materials - polaritonic crystal systems.
- Material Science and Engineering
- Experimental Physics
- Optics and Lasers
Session Introduction
Zhongyuan Yu
State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Title: Designs of a reciprocal optical diode in silicon Waveguide
Biography:
Zhongyuan Yu is currently the professor of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She dedicates to theoretical and experimental research work in the field of optical communications and optoelectronics. She has won the first prize for scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Electronics Industry and the third prize for science and technology of China Institute of Communications. She has published more than 130 papers and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Abstract:
The optical diode, in which light asymmetrically propagates, has attracted great interest recently for its potential applications in integrated optical circuits. An optical diode can be built by either non-reciprocal or reciprocal structures. Typically, the non-reciprocal optical diode utilizes magneto-optical effect or optical nonlinearity. However, the external conditions and high input power limit the on-chip applications. Unlike non-reciprocal optical diodes, the reciprocity of the Lorentz theorem holds in a reciprocal optical diode. Here, we present three reciprocal optical diode designs based on both forward even-to-odd mode conversion and backward blockade of even mode. The functional region of first design consists of a tapered coupler, a narrow waveguide, and a silver surface plasmonic splitter. In order to obtain ±π phase shift, the refractive index of one of branches has been also modified. Secondly, the functional region comprises a tapered coupler, a narrow waveguide, a triangular prism and a partial depth etched cuboid. The mechanism is combining interference principle and the partial depth etching method. At last, we also design a reciprocal optical diode based on asymmetric spatial mode conversion by totally depth etching irregular shapes obtained by topological optimization. Unlike the other reported works, we do not expand the width of the slab silicon waveguide in the function region. These devices possess some satisfactory performances like high contrast ratio, large operational bandwidth and small footprint.
- Plasma Physics
Session Introduction
Gilles Courret
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, 1400, Switzerland
Title: High-Power Short-pulsed Microwave Impingement on a High-Pressure Plasma Ball in Acoustic Spherical Resonance
Biography:
Gilles Courret has completed his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1999. Since 2013 he is Professor of physics in the Department of Industrial Technologies of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO). His research interests include microwave-plasma interaction, plasma chemistry, light sources and illumination engineering, with emphasis on the improvement of energy efficiency. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals.
Abstract:
In a project on the development of a pulsed microwave sulfur lamp prototype of 1 kW, we discovered a phenomenon in which the plasma forms a ball at the center of the electrodeless spherical bulb despite gravity. In a preceding publication, we then reported measurements performed with a photodiode that show the high pressure plasma response to short pulses, and showed by modelization that the ball formation results from an acoustic resonance in a spherical mode. With our setup, so using a bulb with 15.6 cm3 volume, this phenomenon appears mostly at a pulse repetition frequency a little below 30 kHz. In this paper, we present complementary results obtained with a second photodiode placed opposite to the first, targeting the side of the ball where the high-power pulse microwaves impinge on the plasma. The second signal is similar to the preceding in the main characteristics: when the resonance occurs, its modulation passes from quasi-triangular to sinusoidal form with a frequency decrease of a few percent, as the oscillation slows down a little below the pulse repetition frequency. The resulting beat also shows up at a frequency equal to the frequency shift. However, the second signal shows an additional rectangular modulation that matches the pulses. The present work focuses on this new revelation and its interpretation.
Olga Vaycheslavovna Ogorodnikova
National Research Nuclear University MEPHI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute),Moscow, Russia
Title: Deuterium and helium retention in tungsten-based materials exposed to plasma
Biography:
She has completed her PhD from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) at the age of 29 years and then she worked at the Italian Agency for Energy Environment and New Technologies (ENEA), CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) in France (Saclay), the Kurchatov institute (Moscow), the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP, Garching), Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) and CEA in France (Cadarache). Last four years, she works at MEPhI. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.
Abstract:
Tungsten and dense nano-structured tungsten (W) coatings are used as plasma-facing materials in current tokamaks and [A1]suggested to be used also for the future fusion devices, ITER and DEMO. In the fusion reactor, W will be exposed to energetic particles of hydrogen isotopes and helium (He), high heat flux, and neutrons. In this regard, a study of accumulation of deuterium (D) and He in W under normal operation conditions and transit events is necessary for assessment of safety of fusion reactor due to the radioactivity of tritium and material performance and for the plasma fuel balance. Therefore, W samples were exposed to low-temperature plasma to simulate normal operation regimes and pulsed heat loads using D plasma in quasi-stationary high-current plasma gun QSPA-T to simulate transit events. We found that D and He concentrations increase with decreasing the grain size. The D retention was the highest for samples irradiated by plasma gun above the melting threshold. The D retention after 10 pulses of plasma gun exposure was much higher than that after stationary low-energy plasma exposure at sample temperature of either 600 or 700 K indicating the dominate influence of ELM’s-like events on the D retention compared to normal operation regime. The D retention in W samples with the presence of He-induced W ‘fuzz’ was smaller than without that. The results obtained give possibility to assess the particle retention in divertor areas subjected to high thermal loads at different operation regimes.
- Mathematical & Computational Physics
Session Introduction
Daniel Eduardo DÃaz Almeida
Centro de Desarrollo Energético Antofagasta (CDEA), Antofagasta, Chile.
Title: Analytic approximate eigenvalues by a new technique. Application to sextic anharmonic potentials
Biography:
Abstract:
In a project on the development of a pulsed microwave sulfur lamp prototype of 1 kW, we discovered a phenomenon in which the plasma forms a ball at the center of the electrodeless spherical bulb despite gravity. In a preceding publication, we then reported measurements performed with a photodiode that show the high pressure plasma response to short pulses, and showed by modelization that the ball formation results from an acoustic resonance in a spherical mode. With our setup, so using a bulb with 15.6 cm3 volume, this phenomenon appears mostly at a pulse repetition frequency a little below 30 kHz. In this paper, we present complementary results obtained with a second photodiode placed opposite to the first, targeting the side of the ball where the high-power pulse microwaves impinge on the plasma. The second signal is similar to the preceding in the main characteristics: when the resonance occurs, its modulation passes from quasi-triangular to sinusoidal form with a frequency decrease of a few percent, as the oscillation slows down a little below the pulse repetition frequency. The resulting beat also shows up at a frequency equal to the frequency shift. However, the second signal shows an additional rectangular modulation that matches the pulses. The present work focuses on this new revelation and its interpretation.
- Applied Physics | Condensed Matter Physics | Plasma Physics | Theoretical Physics | Advanced Materials and Functional Devices
Session Introduction
Leonid Ponomorev
A.A.Bochvar High Technology Institute of Inorganic Materials, Moscow, RF
Title: Fast reactor with liquid U-Pu fuel, its application and fuel cycle
Biography:
Leonid Ponomarev graduated from Physics Division of Moscow State University in 1963, he has completed his PhD (1966) and Doctor Degree (1971) at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. At present he is the principal expert of A.A.Bochvar Institute, Moscow, professor, member of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert in atomic and nuclear physics, muon catalyzed fusion, the scientific leader of the research program of the fast molten salt reactor development, the author of 200 papers and 4 monographs.
Abstract:
Fast reactor is the nesessary element of of the future nuclear power. But the contemporary fast reactors are not inherently safe (in Weinberg’s definition) and have the serious problems with the fuel nuclear cycle closing: the low fuel element burning and their repited fabrication from the hot spent fuel. Molten salt reactors (MSR) are free from these shortages: their void and temperature coefficients are negative, they do not need in the fuel elements fabrication and give the opportunity to organize on line hot spent fuel reprocessing. First MSR was in operation during almost 5 years with Th-U fuel and thermal neutron spectrum, which is adequete for this fuel (MSRE, Oak Ridge, 1964-1969). However its neutron balance is poor in comparison with U-Pu fuel and fast neutron spectrum. Till recently there was impossible to combine all three ideas (fast spectrum, molten salt and U-Pu fuel) because the PuF3 solubility in the fluoride salts was too small. 5 years ago it was established experimentally that PuF3, UF4 and AmF3 solubility in the eutectic 46.5 LiF-11.5 NaF-42.0 KF (FLiNaK) is equal 33, 45 and 43 mole % respectively at 700°C. This observation opens the way for the development of the Fast Molten Salt Reactor with U-Pu fuel cycle (U-Pu FMSR) as well as the effective FMSR reactor-burner of Am. U-Pu FMSR based on FLiNaK can work in the equilibrium mode at the concentration UF4 and PuF3 22 and 7 mole % respectively using as a fuel 238U only. FMSR reactor-burner can transmute ~ 300 kg Am/year·MWth without Pu feeding, i.e. one 1GWth FMSR-burner can disintegrate Am from the spent fuel of ~ 40 standart 1GWel thermal reactors after 5 years of cooling.
Loris Ferrari
University of Bologna, ITALY
Title: Vacuons and Quasi-Phonons: the hidden side of Bogoliubov collective Excitations
Biography:
Loris Ferrari graduated in Physics at the University of Bologna in 1973, summa cum laude. He got the “Enrico Fermi” award for the best thesis in Physics in 1974. He became associate professor in Condensed Matter Physics in 1981. He worked on the theory of disordered systems and glasses, cooperating, in particular, with sir N.F. Mott (Nobel Prize for Phyisics in 1977), W.A. Phillips (Cambridge University, UK) S.A. Dembovsky (Russian Academy of Science), M.I. Klinger (Bar-Ilan University, Israel). He worked on non autonomous quantum sysyems, in cooperation with R. Lewis (Dartmouth College, USA). He is author of 85 publications on international reviews of physics and physical chemistry.
Abstract:
In a gas of N interacting bosons, the Hamiltonian Hc, obtained by dropping all the interaction terms between free bosons with moment hK≠0, is diagonalized exactly. The resulting eigenstates |S, k, n) depends on two discrete indices S, n= 0,1,… where È numerates the quasiphonons carrying a moment hK, responsible for transport or dissipation processes. S, in turn, numerates a ladder of’vacua’| S,k, 0), with increasing equispaced energies, formed by boson pairs with opposite moment.Passing from one vacuum to another (S -> S + 1), results from creation / annihilation of new momentless collective excitations, that we call vacuons. Exact quasiphonons originate from one of the vacua by “creating”an asymmetry in the number of opposite moment bosons. The well known Bogoliubov collective excitations (CEs) are shown to coincide with the exact eigenstates |0,k, È } ,i.e. with the quasiphonons (QPs) created from the lowest-level vacuum (S=0). All this is discussed, in view of existing or future experimental observations of the vacuons, a sort of bosonic Cooper pairs, which are the main factor of novelty beyond Bogoliubov theory
Gilles Courret
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, 1400, Switzerland
Title: High-Power Short-pulsed Microwave Impingement on a High-Pressure Plasma Ball in Acoustic Spherical Resonance
Biography:
Gilles Courret has completed his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1999. Since 2013 he is Professor of physics in the Department of Industrial Technologies of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO). His research interests include microwave-plasma interaction, plasma chemistry, light sources and illumination engineering, with emphasis on the improvement of energy efficiency. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals.
Abstract:
In a project on the development of a pulsed microwave sulfur lamp prototype of 1 kW, we discovered a phenomenon in which the plasma forms a ball at the center of the electrodeless spherical bulb despite gravity. In a preceding publication, we then reported measurements performed with a photodiode that show the high pressure plasma response to short pulses, and showed by modelization that the ball formation results from an acoustic resonance in a spherical mode. With our setup, so using a bulb with 15.6 cm3 volume, this phenomenon appears mostly at a pulse repetition frequency a little below 30 kHz. In this paper, we present complementary results obtained with a second photodiode placed opposite to the first, targeting the side of the ball where the high-power pulse microwaves impinge on the plasma. The second signal is similar to the preceding in the main characteristics: when the resonance occurs, its modulation passes from quasi-triangular to sinusoidal form with a frequency decrease of a few percent, as the oscillation slows down a little below the pulse repetition frequency. The resulting beat also shows up at a frequency equal to the frequency shift. However, the second signal shows an additional rectangular modulation that matches the pulses. The present work focuses on this new revelation and its interpretation.
Zhongyuan Yu
State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Title: Designs of a reciprocal optical diode in silicon Waveguide
Biography:
Zhongyuan Yu is currently the professor of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She dedicates to theoretical and experimental research work in the field of optical communications and optoelectronics. She has won the first prize for scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Electronics Industry and the third prize for science and technology of China Institute of Communications. She has published more than 130 papers and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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The optical diode, in which light asymmetrically propagates, has attracted great interest recently for its potential applications in integrated optical circuits. An optical diode can be built by either non-reciprocal or reciprocal structures. Typically, the non-reciprocal optical diode utilizes magneto-optical effect or optical nonlinearity. However, the external conditions and high input power limit the on-chip applications. Unlike non-reciprocal optical diodes, the reciprocity of the Lorentz theorem holds in a reciprocal optical diode. Here, we present three reciprocal optical diode designs based on both forward even-to-odd mode conversion and backward blockade of even mode. The functional region of first design consists of a tapered coupler, a narrow waveguide, and a silver surface plasmonic splitter. In order to obtain ±π phase shift, the refractive index of one of branches has been also modified. Secondly, the functional region comprises a tapered coupler, a narrow waveguide, a triangular prism and a partial depth etched cuboid. The mechanism is combining interference principle and the partial depth etching method. At last, we also design a reciprocal optical diode based on asymmetric spatial mode conversion by totally depth etching irregular shapes obtained by topological optimization. Unlike the other reported works, we do not expand the width of the slab silicon waveguide in the function region. These devices possess some satisfactory performances like high contrast ratio, large operational bandwidth and small footprint.
Debjyoti Biswadev Sengupta
SSS Organization, Mumbai, India
Title: Theory of Unidirectional and Bidirectional Forces and Violation of Third Law of Motion
Biography:
Debjyoti Biswadev Sengupta is a young scientific researcher based in Mumbai, India. He has a research career spanning only a year or two. He has research interests in Quantum Physics, Gravitational Physics, High Energy Particle Physics, Computational Mathematics, Cryptography, Applied Mathematics to name a few from his long list. He is involved in the quest for the Theory of Everything and has also published research papers challenging the Third Law of Motion stated by Sir Isaac Newton. He has also published a paper where he elaborates on the concept of solving high-coefficient quadratic equations with the help of basic calculus. His most recent work involves a publication in which he elaborates on the idea of plotting vector quantities in physics in the 3-D space and 4-D hyperspace through which he hypothesizes that the 12th dimension is that of solid angle. He is now involved in research in the acceleration of photons and study of properties of the Cherenkov radiation.
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It is thought that there are various contact forces and three non-contact forces which exist in the universe, namely the electrostatic force, the magnetic force, and the force of gravitation. As per this theory, it is considered that the force of gravitation is the most mysterious of all the non-contact forces. There are few things which neither the Newtonian concept of physics, nor the modern concept of physics has been able to explain, as far the force of gravitation is concerned. The author hypothesizes that these unanswered queries may be answered if we explain the non-contact forces in terms of their conventional direction/nature of the forces. Hence, the idea of unidirectional and multidirectional forces is perceived.
The paper shall be dealt under 4 headings. Heading II will introduce the concept of a unidirectional and its characteristics. Heading III will deal with the introduction and characteristics of multidirectional forces. Heading IV shall deal with the categorization of the various forces which exists under Table I and Heading V shall deal with the explanation of the concept of multidirectional forces reasons of considering the force of gravitation as a multidirectional force. Heading VI shall deal with mathematical proof of noncontact forces violating Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Heading VII will see the founding of new set of laws which are obeyed by multidirectional forces only. Heading VIII will deal with the applications and conclusion of the theory.
The author shall also discuss about his experimental proof, design of the experimental apparatus and the resulting chemical bonding theory from this new concept of perceiving non-contact forces. The author will also discuss about the nature of gravitational force and the reasons for its nature.
Takahiro Tannai
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: Theoretical Approaches to Saturation and Relaxation of Congestion in TASEP (Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process) network with Junctions with Densitydependent Rules
Biography:
Takahiro Tannai has completed his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo and now is a researcher there. His research backgrounds are physics and mathematics from broad area and current interests are interdisciplinary approaches to networks of transport phenomena in chemistry and biology and similar phenomena in our society.
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Yumin Liu
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Title: Ultra-broadband near-perfect solar absorber in the visible and near-infrared region
Biography:
Yumin Liu is currently the professor of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He dedicates to theoretical and experimental research work in the field of optical metamaterials and applications in sensing, solar energy, and optical communication devices. More than 50 journal papers have been published as an author or coauthor.
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Increasing the absorption efficiency of solar radiation has great significance for the renewable energy applications, such as residential water heating, seawater desalination, wastewater treatment and solar thermophotovoltaic devices. Optical absorbers based on metamaterials have been widely investigated using a variety of structural designs. We propose and numerically investigate a novel ultrabroadband solar absorber by applying iron in a 2D simple metamaterial structure. The proposed structure can achieve the perfect absorption above 95% covering the wavelength range from 400 to 1500 nm. The average absorption reaches 97.8% over this wavelength range. The broadband perfect absorption is caused by the excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance and propagating surface plasmon resonance. We first propose and demonstrate that the iron is obviously beneficial to achieve impedance matching between the metamaterial structure and the free space over an ultra-broad frequency band in the visible and nearinfrared region, which play an extremely important role to generate an ultra-broadband perfect absorption. In order to further broaden the absorption band, we also demonstrate the perfect absorption exceeding 92% for the 400–2000 nm range by adding the number of metal-dielectric pairs and using both gold and iron simultaneously in the proposed structure. The average absorption of the improved absorber reaches 96.4% over the range of 400–2000 nm.
Xiao-Qing Tian
Shenzhen University, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Title: Exploring the Unusual Electronic and Magnetic Properties of the Heterostructures Based on 2D Materials
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The monolayer of two-dimensional (2D) materials have the thickness of one to several atoms. They have reached the structural limit. The representatives are graphene, MoS2, Phosphorene, B2Se3, WTe2, ZrTe5, and SnS. They exhibit different physical properties such as Dirac fermions, spin-valley-locking, ultrahigh mobility, non-trivial topological order, Weyl fermions and strong ferroelectricity compared to bulk materials. We study the physical properties of heterostructures based on 2D materials constructed by either van der Waals or in-plane routes. (i) The giant Stark effect is observed in phosphorene/carbon nanotube heterostructures, and the band gap of the semiconducting heterostructures can vary several-fold in response to external electric field (Eext). Furthermore, strong ferromagnetism with Curie temperature above room temperature is predicted for intercalated heterostructures. (ii) Due to the strong spin-orbit-coupling, giant magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy with an easy out-of-plane magnetization is realized in the lateral phosphorene/WSe2 heterostructures. The heterostructures can be either half-metallic or metallic dependent on the edges and sizes. (iii) The electronic properties of phosphorene/graphene heterostructure can be highly tunable by the quantum size effects and the Eext. At strong Eext , Dirac Fermions can be developed with Fermi velocities around one order smaller than that of graphene. Undoped and hydrogen doped configurations demonstrate three drastically different electronic phases, which reveal the strongly tunable potential of this type of heterostructure. Graphene is a naturally better electrode for phosphorene. The transport properties of two-probe devices of graphene/phosphorene/graphene exhibit tunnelling transport characteristics.
Pang Xiao feng
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Title: Nonlinear quantum mechanics, a necessary results of development of quantum mechanics
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The problem of the nonlinear quantum mechanics, it contains the follow problems: 1.the establishment of quantum mechanics and its fundamental postulates, 2.quantum mechanics is a linear and wave theory, it cannot describe the real properties of microscopic particles,3.The results obtained from quantum mechanics are contradict with experimental values, 4. The difficulties and contradictions of quantum mechanics cannot be eliminated in itself framework, 5. Disputations for the difficulties and contradictions of quantum mechanics in physic, 6. The roots of the difficulties of quantum mechanics and their shortcomings,7. The direction of development of quantum mechanic, 8.The nonlinear quantum mechanics eliminates thoroughly the difficulties and contradictions of quantum mechanics and give the wave-corpuscle duality of microscopic parties and 9.the establishment of nonlinear quantum is a necessary result of development of quantum mechanics and its basic contents. From these investigations we abstained the following conclusions. (1). The quantum mechanics is a linear and wave theory, it cannot be used to described correctly the real proprieties of microscopic particles. (2). The wave feature of microscopic particles is produced by the dispersing effect of the kinetic term in the dynamic equation or in the Hamilton operator in quantum mechanics. (3).We can affirm that the difficulties and contradictions of quantum mechanics are widely existed in quantum mechanics and cannot be eliminated in quantum mechanical framework no matter how. (4) we confirmed also that the difficulties and contradiction of quantum mechanics can eliminated thoroughly by using the nonlinear quantum mechanics, the the nonlinear quantum mechanics is a necessary result of development of quantum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of quantum mechanics can be used widely in physics.
Vladimir V. Rumyantsev
A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering, Ukraine.
Title: Dispersion of electromagnetic excitations in a nonideal lattice of coupled microcavities containing quantum dots
Biography:
Professor Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 240 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society (USA) as well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy).
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Photonic structures and metamaterials are in the focus of theoretical and experimental interdisciplinary studies, which span laser physics, condensed matter physics, nanotechnology, and information science. The important features of photonic band-gap structures under discussion are connected with ‘slow’ light, which is one of the promising fundamental physical phenomena that can be, explored in the design of various quantum optical storage devices. In particular, the effective reduction of the group velocity demonstrated in the associated optical waveguide resonators. Based on the representations of the ideal photonic structures, the non-ideal systems of this class - polaritonic crystal, which is a set of spatially ordered microcavities containing ultracold atomic clusters, is studied. We considered 1D and 2D polaritonic crystals as a topologically ordered systems of coupled microcavities containing quantum dots. The peculiarities of polariton spectrum in the 1D or 2D lattice of microcavities caused by the structural defects and uniform elastic deformation are considered. It is shown that in this case it is possible to achieve the necessary changes of the energy structures and optical properties caused by the restructuring of the polariton spectrum. Numerical modeling of dependence of the dispersion of polaritons in the studied lattices of coupled microresonators on an elastic deformation and the concentration of defects is completed. Using the virtual crystal approximation the analytical expressions for polaritonic frequencies, effective mass and group velocities, as a function of components of the strain tensor is obtained. These results enable to extend the possibility of creating a new class of functional materials - polaritonic crystal systems.
Olga Vaycheslavovna Ogorodnikova
National Research Nuclear University MEPHI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute),Moscow, Russia
Title: Deuterium and helium retention in tungsten-based materials exposed to plasma
Biography:
She has completed her PhD from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) at the age of 29 years and then she worked at the Italian Agency for Energy Environment and New Technologies (ENEA), CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) in France (Saclay), the Kurchatov institute (Moscow), the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP, Garching), Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) and CEA in France (Cadarache). Last four years, she works at MEPhI. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.
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Tungsten and dense nano-structured tungsten (W) coatings are used as plasma-facing materials in current tokamaks and [A1]suggested to be used also for the future fusion devices, ITER and DEMO. In the fusion reactor, W will be exposed to energetic particles of hydrogen isotopes and helium (He), high heat flux, and neutrons. In this regard, a study of accumulation of deuterium (D) and He in W under normal operation conditions and transit events is necessary for assessment of safety of fusion reactor due to the radioactivity of tritium and material performance and for the plasma fuel balance. Therefore, W samples were exposed to low-temperature plasma to simulate normal operation regimes and pulsed heat loads using D plasma in quasi-stationary high-current plasma gun QSPA-T to simulate transit events. We found that D and He concentrations increase with decreasing the grain size. The D retention was the highest for samples irradiated by plasma gun above the melting threshold. The D retention after 10 pulses of plasma gun exposure was much higher than that after stationary low-energy plasma exposure at sample temperature of either 600 or 700 K indicating the dominate influence of ELM’s-like events on the D retention compared to normal operation regime. The D retention in W samples with the presence of He-induced W ‘fuzz’ was smaller than without that. The results obtained give possibility to assess the particle retention in divertor areas subjected to high thermal loads at different operation regimes.
Daniel Eduardo DÃaz Almeida
Centro de Desarrollo Energético Antofagasta (CDEA), Antofagasta, Chile.
Title: Analytic approximate eigenvalues by a new technique. Application to sextic anharmonic potentials
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Abstract:
In a project on the development of a pulsed microwave sulfur lamp prototype of 1 kW, we discovered a phenomenon in which the plasma forms a ball at the center of the electrodeless spherical bulb despite gravity. In a preceding publication, we then reported measurements performed with a photodiode that show the high pressure plasma response to short pulses, and showed by modelization that the ball formation results from an acoustic resonance in a spherical mode. With our setup, so using a bulb with 15.6 cm3 volume, this phenomenon appears mostly at a pulse repetition frequency a little below 30 kHz. In this paper, we present complementary results obtained with a second photodiode placed opposite to the first, targeting the side of the ball where the high-power pulse microwaves impinge on the plasma. The second signal is similar to the preceding in the main characteristics: when the resonance occurs, its modulation passes from quasi-triangular to sinusoidal form with a frequency decrease of a few percent, as the oscillation slows down a little below the pulse repetition frequency. The resulting beat also shows up at a frequency equal to the frequency shift. However, the second signal shows an additional rectangular modulation that matches the pulses. The present work focuses on this new revelation and its interpretation.
György Szabó
Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary
Title: Classification of interactions and behaviours in evolutionary games: From physics to living systems
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György Stabó is the leader of the Complex System group in his institute and teaches evolutionary game theory at several universities in Budapest. He has been studying evolutionary games for twenty years. Previously his activity had been focused on interesting problems in solid state theory and statistical physics. In addition to a book and two reviews he has published more than 110 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as referee for many journals
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In evolutionary games players are located on the sites of a network and the interactions among the connected players are described by matrix games when the players choose one of their n options by following a dynamical rule. These players can represent atoms in physical systems, species in ecological models, or different behaviors in human societies. The systematic analysis of the matrix games threw light on the decomposition of matrices into four classes of elementary interactions. The symmetric part of elementary games with self- and cross-dependent payoffs represents interactions resembling an external effect without real player-player interactions, while the antisymmetric part is responsible for the emergence of social dilemmas causing serious troubles in human societies and biological systems. The effects of coordinations between the possible strategy pairs are similar to those studied by differents versions of the Ising, Potts, and Ashkin-Teller models. The tools and results of statistical physics can be adopted for the investigation of potential games which are composed of the latter three elementary interactions and evolve into the Boltzmann distribution if a logit rule controls the evolution. The fourth type of interactions represents cyclic dominance and can be built up from rock-paper-scissors type elementary games. The presence of cyclic components prevents thermodynamical behavior and results in self-organizing strategy distributions characteristic to living systems.
Zhaojun lin
School of Microelectronics, Shandong University, China
Title: Polarization Coulomb field scattering in GaN-based HFETs
Biography:
Zhaojun Lin received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1997. From 1999 to 2003, he was with McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA, and The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, where he was involved in III–V semiconductor devices. He is currently a Professor with the School of Microelectronics, Shandong University, Jinan, China. His current research interests include GaN electronic devices and low dimensional materials and devices.
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Due to inverse piezoelectric effect and device processing, the uneven strain distribution of the barrier layer for GaN-based heterostructure field-effect transistors (GaN-based HFETs.)is unavoidable. A new scattering mechanism, the polarization Coulomb field scattering which is related to the uneven strain distribution of the barrier layer, is proposed. This talk introduces the theoretical model of the polarization Coulomb field scattering and the relationship between the polarization Coulomb field scattering and the device structures of GaN-based HFETs. Moreover, the influence of the polarization Coulomb field scattering on the characteristics of GaN-based HFETs are also discussed. Such as, the effect of the polarization Coulomb field scattering on parasitic source access resistance and extrinsic transconductance in AlGaN/GaN HFETs, it is found that the variation of the parasitic source access resistance originates from the polarization Coulomb field scattering, and the effect of the polarization Coulomb field scattering on the parasitic source access resistance is more significant for the device with a longer gate length or a shorter gate-source distance. The behaviors of the measured transconductance for the fabricated AlGaN/GaN HFETs confirm the effect of polarization Coulomb field scattering. In addition, the effects of the polarization Coulomb field scattering on device linearity in AlGaN/GaN HFETs is also found. The single-tone power of the AlGaN/GaN HFETs with different gate widths was measured. A distinct improvement in device linearity was observed in the sample with a larger gate width. The analysis of the variation of the parasitic source access resistance showed that, as the gate bias is increased, the polarization Coulomb field scattering can offset the increased polar optical phonon scattering and improve the device linearity.
FILIPENKA HENADZI
Kazan Research Radio Technology Institute, Belarus
Title: NATURE OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
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The main problem is that using X-rays, we have determined the crystal lattices of different materials, and why they are so, and not others are not yet known. For example, copper crystallizes in the fcc lattice, and iron in the bcc, which becomes fcc on heating, this is used for heat treatment of steels. Copper does not change the crystal lattice when heated. There are many factors affecting the crystallization in the literature, so they decided to remove them as much as possible, and the metal model in the article, say so, is ideal, i.e. all atoms are the same (pure metal) without inclusions, without implants, without defects, etc. using the Hall effect and other data on properties, as well as the calculations of Ashcroft and Mermin, my main determining factor for the type of lattice was the core of the atom or ion, which resulted from the transfer of some electrons to the conduction band. It turned out that the metal bond is due not only to the socialization of electrons, but also to external electrons of atomic cores, which determine the direction or type of the crystal lattice. The change in the type of metal lattice can be connected with the transition of an electron to the conduction band or its return from this zone. Phase transition. It is shown that in the general case, the metal bond in the closest packages (hec and fcc) between the centrally chosen atom and its neighbors is presumably carried out by means of nine (9) directional bonds, in contrast to the number of neighbors equal to 12 (twelve) (coordination number). Probably the "alien" 3 (three) atoms are present in the coordination number 12 stereometrically, and not because of the connection.
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Our universe with five percent matter and remaining dark energy and dark matter is a profound realization of modern astronomy throwing modern physics in big crisis with a number of questions. Are we comfortable with relativity and gravity theory of Einstein? How gravity mechanism can be explained? Can we say that dark energy is having direct link with gravity mechanism? Do we have to revise atomic model without strong force? Then can we prove that all remaining three forces are electromagnetic due to mono magnetic coupling in dark energy gravitons? How all the molecular couplings are same to cause equal fall of Galileo or equal number of molecules from Avogadro. Is equivalence principle is local phenomena or universal? Chemistry may not be possible in many parts of our universe due to non applicability of Avogadro law. Any correction required in number of quarks due to revision in standard model without strong force? All these issues can be taken up by LHC for further exploration and I tried to give some proposals in my essay in describing how our universe can be viewed from big bounce to present day and some analysis of modern idea of Dr.Guth’s exponential inflation at the time of big bounce as well as interpretation of BICEP2
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M.J.Faraji has completed his MA at the age of 28 years from Kerman University and started as a theoretical physics researcher in Saleh Research Centre.
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Superstring Theory is an attempt to explain all the particles and fundamental forces of nature in a single theory, by modeling them, as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings . If we assume that the smallest massive particle which constructs the whole universe is such tiny supersymmetric or consists of several tiny supersymmetric, it can be seen that electron, proton, neutron, etc. as basic subatomic particles are also composed of these particles.
Now assume that electrons, protons and neutrons are consists of these smallest massive particles. Surely the difference between the constructions of them is described with the numbers and positioning of these smallest massive particles that we named “Angel Particle”. Physicists consider a continuous texture for proton but we calculate and show that it is not possible for electrons or neutrons.
Golam Ali Sekh
B.B. College,Asansol, India
Title: Shannon entropies and Fisher information of K-shell electrons of neutral atoms
Biography:
Dr. Sekh has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Visva-Bharati University, India and postdoctoral studies from University of Salerno, Italy, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia and INFN, Italy. He is an Assistant Profesor of Physics of B.B. College,Asansol, India. He has published more that 20 paper in internationally reputed Journals.
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We represent the two K-shell electrons of neutral atoms by Hylleraas-type wave function which fulfils the exact behavior at the electron–electron and electron-nucleus coalescence points and, derive a simple method to construct expressions for single-particle position-and momentum-space charge densities, ρ(r) and γ(p) respectively. We make use of the results for ρ(r) and γ(p) to critically examine the effect of correlation on bare (uncorrelated) values of Shannon information entropies (S) and of Fisher information (F) for the K-shell electrons of atoms from helium to neon. Due to inter-electronic repulsion the values of the uncorrelated Shannon position-space entropies are augmented while those of the momentum-space entropies are reduced. The corresponding Fisher information are found to exhibit opposite behavior in respect of this. Attempts are made to provide some plausible explanation for the observed response of Sand Fto electronic correlation.
Muthuganesan Rajendran
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.
Title: Measurement induced nonlocality based on fidelity and its robustness against decoherence
Biography:
R. Muthuganesan pursuing Ph. D at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. His research interest is quantum information in open system.
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Measurement induced nonlocality (MIN) – captures nonlocal (global) effects of bipartite state due to local von Neumann projective measurements, is an experimentally measurable quantum correlation measure. Due to the local ancilla problem, MIN is not a bonafide measure of quantum correlation. In order to resolve local ancilla problem, the definition of MIN modified using fidelity (F – MIN) between pre- and post- measurement states. Further, F – MIN is evaluated analytically for arbitrary pure state and two upper bounds are computed for m £ n dimensional mixed state. The closed formula of F – MIN is analytically derived for 2 £ n dimensional mixed state. Moreover, the dynamics of MIN and F – MIN are studied under noisy channels and it is shown that MINs are more robust to sudden death compared to entanglement.